skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to do that most desperate of things, actually read past the abstract.

First, this study was only in academia, and not industry so the results aren't necessarily generalizable. They probably do have some correlation, but they're very different environments.

Second, the very first paragraph after the abstract goes into why actually getting hired is just a tiny part of why women don't go in to stem, "...including inadequate mentoring and networking (1); a chilly social climate (2); downgrading of work products such as manuscripts (3), grant proposals (4), and lectures (5); and gender bias in interviewing and hiring (6–9)."

Third, this was rating an applicant for a third party, not actually hiring an applicant for them self, ppl act different when they have no skin in the game. While experiment 5 did try to account for this by removing the direct competition aspect so they only rated a single candidate rather than selecting a better choice from 2 options, however again there's no consequence for the choice except having your response presented in a paper.

What this study does show is that academics think that other academics view hiring equally women over men as socially desirable. This is not the same as actually doing it when given the opportunity, for an example of this see https://www.jstor.org/stable/3711747?seq=1 and the general trend of Americans saying they go to church even when they don't.
Yes. You go to work because they pay you. That's it. I do not care about your politics, and I beg that you don't care about mine. I am not your family. Odds are, I will not choose to be your friend. A professional relationship as coworkers is the goal here.
Why this picture of a bathing suit has social media users seeing red
It’s strange how people will readily admit that advertising can cause unhealthy eating habits but sexual content can never cause unhealthy sexual habits.
I think this right here reflects the reality of many or most of the channels on Freenode. I am one of the few operators of one of the larger channels on Freenode and it cost me otherwise productive work time (with no warning whatsoever) just to have to prevent the inevitable trolls from squatting on related channels and nicknames (for anyone wondering, we were helped with the channels, but not with nicknames, despite having logs to demonstrate these were registered by squatters). Now we are being "encouraged" to put more work into this matter which is, as far as I can work out, just some interpersonal drama and power politics. We have taken a "wait and see what happens" stance, which seems to be what most are doing, not only because it is unclear what is actually going on here, but because I otherwise have a lot of work to do (despite the time I spend on HN, I promise!).
Those are not malware infection rates, they're OS "marketshare" of all infected devices.
I started with their LOGO on Apple ][s back on the early 80s. I reached out to them a while back to let them know the impact they had on my career.
Like this? https://www.makebetterfood.com/
> How many of us get to work at such lofty problems though?

How many of us choose to work on such lofty problems? You can work on whatever you want, whenever you want. But lofty, unproven ideas don’t pay Google salaries. Your career is a choice, not a prison.

And of course most software engineers aren’t mathematicians. We’re talking about genius - and most of us are a long way from that. Most of us are lucky if we manage to invent a couple complexity reducing concepts in our entire careers.

But lots of great computer science ideas have “come down the mountain” from mathematics adjacent work. Functional programming wasn’t invented by C lovers like me. But I love closures, pure functions, and map / filter / reduce. This stuff makes certain problems lovely. And we wouldn’t have any of this without mathematically minded CS.
U.S. regulators signal stronger risk, tax oversight for cryptocurrencies
Other cities lag what happens in San Francisco.
Honestly, Electrify America has caught up to where Tesla was about 2-3 years ago. That really isn't a bad place to be for much of the country. The biggest issue will be that many of their sites are smaller. They are going to get crowded fast!
And the news are yet another proof that many of the climate change doom scenarios start from the assumption of a perfectly static world incapable of change or adaptation. This coffee species seems to taste even better than the one we use now (and yet the production with the current plant, far from decreasing because of climate change, has in fact grown 60% in the last 20 years).
I’ve wondered about this but I’ve never seen anyone use an emoji thumbs up in anything but yellow. I can’t imagine ever setting it to match my skin color, but it would be neat to learn about people who want emojis that look more like them.

If anything, I’d be more likely to choose a color far away from my skin.
Right, it is. It fixed my hot-path syscalls on x86 (via read/write functions, pthread_mutex functions, etc.). But if you have syscalls called via asm outside of libc (by who?) then they need frame pointers as well.
I built a tool called https://cookmatic.co that solves this exact problem (among others)! You can hover (or click on mobile) the ingredients in the recipe body and it will tell you the amount from the ingredients list.

ex: https://cookmatic.co/recipes/easy-frittata
Politics is what it is precisely because it is vacuous - you signal allegiance and that is all. You as an individual cannot influence anything any more than discussing an incoming storm would influence its trajectory.

But unlike the storm we know that the results of what society produces are determined by the society. And people don't realize or care that they as an individual are not society and have no influence over it in any meaningful capacity.

