skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Africa has full legal protections for trans people, including permitting gender reassignment surgery without government interference and allowing them to apply to change the gender markers in their identity documents and the national population registry.

Discrimination against trans people for their gender identity is illegal, and the hate speech laws consider gender identity to be a protected category. [0]

It's true that a proportion of the population is conservative and does not agree with this or with LGBTQ rights in general, but that's true of any population.

[0] https://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/wp-content/up...
In my childhood, one of the lighter-colored classmate justified the reason for supremacy of lighter-colored people providing black/white-based language as an evidence. These included the words black-list and white-list. Because of these rhetoric that is ingrained in children (who might later grow up without challenging them), I have always supported getting rid of these kinds of language.

Context: I am from a place where both darker-colored people and lighter-colored people exist. Here in my country, lighter-colored people are considered better than darker-colored people. I am a darker-skinned person.
It stops when they reach the end of the euphemism treadmill. There is no goal here, only the desire to be seen to be doing something. When you reward people for catching rats, they don't kill all the rats, as then there won't be any rats to catch next season.

Except that 'treadmills' were used as punishment devices in prisons, so the preferred alternative is 'euphemism exercise machine'. Except that "exercise" is ableist and so the real preferred alternative is...
Most of the high-end VFX/CG industry uses Linux for both workstations and render farm nodes. Some studios like Pixar allow a bit more flexibility to some artists in certain roles (generally those that don't work in the pipeline that much - i.e. concept artists) to use other software / OSs, but otherwise it's mostly Linux.

Smaller studios use Windows/Mac a bit more (boutiques use Macs the most), but the removal of the Xserve and the lack of competitiveness in the MacPro for several years have shifted some away from Mac.
No, but I did think about it on a sleepless night ounce. Drones were not around when Google started street view. If they launched today, id envision a 'charging & control van' and several AI drones.
Wow sounds amazing
That's a good story, but according to Wikipedia this etymology was invented after the fact and isn't the real origin of the term (which is somewhat obscure.)
A Grump
Probably in countries with intersections where the turns lack signals. In the Netherlands most of the time you can't even tell which colour the other signals have, because they point in the direction of the oncoming traffic they are for and have a cover that blocks light leaking out beyond that.
The numbers that really matter, though, are given later in the opening paragraph:

> Twitter, which lost $221m in 2021, is now on track to lose $4bn a year, by one estimate.

The challenge is turning those new engagement statistics into dollars.
Debunked? Source. Also I think the word ‘debunked’ has lost all meaning in the last decade.
The actual report by the FCA: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/final-notices/tsb-bank-pl...
I did a walking tour of Bruges the other week and heard an interesting story about salt. Salt was a valuable commodity and could function as currency, carrying it around was risky and impractical. So there was a guild house that became a place where you could store your salt and get given a little note about how much salt they owed you. Later on if you wanted to exchange the value of your salt with someone else it became more practical to swap the little notes directly rather than trek down to the salt house and swap physical salt so people started doing that. Boom, paper money. I find all these kind of stories fascinating.
I do know that Fortran is a lot bigger than Scipy, I was just mentioning that it's "so important and relevant (still)" that it powers the whole "Data Science" Python world.

I have no sources for my claim, just complete gut feeling. I'd bet my lunch that there are more new systems started in Java than COBOL. But I'm happy to be proven wrong and fast until dinner :)
What was the game? I bought Steam Deck this October and my first impression was nothing but - holly fucking shit it works! This is because after many years of tweaking Wine to run what could be described old school games, I have already given up on the idea that Linux could be ever used for gaming, boy I am glad I was wrong, thanks Valve for Proton.
I’ve had plenty of bosses/organization leaders in my life change without the amount of chaos that Twitter seems to be experiencing. What’s happening at Twitter doesn’t seem normal or desired.
Not my main bank so this did not affect me badly but their online (web based) banking portal is still glitchy and not very good.
I feel like they've tried to add bike lanes, but there's generally a lot more hills to climb in the inner city, and the culture is more anti-cyclist.

I moved to Melbourne a few years ago and the infrastructure, elevation and culture is much friendlier towards cyclists.
Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.
This is part of https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...

It lets WeChat revoke tokens that GitHub finds in public repositories.
Wake me when even elite Chinese call out and stop using the term "老外“ ("clueless foreigner whom [go the nuances] I can hold in humorous contempt and take advantage of at will").
> Outdated, now-offensive terms like "hermaphrodite"

Is there anything outdated if you talk about e.g. a hermaphroditic tree? I thought this was still the standard term in biology for species which practice sexual reproduction and normally or frequently have individuals with both kinds of reproductive organs, either simultaneously or alternately.
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Tencent already had access to all your public repositories? They're public.
> In other words, Tencent now has access to all of your public repositories.

