skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Only recently have we stripped away a lot of the sexism however, providing a successful transition to higher education.

Is it really so difficult to consider that career preferences are gendered? That millions of years of sexually dimorphic specialization could lead to statistically significant differences in interests, abilities, and desired life outcomes?

The recent popularity of blaming any disparity on {$x}ism really bothers me. Culture and genes influence outcomes at least as much as any external force in the modern world. That goes for gendered differences too.

>girls are more likely to do their damn homework

Also ironic that the people who are so eager to fight against sexism/racism have no qualms about generalizing their scapegoats. But it sort if proves my point: you are willing to acknowledge that males may have intrinsic negative traits which could cause them to underperform, but of course acknowledging the obvious implication that such groups may have innate advantages is forbidden; maybe because doing so would undermine the very underpinnings of the modern progressive push for equality of outcome.

Metrics targeting equal representation among all industries/disciplines are fundamentally flawed. There's no reason to expect such parity if people are truly free to choose their own paths, nordic countries are an example, where gender disparity persists despite an egalitarian culture.
I contend that the large majority were not so dogmatic, rather a concentrated effort was made insisting that to do otherwise was shameful. The wild elevation of an institute director to public spokesperson further muddied that water. Anthony Fauci's absolute unwavering denial of any possibility that doesn't suit or credit his policies has cost the US greatly and by extension the world
> This is true, but at least there was a "high bayesian prior" due to that being how it happened in the past.

I'm not an expert in the history of viral origin stories, but I'm pretty informed, and I'm not aware of any documented examples of pathogens emerging from public markets.

To be clear, I'm aware of lots of examples associated with pig and chicken farms, and several viruses that are presumed to have emerged from various kinds of "bush meat" (monkeys, guinea pigs, deer), but even these are pretty much correlative lines of evidence. A documented case of a virus emerging from a wet market? No. Moreover, if you've been to one of these things, it's pretty implausible as the source of a respiratory virus. They're usually outdoors, or in vast spaces. At least in farms you've usually got a farmer hanging around in a small building with hundreds or thousands of identical animals on a regular basis.

The evidence for the wet-market theory has always felt like one of those things that "scientists just know"...until it turns out they were repeating apocryphal stories to each other. This happens far more often than scientists care to admit.
Flat taxes are not "progressive taxes", you don't know what you are talking about.
Doing your funny business elsewhere doesn't require you to physically be there. Picking up a dish or antenna to find long range open networks is easy enough. EDIT: That way you can still enjoy your favorite coffee at your local coffee shop.
Why This Could Be a Critical Year for Electric Cars
Does your single-issue account mean to suggest that sequencing a close-ish relative of COVID in 2018 means they were growing it in a lab? I can‘t think of a good explanation that would link sequencing to lab experiments.

RATG13 is 96% similar to Sars-cov-2 which means there is a staggering 1200 mutations between them. For reference, Delta and Omicron are both about 40-70 mutations away from OG Sars-COV-2. And that‘s after 2 very good years for Sars-COV-2 evolution!
RaTG13 is decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2. You don't get from RaTG13 in 2018 to SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 in a lab or in nature. You don't get that from serial passage and you don't get that from gain of function in a lab, or any kind of lab created chimera. You get it from serial passage over decades of time through probably hundreds of millions of animals in a natural gain of function experiment.
The CCP isn't a "race of people" any more than the federal government is. I could be wrong, but I don't remember a single accusation being leveled at Asians. I do recall a lot of accusations being leveled at the CCP and also the US federal government though.
Alternatively, now you can increase $fn an order of magnitude and get imperceptibly smooth curved surfaces and complicated minkowski sums.
All that work, and it's about some banal business dispute.
> Quick question: In which societies on Earth is this trend reversed?

Iran, oddly enough; about 70% of STEM graduates are women.

