skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so it's agreed she is against conversion therapy where conversion therapy is forced change of sexual orientation.

> Your source: ... Gender identity, however—whether someone feels masculine or feminine—is flexible in prepubescent children and grows more stable into adulthood.

This is one paragraph where she simply seems to be asserting that gender identity is more flexible during childhood and tends to solidify as we grow into adults.

This is a different paragraph from this:

> Therapy that seeks to help gender dysphoric children grow comfortable in their birth sex (known in the research literature as the “therapeutic approach”) has been conflated with conversion therapy, but this is inaccurate.

Which is the crux of the issue (I think?). Therapy helping children be comfortable with their birth sex is something she advocates, but some people feel that is negative and (somehow?) forceful and are labeling "conversion therapy".

I'm lost there because we should all hope to be comfortable in the skin we're born in. I wouldn't want to deny a child therapy to help them with that. And I wouldn't want to deny an adult the same therapy. It's freedom enabling. We've been fighting that fight a long time and don't want to wind back that clock.

This reads more like anti-conversion therapy (a kind of "dude, you're cool just as you are, if you can make it work as you first"). Where the alternative is to just be uncomfortable in the skin you're in until you transition. And then that's a problem because:

> All of the available research following gender dysphoric children longitudinally shows that the majority desist; they outgrow their feelings of dysphoria by puberty and grow up to be gay in adulthood, not transgender.

This seems to be a pretty important claim if the wellbeing of the child is of concern here.

From this fairly short dive so far, it seems Dr Soh's position clearly comes from one of genuine concern for children and one based on scientific research. Based on that and a general precautionary principal she's advocating therapy to help children be comfortable with the skin they're in first, particularly before giving a child puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's a pilot (I know there are a few of them here).

What are the interactions between an automated system and the pilot?

Specifically, can a plane quickly switch from flyable to out of control?

There's a huge number of unknowns here, but I thought most pilot assistance systems were designed to be disengaged if needed.
Looks like wasabi wallet for Bitcoin conjoin is growring exponentially
I simultaneously believe that you're correct about short breaks helping focus, that people who understand this effect tend to overestimate it in ways that help them rationalise procrastination, and that the renewed focus gained from a short walk or meditation is probably more helpful than whatever focus is gained from engaging in activities that require the social functions of your brain to kick in.
You have the wrong standard of proof. Boeing and the FAA should be erroring on the side of caution, not hiding behind innocent until proven guilty.

And in case it's not totally clear, the caution should be for the passengers, not shareholders.

> "its AOA sensor was known to be faulty."

The plane was what, two months old? It should have been non-lethal even if a troop of rabid baboons was hired to maintain it.
I think part of the problem is aside from IPFS, little work has been put into decentralization and standardization of content. Dynamic content is based around JavaScript which has and will continue to become a spy tool for marketers. I don't see the Internet improving until there is other options for standardizing dynamic content other than JavaScript, and making it easy to host your content without needing to rely on a centralized cloud platform.
That is awesome, I was trying to find something like this for an open source project I manage: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
Kudos to the author!
What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
> It's open source meets the real world

It's nothing like open source; it's proprietary software that attempts to leverage the goodwill of the “open source” label without adhering to what that label means.

> We aren't all hippies who can sit around at MIT.

Look, if open source doesn't work for your business situation, that's fine, just don't lie about being committed to open source where you are truly only committed to your own profits, all while making disparaging portrayals of the people who actually are committed to open source.
This is also why each console had a certain "look" which told you from a screenshot which console a game ran on.

The down side is that it made games super hardware-dependent, and porting games from one console to another often meant re-designing significant parts of the gameplay and artwork. So my first thought is this would make it too much work for the modern hobby gamedev scene, but then again people make games for CHIP-8 so who knows.

Edit: Turns out I was thinking of PICO-8 which is a similar but higher spec virtual console: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
This is what I have been telling Publix managers for a while now. They don’t want to want to see it either, saying that their customer service is so far advanced and thus Aldi won’t play into their territory. Oh well, we shall see.
"Regulation always benefits the rent-seekers. They have the best means of influencing that regulation in the first place.
"

The first sentence is blatantly wrong (the word "always"). In what way did environmental regulation benefit the rent seekers or in what way does the GDPR help them? I really hate when people say all regulation is bad if the real problem is that politicians are captured by industry. I grew up up during a time when the river next to my town was green one day, red one day and yellow the next. The only fish in that river were dead. Now 30 years later you can go swimming in the river and there are plenty of fish. Only regulation made this possible.
The users decided on rich interfaces? Or the developers did?
Season of Docs
I have some direct experience with this. It is summed up as "open standards people are extraordinarily hard to work with, uncompromising, and subject to infinite fine splitting of the space. Meanwhile, 5 billion users do not care and want things to be easy, fast, work well, and be well integrated."

