skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn’t matter, they’re domestic cats and you already explained a circumstance where they could expose visitors and owners

> The ratio of cat owners with outdoor cats is irrelevant.

It's extremely relevant when talking about a large enough scale of infection to support the attractiveness causation hypothesis posed by GP.

> I have seen these cats for multiple years so unless they have an outdoor cat house (something I have never seen in my life)

Outdoor cats generally stay underneath the house / porches, cars, etc. during cold or especially hot weather.

> That’s enough to sink your assertions.

I'm disputing the above proposed hypothesis on the grounds I don't think it's common enough occurrence and we're lacking information.
I'm not sure how a recent trend this is. My father dropped the hiring process at IBM (France) after 3 or 4 interviews in the early 80 because he was told there would was three interviews left. Maybe it's just big company whose management really want to feel secure about their hire (or justify their job, who knows).
Gender equality.

In most cases it takes a man and a woman to conceive a fetus. But if the fetus is finally born into a baby, the consequence of that is rarely divided evenly between the man and the woman. In extreme but not really uncommon cases, the division can be 100%-0%: that the man bears no consequences at all and the woman bears all the consequences. Abortion makes the consequence close to 0, so that it's more even between 100% and 0%.
Not just spacing. The sequence also matters as they serve as binding sites for enzymes that can promote or repress the expression of downstream genes. As just one (relative simple) example of how complicated genetic circuitry can be, I really enjoyed & recommend Mark Ptashne's A Genetic Switch: Phage Lambda for anyone who doesn't mind doing some slightly technical reading.

Disclaimer: not a biologist, and would be interested in hearing from someone more knowledgeble than I, both about the Ptashne book and about recommended reading.
All great points - you obviously condense this into a single day, right?
The "true cost" of food is made even more complex in countries like the U.S. where 66% of people are obese or overweight. The cost of obesity is tremendous, affecting everything from health care costs, to clothing costs (for every extra inch you are around the waist, you need several square feet of fabric), to transportation fuel costs (it costs more to move obese people around). So perhaps charging much more for food over 2,000 kCal/day per person makes a lot of sense. There are externalities that we all end up paying for.
> Humans cannot transmit T. Gondii to other humans, unless pregnancies

(phew.. I'm male)

> organ transplants

(none needed yet)

> or cannibalism are involved.

(oh, NO!!!!!)
There are a number of mechanisms by which differential results can be arrived to by mechanisms that can reasonably be described as non-discriminatory. The easier to describe one is a winner take all election system (like most U.S. elections.) If an identity group minority has a strong and cohesive set of preferences that are in opposition to the majority, then the results of fair elections can look discriminatory and non representative. If 65% of group A that represent 80% of the population prefer option X and 90% of group B that represents 20% of the population prefer option Y, then a huge portion of group B is going to be disappointed that they don’t win free and fair elections. What’s more, if candidates are randomly selected from the pool of people that support X or Y, the victors will come from group A close to 96% of the time, despite group A only representing 80% of the population.

All that’s to say that if shareholders (who theoretically appoint and are represented by the board) as a group have legitimate and real preference differences from the average person from the these other minority groups, you can get easily get boards that are unrepresentative of the minority groups.

Now, as to why those shareholders might have preferences that differ from those minority groups so much, you can start making class based or structural inequality/racism arguments. But I’ve written enough :)
Exactly: Most studies that I've been referred to are shiny McKinsey pages that boil down to big companies having more diverse boards on average.

Besides what you said, that's not a surprising correlation because it's easy for Multinational MegaCorp Inc. to have a multi-ethnic board after a few international mergers.

And then there are very opinionated shareholders like Vanguard and BlackRock, which receive voting rights for every Euro that I save for old age, who can make this outcome a self-fulfilling prophecy by punishing companies for lack of diversity.

I don't think it's possible to control for all of this.
Elden Ring has far less variety than breath of the wild. Unless you count killing things in different locations variety. https://youtu.be/9EvbqxBUG_c This video gives a fraction of some of the interesting world interactions and enemy ai that I found more enjoyable as a game. You can interact with chests, doors, and levers and talk to people. I think that's it outside combat.
Why would everybody be anti-abortion? Why are some people rooting for war, while others denounce military acts? Why does my grandma love eating fish heads but I think it's odd?

