skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was never taboo to criticize pro-ana groups.

Being lgbt isn’t a mental illness. Not medically speaking, anyway. Maybe they were considered such in the past. Go far enough back and we used bloodletting as a common treatment, our understanding generally improves with time. I have no desire to go back to an era where lgbt people were persecuted.

With respect to your other point. “Children” is a broad category. Pre-pubescents are not “changing sex”. Instead we are being encouraged to respect their gender identity, and not reject gender-non conforming behaviors [1]. Teens may take puberty blockers to buy time, this also isn’t “changing sex”. Perhaps HRT is what you mean by changing sex, and yes some teenagers are able to access the HRT of their preferred gender. The science on this is pretty clear, that suicide rates of trans people is drastically lowered when in a gender-supportive environment, and their mental well-being is infinitely better.

[1] I implore you to watch this video: https://youtu.be/h60YLGDJ6n0

Edit: despite what a child comment I cannot reply to is saying, while over-medicalization and misdiagnosis is definitely something to watch out for (being gender-nonconforming is not the same as being trans and this is why education about lgbt issues is important), the vast majority of transgender youth do not suffer from an overabundance of societal and medical acceptance for their issues.

Puberty blockers are indeed not a drug to prescribe lightly. Same with SRS, it should not be handed out like candy. People who have only had gender dysphoria for a short time may indeed be better served by a “wait and see” approach. All of these things I can agree with.

If you are under the impression that being trans isn’t stigmatized enough and all the kids might turn trans if we aren’t careful, I’m simply going to disagree with you. There’s no evidence of this.
> Today I decided I would try to change Google.

Many have tried. Many have failed.

The best the author can do is encourage people to move to alternative providers.
i always thought the same for a while but apparently its not as much any more. my guess is kinda like ig theyre more likely to make content and post vs guys so we see them more. they do seem to be more active users by a huge margin tho.
Supposed to be fixed now. A bad edit to a widely used module, of course.
Garden of Eden Creation Kit, the prime wuffie of the early Fallout game or games?
Fair enough. The bet I had in mind was the function you'd already stated as intractable: f(x) = a sin(x / a), the value of a is up to you, within reason (no IEEE fp shenanigans.)

If you'd rather some other consequence than silencing, please suggest one. I am tired of hearing your panaceas. Symbolic differentiation is also exact but intractible. What makes the duals yield exactness in any way that isn't prone to the same finitude as other approximations?

I see a lot of beasts but only one individual claiming to tame them with ease and exactness.

If it comes across as rude, that's not my intent. Moreso to have some clarity and to have your claims be validated.
Yes, that's the scaling model that works best for Kubernetes if the use case supports it. Our use case precludes it, because we are focused on uses where containers need to be spun up on a per-user (or per-group-of-users) basis as they use an application.
> I don't have the skills to switch to a different company

Go and learn. Skills are not set in stone.

> I don't perform well remotely, and my wife won't consider relocating

I understand that. I don't know you, but maybe a nicer setup with more (not too direct) sunlight can make it better?
Yes, it is only community driven, there is no fulltime dev working on it. But I've seen someone working on a website refresh.

If that's too slow for you, just edit the website here and make a PR with the info you were looking for: https://github.com/stride3d/stride-website
I have settled on the ECS camp as well. Took a run at Kubernetes and was blown away by the complexity. With ECS/Fargate I don't spend any time on it. It just works for our setup.

I still wonder from time to time if I am missing something not going Kubernetes.
My point wasn’t to claim that I’m some sort of famous writer, it was simply to prove I have background knowledge in the subject and still disagree with you. The fundamental flaw of this conversation is you assuming that my disagreement with you is out of a lack of information, rather than simply reaching a different conclusion.
Employee - Boss relationship is VERY different dynamic from Provider - Client relationship.

Realized this once I became a contractor. I no longer have a "boss". I have "customers".
I do seem to recall that Skylight as a famous example of Rust on the back-end. https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-Tilde-Whitepaper....
> Now, those sites are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Can't afford to do the right thing.

Which sites?

Tumblr was started in 2007 - it wasn't very big until 2009. I'm not sure why it's even in your comparison.

The only company worth hundreds of billions of dollars remotely relevant is Facebook and - possibly - TikTok. Are you implying that the majority of their business is promoting teen mental illness and eating disorders? Because it's not - especially Facebook. Most of the tweens have moved to TikTok.

Facebook's audience is like ~3% teens & tweens. And of that a small percentage is getting sucked into this strange & toxic echo chamber.

The reason this is mostly a TikTok problem is because Facebook can easily and did do things to prevent this. They could do more, and TikTok can certainly afford to do something about it. The impacts on the top and bottom line would be irrelevant.

