skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It found that for women under 35 or over 40, the age of their male partner made little difference to their chances of giving birth. But for women between the ages of 35 and 40, there was a “significant drop” in the live birth rate if the male partner was aged 40 and above.

The article itself is telling us that there is no affect to the chance of birth except when the woman is 35–40, in which case it apparently makes a difference.

Put another way, "men, it makes no difference except briefly when her age is in this window."

...which it probably actually doesn't.
Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning [pdf]
Well, the content of the video may be condensed, but they'll absolutely be putting the same number of ad-rolls in the video.
Talking in absolutes like this ("the vaccine failed, it doesn't prevent infection, it doesn't prevent transmission") is very counterproductive.

No vaccine is 100% effective.

The vaccines were sufficiently effective to let Israel skip the alpha wave altogether with ~70% of the population covered. At the lowest point in June 2021 they were down to less than 20 new cases per day. Then the delta variant came out of the bush (from India which had much less coverage at the time, the more infections, the higher the mutation risk). It's R0 was higher than alpha's and the epidemic kicked back up.

Had there been an initial, aggressive push to vaccinate globally we might have been done with the virus by the summer of 2021.

It should also be noted that COVID has cumulative effects. The all around risk of complications is about twice as high for the second infection (I don't think there's data for more than two, so we don't know if the trend is additive, multiplicative, a combination thereof, or if it peaks there). Among other things, it culls the naive lymphocyte population weakening your immunity to bugs you haven't met yet.
Steam isn't the problem. Steam is just a portal through with you run games. And on Mac, that portal is mostly empty.
The moral police hasn't been conservative for 20+ years. Now we're in the age of liberal political correctness.

(It has been an interesting experience to side more with conservatives than liberals for the first time in my life, but we live in the society in which we live)
I think that this documentary is about McDonell Douglas, not MacDonald.
From the paper

> Accordingly, and contrary to what is often suggested in popular books on the psychology of pornography (e.g. Zimbardo & Coulombe, Reference Zimbardo and Coulombe2015), men who face sexual problems and choose to terminate porn use may experience only marginal improvements in their sexual lives (assuming that we can draw causal inferences from our findings); similarly, women who face sexual problems might be well advised not to consider porn use to be a sexual panacea.

This is interesting for sure but you can't draw sweeping conclusions from this research.
I assume you mean me. But which country do you mean? I lived in several. I grew up in a culture I am describing. I still maintain contact with many people living there. I base my conclusions on my experiences and data I gathered for decades. You base your conclusions on ignorance and stereotypes - you have no other choice since you don't know me. But you try to mock me - unsuccessfully, of course, because you don't know anything - maybe you should spend a bit of time on gathering your own information instead.
Yes! https://manpages.debian.org/testing/squashfs-tools/unsquashf...

I believe 7z can do that as well.
Language classification is a bit weird - doesn't mean that Golang/Ruby/Python developers are better than C programmers - just that the companies with better funding or better products are using those languages. So, in other words, pay is not based on programmer competence or language superiority, necessarily.
> This meta-analytic finding turns on the authors’ method for measuring publication bias. Because I accept that, I must believe that this entire body of research, probably the signal behavioral economics work, is essentially worthless!

This is a pretty short article, how are you confident of such a broad conclusion? What makes you that confident that this meta-analysis is decisive?
If it is publicly accessible, they cannot limit the means by which you access the information from the perspective of the law. This was seen in the case of Oracle & another company scraping their technical documentation IIRC (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...). The site may take action to prevent this access, etc. but they cannot pursue legal action for this alone (unless this has changed in the last couple of years). There was a similar precedent with Linkedin maybe 5-7 years ago.

That being said, depending on the target they can make things difficult if they know you're doing it. In general, scraping data itself, then transforming that data for use is reasonably safe, but using the scraped content in unprocessed form can be problematic. Selling the collected data to users without processing it sounds like it could cause problems both from the target companies, as well as via the customer's perception of how you acquire the data. Processing the data to show something like variations in recipes per region, categorizing different recipes into styles based on ingredients, cook time, complexity, etc. are all value-adds which make your data more useful than the raw data-set, and make a stronger argument for the sale of your dataset.

Of course IANAL, and I welcome anyone else to add to or contradict this info.
Code for RoseTTAFold: Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a 3-track network

https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RoseTTAFold
> I don't think you nor anyone else knows when AGI is likely to happen.

Sure. But since I am an AI research I'd imagine I'd have a good leg up on the average person. I'm at least aware of the gullibility gap. Lots of people think it is closer than it is because they see things doing tasks that only humans can do but really your pets are smarter than these machines.
Tech is more than automating business processes 1 to 1. Many times domain experts don’t even know what’s possible, as a dev you need to work together on the requirements to go beyond their imagination.
Why not electrify the road, at least highways, in part.
>But the vaccine failed
>It does protect against serious illness though.

