skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I do nude art photography on the side when time allows, and have a heavy focus on customers with self-esteem issues — both men and women.

We follow the "pay what you want" way of thinking, where the customer chooses how much they pay for the photoshoot — which includes zero, of course —, but also decide how much of the profit we will donate to the Laço Rosa Foundation, a non-profit organization from Brazil that helps women fight breast cancer.

If they tell us to keep all the money — happens from time to time —, we usually donate 15% of the profit anyway. Both of us lost essential figures in our lives to breast cancer, hence why we had the idea when we started doing these photoshoots.

We recently decided that the WordPress hosting company we are building will also donate a portion of our monthly profits to non-profits that are tackling data collection and other privacy issues. A part of that will probably go to open source projects we use and benefit from, like Fathom and Debian — I mean, it is only fair.

We haven't decided which of them will get the donations or how much of the profits we will give out, but are open to suggestions if anyone has any :)
I like it being needy and “annoying” (I actually enjoy awkward jokes and general asociality).
Thanks to all that ruckus I discovered Ripcord and have been enjoying how snappy it is. Not pretty but works well for me.
I don't get the constant critiques of this. They fired employees who encouraged others to leave their jobs. That's not really "retaliation", is it? Were a competitor to do that, Google would have a case for tortious interference. Why is it any different when it's "organizing"? It's not like this was a unionization attempt, which might have some legal protection.
> and not on how to build a production application (e.g. web service).

Yesod is the web framework I use in Haskell:

https://www.yesodweb.com/page/quickstart

https://www.yesodweb.com/book

For the database library, I prefer to use Esqueleto over Persistent, though:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto-2.4.3/docs/Dat...

In general, you'll want to use `stack` and Stackage[1] to manage your projects and package dependencies. Hackage[2] has the latest package submissions. Because they're simply the latest, they might be incompatible with one another. Stackage groups the compatible versions of all packages in Hackage into snapshots. `stack`, besides helping manage your dependencies, also has package templates for how a new project's files should be layed out.

[1] https://www.stackage.org/

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/
It's easy if you anticipate these things. Who put the dead sea scrolls in that cave in the middle of nowhere? Not someone who went in and forgot their scroll one day. Someone who had the foresight that this would be a safe space in the face of who knows what future threat. And it payed off.
I haven't had a Facebook account for a long time. Few decisions I've made have improved my life so drastically.

Just get off Facebook. They're a terrible company, people shouldn't be supporting them, and your life will be better without it.
These don't all qualify as all being charities, but here it goes:

• Watsi
• Kiva
• Doctors Without Borders
• Canadian Blood Services
• International Rescue Committee
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• MIT Open Course-ware
• edX/MITx
• GiveWell
• Charity Science
• Against Malaria Foundation
• World Wildlife Foundation
• Environmental Defense Fund
• David Suzuki Foundation
• LibreOffice
• Evidence Action
• GiveDirectly
• Oxfam
• Gift of Life International
• Bridge International Academies
• St. Baldrick's Foundation (Childhood Cancer)
• Innocence Project
• The Marshall Project
• Khan Academy
• 3Blue1Brown
> Making it impossible to move from the government to an industry job effectively traps people for life in their one job unless they change careers.

And?
Michelangelo’s Dome
How is your project different than Getafix from Facebook?

https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-faceb...
GB Studio v1.2 Released
‪Just science you may say , but it is the direction and scope that threaten humanity. And has Turks agreed‬
Women (or any other group) can't speak for themselves about properties of the group. Everybody is just an individual. Statements about groups can only be made by using statistics or at least observance of several members of the group.

If that sentence offends people, I don't know. It is obviously a joke (not implying the opposite, but of course smart people go into programming).

Also, I am sorry, but I am entitled to have an opinion on that matter. You are welcome to challenge my opinion, debate me, present alternate facts, whatever. But you (or anybody else) don't get to tell me that I am not allowed to have an opinion. That's a ground rule I am not willing to budge on. Nobody gets to tell me what to think, or to like.

The second reason (apart from being smart) is that women have more choices/options than men. This is actually well documented, but the article chooses to ignore it because it would spoil their pitch.

All these discussions, by the way, imply that women are stupid for not choosing engineering, and need to be convinced to choose it against their own judgement. Is that really better than my quip about them being too smart to choose it?

Edit: I seem to have overlooked the second part of your statement , or you added it later.

