skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never mind, reading the article sees him cover at least the experience, language, and location of the developers, and there is still a significant difference.

Maybe the team aspect made a difference, or devs worked at companies with strict style guidelines, which happened to be companies who pay well, or because that company is on their resume, they make more later on?
Wait, people were promoting arsenic?
Related discussion yesterday, including thread on a theinformation.com article: 114 points by ivanech 1 day ago
"Toptal sues co-founder Breanden Beneschott for fraud (pacermonitor.com)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708596
Every person can support whatever candidate or party they like. Same goes for companies, especially in a democracy like the US where big donors and big money are an essential part of every election. Should be accepted by everyone or generally frowned upon. So yeah, Eric Schmidt supporting is OK. As much as I don't like it but it would be ok as well if he had supported Trump.
It was at one time a holy war. Spaces won. I used to be strongly pro-space so I was happy. However, with time and much reflection I've soften my stance considerably.

In any case, improvements with code editors have helped a lot to paper over the differences.
Who said they "get their news from ar15.com"? I said I keep up with current events through that forum (and others). It serves as an aggregator for political topics for me in much the same way that this site serves as an aggregator for tech topics.
I suspect it could be large, well-paying companies with prescriptive style guides skewing the results. eg, Google standardized on spaces for all their languages I've interacted with, maybe some others did too.
I believe Nissan Leaf is the still the most sold electric car, more than Tesla Model 3. The Model 3 is catching up though.
How long does an electric car take to charge, though? That's the convenience factor of ICE vehicles that will be hard to beat, probably. I can fill up my ICE vehicle in a minute or two.
Congrats to the Rails team! With this new major release, I’m planning to update the Ruby on Rails Tutorial accordingly. See here for details:

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> Tabs are great if you work by yourself. If you work with others, you need more complicated rules to be followed like "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment."

Except you don't, because you could just never align code, which completely eliminates the problem. I find that aligning code is way more trouble than it's worth.
Why would you "intend" for your indentation levels to be a certain pixel width on the reader's screen? Shouldn't that be the reader's choice?
What was the electron version?
Would be nice to see if it decrease or increase with releases.

Also it would be nice to benchmarck with https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
With an up to date chrome instance (76)
And optionally with chrome canary.
And optionally again with some chrome flags:
E.g https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/computing/...

Cordova and geckoview would be nice to test too.

But please at least test on modern electron AND Carlo to show us how modern Web app Empty window compare to other GUIs empty window.
> I think reasonable people can disagree about whether this is racist.

I disagree. Reasonable people recognize that being miffed that a protest is disrupting your commute isn't racist. It's only the unreasonable people who think it could be.
> I fully admit it's hard to convey this and hard to demonstrate this empirically because the cost and scale of an adequate experiment would be prohibitive.

Ah, but you see, here we have a problem. If you claim that your favorite technique has a big measurable impact on software development costs, then observing them shouldn't be hard at all, even without careful empirical studies. There are many problems with free markets, but applying selection pressures that quickly pick adaptive techniques is something markets are actually good at. And if your claim is that the benefit is not easily measurable because it's not so large and decisive, then why is your claim important at all?

And, BTW, I think the preference for a programming style is very personal. I learned and used FP before I learned OOP, and I like both (maybe for different things), but I can't say I have such a strong preference for either. They're both OK.

> but only Coq and Isabelle/HOL is used for the biggest projects like Cake ML and Comp Cert. Both of those are proof theoretic tools.

Coq and Isabelle have so far only been used to verify deep properties of tiny programs, up to ~10KLOC; that's 1/5 of jQuery. Even then the effort was huge. Model checkers have been used on much larger programs, and, at least for small programs, they're commonly and regularly used in industry (especially in safety-critical hard realtime systems).
And therein lies the problem: there was no misonogy there.

It seems it was either an honest misguided attempt to help or an honest well guided attempt to help (I leave it to you to judge) that was shot down.

It is ironic that the same people who'd happily blame all men, happily blame all white people except themselves etc are so dead set on claiming that everyone else is something *ist.

Many of us aren't. I've put effort into the issue myself to help women get jobs in tech. For no other reason than wanting to help them - and maybe the company. More than once.

But I'm so tired of being told I'm a racist and what not. By people like on PyCon, the super privileged woman who got two devs fired over hearsay while posting far worse stuff on Twitter herself.

I guess it is this mindless stupid hypocrisy we react to.

Am I privileged? You bet! Compared to 94% of the people in the world I'm privileged.

Does that mean I should be ok with being picked on by ten times more privileged people working for Google?

