skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps male advisers who are worried about such things could ensure they have a female co-adviser they can have frank conversations with. Why should it fall on one investor to tell the founder that they shouldn't be CEO?

This article is actually a very strong argument for diversity in boards.
Perhaps i misunderstood the quantum of founders v coworkers etc - I assumed the latter would have been more frequent.d

Regardless, I do believe you aren't properly weighing the cost/benefit or risk/reward properly in public v private situations. One can have all the skills in the world, it isn't going to get the risk to zero. And if the reward is little, it doesn't add up for many folks.

I'm not a public person so I'm speculating.
Perfect example! The media took the GA official at his word, ran with the story, 2 months later the recording come up and most of it was made up.

If that doesn’t tell you what the media is about I don’t what is. They literally ran with a story about the president they couldn’t corroborate and it turned out to be lies.
I'd love to see your conversation with DJI repairs.

Can't imagine they get volcano-damaged drones into their lab very often!
Hey, weeds are renewable and recyclable. You can feed a lot of animals with weeds, and then those animals can be cooked to feed humans, potentially alleviating the migrant surge for the border . . . . get crackin.
I have researched Stencil a few times and agree it seems to be like you say 'the real deal'. In time I might end up there but going to take the long way :)
To me it demonstrates that users of Microsoft products are not considered the customer. Developers are not the customer. I have not discovered anybody who is the customer. There might not be one. That is typically a characteristic of a monopoly. ("We don't have to care, we're the phone company!")

At Apple, Steve was the one and only customer. Buyers were invited to bask in his glory, for a price. Now, is there one?
You can also use emoji to name any object in Active Directory, which is a heck of a lot of fun if you want to confuse the IT guy that needs to remote into your machine for maintenance.
A business is a business. As a female founder I have a gender agnostic email I can use to cold ask any investor a business question and see if they respond and how thoughtfully before ever approaching for a pitch. Upside to that is it eliminates your own fear of being biased against in the answer and you can take the answer at heart.

There are many types of founders out there but two stand out: those who do a lot and don’t really sell themselves, and those that sell all the time but never execute (you see them posting. lot of pitch competition wins, necker island visit, private jets, etc) . The former you can see year over year chugging along, iterating quietly, making sure unit economics work, etc. The female founder groups have many people who have been clearly iterating on their projects for years, trying to bootstrap and not have to ask for permission, because it never comes or it comes with bad terms. Then just ask how many of them have seen competitors raise millions on a promise and the floodgates will open. The competitors have a lot of confidence and usually little to no experience or genuine insight. Not sure if that needs to be called or sexism, because Dunning–Kruger makes a lot more sense. The problem is when investors buy it.

On Clubhouse a few months ago, a well known investor said the pandemic has leveled the playing field between charismatic bravado driven founders and those who have execution strengths (the charisma doesn’t do so well via Zoom). So now investors who interview entirely online get to ask more substantive questions and not be swayed by confidence as much. Not sure how much that lasts during reopening, but one can hope.
That’s a long paper to write given it’s all based on a survey of 50 people.

Nevertheless the point is true, and importantly it’s probably caused by “AI engineers” who are actually pretty mediocre and were just attracted to this job for the wrong incentives. If interviews for DS and AI focus on recruiting people for not just theoretical middling knowledge but also the drive to solve “the real problem” that will let them tackle the project in a truly fundamental way, the majority of issues pointed in this paper will probably go away.
He's probably furiously sending emails about it... https://xkcd.com/530/
Developers are not a monolithic group, there are tons of developers who want to work on things that have nothing to do with making developer tools.

There are plenty of toolmakers who gladly buy others tools so as not to have to make them for themselves. CNC mills sell quite well, for instance.
Can you elaborate what the pence fence is?
The "Bitcoin Price" it is referring to is the amount of BTC paid for the car, not it's value in USD from my understanding. In other words that won't change. If they refund you in BTC you'll get the same amount of BTC back as you paid. That is what contradicts tptacek.

Of course, they could choose to pay you in USD at which point it may be worth less BTC. But you're still receiving back the full dollar amount of the car that you chose to buy. So it would be the same as converting your BTC to cash at the time of car purchase instead of buying a car. There is nothing nefarious or deceptive going on here by Tesla.
On the other hand, the US is ahead of all other countries in the vaccine rollout, but the mainstream media isn't covering it, rather focusing all people's attention on the outrage and negative news.

