skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is certainly evidence that cats are killing birds but characterising the numbers in the studies you've cited as absolute decimation seems unfair. I'm genuinely surprised at how low some of these counts are. For example: 37 bell-free cats deemed "prolific killers" only managed to kill 82 birds between them over the course of a year-long study? Even allowing for a large number of unknown kills the impact here seems small.

The lighthouse story is tragic and maddening. While I opted not to adopt a new cat when my last one died, I don't support the predator-free approach to conservation.
You said conspiracy. I said advantage.

Height is a huge advantage in basketball. The average height of an NBA player is over 6’5”. Height is mostly genetic except for malnutrition. Different populations have different average heights.

The optimal build for a weightlifter is to have short arms and legs and to have the two parts be of equal length. That is mostly genetic. Of course different population groups have differences here as well.

Weight is an advantage in combat sports both because you can dish out more and because you can absorb more punishment. I suspect that high bone density is advantageous and is mostly genetic. Different populations have different bone densities.

No one is denying that sex has explanatory power. The point is that many other things have explanatory power as well and that choosing which categories to consider is ideological.

Why have separate sports for sex? Why have separate weight classes? Why have a minimum age requirement for gymnasts? Why not allow professionals until 1992?

Why not have separate height classes for basketball? Why not have separate weight classes for football?
"Tolerance is hating gays passionately, but still tolerating them and serving them in your store. Thinking that women should not be in the workspace, but still treating them equally and professionally."

I have never seen that work. The hate usually manifest in various hidden and subtle actions. Intrigues. Plots. Leaving everyone involved with a bitter feeling and pure drama after a while.

If I am hated, I prefer open hate. Then I know where I am and can just go to a place I am truly welcome.

True tolerance in my book, is actually tolerating and accepting that life and humans are very diverse. Live and let live. And I can tolerate a lot of things I don't like for myself, as long as it is no direct harm to me.
It is AskHistorians, a very strongly moderated sub-reddit where comments get deleted if they can't show valid sources. The discussion is much higher level than here on HN.
> Vanbellinghen, 27, whose qualifying efforts were disrupted by injury, pointed out that the retained benefit of taking steroids, even years earlier, is widely known.

> "So why is it still a question whether two decades, from puberty to the age of 35, with the hormonal system of a man also would give an advantage [in competing against women]?

The issue would be the same with a long term steroid user consider how it was worded.
>Yes? I said those 4 examples use different election styles, not that Canada doesn't use FPTP...

FPTP is a winner takes all electoral system. You said Canada had "a parliament where seats are assigned proportionately to votes (there's no winner take all)".

>Winner-take-all refers to

>>> a legislative body is elected by dividing the jurisdiction into geographic constituencies, each electing exactly one representative. Although this may result in diverse representation due to different political groups making up majorities of different districts, within each district, only one political party or group will be able to elect a candidate[1]

This is exactly what Australia and Canada's lower houses have. And looking it up now, France too.

>considering the impracticality of implementing a non-winner-take-all system without a significantly larger number of representatives

The Australian senate has 76 senators. The Australian house of Reps has 151 members. The Australian senate elected with a non-winner-take-all system. The Australian house of reps is elected via a winner-take-all system.

>If we give more seats and apply proportionate seating this is functionally equivalent to just dividing the electorate further and using winner-take-all.

It is not. To illustrate: imagine a country of 1 million where instead of left-wing and right-wing parties they have left-hand and right-hand parties. So there everyone votes for the right-hand party except for the 10% of people who are left-handed. As handedness is fairly evenly distributed, in a single member electorate system it would be basically impossible for the lefties to take a single seat. So you'd expect the parliament to be 100% right-hand party no matter if it comprised a single member or 10,000. However with a proportional system (e.g. SLV) with electorates of 10 or more you could expect the parliament to roughly reflect the 90/10 split.

We see this in the real world, where places with single member seats (e.g. Canada, France, Australia lower house) have worse parliamentary diversity than those with multi member seats (e.g. Germany, Australia upper house).

>And if this is why you're throwing my comment out the window I think you missed the entire point and I do not appreciate the lack of good faith here.

As you haven't made it very clear at all, what is your point?
Bookmarked. Thanks.
Ministers will push to privatise Channel 4 in TV shake-up
> but "kill all the jews" merely resulted in their Head of Diversity getting reassigned

I think I’ve heard different story involving Head of Diversity, nowhere close to “kill all Jews”. Do you have source on that?
> pro-trans movement as an "ideology" had read to me as a dismissal of the pro-trans movement at large

This is the problem. There's no difference to people. Arguing any nuanced part of the conversation is often met with exaggerated reactions of "you're anti-trans" or "you're dismissing transexualism as a whole", which is not the case.

