skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Editing code is easy; there's myriad editors, including Emacs of course, that can do this. But there aren't many tools to track bibliography, your agenda, email, notes, and writing. But Emacs can easily do all of that, and much more.

There is a certain ilk that prefers to tinker with their tools, until they are just the right shape, versus those who learn to compensate for quirks in their tools. Emacs is definitely quirky, but its strength is it handling your manic desire for total workflow integration.
Aha! Ok, I understand now.
Got Sequoia’s name on their site though didn’t it?
> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

Perhaps you should give these a read and edit your comment accordingly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Although in my defense Macs -especially ones powerful enough to be fun - were unattainable expensive for me from childhood through the late 90s.
Putting Z-Library on IPFS
difference in view between qualatative & quantitative usage; NP vs. P type problem(s).
> We know exactly what happens because it's been attempted.

When have we ever had a government-run social network before? And why aren't physical, offline public squares full of screaming bigots?
> In all those cases, everybody thought they were very clear. I now work in Japan, and what Japanese would call very clear is very different from what we would consider clear in Europe or the US.

There was an anecdote (non-verified story) about this going around a few years ago.

A Big Company in Japan was expecting the big boss to come in and tell them what the plans were for the next year. A meeting was arranged with the smaller bosses. Big boss told them the plan and everyone just nodded and agreed that it was a great plan.

Big boss leaves.

There is a second meeting among the small bosses where they try to figure out wtf did big boss actually mean with his speech. It is culturally frowned upon to ask questions or admit you don't understand.
Sorry - just had to clarify elsewhere too so I obviously wasn't clear... I meant in situations where the backend MX has a mailbox which matches to mail recipient as in the case where you're running your own mail server and would like Cloudflare sat in fonrt of it just like they sit in front of your own webserver.

Obviously if there's any recipient address trranslation in play forwarding becomes necessary.
According to themselves, they've lost 150 million: https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/1590522718650499073
There are all kinds of blow-ups in Newtonian mechanics and in other equations of physics. The singularity at the center of a black hole in general relativity is a famous example. The ultraviolet catastrophe in classical thermodynamics was another. The presumption is that blow-ups in an equation indicate a mismatch between the equation and the true physical world, telling physicists to look for better theories, whose equations don't blow up. For the ultraviolet catastrophe, the mystery was solved through the discovery of quantum mechanics. For GR, it is still unsolved, and the solution is expected to come from a theory of quantum gravity that hasn't yet been invented, but is the target of tons of research.

Here's a cool expository article about blow-ups in classical mechanics and elsewhere: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421
let me guess, one of these "living poor dying rich" advice?

of so, I highly recommend to watch this video: https://youtu.be/Baw0N7B-jV4
Sounds like extremely reliable Chinese whispers.

He said that she said that he heard that she said that he was planning to do it.

Obviously it was him!
Does the tech field seem to be highly represented in the T part of LGBT? I can’t count how many times I’ve see a woman’s name as the maintainer of some software and thought, wow it’s awesome to see a woman working on something as low-level or esoteric or whatever and it almost always ends up being a trans woman. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, just an observation.
It’s too bad there’s no way to use hybrid approaches or use some kind of learning, but for machines! No heuristics to rank and prioritize content.

We better tell every big tech company that what they’ve been doing forever is impossible to do if they don’t also de platform those deplorables.
There are plenty of crypto exchanges still accepting deposits. If you enjoy their philanthropy so much you are welcome to invest your life savings into any of them in hopes of getting rich quick and respecting their reallocation of your funds, having learned nothing from history and from the present of FTX's collapse. If you really want to prove your dedication to the cause I await your screen shots of said deposits showing that you put your money where your mouth is.
Personally, I think it's a huge issue that many people are terrified of power. That drive just goes underground and comes out likely in unhealthy ways then whether it's self-denial or self-righteousness (aka canceling) others. How to address the problem of self-delusion is through wisdom practices and caring for others.

I also trained at the same place as Tasshin (hi tasshin!)

MLK Jr. also addressed the same phenomenon:

"Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.

It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience. "

http://www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2011/01/dr-martin-luther-k...
Notion?

https://www.notion.so/
The example you've provided actually does not support you argument, just the opposite.

People 'typically' have two arms?

Well they 'typically' also have two legs, a sense of smell, sight, hearing, a heart, two lungs, the ability to speak.

What exactly can we expect all 'humans' to have? And how can we refer to them without making any assumptions whatsoever about their state of being so as to be 'inclusive' as you say?

