skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not 100% sold on your statement. One simple argument you’re making is that men are stronger than women, which is currently true. But why?

From googling for a few min, I found some interesting stuff; For example, women were not allowed to compete in Boston marathon until 1970s [0]. And times within the some groups of runners, since women began competing, is displaying a trend that men vs women times are getting closer (same article).

So this begs the question: since women haven’t been allowed to compete in sports for thousands of years, what will happen to their bodies when they are allowed to compete? In other words, on a long enough time scale, I believe that certain sports will have equal competition (running is one).

There are also clear cases and valid reasons for men being stronger/more fit but the main culprits, in at least endurance sports, is total body fat and hemoglobin [1]. I’m not 100% certain these factors cannot, over time, be diluted into equilibrium.

I’m not a scientist and don’t study such things but my guess is that male dominance won’t always be as pronounced as some folks think. One totally unscientific reason for my hypothesis is that there are just too many edge cases in sports that proved people wrong. The most famous ones, I can think of are: sprinters shouldn’t run standing up (Bolt). NBA players not shooting Free Throws underhand (Berry).

[0]: https://www.outsideonline.com/2386436/are-women-closing-men-...

[1]: https://www.outsideonline.com/2336111/defining-upper-limits-...
>wurst case scenario.

As long as we have rye bread, mustard and beer, I am willing to risk it.

Also - typo of the year.
> We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

One of the crazier things that has happened.

When the XP folk said "we do a standup", the idea was that meetings are useless and awful, you shouldn't have them, but if you're going to have them, then let's "encourage" brevity by having everyone stand.

Add a few decades of agile certified consultants, sc(r)umification and now "agile" means "lots of meetings".

Sigh.
I had a private office with a door (clouded glass) for five years. It wasn't large but it was quiet, interruptions where rare. It was great and I preferred it to working from home (I've done four years working from a home office).
I think I'd preferred if they offered a USB-C and USB-A combo.
Is there a way to restrict your card so you can’t buy things from certain vendors? Then you could subscribe to a list of boycotts based on which ethical questions are important to you.

I’m not sure how else to keep track of everything you want to vote-with-your-wallet against.
Thanks; I've yet to meet any sql-wielding non-programmers in the wild.

Perhaps it's worth releasing after all?
Yes it does, and I do this with my gems, but it's not widely used and I'm sure virtually none of the users of the gems I author probably take advantage of it.

https://guides.rubygems.org/security/

> However, this method of securing gems is not widely used. It requires a number of manual steps on the part of the developer, and there is no well-established chain of trust for gem signing keys. Discussion of new signing models such as X509 and OpenPGP is going on in the rubygems-trust wiki, the RubyGems-Developers list and in IRC. The goal is to improve (or replace) the signing system so that it is easy for authors and transparent for users.
Because the IPCC didn't account for runaway positive feedback loops. So while the rise is slow, it is projected to increase exponentially as more of the Arctic melts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Sea_Leve... which is from a 2017 NOAA study[1].

It's also worth noting that while 3.3mm a year seems low. That is the average, the sea level is not rising evenly across the world. To make this example a bit more real and close to home as HN is mostly US-centric. The current sea level rise is about ~8in/21cm[2], and Miami Beach is already flooding every year. This is because Miami Beach is experiencing almost a 1in of sea-level rise each year according to Hal Wanless, a coastal geologist at the University of Miami[3]. So using NOAA's own maps which show Miami Beach mostly underwater at 3ft we will hit that scenario in about 30 years at current rates[4], but once again sea level rise is not increasing linearly.

[1] https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/techrpt83_Glo...

[2] https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/12/

[3] https://gizmodo.com/why-are-sea-levels-in-miami-rising-so-mu...

[4] https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/4/-8927570.466376439/... (You have to search for Miami Beach, the web app doesn't allow linking to locations.)
Its tragic and beyond infuriating that the demographics least likely to recognize the threat of climate change are also the least likely to ever personally feel its effects.
Today you're the best. There might be a good argument for your opinion, but today yours is the best one.
Perhaps the younger Chuck felt incentivized, somehow, to provide services of actual value to British subjects?
Where is this obsession with cars being the issue come from?

Many a time in the 'burbs, were we playing a game in the street only to quickly scatter to the shout of "Car!", followed by a hasty resumption of whatever we were doing.

There was generally 1 or 2 streets of particular note that you just knew to avoid or not play in due to the fact that it was commonly used as a sacrificial throughway.

And homogeneity? That was half of what taught us how to navigate. You do it based off of street signs. The kids who can't read shouldn't be wandering the streets necessarily anyway, and there was generally enough web of trust in the immediate vicinity where even if you couldn't get home, you could find an adult or another kid to point you in the right direction.

