skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The denial of reality? The reality is that Russia failed miserably at there noted first goal (regime change in Ukraine) suffered such a resounding loss that they withdrew there army from a axis of the war because they where being decimated.

Keep in mind Kyiv is only 50km from the border with Russia, and Russia failed to take it. This was has less been about a denial of reality and really been about seeing just how much a paper tiger the Russian armed forces are, turns out they are worse then pretty much anyone expected.

If Russia is doing so well why are there own propagandist and military complaining about how well Ukraine is striking there C&C and ammo depots?.

Why has Russia made so little gains in the past two weeks?.

Russia has already failed the only question is how badly there loses get before they leave.

That’s the question, how many dead Russian soldiers, how many more ships from the Black Sea fleet have to sink, how many more helicopters and planes have to crash and how many more tanks need to cook off?.

> Or will it take millions in big urban centers and widespread starvation?

The intentional starvation of urban centres certainly sounds like genocide to me, and you really have to ask yourself what kind of capable military acts like this?. Russian threatens because it’s there only option, if they could they would of taken Ukraine already.
> but I feel like it makes it very difficult to reason about performance

This seems like a form of premature optimization.

I mean, you're not wrong technically, but if you were exceptionally performance concerned, you probably wouldn't be using ruby.

If you're just regular performance concerned (i.e. you want to stop pathological behavior in the hot loop), you're really only concerned about 1-2% of your code. You wait until it's an issue, run a profiler over your code and optimize the couple of parts that are causing the issue.
Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science (2017)
It’s quite common to eat rabbit, pidgin, pheasant in the UK, and duck and lamb are standard dishes
If you switched to Python, then you probably traded your `bundle install` errors for `pip install` errors ;-)
I was actually wondering why the big trackers haven't implemented this yet and how much time it will take them to switch. I mean, the tracking part of the URL is so obvious it's just sitting there and asking to be removed. Most tech people do that, also some extensions, and now Firefox. So it was just a question of time.
Same here. She remembers all this stuff over decades. I can barely remember last week. Sometimes I wonder if there's something up with my brain.

Yes, I am actually pretty good at other brain stuff. Software and design and such. Good at concentration.

And there's that "absent minded professor" archetype to consider.

On the third hand, working outside in this heat can bake the brains right out of your head.
what's the reason to change from the old format if that's all it does?
Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as strategy (2019)
Smart but now there’s another third entity you have to trust to aggregate all this personal information from a slew of users just to… avoid the same situation initially? Sort of seems like only a marginal improvement.
How can I find out if my fridge uses R410A?
How much of that money is made by externalising costs to the society?

Limiting cross-borders money flow is a very good way to keep social contract intact.
Your annual cost is $0, tbf
That seems a rather pointless way to think about it, unless you think any science that can't be proven with a brief conversation with someone isn't worth considering. Would you try to judge how many kids in the class have inherited higher risk of heart disease by listening to their heart beats for a few minutes?

If you spent a day with a class of kids you'd probably (unless asking them specific questions about it) not be able to guess any specifics of their parents' different parenting techniques, does that mean that parenting doesn't matter and kids should just be ignored when not being fed?
Lamb is completely common - you can buy it at Costco for crying out loud. Heck, I even had some at a FAANG cafeteria the other day.

Lamb’s consumption is not unusual in the US, and is completely unrelated to the veal issue.
Nice! As an aside, could you please improve the error message for "password length invalid" - took me a few tries to figure out how short it has to be. Best of luck!
I may be wrong, but besides and before the wage increases, it seems to me like the priority would be for decent working conditions, if what is published from time to time on media is actually true, the biggest issues are about lack of (normal, decent) pauses or rest periods, continuous summoning for increases in productivity, total control on the workers, etc.
Although that's also a bad answer, since their employer (the government) is also a monopoly with even more power than most businesses.
They counted gay and similar as underrepresented. Assume they did the same for disabled but not sure
OK I'll bite - why?
The heterodox view here is that unfair treatment is not a reason men leave tech jobs because men are more resilient to it. For myself, my wife left her tech job because she didn't like the way she was treated. This leaves me forced to work my tech job whether I like my boss or not, because we have several mouths to feed. I don't really have much of a choice, and I venture many many many men feel the same way.

A women who leaves the workplace is following a socially acceptable script to do so. If she has kids, absolutely no one will accuse her of being a deadbeat, useless, etc. But God forbid, should a man express a desire to leave, it's a big problem, even if his wife is happy providing.