It's a Monty Python sketch of absurdity and will end up with people slapping others in the face with fish.

Aside from probably using 'they' or 'them' in some cases in which we didn't tend to before, language as we use it is perfectly fine in almost all cases. It never will perfectly encompass everyone and that's fine, it doesn't have to.
Decades ago my very very bright HCI prof commissioned a psyc study for a database we were building for some biologists next door, you know so we could better address their needs in ways that would be useful to them.
Details are pretty fuzzy anymore but they proved correct many times over.

Things the study said would not work never worked i.e.
biologists wanted "temporarily" private data, say until till published
as psyc predicted they would never freely share it.

but the biggest thing I will try to paraphrase:

Biology is an observational, the work is in interpreting
which lends to group dynamics and politics, leaders ect.

Which is at odds with Math/CS which is constructive
where if something can be proved then that is that.

So when a CS person states a fact from their perspective
a biologist might see it as just another opinion subject
to hierarchical ranking.

So I would argue it is a function the individuals proclivities
and correlated training in the cultural environment they end up in.

So a healthy work environment could value both fact and opinion
where each has a complementary role whether academic or industry.

But as a longtime academic, I am now sadly looking towards industry.
This brings up another good point. While someone absolutely 100% has the right to identify as whichever gender feels right to them, it is also 100% unacceptable to hide that when you are dating.

That is a good argument for not trying so hard to overload the same terms.
Well, I hope I can prove them wrong. xD
Great question.

Compare, say, Brad Pitt to Bill Gates. Or The Rock to Peewee Herman. There are differences between how closely those people fit the archetypal mold of "manly".

I'm comfortable saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger is manlier than I am. He ticks more of the boxes we associate with "man", culturally. He's muscular, successful, attractive, tough, etc. I've got a bit of a spare tire, I'm pretty soft, etc.

He and I both are male, and about the same degree of male. We both have penises, etc.

In this way we can use "man" to describe our features that are culturally associated (ruggedness, toughness, cigars and whiskey, etc.) from the biological features (penis, testicles, body hair, etc.)
I think this is how most people use Twitter, especially if they go so far as to install any extensions which block ads, clear CSS, etc. - I use Minimal Twitter which has been pretty good. The only time I see posts from people I'm not following is when someone I do follow is responding, quote-tweeting, or retweeting.

If you use Twitter as is, there are a lot of things promoted for you but it's not any sort of public feed, it's (theoretically) based on who people you follow follow, who they like tweets from consistently, that sort of thing. No Viagra ads are going to be showing up in that.
Can you clarify of how EFF abandoned their core mission?

From what I see, EFF was not public on why Gilmore was removed. According to wikipedia, Gilmore described the parting as amicable, so probably the decision of EFF is not too strongly opposed to core value of Gilmore himself.

For the rest, apparently, there are just rumors.
Some of those rumors are funny. For example, I've seen things like "I think it was because Gilmore sided with Applebaum. This is scandalous, because Gilmore was just doing the correct thing of refusing to accuse people just based on rumors. So, I therefore declare that EFF is a big bad evil, I accuse them, just based on rumors"
There's no convincing people that have left rationality behind. All of these types of conspiracy theory movements operate the same way. They pull people away from rationality and convince them that rational discourse are attacks against them.

It's little different than how cults operate. They go after marginalized (or convince people they have been marginalized) and prey on their insecurities and desire for belonging.
Most languages have some kind of isNaN(value) method in my experience. Even C and C++ have an isnan method (C since ±1999, but other platforms had the macro before: https://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/blob/HEAD:/sysdeps/ieee754/db...)

People do probably rely on NaN ≠ NaN but I think that's more of a side effect of compatibility than anything else.
Kinda like how it would be stupid for Russia to engage in a war with Ukraine. They'd never do something that dumb.
The better question is: why is Elon lying about it, and shouldn’t we care about that? Not having a degree is not evidence of a character flaw. Lying about having one to everybody for over two decades indicates a deep sociopathy.

Fact is that the myth of Elon Musk depends on him being a nerd with technical and scientific chops. Claiming to have degrees and to have been accepted into a PhD at Stanford is the foundation of that myth. It’s the height of fraud.
It almost happened: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
What's the third gender?

What's it called? What's an example of a person of that gender?

What gametes do they have? What chromosomes?
Every so often I re-read Bret's post to see what I can add to our learning environment. We use CodeMirror as our editor so we have pop-over help, color syntax highlighting and an optional autocomplete (optional because feedback from teachers was that it was too distracting).

