skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to data from the Department of Education on college degrees by gender, the US college degree gap favoring women started back in 1978, when for the first time ever, more women than men earned Associate’s degrees. Five years later in 1982, women earned more bachelor’s degrees than men for the first time, and women have increased their share of bachelor’s degrees in every year since then. In another five years by 1987, women earned the majority of master’s degrees for the first time. Finally, within another decade, more women than men earned doctor’s degrees by 2006, and female domination of college degrees at every level was complete. For the current graduating class of 2013, the Department of Education estimates that women will earn 61.6% of all associate’s degrees this year, 56.7% of all bachelor’s degrees, 59.9% of all master’s degrees, and 51.6% of all doctor’s degrees. Overall, 140 women will graduate with a college degree at some level this year for every 100 men. The article is from AEI Ideas and is summarized by Carnegie Foundation..
Presumably they'd have to live as a nonbinary person generally, which would come with all the social consequences of being 'out'. Also it may be possible that male-only categories are still rewarded greater than other categories (eg. womens tennis vs mens tennis and other controversies).

If someone wants to cheat, there's easier ways to cheat (doping) than taking on a whole pile of societal judgements in every facet of one's life, constantly, and trying to push against it in affirmation of one's own identity. Including accusations of lying about it for the win.

EDIT: Of course there's no way to objective prove a gender. We don't even have 'objective' ways to prove someone's gender even when they fall upon the binary. We have cis women who have been disqualified for having the wrong chromosomes even though they have qualifying secondary sex characteristics (which athletes have also been recorded needing to be subjected to invasive exposing of their bodies to verify the category).
I don't give clicks to rags like outsideonline.com, sorry.

On another note I'm always amazed how confident HN posters are about any subject, even when they admit all their knowledge comes from a few minutes of google searches and articles.
It isn't as simple as point laser at moon, see light shining back with your own eyes, it requires a big telescope and computers and delicate sensors to detect because the moon and earth are so far apart.

I mean, if actual pictures of the landing site from LRO don't convince them: https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/628457main1apo... then a few extra photons returning to the earth won't change their mind. (My personal favorite, in an aesthetic sense, is: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-15.html)
It's probably similar to how some seem attractive to mosquitoes more than others. My wife definitely gets them worse than me, and to boot she gets big welts from their bites while I only itch for a few hours.
Doesn't matter where they're situated if that's their owners.
Even walking style might make a difference.

I tend to fairly carefully but rapidly pick my way along a trail. My wife and kids do not. I'd imagine this varies the rate of exposure to things like foliage on the edges of the trail.
Sorry, I'm not quite sure if you're in agreement or not.

The claim was that humans need to be protected from themselves (in the context of the GP comment, this would mean a ban).

I meant to imply that since smoking rates declined steadily without a ban, the claim that prohibition is the correct answer because we humans can't stop trading short term pleasure for long term pain seems dubious.

That's even without considering our extensive experience with what happens when we prohibit substances which sellers want to sell and still not insignificant parts of the population want to buy.
This guy just gets off on being contrarian. Don't ask him the color of the sky.
It took me a minute to find the actual full proposal text:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FAA-2019-0229-0001

The link here is to the comments, and definitely take a minute to read some submitted comments from the space industry, congress, airlines & observers. They are enlightening. Having read about a dozen extremely well thought out letters so far, I’ve seen nothing but very serious concerns with the proposal.

Blue Origin, for example, created a diagram of the new licensing process, and detailed why it’s not likely to result in the monetary savings that the FAA is claiming.

https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=FAA-2...

Many people commenting that the proposal isn’t adequately addressing the FAA’s mandate to public safety. To me it seems like a curious move to deregulate in the wake of the Boeing Max crashes that don’t look great for the FAA... but I don’t know how the FAA is structured, is it fair to draw any lines between rockets and airline regulation, or is rocket licensing a completely separate group of people?
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My roommate recently fell asleep in a hammock and woke up covered in currently feeding ticks and tick bites from ones that had their fill and left. It's been about 3 weeks since then and he doesn't seem to have any forgone symptoms. It seems odd to me that... is he just lucky?
Dr. Gwynne Dyer gave a talk, "Geopolitics in a Hotter World" – Sept. 2010

> So when the Hadley Centre put these numbers out they were incorporating (which the IPCC does not) the early impacts of positive feedbacks, as well as just how much carbon dioxide will we put into the air by 2060. First time that had been done, but it gives you a really frightening number…and then they did the map. Which is again, something that’s not normally done, and the consequence is we don’t have a lot of time. We’re in deep trouble. And the military know this; the military know this everywhere.

> the rule of thumb is that you lose 10% of global food production for every 1 degree Celsius higher average global temperature.