This isn't a binary fail / no fail condition.
Are you also evidence that everything else you haven't done isn't beneficial?
This is way too simplistic. In reality, everyone has a role, and if you don't understand that role then problems occur.

The fact is, in every organization there's the technical side and there's the political side. The bigger the organization the more need there is for a political, not a technical, manager. The former manages the people, stakeholders, etc. The latter manages the product itself.

In many organizations both roles are done by the same person, who tends to do one side better than the other. In engineering organizations the manager is probably more on the technical side because engineers.

The problem is that large organizations (insert your definition of large, it could be >20) or organizations with multiple customers managing upstream expectations and prioritization are really important. These people are paying the bills, after all. At that point you need to start fending off salespeople, account managers, and other executives.

Unfortunately, telling customers to fuck off you're busy isn't the greatest path to customer satisfaction, retention, etc. You need a political manager to do that for you.

I know of a few large orgs that have formalized this tech/political manager structure, because it's effective. But you need to understand what's happening and why. If something rolls downhill to engineering it's because the political side believed it was required; you need to accept that. Likewise if the political manager gets pushback they need to understand that the issue is real.

So taking a step back, the article is complaining that you should have managers that understand what engineers do. I'd flip that - we need engineers that understand what managers do. Engineers are not special. Neither are managers. It takes people working together to get stuff to happen, period.
Ask HN: How to pass a “Product Sense” interview?
I'm a Product Manager who's been applying for jobs recently and have had a good amount of interest from companies that I would be excited to work for.

Each time I make it through the initial recruiter interview, then the casual chat with a PM, and then fail at the "Product Sense" portion of the interview.

Now, I'm not new to being a PM, I've been operating in a Senior role at a Big-N tech company for 5 years, and over the course of that time brought multiple products from 0 to 1 to v2.0 that has netted us high 9 figures.

So I'm in this weird place where I know I'm a decent enough PM, but for whatever reason the structure of the interview just isn't conducive for me showing my best self.

These interviews are very open ended.

The interviewer will suggest a hypothetical product or market that a hypothetical company wants to be successful in, and asks how you'd go about building that product, getting information about that market, and how you would prioritize features based on information you discover....and that's it, then its just up to you the interviewee to ask questions, discern information, and try and make calls. The interviewer will often not give specific answers to your questions at all, so you have to make up your own answers, and then build on those.

For whatever reason, my questions, answers, and plans (most of which come from my real life experience) dont seem to be satisfactory.

How do I do better at these?
It's usually a lot more than "a few days at most". In my field it was often between a week to a couple of months. But you got the right idea.
That’s a great point, thanks. One collection-of-anecdotes from my company is 3x in the same role (10x was from the article), which might actually equate to a similar standard of living (with huge fuzziness given the different amenities of the two countries - I’ll never have a personal driver)
Very nice. That’s in fact really clean, and (at least to me) indeed surprising.

As rejection reasons go, “I wanted to name-drop person X” is interesting. But as you said, that’s the maintainer’s decision to make.
I'd forgotten to upgrade grep on my latest Macbook. In a large source code repo, looking for a fixed string with no wildcards:

osx grep -r:

real 2m37.786s
user 2m27.034s
sys 0m3.958s

ggrep -r:

real 0m12.842s
user 0m5.754s
sys 0m2.825s

which is the difference between something I'd avoid and something I'll use.
Claiming mRNA vaccines failed is ridiculous.
Note that the "property" that the Haitians had confiscated from the French included, in the opinion of the French government, the Haitians themselves. So the French, in effect, forced the Haitians to pay for the right not to be slaves.
Agree with you. Nudging is a type of user experience design. UX designers nudge with every design decision they make, and the effectiveness of those decisions is quantifiable. So it's hard to argue that all nudges are ineffective, just like one can't argue that all UX design is ineffective.
> By the same logic taxpayers shouldn't underwrite any renewables: they are significantly slower than nuclear, and have literally zero base load capacity.

The cost for offshore wind projects has fallen so fast in the UK that the many of the latest projects don't need subsidies, see this report from Imperial College (London)[0], in fact they'll be paying the government, see this article from Bloomberg.[1]

I'm pretty sceptical about the phrase 'base load', when it comes up, such as in a HN discussion[2] from a last week, it seems to be used to describe wanting to choose slow and/or expensive power plants.

