jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think this article is very dangerous. By and large, the reason why women don't become leaders is because they don't ask to. 1) It's not a feasible social model for everyone sitting around being humble, expecting to become a leader "because they have the right personality profile for it". 2) to be effective, realistically leaders need to have a level of expertise to critically judge the project - leaving it to advisors to make the lion's share of those decisions can lead to serious derailment (which is why the MBA culture is seriously flawed).

"Lean in" may be a bit extreme, but we DO have a problem where for whatever reason women don't ASK to be leaders, and when they do they don't NEGOTIATE for more power or pay. For whatever sociocultural reason, we seem to be in the business of shielding women from the emotional risk of failure. This is deeply ingrained in our culture: although both are changing, on the centuries-old social dance floor men ask women for dances, men ask women for dates. The head of the institute where I work famously owns a Tesla Model S, and this high school intern is somewhat obsessive about the Teslas, and I told her, "go ask him for a ride around the block", and all I got were nine months of excuses not to.

To be sure, it takes a modicum of narcissism to ask for a position of leadership, just as it takes some narcissism to ask for a dance on the dance floor (I deserve to dance with this person) or ask for a date (I deserve to go on a date). Labelling narcissism in and of itself as a bad is dangerous, what is dangerous is excessive narcissism to the exclusion of humility and reason.

Anecdotally, I don't think it's hard for women to accepted as leaders. When I worked for one, it was not a problem, I seriously had a lot of respect for her. Ok. So maybe I did once think of her as "crazy" - but it was only on the day when she hyperbolically threatened to kill the grad students if they used the wrong pipette, and they sort of deserved to hear it, their performance and lack of intellectual introspection was unacceptably low. However, I do work in academic science where positions of leadership are more often than normal (but I would not say a majority of the time) earned through directly relevant achievement. In the "normal" case, it might be easier to shrug off an incompetent or perceived incompetent leader. I do sometimes wonder, though, if whether or not I and others respected her, if she wasn't still self-conscious about it.
Of course it's execution, you need to be able to write a very good and fast algorithm, not everyone can do it.
achivd.com looks really interesting. But it threw back a 500 page: http://demo.archivd.com/list/detail/87UfnvACqpGz5z
In this case, yes. But not for all types of startups. When I say I won't "put stock" in another bookmarking service for a while, I don't mean I won't use one. I mean I won't use one like I would if I thought it was a permanent, reliable fixture.
This is why you shouldn't leave your crypto in Coinbase. If my money is in a bank there's no real way I can transfer all of my money out of it and have it remain usable. I can transfer it to a different bank, or I can get it all in cash and hide it in my mattress. On the other hand, the banking part of Coinbase is a complete commodity, I can transfer my assets to my own wallet and they're just as usable. The existence of an escape hatch is a big difference. Even if CB itself is basically a central bank.
Thanks to Apple, there's probably a solid "aluminium case" manufacturing pipeline that Framework might be able to leverage. That's a wild guess though, I can imagine Apple keeping that tightly under their thumbs.

Extra colors add cost. You have to plan for which colors might be popular, and which won't, in which case you'd have to sell at a discount to get rid of inventory. I'd be surprised if Framework offered that out of the gate.
It's one of those things that work well only in certain circumstances. Most especially a continuous stream of applicants, some of them above average, is needed.

At my not-particularly-good university they keep hiring faculty at assistant professor rank. Since the graduate school isn't impressive the applicant quality and publication record isn't great, and someone getting a grant is a rarity. After five years they won't get tenure, the position is re-advertised, more startup money is spent, wash, rinse, repeat. Under these circumstances it would be wiser for them not to shoot for the star performers they won't ever get. The research quality will be just as mediocre, but they can spare themselves the hiring process and save on startup funds.
Wow, thanks for digging that up. I assumed BG had done transfers of stock, but I guess he sold it on a plan and gave the cash to the foundation.

Another amazing thing about the BMGF is that it doesn't want to be permanent -- spending all assets within 20 years of the deaths of Bill and Melinda, and for the Buffet contribution, within 10 years of his death. (Based on age, it's highly likely WB will predecease either Bill or Melinda Gates.)
Then it shouldn't exist in this form. Either create a social network structured in such a way that it can be moderated (not my job to figure how) or make them illegal.
And who actually protect the capitol building when it is under attack.
These things aren't microservices for a dating app that is going to fold in two years. The core of working in any safety-critical field is strict empiricism. You have to accept how little you know and not believe anything you haven't seen with your own eyes (and even then, it's wise to distrust what you've seen). To believe that you have predicted all of the thousands of scenarios that will arise out of "just one small change" and forego testing is a good way to surprise somebody an early trip to the pearly gates.
> (which is needed regularly in Clojure cause it's so slow)

Clojure is not "so" slow - it's built expertly on top of the world's most advanced virtual machine.

