skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-change-treatment-for-kids-o...

And this is from 2012. I'm frankly not sure how I feel about this issue. On the one hand, you could argue it's better to transition before puberty solidifies the undesired sexual characteristics. On the other, certainly some of these kids would end up feeling OK fine with where nature brings them after puberty passes. It's a tough issue and I respect both viewpoints.

More broadly, your reasoning here is rather silly. Just because you haven't noticed something yet doesn't mean it isn't a real thing.
I heard this a lot in the WiiU era, but having this opinion during the Switch? It's the most unique and successful console. If Nintendo drops their hardware we will only have phone to play with on the go, and it's obvious why people prefer and are willing to spend much more on quality handheld gaming hardware.
Cancel culture at it's best. What happened to freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, freedom to choose.

If Spotify were smart they wouldn't censor any of the podcasts. Instead they would put a Twitter like message warning the user... As a way to satisfy the cancel culture crowd.

I don't care about Joe or his views. But I do care about people having choice and freedom
Because if you arrive with a full tank, it's useless and you vent it?

Maybe there could be uses for the fuel, if you succeed in getting it there.
> lacks any sort of consistent vision

I have no insider knowledge of how well it’s been managed so I’ll leave that to other commentators.

However I’d say that their vision for openness is part of their curse.

Google in developing Chrome are not held to the same community expectations.

It’s expensive to build and maintain a modern day browser and the competitors have deep pockets to the extent of it being worth completing even at a loss due to the benefits of controlling the platform (being the browser platform).

Mozilla have to extract value somewhere. But where should it be?

I think the challenge is to reframe that Mozilla are maintaining an open commons that all are welcome to visit for free without access fees while also metaphorically “selling cool drinks nearby for a price”.

If the community won’t let them charge for anything they do, and claim “extraction/extraction!” with every move they are destined to go under.

I think the most useful framing for Mozilla fans is:

What here should be part of our global commons and needs to be freely available and what would I/we be willing to pay Mozilla for that extends or compliments these core offerings?
Given all the air quality issues in CA right now, I've been planning to put together an air quality + temp + humidity sensor that I can run off a battery and connect to my wifi. I already bought the sensors which I have connected to a Raspberry Pi just to play around with them, but of course a RPi won't last long on a battery. I really want something I can just toss in the corner of a room and easily move around.

I've mostly been looking at the ESP32, though (newer, also has bluetooth and 2 cores, and is lower power), and some of the ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers.
It’s patently obvious that while most cops view themselves as protecting society from chaos, they do not see the actual citizens that make up said society as people that they are ultimately responsible to. And sometimes you’re lucky if they view the citizens that make up society as people at all, tragically.

I’m glad that the Sheriff was responsive and helpful though, it’s always nice to hear about public servants actually serving the public.
> blocking code in the UI thread – open a message and Outlook won't paint until it can verify the cert

Yikes. I should probably be surprised, but I guess I'm not. This sort of thing goes a long ways towards explaining all sorts of other oddities or using Outlook.
Climate change: Earthquake 'hack' reveals scale of ocean warming
Tesla cell leak hints that Battery Day will be more insane than expected
And renewables are cheap because peaker plants exist, which allows the price of storage to be externalized to the peaker plants.
> if only people stepped out of their darkened homes and artificially lit offices for a few moments every day, and embraced all of that free, natural, nature-given sunlight...

The article is about implanting a device deep deep in the brain and delivering light pulses, not people “stepping out of their darkened homes”. My uncle has young onset PD and worked outside his entire life.
> Actually, I can't understand why all those who are predicting doomsday scenarios because of climate change aren't storming the streets with big pro-nuclear energy signs.

Agreed. Without being a primitivist, I don't think you can be both pro-environment and anti-nuclear at this point. Solar and wind just don't have the output to keep up with industry. If we're fine living in mud huts and it taking 6 months to produce a laptop, then fine (and honestly that might be the place we end up in 100 years). But as it is, solar and wind cannot sustain our current economy.
If you wait for fusion to work before you do something, be prepared to die first.
I don't think fears about PR & legal ramifications are so easily separable. PR problems can and do become legal problems very quickly.

Sure, I do think companies care about diversity, and are interested in the competitive advantages. But the only mandatory meetings on diversity I've ever had were about communicating policy that is attempting to adhere to the law, even if in a proactive sense. The goal of the law is to care about diversity and is founded on a belief that a diverse society has a competitive advantage, so I don't necessarily see a hard line between complying with the law and actually caring about diversity.

> I really, really do not see any group winning a court case against a company because they did not have special hiring events for people of their group.