EDIT: See also this[3] recent HN discussion, in which it was pointed out "California has put emphasis on renewables and if the nuclear power station isn't guaranteed to provide base load then it's too expensive to operate"

[0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/200353/offshore-wind-power-c...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/high-powe...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152588
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610996
People should stay home when they are ill and isolate, with any transmissible illness.

But in 99.999% of cases, non-airtight masks do not work at all. Not even a little bit.
It's a double hit. Google, of course, and the newish search engine You.com
Ah, memories of carefully copying BASIC from these books. All Usborne books are great (and my kids love the current ones too) but these in particular were such a formative part of my learning to love coding, aged 8-10 or so.
This is the most common approach even if it isn’t done on purpose, and I think it should be formalized with terminology and studies. The current zeitgeist of immunity as understood by the general population and, importantly, politicians, just can’t seem to incorporate the concept of something that is so contagious but changes so quickly. But it’s the reality for almost all sickness we get, this is the norm, not the outlier. Why are we still even thinking about vaccinating people with the original covid vax? We give the annual flu shot more respect.

Despite what we want and how we wish the world would be, the reality is that if you are constantly exposed to covid you are unlikely to ever be symptotically ill. Since we can’t prevent that from happening everywhere in the world, might as well plan for it. It also puts evolutionary pressure on the disease to be less severe, since if you feel sick you stay home, but if you don’t you go out and spread it.
My idea as well. Let's create an application which will work, but won't be able to pass QC because testers are able to crash it with unexpected input.

But hey, we got code generated in 5 minutes. Can't bugfix it tho...
And for all the at risk folks where this advice isn’t always an option? Also, citation needed. How often are healthy people dying and how much above the baseline is that. Harm reduction vs harm introduced? E.g is the risk worth it?
>It uses byte strings instead of UTF-8 strings. In my opinion, that’s not an optimization, that’s changing the problem. Depending on the question you’re asking, only one of the two can be correct.

For tons of questions, both can be correct.
If you thought otherwise you may have been misled by serology studies.
I'm pretty sure that Google search page rank, ranks sites with Google ads HIGHER than the same site without any ads. Of course they would, it gives them better metrics to show their Google ads are effective and they can charge more.
> And frankly, the 7yr old has more to fear at school with 'assault drills' and the mass shootings of some foreig.... 'mentally instable white guy'.

This is an extreme exaggeration of the threat of mass shootings at public schools. Children have far more to fear at home or on the street than at school, which is the safest place they'll be all day.
While "Changing the world" and "Making the world a better place" are core goals of those of us working with technology, it feels as if these phrases have been abused to the point where everyone just rolls their eyes when they hear them.

Even HBO's Silicon Valley series drew attention to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
I do most of the time but I should probably just use some extension to hide the popups or just block cookies in general
Yeah, as the sibling comment said, "couldn't go to Wendy’s" is a pretty flippant way to describe what was imposed on Shanghai residents this year.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia, which locked down hard to suppress the virus in 2020, then for several more months attempting to suppress it again in 2021.

Since everyone had had the chance to be vaccinated by Nov last year, restrictions have been lifted and the virus has been allowed to spread, and almost everyone is much happier living with the virus than continuing to be locked down.

What is China going to do? Keep locking everyone down every few months forever?

For myself, having a young child at daycare means getting exposed to infections and being sick with something different almost every week, which is of course annoying but it's a part of life. I had covid for the second time last week (must have been BA.5 as it's dominant here), and it was no big deal; I felt a bit off for under 48 hours. It certainly felt like my body knew what to do with it having first encountered an earlier omicron variant in Feb.

How is shutting down all of society for weeks/months at a time preferable to that?
The day that engineers accept the reality of reporting to investors who only care about cashflow and time is the day all those MBAs and managers go away. Until then, someone always needs to impedance match between the world of ROIC and the world of hackers.
> Happy to alter beliefs based on evidence that target this specific notion: that it is not subcultural.

I won't address your particular example (“guys like drawing dicks on things”), but a similar one that I'm sure strikes you as cultural as well: the sex difference in toy preferences and play behaviour. The following is an excerpt from the book Perspectives in Male Psychology by Louise Liddon and John Barry, which argues that it's not subcultural:

“Some of the most intriguing evidence supporting the biological basis for sex differences in toy preferences comes, unexpectedly, from animals. There is a large body of evidence in animal research finding strong effects of prenatal and perinatal exposure to sex hormones on a range of sex-related behaviours, including juvenile play (Meyer-Bahlburg et al., 2004). Even more intriguingly, some research has found that male monkeys spend longer than females manipulating toys that move (wheeled toys or a ball), whereas female monkeys make more contact with a doll and cooking pot (Alexander & Hines, 2002; Hassett et al., 2008). Most intriguing of all is research that finds a sex difference in how primates play with objects: young females tend to play with objects as if they are nurturing an infant, and young males play with the same objects with more vigour, often as a weapon.

