skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean almost every single one of them prior to the rise of Christianity and the influence of modern western culture. The Chinese had no qualms with gay marriage or homosexuality in general, there are records of famous Japanese Samurais who married one another, Native Americans have the concept of two-spirit marriages, numerous Roman Emperors married male husbands, and neither the Greeks or Egyptians differentiated much between homosexual or heterosexual relationships.

The decline in same-sex marriage, and same-sex relationships in general can be predominantly attributed to the changing attitudes about sex that came about with the rising influence of Christianity. Christianity did not just ban same-sex relationships, it advocated for sexual abstinence in general, forbidding any form of sex outside of marriage and even within marriage promoting sex as strictly for the purpose procreation going so far as to forbid the use of contraceptives, oral/anal sex and even masturbation. There are numerous reasons for why this change in attitude gained popularity from economic reasons to major shifts in demographics due to the outbreak of numerous wars in the 3rd century resulting in, among other things, growing discrepancies between the number of men and women.

It would take on the order of a thousand years before attitudes on sex became more liberal, with the Anglican church among the first to formally permit the use of contraceptives, and Protestant movements recognizing sexual acts between husband and wife as serving a "unitive" purpose rather than strictly procreation.

The point is to say that homosexuality was a casualty of very strict views on sexual relationships in general that came about with the rise of Christianity, but prior to that most societies didn't care to think much of it one way or another. Some people like vanilla, some people like chocolate; why would the people who like vanilla care too much about the people who enjoy chocolate?
Has anyone used chord keyboards here with success? They seem like a neat concept, but I wonder if there are some weird edge cases that make them hard to use day to day, e.g., you can't use certain keyboard shortcuts properly.
I'm on day 10 of a 14 day water fast. The hunger was very bad for about the first 7 days and now its been nothing. The idea of eating is interesting to me, but the visceral hunger constantly reminding me to eat isn't there anymore. Long term fasting is great like that.
"freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences"
Often power is transmitted from the motherboard to be daughterboards, and the two are connected via a conduit like a fetus in the womb. It's not a completely arbitrary metaphor.

As for whether it's the main board or not, surely that's a matter of opinion. An AI researcher would be much more interested in what the GPU board is doing than on what the motherboard is doing.
Ha yeah. Carousel's aren't for users, they're for selling the idea that you know how to do web dev to potential non-techy clients.
Tesla very clearly states:
"Smart Summon is a BETA feature. You must continually monitor the vehicle and its surroundings and stay prepared to take immediate action at any time. It is the driver's responsibility to use Smart Summon safely, responsibly, and as intended."

"When using Smart Summon, you must maintain a clear line of sight between you and Model Y and stay prepared to stop the vehicle at any time by releasing the button on the mobile app."

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/is_is/GUID-6B9A1AE...
Then again, I found myself here after reading:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Gam...

and

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189989.Finite_and_Infini...
People seem pretty willing to drive cars, drink soda, get suntans and other things that’d mean eventual certain death even if you cured old age. People will keep dying if you just make it sound cool!
What you're describing is basically how it works in the real world, for the most part. People have far more important things to do, and are profoundly uninterested in making an issue out of other individuals' personal identities.

But:

Does anyone else feel like the recent focus on gender identity/pronouns/trans is being totally driven by the extreme 5% on both sides (left and right)?

I don't really feel this way, to be honest. I think this is a cliché culture war issue that is driven primarily by one "side", and that's the conservative one. I don't doubt for a second that there are terrible people who'll describe themselves as "progressive" trying to insert themselves into this discussion – these people are indeed the dumb extremes. But they're also not the group driving the conversation or enacting the laws, and ascribing a kind of "both sides" responsibility is not correct in my view.

The thing is, I remember personally experiencing exactly the same shit as a gay man growing up in the 90s, and it's alarmingly familiar. This was a result of the UK moving to repeal "Section 28" – a law similar in intent to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislation.

I remember exactly the same tactics being used – the talking heads and the campaigns and the billboards and the newspaper articles talking about the danger of predatory gay men who were pushing a "pervert's agenda", hoping to worm their way into schools so they could find children to abuse. Scare stories about paedophiles waiting in the wings, getting ready to groom children into homosexuality – and the same tactic of spotlighting extremist views at the fringes of that movement and claiming them as mainstream.

It was a shitty tactic then and it's shitty now. The thing that angers me most is to see so many people fall for exactly the same playbook this time around.
You never ‘owned’ any copy - you only had a licence.
What is the optimal donation interval? Article mentions that some donated every 6 weeks and others every 12 but it doesn't appear to mention how the interval affected the forever chemical levels. Is more frequent donation better because it's more opportunity to remove the forever chemicals?
Because the Gates administration produced a primitive command interpreter/environment, that was barely acceptable for the original PC. Then the Ballmer administration blocked console improvements on NT for thirty years. Yes, thirty.

