skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Bechdel Test is incredibly misleading and distracts from the actual problem IMO, which is simple underrepresentation of women in movies

The first question of the Bechdel Test addresses that directly: Are there at least two female characters (not extras)?
You'd really want to replace the gas heating with heat pump systems rather than resistive heating elements. Resistive heating is ~100% efficient at converting electricity into heat, but a heat pump can do a trick to get above 100% efficiency by not actually trying to convert electricity directly into heat, but instead to move heat around so it stays on one side of a loop.

Heat pumps are efficient down to 25f (-4c) [https://www.moncriefair.com/blog/at-what-temperature-does-a-...], so many parts of Europe would be just fine with heat pumps, though it wouldn't be the most practical in the coldest parts.
It’s a phenomenon in medical school. Some people just can’t get through the exams. You can’t just read the textbooks, it isn’t that easy. And anyway, the volume of facts is enormous..

It happens because people aren’t coached or mentored at all, and are too ashamed to ask for help. With proper guidance and encouragement, and hard work, anyone can pass.

Poor patient outcomes aren’t strongly linked to poor learning of exam material. It is true that the sort of person who doesn’t take care to do well on exams also may not take care of patients. This isn’t because they don’t learn the material, it is because they aren’t the sort of person who can commit to being good at medicine (for which there may be valid reasons).
Invading China will likely never be a good idea. I'm for peaceful coexistence of nations unless there's a renegade actor like Putin. I think peace comes from democratic systems. Even the USSR was intended to be democratic. There's almost nothing to stop Putin.

This nuclear hostage holding he's doing has generated a lot of ire. It just can't be tolerated and I don't think it will.
Tell Me How Ukraine Ends
Account deletion is available on HN Gold over ipv6 only.
Nothing in Dan Luu’s writing is ever ambiguous. Quite the opposite.

He just writes in the same voice for both researched facts/studies and personal anecdotes. But it’s always very clear which is which, and an informed reader should (IMO) not have a problem differentiating.

The commenter you’re replying to is objecting to unnecessary couching and cloaking of opinion/anecdote. And I think there’s very, very little of that in Dan Luu’s writing — and it comes off as a “matter-of-fact tone.”
You're vastly underestimating the amount of heat energy produced by this gas. Last I checked, even the most efficient (heat pump) method of producing an equivalent amount of heat just for Germany would require 7x more electrical production than all of Germany's entire grid right now.
I think that's kind of the point. Dan Luu can change his priorities to do a performative display of what interviewers expect and then Dan Luu can pass a job interview. In which case you are not hiring Dan Luu, but a different guy who has most likely internalised a different world-view and set of values. Even if you assume he can compartmentalize his interview performance skills, he will have at least devoted time to that, instead of to something "more useful".

I don't think Dan Luu is struggling for work.

So the question is do you want to hire someone like Dan Luu or not? If the answer is yes, then you might want to consider how your interview process might interact with such a person. If you are thinking from the perspective of someone doing the hiring (as those articles seem to be), it is nonsensical to simply respond by saying "well, the candidates just need to be more submissive and compliant to whatever our process is."

Perhaps Dan Luu is a unique snowflake and/or nobody needs to hire someone like that. Or it could be that there are quite a large number of developers with attitudes and experience that lead to similarly unproductive or inefficient interactions with tech interview processes because those processes may be fixating on having the candidate do a specific performance rather than trying to understand what individuals can offer and whether that would be useful when added to the existing team. It could be that such developers would be as good or better fit, in a lot of cases, than people who can do oscar-winning interview performances.
You kinda know what is going to happen when signing to do a scene for Facial Abuse dot com (repulsive human toilet people) or kink com (someone eventually sticks a cordless drill dildo in you while simultaneously pouring liquid vax, while you are hanging from ceiling by the leg).
Wow what? If I'm building a system with tight uptime requirements, I make sure I build things that stay up. Product is the front line for pages with whoever is on the on-call rotation. If a mission critical system I built fails in the middle of the night, I expect to be paged and to hop on and fix it.

I'm very well compensated for that, and have historically been more than happy to fire the contract "support" teams in India or wherever that are trained to follow runbooks to manually fix problems that should self-heal if systems were engineered correctly.

On-call is just a way for me, an overpaid engineer who cares about craftsmanship, to ensure that problems serious enough to warrant a page (infrequent) are dealt with swiftly, and followed up on with an in depth post mortem to ensure they don't happen again.

