skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to one Quora answer [1], 10% of Italians have naturally blond hair and 30% of them have blue eyes. I don't see why Italians at that time should look much different to Italians today.

[1] - https://www.quora.com/Are-blonde-hair-and-blue-eyes-quite-co...
The explanation in your blog post isn't quite correct. The conversion of "Ⅷ" to "VIII" happens when Unicode text is normalized using a "compatibility" mapping, that is normalization forms NFKC or NFKD, not when text is lowercased. While IDNA2003 required a custom mapping based on NFKC, IDNA2008 doesn't specify a mapping phase. It does allow custom mappings, though, and it seems that browsers apply NFKC at some point in the process. See https://unicode.org/reports/tr46/#Mapping
First off: yes, trans tends to be an umbrella term these days.

>how are people who still live their cis-lives, happy and don't really plan anything medical trans? Or is trans today just a catch-all phrase for everything a little androgynous?

If I understand correctly, you're misinterpreting this graf:

>When I go to (back when travel was a thing) places that are less friendly than the coasts and people see the trans flag pin on my bag, I frequently have people come out to me and talk about how they can never transition.

The trans people GP is talking about here are absolutely trans, but they don't feel safe transitioning because their local environment is more hostile to trans people overall than the west coast or northeast of the US. I know a lot of trans people like that and "living their cis-lives," "happy," and "don't plan on anything medical" don't even begin to describe their existence. I worry a lot about most of them. Being in the closet as a trans person is not inherently safer and in particular rates of suicide are much higher.

>this seems very much like some orthodoxy trying to prescribe their opinion. What's the problem with that language as long as (I assume) people are happy with it?

It's a question of respectability and what it means to reclaim something. Some trans people like to use traditionally offensive words to describe themselves, others don't. In general I think it's best that we don't describe others with offensive terms unless they ask for it, even as they become more frequently reclaimed, but I have no problem with whatever labels someone chooses for themselves, and different communities have different norms around these things.
To those out there learning from “Programming Phoenix”, although is the best resource for lay of the land of Phoenix, the content is getting out dated with the rise of auth generator and the context model has also changed a lil bit. It takes diligence in following along and referencing the documentation to not get stuck.

Great book though.
I would dearly love for the industry sh1tstorm that would happen if Huawei would buy ARM (please!)
Would like to see Donny try to ban a Huawei ARM, or order Google to only supply to hot slow Intel Atom mobiles, with everyone of the asian makers walking away from the US market, while the world switches to an OSS Android fork.

Although I still for the life of me can't understand why Miyoshi son is holding on to wework and selling ARM.
This was an enjoyable read. Been following along with the NIST standardisation process and it's always nice to see more on quantum cryptography, the google group is quite dry.

What's a quantum rng? Wouldn't most hardware rng's be considered to be exploiting quantum effects or is it something else with additional properties?
> That you give yourself so much authority on trans matters, especially in response to such a reasonable point, is kind of an example of what I see as modern trans clout these days.

Your insistence that you have more authority than an actual transperson to explain the emotions driving trans identity because you've read a book about the 'transgender craze' is probably a more realistic reflection of 'modern trans clout'...
This is not true if the voting apparatus is separate from the identity of the voter. There are two ways to accomplish this, and the USPS is proposing that they ship voters a sort of "private key", which is fully anonymous, which has no connection to their identity. This key is used once, with the right to cast one vote.

In such a system, the whole blockchain will know what each public key voted for. The difference is that there is no connection between this public key and the vote of an individual. This would allow for a massively snd openly auditable system, without sacrificing privacy or convenience.

I am not a proponent of this, as I think that in the near and mid-term futures, there are too many technical problems to be worked out. If, however, we end up giving every citizen digital ID cards as Estonia has done, and using those as secure hardware used for voting, we could distribute the voting process. Essentially, there would be no more vote-counting. There would only be vote casting and the election results would be apparent to everyone, immediately.

Consensus is absolutely necessary for such a system.
os.scandir in Python was designed to encapsulate "listdir replacement APIs" and uses FindFirstFile/FindNextFile on Windows, and also allows most stuff to be done without an extra per-file stat() syscall on Linux. On top of that, when accessing many/all files in a folder in Linux, this gives you the inode, and if you sort your accesses by inode, throughput can rise to the ninth power on hard drives.

