skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intellectual hoops you're leaping through to try and justify a normal comment as 'propaganda' not only don't help your case - they only serve to possibly validate that your very own response is is a form of propaganda itself.

"We can't also forget all the craziness in the theistic religions which cause people to do worse things than coordinating over silly ideas."

Spirituality is not a 'silly idea', more importantly it doesn't cause us to do crazy-bad things in general.

'Silly ideas' are things like Imperialism, Communism and Fascism - all of which are secular ideals and have caused massive, worldwide violence to the tune of many massive wars (most wars in fact) to the tune of 100's of millions dead in the last century alone, and continue to hang the existential nuclear threat over our heads.
"it did not distribute, manufacture, or sell that product". Yes you did Amazon. You took and processed the money.
Autists are disproportionally online. This matters for two reasons.

The first is that on the internet you can easily assume any identity.

The second is that the trans lobby has much stronger control over online than offline spaces. The pattern is clearly visible in this thread. Views that you might hear from "the man on the street" are flagged or downvoted.
I can't see the two links above "Boilerplate", "Reviews" and "Log in" except for a few pixels so I know there's some content hidden at the top. My browser is about 1/2 the width of a 1080p desktop.
> Anybody who struggles to instinctively navigate social norms and behaviors will also struggle to instinctively navigate gendered norms and behaviors, simply because the two are inextricable.

But if masculine and feminine gender roles are equally difficult to navigate, that doesn't explain why transitioning would help. You'd just be swapping out one difficult gender role with another.
The line in the sand is clear: a free and open society that accepts its own faults, versus a platform of ideological purity enforced with mob violence. Please think about this carefully HN.
Please don't spread idiotic conspiracy theories here.
"recreation" can be had in many places.

In case anyone reads this:

One of the best things my wife and I have done in the past year was to switch to each of us having our own set of sheets. It's amazing. Highly recommended.
I wonder if this was a key moment in Steve Jobs becoming Steve Jobs.
its dead jim
It's one of the WebM audio codecs; Vorbis was first.
You would probably expect the artist to idealise the features to a degree for their health's sake. A Christiano Ronaldo statue would not go down well with any that had delusions of being a deity.
This is a nice idea. I'd thought about trying to run BQN on top of an APL (difficult because existing APLs' boxed or nested models are at odds with BQN's based "like a normal programming language" array model), but trying the more mainstream APL-adjacent langauges hadn't occurred to me. numpy at least looks promising.
Better video here, 140+ MPh winds.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/watch-this-terrifying-new-footag...
The Insect Apocalypse?
> want to be two sizes smaller by next summer

is not necessarily

> wanting to be healthy so you can live longer

the behavior necessary to lose the weight would have positive results toward a goal that IS rational, but the impulse that actually spurs the behavior necessary to be two sizes smaller by next summer could just as easily be "i want to wear this dress to my sister's wedding next summer and they don't make it in my size."
Just Phoning It In? 4 Ways to Keep Remote Daily Standup Calls Valuable
Noting down a weird phenomenon: I'm a huge admirer of Marcus Aurelius. His Meditations is sitting on the night stand next to me as I type this. But seeing him rendered this way somehow diminished the almost super-human image of him I had built up in my mind. He's just a man here.
Right, I feel like any new desktop browser that is aiming for wide adoption needs to be (for example) multi-process and privilege-separated from the start. Rust certainly makes some bugs impossible that this sort of sandboxing prevents, but not everything.

Designing these sorts of security features up front isn't fun, and makes it take a bit more time before you get to your first page render, so there's a lot of slogging to do before you get there. I can understand how someone might lose motivation that way.
> The Appellate Court didn’t agree with Amazon’s stance, noting that the product had been listed on Amazon, was stored in an Amazon warehouse, had facilitated payment, and shipped it out in Amazon packaging, proving it to have a hand in getting it to Bolger and thus being liable under California law.

eBay does not meet the second qualifier and rarely meets the last. Additionally, it is more obviously a marketplace - the seller of a given item is highlighted and their credibility made known in the form of their star ratings. Amazon de-emphasizes the seller name for non-Amazon sellers and completely hides their rating on the product page.

