skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Second, this article compares being trans with being gay. They're two different things entirely. The only "right" gay people wanted, above being left alone, was equality in law

Presenting this as a difference is a lie. There is no difference. Trans people only want to be left alone and to have equality in the law. (No, misgendering does not qualify as leaving them alone.)

You can solve all of these situations by treating the transgender woman the same way one would treat a cisgender woman in that situation. Nobody is obligated to be comfortable undressing in front of a trans woman, in the same way they are not obligated to be comfortable undressing in front of a cis woman. Nobody's going to call them a bigot just for not being comfortable getting naked in front of a stranger.

Transgender people are liable to get beaten for using the changing room or restroom, so many try to avoid public changing rooms anyways.

> So... Give us self-id because we effectively have it anyway? That doesn't work, particularly if a lot of people are opposed to it.

No, it's more like "Give us self-ID because it will help us, and all the reason anyone will give to oppose it are false." This is what the article is about. It will help them get married with the correct name on the certificate, along with some other boring administrative things, which, like gay marriage, asks absolutely nothing of you. It is entirely irrelevant to your example with changing rooms. The hospital example, which is mostly behind a paywall, seems more to do with a horribly sexist notion popular in Britain that a woman cannot commit rape than with the gender of any parties involved. (Note that I am referring to "rape", not "things that British law would consider rape", which is also subject to this notion.) In any case, it too has nothing to do with GRA reform.

What even is a "sex-based right" anyways? Most legal civil rights are equality rights, which apply to everyone equally.
Can you explain what you mean more in detail? Libraries can't change the syntax of the Python language, not in the formal sense.

Is this about things you want to be able to express in syntax but can't? Or the other way around - stuff that uses syntax/operators but should really be methods?
> I don’t care about the emotions of animals at all

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but humans are animals mate
That's exactly what the parent is talking about. Nintendo is focusing on fun, not graphics. And it's working, they have a huge market of users.

And it seems you're not the target if you cannot enjoy a game without good graphisms.
Sounds better than Reddit's system of 'suicide alerts':

> "Reddit has partnered with Crisis Text Line to provide redditors who may be considering suicide or seriously hurting themselves with support from trained Crisis Counselors. If you’re worried about someone, you can let us know by reporting the specific post or comment that worried you and selecting, Someone is considering suicide or serious self-harm. After you let us know, we’ll reach out (confidentially) to put them in touch with Crisis Text Line’s trained Crisis Counselors."

However, many people on Reddit seem to view this as an opportunity for harrassment of those they disagree with, by generating bogus reports. Any thoughts on how to avoid those kind of outcomes?
That all sounds accurate enough. I would say you won't get PV on everyone's roofs without some major subsidies and/or tax-breaks; or, I suppose, if natural gas prices increased enormously... But any or all of those could come about, without even a huge amount of political consensus, I would think. I was lucky enough to buy a new home that the builders had added solar to, so it was just part of the mortgage for me, but cost of retrofitting is still not negligible (even though the hardware is cheaper all the time, the labor isn't)
The main value I see in everything else P2P is that they're resistant to network failure. If a wannabe Kaczynski somehow takes out all the data centers, you'll still be able to set up a mesh and have essential communications.

Uncensorable payments are important for some and detrimental for others, since the majority of people have no need or desire to do anything that would get them shut down by a bank, and in fact actively benefit from the ability to "censor" fraud.

Putting something like that in the core of a protocol as a mandatory element doesn't make a lot of sense. There's an incredible amount of overhead involved, and it means the protocol is no longer general purpose, it's optimized for doing stuff payment processors don't want you to do, at the expense of the other use cases.

Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that almost all p2p projects have become money-centric, and payment free P2P has almost totally stalled.

For most use cases, payments aren't really a weak link. Their tech is highly reliable. If I were to host something with 3 different cheap seedboxes, I'd expect very good reliability, because mastercard probably won't have a long enough outage to make an invoice overdue.

P2P payments are definitely valuable, just a bit more niche.
Python is an API to efficient scientific computing code. It's good for that, assuming you're using old and more verbose languages.

Look into Julia as a promising alternative -- the language itself is superbly fast (aside from initial compilation) and there's an impressive scicomp ecosystem to say the least, all written in native Julia. This allows for program rewriting / metaprogramming more broadly and is insanely powerful once you get a feel for it.
i have to say, it is a good piano there at schiphol :)
> I feel like Pete's issue was that he was too close to work

The article is about a coworker. This isn’t about the company, it’s about the people you work with.

Building relationships with your peers is a healthy activity. Mourning the loss of a coworker is normal and expected.

