skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an objective fact. Each individual is free to express themselves as they see fit. Nobody is responsible for proving that they're a -real trans- and we really shouldn't be in the business of gatekeeping that anyways, because we already did that decades ago and the APA and AMA now move in line with WPATH guidelines which are far more reasonable.

If we meet in public and you say "Hi, my name is Michael" I can only assume that that's objective fact. If I then say "You know, you don't really seem like a Michael. I think you're more of a Denise based on what I've seen." You would be right to take offense for disregarding your own right to self expression based on my own interpretation of your person from the limited information gathered in a first impression.

This is a very similar thing, except by the time someone is out as trans you can best believe they've spent years agonizing about whether it's even a good idea to do so knowing they'll face this kind of a conversation every time the topic comes up around people who they aren't close with / are not sympathetic.
The identifier on the urls isn't meant to identify the actual user I think.

If you look at the examples given they're more like identifiers to something else -- an order id or subscription id.

Wouldn't tracking something like an order (but not the user directly) be ok with GDPR?
Care to elaborate? I don't know much about Miles Davis' life, though I love his early jazz albums.
> I would wager most of us in the CS community have experienced personalities that deliver harsh criticism. The types of people that often don't realize how vicious their tone comes across.

Often it is actually content that is bad and not just tone. Also, not every aggressive jerk has autism.

Many autists do put a lot of work into not be assholes. Where they fail, they also do comparatively much less harm then neurotypocal person who takes pleasure in mistreating you.
A house and 401k are both illiquid and thus irrelevant to your economic bargaining power. If you're upper-middle class then sure your liquid funds might be in a brokerage account, but if you're lower-middle it's likely just a savings account where you're working on building an emergency fund.
Great concept, love it.

But yeah, it works only with a mouse/tablet interface.
Wondering whether 1to1 mapping of the (input device)TOscreen makes a difference. Where dragging, multiple repositioning of the cursor, targeting the position brakes the fun.

hypothesis: it is fun when you can match the movement of the ball with your input device. (speed, resolution, smoothnes)
A result from today's fast-grown chickens is the epidemic of 'woody' chicken breast.

https://holistickenko.com/woody-chicken-breast/

An increase in size and growth rate has caused the meat of the muscles to become harder and rigid in texture, giving a distinctive bulge to the breast and becoming known as woody breast chicken. The chicken, even when cooked well, is harder and chewy.

The white stripes that occur visually look like white lines running across the breast, tendons and thigh. A woody breast will feel firmer, like an incredibly tough muscle. When touching regular chicken breast the flesh is soft, you can press into it. Woody breast is simply firm to the touch, you cannot press into it (Kuttappan, V.A., et al., 2016). Occurrences of the woody chicken breast, as well as white stripes on chicken, have increased from around 1.4-8.7% in 2012 to a shocking 25.7-32.3% in 2015.
Just across the border in Mexico the chaparrel is much healthier and more diverse, because they let wildfires burn.
Do plant-based proteins have the B vitamins that most of the world is deficient in?
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They're probably buying on credit, so their purchase price doesn't really change if rising interest rates are the cause of the price drop.
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The moral cost of chicken (vs beef)
I can’t find much context around this. Got some links?
Yes, except that's not practical. I don't want to give up meat but I'll give up beef and pork.
How wonderful! It is so inspiring to see all the incredible uses of technology coming out from the Mecca of human creativity and accomplishment.
It seems pretty obvious that the big thing here is that most people ship apps on Linux, not on FreeBSD.
Sorta. They're a hedge against low real returns in the stock market, which is slightly different than inflation by itself.
That's terrible - I wonder if it's just a lack of empathy from Matthias site. That's no excuse to behave like that in public and especially ridiculing you in front of a group.

Maybe nobody tells him about his personality flaw. Or at least in a way that he comprehends it.

Interestingly, from a review on ratemyprofessors.com:

>I hated his guts while in his class, but in retrospect he's almost certainly the best teacher I've ever had. As somebody said above, this guy is absolutely brilliant. He will kick your butt, but it's all for your own good in the end. He seems to really care about teaching, and it shows.

I've had a professor like that and it takes a while to realize that those people are needed. For lazy students it may be a proper wake up call to the real world.
> teen pregnancies were much less than now with all the Sex Ed, wide availability of contraceptives, etc.