None of what you brought up really strikes me as a problem. It was just normal life skills.
...in America perhaps.
Get money out of politics, that is the one lens through which all issues are focused these days. The greater Good is out of focus while corporations focus the lens exactly where they want
Product page:
https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-for-mobile/
Of all the possible examples where purely alphanumeric addresses would be awkward to use you chose New York?
Race performance measures talent + training. Inasmuch as optimal training for women is less understood than for men, they may have room to improve that doesn't show up in race times. Talent at race time is also socially dependent, because it depends on recruiting, and female athletes may be less likely to be discovered.

These factors came together in the 1970s to produce a rapid improvement in women's marathon times, while no corresponding drop happened for men's times. While they never caught up to men's, the women's record in 1985 was better than the men's record in 1950.
>white noise over the speakers

I'm fine with open spaces, but this would be the final straw for me
I havent seen it no.

I've read one or 2 convincing essays that SW is basically fantasy rather than science fiction. You have princesses getting rescued, and 'magicians', etc.

When you start analysing it, that basically holds. Sci fi should be about holding up a mirror to contemporary issues, or imagine what may be. I suppose the hard/soft difference is how rigorously they think about the mechanics of that, but theres a big grey area in there. I supposes theres an element of no true Scotsman in there, but these aren't hard and fast rules.

To return to my original comment, I don't think there was ever an attempt to predict, or realistically portray anything. TNG I would expect to at least check up on the state of the art was at any particular time. If data uttered something about doing the kessel run in 12 parsecs, I would expect that to be in the context of a thought out space folding drive. I'm still not saying that ST is 'hard' Sci fi, as the multitude of things that happen as you approach warp 10, or the many ways to travel back in time evidence.
Only out of curiosity I did a quick WHOIS search, it is an Ukraine domain registered by a Polish company with its legal head offices in Belize (at an address where there is seemingly a courier/transport company).

And the same address is linked to a Malta based company that appears on the "Panama Papers".
Keeping with the primary objective of every living species (survival and reproduction).
I "love" it in the sense that I can get paid while watching Netflix, playing games and do whatever I want. I instantly start slacking off and all my working hours become a game to make it look like I'm working when I'm not. This doesn't happen when I'm in a office where I'm "forced" to work.

Yeah, you can slack off at the office as well but why? I obviously can't do any meaningful leisure activities there. And yes, it's a tooling and management issue but I haven't come across a single organisation where it's not possible to game it unless your job output is extremely easy to measure.

I believe this is way more common than people think.
I'd expect that very much depends on the software in question. As one example that I'm aware of, gvisor from Google delivers nightly builds. So they're building and pushing every single day.

It'd depend on the individual software library and of course as a consumer of many libraries you generally will have limited or no visibility of the practices of all your dependencies.
Not to discredit your opinion, we're all different. For me the commute is worth the benefit of human interactions, seeing my coworkers for lunch and I also go to the gym next to my office. If I could only have my own private office it'd be great...
Not me. Not most of my remote team. Most of them do have a private office, in their own home. The flexibility to work when you want, where you want, live where you want, visit family without needing to take vacation, etc. That all adds up to a great working life. One of our guys even spent the summer road tripping out of a custom camper van, and working the whole time from various parks.

The problem people have with remote work is when they don't change their lives to embrace its flexibility. When they try to emulate their office life, just in their home. Not only does that not help them reach their peak efficiency, it completely misses out on the opportunities of remote work.
> We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

So true.
Has there been a survey of employers/managers/owners, assessing how remote work compares to non-remote? In terms of meeting goals, productivity, team cohesion, etc?

I'm all about a workers-first mentality, but workers and managers' perception of remote work could be vastly different.
Lyme disease is no joke. My neighbor's son found out he had Lyme after being mis-diagnosed with (I think) MS. He was losing motor function, one eye started to go blind, and he was chronically tired. He made a full recovery after being diagnosed but that was several years taken from a person in their early 20s.

I believe I had some sort of tick-borne bacterial illness as well. I felt a scratch on my ankle and found a small tick. I didn't think anything about it and threw it in the toilet. A few days later I started losing concentration, almost feeling out of body. I'd find myself not remembering what I was doing or how I got there. I couldn't read. I would stop mid conversation unable to remember what I was saying. After a week I went to the doctor and Lyme came back negative. Another week passed and he gave me an antibiotic and it cleared up in a few days. It may have been psychosomatic but I have never experienced anything like it before or since. The mark on my ankle has taken almost three years to heal.
Absolutely agree. One-click deploys are nice, but in some circumstances not worth the cost. The manual component can also be polished to the point where it's not that arduous (think github login with 2FA and clicking the "merge" button).
I've lost a day's work to a mistyped "git revert HEAD~n"; my colleague blew away his month's work with a mistyped attempt at a squashed commit.

Neither of us knew about Reflog at the time, so that didn't even get onto the list of things to try.

Management asked "what if you do that with Mercurial?"

