skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago (30 years already?) if you shopped at Walmart you would see red, white and blue stickers proudly proclaiming "100% American Made" on items that were just that. If you buy a new car in the US the dealer sticker lists what percentage of the parts in the car are US-made versus imported. Labels that show what percentage of parts come from China could be a powerful marketing tool.
Even if this were true it still wouldn't explain the difference. This could only be the explanation of two conditions are met:

1. Your cited article is correct.

2. The jobs that are "top tier" indeed require this "top tier" level intelligence. This second point would require some pretty extraordinary evidence to prove. Women have representation (only filtering among women under 40) in jobs that require "high intelligence" yet the discrepancy persists.

doctors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-big-number-women-n....

lawyers: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/05/women-lawyers...

(just to use two popular examples. if you extend this out to a lot more professions the pattern persists)

You could be right, but I personally doubt it.
I would agree with this. However Ive seen very assertive women take advantage of that as much as men or even more, and where I work its probably <10% of my co workers of either sex take active roles in “managing” their career as opposed to just showing up and hoping their work gets noticed, or just coasting and enjoying the paycheck they have (while still grumbling about fading benefits, of course)
Why the flood of downvotes? Are the quotes offending people? They are directly from the executive summary of the report
That's interesting. Got a source?
nash equilibrium
This is often forgotten. In aggregate, for every woman persuaded to become a bricklayer instead of a kindergarten teacher, a man must be persuaded to do the reverse. This is just never going to happen across all industries.
I doubt it's "expectations of being a good mother". Countries with the most liberal attitudes toward gender have some of the most extreme occupational gender disparities and vice versa.
I don't if we can conclude that top academic performance directly results in high performers in top tier jobs
That's such a straw man.
You don't have to build a huge commercial industry around the tech we make for our intelligence bureaus.
The Israeli intelligence has become a way for greedy people to become billionaires at the price of killing democracy.

I'm Israeli, and I know a lot of people in this industry.
I know many people like me who actively refuse to work on active offensive cyber solutions because of moral reasons.

OTH I see many greedy people working in NSO and the only thing they think about is money. They don't give a damn about positive or negative consequences of the industry they work in.
Punchline is at ~12:45 for anyone who doesn't want to watch a bunch of stuff about voting.

Basically you can only compare (or add, or subtract) percentages if the quantities they represent are exactly equal. And since the quantities of power production change from year to year, they're doing the same thing he's complaining about.
I think Jordan Peterson is correct on that one: the real question isn't why women don't go after those kinds of jobs, but why anybody is willing to work so hard and to give up so much for incomes that allow a marginally better life (e.g going from 40k a year to 100k a year is a huge improvement, going from 200k to 300k?).

Also, for women anyway, the kind of work it takes to get to the top effectively means they aren't going to be having babies. A man aged 45 can marry a women aged 30 and become a dad - women who marry younger men aren't more likely to have kids because of it and at 45 it is unlikely for a woman to have kids at all.
how does selling spyware to authoritarian regimes to crackdown on opposition and activists have anything to do with their own survival?
Of course people around here are salty. The majority of HN users are people who are working hard trying to do useful work, while in cryptocurrency there are a bunch of people getting rich off scams or just HODLing a token.

What makes it worse is that these people who just got lucky think they're changing the world and are a part of some kind of movement. Some are evangelical and almost self-righteous about it. Some sound like cult members.

Just admit you won the lotto and stop perpetuating obvious nonsense.

The thing I find most obnoxious is the sector of the Bitcoin cult that talks about how they're going to destroy the useless legacy financial industry... when what they are doing by getting rich off a value-less token is everything they hate about financial capitalism distilled into its purest form.

Bitcoin is a reductio ad absurdum of financial capitalism, not a revolt against it. If it actually "took over" it would invert all financial incentives so that simply holding deflationary tokens became the safest path to profit, disincentivizing investment in any kind of productive work.

Financial capitalism and Wall St. get a lot of hate around here too for the exact same reason.

Edit: everything I hate about Bitcoin I also hate about much of conventional financial capitalism... but I don't hear very many Wall St. tycoons pretending they're changing the world or creating some kind of utopia. Many of them will flat out admit that they're purely mercenary. It's more honest.
It's in the title. That's what it means.
Another likely scenario, people who do "underground" things prefer using not so popular tools to evade authorities but that may prove to have the opposite effect if they're not built robustly.
Maybe a lack of signal? I would certainly buy a more expensive product that's certified not to be made in genocidal or slave-labor countries. I've seen lists of 'blood-free' chocolate brands online before and they certainly had an effect.
I've seen this take a few times and I don't really buy it. How exactly is school setup in a way that's more suitable for women compared to men?

