skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My native language is Russian. There are three grammatical genders, but only two of them are used for sentient beings, to talk about someone in the neutral gender is derogatory af (not that it stops people — I've seen one person call themselves "оно"). Other than this extremely rare occasion, everyone is 100% okay with using gendered words because those are the only ones we have. Hell, we don't even have the word "sibling", it's either a brother or a sister.

But we do have another similar phenomenon going on. Feminitives. It's when some people assign the female gender to words that don't have a female form, or that do have one but it's not cringy enough. So автор becomes авторка, врач becomes врачка (instead of врачиха), учитель becomes учителька (instead of учительница), and so on.
> poverty in the US

Here is where you go in the wrong direction. It's not about poor people in a stable country, it's about rich people in an unstable country. So the use-case is actually the complete opposite.
> a healthy amount of caution is generally good.

Definitely. These are potent levers, not toys. Knowing your dose is critical and really does need to be emphasized. Thanks.

Re: chemicals - you can know very accurately but you really have to know what you're doing and most people aren't up for the effort.
I won’t comment on Rust Evangelism Strike Force too much; it seemed to be unironically used as a term of endearment at some point, but that could’ve been after its use as a pejorative. At this point, I can’t remember, and frankly, the world is probably better off forgetting.

I understand. In the earlier days of Go package management, it was pretty common for folks to compare it to Cargo. In retrospect, this was probably bad, but it did serve to highlight some pretty damning issues with Go at the time. But I feel they addressed the shortcomings significantly with Go modules, and now it has become much more a matter of taste.

I enjoy Go’s idea of trying to make source control the only source of truth, but I don’t think it’s as well-received as the more tried-and-true approach of Cargo and other centralized package repositories. I suppose time will tell.
I don't think 1k "twitter accounts" are going to reasonably prove anything, and I'm not sure a singular "MIT study" is either. Do you think those prove there's some impactful issue happening here?
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Up until now the rust compiler has been finely tuned for LLVM. I would expect the GCC backend to perform worse initially, then improve over time depending on how much use it gets.
> Same thing that happens in Venezuela. You pay your army in real assets and hard currency.

Venezuela proves my point - it's a borderline failed state where the government is very, very fragile.

> Which is a false assumption, given recent history.

You may be referring to the Colonial Pipeline hackers. When hackers implement strong crypto opsec, it is impossible to catch them.[1] Dumb and careless criminals get caught all the time, there are a lot more that don't.

[1] Use wasabi or samourai for coinjoins. Run a full node. Use a wallet with coin control and labelling. Buy from Bisq. Or use Monero.
frank,

The article is not clear on what the 3 degree rise refers to, but looking at data on colorado river temperatures over time, they may be referring to that, as they have gone up about that much according to other sources. They are certainly not referring to global mean surface temperatures.
"Today, we know that genitalia do far more than just fit together mechanically. They can also signal, symbolize and titillate—not just to a potential mate, but to other members of a group. In humans, dolphins and beyond, sexual behavior can be used to strengthen friendships and alliances, make gestures of dominance and submission, and as part of social negotiations like reconciliation and peacemaking, points out evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden, author of the 2004 book Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People."

What are we to infer about cultures that forcibly remove erogenous tissue (clitoris/clitoral hood/vulva on females and foreskin/frenulum/ridged band on males) from their children?
Hilarious, and also such a fun tour of the quirks of this old car.
I have chronic back pain. So far, several doctors agree that the symptoms are there, but none of them have been able to identify the cause. Pain and the mobility issues that come with it sometimes disappear briefly, for an hour or so. I know it sounds crazy, but sometimes I can make the pain go away by focusing on it. None of it seems to make sense.
Can't you just mix in a little epsom salt and filter it through a filter paper?

Maybe the calcium phosphate (dibasic I assume?) suggested in the article is a better approach, though, and the lead-iodide coloring is a nice touch. Why doesn't all the potassium iodide dissolve away long before the calcium phosphate, though?
I began my answer before your edit, so "what I'm going on about" is the topic at hand
Yes, I do. I was addressing the issue of losing physical possessions though, not the sociological aspects of how bitcoin might theoretically scale to solve the monetary problems of half the world.
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There is a balance between privacy and the public interest (historical records). For example, immigration data ("A-files") from USCIS is released after 100 years of an immigrant's birth date to the National Archives [1], under the assumption that everyone is deceased after 100 years and no longer have rights to privacy protections (US-centric law). This is the same reason FamilySearch (the Mormon genealogy application) is very aggressive about ensuring you properly mark subjects as deceased or not. There is a duty of care with regards to a living subject's vital information that does not exist for the deceased (deceased subject vital information is available to all on FamilySearch, living subject vital information is only available to the account that created the record).

70 years seems reasonable considering the lack of sensitivity of census information, and while rental records aren't public, property ownership records are and are frequently used as well for location information (FamilySearch indexes public property record information for ancestor location hints and other vital correlation [2]).

