skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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".

The current understanding is that the average is generally similar, and males have greater variability. So yes, vastly more male geniuses. But men have larger brains for a reason, so it might be we're biased against measuring anything men are better at.

> If true, the disposable male theory might explain aspects of that

It doesn't. The main reason is because female mammals have duplicate sex chromosomes, and the effects get combined together. In some other kinds of animals (such as birds) females tend to have greater variability. So it's a haphazard consequence of some evolutionary split way back when. (Who knows, maybe the causation of disposable males is there, but in the other direction.)
Yes, there is value in that and it's a thin line. However if it affects external behavior it is some form of product decision, which eventually needs to be signed off and it has to be documented in some way.

Of course a typo fix in a comment (to find something even more trivial than your VM example) doesn't need a process. But that's also not what I'd call a bug.
>Downvoting has the aggregate effect of suppressing speech...

Whatever else HN is, it isn't a platform for free speech. There is definitely an 'orthodoxy' of opinion on here, stepping outside of which is liable to lead to shadow-banning and post killing.
If somebody needed an example of open source washing...
> It's not. The presence of CVEs in software is a sign of maturity, not insecurity.

It really depends, depending on both the complexity and scope of use of the project, and whether the rate of CVEs is decreasing.

Flash had CVEs regularly for years. I would say it was getting more mature, but the rate they were coming out and the fact that they just kept coming indicated to me not that the project was maturing (at least not at a rate I was comfortable with), but that either the programmers were inept, or more likely, that earlier design decision lead to very hard to reason about security and made it extremely hard to harden prior to exploits being discovered. Neither are conclusions that made me want to use that software.

OpenSSL fell into a similar situation a couple years back. Seeing all the CVEs that were coming out, once could reason "this is just a mature project", but the truth (exposed by numerous people doing audits) was that the code base and developer process was a dumpster fire.

> The key element is to realize that security issues are just bugs, especially in the context of C software.

They are, but not all people and projects produce the same quality and quantity of bugs.

All this is probably how you already see it, just not quite spelled out in your prior comment. I just thought it was important to make that distinction obvious. :)

P.S. This is somewhat divorced from the context of whether systemd is a good code base or not. I didn't intend for this to be an implicit assessment of systemd, I'm not making any judgements on it here.
> someone can just shout across the table and ask someone else to resolve an issue without raising a ticket too.

I rarely see my team-mates in person at the moment to shout at them. If I did, they would likely tell me to fuck off because they are busy with some other task. The only sort of issues where it's appropriate to drop what you are doing and immediately fix it are the most severe issues which need to be fixed right now.

> I work at a big company, and every time the IT Helpdesk does a password reset they open a ticket, then mark it as closed, every time they do a password reset (because they get marked on how quickly they close tickets).

In general, if documenting an issue (of any sort) is more work than resolving the issue, you shouldn't bother documenting it.

But as a developer, many of those easy to fix issues are found by people who don't have the skills or resources to fix them. The best way for someone to communicate those problems is usually some kind of ticketing system.
the problem is it takes me 2 seconds to run git log to see if a bug has been fixed, vs going to a web browser, waiting for JIRA to load, waiting for a search to finish, curse at search for being useless, eventually find the ticket, and then see if it's complete.
They hack it perfectly fine in microbiology,(71% female) and veterinary science (65%). The main issue is that they really aren't represented in computer science and engineering STEM fields, as well as research scientists. But if you looked at all the STEM fields, it is probably more even, or there even are significant male shortages in some.

The issue is that a lot of people don't really define stem as stem, they define it as RCE-research, computers, and engineering.

Linking the pew article for more detail: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/diversity-in-the-...
So they just need $900?
In all cameras that have a video mode, the mechanical shutter does not activate on every frame. The exception is some video cameras that use a rotating mechanical shutter, but those do not have a limited number of clicks.
While people always seem to "want to know why they were downvoted", a comment requirement would likely just encourage a low quality comment to receive more low quality responses. Especially since every person who potentially wanted to downvote something had to write a response to it.

(Imagine the opposite, if everyone who upvoted your comment had to reply "I agree" or something similarly useless.)
Gadgetbridge 2020: year in review and numbers – Freeyourgadget blog
An open-source project (from myself) doing the same with WebSockets: https://github.com/Cretezy/dSock
That's a bit of a tautology because the population exchange was done on the basis of religion, not language. There were plenty of Greek speaking muslims and Turkish speaking orthodox christians before 1915.
Have you measured how much javascript comes down the wire? Jira takes 30 seconds to load on my mac.
A philosophical conversation will accomplish much more in this environment than a listing of political ills.
That article is interesting, but really just talks about one guy's journey with GTD (Mann), and another guy's great-but-different proposal for higher-than-individual level changes.