Not saying it's right or it's wrong, but I feel a lot of these articles about women in the workplace ignore the fact that the main reason there's so many men in the workplace is that the men basically have to work, so will stay even in jobs they hate. It's why the stereotypical "do-nothing" employee, the guy who's burnt out but been there forever and no one's going to fire him, is a man -- women leave, men don't.
Freedom to work for less.

Freedom to be exploited by their employer.

Yes, we get it. You're special. You're not like the rest of those... those... workers. You are capable of deluding yourself that your negotiating power is anywhere near that of any company you may want to be employed by or otherwise do business with. Which, of course is a delusion. Unions give workers, including you, power.
It would be interesting if men and women have a different average tolerance for being interrupted. We would want to be sensitive to that, not just assume that the "male default" is how every group meeting should work.
I’m male and am interrupted far more often by females.
Really the only reason to use Python is ML, but that is the future of everything so….
oops sorry about that, fixing it now!
You make it illegal to negotiate based on work stoppages, to plan a strike, or otherwise conspire to strike. And you permanently fire those who do. It happened to air traffic controllers in the US.
We just have the masons instead which spans the police, CPS and the entire rest of the legal system.

Been burned big time by that.
why not ask the folks when they pass on you? completing the technical portion doesn’t mean you should expect an offer.

if simply asking them wasn’t obvious or seems too difficult or awkward, then that may be indicative of the problem.
I think police unions are a bit different for the same reason we don't have a military union.
FB is an advertising platform that depends on the number of eyeballs. This number is already dropping. The more user-hostile they become, the worse for their bottom line in the long term, in spite of potential short-term gains, if any.
I wonder how much of this is intentional behavior by tech companies. They want to select for workers that will tolerate their bullshit and are willing to receive some level of abuse.

If a system is designed to work a certain way it's usually not by accident. I'm not sure tech companies are interested in changing.

I wonder what free market advocates would say should be done about this issue. Why hasn't the free market done a better job of fixing this category of problems? Shouldn't it confer some kind of competitive advantage?

What if all design decisions and actions were deliberate? Or are we really to believe that all these huge corporations full of incredibly brilliant and skilled individuals are somehow too dumb and ignorant to figure out how to fix these problems?

This domain of problems is cursed. It seems similar to how a lot of political issues get mildly shitty solutions no matter what.

I'm increasingly cynical that it's ever possible to meaningfully improve human systems or that it's even worth trying. Sorry for being such a downer. It's hard enough to keep myself from being perpetually suicidal.

Most of the recommendations here actually sound pretty reasonable. Has any company implemented them and proven to be successful?
> It is a fact, confirmed by the history of science since Galileo and Newton, that the more theoretical and removed from immediate applications a scientific topic appears to be, the more likely it is to eventually find the most striking practical applications. Consider number theory, which only 20 years ago was believed to be the most useless chapter of mathematics and is today the core of computer security.

Sounds like survivorship bias. Sure, there are plenty of examples of math concepts that ended up being extremely valuable but were once considered esoteric. What about the ones that remained esoteric?

I understand this was just one point of the essay, so he couldn't dive too deep. Would be cool to see a fuller analysis.
The union just makes two huge parties, neither of which the employee has much choice about.
Given the context of this thread (comparison of ruby and python), it should be noted that python also has this. You can decorate a method with `@property` and call the method without parentheses.

It's really nice because it means you don't have to pre-wrap all of your properties with accessor methods. They can just be properties, and if something changes, you swap the property out with a decorated method and you don't need to change any code.
Fair, fair, and fair. :)
"Fuck you I won't leave home without it!"
Apple adding AVIF image support to Safari with iOS 16 and macOS 13
A stopped clock is right twice a day. People have been screaming about QE for 15 years and about government deficits for the last 50. So it seems fairly bloody obvious that the unique things about today's economy are caused by the blindingly obvious unique issues in today's economy like supply shocks rather than the things that are the same as they are when we didn't have problems.

The only things that have a strong correlation with recessions are rising interest rates and balanced budgets. So maybe we should stop doing the things that are known to cause recession?

Debt is money and that an economy needs money to function. And if an economy is growing, it needs more money, which means either more personal or more corporate or more government borrowing.
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0 justification for privacy abuse, tbf

As a user have no debt to them just because they offer something for free. Maybe you psychologically feel that way (reciprocity is a common psychological effect that is exploited in marketing)
I don't know anyone who left the workforce after their first child and stayed out until their children were out of home. Most often, they started returning to work in the first year after the birth, and repeated the cycle for each child.

Children would have an impact (on every job category), but I don't think it's as extreme as you say.

Part-time roles would be a thing before talking about decade-long gaps, IMO.
I once heard that certain car models couldn't be sold on the US market without changes because the AC didn't cool the interior fast enough after sitting in the sun.

