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When you have two solutions to a problem and one works very well and the other does not and only makes headlines with cost overruns and delays then surely you should "build X, not Y".

I know a lot of HN readers don't like this, but the debate is over. Nuclear lost, renewables won. Get over it.
Does that mean people with use Sign language as their first language do not read books? How do they learn anything?

It really seems to me you are implying they can't read regular English - doesn't that make regular life quite a challenge? I would have assumed learning written English would be high priority.

Your answer just makes me even more confused. If they can't read English, what is the computer translating the sign language into? What are they doing with the results?

And this just brings up even more questions - how do they speak remotely to people? I was thinking that a video phone was an amazing advance, except you'd have to put the phone several feet away from you, making it pretty hard to see the screen.

Every single scenario I'm thinking of just makes the need for written language even more critical - otherwise such a person is almost entirely isolated, except when near other signing people.
It actually served to make me more skeptical to the article only seeing percentages. Thanks for calling that out as well.
> There is no zero in roman numerals

#define X_MINUS_V_MINUS_IV_MINUS_I 0
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
They'll stop doing that if most code is GPLv3. If most code is GPLv3, we're all better off – but while people are still prepared to work around GPL-rejecting companies, those companies can still reject the GPL.

It's the tragedy of the Commons.
I've had a significantly different experience with this. I know a few men who self-deprecate when they make a mistake, but I know more women who do. I haven't seen it turn into a competition on who's done the dumbest thing because I'm seldom in groups where self-deprecation is widely encouraged. I've been the person encouraging people not to self-deprecate in this way, so I don't think it's really a gendered thing. I'm curious if this is trending differently in different age groups I'm almost 40.
The correct answer of course is that the Submit button should be the primary CTA for the form, and it should be styled in a way to make that abundantly clear to the user. The Reset button (which I haven't seen on a modern form in years), if necessary, would be a secondary action and styled as a standard link, ideally beneath the Submit button (and it would require user confirmation).
I think your comment confirms my original points.

downvote away to confirm your self fulfilling biases.
I recognize that my experience is probably not average - but at my high school (2004-2008 US public school) the advanced/AP classes were 80%-90% female. This was true for all subjects, the student government, and the academic after school activities.

Also anecdotal - but I've seen a lot of the boys who were academically behind seem to get their shit together ~3-5 years after graduating and ended up going to college, grad school, getting white collar jobs, etc.

It appears that if you have the resources and privilege its not too hard to overcome having dicked around in your primary education - but I'm willing to bet most people who aren't in that position never catch up.
> Why do we really expect women to have a similar behaviour of men about work, when they have a socially aceptable and now economical venue to avoid it.

Baby raising is quite important work. I would argue that raising the next generation of workers, taxpayer, customers and pension fund contributors is the most important work of all.
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I know it's difficult to buy a compute that doesn't have Chinese-made parts these days but not all parts of a computer are made in China. CPUs and memory chips are made in Taiwan and Korea; are there not makers of PCBs, power supplies, and the other parts of a computer such that you can get a computer to less than 10% Chinese parts? I didn't do a good job of expressing that raising awareness of the percentage of Chinese components as a differentiator would be a great marketing tool (similar to how cars sold in the US show what percentage of the parts in the car are US made versus imported).
A quick look shows libgen saying “standards” (the correct spelling) in multiple places. The URL, OTOH, says “standarts” (note the “t”)
The US has accidentally killed more muslims than China every single year for the last 20 years, though.

At some point you have to wonder why all these accidents keep happening, and why they always serve US geopolitical interests.
The Counter Attack wins. BTC holders counter attack and win.

STRATEGY #1:

* Bitcoin mining is effectively Peer-to-Peer DB sync.

* People who owned medium or high amounts of BTC run software that broadcasts good chains vs attack chains. They cryptographically sign it with their addresses.

* BTC holders who support keeping bitcoin going, are running a small number of mining nodes.

* They keep rejecting attach chains. They keep accepting valid chains. By side channel peer-to-peer sync by BTC holders.

* BTC effectively is forked. Attack chain keeps attacking their trash chain. Legit chain keeps processing transactions and rejecting sync of attack chains.

STRATEGY #2:

* Ethereum is years into PoS. Effort doubles down to finish this in 2 months.

* BitcoinPoS is created. Starts with BTC chain balances, but uses PoS. Every bitcoin is now living on BitcoinPoS chain.

* Gov attacker wastes $$ creating attack chains in PoW when bitcoin continues in the PoS universe.

Gov wasted $10 billion on this. Politicians are voted out of office. Politicians realize robbing the American people is unacceptable. Bitcoin was created because of the Wall Street 2008 Mortgage Crisis theft. The citizens don't take kindly and respond...
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The level of cognitive dissonance around Bitcoin (and crypto in general) is kind of amazing. That much I will agree on.

