skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For women, it was (and still is) about equality. Pockets, unlike purses, are hidden, private spaces. By restricting the space in which women can keep things safe and retain mobility of both hands, we are also restricting their ability to “navigate public spaces, to carry seditious (or merely amorous) writing, or to travel unaccompanied.”

Although I came to the same observation and desire of change (I’m annoyed at the idea that me, godfather, has to assist my goddaughter by carrying her handkerchief because dresses have no pockets... how can we reach female independance if they have to rely on men being around to carry their stuff as early as 6 years old).

...the idea that men conspire to restrict women’s pockets is quite the biggest conspiracy theory I’ve heard. We gather at night with the council of men and decide “What should we do next”, “Let’s restrict women’s pockets”, “Let’s make them eat less meat so they are smaller”, “Why not everything” and we do everything.

She phrases it as a conspiration, but it could also be that men are so much available to help them that they overuse this service.

In any case, cargo pants are available, boys often choose function over form and marketers know it; Girls often choose form over function, and very very little function doesn’t seem to be a problem for many other types of accessories, as long as beauty is there.
Not to mention, certification and authorisation, which adds years to the pipeline.
Not to undermine the point of the article, but this isn’t so much a “women’s vs men’s clothing” issue as much as it is a “clothing manufacturers have streamlined production to the point that nobody will pay extra to redesign clothes that very few people will buy”. This affects sizing standards the most, because there are basically none. Even the most cutting edge, eco friendly, forward thinking clothing brands get their patterns from copying the proportions off vintage or competitors clothes, usually made to fit a tall european twenty-something.
BTW, the same is true for Google Fonts. These prove to be the major bottleneck on my sites. (Since I'm hosting fonts locally, these are at 100% performance or close. We may argue that in practice these fonts would probably have been available in cache, but this tends to be less a thing, compare Firefox privacy policies.) This is actually a testament to the neutrality of Lighthouse.
https://hollandfintech.com/2020/06/research-the-average-age-...
I implemented a simple clone of mp3 and it was not that hard. If you do a discrete Fourier transform of the audio (in small overlapping windows), quantize the resulting coefficients, and compress them losslessly using the Huffman codes, you will end up with something not that far from mp3. The human ear is quite forgiving to the effects of quantization in frequency domain.

MP3 does not have remarkable fidelity though. MP3, and my clone of it, suffers from time domain artifacts. Quantization in the frequency domain causes distortion in the time domain as well, negatively affecting high frequency transient sounds like cymbals. That is more noticeable. Newer generation codecs like AAC handle transients much better, but they are considerably more advanced, and often use different transforms like wavelet transform.
This page is really cool.

Although I'm not sure I am on board with the synthesis - it wants to play it both ways: that women are unfairly given smaller pockets but are also incapable of prioritizing it for themselves.

Out of curiosity I showed this page to my wife (who loves to complain about pockets). When seeing the pants with the bigger pockets, she complained about the fit or aesthetics of those brands, so I think the traits may be linked. She also admitted she doesn't much care for things in the front pockets anyway.

Still, amazing presentation and data set.
"And if you tell the kids that today they won't believe it!"

Four Yorkshiremen sketch
Monty Python
What if you had two separate computers wirelessly synchronized? None of the problems you mentioned, except maybe a hinge, and I trust Apple can get that much right. Such a device would be great for something like reading books.
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Done. It actually keeps selectability by default, at least in chrome and firefox.
> There are people that get lung cancer without a cause

