skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate you saying that. I am from the Balkans but from neither of these two countries and I was wondering whether you would say most of the people around you share your view. It is heartwarming to see humanist messages like yours, but I have the impression that much bigger part of the Balkans expresses more jingoistic nationalistic and xenophobic views.
I believe the GP is talking about the software macOS ships with, not macOS itself.

macOS ships with some GPL2 software, along with its BSD/MIT/Apache-licensed Darwin layer. (The GP is presumably implying that having this GPL2ed software "built-in", helped macOS entrench itself as a useful POSIX for developers — at least before tools like MacPorts/Homebrew came along to make acquiring this type of software "after-market" simple.)

For any GPL2 software macOS makes use of that then transitions to GPL3 licensing, Apple can't actually adopt the GPL3ed version (exactly because of the "runs anywhere" clause in the GPL3) and so instead, macOS keeps the old, GPL2ed version of the software around, left to rot. Eventually, if it's something critical, Apple removes their dependency on said software, replacing it with something that's not GPLed.

This is the story of Bash on macOS: it was regularly updated for as long as it was GPL2-licensed; then it got "stuck" on the last GPL2 version when GNU transitioned Bash to GPL3 licensing. The Bash on macOS remained on that old version for the longest time, before finally being swapped out for Zsh in Catalina.
Thanks for the feedback! In my view, these are some of the biggest advantages of Itinee over my previous spreadsheet planning:

- Visualize everything on a map. This is big for me just to help organize what days it makes the most sense to do things
- Estimate travel costs (e.g. Ride sharing) based on distances between stops
- Easily adjust number of attendees. Some costs are split regardless of how many people attend, like hotel rooms, while others are a fixed per person price, like event tickets
- Ease of use for someone NOT familiar with spreadsheets. My wife couldn't replicate any of this in a spreadsheet, but she can use Itinee.

Some of the above may in fact, and probably is, possible with some fancy spreadsheet shenanigans, but the main point was to make the whole process more accessible.

I'd be really curious if the advantages I mentioned weren't apparent on the website or if they simply weren't, in your view, "enough" of an improvement over a spreadsheet to justify paying for it.
Additional examples of WebAssembly being used at scale that I haven't seen others mention yet:

Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/calc-ts-...

Adobe - https://medium.com/adobetech/acrobat-on-the-web-powered-by-w...

Fastly - https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...
I read 10 years ago that males were on the verge of getting preferential acceptance at colleges.

There's a pop theory / crackpot idea that men tend to be on average "dumber" than women, but with a higher standard distribution, so they will have more "geniuses".

Women will be on average "smarter", but lower standard deviation.

If true, the disposable male theory might explain aspects of that, since while women will have a high chance of reproduction, male biology will need to have more variance and "risk" to achieve some sort of distinction to get to the comparatively lower reproductive success rate of males.

In reality, our schooling is now so screwed up between grade inflation, teaching for the test, over-prescribing ADD drugs (which is opioid dependence grooming by the drug companies), reduced funding, destruction of the middle class, and a host of other changes to society and policy.
I’d say change. More money in the podcast industry should also result in higher production value. More money will also push some of the independent content a bit to the sidelines.
Boys require more physical activity. They're just wired for it. Sitting at a desk for hours on end is incompatible with their physiology. Sitting like that isn't good for girls, either, but they seem to cope better. Schooling, as it is widely administered today, is not humane. It's not that it benefits one sex. It's that it hurts one more than it hurts the other.

If you have a boy who's on the verge of failing because he can't pay attention, make a serious effort to get him several hours of moderate or intense physical activity every day.

You'll see a world of difference.
Really? YAY!!! I upgraded to Big Sur and it is still there... but I don't know if it is a legacy since I've been TimeMachining my machines since 2012 and things persist.
There site which aggregate prod use cases:
https://madewithwebassembly.com/
It doesn't, they were just looking for a way to justify discrimination that they saw as positive and no one was there to defend against it.
> It seems weird to me to accept it quasi as a law of nature that large parts of the population get paid below subsistence level for their work, often doing physically or emotionally hard labor, while others earn big in bullshit-rich environments.

Earning “below subsistence level” for physically and emotionally hard work is how over 99% of human lives have gone throughout history. It’s somewhat miraculous how many people in developed countries don’t live that way anymore.
Ok thanks, since I didn't do any Flash development I was unaware of this, depsite having been around.
This is probably my favorite introductory machine learning book. The fact that he places almost everything in the language of graphical models is such a good common ground to build off.

This really sets you up to realize that there is (and should be) a lot more to doing a good job in machine learning than simply minimizing an objective function. The answers you get depend on the model you create as do the questions you can hope to answer.