I spent a little time trying to find an actual study, however non-rigorous, about GTD, and this was the only real contender: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222552899_Getting_T...

I don't use GTD in any explicit fashion, but to throw my n=1 in the ring, the overall concept of personal productivity changed my life. Anything can be taken to a harmful extreme, and I was (at least) annoying for the first few years. But I grew out of it and kept the good parts, and I have no doubt that, for me, this sort of thing was hugely beneficial.
> but it is easy enough to fix by apply user CSS.

That doesn't fix the bandwagoning issue mentioned. Though, personally I don't think it matters in terms of points/karma, though it is annoying to have that bias other readers' opinion on one's comment. One starts off reading with the preconception that it's a bad comment, even if the downvotes are from a disagreement. It's also annoying to be silenced from a disagreement. Graying seems equivalent so responding to someone with a "shut up" which I think anyone would agree is rude.
Some of the later books in the Culture series (most directly The Hydrogen Sonata) deal with civilizations trying to get a leg up on the galactic tech ladder by scavenging the leavings of older civilizations that have "sublimed" and left the physical realm.
> That was accomplished partly by drawing players into loops that were hard to pull themselves from.

> The game encouraged people to draw in friends as resources to both themselves and the service they were using, Mr. Bogost said. It gamified attention and encouraged interaction loops in a way that is now being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon, he said.

> “The game itself isn’t promoting a conversation between you and your friends, or encouraging you to spend time together within the game space,” she said. “It’s really just a mechanic of clicking a button.”

> He said he had spent more than $1,000 — that’s real money — over the years to improve his farm or to save time.

There's a point to be made here about Skinner Boxes, online interactions being reducible to flipping switches, pulling levers, and seeing numbers increase on someone's spreadsheet, but it's probably already been made before.

The general dynamic of social games reminds me of MLMs- the enterprise involves a lot of recruiting outsiders for advancement. Have internet products moved past this dynamic yet? If "the behaviors FarmVille normalized had made it a pace car for the internet economy of the 2010s", what is the pace car for the 2020s? TikTok, with its sophisticated curation algorithm?
Show HN: Pixelist, an iOS habit tracker inspired by bullet journaling
Hey all! First time submitter here, would love to get any thoughts on my first published sideproject. Pixelist is an iOS habit tracker inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of bullet journaling. It'll always be 100% free and login/tracking/ad-free, but I plan to add a tip jar someday.

I released this app a while back and at the time hesitated to Show HN yet another habits app, but with 2020 and New Years on everyone's minds I think it's relevant. I've had some really positive reception via reviews and emails so far (pixelistapp@gmail.com), so I hope some HN'ers might enjoy it as well.

A couple of things that make Pixelist different than other trackers are:

1) It recommends a 3-color system to track habits. It's designed to be flexible to your own meanings, like "Walked 10k steps / Went to the gym / Hiked Yosemite" or "Read 30m, Read 60m, Finished a book". I like to think of this as "are you just staying busy or are you accomplishing things?"

2) Over time, it builds some unique visualizations, like a collection of vertical stripes to show months over time, or nested squares ala Josef Albers. So far I've tried to avoid the common "Longest streak" and line-charts of most apps, because personally I find those boring.

Would really appreciate any feedback! Wishing a happy and healthy 2021

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/bseBPSz Here are some images of my personal data, including years of Activity, Meditation, Guitar (1 hour), and Sideproject (1 hour)
I'm pretty sure the consensus is that in the developing world, STEM education is considered a more viable path to financial independence [1].

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
They only are in the business for one and a half year, not more. It earns good and honest money, 1000-2000 a day.
The dishonest ones are the criminal parties around, the producers, procurers, agents and before the mafia. Several producers and activists tried to get rid of the criminals with some success in the last decades, but it's a constant up and down. Going after the actors is the wrong idea if you want to help.
Whew, that's good to hear. I assume anyone trying to inject malicious code is going to try to do so in a way that doesn't go through normal code review channels.
No, the answer is to make these services commodities with security and privacy built-in organised in an open public infrastructure owned by no corporation.

Most of the population is simply not interested in Linux, soldering, or what a web request is.

Expecting people who can barely put up a bookshelf to manage a web server or configure Linux is nonsensically unrealistic. It's simply not going to happen.

