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> The big question that this viewpoint misses is what to do with fears that certain things "turn people gay"

I think "the big question" some people still have is whether being gay is perfectly fine or not. If it is, then that question of things "turning people gay" is not so important. It's like asking if watching the Simpsons will make people like the Simpsons. Well yeah, it might, but there's nothing wrong with liking the Simpsons, so what's the problem?

Put into other words: thinking that having more gay people is a problem depends on thinking that being gay is problem in the first place, and that is the primary issue.

> and the flip side of that fear: that the straight community might use successful conversion therapy to eliminate the gay community.

Nobody will bat an eye if someone discovers they are straight after thinking they were gay. I don't know, maybe they saw one of the million heteronormative movies that are constantly produced and it somehow clicked on them; whatever, it's fine.

What is objectionable though, is to try to force someone into a given sexuality, instead of letting them be and discover their sexuality in their own terms.
Practice quickly gets you past that point. You read Lisp by looking at the indentation. You write Lisp using tools that modify the code structurally, rather than on a character-by-character basis.
I find it interesting that while this image in itself is flat, every dot that is there represents light from a different time. Some millions of years old to some probably billions of years old.
The Kellogg Bowl: 2021 Super Bowl Ad Review
For Americans who stopped following the Flint water crisis after its first few gritty chapters, it might come as a surprise how far the city has come: Today, after nearly $400 million in state and federal spending, Flint has secured a clean water source, distributed filters to all residents who want them, and laid modern, safe copper pipes to nearly every home in the city that needed them. Its water is as good as any city’s in Michigan.

Sounds like they did a great job fixing it.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/23/flint-wate...
Just speculating about this strange event...

I wonder if this is related with the fact that COVID-19 can be released in human faeces.

Maybe the real purpose of the hacker was trying to sterilize the pipes instead to poison somebody?. Maybe trying to force everybody their own version of the chlorine dioxide myth after losing some relative?.

Nobody knows
>All that's required for a trait to persist is that it benefits the pool.

Or that it's less bad than whatever beneficial trait it's coupled to.

Humans consume a lot of water in order to shed heat. Our backs are pretty f-d up. Our brains waste a lot of energy and require a very long childhood. But on the flip side we're basically terminator compared to the African fauna our primitive ancestors hunted.
I never said Stadia would be better than local when it comes to latency, though I wouldn't blame you for assuming that's what I meant. Latency will be increased.

An argument I was trying to make is that for other reasons, and for a lot of games, Stadia is better than local when you take the entire experience into account. Cyberpunk 2077 is a great example of where the overall experience is subjectively better. My RTX 3070 based system renders the game and its bugs beautifully, far better than Stadia does. But is that $4500-worth of eye candy worth it compared to the $0.00-worth of totally acceptable Stadia? Lag-wise, I don't notice a difference.

I prefer playing the game on Stadia now because it's just so simple. I can use a controller or mouse and keyboard with my iPad and play from anywhere in my house. And not just my house - I've played it over a LTE connections several times without issue.

As far as latency goes - people tend to get hung up network latency when it's only a small part of the latency story. Granted, at 100ms, it becomes a bigger part of the story, but people either don't know about, or forget, that there's more:

There's peripheral latency, "system" latency (which includes CPU, render queue, and GPU), then display latency for single player games.

Stadia, or any streaming service, adds network latency. For me, with a pretty normal American internet connection provided by a craptastic provider (because it's the only choice I have), it works great.

For what it's worth, I've also played with some of the "local" streaming tech. No joke, Stadia performs better than streaming using Steam's local streaming app, by a long shot. There's the iPad app (the name escapes me at the moment) that lets me stream my XBox to the iPad, and it's better, but still way worst than Stadia.
>The argument was never about whether a story like that was news worthy or not.

That's an interesting take. Articles and mentions were suppressed near IMMEDIATELY on Facebook and Twitter followed by waves of accounts bannings. Mandarins of the US security apparatus (some of which who draw compensation from media companies) were waltzed out to claim it was Russian disinformation (lol).
Never forget "the cloud" is someone else's computer. Especially if you're using a free-tier service.

On a practical level at least backup your email with Thunderbird and your Google Drive with Syncdocs.
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> It is weird how resolutions are the focus in streaming when the most important thing is bitrate

Yep. I see a good example of this when I watch gameplay videos on Youtube in the highest available 1080p bitrate, and regularly see results that look far worse than playing the game in 720p, maybe even 480p. For example, it's obviously very common to pan the camera through a high-detail scene, which is trivial for a GPU to do, but incredibly information dense for a video encoder. So anything with a lot of detail blurs (in a very ugly way, not like motion blur) when there's movement.

