skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gender is a social construction - the word was intentionally pushed into the narrative for that purpose - but sex is not. The extreme majority of people is born either male - XY chromosomes, external genitals, produces small gametes, wider in the shoulders than in the hips if they eat a healthy diet, can not bear children - or female - XX chromosomes, internal genitals, conspicuous mammary glands, produces large gametes, wider at the hips than at the shoulders, can bear children and lactate to feed them. There are some important differences between men and women which need to be taken into account when e.g. the person is taken to a hospital or is taken into custody for some reason. Men and women react differently to some medicines and get different diseases. A man who is taken into a hospital with complaints of abdominal discomfort is not going to be pregnant and as such can be treated differently from a women who is admitted with the same complaints. Sending a woman home with the advice to take a pain killer can and has ended up with disastrous results for the child she is bearing, sending a man home with the same advice does not run such a risk. Putting a man and a woman in the same police cell can easily end badly for the woman, especially where alcohol or other drugs are involved.

So, no, this is not a good idea, especially not when taking that passport across the border - and why else do you get a passport if not to travel across international borders - to countries which have not been touched by the gender craze. What is an Indonesian police officer going to do with an American citizen who chose to mark her gender as 'X', took a few drinks too many and ended up unconscious on the street on Bali? How will a Russian doctor treat her when she comes with the aforementioned complaints about abdominal discomfort?

More importantly, what purpose is served by ignoring the above mentioned fact of the majority of people being born either male or female? Reality does not change just because someone chooses to ignore it.
Thanks for linking to a quote. Here's what that article shows as using singular they:

"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend"

That's still not referring to a single, known person. The gender is known in this case due to "man", but it's still an unknown/unspecified man or men. I don't have a strong opinion about the recent push towards using singular they in this way, but I do really dislike the arguments for it that falsely try to add historical significance to their claims by invoking Chaucer or Shakespeare.
There is nothing dismissive about it, they are just different things.

If we have strong theoretical understanding of the physics/model of a problem, but are unsure about some parameters, it makes sense to develop methods to find those unknown parameters accurately. This ability is a big deal in traditional statistics. People working in this field try and prove results that their proposed method can actually do this. If the model happens to be largely correct and the method robust, this even allows prediction.

Often, however, we do not know the model and the 'parameter' is a piece of fiction anyway. If we are interested in prediction alone, its fine to let go of an ability to accurately estimate the parameters as long as predictions are accurate. Think epicycle models of planetary motion. ML folks try to prove that their methods have good prediction properties and are happy to sacrifice on parameter recovery.

Nonparametric statistics and prequential statistics are somewhere in the middle.

Sometimes it does seem though that people are trying to out do each other, coming up with methods that estimates the spectrum of a unicorn's rainbow more accurately than the best known result in research literature. This may look odd because the unicorn and his rainbow are pieces of fiction.
No it’s not. The main problem is the dependency tree hell. If an ancestor version bumps, you should probably version bump too, irrespective of exploitability.

Don’t like it? Try using more maintainable dependency trees.
Counter-example: I’ve been building with CSS for about 20 years, and am very competent with it, but I’m a fan of the paradigm of atomic styles and eschewing the cascade. I don’t particularly love Tailwind, but a lot of the ideas and reasoning behind it are rock solid.

We need to move past the rhetoric of “Tailwind is for people who don’t know CSS”, when it’s only true in a correlatory sense because the majority of tech is always going to be newcomers. People who are CSS experts are just as capable of concluding that these newer paradigms are worth investing their time in.
Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]
"Then I got some from a different shop, and it was a nightmare! Headaches, heart racing, hallucinations, and it hurt to open my eyes. I thought my heart was going to explode."

You overdosed. Fortunately, the effect of overdosing on cannabis is purely psychological. You may feel miserable and be super paranoid, but there aren't any actual adverse physical effects.

Under such circumstances, if one is 100% sure only cannabis has been ingested and nothing else, and when there really are no adverse physical effects one could reassure the tripper that everything is going to be ok.

Hugs might be welcome, as might other physical contact like holding hands. Try changing the environment to somewhere more pleasant and more peaceful. Going out from a crowded party to peaceful nature might be a good idea. Changing music or putting on more pleasant music might help, as can looking at books of beautiful art or other fascinating images.

Something else that can be really good is having the tripper play a simple physical, acoustic instrument like a drum or a guitar, or to dance, chant or sing. This is an under-utilized and underappreciated technique that can dramatically change the mood as the tripper expresses themselves on a more primal level than speech.

