skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really a non issue. Conference cancelled, who cares?

And also, if women want to participate they can submit a request to have a talk. There's no reason to run around trying to recruit speakers to adhere to the completely irrational narrative of the sjw-extremists. This is becoming utterly silly in the society as a whole. Grow up people. This is a tech conference. If it is 100 percent male, so what? Women are of course welcome, but there's no reason running around, hauling them in. Is there folks running around hauling in men to speak at knitting conferences? Honestly, this is a non-issue. The diversity mania has gone too far. What matters is if presenters are good, not if they are gay, white, black, brown or whatever.
From the second and third links (both blog posts rather than Twitter), only 1 out of 250+ submissions was from a woman, so the latter. Presumably a similar situation occurred in 2018, as there was a single female speaker out of the 39-person lineup.
Spare yourself the headache of reading politically charged debates on Twitter. It’s been a megaphone war platform since day one. Shout the loudest to win. I think it’s a real shame to cancel what seems like a useful conference for an undesirable truth about their demography.
Neither really. It doesn’t have direct access to a canvas API or to the DOM, but you can proxy calls through javascript. There’s a plan to allow avoiding this overhead, but it’s fairly early.
Women are too smart to use php
FWIW, you just described Ikea. Their whole business model is shaving pennies off of each item by iterating on the manufacturing, shipping and selling processes.
Hmm, FullStory would be hard to use for evil. It's used to creators can track down issues and bugs and provide better customer support, not to do anything malicious.

You can still argue you don't want your data sent to them, and that's very fair, but the only way this helps their business model is if their business model is "provide really good, tailored customer support."
I saw Mark's point about 1/250 but I couldn't locate the statement from the organizers. Larry says a number of speakers offered to swap their double sessions for more female speakers, but would those new speakers be the single applicant or other speakers who hadn't applied.

Regardless, the conference organizers are at least partially responsible for lack of diverse applicants if their speakers were able to find candidates on short notice.
I for one appreciate good humour in a codebase.
Tying the growth of your economy to the amount of a metal you can dig out of the ground doesn't sound like a great idea.

Seems like a 1.2% growth rate.
Even worse is when my girlfriend voiced a similar concern about a hacker meeting here in Mexico about how obsessed they seemed to be about getting women speakers at any cost instead of focusing on good content. She was basically told she only thought that way because she was brainwashed by men and didn’t actually believe what she was saying, though I'm embellishing a bit for succinctness.

How do you even argue with some who dismisses you like that?

They were basically approaching her to give a talk at an event here known for advanced technical topics even though she was at hello world level ability with React, and she felt very uncomfortable how persistent they were and it was obviously straight pussy pass.
The very small population that knows how to perform an Internet Search or owns a dictionary?

You don't need to know IPA off by heart for it to be useful, I certainly don't, I only recognise a few characters, or whatever they're called.

'Gee' isn't terrible in combination with the name itself ('ji') since it eliminates options.

Better IMO if you want to avoid IPA is giving an example like 'the first syllable in 'genius'', but that's not so good (or at least much harder) for polysyllabic names of things.
What are actually Elon Musk's engineering talents? It seems he is not much more than a marketeer. It's not even clear his visions of reusable rockets and electric cars were original...he is known to take credit for subordinate's ideas and achievements.
Anyone think Dijkstra's handwriting looks like a 6th grade girl? I can't stand it.

Give me something more stylish, for sure.
> The author is stating that the Amazon rainforest is in perfect equilibrium without citing any studies or evidence. There are plenty of studies that indicate otherwise, such as this 30 year survey involving 100 researchers: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14283

Y. Malhi, one of the authors of that paper, is also the author of this blog post. That makes sense since he a preeminent rainforest ecologist who publishes lots of papers on the carbon cycle.
I agree that the likelihood of an individual suffering is probably very low. But that also means that it will be very difficult to attribute an illness to this. Cancer and kidney disease are common after all. Just because you can't measure something it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Public policy has to accept this uncertainty.
I hardly think the behavior is as malicious as the author seems to suggest.

As an anecdote, I am an iPhone user with read receipts on. My phone tells those who send me messages both when I have received the message (Delivered), and the exact time that I opened the message. Even with read receipts turned off, other people KNOW that I at least got the message because of the Delivered flag.

