skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has this ever not been the case? I remember that girls were way more mature than boys in HS quite well, it was common knowledge and nobody questioned it. They just don't mature as fast.
What does "knowing" a word mean? Is it just recognizing that the word is a valid word?

I am skeptical that 80% of men recognize that "boson" is a word, but only about 50% of women could put together "shemale" from context clues.
>Apple's decision to break apps that don't update is a user-centric decision.

Is it really though? Users are then stuck with their favorite apps being broken and unusable.

We're not talking just about mandatory security updates here, some of the breaking changes are mundane.
You convinced me. Let's go to a single bracket system. No deductions. No credits. One rate. Everyone pays that on everything.
I have to say that the positive vibe and the Colombian village cliché are very entertaining in a time of emotional darkness (COVID, crisis, inflation, monopolies, etc). They just cheer us adults up.

IMHO it is an eye candy for everyone, not only kids. I mean there is a reason why romantic comedies just work telling the same kind of stories all over again with different actors.
I've never heard anyone suggest that fusion could scale to be really tiny like that. Do you have any pointers on where I could look to learn about something like that? Because every existing thermal electricity generator scales to be really big for the efficiency gains, and fusion is a thermal electricity generator as planned so far. Tiny steam turbines in each block does not sound cost effective, even if the heat is free.
Most of them? Pretty much every ARM board supports an SRAM boot stage, for example. If you're using U-Boot, it's pretty likely that there's a SPL running out of SRAM somewhere in there.
Like I said in another comment, I'll allow HN readers to use their own judgement.

edit: but you know what. Since you want evidence I'll give you some. The entire Alibaba debacle where the CEO was forced into hiding because he dared to contradict the Chinese political elite is my evidence that the Chinese government has implicit control over every business based out of China.
>Shouldn't the obvious conclusion be that men and women have equally as much to contribute?

Not really, because what men traditionally had to contribute was their physical strength to perform labor. Having that as a requirement for many lucrative positions like manufacturing and resource extraction is what allowed men to out earn women with their labor in the past. Women never filled those jobs with physical requirements en masse, and so they now already occupy a far greater portion of the other parts of the workforce that men must now compete for.
Ask HN: What are some useful growth hacking techniques for tech recruitment?
Hiring for a scale up at the moment. Curious to hear what growth hacking techniques worked best for you when applied to the hiring process.
Microsoft pledges to open app store principles, will open up the Xbox store
I've had an android. My social interactions went way down because iPhone users refuse to download messaging apps and SMS is slow as molasses. Apple has locked me into iOS with a fucking messaging app.
The vast majoring of apps I use on Android come from the Play Store. I've sideloaded maybe five or six apps on Android since the T-Mobile G1. It's not something I keep in the back of my mind. But when I find an app I can only sideload, I really want to do it, and I would be really annoyed if I couldn't use my hardware the way I wanted.
I cannot see the US government having any part of a moonshot done offsite.

That doesn't necessarily follow. Very often it's more economic to start a new site from scratch, rather than have the costs of demolition on top of the costs of building. In not so long a time, much of Florida will be affected by sea-level rise. Why not move while it's easier, rather than build something twice?
I guess they worked hard to make it realistic ;)
> Also, if you've ever worked in the trades you would know that a large portion of them are ignorant and uneducated. That stereotype exists for a reason. Its just a fact, and they have a tougher time navigating life because of it. I've lived it.

I agree with you there, I think there is a tendency to romanticize the life of a blue collar worker, and thing of them as the noble simple idealized "proletariat", when as you point out the stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.

But I have to wonder is part of that because of the brain drain in the trades that resulted from everyone going to college and feeling they had to do white collar work. Before a smart, observant, hardworking young man could become an electrician and by virtue of being observant and quick witted could succeeded and excel and become an outstanding electrician that could bring about innovation and elevate his work team. Nowadays though the same hardworking intelligent young man is being told that the trades are for stupid people, and he is too smart for that and wouldn't it be much better to go get a college degree so he can get a "real job". Then twenty years and $50,000 of student debt later he finds himself as a project manager trapped in a standup meeting at 8:00 on a Wednesday morning, hating his life, drowning in unfulfilled despair and wondering what went wrong with his life.

I just think that part of the stereotypes about the trades has become a self fulfilling prophecy.
The primary job is to stay on the board and leverage relationships and reputation for their own brand.
That assumes that side-loading is the only feature you care about. I care about a lot of other things besides that, and I decided I will be switching platforms because of that.
People are talking about the other parts pretty well, but the idea of a "propaganda arm" seems a little funny to me. What is the propaganda they want to push? To what end?
Profanity Filter: Build vs. Buy
I don't know if it is intentional, and it probably isn't, but the "learn to" link just self-references the same page.
Nothing that Christopher Hitchens ever said struck me as remotely insightful. Characterizing one of his reductive proclamations as a "razor" does not make it more useful or accurate.
this is clearly the result of societal programming. i propose that we eliminate all of these words from the dictionaries. we dont need any of these words anyway.
> If danger determines masculinity/femininity, then that would also explain why grilling is considered masculine.

