skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been friends with a few trans folks in the past, and more than one has suggested that things are going too far. The prevailing opinion I get is they just want to be left alone (after going through what is a traumatic situation), but they keep getting dragged into this culture war crap by a very loud and dangerous minority.
Hormone blockers are not "transition" and the hormone treatments given to trans teenagers are regularly prescribed for cis people of all ages for other reasons.
RetroArch for Apple Mac M1 released with 75 cores at launch
These companies are filled with left activists in people ops and PR, who are much more vocal and active then the technology department. The bully the company into these positions.
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I chuckled a bit, but you and I know that devs are not savages :)

I'd probably word it differently:

Developer tools seemed like a good industry to be in, "sell shovels in the gold rush" and all, but it turns out developers prefer to make their own shovels to dig for gold (because it is often cheaper than buying).
I wish I could share your confidence about him being as dead politically as he is physically.
On the other hand, perishable stuff is pretty natural. If anything, it is non-perishable stuff that seems odd... There's nothing eternal in an ecosystem. Individual animals and plants die continuously and their stuff is recycled on an on. The individual cells on your body die and are replaced.

While I absolutely abhor that you cannot buy a toaster that lasts more than two years, I still see a case for well-thought-out obsolescence to be an important ingredient in sustainability.

Think about a spaceship that is moving a city to another star system for a multi-generation trip. Would you embark anything that is non-perishable? What if it breaks by accident? It is maybe better to make sure that nothing lasts more than a generation, so that there's always people having the experience to build it again (because they have already built it before).

I'm not convinced by your "moral hard line" against planned obsolescence. It is a matter of quantity: today our technology is sadly too perishable. But a (tiny) amount of planned obsolescence may still be a good thing. Just don't say it too loud :)
I agree with you, but not fully: if there is no need or budget, then yes, a brand may not be a 1st priority. But in my experience as a designer, an effective brand will be a necessary ingredient to grow, as this is an expectation for a lot of people.

Regarding your brand: You cannot not communicate. What I saw in [1] example it's called a "no-brand" aesthetics: it's very minimalist and very neutral. And to be fair, I like it.
Spoken like a person with a good income. The principal is fine, but the definition of expensive varies by person and product.
> implying that the current counterculture is necessarily unjust because our current society is so relatively just.

I do avoid stating that implication, as it is not necessarily true. This part is merely my belief
Call me niave, but what is wrong with conversion therapy in theory?

I get the historic roots of it being linked with anti-gay/LGBT activities and it being problematic about 'fixing' what essentially are healthy sexual functioning (e.g. it's fine to be gay).

But it's not black and white and surely 'some' gay/bi men and women suffer distress and would prefer to be straight.

And likewise for 'trans' children and adults - perhaps there are effective ways to reduce/eliminate gender dysphoria. Do such methods really always have to seem bad.

Note: I am neutral on this / have many gay friends. It's purely from a theoretical perspective.
The corporation doesn't get loyalty, they get employees who will keep doing this in the future.
I must be old, when I read about puberty blockers all I can see is pedophiles finding a loophole to fuck pre-pubescent children who are over 18. It's kind of odd that no one is talking about that aspect given how many journalists pushing progressive ideas turn out to be closeted pedophiles and how mainstream media tries to normalize pedophilia at least once a decade with some big blitz about how we shouldn't really judge pedophiles harshly.
Yes... Like hormonal imbalance. This is a disingenuous framing.
You are punching at a straw man. No one is saying every gay person has the same opinion on this or any other matter. However, as a community (which is the word I used), they do tend to stand together.
And then when you get to my late parent's age - mid 90s when they died, basically all your peers are dead. Al those people with shared memories of childhood and youth. No one to reminisce with.

They coped with it well, but it must be so weird.
That also what I'm saying: I have a distaste for it, I cannot believe this is romanticized.
I used worked for a relatively well known type foundry. Font licensing still has a hangover, pretty much all foundries license by user number or organisation size. Having designed and/or mastered quite a few families, my opinion is the sense of worth most designers attach to their own work is usually severely inflated, and pricing tends to reflect that.

Cutting type used to require a huge amount of skill of course, but it is relatively easy to design well drawn type with modern software these days. It takes time to draw multiple weights and styles, but it's certainly not as skillful as most would assume. The number of new "foundries" that have popped up over the past few years is telling.

The amount organisations used to pay for custom type jobs was insane, given how much work it actually was to deliver them. The value attached to the aesthetic of the particular designer being hired is also debatable in my experience, very rarely did clients reject or amend what they were presented with. I've also drawn fonts that have been attributed to other designers, and nobody seems to notice.

