skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's society in general that is sexist, why have many industries that are "high-status high-skill" seen a serious increase in the number of women in the profession, while engineering has not?

These arguments seem to go in circles a lot.

First it matters that "the majority of programmers were women". But then it doesn't actually matter, because the people in charge of hiring weren't women. Ok. Then it's society in general that is sexist, but actually it's only certain professions where this "general sexism" manifests itself, for no apparent reason. Ok. Then you have the most egalitarian countries in the world seeing more disparate outcomes than other western countries. But this is apparently because sexism and cultural norms are so nebulous and hard to pin down that there must still be some sexism going on there too, we just can't see it. Ok.

There are a lot of claims being made with no evidence whatsoever. While I personally don't put much stock in psychology, at least Damore's points had actual studies behind them. And though it has been thrown around in this thread that "some of the authors disagreed with Damore's interpretation!", I have actually read the studies and found nothing factually inaccurate with the interpretation. That's what is so difficult about a lot of psychology – the hard facts are few and far between, so effectively every result is subject to interpretation. An author of a paper can disagree, but that doesn't make Damore wrong.
I thought the point of the free market was to send signals about what factories should be built with your purchasing choices, not to limit your purchasing choices to whoever has the biggest factory today?

So me buying a non-Tesla electric car will have much the same effect as buying a Tesla with regard to the future of personal transportation? Regardless of how many cars the other manufacturer is currently producing?

I wonder what signal I’m sending by not owning a car…
I imagine, that working in shifts actually increases chance of infection, because of aerosols and surface contamination. However, you are right, that it would be fairer to do that.
Ha, reading the doc it seems it is at least partly improved since last time I checked. Good news then! https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon#exportsharing
> The problem is more that TV, movies, social media and YT have created a post-literate culture where the primary model of communication is visual and emotional, not textual and abstracted.

Simply not true. There is more writing in the last year ( digital and print ) than there was in all human history prior the 2019. Each movie now creates countless textual/abstract comments, posts, essays, analysis, etc.

> That culture is extroverted rather than introverted, geared towards triggering simplistic emotional responses rather than exploring complex arguments with nuance, and actively hostile to abstraction and focused deep insight.

I have to disagree. There certainly is more overall fluff, but there is also more substance.

> Without a strong written culture that refuge ceases to exist.

Except that there have been more textual and abstracted content created in the last year. More people are literate and writing than ever before.
Sounds like page-level caching, but they use weird terminology and metaphors.

Is this another Heroku "routing mesh" gate in the making?

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/heroku-admits-to-performan...

https://genius.engineering/herokus-ugly-secret/
CCP has turned Hong Kong's autonomy into a joke.
A Design Analysis of Cloud-Based Microservices Architecture at Netflix
It depends on your debugger. Visual Studio has a plugin model to support this, but it involves writing a server and a client, and serialising all your data over a socket.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/creat...
If you make your business cards out of silicon wafer I can get you 10nm resolution.
Would you consider sharing the .ttf?
The first thing that comes to my mind is: Are you joking? But I wonder to myself: what does he call blurry fonts. Anti-aliased fonts, of course. But I've never seen them as blurry and I guess most other people don't, otherwise we'd not like them better. Don't you think there could be a sight specificity? Do you have extremely sharp eyesight?
You're not being rude, but you are being patronising.

Since you've been using Clojure full time for 11 years, don't you think there's chance that you might be biased yourself? I mean, you've basically used it since it was only just released and the library ecosystem is bound to be in flux just after a new language gets any traction.

I BTW never said Clojure was immune to churn. I just said it is comparable to any other language... which it is. You misrepresented my original reply which I find really disingenuous. It might not have been comparable to other languages a decade ago, but it sure is now. And the situation is much better than the most popular language at the moment, JavaScript.

...

I've been using Clojure/ClojureScript as my only language for more than 3 years. Currently on my third Clojure job. Prior to that, I was a heavy user of mainly Python, PHP and Java... all of them in anger (that's such a weird expression, but whatever).

I think your issues must be very tied to the data science domain? I've been following, though not actively using, the data science libraries in Clojure and it's true that the data science ecosystem seems quite immature compared to Python. Incanter was already DOA when I started using Clojure, Cortex came and went, Dragan's libraries are a sort of foundation that hasn't been tapped into yet, and now there's all this Python/R integration going on. Data visualisation seems to have converged heavily on Vega as of late.

