skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only partially. You're right in that some of the binary is cultural, but you're saying, what, "people should just identify as their physical sex, while rejecting the social/cultural norms"? Plenty of people do that. But, sex itself isn't a binary. What makes a person "male" or "female"? "Chromosomes" is the most common statement, and yet, there exist people with XXY chromosomes. There are people with damaged chromosomes, chromosomes that didn't express the way you'd expect, etc. While it can be said accurately that "the majority of males have an X and a Y chromosome" and "a majority of females have no Y chromosome", those generalizations aren't absolute. We don't actually have a biological indicator of sex that is accurate 100% of the time. So trying to define a sexual binary doesn't really make sense either.

So what a person is saying when they say non-binary can vary, and is also quite personal. Which is another reason to use the pronouns they provide (so you can respectfully refer to them using the categorization they provide), and to recognize that what is going on with their genitals, their chromosomes, etc, is not relevant to you.
I moved all the apps into the app library rather than delete them. That way I have to swipe down and type the name of the app I want. It's been very effective.

Once I took away the icon I forgot the app existed! If I forced myself into not using any apps I'd be thinking about then constantly and using them more

I start my day by checking the kindle daily deals and my ebook wishlist for discounts.

I keep the drafts app on my homescreen and calendar app but I honestly don't use the rest of my home screen apps except pikmin bloom.

Pikmin bloom is amazing. I like that it has a finite number of things you can actually do in the game before you have to get up and walk somewhere to progress. There's no real 'goal' to it. You find seed pods, walk to grow them, level up the pikmin with nectar you get from sending them out on little missions then they get little decorations and you can collect petals. The expeditions bring more seed pods and you grow more pikmin. Then if your out for a walk you can plant flowers. It's honestly so random and simple but I've done so much more walking because of it.

It also has built in journaling which is the longest I've stuck to a journal!

I'm going to be controversial here and say tiktok is an essential for me. But I am fairly disciplined with it and can go days or weeks without opening it because it's not on my homepage. I find that people who don't like tiktok typically had a bad experience with the algorithm which is hugely telling about the person they are - tiktok knows you! What I like about it is I don't have to think about what I want to consume.
If Im in the mood for education if I quickly skip past other videos and only watch ones on bird ringing or reptile care then that's all I get for that session. Other times I'll want silly fun videos and sometimes i watch the ones on mental health.

Tiktok has been amazing for me as a form of therapy I've found so many open people on there in the comments as well and it's just nice to know I'm not alone! I've made more progress in my mental health struggles since downloading the app than I have in years of therapy!

I also like that it's connecting all the older and younger generations and at least on my side of Tiktok everyone is welcoming it's a safe space there's no gatekeeping and everyone looks after one another. Plus I get to keep up with the trends as a side bonus!
I think they understood the difference between single payer and private payers, and mandated private insurance. When it comes to the weird regulations imposed by the ACA, I agree most people, including representatives, still don't know what it entailed.
In the US, most school teachers can also afford insulin, because they have generous healthcare plans. Remember, over 80% of Americans are happy with their own healthcare quality. The difference between the US and Sweden is that Americans would rather have bigger houses and more cars than ensure that the small fraction of teachers who can’t get insulin now can do so.

To be clear, that adjustment can only affect the relative numbers across US states, not the overall average for US states. That is because all states are adjusted by the OECD number for the US. Presumably the OECD methodology is consistent within itself.

So maybe the Census includes oil resources and OECD doesn’t. Discounting the US numbers across the board to 59% may make Texas and California artificially look better than Mississippi. But the overall average of the US states would still correspond to the OECD number for the US, which presumably is computed the same way as for Sweden.
I am having a very hard time telling if this is scripted/ad-libbed or a real person. I hope it's a real person because it's wonderful.
It definitely can be controllable. Peakers exist, and are controlled. You say "scale down", someone who runs a peaker thinks "scale up", and they can do it pretty fast (minutes). And the lower the capex the better, it gets closer and closer to a free option.

Having a real option on producing electricity (or, almost anything where demand varies) is valuable to society.
So, the latter?
Superhighway84
I think for smaller creators, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. While writing a song or story doesn't require much equipment cost, it does take a lot of time and effort, and that's time and effort that would be impossible to justify if the returns don't at least pay for food and housing.

But for big business media, it feels like the usual justification that rightsholders use for aggressive enforcement is that if too many people "steal", then there won't be enough revenue to even break even, let alone make a profit, and so no one will make movies anymore. Which is technically true, but I don't think we've ever seen infringement on a level that would make these sorts of creations financially infeasible to make.

