skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like older men wouldn't be interested in hanging out with other men, let alone "hosting" events.

Source: a few years short of the target range. I only have a few male friends, made 15-20+ years ago. In contrast, my wife goes to all sorts of female-only gatherings pretty much every week. Nominally they "paint" or "craft" something there, but I'm pretty sure she just goes there for the social environment and to talk.

Seems to me a service like this isn't really possible for older men, at least not in any of the countries where I lived.
Ah, no. Adding extra testosterone to any human will cause them to become more male by any measure of maleness.
Ask HN: Can Google search precision be lowered willfully?
I do a lot of technical searches on google and what one was a sharp scalpel feels now like a rusty tool. Results are more "trends" or what a laymen might be searching, it is strange to me. I Also noticed this on twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1168748166948081664

So. Technically. Would it be possible for the DOD to ask Google to reduce relevance on some subjects like infosec, or just for selected countries, like they do for the GPS?

I'm not insinuating that they do it, just that my recent searches made me ask myself this question.

Deep down I know that Google been weaponized would make a great Tom Clancy novel :D
I’ve always found workspaces on Mac to be great, especially with swipe gestures. It’s the only laptop I’ve ever been able to sit in the couch and write reports on, which I usually need two monitors for (one for the report, the other for whatever I’m reviewing for the report).
Why do teachers have such an elevated standing in society anyways? If we're being honest, schools are, for the most part, daycare centers. Secondary education is, for the most part, completely useless.

Yet, unlike with most other professions, the government guarantees that those glorified daycare jobs will continue to exist. Why should these jobs pay well?
Well, it only prevents distributing binaries. You could still do source only distribution.
That looks insanely fragile?
Kids can't even play Minecraft on our family chromebook without essentially running a different OS.

Chromebooks aren't a panacea.
They're all over public schools where I live.
Well, they sold at the exact right time just as the Keto diet trend gained mass appeal.

Free startup idea: the market is lacking an edible Keto bar. There are some but no break out success yet. Instant unicorn (no joke) if you can get it right.
Do you usually carry a laptop without a bag? How do you carry your laptop cord now? How snug is your laptop bag that you can’t put an iPad in it? Also, the iPad connects to your Macbook using WiFi. If you have an iPhone, you probably are already carrying a lightning cord - the same one that the non-pro iPads use.
I think the next computing platform gamble is AR.

Facebook is working on building out the tech via VR, but with an eye to AR and generally out in the open.

Apple is building out the underlying software support while working on some AR hardware in secret.

Microsoft has their enterprise hardware, but not sure what they're thinking about otherwise.

Using the phone as a computing device that powers a visual digital AR layer for the real world where you can interact with AR overlays either with thoughts (Neuralink?) or more likely basic gestures (like Oculus' camera tracking, or armbands) would be another revolutionary shift in platform UX and be the big shift away from phone screens.

I'm not sure how possible this hardware currently is or how soon this transition could happen, but people seem to be laying the ground work. Michael Abrash wrote an old blog posts about a couple of reasons why this is hard (primarily drawing black in AR), but he's been at Oculus a while now and I'd be curious how his thoughts have changed.

These foldable phones strike me as a dead end nobody wants.
Why is HN so obsessed with remote jobs and remote companies in general?
The reason the question came out wrong is because Arthur is descended from the Golgafrinchans, not the native ape-men, i.e. the program was corrupted early on.
Just to play devil's advocate, if you put a normal Walmart employee in a CEO position, or maybe just an "executive" position with decision-making authority, how far off would they be in terms of productivity from someone normally in that position? Say the employee was 1/10th as productive as that executive, that would still be thousands of times more productive than that same employee at their regular minimum wage job.
If you haven’t, I recommend trying a VPN that supports Wireguard sometime. It is a lot faster and lower latency for me.
I actually love Monty Python. It may be that I expect a different story-telling in a SciFi setting.

