skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>computer science? Unless you believe they are somehow biologically wired to enjoy tech less

Millions of years of sexually dimorphic evolution has predisposed women to be more interested in people and males to be more interested in things. This is supported by research and has been commonly known for most of human history; you can thank 2-3 generations of postmodernist propaganda and a healthy dose of insecurity for the rabid denial of even the possibility that women are just less interested in these domains.

Men and women are different. It has consequences. To pretend otherwise is to deny reality. The evidence is overwhelming and ubiquitous, but we try desperately to handwave it away by looking for of sexism under every rock because to acknowledge these obvious truths would destroy the foundation of the modern progressive push for equity. It's insulting and purely political.
Even is the US, a metabolic panel of about 15-20 basic blood tests is only about $40. You an order it online and go to a local lab to get blood drawn.
I'm surprised he doesn't have parliamentary immunity/privilege.
Red and green mean stop/go but only in a narrow context. I would have no idea what redlist and greenlist means. Red and green also bring to mind Christmas and Martians. Red means communism, green means environmentalism. Green means money, red means a negative entry in your account. There's a lot of culture-specific meanings too. Red in China is associated with good fortune and happiness.
Salaries in France are indeed much lower, because

1. We are producing an awful lot of good engineers (thanks to Napoleon),

2. Investors are much more risk averse than in the US in general, so there is much less money to grab.

3. Cost of living is a lot cheaper

What you may consider is working from France for a US based company (I am doing this). You will pay what will look like an awful amount of taxes. But these taxes are mostly health insurance, and if you factor all in it'd be cheaper for your company to employ you freelance, and you'd get more money after tax + health insurance than if you'd stayed in the US + your lifestyle would be better than NY/SF.

Setting up the self employment thing in France is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you're paid in dollars. But if you pay an accountant, it'll be fine.

If you want to experience new cultures, just do it now, or you'll regret it later. France is a beautiful and fun country to live in. Don't let your career / retirement fears get in the way.
No. Not I. But I will say this:

> pressure on HMs to hire more women despite 95% of applicants being male

is something I've done myself, not to hold anything against the applicants coming in but because HMs have a significant amount of control over the funnel of applications coming in. I want them hustling to encourage women, minorities, veterans, old-timers, re-inventors, people with nonstandard educational paths--people from ALL walks of life who are qualified, to get them to apply. I want it because I firmly believe that will make the engineering departments I work for more healthy.

> people championing all women teams as a win for diversity

I have been on many all-men teams in my career. I wouldn't consider it a specific diversity goal, but I do not think _one_ all-woman team is likely to put a dent in balancing, let alone over-balancing, the scales.

> women getting a salary premium

ROFL, I would _love_ to see an instance of this.
Your obtuseness and just general attitude in this thread really actually makes me want to start pirating again.

Boutta go "steal" from you just to do it.
No that's not true at all.

"Instead of sending a letter via USPS, send an instant electronic message via Clownfartmail"

Still seems better to me.

EDIT: Just to answer your implied question. I'm saying that in practice paying out an end user in USDC is the equivalent of paying out a user in any USD-denominated currency (crypto or not). Changing the name of the tech removes the 'gee-whiz' aspect of it and makes you focus on the use cases, which is ultimately what matters and ultimately what crypto struggles to actually deliver on.
If you read the article, it is clear who their prospective clients are. Big corporations pretending not to be racist. The next iteration will be a corporate-speak translator.

As annoying as a woke clippy might be, at times I realize that we're lucky we don't live in a racist clippy alt reality. "Would you like to expand all mentions of "n-word"?"
I assume you mean due to menstruation? It highly depends on the individual, ethnicity, health, build, etc, but the amount of actual blood (vs mucus and non-blood fluid discharge) released in a cycle isn't as much as you might think. So the answer is probably "somewhat but negligibly so?"
I actually would prefer that most political stuff stay out of the workplace. So minimize the crosses, the blue lives matter flags, the other stuff.

In many of the more frugal businesses I've seen, folks just don't have the time to strike / protest etc for some of the stuff the FANG folks are into.
You'll likely need to subscribe to an industry newsletter to find out why.
Most of that (possibly all) existed by 1980s. The Z80 in my Spectrum had no heatsink ;)
oh - I agree it would be nice... but very few places seem to do that. I've seen a lot of 'senior' people leading 3+ teams of junior/average developers.

edit: point being, if you can muddle thru - mgmt generally doesn't see it as a 'need' just an 'expense'
The oldest source [1] seems to be in Sanskrit, a left-to-right language, so they were big-endian numbers. This still does not rule out an even older origin in a right-to-left language, but as it stands I'm afraid I was just wrong with my 'little endian origin' story. Too bad, I liked it.

