skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Write states that he dismisses feminism as a culprit... and goes on to describe how feminist talking points are the most likely reason...

It's cognitive dissonance all the way down.
That's just if you're doing active radar ranging to objects instead of passive radio observations which is most of what radio telescopes do anyways.
Making browser games more secure with Elm, Part Two
Have you done this yourself? Can you tell me what critical race theory is?
I took classes in CompSci, Math, and Linguistics; the first two being major, and the latter being a minor.

Most of the CompSci classes I took were completly useless. The only exceptions being Operating Systems and Compilers. Most of the CS classes I took were complete jokes.

In contrast, every Math and Ling class I took was very educational.
It's not just US thing, similar widening gender gap can be seen also here in Finland (probably rest of Europe as well), despite us having free education.

As far as I can see, many master's degrees are not worth today it even if you pay no tuition fees. Many blue-collar jobs like plumbing pay better nowadays than your average humanities, social sciences etc job, with equal or better job security and only 3 years of studying instead of 8. So, avoiding higher education can be the rational choice.

In addition, there are major flaws in how students are handled nowadays. Teachers simply have no authority to punish bad behavior, and it seems restless boys suffer the most from this in educational outcomes. The system is increasingly designed only for kids who enjoy school and perform well even without supervision.

Personally I had no trouble with school, but I'm still not convinced that CS degree was the right choice instead of plumbing or something similar. The job market sucks for everyone except senior software devs.
> The state has passed a new law that bans the sale of gas vehicles starting in 2035, requiring all new cars to be zero emission.

It appears that this only applies to sales of new vehicles. More details: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/landmark-new-york-law-p...
> [Software] is not a device.

Then what are you engineering?

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Edit to elaborate:

I'm convinced this is the essence of the debate that has intensified as parts that move at the speed of light are devouring physical parts.

Switch, transistor, if statement -- a maker should be able to convert one type of part to another type of part without losing their rights, or accidentally triggering a "oh, look, general computing, therefore it's no longer up to you to decide!" flag of some sort.

Ease of reconfiguring electrons shouldn't change right to design and distribute a product with whatever blend of physical and digital one wants, facilitating whatever purpose one wants, and not being forced to facilitate other purposes.
https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/1438148663860076546

"Given the importance of these future projections, one might expect the brain to possess accurate, unbiased foresight. Humans, however, exhibit a pervasive and surprising bias: when it comes to predicting what will happen to us tomorrow, next week, or fifty years from now, we overestimate the likelihood of positive events, and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. For example, we underrate our chances of getting divorced, being in a car accident, or suffering from cancer. We also expect to live longer than objective measures would warrant, overestimate our success in the job market, and believe that our children will be especially talented. This phenomenon is known as the optimism bias, and it is one of the most consistent, prevalent, and robust biases documented in psychology and behavioral economics."
I mean is there a build system not named "bazel" that does a better job of making reproducible builds than a C autoconf project built with Nix?
Boomer had the Summer of Love, the Pill, abortion and working antibiotics for social diseases. Then after the decadent 70's they brought us HIV/AIDS. So in addition to everything else, boomers ruined casual sex. Millenials are left with porn. Granted there is lots of it - but its still just porn.
While we all know that folks have preferences, your salary determines whether or not you can live the life you want. A salary that grants you a comfortable life in Kentucky with a decent amount of spending money (especially if you buy a cheap house) won't give you the options in New York. In some salary ranges, housing costs alone are going to do it and will be the difference between a stressful, penny-pinching life and living with some cushion. This is the objective area of quality of life.

Even between, say, Chicago and NYC is a huge difference if the salaries are equal (because housing prices are cheaper in Chicago, and the quality of cities isn't going to be so different).
HN does not aim to be infinite scroll social media which addicts you and makes you keep checking and re-checking for more obsessively. It is purposefully barebones so that you're not tempted to read every single comment and waste time.
2035 Headline: Sales of gas-powered cars surge in New Jersey
This could be true if it weren't for the data showing that boys aren't just underperforming in college, the division begins far earlier in primary school.

It isn't that these boys don't have a positive view of higher education, it's that they don't have a positive view of any education. And this view is based on their lived experience.
Some of the specific examples in the article seemed off to me too. However, I did love the book Scale by Geoffrey West who is one of the authors of the paper discussed in the article.

At the very least, the book is a great introduction to the many different aspects that scale up with city size.
Nick Cook: The Hunt for Zero Point, UAPs and the Global Call to Action
Hard disagree, your analogy is (still) incorrectly equating UB with "this should never happen".

