skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see this happening with myself (male, for the record). I'm usually someone who gives feedback quite frankly, am more critical of others' (and my own) work than average, etc.

Over recent years I've read so much about women being passed over, cut off, terms like "microaggressions", women getting less talking time in meetings, etc., that's it's made me extremely self conscious.

It's not even that I'm afraid of getting in any actual trouble if I say or do something wrong, it's just that I'm generally already somewhat anxious about how I behave around others and this has made me extremely aware of any time I might be too harsh, not really listen to someone, etc., that I've probably gotten overly sensitive.
That's hilarious.

If you want to make it super explicit, come up with examples. "Be bolder, for example for this project I saw you doing 80% of the work, you should get to headline the presentation and have top billing on the authors page".

"Act like X" is also potentially useful, if you make it explicit. Explicit is not "Act like a white man" (whaaaa?). Explicit: is "Act like Bob, for example do you remember when HR said he couldn't have a new screen and he insisted"?
Awesome will reach out thanks.
Another big example is Monome.

https://monome.org
I'm not saying what she did is right, but you unnecessarily brought in race into a situation that could easily have been handled without race.

> I see you're hesitating to take credit for your work

Could easily be followed up with actionable items to take credit for her work: do a company/department wide presentation for instance. Instead you gave her vague non-advice. I'm a white man and I have no idea what a white man would do because I know a ton of different white men who would all do very different things.
No, that's not the problem. It's that offense is easy to take at anything and companies erring on the side of caution will prefer to get rid so they appear to be doing something. Whether it is right or not doesn't matter by the time the truth is out the actions have been taken.
Document the hostile work environment in a journal, look for new positions, and quit when it becomes too much of a threat to your wellbeing. If you decide to quit or get fired, use your documentation of the environment as a basis for filing for unemployment benefits or if it merits it, higher levels of complaint/compensation.

The "progressive" cause is just as capable of doing wrong as the "conservative" cause; there is this general perception that being "woke" is the moral high ground and if you're against the "conservative" people who are jerks then you and your peers do no wrong.

In fact it seems like the conservative jerks and the "woke" jerks are doing the exact same thing - abusing groups of peoples and behaviors in order to show off their moral superiority.

A bunch of young people in the past generations left the church because they saw church people hating on folks who didn't fit their definition of "good people" and saw that definition distorted into abusing folks that deserved to be who they were. The exact same behaviors are showing up and getting stronger in the "woke" community, just with different targets. I'm still waiting for the popular backlash against the "woke" agenda - probably just the next generation of kids rebelling against their parents' ideals.

I have a target on my back too and occasionally am treated like a predator, but I also have the privilege that though it isn't harmless to me, I usually have the ability to get up and exit the situation treating me poorly. This is what everybody should try to cultivate - the freedom to quit a bad situation and not be a slave to a particular job, group of people, life plan, etc. When you can say "I would like to do this but I have other options" then it becomes a whole lot harder to be abused because when bad things happen you can just say goodbye.
Funny I work in a similar workplace and don't find that "all men" are vilified, or that being conscientious about the impact my words and actions have on marginalized people has any negative impact on my behavior. Maybe it's a you problem
Maybe not all plants are alike?

According to VafabMiljö [1], who runs the local biogas facility, in the year 2020 they processed 16157 tons of household biowaste, i.e. 66% of entire processing that year. The other stuff was sewage sludge and slurry from packaged/unpackaged food items (total of 8246 tons).

16157 tons of household biowaste turned into gas to run buses with and not dumped into a landfill is a good thing.

In 2012 the municipality collected 60% of overall food waste to turn it into biogas. Back then they hoped to reach 80% eventually. [2]

I didn't find newer collection numbers (they are somewhere, I just stopped iterating), but the number can only be higher today.

[1] https://www.vafabmiljo.se
[2] Naturvårdsverket rapport 6518, September 2012 (ISBN 978-91-620-6518-8).
I knew it would be the medlar before i clicked! Perhaps i spend too much time reading about rude fruit.

Anyway, it's a great little fruit, makes superb jelly and cheese (ie jelly with pulp, like a very thick jam). Somewhere between plum and date in flavour, perhaps.

I have a jar of my father's medlar cheese in the fridge, might go and pop a bit on some cheese ...
I disagree. They start on Fox and, after addicted, seek more outrage venues.
I wrote a long reply to this and then binned it. Perhaps that captures the essence of what I was going to say.
A lack of sleep leads to higher levels of cortisol and insulin, and decreases insulin sensitivity. This in turn physically prevents you from burning stored fat and leads to blood sugar being converted into fat for longer-term storage.

