skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's what's being suggested at here at all. In the past few years, there has been an overemphasis on "maleness" being bad and leading to negative. In a lot of western social history (and even a lot of eastern societies) there has always been the concept of "the divine feminine" (Mother earth, goddesses and so fourth).

We've seen the growing emphasis of bad men and toxic masculinity; as if the man has a propensity for toxicity (anecdotally we've all known toxic people who were both men and women. They might generally be toxic in different ways, but that does change that no biological sex has a monopoly on being shitty human beings).

I think what's more interesting from the study is all the statements about correlation with small samples sizes. As mentioned by other comments, even this study doesn't seem remotely conclusive. It's focused on testosterone, because men generally have way more of it. I think it's more of a conversation starter on more research that should be done than anything else.
Like I wrote—it is my personal (and layperson’s to boot) view, I can only cite sources that treat them as unrelated emotions.

I distinguish between fear as in immediate flight response, and fear as in deeper insecurity or non-obvious harm avoidance, including things like social status preservation.

I would not bundle reflecting negatively among all that, though.
I love this question!
That is a hoot. History is littered with terrible technology that was widely adopted.

At least Meteor never got that far.
I'm not claiming fraud against me.
Arent pre generated tiles just a form of caching? What is the internal source data format? something vector based? How big is that?
Yeah and they will use all the deep learning research, probably open source tools like TensorFlow, and then deploy to AWS? I think what's happening is that SV is democratizing IT tools for some years now and has been expanding globally. Bit weird to frame it as a competitor when most likely it's probably a child of silicon valley, and cannot really compete unless they come up with a COMPLETELY NEW infrastructure and AI technology from the ground up, which is possible but obviously not the case.
Google isn't available in China. If you attempt to go to the Chinese .cn domain site, it redirects you to the .hk one instead.

The decision to leave mainland China occurred in 2010 after Google announced that, in response to a Chinese-originated hacking attack on them and other US tech companies, they were no longer willing to censor searches in China and would pull out of the country completely if necessary. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
To me, that's the mentality of facing truth, even if it's uncomfortable.

That's not a threat to humanity.
No, free speech is fundamental principle that is not tied to the government. You are conflating free speech and the first amendment as it exists in the US. Private companies that control as much of information exchange as modern tech companies do are serving as a digital public square. They should not have the authority to censor legal speech.

Also, America definitely has a far left. Claiming that the most-left cohort of America is center-right is completely disconnected from reality.
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/the-seven-year-auto-loan-am...
Free speech is completely unrelated to deplatforming only if you ascribe to the purely legal definition of it. Many others consider free speech to be much more than a legal concept; it's an ideal that is worthwhile as much in private contexts as it is in public.
I'm taking the princeton algorithms 1 course now, and it is proving helpful. It has automatic online grading and is free.

The only gripe I have is that at the end of the day, the litmus test for whether or not I'll pass an interview really is leetcode.com

While the coursera course is great, and provides fundamentals I'm clearly lacking ... It's tangential to the actual solving of these riddles.
How do you accurately measure empathy though? I'm not sure I agree with the methods they used in this study.
Highly unlikely. Look at the bloodletting in Syria or Lebanon for lessons in how much the former Ottoman subjects like each other
http://archive.is/ZKYOf
Hey, that's me, might as well answer questions here.

I[1] do performance tuning for Microsoft SQL Server. The licensing costs on MSSQL Enterprise Edition are $7K USD per CPU core, so a typical single high-performance server costs $250K-$500K. Factor in hardware, multiple replicas (high availability, disaster recovery, scale-out reads) and it's not unusual for a company to have spent millions of dollars on their database server. (I know, I know, you think you can get a 4-core MySQL VM to perform the same. Let's set that aside for now and just focus on the article & the work.)

My basic sales pitch is that in 2 days, I can tell you why your queries aren't going as quickly as you want, and how to make them go faster. It's $5K USD done during the week, $15K weekends. Aside from the Christmas & New Year's weeks, I'm booked out until mid-January (with a couple of weekend gigs already scheduled.) For my clients, $5K is an irrelevant rounding error compared to how much they're spend on software, hardware, staffing, and how much revenue they're losing when their web site or enterprise app goes down.

I don't subcontract, I don't wear suits, I don't network with executives. I just have a very clearly defined product, sample deliverables online, a blog with a couple thousand posts dating back to 2002, and a very active community presence: I present at a lot of conferences. (I'm speaking at Data Saturday Holland this weekend.)