While a common perception, that's actually almost entirely false. Teen pregnancies have been dropping pretty steadily for the last ~70 years and they're now almost one quarter the rate of just 30 years ago. Sex ed and availability of contraceptives (especially IUDs) are quite effective at preventing teen pregnancies.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/02/why-is-the-...
In Switzerland you'll see very young kids taking themselves to school too. In fact I think the schools discourage you from doing them off. Loads of kids can be seen around town going to and from school, totally normal.
All of DoD uses CAC, which is probably 30%+ of federal employees. And probably 80%+ of all apps DoD employees use are CAC/PIV login.
Well the fear of letting a child go by themselves would be that they would get lost, kidnapped, or robbed.
I don't doubt it, but what is the source of this figure?
> But, not be pedantic, but chicken evolved as a domesticated, food-producing animal. They're "meant" to make food, either via eggs or meat, not to have a specific lifespan.

I think it's slightly more complicated than that. The history of domestication is one of long-term relationships: we have historically bred animals not only to produce food, but also to serve roles (foodwaste removal, fertilizing, haulage) that aren't necessarily best served by rapid growth. Industrial agriculture has removed the need for most of those roles, but they're still very visible in the selected features of popular breeds.
So, you know nothing about the situation, but are confident to claim that it is all misunderstanding, that Matthew Butterick is essentially not understanding situation and so on.

It is unfair to Matthew Butterick and to anyone in his situation.
I assure you as a professional putting my business reputation on the line that nothing in any of our materials or claims is disingenuous. We're just not that kind of company.

Caveat emptor, for sure. Like I said, the proof is always in the product itself much more than in anything I say.

The Wikipedia article goes on to (incorrectly) attribute the blockchain to Nakamoto when the idea was well known in comp sci before Bitcoin showed up.

Our use is, indeed, both decentralized and distributed. I mentioned earlier that the record of hashes is often kept offsite and can be used by a non-trusted third party (who doesn't have access to the documents) to perform the kind of document verification I'm talking about.
Not all media sites require one to be logged in.

However, there are many reasons why a video service might want each user to be individually identifiable by IP.

- Many media items are contractually region-locked

- The same user from too many simultaneous IPs might mean shared credentials, a perceived loss of revenue

- The same user from geographically disparate IPs might also mean shared credentials, even if not simultaneous.

I'm sure there are more.
> How do you compare the worst teammate on a successful project with a superstar on a project that was doomed from the start?

Superstars typically avoid these types of projects.
Obviously the magnitude of the trouble you would get in differs. However if you are not careful you still will get into trouble. It is as if you read in a lot of opinions in my statement that simply isn't there.
This is silly. The solution to a vitamin deficiency is vitamins. Clearly they're deficient while eating meat too, so that doesn't seem like a strong argument against plant based proteins.
Author here, thanks for reading. As has been mentioned in some comments, the article only covers half the story of how this can be used for migrations. The greater idea is to have every commit be short-lived and two-phased: apply and cleanup. A migration is first applied and once it's no longer used by any clients, it's cleaned up.

1. Apply: the new schema is created and any new data is added to the backing table.

2. Cleanup: the schema is deleted and any data that is no longer needed is removed from the backing table.

For example, to perform a column deletion:

1. Apply: create new schema without the column which is being deleted. Don't change anything in the backing table.

2. Cleanup: delete the schema and the column from the backing table.
A company may store both customer data and order data and keep them under GDPR, because a particular customer provided it knowingly. The important piece is when a customer asks to be removed, the company must remove their customer data (e.g. their name and address) but the order information can remain orphaned in order to do analyses on revenue, orders, etc. The right to be forgotten is ONLY about customer data, not related anonymized identifiers that tie back to the previous customer's order history.
Why is speaking of "trans women" othering them into a separate class, but the same isn't true when speaking about "black women" - which is something that is celebrated in modern intersectionality theory? Don't trans women face unique challenges relating to their womanhood - just the same way that black women do?
I'm pretty sure he's playing the Project Diablo II mod.
If you really want to understand what made Miles unique I would skip the rest and jump straight to the Fusion period. Notably missing in the write-up are two incredible live performances: Dark Magus and Live Evil.
I'm sorry but the problem is the exact opposite...

Governments must increase their deficits so that the private sector can save more.

A lot of countries just export the responsibility to take on debt to other countries. Germany refuses to take on debt and expects the rest of the Eurozone and the US to go into debt so it can pretend to be financially responsible.

As long as the private sector has a preference to increase its net savings, interest rates will be at 0%. If it suddenly decides to spend all that money (to call this a good thing is an understatement) the resulting inflation would make the raise in interest rates irrelevant.
I totally agree with you, though it's important to remember that ship sailed long ago.

You pay for a TV, and it shows you ads. You pay for a train ticket, and the walls and platforms are plastered with ads. You buy the fancy surround sound option in your car, and it plays ads. You buy a magazine, and it's mostly ads. And so on and so on.
Our entire world has been taken over by ads.

