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> Please refrain from accusations of misogyny without substantiating evidence.

I wrote them from my perspective. They are my opinions/conclusions. If you have other views, that's fine for me. I am claiming my truth, not a universal truth.

> From your links it seems like Testosterone Rex and The Gendered Brain are the books I could use to approach another perspective on this subject? Along with I guess The Essencial Difference as well, in order to contextualize better what they're refuting?

Yes, that's the ones.

You wrote in a comment above mine:

> In general, one can broadly summarise these into saying that, on average (again, we're not talking about individuals, we're talking about populations), men will prefer to work with things while women will prefer to work with people.

I say, no, we can not summarize that at all.

You mentioned that you read a lot of stuff from Hackernews. Have you had a chance to look at the actual sources? Wikipedia has a great summary, with many sources to back up it's claims:

"Baron-Cohen has faced criticism by some for his "empathizing-systemizing theory", which states that humans may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions (empathizing and systemizing); and that females tend to score higher on the empathizing dimension and males tend to score higher on the systemizing dimension. Feminist scientists, including Cordelia Fine, neuroscientist, Gina Rippon, and Lise Eliot have opposed his extreme male brain theory of autism, calling it "neurotrash" and neurosexism.[35][36][37][38] Rippon also argues against using "male" and "female" for describing different types of brains, and that brain types do not correspond to genders.[36][39]

A 2009 study led by Baron-Cohen which reported that autistic individuals possessed superior visual acuity has been subject to heavy criticism. The developers of the software he used said that his results were impossible based on the technology used in the study. Additionally, the results of the study could not be replicated in a follow-up study.[40][41][42]"

Basically the author you quote, Simon Baron-Cohen, is widely known for his many misrepresentations and un-replicable studies.

I guess his success is in spreading sexist psuedoscience, which supports the continuation of a patriarchal status quo, gaining widespread popularity for his unscientific science before it was challenged/discovered to be so.
The US must not go unpunished. The world needs to stand up to their lone wolf style. If we do not stand up against the US now it will only embolden the evil. Vote with your wallets. Avoid using US made products and services. Pressure/ Make laws for retailers to enforce Country of Origin information for each and every product. The web is flooded with services made in the US that spread their propaganda (antivax and QAnon started in the anglosphere) made to keep their population feeble and powerless (some of them even die because they cannot afford insuline). The US, Trump and their 2 party system must not be emboldened any further.
I've generally regarded these digital USB headphones to be lower quality (for the price) than analog headphones. That said, I've been using my current pair of HD555s for nearly a decade now, and want to upgrade. Has the tech improved significantly since then? I'm also skeptical of wireless headphones...

One major benefit of going analog is the near-universal hardware support, no need to worry about Linux compatibility for the vast majority of the cases. Is the switch worth the drawbacks?
You can imagine what kind of conclusions would be drawn with implied causations if it were the other way.
It's not at all about those things. This move is about entertwining Oculus and Facebook in such a way that Oculus can't be trivially broken apart from Facebook once antitrust regulators set their sights on the company.
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According to this article [1], the issue is Epik's digital currency.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/epik-domain-names-paypal-proud-...
`git fetch origin` failed for me

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref 416da574ec

`git fetch origin pull/8142/head` worked (the ref became available).
That is off-topic, but you may report any issues to UKRINFORM team directly.[0]

[0] https://www.ukrinform.net/info/contacts.html
Ask HN: What tech stocks are you bullish about, and why?
I hope a thread like this is welcome. Delete if not. But as we have so many people on the inside here:

What public tech companies have, in your perception, not peaked yet, but a bright future ahead?

Let's say in the mid term (years, not months or decades).
One would expect the ability to download books in various formats (EPUB, TXT, etc) in a site like this from the start. Otherwise it's pretty much useless.
I wonder if anyone has written something to find and independently assess the validity of these bulk false DMCA take downs.

Honestly, I'm guessing a ambitious law firm could actually make a good class action suit against these offenders.

Seems like broad, real damages could be justifiably demonstrated.
Reducing the information flow and scaremongering could also reduce the stress from the pandemic ...
Nah, that won't work. China is a member of WTO and follows the TRIPS agreement. Therefore, I guess the RIAA will just go court in China, and they can still take down any repository which they'd like to. Lots of companies from the western country have won intellectual lawsuits in China.

Sites like sci-hub works in a way tricky manner. You can't expect an ordinary company which is in another country to do so, because they are still inside the framework of the international capitalism.
This is a bs analogy.

You can just ignore this if you don't care for how it's built. This kind of comment is just gatekeeping and makes people less likely to listen to you.

