skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be a consequence of the place you live in or the language you're reading their material in. I expect there are plenty of people doing environmental things (possibly under other names) in Africa/India/China.

White people also invented "rolling coal", so we have both extremes.
I wonder with her being a UK citizen how much the EU/UK"right to be forgotten" laws has made it harder to do background checks on this.
As I understand it, Gender is the socio-cultural aspect, and Sex is the biological term.
Here's what the magic bytes look like in FreeBSD, as an example I've linked to the definition of PNG. You can see it's a fair bit more complicated but it does have mime and extension data.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/master/contrib/f...
Oddly, the last technical interview process I went through was the best and in some ways, the most old fashioned.

There were three "rounds":

1. Phone screen with actual lead developer. There were some quiz-y questions here, which I'd previously thought of as a silly outdated approach, but it honestly was a low stress filter for basic technical knowledge.

2. 90 minute pairing exercise with the same lead developer. We built a small example app together. Resources were sent over ahead of time so my environment was good to go, and the expectation was set from the start that the goal was to assess how I thought and approached code, not to see how far I could get in 90 minutes.

3. 4 hour "on site" where I talked to each developer on the team I'd be joining. No technical exercises. Each person came with their own questions, and expected me to ask mine.

What I took away from the experience was that companies are seriously overthinking and over-engineering the process. There isn't a magic heuristic you're going to discover that will identify "10x engineers." You can vet if someone is technically competent enough for the role, approaches software in a way that gels with your org, and if they have any red flags in fairly straightforward fashion that doesn't require enormous amounts of prep for them or your team.
> people that used Perl long ago but have since moved on to better languages

For tasks where Perl is a good fit I moved to Python, but cannot say that it is better (or worse). It is much more fashionable, which is an advantage on its own though - more people will be able to read code written in Python, there are more libraries which are actively maintained.

Many years ago I used Pascal and now work with software written in C. In my opinion Pascal is much better language than C, but Pascal is mostly the thing of the past and C is still very much alive. Sometimes we have to move to languages which are worse or at best - not much better.
This sort of flamewar comment will get you banned here. It's obviously not what this site is supposed to be for. Grandiose meta rhetoric is particularly tedious. No more of this, please. Same with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570724 and using HN for ideological/political battle generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's embarrassing about that?

If I were hiring, I would like to know every applicant's SAT score.
> Imagine an alternative universe where the FSF had invested significant time an resources in developing a Savannah that actually, you know, worked well.

it works well enough for those who use it I guess

But I also like to imagine a world where projects like Savannah are backed by investors with very deep pockets instead of existing only out of the hard work of volunteers

Anyway, I use a private instance of gitea for my personal projects, it costs me 3 euros/month for the hosting and another couple bucks for the storage

I agree with what Stallman says about SAAS, I am not as radical as he is, not by a long shot, but SaaS platforms pose a big risk in terms of vendor lock in

I also share your frustration about what it could be, but it's not (yet, hopefully)

> I don't work for a big corporation btw; I've actually been work full-time on Free Software for the last 2 years, making about €700/month or so. At least I put my money where my mouth is :-)

you deserve my gratitude then for all the work that you do personally and as a part of the FOSS community
Event more ironic considering this UK government use of gag orders to silence companies.
Presumably it’s about the fact that the gender one identifies with can differ from their biological sex (e.g., a person born as male may identify as female).

On one hand, an argument can be made that the freedom to identify with a gender different from one’s biological sex enables individuals to live more fulfilled lives that are not defined by gender stereotypes they’d otherwise be forced to live within.

On the other hand, an argument can be made that the distinction between gender identity and biological sex actually strengthens gender stereotypes and potentially hurts equality (e.g., women were historically supposed to be soft and pretty and under-achieving, so a female who doesn’t want to fit that stereotype would feel pressured to identify as a male rather than be her own unique person), and that there’s no clear consensus regarding a self-sufficient definition of what a gender is that doesn’t recursively involve biological sex.
Thanks for those. Will have a look.
BTW, I think you might have meant "the vast majority"? Might have been a phone autocorrect bungle.
Modern PHP frameworks (Workerman, Swoole, Comet) rank as top performers of Techempower Benchmarks. Much higher than Python / Ruby / Node.js and head-to-head with the Golang based project performance.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the Comet:

https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
Am I the only “lucky apple user” where I was randomly redirected to a cheezy malware site from 20 years ago?
That is why I chose this one. The news is making the rounds again under the title, "Human penises are shrinking because of pollution", but unfortunately all articles from the major news sites are of very poor quality.
Also, if your family is near you during the day, you don't need their photo as a reminder.
I thought it was the second hardest. At least that's what I remember, since I last checked.
He's entirely right. I think this is the best move Intel has made in decades.
No, they only made violence hidden. Is incarceration nonviolent? What would happen if a prisoner decided to leave prison?
I don't understand why a good book/good movie are even included here.

