skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is in the asking. If I see an attractive woman shopping and go speak to her it may be the 10th time she's been stopped in this one trip.

There is so many aspects to this, it's impossible to reasonably discuss it on an online forum. My perspective is living in a major western city that has a lot of culturally middle eastern people living here. The culture is very forward compared to western white culture. Women I know complain about it all the time. A woman living in an area without this culture may wish more men would hit on her.
When I was a teenager, we painted our barn with lead paint. Let's just say that it didn't come from the local Sherwin-Williams. If it's for sale anywhere, the gray/black market will take care of the rest.
> You claimed his argument was limited to preference, I'm merely showing that Damore was talking about preference and ability. Arguing distribution is a red herring. Nobody is assuming that Damore is referring to women the individual, but women as a whole.

If this was your takeaway, then I did not explain it well enough. Every individual has a distribution of ability. Some are better at math, some are better at sports, some are better at reading, etc. 2/3rds of boys are better at math than they are at reading. 2/3rds of girls are better at reading than they are at math. However, girls are actually better than boys at both reading and math - it's just that they score better at an even bigger margin at reading.

Is it inconceivable to think that the fact that girls are better at reading than math 2/3rds of the time makes girls more likely to prefer reading as compared to math (and vice versa for boys)? That's the point that Damore was making: the distribution in ability affects boys' and girls' preferences. It does not say that the average girl has less ability than the average boy.

If you want to split hairs, you could say that making this argument is sexist because it says girls score better than the boys on average in both reading and in math. But I get the sense that this isn't the angle you're making.

> Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. Note that these are just average differences and there’s overlap between men and women, but this is seen solely as a women’s issue.

> - Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs.

Both of these points have to do with specific parts of the job (salary negotiation, asking for promotion, dealing with stress). These factors exist in all jobs, not just tech. Furthermore he later offers suggestions to try and mitigate this - he brought these things up because he wanted to offer positive changes.

The point remains: Damore did not write that women "aren't physically suited" (~~your words~~) to tech work.
I'm not sure why you put scare quotes around the word "owner". Personally, I'd like to know what "harm" you think is inflicted by, say, the presence of a hardware jumper.

Also, in case you didn't know, there's been a lot of thought and effort expended over the decades about the philosophy, morals and implementation of ownership with regards to hardware and software. I recommend starting with a resource like http://www.gnu.org/philosophy
>Highly disagree. There is nothing in the field of programming that cannot be taught or learned. Being a good programmer doesn't make you smarter or better than an average programmer, or a non programmer, as painful as it is to admit.

This is like arguing that there is nothing in mathematics that cannot be learned. Some people are simply not able to understand calculus, let alone measure theory and topology. Even fewer can take those abstractions and apply them to new domains.
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Just to clarify, infra costs are under COGS because infra costs can be directly attributed to production of what is being sold, not because they're variable. You can have fixed costs in COGS as long as they're directly attributable to production.

G&A can also contain both fixed and variable costs. G&A is for operating expenses that can't be directly attributed to production.
If that’s the case then I’m doomed to real-world dating.

Apparently I need to hire a photographer and a social media coordinator, because otherwise I absolutely stink at flirting online.

Other issue is that I like intellectuals and smarter crowds. My experiences online have been rather unlucky in this area.
>But I still look to Gore's insight that the real decisions are made around the water cooler and in the carpool van, and that is helpful.

So it assumes a very in-person culture for one thing.

Which is fine. But it basically excludes models based on people communicating in a more distributed way. And that probably strictly limits size and geographic diversity.

Nothing wrong with that. I can say I'm building a company in X location. I want everyone to come into the office and we're not looking to get big. That's fine. Among other things, you've described every local manufacturing, wtc. business.
yes, but it's also much easier to write a good OOP code... learning curve is way steeper for functional programming, OOP is easier to grasp as it's closer to how we usually think of the world, while FP is more math like...
Anti-vaccine activist assaults California vaccine law author, police say
Is it autism? The line is getting increasingly blurry
In Seattle if those were performed by a drug user they wouldn’t be.
I got curious and googled Rebecca Liebson's name. Seems like she's off to an extremely promising start in her journalism career.

It seems like an interesting variant of the Streisand effect is at work here: nowadays, if you piss off powerful administrators simply by reporting facts, this can earn you nationwide attention. Which gives would-be journalists have a powerful incentive to do exactly that.
> In urban California, among software developers, you are likely to have one or two political views represented at most

Centrist neoliberals, progressives, libertarians, and “I need active government support because private parties are not actively supporting me” anti-SJW meninists, among other political cliques, all seem to be vocally present in significant numbers among urban California developers.

