skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these differences weren't historically used as justification to deny people the ability to have control over their lives

Isn't the problem here the "deny" part, and not the justification given? That is, had the prevailing attitude been that men and women are exactly the same and therefore they must do exactly the same (backbreaking) work, wouldn't that have been just as bad? Or even worse?

So how about we get rid of the "deny" part and just let people do what they individually want? Then we don't have to suppress scientific truths.

And letting individuals do whatever they want is what western societies have been getting better and better at, partly because of economic prosperity, partly through political, cultural and social liberalisation.

And as Western societies have gotten better at letting people do what they want, men and women have diverged.

> people push for a more complete conversation than just Male != Female

That's not what's happening, because nobody keeps it at "just Male ≠ Female". In fact, the opposite is happening, "more complete" conversations are verboten. The current narrative is that any differences that manifest themselves must be due to oppression, and if you try to have a "more complete" conversation about this topic (yes, like James Damore did), then you are a misogynistic troglodyte and must be removed.

> "Men and women aren't as different as society imposes through socialization."

Interestingly, it is that view (the "society imposes differences" one) that is contradicted by the evidence. That is: socialisation appears to make men and women more similar, not more different. Society imposes convergence, not divergence.
Do you get it when some app or game says which operating system it's for?
Did you check if all of them are on the IA already? The archive collection seems to have some weird gaps where random issues appear to be missing, while others have been scanned and uploaded multiple times. The metadata are also not perfect for some reason, so it's hard to search for an issue in the whole collection.
Swede who has only been in London once here and the only thing that I don't understand is "Crypto-Jewish". A cache of items is a quite common word or phrase to use. Like cache of weapons, something you'd learn just by playhing modern video games. Or reading scifi.

I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology.
And if the Zwischenzug is a move that puts a piece somewhere where it can be easily captured (perhaps because it could already be, or because there are already lots of pieces attacked and the opponent can only take one at a time) then it is called a _desperado_.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please,

HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

In the end no matter what the computer does, it was programmed by humans.

The computer is always right, but the intention might be wrong. This gets scarier when it is a neural network or AI decision that is not known even to the programmer, only comes up in data the algorithm understands. Lots of edge cases.

It would suck to be stuck in a bad decision/error/bad interpretation of data and nothing you can do about it. No customer support to help you, just the lifeless Borg deciding your fate.

HAL: Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

Frank: Listen HAL. There has never been any instance at all of a computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has there?

HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.

Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are you certain there has never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error?

HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.

Dave: Well, I'm sure you're right, HAL. Uhm, fine, thanks very much.

We should take decisions by systems as we do foreign policy: "Trust, but verify". This is more difficult when verifying the decision process of an algorithm is unclear.
Tetris in ClojureScript (2016)
Maybe doesn't mean anything but it's kind of cool anyway.
What was to be expected by a sea of isolated backbiters? This might change slowly with the ECM?
From the article, it doesn't seem to be the fault of the IT guys. It's more like some rich guy who goes out buys a shiny used plane and hands over to the pilot to use.
Do you have an experience or learning along writing? (also a legit/common way)
Since 2001, 450K+ traders, $500B turnover, $180M
Came here to post this. It's been known about for years, and just allowed to bubble and simmer, while Fujitsu et al continue to profit
Zugzwang doesn't appear in Go game that often as in chess, even though it's much more complex game.
Fujitsu/ICL made it. So whatever they use.
> I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology.

The definition was already mentioned elsewhere in the comments -- crypto-Jews are (in the Inquisition context) Jews claiming to be Christians.
Can anybody who's tried this summarise the differences?
TLDR: "Management feared that the availability of a recording device would make customers less willing to
use the telephone system and so undermine the concept of universal service. (...) The fear took two forms. First, if conversations became matters of record in the same way as letters or other contracts, managers felt that customers
would abandon the telephone for critical negotiations and return to the mails, where a slip of the tongue would not prove fatal. (...) Second, if conversations could be recorded, matters of an illegal or immoral nature, which some executives estimated made up as much as one third of all calls, would no longer be discussed by phone. (...) Although one might expect that managers would stress the economic half of this equation, in fact they paid far more attention to the question of trust and image. During this period AT&T had constant public relations problems, largely the result of antitrust investigations. Thus, the fact that magnetic recording might create a major upset with only a minor gain for a few customers who could afford to have their calls answered automatically was simply not acceptable for managers concerned with preserving AT&T's good name."
Unfortunately built in webcams do not have sufficient resolution and low enough latency to be suitable for this purpose.
Reminds me of this: https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
Complexity != abstraction != leverage.

