skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some languages have gendered words as a fundamental grammatical aspect of the language (though since this language aspect evolved out of earlier grammatical distinctions that had nothing to do with “gender”, frequently the gendering of words is kinda random). English doesn’t have grammatical gender, and it has a relatively small set of words in its vocabulary that are specifically gendered. The argument goes that the use of some of this vocabulary is harmful, and that it’s easier to try to move away from using the whole class of gender-specific vocabulary words outside of actually gender-specific scenarios than it is to try to define and keep track of which gendered vocabulary words should be discouraged. Words like “motherboard” are collateral damage of this broader effort to discourage use of terms like “mothering”, which can be used in English to mean both “being mother to”, but also in a metaphorical generic sense as “being responsible for and looking after”, even of things that are not children, and is discouraged in favor of “parenting” or “caretaking”, which have the same implications but without the gendered aspect.
You really needed to get that off your chest huh? Go pay for a therapist, and save us your weird malformed ideology and frustrations.
Mass spec (at least as of a few years ago) require reference spectra to identify compounds. Without them, you can guess at structure but it's not accurate.
It's sad that we cannot own titles but are forced to rent them from these streaming services that can't seem to get their shit together. (Not blaming Netflix per se; this is a pox on all their houses). Used to be nice in the DVD days. I built myself a nice collection then.

This was the idea behind digital rights lockers: UltraViolet, which Disney refused to participate in and which closed down in 2019, and its successor Movies Anywhere, in which Paramount, MGM, and Lions Gate are not participating.

[Old HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19046108]
To quote George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the people are fucked."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E
tl;dr An unfolding game about getting information from qubits. This initially involves wafting away heat and clicking qubits to get their information, to involving other mechanisms to automate that and prioritize them with quantum algorithms. Developed by DoubleSpeak Games, who also made _A Dark Room_ in 2013. I recommend playing this full screen. After it added the panel for the second subsystem, it could not show the entire panel in my default browser, which made playing confusing.
This should only be a problem if you don't adjust the models. If you run a huge number of tests, you can create far more detailed models and thus reduce the false positive rate.

Ideally, all chemical processes in the body could be known and we could have an almost "mechanical" model of the body. How else but with more testing can be reach that knowledge?
There are two kinds of censorship:

1) Censorship of "offensive" content (for some definition of "offensive"), applied equally to all people.

2) Censorship of political opponents, either overtly (as in Russia) or under the guise of censoring "offensive" content.

A democracy can theoretically sustain itself while engaging in censorship of type 1. A democracy that has chosen to engage in censorship of type 2 is on its way to becoming an authoritarian regime, even if that censorship has public support in the short term. Eventually, the opposition is slowly but surely silenced altogether, and you end up with single-party authoritarian rule. Your vote doesn't matter if no one is allowed to campaign against the status quo.

Further, I would argue that it is very difficult to prevent type 1 censorship from turning into type 2 censorship, because the party in power is always incentivized to use any tools they have to stay in power. It is more sustainable for a democracy to take a firm stance against censorship of any form than to try to walk that line.
Freedom of speech is extremely important to hacker culture.
They likely overcomplicating things for no good reason. If you can handle their load on a $250 VPS what the heck the are doing with AWS?
Started kicking off in universities around 2014-2015, really accelerated on social media (and by extension legacy media) through the Trump years, and has been solidly established across the corporate world as the college students of 2015 entered the workforce.
They didn't do it in a smart way. Part of the Self group joined forces with some other researchers to create a company called Animorphic which would build the world's "fastest Smalltalk" using the Self technology. It was called StrongTalk and had other interesting features like optional type declaration and extensive use of traits and mixins.

Given the buzz around Java they did a quick demo showing that language running on top of their technology, and in 1997 Sun bought them to use that HotSpot technology in their main Java implementation. So they paid a lot for what they previously already had but ignored.
Let me give you a personal anecdote.

I built software for an employer that pulled in over $35M over the 13 years that I worked for them and continues to draw approximately 70% of their revenue. This wasn't an application. It was an entire suite of online products. I interfaced directly with C-level executives to go over the strategy, the scope, the features, and the design of each of these products in the lineup. I met with clients to learn about their marketing needs and how we might meet those needs. I was the technical point of contact for all software and hardware related tasks.

I was the only technical employee on staff. Occasionally I'd manage a contractor.

To be clear, I was the product manager, the hiring manager, the project manager, the lead developer, the business analyst, and devops.

But those weren't my "official" titles.

My job title was software developer.

I was fully engaged with creating the products, I was well compensated, and I was close to home.

Now tell me, what should my next move have been? Should I have gone for a position where I sat around, twiddling my thumbs, fucking with spreadsheets, sitting through inane product roadmap meetings, planning to plan about planning, and all the other insane busy work bullshit that tech companies do to justify spending capital?