The linked post talks a lot about short calls and canceled gigs, but that's easily avoidable in this market: just require nonrefundable prepayment. In this high-value tier, clients tend to understand that they're buying a specific window on your calendar. If they don't show, I lost that time and can't get it back any other way, so to lock that day down, they have to prepay.

The best resource for this kind of work is the book Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinburg. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Feel free to ask any questions you want - I'm really transparent about the business. I'm on vacation in Amsterdam this week so my answers will be a little delayed during the day.

[1]: https://www.BrentOzar.com
Yeah I thought the OP will finish his sentence “after about 1 week”. 1 year is decent in IT.
https://getwisdomapp.com is a more user friendly expert network designed for experts if anyone is interested in monetizing their spare time
I recall reading that sweet spot is around $150,000 per person.
What difference would it make? Apple and other companies follow the laws of countries they operate in, regardless of whether they produce there or not.
I used to get those requests all the time, however I thought they were just advanced sales techniques to seed you with ideas on products or to make you say flattering things about products, followed by a sales guy contacting you.
One of my cofounders has been the consultant a few times. Someone reached out on linkedin and didn't care what it cost. They were considering an acquisition of a competitor of one of his former employers, and wanted an insider's view on things.

We've used them once or twice. We needed guidance on major strategic initiatives. If you're paying $1-2m in payroll to make something, spending a couple thousand talking to senior execs in neighboring businesses is a really good use of money.

Think of it like Gartner, just way cheaper :)
Agree with what you're saying but it's quite easy for this thread to become an unironic mirror of Silicon Valley. A bunch of folks complaining that the free food at work isn't vegan or that they aren't making humanity better with their CRUD app.

I don't see how a thread around that helps. We already know that more than most other professions, software engineers have options when moving jobs. If you want to be fired, let your boss know.
discovering how Dropbox hacks your mac

https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338
Before quitting, try your best to make changes that will reduce stress and improve the project's manageablity with or without permission. Your work sounds so mission critical you could probably do whatever you want with no chance of getting fired.

Just be able to justify your action and communicate your decisions clearly. You'll start earning respect and that alone will reduce your stress levels. Standing up for yourself is hard to do at any age and "learned helplessness" is a concern if you don't push yourself.
Are MIT's or FSF's decisions "deplatforming"?
> No, free speech is fundamental principle that is not tied to the government. You are conflating free speech and the first amendment as it exists in the US. Private companies that control as much of information exchange as modern tech companies do are serving as a digital public square. They should not have the authority to censor legal speech.

No, it's not. Free speech is what is enshrined within the First Amendment. Anything beyond that is offered by companies because they hope to make money. You can't compel YouTube to speak any more than you can compel them to stop speaking, to offer you a platform or to take one away. That's not what is guaranteed you as an American.

You never had the right to publish anything you want in the newspaper and that hasn’t changed with Twitter.

> Also, America definitely has a far left. Claiming that the most-left cohort of America is center-right is completely disconnected from reality.

Not in mainstream politics. Democrats are centrist/center-right by world standards. Certainly by European and Canadian standards anyways -- the bulk of the world's other democracies.

Find my a single other "far left" politician not 100% committed to socialized medicine, anywhere on earth.
> No “left winger” (America doesn’t have a left, it has a center right and a far right)

If we separate this into social and fiscal dimensions or authoritarian and economic dimensions (e.g. the Political Compass), the US certainly does have a major party that's left in some key ways. Assuming at least a few other western countries also have a left by this standard.
This is the first thread of this type I've seen on the front page. I don't see any reason it'll be a "habit".

Yes, software engineers are generally well-off, but that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of people in our field who work in toxic environments, or have an over-demanding manager, or feel like they have no potential to grow in their current role, or have mental health issues that are exacerbated by stressful and isolating working conditons, to name a few possible issues. And I'm sure many of those people are hesitant to try to change this situation because they are well-compensated and work in a nice office building. So if a thread like this could nudge them to take that first step, then I'm all for it.

The number of upvotes and comments is an indicator that enough people feel or have felt this way for this thread to be worthwhile.
The elephant in the room whenever anyone talks about taking a sabbatical is MONEY...

What are you guys doing for money? Just burning savings?
China can do without Samsung phones, the market is a political stake against Samsung and Korea, but their OLED and RAM are needed there, at least for now.
What does it take to become this kind of person in less than 10 years?
Google using dubious tactics in facial recognition project
Microsoft Surface Neo [video]
To be fair, if your app submission is a glorified Web App (leveraging no native iOS features) Apple will reject for that reason alone [0].

"4.2 Minimum Functionality - Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website."

