skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll have to help me. What does your mind jump to?
There may be an effect like this, but it’s worth noting that you don’t see these biases in the same way in single-sex high schools, which would indicate a high degree of social norms influencing things.
Hm. I think your post would be a bit more compelling if you skipped examples of verbosity that are due to Java being shitty. JS would be simpler for the point? [nevermind the person who said that it's a low-quality post; it's just imperfect, not low-quality!]

The compositional method of this is for each employee to have an `EmploymentStatus` member which contains information relevant to their employment status -- so `ContractorStatus` would contain hourly rate as a field; `FullTimeStatus` would contain salary as a field, etc.

The class-based version of this puts the same attributes on the classes directly. Without additional fields that vary depending on the type, it doesn't make a lot of sense as an example. The `generatePayCheck` function doesn't demonstrate this, because it could just as easily be a standalone function that switches on the class or on an `employeeType: Contractor | PartTime | FullTime` field (and in languages that are less janky, this can be a discriminated union that includes additional fields in the type. I guess you can do that with Java via interfaces as well but it's not gonna be fun).

A function that switches on the type, or an instance method on varying classes, or a discriminated union, or a composed attribute -- these are all isomorphic... up until you find yourself needing another type of variation at the same time. Perhaps you're modeling a university workforce and people are also either `Administration | Educator | Service` employees. Now you can't have 3x3=9 total classes, so you _need_ composition (for at least one of the type hierarchies, possibly both).

The best place to use class hierarchies is when there is one 'canonical' inheritance hierarchy, rather than a bunch of ones that should be ideally compositional. What classes give you that unions don't is built-in methods, but you need those methods to be relevant to every type in the class hierarchy, so they really need to be intrinsic to the type of object you're talking about. For employees, `getPaycheck()` is probably a reasonable example of an actual class method for this reason.
> There is a lot of work to do in getting real balance.

How about letting people live their lives the way they want to instead of trying to artificially change the society?
Rot 8000 and what “security” means
I guess it could be, but I think his point is that from a libertarian angle, the government should be out of the picture as much as possible. And one of the biggest ways to do this is invalidating software patents which would remove some of the massive barriers of entry needed to compete against the Googles/Facebooks.
celebrities getting harassed at their houses
Just a guess here, could it be because people find more success / public exposure in engineering?

We can all name famous engineers, not sure I could name a single famous public administrator...
Hi lady at the grocery store what is your name.

It’s Jane Smith

Later that day…
Then use one of the derivatives. Obarun, Artix come to mind.
Eventually you get stories like "How come fewer men are going to college!!" to really blow up. But no one wants to think about the un-PC reasons for it. It's all so tiresome.
Permission? He had authorization to receive the code to his PC. After that, he requires no further permission to examine it however he pleases.

Once you communicate some information, your rights to restrict how that information is used are very limited, and you don't get to whitelist specific uses and call everything else a crime.

The Facebook researchers likewise didn't have permission (from Facebook) to collect data on which ads users were shown. So is what they did also a crime?
Gah! Missed the date; my google-fu failed me and I didn't notice this was old news. My apologies.
The SEC is in the business of protecting investors not destroying peoples savings over a few inaccuracies.

Why would misleading statements ever result in a shutdown of a company instead of a fine?
You mean someone gave 1 billion of tether to buy bitcoin?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

Don't even start on other historical figures.

I think we need to be able to live with some facts because if we start erasing every person that has ever said anything racist or sexist then we would pretty much have to contend with the fact that in the past almost everybody was guilty (or we don't have enough knowledge).

Sensibilities were different in the past. Do not treat historical facts as if it happened today.

It doesn't mean it was right. But denying everything isn't very useful framework through which to look at the past.

Pretty much ALL of military was both sexist and anti-gay through entire history. So I guess remove all military names from everything?

If you go far enough back in time pretty much EVERY parent or teacher beat their kids. I am talking about abuse but about using physical pain as a teaching aid. This would be unthinkable today. Does this mean all these people were evil or is it that they grew up in a culture that made it ok to beat the kid a little bit if it was in the name of teaching him/her a lesson? And even made it a virtue... ("spare the rod, spoil the child")

Think about it, maybe future generations will look at eating animals the same way we today think about slavery?
Every day is a fresh adventure haha.
Thanks for the link. I wonder what temperature prevails at 1.0 AU.

On the one hand, artists’ conceptions of boiled oceans and cities in cinders that saddened and discouraged me in my childhood. On the other hand, the heat energy density of Sol today is comparable to a compost heap. When the radius of a sphere doubles, it’s volume increase eight times.

