skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's frustrating that people make claims to ideas that they are vaguely aware about. The vagueness can lead to repeating incorrect claims which I think is harmful, especially when discussing sensitive topics.

> Everyone knows that testosterone makes young men orders of magnitude more violent

You're using hyperbole but yes it's commonly understood that there's a link between testosterone and aggression, however you extend that claim to something completely different

> why is it inconceivable that they could also be 4 times more interested in more mechanic play? It’s been observed even in almost newborn chimpanzees for Gods sake.

I counter that this second claim is related to the first, is it that testosterone makes young males more likely to play with mechanical objects? There are a few articles that reference this study from 2008 [1]. It refers to rhesus monkeys not chimpanzees and their hypothesis at the end is much more nuanced

>We offer the hypothesis that toy preferences reflect hormonally influenced behavioral and cognitive biases which are sculpted by social processes into the sex differences seen in monkeys and humans.

Furthermore there is at least 1 meta-analysis from 2017 [2] that highlights

> Gender differences in toy choice exist and appear to be the product of both innate and social forces.
> Despite methodological variation in the choice and number of toys offered, context of testing, and age of child, the consistency in finding sex differences in children's preferences for toys typed

Note they do not make the claim that testosterone is the cause of these differences. Scientists try to be careful about the language they use, we should be just as careful.

1: Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.03.008

2: Sex differences in children's toy preferences: A systematic review, meta‐regression, and meta‐analysis - https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2064
Perhaps the answer is obvious, but what's the point of such a thought experiment? The issue is how to deal with the world we actually live in. "It would be just as bad in an opposite world" does not sound like a useful finding.
I neither work at nor use Facebook, but I don't understand why only tech employees should be held to such high standards on morality. Nobody asks goldman sachs employees to quit en masse for precipitating the wheat price crisis of 2011, or employees of any of the other various banks for the 2008 recession where thousands lost their life's savings.
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2000% / year would be 28% per month (12th root of 20). Spend it fast.
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Not related to the post itself nor to FreeBSD:

I personally feel sad when people state (indirectly) that Linux is NOK because their Ubuntu didn't work well :(

Ubuntu is probably the only Linux distro which I hate => I admit that it's a bit a mixed situation (Ubuntu seems to be a kind of "lighthouse" for the Linux world), but in the end I personally think that it's a pity that it acts as representative of the Linux distros.

I'm currently using Gentoo & Mint & Arch (depends on the usage), and in the past I liked as well at least Fedora and CentOS (not using them since a long time), but I never liked Ubuntu.
All the more reason to criticize both of them.

Half of the NSA's mission is to build/design secure communication systems for the US government and military.
I believe, and often comment, that there's a different culture between Silicon Valley and SF, though they are often conflated in the press.

Regrettably, this is an area where both regions are equally terrible.
Man I got to tell you if you there are low standards almost everywhere. I've pulled off multiple (legal) gigs where you'd think "surely X has done Y to stop obvious negative conclusion Z" and no, they did not do Y. They did some dumb B or C and it was trivial to detect and get around and, at best, it took them a month to notice what you did and their new countermeasures aren't up to the challenge either.

This is why I've been so concerned about cybersecurity and cyberwarfare. I do not see gross competence here and most of the people I respect that write about this type of thing are sounding the alarm. Click Here to Kill Everybody or Matt Tait (@pwnallthethings on Twitter) ending an Infiltrate conference talk with a nuclear bomb as the final image.
I fully agree the wording isn't in line with the discouragement of ad homs, comes off condescending to a new user, and should be changed. We shouldn't stigmatize being new, though I do think a list of "stuff so stale you can drive nails with it" is pretty appropriate.

Please don't take my quote as my highlighting the noob bit, as it also made me cringe a little. It's an entirely reasonable opinion that you (and the person who vehemently took up your cause in the comment tree) want a more content-rich thread.

But you have to understand posting that opinion is at least 1:1 comment volume with the thing being complained about--so best case, 100% bloat--and it tends to start a N:1 tree under it, so N-hundred% bloat. What was one content-light joke that would've had a few light replies is now a big discussion and now the thread is very, very content-lean for on-topic discussion.

I think that's why that rule is there, not because your opinion is invalid. If it's really that much of a problem such that the downvotes won't do it, then we need to talk but most threads work fine. Further, complaining about the substance of a comment within the same thread is guaranteed to make the overall situation worse, no matter how valid the complaint, because of the above.

I realize I'm contributing to the content-leanness at this point too, by that definition. However, you do deserve a respectful explanation as to why I felt it was appropriate to reply, and the apology for quoting the poorly-worded rule without trying to somehow acknowledge that. I should have, and I am sorry about that.
> This article is all written on the decision from Wells Fargo to stop offering zelle to accounts with a Venezuelan mailing adress.

