skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gender gaps in STEM: large number of low-achieving men in PECS relative to women
This is good advice. I'm hesitant to switch to a tablet because he already knows how to use a laptop and has never used a tablet before.

I agree with you. Especially the focus on security / 2FA has made it very hard to monitor his accounts, which is good and bad I suppose. For example, I changed his gmail 2FA phone number to mine yesterday, and they changed it back today. That's already a huge task when helping him remotely.

Websites are also getting much more complex which makes everything worse. For example, the new gmail minimizes the navigation tab on the left unless you hover over it. That's awesome for me, but TERRIBLE for him.
A rooftop sniper, then.
> The problem is the design decision of using a simplistic data model that fails in that spectacular and unintuitive way.

I don't see how it could be made intuitive. How would you design it?
Download link is prominent(in top header) on krita.org ?? Do you mean you are not allowed to add link from Windows Store description. Which seems reasonable, i.e. equivalent of using Amazon to promote company site (alternate/competing store).
I notice when I take my pup out to pee in the early morning that I'm much better at spotting wildlife than she is. We live in a pretty wooded area, so there are plenty of animals about. A deer staring at us, an owl looking down, a stray coyote heading home after a night's prowl, a fisher slinking back to the swamp... she won't notice any of them unless they're either very close, make a lot of noise, or if she can smell their trail. When she does notice them she gets very interested, so I don't think it's her not caring. It may well just be my higher line of sight.
This may be overly obvious, but...

Just because some of a thing is judged to be good does not necessarily imply that more of it would be better.
> Console is a loss leader, or sold at cost

Not loss leaders. Maybe close to "cost" but not loss leaders.

The reason is the length of the lifecycle. Say you spend $100M developing a video game console. That seems outrageous. You ship 100 000 units to stores for the early adopters, and some goof says $100M/ 100 000 = $1000 per console just for the R&D costs. These must be a loss leader!

But by the end of the cycle you've sold over 100 million units, so the R&D cost was under $1 per unit. You also get to do relentless cost engineering. When you spot a way to reduce the BOM by 4¢ on a product you're going to sell another hundred million of, that is Four million dollars you just added to the company's profits. Moore's law is on your side over that period of time too.
North Dakota is now the worlds capital for hiding money.
Thinking of rituals and rationalism as polar opposites is the projection that shouldn't be applied. Ancient rituals should be seen as an early encoding of knowledge, not as an antithesis to rationalism. Some of that knowledge, or perhaps much of it, must have been utterly wrong if it only evolved through random mutations, deliberate nonconformism and natural selection. But it's easy to see how a group with the ritual of "eat your dead" would soon be displaced by a group with the ritual of "cook your dead before eating" who would still be outperformed in the long run by a group with "hide your dead somewhere where they can't give you nasty infections".

If you have never heard of a distinction between the natural and the supernatural then every learned act is a ritual and every ritual is a productive act.

Sure there's a tendency to dismiss every artifact that doesn't have an obvious purpose as ritualistic in the most hand-wavy way imaginable, but it's not wrong, it's just a bit too easy perhaps.
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The unusual client UI is their main selling point, so this does make at least some sense. The defining open standard for email, SMTP, isn't ever going away.
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> Republicans have tried to halt, sabotage and corrupt reasonable reform until it becomes unrecognizable

Republicans are conservatives which comes from

> averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

They don't want to change the system because they like the system (even if objectively the system is bad for them and they've been told it isn't or that Issue A is all that matters, ignore B through Z while we decimate you).

Single Issues are a huge facet of American politics and are used by both sides to divide people who have more in-common with each other than the groups in charge.

From an outsider perspective I frequently wonder why it's not more visible, I certainly see it my countries national politics though not to the same extent.

And even when people do realise there is a problem they then hang around waiting for the perfect single solution to fix it forever which is an ideal opportunity for politicians who don't want the problem fixing.

If I'm been ultra cynical (and I try not to be) as an example, Roe V. Wade been over-turned would be a disaster to the GOP, the promise to try to do so is far more powerful at getting people out to vote than actually doing it - which requires both doing it and then having to promise something else.

Divide and conquer all the way down.
Where in my comment do I say Linux can't play games? My comment literally doesn't make sense _unless_ linux can play games

"Linux definitely has a long way before it's usable for the majority of the public for gaming", is the crux of my comment.

Linux users on here just get very defensive when you bring up very obvious shortcomings and immediately go into "it's not that bad"-mode
The Foxconn employees are not doing anything really productive for China.

They’re in low value jobs that keeps themselves busy, but doesn’t bring in much profit for China, except for Foxconn and Apple.

