skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point I downloaded my site's Wayback Machine Archive curious what I could recover. It didn't feel like enough because particularly in the regions of time where I lost the most blog posts my front page mostly only had synopses or excerpts of posts and the full posts themselves were on a follow-up page that the Wayback Machine didn't archive.
> If you look at the scatterplot excluding the four countries at the bottom right (Algeria, Turkey, Tunisia, UAE), you get basically a circle and (to my eye anyway) the trendline is horizontal, meaning, no correlation.

Their hypothesis doesn't predict a straight line.

Rather, they're saying that free women don't tend to choose STEM as often as men in the same society choose STEM. If they're correct, then we should expect a lack of data points in the top-right quadrant, above those 4 you pointed out, as such points would represent free societies in which women do pick STEM.

For there to be a straight line, we'd have to further assume that oppressive societies always force women into STEM, which doesn't follow. For example, early-1900's America didn't grant women freedom, but it didn't force them into STEM, either.
I would rather not have to sign up just to see the report.
A shocking amount of processes in the business world still depend on VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) running in Excel (and sometimes Access). It's actually a pretty nice RAD environment, as long as you're not going to scale beyond a team of one or two developers!
If women started working in dangerous environments that harms their bodies, it would have a direct impact on their reproductive ability..which on a large scale would be detrimental to the perpetuation of humans as a species and hence our survival. This is how we evolved. Not likely going to be a popular opinion, but it is mine.
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re-frame is seriously an awesome library, with incredible documentation to back it up. I remember spending a few days reading through all of it and coming out wildly impressed.

In case anyone is interested in its ideas but is stuck with JavaScript, you may be interested in a vanilla JavaScript port I've been (very sporadically) working on: https://github.com/davezuko/re-frame. It's incomplete, and definitely lacking in many areas (documentation being the obvious one), but perhaps somebody will find it useful or want to contribute back. I've personally been using it in some internal apps for a while now.
> I don't see how -- can you explain?

There is a large amount of $$$ that goes into security of iOS and iPhone (sometimes orthogonal to privacy, sometimes not) that does not go into a dumbphone. The iPhone is also much more scrutinized and researched into than a random dumbphone, so it is plausible that you get much more exposure to exploits, etc., using a dumbphone that does not get updates etc.
Pretty impressive - the size of js crap these days is horrible.
No, no, no. It doesn't matter whether lying to an LEO is a crime or not!! The mere act of lying to them will be used in court to impeach your story, and your testimony should you testify (which is one reason you wouldn't).

You almost certainly won't be allowed to impeach the LEO's testimony based on their lies to you or other subterfuge: it's essentially a given that they can do that as part of their investigations, and the court and jury will be very deferential to them and not to the defendant.
It's a parser written in JavaScript, so it is technically a JavaScript parser :)
"Regulatory farming" is a great concept. There is a very similar concept called "regulatory shopping", where institutions can choose the (existing) regulatory agency that they want to be regulated by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator_shopping
Have any children heard "Santa Claus" tell them to run across the street to get their present from the elf in the white van?
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The aurochs in that cave look like they were drawn by an art student today. Very impressive.
From what I’ve seen sharing these videos publicly also provides a potential thief with your location and information about the placement of your cameras, which is not a smart move if security is your main motive.
> she looked around to see writers with relatively safe, high-status job

She did? Where did she find these writers with safe, high status jobs? Maybe PR?
This is really cool, and looks appropriate for the hacker crowd.

I'll confess that one of my biggest wishes is for a universal standardized system and visual language+tool for graphic design with constraints -- so that graphic designers can learn a single system and simply export to HTML+CSS, to iOS layout, to whatever it is.

Implementing designs in front-end requires so much back-and-forth with designers -- "what should happen when this text overflows, what should happen if the viewport width doesn't fit this", etc etc etc. I wish this stuff would just be built in to visual design tools, zero code required, and map perfectly to software implementation. It's silly that it's almost 2020 and we still have to manually map this stuff to code.
> While Facebook will select the first 11 members of the board, the eleven will choose the remaining board members, with terms lasting three years.

So Facebook reserves its right to dictate who serves on the board, whether directly or indirectly.
Well, you have the facts to back it up, so indeed it can work for you. I'd say it requires quite some commitment to push it that far though, and I still would think it's not the right default for almost all teams. Impressive you made it work :)
Ever since I read McKinsey's "in search of excellence" I've been a bit skeptical of these sort of "to run your company better just follow this one weird trick" pieces. The book when I read it was quite convincing, but when I read the results of the companies cited as "excellent" by the book later on, about half had gone bankrupt or otherwise ceased trading!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Excellence
Python isn't used much on the internet. Surely they meant Javascript?
My point is the article is biased away from any conclusions that are biological.

