skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely social, psychological and neurological factors involved, and none should be discounted. It's just that the social factor is much harder to control when our society is so hostile to gender-nonconformity. And that explicitly includes internalized transphobia. I would not be surprised in the slightest if social rejection accounts for most of the remaining difference to cis controls for transgender suicidality.
How did you get out of the tailspin? It’s quite hard to “pull up” when there is nothing that feels grounded...
I think the parent's point is well proven your exact example. There is a significant portion of the globe who think the pandemic isn't real or was caused by humans.
I guess I haven't. I also don't write many tests, but I do write a testsuite when I get really stuck with something. For example, I couldn't trust my floating-point implementation in a RISC-V emulator, so I wrote a program that should run inside it that asserts on every operation and C-function that does floating-point calculations. I found so many bugs using that. But, I also don't particularly care, you know.

If you're doing something as a hobby, don't sweat about the tests. Just do it because it's fun - and the second it stops being fun do something else.
As someone who has to occasionally create in-house one-off solutions for coworkers in disparate departments of the company I work for to streamline some GSuite work:

this is fantastic. Working with Google's native dev platform is a touch on the frustrating side when it comes to producing something coherent and easy to use for non-technical staff. I'll definitely be keeping this in the toolbox.
Doesn't Oxbridge interview a lot of people very year anyway - so they are already geared up to a process that appears to be pretty different, and more labour intensive, than other institutions?
Exactly, the journalist is bitter that rich people can afford to fly airplanes.

You can tell because it's a "data journalist" who forgot to mention she's writing about 2.4% of emissions.
An Uber and Lyft Shutdown in California Looks Inevitable
Perhaps. But it's also difficult to separate one's donations from a desire that those funds are going places where they will be handled appropriately.
unless suffering from writer's block - what would the bottleneck be?
That doesn't seem right. It takes only one group to twist the narrative into something that it doesn't have to be.

"There's a virus that's killing people, based up on the current evidence we should all wear masks in an effort to stop it."
"You're trampling on my freedoms by asking that I wear a mask."

The first is an objective statement of fact, the second is twisting the message - it can easily get politicized without needing two parties to sink to that level. Now the first has to either engage or try to ignore it, but either way it'll continue to be politicized.
Kodak still makes Ektar and Portra color film, I believe.
Mathematics Is Not Commutative
I guess i meant more of how it is on the knees and elbows. Is it enough cushion or do you still feel your bone grinding against the floor?
Yelling and free style rapping are commonplace on public transit in my major US city.
I'm surprised to see this pop up here. Wonder why?
Users as people and the participatory economy
A paradoxical truth in business is that most companies spend little time focused on their customers. The beauty of the participatory economy is that it’s not only about what makes sense for publishers, advertisers, creators, teachers, etc… but also listening to the people on the other side (students, fans, readers, shoppers) and honoring them as people, not users.
"Consultancy"
Notice how Ofqual can write a 319 page "it's not our fault" report, but can't seem to publish their code on Github.

That explains more than anything what the problem is with the British Civil Service. The epitome of "nobody every got fired for buying IBM".
Misleading headline.

Google gave law enforcement user data of users repeatedly publicly violating Google TOS and possibly the law.
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This whole thing is about NewsCorp, if you don’t see that, read more. If you think what I had to say is false, please refute it, if I’m wrong I want to know it.

And evidently my ploy to quiet dissent didn’t work, as here you are.

NewsCorp does genuinely violate the rule of law, a different set of standards apply to them and their conduct.
Fun fact. This game is accessible to screen reader users.

It's just a table we can navigate with standard table-navigation commands, which advanced screen reader users are familiar with.

Unmarked fields are announced as "blank", the rest have either numbers or emoji on them, which is read properly.

The hardest action is flagging a mine, but routing the mouse to where the screen reader is, and then performing an actual right click seems to work.
Because our technical culture has been colonized by business interests to the point that people cannot tell the difference anymore.

Many comments on this thread show an unwillingness to even consider alternate technical aesthetics. Everything has to be about Creating Business Value, as if that's somehow the most important thing in life.
People always compare J, K and APL as if they were almost identical apart from the character set, but that's far from the truth.

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Array_model#:~:text=In%20APL%20it%2....
Apache is also preinstalled. I use it to host some PHP scripts on my local network. The annoying thing is that every OS upgrade causes all the configuration files to get reset so I need to fix it every time. But it's just small enough of an annoyance that I haven't migrated to installing my own.
I'd say his goal was clearly to make a political point, not a scientific discovery. But making political points is not unethical behavior.

