skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, a lot of friend adding is searching by name and disambiguating by photos, or adding someone who is a friend of a friend.

That is a very good point I didn't consider! The process of adding friends is heavily reliant on information other people have added to Facebook.

I still find like the list of people I've added (names) is ultimately mine and should be exportable. Any information a friend added to their Facebook profile—pictures, addresses, etc—belongs to that person, not me, and should not be included in the export.
Very interesting. The BPF programs are often written in C and compiled using a BPF backed to llvm using this project: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

This should be useful any time you need a high performance, high security way to instrument or extend a C based program during run time! Not just in kernels.
I agree that ideally you wouldn’t notice that … however I do think there are pretty clear constraints around how you can announce such a thing to avoid harm.

You will always end up with a text like that. It tries to reduce risk and harm and companies will nearly always want to pick that trade-off: rather sound bland and cliched instead of risking undue negative effects.
It seems most people are probably praising him for bringing up the Google stock price, whereas people who actually care about products/culture/technology realize he hasn't actually contributed anything worthwhile. Yet another classic case of a CEO riding out momentum set forth by predecessors and maximizing value to fiduciaries while selling out the user base.
I’d prefer that slack just release more products rather than add a ton of features to slack.

I’d like to see a slack version ticket tracking for example — not a slack feature, just a separate product.
To me the question is not why this statistic looks a certain way, but what is the actual experience of women in software engineering. And if you ask women, the problem doesn’t usually seem to be getting hired. It’s the work environment that is alienating.

So if you want a number to target, it’s not a proportion of female employees, it’s the retention rate. And that’s not affected by pipeline problems.
review of an early phone:
"The phone is chonky. I measure it at 15.6 mm thick, 150.2 mm
tall, and 75.2 mm wide."

https://azdle.net/2019/11/comparing-apples-and-gnomes/

I assume that the specs will change batch to batch.

for comparison:

iPhone XS: 7.5mm x 143.6 x 70.9

iPhone XS max: 7.7mm x 157.5 x 77.4
No delivery guy I've ever seen is going to sit around and wait for you to unlock the device. I can't remember the last time a delivery person even bothered to ring the doorbell.
Are there any drawbacks to using one for home use?
Going by computer science degrees is the wrong metric because computer science as a unique discipline only arose as late as the '50s. Before that, the field's predecessor was the human computer, a field dominated by women for quite some time.

This is also unlikely to be due to some inherent biological differences and instead reverse prejudices; women were assumed to be more patient and reliable and were favored in both human computation and telegraph / switchboard work.
It has tooooo many items. Perhaps you can split the page in a few pages that make questions and then it sends you to a page that shows the result and you can change the previous selections.

I'd would reorder the questions. Without any evidence, I think the more important questions are career, location and prize.

Why do I need to answer if I'm male or female? Also, expand the options.

Can you make the names of the universities clickable?
> CodeGuru is inexpensive enough to use for every code review and application you run

> For example, if you have a typical pull request with 500 lines of code, it would only cost $3.75 to run CodeGuru Reviewer on it

Wat?!

Come on, $4 per review is not inexpensive, especially for what is essentially a glorified SAST!
TL;DR Recap of Machine Learning Announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019 Keynote
I’ve had to change my thinking about this to adapt to modern times. I used to think like this about internal recruiting however there is a bias — to avoid anything they do not know. There are recent grads and outsider devs that are really good actually. Top engineers are not immune to saying somebody is bad and lying about it because what they believe is good only means “never question tribal judgement”. They aren’t immune to creating networks across various companies to take hiring managers for the proverbial ride either. Dig deeper because what you may believe is hand-holding is an unwillingness by the team to disclose basic info to get the job done. It happens way more than we want to admit but people are still just people despite the fancy job titles.
us-west-1 only has two availability zones available to new customers (they have three total, but one of them only runs legacy customers). From my experience it is also slower to get new hardware and services.

My personal belief is that running the "region" is far more expensive than running their other regions. Real estate in the bay area is expensive, as is electricity.
Show HN: Observatory – collect, curate and share astronomical images (macOS)
There's a clear distinction between query builder and ORM though you can especially see this with SQLAlchemy.

But anyway even query builder is not that great. Recently used PyCharm's integration with DataGrip. Basically the way it works is that if you configured a database in your project and let PyCharm fetch its schema, suddenly the IDE started recognizing the SQL statements providing autocomplete not only the statements but also table names etc, it also offered refactoring which created migration scripts.

After using that I think that's the proper way of solving the impedance mismatch and at that point you no longer need ORM or query builders. I hope other IDEs will start doing the same thing.
Probably depends on how much leverage those seeking funding have.
I... was simplifying just a tad?

