skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting is that you value rights... but not for trans people. You wrote many paragraphs about your God-given right to misgender people. Noticably missing is any talk about trans people being able to use public accomodations or have access to medical care or not face discrimination in terms of hiring, loans, services.

Like, "compel speech"? Really? You were going to use a pronoun anyways. It's just such a simple ask for the sake of politeness but you frame it as "compel speech"? This idea that it's such a burden is obviously contrived.
This is google imposed FUD to exercise control over users. They didn't need to design like that, but they want to make it hard to use things that are not google controlled.
I have this setup and it’s a great vision. Unfortunately I personally find it needless hamstringed:

1) the Watch works great for every single one of my smartphone needs, but you are required to pair it with an iPhone that has a phone plan…even if you keep the iPhone turned off 95% of the time.

2) the AirPods fall out of my head when I smile. I’ve tried the different sizings. For such an expensive gadget, I expect to be able to make them stay in my head without fear of losing them simply because I’m having a nice time.

3) people sometimes report that they can’t hear me very well through the AirPods even if I’m sitting still in a quiet room with no obstructions. This happens regardless of whether the pods are tethered to the Watch, computer, or iPhone.
Sadness trigger warning, brace yourself:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux
The factory where anything that could go wrong does go wrong.
To forgive oneself is not universally easy. In those cases the problem isn't (only) ADH, but other issues. For someone very deep down the rabbit hole it might be the most crushingly difficult first step, indeed.
I've been in unisex bathrooms with urinals. The people who can't use them just, well, don't use them.
Because the open web is possibly mankind's greatest advancement in the last 30 (or so) years. Intentionally crippling its continued advancement in the interest of greed is repugnant.

Yeah I know, its a moral argument not a business one. But, Apple does market itself as a highly moral, socially conscious, and highly progressive company.

Maybe one day they will do the right thing. A guy can dream.
Hm, no support on iOS sadly.
All this tool is doing is making Github a fancy web frontend for sending a patch to the LKML. From that perspective, all this does is make it more convenient for those with a GitHub account to not have to learn a totally new workflow. I would think this would be easily portable to any other service (e.g. create a similar bot for Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc).

There's a separate discussion about whether the workflow more broadly should move out of the LKML. This might look like having patch sets posted to the LKML automatically ingested into Gerrit.

All of this seems pretty sane to modernize the workflow & make it a more familiar one for those working on the Linux kernel professionally. E-mailing patch sets around is decidedly a very old way to do code review that's not generally found in modern professional shops (cries of "this is for the worse" notwithstanding because that feels like a VIM vs emacs complaint).
This cancel culture thing where a few negative cancels all the good you could have done is really weird.

Voltaire is racist, Washington had slaves, this or that twiteroo said 10 years ago some kind of sorry thing, McAfee killed and frauded.

Look it's all kinda true and all kinda irrelevant. People are more than the 10% of the time they sinned. I sure have sinned, and I sure hope you'll still find me valuable as a human.
I find it bizarre how many comments are focused on the virtues of the man over tax fraud and how few people are mentioning he's wanted for murder in Belize. And I didn't just skim some articles on it - I believe he killed someone. He's also been accused of rape.

I've never met the guy but when there's evidence he killed someone and another person claiming she was raped by him, it seems like maybe he's not so great?
If SRA is like the closely related GEO database, then you can upload data without it being public yet. You frequently do so prior to publication (but give the reviewers special access) and then make it public later. So it may never have been publicly accessible.
Australian bill forces removal of social media
I didn’t find a citation for #3, but if it is accurate that would be over $300,000 USD today. We can agree that families who can provide a similar level of investment for their children’s business or educational projects are better positioned than those who have less or near-zero financial support. Whether the beneficiary takes advantage or maximizes their position is a key variable in success.
I think society has made good efforts to be more accessible to people with disabilities. I'm pretty sure all of the traffic lights in America beep when the walk signal is on - that exists to assist blind individuals even in communities without blind individuals - in addition there are a lot more buildings with wheelchair ramps than there are with unisex bathrooms.
You didn't fake it, you're making it. Whether you learned along the way or had book knowledge or experience from before isn't something anyone will care about.
If we can save the Titanic, maybe it's worthwhile for some of us to argue over the band.
It’s not transitioning entirely to GitHub, but is “ a bot that can turn a GitHub pull request (PR) into a well-formed patch series to send to the proper reviewers and mailing lists”.

Also, Linux is already mirrored to GH https://GitHub.com/torvalds/Linux
I think meaning of the term diversity is often twisted into a binary outcome. If a company is 65% white and 35% Chinese is that more diverse than a company that is 70% white, 10% Chinese, 10% Indian, and 10% Vietnamese?