[1] https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/aliens

[2] https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Land_and_...
And I think the reason is that AirBnB hosts have no incentive to improve anything. Because there's always another sucker. Who cares if city41 never stays again or if city41 tells everyone never to stay at Bob's AirBnB in Paradise, Nevada. Bob doesn't give a shit.

Bob only needs to convince one person to stay at a time. That's it. And then it's relatively easy money. Especially considering that while the lodger is staying, you don't have to do hardly anything. You spend a couple of hours cleaning up after they leave, and that's it.

Hotels need to convince everyone to stay. True, while they can eat the cost of one or two lodgers, they can't become known as a place with bad lodging. Hotels have operating costs in the millions. They have staff, they're turning over rooms daily, cleaning every room daily, industrial HVAC, a bar, a restaurant (or two), sometimes a tiny convenience store, concierge services.

Hotels are invested in you having an acceptable stay.

Not going to lie, when travelling, I tend to gravitate towards national chains for lodging. While I'll never find the true wonders of the whatever of living like a local or what people claim AirBnB provides, I'll never have a truly shitty lodging experience either. It's one of the areas where I'm not looking to have an adventure.
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That might be true historically but I would doubt the majority of people today would agree that “he” is a gender neutral pronoun.
The current governor has done an outstanding job getting the state's fiscal house in order, and neither Republicans nor Democrats are happy about it. But you can look at the numbers yourself and see that the state is doing very well.

Cook County... Well, that's a different story. The current assessor is following through on his campaign promise to clean up the assessors office and make property assessments modern and fair. And everyone hates him. If his reforms survive, the next step is to start a fight over how much everything costs. And then Cook County will be well on its way to fiscal health. If the reforms do not survive...

But you should also note that property taxes as a percentage of property value are significantly lower in the city of Chicago than suburban Cook County. Like a house in Chicago could be paying half the property tax compared to a similarly-priced house in Glenview.
Facebook recorded it's first profit in 2009. FAIR was begun in 2013.
Rail privatisation has been an absolute disaster in the UK. From the East Coast Main Line franchise being renationalised [0] to the abysmal service provided by Southern Rail [1].

Natural monopolies belong in the hands of arms-length government owned companies.

[0] - https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-east-coast-fra...

[1] - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/uk-rail-passengers...
Political correctness can't succeed without authoritarian control
Well I read the word sexting and spit out my coffee.
I could have written your comment when I was living with my parents throughout the Great Recession. The only way this gets better for you is to find those things you can do to make income or otherwise be productive and on your own and do them. True fatalism looks a lot more like the guerrilla world of “For Whom The Bell Tolls” than “Siddhartha.”

Edit-the GR didn’t end for me until 2014.
And? Who cares? The linter won't letMeDoSnakeCase? I move on.

Is this worth our time to complain about this and upvote to number ONE article on HN?
Even before my edit, I never implied the bot was effective or good, though. The bots effectiveness and the thing it purports to do are two separate matters.
> I guess if code needs to be gender inclusive there's a few spoken languages in the world that need to get rid of their gender specific grammar. I say that as a monolingual Scot.

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

Watching who is using Latinx, Hispanic, or Latino/Latina in political discourse in the United States has been interesting.

> As of 2018 the term Latinx was used nearly exclusively in the United States.

> A 2019 poll (with a 5% margin of error) found that 2% of US residents of Latin American descent in the US use Latinx, including 3% of 18–34-year-olds; the rest preferred other terms. "No respondents over [age] 50 selected the term", while overall "3% of women and 1% of men selected the term as their preferred ethnic identifier".

> Supporters say it promotes greater acceptance of non-binary Latinos by being gender-neutral and thus inclusive of all genders. Critics say the term does not follow traditional grammar, is difficult to pronounce, and is disrespectful toward conventional Spanish; the Royal Spanish Academy style guide does not recognize the suffix -x. Both supporters and opponents have cited linguistic imperialism as a reason for supporting or opposing the use of the term.
What would you recommend for feature selection in say, single-cell RNA seq studies (Typical dataset is ~10,000 x ~30000 (cells x genes) with >90% of your table filled with 0s (which could be due to biological or technical noise)

PCA and UMAP are yes, dimensionality reduction methods, but are often seen as tools for feature selection.

See slide 61 Here: https://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/skrabanek/lab/ang...
This is a testament to needing to test your code for edge-cases before deploying. And if it doesnt work how you intended... dont deploy.
A friend of mine tweaked a sensor on his car and it wouldn't recalibrate, which disabled all of the electronic assists. It drives like a shopping cart now.
Could you explain more about how hot reload works? I don't see how you can continue from some arbitrary point in an HTTP request, for example, without having detailed knowledge about how a language stores its state in memory and how the code changed between versions.
To be clear - they're not "creating" viruses which is what Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin are both alleging.. Metabiota is a pathogen surveillance company, e.g. the exact thing that could help prevent pandemics.
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I bet that rises as discrimination against homosexuality diminishes. This number is much higher among my gen-Z friends -- a liberal bunch, to be sure, and it would never occur to them that not-being-straight would be a problem. I suspect that being 100% is actually a minority among them.

