skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your analogy is useful, but the numbers have a lot to do with the conclusion. We're not talking about people choosing a Tesla or a beach house, we're talking about people choosing between living in section 8 + riding the bus, or living in a one bedroom + owning a vehicle.

I grew up (middle-class) in Alabama, in a smaller town than Bessemer; I have known people in these situations. Warehouse workers there are paid $15/hr, double the minimum wage. That warehouse employs thousands of people. Folks stay in these jobs because, if they left, they would drop (far) below the Federal poverty line. There aren't enough $15/hr jobs elsewhere to go around. So, enduring the hard working conditions is a very different choice for these workers vs. someone making $400,000/year in an engineering role.

Everyone has a right to make this call for themselves, but there are limits.
There is no evidence that trans women are more a threat to cis women than cis women are to each other. If a cis women is afraid of being assaulted by a trans women, that is a fear rooted in bigotry, not reality. If the individual in question is a convicted rapist, than precautions should be taken regardless of that persons genitals or gender to make sure they dont assault anyone else. Prison rape is horrific and needs to be addressed, and concern trolling about trans women doesnt help anyone and does hurt public perception of trans women.
Thank you - it's encouraging to see at least one other person not just absorb the pre-digested mass media swill as the gospel truth :p
Because it's extremely harmful to sex workers and many (perhaps a majority) of those who do it would prefer not to but lack the tools or support network to make a change.

What's the positive to society that justifies how frequently these women get robbed, assaulted, and raped?
By the reasoning of today's left, MLK's I have a dream speech is white supremacy.
> but it's the whole point ! that's exactly why exceptions are good !

Good for what? For crashing the program with a stacktrace? Probably. But for regular error handling - that's a terrible thing. They break normal control flow by adding a parallel / alternative control flow. Now with them you have to think on what happens if any of the code you call suddenly throws an exception and the number of potential control flow paths increases drastically. They are not referentially transparent and it is nearly impossible to do functional programming with them (they introduce side effects everywhere). You can also end up in a really bad situation when a destructor throws (typically crash).

> I get 2987 as a result. Choosing to program like this instead of using exceptions which at least can be recovered by the person who will use your lib, is literally hateful towards users.

But panics are Rust equivalent of exceptions.
That's the whole point of them. They are used for exceptional cases, which are impossible to recover from (which means the only way to deal with is to dump core and terminate) and most of the time preventable (you can always avoid dividing by zero or going out of array bounds).

It looks like we agree they should not be used for regular errors, like e.g. file not found. I'd not like my word processor to terminate with a core dump when it couldn't load the file from the disk. In this case return values are way better error handling mechanism.

> invalid state must not be representable in the program

Returning an option/try/either strikes that goal just as well as exceptions.
I recently moved to CT, and decided to get a firearms permit. CT law is relatively restrictive in the wake of Sandy Hook, and one is now required to take a firearms safety course before submitting the paperwork. There were about 30 of us altogether: roughly 50% men and 50% women, 7-10 Black classmates, 2 East-Asians, a handful (maybe 5?) Latinos, and the rest White.

Towards the end of the day, I got to talking with some classmates, and finally with one of the instructors. After a bit of chit-chat, I mentioned that I was surprised to see so many ostensibly different people in a gun club. He replied that the classroom composition was more or less representative of the gun club's constituents. After pressing him a bit, he conceded that it was representative of those doing firearm certifications, but only marginally more diverse than the club's membership. After a bit more chit-chat, he told me he was a lifelong democrat. Further, he said, "About 10% of the members here are crazy Trump-voting nutjobs, but they're kind. About 50% of them are traditional republicans, who didn't tell me who they voted for. And the remaining 40% either told me they were Democrats or independents, or we never talked politics."

I told him I was very surprised by all of this, and he told me it was recent. In his estimation, it all started in 2016.

I lived abroad from 2010 to 2020, and this is not how I remember things. I don't know what conclusion to draw from this, but it seems like something is very much afoot.
You do realize this is about where the money was coming from. The state had a constitutional mandate to fund education at a certain level and weren't doing so. Local and federal funding was making up the gap.

You won't see any impact to education because there isn't more money coming to education as a result of this ruling. Rather more money can flow from federal and local gov't to other programs (or in theory taxes could be lowered). This case is about funding sources more than funding amounts.
What if you insist on calling that person by the wrong name even though you know it's not what they prefer? That seems like a pretty good example of creating a toxic work environment and you should be fired over it.
Here's a really simple example of something that would benefit standard websites, not just complex web applications: image lazy loading.

