skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also linked to two 2019 papers after the 2016 paper. Nature Neuroscience is not ‘pop-sci’. What data do you have to make your claim? Have you conducted any independent studies? Published any? Got any ‘pop-sci’ reference? What is your reasoning? I don’t see anything other than an unsupported opinion in your argument against me.

I don’t think there is anything more to say if you believe that pregnancy hormones does not affect the female brain.

‘Performance’ is relative. A ticket puncher can probably still perform at the same level on pregnancy brain. A student attempting competitive exams may be flailing. Maybe you have a specific job in mind when you say ‘mental performance’ doesn’t change with pregnancy. But I don’t think we should be taking the specificities into account to be objective.

ETA: it’s terrible when random claims are made that women’s performance and mental acuity doesn’t alter due to pregnancy. Other than that it flies in the face of reality for millions of women who have had the experience of birthing and pregnancy, it sets an impossible standard for other women. Mental health that has nothing to do with pregnancy occurs now and only harms women.

Such claims are a stunning display of ignorance about the toll pregnancy and child birth takes on a woman. It’s many times more drastic for multiple back to back pregnancies.

Women should be mad about such ignorant expectations rather than accept unreasonable expectations after pregnancy. Insane and mind boggling. It beggars belief that it’s more important to gain some kind of politically correct position of equity than acknowledge some of the serious issues that women face here. It’s a mass burial of facts. And denial of biology. This harms women in worse ways than ‘gender inequality’.

Some would call this gaslighting of an entire gender of a certain age. It’s worse than ‘mental performance’ in a job. Post partum depression and other mental health issues are caused by an entire mismatch of pregnancy hormone cocktails.(/end addition to comment)

On the same note, in this case..Mileva Einstein who was a mathematics student sitting for exams failed likely because of pregnancy brain because she became pregnancy thrice back to back, robbing her of her previous brilliance in her field. It was due to pregnancy hormones. That’s my stance.

That’s all for now. Good day.
Too little too late, fundamentally.

They did a Hail Mary effort with ZFS & dtrace, but in the end few people cared enough to switch.
Considering that hackernews throw a fit every time they see an attempt at monetization via cryptocurrency, and that the guy is seemingly complaining about the same thing, I don't think linking the Brave thing is helping your case...
Canada has the same problem. I don’t have definitive data, but the promo pricing for internet plans has seemed pretty weak since COVID hit. We call our ISP every (fucking) year to ask them to give us the current promo pricing for the next year and this year everything is a solid $20-$40 per month higher than it’s been in the last 3-4 years.

They’re totally price gouging IMO.
> This administration is clearly trying to cut down on immigration in general.

Illegal immigration and immigration abuse through the dev shops which hire exclusively h1b and pay them worse. This new initiative makes the sweatshop less viable.
Millikan's oil drop experiment is definitely reproducible.

He excluded values to reduce his error (seems like), but that doesn't make the experiment non-reproducible. You can do the same experiment today and get an approximate value for e.

Will you get the exact same results as Millikan? Of course not. But that's not what reproducible means.
Can't trust doctors because one time a doctor made a mistake!

Flawless logic!
> Low interests actually allow the asset "poor" to acquire assets by borrowing at low rates

It's counterintuitive, but this is not true. Low interest rates actually inflate the prices of risk assets (stocks, bonds, real estate), greatly benefitting those who already own them.

New entrants have to buy houses at higher prices, which net net washes away the gains made from lower interest. Early movers during the transition may get lucky, but in aggregate, this is true. Think of how a bond works. Interest rates and bond prices are inversely correlated. Lower interest rates = higher bond prices = lower future returns. Its the same for Real Estate.

Also Re: your points about immigration--again, its counterintuitive, but you are also mistaken here. The market for talent is not a zero sum game.

Immigration allows for increased productivity in the global economy because talent is able to go where it can be best utilized.

That talented engineer would be wasted in Albania, because Albania lacks the capital, talent, and opportunities to best utilize the engineer’s knowledge. Albania loses nothing, but benefits greatly when that engineer moves abroad and contributes to making wireless networking accessible for all.

The global economy is not a zero sum game where somebody wins and somebody loses. This is often the hardest thing for people to understand about how the economy works.

And even if that weren't true, yearly immigration as a percentage of population growth/decline in most countries is extremely low. To attribute any of the social ills of a given country to it is foolish.

