skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are more blind people than trans people. There are more people with Alzheimer's than trans people. There are more people in the US who have lost a limb than trans people.

That's a little bit of a non-sequitur, no? If this should be compared to anything, it's to earlier left-right "cultural war" flash points such as same-sex marriage and abortion.

Say that people with Alzheimer's should get access to better medical treatment, and no one will disagree with you (although some might say "as long as I don't pay"). Say the same about people who have lost a limb, and you'll see the same thing.

But try making any such statement about trans people, and you'll get vehement, polarized agreement and disagreement. Now, you've entered the territory of how people should and shouldn't be able to express their physical identity in public, in both sexual and non-sexual manners. And you are about to run into many strongly held opinions and pre-existing cultural mores.

With that said, I don't disagree with your last point. Sometimes, I do feel like cultural war inflammations are purposely constructed to hack the human psyche by playing into these strongly held beliefs and pre-existing cultural mores. At least in the present day, these kinds of inflammations work very effectively for generating engagement in the attention economy. But I don't know if that's a good thing. On the contrary (and maybe you'd agree with me here), I often get the sense that it's a bad thing.
my apologies.

Its the hardest thing in computer science - "Naming Things"
Lol, free country. Also the country with the highest per capita imprisonment.

I'm in the US. It's purely Orwellian double speak.
I think people like that always have positive energy whether feigned or real. It's what attracts people (and money) to them. Famous celebrities, high level execs, politicians that I've met all had similar outward charm.
Because when people say "Innocent until proven guilty", what they actually mean is "nothing will change my mind."
There is an element of sales involved, you need to have a strong value proposition and sell that to your clients. If your approach is so much better than React Native, tell them what it gains them. How much money do they save, how much more performant is it, let them know how important their site speed scores are and then show them how a PWA fairs against a typical React Native site and so on.
Part of what makes it feel so good is that it keeps tracking if your finger goes outside of the actual wheel. This mimics the fact that you could keep your finger in the physical wheel by feeling the edges
I smoked alpha pvp in a transit home in Saint Petersburg with some Georgian immigrants thinking it was meth, It made me really really high, and I spent the whole next day crying. I suspect this is a pretty popular drug in Russia.
I addressed bone density. The 1st paper said it wasn't clear if the effects were permanent. It identified several confounding factors in the relevant study. It went on to recommend monitoring, supplements, and exercise. It also said switching from puberty blockers to cross sex hormones at 14 instead of 16 would help.

The 1st paper said fertility may be compromised "if puberty is suppressed at an early stage and the patient completes phenotypic transition with the use of cross-sex hormones". Not if they decide not to transition. And cross sex hormones can compromise fertility on their own. The 2nd paper said "There is no substantiated evidence that GnRHa treatment for CPP impairs reproductive function or reduces fertility." Because those patients don't take cross sex hormones when they stop the blockers.

Unknown effects on brain development means no known effects. The only study mentioned found no significant detrimental effects.
> That logic would also state that we should no longer call a man a man if he becomes infertile through choice (or otherwise), no?

I don't think that's necessarily the case. The argument is less about individual cases and more about keeping the overall categories intact as traditionally perceived, which isn't really endangered in that case.

By the same argument, calling transmen men if they are passing perfectly would probably be fine. And that's likely what's been happening forever anyway, and is the point of "passing": those individuals don't threaten the general categories. It's a kind of "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.

[...]

> > the lack of acknowledgment by trans activists that that's what they're doing

> I think that's because it's largely incidental

Is it? What you write about personal choice is all(?) true and does not contradict the argument.

My impression is that while transphobia is definitely a thing, a lot of the backlash against trans activism isn't about trans people's individual rights and choices but about trans activists wanting to impose certain beliefs that they have on others. For example, for the purpose of this discussion, the belief that the categories of "man" and "woman" must be defined differently than many (most?) people intuitively define them based on some of the most deeply rooted perception and pattern recognition of the brain.

So it may feel incidental to trans activists, but the people who react likely don't feel the same because it's the aspect (or one of the aspects) of trans activism that affects them the most personally.
Passed through Washington, NC many times on my way to another dupe, Plymouth, NC. The locals call it “Little Washington”.
Wouldn't other types of crime like theft or damaged windows be the same?
yeah but the guy poisoned his dogs right?
The only thing you really can do is limit their power.
The pipeline worked fine, they just couldn't handle billing for the time being.
At that point you start to write on paper, if needed by hand, and backfill the system once it's back up.

If anything, their shutdown of the pipeline should be illegal/prosecuted, on the grounds of being limited in what you can do business wise if you're operating critical infrastructure.
> I have photos of the boss fucking dogs in my safe at home. I think my job is secure.

