skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is probably a very rough approximation anyway as it doesn't account for what a given body is. A brain the size of a gnat would be insufficient to handle a body the size of an elephant but that doesn't say how relevant the difference is even in the same order of magnitude. A morbid observation of hunters and tanners is that anything the brain of anything they skin is enough to tan its hide. Now that is clearly a chemical process with a very remote relation to actual processing capability given that tanin can subsitute for tanning but not thinking but it does hint at a lower bound size constraint for even the dumbest vertabrate.

That aside the point is there would be less nerve input for the brain to process from five grams of fat, five grams of skin, or say an organ like the eye. Let alone any other other details it must acount or provide for. Further complicating things is neural plasticity - if I recall correctly "optical" areas of the born blind tend to be repurposed for other senses as opposed to say mathematical ability.

TL;DR: There is evidence but certainly not good enough to tell us anything about sex differences in humans.
Reading through this, it identifies something that I've seen a lot of people say is a problem, and suggests that the way to solve the problem is simply don't do it sometimes, on a schedule.

While that may help, you've basically dedicated a portion of your life to not enjoying your life.

Instead, I've taken a different tack. I've chosen to do those addictive things less, but instead of not-doing-fun-things, I do fun things that are at least somewhat productive.

For me, that's making something or learning a new skill, usually in order to make something. Programming, woodworking, drawing, etc. Even just putting together Lego or Metal Earth figurines, though it's harder to justify them as "productive" rather than just fun.

I still play video games. But I don't play those mobile games with the "gacha" mechanics. It's not that I don't enjoy them, but that I realize they take over my life and are not productive at all. At all.

It's not at all easy to kick these bad habits this way, but it's way better than "dopamine fasting", IMO.
Exactly. At least some site will be fined, and that news site might make a calculation that it's a better business decision to comply than keep violating the law.
Quite happy to see xkcd on the front page. It gets a lot of grief around here, it's good to know that it's not universally despised.

EDIT: Downvote me all you want. The fact remains that many here do not agree with you. Nyah nyah.
If anyone wants a great primer about neuroplasticity I recommend reading “The brain that changes itself” by Dr Norman Doidge
I'd be curious to know what correlations do exist between brain imagery and mathematical ability, both with and without taking sex into account.
> Maybe you don't owe that to the closers-of-source-code

You assume I have something against closers of source code.
Do not assume bad faith please.

I don't like closers of source code who say "Yes, We're Open (source)".
https://sentry.io/_/open-source/
or
https://sentry.io/welcome/
"Sentry provides open-source and hosted error monitoring".

This is not honest. I think honesty when selling software is important.

I'll take note for the future and will try to present the facts in a more politically correct way. This is an american forum afterall.
That's why I think a more correct analogy is that programming is making the blueprints; the blueprint is the source code, and construction is what compilers do.
my point is users don't think much before giving their (positive) consent because of the expected dopamine hit from the "fun" of using these services. Try asking the same questions the social media asks (such as your relationship status) in some boring public service. People begin to notice.
could, not would. Knifes can be used to stab people, cars to run them over, large glass bottle can bludgeon. Are they also "highly unethical" objects?
Previous poster has a small point. Even I am guilty of saying 'f-n' when reading rust code alound. Kotlin is the best - all functions are fun
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It does however mean that the GP's Every time sexists come out with "brain differences", we find they are culture differences. is factually wrong (unless you can somehow explain brain size culturally).

A better argument would be that every time brain differences were found, they turn out to be irrelevant. However, I'm not sure even that is true, considering some colleges are experimenting with mental rotation training to help female engineering students, with good results: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/43802/can-teaching-spatial-sk... That example also shows identifying gender differences is not a bad thing; it allows coming up with ways to compensate.
These should not fly for a decade. They're rewriting the avionics from scratch. This should require a years-long process of testing, external auditing, and approvals. I'd even go so far as to say in flight, we should require competitor review. That's right, no trade secrets. If you want your Hello World up in the air, you better let your competitor vet the source code.

This is an engineering boondoggle and an embarrassment for Boeing. Software does not need to be this complicated. Design a damned airframe that's airworthy without needing stabilization hacks.
Refreshingly simple. Well done.
Many of them. It's the tuition + fees/books/supplies + mandatory dorms/meal plans, and if not dorms/meal plans then rent/food/car/etc.
The BBC article itself is biased. Twitter has banned people from all sides. But BBC chose people only from one side.

