skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Counterpoint: If viruses are alive then anything can be alive, given that some machine exists which would make copies of it.

>ie. if there was a shower-caddy copying machine, then suddenly shower-caddies could be alive.

If the shower caddys underwent sloppy replication allowing for sufficient complexity to have ongoing evolution of their own copying mechanism, I see absolutely no problem with this at all. They will rapidly evolve to become much more conventionally life-like.

I find the notion that viruses aren't alive to be totally absurd. They replicate themselves, evolve continuously into an ever-branching tree of different niches, etc.

Is your objection that they don't have their own copying machinery?

Should mistle-toe not count as alive even though it depends on a tree to live? Hell, it appears it's even missing most of the genes necessary for it's mitochondria to produce ATP[1] so if it's somehow hijacking ATP production from the host tree, it clearly has no ability to reproduce on it's own. What about a human male? They have no replication ability without a female host "machine" to make copies of themselves. Are they therefore not alive? I think your objection rapidly descends into absurdity if you closely examine your definitions.

> In a world with a different life architecture, viruses would likely just be random an uninteresting molecules.

In such a world, a virus would not exist. In the same notion, in a world without sources of sugars, starches, and proteins, you would not exist. If you happened to blink into existence in this same hypothetical as a virus, you would be an equally uninteresting collection of molecules that would rapidly disappear.
[1]https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-of-mistletoes-mis...
The off-handed reference to Philip Seymour Hoffman and Synecdoche, New York made me wonder: If I were going to direct a play about my own life, who would I cast to play me? Would it be someone close to me physically and in mannerisms? Or would it I choose an idealized portrayal of myself? What would my choice say about me?

I'll think about this for a while and check back in later...
Whether this is "graduate level" depends on your undergrad program. Most undergrad seniors in math or stats departments that I know of should be able to handle this material.
Its explained in the podcast by work of David Figlio [1]. One theory (from the podcast) is boys are more sensitive than girls to poor environmental factors involved in educational attainment.

1. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20161074
Can’t read the full article without registering, but assuming the company’s claim that it passed audits in later years is correct, it seems to say there were two violations that lost them new orders and, eventually, the contract.

That seems almost exactly what Apple promised to do (“Apple told the manufacturer, Suyin Electronics, that it wouldn’t get any new business until it improved employee screening to ensure no more people under 16 years of age got hired”) and possibly a bit harsher (the quote above didn’t say they would lose the business)

So, what’s the main message of this article? Should Apple’s punishment be more swift? Be harsher? If so, how does this compare to how other companies behave in these cases?
I think the original intent was more along the lines of giving political elites the power to subvert the will of the voter when necessary. Otherwise having human electors serves no real purpose.

The math part (how votes are summarized based on state population) is, IMO, a separate issue and definitely a topic for debate as well.

I'd love to see us get past the idea that the founders were infallible, and be somewhat more willing to adapt the constitution as the country grows.
Please explain how bitcoin is better drug money than cash
Yes, but given past issues, the German government response is most likely to push/penalize Youtube into no longer helping Erdogan while ignoring any direct confrontation. Yet another YouTube ban in Turkey should work for almost everyone.
I suspect it will be difficult to find information about academic performance from that time period.

This article from 18 years ago suggests that girls received extra encouragement to overcome the lowered expectations due to their gender.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gender-gap-boys-lagging/
Ok, thanks for clarifying. That’s a usage I was unfamiliar with.
Oh, nice! Well to me, it is also going to be "just another night". Though it freaked me out at first, but then I saw your post and thought well, you're not the only one who will have an unspectacular New's Year Eve. Which is oddly comforting.
Thanks for the background! Pretty cool have the author here and I hope you didn't take my venting too personally ;)

As a firefox user I appreciate that we were considered. Although maybe I've got a new bone to pick with Mozilla now, since not exposing hardware/software rendering mode or readback y/n is a weird hill to die on when things like canvas font rendering fingerprinting are much more reliable and precise (if their refusal was on privacy grounds).

With the history in mind, an ideal flag to me would have been more like an enum of "minimumRequiredGLExperience" valued like ["any", <benchmark value>, "parity"] where apps have a middle ground to say "even if we have SW rendering, maybe we'll still want GL if the browser ranks itself above the threshold value (which would be computed ahead of time and have a standard-ish definition, kind of like the scores on userbenchmark). While still somewhat nebulous, it would allow fine-tuning the experience for known target platforms.

I definitely understand the limited window of opportunity though, and rolling an entire feature like that above would be a big project so I can't fault anyone for going with the compromise. I just wish the name had been different or the documentation more clear - even the Khronos docs are wishy washy on whether SW rendering will for sure cause a failure, or if there's some implementation defined benchmark already that it boils down to. Which I realize is also something that would require work from the Mozilla side too, that they may not be willing to document for the same logic as not wanting to expose whether readback is happening in the first place!

