skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do mean that homosexuality is an identity. I do not believe such identities can be chosen. Identities are truths about who you are.

Homosexuality is both an identity and a truth about who you are, but the two do not always coincide, and the identity absolutely can be chosen. (Which is why the label “men who have sex with men” [MSM] exists, as a label that is less-offputting and more useful in getting messages—such as health information—to men who have the “truth about who you are” referred to as “homosexuality” but reject the identity of “homosexuality”.)

> Dr. Soh's position is that unlike sexual orientation, which is immutable, gender identity is flexible, and therapy to talk people into growing up to be gay in adulthood, not transgender [direct quote from above!] is ethical.

That's not a direct quote, it's an interpretation, and I think it's mistaken because it overlooks something that seems to me to me fairly obvious but inconvenient to both sides of the political fight over the fundamental reality or unreality of transgender identity: a substantial portion of gender dysphoria isn't a sex-trait-specific body dysmorphia, it's a conflict between ones preferred modes of personal expression/behavior and social gender images and stereotypes.

In a heteronormative social context, individuals the with homosexual tendencies and ideation are going to be prone to experience such a conflict between personal preferences and gender stereotypes, with being accepted as the opposite gender an obvious route to relieving the tension (the same would seem to be true of male bisexuals in a context more accepting of female-female attraction, whether bisexual or homosexual, than male-male attraction.)

Therapy to help children recognize whether the source of the tension with ascribed gender is really fundamentally grounded in a conflict of personal preference with heteronormative gender stereotypes will (if it is effective) make it more likely that those for whom that is the source of tension resolve it as homosexual (or maybe bisexual) members of the gender corresponding to their sex identified at birth, but that's not because the therapy is aimed at making them cisgendered gays or bisexuals, by because it enables them to recognize that that is the underlying reality producing their discomfort with societal expectations.

This isn't endorsing a kind of conversion therapy as ethical, instead it's recognizing that the way rigid gender roles are imposed by society is often its own kind of undesirable “conversion therapy” that some people need an antidote for.
I don't have facebook and have no plans of ever making an account. These Facebook only companies are nearly impossible for me to interact with, so I just don't. Facebook used to let you look at stuff without an account but they eventually reached the tipping point and now a lot of stuff is inaccessible to me.

Not sure who is on the wrong side of this garden's wall...
this is a composite tv signal generated directly from an esp32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1_XNc3vNw

And a VGA signal generated from an esp32 with a few resistors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70CZLPjsXU
I don't, and likely never will, understand why anyone would want go to chains like Aldi, Lidl, Shoppers etc. to shop unless they had no choice. These are the most depressing supermarkets in the world. I can understand low cost, but why do the stores need to look and feel like you've been transported back to Cold War-era Soviet Russia?

I will also never understand, I suspect, the austere attitude in Germany to supermarkets. I've only ever lived in Berlin, but I longed for a Whole Foods or at least a Trader Joe's while I was there -- Aldi, Lidl, Rewe, Edeka, they're all super depressing. Berlin has a decent selection of "bio" supermarkets, fortunately, but their selection is also frustratingly limited, and the slight increase in quality isn't really worth the increase in price.

The US has plenty of terrible supermarkets, too, but they're often depressing for another reason; despite a much bigger selection, they devote an enormous amount of shelf space to disastrously unhealthy food and candy. (And then there's the bread. Very difficult to find good, freshly baked bread in the US that isn't plain white.)
Human Rights Foundation Cryptocurrency Research
Does anyone else find it odd that contractfortheweb.org pops up a warning that they're using cookies?
For full disclosure, OP has an indigogo project they are trying to raise money on.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-pill-diet#/
For others interested, it's Ep 359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? from Nov 28 2018
Am I missing something? The link doesn't seem to demonstrate Medium going after Hacker Noon contributors.
> A bit off-topic, but talking about 'minorities' when discussing world-wide topics such as science always seemed so bizarre to me.

“Minority” in many contexts of discrimination refers to power minorities, not necessarily numerical minorities (the two sometimes align); once you recognize that this is often intended, when it is intended is usually clear from context.
"Nobody in these kinds of discussions really cares about the science"

? I think the point of the article is that we should care about science.

The author is indicating that there seems to be evidence that difference exist in the brain from a pre-natal age, and that the impetus behind the more popularly published stuff is political.

This is not an ideological argument, nor one that has the backing of major news outlets trying to promote a specific agenda - just the opposite - someone saying: "hey, look at the data, why are people being called sexist for reporting the data?"
Time to switch to golang. Sorry fellas.
I don't agree with this framing of Medium as the bad guy here. I posted articles to Medium (for distribution.) Hacker Noon requested that my articles by included in their publication, and I accepted (for the distribution!) Now if Hacker Noon is trying to take my articles and publish them separately from Medium, I appreciate the heads up from Medium that something different is going on.

