skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are 4 categories of topics

1) ideological (including political (globa/local), or religious

2) technical

3) personal (meaning focus is, specifically, on subjective position)

4) moral (meaning, focus is on subjective, but relatable at a group/society/era level)

Problem is with ( 1 ), and may be ( 4 ).

My personal view, is that if HN is to allow new submissions where (1) and (4) are present. Those submissions should go through a different flow, than (2) and (3).

These submissions should be marked as such, then reviewed by a moderator, to see if it fits the broader category of HN-allowed submissions.

And then, if the submission passes moderation, the discussion on those posts cannot follow same upvote/downvote model as ( 2 ) or (3). Because regular upvote/downvote model puts at disadvantage minority view.

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WRT your question
> Let me ask you a question, though you don't have to answer it. Do you feel like HN is biased against the point of view you yourself favor

Yes, I think selection of submissions, downvotes and flags favors disproportionally to anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, anti-Kavanaugh, anti-male rhetoric.

I particular share a view of environment issues, though I favor non-global, trade-based solutions. So I, personally do remember incidents where my submissions or comments were downvoted on that topic.

Interestingly, on more political conservative forums, that I participate on -- when I argue a pro-environment position -- I get some pushback, sometime ridicule -- but my comments never 'grayed out' or flagged.

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Sorry for a long, response.
But yes. I favor particular ideology and moral stance.
Everybody has those positions.

I also appreciate, particularly, flexibility of mind and personal ability to adjust to something different if circumstances or new information dictates that.

I have yet to find any discussion that would cause me a shift in my positions on (1) or (4). I suspect this is same with other people, but being tested by questions, or telling others what I think -- is engaging, nevertheless.

Another thing, I noticed, that I tend to use 'reciprocal' tone. So the actual tone would depend on some selection/aggregation of other folks tone.

My overall complaint, if I may call it that, is flagging/graying out expressions that are conservative-leaning.
Yep, I don't see why is this a problem, just act professionally, don't be a creep. I have mentored many programmers, both male and female and i have zero problems with either. There are some subtleties in dealing with the fairer sex such as different kind of encouragement, read between the line when they say they are tired, making sure that their understanding is correct etc... but generally it's the same for both sexes: respect them and their personal space.
I hate to sound like a shill for an evil company, but I've read that even Roundup-Ready crops have an environmental advantage in allowing greater use of low- and no-till methods on industrial farms, which sufficiently reduces erosion of soil (with all the fertilizer that causes algae blooms and other problems) into public waterways. I was stunned to read that a majority of US industrial farms - not only permaculture hippies - now employ such methods.
It is somehow understandable for a Google employee to take such a defensive position, but you either didn't read or didn't try to understand what I'm saying. I don't believe there is anything wrong with federated learning or that there are any problems with "secure aggregation" you are so fondly referring to. It's just that they don't mean shit, because, as I said several times already, you don't need to know that some data comes from my device, to learn something sensitive about me. It depends entirely on the application, no crypto has to be broken in order for that to happen.
Out of curiosity, has Google bought/killed potential YouTube alternatives in the past?
Intel promises you better performance from a new processor than what you can get from one in the same class one that is several years old, also from Intel.

You're paying for a new one, but it performs like something that is several years old that you can obtain much more cheaply.

Another aspect of it is consumers who chose an Intel chip over a competitor's. Intel does promise competitive performance. Their pitch isn't "we are slower, but just buy us on the brand name alone".
Based on the tenor this has already taken, I’m replying with a throwaway.

I have changed my behavior around women subordinates. It sucks, but that’s the reality. At this point I’m as concerned with the appearance of impropriety as I am false accusations. I know who I am and I trust myself. Everyone else? Not so much anymore.
I'm a few articles in and so far this a wonderful guide.
With all the outrage from women in Silicon Valley (I.e. walkouts) I’d be uncomfortable as well. If you inadvertently offend a women and they complain, you are more likely to get fired, no questions asked.
I'm hoping that finishing the excellent https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ will give me enough git-fu to start making some modest contributions.
This is genuinely meat industry propaganda. Notice how it had 13 points almost instantly with no comments...

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PETA_Kills_Animals
I was curious also, but found some in the docs.
Because processors get faster, speed = age: fast = new, slow = old.

In that spirit, here is a different car analogy for you.

This is like buying a new car, and then having the odometer suddenly jump by 150,000 km: you paid for new, but are stuck with old.

