skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Few people care about sex but not gender.[1][2]

I don't think your sources support that statement. For example, [2] says:

> Surprisingly, among the 127 participants open to dating a trans person, almost half selected a trans person of a gender incongruent with their stated sexual orientation. For example, 50% of the trans-inclusive straight women and 28% of the trans-inclusive gay men were willing to date a trans woman, even though one wouldn’t expect either straight women or gay men to be attracted to women. Similarly, 50% of trans-inclusive straight men and 69% of trans-inclusive lesbians said they’d date a trans man, even though both groups are presumably only attracted to women.

This suggests that for between 28%-69% of people, it is the persons sex rather than their gender which is important for their sexuality. This result is unlikely to be due to transphobia as these are people have specifically indicated they would be interested in dating trans people.

The article says "even though both groups are presumably only attracted to women". It seems to me that this presumption is simply wrong. For many people, their sexuality is defined by sex and not gender.
>wohld be nice to have a more centric candidate who would have this persistance and 'idgaf, attitude.

Not really. This sort of Caesarism and strongman attitude is a disease. Fucntioning governments and societies rest on pluralism and compromise between institutions, not on someone at the top "not giving a fuck".

This desire for "not giving a fuck" is at its core a childish attitude that's rooted in people not being able to live with the tension that occurs when diverse interests need to be taken into account.

It's usually combined with Machismo and it's pretty much what many Latin American countries perpetually suffer from.
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I’ve seen one service per database table, and have had architects seriously think that a table equals a bounded context. Then they try to work out how to do two-phase commit across micro services.
There’s also open source apps that can do this (but you have to build them and install using a developer certificate). It’s a shame though exporting workouts to gpx is not possible using the built in apps.
I somewhat disagree about the irrelevance of visual design. A good or exceptional visual designer can quite often have an enormous impact on the user experience, and also save the development team a lot of work.

I don't think it's shallow, it's actually taken for granted. Look at how vertical scrollbars work on both mobile and desktop, for example.

We don't give it a second thought, but imagine how many layouts would break on mobile, with a default 20px scrolling rail on mobile browsers. Or the way the URL bar hides when you start scrolling.

Those kind of ideas, from my experience, rarely come from product developers without some visual design experience.
> This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.

*90% of the nationalist/islamist population which consider Greece, Israel, Egypt enemies.
Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials
Later the ARM architecture had a big breakthrough when Apple selected it for its groundbreaking mobile device: I refer of course to the Newton. :)
Hi, is the source code available? :)

BTW, the front page's HTML seems to have a <head> and <body> inside another <body>.
This is a bind mount, not an overlay. For an actual overlay you need something like overlayfs or unionfs.
See for example https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Overlay_filesystem
Sounds about right. I have had overall VERY GOOD Amazon Warehouse experiences, but I have also had TWO VERY TERRIBLE Amazon Warehouse experiences with two separate products that could have been avoided if items were actually "Inspected"...

Hue Outdoor Motion Sensors (May 2019) -- Several sensors in my first order had obvious water damage outside packaging and MOLD inside packaging. Just looking at packages during "Inspection" would have prevented this. Requested replacements. Received MORE water damage and MOLD. Repeat several times until finally received NON-MOLD items or for refund.

GE Smart Light Switch, Smart Fan Switch (Feb 2020) -- Ordered several of each, kept receiving wrong model (e.g. ZigBee instead of ZWave Plus, or ZWave instead of ZWave plus) as if prior customer gave up on large project and randomly threw products back into whatever boxes. Comparing product number on item to product number on box during "Inspection" would have prevented this! Kept requesting replacements, kept receiving wrong items. Finally returned items for a refund. Amazon CS did finally issue full refund, but had trouble unraveling the mess on their end because so many items were in play.
One more: 'A _breif_ title' on the /suggestions page.
> Because the fundamental nature of Indian politicians is socialist and statist.

That seems to have changed significantly now, after all a right-wing party has been in power since 2014. It seems to fit well with a lot of the private sector, and it did open up many entrepreneurship schemes too.
Hi HN friends,

iDoRecall cofounder and 67 y/o entrepreneur here. Today’s version of iDR is a total rewrite of our MVP. iDR began as a digital solution enabling the cognitive science strategies that I used to graduate #1 in my med school class back in the analog 70s [1]. iDR takes spaced-repetition flashcards beyond the bounds of well-known solutions. Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., creator of Coursera’s Learning How to Learn [2], uses iDR for her own lifelong learning. Recently she became our Chief Learning Science advisor.

