skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a marathoner, having logged over 10 thousand and some kilometers across various fitness apps. I'd led a few clinics and very much enjoy the running world. The running community sorely needs connectivity solutions like this imo. Especially with Covid, most communities have seen local running groups halt and essentially disperse. Strava is still strong however, and Zwift running is the closest thing I seem to use for building connections live with other runners. Something is still needed to make the experience more personable though in this space. I wish you and your team the very best of luck.
China could do this unilaterally.
I dislike this line of reasoning. Gender equality is important because equality is important in and of it self.

When people point to studies that show "teams with women perform better" as the reason to push for diverse hiring, I think it subtly implies that if this were not true then we would not need to worry about it, and creates an opening for people to quibble over research methodology.
On iOS it's optional with the explanation, "Increase your BankID security by allowing location." Yeah, nah.

I've always had it turned off, never had an issue.
That comment seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what "framing" means. Framing pertains to different ways of expressing the same facts, for example the glass is half empty vs. the glas is half full. Whether you consider work to require being hired and paid for it by an employer or understand it in a broader sense as including any activity that is important for society is not a matter of framing. These are fundamentally different concepts of work that also have different extensions.
We're evaluating Keycloak. Would love to get some insights on your experience
Israeli intelligence is working around the clock to disrupt the actions of terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. There are countless terror factions who's sole purpose is to destroy Israel and execute a second Holocaust. You don't hear about the terror plans which were foiled. You don't have sympathy for Israel because they are winning.
Ask HN: What do you use for writing Docs?
Do you use a service? Do you just write static pages? Are there a guidelines you like to share?
I think Germany in 30s had broadly a very similar mindset, being humiliated, driven to utter poverty, and they felt they were doing what was necessary to survive as a nation. I guess you don't hear that as an excuse for their WWII atrocities often.

In other situation it would be funny to point direct parallels between above and state of Israel, but this ain't even slightly funny topic. They achieved impressive things, but these kind of actions make them lose any moral points pretty quickly.
Male primary school teachers are a tiny minority, and that's true globally.
"On a score of cognitive ability, the team observed impairment in 44% of those born between 24 and 25 weeks of gestation and 26% of those born at 32 weeks, compared with 12% of full-term controls..."

If your definition of 'impaired cognitive ability' is broad enough to include 1 in 8 of normal term births, perhaps your definition is too broad.

(full disclosure: my 15-year old daughter was 15 weeks premature, and her cognitive ability is just fine)
It's still a bit sketchy because total output matters in a world where we push for more efficient use of power.

Could we put enough fancy light bulbs and triple glazed windows and heat pumps out there to run everything on nuclear (I am biased against nuclear but I'm also biased against coal externalities) and solar/wind? What's our shortfall? In this case it's not the % of nuclear I care about. It's how much base load it can provide.

Bad budgeting is one of my peeves about software and so I get a little grumpy when I see it happening elsewhere.
> There are devils in the details of how you assign a simple number to that, and Goodhart's law is always lying in wait

Yup, they could start sabotaging their competition or bribing judges to disqualify other competitors, etc.
The linked article is about sex differences, not gender differences.
Ken, you have done an amazing job with this writeup. Very clear and understandable.

I recommend this article for anyone wants to understand how Integrated Circuits operate and are built.

BTW, I worked as the Cost Engineer for the IBM Token Ring cards and also the RS/6000 Memory upgrade boards as an intern in the early 90's.
On a random individual basis men and women perform equally well at college. On the aggregate there are now 3 to 4 million more female than male college graduates in the US.[0] And now that more women than men are enrolled in college we might expect this trend to continue.[1]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.a...
yes I would agree that boys have trouble with this, as that's what the featured article effectively states. however, saying that the methods themselves somehow are predisposed to benefit women is one that I'd like to see research on.
I'd pick the occasional localized radioactive hazard over global destruction caused by anthropogenic climate change. That is if we even had such disasters again with current generation nuclear tech.
> Facts cannot be copyrighted. Phrasing the description of YYYY-MM-DD strings and the like in a different way is likely sufficient to be freely available.

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. StackOverflow ends up being the substitute for the standards document.

As well as being a lot of work, it would open the door to small inaccuracies. A lot of work goes into 'laywering' the exact phrasing of such documents.
When it comes to these things you should never blame anyone other than yourself, not because the world is fair and just but rather because it will make you blind to opportunities that are in your favor.
Why did you already build an Android app? You now have to maintain it as you iterate the product. Did you reach some growth milestone and decide to expand platforms in order to maintain growth? Or did you determine that the p2p nature of your app requires maximal network potential in order to have any traction?

