skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However this one line seems like it would be hard to prove

Its a civil case. If it goes to trial, the standard of proof is “preponderance of the evidence” (basically, on the evidence presented, is the allegation more likely true than false), not the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

Systematic gender discrimination in promotions (absent a smoking gun like a document in which that is outright stated, or testimony of multiple ex-managers to having been involved in such a policy) may be challenging to demonstrate even in that context, but it is very far from impractical.
I'm surprised that CiviCRM [1] is not listed in the "Open Source CRM Alternatives" section. I think it should be.

[1] https://civicrm.org/
I second your thought. For sure, I am smarter and wiser then I was in my 20s, which wasn't long ago. But I am also carrying baggage of the past with me, which in some case makes less wise and less brave than I wanted to be.
They are hacked all the time....
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
I don't know if there's data, but I've seen other people posting about on Indie Hackers. I started noticing something was up when I saw the same generic comments you mentioned on my post as other people's posts.

Another thing that's interesting is after you post on Product Hunt, you may get emails from third parties offering services to boost your upvotes.
With the last two, does that mean I could generate a digital product/file in response to some filled in information when the customer is ordering?

I've been interested in generating procedural art, and some other similar things and that's been a sticking point.
At my brothers old dev job the women drank with the men. And by drinking I remember visiting and seeing one of the woman devs with a half empty bottle of rum and a can of coke at her desk. FWIW, the boss was an alcoholic, though thankfully the happy kind of drunk. Weird shop for sure.
this is why we are a Republic of States, and we're supposed to care more about state and local elections than the Federal ones, but it seems like nobody learns this from high school civics class anymore (myself included).
I have to largely agree with those who complain of the article’s Golden Ageist position.

There is no empirical evidence in the piece. And this is obvious given that any evidence could only be subjective and interpretative based on behaviour between humans.

There is a great deal of objective[0] evidence that the general well-being of humans across the globe has improved. Women’s rights, famine, absolute poverty, gay rights, etc., etc., have all improved objectively in the period the article portrays. Even in the US, the focus of the article, this is generally true.

Could I ask a question? If we were to accept the article’s position as true, how many would trade the subjective deterioration of customs such as politeness and adherence to rules for the objective improvement in those things I list above?

[0]Some objective stats: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-wh...
There is definitely stuff that is non-standard, like the casting with :: in addition to CAST AS.

But it's true that PSQL sticks very closely to the standard or only adds on top of it, while MySQL is very uncomformant.

Funnily enough, I actually first used Postgres over MySQL a long time ago when I moved from PHP to NodeJS, and was annoyed that MySQL uses backticks for identifiers while PSQL uses SQL standard double quotes, because in JS multi-line strings (for SQL queries) are also use backticks and I was annoyed by escaping. Sometimes it's the little things...
Actually, "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in 1959, but I discovered it in the early 70s, as I suspect you did.
I think in most such cases an email account has been created -- but it's never used.
Because I want to be paid the same as equally performant people. I want the company to hire equally qualified people and pay according to equal performance.

Considering we all know hiring is an imperfect measure of skill, I would expect that pay diverges over tenure conditioned on identical qualification at hire.

What I do not want is for equally performant people to be paid differently on non-job-characteristics: so if, for instance, two people are roughly in the same bucket of performance, paying the woman less/more is unacceptable. Obviously individuals will see individual variation, but if across a number of employees, n, you see x% lower/higher pay for women than for men something is strange for sufficiently large x and n.

That is, either your hiring practices for women and men are not congruent, or they are and for some reason you're seeing poorer/better performances from women/men, then you have to identify the cause. The null hypothesis is that gender does not affect ability.
Most likely the similarities you see here are all the result of classicists (and likely Jaynes) reading Bruno Snell. Snell's most famous work was Die Entdeckung des Geistes, which posited that the integrated self was a recent development of the archaic age of Greece. Snell's theory, which drew heavily on art history, has not fared well given the discovery of much more advanced Minoan art.
In the interest of debate, I don't quite understand them either. But America is a country I have never fully understood!
That's more about challenging the status quo not bad project management.
How the heck is ass size of a fictional character something something journalistic integrity of video games?
Sounds amazing! Do you maybe have a direct link? Soundcloud doesn't want us privacy-conscious users browsing their website :(
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

― Mark Twain
> Seems pretty useless without that. Those are huge factors.

The point is to allow for more transparency, not perfect transparency.

> That's not the only question. The other question mostly being discussed here is if you want anyone to be able to know your salary by working backwards from the published list, specifically in small companies.

