skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no dispute about the facts about intersex people. Their existence just doesn't support the idea that "binary is bullshit", and your use of "male" and "female" ironically demonstrates the usefulness of those concepts.

> Gender afaik is not all that different for fashion. Writing in general and especially poetry was considered male thing. It was weird for girl to do it. Now it is considered girl thing (at least where I live).

Yeah, it's not that different from fashion because it is a form of fashion. My point is that if gender is sex-optional, then it's a totally useless term that's superseded by the word fashion.

> Consciously and subconsciously, people do and don't do things based on what makes them look weird vs normal or popular or fitting in. Or they just follow cues

That's true. And it's also true that people have certain behaviors because of biological conditions acting upon them. For instance, do you think that most females are statistically attracted to males just because it's normal, or that females can be conditioned to be homosexual if society worked differently? If not, then why not also apply the steps you use to reach that conclusion to gender expression?
Here is a Daily Insight founder. Why I started on Daily Insight?- I had a “problem” which I couldn’t solve for a decade. It was impossible to update my application for YC and 500 startups with the latest revenue, visitor metrics or growth rate.
Also, I have inspired by @levelsio @johnonolan These guys are founders of "open startup(-s) movement.
Sounds like a great oppurtunity; e.g. someone could start metafactcheck.org.
This isn't about being gay, bisexual, or transgender.

I don't even see why they lump intersex with all the others. Intersex people are born with variations in the chromosomes/genitals/gonads and, as far as I know, that sounds like the exact definition of a defect - not sure if genetic or not. It's not a mental illness or a moral failing, but it's definitely outside the spectrum of what is considered normal physical (or chromosomal) characteristics at birth.

As far as your last comment, we're basically already there, I wish people would stop talking about it already. I think nothing when I see homosexuals, don't even look twice at trans. Zero fucks given.

On the other hand, I am a bit annoyed that nearly every TV show feels the need to push an agenda down my throat in one way or another. Does every sitcom really need a gay couple now? Is that even representative of the population as a whole?
IME, Haskell and Java are about on par, especially for basic things like http serving. Actually, Haskell is typically faster, because it compiles into much better machine code. That's just my experience as a professional Haskell developer. This is a combination of the fact that Haskell often compiles to really good machine code, and that Haskell is better at parallelization and multi-core workloads (async by default, for example).

Here are some benchmarks: https://github.com/jakubkulhan/hit-server-bench. As you can see, warp is on par, if not better than, many of the common JVM based options.

I'm not arguing Haskell is necessarily better than Java in all benchmarks (or C#). Merely that IME, most people dismiss Haskell as slow because it's a functional language, despite increasing evidence to the contrary. It is certainly capable of standing on its own against popular languages.
>Surely we're past the whole "Aids is a gay disease" stage by now?

Nope. People still believe that.

People still believe that God sends hurricanes and terrorist attacks to punish societies that tolerate LGBT people.

People still believe that LGBT people are just closet pedophiles, and equate accepting them with accepting bestiality.

The LGBT community itself has people (TERFs) in it who believe transgender people are just men pretending to be women for sexual gratification.

We haven't really moved past any of that.
The corporate tax cuts in the US led to a temporary stock market boom, while changing absolutely nothing in terms of underlying economic fundamentals. Those who benefited were those who already have money in a portfolio, which eliminates the majority of Americans.

Companies like Bridgewater gain when policy changes like this happen. Regular people lose because tax cuts are paid for by cutting public services, and pushing part of the cost on to the next generation.

What's Mr. Dalio doing to remedy that imbalance, aside from writing a self-serving Buffet-style "I should be taxed more" essay?
> But I thought they were all atheists, which is it?

Don't be ridiculous, you understand what I wrote.

> trickle down etc

They still pay more than you or I, by rate and nominally, unless most of their income is in long-term capital gains. And this isn't what people target when they talk about a "90%" (or whatever number) income tax rate on the wealthiest.

I would prefer we dismantle our massive war-spending problem before we even start touching taxes. It's such a stupid debate, and I refuse to engage in it beyond that point.
blast from the past
Funny how the brain autocorrects when reading quickly.. I had to look at your quote twice to see the issue.
I never use Siri so I don't know how this is relevant
I nominate "mush" for the next buzzword. It works perfectly the way you've used it here and I'm sure I'll find it handy in a similar context.
> or some reason you've determined that "making the Java codebase run under wasm" is an acceptable diversion from making it accessible,

They didn't say that. They said "I didn't have time to focus on accessibility because I was struggling with the challenges of [...]" You're focusing on the [...] which could be anything, it doesn't matter. The point is they're acknowledging it's a legitimate issue that they just didn't have the time or ability to fix. As opposed to saying it's a non-issue or something they refuse to fix.

