skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was also under the impression that children would “get in my way,” and therefore I must achieve my career goals first and foremost.

This is because the author grew up in a culture which assumes that men should focus on their career and have less involvement with raising their children.

The feminist viewpoint (as least as I practice it), is to point out the difficulty in individuals to overcome systemic gender bias.

> girls and women on average might simply not be as interested in some fields

We can look at the differences across cultures and across time to see that certain gender biases are not fixed, so not intrinsic to gender.

The classic one in CS is that the percentage of women getting a BS degree has changed quite a bit, and decreased from its high of 37%.

Another is that women are far more present in biology than they were in the days of, say, Barbara McClintock. The percentage of woman who are MDs have also increased in that time.

The cultural effect appears to be far stronger than any intrinsic gender effect.

> I didn’t have to “prove women can do it, too.” I could simply choose to pursue what’s in my heart.

But ... I was MS on PhD track and also felt "that I was making myself crazy, had very little joy in my life, and was experiencing declining mental and physical health." But as a male, I didn't have the extra challenge of feeling that I needed to prove myself as representative of my gender.

So the author seems to be complaining that supporting feminism in a non-feminist culture is hard.

> I had to admit to myself that I did indeed want a man to share my life with and that being “strong and independent” wasn't fulfilling.

I don't get that. My views as a feminist isn't that women should want a man as a partner.

> feminism at its core is Marxist

That's ... entering cuckoo-land. What is "Evie magazine" anyway? One of the headlines is "Did You Know The Nazis Were Obsessed With "Health Guidelines"?" which makes me think it's one of those reactionary/right-winger that label anything they don't like as Marxist, Nazi, Communist, etc.
What I have grown to appreciate recently is the social aspect of human learning. For a lot of us, perhaps most, being in a social environment greatly assists with learning.

Hence having small classrooms where students and teachers can interact with each other.

I found the importance of the social aspect most vividly in webinars:

- A live webinar and a pre recorded webinar where attendees only passively watch and do not participate are exactly the same except for the feeling of being “live”

- That said, individuals are many more times likely to dial into a live webinar than a pre recorded one —- it’s because of the social aspect

I ran a series of webinars at work and saw these principles play out first hand (I did a write up on how to organize effective webinars for anyone interested: https://link.medium.com/Bpq4EH8Ymcb)

I feel we will learn more from an average teacher who we socially interact with than the best teacher from who we are not socially connected. There’s something about humans being social creatures that we best accept knowledge in a social sphere.

I say this as an anti social person who prefers to read textbooks than watch videos or talk to people :D But through the years I realize I am more in the minority.

This is why meetings in companies are very important - for us hackers it sounds like a waste of time - but for a lot of the genera populace, a meeting is an easier way to absorb information because of the social aspects to it. Many people I think struggle to learn anything without an interactive session
In any case, it would be relatively simple for intel/amd engineers to evaluate the effect of different parameters using their quantitative analysis tools which include an emulation environment. I don't think it makes much sense to speculate here about these parameters.
I did big data at one of the biggest European telcos. The only thing that kept any of it on prem was capex Vs opex (and we had sunk capex so that wasn't coming back into the budget) AT&T claimed their Hadoop installation was ten times bigger than ours, but it was still will within the parameters of any of the hyperscalers.
Class books, by established, no bullshit authors.

Joe Armstrong, Odersky, Stroustrup ("a tour" and "principles and practice", both latest editions, are finally good reads), the Go book by Kernighan is a decent one, etc.

Avoid blogs, shitty books by amateurs who are learning while writing (everything by Pact, lol) and other fast food.

Avoid everything related to Java or JavaScript - poorly designed crap, and focus on Scala, Haskell, Erlang, Go and Rust - attempts to fix the fucking mess we are in.
Ok I buy that one. Oil and gas have some big problems..
I find it disturbing the way a trait that seems to be very common among humans is being framed as a problem.

External stimulus means you’re with other humans that you can cooperate with. That you’re sharing stories and learning. That you’re hunting for food. That you’re building a shelter. All these things are necessary for survival. It seems possible that being sociable and industrious might well have been bread into us at some point. And it’s probably the reason we aren’t like big cats in Africa, just hunting and then resting to conserve energy.

