skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chloroprene is the monomer of neoprene, meaning that when neoprene breaks down it creates chloroprene? Interested what evidence we have about the dangers of neoprene for humans/the environment
>male masculinity being shamed

citation needed... When is the last time you saw an action hero movie with a man who was shamed for being too masculine? Western Culture as a whole views male masculinity as a good thing. Being non-masculine is viewed as weakness.

On the other hand, if a woman is masculine, she's assumed to be a lesbian, and otherwise shamed. As a result, women are stuck between trying to be what society claims to like (masculinity) and what they are supposedly good at, but society doesn't value highly (femininity).

CEOs and other officials are congratulated for making tough calls, being aggressive, taking risks, outsmarting and defeating their competitors. It's generally discussed in terms of battles, and the tone is almost always in rewarding the "masculine" approach. This is why startup culture is often in the news as very unwelcoming.
Yeah, John likes it but he's not sure if it will take off or not. We haven't merged to tip with the tcl tree and we have some issues to resolve:

- not thread safe, it assumes one tcl thread
- we stole a bit from the ref count integer to implement "undef" and the tcl core isn't thrilled with that
- we default to pcre (but have the old stuff for compat, you can switch at run time)
- we broke a bunch of tests (mostly pcre related)
I posted this article, but have no affiliation at all, just thought it looked quite excellent and fairly unique, and was surprised it hadn't been posted to HN before this.

A feature that may be lacking that I don't see would be to get a local sync option in play if you are using multiple instances of the app (say you are using it sometimes on MacBook and also on Windows here or there). They do support pushing/syncing TO github pages, but I'd like to see perhaps a Git functionality used also to always keep any Publii instance synced locally with each other, and with Github, etc. I think that would really put this app over the top.
We need to make chemicals somewhere. Where do we put the chemical plants then? Maybe somewhere where nobody lives where the prevailing winds blow over the ocean? The only place I can think of like that is southern Argentina, but nobody lives there so how do you get all the plant engineers and workers into the plant everyday? It's a tough problem.
Atlanta has a good food, a tech community, affordable housing and office space
You should probably remove the toggle godmode command and force it to on. It's trivial to ruin progress with a strategic iddqd.
They may have better engineering, but they also have extra risks. My home server will never ban me because it thinks I've violated its TOS, for example.
Oh yes, farmland is not cheap in much of the world. Unfortunately living your dream frequently takes work to attain.
> once in a 1000 year event happens tomorrow morning

It doesn't quite sound like a once-in-a-thousand-year event any more.

Rather, it sounds like once-in-a-thousand-year event for a single device, but divided by ten thousand devices means it happens ten times every year.

There's whole branches of statistics for failure rates.
> For example, a “line number” isn’t much help if the “line” refers to 90% of the file and Tcl thinks all of that is essentially one statement

I think this may have improved since you last looked:

$ cat j
#!/usr/bin/env tclsh
puts [ set a [ expr { 9 + [set x]}]]
$./j

can't read "x": no such variable
while executing
"set x"
invoked from within
"expr { 9 + [set x]}"
invoked from within
"set a [ expr { 9 + [set x]}]"
invoked from within
"puts [ set a [ expr { 9 + [set x]}]]"
(file "./j" line 3)

> there are tons of places where a variable is referenced both like "$this" and "this"

$this is essentially [ set this ], returning its value, or deferencing the value, if you will. The entire set of rules that Tcl abides by are contained entirely in a small document (here [0], with commentary). It's really not difficult to figure out.

[0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/10259
I haven't seen any legal opinion since Canonical's press release, which states that they consulted with counsel who believed that they were in compliance with both licenses.

I -have- seen a lot of argument online, opinions and otherwise that disagree with this, but not anything from a lawyer - mainly "philosophical" or opining on the "intent" of the GPL, rather than "based on clauses x, y, and z, this is impermissible".

Which is not to say, if something of an opinion exists in response to Canonical's release of ZFS, I would love to see it - a legal opinion, not armchair lawyering or opinionizing.
Reasons why data can go missing:

- account compromised, wiped out

- operator error

- malicious employee

All of these have happened to companies that I have worked with, so no, I won't do a better job of backing stuff up comapred to google, msft, etc, BUT I would rather have some get-out-of-jail-free card if any of the above should happen and suddenly where there used to be data there is nothing.

You should approach this from a cost-benefits perspective, not from a skills perspective.
> It doesn't quite sound like a once-in-a-thousand-year event any more.