Example handles from other side: check this tweet (this is a pro govt handle) - https://twitter.com/modifiedvikas/status/1177099258534588416
I don't think the concern here is the abuses of companies, or technologies like mobile phones. The concern is technologies like thermonuclear weapons (much worse than even nuclear weapons used against Japan), which we are just very lucky have so far not been used in earnest. I think it is a commonly-understood truth that those technologies present an existential threat to society, if not all humanity.

Artificial intelligence is assumed by many to present such a threat (i.e. Terminator-style intelligence singularity scenario). Many speculate that applications enabled by quantum computing could also be similarly dangerous.
Why weren't you using smart pointers before c++11? boost had them, and rolling your own is very easy.

I did the latter for a project that started around 2000 and never looked back.
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I sympathize with your sentiment, but uncivil comments are likely to be downvoted / flagged.
I don't know if it would help, but I use Mountain Duck ($) to map cloud storage as a network drive.
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.. isn't the relevance of this specifically what the top-of-thread article is arguing against? That the existence of brain dimorphism doesn't actually affect the problem solving?
I never stopped using Winamp. I've been whippin that llama for over 20 years.
If you divided people into athletes and pianists, you would find dimorphic brain differences too, because

1. We learn

2. Learning is physical, because it occurs in the brain

3. Over time, learning is reflected in detectable physical differences in the brain

The reason that studies like this one are looking at children is that they are trying to minimize the role of established patterns of use in creating brain differences. In other words, differences arising from culture.
My other question of similar nature also goes unanswered :(

Maybe the primary benefit is that its new and sexy
You should be, but because a lot sql in Go is still just strings it makes it easy for someone to bypass because of laziness/sloppiness/distracted/whatever when composing queries. There is also the issue that if the Go code needs to run on Postgres it has to use '$' params instead of '?'. So again, back to string concatenation to support both or use some library like squirrel[1].

[1] https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel
Isn’t accepting any ID in a nightclub already optional and at the discretion of the licensee? They can always turn people away as long as it’s not based on a protected category can’t they? How’s it any different to before?
Anyway one complication between species is we know that brains are composed and are laid out differently which affects density and distribution. Cephalopods for instance lack mylenation and appear to have their brain functions a bit more distributes to the point that they occasionally have "rogue arms" which act dysfunctional to the point the host decides to just chew it off and eventually regenerate a "sane" replacement.
I've switched sub-fields of development a few times during my career (scientific computing, back-end web, front-end web, desktop applications, embedded, games [various platforms - native desktop/mobile/consoles, html5, flash, etc]) and I found that helped me keep the learning curve steep.
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I hadn't thought about the possibility of sunken ships and sea wrecks until you mentioned it. I wonder how many mysteries this sea-floor mapping endeavor will put to rest? If they can put even one big mystery (something like finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370) to bed, they'd get a lot of great publicity.
Just jap "boomers" selling smoke and mirrors.
But capitalism is a meritocratic system
Mimecast hired an Israeli security firm to strong-arm me
You're almost never wandering into complete unknown. Your original estimate already encompasses your uncertainty; padding it protects you from optimism.
Why is that? In myself I see a common thread of where I recall "bad" things more strongly than "good" things. Is it an evolutionary benefit kind of thing where avoid bad things is much better than running toward good things because if you're dead it's much more permanent than if you're happy?
As a Latin American, even the label latino/a peeves me off. I'm Latino/a when I'm speaking in Spanish. Accuse me of prescriptivism, but there is no "Latino/a" in English, it was always a term used by Northeaster WASPs to ingratiate themselves to us by flaunting their (typically terrible) Spanish.

It is offensive as when politicians "speak" to us in "Spanish": it's syncophany

Latinx was always stupid; English has a perfectly good gender neutral adjective: Latin.
Japan 'glasses ban' for women at work sparks backlash
Not exactly the same but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio
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Cruel? The fly didn't even realize what happened and forgot as soon as it left your palm.
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Probably my largest complaint is the need to use codegen for the json stuff. Sure you can type it all out by hand, but the codegen really does automate a lot of it for you.

I have intentionally kept my very specific use case mobile app very very simple and not gone deep on the magic edge cases. It is a private app and will never be on the store. It is basically used as a QR code scanner to track equipment.

I'm sure that if you have a lot deeper/larger apps you'd find more to complain about, but so far I'm happy enough with going from zero to full fledged app in about a month of work.

IMHO, the boilerplate argument with Java is kind of outdated (Project Lombok and modern java solve a lot of that).
Same reason men have bigger feet.
> no Electron bullshit

Electron is a UI 'framework', so bringing it up is kind of a non sequitur. Your approach of a C++ core is entirely compatible with an Electron UI.

