skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The three law's of behavioural genetics:

“First Law: All human behavioural traits are heritable.

Second Law: The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes.

Third Law: A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioural traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.”

Beyond that though, the genetics of human fertility is pretty well understood. Here's a (now fairly old: from 2016) GWAS study on human reproductive behaviour: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27798627

They show genetic correlations between reproductive traits and other behavioural traits in Figure 3. You might find it helps you develop an intuitive understanding. Happy to answer questions if you have any.
Ya I guess my statements were extreme. Probably written late at night.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=20361247&goto=item%3Fi...

What's wrong with purchasing an AC at home?
True, but there's a difference between owning a car and taking a car. Flying and driving will be a lot more sustainable once that goes electric. If lots of people take autonomous vehicles to get from A to B and we can find ways where that is sustainable; I have nothing against building more infrastructure to support that.

In any case this article was about road congestion; not about saving the planet. When it comes to that, I don't really believe in technical martyrdom where people voluntarily choose to not do lots of things they would like to do as a solution. And making you feel good about you through voluntarily declining to do certain things is nice and nobel but more of a form of hedonism than a practical solution. Nothing wrong with that but it's not a scalable solution in the sense that in the bigger picture of 7-9 billion people not following your lead, it's going to be statistically meaningless/irrelevant unless you convince them otherwise at unprecedented scale.
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I don't think their story relates to PayPal in any way other than this is where they decided to tell it.
On the other hand, it seems a bit wild to propose that tools don’t have inherent affordances of their own.

What complicates assessment is that for many attributes, it’s impossible to assess the tool and the user in isolation. This is not unique to programming languages.
You might be on to something, except that your comment is likening fat to sugar. These two things are not similar in terms of their effect on dietary health.

You may well be right about olive oil, but the inclusion of that near-conflation makes your argument seem not very compelling.
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All else aside, grep is _noticeably_ slower than ripgrep.

Once I started using ripgrep I couldn't really go back. Maybe you don't work with huge files, but I do. And everyday I'm thankful to burntsushi for all the hard work he put in to making ripgrep.
What did you replace flying with?
MWI can be differentiated from the Copenhagen Interpretation via experiment as soon as the Copenhagen Interpretation decides what a "measurement" is, when it happens, and when it doesn't.

As it is now, the Copenhagen Interpretation is an incomplete theory because it doesn't give you a formal algorithmic way to know when to apply the measurement operator. The answer is whatever it needs to be to make the answer come out right.

To answer your question more directly, MWI could be falsified in a lot of ways, but one would be if structures larger than a certain size don't self-interfere.
I rarely use Paypal, but was forced to use it recently for something with no other payment option. Whilst there I decided to change my password, and was horrified to find that they limit passwords to 20 characters.

It got me thinking about the standard assumption that any system limiting chars in a password must be storing passwords in plaintext and not hashing them, else there would be no logical reason to do so (since hash length is constant regardless of input length) - with the only exception being placing a really large limit (say 1024 chars) just to avoid performance issues with hashing really massive passwords.

But.. I refuse to accept that's what's happening here. It simply can't be the case that Paypal is storing plaintext passwords, can it? So there must be another explanation - but what is it?

The only thing I can think is that perhaps they are encrypting passwords, instead of hashing them, or started out doing this in the early days and have since switched to hashing passwords, but there were by then so many layers of validation cruft and/or dependent systems that somehow relied on the 20 char limit being enforced, that they were unable to remove the limit without breaking everything, and they've decided the tradeoff of just sticking with a 20 char limit is worth it.

Does anyone know of or can think of a better explanation for this?
In a way for those users it would be better to keep quiet about their use, because now companies will try to find a way to charge them for it.
> It would benefit to listen to a marketing person every once in awhile.

At the moment I can only remember things getting worse because of marketing people. Same goes for most ux.
What you should understand is: most geneticists wouldn't have had the balls to write this even though it's obvious to them. Someone did have the courage to write it. Now wrap your head around what they wrote.
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Who/what is XR?
I wish I could upvote this more. And thanks for sharing this. It’s good to know I’m not alone and not the only “lunatic”.
Are you saying that graphql bunch those multiple requests into a single, actual, not perceived, request?
Not only are they green washing, they're also trying to blame the consumer for using their polluting products by telling them they should fly less.
Like they're being responsible, but it's just those pesky consumers who can't behave them selfs.

Spare me.
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I'm trying to validate an idea/app for modularising and streamlining internal and external business communication (mainly email).