I'm not sure which “one or two” viewpoints you were referring to.
That's an insane commit unless they have MFN prices with zero non-resale clauses.

Oh, my bad, I keep forgetting that the standard rules of "How not to go out of business by saying 'No'" do not apply to HN startups.
I recently had a bizare experience. My girlfriend that I met in college and was dating for 4 years broke up with me and a week later I saw her profile on Bumble.

It was definitely very upsetting. Women have a lot more power with online dating and can essentially meet someone at anytime if they are good looking. I don't doubt that she has dozens or even hundreds of messages from guys.

I don't have many high quality pictures and I don't do very well.

In online dating it's definitely true that a small percentage of men (say 20%) has sex and the opportunity for a relationship with the majority of women (say 80%).

So I guess I will be single for awhile
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Does it make more sense if we formulate it as "access to information" and not "Internet access"?
Interesting, is that why Victorian houses (in SF and elsewhere) usually have high-ceilings?
Is this whole thing just an attempt to get their name mentioned as many times as possible, and hoping that ends up meaning something?

I honestly don't understand what else they could even be attempting.
All of the indicators are flashing bright red for an incoming recession and furthering this pointless one-upmanship will just further speed things along. He's already increasing the tariffs even further and eventually things are gonna crash.
I'm about to dev a Shopify app myself. How hard is it to stand out on the shopify app store and get some traction?
Am I the only one who thinks it’s totally okay for a Company to allow or not allow certain kinds of discussions within their offices. Why is this even a debate ? Companies are not run like democracies !! You dont loke the rule, change the company.
The rest of the world feels sorry for the USA. If the next generation is copying the current President behavior like millennials did with Clinton it is going to be a very Machiavellian future.

Clinton basically declared receiving oral sex not as a sexual act which lead to teens viewing and practicing this one liner as truth.

Lying more than the previous 44 presidents combined is not a proper example. Trump should have been impeached period.
This plus a lack of IPOs in general. People are trying to find "deals" in tech especially those who have seen their peers make fortunes on the FAANG's.
If you're quoting something, prefix the line with a > symbol rather than 4 spaces. Quoting with 4 spaces is intended for entering code, and it messes up formatting if the line is long.
"Best" is quite a statement. Indeed, by "feature" it's great...but personally I'm never going to switch away from a QWERTY keyboard.

It's really easy to under index consistency.
What courses or universities actually start with OOP? In my uni we started with functional programming (Scheme) and then went to C, only then we learned Java, C++, Prolog and so on.

In another uni when I supervised some exercise classes all students started with Python but using only imperative paradigm.
Why derail the conversation and start talking about Hillary Clinton’s relationship with some professor when the original topic was Donald Trump and his attacks on the legitimacy of the 2016 election?

You’re right, they’re not even in this conversation, because they’re wondering why it even matters at all.
> This is flat out wrong

Only if you assume value == money. The question is not whether advertisers will pay extra for tracking-based advertising (your definition of "value"), the question is whether they are getting what they're paying extra for (what others are considering "value"). That someone pays for extra for something doesn't not necessarily mean it's worth it.
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Forestation has been increasing in Europe the last decades already, so that's kind of positive

https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2015/europe/forests
They’re trying to make a few bucks. You’re trying to get their content for free without supporting them, and doing double-backflips to try to convince yourself that you have the moral high ground.

You don’t.
Trustworthy to who? Definitely not for the 99.9% of the population. Helping to build the biggest spying machine gestapo would be jealous of can be only done by men with very low morals.
These discussions are a bit tiresome. The major reason is of course "because its popular." There's plenty of merit to OOP and there are certainly pitfalls. OOP dominates the popular languages so you see the pitfalls most frequently. The grass is always greener, etc.

It's not like any of these discussions about time to deliver or complexity are based on statistical analysis.
Improve the global economy especially through more free trade and more migration. That will help more people afford everything, not just the internet.