Answer is, well, it won't let you do it without installing an extension. And the Wiki page for that extension contains a bunch of warnings about how you really should think long and hard about what you're trying to achieve -- and make as many backups as you can.

TRWTF of course is that my colleague hadn't pushed upstream for a month. Like I said -- former Subversion user. He didn't want his commit to mean someone else had to do a merge, and he didn't want anyone to see it until it was done.
Should Businesses Fight for Democracy?
The greens have a terrible split between "environmentalists who want a drum circle" and "environmentalists who can add". The former think nukes are an unspeakable horror.

TBF, if you can add, you also realize that nukes are a mediocre fix at best, given that wind/solar/better efficiency get you where you want to be generally much cheaper. But if you're looking at "nukes or coal" it should be a no brainer.
but they even can't handle singups correctly if you have 2 google accounts in one browser - show them correctly, you select one, it redirects, and it's still not authenticated...
I can tell you that it is in at least one use case that I've hit. If you have local uncommitted changes to a file, and then run `hg revert file` to undo your changes, it creates (by default) a ".orig" backup. The equivalent git command (`git checkout --hard` or something?) will just throw out local changes with no takebacks.
I think I might start using fully isolated environments (i.e., via Vagrant/Docker/etc.) for all of my projects from now on (I already do for some).
I agree. It wasn't a particularly well-written piece. The thesis? "Let's get serious!" Ok. How?
The example of online courses was merely because I can't think of another equivalent to this crash course approach to education.

While that might be in Dropbox territory as well, I don't see anything other than monetary reasons for why somebody would prefer a 9 week course. Availability/geography can't be it for purely US based programs. Traditional university offerings have not only as much structure as you'd like but also give you knowledge in depth if you choose a good set of courses. All the while providing a pretty customisable, and mostly sane, pace through programs that gives you as many challenges or as much freedom to explore as you want. Not to say that universities shouldn't improve but I'm just quite bazzled as to why the market seems to think these bootcamps are such a great idea.
Now I'm interested, what exactly in the parent comment is a "pseudo fact"?
I used both at the same time at work for about 2 years, and mercurial was worse.

Hg was slow, and the (custom) python plugins around it we used were frustrating (specifically, we had a build pipeline that used the mercurial module in python, along with an arcane scons thing) and there were some specifically irritating pain points like bookmarks and shelve that didn't seem to work properly.

I mean, I get it, network effect... but all I can say is at least some people (like me) tried both and pick git on technical merit.
And what about the issue tracker? Issues and discussions of pull requests would be lost by merely moving the code.
Found the manager.
The two factor app (say, TOTP) involves a _secret_ used to generate a changing value and so bad guys can do either of two things:

1. They can steal the secret, from you or from the other party (the service you're authenticating to)

2. They can relay your answer, without knowing the secret and since the answer is genuine their relayed answer will be accepted. Example you type the One Time Code into https://fakebank.example/ thinking it is your bank, then the bad guys simply paste that same code into https://realbank.example the actual site of your bank and it works - they get into your account.

FIDO Security Keys don't use a shared secret, instead they use public key crypto. Your Security Key proves it is still the same key as it was when you registered, but the remote site doesn't have any secrets so they could even _publish_ the data they store to authenticate you and that wouldn't matter to the system's security.

And it relies on the web browser to tie the FQDN into the data signed. If you press the button on the Security Key on https://fakebank.example/ the results are only proof for fakebank, operated by the bad guys, if they forward it to https://realbank.example/ it won't work because the name is wrong and it doesn't match.

Does that help? There are a bunch of other cool things about Security Keys, but those are the main ways it's simply better for security than a conventional TOTP-style second factor.
> a 15 minute fact-to-face is better...

Good thing we have better tools for videoconferencing than ever. I can have a 15 minute face-to-face with anyone in my company, no matter where in the world they are.
I wish we were all as concerned as germans.
For one thing, we both agree that the "A Land with no People for a People with no Land" argument is bullshit. Of course people were living here.

Estimates of percentages vary depending which side of the narrative the estimator sits, but most Arabs who left the land of Palestine in 1948 did so at the insistence of Arab leaders who promised to clean the land of the Jews. I'm not disputing that the Jewish armies of the time committed atrocities. In fact, there is a place less than a half-hour drive from my house where an atrocity took place. You won't be surprised to hear that the Arabs committed atrocities of their own.

But none of that is under discussion. You are conflating the Bedouins with what are nominally termed Palestinians. The Bedouins are a different people, don't intermarry with them, and have had a separate spate of problems with the Jews than did the Palestinians. There is even some animosity between the groups, for instance the Bedouins can volunteer in the Israeli Defense Forces.

