skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Winning the birth lottery to be smart enough to get the lucrative programming or dev job, is also luck.

I literally said I was lucky in that same sentence. Come on now...
Everyone should agree that it's fundamentally unfair for biological males to compete against biological females in most sports. But the problem is any strict rules against this will lead to discrimination in so many other areas, I'm basically willing to look the other way as it's such a rare occurrence anyways. How many trans athletes are there?

It's very sad that this is a political issue - it makes any reasonable solution impossible. Any restrictions that liberals might find practical and fair (like a ban on competing where muscles are involved) will inevitably be used by conservatives to justify bigotry and prejudice in a number of other areas (exclusion from public bathrooms, for example, or even restrictions based on race, nationality or sexuality).
What's more interesting is the number of Europeans here in the Valley building those apps.

Is it something that's discussed in Europe?
Top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% is still understating it
Name a Fortune 500 company that’s got a sane csp. PayPal doesn’t.

Why go on the offensive, I implied I wasn’t even certain of my own hypothesis. Asshole.
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> To me, that boils down to what I tried to say above: women expect commitment and evidence that you will stick around.

I think this is a difference in perception. Sending poetry is not commitment or evidence that you will stick around. But women may perceive it as being that anyway. More generally, I see systematic and large differences in how men and women choose to describe exactly the same behavior.

I like Craig Morgan's song That's Why. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfJ8Q6keRk ) And a primary message that I see in it is that one way to be valuable as a husband and father is by paying the family's expenses.

I expressed this idea to my sister and she was disgusted with my point of view. But when, later, I played the song for her and asked what she thought, what she thought was "that guy sounds really sweet".
But there's no point in Condorcet because score voting, STAR voting, and approval voting have superior performance and are simpler.

https://www.rangevoting.org/CondorcetExec.html
As a big counterexample, Kikkoman is popular enough in the USA to carry in mainstream grocery stores, and is a legitimate soy sauce. I go to the Korean market here when I can for soy sauce (in which case I often get Sempio 501 or 701), but when I don't have time for a separate trip for some reason, I get Kikkoman from the big-box store and it's perfectly reasonable. The level of salt is still relevant, though.

If you start getting into different kinds of legit soy sauce then you'll find more subtle differences of course, and depending on what you're cooking, they may be relevant. I don't cook at home with enough precision for the difference between “primary” soy sauces to matter much, but if you start learning an actual cuisine, that's different.

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Honestly the main reason I ended up abandoning DDG is because you can't see the publish date on search results.

I know it's a fairly minor feature and one manipulated often by some websites, but I've still found it massively increases my chances of picking a relevant and up to date result. I didn't even realise how much I used it until I found myself getting extremely frustrated about its absence in DDG.
You seem be shifting the goal posts.

Do you find it fishy that these early samples were not fully sequenced, and that the parts that were sequenced were later deleted?
I'm not sure this is a truly misleading article. And it's interesting enough to warrant upvotes.

I will say that when I read the title, I thought "hey, this is going to be some PNG that displays a penguin in Chrome and an orange on Safari". But it's actually about an API method called "decode" and how to use it to display an image with a flicker or something.

I don't think the author misled anyone, but rather your own mind is guilty of that.
Brave blocks webpage's existing ads then replace the ads with their own ad network that earns the website owner Brave-money that the website owner then has to redeem.

That tactic is definitely a red flag.
And I guess those kernel mechanisms can’t be applied per process? If a hypervisor is required, could, say, JVM do it?
If anything, this "momentum" argument says you get more value by supporting STAR voting and/or approval voting than a method that already has traction.

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/momentum-e5fd12ffce2a
I always wonder if compilers actually do weird optimizations taking advantage of semantics like those.

Another example is when undefined behavior occurs, like (iirc) signed integer overflow. Compilers can technically do anything they want, including weird things. But how often does that actually happen?
And it's even harder without the handouts, so, your point is moot.
Maybe you could start by listening instead of accosting every comment that you find. Your incessant reply-bombing is childish and unprofessional, nobody wants to engage with someone who defends a browser like it's their sole lifeline.

Furthermore, you don't get to choose what your "UX issues" are. "UX" quite literally stands for "users experience", which is on the other side of the spectrum from "developer experience". As a dev myself, I know it's difficult not to conflate the two, but acting like issues straight up don't exist is blatantly hostile.

I have no personal qualms against Brave. I'm just another developer who wants a browser, and Brave's naive featureset doesn't appeal to me: that's fine. I'm just helping other, similar users make the right choice.
and being cunning allows you to figure out the numbers beforehand or manipulate the drawing
I think Markdown exists mostly to make the editing experience predictable for both the user and developer. I don't think I've ever seen a rich text editor that doesn't require babysitting.
If everyone flagged every article they found uninteresting, particularly something that rarely comes up here, because they're afraid it will become common on HN, then we'd pretty quickly have a pretty narrow and boring "lowest common denominator of interesting" site.

