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15 is three whole weeks, not so bad. At some point my brainwashing was complete, now I'm on a race to accumulate maximum wealth before retirement. I spend a lot of my days off doing things that will increase earnings.
I'm a millennial, I've grown up with video games every bit as much as you have.
> We spend billions of dollars training women in STEM. By not making full use of their skills, if we look at only the american economy, we are wasting about $1.5 billion USD per year in economic benefits they would have produced if they stayed in STEM. So here’s a business proposal: ...

With all due respect, I don’t understand this call to action. Faculty position is basically a zero sum game. If more women end up as faculty, fewer men will. So, unless it costs more to train women than men, I doubt any “investment” would be saved (and that’s not the point of gender equality anyway).

Btw, this maternal wall idea is nothing new. I talked to my mother about gender inequality in hiring many years ago and she was quick to point this out (didn’t call it “maternal wall” though).
Take a software class at a community college. I had my eye on recruiting interns and new devs at the local community college and I went to the career fare and they said the entire graduating group had already been hired, mostly by microsoft. It's a crazy world with so much demand.
Oh absolutely, you actually mentioned that to me a few years back when I was first looking at Rust, and that’s a totally reasonable place to have been in. It’s just unfortunate that so many people decided to depend on an external library/framework and then got upset like this. For me it meant Rust wasn’t a language I should use for web servers at that moment, which hopefully won’t be the case for too much longer. I will say that as a user it’d be great to see an officially maintained lib like ‘net/http’, even if it isn’t a part of the std lib itself.
But it will really lead us to a better world? Theres a reason why we have instincts, its so arrogant from the enlightened westerns to think they know better than literally every other society in history.

Take it as anecdotal experience, I dont have a study right here and women are free to do whatever they want. But a childless life is much more likely to be a less happier and a unfulfilling life.
>Don't. This is fundamentally a "type error". Rationality can tell you how to achieve what you consider important, but ultimately it can't tell you what to want.

This.

This is such good advice. Really good advice to be exact. This exact piece of advice has been a multi-decade learning experience in my case.

However, I share GP's desire to be the fool that tries and offer them the closest thing I have to reconciliation.

"We made the problem, we need to fix it. Triage is a function of irreplaceability
and capability to remedy."

This grove fit the bill. Therefore, we did it.
What types of sites can be shut down for not having braille and subtitle support? Can I lose my hobby/blog domains?
I don’t think GP’s claim is entirely accurate. Bing is an input into the results, along with other inputs (Bing is less than majority responsible in most cases iirc). I don’t remember if DDG does any indexing on it’s own.

Hopefully someone more informed can chime in but GP’s claim was strong, provocative, and to my knowledge inaccurate so wanted to correct it.
> What does raising children have to do with society

I'm sorry? Maybe the continuation of society?
Nature and sexual selection have nothing to do with it. A complete lack of societal support for women who want to have children and maintain a career in STEM academia (or similar) is all there is to it.

>> Many fathers would very much prefer to spend time with their families, but can't because they're expected to first and foremost provide for them.

Why do the fathers "have to provide"? Why is it so difficult for a man to stay at home and take care of the kids, after they're born (which he can obviously not really do)? Is that nature, again?
This is a good model for why women capable of or wanting to have children leave but won't do much to explain anything to women aren't capable of having children, or who don't want children, and still can't break past middle management into product/exec/C-suite roles over younger, less qualified men.
The author seems to ignore the fact that plenty of women do work while pregnant and have children and go back to work after a little as 3months hiring childcare.
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Please don't copy/paste comments on HN. It lowers signal/noise ratio and is a big pain when we go to merge duplicate threads.

Edit: instead, if you see a duplicate thread, letting us know at hn@ycombinator.com is helpful. Then we're sure to know about it, and can also make sure that your comment makes it into the merged thread.
No, that was not the point of my analogy. Whether it is work or not is irrelevant. When I clean my home, that is work, but nobody pays me to do it. I do the work because I receive the benefit of that work. People care for their children for the same reason. And many (most?) couples consider the income of the breadwinner to be shared between the two of them for precisely this reason: Because the couple values the childcare that the childcare-r provides.

I'm not arguing that childcare isn't valuable. I am arguing that it isn't valuable to any employer of the person doing the childcare, and as such, they shouldn't pay for it.
This is like reading a global warming denier. The earth has heated up and cooled down before. Global heating has never been catastrophic before so why would it be now?

This guy literally uses graphs and charts from the industrial revolution and and generalizes the results over to automation as a concept. And then he confidently states that this proves that the concept of automation benefits the highly educated. Yeah, well when high level signal processing is automated that won’t be true will it?

