skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Singling out sexuality on this particular front is patently perfidious.

Perfidious it may be, but the question of innateness has very real policy effects. The best comparison is probably religion. Parents are allowed to send their children to religion camps. Should they be allowed to send their children to conversion therapy camps? Perhaps therapy is too coercive, but what about something less coercive, but more effective?

If it is innate then conversion therapy can be easily banned on grounds of inefficacy and therefore active harm. If sexual orientation is entirely mutable then the question shifts altogether.

> I think it's more likely that "value" is an inapt word

I very intentionally chose "value" because I think many members of the homosexual community value homosexuality in the same way that I think many members of the heterosexual community value heterosexuality. This is the whole point of why "pride" is more than just a simple slogan.

Indeed I think even the very act of calling "singling out sexuality to be perfidious" demonstrates just how much value it holds for people. If it were as simple as whether one liked broccoli or not, why would anyone ever care?

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I think an illuminating example is the Deaf community's attitude towards cochlear implants, where large swaths of the community actively reject cochlear implants and value their own Deafness as an intrinsic attribute to be celebrated on its own. Indeed among members of that community there is a tendency to try to value Deafness as an immutable attribute and to shun attempts to make it mutable (it is extremely controversial for parents to outfit children with cochlear implants, even were these cochlear implants to perfectly replicate normal hearing and for people born Deaf segments of the community view it as a sort of betrayal for them to attempt to use cochlear implants).

The question of mutability remains an important one that has many implications.
I really think you need to read the article before you comment any further.

Mr Andreesen doesn't need anyone's benefit of doubt, because he didn't say what Ms Lorenz claimed. And even if he did, the use of the word "retard" was entirely appropriate in its descriptive context in that discussion. There is no reason to assume anything besides good faith on the part of the lady who actually did use the word.

Taylor Lorenz, on the other hand, was caught in a lie. Not a little lie, mind you, but a loud, public slander. When caught, she responded not with an apology, but rather another lie, some sanctimonious excuses, and then she ran and hid. Ms. Lorenz has given us no reason to assume good faith on her part here.
International wire transfers take days! That's why there are services like PayPal or Visa. And nothing prevents them to eventually offer their services backed by crypto in the future.
Everything about that story smelled like an OP. That's irrelevant though. If Russian intelligence planted the story in the media but it was substantiated, it would still be newsworthy. As it stands, the story is completely unsubstantiated. So Greenwald trying to treat a fact-free rumor as critical to his reporting is pretty shitty journalism and he really didn't appreciate being called out on it.
Wikimedia's infrastructure is radically different than most FAANG.

In large part because 99% (+/-) of their traffic is read only. While Facebook and Google have to do heavy workloads for every click and action taken on their services, Wikimedia can cache basically everything. Allowing them to operate on a tiny fraction of the number of machines (and infrastructure) that the rest of the players do.
For all we know, this is the 100th such attack on US infrastructure and this is just the first one reported in recent memory.

A successful attack is much less likely to be made public, for obvious reasons. We may have suffered from successful attacks and not know it (small enough concentrations of contaminants can’t be tasted)

Install water filters, HN. Use them. We have AquaSana under-the-sink in several locations through the house... no pitchers. Whole-house filters do not filter nearly the same variety of crap that under-the-sink and PUR pitchers do. Say no to Brita. Learn your NSF ratings and choose wisely.

You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.
The common theme in popular programming languages. Start simple and gradually add complexity until matches C++/Java, then gradually lose appeal.

Common Lisp with MOP seems to be in better place. It seems complex at first, but that's all there is. Users can grow the language to match their need. No need for language steering councils.
Possibility and linked in a couple places. They found examples
To reiterate what the parent said:

1. Sell to other companies for USD

2. Trade USD for cryptocurrency
Having seen Matlab code that's been exported to C, it's mostly bloated by static arrays, and there's quite a lot of redundant functions. So maybe the LOC count is from a C export?
No, because the images for those are stored by WhatsApp, not hotlinked from Wikimedia.
what does potential Tesla-based mining have to do with plowing a ton of cash into Bitcoin right now?
Sure, it's collateralized by ethereum - the problem with that of course is that ethereum is a completely manipulated price driven up by billions in falsely collateralized tether.

So effectively, you've linked DAI to the value of a coin that is set by tether. That being the case, the actual value of the collateral is in question.

That's why I replied that way.
If we actually want to prevent global warming, we will need a way to remove co2 already up there.