Meanwhile the internet was born and raised on Unix and had a competent (not perfect) design for terminals and shells.

The Windows terminal folks have done a bang-up job trying to make up the deficit, and mostly succeeded in the last few years. But it takes more than tools, it takes mindshare.

Was never interested in powershell, but there are other alternatives from WSL, like git-bash and the yori shell, both of which I recommend.
Yeah, so much changed in that 20 year span that the beginning and end are very, very different.
Isn't it because it differs so much from movie streaming? On major music streaming platforms you can find most of the popular music artists. I don't have any numbers to back it, but my gut feeling tells me a-number-so-close-to-100 percent that it doesn't even matter anymore it may not be actually 100. Movies? You can't get Disney on Netflix, you can't get Apple on HBO, you can't get... you just can't. Imagine having Metallica on Netflix, Madonna on Apple, Beatles on Sony and Silent Poets on Amazon.
I lived on Oahu for several years and am still blown away by the time and cost expenditures for the monorail system that will (in 2031) connect the west side of the island with the mall in Honolulu. Construction started in 2011 and the first phase, which only goes about half of the total distance, won't open until late this year!
Those jobs are generally more physically demanding and dangerous, to offset the slightly higher pay. After my FIL dropped out of college, he worked as a window washer and forklift driver. Yes these are "male-dominated fields" but that's not because women are applying to these jobs and being excluded. Also, these jobs have been much harder hit by illegal immigration than most corresponding jobs for women.
Some of the Seattle 'suburbs' get fairly rural, lots of trees, at least some lots are a couple acres, a few working farms, lots of hobby farms, but still have a lot of tech workers.

If remote work is important to you, check out internet options. There's a chance of Comcast and CenturyLink, but both get shifty about actually servicing homes in places (Comcast won't run a drop to my house even though their cable is on the pole at the corner of the lot; CenturyLink has run out of DSLAM ports in some neighborhoods, and some homes are too far from the DSLAM to get usable speeds); some public utility districts do fiber, but if your prospective house isn't already passed by their fiber, you would need to pay actual costs to extend the network plus actual costs to run a drop to your DMARC (which gets spendy if you've got underground wiring and a long driveway; I've got a $50k installation quote which 40% is undergrounding along my driveway and 60% is stringing the fiber on poles for 2ish miles); but some counties don't do that. I've seen relatively good reports for Starlink, but waiting time is unknowable and bandwidth and latency fluctuate during the day.
I’m sure there’s an aspect of that. That said, I include in my claim a raft of friends I’ve had since my teens, or others met through football (UK definition; I’m a Brit in southern England) - many of whom live pretty different lives to mine. And we have plenty of disagreements about other stuff - just not “treat folk how they wish to be treated”!
> PHP, Perl and Swift all have first-class functions, lambdas and closures although I'd agree that that's not "most." This is probably getting too much into semantics, but aren't functions in JS just objects themselves? ;)

Perl does have closures, but does not have lambdas as I recall (only subroutines) plus, but I didn't think it was particularly popular today. Dart and Swift do have all three of these things, but they also aren't particularly popular outside their niche mobile domain (or outside OSX in the case of Swift). Python has first-class functions and closures, but the lambdas are nerfed into near uselessness.

PHP has a Closure class, but you must manually populate this class with whatever things you want to save. This is hardly what would commonly be accepted as a closure.

> I don't think having a "live" system like CL precludes the need for unit tests. Sure, it's beneficial to be able to play around with code right away, but unless you're planning on manually running through the same tests again and again, how do you know you've not introduced a regression at some point?

You are quite correct. Unit tests are still required, but the coverage you get when running stuff manually is still usually better for the same reason that a person clicking buttons on your UI will find tons of issues your unit tests overlooked. By running your new code inside of the whole system, you are also integration testing on the fly. I'd also add that it is possible to use some of your setup state for unit tests later.
Can't stand all the websites with "galleries" when searching for lists of things, trying to maximize ad impressions. I click away faster than anything.
Rich people problems
> I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work.

Can't you have a separate, tiny window?
This has been my experience. I have lots more energy and zero cravings and hungry pains are truly a thing of the past.
This is awesome my work computer has a stupid 5 minute setting until it sleeps that is locked.
Is it now time to start digging these things (where they actually were built) up?

Dismantling freeways, returning neighbourhoods. The harder it is to get anywhere by car, the more people will demand good public transport.
> DEI is never focused on viewpoint diversity, though, it's focused on racial, ethnic, gender, disability, etc diversity. The latter kind of diversity does not imply the former.