As I said, there are studies showing women have more options - they tend to have talent in multiple fields, and many men only in one. (That's for the studies). Women are also shown in studies to be perceived as more agreeable than men. Another reason they have options is that they have less need to make a good income. And the ultimate option is to have kids and drop out of work that is not entirely pleasant. I personally like Math, but even I find it difficult to voluntarily do Math. So I am not surprised if many people don't keep doing it, when they don't have to.

Also I think drawing cartoons is very different from being an engineer in a Software Company. You can work in cafes. You can stroll the city and draw sketches. You can do such things as a programmer, but it is not the norm - actually you can only make cartoons if you can afford that lifestyle, anyway.

And the bias is different. Employers have tried to put me into ugly rooms several times in my career (basements, windowless rooms, open plan offices). I think for creative work like drawing cartoons, people would be more ready to acknowledge that the artists need a nice environment to get inspiration.

Also, there is the prestige. Being an artist vs being a programmer. Or being a doctor vs being a programmer (70% of medicine graduates are women, but conveniently it doesn't count as STEM for some reason). There are glamor TV shows about being a doctor or a lawyer. How many shows are there glamorizing programming? It has only gained some prestige because some people famously got rich doing it.
It's saved me probably 3 grand over the course of college. I would have had to take on debt otherwise to pass my courses.
Imagine all the "good" they'll be doing for society now.

Edit: I guess they'll have plenty of time to downvote.
You would think users are savvy enough not to trust non-mainstream websites. We have found the best way to avoid fake news, is to read the "good" stuff. Instead of trying to determine if an article is bad, we try to see how good an article is. It is an important difference in how we approach the news.

The only way to truly understand a topic is to read many viewpoints and make an independent decision. But who really has time for all that?

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I linked to the FAQ on purpose, since it might answer some of the questions you might have.

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> The concept that men and women may have different interests is considered sexist

The concept that men and women may have different interests due to biological differences is extremely sexist, yes. For all the sources Damore cited, there's an entire body of academic work (and an entire cultural revolution in the United States spanning upwards of a century) to the contrary on that topic specifically. A large chunk of the feminist movement was and is women and men actively working to prove that biology is not a limiting factor in what women can choose to do with themselves.

Had he kept his comments to a realm of "men and women might have different representation in computer engineering because they have different interests on average," he would have been treading on thin ice with people disinclined to assume good faith but could have probably kept his job. Attempting to hang the causality on biology really did him in (and when his memo became public, it put Google in a situation where they ran serious risk of tolerating a hostile work environment if they kept him).
Zero. If you're using anything with 800-bit security, you're probably a time traveler from the 90s.

The more fun academic contribution to this is they found a faster sieve, here http://cado-nfs.gforge.inria.fr. It's very neat stuff, I think they claim 30% less CPU years using the identical hardware to crack RSA-768, when applying this same software to RSA-768.

As with the original list, it's just unsolved problems that may help reveal more and more efficient ways to find/generate primes.
This is a strawman argument.

The goal is not to have 50% women, sharp. The goal is to fix the problem that in the US, where there are 5 men for every woman working in top major software corporations, and those are the ones that supposedly try to improve things.

It's 2019, and yet a company with all-male board was the norm until this year (arguably still is). We are so, so far from any form of reasonable balance that I am not sure which universe your comment applies to.

And yes, what you said matters, as does race, country of origin, and economic background. Intersectionality is a fancy word, but it's useful, and the article mentions it.

So that said, 50% is a useful number. It's useful to say that if the actual hiring rate is at 15%, we still have a problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21696954
An Update On This Meme It's Time
You're right, after disabling WYSIWYG editor keyboard shortcuts don't work. That means I'm staying with extension for Firefox...
*Other's backdoors are ungood
For anyone pointing to "structural discontent" at Google, you guys seem to be very out of touch with reality. Compared to 99% of other large corporations (in US, or worldwide), Google is heaven on Earth as a place to work at. $200k entry level comp, lots of perks, very smart people all around you, open culture, coolest stuff to work on, cutting edge tech stack and great tools, future technologies being invented right next to you (or by you!), etc, etc. There are problems, or course, because you're bound to have problems in any 100k organization, but at other places it's so much worse. Try working at any company on Fortune 500 list, other than FAANG, or at any government agency, and see how much tolerance for "discontent" is there. The amount of BS per $ you will have to endure there is simply incomparable.

Or maybe you want to hold Google to higher standards just because it's Google? Why exactly?
A VP of customer service, and 'not shutting shit down today, perhaps' would have been nice.
Does it need to change?

