skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever tried to talk to any women about technology?

All the time - they love technology.

Sue <redacted> runs all the books on the local family farm (which is a large multi million $ enterprise), she pulls in all the GPS logs to a NAS, databases the livestock tags, has bots watching the stock sales.

Robyn runs a super computing facility for the local SKA project (Square kilometre array) after being the Vice C. of the local university, after consolidating the Comp Sci, Math, Engineering Streams overlap into a specialised STEM course.

Danni next door hacks J.Deere software and runs an agronomy consulting group with web prescence.

Joy left running a heavy industry electrical contract company behind after selling it and now runs a GIS consulting group.

I'm guessing it's you and where you are - in this part of the world there are plenty of women into tech.
No problem, Send me Eminem, last Cypress Hill album and bitcoin address to pay, I'll pay you in public, put tx hash here and the whole HN will be able to see that.

Please also send here the invoice photo with yourself and nickname on hn as proof, so it's not some torrent downloaded content already and you really supported artists.

Though I won't do that process on day-to-day basis for each track I listen, that's kinda inconvenient, you know.
Thanks for your detailed and informative reply!

I do have to say, at least for Nintendo, the delusion seems to hold up to reality pretty well. Maybe it doesn't really apply in this IA thing, since it is possible to find, for e.g., a playable Super Mario World game in there if you just search the whole archive instead of just this IA Arcade collection. But in practice that doesn't keep Nintendo from enjoying continued success with re-releasing old games at full prices.

See for example the upcoming Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, a $60 remake of a 2011 Wii game, originally priced at $50 (this was what Nintendo charged for new games at the time, when they were still trying to undercut the competition.)

Note also Super Mario 3D All Stars, released 2020 with three full Mario games (via emulation), from 1996, 2002, and 2007, also for $60 price, but discontinued and no longer available since 2021. It was one of the best selling games in 2020. FWIW, can still be found on Amazon, but currently priced at $75.
I think parent is saying something like "rather than measuring strength by wrestling old men out of bathtubs, we should measure it in a way that doesn't get different results based on how much one cares about not hurting another person."

I agree, of course, but I believe the wrestling comment did not refer to the methodology used in the research.
I spent so long looking for a copy of seasons 2 and 3 of Loudermilk. For some reason Google makes season 1 available but not the later two.

Eventually, despite my staunch opposition to piracy, I ended up pirating the copies. This world doesn't make sense anymore.
I just spat out my tea reading this comment.
And in any case, I misread parent comment.
BTW nirvana means ‚to blow out‘, like a candle.
You are right, it is important to approach them with an open mind and to give others the benefit of the doubt. However, if someone begins to engage in gaslighting tactics, it becomes necessary to confront and challenge their behavior in order to prevent them from manipulating and distorting the conversation. Gaslighting is a harmful and insidious form of manipulation that seeks to undermine the credibility and reality of others, and it is essential to stand up to it in order to maintain the integrity and honesty of the discussion. By actively and assertively addressing gaslighting, we can create a safer and more respectful space for open and honest discourse even if being assertive means writing less candid than usual.
similiar thing with one mija temp app. The app is working fine, and you can see the sensors and their data updating but on top of the gui is alert box saying you need to update the app and if close it, the app will close also. Of course this is the most new version of the app already
When I compare various countries on the "masculinity" index, it seems to me that they're all completely backwards.
> The movie uses a modern Mayan language for dialogue, uses Maya actors and depicts a religion still practiced today. Moreover, practitioners of that religion were being actively killed for their practice only a decade prior. The analogy with nazis and europeans seems pretty different to me.

Raiders of the Lost Ark uses a modern European language for dialogue, uses white actors, and depicts a religion still practiced today.

What are the differences you were going for?
> His choice of wording is poor, and it's clear in most cases he assumes he's "right" - rather than posing a question and linking to supporting evidence for why he "might be right".

There's also some effort required on the reader's part here. You should dig through some bad phrasing and for each statement that the writer makes, ask yourself, "what's the strongest interpretation of this that can be backed up?" A good reader tries to get the most out of it, and not discard it because of the form (how would Seneca read it?).

The way I read his statement is that woke agenda does not deserve so much trust, and there's plenty of reasons to question Google's official view on gender-equality; that having an opposing view is a valid position, which makes you neither a foil-hat-flat-earth psycho, nor a misogynist, nor a bad person. There's enough uncertainly in this question to make both opinions valid, and allow people to pick the one they like. And for woke people, this statement is enough of a reason to "cancel" someone.

