skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, there is an obvious explanation, which, I feel all of us with sufficient exposure to both genders must know -

I read this and immediately assumed you were going to say its obvious that women are taught how to behave, and that they're taught things related to what they're supposed to know.

Your comment alone is enough proof that society is telling women they aren't supposed to like science. Any young engineer reading HN may start/continue to subconsciously question their affinity to the field.

Women ARE taught that they don't belong in stem fields, and that science is not for them. I was picking out books for a 5yo girl and boy twins for christmas recently, and the nice lady at the bookstore told me to get a glittery princess book for the girl and a scientist book for the boy. It was not a malicious act meant to keep women out out science, but just something we take for granted in society. Fromm a young age we tell girls what is and isn't for them, subconsciously.

IEEE has studied the affects of engineering graduation and job retention, and its correlated to a womens self-identity as an engineer and their perception that they belong. Starting from a young age, society is damaging that perception. I'll link one study, but they've done a number of studies, including tracking workplace treatment of coworkers, and women are consistently treated worse and are questioned more and trusted less.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5673614
Ha, I won't, but thank you.
I don't know if this would affect the observed/reported differences between sexes, but there are also different levels of knowing.

I would have known that neodymium is some kind of a substance, but I wouldn't have known or remembered that it was an element without checking. I'd probably answer I knew the word "degauss" but if I had to explain what it physically is, I'd struggle. I might not remember what distinguishes howitzers from other artillery pieces. Out of these, I'd probably report not knowing neodymium, knowing howitzer, and be a bit torn on degaussing.

Someone might know that a katana is a weapon, or "some kind of a ninja thing", or maybe even a sword, but might not feel comfortable enough about the details to report knowing it. Also, it might be more well-known among younger people who know the pop culture than people who don't.

But then, I guess it might also be that people just have rather different areas of familiarity, as the article indicates, and a significant part of the English speaking population might be as clueless about katanas as I am about tulles, or whatever the plural for that is. I only knew one or two of the words from the upper half. I'm not a native English speaker, though, which perhaps not only limits my vocabulary compared to native speakers but might also tilt things even further towards the science/tech words.
The article opens with an anecdote about the experience of a philosophy PhD candidate, then moves on to explore statistics.

I believe these types of analyses on the value of a graduate degree should be separated based on field. There are vastly different day-to-day schedules and expected career outcomes for a graduate student pursuing a PhD in, say, philosophy; versus economics; a life sciences field; mathematics; an engineering field; and so on.
Think “entrance exams”
> The Consul cluster would hold an Entmoot

Hah! That one got me. They know their audience :)
It is plausible that our visible light signature might be reduced (though I don't agree it is necessarily wasteful - like lighting up evening outdoor events). But we should consider the entire RF spectrum. You'd have to go to an extreme to not have a modern civilization without notable RF emissions at some level. (e.g. Dyson sphere).

Section 2 of this paper has some fun info on the ability to detect our radio signature at great distances.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.5540.pdf

For example, the Arecibo Planetary Radar typically transmits at a power of 0.8 MW and a frequency of 2380 MHz, with a gain of ~108. This means that low bandwidth transmissions from Arecibo, with B ~ 0.1 Hz, would be detectable by a watcher with a 1 km2 receiving antenna at distances up to 200,000 light years, while high bandwidth signals, with B ~107 Hz, would be detectable out to about 5 light years by the same watcher.

By comparison, television carrier waves have similar power but gain ~10, B ~ 1 Hz, and frequencies in the range of 100 to 2700 MHz; such signals could be detected with a square kilometer array out to a distance of about 50 light years.

RIP Arecibo
> We need to understand if we're being manipulated

We don’t need to find that out because we are being manipulated. These are algorithms designed to maintain attention and sell ads. It is impossible for that to not be manipulative. The goal shouldn’t be to understand the algorithms, but to stop them from ruining our lives.
If the compiler developers were developing their own circuits, yes.

But likely, Intel/AMD would have had to pay fees if they were implementing a similar solution in their hardware.
> Have you never shopped for textiles for your house or apartment?

No, never, and never plan on doing it. I currently rent, live alone and don't care. If I ever move in with someone again and that person cares, they will make all the decisions themselves, and if they don't, we'll just default to whatever's already in the apartment or hire interior designer if we'll be renovating.

And that said, I'm still an outlier in male population because I like male fashion, obsess with Rick Owens, Margiela, Alexander McQueen and some local brands, have my nails painted and wear a lot of accessories.
There is a HEAD ref which represents the default branch, and points to master, main, develop or whatever.
Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va
Ask HN: Great Books from your 2021 Reading List?
Did you read any interesting novels or books last year? Please share them with us. Some of my favorites from 2021:

* East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Steinbeck beautifully captures and shares the culture of old America through the lives of two families that become interwoven over time.