I don't want Slack to be a different or more comprehensive tool.
Can confirm, I am not a promoter / paid reviewer / internal employee.
I don't know what your question refers to, tbh?
IIRC there was a book that claimed one of the founders took liberties with the massage room and some of the staff

edit: i think it was this https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sergey-brin-employees...
Even if you do have a "fast" track and a "slow" track, the only ways I can think of to get travelers on either of these paths to the same place at the same time is to either slow down those on the "fast" track, or speed up those on the "slow" track. What I seem to be witnessing is a willingness of people to slow down those on the "fast" track instead of expecting people on the "slow" track to work harder to catch up.
Hm, a high profile resignation. I've heard that there's been many high profile resignations in the last year or two across many Fortune 500 companies, I can't confirm this myself though. I've heard conspiracy theorists say it's cause the deep state is being flushed out. Personally I think there is more than meets the eye with this resignation.
I agree! That's why I think it's so interesting.

Aside from bugfixes, I'm sure they could have done absolutely nothing since launching and be profitable and useful.
Were they that powerless, really? Or maybe they got tired and had a falling out and subsequently lost hearth?
In Poland we have parcelmats - machines where you can post a parcel and get it delivered to. Parcel is stored for 48 hours and you can pick it up at convenient time using QR code.

There is already 6 000 of them.

https://inpost.pl/

https://antyweb.pl/tego-jeszcze-nie-bylo-inpost-obniza-ceny-...
I work for a company that offers hosted Prometheus + Graphite + Grafana services. We're always looking for more good content.

If you'd be interested in chatting about potentially doing some paid tutorial creation for us, shoot me an email:
casey@metricfire.com
I see this meme all the time. What does GCP lag on? What is it missing?

I see a proliferation of AWS services, yes, but many seem to be replicating things that GCP has had since the start, in multiple different formats without clear direction. Bigquery covers most of the use cases of Redshift, Kineseis, Athena, EMR, and others. It is at once decoupled from and well integrated with their object storage, allowing reads and writes with clear translation when necessary. I find myself reaching for Bigquery like semantics all the time and having to cobble two or more AWS tools to get similar. I see the same pattern repeated constantly - If I click "ECS" in the Amazon Console, it wants to sell me ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS - All of which overlap in non-obvious ways.

Disclaimer: I'm Ex-google, and was a poweruser of dremel
It is literally the job of PR people to write things like these. I’m confused by your statement. This is effectively a press release, of course it was written by a PR person.
There's also history to consider. Computing was a woman-dominated field until relatively recently in history, which strongly suggests that the root causes of the shift in male/female ratios in technical fields isn't biological (unless there was a massive biological upheaval in the human species in the past 50 years).
No.

(I work at Keybase.)
Buried Treasures: Researching the History of the Time Capsule
Revenue is cyclical too, I’d look at headroom for downturns in debt/ebitda especially where firms start to slip into junk bond territory.
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In my experience it's different editions or mirrors.
But it's still in beta!
I would have expected Ryzen desktop chips in these NUCS just as Intel offers.
I think there's a sort of general folk consensus among cryptographers that a state-level adversary that wanted to break 1024-bit RSA has already done so. Eran Tromer costed out a hardware-optimized break of RSA-1024 inside the budget of many tech companies, and that was over a decade ago.

It's worth keeping in mind that this isn't a linear progression. The thing that breaks RSA-2048 might very well break all of RSA; I certainly wouldn't flag anyone for using it instead of 4096-bit RSA.
Actually they do; banks can create new money. It is practically impossible to compete with an institution that can create new money when providing capital. It is called Fractional Reserve Banking and only licensed institutions can do it as far as I recall.

I'm not intimately familiar with US markets, being Australian, but the M2 suggests that half the money currently in existence was created since 2007. If whoever is creating that money doesn't have a stranglehold on providing capital they are going to, at a minimum, have massive influence. It is worth focusing in on, it may only be half the money in the system but that is actually a big deal.
I would imagine the point of a prefab house is that you get high quality design for cheap because of economies of scale. Is that not what's happening here? Is there another reason why this is a compelling product for consumers?

The designs are fine, but if I were going to spend that much, I would feel weird not having input into the design and limiting myself, regardless of how celebrated the designer is.
Hey Lacker. I'd be curious about whether there is a bias around the seniority level/situation in the pool of people you keep in touch with. People I've talked to, ranging from new hires to old timers, have generally trended toward being more discontent and cynical about the company as a whole.
Patient Data in the Cloud
Finally, a man that can finally do exactly what the government wants, with real efficacy.
I'm also not sure what the news is. The (in 2014) new CEO of Microsoft apparently got rid of an entire management layer, that seems like news. Without an intention like that being announced, this is celeb news for nerds and really only tells me it'll be new face same story -- at least until we know more.
I agree with you completely. I almost wrote the same thing about bias is human. I also don’t mind innate biases - those just define where the author comes from. Not sure why I was downvoted but we are on the same page.
I worked at McKinsey a while ago. I’m willing to bet this person was an Analyst (the recent college grads). Analysts were most likely to believe the firm’s marketing schpiel about how important they are in the world. In reality, McKinsey just kinda puts out power point decks. People past a certain level at McKinsey admitted that in quiet confidence.
I don't understand what you mean.