Often, the above two examples would be flattened to just 35% or 30% Asian. But even my example is very reductive - China, for example, has many dozens of ethnic groups.

I think 'diversity' is a very hard thing to quantify, which makes it more difficult to measure the effectiveness of initiatives to increase diversity.

Can anyone point me towards better methods of measuring diversity? If society or a particular organization wishes to increase diversity, it seems important to be able to measure it with more nuance.
> Note that those issues are about deterministic performance, not results.

Not at all. The issue is that the default sysimage distributed with Julia cannot be reproduced across machines, e.g. there is no proof that it hasn't been tampered with. This is an open issue in Guix and Nix, though it affects all platforms.

> One of the places Julia really excels with reproducibility is inter OS

There really is no such thing as reproducibility in Windows, at least not in the sense outlined in bootstrappable.org . If you care about reproducibility, you've chosen the wrong platform.
Overcoming Rapid Growth Challenges for Datasets in Snowflake
Let’s get specific. Here is a hypothetical scenario. It is not meant to be representative, merely plausible. It could happen at least once.

Imagine a Mr. Jones who does not agree with the basic premise of gender theory, and believes — say — that transgendered folk are suffering from a mental illness. Mr. Jones has a transgendered colleague with whom he is generally cordial, though not particularly warm. One day, said colleague learns about Mr. Jones opinion, and decides she will assert herself and “call out” Mr. Jones if she is ever offended by his behavior or speech.

One day, Mr. Jones refers passingly to this colleague as ‘he’. For the sake of argument, let us assume this was not meant to be disrespectful, but that this utterance is instead the result of being distracted, and that the colleague has some masculine features. In other words, it was uttered unthinkingly — an honest mistake.

Offended, Mr. Jones’ colleague confronts him publicly and berates him for his behavior. She demands to be called ‘she’, proceeds to shame him on social media, and demands a public apology.

Mr. Jones feels this is an unfair and disproportionate response. Moreover, he now believes her demands to be retaliatory. He firmly but politely refuses. The conflict is referred to HR, and Mr. Jones is ordered to use his colleague’s preferred pronoun. Mr. Jones’ ethics preclude compelled speech. He refuses and is fired.

My questions for you are simple:

1. Do you think it is appropriate that Mr. Jones be fired?

2. Should the law hold him accountable?

3. Should Mr. Jones’ colleague be able to sue her employer if Mr. Jones is not fired?

4. Should she be able to sue Mr. Jones?

The fact that I’ve depicted Mr. Jones as cordial and well-intentioned (despite holding a potentially distasteful opinion) and his colleague as bellicose and vengeful is no accident. This situation will necessarily arise, unless you somehow believe people can’t both be kind and disagree with you on gender-theory.

At any rate, you will find that many (most?) people object to CRT and the likes because they worry that it gives spiteful people the means to dispose of unsavory (though not necessarily bad) people like Mr. Jones. From there, they worry that they might be next. I submit that this should worry all of us, even you.
Student loans are a big problem but it's not because trade jobs exist. It's because the federal government subsidizes tuition without bothering to pass any laws to cap it. Conveniently lobbied for in turn by public universities, all paid for with the public's money, turning around and selling patents to capitalists and reselling the stadium to the public. And making off like bandits.

And don't kid yourself, any given city where a marketer makes $50k, even before commissions, will not be seeing plumbers make $90k.
I'm not claiming otherwise, he may have well been crazy and horrible, but the fact of the matter is that he's a controversial character and controversial characters don't exactly have nothing but truth being spoken about them on the internet.
In the context of 'a person arriving knows nothing about Vercel' ... 'hosting websites' can mean a lot of things.

Are you hosting static files? Like AWS S3? It's a giant file server? With some fancy framework specific aspects?

Or is this like 'Wix', but using a specific framework?

Servers? Lambdas? Where is the business logic?

Is there storage, like RDMBS or or a document/noSQL DB?

Maybe it's fair to assume a lot of people are familiar with Next.JS ... but I suggest most are not. 'Next.JS is a React front-end Framework' is helpful, but most of us already know React itself is a framework, so a 'framework on a framework' probably needs a few more words as well.

So even a few well placed, even pedantic descriptions might help a lot, especially for those who arrive 'completely naive' i.e. have maybe 'heard of' Vercel, but that's it.
because this place is quite libertarian and no doubt loves the conspirwcy theories
"The Online Safety Bill 2021 establishes schemes to protect cyber abuse victims by forcing social media companies, internet and hosting providers to remove harmful material within 24 hours.

