skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has there been studies comparing the personality and/or brain structure of transgender individuals before and after x years of hormone therapy? It would also make sense to me that sex hormones affect personality to a large extent.

This may be an unconventional take, but I think society would benefit greatly if people stopped seeing sex/gender as something you are, and rather saw it as something you have. I.e., you happen to have an X or Y chromosome which lead to a certain anatomy and hormonal profile. Seeing it as some fundamental component leads to "othering" of the opposite sex and its predictable consequences.

I'm personally hoping that radical advancements in sex reassignment technology, along with their acceptance, will eliminate most of the ideological battles concerning sex and gender.
Yep, I sure do.

And I'd always thought that undesirables were a relatively smallish percentage of the population. As long as they are, we don't actually have to decide who's undesirable. They get outvoted. It's pretty clever.

Until the point where mean, angry, stupid people become a majority -- or worse, a near-majority with ancient thumbs on the scale favoring them. Then we've got a lot of very uncomfortable decisions to make.
This is awesome man. Thanks for sharing!
Or if you own both sides of stdin...
I understand the broader point, but you don't want to use incorrect information as part of making it. "forced labor, child labor, unreasonable overtime, people dying in mines, and a factory with a well-below-average suicide rate that got a lot of media attention for a cluster over a decade ago" One of these things is not like the others, and detracts from the actual point. It's a distraction from the real problems.
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The long standing programmer joke was "Yes, enterprise is all about paying more for bloated and buggy software after management is upsold."

Much ink has been spilled over the antipattern of enterprise software arising from procurement failure by having the design focused on pleasing the people who in practice never actually use it.

Billing and collection being out to screw you over is a cliche. Especially the infamous cases when they screw up and hassle you for bills not owed. It appears there was a marriage between the despised.
Predation is the act, not the outcome.

If everyone says 'no', you're just an unsuccessful predator.
I'm glad you guys are still doing stuff with this, I thought the demo was really promising. Even though it's specific to your thing it seems like a good test case for how this can best be applied in the general case. Putting this in something like extraterm would be HN's nightmare, but I would be very interested to see whether there's a future in a cli base that actively takes advantage of the fact that it's not emulating 40 year old hardware.
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Even if miners and devs do try to screw people over, it's always possible to fork from a certain blockheight.
> In the video where the kid wasn't seriously injured, the treadmill slowly ate the child until the treadmill wedged entirely on top of a large exercise ball, which was enough for the kid to get some space and escape.

I just watched a video that matches this description, and holy shit. The thing that unsettled me the most was the first moment, before the treadmill reversed direction for a second only to suck the kid back in. In that initial capture, the treadmill wedged itself against that kid's throat. Hard to tell for sure from the video, but if not for that momentary spin reversal, the kid would likely suffocate.

As a father of a similarly-aged kid, I can't stop shaking after seeing this.
If you are paying market rates for slightly above the competence you need, you are "leaving money on the table."

If you are getting slightly below the competence you need to be effective, and can push the cost of the friction onto your customers, you're coming out ahead of the game.
The superset is "ideology" imo. Whether the topic is supernatural or physical, people who base their lives on ideology tend to behave similarly, as you've pointed out.
The demos are very fun to play with, and I was surprised how brief the code was for each one... would be great to see a comparison to similar librairies
Personally I get it, given that it's not uncommon to find social conservatives who push a sort of gender essentialism very strongly: men are like this, women are like this, period, and if you're different, you're broken.

I think the sensitivity to scientific conclusions that sound like they're in the same ballpark is understandable, even if, yes, it shouldn't lead to people just ignoring data that doesn't agree with their beliefs.
Agreed with you. I just find it an step towards defining what Section 230 cover legally.
Powershell solved all this, Intellisense, introspection, apis for compiled apps (although I think .NET is only), typed output.

Still hasn't caught fire though, even for me. I respect it but I still reach for bash. I'm not really sure why except perhaps momentum.
> and going by the sources she reads

This is the real source of the problem. Not that multiple kind of sources exist (religious, scientific, fiction work, etc.) but that one kind try to pass as something it is not. This is particularly pervasive in fields like sociology where political essays are masquerading as science when it is in fact not. Sooner or later reality will come back, but a lot of time and money is wasted in the process, both by universities and public policies.
What's nuts is that the production company could have avoided this debate by contacting some photography studios and asking them to sponsor the show.

Perversely, they would have gotten better press if they asked the photographers to pay _them_ and had treated it as a product placement.
Thanks for doing this. I used Send regularly and miss it.
I love this piece, but this part is hilariously wrong:

> Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs.

