skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it very curious that at high school level, it seems females outperform males in grades, and there is higher female participation/caring about the content (participation is rarely voluntary in high school); but as soon as you go to university level (STEM in particular), participation rates do a complete switch in that a lot of STEM fields have a huge over representation of males.
That's a rather utopic view.
Taking MIT code and re-licensing it under the GPL will cause a huge uproar:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070913014315

I'm not sure that is even legal.
Tactical considerations exist, but even so, a copyleft license might have better long term results in promoting software Freedom. The FSF supported a non-copyleft license for Ogg Vorbis, because at the time it seemed reasonable that this was the best way to fight the (at the time) patent-encumbered MP3 format. But in practice it had little benefit:

"However, we must recognize that this strategy did not succeed for Ogg Vorbis. Even after changing the copyright license to permit easy inclusion of that library code in proprietary applications, proprietary developers generally did not include it. The sacrifice made in the choice of license ultimately won us little."[0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
And make sure to impose a max size. Getting a 1GB gzip bomb persisted to your DB is never fun.
for sure. i love sugar and eat entirely too much of it, but i'm not a big fan of other refined carbs like rice and pasta. a number of extended family members are the opposite, eating significant quantities of other refined carbs (but perhaps less sugar) and deal with obesity and other health issues. as bad as sugar can be, i suspect the other refined carbs are possibly even worse (other things being equal, of course).
The reason LSPs exist is very simple:

1. There are N editors in the world (vim, emacs, vscode, ...) and there are M programming languages (c, c++, java, python, ...).

2. Most programming language developers write tooling to make their language ecosystem nice. (gofmt, cargo, ...)

3. Most programming language developers like writing in their programming language.

4. Not all N editors or M languages are written in the same language. In addition the programming languages that our editors/tools are written in cannot always interface with each other clearly (cffi is not supported in every language).

5. "All" programming languages that people use today have some networking stack that can be used to open TCP sockets and send data.

Given these facts it would be easy to conclude that:

If you want editor developers to focus on writing text editors and you want tooling developers to focus on writing tooling but you also want your text editors to support advanced functionality that is already implemented in your tooling the easiest way to send that information is over TCP.

The other options are:

1. Don't have advanced languages for "All" languages.

2. Force everyone in the world to use one programming language.

3. Force all tooling in the world to be written in one programming language.

4. Force everyone to implement another cross-language communication system (ex: cffi) in "All" languages.

Unfortunately these options are more complex then just defining an API and sending messages back and forth.
I had the exact opposite reaction. That logo is fabulous.
> Leetcode is shorthand for algo interview prep

Fair. And no, I haven't worked at a publicly traded company nor would I really want to. The optionality makes for good leverage in salary negotiation though.

From what I can tell when interviewing engineers, most over-index on the algorithms. Sure we all ask an algorithms question, but it's more of a checkbox. It's the other 6 interviews that tell us way way more about the candidate.

And yes, I could get more at Facebook, Google, or Apple, but then I'd have to work for FB, Goog, or App.
This is very interesting to me. On of my (perhaps irrational) fears with solar and wind is how much land it potentially could take to supply power. I live in a very sparsely populated state because my greatest joy in life is being as far as possible from "civilization." I spend a lot of my free time traveling through craggy jeep trails to visit obscure locations (and photograph them.)

If nuclear takes, hypothetically, 200 acres to build a power plant, containment, and all the supporting services necessary to generate enough power to feed a city, and solar takes 600 acres to generate an equal amount (and be much safer as well) I'm ok with that compromise, but I would have expected that the ratio would be much higher. Can you tell me where the ratios you have quoted come from?
> From what I know from doctors, what FANG does is basically the equivalent of doing your board exams every time you want to change jobs. Which usually gets a reaction of dread & disgust when you couch it in those terms to doctors.

If Software Engineers want to get rid of algorithmic interviews, all they have to do is come up with a professional exam and a strict licensing body... just like most professions carrying a tittle (MD, Lawyers...).

But as long as "3 months js bootcamp grad" can advertise himself as a software engineer just as much as a guy from Stanford CS then we'll keep having these interviews.
> If Google pays 3X salary to get the best designer in the industry, it's completely wasted

Not completely wasted. At least they made sure the best designer is not working for a possible competitor.
Deliberately changing the intent of someone's words may be a common rhetorical device but it's not engaging with the argument at hand.
HN does not as far as I know, but Lobsters does! https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535
Nope.