I don't see a clear list of differences between this new edition. Does anyone know what's new?
> In our current school there are 3 STEM programs for girls, one that is for both boys and girls.

Is this a public school? What does "for girls" mean? Like, can you enroll a boy?
> all the currently-wasted energy from the renewable energy facilities that they've been building in Europe

This is not all that high - curtailment is very infrequent. Most places just turn down their natural gas usage in this case.
> this entire account consists of argument about Covid

More like 11 / 21 total threads I commented in.

Given this is a pretty hot and important topic, and that the flow of information about it is restricted ( censored ) through various mechanisms, especially the stance I have on it, which is best resumed by the Great Barrington Declaration ( signed by 13,000 + medical and public health scientists that I keep linking to ) I believe this is not an unreasonable ratio. In any event, your claim is false. If you check some of the stuff I've linked to, you may find I have some objectively valid points.
The fact that systemd bundles a lot of functionality (which is different from being a monolith) means it has a disadvantage in the terrible metric of "CVE counts".

Now if only the systemd-hating crowd would take a look at how many CVEs affected their DHCP client, nscd, nss and other resolvers, various PAM modules, syslog/klogd, ad-hoc init scripts writing insecurely to /tmp, ntpd, etc.
Before starting this, did you look at the flaken crate? If so, any concerns or notable differences? https://github.com/bfrog/flaken

Although it hasn't been maintained in 4-5 years, it's not the kind of library that requires any maintenance following creation of a stable generator. Maybe someone could bench it.
Your STEM example explains very little of this gender gap. The article says:

1. this gender gap begins very early (kindergarden), before the majority of "women in STEM" programs begin

2. are international (i'm fairly certain they don't have women in STEM programs in China, for example)

3. it doesn't explain why the differences are inversely related to income level (do you think there are more "women in STEM" programs at lower income levels?)

4. this difference is very old (>50 years of this effect)
Something else to consider is that some times these hiring bises are explicit and others they are de facto the way things are be [1]. In my university there is a target to have at least x% of new faculty hires female. It's against the law to state a direct number (e.g. 7) but apparently that method is fine in my country...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360
This largely depends in the IDE. The thing is, that a language like Nim is 'competing' with other languages like Java, C# or Python where interactive debugging is a given. I would highly prefer a language which compiles down to C code, but it's hard to give up an IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse.

I know that many strong developers do not care that much about debugging or can use GDB without thinking. But unfortunately I'm not one of them. And I fear that Nim will stay a niche language because of that..
> I wasn't saying C# is faster than Rust, I said C# got faster.

Ah gotcha - my mistake :)
Those are the surface level lies. How about the more fundamental narrative lies like the American dream, American exceptionalism. Is it a lie to justify something with a technically true reason but hiding your real motivation?

Yes, the Obama example is a lie. But it doesn't tell us what the moral rule is. What are the white lies that can be allowed to keep society peaceful, to avoid panic or public discontent?
There's a discussion about these apps on my forum that might be helpful: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2...

I've been using Resilio Sync on my Android device and my NAS. I bought a family license a couple years ago.

I haven't seen any apps that naively support gps or time based hooks, fwiw, but sync-vs-backup mode is a common feature.
It's hard to learn math, history, science, and literature running around playing. Changing school to be what kids want compromises the school. Kids don't want to study.

Boys may have a harder time staying still and paying attention, but that isn't just a school thing. Doing any sort of research for any sort of theoretical learning in life requires those same things. You'll never get to fulfill your every desire in life. Learning the discipline to control yourself now and have fun later is just as important a life skill to learn as any. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
I'm a developer and I can't remember anything so I love JIRA. I just grab a ticket and have everything I need to work on it.
Fiction: The Leopard - Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Non-fiction: My Life in Christ - St John of Kronstadt
+1. Everybody's setting up balloon drops and loud publicity stunts for these "let's get girls to code!" initiatives. Nobody's calling serious attention to the lack of female tech leads, directors, and VPs, because that would require uncomfortable investigation into why non-male employees aren't retained and promoted.
I’ve been having good fun playing Minecraft Dungeons with my older kid on the switch, it’s very accessible (3 lives, teammate healing/revival, keep your items etc) but I think it still qualifies as a roguelike.
50% of the past four presidents were elected while losing the popular vote.
Until STEM fields actually have at least a semi-decent gender balance, I don't have a problem with any of this, because apparently it's not even enough to counter the inherent cultural biases that push woman away from technology fields.

I mean, I suppose it's also possible that these programs just don't do anything and we should scrap them due to lack of results, but I'm inclined to believe they're helping somewhat.

(Semi-disclaimer: Prior to COVID I used to volunteer at Girls Who Code.)
They can’t reject boys attending the girls club. If they did they’d likely loose a lawsuit.