Compelling evidence for a biological basis for play behaviour comes from a 14-year study of ‘stick-carrying’ in Ugandan chimpanzees (Kahlenberg & Wrangham, 2010). These chimps tend to use sticks to signal aggression, to find food (e.g. taking honey from a hole), during play or as ‘stick-carrying’. This latter behaviour accounted for about 40% of stick-related behaviour, and was initially puzzling for researchers. The behaviour was observed to be most common in juvenile females, compared to weapon use, which was most common in males. The researchers noted that stick-carrying sometimes involved cradling of the stick, and the behaviour always occurred prior to the female’s first birth and ended when the female became a mother. The researchers concluded that stick-carrying is a form of play-mothering. The sex difference in stick-carrying appeared to be spontaneous and without any teaching by adult chimps, making social learning an unlikely explanation.

The overall explanation for the sex differences observed in these various human and non-human animal studies is that, in general, males are naturally predisposed to activities such as hunting and building, and females are naturally predisposed to nurturing the young (Hines, 2005). Extrapolating this evidence to humans, when boys are playing with cars this could be an expression of an innate tendency to track moving objects, as might be done in hunting, and when girls play with dolls this could be an expression of an innate tendency to nurturance and mothering.”
Ask HN: Which deep board and card games do you know/recommend?
I love playing tactically and/or strategically deep board/card games. I have played chess, Go, checkers, skat, poker and many TCGs such as Magic the Gathering. I have once tried Bridge but playing/learning it online seemed not so great.

I still play chess regularly but none of the others for different reasons. In general I am looking for non-TCG games where you always play with the same play set of cards/pieces. TCGs can also be very entertaining but they always need new sets and investments to stay interesting whereas games such as chess just work forever.

Do you have any other suggestions? I'd prefer if it is possible to play online since I just don't have the time to go to clubs anymore.
https://youtu.be/5LouYOdroKs

People screaming and begging for food and basic supplies may disagree
It was easy to share public links to values hosted on the file system in 1995 with Apache. It remains easy today with Nginx and other web servers.

Syncing filesystems across networks with rsync has worked well for years.

If you are considering a personal key value store, you are probably already familiar with web servers and rsync. If not, they are two general purpose tools which are likely to be useful for other projects as well.

I was absent the day of the infamous Dropbox comment.
Show HN: Doublind, a paper review platform (ML)
Submitting to ML conferences isn't a fun experience. One wait for months and the reviews are noisy. We envision an open review platform where anyone can rate and review any research papers. Decouple paper review from publication to break from the zero-sum game mentality of conference reviewing. Let's together build the IMDB for research papers. Thank you!
>SADS was not a thing until the medical cartel started disseminating this lie through their co-opted legacy media channels.

[1] "Seeing “the better way” to disseminate and educate, the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was established on December 12, 1991 by Dr. Vincent and several dedicated colleagues and LQTS family members, for the purpose of helping to prevent sudden and unexpected cardiac death in children and in young adults."

[1] https://www.sads.org/about-us/sads-foundation-history/
People who want to be managers tend to create solutions where you need to assign more reports to them. I don't think this is incompetence, it is a reasonable way to advance your career at the expense of the company, similar to how engineers tend to choose frameworks that helps their careers etc.
What is a windowed grid?
hi maybe do all that but also don't reject vaccines :)

before the vaccines plenty of young healthy people died.
As a user of the AWS, consistent is not a term I would use to describe the console.
Exactly, monthly salary of anyone worth their salt starts at 15k PLN which is 38k USD annually.

E.g. for back-end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTAuTXW_r0&list=PLZmMLJ6Fj9...

(UoP is normal employment contract, B2B is sole proprietorship company i.e. "tax optimization" gov't is afraid to close down)
For anyone else who may get a nicely-styled 404 in their native language: https://web.archive.org/web/20220724171102/https://usborne.c...
But once you merge 1, your test suite is broken, and many/most companies wouldn't allow that.
Also with cheaper outsourcing I'd assume all your remotely developed source is being stolen, and you have to assume being sold off.

Even more worrisome is code review companies seem to be mostly complete crap. Finding glaring RCE's in code in code that's passed multiple reviews is jarring for me. Mostly because I'm more on the operational/support side of things and write more scripting than code.
I'm talking personally, after someone asked. I wouldn't be lashing out on the general public with such opinions. I only can be aware and control my own actions.
Laser-fusion facility heads back to the drawing board