skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would I be right in guessing that most of your experience with dynamic languages comes from Python?

1) Modern JITed JS is fast. It's closer to Java than it is to what we typically think of as "interpreted languages".

2) "something like their intended versions to be present in the right locations on disk"; Node packages really just depend on the user having a new-enough install of Node and NPM, somewhere in the path. Any dependencies that live on npm will install to the local directory to ensure against conflicts or permissions issues. The only exception I can think of is that occasionally (looking at you, node-sass) npm dependencies will have to do a native build of something and require a local C/++ compiler somewhere in the path. This is pretty rare in my experience, and isn't a super brittle dependency anyway.

3) "if you're say writing JavaScript targeting ES5 but your tools are targeting ES2020 or vice versa, there can be painful yak shaving sessions getting everything on the same page"; this really doesn't happen in any distributed NPM dependencies I've worked with. The great majority are written for the least-common-denominator of environments; if they use ES2020 internally, they'll do their own transpilation step to make sure you can use them in older environments. Also, "or vice versa" really doesn't apply because all ES versions are 100% backwards-compatible. You just need a Node version new enough to cover the newest features that any of your code or dependencies is using. Dependencies will be as compatible as they can be; your own code is under your control. Virtually never an issue.
It's also possible that the distribution is different.

i.e there are more men who are total geniuses at one end and total dumbasses at the other but the average would be the same.

https://qz.com/441905/men-are-both-dumber-and-smarter-than-w...

No idea if it's true though - not my field and not an expert.
A few years ago, we did a team-building trip to a glass blowing place in San Francisco (Public Glass?) and it was a lot of fun to make some glassware. I recommend it if you have the chance. We got to do hands-on stuff, although of course the instructors were doing the skilled work. The class gave me a lot more appreciation for how glass objects are created.
when you face extermination and terrorism maybe you will understand how the world works and what needs to be done to survive.
peace sometimes comes from understanding of others strength.
I think the original wording suggested he accepted it since it's going to be done anyway. I actually think he's right, see Reddit
Pizza Tycoon is a game in Roblox, how could my kids find it preferable to Roblox? Sorry, I still don't understand what you mean.

I'm sharing something that worked for us, which seems relevant when the thread is full of parents complaining about how Roblox is full of "pay to win" scams. I did not run a scientific study, my sample size is 2. Why are you even assuming that I think my anecdote is generally applicable? I suggested no such thing.
I think the answer lies in the fact that in countries like Tunisia for example, women represent over 60% of people working in STEM. Why? Because STEM jobs are the highest paying jobs. So from my perspective, the lack of women in STEM in the U.S. is not an issue but a symptom of a strong economy, as in you don't have to decipher someone's spaghetti code for a living, you can pay the bills doing other things that you are more passionate about.
Yes, a software development company could easily afford the fee. This misses the point. When we talk about the cost of paywalling standards documents, that's not what we mean.

What about the paperwork and hassle of getting your employer to pay up? Even if the company could easily afford it, this is still a real barrier.

What about students, hobbyists, and FOSS volunteers? Why should they be barred from access to the documents?

> It's almost like complaining that electricity and laptops are not free.

That's completely disanalogous.

The ISO organization occasionally makes standards documents available free of charge, e.g. obsolete versions of the Ada programming language standard. Is that comparable to them handing out free laptops?

> I would much rather like to hear if the value that ISO produces is proportional to what they charge.

It's about the chilling effect, it's not about value for money.

> are the incentives properly aligned by charging a fee?

Of course not. As Tim Sweeney said, The value of standards is in their adoption. [0] When standards bodies are deliberately introducing obstacles to accessing their standards documents, the incentives are clearly not aligned.

A standards body should be incentivized to make the standards as widely adopted as possible. An obvious precondition of this is to make them as widely available as possible, yet ISO's MO is to block access to standards documents until payment is made.

Another problem is when laws reference such standards. It should not be permitted for laws to reference any document which is not in the public domain, but apparently that's not how things work; standard bodies are empowered to paywall part of a nation's laws. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390040

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390279
Lets look at the compSci major at UC berkely, then, where only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). That is a striking difference to me.

1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...
Girls get higher grades (perhaps due to higher conscientiousness), but do not do better in standardized tests.
It should be forbidden because it makes people work illegally (because of a lack of contract and pay). In France a restaurant was fined by the work inspection because they asked their customers to give plates back. Using the same logic and existing laws, a shop shouldn’t be allowed to make its customers work for it.
They might be high maintenance but maybe they remember the last engineers that stayed behind at a SpaceX outpost...

