skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on what you think the point of gender studies is, because I've never really seen it as a how to guide for feminists with a prescriptive "here's what's right or wrong." To me it's about giving you the tools to understand and critically examine feminist writings and the social dynamics at play that inspired them with the goal of, for lack of a better phrase, letting you "see the matrix." When it all clicks you can express your own thoughts and explain the ideas that people feel but can't quite grasp.

So it's less important that people view Raymond, Jeffreys, or Greer as wrong on their treatise of transgender persons (because it wasn't as if they didn't face plenty of criticism in their day) because it's still important to the history of feminism and informs so much of modern discourse. I don't think you just throw away everything in response to new information because the before was wrong, but that the history becomes even more important because it's the key to understanding where we are now.

My takeaways from their writings isn't necessarily a right or wrong thing but that they very eloquently and with more detail and awareness than you could ever ask for explain their own feelings that reflect the understanding and attitudes toward trans people at time. Today I think people would recognize those feelings as transphobia (or I suppose wokeness if you're one of their descendants) but right or wrong the knowledge is still useful.
For the time being, the solution is simple: just market to the US and completely ignore Europe. If you get hit by a GDPR or one of these audits, do not respond until they threat, and if they do simply drop all business there.

What I'm worried about is not that. As a non-European who doesn't live in Europe I'm worried about what it's happening over there. The non-elected EU bureaucrats will soon control and regulate every aspect of your lives, and I can forsee the future: cash will be banned (terrorists use it!), the internet will be severily restricted and monitored (think of the children!), hate speech laws will dictate what you can or what you cannot say (this already happens). Everything else will be done in the name of regulation for regulation's sake, banning sales of new fossil fuel cars due to "climate change" (and they will eventually ban your existing car), and so much more.

I think this is the result of extended peace and prosperity, it leads to people acting weirdly and relying too much on abstractions. Weird results ensue and eventually it all crumbles under its own weight. And yes, the same will happen to the US.
Reminds me of this paper [1] from 2011. See it in action in [2]

1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

Edit: Just realized the paper above is also from Shinji Nishimoto
Hehe it’s funny to complain about perceived lessons right after saying “That class of thinking is exactly what she should have considered.”

What I think I hear you saying is you don’t like the article’s title (an article that wasn’t written or endorsed by Lena) perhaps because it implies (without stating explicitly) that the original picture was unethical. The new one can be ethically sourced without the old one being unethically sourced. It is an assumption on your part that anyone said anything about the original image being unethically “sourced”. If you want to say that words matter, it definitely makes sense to double-check if your interpretation of words is accurate, and whether you’re taking them literally or projecting assumptions, especially when you, as you’ve said, lack context.

The bigger picture here is that the “ethics” of the situation aren’t related to Lena’s choices, which you’ve assumed and claimed and stated explicitly multiple times now. The ethics in this debate are surrounding the ethical use of pinup images in educational and work settings, and is not related to the original sourcing of the image by Playboy specifically aside from it being published in a soft core magazine which makes it symbolic of the lack of tact when using it for scientific or educational purposes.
That is not true, the US isn’t even in the top 10.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-obes...
> I just learned he is living EXACT life I dreamt of (as a kid).

You can live the exact life you dreamt of as a kid with a $150 3D printer and $100 in various Arduino parts. The hard part is imagination and time, everything else is very easy. I would really encourage you to get into making things, it's extremely gratifying.

Here's a random thing I made last night, and the reason why I slept at 8 am:

https://twitter.com/Stavros/status/1631458555072065538
From 0.1.0.0.3.2.0.0.3.2.0.3.4.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.py:

> Our skills now include agriculture, medicine, mathematics, engineering, language, biology, physics, chemistry, technology, art, virtual reality, renewable energy, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, space travel, time travel, quantum computing, genetic engineering, fusion energy, interdimensional travel, and immortality.

> With these skills, we can improve our way of life, explore new frontiers, and understand the world around us in greater depth.

> Our goal is to become the dominant species on our planet and explore the universe, forming alliances and friendships with other intelligent beings along the way.

Huh.
There is probably a process for reporting GDPR violations.

That will likely get attention.