My answer is no. By the time someone joins Google or other similar companies they can safely stop calling other people privileged whatever race and gender those others have. Edit: except, on a case-by-case basis for their colleagues, certain politicians and movie stars and other exceptions :-)
I have spent a considerable amount of time working in kitchens. Of course there are foul mouths and bad attitudes. But it’s fundamentally a sort of blue collar job, one in which you have to do the work or you’re gone. The harsh language has nothing to do with race or class or anything typically talked about in technology companies. It’s far more meritocratic in a skills-based way than most industries IMO.
The Need for ‘Reddit Requests’ Shows the Sorry State of Google Support
They (Online Graduate Programs) Get You
It's not super helpful to recommend alternatives without providing any reasoning. I've used all of the above and Gin has been fine for me for standard HTTP APIs. The exception is web sockets, but you can use gorilla/mux in conjunction with with Gin for that.
Automated Test Tool – Softest
JavaScript Party 89: Modern JavaScript Tooling Is Too Complicated. Yep? Nope?
We are actually testing edibles right now! Early results don't look so good, but that could be because we were using our crappy LC-MS for detection instead of our sensor. We'll keep everyone updated with how it goes!
I understand your misunderstanding now.

If you sell your house, you pay a 6% commission on closing. If you reject the offer, there is no closing, and you don't owe the commission. Because the house didn't sell. If you sell the house, you can't sell it again unless you're committing fraud...But assuming you meant you find another buyer, and successfully close with the second buyer, you would then owe a single 6% commission to your real estate broker, not two 6% commissions.

This is also not how recruitment bonuses work, and I say that as someone that works closely with HR on the tax/legal side of things.

If you pay a recruiter a recruitment bonus, their recruited employee has to remain with the company for X amount of time (aka "trial period"). Usually at least 3 months, but it varies. Once that happens, the bonus "vests" and is due to the recruiter. (Many recruiters will try to get paid before the trial period ends, but you don't actually have to pay them yet.) If you terminate the employee before the trial period ends, the recruiter is not owed a recruitment bonus. These are all standard provisions for recruitment contracts involving 3rd party recruiters. (Note: this is for the contract with the recruiter, not the recruitment employee. The employee's employment contract, if any, may not include any language about a trial period.)

Of course, it's very possible for a startup without an HR department to leave out the trial period language from their recruiter contracts. Because they didn't know any better because they didn't think that HR personnel provided useful functions. Now you know why HR departments exist.
I agree about the dissociation between verbal awareness/insight/conscious perception about mood and other things, like quality of life or utility. However, what does quality of life matter if it is unrelated to emotional state? E.g., what does it matter what my quality of life is an economic sense (broadly speaking) if my mood is totally different? Putting that aside, there's also this kind of perception of state versus actual state issue which is maybe deeper or trickier to think through too.

I agree with what you're bringing up here, to me I think though it leads to more problems with the hedonic adaptation hypothesis rather than fewer. That is, if all these problems about happiness exist, then what are all those studies measuring?

It's a challenging thing to think through, and there's probably ways of addressing the OP's question about whether or not everyone is more miserable lately. I'm just not convinced the hedonometer approach is the best way (although I'm not sure it isn't).
On the topic of coal, as a more worrying counterpoint, the NY Times just published an article about the actions of the Adani Group in Australia under the clickbaity yet accurate title “How One Billionaire Could Keep Three Countries Hooked on Coal for Decades”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/climate/coal-adani-india-...
they are also quite clearly not purely statistical correlation machines, and there is a lot of evidence to show for this, such as the surprisingly similarities of ConvNets with low level human perception, etc.

Wrong.

If you actually study signal processing, you will find out that CNNs aren't something magically rooted in something other than "statistical correlation machines." CNNs in fact work because they're used to calculate cross correlation!

"Convolving" in terms of a CNN is a misnomer, it's the same as calculating cross correlation in terms of signal processing.
If that's true it could explain the pay gap. By replacing pay gap with experience gap. Which makes sense that there would be a difference in pay.
No, your analogy isn't correct though. You're broadcasting your opinion on an online message board, not just a waiter. Plus, you're paying for the food. It's nothing alike. The parent comment is basically implying that the cook has cooked the dish completely wrong and that he (a non-cook) could do a better job of cooking that dish.

Plus, isn't this the great thing about open source? If someone doesn't like systemd, they can write they're own. Of course, not one does..

> What, you think we all don't have dayjobs and can just devote our time to...

I'm only suggesting this to the people who comment online complaining how the most used implementation isn't up to their personal standards and that they know how it could be done better.

It's easy to complain and bitch online, that's the problem. Everyone seems to know the solution but no one seems to do it.

> Please be advised, I've downvoted your comments asking "if you know better, where's your code?"