The CLI is still incredibly relevant, it’s core to this day to single most important task you can perform with a computer: Programming. There’s only a few applications that can safely be considered more important: the browser, the spreadsheet, the word processor, maybe the email client. After that you start to get to things similar in relevance to the terminal. That’s not “disappearing”, that’s having enduring importance that makes it a monumental achievement deserving of a place in the software pantheon. The CLI only gets punished because it was once even more important, before the GUI. We should all be striving to create software with the enduring importance of the terminal.
At least you seem eloquent and perfectly coherent to yourself.
That's an odd dichotomy, because the overlap between those two groups is much larger than you might think.

There's a common trope thrown around that "the first amendment only applies to the government"...which is obviously true and nobody credible actually believes otherwise. The debate at hand is about the principle of free speech. That is to say, the so called "current republican" argues that the same ideals that justify guaranteeing the freedom to express oneself in public, free from government persecution, ought to be applied with private companies that host the "public square". The First Amendment isn't relevant here, because obviously there's no law that prohibits a private company from censoring. The issue at hand is an ought question; i.e. should a purportedly open platform provided by a private company censor political speech? In theory, the same arguments one would make in defense of maintaining the First Amendment (in its current form) in our Constitution also applies in defense of advocating that a private company hosting a "public square" platform ought not to censor political speech.

So circling back to the original question: we now have this Oversight Board which ostensibly has a diverse array of "experts" who we expect to weigh in on complex cases (a "Supreme Court" of sorts). The question is, how diverse is this board? Does it include anyone that might advocate what I laid out above? A couple other commenters provided examples (thanks!), but it's an important question that bears repeating. I'm also not sure how the system ensures that the pool of experts remains sufficiently diverse over time as members retire.
Is she friends with a crew of 90s hackers, or are there just some elderly ladies who recognise the brilliance of IRC that's missed by most modern techies?
Presumably there's a technical challenge with offering to match exact strings at this scale?

After all, the ability to do it was Google's main improvement over AltaVista at the time.

I'd love for someone in-the-know to share some of the technical details. Because I could bet that the sloppyness with quoted strings could be about dumbing down, but could equally be a consequence of some implementation choice at this scale and the way the data is indexed.
That was my impression. Which makes me doubt the concept again. Operating social platforms costs money.
I agree. If you're at the scale where you require an Enterprise solution, you should also have some level of finance department that knows how to handle purchase orders, invoices, and ledgers of account. This enables transparent vendor account to customer account reconciliation. Credit cards leave everyone in the dark.
Suppose company A has a co-op job involving unglamorous but technically meaningful work and offers decent pay. Company B has a job involving glamorous work that may or may not be interesting, but expects you to work for free.

What motivates the available worker pool? Worker A has real skills to bring to the table and expects to be paid for them, so he/she goes for company A. Worker B's competence is lacking, but glamorous company B would really help his/her resume, so that's where they go (they probably wouldn't pass the interview at company A either).

I used to be a co-op student at the University of Waterloo. Back then, it was possible to pay your way through school on just co-op earnings. Companies did real interviews for co-op jobs - you had to earn those spots. Of course the students would also feel out the companies. Some were just dead end jobs doing maintenance on a long-obsolete piece of software, that sort of thing. Others were cool.

A significant oddity was a certain really big company with three letters and (then) 300K+ employees, that sent generic recruiters doing generic recruiting (but they were good at it). Here you really were just "generic co-op student, we'll assign you something suitable". I had a strange but ultimately very memorable first co-op job there (OK - doing APL programming in a marketing group - strange enough?) For second and later co-op jobs you could secure something interesting internally before going back to school.
I think your missing the point of the above poster. Why get rid of nuclear power until its replaced with some other non carbon polluting source? It just raises the amount of co2 going into the atmosphere. If all renewable energy grids work, great. But don't replace nuclear with fossil fuels, like California, Vermont and many others have done.
My X200 is very performant on Ubuntu 20.04, and for my mother, her X230 is a good daily driver.
It’s out of control. The atmosphere is not uniform.
Maximum Distortion: The Peculiar Case of Jai Paul (2013)
So all they need to do is add a pipe operator, and we're in business...
I'm surprised PDF is the default format for emailed invoices and purchase orders. 99% of the time someone has to key that PDF into another system and most of the time they can't copy and paste anything from the source PDF.
There is a huge amount of outrage in this thread but some people actually do things for reasons other than money.

For example, volunteer work is very popular and common and is unpaid. Why are people not outraged about someone volunteering their time. Who cares what their motive is, maybe they feel it’s furthering a cause they believe in but maybe they want to feel needed. Maybe they are bored.