So yes, the pro-trans movement on many online spaces is very ideological - they even claim it themselves (transmedicalism vs. gender identity, etc). Very little of it these days is based on science or medical prognosis.
Wind turbines: How UK wants to become 'Saudi Arabia of wind'
You must have had the same cats as I did, mine would figure some way to get into my room (either by hitting the door to dislodge the latch, or climbing up the roof to my 2nd storey window) and "ask" (demand?) me to feed them at 5.30am...
I think you've quantified it as second class when it isn't actually so for kathoey or hijra
I was pretty pleased that Google was able to resist Jewish collective pressure for arbitrary outcomes actually.

Hope to see more of that.

If you also dont like cancel culture then arbitrary cancellings wont happen. For Americans, Jewish/Israel nationalist topics have always had consequences that were incongruent with other assurances of expression so I would like to see that incongruence stamped out and completely ignored. I understand there is a segment of the Jewish population that feels they have an “eternal debt” involving upholding the image of Israel, but that country just had regime change from recognizing that this obsession has unnecessarily damaged the image of Israel and Jewish national ideas.

Lets normalize ignoring them because they cant even uphold their own image politically. Its not a US problem and people in the US are going to say uncomfortable things. I’m over it. I like this direction.
> I'm having trouble following why this would be a contradictory set of requirements from women vs simply a pickier set of requirements compared to men.

I think the contradiction is that women over text might want a loving, caring guy - someone that is romantic, replies to messages and is thoughtful.

Most women will rationalise this romantic guy, while time after time will end up with the “bad boys”. Why? Raw attraction kicks in. And raw attraction isn’t something you rationalise, it’s an instinct that sits somewhere in your gut.

And unfortunately, the type of guys they are attracted to might be different to what they logically want to be attracted to.

It’s exactly the same with guys too - I’ve really wanted to be in love with girls in the past that I can rationalise would be great partners, but there is a disconnect between the gut and the head.

(As a side note, I agree on suggesting a meet sooner rather than later - the main reason for me is because I don’t believe the level of attraction over app is a particularly strong indicator of the level of attraction when you meet, or at least not as strong of an indicator as you might expect)
Many mobile apps just exist to browse a certain web site (HN, Reddit, etc) at which point making a native app makes little sense if you're just copying the design of a site. This also extends to desktop (Spotify, Steam, etc). The problem with Electron (or CEF or QtWeb*) is that it's running an independent rendering engine adding a significant overhead. If you're already running a browser even complex web apps such as a WebGL sculpter[0] add a minimum usage on the session. Of course there's the problem of persistently running a web browser which may lead to high energy consumption.

[0]: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/
Maybe those natural females were never the best women and the trans are just taking their rightful place after having been excluded.
Home ownership is a factor but there are also things like: do the kids have a less stressful/dangerous/damaging to the body job. Are they able to save enough money to be able to not rely on retirement alone, and so on.
I meant I thought it was 3 different people who uploaded videos, hence 3 Twitter accounts. That’s what would make it more a bit more elaborate. I could be mistaken about the number of accounts though
I will do that when I am done reading Java Puzzles and JavaScript the Good Parts.
I've picked up Fallout 4 again, and have managed to complete it at Survival difficulty, without dying once. I really enjoyed that new challenge.
But when they pan down and back up you can see there's no light show on at that time from the buildings. Also if a light show, the lights are colorful, and often strobing and rotating, but the triangle is static. I think lightshow is debunked.

But it's a fair guess. I also think that a static vertical spotlight atop a building could do this, but the air in Shanghai is not exactly particulate free and if you had these powerful light beams you'd expect to see a trace of them along the line from source to cloud, but there's no such. I think the ground-source idea is, well maybe not debunked but less likely than "odd triangular air mass", or CG. It could be a massive drone or something suspended from helicopters above it, maybe it could be like a light or firework platform that's being tested as part of the centenary celebrations?
Except that in the long run it's the employees that get punished in overly unionised industry.
I think this seems like the most reasonable explanation
My app has this funny bug about placeholder on textarea cannot handle newline character.

This is Chrome https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuA20oY

This is safari https://share.getcloudapp.com/p9uANGol
SAP Inscribe took this idea further a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kICnfrqOizw
Constantly triaging to make sure that the things people care about are at the top of the backlog, yes, but in my experience generally not deleting tickets that are "not right now".

What that means is that while the wait time for a hot ticket can be small, there will be other tickets that wait years to be looked at. Overall the average wait time curve might not be quite exponential, but it'll look similar.
The Teamsters crippled American industry once. They can do it again.

Whatever bright spots appear in the economy, they are immediately targeted by rent-seeking union movements for exploitation.
This categorization scheme would specifically include the 'abnormal' and the 'normal' together based entirely on chromosomes.
54% increase in global anti-spam challenges on Twitter
I'm certainly not arguing that many climbers are making $1 million/year from sponsorships, but I do think some are, or occasionally do anyway.