I'd be quite surprised if breathing in microplastics does not contribute to the risk of lung cancer -- and essentially every human being is exposed.
I'm not sure if you read the article, but it has some convincing arguments about that. The gist of it is that just like the "fossil records", we'd find the "intermediary steps" or something resembling those in the nature, and we sure did with the previous problematic coronaviruses within months. No such luck with this one. Also there are arguments about how the genome of this variant was already "attuned" to the human biology in very unique ways right from the beginning which is unexpected in the "natural" scenario, but would be perfectly ok with the lab escape scenario because they either use human tissues or humanized mice. So this particular virus looks like a giant step from its predecessors (not a couple mutations here and there) but the intermediate steps are missing. It was also demonstrated, prior to the pandemic that the scientists working in the lab most likely to create this virus worked in safety settings no better than a dentist's office. There is a lot more to unpack there in the article.
Definitely positive. The changes coming in Eth2 will both improve the security and the scalability of Ethereum. There isn't really any pushback towards this in the community aside from a select group of miners
That already happens with the existing breath-based devices. People claim they measured under the limit on their own device, then still get caught by law enforcement. Sometimes law enforcement has more accurate devices. Blood alcohol concentration can rise immediately after drinking, so sometimes you can measure under the limit when you start to drive but be over the limit when pulled over. Some people just lie, and claim they measured under on their own device even when they didn’t.

I’ve never heard of a manufacturer being successfully sued over this. If it was going to happen, it probably would have happened by now. The law has never had much sympathy for drunks.
I'm in the eighth largest city in Australia (similar car-oriented like the USA, public transport is poor unless that's your #1 priority in housing). It's absolutely ridiculous that there can be large surface lots of parking right in the centre of town.
Hi, if you're interested in working with kdb+/q, then you should try applying to either AquaQ Analytics or First Derivatives. Both will give you the opportunity to work in the finance industry.

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What is the origin of sign in? I imagine the old days when you needed to sign a book when entering premises? Is this the floppy disk for save action of web jargon?
This is a neat little project and all but what is the value proposition? The JS console of any modern browser is much more feature-full.
I am long in Pet Rocks
What I've done on a recent project is to vendor the dependencies before build(which are excluded from git, you could cache these if you're using a CICD system like circle), copy everything into the build container, build with -mod=vendor and then copy the resulting binary into a new container.

Don't know how that'll work out for a larger project but it works well enough in this small API I wrote.
> To youths with curious mindsets, an anti-authoritarian streak, and seemingly limitless amounts of free time, little restrictions like these only improved our skills. Systems with challenging but imperfect security are a great way to foster new young talent.

I miss the days when the stakes for testing boundaries and experimenting were lower.
I believe I have one of the originals in my shared office on campus. The poster was originally taped to the wall in Polya Hall. I took it down (as carefully as I could) and put it into a basic poster frame I purchased from Michaels. It will remain in that office unless/until our group moves elsewhere (in which case it will come with us) or I leave Stanford (in which case it will go to whomever else is in that office).
I wonder if it would have worked.

My personal experience with cec-utils is that device support is hit or miss.

I tried controlling a TV a while back, and I think I could get it to turn on, but not standby or off.

Worth a shot though.

(I do think his project is pretty cool, and it shows people that they can regain control of their dysfunctional iot devices)
1. What's so bad about magic internet money?

2. What sectors are you invested in that are somehow immune to hype cycles?
Unless I had a medical need, I would not want to wear any monitoring devices 24/7. I think it would contribute more to overall anxiety and stress than do anything helpful.
I compared a series 4 Apple Watch to my Garmin chest strap HRM and they gave pretty much the same readings. The Apple Watch was well within practical usability for training at the gym.

I can't speak to the quality of the following series, but if that isn't good enough, what is?
Earlier discussion (1987): https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/kFdPoJBpcSA
> use of Hooks, which are well-known not to be the best solution to the problem of state management within React.

I swear the introduction of Hooks threw such a monkey wrench into the ecosystem. They're just powerful enough to seem like an okay thing to use 100% of the time...

I thought we all agreed that React's ultimate destination was obscurity while it quietly became the runtime target and developers just had to return dom structures as data from functions. But they got greedy, and didn't want to go down like that, and now we have a worse version of redux instead of building on top of react-redux.

