skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So I'll reframe the question in a more libertarian way: if women are better at getting entry level corporate jobs and education-focused career paths (doctors, lawyers), is that something we should fix?

It's funny you put it this way. Feminists were never satisfied when men suggested that maybe men got paid more because they were more hard-working or talented, and maybe their success was simply the result of good choices and higher natural ability, or biological life cycle differences, or the preferences of women themselves to not work as hard.

To actually answer the question, I think the fix that should be put in place is to stop assuming that sex differences are because of discrimination, and immediately end policies that promote quotas on people based on characteristics like sex. It's clear that women have not been actually disadvantaged in general for a very long time, and pretending otherwise is harming men. Treat people equally as possible, and let the outcomes be what they must.

In my opinion I think men are also losing motivation because all the jobs they might like are being outsourced and undercut. They're told they are oppressors even though they have little real power in society. Most of them aren't getting any attention from the opposite sex either, because women don't want to date down. Demographic imbalances also make the dating pools skewed in favor of women.

In many/most cases women will regret choosing career over a husband and kids, or even be tricked into thinking they can have it all at 40. But by then it is too late.
Librewolf isn't signing the binary shipped via brew.
Can't speak in regard to Cornell, but I think it's well past time to revoke the tax-exempt status of schools that rip students off with sky-high tuition while sitting on huge endowments. It's even worse when they're blowing money on athletic programs and new stadiums.

My university jacked tuition 24% in one year; and when asked why, they essentially said "because everyone else did."

For this and other offensive behavior, I instructed them to never again ask me for a penny; and they haven't.
Nothing Putin is saying can be taken seriously or at face value. I am from a country neighboring Russia. In fact, if Ukraine was to fall, we would be one of the next targets. We all here understand who and what Putin is. We used to be under the USSR and thankully we were able to restore our independence. Putin's rhetoric constantly contradicts with itself. He wants to build a legacy. He wants to be the largest power in the World. He wants territory. Russia is the reason why our country has mandatory military service, which I attended as well. Year of my life. All we want is to be indendent and live our own peaceful life. Unfortunately we haven't been blessed geographically. The past for us is enough evidence of what Russia is. It is very hard to see Russian propaganda making its way to US in such strides, it is hard to see people believing this type of thing.
Dictators only understand strength. It won't go to nukes, this is also Russian propaganda and Putin threatens nukes weekly, everyone knows he is bsing.

It is clear, Putin has something over Trump or Trump just has some twisted strategy here that I can't make sense of. There was never going to be a deal that would work out well for Ukraine.

Now Europe must do without support of US. Democracy in US has unfortunatly been compromised and failed.
wow, thanks Matt. You and Lincoln Stein (Bioperl founder if I remember correctly) got me started with my first website.
>So you pay for the product and then need to download some unofficial shady East European software to remove unwanted features? Ridiculous.

Get your facts straight. A quick check of wikipedia will reveal it's open source and written by Pete Batard from Ireland, not "some unofficial shady East European software".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_(software)

https://akeo.ie/

Meanwhile "linux" incorporates software from overworked volunteers that willingly handed over control to some shady threat actor that successfully backdoored it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators
TIL you cannot post retraction on a 4 month old comment on HN. I posted an upvoted comment about how these operators were invented in C due to the addressing modes available on PDP-11 computers, in the thread at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41850017>.
Wrong!

Turns out they predate both C and PDP-11 computers. Dennis Ritchie wrote about it in The Development of the C Programming Language, here's a link:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194040/http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html>.

The relevant section is this:
"Thompson went a step further by inventing the ++ and -- operators, which increment or decrement; their prefix or postfix position determines whether the alteration occurs before or after noting the value of the operand. They were not in the earliest versions of B, but appeared along the way. People often guess that they were created to use the auto-increment and auto-decrement address modes provided by the DEC PDP-11 on which C and Unix first became popular. This is historically impossible, since there was no PDP-11 when B was developed. The PDP-7, however, did have a few `auto-increment' memory cells, with the property that an indirect memory reference through them incremented the cell. This feature probably suggested such operators to Thompson; the generalization to make them both prefix and postfix was his own. Indeed, the auto-increment cells were not used directly in implementation of the operators, and a stronger motivation for the innovation was probably his observation that the translation of ++x was smaller than that of x=x+1."
It sounds like your parenting efforts have paid off. Good job! If only more parents could be so thoughtful.

Sadly, I don't think most of the teens being discussed would fit into the performance categories your children are achieving.

Would your own children even have those "real life" activities if you hadn't insisted they do so, and facilitated the activity?

