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> I disagree that society is implanting ideas in girls that they're not capable of succeeding in tech.

Then why do you think girls are self selecting away from computer science? Unless you believe they are somehow biologically wired to enjoy tech less it has to be because they're receiving messaging that causes them to believe they will enjoy it less than other fields relative to boys, right? I guess from your link you're going for the "women are biologically wired to enjoy math based professions less" but I find that difficult to buy

> This is a disparity that persists despite ample efforts to try and encourage girls to go into tech.

I certainly agree with this, it's just not working. It's quite clear that we are trying very hard to message to girls that they can succeed, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be getting through convingly, since there's still such a huge disparity.
The first paragraph does not have the neutral and objective tone I expect of an encyclopedia. It may be true that "the recorded history of the field has downplayed [women's] achievements", but no evidence is provided for the assertion.

"Women in computing were among the first programmers in the early 20th century, and contributed substantially to the industry. As technology and practices altered, the role of women as programmers has changed, and the recorded history of the field has downplayed their achievements."
> if God's perfectly good, and created the universe, why does evil exist?

Doesn't this depend on your definition of "created"? It seems this presupposes certain things like ex nihilo creation (matter out of nothing) and god being able to create people (i.e., people are not co-existent with god).
Hemochromatosis is one, I was suspected to have it when I was younger and regular blood donations was an effective way to reduce my blood iron. Turns out I don't actually have the condition (it's genetic and doesn't go away as you age, whereas my extremely high iron resolved on its own), but I'm not mad about it, just a change I've welcomed.
Probably true for Lisp, but gofmt would disagree.
I suppose it's possible that their auto-play feature is doing it. Most of our Netflix use is on a laptop so if the browser tab isn't closed maybe it keeps streaming the auto-play, although I haven't checked for that.
That certainly looks like it’s about to tell us what a household is, but then doesn’t, except circularly.

But it does say that people can use their Netflix account while travelling, as long as they can verify that the device is “authorized”. So the bottom line seems to be that you’re a member of my household if I say you are, no matter where you are.
My SO and I as well as some friends of ours (we were talking to them about it) are just subscriptioned out. We can afford it, it's not the money (though we do hate to waste money, we're not foolish). But we keep track and it's just, why do we have so many, so we decided to pare down and see what we miss and see what sticks.
The problem with your statement is that AI drivers do rely on traditional logic already, but that cannot be applied to the perception part of the stack. It doesn’t matter if your rule is “if perceives truck, stop” if perception is telling you there is no truck stopped there. The rule also can’t be “if white pixel, stop” or “if Lidar bounces off steam and returns, stop”
It works pretty well but for anything big name I can get it used on Amazon for cheap, and anything new is in Redbox.
Nobody knows the threshold above which intervening is a good idea or worth the effort, so universal testing seems like jumping the gun a little.
The top comment on that thread gets a few things wrong as I understand it.

>"If the bonds disappeared, so would the money, because there'd be nothing backing it."

Not true, because each original dollar spawns more additional dollars through fractional reserve banking. So the original bond can be repaid with tax revenue without taking all the currency out of existence. Maybe if there was no fractional reserve banking then this would be true.

Secondly, buying government bonds are not the only way that the central bank can create money.
If making a mistake benefits your enemies, your enemies can hardly be blamed.
Japan is even farther from Islamic culture than the United States but they didn't have a 9/11. Why? Because jingoism is subordinate to things that actually matter, like justifying or resenting 50 years of sometimes violent American involvement in the middle east. We shouldn't allow ourselves to be fooled by internally-targeted propaganda from other countries, in a way that's even more embarrassing than being fooled by our own propaganda.
> as of 2017 at least the plan was to implement merge using the underlying insert on conflict mechanism

That was something that was discussed at length at the time, but ultimately rejected. And so the implementation of MERGE in Postgres has essentially the same limitations as every other MERGE implementation that I'm familiar with.

Postgres clearly stresses the trade-off that MERGE makes in the docs, though. Which probably sets it apart.
I read some of the pages of Turing's Cathedral, and it read like an elaborate ad for Princeton. It also felt like a Princeton history.

Whilr it is interesting, and I might finish it later, it is not something I was looking for or have time now.

I also learned some cool things, like, Einstein forbade the use of the word "god" in a wall engraving becauae people might think that he believed in god.
It depends on what you mean by "transition".

It's probably hard to transition from a software engineer to a licensed structural engineer or the like.

