skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Like your line of thinking a lot, but miss my area of work: scientific programming. You would make money with people willing to move to Julia! Also "seasoned" is a descriptor for someone that likely does not need your product, but right now I cannot think of a better synonym.
I don't agree with the characterisation in your first sentence (nothing is ever perfect in analogue), but the video was very interesting, thanks for sharing!
AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images
I can assure you, my only concern here is inate fertility - (idiocracy aside) I don't give a shit about people deciding not to have children.

As for the danger, population collapse is often precipitous - and by the time you notice it, is very hard to roll back.

And it's not just our species impacted by the changes.
>Water didn't come easily unless you happened to live next to a river or have a well next to your house

According to [0], "over 50% of the world's population lives closer than 3 km to a surface freshwater body, and only 10% of the population lives further than 10 km away." They also note that it varies by region, and Europe is among regions where people live closest to water.

Walking 10 km by foot to the nearest river to bathe is not a gargantuan task, especially for medieval people who were used to walking by foot.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110782/
No one said public library. Schools have libraries too.
That is where you would be wrong. People in the US are free to talk all they want about fantastical topics.

In fact, in Texas people make political comments about independence frequently.

In Puerto Rico, there have even been literal votes, where the people actually voted on what they want to do with this US territory, and independence was one of the options.

Further examples of these topics coming up, are the frequent comments I hear about how california, or pacific states should form up and create their own country.

And to give a more historical example, I believe a couple decades ago, there was a major Alaska independence party. This party actually even won a governorship, at one point!

People who claim that the topic of states leaving the US, is some taboo topic, that will get you sent to jail, or start a war, if people simply talk about it, are just wrong.

You are just wrong. People talk about this stuff, all the time, and there have even been official votes on this stuff. And wars aren't started over it.
I don't think that naive literalism is the best way to understand this. The term was coined by a psychologist in the 60's [1], and it is clearly designed to sound like the name of a psychological disease.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia#Etymology
Well said.

A library endowment is, for example, a thing.
Since you're throwing this accusation around like confetti, the article explicitly states the book was in the adult section.
Same!

I’ve been a developer for 15 years, consider myself pretty good with SQL, but I’m only now learning about group by cube.
No mention of mental illness there, but you already knew that.
Given popular reception isn't enough to indicate good taste and vision, what about critical reception?

Kanye's music, particularly from before the last few years, has been well reviewed by critics. His shoes were popular among "sneaker heads", or people for whom sneakers are a hobby.
That person is very well known in this community, and in other communities as well.

They are also known for making very specific arguments that people misinterpret and fight over, but the actual intent and literal meaning of the statements is most often correct (IMO).

Whether this is a byproduct of trying to be exacting in the language used that tends to cause people interpretive problems or a specific tactic to expose those that are a combination of careless with their reading and willing to make assumptions rather than ask questions is unknown to me, but that doesn't change how it tends to play out, from my perspective.

In this case, I'll throw you a bone and restate his position as I understand it.

NIST ran the competition in question in a way such that all the judges referred each other, and all are very well known in the cryptographic field, and the suggestion by someone with more common game that they could be bribes in this manner (note not that the NSA would not attempt it, but the implication they would succeed with the people in question) is extremely unlikely, and that DJB would suggest as much knowing his fame may matter to people more than the facts of who these people are, is problematic.
A Sailor’s Best Friend Redux: Sully H.W. Bush, Arriving
The Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem only defines the sample rate to perfectly reproduce a signal of a certain bandwidth.

It says nothing about noise, distortion, dynamic range. In these areas it is impossible to create a "perfect" DAC, although granted the best DACs are indistinguishable from perfect as far as human perception is concerned.
doesn't change the fact that teenagers (the most vulnerable population to fake trans dysphoria) can and will read this book.

If you ever been to library, kids section is for elementary/middle school, but high schoolers absolutely do read adult section books
> about once every 2 years.

I sincerely doubt it's only once, but your point stands i guess.
The same level as Bose? The company famous for simply turning up the bass? Now they're used as an example of quality? How times change!
Token based 2fa does not leak any information to the service and it has a benefit of preventing other types of attacks on the functions that the system is supposed to do. There is literally no reason to be against TOTP or WebAuthN
> There is no single narrative to explain the experiences
of all individuals who detransition and we should take care to
avoid painting this population with a broad brush.

> Findings about
detransition should be used to improve our understanding of
gender dysphoria and to better inform the processes of evaluation, counseling, and informed consent for individuals who are
contemplating transition.