One of the interesting things about climbing though, is that this is often all the compensation climbers get. There aren't climbing leagues/teams that pay climbers a salary comparable to other sports (I suspect some competition climbers get paid a salary or stipend, but I doubt it's as much as a professional football/basketball player). But there is so much money to be made from selling climbing equipment, the manufacturers are heavily incentivized to get their names out. And the superstar climbers like Honnold will get sponsorships from other companies as well (Red Bull, Clif Bar, etc.)
> Do you know what the source of the lag is?

Absentee votes. Also, voters have some time to “cure” mistakes, e.g. forgetting to sign their ballot envelope.

TL;DR Nothing intrinsic to IRV.
In principle, yes. In practice my experience is that neither macOS nor iOS is very automatic. All it takes on macOS is for another user to be logged in, or for you not to leave your laptop on charger overnight, or a single app to be open that doesn’t automatically shut down. I don’t understand why iOS can go so long without doing it (I’ve seen it go weeks with an update notification & being plugged in every night)
As long as there's agreement that it's unfortunate, we can discuss ways to dismantle the system in a way that doesn't destroy the livelihoods of many people. But I'm afraid most people don't agree that it's unfortunate.
Porque no los dos?

They aren't mutually exclusive.

I'd also throw in the funding for gain-of-function research that lead to this. In which the US is not devoid of blame.
What is a "dirtbag" in this context?
In the final example the handwriting is adapted to the application, and differs significantly from the original handwriting used in earlier examples. Then it goes on to say that the app has everything you need, while needing to learn to write in monospace for it to work.

Being someone with poor handwriting, this would slow down writing for me. A possible answer for this would be to update the expected places for a character by taking the boundaries of previously written ones.
If it's an emergency, pay overtime for that screw. If you regularly need a second shift, hire one. Understaffing is a problem caused by management and it's not the worker's fault or their family's fault if you can't make 40 hours of use out of them in 40 hours or pay a little overtime.
Yeah see this is a great example as I have no clue what anybody’s position is there upon a quick skim, and I’ve never even heard the term Gender Critical
>>Even in the "good old days", labor in the U.S. won a rather Pyrrhic victory in that organizing became shoehorned in a narrow legal framework with narrow goals. It makes the decline of union power same rather inevitable.

The union movement completely captured US industry and extracted exorbitant benefits that crippled the golden geese of the US economy.

The only reason private sector unions declined in membership is that the industries they exploited saw their US-based operations contract, or disappear altogether.

Meanwhile, the public sector unions have steadily grown in power, and steadily increased their control over public policy, by successfully pushing for successively more left-wing governments:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

And the result has been detrimental to the efficiency of public spending, whether you look at education:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/111/3/671/1839...

Or policing:

https://academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jl...

Or any other public sector.
$ spctl --add myFancyBinary

Yes, defaults matter, 99% users don’t have friends that ask them to run their binaries :)
If I have clinical depression, saying "you're completely normal and do not have depression" doesn't make the depression go away or subside in any way.

Gender dysphoria is oftentimes treated via transitioning in some fashion. Having groupthink on online spaces doesn't alleviate symptoms.

I've never heard anyone except trans activists talking about the specifics of someone's trans-ness in an open setting. Certainly not something someone who's just trying to go about their day would even care about, let alone making a point that "hey by the way you're not biologically a woman, peace".

It's such a weird argument to me. Then again, I'm a dirty "transmedicalist" as labelled by the twitter trans community, so what do I know.
Hey HN I'm one of the developers who has worked on the Push platform. We are a small startup and have just released a service offering aiming at tackling the growing problem of business email compromise (BEC). If you are interested in some further reading we have a war story from someone who fell victim to this kind of attack (https://pushsecurity.com/s?c=h-bec-attack-nearly-cost-us-mil...) and a blog detailing what one of these attacks looks like in practice (https://pushsecurity.com/s?c=j-bec-attack-nearly-cost-us-mil...)
I know. I’m asking if it goes bad, how would you even know when the smell is bad before it is rancid.
Shapez.io Puzzle DLC – Build shapes with limited space and buildings
>where he argued that the pill made women fat crazy and promiscuous

I'm not aware of psychological side effects, but weight gain while taking the most common form of birth control pills is expected and normal. At least that's what the doctor told my wife and I.

Milo was basically a professional troll though. His banning was inevitable.
Not a bad idea, but at least one of the videos seems like it's taken from a doorway to a small balcony, and sticky tape on window wouldn't seem to be affected too much by clouds moving around it so that it changes from blurry to clear and partially occluded to more exposed.

