skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily Horoscopes Dec 4th, 2019 – Alwayswomen.com
like someone else said, it's likely not up to them. i had looked into starting a market place for that kinda stuff, since they're constantly kicked off of every other platform. but almost no payment processor allows you to do it.
Not sure Chromium is to blame here. All the WYSIWYGs in all the environments I've ever seen I found fiddly and unpleasant to use.
This sounds like a massive class action lawsuit waiting to happen. I wonder who would be hit first, the shippers or the city? Surely they are both at fault.
Distancing themselves as much as possible to avoid legal trouble I'm sure .
>I put work Slack on my phone

This instantly qualifies you as "available 24/7"
They were practically absent from day to day affairs anyways. This is unsurprising.
I agree. But as you note, these feedback loop work slowly (after all, they loop back, and people move through the pipes only as fast). The role model example you provide is great, and I absolutely agree that it's worth it to improve the pipe at every stage - I'm only saying that you shouldn't expect (and it shouldn't be expected of you) to get better results, or get them faster, than the pipe allows structurally.
"You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded." - Michael Scott
One of their screenshot examples flags inefficient code in crypto libraries, and the suggested "fix" is "Evaluate switching to the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider ACCP". I don't know enough about the subject matter area to know whether that's the right move, but it's interesting that CodeGuru is apparently, among other things, an opportunity to pay Amazon to upsell you on replacing some of your code with one of the panoply of services in the AWS universe.
But unlike say basketball or other sports, there's no one thing that makes you better at engineering. Why spatial reasoning? I did engineering and what spatial reasoning is there? Maybe a few vector calculus courses, and some mechanics. A lot is a bunch of equations. There's also an argument that you can make up for a lack of skill by either spending more time, or for instance by recasting problems from one domain to another. This is what often happens precisely with geometry, you can turn it into algebra.

Anyway I assume you mean that there's a bunch of these types of skills that might be unevenly distributed, and indeed it would make sense to have the numbers.

I'd say one thing to think about is whether there's an economic effect taking place. Suppose women have comparative advantage in something that isn't software. Then even though they might be just as good at it, fewer of them would choose it. And this is where actually absolutes are not what matter, it's the relative opportunity costs that do. So looking at who is better at spatial reasoning might seem sensible, but the decision might be better understood as economic, requiring us to look at Ricardo.
> it includes suicides, which in the US is very high

I wonder why :)

Have you considered the possibility that easy access to guns make suicides more common?
In terms of pipeline argument, the memo can be viewed as arguing that the pipeline is biased at every stage

That's your interpretation, and isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia page nor the original memo.

Both the memo and the Wikipedia page discuss the changes Damore suggested making at Google, not anything about changes in the pipeline.
You should listen to some of the stuff she's done recently ... it's not bad (compared to other recent pop music).
Google! What a thing to have created in this world. Hats off to Page and Brin.

After the dotcom crash, and I don’t know if there’s any real analysis to be had around this or if it’s just sentimentality, but personally there was always a sense of hope attached to Google as they brought excitement back into bleak times in the industry.

Facebook was a sort of cheerleader in that way as well, during the 2008 credit crisis, way before the world turned sour towards the Facebook brand. Who will be the great business to drag us out of the next financial / tech-industry crisis?
"Government isn't working well! Easy fix, what we need is more government."

Smart thinking over here.
My understanding is that GCP lags on developer trust, specifically when it comes to support. Several years ago I was excited about GCP, but have mostly lost interest after reading various stories about account lockouts here on HN.
I think OSHA and DOT should have a problem with it and its risks in the wild have really only been so ignored because of the silos of these agencies.

(The cat lady on the Simpsons and the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland each express the same kind of model/correlated stereotypes for diseases with varying mental symptoms that weren't well understood in their time.)

Naturally, most people with Toxoplasmosis don't have psychotic outbursts and most hatters look dashing.
There's no reason to suspect that the people who designed it are happy with it either.
> suicides & accidents.

Which are more common when the access to guns is easier.

> Do dead people care whether they are murdered with a gun or a knife?

Deaths caused by guns are easily preventable. Why not prevent them?
For the stuff that actually sucks about Google, yes, they were powerless. I think they'd still be on top if they felt they could actually make Google into the company they want it to be. Larry in particular does not give up easily.

Take stock price obsession. Everybody knows the dangers of having quarterly earnings targets dictate the company strategy, and the moral compromises that companies make to meet those targets. Google's initial founders' letter said "If our earnings are lumpy, they'll be lumpy" (ironically, they were not - earnings went up monotonically and consistently exceeded analysts' targets until about 2013, for reasons I'm not going to get into here). And they took a lot of steps - like the dual-class share structure that gave Larry, Sergey, and Eric voting control over the company regardless of what Wall Street wanted - to avoid that.