Many of our problems may be alleviated if game theory was a mandatory class in highschool. But then democracy would perhaps be in peril as people realize voting is as useless to them as is discussing politics. Tragedy of the commons can be a depressing thing.
>Shouldn’t we be advocating on non office things outside of the office??

If you want robots, then yes.
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Not for 40k
I'm pretty much the same. Don't have much trouble sleeping though - if I just let the train of thought wander instead of concentrating on something specific, I find myself asleep pretty soon. I also have had an extraordinary luck of finding a wife that gets it, so when she finds me in one of those moments she knows what's going on.
It's mostly politics and people being extremely oblivious. At some point you're just a dumb person for not seeing what's right in front of you.
presumably you would also be ok with getting paid less money in exchange for more political freedoms at work?
The boring truth is that American consumers simply don't care about repairing their electronic devices. They're too rich and labor is too expensive here. You would have no problem with repairing just about any phone in China. I suppose the lax intellectual property laws help as well.
The UN considers Mexico one of the most violent countries in the world for women. Is that cause outside of workplace-appropriate conversation? You may have chosen a country at random, but it’s disingenuous to say that worrying about femicide is “nonsense”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_Mexi...
It is unconscionable in 2021 that stereotypes can still exist. Why are certain aisles in toy stores bright pink and geared towards one group? Why are certain aisles in toy stores geared with toys revolving around shooting things? Everybody should have the choice. We should all do our part. I'm trying to do my part to help achieve TRUE EQUITY in all communities. Did you know that just 2.3% of United States plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters are women? Why is nobody talking about this gross inequality? How many young girls have been discouraged and had their dreams of helping their communities in this way denied? I intend to start local and give my daughter a choice. She will have every right to play with pneumatic and hand drills, impact wrenches, band saws, hand clamps, air compressors, as well as G.I. Joe Action Figures and Polly Pocket Playhouse if she chooses. Lean in and help everybody achieve their true ambitions and calling.
I think it would make a lot more sense if you could just do multiples of the base amount, rather than arbitrary breakdowns.
I think it became the standard because that's the way to cook. No surprises. You don't want to get halfway through mixing up fruitcake dough and discover you need dried fruit.
Ghcup – The Haskell (GHC) toolchain installer
I believe plastic may be human civilizations "Great Filter" - I'm only half-joking. In less than a century, we managed to put plastic everywhere on the planet, and microplastics everywhere inside our food sources and our bodies, including in placenta(!). Our reach exceeds our grasp, we do not yet know what dangers microplastics pose, and we do not have the technology to remediate it. Our reach exceeds our grasp.

I do hope plastics end up more or less benign, but there is a very real possibility that humanities gravestone will read "Here lies human beings. They managed to make their way into low orbit and their only moon, but were felled by their discovery of synthetic polymers"
Isn’t this the case on the XBox? People seem to be fine with it.
How is that pyramid not classic slippery slope fallacy?

You could make a pyramid where you have violent movies and playing violent video games leads to a person becoming a serial killer arguing that violent movies and video games desensitize you to murder.
Speech recognition is actually orthogonal to AI. In my day the AI prototypes (like ELIZA) were basically chat bots. Speech recognition is now very sophisticated and accurate. Determining meaning from human language (spoken or written) is far more advanced than it used to be but still kinda sucks.
> And they told the supervisors that Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950, had emboldened thieves.

And that's really it. We've put to the people in ballot initiative after initiative to reduce crimes and penalties for 'nonviolent crimes', which people will happily vote with good conscious for because of the word non-violent.

But nonviolent to whom? We're forgetting that they're still crimes, that they add up and degrade quality of life, and can violently ruin lives without striking a blow. Whoever worked in these Walgreen stores now need to find a new job, and had they been small businesses, closing up shop could ruin their entire career. I had someone come into my garage in the middle of the night in December, who woke me up and I confronted him. He ran away, so it was technically a nonviolent crime, yet I couldn't sleep for weeks and haven't felt fully safe in my home ever sense. The psychological damage is done.

We have a tendency to focus on the criminals with open arms trying to reintegrate and not overly punish people, and completely lose track of the victims. And when there's no credible consequences for bad actions, criminals become emboldened.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN, and especially not on classic flamewar topics. It does no good for anyone, and it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have not raised children; but very young children can tell gender apart from other kids ("Cooties, eeewww"), and they may be wanting to emulate the person of the same gender as them doing things like play with guns as sticks, etc.

The conclusion made: that one gender likes to play with guns, the other likes to be nurturing, aren't necessarily binding, is why I brought up external factors.
Early 00s? Back to 1995!
https://www.my-old-version.com/php/
The argument is that this isn't a great goal. The argument is that Apple has chosen a solution that doesn't conform to our legal framework.
I feel certain that an entire generation of careers started from Rasmus Lerdorf's little hobby project. Despite the fact that things like Perl Mason, Tcl web apps, and your bog standard CGI scripts already existed, nothing compared to PHP's wild grab bag of a standard library, and above all, the documentation with user-contributed notes and examples (not to mention that there was nothing similar/free in Windows-land).

