skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> brandishing a penis

That's not exactly a neutral phrase. If someone is actively harassing someone in the changing room, there are presumably policies to deal with that.

It's also telling that you focus solely on that. Shouldn't you be equally alarmed by a guy "brandishing their penis" at little boys? And why is it okay to "brandish your vagina and breasts"?

If genitalia simply existing is a problem, then obviously the whole concept of a changing room is offensive and we need to move to single-occupancy stalls.
Fantastic article. I'm glad to have learned about Dr. Charles Henry Turner.

I take a couple (maybe simple) things away from this.

First, what an impressive body of work by Dr. Turner. Among other things, this article demonstrates that the scientific method and a well-designed experiment are often powerful tools for attacking a challenging research problem.

Second, how impressive that he did it under those political/social/economic conditions. Hopefully people read and think "wow it's so great how he did that with no support, imagine if he did have a supportive academic community" instead of "wow if he could do so well with that little support then other people should also be fine with that little support." Stories like this are always interesting because the scientific work is always inextricably tied to societal context.

Second and a half, the academia community today is in many ways still very insular and gate-keepy, and that's not healthy when searching for new voices and perspectives (which is important to disrupt complacency and stimulate innovation). There must be so many researchers today who are still held back by similar or other systemic conditions (which may be more hidden nowadays). Imagine the kind of impact they could have if they were given the tools to succeed as well. Statistically, some of them will still succeed today, but see point 2.

Third, the linked essay on Black education is worth a read. Some of the language may feel a little bit harsh to today's audiences, but if you can perceive the author's intent then it's interesting to read in context. Maybe there are some parallels to today as well, though I didn't think too hard about specific examples.
Precisely the reverse: attenuated virus (live virus) vaccines regularly allow mutation back to pathological forms. See: polio. This is because an attenuated virus is still replicating viral particles and every replication is a lottery ticket that the virus might mutate back.

mRNA vaccines, by contrast, causes no viral replication so the virus doesn't get these lottery tickets.

Of course, either type of vaccine is going to place evolutionary pressure on a disease to evolve an escape. That's just what happens.

One side note: one of the things about mRNA vaccines is that they can be very specific. Now, that may not be great for Covid where we would like to be more general. However, that may be absolutely essential against Epstein-Barr where a chunk of the virus looks like nervous system proteins. A standard vaccine is likely to prime the immune system just like the virus and cause multiple sclerosis as a side effect. An mRNA vaccine, by contrast, could target only those sections of the E-B virus that look sufficiently different from the nervous system and prime the immune system without risking friendly fire.
If I had a coin for every time someone replied to these kinds of posts with "That's not Agile! You're not doing Agile properly! True Agile is..blah..blah".....well, I'd have a few coins!

I have had Agile/Scrummy Agile/FrAgile/Enterprise Fragile shoved firmly down my throat in every single job I've work since 2006. Rather than actually let the software professionals do their job, other non-technical people insist on these poor excuses for a micro-management methodology.

Just this week, I was asked by our resident enterprise management consultant to put hourly estimates and actual hours worked on all of my assigned 20+ User Stories. He said "This is Agile 101! All of the best teams in the world do this! Follow the process!"
Today, he wants me to add estimates and actual hours to my 20 Bugs and bug-fixes too, plus add tasks to each User Story explained what work I actually did. Nevermind that I'm the only developer 100% allocated to the project, so there's only one person to micro-manage I suppose!

Shouldn't commonsense prevail in these modern times? No? lol :-P

Edit: Is it possible for one to get paid just to rant about how terrible Agile is?
Pro tip: If you're planning to build a product, you might need to find your customers first. Then follow the TTYC process.
> [...] the probability of catastrophic outcomes is exponential [...]

What does that even mean? Do you want to say that the probability is high?
It's not particularly hostile. It's using an example to demonstrate that someone who sees an action as unethical won't be super hyped about you asking them to spend their time assisting you in doing something they find to be unethical, especially after you insult them for thinking it's unethical.
Doppler Labs[0] was getting there with their Here buds. I have a pair that I miss dearly at concerts (they were sadly bricked when the company shut down and yanked their iOS app).

They didn’t do “virtual sidechaining” like you describe, but possibly could have with the DSPs in the earbuds. I’d love to find a replacement for them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_Labs
We even had a similar incident reported today in our nextdoor neighborhood. Someone knocked on the door at 1 AM asking for airpods since they were showing up at that location. Wifi based locationing does not work well all the time.

