skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're being dishonest about the odds

Can you demonstrate this is the case - does showcasing a minority case imply that case is common?

> A child wishing to transition and a parent seeking to reject

It doesn't matter what either parent or child thinks. In other context we are quite happy to say a child cannot consent to important things, even with parental consent. This is entirely about the medical gatekeepers.

> hot topic right now is access to puberty blockers

.. and the new thing is to suggest that there is zero risk with chemically postponing puberty - which mirrors the notion that there is zero risk of regret with transitioning, i.e. total suppression of caution/dissent.

It's all misinformation using some boogeyman as justification: "don't worry about X - that's just a lie spread by transphobes/conservatives/republicans etc". But there can be truth in the panic.

>> Can you describe what these are?

> access to healthcare (e.g. Medicaid) for transitioning

I'm not sure there was a standing precedent for this - there are other forms of healthcare also excluded/discriminated against.

> freedom of expression, in the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act

I don't think that is a FoE issue; there is no such right for anyone to interject into general education, plus there are plenty of topics excluded from education. gay/trans parents can talk to their own children as much as they want - what you are suggesting is they should have free and clear access to other peoples children without any oversight from their parents? Does that mean anti-trans/gay parents get to air their own views in from of their children too?
Theres a summary here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/05/23/how-...

Apparentl Claude Shannon was even involved in such a scheme. I'd take the article with a grain of salt, but it suggests it's possible.
Not everyone is equal. For what you say , talking everything at face value , you may have something that stimulates treat such as add/adhd and that may also mean more prone to depression or it’s slower burn dysthymia.
Indeed. If someone's problem is lack of money, money will fix that problem.
Russia's only ally is Belarus (if you can call that an ally since the country barely exists), China and Brazil aren't going to deploy any troops to save Russia
That's exactly why the black only printers are so good though. They escape regulation to print yellow dots since they can't print subtle yellow dots.

They still have tracking dots. But at least you can print when yellow is out.
My point was than men are being more authentically social now that they're not forced to be artificially social in an office. So it's kind of the opposite of what you said.

Also, I'd argue that down down down is the right direction.
Tell him to stop trusting anything he reads on a screen. It's all designed to scam or deceive him in some way.
In a 100 years the UK elite will pay you in air, but only 95% of the recommended daily amount.
I frequently order too much in restaurants on purpose to have leftovers. I'm gonna start bringing reusable glass containers.
I like your style of post titles: short, lowercase, concise
Florine is extremely reactive but that means whatever it reacts with should stay put. So in theory it should never degrade, breakdown, or leach out.
Good point. I also generally dislike plastic lids because the "snap lock" mechanic always tend to go wonky. The bamboo lids with silicone edges tend to be the least hassle.
Maybe if you're an ISP. If you're a uni, a govt agency, a workplace, maybe not.
Is there a human service for this? I see lots of people recommending tools and browser extensions etc, and some people recommending that OP gets heavily involved.

I wonder if there's room for a service that does something like this; rent/buy a laptop which is locked down and has recommended extensions preinstalled, and a phone service (or maybe even in-person) when the user needs help.

I'm probably describing something that already exists, I just don't know it. Or maybe it isn't profitable at all.
I randomly saw one crossing the San Mateo Bridge. They definitely exist on the roads already.

Of course, the one I saw was done up in Lays colors so it could just be one of the 5-6 they had already built when it was unveiled.
At the current speed of research, any book about transformers would be outdated before the ink it was printed on has dried. You got to read the papers if you want to keep up with the bleeding edge.

The attention is all you need paper that tikkun linked is great, but not exactly a gentle start. This might help a little: https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/llm-reading-list.html
Sure, except Twitter doesn't have free speech. Twitter can and does issues bans for thing said, notably in the Kanye case, and when Elon banned the elonjet account.

It's either free speech absolutionism, or not free speech. If you claim you are for free speech in the moral sense of the word, you have to let everything be posted.

