skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Different from skin colour, there's an evolutionary trait to height preference.

Does this difference exist? I recall studies that showed that babies are afraid of people who look very different from them and their family members. As such I was under the impression that there was a genetic basis for discrimination of people based on some outward difference in appearance like skin colour that was due to people having an inherent distrust in the 'other.'

If that's the case it's not unreasonable to desire that society progress in a way that mitigate these biases against short people in the same way that we desire that society progresses in a way that mitigate biases against people of colour.

> Similarly, men have always shown preference to larger breasts and hips, signs of fertility. We can't, even shouldn't, shut down our instincts due to politically correctness.

What kinds of things that you feel are due to an instinctual bias to discriminate against short people, and why should we not attempt to shut down this discrimination? If your children were short and they felt like they were discriminated against for being that way, what sort of advice would you give them?
Not if the lengthening is in the legs and only 2-3 inches. Your torso may appear short when compared to the legs (but probably not at just 2-3 inches), but the arm length's appropriateness to body size is more often going to be based on comparison to the torso itself. People don't normally fold up so their arms and legs are near enough to make a proper comparison.
I am as well, because the internet isn’t designed for people to reach an objective consensus about reality nor does it account for the way humans really engage one another naturally. We need a platform designed to encourage people to reach understanding but anyone, myself included, who wants to do this is looking for a profit motive when some things are more important than profit as much as I hate to say it.
Arithmetic with Roman numerals.

You often hear that it was next to impossible to calculate with Roman numerals. That's not true at all. People developed a very ingenious scheme to do additions and multiplications using pebbles. Since the word for pebble in Latin is calculus, we now call calculus calculus.

How did it go? You represented the digits of a number by a pebble. You drew some lines in the sand, some rows and columns. The rows represented the digit magnitude (I, V, X, etc). The columns were for the operands. Two columns for a number. Why two? Because Roman numerals sometimes use negative digits.

Let's see a concrete example. You want to do the addition 28+44. That is XXVIII + XLIV.

You first draw the lines and put the pebbles in the corresponding squares. Note that XLIV has two negative digits (44 = XLIV = -10 + 50 -1 + 5). So the pebble for 10 and the one for 1 are put on the left side.

The first number does not have any negative digits, so no pebbles in its left column.

———————————————————————————————
L | || | o
X | oo || o |
———————————————————————————————
V | o || | o
I | ooo || o |
———————————————————————————————

So, now that we set the pebbles, we need to do the calculation. We can do it in many ways. Let's start by first canceling the digits that can be canceled: a positive 10 pebble with a negative 10 pebble, and a positive 1 pebble with a negative 1 pebble. The table looks now like this:

———————————————————————————————
L | || | o
X | o || |
———————————————————————————————
V | o || | o
I | oo || |
———————————————————————————————

At this point we reduced the initial addition 28 + 44 (XXVIII + XLIV) to the equivalent one XVII + LV ( 17 + 55).

Now we just move the pebbles from the fourth column to the second column.

———————————————————————————————
L | o || |
X | o || |
———————————————————————————————
V | oo || |
I | oo || |
———————————————————————————————

We are almost done. We got the result as LXVVII. But this is not a valid Roman numeral, we need to do the simplification VV = X. We remove the two 5-pebbles and add a 10-pebble. Oh, and let's get rid of the last 2 columns.

————————————————
L | o ||
X | oo ||
————————————————
V | ||
I | oo ||
————————————————

So now our final result, in correct form, is LXXII, or 72.

Multiplication can be also performed, and it's quite a lot of fun. I'll explain it in the post below.
Unable to buy pants, kitchens and bathrooms are too short so cooking and washing dishes are back-aching activities. Economy seating in airplanes is almost impossible. Vacuum cleaner handle not long enough. Few car brands have seats that go back far enough.

It’s very hard to buy a bicycle.