> they expertly pitted groups of native elites against each other

In the Andes, they walked right in at the end of a civil war.

The Incas had actually established their own empire less than 100 years earlier, and indeed ruled over an estimate 12 million from their tribe of ~100,000, who became the elites.

Also interesting; I'm up to the bit where the Spaniards actually have their own little civil war between two of the conquistadors, and not all that far into the conquest.

> The spaniard conquest of central and south america differed markedly from the genocidal conquest of north america which is reflected in the genetic makeup of the populations in the americas.

Absolutely. Ditto for Australia.
Ironically, they could find some focus by no longer being a one size fits all search engine, and instead offer different search products for different types of users, or focused on different types of information. They do to an extent with travel data, financial data, scholar, but their product just isnt great at crawling the web anymore.

They, like Apple and Microsoft, also need some consumer experience advocates, who take a step back and ask how the consumers entire experience is across the whole suite. All of them have products that are often less than the sum of their parts.
This has nothing to do with the post you replied to.

Plus this retort essentially boils down to "Google pays well and other companies are even worse so quit complaining!" Restating the compensation argument multiple different ways, and the cutting edge argument multiple times doesn't really address the actual underlying complaints being made (Google's partnership with distasteful foreign governments and other corporate immoralities).

If you want to talk corporate morals, sure, relevant. If you just want to brag that Google pays super well and is less evil than [more evil companies] this seems like a whole other discussion that sidesteps the issues. Which isn't to say it is untrue, just irrelevant.
A well deserved congratulations to Sundar's promotion!

Larry and Sergey have spent the majority of their time on Other Bets for quite some time now, and it's good to see that this is finally being solidified / recognized within Alphabet's management structure.
You may not know this because Harvey Mudd College is a small school, but it is extremely rigorous (not quite MIT/Caltech, but pretty damn close). Their middle 50% of the admitted students' math SAT range is 770-800[0]

I would be extremely surprised if HMC had any bar-lowered classes.

Just because you offer both a linear algebra course and a course on groups and rings doesn't mean the linear algebra class is some kind of mickey mouse credit--it's just for people who haven't seen that material before.

[0] https://www.hmc.edu/institutional-research/wp-content/upload...
Michael Morris Joins TerrAvion as District Sales Manager
Out of nowhere? - They created Alphabet to pull themselves out of daily Google business.
Microsoft published a technical note on using a Unicode linear encoding for math rendering several years back:

http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf

Office apps support it, apparently, as one among many representations for math zones. A blog post on it:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2016/09/07/unicodem...
Didn't Page and Brin pledge their fortunes to Musk?
Supposedly Google-X and Glass was Sergei's billionaire playground, with Waymo being Larry's pet project.
google has been making lots of typical corporate moves lately.
Ah, sorry about that. Looks like I can't edit anymore :(
> Source of truth is now the generated code, not the source, so someone else using the source could get a different result.

This seems to apply to the other side, I think. Generating from source with different tooling or tool versions could create different results, whereas using the generated code guarantees consistent behavior.
Connecting with the audience directly is always a great outcome for creators!
I don't think you should do it yourself. The community will do it and the original source material will be there to reference.
Only for the egregious, easily-checked lies.
While I haven't dug really deeply, I don't think the situations are directly comparable. Adult businesses aren't banned at the federal level, and as long as there's no state law that bans them, there's nothing that legally prevents them from opening a bank account, processing credit cards, and so on.

The problem appears to be specifically with the policies of payment processors. As I understand it, the actual payment processing networks -- MasterCard, Visa, et. al. -- historically charged a significant premium to process transactions for businesses that had a reputation for very high chargeback rates (people calling to cancel payment). Adult businesses had that reputation. From what I've been able to tell, this has persisted to today. It's presumably just easier for payment processors like Stripe and PayPal to ban adult content than to work out multiple rates with their credit card networks, let alone try to make the (correct and I would argue obvious) case that Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-Fi, et. al. aren't "adult businesses" even if they allow legal adult content creators on their platform any more than Amazon is an "adult business" if they let you buy books with explicit content.

That's a point I've always wondered about, actually; Amazon does let you buy books with explicit content, both text and visual (a search for Erika Moen's "Oh Joy Sex Toy" right now immediately showed it was available both in paperback and on both Kindle and Comixology!), so it's clearly not as verboten as the crowdfunding platforms make it sound. I know Amazon has the advantage of being Amazon -- MasterCard isn't gonna stop processing their transactions no matter what they sell -- but I also know a few very small publishers who sell erotic comics and that use Stripe and/or Square for payment processing. Again, those publishers aren't really "adult businesses," per se (not all their titles are adults-only).