That link you posted is WILD. Holy shit if half of everything there is true, that's still super fucked up
How is this acceptable… requiring a password, even a weak one might have at least bought some time in this situation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/almonds-use-a-lot-of-water-i...
While the world wouldn't grind to a complete halt without Taiwan, they are a (the?) major player in high end chips.

While not 100% watching it I feel as though China<-->US relations have whole strategies around Taiwan.

Of course, if war over Taiwan breaks out, I plan to hit up my local computer shop, preferably within the hour.
You call out that response for being anecdotal, but provide zero evidence in your original claim or follow up response.
> it has nothing to do with age…

It’s in the name, so it doesn’t seem worth disputing that at least at the time when the term was coined- it did have to do with age

> or even skill

Skill is literally the defining feature.

What exactly do you mean by “it’s simply a hacker term” anyway? Are words just sounds we make with our mouths?
Glad someone else highlighted this old ticket.

I bet this, in combination with the extremely irresponsible solution to ship mongodb without auth as default has caused countless of data leaks and destruction events. We just haven't heard about most of them. Elastic provides the same foot-gun.

Last year someone deleted almost 4000 open mongodb and elastic databases in what was called the Meow attack [1].

In my opinion it's as irresponsible as HW manufacturers shipping with default passwords, something which finally got the attention of regulators[2]. So I wouldn't be surprised if we at some point see some attempts to keep sw-developers accountable for what they give out.

I have for some time been using the data-oil analogy to describe where we are at. If data is the new oil, and a database is a tanker, then we are at the single hull tanker stage. We need double hulls, but just like the oil industry, the sw industry has little incentive to fix it themselves. I am hoping we get some regulation which improves the situation, because otherwise this will keep happening.

1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-meow-atta...

2: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/05/california-passes-law-that...
Being in government isn’t meant to be a lifelong career. People should only serve a few terms and leave.
I never gave consent. Just because I was born here I have to give my earnings to a system governed by representatives chosen through a binary (red or blue) funnel?

How can topics as complex as transgender rights, or abortion be all boiled into a single digit of information.

And then I'm stealing if I don't consent to a system I by all statistical means have no control over!?
Every time a thread like this pops up that gains attention I wonder how many other customers are in the same spot but haven't had the same exposure so their issues remain unresolved.
Yeah, often I get into a problem where I wanted to have a hierarchical tree to organize my things and then later I wanted to somehow connect nodes from different branches in some way. I guess you could always have `ui::app::android ui app android` if needed
If your motivation is to develop marketable skills since your crypto investments went belly up, then I think you're likely to find that math provides a poor return on your investment.

You're better off just learning to program and forgetting about all that higher level math, it's a tremendous amount of work, and it's not a path to riches.

With regard to that math stack exchange link- I heard an interesting anecdote once, that you don't really know a particular area of math until you study what comes after it.

So you don't know algebra until you study calculus, and you don't know calculus until you study analysis. The user who provided the solution in that post did his master's thesis in analytic number theory. A subject that may use relatively accessible tools, but is nevertheless notorious for its technicality.

Calculus is not "just calculus", it's a deep and enduring subject, you don't become fluent in it after a few courses. It's been more than ten years since I took calculus, and nearly ten years since I myself first taught it to undergraduates, and I'm still learning calculus.
I like Dr Jason Fung videos about this topic

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fung+obesity+ep...
If you are an EU citizen, you can request a copy of your data as a part of GDPR[0].

0: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Here's the fix to prevent docker messing with ufw rules:

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker
I wore lenses for 4 years and couldn't stand it. So I had them blast laser beams into my eyes in an attempt to fix it, so that I never had to wear lenses again. And it worked!
Back 10+ years ago when I had my machine 21g baskets were all the rage, and I think I remember whispers of larger.
He deadman switched this? on-brand!
Vercel’s examples in the NextJS repo made life so much easier.
And what is the response that people who undergo female hormone treatments will have a distinct disadvantage over men who've not done that? Should they have to continue in a field they have this disadvantage in?
The Epatein guards were going to talk and suddenly got a sweetheart deal that even avoided prison. There’s still evidence out there somewhere.
> While it is certainly possible it’s military, I’d say it’s not as likely as you would think. Consider:

Whose military?

Lots of US military bases in Arizona, certainly spies must be everywhere there.
For me in Gitlab, you would create an epic (if its a large feature) and then put all of the tasks as their own issues in the respective repos.
+1 on the private subnet.

You want to design your system so that if a network a critical misconfiguration occurs you don't open yourself up - you simply stop working.

