skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or... we could look at data? No?

LAUSD: ~4.5:1 in elementary school, ~1:1 in secondary, ~4:1 in special ed[1]

Across all CA public schools: ~2.5:1 [2]

Across the US: 3:1 [3]

So, more women? Yes. 20:1? Wild outlier.

So, what about the claim that it's more women, somehow building a system more friendly to girls? Turns out the data says "not so much" there, too. Principals are roughly 1:1[4]

[1] https://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/doma...
[2] https://www.ed-data.org/state/CA
[3] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_clr.asp
[4] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cls.asp#:~:text=I....
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I think the best situation would be to mostly separate boys and girls in classes. We could then do things for boys that are generally better for boys and do things for girls that are generally better for girls. There probably should be co-ed schools so boys and girls can still socialize during lunch and other breaks, just not during classes.
It's not a bad idea to focus on renewables. But the budget is merely limited by full employment.

Think of it this way. If unemployment/underemployment is high then it's like having random people sitting in a bar doing nothing. A government official comes to the bar and sees people doing nothing and tells then what to do. What's being lost by telling these people to do something? The biggest loss is that these people could have done something even better than what the government came up with, however they are in a bar doing nothing, clearly nobody needs them right now.

The question is, does the nuclear industry actually generate jobs that would lower unemployment? Is the type of person that is qualified to work on a nuclear reactor unemployed? I am leaning toward no, I simply cannot imagine the highly vocal trump supporter base being filled with academics in hard sciences. If we are going to do a nuclear jobs program it might backfire because it fails to employ the right people.
I play Roblox with my son and his friends a lot. Some kids use how much Robux you have as a status thing, but I've been surprised how little griefing and bullying I've seen. I do get called "bacon hair" because my avatar has the default skin (which has hair that looks like strips of bacon).
Thanks you Petercooper. Are you the one that run Ruby Weekly? If so, thanks for your work all these year.
We are sort of communicating. I _am_ the OP. And I only meant it as "I don't trust Google."

I'll let you decide if that implication is unsubstantiated or not.
an admittedly silly pet peeve of mine are people who block flow on escalators, because i walk them to get somewhere faster (usually by getting in front of the standers who tend to be less focused).
Right, this is effectively an updated version of pingbacks (pingbacks from ca. 2000, webmention from ca. 2010). See last month's HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258557
Unfortunately this article provides almost no substance on blockchain or it's related technology. HN does not seem to mind as long as it is even remotely critical of anything crypto-related.

It would be nice to discuss the actual implications of the technology, critical or not, without such strong opinions interfering.
It would be cool if you could put a license for this!
As a counter, this article (https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/what-...) says aim for 95% renewables requires battery costs of $150/kWh.
Did you click something else that requires being logged in, like "reply" or the upvote arrow (among other things)?
Blender - https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/
> But as long as "3 months js bootcamp grad" can advertise himself as a software engineer just as much as a guy from Stanford CS then we'll keep having these interviews.

The fact that a bootcamp grad can compete for the same software engineering jobs as a Stanford CS grad is one of the very best parts of the hiring process in our industry. Are you proposing that we start using credentials as gatekeeping?
I don't think this is a great approach. The main issue I see is that you need to decide if your message is a "chat" or a "post" when you send it. I don't think you will get a group of people to use it consistently, and I think it is often impossible to judge what type of conversation your message will spawn ahead of time. I think the better approach is to base the UI on how people respond, rather than having the sender select from the two interfaces up-front.
The website isn't very clear to in some ways. Is this a set of tools? A protocol? How does it differ from the "regular web"?
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Who knew "own nothing and be happy" involved crushing rental fees to wall street.
Maybe I’m not enough in the details but I thought Bounds Checker did most of this 20 years ago?
Yes that is the point, it's basic risk management. Betting the farm on future breakthroughs if you consider climate change to be an existential threat is being on fire and waiting for the fire department because you don't wan't to get your soiled jumping to a pond nearby.

Nuclear is by far the best technology we have today so we should go with it until we have better options in our hand.
I'm curious, how does the Internet Archive handle copyright with all of its services?
I haven't participated in too many FAANG interviews and even with the recruiter handholding it's still super confusing if you're not familiar with the scene:

What difficulty of questions will be asked? Easy? Hard? Do people actually want to "hear the thinking process" or do they just want an optimum answer regurgitated quickly? Do I need to practice "regular" interview questions also ("What's your greatest weakness?")?

All of this with a life-changing, potential millionaire amount of money at stake, which isn't great for the nerves.
SWE's have bargaining power, $100K is their market rate.

Those without any leverage whatsoever, unskilled workers rate will be the 'absolute minimum required to survive'.