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
Oh boy. Not even gonna bother with a throwaway, draw your own inferences about whether I'm taking the thread title too literally. My current responsibilities:

(1) Architect for significant updates to one of our financial projection models. The requested timeline for results from these changes has been changed (directly by C-suite) from mid-November to late October to ASAFP over the course of the last week. Said model was built by non-programmers using a 20-year-old modeling platform; the lead architect was a new grad with a CS minor. Ever tried debugging a runtime error in a >1000-line C++ function, with no error messages, using nothing but cout? Try it sometime, if you've got a good therapist.

(2) PM for an internal application that executes the projection model in (1) on our in-house grid computing platform. The developers and tester for this are great, which helps. But none of them had seen the codebase until a month ago, since the previous developers and tester all moved to different teams since the last time we worked on this application. They also don't fully understand what the application is doing (I haven't had time to get them totally up to speed, though I'm working on it!), which means I get to build a lot of the testing tools myself, the highlight of which has been writing a FoxPro DBF parser in R (long story).

(3) Reviewer for the twisted hellscape of Excel workbooks that makes up one of my old (~2 years ago) team's processes, since the guy who was supposed to be reviewing them quit out of the blue (can't say I blame him) and my old team apparently couldn't find anyone else to do it. The old team usually gives me a heads up when they make substantial changes to parts of the process while I'm reviewing them, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.

I should mention that I'm ostensibly a data scientist, but sometimes management seems to take the idea that data scientists should be generalists a little too literally.
Everytime this quote gets brought up Benny rolls in his grave. The rights are self evident that we make laws that govern ourselves.

Get over yourself.
Apple is fighting only for the one thing - the money.

If that means they need to sacrifice some people (especially outside US) - they will do it.
I work in a factory and I see all of the problems my older coworkers have. Along with that I think the company wants to move the whole plant to Mexico so there is no long-term job security. I've learned programming in my spare time but when I've tried applying for jobs I didn't get a response, which I assume is because I don't have a degree. I've been trying to get back into university but I'm not sure that it will happen anytime soon. We've been working a lot of weekends too so programming time is limited. I'd quit but this is the best paying job I've been able to get.
Do you really think it is appropriate for Visa or Mastercard to decline to process payments for Wikileaks? Or for Youtube to demonetize Conservative voices? These platforms control way too much of today's commerce and speech to be treated as just private corporations exercising their rights. That is a disingenuous disregard for the principle of free speech, which is again, more fundamental than the notion of free speech enshrined in current American law.
Apple WebKit Flaw that opened up the browsers to Malvertising campaigns
In my experience its unlikely this will be complete or accurate on any project maintained by a team of more than a couple of people.

Common practice for a long time has been to include a ticket id in the commit and then use a script to pull all the ticket ids from the commits since the last release and pull the (user facing) release note info from ticketing system.

Of course you don't want commit messages going to users but you don't want to rely on handcrafted lists either. Particularly when a release as far as a customer is concerned is infrequent and contains changes from many repos.
That's not totalitarianism though. Since we're quoting Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

"Totalitarian regimes are different from other authoritarian ones. The latter denotes a state in which the single power holder – an individual "dictator", a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite – monopolizes political power. "[The] authoritarian state [...] is only concerned with political power and as long as that is not contested it gives society a certain degree of liberty".[8] Authoritarianism "does not attempt to change the world and human nature".[8] In contrast, a totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life, including the economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens."

So Chile and Guatemala were Authoritarian, but not Totalitarian. The practical difference is that an Authoritarian Chilean government kills 3,000 people while the Totalitarian Khmer Rouge kills 1.5 to 2 million of its own people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

"According to a 2001 academic source, the most widely-accepted estimates of excess deaths under the Khmer Rouge range from 1.5 million to 2 million,"

In North Korea, it's hard to estimate because it's a closed society with tight control over information:

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM

"Perhaps from 710,000 to slightly over 3,500,000 people have been murdered, with a mid-estimate of almost 1,600,000. But these figures are little more than educated guesses"

Saying they are the same thing is ridiculous and really soft pedals how insane some communist regimes were.
Apple should too
Maybe not technically, but that's irrelevant. It's part of the phenomenon being discussed.
Testosterone increases blood flow, it could be that the participants taking it got more alert meaning better scores but that testosterone also worsens results for similar alertness levels.
"You all are inferior because of your gender"

That's the definition of creating a vicious and predatory workplace. Hence, fired.