To be clear, I'm agreeing that this is an important and neglected area of climate research.
Same here dude. Was sad when it turned out NOT to be the yellow flower!
Companies who are feeding 2k+ machines to run their web servers care about cost savings. Hundreds of billions of requests/day, not millions. The database systems to handle that load, networking, power, bandwidth and all the people who maintain it.
Yeah, I didn't use the term, but I mainly meant "people management". Bluntly, people are not a core strength of mine...
With the amount of traffic its apparently getting, HN probably won't make a big impact. Plus, most of us aren't in India, and most of us have normal user agents.
Nearly All Telehealth Appointments for Lower-Income Americans Were Audio-Only
Saw a story recently that Indians were bringing down the internet because of sending good morning messages: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-beca...

I'd bet that this is the flower of the week for them.
Yeah that's true, I mean I use gulp for browser extension builds, as there's a few random tasks (img compression, copying files, babel) that need to be done in order to build cross platform. Would be a pain in webpack.

My example: https://github.com/benwinding/newsit/blob/master/gulpfile.js
Good luck doing that with Amazon. You have to have a physical headquarters somewhere, and moving it out of the country has its own costs such as import taxes.

I don't know why everyone is so insistent that moving is the only possible result of laws like this. Fortunately taxes do work, or we wouldn't have anything resembling the infrastructure we have in modern Western society. Taxes are a technology like any other.
A much better example of counter-intuitive evolution, one that's literally textbook, is sickle-cell anaemia. It's a genetic disease (bad) that offers protection against malaria (good), so it's more common in areas where malaria is a fatal problem for significant numbers of people. This illustrates the principle that genes do more than one thing, and can be simultaneously adaptive and maladaptive at the same time. As a hypothetical example, maybe the same genes that make a man fractionally more likely to be gay could protect his sister from ovarian cancer or stop him going bald.
I just want to point out that if you toggle the night-mode switch at the top right of this blog, it doesn't do what you think it would do.
Call them. Someone may be willing to listen.
One of the perfect example of many toxic comment of entitled users...
TMSU: A tool for tagging your files
The Evolution of PyTorch Lightning
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You’re welcome. Appreciate the reply, I endeavor to be helpful.
Not only social pressure. It’s a fact that some homosexual people do want to procreate.
You might enjoy the husband and wife team behind https://monome.org/about/
Photosensitive Epilepsy
My grandad raised German shepherds as police dogs. When my father was a boy one of the adolescent dogs nipped his face.

Dad tells me that when he yelled out my grandad calmly grabbed the dogs collar, walked it around the back of the barn out of the way.

My dad, recovered from the shock and not badly injured just a scratch was on his way to the barn to tell his dad that all was okay and not to be too hard on the dog when BOOM shotgun blast rang out from that direction.

Different times and a story that shocked dog loving me - but in general dogs have had that drastic selection pressure from many thousands of generations.

Gorillas not so much.
It sure is! Roboflow builds tools that enable any developer to use computer vision without having to become a machine learning expert. (Kind of like how you don't have to become a cryptography expert to add auth & accept payments in your app.)
Does anyone know what his position was? Probably vertical put spreads, credit or debit could’ve resulted in this situation.

Short put vertical: Underlying is at 392, sell 200 390P, buy 20 389P. Underlying moves to 387, counterparty exercises 20 ITM puts, now you’re long 2,000 shares at 390, you exercise your ITM 389P and sell 2,000 shares at 389 for a net $2,000 loss.

Long put vertical: Underlying at 392, buy 20 390P, sell 20 389P. Underlying moves to 387, counterparty exercises 20 ITM puts, now you’re long 2,000 shares at 389, you exercise your ITM 390P and sell 2,000 shares at 390 for a $2,000 net gain.

Either one of these would’ve shown a negative $780,000 balance when the early exercise happened, poor kid didn’t know it was recoverable.
> RH is over here (wrongfully) telling people they're down almost a million dollars and then sending them to voicemail.

Perhaps they're hoping to be the Google of the finance industry /s
It's interesting that pattern matching has been accepted despite a poll showing a majority (65%) of core developers opposed to this particular proposal, and a plurality (44%) opposed to pattern matching altogether.

https://discuss.python.org/t/gauging-sentiment-on-pattern-ma...
The irony is that this piece is, to use Glenn’s words, “penny-ante, trivial bullshit”.

Again, it’s a 3,000 word polemic rant in response to… a mistaken allegation in a tweet. It’s not speaking truth to power. It’s not shedding light on corruption. It’s just Glenn up on his high horse, spewing the same boring right-wing outragebait that he’s peddled for years.
It works on hover for me. The orange text is hard to read against that background, though.
Nobody expects the board of directors to influence the technical work being done. The skepticism is about decisions that have political consequences.

This [1] was from the keynote of the latest RustConf. While there's surely plenty of good the Rust project will manage to do regardless of these decisions, I can't help but think there's a small disconnect between "owning" the political role of Rust, and then surrendering half the board to the usual suspects.