Thinking that he insists on his view being the only right one is a bit of a strawman argument. I say "a bit" because I admit that he chose a rather provoking manner to make his statement, but I still say "strawman" because you could easily read it differently. I assume he did it because his opponents also do that, and it may have been an emotional choice to some extent. And, as I said, if we've established that there's enough uncertainty in this question to make it a matter of preference (for now, until the science gives us a definitive answer), it's ok to advertise the choice you prefer in an emotional and provoking manner — which I think is also one of the goals of the memo.

To summarize, I think there's some good things to extract from there if you put in effort. And for a non-expert, he did ok of a job writing it.

> asking for trouble...

It doesn't justify what they did to him, I don't understand why you'd even mention this. "She wore a short skirt, so she asked for harassment" — literally the same victim-blaming technique.
I would have never thought my humble blog would end up in the front page of HN! Please be merciful :)
So, COM?
MEMORY
Up to 16GB

WTF? Can we get serious computers please?
The biggest problem in these situations is that people are highly dependent an their current job (especially in the US) and of the boss says do it you do it. The lack of a safety net and your insurance being tied to your job makes this sadly a very easy choice. I was fortunate enough that out of college I could decline working for defense contractors unlike many of my colleagues.

There would need to be some protection for workers like there is for whistleblowers but smaller things like this don't count as whistle blowing.
I think the difference is more Windows 3.x and 9x versions that many were more familiar with. When your computer runs "windows", and your workstation runs "windows", why not also have your servers run "windows.
Why is Nest critical for Google?
I always want to go this far with vim but I can’t break just using the vim bindings in IDEs like IntelliJ or WebStorm. Is there any big reason for me to forsake a full blown IDE for vim?

I still use vim for small stuff but for navigating commercial codebases I can’t imagine not using a fully fledged IDE.
> This is not the right thing to do. Spotify is peanuts to artists. If you want to do the right thing, buy music at Bandcamp

The right thing to do is to directly subscribe to their Patreon. It not only gets you access to exclusives, behind the scenes and even events, it also crowdfunds the future projects of the artist.
> His choice of wording is poor, and it's clear in most cases he assumes he's "right" - rather than posing a question and linking to supporting evidence for why he "might be right".

Are people not allowed to think they are correct? That’s clearly a bad-faith accusation. Just look at your comment, it directly contradicts your own imaginary standards of discourse.
There comes a point when the world feels like a constant Ryanair checkout flow. Upsell after upsell. This is what A/B testing does over time.
>But then it was framed politically, and suddenly people gave a shit. It was surreal. So if you want to get people to talk about it, and be emotionally invested, simply frame it as evidence of [Specific Politician] mishandling [Specific Element of News Story].

To talk yes. But they still don't really care. They just use the story as a weapon against the party they don't like...
That’s an exceedingly odd way to put “the threat’s scope exceeds this particular vector”.
Thats interesting because when I added a CDN to one of my projects to serve the assets (mostly images) my latency went up and I would preferred not serving them through the CDN but didn’t have a choice because of the large number of files.

I accept that my images are being served a bit slower but with the compromise that I can server a lot more images.

I also think the person your are replying to is correct. The CDN makes the user experience worse but saves me money, that’s an unfortunate sacrifice.
Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? (2015)
Tangentially, I think I read somewhere once that there's more genetic variance between two random chimps from two chimp tribes in the same forest than between two random humans from opposite sides of the planet.
I don't think anyone has been "secretly screwed". HN is a complex system consisting of different factors, including community, software, and moderators, that all have their proper place and do things the other parts can't do.* If there's a way to modify the system to function better, I'm certainly interested, but I don't think mods doing their jobs properly is screwing anybody.

On the contrary, the things mods do—including downweighting top subthreads when they break the guidelines or aren't in the intended spirit of the site—are vital to why HN functions as well as it does (not that it functions particularly well; just that it could and would be worse). In fact, that process of downweighting top subthreads is probably the biggest thing we've ever figured out to improve thread quality, at least in recent years.

* Btw, if there were a way to have the community and software alone do what mods do, and thus eliminate the need for mods, that would be a day of great rejoicing on our part.
> The interoperable ABI does not aim to support the full richness of Rust's type
system, or that of other languages. It aims to support common cases more safely
and simply.

So not much (or any) more than it currently is: it's not a stable Rust ABI, it's instead a more expressive ABI compared to C.
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I use Gmail Notifier because it lets you reduce the polling rate. I wish that mobile operating systems let you do the same.
I've been through the journey with compiling extensions to Python in lower languages (primarily C and C++) and it's really worth evaluating the benefit. In general, the control that it gives you over memory layout and chaining of operations make it very difficult to say from toy examples what benefit you'll get.