However the organization’s programming can be very feminist, turning off boys.
"Nuclear submarine", in the context of the US Navy, has been a redundant phrase since 1990, when the last non-nuclear powered sub was decommissioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Blueback_(SS-581)
tl;dl:

* Sex differences in general intelligence are small, so the F>M achievement gap in higher education likely is not explained by women being smarter.

* The gap emerges already in elementary school and the gap in elementary school is predictive of performance in higher education.

* The gap in elementary school is not new, and can likely be attributed to females maturing earlier in their attention skills and being less unruly.

* So girls/women may have always been more fit for school, but they lacked incentives to make something of themselves and were held back by their biology in earlier times.

* What is new is a strong incentive for girls to succeed in school due to the economic opportunities and reduced investment in the children and birth (e.g. birth control).

* The gap mainly exists in lower-to-middle income families, not so much higher income, so a good environment can presumably aid boys to be more focused, or boys may be more sensitive to a poor environment.

* It concludes with anecdotes by a teacher about how a return to more manly competition may not actually be helpful for boys as it discourages slow learners. Rather, boys should be more supported, and they need to get over the stereotype that nerdiness and conscientiousness is for the girls. Plus the topic of boys falling behind should not be a taboo.
The case for using a database with Excel is at least as strong as for using Python or C# to model Excel data. There are excellent free adapters for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Why isn't the answer: females are more intelligent than males.
I would like to try a more visual and spatial approach to project planning software. Most of the major solutions, like JIRA, are more like interacting with a RDBDMS through a UI. (Although I admit JQL is very useful, so I don't want to throw that away entirely.)

Here's another product I found recently that allows users to draw out their project plan, and have it turned into management-friendly reports automatically:

https://www.gameplan.global/

No comment on whether or not this is actually good, since I have never tried it, but it presents a refreshing concept.
Great article, dead letter queues might be another thing add to later updates. Also Apache Pulsar might be worth mentioning.
I actually think we need both. Boys need a place to be boys by themselves and girls need the same. Nothing wrong with mixing it up, but you also need the opposite.
Some taxes are more expensive than others because they dampen more economic activity. Corporate income taxes are one of the worst.

To illustrate by example, if you were to directly tax investment activity $1 per trade, you'd kill almost exactly $1 of GDP. Nothing would be gained. Land value taxes and VATs, it turns out, are some of the best because they're inexpensive and largely non-distortionary, and personal income taxes are somewhere in between.
Dunno why you think "girls get tons of encouragement, accolades, and praise when they do something." My experience growing up as a girl totally contradicts that.
Maybe I'm a bit out-of-touch with modern juvenille fiction but surely it wasn't that long ago that Rick Riordan was a bestseller?
I hope the trend ends soon. I know the games are great, eg Hades looks and plays fantastic. But the mechanic just isn't doing it for me. And it's increasingly difficult to find indie games in genres like platforming and light RPG that aren't roguelite. If Diablo 1 had been made today, hardcore mode would be mandatory...
"Pretty bad example - where’s the incentive to work harder for the extra $3/hour when you get nothing?"

I don't understand what you're asking here.

"And do you really mean to tax per hour rather than per year which is where we currently base income taxes on?"

You'd continue to be taxed the same way. But all the income from the subsidy would be taxed at a higher rate than the income the business paid.

In this way, you are always incentivized as the employee to take a higher paying job.
Call me a paranoiac, but I am not going to wish anything, whatever I wished in 2020 had a very wrong turn :D

I'll just say Happy New 2021 ... Long live and prosper !
> leadership that (mostly) works (in the military)

I'd say by everyday metrics, military leadership doesn't work. It is incredibly wasteful, structurally leading to the $5K hammers and an entire year to design an official face mask.

It also utilizes and requires a "punishment is one misstep away" dynamic - without which there would be no functional lower levels of the pyramid, and higher levels would look very different.

You treat an engineer badly, they leave their job and possibly go to your competitor. You treat a soldier/pilot badly, and ... you can keep doing that for quite a while.

Steve Jobs' management style was, perhaps, the closest SV can get to military style. It works, but I wouldn't work there. And Jobs paid people handsomely to endure that.

On the other hand, there's Linus Torvalds. He has incredibly effective leadership, over almost 30 years now, without hiring people, without even paying them, yet still getting a lot done. Not entirely flat hierarchy, but anyone is one email away from Linus (though not one commit away); No planned career advancement or horizon, and no strategic training.