As for the difference between science and satire, I think you missed my point. Which is that the argument is the same (i.e. mens rea, meaning intent to commit a crime), not the actual act.
Kodak Alaris still sells professional film
That's true, but it's because Julia looks like Python/Fortran/Matlab on the surface but it's a really unique language that you can't really learn in one day or two. Write Julia like Python and it will be slow (dynamic languages are slow after all), write Julia like Fortran and it will be fast (static languages are fast, but they are restrictive). And after you actually learn the language you can fairly easily write extremely dynamic code that is around 80% of the speed of C just following a few rules (only consts on global namespace, type stability, typing containers like struct, abusing multiple dispatch/parametric types and profiling the eventual inference failures).

Being permissive lowers the barrier for non CS people, one of the main target of the language, to start using the language, especially in the REPL/Notebook, even if they are not the most effective at the language.
I had a funny experience recently. Gave math lesson to a 15yo. I could sense the higher thoughts frequency in his words and ideas. The kid couldn't think deep, got confused regularly on simple matter, but I could feel how vibrant his spirit was compared to mine. Strange feeling :)

I too feel that intellectual challenges are less rewarding. But average life amongst peers is so dull, I'd rather keep doing that rather than stop. Also I tend to blend this with more altruistic pragmatic goals. Getting old makes your ego less important and so this is a workable compromise.
Threatening and conspiring to commit violence had never been part of protected free speech
Wrong. A beta program where they don't want things leaked is very different from the real system. They self-selected a group of people capable of doing this. Do you really think that millions of real customers are capable installing on their own? More importantly, doing this without an issue later that requires calling customer service. It doesn't matter if it's a phased array. It MUST be installed securely in a location where there would be no blocking. This requires a professional. Trust me, I'm very familiar with this industry, and Elon can't work magic. You are taking your own understanding of how the general population is and assuming they're all reddit/HN readers.

Please show me where they've been up front that after the beta it will continue to do this. Also remember that almost everything Elon has said about starlink has turned out to not be accurate or delayed.
The value of land rented is mostly based on the rent that can be charged. Loans which use the land as collateral need the value to stay high in order to roll over (refinance) the loan.

It's conceivably better for major real-estate holders to rent the land out at their preferred rate one or two months in a year, and leave it unoccupied otherwise, than accept reduced rates. The former gives a fig leaf for rental value, which props up the land value, which enables refinance. The latter admits that rental value has dropped, which would lower the land value, which would cause refinancing to fail.
I'm not sure there's a Western democracy that fits the bill of a "healthy democracy", then.
Yea... you know, surgery is extremely painful. It can sometimes be worse than whatever is the reason you're getting cut open. The recovery period is a nightmare too sometimes.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

Non-religious meditation is sort of the same for your psyche. You bring things to light that have been plaguing you in the background. Once in the light, you have to painfully deal with it. Make peace with it, make amends, or corrective course of action. Over time, such actions become less painful and future issues affect you less because you have the experience and maturity to deal with them swiftly.

This article just spins it all towards negativity. That last cop-out paragraph was a joke. A guided meditation app? I am all for a pro therapist to help people talk through their problems and help better explain their own thoughts and actions... but an app? Seriously? The whole point to meditation is for you to have better understanding of yourself. Not for someone else to dictate your own thoughts. A good therapist doesn't guide you to a pre determined path. They push you to walk your own path.

Damn, these things piss me off so much. This whole article feels like the opening pitch to some asshole's self help app that they're going to charge a monthly subscription for.
I would say (ESPECIALLY for personal projects) that writing bad code that does something is better than writing no code that does nothing.

For personal projects I do really minimal testing if any at all. Again especially for "exploratory" projects.

There is a spot I think for personal projects where lots of tests make all kinds of sense. But just for playing around. Meh. Trust your abilities and embrace the dark side. :)
I was a Mormon missionary in Hokkaido in some of the snowiest places in the world and got around just fine using a cheap mountain bike. The only additional "equipment" needed was a lighter, to thaw out my bike lock when it would freeze shut.
This suggestion is interesting in that you seem earnest but you appear to be fundamentally misunderstanding how the internet works:

Ppl use google to search for things, they use chrome to find things, they don’t like typing in addresses, they would much rather google give them the top result whatever that may be.

You are suggesting that the news orgs change human behavior. Good luck with that.
Start from the idea that small business owners aren't actually idiots and don't spend their time promoting their business on social media because it's fun.