Languages like PHP, Ruby, Python tend to lack a default VM that features GC or multithreading of such caliber.
Because they're the only app in the category that can?
Wikipedia is supported entirely by donations. I would hazard a guess that people who donate to Wikipedia consider it to be worth the money they choose to donate, and more.
Because a majority of the time, the idiomatic Clojure will be fast enough.

I wouldn't consider Clojure to be a "slow" language, most of the time it'll perform pretty well, and has really great utilities for doing multithreaded code (which can also increase performance).

By using Java, you sacrifice a lot of the cool lispey features that you get with Clojure, and as long as it's possible to optimize Clojure in the parts that need to be optimized, then I think the language is worth it; depending on the context, you might even be able to write a macro to do these optimizations automatically while keeping the code somewhat idiomatic (though of course one needs to be careful with macros).
>Format specifiers can take extra “arguments”. - "%hhn": store the number of bytes written mod 256 to the char pointer ...

Oh boy. I'll put that down for my "thing I don't think I wanted to know" of the day.
The point of the article has been missed entirely in this comment.

The author of the orignal article uses the examples of code re-use and efficiency as just that: mere examples of real world considerations that his students should use in class as they would in real life. One lesson has the author providing students with an executable and asking them to reverse-engineer the code: this has nothing to do with re-using code or copying mistakes or cheating. The author creates interesting, useful problems for his students to solve. In this way, the students are self-motivated to learn and grow and problem solve for themselves, rather than simply try to achieve the highest grade by whatever means necessary. The author does not encourage cheating, he encourages engaging students meaningfully.

I, for one, would have loved such a teacher in my CS classes. It might have prevented me from dropping out of the CS program. To add context, I was regularly in the top 5% of my CS classes. I would rush to complete all assignments on my own so that I could spend the rest of my lab time creating my own interesting problems to solve (wherein I would start to truly learn things that would be useful to me even if I was never tested on them directly.) I ended up pursuing (and obtaining) my degree in entrepreneurial management where cheating was also the norm among my classmates, but where I at least felt like I was being taught new things that I would be able to apply in my later life. While cheating was rampant, I never let it piss me off... I simply went on being exceptional and always found myself standing out from the crowd.
Hey, just a small thing but when trying to sign up it's saying my me@robotmo.de email address is invalid.
If you buy from another country, that country will need to burn fuel to make your products.
It's a private company in name only. It was enacted through congress with a board of directors that are actually a federal government agency. Saying it's a private company is not even technically true.

It's gluing feathers to my iguana and calling it a bird.
Barbers also trim beards. They will also help you decide a good look for what hair you have, even if it's shave, buzz with a fade, etc. Again, well groomed is more important than the actual cut.

For the record I shave my head. But I also regularly get compliments on my beard which is due entirely to having it trimmed by a barber every 2-3 weeks.
What are the commonalties that link this sort of neo-racism with Marxism? I’m somewhat familiar with Marx (mostly second-hand) but most of his writing seemed to focus on analysis of economics, historical forces and people’s relationship with the means of production.
I think this varies a lot by social/educational group. College educated folks often end up moving to different cities for college and then work so grandparents aren’t in the same place any longer (and with multiple kids in different cities could not be for all of them.)
A hot war is very likely. Why do you think everyone is building armies, weapons and trying to get nuclear toys (Iran). Just look up what triggered world war I and II.
And afford to replace them. Just take the UH-1, one engine helicopter of the Vietnam era. One engine, because a second one was considerd waste given the short service live of these birds in Vietnam. And now we have 100 million dollar jets...
You've either have interviewed "hundreds of experienced engineers" who truely couldn't code well

Or

You've interviewed hundreds of experienced engineers who are bad at coding during interviews and under the problems you're asking.

There's a person on the other end of that table. They haven't had the time to think about the problem that you have had.
How to use a "real" editor: Oh ffs, c'mon. Most people in their daily lives will never need Vim or Emacs. And let's be honest, if anything, they're way better off using something like Nano, that has a short-cut system they are likely more familiar with. There is no need for them to go through the learning curve of a tool like Vim or Emacs.

Vim is my IDE. I develop entirely and totally on the command line, devoid of any GUI management or development tools.

But this is just silly.
I also wonder if there are changes to the kernel that can't be reversed with a simple mitigations=off and what effect compiler-based retpoline hacks have these days. Wouldn't be surprised if there's some other variable that I'm missing.
Don't take down votes personally I find that for a short time after most of my recent comments on HN I get (automated?) downvotes which are then wiped out a few hours/days later.
Part of what it means to be a senior engineer is that you have a mastery over the soft skills/people skills commensurate with your engineering abilities. Someone who knows how a bridge should be architected but cannot navigate the politics of city council necessary to get it built isn't much of a bridge builder.