If you think there's a better way and you want people to get there, give constructive feedback. That's the only valid option.
Acquisition Channels Database for Startups
See also https://tardigrade.io/.
The irony isn't lost on me that a company obsessed with cultivating an image of family friendliness punished an employee trying to start a family.
Who said anything about multiple accounts?
I am not too familiar with FP languages, but I must say I have never seen a FP language in low level embedded or GPU code.

Of course there are garbage collected imperative languages which are slower than say Haskell, but can Haskell's speed compare to the most efficient C implementation of a code without making it unreadable?

This is what Rust's promise of "zero cost abstractions" means: if you went all in and handcrafted every pointer it wouldn't become more efficient then it is in it's abstracted form.

Again, I don't know enough about FP languages to make qualified statements, but I thought this was a Rust novelty.
We started from decent online mobile reader, but have plans to add downloads.
Honestly? None.

You can definitely explore mathematics experimentally, we all do - computer or not, but to really learn the mathematics just read the books and do the exercises.

Being able to work things out symbolically on paper is probably one of the biggest skills you can have beyond your usual repertoire of programming skills - is there any worse feeling that guessing your way through a problem you don't understand?
> The one problem I have with solarpunk is that much of the fiction is simply not that good.

I agree. I was intrigued by the genre and picked up what happens to be the only books mentioned in the article by name: The Dispossessed and Sunvault.

They're both fairly boring. Slow paced, lack of nail-biting moments, some stories from Sunvault completely went over my head (barely understood anything from them)...

I have respect for Doctorow from an advocacy perspective, but I'm not a fan of his fiction at all.
To quote Paul Graham, "Live in the future, then build what's missing."[0] In other words, think of something that seems like it should exist in the future because it will be useful (but doesn't yet, or does only in limited form), and then work toward that. If you're building something novel that solves a problem, other people trying to solve that problem will find you.

For example, I fantasized about being able to program and work in VR or AR in order to have an unlimited number of application windows around me in 3D space. So, I started by building an app for Android and iOS called VR Browser (https://apps.vuplex.com). Then, I started receiving emails from companies asking if they could license my technology to embed web content in their own VR apps and video games. Now I run a profitable business selling that 3D web browser functionality as a family of plugins for the Unity game engine (https://vuplex.com). Now that I have found product market fit, I just listen to my customers and they basically tell me (in aggregate) what to build next.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
The MVP was built using the default widgets, hence the Material-istic interface on the Android demo. I will eventually get a design overhaul done. Thanks for the feedback!
why do you think this is MSFT's fault?
Didn't github pre-acquisition always comply with DMCA takedown requests too?

Also, why shouldn't they? This really doesn't seem like the hill they should choose to die on, if they decide to go against the government they would have far more interesting things to fight for.

And this is one of the less defensible ones too, given they explicitly gave examples of infringing copyrights in the code.

EDIT: ah, but this isn't a proper takedown notice, as per https://twitter.com/xor/status/1319755776043384838
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I'd second this book recommendation. It is not only the best Rust book out there, it is also one of the best books on any programming language I have read so far.

This is one of the books which I will gladly buy once more when it is updated.
After spending too much time on it now, the Google Photos API Limitations (only compressed files via the API, EXIF Data not complete) are what really rubs me the wrong way. I've turned on Takeout Backup Creation every 2 months now and expect to just flatout pump these files into Glacier, while retaining a local copy of the latest version on a NAS here, but this is really a sad state of affairs.

Is iCloud better for this?

As Google Photos is my main usecase for being stuck in the Google Ecosystem, is this situation better with the iCloud?
Partly because, for example, 25% of all nurses are over 60 (and another 25% over 50). Doctors skew even older. Teachers are about the same. Childcare workers are a little younger but skew non-white which brings their risk back up. If the only precaution taken was for people over 60 to not work with the public, the medical system would collapse for the general public.

These numbers partly reflect increasingly delayed retirement, although those careers are extreme cases - 25% of americans over 65 still work. I don't believe it would be possible to meaningfully protect even just the group of over 65s, because it would require massive social spending and organization in a way that half the country would simply not accept. Aside from their participation in the paid workforce (presumably doing things that someone in the general population needs, at some point), many families would lose informal childcare. These protected old people would need access to doctors and nurses and hospitals, all filled with the infected younger people (or could we dedicate entire hospitals to them, staffed by elderly medical professionals? Which ones?) They would need to live for free if not able to work, or have their income replaced. They would need to find a place to live somewhere besides the family home, if it was currently shared with younger family. Etc...basically I believe that an attempt to "just protect the vulnerable groups" would fail to protect those groups, and would cause similar chaos among the general population.

