skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former "friend" of mine in high school deleted my documents including due school work with netbus or BO (don't remember which one). It really was a shitty thing to do and he was proud of it that I lost weeks of work.

I got revenge couple of months later with a "screensaver" that I've made in Delphi. In reality it would just "crash" with some random error, but actually copy itself on multiple places on the hard drive with windows sounding names, run both as a service and some innocent sounding files etc. It wouldn't show up in task manager. I could send and execute whatever commands I liked. I've deleted his Diablo saves a week later or so, and man he was livid as he wasted months playing. He had no idea what happened as he had two AV programs installed and he was confident it would detect a trojan.

Windows security at that period of time really was a contradiction in terms.
Old Unix hands will remember .plan and .project files, as well as the finger protocol.

ActivityPub, the social protocol on which Mastodon and other Fediverse systems are based, evolved from webfinger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
I find it deeply concerning that even considering a parallel betweem the situations is deemed "anti-trans".

This hits close to home because there's a reasonable likelihood I would have attempted a transition if the social climate were like this when I was a teen. How I am now as an adult I am happy with my sex, and I'm not sure how that would have went.

Obviously there's no way to know, but I'm primarily concerned with how easy and how common it is to shut down discussion surrounding the issue. Especially with how volatile teens are, and how high the suicide rates are for these demographics, I feel like these issues deserve to be explored. Should all this really be hidden behind "show dead"?

I happen to have a very stigmatized mental health issue with an absurd suicide rate (5-10%?), and I'm happy to come across people discussing it, even if a few of them regard everyone afflicted with it as incorrigible.

Back to the topic, I also went through a phase of convincing myself I had DID/schizophrenia, and did expend my mom's and a doctor's time with it, then just clammed up.

In my case one experience was a lot more "real" than the other; I strongly felt closer to another gender, it was never about attention or identity, it was just a mild internal struggle. On the other hand I might have latched onto being severely neuroatypical purely for it seeming "cool", wanting it to be part of my identity, as well as garnering attention from my parent.

Now that I'm older, I'm blessed to be happy with my body and my sex/gender, despite the stronger feelings I had when I was younger. That came with time and perhaps from landing in a loving relationship. Of course not everyone will be this fortunate, but I do worry about people like me who might be directly or indirectly encouraged to make drastic changes they might not be ready to make.

I also of course recognize that severe mental disorders can be very impairing, and aren't something to wear as fashion. (However I would be lying if I said I didn't think schizophrenia is a beautiful form of suffering.)

In conclusion,

I guess I think transgenderism is rarely cut and dry--despite people often seemingly treating it that way--and I can't speak from experience but I assume fashion sometimes plays a role.

I find it a bit absurd to label that notion as anti-trans, so long as it isn't accusing an individual or writing-off the entire phenomenon.

Even when fashion does play a role, does it invalidate anything? I reckon it would just muddy the already-muddy water that is identity. It's up to individuals to sort through it if they choose to.

Forgive the novel.
> I don't get the whole "Let's spend weeks rewriting our build infrastructure to save $240 a year" strategy going on here.

I think that's because 2 things are at play here:

1. People are busy and often rarely read past the headline announcing the change, so they are unlikely to know of the caveat.

2. People don't like being taxed at the infrastructure level, so the default price for plumbing tools like Docker is $0. What's the assurance that the $240/yr will not rise to $2400/yr a year later, especially if they fail to hit their revenue numbers? Once the glove comes off, it's so much safer to cap your costs today by seeking out an alternative, rather than be confronted with uncapped costs (or any kind of vendor uncertainty) in the future.
What companies?
Hold on to your papers!
I disagree. The consistent shorter week totally helps to even out the cadence of the week. Also most businesses can’t survive if they have to give everyone an additional month and a half of PTO.
> reproductive health education business

You are conflating the education business around health decisions, with the abortion business. The two are not the same.
I know there is a case to be made as to whether lockdowns are effective, but as someone who is not trained in epidemiology, it seems like something that you can try that's well-intentioned and within your available set of tools. This would be especially true during the early phases of a pandemic, when you don't necessarily have great models for disease transmission, preventing more precise restrictions.

If the goal is to single out and persecute some specific opposition, this seems like an incredibly clunky and inefficient way to do so. Surely it's easier to tie them up ny having some proxies bury them in court actions or plant some drugs on them, than to throw the entire country into rictus. If nothing else, they're having to personally pay for the economic blowback of declaring a lockdown and all the inevitable egg-on-their-face moments when they themselves break it.
I've thought about this much lately.
Because it permits people to take no action. If people admit there is a problem then they must justify their inaction. But if there is no problem then their inaction is justified be definition.
Right, but then you get "and what about tenths of a cent?". I've worked on projects where the necessary precision changed over time, and it's a lot easier to update your database columns to `DECIMAL(9,2)` to `DECIMAL(10,3)` than to update every place in your code where you're going from cents to mills.