Somewhere around $2/hour over the long haul. Millions of people living in tiny, one room apartments, without basic amenities.

We know people will accept this to survive because they do, all around the world.
> and getting more and more tighter.

It seems it's a trend to put more and more laws, red tape and regulations around driving in certain countries, and really around young people in general. All that voted by an aging population (who don't have to submit to the same requirements since their "rights" are grandfathered!) that's increasingly afraid of young people.

That coupled with the out of control unemployment numbers for young adults in the EU and sky high cost of everything makes me wonder what the brain drain situation is in Europe. You meet a lot of young talented and educated Europeans engineers in the Bay Area for instance, are there the same number of Americans ones in Europe?

> Over here, you need a driving instructor in an adapted car (dual controls), and depending on how well you pick it up, spend anywhere between 15 and 50 (or sometimes more) hours practicing driving and traffic rules. There's a written / theoretical exam you have to study for (traffic rules), then a practical exam with an examiner.

> In my case, it cost me about $2500 in lessons to get my driver's license. Then I spent another $1500 or so on top of that to get my motorcycle driver's license, where there's even more emphasis on personal safety and safe driving.

I see how driving schools and bureaucrats in charge of examination might like this guaranteed work. No innovation required, and grandfathered right to licenses issued to older drivers (so good support from an aging population).
Roblox costs less money and those games are actually targetted at kids. Really, new games cost a lot and steam discounts on aggregate cost more.

Plus, competitive online pc gaming is something I dont want my kids near to. Mostly because of culture and addictive nature of it.

Speaking of addiction, worst are MMO like games, things like league of legends or world of warcraft. I dont want my kids to play any of that, these games tend to consume whole person.

Roblox is safe and age appropriate.
You'd be better off not pushing a video of unsourced commentary over clips from Mulan and Captain America.
Why people give a crap what Bill Gates thinks about anything recent is beyond me. Its like the Dave Chapelle Joke about the news station that interviewed Ja Rule after 9/11 to hear what I thought about 9/11. Ive never heard of Bill Gates knowing or contributing anything useful to bitcoin I really dont care what he thinks about that or Corona virus. Oh I actually do care about one single thing only and that is I wonder what he thinks about molesting children and Jefrrey Epstein.
Would you say those same people who just learned the phrase “short” or “short squeeze” are likely the same kind of people going to the casino and thinking they can successfully count cards?

As mentioned elsewhere in here, it’s ultimately gambling. It’s putting money up, exposing it to risk that could completely wipe you out. If someone doesn’t understand that about stock investing, I think they’re very similar to someone not realizing a casino could wipe out your money. But making sure everyone fully understands this - educating people who are risking money - certainly seems like a thoughtful thing for countries to incentivize.

But unless all the financial websites have to be styled to look like a casino, or areas of a physical bank space put up neon lights and blinking signs to emulate Vegas casinos, I don’t know if we can ever drive the point home clearly enough.
Cost of materials (e.g. sand) are going up, plus the "nuclear grade" upcharge. Add a 2x to 4x multiplier for "accidents" that require demolition and rework. :)
Well, it's easier to say when you're doing the one interviewing, right? I think you'd have a different opinion if you were on the other side of the table for those 400 interviews.
Better now? HN's need for extra newlines between bullets always gets me.
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I've been listening to your music all morning as well. Thanks so much for sharing!

Can you say a little about your background as a musician?
Happy to listen to what you need, feel free to shoot me an email.
Previous discussion on HN, "Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258557
> I agree with the articles point, but this introduction, right there, is why it's not happening

The flipside of it is, X open source library existing is why a lot of STARTUPS aren't happening ;)
As a business owner, you only need to claim the review is fraudulant and that will usually get it removed.

In theory a review hoster is supposed to evaluate claims and act on reasonable ones. In practice review hosters are terrified of getting sued and will take down reviews easily.

I suspect most local businesses hire "reputation fixing" firms to actually do this dirty work for them.
Look I loathe autotools as a developer but it has the advantage of being extremely battle-tested and comes with lots of tooling to package it out of the box. In RPM spec files any autotools project can be packaged with more or less a single macro.
Why do you need to use a specific method to solve a problem?

Especially with something broad like algebra, there are often many ways to solve a problem.
Yeah, I think "free to play; pay to enjoy" is a bad model. That's a philosophy embodied in my game downthread.
As long as males have to compete to woo females, the natural order will persist.

Every species on earth shows us this: "males are disposable, females matter". A 1M:100F ratio can revive an extinct species. A 1F:100M ratio is a blood bath. There are zero incentives for powerful men to help underperforming men, while women have neither natural nor sociological pressures stopping them from helping other women.