The problem is that stock price affects a lot more than just investors' pocketbooks. When the stock was low, Google had trouble attracting talented new engineers, which is critical to making new products that are really excellent. Low stock price means negative PR cycles; the press is always happy to write glowing reviews of fast-growing rocket ships, but as soon as they start to flounder, the press will kick them when they're down. (For more recent examples of this, see Theranos, WeWork, and Facebook.) The press cycle in turn affects consumer attitudes towards the brand, which is the source of both power and revenue.

There were many other examples like this - another big one is the negative effect of company size on innovation, where once a company gets big enough new product ideas will always get killed, regardless of how good they are, because there is somebody with veto power or just enough social clout to discourage the innovator. I suspect this in particular was disheartening for Larry, who both identified with would-be innovators and had protected them when Google was smaller.
I am not 100% sure but I think that is also exactly what datarobot.com does as well. I don't work for them, and haven't used their tools, so I have no idea how good they are, have just seem some demos before.
Freshman year CS: 30-40% girls

Senior year CS: 1-5% girls

Pepehands

SquadW

Tfw your lived experience won't stop redpilling you D:
Seems like Kansas City and Salt Lake City are the major nodes in the middle of the country? I like this Internet2 map because it's simple:

https://noc.net.internet2.edu/

Which would you choose?
AWS can launch so many services since they are not developing any of them and are just stealing the open source contributions of other companies/developers without contributing anything back.
And... that's an ignorant, facile and unenforceable policy.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/?sc_icampaign=launch_aws-ne...
If I had an upvote button, I would on this response.

I was critical of your previous comment, but these are the questions I think deserve an answer for this general concern. Good on you, and thank you for asking them.
That is something that I kind of admire about Bill Gates: As Microsoft's boss he was ruthless, and even anti-competitive, all to benefit his own company.

But somehow, he is one of the "best type of person" that could become the richest man in our world. There are so many rich people that just look to be buried with their millions or pass it to their family.

Hopefully Sergei and Larry will try to get the same type of legacy.
Has Amazon ever contributed anything meaningful back to open source?
The Death of Digital Privacy
Cashing out before the antitrust suits start to hit.
"Don't be evil" is perfect because of how simple it is. It's supposed to be common sense.

> people can have significantly different ideas of what counts as evil.

And those people, who need someone to explain to them what is or isn't evil, aren't welcome.

That's why I personally loved that motto. Too bad that whole ethos got dropped like it was a recently-launched product.
> Any person that arrives even one minute late, gets 50% of their corresponding pay for that day off.

Is that even legal?
Evergreen State College is (in)famous for its lack of traditional grades and curricula: "non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students design their own paths of study...Faculty write narrative evaluations of students' work in place of issuing grades."
You take away their licence, then send them to jail when they continue to drive drunk without a licence.

Also you turn to psychologists for assistance with handling recidivist alcoholics.
People and companies alike keep forgetting that the best is the enemy of the good. They achieve success with the good and they try to get ahead of themselves with the better. Sometimes they succeed :-)
The linked thread discusses the telemetry and if you follow it through telemetry is now off by default, opt-in only.

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/10816
Twitch partially inspired many of our features. In fact, a big chunk of our active users are YouTubers who don't have a viable alternative to monetize directly (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=buymeacoffee.co...). Same with Instagram influencers and Podcasters. Our goal is to help them connect with their "superfans" through shout-outs, rewards, and exclusive content.

To answer your question, we have seen that users are more eager to pay when creators host their best work on the platform. Here's an example - https://freebird.buymeacoffee.com/
> Because, unlike with guns, nobody is trying to ban cars.

That's actually wrong. Gun control isn't banning guns, and if you consider background checks a "ban" - then driving licence requirement is a "ban on cars" :)

If someone had the bright idea to put the right to drive a car in constitution - Americans would be now arguing whether countrywide requirement to have a driving licence to drive a car is ok or not :)
As a homebrewer, my experience is that adding a bunch of hops is just the easiest way to ensure your beer tastes good. Hops are really good at covering up off-flavors. Making kick-ass beers in other styles, especially subtle ones like hefeweizens and blonde ales, usually requires masterful control of the brewing and fermentation processes.
Very cool- signed up, but am at work right now so I don't have time to delve really deeply into it. The encounter generator looks pretty great, the few tests I performed seemed to be reasonable encounters for the difficulty I set. I'm currently running a campaign over Roll20, this looks like a very useful tool to have running in the background since the compendium search on Roll20 is so slow.

