skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) measures how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work, and education, and contains data from 75 countries, covering over 80 percent of the world’s population.

The analysis reveals that, despite decades of progress closing the equality gap between men and women, close to 90 percent of men and women hold some sort of bias against women, providing new clues to the invisible barriers women face in achieving equality.

According to the index, about half of the world’s men and women feel that men make better political leaders, and over 40 percent feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce. 28 percent think it is justified for a man to beat his wife.

The publication also includes the GSNI trends for 31 countries, representing 59 percent of the global population. The trends show that while in some countries there have been improvements, in others, attitudes appear to have worsened in recent years, signaling that progress cannot be taken for granted.
While I'm happy for your health, I think running shirtless outside at 7 Celsius a bit risky, no? You may be able to sustain it for a while. But if any small accident happens (twisting the ankle for example) it's gonna get cold quickly.
Since trickling down doesn’t work, if UBI doesn’t work either, we need a new proposal.
> Bureaucracy is rarely as expensive as aggressive profiteering.

Have you seen the DoD and other gov entity contracting? Perhaps we can expect the same level of contracting that the DoD has today, outsourcing those expensive mistakes to others, for them to take the blame/fall/

I can see a situation where pharma bureaucrats refuse to approve or pursue things, because government mistakes are more unforgivable than business mistakes (where failure and experiments are often encouraged). I would expect more layers of approval/red-tape to develop as no-one wants to accept the blame of approving.
Ha ha ha. I LOVE the way you think.

But some things are broken in Government on purpose, so this would be very difficult, and it couldn't just be a Turbo Tax like software for submitting documents.

But some type of marketplace where you could hire agents to guide your software company through the RFP process and help land you contracts could definitely be a thing.

I'm thinking something that would basically be like E-Lance/UP-Work but for Lobbyists.
In the US this is precisely the traditional approach. The country was built by immigrants who would arrive in an area -- San Francisco or New York for example -- decide that if they didn't want to work in a sweat shop they would have to start a business, then look around to see what their neighborhood needed, and build it. Laundromat, restaurant, feed store, etc.

They didn't need to be intrigued by a problem or have a background that set them up to solve one. They decided to start a business and began by figuring out in what way their region was underserved, then built something to fill the gap. Voila.

There's no obvious reason this approach couldn't work in tech as well.
I’m thinking about a desk drawer full of iPhone 4s that would make amazing little pocket *nix terminals or used in robotics and nonsense… there are a lot of uses for this project that have little do with "smartphones."
The public display computers even in Apple-owned retail stores aren't on the corporate VPN so they won't show a 17.x.x.x IPv4 address (or an Apple-owned IPv6). They will show whatever local ISP the store is using.
Things like Kubernetes probably exist to employ engineers to have to do something and to contra basic income.
Anecdotally it doesn't seem to break it until you get to the point where you have significant competition. Before that? Nah.
Hate to break it to you, but all these "problems" with the logo were exactly the same in the old logo. You got distracted by the ham-fisted layer styles and fooled into thinking that made it good.

The fact that you said "makes the letters pop" would send shivers down any designer's spine.
At that level, this makes perfect sense. The last thing we need is a President screwing around for an hour each day with the latest software update, etc.
AFAICT Gitflow just has one more branch than it needs. If you got rid of the master branch and supported production releases off release branches it would be just as useful and significantly less complicated.
Can anyone explain to me what real value the master branch adds in this model? And without using fluffy meaningless words like, "source of truth," please.
>Generally, grant money cannot be spent on software

Really? That seems a few decades behind the times.
> The findings [...] are the first to suggest that the brain’s well-known ebb and flow of blood and electrical activity during sleep may also trigger cleansing waves of blood and CSF

Oops, I guess the article or researchers missed the prior work on this subject... here's a TED Talk from 6 years ago about this exact mechanism (much more informative than the article): https://youtu.be/b8uvrdBrdR4

Gotta say though, I'm ecstatic more research is being done in this area and I wholeheartedly support their efforts!
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For national-scale infrastructure, it clearly is.

We've had appalling experiences with privatising critical infrastructure in the UK. Not only is privatisation almost invariably more expensive for tax payers and end users, and privatised companies reliably behave like bad actors, but privatised companies tend to continue to benefit from state-sponsored monopoly positions - because the cost of entry for national-scale operations is too high for start-ups.

For healthcare, a single price negotiated by a single state-owned org is hugely more efficient at reliable and economic service provision than any privatised alternative.

The only thing it's less efficient at is generating shareholder profits.
Thats... almost exactly what they did though.
Yes, it is. Keeping Steam growing and well-liked is an achievement in itself. They never really stood still with it.