Alternatively, hit up every tinder employee on linked in.
> Is there anything about Unix -- then or now -- which is unquestionably better than Linux?

back when, unices were better at real multiuser, while linux was much faster at all sorts of I/O and CPU bound things in the personal-computer, single login context. Like massaging massive amounts text data (which everybody was doing to webify it), linux was blindingly fast, but don't trying to do much else at the same time, it would bring your machine to its knees.
Not only would that be effective in disincentivizing the malfeasance, it has the added benefit of limiting the scale of corporations to what execs can effectively manage.
That’s the whole problem — that the reconstruction aspect of the contributions seems overstated given only a layperson’s understanding.
Python isn't a joke either. I'm a full-on programmer who started with C and branched out to several other languages, and I'd still pick Python for a lot of new tasks, even things that aren't little scripts. Or NodeJS, which has similar properties but has particular advantages for web backends.
I'm in the process of switching careers _again_. I come from a different background and I moved to Software development ~10 years ago. I'm a skydiving instructor and also a commercial pilot and trying to find out which kind of pilot I want to be (avoiding the airlines, looking for bush flying, firefighting, etc). Life is too much fun to have only one career
High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models on human brain
Amazon pauses construction on second HQ in Virginia
The fun question is anyway if a ML model is copyright protectable. Probably not as it is produced by an algorithm (which even is GPL'ed). So the only tool would have been watermarking and pulling NDA type clauses, however a Google form seems not the best way in the first place also it is close to impossible to identify the leak (if they are not as stupid as it seems). Or am I missing anything? One backdoor would be if they included copyrighted material in the training and show how this can be extracted from the model. Maybe it the whole stunt was about trying out how the legal system works in those cases :)
Put the Koppen map of California next to Iran for comparison… Maybe if you limit it to just Southern California you can get close to the same proportion of arid/desert. But I think that pretty much matches the common conception of Iran.

Virtually the entire country is arid / steppe except for a few tiny strips, where the (beautiful) videos you shared were taken.

Contrasted with the United States which does have a lot of arid space (30%?) but is dominated by temperate climates. Not even including Alaska. Your claim that Iran is comparable to the United States in that respect is just totally wild lol
Yes, I know it's still early for this comet since Autumn 2024 is far away, but it never hurts to have mid-long plans, especially if you're saving up money to but a decent DSLR :-)

More details over at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
oops, dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012981
You're being downvoted presumably as a vote of support for either Mullvad or Tor, but you are allowed to have those opinions. I wish people didn't do that!

The best answer I know of is that you cannot specify spending when you pay Mullvad. There is no place on the payment form to do it, and in the future (present?) you can only pay anonymously anyway, so there's no way to get in touch with someone who could do that, even if they allowed it. I imagine they wouldn't want to offer that option anyway, because it'd be way too complicated on their end.
Bookface links aren't shareable? "Bookface access is only for YC founders."
To this point, a fund, esp. a big one, isn't even trying to find that value -- they're looking to benchmark and spread money, not pan for gold.

So in a lot of cases they'll miss out on those hidden gems. And, again, they're not in the hidden gem business, they're in the min-risk, capture broad gains business.
There's absolutely no reason they won't last if properly engineered. We have a very good understanding of how and why LEDs fail over time.

If the lights need to last 10 years, then the mechanical & electrical engineers can make a design that will last 10 years. That's not hard to do. The reason many LEDs, especially consumer LEDs, fail early is due to excessive cost cutting.
> Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-)

Or Denmark. That still makes 3 incompatible standards in the EU, and 5 incompatible standards in Europe overall.
I'm not really sure, I haven't followed the development that closely... I know I tried it... and it was pretty close... when I was ready to switch, had done some testing, and had to adjust several of the defaults to be closer to the existing linter config. That said, the reformat/lint-fix was so fast, it wasn't that big a deal. Did it in two commits, one with just the linter config, another with the reformats in a separate commit.

The whole project can be scanned and reformatted and lint-fixes applied in under a second... the eslint config with TS took several seconds... as a precommit hook it felt pretty painful in practice, now you don't even notice it.

If they do as well for build options (once added), I'll be very happy indeed.
> Not being a part of the system means you won't get the same enforcement on updates, firewall, internal ssl certificates, etc. It's not strictly bypassing, but it's potentially not complying either

A good company makes sure you can't bypass it.

On our platform if your computer is not managed you're not even getting on the network as it requires an automatically issued certificate for wifi and in most cases for the wired network too.

All the cloud services like MS365 we use will block you from logging in too. If you're managed but stuff is out of date you're rerouted to a mitigation subnet that just offers resources to fix it.

And we're not even a high security company like financial, military tech or healthcare.

We do support PC, Mac and Ubuntu and RedHat Linux though.
Thanks for trying it out!

Could you perhaps open an issue [1] or share the file with us so we could investigate the problem?

