skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I found this [0] article explaining what this is about

That's being very generous to the article, which is long on what she's accused of, and very short on what she actually said. While her accusers are quoted numerous times, the accused gets only a single sentence:

However, many trans women are still males with male genitalia, many are sexually attracted to females, and they should not be in places where females undress or sleep in a completely unrestricted way.

As 'male' was clearly referring to biology, the first two statements are an accurate summary of empirical facts [1]. Only the third statement is opinion. It is left as an exercise to the reader whether that opinion is deserving of the backlash she faced.

[1] [Trans-people] reported identifying their sexual orientation as something other than straight at a rate of 77%. - https://www.thetaskforce.org/wonky-wednesday-trans-people-se...
> I've been rocking a DIY edition running Manjaro Sway community edition.

Have you enabled fractional scaling on your DIY? How well do applications work? Firefox, for example, goes haywire and its popup menus start flickering as soon as fractional scaling is enabled.
Great article! My feelings exactly. One thing to add: doing "extra" sometimes requires you to be little irresponsible. In the example in the article, many responsible programmers will opt to do "More" (3rd screen) instead of "Extra" because they know the project is past deadline and company really needs it. However this kind of thinking is is a trap. There is always an incentive from a company to do "more". One should learn to ignore it to do "extra." instead.
Benny Johnson is another run-of-the-mill far right grifter, nothing to see here. One pilot does not a walk-out make. The anti-vax and anti-mandate crowd are desperate for an real "walkout" to occur beyond the handfuls of people who made a lot of noise on social media about doing so, so naturally they flock to this one hoping it's the real deal. It isn't.
Presumably there are people in the world with a finer-grained view of things than "blue" and "red", such as centrists, people sympathetic to progressive social views but not a fan of progressive economic views, people hurt by Prop 13 in particular, etc.

(It is certainly possible that such people are working to improve their home state and the only people actually moving have a dualistic view of politics, though.)
I don't think anybody is arguing that lockdown cons don't outweigh the pros after an arbitrarily long time.
Aztec script is a bit more complicated than simply ideographic. There's a whole bunch of syllabaric stuff we don't fully understand as well. Regardless, defining "prehistoric" around the presence of so-called complete writing (scripts that can represent any spoken statement) leads to a lot of really silly situations, especially in the new world. For instance, did the Aztecs suddenly become historic as soon as the Spanish showed up? If so, why didn't the Mayan script (which is also complete) count? If it's that the Aztecs who couldn't write simply weren't historic yet, does that suggest the vast majority of Europeans who also couldn't write were prehistoric?

Either way, it's a terrible definition. As an archaeologist, I use "prehistoric" to describe really old fossilized crap. Anything newer is historic.
I think it existed before, controlled by larger parties (media etc, professional reviewers and critics). With the rise of the internet, there was a brief period where anyone could share their opinion with you, and sellers hadnt figured it out yet. Now they mostly have and we're back where we were or worse.
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Probably the same collision detector issue⸮
Actually, the 737 MAX disaster was driven from the business side. Somebody promised Southwest $1 million per airframe if differences training was needed.

The organization was too brittle to accept criticism from their eng. organization, as most are, until a crisis.
There are reasonable fair use arguments to be made around preservation indeed (just look at what archive.org does). They just have nothing to do with the decompilation for interoperability story.
Lungs delivered by drone saved an Ontario man's life
There is an open source implementation of this you can just spin up in docker.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

I've been using it for a couple of years now. It's been amazing for me. Run a server at home and I can just edit stuff on the fly via browser from where ever I am.
I did read it, and in fact posted an excerpt and a couple relevant links. Apologies for missing “and its public PDB”.

What level of optimization was used in the released executable?
Thanks for offering a free tier. Will check it out and have a look at things.
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I have actually enjoyed fixing and modernizing broken legacy systems. But it sounds like your company has placed too much cognitive load on you. Most people know only one or two stacks.

I read your other comments too, I think you are really overworked. I would leave asap.
The sequencing trap that risks stagflation 2.0
If this is true, you can do better than known far-right grifter extraordinaire Jack Posobiec of all people. Sad to see this tripe spreading on HN.
Totally agreed. I haven’t read up on the topic in awhile, but my recollection is that the entire verse was (possibly/likely) butchered in translation and it was originally written as an admonition against witchcraft practices, like cutting herbs, or some such.

