skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part of the rebuttal about puberty blockers being 100% reversible seems outdated. The NHS recently said that there isn't enough information about puberty blockers to say for certain that there are no long-term side effects from their use.
Colors are can be subjective and somewhat politicized even when there's a written description. It's kind of like how every culture tends to color Jesus to be more similar to the local people, even though everyone knows he's from the middle east.

I might call someone blond with blue eyes, but someone else might describe the same person hair with light brown with green eyes. If we had third person choose which colors represented the descriptions, they might pick completely different colors based on what they thought blond or light brown meant.
One other correlation I have seen is "intelligence" <-> trans person.

It's very weird how many absurdly smart people happen to be trans. It plays into the idea that mental illness correlates with IQ.
And all WebRTC based messaging: Hangouts, Teams, Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, etc.
Epidemic implies some kind of disease no?

Telling people they're sick for existing is certainly unkindness
Opus is the standard audio codec in WebM, alongside VP9 or AV1 video.
I remember the mind-blowing switch from pine to mutt. Then, a few years later, gmail, which has to be about 20 years old or so.

I haven't used much mutt since.
Oh, that's really clever. I've occasionally wanted something like this, but never saw a good way to make sure all the necessary files were on the server. A purpose-built FUSE filesystem is a really nice solution.
I’ve had decent success using lynx to dump HTML to text.
> splitting your project repo into smaller bites just for the sake of doing it

That's exactly what lots of people want to do.

Would be nice if it worked like the development mode of Python's packages: I can install a local development copy of the dependency somewhere, the main program will see the changes I make and therefore it's possible to develop both at the same time.
I would be surprised if that carried over to trans women, i.e. people assigned male at birth, especially if most are diagnosed as children (and thus prior to transitioning, in most cases).
> Same as any other gender identity (like man or woman).

I think there are some distinguishing characteristics for someone who is male vs someone who is female.
NVIDIA's stock is so massively pumped up. They will simply make an all-stock offer that's pretty much impossible to refuse and that will be the end of it (most likely).
Yes and the Media Lab in particular was an amazing place (can’t speak for the current state) even if it gets a lot of shit for the bad decisions by a few administrators. Definitely met some of the coolest and most inventive people I have met there
The way it tries to construct the return values kept getting in the way.

I’d define the class, add it as the return value, I was manually instantiating the class and returning that, but for it didn’t like that and would constantly throw errors about it. I think it was PyDantic which was the root cause there.

The Depends functionality refused to inject my classes as well, but I was probably doing something wrong there...

Dropping back to Starlette was good because it gave me everything I needed and got out of my way. I’ve still got everything fully typed and passing MyPy.
You're right. I retract my criticism of his position. It's completely consistent. Thank you.
So what do you think it is, probably? A mass mutation? Something in the water?
Thanks for the link and info.
The trailing-dot-to-anchor thing is hidden away from the user by probably a majority of tools now for managing DNS records. If anything, this has probably made the situation a bit worse by allowing a lot of people to spend years managing DNS records without even knowing about it. Then they edit a BIND text file or something that doesn't assume it and it all goes wrong.

As far as client-side tools... no one ever uses the trailing dot and that can lead to some interesting situations if you have a search path set and use a resolver that resolves wildcard. Use of the search path at all is fairly unusual for "client-ish" setups though. You could also view the common non-use of the trailing dot as one of the causes of the ICANN recommendation against top-level domains resolving, as the search-vs-hostname-vs-fqdn ambiguity would be less common (but still present) if people commonly used the trailing dot.
Yes - the number of integrations is very impressive. I haven't checked, but I doubt any of the competition has this many.

In my case, though, these were not automatable. As an example, I would have a Beeminder for decluttering 10 items in the house per day. Nothing can detect I've done it. I still have to somehow enter this daily.

On that note, another (dubious?) positive of my using Beeminder briefly: Although I rigorously stuck to the "decluttering 10 items per day", I was not happy with the outcomes. It still seemed a chore. Eventually I realized that this just wasn't a great way to keep my room/house decluttered, and focused on finding other ways - and my house now has much less clutter (without using Beeminder).

The "positive" is that Beeminder helped me try an approach that I thought would work. It turned out it didn't, but I would not have realized this without the service. Had I not used Beeminder, I would have not been so religious in decluttering daily, and would blame my lack of discipline as the cause. Beeminder made me disciplined, and I then learned that discipline was not the solution to this particular problem.

Do you guys still stick to "one user-visible improvement per day"? For those who don't know, the Beeminder team themselves used it to improve Beeminder - and one of their goals was to have at least one user visible improvement per day. I think when I last checked, the cost of missing that goal was close to a $1000.
It's a valid point. They are probably doing R&D there because it is much cheaper than doing it in US. There was news somewhere that Zoom was moving all servers to US, and chances are they will have to move some development here as well, if they want to avoid being directed by the Chinese government.

