skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the science is not clear: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7002030/. Infants at 9 months prefer the toys they saw at home. If they saw gendered toys at home, that is what you will measure in the lab too.

I also live in Sweden and am also unhappy about some conversations having become tabu, in an otherwise very tolerant country. However, I do get that people are tired of playing whack-a-mole against the biological hypothesis to gender differences.
> This whole rhetoric of scary Russian tanks and missiles ready to attack is stupid.

It is not stupid.

Kaliningrad is a small city surrounded with Polish tank regiments just in case of such scenario.

Defending a long front is much harder.

> Any military conflict with EU would be an economical collapse of Russia.

Russia had already been in the perpetual collapsing state economically since the end of sky high oil prices. Russian regime doesn't seem to mind at all its people eating grass.

Russian military goal was, and is to invade Europe. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Montenegro, Libya were all parts of the chain leading to it. It is undisputable.
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I'm the one who wrote the blog, and really appreciate your comment. As a physician, I can confirm that most physicians have only the tiniest grasp on statistics - and most will not have even heard about Bayesian stats.
I do not want to imply that observational studies of correlation are useless - or even that observational studies are "less valid" than randomized controlled trials (something that doctors usually assume, but it incorrect). I actually want to write about this issue in future posts. There is a lot I want to cover, and stats in medicine is one of my favorite topics. One blog at a time, though.
VPS owners will if your flooding causes issues for their (other) clients on the same hardware, etc.

It's definitely better to not do this.
That's to separate things that clearly are driven by different reasons:

* Do ads make products they appear cheaper? If so do they make other things more expensive.

* Are products not paid for by ads cheaper due to automation, etc.? If so could they be even cheaper if not for ads?

I would say munging them together is intellectual dishonesty.
It's a really toxic white paper, but they are from Reddit so what did you expect?

I'd only somewhat agree "hostility towards immigration" is not "discrimination"

It's worded in that toxic Reddit way to cause conversations like these, it's imprecise what they mean with "hostility" but that's the authors Reddit world to enrage and be enraged.

The author is not a Moderator from my reading. It'd be interesting if a AskHistorians moderator would write a proper paper and how it would sound.
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> Being poor or sick in Latin America or Africa sucks.

Speaking of the US, being poor and sick here also sucks but differently. You won't die of malaria. Instead, you will spend the rest of your days scraping pennies to pay for an outrageous medical bill because you don't belong to the class of people with good employer-provided health insurance.

Good roads and cars exist in Latin America and Africa as well of course.
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Corollary law: once a good enough product is released in a consumer categoryfor free, nobody will ever want to pay for anything in that category again, even if they could easily afford it :)
I was thinking more of the corner store, with tons of inventory that make up a large part of their value.

But relatively it probably applies to bigger manufacturing companies as well. Hell, it probably applies to Amazon (the retailer, not AWS).
I think you're conflating right and left with authoritarianism / anarchism.
Anarchism can be left wing (anarcho-syndacalism) or right wing (anarcho-capitalism).
And capitalism is not the opposite of anarchy, capitalism is definitely a form of anarchy.

Capitalism can be defined as `an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit`.
Capitalism and free markets can't work if a strong government keep interfering, disrupting supply and demand and stealing profits - which is clearly visible in all the economic crisis we've seen in our recent history.

The opposite of anarchism is authoritarianism, which can be left wing (socialism or communism with publicly owned goods) or right wing (fascism, nazism - which comes from national socialism).

Now, large corporations benefits greatly from authoritarianism, because a strong central government is a single point of failure that can be lobbied and corrupted.
Why do you think middle class individuals pay half of their paychecks in taxes while big corporations pay nothing with fiscal loopholes?
Therefore, I think it's rational to assume that the environment in a large corporation is going to be leaning towards authoritarianism and promoting authoritarianism.
You can also add the fact that universities are increasingly left leaning and people in large corporations (and big tech in particular) tend to have higher level of education.
Of course, it's not great PR for the companies and it's not an easy sell on people, so they will need to masquerade their authoritarianism by saying appealing to people's emotions and saying that taxes need to be paid to "redistribute wealth to poor people" or to "protect our country from $external_threat".
The two party system serves as a way to illude people they have a choice and so that they can blame bad things on the other party.
Those of us who are lead on by nurturing emotions or economically comfortable enough to donate money will lean towards Democrats and believing the victimhood of minorities. Those of us who are poor or wants a smaller state will edge towards Republicans. The percentage of libertarians is so small, it's not even funny.
In reality, both Republicans and Democrats just kept increasing their spending and their power - and there is no sign of stopping. The USA are the largest employer in the world.