Did your not read your own study?
You don’t get it clearly. They’re playing dirty. At best the FOIA will receive a document made on the fly with nothing of value. The rules don’t apply to the NSA. You can do exactly nothing. But NIST, you can do something about - reject any standard they approve. It’s your choice what algorithm you use, and we know NIST will select a broken algorithm for the NSA, so just ignore their ‘standard’.
The best solution is using layers of crypto, trusting no single algorithm.
Most probably your number is sold to different scammer companies. It's not like they have central database to blacklist customer.

Also, labour is pretty cheap in India. These companies do not pay taxes or employee benefits. They can easily hire someone for 300$ per month
This immediately jumped out me because I'm familiar with Cotten.

I had a book on finger-style folk guitar in the 1980's, that I learned a thing or two from. Cotten's "Freight Train" was featured in it, along with some notes about her, and a note about her left-handed use of regular guitar strung right handed, so that her thumb was actually playing the high strings.

About a year ago, a funny thing happened. My then two-and-a-half year old wanted to hear some music so I somehow found a YouTube video of Cotten and put that on. He started crying that he wants rock and roll!

I was thinking, man, kid's gonna have to learn some respect; but chip off the old block otherwise.
I know, I've used them multiple times.

The thing is, no one can explain to me how it's better than just requiring 2+ passwords on each user account. You can't authenticate if you lose the Yubi when tech support is not available without circumventing the very process it was based upon... Nothing is failproof. Of course each specific use case is different.

If Facebook demanded I use a dongle or even biometrics, that would very well be the exact point I quit it though.
> But I'm not espousing my values, but values vital to the continuation of life.

> Values that have been around for thousands of millions of years.

I could make the same arguments about modern therapeutics for asthma and short-sightedness being againsts millions of years of nature.
author provides breakdown further, I encourage you to continue reading this paper [with an open mind]
Did you actually ever research this viewpoint of “animals don’t bathe”? There are numerous replies proving it wrong, but I’m just curious how you seemingly just made it up and posted it.
You must not be familiar with PKI or the meaning of decentralized if the reliance on blockchain networks is a surprise to you.
I have different observations. I am a polish high school student and I've been using openstax physics for college for a long time. Maybe the reason is that textbooks in Poland are very poor, but I use openstax in studying to final exams and competitions, and so far, they served me well. Foreign textbooks are so much better.
It is probably birth control in the water supply that are causing birth rate declines.
That one book was. But if you look at the letter in the article, there were several other books like it that were indeed in the kids' section. (Also, libraries generally don't have curtains or barriers to keep kids out of the adults' section, so prominently displaying pornographic books isn't really a great thing to do even when it's done there.)
Under these conditions, I would recommend a UPF 50 garment, like Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle Hoody (but I have seen George aka Walmart for $10). I think this is safer than applying chemicals. Also sunscreens in the US are far behind the EU and Asia

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/07/us-su...
https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=endocrine+disruptors+...
I'll read it through [with an open mind] once you have. Since the conclusions you've drawn are thoroughly incongruous with the abstract and conclusion, I gather that you haven't, in fact, read it.
Hello, Mr. Yakamoto, welcome back to the Gap! How'd those assorted tank tops work out for you?
Oh yeah totally. There are pedals these days that are a ADC->DSP->DAC. What's actually on the DSP can be programmable, so you have pedals who's function can be changed with the twist of a knob. They kept the same interface (aka quarter inch cables, and foot-stompable buttons), just modernized the interior. They range from something like the Zoom MS-70 CDR at $150, to $1,200 for one with multiple buttons, an analog pedal, and is laptop controllable via USB. (Line 6 Helix LT or Boss GT-1000.)
yes that would make them unhappy and that is why I have not resigned but I dont know if you are able to understand it but it really feels bad seeing these things.
Allowing the PRC to decide what the lands they govern are called and allowing the ROC to decide that the lands they govern are called is _obviously_ more neutral than allowing either the PRC or the ROC to make the decision for both sides. Taking the PRC’s side (as that committee did) or the ROC’s side is basically the definition of “not neutral”.

China does need to be “satisfied” for it to be neutral.
sorry, you just disagree with them being happy even if it makes them infertile.

classic intellectually dishonest HN concern troll
> legacy of good schools, accumulated wealth and a middle class

Where do you get the notion that developing countries don’t have “good schools”? They’ve had formalised education for millennia.