I think this is motivated reasoning. From what I can tell, the "grilling is manly" thing started in the '50s (well after cooking stopped being dangerous) and is mostly limited to the United States (instead of being universal, as we would expect with something biologically-motivated). And what's the difference between frying, roasting, and grilling? All involve using a gas-operated cooking device to cook meat (assuming you own a gas stove); they're all equally safe.

Not only does this strike me as being cultural, this strikes me as obviously cultural. And yet you dismiss that out of hand and go looking for a biological explanation ("grilling is extra dangerous") that doesn't really line up with the facts of the example. So it seems to me that you're engaging in motivated reasoning — assuming that masculinity can't be a product of culture, reaching for biological explanations even when they don't really make sense.
Ah, that's less crazy, just probably drank fuel really fast (which, test craft, so who cares)
The levelized cost of large scale solar power is about 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.

ITER alone will cost $21B minimum and won’t make power. DEMO will conservatively cost about the same, but let’s be generous and round up the total “fusion research cost” to just $30B.

That would buy about 1.5e18 joules, or around the same amount of energy as the electrical generation of the United States… for a month.

So, a drop in the bucket compared to what we use globally…

Even if you use much bigger numbers for fusion research and assume further solar power cost improvements, fusion might still be worth it.

However, it’ll only be worthwhile if the total cost the production fusion plants is not too high. If they end up costing $10B each then the whole thing will be a dead end economically.
Not sure where all that came from. They simply hired the contract Engineer we were providing. We originally did all their software on the particular product (cockpit display) using four Engineers but when development slowed, they wanted one fulltime and that was our guy. He went from being our employee to being their employee, which is his right. And it spiralled from there.

Anyway he's happy independently contracting now, so alls well that ends well.
Thanks, Darren. Would you like to get a personal demo, just drop an email to vladyslav@goperigon.com? We've looked into Aylien and other competitors and I believe we are on par and actually better on some aspects. Would be glad to answer the questions, if you'll have any.
African or European beer cans?
Used like this, it is not much different than a try-catch block
Which system design books does it suggest reading? Last time I interviewed I did poorly on the system design interview because it was all about a scalable web app while my experience is mostly in smallish devices.
I love this plugin, came here hoping to see it so I wouldn't have to go lookup the link.
F Droid is my first stop for anything I need, if I can not find it there then I go to Play Store

F Droid is only possible because of side loading
Well, I assume it would work better against parasites than what they do now.
This is less about consumers and more about developers. Many would want to reach iOS users with apps that are outright disallowed on the App Store, such as emulators, VM hypervisors or cloud gaming plattforms.
I agree.

I think most of arguments against what Apple is doing are based on an incomplete picture of Apple's product. They are based on someone not appreciating an aspect of what Apple is doing. Maybe they don't like the price. Maybe they don't like a lack of complete control over their hardware. The rest of it is always a rant to justify that position.

There is provable value in what Apple is doing, or the app store would not be a success. Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too.
The C `switch` statement and `goto` were made for each other, too.
Muhaha.

As a DoS of DOS: x:\> copy c:\config.sys CLOCK$

Also special DOS filenames:

CON PRN AUX NUL {COM,LPT}[1-9]

https://superuser.com/questions/1362080/which-characters-are...

Print autoexec.bat to the dot matrix printer on LPT1?

x:\> copy autoexec.bat lpt1
x:\>

Create a file called foo.txt without an editor?

x:\> copy con foo.txt
whatever
whatever
whatever
whatever
^Z<ENTER>
x:\>

A social DoS of any machine with BASIC or similar.

10 INPUT "Press any key to continue..."; $X
20 GOTO 10

When good floppies go bad:

General Failure reading drive A:\.
Abort, Ignore, Retry, Fail?
iOS doesn't do that anymore. Local network access has been a permission that apps need to be granted for at least a few years now
was it British Teapot Units all along?
I haven't seen the Dems get into law a significant simplification of the tax code in the last 20 years. The last simplification we got was from Trump (which was a good step, but obviously isn't the final desired location).

He also did that before the Dems took back the House, so he had the GOP sign on to it.
Thanks this is helpful. I have been fortunate to have figured a few of these out on my own and kept twitter a source of useful insights. This article outlines solid holistic approach, adding lists was a particularly useful suggestion.
I can imagine. And I am pretty sure I know the industry which - as usual - will move first to new technology/data. And I am pretty sure, Disney will not like that.
I don't get how you're reading that there's little diversity.

