skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cant help but feel like if gender norms weren't so rigid and people were allowed to express themselves however they feel comfortable without being stigmatized and judged then you wouldn't have people say (imo) crazy things like "my biology is the biology of a woman regardless of whether or not doctors agree." That honestly just feels like an extreme (and ignorant, again, imo) response to hatred and discrimination that people have experience in the past.

"A trans woman's biology is a female biology" is just a statement I cannot agree with at all. One of my best friends growing up was a guy I'll call Adam. In high school Adam was an incredible athlete (he was a runner and swimmer) and held a lot of county records and was the third fastest at the 400m hurdles in the state. Adam came out as trans around his 21st birthday and now lives a woman I'll call Alice. Alice is a trans woman. The idea that her biology is that of a person born with two X chromosomes and a vagina is a little ridiculous to me. I see Alice as a woman today because that's what she wants and it doesn't make a difference to our friendship however I know Alice has a penis and spent 90% of her life living as a boy/man. FWIW, she and I have talked a lot about this and shares my views. In fact my views on the matter are largely influenced by her perspective on it.
How do you outlaw it?

Do you propose shutting down every small family-run business in the country?
I guess it's finally time to create an account!
What part of what I said makes you think my internal information isn't from experience? Just to be clear; it is. I haven't described my specific experience, so claiming I said "it works perfectly for me" is not something I've claimed.

What you tried to say was I was claiming that since it worked for me it was therefore good. That isn't the case. I'm saying because it worked for me AND EVERYBODY ELSE, it's therefore good.
> ...you can't be fired without cause. Normally you'll have to be told that you're underperforming, be put on a "performance improvement plan", and have to be given time to improve yourself, or demonstrate that you are performing well.

This is de facto the case in the United States as well. Employers will put employees on a PIP before letting them go to prevent them from claiming that they were wrongfully terminated (due to discrimination, retaliation, etc.).
Meanwhile, over here: https://www.apnews.com/eac21eae21bb474c82bdd09069619cb7

> Hiring rebounds as US employers add a solid 196,000 jobs
The concept that the government is a bully makes me laugh (and also sad). What a warped worldview.
You're ignoring the preceding qualifiers. A tool that can be used for work, and a profit motive.
"passion-based career choices" are 80% of the reason that women make less than men in most fields. They have a reputation as being there as a passion, not as a mercenary, and with less aggressiveness, are more likely to stay at a lower salary level if passed over for promotions, too risk-averse to leave for somewhere new.

Also they can follow their passion because many see their career as a sidelight until they marry and become mothers.. Men don't have this backstop or alternate way to follow their "passion", for men, low income = no marriage.
I was happily on Spotify for years and then we had kids. With no explicit filtering and repeated requests from many users (look up forums) to filter falling on deaf ears I had no choice but to move to iTunes. I just can’t have explicit language and lyrics blaring around the house with toddlers. It makes me sad because I loved the UX and selection in Spotify, as well as controlling playback from any device. Why Apple won’t allow you to control playback from anywhere is beyond me.
Have you never had a protracted problem that's taken multiple phone calls, each with different people, to resolve?
A workflow can be modeled using something like a state machine or statecharts. That can be encoded into the type system in a language like Haskell. For front end stuff, you could model your system using something like [0] which uses statecharts. An example of unexpected behavior: Is it possible for a user of your application or site to end up in a state where the only next step is to close it and restart? Or can they properly navigate from nearly any display to any other? While the linked tool doesn't directly answer those questions, it will help you construct your models in a way that you can manually evaluate them more easily or convert to a TLA+ or similar specification and have the computer check that.

Could you, or should you, use formal methods for everything? No. But it can be applied pretty broadly if you're open to it, and in fairly lightweight ways (especially these days since there's been a ton of interest over the last few years).

Once you start recording your formal (or more formal) specs, you can also share them more easily. A major problem in coordinating with so many different groups is that they all have their own model for what's going on based on their interaction with the systems. By creating more formalized models that allow for clearer communication (a few statecharts versus pages and pages of prose; flow charts versus pseudocode) you can reduce the communication error between teams/departments. And with all the recent work going into it, and using more capable languages (or tools with less capable languages) you can encode much of this into your program and make correct system construction more feasible.

[0] https://sketch.systems/
Agreed. If anyone is interested in this topic I would recommend checking out Conscious Capitalism.