* H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald's book is part auto-biography (dealing with depression), part biography on T. H. White (of Sword in the Stone's fame), and lightly part guide on caring for hawks.

* The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. This was actually a repeat read for me after 7+ years of my first read through. Two new foundations are created to save the milky way galaxy from 30,000 years of war and anarchy after the fall of the galactic empire. Their goal is to limit that period to 1,000 years.

This post is inspired from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576
I'm stunned at the board's complete lack of awareness.

I would have hoped that any competent board member would want to view metrics around retention and morale, and that large shifts would be something they'd dig into.
Apparently sleep is when we form our memories and they make sure I don't get much of that.
Since there is a goodly number of other companies that mimic the process, the rejectee can apply the prep to the next job. Not saying that’s socially optimal, just a specific possible value.
I've not used Heroku, but likely it's because they don't give you IPv6 in the thing that does the checking.

Try https://ipv6.google.com/

On your page I get:

connect ENETUNREACH 2607:f8b0:4004:c08::8a:443 - Local (:::0)
Show HN: We’re helping teams do root cause analysis with Prometheus
Hey HN, I’m Matt and I’m on the founding team at https://www.asserts.ai

We help teams use their Prometheus metrics to solve problems faster and remove the toil from their troubleshooting workflows. Everyone already uses dashboards and alerts, but these don’t scale well. Why not? The usual advice is to alert on symptoms but then you have to hunt for the cause of the problem by either sorting through lots of dashboards or writing PromQL queries. That gets tiresome when you’ve got a busy on-call rotation or a complex app.

Here’s what we do: you send us your Prometheus metrics and we scan them to build a map of your app and infrastructure. We continuously check your metrics for common problems like resource saturation, error spikes, and so forth (we have a library of health checks but you can write your own too in PromQL.) You also set up some service level objectives so we know what’s important to you. When something goes wrong, we show you both the symptoms of the problem and all the potential causes we detected on a timeline so you can easily connect the symptom to the cause.

To try us out, you set up a remote write of your metric data from your Prometheus to our hosted storage. This usually takes just a few lines of configuration and 5 minutes.

Are you happy with your team’s troubleshooting workflow? Your feedback and thoughts would be really helpful!
> I'm in my mid-40s: there's nothing deep or mysterious to "get" about TikTok. It's short-form video snips/vignettes, mainly of people showing off for their friends, trying to cash in on short-lived audio trends and meme pipelines, and sometimes both.

What this misses is that TikTok is a radically different experience for different people.

For some people, this description is very accurate. For other people, they would barely recognize TikTok on the basis of this description.

This is what has led to so many mis-representations of TikTok in the media, and the misunderstandings that result from that.
It depends on what sort of tunneling you're doing. If you just want a general-purpose private VPN, Tailscale is amazing. That list is more focused on the use case where you want to host a public server on a machine that isn't accessible to the internet (NAT, corporate firewall, etc). Think a shared Jellyfin server for your friends and family.

You can use Tailscale here but you'll need to separately run a reverse-proxy on a public machine. There are more moving pieces but if you're using Tailscale already then it's a good option.
I only know them because I shop at huckberry, but maybe they're just winging it =). It seems like Toms makes espadrilles for men that were popular for a hot minute there.
It's one of those words that was applied to people who had no real say in it, and some people are taking a bit to catch up now that trans and intersex people have an actual voice. There's no Grand Queer Consortium deciding it, so you'll find people who don't care, but it's broadly Not Okay now.
The new translation of "Letters To A Young Poet", which restores the half of the conversation that had previously never seen print in English before, is a must-read. (ISBN 978-1-63149-767-4)
Interesting. I (male) recognize all but one of the "female" words in this list (and can define most of them), but recognized only 6 from the list in the article, and could define only one or two. I wonder why the article's list is so much "harder".

(I recognized and could define all of the "male" words in both lists, so I do seem to conform to this stereotype...)
It's funny you bring this up, because I had the same thought when I was first implementing SSH (the initial implementation relied on native WireGuard, and just plugged a client certificate into your running SSH agent). I thought people might not want to enable SSH access, and so I made the provisioning of the root SSH certificate optional: you have to run `flyctl ssh establish` to tell us to set up a root cert for your organization.

It's turning out to have been a misfeature that confuses people more than it helps anyone, and we may get to a place soon where we just automatically provision a root cert for new organizations.
Yeah, me too. I worked at a place in the 90s that was absolutely going in that direction, but I had no word for the phenomenon.

They were an all Vax/VMS shop in the mid-90s, and they paid developers criminally low wages even for the era. I was hired in an analyst/project management role at a considerably higher salary, which of course made my group unpopular with the dev rank and file.

