jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Aspiring female scientists and mathematicians still have to contend with the inaccurate stereotype that men are innately better at them in their chosen fields."

I wasn't aware that this had been definitively established as a myth.

Last I checked, there was a gender gap. There are a lot of interpretations that wish to ascribe this to a social difference rather than a physical one.

Further, this is an introductory course.

The overwhelming number of top scientists are male. IQ tests (FWIW) also place more males at both the top and bottom ends, with females clustered more around the middle. One interpretation there is that nature can afford to take more chances with males, so there are more extremes.

I can think of at least one factor that is physical, even though it doesn't have to do with mental capacity per se. A major impediment to learning tends to be psychological laziness; anything that gets us to push past this means we are using more of our capacity. Testosterone increases risk-taking behaviors and reduces complacency. This drive to constantly seek out the new and challenge the old might be sufficient by itself, even if there are no relevant neurological differences otherwise.

I also don't understand this push to try to equalize gender distribution. Even if the ONLY differences are social, it doesn't follow that it's better to socialize females in ANY given arbitrary manner just because they're female.

Clearly any field should be open to any individual who wishes to pursue it. Trying to equalize the numbers, given the current disparity, means pushing a lot of females into pursuing subjects they aren't interested in. Even if we posit that these fields have been traditionally male-biased, the majority of males are not interested in them.

This has to be open on an individual level, and whichever way it shakes out with regard to gender, it shakes out.

It's profoundly unfair to cite social differences and then blame colleges who only get people after 18 years of social indoctrination.
Back up a minute...

"Introverts are perfectly capable of overcoming their personality tendencies."

The first thing you're assuming is that introverts either want or need to overcome their introversion. There isn't anything wrong with being an introvert. There is something wrong with being an extreme introvert.
It's essentially mturk using text messaging.
So, we can go here and ask people for help basically?
The most distinguish feature of bitcoin - there is no issuing center. Bitcoin is a first monetary system I heard of who implemented that. If you know other with similar features - please post links to them.
I think you adapt quickly to being a father, though. I get your point, but on the other hand, sometimes time just flies by.
Haha, my sentiments exactly. If you're dead your quality of life probably sucks.
Your link says only early builds had the AD9364, and production builds have the AD9363. Too bad, its certainly less useful with no ability for VHF. You aren't going to get much range out of UHF with a 5mW output limit.
What do those techniques do to antibodies?
IVIG is an extremely common treatment, used for immunocompromised patients, or sometimes after a stem cell transplant to bolster the immune system while it recovers.

It’s not typically used in healthy adults as a way to treat a specific known pathogen because, well, we usually have much better options. Aside from being somewhat pricey, side effects are mild and it should be fairly effective.
Yeah, or taking a taxi or driving drunk.
I don't think that's going to work because this is a fairly complicated machine, and the company itself which has experience building molecular testing equipment and has a manufacturing supply chain in place is one of the only few that can build this.

Also asking them to open-source their technology seems unfair, they're entitled to their share of pay for their hard work. The average engineer at this company probably makes much less than the average engineer at your FAANG company.
It is going to be bad. People are still out and about touching everything then touching their face. I saw one lady today leave Walmart then upon getting to her car put all the groceries in the back then grabs a bag of chips and pops them open and starts eating them just moments after handling her shopping cart. Are people not seeing the videos of the people dying or on ventilators struggling for oxygen? Mean while the number of people around here being infected is slowly getting larger and larger each day. I have been telling people wash your hands before you do anything. They say social distancing, but that is the dumbest thing if you ask me because people seem to think that means if I am out and about and I stay 3 feet away from other people I will not get sick. What it really means is when you are out and about you need to not be in contact with other people or objects that other people may come in contact with. If you do come in contact with an object another person may have come in contact with, you may be exposed to the virus. Any time you touch an object others may have touched wash your hands. Social Distancing= Distancing from People and Any Objects they may have Touched. The other huge thing is do not touch your face, if you must it should only be after you thoroughly washed your hands. I am a home care aide and look after hundreds of elderly. This is getting crazy and feels as if we are just about to blow up in numbers. I wish people would take this more seriously. Vancouver Island is starting to take off. Good luck every body
Of course they are. Just as they like to pretend he’s the only person in the world who falls over his words every so often.
This has been asserted by so many different people, but there doesn't seem to be much scientific evidence backing it up. Why are you so sure?
I this this may be doing more harm than good. The test centers are a stretched resource at the moment.

People need to call their local non-emergency line for instructions if they have symptoms.

This map is incomplete by your own admission, which makes it practically misinformation.