Monty Python is more of a literary comedy for me. I think we are onto something here. I might need to relax my rules and expectations in SciFi genre :D
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the world war 1 to World War 2 period and all the civil wars and revolutions. One question I’m trying to figure out is “why communism?”

I think the answer is simply that those nations wanted a revolution, and communism was who provided it at the time. In the interwar years, it was also fascism. In napoleons time, it was democracy. Most of them also involved nationalism and self governance.

Today, the closest thing I see is right wing protectionism, anti-foreigner policies, and authoritarianism (not much militarism though). The KKK is back for example. I don’t think that people especially want that future, but they are the main game in town for people who want the current order to be shaken up

There is potential for some nastiness in the next couple of decades if the trend continues

Edited for clarity
EDIT: Disregard

Comment was:

This is testosterone administered to a fully formed brain. While it's still an interesting result, I would hesitate to make extrapolations to brain-developmental environments or developmental disorders.
There are definitely videos with the exact same soundtrack so it makes sense for them to cache the audio stream.
I think your edit is why I am excited about this feature. There are so many times when I just need some relatively simple text formatting, such as titlecase, but want to store the original text too. Titlecase isn't hard to do or expensive, but I only have to do it once with a simple SQL expression. Then client code can decide whether they SELECT the formatted or original text. This is especially helpful if I don't already have an ETL pipeline that includes a cleaning/formatting step, and I just need 1-2 columns to be formatted.
6?

Pro, Book, Laptop, Studio, Hub, RT/2/3/Go, Neo, Duo, Headphones, Earbuds

Also several mouses, keyboards, dial, type/touch/power covers, dock stations, pens... I must be missing something :-)
COMTRAN would be a way better choice than COBOL :-) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMTRAN)

Common Lisp would be a decent choice, too, with

CISC:RISC = Common Lisp:Scheme
I actually love Monty Python. It may be that I expect a different story-telling in a SciFi setting.

I will give that a try thank you for genuine suggestions!
The preamble of the EO only says: by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America
I can give you one hint. I don't really work with databases, so I'm not well-versed on them, but I can easily name all the major RDBMSes (PG, MySQL, Oracle, etc.), and some of the NoSQL ones. I've done a little work at home playing with Postgres, but that's about it.

I've certainly heard about MongoDB many, many times. I've heard of Redis some. I've heard of CouchDB. But this is the very first time I've ever heard of "Couchbase".
I had a similar idea with it starting dual-licensed so I could straight-up sell it to companies. Optionally use a more permissive license if it hit a certain total. Each new version is done the same way so upgrades on the more-permissive version still get paid for. Plus, the "get what you pay for" companies might only buy a proprietary version.
i’m not sure about typescript, but in many languages assertion have the natural behavior of being compiled out of release builds and kept only for debug mode.

The fact that it’s a built in feature of the language also can sometimes helps the compiler infer what’s the properties of code after it. But theoretically , yes you could very well code some equivalent testing function yourself, except for the compiler inference part it would probably be equivalent.
I actually love Monty Python. It may be that I expect a different story-telling in a SciFi setting.
It worked out because the assets became risky from panic. The government is a large enough entity to stop the panic, and thus remove that risk.
This is happening in my hometown Chitré, Panama, an 80k population town in a developing country. But ask almost anyone and they'll tell you how Chitré feels more and more like the capital city, i.e. more developed. No politician in her right mind is going to propose increasing tariffs on cars and taxes on fuel. People thinks its perfectly OK if pedestrians have access to the worst infrastructure, while cars proliferate. After all, you work hard, buy a car, close the windows, turn on the AC, and let the underachievers breathe burned fuel. The world is in order.

Update: I've also stayed several months in Chile, which based on GDP, HDI, and Gini Coefficient, is a more developed country. Fuel is twice the price as in Panama, pedestrian infrastructure is well maintained, and the car driver culture in terms of following rules is the opposite of Panama. Mom and pop shops are the norm there, everywhere I went.
Zoomers is definitely the right term there.
The hand-coded AVX2 procedure is far from optimal form, they waste time on horizontal addition in each iteration.