Also, this email is in response to a legal agreement sent out by Hacker Noon to contributors, asking for agreement to Hacker Noon's new terms of service.
My concerns about Dropbox have always been related to security, not features or price.
If they presumed him to be innocent, they should have defended him. According to the story, they basically told him that it's leave or get fired.
Actually ElasticSearch is paying the salaries of a number of Lucene committers. At least they did so already about 5 years or so ago. Haven't followed things closely more recently.
She was an intriguing woman. So talented, and yet also seemingly uninterested in sharing much of her work with anyone in her lifetime.

http://www.vivianmaier.com/
seems difficult as long as capital is raised in a top down manner, since its those who hold the leash are the ones who demand compound annual growth (which is the real root of the problem imo)
This is great links, thanks.

What arguments can be added to FFmpeg AV1 encoding command to improve the result for browsers?

Was this dynamic optimizer framework from Netflix released already to be used in web video encoding for webpages?
Indeed, I did forget SSNHL. Sorry that you were victim of that.

At one week after onset you were still in the treatment window, but unfortunately it doesn't always work (and obviously, the sooner the better - but my surgeon told me he's seen cases as late as 2 months recover after treatment).

I imagine you got steroids prescribed? Oral or intratympanic?
Here's a pilot describing the new MCAS system on the 737 Max, and what a pilot would feel:

https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220
I don't think we can guarantee AGI will benefit all humanity, open-sourcing it may help but not necessarily. My heart actually sinks when I read that mission statement on this page, it's like in the movies where the guy has a gun to someone's head and gets them to give up the information they know before blowing their brains out.
> I don't, and likely never will, understand…

Well, I don't understand why someone would make their groceries (a major portion of monthly spendings) 2-6x more expensive just because the shopping experience is less "fun". Personally, groceries are a chore no matter where I shop.

All in all I just shop wherever convenient. I live next to a Lidl right now so I shop there, and my only annoyance with it is that they don't have that much stuff (not in terms of brand choices but in terms of items altogether).
What would they do even if they had authority? What does “authority” even mean in this context?
Regulations benefit larger companies that can afford compliance departments, legal protection, and lobbyists.

Imagine EvilCorp on the one hand, with 50+ employees dedicated to ensuring they stay just barely on the side of the law (while exploiting all the loopholes they can), and TinyShop on the other, which has 10 employees _total_ and has to spend a much larger percentage of available time, energy, and money ensuring they don't get shut down by a regulator.

Regulations are important (that your town is healthy again is the main point), but they are also a barrier to entry that favor large, established companies over small startups.
AOL tried to wall people in too much and lost? I remember in 1998 connecting to a friend's AOL internet through some proprietary software that had built in chat and a browser. This was on a Windows 95 machine. It didn't use the standard networking stuff on windows, so there was no way to find out my IP address, no way to play Quake II games online, no way to use any internet software that wasn't part of the AOL package really, which made me start looking for an alternative immediately.
This are how polls are conducted. You don't need to ask the entire country cause statistically all you need to do is survey a diverse enough subset. A low single digit margin of error is simply not worth surveying orders of magnitude more people over.

This is similar to how presidential approval ratings are conducted, for example, by Gallup in which their sample sizes are even smaller.
Nope. Only from the internal mirrors.
Sounds like full stack data visualisation, rather than data science. You’re an engineer applying for science jobs.

Check out the series by Jeff Leek, Brian Caffo and Roger D. Peng, “A Crash Course in Data Science.”

Hope this helps, I can be pretty clueless sometimes so you probably already know all the mathy bits.
> Grandmothers used to love email.

Sure, until grandmother's email started to fill up with spam, making it unusable. I think that is a big part of what killed the kind of dirt simple email you describe. Now you can still use email, but it's not dirt simple any more.

The other thing that I think stopped grandmother from using email is that all of her grandkids grew up on social media, and if they even know what email is, they think it's too uncool to use. So grandmother has no choice if she wants to communicate with them.
Actually Amazon's offices in SF are split between the valley and downtown, depending on what they're working on. I think hardware and embedded is out in the valley. Software / services are more in SF. And that's not counting Twitch which is in the Financial.
Part of why I love living in LA. Everyone else is in entertainment which makes all conversations far more entertaining for me :)
Relevant Wendover Productions video on grocery stores: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThNeIT7aceI
They are doing this in the US too. My local Aldi was remodeled last summer and looks like the photo.
If a file is damaged by bit rot, NTFS will happily serve up garbage. So those are nice features, but viewed in that light they're little more than window dressing.
Exception that proves the rule: daringfireball. Puts a weekly ad in the RSS that users don't care enough to filter. Collected an audience that advertisers will pay to reach without microteageting.
how does this compare to nerves?
I've had tinnitus since I was a teenager (from doing stupid teenage antics). Its not loud enough to be mentally troubling except when I convince myself its getting worse. It tends to go away when I'm concentrating, which I suppose is why I like programming so much.