The eSafety commissioner will also be granted stronger powers to block access to domains and URLs where material is hosted."
I wasn't aware that some folks don't like the word "intact". What is the preferred way of referring to a trans-woman with a penis?
>sounds like discrimination

discrimination can either be legal or illegal. google legally discriminates by giving offers to those who get the hiring committee's approval. i think getting the hiring committee's approval is a form of legal discrimination.
My priors on who is most likely to have low empathy for minorities are pretty strong. I bet I am right, but could be wrong:)

I agree that "coming out" takes some explanation. You're going to have an easier time explaining it to some people than others. A shared experience certainly helps! Otherwise you're left trying to explain what blue looks like to someone who's never seen it.

Why does the current paradigm suck? There is unprecedented LGBT acceptance, and that does not suck. There are no sucky paradigms around jeans vs. khakis because there isn't a cohort of people who would prefer if khakis were banned in public.
It’s funny because I can obviously see the value in the features they’re adding. It’s not ridiculous for people to want more control over task management in GitHub.

The thing that makes me sad about this is how customizable it is. Especially from GitHub, which has a pretty good track record of providing a good UX that mostly works well without such open ended customization. I used to look at GitHub as a great example of providing a good experience because the experience is opinionated.

All things come to an end, but I certainly wasn’t expecting “we have the most basic-but-integrated kanban board you could imagine” -> “we aped all the features of Trello and AirTable without scrutiny” without some intermediate step.
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No doubt some people will persist in questioning the usefulness of Latin. For these skeptics I have a two-word answer: Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year-old founder of Facebook studied Classics at Phillips Exeter Academy and listed Latin as one of the languages he spoke on his Harvard application. So keen is he on the subject, he once quoted lines from the Aeneid during a Facebook product conference and now regards Latin as one of the keys to his success. Just how successful is he? According to Forbes magazine, he’s worth $6.9 billion. If that isn’t a useful skill, I don’t know what is.
"""

https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/mark-zuckerberg/
True if you look at processors in general. I'm not sure it's true of Arm-9 processors, though. I think they're a bit overpowered for a LED light bulb, a USB cable, or an ID tag.
The conspiracy theory is that it might not necessarily lead to governments, but US tech giants like google paying for GOF research, while simultaneously censoring public dialog on social media.
> I do wonder if there's really much of a reason to keep insisting that the genders be separated into exclusive leagues.

The world champion team of female soccer gets beat by a boys under 15 high school team https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-b...

The 203rd male tennis player absolutely crushes the Williams sisters https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2017/06/27/595296da468a...

Women 100m record is 10.49.
High-schoolers can run in 10.00 s https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=1265...
Men's record is under 10.

If you do away with the women leagues, you will see 99% males in almost all sports.
Did any customers actually lose money over the Wirecard thing, or was it just the shareholders and lenders that lost out? I couldn't immediately find anything about customer losses.
> Yet the most worrying effect is likely to be invisible. An unknown number of university employees avoid expressing their opinion for fear it will damage their career or turn them into pariahs. The report about Essex says witnesses described a “culture of fear” among those with gender-critical views.

Why the hell is this a bad thing? I also don't want to hear from conservatives about their anti-women abortion stances (which they Doublespeak-ingly refer to as their 'pro-life' position). Yes there are a bunch of conservatives in Europe, but fuck no can they stop women from having autonomy over their body and choosing to have an abortion.

Also once you have a trans friend and you hear first hand about their journeys to figure themselves out, why would you intentionally misgender this friend and not honor their request for their chosen pronouns? At same point it's just purely about intentionally causing others pain; likely it's some unconscious pain originating from some traumas, which ends up getting directed and projected onto others.

The Economist is neo-liberal and conservative drivel. Can't believe my economics teacher was trying to get us to read it.
Why would you use mutt instead of git send-email?
I may be wrong but did you somehow miss this:

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/

https://www.amazon.com.au/John-McAfees-Stand-Kindle-Single-e...
> top 3% of the American income distribution

Pelosi has a good claim to being the most powerful woman in the US, and she makes less than a twentysomething hotshot engineer/banker/consultant/whatever. Any system that actually cared about her not being tempted by conflicts of interest would pay her two more zeroes.

You can of course ask why 225k isn't enough, and you can moralise all you want about how 225k should be more than enough, but going against a part of human nature as fundamental as the instinct to compare one with one's peers will just not succeed.
the U.S. legal system is designed to ensure even innocent people plead guilty, it does this by coercing its victims with cruel punishments but then say "but if you just sign here and admit you did it we will agree to these much much lesser punishment"
How does this differ from Richard zhang's work?
No. Sorry, but no. Nothing in expressing an opinion (much less indulging in name-calling) makes me a gender authority. Even if it amounted to a bona fide claim of authority, you can rightly dismiss it. No need to involve the law.

In fact, I could just as well retort that you are currently positioning yourself as an authority on becoming a authority, which is just as ludicrous, and just as irrelevant to the question at hand.