I'm an expert product developer and an expert product designer and an expert facilitator and I have the receipts. I didn't become a software developer to manage people. I became a software developer because I wanted to develop software. How's that for motivation?
It would be helpful if they’d say how wide it needs to be (landscape didn’t help) or that it doesn’t work on mobile.
If you can manage a day trip to Cambridge (about an hour from London), you should visit the excellent Museum of Computing History http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
I don't think it's much of a cycle, there has been a constant undercurrent of "mature" cynical superhero comics and movies for decades now. In the '00s we had the Christian Bale Batman movies, and adaptations of V for Vendetta and Watchmen. In the '10s we had Deadpool and the Zack Snyder DC movies with their unprecedented cynical take on Superman. It all continues today with Venom and Batman spinoffs.
> Most companies have to settle for structure, flawed individuals and efficient and flexible processes to guide them (which could include peer pressure in actual offices).

I couldn't have said it better myself.

(The fact that some managers get off on having a room full of people at their beck and call is also a factor too.)
In the US, the government cannot produce things. Obviously they need things to operate, so they must buy them. Roads, rockets, and pencils all fall under this
Unsurprisingly, they didn't.

The romans failed because they got so big and the central power so incompetent that they couldn't hold the empire anymore.
Do you believe that if there was no piracy people who pirate wouldn’t watch paid entertainment?
You divide candidates into such stereotypical categories why not throw all of that labeling away and get to know each candidate as unique humans with different skills/personalities and make judgements on those?

It's like you are judging a tasting contest by the color of icing instead of eating it.
> However, as to the larger point, the individuals and groups advocating for these changes also don't advocate for similar changes (that is, things that have good benefits but come with a very high cost to implement due to breaking backwards compatibility) around technologies/terms that they don't consider to be "problematic".

I actually know a social-justice oriented trans woman online who strongly advocates for the use of Tau instead of Pi because it is simpler and easier to learn. So sample of 1 there.

Tau vs Pi is a perfect microcosm of this debate with the social justice arguments removed. See also metric vs imperial.

The benefits are small but non-zero and localized to a handful of people, the new terminology is substantially simpler and cleaner, and the costs are primarily related to inertia and the comfort of people experienced with The Old Way.
1000x engineers ain't myth
Perhaps, but this is your opinion. Maybe you are in the "some" for certain words and not others. I am not in the "some" for "motherboard" so I can't tell you exactly why people are offended, but I know they are. Whether the rest of us think someone taking offense is logical doesn't stop them from being offended.
E.g. pets. Most rental companies don't allow pets in their cars.

And there might also be situations where the next rental company is far away and you'd spend a lot of time going there. Depending on how often you need a car, having your own in front of your house might be the better choice.

Same for long holidays where the rent for a car can easily be a big chunk of your holiday budget even if you only need it for a few days during your trip.
All of these examples result in someone not having something any more (being the star of a show, trade secret, confidential data, fiance, winning of the game).

Piracy is not stealing.
The problem with remotely controlled switches is that they can be (and will be) placed in very inconvenient places. So when the remote part breaks, one cannot just continue to use them because it can be difficult to reach them (like behind refrigerator that has to be moved to use the switch or on a wall in another room).
And no political conservatives.

I'm apolitcal, personally, and welcome all points of view in my personal life.
With what we have seen in China, I hardly think it matters whatever happens in India with relation to freedoms as long as the economy booms. Investors will pour money for returns.

But I had a question about this. Do VCs looking for data and analysis of a country largely rely on foreign press or read an assortment of local media as well?
Off topic, but this is the first time I’ve seen your username. I would love to compare sometime how we both came to such similar kinda odd usernames, haha.
Frankly, I personally and subjectively agree with you more than you might guess. But objectively... I do not quite see why our "feeling of increasing mastery" of kicking around a rubber ball is somehow more "adult" or "beneficial" or otherwise superior to the thrill of reading a comic book.
My girlfriend loves that mouse, and considers it exemplary of Apple's tasteful, fun design. She still has hers.
I agree with your point that Netflix UX is terrible. But what do you mean "canceling all of its best shows"? It's not Netflix's fault if the studios pulled their licenses for their content, for their own streaming services.
Alaska Developers Alliance – https://www.akdevalliance.com/
> It really isn't and it's only cheaper if you don't put much value on your time.

Very true.

In the hours it takes to download and curate these movies and shows I've made more than enough to cover a Netflix, Disney+, Prime and HBO subscriptions for that month or pay for a few VOD titles for that month.

My time is way more fucking valuable than the time required to do this well.

And if I do without content or entertainment even better. Not everything is worth watch every month.
The point is that DEI groups can seem very homogeneous, without diverse viewpoints, and they can weild large amounts of power.