Obviously, there's still significant testing to do to make sure that formerly correct code still rounds as expected, but if you're using a decimal structure like most BigDecimal ones, in memory you're already using arbitrary precision until storage anyway. Which I've done using stuff like decimal.js in JS, too, as it happens. But having it in core is the happy path for a lot of folks who don't already know that this is the way to go.
I agree, just a doubt: Do the very expensive race horses take the human version or the veterinarian version?
Can you explain that further? I'm interested in the idea that our understanding of an idea like Marxism can improve the further away we are in time from it. That seems counter-intuitive.
I had been maintaining (and patching) this package since 2018 on AUR and it's amazing to see it being promoted to community. Electron is definitely not the easiest to work with, but it's been fun turning a fat electron app into a sub-10MB package.
I don't know, burning a symbolic "ex" could be something many people would relate too. Instead of taking out your anger on a real human, you take it out on a symbolic effigy. It's better for everyone involved.
I will always associate this essay with my all-time favorite teacher, an English professor at Skidmore College named Linda Hall. The piece was assigned reading in the first of many classes I took with her, and to this day, I don't know how she found it. Professor Hall is generally well-read, but as far as I'm aware has no background in investing or startups.

Professor Hall taught me how to write for pleasure. I'd known how to do that as a child, but I forgot at some point in High School, presumably while working on yet another paper on the symbolism of a book I disliked. It's past time we stopped doing that to students. I do believe that literature is good for the soul, and that literary analysis is a decent way to practice critical thinking, but it's a narrow slice of what writing can be.

In Linda Hall's classes, I wrote essays on the implications of technological progress, and blurbs for a cookbook, and someone's termination letter. After turning in that letter, Professor Hall brought in a colleague to play the part of the woman we'd fired, interviewed her about the company's hostile work environment, and tasked us with writing her appeal to HR. Every assignment was different, the variety was fun, and I use the skills they taught me every day.

Thank you so much Professor Hall.
It’s funny that you write this like it was some natural law rather than your own personal mentality.
I like this model, but shouldn't reality be replaced by a person's subjective perception of reality? Various states of delusion (intoxicated, in love, religious, depressed, manic) can modulate reality as experienced by the person.
No, the details of the cake where never discussed.

“Masterpiece's owner Jack Phillips, who is a Christian, declined their cake request, informing the couple that he did not create wedding cakes for marriages of gay couples owing to his Christian religious beliefs, although the couple could purchase other baked goods in the store. Craig and Mullins promptly left Masterpiece without discussing with Phillips any of the details of their wedding cake.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

It might actually be 100% legal to reject providing gay themed decorations while providing a cake
Then you're using a convoluted definition of "coercion"

How are you defining coercion or assessing its presence in a given agreement? Ignorance? Being in want? Genetic differences?

When, in your view, are people not coerced?
VRML

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
That sounds like a great schedule- you could use Wednesday to do chores and errands, "life stuff" and then actually relax and enjoy the weekends!

One of the biggest perks of moving to wfh for me has been the ability to do random household chores on breaks from work during the week and now actually have weekends for relaxing instead of things like laundry and grocery shopping.
It’s a cool product and I’ve only lurked so far. But without contacting each seller to release private info, you know only super generic info like “e-commerce startup with $x ARR”. There’s kind of too little info at a glance to even know if you want to engage the seller.
It's not that simple. Let's say you memorized the main meanings of all characters in a Simplified Chinese character dictionary - each sentence you read will feel as if you've understand the verbs and very basic nouns in the sentence, but the way they're connected to each other would be quite a wild guess.

For instance, rewriting your sentence above into something somewhat like this:

I finish wonder this; accept word element character language, you not think word ability read language.

Hardly readable once you start getting long sentences in books. Japanese speakers can't just natively go ahead read and understand 95% of a Mandarin book even if they know all the Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters which are not commonly used in Japanese. They can sometimes understand simple sentences, and can more easily understand, say, street signs.
This is not so. It wasn’t about the depiction at all. It was the purpose that was the cause for rejection.

See Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018), section I (1)(a).
The Supreme Court will rule that such an interpretation of this law is a violation of the first or sixth amendments. There is no other reasonable interpretation
Well, off subject, but hate crime data isn't exactly the whole picture either, as this article (paywall, sadly) explains: https://reason.com/2021/09/19/do-we-really-need-new-anti-asi...
(in general physical violence down, 'uncomfortable' situations or words may be up past year, yet all down over like 20 years)

Back on subject, seems like it's possible though, even if the rest of this article is wrong about COVID, it does mention the fake epidemic at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where the PCR testing was 100% wrong: https://blog.plan99.net/pseudo-epidemics-7603b2da839

It really doesn't help either that dissenting data is auto-flagged as 'disinformation' now either.

