skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Women aren't going to want to join a group where they're the minority

2. Given a brand new group with 0 members yet, it's still likely that women will avoid it, because of their past experiences with 1. putting them off joining groups in general

3. Women are less common than men in general in CS. Any group that accepts the average person will statistically end up with more men than women.

The groups that "advertise" to women avoid these problems, which is why they tend to work.

I agree that we shouldn't need specialized groups, but I haven't seen any other solution, at least in the immediate term. Likely society will improve simply due to the passing of time, and in 50 years from now and it won't be a problem anymore.
It doesn’t even have to be an intern. You could set up a pirate radio station with a DAB/HD Radio transmitter on a frequently-listened station at an overpass and see what happens.
Very cool! I did not know fresh water would propagate radio signals.
You left out the most important part - is your eye ok now?
Very interesting, and thank you for the information!
It largely follows gender stereotypical interest lines. In this one, my wife describes the list as "fashion related stuff". Here's another older list from a different study[0]

Higher recognition rates by males:

- codec (88, 48)

- solenoid (87, 54)

- golem (89, 56)

- mach (93, 63)

- humvee (88, 58)

- claymore (87, 589

- scimitar (86, 58)

- kevlar (93, 65)

- paladin (93, 66)

- bolshevism (85, 60)

- biped (86, 61)

- dreadnought (90, 66)

Higher recognition rates by females:

- taffeta (48, 87)

- tresses (61, 93)

- bottlebrush (58, 89)

- flouncy (55, 86)

- mascarpone (60, 90)

- decoupage (56, 86)

- progesterone (63, 92)

- wisteria (61, 89)

- taupe (66, 93)

- flouncing (67, 94)

- peony (70, 96)

- bodice (71, 96)

[0] https://www.insider.com/gender-and-vocabulary-analysis-2014-...
How does important in CSS work?
I get this reference. I'm just not sure if you mean scientists or science journalists.
Can someone explain to me why wireguard is implemented as a kernel module? Yes I get it, more performance. But isn't it completely and absolutely insane to run a complicated piece of software that is open to outside connections with kernel privileges?
"Amazon and Google’s pledges ranked low for ‘integrity’" lol yeah no kidding. There is zero chance that companies will put the fate of the planet and the poor above their profit line unless they are forced to comply. I don't believe for even a second that Amazon failed to set specific targets for greenhouse gas emissions per year to reach their supposed net-zero emissions by 2040 on accident.
If anyone would like to try their hand at predicting when this might happen, there's this Metaculus question[1]. Looks like the community median is 2047 right now.

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/8169/256-bit-ecc-to-be-b...
The "dead sea effect" is an interesting new concept I learned from that post.
I need to buy a vehicle with a back seat in the next couple years and I'm not sure where to start. I don't want a touch screen control panel. I want knobs and buttons. I want to be able to repair most of it myself. My current vehicle is a base model from 2005 and I don't know whether I can get a vehicle under 5 years old that isn't loaded down with tech.

If you know of anything, I'd love to hear about it.
> The company’s solution was to mass hire to make up for the losses.

Yeah, this company is in life support, then.

There is this other company where there are a handful of the shittiest managers I have ever heard of in my whole career. As a result, most key engineers are leaving, and the company is ramping up hires.

They don't seem to understand that it doesn't matter how many more people you hire, if all the know-how and leadership has vanished already.
mutex_lock makes 0 system calls in the fast case (when cmpxchg succeeds on the first try). mutex_unlock makes 1 system call always, but TFA mentions that it can be optimized by adding some user-space complexity to check if signalling might be required (if you can demonstrate zero waiters, then the FUTEX_WAKE is not needed).
Durov has said server code will not be open sourced since it would help countries block them more easily. They use many methods to avoid being blocked by government.

Also, https://t.me/durovschat/515221
There is an option to ignore line breaks, you can check it in the menu bar menu.
The Chinese consider the US’s current diversity self-flagellation to be very much one of their strategic advantages[1]. The paper is from the US point of view, but it’s the best I have on the Chinese one.