<img src="..." loading=lazy>

Sure you can handle this with JavaScript, etc. The point is that this is one of countless papercuts - standard, useful behaviors that work everywhere but Safari.

https://web.dev/browser-level-image-lazy-loading/
https://caniuse.com/loading-lazy-attr
A Structure in Deep Space Is So Giant It's Challenging Standard Physics
"Warren re-ups bill to ban stock trading by lawmakers"

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/12/18/elizabeth-warre...

Ultimately the voters of her district have to care.
I feel something being overlooked is the fact that it's relatively easy to dope without detection when your natural state is "doping" when weightlifting is one of the dirtiest sports out there.
My team has built Conclave that might be interesting. https://docs.conclave.net. The idea is 1) make it possible to write enclaves in high level languages (we've started with JVM languages), 2) make the remote attestation process as seamless as possible.

The first part is what most people fixate on when they first look at Conclave. But an equally important thing is actually the second part - remote attestation.

The thing a lot of people seem to miss is that for most non-mobile-phone use-cases, running code inside an enclave is only really valuable if there is a _user_ somewhere who needs to interact with it and who needs to be able to reason about what will happen to their information when they send it to the enclave.

So it's not enough to write an enclave, you also have to "wire" it to the users, who will typically be different people/organisations from the organisation that is hosting the enclave. And there needs to be an intuitive/way to for them to encode their preferences - eg "I will only connect to an enclave that is running this specific code (that I have audited)" or "I will only connect to enclaves that have been signed by three of the following five firms whom I trust to have verified the enclave's behaviour".. that sort of thing.
That's why it's the Eisenhower interstate system. They could have passed an amendment, but instead they jammed it in as part of national defense.
> gender _is_ a social construct.

If gender is distinct from sex, then can you explain the qualifying characteristics of a "gender"?

What is the definition of "woman"? What is the definition of "man"?
I just came here to say thank you for this marvelous piece of software - one of the very best in the free software world, in my opinion.
==I can choose to identify as black if I like.==

What is the benefit for you? Is it trolling?
The time scale in my mind was the lifetime of the Constitution, so about 200 years.
The UI, down to the content and styling of menus, looks a lot like Linear. I'm chuffed to see the best parts being borrowed, but it looks like they've made sub-tasks/issues too simple, as they aren't first-class issues, but mere checkboxes with short descriptions.

https://linear.app
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608388.
From DeepL:

> McAfee anti-virus founder John McAfee commits suicide in a Barcelona prison

> The antivirus founder was arrested at El Prat airport and was awaiting extradition to the United States for tax evasion.

> The founder of McAfee antivirus, John McAfee, has been found dead this afternoon in his cell in Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires (Barcelona), according to police sources. The Mossos are investigating what happened, and everything points to a suicide, according to the Department of Justice. McAfee was pending extradition to the United States after being arrested by the National Police at El Prat airport.

> McAfee, 75 years old, was being held in Module 1 of the Brians 1 penitentiary center. The prison guards, who found him dead in his cell, and the prison medical services intervened to perform resuscitation maneuvers, according to the Department of Justice, but were unable to save his life.

> The controversial antivirus founder was arrested on October 3, 2020 at the airport of El Prat, when he was about to take a plane to Turkey. The arrest came at the request of the US justice system, which accuses McAfee of evading millions of dollars in taxes from profits allegedly obtained from activities such as cryptocurrency trading. The judge of the Audiencia Nacional José de la Mata ordered his imprisonment, and his extradition to the United States was already planned.
I agree that that using destructive blanket terms for groups and making caricatures of people is not novel, nor is the adoption of unfair, discriminatory policies novel. Because what constitutes hate speech is subjective, it might be something that is applied to others opportunistically and with surprisingly little provocation of any discrimination it supposedly seeks to reverse. ‘You’ve upset me, so you owe me,’ is a tactic that can be used opportunistically.

For info, the first citation is from the 2019 UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech (https://www.rightsforpeace.org/policy-docs), so is a pretty influential body for this topic and may well affect policy. It is true that Wikipedia should not be relied upon as an authoritative resource, but the link to the Guardian article can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/27/karen-race-whi... how broadly the term is applied can be gauged from the article or other instances where it appears on social media.

Addressing each of your points:

1. I agree that every insult is not a threat and its severity is subjective. One person might be hurt or even feel threatened by seemingly innocuous language whilst another might shrug off deliberate, targeted insults; simply using a person’s name or words like ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ can be threatening if the other person is about to be violent. People can even deliberately claim offense to exploit the subjectivity in dialogue. In this instance we are in danger of granting a term a degree of recognition which it is actually too subjective to deserve and this is opening up opportunity for misuse.

2. The vulnerability of the target argument is again subjective; 1 violent criminal amongst 30 sheepish academics will feel zero threat whereas the 30 will all be intimidated by this person. My experience has been that bullies are generally a minority in a pool of people – but weak people will follow and support them. History is full of instances where subordinated groups have vastly outnumbered the minority which holds sway over them (the feudal system, caste systems, colonialism, crime bosses, corporate org structures, etc.). Power systems are not necessarily gauged by the number of people in the group – a lion will not be threatened by a herd of sheep.