We have a 'fluid' turtle that allows for the learner to follow execution to a point, although we do need to add in the ability to see which line of code is being executed at any given time, and the ability to control the execution speed better, maybe with a slider.

We're currently implementing (based on teacher feedback) a series of graduated environments where each 'level' unlocks more IDE features and primitives. For example, this is 'artSpace', a 2D environment (we also have a 3D environment):

https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo/?profile=artspace
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The difference is very clear. One is saying whatever you want to say under your own public identity or under a pseudonym. The other is pretending that someone else is saying something. It's not 'lying about your identity', that's a miscasting. It's pretending someone else is saying things that they are not. Free speech does not include fraudulently pretending that other people are saying things that they have not / would not say. Claiming that Free Speech must include this is intellectually dishonest and intellectually uninteresting as an argument.
This is a really good question, it would be good to hear trans men's perspective on this, and some statistics about the topic
This problem is as old as time and was really prevalent in IRC channels relating to software a few decades ago.

Some friendly individual put up a site to explain the issue to newbies: https://xyproblem.info
Quite interesting take on communism
Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook?
I'm sure many have heard of Storybook [0]. I've used it pretty much since the start from ~2016 (back when Angular was cargo-culting it like mad). I've always had generally negative experiences with it:

1) Messy Javascript API resulting in inexpressive storybook files, particularly for big frameworks like Angular and big components.

2) Slow AF with webpack/terser/etc. And that's before you start bolting on crazy addons like compodoc.

3) Tries to solve so many different problems (just a subjective opinion of mine).

4) Insane levels of "framework magic", particularly when I've used it with Angular, but also in other scenarios too.

---

So, I wanted to ask HN to gauge the appetite for a similar but not same kind of Storybook:

1) Extremely expressive Javascript API. Think Jest.

2) Go CLI (allowing direct interface with ESBuild, etc.).

3) ESBuild-centric (rather than webpack, or worse, addons [1]).

4) Typescript-centric (rather than seeming like an after-thought).

5) Much less framework magic (think React, Redux, etc. Stick mostly to simple explicit JS behaviors).

6) Probably a lot more that haven't come to mind yet.

Before I go any further with it, it would be amazing to hear what you guys think about all of this. What are your thoughts about Storybook? Too much tech debt for them to modernize? Am I just being silly and picky about Storybook? Am I the crazy one?

I just think it would be amazing to have a frontend workshop app with the speed of esbuild, the expressiveness of jest and cypress, the elegance of React.

Thanks HN!

[0] https://storybook.js.org/

[1] https://storybook.js.org/addons/storybook-addon-turbo-build
I have a conviction that blockchain can do a lot more good than just cryptocurrency if implemented carefully.
I agree that you shouldn't treat word definitions as fixed. That being said, I believe that people who have been using "woman" to mean "adult female human" their entire lives but can no longer do this while having their meaning understood have a legitimate grievance.

> Woman (and man) as terms are evolving in their use to mean "the roles we expect people to fill based on their sex".

It is for example by no means universal that we do expect people of a certain sex to fulfil a certain role. And many people explicitly reject that definition of gender for themselves because they have no intention of fulfilling the role. For these people to then be told that it is the definitional meaning of their gender identity seems... no better than telling trans people they aren't the gender they identify as.
You'll notice that that document has a concept of reserves that are 'too high' - see for example section 4.2 the heading "Where a charity’s reserves appear to be too high
".

I looked up Let's Encrypt on Wikipedia by the way because I didn't remember that being a Mozilla thing - they don't appear to come under the umbrella of the Mozilla Foundation financially and their budget is $3.6 million according to the sidebar, and a literal rounding error if we stick to integer percentage points of Mozilla's revenue.
The relevant example to this article in particular is the move from "we're against online censorship" to "we're against online censorship of viewpoints we agree with".
I have two friends that wiped out on stand up electric scooters resulting in knee injuries. And actually another that did the same on a gas powered one. So I'm thinking these things are generally unsafe.
Interesting. I have a few bits and pieces on my Workspace domains to automate mail processing using Google Apps Script so will have to see if I can move that over to Cloudflare. Be nice to extend the functionality to non-GMail inboxes. Thanks for the heads up.
Not with that attitude they won’t!
> Hormones help regulate the brain and there are sex differences in the hormones.