I think it's important to recognize this not so we let FB / Oculus off the hook, but so we can see it's an enormous problem overall that needs to be addressed.
In particular Login.gov can do WebAuthn, so a vaguely recent Yubikey or other Security Key product, a modern iPhone, or the nicer Android phones with fingerprint readers, all work and deliver unphishable¹, zero correlation² authentication.

1) The Domain Name "login.gov" is inherently associated with these credentials, your Security Key hasn't the faintest idea how to use them on another site even if you yourself are completely fooled and believe you're on Login.gov

2) Even if the US government, your key manufacturer and Facebook conspire together to try to figure it out, there's no way to take their authentication data and correlate that Facebook user mikey-the-shoe is US Login.gov user Michael Shoemaker of New York based on the Security Key used on both sites. It seems like a good guess of course, but WebAuthn deliberately doesn't confirm this.
We can barely get people to care about their fellow man, I'm pessimistic about getting people to care about the genocide we commit towards animals on an hourly basis.

Edit: And for the record I'm vegan.
> It’s interesting to watch Tesla’s valuation as a slow motion train wreck. Their earnings are steadily growing and the valuation of the company is slowly dropping,

Tesla is up 200% over the past year
This reminds me of a blog post that I can no longer remember that discusses how Chinese is a lot of arranging several related kanji into a single character to express a new idea (please link it if you can find it).

I would love to see unicode characters to allow for arbitrary combinations beyond those defined using just ZWJ to allow more flexibility (e.g. blizzard could be created by adding like "slowflake x 5" which creates a single character with five snowflakes, without having to create an entirely new character representing blizzard from snowflake + ZWJ + snowflake).

As an aside, my favorite ZWJ magic is black flag + ZWJ + skull and crossbones = pirate flag.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols for more symbol language fun.
I just finished the 3rd day at my new job, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I want to thank you for making this game and posting it, I don't know what exactly but it has what I need at this moment.

I don't want to be disrespectful to OP but my PC is too old to run their game.
> "The only issue is that Gladwell’s account doesn’t withstand serious scrutiny. As a piece of writing, The Bomber Mafia is engaging. As a work of history, it borders on reckless."

So it's classic MG? He's a good easy - often feel good - read. However, the pattern that's too clear is he rarely supplies a counter argumemt or counter view. He takes his position and then plays pile on with "the facts."
I used an IBM PPC-based 43P as a work machine for some time. It can't run a modern browser, but back then using NetBeans running on my laptop was perfectly doable. Using Emacs and a terminal will work really well. Using one of these machines as a workstation is not much different from an older Raspberry Pi - you'll need to do the heavy lifting on the other side of the network anyway.

The killer feature of this specific 43P was that it came with a gargantuan Intergraph CRT monitor.
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It's currently impossible to tell how Facebook has damaged the Oculus brand, simply due to the lack of a credible mobile (aka "untethered") VR competitor. Once someone like Valve, HTC, Sony, or Apple finally release untethered hardware at a competitive price point, we'll see whether customers are really willing to tolerate forced Facebok account integration and ads in VR.

Personally, I absolutely love the Quest's price point, form factor, and overall software quality. At the same time, I despise Oculus as a brand and Facebook as a company for all of the above. I'm prepared to jump ship the split second an alternative is available.
At the time when digital cellular was first designed, the main objective was to design sufficiently strong authentication to stem the rampant theft of service then occurring on the analog cellular systems. In the US this was estimated at roughly $2 billion/annum.

Encrypting traffic for privacy purposes was less important. Prior analog cellular telephony systems were unencrypted, as were analog and digital wireline services. Thus, the privacy cryptography was intended to be strong enough to make it a little more inconvenient/expensive to eavesdrop on digital cellular than it was on analog cellular or wireline services without significantly impeding law enforcement.
13GB would take less than 20 minutes at 100Mbps. Regardless, I’m not sure why you only consider near instant downloads “sensible”. I often spent several days downloading things when I was younger.
So start outputting something like json. And render it in the console as an ascii table
So do quantum computers give better implementations of languages like Prolog?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
Every time someone posts this, I wonder if they'd be able to solve some basic (albeit symbolic) eigenvalue problems. Could you? Like just some 2x2 problems that you can't just plug into Wolfram Alpha?

It seems a little odd to hold a journalist to a standard software engineers themselves don't generally meet.
Curious about this scenario:

Bob works for company A which is a vendor for companies B, C and D. Most of company A's revenue stream is dependent on how well B, C and D are doing. Bob has insider knowledge of Company A's finances using which he trades stocks of B, C and D.