However, airtags work better than that since if it is within a few feet, you can get a directional view on your phone and could easily confirm if they are nearby. Also they sound loud enough that if you can get close by (inside the house), you can not miss the sound.
AirTags are literally the only Bluetooth tracker that have mitigations for this. iPhone users will be notified if someone else’s AirTag is following them, and so will android users if they download the Tracker Detect app.
These used to wipe me out, but ever since I stopped paying attention to them this issue got solved. I use them for exercising, cooking, reading HN, etc while half listening to it like it would be radio.

And literally nothing was lost in the process. I am as productive as before, know as little about product we are developing as before.
That's interesting actually, because it seems written by a contractor. Each role in each industry probably has its own warped methodology, which means a "better" methodology will need to be tailored to the role & industry. So we might need 40 methodologies, not one.
Where do you get your information from? Have you seen that wetmarket? It looked pretty clean to me.

Wetmarkets are diverse.
If Australia were smart; same thing.
Except it's not about sexual organs, because even getting surgery isn't enough to become a "real woman" by her logic.
Skills Plateau Because of Decay and Interference
Practice towards what goal? To be the next Banksy? To be a millionaire?
In my experience, practice has a limit. After a lot of hours I can code decently, and my stuff is working, but one of my developers which is in his twenties can outperform me with quality and elegance.

When you have a talent and a habit/routine, you can keep your form for years.

It is like muscle training, every day simple routine is more effective than two days in a week in the gym.

And my goal is to stay in shape and create something meaningful for myself, not to win the Art Olympics:)
And how exactly would you use your car if you discharge it overnight?
The US' response has been incompetent. They're shipping billions of dollars in weapons to a country that every single media outlet admitted was constricted by systemic corruption mere years ago, and less than 30% of the weapons make it to the front lines.

You read that right. 70% of the US' weapons aid to Ukraine mysteriously disappears ($16,100,000,000 so far!). It's likely being sold by corrupt officials or stolen by European criminal gangs.

All of that military-grade hardware is going to be used to fuel European cartel and gang violence, because that's where it's going.

All further weapon aid to Ukraine should be considered another Operation Fast and Furious, but this time instead of arming cartels in Mexico, the US Government is arming cartels and gangs in Europe. Yet another foreign policy disaster, after swinging out of Afghanistan with nothing to show for it.

That's aside from the fact the US likely egged Russia on to invade in the first place, after all their invasion came weeks after Kamala Harris was on a sabre-rattling tour of Europe (she advocated Ukraine join NATO, a red line for Russia).

With friends like the US, why does Europe even need enemies?
You can get a hearing test. If everything comes back nominal, you might have a mild form of auditory processing disorder.

It's not too uncommon, and is tremendously common among people with ADHD, dyslexia, and people on the spectrum.

Whatever it is, I definitely have it. One thing that helps me a ton is just focusing directly on people's lips when they're talking in a noisy setting. I can't read lips (at all), but the extra little bit of visual information helps me a great deal with comprehension.
Who are the “we” you are referring to? “Western civilization”?

I lived and worked in Zambia for a while, and there — and possibly in many other countries in Africa — it was common to eat ants, grasshoppers, and caterpillars when they were in season. I never had the chance to taste the caterpillars — and it would probably have been a challenge for me — but the fried grasshoppers and ants were delicious.

The article at https://askentomologists.com/2015/02/09/why-dont-we-eat-bugs... suggests that eating insects is a “tropical” thing.
Less underpriced perhaps?
Extending this further. Before building a product, talk to prospects and understand the problem better.
Regardless of the whether your father-in-law needs to be put on a leash as your family believes, this is unethical if not illegal (at least in liberal parts of the world).

Unless he is a danger to himself or others, as determined by an independent professional, what is your family's justification for unilaterally deciding he should be banned from talking to people?
> EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you.

It's not quite a walk in the park, because you only have very small latency budgets.
Google Is Shutting Down Its IoT Core Service in 2023
I've not had a single PG inconsistency on my RPi cluster in the one year it's been running. Weekly errors are at work.

Most of these are for actual disk media failures.

For 100,000 disks what is a normal failure rate in your opinion?
Would muxfs be easily portable to other operating systems, or does it rely on non-standard APIs?
Very nice. For the jobbing engineer, no one should ever see your code until after step two.

Make it work, [take a break], Make it right, [push it for code review, gather feedback, make changes, push to master], Make it fast.
I'm the same way. I sing all the time. To the point where when I moved out of my old apartment, my old roommates told me that their life had become 'without music' since I left. Because if I'm not singing, I'm either whistling a song or listening to a song.

Back in high school, my family knew that if I started to sing while I was studying, it was because I had managed to figure out a gnarly maths problem or finally managed to grok a concept that I wasn't able to get for a while. It's my only (and honestly, best) outlet for my feelings, I feel. And like you said, when I'm down, I just belt out a couple songs and I genuinely feel much better.
Maybe I'm lucky in that while my dad is an OK singer, my mum is completely tone-deaf.