The point about China R&D is a good one, and of course something to consider for other companies now and in the future. After all, he explains that Google was not banned in China, until Google put some operations into the country.

I think the article isn't trying to cover all the basis, but rather highlight that there are many difference ways to look at this problem.
> I consider them complicit.

That's fine, but that's a different argument from the one being made, that the Media Lab is "absolute trash and an embarrassment to the MIT name."
oh yeah i absolutely agree with you there honestly i just got too in the weeds here, sorry
"There is absolutely nothing fringe about treating all people equal, regardless of the color of their skin."

Probably most people support the notion, fewer people would protest (I wouldn't say 'fringe' but nevertheless if you tally up the % of Washington state that 'did a protest' it's a very, very small number). And then of course, the burning of police stations, and the eviction of security forces towards taking over a chunk of the city by violent force ... this is absolutely 'fringe' and should be not be compared to the nominal ideals they are supposed to represented.

From the Area 51 video, it seems a lot of these 'crazy folk' are not 'really crazy', they almost seem like attention seekers, hamming come crazy up for the camera.
CUDA is probably the biggest thing here, also I don't think they open source much.
I know this is just an online forum, but the equating of any form of questioning or critiquing of trans activism with physical violence, causing suicide, or general hatred is really counter productive IMHO, and diminishes the actual struggles trans individuals have with families, coworkers, etc.
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It's a pretty big architectural difference, and the effect travels all the way through the API. Apple had a few talks on this in their recent WWDC.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10602

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10631
fortunately it's trivial to clone a repo and link to the clone
New phones, yes. But many people don't have new phones. Especially in poorer places.

1000 days if substantially shorter than the lifecycle of phone models. New cheap phones today don't have 5g, you see the timing issue?
"Hounding him" by bringing up his history on an unrelated forum?
Which is mostly due to lead time bias and overdoagnosis.
I used to do this in my college days. Had some work (Unity projects especially) that would run into FAT32 file size limits and NTFS was the one more advanced filesystem that at least somewhat worked on all three OSes, albeit read only on OS X. exFAT support for Linux didn't exist at the time and FAT32, exFAT and NTFS are still the only three OS portable filesystems. Windows cannot handle HFS+/APFS, ext* is not supported on Mac and poorly supported by third party software on Windows, and ZFS/btrfs/XFS/UFS/etc are out of the question for both Windows and Mac.
And I suspect there's just lots of 'normal' people footage left on the cutting room floor. Combined with the fact that he doesn't spend long with them either once he realizes they're not 'content'.
trans people, might reasonably be described as people
"whose attempts to make friends are odd and typically unsuccessful". Since that phrase got ripped straight off the dsm diagnostic criteria for autism on https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-diagnosis-criteria-dsm-5, it should not be any surprise whatsoever that these are correlated (same as with any other category of significantly 'odd' people).
The most cynical view would be that they could not reup licenses for competitors.
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There seems to have been something that happened between the 80s and 90s and today that caused any team doing something non-trivial to go from like 3-8 people to more like 100. Like, you look at a description of exactly what the project was and you ballpark what you'd need today, and it's like 100+ people. The team that actually did it was eight humans and an office cat, and in many cases not one of them is famous for being some superhuman-level programmer.

I'm not sure what caused it. You'd think the opposite would have happened, in fact, since our tools are supposed to be so much better now. But I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that part of it's something along the lines of changing interests and work styles for developers entering the field.
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Hi Megha,

I manage Accounts Payable for clients.

>1. How? Credit Card, Debit Card, Cash or Check.

EFT/Direct Debit > CC/DC manual/ACH/Wire Transfer > Check (US only)/Paypal/other expensive payment platforms.

2. Where? Biller Website, Through your Bank Account or others?

Automatic payments > Manual batches through accounting package > Manual payment via phone/biller portal

3. What are your current pain points, and what improvements would you like to see?

- Current clients: Biggest pain point is actually financial onboarding suppliers, e.g. verifying bank details / setting up direct debit etc.

- Current clients: Credit requests / getting suppliers to make changes to their invoices can be laborious.

- New Clients: Distributors such as Ingram Micro will place companies on stop credit as soon as one bill is overdue - Which seems to catch a lot of orgs off guard if they don't have a stable AP process in place.

- New Clients: Three way match is rarely done.

- New Clients: Often miss on-billing supplier costs. E.g. purchasing M365 licenses, provisioning them, paying them through AP, then forgetting to add them to a client agreement for invoicing.