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

I upvoted you because you downvoted me.
If you aren't auditing your dependencies, you don't know security. But we don't do that either, we outsource it.

This a reasonable thing to outsource: let someone qualified build their own.
It has Stephenson's usual problem where he forgot to write an ending and it just sort of stops.
Err... the problem with this is that the size of a list/array is sometimes determined at runtime. This means that if you use dependent types, you can't determine whether a program is correctly typed until you run the code.
99% of the planet would disagree with you: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
> it was impossible to find fault with the visual quality of that Model 3

That's code for "looks good, feels like crap".
> Nobody actually presses spacebar 4 times to indent unless they are forced to use vim on some remote machine.

Even then, you can just use >> and << in vim; as long as it's set up correctly it'll insert spaces.

Works with whole sections in visual mode too ("v, down, down, down, >" will indent four lines).
Auctioning off Contracts for Difference seems like a really smart way to make government subsidy stretch further too.

The auction allows them to attract low bids by a simple and understandable competition. If you bid higher than other entrants you won't get a contract, but if you bid lower than your operating costs you'll lose money (or more realistically, you won't pay back investors for the capital on the construction fast enough to make sense).

The CfD setup means the government's subsidy only manages the uncertainty. If prices collapse, the government picks up a big difference, but if prices sky-rocket the wind farm operator ends up paying the government instead of receiving a subsidy at all.

One thing I'm told, and hope to see, is that the taller the wind turbine the more often it runs. At high altitudes it's basically permanently windy, the winds we experience as so variable are a low phenomenon, so in principle as the turbines get taller some of the intermittent production problem goes away by itself. That would be almost bigger than just offshore wind power being cheap enough to justify building it on purely economic grounds with no subsidy and no additional carbon taxes.
> One guy chose 100% equity, and is now retired.

being able to choose 100% equity would suggest a particular level of financial independence before even starting. how long did they work without a salary? did they regularly sell equity as a salary-replacement?
I’m considering learning rails for a new project. Also coming from a .NET background. Any good resources you can recommend?
You can get that with vlans.

Buying gold plated cables?
+1, I still can't access it.
Would someone more familiar with Ruby mind explaining what Zeitwerk is/does? I think I have a vague idea, but both the announcement post linked to from this one and the project's README assume a lot of prior knowledge about the use case.
Well if you look at French media, you will believe French protesters are just there to break everything. If you look at Chinese media, you will believe Hongkongers are just there to break everything.

If you actually go to a protest in France you will realize it is pretty much the same as what is described in that text, just people trying to protest but met with unbelievable violence from police.
You can attack the messenger all you want. That sword cuts both ways--we can disregard your opinion because Google writes your paycheck, right?
pre-1984 most people in computer science were coming from adjacent professional fields and cross-trained. The computer programs in colleges weren't able to keep up with early and even current demands and that's a lot of the differences.

If you look at Scandinavian countries where equality of opportunity are enshrined in their culture, there's a broad variance of career choices between men and women as a whole.

Aside: I do feel that at least some of the differences can be attributed to the toy marketing which put the girl toys in the "pink aisle" and the computer games with the "boy toys" ... this has shaped a lot of culture and I think we're seeing things starting to normalize. But even of those women that I've worked with in software more than half move towards testing and management or out of the field within 3-5 years post-college.

The culture for software crafting tends to be one of strong negotiation and opinion, which tends to be unnatural for many women. I would like to see more education/training programs for women to get better and more comfortable with asserting and injecting opinion in a group setting. I think that would help, it still won't increase the natural variance, but it would probably keep more women in the development side of the coin.

All of the statements about "men" or "women" above are generalities, there are broad exceptions to everything said. There's a difference between outliers at under 20% and the norm.
Why does approximately no one outside the US use iMessage then?

Yes, it's easier if you have $750 to spend and are willing to cede control to a trillion dollar megacorporation. It's impossible if you're already on a different platform.

Sometimes being inclusive means doing some work, going out of your way a little. Having to download another app is not a huge burden. The fact that kids aren't doing it is an indictment of American culture first, Apple second, adults third, and finally the kids themselves.
I assume he's seeing construction fraud? Then the builder would be liable rather than the policyholder, and IANAL but probably the insurance company wouldn't have standing to do anything even if they wanted to since they don't own the building.

Or is he correcting details of the properties used in some actuarial model? I suppose that would be more interesting but I can't imagine that a 4x premium adjustment or whatever would be worth suing for.
If Model 3 doesn't have a competitor yet, why is anyone worrying about the potential of the competitor to win through fit and finish? When that competitor comes, what is to stop Tesla from releasing Model 3 Mk II with better design??!?!!?!
What cars are they comparing? BMW has i3 and i8, Mercedes doesn't have an electric car yet and Audi has e-tron. The only car you could say is in the same category is the i3 and those are totally different cars.
You need to look at gun homicide: Norway has a rate of 0.10 per capita. The US is 4.46!