If anything, going out of your way to avoid building relationships with peers would be a toxic behavior. Working at such a place where everyone avoided caring about each other beyond the minimum necessary transactions to get their job done would be miserable.
Or learn from a better version of that same idea that was embodied in the Newton. Able to be coded using prototypes from top to bottom so that every app (including ones from Apple that were embedded in the system) was hookable and modifiable, data 'soups' that were persistent in nvram, and easy cross-application data sharing.
Man, being a founder seems fucking awful. Just be the 10th employee...
Not to disagree, but if we go down this direction, we need to then ask [1]:

- What about search? (Baidu vs Google or Bing)

- What about news agencies? (CGTN and Xinhua vs BBC and The New York Times and The Guardian)

- What about the Internet itself? (Great Firewall vs effectively none)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... "List of websites blocked in mainland China"
It isn’t $20/hr. That’s just the claimed rate. The actual hourly rate is often well below federal minimum wage. The article goes into this in detail.
> with cows kept in small cages

I don't think this is common practice. My dairy knowledge is somewhat dated, but they they're usually kept in large corrals (possibly crowded) with many other cows.
Fortran interop (f2py in particular) was a significant factor, and as soon as you get one thing (in this case LAPACK and BLAS bindings) it snowballs. Also, Python is significantly more initially familiar for informal programmers and that’s critical; the hard part of learning a language is often believing that you can -and Ruby looks weirder than Python, so it makes people doubt themselves.
I don’t know about markups but in most industries businesses would envy a 10% profit margin.
The argument is that it's a legal risk. Look up the Microsoft co-employment lawsuit for the kinds of things they're scared of. As parent accurately describes, the contractors are doing the same kinds of work as full time folks... So to avoid the appearance of them being the same (and possibly suing for benefits), basically they get treated as second class citizens.

I know of companies where referring to vendors by name is frowned upon.
You can’t just disagree with a fact. There are plenty of examples of people who live normal life spans without eating meat.
Bold move not adding the LGPL or other more open license for a library. I get it. They want it used for OSS or get paid. But I think that limits the user base and therefore its appeal to folks who would actually pay for it.

It really will need to provide a superior technical product and more efficient dev experience like Qt did before Gtk "caught up" and forced the Qt license change.

If I'm a company, I'd rather use something I could hire folks who have experience with it unless it met those criteria. This is a crowded space, unlike "modern" X11 GUI frameworks at the time of Qt/early KDE.

From the look, there's no real differentiation here from the rest of the crowd. Maybe they'll hit that. As a big company, I'd pay for "support" for both that aspect and for input into the direction of the product. My big company does this for most OSS. But I don't do GUI dev in real life.

I won't ever use it personally because:

a) I won't pay for it for a hobby project. I'm probably going to go actual native and just hit 1 platform and do native on another if there's demand. If I'm going cross platform, I'm just going to do what everyone does these days: hit the web and forget about "native." Then use something clunky like Electron if I managed to be successful and folks wanted a local app.

b) I'm not going to license any OSS I make w/ the GPLv3+. Personal preference. Maybe enough people will disagree for them to get a user base.

It's a shame. I wanted to like it just because I love the band Slint.
> The duopoly of having Apple and Google control the entire mobile universe is gut wrenching. This developer is now unable to develop for millions of phones based on an algorithm deciding they were a bad actor and Google likely won't be compelled to care, a drop in the vast ocean of their concerns.

Not surprising. A duopoly is little better than a monopoly. This is why we needed other viable platforms - which we had in Blackberry and Windows Phone - but didn't support them enough so we lost them. And here we are, caught between Apple and Google.
Copy cat product, YT is amazing at organizing videos. Stick to that.
Thanks for the feedback-we're actually planning to open-source a version of our work that significantly improves on the original UDT project: https://udt.sourceforge.io/.
I am not connecting the dots between Aspirin or LASIK to injuring animals for pleasure.
I think it is exactly sideloading that is the key issue.

Because Apple still pretends it's a tiny company, it has little obsessions that it pursues, it will ship a feature, and then leave it to rot with few to no improvements for years.

In order to convince Apple to improve user experiences across the OS, and not just whatever tickles its fancy in CURRENT_YEAR, it needs to actually compete. I lost count of all the apps that came out in the first half of iOS's life that opened Apple's eyes and moved them to include things in iOS, or open up permissions/entitlements for other apps.
Welcome to the cycle... don't worry, they will make you do devops soon enough too... then, maybe after they've burned through enough people or have lost enough money through broken software and ops, they will start hiring QA and ops again. Or, they will send it all offshore because the onshore talent isn't any good anyway - they keep leaving and costing us money with their broken software! Rinse, repeat.
Sorry, I'm not very educated in this regard but how would it being developed in a game dev environment make it any less customisable for accessibility than an app developed in anything else?
That's the problem, the flatpak developers outright refuse to compromise.

The person I linked above is in fact a flatpak maintainer.

Also, I hate they are shipping broken software. Almost nothing in that IDE works properly, yet Fedora now shows it by default when I search software.