Upload your learning content into iDR: PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, images and many other file types. Add videos hosted on YouTube, Vimeo and other sites to your iDR library. Read, watch and listen to your content on iDR.

Create flashcards (we call them “recalls”) that are linked directly to the concepts, facts, formulae or whatever you want to remember in your learning materials.

When you practice memory retrieval with your recalls, if you struggle with the answer, you’re one click away from seeing the exact spot in your content where you created the recall so that you can quickly refresh your memory in the original context where you learned it. Stop wasting time rereading. Read once. Watch once. Listen once. Abstract and curate what you want to remember into recalls and use spaced-repetition memory retrieval to remember everything you learn. Rereading, highlighting and rereading highlight have been proven suboptimal tactics for remembering what you’ve learned [3].

Metacognition training wheels, Pomodoro timer and project management tools for learners included. Create study groups with classmates and collaborate sharing recalls and content. Teachers can create classes in the app.

We have reference docs on our self-hosted Notion [4] and helpful videos on our YouTube channel [5]. I write about learning on Medium and Better Humans [6]. Please let me know if there is any way that I can be helpful to you.

[1] Medium/Better Humans https://bit.ly/32RNRVR
[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
[3] https://makeitstick.net/
[4] https://learn.idorecall.com/LEARN-iDoRecall-96fd209b3b294337...
[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdsHy47vKKsEylCoT-JT6tA
[6] https://medium.com/@iDoRecall
Timecounters available to userland in OpenBSD -current
Dart; Sound Null Safety
patio11 tweeted about banks and their opaque conduct re. interest on savings accounts in the past couple of months:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1269919425802559488
Breaking Mimblewimble’s Privacy Model (2019)
> For some reasons the feds in the 90s were unusually interested in prosecuting psychedelics.

Psychedelics = hippies = anti-war left.

A well-known and somewhat similar "unusual interest" was in prosecuting crack versus coke.
What Is Weight Sharing in Deep Learning and Why Is It Important
The trouble in that part of the world would be finding a place to build that isn't on a fault line.
Maybe its just a non-native English speaker, whose native language promotes the formation of this kind of sentence structure. To me, it reads a little like Hebrew run through a google translate ..
> To put this in concrete terms, if we say (just to choose a number) that someone reasonably conscientious with 3-5 years of professional experience behind them could be proficient with the technical details of current front-end or back-end development, is it really so implausible that someone with 7 years of professional experience behind them could not have developed and maintained similar proficiency with both?

Yes. The world doesn't stop spinning so you can learn both. In the time you're focused on one, the other changes. Computer science fundamentals are going to be consistent, but the problem domains of front-end vs. back-end are vast. You can have skills from either, but ultimately either one is complex and wide enough that an individual focused on just one won't master it but merely be more than competent.

Also, just keeping track of the tech either side is discarding is enough to fill one mind. Keeping a pulse on useful best practices from multiple domains while the world races forward is no small feat.
It's just a single-letter fat-finger typo: "has" ---> "gas".
Apple Acquires More AI Startups Than Any Other Tech Company
No clue, but these recent grads can instead get a job at a less prestigious company & apply to the lucrative ones after they have a few years' xp.

Here in Berlin it seems the market for developers is as strong as ever, regardless of Corona.
I wound up writing my own but mostly because I couldn't be bothered with complex setup: https://github.com/rcxdude/nobsrss . It should work on basically any browser, it uses no javascript. However it's super minimal to my RSS use-case, which is basically just notifications (it doesn't attempt to parse or render the content of the feed beyond the link).
> It was missing what would quickly be considered a standard feature

That is an anachronistic claim which sounds logical to the reader in 2020 but doesn’t match the environment of decades ago. The feature he added could have been based on, from perspective of the producer of the printer, completely non existing API.

That is, something available to different customers, but completely specific to the setup of every customer.

Additionally, it was the principle that mattered to RMS. One can often do some reverse engineering intervention to achieve the desired modification even based on the closed source, but it’s still against the conceptual advantages of working on the codebase which is by policy free. As in:

“Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.”

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

The principle works even once the network messaging API in some environment is standardized and starts to allow some, from that point on, “standard feature”.
89% of Turks living in Germany voted for Erdogan, far more than those living in Turkey.
I agree with tobacco. However, alcohol is legal in part because it’s easy to make. Even prisoners often start making alcohol let alone the general public.
Yes, but if it wasn’t already done out of the box (no idea if it is or not!), you’d need to apply the changes to mount the overlay to the root on every update.
I would also like to learn more when it is ready
Three years probation and community service for the Purdue Pharma execs that were convicted for distributing oxycontin to pill mills.
You're just being stupid. Denaturing agents are used to make the product unpalatable. They may be mildly toxic, but they are so disgusting that users typically don't absorb much of it.