For better or for worse, we are barreling towards a point where male underachievement won't be ignorable. More than 50% of women will have to 'settle' for a man with worse career prospects. Scarily enough, if women choose to continue acting oblivious while wielding their primary evolutionary bargaining chip (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) to their fullest, then at least a couple of generations of men will waste away before a proper equilibrium is reached.

Ofc, this is a hypothesis that leans too heavily into our animalistic tendencies and their stranglehold over all societal developments. I also don't want this to come off as an MRA rant. Just a few ideas I wanted to put out there.
> Under this (very common) interview system

I have never experienced such an interview, both when I am the interviewer and the interviewee, and I've been thru the entire process at multiple FAANGs. What you describe - literally coding on a whiteboard - is a far cry from whiteboarding a problem in my mind, this is a fair point

> I'm not sure why you seem so dead-set against the idea that performing analytical tasks while being evaluated in real-time would be harder than doing so under normal conditions

The entire interview has this elevated difficulty. You are constantly being judged and evaluated over the course of the interview. I have consistently asked for people to clarify why the Whiteboard part is elevated over any other technical portion in how stressful it is and how much that impacts performance, and I mostly have been attacked with strawmen. I appreciate your good-faith argument here, and certainly agree with you that conducting an entire interview including coding with a pen instead of a keyboard is a braindead practice. I will be more explicit of my assumptions next time as I would not have anticipated entire interviews to be conducted on whiteboards when you are trying to also find people who can code. I would expect what I've seen, which is that you use multiple different evaluation techniques across different scenarios and levels of interactivity and then you evaluate the tradespace, in which the whiteboard & collaborative time gives valuable data on how personality interop would work with your team.
If only Saudi Aramco IPO'd they could have diversified with that capital, now it's the usual business plus some fantasy high tech 'planned city'. Was it all an ambitious failed dream?

Murdering dictatorships seem to have a problem letting go of control. So I'm saying yes, they had the wrong people advising them.

Ignoring the giant elephant that Saudi Arabia didn't even feign "don't be evil", in order to engage in global market capital. Not even temporarily during the IPO, they could have put on their good face to the western world.

Instead the top down crafting this IPO gave the "okay" to murder to WaPo journalist and create a global PR disaster because their feelings got hurt.

Yet as you mention they still need to diversify, eventually. I wonder how it all will turn out looking back in 5-10yrs.
It's doable if you can get OK from every single copyright owner of the source files.

LLVM did it. Switching from "University of Illinois/NCSA" to "APL 2.0".

But not without some big discussions.
Zynga was pretty bad company.
Yes, they have very good intentions right now, but what if the leader gets hit by a bus.
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Forced labor reminds me of Nazi labor programs.

However, I'm surprised that it's not done to expand the military. It's really weird that someone is being forced to work for the sake of the entire planet when every other nation is trying to wiggle itself out of its responsibility.
Good catch, corrected. He was a member of the board of directors for 37 years. I apologize, I'm recalling from his autobiography, which I read about 23 years ago, on loan from a friend.
You should just say that, then. If I don't trust someone, that doesn't mean it's OK to go around and imply that they do some absurd malicious thing I have absolutely no evidence they actually do. It's fine not to trust them. Spreading unsubstantiated rumors and implications is not fine.
And then people act surprised Netflix moved to a thumbs up/down model for this very reason
In the US, https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm shows that female teachers are 98.8% of preschool and kindergarten teachers and 79.6% of elementary and middle school teachers.

If your school had a pretty even mix of male and female teachers then your school was the exception.
I see a lot of people in this thread speaking in generalities or correlations around gender.

Is this OK, or not? I thought it wasn't OK, so I tend to avoid it, even if I think some of it may be true, but isn't stereotyping anyone based on attributes something we are trying NOT to do?
> What difficulty of questions will be asked? Easy? Hard? Do people actually want to "hear the thinking process" or do they just want an optimum answer regurgitated quickly? Do I need to practice "regular" interview questions also ("What's your greatest weakness?")?

Isn't it what they talk about in the outreach session described above?
> Jews seek refuge from Antisemitism in their historic homeland, immediately get attacked by 7 nations. But this is all their fault, of course.

Of course. That's what happens when you unilaterally found a country on someone's else historic homeland and start an apartheid state.

> Right, all these Jews in Israel are using "many dirty tricks". Thanks for demonstrating, once again, that biased attacks against Israel are heavily laced with Antisemitism.

Ah yes, the antisemitism card. Obviously.
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My wife was a teacher and she noted that most over her male colleagues were leaving, especially in on the elementary and middle school level.

