skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's also a liar and a con artist. And he's always been obsessed with being the object of others' obsessions. Like when he would claim to be the zenith of hacking targets, nevermind the fact that he'd been irrelevant for decades.
Hey this was me!

When I was a child, my parents tried very hard to teach me how to tie my shoes, but I could not figure it out. To this day, I just tie them in knots and then make loops to make it seem like I tied them properly.

I now have a PhD in mathematics and work at a top tech company.

It turns out that I have pretty severe dysgraphia (I have difficulty with cognitive tasks requiring fine motor skills). I think people only noticed because I couldn’t tie my shoes.
These are not your fees. These are the fees the restaurants pay. All of their other fees are opaque to you. You have no idea what they pay for their raw ingredients, and why should you?
I agree. But many projects redirect users to Github for issues and SO for documentation :/.
McAfee has shown time and again that he wasn't a reliable or rational person.
"It seems ... mushy"

Welcome to Gartner corporate speak! Consider yourself lucky that such terminology is foreign to you.
McAfee antivirus software creator dead in Spanish prison
There's a nuance here: it's possible to both want systemic change on the macro scale, but also meanwhile seek a local maximum for oneself given the current system dynamics at play.

By proxy, I might advocate that income inequality is too high, and that some form of wealth redistribution should be considered. You might say that, therefore, I ought to donate my entire salary to charities. Someone might do that, as a radical stand against capitalism, and I would support that. However, I would also support someone that is trying to seek better wages under the current system, even if they do support wealth redistribution on the wider political scale--in context, it's understandable.

Translating that back to the original space, it seems that you advocate that someone that might today identify as a trans woman might instead identify as a man (or person) with phenotypically female presentation, due to medical treatment, and with a significant number of traditionally feminine attributes, as 'personal characteristics shouldn't matter'. This would place them in the vanguard of challenging gender dynamics. I think that's admirable of people that choose to do that. I understand that many other trans folk want to challenge the status quo less severely, and identifying as their gender allows them increased safety, sanity, and happiness within the confines of the current world.
I'm curious about others who have tried this and how it went.

I've started several projects where I forgo the pull request process and things move really fast. Especially if I'm working through something alone and haven't involved a team yet. Once we get the first usable version out we'll typically start to think about the PR process, code reviews, deployment systems, and the like.

I'm curious how many of you simply trust the developers to work more directly on the system. Maybe some of you rely more on your tests to make sure things are smooth sailing.
A trite parody: the only thing more disgusting than a penis is the desire to have it removed.
On the other hand the “tasks are as heavyweight as the bugs or backlog items that spawned them” (often with just one task ie 1:1) creates a ton of overhead in e.g Azure Devops. Especially as efforts get spread out while rollup barely works. It’s also unclear whether PRs should be linked to tasks or the parent issue.

I want more than a checkbox but less than an issue. A completion % and owner would be enough.
Newsom Misled Public About Wildfire Prevention Effort Ahead of Worst Fire Season
Europe has enormous, deep pools of capital. The culture though is to fear loss rather than fear loss of upside. Capital is deployed differently in the US and China.
I am having flashbacks to the dial-up BBS days of the late 80s, where I made a decent local living designing animated logon screens for various sites in exchange for access to said sites. Had to optimize character animations based on the baud rate of the inbound modem connection, separate versions for 1200 and 2400 baud.
Yes, that's exactly it. Project boards, spanning multiple repositories, have been on Github for years; seems by the comments in this thread that Github isn't advertising them well enough!
Going to school in state is still cheap for most Americans. UCLA is 13k a year in state, CSULA is 6k a year in state. USC gives you a full ride if your household makes below a certain amount. It's no small chunk of change but its possible to put a dent in it if you work long hours in the summers between classes, and have roommates or live with family.
I suspect it has much to do with the idea that trans-men are transitioning into a gender "in power." That is, adopting masculine social behavior and lifestyle allow transmen to enter the patriarchal fold and slip quite seamlessly into a male dominant society, as long as they remain unknown. Once they are known, the idea that they must be excommunicated or "proven" as female becomes imperative. Transmen are subject to inordinate degrees of violence like transwomen. This is all to say that cis men aren't as afraid, be it in washrooms or on a sports field, of transmen as much as transwomen.

Transwomen, on the other hand, are much more defined, in the eyes of a patriarchal society, by their rejection of masculinity in favor of femininity. To some cis-men, they appear as aberrations or duplicitous (hence the nickname "trap"), to some cis-women they appear as potential unfalsifiable unknowns, and a potential thing to be feared for sexual violence. Transwomen are thus caught in the crossfires of fear from both genders.
The repo says the code will be available in September: that's a reasonable timeframe for the necessary polish/legal clearance.
No, "Catalan Jail" is only for positive news; for negatives, you have to use Spanish.

