skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South African here and although not culturally Afrikaans (I only really know English), I wouldn’t see “Afri” targeting them specifically.

If anything it associates it with Africa and Afrikaaners (like most people of European descent here) identify more as European residents of South Africa, rather than as African. To make clear, Caucasians here will refer to themselves as South African, but not as just African. If someone on the internet told me they were African, (and not in a bad way) I would assume they are of dark colour.
An interesting point.

I'll clarify. Anyone imprisoned while awaiting trial, should have the right to live stream their imprisonment. An absolute dirt cheap way to safeguard justice.
From article:

“there were 125 trans prisoners in 2017, 60 of whom were serving sentences for sexual offences. Of those 60, 27 were serving a prison sentence for rape.” which is more shocking than your 5x statistic. Note the 5x statistic appears weak to me because “Between 2016 and 2020, there were seven sexual assaults [reported] against females in women's prisons by trans women.”.
> Not that it isn't a tragedy, but in 2020, 44 trans people were killed[1] in the US. This is a rounding error even when looking at "merely" just hate crime statistics

I'm confused. How can you compare 44 deaths to 7000 offenses? (Including 55 deaths, across all hate crimes.)

I'm not arguing that trans people are disproportionately killed or assaulted, but that we are in no way a rounding error.

Using your source, the 2019 FBI report:

Of the 8,559 criminal offenses, 51 were Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/tables/table...

224 offenses were based on Gender Identity, this includes 173 Anti-transgender offenses, and 51 Anti-Gender Non-Conforming offenses. 342 offenses not included in those numbers we’re targeting “Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)”

5 of the 51 Murders and Nonnegligent Manslaugters were perpetrated because the victim was in the group "Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)".

1 of the 51 Murders and Nonnegligent Manslaughters were perpetrated on the basis of Gender Identity.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/tables/table...

5 of the 30 rapes as hate crimes, were perpetrated on the basis of the victim's Gender Identity.

1 of the 30 rapes as hate crimes were perpetrated because the victim was in the group "Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)".
Yes. Decisions are made all the time. Sometimes they are reconsidered and sometimes even reversed. That is not inherently a bad thing, particularly when new information comes to light subsequent to the initial decision.

What are you getting at? I can guess, but these things work better if we don't make assumptions or guesses about what others are saying.
Inserting NOPs is a waste of code space and execution resources though. If resources are not too tight, this is fine.

We used gcc on a MIPS M4K in a communication chip. We had a lot of existing C code and were short on ROM and on CPU cycles. Therefore a few co-workers wrote a tool which parsed the gcc asm output to fill the branch delay slot with an instruction with no side effects on the branch. It also fixed some gcc issue with 16 bit memory accesses in C were created as 32 bit load instruction in asm (which can be two cycles if the first 16 bit of a 32 bit word are needed). I had a HW/SW cosim setup to test code and hardware (Verilog). These were cool projects. Good memories (although quite vague now).

PS: If we would have had a license of the Green Hills compiler we could have saved some of the effort. IIRC it did branch delay slot optimization.
> A NFT only has value if it's endorsed by the creator.

Not according to the market: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vxe7/people-are-stealing-a...

Though it might be a little harder to pretend that you're Satoshi.
Agreed! And given the source code is available maybe someone could hack together a prototype of this Onion classic: https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
Either study could be a "measurement artifact" - what does that even mean?

>Also, the 2021 data being referenced is comparing phone hardware, not ecosystems.

I didn't see that mentioned anywhere so I'm going to ask for a citation. It appears to me that the study asked for an overall impression.
It's not hard to do better than typical hardware vendor documentation.
Right, so then obviously in that case there was foul play.

Is that what happened here or are people believing what they want to believe rather than striving to perceive a fact-based reality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBx7Jg4m-o
lol. I had to look that up.

Maybe he hung out with Chuck Berry too much.
There is almost certainly some trade-off, otherwise the gene would probably be heavily selected for.
All bathrooms should be a single private stall, first come first serve. If you need more than one stall, then install them.

On average females take twice as long males in the bathroom. Sometimes some events have a disproportionate ratio of male/females. Both are evidence that having the same number of stalls for each of the two genders is wrong - even before talk about more than two genders.
> What little research exists on the topic says that most of those girls will grow out of their gender dysphoria, and well-meaning attempts at gender reassignment surgery for them will backfire.

This is frequently claimed but is untrue, or at the very least highly uncertain. The studies most often referenced have serious methodological errors, including inconsistent definitions of dysphoria (owing partially to problems with the Gender Identity Disorder diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV that have since been fixed with the DSM-5) and desistance (in some cases counting anyone who didn't follow up with the clinic conducting the research as having desisted) https://www.gdaworkinggroup.com/desistance-articles-and-crit...