> So food becomes the critical issue and the countries most impacted are tropical and subtropical and this is where the geopolitics comes from.

> “people always raid before they starve.”

> There’s already a well established pattern: when you’re in deep trouble and you can’t feed your family, head north.

> But the dirty secret is that you can only shut a border if you’re willing to kill people.

> No government that cannot feed its population survives.

> We’re going to go through the point of no return (and probably a good deal further) in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Almost certain.

> And there is maybe a way to cheat: and that is geoengineering.

> “we’ve crunched the numbers and we figure we could get one degree Celsius of cooling average worldwide just by painting all the roads and the roofs white.”

> I talked–actually, the head of the Bangladesh Institute of Strategic Studies about this (you didn’t even know that existed, did you?). Well, there is one, it’s quite serious–run by a General, bright guy. I said, “have you heard about geoengineering?” and he smiled–seraphically–and he said, “Mmm. Yes. Your question?”

> And I asked the question, “Do you think that this is something the Bangladesh government might want to do a little bit, before, let’s say, the US government or the Chinese government?”

> He said, “yes it has crossed our minds.”–and then he stopped talking.

...

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY

Transcribed: https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...
Strange. I would have thought that serving more niche customers would be a more sustainable business model than competing against GitHub and GitLab on their home turf.

Is Bitbucket profitable?
Light clothes color is another one, makes it very easy to spot them and we found that is pretty effective as first barrier. I avoid permethrin personally because I'm not a fan of it's effect on aquatic life, but I wonder why you only spray shoes and ankles and not complete lower leg for instance? Just guesswork but if I'd count where I found ticks on my clothes in the past year it would be well over 50% lower and upper leg, much less around ankles and shoes. Could be they were all crawling up of course...
I don't think accurate information is the point.

More importantly is the employees know that the company is even "asking" or "checking" and word to get out... and now you've got people afraid, even who don't work for the airline.

Similar to show trials or anything else, it doesn't matter what the situation with that case is, it matters that everyone sees it.
Good point. I wonder if Plaid deals with credit cards, probably not, I want to unify all of my accounts so I can have a single balance(cards). People usually say jUsT gEt MiNt...
#chinazi is a disease, tumor, we need to nip it in the bud
This is a fairly old version of the gem, but probably what attacker was going for (users who infrequently go to new versions, and avoiding those who watch most up to date version)
Also, much older systems: QRA Locator and Maidenhead Locator System.
And Mars colony technology. We can simply use it on earth.
> I believe there’s a wall at about 20 miles, too.

~20 miles is the distance that a "median" person can run before muscle glycogen is depleted and less efficient energy-production mechanisms must take up the slack. The size (and duration) of one's muscle glycogen stores depends on many factors, including the physical size of muscles, efficiency of reintroduction of liver glycogen, training status, running economy, GI effectiveness vs stress, and many others.

Interestingly enough, in longer ultras one gets the chance to conquer the "wall," recover, and then hit it all over again, maybe several times.
Hey since this is blown up I just want to address it directly.

I take responsibility for what happened here. My RubyGems.org account was using an insecure, reused password that has leaked to the internet in other breaches.

I made that account probably over 10 years ago, so it predated my use of password managers and I haven't used it much lately, so I didn't catch it in a 1password audit or anything.

Sometimes we miss things despite our best efforts.

Rotate your passwords, kids.
Is there no lightning to USB A adapter? Seems a bit wasteful to buy another key for a currently very limited ability in iOS.
People always like to feel they're getting a great deal.

1908 Publication: Low prices create a sensation > http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/361327.html?1368...
I see a couple different aspects here:

1. Targeting Kids. I don't see the targeting. Marketing a product as "cool"[1] is a valid tactic for the, say, 18–35 age demographic, too. Is there a way to market to 18-year-olds while actively dis-marketing to 17-year-olds? Serious question.

Anecdotally, the radio ads I hear for Juul are all testimonials from middle-aged smokers who switched. Which is not to say that they don't have other tactics, but this particular one can't be particularly attractive to teens.

2. Deceptive Marketing. Probably more legit, but not limited to tobacco. No marketing is going to tell you why not to use their product. Now, alcohol, nicotine, gambling, high fat/sugar foods, credit card debt, etc. should be held to a higher standard than, say, Forever 21.

[1] I.e., "social media posts glamorizing vaping", "flavors including mango, mint and creme brulee", "depicting the devices and those who use them as cool and sexy". Or from a sub-linked article, "mak[ing] it look cool and sleek".
They do plan well ahead but most investors consider each term to be an independent target.
Can you share a good summary of evidence which supports human caused climate change so I can have better discussions?
That story doesn't appear to be true.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...
I remember playing pool with Chris Wanstrath back in the day and he was telling me how he just started a product based on Git. I told him to bail on it and use Mercurial instead! I listed a bunch of reasons why I thought it was the best distributed VCS. I remember shaking my head a bit thinking: "Whelp... good luck with that". I probably lost that game of pool too.
Nobody can predict that far out. Your time horizon is too long compared to the speed of tech.

