skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered whether that's what you were doing... setting up a sneaky strawman comparison using "always" and "incredibly", which are everyday words and unremarkable because of that, but both words strong in literal meaning.

If having no problems in a place like this: http://yris.yira.org/essays/1150 is the exception, then what's the rule?
Imbalance is bad because participation in civil society, to include employment, should be representative of society as a whole.

But why?

I understand the point that diverse workforce leads to diverse ideas. But will fifty women per hundred employees produce five times more diverse ideas than, say, ten women?

Hiring women just for the sake of hiring women looks like a cargo cult.
> When the world turns away from science and innovation, towards dogma and social control, it rarely ends well...

Great! Then you'll be happy to know the science modelling climate change due to human emissions has been well underway since the 1970s, and that science is also saying we need to reduce emissions AND sequester carbon already in the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic social and economic consequences (aka "lifestyle changes").

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21115669

You should also be interested in the large amounts of innovation needed to address this - renewable energy sources storage, and delivery, innovative new ideas on how we can travel, grow our food and transform our economy into a more efficient and sustainable one.

Since you're interested in carbon sequestration such as Project Vesta, I'm sure you'd agree it makes no sense numerically to only start capturing carbon without also reducing emissions which have been growing non-stop. How do you propose this happens?
FWIW most people are dum
Agreed, absolutely amazed me when I saw it.

I think this is actually a better picture as it puts them both in the sky for a more natural comparison (to me): https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Mxc-LeD...

Andromeda side to side is ~6 times the width of the moon, IIRC.

Just imagine being able to see that galaxy clearly! In fact (he says bitterly) just imagine being able to seem the damn stars any more. If you've never had a chance to see them, on a moonless night without artifical light wrecking everything, and have the chance to see infinity slowly unfold like a flower as your eyes adjust and take in more, watching the ethereal edge of the milky way appear in greater and greater detail, then you have missed one of the most beautiful sights that exist. Perhaps the most beautiful, perhaps. It really is that special.
I don't think it is that complicated:

- go by car or by public transport?

- buy local vegetables vs eating a burger in a franchise?

- turn on the heater vs use a bigger blanket?

- go to work in a suit with a tie in summer with A/C at maximum power vs go in summer clothes with a normal A/C?

That is voting with your wallet and your lifestyle. Please stop saying is others fault... it is our fault, of everybody, from politics to regular people. And we ALL have to do something.
Prime Minister wants nuclear path for India to go green
Big problem with that chart. Look where it ends. 2006. It looks like an upward trend. If you add the last decade it's missing, that trend won't exist. You know what, let put that together in BI really quick. I want to see if that trend holds true since it's missing the past decade of data.
One phrase that seems to be missing from the article is is larger category of problem -- a collective action problem. The public good framing has to do with a citizen/state relationship. The collective action framing reflects a state/state relationship. A number of the more technical terms throughout the article imply this, but I was surprised that the term itself was left out because including it immediately tells us that certain solution simply will not work.

Further note (edit). I think it is unlikely that a single state will ever be able to mitigate alone unless all other states stop or drastically reduce CO2 release. Maybe one state could threaten to set off a bunch of nukes in the upper atmosphere to destroy electronics and power grids around the world as a threat to encourage compliance, but that seems extremely far fetched.
I don't do anything low latency so its mostly the common scientific python stack -- numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. Mostly linux, lots of Spark, some R and C#. We're really flexible on what we can use to solve our problems but the team has pretty much settled on python as both developers and analysts can work together more easily.
You should be ashamed for not understanding the difference between intellect and morals.
It is a particular type of bias with an identifiable cause and specific remedies -- remedies that, despite what this exerpt might suggest, are widely known and practiced. On the other hand, Alvarez's term is idiosyncratic (possibly inspired by his WWII work on radar?) and not, apparently, widely used. Related terms: doctrine, received wisdom?
Didn't hear those rumors before. But, even if that's a rumor that's been going around, it's just a rumor :P
> Removing links to other platforms is anti-competitive full stop. Threatening de-verification due to links is even worse.

> This is the behavior of monopolists. The FTC and existing anti-trust organizations would do well to return to their jobs and take a look at these practices broadly across the tech industry.

While I am inclined to agree with you, is it anti-competitive to remove phone numbers, etc from apps like Wag or Rover or Airbnb to prevent external communication outside the app?

I personally don't like that but don't think it's monopolistic. Wondering if the two are related somehow.
Google leads me to the site because I have the exact problem. I'm excited to see someone has already asked the same questions that I would on the problem. Then I see the dead end and wonder if anyone actually read and understood the question.

"Moderators" with a preconceived notion of what the question or subject is all about are not moderators.
Reading your link, I don't find anything troubling. He says the term is too ambiguous and it makes it easy to (potentially maliciously) misrepresent someone's acts.