Finally, in difficult trips (whether on cannabis or any other psychedelic) sometimes the best thing to do is not to try to run away but to go towards the difficulty and face it and try to learn from it. What exactly is it that you really fear? Why? Can you embrace it and surrender? Very often doing so will lead to a complete transformation of the experience from one of existential dread to bliss as one "dies" and is reborn.
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I had a researcher contact me about a "vuln" in an OSS effort of mine once. The vuln made no sense w/ how the tool was used, but they published and I earned a CVE scarlet letter nonetheless. I finally "fixed" it, but IMHO, nothing was ever broken or vulnerable.
> Completely agree. I am so disheartened with how co-workers don't seem to take any issue with the aws service suspensions. They are just like oh well, it won't ever happen to us and they must have deserved it. New rule for myself when designing any system now is no cloud vendor lock in allowed.
Probably something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKF0KXMha2E
I was in no way talking about you, I was talking about backend devs in general who are thankful for something like Tailwind.

Just like I, a front-end dev + designer am thankful for something like Firebase, because my backend skills are fairly nonexistent.
It's funny how almost all the comments are about technical aspects of the presentation or how he said it, and not what he said.

He's right, FWIW. How many times have I had to yell "Hel-LO!" at some bozo staring at his phone & not watching where he's walking?

However, how would you regulate this? If you created a metric of "attention-sucking" and set a legal limit on it, the web giants would immediately game it.
Is the presentation un-scrollable just for me?
FYI, here is the entire script:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chmaynard/Sources/core/wor...
The East India Company finds your lack of historical perspective amusing.
This is the ONLY reason to use a graph databases.... Go a head and down vote instead of learn something. :)
Safari webbrowser on MacOS blanks the body of each web page after it is drawn. Chrome works fine.
Actually the budget was overrun quite a bit. I think it will cost $10B at this point.
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which are usually less than amount of profit generated.
How fast are the ADCs?
> But that is the way that EEs think of diodes, because it works! It's a game of learning what assumptions can be made to simplify analysis.

I think you are generalizing too much here. There's certainly some cases where a simple model of a diode works, but aren't there other cases where a more exact model is beneficial. I find it hard to believe that EE's graduate believing that one model fits all, unless its a pretty poor curriculum (for whatever reason). I'm not saying it is impossible to find a poor EE program, but we should be blaming those institutions instead of electrical engineering in general.
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I agree.

Ever seen apps which are basically impossible to patch because devs have ignored patching for so long that it’s basically impossible to version bump things sanely? I have.
Ah, you're right. I was using the same ordering for success and failure. It is possible to use AcqRel in the success case.
It basically describes most of the biggest companies coming out of tech.

Imagine thinking that an individual or a group of normal people can be competitive in an economy like this.
you might not have a super accurate view of rural georgia surrounding the UGA Athens area
I posted a Wikipedia article about an historically established genocide (the use of the term is not mine) against the white population. That population was wiped out.

The article says "By the end of April 1804, some 3,000 to 5,000 people had been killed and the white Haitians were practically eradicated, excluding a select group of whites who were given amnesty.". Someone else posted a link to an academic article that states that former slaves "eradicated Haiti's white population in 1804".

Pointing out that a few polish troops were spared in order to try to discredit me and my summary of the article that all the white population was massacred (which is accurate on the whole and not a "drive-by one-liner") is a nitpick to prevent discussion, and it worked.

It's disappointing that you're siding with that behaviour and that you're accusing me of flamewar, or even of provocation. That's a sad testament to how much the scope of possible discussion has narrowed. As mentioned, I really only posted it for historical purposes on the messy past, and present, of Haiti as part of, I thought, a mature discussion. I didn't even think that this was an inflammatory topic, and in fact I still don't that's why I'm very unpleasantly surprised.

> As for downvoted comments, which ones are you talking about specifically?

All my comments that were downvotable (so less than 24h old, no matter what discussion) were downvoted in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, some time after I posted the comments in this thread.
Your favicon.ico can be compressed further to a 171 byte PNG. I confess I find this 271-byte incantation compelling despite increasing each response by that much, since it’ll load faster in the first place and avoid the overhead of another request:

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If everything truly was great until shortly after you moved there, especially if it happens at several theres, that means that you were what made the places fall from greatness.
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I don’t understand how I can go back one slide
the article highlights Clarke Country, home of Athens, home of UGA (a massive college town)
No there is no threshold because Facebook is in no conceivable sense comparable to public land. The reason the public square is public is because it's not fungible, there's only one center of the town.