But it's much easier to transfer into a software or software-adjacent role related to the field. Those fields have lots of opportunity for controls engineers, or data acquisition system developers, or data scientists, or even developing home-grown applications. The flip side is a lot of bad software practices are tolerated because those running the show just don't know better or don't care because it's not in their wheelhouse.
what about someone in his/her 40s with no previous experience in the field?
Same here. I have firstname.<digit>@gmail and I keep getting emails for the non-dot variant. And to add to the frustration, in order to unsubscribe some services require you to send an email from the same address. I've never hated Gmail's "convenience" feature of ignoring dots more. If they really wanted to offer it, they should have also given the option of adding/removing dots while sending emails too.

Someone even has a Paypal account on my dot-less email. It beats me how a payments company can let somebody add an email without verification and not offer an easy to way to remove it.
Interesting comment. Putin is continually making "west is degenerate"-ish remarks as a kind of justification for his invasion of Ukraine, and yet his words fall flat. It's obvious he's being disengenius.

It's like, yes, we know some over paid highly educated technologists are biased against but that doesn't equal the end of liberalism and democracy itself. His words are not at all going to sway any of the HN readers who may agree with him on cultural issues about the west, that Russia are the good guys!

Perhaps his words are meant to developing nations who are uniformly culturally conservative?
> It's kind of ageism-adjacent, but I wonder if some of it is a bias that expects that past 40 you shouldn't really be needing to apply to jobs by resume drops any more.

This is akin to saying, "by 23, you should have moved out of your parents' house, otherwise, what's wrong with you?": it renders the speaker's presumptions into judgments.
It's basically a lisp with better syntax.
It's contradictory, there was already a movement (feminism) that promoted "gender is a social construct" which was to say, no one should be pressured into acting inline with gender stereotypes. Women can be masculine, men can be feminine, let bygones be bygones - the way you act and dress should ideally have no relationship to your sex.

The "men with gender identity issues" referred to by parent have this up-side-down, instead thinking that "social transitioning" aka "living as a woman" is a step towards being a woman, this is not destroying notions of gender, this is elevating gender over sex
Guardian is not 'The west'.
It's a News organization. It is neither a representative or an official mouthpiece for 'The west'.
Guardian is not finger pointing as well, It's doing it's job, which is reporting the events.
And the criticism is absolutely valid.
This deflection and tangential remarks are not suitable for Hacker News.
If you view these things from a POV of empathy for others and how to minimize their stress and sense of being disfavored vs trying to win some technical argument it will make more sense.

Focus on how real actions impact the people around you.
Stop jesting.
It was your suggestion to purchase individual shows.

>If the market demanded it by way of retracting their subscription dollars, they would notice.

One could say that pirating is the act of retracting the subscription dollars, but I digress. I can't retract my subscription dollars, because they won't even offer me the subscription (which I mentioned in my comment).

Could you as an knowledgeable insider actually answer the part of my previous comment you conveniently skipped, that part about what is person supposed to do if the Disney doesn't even offer the service in their country? And don't say "let Disney know", something actionable please.

>But if you steal it because that's just how you want to do things, you're a thief.

1) it's not theft, it's digital "piracy"

2) And I didn't say I pirate their stuff, the show was just an example. But I still feel discriminated on account of country I am from by them refusing to sell me their subscription service. And everyone knows that racism is worse than stealing.
The mental gymnastics to justify piracy as anything other than theft is always interesting to watch.
Has anyone gotten Wayland working consistently with Nvidia GPUs? I tried it a while back and I faced a lot of issues getting it working.

I'm guessing things are better now but would love some signals before I try this again.
"Pale". What a great word to catch the East Asians, in addition to white people.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123615.
I don't think they are trying to catch 'em all like some sort of human Pokemon, it sounds like they are instead simply making an effort to interview instead of automatically rejecting those who may have no otherwise been interviewed.
I'm in my 50s and haven't seen it in that overt form. Maybe a silicon valley thing? I've only worked on the east coast. On the other hand, I have missed out on jobs because of culture fit concerns that have an age component: I'm not sensitive enough. Not mean, but not as...nurturing?...as companies seem to now expect. Things were definitely more rough and tumble when I got into this field and I really do prefer that, so I can't deny, I don't fit into modern company cultures as well.
That's the whole point of establishing a baseline.
>Evan had this right - tracking as the primary value prop for advertising is a loser's game.

The problem is that nowadays people mix Direct Marketing with Advertising.

Direct Marketing is where there's a need to track. Advertising is about attention, so if Snapchat has the attention of an audience, that alone is extremely valuable for advertising.
That’s bloated ;-)

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is a 9 byte 1 × 1 pixel black image in portable bitmap format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#File_formats). Consumers of such files likely will know how to scale them to 256 × 256 pixels. The trailing newline may not even be necessary. If so, it would become 8 bytes.