On a side note, I'm curious the history of "lowest common denominator". Did it start out as a confusion of "least common multiple" and "greatest common divisor/denominator" from mathematics, or was it more purposeful?
Go look up Olympic world records and compare the numbers for various events between men and women. It might not sound very nice, but women are on average physically inferior to men. At the top of any given objectively quantifiable sport, the best male athlete will beat the best female athlete, I'm guessing 99.99% of the time, although I don't know about all of the sports so some may give women an advantage I suppose.
Programming ability is not a "birth lottery". I'd bet if you looked at the average IQ at a no name company paying $70-80k to junior developers it would be surprisingly close to average. It definitely requires motivation and drive to pursue, much more than many other professions where you tick the knowledge box and just apply it all day.

I hate it when people blame the system for everything and deny themselves any personal responsibility for their own futures. There is a balance to be struck and people here jump far too quickly to assign all blame to the system.
Ironically, it is unbelievably damaging for individuals to believe that one needs a lot of luck, as this belief feels good, destroys resilience, and prevents one from recognizing and going after the (initially) modest opportunities that do show up.

Sure, you won’t be like Elon Musk, but you could be better than 90% of the population, since most people don’t want to try hard. Much more “fun” to believe that life is unfair, and therefore no action is required on one’s part.
I used to think that putting in the hard work was everything. That's what my parents taught me. Now I see how significantly the systems in which we operate either allow hard working people to capture their value, versus having the value extracted from their hard work.

Recent examples I can think of are:

1) Thousands of extremely hardworking athletes at the top of their sport, in their prime, who have had their value captured by the NCAA, instead of by the athletes themselves.

2) Scientists who have worked hard to invent novel technology but who have been blocked by institutions from licensing the technology they invent or being supported to further that technology.

3) Entrepreneurs who work incredibly hard and have their time, energy, and money drained by patent trolls who use the legal system to extract value.

4) Business owners who have to compete in a marketplace with VC-backed companies that can operate at a loss for years until they monopolize the market.

I could go on, but I'm not surprised that people are questioning whether hard work is enough. In many cases it's not. It's hard work + the system in which you are operating + having the connections and resources to fight entities that will inevitably try to leach off of your hard work.
A copy of the reference or a copy of the string?
Interesting anecdote: When I lived in Cambridge, MA in 2015, we had an election for 9 city council seats with 23 candidates.

Here's a specimen ballot from that election (PDF): https://www.cambridgema.gov/election/~/media/483A54C6BC8546F...

The "slate" strategy (called "horse-trading" in this article) was strongly entrenched for that election. The idea is that if you and other people all support some "slate" that is a subset of the running candidates, then if you all rank those candidates in the same order on your ballot, it can boost every one of those candidates chances of being elected (this strategy is most effective in multi-seat races, such as this 9-seat city council race).

The reason this works is that if a candidate meets the quota of first-choice votes needed to earn a seat, they are elected. If more people chose them as first choice than the quota, some of the ballots will instead roll over and count for their second choice (etc etc).

Which ballots move on? This is largely influenced by the overall proportion of second-choice votes. So if everybody packed the two candidates in the same order, it maximizes the number of ballots for that candidate that will be used in the second-choice tally.

All voting systems have tradeoffs. The nice property of this one is that I was able to elect multiple city councilors who supported policies that mattered to me. Likewise, as long as 1/9th (plus one) of the city's population put a candidate as their #1 choice in that election, that candidate was guaranteed a seat. That sounds pretty fair to me!
In the case of Biles, even saying "The top 1" might be understating it.
that's funny, I started where you are and as I have aged I have started to find myself unable to increasingly see people as just walking talking pieces of meat that I need to exploit to meet my own needs, or be left without.
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves."
Not everyone is as selfish as you are
You know, I thought I already knew everything you were saying... but I'm really glad I read until the end.
IRV has the same problem. Democrats in next year's Alaska senate race want to strategically rank Murkowksi (R) 1st to stop Tshibaka (Q).

https://twitter.com/Beyond2Parties/status/140537245401753600...

Score voting or approval voting actually solve this and are much simpler.
Note the parent didn't claim we should eliminate luck as a component of success, but rather adjust society, bit by bit, over time, so that luck is less of an effector.
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the anti-"self-made" rhetoric is eventually going to backfire. There are plenty of people who are only modestly privileged, or even hugely privileged that had to pull through a ton of bullshit or work hundred hour weeks, oftentimes succeeding in spite of what they had to endure, that bristle at the connotation that because they happened to grow up with some amount of privilege, everything they did is unearned.