And Youtube has the advantage that the video has as much time to record as Youtube will allow it, it doesn't need to be done with low-latency settings as Stadia does.

Of course, cable TV is even worse, but ordinary consumers don't seem to have noticed or cared about that either.
Genetic, immutable, etc, I see absolutely no advantage in how we define the basic concept. There are all sorts of things that are immutable that we don't accept as a society, so saying sexual orientation is immutable solves absolutely nothing. There has long been an argument that pedophiles are "born that way" but it is certainly not going to help advance the acceptance of pedophiles in society. The immutability argument solves absolutely nothing, so maybe that pesky horrible ethnocentric Western idea isn't so bad.
Probably not. Take for example reindeer herding by Sami people, it's usually said that those animals are half domesticated, so you shouldn't draw a line like that.
Mandatory watch: Gigapixels of Andromeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

With sound.
We see that on HN too, where people who have been banned/hellbanned with ample warning are often complaining that it's because "hackernews groupthink" but when you look back at their comment history they call someone some redpilly insult in every comment they've ever made on the website.
It tells you that at the top of the page. Well, ok, it tells you the total number of people waiting. Subtract your queue position from that number and you have the number of people behind you.
20% of Wikimedia traffic used for an image of a flower
As I mentioned below, the way to get good answers here is to contact them directly; nobody from the foundation is in this thread.
True, I still remember that one night: "Time does not exist".

I literally felt it, lived it, it still bugs me after many years.
https://next-season-of.com/the-witcher/ There is no season 2 yet so there is something wrong with the source your extracting from.
It’s even better when they claim shady moderator censorship for user flags.
The Art of the Cover Letter
Google One, which costs 2$ a month, as far as I can tell provides you with some level of support, which is definitely more than zero.
Maybe not strictly software, although it's clear that the range of what's possible to do in software is only getting wider. It still doesn't preclude from involving people, and improving the quality of service.
Paul, its such an honor to see your reply here! I'm a big fan of your work and your Flow-Based Programming book. It was one of the most important inspirations to what I'm doing in my life now (Enso: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4oMK7cL1ElfNR_OhS-YQAw). I truly love the arguments that you use there and how you describe how visual programming can unlock the communication between users of different backgrounds (business people, developers, etc).

To be honest, I was thinking about contacting you, Paul, for a long time already, however, I always felt like we are not yet in the stage of the development to bother you. Right now, when we are very close to Enso 2.0 public release, I would truly love to spend an hour with you on a call – I'll write an email to you about it and I hope you'll agree to chat with us! :)
Nuclear reactions and chemical formulas are technically tangible.
Matlab has had classes (both types!) for ages. The unit-testing stuff dates back to at least 2013, and there were toolboxes to do similar things even before that.

The language certainly has some warts, but IMO, the bigger problem is that it's usually learned/used in contexts that focus on code quality: the goal is the resulting number or plot rather than the software that generates them.
> What is wrong with polygamy?

Fundamentally in the modern era? It disrupts our tax codes.
Many hiring managers read your CV for the first time during the interview.
What if you started blogging in 2000? Or even in 2005, when git and Markdown existed, but were still not popular? Would you say... HTML and subversion/CVS is appropriate for long-term blog storage?
I think the answer as to why Optane consumer SSDs were killed off is fairly clear.

They were 5 or 6 times the price per gigabyte as NAND based SSDs and didn't offer more performance in most consumer applications. The SOHO community didn't like them all that much either because the consumer Optane SSDs lacked most of the low queue depth performance that the enterprise disks are known for. Most consumers are also replacing their SSDs long before they actually wear out, so the extreme durability of Optane is kind of moot there.

It's a fantastic enterprise product, but I don't think most consumers are really getting any extra value out of them over NAND at this point. The only guy I knew who bought one wanted to put their Gentoo build directory (/var/tmp/portage) on it.
I did offer $500k though, not $50k :).

And while I don't think you personally will sell out like this, I wanted to highlight that a) it's easy to make such an offer sounding legit enough (particularly to developers with little experience with the world at large), and b) an Authenticator app is a perfectly valid target for such offer. I'd even say it's more lucrative target than most.
it does. it covers the whole planet.
Only took, what, 6 years? And still nobody has been held accountable?
NVRAM then?
>terrible enough to want to "cure" homosexuality or detect it before birth

Curious, why do you think that this is a terrible thing? I see that there are two parts to this. As for wanting to "cure" homosexuality, if a gay person consents, is this such a bad thing? I believe that forcing such a conversion on anyone (straight to gay or gay to straight) is not right, but if a person wants to change their sexuality, and we have the technical means to do it, should we not allow them to?