Actually, going back to small creators: it's not like current copyright terms are reasonable, anyway. I mean, let's say it takes you a year of full-time work to write a novel and get it published. So you could say that's a year of "lost" wages. Maybe copyright terms should be floating. As soon as the author recoups the "lost wages" plus some percent for creation-related expenses and profit, then it goes into the public domain. Why should creators (and often their descendants) get to milk their work for decades? I get that something like this would be a nightmare to handle legally, so maybe it makes sense to set a shorter copyright term based on some sort of average time to break even (or perhaps say 30th percentile or whatever, to make it more inclusive of some works that take longer). That's still difficult; I imagine you'd have to have different terms for different types of work. But it might be a lot more fair to the public commons.

Regardless, current terms for copyright are ridiculous: 95 years after publication, or 75 years after the death of the creator. I mean... what? That's nuts. Before Disney and Sonny Bono got greedy about all this, max term was less than 30 years, which sounds a lot more reasonable... though IMO still high! If the cost to create has gone down over time -- which for many types of creations I believe it has -- then copyright terms should be adjusted downward, not upward!
doesn't prevent web-dls either for that matter.
Under the anticircumvention clause of the DMCA, if I xor every 7th byte of 8 byte blocks with the value in the 8th, and you figure that out, and then wrote a program that (un)did the xor, you'd be in violation of the DMCA.

Doesn't matter outside of that, the law is poorly written, any means or attempt to break the circumvention is a violation.
Good defense and I agree, but I also agree that the SSO tax sucks.

Not a day goes by that I don't dedicate some thought to better business models for software and services, especially for FOSS and otherwise pro-freedom pro-user software. It's hard for many reasons. User-hostile software (surveillance, loot box games, cryptocurrency scams) is easy to make money from, but that's not my thing.
Huh? Land value has at least doubled everywhere I know of in the U.S and Canada since 2009.

In which municipality has land value declined since 2009?

And even if so, why does that mean they are forced to build anything? They can just keep it vacant and pay a much lower property tax, some folks just don't want to go through hassles even if it's somewhat less efficient.
I would just get the Haynes manual from the public library when I used to work on my own car. Wouldn't that have the necessary details?
Public domain / UNLICENSE style licenses are less popular, but still have the same qualities I mentioned of people feeling ownership, even though there is zero copyright in that specific case and their is no legal codification of ownership.

I understand that MIT etc are copyright licenses, but they remove the majority of copyright's requirements. They only require attribution, and are a statement that the other parts of copyright, the restrictions on distribution and modification, explicitly do not apply.

They remove the part of copyright that people typically think of when someone says copyright.
Interesting, what benefit do you get from using grayscale?
Remarkably many active from-scratch OS projects use modern C++.
My wife's village has neither. We burn the trash, and have septic tanks. Diapers don't burn though.

There's a truck that comes in every now and then to clean it out, but that probably counts as waste disposal.
> Android is a closed system.

Still there is AOSP and projects which build on it.
This is actually useful for me. But don't think it understands the concept when you press ALT+G. I wanted to leave a comment expanding "tried it loved it" but it thinks I'm talking about food for some reason :/

https://i.imgur.com/NAKhwMo.png

Also I think you should really checkout github co-pilot's autocomplete. When writing readme files I see it often completes the whole sentence in gray text which is much faster to expand and easier to complete. Your popup is a bit distracting compared to the inline gray text of copilot/gmail.

https://i.imgur.com/BcddljD.png
It is possible that movie (DVD, Blueray) sales are similar to book sales. The stock is only paid for when it is actually sold. That allows shops to hold huge stock on day 1 with less financial risk and also to price-match all other shops regardless on when they received their stocks.
sarcastic takedowns of crypto are the norm here.
Such a wonderful series of articles! Beautiful work.
Hosting your own LAMP server is one thing, but I have been touching computers for 30 years and I still would not trust myself to to roll my own ecommerce anything. It sucks but I'll always outsource with shopify/paypal/patreon/whatever.
aka no
what took you guys so long to go to market?
Thanks for pointing that out, but it doesn't make the wording any less awful. What were they thinking?

"Omicron Aware"? "Omicron Targeting"? "Omicron Specific"? It's not even like the vaccine contains a weakened version of the virus, it's completely synthetic.
You said that engineers don't engineer things, you called the techniques I mentioned an appeal to authority because I also said who's practicing those techniques, and you keep repeating yourself about everything instead of interacting with what I've written. And now you're whining about a personal attack I didn't make. You took it personally because you're presenting your own opinions as facts.
You can only take Usenet because Reddit exists. If it didn’t Usenet would be more of a cesspool than it already is.
Could we have a packet counting device external to the computer and compare with what the OS reports?

Steve Gibson from security now mentioned "blue pill" back in 2008 or so saying detection of that type of malware could only be verified using a stop watch and a known compute cycle. Way above my head but fun to think about.
Ask HN: New Google Account Issues
New individual google account has calendar issues. Calendar sharing only allows "See only free/busy(hide details)" and "Some sharing options may have been turned off for your organization by your administrator."