It still could be. Or do you expect such events to happen in year 500 only?
Not for people who don't drink or would be willing to stop drinking. That has to be a nontrivial market. Why not make it and just put a big warning label on the bottle?
Did you not just give an example yourself - the "masculine" startup culture is often in the news as very unwelcoming?
I've thought about this, are patent offices even needed anymore? We used to need the centralized store of timestamps--proof of who thought of what idea first. Since you can check your idea into github these days, and show later you were indeed the first person to your idea, do we still need a central office for this?
MY EYES
Would it? Imagine the think pieces and clickbait it would generate. The guy would get an interview on Tucker Carlson and the Joe Rogan podcast but the whole thing would be over in 2 weeks.
Thanks. No, it's not due to reference counting, at least, not according to the tracker issue which reports this oddity.

Add:

import os
os._exit(0)

to the bottom of the code and it still takes a minute to run, even though there's no final garbage collection.

Also, that code creates only a few hundred objects, and the 'x' data structure is acyclic.
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Female contraceptive pills have a lot of problems. They are linked to cancer, liver disease, gallbladder disease, stroke, blood clots, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

Taking pills to inferfere with your normal hormonal and bodily functions is not a great idea, when there are other options with fewer or no side-effects. As a man, I would not take pills for contraception.
You can't save everyone from feeling shitty. It's a similar argument overweight people have against ads showing fit and healthy people, they want those ads removed cause it makes them feel shitty about themselves. What they need to do is analyze why it makes them feel shitty, and if they don't like what they see, rather than try to change everyone else, they should look into changing themselves. If you accept who you are and are content with it, there is no reason to feel shitty in the first place.
I believe you could use the ExitNodes option to only use a specific exit.

There's no such thing as an unlisted exit node, only unlisted entry nodes (bridges). I agree that Tor isn't a good choice for scraping.
Further down:

"One can only imagine the zilch level of concern for a compound like chloroprene by President Trump, who had at his side when he signed an executive order in February stipulating the roll-back of government regulations the chief executive of Dow Chemical—“Andrew, I would like to thank you for…the fantastic job you’ve done,” Trump told Dow chief Andrew Liveris, then handed him his signing pen to keep as a souvenir."

Trump is the president. He should care.
The sum of the "point cancer risk" from local carcinogenic emissions, including chloroprene, is about 800x the national average.
Also nomadic societies haven't faired too well either.
I'm saying this fully aware I am not a doctor but...

I think it depends on the severity of the response, and the context of use. For severity, it's not clear in the article but it seems like the adverse response was quick and quite severe. Another problem with reactions to alcohol: let's face it, many sexual encounters are surrounded by alcohol. For many people, for better or for worse, alcohol and sex go together. You want people to take your contraception, but if you get immediately ill whenever you drink are you going to be taking that pill like clockwork? Sex is important, and, frankly, people take a lot of risk for the sake of having sex. Often that means choosing to drink alcohol, not always, but often.

It's complicated, and I know I sound like someone trying to rationalize doing the least amount of work, but the truth is you want male contraception to be easy because men could potentially be using it their entire lives. Female oral contraception works, but it likely would not pass medical trials today precisely because of many of the side effects that occur when one takes it.
A general-purpose scripting language and general-purpose elements, where it isn’t easy to see what the high-level impact of low-level actions will be.

Though we’re at the point where browsers really need to clearly separate what requires advanced capabilities from what really doesn’t. For example, a browser could always display exactly two tabs per page: “Read” and “Interact”, where ONLY the Interact view can access scripting capabilities and dynamic content and the Read view may only display trivial things like images and text. If you’ve ever installed something like uMatrix on the desktop (and you should), it is astounding how much crap from how many entirely different domains is loaded and executed just by loading a “simple” page now. It has to stop.
"It is a painful injection in the buttock,".... most likely the reason why it is not more popular.
For many candidates I suspect the requirement of not drinking alcohol would be 98% effective.
Who says femininity isn't valued?

Doesn't the popularity of single income families where the woman stays home indicate that men value having their wives around so much that they're willing to effectively lose half their income?
Men are, by far, more violent. This is a major weakness, or "defect". Why women shouldn't have their own, peculiar, weaknesses? I think that even psychiatric conditions like depression, borderline, ADD, etc. manifest very differently in men and women.
Or the CEO of Airmule could have take a few seconds to look at the Twitter profile of the user asking questions before responding publicly.

The Twtitter profile for user @TPrphet states that he is a blogger for a site called Seat31B.

Also the blogger may not have had any intention of writing a blog post prior to the exchange.
Why does the _MyClass__number example work the way it does?
The article mentions the gel injections that destroy sperm as semen travels from the testicles. Last I heard the Indian company that developed it was still doing trials in Indian and the US (long running trials in India show it effective and reversible for years).