Come on! That is the first rule of brainwashing.
One cannot be found guilty in a civil trial.
"Only" 70k in total, damn! :D

Thank you, I didn't know there were things like anti-spam appliances, so this makes me realize that the people running those systems definitely know what they're doing, so there must a reason for not considering things like domain age.
Not available to European readers.

Alternative examples here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57589822

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/23/john-mcafee-...
Personal attacks like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27363797 will get you banned here. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
you need less steel and concrete for nuclear than for renewables

electronics were not common when nuclear energy was built

also other comments pointed out how misleading the article is
Governments, if you have to ask. That is the only correct answer. Chomsky usually harps on this point, that a lot of our tech innovation came from govt funding with no clear objective (deriding the notion that only the market can innovate).
Because twitter seems to be rate limiting access to this tweet ("Something went wrong, try reloading"), here is an archived version

https://web.archive.org/web/20201005231441/https://twitter.c...
From that link:

> Gender is an essential characteristic of Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness. The intended meaning of gender in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” is biological sex at birth.

> Church leaders counsel against elective medical or surgical intervention for the purpose of attempting to transition to the opposite gender of a person’s birth sex (“sex reassignment”). Leaders advise that taking these actions will be cause for Church membership restrictions.

> Leaders also counsel against social transitioning. A social transition includes changing dress or grooming, or changing a name or pronouns, to present oneself as other than his or her birth sex. Leaders advise that those who socially transition will experience some Church membership restrictions for the duration of this transition.

Their advice on what treatments they support for transgender people is kind of vague and circumspect, but the gist seems to be "A therapist should at least be open to conversion therapy," which is generally considered harmful.

Given the LDS Church's open campaign against gay rights based on the "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" (the same document referenced above), it seems reasonable to interpret this as stating opposition to transgender rights. Though as the parent noted, they are much less vocal on this topic.
An HM commenter provided some context after the vote in Bessemer [1], equating it to a slum. Another commenter quoted from Wikipedia:

> "Crime increased following the rise in unemployment and social disruption from the decline of manufacturing industries in the area. As of 2019 Bessemer ranks first in terms of violent crimes for US cities with 25,000 or more people."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26752316
How does that work if you are in prison?
Seattle scientist digs up deleted coronavirus genetic data
“don’t be evil”
The parent is pretty clearly saying that "les" wasn't previously a Spanish word, because HN is an English language forum and some of us don't know that. Let's not nitpick the English of folks for whom it's a second language.
The encryption code is open source as it is in the javascript so you can evaluate it. It's also available in the chrome plug-in, and there's now the app in the android play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privatesh.... so the private.sh web server or related anonymyzing proxy don't have access to your query since it is encrypted. on the gigablast servers will know your query, but they won't know your IP address.
The man has spent most of his life lying and cheating, why would anyone believe him when he says this?
Costa Rica is an interesting mishmash of neoliberal economic policies and some radical (non-traditional) ideas.

non-traditional ideas:

* no army

* generate most government revenue from sales taxes rather than income taxes

* firm commitment to prioritize economic growth over social spending (Costa Rica has among the highest rates of inequality in the OECD)

* much higher levels of education spending (7+% of GDP) (but PISA scores in the bottom half of Latin America and they are falling)

That said, it has problems common to Latin America:

* Low test scores and poor educational outcomes

* Declining fertility leading to pension shortfalls

* Black/gray markets where a large part of the labor force is employed informally and thus does not make pension contributions or pay income taxes

In terms of taxation, there is a 13% sales tax on everything except food and medicine.

They do have an income tax, but it's a weird hybrid between a flat tax and a wealth-surcharge, in that the majority of the population pays no income tax at all.

Median income in Costa Rica is about 6K and average income is 9K. But your first $10K is tax exempt, those earning 10-18K pay 10%, and the highest bracket is 15%.

That is a very different structure than you find in western nations which have upper tax brackets in the range of 40% or even 80%.

There is a separate income tax for self-employed workers which goes up to 25%, but again very few self-employed businesses will earn.

Costa Rica also has a progressive property tax, starting at .25% and going to .55% with the highest bracket applying to 3 million dollars or more. It has 7 property brackets. Thus there are more than twice as many property tax brackets as there are income tax brackets! Yet because those brackets, like the income brackets, only hit the very high end, overall Costa Rica collects the among the least revenue from income and property taxes compared to the rest of the OECD. It is almost entirely dependent on sales taxes, excise taxes, and social security contributions to fund its budget.

