skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that the middens in medieval stone monasteries were better preserved and easier to analyze than the temporary mobile outhouse holes of yer typical villein. It's not that monks were more susceptible to parasites, but that their intestinal evidence was more available to researchers.
After PhD, people are forced to do postdocs, which are nominally junior positions.
Encourages people to make long rambling pages which don’t get to the point? Ever seen YouTube, it’s exactly the same. 10-11+ min videos saying almost nothing because it’s the most lucrative length. The internet of today is just everyone gaming everything for a dollar.
Binary with a 0.02% error rate
> Flying is expensive enough that it's already not something that everyone does routinely. And once we get electric planes, then Earth will be able to afford that.

Having just booked a train ticket this morning let me tell you a story.

Munich - Berlin, just shy of 600km, in a country that's supposed to be not completely shit in regards to train infrastructure (I personally disagree, but that's another topic).

It cost me 180 EUR and it's 2 times 4h. Because I need to be there at noon on my arrival day I basically only have the choice of 2 different trains, I really hope there's no problem. Oh, and I had to pay to reserve a seat. I don't remember ever having to stand in a plane.

Just for fun I actually asked for the flight price, which was... 140 EUR. 2 times 1h10 or something. (I know, I know, it's not completely realistic, but the airport is actually closer than the main station for me, probably 1:1 in terms of time to get there). (both prices incl. return, btw).

But the main problem? I don't trust Deutsche Bahn that I will arrive on time. Of course there are no proper overnighters anymore, just some "oh of course you can take a 9h trip in a seat where you will sit uncomfortably".
Irish also, twelve years to the day I've been living abroad.
I'm not really interested in "drinking", I've more a European approach to it, enjoying a relaxed pint or a glass of wine etc.

I 100% agree with you though, part of the Irish culture people look to experience is the good times around a few pints and some traditional music, with the reward of a hangover in the morning to mark it as a successful night.

The few negative things I've ever experienced were off hand comments about the famine, and some nonsense about the North of Ireland.
USA does the same but more, and I don't see calls to contain them.
You mean like React (9 years ago), Angular (12 years ago) or Vue (8 years ago)? Who seriously uses anything else?

I think you confused the JS ecosystem with the C# one.
But tech media outlets like gamers nexus always remind viewers that intel 7 is really intels 10nm, etc
There's an actual holocaust happening right now and people need to try to compare
Clean code is code you and others can understand and everybody seems to have a different idea of that.

Sentence long variable names I don't like, they slow me down when thinking about or remembering what to do I'm not sure you can remember the names without Intellisense/IntelliJ autocomplete.

I don't think I would enjoy working on this codebase.
I love the look of italic handwriting from the examples I've just looked at! I'll definitely look into it.
I believe many corporations, as part of their net zero goals are actually incentivizing people to take trains rather than planes for work trips.

This is possible because of the legislation that forced airlines to document their carbon emissions.
You can call it ideological bias, but I think it comes down to everything that is related to humans and society, not only sex. Human sexuality implies psychology, which is linked to mass psychology and hence society. A study that excludes these factors must be very narrowly restricted to e.g. purly medical issues. This can make sense in such clearly defined domains, but as soon as you broaden things to sexuality in general, you have to take context into account.
I'm an illustrator. I want to make some pin-up art and sell it. However
A. I think it's kind of embarrassing
B. It could absolutely never be associated with my real name because it would torpedo my official career due to the current social climate.

The only way I could think of to really keep identity separation in a way that doesn't leave me beholden to a third party was to use some sort of crypto mixer. I don't trust institutions not to leak data that could be used to establish an identity link.

Do you think I'm evil?
I bet I could make it to the front page of HN if I blogged about my notes on taking notes. Everyone loves that sort of thing.
What do you mean by 'cancel', outside the context of blacklisting entertainers? How does that apply to a CEO? Presumably anyone considering employing or funding him is entitled (and likely competent) to read the facts and others' thoughts about them.

I think the point about 'multiple accusers' is fair. People will come out of the woodwork, especially when there's money at stake (from the press or from legal action). Michael Jackson is a good example: undoubtedly he did rape some of those kids, but not all of them. Still, I don't see why this provides an argument against forming an opinion, rather than one for forming opinions judiciously.

Also, look up Jesse Washington if you want to understand what lynching means.
If you navigate out of an app iOS adds a ‘back’ link on the top left of the screen automatically. This is not going to cause ‘a ton of support emails’; your stories probably are from versions of iOS when they didn’t do that, which is so long ago I couldn’t even find how long.
Functionally won't happen because we have a near infinite demand for petroleum products.