Just like global warming, this isn’t a problem that can be understood by looking at localized effects in the recent past. It’s a problem that can only be understood through first principles reasoning. Greenhouse gasses heat the planet. Therefore global warming is a thing. Humans are high level signal processing machines. Therefore the automation of high level signal processing will displace humans in the global market. It’s just inescapable. And yet people mental-gymnastic their way out of it.

And whenever I see “alarmist” in someone’s argument, it’s never a strong argument. The alarmists are right.
so play more memory games? gotcha
I really don't think it's a good thing for a company to cause problems for ground-based astronomy in the name of selling space-based astronomy.
Yes, absolutely, there's a lot of grey around marketing campaigns, but a lot of them are direct as well. To the extent Google can provide direct value, they want to do that.

Google is not 'selling ad space' - they are trying to help you sell your product.

Hence the fact they punish low-quality ads.

The very nature of Google ads, and the reason they make so much money relates to the 'relevance' of search terms. It's not great, but it's better than nothing.

If Google could do more for direct conversions, they would because the value of their product would rise quite a lot.
The amount of code in this that talks to the DB is really really tiny. It is certainly possible to support multiple databases.
> I'm pretty sure the thing that shows up on my CC statement is Uber, not the driver's name

That just means that Uber is acting as a payment processor for the driver. If you buy an app or make an in-app purchase in the Google Play Store then Google's name appears on your statement; that doesn't make the app publisher Google's employee. The same goes for non-app vendors using Google Pay or similar services such as PayPal. The point of Uber is to connect riders with drivers and provide standard systems for payment and review—the actual transportation is up to the users.
Have you considered that the primary enforcer of this curtailment is not adults but infants? I mean, I took long paternity leave, I am with my daughter at night, and am with her whenever I am home. She still wants to nurse on her mothers breast when she's sick or in pain. This makes sense as not only is it comforting to her (and a childs emotional need is very real) but it is also physiologically beneficial (nursing reduces stress hormones and helps her heal from disease faster). She enforces this dichotomy of roles by screaming if i try to comfort her and shes already decided what she wants by screaming mama. She'll take comfort from me only if shes decided that its something that doesnt require something no man can give. And her cry is meant to change both of our emotional states to fulfill her every desire.

Is this injustice? Perhaps you could characterize it this way, but since the perpetrator is beyond reason and lacks expression, I'm not sure how youre going to fix this.
I think the author buried the lede here. My biggest takeaway from the article is that you'd have to be an absolute sucker to work in academia given how poorly you'll be treated. Each person that puts up with this only makes the problem worse, giving at least tacit approval to the status quo. If folks were to start opting out of academia in larger numbers for jobs in private industry, schools would be forced to improve working conditions.

Unlike lower-skilled workers, the kind of person who even has the opportunity to get a PhD is also likely to have other good opportunities should they choose to take them. Academics should improve their lot and that of others by voting with their feet.
> I don't think this claim holds up to scrutiny. Yes, there are men out there whose careers are negatively impacted by starting a family, but by and large the expectation is a man continues working while a woman drops everything. That's part of the reason why family leave for men is less common.

That isn't what I said though. Obviously men who start a family but don't do the childcare won't be negatively impacted. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the ones who do curtail their careers to do the childcare. This is a less common arrangement to be sure, but I know more than one heterosexual couple who has done this (usually because the woman has a better paying career).
His video series was very enlightening. Seeing absolute lowest level how that stuff is done is a wonderful insight into why stuff is the way it is today.
DDG uses a lot of different sources- https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
> consistently being rated as the top paid language

means: developers are rare and too expensive. -> companies will avoid it.
That's a subtle and deep question. One example are nominal techniques. Consider Nominal Isabelle. It is known that nominal techniques are contructive. However, when adding nominal techniques to a classical logic, it is natural to express some of this using double negation, leading to only a small blowup in formula size. Existing proof automation can easily handle this blowuip. Doing the same in a simple minded constructive way, leads to a massive formula size increase, defeating (at the time) existing proof automation.

This was a while back, maybe the problem has been solved now, I have not followed this field. But as far as I'm aware, the 'hammering' approach to proof automation that has been working well with Isabelle/HOL has been successfully ported to Coq/Agda etc.
How do you know you "passed" the all day? Why do you think the lack of an offer is age-related?
Surveyors' Maps and Journals an Untapped Source for Climate Scientists? (2019)
The piece by the young scientist has a lot to say, but the preface by Scott Aaronson only has to say "See, I told you so!". And that's what I'm commenting on, of course.
Fair enough.