I'm not sure if this was just a joke. I could totally see this being true whichsays a lot already.
One can get horse meat in Japan too. (I think they mostly import it from France these days.) I had a nice cheval carpaccio there once, at the insistence of my Japanese hosts. It tasted good, but I have no desire to eat it again.

I don't intend to ever try dog. From what I've heard the meat of carnivores tastes unpleasant, but that might be folklore.
Glade is being phased out for a new UI builder called Drafting that will be integrated with GNOME Builder.
Are women maltreated in technology? Yes. Capitalism is classist more than anything else and if you weren't born into generational wealth and connections, you're going to get fucked one way or another. Are women maltreated more than men? Eh, it's less clear, but the evidence on pay seems to suggest so. Still, I don't think that's all of why there's a dearth of women in technology. There are two really big factors that don't get a lot of volume behind them because they're politically incorrect (but keep in mind that I'm a leftist and mostly a feminist and I'm still saying this).

One: more women than men leave tech because they can. For every machine learning researcher getting paid $600k to be a basically a professor-in-residence, there are 250 losers doing Scrum. Whether you're a man or a woman, it's a horrible career; the bullshit and toxicity burn you out after 10 years. Men are socialized to believe that (a) making money is their main value both to society and to the people who will depend on them, and that (b) the market will treat them fairly because "meritocracy". We learn that (b) is false in early middle age, if not before, but can't really say it too loudly because we don't want to be tagged as bitter. It's a lot more socially acceptable for a woman to downshift her career to launch a small business than for a man. There's no intrinsic reason why it should be considered usual for men in heterosexual relationships to earn more than women, but emasculating and odd for the reverse to be the case, but you'd have to undo decades of socialization in billions of people to erase that prejudice. For now, it persists, and the common view is that a woman who leaves tech is brave for no longer putting up with the toxicity; a man who leaves tech is a wimp who couldn't hack it.

Two: smart women are more likely to go into medicine, law, and general management. Why? Look-ahead. A 22-year-old heterosexual woman has dated--or at least has friends who have dated--a few 25-year-old men, and maybe one or two in their early 30s. They see where the various paths lead. They see where most techies end up by age 30, and it ain't pretty... and they realize they don't want to go there. because they're smart. The 32-year-old doctor might still have a tough life--insurance companies are the pits, and residents don't make a lot of money--but at least he doesn't have to interview for his own fucking job every morning or deal with user stories and product managers.
I started writing ruby a couple weeks ago, and it threw me off at first. But you get used to it very quickly.
I wouldn't expect a market solution for privacy woes
An Interview with Brunello Cucinelli (2015)
If you have to ask about publishing in a journal you won't be published. It's very hard explaining to outsiders just how petty and vindictive peer review is. You need a friend to vouch for you to get published in a top tier journal.

Largely the reason why I left academia and went back to being one of the parasites she talks about. Academia isn't any more meritocratic than the blue blood circles [0], the only difference is that the pie is so much smaller.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... I talked to people about this in the 00s and it was common knowledge in the field that publishing anything outside what that cabal deemed acceptable would kill your career. When I asked if the persons career was worth more than their grandmothers life I didn't get an answer.
The thing on average that's different between men and women is that women bear children and are then flooded with hormones that make them want to stay home, whereas a male sexually imprinted on a woman with a child wants to shower resources on the mother. Research has shown how both sexes hormones change with respect to having a child, and this is pretty much how things work. Why we should expect this to not have societal implications is beyond me. Too many articles talk about sex without talking about children, which is ridiculous, because children are an incredibly common human experience.
> Well, who the hell is in the teachers union if not teachers?

well, union higher-ups are basically politicians, they're not usually working in the job by that point
I’m not here to judge anyone for eating meat, despite being vegetarian, but I agree with the other comments here, if you eat cows or pigs or sheep or chickens then why not cockatoos or horses or dogs (or feral cats, which are consumed in some parts of Australia)?

I don’t eat any of these creatures, but nevertheless, I just don’t get why certain animals seem to be culturally off limits for those who do eat meat. Is it just because cows, pigs and sheep are not animals you get to pat very often?
In every place I worked, female to male ratio was a lot higher in management positions as opposed to developer positions. If anything, as a male, I feel like I am being discouraged.
This reminds me of an Amiga utility someone made called 'viacom' that when run would create a nice semi-transparent pattern of static interference all over the screen.
I'm surprised by the writer completely ignoring the possibility of blast injury to the lungs...? Blowing into a hose connected to a space in which an explosion takes place would worry me much more than what the lid might do.
> Everyone pretends that racism in America is just that, when it's actually classism born of racist roots

Americans will easily hand the mantle of national oppression over to Ukrainians, but even though the US Supreme Court recently attacked indigenous communities, which barely made a blip in US corporate media, you don't hear much about America's national oppression of the Sioux or the Cherokee. You hear instead about "racism".