If you find anything else he's said troubling please provide me some references as I'm trying to read anything that may help me to understand this episode. (I've already read about his former and present opinions on paedophilia)
I have a hard time believing that’s better than seeing both with absolute clarity, which is certainly possible.
If we're talking about Computer Science, a PhD will generally not get you a job. The good jobs all look for skills rather than credentials, and formal education is mostly ignored, both during hiring and at work in general.

The case where a PhD will actually help is when your research topic is relevant to the business, where the work you did to get your PhD actually broke new ground in an way that makes you an expert on a problem the company wants to solve.
Yes, that is basically the job description; the point of a PhD is to contribute new knowledge.
Paris Hopes to Build an E-Bike Boom
I'm sure in the numeric example the forum engine made the result wrong.

Let me try. 2 + 4 * 5 - 2 should be 14...
Orbicule Undercover Shutting Down
(from email - I can't find a news source)

Why are we halting Undercover development

The main reason is that over the past 6 years, Apple has significantly increased security on macOS. While that’s a good thing in general, it makes it increasingly more difficult to reliably run hidden software like Undercover.

Another key point is that FileVault has become mainstream. This means that a thief won’t be able to access your files without your password - again a good thing. However, this also means that Undercover won’t be able to function properly, as third party developers don’t have access to the recovery partition that is being used when a thief boots your Mac without knowing your password. Only Apple has access to this recovery partition, where it can run FindMyMac.
Undercover (or any other third party application) can’t run on this recovery partition and will be useless if FileVault has been enabled.

A third reason is that with macOS Catalina, Apple is refreshing its FindMyMac app (now called FindMy) and will leverage its large installed base of Macs and iPhones to track stolen devices, even if they never connect to the internet. They do so by using Bluetooth connections of nearby devices that are connected to the internet. Again a great idea from Apple, but Undercover or any other third party application, do not have access to this functionality.

When launched in January 2006, Undercover was groundbreaking software. The fact that Apple has replicated Undercover-like functionality and embedded it deep into iOS and macOS shows the value of the theft-recovery genre that Undercover has pioneered. At this point, however, we feel that we can no longer deliver reliable software due to security restrictions, while having a hard time carving out a successful business model competing with free Apple software that is installed by default on every Mac and has access to system features that we can only dream of.
The Race to Next-Gen 2.5D/3D Chip Packages
Global warming is a trend that can now, with thirty years of hindsight, be clearly identified. However, many people on both sides made lots of predictions that didn't come to pass, so some amount of skepticism towards certain more alarmist claims is warranted. It's too convenient to just lump any skepticism into the "denier" and "bad person" box, and that's exactly what happens.

It's also dishonest to point out that the fossil industry has a clear interest, while ignoring that the renewables industry also has such an interest. A lot of business is being made peddling non-solutions to a problem that might actually be unsolvable.
I still find photos helpful because they show what the product looks like in real life. How bright is that laptop screen really? An few indoor photos from different people is helpful here.
Will IC packaging save Moore's Law?
i've actually implemented a similar spatial-sort method used within an analog computer for some industrial controllers. so it does have some real life applications.
It wouldn't solve everything, but I think that the problem could be significantly helped with the following changes:

Only allow reviews from people who actually purchased the product.

Make it fraud to pay spammers to review your product.

Show the country where a seller is located.

Make Amazon (and similar marketplaces) liable and on the hook for returns if a seller disappears.
Often the best answer will depend on that seemingly off-topic information though.
https://puu.sh/EnbA7/d4a1f4eaff.pdf&mime_type=application%2F... Sci hub
ModifiedBSD, yes.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD
> It is reasonable to assume "built-in integer" means "int".

This strikes me as a little nuts for C but it definitely explains this thread. I just assumed people had already switched over to e.g. sint32/size_t to avoid this problem a long time ago. I couldn’t tell if this was a legitimate complaint or someone’s language lawyering tendencies gone too far.
Given that it's part of The New York Times, I'd be skeptical.
Gender Imbalance is a presupposition -- it begins from the place that a "gender imbalance" exists.

I can't justify for you your presupposition [nor demonstrate the existence of your chosen, yet unjustified presupposition given the evidence], you'll need to do that for yourself. Sounds like the news & entertainment media told you something repeatedly (without evidence), and you accepted it on its face without critical analysis.

Now, like many, when presented with evidence, you feel a sense of cognitive dissonance and would prefer to refute clear evidence rather than adjust your public opinion-- as to be expected given human nature of desire to save face.

However, what is apparently demonstrated in the studies is that the vast majority of individuals in a normal distribution favor a particular occupational set of interests based on gender: Men -> Things/Systems. Women -> People.

