skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The study you linked measures a completely different thing all together. It measures psychiatric treatment over time after surgery. It makes no mention of suicide

I'm not sure which of my links you are inaccurately referring to, but the first paragraph of the first one states, in relevant part:

> Transgender individuals who undergo gender-affirming surgery are significantly less likely to [...] attempt suicide in the years following the procedure, new research led by the Yale School of Public Health finds.

So, yeah, it mentions suicide quite prominently.

> I also don’t think it’s a very valid criticism to dismiss the most comprehensive research on this topic to date, performed at Sweden’s largest medical research institution, as “American right-wing propaganda”.

I didn't dismiss the study as right-wing propaganda (in fact, I explictly said that it's methodology is perfectly appropriate to the question it sets out to explore, and the conclusions it actually draws.)

I referred to it's misuse to support the claim that sex reassignment surgery causes those problems rather than that being transgender in today’s society causes them and sex reassignment surgery alone fails to adequately resolve them American right-wing propagadanda, largely originating with the American right-wing propaganda mill known as the “Heritage Foundation", which made that exact misuse which is neither a conclusion of the study nor supportable with it's results, which does not compare transgender individuals who receive the surgery with those who do not because the purpose of the study was not to address the question that American right-wingers want to abuse it to support.
Yes, the ribbon is a futile exercise. I'm pretty sure 90% of the people don't know how to use it, and the ones who know don't remember where things are. In this sense, menus are much more successful interface, at least you know where things might be. And in fact, when I use MS Word I first try to find things in the menu, and only reach for the ribbon for items I already know from previous experience.
The New Yorker reporter said "creditable reason". "Creditable" usually means "somewhat praiseworthy" so it's weird phrasing; but I interpret the praise as going to the reporter for finding it, implying that the reason would be good. Or perhaps the author actually meant "credible" (or the alternative definition of "creditable" that's a near-synonym), directly stating that it's justified. Either way, I don't see any implication that the negative coverage would be anything but warranted. Where are you getting that?

As many other posters noted, there's also an e-book, and the article itself quoted from the blog. So are you asking me to prove the nonexistence of an NYT policy banning the use of any of those sources, despite the New Yorker somehow figuring it out? It's hard to prove a negative, but I could see what I could find online. But do you really think the burden of proof is on me here? Perhaps your impulse is to defend the New Yorker reporter here, and you think the burden of proof for accusing him (of false accusations against Alexander) should be high; but the reporter is accusing Alexander (of having written something that would be a "creditable reason" for negative coverage), so shouldn't the burden be on him?

I didn't say the article was a hit piece, and I don't think it was one. Another poster called it a "smoothed-over hit piece", and that seems closer to me, a piece designed to leave both a negative impression and an impression that Alexander has been treated fairly.
I would say Craigslist because it's not pretty but I can't say that an ugly UI is the same as a horrible design. The design has worked well so far for many types of people.
Being called "cancer whore" is bad.

Claiming there's a big conspiracy of "political correctness which supresses discussion about this" is entirely unsupported thus far.
The TCB would need to be open-source, e.g. Hyper-V, MinWin (or whatever the smallest core of windows is called these days). There are several virtualization-based security features in modern Windows, that would be especially useful if the hypervisor could be inspected and collaboratively developed, even if a Microsoft CLA were required for code contributions, and they retained patents. An OSS TCB would ensure absence of telemetry. They can still sell closed-source components that run on the OSS TCB.
Yeah, they acquired Onica which was/is a decently sized AWS prof services company. Not sure how much they were doing before then.
Don't you end up hiring a lot of people who are very good at bullshitting?

Because that's what happened before we started introducing fizzbuzz-like problems.
Help me articulate this thought process re CA Ag and Agtech
PART A: 1. CA has a $45 billion Ag industry. 2. California is a desert. 3. California is an expensive state to live in compared to some other US cities. 4. Not least because California mandates liveable wage and has high taxes. 5. We pay a lot for water in California. Cost of Ag is high. 6. California sells most of its industrial Ag produce to the rest of the states in the USA and also exports. 7. These same states have lower cost of living index than California.

Part B: 1. Right now Agtech is focused on the same industrial Ag. 2. Agtech is expensive. 3. Agtech startups serve a process optimized industry on razor thin margins. 4. Industrial Ag is already mechanized. 5. It is limited by geography, soil and crops. 6. Each level of specialization will be an added cost.

PART C: 1. Small acreage Ag is consumer level Ag 2. It is sub optimized and enabled w/manual labour. 3. It requires (relatively) cheaper robotics/physics and not expensive AI/ML. 4. It can be deployed faster with less risk. 5. Think Roomba. It is the full expression of how a robot can be integrated. It is a consumer product.