Anyway, thanks again for responding, and I apologise for being a little abrasive in my first post.
> you seem to think we’re doomed to 30,000 dead a year from crashes alone

I even said:

> Safety is something to be solved with more safe cars and better technology all around.

but apparently you're filtering what you want to hear, so there's no discussion to be had here, especially since all the point so far are appeals to feeling without addressing the point made. I'm sorry that logic has failed you.
I got out just before the change and am hearing some pretty dopey stuff from buddies still in the program. Like they can't go pee behind a tree any more, can't swim with shirts off. Trust me, dynamics change when girls are around. There was a mixed program already, btw, called Venturing.

I'll add that one of the best things about Boy Scouts was that we could do stuff that was dangerous, but not too dangerous. We didn't have any moms come along either, and I think that helped. Dads would stop us from doing something truly stupid (like permanent injury type stupid), but not something dumb that would bruise us and teach us a lesson. It also allowed us to do lots more fun stuff.

These days, tree forts are a no-no, apparently. Some guys from my old troop were building one at a mixed event recently. Some girls from another troop came over and said it wasn't safe, then got some karen from their troop to come yell at the boys. Oh, and and apparently it's no longer okay to climb above chest height these days, because it's "not safe". I'm way too young to be saying, "Back when I was young, we did $UNSAFE_THING all the time! We liked it, and never got hurt." Or at least, I thought I was.
I open the "Hello World" project in C.

I change

printf("Hello World\n");

to

printf("Hello Worlds\n");

I build and run, still outputs "Hello World".

I delete main.wasm, build and run again, still outputs "Hello World".
My coworkers who switched over did so for the extra long batter life; responsiveness, and faster compilation times
Have you read any Stephen Covey? If not I suggest it. There is a distinction between Character and Personality that he elucidates very well. Shamelessness would be Personality trait, it is orthogonal to whether or not you are actually lying (Character).

I guess you would agree with me that lying is not a long term winning strategy. That doesn't exclude shamelessness, tactically employed.
On average [Not-Race] has more wealth to afford houses, or home ownership is more common than [Race] in these programs.

You do see anger when individuals perceive they can't afford homes, school, or other big ticket items and perceive that they aren't given help - but that isn't quite the same as denying people something.
How many Goodyear blimps are there in current service, though? If there were many more than there are now, the unit cost would drop.
Why aren't neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Ethiopia, etc. taking in 100% of the refugees? Can someone shed some light about refugee situation around NATO/EU? While humanitarian aspects must be taken care of, I only see refugee situation in Germany as a negative thing. It brings nothing to the country, and in fact brings other nonsense such as religious fundamentalism. These people are not going to assimilate into German culture.

Edit: I know you’re downvoting based on political stance. Would be great if we can engage in a discussion. Could you share your thoughts please?
When I run systemd-analyze security systemd-networkd it seems to have set quite a lot of capabilities/restrictions.

It seems there was quite a lot of restrictions in place to specifically minimize the attack service of that service.

That is unlike a significant number of other services running on my system.
The reason why we didn't include it is because it's not free; it actually requires the high-end licensing (ECE). We do have an alternative solution coming up soon as a replacement.
As an employer I'm thrilled to hear about these programs to encourage more women in STEM.

They seem completely unrelated to overall academic performance however, and your complaint sounds a little whiny. I'm as tired of woke nonsense as anyone, but these programs are a great idea.
While the author of this paper works at the DOJ (at least for the next 20 days). This is not a DOJ opinion.

Per wikipedia:

"John Richard Lott Jr. is an American economist, political commentator, gun rights advocate, and Trump administration official"
Room 2713 in Dobie Center, an off campus dorm
I don't understand why you say these things are opposites.

This one suggests (socioeconomic) class is a factor in lower performing boys' performance. This is true: at least in the US, boys' academic performance is more affected by socioeconomic class than girls' (though both are very much so).

balls187 says that the way boys' and girls' academic performance evolves vs. age is different. This is also true.
> Bad government or single party rule? I’m astonished the media does not write more about California’s near-absolute, Democrat party control over its government. I don’t care which state you live in, or party you support, single party rule is never a good thing.

If that's such a problem, why has the California Republican party chosen to remain so uncompetitive there?

In America, you only have single party rule if the other party either chooses not to compete or competes incompetently (e.g. runs candidates who are out of step with the electorate they need to appeal to, or doesn't run candidates at all).
I’m hoping we all have a happy, healthy 2021.