I understand exactly your viewpoint, and you probably do not even realize that you are conflating two issues. I'm not even disputing the general gist of your viewpoint even though I reject it. I am disputing the relation of your viewpoint to the relations that my settlement has with the Bedouins. Not all Arabs peoples here consider themselves part the "the Palestinian struggle", or consider their grief with the Israeli state as part of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict.
We could try to simulate a volcanic eruption, which have demonstrably cooled the planet in the past. Also I wonder with cheaper rocket flights, can we put sunlight reflectors over the arctic regions to save their ice?
not if they're being paid to produce the content (wumao pawns are). if they're NOT being paid, i would guess you are right, but frankly we should have disconnected china from the free world a long time ago and only given them logistics software. it's frustrating that they shut the west out but constantly try and infect the west with their backwards ideas
Thanks for the answer.

To be clear, I wasn't comparing languages in terms of correctness of code you could potentially produce. Of course C++ is the worst on this metric. However, it has its own niche in low-latency setting where I can't see anything else replacing C++ any time soon.
> Having male only trophies is most often redundant because 99% of overall winners are male. That's just life. From time to time, an high/elite level female runner shows up when there are no elite male runner and she takes the overall winner. And that only happens in niche races (niche being every race longer than a marathon and some smaller city races). Ultras are also more likely to have DNFs (did not finish).

This entire paragraph.
Cerebras WSE, World's Largest Chip at More Than 56x the Size of an Nvidia V100
I love the shout-out to Write.as. More people should check out that platform/software.
> everyone can write java

I can almost guarantee you they cannot.
Thanks @atymic for the feedback. The initial password for admin is changed so that no harmful action would be done on the demo. Instead, you can still sign-up to checkout the demo.

And we do have an English version but not on the Login page. Will definitely add into it.
I tried Prolon’s starvation diet so you wouldn’t have to
Here's the actual link, so you don't have to give out a temporary email address like I did: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Db_mfeUocbPSIN52y8h...

I would echo that this is a terribly user-hostile tactic and, to be honest, makes me want to avoid the main product you're launching.
The commute at my last job was around 2 minutes (walking), 5 if I stopped at Starbucks on the way. Not as low as 10 seconds, but still a great life.
Check out solokeys, though they're doing a hardware revision for the usb-c since it was flimsy and some NFC changes due to power draw
Something like this would suffice, if it was simple to keep along side the key: https://tripplite.com/usb-c-female-to-usb-a-male-adapter~U32...
I'd probably pay 10€ outright for it if I got to own it forever, but I dislike paying for it yearly.
Ok, I see your point, problem is nuclear is clean (wastes excluded) as long as everything is going just fine, but as soon there is an issue it can have a massive impact on the environment. I'm myself in favor of nuclear energy but I also can see its danger and understand why some peoples are against.
I thought so too, but now, after WFH for 2+ years, I'd tolerate up to 2h commute a day total - assuming I'm not driving - for a private office at the workplace. Home is much more conductive to focused work than an open plan, but it comes with its own set of distractions.

I dislike commute in general, but as long as I can read a book or use a laptop over it, it can be even more productive time than spending it at home.
I tried to listen to the book and got bored to death.
This means that your Firefox unfortunately does not support WebAssembly (Wasm), which is necessary for these games. Actual versions of major web browsers support WebAssembly by default.
Piper still exists, but Mercurial is a viable client tool to interact with Piper's version history.
He tweeted that a few years back. Since then he basically has said remarkably little. Had to face ZERO questions at all of the 5 debates he went to. In office, he has basically used the weather is cold, scientists disagree BS q few times, but still remarkably silent. I believe Ivanka and the younger folks around him tried to get him to stay in Paris accord.
> I started with CVS then moved to svn.

When I was your age we used RCS and SCCS, in the snow, up hill, in both directions. :)

Seriously, I have no doubt git has an awesome on-disk format, but whenever I use the git(1) command I want to slit my wrists. I'm sure if a developer uses it many times a day it's possible to get used to it, but as a sysadmin that only uses it sporadically, I basically do:

* git clone

* vi repo/some/file/blah

* git add/commit/push

* rm -rf repo/
Metadata Is Data
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Ok. Thanks, new to HN and mostly lurking atm.
We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

Might be lost in translation - but agile shouldn't require a ton of meeting time and should work fine remotely. And hey, one of the principles is that you give teams the environment they need to get the job done, not the environment management thinks they deserve.

Unless you mean "Agile" as, say, UK government terms it, also known as waterfall. In which case, yes, you can expect to be required to be in meetings all day in a terrible office space. Feel my pain.
Lyme is essentially the poster child for an emerging disease related to climate change and human activity. It's an old organism in an ancient tick that had a happy lifecycle of tick-mouse-tick-mouse-tick-deer-tick. Humans took the forest and the predators out of the picture and now the ticks and the deer proliferate at hugely increased rates, and now we're part of the lifecycle of this tick and the Borrelia organism.