Edit, to add: I initially cited to the King James-translation as that has historically been the most promulgated version of the gospels.
CR was notable and trusted specifically because they were the only ones in the industry who did that.
No Tech for Apartheid: 40 Groups Demand Amazon and Google Ditch Israeli Military
This is basically every large company, and most all of them have enough brand recognition to not need fake reviews.
That's a nice opinion piece you have there. Honestly that was just a whole gish gallop by someone with an extreme bias. I don't personally like Biden, but that was a terrible article.
You'll have to live with fractional scaling if you buy the FrameWork laptop. I know many people will say it works "perfectly" for them even though fractional scaling is discouraged by almost every DE and window manager (including sway), not to mention many applications exhibit weird behavior like weird placement of popup menus or popup menus simply disappearing or flickering.
There's also faith in humanity and its capacity to renew itself throughout the cycles of civilization. You can look at the world and think tomorrow looks grim, but the morning after can be better.

Faith that tomorrow is going to be better is just one of many types of faith, and it may not even be the healthiest.

The prophets had faith, but they often saw dark tomorrows.

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'Hysterical' Realism seems like a caricature, 'safely ignored' suggests the book is alarmist or clawing for attention. Based on the review, the book is anything but.

It seems more just a vividly imagined meditation on the massive gravity of our tangling with reality, and one that could expand a persons sense of awe at the universe and our place in it.
> If there was any further indication that a group of people needed to all band together and overthrow their government, you'd think that'd be it, but I guess some people just love living in near slavery.

Which people? What if the majority agrees with this move but they won’t speak out in public about it?

I for one am perfectly fine with China being able to do this. It would, at the very least, keep Zuckerberg and others in check.

The anti-China rhetoric on HN is mind boggling sometimes when it’s put next to the constant stream of complaints in the West, regarding inflation/monetary handouts, zoning laws, corruption, real estate, oil spills and companies getting away with shit, etc. The list is endless.

And yet, you’ve accomplished nothing. In fact, things are now worse than they were and yet you just keep complaining thinking it will make a difference. You’ll never get anywhere complaining without having a path to act. China, evil it may be, actually acts.

Go and call your congresspeople. They’ll listen to you over the sound of money that is pouring their way to look the other way.
> it would genuinely surprise me that 10 years from now Google Earth images will actually look similar to these predictions

The interface says that these are predictions of sea level rise several centuries from now.
Southwest was affected by far the largest, being the largest. But they are not the only ones affected.
Couldn't figure it out or didn't figure it out? Valve has been notorious for neglecting the development of VAC and letting cheaters run rampant in Counter-Strike for over two decades. As we speak, there are probably public cheats in existence that won't be banned for at least another two years.
it's almost universally known that the whole point of NNs is that they've obviated the need for feature engineering (for some tasks)
Mostly agree but AVX isn't still a requirement because Intel still sell Celeron without AVX. Even Core i5-L16G7 (sold in 2020) don't support AVX at all, because Tremont core (used for Celeron and little core) don't support AVX.
Xbox Game Pass is a huge success, it seems. And tbf, that’s to be expected when you look at the game list it unlocks.
Because dang censors anything remotely close to a negative opinion?

I don't think that's why. The guy uses "flamebait" as a reason for not posting (or for flagging) something that might not be popular.

That's fundamentally broken and will lead to problems eventually. Not problems for HN or dang though, or most people.

It's almost like blaming the human for eating ice cream in front of a monkey, because the monkey can't eat ice cream too, and the human should know that/better. Poor monkeys.

HN is great for a lot of reasons, dang's moderation included, but not because of this example or solely based on his moderation.
I like his "The Talk Show" podcast. He has a very nice voice.
I agree. I don't understand why I can't say "okay, have fun with directory /nakedmolerats" and see what they do with it.

The fact an app can essentially coerce you into accepting permissions "for your safety" is something that should be against Plays TOS and met with a swift banhammer.

It should also highlight how little control we have over these black boxes, when you grant permission, even for 5 minutes, you have no idea what directories it has accessed, if it's scanning for materials or hashes, sending data to a server etc. People moaned about Apple yet here the same thing could happen just by pressing "accept", the fact it's a banking app means you're more likely to accept. No idea how this is allowed to be honest.

This could also be a big problem if you have sensitive material on device and just allow any app to access files.
Emergent behavior doesn't need to be organized. There doesn't need to be a union nor a secret clubhouse nor an email chain for people who believe they will soon lose their jobs to make use of their accumulated sick leave, especially if it cannot be converted into vacation days, which are paid out when employment is terminated. I don't know what's in the employment contact at SWA but everywhere I've worked paid out unused vacation days but never paid out for unused sick leave. Similar people in similar situations often make similar decisions without coordination.
Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight:

https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/

WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site.

