skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His passport was revoked while he was in Hong Kong. Somehow he was allowed to board the flight to Moscow with a revoked passport, but not the flight from Moscow.
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But the recruiters are told by the SRE team to ask questions like this to candidates before they get a phone interview. I don't see any value in that, but then I don't work as a Google SRE so I don't know what is important to them. It is also possible that they are lacking SRE interviewers so they need to ask stupid questions to get down the amount to reasonable levels.
The main reason for this is that the goal of Plan S is not to improve the peer review system; its goal is to make more research openly accessible, and to limit the costs of doing so (it also involves a cap on publishing fees, though an exact amount has not been specified, and apparently Wellcome will not adhere to that part of the plan).
It's Facebook. I've met plenty of people from other companies on that list without a university degree. Although, engineering levels are not something that people usually talk about outside of their close social circles.
Here is an interesting discussion and debate between 2 experts in the field on sex differences.

Cordelia Fine in her book Delusions of Gender [1] reports even something as simple as telling girls before a maths test that this is a test in which girls have done well results in dramatically higher scores suggesting the field is still in its infancy and fundamental questions about gender roles and culture remain.

Simon Baron-Cohen is also well known in the field for his work on autism and stands on the ‘essentialist’ side of gender differences and as readers will note in his review [2] of Cordelia Fine’s book and the ensuing 3 part debate [3] [4] [5] with her that there are far too many important new questions raised and many that remain unresolved.

Everything from past studies, preconceptions, cultural bias, data, methodology to conclusions remain in question leaving very little room to draw any kind of conclusions.

In light of this perhaps its best to leave the field of sex differences to experts who continue to study but do not have the answers or data to draw any conclusions.

[1] https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-23/edition-11/batt...

[2] https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-23/edition-11/book...

[3] http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-23/edition-12/forum

[4] http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-24/edition-1/letter...

[5] http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-24/edition-2/letter...
The origin of C's cast operator
The reason why philosophy is not keeping up is that there are 'misintegrating' frameworks with in it that take it down the wrong track and can no longer integrate new concepts into it.

But you have that problem in science too like quantum mechanics, string theory..
scihub does that already tbh. And arxiv/biorxiv
You are equivocating on 'value'; firstly, the law of value only applies to goods which are commodities (complexes of 'use value' and 'exchange value') - the 'use value' would be there even if the good were not traded, and it is usually independent of the exchange value. In various pre-capitalist societies, there were many such goods produced (but, as you can expect, digging a hole might have use value to the person doing it, but not exchange value which is dependent on society in general). Secondly, the law of value only applies to goods which can be freely reprocuded, so it has difficulty with patents and copyrights in modern society, so I don't claim that the law of value 'works' for all categories of products in today's society.

Either way, you shouldn't act as though you and your professor uncovered some kind of devastating flaw in Marxism, even at the time; it takes a lot of hubris to accuse modern political economists and Marxists of being brainwashed to such a basic 'logical fallacy'.

The law of value works such that a person digging a hole in the ground obviously isn't producing exchange value, thus the person digging a hole won't continue to do so, in the long run in society, the value of commodities is quickly realized.

Here's a good page on the 'mud pie' (hole digging) argument: https://libcom.org/library/law-value-3-das-mudpie
GNOME also has native nextcloud integration, it is not limited to Doplhin.
Raku Perl 6 'Diwali' 6.d Language Specification Release
I'd be really interested in purchasing something like this as an Outlook add-in. I try to keep all my contacts in Outlook and synced/backed up with CalDav.
>Whence all progress in AI since Turing, Shannon, Zuse et al has come from programmers and not philosophers.

You mean, all of the progress since the philosophers who laid down the foundations of the field?
Baker-Miller pink – a colour that calms people down
There are cases when performance is not your main focus but simplicity of use is. Like during development. I'd of course never use this in production, but it's perfect for my development needs.
Assume this is to do with stereotype threat + gender stereotypes that pink -> girl -> less violent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat

i.e. being "primed" for that stereotype by seeing pink everywhere, makes you conform to your subconscious associations with the colour pink

Edit: please let me know why I am being downvoted as I would like to understand this issue further :)
There's a fairly simple explanation: in egalitarian societies femininity is socially acceptable even in "traditionally male" occupations. So women don't need to act "masculine" to make progress in those jobs. When it's socially acceptable for a CEO to be a mother and a woman, more women will feel comfortable pursuing a family in addition (rather than in exclusion) to a career.

There's another fairly simple explanation: "equal opportunity" is not the same as "non-sexist". Without knowing how "gender-egalitarian"-ness is measured (it's suspicious that it uses the phrase "more developed") it's impossible to tell what the societal attitudes actually look like. But it's entirely possible that the countries with the most egalitarian laws still have strict gender roles that are socially reinforced.