As soon as you start removing things, it becomes your version of controlled narrative. And there is nothing wrong with just that, because of course you want to minimize potential damage. But then you have to be responsible for the things you let slide.

So when Twitter allows right wing rhetoric, a.k.a conspiracy theories about Nancy pelocies husband, pushed by the CEO, or things like Fauci gain of function research, it's clearly a controlled narrative.
Dude, we know. Everything has a long tail. If everyone in the tail for everything came and posted about stuff we'd be sitting here primarily reading comments that go:

- $500k? I make $5 million and that doesn't even seem enough

- 2 children? I have 5 children and that barely feels like a family

- 3 vim plugins? I have 1E80 and even that is barely enough to write Hello World in Java
Less than 35% of the $800 billion in PPP loans actually went to workers, say economists

https://www.fastcompany.com/90713747/workers-800-billion-ppp...
Generalizing this is harmful. It does not follow that things that we did not choose are not our responsibility.
What is old is new again

This was basically the only option in the early 90s before geocities etc... So most of us who were on the web in the 90s did exactly that. Difference was, when you turned your computer off for the night, your site was down

If you were really fancy you had a dedicated T1 line, but those were for rich people only

I've been on my own domain for well over a decade and my CI process hasn't changed from "drag and drop a .html file written in notepad onto a BSD private-colo server via WinSCP"

Literally never fails and my kb size pages don't crush anything.
> they usually focus on spending money instead of giving money to people who need it

From my perspective, the issue is that a lot of politicians operate as goal-oriented rather than systems-oriented problem solvers.

Many government programs generally operate as "give a man food" rather than "teach that man to fish".

It's no wonder that many problems are far further from being solved despite decades of cash pumped into them.

PS: If you're feeling butt-hurt about a comment, I welcome constructive feedback. Downvotes are fine, but do nothing to enhance mutual understanding. Tell me why goals are better than systems: I'd love to understand what the issue is.
4chan to international politics: a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream
Italy cares enough to ban ChatGPT, which is legally easy to do.

Going through the hassle to revoke an .it domain is a little bit... how to say... small potatoes
Don Estridge
I use these, are these horrible?

https://www.costco.com/snapware-pyrex-18-piece-glass-food-st...

What should I use instead?
You believe this is a pejorative term for supply-side economics and that is why you use it here. In practice, you do not understand economics and default to FUD and political harassment.
I agree. It shows the danger of selectively releasing code and how the "Twitter open-sources algorithm" rhetoric is deeply misleading, at best. Hopefully, any misplaced analysis of the code will result in greater transparency.
> the increased UI latency is definitely noticeable

Uh? Is it? Since which version?
“ metal lids and silicon seals”

Are you in the US? I don’t think I’ve seen these around.
How about you not spend the same weekend creating throwaway accounts to make snide remarks in the hope of getting some engagement? This won't fill the longing that you have in your lonely heart for any connection. I wish you well.
So buyers willing and able to pay more for something should not have the ability to bid more to guarantee they can obtain it?

Note that the buyers have options to consume other foods for their nutritional needs.
This is as surprising to me as it is sad. 2 of 3 YMO members now gone at 70 and 71 which seems very young given the renown of Japanese longevity. Anyway, Beauty is a favorite album from my childhood so probably time for a re-listen.
> that need to meet stringent security requirements

That need to meet overreaching legal compliance requirements, maybe, but this isn't the same as security.

> you've never worked on infrastructure in a large heterogenous environment that grew organically over decades. Or dealt with infrastructure that was grant funded.

I should hope you don't need to be an outsider/inexperienced to point out obvious dysfunction. Yes, said dysfunction almost always has very explainable context and causes (organic growth over decades, inconsistent/dependent funding structures, etc.) but neither negate the fact that it is a form of dysfunction, nor should they put it beyond criticism (from inside or out).
> Minimal fraud

You’re going to have to be more specific or offer some evidence, because a cursory search suggests there was massive fraud.

To take the least sensationalized source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-takes-acti...