You can be on a dozen social networks, or on none, and hitting enter and going somewhere on the internet takes (almost) the same time regardless of where you go,in other words Facebook is trivially replaceable the same way it replaced MySpace, regardless of how large it is. The question is whether Facebook exercises market power, not whether it is large, which is the exact same flawed argument that people use in regards to Google.

What actually has public character is the physical infrastructure of the net, maybe the ISP level, but not digital products, at least none I have seen yet.
It's easy to be right. But to be right is not the same as being useful.
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I often refer to this article https://phili.pe/posts/timestamps-and-time-zones-in-postgres... regarding timestamp and timestamptz

>> Because the vast majority of our use cases for storing timestamps is to represent specific, unambiguous moments in time, we pretty much always want to use the timestamptz type.
> This advice is not great. One needs to specifically know their data.

I think the advice is good advice: when you want to store an unambiguous point in time, you should use the timestamptz type, as it stores the time in UTC, whatever you give it.

"To store a time that is unambiguous in a certain location
(e.g. a doctor's appointment in 4 months time) one needs
to store it as timezone without timezone and an extra
field with the locality. It makes no sense to store the
timezone, unless you also store the DST information or
unless you think you can rule out unexpected DST changes."

In postgres, timestamptz doesn't store the timezone, only the UTC value, given a timezone.

I think your example of "A doctor's appointment in 4 month's time" _isn't_ an unambiguous point in time, which is why you would need to store the wall time with the timezone information.

I can save my doctor's appointment as timestamptz in 4 months time with

# SELECT timezone('Europe/London', '2021-10-07 20:00'::timestamp);

2021-10-07 19:00:00+00

However storing the Europe/London timezone doesn't help me as I can't rule out unexpected DST rule changes. If the UK parliament abolishes BST before that time, I will have to recalculate that value, otherwise I will arrive an hour early.

SELECT timezone('Europe/London', '2021-10-07 19:00Z'::timestamptz);

2021-10-07 20:00:00
(1 row)

will change to

SELECT timezone('Europe/London', '2021-10-07 19:00Z'::timestamptz);

2021-10-07 19:00:00
(1 row)

So the wall time is used, as the point in time is ambiguous.
The diffraction limit is the fundamental resolution limit of a telescope. This is the size of "spot" that will be created on the camera sensor for a single point of light like a star [1].

Its easy to calculate, just take the wavelength of the of light you want to observe and divide it by the diameter of the primary mirror (and multiply by ~1.2).

For example, for JWST observing in the mid-infrared, say 4micron, with a 6.5 meter diameter mirror, has a resolution limit of:
4e-6 / 6.5 = 6.15e-7
Or about 0.6 micro-radians (astronomers would normally use arcseconds but leaving in radians for clarity).

This is just the theoretical limit though, it's reduced by any imperfections in the optics, and for telescopes on the ground, it's limited by the blurring of the Earth's atmosphere to about 4 micro-radians.

For narrow fields of view, however, ground-based telescopes can use adaptive optics to compensate for this shimmering/blurring in real time and reach close to their theoretical diffraction limit. Plus, they can be much bigger since we don't have to launch them into space. I'm not familiar with the MGT but this might be how it will surpass JWST in terms of resolution (which again also depends on the wavelength).

For infrared observations though, a huge effect that can't be compensated for is sensitivity. At mid-infrared wavelengths, the Earth's atmosphere actually glows and makes it much harder to see faint sources. This is one of the ways JWST will really shine.

[1] Note however that you can still do things like measure the position of an object to less than the diffraction limit using e.g. centroiding. But you can't tell if there are two objects or one below this limit.
> It's really bizarre, they never accept that they can't have things both ways

It’s not really that bizarre when you accept that it’s part of the human condition. Then you start seeing the pattern all over the place, especially in politics.

I have two degrees where the concept is pretty much taught in the first hour of 101 classes: economics (cost of opportunity) and software engineering (design trade-offs). And while I see through the pattern quite well, I wish I could say my behavior is always perfectly consistent with what I know.
No. Various manifestations of mental illness and diseases of the mammal nervous system are deeply linked to the whole body and not just the conscious part of the brain. They were arbitrarily sculpted by evolution and encode a lot of information from the ancestral environment of all ancestors. You can't replicate that by simulating a process of evolution of various AI implementations. The fact that the vagal nerve activation influences facial muscles and human interaction in general is not something you'd expect in what most people think of an AI. And yet it plays a crucial role in mental health.

Would you expect an AI to suffer from ADHD? PTSD? Almost certainly not. Because most of these conditions result from an interactions of brains of different evolutionary ages.

