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Ask HN: How many females do you work with?
Hi All,

I work in the UK as a developer in an office with just over 100 employees. This covers Development, QA, Support, Product and Office Staff.

There are a total of 2 female employees, both of them have non-technical roles. And I really feel like this is a shame. I went to university with people of all genders and I feel like gender diversity is great for a team/office.

It's just a stark difference from my previous workplace which was very much evenly split.

I just wanted to get a little insight, how many females do you work with?
The problem, though, is not that trans-rights groups have captured the public mindset. Nor that Mrs. Rowling would be a bigot.

The main problem is that the the public debate climate has reduced to cultural revolution level of intolerance. It's shocking to the depths the west has sunk to.

Simple slogans and actions are offered as a solution to a set of complex problems, and if you don't agree to the message, you are labeled obviously as a Enemy Of The Moral Righteousness and must be flamed to death.

This is exactly what the public debate climate was in the soviet states. There is only one accepted truth. And if you question the truth, then you must be a bad person in every other way as well. Since, we all know, there is only right and wrong, black and white, true and false. We know the real world is a simple place, where it suffices to repeat the party line and enjoy a blissful existence knowing you are on the right side of history and anyone who opposes you must be wicked through and through. Or, just, anyone trying to debate anything, really. Since you need opposing viewpoints to form a debate.

I'm glad people like Rowling don't stand down in front of the hivemind firing squad but try to maintain the climate of open debate alive.

Most people probably won't care one way or the other, but it saddens me our public debate channels give the loudest voice to intolerance and mob mentality driven attacks.
Yeah, they wanna have their cake and eat it too.
Most SD cards do have debug ways to read and write raw flash... Just they're undocumented and manufacturer specific, so you probably wouldn't want to use them in a shipping product.
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Rowling claims Forstater was fired. She was not fired. She came to the end of her fixed contract and was not offered a new one.

Rowling claims Forstater asked "the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law". She did not.

The judgement is available online and prefectly readable so either Rowling is incredibly stupid to have misunderstood both of these points she has made or she has deliberately lied.
G like Graphics. Simple as that. Same reason we say "GUI" and not "JUI".
The archived internet is far larger in text alone than everything published before the information age.
> Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple are in a position to do this for their cloud offerings, but so far as I can tell they haven't.

At least 2 of those named companies have their own mostly-software-controlled SSD designs.
What do you mean by "secret panel"? I think the internal deliberations of almost all funding committees are confidential. But once they decide to fund a project, that information is out in the open. The grant was online, and the research is published in scientific journals.

The actual scandal with the grant in question is that it was canceled for political reasons, despite being highly ranked by the scientific reviewers (and how obviously critical such research is, given what the pandemic has shown us about the dangers of emerging diseases).
Logging HTTPS requests and responses of Apple system processes
Is there something less aggressive? Firefox already stops auto play based on a permission. If you explicitly click on a video then it allows you to start the video within the mouse event.

There are lots of reasonable use cases for JavaScript. Think of something purely event driven like sorting a table by clicking on columns or an input field with autocomplete where you see a preview of results as you type.
It's interesting but there have been an option in Windows to open folders / files with one click since XP at least.
At this point, is _any_ company not bowing down to the Chinese government? Is there ANY platform where I can talk about the aforementioned event without getting my account deleted?
> News agencies shouldn't report that because the Senator didn't say that. He made it very clear he was talking about rioters and looters, not protestors:

Here in Seattle, it wasn't the rioters and looters who were attacked by police, it was mostly peaceful, non-violent protesters.

One might even imagine that the two are deliberately conflated.
I would like to see this in a debugger especially. One continuous scroll of code with no separation of stack frames.

I would also like to see unit tests unrolled like this for code reviews so others can actually follow the code. This would fight the tendency to accept highly abstract code just because nobody understands it.
Matt Estlea - talented, clear, dispels myths, but his personality is an acquired taste
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg/vid...

Stephens 8x6 Workshop - tiny space, clever projects. At the real ale end of woodworking
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8SLw_zYEappZL5rROwvZ1w/vid...

Peter Millard - cabinet making in a tiny workshop, some good meta content on the reality of being a YT woodworker https://www.youtube.com/user/petermillard1/videos

Pask Makes - Australian but totally transferrable to UK materials, lots of reinvented basics
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNyGbxoEo6CQvaRVEvItxkA/vid...

Charlie DIYte - general DIY with plenty of carpentry, good for beginners and those with few tools
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7x7wk8yeN2ZEJCo6BgP2ag/vid...

Ishitani Furniture - Japanese but essential inspiration and meditation
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FkqjV8SU5I8FCHXQSQe9Q/vid...