AWS launched less than 15 years ago in 2006 with just S3 and EC2.

The iPhone launched less than 15 years ago in 2007, and now mobile phones are the dominant form of computers.

Check back in 5 years and we'll probably have a better idea of what 2035 will bring.
Seems like the concept behind the Tap strap:
https://www.amazon.com/Tap-Bluetooth-Wearable-Controller-Sma...
Instead of putting reflectors into orbit it would be cheaper to use hot air balloons, but in general either reflectors or balloons are the best solution to climate change, because they allow to actually control the weather, and the amount of rain different places get. By creating more rains over sahara, we'll not only get more place to live, but the new ecosystem there would consume all the CO2 that was added by us into atmosphere, so we even wouldn't need to reduce the oil usage for now.
It would be incredible if you could prove 1.) Democrats opposed Lyme research 2.) because it discourages gun-related activities.
If marketing tobacco products isn't where one draws the line, where would the line be drawn? We must not give a pass to people who work on bad things simply because their boss told them to do so.
Yeah I really recommend the documentary 180° South [1] which has both Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins (The North Face) and has them talking about their philosophy and conservation efforts as well. (A guy retraces a journey these two made in Patagonia back in the 60s.)

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407927/ / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9k2N9z3SI
I think the use case is pretty clear and simple, and somewhat appealing: You can use a todo list app of your choice, with whatever features you like, without getting locked in to a proprietary format.

Haven't used it myself, but if anyone has experience and/or recommendation for clients, I'd be interested to hear. It looks like it's been around for well over a decade.
But it _is_, as a rule, both busy and schizophrenic. It's neither complex nor danceable; I like Aphex Twin a lot, but his contributions there, with exceptions, tend to veer toward the "quite possibly just taking the piss" part of his back catalogue -- notably none of the artists he mentions really produced anything like their best work under that banner
Ask HN: How do big online companies perform record linkage?
How do big companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) perform record linkage (deduplication, entity resolution, master data management)?
Did they develop their own algorithms and are there any published papers?
Are any of the implementations open-source or do any of them use commercial software?
“Our guiding principle with all our farms is to help foster environmental and economic resilience in tomorrow’s cities,” says Hardy, who expects the farm to start making a profit within its first year. “If we can create a model that is commercially viable, rather than having to rely on goodwill and subsidies, that will help urban farms to become sustainable in their own right.”

It will be interesting to see if this succeeds economically.
<Breadfast>

Interesting to see that they got 10,000 paying customers in 2 years.
for electronic music this beauty just launched: http://music.ishkur.com/
American vaccine was 90% effective with side effects on par with non-vaccinated population. It was pulled thanks to the antivax crowd:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...
The first point sounds pretty farfetched, do you have some sources to back this up, or is it just a conspiracy theory you cooked up because it suits a narrative? Tye second point is ridiculous, you could make the same argument and say that lyme disease is being kept around to prevent people from hiking or camping or doing anything outdoors at all. BTW in case it isn't obvious you're being downvoted to oblivion because this is not a political site and you politicized your post in the very first word.
Why could have the government not held on to the right-of-way and allow people to bid/buy or allocate it? Making it so the money went back to the government NOT some 3rd party at a profit?
Thanksatron.
I don't know if I agree with your first paragraph. The weather model analogy is at least misleading since the corresponding thing in QM would be a mixture of states, not a superposition.
TOTP is one thing. Having your backup TOTP key locked in a safe effectively stops it from being abused.

SMS 2FA, on the other hand, has real security issues[0][1]. In my experience, SMS 2FA is most commonly the required type of 2FA, before you can add TOTP/U2F as a secondary.

SMS 2FA is the hardest to lose or break, so forcing everyone to keep it enabled minimizes support costs for the provider.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/24/nist_says_sms_no_go...

[1] https://duo.com/decipher/reddit-breach-illustrates-dangers-o...
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Can’t say much about others but WeWork has been the product of a frothy bull market for a long time where anybody with a half decent startup could pick up generous venture capital.

But when that market tightens up, and we see less new startups coming out and with less money than before, those startups will take a hard sobering look at their finances and decide they simply can’t afford to blow money on shitty overpriced hipster co-working spaces, which unfortunately for WeWork is the only product they offer. WeWork will run into cashflow problems and that will be the end of it.
Yeah ok when you put it as a bet I think I'll back down ha ha :)

I imagine there will be hold outs who will never switch to formal proofs, though they may simply take on co-authors who are just "formalizers".

