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by spenrose 3y ago
The underlying survey is from ~12,000 children born 1957-1964, when America was much poorer. My own aunts and uncles, who were middle class, report competing for food with their 9 other siblings. Results may not hold for, say, a 4-child hou
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by spenrose 3y ago
Seventy-one upvotes in the first 18 minutes for a story about a browser with < 10% usage. My fellow Mozillians (I worked there for four years) are wildly overrepresented among HN voters, which suggests that HN voters have a large conting
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by spenrose 3y ago
If you learned from this (excellent) piece, I recommend that you buy and work through https://leanpub.com/learngitthehardway . It will take less than a day, and you'll have a much stronger foundation for a core tool.
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by spenrose 3y ago
Preprint (downloads PDF): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/r3ktd/download "Based on the suggested cut-off scores from 31 to 33 (García-Manglano et al., 2021; Kwon et al., 2013), between 29% and 31% of t
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by spenrose 3y ago
A number of commenters are pointing out that natural fertilizers exist. That is true. It is also true that artificial fertilizers were invented because around 1900 humanity ran out of biologically accessible ("fixed") nitrogen tha
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by spenrose 3y ago
1. I don't know. 2. Relative to their importance in 2023, HN disproportionately upvotes headlines mentioning Mozilla, Linux desktop frameworks (#1 recently!), and other technologies that were extremely important in 2003. 3. Based on th
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by spenrose 3y ago
"We conducted an empirical study to understand the characteristics and current state of the malicious code lifecycle in the PyPI ecosystem. We first built an automated data collection framework and collated a multi-source malicious cod
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by spenrose 3y ago
Five net downvotes (and counting?) for this anodyne observation.
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by spenrose 3y ago
The #1 story on Hacker News at 2023:08:21T15:41Z is a 2021 discussion of Linux desktop packaging tools. Hypothesis: HN story up-voters are heavily drawn from Free / Open Source Software folks interested in issues that were broadly disc
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by spenrose 3y ago
South Africa's electricity and coal sectors are run by kleptocrats: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/carbon-notes-4-from-feast-t... . The solar boom is notable, but the author hasn't sone his homework.
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by spenrose 3y ago
Agreed. My history emphasized the Bush/memex -> Engelbart/Online System -> Alto -> Mac and Engelbart -> Berners-Lee/WWW lineages: http://whatarecomputersfor.net/machines-for-millions/
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What Are Computers For? (2016)(whatarecomputersfor.net)
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by spenrose 3y ago
Kudos! When at Mozilla c.2016, I tried to work with the core Jupyter team on solving the stale-cell problem. I couldn't find a path forward that they would consider. Glad to see someone making progress.
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SVB’s Demise Swirled on Private VC, Founder Networks Before Hitting Twitter(bloomberg.com)
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Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking(tidbits.com)
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by spenrose 4y ago
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has been surpassed by Wootton's The Invention of Science. Wootton taught himself to read the major languages of 16th and 17th century science, and, unlike Kuhn, worked from the source mat
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by spenrose 4y ago
Automobile trip length follows a power-law distribution (above walking distance). https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/pl08021/fig4...
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What Improves Developer Productivity at Google?(dl.acm.org)
2 points by spenrose 4y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 4y ago
This series is excellent on crossing the chasm from interested to effective: https://lowlyswe.substack.com . Code (not study, code ) 50+ hours/week for a couple years.
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by spenrose 4y ago
1. I can't 2. If you understand git's core well, the latest features won't matter (unless you are working on git for its own sake) 3. I recommend Learn Git the Hard Way
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by spenrose 4y ago
We're building a charging network for the largest highway vehicles, complete with dedicated power: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/31/daimler-nextera-and-b... Our team is building the associated soft
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by spenrose 4y ago
As with the high vote totals for Firefox-related links, the presence of a link on an ancient* text editor at #1 on HN (as I write) reveals that HN voters are a bit ... old school. These tools' relative importance has declined over the
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by spenrose 4y ago
Ruby and Go both adopted extensively from Python, but both rejected the process described in OP of designing a language by iterative experimentation to determine how coders would experience design choices. Instead, each relied on the judgme
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Why did we wait so long for wind power? Part III – offshore wind(constructionphysics.substack.com)
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by spenrose 4y ago
Nowhere on this site does the string "wootton" appear. Since David Wootton published a landmark history in 2015 ... the site needs updating. https://www.inventionofscience.com
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by spenrose 4y ago
OP's site ttps://neverworkintheory.org is dedicated to reviewing the abundant recent research in software engineering.
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by spenrose 4y ago
Source paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... "Question What proportion of individuals who recently contracted the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant were aware of their infectious st
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by spenrose 4y ago
"In November 2020, Antrim County, Michigan published unofficial election results that misstated totals in the presidential race and other contests by up to several thousand votes. Antrim subsequently issued a series of corrections, and
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by spenrose 4y ago
"In a comprehensive, large-scale analysis of 4.2 million political and 29.6 million non-political ads from 215,030 advertisers, we identify ads correctly detected as political (true positives), ads incorrectly detected (false positives
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The Antrim County 2020 Election Incident: An Independent Forensic Investigation(usenix.org)
3 points by spenrose 4y ago|2 comments

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