skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, 2 million people in the US being discriminated against seems like plenty enough people for this to be a worthwhile discussion. But it's not just the number of people. It's also about how severe the discrimination against them is.

>Personally I don't think this is very important compared to other topics. There are more blind people than trans people.

Ok but is there a large portion of the population that believes blind people don't deserve health care for their disability? Is there a large portion of the population that believes blind people shouldn't be afforded working rights?

You can't just go "there's only 2 million trans people in the US, who cares about their healthcare, there's more important things out there", when the consequence of doing so severely impacts the quality of life of .5% of the population.

I don't think you would be sitting here going "only .5% of the US has type 1 diabetes, why are talking so much about making sure they get appropriate health care? Who cares if they're discriminated against during hiring?"
Developer built a simpler vaccine sign-up website while on maternity leave
>However this whole debate is reversing that by not only saying it matters a great deal but that other people should be forced to defer to others personal choices even when it directly affects them

Yep, and the problem is that this is obviously a principal that is not going to be impartially implied, but instead that deference towards personal identity is going to be parceled out based on tribal lines - look how common it is for many on the left to argue that black conservatives are "not really black" (or maybe they're black, but not Black?)

The battle for trans rights is intertwined much more tightly with a battle for control of language - extending to affirmative demands that others deeply change their normal language to avoid giving unintentional offense - than any other civil rights push I can think of, and I wonder if this will become more commonplace in the future.
He was literally tweeting up until a few days ago. What makes you think he'd need the press to "unveil" anything "they" "don't want him talking about"?
Can you at least spare some sympathy for the young woman who's unable to compete at the Olympics because Hubbard has taken her place?
It's only weird to you because you are almost certainly straight, cis and male. Let me explain.

All of society is structured around your identity. Like the fish, you can't even see the water because you have always been in it. I'm unlikely to help you see the water, but let me at least try.

If you meet a friend, he might comment he saw a movie with his new girlfriend. He shows you a photo on his phone and you say she's really cute and nice catch. He asks if you want to grab a beer later. You say you have to pick up your wife from the airport later and pick up the kids from their school.

All of this, the girlfriend, the comment she's cute, the wife the kids, they are your life. It is who you are. If someone asks what you are doing later, it's all you have to say, because that's what you do. It is your identity.

I have a partner. We have lived together for 14 years. In order to tell you anything about myself, I have to tell you about him too. It is my life. It is what I do. This is who I am.

Coming out is something you do with each and every new person you meet. I am not rubbing your face in my sexuality. I'm just talking about me. If I tell you I went out for lunch, but avoid telling you with who, that is in the closet. If I tell you it was with my boyfriend, that is out of the closet.

So yup, done hiding here, and not going to start again because some people might be clueless or treat me as less.

Edit: nice, downvotes. Did I make you feel silly for listening to taking points from bigots?
Germany is actually a very illustrative example. They started remilitarization in earnest in 1933, Britain and France started around 1936, and those few years of head start let Germany trounce everyone around for the first few years of WWII despite their inferior industrial base.
From the article "Turns out, the corrupted file caused the BinaryPack serialization library to immediately execute itself with a stack overflow exception, bypassing any exception handling and just exiting the process. Within minutes, our global DNS server fleet of close to a 100 servers was practically dead." and from your comment "We do the same for the CDN and always use canary testing if possible. We unfortunately never assumed this piece of software could cause all the DNS servers to stack overflow."

This read like the DNS software is being changed. As some people already mentioned is this a corruption where checksum would of been prevented the stack overflow or would a canary detected this? Why would a change to DNS server software not canaried?
If people had reason to kill him, it would likely be that he knew scandalous information. The public wouldn't really know that people cared about him or what that information was.

I have no idea if McAfee had such knowledge, but "I don't know any reason why someone would kill him" doesn't mean much.
> If I knew someone casually for a while who never talked about his/her sexuality, but one day they said "I never said this before, but I'm a heterosexual", I'd certainly feel awkward about it. Why did he/she say that to me?

That's because the dominant mode of society in _most_ cultures involves a heterosexual identity; it's just so deeply embedded in culture that most people can't tell. For the longest time, it was (and still is in many cultures) socially acceptable for men to ogle women. Why? Because there was a tacit understanding that part of being a man meant being hypersexual, and because all men are attracted to women (in this trope), ogling women is just part of "being a man". This ties a man's behavior and identity with his sexuality.
Drugs destroyed his life, and it wasn't glorious. I'm not sure what else there is to say
Even without being found guilty of murder... if you watch that documentary he hires very unsavory characters to be his armed guards 24x7.

You are one of the richest people on the planet and you choose to be an armed bully on a small island with a lot of poverty to exploit.

