skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an insight on why?

Is it because VC were willing to give less to them because they were women? That there were less well connected? That their negotiation skills didn't match up? That the nature of the projects they choose were perceived as less attractive?

Lots of possible reasons here, and the solutions to choose can be very different depending of the causes.
Yeah - we got a load of DEC Alpha machines in the lab I worked in around then. Which were promptly named Ares, Tharsis, Elysium... etc.
Except they're advertising it as something to replace cyclists and pedestrians. Streets should not be designed keeping cars in mind, but keep pedestrians first and then cyclists.

I for one hope it doesn't take off, just for this sole reason, even though I liked the quirkiness of the design.
You have a fully working application where the only major issues can be easily fixed by adding `event.preventDefault()` to the keystroke handlers. Instead, you want to throw all that away and rewrite it with some new tool/framework, inevitably introducing new bugs and issues. Unless this is a joke, the question is why?
If your definition of fairness is "we created an environment so toxic to an entire gender that they don't participate in it" Then sure.
Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder is an opiniated physicist who gets a lot of flak for constantly commenting on this issue. Yet, I believe she does society a service in doing so.

I have yet to see anyone contradict her basic premise with factual information. I wish she were wrong, as I would love to see a breakthrough towards an experimentally verified Grand Unified Theory, including an explanation for what we currently identify as dark matter (similarly for dark energy). From what I read, physicists that criticize her take their own wishes for reality, and prefer to attack the messenger rather than confront the reality of the message.
It should be obvious to most people that it's trivially true that practice helps you improve skills that require manual dexterity.

I also think it's highly likely the anecdote is supposed to be illustrative rather than literal. IMO it's meant to be advice to students not to fret about how perfect their work is and that with time it will improve. It's just been distorted by the "one quick hack" culture of self improvement.
> You are on a known-hostile network (eg. a public airport WiFi access point, or an ISP that is known to use MITM), and you want to work around that.

what if your ISP is a known-hostile network?
Youtube, yes, up to 1080p. But the widevine DRM modules are not currently available for the ARM platform for most any of the video services. We have a launch video later where we talk about application availability on arm.
Might be related to Plundervolt, many manufacturers issued BIOS updates to disable undervolting.

And if you didn't want that, well surprise, Windows 10 did it for you anyway! At least it's not permanent, it just loads on boot.
A lot of those changes look like good things taken from other languages that have done it well (the null ?-> and ??, ...).

But many things seem to be quite of a burden instead of a progress => why create a new match syntax when a switch is already well known for something similar? That will create confusion (thinking of all the for types of loops in JS!), plus it's still not an enum and cases will be missed.

And the worst being the attribute #[] syntax... why?! Almost every other language uses @attribute, and it is successful: simple to write, easy to read, why on earth a new and such complicated solution?

While php is making progress step by step, it has no chance of ever becoming of good reputation if it goes all the way to make itself more crazy.
> valid cases where a subquery can use an ORDER BY, such as when a LIMIT or OFFSET is specified.

Oh, quite true! However the output of that subquery, despite having an order by, will not have a guaranteed order. Ordering is lost as the result set leaves the subquery. This is in the sql standard and in most if not all implementations.

> I'd go to far to say that unless a query has an ORDER BY it is likely a bug to use LIMIT or OFFSET

Wholly agreed.
yup.. that's a major myth.. she wasn't 9 but 19
You do both at the same time? That would bring learning FP to a completely different level. I don't think anyone would mind if you posted a link here.
The fact that this very well paid prestigious industry doesn't "attract" more women is a very clear sign of inequality.
I know people who run decently sized and successful businesses in a variety of mind-numbing technology (try FileMaker scripting or shell scripting) but that definitely doesn't mean those things don't often suck and that there aren't advances in PL's that don't or won't lead to better software. (I personally don't use PHP at all because I haven't yet seen a reason to use it for any new projects over Python or TS. Is that new match expression proper pattern matching? ;))

It's pretty hard to draw a link between these things and commercial success, but it somewhat unseriously reminds me of Jonathan Blow's warnings that eventually everything is just going to fall apart.
That's one of the main reasons why I love this book so much, that it sounds realistic. I'll be honest, I always struggled with suspension of disbelief with lots of SF. Does anyone know other SF books that are similar (aka believable?)
I'm sorry I'm not knowledgeable in that area to tell you what it does, but it works regardless of resolution and quality. 4k or 1080p, it doesn't matter.