At least snaps work most of the time.
Better furniture shopping, find exact items for less
I’ve only watch the first season of the BBC documentary on the line, but it was great.

https://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-documentary-the-f...
Never Forget or How tyranny happens
Computers are still fast when they need to be fast (data processing or other stuff). But you don't need any note taking or food ordering app to be lightning fast so why care ?
You can build your own google voice with twilio.

I run my own little mini telco for myself and it’s both interesting and fun.

Admittedly, I am also forced to maintain a “2fa mule” to forward 2fa to email and twilio number but that’s all part of the fun :)
> Try sending PayPal from Russia to Ukraine.

Sounds like the real problem is having RUB.

> No barriers to me donating to Ukraine via cryptocurrency.

In this case you're not starting with RUB, so you're solving a different problem.
You can do 1080p on the Pi4.

https://itnext.io/the-2021-onward-guide-to-install-netflix-o...

Edit:

I've personally done it in browser. It works.
There are no limits for payments from Russian side. If not for visa/mastercard restrictions, Russian cards with RUB balance would still be available for payments abroad.

But yes, the current situation is that anti-government Russians are being actively strangled from both from within and from abroad.
And HTML5 video, with royalty-free codecs eventually becoming more viable and capable while MPEG-LA licensing terms became more and more absurd.
Denmark is not just an outlier among the four countries. It's an outlier within all of Europe in terms of its correlation between COVID death and population weighted density. Denmark's counter-example alone is therefore not enough to discount the relationship between population weighted density and COVID risk in my opinion. Consequently, the other Nordic countries, having lower population weighted density than Sweden, make a poor set to compare Sweden to.
On the high end we have Graviton and M1, which are both exclusive to their creator. Just releasing something competitive with Graviton that's accessible to the whole industry would accelerate the shift substantially.

Where are the ARM instances on Google and Azure? Not to mention Oracle and IBM and other smaller cloud vendors. Companies running their own datacenters like Facebook and CloudFlare. Dedicated server providers too.

There's a lot of high end volume in this space to attack the margins of.

Nvidia prefers the locked down approach because it gives them a differentiated product with great margins. That doesn't mean they're incapable of a side project to torch the margins of their biggest competitors.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/why-cooking-c... Is one.
This holds true for regular travel nearing light speed too: For an external observer the spaceship never goes faster than light, but the passengers clocks slow down and they can experience arbitrarily high faster-than-light speeds.

For some reason I never see this discussed when people talk about FTL travel, maybe I'm wrong?
Reverse Engineering Framework in Python
> Very disappointed that a few idiots can ruin something cool for the rest of us

This is a comment that is 'fractal' in nature, it is true at many scales.
papermill is good and ploomber is a thing to watch.

Ploomber makes it systematic - store notebooks as .py (py:percent files for example), parameterize them with papermill and execute as a batch job. One can view the resulting jupyter notebooks as .ipynb later and produce reports as html if wanted. It's really good already, and better if ploomber gets more development.

The whole reason it works is because it's easy to open the .py notebook and work on it, interactively, in jupyter.

The main idea - jupytext for .py notebooks and papermill for parameters & execution - that's already "stable" and easy for anyone to use for their own purposes.
Sorry, diving deep into the manosphere is not exactly lining up with my self care goals, but I'm sure you're not as bad at using Google as you'd let me to believe.
Having lost a loved one recently, I can say that never ever underestimate the effect of sharing grief with the family in-person. Just drop into Pete's home in Scotland and spend an evening with his family & loved ones. They must all be deeply in grief and your physical presence to talk to them about Pete would mean the world to them.
Funnily enough, a C2D T9600 (midrange mobile dual core at the time) is 5 times slower than a Core i7-3610qm (10 years old, entry level mobile quad core) :D
As a physicist who spent a decade in academia, including a PhD where all the new work was done in Python, it absolutely won in some fields by beating - or rather, by conveniently wrapping - Fortran.

(In particular, that’s how things have gone in the materials physics/solid-state/quantum chemistry field. It absolutely beat out Matlab in other fields. One of the underrated benefits was being a lingua franca across more of physics!)
What does that have to do with GMOs?
Those are benefits in failed states and under despotic regimes. There's no real benefit in stable open-market systems.

Crypto benefits privileged people under bad regimes, the same ones who are necessary to actually overthrow despots.

It doesn't benefit, and will never benefit, the general populace who make less than $5 per day.
Right and you're not at home every night sleeping in your own bed. So you're effectively working 24 hour shifts. Your hobbies are limited, you can't really exercise, your diet is shit, you have to shower at a truck stop... You can't really even take your truck and go exploring the area you're in. No place to take a shit, pissing in bottles.
This reminds me of some Bret Victor talks.
In this thread I am seeing a number of explanations, including:

Ecosystem; mind-share; readability and engineering mind-set; history/Numpy/Matlab; teachability and academic focus.