For this reason, there is a dynamic that compels me to -- in my limited texting time -- respond to iPhone messages first, those people after all know that I at least received, if not opened, their message. I feel less guilty about putting the green messages at the back of my respond queue because at least there's not a "READ THREE HOURS AGO" message mocking the sender.
It's sad to see in the current century that a group of erstwhile professionals jump to "porn stars".
Rest assured, IoT deserves to be named herpes...
Agreed that it's outreach, but it also seems necessary, unless <=0.4% of the PHP community is female (ratio of applications by gender).
Everyone is different. Nowadays, if I post something, it is either: a) I have something to share, a bit of knowledge/opinion/story. If this is the case, I already know I am correct, and as such do not really care about the response and it's very easy to walk away, or b) If I pose a question, in which case I will be open to any response because I'm genuinely curious. I think I used to care more about what other people thought when I was younger and more insecure. Sure I can still be proven wrong, but I usually do not care enough to respond. I just learn and move on.
I've been contributing on and off to the project since it went open source (#4 on that page), it's an interesting experience communicating with blank faces that you can't know or find anything about.

Unrelated: About a year in they sent me an award[0] for continued contributions, but there's a puzzle on it I'm yet to solve; if anyone runs across this I'd appreciate any input!

[0] https://twitter.com/mattnotmitt/status/1031456040385236992
I have a System76 and it's a very good laptop. https://system76.com/laptops

I also have an XPS 13 Developer Edition. I prefer System76 over that one due to the wheezy fan sound.

Mine's a 5 year old Pangolin but they have quite a selection now.
If index funds were to become an inefficient way to allocate capital then their returns would become subpar and money would go elsewhere.
Let's put it another way: 95% of webdevs can drop a code snippet with GA on their page, while only hm.. 5% can set up that GA proxy.
What group will be offended next year..
Do all men feel accepted, respected, and praised just because they are men? No, the ones that do have earned it. Like so, I personally would like to get invited to give a talk only because I am the best person out there who can do so on the topic at hand, not because some organizers feel like they have some sort of obligation to be politically correct.
Great question! I wish I knew!

It’s a weird scenario as people are very emotional about their chosen position during the discussion, but literally nobody gives a hoot once a decision was made.

In our case, multiple organizations were merged, so the perception one camp “winning” was important to avoid.
on a slightly related note; daycare thing does not work though, every couple I know of in Berlin has been looking for kita like crazy even before the baby is born.
Public transit has an incredibly strong pressure to monopolize. For rail-based systems like trams, it's just topologically impossible to have two competing systems with decent coverage in the same city. And even for busses, having two competing tariffs is so confusing that public pressure will force both competitors to offer a shared tariff system, at which point they're not really competing anymore.
Are you planning on getting a new job after?
We as men like crude tools.
So they sell treasuries and buy them with dollars. How does this crash the Dollar?
I havent seen anything terribly relevant, most of the thesis projects i have seen are more interested in creating realistic and believable honeypots for specific protocols, eg RDP.

In my experience, honeypots and tarpits are not the same sort of thing, and fufill different goals. Tarpits get you more utilitarian good, honeypots get you more representative threat intel.
Yay. Now HN can explain how it's not a big deal and moms on Facebook everywhere can panic. There's nothing new under the sun.
Sounds like a good way to cause problems that are extremely difficult to troubleshoot.
All of these people are so brave when "taking a stand" doesn't hurt their wallets and they seem comfortable to let millions of people live in poverty as long as female poc quotas are met.

They could donate to software engineering schools in poor districts in their home countries or developing countries, but they decided to do something absolutely meaningless that benefits noone.

I would suggest every person who finds this behaviour acceptable to look towards Effective Altruism (https://www.effectivealtruism.org/) and drop this ridiculoius posturing.
Ah, but do you appreciate bad humour?
>only 1 out of 250+ submissions was from a woman

Mark didn't cite a source for this, which is what I was looking for in the Twitter thread.
should be fixed - does it look better now? :)
After a couple minutes of research, the lowest number I could find for women in CS was from https://web.archive.org/web/20141221112502/http://floss2013.... Without getting into how accurate it is, I'm just taking it as a very conservative estimate that 10% of OSS software programmers are women. So out of 250 submissions, we'd expect about 25 of them to be from women if the sample is unbiased. And the odds of having only one woman would be... not sure if I did this exactly right but something like (0.1 * (0.9 ^ 249) ) * 250 = 10 ^ -10. Kinda looks like the submission process was biased.
Wow, I like what you do in Unity.
Personally like Unity, however, I think Blender and Unreal Engine - UE have a better future.