That's not what UB is. UB is "the standard doesn't say anything about this particular situation, because we intentionally left the standard incomplete". It never said "UB cannot happen".

But even assuming your "purple streetlight" analogy, it exactly does not cover the "complex chains of reasoning" that the compilers then do.

I saw a purple streetlight, therefore I can just assume it is green. Nope.

I saw a purple streetlight, therefore I can now run over pedestrians. Nope.

I saw a purple streetlight, therefore this now an airport runway. Nope.

The compiler-writers' justifications don't pass even the most minimal test for coherence.
Is that different than shorting a broad range of stocks?
Outcomes don't matter as much as expectations WRT planning and higher ed is all about planning far in the future. There's no "just in time" higher education economic model LOL.

In my state, where $20/hr buys you a pretty nice lifestyle, union building trades ALL pay $30 to low forties per hour and are essentially sausagefests WRT being "boys future jobs" and these jobs pay you around half pay to learn as an apprentice for a couple years, and require absolutely no college or student loans. A "journeyman" experience level "girls future jobs" such as day care worker, which is 99% female employment, pays $13.64/hr average in my state at that experience level and absolutely requires either a K12 ed degree (we produce twice as many degree holders as we have jobs, so optimistically the "bottom half" of degreed teachers end up as bartenders, day care, real estate saleswomen, etc). There is an associates degree program in early childhood education at my local tech school so young women can pay about $10K plus room and board and food, to eventually get a job that might eventually pay as much as $25K/year.

Like I wrote, most kids plans fall apart upon contact with reality much like the famous military aphorism about military plans not surviving contact with the enemy. However, the situation boils down to boys "know" they can get a great high paying career in the manly manual labor fields without a degree, whereas women "know" they need a degree and immense levels of debt to make less than McDonalds is willing to pay them, although at least their job is to literally hug babies all day. Maybe half the boys can't actually work construction due to drug use or weakness or just plain old laziness, but when they were planning they "knew" they could get those jobs. Whereas women know that even to change diapers for less than fast food pay, they "knew" they need a degree to compete.

The real story is very low paying, very low functioning jobs defined as "for women", require degrees and the supply/demand curve is such that they get away with it and the women hired will show up with expensive degrees and lifetime debt. Men's jobs that don't require degrees do not get away with demanding degrees.
This is the exact perversion I was thinking of. Pun very much intended.
> We looked at users who copied all or part of any answer, or users who took any voting action (upvote, downvote, etc.) on any answer.

Huh, I probably should have realized it, but the idea that Stack Overflow was tracking whether I copy an answer had never occurred to me.

(Mostly joking, I hope: I guess they could monitize that info for Stack Overflow Jobs, by certifying that a candidate has a low rate of copying answers!)
I don't really care if people want to take a vaccine without knowing the long term effects. I have an issue with trying to force others to take it. If you believe it is safe then take it. If somebody doesn't then they shouldn't be required to. If you are going to force people to take a vaccine they should have all the information.
I just mean that it was a coincidence that I asked GitHub for the feature and they were already working on it
> Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, […] or are minorities...

How can ‘many men’ be minorities ?
As far as I know, Konrad Zuse didn't prove that this strategy was a universal model of computation. In contrast, Turing proved that his universal machine could emulate any other machine, given the right program.

In my view, Turing's contribution is providing a plausible definition of computation along with a deep and comprehensive theoretical characterization of the properties of this model of computation. This is why Turing machines form the basis of theoretical computer science, and not other models such as lambda calculus. I think saying that Turing machines were adopted since they were merely more convenient is highly misleading.

I think this pattern repeats a lot: There are many cases where you can point to multiple people who invented similar ideas around the same time, but it is typically the person who provided the most deep and comprehensive treatment of the subject that ultimately gets most of the credit. This depth is not conveyed in pop science attributions such as "Turing invented computation", but this doesn't mean Turing doesn't deserve the credit.
This is stupid and will never actually happen. More generally, I'm growing tired of how signaling is usurping rational behavior. People are so focused on "being bold" and generating a headline instead of "being smart" and managing things rationally.
> since most of bachelor level knowledge is now free on the internet.

Most of the knowledge is out there sure, but the knowledge is hardly what’s important here.