We should not be suggesting to people that their instincts are a moral failure to be cured.
not Godot, because it's free.

this is not - https://flaxengine.com/licensing/
Its cool and fun and teaches you a skill at a low price point. There is essentially no functional reason to do this over a single high power server unless for some reason you need a bunch of ARM servers for something.
Dang, a better title would be: Proposed law in Kentucky would make posting personal identifiable information of public officials illegal
> not possible, there's some trickery going on

“...and even if they did it, it doesn’t matter” (though I guess not many are saying that about M1)
Or as the attorney formerly handling the case said it’s become... “A personality thing between individuals”

To be honest, there should be some limits on how long a judge can hold you in contempt to avoid them abusing their power by taking defendant actions as personal.
Miyamoto has this famous saying about releasing a broken game: "A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever.". Although it doesn't hold true anymore (thanks to patching), their mantra hasn't changed. He reflected in recent years about his quote, saying: "“I didn’t mean to say a bad game is always bad, what I meant to say is if you release a game in a bad state you will always regret it,". Yes, indeed.
Well, you're not wrong, but there are huge wait times for the M1 MacBooks all over the world. My M1 Air 16G was shipped after three weeks, and some US people over at Macrumors have been waiting for a month. The Mini seems to be more available.
I think that alphafold may indicate that biotech isn't as disjoint from cloud solutions as many suppose. Super computing is also getting eaten as grid solutions go into hyperscale, but yes ..I find you LHC and the mega telescopes.
That may be difficult with the HATs on every Pi. They look like they limit airflow a lot.
Presenting at an event that requires Microsoft Teams
> Computer viruses, piracy, and various forms of spam are illegal and can carry harsh sentences. We all see plenty of it.

However, you can't expect to see a virus on every single page you visit on the web, because it isn't the norm. The presence is severely reduced because it is illegal.
Probably I'm in the minority, but I have no problem lying in bed just thinking.

Probably people who like camping are similar: just lying outside staring at the sky while crickets chirp, the wind rustles the leaves or grass, the fire crackles and not a human says a word. Soaking in your surroundings and thinking about your place in the universe - how insignificantly small we are in the vastness of space that surrounds us.

It's humbling and helps me with self reflection. What have I done wrong? What have I done right? What are my plans for the future? How can achieve them? What can I do to better myself, the people and the things around me?

That's much more preferable than being shocked and 15 minutes is really nothing...
Here are many negative experiences with Nextcloud at the top of the comments, so I'll share my 2 cents - I started using Nextcloud when it was ownCloud and generally haven't got any issues running a small instance.

If my memory serves me well, then at the beginning updates caused a lot of issues, but for past couple of years I'm pretty confident when doing updates. I update only via web UI when new version becomes available for my instance. Currently running v19 though v20 has been released 2 months ago. That way I believe I avoid some of the bugs when major version is released :).

Some negatives aspects that I have encountered, but don't see as a big deal -

newer Nextcloud versions require newer PHP versions that are not provided by Ubuntu LTS, that means, that I'm no really benefiting from LTS and I have to upgrade the distribution if I want latest Nextcloud (don't want to upgrade PHP separately).

and couldn't get Talk working reliably, whatever I'm missing, it feels that documentation could have been better.
Who is supposed to provide all this food, shelter, and education? And what are they getting in return for their time and labor?

> When we hire people, we make sure they are better prepared than our market competition. We provide them with a desk, computers, printers, access to food and beverage, access to tuition related to the job they will be making, and many stuff the employee doesn't have to pay for. How and why could we think society-wide should be different? Governments should start thinking of their citizens as employees.

Access to those things are provided conditionally upon their satisfactory performance. What conditions are you proposing that governments require to be met?
I wonder how such a game would end.

With no way to block or capture a piece on the square it's attacking from, the first time the king is placed in check he has to move or be captured. If the king isn't completely surrounded, the attacker only wins if they successfully guess where (or if) the king will move. The endgame would include an element of reading the other player, like poker.
Caliphate: NY Times loses awards for Islamic State podcast over false reporting
A good teacher do so much more than an average teacher. I remember I was in school, and had a few good teachers. They are brilliant. They teach well, you learn faster, and you get hooked with the subject. My chemistry teacher on the other hand was mediocre, I had no interests in chemistry at all, and I did really bad. There were many students in my class did well in Chemistry, and many of us did well in Physics. The difference is teaching. Of course, social aspects is important, when you can have everything, having everything is the best you should aim for.

The study of this shows a solution to schools which couldn't attract good teachers due to location, fund or something else, it is not applicable to general schools and general teaching.
You’ve picked a really fun example and I’m glad you asked!

You are exactly correct; the value of the speed of light is not science because it cannot be refuted. (Although this was not always true!)

You see, in 1983 the definition of the length of a meter was changed to be the distance that light travels through vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second, precisely. Or to put that differently, that the speed of light through vacuum is pinned at 299,792,458 meters per second, precisely. Not “by current technological standards”; that’s the exact value of the speed of light in SI units, and presumably always will be.