From the study the article is quoting:
> in nearly all countries, more girls appeared capable of college-level STEM study than had enrolled. Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rose with increases in national gender equality

This is only paradoxical if you're presuming men and women are NOT attracted to different things. Experiments with little kids before they can even process coherent though, and across cultures, have produced quite conclusive statistical evidence that there's innate gender differences (preferences of color, of soft vs spinney/mechanical things, etc) that don't fit the 'evil men suppressing women through artificial social constraints' narrative.
Governments should offer tax breaks for every employee that works remotely, part or full time. The more remote work, the bigger the tax breaks. In addition, for employees that could work remotely but don't, there should be additional taxes. With a structure like this, every company that can have remote workers will. When the idiot managers' ideas of having everyone onsite for their own perverse pleasure of feeling in control and no other reason (as there is no other reason for workers who can work remotely to be in the office) is overridden by financial (and indirectly environmental) concerns, the companies may finally find that many of these middle managers are disposable baggage that were just eating up resources for no reason. Even if they don't, at least perverse power of control will be removed from these people that generally just abuse it for their own perversions to the extreme detriment of the company.
It explicitly asks you if you want to enable location services at all when you first set up the phone.

I'm pretty sure it asked me if I wanted to enable Location History separately, but not 100%.
Nothing in his post is sexually discriminatory, and stereotyping women as more inclined to select medicine is not even negative (whether it’s correct or not), so admonishment in place of debate is not necessary. Medicine is far more prestigious and more highly compensated than engineering.
> Males and females have different preferences on average, and do from birth[1]. This is not a bad thing.

Sure, but it seems more than a little convenient that the male-chosen professions seem to generally pay significantly more, on average, than the female-chosen ones. Haven't there been studies that showed that women moving into a profession was actually associated with pay dropping?
Are you familiar with "metafont/metapost"?

Metafont was the original system for drawing fonts for TeX and used constraints to describe the character shapes. Metapost extended this to diagrams in general. They might be an interesting point of reference.
On the other hand, China is known to have and use ios zero days (souce: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/massive_iphon...). It's likely other countries have these as well.

It seems unlikely they put the same efforts into finding a zero day for a nokia. There might be a super easy to find zero-day though, like you're saying.
> Without these Ads plans, your device would probably cost $1000, as the Valve Index shows us.

Good. Let me decide if the full cost without ads is worth buying the device. Hint: if it doesn't send my data then it might be. Double-dipping is egregiously wrong.
There is a Neanderthal flute in the museum in Ljubljana. I found that even more astonishing than the paintings. They didn't just daub, they made music!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_Flute
At some point quantitative changes to cost and availability make a qualitative change in the invasiveness of a technology. I don't know enough about how ring footage is being used to say whether or not it's crossed that point, but this can't be dismissed just because it's something that's always been legal and happening at a smaller scale.
Reading the article, it says he hasn't been using the same software, because he's rewritten all of it, since, much of it multiple times. The only thing that's the same is the content and the file format.

"You have an ax. You replace the handle. Later, you replace the head. When did it stop being the same ax?"

"When I replaced the handle."
I should not have made a personal attack. But I really would encourage you to consider what others have written and think about why your take on hiring is not healthy and may even be actively discriminatory against a protected class.
Okay, so to also summarize for anyone else reading, here's what's going on. The assumptions are:

- Using 261 gal gas/year (which 21.5 gal/month, or e.g. driving 2 × 15 mi/day at 41 mi/gal)

- 1 gal gas = 8.9kg CO₂ (resulting in 2.3 tons of CO₂/year)

In your case that's 15.6 tCO₂/year for flying, vs. 2.3 tCO₂/year for driving.

So, yeah... your flying footprint is 678% more than driving. i.e. you need to fly to work less often than once every 7 months in order for it to beat driving the route you had in mind.

Sorry for the bad news :( but yes, you're very much correct that this makes it even harder for remote work to be good, if you have to fly even twice a year.
"IIRC the vast majority of the cost of an MRI is the amortized cost of the imager"

This is certainly false for clinical MR imaging in Canada. The biggest component is the cost of interpreting the scan, i.e. the radiologist's time.

"regular full-body MRI scans for preventative healthcare could be feasible."

What's the point? What are you looking for? What is the false positive rate on that? Screening for the sake of screening is a mirage[0].

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...
> The legal profession is far ahead of STEM in addressing sexism. Many law firms have adopted the Mansfield Rule

But did they have this back in the 60's and 70's when representation started going up? What caused it back then, that didn't apply to engineering?
This is incorrect. Bikeshedding[1] applies when people prefer to discuss less complicated issues rather than those of a higher priority (which are more complicated).