I think it’s blindingly obvious that unity is superior to division, and a society ordered toward unity will be more vigorous and persist longer than one ordered toward diversity. Fortunately, I don’t have to convince anyone. A grand natural experiment has been running for the past six decades. I predict that within our lifetime the USA will not be a functioning world power. It does concern me what’s going to happen to all the nukes when the country is torn apart by its own internal contradictions.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2013-anonymous...
> China has overtaken the United States as the world’s leader in several key scientific metrics, including the overall number of papers published and patents awarded.

Considering how meaningless "number of papers/patents published" is on its own, and ESPECIALLY how meaningless it is coming from a country like China that has perfected the art of bullshitting/padding stats...this article is next to worthless.

I don't know what's a worse explanation, that the author is naive enough to believe that's a useful metric, or that they intentionally used that metric to instill fear.
I see nothing typical in a terrible CEO that causes such turnover among all the company. Growing pains are communication issues, less transparency, confusing career path, bad onboarding, etc. This is not that.
It's useful when developing. Not being able to shell into the production system is fine if you can shell into a staging/development system.

If you are running Docker containers and you can shell into local containers, that is usually "close enough" that you can do useful troubleshooting. But fly.io (and CloudFlare workers, etc) are different enough from off-the-shelf containers that it is very important to be able to poke at containers when they break, even if they are not the actual production containers.
Even even better, don't print it and just read it on screen or get a supernote and put all of your books on there where you can mark them up and have them all with you all of the time.
Interesting, doule in modern greek just means work.

Doula is one I would have never known had it not been for the pregnant women in my life.
I understand your opinion, and yes, it's hard to be able to identify the owner of an accountby checking smartphones, tablets and desktop keyboards. The recommendation is to create separate signatures for all of these devices, in this way the typing signature will be more stronger and the keystrokes verification will be more accurate.

We are adding new cases to our algorithm almost weekly, the typing detection keeps getting better.
Because you'd have to leave the 2nd one nearly empty to fit the extra passengers in?

Might be a good idea if nobody wants to go on the 2nd ship though.
So men know words related to male dominated areas like physics, chemistry, electricity, crime and war. Women know words related to female dominated areas like fashion, grooming and women’s health. I hate to say it, but water is wet.
Billionaire Peter Thiel Funded ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup similar to NSO Group
Sure, but that's true with platonic roommates, too, right?
like it replaced the rear view mirror, you didn't have a windshield-mounted mirror anymore when backup camera was engaged?

I guess that makes sense -- I'm kind of surprised it's legal!

although I guess the windshield-mount rearview mirror isn't actually legally required anyway, for instance in trucks/vans/other situations with obstructed sightlines to back of car.

Anyway, what you describe sounds really cool and subtle in a good way, like the kind of thing we imagined we'd get in the future, when we imagined the future would be designed well, instead of the hacky poorly designed terrible UX future we've got.
Is https://tailscale.com/ not "usermode WireGuard"? I've been playing with it for a while now (it has a fairly generous free tier) and am quite impressed. I can access any of my LAN machines (my servers, my NAS, etc.) from anywhere that is also connected to the same network, and the names work for DNS as well.
That feeling when you thought the llama finally escaped abuse..
I'd say considering trigonometry a 'hardcore requirement' is a symptom of the very thing sysOpOpPERAND is decrying.
I hope you realize that these are research reactors that are not designed to give you a low interval between cycles or produce power. They are meant so clarify some of the open research questions for the likes of ITER/DEMO that will integrate these findings into things that are actually designed to produce a lot more power quicker.
I'll chime in on this for posterity's sake.

I spent about a month reviewing frameworks on "ToDoMVC.com". My goal was to evaluate those and choose one for an app I wanted to upgrade. When I'd finished the review process I struggled for about a month trying to decide on which of those I'd invest my time in because that's a huge investment.