At the moment it's just an application to create some reusable templates and snippets, and extend and share them with colleagues. My next step would be to create a browser extension that allows to easily injected the content from the application into other websites directly while typing (for example into any web email client, google docs, any website form, etc.).

The main benefits of the application would be to save time, reduce errors, and potentially to standardize a company's business communication thought a collective effort (document, template and snippet creation) where also employees that generally don't like to write emails can benefit (as a developer I find myself in this category).

Still in alpha, feedback is greatly appreciated: https://getlimpid.com
Oh crap, how are other countries still using this, is that really true?

[edit] however @treerock is correct britain formally switched to short scale since 1974 so english is unambiguous, in all but historical contexts.

Also recommends using SI prefixes just as done in the article which is unambiguous in all languages. I guess translators must be aware of this when converting words from billion and up.
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I was surprised it was flagged but per the HN guidelines[0] "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"

This surely counts as politics, hence the flag. But also something new and vile, and facilitated by tech. And there's been enough of carefully looking the other way this century and last; we know the consequences.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
Japan has an effective justice system and police force.
Id be pissed if a bank silently refunded money from my bank account without my say so, if money enters my account I want some input in it leaving.

I suppose the key is if Paypal put it in the wrong account then cleared up after themselves, I don't think that's a refund as such, you should be telling the account holder when they ask though. The other option is the payer paid money to the wrong account, in that situation this guy should be getting notified.

This isn't just an issue of 'not his money'. How are you supposed to know if your account is hacked, or some weird fraud is going on, or even just a straight forward, he sold something and thought he got paid for it.
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Because that never happened before in human history:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Who+We+Are+and+How+We+Got+Here&re...
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You are right, but do not trust in Gmail, because they like to store your data on their servers!
There are also quite a few projects where this has been shown to get results in the real world. Enough that it's probably worth trying to replicate the results. Worst case it fails and you hopefully learn something.
So if I use a VPN plus Mozilla with this setting switched on I should be good to go?

Are there any actual guides on protecting your privacy online and eliminating filters? Preventing tracking and fingerprinting is already feasible with a combination of ublock origin and noscript for mozilla.

Also, what about linux?
Where do you live, where do your family and friends live, and where do you often travel to?
> Black olives, though labeled as “ripe” on supermarket cans, actually aren’t: these, a California invention

Maybe that's true of all black olives in the US, I don't know, but black olives are supposed to be ripe olives. Only the cheapest black olives are not ripened, and at least in France they cannot be called just "black olives".

They're easy enough to distinguish as they are smooth and firm like green olives, rather than soft and maybe a bit shriveled.
But that’s not what I mean. I mean that your original resources are not the the actual ones you should expose. Hence you have designed your API wrong. And I don’t agree that a resource becomes more tightly coupled if you write it right. It is a resource after all.
In theory, co-working spaces should be able to supply this option. But the ones I've seen are barebones at best - temporary setups made out of plywood in old office buildings that would otherwise remain empty, big open spaces where you can rent a desk but only if you do it for at least a month, etc.

While IMO they could just as well divide the place up into smaller offices. Probably cost prohibitive though. As in cost for the end user, not for the co-working space.
In almost every case, parents do not pass traits socially. Shared environment impact is roughly zero in nearly every trait ever examined.
I'm not convinced. According to [1], fuel costs make up 25% of airline expenditures. Elsewhere in the thread [2] someone says that plane tickets cost less than 100 euro compared to over 400 Euro for comparable train tickets. This difference simply can not be accounted for using taxes. Even a 500% tax on aviation fuel wouldn't put plane tickets close to train tickets.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/591285/aviation-industry...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361346
Rosenberg also narrates the audiobook version. His delivery is a big relief compared to the usual bravadoish and disconcertingly deranged manner of the self-help or ‘soft skills’ genre. Even though I'm still having trouble with the anecdotal nature of the argument, it's a lot better than e.g. “Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.”
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I recently had a similar experience with eBay, though it got resolved:

-I had an old eBay account that was closed through inactivity

-I wanted to buy some headphones so I decided to create a new account

-When I went to eBay it had already given me a username through some sort of linked google account feature that used the google account I was logged in to

-I tried to buy 2 $40 headphones and it wouldn't let me, saying I was over my temporary purchase limit

-I figured maybe you can only buy one item at a time as a new user so I tried to buy a single pair of $40 headphones and got the same response

-I thought it might be my VPN, but my VPN was off at the time.

-I created a normal account linking it to my normal email and everything seemed well. I purchased the headphones successfully

-A few minutes later, I got an email that the first account had been suspended for suspicious activity. I first thought this was fine, until I read that I was not allowed to use any other eBay account ever again in my entire life. There were no options listed for recourse. Reading internet threads suggested that they were serious about this and that even if my other account still worked, they would eventually find it and close it.