If Sol is too itsy to start helium fusion, maybe orbiting within the post-expansion photosphere - the hydrogen envelope - is chill, damp, and sparky?
Chem is also generally taken as an applied science degree, and it's even closer to gender parity, so that argument doesn't really seem to hold up.
>Using that we should see if there's any systemic issues keeping them away, and try and balance society accordingly.

What's wrong in letting the society balance itself?
Lol theres nothing "bad" here. Pick up any intro to psychology of gender textbook and you'll learn real quick that men and women have different - often evolutionary based - qualities that make them interested in different things.
When you say secured version of a site, I had assumed that you were talking about something that's meant for administrative employees and only internally visible, not something that is open to any visitor. I can't imagine the workflow in allowing a random user to make these queries.
Genuinely asking, is there any value anymore in promotions when the market seems to reward job hopping every few years? I think promotions were useful when someone worked only one or a few jobs in their lifetime, but it's not so useful anymore. The amount of effort to get promoted is much higher and with much lower reward than simply interviewing at a new place and getting that job within a couple weeks.
If that is all you care about. You aren’t spending $35K for a car. Even if you plan on keeping it for 15 years. Unless perhaps vans that accommodate your vacations cost more. Which still means you aren’t getting a sedan-ish vehicle.

I don’t think you’re refuting the point since you’re not one of the people that fits in the hypothetical scenario the OP presented.
Related trick: type the first couple of characters of the command in question, and hit PGUP until you find the correct version.
It’s a good opportunity if you are willing to think around those use cases. For Valve, it’s not worth it for them at the moment.
I think we as a profession have made a fundamental error of not internalizing the idea that we have different “colors” of data that need to be treated as such at all times. At rest, and in motion.

We have bespoke solutions to keep passwords and numbers out of logs by obscuring certain key, value pairs, but that’s exactly what it is. Bespoke.

Those fields should be protected at all levels. I don’t know if I would go so far as calling it a cross cutting concern, but there is definitely a problem with stringly typed data that is a mix of PII, privileged data and common knowledge.
I keep reading this as 'planet that survived the death star'
> There’s no more financial incentive to push these than to push Aspirin or Advil.

lol

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ivermectin-demand-dri...

> The website advertises consultations for $90 and fills prescriptions through Ravkoo Pharmacy, an online pharmacy that America’s Frontline Doctors advertises as “partners,” who provide “the option to have that prescription delivered right to your door, the same day.” On a SpeakWithAnMD.com intake form viewed by NBC News, prospective patients are asked, “What medication do you prefer?” The user is then presented with three options: “Ivermectin,” “Hydroxychloroquine” or “Not sure.”
Just out of curiosity- they used to be a christian scientist and now they’re not and go by xe/zir style pronouns? That’s quite a journey if so.

As for J&J, yes it’s generally the fact that it’s one and done so it feels less risky to people that didn’t want to get vaccinated. Then there’s the whole mRNA thing as well.
Yes, single-occupant single-car crashes.
Is there any real technical reason that forbid a non Android underdog phone maker like Pine64 to be able to run banking apps as MFA devices? I mean, I don't see any tech issue for this phone to provide a secure enclave chip (I mean, like one in a yubikey) and enroll in a standard WebAuthn workflow. I'm specifically looking at UE banks regulations that forces me to use my Android phone to permit/deny any operation instead of letting me use if I want my yubikey to do the same in the browser
A bargain at twice the price, given how much it saves in medical spending, loss of life, and long-term side effects.
> Income taxes are way lower in Alberta than Ontario; moving my remote-ok tech job to calgary was equivalent to getting a five-figure raise.

This is completely false.

Albert’s income tax rates are:

10% on the first $131,220 of taxable income, +
12% on the next $26,244, +
13% on the next $52,488, +
14% on the next $104,976, +
15% on the amount over $314,928

Ontario’s income tax rates are:

5.05% on the first $45,142 of taxable income, +
9.15% on the next $45,145, +
11.16% on the next $59,713, +
12.16% on the next $70,000, +
13.16% on the amount over $220,000

Sales tax is lower in Alberta (5% be 13% in Ontario), but income tax, especially on the first $100,000 is significantly higher.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...

Why are you lying, so blatantly?
This is, I think, a prescient observation. Most will take this factoid as anti-boy, which is also a problem as they are left to fend for themselves. But I suspect it also indicates the status of higher education will shift.
I never said what Zillow does is good or beneficial, just that they do add value.
Significance of numbers has little to do with the difference.

0.00000001% can be significant so long as the sample size be large enough.

It simply means it's unlikely that the numbers are caused by a statistical fluke and expected to show up again in a reproductive attempt.

