skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hanging out in trans circles (as a non-binary person myself), this seems commonly known within the community. Interesting to see research done here, but I'd be careful about over generalizing (e.g. "All trans people are neurodiverse").

Edit: Also, happy to answer questions about being non-binary (specifically, gender fluid) if folks have good faith questions.
emacs org-mode with org-reveal.

Write your documents in org-mode, plain text... with code samples that compile.

save it and you are done... they are presented beautifully.
There's browser engines made for niche uses like you describe, where they are intended to serve custom content only, and not real web content. Doesn't seem like they need a different set of standards to be built, though.
> trying to find racial undertones in every tangential thing

In this case it isn't tangential but central, since the point is extrapolating physical appearance from incomplete data. It matters if the results predict inaccurate racial features because plenty of people unfortunately care about kind of thing.

And remember that laypeople read "researchers used machine learning" as "super smart people used advanced science to get this result so it's probably true."
What is the reason? Like are people just not pushing changes to remote branches? Or is there some value in stuff to do in the small time between commit and push? Like are you checking your work before pushing?
Wow, that's such a pleasant experience for a news site.
Reminds me of the history of the ARM1 chip, where the chip was accidently running off leakage alone [1]

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/acorn/microarchitectures/arm1
Each click on random adds a browser history item.
So many "back" clicks to get back out.
So where are all the automatic bridge-building machines? Isn’t our bridge infrastructure famously poor?
I may want to see command-line alternatives to some GUI software. What I want is software that is less stupid. Allow use together with other software. Some things may be split into separate programs which can then be piped together, e.g. if you have a NSF music player then they might be:

- Execute the 6502 code in the NSF file and write the register writes and delays to stdout.

- Read the register writes and delays from stdin and use that to generate an audio signal to stdout.

- Play the audio on the speaker, or else encoding it as Opus or recording it on a CD or whatever, can be the third one, which would also be able to apply filters and global volume control and stuff if you want to do.
Sorry, you're right. I've gone back and read the article and there was complexity in those two that I had completely forgotten about.
Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry
It's art
Can you recommend any learning materials that were particularly useful to you?
HTML4 and CSS2 are drastically underspecified. Even for sites where that's a sufficient feature set, you need to reverse-engineer browsers to figure out error handling and such.
>“While the news about Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok was a huge relief for its American users, it was received poorly on the Chinese internet, with many calling Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder and CEO, a ‘spineless traitor’ and a ‘despicable coward,’ among other insults.”

Seems like Weibo users are just as inflammatory and insufferable as Twitter users. Probably just as irrelevant too.
Yeah, great precedent of big government intervention in the economy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/526655831

> The Public Works Administration program and housing was primarily designed to provide housing to white middle-class/lower-middle class families. The progressive aspect of it was that some projects were built for African-Americans as well. But it was explicitly segregated. And in many cases, it segregated neighborhoods that had never known segregation before. So this went on throughout the country. Of the...

> ROTHSTEIN: The second major one was the Federal Housing Administration, which was established in 1934, the year after the Public Works Administration. And the Federal Housing Administration is well known today by many people as an agency that would not insure mortgages for African-Americans. It redlined communities. That was a minor part of what the federal government - what the FHA did in order to segregate metropolitan areas.

See also: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/3800
Are there leading candidate hypotheses for the cause of autism? Do we know things like heritability, correlation with environmental pollutants, anything?
I find Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero unconvincing, "too normal" to fit the troubled characters that I first knew of watching I, Claudius.

Maybe I'm biased, but I feeel the difference even in the images that the reconstructions are based of.

Augustus seems very well done.
That's a good point you bring up! In this day and age, there is no reason, a customer should have to pay overdraft fees. We always check our customer's bank accounts to make sure they have enough money to make their payments, and never make a charge if that is not the case. So we ensure there are no NSF fees from our side or your bank's. Also, our customers can pay Rent using our virtual credit line, so you won't have to worry about checking your bank balance each time.
The free market will create the greatest amount of wealth from a given amount of resources. Resisting the market will result in less wealth. But maximising wealth isn't the only strategic goal when dealing with China. The Communist party leadership are scary people.

China was wise not to let American tech companies have free access to their markets. America would be wise to reciprocate. Data is much more valuable in aggregate than it is to individuals and keeping it in house seems like it would be worth the costs. Europe has started to adopt a similar strategy of blocking data egress (via GDPR) and that makes sense to me too.
Where did this idea come from and why is it so often claimed? Never in my life have I heard someone use 'jealousy' in that context, yet it seems to be widely accepted fact on the internet.
Resolves and loads fine on Firefox and Chrome on Windows 10
US is just not an attractive country to move to. Or at least in my mind it's equal to Russia as a place to live in

Come on. Really. Equal to Russia.