Two different media for (occasionally) related work.

Calling whatever inverse relation was somehow crafted a "paradox" seems tendentious.
And the top Hacker News submission right now is

"Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests"
One can just listed to the podcast "My Year in Mensa" to confirm this as a major issue with this research.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id149...
It sounds like you're agreeing with me. You don't need everything up front, so listing everything is a bit disingenuous.

It's the same explaining a fully kitted out backend (Routing, caching, authentication, etc) and then going "see, it's so complicated!". Well duh, it's a big and complex system.

I think the issue with valtio is that there's no central store. As far as I can see, you'll end up having these proxies scattered around your codebase or you'll end up re-creating Redux and centralizing them.

Also, I have ironically never heard of valtio.
Big companies have their own gravity.

The world for sure didn't need Go, yet we got it, and it's gaining mindshare versus stuff like C/C++/Python/Perl/PHP/Ruby/OCaml/... (I'm not including Java and C# as those are also enterprise languages).

Angular, React, same story.

Sometimes it's good, but with stuff like Dart you can definitely feel thatsome Googlers are bored and desperately want to own their language instead of contributing to a pre-existing language.

Reason vs OCaml, etc. there are a ton of examples.

Basically big companies can afford to throw a ton of money into their own open source projects, basically depriving true community open source projects of the attention/oxygen they need.

There are pluses and minuses to this... But we should definitely start pushing back when the open source project is a clear open source "land grab" (for example to me Dart definitely falls into this category).
Ah, good to know.

As a developer one of the main things I'm searching for is code.

Unfortunately (for competitors) I can pretty much count on Google having everything I ever want in the index.

Not having the thing I'm looking for in the index is another wrinkle on top of relevancy.
Also Brazilian here, wouldn't an alternative path be to go even further southwest, leave the country, and only then move north more or less following the Pacific coast? That would both avoid all these shitty roads and remove the need to cross the Amazonas.
There's legit reasons to prefer opex over capex, but this guy totally misses them. Were they selling the company? Trying to improve the cash position? Made too many capital expenditures this year? In the middle of a gnarly audit? Sales dropping? - all legit reasons.

A 10-year depreciation schedule is ... not one of those legit reasons. This guy has no ideal what finance does lmao
> There may be some correlation

There is so much correlation that the correlation of an aptitude test with an IQ test is basically equal to the correlation of one IQ test with another IQ test. (Around 0.8) By any definition other than "it can't be an IQ test unless that's part of its name", the aptitude tests are IQ tests. They do not differ in function.
When it comes to primitives you can only pass by value, but with objects and arrays you can only pass by reference. And this applies to comparisons too: when comparing objects or arrays you are comparing by reference, not deeply by their inner values. If you want to compare them deeply you have to take some additional steps to make that possible, and all of the different strategies for doing so have different trade-offs.

I once talked to someone with >5 years front-end experience, including some team-lead experience, who thought the difference between == and === was that === compares objects deeply. That is very, dangerously wrong. The only way I can imagine he got by for so long with that misconception is that he'd always used ImmutableJS.
It is important. They removed a lot of champions with complicated mechanics that could have been much harder for the AI to play against.
> There is nothing wrong with one valuing their own high IQ test score.

To me it suggests someone who's more concerned with being something special than doing something interesting. It seems like a kind of narcissism, and suggests that they're probably pretty boring.
My browser (when behind work VPN) is showing an untrusted SSL cert error so probably the issuer is not whitelisted in some employer's systems.
On another note, you might want to consider converting the online copy of the book to MkDocs (using the Material theme), so that it's easier to read, navigate and search.

I'd gladly lend a hand with this, if you like?
If I ever made a eurorack module, it would be a controller for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_levitation
Not being xenophobic doesn’t require training
gtkD easy only for configuring or for programming too?
I just stopped by for the Werewolf Bar Mitzvah reference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2oCX3Hn4
Biology affects biological sex. For most people this means XX or XY chromosomes. There are probably some nuances of expression and phenotype in there too, and obviously some people's chromosomal situation does not fall into either of those buckets.

It's likely not possible to find widespread agreement on this, but I think the modern concept of gender is more or less about how you align with the traditional male and female roles in society (doesn't have to be in the binary sense). I don't think there's a known right answer for how much of this alignment comes down to "nature", and how much to "nurture". What's clear is that some people do not mentally identify with the sex and/or gender labels and/or roles that their chromosomes would traditionally assign to them.