So light now always travels at that speed because we’ve defined it that way, and if (when) we develop better methods to more accurately measure how far light travels over a period of time, it changes the length of a meter, not the speed of light. Light would still be travelling at 299,792,458 m/s; those meters would just be a little longer or shorter to compensate for whatever errors we discovered. (And similarly, if we discovered that our measurements of certain specific vibrations of caesium-133 atoms were wrong, it doesn’t change the measured length of a second; it changes the length of a meter. The duration of a second relative to the caesium-133 atoms is fixed by fiat, the same way that the speed of light is fixed by fiat)

But if you’d asked before 1983, then I’d have said that yes, the value of the speed of light was easily refutable, simply by following the standard everyday process of science. (and in fact this happened in 1972, 1958, 1950, 1926, 1907, etc and so on all the way back to the mid-1600s)

If you wanted to ‘refute’ the currently accepted speed of light, then all you had to do was run an experiment to measure the speed of light and find out that it had a different speed than everybody thought previously.

Once you did that, you of course needed to get a bunch of other scientists to inspect your methodology and results and then repeat your experiment and do other variations of your experiment, and eventually come into agreement with your new, improved measurement. Boom! Refuted. Science, bitches. :D

The whole point of science is that every single one of its findings can be refuted if new experiments determine that our previous understanding was incorrect. If something can’t be refuted, it’s not science. By definition.

That’s the core distinguishing feature between science and dogma/opinions/whatever.

But yeah. The speed of light? Not science any more. We’ve declared a value by fiat and no experimental results can change it from here on out.
> context also changes with time as other people edit your code

And you change the code accordingly, IF it does. Typically though, its best to change the structure of the code, not to increase its local complexity. If the context gets complicated, think about what makes sense to be split out. Local complexity should be kept minimal.

> can be intricately complicated and hard to decipher

And you change the code accordingly, IF they are. But you name the lambda, not the generic function. There is a huge value in using a standardized vocabulary. Even in English, we get value out of "baby" versus "small human between the age of 0 and 2 years")

More generally, I've seen this kind of thinking before. A programmer discovers some "universal truth" which applied well in some context and they get so obsessed with it that they start applying it everywhere. Please, stop and think before you overcommit to such ideas. They are not nearly as universal as they seem - caveats apply. If you ignore those caveats, your fellow team mates will suffer - so check with them frequently too. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you think about your own code's readability, but what others think.
How do people find these things? I feel like I'm so out of the loop.
A vaccine prepares the immune system for the virus. It does not completely prevent infection or exposure. The infection is just so inconsequential that it's unnoticeable.
> You can lookup what processes on windows do as well.

What does svchost do?
> controlled largely by deterministic chemicals

I wonder if that's a typo, but there's no determinism all the way up from position of an electron in the core, and thru protein binding, which is also non-deterministic. That's why they run that COVID Folding@Home stuff - to assess how well vaccine particles can bind to a virus thru variations - lone "hit" or "non-hit" don't matter much.

That non-determinism alone is a great source of suffering, even before we get to "embodiment" and "need to feed that embodiment". ;-)
> company that treats professional users badly
> ideas, business and management practices that this generation of Apple deploys

Can you please elaborate?
Too true. On my job we have frameworks from the Architects, and stuff that drips in from outside.

The Architects typically buy some Framework from a Trustworthy Enterprise, as approved by the Gods of Gartner. Quality varies wildly, but if you move half a mm from the beaten path you're on your own. I gain a thumbleweed badge on stackoverflow every time I deal with their stuff.

Compare it to outside world stuff. Quality also varies wildly, but 5 minutes on Google generally delivers someone who already suffered trough hell for me, and forged some unholy pact with the technology in question.

Unfortunately, neither camp can choose a boring, proven, working technology that exists already a few years and is in common usage.
Problem with investors is that they pay third parties to do audits and third parties are filled with box tickers who ask a load of questions. You can strategically answer any question. So the game becomes how to answer the audit questions effectively rather than an honest appraisal of the situation.

Also it's not really fun. It's a frustration ridden shit show. You spend all day solving complex problems instead of building business value.

A fine example of where the tradeoff ends is spending three weeks solving fundamental networking issues due to stack complexity and immaturity.
Just for shits and giggles I grabbed a random book from the shelf and counted characters per column.

The book I grabbed was "Spoken Language Processing", Huang Acero, Hon (ISBN 0-13-022616-5) and I counted 88 characters per line. The book is still very readable, despite exceeding the claimed 70-odd character limit for books/columns. Another book sitting next to it (a numerical mathematics textbook) had 82 characters per line.

