skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not come across this before ("males have ZZ and females have ZW - and females have been measured to have greater variability in birds"). Do you have some references/books you can recommend? I'd like to find out more.
There’s a theory (see slimemoldtimemold.com) that PFAS cause obesity (or, rather, cause increased hunger which in turn causes obesity). This seems like a great way to actually test that hypothesis.
Stories seem so obvious right now but wow, that was some creativity from Evan Spiegel. Snapchat is built on genuine innovativeness.
“Forever chemicals” is kind of a scary marketing term that helps sell ad views.

PFAS materials (teflon, high temperature o-rings, refrigeration fluids, fire-fighting foams, anti-cancer drugs and other medicines, etc.) encompass such a broad range of chemistries (anything with the fluorine atom attached to carbon) that have many many orders of magnitude differences in half-life.

It’s analogous to labeling anything radioactive (bananas) as a “forever chemical” because some radioactive nuclear waste does have >10k year half-lives.

The nice thing about PFAS compared to nuclear though is that even the ‘forever’ versions that have really long half-lives can be easily catalyzed to break down using the right materials/temperature/pressure.

People are looking for catalysis processes to get rid of nuclear waste using atto-second lasers: https://bigthink.com/the-present/laser-nuclear-waste/
(Would be amazing if it works)

Also, fluorine incorporation in water is starting to be reconsidered by some in the medical community (greatest volume of human fluorine consumption by far): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8169995/
>There have been some rumors of ads on the platform to boost revenue. Hell to the no.

oh geez, that would be the death knell for netflix. that was one of the big benefits they had over cable ten years ago when streaming was still new. i cant imagine paying $18 a month and still being forced to watch ads.

on a side note, im extremely pissed at paramount because their "ad-free" plan was updated to force viewers to watch a 30 second spot at the beginning of every show. if star trek strange new worlds doesnt turn out to be a million times better than picard and discovery i just might cancel because im so pissed i have to watch ads on the premium plan.
> you'd let the user set a "sensitivity" level for the writing

But what if the company found out (and some employee leaked) the fact that most people deliberately set the default level to "normal human speak", and its campaign to replace and redefine words doesn't have any democratic legitimacy (let alone add any commercial value)?
> The former is content designed by humans (generally working under the aegis of giant corporations) whose goal is to completely capture and dominate your attention to the exclusion of other things.

So all of modern TV is the same? Is watching cable news infantilizing? I feel like we're watering down to "infantilizing" to mean "things I don't feel good things towards".

> Hunting and fishing require you to be in nature which has been proven in study after study to be profoundly valuable psychologically and emotionally.

Again, this whole paragraph is unrelated to the question, right? Physical activity is related to those things a well, but people would argue that playing a game of hopscotch is childish. As well, my grandfather isn't what I would describe as the picture of mental health.

> You can fail to find a problem and be left with a car that won't run. That's very helpful for training resilience, problem-solving and equanimity.

I mean, you just described computer tinkering and problem solving as well.

> The smell of oil or seaweed. The flash of a bobber. The way you feel the pull of the fish in your arms or the recoil of the rifle in your shoulders.

Again, the topic is infantilizing. You're romanticizing.

> "Wow, that really felt like living!" Now how often do you feel that when you go fishing, or hike, or cook a meal for a friend?

Never? I sincerely hated fishing growing up and have found I'm not much of a hiker.
I think Typescript nowadays has reached critical mass where most packages at least have a @types/* definition. I can't remember the last time I had to use a package that didn't provide types. I had the types be wrong one time though.
Those programs are given to people based on economic situations not race.
The idea of Putin's strategy is bluff - there is no desire to actually get to the Armageddon, but intermediate stages are attractive, as soon as they promise that West will blink and step back. If Putin (a good approximation for decision making in Russia) will decide that West won't answer to a tactical nuke, he'll do it - the situation is rather dire for him.
Anecdotally, the hard engineering fields (e.g., mechanical, civil, etc.) are much more tolerant about age and more receptive to the benefits and tradeoffs of both youth and, erm.., "experience"

(said tongue-in-cheek because age does not necessarily equate to experience)
From what I've gathered the few times I've been to Seattle, it isn't so much racially segregated as predominantly white. A Black friend of mine moved there to work for Amazon and hated Seattle. Eventually he got the ability to relocate to LA and is much happier now.

I was in Austin last weekend and it appeared very diverse; much less segregated than the Bay Area.
America certainly takes racism to extremes, but it's not a problem unique to the US - racism is a thing all over Europe and Asia too, to varying degrees.

I've never been to Russia, but I'm finding it hard to believe racism doesn't exist there.
Future Money: What Is Zcash?
Sure you're talking about economical motivators, which I hope and fight for our Union to adjust to.