We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.).

I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), Mozart and sometimes Bach are my favorites to "get into flow and stay in flow".
I've now seen two pictures from far-right grifter personalities showing Gadsen flags draped from planes.

There's probably a greater chance of a feedback effect between a minority of pilots thinking and these personalities than there is with pilots, of all professions, collectively walking out over vaccine mandates.
Now I am curious - what are the examples of unprofitable performance marketing campaigns at that scale conducted by public companies?
This has been my experience, too. Great for getting started quickly on straight-forward projects or prototyping, but even simple projects hit snags.

If you're certain it covers all of your requirements out of the box, it's a great option. Otherwise...you're probably better off configuring Webpack from the start. I've never hit an issue with Webpack that can't be solved (an likely it has already been solved by someone else).
Well the problem is the definition of `Billionaires`. China's model is closer to typical corrupt authoritarian states like Russia where the government officials are the Real Billionaires. They have real power and capitals over those people like Jack Ma. They just need to move a finger and you will see the transfer of the capital. The billionaires are never eliminated. Just money change hands.

It's just that they are just less exposed in the global media, even as a forbidden topic in China's media. It's not hard to imagine how rich Xi actually is, he is basically Putin.

So when we are on the topic of `eliminate billionaires`, especially in the context in the country like China, the question becomes: which billionaires? ;)
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"Many of today’s bureaucratic functions, both in government and corporations, are already performed not by human administrators directly but by machines controlled by humans. Soon enough, serious attempts will emerge to entirely remove human intermediation and subjectivity from the administrative equation. Here, the potential convergence of blockchains and Artificial Intelligence is provocative as middlemen are replaced by increasingly autonomous middlemachines." The term first coined in 2019 by Mario Laul (twitter: @mlphresearch). [source: https://mariolaul.medium.com/blockchains-are-bureaucracies-par-excellence-db39cfda7ea9]
The problem is that it takes far more effort to dispel and debunk BS than it does to create and spread it in the first place. By the time anyone has the chance to conclusively debunk this tripe, the creators are already miles away on their next grift.
The key to the passwordless future is in the widespread use of devices that use biometrics for local authentication of the user and have a Secure Enclave or similar hardware that can provide better guarantees, along with built-in support for WebAuthn.

These devices will also become the ones responsible for setting up the same login on other devices. These would work in a way similar to, for example, how Apple or Okta handle two factor authentication by sending a push notification to existing devices registered to the account.

Since most people wouldn’t have a Yubikey (or multiple Yubikeys for backups) and since most people own one smartphone, the fallback for account recovery — when their smartphone breaks or is lost — would be the weakest link.
A lot of them allow customers to write reviews that the platforms may or may not have reason to know are fake. But good reviews are to the benefit of their bottom line so they might be incentivized to look the other way even if they have reason to believe they’re not genuine — Amazon, Apple, and Airbnb for example. It’s pretty common knowledge the reviews on those sites are frequently gamed. Any “platform” service that allows user reviews where the platform get’s a cut of the sale or where a part of their payment is contingent on a sale occurring is reasonable to include on the list I think.

I was pretty surprised to see a PE firm on the list, though.
Yeah, even in state systems, i think some sort of gossip protocol could work as long as the part of the state is being decided on is not in contention with another nodes response during a round of sampling.
It's actually quite a modern idea that instead of controlling your own response to someone, you are better off responding as poorly as possible and blaming the person who you're responding to "for making you do it".

It's not good. Any gamers here will be familiar with the new "tilt" slang and how it actually places the blame on anyone but the person doing the wrong deed.

I do not enjoy this new world of blaming imaginary catalysts instead of blaming bad actors.
I've heard that Valve's VAC only runs on Windows so maybe they're doing the same thing.
I thought I would also have this issue when I switched to iOS and got the Apple Watch and AirPods.

Turns out I just plug in everything at bedtime along with my phone so it's not much of a nuisance.

I guess the e-waste issue is concerning with all these electronics though.
Sure, hopefully I understand what you mean.

For network observability I'm using Cilium's Hubble, which I will soon figure out how to get into a greylog setup or something. For container image vulnerability interrogation I'm running Harbor with Trivy enabled, initial motivation was to have an effective pull through cache for multiple registries because I got rate limited by AWS ECR (due to a misconfigured CI pipeline, oops), but it ended up killing two birds with 1 stone.

Next on my list is writing an admission controller to modify supported registry targets to match my pull through cache configuration.