I finally decided to no use one. I did exactly what the author did. I selected libraries of code. I used jQuery, Mustache.js, Accounting.js, PouchDB.js, Chart.js, and Bootstrap.

With the exception of the latest Bootstrap I've been able to update all of those without any issues at all and I've gotten pretty good and using those tools.

I don't regret this at all. In fact I think this choice would make it much easier for anyone to modify my code, and that's something I want to offer users.
All right, who is going to write the adaptive wordle that learns which answers are easiest for you, so that it can select the harder ones.
For a deeper dive on the topic check out the book Bad News. [1] The title references "woke media", which might turn some off. But it's actually written by a liberal, not a conservative out for blood.

There is a lot of very interesting history, including a bit about how the Jewish publisher of the NYT insisted that "because Jews were not a race, Hitler's persecution of them was not a Jewish problem but "the problem of mankind"".

I bet Whoopi wished she her crisis management team was aware of that quote last week!

1: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/...
Yeah, these results don’t pass the smell test. As a woman, I sincerely doubt the percentages quoted for terms like pessary and doula- if you and your peers aren’t having children you’re unlikely to have heard of them. And doulas are a more recent phenomenon in the US, I doubt many women over 60 or women in lower socioeconomic classes are familiar with the term.

Same for men. I can’t believe most men know what a checksum is. This test says more about the population of people who took it than anything else.
I also live in NYC, and completely disagree with this take on Yang. I can't think of anyone who gets hated more unfairly than him. He provides actual substantive policy suggestions with evidence to support his claims. He doesn't resort to dirty muck-raking the same way that the other mayoral candidates and the NY Times did. In fact, NY Times and the NY Daily News spent so much time focusing on bashing Yang that it's literally the reason why Eric Adams of all people ended up being our mayor.
> What happened to the wealthy?

I wonder the same thing, especially with respect to the lower rung of wealth. I'm shocked at how much of the top 1% views themselves as victims of higher rungs of the top 1% instead of having attitudes commensurate with their wealth, privilege, and social status.
I’m super interested in the “shemale” terminology. What’s the stark difference or explanation there? The others I can generally buy as nerd culture, but what does that have to do with a gendered slur?

And similarly, why isn’t there a similar reflection of at least one term of bigotry or ignorance specifically females are more likely to know?
Well we've been flushing standards of competence down the toilet in the pursuit of various political aims. I guess now we're at the suprised pikachu face phase of our journey.
Given the widespread (and not unreasonable) belief that FAANG-style interview processes function as more of a quantity filter (quite arbitrarily reduce the candidate pool down to a size that human hiring teams can deal with) rather than a quality filter (find ideal workers), it's quite humorous to see the same people running those ineffective interviews profiting off of making them a worse quantity filter. If you squint at it, you can see this is graft/corruption but legalized through layers of indirection (a classic practice in the US).
> A sentiment we all admire, but ends up reinforcing the idea that the father's blue-collar work is crap - and that's not how it should be, all workers should have equal dignity and value.

Assuming that value equals price, the only way everyone would have an equal price is if supply and demand were exactly equal across all occupations over a long period of time.

That is not a realistic expectation. And the only way for people (by and large) to be incentivized to do the things where supply is not meeting demand is to have a higher price where supply of labor is more needed than elsewhere.
I use iThoughts on iOS to similar effect in my technical domain. The ability to collapse information domains quickly and navigate complex trees in real time basically let me cheat when it comes to learning new things.
I appreciate this comment. Being an "adult student" (30s+) is a rough road and I definitely understand the attraction of self-paced online degrees. That WGU includes certifications as part of its tuition is pretty appealing too. I'm slowly trying to whittle down community college credits so I can hopefully transfer to a state school, but it often feels like a helpless situation. I'm just grateful I don't have children - work, bills, and a wife are hard enough to juggle as it is.
Why not just disconnect the working ones at the same time and then they don't get fried
Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Meta for the First Time Ever
"Shemale" is such a great punchline.

