skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Hypergamy” was not a term I was familiar with so I had to look it up. In doing so, there are some references that indicate that it is not actually innate, but a product of culturally reinforced gender roles [1].

For example, if a woman is in a culture that limits her ability to be successful financially, it would follow that she values the ability to make money in a mate to overcome those societal constraints. The cursory look into the research showed that as gender roles in a society became less rigid, the effect of hypergamy was reduced. If it were truly innate, I would expect there to be no reduction in hypergamy as societal norms change.

[1] Hadfield, Elaine (1995). Men's and Women's Preferences in Marital Partners in the United States, Russia, and Japan (PDF). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Vol. 26 No. 6, Western Washington University. pp. 728–750.
> the story was cheesy mysticism in a Game of Thrones sauce

I've not seen the new movie yet, but the biggest problem I have with Lynch's movie is that it treats the mysticism as serious/plausible; yet a key part of Dune is that its religions are social engineering tools, managed and spread by the Bene Gesserit over thousands of years. In particular:

- Their "Missionaria Protectiva" programme spread the meme that Bene Gesserit members are supernatural witch/sorceress-like figures, who should be revered and assisted.

- The "Kwisatz Haderach" is the end-goal of their breeding programme: a male who can survive the Bene Gesserit training. As part of this 10,000 year plan, a religious meme was propagated that a messiah would appear in 10,000 years time. Hence when Paul appeared 10,000 years later (one generation early, since Jessica was meant to have a daughter), he could cash-in on the religious capital the Bene Gesserit had built up, and use it for his own ends. Note that others came close, including Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and Hasimir Fenring (plus others who are mentioned in later books).

Yet Lynch portrayed Paul as a messiah to the audience, showing the audience a world of "cheesy mysticism" rather than letting them in on the scheme. (The miniseries did a better job of showing Paul's helplessness, despite his prescience; and his guilt for the inevitable genocide that will occur in his name)
> Not sure why force reboot is a concern.

Are you serious? The user could have been doing anything when they rebooted, and there's no valid excuse to forcibly install updates when the user explicitly tells you not to.

> Ads in the start menu? those are apps... silly... sure.. worthwhile of a rage fest? nah..

Yes, there are actually ads in the start menu. Absolutely worth a "rage fest" when it's a desktop operating system on hardware that you own.

> Ads in lock screen? never seen anything such...

Well, they're there. Your computer is not other peoples' computers. If someone says that they saw ads in their lock screen - your personal experience has no bearing on that.

> INstalled MS teams? yeah, bummer.. but welcome to modern OS's that all include a default messaging app/service

Not an excuse.

> elemetry? can be stopped and blocked and there are tools and services to do this

That work imperfectly and whose changes are often reverted "magically".

This is an extremely consumer-hostile and ignorant comment.
I hope this goes to a jury trial lol, and I hope some of the commenters below are called as expert witnesses.
I've done a ton of technical interviews in my career. To be honest, I thought all of the advice in this post was pretty awful and I'm surprised it is upvoted so high.

Most of the questions in this article are of the "Are you aware of feature X or buzzword Y" type questions. In my experience there is basically zero correlation between people who can answer questions like this and how they actually do on the job. If someone is not going to hire me because I haven't heard the term "Open-Closed Principle" in 20+ years of software engineering, this is definitely not a place I want to work.
Or how no one would expect Vitamin Water to be healthy despite being featured in an ad with the theme of how people stay healthy.

Edit: Here's the ad I had in mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlqFplfTojA

And here's an article form the case they presented the defense that no one would think it's healthy: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-dark-side-of-vitaminw_b_6...
Where the Juice That Powers Batteries Comes From
Not an expert, or even an enthusiast tbh, but if I were to guess, I would say its because Lithium is way too reactive. It is basically impossible to find elemental Li and the compounds Li forms are difficult to break (I think). So unless the deposit is of some particularly easily collected and concentrated (removing the dirt and stuff, idk the technical term) or very easily broken, it probably won't be worth it to even try to get raw Li from the ore.
> The computer is no longer the bottleneck.

High load average, full swap, memory leaks, those things still happen today.

> exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters.

99% of ls's use case are: show me the files in this folder.

What happened to KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and the UNIX philosophy (do only one thing, but do it well)?

> 256-colour terminals are everywhere.

Laughs with Windows Terminal.

> ls is still there if you need it.

Thank you, I will keep using it. Also "ls" for "list" is straightforward, what does "exa" even mean?

