skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ when you look at rare conditions, like Down Syndrome, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, the ratio of left- to right-handers is more like 50:50 rather than 1:10.”

Is this a typo? Or are left-handed people way, way more likely to suffer from these rare diseases?
Agreed; the article is very one sided and also get some of the fundamentals wrong (for example, it uses the term “web sites” when it should be talking about domains)

It also fails to draw any analogy between domain privacy services and real world analogies such as using LLCs.
The networking for Linux "containers" uses virtual veth devices combined with network namespaces that have their own routing table and packet filtering. Now, you are still dependent on what kernel modules the host is running for various capabilities, but otherwise applications running in those network namespaces effectively have their own network stack.
> Another way to look at it is the functional core, imperative shell pattern.

A good explanation of this is: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
> “pill press is a pill press... antique and broken does not mean it can not still be fixed.”

This is valid reason for enforcement of the rule.

What’s at issue, in all of these cases, is the lack of reasonable judgement of the case (appeal).

eBay’s place in the market (different from, say, Amazon or Walmart) is private sellers selling used items, vintage, collectible, rare, antique. This is exactly what this item is.

No average person would ever conceive of the item as itself being dangerous or harmful (like a gun or brass knuckles).

Whats more, no one would object to selling this antique on eBay to, say, a pharmacy to sit as decoration on a shelf.

On the face of it, it seem unlikely an impartial judge would rule the seller was not a good member of the EBay community, and deserves a restoration of their privileges.
The comments on this story are very interesting - not in the good way. This rhetoric is very similar to previous ones that existed in over the decades like Jewish/Polish/Chinese/etc people only doing business with other people of their groups. Or democrats/republicans in deep blue/red states sticking with their own.

Back to the topic:

I know a lot of 2nd, 3rd generation Indians who definitely do not fit the stereotypes.

What we're likely seeing is the effect of three things:

- Indian has a very community based dynamic that prioritizes group identity over individual identities, a number of folks have never experienced being outside their groups

- Newly arrived Individual are likely experiencing culture shock, it happens to most people. It's very much a fight or flight response. People either choose the tribe they know, or find a new one. The later is rare

- Most other ethnic groups we're hearing about took a few generations to get to white collar jobs, they already understood local norms, because these were their norms. We're seeing a lot of 1st generation Indians (and some other groups) start in white collar professions, and that will play out differently.
Google threatened with being broken up by US
You know they actually made a huge chemistry breakthrough though?
I have used OpenBSD as my daily driver for maybe 3/4 years, though I stopped after a dispute over the merge of some of my patches which I found petty.

My experience on the good side:

- OpenBSD has a very clean code base. Simple and to the point with no useless abstraction, which is ideal if you want to understand your kernel or make light changes. It's obviously opinionated, but I found OpenBSD to be clearer and simpler than FreeBSD and even NetBSD.

- Modification, build and boot of a kernel is a breeze. If you have been frustrated with Linux kernel development, OpenBSD is a million times simpler.

- If you use a common laptop, especially ThinkPads T series, then hardware and drivers won't be an issue.

- My usage is pretty typical for a programmer user: I need a WM (i3), a browser, a nice terminal, and development tools (c, c++, rust, python). Software is pretty up to date IMHO, nothing to complain about.

On the bad side:

- I found the core community annoying and immature. Every discussion that implies something could be done in a manner that ressembles what Linux does has to be mocked and turned to derision. It feels like a small circle of long time friends keep the projects in their hands and if you're either in or out this circle. This leads to a "us versus them" mentality that I dislike.
Note that the value returned by cons is guaranteed to have type cons, and it is guaranteed that a fresh cons is created. Neither is true for list*; note that its return type is t.
I would recommend you take a look at Haskell or Elm.

John Karmack did and talked about it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A
From what you wrote, it would be interesting if FreeBSD might be something you might enjoy more. Better SMP support, ports, Linux emulation for example
From the article, "when you compare the number of left- and right-handed Neanderthals, this same ratio of 1 in 10 left-handers that we see today pops out"
Licensing clarity is a good point.

WordPress uses the GPL, which has nothing to say about an integrated service that provides upgrades for plugins. It doesn't say that such a service has to be provided, but I can certainly see how people might assume it's part of what they have and they have a continuing right to use that service.

The GPL doesn't discuss related trademarks either, and what right you might have to use them. WordPress does somewhat cater to companies that sell WordPress-as-a-service, so the lack of clarity wrt. the trademarks related to selling that service isn't good.

Imo those are good points, but the core point is: if your business depends on some open source developers outside your company, stay friends with them, and always remember that they need to be paid, one way or another.
This was an incredible breakthrough.
Is there something similar but instead of being minimalistic mediwiki alternative, it's a minimalistic wikibase alternative?
I like SeaMonkey, it's basically Firefox before it turned to shit.