3. I agree that centralised micro-management of this issue is not possible or even desirable. Will some people have to overcome prejudices against them irrespective of whether they have the same rights as everyone else? Yes. For example, women may be regarded as the weaker sex or more emotional, whilst men may be regarded as dictatorial, insensitive ‘mansplainers’. Should we try to even things out for them by introducing subjective rules that favour them above others? I do not think so.
You're clearly disillusioned with the general accessibility of ML research, but I don't think your cynicism is warranted here. Take a look at their prior works[1], and I think you'll agree they go above and beyond in making their work accessible and reproducible. There is no reason to doubt the open-source release of this work will be any different. As to why the release is delayed, I'd speculate it's because they put a significant additional amount of work into releases and because releasing code in a large corporation is a bureaucratic hassle.

[1] https://nvlabs.github.io/stylegan2/versions.html
Language is defined by the people who speak it, not by some authority. If people are using “les” than it is part of Spanish.
Then why did you present it as a zero-sum game where you were quite willing to suggest putting trans-women into a situation you find unconscionable for cis-women?

You have thoroughly proved the original poster's point: TERF talking points are damaging. You bought one up, defending it as "reasonable", but when pressed you accept that there is a preferable solution that doesn't involve throwing trans people under the bus.

The talking point is there to push a narrative that trans people are dangerous, just as was done with gay people before. It is designed to imply that we must choose between women's rights and trans people's rights, which is a false dichotomy.
Are you in prison or competing at the highest level of sports? If not then why not just respect the preferences of trans people?
I'm not convinced the US considered these values mainstream, as exclusion of most people from voting, and from slaves their natural rights shows
They’re still possible. Not everything has to be done at the lowest possible poverty wage. It’s not as though those savings are being passed on to you in the first place.

Staff up, and pay staff appropriately.
Long ago I was making node server which served partials of progressive JPEG files, stopping at IIRC the SOS headers. I had an 'enhance' button that worked. :)

It would have worked even better with JPEG 2000, but browsers killed that off for some reason. I miss the old Netscape days.
People come out, because they keep their gayness secret for a whole lot of good reasons. The alternative to coming put is not dating your boyfriend and going to reataurant. It is making sure no one ever see you with him, kiss him, hold his hands.

Also, parents and relative reacting badly on finding out ypu are gay are not exactly unheard of. There are also plenty of accepting parents, sure. But as heterosexual, they already assume you are one and you dont have to guess whether it will be breaker for them or not.
Federal government gives small business grants and loans preference based on race and gender? I am now a black female.
Even if regulators accept Apple's argument Apple must show that they are not misusing their market power.
If App Store is allowed to continue without sideloading and alternative App Stores they have to cut their margins.

Math:

Currently: 78% profit margin with 30% commission (according to expert testimony in Epic Games lawsuit) That's definition of market power.

6.6% commission would cover all costs.

7.3% commission if Apple is allowed to take 10% profit margin.
Maybe it is the unsustainable environmental impacts of never-ending new gadgets?

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/top-6-environmen...
> I still have to catch myself when I encounter it to avoid glancing back over the text to figure out which specific person is being referenced, whom I must have missed in my first reading

That's funny. Saying "off-putting" I had exactly that in mind.

What? She? I must've zoned out.
Good or bad, what a sad ending to a colorful life.

The guy was troubled and had many shortcomings, but he was colorful and also achieved success and arguably was one of the seminal figures in the nascent AV industry.

Sad to see his fall from grace and into a world of extravagance, deceit and cheating (taxes) and, if allegations true, even worse; then to end it on the floor of a jail -all by his own hands.
Even though he lived a cuestionable life. He was a free man until the end. I respect him for that.
Indeed, last year i made a 3D platform/adventure game for an MS-DOS game jam[0] and noticed that some people added it to their "PS1-styled" game lists even though it had nothing to do with PS1 :-P (nor i ever had a PS1 myself - i did buy a PS2 though a few years ago but only played a single game on it - i want to figure out a way to modchip or something so i can do some homebrew, though i dont want to mess with the hardware side of things and i hope it'll be eventually supported by FreeDVDBoot instead).

However i think the combination of lack of z-buffer, affine texturing and RGB color output with dithering was kinda unique - or at least very rarely seen elsewhere. You could see several z-buffer-less and affine-only texture mapped games on software rendered PC games, but pretty much all of them were using 8bit palettized modes. Some also used dithering (e.g. Ultima Underworld) though it was very rare.