Gray 1 X 1 pixel images in binary portable graymap format have the same size. To get a non-gray RGB color, you’ll need two more bytes in binary portable pixmap format.
> I think this is the crux of a lot of it. You only need one lead/rockstar/ninja/10x* for every 10-20 'developers'

I really disagree, ideally you'd have at least one in every team.
I'm saying when you steal you're a thief. If that ruffles your feathers, stop stealing.
I agree that urbit has far outlasted all of the nay-sayers in a technical sense. People have been saying "this is some elaborate joke" for years, but the project has made steady progress and really is pretty usable now. It does what it says on the side of the tin, that's quite an achievement.

But, whatever its technical merits, do you think it can ever get to a point where it reached enough users to be useful (in the "chicken and egg problem" sense that platforms need a critical mass of users to be useful platforms), given the millstone around its neck? Do threads like this (where detailed, technical explanations get downvoted to oblivion, and "I heard Yarvin is racist" is the top comment) make you want to throw in the towel?
Does it matter when you can use the hashed password to log in?
And bulldozing happens in non Muslim areas as well. Sometimes even middle class homes illegally built.
Just as cities in the US clear homeless encampments.
If the older dev is compensated more/has a higher level position, they are expected to provide more to the employer/product, whether it is through their excess wisdom or knowledge or responsibilities or otherwise.

They shouldn't be expected to compensate for their lack of youth in any way, as youth isn't a metric that has any relevance to their work in software development. And if they are of the same title/total comp as the young dev, there is nothing wrong with them being on par in terms of skills/knowledge/responsibilities.
> Other than C-level, what's the best-paid department/position in a tech company?

Vice presidents?

Or if you're excluding people management positions, I'd say probably product managers?
If we can repeatedly find differences in variance despite similarity of mean for different sexes within a species or other groupings, then that would be a kind of thing that would be reported in biology research.
What does a prototypical hipster do? Dresses up in anachronistic clothing. Listens to music on vinyl and plays video games made 20 years before they were born.

Hipsters are nerds.
Use pydantic then. Then you get type checking and validation for your json blobs.
When someone refers to women as a minority...<insert meme image>
> `main` is better. It's shorter, it's more descriptive, and costs nothing to remove something someone might find offensive.

All of these are true! I agree, "main" is a better name.

However, as to the larger point, the individuals and groups advocating for these changes also don't advocate for similar changes (that is, things that have good benefits but come with a very high cost to implement due to breaking backwards compatibility) around technologies/terms that they don't consider to be "problematic".

That strongly suggests that the driver isn't to improve technology, it's to shape language, with occasional incidental technological benefits - and the ignored technological regressions (it's harder to say "allowlist" than "whitelist", for instance, or to write applications that have a field to place in the user's preferred pronouns than just not address the user using pronouns at all).
> If your conception of diversity doesn't include viewpoint diversity

Viewpoint diversity is already included, that's the whole "capitalist take" for why diversity is good for business. With enough different viewpoints informed by different life experiences you uncover solutions to problems a heterogeneous group wouldn't have thought of. So obviously it's not even an issue, right? This is already something that's already done. Well no, because "you know what I mean" -- the literal phrase viewpoint diversity as it's applied in real life is a dog whistle designed to dress up "people don't want to work with the guy who thinks his bigoted takes are just alternative views" in words that the "blue tribe" uses. You people like diversity, right?

> if there aren't some things about someone that are legitimately hard for you to accept

Look, if you or people who know are actually getting discriminated against because of camo, boots, pickup trucks, hunting as a hobby, or wanting lower taxes. that's just straight up prejudice. Working in the midwest that kind of thing would be crazy since that's like half my coworkers. But again, in real life these kinds of thing only come up when the subtext is "you call yourself tolerant but don't tolerate my intolerance, you hypocrite!"

No doubt I'm sure there will be plenty of disagreement abound in this thread, so to make the discussion easier can we please make the abstract more concrete. I am sincerely open to being way off base so please hit me with all your personal experiences and the views that haven't been tolerated. I am primed and ready to be righteously mad on y'all's behalf.
source on that? i don't want to search those terms
I'm curious how old you are. I remember the days of when you had to travel to a brick-and-mortar store to purchase a physical copy of a game (if it was in stock). Then, you travel home, install it, and play it, saving your local saves on your computer, backing them up manually on an external drive so that you don't lose your progress in the event of a system failure. Oh, and writing your CD Keys in a notebook, and carrying that with you (along with your physical games) wherever you move. I don't remember how patches were managed, but I don't recall there ever being a 'day-one' patch of fixes, or being one message away from the developers.

Steam provides a lot of value.
I gave an hour presentation on the basics of CSS to my department as a junior. Other asked how I learned it so quickly and where from.