Also, try to build this modular plugin in OpenBIM environment with IFC [1] support, then it will be more useful

If you need some help in this way let me know

[1] https://www.buildingsmart.org/about/what-is-openbim/ifc-intr...
This article is fluff. Presented with a gosh-this-is-cool-isnt-it narrative, nothing here suggests senior engineer. Senior engineers must have a much more nuanced assessment about the interaction between organizational norms, teamwork, and software. There's no penetrating insights here. Software is semi-formal at best and more a hidden Markov chain at best. Indeed the central questions to software engineering are deferred as questions.
You may want to look into Cockpit.[1]

While there are other panels out there, Cockpit is sponsored by Red Hat. I'm not a fan of panels, but it offers more functionality out of the box than Webmin. Last time I looked there was some pretty large gaps in functionality outside of a Red Hat environment; the Ubuntu package was missing container management.

[1]: https://cockpit-project.org/
There is something unsettling in men refusing to attend an event because not enough women wanted to be there. (only one woman applied) They asked the organizers to find more women for them.

"Bring me some women!" said the male speakers.
What Will China Do When America Owns Greenland?
Upthread we have someone boasting about naming their business machines after porn stars.
Sounds more like AMD dropped support for Linux. It's shitty, but I'm not sure what you can expect from distributions if AMD stops updating their drivers for newer versions of xserver.
Disposal costs money, too, so the "trash point" is actually at a somewhat _negative_ profitability.
Year old experience: minikube requires root if you want to run directly on the host, without a VM layer. Every couple of months it goes into a borked state, which is nigh impossible to debug and sometimes hard to recreate from scratch, possibly due to the root issue above. Got a little luckier with Ubuntu and microk8.
For the most part you are right. But isn't this the normal outcome of a successful business model eventually attracting many imposters because they hear about pros making money.

Companies like Traackr offer saas services to analyze the social graph to make a massive impact with 30 real influencers. This service starts at $30k and they delivered for watch brands and telcos primetime media exposure to millions of potential customers without directly advertising.

If so many people are doing something it probably means some of them are actually making a ton of cash.

https://www.traackr.com/
It's a virtue signal in an industry that demands it.

A weird but predictable side effect of using affirmative action to promote women is that statistically attendees will see female presenters as worse. (Availably heuristic / selection criteria bias).
It should be of interest that Webmin is a listed target on Zerodium.
How to Protect Cities from Overtourism?
Lead has an infinite half-life, since it's not radioactive. How much would you be willing to accept in your water?
There is nothing more equal in it. It's outright criminal. The today's adtech is when you walk into a grocery store, get stuff for free, while in the meantime the store takes notes what car you drive, who you likely are, packages all this info and sells to whoever pays, including criminals.
Parent didn't say what you claim to disagree with. The documentation is how the knowledge is accumulated. People maintain documentation.
This has always been the case, at least in the Bakersfield area, unless a well actively filters these out. Our well water in the 90's would usually be 2-3x the EPA limits.
How? The preprocessor is ran before every thing else? It will overwrite the defintions in the header just like in the source file? You still would get a linking error. The only reason I couldn think is if the the stdlib headers also called undef for those functions. Moreover this is all during build not runtime.
And what does one do when one is struggling with burnout/depression/insomnia and the only legitimate thing to write down is "Not a whole lot really." for days in a row? (A problem a um, ... friend has, of course.) Risky habit to have under those circumstances.
Wouldn't it be better to leave outreach programs to outreach groups? This is a conference about programming and "single responsibility principle" is a fairly popular concept there.
While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name that uses slang like "yoinker" will be understood by someone who doesn't know English as a first language.
First guess is that people who wanted to visit it care.
happens in the rare cases when we can't find a phone anywhere for the business - we're working on a solution.
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> What would you propose those speakers do differently?

I always find in life that you get better traction when you approach people with a solution instead of just a problem.

So perhaps they could've said "Hey, I think it'd be good to increase speaker diversity, and I really recommend person X, she's amazing at Y, I could approach her and ask if you'd like?"

Instead of just yelling "There's not enough women!"
Wearing one now. Good quality at a fair price as I haven’t had to pay western landlords and bankers via land rent.
1. Commits can be merged/squashed when merged upstream.

2. That's fine, your branch has the series of small PRs that people can review.
All his life, Shloime hoped to win the lottery. Each week, he’d pray to God intently, pleading that this be the week he’d finally win. For years he prayed for the lottery – but he never won. Finally one day, in the middle of Shloime’s fervent prayers, a heavenly voice was heard in the synagogue: "Shloime, buy a ticket already!"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a reason they pay higher interest, more risk.
> ... and failed to link it to the scientific aspect of historical materialism...

Um, what "scientific aspect of historical materialism"? To me, the claim that there is any scientific aspect of it requires some evidence, because it seems to be grounded in nothing but ideological belief.
I'm not really sure I see the distinction between machines and devices.