Steam certainly challenged the status quo when it was released, and several times in its life.

Hell, who else is working on Linux gaming right now? They were relatively early on game streaming, VR. Steam Workshop? How cool is it that a large amount of one of their flagship games, Team Fortress 2, not only integrated a lot of third party content, but also paid creators back? How cool is it that many games like Counter Strike began as Half Life mods?

I don’t really use Steam much anymore, so it’s not that I’m personally attached much, but I will admit to being pretty impressed.
Apple’s Search for an Indian Supply Chain
I'm in the "first 4 years were on two physical machines colo'd sitting at a local datacenter" club. Our cheap operating costs are actually a competitive advantage in our space.
Building Trust in an All-Remote Workplace
And in v80 in alternate universe, Firefox will purge the sites from the Internet, after the data.

Somebody please point me to the portal...
PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape
You're welcome. Leave a comment on the gist about how it goes, if you remember!

I'd really like git to have this feature built-in to it...
> There's FOSS alternatives to Sharepoint, but what's your FOSS alternative to Tableau? Salesforce? Slack?

From a purely technical POV, I'm pretty sure that feasible alternatives exist to all of these, e.g. I don't think Tableau's data viz product does anything that couldn't also be done with relative ease in R. Of course, these commercial offerings extend way beyond the purely technical domain where FLOSS makes the most sense; but that has little to do with "sustainable business models" - R itself is plenty sustainable on its own - and a lot to do with extremely niche or obscure "needs of enterprises" that FLOSS projects are either not clearly aware of, or not very interested in supplying. Niche and obscure problem domains have always been problematic for the open source model, this is nothing new.
This. I can barely survive 2. 5 means glutton for punishment or kids are their hobby too lol
"Buying the product" means you never get updates and are stuck with legacy junk that slowly gets further and further behind. I'm with everyone else, this is incredibly rose colored.

SaaS at the business level is awesome. For personal use? Okay yeah I'd probably rather own whatever version outright rather than have to keep paying--it isn't going to impact me dramatically like it does a business if it doesn't get regular engineering work done on it.
We used to manually ssh to deploy our dozens of nodes, just a handful on developers. git pull, restart service.

Then we got to hundreds of nodes. Chef, chef, and more chef. Deploys were typically run with a chef-client run via chef ssh (well, a wrapper around that for retries). With dozens of services and many dozens of engineers, this worked well enough.

Then we got to thousands of nodes. And hundreds of developers working on a multitude of services.

We've adopted k8s. It has been a lot of work, but the deploy story is wonderful. We make a PR and between BuildKite and ArgoCD we can manage canary nodes, full roll outs, roll backs, etc. We can make config changes or code changes easily, monitor the roll out easily, and revert anytime. I still don't _like_ k8s mind you - I don't think programming with templates and yaml is a good thing. But I've come to terms with that being the best we will have for now.
A compelling film about a young female Pakistani squash player's passion for sport in defiance of the Taliban, with the support of her family.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8742930/
Some Apple Stores in large cities are stocking the new Mac Pro. I don't know if they also carry a typical upgraded model, but that has sometimes been done in the past. The normal "stock" model is not very impressive and exists pretty much just as a baseline minimum price.
Yes, it replaces iOS using a jailbreak.
Lots of definitive-sounding opinions from people who clearly don't have design experience. It's fun to be equipped to see through comments that sound good but are total bullshit to someone who knows what they're talking about - I don't often get that on here :)
Well, I agree that you can't really use CRD as an alternative to a database. But wouldn't you say that there are cases where it makes sense to use CRD to keep metadata? Keeping results of job runs for example.
If I could pick one of the things to optimize all of society around, it would be sleep. I believe that many of society's ills can be traced back to people being sleep deprived on average. Modern society both ignorantly and through sheer foolishness undervalues sleep. I understand the emotional motivation for a statement like, "you can sleep when you're dead," but I do despise this prevelant sentiment which has become a culutre.
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...

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Sigh. Alright, understood, thanks for modding.
YES! Amen to that.

The people who do the "Hi" thing are savages and need handled appropriately.

Options:

1. Ignore their message until they've fully communicated their initial ask. it is not your responsibility to engage to "Hi".

2. Sporadically type something in to the chat box but never actually send the message. This gives the other person the "bubbles" but they have to keep waiting for a message that will never otherwise appear ; )
A New Definition for Remote Work. Sharing How We've Built Digits
The article mentions CVE-2019-0090 and Intel acknowledges the author (Mark Ermolov of Positive Technologies) in their advisory. You haven't been living under a rock, this is a primary source and the first public suggestion of the grave severity of the vulnerability.