My far-out idea is that if it is some sort of human developed thermoptic camouflage, it's not perfect and the dark area is the physical outline of the craft as physical clouds buffet against it.
I don't know how to make the western world prepared: the sequence of virus is out; CCP has locked down a whole city of 20+ million people; following lockdown in most Chinese cities. They managed to get rid of the virus in less than two months. I remember one of the European health minister said on TV that they will not have problem because their hygiene is better than Chinese.

Europe and US are the leaders in biotech and pharmaceutical industry, and yet they failed. Countries had politicians trained in UK also failed, because they just want to follow what UK did, those politicians don't know what to do. I have to say that if UK or US decides to lock down multiple cities gradually, the world will follow because their influences, things will be a lot different. Your politicians betrayed you, they put their ego before people's interests.
To each their own. To me, the comparison is too ridiculous to entertain but granted I have never been to North Korea. In any event I have no illusions that I can change anyone's mind about anything online.
People who think it's disrespectful when a company representative do not preface every response with "I deeply apologize that you feel this way" or some equivalent nonsense. You even claim responding to something inaccurate is user hostile.
The UK spends less per capita on healthcare than almost any other G7 nation (except Italy) [1], while maintaining a good standard of care [2]. That suggests that compared to other countries:

1. There isn't plenty of money

2. It's spent quite effectively

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

[2] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/big-elect...
This ^ is exactly the type of zealotry I'm referring to.

Hubbard has been free to do olympic weightlifting her entire life. Against similarly bodied individuals (men).

I too am excluded from competing in women's weightlifting contests. That is absolutely for the best (though everyone we're talking about here can likely lift more than I can).
Interesting. I couldn't reproduce those results. Certain queries did produce _very_ identical results, but others did not. In some of those cases Google and Startpage did better.
Yes - technically you don't need to escape : in most places, but many implementations will do so anyway as they use a single encoding method for all URI components. (And if you don't encode these things where they are not required then you'll soon find lots of downstream systems that break).
When the plane's in motion, the server room is technically in the cloud
I like range voting (of which approval is a special case). It's simple, and it always takes everybody's point of view into account (it doesn't lose any voter information), which is a really nice property IMHO.

Yes, you can argue that the more extremely somebody puts the ranges, they have an advantage. (I would argue we should always normalize the cast vote so that most wanted candidate gets 100 and the least wanted 0, but then we take away people's ability to express only mild interest.) And through that, they can in certain cases manipulate the outcome.

I feel like we cannot really meaningfully say that there is a difference between "real" preferences and the "manipulated" ones. For example, this article (from my cursory reading) has a model how media (or others) convince somebody to vote for B when his "real" preference is A. But how can we claim that he truly didn't change his "real" preference to vote for B, based on the media discussion?

Ultimately, I find it somewhat patronizing to claim that, if the real preferences are (internally in humans) expressed on numerical scale 0-100, and we ask for the number from that numerical scale 0-100, this number can somehow not correspond to real preference. I think there is then a contradiction in the definition of "preference", because then the preference has to be something more complicated, like some condition based on other people's choice, not a simple internal value that is independent of what other people want.
We have the same here, I think a lot of cat owners who let their cats out don't appreciate the amount of downsides their neighbours have to deal with.
It still sounds like you’re stretching a bit to make the sport sound expensive. Sure, a trad rack might set you back a couple thousand dollars, but nobody buys the whole thing at once.

You’ll build your rack slowly over a dozen years, maybe tricking in a new cam or two and the odd nut to replace stuff you’ve lost. But nobody ever retires cams, and no dirtbag climber has ever decided to spontaneously replace his entire trad rack.

Similarly, as a sport climber, I get a new rope every six or eight years if I’m trashing it, and a new rack of draws every fifteen. It’s not a regular occurrence.

I moved to Fontainebleau specifically for bouldering and am on the rocks 3 days a week. I go through 2 pairs of shoes a year and add a pad to the collection every few years. If I spend $500 on the sport in a year, that’s a big year.

Compare that to something like surfing, where I’ll spend more than that on baggage fees for one trip, and it just rounds to zero on the scale of expensive sports.
How does TikTok's algorithm work
Amazon Prime Day Is Dystopian
2 minor comments:

1 on mobile it is very convenient to have an x in the search box in order to clear that text from the previous search

2 when correcting spelling it would be nice if it bolded the word that was misspelled rather then the entire search phrase
Documenting my move to Germany. It turned into my main source of income, and it's pretty much a dream job: motivating, meaningful and relaxed.

I'm not sure if I could trivially reproduce that success, but it truly changed my life.
I'm kinda burnt out on people not caring. This has been going on for years now.
But it doesn't change your skeletal structure, or the size of your lungs. Both of which dramatically affect your performance.