The First Rule of SIMD-ization says: keep all the intermediate results in vector(s), do horizontal reduction at the end.

Conversion from comparison result into vector of integers can be done a bit simpler: just one bit-and is needed and then cast to __m256i (casting doesn't emit any code as SIMD registers are untyped).
I wonder if the study of the resiliant tardigrade could eventually provide the insight required to modify the interstellar travelling human body to be more "immune" to the dangers of long term radiation exposure.
Thanks for this! I did not know about asyncpg, which is purportedly an average of 3x faster than psycopg2.
Grafana v6.4 Released
> For members of the privacy community that oppose efforts like this, we probably should probably be more careful with the phrasing around "your" data. What a lot of us meant was, "data that is generated by actions you take, or that applies to your life." What (increasingly), people interpret it as meaning is "your data" in the same way that you would say, "your boots."

When I say "your data" I mean exactly "your data" in the same way that I would say "your home" is your home but also the home of people you live with.
YC is based in the bay area, so that's not too surprising.
plenty of pro tennis players play a highly competent "loser's" game; Rafael Nadal is a good example, along with many other clay court players.
There's also some political commentary in "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Zaphod_Plays_It_Safe
It is definitely the right approach to the question "how do you engineer a folding display?".

The bigger question is "what do you need a folding display for?"...
Ask HN: How do you know when to quit the startup you founded?
My business partner and I started a B2B SaaS business about 8 years ago. I'm an engineer with an aptitude for development. Initially, we hired a dev shop to build a MVP, but after 2 years, I stepped in as the sole developer, while my partner worked on the sales / support side.

We've seen... moderate success. By moderate I mean we've always been cash-flow positive and our gross revenue grows by a modest percentage each year. I hear that 90% of SaaS businesses fail, so I guess our "not-failing" could be seen as success.

But it's not the "success" I'd hoped for. I'm in my late 30s now, but in a way, I'm still kind of subsidising the business, because my pay is probably 50% of the market rate for a developer with my experience. Obviously, we still can't afford to hire more developers, so it's just been me, coding away on my own, for years.

We have loyal customers, some who've been with us since the beginning. But our product is getting stale. To stay alive, we've added features to lure in new customers, and to keep them, we've made promises (I know, I know... two things you never do: allow feature-creep and promise features in the future). But don't judge - we did what we had to do to live another day!

Lately, the slog is just too much for me. My productivity is plummeting. I'm becoming irritable in and out of work. I'm probably a bit burned out.

I'm trying to decide which of three paths to take:

1) Stick it out, don't be a quitter, work harder, turn the business into what I want it to be.

2) Leave the business, find work as a developer for a larger company, grow, learn, etc. I like being a developer, but my business isn't going anywhere, so.. fail fast(er) and move on, right?

3) Leverage my entrepreneurial experience into a CTO role. I love the entrepreneurial aspect of my work, because businesses are systems, and making systems better is my jam. Maybe I should get an MBA and leave the coding behind me?

Advice welcome!
Liverpool FC Denied 'Liverpool' Trademark Due to Its Geographic Significance
http://archive.is/h6gha
Trans woman here.

Cisgender men and women have different brain structures, and transgender people's brain structures tend to resemble that of the gender that they identify as[1]. So, for example, a trans woman like myself who was born male will have a brain structure that resembles that of a cis woman, not a man.

> I know a trans man who, after a few months of testosterone, claimed it was "night and day" in how they felt about and processed the world

This has been my experience as well (except, the opposite direction, obviously). The way I look at it, before I realized I am transgender, when testosterone was the dominant sex hormone in my body, it was like putting the wrong fuel in a car. It caused a whole slew of serious mental health problems. Estrogen has allowed me to think more clearly, and process thoughts, feelings, and emotions like I never could before. I'll never go back.

1. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgend...
http://archive.is/GzuvL
I can describe my own (FWIW I went the other direction).

Best way I can say it is that my own understanding of emotion was rather black-and-white when on testosterone. I intellectually knew that other people had emotions beyond anger or sadness, but had no frame of reference for what that meant. I tended to see major challenges as obstacles to be overcome through force of will.

On estrogen it's like seeing the world in color -- I'm more volatile, but I actually have what I consider emotions! I understand the subtleties in my own emotions far better, which has made me a lot more empathetic to them in others. I also tend to see challenges as a sign I need to change my approach rather than just try harder.

I have had to stop hormones a few times for various reasons, and when things revert to being testosterone-dominant, I feel as if things revert to black-and-white over the course of a month or so.

I also think that just giving women a little testosterone and measuring the effect isn't likely to show much -- what seems to matter in my experience is whether the body is androgen-dominant or estrogen-dominant (the in-between areas are very not-fun, with lots of headaches, hot flashes, etc.)
I didn't take the line as meaning what you're taking it as meaning. I took it as as a recognition of the makeup of the traditional power structure. It did seem a bit on the pandering side, though.
This feature is not for the Laver Cup, it's for all sports events and scores they have access to, and has been so since 2016 - http://www.thesempost.com/google-adds-live-sports-scores-sea...
Self driving cars? Cheap supersonic flight? Custom designed microorganisms? I'm not sure those are micro-optimizations of existing products.
Where is the source for 100% I dont see it in the article
TrainHeroic - Strength and conditioning app used by coaches and athletes in the NFL, NBA, Olympics, High School, College, and more.

* Senior Software Engineer

* Denver, Colorado (onsite)

A bit about our team and the role here: https://www.trainheroic.com/engineering/jobs.html
All he's saying is: the tl;dr is not significantly shorter and is missing interesting information. Some serious miscommunication going on here.
does anyone feel like they have a plan for responding to these risks?
i see the possibility of nastiness, but the only idea i have is to move away.
is there a more helpful response available?
Obviously the point is to ride on the hype train by redefining the original meaning. It's similar to a "democracy with a dictator", it just doesn't make sense.

Yes, and Facebook hasn't lied to us before? They don't have an actual plan on how to accomplish this transition, which necessarily includes completely redefining the whole system Libra is based on.
The RAX bug is another good story along the same lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
Analyzing the Facebook Ads Placed by the US Presidential Candidates
I'm actually curious how this changes the narrative of a trans person if testosterone doesn't have an effect on one's empathy.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not ragey ones. They just make this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I immediately thought of that quote as well.
They gather information about me and my use of my machines even though I don't use their services and haven't given consent. That's violating my privacy. In fact, I consider it straight-up spying (I define "spying" as gathering information about me without my informed consent).
There are reinforcing fibers that automotive tire manufacturers advertise made of steel and kevlar for higher performance tires. Kevlar is plastic and IIRC was invented in the 60's.

From riding a bicycle as a hobby, most of my puncture flats on the road come from tiny steel strands that come off of tires that have been used a little too much. I imagine the steel fibers just rust away eventually but the kevlar just gets ground into tinier and tinier bits.
Keto? Their bars have 22-24g of carbs in a 52g bar. 12g of that is sugar, but still. Keto would be right out of the window after a couple of these.
We detached this (fine) comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21135821.
Scientific ML: How Julia Employs Differentiable Programming to Do It Best
Italo Calvino isn't an exact match, but you might want to try out The Nonexistent Knight or The Cloven Viscount to see if it's close enough.
A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency
My first community contact on reddit.com went completely nuts
This! They also iterated quite fast:

Surface Pro 1 - February 2013

Surface Pro 2 - October 2013 (that's not a typo)

Surface Pro 3 - June 2014
Enzyme (YC S17) Is Hiring Full-Stack Devs to Accelerate Medical Innovation
No, they won't have to abide by California's law if the federal government jumps in and preempts them, the way Trump is doing with California's emissions laws.
Is it though? I suspect that the cost of the sanitizer is significantly higher than the overhead of switching, say, to Java.