Please quit projecting your hostility, insecurity, and ignorance on to me.
My biggest gripe is that you can't sort by sender. Sure, you can filter but sorting by sender and visually pattern matching is the easiest way to cull and unsub from repetitive promotional emails that might otherwise not stick out in a cluttered inbox. It's absolutely insane to me that in 2021 gmail doesn't have this feature that every other email client has had forever.
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I'm convinced it has made people a bit lacking in resilience. Everything anyone utters is suspect or to be picked apart to find even a hint of offensive content.

Some might say we're just surfacing issues that society has repressed in an unhealthy way, and I understand that to a degree, but I think the pendulum has swung a bit too far.

Not everything is racist, sexist, rude, or malicious, even unintentionally. That someone interprets or perceives such a thing shouldn't mean we automatically validate or legitimize that perception.
Also, dust from certain species of wood can be quite bad for you. If I didn't know the origin and history of a piece of wood, I'd likely avoid working with it.
It's not uncommon for actual lotteries to have no jackpot winners in a given timeperiod. That's why the pot size keeps growing. At some point the hype from how many big the potential but unlikely payout got increases the share of people buying the ticket. The different between the Hertz stock and a lottery ticket is that eventually the Lottery will payout. But with a stock like Hertz there is no such guarantee.
Nobody but a fool does that kind of business deal without verifications. There are companies you can pay to inspect, verify and insure the product at source.
I'm not trying to push people into roles they don't want (I think I've made clear that the approach I described is a simple one to start at, not a good policy). My model in this case (which doesn't really map to reality) is "gender preference for roles is unbiased uniform random".

I don't really think job preferences are that strongly encoded in gender, I think far more men could be kindergarten teachers and more women carpenters, although men who try to become teachers face a huge amount of extra work because people don't trust men with kids as much.
Great visualizations and clear writing, well done. Keep up the writing!
Yep, the environmental movement successfully dragged its heels for 40 years until something other than nuclear became viable. It's a pity, because if we just hadn't stopped rolling out nuclear 40 years ago, and had merely continued at the same pace, our grid would be 100% nuclear today. Not 20 years from now if we hurry, today. One can only imagine the CO2 we wouldn't have had to remove from the atmosphere. What's done is done, though, and I'm glad there is finally a way forward that meets with their approval.
Interesting notion.

Especially interesting is: Who puts forth this kind of article? It kind of disses those on the left and the right, which is unusual.
I'm not sure any of the vegans I know would give up veganism in order to minimize their scars any more than the meat-eaters I know would give up meat based on studies that show it can be mildly unhealthy.
jQuery is still used on a huge number of sites.

> jQuery alone is found on nearly 85% of the mobile pages tracked by HTTP Archive

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/javascript#what-do-w...
Queue Processing of Lambda and Functions
My Journey to Understanding Function Composition
Older furniture can be much easier to repair its just a shame that the knowledge is somewhat less commanplace than it once was. Shellac finishes are a known quantity, easy to touch up or remove an re-apply. The animal glues used in woodwork of the past also allows joints to be easily disassembled for repair and often you can just reactivate the existing glue with some moisture and heat.
Solid wood is expensive and it does have a lot of seasonal movement. I do some furniture building and there's something to be said for how workable MDF is. It doesn't warp, it's dead simple to cut through, it's pretty light, and it's cheap.

If it's used correctly, MDF is a fine material for furniture. The key to quality pieces with it seems to be in the finish. A piece that's primed, painted with high quality, durable paint, then sealed/lacquered will last a good long while.
Naturally OSHA is not relevant, nor are feet or pounds, in the UK.

But I feel fairly confident that there are UK-localized versions of each.

> 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.

That does not follow. 18 people make many carrying jobs easier, but they are not necessarily all required.

However, since the four tabletop planks are not joined into a single piece, it is clear that 12 people on a side is not a reasonable approach.

If the tabletop is removed from the support structure, then 12 people make multiple trips with each plank, at 65 lbs per person, per plank.

If the tabletop is not removed from the support structure, and we conservatively estimate legs etc at 50% of the tabletop weight, for a total weight just about 2.3 (US/short) tons ... you would need 66 people, properly distributed, to stay within the OSHA recommended lifting maximum of 70 lbs each.

To get 66 people around that table, they would need to be about 3 feet apart, which is just barely adequate working space.

Fortunately we don't move things like this using people. Not even in the UK!
Yeah. This is my interest.

I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.
I don't think anyone opposes hydropower due to reservoirs, the concern is lifecycle species like salmon that are born at the headwaters of rivers, live their adult life in the ocean, and return to headwaters to reproduce. Dams get in the way, and the kill rate of dams even with ladders is enormous. The other big concern I see is access, e.g. canoeing or kayaking rivers, destroying fishing spots, culturally significant sites, etc.
"I quit my job as an iOS contractor for a big company to focus on a start-up full time, at the same time my wife was 8 months pregnant with our first child."