The result of these two forces is that it ends up being extremely difficult to work on open standards for any kind of data that people care about. (Users can't see HTTP, so it is fine to standardize. They can see blog titles, so... no dice.)
“Internet Atrophy” Fears Put Japan’s Downloading Bill on Hold
Clearly others (commenting & upvoting) read it that way as well. Good headline writing avoids murky euphemisms, especially if the originating source of the metaphor – in this case, bombs & debris from the sky – overlaps confusingly with the actual facts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357844
Trader Joe is a fun trip, but my enthusiasm is tempered by some truly disgusting house brand crap they sometimes sell as well as frequently dropping items that I like (e.g. crackable almonds in shells, half-popped popcorn).
They were, used one as my primary gaming laptop for years till the nVidia chip fried itself ( nVidia known issue, not Medions )
It seems pretty common with bigger companies: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Box, Zynga, Electronic Arts, Pinterest, Microsoft, etc.

The tracks and levels are commonly referred to as the "job family architecture" -- don't be afraid to ask a recruiter for this information. Otherwise you'll never really know if you're being properly leveled. (For instance, I believe a Principal SE at Microsoft is roughly equal to a Staff Engineer at Google.)
Sorry, I think I may have used the wrong terminology in my post above. I was referring to the random value as the 'commitment' and the hash of that as the 'commitment hash'.

But what I proposed doesn't require anyone to change their random value. It relies on the fact that step #4 does not happen instantaneously, and honest clients will send their random values as soon as they transition into step #4.

So from my above example, the process reaches step #4 as normal - all honest clients send out their random values, and all dishonest clients wait. Once the dishonest clients have all of the honest random values, they can now determine what the result for #5 will be(because they know all other dishonest client random values because they are colluding, along with all honest client random values), whereas the honest clients cannot do so, because they don't know the random values from the dishonest clients.

So at that point(half way through step #4), dishonest clients can then determine if they want that value to be the end result, or if some of them should drop out(never broadcast their random value), in order to modify what everyone determines to be the final value from step #5.
These forums have several threads about the recent crashes and grounding with some experienced pilots discussing.
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
That's a mocked-up css animation, not a video of the actual email. Feel free to try the demo in the API dashboard to see the full UX.
I agree. This is basically siloing and it’s not good.
To OpenAI team, that is not right but it's very well played.

You guys raised free money in forms of grants, acquired the best talent in the name of a non-profit that has a purpose of saving humanity, and always had publicity stunts that is actually hurting science and the AI community, and talking the first steps against reproducibility by not releasing gpt2 so you can further commercialize your future models.

Also, you guys claim that the non-profit board retains full control, but seems like the same 7 white men on that board are also on the board of your profit company and have a strong influence there.

Call it what you want, but I think this was planned out from day one. Now, you guy won the game. It's just a matter of time to dominate the AI game, keep manipulating us, and appear on the Forbes list.

Also, I expect that you guys will dislike that comment instead of having an actual dialogue and discussion.
Arse Technica indeed.
Boeing Cleans Up Burning Debris And Aircraft Parts from Recent Crash (in a Publicity Sense)
I hesitate to even say something, in deference to the much more knowledgeable folks working this at the NTSB and sister agencies right now.

But I'd be surprised if it were that simple, especially given the airtime of all planes flown. Airtime which I'd assume passed largely without incident, as by now some news agency should have drug up any similar close calls.

If we're doing wild speculation, I'd bet on something like the Tesla battery punctures (where it turned out high-energy impacts from pointed road debris were more common than expected).

E.g. a maintenance issue, coupled with a specific configuration, coupled with pilot behavior

Or, it could just be a poorly maintained plane and a freak accident. But that's what root cause analysis and black box recordings are designed to ascertain.
On people eschewing their 737 MAX flights, I would argue it's probably even safer to be on a 737 MAX these next few days since every airline and their pilots will be on edge with that particular model.
How is small scale open source not technologically viable ? There are tons of small open source companies that build great niche open source products which are technologically competitive. I run such a tech/business (XWiki) for 15 years now. They just are not known and don't interest VCs unless you are ready to start going open core. However it is possible to be sustainable, just don't expect to be startup-rich.
All your examples use 'fallout' about abstract occurrences – not situations where an actual plane-and-jet-fuel crashed-and-exploded from the sky, throwing some actual 'fallout' across a debris field.

As far as I can tell, clean-up crews are having no notable problems with the fallout from the crash. Boeing is scrambling to contain the damage to its business.
It’s very smart, her ad campaign people must have known misusing the Facebook logo would get them denied, but now she gets press for being the victim.