It's not that discussions on such topics are pointless, but rather that they are of relatively minor importance in the grand scheme of things.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
The VB6 IDE is terrible and no one should have to use it today.

It's UI tools were eventually bettered by the WinForms and WPF/UWP Designers.

Having to work in the VB6 IDE against my better judgment still, I have zero nostalgia for it left.
I am just starting to teach my young kids to code. I haven't found a better solution than old fashion BASIC for that stage when you graduate from Scratch but aren't ready to onboard lot of the complexity of a Python or Racket yet. I love Python and Racket but for an 8 year old they still have a lot of background baggage vs the immediacy of BASIC.
Sure, for an individual, what you say is exactly the correct approach.

But for society, does it benefit us to pay people to work on scraping websites more than on OSS infrastructure? (One argument is yes because that's how the money flows, but why?) How do we as society fund OSS infrastructure and prevent people who would be good at it from leaving to seek money?
Are we counting boomers, too? If not, why not?
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Once you ship it gets very difficult to keep the codebase small because your customers will want you to stay backwards-compatible.

This is a problem you want to have, of course, because you want to ship because you want to have revenue because you want to have earnings -- or just because you want to ship open source and keep a user community happy even if you make no money from it.
You should email hn@ycombinator.com to ask questions because we don't see most comments like this. Someone else emailed me about it.

Accounts that use HN just to promote their own stuff eventually get penalized or lose submission privileges on HN. People are welcome to submit their own things as part of a variety of stories, including unrelated ones that they ran across personally and gratified their intellectual curiosity. That's the best way to participate in the community.
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Yup and it'd be easy for them to do so. They could also just keep FF funded with a low market share to pretend like they don't want to get rid of it in the same way that large companies donate to different causes to pretend like they are not the ones causing the essential problems that they are donating to fix in the first place.
I am one of those with 15+ years of experience and have shipped many different projects. I've also interviewed many people with impressive resumes only to realize that resumes don't translate to performance. The ability to ship quality software has more to do with personality than it does resumes. I see nothing wrong with counting open source contributions as a big plus. I wouldn't use the lack of it as a hard filter though.
Considering they have completely annihilated their reputation with anyone remotely paying attention, the only market left for them might be 18 year olds who can only invest $10 at a time
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His reasoning-

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/11/20/alan-moore-voting-la...

Here’s something you don’t see every day, an internet-averse anarchist announcing on social media that he’ll be voting Labour in the December elections. But these are unprecedented times. I’ve voted only once in my life, more than forty years ago, being convinced that leaders are mostly of benefit to no one save themselves. That said, some leaders are so unbelievably malevolent and catastrophic that they must be strenuously opposed by any means available. nut simply, I do not believe that four more years of these rapacious, smirking right-wing parasites will leave us with a culture, a society, or an environment in which we have the luxury of even imagining alternatives.
I am a woman in software and I agree with this.
> My solution is do not use Facebook.

How effective is that? Doesn't Facebook collects data on everyone's online behavior even if they don't have an account?
Well I remember a handyman who came to our room to fix an AC remote. He found that the batteries were dead and the brand the hotel does not use. He sort of shrugged and told me it happens all the time - guests just swap their used batteries for the hotel ones.
> And I suspect - but didn't check - that if you expand the definition of "software" to include supporting fields like design, UX and testing, the overall gender ratio will be much closer to 1:1.

Could also look at careers like "developer evangelist" and "solutions engineer", both of which are technical but much more people-oriented than being a regular software engineer.
And yet, for the reasons I stated, this is exactly what FastMRI aims to do. Speed up the scan. There will be no way for Radiologists to oversee the reconstruction and make sure subtle abnormalities are preserved.
ahaha. yes, but probably not in the direction you mean.
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Apparently segregation is the new answer, according to progressives on HackerNews.
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It'll be interesting to see the long term effect of this circular dependency between producers and consumers in arts.

Why do we like what we like? What creates a trend? Can you create a trend by observing what's trending?
I think more importantly what Google did was fire an autistic man for citing scientific literature.
Wouldn't advice people to consume merchandise from someone that hangs around in parks.
This is also a goal of mine. I have read that they like peanuts still in the shell.
Throwaway commenter, despite being downvoted, you're absolutely right!

I'm a woman. I AM A WOMAN IN STEM. You know what makes my blood pressure rise? People in real life and in this thread who tell me that I'm naturally not suited to it, that I like people more than things. Go away! Shut the f(*& up! I want to sit here and deal with my code and not have people tell me that I either don't know what I like or I'm not a real, normal woman. Maybe we won't get to 50-50 in some STEM fields. Who cares. People telling me for forty years that I'm a weirdo for existing with this brain in this body is not equality.