It also has a number of free trade zones in which businesses don't pay any taxes at all (neither income, nor import/export) if they meet certain conditions.

source: https://www.oecd.org/economy/surveys/costa-rica-2020-OECD-ec...
Civil trials do not determine guilt or innocence
If you flee the country to avoid being tried in court, we are just supposed to say "Oh well, guess you are innocent forever"?
“Trans-exclusionary radical feminist” sounds pretty pejorative, most especially the “radical” part.
What is the plan on how to spend the money to improve results?

There is none.
> he likely killed his neighbor

> he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams

Well, that escalated quickly.
the source code for gigablast is on github. yes, gigablast has image search but private.sh needs to start using it soon.
End of an era. What a shame.
Yeah, I don't have a problem with the politics of it, exactly, but it's definitely more disruptive to my reading than favoring the masculine (only because I learned that way, of course—had I been taught otherwise, I'd have the opposite problem) or using the singular-plural form (they/them/their).

Maybe the irritation's worth it for the effect that effort's having on culture. I really don't know. In the end, it's not that big a problem for me, just a little irritating, so I simply hope it's doing something actually-helpful for someone and don't worry about it too much.
Those who are called TERFs are feminists in name only. The vast majority of self-described feminists don't agree with the TERF platform.
Here in America we have something called innocent until proven guilty.
I've Cracked Zodiac, a French Engineer Says. Online Sleuths Are Skeptical
"obviously an unhinged lunatic". That's a very strong statement that doesn't add to the discussion other than to trigger fear of association among commenters here. Facts are always better than ad hominem.
I didn't know him at all, but felt there was something I recognized and understood about what he was saying. If you must burn, burn bright. It looked like a great ride.

This video of him playing piano is what I think he wanted people to know: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/136205988701080781...
Extremely online men?

I think the HN community has little overlap with the #FreeMcAfee club.
What do you mean how was he on the run? He (likely) killed himself to avoid extradition
As I've said before: we agree on this point.

Where we seem to disagree is on the question of whether government, employers or other institutional powers have the power to silence those who don't see it our way. If we do indeed disagree, then by definition you lean towards authoritarian politics. You are willing to go further than I in restricting freedom of expression to defend trans people. You may even be right, but that makes you more authoritarian than me.

Why does this matter? Because it's the actual subject of debate. I want trans people to be treated with respect too, but my political opinion is that authoritarianism is the wrong way to achieve this outcome.

I think you will find that many people who reject identity politics / CRT / etc don't actually hate trans people. They fear authoritarian mobs and the governments they elect.

(Apologies for the multiple stealth-edits. It sometimes takes me a few tries to articulate my thoughts.)
If you mean multipart/x-mixed-replace, that's still a part of the html5 spec.
Its not an attack on feminists though?
newsflash: the lone genius exists. it is just that companies do not want you to know. because that way, you will continue to work for shitty compensation packages.
Awesome, thanks for digging that up! My bad.
People in prison are already living under an extreme degree of observation and control. Now you want to deprive them of the last tiny bit of privacy they can hope for and record them 24/7 in their cells?
Not an option though if you're jailed in Barcelona.
They don't want him in the press talking. And it sends a message.
> 2. Feminists (TERFs)

I worry that this can be read as "all feminists are terfs", which is not accurate.
Wow thanks I appreciate it. It had been an upsetting experience and this helped.
Well, unless you get taken to prison where you will be surveilled, but the surveillance will fail at exactly the moment you committed suicide, mysteriously, and all footage would disappear after a technician makes an innocent mistake while backing it up.
He could have killed himself anyway--- that is obvious, but his past statements still need to be taken seriously, and extra care and doubt need to be applied to the reported story.
Put someone in a room and prevent them from sleeping for a few days and I'm pretty sure you could convince anyone to kill themselves. There's no absolute certainty that can ever be provided.
“He's mad?"
"Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money."
"Ah, then he can’t be mad. I've been around; if a man has lots of money he's just eccentric.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
If you never change what you display, that might well end up being true, but if changing display state (you want to highlight or shade or hide a feature, for example) that would likely require downloading whole new tiles for raster but could be a pretty trivial mutation of the current local state that doesn't require a full re-render from scratch. You probably also don't need to download as much on zoom; there are tiles for different zoom levels with vector tiles because tiles get really large when zoomed way out otherwise, mostly full of features or detail you can't see or wouldn't show, but you might not need as many, and can overzoom a given tile and have it still look nice with relatively few artifacts. All of which is to say: it depends.
> In early 2020, Newsom declared mission accomplished. “The projects collectively have treated 90,000 acres,” states a January 2020 press release from the governor’s office.