Q: does it make sense for $$$ California to grow food in a desert with AI only to sell it to regions where it’s sold for wholesale. Isn’t it like ‘buy high, sell low’?
Luckily this is all in the browser's UI, nothing a webpage can do to block that.
Thanks for the heads up. We just changed the URLs to that yesterday. Fixing! In the meantime, you can access those components here[0].

[0]: https://components.pwabuilder.com/
I see what you mean, however no one is debating the pure biological definition.

>to you "woman" is something more abstract.

Yes, and that's what we are talking about.. not the pure biological definition. If someone is going to stick with the pure biological definition then they have just closed their mind before even beginning a discussion.
No. If it had something you needed, and that you could only get from Windows, you'd be using it already. Any shop that can make use of an alternative pretty much already does, and would have no reason to switch.
Like so many clever puzzle answers, this doesn't take into account the effect of measurement error. The tests apparently have a false negative rate of 20% as it is. Now start mixing samples together, causing more dilution of the positive samples, and the false negative rate is bound to go up further. Now you have to do studies to figure out what the false negative rate is going to be, and put that into your model as well. This could get impractical fast.
If I have 15 sites in google authenticator is it such a win that 1/15th of them will allow me to reset without needing the second factor? Backing up the app or backup codes seems needed to scale to widespread 2FA use.
it's less exciting just plugging an ethernet cable in
That's true and the nature of language is such that there are constantly evolving dog whistles and methods of expression, but dog whistles aren't directed harrassment so I would basically allow them. Feel free not to vote for a dog whistling politician but I don't think one should not employ/fire/cancel someone for dog whistling that they believe some unfashionable or objectionable view.
When I taught, I blogged anonymously as did many of the other teachers who blogged at the same time as I did. It was a means of preserving our jobs and enabling us to speak candidly about the challenges we faced. Some of us knew each other's secret identities and I once had someone post a comment on the blog identifying me based on clues they were able to piece together from my posts (I immediately deleted the comment). I post this anonymously now because even though I no longer teach, the blog still exists and I'd still prefer not to have those posts connected with me.
Sure, but it could also take other projects to unparalleled places. Why does LibreOffice deserve that money over other projects?
It's more general I think: it's hard to build a SaaS without a head start. In your examples, having ~10 launching customers is such a head start.

But there's also plenty SaaSes that started building tech for something else, that didn't pan out, but they realized they could sell the tech separately. Eg close.io did this and so did my company talkjs.com. There's likely many more examples.

But I agree that if you have to start without something to sell and without customers ready to pay, you're definitely in for a rough ride.
Well here is a sample for you:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/a-new-low-in-...
>I never cared about the layout much, i cared about the content.

Let me amplify that further - often when I'm using a recruiter to assist with hiring (rather than direct sourcing), the recruiters will take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences.
As a decades long FreeBSD and Linux user, I can say no, I would not use Windows on a server come hell or high water for jobs that are already better served on open source platforms. It is seldom the best tool for the job and Microsoft's own metrics show that Linux will become predominate even in Azure.
iFixit takes the Oura smart ring apart to see how it works
Thank you, and likewise, congratulations for running a long-lived successful business!
Amazon. It may be true that they A/B test the shit out of things, but it feels super clunky every time.
Thanks for the testimonial!

I thought bookmarking was incredibly stupid until Joshua Schachter explained it to me like this: when you save something, tag it with the words you would use to search for it six months later. It blew my mind and eventually gave me a livelihood.
>> Are they only counting function calls? I guess so.

Oh that, yes, it's true. They're listing "average episode lengths" in tables 1-3 and those are their main support for their claim of efficiency. By "episode length" they mean instruction or function calls made during training by the student agent which they compare to the instructions/function calls by the teacher agent. So, no asymptotic analysis, just a count of concrete operations performed to solve e.g. a sorting task.
> Google requires you to re-enter your password

And it does it at unpredictable and often inconvenient times.

The periodic check is undeniably good for security. But google's impl doesn't give the user any indication of when it will happen, and it doesn't allow the user to preemptively re-auth to restart the clock.

This means that I always end up having to re-auth right in the middle of sharing my screen or right when I'm trying to quickly find a thing and in a state of flow.

On good days 1pw is already unlocked and can autofill the login. On bad days I have to manually unlock 1pw and/or hunt for the pw and hope my colleagues don't see my other saved sites and then hope that I don't accidentally paste my password in a doc or something - let alone worry about destroying what was on the clipboard before google decides to do this.