Are you saying that the people who are receiving a biased mix should introduce an opposite bias to counteract it before sending on to the next step, or not?

Possibly I am misunderstanding what a "pipeline problem" refers to.

Wow, I'm experiencing some deja vu. I feel like I already (like, a year or more ago) sent this comment and got a reply, but I don't remember what the reply was.

... Ok, I think this is the thing that doesn't make sense to me:
>> wherever you try to improve the pipeline, you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment.

> But that's basically just complaining that there's no quick and easy fix to your hiring problem.

I don't understand this response. Saying "It is impossible to do x without doing y or z", saying "That's just complaining that it is hard to do x without doing y or z. Tough, that's what you have to do." doesn't make sense.

Responses that could make sense include "It actually is possible to do x without doing y or z, and that is what you have to do." or "You have to do x, even if it means doing y or z, even though doing y or z is hard".

Were one of these forms what you were saying? (Note : it is very possible that I simply misunderstood what you meant. This is the thing that I think I will probably conclude if you respond.)

The options that I can see for hiring people are:
Introduce an opposite bias when hiring in order to counter-act a bias in the input
Don't do that, simply work to not introduce any additional bias, and accept a biased result in the output
Somehow(?) act in a way that works to make it so that the input received is not biased
(or options worse than any of these)

If you are counting "the input" as meaning "the set of people who apply" then I suppose you might be able to influence "the input" by changing where you advertise the position, or things like that,
but that seems to me like "potential applicant -> applicant" is just another step in the pipeline, and if the inputs there are also biased, then the same trilemma applies.

If one removes all the bias potentially introduced from each step which one can directly control, then one can no longer directly remove introducers of bias.

And I don't think smalltime company TUV's role is to work to change educational outcomes and the like, and therefore if this and its predecessors are the only remaining sources of bias, I don't see how it is their problem.

That's not to say that those are usually the only remaining sources of bias. I wouldn't be surprised if many such companies do introduce bias which they can and should address, but if the claim is that they should produce an unbiased output despite having a biased input which they cannot influence, then the only thing that can follow is that they should introduce a bias in the opposite direction.
https://twitter.com/schumatt/status/1159634050602033152
Most of the things under ALphabet don't really make sense to be under Google either.
Sounds very similar to the infuriating twitter replies when this feature came out.
Is it just me or is this an advertisement for interviewing.io?
Upvoting you because I've heard similar stories from Burning Man regarding Google founders, and in particular Eric Schmidt.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/contributing-cassand...
IRC is, for me, perfect. It does exactly what I want and nothing I don’t need.

More and more I appreciate simple, easy to maintain, technology that isn’t bloated. IRC, basic POP email, simple HTML websites, “featureless” phones (which, incidentally, are just phones), stereo receivers, etc.

It’s so nice when you have something that just works. It’s so much less stressful. It always does what you want instantly and their is no maintenance. No updates. No loading screens.

IRC has a learning curve, sure, but it’s not hard. You learn it once and you’re done. You don’t need to read releases notes every month.

So much software dedicated to increasing efficiency or productivity just swaps time spent on old tasks with time spent on new tasks.
I'm not sure "useful content" should be the only metric. Think of all the things you learn in school that you think are useless until later.
Well, "old style" isn't quite the right term, but 6-row is generally produces a bit lower percentage of fermentable sugars and has more proteins. It's not something you typically brew a beer with unless you're using adjunct grains or some two row in addition.

On the flavor part, I agree. I prefer Miller if we're going with the big breweries. Doesn't make it a bad beer, though, just a lighter profile.
They just stopped going after it, and focused resources on stopping streaming websites
Competition is why our modern standard of living is what it is. People seeking to do things better, faster and cheaper in order to make a buck (or even just for the bragging rights) in order to improve their own personal standard of living gives us electric lighting, oranges in February, the massive amount of infrastructure it takes to get this comment from my fingertips to your eyeballs and every other part of modern life you don't notice but would notice if it were missing. Yes there's externalities but at a societal scale we do a pretty decent job of playing whack-a-mole as they become critical.