We're reaching levels of antiUS kneejerking that shouldn't be possible. On the upside, salaries here will grow, which is nice.
He resigned before exhausting appeal, he wasn't sentenced. And losing your job isn't criminal sentencing. Most people in the US work at will and can be fired for almost any reason or even no reason at all.

In contrast he got paid to do nothing for 14 months. He painted things as Kafka-esque, but for a typical worker it would be a huge improvement over arbitrary firing for any reason.

Maybe we should have more due process for losing your job, but his situation is so much better than what the vast majority are at risk of, in terms of protections, that it should be near the lowest priority to worry about.
DRM is just security theater that makes us all culturally poorer. Give me the name of a movie on Netflix or any of the other mainstream streaming services, and I'll find you a high-quality copy of it, often with subtitles in many different languages, for the cost of a usenet subscription (you don't even need to worry about a DMCA notice from your ISP for torrenting). DRM is not stopping anything. The studios and streaming services have made it just convenient enough to pay, with nice UI/UX on top.

The reason people pay is the convenience! The DRM isn't required for that. If they dropped all DRM tomorrow, they would lose far fewer subscriber dollars than they spend on DRM implementations, license servers, key management, etc. They're just greedy, want control, and want to keep it illegal to break out of that control.

Meanwhile, any media "purchases" you make are gone in a blink if the company you bought them from goes out of business or just decides they don't feel like offering the service anymore. The funny thing is that most of the buy-to-"own" (where you don't actually own it) prices are similar to the cost of a DVD or blu-ray disc. Ditto for Kindle books and their paperback counterparts. All the promises of digital distribution giving consumers lower prices were predictable lies.
If an individual kills someone they will be arrested and imprisoned. If a corporation kills someone they may be fined a token amount or have a pay restitution. Hardly equivalent.
RMS achieved precisely because he is a bad people person. He did what he believed needed to be done to reform the software industry the way he wanted it and he succeeded without regard for what other people thought of him. Unfortunately capitalists adapted to make tons of money exploiting the results of his life's work and social influencers influenced him out of society.

And don't worry about me. I prefer to work alone and I'm in the process of getting banned from your fine forum right now for expressing unpopular opinions.
The short answer is that nobody really knows, although it probably has some genetic component. Wikipedia has a long article covering the different hypotheses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_autism
These images were rendered with a "white" bias. Facial features is one thing, but skin color is clearly not conveyed by statues, yet a clear choice was made here.
Here's an interesting CNBC article that estimates late fees, overdrafts and even fraud cost Americans an extra $577 annually. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/us-households-spend-an-extra...
canvas rn? never heard of it, I use regular canvas
he was asked about this in the H3 podcast, and said that really, if he really started with the intention of making humor or of the situation, he's been steering it more into creating a platform for this people to be themselves. he doesn't want that the people feel that he's making fun of them, or he will lose his own content. I think it's brilliant.
Feedly lets you 'subscribe' to YT channels, so you can see all of the uploads in your Feedly feed.

Just search for a channel when adding a source. If it doesn't come up, paste in a direct link to the channel homepage and it'll find it.
> are people using git without frequently pushing to remote? I feel like having a remote backup of my work in progress is the killer feature.

I use git without a remote pretty often. When doing personal projects or exploratory work, the problem is either so trivial that I don't care about backup, or already backed up using something like Nextcloud/Syncthing. But having the commit history allows me to easily look at old code, revert changes, and make big structural changes without having to back up the entire project folder in case I end up disliking the new structure.

I guess you're just not working on many things at a scale where version control is useful but setting up an online repo doesn't seem worth the time.
Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2020 Release
Why doesn't anybody talk about AirDroid "Remote access & File" which has over 100 million downloads and was developed by China-based Sand Studio. That app has complete access to a huge number of Android devices and suffers from far greater Chinese Communist Party data access issues than other Made In China applications.