Of course, the only way to know for sure is if eBay's liability is litigated.
I salute you sir!

What’s the current roadmap for CE? I saw there’s a new CE environment in Win10 IoT, but it feels like too-little-too-late to save the myriad of embedded enterprise CE systems.
I believe they are both:

1. A small business that basically does all the work by hand

and

2. Catering to a very niche market of upper-middle-class folks.

They sell raw materials for more reasonable prices. Labor gets expensive real quick.
I use mutt for Gmail in my terminal, the setup is fairly easy and documented across blog posts

example muttrc
=========================================================

set imap_user = '<username>@gmail.com'

set imap_authenticators="oauthbearer"

set imap_oauth_refresh_command="~/.mutt/oauth2.py --quiet --user=<username>@gmail.com --client_id=<id from google>.apps.googleusercontent.com --client_secret=<secret from google> --refresh_token=<token from, you guessed it, google>"

set smtp_authenticators="oauthbearer"

set smtp_oauth_refresh_command="~/.mutt/oauth2.py --quiet --user=<username>@gmail.com --client_id=<id from google>.apps.googleusercontent.com --client_secret=<secret from google> --refresh_token=<token from google>"

set ssl_starttls=yes

set ssl_force_tls=yes

set imap_pass = 'my really hard to guess gmail password'

set from='<username>@gmail.com'

set realname='Fancy pants name'

set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/

set spoolfile = +INBOX

set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"

set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"

set trash = "+[Gmail]/Trash"

set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts"

set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers"

set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies"

set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates"

set smtp_url = 'smtp://<username>@gmail.com:<my really hard to guess password>@smtp.gmail.com:587/'

set smtp_pass = 'my really hard to guess password'

set move = no

set imap_keepalive = 900

#refresh every 10 seconds

set timeout=10

set mail_check=20

# allow mutt to open new imap connection automatically

unset imap_passive

# vim!

set editor=vim

# email sorting

set sort=threads

set sort_browser=reverse-date

set sort_aux=last-date-received

# handy macros

macro index gd "<change-folder>$postponed<enter>" "go to drafts"

macro index gs "<change-folder>$record<enter>" "go to sent"

macro index gi "<change-folder>$spoolfile<Enter>" "go to inbox"

macro index gt "<change-folder>$trash<enter>" "go to trash"""

macro index tb s+[Gmail]/Trash

set noconfirmappend

set quit=ask-yes

=========================================================
The black women in tech coding the future
it's only confusing because you're not aware of the difference between sex and gender. take a look at this article i found from a quick google: https://www.healthline.com/health/sex-vs-gender#gender
Notice found on slideshare.com:

"Scribd will begin operating the SlideShare business on September 24, 2020
As of this date, Scribd will manage your SlideShare account and any content you may have on SlideShare, and Scribd's General Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will apply. If you wish to opt out, please close your SlideShare account. "

I wonder what happens if the user closes her account. Does Scribd delete the content?

This shows how Terms and Privacy Policies are only good up until an acquisition. Then you get a brand new Privacy Policy.

Would be nice if a user could set a "self-destruct" order on her account, like a poison pill, so that in the event of an acquisition, the account is automatically closed. Automatic opt-out.

Does Slideshare let users download all their data before closing their account?
Holy Tags: A simple collection of XSS protection tools
Your quote is from... October 2013 [1]. I think Trump's views and information might have changed since then, and the state of the world has changed which will modify the pros and cons of this move to trump. I expect his decision will mostly be made based on how he perceives it impacting his chance of getting re-elected.

I haven't noticed trump ever being particularly concerned about what the intelligence community thinks.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/39568370275766272...
How about the access question from GP?
Humans can out run and hunt down most animals because we evolved hairless sweating for cooling.