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625271751/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_lu...
It's already almost the case. Juste rename structure X in class X and make every X_xxx functions a xxx method of class X and you're almost set.
Sadly there are signs that Google Play Music is going to be shut down soon and replaced by YouTube Music.
The FDIC couldn’t handle a run on every bank. If people thought there would be a massive run, they’d rush to withdraw their money despite the FDIC. So it’s really both: belief in the FDIC’s ability to handle small runs gives people the belief that there won’t be big ones.
Same, Firefox 68, Windows.
Microsoft is finally fixing one of the worst things about Windows 10
As an American it does seem normalized. I found it less expensive to buy a good espresso machine for home and just make my coffee before I start my day. It paid off doubly when I started working remotely.
>1. Disable search and watch history. This restricts the factors that drive your video suggestions to videos you've explicitly selected.

sadly this is not the case, you will still be flooded by "10 of X, you wont believe number 3" and "person Y stumped liberals with his totally not nazi speech" garbage
Graduated rates aren't the complicated part of the tax system. The complicated part is figuring out the amount the rate applies to. E.g. capital gains, deductions, credits.

If you have never filed your own tax return before, go skim the instructions for form 1040[0] (117 pages). It includes a 10 page table for the graduated tax rate so most people don't need to do any arithmetic if they make <100,000. Besides a couple tables like that and some administrative pages, the rest is text and worksheets for figuring the amount to apply the rate to. And this is just the basic form that everyone files! There are additional forms someone might file for complex circumstances, let alone filings for all the kinds of trusts and corporations.

0: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040gi--2018.pdf
> This of course would have to have banks be more open about how they operate,

As someone for whom the day job involves working on projects for investment banks and other regulated industries, I'd say this is not the first problem that needs to be solved.

> if banks were to describe their problems in a sufficiently well defined way

THIS is often the problem. They often don't know exactly what they want. Well, many people in the company think know what is needed/wanted but most of them don't agree with each other (and if they do they probably don't agree on priorities) beyond the rules set by the regulators (which are usually deliberately "non prescriptive", which is to say "vague"). They often have long lists of what they don't want, but no proper specification of what they do want.

The larger organisations are often so siloed that the left hand doesn't know which foot the right hand is pointing a gun at and no one really knows which elbow they are collectivly sat on. When a project to clean things up starts it is usually populated by people seconded from elsewhere who either still have that job to do so can't commit themselves to the matter in the concentrated way required to deal with it properly, or are not close enough to the problem to have a full understanding of the nitty-gritty details and the interactions between those details. And sometimes those details are very difficult to find until they bite you due to the amount of legacy systems these groups have dotted around, especially in cases where organisations have formed from many mergers & acquisitions over the years.

They don't want to openly share this state because it would be a public embarrassment. Of course, it is hardly a well-kept secret: they all know what state each other are in, as do those of us slowly trying to fix it and the consultants (internal and external to the organisations) making piles out of part-way fixing it (often by reinventing the problem space in new and expensively interesting ways!). But still they don't want it to be any more an open secret than can be avoided.

I assume large organisations in other industries are similarly afflicted. It is human nature (we often don't individually know exactly what we want) magnified by scale.

"It can't be that hard, can it?" you would be forgiven for asking.

"Oh, but it can", I assure you!

As others have pointed out elsewhere in the thread: things are improving, particularly in specific areas where new ideas are forcing, or at least allowing, more radical rethinks. But overall it'll be a complete mess for some time to come.
Making something accessible for a group of people is an opportunity cost at every step in the process. For some reason you've determined that "making the Java codebase run under wasm" is an acceptable diversion from making it accessible, but what makes other decisions less so? For example, I haven't bothered supporting IE for many years, regardless of the fact that there are potential users that will be unable to use services because of it. Same thing with internationalization, there's an opportunity cost that has to be made. That doesn't mean don't make the decision to expand support, I'm just saying that it IS a decision and it DOES have a cost.

If you don't perceive it that way, you have to accept that there is a near infinite number of accessibility measures to contend with. Maybe I add support for red green color blindness, and then discover there are other types. The package bundle is too large for users in countries with poor internet access, so you need to have a fallback that removes features, and dedicate some resources to minimizing the initial load time. Oh, the input configuration doesn't make sense for users who are unable to use keyboard and mouse, but use an alternative input mechanism, you have to change it to support that. Oh no, adding support to assist those users has made able users switch to the assisted input configuration, and given them a competitive advantage in your game.

Every company cannot service every need. Those that service a need open potential to acquire the market. That may or may not be worth it or possible at any given point, and that's okay.
I like Barry (and love his podcast), but #4 is crap. The number of people who are high income earners (say the equivalent of $150,000+ in Houston) who waste enormous amounts of money on eating out is staggering.

Go ahead - add up all your costs for eating out - I’ll bet you that latte that it’s more than you think...probably a lot more.