Nor should it. That's our job, not their job.

What they're interested in are the life benefits that secure, reliable, effective, private commoditised technology can offer them. Providing them is also our job.
I think religion is actually an evolved mechanism for perpetuating (human) life. I developed this theory when my wife and I visited some friends in rural Kansas. We attended their Christian church service and I was struck by the potential evolutionary advantages that would play out if the preacher’s advice was taken at face value: 1) Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric: if only a fraction of LGBTQ individuals were shamed into a heterosexual relationship, there’s a potential evolutionary advantage. 2) Stay-at-home mothers: encouraging marriage/reproduction as the end goal for women likely has evolutionary advantages. 3) Early marriage: again, likely evolutionary advantage.

I find it extremely ironic that the groups most opposed to evolutionary biology are likely a bi-product of those forces.
Being in a place can be thought of as a rivalrous good because other people cannot simultaneously be in that place.
Causation vs. correlation, Linux is secure because it _is_ open source. Closed systems can cut corners, assuming the source stays secret
Ask HN: Feel like I'm being lowballed by founders. Where do I go from here?
I'm employee #4 at a pre-seed startup. Their main offering is a digital continous improvement solution targeting large corps. Employees #1-3 are all app developers. Significant projected revenue for the company revolves around the mass collection, processing, and analytics of data from their application.

I joined after dropping out from my PhD as the only ML-data engineer and to own the development of that product space. I've completed a large (~0.7M) govt. grant in the first few months of working here to support development of my product with collaboration from academics from my alma-mater, and began hiring engineers for this project.

I'm currently earning ~£22k (UK, non-London) and they've just offered me 0.1% in options (EMI scheme). They (founders) specifically advised against sharing details of options with other employees but I've discovered they've lowballed the lead frontend engineer also (<0.5%). They further advised that I can ask for excess of 1% in 12 months if I can take on tech lead responsibilities, but this isn't in writing and the process for this is completely opaque to me.

Is it worth sticking around here? How can I negotiate a (much) higher total compensation for myself?
It's kind of weird how the subtext to every conversation in this topic is bad management, yet nobody wants to come out and say it.
There's definitely some talk in the community on improving dev tooling as a logical next step to improve adoption, eg: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/300
There is a large trend growing in the cycling world that is focused on the non-competitive aspect of cycling. As someone who used to be a somewhat competitive cyclist I have fully adapted to this trend because it is probably the coolest and most wholesome trend I have ever experienced. Even the big manufacturers are trying to catch up.

Bikes can get you to work, to the store, to a camp site, around the park, whatever. Cheaper, cleaner, and more fun than cars at the same time.
Top Junk Science and Bogus Health Claims ACSH Debunked in 2020
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. Nothing good is going to come of that, regardless of how right you are or how strongly you feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Crypto mining at fracking sites does this. The flare gas systems throw hydrocarbons into the atmosphere before the miners arrived, the miners doing a financialized math problem give them the missing incentive to use the energy for the mining computers on site.

Corroborate that with a news source that you happen to like.

Like I mentioned renewable or otherwise wasted energy. This is one of the otherwise wasted energy examples that is a sustainability solution right now, in comparison to wishful thinking.
... have you ever worked on a project involving multiple teams?

I say this as someone who loathes JIRA but still exists in the real world where you need to collaborate to design something.
>but it is easy enough to fix by apply user CSS.

..or just highlight the text.
In terms of the overall market process, a lender and a borrower experiencing different time spans is equivalent to a lender and a borrower having different time preferences [1].

Those with the shortest time preferences will borrow at higher interest rates; those with the longest time preferences will lend at lower interest rates.

All the math about clocks and reference frames is just scientism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference
See also, a comment from someone who worked on JIRA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25212441
Because the goal of news should be to inform, especially when talking about court filings, and we as viewers should not give traffic to sites that don't do basic linking work.
> Missing Easy User Interface to Edit and Update Confluence

There is no “easy” UI for this. The problem to solve is merge conflicts, and Atlassian (rightly in my view) clearly decided that real-time collaborative editing of the draft beats forcing users to do merge conflict resolution when saving changes. Wikipedia takes that latter strategy and it's a huge hassle.
My Favorite Books 2020
It’s gone the other way too though, where I miss a call I’m expecting while literally holding the phone waiting for it because it doesn’t recognize the number.

For example I was dropping the dog off at the vet and I was in the parking lot waiting for our turn (lobby closed for social distancing). Their call to me was silenced even though I had called the same number minutes earlier to check in.