In practice this doesn't matter, but even if this were an issue you could exempt employers with fewer than 100 employees.
It's all on their site - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/ Their price list is at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list.html and the egress is under the "networking" section. Basically they give you 10TB outbound data transfer for free and charge as little as $0.0085 per GB after that. That's a savings of 90% (or 100% if you use less than 10TB transfer, which most apps do)

Additionally their cloud servers (and most other services as well) are much cheaper than comparble EC2 instances and every one of their services I've used so far also includes a free tier so you can try them out without paying anything.

All in all pretty pleased so far.
Satellite and Aerial Surveillance for Migration: A Tech Primer
Stopping by later in the day to offer a solution to my own question in case someone else is struggling with the same:

https://github.com/AveYo/LeanAndMean

If you can run as TrustedInstaller, it becomes feasible to rip all of this kind of bullshit out.

Just got my latest patched Win10 Pro copy running totally free of defender. Service is properly stopped. I was able to stop it like you would any other with TI privileges. Local admin just gets denied.
Well put. The book has pride of place on my ‘wonderful bullshit’ shelf - while not particularly believable, it’s still intellectually compelling.
"The serifs in Computer Modern are thicker than the thin stems of letterforms."

That's true of all serif fonts with thin stems, no?
If you are currently underpaid, it could reduce you leverage with the prospective employer. I have 2Xed my pay because a new employer didn't know my current rate.
MySQL always was primarily developed by an commercial entity. And always gave an license out under GPL (i believe very first used some other license as GPL wasn't known back then ...) Oracle took over the development team (lots of pre-acquisition staff included) and legal rights to all of that.

(Disclaimer: I started at independent MySQL AB more than ten years ago and now wear an Oracle badge, after wearing Sun for a while)
I believe this is the case for much of the software industry. There's even places where women/minorities make more due to diversity efforts. And then there's the few bad apples like AB where there probably was blatant pay discrimination.

The fact of the matter is: you have to have some negotiation skills if you want to get paid the best you possibly can, regardless of your gender.
What ruling class wouldn't want a population of children? Much easier to manage.
Because if one keeps it going, one lives with pride, knowing something useful was created.

In the other scenario, one has to live life looking over one’s shoulder, knowing deep down that one is a lying, cheating sack of shit.
This stuff always seem strange to me. We had a bar at the office. We used to drink at the bar. That's the point of a bar.

And because we were engineers we'd sometimes work past six on a Friday when others are at the bar. Sometimes I'd go have a beer with them and then go back to write some code because something struck me.

Sure I drank 'on the job'. That's part of why software engineering is fun. I get to do my job with these things included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_sig...
I mean, I guess what I'm saying is that in theory a single provider could purposely keep two different departments that manage their own artifacts independently.
The quantum computing industry definitely had a lot more hype than anti-hype. There is a very small minority of scientists who actually speak up against false or misleading claims, but a majority are either silent (why gratuitously jeopardize your own career or your funding avenues?) or amplify the hype (because their newfound startup depends on lay investors being excited for any reason so they’ll continue to put tens of millions of dollars in).

(To be clear, there’s a ton to be excited about in quantum computing, and there are truly legitimate careers to be had both as a scientist and as an engineer. But what’s exiting currently isn’t very marketable or fashionable!)
tobacco smoke is worse but obviously no smoke is good for lungs.
Straight up negligence.
Machine learning in a hurry: what I've learned from the SLICED ML competition
That's a great question!

What we currently do on SellApp, is block purchases coming from VPN's/proxies (via MaxMind) which'll help reduce the rate of fraudulent purchases.

However, that by itself is probably not going to be enough to keep a low chargeback rate for all our sellers, so we are also planning on creating a fraud detection system that factors in a number of aspects in order to keep malicious customers at bay.

For refunds, customers can open a ticket with a seller to request a refund. We also give sellers the ability to set a 'refund timer' and terms of a refund during the product creation process, so that in case something does go wrong, they have that to refer back to.

Lots of room for improvement on both aspects though!
Gender pay gap is not just about the wage equality in the same companies (AFAIK this is what the 2021 law concerns). It can for example also arise from the selective employment, which effectively segregates the labor force by gender. If my reading of the Global Gender Gap Index is correct, the disparity of estimated earned income in Spain is 34.9% (score 0.651), which suggests this scenario.

> I went to uni (sociology) in my mid 20s and I wasn't impressed with the ethical standards of the field, let's say that.

This honestly sounds like conspiracy believers. If you feel a particular statistics is flawed (perfectly possible by the way) you ought to give a counter evidence, not your anecdote.
People with schizophrenia-related disorders are likely to use substances to deal with the negative symptoms[1] of the disorders.

