skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"eco-friendly and hard-wearing"

These two can run opposed. I had two t-shirts stained, one brand new and one a decade old) and used the same product on both. The brand new completely discolored while the decade old didn't. Both are cotton so I guess the eco-friendly dye is to blame. Not so sustainable when I have to throw it in the trash with only a few uses.
Great work. As someone who works on data products I am starting to come to the opinion that animated charts will become mainstream. If you haven't already check out Hans Rosling's work.
Perhaps, but you will still overwrite it when you exit the editor and let sudo copy the contents back (that being said, there might be a race condition between closing the editor and sudo noticing that the process has terminated). Not sure if this would work, but a possible workaround could be to use /dev/shm (https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...).
>Fashion is unsustainable because the average consumer doesn’t care about the sustainability.

Voting with your wallet is a myth propagated by free-market ideologues. Same as with swappable batteries in phones or right to repair: I don't know of a single consumer who's happy with the status quo, yet the option to buy a phone with a swappable battery is significantly less attractive and available today than it was 5 years ago.
> Extremely unlikely there will ever be a will to do this considering the long term value to be compensated (hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, if not $1MM).

Parent here. You don’t need $1mm to raise a kid. You don’t need anywhere close to that, actually.

Kids aren’t free, obviously, but this internet meme that they’ll bankrupt you is getting out of control.

Honestly, how do you think people making the median US household income are affording kids? Multiple kids, even? I hope it’s obvious that households with two kids earning <$100K per year (a common situation) aren’t spending $1mm on each of them.
It’s especially targeting brands like Primark which are incredibly cheap and poor quality. Clothes costs a few euros and are intended to be worn only a few times.
The arrow of time only goes one way. We can't go back now.
the casual link also includes behavior like following directions over time, not challenging authority structures and participating in team oriented work being monetarily rewarded, while other social behavior like breaking and establishing territory or unique solutions, are suppressed via market signals. Corporations collectively with fewer employees, are the most profitable in the West as they have been in seventy years, so those that can take what they are handed, play by the rules, and not make waves are rewarded (at their level). Never mind the big picture, not for the likes of you.
I feel like, for me at least, being able to say "That was my fault" makes me remember what I did. It makes me document that failure. And makes me tell others to avoid what I did.

I've been training a JR lately and I will always say "Here's all the things I did wrong when I did this, so don't do this things"

If I did it, he could easily do it, and if we can all avoid my mistakes, so much the better.

It WAS my fault quite a few times, and I'm ok with that. And luckily, everyone else around here is too. I'd hate to work somewhere that punishes honest mistakes. (there are limits, of course)
solidity
Right. Let’s assume everyone is ignorant and make decisions for them. The plebes don’t know better. Big brother will help you lead a better life.

The average person is very aware that fast fashion is unsustainable. They just don’t care enough to pay more. They are making a rational choice.
They don't mean that it's technically difficult, they mean that the language on the pricing page has legal consequences, and they need to be precise with their updates to that page.
This chart is insane. I wonder what combination of phenomena this data can be explained by?
It does make sense to not control for that, mind you, since you're trying to compare a broad set of societal factors. You can imagine a society in which people with the same occupation+education receive exactly equal pay, and yet one gender (or race, or whatever else) is widely discouraged from entering certain lucrative occupations or receiving certain levels of education in certain fields, for instance.

For what it's worth, my understanding is that the gender pay gap still exists even if you do control for these things, albeit it becomes smaller.
Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone
The participation rate for women: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002
Whitewashed as in the secret sauce is kept secret to avoid giving away leverage?
The Dream of Clean Energy
True. Most people have no skin in the game.
Uniqlo and Carhartt
Yeah - it's a tradeoff.

They need that information to actually carry out the service you're requesting of them (namely going around to all these shitty data brokers and going through their intentionally arduous processes to request removal).

In order to do that they need to know the info to query against and remove.

I can understand why someone wouldn't want to do that, but of the available options for this kind of thing I thought it was the best one.
Archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220401182358/https://www.busin...
Interesting to see Wenatchee, WA at the top of the list. That is (or was) the epicenter of Bitcoin mining in the United States due to some of the cheapest hydro power in the nation.

Presumably, there was an influx of young male unskilled labor to set up all those mines, and this statistic was the result.