Perhaps my perception is wrong, in which case apologies and I'm happy to learn and listen.
It doesn't matter what your code is doing inside that component, you can still make it easily testable by having the core translation pipeline as pure functions.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27031847 for more reasons.
Maybe you should visit better websites? Try http://www.quakejs.com/
> raman spectroscopy

And now I can’t stop thinking about wearing a Raman spectrometer on my wrist :)
First... duh.

I mean it is something everyone has known for a long time. That said, I think it goes a little bit deeper than just simply the fashion industry is trying to screw women over.

You can buy women’s pants with pockets, some of them have an over abundance of pockets, for example these Carhartt Overalls: https://www.carhartt.com/products/womens/Carhartt-Rugged-Fle...

In general, women don’t buy these sort of utility pants as much as they buy other types of pants. Well many women won’t. My wife has about 50% utility pants and 50% pocketless pants.

The problem is those pants are not particularly flattering and even to this day, women wearing pragmatic/ practical clothing are shamed for wearing unflattering clothing. This isn’t just men, other women do it also.

Tight pants don’t really work well with big pockets filled with stuff.

I will say... the fashion industry doesn’t help. Brands like Levis who sell few utility type pants for women and don’t advertise any of them.

The big thing is people need to stop giving women crap for being practical with regards to clothing.
> I wonder how many PS5's could've been produced with that money instead of improving social integration.

Probably zero.
If you use iTerm2 (or I think this feature is available in other terminal software) you can use "Smart Selections" to transform any ShellCheck errors into links to the wiki.

1. Create a Smart Selection with the regular expression "SC\d+"

2. Add an action to "Open URL...", with the URL "https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/\0" (\0 will be replaced with the matched regex)

3. Now holding down the command key will change any ShellCheck errors to be active http links.
New Mexico (which is Rural but liberal: with extremely high uptakes in COVID19 Vaccine) is also at 0.2% death rate.

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Its very possible that the % is set in stone due to human nature.

My mom was VERY lax about COVID19 restrictions until someone close to her died in January 2021 (pretty late into the pandemic).

Once those stories of people "inside your social circle" start dying, then you start realizing its a serious threat.

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Rural folk may have advantages, but they won't change their behavior until someone close to them dies (which might be this 0.2% death rate, roughly one-in-500 people). It is said that the typical person's direct social circle (people in your family + you work with + studied with + your church group) extends to ~500 people or so.

Since the "size of people's social circle" is roughly constant no matter where you live (be it in a city or rural area), the 0.2% rate before "average person notices" is constant.

That's 0.2% of all people dying. Sometimes its necessary to emphasize what the "denominator" of this fraction is... this fraction is surprisingly consistent across many areas.
Holy shit. Just seeing that written out turned a light on in dark corner of my memory. I had completely forgotten about that until you mentioned it.
Did you try any with security pins, like mushroom pins? These are found where security actually matters, which is rarely the case for a straight pinned padlock.

I was able to open padlocks effortlessly, but my front door deadbolt kicked my butt.
Author should consider using Actually Portable Executable for the bootstrapper.
Technology is the easiest to adjust, ironically.
So you are suggesting that there are no options, seriously? Clothing stores that serves both genders usually caters 90% of the store to women, because they are the ones who buy a lot of clothes.

Men usually get a small corner somewhere. Also, there is online shopping with literally thousands of stores to choose from and you are suggesting none of these offers pants with larger pockets?

Probably, she don't care enough about pockets to really search for it?
> You need to compile a static executable

This is functionally impossible on $ISA-linux-gnu, because the glibc developers refuse to provide a working C standard library (libc.a).

> musl libc and musl-tools are useful

Sure, but if the software worked (/reliably) with musl, we'd be using that already.
This is super clever. If you add handling POST somehow as random access writes, you could have a read-write DB hosted pretty much anywhere
Reads like a plot to reduce the republican vote by a few %
There's also a whole book dedicated to maze generating and solving: Jamis Buck's "Mazes for Programmers"
https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/
You are downvoted because you are saying there are differences in man and woman preferences, in your case functionality vs. aesthetics.