I don't see that either, and it's not something I claimed. We weren't talking about affirmative action, you're moving the goal post. We were talking about widespread mandatory diversity programs.
I don’t know if complete deregulation is the answer, there are some pretty shitty podcasts out there pushing QAnon, nazi, and just plain fake, information which vulnerable groups latch onto and amplify to the extent that society is severely impacted. I’m in favor of a hybrid approach where extreme hate content is tracked, called out, and in extreme cases deplatformed. The Joe Rogan platform is not at that point in my view, it’s merely gathering the lowest common denominator of podcast viewers which unfortunately really likes conspiracy content and content whose only merit is to push against academia and domain matter experts.
I think SF is more of a burrito and onigiri type of town. Some of my favorite grab and go spots are Asian grocery stores.
She brought attention that people put social pressure on underage teens to get trans operation without their parents' consent.

I would be very angry if it would happen to my 13-17 year old daughter, as children in that age are not yet capable of understanding the consequences of the operation for there whole life (includung shortening it and making it painful by injecting hormones).
I think the terms used in the article are confusing. The clarification is about halfway through:

The drugs used by the clinics are approved for delaying puberty in kids who start maturing too soon. The drugs' effects are reversible, and Spack said they've caused no complications in his patients. The idea is to give these children time to mature emotionally and make sure they want to proceed with a permanent sex change.

The sex reassignment doesn't happen until they are at least 16 (which is still earlier than I expected).
I suggest you try and talk to some people who actually get positive value out of Facebook for an alternate perspective. The HN audience (mostly young, nerdy white men) have always been one of the worst demographics for social networking products, and they might give you the impression that it's strictly bad for society because they don't personally derive any benefit from it. But if you step outside of that group, you will find there are actually a lot of people whose lives are enriched by social products.

Incidentally, this is why Google+ failed -- it was a social network marketed to the kind of people that hate social networking :)
Awesome! Some quick reactions:

- Wish I could upload a photo instead of taking one on the spot!

- Took me a little bit of time to get past the "what city are you in" screen (the selector was at the bottom of the page, didn't see it

- It will be cool when the memes I really liked can be easily shared

Looking forward to seeing this develop!
Current US PCR tests are set to be so sensitive that they can detect a single copy of viral RNA. This has been an under-reported fact that should be more widely known:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
Spotify has the right to choose what is on their platform.

Spotify employees have the right to voice their concerns if the company they work for is alienating them.

But I guess that's not the kind of freedom you are interested in.
Tangent but as someone who has used the word ally in the past, the opposite in my mind has not been enemy, it’s bystander.
Any application boundary that requires that you serialize your calls/requests to the other service/component in some form.

Any form of IPC basically.
I do not agree. How is that transphobic? Is the action of inviting an author motivated by irrational fear of trans people? Are the views[1] of the author irrational and based in fear of trans people?

My understanding is the author is skeptical of the rise in reported cases of gender dysphoria over time. She contends that the rise in cases is partly a result of tangential social influences that are ultimately detrimental do development of kids. Rational skepticism is not phobia.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684510317
Covid-19 impact on healthcare services and a solution
We all know that this COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted most aspects of daily life and we are slowly coming to the realization (slower for some, than others) that our new normal will be moving towards more remote choices instead of the old norm of in-person. In an effort to keep population density low-enough to avoid spreading illnesses that come from being in close proximity to others, a lot of clinics are opting for telehealth and giving more autonomy to their patients. The new guidelines for how many people can be physically present in a space has been drastically reduced, leading to fewer people seen per day; typically with higher priority given to acute concerns. This is, of course, safer from an infection control perspective. But what about from a coordination of care and patient safety perspective?

Not every patient is ready or capable of such responsibility, however. Often, these patients need to figure out how to give themselves injections at home, or navigate their medication regimen solo. When they don’t meet the requirements for home health, which can be unreasonably pricy for some easy tasks, what alternatives do they have?

There seems to be a viable new option making a name for itself, which is aiming to tackle this gap in healthcare head-on. The platform MedHelperNow lets people hire a nurse that can perform the tasks they need help with, without the middleman price of a home health or other agency. Craigslist is another venue that cuts out the middleman; however, there are concerns with safety and reliability. MedHelperNow verifies the nurses who register and allows clients to rate the nurse, as well. Their user-friendly design was built for people who don’t need the added stress of a complicated system.
Even you misunderstood that question.

It's not "how do I trust this person key", but - "how much do I trust this person to sign other people's keys ".

As in "how much do I think that other person is careful in checking other people's keys". Not judging his key, or your ability to check keys. You are judging the other person capability to check another, third person keys.