What's also impressive is it can stream your media at a lower quality, say 4k to 720p to your phone, also in near real time, on a very old laptop that I repurposed into a NAS.
The prevalence of cars on US roads, and the way cities are designed keeping long distance car rides in mind rather than pedestrian walking is proof enough.
Tesla scales back its warranty on used cars
I'm currently in Vietnam. Having a land border with China, I expected the situation will get bad, but they handled it pretty well here. Anyone who arrived in March or later is getting automatic visa extension until end of this month. I'm here since December, so I had to keep extending visa (every 3 months) on my own, and they inflated the price quite heavily. Starting from the next month, the automatic extensions are gone, and so is the 3 month visa, so from the only option left is 1 month visa (~$80). My country (CZ) is in pretty bad shape right now, so I'm considering staying despite the price or maybe going to Thailand which provides longterm(-ish) visa.
Not on newer processors, at least Intel, due to TurboBoost.

Undervolting lowers voltage, but the processor will now stay at higher clocks for a longer time, hitting the same TDP/power limits.

You'd need to undervolt and either reduce Turbo Power Limit or cap the clocks at something lower.
Wow! Big ups to Confiks, they achieved something great here. I'll be sure to emulate this in the future.
In defence of the big VPN providers.

1) Why would you keep logs, when you could then be compelled to hand them over?

2) As setting up a VPN company is easy/cheap, you conversely have to spend a large pile of cash to advertize your way to the top. The only asset you really end up with is your name/reputation. Publicly burning a customer would be incredibly expensive.

Adjusts tinfoil hat
I think the point about VPN providers acting as a honey-pot might have some legs though. Seems incredible to think that whilst NSA and the rest are determined to detect illegal activity online, VPN providers seemingly thrive without any interference/intrusion. My view is that as long as you're not doing anything too bad, you're safe as the cost of your exposure isn't worth it.

Of course if the government was having trouble infiltrating/extracting information from the big VPNs due to the volume of traffic, pushing the 'people who really want privacy' to self-identify even further, by creating their own service makes sense.
All the traffic emerging from it (even if encrypted, you know where it's going) can be tied back to the single user.
Much harder than it sounds because future macroblocks depend on present ones, and motion vectors mean that over a few seconds, transitive dependency can reach the entire image (and does in panned and zoomed shots)

Can possibly work, but depending on movie content might not save all that much encoding.
CV padding.
Jackie Chan had a similar attitude toward his films. He once said in an interview:

>Whatever you do, do the best you can, because the film lives forever. No, "because that day it was raining and the actor don't have time."

>I said, "would you go to every theater and tell the audience?" No! The audience sits in the theater: good movie? Bad movie? That's all.

And he practiced what he preached, sometimes going through hundreds of takes to get a stunt just right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

Does something like this exist anywhere except the US?
Their upstream providers are happy to tap the traffic if someone with enough $$$ knocks on their door.

Also, why are these companies registered in Panama or the British Virgin Islands?
> Certain fields, let's say, pure math, or history, until a professor retires or dies, there's just no spot for the people below even to compete for.

Sadly, 100% true in pure math. The worst part about it is that, you know those same 2 or 3 people who pop up in most of your classes? Yeah, they're your competition. Times every university that does anything in your specific subfield.
Could this be used to e.g. run a local http server which you can then access from Safari? (Thinking web development workflows). I tried running http-server from npm but it failed with an "Unknown error 22" so I guess maybe the sandbox prevents this
Would be interesting to see this data by sector. Female founders are much more prevalent in some sectors (eCommerce, Health) than others (Infrastructure, Blockchain)
It's good enough to stop the government to know what exactly you send, but not who you send it to. The VPN provider can know what servers you send it to, but that's usually not your threat model.

Short of using a VPN provider that's a front operation of the government you're trying to avoid, VPNs do a good job in adding a layer of protection. The proposed solution in the article (rent a VPS) does not, as the IP is unique to you and tied to your identity, the hoster has no incentive to protect your identity.
Where do I find these "well-paid" startup founders? Shit I've been broke for decades grinding away at this.
This looks more like what I was expecting from the title: a jOOQ (Java eDSL for SQL with type safety by generating classes based on the schema) like library for Python.

Interesting.
Considering the networking costs of azure and AWS, it's hard to see why anyone would want to use them for torrents, with or without VPN.
lowendbox have much cheaper alternatives for such boxes.
Its the strange HN dichotomy between "let's all work from home all the time" and "we all live in villages where it is -30 in the night and 2000 degrees in the day so we need a car"
Unless you explicitly need speed, or they're your only option, why do people use VPNs for privacy over Tor? Do they provide any benefits other than being faster? I thought Tor was a much more secure option if privacy in particular is your objective.
Thanks for the feedback, I hadn't thought about replacing Lightroom yet.

