skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the guy behind Sidekiq, also mentioned in the article.

One person can still built amazing, successful tech with a slow and steady approach and little to no funding. My trick was to charge something reasonable ASAP and get to a sustainable "default live" state.
Once a woman has a child, that is her main concern, not work. Simple.
Any pictures of your pi4 :) ?
Why is it a problem for you if someone is willing to give their work to the world in a way that allows others to benefit from it? Why is that not enough? Why do they also have to keep doing more after that?

If you disagree with the notion of someone publishing their work under a free software or open source license being useful for the world, then please post an AskHN about it and you will have _plenty_ of material to convince you of this perspective. However, I think most reasonably clever people can already come to the conclusion themselves.
7B-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth
>The "workaround" for the inherently poor DNS performance of traditional GSLB/GTM is to use IP routing tricks that make a single IP route to the nearest data centre location instead of a single destination.

Anycast is hardly a "trick", it's been around approximately forever and is well established as a multihome solution.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1546

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22065780
You are ignoring several facts:

1. Pregnancy is very hard on women's bodies. It is not uncommon for health effects like high blood pressure, joint inflammation, and gestational diabetes to become temporarily disabling for expectant mothers.
2. Infant childcare is incredibly expensive. Even at professional levels of compensation, the expense is likely to outweigh the added income from continuing to work. Costs drop significantly once children are potty trained, but remain quite high.
3. Three months of paid maternal leave is very rare. Even with saved time off, taking large amounts of unpaid leave is hard on a family.
4. Breast feeding a child while working full days requires a huge amount of work, above and beyond the exhausting labor involved in having a new baby. If a nursing room is not provided, women often resort to spending a large amount of time pumping milk in the restroom. Which is uncomfortable, unsanitary, and disheartening.

Just because some women have the resources or the stark need to return to work so early does not mean it is possible or desirable for everyone.

We need to have better maternal leave and accommodations. Fathers need to step up and do more of the work.
We need to have better paternal leave and accomodations.
We need to support affordable child care options.
We need to make the above 4 items available to everyone.
Then how come some women don't want children and even dislike children?

The reason why women are more involved in childcare after giving birth/nursery years is purely societal factors. It's expected of them to behave in that way in more conservative places and it's strongly implied in other places.
What's the root problem that's trying to be solved? Allowing people to finally discharge student loans in bankruptcy, or increasing private liquidity in education lending?

This seems like it all reverts to a tax policy in the end, as these loans are guaranteed by the federal government. We either tax everyone (free college, allowing bankruptcy discharge) or individuals (no discharge, pay back loan).

The questions should be: what do want as a society, and "will allowing students to discharge public loan debt cause a greater GDP increase than the loss of tax revenue from them not paying back the loan"

As long as the fed gov is guaranteeing them, it's just "taxes" with extra layers of obfuscation. We pretended they were loans and now people are trying to solve a loan problem instead of a tax problem.

It will become a loan problem if/when the loans are private. And a policy problem at that point if employers can no longer get educated workers.

I've always argued that the most business friendly thing a gov can do is provide highly educated workers at a steep subsidy for businesses to use as human resources. Always astounds me when "pro business" people want to slash education.
>You are projecting today's problems on tomorrow's technology.

Entropy is just a fundamental aspect of how time progresses. It's basically axiomatic that anything we have degrades without actively recreating/reinforcing it with additional work.
JS appeared at the same time as PHP and Ruby. Python was 4 years old when JavaScript was first released. All those languages are about the same level of complexity.
not blackmail I suspect -- you're asking them to stick by their contractual responsibilities / make up for their own failure to notify you in an edge case

on the face of it, them exceeding their max budget probably puts them in the wrong if this went to third-party arbitration
To some extent, they also come with warranties and insurance policies that could potentially be collected upon if there are damages.

But yes, a lot of it is a legal CYA, which is important.
I understand the network effect, I understand that most decisions on PL are not based on technical reasons. Most non-experts mostly worry about syntax, as per P Wadler:

"The simplest thing to do is a significant
change to the semantics. People won't argue
the way they do about syntax."

ML had GC, it would have been easy to add dynamic linking, and X Leroy made Ocaml fast, with a tiny fraction of the resources that have been poured into the JVM. Admittedly, this was a major breakthrough that was unexpected. I reckon the main problem was getting OO to work properly with generics: type inference becomes a problem and you have to worry about co/contravariance.

A Hejlsberg certainly wasn't on the ML train in the past. For a start he didn't think generics are a good idea (he told me personaly). Typescript shows that he changed his mind! Go explicitly rejected generics at the start, but Go-2 is scheduled to get them.