Sampson Boat Co - UK boatbuilder in US, any woodworking list on YouTube should have this at or near the top, relevant or otherwise it's astonishing
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-_lYeV8hBnDSay7nmphUA
Sounds related to Julian Jaynes's book/theory: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The OP talks about how much would’ve cost a third party to replicate the experiments. That’s what I get from it anyway.
Can you share the names of those companies, or some of their projects? At least that way people who thinks like you can follow those efforts and try to give them more visibility.
I was referring to Stealth, which attempts to depict AI 15 years ago.

Macross Plus being much older doesn't attempt to get into AI for the opponent, and instead uses something a little more down to earth at the time which was neural interfaces.
No, Magdalen is considered a bigot for saying trans women are "blackface actors" and "men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women".

You can decide if you agree with that or not, but that is the kind of thing she said which upset people.
> 4a. I don’t blame Burns for being fed up.

Yikes.

Would recommend any commenters to read 4a in the tweet, as this gets somewhat buried in the overly long list of non-rebuttals above.

> 5d. But dying lesbians are not allowed to express their anger?

5d doesn't mention dying lesbians. Not sure what you're getting at here...

Outside of 4a and 5d, most of your list seems to be agreement. ..
You're trying to imply something that's contrary to his statement, literally right there in the bit you quoted:

> disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers
Like you, I don't have any experience with RecallGraph, but I have been following Arango closely (I work with TerminusDB). First impression is that it looks very interesting and going in a similar 'like Git but for data' direction as Terminus. I'd be somewhat concerned about building on Arango - without your own storage layer, some of the engineering challenges will be very tricky.

When we first built Terminus, we used Postgres as a store, but found that it was too slow for the types of queries we wanted to run. After a HDT detour, we built our own in the end(https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/04/14/terminusdb-a-technica...)

I think graph dbs (crux, terminus or recall) are very natural places for revision control.
Any companies/projects following the KISS principles?
KISS principles as stated by Eric Raymond (ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) lay a set of simple guidelines to create SW. If I was to put it in a line I'd say it's what enables Unix users to create their own programs out of simpler programs. Things like
> cat file | grep name | sort | tr -d 'Mr '

Most of these programs exist for decades and will continue to do so. They're virtually bug free now, rock solid and in constant use.

Yet, where I work and in most other SW houses I see that we go for anything but KISS. Bulky, huge OO hierarchies, overblown design patterns and in general creating huge behemoths (even when we call them microservices) sprinkled with ever more design principles like SOLID and what have you that give me the impression that they're trying to manage the complexity that should not be there in the first place.

Dunno. What's your take on this? Why isn't KISS used more deeply and widely? What are the reasons to be at the verge of or blatantly roam to the side of overenginnering? I'm just trying to understand why we seem to make things much more complicated than they need to be.
dang / mods, please protect this post from normal flagging process, as long as the discussion reflects the expected decency on HN
The first couple tweets in this thread cover them:
https://twitter.com/carter_andrewj/status/127078794127576268...
You mean they spy in order to find out skin color and then continue spying when skin color = black? No, you're lying as usual. They spy indiscriminately on everyone and especially want to harness all activities and reporters to play out their agendas.
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what's your price range? indoor or outdoor?
where do you want to do the inference?
I think the ISO's purpose was to remove Windows Updates for that reason. You need to run these tools semi-regularly, at least after updates, to ensure Microsoft hasn't re-enabled stuff. Which they do. All the damn time.

You can use /quiet and /force flags on shutup10 and create a scheduled task to re-run it occasionally.
There are only men in my IT department. In the whole company (food production, over 900 employees) about 350 women work.
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> I can imagine that the lack of such feedback not only results in slower learning. It might mean the non-apprentice programmer is unable to ever acquire an intuition for design no matter how many years of experience.

Yes! This is also worsened by the fact that changing jobs frequently is so common. This makes me appreciate my first job, where good design was a priority, so much more.
It is estimated to be 36 million for someone else to train AlphaGo Zero, assuming they use Google TPU instances and pay the sticker price.

Google isn't operating with that cost, unless we assume that they are prioritizing AlphaGo to the point where they lose such customers 100% of the time.

It's way more likely that AlphaGo is trained on spare time, the cost for the hardware is sunk anyway, so only the cost for upkeep is real.
Microsoft finds XMRIG malware for mining Monero in Kubeflow ML severs
For others having a hard time reading those quotes on mobile:

Old information:

Early reports from China, the United Kingdom and Seattle found mortality rates as high as 90% among patients on ventilators.

And more recently, a study of some New York hospitals seemed to show a mortality rate of 88%.

New information:

The mortality rate among 165 COVID-19 patients placed on a ventilator at Emory was just under 30% .