The importance of good politics cannot be understated. Politics in this case is roughly defined as getting people onboard with your plans.
Sure, I'm not saying people who vote republican don't have important issues in mind. But those issues aren't censored - they are mainstream non-partisan talking points. That's all I heard about for the past 6 years, from both parties. It's not exactly taboo to talk about trade.

But if a party dilutes their message by embracing conspiracy theories, outlandish lies, bigotry, and authoritarian rhetoric, then what the hell? How is political discussion supposed to be in good faith anymore? If people want to talk to me about trade, they can talk to me about trade on whatever platform they want. I listen to them all the time. If they want to talk to me about how voting machines are rigged by Hugo Chavez, then they're probably not going to say, "oh, your right" when I show them facts that say otherwise.
When I had roommates, one only wanted to use services A, B, ... and another one C, D, ... with no intersection between the 2 sets. So we had 2 group chats on two different services and we had to transfer messages from one to the other.

I don't know whom was not respecting whom, but I didn't feel really respected either, despite respecting each guy wishes.
>"Goodenough and collaborators claimed they’d developed a non-flammable lithium battery (whose electrolyte was based on a glass powder) that had twice the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries. They also published a graph that showed an increase in capacity over more than 300 charge-discharge cycles. (This increase, however, pales in comparison to the cell's at least 23,000-cycle lifespan.)"

[...]

>"She says their glass electrolyte is a ferroelectric material—a material whose polarization switches back and forth in the presence of an outside field. So charge-discharge cycles are effectively jiggling the electrolyte back and forth and perhaps, over time, finding the ideal configuration of each electromagnetic dipole.

“This is what happens as you are charging and discharging,” Braga says. “You are aligning the ferroelectric dipoles.”"
>The craving to take a puff from an ecig is almost nonexistent

It wasn't so much a craving, more that I would getting a headache if it started getting too long between sessions. Sometimes it would show up within a half hour.
Same story here, i think i saw a deadline mentioned at tue bottom
Context, since it's not spelled out with a lot of background in the article: most floppy drives spin at a fixed RPM, which is referred to as a Constant Angular Velocity (CAV: ie, no matter how far out on the disk you are, the disk rotates by a constant angle per second). This means that towards the outer edge of the disk more magnetic media is passing under the head per second than towards the inner edge of the disk (with a larger circumference, a constant angle will represent a longer chunk of media). If you're writing the same number of bits per second, this means each bit takes up a larger amount of magnetic media at the outer edge compared to the inner edge.

If, instead, the drive spins at a Constant Linear Velocity (CLV: ie, the same amount of magnetic media passes under the head per second no matter where on the disk you're accessing[1]), each bit can take up the same amount of magnetic media, which means you can store more bits per track towards the outer edge of the disk. Macs did this in order to increase the amount of data you could store, at the cost of additional complexity in the drive to support spinning at different rates. It also means that 800K Mac disks (the largest format which used variable rates) can't be read on normal PCs, which lack support for variable rates.

FluxEngine works at a lower level than the standard PC floppy interface - it allows the OS to look at the actual magnetic flux data on the disk, whereas the standard PC floppy interface will only pass back the interpreted bits. Even if the disk is spinning at a constant RPM, knowing where the head is located allows that magnetic flux data to be turned back into the appropriate bitstream (or vice versa for writing) and allows handling CLV disks even though they're in a CAV drive.

[1] Except it doesn't actually do that - there's only 4 different speeds, as you can see in https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/blob/7eaf3de5723436... .
Yes it is. But nobody said anything about rounding!
Most of the advice on that page is about using the correct semantic HTML elements as well as aria annotations, which is what I had in mind. Basically the appearance should stay the same, but I can definitely see how fixing up the HTML could make the page more navigable by keyboard / screen reader / etc..
hehe, i jumped on a train on this route like 8 years ago, but it was in a classical old rusty waggon where people just jumped on. i would have preferred those bamboo trains!

nice video.
Your post reminds me of how silly the way our society protects certain categories is.

"Attention-Deficit Teenegers" could be viewed as offensive to some, as it uses a medical diagnosis as a pejorative. Perhaps the author could argue that they are referring to typical teenage behavior, and not ADD, but that would to me be a completely ridiculous and artificial distinction.

So either we can't make fun of stereotypical teenage behavior (which is a slippery slope since about a lot of HN posts make fun of, or are directly hostile to, people in their early 20's) or have to admit that some medical categories are also things we can joke about.
This, my friends, is a good ole fashioned "hack."
I wonder...how did the author gain such a wide variety of knowledge to figure this out.
>So Nim really needs more active users and contributors.

