skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. Another issue I forgot to mention is the converse problem: the use of this stuff to hand-wave away the impact of past social injustices and biases.

"There are fewer women in advanced math... could that be related to gender differences in brain structure and cognition?"

The answer is: yes it theoretically could, but it could also be due to the fact that until very recently (like 1-2 generations or less depending on where you are) women were strongly discouraged from pursuing such professions and in some cases were actually not allowed to study at the same institutions or in the same circles as men.

That seems to me to be a more likely explanation. Most institutions have since liberalized their rules and have even engaged in recruitment efforts to bring more women into the field, but even with such changes and efforts it takes a long time for human societies to change. Large-scale human group behaviors, customs, and preferences are really sticky and changing them usually takes generations in the best case... unless there's some extreme forcing function like a war, pandemic, powerful state edict, depression, etc. There hasn't been an extreme forcing function pushing more women into advanced math.

If women continued to be vastly under-represented at the top of mathematics after 100 more years of relative openness and cultural liberalism, I'd start to entertain the possibility that it's a result of gender differences in brain function.
I think it's pretty likely that there are male and female personality differences that are biological and not just cultural. Yet before we were even able to take these measurements any suspected male/female brain differences have pretty universally been used to screw over women.

Some examples at the top of my head in the US: women were denied access to most universities, not allowed to become doctors, scientists, lawyers. Even in 1988, until the Women's Business Ownership Act was passed, if a woman wanted to get a business bank loan, she couldn’t do it without the signature of a male relative IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A witness in a federal legislation hearing at the time had to have her 17-year-old son cosign for a loan since she didn’t have a living husband, father or brother. Again, in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The supposed free-market capitalist center of the world. Apparently women couldn't be trusted with loans, because what if their "woman brains" did something stupid with the money? This sounds like Saudia Arabian levels of male guardianship bullshit. Except it's the United States. In modern times. It wasn't a long time ago. 1988 is a time when many millenials were already alive.

So even though I'm pretty sure there are biological differences between male and female brains, I am even more sure that even the slightest hint of it will be used to screw people over. Why? Because it has happened over and over again to justify exerting control over people. Therefore, I am not surprised some people just refuse to acknowledge it and I can't really blame them. Besides, these differences are on average and people screw people over for "well X group on average is like ____" reasoning all the time. So I find this research mildly interesting from the scientific perspective, and a huge liability from the societal perspective.
And Thinkpads are a) pretty unique in how repairable they are, and b) seen by the public as enterprise workhorses and not sexy or exciting.

I personally have an X1C5. I absolutely love it. Best laptop I've ever owned.

But I'm still very curious about this thing as it feels like a whole next level in terms of how modular and easy it is to repair while still being lightweight, powerful, and capable.
Yep. This is why you don't keep your coins on an exchange. If there's another fork like BCH or ETC you might be screwed.
Why call them "sex groups"? Why not just use another label? Also, do you realize who is doing the selection as to who reproduces, and therefore which genes eventually become prone to "extreme"? In other words, I'm sure women are rewarding these extremes otherwise they wouldn't exist, evolutionarily speaking.
I have to admit I don't know if you're sarcastic or not, but it certainly exists in Europe. You can have reduced rates (by quite a bit) if you install some special hardware to record how you drive.
> The thing is, "accordingly" is open to interpretation and, in some cases where the intern is getting a lot more than they give, it's reasonable to argue that it is "not at all".

This depends. I am a student and at my last internship I was given work that nobody really had time for but ended up (towards the end) becoming a key part of a revenue-generating, customer-facing feature. While a senior could have done the same stuff in less time, I feel like the fact that this stuff was initially something nobody at the company had time for initially provided some sort of value to the company.

And the pressure to deliver only increases when talking FAANG internships, which pay (hourly) at the same rate as a junior engineer. It seems absurd to me to pay an intern that much to deliver negative value to a team, don't you think?
Thank you for sharing this, it's a beautiful expression of how uplifting emotion can be even in the face of how fleeting our lives are; especially during these times!
Fun fact: the linker complains at you when you try to use gets. It makes it rather annoying when you're trying to use it in a testsuite making sure your tool can handle some idiot using gets correctly...
And a huge percent of attractivity is nurture rarher than nature.

You can work out and get into shape, you can have good hygiene, you can dress nicely, etc. Just because someone is luckier and doesn’t really have to pay attention to what he/she eats to get a good figure doesn’t mean that others can’t achieve that, although with more work.