Julia Serano has also written extensively on this topic with much depth and nuance, at least in my opinion: https://juliaserano.medium.com/detransition-desistance-and-d...
He didn't kill himself to troll people, really.

He killed himself to damage the reputation of the US government.

He couldn't escape from imprisonment, and he couldn't do much to harm the government. But he could do this.

It was the most he could do, so (I think) it's what he did.
Classic Ambient Recordings: The 2001 Survey (2001)
You're saying "likely" as a hedge, when in fact you are instead merely expressing an opinion, without any knowledge of the actual numerical likelihood of such an event having happened.
I believe the gap between private schools and public schools, because I've seen it (a good friend of mine had to repeat a grade coming from his rich-area public school to our private school). But is there any evidence of a gap in instructional quality between (eg) Eton and upper-middle-class private schools? I don't know a ton about the topic, but this would be pretty surprising given my current low-confidence understanding.

I believe that there's a success gap, but that's plausibly down to the inescapable networking advantages of concentrating elites, and isn't relevant to the specific claim you're making.
Maybe more data from the forensics.
Thank you!!

i spent years trying to understand how it can be that some software that was supposed to corresponds to the well cited paper did not even come close to reproducing the results of the said paper,

This was my exact experience. I didn’t understand why I kept having it, and kept blaming myself for not being careful enough. My code must be wrong, or the data, or something.

Nah. It was the idea.

Kept feeling like a kick in the gut, until here we are today, when I’m warning everyone that Karras, of all people, might publish such a thing.

I really appreciate that you posted this, because I’m so happy I wasn’t alone in the feeling of “what’s going on, here…?”
> I really don't think there's a tenable path forward besides dispassionate debate. How do we work through a conflict without dispassionate debate?

I will explain my understanding of the answer. I do not claim my answer is the right one, but it is what I see.

Let’s say there are two groups. One group we will call a marginalized minority and another group we will call the majority or dominant group.

The answer is not for the marginalized people and the dominant group to debate directly. Imagine people from the black civil rights movement debating whether or not they should be guaranteed the right to vote with no interference. What really was there to debate?

Instead of direct debate I see it like this. First, both groups recognize their position. Trans people have been marginalized by a broadly cisgendered society. If you learn a little bit about the murder of trans people throughout the last 5 decades and the lack of investigation, I think that is evidence enough that they are a marginalized group.

Okay so step one is recognize the power dynamic. Step two is for the people in the dominant group to listen, without challenge or debate, what the people in the marginalized group want.

Step three: the people in the dominant group discuss with themselves how to make those changes. How do we make sure trans people feel welcome and comfortable in bathrooms and sports? How do we make sure trans kids grow up feeling welcomed by society as their whole self?

Fourth, the people in the dominant group discuss their difficulties they have with the changes, and they do their best to work it out on their own.

Five, some members of the marginalized group who have agreed to discuss this will talk to people in the dominant group and try to address their questions.

Six. Having made some changes, the people in the dominant group ask for feedback, and the process repeats.

At no point in that course of action do random members of the dominant group need to discuss these changes with members of the marginalized group. As a white person I simply do not challenge what people of color say. There is no need for me to challenge them and I recognize that as a member of the dominant group it could be emotionally distressful for them to have to discuss it with me.

Anyway that’s my answer. I hope it helps. Sorry I didn’t answer the rest of your post but I found this the part that felt most salient to me.
If anything, not paranoid enough because still tracking.

This place would be one of the best to hit with a 0day. Lots of IT people with full admin rights to entire corporate networks.
John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison
Wild, I just went through the pain of automating all my org labels today and it was a huge bummer to not have scoping. I'm doing "Type: $var" etc but I know it'll look terrible compared to scoping.

Going from Gitlab to gh has been interesting.

For anyone unfamiliar, example; https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/-/issu...
bruh ... who wouldn't be a lil suicidal when they find out they are going to jail for the rest of their life.
Same acceleration bug with Firefox under Linux that makes me hates Mapbox GL with passion ... Makes quite a lot of website unbearably unusable ...