To hear her is an experience in dissonance I can't fully describe. It's the worst you can imagine, like a caricature only seen on TV.

Yet she does not care one bit, and will happily walk around belting out Mariah Carey at the top of her lungs. To the haters (her family) she says a resounding: "Whatever!"

Now _that_ inspires confidence!
> No one said anything about waterfall requiring perfect estimates?

That is literally how definition of waterfall starts. Unless you use waterfall as "the mythical thing I project all my grievances at".
If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the interfaces will be self-evident too.
Touche. And if they make the phones somewhere expensive they are guaranteed to go out of business instead of it being a risk.
Insects also kill more humans there through disease than almost anything right?
Where is any data or scientific research on the volumes or substance of this over anecdotes?
Gcp supports it: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resu...
I miss eXtreme Programming. If the team bought in and had some discipline, it rocked. Beck’s eXtreme Programming eXplained was my favorite book on the subject. Cunningham’s C2 was a gem of early ideas and thoughts exploring the space. And then it all slowly just eroded to crap. It reminds me of the morphology that took place with the first hundred years or so of Christianity.
Do you really need instagram?
We even got standards for audio and networking over USB - printing sadly, not so much.
John List, an economist, has a new book out called The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale [1]. I think it address your point in a more general way and has identified some failure modes that lead to a negative end state. [1] is a summary of the ideas from the author.

[1] https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/voltage-effect-make-goo...
Again, the point was never that you have to be perfect, it’s that it’s shouldn’t just happen to perfectly align with Americas foreign policy agenda.
> The only reason to be unwilling to enter a conversation at all is if you know you have no argument.

That's absurd. Plenty of conversations are in bad faith. You wouldn't hold a conversation with me if I just sat here swearing at you. I've held plenty of productive conversations on this topic, but I've also ignored plenty of people who clearly didn't intend to engage in good faith. If you feel obliged to argue with a stone, that's on you, but some of us have better things to do with our time.

> The point, obviously, is that if you can be a woman just by claiming to be one, you should be able to be non-transphobic just by claiming to be.

If you dress like a non-transphobic person and act like a non-transphobic person for years, and get a government certificate accompanied by a doctor's note that you're not trans-phobic, and you've been taking anti-transphobia medication for years... well why in the world would that NOT be sufficient?
70% of weapond being diverted is a pretty bold claim. Can you back that up with a source?
> Wouldn't that just make the party louder as well, resulting in the same situation?

If everyone was using a naive version of what's described: maybe?

If only a handful of people were using it: probably not.

And I'm sure you could exploit human psychology to engineer some way to keep the party as quiet on average as before.

(Slightly related, I heard of some gadget that projects someone's speech back at them with a slight delay. The effect is said to be so unnerving that untrained people stop talking altogether, or only haltingly. It's apparently been used to shut down protestors.)
In Australia it's not possible [1] to get SIM cards without identification. So getting on the radar of the security folks at your telco could easily end with you never being able to use that telco again.

[1] Perhaps it is but I don't know of a way.
Big fan of Black Soldier Fly farming and there are efforts with grasshoppers. Not sure the featured article (TFA) issue extends beyond the few people working in production (increasingly automated [1]) because the output is a dry meal flour.

This, Seaweeds, and directed precise fermentation are a big part of the 10B+ people solution.

[1] https://www.rebelnews.com/worlds_largest_cricket_farm_finish...
It's good that we don't have to eat the bugs. Pods are still on the menu though.
I know it's a silly thing to point out, but I really enjoyed your typo in the second line in the context of that world view being incongruent with reality. We can't even type it as a society.
You could also just move to a more sensible country?
Extremely probable as well as extremely dangerous outcome. Analogous to the risk of ruin in finance, not simply an undesirable out probability.

Should we not believe the research above to contain 1/3 insects tested carried pathogenic parasites? Does this not strike you as extreme. Potentially an order or orders of magnitude more dangerous?
Sounds like expensive version of the Philippines :)
I think both of you are wrong. There is room for both idealism and pragmatism in this world. We don't have to choose a single path. In fact the tension between the two paths helps keep both of them dynamic and alive.
Good. My grandfather always had a hearing aid. My father needed one. And based on the way I need to go, "huh?" and make everyone repeat what they say to me a second time, I will need one. I don't need a doctor to tell me I can't hear well.
Aren't they normally resistive screens? They don't have the same issues in wet weather as capacitive screens do.
The Land of the Free often ain't so.

Wait until you hear that Kinder Surprise are banned there, too.
On Linux I use Postscript with a PPD from https://www.canon.com.au/support/sims-content?pid=e3b6d5519f...