They already did. That's what public means. This is just an optimization to make it harder for WeChat access tokens to be inadvertently compromised without getting noticed.

If you're worried about the Chinese government having inappropriate influence over or access to various things outside China, that's in general a valid concern indeed, but facilitating credential scanning in public repositories really doesn't seem worrying.
When things were easy Elon Musk said that his concept of free speech means anything that's legal, and that all else was censorship.

But when billions were at stake, Elon's concept of free speech transformed: no shitting on Coke or Nestle because that makes Twitter risky to brands, no swastika by Kanye even though it's technically legal, no offhand mention of Mastodon because that's where some users are exiting to. And when reporters shit on Elon during a live voice chat, Elon swiftly removed the feature from the entire site.

This coming from a guy who thinks it's fair play to repeatedly accuse a rescue worker of pedophilia during a deadly rescue mission, even going as far to clarify that he specifically means sex with underaged Thai boys.
> and is often implied as feminine

> his noble aim is apparently silencing criticism from women.

Lol as someone living in the UK, the term "scold" as a verb or noun has never in my life managed to imply "woman". Ever.

You're just looking for things that aren't there
Wait, what?

So any string (which Github deems an access token) is forwarded to Tencent?

Or will Tencent share all their current access tokens with github?
We need to revisit this discussion when Chinese and Indian revenues are at Western levels.

If you take this:

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-detai...

and plot it against a GDP per capita data source, they're basically aligned.
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I think by now it's a reasonable requirement for contributors to use a virtualenv when working on a project
Good for you for being honest about your age -- I was never so virtuous.

As others have pointed out, this is due to COPPA. Use a foreign service, host your own, or get creative. Personally I'd say that hosting your own is probably your best, if not your cheapest option, as it'll teach you plenty about running a server, and ultimately, could be done on a pretty minimal spare machine (raspberry pi), if not right on your main system. You can get a free hostname redirect from a service like No-IP to access it with a dynamic IP if you're trying to access it from outside of your home network.

As much as COPPA does have some negative side effects, it's not getting repealed any time soon -- companies are still collecting WAY too much information about children, including the under 13 crowd, mostly under the same argument Pornhub tried using ("the uploader SAID the content was legal"), and then happily reaping the financial benefits of having collected it. Perhaps having a tier of under 13 rules allowing reduced use could work, but the legal system is picking its battles here, and making sure kids have access to online services just isn't a priority.
It'll be interesting to see if he holds that view over the longer term.
One way to do this over large distances is the bank of Alice and the bank of Bob meet and exchange papers/signatures/codes in advance, enough to do a years worth and then they can verify each other’s cheques
until the next exchange. They could settle in gold.

For fraud prevention this system might allow for a “personal identification number” for the cheque to be memorised.
Those people are called invalids and they can travel. Please use the correct term.[1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_carriage
"It is high time someone wrote this list to finally put an end to the commonly accepted and pervasive use of the words 'retard' and 'jewed' in academia."

Does this make sense to you?
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"Spade" can mean "black person". Although I'm not sure whether it's considered offensive and I've never heard anyone use it to mean "black person" in real life... was it more common in the past?

Edit: I just remembered one place I've heard it: in the lyrics to the song "Everyone has AIDS" from the movie Team America. "The gays and the straights and the whites and the spades / everyone has AIDS!"
What does it offer over Neocities? How is it monetized?
Those "new engagements" are gone already .. they were the watering hole chatter of the World Cup, and they happened on Twitter as Twitter hasn't yet cratered.

The question of interest here is what will be the global water cooler come the next World Cup?
It's where the term "salary" came from, if I'm not mistaken. Roman thing?
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Yep.

The thing is you don't "drink" the stock (lou mei) because it's too salty. So the solid foods are taken out without much of the liquid, and when you've served all the food in a batch, you're left with ~50% volume of the stock. It's still flavorful, arguably even more so since it absorbed the other food flavors in addition to the original spices etc. So if you're operating a restaurant, you just keep the liquid, replenish it with a bit more spices and condiments, and use it again and again...
There's also the fact that the kid who is enough of a dope(/trusting/rule and authority abiding) to not know he can lie on the form is also the most likely to be victimized by adults online.

This is a similar selection effect to misspelled Nigerian prince emails, so I'd say it's a pretty good mechanism actually.
Literally "trigger warning" is on this list with the note "The phrase can cause stress about what's to follow. Additionally, one can never know what may or may not trigger a particular person."

