skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If we had a way to keep those drones and UAVs flying indefinitely, that would have really far-reaching implications. With power beaming, we have a path toward being able to do that.”

Why go through all this trouble when there's this?

https://www.amprius.com/amprius-silicon-nanowire-lithium-ion...

While 25 days is the record, I'm sure this thing can remain aloft for at least a week at a time.

To me the solution from the article appears expensive and suspiciously deathray-ish.
> but that is very much what he was saying

No it's not. Nowhere in the paper did he say that women can't become good engineers. You're literally defaming his work. Either support your accusation with evidence, or don't comment.
I mean.

He's not wrong.
“introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec” The DNT HTTP header is about 10 years old. It is widely ignore by many data collectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Or the new DocxManager (https://docxmanager.com)
I haven’t used it myself, but I saw that this was released in April: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet . At least one author is an HN user.
I'd say the reporting about Damore had a larger impact than Damore ever did.
> Being blind to the widespread dismissive, discriminatory, and derogatory behavior that routinely drives women from the industry does not inspire confidence.

I'm sceptic to this claim because discriminatory and derogatory behavior in medicine or law are much more widespread. And female students flock to these professions.
This is similar for me, except I integrate that into a daily log via a running google doc. Lists off the tickets I did, meetings, conversations and action items to follow up on. We have two week sprints, and sometimes around retro its really easy to forget things that happened the week before that would be useful to call out.
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My website [0] exists by the same rules. Only differences are that I use a Makefile and Bash scripts relying on the GNU coreutils and xml2/2xml [1] to generate static pages from my template, and I use git to synchronize it with my server. Oh, and I write these in Emacs :).

0. https://pablo.rauzy.name/

1. https://packages.debian.org/buster/xml2
That's a big name. I'm suspicious it means "light intensity map" or something far less interesting than it sounds. Turn a light on or off, and then what? My Shark (ok Not a Roomba) manual says to leave the lights on. I suspect that's because its navigating by light intensity (light fixture bright spots).
I'm speculating here, but everything I hear about google is how they _love_ people who make features. Which has been touted as the reason why a lot of projects fail to be maintained and get shuttered.

If that's the case, then it follows that SRE is less glamorous because it's "What developers do when they're tasked with operations work", and operations work is maintenance.

Not to mention operations work in of itself is unsexy to a lot of people (excluding current operations staffing because we're inextricably drawn to it).
Write free code, extract libraries, then organize some into frameworks.

We don't need to exclude any of those practice. In fact, focusing on only one of those is what leads to the most problems in my experience.
Agreed. There are plenty of places where the people engage in spiritual inquiry & meditation while still having a very solid base rooted in reality.
It doesnt cast doubt though..

You cant have so much more women than the rest of the industry without that being true. There literally is not enough women coming through engineering schools to allow for that without you a) discriminating against men based on sex, and b) lowering the bar for women.

There is no doubt. It is a mathematical given.
> ‘googliness’

What does this mean? How do they evaluate whether someone is sufficiently, um, Googley?
That it is cheaper at scale.

Say you pay 1M EUR to Microsoft for their suite, 10k users.

You get an asset manager and a IAM (AD), database, web server, OS, user desktop, word, excel,...

All of this integrated.

On the other hand you have all the pieces separately, maintained or not, and they do not talk to each other.

You saved 1M EUR, which will give you a team of 5 or 7 people who are supposed to maintain and integrate these pieces (the part of work MS does, not the administration you need anyway on top).

It may work or not, but this is far from a given.

If I had to start the IT of a company today I would go for full SaaS for services, Win10 on desktop, and O365.

(just in case and to avoid misconceptions: I like my Win10 desktop much more than a Linux one (tried to switch multiple times in 20 years), run all my home services on Linux and develop open source)
Having lived both in the extreme heat of South Asia and the extreme cold of the Canada, cold is technically a lot easier to deal with physically. Wearing the right clothes will let you survive indefinitely in temperatures as low as -10C. You are also not in danger of dehydration. Note that -10C is -30-35C away from comfortable temperature (20-25C).

If you just go +20C from comfortable temperature, no amount of clothing will help you survive for very long out in the open. You also have to drink copious amounts of water and salts to avoid dehydrating to death.

Secondly, heating up a closed space is a lot cheaper than cooling it down. Heating can always be done by burning fuel, but cooling greater than 5C requires heat pumps.