[1] https://youtu.be/IwPRu5FhfIQ?t=1659
I guess this was true when we were still practicing slavery? The owner would be held strictly liable for slave inflicted attacks, so humans would be wild animals by that definition.
Fascinating! To me this sounds like the mother's body is trying to "nudge" the odds towards a daughter after several sons, but sometimes the process "fails" and produces an effeminate male instead - a gay son.

Alternatively, some kind of meta-level mechanism to reduce competition over women in the community, ultimately improving its collective health and well-being.
> the work put into the network is exactly the scarce digital asset

Not even a little. The scarce digital asset is the slot on the distributed ledger. That you currently need a load of energy to reassign digital ledger slots is an accident of history - because it was the first way that anyone worked out how to run a secure distributed database across mutually distrusting nodes where you don't need to know the participants in advance.

The work is not the scarce asset. If you doubt this, consider: the 'work' required to mine a block (and so 'create' the block reward) changes based on how much hash power the network has, and varies quite substantially between the early blocks and now, yet the bitcoins mined then are worth the same as bitcoins mined now. If lots of miners stop mining BTC, then the amount of work required to mine the next blocks will reduce, yet the bitcoins created with the lower work requirement will be worth exactly the same as bitcoins created with higher work requirements.

Obviously, in a PoW blockchain, the work is extremely important, since a PoW blockchain can't remain secure without significantly more work being done by the network than an adversary can marshal to attack the network, but that's an entirely separate thing.

You can take a valuable painting, burn it down to ash and use the ash to make ink to do a stick figure drawing. The stick figure drawing doesn't magically become 'a store of value' because you destroyed a valuable painting to make it.
You're right, it was all made up. Greenwald is wrong, and a bad person. Hunter is misunderstood and a good boy. I will do better to avoid believing Russian propaganda that serves to undermine our glorious leaders.
Allegedly he had a trade set up with multiple legs. He wrote some puts and bought some mostly-offsetting puts. He got assigned on the puts he wrote, but the profit from the other leg of the trade didn’t show up in his account until the next business day.
Taxes work, too much taxes don't. This is getting into the "too much" territory.

I'm very sure that any country a billionaire like this would choose would not have import taxes, or that exception could be made for the privilege of having him.
Well if you look at the Open Source Landscape today it is dominated by Library's, frameworks, and Dev Tools used to create commercial software. this is largely non-copy left code that users of the end products that contain this "open source" can not access the code of the larger system and often times are not even aware of the open source code that is in the system they are using..

This would be in violation of Free Software Core Freedoms [2]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I guess it just means we have a fairly good idea of what will set them off, and can prevent that.
> Common Lisp would greatly benefit from programmers obsessed with making the language more useful to themselves and others today.

It's never going to happen.

Lispers were saying this same tune back when I last was using Common Lisp in 2003.

Even back then there were better Lisps than Lisp. Perl is a better Lisp than Lisp. Perl gave the world CPAN and, I believe, the first real mainstream usage of a garbage collector (this is before Java and JavaScript, which I guess one could argue were more mainstream but possibly only due to the fact the internet was a much smaller place compared to today).

Since then we've gone through PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript (ES6/node), Clojure, Scala, C#, and many other languages slightly off my radar (Rust, Go, Swift, Kotlin, etc.). There is simply no niche Common Lisp could occupy today.

The last standard for Common Lisp is ANSI Common Lisp that came out in 1994. With no new movement in modernizing the language, there is simply no point. It's dead, and the effort isn't worth it. Why modernize a crufty Lisp when there is Clojure? Or many other Lisp-ish languages. There is even R6RS/R7RS Scheme today.

> First, I wish Common Lisp implementations put in work so that they could play nice with other programming languages.

Same song, 20 years later. I remember painfully hacking together "alien" calls (CMUCL's foreign function interface) to use Gtk+. Yes. There really were no Common Lisp bindings for the most popular open source GUI toolkit in 2003 during the era that is probably Common Lisp last great chance at making it out alive. CL was going through a resurgence period and you still couldn't get Lisp to talk to anything. My god, it sucked. And their only documentation was HyperSpec.

If anyone is not aware of HyperSpec, I implore you to Google it now and see what the state of Common Lisp was around 2001-2005. I have nothing against Kent Pitman. But the HyperSpec was not doing Lisp any favors.

The other thing that burned Lisp was everything was a secret society. HyperSpec was free-ish. Sort of. But not really. It was not a community document. If you were just getting in to Lisp it was already recommended to get the proprietary Allegro Lisp or LispWorks. CLISP and CMUCL where the only open source game in town and they weren't receiving much love. Even SBCL was not going anywhere fast. A good segment of the old Common Lispers were against open source at the precise time they needed to embrace open source. They were stuck in a proprietary world.

I could go on, but I'm going to end this rant here.