If you are willing to share, leaving Big Co, at this delicate time, how did you plan family health insurance?
Italo Calvino is a sublime writer. One of my favourites is his short story Love Far From Home -- it's funny, poignant and strangely reassuring. Salman Rushdie does an excellent reading in the New Yorker's fiction podcast:

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/salman-rushdie-rea...
I think that’s of valid concern. Removing users from the immediacy of a chat into a comment section could be jarring. Facebook seems to have bridged that gap by adding “... is Typing” directly to comments sections, to make them feel more alive.

A hacked together proof of concept would be fantastic. I’ve used Matrix/Element, so it’s not completely unfamiliar territory.
The GPL license usage is falling, and even Linux is GPLv2 and rejects GPLv3. Some Linux code is dual licenses GPLv2 and MIT.

ApacheV2, MPL, MIT, ISC and BSD licenses are gaining in popularity.
I think this is the best solution for moderately sized and mostly-responsive groups, especially when the conversations aren't really important. This is common with groups of friends.

However for larger groups and cases where you get more async communication I find it falls apart. In this case I like Zulip's approach of forcing every conversation to be a thread more. But honestly my favourite is still email's tree of comments (or Reddit sorted oldest-to-newest). It makes it easy to follow a threads and mute threads or subthreads. Few other systems deal so gracefully with tangential conversations which I find to be very common. Of course email has it's flaws, but for async discussion between a large number of people I find the ability to see the reply-tree to be the most effective.
> Those that arbitrate membership in the in-group set the standards by which membership is granted.

Quick reminder that this keeps being true, even when the people you think are assholes are no longer the ones in charge.
The original post is overstated: addition is used FAR more. If you perform a string op, you need addition. If you do a matrix operation, you need addition. ALL polynomial operations that I know of require addition. When you read or write from memory, addition is used
Can you say more about the Calvino and Waugh letters? Do you like them for beautiful prose, for lively gossip, for introspection -- or what?
The original article from Which? Magazine is here: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/03/fake-google-reviews-boo...

(Which? is a charity which publishes a magazine with independent reviews. My parents were subscribers for years, and would always use the Which? ratings when purchasing a new appliance, insurance or similar.)
> It felt like they thought their workers were stupid...

They sure want to make them look like stupid:

VICE News reveal company executives discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls.

"He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers," wrote Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky in notes from the meeting forwarded widely in the company.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-de...
Zoom puts the "end meeting" button on the right bottom corner (and volume/video toggles on the left bottom corner). The buttons look different and they are labeled in plain text (no guessing what an icon means). Cmd+w prompts before closing. It's clean, it's intuitive, it's not rocket science.
I follow the field, and I'd say defensive companies (anti malware, intrusion detection, monitoring, anti fraud etc.) outnumber offensive companies 100-to-1.
The good news is everyone who receives webmentions can decide what it looks like themselves! In fact you'll see quite a lot of variation in how these are displayed on people's websites. Everything from a list of comments, to just a list of URLs, to a grid of faces with no text!

eta: There is also no requirement that the receiver of a webmention displays it! You could just as well use it for private notifications of the links.
> How was selling more stock in that situation legal?

They asked the bankruptcy court, and the bankruptcy court's job is to maximize value for the bondholders. Turns out that selling worthless stock (for money) is really good for the bankruptcy proceedings (getting maybe 70% of the money back instead of 60%).

Then the SEC came in (whose job is to protect retail investors), and the SEC told them to knock-it-off.

Different jobs for different courts and bureaucracies. Ultimately, the SEC determined it was illegal for them to proceed. But I guess the SEC assumed the bankruptcy courts would do the right thing. When that clearly wasn't the case, the SEC stepped in (a bit late: after $29 million was raised. But better late than never)
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For whatever reason people have a hard time hearing this. I've similarly had the same argument over and over again.

Also for whatever reason people love to talk about how mining trucks will become EVs, and they always link me to the same Komatsu truck which they claim is an EV, but actually has a diesel engine and uses an electric power transmission.
There are a couple distinct issues here - M1 is both wider than recent x86 but also more orthogonal.

I'm not sure that decode is the bottleneck for all code - a lot of code could be played out of a pre-decoded uop cache or the LSD. People always return to decode as an explanation as it's an attractive RISC vs CISC morality tale.