Methanol, on the other hand, is not just more toxic but also reportedly tastes better than than ethanol. As such it encourages people to drink it. Using it to punish illicit alcohol drinkers is just plain evil.
You might be grouping this in "policy", but I'd break out "compliance".

Getting a company certified under PCI, HIPAA, and friends is a specific and important role in cybersecurity that doesn't require advanced hands on technical knowledge.
I my sibling comment I referred to the mid-80's.

In this particular library, we had touchscreen terminals to acces the library's index.
Thanks for writing an important piece. I had shit hit the fan before and wound up in being a begger that thought they could not choose and getting burned and being a begger that made hard choices and sacrifice for a long term goal. There is a lot we can do without to end vicious cycles of being vulnerable and being preyed upon. I completely agree with your comment of clarification that you to sort your shit truly out you must be choosey
> seals are available in many places that don't support ruminants.

My point about shellfish subsistence is that, compared to the island hopping along the Malay Archipelago, any hypothesis about a migration along Beringia has to consider clothing/shelter due to the challenging temperatures. A focus on food energy alone is not sufficient. It was a reminder, not a falsification.

The "ancient civilization pseudo-science" I'm referring to is implied from the parent comment [1] that I replied to [2]:

> This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast is with "master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar" Randall Carlson. [1]

Randal Carlson and Graham Hancock are my target pseudo-scientists. Carlson cites the Younger Dryas era delta-O-18 Greenland ice core data as evidence that a cataclysmic event may have occurred to account for the drastic temperature fluctuations. My point was that delta-O-18 data is often graphed as delta-temperature-equivalents and it is a mistake to interpret this value as true temperature independent of the influx of meltwater into the Atlantic.

If you mention an ancient civilization like Atlantis in the context of the Younger Dryas, I'm going to assume that you flirting with Randal-Carlson-like topics that pop-up in HN comments. I'm aware that you are intrigued by the possibility of discovering archeological artifacts covered by the rising sea levels since the last glacial maximum; a valid assumption.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820540

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821726
Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?
One software pioneer built an app store that unlocked for 90% of India
Online only banks have fewer expenses (no branches or staff in them). This appears to translate into higher rates which is a selling point for them.
I'm on the same boat.

"Previously product teams would have to call numerous downstream services to leverage a domain; they now have to call just one....Furthermore, we were able to classify 2200 microservices into 70 domains."

So they went from 2200 to 70 microservices? One extreme to the other. The answer is somewhere in the middle.
> uploading this data is exactly what Strava is made for...

Do the users know this as well?

Skimming Strava's homepage, all the UI that is shown is either generic social network stuff or about presenting location data - and this was also what OP expected the service to do.

The only text on the page that could imply health data being used are general statements about how Strava can "analyze your performance" and help you getting better.

There are no mentions at all about particular health data points such as heart rate. (But plenty of mention of location data points such as position, elevation or speed)

This does not indicate at all that collecting and analyzing health data is the main thing that Strava does.

> It's not a dark pattern, ...

Putting a user setting behind three redundant confirmation screens with confusing options is a dark pattern no matter the context.
Savings account rates are terrible compared with alternative investments though, even cash-storage investments.
So maybe people now realise they are buying services not devices. These devices are locked, either you share your most intimate data with their companies or they're unusable. Garmin is a bit of an exception here because they at least allow you to get the data via USB.
> It's just programming...

Ah, yes. Quite.
Thanks! Will try that out
Personally I couldn’t care less about the interest rates on my bank accounts. The money I have there is money that I intend to use the coming years, e.g. for reoccurring expenses or for expenses related to my house. Any money that I don’t intend to use the coming ~5 years I place into index funds.
There are a lot more people than you think that simply don't invest their money, instead they keep it in savings accounts. My aunt is one of those people. She got a large inheritance and basically kept it in a savings account for 20 years. My mom got the same inheritance and bought investment properties with it and now its worth 10x. I think it comes down to the fact that a lot of people are risk averse or feel that investments are too complicated for them.
Its honestly not inconceivable. Here in Vienna, there is a serious contingent of pro-Erdogan demonstrators rolled out to counter any demonstrations against Turkey, and they're not disinclined to violence when things don't go their way. Austria has typically been able to defuse these things, but in Germany the situation may be a bit more volatile due to the scales of people involved.

It could be only a few months of rabble-rousing and suddenly there's an insurgency problem in Germany.
It’s not about skipping lines. A tech master’s degree allows you to get a job prior to them applying for a h1b via the OPT program. Without that most companies that don’t have overseas offices won’t hire you if you are from countries like India or China.