Everything you've stated (following rules and instructions, etc.) also applies in the workplace, so if you were correct you would the same sort of discrepancy in the workforce.
Yep, I tried front-end way back and hated it. Can you mention some other tech that should be covered in my re-evaluation?
Egyptologists translate the oldest-known mummification manual
Right, because everything wrong the American government does is by "mistake"...
Creeps gonna creep.
Because it wants to be treated as a tech company
There is no moral high-ground for Israel. They are the colonizing force and they're committing war crimes and illegal annexing of Palestinian land. They're also blackmailing people for being gay as per the article.
Where can I learn more about why multi dwelling units are a problem?
Low health profile, single child...
Square had a similar interview question but it was more along the lines of how to keep a socket open to a financial services company. Lots of the same issues.
wait, there are countries where the state does NOT hand out money for raising children?
I think the training environment at the undergraduate level is still toxic for women. I graduated 4 years ago, and while I wasn't in the CS program I had a female friend who was and she often lamented how isolating that program could be. This was a huge program at a huge school (50k undergrad), yet she was often one of only a few women in the program, and as she progressed she became even more of a minority as others switched majors. Of course there were hardly any women professors or role models as well.

Engineering is a field that selects for a certain personality, not all the time, but I think everyone here knows at least a couple classmates like this who are pretty arrogant, stubborn, self validating, the type to argue with the TA over their wrong homework answer for half the class, and never one to admit shortcomings. It's also a major that encourages regular group projects, where you might be stuck with personalities like this, or legitimately total creeps with questionable hygiene (I've seen all of this even outside CSE in my program). I think we all remember a few creeps from the undergrad days, too. Frankly, many of these men, especially in that age between 18-22 when you are basically a high schooler in maturity and might never had a female friend before due to social awkwardness, are overtly misogynistic, maybe without even knowing it just by cracking dumb jokes for cheap laughs among their male friends.

In majors with more representation among women, you are less likely to be saddled with these personalities (or even have to do massively weighted capstone group projects), and more likely to have camaraderie among people in the same boat as you, and are more likely to see through the major without switching to another one.
Such as? In which countries did it work?
Related reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
The American government is practicing genocide in Iraq among other places, but they have newspapers to cover up their crimes. Call me when this is solved.
>academic skills have no bearing in getting high paying jobs

This is a big part of it. Let's look at what "academic skills" means specifically in the US:

- you perform well on standardized tests
- you perform well on rubric-graded essays
- you do all of your homework, and you get As on every assignment

this leads to:

- you get into a good university
- you (presumably) perform adequately or well at said university

Every student who performs well academically has a similar path to this point, but then there's divergency.

Tech is the only top tier job where your educational pedigree is not going to hold you back throughout your entire career. It's not going to hurt to have a degree from a top school, but it won't cripple your opportunities, unlike finance, law, and medicine.

Based on how top tier tech companies hire for engineering positions that aren't internships, it seems that they do not see a link between academic performance and engineering competency.

I agree with the approach taken by said companies. Thus (imo) for tech, it is fully expected for there to be no correlation between academic performance and representation in the top tier of jobs, because tech is the most meritocratic top tier industry. It's obviously not perfect, but it's leagues ahead of the other big industries.
Looks great! Sorry for the off-topic but what is the "2021 bootstrap" that all startup landing pages are using? I like the look and keep seeing it everywhere
Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
>but the term "genocide" is ridiculous, an allegation being deployed in support of the aims of U.S. empire.

So why doesn't China allow independent investigations into what's really taking place? Maybe if they weren't hiding the truth people wouldn't be so quick to fill in the holes with their own stories.
(In Win10) When I have a long time compilation, I prefer to put it in another desktop. I don't like the icon in the taskbar, because it makes me want to peek.
> That's probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.

How is that feature related to self-driving cars? Are you saying self-driving cars get rear-ended more than human-driven cars do?
Decent engineering advice, but not such good economic advice. And therein lies the rub. It's very hard to get people to do that which will make them less money.
The price list and the fact that (apparently) it will ship internationally does make EVS quite interesting.

* https://evs.ee/en/faq-2

* https://evs.ee/en/discounts-when-buying-an-estonian-standard

* https://evs.ee/en/search?query=8601&languages=41&organisatio...
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I don't think there is a single large brand that truthfully _could_ advertise that.
Getting your act together with State Machines
Bypass paywall: https://archive.is/E6NWK

I kinda suspect not a lot of people are reading TFA since no one has noticed it's paywalled.
You're assuming every developer is part of the software industry. Not everybody gets paid to work on software.