To be clear I consider getting paged more than two or three times a year unacceptable. Any compamy with on-call should track life interruptions as a KPI and actively work to drive their frequency to zero.
Hammering Nails with an EMP Pulse Gun
I have to wonder if US nuclear aircraft carriers could help supplying power to Europe.
They are in the business of building a web browser, and Firefox is a good web browser (I would say an excellent web browser). Their direction and trajectory is concerning, but they have clearly not sunk below an ‘acceptable bar’.
I never saw any cheating. But it wasn’t a very competitive environment when I think about it.
I am not sure it is a matter of being "prepared" to suffer rather than a defeatist cultural attitude about the ability to effect change. It's not hard to understand where that attitude comes from: for the past century, any hint of dissention was rapidly repaid with a one way ticket to a gulag in one form or another. This isn't to say that e.g. there isn't genuine support for the regime; there certainly is, but there's also low inclination toward the kind of activism that changes hearts and minds, and consequently state propaganda has an outsize influence on political opinions.

Meanwhile in the West, we are of the belief that if we complain loudly enough about things, they will get better. That attitude is correct a surprisingly large amount of the time!

So next time you want to complain about people complaining about stuff that complaining about won't fix, remember it's (usually) a good thing that we're culturally wired to be difficult to please.
These companies are nothing like the typical modern tech startup most of us are familiar with.

This is a legacy hell hole where if there even is engineering, it’s reduced to the bare minimum, outsourced to the lowest bidder (= idiots) and they are proud of it. There is absolutely no reason for skilled talent to join them, which also means no skilled talent to train new joiners, so the mediocrity is perpetuated forever.

This is the same reason why modern fintech startups managed to build competitive current account products in a few years and the legacy banks still can’t catch up. It’s not a money or resources problem, it’s a mindset and culture problem that needs to be resolved from the top.
I tried this, but as soon as I remove all other search providers, Firefox automatically adds Google to the list. All searches then use Google.
eSIMs are super easy - I was able to get a T-mobile eSIM online.
It has been baffling to me since long before the Russian invasion that Europe would allow itself to be at the mercy of a single man like this. I just don’t understand how this could have been allowed to happen. Now Europe finds itself a party to genocide.
If you delete the height: 800 line from the YAML you'll get the full length of the page.

I decided to set a height of 800 by default to avoid people accidentally saving 10MB+ images just because they were trying out the tool.
It’s scary that this is quite a possibility at this point.
> re-framing traditional feminine virtues (those things that most women are good at and enjoy, and which make families stronger and society flourish) as worth less than traditional masculine virtues is offensive to a lot of people, and is itself an appeal to an extremist ideology

Which people? And so what if they are offended? These women should change what they do because you don't like it? Again, who are you (or I) or these putative offended people to tell these women what to do?

> traditional feminine virtues

Which don't exist, except in the minds of the people who want to control what other people do.

> worth less than traditional masculine virtues

Who compared anything between whatever you think masculine and feminine are?

> an appeal to an extremist ideology

So women working, getting educations, living independently of men, living their lives they way they please - that is extremist?
The bit about being unable assess expertise reminds me of Dunning-Kruger, and also The Prince:

> A prince who is not wise can never get good counsel, unless he puts himself completely in the hands of a wise man; but such a man will soon take over his state.

What do you do? Become expert at everything? Form a coalition of experts, who share their assessments? Or... somehow... acquire the ability to assess "expertise" in general, regardless of specific field?
Telegram App of Choice in the War in Ukraine Despite Experts' Privacy-Concerns
as a home assistant user (home assistant core user) I am fairly tired of baby sitting it. Is openHab any better?

The comments indicate it is a much older java project, so perhaps it doesn't do anything better?

The rate at which home assistant moves is probably its biggest strength and also its biggest weakness. Every time I upgrade something breaks and requires debugging. It's one of those things I wish I could setup and never touch again, but alas, I like to tinker...
I don't think it's assuming much, except that the first human civilizations were around 4000 BCE, which is consistent with the archeological record. This means for tens of thousands of years, humans lived in a pre-civilization environment.

What made them start civilization?
OP: Also See:

How to Archive 'Telegram Content' to Document Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

<https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2022/03/08/how-...>

Telegram - Harm Reduction for Users in Russia and Ukraine - (EFF Updated)

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reductio...>

And HN comments - <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650110>

Telegram - Release March-11-2022 - Blog <https://telegram.org/blog>
People won’t like it this way for very long once the gas prices are up 30%. At which point California and the Federal government will have to step in and rectify this situation. The easiest solution would be to mandate worker pickups and to massively increase the bus network and frequency. The Bay area certainly has the density to justify massive bus subsidies if it means saving fuel during an energy crisis.
Wow, LastPass on Win10 Firefox cuts my performance in half there.
> it has become clear that the foundational ideas in CS carry explicit values: ones of automation, replacement, standardization, centralization, and amplification. These values have positioned it as a discipline of power, and due to the ignorance with which it is often applied, often one of oppression.