If you test a single array operation with NumPy then it will compare favourably to a low level implementation, but where it generally will lose out is when you’re chaining together multiple operations which a compiler will vectorise more efficiently. For e.g. doing things like add two arrays then multiply them by another array and subtract a constant. If I put that in a C or Rust function I’d expect that to be auto-vectorized using fewer operations than what NumPy will do, and you of course also remove the overhead of the foreign function interface and control returning to the interpreter. On top of that, it’s usually trivial to drop in thread level parallelism in a lower level language, and NumPy doesn’t operate with core level parallelism out of the box for most operations, you have to use something like numexpr to achieve it.

I've personally used OpenMP + SIMD intrinsics or auto-vectorisation to great effect in scientific software and got performance >100x that of NumPy, but it's certainly not a free lunch. The question you have to ask yourself is normally “is it worth it”, and that’s something that can only be answered by profiling, looking at the overhead of maintaining the architecture, and understanding whether the increased friction with debugging and building is worth the hassle. Additionally, if you're doing linear algebra then generally if you're dropping to a lower level language you still will want to be using the same libraries that NumPy etc. uses unless you're exploiting some property of the matrix structure that can make operations more efficient in memory or compute. I worked on one codebase for e.g. where there was a block matrix structure and a hand written implementation of a solver was written because much more efficient operations could be performed with knowledge of that structure.
> wildly disingenuous comparison

No, it is not. The parallels are there so strikingly.
Why does Google Cloud lose so much money? It shouldn't be that hard to sell cloud services for more than they cost, right?
this is super valuable, thank you.
The worst is when the date picker won’t let you select a date in the future, like a birthday, and so it’ll rubber-band your selection back to a valid date.

That’s all fine, except it does this validation on every change, rather than when the user has finished entering data. So if today is 27th Dec, and I wanted to enter 1 Jan 2000, I have to first change the year and only then is it save to change the day and month fields!

What’s worse is the year appears last/right hand side, so as we work from left to right the first thing the UI has you pick is the day, not the year. I simply cannot understand how these issues weren’t addressed before release.
Great points. Moderation is a very hard job, and good moderators understand they will likely be biased and can admit to it. I think moderation fairness problem is equivalent to the "auditing the auditor" problem; for some given events, how do we ensure that the labels given to the event are accurate and unbiased.

One solution might be for n moderators to evaluate and give the label to the reported violation, and ensure n is odd and larger than 1. However, this is tedious (although that is the tradeoff for fairness) and assumes there's an equivalent number of moderators who lean liberal, conservative, and neutral (in addition to assuming there's no biases created by the culture of the social media platform and management).

Perhaps each report should be given a detailed criteria as to why it was labelled as inappropriate, but this too would be subject to bias, emotional response from both parties, and slow down the moderation process which is likely backed up with many events in the queue, without really any direct benefit to the bottom line of the company although one could view this as a quality issue and lack of QA will ultimately produce an inferior product that is heavily QA'd.
This is in part because whackos of all stripes often start with “I’m just asking questions here!” and then proceed to spout their nonsense.

The ‘signal’ of a people who are genuinely asking questions or voicing concerns is drowned by the ‘noise’ of charlatans, amoral self-publicists and genuine crazies.
Yes to be honest though going to greater lengths to extract high quality audio reaches a personal point where I'd rather try searching for the artist on Bandcamp or SoundCloud to buy lossless/high-quality audio, although everyone has a different personal point and the avenues in which you can buy good audio from the artist may not always exist. My thought process goes as: "If I want good audio quality, that means I must think the artist is pretty good, ergo I should definitely try buying it in file format somehow".

Thanks for clarifying that point about spytify.
> There's also some effort required on the reader's part here

Obviously. A well constructed argument requires minimal effort - and avoids flamebait and opinion - so it's easier to focus on the actual points...

> There's enough uncertainly in this question to make both opinions valid, and allow people to pick the one they like.

We should be trying to arrive at the truth, not arbitrarily picking opinions based on feelings or whatever fits your world view.
…at the cost of running into annoying and hard-to-reproduce bugs because not all WebViews are created equal. (Safari WebViews, I'm looking at you!)
> Any explanation for why flowers are beautiful is going to have to draw from multiple fields: from evolutionary biology, plant ecology, cultural anthropology, and human psychology, as a start. We should be skeptical of any explanation of floral beauty proposed by a psychologist who doesn’t know about pollinators – but just as much, by a biologist who doesn’t know much psychology or cultural anthropology. This is, of course, just one flavour of the more general argument that we need thought, and education, and research, that breaks down disciplinary silos.

And yet the way tigers and leopards have their patterns formed was explained by a mathematician with simple math. You don't know what is required to solve a puzzle you haven't yet solved. It might be that there's 100 detailed reasons, it might be that there's a simple universal rule that requires almost no domain knowledge to guess.