Most well-paid white collar professions still require that credentials (and even poorly laid white-collar professions on that note)

I could spend a lifetime reading about engineering and following program curriculum to a point, but it’s unlikely I’d ever be hired in most engineering fields.
I have walked around many college campus's. Having days for minorities doesn't mean white men are the root of all evil, just like black lives matter doesn't mean that white lives don't.
> Do you think people manufacturing the products you buy are interested in poisoning you? Would they do it? They would lose all their customers, their reputation would be damaged... no, I do not see it.

There's a long history of businesses adulterating their products in order to increase profit. One of the most infamous being the Chinese infant formula scandal[0]. It seems incredibly naive to think that these regulations haven't been paid for in human lives.

The main reason for having the government take responsibility for certain things is that they should be available to everyone in society. Roads and schools are a great examples of this in practice.

Also, who wants to live a world where you constantly have to figure out if something is safe to fucking eat.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
The state is already run this way. It's called lobbying.

How is this nonsense second from the top? Isn't this supposed to be a non-ideological site?
This is a good piece, and religion does provide an undeniable power to change behavior. However, I think the author is conflating their own intentions with those of people who have actually held and maintained power via religion.

Over thousands of years, these experiments, carried out in the messy thick of life as opposed to sterile labs, have led to the design of what we might call spiritual technologies—tools and processes meant to sooth, move, convince, or otherwise tweak the mind.

I think it's a mistake (and ahistorical) to assume that these methods are intended to improve people's well being. The religions existing in the world today are here BECAUSE they were the most effective at altering peoples behavior. These techniques and rituals are the phenotypes of memetic viruses. Of course that isn't to say they can't be put to good use.
This is why, for example, decentralized life insurance policies have been compared to hit contracts.
The Bell Curve dictates that only about 15% of humans should go through higher education.
But our society decided force everybody into HE with various "incentives". And now everything is distorted.
Young men know this is all bullshit, so they drop out.
Young women don't drop out. They stay and consume Xanax, Prosac and are financed by sugar daddies and/or only fans.
Or, y'know, think carefully before adding a dependency to your project, and add as few dependencies as possible.
The dropdown has a shadow for me with Chrome (and also a sound effect).
Thanks for the quick response. I'll add that to my list to read after work. That's great to hear.
Can you share some examples of classes you found useless?
"Fifteenth [of] September"
I see where you’re coming from but I’m not sure comparing to millionaire families is apt - but I’ve seen plenty of things organized for low-income, rural, and 1st gen students which all include white heterosexual men, and if the census is to be believed, are the majority in some areas. I’ve also seen things for specific nationalities at my university like German, Italian, etc - groups traditionally considered “white.”

I haven’t seen anything specifically for the broad encompassing group of white heterosexual men. Personally I think such a group would be meaningless as white heterosexual men encompass too many things. What would such a group even use as the mode of maintaining solidarity that wouldn’t be better served by a more specific group?
Reference: https://dailyreckoning.com/the-demographic-time-bomb/
Perlustrating your images.
> There is no reason that there should be two different approaches to punctuation in the English language.

If you want to go that route, there's no reason for there to be more than one language on Earth.

Any attempt to research linguistics should respect the fact that people want to be different from each other, and see that as a valid reason.
Microsoft issues patch for zero-day flaw in windows
Signature of Geomagnetic Superstorm in Earth's Rotation Speed
They can be of a non-white racial makeup?

Edit: according to downvotes, men of color are apparently not minorities. TIL.
Do we really want a ban on all gas powered cars? There are no situations where a gas car is preferable or necessary?

There are simpler and less constraining ways to accomplish the real goal of this legislation, which is curbing carbon emissions. A simple, emissions-priced carbon tax on gasoline would make EVs preferable to those with no strong feelings on how they get around. My only claim is that a 99% ban is preferable to a 100% ban, because there most exist some circumstance where the internal combustion automobile is better. Expect this law to be walked back slightly in the future for this reason.
That is absolutely not what it is saying. It is saying due to history and socio-economical factors you have "access to, or enjoying rights or advantages, simply by membership of a
particular group or identity".
Be brilliant by learning from the Beatles' success
Yes, the content negotiation you describe is a very longstanding default behavior of Rails. It should probably be made opt-in rather than opt-out in the next major version.
I think I got most of this correct? My initial claims were:

"bad reporting" -- I this is fully justified. The arstechnica report says things like "PHP [...] holds a 78.9 percent share as of today" without mentioning that this is not share of all servers, this is a share of servers where w3techs algorithm works. Which is a pretty low share based on my spot check.

a website quote saying the percentages are not from all websites, but only from one where they know programming languages -- this is correct quote, see https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php .