No it doesn't. See the multiple different ways to architect a CPU, Write an OS. The web and peer to peer technology. There is a diversity of thoughts and approaches in CS that’s quite unique to the field.

Now, CS approached with the conclusion that it is biased and somehow racist will, of course, prove itself to be so. Alas, there’s a reason nobody takes humanities seriously anymore.
haha i actually saw that video, very fascinating
Yes. Someone is selling and someone is buying. There’s a price where the market clears such that supply equals demand. You can’t change that price by taking people’s stuff. If you increase supply the price will drop. If you increase demand the price will rise.
Wouldn't even put a dent in it. Or are you joking?
> change the stories to put feminine values on par with masculine values

That's important too - and male characters should have those values - but no reason we can't do both.

Stop trying to put women in whatever box you like. They can have whatever values/virtues/etc that they please. Women serve regularly in militaries around the world, for example, and have for awhile. What do say to women who are fighter pilots?
I'm feeling like this was posted more as a fun read than a revelation about how awesome music can be made on a gameboy. Also it seems to be from forever ago so there's that. But regardless here are some of my favorite gameboy solo examples.

NanoLoop (GameBoy DMG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn1qlTDvRoY

Rhythm Core Alpha 2 (3DS, not 8bit but related maybe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRNK6O_MvKU&t=7m7s
> Like the rest of the world, China is evaluating its exposure to Russia in the aftermath of global condemnation of the Ukrainian invasion. They’re approaching the newly-sanctioned Russia with a degree of conservatism. As of today, it is not eager to deepen commercial linkages to Russian crude.

This assessment may be out-of-date considering that as of today its been revealed that China has already firmly committed to providing material and logistical support to Russia in Ukraine. Not only does it reinforce China's apparent resolve and risk appetite, it's the second time in a week the Western alliance has been caught flat-footed (the first was the MiG-29 transfer debacle), necessitating a significant compensating move to restore pressure.

Stars keep aligning in all the wrong ways. Arguably the world's major powers haven't been so squarely aligned in opposition to each other since the Korean War. It seems we now have Europe, the Anglosphere, and Japan against Russia and China.
There’s no one in the wings, at least as far as we can see.

The reason? The russia’s oldest tradition where power is taken, not given.

If, and it’s a huge if, there’s a change then I gotta think it’s going to be for the better, at least initially.
A quick look at their history tells the story of a rugged people having done what it takes many, many times.
Yep. And you can extend that to all security compliance, not just GDPR. The biggest driver for compliance is being able to give solid answers on VSA questionnaires, not actually being secure. Certainly not fear of getting fined or failing an audit. The number of companies who get caught is so small, and the amount they get dinged for is so minuscule that it's not even a concern for them once they figure out how it works.
No, GM are incapable of doing it. For a whole bunch of reasons:

- ICE factories can't just be switched to be EV factories, so having an existing ICE factory is a burden not a benefit.

- They don't have capacity to build batteries

- Even if they did, they don't have the raw materials

- Even if they did, they don't have the raw materials processing capacity

- Even if they did start securing the capacity now i.e. Building Lithium mines, battery factories, EV car factories etc. By the time they come online... GM will have run out of money, because no one will be buying their cars anymore, but they'll still be paying for ICE factories/workforce/etc.

Xpeng and Neo are kind of Tesla clones, but they have home ground advantage in that they are Chinese based which is where the majority of the EV market is right now, it's also where all the battery supply is. You haven't heard of them, because they haven't entered the US market yet.
I don’t see why this is a problem. Sass users already name their files .scss. Why would there be overlap with .css files?
I find these stickers helpful for a ton of little lights in the bedroom

LIGHT DIMS Black Out Edition - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009WSN8PK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
the 6p was a great phone though and at the time the ease of use with international travel was a real treat
> We are in an arms race now. Turnitin. Proctoring. Next? Airport style security scanners at the exam hall. I wrote about this arms race recently [1] and where it will lead.

This is completely self-inflicted. When the map becomes the territory and exams are lazily written to reward rote, you are no longer testing for reasoning and understanding.

See Caltech as the exact counterpoint with its culture of take home exams and honesty.
It has that, in the hamburger menu. (Also, an alternate route button!)
I have none of those problems on my M1 MacBook Air using Safari. I know no clue what extensions you're using or voxel based games you're running in browser but safari opens, closes, resizes, and runs websites in a far nicer way and cleaner way. I've never seen a search box stutter.

Chrome basically owns the web outside of Mac though, so perhaps you're using some services that favor it. Or the search bar that sitters is Google's and it's been known to have some Oopsies[1]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
It sounds like the problem is more or less summarized as "No one knows how to evaluate work, so loud people get promoted."