Most Canons also understand PCL6 too. I guess you've checked your own machine though.
Don't we already have this with bebtelovimab which the FDA authorized?
> Extra hassle of interaction with a second company other than your bank

Nearly every (probably every) bank issues credit cards (they'll ultimately be Visa or MC, but cobranded by your bank) if you want to get everything from one place.

> Fees. The whole point of credit cards - for the CC companies of course - is fees.

What fees? There are no fees. In fact there are nearly always cash back (or points, or something) that benefit you.

Sure, the merchant pays CC fees, but those are bundled in the price of the item so you'll be paying those even if you pay cash. So might as well use a credit card and get all the legal protections that only credit cards guarantee + some cash back.
> by giving human populations such artificial resistances (non-live vaccines) we run the risk of selecting for viruses that are even harder for even our own immune systems to detect and destroy

I can put your fears to bed. That shouldn't happen. How vaccines work is they teach a very specific signature to our bodies so it can be destroyed as soon as it appears. . Therefore, any selection pressure would just be to not have that signature. But, since that signature is only valuable because it is recognized, there's no great loss if it becomes meaningless. So no supervirus issues. This is different from overusing antibiotics, because the selection there is not on signatures, but instead a more general "robustness" to the poison (well, poison to the bacteria).
Nix 3 has a dead simple, builtin CLI frontend for doing this with built packages: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...

It uses dockerTools: https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers/blob/master/flake.nix

maybe a bundler can be added that uses OCI tools, thus providing such a wrapper and giving a nice CLI for it
Especially when said iPhone assemblers aren't even complaining about their work conditions as much as some clueless American... if one is going to complain, complain about one's own conditions, or something one actually knows about...
I'm betting they'll come up with something "good enough" eventually. The pending Pro supposedly has significantly improved audio capabilities so that may help make it happen.
It is essentially a checksum for transactions. You record where money came from and where it went to. All those entries should balance out to zero if you have recorded them correctly. If you haven't, you can detect an error because you'll have more money going in than going out or vice versa.
Alternatively, why don't researchers just take investment in place of grants?
I figure it's implied "no one in this conversation", since outside of this conversation agile and waterfall have both been described in every possible way.

Waterfall "as it should be" was presented as a flawed model: In reality there is no competent team, using waterfall or otherwise, that relies perfect estimates and I wouldn't insult anyone by claiming they're doing so.
Cool idea!

FYI in DuckDuckGo, you can use

!g for google

!b for bing

!y for yahoo

!w for wikipedia

!r for reddit

and a few thousand more, covering pretty much any larger search engine, wiki, or reference:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang
That's because it's just wrong, like everything from the docs of ledger and its descendants (and every "accounting for developers" article, except surprisingly not TFA here!), and accountants are just correct to use unsigned numbers.

A credit entry is a source, and a debit entry is a sink. When I do $4000 worth of consulting services work for Joe Bloggs, this gets entered as a $4000 credit to Income - Consulting Services (the source of the flow of funds), and a $4000 debit to Accounts Receivable (the destination of the flow of funds). Income, here, represents the outside world from the perspective of my business. Later, the receivable becomes cash when Mr Bloggs writes me a check, so I credit Accounts Receivable $4000 and debit cash (actually something like Assets - Coolbank Business Checking) $4000.
Perhaps, I haven't been personally involved in a university lab looking for grant money so I don't know if they would turn down a grant if it required that any patentable work be also licensed to the grantor organization.

And to be clear, I don't expect this situation to change any time soon. Just annoyed by it.
Everyone did. The COVID vaccines were developed in like a month. The rest of that time was careful human testing.
I'm not an ISP but I assume your previous IP addresses aren't released immediately so you could end up impacting the ISP's business by using up too many IP addresses.

If they notice, you might get banned. You could argue that you're not violating the terms of service but it wouldn't get you very far.
The US was founded on tax evasion, it's time to do your patriotic duty
So, it seems to me, you are saying that we should not be taking any notice of anything clearly stated in the Agile Manifesto. Next time someone says to me "Don't bother telling me about the real work, just keep the ticket time spent updated", I'll keep that in mind. (A real quote from an Professional Agile Practitioner to me).
Where I work, IT owns laptops, and is not a part of engineering. Getting things installed on new laptops is apparently not possible. On the other hand, a cloud instance (either this or something similar) is owned by engineering, so it's much easier to control the base image and such.
I'd be willing to bet that many who complain about "labor conditions" being too poor would still rather preserve a $200 discount on their phone instead. But having come from poverty, most people complaining about labor conditions on behalf of poor people have never experienced poverty themselves. It's possible for a capitalist society to have actors that willfully exploit people, but it is not the default that simply employing the poorest people equates to exploitation. People are just whiny that jobs are being lost to someone poorer.