We may see a world where no one drives a gasoline vehicle, but plastics, resins, rubber, kerosine have certain applications where people would be willing to absorb 100x the current cost of extraction.
Sex, the process in humans where anisogamy (sexual reproduction involving two types of gametes that differ in size) produces new humans is a binary one. Notwithstanding disorders of sexual development (‘intersex’) there are only two gametes, and hence only two sexes.
Your math is slightly wrong.

.018% of 2000 is about 1/3 (.36). So, its 1 in 6k and 3600 in Australia.

The numbers are miniscule and I believe arguments made using this group and trying to apply it to society as a whole is likely not made in good faith.

I would be willing to bet that most people who bring up intersex individuals when talking about a 'sex binary' would be unwilling to agree to: "We have male, female, and medically-intersex as the sex."
People slaughtered in Ukraine by Russian nazis aren't "proxies", they are civilians. To a Russian this distinction might be hard to understand, but civilised countries generally try to fight armies instead of levelling cities. Note how civilian casualties in Syria were order of magnitude higher than in Afghanistan?
This really is a good reason to keep personal and professional lives separate.

I'd like to see more people having one name at work, and another for their personal life, and keeping each compartmentalized.

It's legal to do in England for example. You can have as many names as you like, including surnames. To use multiple names for the purposes of furthering fraud or evading the police is illegal though.
When you realize that they're being murdered and their organs harvested, and that you said this about a time when millions of people were in mass ethnic concentration camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
Thanks. That is quite horrifying.
For me, it’s the nightmarish distortion of everyone’s form. Big sites have become a bad acid trip you can’t wake up from.
Tests are easier to grade in a multiple choice format, since the grading problem is reduced to a set of circumstances that are friendly to being automated. Nowadays I'm sure it's possible to have a computer OCR the writing, check the algebra, and grade a problem... but it's a lot cheaper and easier to have the test taker choose the answer from a labeled subset and then check their choice against the correct label.
Complex of 500 standing stones found in Spain
I had a look at the test and it's indeed reasonable, I don't get why this guy is outraged. I don't even see why this test has to be a pass/fail test, you could just get a score. The questions he featured are clearly cherry-picked. But as you said I don't think this test is even supposed to be hard, it's a test for kids just out of junior high, it's not like a test to be the head of the Federal reserve or something.
I had a similar experience with “ Modern Compiler Implementation in ML”… but I didn’t slog through it, I switched to ocaml and ported everything as I went. I’m sure an LSP would have been helpful.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml
I kind of agree with most of this (and made a similar comment) but..

> We need to get real about human nature and stop imagining we can recycle or electric car our way out of the looming extinction event.

Both recycling and electric cars are cheaper and better for the planet. If you put a price on carbon, both would be done more, which is good.

Individuals doing it aren't going to help, because nothing an individual does will help on a global scale, but systemic recycling and EVs are definately part of the solution.
Depends which device tbh.

If the device has the "ARM System Ready" certification it will run most linux distros just by using an arm build, similar to amd64.

Tianocore/EDK2 also supports many devices and adds a BIOS/UEFI that is similar to the BIOS you'd see on your typical amd64 mainboard.
Some areas as described by OP are considered desert in Australia. They're above the Goyder Line* and pretty limited in how they can otherwise be exploited by humans. It's hard for people to live there.

(Whether they should be exploited is a different story.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyder%27s_Line
I wonder if you could do that with a simple LED to indicate the secure mode?
The following is a Twitter account which only posts snark about the "field" of evolutionary psychology: https://nitter.cz/evopsychgoogle

It's a bunch of postdictions and unfalsifiable just-so stories. It also seems to hate women.
This would be lame, here I'm sure the person who reposted this content is not malicious. A quick mail is nicer and less work.

Sure, goatse people if they refuse to observe your requests if you feel like it.
>>Republics are still democracies,

no, Constitutional Republic differ in one HUGE way, they disallow the majority some power. Every one should reject the concept of Majority Rules. That is a TERRIBLE way to organize society and leads to all manner of abuse.

Majority power needs to be check with natural rights that can never be violated for any reason.

>>A system of government that is beholden to the vote of the people

This is an incorrect statement if you are talking about the Federalist system of government created by the founder of the US. it is much more complex by design than a simple majoritarian democracy. People with a similar world view as yours have been working for 100's of years to dismantle the republic and replace it with a more majoritarian system, leading to all kinds of problems, including the massive division we see in the nation today.

>There would be nothing wrong or unnatural about everyone deciding property rights no longer exist and voting to seize the means of production. We make our own rights.