But the data analyzed by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that Cal Fire treated a small fraction of that amount, 11,399 acres, or about 13% of the amount cited by Newsom.

This is very bad news, and it will surely impact Newsom's chances in the upcoming recall vote.
So if you're female, it's because your parents are female?
You can't. That's the job of the prison. This is why people get upset when there is a "CCTV malfunction" when high profile prisoners supposedly kill themselves.
This. The guy was just some drug-addled tech industry has been that shilled crypto scams and dodged his taxes. I think all those bathsalts were making him paranoid.
Often meeting your hero's does not go well, so pleased this did for you :)
Hey all, a coworker made a very cool desktop app to "gamify" (is that still a thing?) strengthening our students' debugging skills, which I had the fun of helping to test.

- It is intended for anyone learning to code for the first time, or more advanced coders who want practice to spot errors in large or unfamiliar code bases.

- It's behavior is simple: It randomly introduces an error (such as removing a character) into a code file in a given code base or repo

- It's like a game to hunt down errors. It provides generic and specific clues, and (fun) encouragement

- If you are familiar with fuzz testing, think of this as a little like fuzz testing for the source code itself as a learning technique -- in a way, fuzz testing the coder!

Any questions about this or how it was to work with Tauri and why we chose it over Electron (hint: look at the binary sizes), feel free to ask!

Full disclosure: While this project is free/open and was made independently, the article is posted on our company blog.
The person in the article was invited by the university. This isn't a random person demanding to be heard. This is the university succumbing to pressure from a small group to ban a guest from sharing their ideas with the student body that choose to attend.
WOW you have a pretty twisted mind about cats...had 4 cat and non of them had scars..well one of them had scars but it was a Norwegian forestcat who got in fights with fox's...and dog's and my shoe laces....but hey i hope you never have kids.

BTW: Now i have a Dog and he can come a go as he wish...podengo mix...so half dog half cat.
> transported me back

I felt the same way! It was 2003 again. Cool stuff. Thanks to the OP!
react native is like visual basic in the 90s
Microsoft stands out here with their Xbox product, which is 1000% percent a walled garden. They make great hardware, have a great online product, their store is well liked and used by other gaming companies, and they allow cross-play with other platforms, even PC and Mac.

Xbox Game Pass is considered the big success of the gaming industry right now and could define the future of how gaming looks (a la Netflix). It makes tons of money for them.

All of this inside their walled garden and not in any way open.

So walled gardens are not necessarily bad. I pay for Game Pass and I think it's a great deal.
> Their resources are finite and choices need to be made.

By your own description[0][1], choices had already been made, and resources had already been committed.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609417

1: > Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain's Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University
What exactly were you expecting? I assume you aren't an educator.

Education is a process with a decade long pipeline. Simply doubling the budget doesn't turn into 2x brighter kids.
I am cis woman. I happened to look at prisom rape and sexual violence statistics a while ago.

The trans men in jail abusing cis women is real thing. They are housed together now. The trans women being raped or abused is incredibly frequent thing - includig by guards. (Male on male rape is a joke, basically. Transwomen in prison are assumed to enjoy sexual abuse basically.)

But despite the former being literally about cis women safety too, it just dont interest people. There are many ways to make prisons safer and making it so trans women or gender non conforming men are a bit safer is topic only for radical trans activists and no one else.

If there is heated discussion about issue that dont currently exist which ignores issues that do cureently exist, it is ok to call it talking point.
I’m not talking about semantics nor about the international legality of it.

The difference between your assertion and this situation Is that in addition to asserting that Crimea is now a part of Russia they also control and govern it. I don’t think there is a lot anyone can do about that.

I don’t think that’s a contentious claim to make, it’s simply just the reality of it.

What will be more interesting will be to see how far Western/NATO countries will go to change that reality and how far Russia will go to prevent that.
Crime and poverty are rampant in parts of the US too
What? Nobody is obligated to use a delivery platform. What sort of nonsense is this?
I think that not being able to reproduce the results claimed in a paper is not specific to ML research. While working as a post-doc at a top university research lab, 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, and that the primary author went on to become a prof at a top university in the US. In short, scientific fraud is also quite common, in most academic papers.
Unless I have wildly misunderstood you, I believe you would lose that wager: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Pu...
We've just had a barely unsuccessful attempt (the social democrats were in favor, but didn't want to end their coalition with the christian democrats) of legislation in Germany which included allowing gender reassignment surgery without parental consent from the age of 14.

After psychological counselling, not just on a child's whim, but still.

We've had exactly your point in the public discourse: "that's FUD, no surgery for minors is planned", but the wording in the draft law was clear, and proponents were unwilling to get rid of it, even though it would have made the law's passage much, much more likely.