skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here is a more comprehensive data bank of 982 individuals across 14 publications.

This is not comprehensive. It's a subset consisting of newer online technology publications, skewing toward consumer niches. Enterprise-focused publications are not included. Editors are not included unless they are on the masthead and/or have bylined articles. That excludes specialist roles such as copy editors and feature editors.

The other problem is tech journalism doesn't start and end at the U.S. border. On HN, I frequently see articles from Europe or Asia, such as news from Nikkei or Digitimes or Wired UK. Shouldn't that data be included on the graph?

That said, even if TFA is restricted to U.S.-based publications and enterprise tech is included along with all of the other behind-the-scenes tech journalists who are seldom acknowledged or credited, the race disparity that the authors identified would still be there.

Why? It's because the talent pipeline has been broken for two decades.

Before 2000, tech journalists used to come up through daily newspapers and then were hired by one of the consumer or trade tech magazines or sometimes a business newspaper or magazine. U.S. daily newspapers in the 20th century were pretty white places to work, and that was reflected in the makeup of the tech newsrooms (I worked in 3).

After 2000, the pipeline suffered. Newspapers folded, and there were few entry level positions for college and grad school journalism majors (who were increasingly diverse) to apply to.

Concurrently, traditional tech newsrooms started consolidating following the first dot com bubble, the 2008 recession, and the shift to online. Art departments and copy desks were let go en masse. Reporters and editors were let go as well, usually starting with the younger journalists but later expanding to very experienced senior writers and editors.

At these publications, there was almost no new hiring for FT reporter or editor roles. Empty positions were not backfilled. Among the younger journalists who left or were laid off, most did not go to Mashable or TechCrunch, which paid little and often would only hire stringers with no benefits ... instead, they went to industry, where Microsoft or Intel or PWC or whoever would give them 2x the salary and real benefits to work in their expanding marketing and digital content departments.
Feudalism is just governance in arbitrarily-sized lordship-fiefs, it has nothing to do with community dynamics or scale. If anything, most forms of feudalism began and ended in a historical age of small, isolated communities and unresolved barriers to cross-community communication.
The study in the article looked at hiring discrimination. The study focused on the tested and established method of correspondence testing to measure active discrimination, in this case response rates to job applications.

Gender segregation, ie what fields are dominated by which gender, is related but quite different. For Swedish numbers I can strongly recommend the primary source (https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/arbe...), collected by the Swedish tax agency and published by the government agency for statistics. The only major drawback is that it is a lot of information and its hard to locate the exact thing (Just choosing the right database interfaces can be hard).

That said, in this case, we can mostly identify the correct numbers. Librarian is a female dominated professions with a ratio of 2:1 (found through the database interface that lists profession and gender), with a similar gender ratio in favor of women for manager levels in the government sector (https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/arbe...).

It should be noted that Sweden has a very high level of gender segregation, and that segregation occurs based on multiple attributes.
It might be a little misleading to say populism is the point of democracy, but you're not wrong.

Either way, "the same end" referring to massive surveillance, social controls, etc.

In China obviously the CCP does all that

In the West, it happens more or less organically through populism: communities all installing ring cam, cancelling people on twitter, etc. It's driven by populism instead of totalitarianism.

And that's not even to say it's all bad either, if the vast majority of people want to see a neo-nazi lose their public service job, is cancel culture really that bad in this situation? Like you mentioned, that's essentially democracy.

However, it can get out of control when it's gone unchecked. Every now and then you see one of those "cancel culture gone wrong" articles upvoted to the top here, where one quote out of context gets amplified on social media and ends in lost jobs and death threats.

The real problem is that there is no mechanism to keep the overwhelming power of modern populism in check. The country wasn't designed in an era where a million people could start a shit storm together from separate geographies. In the 18th century, you needed to get enough angry people in one location to form a mob. That only happened in rare and exceptional circumstances. It was self limiting, in a way. The internet has changed the rules, so societies are still learning to adapt.
I think US (not just govt but as a nation) has lost the stomach to put up a fight.

I would add developed Western democracies in general.
"Don't talk to cops" is a popular idea, but nobody thinks the same of journalists even though most are effectively undercover idea-police for the establishment. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you by a journalist at no potential benefit to you. At best, they won't fuck up your public image.
There are at least a few spheres where purposeful discrimination is explicitly the intended goal, because advocates truly believe the solution will not be solved unless such things happen.

The example of this is affirmative action. If you could wave a magic wand that perfectly equalized yearly pay between all races of people in the US, you would still see wealth disparities persist for many years (possibly generations, and possibly not get any better), because wealth and financial literacy are passed down through families and interracial marriage is somewhat uncommon. Affirmative action (explicit discrimination on the basis of race) deliberately and purposefully seeks to counterbalance against this effect.

