skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The difference is that in the prison case, it is right and normal that the ratios approaching the gates should be different, because of human biology. Whereas in the tech case, it is more complex. Perhaps there are some biological differences making males more attracted to tech jobs. But there is also a huge cultural/environmental component: teenage girls are not attracted to tech at the same rates as teenage boys partly because of role models and societal norms.

That sounds right to me. Biological differences will mean that even if in general men and women are close, in extreme cases (ex: prisons), there will be a very large difference between men and women. I also think that "tech" in general is less extreme than prisons, and thus should have a lower difference in ratio than prisons. That assumption may be false though. But outside of tech, that reasoning would also explain for me why men are at top positions in society. It's not discimination or society, it's just that we're biologically different, and men show up at the extremes (prisons and the top).

> So there are two points at which the proportions change. At stage (2) we call this a "pipeline effect". At stage (3) we call this "discrimination".

> So it looks like we have a terminology disagreement. Could I ask you to consider whether it might make more sense to make a verbal distinction between the pipeline effect (societal pressure) and discrimination?

That's a fair distinction. If I understood correctly, your point is that if we only focus on discrimination without changing the culture, we can still have a pipeline problem? I think one of the thing causing confusion is that I was using "discrimination" in the neutral sense, whereas you were using it in the negative sense. For example, wikipedia has "Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong.", which would be what I call "neutral discrimination". Google has "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.", which would be what I call "negative discrimination". I agree that making a distinction between neutral discrimination (societal pressure, pipeline effect) and negative discrimination is useful here.

So to restate my position, I think focusing on removing pipeline effect and negative discrimination is more important than focusing on having a 50:50 ratio at the end. But I think at this point we agree?
Correct. Same as Fortinet:
https://betanews.com/2016/01/12/fortinet-firewalls-feature-h...
I agree it's possible, after all careful tuning of a carburetor can produce great gains in fuel economy and/or power; but of course most people doing it aren't interested in emissions.
Active record hooks. Observers especially are a spooky action at a distance factory.
Thanks, and yeah that makes sense. Until Kessel Run (and later P1) got off the ground I don't think I've ever encountered any team in DoD able to effectively use cloud or "DevOps", except from the Intelligence Community.

Even with P1, I would point to their rapid provisioning of MM chat as an example of where they were able to move quickly... but that was the P1 team fielding it, not P1 fielding a platform that downstream teams can jump onto quickly.

Even now there's been little point to trying to adopt P1 directly, as I understand it you're supposed to onboard through a separate software factory instead. And that's hard to do in the Navy lol (we're trying with things like Black Pearl to build on top of what P1 has done but that launched a year ago and there's still little ability to onboard new efforts).

> But apparently the government is just not willing to spend money any more. It's hard to see how. It's not like the federal budget is getting any smaller. But I have no idea where that money is going.

The federal government spends so much on IT that's its well into "waste, fraud, abuse" territory. I don't know where it goes either, but I think it's 20% labor of staff who are no-value-add middlemen, 30% on cybersecurity paperwork documenting the lack of security, 30% PowerPoints documenting the lack of progress, and maybe 10%-15% on the actual technology/cloud/development.

I'm heartened to see that someone is able to do better (even if they need the 'classified' shield to keep the technicals focused on technology) but I really wish we could hurry up on replicating the IC / Kessel Run model to a wider part of the DoD.
I’ve tried this but it’s really hard to get the rest of the gift-giving family on board. My kids just get way too many toys these days. I use rechargeable almost exclusively though and try to keep on top of pulling them out of disused toys to put into newer toys. If a kid tries to use an old toy that I’ve taken the batteries out of (which rarely happens), I just give them more.
As far as I can tell, neither you nor that article are responding to the sentence you quoted.

The argument made in that sentence is something like: if we come up with a description of how a bunch of photons interact with an eye to trigger a series of chemical reactions that lights up a bunch of neurons in a way that is proven to represent some mental image then, per Nagel, even if we achieved this, our explanation of sight would be missing something. The thing it would be missing is the subjective experience of seeing, something most of us are familiar with.

