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"don't have to deal with the tedious STEM education and workload."

I wouldn't call my STEM education tedious. Demanding more like it. Tedious gives impression of rote learning and abstract concepts separated from practical considerations and lack of joy of discovery and achievement. I could call the curriculum of my MSc in physics a decade ago by many things (I was straining at several points) but not "tedious".

Perhaps there is regional variation in the curriculum, culture and method of education (my university training was in Finland).
Most be a slow day at HN. I've subscribed to this subreddit and the posts there are mostly people discovering lkml.org for the first time and seeing the "Hottest" emails of which some are over 5 years old. (`Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)`, `Re: [GIT] Networking`, etc.) In this thread, there's been plenty of more recent examples of Linus's snark, but this particular subreddit is more or less dead. And, I suspect it's dead for a good reason. That is, Linus doesn't really really all that much. Side from the infamous 'Mauro, Shut The F* Up!' email, there's not that many good "rants".

There's plenty of snarky, bad behavior sure. I get that a lot of people don't like it, but none of them bother to understand that these people work together daily and in the most open environment possible. Nobody considers the fact that, in the most infamous example, Mauro has been a contributor since 2006. (I don't know either, not anyone that's a major Linux contributor.) That's right, I wrote 'has' not 'had' because he still contributes to this day. That's not too excuse a behavior, but as a knock against the characterization of a "toxic environment". Maybe for some, but obviously not for others.

I for one, am glad that most of my cringiest, offensive comments were in person and that I was able to walk then back. And, of the stupifying comments that I made in an email, I'm incredibly thankful that they were private.
That's a G (master) lens with OSS. The equivalent would be the 24-105 f/4L IS, which is $200 less.
How would the judgement be quashed by american courts? No american court has jurisdiction over European courts. For an entity without presence or business in Europe, enforcing a european court decision might be a problem, but that’s a different matter. I’m sure the EU will find a way if the sum is sufficiently high.
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I think the chances “flying taxis” become a thing before fully autonomous cars is actually pretty high.

It’s an easier technical problem I’d think, and the regulatory issues are probably about the same.

But a flying, electric, quiet, self-flying drone taxi will mean no traffic issues, as-the-crow-flies travel, and higher top speeds. It may eventually mean the death of roads and the ability for people to live 100 miles from where they work, possibly solving a lot of housing issues in metropolitan areas.

Also it’d be a better way to get around watery/mountainous areas, not to mention just a few helipads to clean off after snowstorms.

It would also be super cool, jetsons-style!
“We won’t formally discriminate against you” is a pretty watered definition of “equality.” It’s like saying everyone has an equal chance to win the race” because the rules allow anyone to win. But there could still be rocks in one of the lanes and not in the others. For a race, nobody would say each racer had an equal chance unless there was substitutability: your race experience is the same no matter which lane you start in.
Fair enough, but there have been quite a number of stories about working conditions in Amazon warehouses, and it doesn't sound particularly pleasant, hand-tracking wristbands or no.
because women in India dont have equality of opportunity? so not many get higher education and those who do probably go into tech or some high paying jobs and/or leave the country alltogether
> The health risk of bacon is largely to do with two food additives: potassium nitrate (also known as saltpetre) and sodium nitrite. It is these that give salamis, bacons and cooked hams their alluring pink colour

Is nitrate/nitrite [1] free prosciutto okay?

EDIT: Apparently not. “Processed meats, which are transformed by salting, curing, or fermentation. This includes everything from hotdogs and bacon, to lunch meats like salami and prosciutto“ [2].

[1] Is there a single word for these?

[2] https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616524/processed-meat-bacon-...
> You should be asking the opposite question. Why does anyone choose to have children?

I would think that the opposite question does not need much explanation because we have some DNA programming to spread our genes and to "make offsprings". Assuming a healthy person and all the social/cultural/economical/philosophical influences aside if one decided not to have children, they must fight their own hormones in the first place. And to do that successfully they must have a strong reason and be able to stick to it because that signal is pretty strong. That's why the question "why not" is more interesting for me.
I agree it's a current characteristic of the platform. I disagree that it's an essential property of the platform, which was the claim in the post I'm replying to. The CEO definitely does not agree that Twitter as a platform is going to have to "change fundamentally".

As an aside, the latency in Twitter conversations is 1-3 orders of magnitude slower than real-life (or on-TV) conversation, so you may need to rethink your belief that it's uniquely bad.
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Discussion are commonly emotional, rather then rational - it's freedom, it's getting rid of banks, it's a scam, it's a secret project by the NSA, etc... and it's also politically charged topic, and everyone has an opinion, because a lot of people own crypto currency/mine or at least know someone who has. Its rare to see so many people interested in a given topic.