I think these days a masters in CS or a related field allows you up to 3 years of OPT. I.e multiple chances to apply for a H1B visa while working legally in the USA.

For more context: Currently theirs about 1 million f1 students in the USA and about ~500k h1b holders. Roughly 223k applied and got OPT in 2019. More figures can be found here:

https://www.cato.org/blog/facts-about-optional-practical-tra...
Ask HN: Any good Go API boilerplates?
I am looking to start a new project in Go and would like to see some recommendations on a good boilerplate I can use to start with
With less then 50% actually voting.
> Complete lie?? No. The protests have been mostly peaceful with a few small incidents.

See my comment in the sibling thread. The protests have been composed of both violent and peaceful members. While peaceful protestors far outnumber violent ones, violence does occur most of the nights between those two dates. Calling the protests peaceful is a lie and saying the federal police started the violence was a lie- it was well established there before they arrived.

> Letting a demonstration be judged by its most violent participants but not judging a police force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor.

I fail to see why this is relevant. I think the demonstrations are fine. I think the riots are not. I think the federal police can defend their federal courthouse from vandalism and breakins.

> Calling them a "few feds' as if they were inconsequential is again disingenious.

My mistake, I am willing to amend to "many". I used "some" as I do not actually know their number.

> The problem is not their number but that they are not in uniform, they have no insignia and they kidnap people off the streets.

Kidnapping is an exaggeration. It is an arrest. While I agree the uniforms are problematic, it doesn't make the act illegal.

> The big problem here, of course, is if white supremacists show up in "tacticool" gear and truly kidnap you to murder you then it'd be prudent to resist.

It's prudent to resist in any case where someone tries to arrest you without cause. That said, you may incorrectly judge whether or not they have cause, so simply listening to their orders since they are police is a better option. When you can't identify them as police, as you said, that is a problem. That said, the odds that you will encounter a situation where you are have unknowingly committed a crime and cannot identify the person arresting you as an officer are highly improbable. It's worth criticizing the officer's uniforms and approach, but going from that criticism to "tactics of an authoritarian regime" is a unfounded jump.

> This is why my so many of my friends in Portland joined the protests, this is absolutely not tenable.

Simple way for your friends to avoid arrest by the feds: don't go hang outside their courthouse while people throw shit at it.

> I was born behind the Iron Curtain. Our phone was bugged. We knew. I know a ... little ... about authoritarian regimes and secret police.

These aren't KGB breaking into your home at 3am for whispering some slight dissent to your third cousin- these are federal police arresting people for standing on the fed's doorstep and breaking shit. There is an obvious difference and I will be side-by-side with you when they actually start abducting people.

That said, where did you live and what did you experience? Why do you think the feds, who I see as arresting people for obvious acts of vandalism, are similar to a secret police, who punish people for spurious crimes without a public trial?
When interest rates are higher you can get a decent return. I remember getting some decent rates from banks in early 2000s. Not amazing but maybe like 4 to 5%, IIRC

edit: I was able to find 4% savings account from Wamu and 5% cd.
demand for lsd is low nowadays. doesn't compare too cannabis or cocaine or mdma. it's not a very good party drug lmao
Yes, but people were dying en-mass from methanol poisoning
Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss
Hmm, would it be easier to imagine PayPal or Stripe requiring a lot of services? Given its volume of payments, Uber has basically had to re-implement PayPal internally, custom-tailored to its own flow. Companies at this size/scale basically contain multiple whole companies within them. Think of like all the SAAS services that your company relies on, and then imagine that your company now owns all of them and all the services that come with them.
Open Letter to Paul Graham
Why is it surprising? It applies to housing loans as well. Sometimes unless you threaten the banks that you will switch the bank they won’t reduce it interest rate.
Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning
...isn't the front-end back-end split about dividing by purpose? Front-end is user interactions; back-end is about data retrieval and storage (some which might be the user interactions supplied by the front-end).

Ultimately either can do analysis of data, though tradeoffs generally push that to one side of the API or the other.
> This is being done to satisfy India's government so Apple can sell phones in India.

Nah, they were already doing that, and they seem to have acknowledged that they don't stand a chance against their competitors in a highly price-sensitive market as India. They've barely managed to capture a 2% share in smartphones after all these years and have only recently started to properly localize their offerings in the country. No one in India considers iPhones to be mainstream; they are almost always looked at as luxury smartphones.

I recall Apple India's CEO saying a few years ago that they more intended for India being an exporting hub for iPhones than a target market.
One-upper?