Nagel isn't saying that this subjective experience is something other than physical or material. He's saying that the brand of materialism currently in vogue cannot account for this subjective experience and so needs to be revised.
There is no central authority of humanity, just deeply embedded factions with long histories. If you don't think the same is happening to Bitcoin just look who the biggest players are in crypto (hint: it isn't decentralized individuals.) Bitcoin offers nothing new from the perspective of game theory, and only seeks to offload consensus to software which fails against hard power anyway.
One of the things that made Quentin Tarantino's early films, particularly Pulp Fiction, such a breath of fresh air is that they did this with abandon. John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson would chat away about McDonald's in France or whether or not they were prepared to eat pork and it was of no consequence whatsoever to subsequent events, other than to give characters a bit more depth. Too many films and novels have things happen for no other reason than that the plot is going to require it in the next act and it's great when a writer takes a different approach.
Or try to estimate how much power the current financial industry takes, hint: it's not exactly a small scale operation. But while the motive for attacking BTCs might not always be honest (see this article also has no shame in casually calling out the early adopters of Bitcoins as "anarchists"), the point about energy consumption isn't entirely invalid. Right now it's probably on the line of being fine, but it a puts a real hard cap on how much further BTC will be able to scale. We definitely can't have another 10x increase in power consumption or something like this. So maybe protocol changes are needed, or things will slowly shift somewhere else, just something to keep in mind.
How many homes were destroyed and will need to be rebuilt due to ida?
Another YouTube would have sprung up out of the ashes, the idea is just too good.
Whole states like Idaho and Utah have seen skyrocketing prices for homes- this is in no way limited to specific urban environments.
You can’t.
What resources would you suggest to help your coworkers?
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I would pitch it as a global, provably immutable database network where anyone can participate pseudonymously, where state control is difficult and thus censorship is difficult.

Bitcoin is actually just a database. It makes no promise about money or value. But it turns out that those qualities mentioned above are also important qualities for good money, and so humans assigned value to the system.

If you don't think the network is useful, don't use it. Short it. But don't act as if there are no tradeoffs between security and convenience. Don't act as if negative interest rates and infinite quantitative easing are normal things.
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In Washington, DC, the Hangover Classic 10K used to be held on the morning of January 1. One year a midshipman from Annapolis set the Hains Point course record, which seemed a bit contrary to the spirit of the thing.

I rarely get hungover these days, but in my 20s I found that about four miles of hard running would break a hangover. I would feel much better, but also still tired.
My point was that the under-reporting is in much larger amounts than your claim that "You can get away with not reporting it if it's a few extra bucks from a jar on a counter."

> Since some people cheat on their taxes, they shouldn't be paid wages instead, because then they wouldn't be able to underreport as easily?

How did you get this from what I said? I said nothing to that effect. Not even close. My point was very simple.
Just like all human art and celebrity culture.
nobody working in this field has control over what they are building, and can't make any promises about how it will behave. If you are working on machine learning as an employee of Facebook, Google, etc. shouldn't you assume the worst possible outcome from your efforts? I often wonder how people manage this cognitive dissonance.
Space-based lasers might eventually be a good way to power long distance aircraft.
I'm reminded of service dogs that are trained to ignore or oppose commands that would put their human in danger.

E.g. when given a command to cross a street in front of a driving car, the dog is trained to push the human the other way.

I guess this is mostly about paying attention to surroundings. Part of me hopes there's a little of "my human made a mistake in assesing the safety of this action" there too.
Sounds like Mnesia, which has existed for 20+ years.

https://erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html
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I don‘t know the proper solution, but building 27 ‚excellent clusters‘ for battery technology wouldn‘t make any sense.
If it was national programmes then it would probably also be nationally funded and bigger economies (like Germany/Italy) would also have bigger budgets.
Doesn't this seem like a bit of a dick move. Oh yeah poor people are poor because they're bad with money. They can't even tell that 3% of 100 is less than £5. Well, sure, but 70% of the bottom quintile are financially literate and are still in the bottom quintile (whilst 10% of the best off are still financially illiterate).

>Some questions proved a leveller for all. Asked to compare the relative cost of borrowing on a credit card and through a bank overdraft with specific charges, barely half got the right answer — virtually regardless of wealth bracket, age, ethnicity, region or gender. We could all do with a financial literacy boost.

Ah yes, these multi-billion dollar businesses have constructed businesses so convoluted that most people don't even know what they're really getting, and instead of doing the responsible thing - legislating against these deliberate anti-consumer practices, let's just blame the people who are being deliberately mislead. If my boss found out that the over 50% of the people who use my products don't actually understand them he certainly wouldn't be publishing a news article about how stupid our customers are.