This is also known as "neurosexism":

> So, this line goes, women are not really less intelligent than men, just ‘different’ in a way that happens to coincide with biblical teachings and the status quo of gender roles.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x
Alternate link that’s not paywalled?
This stuff gets you suspended now
If they made fully functional pockets for women's clothing would they be purchased? I have found several pockets sewn shut and people act like it isn't a big deal.
That crosses into breaking the rules at the top. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030153.
discussion from earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023453
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...and GCP, and pub/sub/ and...

So a little click baity title. If the backend wasn't distributed the title would be a little more apt.
This is the line I have more of an issue with:

> Like there’s a single standard of interest that women have in being with their kids when, in fact, it varies a lot between women.

If you have "little" interest in being with your kids, well, what's motivating you to have them, and is that fair on them?
Given the Gateses' roles in the tech world, venture funding, philanthropy, and Big Problems (scroll through BG's Twitter feed for numerous recent examples), including malaria, fresh water, sanitation, COVID-19, nuclear power, carbon emissions, global warming, disinformation, and more, the adjacency to numerous topics highly relevant to HN are high.

I say this as a very long-time critic of Microsoft and Gates, including on recent issues (patents as applied to vaccines).

Reader flags are a useful indicator, but can still reflect a minority quashing of a discussion that seems to badly want to happen.

Flagging also prevents tools such as Algolia from returning results of those discussions. That's sometimes merited, but not, I'd argue, in this case.
Uninomicon: A guide to undocumented behavior in Unity Engine
Apple is rarely ever the absolute first. Usually similar things have existed for a while and apple comes in and makes them much better and more accessible.

Sure, maybe apple is first this time but I have a hard time believing Apple is at the cutting edge of new medical technology.
Every time I hear news about Yahoo I think about Rocketmail [0].

I've had email addresses on Rocketmail for a very long time. I always worry they will shutter this historically significant domain & email service.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMail
That crosses into breaking the rules at the top. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030730.
Covid-19 vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with India: Bill Gates
If you can feel any alcohol effect, don't drive. Just be honest with yourself. This isn't that difficult.
I have a similar story but I was not quite so clever. Back in 1990 and 1991, I used a cluster of IBM RS6000 workstations in my university to train neural networks. I had previously tried to get backpropagation to work on a Connection Machine but found it too frustrating to work with. The cluster of RS6000s actually ran my code (written in C) very fast and was able top get some good results and graduate with PhD. I built a distributed queuing system to ensure that each work station would pull the next job from a central queue.
>the name of that program that blocked access to the Finder

FoolProof? The bane of my elementary school existence. Just let me play SimCity 2000.
Coupling it to React Context makes it easier to reuse in Node? I beg your pardon? :)

If you plan to reuse it in different environments, just give the user a `setConfiguration` and a `translateFunction` function. I prefer module-level variables for holding the i18n system state, but it could also be a class-based singleton, if that's your cup of tea. I still don't see how React plays into this.
My city is already at 50% vaccination rate. The curve is flattened. COVID cases are surging because of the reduced restrictions. If you go out, you’ll become part of herd immunity. You’ll get COVID.
Yes and no. Let's quote a bit more:

> “All of AI, not just healthcare, has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap,” he says. “The full cycle of a machine learning project is not just modeling. It is finding the right data, deploying it, monitoring it, feeding data back [into the model], showing safety—doing all the things that need to be done [for a model] to be deployed

Healthcare has some special needs in regards to what "real world use" means. Especially the "showing safety" part he mentions.

That's way different from some recommendation engine application, where it doesn't really matter, whether your ML approach just creates a bunch of bad feedback loops and people get sent into rabbit holes of bad music. No lives are at stake in that sense but the recommendation engine still "performs poorly on out of sample inputs" and is so to speak, "a long way from real world use". It's just that either nobody notices or even if they do, again, no lives are at stake and so it's OK that we're getting banana software (i.e. software that ripens in the hands of customers).
Sam Harris' Mushroom Trip [video]