Congrats on your progress. This is a difficult and risky path you’ve undertaken! Having used RockMyRun early on, and the new Nike coaching, I definitely appreciate the coaching and am curious how real-time will help (yay accountability) or hinder (ugh, scheduling) me getting my runs in.
Yes, but the problem is that it's hard to imagine a world where a large nation state (or group of states) collaborates on a 51% attack and there are no other nation states trying to counter that effort.
That's a very one-sided explanation. I'm not saying that Israel are the "good guys" but there's more to their conflicts with their neighbors than just Israeli aggression.
Bitcoin's role in the world's energy consumption is increasing.
I think the problem is that people are overestimating the benefits of subscriptions.

Yes, subscriptions make recurring revenue. But so does pay-once software, as long as you don't stop getting new users. But your SaaS subscribers also churn, so you can't stop getting new customers there either.

Pay-once has the huge advantage that the barrier to entry is much lower. I'm pretty sure that it's much easier to sell a 50€ app than a 10€ subscription. And that 10€ subscription means you need to keep your customers for at least 5 months. If they don't need your app anymore for some reason before that, you would have made more with the pay once app.

I mean, if you have recurring costs per user, please go for a subscription. But folks shouldn't assume that pay once is unsustainable. You just get the full lifetime value of the customer up front and you don't have to worry about them churning!
We have it now, where I live. We started ordering our groceries when the pandemic happened, but it's so convenient that we'll probably keep doing it once it passes.

I'm not sure if about 5% of our weekly supermarket spend would be negligible enough for you, but it's been worth it for us. One big factor for us is that we don't own a car, so we'd be (and previously were) hauling all that stuff by hand.

My understanding is that the chain is running the delivery service at a loss, though they probably make it up by people buying more at a time. It remains to be seen if they raise prices for the delivery when the pandemic passes.
Who decides it is irrational? Also "Something about nuclear strikes....". Poor choice of words :)
That would be extremely interesting, but it is an extremely serious accusation. Do you have a source?

Note that genocide means the (attempted) deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group[0], shooting civilians deliberately or accidentally is not genocide.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide
Haha, it is self designed (but using bootstrap).
These stocks represent part of existing companies. If these companies do well the stockholder will/might receive extra dividends. So if you have stocks of a single company then you will make money in the long run if the company does well (and vice versa). Generally people do not trust a single company, so if you diversify (different strategies apply here) you can make your outcome dependent on a countries economy or the world economy (if the world economy does well, your portfolio will do the same)
Or, If you like something, would you want less of it?

I for one think, this is a subjective question.
>At work, while these kind of rules exist, it's typically okay to break them, and performance is mostly rated on actual impact, not pointless rule-following.

Exactly this. Doing something simply because "it's a rule" and doing something where you see actual impact/results is world of a difference.
In Canada and the US, the state will take children away from parents in poverty rather than hand out money. But then it gets really weird; they then place the children in foster homes, which get significant handouts.
Profits are not their stated end goal, but acceleration of transition to sustainable energy.

Tesla is rapidly expanding and investing. There is no need to focus on profits before they achieve scale.

As long as they manage to drag the world car market to EV they will achieve their goal, even if they die in the process.
> Even if the "threat" is taken at face value, the possibility of receiving a few unwanted emails per week is hardly a harrowing scenario. If you feel otherwise, then consider that is exactly what GitHub is doing to me.

You literally say that you would inflict on a single person within a huge organization what you wrote a whole blog post and multiple emails to avoid personally. I get it was a joke, but I'm guessing you can see the irony in that.
Top tier jobs need to use top tier statistics. The top 10% of male test-takers and top 6% of female test-takers score at least 700 on the math SAT. Over twice as many boys as girls get 800 on the math SAT. The ratio gets even higher beyond that. This is despite the systemic bias in the school system against boys.
To answer your "Why the downvotes?" question, two possibilities occur to me:

1) They may be folk concerned with the justice of the situation invested enough in this issue that they're reacting to your question with something like "Are you living under a rock?".

2) There may be folk invested enough in the mainland Chinese government's position that they take issue simply with the existence of these statements, and rather than engage with the substance of them, simply try to make them go away.

Whether either of these are a fair reaction is a different discussion.
How about all the employees of all the other companies involved in the exact same activities?

Sorry, I forgot, we're only targeting the Israelis. Literally the exact same action is tolerated when anyone else performs it, but when some Israeli company does, it's a "warcrime" and they must be "jailed".

Chinese authorities are putting millions of minorities in prison re-education camps. Where are the calls to prosecute them for war-crimes? Nah, they just get thank-you notes in Disney movie credits, instead.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/disney-thanked-groups-linked...
Automation is a cost optimization thing. If the union raises Amazon's costs, it pushes up the automation time frame. And if the union doesn't raise Amazon's costs, it probably didn't provide the workers any benefits.