I do like Lightroom, but the catalogue speed with 100k+ photos is glacial on my PC. I tried importing 30 years of photos rather than having multiple catalogues, as tagging consistently across all would be useful ("Hey auntie Sally, look at the photos of you aging!").
Few months ago I was debating with a friend working since 15 years on PHP, my point was php is slow and max throughput is 200-500 rps, which is quite low compared to Go, node.js, C# and others, he answered that 100-200 request per second is more than enough for most use cases.
I'm working on systems with 25K RPS at peaks, but for simple projects and small companies he is right ... But why should anyone start a new project in php now that we have so many good alternatives?
The log function has a vertical asymptote as x approaches 0.
What a fucking waste of money, imagine if these resources for a new collider could instead be used to bolster the ECB/SNB/BOE programs for purchasing corporate debt and equity. My understanding is they've only had ~few hundred billion to a couple of trillion for that so far.

THE MONEY SHOULD GO TO BAIL OUT BANKS AND THE CREDITORS OF LARGE CORPORATIONS, WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE ANYWAY.
I haven't seen any discussion of this, so I assume I'm wrong.

Can't you solve a lot of these problems by chaining VPN providers? It would only take one running securely and not keeping logs to make it impossible to trace the connection from the destination to you.
Precisely. I don't expect to die tomorrow, but I probably don't have more than 30 years left either (based on average life-expectancy at the time of my birth). The actual expiry date is most likely somewhere in-between, but the fact is that very few people get to know until it's too late. Personally, I wouldn't want to know either.
Yes I am not necessarily disagreeing. I am saying that people who shit on PHP think that other languages are somehow this magic wand that is so much better. I challenge the "so much better" part because the cost vs benefit matters.
Some other VPN providers claims were tested by hackers and security researchers and found wanting [0].

The point the article was trying to make was you can never be sure which providers are trustworthy and which ones are not, and even the trustworthy ones today might not be trustworthy tomorrow and you have no way to verify whether they are or aren’t keeping logs.

0: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/ufo-vpn-data-ex...
Log-probabilities are added so much that there are often special-purpose functions for adding them, Eg https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.logad...
No, it's a fundamental problem with proprietary software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831699
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Her opinion is totally legitimate and I’m glad people like her are speaking up. Everyone should agree that we need to spend money pushing the limits of science. That’s not the issue here. The point of Sabine’s criticism is that these empty promises need more scrutiny based on the failures of the recent past.
> Your writing style is also all over the place and hard to follow.

That's a weird bit of deflection you've resorted to. [0] And unless you're walking back on every one of your comments and opinions in this thread I think I was spot on with my assessment.

My friend, it's not my "hard to follow" writing style that you're stumbling on, it's that I made a more sensible argument than you did. You are plucking an argument out of thin air, floating on conspiracy and innuendo without any real evidence, or at least something that passes Occam's razor. Like that you can build anything, doesn't make it true.

Look, I'm not even saying you are wrong, because I have no evidence either way. Just that the (far) more plausible explanation is that anyone running from a superpower is running to another superpower. It's the only thing that makes sense. He did what he had to do to survive.

You're trying to build that into "he must have been a Russian puppet all along" because "people" have been saying it so you must be right. But then you complain that "people" also say he got stranded in Russia, so they must be wrong. So I ask you, is what "people" say only correct when you want it to be correct? You selectively go between "people support my views so I must be right" to "people contradict my views so they must be wrong".

I'm sorry, that's no way to have a civilized and productive discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864900
The article reads "On top of the female-founded startups finding it difficult to raise any money at all, the 6% of startups that did, only received 1.3% of the funding.".

I understand it as 6% of female-founded startups managed to raise money and they received 1.3% of total founding, rather than 6% of startups were all-female.
Yes it is actually crazy how much stuff people with babies and toddlers need to carry. Of course the amount of stuff also expands to fill the available space. My niece requires like 5 different toys for a single outing, let alone a weekend out of town.
Well, if you're honest, anything about encoding is a hack :)

Not that I'm a fan of UTF-16, but I once heard UTF-8 described as "one of the most elegant hacks in computer science", and I think I agree there ;)

Edit: Another interesting contender would be KOI8-R, as AFAIK setting its most significant bit to 0 and interpreting it as ASCII mostly results in readable text.
I've read A Deepness In The Sky and enjoyed it, I was wondering whether it A Fire Upon The Deep is similar?

Also, it was lucky I had A Deepness In The Sky on my e-reader as I had no idea how long it was and it would have been far more intimidating in its physical form!
Answer for Jsonnet: layering/overrides from multiple sources: yes, as you define it (it's a programming language, the logic is yours to define, based on your particular usecase). But no access from environment variables, as that's inpure, and not really in scope for them.
I’m So Old
I haven't found any good arguments against PHP in the comments here, just pure hate.
Let's name a few of the arguments people are making:

1. Its variables start with $ and that is ugly: I mean, come on, I won't even entertain this bigotry.

2. It used to be better before: This is just pure nonesense, before OOP PHP wasn't good to create any big and well-structured application, it is ironic because most of the bad opinions about PHP come from people who used it a long time ago. Besides, you can still use PHP as you used to, but now you have more tools at your dispossal, You are free to use it as before.