Cost of customer acquisition isn't comparable without those platforms. Working harder and still not being price-competitive isn't preferable, even if it mitigates some future risk.
> My downtime is measured in hours per year (...)

This is probably a bit picky since you don't mention what those machines do, but that's not even "four nines" in the high-availability scale. I'm not sure that's something to boast about for a Fortune 500 company or any kind of praise for the IBM series. Maybe you meant hours over the last seven years?
"my way or the highway" is the best part of open source organization.

It's not democracy. There is no equality. You have no voice unless others want your contribution.

People are free to form a cliques of same minded people and ignore everyone else. You can hate those who make the software you use, but Theo & friends do what they want.
> And as an employer I think it would be useful to have a more complete picture of the student than just a single grade.

The current system isn't coping well with COVID-19 but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here.

The current system is simple, and that means it can be seen to be fair. If studying X at university Y needs grades AAB that's easy to understand and you know it's not biased.

I much prefer that to the American system where every university has an opaque system that purports to look at a complete picture of the student then mysteriously picks white students over Asian students with better grades and can't explain why.
The Cult of Codethulu (1982)
> For a long, long time, commercial fishing as they currently do it will be the cheapest way to do it.

See, here is where I argue that's not the case. Commercial fishing has increased incredibly in the past 20 years or so. We don't have a "long, long time", unlike for oil, because we can't find new fish "reserves". We pretty much know where all the existing fish we'd like/want to eat is. I'd be surprised if fishing goes up at the current rate and we have fish to eat for more than 20 years, unless we switch to the sane thing: large scale, regulated and sustainable fish farming.

Now we're basically a few years before the Fishing "Dust Bowl".

Or, alternatively, we figuratively "boil the oceans" and persuade everyone who currently eats fish to not eat fish. I wish people trying this alternate approach good luck! :-)
That's a sad tale, it is a shame that your predictions were poor when your record was so good. I think your AS grades should have been given much more weight. We didn't do AS levels in my day...

Imperial figures in my story too. I was predicted very highly, either 4 As or 3A+B, I already had an A at Mathematics under my belt, taken a year early. I approached Cambridge and Imperial. The Imperial open day was first and they offered at 2Cs, because they knew I was interested in Cambridge and figured that if I got a high offer from there I'd keep them as a backup.

The Cambridge interview day went badly. I came away feeling like I'd just been a complete dumbass, missed some really obvious stuff because I was stressed, and no offer was made. So I had Imperial on offer at 2Cs and no backup. And indeed I went there.

And that's when I discovered London nightlife, drugs, sex and dropping out. Failed the first year of my engineering course miserably and ended up studying CompSci at Southampton a year later. Which has turned out great, so no complaints :)

(I'm also lucky enough that there was nothing to pay for either course. I was in the last year through the system when there were no fees, what's happened on that front since is pretty awful, IMHO)
All businesses operate under constraints, and the constraints change over time as technology and tastes develop. Most possible businesses face constraints that make them unviable, and so they are never created.

Music lyrics sites just seem like an unviable business. They license low-value data from the owner, surround it with a crapton of ads, then serve that up to users. They have very little stickiness and one is about as good as another. From a user perspective, having those results directly on Google is better about 90% of the time. There are only two lyrics sites I'm aware of that offer any value above Google's version: songmeanings.net and genius.com, and the little value they provide comes from the hosting of user comments.

Lyrics sites come up a lot on here, but I do not really understand why. Consumers do not get much benefit from their continued existence. The only people who benefit are the site owners themselves.
The book accelerate has lots of statistics showing that companies who release frequently perform better
Thinking and editing. There's a legitimate difference between being blocked conceptually (writer's block) and thoughtfully taking the time to find just the right words to express your intentions succinctly and elegantly. I've tooled over a three page manuscript for days--not because I was suffering from lack of creativity, but rather, in the interest of continual refinement.
This is carbon tax but with extra steps.
It looks like one of these "let's show how cool psychedelics are" study, or study proposal.

I have nothing against psychedelics, and I am sure that they helped many people, but I am also sure they wrecked many others. They are very unstable drugs, and unless we find some way to tame them, I don't expect any kind of progress in therapeutic use of psychedelics.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem the proposed study will do anything to help here. Basically, they are going to give adults a shroom trip, have them watch a cartoon, and scan their brain using a fMRI machine to see if their brain look more like infants or more like sober adults doing the same thing.

