skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is this author? His blog appears to be a crusade against trans people.

> What’s important to note is that the presence of a Y chromosome, or two, or three, etc., all result in the development of testes and therefore these individuals are biologically male. Likewise, individuals with additional or fewer X chromosomes, in the absence of a Y, all develop ovaries and are therefore biologically female.

Looking at things like testes and ovaries is only one part of things, and not some universal definition scientists accept. The author even admits in the comment some people may have both. We also know that some people make have one of these but appear oppositely on the inside/outside.

> This isn't hard.

From my experience, it is deeply complex.

> Effectively regulating sports divisions based on sex using science is impossible. There are no singular or combinations of objective criteria that can define each sex. Prior attempts to govern sports eligibility based on sex using existing testing methods have failed to provide a workable solution based on chromosome composition, physical exam, etc. In other words: we have no way to consistently differentiate male from female and we have never possessed the ability to do so. Gender and sex are not the same thing. Sex is typically assigned at birth based the appearance on appearance of external genitalia and or chromosomal makeup, whereas gender is socially constructed and may vary from culture to culture and/or change over time. However, sex is difficult to dichotomize into two binary divisions because there are a number of different chromosome compositions consistent with either male or female phenotypes. The phrase “biological sex” is meaningless and is ill-advised.

From https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/shades-of-gray-sex-gend...
> And that's very useful for establishing which sources we should rely upon in a shared discussion.

Not necessarily. If someone doesn't like the dictionary, for example, then you're not really dealing with someone who is looking for actual information about the definitions of words.

Calling Breitbart a propaganda channel doesn't say anything except you think "propaganda" is a negative word and you don't like Breitbart. If you would instead have told him of the many times it promoted misinformation and conjectural outrage over substance and you don't feel like sifting through the chaff for any possible wheat so by default you don't treat Breitbart as a source of reliable news. That would be different.
See also

https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/news.en.html
> The middle ground is "I have no use for cryptocurrency."

I'd argue that the middle ground is "We'll see."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cjVhUrmII
I offered the Open Steno folks a subdomain of plover.com, so they could set up a redirect or something, but Mirabai said they didn't need it.
That's fair. :)

What were some of the authz pieces you struggled with?
To piggy back on the topic of tabular data, has anyone experienced transfer learning on tabular data in their work or research?
Actually you have the same holiday but you're arriving at your destination in the morning after sleeping all the way, instead of waking up early to be at the airport 2 hours before the flight etc.

Sleeper trains go at night generally.
Australia has a bi-cameral system structured very much like the US, with the lower house being geographic regions of roughly equal population, while the upper house is State based, with equal representation of each State.

In terms of voting, our lower house is ranked choice, our upper house is party-list based ("vote 1 above the line") with the option of individual selections instead ("number the candidates of your choice from 1").

Australia ends up with a two-sided lower house, but the conservative side is actually a coalition of business and rural parties. So it is actually multi-party, in fact, there's a spat going on right now between the urban "Liberal" (right wing conservative fiscally "liberal") and "National" (rural agrarian socialists, privatizing gains, socializing losses, internally split between being pro-resource-extraction industries and agricultural industries).

So we have that same multi-party representation, just our coalitions are more rigid.
Ask HN: How much electrical power does a virtual machine use?
I recently received an email from my employer indicating that for 'environmental reasons' they will be shutting down Windows virtual desktop machines if they're idle for more than eight hours. I was wondering, assuming that the organisation had capacity for 1000 virtual machines, what would be the power saving (Watts) by shutting down a single idle virtual machine? How would this compare, as a percentage per physical machine, to simply encouraging staff to turn off their physical laptop overnight instead?
Bank deposits are securities. You have a claim on your bank when you make a deposit.
If you think there is no difference between a bank account and a bitcoin private public key pair then bitcoin is a security.
You are making the argument bitcoin is a security. Who is the issuer? I would say the miners are selling securities and you give them money (like a deposit) in exchange for the miners continuing to mine in the future, so when you decide to spend your bitcoin, bitcoin will still be running.
If bitcoin is a security issued by the miners then yes bitcoin becomes more than just a number.
> "corruption, bullying, and drive to have everyone do as little as possible" <-- this exact same verbiage could be used to describe the current state of affairs sans unionization.
I'm in the UK, heavily unionised and nationalised industry eventually died. See the British car industry for example.
Ballerina Swan Lake Beta Released
Ballerina has had a major revamp since the 2019 release and we recently released the first of a series of betas before making it GA. Some of the key features of the language include:
- data orientation
- flexible typing (including service typing) with major improvements in the type system
- text and graphical syntax symmetry
- cloud native features with support for easy production and consumption of services
- convenient concurrency model similar to coroutines and a lot of concurrency safety introduced with readonly and isolated types

Release blog: https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/announcing-ballerina-swan-la...