I'd be similarly curious what happened to the local dating scene.
I am a parent, but society wide data indicates people’s preferences/risk assessments/perceived cost-benefit ratios better than individuals’ opinion.
Parents are not dumb but they are paying a high price that in a totally incentive-driven world nobody would pay. We (the public) who set the incentives need to do some soul-searching about the question of why we assign such a high cost to creating our future.
I don't think there's any one reason: its a confluence of societal, economic and cultural shifts and perceptions about higher education. Many men don't feel they need more education. Costs of education are too high and some men prefer to get going to support themselves and their families.
In 2000, I went to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a CS project inspired by sodaplay, but which let the creatures mate and mutate to evolve locomotion over time. Super cool to see it updated to run on the web!
a majority of adults in my cohort have not had children, that I can see.. what "delay" ? its not happening, on a large scale
Illusion of winning WWII or in Russia Great Patriotic War is the main influence behind these inhuman crimes. They believe that because they won Nazis, they can't be the bad guys ever and all they do is morally right.
It's interesting how the world of dysgenics ignores the idea of mass class-correlated die-offs, despite them featuring prominently in both the historical and genealogical record.

COVID was a dress rehearsal. Deaths were heavily skewed toward poorer people, who had to go to work as essential workers despite the danger, or dumber people, who refused to get vaxxed. We'll likely have a famine later this year and into next - rich people will wince at the hit to their pocketbook from higher food prices, poor people will starve and die. If we get nuked, it's going to hit the inner cities, where relatively poorer people concentrate in dense housing, rather than the country estates and vacation homes of the rich. Poor people join the armed forces because it's their best option, rich people go to college and get a draft deferment. If a hostile totalitarian government takes over, the "brightest and most diligent" will bribe the right people to be left alone, the hoi polloi will get shot in the streets if they look at an armed soldier the wrong way.

Genealogical studies have indicated that most Europeans living today are descended from the nobility of the High Middle Ages. What happened to all the peasants? Well, between Black Death, the Hundred Years War, Wars of the Roses, Wars of Religion, and other mass-casualty events, most of them caught fatal diseases from living in crowded and unsanitary city conditions, or they got sent to die in some nobleman's war.
We had a lively discussion about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436836
I don’t think genetic modification is a necessary pre-requisite. Having a market for sperm and eggs where the genetic value is known could be sufficient and this can be done with existing data science. Creating and testing a panel of IVF babies and selecting for certain genes and away from others would be a powerful evolutionary force.
How much is society making them choose versus the biology of pregnancy and delivery versus there being 24 hours in everyone’s day and anyone can only do so many different things well in those 24?
Installed chrome on a new Windows 11 2 weeks ago and had the same pop-ups than the twit.
It was built in React.
For me, there is quite a difference between investing millions or even billions in some trending startup who mainly know how to sell their crap tech idea, and investing a reasonable amount of money in a restaurant that will actually serve food to people.
I really can't imagine anyone finding NR now, except as a dusty relic on a lab office shelf
Junto – a service to help people make friends in lonely metros
LL Bean used to make the "timeless and long lasting" clothes you're looking for, but sadly has gone downhill in recent years. It's still noticeably better quality than J.Crew or Banana Republic, but many things are much thinner than they used to be.

Avoid outlets or "factory" stores (clothes are made specifically for outlets.) Avoid J.Crew, Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, H&M, TJ Maxx, the Gap. Avoid anything that's gone bankrupt, or been acquired (JC Penney.) Avoid pretty much everything on Amazon.

One decent sign of quality is the thickness of the materials. Some manufacturers will actually note the weight (in gsm or grams per m2.) I have the exact t-shirt in 160gsm and 300gsm from the same company and the 300gsm feels way more substantial/high quality/will last longer. It's also the only t-shirt I've ever gotten compliments on. Of course, higher weights are also warmer. Another decent sign is the materials themselves. Avoid anything plastic-based (nylon, polyester, acrylic, microfiber, etc.) Some materials I love and would recommend in some cases (cashmere, silk, merino wool) but are less durable, so avoid those if you're going for uncool and reliable. High quality cotton and wool, depending on how it's woven, can last forever. Leather starts to age, but if you take care of it it can be a good look.

Also, don't have unrealistic expectations. Even the "best overall running shoe of 2022" from RunRepeat (who do serious running shoe reviews, tear them down etc) - is only expected to last 400-500 miles. Things have a finite lifespan.

You can also make a significant difference by how you wash your clothes. Washing gentle on cold (or hand washing) can make some clothes last several times longer, easily.

If you do all those things (buy high quality to start, made from wool/cotton/leather, wash gentle on cold) you can get 10 years out of a piece of clothing if you don't wear it too often. I've gotten a couple hundred wears over 10+ years out of several LL Bean shirts myself.
The wage gap is largely a function of how women are expected to be the primary caregivers of children.

Here's a detailed article that goes into these things: https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16268362/gender-wage-gap-explai...

It makes sense that young women would earn more, but the gender-wage gap appears once you get into middle age as by that point childrearing expectations have destroyed women's careers.
No, "society" should encourage smart women to reproduce. It's as simple as that.
I’m surprised to see that the San Francisco and San Jose metros are so different on this stat (median women’s earnings as percent of median men’s earnings for workers younger than thirty).