Sadly, many parents use a screen to distract the child so that they themselves can participate in vacuous internet prattle.

I think you're right in your conclusion: it's not a matter of to have it, or not to have it. It's a matter of how much, and to what effect.

With your children's reported life performance, it doesn't seem like they're being unnecessarily harmed, but many others are. This is also in line with your statement that these are not conclusions that can be applied universally. Each child, each person, has to look at how the behaviour is affecting their lives (this also, for instance, applies to any intoxicating substance use, such as alcohol). A responsible person will limit their use to minimize the negative effects, but this self discipline is also a taught behaviour, and probably why your own children are doing well in this regard.

Once again, Congratulations on your parenting efforts and the payoff!
Thanks for your comment. I agree with a lot of what you said, in particular that trying to have it both ways (hybrid) often ends up with everyone being frustrated, in my experience.

I want to say very clearly that I don't doubt that "grift and fraud" happens. What percentage of the workforce are engaged in this grift? If you have 100 remote workers in your average IT shop at BigCo, how many of them do you think are truly running a scam that would never pass if they were in person? My guess is 3 or less, but that's just a guess.

In case it's not obvious, what I'm working towards is: If 3% of your workforce is engaged in grift, but a lot of the other 97% are happier and more productive, is it worth pissing off a substantial portion of that 97% just to shut down the 3%?

> The majority of the quality of life improvements are really about time freedom. You’d get most of it by giving employees sufficient paid time and allowing them to use it.

This leaves out one of the main things to like about WFH for many (most?) Americans, at least: I get to avoid wasting 30–90 minutes of my day in a stressful commute that comes with its own share of expenses.
Programmatically generating web content felt so rad in the 1990s. It's funny to me now because with deeper historical knowledge it's not a lot different than what many block-mode green screen systems were doing for a long time before that. Of course it grew up into something more, but the early web was not much different than that with fonts and image embeds and relying on the underlying transport and naming system to make it easy to span.
Thanks for your form mailer. That was the first cgi-bin script I had ever installed and run on Apache. xD
To add to that:

CORS is implemented by browsers based on standardized HTTP headers. It’s a web-standard browser-level mechanism.

CSRF protection is implemented server-side (plus parts of the client-side code) based on tokens and/or custom headers. It’s an application-specific mechanism that the browser is agnostic about.
This is one of the weird US debates I, a German, don't understand, like that Seinfeld episode back then.

I never had the feeling that any of the shower heads here I was standing under was particularly bad. Maybe it's different with those ominous low flow thingies.

But: If you're not using massage jets, is high or low flow even relevant? To get shampoo out of your hair you just need water and hands. But according to Jerry and Kramer it's a catastrophe.

(Maybe because American shower heads are fixed mounted and as such are higher above the head?)
Nice reply. I don’t know anything about Peano arithmetic, or how it applies to the halting problem, so I can’t really evaluate this. All I know is the description of the proof that I read some time ago. Maybe there’s more to dig into on it, but as you say at the start of your post, likely none of it has anything to do with what Penrose is arguing for.
Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now.

But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it.

Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted Dropbox/OneDrive alternative besides NextCloud?
Just make sure you log on and delete your account, why leave them with all those posts and information.
> Alliances with the USA aren't reliable

Can you please provide insight into this? As far as I can tell the U.S. has never failed to honor a treaty obligation, so the idea that it would suddenly abandon all commitments lacks historical precedent.

Ukraine is not now nor has ever been an ally To America. The Budapest Memorandum was not a defense treaty. It didn’t commit the U.S. to military intervention, it only committed the U.S. to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and take diplomatic action if it was threatened. We have done that with sanctions and aid.

It doesn't obligate us to do that into perpetuity nor does it keep us from being compensated for that aid. For perspective the price Britain paid for its survival in WW2 was its empire.
Ah, my apologies. I thought you were talking about something like an undo button, rather than cmd+z within a particular text box.

Sure, point taken. Native widgets might work differently than cross-platform ones. That said, there's no reason a cross-platform widget couldn't work identically to the native one.

Indeed, a platform's native widgets an effective way to give users a consistent style and functionality across apps from many developers.

Yet, as a one-man dev team, the cost of building a separate version for each platform is prohibitive. The choice is to disregard most platforms or disregard a small corner of the expectations each user has for apps on a given platform.

The choice was pretty obvious to me.
On 6502 they are both 2 cycles. On the vast majority of processors I'm aware of, "simple" alu operarations don't vary in execution time
Sure. In many parts of the United States, regional hospital systems have captured their local markets through consolidation and exploitation of their non-profit status. They then offer their own health insurance plans to provide access their own hospital systems, sometimes even denying access to other insurance plans. So when these insurance plans spend on patient care, they are, in effect, paying themselves at rates they have strong influence over.