Again, this kind of conflation of ideas and Jesuit argumentation is precisely why CRT is opposed by a great many liberals.
IMAP/SMTP access with only your password is extremely insecure. Especially as most non-techie humans don’t use a password manager or even a strong password.
My take on the background of why it became a thing:

I think the idea with boards is that the (artificial) constraints of the medium are helpful in certain team configurations. As far as I'm aware, boards are most strongly advocated in Kanban, where there's a hard limit on WIP -- so having a board where you actually cannot have more than 10 items in your backlog before everything goes to hell is a feature not a bug.

In Kanban, it's really important to be able to see at a glance, where your WIP is in the pipeline, e.g. you don't want to start a new task when there's a huge backlog of tasks waiting to be validated. In a table, you lose the ability to get a birds-eye view of the sprint status.

Most teams aren't doing Kanban though -- so I think it's plausible that most teams will find a table view more usable/efficient.
What compound(s) is(are) those?
You put it better than I could have before I got back to this. It doesn’t really count as “asking” if you’re preemptively dismissing the answer in the same comment.
That's a fair point, and I guess I very poorly incorporated that into my original comment. I just find it so weird we're arguing over ethics of tax fraud when there's reason to believe he's a murderer and a rapist.

That said, he never had a trial for those crimes. The media has lied about stuff before. He seems pretty shady to me but I'm not pretending to have all the facts.
> bogeyman stories about rapists in prisons

As I said in another comment, this is far from a bogeyman story - there was already a case in the UK of a male-bodied convicted rapist being housed in a woman's prison because "she" decided post-conviction that "she" identified as female. She then went on to sexually assault multiple female inmates. Look up the name Karen White.

I put "she" in quotes not because I have a problem with respecting trans people's pronouns in general but because there have been suggestions that this particular criminal didn't really identify as trans and the whole thing was a cynical ploy to get access to easy victims.

Obviously the vast majority of trans people are not Karen White, but then this is the exact kind of thing that people warned would happen when self-id gets taken to its logical conclusion. Sweeping it under the rug isn't a good look.

Obviously there are transphobes out there who'll point to Karen White and disingenuously say "we're only trying to stop female inmates from getting raped!" when in fact that's just a cudgel for their real, more sinister agenda. But that makes it more important that decent people be allowed to discuss these issues in good faith.

If normal people aren't allowed to have an honest conversation about the thorny aspects of (say) gender self-id, the only people left to discuss it will be the lunatics who don't care about appearing respectable. They'll even be empowered, because it lets them say to their base "look! The authorities are trying to hide this from you!"
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Architecture and Hardware Security Research – Early 2021
And so where are coming from the "closed shop" the parent was talking about?
> Also, if you use gmail with mutt to submit a patch, you have to change your email preferences to make gmail less secure[1].

According to the article, this is because mutt uses IMAP, and needs to use password authentication (which might not even be accurate anymore). This has nothing to do with kernel development, beyond that some kernel developers like to use mutt as an email client.
> I don't think direct discourse on the topic improves the discussion on gender because the participants use a critical theory in which the promise of discourse is just bait to corner political targets for their mobs.

Are you suggesting that we should leave gender to the scientists and when The Economist has spoken, it should be recognized as the moment that “the science is in”?

I could understand your first paragraph, the second seems like a non-sequitor.
Yes, but google could easily support per application passwords. They just don't want to... in fact, they used to and removed it.

They could also invest in other ways to make existing workflows work securely instead of imposing their own ones.
Thank you for this! Very helpful. I will work on improving this.
> As plane journeys are often the largest item in a company carbon account, they are betting that some will push their employees towards the train

I think just betting on companies going for the better option carbon-wise won't be enough, it also needs price parity (or better) and more convenience than taking the plane
> since pay and promotion seems to follow percentage increments year to year

So ... leave?

Put a couple years of FAANG on your resume to bootstrap and then bail out to the job that pays correctly. That's what everybody has to do to keep their salary from lagging.

If the analysis only includes those who haven't bailed at least once, it's for sure going to have lagging salaries.

A more interesting question would be what those who bailed and then came back to Google are making.
All this research and not a single mention of Source Hut?

Source Hut is designed to be a web-based interface to Git, but which uses Git's built-in email-based patch workflow instead of some proprietary interface like Github.

It seems close to what they're looking for, and relatively easily hackable if missing anything they need.

https://sourcehut.org/

Good writeup on project philosophy:

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...
How are you defining education and significantly? How does education not provide you with the skills to be on the internet or language? How would you have faired if you were raised in a remote part of the world without structured or familial education?

I mean this in good spirit, is there proof that societal classes are bound by size?