I think it's normal that different people think differently. I think this is a very flame-inviting question as it stands.
Sounds like you are using definition of grief much different the rest of the world. The person I responded to did not defined it as infinitely long lasting either.
It's bizarre to me that lawmakers can get away with corruption that blatant.
Isn’t it as easy as self-identifying as gay?
I’m hovering over on my phone but it’s not doing anything!
Quite.

On average, the acceptable "separated from placebo" margin doesn't have to be that high, but the range of effect is absolutely enormous, even within close relatives.

Antidepressants that did nothing positive or negative for me or some family members were either extremely helpful or extremely harmful to other family members of mine. (Almost never vice-versa; my biochemistry appears to be quite stubborn about responding to a great many classes of treatment, well _or_ poorly, but at least one medication just made me feel completely numb while being extremely helpful to another relative.)

It can also be a weird multidimensional variable in ways many people don't expect - one medication I'm currently taking for depression is 4 pills twice a day (very short half-life), because I was gradually tapering it up. We tried switching to the same manufacturer's single pill that was 4x the dose, twice a day, and immediately I started feeling extremely nauseous whenever in a moving vehicle, which has never happened before. Switch back, problem goes away.

(I know the above sort of outcome is not exclusive to mental health medications, but in my personal experience, I've never had any other medication type vary in outcome based on whether they gave me one or multiple pills adding to the same dosage.)
Very cool project. I'm really intrigued by this idea of having websites reflecting geographic location, and even local weather conditions (with some lag). What's the peak and average power (energy/second) you get from your solar panel, and what's the power consumption of your server? Also what's the physical size of your solar panels?

My guess is that the server might use around the same power as a laptop (~50 W). Assuming a square meter patch of earth gets around 100 W (dependent on latitude/time of day), and assuming something like a 10% efficiency that works out to around 80 W (on average during sunlight hours)? So you're maybe getting 8 hours of server power per day from 10 hours of sunlight? Is that a reasonable ballpark estimate?
I've done it and feel ok about it. Others here have done it and done a good job. But yeah, there are different levels you can work at, you always have to be careful, and you have to know some theory in order to be able to even think clearly about the topic. I found Bellare and Rogaway's old lecture notes[0] demystified the subject for me a lot. There are some actual textbooks now that are more up to date and complete, though I don't happen to know of titles offhand.

For ECC with NIST curves, Menezes, Vanstone, et al have a book that gives very explicit step by step implementation instructions.

[0] https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/227/spring05/boo...
You can also pick it up at your local Walgreens (https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-wal-tussin-cough...) or CVS (https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-tussin-cough-liquid-gels...) if you prefer. Maybe your area has some regulations restricting access, but it's not a nationwide thing. It's just sitting on the shelf next to all the other cough medicines in mine.
You can't just throw up a data table and go "ok I refuted it!" That's not an argument, it's just some contextless numbers. It is legitimately not clear to me in any way what you're trying to say or what it has to do with the thing you're replying to.
> And applying the scientific method suggests, nothing lasts forever.

That is not scientific claim. That is not understanding the human communication and context.
At this point it's not safe to assume anything. Maybe there are lots of them think it's a good thing to kill babies. Who knows?
In the case of the airplane, it’s essential.
What if the Paraguayan and Chinese cannot (hypothetically) effectively work together because of cultural differences?
Agree - I don’t understand what the flag is for?
Also the fact that hiring almost ends up looking to the most senior engineers for up and down which means you've just wasted multiple hours having less senior people interview them.

Rarely have I ever seen a candidate be rejected by seniors or leads and still get the job even when the decision had to be argued until it was unanimous. Pretty much if a senior goes thumbs down, the decision has been made and the meeting is over.

Leads and CTOs especially have to be mindful of either not being part of the decision or being the last vote, as to not taint the results... which again, means that the most senior vote will flip a "yes" to a flat "no"
One reason I like ECC (Curve25519 in particular) is speed and size of generated keys and signatures. It is a lot easier to compose crypto with business logic when you can basically assume instantaneous key gen (RSA takes a non-deterministic amount of ~seconds) as well as 32-byte signatures that are practical even for short messages (as opposed to 256-512 bytes).
The board of directors of a company does not exist to shower love among the members. It's there to provide oversight and steerage to a corporation. The members could all hate each other and (at least theoretically) still perform that role with skill and committment.
I did notice this first hand when trying trying to play an older game under Linux natively (Enemy Territory: Quake Wars). The Linux binaries refused to function (IIRC due to incompatible user space ABIs), but the Windows binaries worked perfectly using Wine.
After AB979 there was a strong move towards preferring only persons matching multiple of the AB979 criteria for 'outsider' seats on boards so as to not have to lose even more seats to people without the greatest relevant experience, much to the detriment of women who didn't match the bills sexuality or racial minority criteria. It's good to see this patently unlawful discriminatory policy struck down.
Wasn't templating something languages had in 80s?
Another way to express what you're saying is: only the rich should drive.