I really hope there is a cure one day.
I sometimes I play music with rock stars in their 70s. They are freekin deaf. Now I think "if it's not loud enough, you're not old enough".
What/who are considered "power minorities"?
“Seventy-seven percent of millennials say that the workspace is more important than salary,”

I'm sorry what now? I mean chill out on the dress code and maybe have some snacks, but. Jesus. Work doesn't need to be Disneyland.
Most likeley they have an internal npm repository that mirrors all the packages, only available through a proxy.
At least that's how it works where I work, other than having to set up your proxy settings once, there's no noticable difference.
The badge is of enormous value to a random criminal who doesn't care which company office he steals a few laptops etc from. Even without an attempt to steal/imitate the badge, it gives you an entry point for social engineering.
It was at one time, but their model relied on being a dialup ISP as well as an online platform. That model collapsed when a different set of big corporate ISPs captured the broadband market.
It is hosted on AWS as a service hence not open source.
Pilot: We need to find out much more about why two Boeing planes crashed
The shed industry is surprisingly similar to the automotive industry. The major manufacturers sell through either big-store retail or roadside dealerships.

My dad built 10 or so sheds a year on the side (he was a carpenter). When he quit about 9 years ago, I said, "Aha! That's my new business opportunity." I built my first shed and put a picture of it on the Internet. Every shed after that I put a picture up on my webpage with a price. After a few years, I couldn't handle all the sales calls and continue to build, so I hired two guys to build and I spent 3 months putting together an eCommerce store.

The first week of it going online, I got 17 shed orders - 3 months worth of building! It turned out that no other manufacturer had an online store, or even listed their prices online.

I give customers lots of pictures, and they order my buildings, sight "unseen".

I'm able to undercut my competitors by almost a third because there's no dealer markup.
>> Who invented commitment schemes?

> ~My wife~ Not sure.

Seriously? You work professionally in the crypto space and don't know where this is from? Or don't feel it's important to attribute such fundamental ideas to the appropriate people? If you really don't know, a quick google would have educated you. But what I fear to be more likely is that you apparently just don't give a damn.

For anybody remotely interested, look up Manuel Blum's work, e.g. "Coin flipping by telephone" presented at CRYPTO 1981. ACM Turing Award.

Or Rivest, Shamir, Adleman, "Mental Poker". Oh, those guys also got the ACM Turing Award.
I think this is good because it doesn't force customers to use cashless payment. Research has shown that when people don't see physical money being spent that people tend to spend more.

However, I live in a country and with lots of non-bank related cashless payment options. Commuter pass, branch chain store money card, point card, gift check or payment by smartphone service? Ok. Best part of all those options is that I have every single one but the last and never had to show personal identification to use them.

The real downside to cashless is that you can't just transfer some to a friend without it going through a company and paying some kind of "fee" or being "spied on". The only real upside to cashless for companies is that employees can't really steal hard cash anymore and they can take out cashiers from the payroll. Most of the cashless business in the country I live in have done away with cashiers and added personel to other parts of the company. I think it improves some companies while others need a human to handle transactions.
Reduce the file size of your project down to 50%
national instruments makes the SoM, single-board RIO, and myRIO products. each has an fpga that can be programmed with labview and/or xilinx tools and a cpu running real-time linux that can be programmed with labview or any other toolchain you want to install on the linux portion. comes ready to interact with hardware of course.
MongoDB Withdraws SSPL from Open Source Initiative Approval Process
I've used this in the past, but I've had trouble with "phantom callbacks". Where the logic of the program assumes the object is gone, and it ends up changing program state unexpectedly. The problem with shared pointers is ownership is not clear - just because you don't segfault doesn't mean there's no bug.
I hate having to write this, but this is what happens when you don't understand your shell(s) properly:

* Bash: https://mijingo.com/blog/creating-bash-aliases (TLDP documentation was pretty bad)

* Powershell: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
If they use cryptocurrency jargon to rip people off. Just like every other crypto venture.
You can view my comment history to see that I'm not a troll or a bot.

This is a criticism of the left by a liberal who fears for his own party's soul.
"Where has this been all my life?"
So there are lot of developers who write open source because they love writing code, feel passionately about open source, and want to increase their employment prospects.

But is there a similar community of technical writers? I've only known a few but if I asked if their idea of a good time on a Saturday was banging out some technical documentation they would look at me like I'm crazy.
well it is not same. vendor support and third party services (aka support). you can influence the product through support and through being a direct customer.
Humans with Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI (2013)
Sometimes - but sometimes, it's also surprising how close to modern devices they were.