(Persistance hunting)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Trump will scarcely do something like this unless he thinks it will benefit him. Does he think millenials will love him for it or does he think Snowden has dirt on Obama? Time will tell.
My problem is that my GF buys a lot of snacks and cookies and chocolates and... which completely broke my tactic of not having any snacks/sweets at home
you didn't get shit of his notes if you thought of him as a super-human
That's not really true. It is pretty difficult to delete any data from git, especially by accident. You may screw up your history but you can always fix that if you know what you are doing.
> Terms change; distinctions between similar terms get made as they’re needed.

And the distinction among “man,” “woman,” and “non-binary” without referencing sex is explained... how exactly?

> I’m infertile, so “sex is about reproduction” makes me chuckle a bit, for example.

I am now infertile too; doesn’t change the fact that I know which one of only two kinds of gametes (“sex” cells) my body could produce.
I've had issues with their Windows HFS+ driver too, shit wiped out a hard drive that I later learned wasn't fully backed up
I sometimes daydream that everyone at work uses Linux in general and a text-based email program in particular. It isn't too farfetched. When email took off, I was in college, and we all used Pine.

Anyway, if you email me, it will arrive on my virtual private server, and I will read it with Mutt.
As expected, the highbrow scholars of HN have littered this thread with ignorant transphobic comments. Yet again.

Maybe leave behind the bigotry before slapping your keyboards?
This is interesting. I recently had a throat swab test after a week of extreme fatigue, but at no time did they indicate that the negative result was anything but certain. I had imagined _some_ false negative rate, but not this high.
There is no catastrophic thinking in my response.

It’s completely reasonable to consider the cases that interventions would make things worse, and there are plenty of models for that.

I’m actually not against intervention - only intervention based on singling out Apple, or unjustified assumptions.

This is why pieces which rely on sarcasm, and as I point out but you neglect, ad-hominem, are likely to lead to an ill-thought out solution.

The piece is bad, even if some of the points it makes are worth examining, because the piece is aimed at discouraging that examination.
As you probably know, Marcus Aurelius would not have wanted you to think of him as a super-human! He writes a lot about his fallibility and his attempt to live a stoic life despite his failures.
Simplified explanation that leaves out the discussion of people who are agender, genderqueer, etc.:

If you conceptualize gender as 'manliness' or 'femininity', you can pretty easily see that some folks are more or less 'manly', that gender must therefore exist as a spectrum. There are men who are very feminine, and women who are quite manly, so in my mind, these spectrums have some overlap.

Most folks have a pretty rigid understanding of where they fit -- they see themselves as a manly man, or ladylike, or a tomboy, etc. and that remains relatively unchanging over time. For me, it's not so simple, there are days I feel masculine and days where someone using "Mr." or "Sir" feel really viscerally wrong.

That's the quick version of how I conceptualize my own gender fluidity.
What is the difference between being gender fluid and having some traits & preferences typically associated with the other gender?
I’d love to have an Internet that’s a bunch of markdown files that link to a bunch of other markdown files (or a format that simple). No JavaScript, minimal CSS, and support for various image types.

Only problem is how to deal with navigation to other parts of a website.

Something like this would be hostile to advertisers and bloat. Ideally it only has essays, papers, and other stuff that makes you smart.
Isn't part of the draw of Electron that you can essentially stuff your (presumably already existing) web app in a box that runs as a standalone app[0]? If that's the case, removing compatibility would mean losing most of the draw.

[0] Yes, I know there's more to it than that.
In Hooked, Nir Eyal talked about a tribe in South Africa whose members hunt a particular animal (I forgot its name) by running behind it for 8 hours straight.
What harm do minimum wages do?
For Rust, there's the very similar https://github.com/parasyte/pixels. Unlike MiniFB, it doesn't handle windowing for you (you use winit/sdl2/glfw).

It's built over wgpu-rs, so it runs on Vulkan/Metal/DirectX12/WEBGPU. You can compile to wasm, and then run your game in the browser, which is neat. And you can add custom shaders on top.