We don't need guerrilla tactics in this war.
It just seems to me that MIT has looked at their data and saw that subject test scores are not a key differentiator between students who do well at MIT and students who do not. You’ve already mentioned MIT is niche. Is your alma mater with the top English and Rhetoric departments dropping these tests, or is MIT doing so? If subject test scores are not a differentiator of success at MIT, why should MIT make students go through with them, especially if that time and effort can be put towards doing other things that actually are better indicators? Maybe programming projects, etc, or whatever their case may be. Call it woke but maybe their actual numbers support their decision?
s/seize/cease/
When I flew between Seattle and San Francisco this month, I saw at least half a dozen in use on each flight as I walked down the aisle.
Reeder is the only app that I have paid for and use consitantly on my iPhone.
Here's the thing: just re-write the end of the story, and it makes the exact opposite point.

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But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. "I only saved 16% out of the 20% reduction," declared the tenth man. He pointed to the sixth man, "But he saved 100%" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the ninth man. "I only saved 22%. It's unfair -he got much more benefit than me!" "That's true!" shouted the eighth man. "Why should he get 100% back, when I got only 25%? The poor always win!" The eighth, ninth, and tenth men got together and talked to the bartender, who (because their money was keeping him in business) agreed to no longer serve the group unless they adopted a less progressive schedule.

And that, boys and girls, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest tax rate will naturally get the least benefit from a tax reduction, but they have the most power to explicitly direct a reduction to themselves.

--

Note that however it may seem, I don't mean to argue a particular position by this. I'm only pointing out how changing a little piece at the end completely changes the message of the parable. It's a complete hypothetical either way. I've been calling this the "Fallacy of the Parable": using a parable in place of a reasoned argument.
Backbone.js is amazing.

We're rebuilding some pieces of our editor in Poll Everywhere and to date, its the most sensible approach to JS MVC that we've seen. Frameworks like Cappuccino and SproutCore make it really hard to control the look and feel if your application and take an "all or nothing" approach whereas Backbone.js goes with the "grain" of the web letting you mix-and-match whatever JS libs you want to use for your project.
This is a property of many statically typed languages, and Haskell isn't known for being one of the more forgiving languages in that family.

I appreciate that his goals were more mathematically oriented than not, but surely he would've seen something like this coming?
A teacher who instills enthusiasm in a subject area is more valuable than a teacher with no knowledge gaps in said subject area, all other things being equal.
Disregarding, for a moment, that you're completely overestimating the value of this hypothetical $250k per year income...

The answer is to punish the doctor? This is precisely my problem with the general tact of liberalism: the answer is always to bring the upper-middle class down to the level of the lower-middle class while predominantly leaving the true wealthy untouched. Why shouldn't people be able to get somewhat ahead? Why is the mentality that we all have to be exactly equal so long as we can lump your income with this mythical middle class?
I think that much was known for a little while already...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/security/how-stuxne...
Yep.

And there are proof systems that use this approach (i.e. build a series of provers that each prove the next (more complex) one).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
Sometimes it's because the product is on the way to failure in the market. It might be a great product, but that doesn't mean it'll ever be profitable.

The acquirer may love the technology and use it internally, but it's expensive to keep it in a public marketplace. It requires support staff, marketing, sales, etc.

There are also acquisitions that are purely about customers, so the startup's product is shut down or rolled into the acquirer's existing products.

So there are a lot of good reasons you'd want to company other than its product, but we can't always tell which reason it is right away.
> Except any free speech aimed at any politician while not in a designated "Free Speech Zone."

This was not the holding in Wood et. al. v. Moss et. al., which can be read in its entirety here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-115_gdil.pdf

You can listen to the arguments here:
http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2013/2013_13_115

It's not quite the easy political speech suppression case some newspapers made it out to be.

There were a series of factors that complicated the decision--including questions of deference to officers making snap judgments, whether or not there is any right to bring a case in this instance, and the level of threat posed by the protestors. Any of the individual factors are arguable, but note that there are so many complications that it led to a unanimous decision. That's an unlikely occurrence without some strong reasoning driving the disparate members of the court. If you disagree with a unanimous court, then its worth closely reading and trying to understand how they all came to that conclusion.

The foundation of the decision leans heavily upon a long history of fourth amendment findings and a preference for objective standards in law enforcement decisions, but that's incredibly difficult to summarize. My best recommendation for the curious is to read through the leading cases on fourth amendment law over the last century to build an appreciation for this style of jurisprudence over officers of the law. (I know that's an obnoxiously inefficient recommendation, I'm not smart enough / haven't thought hard enough to come up with a more efficient way to get a curious reader up to speed, and apologize for that...)