And finally 'the data' is just part of the equation. It has justified lockdowns that have a 100% real negative effect on people's lives, whereas for healthy adults COVID has a far less than 1% effect. Plus I'll note that those that most strongly advocate for lockdowns are the least affected by them - media, academics, medical personnel, politicans, tech and other white-collar workers, public school teachers, etc.

It really shows a selfishness, and a careless disregard for fellow citizens who might not be as fortunate. Is it any wonder 'the data' is not to be believed?
Neat! Looks like it's mostly just getting started and mostly empty so far.

The premise is refreshing though -- they're pretty upfront about the huge problems in prior practice, e.g. (https://computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/par...):

> These days it is probably not controversial to say that NHST [null hypothesis significance testing] has been psychology’s hammer that made cognition and behaviour look like a nail. Fervent use of this hammer, which took center stage in the ‘replication crisis’, has most certainly contributed to a relative [neglect of solid theory building in psychological science](https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/psychological-scienc...). Why? Well, a hammer (especially in the form of NHST) is not a suitable tool for sculpting theoretical models.

, and they seem to be explaining methods that employ modeling, like pretty much all STEM fields use.

Looks like a great opportunity for Psychology (and probably other similar fields too) to progress beyond prior practice.
The comic is confidently patronizing and either very old or poorly researched. It assumes that isolated atoms are the only way to interact with superposition, which is not true and not where any of the next generation designs for quantum computing are headed.

“Realization of universal quantum gates is rather challenging in the case of spin defects because the rigorous conditions needed for confining quantum decoherence are likely to limit the coherent exchange of information between qubits as a result of scarce control over qubit-qubit distances. In this respect, a chemistry-driven bottom-up approach to qubit scalability is more appropriate. Molecules are highly versatile, enabling their electronic structures and spin environments to be tuned at will with the use of simple synthetic chemistry tools. Moreover, they can be replicated in large number, functionalized in the desired way, and organized in a controlled manner for the production of large qubit arrays. Undoubtedly, chemical design offers endless opportunities for magnetic molecules to be tailored for specific technological tasks.”

https://www.cell.com/chem/pdf/S2451-9294(20)30130-3.pdf
Yeah, someone here told me cars have microphones installed somewhere now. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they also had GPS and wireless internet connection.
I deleted my Linkedin account as well. I use other social platforms.

I think you can use your email to signup. Linkedin is just an option.
> AT&T cannot inspect our packets for 'bad words'

I was under impression that they actually can inspect, but should not be able to deny/degrade or prioritize service based on whatever they might find in one’s packets.

Inspection part is going to be moot if everyone is using encryption though.
"man" can be used in a gender-neutral way.
If that was the concern the headlines would say: "Don't confuse horse ivermectin with prescribed ivermectin!"

That would be the PSA and approach. But it's not about warning people or any kind of concern about those who foolishly take a horse sized dose. It's about shaming them and pushing the interests of the pharma industry.
Common Lisp supports actual fractions (integer ratios).
There's the other part of their TOS though:

"You will not collect or harvest (or permit anyone else to collect or harvest) any User Content (as defined below) or any non-public or personally identifiable information about another User or any other person or entity without their express prior written consent."

That seems way stronger in forbidding the exact purpose of this site. (With the privacy/publicity/confidentiality rights sometimes applying, but only to specific reports.)
We have 60+ projects out there using four major languages and god knows how many frameworks supported by a few dozen developers, and... two ops staff.

I do my best, but I'm never going to be intimately familiar with your product on a technical or business level in the way that you are when you spend 20-40 hours a week on it. If you want that level of service, you're gonna need another couple million a year in ops staffing budget.

You're paying ops because someone needs to know how to fit all the lego AWS gives you together, understand what's inside the lego pieces to debug issues when things go wrong, be accountable for ensuring best practices are implemented as far as security, backups, etc, optimize spend, and figure out how to architect all this stuff to make sense on AWS.

We could get some of that with some of the more managed services like Heroku, but at our scale the premium we'd pay is waaaaaay more than two ops salaries.
The problem with *digital audio processing is latency.

Math operations on a DSP/CPU require cycle time. Cycle time can vary, but even a simple comparison can be 1-2 cycles, which could be nanoseconds of latency.
All this talk about Austin becoming the new SV - but then you see regressive laws like this getting pushed through. No thanks.
> Is it not immoral to break the law even if the law is immoral

It is not.