Open source, same thing.

Sure, it’s crass to approach photographers directly and be coy about the lack of pay, but we can’t think that nobody should do anything without being paid to do it.
I actually don't know very much about how it works (which is a testament to the usability of the libraries!)

I use PyCall to use Python from Julia, and PyJulia to do the reverse. PyCall & PyJulia have functionality to easily share arrays. PyCall is pretty seamless, PyJulia is a bit more work but still solid.

To share a DataFrame, I convert it to Arrow, get a bytearray representation of that, use PyCall/PyJulia to access the array from a different process, and reinterpret it as Arrow data within that process.

PyCall: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

PyJulia: https://pyjulia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
If you were to study children from a diverse range of cultures, and found similar results regardless of culture, could you come to a conclusion? Might be easier than the removal of culture.
From the article, it seems the problem was that the CEO wasn't authoritarian enough, rather than the other way around. Looking to build consensus, rather than strongly setting direction. But I guess that's also just one piece of the puzzle too.
It's interesting that the Kimberley Process intended to prevent conflict diamonds is a chain of warranties, one of the criticisms thereto was that there was little proof that the previous warranty ever existed.

So even though you're being sarcastic, you might be on to something there :) (I'm not suggesting this is possible, just idle musings)
Two major and significant differences from sqlite:

No persistent storage. Arrow is meant to be used for in-memory queries.

Column-major storage. This enables more efficient data-science-like queries, such as univariate statistics on columns.
What about hands with gloves? Almost two years in a pandemic it should be standard by now. And what about consent? If I send you a handshake you don't have the chance to let me hanging. Same for the fist bump. My grandpa lost 3 fingers in a milling machine and he doesn't feel comfortable using 5 fingers hand emojis. Heck he can't even feel his left hand is represented because all emojis have perfectly straight fingers and he has artritis. Also, both hands in the handshake emoji are the same complexion. What about fat people with fat fingers? Or people with Marfan syndrome and disproportionately long fingers? It looks to me that the emoji industry is ripe for disruption. /s
Also I wonder if such exposure will have negative effect overall. That is getting timewasters that are not actually interested in your product, but your experience at show.

A appearance on show might make you competitive against someone at similar price when doing head-to-head comparison, but someone who is cheaper cause not offering free opportunities might beat you. I really doubt there is very great up-side.
Do you have a source?

Here's a source that suggests SEC budget has increased 82% over 10 years

https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/report/reform...
Nothing material went spectacularly wrong.

There were things like the supermarket whose inventory computer was tossing a bunch of perfectly good product until someone noticed that the "expired" goods they were disposing of weren't expired at all.
Aren't reserve in US dollars typically just an account at the Fed?

(Eurodollar are one way to bypass it tho)
We had this with Sendgrid getting our invoices blocked. Sendgrid is no good for delivery of anything other than marketing.
Anecdata from female->male trans guys talk about feeling powerful, horny, and rage-prone as a result of testosterone injections.
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I like this because it's trying to be more than a classic terminal. And I hate it for the same reason, it repeats everything a classic terminal has, including the awkward syntax like a line that begins with ">" and parameters that are preceded by "--". Sure, it's second nature to us, but habit is a terrible way to tell what's right and what isn't.

We need to go back to first principles.
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do you know where to read about such force/dynamics ?
Not discussing with the falling cost of solar and wind - but recently I have read a good argument about why nuclear is expensive:

"""
Excessive concern about low levels of radiation led to a regulatory standard known as ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. What defines “reasonable”? It is an ever-tightening standard. As long as the costs of nuclear plant construction and operation are in the ballpark of other modes of power, then they are reasonable.

This might seem like a sensible approach, until you realize that it eliminates, by definition, any chance for nuclear power to be cheaper than its competition.
"""

https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop
This is only after 3/6 months, but they already showed some differences: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30999214/
Would you good people know about any efforts in this direction that are not so "top-down?" Seems to me that there a few "addons" to the classic terminal that could go a hugely long way.

Offhand, image-et-al preview still feels like a mess, a million ways of doing it and none are that good.