IMHO, we should things the way they are, and spread the true costs of driving across all of society. The rich should pay higher taxes so that they pay more than the true cost of their car usage, to subsidize the driving of the less well off.
Not to get into the social or mental aspects, but biologically there is some very non standard stuff that can happen. Chimera for example can be a mix between male and female cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)#Humans

That isn’t to say non standard biology is always involved, just that it can be.
UK ministers quietly approve Chinese microchip factory takeover
The British government has reportedly approved the sale of the United Kingdom’s largest microchip factory to a firm owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), despite concerns over national security.

Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) in Wales, which was forced last year to sell its factory to after failing to pay its debts, will apparently be allowed by the government to be sold to the Chinese-owned firm Nexperia.
> and I'm saying this as an LGBT person

I' m left-handed but I would never think of identifying myself as being part of some diffuse group of people 'united' by handedness. In the same vein I do not see why gays, lesbians and bisexuals are to be seen as part of a single group given that as far as I gather there is often not that much love [no pun intended] between the former two - it is not as if gays and lesbians have much in common.

Do you truly identify as 'an LGBT person' - implying that those who claim to be spokespeople for 'this group' also speak for you - or do you just see yourself as a gay, lesbian or bisexual man or woman? Or, to put it even more bluntly, would you not rather see yourself as a person who happens to be gay or lesbian or bisexual, just like I see myself as a person who happens to be left-handed? I may sometimes grumble about some object which could have easily be made to fit left- and right-handed people alike [1] but I would never join a left-handed political action committee, nor would I trust anyone to 'speak for me' in such a context because I don't want to be used as a pawn in some ideological/political struggle.

[1] If you ever start a cheese packing facility make sure to put a peel corner on the left and right hand side of the package, the latter is far more useable for left-handed people...
>Yea because we live in a place where everyone is super honest and no one is going to try and take advantage of that to make 500k a year.

I would be THRILLED if I was put into some kind of a short probationary period, with limited access (and potentially restricted salary, with retroactive reimbursement) while I showed what I was worth. I personally have a hard time demonstrating that in short interviews, and it's only once I come in contact with the shape of the company's problems do I show my value. Imo it would lower the stress and paranoia on both sides over a candidate's fit.
> The only difference is that you have a copy of the state in functional programming. The “real” state is still all over the place.

Not necessarily. You can have a reference to state, with no need to copy it; and a single structure containing all of the 'real' program state in one place, neatly referenced from a central point; destroying (i.e. liberating) the old values no longer being used. Same as you would do in an imperative garbage-collected program.

Imperative programs have state all over the place because they sweep it under the carpet of the runtime engine instead of fully embracing it and referencing it at all times, but doing this doesn't make state any more 'real'.

> That is why any sane business avoids functional langs except for areas were functional langs shine.

Yeah, probably. The problem is that sane business should also be avoiding imperative programs except for areas where they shine (namely complex world simulations and low-level access to embedded devices and OS modules), and they aren't doing because of industry inertia.

The mutable cell is one of the most advanced, complex and dangerous features of programming languages, and yet we introduce them to students on their very first lessons on their first week, without even a warning, making them think that using them all over the place is just how things should be done. Many junior developers will never learn to properly handle state other than 'don't use global variables'. This is not the proper way to run an engineering industry.

Thankfully, the industry is finally catching up to functional ways of handling state where it makes more sense, specially in networked asynchronous computation (the web and the cloud), where imperative code for asynchronous coordination is a nightmare; it's one of the areas where functional and agent-based state management shines, seeing updates in the form of promises and streams, not as mutable cells that may be changed at any time by anyone with access to them
It's not just the randomness requirement, but also the requirement that k (the "random" nonce) remains secret. Without a sufficiently constant-time implementation, you leak information about k through timing sidechannels - and with clever tricks like lattice reduction you can recover the key with surprisingly little information.
https://archive.is/CVYlp
> There's a legitimate business justification to diversity policies.