I've contributed some code to ZBar. During my research I needed to read the QR code specification but the latest version was not publicly available. I certainly wasn't going to pay hundreds of dollars for some document just so I could contribute code to an open source project on my free time.

I think I managed to find an older version and studied that instead. I remember the standard didn't even contain the information I wanted to know, only vaguely-worded hints and footnotes. Can you imagine paying for this document only to find out the authors didn't even consider your use case? I found other resources on the internet and managed to cobble together enough understanding to solve my problem.
Apple's privacy bet – grandstanding or not – is good for consumers
Realistically this falls apart almost immediately, when you try to assemble the political will to actually ban Bitcoin. While you can talk about governments being willing to spend money on the drop of a hat, this just isn't realistic. Spending billions to combat magic internet money when prescription drug prices are sky-high? Spending billions to combat magic internet money when we don't even have enough to fund the programs that we are operating now?

If somehow you managed to muster the political will, the assumption that the cost structure could remain fixed is also laughable. As critics are quick to point out, Bitcoin uses a large amount of energy. Enough energy to mine 100 blocks ahead would require 100 times that energy, and that's assuming that the energy use stays constant, where it would clearly not do so. That amount of energy expended on the effort would be sufficient to substantially affect global energy markets, which would in turn affect the Bitcoin price.

The most you could hope for would be to bring up a mining operation that would be competitive with the rest of the network, and thereby throttle on-chain transactions. Bad news for you, ban-fans; the network is already severely throttled, and the price doesn't seem to be bothered much by it.
Critiquing the framing doesn't mean they didn't understand.
I haven't tried the cloudygamer options recently, but I had no problem playing Destiny and The Division 2 multiplayer on Stadia. PSN might just be unoptimized.
> It seems like some highly quantitative fields which have traditionally been male-dominated (CS, physics) may very well be practicing some sort of entry discrimination

Maybe I misread, but I interpreted this follow up statement as "50% is correct, here's why (CS, physics) may not be at this level".
In the United States in the last 30 years, the percentage of women working in computing fields has decreased significantly. In that same time period, births per women has decreased and the age of first-time mothers has increased.
Hacker News has a progressive Silicon Valley bias, where Critical Race Theory provides a religious explanation ("systemic bias") for under-representation of women in tech.

Data from other countries are considered "news" because they invalidate our neoracist beliefs.
Oooh I like a lot.

The whole idea of a two-way links like the wp pingbacks in the good old days is getting traction. For more info about this, see https://indieweb.org/Webmention and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback

Another useful related thing I saw is https://brid.gy/ which transforms social mentions into webmentions
I'm too lazy to look for literature (sorry), but I remember studying it, and later read some paper about it.

Anyway, whatever is the reason, they do take the tradeoff.
As a designer, an actual likely answer:

These are standard material design icons. Most likely someone needed to add a new button/feature and just picked whatever icon best fit the purpose, or someone designed a new icon that would fit the purpose of whatever feature/button was being added.

With huge apps like Gmail, there's likely just so many different things happening that there's no time allocated to check every small change in a broader context, and these kinds of things slip in and pile up.

Over time, more and more "small" things pile up, and eventually a redesign is necessary because the palette has been polluted with too many things and the software becomes too clunky.

Another option is that no designer even gave this a look, or they saw it too late. This happens often too, designers might be busy working on a big new design and an engineer needs to just put in a button and doesn't think twice about just using one of the icons from the icon library.

Incompetence can explain stuff sometimes, but just like engineering, design is also often a collection of compromises and sometimes a lot of compromises can collude together to form a bigger disaster. The call icon is a good example of this. It's constrained by a lot of things, like overall language rules of material design, and any prior interface design choices made about button styles, toggles, etc. If the designer came up with a totally new style of button, they'd also be scolded by their peers for not maintaining consistency.

All of that said, I'm not making excuses, I'm providing an explanation. I think overall, with any kind of iconography based interactions, when in doubt, add a label. It just works. Icons are abstractions of language and actions, when it's no longer clear what they are abstracting, it's time to use language. It really is that simple.
And then, having located that comment, try to rename the variable to something more meaningful. Even gap1, gap2, and gap3 would be more informative.
> This study suggests that a vegan diet may negatively influence the outcome of surgical scars.

This is unusually damning to veganism-as-it-is-practiced if not to veganism itself. It would be interesting to see these results across a wide range of diets.
Like I said, it's O(n!).
Metric system conversion should not be difficult, however, I recently learned it has been made convoluted.

Attempting to find out the per gram price of something bought in a kilogram bundle, I simply divided the kilo price by 1000. This is where it got confusing. I was told there are only 985 grams in a kilo. Me: huh?? It's literally the definition of the word kilogram, 1000 grams.