Security and convenience are always at odds, but that doesn't mean you need to give a middle finger to basic UX in the name of security.
But then again, what if it's Mr. Fred's jaded ex-business partner who posted the blog and the video was faked?
Tax them.
Tangent... the title mentions the duckface, but that is a clear soyface (males "expressing surprise or excitement with their mouth agape")

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soy-boy-face

I personally don't believe it's soy, its just the meme. Don't hate the messenger.
Of course it changes it. How do you "give Oklahoma" to a bunch of distinct nations that have no relationship?
In fact, Google does: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?co=GENIE....
>"It says a lot about the general attitude of Chinese people" in the context of a story about fraud is obvious flamebait.

The context is fraud in China. The context involves multiple people from all walks of life and society in China contributing to the fraud. A stark contrast to how corruption occurs in the states. I don't think it's obvious flamebait at all. The definition of what is flamebait itself is rather vague..

A good way to definitively define flamebait is to call it any comment which starts a flamewar.

This means a definitive classification of flamebait can only be crystallized after the posting of the comment in question and observing the resulting aftermath...

In this case I see no flamewar, so I don't believe my comment constitutes as such.
No.

.net core runs on Linux. Why would I invest in a new Windows server?
Is that really surprising on HN? IME there's always been a pretty big politically right leaning presence on here.
All the cloud providers reached success with awful UIs (IMO), which was temporarily solved by abstracting away from their UIs with Infra as Code and other tooling. They're getting around to updating it in recent years, though.

I agree with your point - If a product solves a real problem, design/usability is a secondary concern. This is particularly dependent on the space, in my experience. In my fintech world, a bank will give you a massive amount of $$$ for a dead-simple form + button if it eliminates a workflow problem. They really could care less if it looks like it's from the 90s (most of their stuff looks that way, anyway).
The cost is stepping in the Microsoft tarpit. No chance in hell I'm getting near it.
You're punishing people for intellectual curiosity. You can value it at 0, or at some large value, but it shouldn't be negative.

This is like people who penalize people with 4.0 GPAs because "that meant you focused too much on academics".

If you really think it's fruitless, then at worst just ignore it.
Maybe I am wrong but since he is a comedian I get the impression that his issue is with the taboo nature of criticizing other cultures when criticizing western cultures has been allowed and applauded for his whole career. Think about all the self criticism of western culture that has happened in the past century from colonialism, religion, Woman's rights etc. and for the most part we are better for it. If you are to look at other cultures with the same lens, there is a lot to criticize, but if you do so you are accused of racism and xenophobia. Of course good comedy should be critical and should not be bound by taboos and must be more than "isn't it funny/weird how these people are different". Nevertheless I do feel it is very difficult to criticize outside ones own culture these days without unfair accusations even though these other cultures are now a part of your own country.
There's a difference between advocating for political change, and ruining someone's life.
Quibi should be ad-supported, I can't see how else it could get popular. I look at the website and I can't even see any videos.

I'd actually like a good alternative to Youtube, this could have been it.
Google Authenticator made it slightly easier with the "Transfer Account" functionality, but still requires access to your old device, so it doesn't help if your already wiped it. I personally would prefer backups would transfer all configuration, but understand this would be an additional risk.

Of course you can just use Authy, although it does introduces the risk of an attacker compromising your phone number.
As an example, my employer requires 2FA on pretty much everything, so the start of my day looks like:

* Power on laptop, log in using laptop password

* Log in to LastPass, use lastpass password, verify with 2FA.
* Connect to VPN, log in using SSO (Okta) password from LastPass, verify with 2FA.

* Open github tab, log in using the Okta password again, verify again with 2FA.

* Open JIRA ticket, get sent to Okta, skips password prompt since already logged in, verify again with 2FA.

* Open email, get sent to Okta, skips password prompt, verify again with 2FA.

* Oh, my calendar tab was already open so Google didn't know I authenticated in another tab so sends me to Okta which now expects another 2FA there once I interact with it.

Also the policy is that the lastpass password, SSO password and laptop password should be different. So that's 3 passwords and 5 2FA pushes in about 5 minutes (and again after lunch as all those sessions expire during it).

My understanding is you can configure Okta to remember 2FA on a device for a while, but our security department has chosen to disable that. This is a lot of security overhead, but in this case I'm being paid for it rather than paying for it so whatever. Can you imagine getting a paying customer to agree to this level of 2FA double checking?
IMO it feels like AWS just makes slow gradual changes without trying to match the material design updates etc of other clouds - all while knowing the ideal usecase of their platform is automated through the API with tools like terraform.
Stop Talking About 'Technical Debt'
Certainly it's true PWAs are subject to the user's desires about browser data. I think that's a good thing for users.