At least currently, AirDroid is a FAR greater threat to global security than TikTok is.
oh interesting. I've had a pet theory for awhile now re: trans/autism comorbidity that they're better thought of as symptoms (among others! op's link notes higher incidence of every surveyed mental disorder) of some underlying brain abnormality, rather than being tangled up in some causal relationship with each other. had not heard of gender incoherence theory before
and what's missing in both parts is that Jio abused peering regulations in India to get away with not having to compensate other Indian ISPs for huge chunks of their data backhaul, helped domestic political parties in India for enhanced regulatory control, and then manipulated China-US tensions to erase its $33B external debt
Good. That nose test is painful.
I started using them again and it seems fine. You're ok as long as you use it for things like external library projects and not splitting your project repo into smaller bites just for the sake of doing it.
The article neglects to mention that Zoom video conferencing is largely developed in China (due to doing its R&D there). This point tends to start flame wars, but it's worth mentioning.
Safari isn't that useful for people not using a Mac or iPhone/iPad, which is most people.

Also: don't paint us all with such a broad brush. I'm pretty indifferent toward Safari. "Fuck Safari" would imply I care enough to have a strong opinion about it, which I don't.
No it doesn't.

Web browsers have evolved to basically be an OS. You could essentially revert to the old days where it was simple, but why would you?

Users want more features in their web apps, and the standards/web browsers make it possible.

We don't need tons of web browsers, just like we don't need 100s of operating systems. We just need a few really good ones.
Huh. I was hoping this would be about everything except building the product.
Well yes I should have said “a bad omen for x86”. I’ve never been a fan of the ISA but then the last time I tried it was 8086...

Let’s just hope they don’t port OpenVMS to ARM and RISC-V :)
I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
> How about the guys knowingly making loans to people that could not afford them because they knew those loans would be sold so they would not be on the hook for them.

Assuming no fraud involved, this wasn’t clearly illegal at the time. You can’t just prosecute people for being bad people; you need a law.
Some detractors often say transgender people have mental health issues.

But they mean it in the sense that they should be in an asylum or should not be catered to.

A reality is that:

A) Gender dysphoria is an imbalance of neural state. Therefore that would by definition be a mental health issue but not like the detractors say.

B) Acknowledging and accommodating gender dysphoria discomfort costs cisgender people nothing and unlocks the productiveness of an additional population in society.
Real-time ray tracing is hype.

And I agree - any arguments that "the next gen consoles have it" is specious at best; they always front load next gen consoles because there's usually a very, very long tail where they're essentially obsolete PCs but companies still have to churn out games for them. The PS4 was released in early 2013 - that's seven years, or almost 5 Moore generations old.

The games released with RTRT right now are not going to be great, but in three years? Probably showing up in AAA titles, and they'll all be designed around the PS5's level of capabilities. But by then Intel will have revved their graphics card to the next generation (as will everyone else), and all of the "hardcore" gamers will be picking up new graphics cards anyways.

That said, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Intel's hardware's capabilities and priorities given how much they're trying to spackle the gap between being a server ML/NN play and a gaming device, their complete and utter management failures towards non-core market hardware (Intel's history is paved in abandoned hardware, up to and including the Xeon Phi) and them having little to no decent experience delivering SPMD programming models for their hardware as is now 100% bog standard in GPU land...
This seems kind of irrational: the time and effort you spend validating every request personally probably costs more than the actual giveaway.
A Princess makes Google remove ~200 links to her rant about killing muslims
What is the distinguishing characteristic of someone who is gender fluid vs. someone who is not?
I didn't allege no selectiveness, I alleged that he presents a comparably larger intersection than other outlets. Certainly he's selecting footage for entertainment, and his selection in no way proportional to the events he cover's participants. Looking back on my comment, I overemphasized his even-handedness in terms of screen-time, but that's beside the thrust of my point.

He casts a wide net, and the content of his videos reflect that.
Can't you use ext2/3 pretty much everywhere too?
I would say MIT for all intents and purposes IS the MIT Media Lab. It is the thing the general public hears about the most. MIT has to own it. They do, and they love the exposure. MIT sold out a long time ago.
> I'd bet that 90% of the web only uses 50% of the web standards out there

The problem is the same one faced by people trying to build MS Office competitors back in the 90s and 00s: while that's likely absolutely true, they don't all use the same 50% of those standards/features, so you end up having to implement all of them, or your users will blame you when their favorite random niche website doesn't work, and ditch you for Chrome.
Congrats on your success!! This is great to hear.
Texas seems to get hate for some reason but everyone I know that lives there (and many have moved from California) love it. I’ve been many times and I haven’t found much to dislike other than I prefer the structure of East Coast cities and towns, which is a personal preference.