Fucked up maths: 1kilo = 2.2lbs * 16oz * 28g = ~985g

Further discussion on 1oz = 28g and least significant digit only made matters worse. Apparently, this is the standard on purchasing of items sold in kilograms.
Palo Alto Customers Deserves Better
The data does, really - on an off-hand search I found this[1], though I'm sure many more could be found. The US has trailed the rest of the world for decades on wage growth and income equality.

[1]: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
Elon Musk didn't create Dogecoin.
I don't agree with the rest of your comment (my school had a pretty even mix of male and female teachers), but anecdotally the primary difference between boys and girls was exactly what you mentioned: the former were more likely to skip classes, study things that were not in the syllabus (which helps sometimes), not maintain notes as well, etc. whereas the latter would typically follow the syllabus, teachers' instructions etc. more closely and maintain very thorough notes.
If a generalist is better at X than an X specialist, do you even get to call them an X specialist?
Seriously, I have slowly become subscribed to all of the streaming services; and I still use a system that automatically obtains rips of the content I actually want to consume. Having everything served to me in Plex instead of needing to remember/look up where something was streaming, load up that app, be at the mercy of my shitty connection, etc.
Requests per second. How many is good? (2009)
And the state will only have the motivation to address the problem if they are facing a popular uprising -- either in fact or it's feared likely -- that could threaten the CCP as a the ruling order in China. There is a very long history in China of popular uprisings forcing political change which is why the reaction in Tienanmen Square in 1989 was so harsh and so swift (it's also why the unrest in Hong Kong is being put down the way it is). If any unrest doesn't end quickly and stay localized the CCP fears it will become nationwide before countermeasures are taken.

And if we, as consumers, make it clear that we will be buying Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Indian -- ANYTHING that isn't Chinese -- it will cause a reaction in the CCP (I just hope that reaction isn't a military first-strike).
is effect size mentioned in the full text?
High-frequency silicon chips with a polymer cable as thin a strand of hair
Human Body 2.0 Project – tracking human evolution
I was unnecessarily vague. What I meant was that it could have been something your daughter made up, just so you'd buy her something.
Gulf of Tonkin. If you look at Arafat's Wikipedia page it says he was not born in Palestine and died (of course) of venereal disease.

Insofar as how long it goes on, if you look at US WWI propaganda they were talking about German soldiers massacring babies in Belgium (the killing babies lie is a common one - from incubators to Assad gassing babies)
Complaining that subscriptions are a bad deal for me as a user is a valid, if weak, market signalling mechanism.

And they are a bad deal, because with each subscription comes a business relationship you have to manage, which is annoying and prone to being forgotten (which is what many companies offering subscriptions, particularly the "less than coffee" types, are very much counting on).

> Is it also miserable "fighting off" a million companies who want to sell you stuff for the daily price of a coffee? Stuff like T-Shirts, books, newspapers, candy, etc?

Yes, it is. Advertising is cancer, and quality of life improvements can be measured in your ability to limit your exposure to it.

Also, like other commenter mentioned, that stuff isn't subscription-based. It's either consumables, or usable until it wears down - which is something I can control. And most importantly, none of these examples involve me having to manage relationships with any of the vendors.

(Technically I have a relationship with each of the vendors, but it's entirely mediated by consumer protection laws. I have nothing to actively manage here, except saving receipts - I only need to know which government agency to write to if the vendor fucks up and doesn't want to reimburse me for it.)
Sure, but that's something most humans naturally want to do, even if they have no financial incentive. Most people don't like having to go to the office 8 hours a day, and very few probably would if money wasn't in the equation.
My graduating class was remarked on through multiple schools as an exceptionally smart class. We had lots of very bright boys and girls. Maybe our class was unusual in other ways so this isn't part of a broader trend or tendency, but practically all the smart girls did all their homework and maintained a 3.5GPA or higher (most more like 3.8+), while probably half or more of the smart boys skipped lots of it and pulled Cs and Bs (with the occasional A in classes that had little homework). Meanwhile, those same boys who skipped much of their homework scored in the top percentile or two when it came time for ACTs and SATs and achieved excellent marks on annual state testing (not that the latter matters whatsoever for students), were often in gifted programs or active on "smart kid" extracurriculars, et c.

So those boys "did poorly in school" (which, to be sure, wasn't a great thing for e.g. college admissions above high-tier state schools) but that didn't give the full picture.
The difference in teaching style is putting accent on cooperation vs competition.
>Those displaced would likely find better jobs.

The article refutes this to an extent. One of the interviewees works at Amazon for ~$15/hr despite having previously work in an automotive plant for ~$23/hr, implying that they don’t exactly have a much choice to find better jobs but settle for whatever they can get