For example, there is a high correlation between having schizophrenia and consuming nicotine[2]:

> A strong association between schizophrenia and tobacco smoking has been shown in worldwide studies. Smoking is especially high in those diagnosed with schizophrenia, with estimates ranging from 80 to 90% being regular smokers, as compared to 20% of the general population. Those who smoke tend to smoke heavily, and additionally smoke cigarettes with high nicotine content.

I'd argue that nicotine use isn't a cause of schizophrenia, but an effect, as nicotine is reported to alleviate some people's schizophrenia symptoms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Negative_symptom...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Prognosis
The pricing page mentioning “platform fees” without specifying what they are doesn’t seem like the best thing. If you charge, or plan to charge, other fees, maybe also mention them on the pricing page.

If you aren’t charging fees yet you can turn it into a promotional thing about how you’re waiving the fees for the first X months.
While I think that's true on some level, in general I think this largely downplays Zuckerberg's competence. The company is $1T market cap and still fully controlled and executed by just him, the original founder. No other entity compares to that. It's the most concentrated power across the world we've ever seen. As powerful as president's seem, there's so many checks, balances, and compromises within and across parties to do things, I don't think it compares. And you just don't get there without an incredible amount of smarts and calculating.

If anyone has a small chance of ending up emperor of the fucking universe, as scary as that is, it's this guy.
After 2008 Blizzard produced Hearthstone, Overwatch and Reaper of Souls which consensus 'fixed' Diablo 3 and were all pretty great. So I can't comment about the culture but I disagree with the general narrative that Blizzard's games have gone off a cliff. That might still be coming, but it hasn't happened quite yet.

Edit: snipped the bit about Hero's of the Storm since that was post acquisition
What if experience is beneficial at such positions and fixing aging would benefit us even more? Imagine if Einstein and Newton each lived for 400 years and met each other.
Is there currently support for programmatically handling completed purchases? I can't seem to find any docs.

These type of digital marketplaces are actually pretty popular in gaming communities, where players purchase something through the store and receive it in game (e.g. runescape private servers), so I thought your username placeholder was pretty funny. Might be a niche worth exploring.
You don't think you could figure out a guaranteed painless suicide method if you had years of prep time?
+1 for MyRocks. If you can, try it. We store some text data and the compression is over 10 times better than InnoDB with a significative speedup.
A California state mandate on pay disparity would probably be generally well-received, for example.
Okay, I should have worded myself better. I was thinking of that kind of chronic pain as along the same lines of terminal illness, but I didn't make that clear.

So you just go into the "assisted suicide before illness gets too bad" bucket, not the people who "just want to die".

> Your current position sounds like no matter how miserable or how fleeting the moments of happiness are a person should just grin and bear it. They don't want to, but you want them to.

It's more like: if you exclude mental illness and intense suffering caused by physical illness, how many people still have lives so miserable they'd rationally want suicide, and how many of those would remain miserable if given a better environment to live in?

And you're reading too far into me having a position here. When I ask what that looks like, it's a legitimate question.
The Impedance Mismatch Test: Is Your Data Layer a Complex Mess?
Especially since it's so easy to lint for. This isn't some cross-file memory mishandling bug, it's a single token that's being used where it shouldn't be
> It's a contrived scenario

Any time you help people is a contrived scenario? Uhh... I certainly hope not. Putting a valuation on life is not a result of philosophical debate, it's a direct, unintentional, unavoidable consequence of any real-world action we take that helps people. The only way to avoid it is to avoid helping people. Which is ludicrous.

> Terrorism vs heart disease just don't really compete.

They sure compete for tax dollars and public attention.

> We're not machines.

No kidding. That's why we prefer chasing Bin Laden to chasing heart disease.

The "value of a life" discussion is an accusatory finger that says "yeah, actually we did have a choice there, and our choice had consequences," and I understand how that's uncomfortable, but that's exactly why we need the tool to hold our instincts accountable, such as we can.
Shouldn't matter? Protein folding is based on the laws of physics after all. If DNA sequences folds differently in different organisms then an external factor is missing.
When I say FiOS, I'm thinking gigabit+ FTTH/FTTD (I'm not 100% sure of the difference). Given that you quoted people per sq km (about 70-84 people per sq. mile), you're probably not in the US. In the US, it's hard to get fiber outside of areas with the high density I'm quoting (at least in my experience).

But yes, that density seems fine for Starlink (although maybe it isn't in the end, who knows yet.)
This is a double-edged sword, though.

For employees, working at a large company that has already achieved economies of scale is probably a better paycheck -- they have the budget to be able to pay you better.

For society, though, we definitely don't want those small businesses (which don't have the same efficiencies or economies of scale) to be boxed out by large corporations across the board.