Until then tho..a person who steals from a moral high ground is still a thief stealing from my income.
Another point to where the crypto space shines, for compensation.

Most of the experienced people were involved in some major fuckup not long back. Just roll a new ident and build. The market is insatiable. A segment of the market thinks they want to “doxx” every builder, but they don’t matter.
Different cells and cell configurations have different requirements for charging and discharging. You can discharge cells too rapidly damage the cells and potentially cause a fire.
This is why I'll be voting Republican
Yes and no.

The goal here is to increase transparency and optionality around twitter's core feed. There will always be difficult, contentious human problems with a platform like twitter — but instead of writing it off as "laughable", there's a lot that can be done to improve the status quo. And imho that's a very impactful goal worth striving for.
How many 40+ are recent hires versus having been with the company 5-10 years?
They seem to be stuck in the lose subscribers -> increase price -> lose more subscriber cycle.
I don't know about "since 2005" but there are two features in the original CL spec which I find indispensable but which still have not made it into any other languages (AFAIK):

1. Generic functions

2. Being able to redefine a class and have existing instances of that class be automatically updated to conform to the new definition
Framework has said they are going to release new hinges that are sturdier, and they are extremely easy to swap out. The benefit of the Framework is that any kinks can be easily fixed... still kinks are annoying.
Maybe two-party recording laws in California needs to be removed.
All the DEI brochures I have seen show young good looking people with different skin colors. There are no disabled people, no ugly people, no fat people, no old people.
Handling messy git pull-request diffstats
> I believe playing video games for hours is more infantilizing than hunting, fishing, or tinkering on cars.

I prefer video games over most outdoors activities but still largely agree with you.

One minor critique is that I would substitute "infantilizing" for "psychologically beneficial." I also think the gap in inherent value between the two groups of activities could be summarized into the tendency of screen-based activities to produce instant gratification with minimal discernible gain. The latter group activities involve aspects of mindfulness and require a degree of active physical/mental labor over time, therefore you could argue less "outdoor-sy" creative efforts like painting, long-form writing, or sewing could all provide the same benefits.
Everything is bad when indulged to excess. That's the definition of excess.
For those trying to justify piracy (and, yes, I have been and probably will be an occasional pirate myself) would you consider it acceptable to sneak into a theater without buying a ticket if there were empty seats?

Why or why not?
> What you say gets invalidated because you used the wrong password.

Is this a common occurrence for you? It has never happened to me.

I'm skeptical about whether it's actually and issue or mostly a hypothetical issue.
It works best on compiled programs.

We do try to support scripted languages with JITs that can emit info about what symbol is located where [1]. Notably, this more or less works for Node.js. It'll
work somewhat for Python in that you'll see the Python interpreter frames (probably uninteresting), but you will see any ffi calls (e.g., numpy) with proper stacks.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/perf/Doc...
> Either way, people here aren't discriminated based on their race. Never were. This particular problem seems to be uniquely American because of their history.

I suspect you are overlooking some pretty pervasive discrimination against minority groups because you have become accustomed to it, and/or because you aren't personally affected by it. While racism in Russia appears to have been improving over the last decade or so, it is hardly absent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia
Thanks for the reply!

For the folks you worked with in the past that were excellent, were they full time DBAs in terms of their title? Or were they folks that were in other departments (i.e. devops) that also had expertise in good DB design in scaling?

It might also depend on the size of the company the particular need? Evolving a monolith-like DB already in production to a better structured state might be much to ask of an individual.
Netflix should just get live soccer content, massive massive market!
In this case, "diverse" simply means "not a white male."
Latinx is used almost exclusively by English speakers. One doesn't have to actually speak Spanish fluently to identify as Latino or Latinx in the US.
Perhaps it's a very specific answer, but I write in simple English, since many of my readers are not native speakers. I stick to words people are likely to understand.

Our local immigration office recently picked a newer, better name, but since no one uses it, I'm sticking to the old one.

Another one is expat vs immigrant. I favor immigrant, but I can't rename expat insurance to immigrant insurance. The latter does not exist.

I use the gender-neutral "they" across the website, but sometimes "he" would be a lot clearer when replacing a singular noun like "the landlord".

Sometimes the common word is the right word to use. When in doubt, I refer to Google Trends.
But is some random person you worked with 20 years ago reaches out, what are you going to do?

I would send the a link to the careers page, and that's about it. Unless person was a total rock star, you probably can't speak much to their abilities after so much time.
It also benefits those who rail against "cancel culture", diversity, and the like
About the content of the tweets, the article says:

But Mevani tweeted this week that Modi “worships and considers Godse as God”, accusing the prime minister of fomenting religious division.