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-rocket-engineers-isla...
I don't know if this is a good faith question, but the big obvious reason you've omitted is that women frequently drop out of the work force (or shift to part-time work) because they want to be directly involved in raising their children.
I would say "not throwing away money" is a good start.

Seriously, if you don't have some kind of exquisite knowledge playing on Forex is basically the same as gambling.

If you read any stories about people who got wealthy, making good use of your money, time and focus is a constant theme.
Hard to live up to the expectation of being a good mother and spending months on an oil rig at the same time.
Define “naturally”.
These are exaggerated lies, save the conspiracies for Reddit, not here.
There are other familial factors that are often at play. For example, many choose to delay their careers in lieu of raising children. Not all women make this decision, but a sizable number do.

That said, there is likely no single cause for the disparity, there are likely many factors at play at the same time.
I’m a little surprised they would choose to advertise the fact that they’ve been able to gain access to this traffic.

Surely disclosing that will just have driven the same users to other apps and they’ll have to start from scratch (and presumably get lucky again in the future)?
Kill it. It's gone now. So what happens next? Ethereum will be #1. I guess you want to take it down too. It will be tougher job since all those smart contracts are not just "dumb coin money" anymore, but let's say you succeed with that too.

What's next? Start a global brainwashing program to erase the idea of a decentralized network from the mind of people? It will only create a situation like we see with the war on drugs. Drugs won, at least we should learn from it. BTC might be a financial drug, but declaring war on it is equally pointless.

Point is, it might be possible to kill BTC, but the core ideas are here to stay with us on the long run. The genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back.
I agree. But if we steel-man this,it could make sense for services that can be replaced by libraries. So simple services that could be replaced by a slim library on the user's machine.
Depends on how you define top tier jobs.

They are solidly in the majority of students in medicine, law, accounting, etc.
I'd like to propose a new law of the internet: Anti-Zionists cannot see a post about Israel without making a comment about the Palestinians. Weren't we talking about land area?
> Final design should be the same no matter what was the order of implementing requirements

-- good one!
Can you please comment a bit about why you think OpenBSD is impractical as a desktop OS?
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A suggestion from the article:

> What is behind this discrimination? One possibility is that teachers mark up students who are polite, eager and stay out of fights, all attributes that are more common among girls. In some countries, academic points can even be docked for bad behaviour. Another is that women, who make up eight out of ten primary-school teachers and nearly seven in ten lower-secondary teachers, favour their own sex, just as male bosses have been shown to favour male underlings. In a few places sexism is enshrined in law: Singapore still canes boys, while sparing girls the rod.
I guess it also has to do with the fact that this is a relatively recent change. Probably we'll see the effects of this in future generations of industry demographics, for now though the research and statistics are pretty clear in that women are underrepresented in STEM across the board; but this is something changing rapidly, especially in tech.
Perhaps a fourth explanation... The vast majority of teachers are female, so maybe their teaching methods are favorable to girls
The chinese people that build products are not the ones with the concentration camps. Pressure has to be on the top of the political spectrum, not on the regular chinese citizen.
lower testosterone is beneficial

- less sexual ruminations

- emotional intelligence and organization

- cooperation over leadership

- retains better short and long term memories

- female adult role model is more likely to be available and present

Unfortunately HN is dominated by testosterone driven gender so its impossible to have any sort of civilized discussions about this.
This article actually makes a good point, which I think many bitcoiners ignore, which is that governments have a big ability to seize hashrate and use it against the network. I have some criticism about the piece though.

The article plays it a bit fast and loose with which sets of countries need to cooperate to bring bitcoin down. It lists "everyone from the G20 and beyond" as an example of an international coalition wanting to bring down Bitcoin. But it then admits

>>> Plus we’re mostly talking about China and the CCP here, since that’s where the majority of mining activity is, so, yeah.

But later says

>>> Overall, you successfully seize 80% of the global Bitcoin hash rate and all the best mining locations, and it’s now under your control to do with as you please.

But the first quote shows what the problem is with framing this as an action of an international coalition: China really controls 80% of the global hashrate, so even if every other country were on board, it is really up to China whether the network gets destroyed.
Whatever the results say, women are discriminated and they need a pay rise and more acknowledgement. Data will say whatever we tell them.
Top tier jobs are subjective. Women have less interest in engineering.
Or possibly, academia and the general workforce optimize for different things not included in your list?