More generally, though, the trend in the west has been, for any given subject, it's all male, then there are one or two women, then a few more, and suddenly a tipping point is hit and it's 50/50 within a few years. This happened to medicine and later biology and then chemistry in most places. I'd expect the pattern to continue.
> I would think that 64-bit doubles would be good enough.

Implementing robust boolean operations on polyhedral geometry is and has been known for quite a while to be very hard if you do not have arbitrary precision math, or at the very least some sort of interval arithmetic that kind winds back a calculation and increases the precision up to the point where an unambiguous decision can be made about the sign of an expression.

Here's an example: create a sphere, tesselate it to - say - a million triangle (not much these days), make a rotated copy of the original by 0.01 degrees and intersect with the original. I guarantee you the resulting calculation will either crash your floating point based implementation or it'll produce a model that will be non manifold.
> The male ones are tech/games/science

Science, war and... the last one.
Things go in cycles. It won't be this way forever. It may not change until it doesn't matter for you and I though.
The 1998 ice storm was something that had not happened before. Montreal was in particularly bad shape because numerous towers for something like 2 of the 3 transmission lines going into the city collapsed under the weight of the ice (please forgive my foggy memory for the exact numbers and details).

My family in eastern Ontario was without power for 8 days in 1998, and another friend was without power for 17 days. Ontario had failed to enforce proper engineering standards for pole lines, and as a direct result of the review of standards after the '98 ice storm, ESA regulation 22/04 significantly improved standards for these systems. Regulation 22/04 wasn't fully implemented by Hydro One and Bell until 2007-2008, and one consequence of 22/04 is that the cost of installing new fibre on old pole lines increased massively at that time as permitting process went from being handshake deals to requiring detailed engineering work.

Those of us trying to deploy broadband in some areas simply cannot afford to replace every single pole in some areas as is required by modern engineering standards. I have personally encountered quite a number of class 5 - 35 foot poles with 3 phases of power on them that were installed in 1948! Survey work in the past month even found a couple of poles from 1929!!! Those poles are effectively toothpicks at this point in their lifecycle. Granted, the older poles that were treated with creosote last a heck of a lot longer than the more modern "environmentally friendly" CCA-PEG treated poles, but they're pretty small and often have glass insulators that you really don't want to be anywhere near when that pole starts swaying due to the movement of a cable lasher.

Learning about all of this telecom and electrical domain knowlegde has been kinda fun in its own way. =-)
Apple TV already seems to doing that, there are shows on their platform that point you to get a showtime, HBO or whatever login.
This is either pitch perfect parody or a truly wild lack of self-awareness. I actually need the /s tag here.

Because replying with the precise tropes of toxic masculinity as a solution to… the problems caused by toxic masculinity, whew.
The idea that an embedded system would validate files sent over the air using a filename extension is baffling to me. Extensions as a separate field from the name are a relic from the 70s. How much can checking the file for identification bytes really cost you?
The argument is - what happens when all non apple apps stopped working on the iPhone
tbf the reason why WinNT was so good compared to Win9x was because of Cutler's obsession with destroying Unix at all costs. I mean, WinNT didn't destroy Unix, but it's basically why it's not a joke in the server ecosystem anymore.
Oh please. Tell me you are a Linux zealot without telling me you are a Linux zealot. Its a tool in the toolbox. I use Linux everyday on servers at work, two desktops at home, and servers for my partners businesses.

My main personal notebook is a windows device w/WSL and my main work notebook is a MacOS device, because at the end of the day, I need my computer's to just work, painlessly.