But to dismiss anything pointing out the flaws in Bitcoin as sour grapes from people who missed out? Wow. That's cognitive dissonance right there.

The simple truth here is that:

1. Bitcoin consumes an awful lot of energy;

2. It solves a problem for almost nobody; and

3. It's not as secure as people think it is.

I've become increasingly convinced that (1) is what will ultimately doom Bitcoin. I mean it will likely be replaced by something more energy-efficient (ie PoS vs PoW). But that transition will be a massive event in wealth redistribution.

As for (2), Bitcoin seems to have two forms of utility:

- To escape capital controls in many countries. Wealthy individuals in China trying to bypass Chinese capital controls was (IMHO) a big initial driver in Bitcoin. This also covers countries without a stable currency (eg Venezuela) or artificial limits on currency conversion (eg also Venezuela); and

- Illegal stuff.

You could argue that Bitcoin is also an asset you can hold for diversification purposes but ask yourself this: would people hold Bitcoin if it was expected to hold a constant value against the US dollar? Or another relatively stable currency? Or even a basket of such currencies?

That's impossible to know but I suspect not. I strongly suspect that expectations of BTC rising in value is a big part of why people buy and hold it. "Ponzi scheme" is one characterization of this. I'm not sure it's fully accurate but it's not that far off either. I think "tulip fever" may be more accurate. Either way, the chickens come home to roost eventually.

As for (3), I can't speak to the technical merit of the suggested attack in this post. It's known however that the network as a whole is vulnerable to a 51% attack (and I honestly believe there are several who could orchestrate such an attack if they were so inclined).

Personally I find this fascinating. And sure I wish I could go back to 2010 and buy $1000 worth of Bitcoin. But that applies to anything. Buying Apple in 1999. Buying Amazon at, well, pretty much any point. Buying land in the 1990s.
What's true one gender must be true for the other, as there is no biological difference between males and females. Right?
Nayirah testimony, WMDs in Iraq, the Libyan rape allegations, Syrian chemical attacks -- eventually you would think people would catch on to this playbook. I don't doubt there are serious human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, but the term "genocide" is ridiculous, an allegation being deployed in support of the aims of U.S. empire.
Does OSHA have any say of something occurring in the UK though?

One of the image captions states 18 people carried a single slab, so there's no way 24 would carry the full table, even without doing the maths.
It's not anywhere near flagship speed though (only in boot time!)
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> This article actually makes a good point, which I think many bitcoiners ignore, which is that governments have a big ability to seize hashrate and use it against the network. I have some criticism about the piece though.

We been here before and governments have proven that they can't really seize anything online, for long. Look at thepiratebay, how long have people been trying to take that website down? It wasn't even decentralized before and they could still manage. How the fuck are they gonna manage to take down a decentralized network you can run from anywhere?

Protocols can change as well. Make the protocol automatically ignore miners connected from government IPs, and there is a 100 more solutions to this problem.

> China really controls 80% of the global hashrate

No, "China" as a country doesn't "own" 80% of the global hashrate. Bypassing that you can never really know where a mining operation is located (proxies are really easy to setup today), a lot of mining operations are indeed based in China, but just because the organization is based in China doesn't mean that the entire mining pool is based in China.
I'm sorry but why are you so sure they're trying to avoid work? From my experience most women would love to have careers and be financially independent and successful. But babies indeed make it a lot harder -- both from a time/energy perspective and from a discrimination perspective.
Maybe if you code up a library that meets a specific set of requirements, but you do it in a way so that using the library seems simple on the surface but, the deeper the end-user-developer goes, the more illogical stuff becomes. At that point you have a developer too invested in the work they've already done to abandon it: a developer in the market for a "... The Good Parts" or "... Cookbook" book.

I was not thinking of Actionscript when I wrote this comment.
I just bought a new down pillow, and there was a bunch of advertising about ethical down, and that the geese were treated well and the such. And if I buy a down pillow from a place that wasn't certified, I was a monster. Which is important! But I don't see any such admonishments against buying face masks or laptop parts made by Uighur slaves/prisoners.

Edit: I should note, I am saying it is disgusting that we turn a blind eye to human suffering in the name of cheaper products and higher profit margins.
After Encrochat you'd think they would wise up, this is pretty much a re-run.
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The Uyghur Genocide-

The genocide where the Uyghur population grows faster than the Han population in Xinjiang.

The genocide where a Uyghur actress- Dilraba Dilmurat remains one of the most popular actresses in China.

The genocide where virtually no Covid infections occured in Xinjiang.

The genocide where Uyghur workers can't find work because of American sanctions on Xinjiang cotton.