[1] https://www.sleepfoundation.org/physical-health/sleep-and-bl...
I think the learning for you should be: don’t repeat other people’s words without understanding what they are supposed to mean, what’s the context, what’s the reasoning behind them. I would say that a proper answer to _”What do you mean?”_ (or even better, a well communicated preamble before the phrase) would pass the right message and not sound ofensive.
I'd love a good answer to this. A couple months ago I struck out on my own with a non-technical partner, and I definitely miss peer code review.
If people can't click the link and read, there's no hope. The breitbart article was just the first thing to pop-up in google.

Here's the web archive link to the politifact website (from the first sentence of the Breitbart article):

https://web.archive.org/web/20210222190401/https:/www.politi...
I’ve seen professional women get negative feedback when they favored a qualified man over a slightly less qualified woman. I can imagine a female VC would be under the same pressure to remain silent lest they be lit up on Twitter for being female and yet still sexist.
There's differnt types of journalism though. Newscasters should absolutely be impartial and just a delivery mechanism of news. Investigative journalists are supposed to dig deep and get to the answers. You can't really be impartial. You're either going to prove or disprove something. Once that is done, the newscasters can do an impartial coverage of the facts that were discovered.

>The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers

because they want to be famous. These people we see on "news" programs don't give a rat's ass about the news, and only want to be the one people are watching.
Dangerous fantasies like “thalidomide is perfectly safe” or “smoking is good for your health”? How about “fat makes you fat”?

There’s plenty of statements that the mainstream media supported that were either flat out wrong and harmful to the American public. We’re still feeling the repercussions of a government hellbent against saturated fats.

At least allowing people to indulge in “dangerous fantasies” lets some of the people be right some of the time, instead of the entire monoculture being dangerously wrong.
How is literally counting the deaths "making the death count worse"?
There's also the lesser known JACK and LV2 CV functionality; https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=20701
Thankfully for us, men, apparently we're about 50% of the population and you know, traditionally, we've held 99% of the power in the world.

I'm not super worried that we'll be crushed under a matriarchy. Heck, in some regards a matriarchy might be a bit gentler than a patriarchy :-)

Edit: I seem to have touched a nerve, a lot of weak/sensitive men around here, it seems.
Yes, but I am responding to your very broad and general question "The other question is how you managed to move where you live now to begin with."

This is something that happens in many housing markets throughout the world, not just the Bay Area or even U.S. big cities in general. Also being priced out doesn't even always relate to rent, but other costs of living.

You ask a broad question, you get a broad answer. Being priced out is something that happens and is not always related to one's salaries.
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Journalism in 'Merica - the shit show of all shit shows.
I think it's not a useful exercise to come up with a better phrasing of the advice, as that's not really the point here. When you're in the moment reacting to peoples' questions and giving advice on the spot, you don't have time to wordcraft your speech like this. You'd still mess up once in a while.

Look at how often people tweak, clarify, and edit their comments even here on hacker news. So you'll probably just end up with "stifled" advice (using the terminology from the article), as you can see with all these suggestions in this thread.
Please omit personal swipes and don't take threads further into flamewar. Those things don't help. If another comment is interpreting you inaccurately or otherwise in error, provide correct information respectfully. If you can't (or don't want to) do that, it's better not to post until you can (and do).
I’m not sure if it’s not “right enough” so much as it’s just mostly low quality content, many see it lumped together with CNN/NBC/ABC/etc as just another bunch of talking heads to manufacture consent on behalf of the American political oligarchy.
Exactly. There is no need to inject identity politics when you just need to tell someone that they need to make sure to take credit for their work. If you inject identity politics into a situation, you are taking a risk. Going into identity politics when there is no need to just comes across as someone being a vain moralist.
I'd be willing to bet most of the worlds youth are less enthused about American culture after the last 4 years. Would be interesting to compare sentiments between other countries. The box office thing just seems to be that domestic filmmakers are producing better stuff.
I wanted to like the Culture Books. Didn't work out for me. Surface stories are weird to me and I don't have a knack in finding undelying things.
You can’t control how a recipient will receive advice and how they may choose to twist/change it.
Addiction to Outrage (2020)
No matter how dumb it is, in what way is it ambiguous? How could you possibly interpret it in any other way than 'be more confident/less hesitant in taking credit'?
When used in contexts like this, it's mg of substance per kilogram of body weight. (with the assumption that the effect on metabolism etc somewhat scales with body weight, at least for people that are otherwise similar)
I don't believe most educated, rational believers call their faith equivalent to a belief in magic, so that's kind of begging the question.

Anyway, if we start inventorying our personal beliefs and the rational, empirical basis for each of them, I think we all probably practice magical thinking to some extent.