I just read MDN and W3 for like a month while making slides, then played around for a bit with all I learned on an example app. No one had taken the time to do that before I guess?
My wife worked for a permanent-part time placement firm...it's 'contract', 4 days a week, 6 hours a day. She was able to send the kids off to school and be there when they got back and continued to have a Programmer/SQL job with no gaps in her resume.

When the kids were old enough to not need it...she stayed in that position. The extra time lets her volunteer and it's been a pretty awesome arrangement.
I'll add another - https://twitter.com/PasanenJenni does some fantastic work by combining AI generation with more traditional digital art; great stuff.
"It's interesting to me people make all sort of assertions about why men or women are dominant in an industry without anyway to falsify their hypothesis".
You proceed to answer with a random unsourced assertion that seems to go against current sociological studies.

So I'll answer you with another unsourced hypothesis: you're a man, and you just justified your position in the industry by waving your hand and saying "they don't want it anyway!".
They are not interested in engineering you say? Would you mind giving me an hypothesis off the top of your head as to why that is? I'm sure you'll have a very interesting assertion here aswell.

"Woman does not wish to turn aside from her higher work, which is itself the end of life, to devote herself to government, which exists only that this higher work may be done. Can she not do both? No!" -Lyman Abbott (1903)
In the USA, there's Private MD Labs, ULTA Labs, and Synergistic Labs[0]. In the UK, there's Medichecks and Thriva. I expect there are similar options in other countries.

However, these general blood tests won't test for PFAS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31125559

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/steroids/wiki/bloodwork/list
> Your post is based on the hypothesis that more information is better. We've done the experiment, and it's false.

No, it's based on the hypothesis that sufficient up-to-date information is required.

> People's perspectives are not deepened by more information, but made more shallow. In large part this is because the information they get is mostly second order, information about other people's reactions, or even reactions to reactions. This reaction information is used to preempt and override people's own reactions, often with something extreme, which drives engagement, which represents value for the corporation.

That's a twisted cartoon of the news. If that's how you've actually experienced it, you probably need to pick better sources or get better at separating the wheat from the chaff.

> The modern "news" environment takes the worst of our justice system, the unethical, dishonest, manipulative lawyers who consider it their duty to use every rhetorical tool to achieve their goals, and has mainstreamed it. The news, and politics, are dominated by attorneys. But most of us aren't, and most of us don't use those same techniques in our lives, or are even familiar with the techniques, and so we're left vulnerable to them.

That's another twisted cartoon, but I'll say one of the best ways to avoid being manipulated is to actually be familiar with the facts.
> a study that takes 1 liter of blood and just documents every chemical structure found (at any concentration)

That’s because we don’t actually have the technology to do that. You can test for specific compounds that you know how to test for, and if their concentration is high enough. But there’s currently no way to e.g. go through a given sample molecule by molecule.
That's a guess, where's the validation?
I don't hate it, but I'll admit that the Valve worship is some of the most cultish I've seen in video games. To the point where I feel gamers work against their best interests whenever they see a "threat" to their beloved library not having every game in history under one launcher (nevermind that Steam users can add non-steam games to their virtual library). You'd think Youtube and even Spotify lately would show the dangers of lumping all your eggs in one basket.

But, I will also admit that I'm a bit biased against steam due to using PC's for a lot of Visual Novels. And their VN submissions have always been a lottery of some sorts, to the confusion of readers and developers alike. Nothing worse than having an existing product on the store and then suddenly having a sequel to the product rejected, while the first product still sits on shelves.
Off topic but what are you using for the button that triggers things? "The Button" is huge when it comes to the wife approval factor (or even my approval factor). Fiddling with phones or alexa to turn on and off lights is a pain in the ass...
It matters a lot whether self-sacrifice and service are self-chosen, or whether they are forced by the state, or under threat of retaliation.

Many people who are individualists advocate for self-sacrifice and service as virtues, freely chosen.

Virtue under threat of punishment or retaliation is not virtue at all.
That's a freaking deep song, I just read the lyrics a couple of months ago, having listened to it since Guns and Roses released their cover version.
It's so much easier to discuss things face-to-face. I feel so much more energized by mere presence of other people (and I score high on any introvert/Asperger test) I was surprised myself in the last few weeks. I welcome the return to normality. Walking two feet from my bed to my desk got psychologically tough a long time ago.

Even though I have the worst commute on my team I want to be in the office a couple days a week (it's going to be 3). But our campus is great, we have real cubicles and standing desks, and even free meals.
So are you suggesting that some poor people have the wrong interests on certain issues and they need to fix that? Which issues specifically?

I do agree that we should try to be inclusive on interviewing. It's always good to have more candidates to pick from, as long as the process doesn't last too long.
I think their point is that people are missing the fact that the ad-revenue model (as proposed) would have no impact on people already subscribing.