Nothing terrible, just annoyances. No big deal compared to dumb social prejudice against shorter men.
For "normal" shortness (eg non-dwarfism), there is no way women generally have a comparable negative experience to men (that is not to comment in any way on the many other prejudices women face); the latter have a significant part of their social place and psychological health influenced by it.
Nil values could be kind of tolerable if the language was always explicit about what is nillable and what is not. If you see something like "MyStruct" you can never be sure if it's an interface (can be nil) or a value (cannot be nil).
I think the biggest advantage to buying my own stuff is standardization. Nothing drives me crazier than a bunch of schwag notebooks of different shapes and sizes all jumbled in a drawer.
This is similar to SQL checkpoints in that a rollback is all or nothing. It wouldn’t be segmented by tenant unless the each tenant has its own transactors.
Good thing they acquired Trello.
They’ll have a hard time marketing it though (no pun intended), given the state of spam filtering.
Thanks.

I like learning new stuff, and expand my mind.

There are many courses on my to-do list that I learned about from HN.

I have found Sedgewick's course to be very dry (not intellectually, but physical vibe-wise) as well and was annoyed that I had to write Java.

Skiena, DPV, and a PragProg book ultimately taught me algorithms.

I have the Odersky course on my list as well.
The ones I can buy at the department store have lousy paper that will bleed through multiple signatures if I were to write in it with my fountain pens. They will also cost me significantly more than $3.
In MVCC systems like PostgreSQL, if you don't vacuum (garbage collect the old tuples), your database is append-only and you can query as if your transaction was started at some time in the past. I don't know how to set auto-vacuum to have a fixed delay, e.g. keeping 24h of changes, but I bet it can be added if it's not built-in.
Me. My company is (relatively) small enough that a single engineer can still make impacts, if you're on the right team. I'm on a small team where I know/own most of the engineering tech, and am trusted by my lead on input. It's mostly DE/back-end/front end, however we use a ton of data for some science-based processes and there's always room for optimizing when we have time.

I actually look forward to work/don't dread Sundays at all.
Major Tech CEO Warns Chip Shortage Will Last Much Longer
I have previously used memfd_create plus /proc/self/fd/* to emulate fdlopen on systems that only provide dlopen.

I strongly recommend finding a different approach ... but it totally worked.
Hahaha yeah you know what start with this exact preamble next time you're a plaintiff telling the judge why you deserve money. "The American civil system is not based on merit or reason." I would say it is in fact based on both of those, but more than anything on judgment.
Ehn, didn't Apple over estimate the small phone market? It seemed like a good idea on paper, and there were many vocal supporters on the internet.. but at the end of the day, it missed expectations.
Yep. Nobody wants to talk about it, but the amount of abuse that is directed from otherwise-socially-conscious women towards short men is pretty disgusting. It's extremely common for groups of women to laugh at and deride short men, both online and publicly in real life. It's eye-opening. (And before you ask, no I am not short, I've just witnessed the abuse first hand).
At least for myself, using some of the fancier 80/90 gsm sheets in that list (Clairfontaine for one) only makes sense if I'll be taking my notes with a fountain pen (which can be a lot of fun!), but with rollerball/ballpoint I'd get the same experience from the cheaper Rhodia options, that would probably be just fine at preventing bleedthrough (some of the fancier papers can be really good at preventing feathering in just how well they render present some inks).
There was a market research in Germany and plug ins are mostly owned by upper class, using it for cheaper/free parking and (ab)using government incentives for co2 grants. Funniest thing is there's very low percentage of owners who drive them in EV mode, they barely bother to charge them, it's being ran in ICE mode all the time.
It's purely for playing the system, catch few benefits (parking) and not giving a shit about the environment.
Beat me for source, read it few months back
I think you may have misunderstood the OP and didn’t align with the HN rules of assuming the best meaning.