Based on personal observations, innate aptitude and interest doesn't seem to be aligned. Eg, one of the more amazing minds I've ever met was contained in a woman who just didn't have the competitive glint in her eye to make herself successful. Sad story in many ways.

But - if that observation is true - then diversity policy quotas will break the correlation. At the moment, about half the aptitude is in women, some percent in various minority groups in rough proportion to their prevalence, etc. Companies better at surfacing talent will naturally be more diverse. Companies that forcibly make themselves more diverse through a quota will ironically probably regress to the mean level of competence and perform worse.
This article suggests about 5k euros in social costs per year for Germany

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...
I think this shows how being "US liberal" is pretty much the same as "anywhere else right."

Like straight out the gate with "I support marginalized people but only the way I think is best for them, disregarding their own experiences and preferences." Then immediate followup with the 2011-era reddit style pseudo-evo-psych about how our current social order is fully justified because of science or whatever.

Hm why do men not want to go into some of these fields could it be the decades of ensuring they have low prestige, low wages, or both? No, it must be evolution.

These may pass for liberal positions in the US but they are moderate-to-hard right compared to things like "medical care is between an individual and their doctors" and "there are still barriers to equality in society and the workplace, and it takes generations for all the effects of social change to be realized so of course we'll be seeing the effects of past exclusions for decades."
> Rust is probably a rock-solid FFI story away from being a serious part of my kit (pybind11 good, not like anything we have now).

Check out PyO3: https://github.com/PyO3/PyO3
Engineers and physicists have long referred to low THz RF as such and not with optical terms.

Also, there are many low THz applications but nature doesn't make it easy to work with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_gap
Sounds like something a white would say. Perhaps you suffer from the "white fragility" cited by the wikipedia article [1]?

[1] https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and in-
sulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protec-
tion builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering
the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility.
White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress be-
comes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include
the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such
as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behav-
iors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.
Or to subsidize the construction of public transit infrastructure - long term, society will be wealthier
Look around. I'd rather be constructive and establish a way forward than joining the chorus of complaint.
Well yeah, mostly.

The worst-case scenario is a bunch of people with different ethnicity, religious affiliation/experience, gender identity, age, etc. etc. ... who all like the same entertainment, food, clothing and vacation options. "Diversity" ... yes. But actual diversity, no.

However, I'm not sure that this actually a real-world problem.
Same here. I just have a mirrored Storage Space for critical data with ReFS and checksums (though Microsoft did not make that one easy to understand so I am unsure if the data is safe that way).

UPD. just searched, and found, that I needed to enable periodic scrubbing in Task Scheduler: Microsoft -> Windows -> Data Integrity Scan section. I already had data integrity streams enabled (another thing you have to do manually after creating the volume).
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I think most people are anti-abortion. People usually celebrate a birth, not celebrate an abortion. "I heard you abort the baby. Congratulations!" still seems weird. No? It's kind of strange to me. But what do I know?
I was told by media Russia’s already putting it to use!

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/05/us-diplomats-havana-syn...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-officials-were-targeted-acr...

Sonic attacks? Radio waves? Either way, gives ‘em a headache.
The median Dropbox user doesn’t know what s3 or is what ‘console’ means.
The universe appears to be fractal-like in nature, so I would speculate these biological symmetries are a reflection of the symmetries we find in the laws of physics, too.

ScienceClic is an extremely underrated YouTube channel producing incredible visualisations for scientific theories. They manage to cover some very advanced concepts, in an easily accessible way.

Their video on "The Symmetries of the Universe" was eye-opening, and somewhat mindblowing in the context of the bigger picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_uHfSoOGA&
> You don't see accountants balancing books before they get hired.

You sure do, and not just by a hiring manager's whim, but by law. Accountants have occupational licensing.

> I think it's time we accept that the person we are talking to is who they say they are on their resume.

This is a straw man, I have never "caught a liar" on an a coding exam. What they are helpful for doing is judging the quality of what it means to be "proficient in [x]".

If there's anything I have learned from giving coding exams to candidates, it's that the ability of a candidate to verbally sell themselves in an interview has a weak correlation to their ability to produce quality work.
I don't think that argument is particularly relevant in the tech industry. It's not that hard to find a "sick" day, even if you don't have unlimited PTO. And especially during COVID, where going missing for a day might go unnoticed for a lot of people.
Yes, if you take negative externalities into account, the GDP is actually negative :)

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