3. It is trying to be Java: Well, sure it is more like Java, only less verbose and easier to write. Developers can be much more productive in PHP. And moving in the direction of Java is not a bad thing as the language moved into the Enterprise space. I worked with Magento every day and I am glad the language is more than Java than it used to be, it means we can organise our code better. Again, ironic that some people who mentioned this as something bad about PHP, then went on to say they prefer Java.

4. Composer has made the language worse: Honestly this is so ridiculous... so now having package managers is a bad thing? I haven't met an actual professional PHP programmer who holds that opinion. All of them like composer, it makes reusing code and creating apps in PHP much easier.
I agree, but the issue here is different I think. The linked article is also arguing for open ended research, the claim is that other open ended research is likely to be more fruitful, and that we have reached the limit of what we can learn from the particle accelerator route.

This is a fair debate to have, even if my personal preferred answer is “do both”.
For the same reason that the original was developed: for fun!
Couldn't the indexing issue be solved by only having the client/user do the indexing while e-mails are stored encrypted on the server? Ideally on an encrypted device which will keep/maintain the indexing.

Shifting the burden of indexing e-mail (and decrypting/encrypting the at rest) on the client willing to achieve this?

Edit:

The webmail/imap/pop provider would only have to receive an e-mail and use a client provide public key to encrypt the mail and let it rest.

The webmail client could (in browser) or through their app do the decryption/indexing locally. Could be done with an extension.
Darktable has had a major upgrade recently , and at least on Windows, it’s pretty much on par and its GUI has had a major boost in responsiveness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster_graphics_...
"he answered that 100-200 request per second is more than enough for most use cases"

Exactly this. If you already know PHP and can produce results (mostly CRUD apps) and it doesn't need millions of rps, why do we need to use another language because they are so much better ? So much better at what ? It is like saying "I have a hammer, so everything looks like a nail to me". Not every web app has to be written in Lua/Rust/Go/Julia etc. Each language comes at a cost. No free lunch.

"But why should anyone start a new project in php now that we have so many good alternatives?"

Because everything comes at a cost. You want to use Rust instead of PHP ? Sure, sounds great. Now lets go find a really good Rust developer who also understands how to host it correctly and then if he leaves, can I easily find another Rust developer ? Hmmm. You also need to account for maturity, ecosytem, hosting, maintenance etc which are all real world problems. Building a new shiny toy project ? Go ahead use whatever language you love. Again, it is about cost vs benefit.
Anecdotal: I’ve been helping people a bit recently on the free code camp forum and I believe in quantity. The more I help the more I learn. Half the time I learn why someone gets stuck, the other half I’m actually wrong and I learn where I got stuck!
No, you can still not conclude that. There are still many many differences to take into account. What sort of businesses do these women start? Do they need less money for that? Are those industries less attractive to VCs (for example because they are not growth-markets)? Do women maybe prefer to raise less money so they get to keep more equity?
There are a lot of ways to put it, like "no success without failures". He's making the additional point that it's hard to know if you have failed unless you shared your work. I needed to hear it again also.
I live in Europe. I spend most of my driving time in and close to the city. The sole reason I need a car is that I often need to get from one side of the city to the other. That usually means ring roads and similar, which have higher speed limits and even higher actual speeds driven. Which means I need both something that won't cause a traffic jam there, AND something that is small enough to navigate and park in the city.

A lot of people also live just outside the city core and commute by car into the city. This too means roads with higher speed limits than the actual top speed of this car. Which means, it becomes a problem.

I live in a country where 5.6% of cars are electric. (By comparison, California has 1.3% electric cars). In part because of exactly this need to combine inner city and the periphery around the city. Authorities try to get cars out of the city, which is why they provide tax incentives to at least switch to electric for those who can't switch to public transport.

If we talk about people who only navigate inner cities, electric bicycles, scooters and small motorcycles are preferable from a traffic point if view since they are much more effective. They take up much less space on the road, require less parking space and can navigate the city much faster. (In the summer it is faster to navigate across the city on an electrical bicycle than it is to drive any car regardless of size)

From a government perspective, this car doesn't solve a problem. It creates new problems by increasing the space requirements and by putting new demographics into new settings. Dramatically so if the car were to be successful. From a consumer perspective it does offer more comfort for a narrow sliver of affluent teenagers, and a possible service vehicle for companies, municipalities etc.

For someone who needs a car anyway this is a typical second or third car - which means we fail to shrink down the fleet; it just grows larger.

Its _only_ qualities are size and aesthetics. It falls short in every other respect.
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I think this pages gives a better overview

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2020/07/laptev-sea-lappin...