I would really like a processor like Stripe -- or a competitor, but I suspect size matters in this case -- to step up and not ban legal adult material. Maybe even just in small steps, by explicitly exempting publishers or crowdfunding platforms that aren't exclusively adult.
Not that it excuses bad design, but I always have Kill Sticky Headers https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers , or one of the other suggestions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15123638 , ready to deploy in such situations.
If you got it setup on GitHub Pages try Gitlab. I've actually found Gitlab pages to be easier to setup.

These are sites using Hugo, static HTML, and simple build processes (TypeScript compiling).
Don't you think it is racist to actually care about the race of the interviewer? Would you even think about that if there wasn't a non-stop conversation about racial differences? Maybe the nonsense diversity discussion is only making it worse by creating anxieties that wouldn't even be there?
Does the eBPF program need to communicate with userspace?

For example, can there be an eBPF "hello world" Dalek modulator that just sits between ALSA's audio input and output?
One of the first initiatives Larry undertook when he became a CEO is to "put more wood behind fewer arrows" by canceling a ton of bullshit projects that _haven't_ yet been released to the public, and some that have, as well. So if you're going to blame Larry for anything, this is not it.
So let me get this straight:

Amazon packages open source software (Linux, Postgres etc) in a way that is an abstracted service (RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer). They add so many abstracted building blocks that you need a special skill set to manage them (Aws Certified Solutions Architect) instead of knowing how to do this with bare metal or a container image running in your own data center.

And now that things are complicated and developers might make mistakes using those services, they add a profiler that inspects your code running in production and a reviewer that ties into the stage before deployment. All just to optimize the use of their own services.

From a business perspective this is an awesome way to get vendor lock-in to a much higher degree. They are basically the certifying authority that tells you if your intellectual property (your code) conforms to their own standard. Yes, they show examples of standard Java optimizations, but it clearly says it detects deviation from best practices for using AWS APIs and SDKs.

And people were mad at Microsoft for shipping a non standards compliant browser as default and enriching it with HTML tags and plugins that would only work in that browser. Little did we know.

I personally wait for the "Amazon Compliant Code" label in the not too distant future as a selling point for business people.
We failed to deliver on nuclear power. And that's on all of us...
Yes, my company has a goal of "at least 50% females in IT in all positions and at all levels". I have absolutely no idea how they calculated 50% as a good target for the business and why "at least 50%", but these targets have a lot of emotional loads and zero real world value, so I don't try anymore to understand.
Just don't mention the elephant in the room: the Cantillon effect which is primary reason for the wealth flowing from working classes and savers to the bankers and the managerial class. Entirely courtesy of artificially low interest rates created by central banks and lax controls on monetary emission (i.e. fractional reserve shenanigans) by private banks.
> > In India, for instance, about 35% of developers are women; in the U.S., it’s 16%

> Does India not have the various gender biases we often attribute a large part of the problem to?

The gender equality paradox details many of these sorts of inconsistencies. For instance, why does Iran have gender parity in compsci while virtually all progressive cultures struggle to crack 20% in compsci?
I'm glad it's not just me. Threads are terrible and hide potentially important information.
I don't think privatization will improve matters.
It seems to be human nature. Bring up the proper way to educate children with almost any group and you will hear no end of inflammatory opinion.
> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO.

Microsoft grew similarly under Ballmer, despite losing a lot of their strategic advantages and missing the boat in a handful of important ways.
Do you have a source for the <1% figure you cited for how much money goes to animal charities? I'm interested in seeing where the bulk of charity money goes
Before that, the field's predecessor was the human computer, a field dominated by women for quite some time.

Sure, this is true. But it's a pretty different job to programming.

This is also unlikely to be due to some inherent biological differences and instead reverse prejudices; women were assumed to be more patient and reliable and were favored in both human computation and telegraph / switchboard work.

Also typing pools, which is another job that has disappeared.
Oddly this doesn't surprise me at all - I figured IPA's were popular because it was a relatively easy way to make a consistent small batch product.

I'm not really a beer person, but when I am its usually Coors Banquet or Pacifico, both of which I find tasty and refreshing (particularly on a hot day, with BBQ or Mexican). I also love Yuengling when I'm in the area for it, its the only beer I've gone out of my way to order.
It's hard to have the moral authority on that with Sergey still running things: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/11/30/google-e...