So now I’ve moved to aggressively adding numbers to my contacts for any business I interact with (auto dealership, vet, pet groomer, etc). Which isn’t terrible but it feels like this could get smarter at some point.
>"That was accomplished partly by drawing players into

loops that were hard to pull themselves from.

If you didn’t check in every day, your crops would wither and die; some players would set alarms so they wouldn’t forget.

If you needed help, you could spend real money or send requests to your Facebook friends

— a source of annoyance for nonplayers who were besieged with notifications and updates in their news feeds.

Ian Bogost, a game designer and professor at Georgia Tech, said the behaviors FarmVille normalized had made it a pace car for the internet economy of the 2010s.

He did not mean that as praise.

The game encouraged people to

draw in friends as resources

to both themselves and the service they were using, Mr. Bogost said. It gamified attention and encouraged interaction loops in a way that is now being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon, he said."

PDS: Random Thoughts:

Sociologicially, We see the same patterns in MLM's and (possibly) some religious movements...

Gamewise, we see the same patterns in Farmville as we do in games such as Minecraft, etc.

An interesting mix, to be sure...
Jira is a generic issue tracker for any industry, not a bug tracker for software development. That’s why in 2020 it doesn’t work for software any more.

And it’s slow. And the UI is awful.
Good lighting is easier to achieve when your camera isn't a 1/4" pinhole.
My primary advantage over the Scrum Master that I replaced was hand writing all the required JIRA changes during the meeting, and doing them on my own time later. I was a hero! Highly recommended.
> The first colonists will of course need to bring stuff with them

IMHO, first thing sent will be a universal Assembler, which will produce stuff and clone colonists. If a woman can give birth to a baby in 9 months, we can create a "3D printer" which will self assemble other "3D printers", which then produce mechanisms, computers, and colonists.
Argon and Helium are pretty stable though. It's probably cheaper to recover them from our atmosphere than to ship them from another planet altogether.
Nuclear medicine has risk so it is used only when the benefit outweigh the risk. For a more complete discussion, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_medicine#Practical_con...

For imaging, you can try with Nuclear Magnetic resonance, that don't use radioactivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance but each tool is useful for different illness, so it may not be helpful. Talk about this with your wife's doctor.

Other treatments of nuclear medicine are also used to kill cancer, but RMN can't do that.

To understand the differences of doses between a medical procedure and a dangerous level, perhaps you should try to redraw the graph of xkcd
https://xkcd.com/radiation/ But draw it at the real scales, for example each blue square is 1mmx1mm then each green square is 20mmx20mm.

The concern about radiation is fine, but I think you are overestimating the risk. The covid-19 pandemic is totally unrelated.
You just need a wide angle lens, so it can be mounted on the desk without needing more space. I recommend anything between 16mm to 24mm focal length lens (based on 35mm equivalent).
Using DSLR or mirrorless camera as webcam on desk is done by many, especially by Twitch streamers, Youtubers, and Zoomers who want quality video. Also check out EposVox (Youtuber) who has a great setup with such a small amount of space. He has great video and tips on such setup.
>If they ride with me I look really cool with a slick bike and low profile gear

No one aside from you and other people who wear that unnecessary gear think it looks cool. Sorry.

I don't imagine this is why your friends won't ride with you.
Turkey has the misfortune of having its English-speaking jet set tilting so heavily in one political direction. Because of this, all the international community hears about/from Turkey is that the sky is falling due to Erdogan... It takes a keen reader to realize that these same English speaking Turks have been screaming about the sky falling for the past 17 years...

Full disclosure: I support Erdogan and I readily compare him to other "so-called" dictators like Orban in Hungary. I highlight "so-called" because these "dictators" routinely win their elections and are otherwise constrained by rival political factions. For example: Erdogan's recent shift to an aggressive foreign policy is not due to the swinging moods of a dictator, but his alliance with a smaller far-right parliamentary party whose votes he needs to keep his ruling coalition.

Turkish democracy is weak, it always has been. Prior to Erdogan Turkish democracy wasn't Norway. It was more like Egypt. As imperfect as it is now, I can only think of Israel as having a more functional system in our region.
I worked in Python for a while, and once you have a production bug because the indentation shifted around on one line when you moved some code around, you start to get really cautious and nervous every time you cut-and-paste. I much prefer C++ and Java now, where I can just paste and reformat without fear.

(I still use Python, and I'm still going to try Nim some day. Syntactic whitespace is a pain, and, in my opinion, a bad design decision, but it isn't everything.)