Granted, the limit of no more than 70 characters per line applies if whitespace and punctuation aren't counted, but that's never done with hard limits in digital documents either, so...
The official PoE 'hat' (add-on module) comes with that fan, I believe that's what's shown.
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Purpose: Learn linux clustering/diskless nodes.

Advantages: Cheaper than conventional servers, limited physical form factor suitable for constrained environments such as apartments, luggage, etc. Low power consumption, suitable for mobile/off-grid/renewable.

Recommended software: https://clusterlabs.org https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/nfs/nfsro... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Diskless_nodes

Commercial advantage: Run highly cost and power efficient data centers, call centers, etc. Eliminate redundant state. Remove manual configuration rollout. Infrastructure as code. Full CI/CD with kernel-level control, per node, for any OS. Basically becoming a lost art in this day of "outsource to cloud". With SDN knowledge, confidently build your own cloud provider.
I love the scalability "argument". The capabilities of a single thread of processing in a modern x86 CPU are underestimated by several orders of magnitude in most shops. The unfortunate part is that the more you chase the scalability with the cloud bullshit, the more elusive it becomes. If you want to push tens of millions of transactions per second, you need a fast core being fed data in the most optimal way possible. Going inwards and reducing your latency per transaction is the best option for complex, synchronous problem domains. Going outwards is only going to speed up if you can truly decouple everything in the time domain.
This is an almost comically excessive headline. New game engines appear every week, and disappear just as often. Why should I care about this one? There is no obvious selling points, and more worryingly, no completed games I can see using the engine.

The first major issue I spotted is no iPhone support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/13/feds-c...

Was the story from when he disappeared.
Clustering SBC's is a great learning experience, and makes for a great budget friendlier home lab setup.
> where students and teachers can interact with each other.

There's another dimension to interactivity that is not merely social.

Really excellent teachers in a "small enough" class-size are able to assess individual students IN THE CLASSROOM. Interactivity in this context means the teachers pose questions to students individually or as a group and orchestrate coherent learning-focused discussions. This is the basis of the Harkness Method which is used in the most elite private schools where class-size is in the singe digits.
Faulty planes reportedly poison passengers on hundreds of flights
I'm not sure it's that simple. One of the things in my process list is "Service Host: Server". That's so generic I can't even properly google it. One of the answers I found was "A server is an application which serves functionality to other network participants."
AI that writes trashing reviews
Besides an obvious slippery slope argument what is the harm in this?
I turn to the documentation or check with colleagues, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll resort to working around the issue the best I can.

I don’t think much have changed though. The good answers on the internet have almost always been drowned out by the bad ones. I get that google programming is a thing, but it really shouldn’t be.
It's a host for other services. Point-and-click way to find out which one: right-click in task manager and 'Go to service'.
> there is something rather than nothing

Is there?
> Even in Star Trek (post scarcity) what do think the 1000+ crew members each ship do? They do work.

Star Trek is hardly a documentary. The characters work because that's what the writers want, to tell their stories. By contrast, in Iain M. Banks's post-scarcity Culture novels, work is not really a thing. Instead people have hobbies and interests, some people accomplish things by getting really into hobbies like spaceship building (but it would have been automated if they didn't), and a very few people choose to play important societal roles.
But now they get to use docker and some homegrown scripts in their tests, instead of a testing framework!
Maybe it's just that deus ex is 20 years old and we were younger than, so that its dialogs and story felt better [than it maybe actually were - not saying it's bad, just maybe a little rose-tinted]. I have a similar inclination as you regarding the story/dialogs of cyberpunk thus far (stereotype-ridden, many dialogs/texts are a waste of time etc.) and I also wouldn't really compare the two games gameplaywise too much (Cyberpunk is a hybrid of open world and structured levels). However, what I really adore about cyberpunk and what makes it very likable to me is the artstyle and world and feeling graphically. It's just so beautiful with these vibrant colors and different parts of the city, especially when it rainS ;)
Also, the characters' believable facial expressions really add to the feeling of being in this cyberpunk world. That makes the game worthwhile to me.
I don't think what Pascal is trying to get through is that we should numb ourself to inner thoughts. On the contrary, to acknowldege them and if anything, spend more time contemplating. That is when we can learn about ourself, others, and the universe, if I may say.

Working from home this entire year, I have tried to practice taking at least 15 minutes everyday, couple of times a day, laying down and just listening to my thoughts, understanding my anxieties. Trying to understand why I feel the way I do, instead of running away from them by distracting myself by various means.

This new habit of mine truly has been a life saver in this year.
Because public officials should be officially public
That is one of the few sites I see ads on.