Because of these factors, I believe people and articles from large corporations will tend to have a left-leaning bias, which fits perfectly well with this left leaning article and it's not its opposite.

Ultimately, I agree with your analysis of the labour party: I can't think of any "left wing" party in the western world which is left wing economically - and this is because socialism has been proven not too work over and over.
The only meaningful difference between left wing and right wing parties nowadays is in the direction in which they edge (more taxes / less taxes) and where they stand on personal freedom issues (freedom of speech, gay marriage, etc).
> Staff recruitment and retention roles.

The irony being that they themselves were made redundant.

How will they possibly keep all the other staff now??
The bigshits need to stop paying themselves ridiculous salaries.
YouTube's persistent flaws make it a hard app to love
For the curious, this guide uses Ruby as the building language.
Atwood's Law 2.0 should probably be about WASM
The phrase makes sense given the surrounding context, so that is what it means. Language does not have concrete factual statements like that.
Hence the success of SaaS and monthly fees.
Do you believe Google when they say 'We do not sell personal information to anyone?'
That’s only an issue for a public company.
It sounds like you're not familiar with what Word's traditional strength over other word processors was, even back in the DOS version days: support for semantically meaningful structured documents + stylesheets to attach to those structures.

It's a big deal. I live in emacs for most of my writing and notetaking, but I love using Word to create structured documents for clients (e.g., implementation guidelines, etc) because it's easy and works very very well, and I don't have a weird toolchain on the back end of the process to produce something they can easily consume.

The tl;dr here is that it is incorrect to say that Word is a WYSIWYG editor only necessarily and only capable of unstructured work. Sure, lots of people only ever use it that way, but it has strong support for document structure and intelligent styling (to say nothing of internal change tracking), and this is what makes it a good (and popular!) choice for large-scale document work.
The Pygmalion effect and your internet shadow
If the UK allowed its citizens to bear arms, then the headline could be American Guns are Reducing UK Crime...
Oh god. The guy studied liberal arts and theology and he's doing top notch work in his published computer related works. I have met engineers with master degrees who could not write a report succintgly to explain what the hell they build. Keep up the good work Jeff. You are No1 in relation to many other so called expert "engineers" out there.
The "methodology" of bow-tie is that the diagrams are used to identify controls and show how they map on to hazards (often one control is applicable to several hazards). Once you have this mapping you can demonstrate that you have sufficient controls for the various risks, make trade-offs between controls, identify nugatory controls etc. And finally you can track the controls as requirements for the system to make sure that they all get implemented.

Its true that the diagram on its own is not a method, but once you have the diagram the rest of the method is pretty straightforward. The great thing about bow tie diagrams is that they capture the information you need for a high-level safety analysis without getting bogged down in the details.

Bow tie diagrams are also excellent for stakeholder communication. They are simple, intuitive, and don't require any training (imagine presenting a UML state chart to non-technical audience).

Product plug:

The Diametric Safety Case Manager does bow-tie diagrams, amongst other things. The diagrams are part of a model, so the tables of controls, hazards etc can be extracted from the model rather than maintained separately (i.e. the Don't Repeat Yourself principle).

See https://diametricsoftware.com
It doesn’t have to be 100% effective for it to end the pandemic - it just has to be effective enough that it blocks most transmissions and gets the viruses reproduction rate under 1.
Hi, I'm the one who wrote the blog post. Thanks for commenting. Sunlight is important. There are a lot of things that are also important that aren't in the blog, simply because I couldn't cover all of them and keep the post to a manageable size. I like reading these comments to find out what people want to know, though, and what I should cover in the next post. Sunlight will be addressed.
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For repro:

git log --oneline --pretty=format:'%ae' |sort |uniq |wc -l

Add `grep mozilla` to filter for Mozilla emails.
This highlights our inability as a society to properly value things. Things like education, the environment, mental health, and just creating a place that does right by as many people as possible are improperly weighted. I'm not saying it's easy to put proper valuations on any of this, but it's easy to do a lot better than we - at least in the US - are.
I'm totally looking forward to that then! :)
That logo was launched 3 years ago
Say more about what you can't seem to find here. The idea that Word is not a serious tool, or is not suitable for anything longer than a letter, is just laughably false given how widely used it is in pursuits orders of magnitude more complex than a letter to your Aunt Millie.

I'm being a LITTLE snarky, but I also am genuinely offering to help, if you want it.
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No, they should not. Nobody should ever drown.
The author is a saint. This made my day.
Heh, they almost immediately say most of the guns come from the E.U.