Does every cell in every body react to hormones etc. the same way? There are differences between each and every person on the planet in terms of how each cell in their body reacts to things like hormones, neurotransmitters, and other signaling molecules that manifest either subtly or extremely. Anything from a person's height to their temperament to their hunger (literally, or figuratively e.g drive) can vary based on the production of and reception of these transmitters, and every single person's body varies in every facet of the above based on environmental and genetic considerations.

> I have a hard time believing that someone can be in the wrong body, as the brain is a part of the body.

That's an empathy thing.
Well, math / computational power for simple, static protein modeling is horendus.
A more appropriate way of putting was

"chucking up feathers up your cloaca doesn't make you a chicken"
It's more that the tech industry is recovering from centuries of raising women to avoid engineering roles.
I have wasted a lot of time building a two sided marketplace for gigs, that was the biggest thing i regret, that i kept trying for much too long of a time
Exactly. Quite interesting though.
The point of turning off the gas is to demonstrate the point that you can turn it off *or on*. That you have control over it.

Whats the point of turning off the gas as leverage if it *stays off*? That would be no leverage at all.
No, read it again more carefully. They’ve selected colours from the subset of RGB that is representable with 12-bits.

> The palette uses a 12-bit colour depth, so each colour requires only four characters when specified as a hexadecimal colour code in a css or svg file:

Four hexadecimal characters is twelve bits. The colours they’ve chosen can be represented precisely in a 12-bit colour space. Get what they mean?

It’s further confirmed again in the article:

> Using a 12-bit colour depth limits the available colours, so slight changes to hue, chroma, and luminance must be made, but these are small enough not to be noticeable.

How could it ‘limit the available colours’ unless this was their meaning?
I know the industry has moved on to WebAssembly, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that I just recently finished a personal project to compile an arbitrary NodeJS script in QuickJS and call the code from C - all* in a statically or dynamically linked library, no support files.

In case anyone is interested in calling JS from old school C-supported languages, check it out: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/determine-basal-native

It's specific to my application but could easily be reused with a few tweaks.

* Mostly all, the last step is to store the ESM JS script text in an object file and link it in, which I'm still working on.
I doubt that is 100% true in either direction. People, especially non geeks can be duped into thinking something is secure
> Some people who give birth aren't women. Those people are also cool, whether they are men, non binary, agender, or whatever else.

> Can we not just let people be who they are and recognize gender minorities do exist? Acknowledging the existence of trans men doesn't reduce the incredible experiences of any woman who gives birth (or doesn't!)

I understand both sides of this argument, I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to a different conclusion than you. Being a man or a woman is a brute fact. It has nothing to do with identity. Only women give birth.

What bothers me is not our disagreement but that my view has been labeled "hateful" or "problematic".
Agreed. And the whole “derived from petroleum” == “tastes like gasoline” thing is so dumb. Pretty much every chemical we make comes from petroleum feedstock. Most of them don’t taste much like gasoline.
On which blockchain is this? i.e., which project? Any links?
Atoms are binary in your model, every atom is hydrogen or helium, or an exception?

I believe that we can be inclusive of those exceptions and treat them as unique things that are within the definition, rather than placing them outside the definition. I would rather spend the energy to evolve definitions to include people rather than tell people they are marginalia.

It sounds like you disagree.
> Intersex folks [...] now have clearer literature to work from.

Whoa! The gender spectrum is absolutely unrelated to sex. Intersex people already had clear literature.

A person with one disorder of male sexuality as just as male as a person with a different disorder or even none at all. Sex is binary even if we have a hard time seeing it or measuring it sometimes, or even if the answer is different in two places (Chimerism) etc.

Intersex has been colonized by stuffing it into "the alphabet", largely as we see here in the service of transgender ideology, and this is vastly unfair to the people with DSDs - as stigma and ignorance are often their greatest enemies.

This is why LGB Alliance is trying to separate homosexuality and sex-based rights issues from gender and identity rights issues.
> Does the tech field seem to be highly represented in the T part of LGBT? I can’t count how many times I’ve see a woman’s name as the maintainer of some software and thought, wow it’s awesome to see a woman working on something as low-level or esoteric or whatever and it almost always ends up being a trans woman. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, just an observation.

Possibly, or also possibly likely that people are more likely to come out when they feel less constrained to societal expectations (i.e there may be more LGBTQIA+ who are closeted outside of tech because of nonconformity-related fears). Whether it's one or the other (or both), these populations have always gravitated towards tech because tech was always the outcast thing to do.
I have been doing all these horribly, scandalously abusive things all my life and have yet to replace a manual gearbox or have a throwout bearing fail prematurely (or at all).