I can't copy something from my Android phone to a Mac, but I can copy something from my Android phone into KDE.
Looks good. They seem to be pretty cheap, and with a low operating cost, would be quite appealing even for private fliers. A rental service for these would be amazing. Plenty of people would rent it out for fun, unique day trips that would hopefully only be a couple times more expensive than a car, albeit with stricter licensing requirements.
thanks for the advice, `muted` was added
Just remembet that every mind lives in it's own world. I think the more we seek truth as opposed to proving ourselves right we can be less argumentative.
Awesome! I've used Racket for web development myself, wonderful experience. Glad you're having fun, good luck with your business.
I got a BlackBerry in school for the exact same reason, I know how it feels. I think it's convenience above everything else.
No, auto-rickshaws aren't common in the U.S. (anywhere, as far as I know).

Probably part of the reason is historical, but one problem is the weather in winter. And I'm not sure population of non-drivers is high enough except a couple major cities.
Leaving the Euro isn't the same as leaving the EU.
Try to buy Taiwan?
They are needed for feudalism to function without raising awareness of the serfs. Corporations are government arms, throwaway proxies.

They extract the power from the serfs and transfer it to the ruling class.

Government: Please kindly pay taxes with these papers that we print.
Serf: Where do I get those papers?
Government: Participate in involuntary servi... in economy. Maybe trade something to a... corporation. Let us know if they don't treat you fairly. <gently kisses in the forehead>
Great lengths? What "great lengths" were they asked to do here?
Because someone might grep for 'schedule' or 'download' but, quite reasonably, not think of 'autocloud' or 'yoink'?
Are you saying that fusion plants will face the same regulatory issues that fission plants experience? Again, I'm not sure what your point is.
This is ridiculous. Flyover states is about contempt for people and a culture, PIIGS is about poor economic and financial decision making. Germans, Danes and Czechs don’t think the Irish, Italians and Spanish are racists who might assault a trans person or an Indian if they see them whereas some Californians do think that way about Texas or Wyoming.
I feel your comment isn’t very constructive and is a little demeaning.
Women are less assertive and more risk averse. This conference is not any different from any other conference, the field in the whole or society at large. This particular phenomenon was even highlighted in nature multiple times:

https://www.nature.com/news/why-women-talk-less-at-conferenc...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07049-x
Not to add to the sensationalism, but it is worth noting that U-238 is probably dangerous to ingest moreso because of its behavior as a heavy metal rather than it's radioactivity.

In which case because of the bioaccumlative properties of heavy metals, drinking 10x the limit as you say may not actually be so harmless. But I don't know what safe limits really are.
There're already numerous ways to do this without rewriting the world. For instance

https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog#powershell-style-filtering-o...
That assumes that women submit talks to conferences at the same rate as men.

I doubt that’s actually the case. But 1/250 does seem very low.
On the other hand, if you're in the US, your belt's shipping from China was paid for entirely, or at least heavily subsidized, by American taxpayers.

(Not sure how this varies across other non-US western countries)
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Then how do you write a Sigma?
I just looked down at my Dell lap top and found the insert key with no problem
> Naturally occurring uranium has a very long half life.

It's nothing to do with radiation, it's chemistry. Uranium compounds are nephrotoxic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457699/
> Trees are not the only place carbon is sequestered in a forest

Trees are not the only part of the amazonian ecosystem, but I'm pretty sure trees outweigh other parts of the amazonian ecosystem by a significant ratio. I think the calculation probably suffices as a back of the envelope estimation.

> I’m not sure what your point is that you are making other than you imply that we don’t need to save the tropics because fossil fuels are worse; but I heartedly disagree with that implication.

Removing tropical rainforest would be disastrous, but not because of impact on global CO2 levels. (Its effects on CO2 levels would not be helpful but wouldn't be among the worst consequences). Among other reasons, it would significantly alter global weather patterns and cause massive damage to ecosystems across the globe.

I think the point is that even an ecosystem as massive and influential as the amazon can't even make a dent in the amount of CO2 that is being produced by human activity.
Well your std c library is generally just a collection of .o, .a, .lib files. So you could use gnu bin tools to remove symbols of your choosing. However good luck getting your system to build software because that would modify the stdlib for all things compiled on your system. You could also tell gcc or clang not to link to the std library and providr your own with just a few switches on invocation of the compiler
This is really cool. My advisor is a strict constructivist and will tell anyone with ears about finitism after a few beers, and I've always found it a useful philosophical position.