Why don’t we just ban gangs?
> Time will tell

Agree time will tell at present Rust is like other niche systems programming language competing with others like Nim and Zig bit more popular due to Firefox being popular. Nowhere close to Go or Swift, may be in 5 years might have something substantial by Amazon and Microsoft available in open source.

> Go has much bigger backing

Go is popular because it’s easy, simple, performant with opinionated design and similar to Python controlled heavily by its creator. It gets the job done and it’s syntax can fit in brain, without fighting the language itself.

It has very good standard library.

It is adopted more outside of Google than inside.

Simplicity is easier said than done and Go language did it quite well. It’s like Apple devices and OS beautiful and simple, which works but some just hate it.

Rust doesn’t aim to be simple and easy, as it makes people in Rust community feel superior to other programmers by virtue of showing it as complex and difficult.

You can see example of this in this thread any comments critical of Rust pointing its shortcomings is downvoted because it’s difficult to digest how the best and safe language for systems programming can have any shortcomings.

I don’t mind working in Rust (indeed tried some simple examples and didn’t find any feature special what I can’t do in other languages including safety). I also learned Haskell (which is more complex than Rust) and Lisp (like it more because of its simplicity).
Fair points.

Although this does open another hole for companies like Amazon/Google to, for example, repackage Redis as their "product" and sell it too.

But as you said, these are different discussions altogether :)
I was referring to GP, who said

>It's nice to see Tesla and Spacex changing global transportation
How am I "empowered" on the Internet? If I do not use Mozilla products, am I powerless when I use the Internet? Are all Apple iPhone users powerless?

Can I no longer "shape my own experience" if I use an iPhone with Safari?

If I use Mozilla products, do I get given richer webpages where my experience is modifiable by me? If not, how do I "shape" my experience??

The mission statement is vague, which seems to have translated into liberal spending.
This has been my strategy with some caked on foods but not always an option in the heat of the moment.

An ideal dishwasher would let you load it up over a day or too, and keep the dishes moist but intermittently misting them. Probably terrible for mold and mildew however.
> we live in the reality of disparate functionality paired with an ever-changing technical landscape

It is the responsibility of tech leaders to minimize this (accurate) stereotype. Choose boring technology, and only build your own or choose something exotic when it gives you competitive advantage - because the reality I also see is that 99% of devs aren't working on anything new or unseen in the field. Even at the FAMANG companies, most people I know are working on boring problems.

So when your CTO or architect or whomever buys into the hype for X technology, make a good argument against it by proposing a better solution.
I sense some notes of disagreement with calling the Tesla CEO "a loony"
Fair enough, of course any vaccine that does get distributed to billions of people should be tested very, very carefully. Chances are the first option might not be the best one (see the vaccine that's being rolled out in Russia).

But the article is talking about the logistics of distributing an effective vaccine, once it's found, not distributing the first best thing someone happens to come up with. It seems pretty likely that at some point a safe and effective vaccine will be found. Should that vaccine not be distributed widely?
Well money is a requirement to live, and if you can do what you enjoy and get paid the money you need to live doing it, what's the problem?
I've been preaching this to all my non-coder creative marketing type buddies who have ideas all the time and think they can just whip up a product using all the latest and greatest no-code tooling.

They are destined for failure.
Since the last few layoffs and similar events, many people have told that Mozilla has become a suits’ company.

Wherever these management types continue to fuckup company for their lavish lifestyle, such things happen.
“Llama inspired design” is quite amazing for being a conscious design choice. It does look like a llama, but is that a good thing?

Are llamas in the UX toolkit as an animal that is both semi-exotic yet familiar enough to elicit positive reactions.

I encountered a bunch on Peru trails and they were pretty ornery (compared to yaks or sheep) and the 30 or so different Quechua locals I talked with said they were pretty bad as pack animals. So they seemed pretty normal to me and not really some cool animal.
Out of the question. Firefox is not Opera. It's Free* and Open Source software, and that's central to its appeal. You can't treat it as a paid-for proprietary software product.

* Hopefully this doesn't need to be said, but Free in this context refers to software freedom, not to price.
Engg Manager want to get into IC role
Dear Friends,
I am a Sr. Engg manager at one of the publicly traded companies. With recent changes, things have changed and the product I was leading has been put to cold storage. There has been high attrition too because of these above pay scale decisions. I have been trying to look for new opportunities in the same tech stack / domain but it seems I am lacking things that the companies in the same domain need.
My tech stack have been around scala / spark. But I have not been into coding a lot during the recent times. It has mostly been on process/ development management / team management.