Looking forward to giving this a better try during my next session!
I said engineering, and I meant engineering. Not computer science. See https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/table-of-the-day-bachelors-de... to verify that in 2016, just under 21% of engineering degrees were given to women. The figures for the mid 1980s were almost the same. But if you can find figures, in the mid-1960s, engineering degrees were almost exclusively given to men.

The ratios have been fairly constant in recent decades, but vary a lot from degree to apparently related degree. For example around 40% of degrees in mathematics go to women, and that factor of 2 difference from engineering has not changed appreciably since Reagan was President.

Now you are right that women were a large part of early software development. "Computer" used to be a job that was almost exclusively held by women. Who then made the transition from actually being the ones who did the calculations to writing code. (Note, the preponderance of women can be explained by mathematical ability being fairly evenly distributed, but most careers using that ability having been barred to women historically.) See Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton for justly famous examples.

However I have noticed that the gender ratio seems to be strongly dependent upon language. Some years ago I worked on a project with a COBOL and a Perl group. The COBOL group was largely women, but Perl was almost all men. I got to see what happened in Perl up close. You had a pretty good balance of men and women getting into web development. But a lot of men went from web development to back end web development into programming. Women were more significantly likely to go to front end, design and product management. And neither I nor the women that I talked to saw discrimination as having been the driving factor.

So why does it happen? Here is my best guess. Between COBOL and more modern languages we have introduced many language features that are hard for most people to get their heads around. For example recursion, pointers, closures, and class hierarchies. These barriers are sufficiently hard that many teachers privately say that only some people are able to learn to program. My suspicion is that one or more of these concepts is more of a barrier for women than men.
The Wikipedia page to which you keep referring does not support the argument that mutability is "core property" of OOP. The quote you've cited (far above at this point) is referring to a feature of objects, not OOP. OOP encompasses range of features. You can explore them on that very same page under the "Features" section. You will certainly notice that "Mutability" is not listed as a feature. OOP is an _approach_. Simply using objects does not mean you are practicing OOP any more than using functions means you are practicing FP.

I urge to to a ctrl+F on "mutable" and read the top 2 (of 3) passages where it is referenced (the third is not relevant):

> ... in most OOP languages, in particular in all those that allow mutable objects.

> ... in OOP languages (with mutable objects) ...

The clarifications in the above passages are unnecessary if mutability is considered a necessary feature for OOP. If that's not enough, how about you read the first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object:

> In object-oriented and functional programming, an immutable object (unchangeable[1] object) is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created.

If immutable objects are incompatible with OOP, why is it included in the above?

Are you suggesting that if I write a Java program and I use all of the features of OOP (inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, etc.) but don't use mutability, that my system is better understood as functional? Come on. What about an OOP system that doesn't mutate by design? Not every program requires changes of state. We need to put this to rest. I can pretend "this never happened". After all, this entire argument is not relevant to the point I was trying to make (the whole goalpost thing).

> Much easier to change a function operating on the wrong type than it is to change a method intrinsically tied to scoped variables

_This_ is to the point I was trying to make. The above is simply untrue. If I have a function referenced all over my code base, `validate(giraffe)`, and we change the signature to `validate(gorilla)`, it isn't any easier to refactor the system than if it were modeled in OOP. In both cases, the _caller_ needs to have a reference to a different piece of data in order to call our `validate` function. Which means the caller of the caller needs to have a different piece of data (so now the caller needs to change), etc. up the stack. In the end, the most flexible solution in either paradigm is to "inject" the appropriate data (`giraffe`/`gorilla`) via the "DI" mechanism that the paradigm supports. In OOP this is in the constructor. In FP we can use partial application. These two concepts _are_ isomorphic.

I am _not_ saying that OOP is "the same as" all other forms. I am saying, in terms of the pitfalls regarding modelling a domain, all forms are the same. As I understand it, this is the argument your OP was making (you just left FP out of it).

I agree that OOP is worse than FP. There are a few features of FP that make it superior in many respects (notably required immutability and an algebraic type system).
Incredible way to paper over the likely source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/alphabet-board-investigating...

Sergey Brin and Larry Page were terrible to women. They engaged in, promoted, and paid for sexual harassment. Shortly after the Alphabet board is investigating misconduct, Larry and Page are "retiring". And of course, they're still worth billions.
The above demo works fine in Firefox, FWIW.
I had a large hand in building a WYSIWYG email editor a few years back, using direct DOM editing, that was the most full featured available at the time. I would only recommend it to people with very high pain tolerance, as the differences between browsers are stark, undocumented and hard to work around.
Running Web Servers on Smart Cards (2010)
Larry and Sergey are basically best friends. Their involvement with Google, as a pair, has been receding for quite some time. Today's announcement was foreshadowed by the creation of Alphabet Inc. as a parent company in 2015.
Does anyone have a goal of 50% female developers? Can we see some citations for that? Most companies I've worked at claimed to be trying for 20%, and they were failing abysmally at it.
Node v13.3.0 (Current)
social contaigon is a weird, weird thing.