(Too many years chasing EMR clusters getting dropped onto the internet by users with AWS console access).
Honestly, it amazes me how frequently people forget that people can lie.
Thats not how the law works. It's not code, its run by people for people.
On 3. note that carbohydrates are the only of the three macronutient we don't need to eat at all (see eskimo).

Also we're very very good at fasting (using our fat store):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

382 days without eating and no issue at all.
The issue with fat models is that if you use DB models and then put business logic in there (assuming that's what you mean by fat models), things fail pretty quickly.

But like you rightly point out here that is not a good reason to avoid class based views. They can be simple to understand and maintain.

What I've found useful is to maintain a two level hierarchy. I've used the term "view models" to describe the classes that feed into CBVs and "db models" for django models.

They could both be dataclasses with declarative mapping between the two, so you don't write the tedious code of parsing database results into view models.

More thoughts on the topic here:

https://adsharma.github.io/flattools-programs/
https://github.com/adsharma/fquery/commit/cdcbfca4e140c0b91b2a6e7f270af06225383cf2
Can you explain what a control matrix is and how one might use it to sway minds? Would it bore you if increasingly many transgender people are expressing their identities because that feels safer than that used to?
Maybe it does spur innovation and risk taking, but not the sorts of innovation that brings VCs to the room like a vulture to carrion.

The average American works 25 hours a week. The average German works 18 hours a week. That's another 7 hours you can spend with your children, 7 hours to spend learning an instrument, 7 hours working on art, 7 hours exercising or engaging in physical activity. To me, these are all cases of individual innovation and self improvement. Maybe you now have time after your job as a German to plan your business venture, and you have the time to properly plan for risk taking activities such as this. Due to the hours worked and the requirements that the social safety net be fulfilled by continued employment at certain employers that offer these benefits, it really does feel that most Americans are lacking opportunities to individually innovate or take risks that Europeans might not have issue with, since their social benefits are not tied to their employer and they overall work less hours and have more vacation time and longer parental leave periods.
> the problem is, there is plenty of discrimination going on.

Try "the interview process is bad and has low recall."

> sooner or later, it will matter to you.

It already matters to me.
> federal government resources are pretty limited

The resources are whatever Congress and the President makes them. The budget is typically over $2 trillion. Dedicating overwhelming resources - billions of dollars, far beyond any hacker group - to the purpose would be a rounding error. The potential access to expertise and equipment is far beyond any hacker group. The legal power is enormous - the government can access, through cooperation and compulsion, so many systems that the hackers would have to try to access at great expense. What major company is going to resist cooperating against these people? They may enthusiastically participate. Just think of the potential of backbone operators, cloud providers, etc. etc. cooperating.

> zero evidence presented that it was even Russians

I believe that's false.

> (jurisdiction issues)

It's a problem, but not impossible. The US has enormous power in the world if they want to use it.
> 99% chance it's an air force UAV.

> Look at the nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force base

The question is whose air force UAV?
Moscow State School 57
> Spears said she has been forced to work against her will, and that the conservatorship has blocked her from getting married and having a baby. She said she wanted to get her birth control removed so she could try to have another child, but that she was not allowed to go to the doctor. She said her boyfriend is also prohibited from driving her in his car, and that she is blocked from seeing some friends.

I didn't realize a conservatorship could be so powerful...
I understand your point but how do you explain the complete absence of database security controls? That part is on Newsblur. Defense in depth is important!
The hidden monster seeming like an ordinary and somewhat charming person is a common plot.
A Guide to Compiled vs. Interpreted Programming Languages
Gain Of Function
Further lab analysis fails to pinpoint evidence of sandwich or actual subway or taste.

Future expeditions are required and will attempt to locate any nutritional or gastronomic value.
Not exactly what you asked for but Oracle Cloud has a generous "Always Free" tier which allows you to spin up 2 VMs with decent amount of storage.

I get that people are apprehensive of using anything from Oracle but so far I haven't had any issues.
> HK needs to declare independence if they want to preserve their lifestyle.

That would be nice but their government is controlled by lackeys for Beijing; they lack an independent military; and even if they had one, HK is completely militarily indefensible from China.

Taiwan is in much better shape in all of those areas, but still I fear for them. IMHO, they need to be sent far more weapons by the US and they need to pretty much organize their entire military-age population into a well-trained reserve army a-la Israel.
Using AI to Build Better Processors
I have not seen such a move in any of the projects I have looked at. Repo maintainers have either just allowed feature requests and ignore them but leave them there for either someone else to chip in on or just to show that it has already been requested. Or they will just close feature requests.
Deflect blame from what?
U.S. Confirms Removal of Wuhan Virus Sequences from Database
The only other players are Samsung and Intel at this point I think.
Memory tagging is already been used successfully for years on Solaris SPARC,

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61059/gqajs.html

In what concerns ARM, all Android 11 and later versions are going to support it.