Module systems are not such a big deal in my exerience, I don't think ML's was a full success.
OpenOCD on Raspberry Pi: Better with SWD on SPI
It was long enough ago that many people have forgotten the origin of the phrase. It's just become one of those sayings that means "buy completely into the idea".
Ah, emotion. Both the greatest strength and the downfall of humanity;
To the extent that was generally true...

* most mothers were still with their infants and very young children. The babies weren't being taken care at a daycare where you can have one staffer trying to deal with 4 crying newborns.

* mothers were doing active work, not work that requires sitting in one place, not work that requires long-term concentration, not work that requires being on someone else's schedule.

I have noticed it is no problem doing active work like cooking or the dishes or grocery shopping while bringing along an infant. But I cannot do computer work -- baby goes crazy from lack of stimulation.

Also, being on a schedule while trying to take care of a baby causes immense stress. What if you have a client meeting while baby is crying because he needs to be fed ... or is crying just due to lack of comfort and attention? Or sometimes (oftentimes) baby has a bad night and keeps you from sleeping, but you still need to be up and at work at a given time, instead of being able to nap when baby naps?

Both parents doing a schedule-bound, desk job while raising a newborn baby is not how we evolved to do things, and it's always going to be a source of stress and problems, even if you have "high quality" daycare available.
> And the LICENSE says - no warranty or guarantee whatsoever

Lol. That’s about as legal as saying you can’t be arrested because you’re a sovereign citizen.
> either express or implied

Did you miss this part?
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> 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

The assumption is that aptitude for these positions is roughly the same between genders, so if there's a significant imbalance, society doesn't get the best people on the given set of seats.

The later calculation is along the lines of "society is pouring so much money both into these positions and into getting-women-into-STEM programs without reaching this supposed goal, so here's a counter-proposal to use this money more wisely"

> Btw, this maternal wall idea is nothing new.

She's quite upfront that she borrowed the term as well, so the idea can't be new. But it might be time to reiterate that point (as opposed to the popular reduction of the problem to sexism only), and since she did a good job (IMHO) to collect sources...
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This is simply not true. I have friends and colleagues in all these categories and the tech workers on the coasts easily make the most money, especially if you balance for hours worked. The only exceptions are at the partner level, but the number of people who actually make it there is minuscule in comparison to the number of people who easily make it into 300k+ total comp roles in tech.
IMO part of the value of DO is to have a cloud host that isn't running a competing business.

netflix has done fine on AWS but that still feels iffy to me.
I'm not a fan of this title. Throughout the piece, sexism is regarded as a key factor. The thesis of the article, and indeed the article's title, suggests that sexism isn't the only factor. This isn't an "alternative argument," it's another piece to the puzzle.
I thought 2000 presidential election put an end to this kind of reasoning? The result of a national election, literally hanging on the chads of a few extremely poorly managed districts in Florida.
Even if the decline in teller employment is not due to ATM's, the parable still suffers if another convenience innovation came along and did kill jobs.
The author makes a good point, but I don't think it's even the main part of the problem. In e.g. notifications cause people to open the app, they are optimizing the wrong objective function. Getting people to open the app isn't your objective. If you just want people to open your app as many times as possible, you should actually close the app so that they can open it again.

E.g. when an app sends me an unwanted notification, I open the app so that I can turn off notifications.

Similar to the p=0.05 issue in science, for every bad product decision someone wants to make, there is another bad objective function that it appears to optimize. Just because someone provides a justification doesn't mean it's justified. You need to make sure that changes are improvements in the things that actually matter.
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And this is another semantic issue here.

The article (and my experience) both deal with the "Science" part of STEM, and specifically in biology/biochemistry, and specifically in academia (professorships at universities in hard-science fields).

And defining those boundaries of discussion should be very much a starting point for any of these discussions.
This may be slightly skewed by the effect of retirees (people earn the most before they retire). Illinois has high taxes and terrible weather. A lot of affluent people leave the state and retire to Florida. I'm not sure if the article's analysis is really concerned with these nuances.
and that's the systemic sexism--the systemic choices about what should, and what doesn't need, to be paid for.

why don't we instead have a society where all childcare is paid labor and we just "pay ourselves" for other self-benefitting labor (growing food, for example)?

(collective) assumptions like these are the systemic sexism. note that this is different from calling a specific person a sexist.
The Left and Right Are Wrong About Inequality
The point is that there is nothing at all special about cache vs any other kind of memory. There are purely practical distinctions made according to relative timing vs bus cycles and, at times, interrupt latency and head-arm settling time, that dictate the mechanism for faulting in misses. All these times have varied by many orders of magnitude over the years without producing any fundamental change in the principles involved. It's all just memory hierarchy, and has been for fully seven decades, since the very beginning.