Even if they were wrong and "they would have made it anyways" devaluing someone's effort like what I see happening these days (and moreover, socially pressured to shut up about it) is not a sustainable strategy for ameliorating social disparity.
Wouldn't surprise me; DDG has an impressive list of !bangs (more than 13K, IIRC). Thanks for the clarification!
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Well, at the very minimum the target function can be something like "make sure everyone is not worse than right now and as many people as possible are better".

For the definition of "better off", see [1]

[EDIT]

Here's another option. Imagine, people come to you and say: hey, dale_glass, you're smart we trust you. Please pick the target function. You can put there whatever you want with whatever weight you want.

The caveat: you will have to unconditionally accept the outcome. You cannot keep tweaking and rerunning until the result matches your ideas of perfect society.

Your move?

[1] https://worldhappiness.report
>it is the compression of the cylinders in the engine draining momentum from the wheels

Does it really? After all, while it will take energy when cylinder goes up and air is compressed, immediately after that the compressed air will be instead pushing cylinder down, returning that energy to crankshaft. There will be loss from compressed air heat migrating into cylinder walls, but it doesn't seem to be large enough to be responsible for majority of engine braking. It would also mean that diesel engines should engine brake much stronger due to higher compression ratio, but this isn't the case.

It seems to me that engine braking is just various friction losses from all parts of the engine, without single main source.
Heh, you can run into this even if you understand how iterator invalidation works. Once you see the bug it's easy to understand, but finding it might not be…
Perhaps an unpopular opinion on this thread, but this is just a convenient distraction while republican state houses and Secretaries of State across the country erode our real voice - access to the ballot box.

Republicans are suing Twitter to unmask fake cows that post unflattering things about them because, feelings? Death threats and plans to kidnap elected officials? A goddamn noose erected on the steps of the capitol amid the first incursion on that building in something like 200 years? And I’m supposed to empathize?

The whole thing is a mess. Nobody talks to each other. There was another thread I came across - don’t forget where I found it - but people who had put some tough guy face online suddenly weren’t so aggressive once they were face to face.

There is a lot of division but there is common ground to find. It’s hard when the right paints you as literal child eating demons and the left says you are a racist xenophobic asshole, but damnit we need to come together - what’s the alternative????

When there are topics we should truly come together on - enfranchisement comes to mind - we are too busy infighting that we lose sight of the real goal. And that’s how democracies die.
I guess that’s why Samsung is the best selling television in Germany.
If this was the case we wouldn't see a dearth of EV options from the competition. If regulatory capture was so profitable a big incumbent would've moved in by now.
Here's a recent study about the differences: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3

> Thus, the muscular advantage enjoyed by transgender women is only minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed. Sports organizations should consider this evidence when reassessing current policies regarding participation of transgender women in the female category of sport.
I'm not the parent, but I think they are referring to William Sethares' book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale": https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781852337971

It's a fascinating take on how those concepts relate to each other. You can find some of the papers that were synthesized into that book on his web page: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/pubs.html
Why is this app only? Is there (will there?) a web version?
> We've had this in Australia since day 1 of Federation.

Australia adopted the preferential system in 1918.

> It's completely normal to put a third party as your first preference, while still indicating that you'd prefer Kodos to Kang.

The evidence shows most voters don't, which is why Australia's IRV elections still maintain a duopoly. In spite of the fact that the senate, which uses (proportional) STV, has escaped duopoly.

http://scorevoting.net/AustralianPol
Yup this is the core problem. What should C++ prioritize?

1. Backwards compatibility with already existing binaries?
2. Speed speed speed?
3. Ergonomics?
"Mozilla’s Mr. Robot promo backfires after it installs a Firefox extension without permission":

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/mozillas-mr-robot-promo-ba...

All companies make mistakes. That's part of the journey. This affiliate referral code thing is becoming boring at this point. It was 2 years ago. Move on. Better look at what Brave is doing good right now, but I suspect you have an agenda, so you can't.
Training and experience doing what? What fancy title can you give someone who runs a register at your store to pad their resume?