Posters above you have illustrated how issues of DEI are not investigated, if they happen to not fit into the agenda of the DEI group, e.g. examples of Ageism, or things that discriminate against rather than for white men. Such effects exist, as the OP article illustrates.

To say that the DEI groups don't need any white voices because they are some form of silent majority is to elevat the white voice too, which itself seems inequitable and problematic wherever you stand.

What is your point? As you seem to have not engaged with the viewpoints above, it seems you are more reacting against perceived sentiment, rather than trying to discuss ideas
Ugh, please, attitudes like yours is the infantile one. Enjoying Lego and Star Wars isn't in opposition to being a good adult. Especially being a good parent. Creativity and imagination are hugely important in the modern world, and those endeavors require a playful mindset to excel at. It's sad to me to see that you find other's enjoyment as "sad". But I'm sure you have "proper" grown man pursuits, why don't you share with us what I, as a 50+ year old man should spend my time on? It might be shocking, but I spend my time on whatever it is you think I should be doing as well.

Here's an idea: being an adult shouldn't be one dimensional. I can play with legos, play video games, read scifi and fantasy, and also raise my son, renovate my house, and, I dunno, wrestle bears? Conquer nations? Drink beer and yell at the TV about sports? Or maybe it is denigration of others that you think is the hobby real men do. If so, you're correct, I'm just a child then with my silly belief that people getting joy from activities is a good thing.

Also, there's plenty for kids to get into these days, including comics, books, video games, and whatever. More than I had when I was a kid.
> And yes he even in the next paragraph says that a lawless society is horrible.

which is weird because he's being held up as support of removing the law in favor of (handwavey nothing)

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> Using legal mechanisms to solve these kind of issues is ineffective, inefficient, and inegalitarian.

No evidence supports these claims and no replacement is offered.

Criticism without evidence or replacement is facile.
I'd like to know, too.

My guess: You need at least a town with a state college. (Do you consider Fort Collins, Colorado to be "rural"? It's about 110,000 people. Decent tech scene there.)
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Netflix suggestions are not good. It takes a long time to find something decent to watch.

I have enjoyed Narcos, Tiger King, Stranger Things, Queen's Gambit and others.

But there are so many bad shows, that are formulaic, unoriginal and overall, lame.

Then, I have nothing against noble causes such as social justice and such. But compare a good movie, such as Men of honor, or the Green Book, with the unoriginal content on Netflix. It is just not watchable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CmGbOGb2I
> This should only be a problem if you don't adjust the models. If you run a huge number of tests, you can create far more detailed models and thus reduce the false positive rate.

Can you? The problem is the test's sensitivity and specificity, there's not much statistical work to do after the test on a single case. It's not an advanced model deciding whether you're sick or not.

> Ideally, all chemical processes in the body could be known and we could have an almost "mechanical" model of the body. How else but with more testing can be reach that knowledge?

Yeah, ideally we would. Not a doctor, but as far as I can tell, we're a thousand years away from that.
Not having a large part of the world's populating confined to their couches probably plays a large part of this. People are doing other things with their discretionary money; eating out, drinking out, traveling, buying new clothes that they haven't had to for 2+ years.
> As I mentioned in my previous comment, and I will repeat it here, real benefit to authentication security only comes from adding 2FA or SSO. Don't waste your time on security theater.

In theory there's also convincing browsers to implement a zero-knowledge protocol like SRP.
Right. I have a smart bulb and there are things that it's good for (I like super dim warm light for having enough light to see by but not waking me up), but turning on your light with your phone is awful. I use Alexa for it and it's not a ton better. Most of the lights in my house I actively don't want to have smart versions of.
In Michigan there are software companies in small rural towns but no where I know about is there a concentration.

I used to live in a small rural town West of Lansing when I worked as an agronomist in a past career. I left to do a SaaS startup and stayed local because this small town became a test site for cable Internet. Note this was a time when neither Lansing nor Grand Rapids had a broadband Internet option, everything was dial up or ISDN if you were lucky.

My new office was across from city hall. I advocated to the city father's that they spend a fraction of the money promoting it's empty industrial park (every small town in Michigan has one) to lure software companies to town promoting it's then rare broadband Internet. They treated me as if I was advocating building a spaceport for aliens. In fact if they saw me coming they'd cross the street.

I found out years later that quite by accident a startup had moved to the town specifically for the availability of broadband. Now they only have around 25 employees twenty years later but in a town of less than 3,000 I think that is still pretty good. But with a small amount of effort they could have had a dozen such companies ;<(.
> Being in an already extremely unhealthy position is not the standard with which we should judge a particular diet.