Not that I don't appreciate sanitizers, I just used asan to find the cause of a memory corruption bug just a couple of hours ago and it was great. In the past I would have used valgrind which is significantly slower.
Just out of curiosity, can anyone from China verify if it works? (for now)

Edit: my concern is that the engineers at GFW might quickly upgrade their system to target it.
I agree complexity should be avoided. But I don't really follow the logic that if every feature can break security, reliability, etc. you should never change anything or progress. Google is doubling down on these features as you can see at https://www.seroundtable.com/google-pin-live-scores-28261.ht.... If they're continuing to invest in adding more realtime features, and penalising sites in search results that don't optimise their websites https://www.sitecenter.com/insights/141-google-introduces-pe..., then I think they should apply that same logic to their own site IMHO.
What are the negative effects of microplastics?
I'm a US citizen who's partner is a dual US Russian citizen (and I'm eventually considering becoming a Russian citizen via marriage). Right now I'm on a 3-year business visa, which is pretty straight forward to obtain.

Western media depicts Russia in a much more negative light than how things are actually on the ground. So far I've experienced zero crime and very little antisocial behavior. Russian people are well behaved (the vodka swigging stereotype is greatly exaggerated; we also have great local craft beer and wine) but some are still holding on to some quirky Soviet behaviors that might seem rude to a Westerner. Also, the streets are cleaner than most large US cities and public spaces are nice.

Yes, there are political and curruption problems, but they haven't directly affected me. I'm working for a US company so I can't speak for what it's like working for a Russian company. Prices are generally 40% lower and you can buy nearly anything except good Mexican food (but we have amazing Georgian food). Also, where we are, the climate is similar to the Bay Area (it's a wine region) and the Black Sea coast is beautiful. Overall, my quality of life here is very high VS the US.
Yep - I believe he will wordsmith it to use words like "race-conscious" instead of "race-discrimination" and vote with Harvard.
The guy is important for one reason only. He was extremely prophetic, and started an important movement that increased our computing freedoms significantly.

He was always socially maladjusted. I remember him eating his toenails while sitting on-stage a decade ago. That kind of thing shouldn't matter for what he represents and does.
I once had to wait at a bus stop right next to the 405 in Los Angeles for a good 30 minutes. It felt like being suffocated.
The values and strategy of company don't reflect you and you are't growing.

Can you guys take another round of funding to go in a new and exciting direction? Can you split out a new venture/ business unit semi-autonymously without that funding?

An MBA could help you identify new/ exciting opportunities, but they are a dime a dozen plus you have founder experience.
Bitmaps don't require scanning.
Yes, of course, it's good to take less of people's money.

I think the center of their critique was not that the current incumbents are good, but that the framing implied that this new system would be better in some fundamental way. That this was a system of a different order than the current one.
What do you get for $1M in NYC? 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom? With a commute how long to Manhattan?
I know this is a big challenge and they certainly tried hard, but they also have a bit of a record of exaggerating their progress.

Google gives me some links that doubt this claim, e.g. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/modi-set-declare-indi..., https://www.dw.com/en/modi-claims-india-toilet-milestone-del...

So, how far are they really?
Banks aren't magic. If Facebook wanted to, they could start a bank. Anybody can start a bank. There are regulatory costs, but any business of reasonable size could comply with those costs.

And banks "make money out of nothing" because bank deposits substitute for hard currency. If a cryptocurrency became standard, then someone could create an institution that accepted cryptocurrency deposits, and it would function exactly like a bank.
Here is a breakdown of the locations based on the HQ

US: 85

Remote: 4

Europe: 3

S. America: 3

S. Asia: 3

Canada: 2

Africa: 1

SE Asia: 1

Middle East: 1

Two companies have HQ in two countries hence why the totals above equal 103 and not 101