US has 50 Million fully vaccinated and 140 Million doses given. For comparison, Canada has only 0.6 Million fully vaccinated and 1.7 Million given at least one dose.
I used to work for a company that has the standard "Meet Expectations" / "Exceeds Expectations" performance review every 6 month. Some European coworker felt the need to make a ppt titled 'euro-perf' to teach Europeans how to write performance feedback. Apparently words like "Good", "OK", "decent" etc meant slightly below median, and words like "Amazing" meant slightly above median for Americans. An European coworker also told me that he used to think a solid track record of Meet Expectations is very good and worthy of a promotion.
> The problem isn't sexism/racism/etc per-se, and more the current culture of airing dirty laundry in public, amplified by hungry mobs and social media companies who profit off the resulting dumpster fire ("engagement" as they call it).

I see the latter as a mere symptom of the former—that is, the angry mob is a side effect of the rampant discrimination. It’s certainly not limited to tech, although I’m sure each industry experiences it differently.

> Nowadays however, it's commonplace to turn it into dirty laundry and air it on social media and wait for the mob to jump in, which also allows false accusations and witch hunts to emerge.

Perhaps, but that all goes away if discrimination is eliminated from our culture. And make no mistake—it’s rampant. It’s not specific to any single industry or country.

What’s curious is that although the specifics of any given case of discrimination are often disputed, there does seem to be a general consensus that it’s an issue. We might not all agree on what constitutes discrimination, but most of us acknowledge that it’s a major social issue for the entirety of humanity. Yet, despite this acknowledgement, we’ve never really found a solution other than, “educate people and wait a few generations.”

We’ve found ways to combat pandemics in ways our ancestors thought impossible. We’ve found ways to travel to the moon. We’ve found ways to communicate instantaneously across the world. Yet imagining such a casual solution to social issues seems to be naïvely optimistic at best, delusional at worst.

Who will be the Gutenberg or Pasteur of our social revolution? I’ve come to expect amazing things from humanity; I’m sure we can pull it off again.
The major media organizations happily conspired to suppress stories about FDR’s health and JFK’s numerous affairs.

Are those topics news worthy? Who knows, but the fact the media decided that was for them to decide alone is somewhat worrisome.
I always enjoyed that bit of Romeo and Juliet in high school...

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—
O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were
An open arse, and thou a poperin pear.
Why the need to search for deeper underlying meaning in my response? Why not take it at face value?
To the outside observer, they would be time travelling. "Appear to" and "actually" are two very different things. A traveller with a different procession of time will appear to be going faster or slower than they really should.

There are galaxies moving faster than c away from us right now.
I believe papaya is "rude" itself for other reasons (Spanish slang connotations)
Me too. Logisim possibly needed some clean up or cleaned up rewrite.
Oh this is a super cool concept! Thanks!
Indeed. I see them every day. If I have something interesting for them I'll hand it to them. Much rather they get some money out of it than throwing it in the bin and getting damaged before they find it. Like an appliance that I have to get rid of but might still work but is not worth selling. Things with scrap metal indeed. They're always friendly and grateful. I don't have much to throw out myself but at our local makerspace we do often have substantial stuff.

I like them. I wish the government would support them more though. They're really being abused. As chatarreros they earn almost nothing, and as topmantas (street vendors selling fake handbags) they're often rounded up by the police and insulted by tourists. I'm pretty sure they get only peanuts from the people that import all these fake goods too. They're really at the bottom of the food chain.

It's really sad. I wish I could do more for them, but I can't even vote here. I heard the mayor of Barcelona (Ada Colau) is really aware of their plight, but there is only so much she can do either. Most of the core issues are national formalities like residency.
> So the possibility that at least one of them will think the investor sexist for giving feedback is unfortunately not zero.

There is a nonzero risk in any social interaction that involves giving critical feedback. The way you manage that risk is by investing in healthy relationships, not by perceiving literally half of humanity as being too risky to be worthy of critical feedback.

I’m not quite sure what to say to you. Living life involves risks. It sure seems like one of those risks is being deliberately amplified to be used as an excuse to “not even bother” with female founders.
Literally the entire point of my comment was that the NYT's claims have nothing to do with Project Veritas. Thus the comment itself has nothing to do with Project Veritas.
Oh that’s a good point. I’ve used them before. It was neat.
Love the Slavic turtle tax, thanks!
Not author, but this looks like a set of three small functions for a) creating web components, b) managing app state, and c) pub/sub event bus. It seems to focus on creating web components first and foremost, and then provides a couple of utilities to interact with them in a application.

React, vue, angular, etc. are more fully fledged frameworks for creating apps. None of them focus on standard web components, and all have their own internal component state + structure.

I guess you would want this if you need your components to be standard web components, e.g. if they are consumed by a parent app written in a different framework. So maybe a comparison with Stencil[1], lit-element[2], or LWC[3] is more apt.