This is important for PGP "web of trust".
Have you referred to the contract? What does the contract say about these situations?
If you are hosting a PHP website, then just host it yourself. You can get cheaper and better hosting from one of the "economy" clouds like DigitalOcean or Linode, and nowadays TLS certs can be automated for free with LetsEncrypt. GoDaddy as a registrar is fine but the rest of its services are completely unnecessary today.
Yes, the eye tracking works with old games just as well as with new ones; it seems to require no software support; it just does its thing, dynamically adjusting the parallax barrier so that the left and right frames provided by the game will be seen by the correct eyes, even if those eyes are off-center, moving, or etc.
No fun for you, maybe. And I can see where you’re coming from. I often find it very fun, though, which has prevented me from porting an API to another language like Go or (gasp) Swift. Ruby gives a lot of flexibility, and in my line of work (especially with covid mitigations) there are lots of immediate change requirements; flexibility is very important. That flexibility provides the ability to shoot yourself in the foot (and I’ve surely done it), but it also allows us to pull off events that have suddenly changed with little warning. I like that.
Yikes. Posting like this will get you banned on HN, and we've already had to warn you about this multiple times. I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good comments, but please use HN as intended going forward. That means thoughtful, substantive comments, curious conversation, and no more flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, your feedback is welcome. Thank you.
Dafny attempts to do something like this for imperative-style languages, using pre- and post-conditions:

https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny
poetry, pipx, and pyenv are pretty much all you need to be happy with python project management and sandboxing. They address the issues in the article and are far more ergonomic than plain venv wrangling.
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Releases should be able to use Mix commands. You might need to adjust your mix deps to include Mix/Ecto-Migrator libraries for your build. Otherwise you can do what people use for sqlite3 migrations in Nerves [1]. Just call it via the library functions instead of via the command line like in `migrate_repo!/1`.

1: https://embedded-elixir.com/post/2017-09-22-using-ecto-and-s...
My understanding of the major libertarian groups in the US is that they side with the left on social issues like culture war, abortion, and secularism. They side with the right on economic issues like free markets. They like to make a 2D political compass to explain this difference. Insisting on placing them on an extreme on a 1D axis seems like an insistence on speaking in half-truths. At least they should be placed near the center yes. People tend to do this when they focus on narrow issues and ignore the rest. E.g. to someone who only cares about opposing gun control, a centrist who supports it is on the left in their eyes.
"trans-woman" is a made up word for men.
This is an important point - a 24oz Coke is about 250 calories, and a 1.75oz bag of Doritos is also about 250, so “making it a meal” adds an additional 500 calories on top of any sandwich.
Ah, that makes sense then. Many thanks.
WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Not only fs integration.
I get a strong feeling that the new Facebook UI was designed by people with large monitors and retina displays.

This is similar to the issue we run into with people developing software on top of the line hardware. Just because it works great on your souped up development environment doesn't mean it's going to work decently on budget hardware.

For something like a game, it's reasonable to expect people to have good hardware. Social networks should be targeting the bottom end of the market. But it becomes increasingly clear that they aren't.
> On the other hand, it is entirely possible that Russia will hold off vaccinating its general population until it has received favourable results from the phase 3 trial. In which case, the announcement of the approval of Sputnik V might amount to a political gesture, rather than a serious attempt to circumvent the standard process of vaccine development.

Yes, it really was mostly a political gesture. General inoculation isn't planned for until Jan 1st, 2021.
I’ve only listened to a few of Joe’s interviews but I really disagree that he pushes back often at all.

He kind of seems like a golden retriever, eager to agree and please and genuinely non judgemental about the majority of his guests’ opinions.

It makes for great conversations, and also a great platform for shitty people.
I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but Cloudflare has as domain registry service too. They claim to not charge any markup and you pay what they have to pay.

They wrote a blog about their bad experiences with registrars in 2016 (I guess). Since then they have steadily worked to make it a reality.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

When I checked last, it was not possible to buy a domain at Cloudflare, but you could buy it at other providers and transfer to Cloudflare. It might also be possible to buy directly now.

All my domains are transferred to Cloudflare. Their UX is dope. It's like Apple vs Windows. Also since I use CF for DNS and Cache, it makes sense to let CF manage the domain too.
Same concept, different sexes. I’m the husband, and marriage was not equal. I was a second class citizen in our house, and now I won’t be.
Could it? Yes.
Is studying to become such a profession something valued by the culture at large? Not really.

STEM generally in America is seen as something for dweebs and nerds to do. At least within the last two decades the really smart math types have been busying with legalized gambling on the stockmarket. A comparison of salaries, free time and quality of life after work, and other life metrics would probably lead many to consider other fields of work.
> What happened to freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, freedom to choose.