Now, I think that that issue is better solved by higher inheritance taxes, mandatory personal finance classes in schools, and more equitable school funding, but the point is that it's not always a lack of understanding of age cohorts that drives such policies. It's possible to understand the real logic behind such policies and still disagree with them.
odd that there is no mention of the traditional Chinese model where the doctor gets paid only if you are healthy
I mostly find the XLS/DOC formats more compact and they seem a bit more compatible with transferring to Excel vs the X version, but that is just a rough impression, not the result of any explicit testing. I'll give it another look - thx for the tip!
Amazon SES is very simple, you don't have to set up any infra on AWS, just call the API from wherever.

For 3000 mails a month, you'll spend $ 0.30.

Disclaimer: I work at AWS.
> Imagine. Your macOS suddenly decudes that you don't need a web server running on your macbook, so it randomly kills it to free resources for your browser. Would you be happy with this level of care shown by the manufacturer?

Your macOS has an unacceptable battery life already despite having a massive 58WHr battery - about 3.5x the size of a normal phone battery. Phone users don't want to lug that size of a battery around just to get battery life that's worse than they get right now from a 15WHr one.
One difference is that acquiring those other devices requires premeditation, whereas an AirTag is a cheap impulse purchase at Target.
“No true Scotsman…”
Who the fuck cares about cargo before trying to figure out if any second stage rocket that isn't a rock can reasonably survive the extended application of high G-forces
Totally. In most places what people call "estimates" are just wishful thinking.

And that client behavior you describe is what I think of as "Kirk-style management". An executive thinks that the way to get technical things done is to be demanding and shouty toward the technical person, insisting that the number given isn't good enough. Scotty's pathological response to the pathological situation was to lie his ass off about estimates: https://wiki.c2.com/?ScottyFactor
Then the doctor fires you for being unhealthy and finds a healthier patient. The patient would have been healthy even if he never went to the doctor and the doctor gets credit and payment for it.
> What do you mean?

What I mean is that the situation you describe, with C libraries deployed in distro package managers, is a reality only on servers and extremely niche desktop platforms. Most of the world of software, even in the C programming language, does not work that way.
Men tend to work themselves to death in much higher frequency than women. Women benefit from social fabric when they are at the bottom, even homeless women are housed (at unfixed address) while men really are on the street.

I’m of the impression that we can’t reduce gaps without introducing the threat of social declassment of women when they fail.
I always thought of Marriott as being an ethical company. When the ethics and good business diverge is where things are difficult.
Breaking into B2B SaaS
I still disagree with your premise. You’re saying that as long as the terms are clearly communicated they’re not a dark pattern, aka unethical.

I think if you’re using your superior understanding of the dynamics of using your product to create unreasonable gotcha situations that customers would not have agreed to if they had any choice then that’s dark patterns.

There are lots of examples but most revolve around lock-ins and ratchet type mechanics. Things like making it easy to create data but punitively expensive to get it out in order to switch products.

Things like making it easy to scale up the service but literally impossible to downsize also can qualify, which was the issue we were both referring to.

Or your example of a setup period could also qualify. Sure if it’s like super clear I guess so, but it’s pretty easy to see that often in that scenario people don’t realize the implications of the “onboarding period” and it’s a bit of a trick.

I’m speaking from personal experience this kind of trickery is rampant in trying to interact with many of these services. I got far into negotiations with a household name marketing platform and notice they never once mentioned the mandatory fees for onboarding. They also never said a word about outbound email limits and data limits etc. I knew only from stories from someone who had gone with them, gotten locked into a year of spending, and discovered in the first week that the service was literally unsuitable for them given their requirements. I was in a similar negotiation with them at the time and they were trying to trap me in a similar way.

Humans have a pretty intrinsic concept of fairness. There’s a cottage industry of SaaS companies that don’t care about that and many of us find it exhausting and not ethical. They use deceptive tactics with customers and anti-competitive tactics to acquire or eliminate competitors so you don’t have choices.

It’s a fucking crisis. Which is why this whole thread is raging with comments.
AOSP is horribly crippled by Google, as they move more and more features towards play services. Location, push notifications, etc.
How Twitter Got Research Right
Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’
> The other problem is tech journalism doesn't start and end at the U.S. border. On HN, I frequently see articles from Europe or Asia, such as news from Nikkei or Digitimes or Wired UK. Shouldn't that data be included on the graph?