2020 was very rough, and the [almost always] insightful projects, debates, and experiences shared here helped me persevere (and sometimes procrastinate!) through the year. Thanks to you all for making this the least toxic “general purpose” online community I’ve found by far.
And also someone should care about the Syrian refugees, these people are being used as a pawn to make demands and their rights are violated.
I really like the book The Four Agreements.

My favorite agreement by far is don't take anything personally.

For example a really good friend of mine, was having a bunch of trouble in her home life but she couldn't exactly afford to move out. So if you're working with her and she's rude to you, it has nothing to do with anything you did. 99% of how someone reacts to you is based upon what they're going through. And plus getting upset over someone else doesn't improve anything.

I also have some Buddhist leanings, which are so important to me I told a girl it wasn't going to work when she said that Buddhism was satanic.

Finally learn to appreciate and love yourself, this is by far the hardest lesson I continue to learn. It's very easy to look at maybe a job you didn't get or a relationship that didn't work and think that you're some type of broken thing. But you realize no one really has it figured out we're all just trying to get through the day, you can make peace with who you are
"We can literally consume our way out of this mess" is my new all-time favorite HN quote. Sorry if you were being tongue-in-cheek, it's just too good.
I’ve also seen that FANG is actively discriminating against white men. I was asked to throw out all white male and Asian male resumes for an internship programs relatively recently.
Yep, many years ago had several thousand pieces of testing mail delivered. Names and address text had been scrubbed, but house number and post code was enough to get them delivered. All of the letters were watermarked Test, but somebody just put them through the envelope stuffer and out they went. Next test all the house numbers and post codes were changed to the bosses address!
2021 – The Year of Kubernetes on the Desktop
If you are looking for a super-hardcore, very tough to beat roguelike, but with great lore and world-building, check out Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS): https://crawl.develz.org/

You can play online but I play the 'tiles' version locally, the interface is better. To have any chances of beating the game, you must check out the wiki for guides and looking up monsters: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Crawl_Wiki

Plus, it's open source.
I meditate like harari too, vipassana multiple times a year.. i wouldnt say its exactly trying, its surviving as it moves through time as matter, to end by transforming all its information into the medium, and begin again. - Its quiet astonishing to be this. Quite lonely to see our struggles as that, there is a senselessness to it, until irs greater sentience reveals itself .. then its terrifying, and that matures into surrender, which is peace. Moving from „it is this“ to „i am this“
How are your esp32 Nim deployments holding up? Do you have futur plans for the new esp32 riscv processors?
> Nuclear doesn't scale down well- it's most efficient at a specific rate of production. But demand is quite variable- 2am on a not-so-warm-or-cold day, who needs all that extra energy? Why not use the excess to create hydrogen and store it? Now the energy doesn't go to waste.

The problem is not of the energy going to waste or the plant being unable to throttle down. The problem is that fuel cost is immaterial; a plant running at 1% output power still costs 99% as much per day as a plant running at 100%.

That means that building 10% oversupply is tremendously expensive. If you're using it 10% of the time, it costs 10x more per MWh than the baseload power. If hydrogen is 11% as profitable as baseload, you are only gathering another 10% revenue, and the power is still 5x as expensive as normal electricity. That would be far more expensive than any other source.

You could easily estimate hydrogen economy would be worth >>10% of electricity... but only at the margin. Right now it's reasonable to say hydrogen is worth 50% of the value of electricity used to make it. For all regional grids in the US, daily peak is 30-50% higher than the daily minimum[1]. That's a huge amount of overcapacity to consume, far more than can be utilized by base industry.

Having >70% nuclear and/or relying on hydrogen economy to make nuclear economical is pretty highly dependent on hydrogen vehicles. Fermi math: 142 billion gallons annual[2] @25 mpg fleet efficiency[3] translates to .9 trillion kWh @4 mi/kWh, or ~25% of annual electricity. The bottom line is that it takes a relatively minor (~15-20%) overcapacity would tap out basically all possible uses for hydrogen.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

[2]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/use-of-gasoline...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autos-emissions/u-s-v...
> QEMU tcg is likely faster than both, but it's GPL'd.