Today's software suffers from too many layers of complexity that are each pretty dumb and serve mostly bookkeeping. The result looks like an overinflated bureaucracy. In the example above, using a more efficient data structure for text representation will add at most one layer of abstraction (but there's a good chance you'd create that layer to hide the array anyway), but offer significant benefits in terms of performance, at a cost of little and well-isolated complexity.

This is the best kind of abstraction: complex, deep behavior hidden behind simple interface.
Same in finance, but there are still people making billions in statistically significant ways.

Humans are complicated and unpredictable. Any field with 99% noise 1% signal requires different methodologies compared to, say, physics and computer vision ML. But you can still make some inferences and predictions (which, even if 100% "correct" will still only predict the 1% of signal, not the 99% of noise).
I didn't down vote. But it's not like the parent really gave much evidence that regulation was the actual proximate cause of decline. Or anything to prove that the regulation was excessive. Reactively blaming everything on hysteria is irrational.
We also have light receptors on the skin. And I'm assuming we have many others we don't know about.

The way we teach about the human condition is very limited, and I only started understanding a bit how my body works after I reached 30 thanks to a lot of self-experimentation.
lots of work and many facts, wow. Do you do the analysis manually or extract the facts somehow automatically?
There's enough info if you are are somewhat related to that incident. For the rest of the world, no.
This is a depressingly common line of thought. I have corrected many people over the years on that front.

I think the finest example I have seen was an asset tracking system in the defence sector. Independent auditors came in to make sure that secure assets were shredded. They found stuff that apparently wasn’t. This spawned a large panic. I sat through an hour long finger pointing session with the auditors, disposal staff, programme manager and engineering manager all who had different stories and none of them thought it was a software issue. They had got to the point of calling each other liars and swearing.

The problem which I found in two minutes flat? Well the thing that returned the state of the asset did a SQL join on the history and returned the top row’s state without sorting by date. By coincidence this had probably looked like it worked in dev. If you closed and opened the screen a few times it would return a different state because of non determinism in the query. Adding one order by and it was resolved and the software was the problem and all assets were disposed of. Then I was tasked to write test cases for it and found a hundred other nasty things.
Why are people upvoting political attack ads?

For those that aren’t aware, Bloomberg is not running for US president. This site is just a platform for him - it exists to say what he wants - it's not about making money. So of course he’ll say negative things about another candidate.
C64 was a beast. Crushed Apple II.
Lamer
lamer hacker hacks mamy computer
> Why do you need to be 'sold' on scientifically verified knowledge?

Nothing wrong with scientific inquiry, but when such facts are placed in context of, say, an internal memo at Google, or, an opinion piece in popular scientific press, it has rhetorical impact. You have to wonder 'to what end' they are hoping for with their exposition.

With the Google memo, did they hope to change hiring strategies? Would this have had any real impact on the operations at Google? Did Damore feel that the hiring strategies at the company were having any tangible negative outcomes... if so, he didn't care to mention that. So why then?

Same with this article. What is the author's concern here? What is really lost when we cease to generalize people's behavior by sex? The article gave no compelling answers.
Reminds me of the Phoenix fiasco from Canada of a similar magnitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
"This only works if the Christian god is real, which the majority of the world finds not to be the case"

Just past 1/2 of the world's population believe in the 'Abrahamic God'. [1]

I think it would be a total misinterpretation of spirituality to put it in terms of 'god is real/not real'. Even within Abrahamic faiths, at the end of the day, God is generally 'unknowable' and these ideas of God being 'a guy up in the clouds' are borderline heresy. Point being: the Abrahamic 'God' is a concept, not a 'dude', and it shares a lot in common with other spiritual foundations.

The developing morality in humanity may be a function of some greater purpose/force/unknowable power that the Abrahamic God alludes to, and possibly shares with other metaphysical ideals and religions, which provides us the basis for a Spiritual version of equality referenced by the OP.

I would argue this is really important, because as we move into the age of materialism and individualism, it's going to get ever harder to justify general artefacts of morality and kindness. We are losing a lot of common ground that we used to take for granted at least in the belief we were all 'Children of God' so to speak. I believe the social implications of our current secularism is quite profound, in some ways good, but in some ways bad.