He could literally have any lifestyle he wanted.
thanks for that video. i found myself so quick to judge, though i know very little about him. but seeing someone play music makes them human again. it seems he did burn bright. some people cant help but push up against the edges of existence. rip.
The Economist has been talking about this for many years.
Note that there's comparatively little benefit to puberty blockers in F2M cases, because other than the obvious case of breasts, most secondary sex characteristics, even post puberty, can be radically altered by taking male hormones. So you get very little benefit, but the risk side is a lot less clear. For the same reason, most F2M's will be better off delaying both hormonal and surgical transition until well after puberty and perhaps into middle-age, when desistance rates do get very low.

The situation re: M2F is genuinely more challenging, and one has to balance a variety of factors pushing for earlier, not just later intervention.

> Certain factions who would prefer trans people cease to exist

I don't think this is fair. When we're talking about people this young, concerns about later desistance are very real. Expressing such concerns is in no way equal to preferring that these people "cease to exist".
Actually, John killed his own dogs after he believed they were poisoned by his neighbor. Were they really poisoned, or was that just one of his psychotic delusions(like his claim that Belizean officials were out to kill him but killed Faull by mistake)?

We'll never know. But we do know that his dogs were allowed to run free in a giant pack and attacked at least 6 people (probably more, but they may be locals and not ex-pats/tourists whose claims are more likely to be reported on)
Rebuilt that link for ya, friend. Cheers!

http://www.5z8.info/racist-message-board_u1s1lj_-----TAKE.TW...
Australia: South East Queensland's venomous caterpillar
For global warming purposes, I'm personally okay with local ecological disruptions from hydro.
A healthy paranoia if you grew up with the internet.

When a link can compromise an entire machine, having a machine you can literally throw away with no consequence is nice.

Hell, I'd wager to say that containers wouldn't be a thing if it weren't for this kind of behavior. Looking for ways to build up and destroy VMs even faster.
As I'm reading the article and the discussion here, I'm seeing mostly talked around REST. How are folks supporting a GraphQL interface with Django? Also,

> Rule #17: Keep logic out of the front end

I'm curious how folks who use a db-to-api tool (e.g. Hasura) think of this? I'm currently working on a codebase that has Hasura and we're doing, what seems to me, a massive amount of logic in React. But as far as I know, there's no alternative under that scheme.
Watched about 20 minutes of Gringo before I got tired of it and turned it off.

Sounds like a textbook case of what can happen if you take a very bright person and then give them a sudden windfall of success. That is, derangement. He or she doesn't stop being smart and even charismatic and so on.

One question always is: what's the next act? No next act and the propensity to derangement goes up.
It seems like this engineering residency program is essentially an extended internship, which converts to a full time role if the worker does well. Google searches say residents are paid ~$95k a year. This is by no means bad pay for entry level work.

I'm really struggling to see the injustice of this program. It seems to me that axing it only leaves the people who used this role as a stepping stone to reach a full time role with no opportunity to get their foot in the door.
> Sorry to break it to you, but chromosomes are prescriptive.

... Except when they aren't. Even biology doesn't paint such a simple picture. Chromosomes are important, but not as important as hormones -- and how the body responds to those hormones.

If you're not aware of CAIS, it is probably the clearest way for you to re-evaluate your view that chromosomes are prescriptive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_androgen_insensitiv...

Edit - puzzled by the downvotes here. Do you know what chromosomes you have? Have you checked? If you do, there's a nonzero chance that they aren't the chromosomes you're expecting to find.

If you were to test your chromosomes and found they didn't match your expectations, you would either have to change your belief about the prescriptiveness of chromosomes, or your belief about your gender. Which belief would you change? Which belief do you hold more strongly?
Huh, I learn something new each day. I definitely would consider these words to be "very" rhyming and can't even envision which one mutates in other accents. Thanks!
I guess I discount the words of others pretty strongly, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories.

Instead of trying to look for evidence in someone's tweets, how about we look at the facts on the ground. Such as: was he on suicide watch? Is this jail reliable? Is there a history of conspiracy and/or corruption in this jailhouse?
I like reading how Sothebys tries to phrase the listing:

>Work includes:

>Original archive of dated and time-stamped files containing the source code

>Animated visualization of the code being written
>A Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) representation of the full code (A0 841mm wide by 1189 mm high)

>A letter written in the README.md file (in “markdown” format) by Sir Tim in June of 2021, reflecting upon the code and his process of creating it