If you want a "gotcha" moment that makes the case (probably too) simple, note that Wilker, arguing for the petitioner, at one point replies to Justice Breyer that his case is about agents that have 100% viewpoint motivations and 0% security motivations. Later, in response to a question from Justice Kagan, he admits that a reasonable security officer could have made these decisions motivated purely by security considerations alone. (Compare 33:30 with 37:30 in the oral arguments.)

There are a dozen factors that led to the decision, but if you want to reduce to one moment where the petitioner most likely lost the case, that might be it.
Qt 5 is just the best in class for cross-platform GUI development. It's huge and slightly idiosyncratic in places, but developing cross platform UIs (and even lots of platform specific UI patterns) is pretty straightforward. The standard UI controls are very flexible and powerful. Bugs due to differences between platforms are really rare.

Other toolkits like wxWidgets are perfectly serviceable, but they are not nearly as complete.
How can a website have a memory leak? That's a browser property. Websites don't leak memory.
They have evil-mode for that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
You got it. I have relatives who work with the homeless, and one of the striking things is the population that is growing now: veterans.

Politicians love waving flags and "supporting the troops". But when some if these men come home and can't adjust, the flags get out away. Many turn to alcohol and start a spiral the ends on a street somewhere.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic, not only recent but also one of the most destructive in human history as well. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5531a1.htm
Mac users, note that Folding@Home can't use GPUs at all. I considered Boot Camp but their docs (and Boinc's) seem focused on Nvidia and don't appear to have kept up on "ATI" (AMD) video card instructions.
Similar techniques are used to create short random bit streams for use as shared keys (mostly for researchers and entities afraid of RSA being factored). This technology is not currently practical for sharing entire one time pads.
I take issue with your taking issue with his taking issue with the post :)

Specifically, this is a threaded comment system. We can have as many discussions about something (post or other comment) as we want: go off on wild tangents, point out the spelling, have a pun thread, mention patterns of blogging/commenting the parent fits into, reply to the author on a separate subject, share anecdotes related to the subject of the post, and actually talk about the content of a post or comment, all at the same time, without breaking anything. That's what's so neat about threaded discussion: it doesn't require the "comparative notability" that a linear conversation needs in order to function.
I'd say - publish the idea and make use of it. You cannot (in theory) patent anything that was already published somewhere.
Previous post three weeks ago before some details revealed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870044
Inbox Zero is a methodology to manage the constant flow of e-mail landing in your inbox that maximizes clarity. The main goal is to clear your mind of the monotonous task of handling e-mail and concentrate on the work you purposely want to get done.

I've been guilty of driving e-mail accounts to Inbox Infinity all my life.

Six months ago, I started a new job, and that meant I got a brand new e-mail address to go with it. I literally had zero unread e-mails in my inbox that day.

Maybe that's cheating, but for me, it was the perfect opportunity to implement an Inbox Zero system from scratch and to maintain an organized inbox for the first time.
It's sufficient but not necessary.

Reasoning:

If you're coding, that counts as working. But if you're working, that doesn't mean that you are coding.

Obviously yours works too though (You have to do some programming, but you also have to do other things).
> How would you value non-monetary assets?

One cool idea I've seen proposed is mandatory sales. So maybe once a year, you have to specify a value for everything you own, and people can buy it from you for that value. So you can set your sentimental value as high as you like, and make it impossible for anyone to buy your valued property. But then taxes are calculated off that value...
You can absolutely annotate screenshots using just the integrated screenshot tool of macOS. You can even do the annotation on your iOS device seamlessly, which is really neat if you've got an iPad with Pencil. I don't think there are any third party tools as powerful as that - I loved Flameshot on Linux but I don't see why I would need it on macOS.
I feel like this is a solvable problem. For instance you could require parens in the case of expressions using < or > characters.
but sharing the key would be sharing (access to) the DNA
Why do you assume he isn't paying? The payment should obviously be proportional, though. You can't expect a single individual to finance what a gigantic multibillion corporation could.
The labor will not be cheaper.

Just because you tax labor less, does not mean salaries necessarily go down. The cost of labor is primarily a function of supply and demand + overall competitiveness of your economy on the global stage.

In fact if you increase the cost of consumer goods by pushing up the cost of manufacturing inputs, you're going to have to pay workers more to maintain the same standard of living. Their cost to drive to work goes up; their cost to feed themselves goes up; their cost to buy a house goes up; etc.
People have been right since the begining, and no one wants to talk about it.
There's no higher authority than ICANN as far as domain names are concerned. That's why the letter says "help stop the sale", not "stop the sale".
What makes you say too few in jail? Do you have any evidence that more people in jail=better outcomes? I’m willing to listen in good faith.
>It seems you disapprove of the phrase "responsible disclosure" because it's ambiguous and can be used as a cudgel

This is like saying that a glock can be used as a weapon. Yes, it was carefully designed to be one.