I used it for my game, and was very happy with it https://github.com/JMS55/sandbox
I solved a problem with nmh last week. That felt good (finding ten emails by string search from a .mbox format archive and making another mbox archive from them)

I am pretty sure mutt would have done it too, I used mh because I had the muscle memory
You skipped the big point where Amazon makes no promise that you will receive your purchase from the seller you bought from, if you FBA.
But most people who get vaccinated don't develop autism.
They still make them and they're expanding them, but mostly for the mobile/robotics market. AFAIK they're not venturing into mobile again.
Yeah…

The sensitivities people have with the those mentioning rot and rampant prestige laundering in these institutions to the point its frowned on talking about it in association with the topic… banality of evil… lol
The unfortunate truth of the world is that no one cares about everyone. Asking people to adjust their worldview so someone they don't know or don't care about doesn't off themselves just isn't a great sales pitch (especially to the conservatively inclined). Some of those people mean it when they say "go f* yourself".
To be fair, he's been predicting for two years now that Kamala Harris would be on the Democratic ticket.

That is maybe nothing special, but I never heard of her, and she was a garbage fire when she campaigned here in Iowa. So I thought that was noteworthy.
I worry for people who don't understand that AGNB is designed around the concept of people showing off for the camera.
If you want an error, throw an error. We specified that up front. The entire sub-thread you're in is about what happens if you for whatever reason can't throw an error or don't want to.

Notice that, again if you want an error you can detect U+FFFD and error out on that. I mean apparently this isn't Unicode after all right? So the only way U+FFFD got into the pipeline is because of an error you've now decided you should have caught but... didn't?

Your approach randomly introduces unspecified behaviour which is likely to introduce security vulnerabilities and who knows what other problems because it resists "Full Recognition Before Processing".

Unlike treating text in unknown encoding as UTF-8, passing it through mangled by tools that didn't actually understand it as you've proposed does lead to real world vulnerabilities that can be as serious as remote code execution.
> And the distinction among “man,” “woman,” and “non-binary” without referencing sex is explained... how exactly?

No one said they're not related concepts. Just that they're not the same.

The term "butch", for example, tends to describe a female with more manly outward presentation, where "manly" describes "characteristics generally associated by society with males". Short hair isn't an inherently male thing; it's frequently considered a man thing, though.

> I am now infertile too; doesn’t change the fact that I know which one of only two kinds of gametes (“sex” cells) my body could produce.

I don't produce gametes of either kind. Am I genderless and sexless?
Here is the preprint for this test: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167791v...
I think it's more that you have to know git "reflog" instead of some easier non-cryptic command
+1 for Draw.io ... extremely flexible, vector export, plus can connect and save to e.g. google drive, etc.
You can get a saliva test today, it's just a bit expensive: https://www.vaulthealth.com/covid

We did this this morning, and it was not bad. They ship the tubes to your house, and you get in a Zoom call to verify ID and do the procedure. They haven't worked out all the kinks (it took much too long to do all of us) but it was pretty convenient. The biggest issue? It's surprisingly hard to fill up an entire test tube with spit.
I've already seen people suggesting that this link exists, but I've always read it the other way around - that there are elevated rates of transgenderism along autistic people, which kinda makes sense to me. People on the spectrum ask themselves more questions about their own bodies and feelings and don't get easily satisfied by adhering to social norms as neurotypicals do.
MP3 has been around so long that it works with damn near everything, and the last patents expired in 2017, so it's now a completely free and open standard.

If you don't care too much about file size (LAME -V0 is ~256 kbps), it's a decent option for many purposes.
That is just one of many, many rants Trump published about Snowden.
Intermediate commits. For example, while building a UI - HTML is done, but you haven't begun styling. You want to be able to revert to a good point in case you screw up, but there isn't much reason to push it to a remote because it's not a shippable state. As long as your computer is being backed up (you are using backups, right?) you won't lose any data by not pushing to a remote.
Given that the patents on MP3 have expired, maybe libsndfile will finally support it...
Some people feel differently. If you were addressed as "ma'am" everywhere you went, you may not be that bothered. You might find it really frustrating.