There would be lots wrong and immoral in doing that, you seem to believe in the concept of "life. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness" well that is based in the principle of Self-ownership, one can not own themselves without the ability to trade the product of their own body freely with others. "Collective" ownership of "means of production" means the collective also owns the output of the labor, and in effect owns you the individual, you cease to be a single person, and become "one of us"
> Edit: and there are ways of maintaining a healthy soil without animals. I have done it in a very small scale for my plantations (just 40m2) and there are examples of people doing it on a much larger scale. I have yet to find data about yields though, but they seem competitive.

Gardening isn't farming. All crop farms of any scale use artificial fertilisers that wash off the land an poison our rivers and wetlands its not sustainable. Cutting out artificial fertilisers and gmo crops would cut our crop production by 60%.

We need to go back to our old style of farming before the world wars where we rotated between crops and animals and used the animals dung as fertiliser.
That’s true for microservices environments in modern companies. But a lot of traditional companies have languages and versions locked and mandated. The point of RPC layer is just to remotely call a procedure.
That is not the scientific consensus, although a position taken by some. Much more people agree that bio-accumilation is dangerous to health and nature, also because that ends up in humans when they eat things.
A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
No wonder people are getting jokerfied.
> it seems impossible to speak about sexuality-related topics without ideological bias

Yup, I find in many otherwise rational people all reasoning faculties seem to evaporate when trying to have an unbiased conversation about this area today, kind of like a religion almost. The following paragraph from the paper pretty much sums up my experience. I just don't bother discussing any of it with anyone in person any more, it's tainted.

> one should note that, from an egalitarian perspective, differences are better tolerated if they reflect positively on a group that is perceived as underprivileged or oppressed (e.g., findings of higher verbal ability in females tend to be less controversial than findings of higher spatial and mathematical ability in males).

It's a shame because I think we would move forward faster as a society if it was easier to talk about these things openly without worrying about offending people... how can we overcome unfair biases in society if we do not investigate and understand them properly.
Foils Have Hooks
At least Youtube has a timeline (with sometimes even chapters) that let you jump ahead. The thumbnails are also a good indication on what type of content you can expect from a video.
>How is joint military exercises with Russia not hostility to the west?

Fun fact: the number of American components in Russian weapons is order of magnitude higher than the number of Chinese components: https://static.rusi.org/RUSI-Silicon-Lifeline-final-updated-...

So, I'm not sure which one is more hostile to Russia - in deeds, not words.
Are request parameters not a preferred choice?
Especially if filtering for multiple authors.

GET /discussions?author=:authorId1,:authorId2

If both authors had participated.

Or if only one or the other had participated:

GET /discussions?author=:authorId1&author=:authorId2
Their single board computers and soldering irons are very cool
From the Gaelic word for Barrel 'tocsaid'.
I think that allows the conclusion that sex is binary. 1 in 2000 people are born with limb defects and still humans remain a bipedal species. You can still add it to the passport and use different titles and whatnot. But the science is pretty clear about why and how many sexes there are.

There are some plants and animals that can change sex if the environment forces them to, but humans don't have such mechanisms. Guppies and weed come to mind, perhaps there is an ancestor of humans that could do that as well.
San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic (2011)
Crappy angular apps
You’re wrong about it being a waste of potential imo.

It’s real world training for reverse engineers. Having worked in that field myself I can tell you I was never surrounded by so many smart, talented and exceptional people as when I worked with other reverse engineers (especially in the video game world).

RE is a necessity, and it paves the way for some incredible talent to shine and practice.
United States citizens are the only ones who still have to SIGN their credit card receipts, including when they travel.

We are behind the times even with our own "hack" invention. Remarkable.
Also, not overly compatible with parenting school-age children. If you pull kids out of school, you generally want to be efficient with your travel. And if you elect to homeschool, it's difficult to work or fully experience the destination at the same time.
> After PhD, people are forced to do postdocs

You don’t have to do a postdoc.
'Quiet quitting,' and how it may be a misnomer for setting boundaries at work
Plagiarism is not the same as copyright infringement.

"Plagiarism" is not a legal thing: it's not a crime codified in law and doesn't appear in laws [1]. Instead, usually it's a violation of some internal code, e.g. a school's or newspaper's policy of integrity. As you say indeed, usually these policies only consider something plagiarism if there is a lack of (clear) attribution.