There are also comments emphasizing the "dynamic" scientific environment and need to just pick up code left by others.

In terms of the latter, could one apparent requirement be this: The main contact should be with top-level code which at least looks like it is interpreted -- even if through compile-with-run-combined and/or memoization? Need part of the user interface, so to speak, be to hide all intermediate artifacts, even the very thought of object code and executables? That such stuff is for, say, "module creators" not primary users?
I have to say I think a jupyter notebook format is a 10x improvement in productivity over ipython. It's just so much easier to work with - and a step more reproducible too, my scribbles are all there saved in the notebook, at least!
Part of what makes tech great is reducing the need for physical objects.

Open source software already is literally free. Almost all the good stuff is developed by corporations at a pretty high price, but it's still not much considering billions of users.

Hosting apparently costs so little to provide that just a few ad clicks and some data collection, or a donation model like Wikipedia, can be way more than enough.

Some of it appears to even be given away just as a promotion.

It's not literally free, but it's getting close to irrelevant costs per megabyte of data.
What if you have stacked elements, or elements within elements.

<Box>
<Button>
<Icon/>
</Button>
</Box>

In code it's something weird like

Box(button(
Icon()
)))
No kidding. I would have preferred to migrate the client to GitHub, but they were convinced that wasn't acceptable - had to run their own GitLab. Turned into a mess of managing Gitlab updates and BS rather than working on the product.
I wonder if it's something your body has to get used to? Raw milk has been rare in America for quite a while and I doubt these lawmakers grew up on it. Certainly people drank it for thousands of years and if it was something that had a very high chance of making you sick every time then the practice of drinking fresh milk would have been abandoned pretty quickly and drinking milk would be about as common as eating raw chicken.

People aren't dumb: the Inuit knew to leave polar bear liver well alone and the Mesoamericans knew corn had to be nixtamalized. Another example would be how cassava has to be washed and soaked in a particular process. There are many examples I can think of. Even if the actual mechanism behind these things wasn't understood until modern times people across the world still figured out "you must not eat this part" and "you must do X, Y, and Z before you can eat this" for a lot of toxic or potentially toxic foods.

I'm no expert on foodborne pathogens but it just doesn't make sense to me that people would drink something that would almost certainly make them sick. It seems to me it would be more like, say, eating eggs over easy: it's a risk to be sure but you'll probably be fine if they're fresh and the chicken was healthy.
> some projects get overwhelmed with feature or bugfix requests and loose the fun of it

That can happen, but sometimes monetization isn't the answer. Getting more contributors is. As the song goes, "Can't buy me love..."
That particular pianist, Paul Barton has a whole bunch of very nice renditions of various pieces, he lives in Thailand and seems to be a genuinely nice person as well based on the videos of him that I've watched. Two recommendations, the one is Bach's version of the adagio, the other the fugue part of 'Toccata and Fugue'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wsSIuv_po
Use it for marketing. "Even our close competitors use our service!"
Many people at a certain point in their careers become infatuated with the idea of making a "small", "simple", and "opinionated" component free from legacy "BS". They have the skill to implement the core of that component but lack the wisdom and humility to understand that the "BS" complexity exists for good reasons, that their "small" component is subject to those reasons, and that they haven't actually found a fundamentally better approach that avoids the "BS", but merely skipped the hard parts of software engineering.

You just have to let people go through this phase. You should nod, smile, and compliment them on the economy of their vision.
This phase hones skills people need for more serious endeavors. Butt God help you if you actually use one of these "small" systems in production!
Hey, you matter.

The world is pretty fucking broken and you have every reason to feel how you do. I don't have pithy advice, I'm just another guy on the internet.

But things can change. I promise they can. I don't know how or when, but they can. And you're not alone. I promise there are so many people fighting the same battle.

Don't give up.
Great point. Reaching out to them is an opportunity to understand their use-case and motivations. Perhaps they are interested in some sort of merger/partnership?
This is an interesting take. I strongly suspect you’re right about this, but would like to find more data to support it.
Not to diminish the seriousness of this post but I'm a little curious why this site is named 'so fucking agile'. If it's just for shits and gigs then it would have been great if they called it 'sofa king agile'.
It’s not that crazy, i7-3770K @ 153.48 GFLOPs vs Broadcom BCM2711 @ 13.5 GFLOPS. You can get various benchmarks to favor one over the other, but it’s still a large gap.
> Just releasing something competitive with Graviton that's accessible to the whole industry

Ampere Altra, which has even more cores.

> Where are the ARM instances on Google and Azure? Not to mention Oracle and IBM and other smaller cloud vendors.

Azure: stay tuned, it's soon.
Oracle Cloud: already out since a while :)
Emacs has a great editor...

The evil package.