For example, in western Pennsylvania, there is UPMC. According to court documents, UPMC acquired 28 competitors between 1996 and 2018. According to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, in 2011 UPMC announced it would stop accepting patients insured by its competitor, Highmark. This prompted the PA government to "enter into consent decrees with both UPMC and Highmark to protect access to care." Which, again according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, UPMC continued to violate. This has lead to, among other things, a recent antitrust lawsuit supported by the US Justice Dept. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/upmc/

[2] https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2024-10-03/justice-d...
Those stories are not to be believed.
> Given the state of the social sciences, I don't think that it would.

Why not? That's a really broad brush.
Ah, the game I was referring to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_End_of_the_World

The poster is Ichiro Lambe of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejobaan_Games
As someone who was shoved and occasionally bullied while operating machines like belt saws... I'm not sure it was worth it.

Perhaps with stop-saw like inventions it could be safer, if the patents ever expire so schools could actually afford them.
About the "validity" period: in practice it seems to be more like a rotation period, the code themselves seem to be valid longer than this, that is you can often enter them for quite some time after they get rotated.

And I also often wonder about the OTP aspect, whether there is any protection in TOTP backends for the same TOTP being used twice.
I'm posting this from Ladybird. It's easy to build but it's definitely not ready for prime time. Trying to search HN and sort results by date doesn't work, for example.
How many Trump supporters does it take to change a lightbulb?

None. Trump says it’s done and they all cheer in the dark.
The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

I know I will get beat up for this comment but someone has to say it. I believe this direction is well deserved. Clearly they were given far too much trust and were operating as a rogue organization for far too long. Developing bio-weapons and dual use medicines on college campuses and then moving them to China once called out by Obama is cavalier, aggressive, dangerous, wanton disregard for life and absolute folly. And that's just what we know about. They can not take their own work seriously. To be clear I am not opposed to developing bio-weapons and dual use medicines rather I just want the people making these things to put a tremendous amount of safeguards friction and security around them. Move all the weapon development to highly secured military installations that are far away from everyone and require extensive scans before boarding a jet required to travel to that location and that is just to start their assignment. Once there they will have no privacy and will not leave until their work is completed and fully vetted.
You are right there is no getting around that relatively low grade heat in geothermal is a big barrier for scaling in terms of energy production. Binary /organic rankine cycle geothermal plants used for these low / medium temperature resources operate at ~10% efficiency. Dry / flash steam resources are higher but produce waste in terms of emitted GHG and / or crap in the geothermal brine.
Can you provide an example of one “org” in the tech industry that has defected twenty times in a row against a peer?

> Well clearly no, because the world is not constantly at war (the highest escalation).

The world is not constantly at war because it’s almost always settled way before the count hits 20.
> This is an appeal against innovation.

No it is not. It is arguing for using more stable and better documented tooling.
> (2) I particularly dislike the Pentagon meddling in secret social science undertakings to pursue those goals

All of the research in question was public.
When I installed LibreWolf via the Microsoft App Store (to easy auto updates) it would not let me into a profile file. It would state a directory in the dialog. I would try to then manually go to the directory and it would not exist. I don’t know if that was a result of a sandbox AppStore design or what. Anyway, I uninstalled and am trying Zen out. So far, so good and it has vertical tabs like I used Sidebery for in FF.
By that logic, Electron apps kills people. Makes sense.
I'm sorry, I assumed the US Navy ship engines burned bunker fuel like container ships, in diesel engines like those Wärtsilä makes, rather than using turbines. Thank you for the correction. I was talking about primarily the surface fleet, but also didn't know the US had eliminated their non-nuclear submarines, which I have to admit undermines my point somewhat!
well that is the "beyond computable". we are somehow able to say that this function will not halt, and we wouldnt be able to do that if we only had computable power to simulate it because that would proove that the probem was decidable in the first place.

how you comunicate it does not alter the nature of the problem.
The internet has largely replaced CD Roms, Floppies and DVDs.

The stuff you use a computer hard drive or Flash drive has remained consistent. Some items may have moved to the internet but most games, OS Utilities and whatnot are stored on local HDDs or SDDs. Always have and likely will remain so.

I remember when data interchange meant burning a disc and walking a disc over to my buddy. XML will standardize that and simplify my workflow. /s
Universities run small cities. That staff number includes the people who mow the lawn, cook food, clean dorms, work security, maintain their networks, etc the list is massive.
> I think that LLMs can be said to be ”think” in ways that are analogous to what we do. ... But human consciousness produces an experience (the experience of being conscious) as opposed to some definite output. I do not think it is computable in the same way.