Remember the Nintendo DS? It used two ARM cores and a 3.7V LiPo battery. And those cheap 'Arduino'-compatible LCDs all have ASICs in them to drive the displays and expose the display RAM over a common communication interface. The actual display drivers support SPI/I2C as a convenience, for fast stuff they have parallel interfaces similar to actual HD 24-bit RGB displys.
Low-Latency Audio on Windows with GStreamer
I vaped and smoked for six months. Its not a race or competition -- just so long as your trajectory is toward quitting tobacco, you're succeeding.

Keep up the pace!
Lidl just opened several stores in my area (metro Atlanta) and they are all modern, fairly nice looking buildings with big glass facades [1]. The insides are decent too and the bakery is much better than any of the other grocery stores around here.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x88f53d4a2321927...
I really liked that half popped popcorn.
please keep in mind server-side doesn't mean necessarily "basic"
you can have a server-side app and still have the same user experience as a full-blown SPA app, as long as you know what you must do in the client for a great user experience.
I don't think the users decided on anything. Browsers are just prone to insane feature creep as a result of the game theory involved.

If you are a browser vendor, you don't want your browser to not support a feature that other browsers don't. Otherwise, users go to a website, and it doesn't work properly on your browser, and they blame you. If this website is something important like a bank, a news website they like, anything popular that their friends use, they might well ditch your browser. As a result, to some extent, browsers have to support all the features that other browsers do.

On top of this, browser vendors want to remain "innovative", show leadership, so they keep pushing for new features that other browsers don't have. I mean, imagine working on some browser team, having the opportunity to push your web project and having it become a standard web feature, your legacy would live on forever, the hubris of it is just irresistible. Fuck taking the time to properly design this API, think of possible use cases, and design something solid and extensible, let's push WebVirtualReality2000API out before other browsers do, otherwise they will push theirs first and start gaining traction!

So, back to JavaScript. Brendan Eich worked at Netscape and implemented the original version of it in two weeks and it was rushed into production. People started to make use of it. Eventually other browsers had no choice but to support it, otherwise they were faced with lots of webpages that were broken without it, webpages that only work in Netscape. Microsoft definitely couldn't let that happen.
KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
Her photography's really overrated.

Had she exhibited her work throughout her life instead of being "discovered" in such a dramatic and romantic fashion right before she died, it would not have had nearly as much good press as it enjoys now.
I feel like this is employees saying "make work not so psychologically abusive" and businesses going "ping pong tables, got it..."
> runn cu "curl https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js"
; run cu

-- vs --

> alias cu="nodejs <(curl -s https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)"
; cu

I dunno man... aha.
I wouldn't say exactly that, but I think there is a reason that many tech companies do invest in to office environments. I don't think employees really care about having all kinds of entertainment or "fun" at the office anymore, or ever did, which seems like the the banks in the article don't get (they are about 15 years behind as usual).

I do personally do care lot about the environments where I spend most of my time (my home, office, places I hang out). People are visual and many prefer nice and comforting environments over bad ones.

Imagine being a candidate and interviewing few companies. One company is low ceilings office space style place from the 80s, and other one is nicely designed one and see yourself coming there each work day. Each of them offer you about the same role and compensation, then which one do you choose? Obviously its probably never the main reason but can be a reason to tip someone over.
There are still Stallmans, it's just much harder for a single person to have as great an impact as the various computing verticals have gained inertia. Not to downplay the importance of early pioneers, but a lot of success comes down to timing, being in the greenfield where your ideas can be fully realized without any prior art getting in the way, or needing to reach feature parity with the status quo.

The trade off is that those pioneers had to work with very little, while we have very nice computing environments, but there are a ridiculous number of us, a lot of who are brilliant, and a lot of the great ideas are already taken.
I can't believe you stole 30 seconds of my life on this "topic."
Preposterous! Central American citizens don't need a visa to visit the United States!
Startup Kung Fu
I’ve had tinnitus since my 20’s from playing in bands and going to rock shows. 25+ years later, I still have it. It’s quiet enough in here right now that I can hear it as I type this.
Damn, flappy bird and don't even need an esp32..
Wouldn't AGPL work for building business on FOSS?
The Chinese army of hackers re-orienting towards this new target as we speak.
You misunderstood my comment. I do much of my shopping at a local low-cost chain, but it's nowhere near as depressing as the ones I mentioned.

That said, being a low-cost chain, I have to make trips to several other supermarkets to completely cover my grocery needs during the week, which is frustrating.
http://www.campidiot.com/ci/viewforum.php?id=28
I'm not going to use FOSS that doesn't have a strong community around, at least not for anything major.
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Deciding how to automate the creation of Open Graph images