"CVE-2019-0090 was initially found externally by an Intel partner and subsequently reported by Positive Technologies researchers. Intel would like to thank Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov and Maxim Goryachy from Positive Technologies for reporting this issue."

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0090

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...
Parent here: You still can--it's my highest priority. That said, I'm more concerned about what you'd really want in the long term than what you think you want right now.
If he was unable to work in his former profession, it isn't likely that it was just high rent that kept him from having a place of his own.
1974-75 Australian bushfire season
The pharmaceutical industry is getting really good at gaming the patent system. My sons inhaler was pretty cheap for a long time until all of a sudden it jumped in price. Like, from $30 to $300.

Turns out, all they did was change the delivery mechanism--slightly--and the next thing you know it's somehow covered under a different patent. The medication stayed exactly the same.
what about drive encryption? I'm a little un-versed in hardware related to security, but my understanding of the article was that, given the ability to essentially MitM the TPM, anyone could unencrypt the contents of an encrypted drive, potentially even remotely.

if so, that is definitely not a good thing.
Now, now, comrade, let the westerners have fun too.
This is a really good argument for why startups should build the initial product with only the founding team, and hire only once you have more demand than you can possibly handle. You get mission-alignment from your technical team (because they only get paid if they ship and customers appear), and then finding and retaining engineers is a lot easier once you're clearly a rocket-ship, their stock options double in value every 6 months, and they become a manager after 6 months in the company.
I know it's not easy.
I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.
A few years ago I was looking through my last.fm scrobbles. Scrobbling is passive and it's widely supported, so I did it pretty regularly. The process of reviewing them was like tapping an area of my memory I didn't know existed. I saw the songs my daughter liked to listen to when she was three and remembered trips we took while listening to those songs, and I mean vivid memories of the drive, including the wrong turn we made that made us go through that album twice. Things no photo could ever recall for me. It was a wonderful experience that I may never have had if I wasn't keeping that record.

Going back through old notes I've made on books I've read or movies I've watched gives a similar experience, taking me back to how I thought at the time and a window into how I've changed.

I certainly don't want to study everything to death, but I wholly see the appeal of a system to contain things I've known and done.
It is telling that not a single comment here sees this as a bad thing. Maybe Intel should take the hint. Users want to own their hardware!
No. Nationalizing it will politicize pharmaceuticals. (and parties change control every few years of so). Private industry may chase the longevity dollars (expensive drugs for rich people who want to make their later years easier), but they also do lots of research in lots of other mundane areas.

The problem is more in the healthcare _system_ whose incentives are not aligned with the patients foremost, but rather is more geared towards extracting as much as possible from insurance companies who in turn are disincentivized to give their patients decent care, in many ways.
Previously (4 months ago), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21448983, re: same IEEE source article, https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/...
Better StimulusJS
im guessing not, but does this affect AMD CPUs/chipsets?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I am working at my office and your assumption that the sign up flow is blocked is probably true. You may want to fix that though, because my company has 75,000+ employees, who would probably sign up or investigate this service while at work.
But now you need to hire an in house IT team that can manage and install and update those servers and software
True enough, but CNBC is primarily a US audience, I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.
> You only need 33 gops (33 bits) to uniquely identify everyone on earth right now.

But then only ~6 accounts to have >50% probability of seeing every combination of each bit and be able to combine them at random.
Assuming the previous patent expired, can't someone else just make the medicine according to the original formula, and sell it for $30?
Which is ironic because systemd got a lot of hate for doing the right thing and not just querying DNS servers in order but discovering the remembering the servers that are up/fastest.

Turns out a lot of people just ignored the fact that all configured DNS servers are assumed to serve the same records and used DNS ordering to implement shitty split-horizon DNS.
Oh I like that point of view, it really does force everyone to compete at a much faster pace. We've ended up with such a great selection of options as a result (And a lot of innovation we probably wouldn't have seen otherwise) because of the competition/expansion
Even in apps you could argue if flat design is the best way to go.
Since Google maps changed their icon I have a hard time finding it instantly between the dozen other flat app logos on my screen.
> Then we got to hundreds of nodes.

Until you get there, Kubernetes is most likely overkill.
The kids love anything by Susan Wise Bauer. The Story of the World audiobooks narrated by her father are in constant rotation in the car and these provide a jumping off point to go deeper into topics. There are a few used booksellers on eBay that sell just about any title for $3.99, so when I see something that is related to a recent topic, I just get it. Magic Treehouse is great too - we found someone selling their entire collection on Craigslist.. occasionally I introduce challenges like how to calculate the orbit of a satellite (we all failed to find the Starlink train but we learned our mistake). We also take lots of field trips. Wildlife is an endless topic of interest... we introduced iPads and raspberry pi’s early on but this was an absolute disaster so right now it’s old school: books, paper, experiences and lots of talking.
All the videos I've seen about Wim are incredibly frustrating - none of them are remotely technical and none of them go into any kind of depth as to how to actually practice the method - just a bunch of montages of Wim doing Wim stuff and talking about his magic breathing.