I worked on a project that had its 'core logic' implemented in C++, which we then ran that on the web in Javascript, for the same portability reasons.
It's a form of thinking that comes from a sentiment that human civilization is in need of radical change. The problem is that it's hard to get people to support radical change, which will necessarily come with extreme amounts of suffering and resistance, when everyone is relatively comfy with their way of life.

The solution is to put a hyper focus on the problems and suffering which you can find, warn of an apocalyptic future just on the horizon, and sow complete dissatisfaction with your way of life by making you resentful of those who have it better than you and penitent for having it better than so many. This way, you can take a person who is living an extremely privileged life and make them want to turn it upside down.
hi dang

which side are you on?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/05/climate-...

the bodies are piling up. are you a polite german or a rude one?

i'm a rude one.
That's an interesting list, but almost none of the fines on it have anything to do with cookies or pre-checked forms. It's more like this gem:

"The fine was imposed on a soccer coach who had secretly filmed female players while they were naked in the shower cubicle for years."

I think the previous poster's point stands: GDPR enforcement is doing almost nothing about improper cookies and internet tracking.
You can't mix/match then though. If you have a training running every 10 minutes and want to go to every 5 you may need to double the amount of trains you have. If there is nothing wrong with the existing trains (they are not wore out) it doesn't make sense to replace them all.

Also it means you need to shut down the entire line for a month or so while you replace the doors in all the stations. Shutting down one station is easier to pull off without losing riders. If tell everyone you are remodeling for a month and here are the buses, your customers will adjust for that month (getting to the station a little early...), but if you shut down the entire line the system doesn't work for most riders and they buy a car and quit riding.
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> But in any case, there’s already a push to switch to new cryptographic codes that already exist and that we think are quantum-resistant.

Hopefully this will happen soon. I don't know of any quantum-resistant ciphers though.
What does that look like from a data structure perspective? Each grain has a bounding box and you only look at the geometry for that grain if a ray crosses the box? (I'm way, way out of my wheelhouse here, if it's not already obvious.)
what does TTI stand for? I'm having some trouble figuring that one out
I get the impression from reading stuff like this, there have been several I have read, that for some people start ups are a fashion or a "thing to do". I find this very strange as though some people have money and time to burn without the stresses of daily life of things like a demanding job or children.

To me a startup makes amazing sense when you have an original disruptive idea and the passion to unload all your time and energy into the spirit of that idea knowing you will probably fail. That is the anti-thesis of a fashion.
Do you think Go might have better DB libraries if generics ever land? Or what else might be holding it back?
In searching for the book I came across this hour-long documentary by the same name that features the author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFCOm1P_cQQ
It’s important to distinguish 3 categories of coroutine implementations: stackful, stackless-on-heap, stackless-as-struct. C++ is stackless-on-heap. Stackless-as-struct is essentially creating an anonymous type (ala lambda), used to save the data across suspension points. This is the approach taken by Rust for its async/await implementation. I believe there were declaration/definition and ABI concerns about this approach for C++:

> "While it is theoretically not an insurmountable challenge , it might be a major re-engineering effort to the front-end structure and experts on two compiler front ends (Clang, EDG) have indicated that this is not a practical approach."

So the short answer seems to be that due to technical debt on the part of existing C++ compilers and their "straight" pipeline, the front-end cannot anticipate the size necessary for some book-keeping information traditionally handled by the code-generator. I'll take Richard Smith's word on Clang.
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Also: AIUI there's no VAT due on new build properties on green field sites (of which there are very few),but redeveloping brown-field sites attracts VAT charged at 20%. Which is frank insanity in terms of public policy on a small, crowded island, but ...
A decade is too long but I agree with your sentiment. The underlying problem with the 737 Max was commercial pressure leading to cutting corners and creating an unsafe plane (or plane with an unsafe core component) ... and now commercial pressure is again being applied on their R&D teams, which are probably scrambling because they know every day means millions in losses. That's not a great environment for quality and safety.

Boeing has to come out and say that the plane won't be back until at least 202x to take the pressure from their engineering and testing teams, so they can salvage this plane (and it may not be salvageable), instead of doing this month-to-month thing where they are hoping the FAA will sign-off on whatever latest change they put out.
Weird to associate nihilism with something that the article compares to religious practice, which is emphatically not nihilistic.
Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
I share a similar perspective. I often wonder how much more creative and productive we'd be if video games suddenly disappeared, or if by magic, the internet shut off at 8pm every night.

I've observed that when the internet has gone down, or I've been unable to play videogames, I'm more likely to fill the downtime with building things.
The study had a tiny sample size (104 kids? There's 7.7 billion people total), it asked kids to do arithmetic while lying in a brain scanner and found it can't distinguish between the two sexes in the results of the experiments. Or in other words, a weak study turned up no significant result. That's not news.