Insurance, sure. That's just another part of comp that you can provide. It's not as straight forward as just money, but it's certainly much easier than training employees for jobs you don't offer.
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That would require the US becoming more like Europe, in which the right-tail is thinner but the middle is fatter. Americans like the idea that they can join the right-side of the tail even if the odds are low. Germany has lower wages and higher taxes but more stability and security. It's a trade-off.
It's worth mentioning that it wasn't just Germany on the Axis side, but a 6 nation alliance that invaded the USSR.
Ooh interesting. Ever since runaroo gave up the go, I've needed something new.
I love the phrase "Enthusiasm is not a skill". I think it is great. I am not for or against in terms of your idea. I just wanted to comment on the phrase :)
EL is annoying if you’re trying to install the latest of some Wordpress like software as often the system php and other things are out of date, and trying to update results in a frankeninstall. But if you’re trying to run an enterprise app like Jirw it’s amaze balls.
I am genuinely finding myself unable to even come up with an argument against why, with todays dating landscape, a guy in his 30s isn't better off literally teying to kidnap and rape women to get them pregnant, then keep hostage long enough that abortion is impossible.

Might genuinely be the better odds for not failing to reproduce than actually dating. I eont like this but I'm completely serious.in that I cannot think why it isn't true anymore.
> 6. Time off granted if you join a walk-out for preferred causes like global warming activism.

Oh wow some things just do not change. 20 years ago, South Park did an episode on the Iraq War. The teacher told the students, "in class today we'll be doing 2 hours of math problems, OR you can join the walk out protesting the war."
Obviously the kids run out of school celebrating.[0]

[0]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705933/
The purpose of the axiom and lesson is for children to learn how to deal with those types of situations.

To give children the tools to deal with harmful words and not break down.

I think that is worthily en devour which I am sure is very controversial in the age of Safe Spaces, and participation trophies where by we weaken not strengthen the emotional foundation of children to be able to handle real world situations. The Coddling of the American Mind is setting Up a generation for failure
Cruel as it may sound, you could try establishing dominance.

We have a male cat who would meow EVERY MORNING sometime between 2 and 4 am. We tried many kinds of discipline, but it didn't stop until one morning I chased him into hiding downstairs and it hasn't happened since. Every morning after for about a week I would go out of my way to thank him and give him attention.

I know many out there would say that running after him was cruel but it worked and he's still as friendly as can be, and we get to sleep through each night.
230 million years? perhaps our Solar system is traversing each spiral arms of our Milky Way.

Just reaching.
Hey HN,

I'm Daniel Ch: /r/SaaS moderator[1], founder, etc. I'm launching to HN this podcast, "Talk To Your Users": https://anchor.fm/talktoyourusers

I've previously tested an idea on Twitter [2] (in typical 'talk to your users' validation fashion) and on subreddits [3]: live examples of 'Talk to your users'

The feedback seemed interesting, so... I am now launching it!

What's the idea? - I record (with consent) conversations with users. People that are/will/were users of my product. Why?

Situation: One of the top advice bits in the startup/product world is: talk to your users. PG said it multiple times, but double-stressed it by saying: Half the advice I give to startups is some form of "talk to your customers." And then there's The Mom Test: a book about how 'learning if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you'.

Problem: Ok, any practical examples? I mean me listening to founder X talk to user Y. With good and bad examples

My solution: I'm doing this: recording my conversations with users.

What product will I talk about? - The answer is: I don't fully know. I'm as of now building PriceUnlock.com, a tool that helps SaaS founders find&set the perfect pricing for their tool. But maybe due to the conversations, we'll see a pivot. Or two. Or maybe it'll all go well and I'll just 'talk to my users' about future features. Who knows where this takes us? But I'm launching today with 6 episodes.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

[2]: https://twitter.com/chddaniel/status/1404484140209082368

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/nzvazj/i...
Let's look at this scientifically. Being successful takes 100 units of energy. If one monkey starts with 0 units of energy and another monkey starts with 90 units of energy, how many units must each monkey spend to become "successful?"

Now imagine the monkey who spent 10 units of energy sitting on Ellen's couch telling the world about how hard he pulled on those bootstraps.

Edit: Fixed a typo.
The two jurisdictions in Australia that use Hare-Clark (Tasmania and the ACT) no longer have a political duopoly.

MMP would probably work well in South Australia (where overall the electorate is fairly evenly split right-left, but many of the right-leaning voters are locked up in a few geographically large rural electorates and the left-leaning voters are distributed more evenly across more urban and suburban electorates).
It may be frowned upon, but we communicated to our cats that meowing at the door was not acceptable by discouraging them with a vacuum cleaner. Flip the switch on the vacuum and run the cord under the door to your bed side. Upon meow, quietly plug the vacuum in to activate -- if the cat senses that you activated the device, the process doesn't work. If "the environment" doesn't want them to meow at the door, they learn quickly.

Of course give them lots of love in the morning and before bed.
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> "scientifically"

I'm sorry. I am actually a former scientist, and I pulled hundred hour workweeks in the lab. You do not know what that word means.

Moreover, you completely missed the point.