But that's the problem, isn't it? I mean, many people do (sort of magically) think that their online stuff is private. And then they get pwned in one way or another.
> Motherhood as as a full-time job is a modern invention; historically, it was a side gig

Can you share any study/evidence to support that statement?
I'm skeptical they'd be able to accomplish even one of those things.
Cats are scientifically, objectively, monumentally terrible for the planet
When people from here write "here", which "here" do they mean? The one here, or the one there?
It's not just about whether an opinion is for or against, but about the actual arguments brought to the table.
I don't know if "software that doesn't require any tech skills to build" is realistic.

But a lot can be done, much faster, with much less expertise required, using modern "low code" tools.

Just a few examples from the OutSystems marketing materials(i can't vouch for them, but still):

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"Eighteen applications are already in productive use, some of which have hundreds of users.

The company has succeeded in its aim to make research scientists self-sufficient, so that they can build and deploy mobile apps for high-speed experiments, without clogging-up the central IT development team."

https://www.outsystems.com/case-studies/citizen-developers-b...

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"We don't even have a UI designer—we use templates that OutSystems provides." - for a consumer facing app.

https://www.outsystems.com/case-studies/oakland-transforms-c...

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"Using the platform proved so easy that three of the people who develop Allan Bros. mobile apps are actually warehouse employees, includ-ing a shipping clerk and a fruit sizing manager."
https://www.outsystems.com/case-studies/optimized-field-proc...

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Now of course complex apps will require developers, but it will take much less time, and many apps aren't that complex.
>And I don't understand why people absolutely need to have biological children.

Consider these possibilities:

1. A best case scenario is that what you have expressed is a personal opinion that takes your genes out of the future in a Marty McFly fading away fashion as this opinion hardens.

Fine. Your choice. More pie for the rest of us.

2. A worst case scenario where this opinion accumulates in the market place of ideas and inevitably leads to human extinction.

Impossible right? Well, know that disgust with sex is climbing in rich nations (like Germany and Japan) and the number of births per woman is falling. Is this a function of wealth, or technology?

South Korea has fewer than 1.1 births per woman. That can only translate into a poorer, older, and smaller country for the future. [1]

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/KOR/south-korea/fertil...

(I tell people that this was the thickly veiled premise of the movie Bird Box.)

If that is true, then can it be called a choice? Are people actually choosing to have fewer sexual partners than their parents generation? Are people really choosing to feel disgust at the thought of intimate contact?

Maybe repulsion-to-sex is a bigger threat to continued human existence as nuclear weapons.

Another fun article:

https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-long-until-were-all-...
i'm calling BS on this one. i personally worked with a dude who had both his cissp and oscp. he told me that _the_moment he put cissp on his linkedin profile, the doors opened for him. i know in my former life my mcse cert helpful me tremendously.
While better pricing is always nice, I really wish they would refocus on the user experience in their platform. When adding up droplets + storage + LB + database, the price difference is there, but mostly you don’t feel it’s worth it - you still have to do configure everything yourself. If they offered something more akin to Heroku or Now I’d be jumping all over it.
I disagree, actually. There are no expectations of anyone that releases their code under most licenses. You get to use it as is, and if you want to change it, you submit a patch. Totally up to them if they want to take it or not.

If the current maintainer isn't doing what you, or "the community" wants, you fork and make the changes you want to see, and maybe eventually work with a group of people.

Maintainers are under absolutely zero obligation to the people who choose to use the code, unless they've specified as such in the license or some other contract. It's the only thing that lets FOSS software be a thing in the first place.
I wanted to be a software engineer throughout junior high and high school until I saw the dot com bubble burst. My naive 18 year old brain thought even if things look good for a few years, its just going to happen again. The year I graduated in 2008 again was a terrible time to enter the workforce, so I entered a field that needs to exist in some capacity irrespective of economy (municipal engineering). I haven't looked back much before now, but as my job went from a balance of field and office to primarily office, and I enjoy the mental exercise of coding more than I enjoy what office civil has become.
People downvote but I assure you many dads agree.

IMO dads don't achieve the same level of bonding as women do to their babies and therefore we are able to tolerate less of the crap babies get into during the day.

Its not sexism, its just biology.