I suspect I'm not alone in being burned by Common Lisp.
What does gafa mean in this context?

Edit: words
Here in Sweden, there is a legal practice that you can't find someone guilty based on DNA evidence alone. Probabilistic evidence is nice to point law enforcement in a direction, but there is always a risk of false positives.

In this case we are also dealing with probabilistic genotyping involving DNA Mixtures with DNA from several individual contributors, and most likely degraded DNA. It is the tool the police can use when other more traditional methods is not possible because of the mixture. That should mean the qualitative value of the DNA evidence is lower, requiring even stronger additional evidence from other sources.
It doesn't work that way for sexuality. Sure, you can grow attached to people close to you, even in arranged marriages. But your core circuit of which gender you like remains unaltered by it.

As for having no choice over, idk, beer vs wine, you can certainly live on beer your entire life even if you (continue to) prefer wine. But will it make you happy? Should a society of beer drinkers force it upon wine drinkers? Note that a partner is a core part of our lives, far more than which liquid you drink.
>When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power. If she doesn't optimize for the second, she gets replaced as CDC Director by someone who does. That means she's trying to solve a harder problem than Zvi is, and it makes sense that sometimes, despite having more resources than Zvi, she does worse at it.

>...

>I realize it doesn't sound like it, but I'm trying to excuse the CDC here. I'm not just saying they're corrupt. I'm saying they have to deal with the inevitable amount of corruption which it takes to be part of a democratic government, and they're handling it as well as they can under the circumstances.

>...

>Dr. Fauci (and WebMD) are legibly good (or at least legibly okay). They sit on a giant golden throne, with a giant neon arrow pointing to them saying "TRUST THIS GUY". If a random shmuck who doesn't know anything about anything Googles "who should I trust about COVID?", Google will return Dr. Fauci's name. This is a position of great power; Dr. Fauci is able to make decisions that will affect billions of dollars in wealth, Senate seats, Twitter likes, and other extremely valuable resources. Thousands of people who would prefer that they get the dollars and seats and likes will be gunning for him. In order to stay on that throne, Dr. Fauci will need to get and keep lots of powerful allies (plus be the sort of person who thinks in terms of how to get allies rather than being minimaxed for COVID-prediction).

Quotes from https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-.... I think it's a good read overall, maybe a bit long for some. I share your concerns for apparent bad public policy. Having a government that messes things up and then patronizingly dodges all criticism while lapping up unearned praise (looking at you Cuomo) is frustrating and makes people lose faith in experts and "the system". The general social and media environment we live in today is definitely not helping.
Seems they may be experimenting with training models too:

https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2019/05/21/machine-learning-messa...
how far down the list did you have to go to find the first legit winner?
I misunderstood what you meant, but this argument still seems specious.

The people currently employed by the financial industry would not cease to exist if the financial industry did not need as many employees, they would find jobs elsewhere. The downstream effects of what people spend their wages on isn't part of the the actual impact of the industry they work for.
I second ory, that's pretty much a solved problem in my book.

Fast self contained binaries, easy to interface with Kubernetes.

Adding some UI around them and managing them via api is nice enough.

The only incognita is whether they're going to handle scaling (I hope I'll have this problem one day).

Hydra is for OpenId though, I'd point to Kratos + Oathkeeper.
A permanent redirect to a non-image page (owned by Wikimedia) may achieve the same thing. Either the calling system can't support a HTML response, or it's a webview in which case you could either report an error or provide a notice. Maybe even ask for donations :)
This is actually a very good point in contrast to many other "hater" arguments here. But isn't it partly self-regulating? I mean transaction consts are getting higher so it is becoming impractical to transfer small amounts often, that should reduce the total transaction numbers, maybe? The other thing is that people waste energy and produce CO2 in many other areas - stock market trading consumes energy too, so does excessive traveling, world-wide shipping, playing games on your GPU instead of watching movies, etc. But it is still a good argument, IMO.
Are we to believe harvard CS grads are better than other CS grads?
gorilla and mirror videos are a trip. (or the leopard + elephants and mirror)
It isn't a corporation tax, it's a personal wealth tax on non-tangible financial assets. He doesn't need to move his HQ, just himself. I'm pretty sure he can find a U-Haul for under 2 billion dollars, and according to the article, the State of Washington apparently believes he, or some others like him, will.
Trying to hold my 15kg toddler when he goes crazy has given me a fairly good idea of what that would be like.
So with the weight of contrary scientific evidence, the people still don't believe the water is safe? This sounds like the same arguments about climate change and election fraud that get dismissed out of hand.
Are there some resources for exploring this topic further on the JVM? (In particular without having access to Erlang’s supervisor trees)
Remote Desktop was exactly the mechanism here, the attacker used TeamViewer to work the UI on a plant operator’s desktop and he happened to be watching.