On the other hand, if you look at e.g. Windows Explorer. Explorer will take somewhere from a few seconds to ~tens of seconds to list the contents of a SSD-backed directory with a couple thousand files. The same operation on Linux is practically instant. Copying a bunch of small files on Windows takes forever, maybe doing around a few hundred files per second. Meanwhile Linux will happily copy thousands of files per second, all on the same hardware.

Explorer might be using incorrect ways to do I/O, but if that is the case, then that would mean that the proprietary, only-ever-developed-for-Windows-by-Microsoft tool that is also the main way users do I/O doesn't do I/O properly. What would that say about Windows?
Adding my mail setup to those listed here.

- Hosted locally.

- Virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 running on my Hyper-V host.

- Microsoft Exchange 2013

- Self written, internet facing MTA, that filters/rejects email before passing onto Exchange

- The MTA passes all email under X size through Spamassassin (SPAMD) running on a separate Ubuntu based virtual server

- The MTA also has some internal rules to straight up reject bad IPs and emails with 'badwords' in them.

- The MTA has an internal list of email aliases that it accepts email for, then it re-addresses them to the real internal email addresses that are configured in Exchange.

I've been running this setup in one form or another for about 20 years now, upgrading parts as I go along. Due to the version of Hyper-V I'm running, I can't run Windows Server 2016 or higher as virtual servers. Also, I've upgraded through Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2010 to 2013, but I tend to upgrade when I need to, not when there's a new version, hence still running 2013, which I only migrated to a few years ago.

It's the mail system for my whole family, plus handles the email for the 3 small companies that I run. Stability is more important than anything.

Outlook Anywhere is fully configured correctly - both iOS and Android can 'auto configure' for the mail server with just an email address and password.

I've got SPF and DKIM set-up, but send email through my ISPs smarthost just to be safe. Gmail and Outlook.com happily accept my emails without issue.

Regarding spam... This is the ongoing bugbear. No matter what you do, once you've been using an email address for a long time (in my case over 20 years for some of them) fighting spam is a constant battle. This weeks spam content is all about Air Conditioners and slimming aids.

I would NOT recommend that anyone set-up their own personal email system unless it was a learning exercise. It's just too much hassle these days. Personally, I'm am in the process of moving the whole lot to Office 365, which will cost me a bit more in yearly fees, but will give me some time back not having to admin it, which at this stage in my life is more important.
I was surprised they didn't use SPARK contracts to ensure compile-time safeties.
This is a more complicated and less scalable way of creating a blockchain.
Very related David Mitchell rant:

"Dear America..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
How the Cortex and Thanos projects collaborate to make scaling Prometheus better
"2 Factor authentication was enabled on most accounts but some felt it was too much of a pain to force so we left it open-ended for now so as not to lose these contributors. After this though, it's highly unlikely we'll do that again."

@libretro on Twitter

https://twitter.com/libretro/status/1294870444848406530
Why not simply print a receipt after voting with the vote printed verbatim and a digital token that allows the voter to easily check whether the vote has actually been counted correctly.

The token could be a hash of some relevant parameters that are easy to check and maybe digitally signed by the voting machine or whatever.
Yet MSI and Windows Update love their gazillion of tiny files, probably one of the reasons why WU is so slow (aside from the "let's solve P=?NP" thing that Windows 7 does). Game devs have got it right for decades though, practically every game ships their own little take on random-access ZIP archives (they often used profiling to arrange the files inside the archives in the order the game would load them as well, though that is probably less important these days), because that's so much faster than using the host file system.
Would control fraud work in a company as big as Amazon? If you're that big, then there's a huge probability of a whistleblower or unhappy ex-employee exposing you.
Microsoft Research’s Project Portmeirion for security in Azure's compute stack
The "horrible" or dumb things you said are absolutely relevant toward whether it is reasonable to assume you know what you talk about.

In particular, the offensive things Stallman said or did are absolutely relevant when he would spew quotes about relationships or people.

It is different when he talks about philosophy of open source. But on those particular topics, he is not being insightful as he is dumb as brick o that topic.
We're seeing major things happening around the world. The biggest of them is seeing the US slowly head into an autocracy (quite implicitly). Trump is doing whatever Trump wants, and no one is stopping him. How so?
I see arguments like this a lot, and they usually miss the importance and impact of hormonal transition.