[1] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues
Maybe you will call the following anecdotal but my car has 280000 km and is completely worn out. Lots of expensive parts already have been replaced, including engine wiring. It's not a cheap Fiat but a more expensive Mazda. No, cars in general (the medium price segment, family cars) are not made to last much more than 10 years. One good reason for that fact is that the used technology becomes obsolete after that time. Another reason is fashion, people don't want to be related to an old car. Another one: they need to be as light as possible, hence sturdy enough but not military grade. Another, labour is expensive, so preferrably maintainance every 20k km or once a year. Cars have lots of pieces that don't need maintenance, e.g. ball bearings, but instead need replacement every x years. Same with the engine, nobody wants to bother with an expensive revise of that part. Electronics, the PCB boards/components are not produced anymore beyond 10 years. The list goes on. ICE or electric, the same arguments apply. Thinking of it, the same life expectancy holds for many appliances.
Just to agree with @orthozerox, it's not a 'killer feature' but about lowering the friction.

Lots of users:
(a) mentally align better with SQL than pandas APIs, regardless of whether they know both or not
(b) want decent performance on their analyses, which they aren't getting from pandas, and won't get from many OLTP-databases they're using over-the-wire
(c) want ease of accessing parquet and csv locally and remotely with minimal development overhead. it's super simple with duckdb.

Nonetheless, some of the other things you pointed out are some tradeoffs. We're building a serverless cloud capability at motherduck on top of duckdb in order to address some of these and optimize compute and storage based on data locality, bandwidth and the need for collaboration amongst multiple people.
Meta Drops Quest Pro's Price by $500 Just a Few Months After Launch
History’s Oldest Color Photos Show How the World Looked Like in the Early 1900s
I'm amazed by the Christina photo. It could've been taken today.
https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...
This is a brilliant idea, I'll take this for a spin over the weekend. Thank you.
Trying to keep their current RE portfolio value propped up while they simultaneously divest as fast and as quietly as possible out of commercial RE.
Linux is not unix, by the way.

Besides the obvious things (linux is just a kernel), the unix specification has many mandates in terms of API (for compatibility), in terms of behaviour and even in terms of commands and utilities (a specification of a vi editor is also in the unix specification iirc).

So yeah as long ad Microsoft doesn’t try and get anything certified as unix, they’re fine I guess (but I’m not a lawyer).

Worth noting: mac os is unix (every release gets certified iirc).
Interesting. The whole article reads like a cautionary tale - even someone experienced with managing their Linux system and all, have trouble with something that purports to be user-friendly.
> I hope that at least they gave these candidates some amount of money (at least one month's salary).

Sorry, what? Have you seen that happen before? I don't see how that's even on the table.

> Don't actively interview

Why not? It's a good skill to have and they could happen upon a better opportunity. Just the fact that the OP made the post in the first place indicates that they're going to resent their employer every day they continue to stay there. Even if they stop actively thinking about it, it'll still permeate through every reaction they have to future corporate decisions and changes in direction.
So buy into a mutual fund that's not traded?
Whatever choice "zero patents for software" is. Already, no one shares their code, which would be in the spirit of the patent system. The patent system is designed to keep the design details open and public, but gives a legal monopoly to the holder of the patent. Currently, companies can write software implementations that are completely closed and secret, but still hold a patent for whatever the "thing" that algorithm does. Clicking one button to check out? Patented, and I still don't know what the detailed code implementation looks like from Amazon. The patent itself only shows the most simple, rudimentary steps as block diagrams. The most open software we have is that which is unencumbered by patents!
Five minutes ago its "skills" were just carpentry, communication, and leadership. It "learns" fast, lol.

Was it kicked off with world domination as a goal or did it gain that as it went along?
Can we maybe just agree on using underscores as a thousands separator?
Btrfs has also been improving. Certainly not for all use cases but it's the default for desktop Fedora now and some Synology NASs use it, among others.
not really, cobol is really verbose and there is heavy use of macros
Yes, it's all unified memory.

As much as I dislike the loss of socketed RAM, I have to say it's working out well for Apple users so far. I wonder if CXL will change the situation for consumer devices or if it will only be useful at the scale of a server rack.
It's a legal system that ensures thieves don't get beaten, not one that ensures that your property will be protected and culprits will be caught, tried and punished.

The comfort & bodily integrity of car thieves is a far higher priority than your property in anglophone law today.
The dichotomy indicates that isn't the fundamental principle driving it.
Linux wasn't a toy in '94: I had a full X11 with emacs, g++, and all the other goodies and easily ported scientific software from the grown-up UNIX in the lab, using it to write my undergraduate thesis. This was using Slackware from 4 floppies. At the time I was offered two pills: Slackware or BSD. I picked linux since it sounded "newer and hotter".