Apple benefits from cheap Chinese labor, while selling their iWares at inflated prices.

What China can do instead, is to retarget these factory workers to work in software development, or AI grunt work.

Currently, AI requires a lot of manual human data labeling, in order to identify objects.

China can utilize this already cheap and organized factory labor, to build up an object inference database. That way, the AI systems of today, can cross reference against this inference database, to identify the object.

This inference database literally becomes, the new oil of the AI age.

And through a lot of sweat equity, China can possibly dominate this key area for the AI future.

Maybe this is why 5G is so important? The lower latency of 5G would usher in the AI age.

The western world is so focused on Foxconn, and its “supposed benefits” to China. But the benefits are meager. The biggest beneficiary is Apple itself.

China should let Foxconn and other low value industries go, in order to free themselves to work on higher value pursuits.
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What if LEO don't have LoS?
What if that violent person is in the middle of a massive crowd?
Article says this drone can fly at 90 mph, which means it can get to the threat muuuuch faster.
For a gun, you also need personnel on the ground, which puts them at risk and they can cover only so much area. A drone at a good enough altitude with a streaming camera can send it back home for constant, automagical scanning and threat-profiling.
Here are the screenshots used in the post
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I’d guess the AR headset is more interesting to Apple and probably not a stationary experience.

The goal is new UI extension of iOS similar to the watch. Eventually making it so you don’t need to pull out your iPhone to interact with software (and the world) at all.

Probably at first will be notifications and such. No idea if there’s any truth to this video, but it makes sense to me that Apple would focus on this as the next platform when the hardware becomes possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5J_6oMMG7Y

I think there’s huge potential for a massive shift in capability if this is done right.
Krita on Windows' store costs (I think) around 10 dollars. Directly from Krita's site, 0 dollars. Windows has a similar policy as Apple that the app creators cannot tell the users on the store page to go somewhere else to get it cheaper/free.
Can We Pull Back from the Brink?
> that's really the most obvious cost function

To me Deming regression is the most obvious. It actually took me a long time to realize that x~y and y~x are in most cases different lines.
Why do people write or even read posts like this. You can crack open any stats textbook and it will be explained there in much more detail by someone likely far more qualified to be talking about it.

Feels like some mix of SEO-farming/resume-building-blogspam.
Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online
> based on what evidence,

There's lots of evidence. See, for example, this:

https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mortality-associated-with-co...

> Data from England illustrates well the importance of paying attention to differences in definitions and methods used to estimate these percentages: the share of all probable COVID-19 deaths in care homes is 27%, whereas the share of probable deaths of care residents is 38%. The share of excess deaths in care homes during the pandemic has been 44% and the share of deaths of care home residents is 52% of all excess deaths. Also, in France, deaths in care homes are 34% of all COVID-19 deaths, whereas deaths of care home residents are 51%.

That's from May. Since then we discharged a bunch of people from hospital to care and nursing homes, without testing whether they had covid-19 or not.
yep, it all fits in with M.A.D.
The Kerbal way is to remember that to lower your orbit, you have to slow down, and to slow down requires propellant. You're moving really, really fast in a geosync orbit, so slowing down to lithobrake your satellite would require a _lot_ of propellant.

Conversely, to raise your orbit, you have to speed up. And since you're only going up a little bit, you only need a little bit of propellant.
The article is kicking off with the implicit belief that America is the greatest at building. So if America is no longer the greatest at building, we have to investigate where America went wrong. If New Zealand is bad at building but was always at building, there isn’t much to say. But if America has fallen, we have to look at the reasons, specific to America, to find out why.
Subpixel rendering dramatically slows down rendering text. When you have a high res screen, and want everything to be 120fps, even text rendering starts to be a bottleneck.

That combined with the fairly massive software complexity of subpixel rendering is probably why mac dropped it.
this is just incredible.
There's a relatively old FOSS "band-in-a-box" program: https://www.mellowood.ca/mma/
Joel is Chairman of both Glitch and HASH (also Stack Overflow), and my co-founder Jude was the former CTO at Fog Creek Software, but not beyond that.
I think Wolfram Alpha would try to parse the query and turn it into a statement like:

PrimeQ[1000000007]

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrimeQ.html

I think Google is not doing that, instead they are scraping the web for spam sites that have automatically generated answers such as

https://bloodpressureok.com/reading/172-over-67/

which is bound to be less reliable.
Swapping out the SOC from an Oculus quest to an a13 or higher would be extremely compelling for me to buy.