Then the question for workers becomes would you like to have this job for longer with current conditions or for less time with better conditions.

I don't think an Amazon warehouse worker union is going to be able to get any sort of long term job availability promises from Amazon (but I could be wrong, of course).
More detailed post: https://relay.dev/blog/2021/03/09/introducing-relay-hooks/
Developing the distinctive look of the original X-COM: UFO Defense
Related: the surgical scars of fasting mouse heal better (various publications report the same results)

The same seems to apply in human, with various individual anecdotal report: https://www.quora.com/Did-long-term-water-fasting-improve-an...
> A rewrite would introduce new bugs, even if they aren't memory issues.

OTOH, a rewrite could be useful in splitting up the problem-space as well as reducing errors. This is where Ada excels, and one nice way of splitting the problem-space could be in providing types (perhaps with provable properties via SPARK) that properly decompose the problem-space.

-- Small, quick/dirty "back-of-napkin" design.
Package Uniform_Resource_Locator is
Type Protocol is (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, ETC );
Type URL is private;

Function Get_Protocol(Object : URL) return Protocol;
-- other operations.
Function Parse(Text : String) return URL; -- Text to URL.
Function "+"(Object : URL) return String; -- URL to Text.
Private
Type URL is record
--...
end record;
End Uniform_Resource_Locator;

> The rewrite could end up buggier than the original.

Given the properties of a language like Ada, you could decompose the problem-space into types (like above) and leverage the language properties to ensure the correctness of the program. For example, Ada mandates full-coverage on cases can so when you say `case Get_Protocol(The_URL) is ...` you have to provide for every value in the enumeration (Protocol here), and the compiler enforces this. So, every place you have a case-statement operating on a Protocol value, absent the `others` option, the compiler will error-out and point you to the location you're missing a value.

...meaning that you can update the Protocol enumeration and have the compiler complain at every location you need to fix/implement the new protocol.
Idris Developers Meeting, April 2021
Where is the free will of individuals factored in? I mean, if people in group A don't want to do job B, should we force them to reach parity?

I think it's better to ensure equal opportunities and let people decide.
Isn't this considered incorrect nowadays - to publicly generalize a superiority of a group of humans with dimension by race or gender?
Not every one is a rational agent looking to maximize their earnings, some devs have soul in the game.
Yes! I'm glad to see this idea seems to be spreading around HN . Show both, or you're lying to part of your audience by omission.
Usually when a plane crashes there isn't a risk for a ecological disaster that could lasts centuries if not more.
Considering the amount of concrete the goes into making a nuclear reactor, nuclear power is not a solution to our climate crisis.
In that case it turns into something resembling the Reagan spend-the-USSR-to-death Cold War strategy.

While China and Russia may see some value in BTC weakening US hegemony, I wonder how much they'd be willing to spend to defend it. Right now the USA can probably spend more and also de-facto controls TSMC (Taiwan is a US client state), the most advanced fab that could make the most power efficient mining chips.
The word "armchair warrior" springs to mind. It's easy to be right from the comfort of your own home.
It's because women are better at school.
And the end result of this whole thing is too-expensive software that no one is willing to pay for and doesn't get used, and no one's problem is actually solved. And then when the "startup" fails, the code is of course not turned into a library, and it all starts again.
It may be worth noting that the companies that control the military nuclear stuff also control the civilian nuclear stuff.
Right, because everything wrong the Am government is doing there is by accident, and hate towards Arabs is not a thing in the US... (sarcasm)
> the possibility of receiving a few unwanted emails per week is hardly a harrowing scenario

And, yet, it was so harrowing to you that you felt the need to write a whole blog post about it. I'm not sure who you are, but, you seem entitled and unpleasant.
I forgot to mention though that the M1 has reduced complexity in "cross-platformness" for one dimension now that you can run iPhone apps on macOS. People have been sideloading .ipa from their phone to their laptop which is exciting. Seems like a step in the right direction
It's a purely technical issue. Once the criticism section grows, it makes more sense to create a separate article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

In some cases, the Criticism article is longer than the one about the company itself.
I'm not sure which issue is more polarizing on HN: nuclear power or Bitcoin.

So fission power is easy: I know this will upset the nuclear fanboys on HN but (IMHO) it has no future. And it's not because the technology can't be safe. It's because humans ultimately can't be trusted with:

- Acquiring, extracting and storing the fuel;

- Dealing with the toxic byproducts (eg UF6);

- Maintaining the plants to a sufficient degree of safety on thin profit margins that are the norm for utilities;

- The failure modes are awful; and

- Dealing with the waste.

