skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s certainly a long history of women’s education but it’s historically been the realm of the wealthy.

I do think there is something to do with real wage growth stagnation and women in the workforce. By dramatically increasing the labor pool, wages have been essentially divided, forcing families into requiring dual incomes to have the same spending power.
Nothing is 100% "a good thing", everything has tradeoffs.

In this case, you're moving the trust you put in your ISP or anyone who resolves your DNS queries to Cloudflare. Depending on where you are in the world, or how your threat profile looks, this might be good or bad, or degrees of good/bad.

That everyone is starting to tunnel more and more of their traffic to one single entity (Cloudflare or not) is overall not that good. But certainly not 100% bad.
That we need a 6-part tutorial says a lot about Twitter’s value.
Power is an ability or attribute which I agree is morally neutral. But control is associated with power and that’s where the moral component applies.

The trouble is that inexperienced or immature people with power gravitate toward control of others and lack self control. If you ever worked for a “straw boss”, you’ve seen what happens.

In settings where organizational power and obedience is paramount, organizations usually seek to grow this ability to control oneself - military officers start as nominally in command but guided by sergeants. As officers move up the ranks, training focused on leadership and control is a core part of life.

In high function professional organizations, usually leaders succeed to a point based more on the personal influential power than explicit power. People usually listen to a distinguished engineer even though they have little explicit control of anything.
I contribute to Nextflow core (https://nf-co.re/) It's more of a collection of pipelines than traditional software, but there are users all around the world and a good community.

Most of the packages on bioconda (https://bioconda.github.io/) are open source. But you probably want to find a sub-field that interests you most before finding a project.

In grad school, we also had an ex-google software engineer volunteer with us one day a week. It was very impactful for many members of the lab to learn good engineering practices, and it wasn't at all like the sentiment others in this thread are expressing where engineers were "janitors".
No, some people on twitter highlighted the imperfections of the model and branded it DANGEROUS, despite the fact that it had a whole page disclaimer that it is indeed hallucinating. It was brought to attention in some media which led to the researchers turning it off. We already know the "dangerous" trope from GPT3 and we know it's BS.

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1593156854372532231
The state did not gain more surveillance power. The state asked a surveillance company for help, and the company saw a common goal and exercised the surveillance power that it's been building for the past two decades. Power inevitably coalesces, and the only way to opt out of our brave new surveillance society is to be running software that represents your own interests.
It’s fascinating because it (inadvertently, maybe) shows that you can’t do satire without understanding the topic. The author seemingly set off to make fun of digital something, couldn’t grok it, and settled for documenting an afternoon sort of trying.

The nerds missed the joke and jumped in wanting to help, marking one of the first times I’ve seen this dynamic play out at this level of engagement in web space, although it happens all the time irl.

The author even comments he was trying to capture the “saudade” of trying to understand something using web sources.
I think the reason that Elon Musk is doing all of these layoffs so brashly is because he essentially paid $44B for an asset that's worth $15B. That's a $30B hole he needs to climb out of.

Additionally the amount of debt he took on to avoid having to pay out of pocket and higher interest rates means that there is a large debt service that now needs to be paid monthly and as a result he is cutting very deep and quickly.

I think he's also in his own reality distortion field, I mean why buy Twitter in the first place for $44B with no due diligence a month before the whole market tanks.

And for those wondering is that a fair statement, I sold everything back at the end of 2021 because valuations had gotten way too ahead of anything rational.

Now obviously there is tremendous disarray, I'm sure there are people inside Twitter that actually want to work with Elon, and so far the systems have stayed up and been resilient. There is definitely a lot of positions that could have been cut that would allow Twitter to still function but his speed at doing all of these changes doesn't register as anything other than outside forces forcing his hand, because there is no logical sense to get rid of this many people this quickly and start calling them back because you don't even have a basic understanding of how the underlying asset works.
I am a little disappointed to see that the results of “super forecasters” in the economist and on the underlying Good Judgement open website does not present a 95% credible interval, or even a good old fashioned confidence interval.

Would love to see results presented with the uncertainty quantified. Especially given that the yes/no questions are aggregated binarized predictions from what is almost certainly a collection of continuous models. A lot of information is lost between the people performing the analysis and either of these pages.
If you guess 5/8 dice rolls correctly, that's way better than a random guess
How do you intend to prove that?
The presence of a singularity in the force doesn't mean it will cause a blow up in the solution. Two positively charged point particles interacting electrostatically can be shot at each other at any angle or speed and blowup will never occur.
Let's not forget about Turkey and Qatar! China is also reexporting Russian gas to Europe.