Unless of course you're trying to replicate a mammal nervous system its entirety. But then your goal is not singularity and you're definitely not optimizing for intelligence.
> It is absolutely crazy to me the amount of premium people are willing to pay just to not have to pick up the phone or drive 5 min.

Crazy and awesome. It means people value their time highly, and can afford to buy it back.
YC got out of China but still invests in Chinese companies. At least that's what the press release that I read said. Is that wrong?
Land has been the primary driver of wealth for all of human history, very few modern countries are different.
> For example, in Firefox, I use the dark theme for the UI, but that’s completely unrelated to the content, and prefers-color-scheme matches the content, not the chrome. Content I keep normal, light.

Of note is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529323 which is requesting to change this behaviour to align prefers-color-scheme to the UI theme if there is no overriding behaviour.

I prefer this because now rather than setting dark mode to each site I go to, they can be signalled this already. There's no user friendly way to set firefox's prefer-color-scheme: dark if the OS does not have the capabilities to do that.
> That npm dependency trees are often insane

For my hundreds of repos (Java, Scala, JS, Typescript, Python...), Snyk flags 99% of the CVEs for the JS repos. Shocking how I've only seen a few dozen or so Java based CVEs flagged over the last few years.

Perhaps it's because my NPM based repos have ~10K more dependencies? That and the Java stdlib handling most needs w/ the vanilla lang.
But he's not talking about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, he's talking about the bad-faith right-wing talking point of "There are slaves all around the world today!!!" None of the groups that OP professes to care about are part of the transatlantic slave trade.
I'm very anti-technology for software dev, especially for kids, and pro "who cares, the kid can get over it, they'll be fine" in general, but that's a recipe for going to the wrong place at the wrong time to meet up when your close friends remember to CC you but then others on the thread modify the arrangements and everyone forgets that they have to send you your own, special message to let you know. And having that happen enough times that people get uncomfortable even notifying you in the first place, and annoyed at having to go out of their way to account for your (to them) pointless quirk.
Loss leaders does not mean you are selling at loss. Small businesses do use loss leaders to generate leads. It costs less than marketing. It just means you price a product under the price of the market (you don't even need to lose money on it) to attract customers who will hopefully buy other products.
Decentralize so you won't have to beg your master to cut you some slack. Anything else is just talk imho.
Please omit personal swipes from your HN comments. Your post would be fine without the first sentence.

Note this site guideline, including the last bit: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There isn't a fixed 500ms loading time. It advances slides by changing the background image of the central "pic" element. This is the JS to advance the slide:

function increment(){
if(imgNum < 141){
imgNum++;
}else{
imgNum = 1;
}
url = "url('img/vrg_google_doc_final_vrs03-"+imgNum+".jpg')";

document.getElementById('pic').style.backgroundImage=url;
}

The reason you see a flicker is because it takes time to load the next image, and until it loads you're going to see the black background. As you mentioned, the preloading images would solve this.
yeah i am not sure if they mean "region" (as in AWS region) instead of zone. if that is the case then I agree with their assessment.
At the dawn of my career I made myself two commitments:

1. Only projects/companies you enjoy

2. Only projects/companies where users are the customers

So far so good. It’s amazing the cool stuff you can build when engagement-at-all-cost is the opposite of your goal. When the goal is “Provide so much value users are beyond delighted to pay”.

Feels nice to be aligned
Well this is what I mean by "persisted in any way." A blacklist is still persistence.
I think you will be surprised at how DISENGAGED folks are vis a vis a phone call on their AT&T line.

Why? Because a damn ton of them are spam / scams. So yes, ATT doesn't filter calls, and users have learned not to answer them.
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I used to be part of a lot of online forums. In the last 5 years, or more, I feel like I’ve only spent time on HN and reddit. What other communities are you part of?
>Access Denied

>You don't have permission to access "http://www.nasdaq.com/articles/an-interns-guide-to-trading-2..." on this server.

>Reference #18.e0745968.1625685764.2ef97a3a

Why do sites do this? Yes, I'm using Tor Browser to protect my privacy and stop big companies from tracking me. But I can just plug the URL into an archive service and read it from there.
this is really cool! Would you mind if I ask about "performance"? I'm working on a toy project with luajit and I can either use ffi and SQLite C API (which can be a little complicated) or just use the CLI and capture the output of a command as a string and parse that.

As I'm writing this I'm thinking that I should just run o=some tests using both approaches, but, how's the performance for you? Any noticeable delays or something of the sort?
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