[1] https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bakhshali_m...
I don't think we can attribute as much of that happening to racism only. With all the DEI initiatives happening its becoming more so the case that people are seeing through the experience and realizing a lot of the accomplishments by minorities are due to favoritism and "help" than actual experience. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant because people believe it.

I personally feel bad for the dedicated, accomplished and smart minority developers that I've met. They get drowned out in all the noise caused by these DEI drives.

Worst of all, we can't even talk about it.
Sure even the freest of speech is not free of consequences, but this seems to be a case of the state punishing a specific person for his speech. Partisan media is one thing but this seems to be something entirely different
Where is that in the settings?
I haven't thought of Snapchat in many many months. Last time I logged in was only sync my bitmoji avatar. Their chat "experience" really sucks, this article is not even remotely plausible.

This is a laughably poor attempt at astroturfed buzz generation.
>But that's a pretty high standard of dismissiveness and I've never seen anyone apply it to language changes that genuinely bug them.

I am applying that dismissiveness to all objections equally based off their motivation. I don't agree with the argument on either side of the "motherboard/mainboard" debate. But I can emphasize with the motivation of the side pushing for "mainboard" because it is the same as your argument about misusing "gay" being unnaceptable. I disagree with their specific objection but I understand the motivation. I don't understand the side pushing for "motherboard" because the heart of the objection seems to be "things were better when I was young". Presented with those two options, why not side with the people who you would side with if we were arguing over a different word such as "gay"?
Can’t try the app in any way without creating an account?

Unnecessary friction. They could accomplish the same thing and probably lose less users with some more flexibility to see what the app can do. Lame.
I wonder how less effective double red donations are at this since they return your plasma to you during the donation. Sounds like plasma donations are the biggest bang for the buck, possible followed by single whole blood donations?
If you were curious, a quick search gave me results in the range of $300-$400

https://empowerdxlab.com/products/product/pfas-exposure-test
"If you were good, you wouldn't need this job by now"

Who the hell would want to work for an org that thinks this way?
>I really don't think most companies are to the point where they're deliberately stoking racial division as an anti-union tactic

Amazon tracks lack of racial diversity as a union formation risk metric https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61403
I don't understand how anyone can say the netflix UI is anything other than trash.

Perhaps because the UI varies from device to device.
If they are run, the results could be uninformative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy). Too many false positives could lead to risky treatment and be dangerous. Testing each positive again would still create false positives. I don't know the numbers in this case, but I wouldn't be surprised if accurate mass testing were impractically expensive.
This gender-neutral terminology seems to be standard in official materials in the ob/gyn academic world
Sure it is a magnitude smaller but it was even smaller a few years ago and streaming pages where you don't have to download a movie first are quite common and popular within the non-technical audience and they become even more popular.

I'm sure the industry will come up with new ways to intrude on the internet again to stop this before they get together to make another platform which would allow the audience to download everything in one place.
Heh, despite being in the prime market for games like Call of Duty, I am not able to stomach those either, but I take your point. That level of gore just feels like such an indelible blot on the whole rest of the enterprise that I don't see how anyone would be able to taste anything else on the palate, but suppose people do have pretty different palates.
How do we make jobs activist proof?
Viverse
> the distance can be hundreds of times the journey!

You’d walk 100km to take a 1km train journey?

How far is it even possible to live in London from a train station or bus stop?
The 1992 WGBH/BBC 5-part miniseries "The Machine That Changed The World"(US)/"The Dream Machine"(UK):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_W...

is out of print, but can be found intermittently on youtube.

I love the coverage of 1940's computing, with interviews with several of the surviving people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Compute...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC

Currently working episode links:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hayi9AsDXDo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GropWVbj9wA

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLgAI3G_rs

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zbCU5JnE0

5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxYUJv2Jd4
The tech industry knows they are far behind on the DEI metrics and they overcompensate playing this culture wars chess move where they make everyone sick of hearing them virtue signaling about diversity so that they can't be questioned. They loose even when compared to "conservative" institutions. It's not only the military, in San Francisco the police department is more diverse than Lyft, Uber, Google. The club I go shooting to in Richmond has more black people on a weekend than what I've ever seen inside the same room at Lyft. Richmond is a moderate democrat city where everyone that doesn't work for the government works for Chevron.