Not that this means that we shouldn't have pay transparency (people can and should be able to make their own decisions), but the inability of small businesses to match the salaries of huge corporations is pretty unavoidable.
I'd be cautious with that, as the Purism security guy is not necessarily a free man to do what is best for the customers of Purism. He needs assistance, support and protection from abusive people, and small popes.
This seems like a great method for showing direction fields. And it's in the Gerris context -- double win!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27918330. Please don't reply to specific comments with generic posts that aren't really replies—it dilutes and distracts from whatever the parent comment was about. Just make a top level comment instead.
These will never give the right solution, only something close.
They still wouldn't know your rate. As I mentioned before, pay transparency isn't necessarily personally identifiable. Hypothetically you could've 4X'd your rate. Maybe your 2X rate is actually a lowball. Who's to say?
This issue is endemic and has been a constant problem throughout my career. They’re just big enough that they got caught.
It's interesting how you see a lot of research from foreign professors and universities about American trends. And a lot of coverage of American politic in foreign news. The opposite doesn't hold true.

I guess in the social sciences, bashing on the previous administration is seen as a way for career advancement? Even abroad?
On the one hand, I feel like its easy to make allegations, on the other, I hope they win, California needs money for 20k trash cans for the homeless to sleep next to.
You can support MeToo and also agree California does have a problem with unaccountable state bureaucrats run amok.
> Terrorism vs heart disease just don't really compete.

They do actually. Both for budget and for misery.
I dont think DevOps is a thing you specialize in, it’s a dev job someone has to do as part of some larger project. DevOps people get paid better because they know all the things that go into the project that other devs know, and they also know how to deal with large infrastructure.

If you only know kubernetes or docker without knowing what runs on them, it’s quite unlikely that your salary is going to be stellar...

If it’s money you’re after, quant/dev or algo trading is your best bet.
Not only that their support telephone line (in sweden) was down as well
… As intended …
This meteorite is older than dirt. It's older than rock. It's older than the hellscape that was the early Earth.

The age of the Earth is accepted as 4.54 +/- 0.05 billion years (determined to within 1%, that is, within 50 million years). That's based on samples of the oldest available Earth rocks, as well as lunar material (much returned by the Apollo missions), and other meteorite finds (Antarctica turns out to be highly effective at revealing meteorites as virtually all recent terrestrial rock is several kilometers under ice).

But the article does indicate that the age and primordial nature of the specimin is the principle interest:

“It doesn’t appear to have undergone thermal metamorphism, which means it’s been sitting out there, past Mars, untouched, since before any of the planets were created meaning we have the rare opportunity to examine a piece of our primordial past.

The one detail the article fails to provide is how the specimin was dated, though at 4.6 billion years, it's about 100 million years older than the highest accepted age of Earth itself. It would represent material from before the era of planetary formation within the early dust cloud from which our Solar System was formed.
I like Postgres but still turn to MySQL for production use most of the time for a few reasons:

* Permission management on Postgres is much more painful.
* The need for an external connection pooler makes postgres more annoying to set up.
* Better quality docs on performance tuning MySQL.
I'm still on the fence whether to apply or not.
> I really struggle to understand this equal pay business; I'm not (and don't ever expect to be) paid the same as other equally qualified engineers on my team.

Yes, and random pay discrimination (or discrimination on job-irrelevant traits like “salary negotiation ability”) are, on their own, legal.

However, if that is systematic by sex/gender its illegal discrimination, including if it is an indirect result of facially-sex/gender-neutral discrimination that has an unequal impact by sex and insufficient tie to legitimate business necessity (that’s “disparate impact” discrimination.)
Except there are actually no color difference in Shogi. Which player a piece belongs to is indicated by its direction (at least that's my layman understanding). I have no clue why English goes with Black and White.
> I asked the people there, "Do you want to sell any clothes or do you want to make excuses for why you aren't selling any?"

They probably just want to be left alone. They get shipped the stuff someone higher in the chain of command ordered. Why are you bothering the sales staff with things outside their control?
Met0x's Strategic Approach to Fundraising
Wikipedia can literally say anything.
The stats are a bit confusing on the home page. 1,100 stores and millions of views but only $32k in revenue generated?
There's a lot of news about AlphaFold lately but what about Rossettafold? Wasn't it more accurate and much faster?
Except he was on speaker phone and there were at least two people on the other line, which provides a witness to the statement and it is not just a he said/she said anymore.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27918330.
Negotiating skills ARE useful engineering skills (as much as we would like to pretend otherwise), just not included in the typical skills bucket.
Set your printer to 300 dpi.

No, seriously, when UTCS replaced the 300dpi laser printers with 600dpi models, Allan Emerson was very upset because his papers suddenly looked different. :-)