1: https://stenciljs.com/

2: https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/

3: https://lwc.dev/
I'm not sure if there are any format specifications for the author and committer lines in a git commit message object. I guess it really depends on whether commands that are used to display the information (git show, git log, etc.) can handle arbitrary data. I wonder how commands like git format-patch and git am would deal with a commit like this.
Oh cool. I’ll look there.
> Now a couple of years into blockchain technology, we have some alternatives that _might_ work as well as Proof of Work (Proof of Stake for example) but we've yet to see if it actually can work on the scale that Bitcoin operates in. Time will tell.

Proof of Stake as a theory and concept is probably almost 10 years old at this point. And as an actual real-money-in-production blockchain Proof of Stake will actually be 10 years old in the next couple of years or so.

I wish I could confidently remember specific names and dates here, but on bitcointalk I remember SunnyKing coding and launching a real in production a PoS coin almost 10 years ago now...I want to say it was something like "NuCoin" but I could be off on the name there. I do speicifically remember he made Primecoin which was an alternative PoW function based on discovering the world's highest prime numbers(kind of cool, which is why I remember it I guess) after he was done with his initial PoS coin. He(SunnyKing) was also endlessly trolled and mocked due to the theoretical threat PoS posed to those invested in Bitcoin and other PoW coins like Litecoin at the time.

There was also a larger PoS coin called NXT from that era(again, almost 10 years ago, 2013 maybe?) that I suppose never really caught on, perhaps it was technically flawed?

There were lots of legitimate criticisms of PoS regarding whether or not it was a truly viable decentralized consensus mechanism. And I don't claim to after the answer to whether or not it is, or was sufficiently viable. But historically there was also lots of trolling and suppression from people trying to protect their investments.

It apparently may be finally getting its time, given PoS as a technology seems to have only recently become a mainstream topic of interest, despite how old the tech and theories themselves are. Perhaps that's just because the problems were only recently solved?

But regardless, I find it funny how much play PoS gets these days now that mainstream media is reporting on how PoW mining as a whole is using more power than many nation states, as if there was any other path for PoW to scale given its fundamental design.
This resonates. Before trying to be (over) helpful which is inevitably going to be a mansplain, having a mentor or co-equal to talk to is good.
Automotive Companies only Access 5% of their Vehicle Data
Not answering for GP, but some people believe you cannot be sexist against men, or racist against white people.
I LOLed. I have had pretty good luck with Vue and jsdelivr. Would not call it speedy, but easy to get students going and runs on Glitch.com
Got Something from Google
I've seen it at upscale grocery stores, usually next to the fancy cheese section.
Ironically, I’m honestly unable to interpret your response. Are you listing examples of sentences that are 100% unambiguous, in conjunction with a third sentence that is unintelligible?

If that is the case, then it doesn’t invalidate what I’m saying. I’m not saying it’s impossible to create unambiguous statements. What we’re talking about here is complex conversational speech, especially in regards to sensitive topics that people feel strongly about. And specifically, we’re talking about the usage of such speech in everyday interactions, in which words have to be formed on the fly at a rapid pace.
Companies are made up of people. The only people who might understand the value that they can provide are the programmers, but the programmers are not familiar with the tools because they don't want to pay for them in their personal/hobby projects.
Blog post title - "The Two Internets, those with and without Ad Blockers"

Maybe this is the original in Chinese -

https://club.6parkbbs.com/military/index.php?app=forum&act=t...

But I find the market of machine translated blog posts quite interesting, these add to the community, compared to the "English -> random machine translated language -> English" spam, but is also interesting.
Serious question. Where are the highly capable females that are being locked out of opporunity because of sex?

All of the highly capable women I know seem to be exceling.
What doesn’t help is that these techniques are increasingly taught in undergrad programs and short term data science experiences.

More content, more tools, no time for understanding of the full scope of analysis.

Statistical education has called for the use of real data for a long time and it is still woefully absent in undergrad statistics and probability courses. Students are given clean/cleanish data so they can be evaluated on the correct application of tools, not on a full stack process of data sense making. When I took over our stats course I took out the coding (instructors were arguing over R vs Matlab) and put in excel. Excel opens their eyes because it can’t make math invisible like R can...they can’t obfuscate their mistakes in abstractions.

It’s hard because doing that is at the edge developmentally of young adults...but it’s like giving them a Ferrari as a present for their drivers licenses when we teach this stuff. If experts can’t do it right, think about the implications of teaching them to 19 year olds.
>If someone asked me this, I'd probably think they used hashtags like #redpill or were into bashing Ellen Pao or something. It comes across as, "you can't say anything these days without being offensive, men in tech are soooo mistreated."