Would you please provide a way for the user to deactivate that terrible idea ? Thanks.
ugh, yup, all the time.
Critical Palo Alto Cyber-Defense Bug Allows Remote 'War Room' Access
The Ian M. Banks quote equates gender and sex. That's probably a product of when it was written (1994) and I don't think too badly of Banks for writing it, however, in the contemporary dialogue, these are not equivalent terms. I caution you against getting caught up in an uninteresting semantic argument here: the question isn't one of definitions, but rather whether the phenomena classified as gender (clothing, hairstyles, etc.) are or should be tied to the phenomena classified as sex (genitalia and/or chromosomes). I won't comment my opinion on that as I don't have the time to do it justice, but I will say that to ignore the fact that those phenomena are very much in debate, misses a pretty big point:

That point being, that you can actually change your presentation of gender with relative ease. Norah Vincent did it (dressed as and pretended to be a man) for a year and wrote the book Self Made Man about her experience. The fact that the majority of people never change their presentation of gender and those who do change their presentation tend to feel strongly about it, says that there's more complexity to the choice of how to dress or style your hair than an economic cost/benefit analysis. The fact is, people want to be their gender even while claiming that their gender is treated poorly, and in the case of trans people, choosing to present in a way that is obviously treated poorly. If the hypothesis that people will gravitate to the gender presentation which is treated most positively were true, few people would choose to be the gender that gets spit on in the grocery store (happened to a trans friend of mine).
I gave several examples of people wanting to strip long-standing rights, which are probably some of the first examples people would think of when you mention "the trans debate," so I don't know what to say here except that you're mistaken.

I also think your portrayal of the stakes for transgender people is a bit flippant. Gender dysphoria is a pretty painful mental illness that often leads to suicide, so forbidding a transgender girl from getting treatment and forcing her to go to the boys' room does seem both dehumanizing and dangerous to her life.
People aren't automatically innocent in the eyes of the public just because they successfully avoid seeing a trial for nearly a decade by fleeing the country they are wanted in. McAfee's behavior surrounding the charges does absolutely nothing to help his perception.

"Innocent until proven guilty" is really only applicable in the context of formal judicial punishment. Absent formal judicial proceedings, it is completely fair for people to draw their own conclusions from the available evidence.

Even when a court of law does come to a conclusion, it does not mean public opinion is required to agree with that finding (i.e. that time OJ Simpson killed a person)
Considering that I use Google instead of DDG primarily because of how good the contextually aware results are for the things I most commonly search - sure.
> You know, a cop would taser you once for a few seconds.

Most of the time. Cops are known to torture people with tasers in the US by using them for long periods of time or repeatedly.
Any international criminal law expert here?

Why can the US arrest everybody in Europe but the colony of fraudsters living in St.Kitts&Nevis (among them Paul Bilzerian) is untouchable?
Tesla sold bitcoin before their last quarterly report. They were about to underperform but thankfully their BTC announcement made sure they could dump and then beat earnings instead.

Weirdly, they announced they would no longer accept BTC (on grounds known for years) right after they dumped.
Omg, they did a copy of Asana.
And not a copy of the good part, but a copy of the useless unergonomic eye candy parts ...

And I hate so much Asana... It is so inefficient and frustrating to use.

So, please, fire the designer that proposed this change before it can become mainstream.

I don't understand the hype about the "board" thing. I guess that people think that they look cool and doing agile by using a board.

But compare that to a normal table that you can reorder by columns based on your wishes...
It would depend on the specifics. There is a difference between harassing someone and not deferring to their request on the basis that you don't agree with it (however misguided you may be).

Conflating these two things is precisely why there's a backlash against CRT et al. from otherwise left-leaning individuals.
To add to that, it's mostly concerning because if Purism wouldn't be funding the development, who would? I'm hoping they'll be able to recoup and keep up their investment.
I remember back in the day using cgi:irc, i guess it must have used something like that.
Probably better to add it as a comment to the existing discussion (with a brief description of why it's interesting) than to post yet another story about essentially the same topic.
Revolutions are not as effective as they claim at overturning the basic structure of society - not without some very serious application of coercion at a grassroots level.

For the Mexican case specifically, the revolution did not replace the landowning political elite, but installed a different subset of them. A succession of presidents from the landowning class slow-walked land reform (we're talking single-digit percentages of land redistributed per decade), mostly motivated by the fear of Zapatista rebels rather than commitment to equality.

Cárdenas was probably the first seriously pro-reform president (mid- and late-30s), but the old landowners remained wealthy and preserved a good chunk of their holdings. (For political reasons, he focused on foreign landholders.) This meant that the next landowner-friendly president a few years later created a land-leasing system that de facto returned control of large collective farms to the landowning class.

See also how the (non-revolutionary) emancipation of serfs in the Russian Empire didn't change much, since serfs had to take out loans to compensate their former masters. Social hierarchies and power balances remained, despite a change in form.
Neither do Musk, Bezos, Soros etc. They just manage to get away with it. I guess McAfee was just not rich enough and didn't have the right tax attorney.
A friend of mine had the Abmahnung thing happen to her. Accidentally included a photo without permission, in a batch of photos she otherwise had permission for, in a portfolio of architectural work. After a few years she got a claim for a couple grand.