Also, the face itself is much more important for men than women.
Many of your points are completely new to me. Some references for these points would be very helpful. I'd like to learn more.

men tend to have more variance in everything due to having only one X chromosome

As every function of the society scales more and more, more things become winner-takes-all games

more things become winner-takes-all games and end up being male dominated

The only way to prevent the extreme outlier men from dominating everything is to prevent winner-takes-all games
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> there are only so many "Obscure Tool Rewritten In Rust" articles I can take

Yup, that's an issue for sure.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> it's always possible to fork from a certain blockheight

So looking back at the 2016 hard fork of Ethereum after the DAO thing[0], is it a feature that "the community"[1] can choose to hard fork to revert transactions that are "bad"[2], or is it a bug?

[0] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/20/hard-fork-completed/
[1] I'm not sure who defines this
[2] I'm also not sure who defines this
>> Only by facing reality as clearly as possible can we even begin to make changes that will have a real positive impact on everyone.

While I agree with this sentiment and appreciate all the research shared, I'm not sure a flood of scientific studies is going to be clearly accessible to the significant segment of the general public that doesn't have the training or time to process this information. The quickest and simplest way to "face reality" is not to drown people with long detailed academic studies but to engage with people based on their experiences and needs. I don't need to read a scientific article about what females want on average in a relationship to know that my female partner might be needing more emotional connection, I can just ask her, or encourage her to share that with me. I also agree with the author that people can make rigid assumptions based on gender that are not factual (such as the assumption that there are no personality differences across the sexes); but do the public and the people making policies at the institutional level need to absorb a series of lengthy academic studies to consider the possibility that their assumptions might be wrong? Do we really have hope that this is how things happen? It is simpler to be conscious of what is fact and what is assumption in your own mind and ensure that you leave room for the uncertainty, and to ask this of people who have power.
The Value of Advanced Energy Funding[pdf]
>I think the problem is that people like James Damore will say that women aren’t suited for work in tech

That's something he never said, and even explicitly said the opposite multiple times. The fact that people like you continue to repeat lies about what he said without ever reading what he said (or worse, willfully lying in spite of actually reading it) is why we can't have honest conversations about this.
With respect, that's a pretty asinine reading of the comment. Slavery was not a founding pillar of the United States, any more than monarchy is a founding pillar of the European Union just because some of its member states happen to be Constitutional monarchies.

In fact, it should be quite clear from that comment that not only was slavery NOT a foundational pillar of the United States, it was the opposite of a foundational pillar since its abolition was a long-run goal, the Founders placed Federal incentives to drive its abolition, and ultimately hoped that later generations would be able to do so across the entire Union once and for all.
Quite possibly. But that is the only plant in the world with an exclusion zone that big, so it doesn't generalize. As such it's meaningless.

It's likely to remain the only one with an exclusion zone that big given what we have learned about how low the lethality of Chernobyl was.
Germany is a net-exporter of electricity to France. Especially in summer when nuclear reactors have to be shut down, because the water temperature in the streams they use already is too high or when the tide is too low, or in winter when the rivers freeze.
What do you want businesses to do? Should they all commit meaningful resources and capital to social justice?

What about climate change? Should they also commit meaningful capital and resources to that?

How should they balance those with other priorities, like their fiduciary duty to their shareholders?
> No HR person would allow unpaid intern positions in 2021. It's very clearly illegal in the United States.

Unless this claim is scoped to the tech industry, it's absolutely wrong. Frankly I don't know the actual legal status but it's standard practice in a lot of industries, esp. things like publishing.
These are not features of the terminal at all. “>” is a customizable prompt of your shell, and “-“ is a convention used by most (but not all) binaries. It’s also a very useful convention; How else are you going to tell arguments apart from options?
Netflix can set the terms and conditions of how their third-party production company works - e.g. requiring that everyone involved gets paid a wage.
What a bizarre, mostly useless; yet absolutely neat utility.

Of course, disk space is the immediate reason why it's so impractical.
Woah, that's really cool. This seems to check the first two of the article's points, approachability and discoverability. Are there any plans to implement the third point, interactivity, where you have small, dynamic guis embedded in the terminal?
Equal opportunity ≠ equal outcomes

As a teenager, I tried briefly to play basketball. But I was lucky to hit the backboard, much less the basket. Yet I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had. But equal opportunity was not nearly enough to create equal outcomes.

Nevertheless, many studies today conclude that different groups do not have equal opportunity or equal "access" to credit, or admission to selective colleges, or to many other things, because some groups are not successful in achieving their goal as often as other groups are.