I strongly agree, but then, how do you measure the diversity a person will contribute before you have incorporated that person into your organization? Obviously a moving target like "viewpoint diversity" cannot be acquired in that setting, so we resort to proxy measures. I would say race and class diversity achieves that better than alternatives.

> Attributing all questioning/resistance of DEI to emotions and sensitivities is pretty condescending.

Didn't imply "all", but it is certainly a factor, just as it is a factor in literally every other concern. As well, it is certainly no worse than the bad faith, straw man arguments all across this post, so in the interest of equity let's make sure to point those out, too.

> Ideology should be nowhere near this.

Ideology is everywhere, all of the time... it's the stuff worldviews are made of. My point in the previous comment was specifically about the chronic lack of acknowledgment of that very crucial issue, and the resulting line of criticism that starts from an inappropriate place. Of course, someone who believes their viewpoint is natural, inevitable, or rational will reject this concern as irrelevant. That is the treachery of ideology -- everything you say and do is contextualized on your own personal model, so much so that it is like the stories of the fishes talking about the water. It is so all-encompassing that it cannot be distinguished until your own exposure to a critical mass of alternative viewpoints has made it clear just how few people you share a common ground with.

The backlash we see here and elsewhere against DEI is coming from those who are insulated from truly alternative viewpoints to the point that they cannot conceive of valid arguments for the other side. They judge the validity based on their brand of rationality which is of course correlated very strongly to the kinds of things they have exposed themselves to thus far.

There is no diversity in seeing a million faces and meeting a million people, if those people already think and speak with concepts derived from the same foundational framework as you. Disagreeing about how many cops to have is a policy issue; disagreeing about whether to have cops is still basically outside the Overton window, so people have not really been exposed to the substantive arguments at scale that make a conversation about that productive. The aim of DEI is to bring that conversation into the workplace, where real material consequences are felt and where everyone is together (ostensibly) working in good faith toward a common goal. It is saddening but not surprising to see the reaction to this initiative.
For me, defeating death doesn’t mean I get to live 400 years. It means I get to live 100 years free from the fear of dying because of silly accidents, diseases, etc.
Playing videos games directly improves my depression.
Japan shifts to hard-line stance on territorial dispute with Russia
Yeah, they usually kept as predator alerts for mixed flocks. They are also known to kill/scare away snakes, which is nice because I live where there are poisonous rattlesnakes
I've been seeing people complain about the presence of PoC in many of these programs too, even though artificial diversity has been a staple of children's programming since at least the '70s.

The fact that the inclusion of LGBT and/or PoC in a children's program is at all controversial tells me we still have a problem that needs to be addressed. If you really don't like the idea of seeing a black or gay person on TV then you are the problem.

The sad thing is that a big majority of people complaining are people who are past child-rearing age and thus not even the target market for any of these shows.
So your solution is what? Don't donate blood or plasma? Have only humans who aren't exposed to PFAS done blood or plasma (which don't exist anyway)?
> the misfits to band together and form a counterculture.

They do, but they do it online, and across the entire globe, rather than by finding common cause with other local misfits, which leads to more social isolation, and the wheel keeps spinning.
Those bloody chips are why Sun Microsystems machines used to lose their configuration when they go bad.
Huh it’s almost like hiring lots of really expensive engineers to make a dead simple site serving D tier content was a bad idea.
Was that the original reason for Western cities? They were famously diseased and covered in horse poop until modernity happened.

But public goods like that are shared with other people; it’s not like you keep all the water in your single-family house. That house though…
Shinmera's Trial game engine, used in Kandria (which you can find on Steam), uses bits of the same machinery to implement the resourc system inside the game.

IIRC it has separate classes for "unloaded entity" and classes for various types of resources, and the protocol (think interface) for them includes the generic function that loads them into memory. The implementation of said function for unloaded objects uses CHANGE-CLASS method redefine the instance in place - meaning all direct memory pointers to the class are still valid and you don't need to use extra layer of indirection.
I'm enjoying my CharaChorder, but not up to Dvorak speed yet (~145). Note, it is not steno, which is exactly why I bought it. You can do sequential or chorded input.

https://www.charachorder.com
Indira wasn't a saint but Modi is evil personified.

Emergency was invoked and was soon revoked. If you are careful, you can see India is now again under Emergency since 2015. And things are getting worse. The difference between 1975 and 2015 is that earlier it was declared openly but in present case it wasn't declared, rather it was systemically implemented by developing a hate mongering Hindutva brigade. Press freedom was gone for may be one year during 1975. But now? It is gone for good 5 years. In 1975, no particular community was targeted. Now? Every muslim is at risk. Heck, even Hindus who are anti-Modi are at risks. During 1975, journalists were able to protest against Indira Gandhi. And now? You'd be put in jail for whatever reason. No journlist can dare to oppose Modi.