You or I couldn’t run those ads, this is special treatment for her.
I have recently read a pretty resourceful thread on music mixing and recording (https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=29283).

A related piece of info from there is that rock/metal music is supposed to be loud: drums blasting away, amps cranked up. But when recording and mixing you take all that loud sound and energy and put it into an audio file that will most likely be played back with lower volumes on all kinds of devices.

This is one of the main problems of mixing this kind of music: making music that is supposed to be LOUD sound good at low volumes. So probably if that goal isn't achieved in a perfect way then cranking the volume up will make it sound better.

Another important thing I learned from that thread is that in general for us humans "louder" is perceived as "better". Good example, a demonstration of a compressor plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6D9WvwMNr8

Plugin quality aside, you can easily hear that "on" parts are all louder than "off" parts, and that really makes the demo "unfair" in that they sound better simply by being louder.

And a related theory I've read long ago (sorry, don't remember where) is that experiencing music at damaging volumes gives us some kind of masochistic pleasure. This is why there are always people hanging right next to speakers at loud shows, be it rock or EDM.
I was a Dropbox subscriber for years. Paying double compared to other providers to get bombarded with upsell and not have basic features like full text search.
its amazing how often employees show up here to shill their company
How does encryption work for group chats on WhatsApp? Could Facebook have moderated these messages to prevent the attacks or is the content still hidden to them?
$25k seems a bit on the high end - https://ironpdf.com/licensing/

Also, it's 2019 - Artifex, it's OK, you can publish your prices (https://www.artifex.com/licensing/)
Let's say you think you have nothing to hide, your life is boring.

Then you find out details about strangers, and you start judging them based on what you found out. (Oh, they don't exercise much -- they must be lazy).

Then it dawns on you: others will see the details of your boring life and will judge you and reach conclusions about you that are likely to be wrong. Because, guess what? They don't really know you. They are just using some datapoints they found on the Internet.
Does a place like this exist in the NYC area?
Display output is definitely a problem that modern hobby computer and gaming projects run into. And a FPGA is one solution. The Gameduino takes this approach.

There are downsides to the FPGA approach though. Even the cheapest FPGA can easily end up being more expensive (and more powerful) than the system CPU, putting you in a tail-wagging-the-dog scenario. And if you want your project to have a reasonable lifespan, continued FPGA availability can be a problem.

Many projects just drive video directly from the CPU, but that works better when you have something more powerful than the ESP8266 used here. It would be really nice if there was a simple display chip that this sort of project could take advantage of, but I don't know if FPGAs are the answer.
The esp32 already emulates game console:

https://pocketsprite.com/

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-go/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXuwwXQh8c
Yes we run every app with their official docker image so updating it is quite easy, basically pulling the newest image and restarting the docker container.

When it's just everything on one server there is surprisingly little to do, so for that we have a rotating sysadmin where one of the team members is responsible for the servers for one sprint and then the next person takes over. For some time we had a dedicated sysadmin but it was never enough work for them so the rotating sysadmin does it on the side right now.

In the new infra this is changing significantly and there it already is much more work and we will grow with at least two more teams to handle it full time.
Ah yeah, this makes sense - thanks!
Because the government grants the insulin manufacturer a monopoly over its citizens and enforces it with the law.
What if they break FB, IG, Messenger and WhatsApp in to separate companies. They also spin out Facebook Ad Solutions Inc. or whatever it’s called to sell ads to all those separate companies along with anyone else who wants to display FB ads. This isn’t to say that this is what will happen, but it’s one potential.
I read her blog post. I don't see anywhere in her post that gives one concrete example of a negative impact on consumers.

She gives the example of Amazon.com forcing diapers.com to sell diapers at a lower price as a reason for why we need to prevent acquisitions. But getting products for cheaper prices benefits consumers... The small business founders got rich and consumers got cheaper diapers. I'm not seeing any problem with that.

She claims Amazon is anti-competitive because they promote their own products on their own website. Websites aren't railroads. Consumers can choose any website by typing in the address in their web browser. Consumers can switch search engines and shopping websites. That was not the case with railroads or phone networks - because for reasons that should be very obvious you can't have a million different railroad lines and telephone wires. Unlike the web, they were physically mutually exclusive.

If a company provided superior service and prices to Amazon consumers can easily choose to use them.
If you don't want Amazon and the like to use it, take extra care in your licensing then. Don't just throw an MIT license on there and assume all is well.
Seems like anti-stall software shouldn't be killing more people than actual stalls.