So either way the lesson isn't "feminism is wrong" or "equal opportunity is meaningless": either equal opportunity allows women to succeed without abandoning their gender role, or egalitarianism masks the harm of socially reinforced gender roles, or maybe even both.

Much like "if climate change is wrong", even if "gender disparity is innate and egalitarianism doesn't eliminate the differences" (or whatever one might construe the paper's outcome to mean), the worst case outcome of social justice is that we've made the world a nicer place and "butch" women, "girly" men and non-binary folk face less resistance. Or, y'know, maybe we're right and the changes actually eliminate injustice and help everyone.

That said, it's telling that Jordan Peterson and James Damore are mentioned in these HN comments as if they were legitimate authorities (not to mention actual "NPC" throwaways as if this were reddit) and nobody bats an eye. So maybe to those people social progress is bad.
sso+2fa all the things. easy for users as they only need 1 token and set of credentials. so no need to manage databases full of passwords.

okta is useful service for it which is popular because it's good / useful, but it needs to be set up properly and securely by people with experience in it. since messing it up can be BAD as any compromise is obviously going to be more of impact. might be a bit of an investment at first, but it will save in administrator's time / maintenance etc. later.

do it carefully though. really carefully :) only need to do it once, so it's worth to take the time and investment and do it right.
Attention and Memory in the Age of the Disciplinary Spectacle
Seriously, mods? The name clearly indicates this as an intentional troll throwaway.

EDIT: Funny, I wasn't able to flag the comment until it was already flagged and dead.
there's also products like 'secret server' , but i tend to dislike password management solutions ,as they are not a solution to the root cause and if compromised, it's a major issue instead of 1 limited user being owned.
This is not a product, nor is it open sourced - so this is basically just a PR stunt. Or am I missing anything??
I interviewed for a Technical Solutions Engineer over there, and contrasting to some of the other comments in this thread the interview was surprisingly reasonable. Nothing too tricky just standard basic log parsing stuff with Python. Didn’t get it but at least the questions were clear, interviewer spoke English clearly, and was friendly overall. Compare this to Facebook where English was clearly not my interviewer’s first language and didn’t explain the questions clearly. I’d gladly interview with Google again.
Except the old CoC only applied to the (closed) group of SQLite contributors, not users of SQLite (including developers using SQLite in a project)
Thatd not what KDEConnect does at all.
Certainly that's one way a compatibilist could put it – that "free will" is part of psychology, which ultimately reduces to/emerges from/supervenes upon lower layers of biology/chemistry/physics which may be fundamentally deterministic. (Although exactly how deterministic they are may depend on which interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct.)

A point worth adding – there are different forms of determinism. Physical determinism says people's decisions are predetermined by physical laws and initial conditions. Theological determinism says people's decisions are predetermined by God's will. A compatibilist could be either. (Although most compatibilists you'll encounter these days are in the physical not theological camp.)
"It matters when you want to evaluate whether a group has gotten a bad deal in society."

I am not sure why would I want to do that.

As a leftist (being pro-equality), I don't really want there to be anybody who got a bad deal in society. But why should it matter which group are they part of? It seems chauvinistic to me.
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Isn't this the same justification for the horrible conditions during the industrial revolution? If the system mandates that the only good option to live life is to work under such conditions of your own 'free will', doesn't mean that there's a problem with the system? Aren't you ignoring the effects of structural (rather than merely direct, as we saw in the USSR) violence?

Here's a quote dated 1864 from "Dr. Simon", the chief medical officer of the Privy Council and the official editor of the “Public Health Reports,” says:

“In my fourth Report (1863) I showed, how it is practically impossible for the workpeople to insist upon that which is their first sanitary right, viz., the right that, no matter what the work for which their employer brings them together, the labour, so far as it depends upon him, should be freed from all avoidably unwholesome conditions. I pointed out, that while the workpeople are practically incapable of doing themselves this sanitary justice, they are unable to obtain any effective support from the paid administrations of the sanitary police.... The life of myriads of workmen and workwomen is now uselessly tortured and shortened by the never-ending physical suffering that their mere occupation begets.”

Have conditions improved elsewhere in the world today compared to 1863 England? Is there any justification, other than an economic one, for someone's only option to be living such a qualitatively depraved and horrid life, only of production, even if better than other options? It's hard to believe that you're making an excuse for child labour by saying it's the best option they have. If it's the best option they have then we should damn make sure it's not.
Facial Recognition Tech Is Stoking Fears of Big Brother Surveillance in China
Let me rephrase the one sentence for you to make up for my "limited attention span" (so sorry to have bothered you here) that you seem to think makes my all of my post "dumb":

- "Unless you can prove you actually tested the things in comparison I don't see much value in the reviews."
I believe you must be an outlier. To get a quick understanding just Google: windows 10 candy crush
This doesn't seem to need any of the information actually uploaded anywhere - it's just a list of my connections, used by me?