Turnover was insane -- like, 40% a year in the dev & IT department. Those that stayed were, generally speaking, those that either couldn't conceive of seeking another job, or were unable to do so. This is not a recipe for a functional or high-achieving group even without that by-that-point religious adherence to the party line on (a) the long-term viability of VMS and Digital generally or (b) the wisdom of insisting that damn near everything be built from scratch, even the database system.
I don't know if their argument of "quality over quantity" can be interpreted as anti-intellectual necessarily. If anything, I think that can be seen as pro-intellectual and against stats/funding-chasing.
I remember from another study that "cybernetic" and "taupe" were highly polarized. which direction is an exercise left for the reader :)
Maybe someone should tell the former chancellor of Austria who had to go because of corruption who his hanging out with. Or maybe he knows...
Prototyping a small subset of Luau in Agda
For long, I wished Winamp would be open sourced. I don't understand the benefit of keeping it closed.

I'm not sure I would be back to using it though. I'm used to my current player, which already does everything I would expect from Winamp, with a (arguably) worse look but much better UX.

Audacious with the Winamp classic interface is also a great Winamp for those who (still) fancy this look and feel.
It sounds great but what happened to it between then and now? And will github copilot suffer the same fate?
Yes, of course I realize that. I hope you realize that even if they get these research reactors to work (which is far from given) that there will still be a shit ton of work to be done before this technology can be used to produce commercially viable power.
If a company does shady enough business that it has problems hiring developers, and decides to spend money on flying and lodging remote candidates rather than improve its practices, why should we feel bad about having them spend that money?

You don't force them to do it, you don't lie in your resume that they decided was a desirable candidate. If they can't convince you to come on board, that's on them; hiring is a mutual negotiation.
Brit here, slightly different topic, but related. American corporate culture scares the crap out of me, I never fully understood why there is such a presenteeism culture. I mean it exists here and in Europe but not to the same extent and where people are just numbers that are hired and fired so easily without workers rights.
Beyond removing the unique identifier that allows advertisers to track you across applications (IDFA), Apple really hasn't done much to enforce tracking via other means. Depending on who you talk to, they tacitly endorse any and all non-IDFA tracking even when users opt out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/23/iphone-...
Female shotput athletes are extreme outliers.
If all apps go on strike, an app that crosses the picket line gets all the revenue in their market. This is related to the economic term "cartel", and why they are unstable in practice.
The owner of SerpApi.com posts here. The api allows for searching popular indexes and getting the data back in JSON format. Developer friendly product, of course. Not sure you'll get such detailed information about operations, but an interesting question. Perhaps the future for all of us, is APIs.

I think the secret is building an api that on its own is a true niche offering. It would fit within an app that you can imagine others might build. That is key. A given feature of this mythical app, but be solved by the api. But solving a problem so complicated on its own, that someone would venture to not do it themselves, in a weekend.

Such is the case I suspect with SerpApi and Stripe, and the like. I've used a certain SQL layer, and considered crypto api layers before. Perhaps think about those domains?
They'll need to go through Apple's approval process first. And if they mention breaking one day in any manner, could get rejected, or worse, booted off the store.
Apple has developers by the neck.
> What does it take to uplift myself and my own levels?

If you are not already, I‘d invest heavily into health. I‘d check for undiagnosed ADHD/ADD. I’d lay off cannabis if I were using it. I‘d read up on how dopamine can be increased (there’s often some low hanging fruit). No harm in at least investigating in that direction.
I've worked at a number of startups and the CEOs, beyond founders, have been great. None of what is in this post sounds normal.
But once a company is public, then maximising profit is really the only goal. If you don't do that as a CEO, aren't you being negligent (doing something illegal).
Basically a rich gay guy with an anti-gay agenda. Curious what dynamic people like this would be like without being addicted to money and power.
This is the basic problem with our democratic, capitalist, lasaiz faire system. Thiel has and will continue to have more power over the direction of our government than any of us. Why? Because he ammased an obscene fortune. But why is letting rich people have more power a good system of government? You could say it's ok because other billionaires are going to fund the other side and counter Thiel, but now we're talking about a system of government of competing oligarchs. Why have we given up on our democratic ideals of "we the people" ?
Very cool!

Found a gap, Linux Foundation's FD.io's VPP (a high performance network virtual switch) has native wireguard support as well, all in userspace. Support here means you can do full kernel bypass from the app all the way down to the NIC card (e.g. via DPDK).

https://docs.fd.io/vpp/20.09/d5/d54/wireguard_plugin_doc.htm...

I'll open a PR on this later.
I don't get why everyone seems so hung up on the interview.

Relax, talk about yourself, talk about what you've done.