There are some Firefox forks that are OK, like librewolf and icecat.
> The AlphaFold paper has countless authors, many researchers and company resources underlying it. Hassabis’ contribution is management of resources and entrepreneurship, not the actual science.

That's usually how you get a Nobel prize in science. You become an accomplished scientist, and eventually you lead a big lab/department/project and with a massive massiv you work on projects where there are big discoveries. These discoveries aren't possible to attribute to individuals. If you look back through history and try to find how many "Boss professor leading massive team/project" vs. how many "Einstein type making big discovery in their own head" I think you'll find that the former is a lot more common.

> This will incentivize scientists to focus on management of other researchers who will manage other researchers who will produce the technical inventions.

I don't think the Nobel prize is a large driver of science. It's a celebration and a way to put a spotlight on something and someone. But I doubt many people choose careers or projects based on "this might get us the prize..."
I don't think the title is confusing, if that were the desired meaning then it'd say "I made an SSH tunnel manager learn Go" i.e. no "to".

I don't think "I made X to do Y" ever means "I made X do Y" does it?
I am missing context here and would love to know more.

Say I know about ATP Synthase and how the proteins/molecules involved there interact to make a sort of motor.

How does AlphaFold help us understand that or more complicated systems?

Are proteins quite often dispersed and unique, finding each other to interact with? Or like ATP Synthase are they more of a specific blueprint which tends to arrange in the same way but in different forms?

In other words:

Situation 1) Are there many ATP synthase type situations we find too complex to understand - regular patterns and regular co-occurences of proteins but we don't understand them?

Situation 2) Or is most of the use of Protein situational and one-off? We see proteins only once or twice, very complicated ones, yet they do useful things?

I struggle to situate the problem of Unknown proteins without knowing which of the above two is true (and why?)
Eh, your not wrong but my counter point is when I have looked up people before in the public data, their salary was in line what I and others were making in the same role. The H1B data does not list name but it is detailed enough that you can generally guess who it is in small-medium size companies.
Here's a fun test - we're all in socks on a slippery wood floor. I'll give you $500 if you can run and slide further than I can.

Close you eyes and really imagine it (or do it right now). Really feel yourself sliding along, that tingly feeling of almost losing control, etc. etc. Going a little further with each try.

REALLY run and slide AS FAR AS YOU CAN.

Which foot did you have in front?

I'm very much right handed and footed in life, but in this test I can really only do it right foot forward (called 'goofy' in snowboarding) - left foot forward feels super sketchy to me even after years of practice, and I can't slide nearly as far.

The vast majority of people (left and right handed) are left foot forward.

(This is the best way to determine which foot a beginner should put forward on their snowboard or surfboard. Do the test without telling them you are doing the test. If they can equally do both, then it doesn't matter)
My dad was left handed, I'm left handed and my daughter is left handed. It certainly helps in troubleshooting things, because when anyone else uses a pair of scissors, they work. When a left handed person uses a pair of scissors, they don't work, so you have to figure out how scissors work, or just use your right hand. Imagine doing that with everything.

I did pick up some ambidextrous habits. My daughter and I mouse with my right hand but my dad left handed a mouse.
The photoelectric effect was known before Einstein, so the award was for theoretical achievements. (But only after Millikan had done precision measurements on it)
Yep, Smith and Ricardo both recognized that land is unlike all other forms of capital.
the synthesis would be the outcome maybe? writing code that doesn't follow either rule strictly:

> Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that made functions more explicit, while at other times I'll spend days just breaking up thousand line functions into simpler blocks just to be able to follow what's going on. In both cases I was creating inconsistencies that younger developers nitpick -- I know I did.
Burton Malkiel: How the US should reform taxes
> There are quite a lot of examples where it turns out engineering > evolution in a quite strict sense.

Only if you're considering human agents more important than anything else. When considered the system as a whole, nature seems very efficient.
I don't like ads either, but what is the alternative? Since content costs money to produce and host, there must be a revenue source somewhere. Is the solution paywalls?

Personally, I'm fine paying for some ad-free content. But Mozilla wants much of the internet to be free (as in free beer) and open, so an internet which replaces all advertising with paywalls is not their vision. Advertising without tracking, surveillance and shady data brokers sounds better than advertising with tracking, surveillance and shady data brokers.

I'd love for their to be another driver, but so far nobody has come with a broadly applicable revenue model other that paying for content or viewing ads. Suggesting that "just delete advertising" without providing an alternative is feasible is patently false and everything that follows is compromised.