WSL is great for alot of Linux userspace stuff and is a fantastic CLI for interacting with and managing remote servers, alongside the ease of Windows. Of course it's not as performance, and had some edges, but I happily accept the trade-offs due to great driver support and the flexibility to run almost any software on one device.
This does look pretty nice, although I am not sure how well it would play with bear, which also uses LD_PRELOAD to intercept some calls.
Genuine question - can I just get a refund if they're intending to force this change? I assume not, but I don't see how it isn't breaking the agreement I made with mojang in the first place
I actually do find it extremely hard to believe that even the Chinese government would be able to internally formulate a plan to intentionally release a virus without droves of bureaucrats coming out as vocal whistleblowers. When you have a large organization (especially one as large as the Chinese government) you're going to have some actors with strong ethical beliefs. Deciding to take this course of action (for some reason whatever it may be) and then actually implementing this action would be incredibly difficult.

Silencing discussion about an accidental release is in a completely different ballpark where you're working to (in your view) prevent harm - not cause it. The intentional weaponized release angle of lab-leak entirely preempted any reasonable discussion on the matter.
that's how you get software in 10 years instead of 10 days :-)
There are still plenty of people who will accuse you of sinophobia if you dare acknowledge the ongoing genocide happening in China.
I am pro-sideloading but I think it has to be done in a way that people cam't be tricked into doing it.

Speaking personally, the only thing I want to sideload is Mame (assuming an iOS version exists).
> This part of the optimisation is well-known and had been for years before futex was invented, so there's no need to provide it as a vDSO or any other special work, userspace can (and was ready to) do that part anyway.

I guess, to me, the semantics of futex(3) on their own seem ill-formed, without the while loop + cmpxchg being part of them. It feels like the user shouldn't have access to raw "low-level" calls to futex(..., FUTEX_WAIT), since there's only one useful way to use those calls, and it's in combination with other code, where that code is theoretically possible to get wrong. It's an API that doesn't cleanly encapsulate its own concerns.

I suppose I'm used to thinking with "building reusable crypto"-tinted glasses: with crypto libraries, you never want to expose a primitive that needs to be used a certain way to be sound; because people are inevitably going to use it wrong, and that's inevitably going to result in exploitation. Instead, you can just expose a higher-level primitive, that inherently can only be used that one correct way, with no means to ask it to do anything else.

Of course, there's nothing inherently dangerous about calling futex(..., FUTEX_WAIT) without the associated code. (You just get a race condition. But a race condition in userspace doesn't corrupt the kernel or anything.) So I suppose this kind of thinking is meaningless here.
I'm sorry but who are you to decide what your relatives can or cannot install ? I find this way of thinking super fascistic.
I tend to think the issue is, in fact, security. If Apple (or Google or anyone) had a truly secure phone, then there should be no need for curation of apps. But our devices are full of zero-day exploits and dangerous "private APIs." I think the next generation (as in 20 years from today) of devices will embrace a secure-by-default mindset and thus not make users choose between the nanny-state and the wild west.
Hence the move to produce content. But that's a slow process.
There’s something about trains and transport that I find irresistible. I loved riding trains to school, and try to use them as much as I can. I absolutely loved SimCity, specifically the parts that let you build rail/subways to connect city blocks. I loved Factorios train mechanisms and hope to play with Satisfactory some day. Recently started Cities Skyline and I’ve been obsessed with it.

What I would really love is for something like a Minecraft but for building trains/managing transport systems. All the games I’ve played treat trains/transport as tools rather than the central focus. But this looks like it’s something along that line; definitely going to check this out along with openttd.
https://archive.is/ugeO9
This is why I don't drive or talk to people anymore.
I think at this point it's very likely that CFS will succeed. But economics could be a problem, which is why I'm more excited about Helion or ZAP.
I found Pramp to be useful, if you need practice with LeetCode style questions and explaining yourself to the interviewer, a peer in the same situation. It's free (technically you have to pay after the free interviews count, but being reviewed positively by the other interviewer gives you free interviews, so I've done 10 and still have free ones to spare). The participants skew junior but I still feel it's worthwhile.
Version inflation is a real thing. Emacs brought high version numbers into the mainstream, and now Nvidia drivers and browsers are at the forefront of the movement.
They obviously don't listen to the right priests or scientists. Or subscribe to the right YouTube channels.