My bet is on India tough! /sarcasm

Please, stop speculating without any basis. You can make a case for basically anyone who trades gas or had any issues with Russia.
This was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing. TIL!

EDIT: Is your home IP address for your mac static? Seems like if it was dynamic, this would need to be updated, though I know you can use some simple programs to dynamically inquire for the IP, and then just template it out into the config files before launching, just in case.
Don’t trans females tend to be autistic? Given how well autistic individuals do in programming it isn’t surprising.
Externally hashing outside of the hash table requires you to take on ugly complications. What if two distinct floating point keys map to the same key? The values of your hash table then have to be lists or arrays so you can keep all colliding entries. You've then wastefully built chained hashing around a hash table!
These "assigned" terms don't really work IMO. It imples some choice has been made, by someone. Who is doing the assigning? And it happens before birth, if we want to be accurate.

"Conceived male" or "Conceived female" (leaving out the case of genetic abnormalities) seems better to me.
May take on this, as a Python specialist who maintains a C++ library that exposes Python bindings (but not an expert in such), is that the Python packaging ecosystem (as it has organically grown) is a mess. I would like an authoritative (i.e., in the standard library) way to accomplish the major packaging tasks. I shouldn’t have to track down the current canonical way to do things from two or three sources.
Look for "A Little History": https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about
It’s more about the affordances. I can’t trust notion not to drop into some command system. Therefore I need to keep my monitor turned on when typing. If I can’t type with the monitor turned off, it must not be a very reliable word processor.
I read Tetlock's Expert Political Judgement many years ago, and though I can't guarantee my memory of it, I think one upshot of some pretty detailed empirical work was that no-one's any good at predicting political and economic futures. Foxes (in Isiah Berlin's sense, ie. who approach problems without an overarching conceptual framework) were marginally better than Hedgehogs (who have a central big idea), but no-one was up to much.
These aren't binary choices, so 5/8 doesn't seem too bad to me.

2022's bets:
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/10/the-exp...
https://archive.ph/bam31
I’m more familiar with chemistry, but a lot of times the scientist is the one who needs to make the first iteration to prove their idea. It’s often the case you really don’t understand the problem until you actually program/run the idea in at least a quick and dirty way.

But the role of the software engineer after that is invaluable in making that idea accessible and reproducible.
If I’m not mistaken, Nix uses cgroups as well on non-NixOS systems, so it is basically containers. You’re probably thinking about docker as a whole, in which Nix is effectively an alternative package manager/distribution system for containers.
The problem is not so much the consequences themselves, but that the consequences may never be apparent to the average person. It's a cultural change that is occurring very slowly, and consequences to one's health usually don't manifest until later in life. You don't eat a Beyond Booger and suddenly experience systemic inflammation in a noticeable way. Even when a person's health is gradually failing, they can become accustomed to being obese, lethargic, diabetic, and so on. Even if they go to a doctor, that doctor is unlikely to know anything about nutrition, so they will recommend a combination of contraindicated plant material and pills.

The only hope we have is that future generations become hip to things like PUFAs and antinutrients, and that preceding generations stuck believing that meat is bad will become less relevant. Maybe that can happen, but then younger generations still have to contend with the corporate-globalist charlatan complex telling them pure bullshit like meat being bad for the climate and enacting "meatless Mondays."
86.4 CPU seconds to distribute each tweet
Say I'm in a dynamic language and have a dictionary in which an object of any type whatsoever can be a key. Why would I arbitrarily disallow floating-point objects, if a character, string, lexical closure, database connection, file handle, ..., or lists or arrays of these can all be hash keys.

A hash table of floating-point values can be used for, say, memoizing a function whose argument (or arguments) are floating-point.

A compiler could use a floating-point-keyed hash table for deduplicating identical floating-point constants. Say that constants are stored in some static area, and referenced by address: it's wasteful to repeat those constants. Some constant defining mechanisms (like #define in C) proliferate copies of a constant as a repeated subexpression.
Eh... Was it really that hard to guess what they're gonna do with it? How long ago was that? It's not like their abuse of [foreign] workers is anything new.
I said most modern religions, and in my experience.
That's not his point...?
Honestly, never thought my favour car would be a Hyundai. If I won the lottery there would definitely be a Hyundai Ionic 5 in my shopping basket.
I believe your view is not keeping up with the times.

I think as long as you acknowledge there are people who use language to disambiguate sex and gender, but you choose not to use that language, then you are just expressing your opinion.

I think it's fair for folks to probe why you choose the language you do, and even to suggest that the reasons you supply might be considered ignorant.