Even within the bounds of a gender (e.g. masculine), people will find themselves wanting to be seen as a particular point within that gender's spectrum. (E.g. you might want to be seen as a tough guy, or a sensitive man, etc.) It can be frustrating to feel like you are the tough guy but no one seems to treat you that way.

The point is that experience is different for different people. Many people are comfortable with whatever, others aren't and want to try to take deliberate actions to make themselves be perceived more like how they see themselves.
Tangential to performance, but last I used it (2018ish) Safari had by far the best power efficiency, which is important when running on battery power (iOS and MacBooks are Apple's most popular devices). It was like a 2-3X difference, doubling the battery life. I thought that was really interesting, how much they optimized for that, and how Chrome seemingly did not at all.
Ask HN: Is it common for interviewers to know nothing about you?
I've been doing the software interview circuit lately, lots of phone screens and 1st and 2nd stage interviews. What I am finding is that the people who are screening/interviewing me know nothing about me, despite many of them reaching out to me directly. Why does this seem to be common?

I've made an extra effort to make sure my online portfolio documents things that I've built in a clear and concise way, but the traffic analytics on my portfolio tells the same story: nobody is investigating things I've worked on before they interview me.

In the interviews themselves, very few people have mentioned anything I've worked on, even when immediately relevant to the conversation. I'll ask if they saw "X", which shows my experience around the thing we're talking about, to which the response is always "no". The silver lining is, yes, it's an opportunity to talk about it now.

Am I being too self-centered to want this? I feel like my successes/failures in the interviews come from my ability to sum up my professional experience in 60 seconds, which is why I've gone through the efforts to have a strong online portfolio in the first place. I can understand that people are busy at work, and so they probably put minimal effort into the interview preparation, but to base their decisions about me on only an hour's worth of programming puzzles—without considering the body of software I have produced and made easy to review—feels dismissive to what I offer as a candidate.
Maybe a rent option?
That sounds reasonable. Thanks for the perspective :)
I think you might overestimate how strongly or rigidly people in general conceive of how they “fit” on a daily basis, or how strongly they link activities, dress, or title to “manliness” or “womanliness.”

For a simple example, some days I want to listen to Tori Amos and cry, and other days I want to listen to Metallica and punch things, but nothing in any of this has any bearing on my identification with any gender.

I have some pretty obvious male secondary sex characteristics so it would be a big problem if that caused me daily discomfort, but that doesn’t really seem to be what genderfluidity is about?
Even if you buy from Amazon.com you can get FBA comingled inventory that is counterfeit.
That's quite provincial. Normal people have little adventures, but not all the same adventures.
This will garner him one mail in vote from Russia.
Did you miss the word “considering”?
Kind of hard to prosecute Assange if you're willing to pardon Snowden. I'm gonna go make some popcorn and keep watching for Assange's name in the pre-election headlines.
I agree. But still. No way I'll vote for Trump, but I have to admit that such a pardon would have me feel just a bit less antipathy toward Trump.
She was, officially, his student at the time of the relationship. He admits this. He is trying to argue that, while he was officially her advisor at the time, she had already completed all of the requirements of the degree, and he was only nominally her advisor as a result of academic technicalities.
> Also Hacker News: fuck Safari.

We are all talking about something between Lynx and Safari.
I suppose on his mind this might fit with some sort of fight with the "deep state".

Beyond that I would just chalk it up to some inherent capriciousness... bordering on concerning instability.
I find bower to be better than mutt at dealing with large quantities of email, but mutt is better at everything else. bower can also run locally with a mailbox on a remote, which allows things like easy seamless opening of attachments that don't work as well in a terminal (images, PDFs, &c.).
Love the concept, would be interested to see this implemented with docker vs python/pip
I expect it might be calculated to help his re-election - if he does it. Remembering how google locked down its internal network after the revelations, I would expect lots of silicon valley might align with snowden's plight.