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA: 98%

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA: 88%
You mean like Boeing
Here is some nuanced data. It has closed quite a bit

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/the-gende...
It resonates with that crowd to a point. They don’t like it when it functions to protect people they don’t consider part of their tribe. Basically, it only resonates if it protects them, and they’re happy to sacrifice that if it means “the other guy” didn’t get anything. It’s hard to discuss mutual benefit with a group that believes everything is zero-sum.
There is no existing explanation because it is invariant under recessions and other events. The only change that you can see is COVID.
Even if this was the case I doubt it would create a strong enough vacuum to move the lid. I think the threads just slope downwards a little more than other jars and they let gravity do the rest. Maybe the lid is lined with a slippery rubberized material that creates a seal, which would minimize friction allowing the lid to spin with minimal force.

Edit: if someone has one of these jars, tilt it a little and then try lid trick. I bet it won't work.
It’s one of the popular tropes that’s repeated here and people use it as a lazy way of assigning blame for a phenomenon they do not understand whatsoever. Something bad happened? Couldn’t have possibly had a good reason for it, must be those MBA types. When Apple (as an example) turns around and produces groundbreaking chips and fantastic computers at an affordable price nobody gives Mr. MBA (Fuqua) Tim Cook credit for business decisions and leadership that enable this.

I’d recommend avoiding this lazy intellectual path because it’s not only incorrect in this context, it perverts your thinking in other contexts as well.
I would hypothesize that modern education and careers put specific male traits at a disadvantage. Some specific examples: men are diagnosed with ADHD at 3-4 times the rate of women. There is a clear (and hopefully obvious) association with testosterone levels and aggression.

While these traits can be advantageous in some situations, modern education often requires sitting still and focusing for hours.
Men are slowly realizing this and other gaps
Ask HN: Why is this Racket code so fast?
I was completing some of the Project Euler problems in Racket and usually see the Fibonacci sequence take a couple seconds to generate. While showing my wife I tried a number greater than 4,000,000 and it was instant, so I tried again and again and again, up to a 1,000,000 digit number that took 70 seconds. 10^10000 is still around 100ms.

Can anyone explain how this code is so quick? Running it on a Mac M1 Pro (2021).

https://github.com/Mithaecus/cp-project-euler/blob/main/answers/0002.rkt

https://github.com/Mithaecus/cp-project-euler/blob/main/answers/_solution.rkt
They could've had e.g. "Windows Fresh" campaign/symbol for vendors to use if it was an unmodified Windows. But there's likely no incentive. It cuts into OEM profit, and maybe it would reduce support calls?

Ultimately though, most people don't care. And the ones that do simply reinstall Windows on a new PC, because it's quicker that way.
It's about the erosion of computing freedom. How distant is so helpfully nudging you to use a particular, blessed program for your security and convenience, to just mandating it? See Apple, for example, who has successfully normalized the device manufacturer dictating what software is allowed to run on the OS, and it's conveniently the one from its own store, paid for through its own gateway and sometimes whose cloud storage and network functionality is controlled by state agencies. That's something that really matters.
"Being an asshole can have benefits."

Yeah, no shit.
Are you sure? College education is dropping as a predictor of income, especially in the degrees with the highest female:male ratios. Increasing numbers of women graduating with degrees in journalism and poetry would probably not explain an increase in income for women.
Video Game Industry
The repositories shown on the first page of GitHub search are not actual exploits. They all expect to be run through an admin powershell/command line. Under normal conditions (default user and UAC on) you will get a warning before the script is able to gain administrative access. Try to run them again under a normal user and they won't be able to disable/bypass Defender.

It's the same as sudo'ing an unknown script you received in an email. At that point you're begging to be pwned.
Systemic discriminations against men.
I'd guess two of several factors:

- Loss of manufacturing jobs since 1950, primarily held by men

- Women's increasing participation in the labor force

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/03/women-in-the-labor-f...
This is eye opening
Although the article is about getting a PhD later in life, many of the comments here have been about the merits of getting a PhD (or a Masters then a PhD) right after finishing undergraduate school.

The usual points against are the very low probability of having a successful academic career due to the difficulty of getting a tenured position and the very low chance of actually making a major research contribution to your field, and when you then give up an an academic career and get a job in programming or finance the opportunity cost of the say 6 years you spent not doing that job.

It is true that the longer you delay starting that programming or finance career, the farther the gap in income and wealth between you and your fellow undergraduates who went straight into programming or finance.

It's like a rocket race in a Newtonian universe. If we have identical rockets capable of constant 1/10 g acceleration and have lifelong race but you get a 6 year head start, the farther we get into the race the bigger the distance between us.