What's your usecase that you'd care? I was under the impression that we were talking about internal dev support, where GPL is totally irrelevant, but even if you were distributing it to customers I'd be surprised if qemu's GPL infected your code since they're only ever combined at runtime (and even that's questionable in my mind, but IANAL). That is, if your code could run on the GPL Linux kernel without issue, why would it running on the GPL qemu compatibility layer matter?
Could it be that girls get tons of encouragement

Definitely not, because this gender difference far predates our belief as a society that women are as capable as men in STEM subjects and careers.
Sex and race are not on job applications in the US.
Of course. This is obvious to anyone who has had kids of both genders. Boys and girls care about different things, play differently, react to different kinds of encouragement. And we need our boys to be the best they can be at whatever they genuinely care about, in the way they care about it, just as much as we need the same for our girls. We are in for deep, deep trouble as a society if we loose the masculine drive.
Yes, I was wondering why Python was the automatic choice considering C#.Net has typesafe native APIs for Excel on Windows.
This is quite interesting for improving indoor air quality as well. We know high levels of CO2 cause a cognitive decrease. Maybe the solution is a bioreactor in every meeting room?
This article was posted today: how is there already a set of frequently asked questions? How popular is this writer? I guess I'll just have to subscribe so I'm not left out of the loop again.
Everything worthwile you have read in books or on the Web that was written >X years ago is worth transmitting X lightyears
Well, it depends on whether women stay out of STEM because they don't care about programming, or whether they stay out of STEM because they're worried about being alone in a toxic environment. Ideally a diversity program would not influence group 1 while solving the problem for group 2.
I was working at Microsoft in Seattle, met my wife to be there, when we met her family already had plans of moving down to San Antonio, so we followed to Austin.

I work fully remote for NTT now.

PNW is an option, and that area has a lot going for it, but affordability isn't one of them and we no longer have any family up there, whereas I have family in Michigan. I had initially moved from Michigan to the PNW, wanting to get away from the snow, but in many ways the constant drizzle in Portland and Seattle made the winter even worse.

I do love the PNW though, in the summers it is so majestic with the mountains, rivers and ocean.
Pediatric ADHD is terribly misdiagnosed (to the point where it's hard to say if it's over- or under-diagnosed). The funnel is typically teachers complaining about classroom behavior and entering that funnel is biased towards specific personality types (and also towards people who get screening because of other learning disorders).

I also think there is a socialization problem from a fairly young age. Many elementary schools have zero-tolerance on fighting these days, but I've observed many preschool environments where the teachers are fatalistic about boys roughhousing, but will take girls to task about the same behaviors. It's certainly likely that there are biological differences as well, but the current environment seems designed to magnify them.
I've never seen a purely theoretical solution work the first time it's applied in practice, even in the simple, straightforward context of programming a computer.

I think the word "invented" has to mean something more than "proposed and refined a theory without any successful real-world applications".

Furthermore, Marxist theory has been tested. I think it managed to turn out worse than capitalism, which is quite an achievement.
Bikeshedding about the best approach to making it accessible aside I think we all agree there was no out of the box button with the exact functionality and styling the project needed. Many ways to build such a thing but all of which require someone actually making the software that way as part of the project scope. Difficult? Not really. Priority to implement from day 1 in this project? Well that's what started the conversation I suppose.
This ought to be up there with the Earth rise photo as just emblematic of humanity's space program - they are jaw dropping.
Could it be that girls get tons of encouragement, accolades, and praise when they do something, but when boys do they're told it's just their privilege that made them succeed?

Probably not, no. Setting aside the deliberately inflammatory description you chose to use here, this is a complex phenomenon observed over quite a long period in a variety of different locations and social backgrounds globally, and the suggestion that it could be simplified to "uneven praise" doesn't seem to correlate with any research I've seen.

Unfortunately it's the boys getting the shaft right now.

It's pretty difficult to make any real progress on issues of equal access if any targeted efforts to improve access for particular groups are going to be characterised as "giving others the shaft".
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I have no idea how this dictatorship is even considered for EU membership. Can someone explain this to me?
As I outlined in my comment, no one would take a $4 an hour job. They'd incur a higher tax liability than if they went to the guy across the street offering $10, or whatever he paid before the policy passed. Businesses would continue to compete for labor. It would continue to be to the employee's benefit to take the highest paying job.
I replied in haste, and was incorrect. Mea culpa.
I don't think this is the case at all, this has been a trend since basically the start of all public schooling.

And on a tangent, as for "girls in STEM" programs, I'm not really sure why they need to exist. I think a "girls in STEM" program is as necessary as a "boys in teaching" program, and that is, not at all. Different genders will naturally gravitate towards different fields, and we don't need to fight that.
Just get rid of spoofing phone numbers and this problem goes away. Make every caller reveal their phone number of origin and give consumers the ability to easily block anonymous calls and overseas calls and the ability of scammers to contact people via phone goes away.

Phone companies don't want to do this because implementing the no-spoofing infrastructure requires money and they also make a lot of money off scammers business lines.

The telephone infrastructure is critical to a nation and anyone abusing it should not be tolerated, especially scammers.
It is mentioned in the article, but I also have seen this anecdotally.

How often do school libraries have things boys want to read? In high school, even among those who did read, very few of us ever used the library because it mostly had fantasy novels, fiction, etc. My friend group wanted to read about history and economics, topics not really covered.
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