I've seen many projects on the spectrum between Jobs and Torvalds, and in my experience the Jobs side of the scale is not generally more successful.
"The channel, already under an access ban in Turkey since 2019, was shut down in mid-December and is now inaccessible on YouTube. The Erdoğan government had it shut down using YouTube’s copyright policy."
The elements point is an interesting one. I'm trying to imagine what element or group of elements would be hard to do without. The elements related to carbon-based life of course (although hydrogen at least is not realistically scarce)--though I guess life doesn't need to be carbon-based. There are the conductive metals--gold, silver, copper--although aluminum at least could fill in in a pinch. Silicon? Although you'd probably have be lacking semiconductors more broadly.

If you restrict the discussion to worlds that are basically human habitable, also any trace elements that humans need. (According to this [1], humans are known to need 25 elements to live so that would be a good place to start.)

[1] https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1728-the-essential...
And academic "performance" is often regurgitation.

Remember that "intelligence" is tied to success on standardized tests, at least in the view of educational administration, because that is the alpha and omega of getting funding and keeping your job.
Are you asking if people care about the tools they're going to have to work with to practice their profession? Yes, of course.

I imagine you do as well! If you were looking for a job and they were programming in VB 6 and using CVS for version control I would imagine you (or almost everyone if not you) would say 'hmmm I'm not sure that's how I want to spend my day'.

I know I don't want to spend my precious hours on Earth trying to remember which markup syntax this particular input box uses in Jira today.
In the beginning the packaged a bunch of stuff, both mit/bsd and gpl. At some point they stopped gpl software. The darwin stuff is published but not everything. The code shared has become less over time even as apple has grown enormously.
I have always wondered if girls knowledge that they're likely to want a child some day factors into this. That is it gives them a timeframe (between late 20's and late 30's say) that they kinda know they want to be in a position to have a child and working back from that they need to get an education and begin a career.

It gives them almost a timescale to plan against and boys have nothing similar in the biological sense.

I genuinely have no clue if it actually holds any weight, just something I've always been curious about.
You are an assembly line robot.
flu shots aren’t mandatory in the US. Only half of Americans get the flu shot in most normal years.
The DX7 can lay claim to being one of the most important advances in the history of modern popular music. Perhaps not since Leo Fender attached a pick-up to a six-string in 1949

Statements like this are, exaggerated, to say the least. While the DX7 is undoubtedly prolific in 80s pop, it was just a synth that was successful for its price point (and timing!) as called out in the article. Case in point that today, nearly all the major manufacturers are building re-issues and the most coveted are those the analog counterparts of the Dx-7 (the sequential prophets, Oberheims, ARP...). FM has no way succeeded the typical subtractive synthesis of the analog machines.

source: I write 80s influenced music and collect synths
> Our approach is completely backwards.

"This is not accidental or a result of the arbitrariness of arrogant bureaucrats. It is necessary and inevitable in any technologically advanced society. The system HAS TO regulate human behavior closely in order to function.

"At work, people have to do what they are told to do, when they are told to do it and in the way they are told to do it, otherwise production would be thrown into chaos. Bureaucracies HAVE TO be run according to rigid rules. To allow any substantial personal discretion to lower-level bureaucrats would disrupt the system and lead to charges of unfairness due to differences in the way individual bureaucrats exercised their discretion.

"The result is a sense of powerlessness on the part of the average person. It may be, however, that formal regulations will tend increasingly to be replaced by psychological tools that make us want to do what the system requires of us. (Propaganda, educational techniques, "mental health" programs, etc.)"
My friend's Tesla recorded a robbery yesterday
That's the same thing people said about the Gastarbeiter in the 70s.
Well, actually, the zero-vector has no direction and every direction.
I'm old enuff to remember when Jira was brought in through the back door and was forced on management.
12 euros in the EU for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, that's about 15 dollars.
I thought California had better IP assignment laws than states like Texas ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208819 ), but it is not something I know about in full detail.

I know California can can claim ownership if you do work on their time or using their resources. In other states the scope seems even wider. I should probably look into it more.
I think the lender's clock would be most valid. If I go to the bank for a loan, they usually aren't open to negotiation. They say "Here are the terms. Want the money?"
* There's a massive gulf between revenge killing and boys fidgeting.

* Development is different than adulthood. Your argument is like saying breast feeding a child is crippling it's ability to integrate into society later in life.

* I haven't seen any compelling evidence that you can train impulsiveness out of a child. You have a lot more faith in public schools than I do if you think language arts workbooks have that effect.
Ruffle - A Flash Player emulator over WebAssembly:
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
It's not. At the moment all talks about its membership are frozen due to its more and more autocratic rule.
The 'features' in the sentence are indefinite - they're not fully specified - so clearly adding a definite article isn't right.
I doubt it’s news to anyone reading here that there are varying levels of socially acceptable lying.

What this doesn’t address and what I think parent comment is about it becoming more socially acceptable, even celebrated by some, to lie at a level that previously would trigger a shaming.