She was lucky in that the request came from the actual photographer, so she was able to negotiate a “fair” settlement of about 400€ IIRC, this was over 10 years ago.

Thing is though, she at least understood she was in the wrong. Try explaining to the average Instagram celebrity that every single post is in fact a copy and you don’t automatically have permission to copy something just because you saw it on the internet. I guess Facebook’s legal department just bats that stuff away or something.
Do you have any experience with the stuff you’re making such bold statements about, because I have; and my god did you oversimplify things.
"Poverty is (mostly) concentrated in inner cities..."

False. (https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/20...)

Atlanta Public Schools, per student: $16,402, $8,923 instructional

Fulton County Schools, $11,619, $7,021 instructional

Buford City Schools, $11,299, $7,271 instructional

Douglas County, $10,271, $6,577 instructional

Clayton County, $10,472, $6,379 instructional

State Charter Schools- Georgia Cyber Academy, $6,294, $5,224 instructional

This is fun! https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolmap/
I don't agree, we were talking about proportionality. 0.6% of the US adult population identify as trans (1,254,000). Of that 0.6%, 44 were killed. The math is simple. The overall murder rate in the USA is 0.005% (population: 328 million, yearly murders: 16,425). The per-capita murder rates of trans people in the USA is 0.0035%, barely over half the national average.

To make the claim that trans people are disproportionately affected by crime/violence is simply not true.
In my experience, I've never seen a Jr. engineer (as in first non-internship job) quit in 6 months. Thinking back, they've all been around for over a year, although they don't always stick around as much as more senior staff - which is fine.'

If they are regularly turning over that fast that's a red flag that there's problem inside your org that need to be addressed.
> And at the end of the day understanding why cardinal is better than ordinal is not trivial to understand, unless you understand information encoding but that's not common knowledge (though it should be here and I'm surprised it isn't).

Alright, mind sharing your explanation?
Because Elon Musk is significantly more sane and did not actually done very same thing. Having enough sanity to keep you schemes just on the safer side help. He is also not accused of rape and murder both of which make law enforcement look more closely on you in general.

Also, Musk is rich and powerful right now. That alone makes it harder to go after him as he will pay for better justice. McAffee is not that powerful.
That study has issues, does it not? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424477/

Interviewing parents seems like a problematic basis for an entirely new condition to me.
Yeah, and also he was a pretty damn good troll. No doubt he had a backup plan, and this was probably it.
Not purposely, but the dominance of American tech does make it almost impossible for European competitors to arise. That's why the Chinese are hesitant about US tech.
and if he'd posted it yesterday, you'd be saying it's so soon that it's suspicious and he's obviously up to something.

what's the optimal cooldown to post affirmations of life so that you believe they're true?
A lot of people here need to talk to some entrepreneurs.

It doesn't matter how good, or how well funded, the school system is: if the family is poor, you're not going to be able to float rent on the storefront you need, or purchase initial inventory of whatever you're making, much less soak up a few false starts, much less take out a bank loan to do any of these things.

Period.

This does not in ANY WAY mean there shouldn't be good school funding across the board.

It means that anybody who thinks 'the schools are now funded, so the kids from poor families are now equally able to start a business' is high… or disingenuous.

Let's assume these kids are hungrier, more motivated, and just generally better than most people. If you expect them to simply get busy competing with lazier and less capable kids from wealth and privilege, because they ARE better than the lazy rich, you are overlooking the role of generational capital and access to capital. It would not matter if you were in fact significantly better, smarter and more motivated: banks want collateral, and entrepreneurial exploits don't always bootstrap up from zero. I think it's far more common to prime the pump, sometimes to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each time.

By all means educate, but don't con yourself that it will matter, in the absence of any other changes.
I hear this a lot and I have a hard time believing it. What is something the rich have done with the intent to destroy the middle class?

Your example with public vs private schools has less to do with diminishing public schools and everything to do with their maximizing their own children's education. If we end private schools, do we still allow paid tutors? If so, I don't see how that field gets levelled.
Which raises an interesting question: can a conspiracy consist of a single person? How about if that person speaks to himself?

More to your point -- replacing one weakly substantiated theory with another -- there are still degrees of plausibility among unsubstantiated theories.
snaps are the one I'm most familiar with, which provides sandboxing wherever possible, automatic updates, and a permissions system where I can do things like deny Firefox access to my webcam. And is available on a number of Linux distributions.
I don't think so, that's a work of fantasy and quite the leap.

It's probably more that in the grand scheme of things trans-men don't pose any sort of threat to other males. I don't recall ever discussing trans-men with my peers.
John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell
Yes there is.

Being "legally blind" is a thing. The cut off for how little vision is enough to be blind is debatable.

Not that simple.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610041