The world could become more productive and efficient if immigration happened more not less. Everybody wins when talent goes where it can best be utilized.
The real story here is that domain expertise can lead to superior outcomes. The hybrid curation pipeline still worked, but it was a low risk and low reward solution that would eventually reach the goal. In general, there's a lot of unanswered questions regarding how to optimize in the risk reward ML space.
Unlikely, it's the world reserve currency.

If markets panic, stocks drop, cash becomes more valuable and is held. You can always hedge with crypto and gold if you want.
If you paid foreign tax on foreign earnings you can deduct it from your US taxes.

You still have to file, and to pay the difference, if any, every year.
Don't forget that generally e2e tests take longer to run and typically require more test assets.

For example, if e2e tests involve simulations running in real time, then by increasing the number of distinct e2e tests you also increase the requirement on test assets and/or overall CI duration.
Something like that yeah, maybe not React and maybe not Express but Javascript on the frontend and backend for sure.
The discussion is around financial and market dynamics for different types of companies. Quibbling over the definition of zero vs near-zero is completely side-stepping the argument.

The point is, for Google search variable costs are immaterial. This is not the case for any business that needs deals in physical inventory or human-provided services (which was the majority of businesses pre-Internet).

Does Google incur some marginal infra costs from increased traffic or growth of the web? Yes. If you project out infinite growth does it become a "major cost"? No, the limit of profit over variable cost approaches zero.
Using a notification system at all for this sort of thing runs counter to the premise of low anxiety design.
In a universe with spherical cows, maybe. But the issue is that theories we view as true (at least within their scope) often fail to predict observations. Which is fine: we modify them with ad hoc hypotheses to round off the rough edges. The issue is that all theories, true or false, do that. Copernican theories were initially less predictive than Ptolemaic ones, for instance; a simple heuristic of rejecting theories that generate more incorrect predictions than other theories would have left us committed to a Ptolemaic universe. And yet we moved.
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I originally bought it to use with a loop pedal, so I could play bass, then chords, then solo on top. I've done a tiny bit of that and it's been useful, but I've not really explored it enough to be fully confident all over the neck.

I've played a few gigs with it where I've been swapping between bass and guitar and for that it's been great - tbh the first time I did it I was just doing it to wind up the guitarist I was playing with as he was rather conservative about gear selection, and this was the embodiment of everything he despised!

I bought a stick years ago, but could never get to grips with it (I did a year on it, but was still very basic), and I guess the 9 string filled the gap for that sort of thing, without being unplayable for me... Plus I got it for a steal on gumtree here in the UK as the seller had got so annoyed with no shows he sold it dirt cheap.
> women have higher college graduation rates, and "go further" in higher education on average.

Isn't this also a problem? There's nothing inherent to men and women that would lead you to predict this.
One of these... https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/unicorn-hat-hd
That is, unfortunately, not a possible scenario now due to COVID.
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You're right, it's my foggy mind. Core VBox is indeed GPL, it's the extension's license.
I don't have any strong opinions about the fairness or unfairness of divorce laws around parenting, not in the US and certainly not in Italy.

However, I was recently a very close witness to some divorce proceedings involving my girlfriend and the end of her polyamorous marriage, and boy, oh boy. The husband made the decision to make the divorce as painful as possible (falsifying evidence, perjuring himself) to try to get her to give up and let him keep all of the money (he keeps the $400k house, she keeps the $5k SUV), and ultimately, it largely worked. Would you pay $50k to avoid having a miserable year? I would've kept fighting on principle, but she's wiser than I am.

Whether or not any of this was fair, eh. The mistake she made was to enter into a binding legal contract with someone that didn't have a clearly defined, equitable exit path. She misjudged her husband, but no one's immune to that. Honest people will want to write everything down and be bound to their word.

Don't make agreements based on mutual trust and assumed cooperation into perpetuity. It's only once people's incentives shift away from cooperation that you get to see their true character, for better and worse.
I think a lot of the criticism against the App Store is because there is no alternative. I don't object to Apple having a store that they curate as they like, I object to them not allowing anything else on what has become a general computing platform.
A submarine avalanche causes waves by a sudden displacement of earth under water. These occur regardless of earthquakes, and rarely result in significant waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbidity_current
The mother being treated/expected to be more of a parent does not start at divorce. That's simply the continuation of a societal expectation that women will do the 'mothering.'

Because that social expectation is there, it is far more often true that in a hetro marriage the wife will be the one who gives up their career path to take care of a child. Thus the court systems has standardized on an expectation that the mother will need spousal support, and child support in a divorce, because she is the one who'll need to retool and rejoin the workforce, while still _doing_ the parenting she did while in the marriage.