They didn’t equate racism and discrimination based on height, they said that there’s no difference in someone discriminating based on that - meaning discriminating based on something that wasn’t a choice and cannot reasonably be changed.
American companies always have bored lawyers on staff, and lawsuits are just day-to-day activities for them. Suing costs the company virtually nothing, while defending against that suit as a private party can be ruinously expensive. The company can almost always afford better PR than you can, and relying or hoping your case going viral and the company backing off due to negative PR isn't going to help you sleep at night.

It isn't fair, but that's how it is. Don't poke the bear anymore than you have to. All you have to do is personally anger one executive and they can go after you.
You’re 100% right. I would like to see the reasoning behind this decision
I used to think this but on reflection my driving pattern would be served fine if I plugged in once a week while grocery shopping.
This was my experience as well. I worked at a place that used Scala primarily in the "better Java" style and enjoyed the language a lot. I moved to a different company and the lead programmer there was a functional purist who insisted on putting scalaz/cats into everything and using Scala as Haskell lite, despite it really not being appropriate for the use case. It really soured me on the language.
I've never heard of the VW Lupo or Polo so I looked them up. No mention of either on vw.com. Wikipedia says the Lupo was discontinued on 2005. The Polo has never been sold in the US and its popularity is steadily declining in Europe (as measured by sales figures). The Honda Fit was discontinued in the US in 2020.
>the large majority of drunk drivers are chronic drunks and drunk driving rules are pretty effective at taking them off the road.

That's a good point. Aren't you now arguing though that the vast majority of drinkers, who are not chronic drunks, be punished for the actions of a few?
Disappointingly, I don't remember the book for sure. I think it might have been one of the volumes of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, which I re-read from time to time for pure pleasure.
> None of my code ever have gone bang in production

Should be read "None of my code ever have gone bang in production, so far, that I am aware of"
> Atlassian is proud of our incident management process which emphasizes that a blameless culture and a focus on improving our technical systems ...
Yes thank you! My whole argument is that we should reconsider the ingrained belief that short == bad and is some natural truth.

Also I would like to add that not even all cultures like big asses. Some even find the practice of injecting cement into buttocks (to enlarge them) to be repulsive. Different cultures have different preferences. Heck, different cultures can even be sensitive to different colors in their eyes[1].

Once people open their eyes and broaden their minds they'll see that perceptions are extremely malleable.

Height didn't work out for the dinosaurs, and being small works great for the cockroach. There is no objective short == bad in reality.

[1] https://gondwana-collection.com/blog/how-do-namibian-himbas-...
isn't the average for women 5.4-5? Thinking you look like a child seems like a fairly big social disadvantage, the difference between 5.10 and 6.2 is relatively comparable.
I can think of another genetic factor that has a much, much greater impact on survival. And it is absolutely taboo to mention the heritability or genetic basis of this trait.

Take solace in the fact that if you find yourself on HN, you're likely at least a few SD above the mean in this trait, so you don't have much to worry about. Furthermore, you can use this trait to understand the fickle nature of sexual attraction, and how to obtain whatever it is you're looking for in an efficient manner.
This comment seems uncalled for. it’s a different sort of experience and different people like different things.

I don’t like it when I download an app, only to find that it opens in a weird size because it hasn’t been updated in years. I’d rather not have that as an option to download ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is nothing you can change in the CAFE regs that will be as simple, easy, and effective as a $5/gallon fuel tax.

By the way, one car that the article doesn't mention, which bucks all these trends, is the Mazda MX-5 Miata. The 2022 model is very similar in every dimension to the 1990 model, and uses 25% less fuel despite having 50% more power. The later model weighs only 10% more even though it meets 30 more years worth of crash standards.
Adding to that, I think there are tradeoffs you typically make with small phones. E.g. worse battery life or slower phones. Given these tradeoffs, people end up not choosing small phones. If you could have same specs as an ultra or a pro in a smaller body, that is a different story.
But they ARE made. I don't think golf grew because of usa regulations. I think golf grew for other reasons - and then consumer preference , profit margins, safety, and fuel regulations combined to guide what is feasible to sell in USA.