Or, we could go by features. Cars get new features. Suppose you pay for a car with various bells and whistles: on-board Wi-Fi, navigation, semi-autonomous driving and whatevernot. But then most of it doesn't work, so your car is like something from 2005. Forget bluetooth; just 1/8" aux jack, or CD player.
It also includes every person who lives in a city whose tax base has been eroded by Amazon, so those "hard working single moms" send their kids to shitty schools that will perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

For tens of millions of working poor who live in apartment complexes, Amazon provides absolutely zero benefit since they cannot order anything bigger than a kumquat without risk of it being stolen off of their porch. The office? The office doesnt exist or is closed during the hours they are working - and UPS wont deliver there anyways a lot of the time.
Regardless of skill or experience, they seem to be getting promoted over other more qualified individuals, anyway. At least that's what I've noticed in my places of work over the last four years. I'd hate to tell you how many of those places went under as it's all anecdotal. I am however getting a little put out by people around me not getting promoted on merit, but on optics.
> large sorted sets

Surprised to see no mention of trees which are basically the standard datastructure for this.
This is going to sound weird, but I think it makes sense: this would be a more compelling statement if instead you added that you’ve also given negative feedback to women, put women on PIPs, denied them promotions, or fired women for incompetence.
> there is an inherent contradiction in your statement
> ...
> Seems cruel.

I see your point also. I assure you, I don't mean to be cruel. The problem is, what is cruel to one can be kind to another, and vice versa. That immigrant has hopes and dreams, and maybe a family, too. If the global pool of jobs is shrinking, and the global pool of workers is growing, the system will move toward equilibrium. Jobs will shift person by person, factory by factory, or industry by industry. Increasing the premium for our labor, and thus for the products of that labor, only ensures that it will be industry by industry. This process is already under way. I'm sorry, but it's the market that is cruel.

So, since I'm away from my own home and have some time to spare, what does that mean in terms of KirinDave's idea to keep entry-level jobs for Americans? I'll be blunt: that's stupid. Americans, who have to earn a certain wage to maintain even the lowest standard of living, can never be as cost-effective as people to whom that same wage looks like a king's ransom.

That's where "merit based" immigration comes in. It's about making the best and the brightest from all over the world part of our ecosystem instead of a competing one. It's a deliberate brain drain. It leaves the low-skill workers where they are, unable to compete job by job but also bereft of any leadership that would enable them to compete industry by industry. It's unfair - one might even say cruel - to them, but global fairness is not a goal. It's an effective way to promote Trump's and KirinDave's goal of propping up uneducated Americans' wages. I just happen to think that's a lousy goal, not least because it's not sustainable. The longer we put it off, the worse the eventual result will be.
It didn't say they were uncomfortable hiring or promoting women, it said mentoring which implies a more personal relationship. Specific example from the article, which doesn't seem like bullshit:

nine times more likely to be hesitant to travel with a junior woman for work than a junior man, and six times more likely to be hesitant to have a work dinner with a junior woman than a junior man.

This is, unfortunately, a rational response to the current climate.
Taiwan unveils early warning detection system for leopard cats
>helium 3

Breakeven D-T fusion has never been demonstrated, at any scale. ITER won't even attempt D-T fusion until 2035, and then you need to figure out how to scale the reactor down until it doesn't cost $50 billion and 50 years to build, and also increase the collision energy until it can actually do D-He3 fusion, or even higher, true aneutronic He3-He3 fusion. Yes, yes, Stellarator, Polywell. Neither have been built.

Or you can just do solar and batteries. Which exist today.

>space based solar

Tom Arnold did the best post on SBS back in 2012: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/03/space-based-solar-power/ Depending on what downlink power density you're willing to tolerate, how big of a transmit dish you can assemble in orbit, and how big of a receive array you want to build on the ground, you only get maybe four times the power density of the sunlight falling on the ground taken up by the rectenna array.

Awful lot of work to go to just to get four times more power per square meter on the ground.

And if you've got the room for a rectenna array 4 km across for SBS, you might want to just build a regular terrestrial solar array 8km across instead, and save a few dozen billion dollars in launch costs.
The value proposition is fake, not the technology. Solar roof tiles have been commercially available since 2005, they are just too expensive.

Musk promised that their roof tiles will be cheaper than regular roofs. I have seen zero evidence of that. The roofs on houses you mention cost WAY more than regular roofs.
Why would a billionaire business person feel “ignored”? Why does that person feel the need to speak for other persons whose experiences are most probably alien to her?
Um, guys, this is a little embarrassing but I was literally just making a lame pun about the dude's name.

awkward finger guns
Sorry, who got fired because of an offended woman?
TSMC remains No. 3 IC supplier worldwide in Q1
Please don't personally accost someone like this on HN.
> Regardless of skill or experience, they seem to be getting promoted over other more qualified individuals, anyway

Are you referring to 60% of male managers, or women they mentor?
There are some subtleties in dealing with the fairer sex such as different kind of encouragement, read between the line when they say they are tired, making sure that their understanding is correct etc...