I'm trans, and thus in trans circles a lot, and almost everyone I know had some high impact mental health issue resolve upon starting hormonal transition, even if those were present before they realized they were trans. These range from generic depression over behavior that gets people autism diagnoses that suddenly resolve to a depersonalization. [1] Even if you want to attribute those to placebo, the effect is so pronounced and long-lastingly positive, it wouldn't really matter if it was.

Gender dysphoria is measurable[2], and gender dysphoria severe enough to lead someone to transition seems to be rooted more deeply than just the socially constructed assignments of what constitutes male and female behavior. Of course gender-non-conformance would still be expressed more strongly in such people.

What is also positively correlated to transness are conditions that could be classified as intersex, even if we don't generally diagnose them as such because they have no easy to recognize physical impact. We know about some of those, pre-natal exposure to estrogens for instance. And I'm sure there's a lot of factors we're entirely missing. There are a few neurology studies that show deviations that are are usually associated with the other sex in transgender people, even before they can hormonally transition.

[1]: https://the-orbit.net/zinniajones/2013/09/that-was-dysphoria...

[2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30991464/
It's worth working on to be sure. Another thing I think is worth working on is educating people on what blockchain actually is (which it seems you are doing). I think paper voting works primarily because people know and trust how the votes are counted and how they get to the counters, for the most part. But personally I barely understand transistors and flip flops let alone blockchain and that makes me slightly worried about how it might be possible to exploit them.
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OpenBase: Choose the right package every time
Wait, so....previously in the US Amazon wasn't responsible for the products it was selling?? Lol, what? So who was responsible then??
Several Ancient Viruses Have Been Discovered in 15,000-Year-Old Glacial Ice
CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointers in the POSIX C Run-Time Environment
What ads? Seriously: use an ad blocker.
In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won't have the resources to handle a flood of ballots from voters who are seeking to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.

“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. “That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting; they just can’t have it.”

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/08/14/tr...
Tutorial: Set Up a Secure and Highly Available Etcd Cluster
Try and say something unflattering about a culture you're familiar with "that also applies to other cultures", you'll be burned at the stake as racist / xenophobic / insensitive / etc.

Except when that culture is "the west" aka white people, then that's ok I guess.
Could you expand more on the legal protections?
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012)
This really does seem very unfair. I went to a middle-of-the-road comprehensive, and in one particular subject our entire (small) class happened to be talented - all of us but one got A*s. My understanding is that this wouldn’t be possible under this algorithm.

On the other hand, I’m struggling to think of a system which would be better, which also preserves the integrity of A-levels as a qualification.
Visual Studio has a limited version of what you want: if you start with a function it can show you the revision history.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/find-code-...

I think Rider has it as well.
Note that PR is not a fundamental git concept, but something a code forge can decide to implement any way they like. I presume you're talking about GitHub, because in GitLab, you will be able to see all changes when browsing commits constituting the merge request.
If you define "third party" as your first link does, everything relies on trust in a third party. The counting of ballots also relies on a third party, albeit a less homogenous and "centralized" third party (though that term is also hard to define).

The difference is that a public blockchain provides an open and auditable overview of the actions of the third party, and what the state of the entire "database" is. This is something that a Merkle tree whose root is published in a newspaper once a week can't achieve (an anecdote from a story Roberto Di Cosmo of the Software Heritage Foundation told me).

To your second link — I'm not arguing for such a system today. Of course there are many roadblocks and hurdles in getting to full proof-of-stake or full "decentralization". But in 5-10 years I'm sure we'll be there. There are hundreds of teams, from Algorand to Casper to Ethereum, working on this issue.
It's way too easy for the ruling party to put the thumb on the scale and That's what's actually been happening for centuries.

These days it's ID laws where certain IDs are accepted and others aren't based on who is likely to have what.

It's closing the places to acquire the ID in the areas that will vote against you

It's closing the polling stations, putting them in inconvenient locations, reducing the number of machines, putting only new people at the polling place, reducing the hours of operation, making the directions intentionally confusing ... there's many ways these are being manipulated.

Historically it was much worse. Ballots were the parties responsibilities and lots of shenanigans happened there, making the slots too small to fit some ballots, giving the counters a way to "prefer" which ones to count first and thus give a candidate momentum.

There's also lots of instances of "losing" ballots or finding stashes after the results were announced.