Is this really going to make a difference then? Most Venezuelans I know with Wells Fargo accounts are using US mailing addresses even if they don't live in the US. They use a friend's address or use a mailbox service.

PS. Que paso mi pana
How's this different from let's say BeakerX or Zeppelin?
I would say it is a very ergonomic way of doing this. It allows for writing in a more exploratory way until you know what your error handling story is. Then, even if you choose to propagate it later, you just add it to your signature. Also it is very easy to grok and clear. Definitely not strictly inferior.
I'm going to disagree with all the other commenters so far. You are only going to find a tough love doctor if you're really, really lucky. Having a long relationship with a doctor might help with continuity of care, but the truth is there is no doctor that is going to be more invested in you than YOU.

In fact, I would recommend going to MORE doctors if you have concerns. That's why you get second and third opinions for important medical decisions.

I have high cholesterol. My father had a heart attack around 40. His father died of a heart attack. I told all my past doctors this and I have never gotten "tough love". Maybe because I have a young looking face and I'm rail thin. Maybe because I know my family history so they assume I know the risks. I put off statins in favor of trying diet and exercise unsuccessfully until I met a doctor that finally DID more forcefully suggest a statin. I should have started taking them way sooner.

A doctor is not where to find tough love or to find a friend. A doctor is where you go for expert opinions and recommendations. Inform yourself and be responsible for your own health.
The ten years of schooling are in both cases general education, so they should be pretty comparable. Woodworking is something the German would learn during their apprenticeship and the American on the job (presumably).

How do companies who need skilled woodworkers in the US decide whom to hire? I'd guess they look for previous work experience. It's not clear to me whether an American who spent three years as an unskilled woodworker is any worse off in terms of job prospects than a German who spent three years as a woodworking apprentice.
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That's funny, I'm black too and I used to have white people misread my facial expression a lot. I ended up training myself to use a different, more "neutral-looking" resting face in public.
Initial post was about POS in here not acepting USD cards, i showed they do.

Is cool that they do it, as it allows more payment methods to then and allows me to spend my USD, the more formal the business is, the more it will avoid using informal payments methods like zelle, so I do use my US creditcards in big chains, etc. As for every other aspect of our economy, im clearly hugely affected by it, me saying that POS taking usd cards is cool, doesnt mean i agree to our mess of an economy

I don't know if you miss the point that the official currency of venezuela is still the VES, and business have to still use VES for so many reasons, yes a big part of the VES gets exchange to USD but the main currency, still the VES
Dear lord, do people not just simply say: "Hi, I'm <my name>. And you are?"

What is wrong with people? That's just basic courtesy.
Former grad student has paper retracted after mentor objects
I am just learning the ropes of Typescript with React and Christ sometimes it is hard not to think it is a veritable clusterfuck.
Having used both Python and Typescript recently, I largely prefer the consistency of Typescript. [Hey mom, I like cherries better than strawberries]. Having said that, I'd love to have named function arguments in Typescript. Props workaround is, well, a workaround.
How is it racist to assume that in a country of mostly white people, the CEO would be white? That isn't racist. Unless you consciously thought the black person in the room was less competent just because they were black, it isn't racism.

If I was in India, and walked into a company meeting with a diverse set of people, I would assume the Indian looking person is the CEO. If I was in Japan, I would assume the Japanese looking person was the CEO.

This isn't racism. This is the human brain using pattern recognition to evaluate a situation and infer information as best it can under the circumstances.
I think to make some aspect of an S3 bucket public, you should be required to type into a box: YES, PUBLIC
Sounds like a CCP info harvesting op.
But they're also not physical qualities, they're ethnic classifications. I don't know any others that aren't capitalized.

People aren't actually colored black or white, and you can have the same coloring as a person who is black or white ane be neither black or white.

I'm not a big fan of the capitalization, but it's reasonable. Are "Aboriginal" or "Indigenous" place names or honorifics?
NPM is 1000x better than the lack of a package manager in go.
I wonder if the whole protests thing is going to make things better or worse as I have friends who are now terrified of having a future black co-worker because they might get in trouble so they are now basically saying they would veto. I’ll admit that I’m not sure which direction I will go in hiring recommendations for my team on that.

If I were a VC I am not sure I would want black CEOs pitching me because the social costs of error are far higher.

This entire few weeks has been an exercise in either copying other people’s LinkedIn posts or just hiding until it all blows over.
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Because the Left is a controlling religion -- controlling in the US in a way that Christianity has not been for a hundred years.