Eventually I called and got a rep. I got the feeling he didn't believe me, but he fixed the issue so now I can use eBay again without worry. The whole experience left me a bit shaken though that triggering some automated flag nearly resulted in being cut off from one of the largest marketplaces in the world for the rest of my life.
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Yeah I have struggled with this in the past. I would gladly pay to go and plant trees somewhere within a couple of hours of where I live, but I could not find many easy ways to do this as an individual in the UK (unless you are a kid under 11 years old where there seems to be a lot of options!). I donate to Woodland Trust, but they seem to be more about maintaining what we have & small-scale replenishing rather than more large-scale replanting.

Most recently I've been trying to offset 10 tonnes a year via these people: https://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonoffset.html They were the only people I could find most recently that sold "personal carbon offsets" in the UK which includes UK-based tree planting (as well as options for elsewhere)
Presumably the British knew who she was if she was imprisoned, right?
>Why I have to pay 10kk when Unicredit Bank pay only 130k?

Grandparent comment implies otherwise.
> Does anyone know of or can think of a better explanation for this?

Mainframe.
How to store large amounts of data in a program
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This actually taught me that the losing strategies win more often then we thought.

I got positive 2 our 4 times for the single 13 choice.

And for the strategy to double your bet to cover your loss actually worked for me!

Day 1: $10870
Day 2: $12980
Day 3: $10630
Day 4: $8190
Day 5: $7560
Day 6: $9100
Day 7: $9090
Day 8: $10130
Day 9: $12080
Day 10: $12870
Day 11: $12910
Day 12: $14110
Day 13: $15450
Day 14: $15030
Day 15: $15500
Day 16: $14230
Day 17: $13700
Day 18: $11190
Day 19: $12250
Day 20: $14190
Day 21: $16070
Day 22: $12880
Day 23: $12820
Day 24: $11480
Day 25: $12470
Day 26: $14920
Day 27: $9940
Day 28: $10240
Day 29: $9020
Day 30: $10740
Day 31: $12600
Day 32: $14880
Day 33: $17220
Day 34: $15700
Day 35: $17920
Day 36: $18150
Day 37: $14080
Day 38: $16150
Day 39: $18140
Day 40: $19960
Day 41: $20000
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Not to be confused with Rick Dangerous, which is the inspiration for Spelunky.
I wonder how long it will take for 'cars' to appear that are technically roadworthy but have a better layout for this kind of thing, or maybe a double decker could be converted for the purpose.
Could you elaborate a little bit on this? I'm not familiar with mainframes, but genuinely curious what specifically would cause this?
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Correct, my phone died after briefly exposing it to salt weather on a beach. I was misled by the ads I saw, there was no implication except in very fine print that saltwater will immediately fry your phone.
I very rarely have to contact PayPal for anything, but I’ve had to talk to them a couple times. My experience is that they absolutely will not answer any question they don’t have a pre-written response for, instead choosing whatever they think is closest to what I am asking, even if it doesn’t answer the question. I’ve even had them send me the same response again when I explain that it didn’t answer my question the first time. If I need something specific like the fedwire tracking number for a transfer, I’m basically SOL because they don’t have a response for that, they just send me links on how to view my statement.

I don’t know why companies do this but I notice that companies that don’t compete with Amazon tend to have horrible customer support, but as soon as Amazon enters the market suddenly everyone picks up the phone second ring, has chat, and sends out hand written e-mails.
In bad conditions humans breed more. There was a ten year famine in Ethiopia yet there wasn't a single year in which the population actually dropped. People stop breeding when they know their offspring will survive
IMO BEAM is a better VM than JVM despite the number of libraries.

It provides a more robust, performant and observable platform for Web development. (Technically JVM is faster batch operations but for Web, most Elixir apps win)

More importantly, it's a perfect fit for immutable functional languages. Everything is immutable and proper tail-recursion are provided. Clojure is great but it has several different ways to define state and type, and sometimes I found they're a little bit awkward. With BEAM process, there's no need for language to have constructs for state/reference/async handling, which could makes the language itself more simpler and more compact.
Setting and enforcing reasonable community standards, aka “this is how we do things around here”, is rarely experienced by the learner as an asshole action.
Great set of tools :)
Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C! And there is NO added sugar except maybe in the cartons you must be buying at your grocery store.

Olive oil is basically "just fat"?! You make me think that you think the fat in olive oil is no different than the fat in pork or beef.