So does that mean I can be sure that none of my "social graph" or personal information is ever used for any purpose such as advertising?
Op suggested raising tarrifs. You were the first to speak of an embargo.
Well, CoC can go much further than just civility in a project, since the CoC cover interaction outside of it. So if you have an unpopular opinion and say it on twitter, it can be used against you in the project.
From what I know the robots that were used there and failed were wire operated. The battery tech in 1986 was not on par for autonomous robots like Boston Dynamics today.

Robots passed out due to general radiation damage to semiconductor components and related disruptions.

> My friend also prototyped well logging equipment with PIC16xxx microcontrollers which also can be operated with (relatively) high voltage (I remember 12V) and associated high currents.

12V is not that remarkable over TTL 5V levels common in electronics back then. Also, what do you mean by "associated high currents"? Currents are still low in signal circuits, unless you use something really old school like teletype current loop.
>, but is she _actually_ free to choose because she got influenced by her grandma first? Who‘s to say?

To add to your rhetorical question of the inability to trace the source of gender preferences, some research on non-human primates was done.[1]

In 2002, a study of vervet monkeys in the UK found male/female preferences for boy/girl toys.[2]

That behavior was independently replicated in 2008 with rhesus monkeys in the USA displaying the same gender preferences.[3]

There were also other studies of human infants[4] displaying gender preferences, and studies showing similar preferences across different cultures and countries.[5]

Those results will probably not change minds on either side because -- the belief that it's mostly nature or belief that it's mostly nurture -- is too ingrained for any evidence to modify.

If one leans towards innate differences, the studies confirm the beliefs.

If one leans toward cultural influences, then the studies are rejected with "monkeys are not humans!" or "who's to say the lab monkeys didn't learn boy/girl toy preferences from the researchers?"

The meta question then becomes: is it even possible to construct a nature/nurture science experiment that can actually convince one side or the other?

(The answer seems to be "no" based on several hundred years of debate on "nature vs nurture" with no final resolution.)

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...

[2] 2002 paper: https://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(02)00107-1/abst...

[3] 2008 paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

[4] https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/06/03/infants-show-a-preferen...

[5] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/icd.2064
Correlation equals causation if you like the implications. Soft science is hard science if it helps you justify your biases.

Same reason people flock to a failed "psychologist" who tells them to clean their room and live like lobsters (except, y'know, he doesn't actually understand lobsters either). Same reason some random Xoogler kid misquoting cherry-picked "facts" is defended by HN commenters. Same reason a throwaway troll comment remains unflagged and undeleted for hours.

But hey, as long as we all pretend to be anarcho-capitalists, we can still claim we're revolutionaries.
Interesting to see this here...

One of the things I like about Linkin Park is that their style evolved so much over the years. Even when they got big they were not afraid to completely change up their style almost completely.

I think the author knows this and tries to point it out in the commentary but I don't know if the graphs tell a compelling story.

One thing I'd like to point out from a data perspective is that a bar graph might not be the best tool for this. An album consists of many songs and there are graphs that can convey more information while maintaining readability. Perhaps a scatter plot or candlestick graph? If you use point size for song duration you can even display duration and energy of all the songs on each album in a scatter plot and I think it would be readable still.
1Password is great, the vault management and sharing makes it pretty slick and allows you to control who has access to what. You can have production vaults, separate from staging, test and development etc.

I started using it for family sharing of security at first and it proved super valuable. It is also nice you can add attachments and aws, ssl keys etc to it easily.

Also, it allows for easy 2fa to be shared amongst the team for most websites and products.

edit: added 2fa line.
Yes I meant with a pre-print - it sounded like they meant putting them on arXiv instead of trying to publish in a journal at all?
I don't understand why people care so much whether preferences are biological or cultural.

Basically because if it is cultural, it may be a form of brainwashing and the expressed preference may actually be something they loathe, but don't feel empowered to reject.

Whether or not you think this matters for purposes of making policy, it matters a whole lot for purposes of an individual figuring out how to create a good life for themselves.
Trump effigy and dollars burned in Iran as protesters decry sanctions
I don't use anything writen down myself. Most of the time I try to focus on basic principals and the connection of things to remember stuff. Downside is that the concrete data points I know on top of my head a) come without a definitve source (I try to work on that lately) and b) can be interpreted as anecdotal evidence (an issue I see lately with people not from my field and I have to find a solution for sometime).
We originally built this using a Google App Script in Gmail. Has been game-changing for productivity. Now launching it as a service so anyone can try it out.