The economics and practicalities of heat and cold adaptions are completely different.
The two are very similar, with the difference that Postgraphile harnesses PostgreSQL's row level security for authorization and is written in JavaScript rather than in Haskell, which means a low barrier of entry for many people to write plugins.
I hope you aren't trying to make some sort of point about hypocrisy here. No one here is claiming they are posting on a public forum "quietly".
It's not like they couldn't learn English. Oh, while we're at it, let's also force English into ASCII. And let's make it Lojban for good measure.
If this helps: Switzerland being away from oceans is early with warming. What you are experiencing now is in NYC or the Bay still 5 to 10 years off. Being early does give you a better chance to adapt, and the rest of the world will catch up.
...and garbage collectors aren't armed! Thank you for the confirmation.
> Historically societies with private land ownership have been wealthier and more inclusive than without (the alternative has been state ownership of all land).

Am I correct to assume you include communist and feudal regimes ?
Quantum Theory and Mathematical Rigor
Also one who writes more configuration than code and babysits rollouts
Yes, in Portuguese high schools you can do a technical education during the last three years (10 - 12), that gets you ready for the job market.

I did mine with focus on informatics during in the late 80's/early 90's.

Brief overview of three years subjects, besides the usual high school stuff.

Graphics programming, compilers, databases, MS-DOS, UNIX (Xenix back then), Networking (Novell Netware), OS development.

Languages that we got to use for different kinds of assignments during those three years, GW-Basic, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal 5.5, Turbo C 2.0/K&R C, Turbo C++ 1.0, Dbase III+, Clipper Summer '87 and OOP variant Clipper 5.x, 8086 and 68000 Assembly.

The high school I took it on still offers this, naturally updated to more modern stacks and teaching subjects.
Because it's a superlight UAV without any instrument package or ordnance load.
It also has a large genetic component at the same time.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary?

Its FUD that keeps the UBI from happening. Not logic, evidence nor sound economic principles. Old farts that can't let go of 1950's notions of how people should behave.
Seriously, who in society is doing this?

20 years ago there was a lot less of a push for women in tech and you actually did hear lots of people espouse this view, now the programmes and encouragement is everywhere and the social cost of a different view is your job.

What is being argued and and what is happening don't seem to correlate.
Web is reinventing flash, poorly. But as an open standard. Because of Apple.
I'm using the C preprocessor as a preprocessor to JSON, also hilarious.

But whoever thought a language with no comments was a good idea -- means I can actually write comments in JSON files.
People who dedicate their lives to curing cancer and putting people on Mars are titans for making verrry verrry wee little dents in those problem areas.

Your typical software engineer slept through the minimum amount of biology coursework required of them and has no special interest in chemistry beyond maybe like, a broscience-level grasp of pharmacology related to research compounds commonly viewed as smart drugs.

If bay area futurism woo is indicative of broader trends among software engineers, this person also has a vague, half-ironic commitment either to superintelligent AI immanentizing the eschaton or brain uploading becoming a hot-swappable replacement for the mortal coil within 20 years. Or both.

A belief that Google's workforce constitutes an addressable vat of brainpower of such raw g that, were it not for the idle concerns of developing adtech, it could turn to curing cancer is a very strange belief.
Is this what modern web development is?
You can't post like this here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I despise Trump, but claiming that talking about his shortcomings is an apolitical conversation is totally disingenuous. Politics isn't this bloodless process of determining the best policies by rational debate, as much we'd like it to be. Politics, as often as not, consists entirely of making the other team look bad, to raise the relative status of your own team. That's just how humans operate.
Was it Damore or Kevin Cernekee who quietly joined Apple to work on macos? I’m curious if they continue to be so outspoken there. My guess is their views would have to be kept to themselves. Apple really doesn’t tolerate unwanted attention.
Patents are only valid for 15 years or so.
Yeah, let me know when it actually works. Started at about 1200 in the queue and 4 hours later I'm still number 81, and have been sitting at 81 for the last hour.
Sounds interesting, but I think you launched too soon.
patents expire after 20 years
> having worked for the last 12+ years as a developer

I've done plenty of interviews, and the amount of years someone worked does not mean they are technically capable.

By chance, last week I interviewed a frontend JavaScript expert: couldn't explain 'scope', couldn't explain 'function context', didn't know what happens when setTimeout() is followed by an infinite loop ("After 10 seconds or so the browser will probably timeout the loop"). A junior cannot know everything, a senior should be able to pull a project and team.

Personal advice to you: if you are really good but cannot show it in an interview, try to land a job at companies with ex-colleagues, where they are able to vouch for your technical skills.