The article presents of foundational data to probably what many of us already knew; I don't suggest there's going to be a problem if we just try to act like adults about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
This is very close to the thesis of Mackay’s Information Theory, Learning, and Inference textbook: https://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf
I lived in Frankfurt for a year and now I live in England. I was so frustrated at DB and RMV when my trains were a bit late (3-5 mins for RMV, 15-20 for long DB) once in a while. Now I take a regular train from my town to a city and I've literally only caught it on time TWICE in two years. Usually 20-30 minutes late or suddenly cancelled. Trains here are a whole different level of bad.
When you should go with your gut instead of logic
yes she is best at hacker she can also hack your system so do not share your password with her
@mods In headlines like this, it'd be great if the location could be specified. Otherwise it's not clear unless you read the article. Eg, "UK Post Office" or "US military"

Can we make this a guideline, perhaps?
While your call sounds heartwarming, it's not really possible regretfully. The very reason why we have these discussions is the popularity of purely political poststructuralist/postmodernist theories which essentially claim that sex differences is a sort of global historical conspiracy to maintain "structural" inequality. It's not a scientific theory vs scientific theory - it's political doctrine vs scientific theory. And it's not possible to not to touch ideological/political issues when one of the views has got near-dominance mostly by political pressure such as breaking careers (remember James Damore?), defunding, and deplatforming opponents for expressing valid scientific opinions.

Added: Certainly being civil is possible in any debate, it's just the idea that one can steer clear away from politics in this issue which I believe is impossible.
Man Francisco is awesome, so is Man José
Ah and I almost forget, get kids because that is the only way to justify your stupidity.
Isn’t this more the fault of the justice system than Fujitsu?
WikiLeaks: Documents from OPCW investigation into alleged Syrian gas attack
Well, a position with say a bare king and against a king and a rook is only lost because of zugzwang. If it was an option to pass, the side with the rook would not be able to force checkmate.
All the work was done manually. We just selected those essays which has a structure, summarized either in bullet points or headings.
We edited each fact, reducing text, because with icon you don't need as much text.
Regarding automation I experimented with text extraction (using abstractive text summarization) but haven't got good results yet.
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I don't think it is essential to the message unless the location has a substantial impact on the story, e.g. if it were some military way of handling things that caused the problems.
Maybe it could be worth it to buy a proper external camera for this purpose if one has a desktop or uses one's laptop most of the time stationary.

I searched for it and apparently Windows 10, for example, has optional eye tracking control built in already:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4043921/windows-10-...
Writing software within old-school enterprises is a daunting task involving lots of proprietary systems that create a lock-in of sorts. Complex build and test systems, complex deployment and production systems are the norm. Weird tools and libraries with their own proprietary names and conventions increase the learning curve for any new-joinee. Some even have very proprietary non-standard language, runtime etc. making the skills acquired in such environments to be largely useless outside of such environments.

Open source culture changed all this drastically. This culture started with individuals loosely connected via Internet who collaborated on writing software and without much complex central infrastructure. Common conventions and standards emerged as these individuals openly discussed them and took with them to other projects – not just conventions and standards, but also the code. Without the enterprise lock-in, this has proven to be extremely successful and cost-effective.

Most commercial software companies today follow this new model for their internal software development practices. Using openly available technology components lets everyone to acquire portable skills that they can continue to improve throughout their careers across many different companies. This drastically reduces the cost of software production as cost of acquiring skills is amortized over many companies and cost of development effort of these open source standardized components is also amortized over many corporations/projects.

Every company I worked in has supported contributing to open-source with the selfish motive to attract talented engineers. And the engineers like contributing to open-source projects as a way of showing off their skills and building their resume.
Great sunday reading. However, in the section "But how do you deal with relations?" the author presents nested resources as a best practice. I don't feel this is the best course of action. Instead of nesting message resources in, say, `/tickets/12/messages/5` shouldn't a better approach be to store them in `/messages/5` and keep `/tickets/12/messages` as a collection of IDs or summary resources? I mean, messages are a separate entity which might even be moved to a dedicated microservice. Why is it a good practice to nest them within an API?
Btw brk and sbrk are deprecated in POSIX anyway.
While it all feels insane from one perspective, it’s not hard to imagine a different narrative where the “founders of ‘insane asylum’ hacked the startup system, were product first, got acquired, and used their new home to pay down tech debt.”
Interesting to read. One month ago I took a part in car accident and had to got legal advice from lawyer. My friend suggested to contact withhttps://www.jaeleelaw.com/dwi-dui-defense that law firm specialized on car accidents. So after that I got needed legal advice in my case.
Worth noting that the UK Post Office was privatised in 2013 - though I have no idea whether this had any bearing on the events covered by this article.