Short tutorial on how to write a service in Ballerina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyIKoHl3Dw&ab_channel=Balle...

In-depth slide deck:
https://ballerina.io/learn/language-concepts/Ballerina_Langu...

Video presentation of these slides:
https://ballerina.io/learn/language-concepts/
That was an excellent campaign.
> I've no idea if this is somehow profound or mind-bogglingly obvious

It's not.

That's an "affect" not an "effect."

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/affect-vs-effect/
They claim to be customer obsessed but they're seemingly happy to be the conduit for overpriced fake garbage if it gins their next quarter results.

They will use their size and wealth to destroy competition like diapers.com and carve our a monopoly, presumably so they can sell worse quality crap at a higher price.

Why is it scandalous if Teamsters have a "dues motive" that mirrors (probably not even as strongly) Amazon's "profit motive" if this is the stream of wealth they're tapping? Are unions only moral if run by ascetic monks?
<meta name="GENERATOR"content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">

Frontpage 6 will hopefully blast those silly react or angular pages from the web.

Extremely cool looking robot and awesome site out of time. Most links even work.
Depends very much on the locations.

I've worked in union shops where I wasn't union, and I was warned to ensure nobody is watching when I plug in my test equipment for the embedded system I was working on. In a different location for the same company the union guys were cool and would pretend not to see me do that (same union, just different workplace culture in different cities).
Sounds like it is not that simple in the end, doesn't it?
Thanks for sharing this is good information to know.
Not once in my life have I ever felt a need or desire to work. I don't assign value or meaning to "work", I don't need work to find personal fulfillment, I don't need work to get social interaction and meet people, and I don't need work to learn new skills and grow. I took a month off between jobs once and it was amazing: I woke up at 4am, worked out a ton, studied my personal interests, and spent a ton of time socializing and enjoying my hobbies. I can't relate at all to the people who say you'll get bored of retirement or that life has no meaning without work.

So my goal is to retire ASAP because I know retirement is the life I'll thrive under. You should aim for that in the long term and in the short term, find a new job. FAANG companies have horrible work cultures. There are plenty of software jobs that are laid back and easy-going, and finding a new job is also a chance at a better manager.
This exhibits the halting problem, no?

I tried to use DDG, but now I don’t because I never knew whether it was just my DDG search that had been unsuccessful or whether there were truly no results.

In fact, I wouldn’t know with any search engine whether there are “truly no results”, so I use G because I prefer to get what’s widely accepted to be the closest results possible.
They’re likely referring to Pinochet, the dictator the US had installed in Chile. He was known to throw people out of helicopters for things like wrongthink, which of course is a funny meme now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights#Chile_under_Augu...
Get advice from doctor about taking Bupropion. Get diagnosed. It is not a taboo anymore.
That was an incredible story, and I went down a rabbit hole of reading more about that disease. Thank you very much for sharing.
Scholars on LinkedIn Are Being Blocked in China ‘Without Telling Them Why’
> And what happens after 10 years when new UI trends become popular and we need new ui elements?

Design trends change, but the basic components that make up form elements have remained the same. We still have buttons, text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Those aren't going anywhere.
Glaber is a Zabbix fork with many improvements and ClickHouse based
Glaber project is essentially Zabbix monitoring with a set of patches and fixes to make it a hundred times faster, scalable and High Availability ready with dynamic multi-server configuration
> Wuhan Institute of Virology has collaborated with the Galveston National Laboratory in the United States, the Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie in France, and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada.

> In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the institute published successful research on a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.

I want to believe they had a good excuse for doing so.

I want to believe they created rigorous safety protocols that reduce the risks as much as possible.

Then they chose to do it in the most populous city in Central China (population 11 million) which is so stupid I doubt they had a good enough reason and certainly didn't bother with safety all that much.

After such stupidity one doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[0] - List of laboratory biosecurity incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
Don’t you also have to register in advance, prove that you are resident and not voting in multiple places ?