Of course significant numbers are very often not reproduced, both due to that the publishing industry selects upon creating this result and because the mathematical principles that compute significance are simply abused, both willfully, and due to lack of understanding of the assumptions behind it.
immature students lack proper motivation ala zataomm, and there's what they say about women maturing sooner but maybe that's traditional wisdom and not scientific (zataomm isn't exactly scientific either but I think everyone agrees with pirsig)
> I don't know what the formal definitions of any of these things are, but I assume (hope?) that it's important not to equate being successful with being a monopoly by definition. If Ford came out with an amazing new car tomorrow, and suddenly 95% of new cars purchased were Fords, we probably shouldn't initiate trust-busting action against Ford on that basis alone. We want car companies to try to capture market share by making better cars.

There's an important difference between "capturing market share" and "capturing too much the market share." If Ford's going to put its competitors out of business, turn them into niche players, or even just get into a position where it can rest on its laurels for a few decades, our primary concern is no longer making sure Ford can be rewarded. Honestly, I don't see the downside of regularly breaking up a #1 player with too much market share into successors that are the #2 and #3 payers (and forcing major shareholders to divest one or the other). I want companies to be competing to get to the top, but once they get there, give them a prize for their effort and send them back down.

From my experience as a customer, Amazon's e-commerce operation hasn't improved much (e.g. their search is still as shitty as ever) and has arguably regressed in many ways (e.g. more shady products and fake reviews) in the last decade. That's pretty strong signal to me that they're not under enough competitive pressure.
Sounds like the current situation with broadband ISPs.
True but why does the fact that PhD's aren't as useful create a gender imbalance?
I seem to remember when with split was the other direction it was considered significant....

Seen as another example of Sexism in Higher Education

Interesting how things change
Hard to say. However if we are not close to 50/50 we should ask questions. Any imbalance could be a sign of something deeper being wrong - perhaps there is some discrimination of some sort? If the answer finds a genetic reason that males prefer engineering, then that is okay, so long as the genetic influence's affect are equal to the affect on society.

Right now I have no idea. I don't think there is a genetic reason for females to not become engineers, but I haven't studied it so I have to remain neutral on the question.
I agree, I don't think it's beneficial to society as a whole, but they do provide a service that some people find useful.
More than 7x ("at one point")
Here's Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Summarization from the parent page (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...): "In 2018, women accounted for 54 % of all tertiary students in the EU-27; however, 52 % of the students following doctoral studies were men. "
0.3 MP camera in 2021! Why ?

At least put a decent camera. 8 MP one would've been great.
In the US quotas only go one direction. You're not even allowed to have public discussions about fixing eg education disasters like what's happening with boys and young men. You'll get attacked, shouted down, called some atrocious names to discredit you, marginalized, and almost universally ignored by the media.

Meanwhile essentially all education metrics are worse for boys than for girls, all the way through university and the gap keeps getting worse. At some point the US is going to have to start having a national discussion about it, or the consequences will get a lot more dire (and it's already quite bad).
Facebook (and most other businesses in the space) is a system of manipulating and editorializing individuals' social communication in order to extract engagement-related profit.

This is not a common carrier, but an active distorter.
New medical information in the article: zero. Ivermectin as cure for covid: flamebait. Twitter death threats: flamebait. Both together: thermonuclear flamewar.
Supposedly, having a serious penalty for lying to the FAA should imply veracity. Same way perjury penalties should ensure truthful court testimony.

Agree the FAA should cross-check, before a plane crashes, but when they catch this behavior they should, IMHO, punish it.
Your code calls a library.

A framework calls your code.

This often makes frameworks incompatible, whereas libraries can be used in conjunction.
Man the a16z marketing machine is working hard unfortunately at cost of quality.

For those interested in FS and open source today, especially through a capital markets lens check out:

https://www.finos.org

Lots of great projects, one I used recently and a favourite was this:

https://github.com/finos/perspective
Facebook was good when it was just about adding your people and then seeing posts of your Facebook friends and messaging with them. It turned harmful when they forced the news feed content on everyone.

I'd like to share the most coherent conversation regarding the harms of Facebook (to a certain extent big tech algorithms/ML/AI). This is with Tristan Harris, Daniel Schmachtenberger and Frank Luntz. I didn't find any dull moment so please watch the whole thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPAOzlqcGIQ
This sounds like a you and your cousin problem. It seems pretty strange that it would be suggested that the government step in to regulate a third party because you and your cousin can't manage to stay in touch.
And crypto manipulators are trying to spin the recent price increase as positive news with absolutely no regard to how a similar price ramp up happened on MTGOX before it went down completely from insolvency. Has Bitfinex pricing decoupled from the prices on legit exchanges yet?
The search does not recognize what are individual components nor what should be in the title of a recipe. If I search for "white bread," I get recipes that don't include white bread as an ingredient and are not for white bread. I get mussel recipes that include "white wine" and say to dip bread in the broth. It's ultimately not a useful search.
This ignores many of the larger historical trends in fields like computing: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...