We only improve if we all try to understand the reasoning behind each other more.
I don’t generally place much stock in forecasts but… I’m unaware of what the 8 questions were last year but this years includes a few non binary outcomes. If this was the case last year then their performance was a fair bit better than random.
https://archive.ph/Hmpd5
An interesting argument. Quantum physics does a better job of explaining the universe, that’s why we use it.

Changing common language for the sole purpose of being an “ally” to some ultra small minority only serves to confuse. Quite a dumb thing to do when the best possible effect is sparing a few hurt feelings.

99% of the people who support this nonsense aren’t in the affected group and are simply trying to earn “cool points” via virtue signaling.
Your observation (which I noticed too) boils down to the under representation of biological women (both cis women and trans men) in the tech industry, due to cultural and societal reasons.
He’s an alpha nerd among beta nerds.

The same people who think Rick of Rick and Morty is a hero worship Musk, for the same reason - because his intelligence is (supposedly) so astronomical that he is no longer bound by decency or morality.
ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder (for those who didn't know)
Do these "superforecasters" lose something when they are wrong? Do they have "skin in the game"?

I'm a big fan of predication markets (e.g. Polymarket, PredictIt) for exactly that reason – proper incentives are there.
I think the best way to understand the sentiment behind this is:

- This woman identifies as a woman on the basis of her physical body (giving birth being an example of an experience that she had in part due to the body she was born with)

- For this woman, that's what being a woman is: when she describes herself as a woman then she means someone who has breasts, gives birth, etc.

- If other people use "woman" to mean something different and more abstract/social, then it makes it difficult for this woman to describe herself as a "woman" and have it understood that by saying this she is talking about her body.

- It may even be the case, that if "woman" means what other people want it to mean then this woman would no longer identify as a woman.

In other words, she's offended because her own identity is being challenged.
I wrote about what I see as the difference between gambling and investing in a prior comment, if of interest.

But I am genuinely much more curious around the human psyche in situations like these, and I'm seeking your thoughts if you would be kind enough to offer them since I think we are on different sides on this on, in this specific instance.

My experience with the human species is that they generally err on the side of compassion, vs. judgement, but less so in this case. If you could share your thoughts on what might drive the latter rather than former in this case, that would be highly appreciated.

On a personal note, and as I was clear to point out in the parent comment, I am not looking for any sympathy here, I'm a grown man and I am adept at handling adversity. But nor am I necessarily looking for vitriol unless there is a good reason for it. Your thoughts on this topic are appreciated.
In this case, just letting it roll over to the 70s would've probably not created this bug.
As others alluded to, DDOS is basically just an unplanned load test. So you can simulate one with load testing tools.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/load-testing/#ove...

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/distributed...

https://loadninja.com/features/

https://loadium.com/features

Most hosts don't protect you from DDOS automatically, CloudFlare provides some level of protection for free now. You'll have to check with BlueHost to see if they have anything. Otherwise, I think you can sign up for CloudFlare's service even if your site isn't hosted there.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos-hub/#DDoS-Page-Pricing-AS

For other common security exploits as well as mitigations, you're probably looking for the OWASP Top 10: https://owasp.org/Top10/

Testing for this sort of thing falls under the realm of vulnerability scanning tools for the languages you are using. Several OWASP projects aim to make this easy and are implemented in many common languages, especially Dependency-Check, FindSecBugs, and APICheck.

https://owasp.org/projects/

You can dig through those projects or go looking for "<language> findbugs/findsecbugs/vulnerability scanner/etc". There are also commonly tools available for codified password detection, dead-code checks, and data-flow analysis, on top of the often used find-bugs and style guide checkers. Several widely used repositories, such as JFrog, provide scanning for stuff you upload and it's dependencies. SonarQube is also a big player in this space with integrations for many repos and CI/CD tools.

https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/best-practices-for-package-...

https://www.sonarqube.org/
I would posit that OP isn't conflating biological sex and gender, but rather the trend nowadays is to reuse words that have had static meanings for centuries, and then get unreasonably upset at folks who don't immediately agree with the new definitions.
Students Deserve to Enjoy Silence
> I don’t think there’s any real use case for it

Histogram where you want to keep a count for each float value you’ve seen (maybe rounded to some precision to reduce the number of buckets)

Not disagreeing with your comment, just saying it’s not uncommon
Also someone proved this experimentally just by tweeting out the same things that Trump did and got banned https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/bot-banned-from-...
Please note a function like `fetch` still works, and might be privacy (and security!) issues in this method.
Uh, for this author I'd advise seeking some form of help.
Just like cash rich giants of the 90s and early 2000s couldn't buy Google and FB, there will emerge some startups which will resist the pressure from the Big Tech and beat them eventually. There will also be cases where the Big Tech will be shortsighted and refuse offers from the startups just like it happened earlier. History repeats.
And if society collapses and whatever hellscape that replaces it withholds those “rights” from you?
If we are speculating without any basis then why not Turkey, Qatar, China or Azerbaijan? Maybe Iran?