When was the last major airline downed by a pilot error stall anyway?
I’d love to see some new standards, something like an iframe you can control from the parent page with minimal js, decent date/time pickers built in, autocomplete, etc

As it is people ask for this stuff and the only recourse is to bundle tons of js into your page.
What many fail to realize is that Facebook employees who approve/disapprove of ads are not high up and also do so at a very fast pace. They follow the guidelines and are humans, thus subject to some subjectivity. Any advertiser who has done a lot of advertising on Facebook knows that one day an ad can get approved and the next day a duplicate ad is not. The decision was overturned in Warren's case. This is just making FB out to be much more nefarious than they probably are (in this particular scenario).
If you get tinnitus and hearing loss in your 20s, is it possible to reverse any of the damage, or is it permanent?
The Capitals in The Title Give a Rather Ironic Impression of Loudness
I was born with bad hearing and tinnitus. When I tell people, some are quick to blame attending loud concerts, but I don't think I've attended more than a couple concerts and none were particularly loud. Plus, I had both problems well before the earliest concern I can recall attending.

Some advice: How loud flying is doesn't seem to be appreciated. I don't see any mention of it in the comments here, and when I fly I am one of the few with any hearing protection as far as I can tell. I wear both earplugs and earmuffs. Don't laugh too hard. I've found both to be noticeably better than either alone. I used to fly with nothing, but my tinnitus would be amplified for days after flying. Aside from some people on the plane thinking that I'm weird, I once had a TSA guy ask me if I intended to go shooting when he saw my earmuffs.

I think I've accepted my tinnitus and bad hearing for the most part. It rarely bothers me, and to be honest I sometimes find the tinnitus to be soothing. I think that's because I never knew any different. Tinnitus is the sound of silence to me. I speculate that others who develop these conditions later might feel some loss that I don't.
We have some data from real-time tracking that the "vertical speed was unstable after take off" [1]. And that both crashes are similar in that regard, and both accidents could be explained by a problem with the newly deployed MCAS software system.

Clearly, there are no answers yet. There is no known cause for this recent crash yet. But there is some evidence. And that scant evidence might be coincidence, but it also has well-informed people concerned.

[1] https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104668693613764609
> Atlassian [...] doesn't negotiate at all.

Untrue if you license multiple products from them at scale.
In this case how does f5 make or lose money from Nginx?
You can't compare US Aldi with Aldi in Germany or Britain. The US stores have only cheap crap. They feel like it was when I grew up in Germany.

Modern stores in Germany or Britain have pretty good stuff. Wish they would bring this to the US.
Above the deductible it doesn't matter. Below the deductible is easier to manage. Primary care generally has public pricing.
some of the things we have had censored by fb (even after appealing)
1. illustrations of cupid on valentines day, genitals covered, for nudity.
2. illustrations of a (non sexually provocative) mouth when the logo of our product was a mouth.
3. illustrations (not photos) of people of various body types and ethnicities, not sexually provocative, showing skin but no genitals, nipples or buttocks, with flowers and boxes of chocolates, as a 'love comes in all shapes and sizes' valentines campaign.
4. essentially any image that might insinuate that a woman is capable of feeling pleasure.
5. a friend's ig project intended to promote education & wellness about women's bodies, in a non-sexual way (e.g. did you know that a clitoris has x thousand nerve endings?), with no images.
6. pixelated images on red backgrounds with a 'censored' stamp on them (put up after others were censored)
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the list goes on and on, to the point where we have considered launching a website just to showcase the stuff fb (and other faangs) censor.
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meanwhile ig is filled with essentially soft porn (not to mention images of guns together with bags of money, which in my value system is much worse).
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so I, for one, am laughing my head off at all this. they more than had it coming.
Without a doubt. Plus, the rule of "You can't use FB's logo" is not to stop people criticizing FB. It's to stop fraudulent advertisers from pretending to BE Facebook.
Haha, you seem to have left out the worse part of the worst case scenario - losing a bunch of money.
Health insurance costs 800$ a month so not having 500$ means you dont have insurance. Thats another level of poverty, for the which there is medicaid and a different set of programs and way to deal with those cases.
under what scenario is it okay for a complete failure and the death of over a hundred people because of a single faulty sensor on a brand new airplane?
I'm honestly not sure which. My favorite local fish place has a webpage with a "menu" link at the top that goes to .. a long scrolly list WITH PRICES. HOLY SHIT.

Why can't more places be like that?
I just want to add, these kind of knowledge comes from within. It is not sufficient to communicate the ideas with words. You likely know this, but people reading may not understand. One of the foundational concepts to me is the difference between abstractions like language, and real experience and also the inherent limitations of language and the idea of false knowledge that comes from reading instead of experiencing.
Yeah they can. This whole thing sounds ridiculous. I have a hard time imagining this ending any other way than the code being removed if the bank presses the issue.