"graph only covers the languages which leak their names into headers" -> I agree, this is wrong, I should have omitted "into headers" part. But I think it is a pretty minor difference and it does not change the other points.

"The “unknown” category is missing completely," -- this is correct as well. Do you see "unknown server-side language" category in the graph or anywhere else in the report?

Overall, that arstechnica article and that report are both omitting a crucial piece of information which makes the data unreliable.
Colleges are propaganda machines at this point. Men just don't like to be told they are the root all evil.

Also... who thinks gender studies are real?
I would rather use an unsupported device that has the ability to do a variety of things than a supported device that doesn't allow various features which is the case with iOS for me. With Apple, it's their way or the highway.
Wait, are people working on a regular job condition with contracts that not only deny employment, but indemnify the hiring company from the person acts?

That is completely fucked up.
"Vulnerabilities are more common in popular projects." - meaning more popular projects have more known issues, which seems kind of obvious.

Perhaps 'security by obscurity' has its parallel in 'vulnerability in popularity'.

While not a good security tactic in general, there is something to the fact that an obscure library will be less exploited.
Something that hasn't been mentioned, this could also be related to defenses against web cache deception attacks.
> "I quit. I’ll take a sabbatical year. I’ll stop doing software."

This is where I'm at, quit back in April. These companies are just too insane, I'm not doing it any longer. I'm very lucky that I don't have to.

The thing is, I'm not convinced it's tech that's the problem, or even software jobs generally. American corporations are just crazy-making places to work, constantly pushing for more while simultaneously destroying the circumstances that make it possible to perform. They try to goad you into feeling you have more to prove, no matter what you've pulled off. That was all in the past- what have you done for us lately?

It's simply too insane. I don't have anything to prove any longer. I've accomplished plenty, and at times done a whole lot with very little in the way of resources and preparation. And so what?

I'd rather just garden.
This is very useful. Thanks for sharing.
No, just that there’s no way to create a custom watch keyboard that I know of. I’m wondering if they managed to do so and if it required using private APIs or something.
First, I don't think it's been going on for 2+ generations.

Second, who is saying "white males" are the root of all problems? I mean, it's objectively true since we've predominately been in positions of power (European & new world) for the greater part of history. That said, I'm sure women can mess things up equally as bad if they were in the same positions of power.

Third, there's still an under-representation of women in STEM. Whether that's because a chicken-and-egg problem with visibility (or that women, on average, just don't want those jobs) is yet to be seen.
That's a fair point, I was simplifying/exaggerating for effect.

What I wanted to flag was that if you transition from a FTE in your country's legal framework to a contractor in order to work remotely one might not be familiar with the term.

The way I interpreted it is as follows:

"If you mess up and our users or other parties begin a lawsuit against us then you're fully liable for all our costs and there is no limit on how much we may sue you/charge you for".

Which is more technically exact but coming from a FTE background effectively the same. Since bugs are unavoidable in software it's a terrifying clause to have in a contract.

Edit: I luckily wasn't caught by this but realised after a bug related to payment processing I had the clause in my contract and was able to get it removed. I was just horrified that my brain filled in "yeah from context that kind of sounds like a liability waiver" when it meant the opposite.
An obvious approach comes to mind.

From the video I saw from Amazon about their warehouses, they work like this.

1. The goods are stored in stand-alone cabinets containing multiple slide-out bins. The cabinets are stored in a large section of the warehouse that humans do not normally go into.

2. When an order needs an item stored in bin X of cabinet Y, one of Amazon's robots (a short flat wheeled robot--like a robot vacuum but squarer and beefier) moves to under cabinet Y and lifts it and brings it to the workstation of the worker who is packing the order.

3. When the cabinet arrives at the workstation the system shines a light on bin X. The worker grabs the required item from that bin and packs it into the outgoing order. Repeat for any other bins with items needed from that cabinet. Then the cabinet is taken away (back to storage or I would guess to the next worker who needs something from it).

4. Similar for received items. The system brings the cabinet the item is to be stored in to the worker, shines lights on the bins the worker can put it in, notes which bin the worker put it in, and when done with that worker takes the cabinet away for storage.

So...why not get a bunch of portable toilets mounted on bases that the robots can move (or better designed specifically for Amazon's needs)? When a worker needs a bathroom break they could inform the system and it could bring a toilet to them.

This would also allow the toilets to be brought to a specific area for cleaning rather than having a janitor have to make rounds. The toilets could probably be designed to make it easy to automate much of this.