There is a reason why those programs have not changed in the last 50 years: they work, they do one thing, they do it well, nobody ask them to do more.
One must know how to watch it. Younger people can hardly see past the flashy pictures. Lynch's Paul was particularly brilliant, his figure had some mystic qualities around it, new movie has nothing like it.
The point is people take trade-offs for performance vs. features. Features take up some measurable amount of performance.

It's a sliding scale, but everyone sits on that scale nonetheless.
Where is there a need for whistleblowers in cable news? Everyone is well aware that the 24 hour cable news cycle was a terrible development for journalistic integrity and that these stations exist to drive ratings by polarizing viewers and getting them addicted to outrage. No one really likes it, but what is a legal solution? Freedom of the press is pretty well enshrined in US constitutional law, so it's not like you can sanction or ban or censor them.

It's a very different story for Facebook. Since their content is user-submitted and they aren't the government, they're actually able to legally censor content if they want to. Additionally, their users are largely not the press and not even Americans, so they don't have the same constitutional rights anyway.

So there may or may not be some sort of moral equivalence here, but there are very obvious reasons they don't get the same treatment legally and from Congress.

Finally, Facebook lied in Congressional hearings. As far as I know, neither Fox nor CNN has done that. This is the Al Capone tax evasion they always get people on. It's why Michael Flynn went to prison and why Bill Clinton got impeached. You can get away with all manner of outrageous and immoral but not necessarily illegal behavior if you just tell the truth about it under oath.
Yogurt is a really insidious one. More sugar in most of them than a can of soda, but marketed as healthy.

As an example, https://www.yoplait.com/products/original-single-serve-straw... has 27g carbohydrates. An 8oz Coke has 26g.
The goal was to have a long term hydrogen, mid/peaker battery setup with the minimum cost while providing for the entire grid.

Unfortunately I didn't take notes as to what the source was and I read this about a year ago. Google has been entirely useless as I've tried to dig it back up.
And yet INTC net income is 3x NVDA, 21B vs 7B
I on many occasions ate breakfast with national guard members dressed up as police for their training exercises. Their police uniforms all had high rank, high tenure. They will be in charge of the police when things go sideways.
TSMC Extends Its 5nm Family with a New Enhanced-Performance N4P Node
A college roommate said that his family received a box of Pop Tarts as part of a marketing test before they went on the market. After the first breakfast, they never ate more. That would have been about the time they came out, maybe 1965.

I did eat them, but at an age that I'd eat pretty much anything.
My immediate take on "dark matter" was that there is something strange about gravity and inertia.

At the galactic level, however, there is a lot of cases where it seems you can see the mass distribution of dark matter. They've found starless hydrogen clouds that seem to be dragged around by a dark matter halo.

If you think about the evidence from galactic rotation curves you are likely to think that "this galaxy has some dark matter in it" but the modern point of view (which seems to work) is that "this dark matter has a galaxy in it."

When it comes to cosmology at the larger scales I don't really believe in the "multiple flavors of dark matter and dark energy" that is fashionable now. I wonder, for one thing, if the universe is really homogeneous at large scales and if that breaks the assumptions of current models.
I didn't know about Lektor, it looks cool! Thanks for letting us know!
what do you mean "not sure why force reboot is a concern"? It is one of the worst thing ever. I keep each one of my virtual desktops with various projects and related ides/documentation on my linux laptop and I always keep it in standby (indeed right now htop tells me I have this laptop up since 136days). On windows it would randomly and terribly often reboot, even when asleep, because it seems in 2021 an os still need to fully reboot for minor patches WHEN IT wants to.
Sort of related but there was a great episode on American greed about exploiting the RIM or RIN marketplace by simply making up contract numbers
Understandability is waning. Which in many places amounts to the same thing.

Newtonian physics could be understood by an average child. General Relativity could be understood by intellectuals somewhat. The cutting edge of physics now is barely understood by the people who are publishing the papers.

For additional progress to continue in a lot of fields we're giving up a lot of understanding.

If we give a mouse a maze that requires understanding of calculus or trigonometry to get to the cheese - the mouse just won't get there. Doesn't matter how many attempts we give it - the reasoning is beyond its capacity.

Why would humans be any different to our own upper limits of understanding?

(mostly stolen from a chomsky lecture called "the ghost and the machine")
Something I often think about is how eccentric the leading researchers were in Einstein’s generation. Just look at a picture of the guy himself. Or consider Kurt Gödel, who starved to death when his wife was hospitalized because he could only eat food prepared by her.