Texas is affordable, welcoming, and plays to its strengths. It seems like the land of opportunity today and it makes sense it is growing so fast. It seems like I hear jealousy about it in terms of it being a moderate to slightly conservative state overall.
Awesome! Thanks for posting this!
In the past I've done stuff like not pushing until the end of the day/coding session. Usually though I just end up committing and pushing immediately and then realizing I need to amend something and make a note to rebase later(I totally always do that rebase /s).
It’s not “puritanism;” it’s about conflict of interest. If you’re sleeping with, say, a student, you’d be more likely to give them a better grade than Jane/John Doe.
Actually, a lot of dependency managers are starting to accept git repos as dependency sources with pinned hashes as versions. Works out pretty well.
If you are a freshman or sophomore and you have a modicum of self-discipline and motivation, it can be a great strategy. You know those core courses at which you want to excel but will suck up most your time? Do you realize how much easier they will be if you’ve already read the textbook twice over and listened to an online lecture course or two? Maybe even audited an actual online course from another university? Maybe found out what the assignments will be and did most of them. A C in the online audited course at a community college will lead to an A when you actually take it next year and with half the effort. If you get through as much of this year’s core course material as you can stand, keep on going with next year’s courses. "Finish" organic chem the first half-year? "Do" biochem the second. If you nail half the concepts before you take the course, you can focus on the other concepts during the course. Professors start noticing you because you did so well. You bring up advanced topics in conversations and get invited to work in the lab. You get a good rep and the benefit of the doubt. Bonus tip: find a professor whose support you’d like to have and read some of their recent papers or watch their presentations. Contact them with good questions about their work. Free time is an amazing ally if you use it right.

No, I’m not an Asian tiger mom...wrong gender, wrong ethnicity.
Input-Inc. – Robotics Group
I’m more interested in the ways you can subvert a nation covertly by adjusting the algorithm.

Up weighting/down weighting content that exacerbates a rival nations problems or promotes the virtues of its own
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” - Carl Sagan

If you want to see what someone who is credibly trying to predict events look at the work of Nate Silver or Nassim Taleb. When you obsess over one prediction by person most known for comedy and questionable personal statements, it's neither difficult nor inappropriate to put them in the clown category.

If Adams himself wants to build his reputation as a prognosticator, he can easily create a publicly-verifiable record of them and any questions of his ability will answer itself in short order. That he has not (to the best of my knowledge) done so makes him look like a huckster.
I think it's very destructive of meaningful discussion to redefine a term of jargon in order to exploit the stigma of the original definition while talking about something else.
> I've been doing front-end web dev for nearly ten years, and I've never even heard of those last two, much less used them.

Huh, that's interesting to hear you say that. I hardly do any web development at all, but I was using both of those things for personal/toy web sites over a decade ago.

Just goes to show you that even rank amateurs can end up exposed to things that professionals haven't seen, for whatever reason.
I presume this is a consequence of the datasets they had to work off but it is really frustrating that they have one catchall "transgender and gender-diverse" category, segmenting by birth sex or particular gender identified with would be interesting/valuable
Oh, please. Don't pretend to speak for introverts. I am an introvert. I love my alone time. I have no social media presence. I also thrive on collaboration, mentoring, and generally building software with other humans. It is fun, it creates business value, and it leads to better code as well. There are many people in tech like this. We're not extroverts (although extroverts are great, too) but we recognize software engineering is a social discipline of which sitting on your own coding forms only a part.

Yes, of course, you're entitled to be a misanthrope and do whatever you want on your own. Fine. But your picture of tech is warped. There is no conspiracy of extroverts; it's just that you don't like working with other people.
The ELIZA Effect (2019)
There are so many ways to interpret a correlation such as this. For example, one possible obvious mechanism is that people in the trans community may be more likely to encourage autistic people to believe that they “are transgender”. The study uncritically uses the concept “transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism” without ascribing any operational meaning to “transgender and gender-diverse individuals”. So, in my interpretation, this research is not part of biology or medicine, but merely a cultural exercise; a playing with terms.
Actions have consequences. Secondly, other societies have already solved this issue by means of a charity tax that is much more affordable than social security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat
I could be wrong and am glad to be corrected if I am. It's not like I'm following MIT Media news all day. But did the Media Lab acknowledge and critique MIT for its actions? If so you're right, I shouldn't criticize the MIT Media Lab. But if not I consider them complicit.

Re: the Disobedience Award. I did a google search to find the speech they gave where they discuss why they didn't give it to him. https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedie....

I'm glad they recognized his principled and disobedient activism, but there's no acknowledgement about MIT's role in his death, and ultimately they chose not to give him the award.
Are you on the Hawaii Slack? https://www.hawaiislack.com/

It's a small community but not totally a wasteland