That kind of generalization is exactly what can torpedo your career. Try putting those thoughts about the fairer sex in a memo or blog post and see what response you get.
I can imagine the world relying more and more on unsupervised pre-training approaches, such as BERT and GPT-2. Then we’ll just need a few labeled data to generalize.
This is going to sound weird, but I think it makes sense: this would be a more compelling statement if instead you added that you’ve also given negative feedback to women, put women on PIPs, denied them promotions, or fired women for incompetence.

It doesn't sound weird at all to me, but it is telling that you think the issue is women filing complaints for negative feedback versus women getting harassed in the workplace.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic gender flamewar, or any flamewar. A comment like this is only going to lead to worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Their competitors (FB, AMZN) dont have the edge compute (Android) to do this

It's not Android scale but Amazon has sold 100 million Alexas.
Good luck producing GMO variants of all the economically important citrus varieties in just a few years. It’s easier if GMO rootstock is sufficient, but, if GMO scions are needed, it’s an enormous undertaking.
James Damore, for one..
SUSE now does music [video]
I'm saying it doesn't seem to matter if they've been mentored or have the proper level of skill to perform the tasks.

That said, why should someone more senior train someone to take a job they themselves should be getting?
This feels like a troll thread.
From the article:

> Challenges remain. For robots injected into the brain, lasers would not work as the power source. (Dr. Miskin said magnetic fields might be an alternative.) He wants to make other robots swim rather than crawl. (For tiny machines, swimming can be arduous as water becomes viscous, like honey.).
I didn’t make any comparison or in any way imply either of these wasn’t an issue.
Alternative headline: 60% of males rethinking how they interact with women after decades because protests broke through and raised consciousness. Change isn't comfortable, it's not supposed to be. It's only supposed to be just.

This goes for technical skills and moral ones too. You feel bad until you're better.
If I'm physically able to do it, would otherwise need to wait longer to get through a cashier line, and don't have anything else to do with my time while waiting in the cashier line it seems like it's to my benefit to use the self-checkout on principle. It saves me time and costs me virtually nothing.
When an incompetent man gets promoted it's all "Peter Principle, brogrammer, Dilbert joke, hurr durr."

When an incompetent woman gets promoted, it's because she's a woman.
Changed how?
Moonworms are gentle, misunderstood creatures that have been horribly exploited by mankind.

These majestic beasts are captured when young, and through a process involving electric shock and sub-nuclear bombardment trained to perform tricks for the amusement of lunar tourists who often like to ride on top of their backs and put pictures of their abuse onto Facebook for exploitative likes.

Please donate 100 credits to Save the Moonworm - an offplanet non-profit organized by the head of Jeff Bezos.
Sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination are real and urgent issues, but the path forward will not be lit by Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg and SurveyMonkey marketing material. She has no moral credibility.
Male manager here. This is not at all hard to believe.
Game of Thrones: Are You More Like Daenerys, Arya or Sansa Stark?
Just an example,if a male coworker said he is tired and he needs to take a leave, I can ask what's wrong and arrange for longer leave if needed. For the other sex, better ask no questions.

But then I live in Asia, things might be different than in America/Europe.
This reminds me of all the rich, white-passing Hispanics at my med school that join all the minority clubs just to virtue signal. Ugh.
Oh I don't know anything about that, I just plugged in the ratio of the mass of the earth to our sun.
Parden? I'm talking about people getting promoted into positions they aren't qualified for and sinking companies. I really don't care about your sex, race or who you like to invite into bed. I'd rather be on a winning team.
I agree that the settlements themselves would have been relatively dense. However, this is missing two critical elements: they were (a) tiny by modern standards, and (b) surrounded by vast expanses of open, uninhabited space. That meant that, while you wouldn't have necessarily had much in the way of privacy in your own dwelling, you could easily walk out of the village and seek solitude for as long and as often as you wanted. I think this makes a huge difference to social dynamics and we basically haven't properly coped with it since cities of any substantial size have existed.
Japan, China agree to boost relations ahead of Xi visit
Uh, no. At least that’s not how most people use the phrase.
It was a question. Are you ok?
Actually, it has never felt natural to me to publish a Node.js package to two web sites, both Github and NPM. Moreover, when Google lands me on NPM's web site I prefer to navigate right away to Github. If this new thing from Github is going to replace NPM so that there's only one place for that matter - I would not mind.
Let's do a simple test and reverse the roles.

Yup, it's still rational in that respect too; this sucks and the way to fix it seems to be at the organizational level. Make it not one on one meetings, and make it "public" record (transparent), and make the support systems for reporting abuse in either direction act on that public record.
There are legitimate reasons for opposing the widespread use of herbicides in agriculture. This practice is enabled by GMOs.
Sorry!
This version of Minecraft
requires a keyboard.
Please try again on another device.