But I'm doing web development and parsing. I find that the ecosystem is very stable for that sort of usage. Reagent is the default for frontend, Re-frame the most popular state-management library. There's an ecosystem around these two libraries that many tap into. There are basically only two popular SQL libs available (hug and honey, both using jdbc at their core), so you just pick whichever one fits your use case the best. It sucks that you went through 4 different ones, but I don't think that's very representative. Ring is the standard protocol for most web backends. There seems to be a convergence towards Datomic-style Datalog for newer Clojure databases. Instaparse is the only game in town for parsing using grammars and Clojure spec is widely used (although it's alpha) and can also used for certain forms of parsing.

The only thing I've really been changing has been my tooling, moving from Leiningen/figwheel to Clojure CLI/Shadow-cljs. And I didn't have to do that, it was only done out of an interest to explore these newer tools.
Ironic, given how the website itself is packed to the brim with ads.
I don't buy that as a justification to create a walled-garden. Curation and quality control don't require locking everything down; it doesn't make the manual review process any less expensive.

What it does do is make it less expensive to exert total control over the associated branding. This might seem like a good thing for customers if this branding wasn't already for sale to the the highest bidder, but it is. The practice of hardware manufacturers paying for exclusives proves this.
Same. I feel the positive effects are actually making me more productive, not less. I do end up writing code at midnight some days, but having a floating schedule fits me so much better. Meeting face to face for some things is nice, but it's not worth all the downsides. I honestly dread when I'll be forced back in the office - even though this has shown we can work from home for extended periods, I don't see my company allowing us to do so after they don't have to.
Eat it all you want? I can eat cherry tomatoes all day long and I doubt that’s awful for me
Windows machines are a rare sighting where I work.

Sadly, so are Linux machines, since the company doesn't support them.
Do we need employee monitoring?
It's interesting how that looks from outside the USA. The first time I went to Mountain View I got a shock. I was young and naive, fresh off the boat from Europe, and I'd been told it was the "City of Mountain View". So I didn't bother renting a car. I figured I'd just take the train.

For a lot of people living in the Bay Area is kinda like living in the middle of nowhere. You have to drive for over an hour, often much more if the highways are jammed, simply to reach the nearest actual city. It appears Epic is based in Verona, Wisconsin, which is about 2hr 20 mins from Chicago. So a bit further out for sure, but not so radically different that it'd completely change your life, I guess.

Of course if you live in SF and then commute to work, it's different, but that's a pretty miserable experience.
Well, you can’t watch a Tarkovski movie and expect gripping or drama. The same goes for Lem’s books. They just require a different mindset.
No 40-Minute Limit This Weekend, So You Can Zoom Away with Mom
There was no significant shipping/logistics advantage to manufacturing cars in Australia.

After 30 years of increasing imports when government subsidies ended so did local manufacturing. Most cars sold in the country are now built in Thailand, South Africa, Japan, Europe and increasingly the USA - without any kind of huge price jump over locally produced vehicles.
Oh c'mon ... Roomba is a PCA with a motor and basic sensors and what not. See comments above: nobody thinks Roomba confers distinction on the hardware or software side. So now what? We're gonna skip 10 magnitudes of 10 from simple to talking about "I Robot" material? No. It's used by millions of people for good old fashioned manufacturing reasons, and because it's cheap That's it
Covid-19 Raises Questions About the Value of Personalized Medicine
https://archive.vn/3G48y
I think that’s the point of having a brain at all — to predict the future better than a dice roll would’ve.
Interesting that he decided to take the approach of not copying any code, that must have been a helluva challenge with the early boot phase assembly.
It is certainly useful to learn enough to dispel the bull "X will be better with blockchain".
> Actually, IE5 didn't do automatic ligatures; what you see in "finibus" is simply an "f" glyph and an "i" glyph which are close enough that the dot of the "i" nestles into the top-right of the curve of the "f", and the serifs at the base run together.

That's actually a really neat solution in the absence of explicitly defined ligatures... since there is no antialiasing, it only needs a little care when designing the font at the pixel level and choice of kerning and the result will be indistinguishable. fi is a very geometrically natural ligature though, i wonder if it doesn't work so well for others that are too dissimilar to their components.
No, it was just the obvious "kilo" to "ki-lua" transformation!
There are no blurry fonts if you use the right screens for 2020 - i.e. HiDPI / "retina" etc.

If your pixels are visible then yeah, nothing beats fonts designed for big pixels.
First we should turn the Sahara into a lush green forest as an exercise. Terraforming a remote planet will be a million times more difficult.