Discipline over little expenses is tough, but crucial. The financial advising industry even has an ugly name for these people - “credit card millionaires”. They look rich, but really spend too much on all sorts of things, from lunches, to lattes to cable tv, and end up blowing most of their income.

#SmallDiscretionaryExpensesMATTER !
Apple Music works best in the Apple ecosystem, but not exclusively. There is an Android app and the Windows version of iTunes supports it as well.
And the most layoffs in any quarter since 2015. So there are two different statistics being given. The article could have probably done more to make that clear.
It's a little more involved than that depending on what mail client you use. There is no git-get-email command that would standardize the experience.
I agree that the degree of possible harm is important here. But I also think that if we start measuring that, then we have to compare the actual positions people hold to the one you ascribed to your hypothetical outspoken Nazi-like person. If someone who advocates murdering trans people were placed on such a board I would be a lot more up in arms than in the hypothetical Nazi-like case. For a number of reasons, including the power dynamic, but not limited to that.

But that's not what we're talking about here, either for the particular person on the ex-board or the overall population dynamics: 30% of the population is not in favor of murdering trans people, and neither was anyone on Google's board. To get to the 30% number I think there are two options: 1) reduce the level of disapproval to the point where you in fact have a meaningful fraction of the population (not 30% by any means, but not negligible either, and including some members of congress, which I realize is much more acutely true for the trans case) with an equivalent disapproval level of Jews, or 2) define any expression of disapproval or concern with complications at all as an existential threat. It seems to me that a number of people do the latter in practice, which is why we end up with comparisons with the hypothetical Nazi-like.

Just to expand on this, I really do think there is a vast difference between 1) people who acknowledge that trans people exist and are "legitimate" in whatever sense one cares to think, have concerns about trans women's participation in women's sports, and want to figure out how and whether that can be made to work reasonably, 2) people who just wish trans people as a concept would disappear because it would make everything so much simpler, and 3) people who advocate violence against trans people. I don't think my viewpoint is universally accepted, and there are various instances in this very thread of comments conflating various positions on that spectrum.

Finally, I agree that if this board is not a serious attempt at ethics oversight and is instead just a PR stunt, then there's no point in worrying about a diversity of viewpoints and all that; Google should just appoint whoever will score the most brownie points in whatever status competition they think they're involved in. But I do think that external oversight of AI ethics to prevent echo-chamber effects is quite important, and I'm disappointed in the lack of such, whether that's because there's no board or because there is a useless board.
Though I don't know that they're useful, I'm impressed that Softpedia gets actual humans to launch all these apps and churn out some text. Even my obscure tool to join and chapterize tracks from iTunes got a review! https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Track-Concatenator.shtml
> a challenge _out of hand_

-_-
What do you think the recommended course of action is for someone with gender dysphoria or someone born intersex?

For people who get intervention, the rates of depression and suicide remain alarmingly high. For children and adolescents who are told to wait until they are adults before receiving physical intervention, what are the rates of depression and suicide? I have read and heard that many such people become well adjusted as adults. For those that don't become well adjusted, there's still the option of physical intervention.
I was super excited to try out Lambda@Edge with Rust a few weeks ago but discovered that right now, Lambda@Edge only supports Node.js. It's a pretty major limitation of the platform.

(Although since Rust can compile to WASM, it might be possible to write Rust, compile it to WASM, load that WASM in Node and run that on Lambda@Edge.)
Regarding the WebAssembly part, it seems to me that native Linux code sandboxed by seccomp would work just as well if not better, and has been available since 2005 (and there's also NaCL if you want in-process, as well as a bunch of VMs).

So I think the reason for "CloudFlare workers" not being available ten years ago has to be found somewhere else.
More than signs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/comments/b94zf6/goo...
Campaign contributions are speech. Saying one thing while doing the opposite is fraud.
Probably Egypt as well as it's a popular Russian tourist destination.
I’ve seen a lot of grossly oversimplified biology and science, this is remarkable for how competent it is. Yes, some BS in there, but nobody’s perfect.

For example, if you assume gender is binary and XX=Female/XY=Male, which gender is someone with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY)?
Is iFred a persons name?

As always with the internet, “the stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.”
Don't shoot the messenger down voting my post, I put it up for context. I find it odd that 'Teen Vogue' magazine should be showcasing these types of personal views as fact, as the comments on the Youtube video also discuss....
I'm not saying it's a panacea.

But we can't begin to see a better YouTube, or a better internet without fixing copyright laws. The instant we start fining companies or possibly arresting individuals for filing false copyright claims against fair use of copyrighted content, that racket will collapse.