Cool, so some text files, a video of code and a picture of the code. You could make a script that automatically mints NFTs out of GitHub repos if that's worth... checks listing 1,200,000 USD.
The obvious point you're making is about a double standard -- rich people are unfairly given more slack than others. But an alternative framing amounts to evaluating a method by its results -- basically saying "I don't know why you're behaving that way, but for reasons I don't understand it seems to work for you." That obviously falls apart if you can cleanly separate their wealth/financial success from their behavior e.g. because they inherited the money.
I don't think he lost his mind, but rather decided that it was more fun to seek attention than credibility.
Are there any good articles or examples you can share that elaborate on why using services is best? Writing a custom model manager method for these sorts of operations seems to work best. For instance, the create_account service could easily be part of the User.objects manager:

class UserManager(models.Manager):
def create_account(self, sanitized_username: str, ...):
# the rest of the code in this method is the same as the example.
...
return user_model, auth_token

class User(models.Model):
...
objects = UserManager()

>>> User.objects.create_account(sanitized_username="blackrobot", ...)
(<User: blackrobot>, 'fake-auth-token:12345')

The benefit here is that other parts of your code only need to import the User model to access the manager methods. It also allows for the User.objects.create_account(...) method to be used by related models, without risking a circular import, by using the fk model's Model._meta.get_field(...) method.

I'm not opposed to services, I just don't see when they'd be particularly useful.
> Can someone explain why McAfee had decamped to Belize in the first place and started a life on the lam?

Drugs.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/the-obscure-legal-dr...
Question: does this put an end to Luca Turin's vibration theory?

I realize that this has long been considered crackpottery, and there has never been a reasonable sense of a mechanism for it. But it did seem to offer at least a stab at a couple of questions that didn't have good answers in the ordinary lock-and-key model of olfaction, such as why sulfur-containing molecules all smell "sulfury" if they all unlock different locks.

As far as I can tell the idea sorta just died out. A lot of work was done trying to make odor molecules with different isotopes, with intriguing but inconclusive results.

Still, I've been kinda curious to see if the theory was finally over and done.
There are race-based laws in some countries that incentivize, prioritize and make legal the practice of hiring certain races over others.

E.g.:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment
Doctor, doctor, my anatomy hurts?
Court of law has rules on what evidence can be brought in. Courts are not the arbiter of justice, they're a system of justice that has flaws and errors.
A score or range system has more possible values than candidates and treats ballots with different numbers but the same ordering differently; its not the same as an unforced preference ranked ballot (a ranked preference ballot that allows ties).
> but a 75 year old man who spends 16 hours a day rambling on twitter about fringe stuff does not

Are we still talking about McAfee here? I am coveted.
TikTok’s Chinese nemesis Kuaishou hits 1B monthly users worldwide
If you steal the proof of ownership of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, do you think they'd give the Mona Lisa to you?
Well there are three separate interests

* self labeling

* others labeling you

* how others are labeled

any of the three can become unhealthy when overdone, and different people have different amounts of interest in the three. They each have a set of problems associated with them.

I wouldn't go out of my way to say any one in particular is more of an issue. (i.e. they're all issues in different ways)
So the browser comes with opt-in native controls that a page can enable. Is that right?

What happens if the component is not available at runtime? Or if browser implementations ar inconsistent? It seems to me that these are the main constraints, rather than release of new standards.
its interesting to read reflections of people locked up. very often they talk of how we are all in our own forms of jail.
freedom is a state of mind.
Pretending people are not the biological sex they actually are, to me that's an undue burden. I don't have to pretend a furry is an actual dog. The truth, evidential truth about the World, is central to my identity; why do I have to yield my identity to others? You identify as the third coming of Moses, well that's nice for you, why do I have to get involved in your delusion?

You're a male that feels like a female, well ok, why do I need to care again?
What is the advantage over the iCloud photos service they already have?
Covid's Delta Variant: What We Know
Sure. But the debate is wether the fees would be considered reasonable or abusive. Although nobody has a problem with Apple making a healthy profit, there is a line at which the fees abusive (to most people).

Apple understands that they cannot win the PR war in being open and honest with its customers and partners.

Who knows though, maybe this was disclosed in court and/or to legislatures. It will be interesting to see if it comes out.
While you are throwaway I am still gonna remind you of "assuming good faith" is one of core tenants of hn.

Other things that are exploitable: driving vans/cars in cities as they can be driven into crowds.

I agree that it is thinkable that some people might want to exploit these rules. However I haven't seen anything that suggest abuse will be rampant enough and not be able to be dealt using existing laws and shaming exploiters. So I think we should give trans people their rights and deal with perverts and abuser separately.