Does anyone here think their academic experience was a direct analog for their workforce experience?
> women have no interest in money, academic skills have no bearing in getting high paying jobs

Correct. I've yet to impress with my math skills, just saying.
Because diamonds are an exclusively luxury item that people can easily forego, and China is a whole country with a massive industrial base that makes a wide variety of products for cheap.

If you have $10, you're more likely to buy a $2 item than a $5 one because 20% of your budget is easier to justify than 50%.
Women face a tradeoff in their relation to their careers and pregnancies that men do not.

Even in the countries where child bearing is highly protected in the workplace i would suppose this can explain at a significant chunk of the gap.
Because they make up a high percentage of the graduating classes in CS programs (1). However, note how whites only make up 16% of the graduating class at UC berkely, yet many FANG companies are ~50% white (2). Whites are overrepresented at the expense of other groups.

1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...
or this is the cumulative effect of systematic discrimination for decades and centuries.
Great, agree to disagree.
Because their CEOs are not messianic figures with a legion of on-line fans who will rush to their defense at the first hint of criticism.
>Because women naturally list towards jobs that pay less,

Couldn't one then also argue that jobs women list towards get paid less? E.g. instead of asking why women gravitate to those jobs that are paid less, ask why the jobs women gravitate towards are paid less.
Or, people pursue their passions as young people without much regard for what a professional career would look like.

I fiddled with programming and computers as a young teen because I found it interesting, not because I thought I could eventually make money with it. My good friend wrote fantasy stories all the time, because that was her interest.

20 years later, I can retire whenever I want because of the choices I made as a nerdy 13 year old, whereas my friend is getting paid $40k/yr editing a small newspaper.
What would happen if they took your stuff and fire you after 2 weeks? E.g., they do not sound like they are paying at all for your assets - what are they paying for? Employing you as an engineer? The niche product you are offering? What you describe raises so many questionmarks and red flags tbh.
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Having Babies. Really, being a mother is what skews most stats about women on money issues.

There has been policymaking about this in a bunch of european countries, and if they are released from financial constrains (handouts, public housing, whatever) they seem to double down on it.

Let's face it, working, for most people, is something you do out of necessity. Why do we really expect women to have a similar behaviour of men about work, when they have a socially aceptable and now economical venue to avoid it.

There's probably a small percentage of men that find their work interesting. Even smaller for all their work life.

Edit: Please, yeah, I know that raising children is work, pardon my lightly written comment.
Keep in mind the Union and Company enter a contract. The Union can’t just enact any policy they want.

With that said, I imagine a “no robot” policy would be a non-starter for Amazon to enter into such a contract
> Both on the left and the right of US politics there has been fault found with China. I'm kinda surprised that no large brands have highlighted "No Chinese-made components" on their products. We embrace "blood-free" diamonds, why not Chinese-free merchandise for similar reasons?

My guess is US corporations are too entangled with China, and it is too powerful and willing to retaliate. I wouldn't be surprised if a brand that did what you suggest would immediately be accused of "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people," and have its supply chains and markets disrupted.
Most of my money is attributable to my negotiation skills and assertiveness, rather than my programming skill that I bent over backwards to develop.
If I take a drive on a highway in the Tesla and the signs says 80 the car won't just decide to suddenly go 125 just because it feels like having some fun. You speed, your car doesn't, unless it is faulty.

Tesla's aren't self driving no matter how many times Elon says so. It's not even the best in most tests in being a driver assistance..

Being a fan of a car and not being able to see it's faults isn't healthy.
By not using Amazon, tbh.
That might make some consumers feel a bit better but in the end it won't change anything.

It's a political problem which can only be solved at the state level.
The proverbial ship had sailed on this one. Factlet would be a conspicuous alternative.

Favor the meaning people actually use and let the history of factoid be an interesting factoid.
Anyone with young boys and girls will notice that girls are much more likely to obey rules and instructions. A lot of doing well in school is about following rules and instructions, and it seems pretty natural that girls will do better.

Also, most teachers are women. I haven't checked, but I'd assume most school administrators are women. It seems natural that they'd construct a system that's more suited for females than males.
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I don’t know how true this is, but one thing I’ve seen referenced a few times is that students perform better under teachers of their gender, especially at younger ages. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the same applies for employee performance in the workplace.

If that were true, given that K-12 teachers are overwhelmingly female, then you would expect females to do better in school. Conversely I believe managerial jobs skew male, which you would expect to benefit the performance of males in such workplaces.