It is just a way to confirm if what everyone who at some point has been in contact with psychedelics noticed, that is that tripping makes you feel like a child, also shows on fMRI scans. But the thing is: so what if it does? How will it help turn a notoriously unstable drug into something that a doctor can prescribe? Not only that but fMRI scans are notoriously hard to interpret. There is a famous igNobel study that analyzed the thoughts of a dead salmon.

I am not saying I am not interested in the potential results of such a study, but if the goal is to find medical use for psychedelics (and therefore get them out of Schedule I), I don't know how it will help.
Microsoft fixed that a few versions back. It will be displayed as "foo‏ism.jar" in explorer.
It mostly depends on how tight you want the coupling between your project and the dependency in question. It can vary between just getting the source files and building them yourself, just like you do with your own stuff, to just using the public headers plus the relevant static/shared library.

Most of the time, you'll want the latter. The right thing to do in 2020 in that case is IMHO to integrate with a source-based build system like vcpkg, portage (see the prefix project), conan, macports etc. Once the dev-env setup script boils down to just a list of packages, the question of importing third-party dependencies stops being a pain.

I've used most of these (except conan) and vcpkg seems like it's the most painless one, especially because it's a CMake-based system and FWIW CMake seems to be what the C++ world is converging on these days. From my bubble anyway.
https://equilibrium.co is hiring REMOTE Rust programmers to help build the distributed web. Looking for one Senior and one "medium" level folks.

1. https://www.notion.so/Hiring-Rust-Engineer-882281f5248e45579...
2. https://www.notion.so/Hiring-Senior-Rust-Engineer-e6c94ccc26...
For the health of society, all recommender algorithms have to be daylighted. For a start.

Yes, the gamification will be terrible. So what? Is maximal advertising revenue for monopolies societally important?

Every other efficient open market is heavily regulated. Accountability, transparency, fair play, information symmetry, prohibit self-dealing & conflicts of interest, tort, etc.

Right now we can't even imagine applying casino level scrutiny to social media.

What's so special about social media that it doesn't warrant some hygiene, some guard rails?
I don't think the parent comment was saying "stop asking" merely that "the answer is unobtainable, so any discussion about it is going to be grounded on that"
How does this protect independent journalism? The law explicitly cuts out media outlets with an annual revenue <$150k, meaning smaller and newer publications will see no benefits; and become easier targets of the Murdoch strategy of absorb and extinguish.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Why would anyone abandon their home/nation to jump ship into a culture they know nothing about -- except for government policy? Only in the US with it's state system is what you're describing practical.
How is making Mars inhabitable easier than fixing the problems here on Earth?
You basically read my mind. I didn't want to say it outright to avoid this hot topic.
But isn't this also why prices are do much lower today?

Internet content making is someone anyone can do. It's hard to make it profitable.

Is this really the fault of big tech?
> I wonder what game is good to play co-op between a 40 and a 6 year old?

You could try factorio. It has trains, tanks, bugs to shoot.
I don't see it like that. Instead you have to engineer your project around the weaknesses. This is one of the fun challenges of using BuildCraft. Of course, I can see how this frustrates server owners, who have to deal with all those users who don't know how to use it correctly (or who use it in the wrong way in order to troll or blackhat).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalatta%21_Thalatta%21

(I wouldn't be surprised if the turkey scenes in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ_2YTkxWug
were filmed in the former Pontus. The clip itself shows the telenovela can be found in any culture...)

Edit: people in the Pontic region traditionally were into (vertical) transhumance instead of transhumanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance#Caucasus_and_nort...
Most of the anxiety/depression I've experienced revolves around the ego: expectations and pressures I place on myself, guilt/dissatisfaction when I don't feel like I'm meeting those expectations, etc. So a little bit of ego-death is just about the most peaceful thing imaginable for me. The idea that it's not all on my shoulders, that the world moves without me, that this isn't my story to ruin. I don't practice any kind of formalized meditation, really, but mindful quietness works pretty well. I guess it depends on where someone's difficulties are rooted.
> The problem with Republics is that “one man one vote” does not translate into the majority getting what it wants.

This is not a bug, it's a feature. Otherwise you let the big cities stomp over the towns and countryside.
Sheriff Billy Woods orders officers and staff not to wear face masks
We need less people in the world. Our only hope to avoid mass human suffering is that as more women get educated and independent they reduce the number of children they’ll conceive to 1 or 2.
To limit future growth?
Which presidential campaigns did SpaceX employees contribute to?
Companies Sell Sims for Criminals
Ask HN: Do you keep a collection of shell scripts and commands in your company?
Apple, Not Amazon, Is the Largest Online Retail Force