They are all profiting from either selling their own gas or reselling Russian gas.

After deep reflection my bet is on Venezuela. They are in the worst shape so they will benefit the most. /sarcasm

Please, stop speculating without any basis. You can make a case for basically anyone who trades gas or had any issues with Russia.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how you can be so prescriptive about language.

People use the words in the manner I describe. People use the words in the manner you describe. Both usages exist and are common, albeit in different areas.

I'm not denying people use the language in the manner you describe, I'm saying people additionally use it in the manner I describe. And since language is descriptive, not proscriptive, we need to understand both usages exist and be able to recognize both, even if we disagree with them.
Maybe this would help: https://usesummit.com/.
Personally I think you can believe whatever you want, it's just that if you call people something they don't want to be called, they could have a problem with you. And if you're in an organization where the leaders want everyone to get along (most orgs) it shouldn't be surprising if they see you as the cause of the disharmony.
How LiteFS Works
Thank you, that is helpful to know for future reference if I'm ever in a similar situation. I have also moved smaller amounts in the past without much problems (though this was years ago), but you are probably right that this too would have been doable.
but windows still supports 32 bit executables, I'm pretty sure?
Being accommodative of small minorities seems to be a kind, and thoughtful thing to do.

However having large majorities(95%+ of the population) make concessions in order to accommodate a small group imposes a cost (however small) born by many to the benefit of a few. My questions is how do you decide where to make that trade off? What’s the cost benefit analysis? At some point where do people say the cost of accommodating this 1/100k/1m people by another 300m+ people is not a worthwhile use of societal resources?
> The first LNG terminal has just been built (using a ship-based terminal I think, so somewhat different than a completely land-based LNG terminal).

Are you implying that LNG carriers are even remotely comparable in terms of economy and bandwidth to a pipeline from one's neighbor?

> The plan is to buy the gas from somewhere else than Russia

It's not really a "plan", it's just a desire. A "plan" involves thought through supply chain, logistics, economics and so on.

This "plan" also implies stopping the gas flow through Ukraine, which is a politically complicated situation.

> so far we're doing far better than the original predictions.

Specifically?

> Doesn't mean there won't be problems, but it's certainly not as terrible as expected.

But nothing has even started yet. There hasn't really even been a real deficit yet. And still some companies already had to shut down production, just cuz it was no longer sustainable.
I love Open Library (and the internet archive project in general)—I've read so many good books through them! I really hope they don't get shut down.

They're also truly open source: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/
It's a quote from the book, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk.
That usually indicates a phase change, with a separate set of applicable equations.
Today (right now's) frontpage is fantastic, I'm super happy. I realize there's only so much y'all moderators can do given that this deluge of tech news is coming from the users of this site. Thanks for doing what y'all do, and yeah these are great posts!
This seems to be a big hullabaloo about nothing. Language is a tool for communicating meaning; as long as the other person is understanding what you're saying then it's not that big a deal how the message was delivered. People get so offended over nothing. If some people don't want to use the words "mother" and "brestfeeding", so be it. I personally still use those terms because they feel right to me, and I don't plan on changing. But it doesn't bother me that other people are making the change.

If we just learned to communicate with each other and understand intent instead of getting so micro-aggrieved over how language is semantically used, we'd all be better off.
> big fan of predication markets

I'd love to see a predication market
In Go, it's common to create new types from the built-in ones. Here's an example: https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Header

When you create a new type like this, you lose all methods from the original type. If the delete operation was implemented as a method on the `map` type, `Header.Del` would need to convert back to a `map` type to call it.

(map[string][]string(h)).Delete(key)
Are you intersex? if not, aren't you doing the same thing?
I believe you are mistaken; Nix has no intrinsic connection to cgroups / containers.
> Good Judgment maintains a global network of elite Superforecasters who collaborate to tackle our clients’ forecasting questions with unparalleled accuracy. We continue to grow this network by identifying and recruiting fresh talent from our public forecasting platform, Good Judgment Open. And, we train others to apply the methods that make our Superforecasters so accurate.

https://goodjudgment.com/about/
Getting Started with Urbit
One of the great accomplishments of industrialization is that shoes became mass produced cheaply, rather than expensive one-offs handmade by a cobbler. The downside, of course, is that mass produced shoes come in standard sizes, and too bad for you if your feet don't work in them (mine don't).