Gun violence is a 45x bigger threat in the US which explains at least some of the disparity.
Linden Lab denies lawsuit alleging money laundering, pedophiles in Second Life
The Bay Area seems like a really poor choice of location to manufacture anything where cost is a factor.
I'd rather ride with a stoned driver than a drunk driver any day. I'd also prefer a stoned driver over an elderly driver or a sleep deprived driver. And if I had the choice between a totally sober driver or a driver on stimulants, I'd take the stimulant driver.

If this was really about reducing risk on the road, we should somehow incentivize people like OP to work on the self-driving car problem, rather than come up with a device to catch stoned drivers. Think how much brain power and law enforcement time is going to be taken up dealing with stoned drivers. The rational thing to do would be to let people drive stoned, arrest those who are visibly impaired and can't perform a field sobriety test, and focus our efforts on getting AI to replace all human drivers.
having the option between free maya on an educational license and blender, i still chose blender. before 2.8 the ui in blender wasn't fantastic, but it's always been better in terms of features (at least as long as i've been doing 3d), and the community is super friendly.
>Nobody actually presses spacebar 4 times to indent unless they are forced to use vim on some remote machine.

My PhD advisor does... His preferred editor is vi (not vim, but vi)
I was going to complain about it, but I like all the formatting decisions made by black.
> For numerous reasons, none of which have to do with a nuanced view of history: Brexit, internal domestic politics, fear of upsetting China, fear of impacting the British economy, etc. Britain in particular and the West in general have zero qualms about intervening in other countries' affairs when it suits them.

Hongkong is Chinese territory and this is no longer colonial time: China is no longer so weak that it may be slapped into compliance. China, though still not that strong, will do whatever it wants at home.

Of course, Britain is no longer a world power and is not in a position to dictate policy to other countries apart from the puniest ones.
And the children are objective? I don't understand your point here. Objectivity has nothing to do with this.
They started selling other media like music and videogames fairly early, but it was quite a while before it became a place to buy literally anything.
Do you have any proof that cannabis impairs driving?
Pricked All over with a Fine Needle
I think saying it's far from being on life support is really pushing it...

Maya's USD support so far is effectively just Animal Logic's open source stuff bundled with Maya, Bifrost is indeed the one place they're actually still doing development (as they still have that R&D team), Parallel graph evaluation in 2019 and 2020 are really just riding the coattails of work they did a few years ago.
Improvements to rendering infrastructure (Arnold) are orthogonal as far as I'm concerned as it's done by the SolidAngle team they acquired a few year ago.

They're effective keeping it running (moving to newer Qt versions and the future Python 3 version for VFX platforms in line with other DCCs) as far as many people are concerned, which at a stretch could be construed as "on life support".
What are your meditation goals?

Some people treat it as a chance to sit and relax, perhaps process a bit of mental backlog, and generally 'open up'.

Others treat meditation as a disciplined and very deliberate form of mental training. This is a process that takes years and thousands of hours to achieve a degree of mastery, such as attaining single-pointed attention, jhana absorbtions, etc.

The latter is not easy, but it is also not boring.
Should one of those "towards spaces" have been "towards tabs"?
I'm east and the soil is almost 100% sand with no nutrients but at least we have water
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The thing is, users that ran this command know what it did. Maybe not in all its detail (I certainly didn't know exactly what it did, although I could have looked for it). That's because for this command to be of any use to the user, they first have to enable the "native client" to enable reading Tridactyl's RC file, which is explicitly stated to weaken the security model Mozilla tries to enforce on extensions.

This isn't a "random plug-in" playing with your security settings. It's a well designed extension which tries its hardest to allow power users to do what they want : control their browser the way they best see fit, without restrictions. If you want to stay safe, just don't enable those settings : they're not necessary to get a good out-of-the-box experience, but they allow some very powerful fine-tuning to turn your browser into your browser, with your commands.
That's your opinion. He doesn't say that at all in the piece he wrote.
Abstract algebra, research papers. I know I need to make up my own problems as I go along with it, but that is easier said than done.
Are you claiming that a video of Eric Schmidt wearing a Hillary staff badge is faked?

Do you legitimately believe that it was edited?
OR - since flutter re-uses chromium code (Skia, etc ..) and possibly has an IPC architecture similar to a browser to isolate the dart VM from rendering/painting pipeline, flutter's memory and CPU footprint is likely to be close to chromium, despite best efforts.

Maybe someone from the flutter team can comment on this as I'm postulating here.