Ok. You judge it how you want, I said keto was successful for me. I made no universal declarations.

> Also, your basic premise that red meat is the only way to lose weight is false. There's no reason that an appropriate weight loss diet that excludes red meat could not be crafted.

Well I never said this. I said keto was successful for me.

BTW: Equating keto to “red meat” is like saying “vegan = lentils”. You should probably learn more about keto.

Edit: added some hard returns to clarify my responses to the quoted items.
it's not a comprehensive or exhaustive list. just a gentle intro
I doubt this will see much backstage use. I expect to see it used by buskers, who need portability (and sometimes the ability to pack up in seconds), and by artists who make fiddling with their equipment part of their performance. That and people who put it on their desk because they like the design.
JFYI, Russian oligarchs use USDT
My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1645]
λ wsl --status
Default Distribution: Ubuntu
Default Version: 2

Windows Subsystem for Linux was last updated on 4/3/2022
WSL automatic updates are on.
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS \n \l

lighttpd/focal-updates,now 1.4.55-1ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64 [installed]

Kernel version: 5.10.102.1
Yeah, but that's GPU, not CPU. Hopefully we will see similar progress there in the next 40 years.
> whomsth
Companies are in general happy with paying subscriptions since it's from their operational expense (OPEX). Why companies prefer it that way is another question. But they do.
This might be incoherent

It's hard to talk about this for myself as a trans woman, and especially for cis gays, as liberal queer ideology has taken over the discourse, but it's worth having more queer people speak up about it so we can develop a language for it that leaves things open to good-faith debate.

I'm not against blockers to delay puberty until someone is old enough to develop an informed understanding of themselves, but it's definitely the case that kids are overexposed to a monolithic queer culture that puts frivolous acts of expression on the same level as life-altering changes to your social and physical self. A decade ago things were pretty different—you'd seek out an online community and read a lot of Q&A, stories, and _advice on psychoanalyzing yourself responsibly_, which I don't see much of anymore in trans spaces.

It's not just cis gays, but many trans folks as well, who are seen as regressive for having opinions divergent from what you see on progressive new media, Twitter, etc. Talking about something like this, or defending pronouns as something defined by others that can't be "wrong", or even something as milquetoast as signaling my disinterest in being invited to orgies, will get me at least a confused look from your typical urbanite queer, and possibly get me called a transmisogynist. For a gay man's perspective, Tim Dillon has spoken about this a lot, and folks like him are much more common than you might think.

One thing I definitely disagree with the author on is the idea that the current wave is about abolishing gender, in contrast to previous waves focused on sexual liberation—for one I don't get a "sexual liberation" vibe from the era of gay marriage legalization, and for another I see the present movements more as sexual-accelerationist, i.e. exploring sex and gender with such fervor that they're eroding its social utility and finding new ways to preclude healthy development of relationships and communities. Younger trans folks I've been with are so sexually liberated that it turns into narcissistic hedonism and you can't even be sure they're in the room with you when you're having sex.
A great summary, from someone who was influential in web technologies, can be found in this series "Crockford on JavaScript": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg&list=PL766437924...

(context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford)
> The majority of their original, promoted content is watered down crap designed for mass appeal.

this has 100% been the reason my time spent on Netflix has gone down. seems like everything they make is algo-optimizing shlock designed to appeal to the average consumer.
BoA. I know it for a reason similar to unique email.

When I first came to the US I opened a BoA account and they managed to misspelled my name in a unique way, may be only in the mail but not on the card, I don’t remember this detail.

Anyway, when I got promotional mail out of nowhere addressing to the same misspelling, I knew I was sold by BoA.
I don’t know of any for sure either, but I’d look around in the area around Chattanooga, Tennessee and similar places with affordable fiber.
The problem is some devs are now only using flatpak, like hexchat.

Was running 20.04 for a long time, and flatpak provided patched/newer versions not in snap, repo or ppa.

I really like ubuntu, but this diff versions of linux software everywhere, and you have to find the versions, right dependencies, is tiring and old.
The way you are talking about it comes across as extremely judgemental, and most of it is just plain wrong.

Nowadays it is generally accepted that introverts find socializing to be exhausting while extroverts find it energizing. That's the key difference. This is thought to be due to a physiological difference in how the autonomic nervous system function. It's not a muscle to be exercised.

Also, how you draw parallels between introversion and mental illness is really telling about how you view it.

Being an introvert isn't a "condition" or a "flaw", and not wanting to be involved in social gatherings that you aren't interested in is not unhealthy. Being anti social or a misanthrope is a completely different issue.

It's estimated that between 25-40 percent of people are introverts. That's a massive population you are writing off as defective and "needing to work on it"
> only enabled for connections on the same local network.

From the screenshot I saw there is also an option for over the internet and not only LAN.