I think things are changing slowly as the market becomes more saturated, but licensing like this is outdated in my opinion.
Then you must take some rest. Get a good recharge of your batteries and get back on the field only when you got stronger. Enjoy life, eat well and move around a lot.
Dark matter and string theory suck.

Many worlds interpretation rules. Eternal inflation is also a cool idea.
Meeter already does this
Personally, I am split ...

(Interested to hear more re: your take on "moral claims" vs. "the Eth ideals" ...)
Meeter already does exactly this, no subscription
Do hormone blockers also block mental development?
Read the article again. We know there are severe long term effects to a child's development, and there's been more than a few cases of people saying they regret it decades down the line.
Set small achievable goals? "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?"
GameStop stock rally proves media wrong, again
> There is a movement to stop any kind of discussion about therapy on gender dysphoria other than transition.

Can you please unpack this sentence a little more? I'm just trying to understand things better.

My understanding of therapy is that it is used for healing and / or to cure a disorder.

And so I can see why using the word "therapy" in this context is problematic, because it implies that there exists something which needs to be healed, or a disorder which needs to be cured.

I'd value your thoughts on this. Thanks.
before you get flagged to death: would you mind telling me, what's so bad about the idea to talk with people about their problems and try to find a solution for them before you go all out on them with hormones and scalpels? I understand that an exorcism-like setting and forcing them into any program is not ok, but why can't we ask them: are you really sure, your problem is a lack of meaty breast and the availability of a penis?
You are absolutely right, Bitcoin is a like religion, you need to let go of rational thought and have faith, HODL!
Careful, you might get branded as a far right bigot.
> do you think that memory allocation is always bumping a pointer a uniform amount with no memory being freed, no variance in allocation size and no interlaced lifetimes?

In modern language implementations with moving collectors allocation is literally what I've described in the fast path. Not theoretical. That's literally the instructions used.

> You originally said that memory allocation was 'just a few instructions'

Here it is in a real industrial compiler and garbage collector, for example.

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/f9530b0948c58a66845e84f...

It's precisely as I've described.
> I wonder why huge corporations let themselves be dragged into the dark vortex of culture wars. There is nothing to gain in that blood- and vitriol soaked trenches

There is plenty of money to make and we all know this is the only thing that matter for corporations.
I think this is guaranteed.

As long as one person keeps running the old software, the old chain is alive.

Even if nobody does it, somebody could start running it again at any time.

The different chains will have different market caps. And the general public will forget about chains that have sufficiently small market caps.

I wonder what will happen to Ether that is in custody. Like in the Greyscale Ethereum Trust or the 21Shares Ethereum ETP.

Has anybody ever checked the TOS of these companies on what will happen if multiple forks carry significant value?
Gold held it's value before we started counting the years from the death of christ.

It was valuable when britain was pairing criminals and prostitutes in handcuffs and shipping them to the US to populate the damn place.

It is valuable even today when there are people willing to risk death just to reach its shore..

I am willing to bet it will remain being valuable even when America becomes an irrelevant once-was in a few decades..

I want to know which asset class will survive the collapse of the US dollar and the fall of US influence...?

If your answer to that question is, "that's just absurd, never going to happen in my lifetime.." I can just smile and wish you all the best..
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Indeed, gay people often hate trans people (who, as another comment says, mostly want to get on with our fucking lives) as much as anyone else. What’s your point here? Hatred is cool and normal and Amazon should be promoting it?
This is a classic application of the appeal to think of the children. I'm sure before homosexually became culturally acceptable there were plenty of people employing the same arguments against legalising homosexually.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
This. Big biz does not care about humans (and their rights). Amazon/Tesla behaved illegally against unionization, sell stuff made in countries with little protection for people and nature.

But they put a rainbow logo on and now all is cool.
Firefox's is compiled code is mostly written in C++ not C. You conflate C with C++, Java, and C#. C++ while has source compatibility with C tends to end up much different than C. C will not give you the OOP hell-scape you can dig yourself into with those three languages. C code tends be simpler and much more close to the assembly that will be generated than you would get in those language. Moreover, Java and C# are not even compiled. Anyways C != C++. C++ has changed quite a bit since it's earlier days and has diverged from plain C in a lot of ways. Some people even feel C++ keeps adding too many new features too fast.
Were?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law
Yes, and like hormonal imbalance in cis people, the evidence is clear the benefits of the treatments outweigh the risks also for trans people. This is how we make medical decisions, not as a proxy for moral panic.

The only disingenuous framing is hormone blockers as "transition".