This is not a serious publication.
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That probably has very little to do with it. The immediate cause of all the problems was that Lloyds TSB was forcibly split up in order to try and increase competition and the Lloyds half kept the IT department, and when the TSB half tried to move over to the existing IT platform of their new parent company everything broke.
I do this with librespot on my always-on Pi running Kodi. Works well. It's the only reason I bother with Spotify. The instant it stops working, I cancel my Spotify subscription.
Or elementist (Silicon vs. carbon)
'Perspective' is a visual phenomenon, and therefore its use is offensive to the blind.
Crochety might also work.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
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I use Jellyfin [0] server on pi with tailscale, So I can access all media anywhere (DLNA also), and I can use DAC for high-res music (Android: USB Audio Player Pro [1]) as well.

[0]: https://jellyfin.org/

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd....
It's a form of Stockholm syndrome and a coping mechanism against immense, inescapable pain. It's the 4th F of trauma coping mechanisms: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn.

When something is very painful and inescapable you can: Fight it, run away from it (not talk about it, ignore it, pretend it's not there or won't happen, mentally distract away from it with constant stimulation), freeze (dissociate, numbness, ie shut down emotions, be stoic, feel nothing or little) or fawn (appease, please, embrace the pain in order to feel a sense of control over it, believe it's good, you want it or is positive in some way, thereby releasing yourself from the torment of powerlessness+pain).
This is it! Thanks!!!

https://github.com/markm208/storyteller

https://markm208.github.io/stDemo/playback.html?view=code
Well, I've wondered about that. Isn't it odd that black Americans have a comparatively low suicide rate, whereas native Americans have a sky-high one?

I have wondered if maybe at least some suicides are about a disconnect between what you're actually able to do, and what people expect of you.

It's obviously bad if people hate you and expect no good to come of you. But there's an additional horror when you're given an impossible task, and people expect you to do it - indeed, when they're actually genuinely disappointed in you when you can't. It's like in Kafka's "The transformation": the real horror isn't that Samsa wakes up and finds that he's turned into a giant cockroach. It's his family's reaction: how could you do this to us? How could you put us in this situation?

I'm thinking maybe that stereotypical image of the noble, brave Indian with his great wisdom, connection to nature, unbreakable spirit - something you'd want to live up to, who wouldn't? - is especially cruel in the face of the material realities of first nation communities.
Isn't Stanford in the US, where people are very trigger-happy?

I've found that various American courses and certifications are very explicit, a lot more than non-American ones, for example European ones.

Then someone told me: they're afraid that if they don't include the absolute basics, someone will complain/sue/whatever about having been presented the basic concept, so that's why their education is incomplete or why they failed their certification exam.

This basically aligns with the same logic, saying this as an outside observer.

The US is <<full>> of defensive behavior, if you look at it as an outsider.
Doctor’s borrowed the title from academics. They didn’t even have it first.
A kvetch. If you need a word for something/someone annoying, unreasonable, unpleasant, lazy, cantankerous or absurd, Yiddish is here for you.
Fraud is limited to lying in specific circumstances. For political figures, the deliberate misrepresentation of truth is currently a tool and that should not be allowed, since democracy relies on a well informed and educated electorate.
Any string that matches access token regexp provided by Tencent (see https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...).
An old tactic to discredit an opponent and suppress norms of free speech. It goes like this:

"Thing that is not violence is violence."

Voilà. You wouldn't want to endorse violence, would you?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spade

Meaning 3: "A black person"
> Immortality

If your body is not damaged enough. It would mean a lot of people would become really risk averse. If generalized it would fossilize a society really fast.
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Yeah I still don’t think that’s harm. Feeling offended is not harm. It’s just information about the world. Learning that someone has prejudices or is rude or just careless about their speech does not harm you.
I like https://northflank.com/
He doesn't care about anything or anybody other than himself, and will do and say whatever benefits himself in each situation. He has no morals and no principles.
> Crypto is a new innovation. People have been able to buy prohibited items as far back as there has been prohibited items. Crypto doesn't change anything there.

If it didn't change anything then by the same token it wouldn't help people in oppressive regimes.

> Finding out that somebody used crypto to buy something that harmed your family shouldn't make you dislike crypto. Bad people will get a hold of weapons regardless.

Security is always a tradeoff. You can't make it impossible to get hold of weapons, but you can make it harder, and that matters at the margin.
Yep. I really hope that the Steam Deck line will be a smashing success going forwards. Because Valve has set the whole thing up exactly in the way that most benefits the broader industry and consumers as whole as opposed to extracting all the value for themselves, and it would be great if this was actually rewarded.
As long as we're going down that route, end-of-life medical care is also quite costly.