I was reading these thinking "Oh fuck, I know all the male words and none of the female ones, I'll never pass as a woman with a vocabulary like this".

At the bottom, "Shemale". Tada! That's why I know all the male words! I'm a sh**ale!
a lot of people have been calling desktop computers "processors", does it mean that the meaning of the word has changed?
This is absolutely not normal. If you find yourself relating to this post, please start looking for a new job immediately, I promise it's not like this everywhere.
My first thought reading this is that I'm happy Glassdoor is actually having an impact.

15 months ago I started work as a Software Manager at a large arts and crafts retailer. Much of the job seemed completely in line with my interest and what I wanted to do, but two weeks in I figured out the place was clownishly toxic and the CTO, despite an impressive educational background, had a cartoonish understanding of how software is made. So I resigned and sought new opportunities. I've never worked less than 18 months at any job, and that made leaving a tough pill to swallow.

Looking at the reviews on Glassdoor (and TeamBlind) left since my departure, I can see my intuitions were spot on. Reviewers' descriptions of the environment seem absurd, but unfortunately they are completely consistent with what my spider-sense was telling me. I hope Glassdoor has helped others avoid the misery of employment there.
Some of the information is public. Who knows how much there is behind it?
I'd read that bitcoin for the open minded skeptic article I linked, I think it makes a good argument about that core use case.

A decentralized global store of value has a lot of utility - more so in countries with bad financial systems and limited access to dollars. I think global currency/value store is the killer application of blockchains, and it makes sense a lot of the focus is on tooling/products around this. Provable membership/ownership via tokens is an interesting spin off.

Evading capital controls I think isn't a great use of it actually given the public nature of transactions (unless you're willing to flee the country I guess, which can be good for getting wealth out of countries with authoritarian governments).

The ability to publish and update decentralized state is a new ability and useful. There are obvious tradeoffs around speed and complexity and a lot of things should not make that tradeoff, but the use cases here are real - at least I'd bet on that, it's not "all a scam".
So they just need to build the same thing, but make it gigantic in size?

Why is it not yet done?
> But medical research leads to treatments which may have far better quality of life improvements than ramps.

There is so much wrong with what you say. Just look at the person in the very article. He doesn't walk with a hippity-hoppity bouncy gait. He walks with the help of a wheeled walking frame. He needs the ramps and the handholds to get to places. Do you have a proposal on how to spend all the ramp money to "medical research" that away?

Look at any person who broke their leg and walks with a crutch, or a mother-to-be who is wobbly from all the extra weight of the baby, or an old person who needs a walking frame. Do you think if we just spend more money on medical research these conditions will go away?

How are you proposing to medical research away the need for a baby stroller?
I'm a woman software engineer, and I recognize every one of those as a word, which I think was the criterion being measured. (There are a few on each side I can't define but have definitely seen.) I'm mostly floored by how many of the textile words people here don't recognize, to the point of thinking they're "fake words." Have you never shopped for textiles for your house or apartment? I mean, espadrille, sure, that's a woman's shoe guys might not ever see the word for. But damask? Jacquard? Chenille? Do you not have curtains or a couch?
Desirable difficulty is adding difficulty to a problem that improves learning effectiveness and durability. So I wouldn't remove the 'hardcore' requirement without reasons.

Calculus and trigonometry is potentially a problem of not being able to find situations to use it, or when there' situation that do use it, one does not recognize the problem. This is known as learning transfer.
You do not want to stand out at these companies. From experience, you will get fired. Morale is at rock bottom, no one is working hard, the only benefit is that expectations are near the limit of nothing so long as you do even the most miniscule actions of value.

Working at Hell Corporation with CEO Satan is incredibly depressing. The reason people don't leave is that interviewers can smell the desperation and downtroddenness. This is coupled with not having written anything except muddy meatballs on top of spaghetti code for your tenure.