He also demanded that Modi apologise for communal violence in Gujarat, where Mevani is a member of the state legislature.

Assuming this representation of the tweets is accurate, are you saying that posting them should be an arrestable offense?
My understanding is that a human is //supposed// to be observing the vehicle the entire time that smart summon is in use, hence why the end-user has to hold down a button on the app the entire time the vehicle is in motion.

My understanding is that smart summon operates on a completely different set of rules than navigate on city streets, even though they might share some common functionality, like object detection and mapping.
I love 90's star trek. I haven't watched anything past Enterprise and the Chris Pine movies because I don't have a CBS account. I could easily afford it, but none of the new content seems worth it to me, in terms of my time let alone my money. I'm not a pirate, and yet I feel like Stunting is upset with folk like me.
Alright, now there's no account creation AND no app download.

I had hoped using Flutter would pay off!

I would only recommend trying on a mobile browser. The swiping doesn't work on desktop yet.

https://givetheperfectgift-app.web.app/
I didn't have a delete button, only an edit button.

Also I wasn't trying to be passive aggressive, I think it's worth leaving a trail of instances of when "agree with the masses or shut up" happen on HN.
What do you do for entertainment in your spare time?
Right. Or think of the recurring discussion on how much of a certain task should be computed on the server-side vs. in the client.
It's different, but the former case is still a massive headache for the employer.
Probably most regulated industries. I am in medical devices and you can easily make it to 65 with dignity.
>I got my undergrad degree in Iran (a relatively conservative society with an ultra-conservative even anti-women government), where the ratio of women to men in our computer science class was roughly 60/40 in favor of women [...]

>When I went to Europe for grad school (to a very progressive university in perhaps the most progressive European country) to my surprise I had only one female classmate who was a non-European international student in a class of 40.

also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
That's how it starts..... it ends with you paying for ad free hulu and wondering how you're still watching unskippable ads.
They have a DE&I gun to the head of every hiring manager in the company so it doesn’t particularly matter what you’re applying for, there’s strong pressure to hire candidates that help meet HRs goals.
>and neither did my ancestors

Considering the number of ancestors in your past, this is highly unlikely for any human being alive today.
> rather than exercising their own agency

There is no free will. Society implanting ideas about which jobs you are capable of succeeding at is an especially obvious case of this. Why do you think women are going into different fields?
In that metaphor, why is gender part of the type hierarchy in this context? Why is that the first-class classification for concrete implementations of `Person`? Why not hair color? Why not height? Why not age? I feel like everyone would have been better off if pronouns weren't even gendered to start with. But now that would be an incendiary political crusade, which I'm not interested in.
searching the same phrases on google images returns more interesting "pre-generated" results
Coarse grained discrimination based on some visible attribute is fundamentally destructive to producing value of any kind, and always ends up with terrible outcomes for anyone that cares about anything but the metric of 'what percent matches this coarse grained attribute'.

We call it race when it's based on appearance markers we associate with race, we call it sexism when we base it off gender, we call it ageism when it is off apparent age, we call it nationalism when it is based off national origin.

And it's always wrong, and left unchecked, it is always destructive.
>I think it's in incorrect to say that they're "weeded out". That implies that women are being removed from the field, rather than exercising their own agency and choosing different fields.

That's simply the language used when a freshman takes some intro courses, feels overwhelmed or disinterested, and then chooses to change majors early on. Very few freshman actually fail their classes and get ejected from the university, they just realize they are paying a huge premium to learn something they feel they don't want to or can't keep up with.

But yes, I agree that if we're focusing on the problem at the hiring lever you're way too late. But that's the mentality of publicly shared companies that simply want a good shareholder report next quarter. Investing in middle schoolers takes years to reap what is sown.
This comment is funny.
The article complains that comics are not for kids anymore because they treat adult themes.

This comment complains that adults are somehow children because they engage with entertainment formats that were traditionally geared towards children.
Practically no big company would allow you to post internal documents on Hacker News. Why isn't that a good reason?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_trove#United_Kingdom

Of old..

> The objects were later presented to the nation by their owner, Edith May Pretty, in a 1942 bequest. In March 1973, a hoard of about 7,811 Roman coins was found buried in a field at Coleby in Lincolnshire. It was made up of antoniniani believed to have been minted between AD 253 and 281. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales held in the 1981 case of Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster v. G.E. Overton (Farms) Ltd. that the hoard was not treasure trove as the coins did not have a substantial silver content. Thus, it belonged to the owner of the field and could not be retained by the British Museum.

And more recently...