If a colleague that I respect vouches for someone (s)he worked with, (s)he is practically already hired.
I'm actually rather bad at this, but my understanding is that the horizontal operations are relatively slow. The easiest way to get throughput out of SIMD is to have a structure representing 4 points, with a vec4 of your X values, a vec4 of your Y values, and a vec4 of your Z values. Then you can do 4 dot products easily and efficiently, using only a handful of vertical packed instructions. (If figuring out how to effectively use a structure like that sounds difficult and annoying, that's because it is.)
Do developers at Google do “on call”?
"it's all fun and games until somebody lose an eye"

in city telecom microwave antennas on top of buildings already kill thousands of bird every day.

maintenance checklist start with "clean the dead birds from base of antenna"
I agree. So many times I've blamed software for not doing a thing, then _actually_ read guides and documentation and find out it's me that's the idiot, not the software Devs. Over and over again.
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Is this established? What I've heard is that while it bears no relation to the actual job, it does correlate with real world performance at that job.

I've only heard this anecdotally, but it is their best hiring indicator which is why they persist with it, despite it being very expensive.
I've never understood how touch screens are road legal.
He sounds like he may be on the autistic spectrum, which if treated as a form of social disability would (or should, IMO) grant him some leeway.

If his intent wasn’t sexist then his failure to perfectly negotiate the complex social way those points have to be expressed isn’t a moral failing on his part.

Edit: I’d rather posters took the time to argue against rather than downvote. My point is just that ‘socially colourblind’ people probably shouldn’t be punished for lacking perceptual and expressive subtlety. It doesn’t mean they can’t be corrected or educated, of-course.
Oceanic climate? Not much? No hot summers? Last century, right?
Dropwizard was amazing when it came out and is still much better than deploying to Tomcat, say. But it's showing its age and I'd consider it too frameworky these days. My current currently preference is http4k, which is more library and less framework. Admittedly, that's Kotlin and thus not a fair comparison, but then, newer things can take advantage of other newer things.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

Complaining about how you'll get banned doesn't immunize you against getting banned, btw. You have to actually follow the rules, and this sort of flamebait and nationalistic battle is well outside the line.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hope private ownership will remain the same, given the fact that climate change is gradual enough to keep the status quo (which is also a huge downside that prevents humanity in taking coordinate and efficient actions against it)
Maybe Im allowed to make a meta comment here. I would have anticipated more comments on this topic.
>it is wrong to assume that the difference in each “isolate” carries with it a functional difference; it does not. //

Is that what people are assuming?

It's not that every mutation causes a [medically relevant] functional change, it's that a mutation could have. And, AFAIK, we don't have the ability to sequence _and_ relate sequences to differences in symptoms in the general case at present.

Maybe in 10 years someone will have developed an AI to relate RNA sequences, medical history, and functional changes in real time??
> You're literally defaming his work.

His "work" does a fine job of that on its own.
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It would be in line with the tradition of using "ballistic missile defence" as a pretext for developing ASAT capability.

I would question if there really is such a strong push for even more US ASAT tools in the USSF, though given the current administration I guess the "kill 'em all" mentality has a good wind in their sails.
Patents expire. That's the point of patents. Instead of complete secrecy thats practically impossible to maintain we have a system where patented inventions are publicly disclosed and the inventor gets to have sole use of the invention for a limited time.
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Honestly, the entire urban belt from Islamabad to Delhi is one of the densest parts of the world, and further urbanizing as we speak. I think it will be the hardest hit, with the amount of concrete that is being poured and cars bought without regards to the local climate.
>He showed a serious lack of judgement writing and posting that in his workplace

Probably doesn't help being autistic.
No, that's your political interpretation of it. You __choose__ to read it that way because then his punishment can be justified.
The difference is that Roomba's are used by millions of people around the world whilst Boston Dynamics robots, whilst impressive, are currently used by... nobody?

Anyway, it's an apples to oranges comparison. Boston Dynamics are building incredibly expensive and sophisticated AI systems that will be first of interest to the military, who have very deep pockets and can afford to spend millions if it is deemed a good use of the money.

Roomba are building stuff that can be bought by the average person on the street.
"didn't know what happens when setTimeout() is followed by an infinite loop"

You're part of the problem.
Where is the centrist media? Mainstream media is a mix of SJW and occasional attacks on corporations as a diversion to hide the actual exploitative system.

Also, in what world is Joe Rogan alt-right? He's all over the place politically (as one should be).

EDIT: Apparently libertarians are such a great threat to the people who have their snouts in the trough that they have to be labeled "alt-right".
I moved to Germany in 2010 and experienced a winter for the very first time. I remember having to wear “pants under my pants” (thermal layer), I bought a thick wool coat, I wore scarves for the first time in my life. (I grew up in Southern California.) I remember one day looking out my window and seeing it start to snow and I could see the snow build up higher and higher on all the bicycle seats outside my window. I remember coming back indoors and how everyone just knew to instinctively stomp their feet outside the door and again inside on the mats, to knock out whatever bits of snow was stuck on shoes. I remember thinking how every time I walked out the door I had to suit up properly like I was gearing up for battle in a video game. This happened again the next year and I slowly got used to it and none of that routine stood out to me anymore.