Perhaps one day we will live in a post-capitalist utopia, but in the meantime making online advertising less shitty would be nice.
Your analysis is flawed. Its much better to run through a FAANG and compare to levels.fyi. I just did for Meta and the base salary numbers are within the ranges I saw on Levels. Actual level is not outlined so its a broad range.

These numbers are set using prevailing wage calculations for a geographical area and role. There is an incentive for companies to figure out ways to get it as low as possible but I have never seen 50% myself, that is a hard stretch to pass the DOL.
It's not guaranteed for 7-bit ASCII either because tolower/toupper are locale-dependent and with the tr_TR lowercase I (U+0049) is ı (U+0131, aka dotless i) wich encodes as two bytes in UTF-8.
I can only predict a more prestigious prize on the horizon in the future.

Isn't sama on track to end up with more financial resources than Nobel had at his disposal?

Plus I think he's got enough of a philanthropic streak which can prove to be not so shabby.

There could very well be a foundation someday awarding the Altman Prize well into the 22nd century.

Whether or not his most dynamic legacy would be something as simultaneously useful/dangerous as dynamite.
The waitlist for Indians to get a green card (i.e. second-class citizenship) is 134 years currently. By the end of this decade, it will touch 200. No regular Indian going on a work visa to the US currently has any significant scope of ever being recognized a citizen.

Think of that what you will, but the list of incentives an Indian has to bother integrating into American society is rather short.
Do you mind me asking if you work full-time on your app, or is it passive income?

The drag and drop looks really nice! Do you have some hints as to how you accomplished that with QML?
That’s funny I don’t see anything about this in the constitution

Also, weren’t Solutreans brown skinned?
Ask HN: What is your monitoring stack on AWS?
I am looking for a monitoring solution that is web scale in terms of pricing (we have 100.000 req/min website).

Most of the enterprise solutions cost the same amount of money as running the entire infrastrcuture serving the website. I am not sure if this is acceptable.

I was wondering if there is anything out there that has support for the following:

- application performance monitoring (.NET)

- host metrics (EC2 / ECS)

- custom metrics

- application logs

- aplication traces

- core web vitals

- mobile app metrics

- mobile crash report

- frontend monitoring (how long do the backend API calls take)

It appears to me that enterprise tools cover these areas very well for a significant cost. I was wondering if there are tools that use something like S3 and ECS for storage and querying respectively.
Everything in moderation, even moderation.
Right handed with right-foot-forward as well.
People who want it to be like this are those who make money from it being like this.

It's the same for every other unliked aspect of life. Poverty, war, famine - they all exist because that condition makes some other group of people richer than they otherwise would be.

I am aware some parts of the World consider this observation to be a statement of socialist or communist support. It isn't meant to be.

Advertising is no different. There's a lot of money in the adtech business, and it drives and is driven by a large consumer economy. Most of the people working in it hate being advertised to (being "victims"), but are happy to make money from it (being "perpetrators"). Most of us don't get to make money from advertising, so are more likely to see it for the problems it imposes on us.

Morally there are huge differences, but logically you can see parallels in other disliked industries: arms dealing, modern slavery, enterprise IT sales...
Both are in BRICS? Are there other BRICS countries who also blocked Discord? Maybe the news organizations don't care much about smaller nations like Burkina Fasa blocking Discord.
It also doesn't seem like a good assumption: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+transport_ht...
Actually, if security is the goal, I expected that they would use a security-oriented OS (e.g., Qubes OS).
I'm not sure why experience requires the arrow of time or location. Your experience does, and it might seem that is a universal rule, but only because you can't possibly intuit a world in which time doesn't flow.

I think Dr. Manhattan is a good fictional reference. He existed in a timeless form. Everything was happening simultaneously for him. For everyone else they experienced him in a time like way, but only as a matter of perspective.
Anger at UK 'bonkers' plan to reach net zero by importing fuel from North Korea
Does not seem to be true. See https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/08/15/is-being-inacti...
quite sure that is my limit but what is the difference between this and other "md compiler" projects (or ssr) like <https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook>? Anyway this seems to work very well, so congrats!
I'm right handed for everything except snooker/pool. I have no idea why, it just felt more natural to put my right hand down as the rest and hold the cue with my left.
It's at least twenty new web frameworks, but maybe not so long in low-level stuff. You can probably rely on C99 being available now more than you could in 2014.
Just start smoking in your early or mid 80s and then immediately quit. (Repeat as needed.)
Traffic Count
Well, I don’t have the option of walking into a store, watching some ads, and walking out of the store with whatever I want.