The most egregious part is that short clips of music or videos can strike a YouTube video. This is despite the ability to easily automatically detect the total length of the snippet. Short clips are fair use almost by definition. Howe could you possibly diminish the value of a copyrighted work by playing 5 seconds of it? I don't think it can be done if you try.

Ending this problem will take immense pressure off of YouTube and the people who create content for it. The resources invested in this manufactured problem can be reallocated to solving the other problems.
This is wrong for a variety reasons. Ranging from the way money and power are intimately linked (even if you exclude cronyism as a mechanism). To the way that concentrated money can create its own markets or overrule existing ones by force (see heavily subsidized "startups" like Uber driving taxis out of business).

But let's assume you're right.

The problem then is that the purpose of society is not to create efficient markets, it's the purpose of efficient markets to maintains and support a functional society. Markets are a means not an ends. On their own they have no moral compass, they're simply a distributed genetic algorithm seeking supply/demand maxima. There's nothing intrinsic about the structure of capitalism that suggests it tends towards a fair and equitable society. Indeed, large companies have a long history of supporting and co-operating with some of the worst dictators in history.

The state, when it works, can be a means of directing market forces - either through taxation or regulation - towards ends that society thinks are beneficial. I don't get a vote in how IBM or Microsoft or Facebook operate. I do get to vote for representatives who I think will keep these companies in check and, for example, stop Facebook from surveilling me everywhere I go. I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in solutions to cronyism that mean I have even less power over my environment.
I have heard of this game on and off for years. IIRC this game actually preceded Cities Skylines announcement.
alt take from Bill McBride of CalculatedRISK:

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/04/comments-on-march...

Summary:

The headline jobs number was above expectations, and the previous two months were revised up slightly. The headline unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%.

This was a solid jobs report, and was probably boosted by some bounce back from the poor weather in February.

What's with the HN editor's obsession with posting "bad economy" reports lately? It certainly conflicts with their boosting SV unicorn IPOs.
Developer Hiring Trends 2019
I did not say that tax cuts destroyed jobs. I said that cutting welfare programs, that Trump has decided to do, will destroy jobs. This idea is prevalent among Keynesian and Marxian economists as you can easily find out for yourself by reading Wikipedia. Whether they are right or not, well, we will see about that in two to three years.
A big part of Intel's pricing structure was around number of PCIE lanes.

They had the monopoly for a long time, so they turned into a money-making machine first and a chip company a distant 4th or 3rd.
> Correctness is not an engineering problem. It's an economics problem

It could be argued that all engineering problems _are_ economic problems.
I remember one movie scene where old sniper teaches young one "To be slow is to be precise, to be precise is to be fast"
Build one in a month ( http://handlr.sapico.me )
Tag hierarchy/synonyms, votes, rss feed, personal mode, user management, custom functionality based on tags ( eg. Tag personal, html editor, HN comments loading), multiple sites, custom layout based on less, popular and upvoted tags Based on current tag)...

Need to improve search performance though.

Ps. The nice thing about hackernews is the simplicity of items ( a comment is also an item) and the JavaScript/css involved for voting.

http://brugge.sapico.me

http://Hackerspace.sapico.me

http://handlr.sapico.me/Item/Details?id=f187ce8e-2045-e911-9...
Yes, and after my life improved so significantly after old-style taxis have been replaced by taxi apps, I'm more than content with Kalanick's compensation.
Do you develop and test using Chrome, or Firefox, or both? If you aren't testing in Firefox beyond "it displays correctly" but you are using Chrome for your normal development, and testing, you are de-facto optimizing for Chrome, because you'll notice slowness in Chrome and work around if, but that same thing may have been fast in Firefox, but you never noticed. That's what being the market leading browser grants them.
Yes but the dimensions of a fuel tank are straightforward. The rules for a PFIC are intentionally designed by congress to be byzantine (to protect US investment funds).

The two rulesets are following different ethical norms.
I was surprised when a young girl I know was asking for an iPhone over an Android specifically because of iMessage. I gather the main piece of functionality here is that other iPhone users she texts know that she’s using an iPhone. Gotta get that vanity blue text.
I actually thought about that a little also but if I have to find a fairer choice between Boeing most likely to get away with a slap in US because big corps almost always do (too big to fail) vs. them getting taken down by a kangeroo court in those two countries it's not hard not to pick a potential kangeroo court.

But I do get your point.
Bezos: Build your own Reinforcement Learning framework
Nope. The point is "the underlying toolkit should enable this." I18n and l10n are somewhat better supported in this regard than a11y.
That's incorrect. Apple Music have a lot of programmatic recommendations. New Music Mix is programmatic. As is clicking on any song and creation a station from it.