Governments currently cover some or all of these to some degree so I'm not sure we're seeing anything close to the true cost of nuclear power factoring in the above. Nuclear power thus far seems to have been far more of a political statement than an economic choice.

As for fusion power, that's more murky. I really hope there's commercially viable fusion power in our future but... I'm not yet convinced there will be.

Fusion works for stars because the process happens really slowly (per unit mass) and the masses are so large that gravity contains the "mess".

Heating a fluid to 100M+ Kelvin is always going to have turbulence issues and we don't have a good story for containing the neutrons without destroying our containment vessel. I believe He3 fusion would be (mostly?) aneutronic but... He3 is super-rare (for us here on Earth).

I believe solar has the brightest future. When (not if) getting stuff in orbit is sufficiently cheap that we have industry and permanent residence off Earth then solar is an amazing option. I've seen one estimate that a solar collector in space produces about 7 times the power of an Earth-bound one (night/day cycles, no weather, no atmospheric interference).
We take care of related webhooks channels. We touched on some of them on the landing page, but, in no particular order:
Deliverability, monitoring, retries, security (signing), a nice UI for your users to debug, inspect and etc. :)
I thought about that, why was I good at technology relative to my parents? It was because I had no job, and little responsibility, so I had the free time to go through every single setting in the control panel and see what it did, or every single setting in my phone and poke around, and it was only after spending that time that I actually became 'good at technology.'

In contrast to my father, who gets off work and tries to do something with his computer and has an issue. It's simply faster for him to call me from my room and have me, whose invested tens of hours poking through all the pokable things already to solve his issue. Simply put, between working, commuting, being an adult, etc, my father had no real time to invest this time in pure discovery, when what little precious time he had as an adult had to be divied up in the most valuable way.

I see that now as an adult, free time is precious. You don't have the time to learn like you did as a kid, when you could just throw 8 hours at something. I barely find the time to play my guitar for a half hour a day between working and being exhausted after the working day. I can't imagine having to learn how to use a computer, at this age. I simply have no free time to invest in such with all the other things life throws at you to prioritize, and what free time I do have I'm mentally tapped at that point, and I fully expect in a few decades at this rate to become a technology dinosaur just like my parents and grandparents were.
This is one of those cases where you get the outcome you design for....they don't know they designed a system that is better suited for women. biology affects men's and women differently. that's why if you notice. most of the difference shows up during and after puberty. small children are not very different (when controlled for environmental bias)
It's just a 51% attack with extra steps. PoW requires that you do the work. Making a big long fake chain with higher difficulty than the existing chain requires expending even more resources than the existing network. Not to mention you have to keep updating your fake chain every time a legit block gets accepted because all of the hashes will change. The idea is garbage.
The usual HackerNews advice here is something like find a way to commit a few hours a week to LeetCode.
Thanks. Calculated in a stable currency (sort of USD) or does actually inflation dig into it?
Thanks! The first and biggest step was to really analyze how my favorites artists worked and to use photo references like a maniac. Taking notes, measuring, focusing on abstracting every element. For some reason I thought that painting should come "naturally" with enough practice, which is stupid.

Then I watched the course "digital painting with Craig Mullins" which is nothing short of incredible. He goes over every step of the process and share just enough art theory without being boring. I'm not sure whether it would fit absolute beginners, but it was the perfect resource for me. And his art is amazing!
If the Israelis laid down their arms, there would be a second Holocaust. If the Arabs laid down their arms, there would be peace. I call that moral high ground.
> the former were more likely to skip classes, study things that were not in the syllabus (which helps sometimes), not maintain notes as well, etc. whereas the latter would typically follow the syllabus, teachers' instructions etc. more closely and maintain very thorough notes.

Mmm, that's interesting, I have the same observation. I'm not in the US, if that holds any value.
>My understanding is that Thatcher closed down coal because production was uneconomical and she didn't want government coffers propping it up. Your use of the word "attack" is emotionally charged, as if Thatcher was just doing it for evil lulz.

I don't think she was doing for "evil lulz" but it was clearly an attack, the government developed the "Ridley Plan" some years before to prevent and curtail the power of organised labour in the UK. The motivation for this was the capitulation of the Heath Government to the NUM in 1972 and the fear of the use of strike action as a military weapon by the Soviet Union - the British Unions had extensive ties to the Soviets. The industry wasn't uneconomic but the installation and development of subsidized oil and nuclear plants and the willingness of the British to import coal made uncompetitive. There was a prospect of another 50 or 70 years of deepmined coal for Britain - a highly undesirable prospect, but there is an alternative universe in which the NUM won and we would be trying to deal with this now.