Unless you are measuring wealth purely in post colonial USD/EUR, every single country (developing or developed) clearly has an accumulated wealth class, middle class, and poor class. It’s absurd that you think isn’t the case?
I think if transhumans with augmentations wanted to compete with humans in sports, or if parents wanted to give their children irreversible experimental augmentations, you would find very similar concerns.
It would be "fun" if those people that put the chargeback gets sent to collections and a nice entry gets put on their credit report for payment failure

I bet the bank providing their mortgage would love to have that information
> And they collaborate with businesses to bring their work into the real world.

and they collaborate with nearby schools: i took physics in high school at Fermilab, for example, and it was super inspiring and accessible.
DynamoDB can model relational data just fine, if you're okay with setting your query access patterns in stone and never changing them again.
Idk, first the focus on body modifications in the context of what a transhumanist is is a bummer, I always thought imoroved thinking made more sense as the initial goal. And second, how do you determine what is someones authentic self, if theyre pursuing that or if theyre taking advantage of body mods to be pervy or manipulative or do xyz bad thing. Its entirely subjective. Not to say there arent solutions to separate safe mods from unsafe, just that the authentic self feels like too fuzzy a thing to use sincerely, at least I see it as some bundling of your personal values that could be cancerous as far as I know :)
The problem is capturing more data for ad targeting. Security is just a way of tricking users into sharing their phone number. It’s basically the ad industry equivalent of the “think of the children” argument governments make against secure encryption.
Yeah, no dig at you. Just warning those that would find it offensive.
I wish that were the case - but it’s a significantly smaller fraction than it needs to be.

The largest fraction of the anti-transgender movement is clearly the American conservative Christian right, who has completely chosen to ignore human rights in favour of Old Testament values.

(Source: I’m transgender, and I’m terrified what’s going on in the USA.)
So I was debugging / documenting last night and put the "smoking gun" video on the background. I don't know why. I guess I felt if the WaPo was raving it must be good.

It was four middle aged men crammed into a cupboard, talking. And while I was not paying attention to every word, I missed the gun and the smoke.

Where is the bit where a MoFi employee says "we use digital"?

All I heard was waffle and self congratulatory
If you stopped acting in bad faith, looking for some gotcha, for one single second, you'd realize that by "unhealthly" they were referring to the effects of hormone treatments, which clearly have significant effects and side effects on the physical body.
Wouldn't this be a good time to estimate the number of bots?
> There is absolutely no way some translucent face painting does that.

Wow what a dismissive comment to chemistry and cosmetics.

Just for fun, try take a pic of yourself with a UV camera (or just UV light with some phones), and you'll see it's translucent only to the visible spectrum: https://petapixel.com/2016/05/26/tiny-uv-camera-shows-youve-...
You kinda can, though.

https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/why-do-hard-drivesusb-...
> While some in the audiophile scene like going analog, none of them debate against the truth that objectively, vinyl is far lower quality.

You conveniently forget history. Audiophiles embracing digital media is a relatively recent thing. It was vinyl and everything analog until about 10-15 years ago when it became <any combination of tech. nonsense>
Lol, it was bound to happen when even mainstream media began casually labelling a good third of the country white supremacists, racists, and the (other) dreaded N-word, simply for demanding IDs to vote or for insisting that borders should probably be enforced.
I wouldn't characterize it as that. Population was low enough, compared to food production.

Feeding people is a cultural norm in India, rooted in the scriptures that ones hunger should not be a cause for doing business.

The highest ideal in Hinduism is "Sarve jana, sukhino bhavanthu" (All living things should be happy)

The reverse logic in your statement is also pertinent, in that if there was a lot of feeding going on, then there was a lot of food available.

Indian norms and culture emphasizes on moving away from materialism and advocates for distribution of wealth. Greed is frowned upon and actively discouraged in a society. Wealthy are encouraged to perform rituals and festivals and distribute their wealth.

India is the only civilization in the world where there are written references to kings of large sections of the country, leaving aside all their pomp and glory and going off into forests for meditation and penance. Mind you, they were not failures or banished. They voluntarily gave up their luxuries in search of the ultimate meaning of life.

Indian civilization is a complex layered society where philosophy of life is seeped permanently in daily language, customs, cultures, practices, rituals and history.

That the ultimate goal of life is not wealth, but of discovering the true nature of ourselves, the true nature of this world, the illusion that it is, is emphasized in every aspect of life.

Take the example of the word "punyatma". It is an adjective used for someone who is pious and does good deeds. Similar to "Good samaritan". However, the word is a combination of two words "Punya" (Fruits of good deeds) and "Aatma" (Soul). The implication, and our philosophical belief is that the soul is eternal and is bound to re-births. And the fruits of our actions are tied to our soul, and that there is no escape from getting the results of your actions (good or bad alike).
"I think formal cryptographic standards are a force for evil."

May I ask what you view as the alternative? (No formal cryptographic standard, or something else?)
> it is not one paper, there are multiple papers by the author.

Her publication list is 1 paper on ROGD, 1 correction, 1 defense of the methodology, and 1 paper not on ROGD.[1] So 1 paper on ROGD. The findings weren't replicable when researchers asked the patients and looked at clinical evidence instead of asking hostile parents.[2]

> Author got canceled in media because her research was based on patients and parents' feedback that was against media status-quo.

She was criticized for ridiculous methodology. And media reported the controversy.