Granted, I haven't searched in a few years now, perhaps things have changed....

I want to believe but I don't have enough information to try anything and I don't want to pay for his retreat to find out.
Obviously we should nationalize all necessities. Dead obvious.
> This should not be controversial as this would be found on pretty much any website that runs advertising and does user analytics, it's not really something to get all worked up over.

The fact that this is found on so many websites is a controversial thing already.

FWIW, all I'm doing here is providing a (however small) market signal. They're free to ignore it; no hard feelings. I am in the target market - a parent of a small child, interested in using the service and with enough spare income to afford it. But I don't like the aspects I mentioned.
I would like nationalization if it were split up into a research co-op with manufacturing contracted out to US companies. I would like to maintain some level of competitiveness but also have knowledge sharing across research teams.
What I am saying is that a temporary UBI experiment cannot simulate the changes that a permanent UBI would bring. Especially when everyone is aware that this is temporary.
The BMW logo – meaning and history
Netdata: Real-Time Performance Monitoring
OpenShift is pretty neat!
I would not agree with those government diets, without some nuance sprinkled in. Calling all the government bodies published guidelines "scientific consensus" isnt the same thing as scientific consensus.

Vegetables - way too broad a category. Should be split into leaves, stalks, roots, starches, seeds, alliums, brassicaceae, legumes etc. Calling it all "vegetables" makes it hard for people to rank, prioritize, and proportion which are a better use of time, money, and energy to consume. There might be consensus on eating "vegetables" but not necessarily every group of them.
Nutritional density is more complicated than "vegetables."

Whole grains - Antithesis to previous point, grains are not categorized as vegetables. Why are whole grains their own recommended category everywhere as a staple part of diets? Is it cost? Industry lobbying? Diet recommendation should focus on leaves and seeds, with cereals as a filler. Cereal portion should be the one controlled to control weight gain, moreso than plant fat from seeds/nuts. We've gotten too comfortable with a huge serving of rice or potatoes with something thrown on top.

Red meat - carcinogens appear to come from preparation methods (browning, curing) and can be mitigated by vegetable intake. https://examine.com/nutrition/does-red-meat-cause-cancer/

Fruit - mostly as not necessary to a healthy diet as this makes it look like. Can be avoided the same way meat is.

Fish (salmon & sardines) and Seafood (mussels) belongs in the consensus part over fruit.

Doesn't touch on fermented food.

The jury is more out on saturated fat and dietary cholesterol than these government bodies want to admit.

Its hard to reverse course quickly and say "everything we said for the last 30 years is wrong."

Almost none of the diet suggestions focus on digestion, absorption.

I just dont see consensus on what percent of a diet should be grain vs vegetable, starches, legumes, fats, meats. Maybe it doesnt matter. "WFPB is the healthiest diet" is very different from "WFPB is one of the healthiest diets."
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I do worry about the mass lack of action due to social distractions...

But this is larger, as it seems to imply an escape from the problems of the Earth in a new world. A dream that will never become a reality.

Either we fix the Earth or we parish. There is no salvation in the stars, and no second coming of Christ.
Good point, it's just that every now and then I come across some cool opensource projects with horrible names, which hinder their adoption and searchability, and overall seem to do them a great disservice. /e/ [0] comes to mind (took me a few minutes to find it! DDG didn't have it and Google had it way lower).

[0] - https://e.foundation/
If "reasonably formatted" means CSS comes along for the ride, prepare for tracking pixels behind onhover rules, and on and on we go...
Would it be possible to share the deck? I would love that (for poker).
I cannot shake the feeling that the inner emblem should be moved down just a tiny bit. Visual subjective balance is not the same as geometric balance. It just looks visually skewed in the vertical dimension.

What a poor result.
Unlike bitcoins, wework hasn't bought energy and unlike google, they haven't employed many engineers. Actually, they have subsidized engineers by renting out their offices below market value. So it's quite possible that they haven't burned too much energy and time of scarce resources.

I was replying to this comment:

>What frustrates me to no end is that instead of those billions going towards capital intensive startups that are actual moonshots, it was funneled into some bullshit real estate ponzi scheme.

OP was worried about the money and my point is that the money is still there for the moonshots. Now instead of having to convince Softbank or the Saudis, who want to see huge profits, it should actually be easier to get the money. It is spread out and chances are that some of the new owners value human progress over profits.
I was commenting on the incredible level of jargon. This post is even more impressive!