I mean really, it's not a panacea, it's susceptible to dishonesty and manipulation like any other human institution.

There's a number of great precautions other countries have done but the blinders of American exceptionalism strikes again and we're still stuck in the relative dark ages.
You must be talking about Winters Collective?

I didn't know about it before, so I tracked it down and it sounds like such a nice place! I used to drive up and down 505 all the time visiting family in Oregon. It's been a while, but a stop in Winters will be in store for my next trip.

"a unique collection of vendors who work in partnership to market as a group and showcase the goods of several small businesses in one creative space."

https://winterscollective.com/
Maybe, but sometimes change is permanent and cities lose their elevated status forever.

History is rife with examples.
> But NYC is the center of the financial universe.

Erm...? I think London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo would disagree.

I stopped reading at that point tbh.
You could try this response: treating every every mental health issue as a hallucination is similar to treating every medical issue as a heart attack. As an example, treating depression as if it were the same as hearing voices would hurt the person and be medically irresponsible. And since you wouldn't offer to do heart surgery on a friend, you should also stop trying to be people's psychologist until you are trained and qualified.
This is interesting as I’m trying to connect a Macintosh SE/30 that I recently brought back to life, without having to shell out crazy money for a network card on eBay. I wonder whether this TCP/IP over PPP solution also works under A/UX, which is what I want to run.
> Are there examples of studies on people testing positive months later?

Yes. However, it appears to not be live virus.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.20125138v...
It's great to see fundamental research being funded.

However, the title is... a tad ambitious. To the best of my understanding, the "quantum internet" so far has managed to transport 1 bit across 26 miles and it's not clear at which speed (yeah, I know it's theoretically above the speed of light, but I'm not sure about the specifics here) or which infrastructure was needed (apparently, fiber cable, in which case it's not entirely clear to me what makes this quantum).
Headless browser + OCR ... how hard can it be?!
Perhaps you would be interested in Harvey OS[1] which implements Plan9-like operating system in 64bit environment.

[1]: https://harvey-os.org/
With due apologies to Winston Churchill: "the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" - NYC
New Algorithm Paves the Way Towards Error-Free Quantum Computing
My take on Algol->Pascal has always been rather more that Pascal is essentially the easy to implement parts of Algol68 (speaking as someone who once wrote an Algol68 compiler for my thesis).

Many of those harder parts of Algol68 (unions with tags, pointers to stuff like function calls, a full type system etc etc) are all things we consider normal parts of modern languages
I fully share your concerns. There is a massive amount of blockchain infrastructure which 0.0001% of the world population comprehends. Beyond further technical development and the creation of UX and UI libraries around blockchain internals (like https://blockstack.org is trying to do), we need more education.

I'd love to have more debates like this, but I'm trying to help researchers with simple to use blockchain-based tools (like https://assembl.app/chronos, our timestamping service for research outputs).

Paper voting is, in my opinion, still the most "secure" way to vote. This is mainly because any sort of voter fraud requires a lot of people and a lot of time, whereas flawed technology can be hacked by very few in a very short amount of time.

I'm interested to see how this discussion develops.
So "it's a private company, they can do what they want" only applies when convenient, got it.
Sierra Club: Pulling Down Our Monuments
“The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.”
heard of typeORM?
You see this kind of reactionary pearl-clutching every day of the history of the human race. NYC will change, as will everywhere on Earth, it is not dead.
I agree. I think the problem very much starts with the sculptures themselves. It seems rather likely that the sculptors would have had an incentive to "improve" some of the not so attractive features of those very powerful men.

A realistic ML model could theoretically compensate for that by reintroducing a bit of variability based on the variability we see in today's population of that region.
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https://web.archive.org/web/2008/http://tntluoma.com/iphone/...

(via Daring Fireball)
I still write Elixir only, and don't really leverage BEAM (not yet) but the sheer performance of the system amazes me. Phoenix is very largely scalable, and makes some really clever decisions in terms of architecture unlike Rails/Django.

The learning curve has been a little steep and there is a paradigm shift but I've encountered situations where it really ended up helping me navigate through code with precision and clarity.
I think Phoenix is the best candidate for a Web Framework as of today, if one desires rapid development. The standard library is rich, documentation is solid, and features like async tests etc are an added bonus.

I'm using Phoenix for our side project and it is swift as a rocket.