And unlike the New York study, only a few patients were still on a ventilator when the data were collected.
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None in my team. About 3-4 in my open plan (I guess about 100 coworkers in it). Same numbers in Uni.Similar numbers to all the companies I've been so far (best one was about 80-20).

SW Dev seems to be male dominated for as long as I remember myself in it. Made a motto out of it that I hope I'm gonna pass to my kids: "steer away from any environment where the gender stats are skewed beyond 60-40. This is just not normal."
Very interesting. I work with TerminusDB and we've been thinking a lot about how to apply a revision control semantic graph db to ML tasks. The whole MLOps process is fragmented and we think a collaborative revision control (like git but for data) that allows all of the parts to work together (data engineer, data scientist, ML engineer) could be very useful.
Here's the problem with this argument. The author writes:

"The True North Of A Corporation: Creating Customers"

An argument that is only based on the idea that there can be infinites amounts of apps. Airbnb's, Uber's, Lyft's, Craigslist's. But phones do run out of memory.

So facebook takes over, and consolidates all of America's cross platform communication apps.

Please give fb Portals to the police for use as dashcam. Don't sell my life to whomever happened upon some bitcoin/libra.
We're used to the idea of this happening when companies sell printers, game consoles, etc. at the slimmest of margins and rely on the sale of associated consumables (e.g. ink) to make a profit.

We're starting to see this kind of practice on an increasing number of big-ticket items where the consumables (filters in this case) represent a tiny fraction of the overall cost. GE isn't making the majority of their money off of selling you replacement filters, yet they've gone and done this to make a few extra bucks. I have a Samsung TV that tries to show me postage stamp sized ads when I'm in it's interface. I spent thousands on the thing and Samsung will be lucky to get pennies from those ads. I add filters to block the domains those ads are coming from to my router periodically, but Samsung keeps coming up with new ones.

The next TV I buy will not be a Samsung, and I suspect the author of this article has bought his last GE appliance. Why are companies driving away people who make multi-thousand dollar purchases with scummy behaviour that nets them spare change? Do the vast majority of people just not care? That's the only way the math makes sense.
Google Play Console gets an update
There are already articles of people who have recovered that will have to take anti-coagulants for the rest of their life.
ESASky Launches in Chinese Language
He even argues for taking minor performance hints if it reduces variations in execution paths.
My tip is not to use custom styling for buttons/text/etc just use the default Material design. It is already pretty nice, certainly better than what a non-designer can come up with. If you are interested in details, check out the design guidelines at https://material.io/, they cover a lot of stuffs from colors to padding sizes.
It feels churlish to point it out, but occasionally he delves into new areas and makes some dreadful beginner mistakes by trying to invent solutions from scratch without any knowledge or apparent interest in conventional wisdom. For me this takes the engineering approach too far. Prefer when he understands traditional solutions and explores scope for improvement / reinvention.
What happened to Stormfront was due to them being involved in egging on mass shootings. You are free to say whatever you want but you cannot incite violence. Is that not the system working? They were not banned for being racists; they were banned for being killers.
i like the idea in general but the example is quite awful.
> You could imagine a "bulk read" API which is given a block number to start at, with a bunch of ECC parameters, which would DMA a large block of error-corrected data to RAM, together with information about the error rate in each word/block read.

There are a lot of existing SoCs that have built in flash controller hardware that can interface with an external flash chip and, from a driver perspective, are controlled pretty much the way you describe it.
You mean better ad revenue, because search results are getting worse and worse. So search results can't really be google's primary focus anymore.
Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
In case you didn't see the riots last week, many US people don't trust the police. If somebody knocks on your door, how do you know what their real motive is?

Are they there for contact tracing, to serve a warrant, to tip off ICE, or to plant something?

After all, the CIA used vaccines as a ruse to hunt Bin Laden.
> "men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women"

Many people will not like this, but so-called autogynephilia seems to be a real causal factor behind some varieties of gender-dysphoric identity among people assigned-male-at-birth. (To be clear about this, other varieties do exist that involve very different causal paths.) Her language was obviously unkind, but she was pointing at something quite real.
I have a six year old phone that still runs on the original battery. The capacity is pretty low but still lasts for 2-3 hours of active usage. Just charge it for an hour per day and you'll be fine.
just curious, why people rely on VMs and dockers so much these days? Is that because process isolation within the OS has failed + installation and DLL hell issues have not been solved after 50 years of OS design?
Watched about 20 minutes.
Maybe there's a point hidden somewhere in between his rantings, buts it's quite hard to grasp it.
He moves back and forth between actual criticism of the Windows UI and just stuff that he personally likes as an advanced user.