Going to Who is My Administrator with that account says there is no administrator for my current account

I was going to delete the account and re-create it, but under Data and Privacy there is no More Options leading to delete this account like my other account has.

Any ideas? I'd rather not change the email attached to the account (a non- gmail account). I am assuming it was a provisioning error that caused the issues when the account was created.
Chrome on mobile doesn't support extensions, where presumably it has the largest marketshare anyway.
> Actually if I could play it on PC in 4K that would be nice but we live in the world we live in.

You can.
> This is only for Tesla owners, so please don't post if you're not one. Are Tesla really good and worth buying today ?

Almost asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

The Teslas are fine. The FSD (Fools Self Driving) software is a scam.
But the goal of that was fully achieved - to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth, before the Russians did.
Agreed with most of this. Just wanted to point out that you can now get CCS access in the US by purchasing an adapter from Tesla (admittedly via a South Korea shipping proxy) for around $300.
Brain’s Wiring, Not Lack of Willpower, May Drive Obesity: Study
> In other words, transaction reversibility is not about the ledger, but rather about the transaction rules that a currency uses. A reversible currency requires that someone anoint this trusted party (or trusted parties) and that they use their powers to freeze/burn/transact currency in ways that are at odds with the recorded owners’ intentions.

once you have a trusted third party, though, you no longer need permissionless blockchains and PoW/PoS. that also eliminates the need to "mine" and the environmental concerns. of course it also eliminates the get-rich-quick schemes as well. you wind up with VISA running on top of a permissioned DLT.
Point is that it is arbitrarily hard to tell whether a response is adaptive. Maladaptive responses are much cheaper than (unmentioned) alternatives, so are systematically more attractive to management.
That's why you stop asking permission to make quick fixes and just submit the PR. Obviously there is a balance here but if you can't "steal" a few hours in a week from the product driven roadmap to do so then there is something wrong in the engineering culture.
... do as the Roman's do! Agreed :)
I taught technical courses. A ground rule I had was 3 hours rehearsal for 1 hour of content. A 1 week class meant 3 weeks of practice. I still think this is what separates the bland teachers from the great ones.
Almost always in terms words. I talk to myself (in the head) all the time. That's my way of thinking. If I don't talk, I don't think. I do however think certain things in terms of images, for example graph theory (in math and CS) I always thought in terms of images, never words. I still hate saying nodes, edges, vertices or whatever. I see the shape, vertex sounds like vortex.
So what happens when someone doesn’t have a surname?

Falsehoods programmers believe about name: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
The reason is quite simple: because nobody wants one in their backyard
Show HN: Score Da Ball
Wouldn't that make those folks harangue him even harder for successfully convincing some to join the 'dark side' or something?

Though that would be assuming these folks have consistent goals regardless of temporary advantages.

Maybe some are so wishy washy that they would degenerate weapons manufacturers one day and praise them the next if it's for a cause they perceive to be beneficial. (And then switch back to degenerating asap)

I wouldn't be able to bring myself to respect such craven losers. If enduring that is what it takes to succeed in the defense sector or the peace movement then kudos to anyone who tries in either.
I think you mistyped 2015 https://youtu.be/fGZzNZnYIHo
I know there are unofficial ways of doing this but the assets and even the engine aren't designed this high a resolution. Upsacle all you want. It's not the same thing.
Large C codebases _have_ to be exceptionally nice, or they immediately collapse under their own weight. As a dev team, the language teaches you this the hard way. I've never seen a terrible huge C codebase (but have seen many in other languages).
Not OP but..

It’s more that I don’t want to interact with the general group of people that would be seriously attracted to Urbit.

I tried doing something with it once and my impression was that it is just needlessly/deliberately obtuse/arcane. There are much simpler alternatives.
IOW the most ergonomic error handling is a monad, and I agree.
> But still nowhere close to userChrome.css that Firefos has.

Dunno where are you getting that from, Vivaldi has official support for CSS Mods and unofficial support for JS Mods
Apple Photos does it as well.
Stuff under comp.lang was still useful way into 00s. I remember a lot of productive discussions on comp.lang.c++.moderated circa 2008.
Ditto!
Set up keyboard shortcuts (or in some use case cases), I let Bitwarden fill up credentials automatically.
Miles ahead of 1Password (and their toxic optimism)
I used to use Vivaldi on both mobile and desktop. The mobile version crashed a lot, and the desktop version is super slow (especially the settings search, that thing takes like 10 seconds for you to see what you have typed). Switching from Vivaldi → LibreWolf and Vivaldi Mobile → Firefox is the best decision I have ever done in my life.
Here in Orange County, CA, they are converting some dead malls to apartment complexes.
And the spelling of Led Zeppelin was intentionally a phonetic disambiguation, lest the band be misunderstood to be superlative on airships.
No problem. I think this stuff will inevitably leak back out of the crypto social circles and hopefully power future privacy enhanced web apps.
We bought a M3LR about 9 months back. The main reason was it was our only car and we had range anxiety, so access to the supercharger network and 330 miles of range made us comfortable enough to make the EV plunge.