What stood out though was a few years back I remember thinking one day “where’s the winter?” because the weather was just cool but not cold, and snow amounted to just a few mm if it even stuck around.

Two years ago I finally couldn’t deal with it anymore and bought a portable AC unit. It made living in my flat bearable and was something for me to look forward to at the end of the day since my office wasn’t air conditioned.

My energy bill is higher now in the summers and I feel bad for contributing to climate change, but without the AC I just can not live, merely survive.
> Is it? I'd say empty space is empty space whether it can be filled or not.

Though technically correct when sticking to matter, it feels so wrong because of how it encourages inapplicable intuitions from the macroscopic world.

"We are mostly empty space" is used as trivia, with an implicit exclamation mark suggesting it is astonishing and significant, but it is intentionally incomplete and lacks context - the whole picture shows something far more substantial that has nothing to do with our macroscopic intuitions.
If you want to clarify that that's not where you're coming from, aggressive swipes like "please spare me the rubbish" have to go. It's against the HN guidelines to post like that, so please edit it out in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Honestly, i think Rails is underrated. Most bootcamps still teach it. It's a great framework for getting results fast, with a posibility to push into different areas if interested.
> Focusing on the idea that women are biologically "less interested"

This is the absolute crux of the entire paper, and it's very easy to view it with whatever politicising lens you want.

So lets try to flippantly and dispassionately break down how he constructed the statement

1) Women in absolute aggregate seem to not like CompSci.

2) We want more women in CompSci.

3) We should make CompSci more attractive to women.

4) What do Women in aggregate seem to like?

5) Is there room in CompSci fields for things that women like?

6) Yes, lots, it would be absolutely amazing if we could promote the things women in aggregate prefer to do in the field compsci. Those tropes of introverted men sitting in the basement should be subverted.

7) The current method of attracting women is harmful, we should instead change our desired behaviour of engineering to incorporate feminine ideals which could easily be incorporated.
I think I've tried most java ides and they all suffer from the same issue which is that they're slow, unwieldy, and the benifit they bring (apart from debugging) are mostly not benifit at all. Learning how to write correct code without and IDE auto fixing everything you get wrong with a right click has been very valuable to me. Learning my build tool outside of crappy IDE integration has been an education too. Basically getting rid of my IDE has made me a MUCH better developer although I admit they do powerful and useful things.
> Did they not like that it wasn't wholly your project?

No idea - the feedback in full was 'we're not sure you have enough practical experience programming - maybe try working on an open source project'. Then they literally showed me the door at that point lol.
Clearly the interviewing Googler with a 250k salary doesn't value a decent wrist watch where whole minutes and hours tick over nicely in a single movement. ;-)
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Some of my friends still read Hackernews. So here you go! wabalabdabdab or something.

We're not trying to make your crew leave. We just want you to feel something... <3
Don't you have mountains in Switzerland?

I have been living in Sumatra and Flores where you usualy get moderate climate from 1000 meters above sea level..
> the general idea is simply that you don't use #ifdef but instead move the conditional compilation logic to the build script / build system.

Yes, I entirely agree. But do NOT split it into what OS or architecture it is, like what I was replying to said.
Enhancing the Developer Experience in JavaScript NPM modules
This sounds like a good time to talk GoCardless. (Disclaimer: former employee, still have unexpired options).

Now, the downside is that this is recurring subscriptions only (e.g. SAAS) and not purchases. The upside is https://gocardless.com/en-us/pricing/

- Domestic pricing: 1% + $0.25 up to $2.50 maximum

- International pricing: 2% + $0.25.
Currency conversions at the TransferWise rate.

UK/Euro pricing is even better, as that's their home territory. (And, you still can get chargebacks, but that's because some of these banking systems demand it.)
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Please keep this sort of flamebait off HN. Maybe you don't owe the people in charge better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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AC literally saves lives. Calling an invention that prevents thousands of deaths a year a bandaid seems kind of callous to me.
I mean, they definitely do. They also deploy an army of muppets! (6-yr ex-muppet here)
The powerful have control and the weak unfortunately have to sit by and hope the powerful live up to their word.

Without external forces (a higher authority or some sort of coalition of the weak) to check the impulses of the strong, the strong get to make and break the rules as they please.

This is inevitable and a fundamental fact of reality.