I agree that Windows is far from perfect (I'm mostly a Mac user) but IMO the biggest issue is complexity. For tech savvy users all these are non issues, but for my Mom it would be impossible.

OTOH she can operate an iPhone just fine.
But there are also many other people spending time studying Go who didn't reach that level. We ran all that studying in parallel and then selected the best person by running a world championship. You can't only count his effort alone.
Peter parfitt is good too.
> Trans women are women from a gender perspective, and not from a biological perspective.

From a biological perspective, trans-people lie in-between male and female. Transwomen are at an increased risk of breast cancer than cis-men while a lower risk prostate cancer. Transwomen (after years of estradiol) have significantly less muscle mass than cis-men, while, transmen have much more muscle mass than cis-women. All of the differences biologically are the result of sex hormones and the time at which they're introduced (pre-natal or puberty) and the time of exposure.

That said, I don't think it's wise for trans-women to play in serious sports. If they win, they won't get the credit, they'll be told it's because they're trans. If they lose, well, then no one cares and it doesn't make the headlines. It's unfair and unjust, but honestly, sports have never been fair or just. Especially the Olympics, they're a selection ritual for celebrating people who are genetically optimized for some specific task. I don't understand why it exists except for out of tradition.
You completely misunderstand (or misrepresent) that para.

...“runaway greenhouse effect”—analogous to Venus...

From wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus) "Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, with a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F)"

So they don't expect the earth's surface to become hot enough to literally melt lead (327 °C) by a large margin. Neither do I. Hint: it doesn't need to get anywhere near that extreme before we're dead.

The rest of that para does actually list some "unacceptable" and "dangerous" irreversible impacts (selective quote for space:)

"For example, stability of thermohaline circulation or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) or the Greenland ice sheet, the mobilization of biospheric CO 2 stocks, changes in the Asian summer monsoons, loss of mountain glaciers, coral reefs"
As GP said:

> But even then there's still some value in letting the client specify the shape of the the data it needs and having client SDKs

It may not exactly "shine" in those cases, but it reduces round trips and makes it easy for fronted engineers to make views that revolve around use cases instead of the resources in the database.
And rock and roll won, didn't it? Everyone knows about rock bands and listens to rock music these days, and nobody cares about the RIAA. They rightfully lost the war.
It’s similar criticism to the ideas about removing the Amazon from Brazil’s control, which, for better or worse, pulls up the ladder before they’ve finished climbing in the interest of humanity.

These arguments typically come from the hearts of post industrial societies that have already exploited their resources, cultural, environmental, and otherwise, leaving them in the aftermath with only token conservation efforts in their regions and essentially no skin in the game elsewhere.

Thus: capitalism for me, none for thee.
I suggest you watch the videos from the Seattle hospital involved with the first corona patient.

They emphasize that each test is expensive, involving PPE for the collector, the lab assistants, reagents and machine time.

Then there's the question of accuracy and retesting to verify a positive result ...
> One could imagine an 'ideal' allocation of TPU's, where compute time is allocated to the project that earns the most dollars per FLOP.

That's a short sighted, immediate benefit or bust mentality. Not to mention that projects have a ramp-up time where they are not profitable yet, but still very valuable strategically.
Which ultrawide monitor did purchase and do you recommend it?
The video is long and centered on the Windows shell, but lots of it is applicable to the other platforms. It’s exactly what I’m interested in and I’m thoroughly enjoying it:

“Hi! One of the things I like about the Internet is the long tail, which means everybody has specific interests that won’t appeal to most people, but for the people who are interested, it really delivers!”

[...]

”Plus what a wonderful choice I’m being given! Choosing between a more secure system, or being able to use my GUI the way I want to!”

“Yeah, I get it! I’m a freak and I’m the only person who’s doing this!”

”But riddle me this: why do security updates need to screw with the graphics like this‽”
He's also well known for his absolutely amazing work on audio fingerprinting.
"renting them out for this PR stunt just cost them the missed rental time"

Because renting them out generates no revenue, right?

"Maybe around 20.000"

At least the article used a formula for the calculation. You just picked a number at random.
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Depending on what exactly you want, nitter.net is a fairly good twitter client, although you need to use an rss reader to follow particular accounts.
It's a rant of 1h 17mins. The video is funny but it's very centered on the author's usage of Windows UI, which is obviously very specific.

When you ship a product like Windows you have to be very mainstream, you can offer options to customise the UI, fair enough, but honestly the best option is to be dead boring. Maybe once in while you can bring in a new UX concept. Thinking out of the box and trying to reinvent the wheel like they did in 8 doesn't work.

I'm not trying to defend Windows, I think it's been going downhill in term of UI since 7 but not for the reasons he mentioned.