I'm extremely cynical about Amazon's move qua their own ethics, here but I also understand where the internal pressure is coming from given how rapidly the UK mainstreamed such deep transphobia.
My point is that the community sort-of isn't representative of the general gay population. It often consists of a specific subtype of activists that share a lot of political opinions and will gatekeep nonconforming individuals out.
Isn't it also that in human writing (and training) the most common or correct response/followup to a prompt structured as a question often is a complete "x is y" sentence? GPT-3 appears to consistently parse these question prompts as requiring it to include certain strongly associated words in its output, but not consistently as trivia questions implying terse, associated-word-only answers

It's the opposite of the 'know all' the blog describes, it's GPT-3 knowing where to find the answers without even understanding it's a quiz!
I can't recommend the U2415. Unfortunately this is one of these models where Dell chose to tarnish the Ultrasharp series with crap so you can't just say any more to "just get an Dell Ultrasharp".

The U2415 has a horrible power supply which gets very noisy by design and it has a 6 bit panel with noticeable temporal dithering.

I'd pick one of the 2560x14440 U27xx models (after checking they're not crap like the U2715). But beware that some of the older models (like the U2713) don't take the full resolution over HDMI and need Displayport or dual-link DVI.
Enjoyed the article. Thanks for sharing. It is more on a scientific side though, but this is exactly what I like to see when it comes to system analysis and security.
Giving out quotes and sticking to them is obviously not an unsolvable problem since the private health industry in so many other countries manages to do that.
It is not that the stories already diffused in the German population. It is (I think) the person telling the stories was raised by a French person. In an analogy it is more like you write a German English dictionary, but the German words are French (and not yet absorbed by the German language). I find this surprising (of course not if you know the backstory)
A jug filter is much bigger and uses a different mechanism, a kettle filter is just a mesh to anything bigger than a large grain of sand in the kettle.
That's loyalty, because it implies the employees are more likely to stick around. Employees that feel their input is valued more often than not do.
I clicked on the first linked demo and I must say it looked impressive, but animated "IBM" logo ruined it for me. I think a company that helped facilitate holocaust shouldn't be casually promoted.
If only there was some sort of “sensor for temperature” so the toaster could adjust the time with its temperature.
> I'm wondering what process uses molten metal.

Casting
Economics of Grid-Tied Solar and Heat Pumps: The Case of Northern Climates
We don’t have to imagine GPT3 doesn’t understand maths. It can reliably answer 1+1= because there are so many instances of it in the corpus, but if you give anything more complicated it will just throw out a random, incorrect, answer in most cases.
>>I must be old, when I read about puberty blockers all I can see is pedophiles finding a loophole to fuck pre-pubescent children who are over 18. It's kind of odd that no one is talking about that aspect given how many journalists pushing progressive ideas turn out to be closeted pedophiles and how mainstream media tries to normalize pedophilia at least once a decade with some big blitz about how we shouldn't really judge pedophiles harshly.

>Do hormone blockers also block mental development?

The same people pushing for them being available for the masses are the same people who would never allow a mass randomized double blind trial to be conducted because it would cause 'harm'.

Can't help but think the people hobbling science are the ones who have something to hide.
you might add non-binary gender option to signup
The knowledge ingestion from reading your article felt like being plugged into the matrix. Great article!
Ruby is not fast.
"In theory" questions are a bit moot if the practice has never worked, and are at least adjacent to "is brainwashing/slavery/... always so bad if the victim thinks its happy with it" from an ethics perspective. Especially if the "in theory" arguments are then used to defend the abusive/broken real world practices, and as an excuse to not fix external causes of distress. I.e. "actually, being gay is ok" as a position of society is way more effective for good outcomes than any attempt at "treatment" ever has been, and the vast majority of arguments along "treatments" are being used to attempt to slow or reverse that development.
But you get weaker parts
You may want to buy the acclaimed books "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" and "The end of gender" before Amazon virtually burns them.
An interesting choice to have the keyboard mapped to a dissonant whole tone scale
> Do you believe that? I would say such decisions are far from riskless, they can even jumpstart potential competitors and drag Amazon et al into future antitrust litigations. This kind of power being exercised wantonly tends to attract hostile attention.

I guarantee you that Amazon is still going to be here in ten years. At most for antitrust, it would have AWS and the core shopping business split up. But that would happen anyway. It's not really wantonly to take an ethical stand, even if the ethical stand is mostly for show, or even if it's outright wrong. Especially not in a field like bookselling, that Amazon has nowhere close to a monopoly in.

> They are, but we do not really know how many employees would prefer X or Y. There wasn't any internal ballot on this topic, AFAIK. It may well be the case of a tail wagging the dog.