If you look at the data the truth is clear - financial literacy goes almost nowhere in explaining why people are poor. If you look at the financial times editorial line, we would let them have cake.
I wonder how much Intellectual Property was exfiltrated because of this?
Means testing would force medium-rich people to live on the streets (or with their parents), since there are no rental houses available between 700 and 1200 euro/month (that is, between social housing and the liberalized sector), and not all of them will be able to buy a home with the current prices.
Maybe they meant “free skating”? Which is an aggressive style, but far less technical. Think Parkour on big (80-90mm) wheels and fast movement from point to point.

“Aggressive Inline,” alternatively, is normally going to involve “sessioning” a couple obstacles on the street, or a skate park. You might slide a hand rail 50 times trying a variety of tricks before moving to the next spot.

The free skater will just speed past, possibly “stair bashing” (riding down the stairs) or outright jumping over them.
No. All of those things can and must be translated into ROI. This is the only way to compare investments. Maybe there’s a different use of these funds that would yield greater impacts in those areas you mention.
> I would pitch it as a global, provably immutable network where anyone can participate pseudonymously, where state control is difficult and thus censorship is difficult.

The network is completely traceable. Anti-censorship is worthless without protection. I do something on the network my government doesn't like, they track me down and put me in jail. Great system. The failings of political systems are not overcome by changing the financial instruments used.
Paying people properly has very little impact on customer prices, see countries who enforce this.
Mail-in-voting is linked to a (registered voter) person. If someone were to have voted for you (fraud), you would either not get to vote on election day, or cast a provisional ballot if it has not yet been counted, for example [0].

If this had happened at large, or really at all, there would be (thousands of) accounts of this, which there weren't.

I'm labeling his lies about a rigged election as such because he specifically claims things that aren't true, demonstrably not true, or simply impossibly true.

Discussing any problems with mail-in-voting is very much still possible, but entirely beside the point.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/What_happens_if_someone_votes_by_mai...
Sort of true (if a bit unkind) for Agentur für Arbeit, not really for KfW. KfW will also give you 900 EUR -- so part of the cost -- for installing a car charging socket in your house. Or grant you a loan intended for certain renovations. That kind of thing. They also target businesses, including startups, and even municipalities.
Honestly, exhaustion makes me recommend them. I am exhausted trying to find the best drives. They are hard to find, constantly discontinued, or internals replaced without notification. WD Reds are freely available and cheap. I just switched from single to double redundancy to account for trusting them less.
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"We won't keep logs on you, except if you're in trouble with The Authorities, then we'll definitely keep logs on you and rat you out"

Weird definition of privacy we've got going these days
> They have no inclination to.

One shtick I have is the "Young person, why don't you have a brokerage account"?

I know so many people, who are not so young any more, who are professionals and with solid salaries, who will do things like have credit cards, have cars they finance, a coinbase account, maybe a robinhood account, certainly a facebook and instagram account.... but no Schwab, Vanguard, or other basic Individual brokerage account.

They have the income and technical know-how to make complicated online accounts and make use of financial services.. but even though it takes ten minutes to make a Vanguard account, and 2 business days to credit it and buy boring index funds... so few people who can (ie have money and knowledge), actually do... or even have much interest. It's sad and fascinating at the same time.
Yes, I did that (got degree later). Also more recently, did some consulting for a NY firm. They never asked about a degree.
"If Bitcoin ran on solar panels nobody would give a shit."

If you told someone that bitcoin mining uses more power than all the solar energy harvested throughout the world I think most people would say its a waste.
I always use the external battery charger for my X-T3. Plugging a charging cable into the camera itself feels incredibly cumbersome? I'm supposed to put my camera on the floor somewhere near a wall socket for a few hours while the battery charges? What if I've got multiple batteries and I want to use the camera while one battery charges?
What if there's a short circuit and it fries the camera?