Is there something more specific you wanted?
Thanks! What I meant in 5: my receiver can output to speakers only. My amp can accept line level or speaker level input, but says it prefers line level. Would I get better results by connecting the speaker level receiver output directly to the amp or is it better to instead get a separate preamp to bring receiver output to line level then connect that to the amp.

I think I will try the former first.
I don't know why this is still being done with new languages, but it really peeves me when I see syntactically privileged data structures. You get them in practically all languages, whether they're records or dicts or arrays or lists.

The only language that I've seen that even gets close to the right approach is Scala. You don't use special syntax to create an array that you wouldn't also use for a list or a map or a set. There's no special bracket type, no master data structure that all others must bow to. And the result is that you don't mindlessly default to the wrong data structures for your problem.
Such a cop out response. "Politics" is interacting with your peers, your superiors, clients, vendors, etc. It's being able to articulate why your ideas are better from technical, organizational, and/or business perspectives. When you have ideas that shine in one of those categories but are absolute shit in the others, or when you have decent ideas but are terrible to work with, it's much easier to just get defensive and say that it's "politics" that made the "mediocre" (but better-suited) ideas rise to the top.
That article is about double quotes, not single quotes. I used the latter.

Be aware of prescriptivism vs. descriptivism in your research.

I’m done belaboring this. Have a nice day.
That is indeed one of the ways the term is used. Certainly not the most relevant one. Regardless, you should try not to be so insulting about getting a piece of slang "wrong", despite the popularity of insulting journalists.
Aren't most drugs hailed as good or bad (as in socially acceptable) based on the short and long term side-effects more so than the pharmacological properties?

> "Don't worry the doc said to the mother, Ritalin is as safe as cocaine, it's well proven in human studies."

Is this some quote you made up to explain a point, or are you referencing something I am happening to miss? It doesn't invalidate what you said either way, I just want to make sure we are on the same page.

> I'm not talking about big pharma, I talking about the bogus but common theory where drugs are hailed as good and bad based on supposed pharmacological properties. The differences are not pharmacology but society.

How about a different drug? Alcohol has great pharmacological properties. If I am not mistaken, alcohol is one of the best anxiolytics known to man, but oooh boy does it have some awful short-term and long-term side effects. Hence where benzos come into play. They work on the same parts of the brain, and while they do have side-effect (some similar to alcohol), I'd argue they are healthier both in the short and long-term than alcohol.

It's crazy to me, how people (not you) get all bent out of shape over drugs that actually help people due to some misinformed idea about the dangers of said drug. Sure, not all drugs are perfect nor is anybody's biological make-up.

However, I imagine few people are aware that NSAIDs are related to more negative health effects and have a higher mortality rate than medically prescribed stimulants, like Ritalin, at therapeutic dosages (I'd wager even street stimulants too -- at least in the short term considering those are rarely taken in "therapeutic" dosages) though finding data on this stuff can be somewhat tricky.
I usually like Derek's blog posts but thus one left me somewhat unsatisfied. I already know what chirality is, so I wish he had talked less about that and more about the specific research that got the prize.
If you're into vintage telephone network sounds (and some really excellent technical descriptions of phone phreaking) take some time to listen to Evan Doorbell's recordings: https://www.evan-doorbell.com/

I grew up in the tail end of analog switches near my home. I remember the sounds of making phone calls changing over a few years. They became a lot less interesting and a lot more uniform. The sounds you'd hear calling the bigger towns in the area slowly took over the sounds you'd hear when calling smaller towns or out into the country.
HN is surprisingly conservative sometimes. I see plenty of anti vaxxer takes, subtle and less than subtle transphobia, and general empathy lacking libertarian attitudes
Nicely done. Pico.css is a cool idea I hadn't seen before.

I have built 2 SSG's over the years, once in 2009 and one this year. So it's fun to read through someone's internal thought process on their motivations and decisions.

Someone put together this mega list of 460 SSGs that I found helpful for inspiration and learning: https://staticsitegenerators.net/. Also would be a good place to add Teeny, though not sure if they are still updating the actual website.
Objective truth does matter, but there are many truths. Not all truths lead to best outcome. You can still aim for unfiltered truth but choose to not dwell on all of them. For example knowing exact date of death of your loved ones won't make you live a happy fulfilling life. It'd occupy your mind obsessively, like if they had terminal cancer. Eliminating any possibility of you experiencing most joyful moments in meaningful way.
Haskell does not really have pointers, but let's say it does (or that ioref fulfills it). How would you then (as an example) declare an array of pointers pointing to functions accepting int and returning float declare in Haskell?