Oh, wait, we can't even work together as humanity to contain a virus.
The paratwa trilogy by Christopher Hinze? Genetically bred assasins

reddit.com/r/printsf is a gold mine for book recommendations
It is, or did you read anything about a proper governmental transition from SYSTEM to City? All hush hush.
The hard part about training is not the training itself, but finding something you enjoy enough that you don't need any grit to do it.

There is a reason 73.9% of the North American-population is overweight [1], and it's not because they are not knowledgable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight
Epistemic Humility–Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic
Postgres, yes, of course
Google has at least 50K employees, spread all over the world. I guess it is quite possible to gather and recruit 50K employees who are much better developers than most others outside but I would not (rather cannot) call each one of them elite of the elite !

Look, a great deal of valuable software has been created by Google and other FAANGs. But I reckon most of that value has actually been created by the first or the best 5000 or maybe 10K employees at most. Most of the others in Google are enjoying the fruits of their genius, and they don't really have to perform any greater miracle than moving protocol buffers around. Still, no doubt that they are highly competent software developers and passed tough interviews. Not to imply that Google interviews can even distinguish between a genuinely talented programmer from a diligently-practicing-over-a-year leetcoder.
Show HN: Pick a single property from a JSON without parsing it
I agree with so much of what you say, but the people aspect is more nuanced than that.

Yes, there's a staggering number of people in the Bay Area who think they're gods gift yet have essentially average intelligence, they confuse understanding code with understanding the world.

At the same time there are many humble people, ambitious yet realistic people and extremely skilled people in the Valley. It's the centre of the tech world for a good reason.

For some years I worked for Google out of Switzerland. For me and many other people this was the perfect balance. Working for Americans, especially the sort that make companies in SV, was an inspiring experience. The can-do, "what hard thing shall we tackle next" attitude is one that's frankly difficult to find elsewhere. They'd just throw themselves into a challenge without even stopping to think about what could go wrong; the sunshine of the state was like the sunshine in their minds. Not surprisingly there are a lot of failed and zombie startups in the Valley as a result, but that's still better than in most places where there just aren't any at all.

On the other hand, I was quite satisfied with the much higher quality of life in the Swiss office. You could walk out of the door at the end of the day and stroll in a few minutes to a beautiful lake with an actual mountain view, go for a swim, barbecue with friends in a well maintained public park, dry off, utilise the spotlessly clean and free public toilets, and within a few minutes walk be in the city centre in bars and restaurants. Crime was virtually non-existent thanks to the fast response times of the police, who were nonetheless invariably friendly and hands off, so people would routinely just leave all their stuff on the shore when going for a swim without worrying about it. I once forgot my coat in a bar and then failed to pick it up for a week, when I went back it was still there, hanging right where I left it.

I wouldn't want to live in the Valley but I'm always happy to work with people who do.
r/wallstreetbets is a joke really. Funny but no good advise there.
Some of us don't have the space for a separate home office.
That being said, I WFHed part time before the pandemic, so the new part for me is being home 100 percent of the time. My workspace is a table in my (multipurpose) living room. I've made a small tweak or two since the pandemic but it is basically the same as before.
My work and personal habits are better since the pandemic started. Several reasons. Part is that it is springtime, and I am much less of a couch potato naturally then. And the other part is that I have been taking the risks of getting sick and the associated issues like the economic problems seriously and making conscious efforts to take care of my health, reorganize my home, take steps towards bolstering my economic security, etc.
I think that small distractions are OK (it's actually unhealthy to stay in your chair for too long) as long as they are kept under control.
I’d not worry about it too much, I’ve gone maybe 9 months without climbing or doing anything but snowboarding and 2nd day out of the season done a 17 pitch 700m trad 5.9 multi. it comes back real fast, and the technique sticks long after the strength is gone.

Can’t wait to get back on rock Thursday out official “opening” date. planning on doing a 5.8 5 pitch multi right off the bat after 8 months off
Nintendo Blue/ Neon Yellow Joy-#Con (#L-#R) – Switch
Is there any justification for putting the left control anywhere but bottom left?
> South Korea is on a whole different level of testing than the US

According to [1] and [2], the US has performed twice as many tests per capita as South Korea. Roughly:

The US has performed 8.9 million tests for a population of 330 million (27 tests per thousand people).

South Korea has performed 660 thousand tests for a population of 50 million (13 tests per thousand people).

1: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/

2: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#how-many-tota...
Yes it is, we are just back in 1983 in what concerns play stores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Game publishers love exclusives, it means there is no way copy cats land on the same medium.