They’re estimating more than half a billion dollars and are just getting started.
well ya, roads
Mostly the issue with being a small landlord lies in how the landlord-tenant laws are written to treat you like a large corporate landlord. You have the same legal obligation to go through very lengthy eviction processes and to be very verbose about criteria but you can’t amortize the risk of a bad tenant over even tens of units like a corporation can. If you get one bad tenant they can cost you more than you get from them in rent, and they can destroy the rental house before you get to the eviction hearing.

I’ve had more than one conversation with my wife about just keeping the house empty instead while we’re gone, but I still think I have a moral obligation to rent to someone if I can.
Sergei Roldugin, the cellist who looks after Putin’s fortune
What a coincidence, the ridiculous "Let's throw AI at every problem!" is why I come to HN!
Exactly this, OP. Eventually you will fall asleep, the brain will slowly adapt.
As I get older (54) I figured out a couple of things, the first is obvious and especially true in our industry and that is you must constantly be learning. Personally I devote one hour a day during the work week to study a given topic that relates to my job -I do this on company time, since it relates to my job. It's amazing what a difference it's made in my career. The second thing is to constantly challenge your self to learn/do new things, in particular things that don't come natural to you -basically you are forcing the brain to do stuff it doesn't like and making it adapt. It's just like working out except for the brain, constantly testing ans trying the system over and over to stimulate growth.
The housing crisis has cemented in people’s minds that living in Vancouver or the GTA is essentially an impossible feat because everything is zoned for cars and single-family housing.

I suppose if your POV is very narrow and limited, then yes it is impossible. But giving up easily when things become difficult is a Canadian cultural staple, so rural dying towns for everyone it is.
Dana Scott: Seventy Years Using Fixed Points
I'm WFH but would happily come in a few days a week if others would. I miss the connection of talking to people. Sadly the new normal at my office has meant the buildings are ghost towns now.
Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
The pinnacle of Philip Glass parodies, and an honest, nuanced one, was (the now forgotten?) P.D.Q. Bach's Einstein on the Fritz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumLxMLBv-Y

Glass's work in his earlier years was more iterative than repetitive, and often performed with the ferocity of a tornado. People mock his work, especially his later, softer work, but those early pieces as originally performed really rip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRerJeYmUgY
> So, a parent not familiar with 4-H Club concept teaches her kid that it is okay to snatch things back after entering into a legal contract and giving it away.

Huge oversimplification. Here let me try: "So a seller changed their mind on selling something, so they reached out to the buyer, and the buyer agreed to cancel the deal, but the middle man refused to cancel the deal and then the police drove out to their property and took the item and illegally gave it to the buyer"

We get it you're from the country. The level of projection here is amazing.

I was in a civil debate with a conservative the other day, and all they could do was point to "demonizing country people" and all i has to ask was "where did I do that?" and he would have to back off.

So where does this "city person" demonize country people? You're not that fucking far away from the city, just because you never leave the house. Turn off the fox news, the city is not out to get you. Nobody cares and most people understand the trade-off between the two.

Source: Raised in the country, moved to the city for my career.
I host my own domain on my own server in my own home. It obviously isn't the easiest option, but there are a lot of options. I could pay a bit extra to Wordpress to get them to host my blog with my own domain. Or I could host a Wordpress blog somewhere else, or even just static HTML files.

Actually I try to do both. I have started working on a static hand made homepage in addition to my blog. But whatever the approach, I still have to produce the actual content. Sometimes I feel that is the hardest part.
Yea silk floss is really nice. Food caught between your teeth sticks better to the silk than to glide, and getting the silk between your teeth requires slightly more pressure, which feels nice to me.
This book was a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie
The fundamental operation of mmap is to add new entries to the page table of a process, and the precise properties of those entries are heavily dependent on what the arguments to mmap are.

When you mmap a regular file, you're essentially adding an entry to the page table that shares the data with the kernel's filesystem cache. I think he was trying to explain the implications of this fact, but doing so in an incredibly garbled manner, and getting his conclusions wrong.