If your theory is correct, we should see Drummond retire soon as well. I expect it...
Male here. CS courses were _not accessible_ to those without prior experience, male or female, full stop. That issue was compounded by having to use the IDEs and tooling available to us 10+ years ago. It wasn't until the last year of my business degree I was exposed to the simplicity of .NET/Visual Basic that made programming interesting, fun, and accessible to someone without experience. If only I had that exposure 4 years sooner, I'd have a CS degree today. C'est la vie.
I’m on mobile. Must be the issue.
I Started a $100K/Month Business Selling Weighted Blankets from Bali
Minus IRC/XMPP.
Maybe I was being too generous to your post. There is no way to decouple GDP from material inputs, even if, as with digital good and services the inputs are quite small. They're still there, which means they're still finite, which means GDP is finite.
> Although I agree with you on points 1-3, point 4 is no longer the case as of this last year or two. Most people are only interested in the main apps such as YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ etc. My 2019 Samsung TV OS is not only fast and smooth but those apps are as good, if not better than the same ones found on an Apple TV. Compared to a crappy Android box the experience is far better.

That's more a criticism of "crappy Android boxes" rather than a praise of builtin TV applications. The latter are still barely usable and quickly become obsolete (with updates stopping 1-2 years down the line), compare that to a good Android box like Nvidia Shield.

> Why have a seperate device and two remotes when you don't have to? I'm convinced that the marketshare for these external media devices will flatline and steadily decline.

You may be right long term but it's been years since we've had "Smart TVs" and they are still far from being as good as decent media boxes. That to me means there's an underlying reason, probably a misalignment of incentives.

And btw, depending on your needs you can use a single remote just fine (I use an Fire TV stick bluetooth remote, connected to the Nvidia Shield, for controlling the Shield, the Sony TV and the Yamaha amplifier through HDMI-CEC). With such a combination of different parts from different manufacturers I'm surprised how well it all works.
The reviews said the speaker isn't wired up. I wonder if you can call with the headphone jack?
> "Amazon Compliant Code" label

Wow, this is a scary but very real thought.

Though, the "Certified Windows XP / 7" stickers on hardware and video games / other software was quite common back in the day and isn't too dissimilar.

I would argue that the level of vendor lock-in Amazon is going for is far greater than Microsoft's.
Ask HN: How to effectively use Mechanical Turk for user interview?
I am developing a site that examines news and current events and trends through history. I developed a coming soon page (www.historybehindnews.com) and got some sign-ups from LinkedIn, Medium and YCSchool. It was cool.
Now I want to hone in and see where people that would "love" this hangout.

I've thought of using Mechanical Turk for customer interviews. The trouble is that I am not sure people that are working on Mturk would actually be my customers? Any comments on this?

Also, if not MTurk, then what else is out there?
Please note that I was thinking of doing phone interviews with MTurk - each interview 10 mins, and the task would be done in one day.
Battery Pack Prices Fall as Market Ramps Up with Market Average at $156/KWh
Hmm.

https://nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/college-14.html

"Science and engineering" bachelors degrees have been about 50% male and 50% female since 2000, growing from about 400,000 degrees in 2000 to 589,000 in 2012.

From 2000 to 2004, women's share of computer science degrees were between 25% and 28%. From 2007 to 2012, they stabilized at about 18%.

Now, the question is, did men preferentially enter computer science, or did women preferentially leave? Hint: the latter.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp

[Edit: more recent.] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_325.35.a...

In 2004-2008, degrees granted to men decreased by 6%, 10%, 9% and 8%. Degrees granted to women decreased by 20%, 18%, 20%, and 13%. (The other big drop in degrees, from 1986 to 1993-6, shows the same pattern and is when degrees granted to women went from 35-37% of the total to 27%.)

Whence comes this pipeline difference?

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_222.10.a...

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scale score, the difference between boys and girls up to grade 12 has been stable for years and doesn't really amount to a hill of beans. Same with science.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_224.70.a...

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_224.74b....

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_224.74a....

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_224.73.a...

The Technology and Engineering Literacy scores for 8th graders don't have any difference to write home about.
Can someone please explain why it is well deserved? For example, when I was at MSFT it was very clear why Satya deserved to be the next CEO - for leading and growing the cloud business from irrelevance to a major pillar of MSFT. What about Sundar? Is this all because he led Chrome?
>It's harder to get alerts sent to IRC; everyone and their mother offer Slack integration nowadays, and you can literally curl some text against a webhook if none is offered. We do that a lot.

What?
> If I must give one access because it needs a firmware update to fix a bug or something, I temporarily set my guest wifi network's password to something random, configure the TV to use that, apply the fix, then reset the guest wifi password back to the old value.

I use USB based updating for the TV to avoid ever having to give it Internet access. Since it's never connected to the Internet I don't need to care much if it's running the latest version or not, for all I care it could be running the same version until it stops working as long as the current version is good enough.
It could still be considered low latency by adding the constraint that all use cases are in the category of call-and-response musical forms. :)