4. Auto payments. Yay or Nay?

Absolutely Yay, but they should still undergo a three (actually five) way match, and be 'approved' by the decision maker before being debited.

---

I reviewed https://www.neonforlife.com/ & https://medium.com/neonfinancial/neon-whats-all-the-fuss-abo... and I'm wondering:

- You are pivoting from b2c to both b2c & b2b? Seems sensible, I can't imagine b2c being very lucrative.

- For B2B, is it your 0% credit line that makes it worth using your dashboard instead of Xero/QBO/etc.? Or are there other benefits?

- How are you monetising this? You are shouldering such massive risk here, surely you will get masses of late payments & defaults ...

I really like that your B2C offering can prevent 'charging poor people for being poor'. Good on you
> The thing i worry about is that folks that go through all of the physical and emotional (and financial) stress of transitioning only to find that it doesn’t soothe the pain are likely to perceive a social pressure to keep a lid on it.

Nope, "de-transitioners" are very welcome in the trans community, to tell their story, to hang out, to help others.

There's absolutely nothing that should force them to not speak out about their experiences as long as they treat others with basic respect; there are a few that have turned religious zealot and sue people.

Detransiton / desisting is relatively rare and frequently happens not because the person desisted trans identity but because they couldn't feasibly continue to transition due social or financial causes.
I brought in conservatism because homeless is in part due to national level policies. Conservatives and liberals agree on that.
People do a lot of creative experiments around that building so it’s not surprising you would want to ask before disassembling someone’s thesis project. To call the place “dysfunctional” because some brilliant grad students constantly try new things is to miss the point (and the spirit of the place) entirely.
Making the assumption that a mental health issue, perhaps disorder, equates to an illness is a non scientific prejudice.
> Do you guys still stick to "one user-visible improvement per day"?

We do! http://beeminder.com/changelog -- 3485 UVIs and counting...
Richest state of the richest country (by GDP) on the planet folks!
Waterfasting + electrolytes for a month would probably get you to -20kg. It's just the first few days until you start burning fat that are a bit weird.
No, an epidemic is just anything spreading within a group.

> Epidemic: affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time.

Edit: You know people can't have an adult conversation on a topic when the definition of a word is downvoted.
I recall the GeForce Partner Program raised some controversy, although I couldn't say whether or it was bad or good or why.

There's also the issue with them refusing to open source Linux drivers. Supposedly this is because they throttle workstation GPUs to create a market for higher-end versions while reducing the manufacturing diversity, but I haven't heard a definitive source for this.
Yes but I’m sure you can internally get the non performers away from the good ones. Either ways, sounds like there is an actual balance of power which I feel like labor in America can use.
"Male" and "female" aren't genders.
Is there anything wrong with the submodule architecture itself? My impression is that the data model is fine, but the interface for manipulating them is confusing even by git's standards.
>Acknowledging and accommodating gender dysphoria discomfort costs cisgender people nothing and unlocks the productiveness of an additional population in society.

This seems like a pretty broad generalization. Forget the semantic fact that by definition, accommodating something takes effort. Some people's worldviews may not account for gender identity being expressed this way. Whether you agree or disagree with the worldview, saying it costs them nothing to acknowledge it seems pretty unfair. Especially when it assigns a label to people its imploring to be accepting and accommodating of. It's a strange way to try to win allies.
This doesn't seem like a productive line of questioning. If you have research that shows what you're trying to claim is happening I'd be happy to read it and share my thoughts on it.
I think this is common in Europe, too. Except in the UK and Ireland, where electrical regulations don’t allow it, banishing the washing machine to the kitchen.
While you can weld with a torch and they are portable(no electricity), don't really call them 'welders'.
A big problem is that anybody from those fields who can program well enough to do it exclusively for a living, eventually does so. This could be due to higher pay, and more mobility within the job market.

There's also a perception that software is more valuable than hardware, which can affect the workplace culture in a negative way.
I feel privileged to have SFPL with all their electronic lending support, JSTOR access, etc. They even publish their own privacy explanation: https://sfpl.org/sites/default/files/2020-01/privacyinventor...
I think nVidia could run into some serious anti-trust issues if they tried to interfere with the ARM ecosystem. There's far too much at stake here. Is there a phone on the planet that doesn't run ARM?
Yes! Just word play. There's nothing wrong with Jakear's spelling or his comment, which was informative.

Next time I will smile :-)
That’s great to hear, thank you.
" and it's sometimes used, as in your case, to push religious propaganda."

A comment is not 'propaganda'.

Unless your comment is 'Atheist Propaganda'.

Seriously.

"Nihilism isn't defined by lack of belief in gods." Fine, but that doesn't take away anything about what he said about Nihlism.