PWAs usually store client-side data as a kind of cache: cookies, local storage, service worker cache. Caches are not meant to be permanent.

There may be room for improvement here, however. One might imagine that clearing browser data shouldn't clear data for installed PWAs. That's an argument worth further evaluation.
Yeah it ends when you make a statement about someone that accuses them of a crime or otherwise libels them, in the UK at least. If someone has committed a crime, we have courts. We've been doing this for centuries.
No. Even if open sourced, no. There would be no benefit to me in doing so (client or server) as it only has value for Windows users, which I no longer am. I was a Windows user long enough to be able to say with a fair degree of certainty that its code base would have little that I'd be interested in.

Look at it this way: if IBM released for free, or open sourced, a port of its mainframe OS for PCs how many people would start using it? Unless one already had a significant investment in IBM mainframe software, probably not very many.

I'm all for competing ideas and alternate Operating Systems but don't view commercial platforms as the place to look these days for good ideas/implementations.
This is great: https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq, using this currently in our environment. There's also Kafka Manager which has been around for a while.

I still recommend managing Kafka through the CLI tools however.
would put Scalyr in that category
I'm seeing my own observation getting downvoted heavily. Must be a nerve. ;)
>I'm from São Paulo and I'm embarrassed about this decision.

Strange, I'm from Europe and I'm proud of this decision.

>Brazil's labor laws treat the "workers" as stupid people, unable to negotiate good terms by themselves.

No, it just treats them as regular people that deserve the same rights as everyone, but which (as poor people in need of work and individuals) don't have the same negotiating power as a multionational employer to enforce them...
How do you reconcile this opinion with the idea that there is an inherent power imbalance between employer and employee.

Employers typically have way more financial and legal ability to negotiate themselves a better position versus one individual employee.
> Some of the very brightest software engineers in the world work at Facebook

Like they work in many other companies.

In any case, this is not about being bright but about being diligent.
Show HN: CsCheck – Random and performance testing library for C#
We teambuild by trash talking management and executives on our private IRC channel every day during business hours.

I always hated these after-work events you described. I'd rather spend my evenings with my wife and kids than with some random dudes. Even if I like them, I like wife and kids more.

Now if it's a happy hour during business hours, then it's fine. I will attend and leave at whatever is the time I leave work to go home.
I find it really odd that they chose server side rendering. I only did a very brief demo of it, but I was not impressed.
You'd have to be more specific about the rest of your post. What exactly is heinous?

But the litmus test for whether cancel culture exists isn't whether you can cancel a millionaire, but to see how people react to what she said. Like writing a public letter to your employer to express disapproval for a coworker who signed the same Harper letter.

I'll side with Paul Graham on the matter. Here he replies to AOC: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1281626457693982724 36min ago.
> My guess is that more people learned to use office after 2007 than before, so the majority of people have no problems using the ribbon.

Or maybe they didn't have other options...
At the moment I can't see any of it's features when someone like David Shor is fired for publishing facts of a study looking at types of protest. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1271166899666079744?lang=e...
Some people like the flexibility that a contractor role provides. Forcing everyone to become an employee with benefits adds costs that many places will forego by hiring on only a handful of contractors or removing the role entirely.
Every system I have ever heard of has the "system will crash in the future" fear. Capitalism will eat up all the resources and pollute us to death. Democracy will lead to mob rule. Philosopher kings get replaced with crappy kings. Social security was supposed to have gone bankrupt several times by now.

The thing about UBI is that it in no way, shape or form, prevents people from doing whatever is needed or profitable.

There are a number of people which have sufficient funds to live off $1000 a month and they continue to work. Heck, even the bloggers who talk up such schemes are still producing something of value to the society.

Humans like to work, just not necessarily for a boss. A UBI removes any disincentive from working and allows you to keep what you make except for the tax rate unlike welfare which taxes income at 100% . It allows you to be creative. Right now, we are ignoring the contributions of millions, if not billions of people because they are kept at the edge of survival. Imagine if we created a world that allowed all the billions of the world to contribute imaginatively, cooperatively, and productively. That is what UBI promises, but it does require faith and trust in humanity (read Rutger Bregman's Humankind book for a primer as to how to shed the lies we've been told about human nature).

As for hard maintenance of systems, that will probably cost more to pay people to do it, but it seems very reasonable to reward essential hard work more than we do now.

One final thought. What do you expect you or others you know would do if you had $1000 a month per person in your family given? Maybe some would want to sit around for decades doing nothing, but that personally sounds like an awful life to me and I suspect most would agree.