We pretty much know for Amazon, though. Its valuable employees are rich people on the coasts. Overwhelmingly, this demographic is pro-LGBT and against getting put in a higher tax bracket. They aren't going to vote against liberalism.
"Think of the children" is not an universal red herring, though. It can be used in bad ways and good ways, and a lot of ways in the middle. Child labor was banned because people started to think of the children.

Transition of minors does not seem to be a morally clear cut topic to me, given that they aren't allowed to do a lot of other life changing things. You can argue for the opposite, but too many trans activists are painting their opponents as stupid, disingenious or even hateful and want to silence them by force.

This will blow back on them.
Amazon is in Seattle. We are arguably the most trans-accepting city in the US (source: being a trans person living in Seattle). Trans people are mostly just an accepted part of the community here. And people here are generally not super impressed by the "think of the children!" wedge issue any more than they were impressed with the "OMG trans women in bathrooms!" wedge issue. I'm sure TERFs exist here, but they keep it to themselves, because it's not something to admit to in polite company.
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How is one supposed to gain experience as a manager if one isn't able to manage because one's lack of real life experience?
I am not an expert on this, and these below are not my opinions but how I have understood the debate thus far:

- Gender dysphoria is classified in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

- When it manifests in young people, there can be various reasons, for example, coming to terms with being gay.

- Therapy can explore the reasons for this and help understand how to best help the patients

- For some patients, the right course of action is to have gender affirming surgery and transition

- For other patients, this is a temporary discomfort with their identity that passes or can be resolved otherwise (e..g by accepting sexual identity etc). <--- This is the controversial part. Trans right activists see this position as an erasure of trans identity/denying their right to exist, etc pp. They seek to suppress any kind of research investigating e.g. the rapid rise in gender dysmorphia in teenagers as a medical phenomenon (e.g. in https://quillette.com/2019/03/19/an-interview-with-lisa-litt...), and seek to ban any books/research/open debate in this area.

I have no idea on the biological or psychological reasons, but I object to any suppression of research on medical phenomena.
I turned off all notifications 5 years ago. No noise, no vibration, no pop-up, no nothing. I doubt I'll ever switch any of these on again
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Transition is the generally recognized treatment for gender dysphoria.
Half of Google’s profits should be set aside to pay content creators.
Pandering in big tech is nothing new. Apple likes to support minorities, but they completely forget about their slave labor in Asia. As a minority myself, these actions will make sure I keep some distance between me and these companies.
Microsoft is here in 2021 as well. IBM, too. But they aren't the powers that they used to be.

Book selling is highly symbolic for Amazon, because they grew out of this niche. Also, banning books has a specific bad taste associated, because that is what authoritarians over the ages have done and liberal people resented such bans.
> Rust can't count on OSes having Rust's standard library built-in, so Rust executables bundle bits of the Rust's standard library (300KB or more). Fortunately, it's a one-time overhead.

No, it's not, especially if you have multiple binaries. There are hacks, like using a multi-call single binary, (forget about file-based privilege separation), or using an unmaintained fork of cargo to build a rust toolchain capable of dynamic linking libstd. See:
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/link-the-rust-standard-library... and https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

I'd be interested in any up-to-date trick to do better than this.
Unfortunately the West keeps forgetting about the millions killed, gulags, holodomor. They are not interested in how much blood were sacrificed, they only look at the glamorous side.
this resonates well with an article in a german liberal newspaper about the fight for a "third sex". While the newspaper was merrily engaging in this culture war by their website, this article (from the actual physical paper) clearly mentioned that this problem (which by the way was akin to changing a single letter from a supposedly too aggressive variant to a "better" one) was only applicable to maybe 300 people in total, because even with a higher prevalence of chromosome defects, most people tend to grow/live happily one way. So we had a 1 year discussion about this problem, which was not a problem at all (just the wording was considered "offensive" by a single individual) occupying our parliament for hours. For me, this seems like a kind of tyranny by the few (since the change in wording doesn't change any of the liberties this one person has...)
We are literally thinking about the children here. We are asking: "Should we let children cut off their genitals?"

If we are going to let them do that we should at least let them put their genitals where they feel like before then.

The hypocrisy is the problem. You can't both have children be too immature to decide to have sex, yet be mature enough to make decisions about their sex which will impact them for the rest of their lives.
As is the normal talking point for the UK anti-trans lobby, you are conflating the medical intervention for children (hormone blockers) with the medical intervention for young adults (hormones) with the long-term effects of hormones after taking them for years - well into adulthood.

Some adults do regret the long-term effects of their hormone treatments. Many more adults regret not getting access to hormone treatments sooner. Others regret going off hormones for personal or professional reasons and then not being able to start again because their doctor says they must not really be trans.

The solution for all these problems is easier and more flexible access to the treatments and a society more open to all modes of gender. Not a "but the children" moral panic.