The very possibility that not all groups have the same skills or other qualifications is seldom even mentioned, much less examined. But when people with low credit scores are not approved for loans as often as people with high credit scores, is that a lack of opportunity or a failure to meet standards?

When twice as many Asian students as white students pass the tough tests to get into New York's three highly selective public high schools — Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech — does that mean that white students are denied equal opportunity?
I don't know if that the's whole story necessarily, but that and the "didn't stop talking to a reporter about internal matters after being directly asked to" is enough for me to discard the "The most likely reason Zhu was fired was anti-Asian bias" claim.
Not just PowerShell, but also zsh and even (tricked-out) bash to some extent. Not to mention REPLs such as ipython and others.
Well...not a startup, but Schneider's latest-gen EcoStruxure platform is based on TimescaleDB =)

https://ecostruxure-building-help.se.com/bms/Topics/show.cas...

But feel free to hit me up at mike@timescale or mike on slack.timescale.com.
https://netblocks.org/about

>"NetBlocks is a global internet monitor working at the intersection of digital rights, cyber-security and internet governance. Independent and non-partisan, NetBlocks strives for an open and inclusive digital future for all.

Seeking to support change through social enterprise, civic engagement and innovation, NetBlocks reports cover topics ranging from internet access, digital policy to energy supply in countries around the world in an accessible and contextualized format. NetBlocks engages with industry, business and standards-setting forums and non-governmental and civil society networks to deliver change for good.

Based in London, NetBlocks is a privately held business owned and run by British inventor and rights advocate Alp Toker."
Argo AI Lidar
Does gets() guarantee that it will write its output in order? If not it could in theory write after your guard page before touching the guard page itself. Of course I don't know if either the kernel or glibc would ever do this.

I think the only safe way to use gets() is with trusted input.
How can they not dictate monetary policy? They could conceivably cause inflation by increasing mining rewards or perhaps deflation through coin destruction.
Yes, I mean in WA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

The other statements I think are false. Men dominate in high IQ areas because more men are high IQ because of the Variability Hypothesis. It has nothing to do with being "winner take all". I'm not really sure what that means.
There's an earlier Step 2 where they tell you that they aren't going to tell you how to manage your division, and then tell you that they won't pay for some of your initiatives.

Because strangling an initiative by withdrawing all funding isn't saying 'no' I guess? I'll never understand how that works.

Usually that squeeze happens in the second fiscal year, and in some cases the 'combine processes' step is characterized as a carrot instead of a stick.
Physical cash is a tiny portion of the USD mass in circulation.
There's also the `setdefault` method you could use on ordinary dicts:

-if day not in days:
- days[day] = []
+days.setdefault(day, [])
We’ve measured the size of Venus’s planetary core for the first time
Did those "diverse range of cultures" arise separately, or did humans originate in one location and spread their culture from there? Contrast to a drug trial -- imagine you only test penicillins, and nobody gets a placebo or a non-treatment, could you come to a conclusion? Are the potential outcomes / conclusions of the experiment the same as an experiment where there are placebo and non-treatment controls?
Using the phrase "someone like you" in a negative way in an argument on a charged, divisive topic counts as crossing into personal attack. Please make your substantive points without that.
Hell, even if it wasn't, $1,000 is mid-range in the laptop world (e.g. a bottom end Dell XPS 13 or Envy clocks in around that price point), and anything below that starts to get pretty hit-and-miss.
Non paywall link:

https://archive.is/ng2Tp
My humble guess is you'll never get these sorts of technical details from an internal so don't get your hopes up :-)
Yes. I bought the iPad for something other than note-taking but I have found it to be excellent for that purpose, when paired with the Apple Pencil. I currently use the built-in Apple Notes app for this.
Checklist: Should You Build a Mobile App?
Excellent Link! Thanks!
I'd like to set this up one up of my own servers...
Was monarchy essential to the socioeconomic system of the EU members? The point is not that slavery was a founding pillar simply because it existed at the time of founding.
A Hitchhiker's Guide to SQLite with Python
I saw and heard him say it, so linking to an article that says he didn't won't work. Saying "Get a grip." is just the kind of condescension that ruins your credibility. You don't have facts to back up your claims, just insults and disrespect.

Dr. Fauci exactly said, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”
A couple of years ago numbers were in the 500k to 1M per year: https://greenlining.org/blog-category/2020/unpaid-internship...
From what I've searched, e.g. from Yandex(Russian Google) SVR's (which apparently is the Russian counterpart for CIA) website seems to be http. So I would bet on this not to be a fake either. Quite funny though, if their official website is not secure.
Yes, but there are times where basically the same item will be priced seemingly randomly by ounce, by pound, and sometimes even by count (how many items in the bag or box).