But I have a bluetooth keyboard connected to my phone...
My God, thank you for this comment. I live in Minneapolis, which is very bike friendly (at least for the US). The majority of bicyclists are well behaved and just want to share the road, but an alarming number of bicyclists seem to think that taxpayer funded roads were built with only them in mind. The sense of entitlement is astounding.
Virtual Angkor
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I'm not a manager, but I eat lunch/dinner one on one with men far more than I eat lunch/dinner with women, and it's because I try not to be a creep. I try to manage bias and I try to be aware of when I might be doing something for a coworker just because she's female and pretty, and unfortunately that means that when it is actually genuinely appropriate to grab dinner together and talk about our work I second-guess myself. When it does happen, it's usually a more senior coworker taking the initiative first.

No idea how to stop doing it other than time and experience. If you've got tips, throw them out there.
Why is it a rational response? I've travelled with female co-workers before, it's not as if the company made us share a bed. We were just two people travelling. I don't really understand how the "current climate" would make me rethink that.
Maybe a little data might help your point be taken more seriously.

All kinds of idiots get promoted above their capacities. Women aren't special in that regard.
I blew up on CivIII in the 90s and have not been able to play anything more intense than "Just Get 10" on my phone since then.
The disturbing quotes of the founder have been fact-checked: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ingrid-newkirk-quotes-peta... (true, but good to know the full context too when assessing this - I don't find them less disturbing though)

The PETA shelter statistics and actions of PETA activists regarding pets have been known for many years.

Can someone from the US explain why they are still allowed to operate as a shelter (which gives them access to the toxic chemicals)?
It would be, but they might not have the latitude to dictate the connection AND it might be multiple-file batches.
Thank you Fabien :) Love your work
Being wrong is one thing, being too early is an entirely different matter. The timescales of these types of innovations are very long. Early failures don't always mean it's a bad idea.

The only foolish part of your story is over-investing (and over-selling to the media/public) too early before you have any tangible results.
Beautifully articulated! On a tangent, I always seem to have issues with my superiors because of the way I work. Most of the initial part of a project I do nothing but think about how to approach it, best ways to solve some of the problems and what pitfalls to avoid. During this period they don't get much of the status updates or progress and they get mad. Then in a short burst I finish off everything when they think that project may be delayed, and this gets them extra mad because according to them I have been secretly working hard but never told them. I really don't blame them but sadly I don't work like most people do and admittedly it is a bit of a problem for project managers..
I think the point is that you may indeed have a problem, despite your best intentions. Nobody knows what will offend or make another person uncomfortable these days. Sure, there are standard things that everyone agrees is wrong. But entirely innocent conduct can be misinterpreted, people project their own biases and assumptions into those interpretations, etc. In the MeToo era, that can be enough to destroy a career.
So there haven’t been false accusations? Women have never threatened superiors with unmerited claims? Given the potential for a single false claim to destroy a career, the prudent thing is to avoid situations where such claims could even be plausible. There are more than a few stories of people using false sexual harassment claims to win settlements from companies.

Just an accusation can result in huge legal bills, a loss of reputation and other consequences. https://veterinarybusinessadvisors.com/guilty-until-proven-i...

Here’s an example of how delicate this stuff can be: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/a-colleague-threaten...

If you are a manager or executive, it’s a real risk that you’ll get dragged through the mud by a false accusation. In a world we’re he-said she-said is biased towards “believing women,” it would be prudent to avoid close professional relationships with women. Literally decades later it can come back to bite you. Remember that while the man may “hire and promote fairly,” not all people necessarily act honestly and “fairly” can be very subjective. Just an accusation can torpedo a career.

Acting like “it’s bullshit” is to ignore the litigious society in which we operate.
Questions don't typically start with "I assume"
One thing I realised recently is when you have traction, this is a much easier problem to deal with. Everyone keeps hounding you for improvements and you prune these requirements to increase utility and demand.

So its critical that you find a good sponsor/client in the early days. One that you have easy access to and you work together with until your product gets to the point where its utility is obviously apparent to new clients. And work it from there.

When your working with your first client they will inevitably drag you down into the small details (improve this/ make this). I call these the "meh" features. What you need to do is focus on analysing the underlying reason why they want the "meh" features and work on eradicating that reason. If you crack it, you get a "wow" feature. And that brings traction.

For example, we designed a financial platform for schools in a developing country. Finance operations in schools is complex with varying chains of manual processes. Our "meh" features were digitising these processes, improving each individual task. Our "wow" feature was to completely automate the end-end process for a small subset of schools with similar requirements. Instead of making their tasks easier, we just completely removed the need to do them. After that it was pretty apparent what we had to do.
Bicyclists where I live - even otherwise well-behaved bicyclists - routinely violate traffic laws all the time. I guess we live in different towns, but where I live I don’t also see drivers regularly blasting through red lights when they get tired of waiting.