It takes a very small time window, and very limited historical awareness, to see Ln, for any n, as indicating anything special. In this case, it indicates what we have lately called "RAM" will now be called "L4" -- just as what was so recently RAM is now L3 -- as persistent phase-change memory moves into the place lately occupied by disks and, more recently, SSDs, and the distinction between "RAM" and "storage" gets fuzzy once again.

Even persistence across power loss has phased in and out, over the decades. The slowest memory happens to now be both random-access and persistent, again, and pretty darn fast this time.
I think you're right in that it's a common phrase in conversation. It just doesn't seem appropriate for a new outlet that attempts to be more-objective than sensationalist. I do see this is an opinion rather than a regular article, but still ...

"Hemorrhaging" evokes memories of bleeding, indicating severe danger. I pay a lot of attention to metaphors after reading "Metaphors We Live By" (an excellent classic book).
If you own a house in California and visit it often, even if you are living in China, they might still claim you are on the hook for California taxes. I guess you really have to move out and then rent the house out or sell it to be off the hook.

The biggest issue with CA and moving abroad temporarily is that CA doesn't have a foreign earned income exclusion or foreign tax credit. So you really don't want to be a CA resident if you need to move out of the USA.

Since I moved to Switzerland (and then China, ironically enough) from CA, it was something I had to look into...I wasn't sure if they would come back and say I was a CA resident even though I really had no ties there. In particular, if I wanted to vote, I could have in CA, but that would have been a bad mistake. On the other hand, I wasn't eligible to vote in any other state, so I spent 11 years not voting. When I finally left China, it was for a job in CA...which also gave me some pause as I didn't intend to return to CA in the first place.
Those exist; the one I'm most familiar with is Odoo. You download it, point it at a Postgres server and start it up. It shows you a web UI which asks you for a name for a new DB and a admin password.

After that, you get a login screen of a typical web app, but almost empty, with just a menu to configure users, groups and basic company info.

From there, you can create a module (just a folder with some basic metadata) and in it write a Python class with a few fields (like a Django model), and a menu linked to it. The system takes care of generating some views for CRUD: you just click the menu and it shows you a list of records, then click on a record to see an editable form, etc.

Permissions is just a matter of configuring in the UI or writing a CSV file that says which user groups can read and/or write which class / model, or you can write more complex rules (like users of certain groups can only see records created by them, other groups can see all).

(Disclaimer: I worked for a few years for companies that developed Odoo modules, but have left the platform for a couple of years now)
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be typical sexism: there's work at work which is paid, and work at home which is not. Men do little enough of the latter, that doing the paid work isn't a problem. Women do such a large part of the former, that they feel the need to chose between which part get done.

Sure, the positive way to change this, is to reduce the unpaid work (child care professionals are paid, cleaners are paid etc) - that is, to acknowledge it as work that needs to be done, is productive, and should be part of what society rewards/share resources to get done.

But the equal rights / equal opportunity path indicates that we also need a (bigger) culture shift so that the unpaid work of running a home is more equally divided.
This reminds me of a university (I can't remember which) that supposedly posted free videos of lectures on their website. The content was said to be absolutely awesome. Then they got sued for not having subtitles and the university decided to just take the videos down. It was a loss to all.
Used to be?

Still is.
The request is unreasonable, but is the second question not valid?
> "I trust that Weinberg & co are immune to that kind of pressure" or that their primary motives are altruistic in nature and will always stay such.

No, not at all. I trust that right now Weinberg & co are less likely to be actively caving to that pressure or actively exploiting my information.

Trust is always a moving target, but right now I know that Google logs literally everything I click on associated to an IP address, and uses that for targeted ads. As far as I know, Startpage doesn't currently do that, though I expect them to get more aggressive about data in the future. DuckDuckGo (most likely) also doesn't do that, and I expect it to take them some time and have additional warning signs before they start doing it.

The link wrapping is a good example of something measurable that matters at this moment. You can use Startpage without Javascript and with a few browser-level features toggled and be pretty certain that the actual link you click on will be impossible for them to log. With Google search, today, there's no way to do that.
And SWEs at a handful of large US tech employers are an even tinier slice.
> a handful of people who have been killed while using Autopilot.

Links to a report of two deaths, both the tractor trailer cases where the owners ignored the fact that their Teslas are not fully autonomous vehicles yet.

Also in the source (Reuters) for the entire article:

> Many of the complaints report sudden acceleration incidents when attempting to park vehicles in a garage or at a curb.