However copyright is encoded in law and copyright infringement is a crime. The linked page clearly violates the copyright of OP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#Legal_aspects
Maybe, but maybe rapport based on “I don’t know you but I’ve heard your kind are a harmless lot who are always up for a drinking party after work”, is useful in a very limited set of circumstances, such as meeting a new team of peers, maybe. I’d still argue not, since the point of rapport building is to get to know the person in front of you, not how well they fit your preconception / stereotype.

In a large majority of situations in my experience, like being a senior manager of a new team, the CEO of a company meeting clients or negotiating with vendors and partners, it’s utterly irrelevant at best.

Also, the fact that Ireland has a major, major alcohol problem is no justification for the stereotype; so do many northern hemisphere countries. London had its Gin Crisis of the 18th century, with huge death toll and virtual breakdown of society, and the UK still has astronomical alcohol consumption, but they don’t get labelled the same way as the Irish
Fitting. Corporations don’t see us as real people anyway now. Just an amorphous collection of wallets and monetizable data.
Same logic could be used to say that: No, humans ackchyually don't have 46 chromosomes, because you see these rare mutations or defects can cause them to have different number.

Sometimes exceptions are just that, exceptions.
Sure enough original, quality content will be generated by AI
Similarly we have one headed and two headed individuals. Therefore we must use the plural they as the default pronoun as to not cause offense to people already struggling with acceptance.
No, it's bizarre how many commenters in here are trying to stop _me_ from eating bugs (via a social disgust reaction).
How Social Justice Became a New Religion
Hawk-Eye
Adding to your comment, our wheat preference is also sub-optimal (but not to such a large degree). There are alternative crops with much higher cal/ha.
I don't think I said anything of the sort.
Yes, they do (NSFW warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1CrBQiJ5YQ
> convention is param:value not the gratuitous Engrish verbingParamProposition:value ObjC inherited from Smalltalk.

Smalltalk does not have this convention.
There was a book I read as a kid, "Poor Malays Speak Out"

It's about subsistence farmers in the 70s being pushed to poverty with the agricultural revolution in Malaysia. The Malays grew progressively poorer, where a dream job was working as a laborer on some of the new plantations.

Most people saw it as a political work - rich ethnic Chinese buying out poor Malays. But I saw it as a story of technology. It's a slice of time where tech actually put people out of jobs.

Some saw it as an example where the rich become richer. But the money went from the rich, to the people who built and maintained the machinery, regardless of ethnicity.

Even looking back several centuries, colonists were those with superior technology. A ship filled with soldiers with guns could take control of an entire country.
It’s in case your marketing domain gets nailed for spamming, you don’t want your regular employees work email blacklisted.
This url is a "free link" to subscriber-only LWN content, and shouldn't have been published on HN. Quoting from the MakeLink page:

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Make friends while learning to code. Buildfaast is a space to pair program with like minded people. Join the community and suggest projects to tackle or join projects submitted by the community.

All levels welcome.
You get it that you're proving the point that comments like those are harmful, right?
Saying that sex is not binary because there is <0.02% intersex prevalence is exactly the type of ideological mental gymnastics that the author aims at.
the takes in this thread are the worst
The lack of "scientific consensus" on proven dangers is borderline irrelevant to me. There've been enough indications of their likely dangers already. If science ever comes to the consensus that it's safe, then it might mean something to me. Not the other way around.

The apparent effects on cattle are worth reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
This video is fantastic. I recommend it. However, that's not my take at all.

My take for this video at the time I watched it was that as students we are used to write for teachers who are paid to grade us, and may take bad habits we can get away with as a consequence, but that will not be enough the day we write for people who are not forced to read what we write. But again, teachers won't expect a journal article written with suspense and stuff when they read your dissertation.

Academic writing is simply not at all the same exercise as journalism. Expectations are different, sometimes opposite.

There's no reason a scientist who write good papers will write good articles, and vice versa. Writing well will help a lot in both cases but that's not sufficient.

Many researchers don't write that well, but if your paper is not comprehensible, it will be rejected. As a researcher, you also want your research to be worthwhile usually, that's a motivation to write better. Also, the point of a paper is to report some discovery. People reading your papers are your reviewers (who are not paid for this, it's just extra work for them usually!), and people who need to understand your work. They probably won't read your paper linearly, they will mine it for information. Because of this, your paper should have a boring structure. To allow fast information seeking. In any case, they are not there to entertain themselves, though a well written paper can be entertaining and that's way better in my opinion, but it's not the point.

Your mainstream journal article should, however, be as enjoyable and entertaining as possible to read otherwise it won't be read by many people (especially if they are only vaguely interested in the topic of your article), or worse, the journal will not be bought at all if all the articles are dull. At least, that's what the lecturer in this video is saying.
But... it's a hardware company!