Again I don’t have a study handy so I’m not sure how empirical that is, it may just be conjecture.
You have to frame it relative to the pipeline to see how overt this bias is. In the CompSci major at UC berkely, for example, only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). That is striking to me.

1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...
You don't know me. And I don't know you.

But "We face extermination therefore we should be able to get rich by selling our (cyber)weapons to despots who in turn use it against their own citizens" doesn't sound like a winning argument.
This title seems click baity we should be asking the question as to why our system allows one gender to outperform the other. Not blanket statements of correlation == causation.

Something is clearly wrong with our system which is resulting in one gender receiving more support. The distribution curve should mostly be equal, yes we are different gender wise. But for large majority of people our brains function mostly the same (it’s not like girls are a different species than boys).
Here are some notes on the paper's authenticity (in German): https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9ec00c82

Amusingly, at the bottom of the page, it states “Proudly made without PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres”.
I find it curious when people agree that X doesn't matter, but then they go about and compare outcomes based on X

in this case X=sex but it could be race, age, etc.
Haha - based on all your comments, you seem to the saltiest of the lot.

Also, it doesn't matter what the founders intended. What matters is how it is being used.
And yet this the first time a woman has become Veep.
I did a glass blowing thing for a corporate off-site in Half Moon Bay. A skilled artisan helps you make a glass pumpkin, takes a few hours, lots of fun.

The experience is kind of on rails, the artisan/instructor will keep you on track so it's pretty hard to mess up, but also make it feel like you're doing the work. Everyone ended up with a nice pumpkin.
I don't think those are what the parent was referring to as 'top tier'. Those pay well, but in both cases they are highly paid because of risk and life disruption (having to spend extended time away from home on rigs). It's my understanding that men are naturally less risk-averse, so the gender differences there seem natural to me.

I'm betting they meant CEO positions, board positions, and high ranking corporate officers.
Actually the remark is very good imho. Thinking through those scenarios is really important when you are in that honeymoon stage.
“Lawyer up an whatnot” - no offense, but do you honestly believe that this will be “fair game” and they didn’t cover their a*?
This is anecdotal but I'm sure many people are seen this increasingly. In the past 10 years on the job, I'm seeing more guys make jokes about how stupid they are. Every time they make a single mistake they say "oh my God, if my head wasn't attached to my shoulders..."

Then it becomes a competition of who has done the dumbest thing. I know it's just being playful, but you rarely see the opposite.

Turn the tables, I was in a meeting with a male and female coworker. The guy was saying how stupid he was, and the female stopped him and said: You shouldn't say that about yourself, in a serious tone.

I don't ever remember a girl telling me how dumb she is.
I don't understand why people ignore the role children play in the life ambitions of women.
In part, because salary has to do with agreeableness and many cultures have stupid expectations for women such as them expected to be more agreeable.

Also, the likelihood of career advancement is lower for people perceived as being more neurotic, and many cultures have stereotypes consisting of women being more neurotic than men.
Report rehashes boring Zenz talking points, nothing original.

Most interesting tidbit.

Newlines is funded by FairfaxU of Virginia, a private school with ~150 students and ~60 staff (read: there's external funding). Newlines Institute is also rebrand Center for Global Policy (CGP), tradename for International Institute of Islamic Thought... linked to the Muslim Brotherhood [0]. And owned by Mar-Jac, a front for SAAR Foundation, a massive source of funding of extreme terrorism whose US proxies were heavily investigated post 911, including IIIT with a couple prosecutions. Hence the rebranding. Most of their US proxies are located in Virginia, a recent of Mar-Jac investments in private schools was linked to Turkish Gulenist, which Gulf council countries has designated as terrorists... including Saudi. So the most interesting extrapolation for me is that some wealthy Saudi group(s) is interested in pushing genocide narrative via US proxies despite Saudi support for China at UN and MbS purging major funders of terrorist groups. Western MSM is whitewashing this as "Independent DC think tank". Real question is if this is Muslim extremist groups pursing their own interests through obfuscation or if they're coordinating with US intelligence, it's Virginia after all. US was willing to delist Uyghur terrorist groups, they're willing to work with OG Al Qaeda funders to destabilize.

MSM is currently using "Independent DC think tank" label for front funded by the same groups that was responsible for Al Qaeda. Desperate times for propaganda.

[0] https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/11/12/new-musli...
Meaning on average, most women list towards them. There are large differences between genders in terms of career motivations, interests etc. Proven in many studies repeatedly.