Also, I dream about something like "fzf, but with a very clearly delineated out-of-the-current-shell window,perhaps like rofi" or something?
It's an amusing story I've seen a few times, but I think it's disconnected from reality and strangely nobody ever discusses how

At his current margins, the fisherman's business is basically entirely fixed-cost. He needs to pay for a house and food for his family and new guitar strings when one breaks and that's it, in terms of expenses bait or whatever is probably next to negligible (I know nothing about fishing)

So he's vulnerable to someone spending twice as much time fishing as he does, lowering the commodity price of fish to 1/2 his current rate, so they'd be able to sell at 3/4ths his rate to undercut him while making a solid profit. Maybe the demand is there that it wouldn't affect our main character, but it's kind of an unstable equilibrium. If all his competitors decided that they actually wanted some of that profit and did full work days rather than only fishing for "a little while", the competition and increased supply would mean cheaper fish for everyone else in town but they'd end up stuck all working longer hours for not actually that much more money (since they'd have to compete with each other they probably couldn't all sustain 33% margins)

What the harvard MBA should have told the fisherman is that his lifestyle was at risk and he needs to form a cartel with all the other fishermen to not work more than a few hours a day (normally he would also have to worry about imports from elsewhere, but maybe transportation costs and a lax regulatory environment in the fisherman's town allow him to undercut external competitors without having to work too hard)

(One interpretation is that their culture is already forming that "cartel" as none of them want to or see a reason to work more. But they're still vulnerable to people from outside the villiage who don't share that view coming in and eating their lunch.)
Yup, this was a lesson I learned the hard way when I built out billing for our SaaS product. I had spent weeks thinking about user accounts, team accounts, subscription, integration with Stripe, how the UI would look, how I would verify VAT numbers for European customers, etc etc etc. In the end I threw all the code away because not a single customer that we had would have used self-checkout billing anyway, everything happens via email, purchase orders, billing portals like Ariba, etc. Monthly subscriptions are far and few between, pay-per-use is something that almost no customer would be interested in. Some customers actually wanted multi-year subscriptions, which Stripe doesn't even support.

It's emails and spreadsheets all the way down if you're building a product for an Enterprise audience.
I don't know about linear algebra, but column major lets you compress thus:

* Dictionary encoding: US,US,US,US,FR -> US:0,FR:1;0,0,0,0,1

* Run-length encoding: 0,0,0,0,1 -> 4x0,1x1

* Delta encoding: 0,1,2,3,4 -> 5x'+1'

* Storing the min and max for a chunk

Basically: exploit the data type to compress it.

Which enables very fast filtering and projections. (And now that the IO bottleneck has been managed you can do your gigantic logistic regression)
as a lisper i find them perfectly legible
Working on open source does not create as much of an expectation that you work for free by request on other projects, nor does blogging. We may argue about why this is the case, but it's moot. Analogies are blunt tools that only result in back-and-forths about the differences between the original case and the proposed cases. If you think a tendency for creatives to work for free does not increase the tendency of businesses to request that creatives work for free, then make that argument directly, rather than pointing to something different.
As the customer, why should you care who exactly delivered a crap product that breaks existing products? Whoever from the organization is facing the customer gets the blame and the complaints.

Mind, I stay away from Paradox games because they cost $500 if you include all addons, and are unplayable for the first 2 years until they release a good number of addons. So I have no idea what's going on with this particular addon. Except that several people above me posted that it completely breaks the game?
I dont think its a good idea to publicly argue with your boss, even if its a western boss. I dont think they're made of different kind of flesh and psychology works roughly the same way everywhere.
No, this is a misconception. Fiat currency is not a IOU. An IOU is redeemable, fiat currency is not—you can't take one USD to the Federal Reserve and have it redeemed for some amount of something. (This was true in the past, when, at least theoretically, USD was redeemable for gold, but not any more).
One of the arguments in the article against GUIs is GUI density i.e. you have a lot of features that it becomes difficult to discover them in UI. I believe this is a valid issue but I don't see how CLUI is better at solving this problem. CLUI is employing search to figure out what you might be trying to do when you type a command. This works if your seed command (the command you typed in) makes sense to the search engine. This same search technique is employed by GUIs which have lots of features i.e. you type in what you want to do in the help box and it tries to understand your intent and returns documentation explaining the exact steps to take.

At the end of the day, I think GUIs & CLIs are targeted for different people and folks should pick which works for them.
As soon as I figure something out, I lose interest entirely, without strong external pressure. I think it's ADHD (it's also impossible for me to stay awake as soon as I'm bored).

Try a manual job that keeps you moving, or a job where you can't get comfortable or put things off too much, e.g. working closely with clients, ideally along with a type A colleague who forces you not to slack off. That is where I have been most productive. (Aside from in grad school where i had more interesting stuff to do, but usually that was short spurts of focused work interrupted by long periods of being super bored and not doing anything. It's the Sherlock Holmes model of working).
Meh, I still need to squint even with night shift on and brightness set to 0. Browsing with apps that take advantage of the AMOLED is better but most web pages default to white and that transition between a native app and a Safari view controller is always a treat.