The "biology doesn't care about your feelings" arguments are stupid because they don't amount to any more than excuses for ignorance—biology obviously can't fully explain gender as in gender roles. In fact, pretty much all the arguments I've seen against accepting transgender folks' identities rely on being obtuse about definitions to some degree.
The "My Year in Mensa" podcast is a good (and entertaining) way to understand some of what really goes on in Mensa, and what type of people are likely to join.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id149...
There's probably a lot of money to be made solving these problems.
It's a reference to a Mussolini quote which may parallel a linguistic trick used to group people. But thanks for confirming bad faith.
Asset management giant Fidelity files for a Bitcoin ETF
"Not being ignorant" requires studying a lot, which might be caused by relative inability to go out and play sports, or a condition like hyperlexia, or ADHD-type hyperfocus on refreshing HN.

Plus it's not always beneficial. For instance people like to heavily research before they vote in major elections but it's not like that's worth the effort.
Are there any good news sources for following/understanding what's going on in China? Reading the state media has obvious issues but reading defector media also isn't going to represent how most people in China actually think.
Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought
I keep getting a busy signal, you must be popular!
Novel - not, in my opinion. How to do GUI is known from 1970-ties. Today's single page apolication frameworks slowly re-discover the wheel. It is funny to observe.
> or to be tantamount to training on IQ tests themselves which destroys their meaning (like memorizing vocabulary)

I have trouble understanding how people can make this point and still be big believers in (utility of?) IQs. If training for IQ tests destroys their validity they never had much in the first place.
from 2 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNP9b3aIfY
Spring was released 19 years ago. MySQL was released 26 years ago. It's not such a big difference as you're claiming, especially since MySQL really took off around version 4 or so.

I'm not sure you can put Spring in the same category with Angular, plus Spring definitely filled (fills?) a niche that's useful: pre-built components for Java, especially for enterprise development.
This is also addressed in the paper:

"Zebrafish are a particularly valuable tool to study neurogenesis in vertebrates. Basal levels of neurogenesis occur at higher levels than in mammals, and additional proliferative zones are found throughout the brain"

In the zebrafish model, which yes, is different from the human brain, the researchers specifically demonstrate that neurogenesis is occurring in dopaminergic regions throughout life:

"... we demonstrate that ascending TPp DA neurons and local-projecting PVO neurons, but not magnocellular ascending DA neurons, are each generated into adulthood in wild type animals at a rate that decreases with age."

PINK1 deficiency slows the rate of the generation of DA neurons in zebrafish. Following this result, they then turned to the question of applicability to human systems by testing PINK1 deficiency on a culture of human midbrain organoids and successfully showed that this gene downregulated the size these organoids reached, demonstrating that this gene has an effect on neurogenesis of human dopaminergic neurons from the substantia nigra.

"Isolated observations in animal models of PD always raise concerns about the applicability of any results to human patients with this condition. However, the observation of impairment of DA neurogenesis in a PINK1-deficient, human tissue derived organoid model confirmed the initial observations."
I would argue that white collar crime is up as well and procecussion his severely lagging behind. There is a lot of scamming going on.
Original step to help with manufacturing of the subs came when US brokered a deal with MHI 3 years ago. The somehow magically "retired" MHI engineers appeared in Taiwan to help in development

US does not have expertise to make modern non-nuclear subs. China can intimidate anyone in Europe not to sell. It was fortunate for Taiwan that Chinese pissed off Japan enough. Half a dozen of Soryu knockoffs can shut down PRC maritime trade if needed.
> Kind of like how if anyone in Texas had the good foresight to winterize they could have made a year of profit in a few days...

Hmm. When would this foresighted person have made their preparations? What would installation have cost? What would maintenance have cost? More or less than a year's worth of profits?
Ruby is a more logical choice, or Elixir, depending on your usage domain. Or maybe Python or Julia if using PDL? Raku is nice but still slow and not there yet. No nice http framework like Mojolicious for one, not enough libraries to get stuff done. Pdf support is still quite lacking in Perl for instance. Good luck churning out a nice looking report for a client.
It was my honor to work with Bob Moog in the early 1970's; as technician for the SUNY/Buffalo electronic music studio, I kept the synthesizers running.

He was one of those wonderful people who was happy to show you how to do something, without showing off or making a big deal of it. Figuring out what was wrong in a voltage controlled oscillator - cool stuff for this undergrad.

Reminds me of how, in those days of analog electronics, an oscilloscope was the debugging tool of choice...
PHP with any modern framework. Comet / Workerman / Swoole are capable to handle tens or hundreds thousands of requests with up to 1ms latency.
For a start, a whole bunch of containers ended up stuck in locations where they wouldn't normally be and there's not enough return goods, and for some reason shipping companies aren't interested in carrying empty containers back on their return trips?
He spent 3 months on retreat reading "The Governance of China" which I believe is a not so easy to digest as the little red book.
While Raku was envisioned to be the successor to perl... I remember going to the Perl Conference back in '00 and thinking "Oh, Neat!" and being excited about Perl6.