(Edit: these are all US numbers. I would be fascinated to see equivalents from other countries - I know that the frequency of intergenerational living varies greatly, for instance, as well as retirement ages)
For those who din’t want to get stuck to firefox 69 for sustained addon functionality.
Taxation without representation is what caused the American Revolution
see https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#language-variables
Today, I Present to You the Paper with More References Than Words. A Thread
It's called ohmibod, for those doing scientific research. Interesting at which point in time will youtube, twitch, pornhub and livejasmin merge into one big ...ing experience, that we yet have to invent adjective for.

Worse, I remember a joke about buying a bottled water. Now they seriously shoot bottled water reviews on youtube and tap water is a health danger.
"Hi, the enthuastic freedom of coding killer RIAA, please send GitHub a takedown request on https://github.com/github/dmca."
What else would the sum/min/max/avg of an empty list be? What else would the count of an empty list be?

What is the sum of an empty list in Haskell? What is its length?
Fortunately, the Covid death rate for children is very, very small.
Works great until the government either recalls the pieces of paper (PM Modi in India, anyone?), or institutes strict capital controls while running the printing press incessantly (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Lebanon, just to name a few examples).
In Ubuntu and Debian the dependency from pandoc to texlive is of the "suggests" type, not "required". So you do not have to install texlive to use pandoc. You may use an interactive front-end like aptitude and simply deselect all the suggested dependencies you don't care about (or configure aptitude not to install suggested deps by default).
No, I don't think there are "lots of opinions" on whether Sweden pursued a herd immunity strategy. And whether it affects children has nothing to do with that.
Based on my experience either Julia or Wolfram Mathematica (the command line version with fewer libraries should be free, as in beer)

Or if you want to go all in you can try a proof assistant like Lean which is being developed with a focus toward application in mathematics rather than CS/logic.
Twitter has image upload. That's enough.

There's a Twitter niche of pornstars trying to get people to sign up for their OnlyFans page. Presumably they think they're attracting a useful crowd.
Arch, I presume? That's mostly due to a man-power problem on the side of the Arch Haskell maintainers. Try our pandoc Docker images or use pandoc-bin from AUR for a bloat-less version. https://hub.docker.com/u/pandoc
Ask HN: Content distribution platform for Indie Hacker type sites?
> That pirate bay and scihub are still around, that their authors are walking around freely

Let's not equate these sites. scihub gives people what they are likely already paid for. Academic publishing business is a fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (recent video on the topic that I liked)
There's a reality that Epic doesn't have to like, no matter how bizarre. Apple is not the only gatekeeper of an App Store for iOS. Apple is the gatekeeper of the only certified App Store on iOS, that allows users to run on their fully warrantied device. Users can always choose to try to jailbreak and install Cydia, and Epic could release their games there.
Pandoc tables can have attributes now!
see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-types/blob/master/src/Text/Pan...
I guess a lot of people "could". But realize this is pretty much a full-time commitment for years and years. And even then

Sure, let's say 20% of it is genetics, 80% of it is still putting in the work.
Is Disney considered a religion yet? :)
What was submitted was not a DMCA notice, Microsoft was not legally obligated to comply with it.

From what I know, DMCA notice requires the identification of claimed copyrighted content and this document does no such thing.
Or HTML+CSS with WeasyPrint or Prince; the latter is free for personal use.
Did Tech Crunch wake up today? India has been going strong for the past 5 years, if not the past decade.
I'm doing the same thing right now to get better at ML, and I chose Python.

I partially disagree with you on longevity since not much math-heavy code would have been hit by the breaking changes in Python 3.

In the ML domain I also disagree with your take on performance since there are plenty good enough GPU accelerated libraries for Python.

Python also has the advantage of knowledge reuse in gainful employment since it's the preferred language for ML.
U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet
> When everything is moved offshore to lower costs, what will we do all day?

Provide a more productive and practical purpose for these people's labour during their blip time on this planet to something?

Those "something's" are practically infinite. People have developed (or been sold) this weird conception that there is only a small finite amount of work available, and therefore we must limit things like the total workforce numbers or other such nonsense.

When any (usually group) of people can come up with an idea, generate thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of value, then really the supply of "what to do" is hardly finite. Most of our limitations on these are self-created through well meaning legislation or through power systems like monopolies, which we have systems to break. But hardly all of them are limited by these two factors.

With simple B2B software alone theres millions of automations/automations just waiting to be productized and profitizied. Consumer-wise we haven't reached anyway near the potential of smartphones, IOT, and desktops in every home.

This idea that there is a finite amount of jobs and there will be nothing left for the guy who figured out how to drive sophisticated machines or run teams/logistics of such people is such a weird unreal fantasy to me. I don't really get it.

Our problem is more of what are the older people going to do and we've come up with quite a few solutions already (UBI) but beyond that these transitions take a lot of time. A lot more than they ever should. And a lot longer than the doomsayers ever predict.