There are great resources, although the are commonly rather vertical, then horizontal by topic. E.g. there is a lot of great technical information out around Bitcoin, how it works, wiki pages that discuss the code and algorithms in details - really useful stuff, e.g: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide

Its rare though to find a more "cross-disciple" assessment/analysis of crypto currencies (political, economic impcat, society changes,...). If anyone has good resources, please share.
Don't the studies show that, by and large, no it isn't? Even the conclusion of this article dives in to how little this study is showing directionally. "Processed meat may be another factor to consider when thinking about your overall risk of breast cancer." is far from a definitive "yes it is really killing us" opening title. :(

I mean, yes, it increases your risk. And when we have solved many of the other high causes, it will have an obvious benefit for getting rid of it. So, very glad we know this. But right now? You are far more likely to be killed from other things than from exposure to bacon. Such that, statistically, it isn't where most people should worry about starting.
I used to think pretty much the same but now that I own one of Sony’s high end models I realize that’s quite naive.

There’s no comparison in quality, photo noise or pretty much anything in terms of possible results between my Sony A99 II and say, an iPhone X. The only place where iPhone X comes out ahead the ridiculous easiness in achieving decent (but not stunning) results due to its impressive camera software. In anything but a simple photo in perfect light the Sony can produce a photo that’s easily a magnitude better than the iPhone X.

I’m not an expert in optics/physics but I think the reason for this difference is simply how much light aka photons enter the tiny camera of an iPhone compared to a big lens. The difference there’s probably 1-2 orders of magnitude in terms of surface area of the lens.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say nitrite & nitrate are killing us?
> unfounded "must have 50% representation"

The problem is not that it is unfounded, it is that it’s an ideological stance. Poundering it is out of question as it does not advance the agenda. The real issue is diversity of opinion in mainstream news outlet.
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> Usernames are not necessarily personally identifying

Literally the only purpose of usernames is identifying people.

I don't know the actual text of the GDPR, so I don't know the definition of "personally identifying", but I find it very strange that people seem to restrict the definition of "personally identifying" to "connects directly to your IRL identity".
I think I get what OP is saying. The screenshot [1] shows you the aggregate time of each arbitrary component, but it's not mapped out along a time series, like you see in the Network panel's Waterfall or in a Performance recording.

I'll see if there's anything we can do on our side (I'm the DevTools tech writer), but I think it's an API limitation. We might be able to use some arbitrary convention in the timing values that let's us plot along a time series...

[1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/bc62621acd195d11d0247c0cc...
Everything you've said is right, but giving in to biological imperative isn't really the same as choosing, is it?
But that is not only about gender, discrimination is everywhere...male as female suffer from that
The most worrying part of this article for me is that processed meats that are advertised as "nitrate-free" really just use natural nitrates from celery salt, which aren't much better, if at all.
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Note that "Women naturally choose STEM less" and "The women who choose STEM are eventually driven out due to it's culture" are not mutually exclusive processes.
OSX is at least predictable and therefore from a developers perspective it is arguably stable.
Even if we consider them, what do you suggest? Stop all the research?
Pure click-bait headline. It's not bacon that's killing us it's the nitrates used to process it. You can buy uncured, nitrate free bacon.
Interestingly, the iRobot founder and brilliant robot scientist Rodney Brooks puts flying cars and robot taxis in similar buckets as to wide availability: http://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/
The best managers I’ve ever had were blunt and somewhat disagreeable. The person I currently report to is like that, and I absolutely love it. Both of our time is valuable, and I never have to muck around with him. He tells me what he wants and what he thinks of my work. If I’m getting of track with something, then he corrects my course without wasting any time. It’s not a management style that’s suitable for everybody, because most people just wouldn’t be able to deal with it. But in the upper levels of management I think it’s benefecial, if not necessary.
Another way to look at the same question: Why are there so many males in these fields?

My one data point: I'm basically in it for the money. In fact the state, through child support enforcement, made it very clear that at least in my case, the meaning of my life is and shall be, to earn as much money as possible to support the children. If I had a spouse supporting me, I would probably be doing something fun and artistic. (Not that there aren't fun and artistic elements in my work sometimes. And not that there aren't elements of methodical discipline required to be a good artist.)
good point. my hunch is that the only way would be to duplicate work and check for consensus. it seems like there isn't any way to cheaply validate results for any interesting work.
Yeah, this is Haskell's biggest footgun by far. The language gives you tools to control evaluation order (including some neat libraries that let you parallelize things without much disruption to the logic of your program), but there are no silver bullets.