It's more invasive than a pill, yes, but it seems like the most viable reversible solution so far.
Yep. At this point they also have a podcast which is the author reading the article and is a great lesson if you'd prefer to get it that way.
So thankful! The whole body of text as in you can see below and above quotes or how do you envision the UI when you click on the quote?
Would you also like this for other types of philosophy too? Shiva Sutras? Buddha? Zen?
> There's just a contingent of people who say that such social parity has already been achieved (or maybe we've gone too far), and another contingent who say that parity has not been achieved.

There also is a contingent of people who say that equal treatment will not lead to social parity.
I'd argue they are trying to be helpful. The top post highlights that this question is asked on stack overflow frequently, and that it begins with incorrect assumptions about what the technology is capable of doing.

Parsing arbitrary HTML requires a stack, and you don't get that with regex. It's the wrong tool for the job.

Edit: Additionally, the regex proposed doesn't even come close to a solution.
> The only place I can think of like that is southern Argentina

I doubt the Argentinians will go along with that.
I wrote that... I think it's still pretty valid and encourage people to think about some of the lessons rather than just like or dislike of Tcl.
>and the city becomes a place only for tourists and the wealthy

The city is becoming a place for tourists and the wealthy because tourists and the wealthy have decided they want to live in the city. AirBnB and rising prices more broadly are an effect of this, not a cause of it.

When people are willing to pay more to live somewhere, then prices there rise, and people that can't afford to pay those prices are forced to live somewhere else.

You can try to fight this by fighting the symptoms, like regulating AirBnB, or like Prop 13, and while you might advantage a few grandfathered-in homeowners, you're going to end up with negative externalities that will just screw over the poor even more.
Second version of roughly the same story today. When flying sky high it’s easy to say bubble or correction coming soon.

I see a better story. Pent up demand for growth investment. Big companies have largely been uninteresting over the last several years, ever increasing dividends and stock buybacks tell us they just don’t know what to do with excess revenues. This seems to be starting to unlock as big companies try to figure out the next big thing. Meanwhile investors are showing their support for the Amazon’s of the world over the Walmart’s... its why Tesla is valued over Ford. Investors believe the management at Amazon will utilize capital to fuel growth better than other available options.

Perhaps there is a bubble or correction coming but if so, it’s just starting to form.
Even for people who don't drink, there's still small amounts of alcohol in some medication, mouth wash, etc. If the severity of the reaction is high enough, even small amounts could lead to a medical emergency.
My response here will be unpopular but. Yes, there are cognitive difference, but it doesn't matter. Building software is a complex social event and requires incalculable amount of different skills sets and team effort. To use single differences to claim men are better at software like the Google guy did is just stupid. It's unscientific conjecture born out of likely deep seated issues many nerds, like me and others, have with the opposite sex. In other words programming likely has become a "safe place" for a certain group of people and they want to protect that space. However, in doing so they end up with a bankrupt culture which likely has a negative effect on the quality of the very software they write.

EDIT: in reference to my "Google guy" remark. I think this fight is ultimately about growth vs fixed mindsets. My hunch is self proclaimed "conservatives" have a fixed mindset. Meaning they think people are born a certain way and can't grow.
The problem is that diversity, when encountered in nature, is often accompanied by selection. Some diversity confers no competitive advantage, while some does. In our social species, selection of some and not others is...controversial. The easiest way to avoid controversy is to demonstrate that there is no diversity, as was the consensus on cognitive differences between the sexes that this article challenges. Acknowledging biological differences is opening a door that many don't want to walk through.
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Bonus question: how is the branch in Europe doing?
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Saying that is feminity is like saying women valuing their husbands is masculinity.

Unfortunately I don't associate the two.
And? You'll have to elaborate.
When I type "entitled" I get matches for "entities", "There", "Divine" and lot of others. Does it search for every single letter of the search term? That doesn't seem very useful.
Severed Heads releases an analogue CD
The Australian experimental electronic band Severed Heads has released a playable compact disc that has an analogue record groove. The CD plays in a normal CD player, but flip it over and you've got about 3 minutes of a record that ends in a locked groove loop. The band is setting out on a tour of North America with Front 242 next month.
Puerto Rico has such tremendous potential, it's kind of a shame it's not further along than it is. For people who've never been to it, the "feel" of it wouldn't surprise most Americans who've spent time outside of rich major metro areas. Lots of the really bad crime tends to be isolated to certain areas and groups.

There's also a huge mountainous interior that's a world away from the tropical beaches and Spanish colonial towns. Mostly that's the source of the absolutely incredible coffee that comes from the Island.

Why it isn't more like Hawaii isn't entirely clear, but I suspect not being fully integrated into the U.S. Federal system is part of it. The local governance of the Island hasn't been fantastic and most of the Puerto Ricans I know who lived there have long ago since moved to the mainland U.S. to find a better life (many of them also then turn around and buy investment vacation property back on the Island they spend time in every summer).