Too many assumptions or allegations, plus the perception that guys can't be nurturing.

Most of the men still in education were older and were able to migrate away from day-to-day teaching into admin roles. In 20 years those guys will be gone and there won't be any male teachers to replace them.
The same happened to me. The negative review shows up when i'm signed in but it did not affect the rating (number of stars) of the business.

Basically, it's just me and the owner of the business that sees the review. The negative review I gave the scammy business doesn't show up when I sign out.
I've met people with max competency in 3 separate fields. I've also met people with more competency if you count fields outside of computer science.

I'm not saying they were specialists, I'm saying these people were competent.

Most people are only competent or a specialist in one of these fields.
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Anyone answering this question for you is probably biased in either direction. You should do your own reading and decide for yourself.

Here's a good article from 2018 that gives an argument on the bullish side: https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoi..., and here's a more bearish view: https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid....
That's just not an accurate nor truthful account of what happens in practice.

The example you gave has nothing to do with changing the PoW function to counteract ASICs. Both Bcash and bitcoin classic were forked because of completely different reasons, and had people who believed in those reasons defend the new forks and run the node software etc. For example XMR has been doing ASIC-deterrent forks for years now with great success.
I was completely vegan for a couple of years. I went that way to avoid gallbladder surgery - it worked, I had no gallbladder pain on a vegan diet. I Supplemented with B12 and Vitamin D as those are typically low to non-existent in the vegan diet.

But I started to have problems with my teeth chipping - hadn't had that before. I did some calculations and realized that there was no way I was getting anywhere close to the RDA for calcium. So I started supplementing some calcium.

After some gut problems I came to the conclusion that beans weren't working for me. I needed to quit eating legumes for a while which is highly problematic on a vegan diet as they're the major source of protein.

Now I eat a tin of sardines twice/week (and other fish occasionally) which means that technically I'm not vegan any longer. At least the addition of fish did not cause any gallbladder problems.
So why is it for Youtube content creators ???.

If I make money from using AWS and my server is hosted in the US region will I eventually get a taxbill for providing a service to US customers ???.
This is a fact that it seems impossible to convince people of (though maybe France was successful), so within the constraints of current politics it might as well not be true.
"I do not imply that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. We should claim the right to suppress them if ... they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument." - Karl Popper.

People advocating "deplatforming intolerance", a.k.a. applying censorship, should ponder this quote.
Yeah that makes sense and I agree with the sentiment. But unemployment seems pretty low in the US so it doesn’t seem like there’s enough supply and lack of demand to warrant wages dropping that much. I agree it could drop but was wondering if $2 was just random guess or backed by anything.
The largest problem of nuclear price is the price of construction. Construction doesn’t keep up with efficiency gains in the rest of the economy and as a result gets more and more expensive.
It's about running your own website.
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The problem in the PNW is that these lakes are bad habitat for our native salmon. The more dams we make, the less habitat there is for the salmon. It's not a matter of "oh we just don't like them on principal." Rather, they tore down the dam in Elwha because it eliminated what was previously a thriving spawning ground and replaced it with a silty lake full of invasive species.

Everything is interconnected, and it's a really typical technocratic attitude to say that it's fine in isolation. "Who gives a shit? It's just a bunch of fish." Analytical people eschew context. Analysis is about reducing everything to components. And guess what -- it has led us astray here.

It turns out in the PNW that salmon are a major part of the food chain for a lot of animals, and our hydropower efforts are suppressing that food chain. It's also making it really hard to find enough salmon to fish for ourselves.

You'll see similar problems with the Colorado River. The Hoover Dam has basically destroyed all the downstream ecosystems that relied on the water to create their living conditions. It's an ecological disaster in slow motion.
Can someone explain to me how Roblox doesn't violate Apple's "no app stores in the App Store" rule? And the rule against running non-JavaScript code not bundled with the app? And probably a bunch of other rules too? The article mentions it but has no sensible explanation. It seems impossible to justify.

Apple gets to pick winners and losers by selective enforcement of their own rules. Pretty nice for Roblox if Apple prevents anyone from releasing a competitor!
Education and childcare administrators are 66.5% women in the USA according to https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
It falls a part a bit. You don't need to stake to use a proof of stake system, much like in bitcoin you don't have to mine to use bitcoin.

But generally the bricks you have in play can be lost if the network thinks you are cheating, even lying by omission (downtime) is penalized. So to try to change the blockchain (to allow double spending or zero someone's zccount) or even not to vote for the valid blockchain can be penalized by losing your staked bricks.

Another detail lost on the analogy is people get more bricks, just before being a good network citizen by helping the network and staking your bricks.