Other than ease of use Oculus Quest the price point (sub 500) might be another factor but OTOH I don't think that's a big factor if its an apple product.
I don't want to be nitpicky, but there is no such thing as the paleolithic French.
Some people thrive on negativity and pessimism :)
Group messages on Telegram and normal messages are explicitly not encrypted in order to allow multi-device operation. That is explicit. I don't see how that has anything to do with the security of MTProto.
I don't know about the rate, but sometimes they get cash up front to be on a console, or to be exclusively on a console.
FTL travel wouldn't be relevant if we could just work out how to turn the telepathy bits on, perhaps ..
"This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine,"

Why wouldn't it be fine for someone who just start to study medicine to say "I'm going into medicine to try to change the world for the better." It's aspirational.

How honest someone is, is not something you can judge based on the goals that are set.
ASML is at best ambivalent.

On one hand, they brag about how a company in China took apart an ASML machine, and replicated every component, but it didn't work.

But I'm sure ASML knows that they'll try again. They have at least a limited interest in keeping their technology from being stolen.
If the Roman Empire had collapsed without the volcanic eruption, would it have led to anything as deep as the "dark ages" or just a political reshuffle?

France has been through like four governments in the past 200 years. The US is only 200 years old and has endured one civil war.
And you really don't think those inhabitants would riot and swiftly overwhelm whatever enforcement existed if their friends and neighbors started getting picked off by assassination drones? If anything it sounds like India's enforcement should be more scared of the populace than they are in the U.S. because of how outnumbered they are.
Try the button I'm feeling lucky!
people write the articles to cement the knowledge in their own minds. i have no idea why people read them (let alone post them here).
My third client was a SPA breaking down from its usage of redux. They would pull chunks search results from the backend in a loop (and this could be many hundred chunks of 100 objects each), indexing them in their reducers causing heavy rerenders. But they "needed" to do that in order to build their filters. All in the frontend. The machine (2019 MacBook Pro 13) would go full CPU load.

So yeah it happens.

Their old server side solution was near instant.

Definitely the design flaw was to index it in the frontend in the first place instead of preparing that data somewhere in between to easily be consumed by the client but still draws the picture of how many people approach SPAs these days.
You’d want to do some research on getting data out of glacier. I’ve read some nightmare stories about the bill from trying to get a small amount of data out of glacier. I can’t remember the details, and some of the large cost was people sort of doing it wrong. But some of the tooling makes it easy to do wrong.

When I was using glacier, we treated it sort of like a write only storage, with the understanding that if we ever needed data out, we’d have to think long and hard about the data’s value, and probably would have gotten an AWS rep on the line to make sure we didn’t do anything stupid.
Sounds like sth http://www.lab4.life/ has been working for a while.
Agreed, since picking up a Quest my use of tethered VR has dropped significantly.

Self contained VR is the way forward IMO. I would only use tethered VR for seated simulations such as flight or racing, which would typically use more peripherals anyway.
Pavel Durov is so mindboggingly rich that he had a good shot at being a Russian oligarch, and decided not to. I don't think that's an argument.
Ask HN: Please critique my VR/AR IDE idea
I've been working on this on and off for a few months but never tried to explain it in words. Would appreciate any feedback/critique.
I’m not a manager so take this with a grain of salt. But I think that the most important thing is not if you took a course or not. By all means, put it on your resume. But also try to explain how you can use your newfound knowledge. Maybe do a little project with it or write a blog post. I think that will make it more valuable.
Why is that? S230 protects platform from trolls. Look at Twitch right now. You could run up to a stream in real-life, blast copyrighted music, and get the streamer banned for life.

How can you be held legally liable for content on your platform when you can’t actually control that content.
NYC passes POST Act requiring police to reveal surveillance technologies
Yup, iOS I believe learns your typings over time and chooses what you use the most. So if you talk about Windows a lot and capitalize it, it will start suggesting it, but if you talk about your house windows more, it'll lowercase it.
So you trust archeologists without a second thought when they say that this object was used as a calendar, but you suddenly don't trust them anymore when they tell you it also had a religious function?

> I think it's much, much more the other way around. Modern archaeologists have inherited their Victorian predecessors attitudes, who tended to look on primitive societies as backward and superstitious; "nasty, brutal and short".

Looks like you have an underlying prejudice against history and archeology practitioners, you already thought about these issues and you already have strong opinions on them. That explains your first comment. You might very well have your reasons in thinking this, but when you say

> I don't think there's much evidence to support this. Lots of speculation and interpretation, but not much actual evidence.