The genocide where western countries claim genocide but don't even boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics.

One has to wonder, if there's a genocide, why are countries sending their skiers to slide down some slope near Beijing?
China seizing assets is easy mode, but the rest of the article talks about "Lockheed Martin", which is a US company, which could really just do this on their own. Well, you still need to get all those GPUs that come from China ...
I think there’s an argument that public unions are a very different animal for a variety of reasons that may not make for an appropriate comparison.

For example, it may be illegal for public servants to strike. The government may not go out of “business”. Civil servants tend to skew towards white collar professions. Point being, there are a different set of incentives and tactics in pubic vs private unions
Lags in real time systems. To get into high paying jobs in most fields requires a 20-30 year apprenticeship.

So if by 2015 girls are performing better academically, then the expected time to see this in society would be 2035 or so. Just as with universal education, it starts to be available from the early 20th century, but it's not until post-war that large numbers of men from previously uneducated families start making it into the skilled workforce.

Our limited view at any given point is just a snapshot on eternity.
Congratulations on launching this much-needed product! I've rolled my own webhooks several times, so I personally know all the pain points you mentioned.

I work in healthcare tech, and in the last couple years I've worked with legacy medical systems that use FTP to implement "pseudo-webhooks". For each integration with a third-party technology provider, there is a dedicated FTP server that reads/writes files to an FTP server owned by the third party. When this service is interrupted there is no retry logic - someone has to spend time manually checking if files made it across.

If someone could make this legacy process easier on developers and HIPAA compliant they would be rewarded handsomely, as these organizations (hospitals, medical device makers, health-tech companies, etc) are comfortable paying enterprise-level prices for any technology they use.
Disney found the best way to reduce littering is very frequent trashcan placement but that has practicality issues to roll out enmasse. Making the litter less bad is harm-reduction.
I suppose this is possible - how exactly do you think teaching methods are more favorable to girls compared to boys?
>- cooperation over leadership

In full women environments too?

I always felt or heard that e.g team made fully/majority of women tends to be anything but cooperative.

I felt like a lot of dishonesty was in those teams
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the mind has no gender so how can cognition be considered different across genders? hmmm
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Threads like this aren't going to reach the top of HN very often (or in my experience, other social networking sites either), they get flagged and downvoted to oblivion. HN policy prohibits me from speculating why, but you can fill in the blanks.

There have been multiple media reports, but it's reasonable you might not have run into them outside of the context of "the PRC is vaguely doing something bad to Uyghurs". But yeah, the reality of what's going on is kind of horrifying, and I think the reaction from other nations (including the US) has been underwhelming.
It's not avoiding work, but it is making a choice to pursue one type of work (child rearing) over another (market labor in shitty, unfulfilling, but well-paid jobs). That's a choice women have substantially more ability to make than men.
> the most powerful nation on earth

> parliament [...] overrun by a few thousand morons

Chose one!

And I think we already know the answer. Speaking of morons in parliament, the US has a lot of morons in their parliament as well.
What's the metric? Average GPA? Average graduation rate? It seems so.

It is well documented that men drop out at higher rates and are in general more prone to failing. Having a few extra "zeros" in the GPA rankings would skew the mean down for males.

It's tempting to say that "Girls are better than boys in academic things", but if you look at the performance of a cohort of graduates, I'd expect you'd see we're all about equal.

After graduation, there's a couple other well documented attrition filters for women, unfortunately.

There was this old essay about it, which is now quite old and probably cancelled, called "Is there anything good about men" that discussed various life tradeoffs that affected the genders differently.
Sure. You can replace "work" in his text with "work for hire" or something else if it helps you understand what he meant.
They didn't say it is.
Thanks! The existing tools on the market for image segmentation are not very sophisticated, so it's a niche where we can immediately make a difference.

In a sense, image segmentation labels are strictly more informative than bounding box labels: you can trivially extract the containing bounding box from a segmentation mask. One big reason that segmentation labels are not used more often, is simply because they are too expensive. Labeling a bounding box requires only two clicks, while labeling a segmentation mask requires much more time with manual tools. We're trying to solve that problem.

In the future we want to dig even deeper into this problem, and expand our scope to video and 3D segmentation labeling. We believe there will be a huge need for such tools now that everyone is getting smartphones with Lidar and AR/VR capabilities in their pockets.
Evidence is a male thing? Thats rather sexist.
We don't use esbuild's "bundle" (--bundle) option, which means that our files get processed one-by-one and end up as separate files in the `dist` directory that we output to and that dependencies aren't processed at all and are just `required` like normal by our transpiled code.