For example, "My personal website isn't accessible because I wrote the code from scratch to learn myself and it's not perfect" is fine. "My personal website isn't accessible because I don't have any blind friends so it doesn't need to be" is less so.
why it would be allowed at work is also totally unclear.
At no point did the parent comment say the returns were guaranteed, only that they were generally better than actively-managed funds (mostly due to fees).
Indeed. Many of the reforms he suggests would work too cement the existing economic classes. Obviously, this benefits those who have the most.

Does anyone know if there is a term for this? It's a bit reminiscent of 'regulatory capture' but that doesn't seem quite right.
As a counterpoint, I lament the loss of high-density interfaces and applications with a lot of configuration options.

I see the modern web moving more and more towards the lowest common denominator. I appreciate your perspective because I had previously not viewed it from an accessibility standpoint, but as application developers creating things that can be used with as little thought as possible, to the dismay of people like me.

I think there's an opportunity to create tools and UI that can adapt for power users as well as people who need accessibility. Stripping everything out and placing large text on a plain white page and calling it accessibility seems like laziness. Or perhaps that unrelenting drive towards simplification for the sake of saving time/money. Anything that needs more support, more developer time, etc. is seen as a bad thing and avoided.

Just some thoughts.
GNU Guile

I’ve been doing more Emacs Lisp as of late and I wanted a change of pace. It seemed a natural fit to learn in a similar ecosystem. Emacs Lisp isn’t recent but GNU Guile is.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
It's cool man, not everything is for everyone.

> Were people really record-scratching over his totally reasonable decision to take a good-paying job at a big company?

I actually anticipated a few people being confused because of a few reasons. It seems like, so far at least, nobody has actually been confused. It happens. But I've experienced a lot of that previously; so like, moving from "writing documentation" to "product manager" and "everything is MIT/Apache2.0 licensed" to "a closed source platform" can look like big changes from the outside.

And really, I have wanted to write this bit about edge compute for a while, this is just a good excuse to finally publish the piece. I've been talking to CloudFlare for a few months, and it felt slightly odd to write it before I told the world "hey I may have some bias here." Now that I've made my decision and that bias is clear, that helps further discussion.
Thanks for the link, it mainly outlines details for people seeking mentors.

The way you described it, it does sound similar to Upwork? Out of curiosity - are you a mentor on the platform or have past experience with this?
The Voodoo cards had that odd glossy, liquid look that made the surfaces of objects seem deeply physical. The ADCs (EDIT: RAMDACs, of course) that they were using did an odd sort of "poor man's antialiasing" and running any games from that era on modern equipment is a shocking exercise in explicitly defined pixels.
CF is doing a ton of cutting edge work in the WA work. Rust is a language that is developing first class support for WA. Solomon Hykes, who completely revolutionized serverside with Docker, is saying WA is the next big revolution. This is literally the building ground 0, the powder keg, and it's all pointing to CF getting the jump over all other web companies with WA.
I liked the timeline version too, it was well presented. https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
A new standard for understanding how a neural network makes decisions
Apple recently pushed 2 push notifications to my phone related to promotional pricing for Apple Music. Apple disallows Spotify to advertise promotions in-app.

Apple disallows Spotify access to full Watch APIs and Siri APIs they themselves leverage for Apple Music.

Apple also occasionally bullies Spotify by keeping app review in limbo.

Additionally, Spotify eats the 30% Apple tax, and I would imagine the costs for music licensing rights are fairly inelastic.

Apple is not playing fair. They don’t even follow their own App Store rules.
Until they fix that weird off-centre trackpad, I'd continue suggesting people go Dell XPS, also the only PC laptop with a trackpad response even approaching that of a Macbook
Any exponential growth will eventually become unsustainable.
I'm not sure how capital punishment is relevant, but the US also has capital punishment, in spite of being "developed" and ranking high on the index. And the number of people actually being executed in the US is much higher than Japan or Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Capital_pun...
It is an interesting phenomena, because it's a relatively expensive product for what it is, but it's also an experience.

Even though my wife and I do quite well financially (and save plenty for ourselves, our kids college, etc), I noticed we were spending "too much" on espressos and lattes. Not too much for our financial situation, but too much for my comfort level at least. So, we bought a $600 espresso machine, which basically paid for itself in less than a year. Not to mention the time savings from going to get coffee.

I was fully offering to make my wife's Latte every morning, although no pressure if she still preferred to pick one up. I figured if I stopped buying them it would still be decent savings. She wasn't all that keen on me making them for her... at least at first.