"We've all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul?" -- Captain Louvois. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(e...
Have a look at Keepassxc. It doesn't use a tpm, but supports passkeys and is portable.
That assumes booting is a synchronous action instead of asynchronous, giving time to fetch a cup of coffee
Well, if you break everything down to the lowest level of how the brain works, then so do humans. But I think there's a relevant higher level of abstraction in which it isn't -- it's probabilistic and as much intuition as anything else.
There's something that continues to confuse me about CSRF protection.

What's to stop an attacker, let's call her Eve, from going to goodsite.com, getting a CSRF token, putting it on badsite.com, and duping Alice into submitting a request to goodsite.com from badsite.com?
Sure. Exposing these situational constraints and free benefits (third-party sunk costs) aligns with my stance.

I don't agree with the above comment:

> Fervo isn't just trying, they are succeeding
The Cinematronics arcade game processor has two 12-bit accumulators. The multiply instruction shifts them right as a single 24-bit value and adds the contents of memory if a 1 came out the LSB. So you clear the upper half, load one value in the lower, I forget how you set the memory address for the other operand... and execute several 1-bit multiplies is a row. You can get a 24bit product this way, but most code I saw had runs of 8 multiplies. The most common thing was a 2x2 matrix multiple to do coordinate rotations for game objects.

This was in the mid 1970s using off the shelf 7400 series parts and had peak throughput of 5MIPS.
The parenthetical is doing most of the lifting in that sentence.
USA names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve [dupe]
I made some restaurant reservations, it worked.
Regarding CSRF - how would I be authenticated to do actions on bank.com when I'm on evil.com?

It seems like the problem is at the level of login information somehow crossing domain boundaries?

What stops a script on evil.com from going to bank.com to get a CSRF token and then including that in their evil request?
Not quite, with geothermal the storage is built into the system by simply limiting the intake, which builds pressure and can shift energy production throughout the day.

The cost of enhanced geothermal is roughly the exact same cost as nuclear today (if you exclude the very high cost of failed build attempts for nuclear), and it shares similar economics of a very very low OpEx to CapEx ratio. However the economics differ massively in that enhanced geothermal is getting cheaper as we build more, but nuclear tends to get more expensive as we build more. Geothermal is a technology, nuclear is a monument.
>but I think it's well past time to revoke the tax-exempt status of schools that rip students off with sky-high tuition while sitting on huge endowments

As other people have mentioned in this thread, the point of endowments is to provide a steady source of income for the university's activities, not a piggy bank you can raid.

>It's even worse when they're blowing money on athletic programs and new stadiums.

I'm sure the right is equally mad about universities "blowing money" on humanities programs as well. Should we get rid of those as well?
I read the site (via hckrnews.com, prefer chronological ordering) nearly every day, and have for a long time.

You may not be surprised at what being known for some of the worst code on the internet does for one's willingness to post things under one's own name. ;) That said, I have a different, older account that I have occasionally posted under when I can't resist temptation.
Haven't seen anyone mention this yet: there is a difference between "listed employees" vs. "full time employees" (FTEs) vs. "full time employee equivalents" (FTEEs). In this very specific case, physicians/providers often work 0.125-0.875 (i.e. one hour to seven hours of an 8 hour day) for one entity (say, their primary teaching hospital), and the remainder for another entity (the university where they are also an listed as adjunct professor, etc.).

You could have 10,000 employees, however 4,000 of them are physicians/providers, 3,000 of whom work less than full time for that entity. So you are looking at 10,000 employees, but some number between 7,000 and 9,999 FTEEs. These are very different, and very relevant, numbers when looking at healthcare organizations.
Something I like about the recycling scheme for single-use plastic and aluminium cans here in Germany is a secondary aspect: It reduces littering of those. I remember the decades before the scheme and it a least reduced this.

(But we need a deposit on cigarette butts..)
For reference, one can buy 486 / Pentium "compatible ISA" from Intel that use 0.025W, 25mW. ~14mA!

And that's TDP!
18F and other such "enablers" are an unnecessary antipattern in the age of AI. They were useful before, but AI is now a more democratic and more deeply embedded enabler. The reason why they're an antipattern is they force their ideas on everyone, resulting in groupthink, also blocking independent innovation.
I don't dismiss Tailwind, CSS had trouble with scoping styles. From there we got to BEM. Now CSS has grown to tackle that issue.

So the question is whether Tailwind is now becoming an obsolete approach. Especially as DaisyUI tries to put yet another block on the Jenga tower.