Wise moderates don't even join the conversation on social media. A wise decision for an individual, but it's harmful to all of us collectively. One negative side effect is people assume that everyone is an extremist of one stripe or another.
In this pic, it looks very similar to India's "Cheeku" (remove the crown and it's an exact match):

https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/1600x900/p09bty8x.webp
Prisoners have known this for decades!
The same reason cooks have to buy ingredients. The same reason a factory making tools first needs to buy other tools.

A backend developer will not write an IDE, heck, he probably won't even write most of the code in his own codebase even if he's a single dev.
Beltalowda, walowda ke!
Thanks, will give it try.
> you view them as too weak to handle corrective feedback

The article says they don't get corrective feedback not because they're seen as too weak, but because it's too risky to give criticism, since it can be misinterpreted (or misrepresented) as sexism.
> came from caves 900km away

The known RaTG13 sample came from caves 900km away and was 96% similar.

That viruses existence does not preclude the existence of a 99% similar sarbecovirus in the bats in Hubei.

Sarbecoviruses do exist in Rhinolophus bats in Hubei:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/FJ588692
The Tolling Bell
“Son.. if there’s ever a tough choice in life, choose the easy way out. Don’t think about what’s right and wrong, that’s not important at all. Just think about yourself. Keep your head down and just accept that the way things are are the way they’ll always be. No social progress is worth your individual discomfort.”

Great parenting! /s

Thank God you weren’t leading the civil rights movement.

Capitulation is a much greater enemy than anything you’re afraid of.
Ugh...more conspiracy theories
In general, but the risk-reward ration is now way off, as the author of the article mentions, so why risk it if you potentially face harsh repercussions.
For me personally, the field as of computing is very exciting. But the CS jobs are very unsatisfying after you've been around for a while. Used to think academia might be different, but I've read enough cries to understand it might not be all rosy there as well.

I've come to the realization that when you take up a salaried job, you're exchanging your time for money. If it satisfies you're lucky. Otherwise, do the essential minimum at your job and then outside your work hours

a) Find alternate ways to seek fulfilment to lead a balanced life(a sport, something creative etc.)

b) If you're motivated enough find alternate career avenues / start your own venture

If you've enough savings you could quit too, without having to put up with job. But that's a privilege very few can afford
It is almost always no reward, so we can fully expect people not actually doing it.
It feels like home because of the key of the song, not the instrument. Sometimes the guitar is tuned to play a song where the key matches the lowest string, but many songs are of course played in other keys.
You have to be careful not to confuse a misuse of an idea for the whole idea itself.

When life sucks and things go wrong we often look for something to blame on days when we're not at our best.

People who have experienced mistreatment because of some general characteristic have an easier time finding targets to blame "racists!" "sexists!" "-phobes!" unreasonably for their problems. We're all unreasonable sometimes.

If I'm having a shitty day day and I'm not a racist myself... I don't really have easy generalizations to blame for my problems so I have to find more nuanced ways to be unreasonable. (and yes, I have had bad days full of unreasonable accusations to blame for my problems, they just weren't towards some hot topic issue).

There is this issue where movements to empower and unify have a tendency to shit to blame and divide. It's a tough situation.
Question: I’ve done Stencil in the past and quite liked it. I especially liked how helpful the community is on e.g. slack. Now I’m experimenting with lit-element. My initial expression is that it is not as fully fledged out as Stencil is. Do you have any experience with either lit-element or Salesforce’s lightning web components and are able to compare them?
I'm gonna guess you're a person who was never the subject of discrimination and racism and sexism and now you're complaining that the subjects are that are being offended.

Was that a right guess?
I get 33,900 hits on Google for the phrase "internalized misogyny," so the poster did not coin a phrase.

Sounds like it is, in fact, a thing.
I took the same path but package management on OSX makes it seem almost worth going back. Almost.
I'm excited about the things I can build with software, not so much about software itself. All the problems we can solve with OSS tools.. is truly amazing!

If a new database comes and is better than postgres, I might switch to it in a couple of years, but, I wouldn't want to be working in a new database. Software for software sakes doesn't motivate me too much.

Solving problems for the film industry with visual effects does motivate me a lot. I love seeing the end product and being part of it by making the studio and artists more efficient! That I can do it by using my tech skills is awesome.
When I say “there are better and worse ways to communicate”, that is what I’m implying. Of course you should try. But the way in which we adjudicate these matters should take into account the fact that perfection is impossible. We have no silver bullets here.
It's usually not hard to follow a few pixel artist and get a bunch suggested to you on Twitter. I know Kiana Mosser should have commissions open within a few weeks. https://twitter.com/kianamosser
You can do things instantaneously, aka spooky action at a distance, you just are forbidden from using that to communicate something useful, so knowable causality is still bound at relativistic speeds. I’m not an expert but this is how I understand it.