Not to mention every source he quoted came out saying that the information was misused.
Yeah, you've accurately explained how Silicon Valley culture can ruin companies that would be completely sustainable otherwise. Thanks!
Hah, this reminds me a lot of ECS (Entity-Component-System) architectures [1]

The first time I read about ECS I thought it was a completely crazy idea, but after trying it I realized that I was able to have extreme low-coupling and complete separation of concerns. It was great for hacking things, but in the long term it was also great for maintenance and code reuse! I never felt this way about OOP, ever.

In this case however it seems that the "Entity Management" part is ad-hoc, with Editors themselves putting things on the dictionaries. Ooops :)

EDIT: I think one can get a lot of mileage out of something like this if the dictionary management code is properly encapsulated in an isolated module/class. Just an idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
Benicia Station: The Future Venice of the Capitol Corridor Route
Your solution is to use an enterprise certificate from Anokiiwin Employment Solutions Inc or NANJING SCIYON SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Both will certainly get revoked soon. HN is a technical forum, so we understand why your solution doesn't actually work.
You misunderstand, the cash in these accounts are kept in an FDIC sweep, so it's FDIC insured.
Ent, an Entity Framework for Go from Facebook
Big isn't enough to emphasize it. There's a consistency to Apple's actions, and it shows them to be fundamentally hypocritical.
Programming should be data oriented rather than code oriented
If I'm not mistaken the court crafted their opinion to apply "at least" to technology "not in general public use", and was somewhat ambiguous as to more common devices.

I share your concern for what will become of privacy as exotic new surveillance techniques become widespread. The legal treatment of expectation of privacy seems tied to whatever is the societal norm of the age, and that mark has shifted dramatically in my lifetime.
I have been trying to move to iCloud as well, though unfortunately theres still no Android app for it till now
I wonder why more producers haven't made this move? If Vietnam is there as far as infrastructure goes and they have the skilled/unskilled labor why is this not a more popular move.

Also when we say "make" I assume we mean "assembles".

Somewhat anecdotally I recently purchased a laptop and tried to find one that wasn't made in China and it was nigh on impossible.
China visitors graffitied celebration of 70 years of PRC on Prague's Lennon Wall
> or that they aren't making humanity better with their CRUD app.

Feeling like your work isn't positively impacting the world is a very common, completely valid complaint, and isn't specific to "Silicon Valley" at all.

What's your problem with people talking about whether their work feels worthwhile? Why is that any less important of a conversation to have than all the other chatter that goes on here?
Got evidence?
> I don't want to have a conversation that way. I shouldn't have to.

I've been though this after a comp review. Despite good review, my raise wasn't impressive. Once I had a competing offer in-hand, suddenly a lot more money was available. Had I wanted to keep the job more, I would have pressed the issue during the comp review, but to your comment, I shouldn't have to.
This is a very slippery slope
Not even President Trump can make Apple do that
I've always wondered the same thing. I've lived a reasonably stressful life, living through much worse things than the daily monotony of office life as a software engineer. However there are some days where it truly just crushes my spirits and leaves me completely spiritually depleted.
There's truly something to be said regarding the elasticity of our mental health and how large a role expectations and norms play in our mental well-being. Not to mention there may be something particularly dehumanizing about the profession of software engineering.
Toxic masculinity isn't "being masculine is bad" it's "being so caught up in social stereotypes of supposed masculinity that you become bad." Toxic masculinity vs. healthy masculinity. At least in people that use the phrase seriously that I've interacted with conversationally. Not to dispute that some people think maleness is inherently bad (or that the supposed duality of gender reflects a supposed duality of morality, what ever the sign of correlation). Those simplistic thinkers are very persistent.
A datascientist explains machine learning to her mother
Loom, a New Type of Video Comms Tool, Is Hiring for Video Roles Worldwide
Please don't post any more flamebait to HN. You started a wretched flamewar with this one, which is ironic in a thread about gratuitous war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141258 and marked it off-topic.
There is no defense of the Pinochet era. I believe that his predecessor tragically abused governance though, seizing control over so many lives, there and abroad.

I feel this is such important context for what followed. It raised such a fervor of hatred toward the communist political body. I still believe this was theft of property from people's families and estates built over many generations of effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuskovic_plan#Application
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Salvador_Allende...

The bounds of civility had been trampled and vanished. The violent retaliations which followed were outright disgusting.
He never said that. Different != Inferior
From quantum supremacy to classical fallacy
The Little Rock Nine was 1957. What do you believe happened to all those people who protested and threatened violence against those children? What do you think they taught their children?

The idea that we have somehow magically eradicated racism over the course of a single generation astounds me.

Seriously, it's almost 2020. You should get how close to the 1960s that is.