Until I started shooting I think I had only interacted with three black people in the Bay Area. One from work, one from co-living and another one that hangs out with a crew I party with. Of course all those circles lean tech-heavy. First "conservative" thing I dare do and there's loads of latinos and black people and we are all confused as fuck as to where all the evil white people we keep on reading about actually are.
Yes - the title here was so egregiously editorialized that I'm not even going to revert it.

Submitters: breaking the site guidelines like this will eventually cause your account to lose submission privileges. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and note this one:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
>the other problems are personal preferences that aren't universal

few things in life are. But we're on the internet, so we inevitably here a lot fo "personal preferences", often exagerrated to the point where it sounds like it's the worst thing in the world.
> as they are

The current PM called muslim women 'letter boxes'. You've clearly never been to the UK. I'm sure if you had a basic familiarity, you'd rest comfortably in the knowledge that the state there is just as disgustingly bigoted as you are.
Nobody's hashing a password on every request. In this case, the cookie is used for a (very shoddily implemented) "Remember Me" feature, so the user doesn't have to login to the website every time they use it.
What's the new password?
Back a few years ago, I had built an "industrial equipment guided-repair" app for the Microsoft HoloLens. We decked out an air compressor with with IoT-enabled sensors for various things (the specifics don't matter as it was just a demo, but it was stuff like temperature, vibration, etc.). The app used 3D object recognition and overlayed live sensor data, graphs of historic data, disassembly explosion animations, and step-by-step guides for performing maintenance (e.g. replacing air filters, lubricating components).

It was such a great use case for AR. The app even won a few small awards.

Then the word came from on high that we needed to redo everything on the iPad. Ultimately, it came down to the parent company of the company I worked for having Microsoft as an auditing client and Apple as a technology partner. So we weren't "allowed" to have a relationship with Microsoft (even though one of the point of not being directly in the parent company was to shield us from those conflict of interest concerns) and we were being directed to demonstrate a relationship with Apple.

Switching to having the tablet in one hand and trying to do things with the air compressor with the other was hot garbage. We had a thing that was glitzy and fun and and useful and then completely threw away every bit of substance in the app.

I tried so many different input modalities with the iPad to try to salvage some semblence of usefulness out of it, including camera-based hand-tracking. You could basically only comfortably view data. Any level of interaction directly with the machine was gone. Worst of all, people concurrently using the app from different devices kept running into each other because they were so tunnel-visioned by the tablet.

I don't think I've ever been so professionally disappointed in my career.
Not sure if it's just me, but the website is -really- slow in Firefox. Like, the refresh rate/frame rate is terrible.
Social media has low barriers to entry. Several new entrants have grown super-fast and have overtaken incumbents. Facebook was very clever to identify and buy up some of these fast-growing new entrants.

This holds lessons for the people who want free speech in social media. There are at least 10 social media apps/sites that say they practice what Elon Musk says should be the norm: Anything legal is allowable speech on social media.

And yet i do not see anyone pouring in the same levels of capital that Snapchat and some other newer entrants got. Why not? What is preventing first tier investors from backing these platforms? Why have several of them failed outright? What could turn that around?
I wonder if Chris Wallace feels like a clown after his fox bridge burning.
> Sure, but I doubt someone with a deep grounding in political science, economics, and history, but who'd never heard of either candidate, would need more than an hour or so on Google to decide between Trump and Biden, for instance.

That's a bad example, because Trump was such an oaf. A better recent example might have been choosing between McCain and Obama, if you're focused on presidential races.

The bigger issue isn't so much picking candidates, but understanding current situation and problems, and having opinions about those things to inform your choices.
Thanks. It's unfortunate that is has to be so polarised. In the end a more inclusive society is good for everyone, but if your only options are "fuck yourself over" vs "avoid all progress" then not a lot of good is going to happen and people will forever be passionately offended at both extremes instead of meeting closer to the middle and working on the future.
This is pretty dismissive of the men who want to work in what you consider low status crappy jobs. There are plenty of men out there who expressly go to school with the goal of being an educator, for example. The discrimination those men face is very real.

It's ok to admit that there are some areas society has decided men shouldn't work in. It doesn't diminish the struggles of anyone else
It looks like it's just tested for different diseases. I'm more referring to my different blood metrics (cholesterol, CBC, CMP, hormones, etc)
It has enough users to be useful now, which number in the thousands. It's also not a service that anyone maintains on behalf of others, so there's no one that needs to have a critical mass for it to be useful. Nearly everyone running Urbit is self-hosting locally or on some VPS somewhere, and they can do that indefinitely even if no more code was ever pushed.