Any and all feedback welcome. Happy to take any questions.
The flatten functions I know from statically typed languages (eg. Rust, Scala) only flatten one level. So flatMap is actually more or less equivalent to (flatten . map).
When Unix time was measured in 1/60 second ticks
> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have.

The trap is, of course, that it's monumentally stupid to cram "seeing London" into the timeframe of one week. The bigger the city, the longer the time it takes to properly take it in. Otherwise your travel experience is a 200 km/h carousel ride: what can you even retain and process, at that speed?

What's the difference between seeing the Milan Dome in-person for a brief 20 minutes (because you have a laundry list of stuff to do) -- and seeing it in pictures? Not much, in my opinion.

Personally, I'd rather see only 1/5 of the "objectives" available to me, if the ones I DO end up visiting stay in my memory.
Some useful data in a week-old discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325391
Awesome to see a politician get so in touch with his constituents... in this meme age.
You should talk to some ultramarathon runners. A woman I know did a 100K and slept for seven minutes en route. She didn’t win

I know and train with plenty of ultra-endurance athletes in our MilFit group, and they’ll tell you the same thing - not least because several are ex-SF ;-)

I’ve done the Fan Dance (with weight) and the last thing I’d want to do is a similar event the next day and the next and the next, culminating in the Long Drag. I almost certainly physically could do one more - but I can’t face it. The mind breaks before the body. That’s what separates endurance dilettantes like me from those what have what it takes to just keep going, which is what they are filtering for. Fitness per se is necessary but not sufficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Dance_(exercise)
I can't decide if I think it's real or fake. It's a very good doc and Timothy's footage could absolutely be real but the people interviewed, every single one of them, just come across as fake and very very bad actors.

Whenever the film comes up on Reddit I scan the comments and I've done a tiny bit of googling but it seems I'm in the minority with this opinion which I find strange since I can't fathom the interviewees are even close to genuine.
I understand, of course, that it makes the difference when you want to change things. But my main question is, why do you want to change things, even in case where everybody is free to choose?

I am not really sure I buy into "treating boys and girls the same" either. I think what's more important is to give them options (perhaps against their will, to get them outside the comfort zone).

It seems to me that schools already largely do treat everybody the same, even to the point where it is being truly annoying to open-minded individuals. I am not sure it's ideal to treat all kids the same, but rather recognize their individual differences.

For example, my parents sent me to summer camps to learn some outdoor skills. I wasn't very good at it and I didn't enjoyed it as much as I probably should as a stereotypical male. But on the other hand, I think it was right thing to do.

So, if despite these attempts to make me into an expert in wilderness survival, I didn't become one, and rather became computer geek, which was certainly out of fashion at the time, I have serious doubts about the theories that cultural ideas are so influential to the actual behavior of children.
I think because it's a solved problem, where we can't advance. This has a few reasons:

1) All the obvious avenues (like simple battery chemistry) are explored and provide no obvious avenues for success

So you can't reasonably expect to advance here. Otoh, we could just stumble on a huge advance.

2) it is perfectly well known how to make ridiculous capacity, light batteries. There's even 2 known ways:

* chemical energy storage

* magnetic/electrical energy storage

In both cases it's solved ... only in the theoretical sense. If we have a way to arrange individual atoms on a large scale (or even 100nm portions of material) and fuse them, we would be able to make awesome batteries. But we don't know how to do this.

So this is now a manufacturing problem where you just won't get anywhere without incredible amounts of knowledge and fundamental advances.

3) What Elon Musk is doing is standardizing existing battery technology and making it widely available.

On the plus side, we need this. The standard batteries from decades ago can be improved electrically (e.g. fast charging by actually having 10000 batteries instead of one big one and charging all of them, which also enables fast discharging by discharging a lot of batteries at the same time, or even charging and discharging at the same time). An electrically complex, but well understood problem.

On the downside, this doesn't actually solve any issues we have with batteries. They're a little too big, a LOT too heavy. Elon Musk's batteries ... are a little too big, and a LOT too heavy.
Gwern's List of Open Questions
I consider Brave's highjacking of advertising revenue in an attempt to force web sites to monetize their site through Brave highly unethical and am disappointed to see it mentioned here.
Nector, the french IA that codes for you
When workstations stop needing USB keyboards connected to unlock them?
If a startup has mostly women, is that a problem too?
Parsing would be ambiguous, though, as the built-in commands don't require a space before its first argument. So things like copy/y foo bar were (and still are) valid. With directories they would either retain their original meaning, or refer to the y program inside of the copy folder.