> To remedy the faults of the old treasure trove regime, the Treasure Act 1996 introduced a new scheme which came into effect on 24 September 1997. Any treasure found on and after that date regardless of the circumstances in which it was deposited, even if it was lost or left with no intention of recovery, belongs to the Crown, subject to any prior interests or rights held by any franchisee of the Crown. The Secretary of State (currently meaning the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport) may direct that any such treasure be transferred or disposed of, or that the Crown's title in it be disclaimed.

As to coins...

> If the object is a coin, it must either be:

> one of at least two coins in the same find which are at least 300 years old at that time and are at least 10% precious metal by weight; or

> one of at least ten coins in the same find which are at least 300 years old at that time.

---

It appears you can still find coins that can be claimed by an individual rather than the Crown, but the definition is broader now.
I'm 50+, and perhaps I've just been lucky...but its not been an issue for me. I got my last job 18 months ago and I'm looking now. I think a lot of what people think is ageism, is wageism.. but that's just a hunch.

In my experience, if you work in areas with enough demand - its not an issue (eg you work the 'ends' of tech - really old or really new). If the demand isn't there, they probably don't want to pay for a senior employee when a fresh college grad could do it for half the cost ?

Anyway - fear not for your 40s or even your 50s!! Old geeks never die...

we just 'exec' a new program! :-D
theres also a high probability of misinformed (or well-informed but adversarial) twitter users getting #CancelNetflix to trend because people will only read the headlines and not understand that they wont be seeing ads unless they want to save money.
I’m bullish on Netflix in the long term. This is an overreaction from the market.

As far as tech goes, I think Netflix has the best and I can see a future where it will provide streaming tech to all other major players.

So, putting my money where my mouth is and buying some shares. Let’s see how this plays out.
Well the Canadian government decided to suspend the charter over a protest, so if anything to me that just shows the opposite of what you are saying (that people are supposedly just hysterical about a loss of rights that doesn't exist).

And before you say that it was nothing out of the ordinary, remember that even during the Oka Crisis the federal government did not take such extreme measures. That was a multi week armed standoff with hundreds of armed combatants, killed police officers, led to a very damaging blockade around montreal. Yet, no charter was suspended and the federal government did not do everything to antagonize the Mohawks. Pretty crazy compared to what happened in ottawa.

So there is definitely a reason to be worried, and saying that it's worse somewhere else is irrelevant. Or do we just dismiss any social justice movement too since wow, they are complaining about trivial stuff compared to the sacrifice ukrainians are making?
> It takes years of practice to become a terminal guru

And that's where I stopped reading. Point is, you absolutely need not become a terminal guru to use any of these web frameworks.
I'd say the many/most have been with the company 10+ years (low attrition!). New hires are generally younger, but new hires that are more senior (IC or Manager) are generally older. That's not surprising, is it?
>And who has benefitted?

The rationale being promoted to the corporations by management consultants is that the company will make more money.

>Our latest research finds that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organ...
Web app made!

https://givetheperfectgift-app.web.app/
The deconstruction era didn't last forever. There was also reconstruction, with the likes of Astro City, Marvels, Kingdom Come, etc. That was certainly more upbeat and had a sense of wonder.
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The superhero obsession of US culture is quite strange to me.

> A seven-year-old has a clean, first-order appreciation of superheroes. They like hero comics because the comics have heroes: bold, strong, vividly colored good guys to fight off the bad guys and make the world safe.

This too is somewhat artificially created. It's not false, but... what analogy shall I use here? I guess it's like how kids, and not just kids, love sugar, and sugary-sweet food. Refined sugar is problematic as its prevalence in your diet increases; it's also somewhat of an addiction; and also, it's out of its original context in sugarcane (or honey, fruit, etc.). US superheroes are a bit like that: A particular refinement of an aspect of stories of heroism and adventure.

Like refined sugar, superhero films (and to a much lesser extent comics) are actively pushed by large corporations. And while neither is a conspiracy to poison people, they both need to be well enough aligned with what corporations want to habituate people to, diet-wise and culture-wise; and that should also be kept in mind.
> My personal bias here tends toward reflexive dislike of DEI stuff because it feels cult-y to me, but the message of toleration it's rooted in (even if that's not always practiced by its proponents) is obviously the only alternative to fighting over whose values will be imposed on everyone else.

Alternative? The people who promulgate the messages are quite aggressive about imposing their values on everyone else.
I saw the discussion around it’s legitimacy when it was released, but didn’t see anything conclusive at the time. I’ll look again.
Had a similar experience visiting Texas and I’m looking forward to moving there myself soon.
> Words are really just words.

But they're not though. Words are products of, and inputs into, people's culture and modes of thought.

Which is exactly why giving this much global power to one unelected politically extreme group of people is so dangerous.
How's it compare to Planetary?