Now that we're comfortable driving EVs, our next car wouldn't be a Tesla.

The car itself is nice and i don't really care at all about visual stuff that people seem to get up in arms about (panel gaps, etc). It's more that I'm not a fan of walled garden products and Tesla seems happy to call themselves the apple of cars. Proprietary charging cables, service centers, insurance... I do hate dealerships though, so I'm hoping other manufacturers follow their lead on that.

The important parts of the car work well, the over the air updates to noticably improve it are cool, and i do think their approach to self driving is the most sensible to get their first. Still i think level 4 or 5 autonomous driving will be a lot farther out than they'd like customers to believe and their marketing for it as Full Self Driving is borderline fraud in its current state.
Yeah, I never had a problem with them for years, until I did... I've never seen phone support, and still don't see a number anywhere on there website. If you have to be logged in to see it... Also, the chat is how you create a ticket. I chatted multiple times and they kept saying it was an escalated issue and only a "higher up" team could handle it and I'd just have to wait for a response. Glad you've never had any issues, good luck with that!
I used a crusty decade-old Dell machine, and even that the Firefox runs way faster than Vivaldi.
Thomas Jefferson on the ethics/cost/benefit of IP regulation (1813)
I just can't really feel any animosity toward Gary Bowser (or his business partners) here. The amount that Nintendo "lost" is probably a couple orders of magnitude less than the damages that Nintendo claims. An illegally-obtained copy of something does not equal a lost sale! It's of course not surprising, but is ultimately gross, that rightsholders keep trying to claim that every unauthorized copy is one that the recipient would have paid for if it hadn't been available illegally, when we know at this point that's far far far from the truth. The vast majority of people who obtain illegal copies would never pay in the first place.

I think it would suck if a small creator got screwed over to this degree by a group of infringers like this. But the true loss to Nintendo here is far less than it costs them to litigate, and is a rounding error when compared to their total revenue numbers over the years involved here. It's only profitable for them to litigate because they're able to obtain awards in such ridiculous excess of their actual damages.

I don't think I'm really strictly in favor of this sort of organized copying, especially for profit. But I just can't get even a tiny bit riled up about it, either. I think, up to a certain point, companies should be forced to just accept this sort of thing as a cost of doing business. Sure, figuring out what that certain point is might be really difficult to agree on. But I think this particular case falls well below that point. Remember that copyright is a social and legal construct. It's up to the public to decide what rights it confers, and what remedies are available to rightsholders who feel harmed by infringers. There's nothing inherently "correct" about the rent-seeking behavior our current laws enable.
Sometimes I'm exactly likes this too. Even some of my dreams are just purely arrays of words. I just experience it serially throughout the night, almost like reading a book, and then wake up. And when I get into deep thought mode, I'm just like printing analysis.
Usenet did not require a "web browser" nor Javascript. Advertising came eventually but it was not accompanied by surveillance. Famously, the first advertisement on the internet was allegedly via Usenet, from an immigration lawyer. But ads were basically just spam as I recall, much less invasive on ads on the www, and easier to filter out.

Most importantly, I never read anything on Usenet that suggested, "If we do not have a robust advertising ecosystem, all this "free content" will disappear." Even regulators today are prone to believe this nonsense. Quite silly. I remember getting news and other content from Usenet without the presence of any advertising. With Usenet, the cost was the internet connection. That's it. No allegedly "necessary" trade-off between (a) allowing personal data collection and surveillance and (b) accessing "free content". Accessing mainstream news is still just as "free" today as it was then. Relatively little news or other "content" on the www is password protected. Except in the heydays of Usenet there were no advertising company-sponsored browser vendor Javascript engine-powered "paywalls" to try to annoy users into paying (more) money, on top of the internet connection charges.
Go has asynchronous preemption now using signals. Tight loops are preemptible.
You can customise it with keyboard shortcuts, and a small time investment can give you efficiency gains, manifold!
> the value prop is not having to micromanage the accelerator/brake/steering wheel in stop-and-go traffic

I largely agree with you here, having driven a car with adaptive cruise control in stop-and-go traffic and finding it to be a total game changer.

That said, I'd argue there's a huge difference between having the car micromanage the accelerator+brake versus having it micromanage the accelerator+brake+steering. With the former, the driver must remain engaged with the driving task (even though the most tedious aspect is taken care of), but with the latter, no engagement whatsoever is required.