I totally get it and some people are happy to produce online stuff without direct compensation—and a handful can attract enough cash to live on from fans. But you can bet there would be plenty of screaming on here if most content went behind hard paywalls. And people here probably on average make a lot more money than the average member of society.
I appreciate your nuance, as mixing up economic burden and legal responsibility for taxes is a common fallacy in discussions. But specifically for rents in supply-constrained cities, i would guess that supply is highly inelastic, therefore market rate of rents is already as high as acceptable by renters (i.e. determined by demand curve) and therefore property tax would not affect it much.
> I _think_ that as long as I’m working out, I’m in better health than an _inactive_ non smoker.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
To me that feels like the JS community asking for left-pad or is-even in a module. Why have a dedicated function for 2 lines of code?

And it's a huge footgun. There is no ascii type in C++. People will use the generalized tolower for UTF8 encoded in narrow strings and have issues.

You could say the generalized tolower should support all the different width/encoding combinations and sort it out. But that's still highly opinionated as far as performance is concerned.

Generalized string conversion is a very complex problem and you really cannot simplify it in a way that will satisfy most C++ users. Just use ICU or utf8cpp if you want to do string operations and don't care what's going on under the hood. But even then I can't recommend just 1 library, because no perfect 3rd party library exists. A perfect first party library definitely could not exist.
Hassabis should also be a billionaire by now.
The Haitians you are referring to are not here legally; they’re illegally in the country BUT are granted Temporary Protected Status; should TPS as a policy be revoked then under the law, they are not allowed to remain in the USA.
My father was left handed.

While in school, before WWII, he was beaten on the offending hand, to discourage him from writing with the left hand. So eventually he became accustomed to write with the right hand, and then he has continued to write with the right hand, even if he always did most other kinds of precision work with his left hand.
I think it's offloading well known problematic companies issues like Cognizant onto nationality.

It's the nature of service that WITCH prefers to provide and puts people in position where it's hard to change it, and the executives who contract with WITCH.
Exactly and where you want case-insensitive comparison you almost always also want other kinds of Unicode normalization.
Event-driven architecture on the modern stack of Java technologies
> You become an accomplished scientist, and eventually you lead a big lab/department/project and with a massive massiv you work on projects where there are big discoveries.

That's a very recent thing. Up to the 90s, the Nobel committee refused to even recognize it. They just started to award those prizes at the 21 century, and on most fields they never became the majority.
Gasoline generators are significantly cheaper. There are some tri-fuel generators that can run on gasoline, propane, or natural gas, but again they're more expensive.

A natural gas powered permanent standby generator is amazing for peace of mind but they're a significant investment.
Thanks for sharing.

Your country, explicitly codifies race based tracking in universities, long before this DEI wave. It's so incredibly wack. Other countries have better language to identify anything unique and under-represented, and maybe are less awkward but still awkward at it.

Historically, the creation of places of higher learning in the US were not created for women to be accepted, let alone people of color.

It's helpful to take a more historical look at how those pesky college application forms got the checkboxes they did, and how they were added at the moments of change in the particular decade. Imagine all the people who don't get counted.

What kind of system names an entire group of people a whole continent like Asia? :)

There is historical merit to people not being counted... not counting... or existing.. or qualifying as human enough to vote.

When it comes to data.. what gets measured, gets managed.. and maybe some of the wording of what got measured had some unconscious bias.

It's also not about whataboutism seeking a perfect solution to undermine change that is trying to be better for more people.

I have some international experience in the academic industry and student data collection, management, etc. Race based data in the US always stands out compared to other countries.

While it's true that disadvantaged children regardless of background can have similar challenges, its no contest that people of color experience it so very much more.

Discrimination starts with the contract that there is a privileged contract place prior to it being adjusted for said offence.

There are awful references to suggesting people of color "work harder" .. maybe that is advice for everyone?

I'm not going to participate in taking shots at any one group of students, especially black students who are way more disadvantaged per capita than any other.

About the med-school link - isn't it a little dated (and risking a stereotype) to believe that the best grades are the only thing important about getting into med school? Great doctors are well rounded people who connect with and help all walks of life - understanding people is a key skill beyond maniacal memorization and regurgitation for years of study to only stop and impossibly be behind research after graduation.
come on, you just need to teach a bit of git/k8s/docker/tls/proxies/storage/vault/markdown/linux/apt and then your family will be autonomous at managing this wiki IF you are allowed to take vacations.
Right handed, but I pictured my left foot forward. I guess because I'd expect the power to come from my right foot (I'm right footed).
Will this also kill 3rd party Google Drive clients for Linux like Insync?
Generalizing everyone from a region/group with some negative trait is racisam.

If your brain try to label me as someone who practice caste system because you think I am from India is lazy/stupid computation and racism.

Actually vast majority of the Indians suffer from negative consequences of Castisam since they are supposed to be lower classes and society descrimated against them historically.

They want equality more than probably anyone you know of.

Indian constitution has done a lot for eliminating this. But there is a lot of cultural baggage that needs cleanup.