It can often be a surprising exercise to look at the history of fields that are supposed to play to "natural" gender strengths and examine how they've evolved over time.

> As computer scientist Dr. Grace Hopper told a reporter, programming was "just like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so that it's ready when you need it... Women are 'naturals' at computer programming." James Adams, the director of education for the Association for Computing Machinery, agreed: "I don’t know of any other field, outside of teaching, where there's as much opportunity for a woman."

Swap out some of the specifics, and the general tone of argument hasn't changed much since back then. It's just that we've now decided to substitute in other "obvious" conclusions about who is suited for which jobs.
Just as useful,

history | grep pattern

With all the useful grep abilities (like peaking at commands before or after the given pattern).
In the United States SSNs are treated as secret. I shouldn't have t care if other people know my DOB or SSN, but I have to care because tons of companies and government offices use these as proof of ID.
Not a problem in high trust societies.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-proxy

Integrates nicely with existing JS frontend tooling.
>if a class in college starts with 20% Indian women, then it should ideally graduate with ~20% Indian women

So you want to make college classes easier for certain groups so that they don't drop out?

I personally believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity... But an equal outcome inherently involves being unfair and disadvantaging a certain group for the advantage for another.
On Windows, Ctrl+Backspace will delete the word left from the cursor, Ctrl+Delete the word to the right. It's pretty much unknown as far as I'm aware but it has boosted my editing productivity immensely.

vi users will probably laugh at this.
> I don't see anywhere that a citizen can re-assert their right to privacy

That's because you usually can't.

In extreme cases you may be eligible for protected identity[1], but that status is not easily achieved.

[1] https://skatteverket.se/servicelankar/otherlanguages/inengli...
Worth noting that Postgres supports many more languages other than PL/SQL, the plv8 extensions allows JavaScript to be used for example.
I agree, most people are just weak, full stop.
Do the Chinese “own” our electric grids and other infrastructures?
How would society balance itself if there's no tools for introspection?

Would women have the right to vote if someone didn't say "hey this demographic here is not being represented". Would Black people in America be free?

Society needs to self reflect and introspect before it can balance. Numbers are a means to achieving that introspection.
Wait until you see how many women aren't in the plumbing industry.

> There are over 276,986 plumbers currently employed in the United States.

> 5.1% of all plumbers are women, while only 91.1% are men.

Women already have 5x as many engineers as they do plumbers. Maybe we should start concentrating on other sectors critical to modern society. I've never heard anyone complaining about this massive, massive disparity. I can only conclude that we care about women being in some professions, but not others, so it's not really about general parity. It's selectively targeted parity. There are many industries with numbers like this, not just plumbing.

https://www.zippia.com/plumber-jobs/demographics/
I fear your comment will be downvoted once the "this is HN, but I'll act like it is Reddit" crew arrive because you hurt someones feelings.
I think community plays a huge part. I'm not a tiktok user but I get the impression that a lot of the early tiktok users were heavily creative users. It's like a flywheel.

As these sites/services gain more popularity communities tend to splinter and it's up to the service to keep things going in whatever direction they want to via things like the fyp algorithm.
hmm I prob could make something kind of like a text editor in win32 fairly quickly as I can think of about a dozen built in calls that would make it work. Would it be full featured? Not much but it would do the very basics (cut/paste/save/read/edit). But that is because I know the system pretty well. If you dropped me into some other system it would take me a decent amount of time.
The so-called "hard problem of consciousness" may be a problem through which one may find a suitable definition for their own humanity, but it absolutely is not a scientific problem.

If one wishes to gain concrete data, one needs to define the problem before defining the answer. Any current "problems" relating to consciousness are explainable without needing a consciousness component. I have not encountered a single problem which couldn't be explained by pure cognitive computation.

Consciousness becomes a problem suitable for scientific endeavor the moment someone can actually define the problem.
The U.S. government insures its own currency using its own currency or security.

Tether can’t do that without hurting the stability guarantee.
I would agree with this assessment. As a long time teacher, our district is always talking about how to engage with hispanic males. They, as a group, underperform and no one knows how to engage with them and help them perform as they should.

It is always the same story and nothing seems to change.
an articulate and well-argued position
With things like custom operators, especially crossplane (but also anything custom you cook up fast) or even custom operator wrapping AWS or GCP templates it's easy for me to offer curated verified solutions across all teams, instead of every one hacking off their own AWS/GCP/WTFcloud scripts to handle things. Even better than directly using cloud provider integration with ingress/service controllers, because I can provide specific limited variants of those APIs. And even without that, I can just use hooks system to blunt corners for the teams.
A Boston Dynamics-style robot dog for STEM education and AI-enhanced services