And as for detecting homosexuality before birth (and presumably either "correcting" it or aborting the baby), I'm curious as to your views on "designer babies", as this seems similar to me. Would you compare changing the sexuality of one's child to changing that child's eye color, or do you think it's a different matter? And say a mother would only want her child to be heterosexual, and could do this before birth without any harm or changes otherwise to the offspring. What would you think about that scenario? Is the mother within her rights (morally, or otherwise), and what might you say to her?

Interesting topic, curious as to your (or anyone else's, for that matter) thoughts.
Idk, I think he supported that claim pretty well
How that number was probably arrived at...

PHB: Hey, how many lines of code do we have?
CodeMonkey: You want a high estimate or a low estimate?
PHB: High
CodeMonkey: Well, including unit tests, comments, whitespace, build scripts, integration test harness... 170k

At least I hope they have enough testing code to be signficant...
> The maker of the software, Cybergenetics, has insisted in lower court proceedings that the program's source code is a trade secret.

Should this be, in general, a disqualifying condition when something is to be used as evidence?
It’s not just as true for bitcoin; bitcoin doesn’t have an army of employees to make your transactions go through.
Laughs in autocoded control systems
With many corporations to follow
Is there any context on what attempts have been made by this developer to reach Google and what the results have been? The tweet provides very little context other than the fact that it's been 3 weeks. What paths did they take to contact Google? Did they receive any answers?
Source on that 90%?
TeXmacs is an impressive project spanning several decades:

https://www.texmacs.org

It uses Guile as its scripting language and documents created within TeXmacs are represented as Scheme programs.

In addition to providing a LaTeX-quality WYSIWYG editor experience for scientific documents, TeXmacs can also be used as a computer algebra front-end for packages like Mathics, which provides an open-source implementation of the Wolfram programming language used in Mathematica:

https://mathics.org/
>The actual solution to your quandary is to require that forensic analysis services must pass an annual, independent, double-blind analysis of the accuracy of their methods, before they are used in a courtroom - and that the results of those audits are made available to the defense.

Agreed! But if that's the standard, it still doesn't involve letting the defendant see the source code.
How can you perceive not-randomness on such a massive scale? I totally get that some parts might not look evenly distributed, but randomly... it's just too vast :)
A chimpanzee is already hard to control. I cannot imagine having a gorilla around.

An angry chimpanzee can completely disfigure you in an instant. A gorilla is even more powerful than that.

People underestimate how strong apes are.

https://youtu.be/_9L7MugvoIE
> Stuxnet

Yeah, and even the best security practices aren't going to work too well if someone drops a nuke on your facility.

Stuxnet was an extraordinarily sophisticated attack well beyond what a typical industrial system will need to protect against, or even be able to protect against. It's not really in the same league as anyone being able to just remote in and change settings, and while it's realistic to expect a bloke called Steve who runs the computers at the water processing plant to prevent someone just remoting in willy-nilly, it's not as realistic to expect him to defend against two nation-states working together explicitly targeting that facility.
Robinhood sued by family of 20-year old trader who committed suicide
Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast
Show HN: An implementation of Common Lisp condition system in plain Java
Updated: severely caustic. Could have done a lot of damage and inner burns to a lot of people if not disclosed. Basically the same as making people to drink bleach. Why everybody wants people to drink bleach lately?

Seems more like either terrorism or, being charitable, an excuse to cleaning pipes after a leak of waste water inside the water supply. If the first case, I bet that some Qanon loony will upload the event in video to internet. If the second case the actor would be (probably) close to who discovered it.
so exclusive the site threw 500's trying to get in line!
> 100 -> 11100

I find it slightly amusing that it looks like the hacker just added two 1's to the front of a text box, rather than chose a specific value
I fully agree that the visual environment should arrange the newly created graph nodes in a nice way automatically. In the Enso 2.0 version we have a very early support implemented exactly for that. However, there is a lot to be done yet to have it working fluently in the case of bigger and complex graphs. It is a fascinating research topic for me, TBH.

Thank you for nice words! <3
The Other Other Other White meat?
35 Years of Pixar Moments [video]
A segment of society. Other segments of society don't care. "Society" is not a homogenous blob, it's just 7 billion individuals.
yes they are people like us, and people always wanted to be happy. sticking to idealism wouldn't guarantee you to be happy.

But how about money, I'm sure everyone would happy if they have a lot of money, right? and, how about power? I have a big company and people can't get away from it, sure I'm happy with that. this what i think
I’ve recently customized django-allauth to perform all modern expected user flows and it is actually a lot of work.

Allauth itself is opinionated, and some things were built based on expectations that are not reflective of today’s web apps.

It can be done but the lift is much bigger than one might think.

I also think one of the most important parts of django is user/auth.