>We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children

This might also be ambiguous, but we all understand the genocidal connotations.
It sounds like you don't like Apple at all
They can hike without limit, and they can target the hike. So they could make wikipedia pay 10000 a year when they need to renew.

If they had all domains at the same price, price hikes would be much less of an issue.
Proton VPN seems to work well, although the privacy advantages of being in Switzerland seem to have eroded over time.
Banning hate speech may well be a good idea, but it'd be much more complicated than our restrictions on defamation.

An accusation of defamation can be countered by showing the statement is true. And, even still, we significantly weaken our laws against defamation when the person being defamed is a public figure, especially a politician, because the people who wrote US law have been extremely concerned about restrictions on political speech.

Hate speech is not defined in US law, and defining and banning it would not in any way be "simple".
I think what we may have here is Amazon using hardware to simulate interest and jump-start eventual software. While this seems really cool, it also seems so wasteful that I'm not sure I can bring myself to really use one of these. What I think would be good though is an Amazon quick-list of essentials that you can access in a very streamlined way through the Amazon phone app.

A quick list of purchasables through the phone app is something essentially have, or could have with very minimal work. Getting people to use what essentially doesn't sound like that interesting of a feature is the problem. A cool swizzy new hardware device fits that need, and once people are using that, the App just pre-fills the quick list with items they are using through hardware. People can then decide whether they want a new button for a new essential, or just to add it to the app, and eventually people are just using the app more because there don't exist certain buttons or waiting for them is a hassle.

Not the kind of thing just any company could pul off, but it is the kind of thing I think Amazon could.
Yes, it does seem Reich knew about this effect well before Deutsch did, but maybe didn't realize it was something that could be given a classification of "audio illusion". And he's added the phase aspect to this piece as well, using the echo that he slows down and then speeds up through the piece. The vocal "phasing" part of this particular Reich piece gets very much into Deutsch's HI LO illusion, too.

I did a guitar version of his song Piano Phase on YouTube, and then followed up with 2 related pieces using a Guns and Roses theme and a Paganini arpeggio sequence to similar effect. I like how they begin just sounding like an echo, but as the echo gets spread out and distant, different melodies and rhythms emerge that just weren't there before. The repetition and pairing up with differing notes produces something that is definitely something unexpected.

Deutsch would probably be interested in that aspect as well.

Here's the guitar version of Piano Phase: https://youtu.be/9BG9hP6gqYc

And the G'n'R phase: https://youtu.be/PEaDItL1EJU

I thought I uploaded the Paganini one. I'll have to search it out and get it in my playlist.

EDIT: Found it. I just never made a video for the Paganini Phase: https://soundcloud.com/intruder-1/paganini-phase-steve-reich
Sure, but when I got a counterfeit product on amazon I called them and got it fixed quickly and relatively painlessly.
Agreed. We'll change a lot in about two weeks, so stay tuned :)
I assume these are both result from the fact that "The U.S. Dietary Reference Intake Tolerable Upper Intake Level (upper limit) of vitamin D for children and adults is set at 50 micrograms/day (2,000 IU)," the U.S. Dietary Reference being a product of the USDA.

There's a long history of government medical pronouncements being mistaken or outdated (e.g. encouraging grains over fat consumption), perhaps due to the incentives under which regulatory bodies operate - there's little disincentive for being suboptimal or even mistaken, as in the case of fat.

The incidences I've found of Vitamin D toxicity have been found at far higher levels, 40-50,000 IU.

For reference a toxic aspirin dose is roughly 30x a standard dose.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Overdose_by_ingestion
You might consider switching to a D3 supplement that includes some K2; they play nicely together.
This is from memory, I don't have my sources right now, but most of what I've read is that the body can deal very well with too much Vitamin D. What it doesn't do well is a deficiency.

A few of my pharmacist friends told me about how some people are being prescribed doses of 50,000 UI, and I've read somewhere that below 14,000 UI a day over extended periods, no toxicity was found. So I kind of doubt that 2,000 UI is an upper bound, unless you have a very specific condition. Just spending a day on the beach probably gives you a MUCH higher dose than this.

But as I said, this is from memory. Take this with a grain of salt and do your own research. Personally, I'll keep taking my 4,000 UI/day, something that I've been doing for about 4-5 years (and while this is anecdotal, I've seen improvements in seasonal mood changes and the number of times I'm sick per year).