I also don't know how much of the decode unit is devoted to legacy support and MSROM, which doesn't necessarily have to scale the same way as the simple decoders.
That probably depends on how this nonpartisan reviewer was selected. Are they paid? By whom? By what standard are they considered authoritative?
I'm sure they'd be willing to decentralize it if there was a good way to do that. Maybe this can be done with something like IPFS [0].

[0] https://ipfs.io/
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> To my knowledge, wholesale 'rephrasings' of standards documents have never been undertaken, even where royalty-free access to a document is in relatively high demand, such as with the C standard.

No, they have. As a specific example, ETSI TS 102 221 contains enough of ISO/IEC 7816-2, 7816-3, and 7816-4 that one can implement a compatible device.
If some group owns 50% of Cardano, what prevents them to from crating two fake pools with 25% and 25% and avoid the penalties? (Or 100 groups with .5%, or whatever is needed.)
Given the incredibly polarized state of American politics and society over the past decade, especially the last five years, I don't think that comparison is as true as it was twenty years ago. Probably not the most cogent comparison these days.
Strange way to word the two patient types: vegans as opposed to omnivores. Vegans are still omnivores, they just stopped eating animal products because of beliefs.

I also smelled once a vegan cake. It's a medical miracle they can survive on such a diet.
Doesn't the CCPA protect customers in California from having their browsing data used for ad targeting without an explicit opt-in?

edit: to answer my own question, no it does not. I'm thinking of GDPR.
I stayed in a hotel in Rotterdam one time (5-6 years ago). The entrance had a ramp for wheelchairs/prams. A bunch of a*holes parked their luxury cars blocking that ramp. On the second morning the cars were still there I called the concierge out to see this. Then I took a picture of him, of the cars, and their plates and told him I will call the Police in 5mins (yes I am THAT kind of guy). In two minutes all cars were gone never to reappear (I stayed there 10 days). I left a 1star review to the hotel, under my name, with photos of the cars (not their plates) and a comment about blocking the ramp, hotel staff was informed multiple times and didn't react.

I went to Rotterdam again 1 year ago. My review was still there. A half-baked apology was under my comment. I walked by, no cars were blocking the ramps. I call that a win.
Maybe I'm overconfident in the security of an up-to-date iOS device with a complex passcode, but I would have just used Signal if I was tasked with running the IT ops of some crime syndicate.

Turn of all cloudy functions, hell maybe use some kind of enterprise MDM to enforce polices on your subordinates.
Interesting point. In the Netherlands, many houses don't have curtains, you can see directly into the living room from the street. It stems from the old tradition of wives being accountable when their husbands were at sea.
I learned from your comment (perceived) privacy is also cultural.
Yeah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401924
> edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action

This is a good idea, and if I were re-making this service new in 2021 I would definitely do this. However I launched this in 2012 as a barebones implementation to get webmentions working for a few of my websites and never bothered to develop it much past that point.
Yes, they are great.

But JFI, the email that has invalid SPF and DKIM in the screenshot is the one forwarded by forwardemail.
Nuclear is actually very safe. The article cites a tot of less than 100 all-time deaths of plant operators.

It’s hard to find global statistics, but 14 people were killed by wind turbines in 2011, in England alone:

https://www.quora.com/On-average-how-many-people-do-wind-tur...

Roofing is the second most dangerous profession in the US. I’m sure solar panels have also killed more people than nuclear incidents.

As for pollution? All energy sources pollute. Nuclear is better than coal. I don’t know how it compares to solar + wind + batteries + hydro, but those last two are definitely big sources of pollution, and batteries are obviously creating more waste by volume than nuclear.
I'm convinced that something similar is happening to Boris Johnson's tweets at the moment. Every time he posts, many of the top responses are exact copies of each other saying something like "the country is behind you, my prime minister <3". It's clear to anyone that these are 'fake', and I'd imagine it has the effect of making people thing that the conservatives are trying to artificially bolster his reputation.
In particular, the passive interpretation (omitting "is") is only valid in headlinese, while the active interpretation is valid in ordinary English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

Many English speakers understand headlinese easily, but maybe not so easily when there's a more natural non-headlinese parse of the same phrase!
> It seems natural

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means, because it's the naturalistic fallacy or the appeal to intuition

> girls are much more likely to obey rules and instructions

So is that difference a problem, then? Or not? Or neither? You can't force people to take a risk they aren't comfortable with, and if boys (for whatever reason) are a little less risk-averse, what is there to do? Punish boys for taking risks as we praise girls for doing the same?
It's literally empirical, you just might not argue it's conclusive.

But ultimately I'm not going to be gaslit into this weird idea that you're pushing that the US armed forces don't have a racial component to the massive amounts of deaths they've created, when I've seen that with my own eyes.