I have also been through few interviews. But here the experience has been poles apart. Some companies are asking me to come up with a scalable design to a problem statement, while other companies are asking me very deep into people management skills.
Question to the community :
What is it that the hiring managers are looking for in today's scheme of Engg Mamanger requirements?
Is it a wise decision to get into an IC role at this point of career. If yes, what are some things that the community would suggest?
There is a hard plateau on how much you can make as an employee though. If you can build something and own the business, it's unlimited.
Psychologically it is, because it says you can’t build generational wealth for the children the government authorized you to produce.
> I think this was an intentional release of data, an orchestrated event.

Maybe maybe not, but it can also be that you are a "opinion magnet" ;) See that's the fun in politics, agencies, diplomats and game of thrones, you can play mind/war-games. But often Secret services work much leaner and cleaner than you probably think, first you don't need complicated stuff to find a 'secret' and second, the more complicated the more errors can happen.
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My only problem with Pages is that I can’t figure out how to replace the text in templates without obliterating it completely. Otherwise it’s a good Word replacement.
Thanks for that contribution, Steve
> fork Chromium, create the gold standard privacy-focused Chromium variant

There are already projects that do this.
Kubernetes directly addresses some of your original complaints with those abstractions, they exist for good reasons
Git alias is bittersweet to me, much the same as various GUIs on top of VCS, like magit in Emacs etc. They give you a simplified interface to a subset of the functionality. But when you need to escape out of that, suddenly you need to use the full complex solution, and without the constant training of using the 'real deal'. I see git aliases in the same category. Gitoxide sounds a lot more complete.

Furthermore, git aliases work on your machine. Then you ssh to a server and suddenly `git please-do-my-command-without-many-weird-options` don't work. Yes you can sync them, but not super-easily. Whereas a complete tool you can just distribute onto the machines you work on. Not entirely different, but not the same either.
> All it took was one person willing to burn their career to provide the proof.

So many of the below posts are about all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories (most of them vastly overreach the competence of the USA), but this part hits the nail.

USA's problem is the culture. The idea that if each person pursues their own self-interest it will amount, in aggregate, to the best possible outcome - this is totally flawed.

Your individualism leads not to "freedom" but to accountants who help companies dodge (not avoid) tax, to politicians who don't speak up because it will damage their career, to bankers who extend credit when they know it's unsustainable in pursuit of their bonus, to news anchors who hold their tongue to avoid upsetting sponsors, on and on.

Just reading the biography of Washington right now. I doubt he'd have taken one bullet in the hat for you guys if he could see you now. Snowden is his heir, the rest are not.

Your problem is cultural. That's a big problem. It won't be addressed as the first hurdle is jingoism. Anyone attempting to converse is labelled an anti-American, even though the current America isn't American.
Thanks for making this, I had the horrifying idea that Mozilla had their engineers make this prior to the layoffs.
Wait, wasn't Knuth that said that premature optimizations are the root of all evil?
Ironically, this is the sort of probability theory Nassim Taleb hates. :-)
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There’s a Beat The Clock aspect—

In seconds you must determine if this person is Hot or Not.

Meaning, can they demonstrate in their application they have the desired skills/experience/other strengths, etc...

Essentially, are they within range of someone I want to spend time interviewing.

I know that GOOD People only pop up their heads up for opportunity occasionally. They will have options in short order. So I must act quickly.

Additionally, I’m competing with other noise in my world. Constant demands for my time. Including, the COVID-19 craziness. Wifey is working at home and I’ve got school age kiddos. Focused Work time blocks are at a premium.

Location not so important. My chief criteria— is the candidate accessible and responsive.

I’ve found Top Performers in Mendoza, Tulsa, Kiev, and Melbourne. All of them World Class Pros!
> Firefox send. Great convenience feature. Trivial to integrate to other browsers. Currently "unavailable while we work on product improvements." WTF?

"In light of recent reports of Firefox Send being used to distribute malware we have decided to temporarily take the service offline to implement new features..." https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...

What do you mean by "integrate to other browsers"? Firefox Send is a website.
Because getting paid to do good work is a pretty rad idea?
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You are shocked that a non-profit competiting with $100Billion+ corporations, whose mission statement is "people over profit", hasn't been able to build an endowment? And that's the fault of Mozilla, not the billionaire techies who'd rather buy advertising on buildings on college campuses?
Maybe if you don't cause any collateral damage, you might have a low chance of conviction by a jury because the victim is highly non-sympathetic. (I'm not a lawyer. This is NOT LEGAL ADVICE.) That doesn't mean you won't get charged and incur a ton of legal costs if you pursue a jury trial rather than settling.

Always remember that U.S. courts are courts of law, not courts of justice. That's usually a good thing (less left to interpretation), but it does have downsides.