None of this happens in a vacuum.
Note that saying that something "is a meme" is usually meant to imply illegitimacy/contrivance.
> your product sells by its own merits

This is a common yet naive thing to say that is rarely ever true in practice.
So everybody using laptops and VMs didn't kill workstations?

Typing this from a workstation with 64 GB RAM. Maybe not a lot these days, but this comp is ancient by now and still chugs along nicely.
Presumably your children constantly remind you of your ex as well, so I'm not sure "set things up in a way where I'm not reminded of my ex" is an achievable goal in the first place.
tldr: It didn't work and the bot never made a popular post.
Hum... Depending on exactly what you test, it's not only the coverage that increases with a larger scope, but the tests also break less.

If you engineers things for testing¹, e2e tests need much less maintenance than unit tests. Yes, their failure is also more severe, but overall, they are a large gain on that area.

But then, you may discover that your current project just can not be adapted to enable e2e tests, like some projects can not be adapted to enable unity or integration tests. The single size preaching is completely flawed.

1 - Not on the ways the unity testing fans uses that phrase obviously, but if you keep your (human and machine) interfaces stable and generic enough to survive some software evolution.
I believe that in a lot of people, that quest for assurance causes more anxiety. Even when the news is good, the effect is fleeting, while any bad news lasts longer. You prime yourself to keep seeking little hits of reward, like a hamster at a feeder bar.

You do what you gotta do, but I think you should consider the idea that it'll be more reassuring to do something that takes your mind off of it -- especially sleep, which takes your mind off of everything. Internalize the fact that the stream of updates do not matter, and you might find it easier to sleep. It will be hard to turn it off if you've been feeding it all day.

I say this not because I have no feelings or worries, but exactly the opposite. I am quite anxious. I'm trying to deal with the anxiety by refusing to engage with it, and focusing on what I know about the timeline.
> I can’t really poke holes in the walls to hide cables (sadly).

I don't know if you've tried and hated it or not, but spackling is surprisingly easy, and most landlords will provide you with matching paint (either free or at cost, depending on your landlord and probably the amount you need). You can patch probably a dozen holes in an hour (only counting active time, not time spent drying) including painting.

It's not fun, but I've resorted to it because spackling nail holes is extremely easy compared to fixing the carnage left behind when one of those "won't mess up your wall" patches doesn't come off cleanly.

It's also worth checking whether "normal wear and tear" is the tenant's responsibility or the landlord's responsibility in your jurisdiction. When I was in SF and looked, it seemed to be largely on the landlord, so they were not allowed to charge for repairing holes considered "normal wear and tear" (which hanging pictures and the like generally was). My readings said the only time you were responsible for them is if there were an excessive number (though excessive wasn't quantified).
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Micro has little learning curve, if you know GUI key bindings.
Sure, but that’s such a tiny corner among generic problems. To generalize from there seems unwarranted.
Interestingly in the old comment thread, and the other ones I read at the time, there was lots of discussion about how the phosphine might have originated non-biologically, but no one suggesting a problem in the data analysis. Now it looks like that is what happened.

It also means just about no one read the real paper...a twelfth-order polynomial would certainly be a red flag for me.

Interesting moral here for interpreting science: surprising results don't usually have interesting explanations. It's usually a bug.
They're outdoors, standing 6ft apart, it's relatively safe.

And they are already taking off their masks to drink coffee/water and eat their own snacks.
Why we frequently turn down ~30% of canary instances
As a lover of complex carbohydrates, my hat is off to the practice of putting chips on a bun.
I think a large factor was that many engineers had a PC on their desk as well for MS Office, email, various corporate apps made in VB (before the web), and so forth.

When x86 & NT became good enough for whatever engineering application they were working with, there was a large incentive to switch that one to NT and consolidate everything on one machine.
What's going to happen if someone does just that, though, rules be damned?

Three years of litigation and someone barely involved getting a misdemeanor plea bargain?
Awesome article!!
This is absolutely horrifying. It is not even clear who wanted these laws in the first place. This is mostly the effect of a system in which politicians have been scared into endorsing harsher and harsher measures because if they oppose them they can be represented as racists or misogynists.

And the net effect of these laws is not that of appeasing or diminishing hatred or negative views, probably quite the opposite. But they do make very clear that any speech about some categories, even legitimate and factual criticism, can put you in big trouble. This, I guess, is their real purpose: silencing critical voices with the threat of a damning accusation, police intervention and criminal charges.
This is really cool! Of all the ways to get numerical and statistical capabilities into Haskell this seems to be the right balance of pragmatic and ambitious.

I wonder if there any surprising linker optimizations that happen because the R interpreter is in the same binary as the Haskell.