Seeing FastAPI and modern frontends continually advance, and now this user management service, I’d suggest that Django is getting unbundled.

The missing part to me seems to be a stand alone ORM and something to replace traditional view/templates so existing django devs could onboard easier. Maybe these already exist or are in development?

I really like Django, but I do feel like there has been too much emphasis on stability and not enough experimentation to integrate API and modern frontend work into core.

I think some of this has to do with how unstable django was in its earlier days. Sort of a ptsd from that.

However, what has been forgotten is that it also allowed the project to handle changing developer needs and take market share from Drupal and others.

The best example I have seen of this problem is in the ecommerce package, Solear.

If you listen to the project founders in the the 4/2019 Python podcast, “Building Scalable Ecommerxe Sites on Saleor” you can hear the use case of the project falling away as modern frontend is coming into focus. [1]

The challenge is that was two years ago.

I actually see this as a problem for Python even beyond Django.

[1] https://www.pythonpodcast.com/saleor-ecommerce-episode-205/
>>or 52,255 hours of watching Youtube

1 billion hours of YouTube are watched per day... so Bitcoin is ~20,000x greener than YouTube consumption?
This is exactly how I feel, except I also have technical responsibilities, meetings dominate my day. Some technical meetings sure, but a lot of status and syncs, and a lot of email. I'm lucky to get an hour a day between 9 and 5 to engineer. I've often fondly remembered when I had 3 meetings a week and the rest was just productive time and I could churn out code or work on workflow improvements, automation, etc.
Polkadot is a crypto currency that does some interesting things with it's economics and governance. It's staking and treasury funding is similiar to the K-Percent Rule.
Maybe, or maybe that's just the smokescreen they put up to prevent anyone looking at it.

I notice that they didn't say "here's the results of our last independency audit and verification of correctness", which I think would be a fantastic counter-argument... if they had one.
Any JavaScript on the same origin can read localstorage IIRC.
He probably made the right choice for himself, I suspect the CEO role is something he'd want nothing to do with, as it's all meetings, no coding.
OMG it's full of stars
No, there was an issue with branding because Debian was diverging too much from mainline Firefox, and not keeping up to date with security patches. Not some corporate malintent.

The way that was resolved was with Firefox LTS.
The copy was updated to say:

> Our prices are based on your Monthly Active Users (MAUs) and not your entire userbase, so you only pay for logged in users who interact with your website during the course of the month.

Does this help clarify? Sorry for the confusion.
Does anyone know how long this service has been around? Only worry is that this service goes under in year and having then to migrate to cognito or okta.
As far as I could find the courts basically decided that there has to be a way to examine how a result was reached if there was any doubt about it. That the PTB still allowed their use didn't change that and if a case got to court the results could get thrown out. The PTB probably doesn't care because only a small percentage of speeding cases end up in court.
This may not have been your intention but I think you're underselling the utility of this result a bit. Yes you need a good kernel function to get good results but this paper literally provides a way to create such a kernel.

With a way to turn a gradient descent into a roughly equivalent kernel machine you can turn gradient descent into an embedding, so rather than merely seemingly learning features you can recover the actual feature space.

It's also interesting how the result heavily depends on the path taking during the gradient descent rather than merely the end result. This is somewhat counterintuitive when for the equivalent gradient descent only the end result is seemingly important.
> As an individual contributor, the impact of your decisions may be broad, but however broad your individual impact is, your manager's impact on you is [broad * number of directs], so it's always "greater" (note: not better, just greater).

But this is obviously false, right? If the IC is truly a spectacular IC, then it's likely that no matter which manager they're under, they will have large impact.

The impact of the manager isn't the entire impact of their directs, but rather the relative difference between the impact of their directs and the impact their directs would have under a different manager. Which is substantially less, and could easily be less than the impact of a particularly strong IC.
Currently the case is ongoing and up to 9 face charges: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956924155/ex-michigan-gov-ric...
It's very clear and thoughtful. I can't believe that it grew so fast.

For me, I personally think that it creates more problems, but maybe it's because my components aren't all so similar.

I wrote up a similar story arch here: https://css-tricks.com/on-type-patterns-and-style-guides
Counter-example - Amazon. You can reach someone at Amazon and they are ginormous too.
Jeff Bezos would owe $2B a year in state taxes if Washington passes wealth tax
The whole town got really lucky. There was absolute intent to harm here, the attacker changed it from 100 to 10100, to fool a casual observer looking for the 100 pattern.

We were told since the 9/11 time that our industrial control systems are in really bad shape, not sure if anything is done to strengthen it if at all. May be someone that's knowledgeable can chime in with information. I see a lot of scope for controls and operational procedure that can be streamlined and standardized across the whole country, if we have the will.