The most surprising part though is that the lattes are actually better. I started out just trying to save a bit of money and naively assumed that somebody making hundreds of lattes per day would be far better at it than me, and maybe they can be, but perhaps due to the speed demand they cut corners. The consistency is off too, sometimes when I buy a latte it's very good and other times it's not. At home, I can (now) make it perfect every single time and it only takes 5 minutes including cleanup.

Of course, I've discovered some other great things along the way like "steamed in" cinnamon and/or tumeric or adding baileys to lattes on the weekend or eggnog to lattes during the holidays.

There is a bit of a ritual/experience to picking up coffee, and you lose that, but you gain a whole new ritual of making your perfect coffee for yourself... and even if you still pickup once in a while, you're still saving in the long run.
No person would be able to handle a knife opening up their abdomen either, lucky that there are few cases where this would actually happen.
Craig Thibodeau is a well-known woodworker, in San Diego, who specializes in high-end marquetry and inlay, and who has increasingly been drawn to puzzle furniture. He's a former mechanical engineer.

See: https://ctfinefurniture.com
Apple's cut on subscriptions is 15%, not 30%.
Yeah just to be clear, you're simply at the leading edge of a phenomenon that's been puzzling me for awhile, probably starting with that Yegge/Grab piece (after which, from what I can tell, he was never heard from again). Don't fade away!
You're making the common mistake of equating gender with sex.

Gender is how society expects a person to express themselves and how an individual identifies. Sex is the genetic component behind it.

You also ignore the hormone component of gender expression. Someone could be born male, yet look feminine as a result of other factors and how they choose to express themselves. The reverse is true for women.
I'd suggest taking a dip into crystal - I've been tracking it's development and it could be my next general purpose language, it's what you're looking for too I believe - to quote the docs:

Crystal is a programming language with the following goals:

* Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal).

* Be statically type-checked, but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.

* Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.

* Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.

* Compile to efficient native code.

https://crystal-lang.org/

IMO It's the next hacker's language of choice.
Some sensible (IMHO) responses:

> US Americans are somewhat less likely to feel solidarity or a sense of common cause with coworkers, and more likely to value the freedom to negotiate their contract on their own.

No one is negotiating their contracts on their own. A negotiation requires at least two parties, and when it comes to negotiating employment terms, one party typically had no problem incorporating and using that to their advantage.

> They are also much more likely to distrust large organizations and bureaucracy, sometimes to an extreme extent that would be puzzling to Western and Northern Europeans.

Yet some of the largest and most powerful organizations in the world are US based. For a place where so many buy their food at large restaurant and store chains, buy their internet and phone plans from large national service providers, trust large organizations like Google or Facebook with information about their browsing and communication habits and depend on large credit organizations and banks, this just doesn't strike me as true. Large, bureaucratic organizations thrive in the US and people love them. Maybe not meaningfully more than in European countries and probably even less, but to call it an extreme distrust is a mischaracterization IMO.

> Third, there are many current examples of unions in the US that have made industries meaningfully less efficient.

IMO this is an important point, but in a country with the GDP per capita of the US I think that there is some margin to improve conditions in a lot of industries, of course at the expense of some very rich people. The problem is that consumers cover that margin instead of shareholders.
@ language learning: I wish there was a way to watch movies in various vocabulary difficulty levels. Would be awesome for learning. Makes me wonder whether there are fan-dubs with different wordings.
> People spend countless hours working on open source software for free just because they like it.

Some people create or contribute as part of their job. If the job requires new software, the company doesn't want to sell the software, and the developer thinks others could use it, then why not open source?
Napster created and popularized a la carte digital music downloads :)

Apple just had the market clout to make labels acquiesce to doing it legally.
There are plenty of tools that do a lot of "the hard way" heavy lifting for personal deployments of Kubernetes, like kubeadm, though doing "the hard way" at least once is good so you know what actually is going on.
Wow this is great news! I may consider going back... will have to trial it for a month. Thanks for sharing!
> Mozilla is [...] made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company.

This is a delightfully concise summary of Mozilla today. I was a Mozilla contributor in the "scrappy" years and became one of those listed on /about/owners.html. But Mozilla today is basically unrecognizable. A few years ago, even after I'd stopped contributing, it made me sick to my stomach to think about where things have gone, but I can process it better nowadays.

Mozilla's done worse than what's written in OP, but the absolute worst they can do is continue getting people to believe they're the same scrappy organization fighting for good.