India is in worse condition now than it was in 1975.
> if it has to reach out to literally any other component of the system

Maybe it doesn't have to "reach out to literally any other component" Sometimes code can be self-contained. That's why they're called "Edge Functions" and not "Edge Services"

The advantage is edge functions are physically closer to the customer (lower latency) and can be updated at-will and all at once (unlike client-code, you cannot force a user to update their app).
> To be fair, I've literally never heard anyone try to pronounce "latinx" outloud,

I guess you quit listening to NPR before they started using that one. It's ubiquitous now.

What was it that made you quit?

> Don't mistake fringe vocal minorities on the internet for an accurate representation of what it is like to actually live in the US.

They I agree, though this particular example is not just internet fringe.
maybe because it's the same thing in this context

they are hypothetical numbers, the point being walking in bad weather is a strong argument for not using public transport

I don't care what other people do as much as you seem to, save the planet and all that, woo. if you want clean air move to a village on the coast. if you want to be kind to your children, raise them there
So one needs to upload the trace log to your website to visualize? Any way to do it locally?
There is "Programmers village" ("Поселок программистов") in Kirov Oblast in deep Russia.

It is not exactly a rural community: it's just 20 or so families of remote tech workers (mostly freelancers) living a few kilometers from a small old town with dirt cheap land and local labor (like "buy a two-story house with one month's SF salary" kind of cheap). It was founded before the pandemic by a guy who used to work as an SWE at Yandex and grew tired of living in Moscow.

I wonder if something like this exists elsewhere.
A lot of Apple's stuff is pro-level. Especially now, the line between "pro" and "prosumer" is very blurred. A professional can produce professional results with any high-end tool.

The question is about efficiency and the ecosystem surrounding a tool, especially how well it can integrate into a studio's larger workflows.
I was telling people that the carrot tasted like candy to me and they looked at me like I had lost my mind.
Sucks to be gay in the United States then. FDA prohibits gay men from donating blood based on outdated fears of contamination.
I think you would like The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant - https://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Most of the JavaScript is two empty videos encoded in WebM or MP4, encoded using Base64 to be stored in plain text, and picked depending on what the web browser supports. Considering I doubt that video formats are designed with empty videos in mind, this is probably not too bad. As for why videos are here, they are a fallback in case web browser doesn't provide Screen Wake Lock API (in particular, Safari and Firefox don't).
I've been fully remote and out of state for ~8 months now. No expectation that I go into any office ever from my company... what kind of job are you looking for?
You're right that I didn't make the connection explicit.

I believe that spending significant time on things that aren't meaningfully enriching and tend to leave you feeling regretful is immature. Obviously, everyone needs some time to veg. I'm not saying everyone's gotta be trying to level up and hustle 24/7.

But if you're spending hours every day watching superhero shows you don't really care about or grinding videogames alone with little sense of accomplishment, I think that demonstrates a lack of maturity that I would consider infantile. And I deeply believe that the aforementioned media is designed to make you do that. These shows and games are deliberately structured for binging and grinding. They want you to turn off your executive reasoning and get you to make short-term selfish choices around comfort and complacency. They want consumers.

So, in that sense, yes, I believe that media is infantilizing.
You mean the '1619' project NYT, peddling a fake history of your country by a faux historian as The Truth™, making the author the de-facto editor in chief of what used to be one of the cornerstones of solid journalism? The gray old lady is surely turning in her grave for the imposter which claims her name can not be her.
That's been one of my favorite tech podcasts, for sure one of the gems.
new feature: auto pushback
> how would natural selection work in a world where individuals live forever?

So it would likely be pretty unchanged from our current levels. Just about everyone survives to produce children these days (with some people i wonder how).

Also i don't think when people say conquer death they mean true immortality, they mean Negligible senescence i.e. we are no more likely to die due to aging, people would still die (accidents, violence, natural disaster etc).
Oh wow. This is something like 10 years late.

Thanks!
> I don't use Snapchat much myself nowadays

Yeah It just disspeared out my life. Pretty sure its for youngens now. But, I did see it moving in a weird direction before deleting my account
Very few popular languages have all three and most that have them have them as bolted-on, unergonomic hacks that are generally more trouble to use than they are worth.
Absolutely, check out https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace#privacy-policy and https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace/wiki/Setting-up-a-.... With a bit of extra configuration, magic-trace can host its own UI locally. You just need to build the UI from source, and point magic-trace to it (via an environment variable).
If you have worked at large enterprises you should a few senior developers. Start talking to them. I'm a founder and I know a few other founders and that's how they all got started with the new startups/ideas.
It amazes me that major sites like Amazon still use carousels