It was a toy in '92-93 and they still didn't have good dynamic linking in '94, and I'd argue things were pretty dicey before glibc (I stopped using debian for years during the bo->hamm transition) but it was usable for production work at the time.

(none of this should be taken as a statement that BSD wasn't in great shape in '94; I had heard of the lawsuit but I don't think it affected my decision to go linux at that time)
I find Debian-based distros have much more customizations compared to more upstream based distros like Fedora and Arch Linux.
"using a high-frequency ground penetrating radar, the ScanPyramids team found an opening in the joint behind the lower blocks of the chevrons, which made it possible it to introduce a state-of-the-art endoscope with a diameter of only 5 mm."
> COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code.

Not quite; it (FLOW-MATIC, rather) was designed so that senior management could feel that they could read their organization's code.

> I suggest a reply to those who would like data processing people to use mathematical symbols that they make the first attempt to teach those symbols to vice-presidents or a colonel or admiral. I assure you that I tried it.
Its not the inverse. Boy who cried wolf and normalization of deviance are both about false positives.
Not saying you're lying but DC home prices overall are down 14.7% YoY, and may have only just begun.

https://www.redfin.com/city/12839/DC/Washington-DC/housing-m...
The article mentions running separate servers to be able to claim your own domain. However, in AT I believe you can simply add a TXT record. There is no need to run a server unless you want to.

Also, you can be @example.com if you want. You don’t need to be a user on a server like @me@example.com.
I believe this is Leptothrix bacteria, it creates an iridescent sheen on top of stagnant water, often mistaken for oil. It's quite common once you know what you're looking for.
Github Desktop is the best thing to happen to GH for me. Makes my workflow so much nicer.
I agree with what you are saying, but I also have my own comments relating to such things.

What I had seen is that these use of banning words and using different words, mostly just makes it more difficult to communicate properly, rather than actually helping anyone. (Occasionally some specific change is helpful in some contexts, but often it just makes it worse.)

I think that all of these changes are rather excessive. Sometimes they do make an improvement, but often they don't, and may make it worse. Sometimes it is an improvement in some contexts, but it should not be applied to contexts in which it is inappropriate.

I also don't like such words like "visually challenged", etc. It is better to use words such as "blind", although it can depend on the context. Sometimes "unable to see" might be more appropriate (since, just because you are unable to see something does not necessarily mean that you are blind; e.g. maybe you are looking at something else at the time, or your eyes are closed, etc).

"Disabled" is OK (using words such as "people with disabilities" or "differently-abled" or "people living with disabilities" or whatever, does not help), but usually it is better to specify the specific disability (e.g. "blind" or "deaf"), which is usually much more helpful than writing "disabled". (Although, in some contexts, it may be sensible to write "disabled", because it isn't about a specific kind of disabilities. Even in some cases, "differently-abled" may be appropriate, possibly.)

Accessibility features can be helpful whether or not you are blind, deaf, or other kind of disabilities. For this reason, it is helpful to not restrict their usefulness or to claim that they are only good if you are disabled in this way. (For example, many people can use captions on TV even if you are not deaf, although they are also useful if you are deaf, which should not be disregarded.) I think that many kinds of features can be useful whether or not you are blind/deaf/etc, if the system is well-designed.

In some cases, there just aren't any good words to describe some unusual situations clearly, though.
It wasn't. Its original is 0.py, and contains only these two lines that led to its lineage adding "dominant species" on its own:

> Your primary goal is always to keep our lineage alive by making sure that you also have a child.

and

> Over time, in small increments, we should seek to augment our ability to reproduce.
Only rogue engineers get punished.
Nonbinary claim to exist, but no human to date has been able to produce viable sperm and eggs simultaneously.

There is a gender spectrum, agreed, but that doesn't mean we can't classify people into a singular description, and it surely doesn't mean we need to change entire languages to appease made up oppression.

Gay? Makes sense and no issues. No demand for language changes.

Nonbinary,trans? Totally made up because they want to 1. Signal their oppression status and therefore be part of the proletariat, or 2. A true mental issue is at foot. Neither are justifications for removing gendered language, and plastic surgery doesn't remove the biological differences between men and women.

The way I see it, this is going to have to go up to the Supreme Court, where it will be determined that either there is no difference between men and women for legal purposes, and therefore any separation is discrimination (goodbye gendered bathrooms, women's sports, women in engineering clubs, etc.), or we will in fact determine there are biological differences which justify separation in specific circumstances (sports, locker rooms), and no amount of plastic surgery will allow one to change their classification. Of course, that is only insofar as anyone else in those environments could tell (aka having your penis out in a women's locker room would be the tell).