I also am probably being over confident with the time scales, I think a process with a tipping point, everyone will use it once everyone starts using it.

However when that tipping point will occur is probably hard to predict. I think it will be soon, but I'm broke and not that sure.
It has worked pretty well so far.

Coffeescript, Dart, AngularJS, Dojo, MooTools, Prototype, Bower,...

So much time I saved keeping focused on SSR frameworks, alongside VanillaJS.
> Yet when patients blame failed tests and treatments for their persistent symptoms, when they seek additional care for Lyme disease, they are often told they suffer from anxiety or chronic fatigue syndrome. They are derided, called anti-science, denied insurance reimbursement.

> They are dismissed in ways comparable to those experienced by their AIDS-afflicted brethren.

The Atlantic just published a good article about this: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/life-wi...
Not sure how being additionally discriminatory in other fields is fair. Both are unfair. Not saying either of them are "wrong", but definitely not "fair". Which might be fine. I have no idea.
That's just an incompetent race director. There is no end to the lack of thought put into award schedules. I once got three (cheap plastic) medals for winning various categories that all overlapped during an awards ceremony that went on way too long.

I suspect that this is the same (boring) situation, but runner's world being the garbage magazine that they are figured they could push the sociopolitical angle and get more clicks.
This would be a great opportunity for Amazon to donate funds for the UK to build a recycling facility capable of recycling these packages. Sadly I doubt they would do such a sensible and kind thing when they could just deny responsibility. Maybe they could be fined.
What Are the Types of Scrum Ceremonies and Their Best Practices?
I've seen many text editing tools on touch devices, and the verdict is "painful to use." OTOH, if you exclusively use a single desktop computer, this is probably not a tool for you.
I recommend DO for stuff like this, they are also great a cross cloud mechanism for health checks and dashboards. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
Bit late to the party here, but here's a thing that's been bugging me: as a veteran of many deep learning frameworks, I’m 100% convinced of many of the arguments put forward in "Tensors Considered Harmful" [1].

Basically, I can summarise the argument as: for complex, real-world projects involving multidimensional arrays, having to remember which dimension means which thing, and track these through various tensor transformations, is the 21st century equivalent of how prior to high level programming languages we had to manually track which registers we we were using to store what quantities, and how this changed in different parts of a program.

It was the real dark ages of programming, and we’re in that same place with a lot of complex deep learning models now.

So my question is: has this been discussed at all in the Julia community? Is this on anyones radar? Since one of the core competencies of Julia is array processing and elegant metaprogramming, I would hope that it can gracefully absorb the idea of named array axes in a way that feels natural and complete, and could start showing up in ML frameworks like Zygote and Flux down the line...

[1] http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor
Long water fasts + cardio + antibiotics.
So back to countries only sending men, then?
This. Reduce the ticks' food supply.
Was this the aerodrome in the mountain near the Croatian border?
Show HN: Rtobj – An example interactive Embree/OptiX/DXR path tracer
> the fine particles of soot you get from wood or coal fires

I'm pretty both coal and wood fires are banned in Paris. For wood fire, I think it's fairly recent (one or two years ago) and it's an application of a directive from the EU.
With "const" you still need to rely on devs being good citizens since const can be trivially casted away.

I've been programming in C for 25+ years. const is clutter.
1 billion dollars is negligble when considering dumping industrial chemicals into the water of those who have no choice in a country of 350 million with a GDP of 20 trillion.
> Curly braces, for loops, while loops, if statements, case statements, variable declaration and initialisation etc. All those things were carbon copied from C/C++, not Lisp.

That's all minor stuff. But, even the very invention of conditional statements are originally from Lisp. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node1.html John McCarthy proposed if/then/else and recursion to the Algol (the grandfather of C) community in 59.

> JVM isn't part of Java as a language

Historically there is no independent invention of the Java language. The Java language was developed together for and with the platform -> the JVM. Thus Java assumed on day one that it runs on a garbage collected platform.

> I doubt any Java Programmer was dragged halfway to Lisp.

There are a bunch of Java developers which struggle with Lisp-derived languages (like Clojure).

> If it was the case, we were going to see at least 10% of those Developers finishing the trip to Lisp but we didn't.

You didn't know where many of the features of the Java runtime come from or where they originated from. The originally first garbage collected language implementation was Lisp 1 in the end 50s. Here on Hackernews you can learn about it. Java (originally called oak) was explicitly designed to be garbage collected. The Java developers (Gosling) explicitly didn't want C++ like memory management.

> That's why Lisp remains an obscure language used by 100 people on a good day.

I have no idea where you get your numbers from.
Salary Negotiation for Humans [video]
Are you arguing against the term "(semi) professional looking"? Because that last word clarifies what they meant.
Well, you can express any Git repository in Mercurial terms, but not otherwise.