I'll end by saying I find it odd we seem to be talking about this being a children only problem. Every time there's a new allergy in the buzz or a new condition - I have at least 100 contacts talking about how they're convinced they have it. This is just typical human behavior - trying to always be the center of attention. Should we be surprised kids want to special? No.
I and everyone I know are severely underpaid, or this site is a bit wrong.
1. Sign up for their newsletter and read their emails.

2. Study their social media accounts to see where they get the most engagement.

3. What are people saying about them on Reddit/Twitter?

4. Study their job postings. What are they hiring for?

5. Look at what their site looked like in the past using archive.org. What changes did they make?

6. Set up Google Alerts for them, and see what bloggers/press are saying about them.

7. See what their founders are tweeting/liking/responding to on Twitter.

8. See what type of ads they run on Google by searching for their brand/related keywords - do they even advertise on Google? Find their most viewed videos on Youtube (they're most likely ads if they <= 30 seconds long).

9. What types of content do they have on their blog?

10. Any reviews on G2Crowd or TrustRadius? What do customers like/dislike?
Thanks for the info. The part about needing catch-up saccades above a certain speed is particularly interesting.
If you've got that much money to blow on a video game, finding a girlfriend is likely not an issue.
do you have somewhere where i can read more about this? i havent seen it before and am interested.
Ok. So he payed too much to win and there is now noone that can beat him so he can't find ELO PvP games? Did I get that straight.
> If copper piping is allowed by local code, they’ll know - and keep it within these ranges.

I think I’m misunderstanding you. Your original comment was “that’s bullshit” but this seems like it’s in rough agreement.

IIUC copper pipe will last for 50-100 years IFF you pass impure water through it. Pure water will eat the pipe. Same with galvanized steel and brass like you pointed out. So the city treated it with _something_ to keep the water from eating pipe (knowing copper pipe is code) and I’ve anecdotally heard that part of that “something” is fluoride.
> In the literal backyard of my house? No.

Ok, so storage is a problem.
Is there any Google branding in the OS? I’d love to see some screenshots of it in action.
> Not to be confused with Apple's Calendar application (previously named iCal).

All these years I had exactly that confusion!

Thanks, really interesting.
Fun fact: Hans Albert Einstein, son of Albert Einstein, helped with the design of the Old River Control Structure.

According to Wunderground's three-part series about the ORCS[1], there is some uncertainty as to whether it will be able to keep the Mississippi River on its current route without failure.

[1] https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Americas-Achilles-Heel-Mis...
I'd like to see the Post Office (in the US) get involved.

Post offices are geographically ubiquitous, already deal with identity verification, and already have to maintain the trustworthiness of their workforce.

I'd like to see a system where (a) an account [whether GMail, Facebook, Schwab or Bob's Online Pet Food Mart] can be tied to a real-world identity and (b) when you lose access, you can go to the local post office to verify your identity and get a one-time recovery token for a given account.
I never worked at Google, but based on my experience elsewhere it is partly security and partly standardization of guaranteed minimum functionality.

For example, security aside, as an engineer working on X that depends on internal tools Y, Z and W, I do not particularly care what variant of Linux is under the hood as long as I can run my favorite WM, editor and user apps. But I do want support on Y, Z and W if they misbehave. If I run a non-standard OS or distro I will likely get a lukewarm support because those teams will put debugging problems in "non-standard configurations" as a low priority.

Personally, I learned to live with most Linux distros. When I did roll out a non-standard setup I had a standby system in a standard configuration that I can show failures on before asking for help. My 2c.
This is very irresponsible journalism. The best evidence available suggests most cases of "long COVID" are misattribution:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Making a claim as provocative as "millions" of Americans suffering from long-COVID, without any compelling evidence, is dangerous.
That's fair, that would be a decent read on the comment assuming average HN demographics. I am a librarian who was raised by hackers, so I was programming and playing around online for years before starting library work and eventually getting my MLIS. So I was critiquing her from a colleague's POV of 'this clearly isn't your area of expertise, why didn't you ask a colleague who does know this area so the letter was stronger?' I wouldn't write a letter about, say, the impact of social media on kids' media without talking to some of the children's librarians I know, since I don't know much about children's services.

Also libraries have a major cultural issue of their own, which is that they love credentialism and gatekeeping, and part of that manifests through assumptions that they and only they know the right thing to do (you'll note she suggests that Google contact her for more information rather than perform their own research or, God forbid, asking the userbase directly). Related to this, librarians, because of their vocational awe, are very, very susceptible to forms of communication that affirm their righteousness, and I see signs of that in this letter. From a communications standpoint, it's just not ideal to ask people do something by shaming them and assuming a stance of superiority while ignoring some context. That's just asking to be dismissed.

So that's where I'm coming from.

I actually greatly agree that tech culture needs to change.

> embarrassing companies in public is an old tactic that predates consumer technology companies by a large margin. in the old days letters would appear in trade rags or newspapers to the same effect.