I imagine some perfectly rational, omniscient alien interrogator questioning my most deeply held beliefs about, say, free will, or my individuality, or why the world is the way it is, and placing me somewhere on a continuum that includes witch-burners and cavemen, rather than in a completely separate category.
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What are our solutions, though? We're attacking this problem from a million disjointed fronts. The blessing (and peril) of not following a rigid strategy.

Though I think we should have some red lines, some big picture initiatives that do need to be planned at a higher level. The US dropped the ball on this for a while, for example.
So I know what you mean but the issue is more complicated than that. The implication is that if only journalists would stop doing inserting their opinions that the problem would go away.

This is technically true but also misses the point by a mile. The dry work of journalists hasn’t at all changed. News is just as boring and impartial as it always has been but nobody consumes it. It’s been there the whole time and hasn’t gone away. But television radically disrupted what we call news and proved that what people wanted wasn’t actually news but storytellers who consume the news and present it as a cohesive narrative that has the benefit of context (historical, cultural, political). This is totally rational. It’s why reading news reports and case files about criminals is niche but true crime podcasts are hugely popular.

These aren’t and can’t be apolitical in nature but that isn’t the same thing as “injecting opinion into fact” which is something that doesn’t really happen all that often. It’s very rare that you know a journalist’s opinion on a topic (outside of their personal Twitter) but how they assemble a narrative is ultimately informed by their views as an individual.
Here is an alternative idea: don't watch any of these "horribly biased" news sources.
I did freelance work to accommodate my health situation. I was also the apparently highest ranked woman on HN and failing to turn that into professional connections and professional development and adequate income.

I believe my gender is a factor in that failing to become what I desired. Every single time I comment on that, without fail, someone acts like I am utterly full of shit and I get really awful and dismissive replies that completely fail to acknowledge that maybe I have a point and maybe my gender actually was a factor in my low income. (And still is.)
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Isn't remarkable a simple linux system with qt applications that you can modify as you like?
Less news, more opinion.

Try to find out what's happening with the ship stuck in the Suez Canal. The amount of punditry and opinion far exceeds the actual info.

One of the few useful reports today is from Al-arabiya.[1] They probably have people on site.

[1] https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/03/28/Tu...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/28/tugs-dredgers-still...
edit: removing my comment as this seems to be an uncharitable reading.
Indeed. It can't be that hard to first look at all applications for funding, and then see which ones actually get funded. It wouldn't surprise me that there would be an overall pro-female bias. It wouldn't fit certain political agendas though.
The biggest owners of pension fund assets (and hence liabilities) are governments themselves, whether it be city, state, or federal.

Multi employer funds also got bailouts via all the asset inflation, but I assume you are referring to an explicit cash transfer bailout, which I am not aware of. I am simply referring to the continuing trend of devaluing currency and inflating assets to fulfill debt obligations. In which case pension funds only serve as unnecessary middlemen where a target date fund from Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab will do just the same.
> People shouldn't trust the media.

The reasons you offer may be good arguments against unliked news but do not seem to follow a path to effectively false news.

I would restate the assertion to read: People shouldn't trust any news source implicitly - until trust is carefully nurtured thru the reader's regular and independent vetting of stories.
Is this the same basic principle as the back half of property based testing? Winnowing the example down to the critical components?
"Scientism" is a pretty common term for this. I.e. superficially coating arguments in a veneer of rigor and data, for the sake of riding on the epistemic prestige of empirical science.
The issue with the "fairness doctrine" is what is fair? Why is free speech curtailed?

I'm not saying anything was good vs bad, but it's clear why it was a perceived an issue. One political party was taking advantage to revoke the speech of another. Put simply, I could put two left leaning people on my show, but claim one was "conservative" and that was "fair". Honestly, it's no better than now, but at least we all know the truth.
Lookism is the final -ism that lacks a social justice movement. Incels and disfigured people are the closest thing to the "underclass" of physical attractiveness.

Yes, many time the distinction in the margins between toxic and desirable masculinity is partially based on the attractiveness of the person in question.

For what it's worth - men and women are equally bad in regards to lookism. I think we need to simply start explicitly saying that we shouldn't discriminate because someone is ugly. If RMS were as attractive as Micheal foucault, he wouldn't get in trouble for those age of consent beliefs (foucault, an attractive leftist, famously defended lowering the age of consent)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_...

No one wants to cancel foucault because him and other french post modernists are the intellectual foundation for today's "wokeism"

A lot of the double standard is due to RMS being fat and ugly. No other explanation.
I suggest you take a look at the stranded energy market and rethink your premise.

Energy is, at this moment, being overproduced by design

The reason for this is because in case there is an emergency (like a snowstorm in TX) energy producers can switch on overdrive and heat homes.