And you know what? I've got family in STEM in Scandinavia, and the horrifying discrimination stories I've heard directly about their working conditions (down to classic, "You shouldn't be here because when you get pregnant you'll stop doing science" conversations with superiors) dwarf anything I personally have experienced in STEM in the US. The homophobic comments in the sauna are direct and cruel. Scandinavian STEM is not the egalitarian paradise that Americans think it is.
Just the sheer scale of data collection by the Ring public-private partnership is worrisome already. Some of us worry about the amount of information held by Facebook, even those that do not have a Facebook account. The same principle applies here.
Unfortunately I still have to do maintenance on ancient VB6 code. I'd rather not, and have been working to reimplement it in more modern environments, but you go to war with the budgets you have not the budgets you wish for.
I find dark themes easier on the eyes. Especially in the night time.
Actually I think this is huge, not for existing investors but precisely for people who aren't.

For a teenager who wants to invest $100 to "dip their toes in" when a share of Amazon is over $1,700?!?! And Google over $1,300?

Back in the days when stock regularly split it wasn't a big issue. But now that a bunch of companies think it's somehow unfashionable to split their stock (e.g. Amazon and Google), all this does is exclude smaller investors. Fractional shares solves this problem.

A single share of stock shouldn't cost more than a MacBook, sheesh.
> This sort of thing is one of the major reasons why I'm abandoning smartphones.

You should also abandon:

- Dumbphones (AT&T will give LEO all the same information.)

- Landlines (AT&T will give LEO all the same information.)

- Automobiles (Automated license plate readers abound. I suppose if you never drive on a toll road, or an arterial, or within line of sight of a cop car, you may still be OK...)

- Public transit (Passes + pre-loaded cards are the only reasonable way to use them, nobody is going to be fishing for 2 dollars and 3 quarters every single bus trip - and your travel is recorded.)

- Private transit (Uber, Lyft, coach buses, airlines all keep records of passenger travel. I guess you could hand-hail a regular taxi, and pay in cash, if you live downtown, but as we all know, HN hates taxis.)

- Debit cards (Payment processors will give LEO all of your information, and sell the rest to other companies.)

- Credit cards (Payment processors will give LEO all of your information, and sell the rest to other companies.)

- Bank accounts and cheques (See above.)

Have fun commuting by bicycle, paying for every minor purchase with a mixture of one-dollar bills and exact change, and communicating with your acquaintances by carrier pigeon, snail mail, and semaphore.

Alternatively, you can accept that the 21st century is a world where every third party you transact with is constantly making records of those transactions, and where (in the US) the law of the land allows law enforcement to compel these third parties to turn over those records. [1]

You'll be in the company of people who are outraged that passports are required to travel, and that you have to do a background check, credit check, and criminal record check to get a job flipping burgers at Mickey D's.

[1] If you really want to make an impact, this is actually what you should push on. It's much easier to change, than to make every single firm you transact with not keep records.
Is their support team in Russia? They may have their hands tied at the moment.
Big tech just want to suck in money in peace. They only suppress content to ensure that peace.

They cut out sexual content first because it's biggest nono in the US where they come from. Bigger than nazis or racists. But then people got railed up about other things. Nazis, racists, transphobes, mysogynists, political lies.

Peaceful harvest becomes harder and harder.

No wonder they want to outsource all that noise. They want to be given clear direction which part of the field is safe and which is the part of shifting sands of public outrage.

Zuckerberg is literally just begging to be censored. Censor will set up clear boundaries of safe field current companies can share and keep the status quo since new player won't be able to attack them from the direction of fuzzy boundary because there won't be any.
On mobile?

hi, downvoter... it was an honest question. Sorry? :(
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There have been decades of efforts at the various stages of the pipeline. In the 1960s and 1970s law schools started admitting gender balanced classes. In the 1970s and 1980s there was a series of lawsuits as a result of which law firms began to hire gender balanced classes of entry level lawyers. The Mansfield rule is now directed at addressing remaining disparities in the partner ranks.
>I know I was targeted by that ad. I know they're just showing me the most general bit of the targeting info that was used to put that ad in front of me.

How do you know this? I get ads for male pattern baldness all the time but I'm not even genetically at risk. Half my ads on hulu are for tampons, and no woman lives in my house. Ads really aren't that good. Facebook might've just gotten lucky...
An important context is the amount of karma the popular posts get on those subreddits (proxy for engagement size), and the up/down ratio on the specific links.
People with burners would have strict rules like keeping the battery disconnect except for when they actually need said phone.