If I had a project I worked on for 9 months I would have more desire to continue working on it into the future. My investor is an interested party, but ultimately its entirely my drive which moves the project forward
It was way behind yes (and much of it was ripped off, China-style, from Western designs), but I agree it's weird to compare a _computer_ with a _clock_.
Part of the issue her is that society, at least in the U.S., has significantly devalued the idea of living close to one's family. Sure, some people don't grow up in economically vibrant areas, but many others move away from family without giving much thought to what they're giving up.
Of course they don't. It is Free OSS. And you implying that the maintainer put someone's life in harms way is simply not true. And the LICENSE says - no warranty or guarantee whatsoever... Use at your one risk. And the homeless people analogy makes very little sense, excuse me for being blunt. You are comparing software developers who use FOSS to homeless people??? You are comparing someone's FOSS project on github to poisoned food??? Are you for real??
Similarly, I am embarrassed for devs who type their code in a coddling text editor because they are too ignorant to use ed, the standard text editor, properly.

Computers are for solving problems, not helping programmers, after all, right?
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It's incredibly frustrating replying to you, because your arguments are fundamentally anti-science. Everything you're saying can basically be condensed down to "Well, we though we've known things before, and we think we know things now, but we can't EVER REALLY BE SURE, can we? It's all an assumption!"

Trying to compare our current understanding of the universe to that of a cave man is quite silly. We've nailed down quite a bit of the why and how of the structure of the universe, the laws of physics, etc. It's not perfect, there's parts we don't understand, and there's parts we may never be able to understand, but the scope is so much broader and understanding so much deeper that trying to act like it's meaningful to compare our understanding vs. that of a cave man is so disingenuous.

A cave man would have no idea why that would be the limit of his observations - no understanding of physical laws that would make it so. But we understand why there are limits to what we can see. We understand that there is a maximum speed for a massless particle in a void. We understand why we cannot examine objects under a certain size - because the energy requirements would literally create a black hole if put into the space needed to see. A cave man could not understand why there is not more out there for him to observe. We can.

>Sure there is. We might just be in a location where stars are diverging

You seem to be misunderstanding either the meaning of the word "inherent" or the phrase "rule out". An anisotropic universe can 100% be expanding. It can also not be expanding. But you were previously arguing that our (evidence backed) belief that the universe is isotropic being incorrect would immediately rule out expansion, when it simply isn't the case. It's also not particularly relevant, because all evidence points towards the universe being isotropic.
Get qkumba or John Brooks on the Apple2Infinitum Slack interested, and you're likely to suddenly get a whole lot more optimized :-)
Agreed, we have a responsibility as a community to not cause harm and even take effort to prevent it. That is what I like about HN, it is a place where these things are discussed and as a collective, positive outcomes can manifest.
I'm 37 and the oldest of 4 kids and your first paragraph is for the most part how I grew up. I don't remember my mom following any of us around past a certain age, like 5 or so. She cleaned the house etc. while we played inside or in the backyard. I remember going up the block to the park with my friends without any adults at the age of 10-12 or maybe a little younger.
It is a bad example but most major open source projects are in that regard. However, the community driven ecosystems (Rust, Go, JavaScript ..) have significant components in that particular unpaid maintainer situation. And that is a problem.
*more regulated, my bad.
The other advantage of 90s Hondas (and possibly also '00) is that they're so cheap to have fixed as opposed to how much you have to pay to get a newer car fixed. Parts are readily available and pretty darn cheap. I know a shade tree mechanic in the neighborhood and when I needed to get a new clutch master cylinder put in I ordered the parts off of Amazon for $20 and he did the job for $100. I probably could've done it myself, but for $100 it seemed like it would be better to have him do it as he does this kind of thing all the time.
Okay that physical globe as an item on the Soyuz dashboard is amazing. I need to know more about that. I imagine it's gimballed and a computer moves it to the GPS or dead reckoned position as the Soyuz orbits over the Earth.

What a really cool output device.
It does. If people think valuations are inflated and a correction is near, then then they'll be less likely to invest, which stunts valuation growth.
yes, the employer is beside the point. the implicit assumption that women's work is not valuable is still (structural) sexism. that was the point.

edit: e.g.,

> "Choosing to take on the burden of childcare is choosing to spend less time working."
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As we saw with Western business folks who were victims of Chinese industrial espionage, they would rather have whatever access they have to Chinese markets than rock the boat.
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This is quite an unusual topic but I find myself in agreement. But that's mostly because I don't agree with the general expectation that everything has to be a 'community', that the maintainer now has stewardship over. And the community is almost impossible to please as it grows larger and makes greater demands.

At one point it would have been code that anyone was free to use, before it becomes distorted as some bizarre social endeavour, and then people who've never used the software find themselves part of this 'community' and start to weigh in to add social pressure.

Use the software or don't; if the patches are rejected, fork it and go that way. If the maintainer won't merge the patches, because he has his own vision, you are perfectly welcome to branch out and follow your own. Or just use something else.

Having a maintainer adhere to a set of standards that only start to apply once 'the community' get involved and take control, is super unfair to the maintainer.