By increasing the amount of energy capacity we have, we become more resilient to situations that require massive amounts of energy. Society needs an increase in energy production in order to uplift the lifestyle of the world, there is no way around that.
You wrote 2 sentences and still managed to contradict yourself.

Either parent and 'other side' have been both victimised (by him now knowing how they felt) or parent isn't a victim but since you claim he is experiancing what 'the other side' did neither were they.

Maybe try listening for a change.
It's his "lived experience", so you should respect that.

I'm only half joking...
You could start a (tiny) newspaper for the cost of this.
Affordances and Signifiers
There's an incessant confusion about what an Affordance is in software design. This is a quick heuristic and justification for why it matters.
I love the clean art on desktop backgrounds on http://simpledesktops.com - using it for years, besides already mentioned unsplash
Every sense of morality transformed into abuse has at least some basis in what would be called real objective good.

You cannot simplify the problems of "woke culture" as "asking everyone to treat others with respect", because that is not what is happening on the dark side of "woke" and you can't pretend that the dark side doesn't exist.
Presenting the truth honestly and without bias sounds like a great way to change the world.
> Few here understand.

Sounds like a catch phrase from an "alternative" news site or a thing a member of a religious cult would say.
Care to define what those "fairly minor infractions of the groupthink" were?

With respect, and I'm not saying this is you, but often I've heard that type of line - and then when you get into the detail, the firing was an obvious correct decision.

Edit: lol @ the downvotes, you can k!ss my @ss. Glad to have you here as I guess you were rejected from Parler.
Not good.

Some of us have felt like that for thirty years.

Once apon a time there were a group of people who swaggered through life saying whatever popped into their brains whom ever it offended or belittled. They engaged in metaphorical, but brutal, wrestling matches not just with each other but with any body who crossed their paths.

Now life is very hard for them.

Should have happened thirty years ago. Has it gone too far? Probably. <sound of a very small violin>
Thanks for posting. I didn't see a way to post directly to the display. I'll have to dig into.
On the topic of space heaters, though... if you replace your gas furnace with a bitcoin mining rig, and your electric is 100% renewable, then that's fine by me.
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The NSA now calls Americans the enemy if they want to fix problem in the establishment. Americans are called "Domestic Violent Extremists" (DVEs), even when they are non-violent if they articulate problems in the establishment. See Glenn Greenwald article on it:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-intelligence-communi...
I think that Sauron has voiced objection.
CMake 3.10 and newer has the command "include_guard(GLOBAL)", for me that has solved any problems I previously had with diamond shaped dependencies.

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/include_guard.ht...
Fox didn’t create a biased media, which existed long before Fox News did, they responded to it.

Most surveys going back decades and decades show that 80 or 90%+ of journalists are registered Democrats. That doesn’t make them bad journalists, but they are a monoculture that doesn’t represent the diversity of political views in America.

It’s notable how it really bothers people that there is one right-leaning news network out of a dozen or so left-leaning networks. Apparently it’s not enough to control 90% of the media narrative - it has to be 100%.
I haven't had sorrel in ages, but it's amazing. Intensely sharp, lemony flavour. A classic thing to do is to stuff it inside a mackerel and grill it.
I'm usually against cancel culture. Except against those that partake in it. I'll admit I feel a lot of schadenfreude when those people get canceled themselves and they're held to their own standards.
Oh. Thank you that makes more sense.
Except there is no Pope of Media. There is no single party controlling it all. A real problem however is monopolies. That is why we need laws that stop companies from becoming monopolies. That is why we need regulation.

Personally I think the lawsuit against Fox about mis-information they spread about voting machine manufacturers is a great remedy and will help restore public's faith in the system. It is not that all media are equally bad in spreading mis-information. Some are clearly worse than others. How do we know that? Lawsuit(s) will prove that, beyond reasonable doubt.
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I can't imagine how someone would think that is a good suggestion.

Are they implying white men are smarter/better so they always take the right decisions? If that's what they're doing, they're also implying, in this case, she, as a black woman, is not as smart as a white man.

I'm a white man surrounded by mostly white people working on a field with mostly white men and I can't say what a white man would do in certain situations because we're all different and we all think differently.
sorrel is not terribly exciting. I think it should grow from seed easily.
I think he tried to use mature, respectful language. But he apparently anyway put his foot in his mouth.

Of course everyone should do their best in being sensitive in their ways of expressing themselves. But many people could definitely show a little bit more generosity in their interpretations and not jump on every chance to interpret something like racism or sexism.
>I don’t think most female founders even realize that they’re getting different advice than their male counterparts. Silicon Valley has always run on candor, but it’s being stifled at the moment, and no one is noticing that we are the collateral damage.

Imagine what it's like being the intended target and not just "collateral damage". It's not a problem that men are nervous to be candid but it's a problem that women are feeling the secondary effects of that?