Different times/cultures tend to put different personalities in charge, and that has a huge impact on what gets done. Overall I have a feeling the curious eccentrics are now out, and the charismatic corner cutters are in…
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

Not affiliated, just a sometime happy user.
They shouldn't trust that suspicious Demerzel robot, better destroy it.
Wikimedia Enterprise: paid commercial product for reusing Wikipedia content
> was obsessed with some weird thing that no one understood

Sounds like the beginning of every great scientist's biography.
What is the threshold for a government to be incompetent? It seems the government operations and day to day activities change very little based on the president.
There is not only PoS. Open Representative Voting (ORV) is a working solution: https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/
Capturing carbon at the point of emission (e.g the exhaust stream from CCGT plants) seems orders of magnitude more important than any attempt to remove atmospheric carbon. In the atmosphere CO2 is at 400 parts per million. That's a lot of irrelevant gasses to move around a process to capture a very dilute component.

It's the same reason why people reassuringly pointing to the amount of Thorium or Lithium in the ocean isn't useful.
As bot a VFX artist and a musician I can assure you that neither of those tricks were cheap : )
The DNC's a private organization. They could pick their candidate by having a gorilla pick from a hat, if they so choose.
Not sure if it's what he's talking about, but I noticed that if I resize Safari narrow enough, the "Download Free" button is left-aligned while all the text around is center-aligned.
In fact most of the hydroxide goes threw Korea or Japan (sometimes even both I think). There the hydroxide is made into cathode materials. This cathode materials are then shipped to Nevada, where Panasonic creates cells, hands them to Tesla to put into packs. Packs get put into cars.

Tesla always had the vision of doing cathode processing in house, but I think in Nevada they never went that far (unless this has changed).

In Austin Tesla is planning a plant to transform Spodumene ore into hydroxide. This ore would come from North Carolina. However this mine project seem to be delayed so for quite a while they will likely continue to buy hydroxide (they have to buy anyway but buy less at least).

They are also planning, and are already building a cathode materials plant. There they would bring together nickel, lithium hydroxide and co to make a cathode materials.

They are also already building a cell plant where they would use that material to make cathode and cells.

They are also attempting to mine their own lithium in Nevada, but that will take a quite a few years to come online (if ever).

There are quite a few companies trying to get into all of these markets in the US, but compared to China its still a small amount and they are way behind
Emphatically not in global terms, but probably so in the United States.

Diffuse national priorities since 2000 have misallocated academic research, corporate R&D and government investment from hard-science to social science.

Also, the inverse relationship between the "financialization" of the US economy & the decline of applied science innovation is stunning. By way of example, applied sciences have lost a lot of talent to fintech jobs.

Similarly, the US-Russia cold war, for all its many downsides, did drive applied research. 20 years or so of low-intensity conflict in the ME wasted vast amounts of capital on logistics, munitions and purchased alliances that would have otherwise found its way to various DOD research programs.
I love Joel, but I didn't know about CityDesk, thanks!
Assassination in Plancher-Bas: the student killed for €200k in cryptocurrency
I’m also in Ottawa, for what it’s worth. I’ve found people were more thorough with the first non-QR system than the new one.
In a Night City-like city, almost no animals exist anymore, not even pets. Life in Night City is even more designed for speed and get rich or die trying lifestyle. In addition, cyber augmentations provide help with jobs and the like, but in the end you can't pay for them without getting into debt, which makes you a slave to the big companies that have de facto state power.

I have never understood why high density is considered good or desirable.
Ok, I'll try and explain. The title of the article is "Calculating Current Limiting Resistor Values...".

How you do that calculation is entirely different when you use PWM.

Hence, I felt like it was an oversimplification around calculating current limiting resistor values.

Also, there are some cases where LEDs have to be in parallel, for practical purposes. Like LED matrix displays, or things meant to be inexpensive and not durable, like holiday lights.
If tiktok has one redeeming quality is that it actively buries the polarizing content (of course some of this is debatable, like content relating to minorities, etc)

But no bad vibes allowed there
And even then, can you really put the two first in the same bag as the others ? I have the feeling their research scope were noticeably broader, no ?
Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
Linux with the Windows emulation layer Drawbridge Library OS from the Linux port of Microsoft SQL server may possibly run Windows faster than native Windows.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
See, this is _exactly_ why the government doesn’t need to step in to break the market.

Running a large online store is hard! Harder than running a small local business. Amazon.com has a giant fraud target painted on its back. Local stores can make a strong case for being more ethical and for shopping local. I would think, given the position of labor in French society, that it would be easy to get people to choose local if it is even somewhat close in terms of price and service.