A good rule of thumb is to by default mark fields for basic types like Int, Bool, etc. as strictly evaluated, and leave larger structures (trees, lists, etc) lazy. But you still need to be careful.

The compiler trying to silently fix things is probably a bad idea. The current behavior is at least easy to understand; I'd hate to have a program that's working because the compiler could figure out that it could make something strict, and then I bump something mostly unrelatrd such that the optimizer can't be sure anymore, so I get a space leak.

Also, unintended evaluation can potentially cause high memory use as well (e.g. [1..1000000]), so the compiler also has to be careful about introducing excessive memory use.

The compiler does do some strictness analysis, but it's a hard problem.

I like the way idris does things -- strict by default, laziness controlled by the type system, and some nice support for automatic coercions.
This is an awesome article, but the title should be updated to indicate the year it was published — 1997.
People make this joke every single time Elm comes up.

Even if you somehow meant it in earnest, which wouldn't make sense here, it exposes you as someone who couldn't even be bothered to click the OP link.
Animal agriculture is a large contributor to climate change, intrinsically inefficient (i.e calories eaten << calories "harvested"), and an ethical nightmare.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnism
But... does that work? Doesn't that leave you open to having something evaluate the end of the "withFile" before you evaluated something in the callback?

That is, the only reason what you said is accurate, is because you said "effectful stream of bytes" meaning "eagerly effectful." Right? If you do all of that lazily, you can just as easily shoot yourself in the foot here.

(Please nobody take this as a damning criticism of Haskell. I'm not intending it that way.)
I agree w this too. However, it depends if you have a valid contract with the user and the data processing is sufficiently related to the performance of that contract, if you are going to use that basis.

Notwithstanding Article 5.2 on accountability, I do not believe that non-controversial data processing under legitimate interest needs to be well documented in practice, although I may be proven wrong. I believe it is sufficient to mention legitimate interest and what your legitimate interest is in broad terms in the privacy notice.

For controversial use, that is processing which the data subjects may not approve you of doing, I believe you need documentation on the balancing test. However, in controversial cases you probably also need documentation on the necessity both when it comes to performance of contract and legitimate interest.
Relax, it's just classic Guardian rage-bait.
Ah, but is it nitrite that is killing us, or the subsequent chemical reactions? We can become more pedantic, or more useful, but they are both accurate levels of abstraction, and one is more useful.
Just moved out and started cooking bacon and eggs every morning.

After reading this article, I think I'm going to continue eating bacon and eggs every morning.
I had a quick read of the actual paper (after seeing it covered much more thoroughly in The Atlantic last month). Two things that leapt out at my fairly untrained eyes are that the correlations are really weak, and there was no attempt to account for other factors which vary across the world.

If you look at the scatter plots and (visually, unscientifically!) pull out subsets of countries in the same region (southeast Asia, the nordics, mediterranean Europe, southeast Europe, etc), there appears to be no correlation between general equality and STEM bias. For example, Vietnam has about the same level of inequality as Thailand, but 50% more women STEM graduates. That makes me suspect that there's some other factor at play. I could be completely wrong about that - but i didn't see anything in the paper which rules it out. Please do correct me if i missed it - it was a quick read, i'm not a social scientist, and i have a cold.
I'm willing to pay a premium for my processed meat products (and thus, indirectly, reduce my consumption of them). Does anyone have any experience buying nitrite-free bacon/salami/etc in the US? I think I can still find a butcher locally (and I mean an actual stand-alone butcher store, not the meat/deli counter at a grocer), but what do I ask them for? Just "locally made" or are there brands who eschew adding pure nitrites to their products?
I came here prepared to rant on the ridiculousness of typical modern journalistic attempts at explaining gender gaps while avoiding the taboo of biological influence.

This was a refreshing, relatively balanced perspective. I'm glad to see an article acknowledging both nature and nurture, and not blindly insisting that all differences are purely social constructs.
The bias against male early education teachers is strong. My girlfriend worked at bright horizons temporarily and most of parents would look at the male teachers as if they were a pedophil which really drives them out.
To be clear, I was not voting for the compiler to do this, but the runtime. It should be instrumented and it would likely be a round trip process sometimes, with people tweaking how it does things.
>The guy is definitely awkward.

The guy is the CEO of a multi-billion dollar behemoth. He was always awkward, but he is also very calculated. He wants in on the Chinese market.

>If he was doing that for the money, you'd think he would consult first with someone who actually knew better.

And do what differently?
My perception from reading tech sites has been that Sony's cameras have been really good for 5-10 years. I expected that it's one of the few Sony businesses which has been doing well recently. Looking at financial statements, that's not the case - the unit's been declining since 2012 (the earliest I looked).