Evil CEOs are a feature in these companies. They crush the souls of their workers to prevent them from being able to leave. It usually works long enough for the founders to sell their stakes to a witless VC before the whole operation explodes in a ball of fire.
The iPhone is only valuable because of developers. If they all coordinated together, they could get apple to change. Imagine all the apps breaking one day…
1. Tailscale is amazing. I hate them so much. (We use Tailscale and are very happy with it.)

2. Tailscale is user-mode WireGuard.

3. "User-mode WireGuard" in the sense this post uses the term is a misnomer and refers to the fact that we run TCP/IP itself in userland (Tailscale normally runs through a tunnel device and uses your native TCP/IP stack).

4. But Tailscale also has code to do user-mode TCP/IP (they've got it running in a browser with wasm).
I feel like his work with René Girard is the most interesting part of his life, with possibly his foundness to invest in apparent competitors (compared to other VCs). The creepy blood transfusion, the politics… trying to make him a boogey-man to the left (when he's more a structural opportunist) is really on the nose given his advisor's key work.
It’s not obviously better because you’re solving for one case when a ramp solves for multiple. At no point does solving nerve damage fix the fact a baby in a stroller has a better time on a ramp, unless you’re proposing a new technology that obviates wheels. But that just makes it the new ramp in its utility.
>" Don't go the "creepy incel who hates all women and Chads" route"

Absolutely. I am on the autism spectrum so part of the difficulty I have can be attributed to that. However I accept that my social shortcomings are my own responsibility. I think a big part of the problem is finding new friends now that I am in my 30's and life is very stagnant.
So were those teams trying to exclude women? Or just no (or few) women that wanted to be part of those teams?

Right now, tech companies are desperate to hire anyone qualified. Are you saying they are deliberately excluding women from consideration?

From what I've seen, all the tech employers are desperate to hire and promote women, and there are just very few women interested.
Also we got rid of those nasty master branches!
Facebook Metaverse forces avatars 4-feet apart as gropers wreak virtual havoc
Yeah. The platform monopoly is repulsive.

However good they are today, however much Project Fugu they finally opt into (letting webapps do regular app like things, like webusb), there's no promise tomorrows innovation gets uptake, or at any schedule.

Authoritarian software is bad. This company needs healthy politics g discourse, rather than being the swaggering giant colossus.

But add webmidi, webusb, sure, please. Stop your war on features, stop trying to prevent a competitive web platform. Figure out your shit, figure out whatever it is you need to do to stop making excuses, to making "security" and "privacy" a trump card to ignore platform growth.
The Sad Decline of Heresy
We are absolute fiends for tea.
Sorry, I missed that bit! Thanks for that catch. I unfortunately can’t go an edit it now but I appreciate it.
> Engineering and construction are pretty modern fields

The mental tasks required of engineering are far, far, far, older. Things like abstract reasoning, distance estimation and measurement, rotation and scaling of objects, maps, and abstract shapes in one's head, ability to standardize and compute measures and weights, etc, were all adaptations that improved our effectiveness at hunting, building shelter, and both defense against, and offense toward, opposing tribes.

Modern engineering is an enormous pile of abstractions on top of "Grog think rock weigh seven stick".
Many recalls are just software fixes. The big differentiator in many minds is whether the fix is OTA, or requires a dealer to plug in to your car's computer. OTA is becoming more common however.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/car-recalls-can-be-in...
Guess you're non-binary lol
Maybe two kettles could boil the water together?
Probably the second one - 25 years ago you didn't see Papers from China, 15 years ago you saw some that were not very good, and now you see many good ones.
It's a nonsense project with no utility. And it's not exactly rocket science that running a memorable phrase through a KDF is going to be more predictable than an actual CSPRNG. This is crypto/security 101. There's a good reason we say "don't roll your own crypto" in this industry.
What makes you think their enjoyment isn't profit?
Breach of ToS pretty much never entitles them to keep the money. They should at the very least bounce the payment back to the original payers.