"The most relevant finding here is that about 15% of women have the same level of interest in engineering as the average (Read: 50% i.e. 50th percentile) man;"

"Straight Talk About Sex Differences in Occupational Choices and Work-Family Tradeoffs"

https://ifstudies.org/blog/straight-talk-about-sex-differenc...
I had never heard of him, so I took the advice of the previous poster and looked at Wikipedia [1]:

> After one semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he transferred to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where received his BA in physics in 1985, and then received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991. He then joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. From 1994 to 1996 he was a visiting professor at Cornell University. He then joined the faculty at the University of Utah, where he taught until 2008 when he joined NVIDIA as a research scientist.

I think he probably knows more than you give him credit for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shirley
There is a lot of hate for PHP out there, much of it based on people either jumping on a band wagon or assuming that PHP hasn't changed since PHP4.

Modern PHP written against 7 and leveraging all the excellent tooling that exists is no worse than any other production code base.

As for PHP dying, not for a long time, there are vast amounts of systems out there still running PHP.

Much of the apparent loss of interest isnt because PHP numbers are declining it's because languages and frameworks exploded in numbers.

A case of a medium size fish in a much bigger pond.
Sure, maybe we can also televise it. Maybe we can send people in to hunt them, too.
Maybe, but I always get a bit skeptical if people throw air pollution and global warming into the same bucket.
I'm curious, did Luma pay to put negative reviews out for Eero as well? I feel like a lot of the negative reviews I read these days are bought for.
This is nice in theory, but Amazon have a big problem right now where merchants have figured out how to reuse Amazon listing to game the review rating. You'll often find you're looking at a product but the reviews are talking about something completely different.

Here's an example - third product in the search results on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headphone-Connector-Converter-Acces...

It's supposed to be for Headphone adapters for iPhone, but you get reviews like:

"Super set of pocket friendly priced pencils!"

"I purchased this Hub back in April of 2013"

"On the first couple of uses, food did stick a bit and that is with seasoning the griddle"

So it's got to point now of having to first find a product with good ratings, then make sure the reviews are indeed for that product.
What I don't get is how does one know they will solve a problem? I run into many problems that I don't have a good solution for and can't seem to figure out nor find how to get one. So I usually need to ask a co-worker for help and even then, they usually have to do it for me because they can't find time to show me how to do it. And if they do it or even show you what you need to do, are you really solving that problem?

Guess it's one of those things no one seems to be able to figure out since most of these pieces never really describe, in detail, what their process actually is for something that's unsolvable for them.
Tons of Water in Asteroids Could Fuel Satellites, Space Exploration
You know what, I agree with you on that (at least concerning racism/sexism). But when it comes to "ass(holes)" and other "terrible people", as we can see from the whole RMS debacle, most people are unreliable and incapable of correctly identifying those terrible people.

I should've been more precise in this: Seemingly terrible people deserve an accurate evaluation that does not rely on "feelings" or the lynch-mob.

Definitions of an "ass(hole)" are pretty subjective, and the tolerances here vary far greater than those that are racist or sexist. You shouldn't mix them up.
>probably "rx rust pixel"

https://www.google.com/search?q=rx+rust+pixel&oq=rx+rust
The Democrats are learning the lesson of the last election, which is that voters want outside the mainstream radicals, not centrists to follow the status quo. Whether that's the correct lesson to learn remains to be seen.
> Concurrency is hard. Maybe something like Erlang does it better, but compared the concurrency options in most popular languages, and the bugs that go along with those options, I think I would far rather deal with them in Go.

Concurrency isn't really that hard in Erlang, and Erlang isn't the only language that handles concurrency well. "Concurrency is hard" is usually paired with an implicit refusal to learn paradigms that make concurrency easier.

Why are we only comparing Go to popular languages? When I first came across Go, before it was a popular language, I immediately started criticizing it because of the weak type system and ineffective concurrency model: I wanted the attention being given to Go to be given to a better language. Now I'm seeing the same people saying, "Okay, but the type system and concurrency are better than other popular languages." At face value, it makes sense to compare a popular language to other popular languages, but that logic breaks down because the only reason Go is popular is that a lot of people made the bad decision of choosing it before it was popular.
Where can I read more on this?
This thread should be required reading anytime someone asks why there aren’t more women in computing science.
Deterrent is, I think traditionally at least, considered “negative reinforcement.” So, “I don’t want to end up like that person, so I won’t do what they did to end up in their situation.”
If I may turn a phrase: If this NYT article hasn't convinced you that climate change propaganda is real, and that the NYT is not a reputable source, probably nothing will.
Maybe we are not making progress.
You're right. These are not terribly austere, though some are hard/costly in some circumstances (eg insulation). I do think we should do these both as personal choices and as mandates, but..