Article's premise of cause and effect (these models grew because of usa fuel regulations) is I believe thusly easily disproven.

Don't get me wrong, I personally love small economic hatchbacks. But my values and politics and environmental thoughts are irrelevant - golf grew across the world for reasons many and various outside of usa laws... And other small models replaced it. This appears to be a multi decade strategy across the board.
https://pyscript.net/examples/
Yikes that’s a great recipe for a regressive tax hike. The poor and working class feel the pinch every time gas prices inch up. Those with higher incomes only notice at all if they pay attention to the sign at the gas station—and many don’t and won’t even bother to cross the road to save money on gas.
Honestly I kind of prefer it to the usual Unix date clone format.
>You could make the argument that Black people have suffered more at the hands of society, but the injustice of both are in the same class: prejudice.

Again, this is exactly what I am saying.

I am also saying that you go further, and engage in an intellectual slight-of-hand. This happens precisely when you say "there's really no difference [...]".

Yes there is. There are several, important differences that render irrelevant their belonging to the same category. Abraham Lincoln and Pol Pot both belong to the category of "heads of state", but it is laughably incorrect to claim that there are no differences between them. So too with your example.
I think us as a society may need to accept that there is no safe way to operate 3000+ lb vehicles at the speeds we do now with our current system of roads and infrastructure.
that’s gambling, not wages.
A clause that begins with "even if" is a hypothetical and should not be taken as declarative. The author is saying that they don't know whether the number in question is correct, they're not saying that they believe it to be incorrect. Hence "I’ll reserve judgment".

The bit starting with "even if" is just saying that it doesn't matter to them: either way they're still in favor of blind auditions.
Sure, my email is in my profile if you want to chat.

Some WARCs that go into IA get published on archive.org, not all of them, but some: https://archive.org/search.php?query=warc

It's also an all-around useful format as you can produce it from wget and other common tools. But the big reason I'm moving toward something relatively homomorphic to WARCs is to be able to (in the future) publish my own crawls.
NSNull is used to store nulls in NSDictionaries when you really want them to, since they don't allow storing `nil`. An example being decoding JSON, which does allow it.
Being tall had several competitive advantages in the past. Basically before guns were invented the bigger guy usually could kill smaller guys, and get more food for the family. Quite obvious that women would prefer the big guy, and instincts don't change that quickly.
They aren't mutually exclusive, but if you're using a tracing garbage collector this millennium you're probably using a generational copying collector, and if you're using a generational copying collector you have a write barrier, and the write barrier means that allocating and initializing a new object is less expensive than overwriting all the fields of an existing object, probably by a factor of several. Also, if your reused object is only referenced from the nursery, and it references other objects in the nursery, those objects ought to be collected on a minor collection, but they won't be; instead they'll be promoted, possibly through several generations, until they reach the generation where your reused object is, which will finally allow them to die. Balanced against this you have less frequent minor collections — none at all during times when you're allocating no new objects.

So, with a tracing GC, introducing an object pool will usually make your program slower, not faster. (This is not true with reference counting.)
Does Valve really have 7 figure bonuses? That's quite impressive if so. Wonder what it would take to get that -- do you have to launch/invent a new, successful microtransaction store? Can't imagine it's easy based on that twitter thread.
They take three years to do the three months of junior-level work.
What you're basically suggesting is that feature development at Atlassian moves at such a glacial speed because of course they're using Jira to manage it. This kind of blows my mind right now.
Have you tried any AR projects? Would like to see some examples of your work if you don’t mind sharing.
It’s an internal service, you don’t treat your co-workers as hostile actors.
Lucky for short people, height is a lot less of a factor in modern society. Wealth is a much bigger factor. And what's the best path to wealth? Software. Even more lucky for them, software and internet doesn't care about height.
people should really try non-nullable types in typescript and kotlin, in addition to smart-casting. Then they would realize optionals are niche and cumbersome.
>We've beaten evolution

No we haven't, and that's a good thing because a society made up of completely dysgenic people who need countless supplements and medical products just to stay alive would not be the utopia you're trying to paint it as.
> “Then I insert a rod — we call it a nail or a rod — that goes inside the bone. The rod is magnetic and it has gears. Then there’s an external device that communicates with the nail. And over time, little by little, it lengthens out the nail.” The lengthening happens gradually. “We usually say about a millimeter a day, until they get to their desired height.”