If you believe in the Mozilla mission, then use Firefox, I guess, because there's not really a better option. (Although I suppose a WebKit-based browser should be an acceptable equivalent.) But please don't give Mozilla any money or tell people that Mozilla is their friend. It sort of tarnishes how things were around the time when you could say that and it was actually true all the way through.
It's almost like the word 'Faith' was cheapened when religion tried to superimpose its meaning on it.

I deeply enjoy it when groups coopt terminology incorrectly to lend more importance to their own ideas.
I'm perfectly aware of that. Whether the policy crafters at the DNC realize that is a different story. A lot of people seem to take for granted that only whites vote R so I figured there was no harm in challenging that assumption for the point of my example.
Who draws the line?
By this same sense can we also conclude that due to capitalism approximately 99.99999% will never find anything?
Price at least feels the same as a MacBook and I imagine the touchpad on this is horrendous in linux.
The story is about a UK royal taking the handle of another UK citizen. Instagram must recognize the sovereignty of the UK crown while doing business in the UK.
Correct, it's regressive with respect to income but flat with respect to consumption.
These problems could go away if games are considered an extension of software industry instead of the grey area of art/media.

Also, the barrier to entry into games is very low. This leads to mass influction of less than capable people, who still wrongly dream of making games.
Deletion is definitely less common, but we do this all the time. It keeps cruft from accumulating when people forget to delete resources.

It's also nice to be able to do "helm del myapp" and know that everything is wiped. You can do this with "kubectl delete -R -f", but I believe you need the original files. You can of course do something like "kubectl delete -l app=myapp", but this requires consistent use of a common label in all your resources.
> you have to accept that there is a near infinite number of accessibility measures to contend with

This is why we have accessibility standards and guidelines that are not an infinite number of pages long.
This is absolutely true. It's great that this amazon one went through, and a whole lot of issues don't go through, like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/sec-throws-out-investor-vote...

Even though this amazon resolution may make the proxy ballot, most shareholders don't vote. Check out this online petition that makes it easier: https://www.yourstake.org/ask/amazoncom-inc-facial-recogniti...
Just as I would blame me and my generation for not having awareness of climate change, or not changing lifestyle and politics because of it. Or illiteracy. Or inability to wire a plug. I would blame a 55 / 60 year old for those.

Everyone my age got taught and surrounded by English. Everyone my age did not grow up with tech. Some my age are deeply naive about tech thanks, in part, to having surprisingly little exposure until recently as it became unavoidable.

It's not generational whining - that's a very different animal, it's the simple ubiquity.
You're missing the point.

It's a 30% cut for using Apple's distribution channel. And no Apple doesn't let app developers use the channel whilst telling their users how to bypass the 30% cut.

Just like I can't go to any retail store today and on any of the clothes or boxes find a giant sticker that says "buy this product on our website for 20% cheaper". No retailer would tolerate that.
Crypto currency exchange inflows/outflows
The articles doesn't have a link to the paper, just to a PR write-up of the paper by the organization responsible for funding it (I think). Can't find the paper using the author's name (Ashkan Afshin) and journal it was published in (Lancet), either.

Anybody have a link?
> OOP is great if all you are doing is OO and if your solution to a problem is running a simulation (what OOP was invented for).

And even for simulation-like code (or really any other case of "very-high-level" code featuring "object"-like entities linked by complex, non-trivial relationships) ECS systems work a lot better than plain old OOP, while preserving the wide variety of advantages that you rightly point out. Especially since ECS works as a reasonably-thin layer over the usual sort of data-oriented programming.
"Democracy is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

If the citizens or elected representatives in a democracy voted to start censoring speech, but continued to empower citizens to vote, it would still be a democratic state in spite of the censorship. An illiberal one, but still democratic.
Welcome To capitalism... Dont act surprised.
So you're saying futarchy is flawed because the metric measured will be gamed? How is it different from the present system, where legislative power has all the same incentives to only implement laws favouring the wealthy? IMO, futarchy is strictly not worse than the state of art. No one is claiming it's flawless.
"Transwomen" are just males, i.e. men. They have male biology. This is not frivolous, and not up for debate: it's extremely important that we do not lose the ability to talk about human sexuality in a coherent way.

> Indeed, some trans women need to see a gynecologist, even.

This is also not true. No transwomen ever needs to see a gynecologist except as a form of validation.
True but there's also a lot of unknowns and variables in any business and mangers have to guess sometimes. In that sense mood and atmosphere can matter if you're on the fence.
New Mexico is 14th state to pledge its electoral votes to winner of popular vote
I have been happy with my Librem. I like not having any issues with drivers. I like supporting a company that is making as-close-to-free-as-possible hardware.