What’s up, The Verge?
Some time ago I saw an Iphone app that could "read" resistors by pointing your camera at them, but can't find it now.

Googling, I see one for Android, which I don't use:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhdev.resi...
This seems like a really long argument just to end up at the main point being: "It really is sexism". The light bulb moment here is that it's not necessarily sexism on an individual level but on an institutional one.

I believe there is an obvious difference men and women which, on a general level, incites women to weigh family responsibilities over career prospects. However, industrialized nations exacerbate that difference by making it very difficult for women with children to spend the time necessary for career advancement.

The key here isn't necessarily throwing your hands up and saying there's nothing you can do about it, but more robust programs for parents to help lessen the load of parenthood.
>How is that not sexist? How is that not the sexism that's keeping women from advancing their careers in STEM academia?

Why should the academy structure itself so that women who choose to put their attention into their families do not have a career impact? If academic positions are necessarily zero-sum, it seems impossible to correct for this without seriously unfair negative externalities?

How is it that the biases inherent in collective decisions of individuals within society are the responsibility of the academy to correct for (that men tend to choose to focus on career and women on family)?
> And of course this is an area where complete automation is on the horizon. The tech exists, it's getting close to ready for large scale deployment and big players are working on it.

That's incorrect. We're really far off still from level 5 self driving cars if you follow developments in that area.

However, the major task in the truck driving job (highway driving) is automatable already. Other ones (urban maneuvering, loading/unloading, etc.) are much harder to automate.

> That said the article goes on to focus on what I think is one of the key points in the automation conversation: wealth inequality.

I'm the author, thanks for echoing my reading on the dynamics.

People focus on an imaginary problem when a very real one is happening underneath our noses.
What’s the median salary for STEM engineers versus medical doctors? FANG pays in the p90, but the vast majority of STEM make decent but unsurprising salaries, and that salary requires them to be in a handful of major cities.

As opposed to a physician, median salary almost double of a software engineer, and can live and work in much cheaper cities.
> that disgust with sex is climbing in rich nations

Source? People are having fewer children, but is that because they are too disgusted to have sex?
This.

P.S. Love your username. You'll be pleased that the name of my garage gym is the Gravity Chamber.
That's the Globus IMP and dates back to 1964. Wikipedia has details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%2...
Picture it this way - Mercuriadis has bought a bunch of houses. Just like any landlord, he will have to invest some money and effort into repairs and marketing his properties. Some will rent for more than he expected, some less.

But once he gets renting, it's passive income. The problem is, can he make it to that point or did he buy houses that weren't sufficently rentable?
I agree that IC for life is not a good career move, but it's not the wanna-be IC's fault.

It's the industry.

I work with this guy, he's about 60. I think he has a degree in Physics from Oxford, but he has a Texas accent. He's kind of a nomad type of guy, bounces from job to job. Got hired into the AWS "Cloud Team" shop on a project I work on. Doesn't have any AWS certifications. As far as I know, barely touched AWS and never touched Python, CloudFormation, or Jenkins before this job (but he knows just about every *ix flavor there is). Basically a lifelong Linux Sysadmin. I have no idea how he got the job.

Within a month he was writing his own CloudFormation, Lambdas, and Jenkinsfiles. He almost immediately intuited the whole "Zip up the Python and all its dependencies, throw on S3, use CFT to deploy the Lambda using that Zip file" method of deploying lambdas. Note this is with multiple accounts so you need to get the whole IAM delegation between accounts stuff. He's a natural.

I'm in awe of this guy.

I truly believe that HN is full of people than can be like this. The problem is that most hiring managers do not.
Are there any good resources for learning electronics for someone with a strong programming background and understand digital logic? Ben Eater videos assume knowledge of electronics and would like to know more
90% will be underground (last item of the list of figures at beginning): https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/info/grand-paris-express-...
Thanks. It's too bad people decided to downvote me. Probably because of my username, but who knows. In any event, do you have thoughts on solutions?
That's not as simple as "they make more money when you have to buy their peripherals"
Yeah, this hurt. I think you could find many talented developers with high interest in advance the state of art, but then remember need to put food in the plate and that is.

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My dream is to build a foxpro/access kind of tool (starting as a relational lang), but this is purely a side of a side project that I still keep alive by purely fun. Having in the mind that the chance of being financially good is near zero and with more pressing needs, is hard to make it.

I could totally take a small investment just to get "survival" for months, but who will invest it?. I think even much more skilled developers like http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/ will not get funds for a startup for dev tools, that is look to me anyone in the field must work for big corp to hace a chance to see it.