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-...

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointer...

Unfortunelly Intel's MPX was a failure, for reasons, however the rest of the CPU vendors seems to be going into the C machine model, as only way left to fix the language.
Living normally with Covid-19: How Singapore is drawing road map for new normal
> Instead of a tool shaped specifically for their needs, the framework's core developers often wanted flexibility: they dreamt of open sourcing their framework and it growing popular, so it needed to handle as many cases as possible to reach as wide an audience as possible.

This helped to clarify so much for me. I have done this so frequently not just with software that I've built, but websites, products, even romantic relationships. I can start to imagine different cases (and edge cases) and then eventually get stuck in an infinite loop trying to make it work for everyone.

One of the latest examples: trying to price a SaaS or ebook for friends/customers across different geographies and economic classes.

After reading this post, I felt relieved, maybe because of this line:

> So I started to prefer opinion-driven design when I realised that flexibility comes with a price that is often not worth paying.

Helped me realize just how much energy I've spent trying to keep options open.
> There are literally no long term side effects of them

I’m not sure this is true
U.S. to Block Some Solar Goods Made in Xinjiang Region
Were we reading the same story? There was a long section about how higher rates are much more important than hours worked, and how you want to move away from getting paid for hours billed (butt in seat) to value added (irrespective of time taken).
Heading toward

God help me

The four hour work week

Generally seems like a good idea

So

Start with trying a four day work week

Or remote

Or both

The extra time will help you decompress

And have some time to actually think about alternatives
It means he'd had a skinful.
Heartily agree. Been using them for about 10 years and never had an issue.
Yes, and too many examples to adequately list. A small sample:

- Lesbian dating sites are facing an influx of men-- biological men with penises-- who have declared that they are lesbian trans-women, and are angry when they don't get any attention from the females on the site. This has become a significant controversy in these communities, because apparently many lesbians on lesbian dating sites are attracted exclusively to other females. Now, I'm sure some of these guys actually are earnest trans-gendered women, who are honestly and in good faith seeking to fully transition. But others are just incels trying a new strategy.

- The English and Canadian prison systems are currently dealing with the ramifications of allowing men into women's prisons-- biological men with penises who declare they are women, and demand to be placed into women's prisons. In many cases these guys have assaulted women in prison. These cases are easily googleable.

- 18 male candidates from the The Force for Mexico party registered as women for this year's municipal elections in Tlaxcala, in order to get around quotas requiring equal numbers of female candidates. These are men, just straight up men, who declared themselves women just for the registration, and defended by trans rights activists saying that self-identification must be respected with no questions.

- This guy: http://www.daniellemuscato.com/. This is a biological male with a penis who has no intention of transitioning (he has a medical excuse it seems). In legal trouble and homeless at times, he demands to be let into women's shelters and placed in detention with women. He works diligently and successfully to folks critical of him banned from twitter.

Jessica Yaniv (I know, an easy target, but he's a huge influence in Canada).

Etc.
The Chinese dictatorship initially protested against countries closing their borders, calling it racist.
With alsa_in and alsa_out you can add multiple sound cards as well (e.g. sending out oudio via you laptops hdmi and use a external interface).

I really like jack once I got how to get a running setup. The only problem is that some software doesn't natively support it
Honnold is one of the most humble dudes in the world (even about climbing, which he's very good at). I saw that clip too. I think he's made over $1mm/year since Free Solo came out, possibly just in endorsements/sponsorship. But he probably gives a lot of it away also, via his Foundation or other charities.
Tucson may not be close to any of the major suspects for classified aircraft, but it is close to a major hub for drones. Fort Huachuca and Libby airfield where the US does most of its drone training are less than 60 miles away.
Lego 'lost the plot' for quite a number of years and their only drive was to sell more (poorly designed) sets to survive financially, rather than to see what drove people to buy those sets in the first place: the fact that their kids wanted them. Branching out into the upmarket sets for adults and older kids (large Starwars sets, modular houses and architectural sets such as the London Bridge) was pretty clever as well: you have to sell far fewer sets to people with much deeper pockets to make money that way.

The idea of 'free bricks' such as were available in software was a thing that horrified Lego management, and that's why they couldn't have invented Minecraft. If they had it would have been buried deep. The obvious next step was to allow anything created in such an environment to be immediately orderable, Lego experimented with that for a bit, shipping 'MOC's, but ended up having to withdraw it due to overwhelming success. Obviously that is something you should then fix but instead the idea was - as far as I know - abandoned.