skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Society is fully willing to dispose of the scripts if you dispose of the gender identity

Why is disposing of said "scripts" a good thing, especially to the extent that they are at least in part shaped by biological pre-dispositions?

> cultivate an androgynous appearance, and most of... Wester society... will literally stop caring about your gender

First, why would I need or want to "cultivate" an androgynous appearance? I'm not necessarily that handsome, but I am very distinguishably masculine. Why would I need or want to obscure natural characteristics? You are also greatly over-estimating the number of people, even in "cosmopolitan" parts of society, which would ignore gender. The population of transsexuals, homosexuals, etc. is still very small in relation to the broader population, and most people have definite ideas of who they are romantically interested in. They will not simply "stop caring".

> like france with religion

France does not allow religion on dating apps? That seems like a very silly rule, as it is an excellent predictor of shared values.
This was my immediate reaction. Haven't there been a lot of articles about the millennial rush to the city?
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Most English speakers would say, "a woman who I was with for 3 years." In this case "with" is understood to mean in a romantic relationship.

I don't think what you said is technically correct. "With whom I was" calls for something (a verb or phrase) to be tacked onto the end, but it would still be awkward. For example, "with whom I was dating for three years."
Yes and no. Ultimately, any space issue can be solved with enough money, so yes. But space usually isn't easily expanded. My company has the 7th floor of a 10-floor building. When we hire people as we've been doing, we can either fit them into the existing space somehow, or... move the entire office? Rent space on the floor above or below? It isn't as easy as just "spend a bit more money, get a bit more space," so no.

Ultimately, when they moved into this building, they spent quite a bit more than they needed to for the entire floor, knowing they expected to grow. Now they're cramming people in too closely and will probably have to move to a larger building in the future. In the meantime, however...

So yeah, it's a space issue first and foremost, and a money issue only secondarily.
I'm just going to leave this little guy right here...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/helium-network/
If you're using Python 3 then map should be fine
> The main differences are [...] In addition to which people aren't being disappeared or arrested for their posts.

I would not recommend talking about these subjects with the international app outside China and then going to China.
> I don't think you can argue against the fact that a significant portion of the population works well in open offices

Can you cite a study which asserts this fact?
This talk seems to me to follow a similar line of thinking to the one I saw presented by Chandler Carruth at the 2014 C++ conference [0]. In the talk he presented a table with (approximately) round-trip-times of various data layers.

[0]: https://youtu.be/fHNmRkzxHWs?t=2208
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Anecdotal evidence.

I remember working for a company about a decade ago where we spent so much time engineering duplicate everything hardware or hot spares everywhere.

Guess what, when switch failed it didn't properly failed over. When router it started sending spurious packets everywhere and had to be taken down manually.

All the effort that went into duplicating hardware and making hot spares could have been save by just... having cold spares, and in the end the amount of downtime would have been the same, or less -- because when one thing fails it's really easy obvious where things stopped working.
Yes. It's oxidized and stale. It's like buying cheese in a block from a refrigerator or something that was grated three months ago and put on a shelf.
A database being columnar is more of an implementation detail regarding the underlying storage mechanism than it is a type of database. It has to do with how the data is physically stored, i.e. by putting values across rows of a single column adjacent to one another on disc/in memory.
Not really. As typically used "NIMBY" has a component of hypocrisy. Just not wanting something to happen is "opposition". "Not in my backyard" connotes the idea that someone supports some project in principle, but not when it affects them directly. "I like wind power, but not when it blocks the view of my cottage", "I like high density housing, but not if it affects my property values", "I like mass transit, but don't want a subway station in my neighborhood."

In this case, "I don't want another giant telescope on my culture's sacred mountain" isn't about astronomy at all, it's about the culture (and the larger perspective of indigenous interest in local resources, and respect for a pre-existing treaty that wasn't quite honored -- these folks aren't primitives or hippies, they know very well this is a political process in the real world).
Those vendors' reports cost $10-$20 and contain no medical records.
Exactly! For me, realizing that I can have what I want from the city in a small suburban town was a huge shift for me. I moved way outside of a large city to a much smaller town, but I'm right downtown now. When I lived "in the city" I could walk to anything. Now I can walk to bars, grocery stores, a movie theater. There's not much there, and I really hope the little downtown revives more, but it's all close, and it's got cool old brick facades, etc.
Keep in mind that "accelerationism" has been used in many different ways throughout history. Currently the most widespread usage is the Landian one but this wikipedia page is very superficial in describing it.

And yes, from the original work of Nick Land many different political movements and categories are born, starting from the same analysis and the same philosophical toolbox but arriving at very different conclusion. L/acc, R/acc, U/acc, NRX and so on have almost nothing in common to the neophyte and framing them as sides of a single movement is quite pointless and confusing.