I’d love to believe it’s literally just showing up with an ID, but that doesn’t seem realistic to me.
I think most of the crazy @ features are in Apple's branch. There's still the GNU version floating around working with OpenStep that is much closer to the original Objective-C vision.
Are people with Müllerian agenesis not women then? Your definition doesn't seem to match up with colloquial usage, even ignoring trans women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCllerian_agenesis
This won't work with third-party callers.
Well a couple things to note:

1. An entrepreneurial teacher/teachers could provide a service for these suddenly flush parents at $4600 per child.

2. Most politicians, from either side are either corrupt or incompetent, so these labels don’t matter much to me. But if you actually look at the people running most say schools/admins and even large chunks of the government bureaucracy it’s people who believe in large government and like that lifestyle. This is true even in deep red areas.

Finally, the argument “more money”/resources needed to improve the bad quality is something that has been going on for 50+ years and it’s gotten worse over time. At what point do you say, “geez guess more money isn’t the answer!”

I think Thomas Sowell said once something along the lines that the black schools in DC at about late 1800s-early 1900s was OUTPERFORMING those of the white schools in the region. If one is to look at the present day schooling in the same region, those children/teens are functionally illiterate.

So what needs to be done, is to give a voucher to every parent to decide where to go. Right now the system sends MORE money to a school if it’s failing, and or they allow the failing school to survive.
It doesn't make much of a difference. And not everyone can afford good organic food or private school. This isn't a good argument.
What you describe is a fallacy... it's more like: "I'm a heavy machinery operator, not a welder; if you need a weld, you'll need to requisition a welder."
You're also stuck with whatever you put in the option's value attribute - very unlike how a <select> works where the option has text content and a value.

Scenario: You've got customers, who have names and IDs. You want to search by name, but the ID needs to be sent to the server - you're right back to doing some JavaScript hack with a hidden field that gets a data-customerid attribute or whatever off of the selected option from a datalist.
ÖBB trains (even the ones reaching Czechia under Czech Railways brand) are super-good experience.
Even then it sounds bizarre, was the public really alerted to his existence as a result of the release of a few obscure documents?
Just used `base` today: building a whole reporting framework that needs to work from static files, and base is one of those little tricks that makes it all nicer.

I am hitting a lot of weird little things running from static files, but I think it helps me quite a bit that I know html from when it was young -- hand crafting html for your angelfire site in the 1990's sort of prepared me for semantic tags...
Well, it's not like <datalist> was only just added. It's been in browsers for over a decade. It was in Firefox 4. Even IE10 supported datalist.
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Excellent critique of ratings based system. I think this is the biggest problem with multi-point (more than 3 values for score) STAR voting. What constitutes "5 star"? What about 0/blank vs 1 star?

Framing is important, and I think STAR would be most optimal with good ol' Likert scale (five or seven point) rather than 0-N stars. But I think even simpler is the "3-point Likert" behavior of V321: approve, disapprove, and "meh, ok."

I don't like how IRV forces me to rank candidates I may know little to nothing about (e.g. downballot randos not on "my team"). I don't really care if Kick Puppies Party is above or below Trip Grandparents Party.
Go work for a non-tech Fortune 500. Expectations are low, and your success will depend much more on soft skills than any other factor.

Your TC will be cut in half (or worse), but your base might not suffer as much as you think, as long as you negotiate well.

If you find that you can't stand the low expectations and slow pace, you can always go back to tech. But it might help to spend a few years in a low-performance environment and find meaning outside of work.
I remember 2600 doing this a few years ago. They claimed that they found a number that was "weird" which encouraged listeners to try it out. Turns out the rabbit hole was run by them :)
Which is why I sometimes leave early. The union guys who finish early stand at the door until the 5:00 bell rings because they are not allowed to leave early even if their work for the day is done, while as a non-union employee if I'm done a bit early I get to leave. Sometimes I work until 5:30, sometimes I'm out at 4:30. It all works out.
There is severe hesitation to fund this research by the psychiatric and medical establishment.
The hedge is refinancing out any market appreciation, like a piggy bank, keeping debt high while interest rates are low, you can always hand back the key if it goes south.
My issue is that adding any functionality into native UI elements breaks the separation of concerns principle. You're wrapping structure, styling, and behavior all into one package, in a manner that is impossible to disentangle.
Versioning Google Sheets with Dolt and GitHub Actions
Sorry if it's a very stupid question, but why don't they add some bumps in the border of the disk so it does not roll on the floor? Does that destroy the aerodynamic properties?
There is only one time zone in finland
> re: wait and see

I’d argue that the web had Facebook, EBay, Google, and Amazon 13 years after launching, what are the crypto folks waiting for if it’s so revolutionary? Where are the killer apps, and how much longer do we have to wait?
That's illegal please arrest her.
And we have … HTML with Java Applets and VB Script extensions
If you've been watching the stats then you should have a citation on hand to show some of those statistics, otherwise your comment sounds dismissive and condescending to the person you are replying to.