Most people are petty and simple-minded, only supporting liberal principles like individual rights and protection of diverse views from the cultural powers-that-be when 1) their side is the one that needs protecting or 2) they blindly absorb the prevailing wisdom, which happens to be liberal in some lucky eras (usually prosperous and optimistic ones).

As much as both sides of the political spectrum like to fling "you started it" back and forth, the reason we're seeing the same decline in basic liberal values across the spectrum is that liberalism-as-civic-religion is in retrenchment for complicated structural reasons, and most people aren't remotely capable of understanding what a principle is, let alone holding one.

As always, the ultimate victims of illiberal lurches in norms will be the marginalized.
What I'd like (I don't know how possible) is being able to define ufunc(-likes) without resorting to C extensions. Obviously won't be as fast, but some benefit should be possible?
Picasso as the Earliest Instagram Influencer
Wouldn't it be great if the CDC was able to share this type of information in this type of format that might actually be comprehensible to the general public.
Julia interop with Python is insanely easy.

using PyCall

np = pyimport("numpy")

res = np.fft.fft(rand(ComplexF64, 10))

You just called numpy fft from Julia.
You're correct. Almost everyone can efficiently categorize things they disagree with as "politics", while categorizing things they agree with as "common sense".
Momentum Builds for Advanced Packaging
I use Hover for the past 10 years. Clean UI with no ads or up sell. Free whois privacy is really nice. Only contacted support once and was positive experience.
Timeline KDE 20 Years
Will advanced packaging save Moore's Law? Yes and No.
"Vice reported", "Vice said"... link the original article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8jq4/spotify-joe-rogan-...
I have 2 Q's

1. As in video on background removal , why was the chair not blurred and because generally in background removal only the person is visible and all rest are blurred, how is it working?

2. How Background Noise removal works, i mean how it is so smoothly removing background noise.How it is able to distinguish which is the primary and secondary,i know it's AI but still want to know the logic and basic understanding.Thanks
to be fair, the Julia citation is sort of a token sentence in the discussion section.

> New generation languages, interpreters and compilers, such as Rust [55], Julia [56] and LLVM [57], will create new concepts and data structures, and determine their viability.

I don't disagree with the statement, but there's not a lot of meat there either.
Covid impact on music consumption on Spotify
If your signal levels are poor enough that 4G is slow, 5G isnt going to help unless you happen to be extremely close to a mmWave access point with nothing but air in between it and your phone.
They have every right but they have an opportunity to avoid cancel culture and cash in on the most popular pod cast ever produced.

Joe Rogan is popular with the masses, very popular. This tells me his views are probably mainstream. Mainstream enough to make a lot of money out of without worrying about backlash.
> I'm honestly insulted

Sorry you feel that way.

> "a few technical skills for teenagers"

Oh OK, yes STEM (for the most part) is pretty good. Now there are valid criticisms of the way it is done (much of the best criticism coming from within STEM schools) but nothing is perfect.

> Yes, there are some soft degrees out there

More than a few (https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates/), and if you break it down by course I think you'll find that a lot of the most common courses are also pretty soft.

To be clear, I'm not complaining about the technical courses (some of which can be very good), almost every sane person trusts scientists on questions about science. It's that once you step outside the stuff that makes clear, empirical predictions a lot of it is pretty soft and always has been (since fields which don't make predictions are never wrong so they never really learn anything).
If you are a Muslim or Christian working at Spotify and Rogan hosts Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins or (Hypothetically) Christopher Hitchens, who come on the show and proceed to lambast the beliefs held by people of these religions, is Spotify expected to seriously entertain this protest and take down the episodes?

Frankly I see zero difference between this and what is happening here. It is a protest against blasphemy.

If this is truly not a religious topic but a scientific one, then what is the harm in a qualified person coming on the show and presenting some facts and drawing conclusions?

Why not offer to go on the show, bring these people back on and challenge their position? Rebut all of the points and present the flaws and reasons why that conclusion is incorrect. That is part of the scientific method.

Or has western society reached a stage where the goal is to deplatform the positions that don't align with one's own, instead of debating them and prevailing through argument? Why is it that so often the first course of action is to censor and deplatform?

There seems to be far too much dogma in the discourse. Furthermore small fringe groups are claiming to speak on behalf of their entire identity group. This too is extremely bigoted. Not everyone in the same identity group believes the same things.
Yes. Autocorrect strikes again.
Interesting, is the list of censored episodes available anywhere?
Perl's startup time is pretty good.