Also the body text font sucks.
I don't understand political anxiety. In the United States, elections even of the president, do not ultimately matter a whole lot. There are several layers of government and several governmental co-equal bodies such that the election of any one person is not super important. And that's the way it should be:

https://reason.com/2020/11/02/make-elections-not-matter-so-m...
As I remember it Protractor was just a wrapper around WebDriver with some glue code to wait for Angular doing its thing after data changes. If you're using e.g. React or anything else that does not do dirty checking, you should still be able to use WebDriver.

(That said, that's certainly still flaky enough.)
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Good question. I assumed union rules, but I could see OSHA being the factor here, too.
Comparable. Most likely a toss up based on your exact program characteristics and running environment.
I'm always surprised this isn't discussed more.

Big tech is accused of being monopolistic, but there is a constant flow of new players in the field, all gaining market shares and building the Next Big Thing, while telecom providers are pretty stagnant.

I'm curious why cities don't directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access. In some cases that might raise property value enough that the town could make it's money back in very little time.
You could have easily titled this as "Download The Guardian App"
My gym is open, so it's still possible
It happens a lot in Spain as well. I met many people (always men) who had to deal with similar situations.

Unfortunately in some countries, forming a family can really go south for the guys if the woman decides so.
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I'm not saying to follow a purely incremental optimization path, leading to local maxima. Thinking outside the box is clearly important for generating new ideas to test. We're not done until we run out of things to perfectly predict.

I would say some of the ancients did science too, to the best of their knowledge.
Well, I guess you could say that if the store was run by robots so you didn't have to pay employees and if the shirts were made out of thin air so that there are no COGS. I'm not trying to be facetious. I think the distinction between marginal and fixed costs is important here because it's all about the feedback loop for aggregators. And one can think of marginal costs as "friction" in this loop.

That being said, perhaps aggregation theory won't be complete until Ben considers fixed costs in addition to marginal costs, which I believe might be your argument?
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Fiscal [0] stimulus isn't any more powerful in terms of degree of impact, what it is is more targetable where it is needed. The scope of monetary policy typically delegated to central banks is enormously powerful, but it has all the targeting selectivity of a thermonuclear bomb.

[0] since we are discussing MMT, we should note that the term “fiscal” is a reference to metaphor that is not at all appropriate to modern fiat currency systems, and that so-called fiscal policy isn’t constrained by a fisc and is just as monetary as what is traditionally called “monetary” policy. But it's easier to use the classic terms than “taxation and spending” in place of fiscal and “central bank credit” in place of “monetary”.
I'm sure you could do similar with certain blogs and posting to HN. EG PG's blog, anything written by Patio11 etc.
You can paint lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Wish there were other browser engines besides the Chromium monopoly.
It's been a while since I lived in Sweden but I didn't know anyone with fiber from the incumbent, there were lots and lots of national and local competitors (power companies, municipal networks, other telcos, internet startups, local co-ops)
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RE the idea of having a toolchest of machines for specific tasks, between my mac and monitor is an eGPU. It's a separate box and I bought it to run blender better.

Maybe it's not that workstations are dead, but that their shape has changed:

At the core of the modern version is a general purpose computer, and then hardware modules (internal cards, or external peripherals via thunderbolt) are added to make task-specific workstation computing happen.

Most people don't need their computers to be workstations, but that's always been the case I suppose.
As an aside, this article made me want to try out F# on Linux. I followed the steps on Microsoft website and was basically up and running a toy program in 10 minutes. Then I spent next 40 minutes trying to figure out how to configure ionide on VSCode to respect my line breaks and not make if/else statements a super-wide line. Considering both are Microsoft products, this wasn't a great developer experience. Or maybe I'm spoiled by the rich formatting customization provided by IntelliJ's formatter for Java/Scala.
I'm really enjoying the trend in the F# community these days of using computation expressions for configuration. Means you can get great IDE support and type checking with configs. Some examples:

1. https://compositionalit.github.io/farmer/

2. https://twitter.com/Cody_S_Johnson/status/132322777503415500...

3. https://github.com/UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions

4. https://github.com/SaturnFramework/Saturn/blob/73855f08d9c50...
True, but once in place, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and an in-built part of sexism.
Hey, a similar situation of fathers after splitting or divorce in Poland also.

In my 20s I was like "hell, people starts families, I could make it!". Now in my 30s knowing how awfully things can go south, having went through numerous within-EU emigrations and knowing the struggles... I don't know anymore what kind of partner would be even suitable to start a family with.