There's other solutions too, like reducing corruption and cost of doing business in developing countries. But there's little westerners can do to implement those solutions. Trade and immigration are things western nations have control over.
Try Ullman's wonderful 'Elements of ML Programming'. Standard ML is a pretty good place to start because it's a relatively small language with a pretty straightforward semantics, and Ullman did a really good job of getting students into the mindset.
Functional programming is definitely not easier to grasp, but it does make compositionality explicit. So the downside is that a single line of code can be denser and less intuitive. The upside is that you can reason inductively over large bodies of code, treating Desired Properties for large things as following neatly from Desired Properties for small things.
My dad is from Baltimore and he was raised to believe that there are some topics not appropriate for polite company: politics and religion.
The larger issue is that if we accept a correct scope of work to be including someone's sense of social justice, then what happens when you now have a lot of people from very different cultures perhaps with very different views of cultural topics such as gender.

If we accept that culture influences politics, then cultural diversity means necessarily political diversity does it not?
I don’t think micropayments will come any time soon. I hope dumb non-tracking ads will make a comeback meanwhile.

If it becomes harder and harder to push invasive ad me then more money will end up in dumb ads instead.
> So, you are giving about $2,000 a month of value to students?

I would think access to the internet is worth more than that. There's some implicit assumptions making with the conversion to dollars that make me think it isn't that simple.

eg
> 49 students are now equipped with laptops, Internet access and online courses. Our partner Georgian Airlink, a local Wifi operator, covered the end-user device installation costs while our online donors sponsor the monthly Internet fees.

To have access, you need a stable living location, with say...wiring or a working wifi access point. You know, a place with a mailbox for a bill or equivalent. Schools are a decent proxy, where there are schools. You need to have a device to access it and of course, a nontrivial amount of knowledge to safekeep/operate these fundamental requirements within poverty conditions.

Ever seen someone brick an ethernet card trying to jam in a phone line? It happens, even with a 20-something that has had a smartphone almost their entire life. So maybe some stewardship is needed.
Related:
Shopify and the power of platforms
https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platfo...
> Might have to make a pair of shorts for it to wear or edit out those details in the obj file.

I'd bet if you scaled it appropriately you could just buy some doll shorts from a thrift store or eBay
HP was on a downward trajectory before that. Which is why Fiorina ended up on board. As a colleague of mine notes at the time "Bring back Lew Platt" was not really a strategy either. I do think the big computer companies of the era reached a certain ceiling beyond which it was challenging to grow.
I used to use all sorts of preprocessor tricks in my C code. I eventually made an effort to eliminated all preprocessor use in the code (except for #include, where there was no alternative).

The result was surprisingly pleasing. The code looked much nicer without all the #'s breaking up the indentation, and it made C look like a more modern language :-)
Consider the difference between a culture that uses base 10 and a culture that uses base 25. They're going to have different conceptions of "manageable amounts", which could have all kinds of knock-on effects when it comes to the management of political entities.

In other words, math doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Yes, this and a few other things, just now (as of half an hour ago) the president authorized the armed forces to help with the fires, and it just happened because there's a lot of pressure, internal and from outside, but the actual president also wants to eliminate indigenous people and their land to allow illegal mining and illegal wood cutters to thrive.

As I said, there's a lot more to this, for example, farmers started the burning (we're calling it "day of the fire") because of shit that the president said.

Also he blamed NGOs for the fires, when asked if he had any proof he said "Is there need for proof?".

He's a short sighted moron doing what short sighted morons do, it's a sad state of affairs here.
People say this, and I'm not sure it's actually true. People grasp some basic use of structs with methods on them pretty quickly and using that to do polymorphism. Most programmers I know haven't grasped how to use a system of message passing objects to make the semantics of the underlying language programmable at runtime.
Why on earth are we at war with Estonia???

Oh wait. Nevermind.
I kinda wish that China would switch from attempting to assimilate HK, to just seeing HKers as foreign devils that need to be kicked out of China. Because that would inevitably lead to only one thing: other countries granting refugee status to the entire HK population.

(In fact, I wonder if particular sovereign nations are already attempting psy-ops with an inculcation of this attitude in the Chinese government as their goal. It's really the only way that the population of HK "gets out" from under China's rule in one piece. Minus a city, of course...)

(Though, if we're talking "things on the CIA's to-do list", giving the CNP another chance to take China from the CCP is probably pretty high up there. Hong Kong would be perfectly content with "assimilation" under a democratic Taiwan-led China.)
Europeans don't let science get in the way of groupthink or fucking over poorer countries for their own profit
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I feel so bad for the author of this post. I would love to bump into and chat with the author 10 years from now at some conference and learn about the arguments that went into why this was written.