Competition has been stiff, even smaller companies like Pentax, Fujifilm and Sigma have made great cameras. The lock-in effect from Nikon and Canon lenses and accessories is strong (and those companies have also made great cameras, of course). Also the whole segment is in decline due to smartphones (Sony's semiconductor business has grown a lot - I assume due to smartphone camera sensors).

Anyway, it was an interesting exercise. Financial statements are really accessible and it's good to check your assumptions with data from time to time.
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And in other news, "nitrate free" bacon sold in the US isn't actually nitrate free;

"Ever since the “war on nitrates” of the 1970s, US consumers have been more savvy about nitrates than those in Europe, and there is a lot of “nitrate-free bacon” on the market. The trouble, as Jill Pell remarks, is that most of the bacon labelled as nitrate-free in the US “isn’t nitrate-free”. It’s made with nitrates taken from celery extract, which may be natural, but produces exactly the same N-nitroso compounds in the meat. Under EU regulation, this bacon would not be allowed to be labelled “nitrate-free”.

“It’s the worst con I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” says Denis Lynn, the chair of Finnebrogue Artisan, a Northern Irish company that makes sausages for many UK supermarkets, including Marks & Spencer."
> You don't even need a rap-sheet to get hired.

I'd personally want the guy that's good at not getting caught...

It's funny, back when I used to hang with, umm, "suspect" folks they'd look at me strange when I'd tell them the only time I've ever been in the back of a police car was after I crashed the SuperBeetle and got a ride from the investigating officer while transporting (minor quantities of) marijuana. Not enough street cred I suppose.
I can't read the article (paywall), so in classic HN style I'll just comment on the title.

The NSF keeps track of "Science and Engineering Degrees" in higher-education in the US, which basically translates to STEM degrees [0]. Assuming I'm interpreting this correctly, 50% of STEM bachelor's degrees are awarded to women [1], and 40% of STEM phds are awarded to women [2]. However, CS and engineering stand out: they are closer to 20% (for both bachelors and phds). So this isn't really a STEM issue, it's a CS and engineering issue.

[0] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15326/#chp2

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15326/pdf/tab11.pdf

[2] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15326/pdf/tab25.pdf

(For some reason, these tables group CS and math together. There's a separate table that breaks them down, and shows that most of the gender imbalance comes from CS; math is closer to balanced.)
the safeway near me (sf bay area) sells nitrile free bacon, advertised as such (maybe other meats too)
> Isn't relying on IP diversity as a measure of attack difficulty a bad assumption in the first place? If an attacker has access to the cable outside my home, then they can pretend to control as many IPs as they want.

If an attacker has access to the cable outside your home they have already won, it's game over.

>It seems to me that the most reliable defense against eclipse attacks is to just compare the block rate of the longest chain we know about to the historical average. If the block rate is roughly normal, then either we're seeing the real longest chain, or an attacker has acquired nearly 50% of hash power, which is unlikely.

Block creation have high variance. Over short periods of time, say a few hours no blocks being announced is fairly common. Over long periods of time how do you know the mining power has not decreased or increased at a slow rate than your person prediction.

>The same idea works with proof of stake -- if the participation rate drops substantially below the historical average, we're probably not seeing the main chain, and we shouldn't consider anything final until the participation rate return to normal.

Interesting you can design PoS systems such that if not a quorum of stake is online, no new blocks are created. Algorand has some very neat properties in this regard.
Regarding browser support, I believe the standard is just a set of HTTP headers. So all browsers support it. It's just a matter of instrumenting it in each browser's respective developer tools.
> Does anyone have any experience buying nitrite-free bacon/salami/etc in the US?

Yes. It's everywhere and costs about the same. But that may not be sufficient.
A literal killer feature.
In my lifetime experts have been wrong about so much when it comes to food and nutrition I just can’t take any of them seriously. So I try to imagine what kept humans alive for 300k+ years. Then you realize humans live in incredibly diverse environments and manage to survive on whatever they can find. So we can pretty much survive eating almost anything. There are plenty of people who live long enough to know their grandchildren while eating the most disgusting toxic foods.

Thus the only guide I can trust is, how does this food make me feel when I eat it? Coca cola makes me spike then feel like shit, eggs make me feel happy and satiated, bacon and avocado too. Fried chicken makes me feel grimy and sluggish as does pasta and beer. Leafy greens make me feel amazing and make my stool less disgusting.

I can only imagine this is all that earlier humans had to go on and so I choose to listen to my body.
Plus, it would be really counterproductive to hire set-in-their-ways old lags if you're planning to disrupt crime.
TFA says that prosciutto di parma with it's 18 month aging process is truly nitrate free.