What I get from the bar graph is that not listeners skew male, educated, old, affluent, etc relative to the population. But I'm not sure how this even relates to the original question of whether there's something for everyone... even if there were no skew, what matters is what percent of the population listens. If it's less than 100%, there must not be something for everyone. Or if you look at it from another perspective, no demo is completely missing from the listener base therefore there's something for every demographic.
It's a fallback in both directions.

If you were studying creative writing and planning to go into advertising, but you graduated during a big recession and no-one was hiring? A few years of grad school might be more fun than a few years working retail, especially if mom and dad will help pay for it.

If you've finished your PhD in STEM and it didn't inspire you to follow the long path to tenure? You might fall back to industry; with luck you'll make so much money it hardly counts as falling back.
There also isn't a comment on every line, no test coverage that I can see, many functions are longer than 20 lines, and many of these source files are way too big at thousands of lines.

Probably easier to throw the whole thing out and start again.
No, it’s absolutely not.
They consume a lot of power on average as far as I remember.
They have just more transmissions loss at a lower voltage and I guess that it would be a pain to use a normal induction cooktop with 9-10KW at 110V.
Ok great! I think this is exactly how things should work. Apple doesn't provide this "feature" in place of other features that it does provide (Apple Pay, sign-in with Apple, etc.). Similarly I could buy a phone that is GoogleFi enabled if that was important to me. I could buy a phone with the most megapixels, or that folds. Each of these devices makes trade-offs that I don't like, so I buy the product with the feature mix that I want the most.

If side-loading is the only feature you care about, Android is for you. If it's one of many, you may have to make a trade off or pick between different mixes of features. This is just how the world works and always will work.
Likewise! For some reason my clearest memory of the toy was putting the little sticker-decals on.
Oh don’t act like it’s not an important number. We don’t live in a utopia where money doesn’t matter. It’s an important number.
Foone is working on it
Another fun github hack: if you browse the repo for a particular file, the URL will be something like

github.com/user/repo/blob/master/foo/bar/baz.py

But this file can change, meaning this url might not have the same content a week or month down the road. This is particularly troublesome when you have lines selected. To fix this, press `y` and your url will get expanded to include the current commit hash:

github.com/user/repo/blob/e4ecae.../foo/bar/baz.py

Now your URL is safe to share.
Setting up caching usually isn't the problem, it's invalidation and eviction that bites you.
Living on a boat which has internet access but limited access to cell service, I'm finding 2FA to be seriously inconvenient. I can't get into one of my bank accounts most of the time, because they don't believe I'm me, despite using the same computer as ever, and require me to enter a code they've sent to my phone, which I can't provide because my phone has no service. Grr.
Some form of Green New Deal would create tons of jobs like that -- people to upgrade furnaces, install heat exchangers, upgrade windows and insulation, and manufacture all of the above. Republicans used to be all about creating jobs like this... I'm not holding my breath, but if a post-trump era is less toxic and the parties can sit down together, it could do marvels for our economy.
> As a general rule, the only job of interviewer is to decide whether you are fit for the role.

These days half the job is convincing the candidate to accept an offer if it comes through.
I've avoided jobs that are Mac only. Life is too short.
I’d love to see mobile pc gaming get resource usage under control. It seems these days everyone is perfectly fine with gaming requiring 500w and 32gb of ram. Playing the switch is a real eye opening experience because you see how little having the latest graphics actually matter for enjoying the game. VR being the exception.
> the water crisis in Flint, Michigan;

This was government not putting the effort in, not capitalism.

> the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan by the United States and its allies in the early 2000s;

Does the Communist invasion of Eastern Europe and Afghanistan count?

> the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest (and the genocide that continues to go hand in hand with it) by ranchers seeking to increase their bottom line;

They are doing that because people want to eat steak.

> - the refusal to pass a TRIPS waiver for the mRNA COVID vaccine that prevents much of the world from accessing the most effective vaccines in a timely manner (or at all);

Your idea is that without getting paid, people will just provide public health work for free, because they ....
?

> the ongoing exploitation and perpetuation of underpaid or outright slave labor in many parts of the world by countries proped up by western colonial powers intent on delivering luxury items to their citizens at relatively low costs (while still reaping massive profits off those sales);

OK at this point it's clear that your problem is with material consumption , not capitalism.
I think, as a observer, one of the best character traits of American culture is the willingness to topple your leaders. We don't often suffer 16 years of a Prime Minister but did 14 of Thatcher and 12 of Blair. Whereas becoming a Two Term President is still a big deal.