In some ways, that incredible ease of use of PHP for backend mirrored the ease of use of Macromedia Flash for animators and front-end/UX designers, which also led to a generation of middle schoolers and high schoolers tinkering and learning from each other and accidentally falling into a real career path.

Thank you Rasmus and PHP team... despite all the warts PHP gets often-deserved flack for, you have undoubtedly changed the lives of, quite possibly, hundreds of thousands of people who would never have become professional developers without the easy on-ramp that your creation provided.
That argument applies exactly the same to everything which already exists, and we already have liability and lawsuits and insurance for that. I can monkey with a lawnmower and have it kill an unwitting innocent user. There is really nothing magically different about a self-driving car in that regard. It's the same as a regular car. A self-driving car is just another piece of equipment that somebody owns and is responsible for it's actions.
This comment seems to imply that certain beliefs (ostensibly your own) are objective truths/facts that hold special merit. This is simply not the case.
I haven't. But I am going to order one and see. It would certainly make sense that they are elevated when the windows are closed. Thanks for the thought.
Good question. A quick search suggests that right now it's not widely grown, less than 1% of all coffee grown, and the flavor profile – sweeter and fruitier – is not popular with the coffee world. It's also said to be less productive than arabica and robusta.
> noble

Telling that you'd use that term.

Not all founders work hard. Not all founders are revolutionary. They are not lords and do not deserve worship. Altruism deserves praise. Employment deserves payment.
Does anyone really believe that these giant companies actually care about the so-called 'woke' values being foisted upon them?

Once companies realize that getting political is no longer a virtue (and by 'virtuous' we mean anything that increases their bottom line), we'll slowly start seeing sanity crawl back to the workplace. I'm glad to see some companies clearing that path.
I am aware of all of the context you have provided, thanks.

You're mostly right, but I don't think it's correct to say that the "entire history of this issue is roughly 100 years old". At least in the minds of many of the people in the riots — because this isn't exclusively a conflict between militants — it is about who owned the land first. Who's right here? Well, it's disputed. That's… why there's a war.
Whatever modern non-normativity pressures might possibly exist, the status quo is that male and female role models in society embody different characteristics. Looking out at the world & seeing what people who look like you do, what roles they embody matter.

Different angle, but former & new CEO of TSMC Morris Chang, in a 2014 interview, talks about how he came to semiconductors: he looked around at what other asian businessmen were doing, switched from Harvard to MIT because no opportunities, examples open to him, & saw "no chinese American politicans, no chinese-american even businessman" (1949)[1]. Obviously this is no longer 1949, equal rights is literally the rule of the land in a fair part of the world. But it's a strong story of role models mattering, of doing what you see. And there are definitely still gender-roles prevalent within society, roles taken by masculine figures, roles taken by feminine figures, and people looking in the mirror are like to understand, to see themselves forward on paths where they can already see people who resemble themselves succeeding. Disrupt this, please, but to me, the pressures towards non-normativity are greatly outranked by the evidences & pressures of what we already see in the world.

Last, I'll throw in a shout out to Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota[2] series. It's a wonderful story from a Renaissance history professor, of a post-geo-governmental sci-fi world, of politics & great events. One of the interesting flourishes of the book is that the world has largely decided to make gender taboo. To adopt a willful genderblindness, to try to treat everyone equally, to regard to everyone with non-gendered pro-nouns. The world has worked to undo the pre-dispositions set up, actively, rather than merely requiring a legal treatment. It's an interesting detail of the world, & causes no end of tension & complications for the characters of course, which is just one part of this wonderful interesting highly interwoven saga. It speaks to the difficulty of the social science happening in this article, to the impossibility to build a control group that could ever test out how sex shapes us, because so much of society is suffused with it. Even in the Terra Ignota world, where a agendered Puritanism has taken over, the old roles still have root, even though they are illegal, & must hide. When people talk about their anecdotes of boys & girls having different behaviors, I think they must just be so blind to how much influence, how many opportunities for messaging, how much of a status quo the world has, how much they are up against to provide that equal chance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEh3ZgbvBrE#t=29m https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611648

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Ignota
That's a terrible and misleading paraphrase of the above post, whose main point was contrasting the extreme risks inherent to auto repair to the mundane risks of computer repair. Which makes some specific arguments brought up against right to repair like battery replacement being too dangerous for independents/end users seem unconvincing. Perticularly because vehicles themselves have dangerous batteries.