In that rocket race after 5 years you'd be 0.4 parsec farther along than me, and you'd be moving away at 0.52 c.

After 10 years, you'd be 1.3 parsecs ahead of me, and going 0.64 c faster than me.

After 15, the gap is 2.3 parsecs, and you are going 0.65 c faster than me.

At 30 years, you are 5.1 parsecs ahead of me, and going 0.68 c faster than me.

At 50 years, you are 8.9 parsecs ahead of me, and going 0.72 c faster than me.

But in terms of time at 10 years you are 6 years ahead of me. And at year 50 you are still 6 years ahead of me. Anyplace you reach I reach 6 years later.

Both of us are going to make so much money that unless we have unusually expensive tastes and hobbies we are both going to be quite well off when we retire even if we retire at the same age, able to continue to live our preferred lifestyles. That 6 year head start of yours largely just means you'll leave a bigger estate when you die.

I think this takes a lot of the force out of the opportunity cost argument.

On the pro-PhD side on the other hand, at least for STEM PhDs, is that it is ~6 years where are getting paid to learn and research something of great interest to you. And if you turn out to be one of the rare people who actually can have a successful academic career this is the only way you are going to find that out.

And don't forget the regret cost in not doing it. I didn't seriously consider graduate school because I was sure I would end up programming anyway. But I didn't lose my interest in math and physics. Many a PBS Space Time episode makes me wish I had a much deeper understanding of physics than I do now. It is possible to learn much of that on your own, but it is a lot harder and slower than it would have been had if I had went to grad school for it.
It's only surprising because people just repeat pay gap statistics and don't learn about them (I believe there are non good faith actors promoting this).

Pay gap for men and women only starts mid career. But this isn't the 80c on the dollar pay gap (that's median male earnings vs female). It's usually in the 90c range (iirc 93c is the median and even Uber found a pay gap in this range). There's also the glass ceiling. But neither of these things have a smoking gun to them. They are hard to solve and going to require a lot of us to start talking about them. So I'm not sure why we only discuss median gender earnings, which isn't a great way to discuss fairness. It's especially bad when we discuss median gender wages as if they are controlling for variables (like the 90c+ gap does, which you see in part of this data). But don't let the bad discussion of median earnings prevent a discussion over the actual phenomena that exist.

Edit: there's a lot I didn't say here, I'm glad others are adding more. But let's also try to be nuanced because it is a complicated topic. I also wanted to plug a podcast "The Pay Check" which goes in depth into these issues, including attempts to solve them. It's from the perspective of economics (by Bloomberg) and discusses all the common misconceptions like child rearing.
No, Nazis did not kill more people. Actually they killed considerably less because they had less time to do it. Winning WWII allowed to start actual repressions against occupied nations.
Do you know which website you are using?
I moved my personal blog to mataroa, and then wrote a love letter to the service on how much it gets right — https://pratul.net/blog/mataroa-just-works-for-me/
Yes.

I don't consider causal intention to be part of the definition of emergence. Whether through spontaneous evolution or engineering, I think any complex system likely has emergent properties or phenomena. To me, emergence is broad and includes everything from the cascading order of an avalanche to flocking behavior of birds or the standing waves in the morning rush hour; the chill under a clear night sky to cooling effects of perspiration or the heat pump in my refrigerator.

My take on emergence is that it is deeply mired in observation. A complex system does complex behavior. An observer recognizes patterns of behavior and forms an abstraction of identity to distinguish a certain pattern as a characteristic of the system. In some observer-less sense, the complex behaviors are certainly there. But, the semantic boundaries of what is a behavior, what identifies it as a persistent thing that can have emerged or not depending on the current state of the system... those are illusory concepts declared by the observer.
Sounds like this is unique to you and your system? I've been using Firefox for casual browsing for years and I experience none of these issues. As in I don't even know what you're referring to honestly because I've never seen such things in all these years of having it. Chrome is set as my default browser btw.

The only "pop-up" - if you can call it that - I ever get is the one telling me a new version of FF is available for download.
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The self-imposed rules by universities with IRBs etc. often aren't backed by laws.
whataboutism at its worst
I applied to a company for two positions and they came back to me saying that I'm suitable for both but if I want to interview for both of them there will be 10 interviews and 2 take home tasks.

The current interview paradigm makes it difficult for engineers to interview at many companies at the same time and get the best offer.

Some companies send you upfront a 2-3h coding test without even talking to you to see if there is a fit.

Interviewing can mean a lot of wasted time and frustration due to lack of feedback and transparency.

I was thinking to create a site to allow rating of interview experiences to prepare people for what's ahead and allow them to assess if their time is well spent. If this sounds something of interest, pm me.
yes, them in the first place, they are financing this horrible war