I have always understood /r/trypophobia to be a deep in-joke, and the earliest i can find reference to the idea at all is 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20090316071914/http://www.geocit...

and that smells tongue-in-cheek too.
People mean citations to researchers that don't stand to directly profit from their spurious (i.e., fake) research, like the idiot/murderer that spawned the anti-vaxx movement.

So far you've only cited doctors and clinics that directly benefit from promoting stem-cell research, and no unbiased (i.e., academic) studies showing any sort of statistical benefit.
I would also be willing to believe that the, for lack of a better term, dick-measuring, isn't something that men inherently do more; we're just primed to see it that way due to sexist stereotypes. And/or they get away with it more easily 'cuz hegemony.

Evidences:

At quilting shows, numeric boasting is also common - number of hours, number of pieces, number of spools of thread, I've even seen a count of the number of broken quilting needles.

Carbon fiber knitting needles are a thing. I own some. The packaging talks about how carbon fiber is also used in aerospace. (In case, I dunno, you need to get those puppies moving through the air really fast, maybe?)

My grandmother's approach to baking Christmas cookies.

(That said, MENTRIFICATION is a hilarious term, I chuckled out loud, and I will be using it in the future, with only moderate fear that doing so will emasculate me or invert the patriarchy, and minor hope that people who like to complain about political correctness will be offended on political grounds.)
AFAIK There is no AMDPRO drivers for Ryzen APUs.
All that demo uses is a contenteditable div. The bug is definitely is Chromium.
> is that a mission for the new decade?

It would be nice to see a focused mission from El Goog. From the outside it feels like they incubate a bunch of random semi-competing products which are arbitrarily terminated or boosted. There's a lot of talent that could be marshaled.
to answer #1

- stripe: https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

"Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media) depicting nudity or explicitly sexual acts; sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features; sexually oriented items (e.g., adult toys); adult video stores and sexually oriented massage parlors; gentleman’s clubs, topless bars, and strip clubs; sexually oriented dating services"

- paypal: https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/faq569

"We don’t permit PayPal account holders to buy or sell: Sexually oriented digital goods or content delivered through a digital medium. Downloadable pictures or videos and website subscriptions are examples of digital goods.
Sexually oriented goods or services that involve, or appear to involve, minors.
Services whose purpose is to facilitate meetings for sexually oriented activities."

- amazon: https://pay.amazon.com/help/6023

"Adult Oriented Products and Services — includes pornography (including child pornography), sexually explicit materials (in all media types such as Internet, phone, and printed materials), dating services, escort services, or prostitution services."

so on and so forth. it's questionable whether this site would break those rules, since they aren't directly selling anything. otoh, it's likely the payment processors would shut them down and so probably not worth the risk.
"We've cut budgets such that there aren't enough regulators to keep tabs on things, while J&J bullshits consumers, and your solution is more government?"

Yes, that is exactly my solution. Do you have suggestions?
Let me frame that in a way that might make you feel less... disgusted apparently.

Men used to primarily compete at killing one another and general conquest -- these all seem like fairly harmless alternatives comparatively.
I think Tim Cook might be subject to extra criticism for similar reasons.
Build systems are code.
Yes, in order to provide a competitive advantage over the numerous clones that are already coming along, Slack must continue to innovate.
> That's your interpretation, and isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia page nor the original memo.

Yes, it's my interpretation. I quoted Wikipedia to show directly (the quote is self-evident) that GP is misrepresenting the very article they're linking to, and I then followed with reinterpreting that quote through the lens of the "pipeline argument". As far as I recall the memo (I read it two years ago), Damore didn't explicitly talked about pipeline, and yes, his suggestions were entirely about what Google should and shouldn't do.
Great to hear! Thanks for checking it out.

I have some improvements coming to the encounter generator coming very soon! At the moment, you can only import monsters from the SRD (aka, basic ruleset). But I'm working on robust support for custom monsters, and customizing existing monsters.
I spent 3 months fully remote, and by the end I was fully depressed. There’s something about looking at the same walls of my apartment for 14 hours a day that just did not work for me at all. I would occasionally go to coffee shops or whatever but it didn’t change the isolation. I had no idea how much I leaned on being in a shared physical location with my coworkers. It’s hard to know until you try it; I think you need to be in a very specific work situation and have a certain disposition for it to work well.