Is $.33/oz a better deal than $5/pound? How about $.31/oz?
This doesn't make any sense. The oppression of women wasn't because someone went "Oh, I read a study and I have the proof now!".

Oppression of women has nothing to do with scientific endeavor to study differences in gender. Science has no agenda besides understanding nature. Women's oppression has been going on for many centuries in every single culture independently before we even had scientific literature in this area.
I'll have to dig up a citation. But the [] Three Mile Island accident was in part caused by (former) naval nuclear specialists making poor choices based on optimizing for the wrong things.

My memory is fuzzy, but this 37 minute video [2] has a breakdown.

If memory serves, the root causes were faults in the pumps and delays in the 28 baud diagnostic printouts running minutes or hours behind which left everyone operating on bad data.

Part of that was exacerbated by the operators applying techniques used on subs (something about preferring to keep low pressure in some vessel, because high pressure there could sink the boat if containment was lost), the TMI design didn't need this as it could vent/blow-off, and the operators became somewhat fixated on "trying to save the boat" and missed a bunch of procedures.

Of course this doesn't invalidate your point, but even if the reactor designs are really similar, it may be a mistake to cross train anyone.

(disclosure: haven't seen this video in a year or so, and am generally a fan of nuclear power considering the alternatives, but it needs to be done with different, safer reactor designs and probably with new branding because no matter what it's going to take _forever_ to convince anyone to trust nuclear, when they associate that term with the dangerous, BWR designs that were never intended for land)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQeXOz0Ncs
How does it benefit an organization to have rich kids working for them for free?
Apple AirTags sales suspended by Australian Officeworks over child safety fears
Bitcoin isn't really decentralised, in all kinds of ways. Look at the ownership of bitcoin, a handful of people have the majority. It's totally an elite phenomenon. But even within the elite it's a tiny amount. IMO we need something far more well distributed.
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Getting zonked on a class A drug during an important meeting with investors - so zonked you can't even read your own figures on a whiteboard - is no trivial matter.
I think a lot of differences in the sexes can be explained by pregnancy, birth, and breast feeding.

Females get pregnant, give birth, and breast feed after birth.

Prior to modern medicine there was no reliable birth control. Maternal mortality was high, and there was no good substitute for breast milk.

Because of that, a female could expect to spend up to 2 years at a time, where she was primarily responsible for supplying 100% of the nutritional needs of another human being, and at a fairly large disadvantage in finding food or avoiding being eaten.

Compared to other primates, human babies are pretty helpless for a long time.

It would be pretty surprising if tens of thousands of years of this did not produce certain personality differences and brain differences, especially as success at producing new members of the species drives evolution.

Only in the last 50 years have we had fairly reliable ways for a woman to be able to effectively control when she gets pregnant, safely give birth, and have a way to either safely store breast milk or else have acceptable nutritional substitutes (formula).
Furthermore, if Facebook or Twitter are so large that they function as the new public space, the answer isn't to prevent them from banning people, but to break them up. The issue isn't a private company determining who gets to be on their platform, but that their platform is effectively a monopoly and monopolies are bad.
theoretically less secure networks and the nomenclature around "validators" refers to Proof of Stake networks and Delegated Proof of Stake networks, of which bitcoin is neither.

so this discussion isn't about Bitcoin

but I can understand how that might not have been clear. I'm not saying these points don't also apply to bitcoin in some degree, this thread just wasn't about it.
I don't understand this argument. US dollars are legal currency, so all you have to do to redeem the underlying value is purchase something with it (or, if you want to be pedantic, use them to cover a public or private debt).

Of course, the underlying value of what you can get in exchange for them can change, but that's true for every medium of exchange in the first place. There's nothing magical about gold, silver, or any other commodity, nor is there anything special about tying a piece of paper to a commodity. If the government doesn't want you to use it or any derivative products as a currency, like what happened in the US with the 1933 Coinage Act, you're pretty much out of luck.
Excellent Link!

So good in fact, I reposted it as its own HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054651

There should be more organizations like that around the world -- like one in each country would be the gold standard -- and they should know about and work with each other... maybe I'll work on something like that in the future...
See Cory Doctorow's Car Wars for a fictional treatment of this. I can't seem to find the full text online at the moment.
Fig seems to be reinventing the wheel. Shells already have their own completion systems to handle exactly this problem, and you can change their default frontend to something like fzf. (See, e.g., fzf-tab.)
Perhaps not. How many times must someone lie to you before you stop believing them? And worse, shilling for them?