Maybe they suffer from a deficiency of midichlorions.
Agreed. And I think the article's point about whether or not Apple's store is safe or not is moot. The question really is, how much worse would it be if they weren't there. I'll take a good attempt at safety over the wild west. If you removed the protections today, how much faster do you think the average user would get pwn'd by a rogue app? Because at some point we all will; security isn't black and white. The walled garden has big problems, but the other side of the wall is way uglier.
Now that it's moving to $15/mo I'm going to be taking a break. We have Amazon Prime and could save $60 by cutting Netflix for several months. Or we could spend $35 getting a channel on Prime and still save $25.
Even x86 has on-die SRAM that can be used in boot. It's better known as L1, L2, and L3, but you can configure Intel's FSP to make it usable for boot code with the so-called cache-as-RAM feature. The technical details are different than e.g. ARM because it's cache rather than properly addressable memory, but the general idea is the same.

All the RAM you see on the motherboard is DRAM. It's a totally separate thing and happens to be what the FSP initializes after it loads stuff into SRAM.
Cool site!

One note: On Brave mobile, the seek slider doesn't actually work. It moves and says 'seek to:' but doesn't.
This is exactly my feeling.

Apple has no incentive to let other companies get away with bad behavior. And so far, their own bad behavior has been much better than other companies.
>Are you talking about Shémale? Pretty sure it's a fashion brand.

Thought he was joking at first, but nope! They're a fashion brand. Google "Shémale pearl necklace" and you can see their stylish jewellery range!
I have a high IQ, got bullied in elementary school, was sexually invisible in high school on college. Went to grad school, did not fit in at all. Worked a lot of random jobs in the software industry, local and remote.

I am working at the uni again as a software dev, I like the team I am in, I like having an office that overlooks a baseball field.

I had the goal of charming a group of grad students on my floor and thought I would have a hard time explaining myself having bombed out of the academic track.

What amazed me was that most of them felt afraid of being bound by the decisions they have made and aren’t sure if they can or want to follow the professor route. They were really inspired that I was able to do all those random things over a long period of time, work for startups, work for big cos, do maintainance programming, make a neural network search engine before neural networks were cool, etc.

I started seeing that my career went in a straight line and I was getting very positive results.

Now there was a postdoc that I wound up anti-charming and I let the evil come out, I told a story that combined five lines that were interwoven about my personal suffering, the suffering of a well known person in my field, not feeling safe to raise issues with the methodologies we were using, thousands of bad papers written, a community that is just getting to grips with this.

I hurt him pretty bad and he hasn’t talked to me since. I wanted to apologize to him but he left the country. I wasn’t able to ensorcell anybody at all for a long time because I felt guilty.

I am now looking at problems that date back to feelings of hostility I have that came on right when I entered high school that are screwing me up still today. I am working super hard to get better results but if I don’t fix those feelings I am going to get effects like I had with that postdoc.

That bums me out pretty badly. But I want to change. A war against hostility sounds like an oxymoron but it is what I am up against. I know if I can beat it I can get what I want.
What exactly is the problem if it were created in a lab. Why are some people so hellbent on refusing to consider the possibility?
> Beyond that, if you couldn't find a way, then it's just not your priority, ya know?

The opening of "It's A Wonderful Life" addresses this directly. It was undeniably George Bailey's priority, but even the "golden billion" aren't free from obligation(s).
The CCP is not a race. But everyday Asian Americans (not just Chinese, mind you) have seen a staggering rise[1] in racially motivated crimes because of baseless and intrinsically racist assumptions about their role in COVID[1]. It is difficult to square the latter statistic with claims that our political leaders didn't levy blame at their expense, particularly given their own words[2].

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...

[2]: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/03/420081/trumps-chinese-viru...
It should be treated as fringe until there is some proof. Initially Trump and the other fringe were claiming almost immediately it was a lab accident (or even intentional) before there was ANY proof at all. Don't do that if you want people to take you seriously.
I am not implying GOF at all, please don't twist my words.