With those thoughts in mind, most of what you eat is just a little of this and just a little of that and "basically just fat" but it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education.
Korean face massage is a fad in Japan at the moment

https://youtu.be/n9mXYIT10Rc
Luck is lumpy.

Weirdly I seem to do quite well in the casino and often have evening where I leave the casino 2-3X ahead of where I started.

My luck at football betting is terrible, I'm even worse at horses.

When you're up it's quite the thrill. You weather the downs as a cost associated with the particular vice.

I enjoy "emotionally hedging" sports events - if I want X to win I bet on Y

Do you play any other things (sports or games)? Do you not ever go for low percentage / high risk actions if only for the pleasure of occasionally see them come good?

Think bicycle kick in football, haymaker in boxing, high stakes play in poker, 1-frame combos in Street Fighter, technically difficult riffs in a musical jam.

I feel your line of questioning locks money and all its uses to rationality. Money can be an instrument for pleasure and for many, risk-seeking is a pleasurable activity.
There was a map of France and England once which showed relative age of forests compared to e.g. Germany, which correlated with ship manufacturing (wooden of course) which Germany (did not really exist then anyway) did not participate in at the time.
> What's even more weird is all abrahamic religions mention olive in their books.

Not weird at all. After all they all originate roughly from the same region.
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ripgrep is great, all of the cli options are very memorable and it has sane defaults for everything that I want to use it for. The one thing I add to a ripgreprc is --smart-case
When we scrapped our old '90ies Opel Astra we kept the passengers seat and made it into a funky-looking but insanely comfy regular chair at home by attaching it with some screws to a simple base made of wood, so it is high enough to sit it.

At some point my dad said he's sad we didn't keep the drivers seat as well.
>The 7pay mobile app was designed to show a barcode on the phone's screen when customers reach the 7-Eleven cashier counters. The cashier scans the barcode, and the bought goods are charged to the user's 7pay app and the customer's credit or debit cards that have been saved in the account.

Why is this app even needed? Is EMV contactless not a thing in Japan? Did 7/11 want to join the mobile pay bandwagon?
Not the case in Japan. All cars must have an assigned parking space registered with the police. Apartments are not required to have parking spaces. Thus the daily charge to rent a car space in the middle of Tokyo is usually twenty or more dollars. These car sharing services all have dedicated parking spaces for each rental car.

This the parking space does not carry a marginal cost for the operator. Rather the problem with not driving is the lost marginal charge for milage.

Tokyo also has anti idling policies. Thus these car rental services will not want to be associated with such an illegal activity.
Here is a fork:

Plant 1T trees in the defrost areas of the artics ?
Just opening the page I got assaulted by a shitletter popup and notifications permissions popup.

Didn’t expect the Smithsonian to fall so low.
Honestly, I see this kind of a stupid decisions happen when some analyst makes them and not actual developers.
> On the other hand we're also self replicators and have been shaped by evolution

Yes which shaped our brain topology, ML is completely absent of that currently, we do it manually.
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Do/should you have any expectation of privacy in a car? Surely it depends on your location? If you're on you're own private land then you should expect privacy, in the middle of a car park, not so much.
Previous discussion on topic (linked in this article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341022
While not “necessarily” poverty related, I read somewhere once that India wanted to bring TV to as many rural households as possible. The reasoning being is that People are not having kids because cheap labor, they’re having kids because there is nothing else to do at night for entertainment, and contraceptive use is non existent.
> If you have a personal website with analytics (even your own), suddenly you need to display some cookie warning. If you allow comments all of a sudden you need to follow GDPR.

Not having both of those is a good thing, so I see no downside.
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I have no doubts about security and avoid giving my card credentials to random merchants it's exactly my use case for PayPal, but I still got account randomly locked several times over 10 years.

What exactly caused it I have no idea, but might be traveling or using VPN. Once I tried to make fairly big $2000 transaction to pay for my new laptop and spent a week re-verifying my identify with them.
Aren't trains mostly electric?
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https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-...

Except for this? By all means consider renaming it.

Or keep it to spite everyone who comes from the outside and tries to destroy hacker culture.

Because that's what people are doing, destroying hacker culture just like we destroyed other cultures before.

Yes, in some cases the new culture is better, but why oh why do we have to destroy everything funny or unusual in the process.

This comes from someone who sometimes has to stand up for his group in other settings. Why can't society let us - and the hacker culture - alone as long as we adhere to the laws?

If the GIMP won't be a commercial success - fine. Or someone can fork it and package it under another name - fine. Or the maintainers can sell out - or even agree - fine.

But can't we stop this war against all forms of old school fun and what should I say - diversity?