The "external device that communicates with the nail" part should perk up hacker ears, with various motivations. o_O
I had a short friend in high school who was insecure about his height. He is about 5’3. In his eyes, it was the first thing people noticed about him.
Last time I saw him he had gotten incredibly fit. Most people noticed his muscles more than the fact that he was short (also you might he less likely to tease someone who can throw your 6 foot body across the room).

I think that would be a more appropriate investment than this if it bothered you so much. I also think it gave him more confidence. I worry the individual in the article will end up despondent that they aren’t “over 6 feet”.
Well, I noticed a bunch of things during and after tripping, and some of it was even true, but I didn't ever notice that seeing and being aware of seeing were two separate and separable processes, and I didnt ever notice that I could be awake and asleep at the same time, not until the events I recounted here, both of which occurred years after I had, as they say, gotten the psychedelic message and then hung up the phone.
One of the first things that you learn with a fancy marketing degree is that consumer responses to prices are not linear - if you have to raise your price $1 because of some new regulation, you may as well raise it $1.50 and add in a free drink.
I was wondering how far I had to scroll down to find one person (on HN no less) finally stating the obvious.

Thor could be 8ft tall and able to lift to a house. It won't save him from a drone swarm designed by a nerd at Lockheed.
>I get that this story may be apocryphal, but if so it is surely widely disseminated by now. I even wondered about factuality as I wrote my comment, yet I knew of no evidence to the contrary.

You'd be hard pressed to provide a search pattern in any search engine that would provide a top 5 result that isn't about Ford wage raises in 1914 being about anything else than worker retention.

> You didn't provide any substantial counterpoint. So what was the point you were making?

Nor did you provide any substantial point. What is it with double standards today? My point was that you are spreading falsehoods.
I've gone the other way as I've gotten older, which is not unusual - however I've not built up the vehemence that I see with many other ex-religious. I sometimes quip that I'm more of a "there but for the grace of God type of atheist."
You can evoke a method on a nil object in Go because it handles methods as functions that have an extra first parameter. take a look here: https://go.dev/play/p/2SRU26mvfnL
I guess to an outsider they don’t seem invasive. I didn’t realize they were invasive like surgeries
As someone who got a nose job, I’ve heard this line too many times to count. It seems that people want to believe the only reason I would remove the hump on my nose is because of society’s beauty standards. I’m not allowed to simply not like it. Why this same logic doesn’t apply to hair dye or clothing, I’ll never know.

Y’know what’s funny too? I’ve never once met someone who both admired big noses and chose to increase the size of their own. I guess that’s society for you…
Also hard to really convince ppl given there’s already a ton of spam products that tell you they help make your member bigger.
Agreed. I'll also say though that we have these preferences and a lot of them are hardwired. Some come from upbringing but our brains looking for symmetry in a face or perhaps certain features on men or women come from our DNA.

I find women of a certain size and shape attractive. That doesn't mean I can't find other kinds of women attractive, but you're doing the argument a disservice if you don't think at least some of our preferences are innate.
It really varies with the person. Personally I like using nice notebooks with ornate covers based on old books, with metallic ink accents. Like this: https://www.paperblanks.com/en/product/journals/viola/pb8116...

It makes me feel like a freakin' wizard to pull them out and write in them. It's great. Bonus wizard points for using a nice fountain pen.
curious, why TSMC stock price 'v been going low instead of going up?
is it due to it is already too high for its value?