Here's an allegation of that argument being brought up by Apple.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/05/01/apple-iph...
74% is still a far cry from a solved problem - what do they do with the quarter that can't be recycled?
Aluminium is actually 100% recyclable with some countries approaching 98%.

Plastic has symbols that tell you what kind of plastic a given piece of packaging is made of, and the consumers need to figure out which kind are recyclable in their particular state or local area. Then some plastics are thermosetting and therefore unrecyclable - they have to be broken down through pyrolysis or similar.

So while it's true that plastic recycling is possible, you have to:

1) sort out the random mish-mash that is the recycling system which vary by local area and are incomprehensible to consumers for the purposes of sorting.

2) Increase that 74% number to something in high-90's. Probably forbid unrecyclable plastics for single-use consumer goods and packaging, and somehow constrain the wild variety of plastics that enter the waste stream to a few known varieties that can be sorted

3) forbid items that shed microplastics like there is no tomorrow. This would include clothing made out of nylon? This seems very unpopular.
because M1 has memory leak
https://www.apps-mac.com/issue-with-the-m1-mac-ssd/
I wouldn't have chosen the term noble either, but remember there are some non-native English speakers here.

Fundamentally, people don't start companies for social status reasons - if anything, social status is the reason not to quit your comfy executive job at a large tech company and instead have to work out of a co-working space.

And since your own description of your professional career implies that your startup didn't make you a billionaire, I really don't understand why it was necessary to bring up the "multi-hundred X income multiplier" fallacy.
You can’t, because no app can install other apps. So sandboxing would need to be significantly changed.

Every big software publisher having its own store implies that our details will be stored in more databases, which increases the risk of hack or leak. The alternative would be to not get apps that we can currently get without risking much. It is hard to see this as a progress.
HR is not usually an important or powerful part of a company. I wonder if HR people, consciously or subconsciously, are drawn to the idea of being important and powerful for once.
Sourcehut Is Leaving Freenode
Definitely will if the oven is big enough. probably the OP can factor that in too :)
It is absolutely an OS issue, but neither mobile OS has any incentive at all to do anything to make PWA's actually work.

In fact, they have every incentive to make sure they don't work. You can see this in their constant regressions in areas that only actually matter to PWA's.

I will say this: Google has been a lot more fair and open to PWA's and related tech (like WebRTC) than Apple. Apple absolutely hates the idea of any web app that might survive outside of the app store. In fact, for a very, very long time you couldn't even upload a photo on Craigslist with a standard HTML "Browse" button, because "IOS doesn't have a filesystem." It was a conscious decision to not allow the camera to be accessed except from within an IOS app.
I think there's an unspoken implication that "complexity" refers to implementation complexity, not removing needed functionality.
Am curious to see the perf boost from next gen gpu hardware (if you can get your hands on it). Sony's PS5 VR set is maybe a year away. But Wrench VR is one of those titles that gets attention. And the chrome shaders look immersively photoreal with DLSS and Ray Tracing turned on!

Wrench with RTX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhe4V-sqjwg
> As some signal for this Florida is USAs old people home, so you would expect that if masks had a large positive mitigatory effect then Florida with its low mask use would do worse than CA and NY that has low mask use.

Again, this has a problem of failing to address case timing and distribution, with CA and NY being hard hit and having COVID into the community before there was much awareness or any policy response (e.g., targeted control measures directed at elder facilities) or personal behavior response or evolution in treatment protocols, which radically changes the dynamic vs. states that weren't hit until after public awareness and health care competence was more advannced.

And presumbaly, you mean “CA and NY with high mask use”, otherwise this argument is nonsense. OTOH, no one has cited any data supporting the “CA and NY are representative of high mask use states while FL (and TX, as claimed in other posts) are representative of low mask use” argument, which seems to be based on stereotyping based on dominant political parties in each state and leanings of political leaders of each party on mask mandates. What data there is on this doesn’t seem to support that this stereotyping accurately reflects mask use, OTOH; i.e., a study on mask use with self-reported data for May through August of last year had mask use as:

AUG: CA 74.6% > FL 71.6% > NY 69.6% > TX 69.1%

JUL: NY 80.6% > CA 74.3% > FL 66.9% > TX 66%

JUN: NY 56.4% > CA 48.7% > FL 45.1% > TX 42.4%

MAY: NY 46.1% > CA 45.2% > TX 43.8% > FL 43.5%

APR: CA 38.1% > NY 36.1% > FL 35.0% > TX 32.4%

And, notably, all four states were in the top half of the country in mask use in all 5 months with data.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
And use SI units of measurement instead of cups, teaspoons and other ambiguous terms.
I'm missing your question. Who is forcing anybody to marry who?