As a xenoaccelerationist active in some L/acc circles, feel free to ask me questions or pointers for good readings.
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It seems logical that these might have been used to feed babies, but the article also says it was previously thought they could have been used to feed sick or elderly. The only justification given for assuming it was a baby was not from the data, but that "Sometimes research on women tends to be a little bit marginalized..." That is very much true, but it does not definitively mean these were baby bottles, it means the possibility may not have been considered previously due to a research bias.
That sounds like a great argument against open offices. I could not handle sitting near two people pair programming the whole day. If they went to a private office to do it that would seem ideal.
I want to chime in here too, because I am from a similar place - deep suburbs where having a car is a necessity. Only difference is I still refuse to pay to live in an inner city. I am counting on the current renaissance of suburban cities to continue, where these smaller towns are embracing walkability/bikeability. My dream is to live in a little suburban town where I can actually walk and bike to important places, and only go into the big city when necessary. It seems like we are getting there, slowly!
> IDK, it seems the actual demand for oil will remain high. We’ll shift from using it in energy production and transportation to plastics, manufacturing, lubes and other refined oils, aviation which to shift to electric will need another 50 years of battery tech it seems, etc.

Agreed on the uses for oil, but I think planes are a lot closer than you think, but not via batteries. Fuel cells will be what is used, IMO. All of their disadvantages that make them a terrible fit for cars are pretty much null for planes. Electric motors are reaching 15 kw/kg. SOFC designs are now reaching 2.5 kw/kg power density and > 60% efficiency. With waste heat recovery, 80% efficiency is on the horizon. All combined, my napkin math (which could be wrong) shows those power densities are almost double that of even state of the art jet engines like LEAP.

Which just leaves the fuel aspect. SOFCs, due to their high operating temperatures, allow for a lot of fuel flexibility. Technically, they could still use regular jet fuel. While that wouldn't get rid of the fossil fuels, the much higher efficiencies would result in significant decreases in the demand for fuel, which have additional efficiencies (It takes a lot of fuel to fly a lot of fuel).

However, I wouldn't rule out hydrogen. The traditionally cited disadvantages of liquid hydrogen are significantly minimized for aviation. You don't really need heavy duty cryo tanks: planes operating at 15km altitudes are already at -50 degrees C, and the consumption rates would be higher than the evaporation bleedoff rates. When descending or ascending, temperatures are higher, but consumption rates are also higher. That means that the optimal insulation is a weight/bleedoff optimization problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if current foam insulation technologies were good enough. I've found an example of a 125kL vacuum-insulated tank that only needed a constant 390W of cooling to maintain zero boil-off [0], meaning that that rate of fuel bleedoff without cooling is <390W. That is 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than the consumption rates of jet aircraft, which gives a lot of leeway for reducing the insulation requirements. And even if it doesn't work, liquified renewable methane might still work, with its higher boiling point and higher volumetric energy density.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/278/1/0...
I stuck it out trying to fix bad culture for a year last year. My mom had good advice: it’s really hard to change an established culture, impossible without support from the top.

I learned a lot being a squeaky wheel, but I didn’t change the culture in any meaningful way beyond getting us a lunch room.
> You can put it on a collision course with the sun

Counterintuitively, this is far more expensive than launching it into said black hole, or just out of the Solar System all together.
Because they're kids and they don't have a clue. If I was her parent, I would have stopped her. She should be getting an education, so she doesn't end up as a homeless activist one day.
Mandatory schooling in most of Europe is up to the age of 15-16 and you can do w/e you want after that not unlike the US...

https://os.unil.cloud.switch.ch/tind-customer-edudoc/aa7b2aa...
Possible, but you'll end up in the same arms race you get with cheaters and on-line games. I.e. I could probably sniff the requests and responses coming off a phone and throw together a python script which would automatically "swipe right". They add a fake account, so I now parse for "Fake Account". It seems as though the model of having women initiate conversation makes more sense anyway, from what else I've read in this thread.
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They didn't mention a collection agency, nor is one likely involved with this case yet. Collection agencies enter the picture usually long after an incident and much neglect by various parties.

Collection agencies are not evil. If you've ever been a landlord or had someone fail to pay a debt, a collection agency may be a godsend b/c they buy your debt (you get something at least; they get the paper debt, valid or not). Is that not a valid capitalistic risk-taking venture?

The credit bureau can't be charged with fraud: their data is from legitimate businesses (creditors); any fraud would apply to the creditor.

This system has and still works well. Most everyone reading this has made good use of our current credit system. We all understand how it works but are impatient with the slowness of the system. But it is a mistake to confuse slowness with malintent.
For sure, putting gun runners out of a job
For anyone considering where to go to graduate school...