There is something more mundane about the quote, and that is the psychology of people who are willing to believe truly crazy stuff, and there is a lot going on there, probably worth study.
oh i'm with you there
I was looking at some of the text-to-speech offerings on platforms like aws recently, and this is way better. You can still tell its a robot, but it is more natural and doesn't sound like it is droning.
Thank you for calling out op’s comment. I believe they come from a Joe Rogan interview, which op mentions on his blog, and which is clear dog whistling.
There was a helpful thread on Twitter that covered this specific topic, which might be helpful for op, and any others that share the view, to understand why it is not grounded in fact: https://twitter.com/Carter_AndrewJ/status/127081191761606246...
>trans people, might reasonably be described as people "whose attempts to make friends are odd and typically unsuccessful".

Is this a quote from the article? I can't seem to find it.

That is very much not the case in my opinion. Many trans people are social and have both cis (non-trans) and trans friends.
Aren’t there surviving Roman mosaics that show skin colour? There must also be written accounts and the time frame isn’t 2000 years because we have surviving paintings from several hundred years ago. All of this is just as bad as the racial theory that tried to recast history at the start of the 20th century. Disgusting.
I try to keep my commits small, and I don't push each time because I have a Jenkins pipeline thats going to update a server for my branch and run unit tests and all that
This sentiment comes entirely from their lack of open source drivers for Linux. It became pretty much a meme after a rant that Linus had about them in 2012.
It would be interesting to compare the colourisations to where any of the emperors are known to have originated and whether they came from Northern or Southern Italian ancestry. A blued-eyed blonde from Northern Italy would be quite feasible.

Also, later on many were not Italian at all.
I’m not defending table based layout but in fairness different device sizes was less of an issue back then because almost all browsing was done on a PC or Mac and thus dynamic layout wasn't even something you needed to considerate.
Got it, will do that in the future
Speaking as a socal Californian, infrastructure isn't the problem it's that most of the state hates confronting reality. We'd rather raise minimum wage arbitrarily than admit we have a CoL problem, we invest in bike lane expansions while leaving buses to fight cars for space in most parts of our cities because "omg bikes are so eco friendly and Europe does it", and for some reason we hate high density housing even though rent is on the rise everywhere. We were supposed to have expanded our energy infrastructure already to make more use of natural gas which might have alleviated the need for rolling blackouts but instead we of course chased green energy projects that let people in the politically connected affluent regions pat themselves in the back.
Technically yes, they could shift spending like that, but it would look bad enough, I think at least some would help where you want. Either way, asking for them not to shift funding as appropriate would be asking to control other finances not your own.

If they allowed targeted donations to firefox/quantum/rust/MDN I would donate, as I'm sure many other will. As it is, I don't and won't even if firefox were to fail.
Awesome work! Hopefully array languages will undergo a renaissance!

One thing is that even after reading running.md, I'm still kind of confused about how to actually run BQN. Maybe provide an easy way to get started with the self-hosted bytecode compiler? Or maybe there is an easy way, but I'm just stupid.
That pretty much describes my relationship with gender.

I was undiagnosed as a kid, gender was confusing, different standards were confusing. I just didn't care, among other reasons, I decided to transition.

Very happy, but still have an idea of how I would navigate things different... but that's life, right?
> Apple won't be phased

Nit: fazed, not phased.
Oh please, AGNB isn't in the same league as Louis Theroux. It's a great YouTube channel and they do a good job of making fools look foolish, but to compare it to Theroux's work is absurd.
They didn't anticipate a workload where files would be opened and closed very frequently. E.g. running npm. Applications accessing large numbers of small records were expected to do so via a big file containing all the records a la SQLServer.
The killer feature for me was the documentation. I got thrown into an Elixir application that uses Ecto and Phoenix and literally everything I ever had to do was documented and explained in Hexdocs.
Changing "Nest" to "NeXT" — That guy's phone must have the world's most awesome autocorrect learning database.

I can't even get my phone to stop correcting "duck."
How do you ensure 1 person does not buy the book and resell for cheaper or distribute for free?
If you are in the US and have Netflix, watch Ip Man 4 and tell me what you think.
Found 8 wild ducklings and mother in my back garden
Hi,I found 8 wild ducklings and the mother duck in my back garden here in the UK.
I caught them before the cats or foxes got them and released them in the park after get to g advice from local vets and my
neighbours friend who has ducks.
What Would you have done?
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Top-level domains or "dotless domains" are generally prohibited from resolving. SAC-053 explains why: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf

There are, of course, exceptions---the policy was put in place after the creation of ccTLDs and does not apply to them, so a few ccTLDs get to break the rule.
Lots of people showed up at the entrance gate, which was widely reported, but nobody went [far] past them.