The fake stuff on Amazon is a great case for skipping them entirely. The fact that (apparently) the government thinks that local booksellers cannot compete with a fraud/scam-riddled, employee-abusing marketplace is a giant red flag. Being a victim of fraud, and having to worry about fraud, is actually very inconvenient IMO.

I shop local when local means better service, better quality, locally-sourced ingredients, a better browsing experience (especially applicable to books), or really any other advantage. The bar for not buying online is on the floor; the only people to blame for small business not clearing that bar are small business owners.
Ask HN: Why don't smaller US companies sponsor E-3 visas?
I've noticed a lot of smaller US companies will not even consider engineering applicants that need E-3 visa[1] sponsorship. Does anyone know why this is the case? I'm talking about senior software engineering roles or above.

Afaik, the employer needs to apply for Labor Condition Application [2] and then help the employee with applying for the visa. I estimate roughly ~10k in costs and ~4 week turn around.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Condition_Application#Attestations
I suspect they want to be able to contact your employer and say "$large_number of your employees use our software as individuals, here a all the reasons you should give us a fuckload of money for enterprise-ready best-of-breed annoyance^Wmanagement features".
I went from C/C++ to Go many years ago and never looked back. It's a language designed in the service of software engineering. Many of today's most prolific tools are written in Go. You're much more likely to come across Go than the others, besides Python.
Workarounds are explicitly permitted as comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014541
Apple sued in China for not providing iPhone 12 chargers
> I fly almost the same planes(yes, more safe and efficient) and it takes the same time to get from A to B.

It takes even longer now while you wait in lines to get through the security parade.
Very generally a party can run its primaries how it wishes.

Selling pop tarts to everyone claiming something is in it that provides health benefits when it is hardly there is a different thing.
This is treating the Qanon believers as passive receivers - the more interesting question is how all those compelling stories are being created: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-league...
With all due respect, that measurement doesn't make a lot of sense! I spend 100% of my time waiting for my editor to open at the start of the day :)
The AGPL license explicitly covers this edge case, it describes the release of software as "a publicly available network server". Whether or not you consider this a 'release' is irrelevant, the requirement for distributing source code still applies. See for yourself:

"If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
With one of the recent versions of GNOME (4.0? on Ubuntu 20.04 or so), you can't even create icons on the desktop. They broke a GUI paradigm that has existed since the dawn of Unix time, WTF. I blew away GNOME on all my Linux computers, and installed Ubuntu MATE or Linux Mint.

I love Linux as a development environment. But the desktop experience has so many rough edges, it will be "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" for the next 100 years.
Uh, why would smearing peanut butter on it make it healthier? Or did I get whooshed?
It's my view that most unexplained areas today are chaotic systems where reductionism fails: brain-body, ecological systems, etc. Even, i think, extremely fundamental physics.

I have the sense that "robust" science doesnt work here: the "explanation" is precisely the irreducible chaos. There isn't much more to be said than to point.
Initially this started internally at the US Government.
Probably mostly the NSA, but then the vernacular spread. Kinda useful when having conversations to say "Cranky Frog" and not "China special operations group 304 PLA #122"

The names were classified (Secret perhaps?), but at some point the US Government realized everyone was kinda using these names in conversations, probably not all at the secret level. These names had leaked out too much, they needed new names.

So they decided to rename them with new Secret names, and just kinda let the old names become utilized. They tried to hide the old <-> new name mapping because the new name mapping was classified.

Crowdstrike started as mostly former FBI / NSA employees. They liked using all these names to identify actors. But they realized they didn't want to use classified names. So they came up with their own very boring names (APT1, APT2 ,etc.). While others had always done this internally (Microsoft had names, Google had internal names, etc. etc.), Crowd strike utilized these names very publicly and it just kinda took off.

I think the US Government at some point realized they could just use Crowdstrike names and avoid all of the Classified name mess, so they just utilized crowd strike names as well. So now Crowdstrike names are mostly the go-to. Unless you are micrososft, then you keep using your names....

My guess is Somewhere at Ft Meade an analyst has produced a massive, beautiful chart mapping all this shit together, and her sole job is to keep it updated.

...or this is my best guess anyway.
The whole Ethereum-based tokens (ERC-20 only) and NFT (ERC-721) ecosystem is a gigantic, elaborate scam which only just helps influencers to use their fame to cash in on exit scamming their fans into thinking they are buying and holding something that has 'value' with no use.

Instead they are paying immense gas fees to cover the cost of every. single. transaction.

Discuss.
0 surprise
this is the same recipe as 20 years ago. I actually used to work on redesigning the formulation and process for strawberry fillings. Nothing changed except your taste buds.