Same problem, though. Embarrassing a company in a trade rag means that your employees are going to be judged by their peers and you're going to have a hard time hiring new employees. Using a newspaper meant that it went through some sort of editorial gatekeeping and the newspaper determined it was an issue that was likely to blow up. There were also plenty of cranky letters to the editor/opinion pieces in newspapers (especially smaller ones) that were dismissed as 'lol old people be cranky'. You have to have a strategy there.

I actually miss public service a lot.
Agreed. California is a desert.
Ah yes, I totally forgot the non-EU ones.

Zurich IME is more in line with Californian salaries though.
What you are feeling is called cognitive dissonance. You have the idea of text so hammered into your mind, that when you realize it's merely a convention that makes it readable in practice without needing to know the encoding, you cannot even concede, despite this being an obvious truth. This phenomenon is called "un*x braindamage".

More or less all possible interpretations of what this person said are correct. But UN*X braindamage also comes with dunning-kruger due to the fact that you've memorized so many factoids after many years and think someone doesn't know what they're talking about when they get them wrong despite their overall idea being correct.
Tics are socially contagious, more so if you have a close social connection to the person. It's actually really fascinating. A loved one of mine has tics and I occasionally pick up their vocal tics unknowingly.

There's an actual term for it but I can't find it for the life of me. I don't believe it is echolalia but it is a precise word for people 'catching' tics from loved ones.
As a person completely unqualified to diagnose anything but with similar problems, I suspect the real root of your issue might just be the anxiety. If you could address the roots of that, caffeine would probably become irrelevant.
Read Code Complete first then read Clean Code with a healthy dash of skepticism and do not follow it blindly. I still think Clean Code is a great book but does fall into "the one true way" and dogmatism.

This is the advice I give junior developers. I explain that Clean Code turns everything up to 11 and can make the code less readable then more if followed without thought.
> Free from what?

from my understanding (and my own personal desires), the idea of becoming free is the idea of FIRE - financially free (not necessarily retire, but retire from having to produce money to live off).

I think it's part of one's journey to climb the maslow pyramid. The exact nature of the work being desired after becoming "free" is not the same for everyone, but it's a higher form of desire than to produce value economically.
I used to work on Pagespeed. People were always so puzzled that adding Google Analytics or Maps to their page would lower their score. "This is your own company's tools! They shouldn't count! Make them fast!"

We always responded that adding any extra "weight" to a page made it slower. We didn't give our own tools any special treatment. It was up to the site owners to decided what costs were worth their corresponding benefit.

Put another way: the fastest page is an empty one, but that's not terribly useful. Optimize for not just for speed but for utility.

(Disclosure: I still work for Google, but haven't worked on Pagespeed - or anything remotely related - in many years).
Tumblr boards leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2011)
Yes, the title is just misleading and a little clickbaity
> Another option is that a service libraries could provide (at possibly great expense to themselves, but options on the table) would be to serve as a credentials broker for their users. Have the library keep track of the 2FA side of things. Risky and adds expense to the library, but for this userbase that local service is the missing piece of the puzzle. Unfortunately, this isn't something Google is set up to provide; they're too centralized, they aren't actually in the communities where the need lies.

This. I wrote as much in an earlier comment. Why not allow the option to delegate a trusted third party to manage $ACCOUNT MFA flow? I'd use it (and kind of already do, via the recovery email addresses) for managing my aged parents accounts.

This seems like not that hard in terms of implementation and UX. What is the risk/expense from the libraries PoV you are alluding to?
Researching the Performance Puzzle
I like the idea of a mesh network but anyone considering doing something like this, please be super aware of fire risks and rather don't do anything if you are not 100% sure that what you are doing is 100% safe.
Instead of (or possibly in addition to) "The Toyota Way", which seems to be listicle-fied, read "The Machine that Changed the World" by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos. It goes into deep detail and analysis of the way that the Toyota management principles infuse across the entire business.
So we are going to end up with a "porn tube" metaverse replete with onanistic behavior. Sad. Sinful.
Men cry in the office too, but they're better at hiding it because the social expectations are different. A few times during crunches I've heard men sobbing in the restroom instead of at their desk. Men get told to 'man up', so they bottle it up or hide it.
I've spent a long time in disability communities, falsifiability gets very little respect, and "gatekeeping" is generally expressly or implicitly taboo.

So with Autism, probably the most common disqualifier in practice is that the disorder requires childhood presentation and a lot of people don't know this. So somebody will come in, say "oh I wasn't autistic at all as a child, but I felt very autistic as a teenager, so I asked a doctor, and he said I wasn't autistic". People will respond with "oh, doctors don't know anything about autism, they underdiagnose minorities and women all the time, that proves it" and "oh, women actually don't present as autistic in childhood, they can just be masking, but that doesn't mean they aren't actually autistic". This happens EVERY time, especially if a woman is involved, and means that you can't falsify the idea that somebody was autistic in childhood.