> What’s true of floral beauty is true, in spades, of climate-change solutions.

Why?

> I can pretty much guarantee the nothing proposed by an engineer without partners in biology, economics, and the social sciences won’t solve our CO2 problem (take that, enhanced weathering). I can also guarantee that nothing proposed by a biologist or a climatologist without full consideration of engineering and economics will solve our CO2 problem.

The premise is false, the implication is shaky, the reasoning is done "by analogy" and magical thinking. It's not a very good article.

The bait-and-switch was good tho, worked on hackernews splendidly :)
Ha! No, I’m just a hack trying to catch meme wave and my goals for it align well with grug brian dev. That’s the htmx guy — Carson Gross. If you’re not familiar with htmx, go check it out! Bad ass little library and almost the only external JavaScript I’m using.
I'm sorry. Now that I know it bum's me too to not have reached for the pun :(
It would be nice if Apple had like a DateKit or something that standardized and nudged developers to integrate natural language date entry across the OS.

It needs to stop being a blockbuster feature that lets companies/products like Fantastical that bait and switched their paid users limit their competition. If Apple can spend the amount of time on things like LiveText and their creepy NeuralHash program, they can take 5 seconds to implement easy date entry.
Misinformation and lying with good intentions is still misinfo and lying.
To add a bit, obviously this was outside of Germany's borders and direct jurisdiction. Does that mean a German citizen can use German public money to perform actions that are against the convention on human rights abroad? And, similar to how the getaway vehicle provider gets a different sentence than the mastermind who also held the gun, probably there is reduced responsibility here. But is there none at all?

And all this is still besides the question whether the employment was necessary and the least-invasive method possible. If you can prove a need greater than the lost privacy, as well as the lack of an alternative option, if I understand how the system works correctly, then it's perfectly legal also inside of Germany.
Hasn't really been tested in court (at least not all permutations of ways you could do this), and if you torrent it, then you upload as well, and that's illegal regardless of how you slice it.
Yes. Apt has preferences and pinning. Basically the official repositories by default have higher priority than other repositories. You can change the defaults, but you'll know when it happens (because you have to do it yourself).
> Let people pirate if it’s the easy route for them FFS. Blame the record labels and distributors, they’re the ones at fault here.

Except I'm not referring to anyone who hasn't retained their masters/credits outside of their first record 20+ years ago. The rest of their catalogs are producing checks, but they're fractions of cents per play because streaming music services that everyone here hates.

The flip side is not ganking their shit off the internet for free (they're available and doing numbers on public trackers FYI)... it's purchasing their shit... why is this so confusing and/or combative for y'all?
Wasn't there a Jill of the Jungle or something?
Totally agree.

Custom entry fields have different compromises (oh defuckinently), and trying to be too tricky leads to corner-case usability problems and a heavy maintenance overhead in my experience. I judged it was worthwhile for our users’ needs at the time for me to spend very significant development time plus ongoing development time, but my choices would be totally inappropriate in many other situations.
You're of course right about that. But that's also a consequence of a story being manufactured for weaponization.

It should be possible (although probably only if you can control the message; i.e. if you owned the news media) to hijack the political interest towards a humanitarian end goal.

I say possible here because I haven't figured out the specific mechanics of accomplishing just that. But I'm bad at social situations, so I could be missing something.
It's all guesswork. There is no mechanism to validate any of it.
sure! each creator is also a consumer, but usually, a better consumer
SSN would be illegal (in California at least) and phone number comes with the exact same set of problems. Despite all the carping about using email as login, I’ve never seen a better solution offered.
>a wasteful luxury that only countries with abundant resources can afford.

Is there an important sense in which Sweden has more abundant resources than, say, the US?

The US outranks Sweden in both of these tables:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
> some minor exclusives but the majority of the music collection is shared over services

Actually I had that impression some 7-8 years ago, but since then the experience on Spotify (France) continually deteriorated, with sometimes entire playlists (not even from a single artist, but e.g. one of my fav chiptune compilations) becoming entirely unplayable (greyed out) over night. I have the impression that this situation is getting more and more similar to the madness in video streaming. Every freaking time I want to watch a specific movie (vs just taking whatever they propose right now) I end up with zero hits on the streaming platforms in the house. (But in my family's defense, they only have amazon prime, netflix, and disney+... /s)

I don't participate in either of these shit-shows any longer. If this mode of operation of "one walled garden against the other" centering around exclusive content at the front of the distribution, with so much disregard for the long tail, is what streaming breeds, then streaming is no improvement over pirating. (and that doesn't even go into the economics of the system, i.e. who really makes money in it)
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