> Papers lays out facts about fake gender dysphoria

She laid out parents' perceptions and treated them like facts. And even she didn't call the dysphoria fake.

[1] https://littmanresearch.com/publications/

[2] https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/fulltext
That's not how taxes work.

Churches owe taxes because they conduct business in the United States. The government pays those taxes instead. That's a subsidy.
Seems like same Jeff that had manic period almost a year ago.

Learned so much from this podcast too.
Adding to that, even the scam call centres have a corporate hierarchy, they have the lowest paid staff doing the initial grunt work to try and hook a sucker, if they are successful they then handover to a more experienced scammer to close the deal.
Very unlikely for him to deliberately destroy Twitter.

Most of the deal is financed by banks and they have a vested interest in Twitter having at least a shot at being more valuable or profitable.

He is but it with cash but (mostly) not his own so deliberately running the company into the ground could make him liable for damages.
It's business. Create a market for something that you don't need (and is arguably is bad for you), get people to pay for it, make it a 'norm' via advertising.

All that product that can be sold, to be literally poured down the drain and strip your body off the natural, protective oils and bacteria on your skin and hair.
Would you support your tax dollars being used to provide free hosting platforms to Parler and Gab? That's how "the same people screaming for them" feel about their tax dollars being used to provide free access to the books in question.
Very contradictory. In many cases these insane theories or "freedom of speech" incite actions that affect innocent people. It all sounds very poetic and free until it happens to you right. If your sense of reality becomes someone else's reality how can you defend yourself?.
In weirdly asymmetrical, lopsided ways, where both extremes are simultaneously true. In part it depends on what one has in mind when speaking of "mainstream" America; it seems people have very different ideas of this.

But I've been here almost 30 years, and seen both for-the-top run-amok police-state law-and-order in the red states, AND a passion for doing anything possible to avoid imprisoning repeat (felony!) offenders in many blue-state urban jurisdictions. The official explanation for the latter relates to penal system overcrowding and lack of capacity, and of course, there's something to that. But somehow this doesn't doesn't hinder the law-and-order "red" jurisdictions from "throwing the book" at some poor fellow who had a few too many ounces of weed on him or whatever.

Here in Georgia, that's the difference between, say, Fulton County (which encompasses inner-city Atlanta) and one of the Metro ATL suburban counties, or for that matter, just about any other random county in Georgia. The outcomes vary immensely. You can find both extremes, allowing one to say in the same breath both that the state is cruel and vindictive toward criminals, and has let them run amok.

It doesn't quite make my top 5 list of "things most maddening about America", but it's probably in the top 10.
We conducted an undisputed (and still somewhat close) presidential election in 1944, in the middle of World War 2, just prior to the Battle of the Bulge and with half a million servicepeople in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. But somehow we're meant to dignify the objections of gullible voters who don't understand how a drop-off box works. Spare us.
> If they knew anything about who the PQC team members were, they'd shoot milk out their nose at the suggestion that NSA had suborned backdoors from them.

Please point to this suggestion.
from the same abstract you skipped over:

>>Reasons for detransitioning were varied and included: .. 2) becoming more comfortable identifying as their natal sex (60.0%);

so 60 out of 100 patients who gender transitioned were NOT in fact transgenders and were falsely led towards gender transition surgery

>>The majority (55.0%) felt that they did not receive an adequate evaluation
from a doctor or mental health professional before starting transition

This matches the parents' pushback argument that gender transition is being prescribed and promoted left and right, which leads to medical mistakes
If a bully extorts an entire class for lunch money, except for one kid who's on the wrestling team, the bully did not pay for the wrestler's lunch.
I think we need to clarify what's really at play here.

The institution in question is a public library, funded by public money (taxes). Because the library operates at the cost of the taxpayers, the library has an implicit obligation to act in a manner satisfactory to the majority of the taxpayers.

Ergo, the library operates at the pleasure of the public.

Now, you might ask why the taxpayers have such powers over the library? That is because the taxpayers have a right to demand and have their tax dollars be spent in a way that is satisfactory to them.

How do the taxpayers exercise their will, you might ask? By voting, as any upstanding citizen would do in a democracy, on measures that would allocate tax dollars to the library. And vote they did: 62% nays to 37% yays.

In summary, this is not censorship; not the least because the audience for the library in question are the voters who voted against its continued funding. This is simply the public exercising their right to decide how their taxes that they paid are used.
I will never forget the calming elevator music from System Shock.
How could you ever guarantee that when registration for many services are conducted on such a wide variety of Internet-based web forms that are integrated into web sites?

That's not logical.

I've even seen sites where registration is done on sites with expired certs. Not everyone registers directly within the service itself, and there are plenty of cases where config and security are not implemented and managed properly.