I think doing things like this and from the thousands of Reddit posts about "the dreaded interview problem" only leads people to over think it and have worse anxiety and performance, not better.

The interview to my first job was just listening to my then-boss talk about the company for 30 minutes, the second was stonewalling while my boss grilled me to make sure I know what I said I know.

You're not going to be able to "train" for that just like you can't "train" for getting rejected for dating, you just have to learn social interactions and go do it a couple of times.

----

I did just remember my worst interview experience, where, after being jobless for a number of years (early on, mind. I'm still young) I applied for phone IT support. - the interviewers asked me to:

"describe the best vacation you had"

"I haven't really been on a vacation" (I haven't been working, poor family, etc)

"Ok describe the vacation you would like to have"

"... I literally don't want a vacation.. I am looking to find work." (Jobless.for.years. every day has been a mediocre vacation up until this point.)

"..... Ok just tell us a story about a vacation"

"....... Ok I suppose I'll go to Rome then? And uh... " Draws blanks

You can't be prepared for interviews where the interviewers are shit, nor if they blindside you with questions like that.

You also might lose your ability to detect bullshit if you try.
While I have no basis for my judgements, for some reason I think that "real" quantum computers just can't exist in our universe. May be it's not possible to correct enough errors or something like that. By "real" I mean those which can factor numbers that are outside of classical computing capabilities.

And those computers that do exist - they're just glorified analog machines which were known long time ago.
It’s funny because a lot of these are near everyday use French words:

- boucle: loop

- ruche: beehive

- chignon: hair bun?

- chenille: caterpillar

- bandeau: headband

- voile: veil

…
oops you're right, no idea where I got that factoid

yang had a test prep company that got bought by kaplan, apparently, per wikipedia
It was a great branding step though!
Yeah, the issue isn't graduate degrees, it's graduate degrees with no plan (other than a tenure lottery ticket) for where it'll take you.
I went way down the rabbit hole on this one. Seems that they are still made and used, fascinating!
Also worth reading: "Don't Become a Scientist!" by Jonathan Katz [1], "Women in Science" by Philip Greenspun [2], and "What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?" by Bob Henderson [3].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181018063835/http://katz.fastm...

[2]: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

[3]: https://nautil.us/what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-phys...
Perhaps, but isn't the ratio of crap to insight be relatively constant across nations? So the more total papers output, the more total insight.
Getting good at solving problems with relational databases is a highly underrated skill.

They are really underutilized by many projects.

Not to say any other software is bad, just that keeping the stack simple can help small teams move quickly and not get bogged down fighting fires. Also, the paths to scale up the major RDBMSes are well documented and understood. With a newer service and many interacting systems in your back end you end up having to be a pioneer (which takes time away from implementing new features).
My wife is a dressmaker so I know every word you mentioned.
That does seem to be the over all problem with progress towards the environmental goals that are necessary for our long term survival as a species. Every time we uncover that a company is doing something that is actively shirking responsibility the blame gets shifted onto the individual consumer instead, via Merchants of Doubt.
“Unix is a junk operating system designed by a committee of PhDs.” -Dave Cutler (2004)
I've tried to adopt mm tools a few times over the years. To me the main problem is I end up spending too much time adding things I never use again. Maybe I am just doing it wrong?
Dependencies are not equal in this regard. For example in a corporate context, we have basically 1.5 people in Eastern Europe maintaining Redis for 5,000 engineers. Kafka is more like 15.
It's anti-intellectual to blindly assume that the majority of papers published right now are high quality.
Gambling on options and crypto currency has only gotten easier over the years.
The data they used was ~3/4 USA, 1/4 UK.
Hot take - graduate school is frequently treated as a "backup" option when getting a job directly out of undergraduate appears difficult or unrealistic. This is a very damaging mindset, as the post-graduate options are not always much rosier than post-undergraduate, but comes with a likely mountain of debt and years of envy watching peers have multi-year head starts in their careers.
This isn’t guilt by association. That website is purely a grift, starting from its appeal to authority, leading into the Fox News nonsense and pseudoscientific slant, all the way to its Rush Limbaugh, early 2000s aesthetics. It doesn’t take a scientist to know that this isn’t how credible scientists operate, especially with the partisan hackery on display.
>This is absolutely not normal.

Is it "normal" for a company to stay "cozy and limitless upside" even as it grows to hundreds of employees?

>If you find yourself relating to this post, please start looking for a new job immediately

The parent post literally mentions quitting as one option.
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Usual suspects. Student loan debt, lower wages, high cost of housing, all delaying household formation.
Yup. I've recorded several albums, some in small home studios and others in pro environments. It's always been scratch track -> drums (me) -> guitars/bass (bass almost always direct to console) -> vocals.
82% of millennials have major regrets over their new homes
(Oct 2020)