And I waited. And I waited. And I waited.

The mindshare of improving perl5 and making it competitive with the emerging application servers and compelling for a web development platform rather than Java wained.

Java became more and more useful over the next decade while perl5 remained static. People wrote some rather impressive libraries - but the mindshare wasn't there. Mod_perl in apache was useful... but BEA WebLogic was becoming more and more useful.

Meanwhile, more and more features and major changes were slated to be part of perl6... and the release date felt more and more distant in the future for where I could actually get something to work in a production environment with perl6 and say to my manager "this should be what we target for new development."

I had changed two jobs between first getting hired as a perl programmer and perl6 being released (though I pity anyone who would have tried to run perl6 in production in '15).

So while Raku is neat... it really lost its mindshare of developers over two decades.

The writing is on the wall for perl5 - I left that in '10 when I was hired as a Java developer rather than a Perl developer.

But the writing is on the wall for Raku too - already. In '00 and even a few years later, there was still enough inertia to say "perl6 is out, lets move our stack from perl5 to perl6". Today? I don't see it. I think there would be a stronger push from perl5 to Java (or other JVM language) or Python depending on the shop.

The last version of perl4 was in '93 when perl5 started work. Perl 5.000 was released October 17, 1994. 5.004 was in '99... and then the long dark time began as efforts for perl6. Four years later we got perl 5.6... and another five years for perl 5.8. Still no perl6.

Raku won't replace perl5 because any place that perl5 is going to be replaced isn't likely going to move to Raku. The effort to move from perl5 to Raku is likely similar to the effort to move to Java, or Python, or Ruby... all languages with greater mindshare and developer stories (and Jetbrains IDEs).

I've left perl. Any scripting that I do now is groovy which leverages my tooling in Java.

In the "well it should have replaced perl5" - that boat sailed over a decade ago when the systems running perl were being migrated to other platforms and languages... and the developers lost faith, had their beards turn gray, and retired.
Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
The future or Perl: Python
Opus at over 40 or 60Kbps for voice sounds like overkill, nevermind 500kbps. What's the rationale for using such high bitrates?
> The only theme likely to be in common among all Mensa members is a pride in their IQ.

This is wrong in two ways. 1) IQ is not among the most discussed topics, not even close; so presumably other themes are in common. 2) Pride is not the prevalent emotion, generally or specifically with regards to the own IQ.
Why are people so dismissive about this? It's a significant usability problem among many, many others that gnome has.

It should be annoying that the issue keeps coming up.

It's not a 'meme' that gnome lacks an extremely basic feature that is incredibly common in other GUIs.
Thanks. The 13F XML is not too complicated, here is the relevant section of code in case helpful: https://github.com/toddwschneider/sec-13f-filings/blob/main/...

I haven't worked with XBRL though, so am not sure if it's more involved
You're not alone. I think it caught on because a long article (even with pictures) might seem like too much of an investment to a lot of people but a self-contained tweet that keeps getting extended is less intimidating.

TBH, I'd say it's less that I dislike this form of presentation than that I hate all the anti-pattern bloat that Twitter adds, like clickable items not being detectable by extensions and previews being cut off.
Ideas for Disrupting Higher Education
Nice job. Two things to consider:

1. Up and down arrows for the search box autocomplete don't work.

2. The cornerstone of static sites is their timeless simplicity. The software stack here is complicated. The authoring and publishing experience deserves to be as stable and timeless as reading any of the stuff that gets put inside. The process for putting new stuff in should be described in full detail in a document that lives on the same site. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676628>
Humans have (IIRC nearly unique) ability to have adaptive muscle mass. Gorillas get huge muscles without needing to exercise and by only eating vegetables, but we grow and shrink with our diets.

This is helpful because it means we can survive with unpredictable diets. But there might be other benefits like heart health or avoiding cancer.

Another big issue with huge brains is that your babies take longer to develop and are very hard to give birth to.
You'd like to know the score your 22-24 year old candidate received on the SAT that he took when he was 17-19? How is that relevant?
Maybe unpopular, but I like the chuckling screech of the bald eagle. Also barn swallows, they kind of “talk” when they are relaxed.
You have specified `typeset' so this doesn't apply but you may be interested in the `Book Of Kells"...
https://www.claddaghdesign.com/history/irish-treasures-the-b...
I said it’s not just about you.

Some things in communities take cooperation, you know?
No 3rd party services involved at all. All server components are running on a single server of mine. Sorry, no source code released yet.
I'm not exactly sure, I've just been told so by others. My guess is that since you take it as a teenager, it's considered strange to include it as an adult. But I haven't taken any standardized quasi-intelligence tests as an adult, so it still seems like a useful signal.

People could also just lie though. I can't imagine actually confirming an applicant's SAT score.