Is this considered insider trading or not?
So the overall concept of "shove a tracker value into the URL and collate all interactions" makes sense - but how do you track if a user is sharing a URL?

Let's say that I'm on a desktop browsing a shopping site. I'm on shopping.site/product/coolthing.html?tracker=12345. I share this with my friend on a mobile device because it looks like something of interest to them.

Now how do you handle the other person having the same tracker as the initial person? You end up with a scenario where two different people, with different interests, are browsing the site. Even if they convert you have situations along the lines of: no conversions, person A converts, person B converts, both convert. How do you handle this?

With cookies the sharing of the URL would avoid this scenario since cookies would be separated between people.
I'm mildly surprised cookie consent banners are only at 20%, given how often I come across banners who's only option is "Yes, I consent"
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Here's one of the bills that NPR is presumably referring to: Texas HB 3979, which was just signed into law by the governor yesterday:

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/2021

That's its full text. You can read it, it's short.

Some highlights are that the bill mandates (that's mandates - not prevents) that Texan schoolchildren are educated about:

* "the history of Native Americans;"

* "the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong;"

* "the history and importance of the civil right movement"

* "the history and importance of the women's suffrage movement"

* The Indian Removal Act

* the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850;

* Brown v. Board of Education;

* The Underground Railroad

The bill also mandates that Texan schoolchildren learn about such historical figures as MLK, Frederick Douglass, Sally Hemings and Cesar Chavez, to name but a few.

So tell me: who wants to prevent a "historically accurate picture of the United States" from being taught in schools - those who support a bill that requires children to be taught about the history of slavery, Indian genocide, the civil rights movement and white supremacy, or those who oppose such a bill?

And I've only talked about what what the bill requires. What does it prevent? What does HB3979 ban from Texan classroom? Again, I encourage you to read the whole thing yourself, but I know that most people don't click through to the source, so I'll quote again.

Some of the things that HB3979 bans from being taught to Texan schoolchildren include that:

* "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;"

* "an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race;"

* "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual's race or sex;"

Similar wording appears in most of the anti-CRT bills working their way through state legislatures.

You need to understand this: critical race theorists want to teach the above. They oppose these bills (and lie about their contents) because they want to discriminate on the basis of race, make people feel discomfort, guilt and anguish based on their race, hold entire races collectively responsible for the actions of individual members of that race, and engage in racial stereotyping and scapegoating. The sooner you realise this, the sooner you'll be able to make sense of our current moment.
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I certainly see the value in those anecdotes. When I realized how much my Steam inventory was suddenly worth, because old CSGO items were rising in value for no apparent reason, that was my personal 'oh crap, this is exactly what an everything-bubble would look like' moment.
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Yes, in my own toy concatenative language, define is just a regular procedure. It takes two arguments off the stack. The first is a pointer to the name, the second is a pointer to a quotation with the definition body. It intentionally looks Forth-like but it's different under the hood:

[ dup + ] \ writes a lambda function to heap and push ptr
: double ; \ : writes the next symbol as a string to heap and push ptr
\ ; is define, writes definition into dict

The reason Forth did it the classic Forth way originally, I suspect, is because Forth's parser needs to be told to switch modes. Stop executing words directly and start compiling them. There isn't really anywhere to store a temporary string, so you need to tell it to start writing into the dictionary entry before you give it the string. In my language, using [ ] for quotations starts writing to the heap, which is also where strings go. This has the same practical effect.
I thought VR was a goofy gimmick until I bought an Oculus Quest and played with it.

From my point of view they drastically improved both the Oculus brand and the overall opinion of VR as a usable technology.

Oculus may have done that without Facebook or it may have stayed tethered to a PC and continued to be awkward to use. I don't really know.
Good lord. Why not hash things out with Mathias forceably and directly right then and there? Why this victim pantomime? Mathew is a grown men, surely he can find more direct ways to stand up for himself instead of obliquely trying to cancel the guy to whom we owe racket.
They don't protect against a war though. The importance of this is a bit difficult to understand because political inaction can cause a situation where there are no good solutions left but the population is angry and wants to take that anger out on someone. Prominent example: The nazis came up with an anti semitic conspiracy.
FB probably sells near-cost and makes all their money on the backend from taking 30% or so of sales of apps, much like consoles (and iOS minus making money on the front end as well).
Sometimes I wonder how many microorganisms I kill when I wash my hands.
It works for me with Firefox on NixOS using Noto Color Emoji, from, I'm assuming, noto-fonts-emoji.