These aren't what I'd consider solutions. They don't add up to enough. Austerity (I still think we should do a little of this, temporarily) follows shortly after these "freebies." Travel fewer kms. Have fewer houses. Even with a little austerity, I don't think we can (or should) achieve negative growth in our energy consumption.

A "solution" would be a clean grid, using technologies that have the potential to improve over time and allow us to consume more energy. This means getting to cleaner and cheaper.

Also, at least here (Ireland/EU), people are very willing to talk about this level of inconvenience. More than willing. It's even at a point where politicians are promoting relatively pointless minor inconveniences (eg ban straws, divide recycling more) for political points.

I may have gone somewhat overboard with my comment though, reacting to other conversations I've had with other people (always a poor choice).
I saw Manhattan, Orange and Kool-Aid, and assumed the others were also the names of drinks. Nope!
I would argue it was always like that. Some of it seemed to be actively encouraged by Jeff Atwood/moderators/senior users. You forgot another common one: "not clear what you are asking". I normally have to reply to this with "the question is in the final paragraph". Which often results negative comments and perhaps the question being closed. Or trying to edit a bug out of an answer, being refused because you didn't change enough, tidying up some wording, and getting the edit rejected for supposedly changing what the person is saying.

I don't think any of it is specific to SO - online communities seem to attract people who like everything to be extremely specific and rule-based, regardless of whether that creates the best outcomes. I've seen mods destroy several forums.

SO gets a lot of other stuff right though. I don't think it will die anytime soon, nor does it need to in order to improve things.
Because that way you don't have any .innerHTML in your code, which makes it easier to analyze and requires fewer eslint expectations, etc.

And it has the same end result.

Also, technically, this should be faster since that empty string is not put through the html parser (tho browsers might optimize for this special case already).
CS PhD from Stanford in dynamic program analysis. Lost all my friends. Ghosted by companies for jobs directly related to my research. Everyone I knew who went directly into industry is doing way better than me. My salary has only tracked inflation. I sorely regret the decision and consider it to have fundamentally ruined my life beyond repair.
It's not in the article for some reason, but the distance is 188km (following the rail line, not as the crow flies), giving an average speed of 157km/h or 97mph.
You didn't just give an example of a leader who doesn't challenge things. You literally stated that if a follower disagrees with the leader, then "by definition" he/she is not a good leader.
You are implying that the definition of "leader" includes that you can't challenge things people may not find ok (disagree with).
Someone needs to read some Foucalt lol. Dreadfully uninformed comment, rbut.
I really wish more details about this was available.

> it seems that SE is unwilling to protect trans moderators from vitriol by other mods.

Reading Monica's post made me pretty sure this was trans related. I'm sad that I was right.

> [From Monica's Post] unlike the rest of the CoC, this rule mandates specific, positive actions.

This is something I've heard many times from anti-trans activists in order to justify their purposeful, and intentional misgendering and dead-naming of trans individuals. I'm not saying that is what Monica is advocating, but my spidey-sense is definitely tingling.

> [From Monica's Post] chastising me for raising issues and saying my values were out of alignment.

Again this is something I hear from anti-trans activists. We saw similar rhetoric from homophobic individuals back in the 90s. That their religion and values dictated that gay people were bad therefore they couldn't <insert action here>.

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Without knowing more it is hard to say, but even if this isn't about trans people Monica's arguments aren't inherently right. One person's religious beliefs don't justify the disregard for others. A very extreme example would be that many KKK member's religion states that black people are inherently inferior, and we don't give that belief consideration.

If you know more, please do share, because right now it seems like one sides arguments are valid, but they can quickly fall apart depending upon the specifics.
> Qs on a Q&A site become a sort of permanent record that other people stumble across

The fact that it is a permanent record that lives on is another argument in favor of the "just answer the damn question".

Context changes. Requirements change. Someone in the future might need the exact answer for some reason, but instead they get some useless back-and-forth and low-effort condescending answers that is super-specific to that asker.

Asking for more context, adding disclaimers before answering or linking to alternative solutions in the comments is fine, but it's a pain in the ass when the answers doesn't match the questions.
Planet Nine could be a primodial black hole, new research suggests
Are you saying if an evil government puts a backdoor on my phone while I'm at customs, can I just reboot twice to completely get rid of it reliably?

But this hack also allows exfiltration of data from your phone, doesn't it?
It’s not a “cheat” device. The law allows ship operators to use it and dump the sulfur into the ocean. Pure madness.
Part of the problem is that it's not just mods, it's anybody who's gained enough points to get some extra power on the site. Without a formal vetting process beyond "got enough points?" there's no way to control the quality of the actions.