Give me a dedicated external charger any day of the week!
Anyway I'm happy with the firmware upgrades the X-T3 received so far, bringing it up to the same AF performance level of the X-T4.
Fujifilm has always spent it's firmware update efforts mainly on the X-T* range, all other bodies (x-pro, x-e, X-T*, x100) typically get abandoned shortly after release.
I don't care about populations. I do care about individual people. The right to abortion follows directly from the right to make one's own choices about one's body (i.e. bodily autonomy).
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> Becoming aware of how the banks and CC companies scam you doesn't really stop it

I’ve seen educated friends do mind-bogglingly stupid things financially. Stuff like having savings wiped out for lack of renter’s insurance, paying off a low-rate card while a high-rate balance persists, paying hundreds of dollars in fees for banking services they never use, et cetera. To say nothing of not being aware of the myriad of government programs available to most people in a developed country.
I forget where I read this exactly, but while some religious Jewish people would not work on Saturday I don't think this was the rule. Christians seem to have no religious issue that I know of today and plenty of secular Jewish people also still work on the weekend. Anyhow, I can't find the source right now.

https://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/workday/weekend/8hourday.html

"In 1890, when the government first tracked workers' hours, the average workweek for full-time manufacturing employees was 100 hours and 102 hours for building tradesmen."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
"Before collective bargaining and worker protection laws, there was a financial incentive for a company to maximize the return on expensive machinery by having long hours. Records indicate that work schedules as long as twelve to sixteen hours per day, six to seven days per week were practiced in some industrial sites" (citation needed though)

https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/
Somewhere at the end they even added a “contrarian” opinion which basically said that people like being surveilled and more productive when under surveillance…

*head-desk*
Not sure what the news is here; it's such a large part of life in America that it's obvious. It has also been reported on continuously.
This title kind of implies that PG or MySQL aren't modern or modern enough which i think is is very wrong. Look what they bring in every update. I think they are quite modern!
Fair enough.

> so I guess "implemented in Rust" us at least telling me the code that implemented the tool I am about to use is more likely to be correct?

This was my point! It's information for potential consumers, that might or might not be interesting or relevant to you.

Also some people just like talking about how they did something, not just what they did. Maybe they're proud to show it off or they want to let people know about whatever cool thing they like.
Besides using an ORM that would hide the renaming or views, why not build an API layer ?
This is for exchanging reporting data, not all the things that lead up to that.

It can't tell you how to structure sales to account for taxes across multiple countries, or how to accrue for gift cards/liabilities, or recognizing revenue from annual subscriptions, or deprecating assets, or amortizing expenses. Each ERP and business will do this in slightly different ways.

But what it can tell you is how to represent those results when everything else is said-and-done.
I believe the warning alerts advise not to travel unless fleeing flooding and the flash flood emergency alerts specifically state "move immediately to higher ground" and "don't walk or drive through flood areas."

One criticism I've read a few times in the past week has been suggesting that people may have had alert fatigue. While it is true that things like the Weather Channel have contributed a lot of noise(naming winter storms for instance.) Additionally there were 4 separate alerts that went out the night of the flooding. And of course things like Amber alerts and similar seem to be commonplace now so there may be some truth to that. The irony however is that as a society we seem increasingly more fixated on our screens and don't mind the endless text messages and social media and app notifications yet somehow potentially life-saving alerts would be the source of fatigue.
Some studies have shown that the vaccine reduces transmission by as much as 80%. That was with the earlier variant, so it may not hold.

So it is not sterilizing, but it seems to go a long way towards that.
Stanford neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky Explains Toxoplasmosis on the Joe Rogan podcast. Utterly fascinating.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NroiGfNohPo
Giving the upswing in cases (including breakthrough) something like this could be very useful in terms of reducing transmission.

> Patients in the NONS treatment arm demonstrated viral loads, as determined from PCR testing of nose and throat swab sampling, that were lower at days 2 and 4 by a factor of 16.2 than those on placebo, and symptom resolution was also found to be faster on NONS treatment than on placebo in this study.

> Accelerated SARS-CoV-2 clearance with NONS may reduce symptom duration, decrease infectivity period, reduce hospital admissions, and lower disease severity
The Superbase (https://github.com/supabase/realtime) approach is really interesting. It listens to the logical replication stream. Makes a lot of sense to me. Unfortunately our postgres instances hosted on heroku don't expose this, so I've been unable to try it out.
The book A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a good start.
Of course, if you want to explain why middle class conservatives support this position, it’s because the ideology of conservatism revolves around material success being equivalent to godliness. And as god’s chosen people and his representatives on earth it is their job to punish the iniquitous, therefore it is not only the privilege but also the duty of the powerful to trample on the weak. They couch this in rhetoric involving “personal responsibility” and so forth but this is what it really boils down to.

So maintaining a moral order means punishing the unworthy. This means poor people, who are assumed to be slothful, and immigrants and brown people for other reasons. They are willing to pay money to make sure that the people they have contempt for, suffer. Once you understand this all sorts of things start to make sense.