In addition, since you made it sound like your hobby is compiling these statistics but didn't bother sharing them, it makes me think you haven't actually been following anything and are full of it
Many prisma.io users tell us that they use prisma to implement complex business logic and then stitch it all together in hasura which exposes the final graphql API.

So it might even be feasible to use Hasura for more complex applications. I'm curious if there are specific reasons you see this not working well?
Hey folks!

HasuraCon our annual user conference is happening today - virtual, free and recorded for posterity ofcourse. :)

There's a tonne of stuff talking about work happening in the Hasura engine, use-cases, best practices and patterns, especially building off the 2.0 release.

Some massive announcements around improvements in data-federation (what in a burst of creativity is called Remote Joins) as well.

Link here for those interested: https://hasura.io/events/hasura-con-2021/talks/architect-gui...
Also a white backlash against CRT that is anti white.
Kubernetes Probes: SRE Anywhere [video]
I always heard that medicine was the fallback for the students who couldn't hack it as physicists.
That sounds like a terrible idea. Taking apart a useful infrastructure, with unlimited potential for adoption, for purposes we don't know about yet.
They took apart most of the rail network across Canada, especially the smaller rural links. And sold the land. Imagine trying to recreate an efficient communications system in the future, and trying to purchase right of ways to interconnect all the villages and towns across a 5000km wide country.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593360
Hey look another outrage article about censorship.
There have been news reports on this. [1] Apparently the money was already allocated, like 5.2 billion, but they have paid out 60 million and are having problems paying the rest of it out. Property managers are apparently frustrated. They have submitted the paperwork but the state is not paying anyone.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ySokIFW3g
Makes total sense. I do most of my work on greenfield projects for that reason.

But I think you're right. There's really no low-risk path when you have a poorly tested code base. You can keep letting productivity decline, which guarantees eventual project failure. You can do a giant rewrite, which is hugely risky. Or you can gradually dig yourself out.

There's still risk there, of course. But it's in smaller, more manageable lumps. It seems like the clearly superior path to me.
> It doesn't

Yes it does. Of course you can detect different evaluation orders using side effects, but the fact that evaluation order is unspecified isn't generally a problem: if you write code like `a() + b()` and a() and b() has side-effects that depend on the order they're evaluated in, that is just a bad way of writing code. In any language.

The point here is that the compiler is allowed to interleave subexpressions of the two different arguments which causes a memory leak in seemingly safe code. That is a very unreasonable thing for the compiler to do, which is why it is a footgun. But not that it can ONLY happen if the second function throws in between the construction of the object with "new" and the construction of the shared_ptr: if the second function doesn't throw an exception, the construction of shared_ptr is guaranteed to happen.

Incidentally: those "exercise for the reader" comments are incredibly obnoxious.
It had no free complier for a long time and a good IDE is still quite expensive.

Overall, it's a pretty nice language.
Before unions were ever legal or recognized, they worked because of the force of solidarity, collective action and bargaining. You just simply couldn't fire and replace everyone at once.

It created a bargaining entity that the owner was forced to deal with because the alternative was closure.

EDIT: Frankly, if a union is relying on its legal recognition and backing for survival, it's already a zombie, dead-man-walking structure that is just going to fall apart in the long run. Unions must maintain solidarity and collective action and a healthy internal democracy and vibrant participation, or they'll just become a bureaucratic husk. Like most of the North American labour movement.
The i860 did not live up to expectations - it was a VLIW design and much like the Itanium design which followed, the platform was largely sank by the inability of compilers to generate code that made full use of the chip.

https://www.realworldtech.com/intel-history-lesson/3/
183 days to try 63 million passwords. Roughly 4 per second by my math.. that seems pretty low to me. Any decent password would be uncrackable in that case - but of course if people mostly use numerical 4 digit passwords that's plenty fast.
I won't comment on the first link, but I don't buy that second link at all. Assuming that it's referring to the C code from elsewhere on their site[0] (boldly claimed to be 'the world's first "reality based" statistics') then isn't it weird to model honest range voting by just adding some Gaussian noise to the true utility and then scaling the results back into [0, 1]? At that point your computer simulation just measures how closely the voting system agrees with range voting.

[0]: https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegExec.html