Our build command (in a bash script file to avoid string escaping issues) is:

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| xargs -0 ./node_modules/.bin/esbuild --platform=node --format=cjs --outdir=dist --loader:.sql=text
There are couple more explanations which haven't been mentioned:

1. Time lag. Girls have only been exceeding boys' academic success for 20-30 years; in most fields the top tier of jobs is filled by people in their 50s and 60s, who were educated at a time when girls were underperforming academically. This hypothesis is supported by statistics showing that among childfree adults aged 20-39, women significantly out-earn men.

2. Grading bias. To the extent that success in the workforce correlates with academic success, one would expect it to correlate primarily with the extent of skills and knowledge acquired rather than with the grades received; it may be that girls' academic success does not reflect particularly greater academic skills. This hypothesis is supported by studies comparing coursework to exams; girls vastly outperform on homework but only very slightly on exams.
I'm one the maintainers of Modin, so I can chime in here. Dataframes are the focus of my PhD thesis, and Modin started as my PhD project. Most of the differences come down to functionality and support. Truthfully, the goals of the projects are quite different so it's a bit of apples-to-oranges.

As a part of developing Modin, we identified a low-level algebra and data model that both generalizes and encompasses all of the pandas and R dataframe functionalities. Modin is an implementation of this data model and algebra[1]. Based on our studies, Vaex's architecture can support somewhere in the range of 35-40% of the pandas DataFrame API, including the exclusion of support for row indexes. Compare this to Dask, currently at 44% of the pandas API, and Modin, currently at 90%.

Vaex is great if you're already working with a compatible memory-mapped file format; it'll be exceptionally fast in that case. That is the use case I believe they are (successfully) targeting.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.00888
That's even a common trope in sitcoms. The husband is a loveable but bumbling idiot, while his wife is the voice of reason who frequently needs to save him from his own bad decisions. I wonder if the shows are imitating life, or the other way around. My wife did her master's thesis on discrimination based on communication, and in her research she found a study showing that the constant depiction of people with a southern accent as being stupid leads the majority of southern children, as young as 10 years old, to view themselves as inferior to people without the accent. Maybe the same is true with TV shows and movies frequently showing males as stupid.
That's because you see my comment as ideological but It's quite hard to develop a nation in the desert as not.
You're completely missing the point of the person's comment...

The top comment is asking why girl's perform better, and yet and under-represented in top tier jobs. The comment you replied to responds that they think it's because of having child and choosing not to go back to work.

At no point are they taking a stance on whether or not raising a child is as important as working a job...
No, there are many bits of 8601:2019 that are not even mentioned on Wikipedia.
I don't think that the parent comment meant that raising children isn't work. It absolutely is, and an extremely massive one too. What they most likely meant by "avoiding work" is "avoiding a paycheck job".
This is the right answer, certainly a larger factor than anything else being discussed here. In the US, women were only granted the right to vote a century ago, and a time when it was considered improper for well-to-do women to work is within the memory of many living Americans.
This whole thing reminds me a bit of xkcd.com/538/

The simplest way for the US to get rid of bitcoin is to secretly declare it a national security threat, then identify, apprehend, and possibly extradite a majority of the Bitcoin Core developers.

Then force them to release a new version which is easier to control, but incompatible with the old version. Maybe this is just a PoS version, with inherent flaws? If some of the miners stay with the old version that's fine - a fork helps your goal.
We’ve known misandry in academia is real for a generation.

Let’s get organized.
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Mr. Musk appears to be half and half.
Can you provide some sources for terrorist attacks perpetrated by Uighers?
White guy here. No regular male is silly enough to stay on University here. Think about it. There are lots of foreigners but no locals.
Someone commented that it's about "babies" and that's so incredibly right. But I think it's more benign than it may sound.

We're seeing this right now in my family as we have a young child. Both my wife and I are in demanding STEM fields (me in tech and she in medicine.) My wife is seeing an opportunity to cut back on her hours/pressure so she can spend more time with the baby. She's not "forced" to do it (plenty of women w. kids do her current job) but that's where her heart is leading her and we're lucky to be able to make this tradeoff.

I do think think this is a pretty universal thing. In two income families, if one parent wants to step back to do more family stuff, it's much more likely to the the woman who wants to do that. Similarly if one parent is much more naturally inclined to go conquer the work world, it's the father.

There are plenty of cases where that goes the other way but I think that is way less common. To be clear, it's not about the work place being hostile to women, it's not about "I wear the pants around here so you stay home w the babies" - it's about where our natural interests lie and how we act on them when we have a choice. Which to me sounds fine even if the outcome of it can be read as systemic imbalance.
Maybe the most talented women prefer pursuing a career academics over one in the real sector?
Having babies and raising them partly isn't avoiding work either. Babies get partly raised for all sorts of reasons.