While Africans in the US face class oppression, they also face national oppression.
One correction. The partisan posters suggest that there are people who are strongly against the Russian occupation. But actual polling says that there probably was strong majority support within Crimea for rejoining Russia. After 8 years of Russian propaganda, I would bet that the actual support is now higher. People become (at least temporarily) loyal to their abusers. It is not unlike Stockholm syndrome, and is often seen after, for instance, domestic violence.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum... for more.
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I feel like Watterson’s stance about licensing was in no small part a direct response to the way Schulz never met a deal he didn’t like. At the time Calvin & Hobbes was becoming successful, there was Peanuts stuff everywhere. Snoopy was in commercials selling life insurance, and it really did feel like this was taking something important out of a small-scale, moody strip about disillusionment and failure.
I am sure it will not bring you back :) but in case others might read this and have the same issue the solution is to config bundler to install the gems locally inside a project folder (I usually go for ./vendor/bundle) and the add that to .gitignore

This way if you work with multiple projects each using different Ruby versions and different gem versions you don't keep to keep reinstall the gems whenever you switch the directory.
If you have a craving: Many of the various kinds of salamis from Kotivara (Finnish) have horse meat in them, including the very nice pepperoni one:

https://www.kotivara.se/vara-salamis/salamis/pepperonisalami...
> I didn’t leave Apple in 2018 because of a singular event. I left because of the cumulative toll of microaggressions – what I call death by a thousand papercuts.

Something to check - and I don't think it makes it into the discussion on this stuff enough - is whether the men are actually free of this level of pressure. I suspect most men actually don't want to be working and feel extreme pressure at work. They just don't have the option of leaving because society is really rather harsh to men who give up on a high-status job. I've seen women drop out of CS courses because they didn't like it, and I've seen men power through because while they didn't like the coursework they did need the money to establish themselves. The decisive difference wasn't how they were being treated (although that does exist), it was what alternatives were available.

Based on my observations, I suspect many men would also discover (to their surprise) that if they chose to leave tech they were also choosing to leave their family.
How to ban people in general from striking is easy: you just call the cops on them. How to prevent the cops from striking I don't know...
So basically, let's keep buying our average quality cars for more money, than allow free trade & importing better quality vehicles from a country that specializes with it?

For some reason, it was the growth of global trade that coincided with the growth of global GDP & the increase of the life quality of the earth population.
If I were to try to guess, it's that it forces political cooperation on people under threat of not having a job.

Imagine the situation where every single company in your state is a union shop (you have to join the union and pay dues if you work) - and every single union is wildly pro-gun, supporting candidates who want everyone to carry two guns (but they'll compromise to only men and only one if pushed).

So to live and work, your money has to go to support that. If you were anti-gun, you'd probably feel a bit annoyed.
Don't these APIs typically have an idempotency key or similar so you can send the same request multiple times safely?
I was not opposed to it, but the buyout attempt made me delete my account: I realized that I, and other Twitter users, were creating value for Whoever owned it. Does that count?

If it does... I'm in favor of the suit. It looks like Musk committed to a deal favorable to Twitter shareholders, and is backing out because he figured that out. Looks like Twitter called his bluff. The lawsuit is just consequences.
How can that work, what if you lose your job. Doesn't make sense
Globalism is coming from the same people that also want open borders for immigration. Should borders be open or closed? (European here, I have no stance on that, Amazon has no retail presence in my country and immigration is almost zero here)
Does anyone have better data on why they leave tech? It seems like there should be a survey, or a summary of exit interviews, or something.

I also wonder what the base rate for women leaving a career path within 10 to 20 years is, compared to the base rate for men.

My personal and possibly untrendy opinion is that tech jobs aren't flexible or predictable enough when you're trying to start a family or raise young kids[0]. Most of the burden of this work falls on women, so you'd expect them to leave in droves for jobs that don't make on-call shifts mandatory and don't ask staff to work on the weekend to get the Frobnizzle project ready for integration testing with the Dunder Mifflin team.

If the way your company works is fundamentally hostile to employees with kids, I don't think any surface-level D&I initiative is going to fix the structural problems of sexism and ageism.

[0] Something which happens around 30 to 40, e.g. 10 to 20 years into an average career.
(out of curiosity) What is hard to understand about Ruby?
> So you end up with something like a 200 Mbps down x 15.5 Mbps up cable connection.

I have a 1200mbps down Comcast connection that still only has 35mbps up.