Unfortunately employment market culture of really far more rapidly changing careers than the foundations of the American industrial economy was used to, hasn't gotten updated on the leadership durability model. Which has been grossly extended by special voting rights and the abandonment of embarrassment for misdemeanour leading to resignation which is almost gone as well as the possible reason why metoo etc was so explosive when we realised that some unacceptable behaviour really is unacceptable.

There's more than merely the benefit of the doubt happening here.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268000
Never done this and never researched, but maybe buying some expensive skins and reselling it on websites for real money?
I've said this repeatedly, but what I'd like would be a buy-time option to "enable sideloading" (specifically, to enable the hardware owner to add their own signing certificate to the root keystore, iOS would still enforce full normal trust chaining and such except that Apple wouldn't be the only valid root). Because I think not have sideloading is actively valuable in many cases too and thus should itself remain an option (and probably the default) for purchaser. Leaving the power with Apple has obvious downsides, but it also has upsides in terms of pooling negotiating power of users vs powerful developers and entirely eliminating a large class of possible social engineering attacks. The reason Apple has been able to enforce privacy protections vs Facebook for a current example is that there is no sideloading. Period. Facebook is a powerful enough entity vs its users[products] that if they could demand that users sideload the "Facebook store" and then run root from there they could get a sufficient mass to do so that they could then afford to ignore Apple and do an end run. Can see the same thing play out with stuff like Zoom, Dropbox etc: on iOS all these are applications in the App Store and must abide by all the privacy, disclosure, and so on rules. On the Mac, they demand their own clients which get a lot more powers.

Of course, the MAS is a pile of shit, Apple has utterly fucked up on basic great software business things like "upgrade pricing", and there are lots of examples of fantastic decent small/med size software devs doing their own Mac software same as always. Apple certainly has perverse incentives they have abused, primarily around service integration (can't aim backups at any storage provider for example). Also, it all breaks down when there is an entity MORE powerful than Apple like a major government. Then Apple becomes a single point of failure for censorship and control, and indeed that ties right back into the former. We don't have E2EE encrypted wireless backups for iDevices because of Apple caving to "security" agencies.

But still, it cuts both ways and I really appreciate that less technical (but still very smart!) users, including vulnerable members of my own family and friends, can have a platform in iOS which has much stronger guardrails that they cannot physically be talked into bypassing. I think giving those who ask for hardware, software, or both root cert access that access is enough of a release valve (these are probably all the same people who would jailbreak which is much worse) to help check Apple and bypass the big failing points while still accommodating the hundreds of millions of users whose threat models involve worse from other corporations. And it'd help nudge Apple's incentives in a good direction even for those staying fully within the walled garden by making them balance a bit on keeping them there.
This doesn't happen on Android, so why would it happen on iOS?
For this job, I asked all my interviewers (from my immediate manager to the CEO) what direction the company would be taking in the next few years: what are they focusing on at a high level, and what's the roadmap?

Very informative. A lot of people did not have pat answers, and had to search their souls a little bit. I got different answers from everybody, but the same broad themes, and I interpreted that as meaning everybody was on board for the vision, but that there wasn't much top-down direction on how to get there. To me that was a plus, and it turned out to be the case.

It also gave me an idea of what I'd be hired to work on, and what I'd be working on after that. I recommend this question!
Respectfully, this is kind of a privileged take, both economic and intellectual. For the majority of men who aren’t going to college, they’ve spent a lot longer than a couple of years feeling like they’re not “the favored party” in a situation.
% Why did the person before me leave?

They just lied to me. That was a painful year.
No, you read it right. I mean - clearly I don't know the origin. My Mazda OEM head unit was slow and unstable out of the box, and continued to be so when I installed Mazda AIO Tweaks (with Android Auto.)

Specifically running Android Auto became more unstable in March 2020, without being the head unit updated. In other words, probably the phone (Android Auto) was updated. Possibly in a way that was backwards compatible with OEM Android Auto, but not the AIO Tweaks version.

That's a long of saying, there's probably multiple potential sources of problems and failure; not clearly the hardware/software of the head unit, and not clearly the Android Auto software. But a bad combination of the two.

But it's all guesswork on my end! When I see others having the same issues with OEM Android Auto, it does make it seem more of a clear Android Auto software issue. (And we haven't really ruled out idiosyncrasies of the handsets and USB cables.)
Post Snowden leaks, one could pretty much say the same about any American tech giant.
"SAMMA PÅ SVENSKA" (english: "same in swedish")
From my view, the issue in the case is not how difficult it is to setup Redis for caching (it is indeed just a couple of clicks/commands), but the new issues one has to deal with when resorting to caching things too prematurely, instead of making the app fast enough with minimal effort.
Engineering Productivity Tax
Spotify pretty doesn't have any of kind of music that I want, which is pretty surreal given their marketing. I subsist on YouTube playlists and a Bandcamp account.