Still, if you know where to go, and where not to go, and learn some of the local ways of doing things, it can be a very lovely place, great history, good food, right in the Caribbean so other islands are close by...
I thought New York piled all their trash on barges and dumped it in the ocean. Not anymore?
Tcl is a great language and ecosystem. It fell victim to a few independent political decisions that resulted in low popularity:

- Sun's pushing Java and killing everything else

- Stallman's distaste for anything non-GPL

EDIT: wording
As many extra as were punched into that command that permanently wiped out a bunch of AWS EBS data a while back.

It haunts me to think about how many people are using these services as their single source of data. Fat fingers melt through 9s.
Affirmative action programs are like the canonical imperfect solution to a deep rooted problem, especially for college admissions. Although they certainly help handfuls of disadvantaged minority students achieve higher education and the success that results from that, those fortunate individuals rarely have the power to do anything to resolve the socioeconomic problems that plague the communities that they came from. Having a token minority on your Fortune 500 board is great, but it doesn't do anything to resolve the class struggle in the Americas.
I used social parity as a synonym for equal treatment, as indicated by the word 'such', to make it clear what sort of parity I was talking about.
It's not heresy. Sports represent a closed ecosystem of relatively straightforward traits->skill benefits. Professions are not bounded the way athletic roles are. The fields of law and medicine removed various sexist barriers to women participating, and female participation increased; I've seen no one suggest that the professions have significantly shifted in nature due to an influx of female brains.

Against that, we have a long history of pseudo-scientific arguments that biological differences matter and thus justify discrimination. And we have a long history of ending discrimination and proving those arguments to be bullshit, so we're now rightly sceptical of the sort of biological determinism that the manifesto author wants to resurrect.
>Yes, there are cognitive difference, but it doesn't matter.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? You make a lot of assertions that I think these guys scientific experiments refute.
Gee, it looks like a USB stick. I sure hope there isn't anything illegal on it.
How about making chemicals in a way that doesn't release pollution?

Alternatively, put them next to the houses of the owners and management and the schools of their children.
I do wonder what if there was a actual spot and contract market for housing like there is for DRAM, with zoning entirely unrestricted and free market.
Well, presumably other people in the organization would have to work with them, and that is hardly fair to those other people.
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This is so much part of programmer lore that I am wondering: is HN playing https://xkcd.com/1053/ today?
I can understand the authors point of view but he presents several points as fact but provides no links to data supporting those points so they come across as stereotypical generalizations.

That women and people of color have been historically discriminated against and in many cases still are cannot be denied, especially in my personal experience, women of color. I have seen this both in tech and outside of it.

Is there a biological or chemical component to people excelling in certain fields? I have no idea but people must be judged as individuals not on any conceived notions of gender or race. I am a white guy and there are tons of women and people of color who are brighter than me or better than me at what I do. They should not be denied a role over me because an interviewer does not like their gender or ethnicity. If they are better than me they should get the position, period.

On the other hand, I am white with two white sons. I in no way agree with hiring practices or college admission policies that would put my kids at a disadvantage based on the color of their skin or gender. If my kids want to go to an ivy league school, and they invest the time and effort to to attain entry they should be granted it. I would be furious if they were declined in favor of another student if that student had worse grades and entry test level scores but were chosen based on the color of their skin. I would be very resentful.

If there is an issue with interviewers showing bias, we need to address that, not establish quotas which disadvantage others. A good solution should never involve pulling others down, a good solution lifts everyone. Bad solutions spread resentment.

We need to stop judging others on what they are and focus on who they are. I don't claim to be smart enough or educated enough to know the solution but i do know what it should feel like, it should feel like a good thing to all individuals. All individuals, not parties because we are all unique and should be treated and judged as such.

Edit: Personal story. I was in charge of hiring for a role in a non tech position. I interviewed several people for the position. My favorite was a black woman, she was awesome; smart and driven. I was over ruled by my director in favor of a decidedly less intelligent attractive white woman. His choice was fired after 6 months for poor performance and inappropriate behavior. Racism is absolutely alive and well in hiring. I think the solution needs to be addressed on the hiring manager level though, not by artificial quotas. By the same token that black woman was absolutely discriminated against.

I don't have the answers and all of the above is just the opinion of one person.
This is an amazing idea that works, not the airmule one.
If you have a garage door opener button that is not working, you likely have a key to get into the house enter the garage and manually open the door.
People who have miles or points buy airline tickets directly from the airline.
>But that argument does not apply to an individual person.

Google is supposed to be a data-driven organization.

If the engineers they've hired can't tell the difference between statistical distance and the utility value of a Gaussian distribution, I think they have an entirely different issue on their hands...