A cost on switching can be imposed but it shouldn't make it more stigmatising or harder on trans people ideally.
This is the third posting on McAfee's death. They are different articles, but do we need three postings on the same topic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608838
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608964
Would you have preferred the poster express a specific probability that they hold their belief at?
I think your terminology is a bit backwards. A trans man is someone assigned female at birth but who later identifies as male. From context you seem to be talking about the hypothetical of male rapists professing they identify as trans women. A person born male who later identifies as a woman is a trans woman.
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Please don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. We're trying for a different sort of internet here, to the extent possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>I happen to be amongst the two billion malaria infections in the past decade and fortunately for me, an artemisinin therapy was enough. Unfortunately, there is a growing amount of resistance to these treatments so people are taking artemisinin-based medicines and not getting better.

it took basically less than 20 years of mass use for the resistance to develop. Life finds a way. It looks like any one drug would giving time end up with resistance. We probably need some approach that can be routinely promptly adapted in response to the malaria adaptations. Googling mRNA malaria brings a bunch of stuff, and judging by the covid vaccine example may be this time we're going to get technology capable to match/beat the malaria adaptation speed.
I mean, you're right that this is a problem and it gives people the ability to shoot themselvesin the foot but bytes and byte order is apart of a C programmers framework for better or worse. I want to argue it gives you incredible control of the data at the lowest level and that's the tradeoff. If you write non portable code, it seems like you have to go out of your way not using standard portability types. If you define your own struct types I can see where this goes awray, but I think " __attribute__((__packed__))" eliminates alignment spaces for that case.

BUT, if you are coming from a networking/file perspective I can emphathize with you. Byte ordering is a pain for data serialization, even that has chance to cause issues and is no doubt a source of bug and pain.
It's already been done! https://github.com/Pebaz/nimporter
I like Nim’s “missing postfix syntax”. You can get the feel of OOP when calling procedures without really using OOP.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-method-call...
100% of people have gender.
Tell that to the companies fined for using mail chimp. You might to look up the regulatory requirements to "follow the law". when it comes to EU companies using services from US based companies. Even if the data never leaves the EU...
It's true that raster tiles are easier to draw, but CPU/GPU is rarely the limit for performance even on (modern) mobile devices, network access then disk access then memory usage is. And using the network is one of the largest sources of power use. Vector tiles are smaller downloads, therefore they are more performant.

Wall time CPU profiling is just not that useful anymore and yet it's the only thing most people ever think about for some reason.
How about the fact that in England to this day, it is impossible for a woman to rape anyone, because rape is legally defined as non-consenting penetration with a penis.
> If it isn’t, raise them or close and do something else with your life.

They don't have that option. The contracts stipulate that delivery prices (before fees are subtracted) cannot be higher than the lowest price. So you can't charge 30% more for Uber Eats to cover the fee vs customer pick-up or dine-in.

In a fair market restaurants could negotiate the clause out of the contract, but of course nobody except the really large chains have any negotiating powers against Uber.
What numerical value? He either did it or didn't. Likely is an expression on the subjective probability based on the information they have.
Right but if you say the french equivalent of "you fucking n-word" to your teacher, nothing happens? I find that hard to believe.

Stepping away from race for a second because it probably is needlessly complicating this, you would not get in trouble in a french school for saying the french equivalent of "fuck you, you lazy piece of shit" to your teacher?
You just keep repeating that claim and don't bother to present an argument. There are plenty of effective dynamic web pages that are not painful to create as a counter point to your claim.

For layouts, I've used various toolkits including Qt, Java AWT and SWING, and Visual Basic way back when. Creating a GUI that scales gracefully on these, in my experience, is time consuming and highly difficult. Most everyone favors static layouts because of the challenges. Learning responsive design on a web page takes a bit of time but it has the tools to reasonably manage a variety of layouts on a wide range of screens.

I would even accept an individual native system's layout manager as a counter argument of something that is at least competitive. It really isn't an easy problem.
But how would somebody not in Europe know that the website does that?
This article also doesn't discuss the plight of the Uyghurs, bee colony collapse or the atmosphere of Venus. Because that's not what this article is about.
The students have a right to freedom of expression in protest.

The University should absolutely be providing speakers that challenge the student's views and offer ideas they may not agree with, but that's an educational decision, not a free speech one.

If the student body wants to lobby the University not to accept you as a speaker, that's their freedom of the speech, and it is up to the University to weigh that against the potential educational value.

For example, to start somewhere obvious, someone coming in to talk about how your friends are subhuman doesn't provide a lot of educational value, and students rightly don't want their tuition spent enabling it.

Don't like it, use your freedom of speech to demonstrate enough value to your ideas the University and student body are willing to listen. Students are at University for an education, and they have a right to say what they find valuable and demand value from the University. Denying them that is limiting their freedom of expression.