I wonder if the director of chrome engineering has drunk the koolaid enough to believe this? Or whether they feel really bad about carrying water to pay the bills.
Agile died the minute someone who never coded anything for money could get a certificate proclaiming them an expert.
This is QWERTY, albeit not one linear rectangle.
In high school AP Computer Science uses Java (20 years ago when I was in high school, they were just transitioning off of C++). You can see what the earliest programmers are being taught here: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-computer-science-a...

Edit: When I was in HS, the AP CS courses (now there is only on since the second one was discontinued) used the "Marin Biology Case Study" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science_A#Marine_B... ). It has apparently been replaced with the "GridWorld" similar case study. I think it highlights one of the issues of OOP: a fascination with modeling, or perhaps over-modeling, the real world. Throughout the course you are expected to develop deep knowledge of a myriad of Fish and Fish Tank-related classes, which while perhaps an accurate preview into what working in an environment like Java is like, is not something that in my opinion succeeds in either exciting most students nor teaching them the "fundamentals" of algorithms and such. I think it can very much feel like a very complex and convoluted exercise in meeting the abstract goals of "categorizing" the world. Ironically, the insistence on modeling the world makes it feel frivolous and disconnected from any practical use -- which is incredibly sad since IMO CS could be the most practical math/science course you take. In my experience when you show kids the cool things that they can get computers to do for them, it can be more inspiring -- such problems do not lend themselves well to formalized class hierarchy drawing though.
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Yes.

Not just cattle but logging and mining. The Minister of the Environment is basically a lobbyist for such companies.
I'm a big fan of Ergodox (https://ergodox-ez.com). It's a little clunky to get used to at first, but it's so customizable that you can easily adjust for any positions your hand wants to be in. It made a huge difference for my RSI.
It’s uncomfortable? If you have ever been in a situation where you are in close proximity with someone who is openly attracted to you it feels weird, like you are being surveilled and there is an expectation that you cannot and don’t want to fulfill. Not that I am often hit on but the few times it has happened it registered in my brain as “ohhh I see why women don’t want this kind of attention”
I generally prefer FP style for most things as well, but sometimes FP can be taken too far.

Trying to understand type signatures that are 3 lines long with nested class types/generics and getting your code to fit into some kind of monad transformer pipeline can get confusing very fast.

For problem domains where you have a lot of state that is shared all over the place (like trying to implement a vector editing program, electronic schematic editor/simulator, or game development), I find OOP models easier to work with.

Monads can be used when you have shared context, but then your code gets constrained and a bit unnatural; you have to worry about Kleisli composition, endofunctors, and plumbing things into and out of the state monad. Yuck.

FP is a tool. OOP is a tool. Know their strengths and weaknesses and when to use each. Yes, you can work entirely with a single paradigm but IMO you're handicapping yourself by doing so.
Fair enough but it still does not reach a fair cross-section of society.
Added: Thoms Mucenieks has a similar setup, which his recent 1M sub video makes it pretty obvious how its setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qWg6Y-Ildc
+ agree with F#, good place to go after C#
Doesn’t really mean much when open carrying immediately results in the police showing up/inciting panic.
Honestly that's both poor naming and also abuse of macros combined with poor tooling (lack of syntax highlighting for macro usage for the reader). They do make it easier to shoot yourself in the foot, but they also let you do useful stuff that you simply couldn't do otherwise. The trouble is mostly teaching people to only use them for such purposes and not for anything else.
Yeah he could probably do it by connecting certain components to "National Security".
>The point remains: Damore did not write that women "aren't physically suited" (your words) to tech work.

Where exactly did I say that??

> Both of these points have to do with specific parts of the job (salary negotiation, asking for promotion, dealing with stress) not that women are less suited for tech work.

Yes, yes, Damore is saying that women lack the ability to lead due to their extraversion, empathy, and neuroticism (anxiety) inhibiting them, because those are specific parts of the job that require abilities. Also, you're ignoring now that he said both tech and leadership, and you are now focusing on just "tech work". This is more splitting hairs on semantics to apologize for Damore.

>And he later offers suggestions to try and mitigate this.

Of course he does. He cherry picked data to wrongly fit his hypothesis from the start. Naturally he would conclude with his own ideas on how to mitigate a problem that he misused data to create.
Their product is great.

But the people I met there last year during a maybe-but-not-quite acquihire adventure we're also great. I wish them all the best with this IPO.

For those interested, I wrote a blog about what it's like for a solo founder to (almost) be picked up by company like Datadog.

https://blog.checklyhq.com/my-acquihire-adventure-with-a-lar...
Social skills can be improved, at least in many people. I learned slowly but eventually I mostly caught up.