> If the law is immoral/unjust, take it to court. Otherwise shut up and deal with it. That's what civil rights leaders did back in the 60's.

Have you really not heard of civil disobedience?
Or cafe-oriented hipster douchebaggery, depending on whom you ask.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433829191405826052.html
Why is particularized injury needed for standing to sue in a civil environmental case, but not under this abortion law? Is that just a federal rule? If you did have to show that you were harmed by a particular act of the defendant it would greatly limit the scope of such laws.
I’m thinking more about what legal defence a phone manufacturer has against inevitable LE requests for access. Not having the technical capability is much stronger than not being willing, even though it’s obvious that a targeted “software update” is within the capabilities of Google and Apple alike.
I do enjoy the full circle it has become, where burning man, has, in essence, became "the man."
For what it's worth, Firefox's official abbreviation is Fx, not FF.
The first dependency listed is electron11... that's desktop.
Ask HN: Honest question, comments above or under code?
I write mine above.
Thoughts on the Upcoming Fujifilm X-T30 II
Wow, so much memories! BO, Nervous, BitchSlap, mIRC scripts...
I also remember the famous NetBios hack at this time. Easy to do, and you felt like a real hacker! Command lines instead of GUI!
That was an incredible feeling and it later brought me to Linux.. and still on Linux (ok on Ubuntu, I'm a casu now :D)
I signed up for a few of these marketplaces but they want some pretty large money upfront to find out any real info about the startups being sold. I guess it makes - you could go around them and make an offer directly. But it’s kind of irritating not being able to see any info. I was just more or less curious and wanted to see a few examples of companies/projects that went through this process.
Natural Hydrogen as an Energy Source
"Online education" is referring here to any organization hosting a website that provides education about abortion. It's not referring to the public school system, which as far as I know, does not host web sites with abortion resources.
We played a lot of counter strike during my uni days and at one point I created a prank program that disguised itself as system.exe and listened for mouse movement. It would then inject random but smooth error into the mouse movement. I installed it on a friend's PC and it drove him to white hot rage. I think he destroyed a couple of mice before I owned up and bought him a new high end Logitech laser mouse (which was a novel thing at the time).
My thought has been that an AI trained to submit plausible submissions, coontinuously trained against accepted and rejected submissions, would be more effective.

Or a simple DDoS flood.
I think it's unfair that they use the term "anti-choice" for the people typically known as "pro-life". "Anti-choice" can equally well apply to people who are "anti-life".

(This is supposed to be clearly tongue-in-cheek.)
How does this work in practice? Say you’re a small business who wants a receptionist on the front desk 9-5, Mon-Fri. The working week changes to Mon-Thu, so you pay 4/5 of the receptionist’s salary, and the government scheme pays 1/5. But you still need someone on the front desk on Friday, because you can’t control which days your customers want to do business with you. But it’s tough to hire 1/5 of a person, and if you can it will come with some job-sharing inefficiencies attached to it. So you just have to swallow these inefficiencies?

Conversely, large employers can easily cope with these arrangements because of their scale and because they already have all the HR expertise and machinery required to juggle varied working patterns across larger teams.

So small business loses?
Rosa Parks was never an ordinary individual who didn't want to sit in the back of the bus. She was an activist who was a chapter secretary of the NAACP ten years before kicking off the Montgomery bus boycott with her actions. The day of her arrest, her NAACP chapter president E.D. Nixon encouraged her to be a plaintiff in the fight against segregation laws that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
FYI I discovered oracle cloud’s free tier is incredibly good for this kind of thing and saw it wasn’t mentioned as an option. It should be. The offering is bananas: 10tb of bandwidth at 1gbps with 4 arm cpus + 24GB of ram. And if you want a really cheesy GitHub workflow to auto deploy to oracle cloud: https://github.com/matthewaveryusa/oracle_actions/blob/maste...

I’m currently deploying a Tailscale exit node and it works great, will definitely try to deploy amnesia too, looks very user friendly.
>The point of the whole operation was to find somebody who was not sufficiently supportive of them and use the power of the state to crush them.

I guess I am still not cynical enough to have thought of that. So thank you for bringing in new perspective.
Did they already just forget about OnlyFans and the payment providers?

The private platform argument applies here as well. The payment providers can refuse to do business with anyone or any individual. Even for political or ideological reasons. Just look at the outrage [0].

The whole point is that, this can happen to anyone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337426
Not that bad if 22 of these could replace a nuclear plant
I don't understand the issue really. CRT just looks at the role that race has played or plays in shaping our systems and institutions. This goes all the way back to the Constitution, the Three Fifths compromise and the 15th amendment. The Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow are all taught in high school. These are all explicit things that happened and were codified in law.

American history has largely always been about race.