By the time there were a few games that used RGB colors and software rendering (e.g. Unreal, Heretic 2), PCs were also powerful enough to do perspective correct texturing.

[0] https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra
Um... this actually makes no sense to me. Could you clarify or elaborate?
Yeah, I just tend to avoid political posts and threads altogether. Speaking as a trans woman who doesn’t use Twitter or most other social media, it can feel like I don’t have a voice and I’m just seeing this debate play out. But in a way I’m fine with that. Online it’s like people either hate me because I’m trans or hate others on my behalf because they’re not trans-inclusive enough. My lived experience is nowhere near as extreme. To most of my friends, family and coworkers, I’m the only trans person they know and the topic of gender rarely comes up. Aside from a few friends and family who disowned me early in my transition, I’ve found that people are generally respectful. Strangers can sometimes be mean / scary / creepy and dating isn’t easy (most guys aren’t into trans girls or if they are it’s usually a fetish thing) - so I just try to avoid situations where I’m unsafe or feeling bad vibes.

I know that was a bit off-topic but I guess what I’m trying to say is, it’s okay to create distance between you and the things that bring you down. I’ve found so much interesting content through Hacker News and it would be a shame to throw that away just because the politics here don’t always align with my own.
I have a terrible problem: I actually am gay.

But I hate identifying so at work because I don't want to be "the gay guy". I don't want to be promoted early to boost the company stats. I don't want people thinking I was promoted for that reason either.

I don't know why anyone would want those things. I'm gay, but I'm here because I'm good at my job and I work hard. I'm taking your bonus, but not using my genitals, using my impressive mathematical skills!

I am very happy to just be dumped into the same pool as everyone else (metaphorically and for swimming)

/rant
Might fall into the same category as Hound but Wallaby exists and works.

Otherwise have you heard of Crawley?
Definitely a tricky problem for CRDTs. A possible solution is outlined in the OpSets paper; https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04263

I hope that there are existing implementations of OpSets that perform well. I find the solution laid out in that paper to be really elegant and beautiful.
And yet, it's a direct quote from the article.
Predictability is bad for curiosity :)

I was going to link you to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... but it looks like most of those are quoting other people.
Wirecard :)

But you’re right. Mostly the normal banks and exchanges are regulated and incidence of fraud is low. A lot of that regulation is “lessons from past failures”, which crypto hasn’t had yet.
Or in english:

https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/john-mcafee-dies-by-suicide-in...
Vercel $102m Series C
https://elpais-com.translate.goog/economia/2021-06-23/el-fun...

Google translate.
Yeah, my legal name is "Michael". If I asked you to call me "Mike" is that really such a pain for you?
Don't those stats only prove that criminalized prostitution is a negative? I expect you'd have a huge differential if you took similar stats from people selling weed in a place that strictly enforces a ban vs a place where it is legal and regulated. Probably not when it comes to rape, but violent/armed encounters are probably negligible for a legal weed shop, but common in an underground industry. Naturally, in the latter case, people would overwhelmingly want to get out, not because of the job itself, but the opportunists that crop up due to the lack of legal oversight.
White/black may be widely viewed as preposterous but things like Hispanic/white are often a matter of self identification and culture more than genetic reality.
>[Noticia de última hora. Habrá actualización en breve]

Breaking news. Update coming soon.

Better if we wait an hour or so.
Why would trans women have any greater fear of rape (by men) than (smaller, weaker) men have?
First, hospitals do get compensated some by both Medicare insurance and Medicaid; it's just not enough [1]. Second, a growing majority (63% as of 2020) of US adults want there to be at least a public option for healthcare [2].

Do you think hospitals should not be compensated for giving care to people who can't afford to pay?

[1] https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/factsheet-hospital-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...
This distinction doesn't sit right with me though. What is Gender really, in the modern definition (since it seems to have changed over the years)? From what I gather it's a way for people to tell others that one of their physical characteristics (Sex) does not match their mental state (Gender). To me this doesn't really seem like a positive thing, it comes off like a potentially harmful delusion from someone who can't come to terms with their own biology.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a feminine man or a masculine woman, people can behave however they wish regardless of biology. But the most feminine man on the planet is still a man and saying so shouldn't turn you into a pariah, it's true after all.

Imagine we came up with 'Gender' like terms for other physical characteristics, it seems to me like the logic quickly breaks down when you think about it-

Gender is to Sex as
____ is to Race as
____ is to Age as
____ is to Height as
____ is to Weight as
____ is to Eye Color
etc.
She put herself in a position where she didn't have a job, and the jobhunt and interview process had a pay-rent-and-feed-myself urgency.
Reuters reporting same https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/john-mcafee-found-dead-...
SemiAccurate has a more detailed explanation.

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2021/06/23/arm-talks-security-c...