Diversity in tech is usually discussed from a U.S. perspective. I don't think anyone is looking at diversity figures in Asian tech companies. So restricting the comparison to U.S. tech journalism seems fair.
It's wishful thinking to believe that we'll be able to prevent anyone from tracking our car's movements. It's just too easy; even without devices like AirTags.

GPS trackers cost like $50 and are smaller than a cell phone (thicker though because they usually have a big battery/lots of batteries). They're weather/waterproof for the most part and have strong magnets to attach to the underside of a car where no normal person would ever look. They usually come with hard-wire options as well so you can tie into a car's 12V system (depending on the car this is either trivial/fast with a vampire tap or a time consuming activity).

These devices can't be easily detected from a cell phone; it's easier to physically look for them than to try to capture their wireless emissions (unless you have special equipment). Some of them just record their locations over time and don't even emit anything at all but there's probably some that can communicate these logs via Bluetooth but I'm not sure how common that is.

Using an AirTag to track someone's car is basically ridiculously lazy and risky... Too easy for the target to notice IMHO.

For reference, most of the folks on HN could probably make their own GPS tracker with their microcontroller of choice and a ~$5 GPS breakout. Could even get super fancy to have it transmit coordinates via LoRa and whatnot. You could even 3D print an enclosure for it that precisely matches the contours of the underside of a (specific) car so that it wouldn't be found unless you were super duper familiar with what the underside of your car looked like.
Pay the doctor a fixed amount each month that increases as you get older. Sure he makes X right now, but if you live past 100 he could making 5X that.
I meant "reasoning" as in finding out the objective reason, within the realm of chess itself. Not in how the neural network conducted this reasoning under the hood.
A speaker in the Airtag that beeps once every 24 hours
Static typing is like an automatic test for a specific category of errors- type errors. That's why it's useful.

Ruby's choice of making it optional means folks like yourself who want to move fast and break things are welcome to do so, but those of us working on more mature systems that need the reliability and lack of bugs can add this on and get the safety.
>There needs to be a dependency on the index for duff's device to work right?

For it to work "right" the work inside the loop has to be quite minor. The point being that it saves on cpu cycles by reducing the number of times it does i < loop_size, i++, and the number of times it has to branch back to the beginning of the loop. It's almost always some kind of memory copy, or a simple read, lookup, write in which the inside of the loop will complete in a few cpu cycles.

If the work inside the loop is 100x the cost of implementing the loop there is no point.
I don't think I've ever seen a well functioning organization that gives a leadership position to someone who hasn't already demonstrated leadership qualities by proactively taking on a leadership role.
Hi HN!

I've been working with founders that are finding new startup ideas. I found that many were aware of B2B SaaS but were often intimidated by going out and figuring out which industries to go after and who they should talk to. I put the advice I usually give them into this handy little post :)
I think I disagree a little bit. You're right to say this would be abusive, but the obvious right thing to do is not to do quota on color pigment (why would a brazilian descendent of slave be equaled to a nigerian, or an american Irish the same as a south african descendent of colons, they're obviously all so different the color is irrelevant) but maybe really ensure no such selection is applied so I get why they re so stuck on doing stats to find a bias.

I m just sad Ill always be suspicious since I fit their whiteness definition each time I take a hiring decision... gladly I can be xenophobic and hire only multicolor french people in China hehehe and create diverse homogeneity ...
I will. I predict we will see it in the comments here - likely throwaway amounts.

That is why I was calling for a sense of perspective in advance.
malicious isn’t what is happening here. Ideological. You are saying it’s “simple game theory.” Which I’m highlighting is WHY it was important that someone won this knowing there was a stockpile of 40million dollars that the DAO represented. They knew the price they had to pay was over double the estimate. We could argue someone was just really passionate about the constitution or my point... they felt like the DAO winning this was part of greater ideological battle. The meme in crypto is its “probably nothing”
>The obvious, obvious thing is to simply pay the doctor a fix priced each month wether they diagnose you with something or not.

Easy fix... "Just be wealthy!" lol... :|

I've paid for the absolute best insurance I could find this year and gone to doctors my entire life that simply don't care. I've had everything from colonoscopies to MRIs done and I haven't spent more than one day in my entire life in a hospital overnight in over 40 years.

Many would say I'm pretty healthy, but who knows?

It usually seems like doctors peddle as much fear as web MD now in order to drive me through the service bay of fees every time I have an ache or troublesome pain.

If it's any consolation though, my dentist, my auto maintenance shop, my lawyer, and even my local supermarket want a constant revenue stream out of me because they have a pipeline of service that they know they can get a customer hooked on if they coordinate their efforts and make their pricing variable based on being properly opportunistic.