The meat and potatoes of the article are in this passage, which has true explanatory power (and seems to be based on actual experimental results):

But Geary says an international study he did with Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Essex suggests a different explanation.

Using an international database on adolescent achievement in science, mathematics and reading, they found that in two-thirds of all countries, female students performed at least as well as males in science.

Yet paradoxically, females in wealthier countries with more gender equality, including the U.S., were less likely than females in other countries to get degrees in fields like math and computer science.

Geary thinks the reason may be that women in these countries are under less pressure to choose a field that promises an economic payback and have more freedom to pursue what interests them most.

Also, males may be more likely to choose science because they are less likely than females to have strong reading, writing and language skills, Geary says.

If in most countries girls do as well as boys in science we can lay to rest any ideas about genetic advantages. If women and men behave differently with regards to maths and science in different parts of the world we can safely assume the differences are cultural.

The international study mentioned above is the one that npr should be reporting. Not this garbage study looking at kids' brains on Sesame Street.
I'm just gonna say. Great writeup and a good example case in performance optimizations.

Now please make discord in windows start up faster than it takes to boot windows. That's right cold starting my computer and logging in takes less time than starting discord.
Huh so the conclusion is strangulation by string and thread is the answer???
Who underwrites the investment risks taken by Bill Gates exactly?

Wealth mobility in the USA is pretty high. It's entirely possible for billionaires to stop being billionaires, or for people to temporarily become rich and then lose it again. Lots of stories like that out there. Elon Musk has made fortunes and lost them several times, I think.

Taxation is not an illegal or immoral appropriation of property

Obviously it's not illegal by definition.

Immoral? Yeah, I think a 100% tax rate i.e. communism would be deeply immoral. And taxes today are very high, and frequently lead to huge misallocation of resources. I think you could easily argue for lower taxes from a moral position.
For context, some high profile activist / journalist accounts have been suspended of late. There's been a noticeable right-wing leaning enforcement of twitter policies in India.

I think the trigger point was when Jay Shah's account[1] got a blue tick despite being a dormant account with a just 19 followers (at the time of being verified).

Twitter India then issued a statement, which further had the Streisand effect:

https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia/status/1192384055884447744 (heh, just noticed the ratio on that ! :))

[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/with-zero-tweet19-...
There's no proof of anything and the actions of this user and other users responding to the tweet are just childish.

This right here is the problem with social media: A company or person's reputation can get tarnished simply because a tweet gets popular. It's modern day mob rule.
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Honestly, staying away from "gacha" (and most, if not all, kinds of microtransactions) is just common sense at this point.

I also try to do interesting things that are productive (studying certain topics, writing code, etc). I'd like to think that anyone can find a hobby like that (playing a musical instrument looks like could work for a lot of people, for example), although judging from some people I've met, maybe I'm wrong. What I'm pretty sure of is that discipline can be learned, and that certain level of discipline is needed at least to kickstart a hobby.
1) Bill Gates knows damn well that it wouldn't be paying 100 billion dollars in the Warren tax plan; he's not an idiot. He's trying to poison the well.

2) Sure, I'm glad Bill Gates is willing to double that amount. Fun fact, Mr Gates, you don't have to wait until a tax is implemented, if you really think that way, you can donate money straight to the government: [0]

3) Taxes, at least in my lifetime, have always been a tax rate, not a number-of-dollars paid thing. If Jeff Bezos made 20 billion dollars last year, and paid only 1 billion in taxes, that would be a 5% tax rate. Living in NY, depending on my expenses and deductions, I pay upwards of 40% of my income in taxes. Yes, in one year, Bezos would have paid more to the tax pool than I ever would have, but it seems incredibly unfair that a person who has so much would be forced to give comparatively so little, especially since wealth hoarders could also afford to give a substantially higher percentage of their income without an appreciable quality of life change.

Granted, I know Bill Gates is, by wealth-hoarder standards, not too bad a guy. I don't think anyone here is arguing that he is, but come on; even if his dishonest framing of "being taxed 100 billion dollars" was true, which it isn't, it's not like his life would even change that much; he'd still be worth billions, he'd still have more money than he knows what to do with, he'd still be able to live a life of luxury on bank interest. Forgive me for not crying over his plight.

[0] https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html

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EDIT: The 20 billion Bezos thing is a contrived example. I do not know the tax rate for billionaires in NY; it was more a direct response to the "paid more in taxes than I'll ever pay" comment.