It seems fairly healthy for them. They get to query their gender and their sexuality, and find out what works. I have a feeling a great many of them will nonetheless end up with opposite-sex partners, but it will be their choice rather than having been forced on them.
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The metrics seem to disagree: https://fosspost.org/survey-shows-60-of-vfx-designers-use-li...
What Is Agile?
The question sounds simple but the answer is probably not straight forward. There are thousands of books, blogs, courses, videos available on this subject, however, I still have a hard time understanding how does it work at a conceptual level. People say we can implement Agile methodology to software development to general business problems. Jeff Sutherland, Author of popular book on Agile ("Scrum"), suggests that we can solve humanities most important problems like poverty with this methodology.

I have been able to understand following things about Agile
- Too much planning is a waste of time. Rather, just figure out the next important thing and get down to work.
- Do things incrementally. For example, when building a software, rather building things in parts, build a smallest possible functional system and deliver it to it's user and then extend it feature by feature. (In contrast to other approaches, where you build things part by part )
- Respond on feedback rather than planning everything in advance.
- Communication over documentation

However, what are the general principle of this methodology and how do we apply to projects other than software. How do we really solve world problems, the agile way?
You guys are all being absurdly ridiculous. I don't know why programmers make such reaches when the answer is much simpler.

University student looking for easy side project to create and put on resume decides to go with "inclusive language bot", doesn't actually put in effort beyond wix site and ridiculously simple bot, boom. That's all this is.
A friend uses a closed-loop system. The pump looks similar, though it's a bit hard to say since it's just a black rectangle. She has to apply an external glucose sensor; having an implant would be great. (The external one is painful to apply and catches on things.)

It was a huge improvement. It's not really an artificial pancreas, but it's perhaps 80% of the way there. It requires much less monitoring and mental overhead.

The biggest complaint she has is having to move the input port every week or so. Not only is it unpleasant, but the wounds take a while to heal. (That's a side effect of being diabetic.) If they could find a better way to get the insulin in (perhaps an implanted port?), it would be another huge advance.
I wish them luck, because I'm always a fan of innovation wherever anybody finds it, but I suspect they're looking for it in the wrong place.

People looking to swap batteries seem to be focusing on the gas-station experience of ICEs, but that's not such a great thing. People don't love taking time out, once a week or more, to stand outside and pump chemicals. It's dirty, smelly, and unpleasant. And yet somehow car owners have simply incorporated it as a fact of life.

Most EV owners never charge anywhere except their homes. Others will charge at their work places, while shopping, or in hotels: places they already are. The time is seconds, not minutes: you spend the time doing whatever you were already doing.

There are still problems to overcome, but "more chargers" is a better solution than "gas stations but for batteries". It's not that there are no scenarios for swappable batteries, but that they are special cases rather than common ones. That becomes clearer when you realize how much of your life you get back by not going to gas stations at all.
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There's no mention of deadpool in the article, but water managers are actively discussing it. Current estimates project that deadpool is ~10 years away for Lake Mead. If (when?) Lake Mead and Lake Powell hit deadpool, the Colorado River literally stops flowing past the dams. See https://sky-lights.org/2021/10/04/deadpool-at-hoover-dam/
I take that experience seriously too. I don't see why a sufficiently advanced artificial system as complex, capable and sophisticated as a human brain could not also have experiences. I don't think he has any good reason to believe otherwise, or any good argument against it. Nothing he says about the mechanisms of the Chinese room can't also be said about the mundane physical mechanisms of neurology.
> no-one explains how they'll just "bypass" the financial system

The concept you seem to be reaching for is "black market".
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Well at least it seems to have eclipsed the trend of changing "master" repository branches to "main".
If a bot that creates poorly conceived PRs can break someone's code they have bigger issues than any of the ones implied by the upvoting here.
Hmm, it may be too late. I just found something claiming to be the real thing in an unsecured repo [1]. It doesn't even appear to be a hack, but perhaps just a permissions misconfiguration. Linus is going to feel real silly about this one. Oh well, get ready for the zero days!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned Cooper S engine. Great on an island with a 40mph speed limit and too many rich folk with Ferraris and the like, as it could out accelerate them anywhere on the island. Sure it wouldn't go faster than 50, but that was fine as it got to that speed almost instantaneously.
You might be overanalyzing a bit. I think it really comes down to sports cars being cool & vans being…vans. All the “Porsche” part really does is get more clicks (because people know what it is).
> Is switching to gender neutral pronouns bad?

Yes, it is bad (and of course that's not the only thing the bot is doing). Many of us find this kind of manipulative browbeating distasteful.
This isn't (sincere) policing, it's a troll account. Let's not take the bait. There are people (myself among them) who would like us to start using "main" instead of "master" and "allowlist" instead of "whitelist", but there is not a preponderance of people who think "boyfriend" is problematic or that "consort" is it's PC equivalent.
Oh that's a good read. Thanks for sharing :)