Not biasing towards loud people is difficult, but at least at Google, the process is pretty harshly designed to avoid it. The criteria for promotion is clear. The people deciding on it are considering many different promotions at once, so they have a decent sample to look at. The people with incentive to promote don't get to make the decision or they play only a small role in it. There is a strong demand to see evidence that the person's work fits the job ladder description that they are trying to promote to, etc.

It's a lot of overhead and everyone hates it, but it seems to be pretty robust at avoiding arbitrary promotion.
Relevant: "German Hard-Coal Production to Cease by 2018" (2007) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...

I like the monument they built over the final active Saarland coal mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Polygon

This is a very interesting topic to me in a historical sense, because German chemists invented the first processes for turning coal into synthetic liquid/gaseous fuels, and the Nazi war effort ran on synthetic coal-derived fuels:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

- "Coal liquefaction was an important part of Adolf Hitler's four-year plan of 1936, and became an integral part of German industry during World War II." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_liquefaction#Historical_b...

France considered it a big enough deal that they occupied the coal-rich western area of Germany after both world wars:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_the_Saar_Basin

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Saar_status_referendum

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate

Even USA thought this technology was interesting enough to import the relevant Nazi scientists as part of Operation Paperclip, experimenting with it until the program was shut down in 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Liquid_Fuels_Program
I was under that impression as well. But I believe in a form of Efficient Analyst Hypothesis where, if this LNG terminal capacity were in any way significant, it would have surely been mentioned in industry circles and press. ;-)
I skimmed this paper and it seems to be exceptionally bad. The proof sketch offered is that a winning strategy can be verified quickly, but finding a winning strategy requires searching over 3^n possible strategies.

But this assumes that brute force is the only possible way to find a winning strategy, and thus proves far too much. A similar argument would prove that sorting is NP hard, if you start by the assumption that the only way to sort data is by trying every possible permutation.

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure any time you claim to have a proof that a problem is NP complete, but your proof doesn't include a reduction, you're doing it wrong.

(The paper does offer what it calls a reduction to 3-sat
, but it's completely hand-wavy, and I can't even understand the intuition behind it at all.)
Based on the downvotes, I'll take it as a yes!
The U.S. Subsidy That Empowers Putin
Any plans to add a WYSIWYG editor for building sites? I'm the friend who can run network stuff, but a github repo and markdown is beyond the people I'd run it for.
Because it prevents whole classes of support issues - if you can't install it, you can't raise a ticket complaining that something doesn't work under 7 and then waste support time... even if you say "if you're running windows 7 you're on your own" people will still try it on, or ask for one little tweak to make things work... all effort that could be better spent on forward progress or real support issues. It is far easier to prevent people from being able to have issues in the first place.

Also, I agree that 7 was a fine OS, but it is more than two years in the grave... you cannot expect continued support for it. It is sad, but a statement of fact.
You're looking for nixpkgs. Years ago I switched to it in anger for builds breaking, and I've had a much healthier relationship with computers since then.
The marketplace of rationalizations
You can buy some self-adhesive light attenuating film. They sell it in pre-cut shapes, in black (several strengths), white and silver. The name brand that started it all was, "LightDims".

I put them on... most things. Network gear LEDs. Power LEDs. All manner of things.
They could, but not in enough to help the continent as a whole. A nuke carrier could power a small city, but there are only 11 of them, and most of them are kinda tied up right now…

Also, powering 11 small port cities wouldn’t make a dent in the overall energy needs for an entire continent.
Keep in mind that Apple’s modern SIM lock implementation is built into the OS and has nothing to do with the modem being locked, so all assumptions about modem locks no longer apply.

Apple’s SIM lock “feature” checks in with Apple over the internet (including over the disallowed SIM, since the modem itself is always unlocked) and refuses to let you proceed if the current SIM doesn’t match the policy returned by the backend.

Obviously the policy can be changed at any time. This is also how this “flex carrier lock” is implemented.
Huh? There are tons of organizations (charities) for whom it is the business model.
What? My understanding is that there isn't a native GUI toolkit written in rust for any platform at all. At least, not one that isn't a toy project.
Did you get a chance to read the article staring on page 38? It talks about the evils of idle reading.
Unless you own the service in isolation, chances are something will break at some point beyond your control. If you own the service in isolation, then you may be on-call 24/7 indefinitely.

I build high scale systems for a living, but I also hike, ski, and have a family. I can't guarantee 20 minute response times 24/7 365 days per year. I generally won't join a team with an on-call more frequent than once per 6 weeks.

Anecdotally, companies fall into a trap where individual engineer's own services that they must be paged for. These engineers don't get the time to make the service reliable, and they also don't want to admit that the service is a tire fire. This works for the company as long as they can continuously pull in new engineers to feed the on-call fire.