I've fixed an issue you're experiencing: https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1804 :3
I've also wondered about the effect of heated car seats male fertility - seems like a class action suit waiting to happen.
Apple stopped using the word 'laptop' when they were still struggling with trying to put a G5 in a portable computer that didn't require jet engine fans.
Exactly. There seem to be a lot of non value added laws that are selectively enforced.
Yes, where the dictionary gives you two glosses, you're not free to take one of them as being the only possible meaning.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein

Funny. I'm starting to think the probability of armed conflict is near zero. I see it playing out rather like the Umbrella Revolution in HK. Just as HK's financial sector proved resilient (and even is in the midst of an IPO boom). Taiwan exports will be largely unaffected. Any shift to mainland policies on the island will occur gradually. And any existential threat the US feels in losing Taiwan, will be subsumed with a growing isolationism and focus on domestic discontents.

Am also very optimistic about New Space economics. The combination of AI and ubiquitous satellite internet will be enormously net positive for all humankind ;)
Was it ever clear if Glitterhoof was real, or a hallucination?
The rocks under our feet are valuable in places and many wars have been fought over them. Why should the moon be any different?

Additionally the density of the moon is lower than earth, so it will have higher concentrations of kinds of elements that may be rare here. Leading to mines that might be surprisingly valuable. More important may be the fact that these resources are at the bottom of a much smaller gravity well.

On a long enough time period we'll be living on the moon in permanent colonies. You are unfortunately mistaken if you think that will all happen peacefully.
No, same here. The document above is definitely truncated.
Maybe this will be helpful: https://github.com/buren/wayback_archiver
Aren't there studies that show the health benefits out weigh the dangers? I think the problem is more that it feels more dangerous and is, as a result, is often quite stressful.
And cool enough! I’d rather bike year round in New York than in Phoenix. But if you can bike 80% of the time it’s not so bad to take inconvenient public transit the other 20%.
He can start with making sure everyone subcontracted to Amazon to do deliveries receive decent conditions and benefits.
Hm, we've had our startup page hosted with Wix for a few years. I had no idea they were doing all of this shady stuff.
What are some good alternatives if I'm looking to migrate? Is squarespace less shady?
Really helpful projects! Thank you for sharing. The set of skills you've highlighted resonate with my UX experience. I could see this becoming part of a course in the school system where I do UX/UI work and software development.
>I'm still waiting for the inevitable shitstorm that'll ensue when someone "innovates" a Relationship Management platform that is effectively a Shunning-as-a-Service

This had existed, for Twitter at least. Apparently it shut down last year. I had ended up on several blocklists or at least one commonly shared once because I'm blocked by a good 20-30% of Twitter's blue checkmarked journalists that I've never once interacted with or Tweeted at before.

https://blocktogether.org/

I could easily see being randomly blacklisted/blocked with no real understanding as to why you are blocked other than some well-connected person that you peeved off once had added to a shared blacklist. This likely already happens.
I think tadiran has such batteries.

http://www.tadiranbatteries.de/pdf/articles/20-year-battery....
I personally wouldn't label Haxe as "completely unknown" - as a general-purpose language, yes, but it's relatively popular in game development due to its "killer app" of OpenFL.
Why does it even have to be UNIX like? It can be anything as long as it can run the Android Runtime. Right?
>>I’m not sure why they put all of this effort into causing trouble for emulator developers in this one specific case,

I know why!

If went to bazaar in 90s Russia you would see these '40-in-one' video-game cartridges which were a bunch of normal bootleg games linked together by a bootscreen. You could imagine the NES emulator falling under the same category. Sometimes emulators were sold on CDs.

http://i.imgur.com/dJ142.jpg?1
About 2-3 hours. In contrast to some other newsletters, I'm actively trying to summarise upstream development and development discussion rather than just linking to related projects. This involves reading all the mailing list posts and commits. If I came across an interesting project on Github and it's a quiet week for news/blog posts I might save it for later. Otherwise I just include it as it comes. I could certainly do a better job of summarising mailing list discussion, for an in-depth thread on a technical topic it can be very time consuming to do it justice.
They sit and collect dividends from the social contract you were forced into.
That was how I cracked WinRAR back in the days.

Or better, I got rid of the annoying popup.
Your far better off simply supervising people while collecting biometrics. Think, guard at the door while you walk into a facility who compares your photo in their sytem with what you look like vs. fingerprint reader at a workstation.

Granted, there also useful limiting casual access. Think kid/roomate using someone elses work laptop vs. a dedicated hacking attempt.
The insane growth the stock has had needs to be kept propped up for the shareholders to be happy. More profit = more shareholder value and that's that. Once you IPO, forget about any and all startup grandiose values that was created on inception to help the 'little' guy. Shopify will be the new Yelp with their mafia style tactics.
CTRL-L and then passing the new link goes to it in the current tab.
Yemeni people celebrating weddings?
Why should I use `_shellmath_divide 1 $zero_factorial` over `bc 1 / $zero_factorial`?

It's imprecise and much more clunky to write. bc exists for decades already and has arbitrary precision.