For example, how Naughty Dog tried to turn Crash Bandicoot into Sony's mascot against Sega's Sonic.

"Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSHj5UKSylk

It is ironic how disparate these kind of discussions on HN feel versus the general themes on game developer forums, magazines and conferences.

Same thing with APIs, on game developer universe "what cool things can I do with it", here "boo yet another way for the man to subjugate us".
Coding challenge: Pick an item from an array that keeps changing to the next one
Elon Musk Lashes Out at Officials Keeping Tesla Plant Closed over Virus
Tips on Unionizing Your Tech Workforce
Some Doctors Pull Back on Using Ventilators to Treat Covid-19
> I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this

Maximizing shareholder value is about pushing everything to the limits, to fully explore every opportunity for potential revenues.

Not saying I like this concept and what it does to the world. But at the same time I am invested in the stockmarket, meaning that I want to profit from it. I guess I want it all...
Autotrace is the wrong apporoach here imo. Yes, fonts usually consist of quadratic curves, but they perfectly well support straight lines (and as a result the files will become pretty small, too). There is no reason why the original pixels cannot be converted with full precision using horizontal and vertical lines. Maybe the tool that can do this was not available.
Clearly this line of reasoning is the wrong way round. Surely the correct approach is to calculate the gravity and size of the LEGO planet and it's moon from the characteristics of the rocket.
The Hetzer-equivalent service is Amazon Lightsail, which starts at $3.50 a month ($5 for 2TB transfer) and has access to all AWS services.
An article with more context than a one sided tweet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon...
Parasol
This is glorious. The only way I could tell with any confidence it wasn't real was the clean, modern HTML and CSS (get with the program folks, this should be non-validating XHTML 1.1!)

Nice easter egg from the source code:

<!-- <audio autoplay="autoplay" controls="controls"><source src="topgun.mid" type="audio/mpeg"></audio> -->
Cochlear implant is complicated procedure with chance of side effects. I personally know people that got it taken away again. And it has only 30 or so channels, enough for speech but not sure it's better than my current hearing with aids(I love music).

It is far from sure thing that the cochlea is the best place to stimulate te nerves.
Game of Life implemented with JavaScript (junior exercise)
I'm sure there's a city with train services connecting Dublin, CA (served by the BART) to Moscow, ID. The question might just be when...
I'm happy to report that I was able to download the zip file and run the executable on my Ubuntu box with Wine. It was quite surreal to see Netscape installer running on my 4k monitor. I was even able to open the browser and navigate to Google.

Sadly https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ and http://www.dinostomatopie.com/ failed to open with a message saying "Netscape and this server cannot communicate securely because they have no common encryption algorithm(s)".
Have fun buying a car from a manufacturer that is not manufacturing, and be sure to complain about Tesla threatening to boycott California while you threaten to boycott their products!
> "Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger audience

yeah, i'm from poland and "Fables for Robots" (= most of the stories found in "Mortal Engines") was given as optional reading in elementary school
I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse by Bobby Fischer
Long form is still very much there. People just seem to be going for it less
Windows does antialias in a special way. MacOS and Linux are usually configured to respect the font shapes, using subpixels as needed. Windows font rendering prefers to snap to the nearest pixel, increasing sharpness but not being as faithful to the letter shapes.

Some people don't care, some people get used to both, but for some people going from Windows to anything else is difficult.
I think "stigmatization" isn't quite the word for spreading disinformation/speculations about the actions of a government, but you're right.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Qiushi#February_2020_disa...

"Citizens reporting on the epidemic have been made to disappear" would be a more factual description. And as can be seen from the first article linked above, "disappearance" doesn't necessarily lead to a fatal end.

There is some not-direct-but-still-relevant support for being inclined to think that death is not entirely out of the question for those reporters, e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

But again, I think you were right to call me out on speculating. We just don't know, and if there's one thing we don't need more of right now, it's speculation from non-experts like me. Thank you.
Gearbox  – A web framework written in Go
gearbox is a web framework written in Go with a focus on high performance and memory optimization
This website is using pagination with OFFSET/LIMIT but it's fast
Hey guys,

First, here's the link

https://gall.dcinside.com/board/lists/?id=baseball_new8&page=270000

As you can see from the URL, it's specifying the page number. And as the characteristic of OFFSET pagination, the page result is unstable when new items are inserted (which is what I want)

I can't believe the performance cuz the website has > 16M records and still the performance is blazing fast.

What kind of sorcery pagination is that? anyone can guess?
Time to resurrect the SSC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider