skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I have to ask, do you disagree with women's only gyms? Men's only? Gender specific locker rooms?

Gender exclusive spaces are perfectly fine as a general concept, provided that the overall access to opportunities or resources aren't reduced by the exlusivity. Women and men only gyms make sense, however I would be concerned if there was a shift too far in either direction by a significant switch to male or female exclusive facilities that would result in a lack of access due to gender. There are an abundance of classes and resources that are generally available to learn code, and I can say that community events I have organized and attended have been, until quite recently, heavily biased towards men. Creating similar events that cater to women to increase access and visibility of opportunities is not discriminatory, since there is a negligible impact on availability for men, but a net increase in availability for women (by way of example, I did a quick check of 10 events local to vancouver that are general access, with approximately 600 seats, and contrasted this to a women only event that is 30 seats. This means that there are, at most, 10% more seats specifically available to women at learn to code style events over the period of those 11 events, but I can say anecdotally that of those 600 general access seats, they will be 75% or more filled with men, so the actual impact on more seats available exclusively to women is much smaller on the actual attendance of women. This isn't rocket science, and with more time I could actually source the data [with the proviso that my data will be taken from assuming the gender of folks from the communities I have organized for which I still have attendance data from the last several years])

I also think that it is well past time for gender specific locker rooms - it doesn't respect privacy, and creates a landmine of risk. A mix of private bathrooms or change rooms, with family change rooms where appropriate to the facility makes more sense. Having distinct male or female washrooms has created no end of problems for LGBTQ+ folks, and have caused a great deal of drama at all age levels (community centres and schools, etc) for children. Beyond that, as a simple preference, I don't want to share a bathroom with anyone, even if I am just standing up to take a whizz.
Won't be surprised if the fridge also checks how long the filter is in use and will stop producing water and ice after six months. Unbelievably greedy bastards.
From my experiments with Lutris and Proton, getting games to work has been quite easy as long as the games don't require ancient Windows APIs and such.

The biggest difficulty I experience with gaming on Linux is Nvidia and their atrocious drivers. Getting games to run isn't very hard these days as long as you can manage to get your GPU to render an image.

I should've bought AMD...
Is there any chance of that happening? This bloke is a "former billionaire", as opposed to a current one.
If I am understanding the poster correctly, Apple TV is just the input. The speaker system itself is agnostic to what the input is. There is no ecosystem for the audio, as they're all 'dumb' speakers connected to a receiver.
org-mode for notetaking/journaling/organizing and writing documentation with org-babel for interactive (literate) programming and making diagrams (gnuplot, matplotlib, graphviz, mscgen, plantuml).

Can’t say this for many tools but using org-mode has been life changing for me.
Why are so many organizations slow to approve pull requests?
Someone should make a Twitter-like that verifies posters at various levels based on humanness/geographic locale and other characteristics.

Then posters could limit conversations to those with >90% human score (with score going up when twitter has more certainty that you are a human) located in the US (for US political conversations), etc.

I'd certainly pay a few bucks to be verified and contribute much more often to conversations than I do now, as now it just seems like screaming into the bot void.
There are DNA based virus detection techniques that take fragments of DNA of unknown origin and compare them to a database of known bad stuff. So I think it could allow people that have the ability to sequence DNA to identify this virus if they have, for example, a patient.
It's worse. Warrants extend two steps removed from the target. Consider what this means with Carter Page as an example.

1. can spy on Carter Page

2. can spy on anybody who communicated with Carter Page

3. can spy on anybody who communicated with anybody who communicated with Carter Page

If a person exists who communicated with both Carter Page and Donald Trump, then the warrant allows spying on Donald Trump. It is nearly certain that such a person exists.
Fascinating story, though I'm particularly drawn to the sidebar commentary:

John Kapoor insisted that Insys hire sales representatives who were “PHD” — “poor, hungry, driven” or “poor, hungry, dumb”— Alec Burlakoff told the FT and Frontline.

This is how you create drug pushers (criminal or corporate), corporate fraudsters, "just following orders" rank-and-file within atrocity-committing organisatios (government, corporate, criminal, social), propagandists, and quite often within academic disciplines.

I'm reminded of a professor I'd had in an introductory social sciences course. On their death, I learned that far from the patrician presence he'd come to be when I knew him, he'd come from humble and harsh beginnings, as related in an obituary. Though they'd published little academic work, they were able to make a substantial endowment to the university. It also became clear to me over the decades, substantiated by the fact that virtually all their published work was via specifically ideological (and corporate-backed) insitutions, that he was ragingly partisan. A realisation which explained much of his lecture and course presentation and materials.

That personal history matches others in the field.

A background of poverty can be illuminating and character-building. It can also be the opposite. It is a tool which creates individuals who, as the Insys quote demonstrates, manipulators and destroyers of the common weal can, will and do, with all deliberate intent exploit.

Poverty and inequality are a self-feeding cycle.
All platforms after a certain size need to be regulated as utilities.

When thousands or hundreds of thousands of companies live and die by your platform, its economic suicide to leave it in the hands of one single private entity.

A few things need to happen in order to guarantee fair play:

- Transparency: Your process can no longer be secret. People need to see whats going on to ensure no foul play is going on.

- The owners of the platform can't participate economically in it. Amazon is the obvious example. You don't want to be kicked out of your own platform? Don't open it to others. Its a simple matter of conflict of interest.

- DUE PROCESS: You can't have some minimum wage employee following a flowchart in call center making life of death decisions for companies living in your platform. There needs to be a proper and accessible appeals process with independent arbitrage if necessary. And above all, innocent till proven guilty. You can't fucking shut down my company and THEN I can go through the lengthy appeal. No company can survive that.

Too expensive? Tough shit, go wipe your tears with your trillion dollar market cap.

I'm sure there's a ton more that needs to happen. These are just the ones I can think about.
Those who deny Unix are forced to re-invent it -- badly.
1999 - the GTD method

2019 - everyone thinks they have ADHD on some level

Constant: you're human and you are a fine human. Hormones and interests fluctuate throughout the weeks, months, years. Pursue what feels right. The human brain wasn't designed to pursue long term goals, it takes an extraordinary interest in something for it to be a life goal. Nothing is ever finished, it's just tabled for now. One day you'll be old and leave all that crap behind for the next generation. It's nature.
Maybe a late response, but essentially, yes.

One government made campaigns to get help from the people, that would keep an eye for markets breaking the rule. Here is a wikipedia (in BR-PT) about it: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_do_Sarney
We have a similar problem with tourists in Australia and people (even from the US) underestimating quite how large the country is, and how you can very quickly find yourself on roads not meant for campervans and regular cars, and on roads that rarely get travelled.

Last year about a few hours drive south of Sydney I found a very young German couple who were on a otherwise completely deserted and unpatrolled beach. They walked down from the parking spot to the beach and spent a few minutes wading around in the water.

After speaking to them, I found that they'd flown into the country the previous day, rented the van that morning and this was the first beach they had found. They said the only thing that kept them from swimming out was a worry of sharks. I had to spend a few minutes educating them about rip currents, and pointed out that they'd just been wading in what looked like the biggest one on the beach.
Looks stable?
As a 33 year old who was just diagnosed with ADHD, a few minutes into reading this I knew exactly where it was going.

For me, it was when I watched Dr. Russell Barkley's talk[1] and halfway through, it brought me to tears. No one before then had described exactly the way I felt on a daily basis.

Since going through a full day of neuropsychological testing and being diagnosed with ADHD-I and starting medication, I feel like the me I think I am, naturally curious, optimistic, and actually following through with the things that interest me. Planning and grad school assignments just click so effortlessly now, and my stress is way down, as I am completing things in a timely manner and not fighting myself at every step of the way.

If any of this resonates with you, please talk with a psychiatrist to see if this is something you're unknowingly (and unnecessarily) struggling with.

Also,if you're like me and like listening to audio books at 2 or 3x speed, check out Speechify, it allows you to listen to any kind of text including rough scans of books/PDFs. It's been incredibly helpful for required readings in classes.

edit: wrong video url

[1] https://youtu.be/_tpB-B8BXk0
In TV, the 3 primary colors are Red, Green, Blue. Magenta is a secondary color made from combining Red and Blue. That's what makes it easy. Just turn on 2 of the 3 colors you have to make it. It's not a fraction of them, it's just full on of 2 out of 3.
http://eclipse-games.sourceforge.net/
I think the idea of a backdoor comes because CIA/FBI/NSA has incentives to be anti-encryption. It is their job to break it. So they want their lives to be easier. But the DoD has an incentive to have strong encryption. It is their job to defend their communications.

But I'll disagree with you (while agreeing with you) on this

> Everyone here is speaking like there HAS to be a backdoor

The DoD __does__ have a backdoor. It is the cellphone, not Signal. There doesn't have to be a backdoor in Signal for them to have full access to these communications.
Title typo to fix: "eecutive" --> "executive"
There should be an official list of elections that don't actually matter. Or perhaps those that do, since it would be far shorter.

I can't recall the last time there was an election in my precinct for any question whatsoever that was actually in play. These days I just give my wife my ballot to vote--it makes us both happier.
Amen! Developers spend their first decade learning how to write complex code, and be clever, and compress everything into the fewest and hardest-to-read smallest amount of code possible.

Their second decade they learn that simplicity and readability is always better, even if it does require more code.

It's better to have 300 lines of simple, straight-forward, easy-to-read code than to have a 30 line version of the same code that's difficult to understand, and difficult to debug.

Always code for your future-self and future-others who really don't want to spend an hour figuring out what the hell you did in that awesome looking 30 lines of entropy.
> How do you achieve sending only DNS traffic over VPN?

I use OpenVPN on both my phone and the server with the "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp" option enabled on the server. See https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/only-dns-via-vpn/

> What do you do when your phone is connected to your home WiFi network?

Nothing. The phone still uses the PiHole in AWS. I don't run a PiHole on my home network, as I use uBlock Origin to block ads on my desktop. I make my phone use a PiHole to prevents apps that aren't my web browser from getting ads, such as Google Now.
I am not advocating a blanket ban on all guns. Rifles, sure. For hunting, sport, farming etc. But semi-automatic AR-15s have no place in a civil society. Preventing access to them seems like a sensible compromise, and it has been demonstrated to be effective in other countries. My friend's son had active-shooter training at school. He is six. That is an unacceptable situation.
What difference would that make for Wikipedia specifically?
> Within Saskatchewan, east of Regina ...

Is it possible to get (Google?) Maps links for these?
> the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is an all inclusive term. So this includes things like radio.
The Thucydides Trap doesn't go away.

The US will have to fight to prevent China from overtaking it. But they are running out of time to do so. If they don't do it within the next year or so, they will be too late to succeed.
Companies do plenty of things that are illegal, especially when it comes to labor law.

That being said, this story doesn't make sense unless it takes place outside of CA. Work for a PhD thesis is generally done on university grounds, giving the university the putative right to the underlying IP. A third-party employer like Oracle would have to duke it out with the university to claim ownership, no matter what their employment contracts said.

OTOH, if work for the PhD was done using Oracle facilities and equipment, then it makes perfect sense for Oracle to investigate IP ownership since many PhD thesis projects go on to become valuable commercial products.
You're not alone. I was 33 on a high powered rocket to the bottom. I think ADHD can erode your sense of self, your self esteem, and as a result, every part of you. The distress gets real. And yet once you finally realize you _need_ help, you have such a low appreciation for yourself that you don't believe you _deserve_ help.

If I didn't have kids I probably wouldn't have gotten help. I did it for them. I'm glad I did now – everyone deserves help.
A while back I found a copy of my 1998-era and early 2000s websites on an old hard disk. The data were incomplete, so I went through a pretty fun process of recovering much of the missing information from Archive.org. Then I fixed the HTML to comply with more modern standards. I wrote up a blog post about it here: https://www.kloppenborg.net/blog/2019/07/04/restoring-maxis-.... I put the website (pure HTML) up here: https://maxis-ville.kloppenborg.net/
If you are using "lifestyle business" to mean "a business has priorities other than profit at all costs", you are using it incorrectly. A lifestyle business is one where the owners have set a target business size and profit level, and do not try to grow past this; some owners even actively inhibit growth to keep the business from getting too large. The purpose of the business is to give its owners a fixed cash flow.

A company whose owners are working to grow the business consistently and organically is not a lifestyle business; it is also not pursuing "profit at all costs". Most privately-held businesses fall into this category.

As to "lifestyle business" being a slur, it is unfortunate that members of the growth-obsessed communities use it as such. They don't see a business with a fixed target size as serious. Incidentally, many also think the same about the organic growth case I mentioned. I ignore them, and most other things from VC startup culture.
I would be interested to see what magenta cigarette packets did too. At least brown is relatively inconspicuous. Pulling out your magenta cigarette packet isn’t going to be something everyone wants to do.
> I'm somewhat of an artist and I derive a lot of joy from others enjoying my pieces.

Yes, art is a special case because art really requires an audience. Perhaps the fact that I'm an engineer affects my attitude on this -- engineering is only half art.

> I'd give people who put in enough time to figure out how to solve a weird new problem the benefit of the doubt that they want to share it because they find it cool and you share things you think are cool

Yes, I do this. I wasn't thinking of this aspect, though -- sharing something you discovered is awesome because you're really sharing the thrill of discovery rather than sharing to impress people. Perhaps that a distinction without much difference, though.

> It's also useful as an online portfolio if you ever need to find a job to be able to point people at that has lots of posts of professional quality about projects you've done.

Yeah, I consider that something entirely different -- that's not really sharing as much as it's using your work for sales purposes.
Former Wells Fargo CEO Hit with $17.5M Fine, Barred from Banking Industry
Just because I know how a car works mechanically doesn't mean I'm inclined to build a fleet of my own.
It's also terrifying that headlines and articles can be taken as valid. Smear articles and misleading information are troubling as well in the upcoming years.
Being an election year, many people in the government would stop at nothing to cause a recession.
This is a great article. I've been considering where this will head with gpt-2 dungeon master showing how far AI has come.

While I agree with the article that so far everything digital has been a noble failure, I feel there is too much discussion between AI vs humans. I think the future is in AI-assisted human DMs. Software may not be able to "entertain and dazzle" with the creativity of humans but it can help coordinate many routine tasks in any dnd game allowing the human DMs to focus their time on the components that make the adventure fun.
The digital 406 MHz signals received by the satellites mentioned in TFA are unencrypted and can be receive by ground-based receivers as well.

There are commercial receivers/decoders[1] but you can also do it fairly easily with an appropriate antenna and SDR[2].

[1] https://wst.ca/beacon_monitor.html

[2] https://www.bytebang.at/Blog/ELT+Testing+with+rtl-sdr
Hyperfocus is a coping skill if you suffer ADHD. Everyone can do it, but people who suffer from ADHD learn to get very good at getting into that state, because without it they struggle to maintain focus.
You're probably right when it comes to those of us who medication works well for, but there are some people who medication doesn't help much. In those cases I think diet and exercise tend to be the best line of defence against symptoms.
Yang supporters believe expats should also get the freedom dividend. It would be funny if yang just declares a United States of earth and distributes the freedom dividend to every human on the entire planet...
1) If the cops get a tip that Bonnie is hiding out in a house, and they raid it only to find Clyde alone, they're going to still arrest him. Even if it takes them time to figure out that Clyde is -in fact- Clyde, and that he isn't Bonnie. Same goes for a senior member of Al Qaeda and his driver/messenger/accomplice.

2) This isn't about his character or being "good" vs "bad". This is about whether he knowingly provided material support to Al Qaeda or enemy combatants. The leaked report
I linked to makes a compelling (to me) case that he repeatedly attempted to join and assist militant jihad groups, including after being jailed for it in Pakistan.

3) That said, none of it justifies torture, and none of it justifies denying him the right to a trial, be it military or civilian.
If you earn $10k out of a ~15% to 10% marketshare, you've only earned about $100k total. You're not going to get your money back.
How complete are theses tests? If I wait another 10, 15 years to get sequenced, would I get more accurate, reliable information? Can advances in sequencing technology make it worth people to get resampled? Or is it just an issue of better analysis?
I love magenta, personally
I stopped using mint for two reasons.

1.) Privacy reasons: they don't charge for the service so I pay via data sharing

2.) Legal concerns: my bank's TOS imply if I give my password to someone it harms my ability to claim fraud. I worry if there is ever a security issue with the protocols Mint uses, I will have my checking account drained or CC used willy nilly and have to fight uphill to dispute the charges.

I used Mint for many years to track my spending.

I found that moving my "entertainment" budget - for meals out, movies, and sundries - into cash led to me overall spending less, without the mental strain of pouring over things.

Most credit cards nowadays give pie charts and stuff similar to Mint in the web UI. I wish I didn't have to spread spending across multiple vendors since I maximize cashback, but I wish someone would examine whether, in the long run, cashback actually saves you money or if it just makes you spend more due to the frictionless nature of using a credit card. Casinos use chips for a reason.

I withdraw my entertainment money monthly, and it makes me think hard about each cup of tea out etc. I think in conversations about cashless being king, we forget the very real phenomenon of overspending with plastic.
I also bought a 23 and me test, but I intend on submitting mine with some DNA recovered from a Mummy or something like that.
I think they do what they can. But it's not really as prevalent in the Yang Gang as the article suggests.
I found it was a good intro to the world of Twitter bots. I don’t use Twitter but like to read about its influence and how others are using it.

But yeah I did get the same tinge of condescension about the “sad” and “lonely” teenager Mike because he works at Taco Bell, doesn’t want to go into $100k worth of debt going to college and is following bots from campaigns she doesn’t agree with.

> He seemed lonely. Eager to please. His last video blog he announced he wasn’t going to college after all…

Like you said, what if he followed Bloomberg bots, would he be described as “sad” too.

However at the same I would have to concede that writing an unbiased article about political bots in this day and age is probably not gonna happen, either.
What really pisses me off about bot accounts isn't the fake info simply because I analyze things based off my own opinions and research, although I understand how this is an issue for the general majority. My issue is that if I happen to retweet somebody opposite of that running a bot farm, then the bots are trigger to all report me and then I need to verify my account again the next time I'm on. And the sad thing is that it works, because I'll stop retweeting that person's tweets just to avoid that verification process since it happens consistently.

Whether there's other criteria that qualifies me for attack, such as the retweeting in combination with following that person, I'm not sure as I haven't tested that.
It's surgery that pays well, it doesn't mean it's all from a single procedure.