If this kind of stuff made anyone want to throw in the towel Urbit wouldn't be a thing anymore. There's only a millstone around its neck on HN, but HN is gradually becoming more and more irrelevant. To our base and the people finding us, "I don't think about you at all" reflects their sentiment for HN conversations and the tenor of conversation that happens here.

I'm just here because someone told me (from within Urbit) that this post went up, it's Friday and I don't have as many meetings, and I couldn't resist myself. You seem fine though, so boot a comet and hit me up on the network if you want a planet or something to keep the conversation going.
Not a money problem. I have a Netflix subscription, and yet end up going to pirate websites more and more often these days. I'll probably just cancel my Netflix subscription.

It's so frustrating to see that 90%of the shows I want to see are unavailable on Netflix. Video streaming is just so fragmented right now. And they try to compensate with a bunch of low quality Netflix original shows.

Why can't they just replicate what has been done in audio streaming? Spotify is what Netflix should have been. It's been years I no longer need to pirate music.
There is a series with a sentient entity, living in a star. I think by Pohl.

Anyhow, he passed before writing the next book, and it literally bugs me at least once or twice a year, and yet I read it 20? 25? years ago.

So yes, at least here endings matter.
This is a standard functionality in kde plasma in the system tray.
I secind late night shows to get news. They have a bias that is totally clear (and one I share, most of the time), are well curayed and researched (so I don't to have news all day) and are presented in a non-so-serious way (making digestion easier).

In additiok to that we have dogital subscriptions to NYT, WP and physical ones for Wired and our local newspaper. Anytheing else is the non-subscription stuff from reliable news papers. I did reduce news consumption a lot so since the Ukraine war started.

Oh, and not to forget: HN.
Red and green traffic lights (and indeed even the distinction between green and blue) are not universally understood either:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/02/25/language/the-ja...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

What's your objection to "allowlist" (or "golist") and "denylist"/"blocklist"/"stoplist"?

It's not often that we have an almost universally better alternative, but at least to me it seems like this is the case here. (Yes, allow/deny have one syllable more each, but I think we'll live.)
I'm not going to bother with the actual study itself - as it's not really what a lot of the discussion here is about.

Instead, I'd like to ask this: Why do we have DEI measures for race, gender, and sexual orientation but none for socioeconomic class/upbringing? I have a thought as to why but still - I wonder what others here think.
true story: my coworker gave away her sons comic book collection because she found out one of the batman books portrays the caped crusader in a homosexual relationship, So id say the superhero industry doesnt hate kids per-say, it just has an unfortunately callous ability to expose which of your formerly well-intentioned parents is secretly an insufferable child.
I've had Netflix for years. I will cancel immediately if I see something close to an ad.
United Colors of Peloton
15 year olds: they "yeet" and make weird noises when you merge their code. Shouldn't be allowed near the beer fridge.

25 year olds: good at inverting binary trees and writing Javascript.
> GabeN is not correct. Piracy is a money problem. Free is very enticing.

A service problem and a money problem are almost the same thing. Time is money, and I value my free-time very high. People will pay to not have to spend time to find the free.
London already provides public transport even beyond it's own boundaries. It seems pretty unfair to insist that we, as London tax payers, spend even more money on providing services to people outside of London.

I don't think I've even suggested anything like that here.

That said, the thing about public transport is that it's all-for-one. If it's going to be a viable alternative to owning private cars then it has to be reasonable for all journeys someone needs to make not just a few convenient examples. There is no "local" or "national" with public transport for most people. The question is whether they can get from A to B in some reasonable way for any A and B they care about.
And they may make enough and have enough savings that they care less about a salary bump. They probably own a house and don't want to move for any number of reasons--which still matters a lot of the time even in this more WFH friendly world. And, at some point, they know that a job search is probably going to be harder. And there's always risk with a new job.

I've certainly known people who would entertain a move if a new position fell in their lap but wouldn't likely seek one out.
Most of those female characters you mentioned are just as "real" to me as the male superheroes. I don't like the Marvel movies or give a crap about any of those characters, male or female. Terminator 3, 4 and 5 were creative disasters on every level yet apparently Terminator 6 was a problem because of *something something girl boss*.

The Star Wars sequel movies were all written and directed by white men but something something girlboss ruined it for you.

It just seems to me you have some ideological grudge that has little to do with the movies.
For the first and third, I can't, it isn't my code.

For the second, I have to get approval from my employer to release it, but I stalled out half way through the paperwork and haven't had the energy to keep pushing it forward.
Impact. Impact is #1.

Interesting thought though, what if the product in question is a product geared toward a younger audience that younger devs are more "in tune" with? Assuming they have more impact as a result.