I wonder: With economies of scale, could cryonics actually become cheaper than end-of-life medical care? Currently the ballpark cost of cryonics is similar to health insurance: https://www.alcor.org/membership/

It wouldn't shock me if cryopreserving terminally ill people would save money overall, given economies of scale. I would certainly prefer cryopreservation over terminal illness! https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
> even though it's technically legal,

This hits home one of the things I consider to be a problem with the single platform approach.

Swastika's are actually not legal in some parts of the world, in others they're taken as a symbol of peace.

When there is content moderation it feels weirdly totalitarian because the political stances of (say: Europe) are wildly different than the polarised extremes of the USA.

A platform should not moderate content, twitter (and facebook) want the perks of being a platform (being not legally culpable for content moderation) and the perks of being a closed community (strict moderation on issues they perceive as problematic, usually to investors).

This is having your cake and eating it too.

Twitter should not be a platform, it is beholden to a global standard and rules and culture are too diverse.

The same is true with Facebook.
Yes you don’t need that many months of workloads to make a on premise cluster worth it. Surprisingly.
> Words have an effect, but you can choose how to react to them. You cannot be harmed by them unless you choose to allow yourself to feel that way. Your internal mental state is under your control.

Up to a point. You can't control your genes or your upbringing completely, merely suppress it.

Otherwise we wouldn't have trigger words. For sure you have one, too.
At the risk of sounding pedantic or critical (it is but only in the helpful well, I assure you) -- the word 'ridiculous' comes from the Latin 'rideo' which means to laugh, which is in contemporary French 'rire', Italian 'ridere' and English 'ridicule'. It has nothing to do with the color 'red', if that helps you remember that it does not have the word 'red' in it. As well, you can associate 'rideo' with 'video'.
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If aging is cured then the elderly could be fully productive.
Many seem adamant on publishing any idea that can damage Musk, no matter how flawed it is.
CBP provides no code statute under which they have made this declaration so it seems to be more of a scare tactic than at legal opinion. Further given the context to CBP they are also most likely talking about knowingly importing counterfeit products into the US after buying while traveling

That is way way off course from the topic of digital nor does it make it illegal to buy just illegal to import

You have yet to provide the needed statute citation to back your claims that it is either illegal to buy a counterfeit nor how that would apply to the original thesis that it is note illegal to download a copyrighted work only illegal to distribute or upload it
> contradicts their platform and narrative.

There is, however, an objective truth that can be verified independently of whatever "narrative" is being pushed.

And don't forget once that "narrative" being pushed is verified false, it also becomes a misrepresentation of facts.
It’s about power and dictating what good manners are now and a way to determine quickly if someone is of good breeding and worth continuing with much like how groups used other coded language and gestures in the past.
I've got a container running linkding ever since that email trying to convert us old timers to a subscription basis. I figured first would be the polite ask, then later the strong arm.
Only think missing for me for linkding is an android app.
I’m just being reasonable here. It’s _possible_ I might find life that’s thousands of years long interesting, but it’s beyond my current imagination. I’ll be perfectly happy with doubling my lifetime (tripling my productive life?). as a biologist, that sounds more reasonable anyway.
Wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scold%27s_bridle
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> Some new features in the future may require premium membership
True as far as it goes, but "everything broke" as a predictable result of poor decisions they made, such as moving everyone over in one go.
Grinch
Would you settle for the first sentence then?

"Barley, rice, quinoa, amaranth – you name it – can be quickly popped like corn. I just did this and it's delicious!"
The managerial class.
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He should have chosen 'Freax', it's a much better name
Except many people would contend that words can be used violently. For instance the crime of 'assault' requires no physical contact -- you can assault someone by making them fear that you will batter them by using words. I would think of a better argument.
And in czech, "Babi Leto: or "granny summer", like the summer has gotten old, but still bakes you cookies.
In German, "Quatsch" means nonsense.
The government is trying to stop their monopoly from getting bigger via the FTC blocking the Activision acquisition. That's separate from the bill though
> and I can't imagine a world where it doesn't.

We have to start somewhere.
The first monoclonal antibody therapy hit markets decades ago. It still hasn’t percolated to even the middle class in countries like india.

If a drug or therapy truly does extend life span I can also see systems forming where the few want to keep it to themselves and away from the many. One way or another I can’t imagine this being the the top priority of anyone but the most vain (personal opinion) so I would not associate myself with such research is all.