I'm sorry, but I really don't know what to tell you. Saying that there's "evidence" would be an understatement. Just pick up whatever history book. I suggest you read about pre-Colombian societies in central America, or shamanism in Africa, or even about religion wars in Europe in the 15th and 16th century. Just to get you started…
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They need to bring back Gopher. It has a good chance to become very hipster today.
Is there a way I can hash my password myself then check if the hash is in the database via the web?
On Linux it works with the latest v4l2loopback.

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback

Zoom has to be > 5.0.? though. (I have 5.0.4)
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It would be great to know how Hash compares to other free or open-source simulation tools, like NetLogo, OpenModelica, SimPy or SimJS, in terms of features and licensing.

What is Hash's business model in relation to its free tooling?

https://openmodelica.org/

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

http://simjs.com/
I wonder how many micromorts a shotgun to the head would be. A million? Ten million? A hundred million? And what would the LD50 of micromorts be? 500k?
Sure. The fastest I've seen lately is that ARMv7-A board submitted the other day which boots in 0.37 seconds, or with networking, 2.2 seconds. That's time to user land, and to achieve it took highly specialized firmware and a stripped down kernel compiled with unusual options. I've yet to see a PC come anywhere close to that, and personally I won't consider the boot problem solved until a cold one completes quicker than I can turn on a lightbulb.

In fact historically, some of the higher-end hardware yielding the best performance during operation (an axis along which I optimize) actually added time to the boot sequence. The storage subsystem on my workstation is backed by a mix of four Intel enterprise-grade SSD's in RAID-0 (raw speed) and 8 big spinning platters in RAID-6 (capacity), plugged into an Areca 1882ix RAID card w/ 4GB dedicated BBU cache. Unfortunately that card adds a non-bypassable 30 seconds to the boot sequence, no matter what system you plug it into. But once there, it screams. It's only just the last couple years PCI-NVMe drives have come out that can match (or finally beat) the performance metrics I've been hitting for ages.

So I actually kind of feel like I've been living in the future, and the rest of the world just caught up ;-).
This is awesome, I just wish they were worse at enforcing some other prohibitions.

I’ve been trying to get my hands on a real kinder egg (not the kinder joy bullshit) for a while now. I thought the kinder joy and a wonder ball would be enough, but it is not.

I don’t know why German kids are so much more resilient against choking than American kids, but whatever. (I actually do know, it’s because of an ancient law that should have been updated by now)
Quote: "Further, a whole bunch of passwords that, um, well, I can't really print here also make an appearance, but use your imagination and you'll probably be able to work out a few of those."

Hihi, this cracked me up, best joke for today. Keep up the good work Troy
> We found listings for prohibited tools for picking locks and jimmying open car doors.

I've got a closet full of this stuff. And I never used them to commit a crime.
Why is it so absolutely awful that an ancient artifact has religious purposes?
It's made even more confusing thanks to the local DA bringing charges against officers' previous use of a Tazer as application of excessive force if I recall correctly. One could chock it up to a change in the calculus of threat level determination based on that.

I agree wholeheartedly it would have been a bad shoot if the Tazer wasn't a factor. Remove the Tazer, and it would have been trivially resolvable via pursuit. Annoying to the Officers at worst, but definitely not an escalation that would have justified deadly force.

EDIT: Looking for an article to make sure I'm not conflating something else I read.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fulton-county-da-6-apd-offi...

From what I've read elsewhere it seems like the message taken from it was that a Tazer is to be considered excessive force when used by an officer when backup is available, but it isn't necessarily an Olympic tier leap to integrate that observation with an elevation of threat level of a suspect with one.

Again, not saying I agree with it or personally buy the logic, but it is within my threshold for "Goddamnit, we didn't make unambiguously clear apparently, so henceforth... do not do it again"

And absent extenuating circumstances already listed resulting from the current political climate, I doubt I'd extend the same level of charity to an officer in nearly identical circumstances.
You can only do that for specific situations. What if the criminal runs inside the building or grabs a person to shield himself from the sniper? Are you going to surround the person with snipers from every direction?

Also sounds like the cost for those snipers would be pretty high than manufacturing few drones to lock in a target and swarm under their head.

Cost of drones is only going to decrease while the cost of sustaining human life remains more or less the same if not increase.
Government employeers can easily solve this alleged problem: don't run non-essential services. GTFO out of STEM and stop wasting taxpayer money.

As for private sector, it's none of our business how private companies choose to run their business.

But if the title was true, greedy investors would have filled the gap with investments subsidized by underpaid, high-achieving women. What hasn't that happened? We know it hasn't happened because these discriminating employers are still around.