I have been banned once for saying that disabled people should doubt other peoples disabilities (on the grounds of preventing exploitation and misallocation of resources), I got told that I was spreading ableist myths that disabled people are responsible for other disabled people lacking resources, that I was reinforcing the ableist myth that disabled people are just exploiting non-disabled people (of course, disabled people do just as much for the able as the able do for them, and thus there is no advantage to faking disability), that it was inappropriate to talk about doubting disabilities on an autism community, and that they wished I had a number of painful disabilities that I couldn't receive pain medication for because I wasn't believed.
It's a little sad about Docker Swarm because for a certain critical mass of nodes, Docker Swarm is actually quite nice because of lower overhead and complexity. The problem is that Docker Swarm seems to be a dead project now.
> Starring Number One.

OG Mystique as well. Rebecca Romijn has done some great roles.
> Well, yes and no. I wouldn't expect frontend engineers to know the ins and outs of everything backend, but to build on your metaphore a bit further: Setting up a basic Node backend with express serving static files shouldn't take multiple weeks, even for a frontend engineer. I feel like I was trying to do the infra equivalent of that, and it did take me forever.

Yeah, that's just what infrastructure work is. Like I said, take that analogy, multiply the complexity by 4 (at least... really maybe multiply it by an order of magnitude).

Let me put it in perspective. I've been coding since I was 12, I taught myself C to build a MUD in middle school and high school. I had about a decade of full stack professional experience in Java, PHP, javascript and I'd done infrastructure work with EC2 and chef before. When I moved into DevOps it was overwhelming.

I've been in DevOps for 4 years. I built that equivalent DO infrastructure with Kubernetes just last week (and in a week). I started the week going "Fuck, I don't know what I'm doing." The first 3 days were just spent reading documentation. Day four was spent writing the terraform and kubernetes manifests - with a distinct feeling that none of this was going to work because I was missing several key pieces. Day 5 was spent putting a few of those pieces in place and debugging. I finally got it working late Friday night. I took on a ton of tech debt and made a bunch of compromises just to get something working. I'm not the least bit happy with what I have working and intend to totally rebuild it on AWS when it comes time to build production.

And that's with 4 solid years of doing infrastructure work full time under my belt. For someone with no infrastructure experience? I would estimate 1 - 3 months. There's just way too much to learn to think you could do it quickly and simply.

With an express backend, if you have javascript experience, you really don't have much to learn. You need to learn how http interacts with the backend, how the backend interacts with the database, and databases (SQL). That's it. Learning database is not nothing, there's a lot that comes with it, but that's still only 2 new tools really.

With infrastructure, you need to learn networking, databases, securty, container orchestration (how does high availability work? Scaling?), bash, linux, provisioning, terraform, Docker, Kubernetes manifests, monitoring, secrets handling, and more. And for a lot of these things, the solutions are far from simple or perfect. Even when done as well as can be with modern tech it feels shakey and cobbled together at the end. You're tying a dozen different tool types together to solve a dozen different problems and you have dozens of choices for each tool type.

Like I said, infrastructure is just like that. And it's important to have the right expectations going in to it.

If you can't tell, I've had this conversation with my peers who stayed in full stack a lot.
> Agreed that the UI on the present iOS app is less than ideal.

Which one do you use? I think there might be a few that use 1913 Webster's. I use this one [1]. It could be a lot better, but it works.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/websters-writers-dictionary/id...
That one, yes!
Don’t worry, the auditory hallucinations that sometimes occur between waking and sleeping are normal and documented (see “hypnagogic hallucinations”).

I would start to worry only if I had them during the day while awake.
> "Net-zero" includes the use of systems that capture carbon directly out of the air, either all mechanical or with plants part of the system.

"Plants" are very inefficient at CO2 capture. Most of the CO2 captured in Earth (by anthropogenic action or just by natural causes) is by algae/bacteria action.

> If the goal is "stop burning fossil fuels" there is a large precedent of non-fossil power sources such as solar, wind, hydroelectic, nuclear, etc.

> All of those systems need somebody to spend money for a product they don't want to meet an externally imposed requirement. It's going to be very hard to put a system in place to move the money around because of the perception (and reality) that anything that concentrates money in one place is going to be a nexus of corruption.

If a conflict in Europe happening right now isn't a good enough incentive to make Europe immediately carbon-free, not much really is.
"Could" isn't good enough to go back to the stone age on the cusp of WWIII. Sorry.
An Introduction to Webmention
idk i always got the idea that at that age women can be more emotionally vulnerable to some stuff. same reason their bullying goes for social attacks, shaming, talking shit behind ppls backs instead of physical violence mostly.
It appears that someone circumnavigated the scientific process and forced UCP in.

That would be whoever benefitted financially from the decision to fuck our soldiers over.