A lot of the tactics the health care industry regularly uses to sell services (and drugs of course too) are from the nefarious book of street drug dealers... In a bad economy, the scams and opportunism are ripe. Getting a second opinion is often VERY EXPENSIVE as well.

Be careful my friends, sometimes it's better to face your fears of "WebMD prescribed" death head-on rather than to bankrupt yourself, because if you don't die, living broke or in extreme debt can be a "silent killer" and harmful mentally and physically to you too. Maybe marry a doctor... That might cut extreme health care costs... By about 5% if you're lucky... :P
This article draws conclusions not in evidence, and thinking about this more broadly there is nothing about individualism that requires a loss of privacy. On the contrary, I myself, as most staunch individualists, are also privacy advocates, and we structure our lives to both preserve our individuality and freedom, and privacy is a central point of that. What external structures do not know about you cannot be used to manipulate or control you, so privacy is a bedrock cornerstone of individual liberty and the individualist movement.

Their example of doorbell cameras especially falls flat to me, because most people (including myself) are motivated to have a doorbell camera due to our own individual issues and not to support police dragnet surveillance. Some folks, myself included, even have made the effort to use doorbell cameras that are not cloud connected and record video locally on NVR so that this data can't be shared without our explicit permission. There is nothing about these situations that /requires/ a loss of privacy, and the causal link assumed in this article is not established within. It's simply the case that every major tech company is incentivized to create systems that destroy privacy because they can more effectively monetize on our data and government agencies turn a blind eye because they also benefit from the loss of privacy in the private sector. It takes technical acumen and effort to ensure your privacy while still taking care to utilize modern technology, and the majority of people, even in the tech industry, do not have the necessary technical acumen to do so.

This is clearly a problem, but it's not a trade-off between individualism and privacy, it's a trade-off between the greed of dystopian multi-national megacorps and privacy.
Doing God's work here
> Airtag technology should be illegal.

Yes, it should be - or rather mesh networking should be. Apple has deliberately enabled this by default, so that they can better spy on you (for example, now even if you turn off location services, Apple can still track you using other iPhone users near you - all this is deliberately designed to reduce our privacy.)
I threw myself at it. I now have an always running background app with battery optimization turned off and with location privileges that will drain my battery but I guess that's just the price Android users have to pay in order for iPhone users to enjoy their AirTagging.
Thanks for the correction. My mistake.
Python Antigravity
I wish I could upvote this more
https://vaccinedeaths.com
Much, much smaller population.

From OP: " So here is a more comprehensive data bank of 982 individuals across 14 publications."

It's that, vs. the millions of employees in big tech. So first you're dealing with the fact that smaller samples are going to have higher variance. Beyond that, though, since diversity has become important to businesses, tech employment has grown much faster than tech journalism. If you're actively hiring a lot of people, you can shift the mix by bringing in a larger proportion of people that are different than the initial population that you started with. If you're not growing, then that means people have to leave the original population, either by firing or quitting, and then be replaced. The latter takes longer than the former, particularly when you're comparing big tech, which has a huge amount of turnover at a given company, and tech journalism, which has much less.
And this was taped to the back of her car.
Ask HN: Which product improvements would, if shipped, make you say “FINALLY”?
Inspired by: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1458263819776512001
Countries with public health care have problems with health care as well. It is not a silver bullet. The incentives are different but it is still an incentive driven system.
Microsoft De-Indexed My Website from Bing but Says It Will Re-Index It Soon
Is there more information about this, in particular?

This is the first I'm hearing about this case.
(Copying from Q&A) Before starting out some time ago, I did some experiments with bup. I had a good experience with bup and high expectations for it. However, I found that quite a lot of performance was left on the table, so I was motivated to start elfshaker. Unfortunately that time has past so I don't have scientific numbers for you measured with other software at this time.

As an idea of how elfshaker performs, we see ~300ms time to create a snapshot for clang, and ~seconds-to-minute to create a binary pack containing thousands of revisions. Extraction takes less than a second. One difference of elfshaker compared with some other software I tested is that we do the compression and decompression in parallel, which can make a very big difference on today's many-core machines.
The space elevators problems include not only finding a good cable material, but also solving the problem of collision with satellites, so I'm not holding my breath.

Aerospike nozzles are spike nozzles where the spike is cut short and "replaced by air". They are shorter and usually lighter than equivalent bell-shaped nozzles, but they have bigger surface area in the critical section - most heat-loaded part of the engine - so cooling them is harder. For small engines the problem is cooling, and for big engines there is a problem of area where to put those engines (for large rockets length and weight of nozzle isn't a problem, but cross-section of the rocket, where the engines have to be installed, is), so aerospikes have different trade-off than bell-shaped nozzles.