Plus we are a long long way from robots completely replacing labour jobs and things like being an electrician which can be a highly valuable and rewarding career (not everyone has to be a millionaire but middle class life in anywhere country is enviable by almost anyone not in a western country).

I'm so tired of these negative predictions than never seem to work out in reality. In reality we have failure of current systems (in one giant form in America prematurely shipping it all overseas is one). Not failures of the actual technological development.

But regardless you can't stop this constant progress anyway. It's going to happen. IMO our short time on earth is far better spent on fixing the failures of the past that are realized today (criminal sentencing reform, drug laws, the utter failures of political systems maybe due to voting or other factors like how policy is formed, etc, etc) than worrying about the future.
Hey all, this is my first Show HN submission, We've spent the last few months during lockdown building a cross-platform app to help businesses with their liability waivers, with a drag-and-drop form builder at core.

I've had a great experience using React, MobX, React-Native and Firebase Functions, and have to say that though it's not as seamless as building directly against UIKit or Android APIs, React Native has really matured in the last couple of years since I last used it. Being able to share code across web, mobile and server is killer.
How do you know the TPM is correctly validating the hash checking software unless you built the TPM firmware yourself?
Reactive Programming: Hot vs. Cold Observables
My favorite math professor was great because any time he would forget the statement of a theorem or the outline of a proof he wouldn't just go to his notes to remember it, he would out-loud reason his way to the correct version. This would include the minor missteps he made on the way.

Best math lecturing experience I have had by far.
>What would things be like if there were no synchronization or concept of hours, minutes, seconds at all?

Lots of train crashes.
No accurate ocean navigation.
No GPS.
No computers.
No Internet.

And lots of other stuff would either not exist, or if it did, would kill/harm lots of people.
I have been on Kubernetes for over a year and I'm just a team of one. Besides the initial learning curve it's never been a "full time job" like many say it is. I have good automation and I don't need to do much maintenance besides upgrades etc. I deploy and manage k8s with Rancher, and that makes life a lot easier.
Yes, I have read the guide pretty thoroughly. What all those things have in common is that they are your responsibility to implement - all that 0mq does is reconnect the socket, and queue up messages. Anything else that could give you reliability is either TCP's problem or yours. That includes timeouts, retransmit, ACKs, keepalives, heartbeats, rate control, message storage, everything that ensures reliability - with 0mq you get to implement it. Lazy pirate indeed.
No, it's not just a pork barrel scam. It's the pork barrel scam all other pork barrel scams wish they could be, the ur-scam.

It has a superficially plausible premise that continues to fool a lot of people, a tie-in to the military-industrial complex, it always involves insane amounts of capital expenditure, takes years and years of construction before anything comes out, and costs way more than everything else.

Orbital solar power might rival it someday. Fusion is trying; watch out, once they hit break-even.

If the money spent on fusion projects had been put into solar, we would have had solar cheaper than coal 20 years ago.
I still don't get it.

If you wanna do digital detox and still need a phone, get an used Motorola F3.

- It can't do more than talk and same very bare texting (Mudita already got a calendar, something that wants to get your attention and don't get me started on that mediation timer)

- costs almost nothing (Mudita Pure costs >300)

- flat and small, therefore easy to put away in any bag or pouch and forget

- doesn't has any big display where you need to take care of it

- upcycles an old phone for what is likely a, perhaps repeating, but still temporary use case
Sounds like someone who understands those problems should build a protocol that includes a very low fee per transaction to pay for protocol development. That's how the bisq.network handles this - that way parties interested in actually implementing the solution can be paid. They won't make huge amounts of money, but at least they'd be compensated.
This. I think it's good to have someone who can communicate this clearly and mostly understands the tech they're writing about (and actually bothers writing about it regularly)
Can you please share how you’ve lent your privilege before, so I know what you mean by that?

Also, if you have children and one of them secures an offer to study in Cambridge, MIT, your country’s equivalent of a prestigious university - will you tell them to turn that offer down to lend their privilege?
Light therapy is super underrated. I noticed my depression is seasonal, based on light levels. So I've been making sure to get as much light as possible in the darker months and it helps a lot.

Also a fun fact, infrared light passes through the skull, deep into the brain and stimulates neurons. Sun's more than just UV!
You may try to pull the authority by proxy card, but that does nothing to address the fact that so far Sweden's total covid19 death count since day zero is still below 6 thousand.

That's less than a weekly count of covid19 deaths in Spain when it's first wave flared up.

You may claim that you know a nurse in sweden as much as you'd like, but that is completely irrelevant and changes nothing.
If it were any other profession, I would clearly recognize this as satire.