I am merely pointing out that if you were to study the virus after it emerged, you would be studying SarsCoV2.

If the lab were working with a precursor to the virus (in any fashion), it is perfectly reasonable to question where that sample came from.
Not having a wife at home to make meals, because all households _need_ dual incomes

10% is what, ~30 minutes less?
This. We forget what J2ME was like with all the scamware and billing shit that went down for the better part of a decade. The App Store basically wiped it out in one fell swoop. Sure you couldn't install something you wanted without Apple's involvement but for a certain class of people that's a feature not a bug. I don't think I want the J2ME days back. Even if I could install Dolphin on an iPad without having to go through facacta enterprise certificate bullshit.
What absolute rubbish. White males commit much much less crime per capita than Hispanic or black males. Fbi statistics demonstrate that with absolute clarity. It's been the case forever and has actually gotten Worse since the 1960s so please spare me your systemic racism argument. How is the country more racist now than the 1960s?

You are a bigot with no empathy and hate in your heart. Please grow as a person.
> I just know I'll have a Thanksgiving conversation like "hey, could you look at my phone? It's been getting hot after Microsoft called and helped me install the new antivirus."

Why do we pretend that social engineering scams don't exist outside of installing anti-viruses? There are thousands of vectors of attack, many of which can and have been done on iPhones (bank accounts, gift card scams etc.)

The solution to this problem is EDUCATION, not letting companies monopolize a market just because we're too scared and stupid as a society to teach the elderly and vulnerable about security and privacy.
>Tulle in particular was hilariously difficult to figure out.

Tulle is just orange bags, but not orange. The more you know.
EU is on 50hz AC, where as the US is on 60hz. It would work fine for purely resistive appliances, and possibly devices with switching mode power supplies, but some devices would be unhappy plugging in to the wrong frequency at 220V.

I'm not sure about the phase alignment but that may be an issue as well. US is split phase, but Europe has 220 on a single conductor?
If you are looking to take on credit cards than sure it’s hard to be a new processor. If you are a bank, it’s fairly simple to issue your customers a Mastercard. I think the small players at this scale are still multi-million dollar studios and production companies.
My Subaru has received at least two OTA firmware updates.

I think the reason most people don't think their cars get firmware updates is because a lot of cars hide the wifi connection dialogs and update download controls behind three or four layers of menus, so if you don't know to look for it (and aren't especially interested in poking around through the menus of your head-unit), it's off by default and you don't know it's there.
I like this policy. Heck, given today's climate I love this policy.
They have a lot more than a handful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Netflix_original_progr...
We get it the new Sikorsky helicopters use a rigid rotor just the like the X wing they don’t lock because they don’t fly as fast as the X wing and will operate primarily as helicopters.

They also receive about half of their forward momentum from the pusher motor.

The Defiant is the X wing with better trade offs to serve as helicopter rather than a pure VTOL.

I know it might look like nothing but a Kamov but it’s anything but. The Kamov uses flexible contra rotating rotors and is very much a traditional helicopter the new line from Sikorsky is very different.
> there are people would still hold some of the views the GP expresses.

"People"? Try 100% of (good) CS professors. Research clearly dictates that gotos are harmful. Lack of comments is just as bad. As for the test coverage, that's just their loss. I'm sure this "linux" project would have much higher velocity (agile term, look it up) if they used test driven development.
What is the xenophobia in that? Jokingly calling a virus that originated in China after a martial art that originated in China.

That's xenophobic... how?
The problem here isn't sideloading. The problem is that you cater to

> my "you use computers so you're my de facto tech support" circles

and you hate it. Stop doing that.
But then what would be the point if the "anticompetitive" measures are still there? If Apple can still get the final say, they can still refuse to sign any IPA for any reason.