If you dare to go against the Left they will destroy you. Is it mere coincidence that every corporation that expresses a cultural opinion expresses an opinion that is amenable to the left? I think not. Do not folks on the right punish? Well, we're too lazy, for one thing. But we also believe (I would say) in freedom of thought. We will not destroy you for thinking differently than we do.
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RPI are cheap hardware not really designed for desktop computing I guess.
Submission statement: I am interested in what the HN crowd thinks of this. I know some of you come from an academic background like I do. Maybe some of you are familiar with stories of PhD students getting burned for trying to defy their supervisors (something I have also witnessed).
> To be anti-racist is to fundamentally understand the lived experiences of the Black community and how it relates to other structures of power.

I thought “fundamentally understanding the lived experiences of the black community” was impossible for non-black people. What white person has achieved this goal? If none, is it impossible for a white person to be “anti-racist?”

I acknowledge racism is a real issue but think it’s reasonable to disagree what the best solution is. This stuff (white fragility etc) just smells way too much like “original sin” and “we are all sinners but must strive towards holiness, however unachievable” to me.
Any app that requires lots of direct DOM manipulation (which are pretty rare cases).

Think making use of html `canvas`. Though there are nice libraries that abstract the ugliness like react-canvas, it would lead to less reusable code than the jQuery equivalent, imo.
This is neat, but I find it irresponsible they don't blur faces and license plates.

Once upon a time you asked people for their permission before you took their photo; much less before you posted it somewhere for the world to see.

EDIT: The videos are from popular Youtube videos, so the footage is already public (though I still can't help feeling like it's propagating a problem).
This may be true in parts of Europe, but it's not so clear cut in Canada. We have a decent tech job market in our 3 major cities (Montreal/Vancouver/Toronto), but it's mostly bad elsewhere. There are a few lower-tier Canadian cities which are OK (Waterloo, Ottawa), but as cities they're grossly limited compared to where you can live in Europe.

Of the 3 major Canadian cities, only Montreal could be considered affordable to software engineer. Vancouver/Toronto are extremely expensive vs. local pay. Unless you want to sign yourself up for a punishing daily commute or bought your house a long time ago, it's hard to describe the standard of living as "very comfortable" other than compared to lower earners in the local market.

Tellingly, when you look at the data more than 100% of Toronto's population growth comes from international migration. Which makes sense, it's a very welcoming place. But without immigration, the city would have shrunk by 50k people last year (~1.5% of population).
> Using a practical SOI-CMOS which was developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2018, JAXA has designed an IC which contains around 1000 transistors (4bit shift resistor and an I/O circuit) and manufactured a prototype chip (Figure 1) whose operations has been demonstrated successfully (Figure 2).

That seems a little…unimpressive?
They probably should, though. Maybe here tech workers extend the benefit of the doubt to other tech workers that they're not irredeemable.
I think he was the one to ask Phil Wadler to help out on the Featherweight Go formalization work.
For everyone arguing "honest mistake" or "just chance", think about the person at the receiving end. For the person making that mistake, it could be their first, but for the person at the receiving end it could be the hundredth, and that too, not without consequences. The first 3-4 times I got "randomly selected" for additional screening at the airport, I was like whatever. But years later after my probably 100th "random selection", I am mostly just upset. Watching traveler after traveler go around you, staring at you, while you're being subjected to additional search, your baggage laid out open in front of everyone, while being asked questions like "have you recently been in contact with any chemicals?" and so on. It is humiliating. And this is just one aspect of their life. Imagine having to face "honest mistakes" everyday in all kinds of different aspects of your life.
Most of the time if code is hard to understand its bad code. Just because someone writes complex code that uses all the abstractions, doesnt mean its good. Usually it means the opposite
> In games the 10600K[0]. And the 10400(F)

2 fewer cores, that's a far worse deal.
The counter argument would be that one framework should depend on another. Good luck with that.
C++ is hard to do well from a plugin because of its complexity. For example, jump-to-definition requires resolving complex overloading rules. I have had better luck with IDEs that treat C++ as first class: CLion, VC++, Xcode.
Great article, thanks!

FYI: I have two GPUs but on all my browsers your article says "Error: Your browser does not support WebGPU"

AMD Radeon Pro 5300M, Intel UHD Graphics 630 integrated
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
Mac OS 10.15.5 (19F101)

https://get.webgl.org/ works fine in all my browsers.
I used a different title then the source because "VM Computers" seemed like a slightly misleading title for a HN post

There is also a reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h8ayq8/i_made_a_min...