Edit: My mistake - I was confusing Royal Mail and the Post Office!
Technically, that's how I had found about Asmongold in the first place. The real money -for streamers- is in Twitch. What he's doing, is logical and smart for his bottom-line.
Strange, no Douglas Hofstadter on the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Published_w...

I would argue GEB has been really influential on the topic.
My wife and I's families did the best for us growing up but a lack of money, alcoholism and our parents having a rough time growing up meant growing up for us maybe wasn't what it could have been.

My wife and I now have the most wonderful family and my two kids are young adults. My family is the best thing in my life. I still don't find it easy to express myself as some others do verbally, or be huggy, but I would do anything for my kids and I know the reverse is true.

I went through a phase about 10 years ago when I started to worry about death. Fear would come over me like a cloud and I started to worry that the cloud would stay. It took a while before I told my wife and I will never forget her response. She said, "you should be glad you are starting to feel normal things for the first time in your life".

This was so true. I had never been loved so unconditionally before by my wife and these two little kids. Their love fixed something in me which was broken. Ironically I can now say I have no fear of departing this world. The peace that Paul talked about is very real to me. There is a completeness in being part of a loving family which makes you grateful for what has past rather than worrying about the future.

When my son was a toddler we would go for walks and he was happy to play with a stick. This boxing day the kids and I will go to see the new Star Wars movie. A different type of stick but the joy continues.
Vimari is a Safari port of Vimium and is available through the App Store: https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari
Understood, thanks. The "Where Are The Big Ideas" is my favourite.
The world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood is being built in Mexico
"might even be moved to a dedicated microservice"

Allowing for scenarios like that would actually be an argument for HATEOS (where, at least in theory, URLs are treated as opaque).

NB I have tried designing using HATEOS and I'm not a huge fan - but it would help in this case.
Terry Gilliam nailed this well in Brazil. https://youtu.be/6OalIW1yL-k
"I remind myself that soon enough they'll be teenagers and won't want to have anything to do with me."

Is this really what you want? Because it depends on the relationship that you establish with your children. I found it such a pleasure to have teenagers who enjoyed being with me. I've always been kind of shocked by the desire of parents to be rid of their kids.
I've got ulcer. My last ulcer attack, 5 years had me rolling on the floor. Since then, I avoided stress. Ate at the slightest hint of hunger, even as I grew a pot belly.

Also, I avoided situps, cos the muscle pains felt like ulcer attacks.

There's this specific food that I love. It's eaten RAW but often prepared in a not too hygienic manner. Since I banned myself from eating it, I've slowly become able to stay a few hours without food and can handle more stress.
Cool be offended. But I would still disagree with your attempted rebuttal of my original points.

a) Not just Young or attractive women will get attention. There are a lot of older/non conventionally attractive women that use online dating too. Who knows since we are thinking in hypotheticals would you deny them male attention if they wanted it? What about a younger man who wants to meet older/bbw/non conventionally-attractive women?Tinder et al. are great for that, and I would not dissuade anyone for trying to find someone they are sexually attracted to.

b) The point that I was making, and that you have created a straw man argument out of....is that yes women have it easy in regards to receiving validation and invitation to dates/encounters/sex in the form of likes and messages on online dating services. There may be undesirables/creeps out there but it is trivial to unmatched so it would arguably be easier than swanking with bad attention in in the real world.
and made everyone else suffer?

Also - they are NOT paying down the tech debt. The programmers and sysadmin staff doing overtime mentioned are.
You're still managing a team though
also this statistic is favored towards the north of the country. because there are way more trains.
he lives in the south I guess (near munich) probably which has way less trains for regional traffic
It doesn’t. It was a shit show well before that.

I think they just fished out a load more cash to fix stuff as well.
From a social perspective, allowing an issue to breathe can act as an inoculation against groups who might harbor extreme interpretations. Alternatively, sidelining the issue is likely to offer these groups time and space to fester in their echo chambers. Perhaps the mere fact that a thing is controversial is an indication it needs to be "aired out".