One's PhD experience is highly dependent on the university one attends and especially the professor that one works under. Each lab has a different culture and each professor treats students differently. It also matters a lot whether you are on fellowship or not (someone funded directly from a professor's grant is easier to bully/exploit).

Just like you should speak to employees at a company before joining it to get an idea of culture and work/life balance, prospective graduate students should speak to current graduate students to get an idea of life at a given lab. Most graduate students are openly aware of which professors are known for treating students like indentured servants and which are known for being hands off and generous with research funds. If you are trying to pick a university/lab, definitely go to visits and speak to 4th/5th year grad students (preferably over a beer or two). Typically by the end of their PhD, graduate students are willing to tell you the truth about the different labs/professors.

Also, remember that is often totally ok to switch labs within 1-2 years. Yes, it may set you back some on your progress, but it can be much better than being miserable for 5 years.
The article didn't spend a lot of time discussing the type of washing machine used. But in my experience that makes a big difference.

Front loading machines seem to be quite gentle on clothes. Perhaps because they don't use an agitator? My mostly 100% cotton clothing lasts for years and years. My family is tired of seeing me in the same clothes.

But maybe another big difference is between men's and women's clothing. The women's stuff feels very lightweight, very delicate. I'm not surprised that it doesn't hold up as well as men's.

And then there's fashion. My girls buy jeans that start out with holes in them. How long can that last? In contrast, by the time my jeans have holes in them they are definitely worn out.
Harder to spin up 1000 duplicate instances of the front-of-house staff or sell the capability to identify customers out-of-house as well.
You said "all", but its not really all without "payment up to date with the market" ;).

Ps. I would not care so much for payment if I was born 5-10 years earlier. I would already have a big house with nice big garden and few cars. Now to get the same - have to pay 15x as much as my brother who is older than me :)
Great times we live in..
I had a co-worker who lived in Baltimore, and he'd act like he was shocked that co-workers from the suburbs thought Baltimore wasn't a good place to live or visit. Then he'd also tell us stuff like "when you visit my house, don't park more than 2 blocks away because your car will probably get broken into once the sun goes down", or that he found a homeless guy sleeping under his porch one morning, or how people on the sidewalk would pretend to mug you because they thought it was funny to scare people. He'd lived in cities his entire life though, so he thought that kind of stuff was normal, and he came from a wealthy family and lived in one of the better parts of Baltimore.
I dunno man, I (software engineer for 21 years) like the open office, at my last job we had real offices and my coworker and I cut a huge window sized hole in the drywall between our offices so we could easier communicate/chat. I can’t count how many times a random casual conversation saved the day or generated new ideas. If I need to focus I put on headphones.

Logistically it seems unlikely open offices will go away, software heavy business can’t just spread their workforce over 3x the space, especially in dense urban areas. Better to come up with novel solutions for deep work, like dedicated open area library/dark dungeon rooms.
"Class consciousness" is a framework for thinking about society. It is used by those who think they know how the world should be structured to make others see things their way - by "others", I mean those who don't think that way, based on their own lived experience. "Identify with these people that you don't feel any identity with, and join them in attacking these other people that you wouldn't otherwise want to attack."

Which, when you look at it, is just another set of people trying to manipulate you into behaving the way they think you should. They say it's for your own good? So does everyone else trying to manipulate you.

Now, back in the day, the difference between working and managing was twofold: managers got paid more, and they were allowed (and expected) to think as part of their job. The workers were just robots made of flesh, but the managers were supposed to be able to think. Well, for all we (most of us) still have to work, we're more in the managing class, in that we get paid well and have to think. So trying to tell us that we should have "working class consciousness"... yeah, there's a reason why it doesn't feel to us like it fits.
This is like when Keanu Reeves accelerates the train in order to derail it at the end of Speed.

Though I'm bearish on applying movie logic to social change.
Definitely not 1:1 sync.

They're not even saving metadata which is available on all filesystems such as timestamps etc.
My heart is heavy for you. This is a difficult thing to overcome. I am sure, given your comments, that you have tried high and low and have come to the same conclusion.

I was in the same boat, being highly addicted to porn and not desiring or enjoying sex with my wife.
When we did have sex, my mind was elsewhere having sex with these women in my imagination and yes it was slowly killing my wife. She struggled with feelings of being unattractive. You think you are hiding it but it is a dark life that manifests itself in other ways. My addiction lasted 16 years and grew worse with time.

I tried to quit as much as I could but would always fall. Maybe I went a few days or a week at best.

Until I discovered Jesus Christ and gave myself fully to Him. I became born again and truly relinquished control to Him.

Hear me please, there is NO other way to overcome this as it is a spiritual battle that has been well thought out and efficiently deployed in these end times for the masses.

Take heed, just being born again didn't do it. I had to fully, 100%, give up myself and He showed up big time and broke those chains. That is the ONLY way that works. Now, I have no desire to watch porn nor do I look at girls lustfully and in fact, TV shows with nudity offend my spirit (hopefully you'll come to know what this means).

I realize this won't be popular here but having tried all other ways and failing, I invite you to try Him out (if you haven't already). Know that He loves you so much and is waiting for you to invite him into your heart.

Cry out to the Lord and invite Him into your heart. Cry out to Him and acknowledge that you, on your own means, are unable to overcome this spiritual onslaught and ask Him for grace to overcome. He will show up because He promised He would and is no man that He should lie. I am praying for you.
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They could implement to run automatically for the first time and them need approval in the next 30 mins to avoid spamming.
Google can't even figure out that when I search for something in maps I probably want locations that are close to me and not across the country
Have you tried earbuds v headphones? Anything that sits on / rattles my cartilage is excruciating, but after finding a comfortable pair of earbuds with the big silicone tip on them, I can go a full workday no problem.
I'm about 6ft and have a slightly longer stride than most folks, I'd say I could do it comfortably in about 40 minutes.

Depending on traffic lights and the such it's about 15 mins on the bike or train.
Already in HTTP servers can send an "Alt-Svc" header which proposes a different way that clients might reach the same resources. So one thing that can happen goes in full like this:

1. User type http://example.com into browser

1a. Browser does DNS lookup example.com AAAA or A -> 10.20.30.40

2. Browser connects to 10.20.30.40 TCP port 80 and speaks HTTP/1.1 over that port, announcing Host: example.com where it gets given a 301 redirect to https://example.com (and HSTS pre-load would skip this step)

3. Browser connects to 10.20.30.40 TCP port 443, using SNI for example.com where it is offered an ALPN option h2 (meaning HTTP/2.0) and it takes that option and speaks HTTP/2.0

4. Browser receives Alt-svc: h3=":12345" which is an announcement that this same HTTPS service is available as HTTP/3 using UDP port 12345 from the same IP

5. Now for any future resources from https://example.com/ the browser knows it could get them using HTTP/3

In future, maybe, perhaps, a new DNS record (only really practical via DPRIVE such as DoH since useless middleboxes will probably make this undeployable without) will do what the SRV record was trying to do, but this time focused on HTTP servers in particular. So with that record (again, not even a draft exists for this yet AFAIK):

1. User types http://example.com/ into browser

1a. Browser uses DoH to ask HTTP-SERVICE DNS lookup example.com -> big pile of stuff about how to get this service. If the DNS lookup fails it tries asking for A or AAAA instead.

2. Browser intuits from the big pile of stuff to do QUIC to 10.20.30.40 UDP port 12345, and then speaks HTTP/3.
We have outdoor preschools in Seattle, but because of how licensing works, my family can't use them. Outdoor preschools can only run for 4 hours usually 9:30-1:30, instead of full day, which is really what you need if you have two working parents.
We definitely look to them as inspiration! We've read a decent amount of how they were started. It's more or less the only new prestigious institution founded in the last 50 years. A lot of their classroom pedagogy also aligns with the direction we've been going, more project based and applied. And they've done a great job of sharing learnings back out to other institutions.

They sit more squarely in the research university category, whereas we're closer to a teaching college (where faculty are dedicated to students rather than publishing research). And it's been a capital intensive way to build a college, since they build out a big campus, research facilities, etc.

We've been meaning to build a closer relationship with them to share learnings on the education side, good reminder to reconnect with the folks we know there :)
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> Most English speakers would say, "a woman who I was with for 3 years."

Actually, I'm pretty certain you're supposed to use "whom" there, not "who".
Your physical gold will be confiscated by soldiers at the border. Or by the government in the name of nationalization, like the US did in Executive Order 6102.

Semantically, crypto is a "commodity", its just digital. Some also behave like securities, so it get complicated, but BTC can be compared most to gold.
Ask HN: Has been your experience moving everything to React
I work in a Rails shop where we have a monolith with most of the frontend written in either;
1. Server rendered haml pages. 2. Client side React.

Currently, there's a discussion going on to move all stuff to react.

Curious about people's experiences and thoughts about it.
I don't see any reliable source there. Are some of those profiles verified? I also didn't see any reference to suicide.
Likely as goats are far easier to keep, own, feed and tend to than cows - especially for the poor. Goats can be kept on any land, can get pregnant/give birth multiple times per year (and therefore provide milk) and have a long weening time when they will give milk. I'd imagine the availability of goats was likely the defining factor in your evidence -but again just an assumption.