NOTE: I did not make this, I just thought it was interesting.
My experience with S3 buckets was that it was super painful and annoying to make the images publicly visible. So these people had to go out of their way to make this publicly accessible.
This is a declaration of how un-civilized and rotten USA is. If a countryfolk needs to create tooling to safeguard themselves from the country's force whose sole purpose is to protect the countryfolk, then that country is dead already.
Systematic exclusion of black people from social programs, like the GI Bill and Social Security, and redlining, which prevented black Americans from building up wealth through homeownership the way white Americans were. "The Color of Law" is a good book on redlining.

To expand on the bit about Social Security, farmworkers were excluded, since farmworkers tend to be not white. It was a nice sneaky way to be racist without coming out and doing so explicitly.
Actually AEs, and especially SAEs, are more often than not handled by the clinical investigators or trial sponsor, for a variety of reasons.

Insurance policies often don't cover you while you're enrolled in a trial ("you wouldn't have broken your leg if you hadn't been in that cholesterol drug trial so we don't cover that").

The agency really cares a lot, especially about SAEs, and if someone is hit by a trolley while in a cholesterol drug study they will want the company to promptly determine that the drug didn't cause them to stumble, or lose vision, or be confused about where they were. We used to joke at one company, "but being hit by a meteor is not an SAE."
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I left a high pay info-sec position at a large insurance corporation for this very reason. CIO trumped CISO (fractional) on literally every security issue that was surfaced - and worse yet the CIO and CEO refused to acknowledge the risk being onboarded/ignored. The irony of insurance execs refusing to acknowledge information security risk was just too much.
Basecamp's video tour of their new email service HEY
Why do you think dozens of judges are dumb?

And if you think judges research it all day in their chmabers have a poor understanding of the law, why do you expect police officers in the middle of a violent confrontation to have a better understanding?
> Similarly, I don't really care how much a CEO makes, I care about my own quality of life.

Your quality of life depends very much on how much other people make. It's all relative. If the average income in an area goes up by 50% but your own income only goes up 5%, then you are worse off than you started, because prices for everything will rise with the market. If you don't believe me, look at Bay Area housing. Inject a couple thousand new millionaires into an area and tell me things don't become worse for the existing modest-income people.

On a percentage basis, the world is zero sum. If someone else captures (or creates) an additional 1% of something, that comes at the expense of 1% collectively from everyone else.
This is how it works since last year or so
A mild amount of regeneration doesn't hurt, though. If you generate 4 and pick your favorite, you've shaved less than 2 bits of entropy off.
I guess browser support is not good enough. They just dropped IE11, after all.

Probably that will be the change for Bootstrap 6.
Rossford officer resigns after using police database to harass her
It does push it to iCloud or Dropbox though.
This is cool - I think smartphones are are best defence against violent police oversteps. Now everyone has a camera with them and we are seeing the results. Democratisation of surveillance.
neat example, thanks. It gives you a generic Null type that has a bool is-valid field. Very similar to the sql.Null{String,Int} types, but you don't have to declare each one. Kinda the point of generics :)
Ah yes, I get that, definitely been in that situation before, ugh sorry.
These categories seem arbitrary at best. Feels like they're more to justify letting big companies do X and force little guys to do Y (since audio/music/video subscriptions aren't really accessible to smaller companies).
Understandable, I should have at the very least left out the specific reference.
Decent looking typography and presentation.
This is a silly strawman. All code is meant to be correct, but often times close enough to correct is good enough (as is literally the whole point of my post). Most businesses operate on code that is close enough to correct for their individual risk tolerance, and increasing that correctness would reduce speed/throughput and increase cost.
Looks similar to Numi https://numi.app
The site doesn't know the password, though-- it's generated clientside.
Just look at how the Federal Government ignored Bombardier when it was slapped with tariffs (that were later ruled out to be illegal).

Could you imagine the United-States or the European Union not supporting their respective aerospace industries in that type of situation?
Racism absolutely does imply intent. The attempt by progressives to recharacterise racism as something that it is not, is the reason why they are making less progress in their objectives than they would like.

It is not racist to assume that the person in the room most like the other CEOs you have met, is also the CEO. If I was in a foreign country, I would assume the CEO is the person most like the other people in that country. I never made any assumption about competence. Half the time I think the least competent person in the room is the CEO. Sadly that's how business works. There would be nothing racist - intentional, or unintentional - about my assumption.
Not really I played around with multiple things. Came from a Java background too. I'm in the process of trying to get to a better language actually, like scala or F#. Java seems too limited and typescript while can do a lot of things is no scala and not as clean as F#.
I cannot think of a language where errors cannot be ignored. In go it is easy to ignore them, but they stick out and can be marked by static analysis. The problems you describe are not solved at the language level, but by giving programmers enough time and incentives to write durable code.