There are performance implications to using mmap (not always good, not always bad), but both sides of the discussion here immediately dug their heels in on their conclusion without anyone trying to do any analysis to see what the actual implications were, and why.
GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine
Kitty renders more cases correctly, more stable, mainly I appreciate it's overall high quality. I don't use it's tmux-like features.
Perhaps overly simplistic, but my suggestion is to spend money where there are true economies of scale, or services that individuals can't manage on their own such as education and health care. And in all other cases, just give money. For instance the food industry is already scaled up.
This is the sixth introduction to R. This will cover tidyr, ggplot2, histograms, scatterplots, and more.
Dr Tung FTW!

https://drtungs.com/products/92-smart-floss.html
[citation needed]

Printers are mechanical devices. Putting ink on the page in a way that actually looks good requires quite a lot of precision. It may take a lot of resources to get a marketable product, so it’s not something startups tend to do.
There's free links if you look on google scholar https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...
I live in a big city in the USA, and i truly hate being forced into an office. I have tons of outside activities, hobbies, community involvements, and commuting is a waste of time to be in someone else's environment, getting constantly interrupted, not having the ergonomics I've spent decades learning to have, and enabling my context switching when necessary.

I'm fine with the occasional on site collaboration and camaraderie are fine, but every week? No. I'm productive because I'm a professional.
A LOT of Canadian software devs don't make anywhere near that money.
> One example of this is policing in the US: modern day policing arose from slave patrols [0].

This seems poorly supported, even by the cited article - it just says there was a group A doing X, then A doing Y, then later the police did Y too.

And, what about:

- police forces outside the South?

- influence from policing around the world, especially England?
Sadly, communism worked out even worse. When communists realized that NEP worked too well and peasants started to get out of poverty, they instituted terror to “prune” the population and “remind them why they need” those said communists (a reference to V for Vendetta movie line). Just the best known example, there were also 1920s razkulachivanie and such, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
Got any source for further reading? Everything I can find says that Musk founded it and was heavily involved in the engineering.
The alternative to price gouging is empty shelves with no option to buy at any price.

The high prices work to incentivize competitors to enter the market and increase the supply. If only the government would stop letting competitors merge together...
> Even if they have a lot of SFHs, they are counting Victorian row houses that are placed next to each other

Is that supposed to mean something? Most housing there doesn’t look like a The Painted Ladies anyways, and being denser amongst the most middling cohort possible isn’t an accomplishment.

> I lived in Beijing for 9 years, and it was plenty dense

What’s plenty? Why do you think it’s enough? And idk if you’ve noticed, but China has had an insane urbanization rush for the last 20+ years, so high housing costs in their cities isn’t surprising.
As a 58 year old, I seem to spend quite a lot of time clearing malware and giving security advice to my 20-something kids.
Your plan is to take water, split it into hydrogen and oxygen, and pump it through a rocket engine that turns it back into water?

I'm pretty sure that we can do better by just using the energy used to split the water to accelerate it instead.
https://extissues.teslamotors.com
I emailed the HN moderator to remove my personal information and assign a random username to this post, just to avoid potential cyber-stalking. I'm glad I did it.
Yeah it reminds me of everyone scrambling to draw conclusions from the leaked Yandex SEO algorithm, even though all the models were missing...
I know how it works in practice...

But the rule I preach everywhere is never to write credentials in your code. Even if it's your Hello World kind of a local small program to test out things.

Alternative: store the credentials in /tmp/my.password and load it in your program. Most programming languages make it easy.
You can't exactly trust the National Post, even though it's one of Canada's largest newspapers - it's owned by the Postmedia Network, itself majority owned by New Jersey-based Chatham Asset Management.

I'd like to point out a couple of falsehoods in the article, right off the bat:

- Italy having lowest excess deaths -- popularized myth, but patently false. Compare here with some G7 and other Nordic countries [1]

- "as the pandemic dissipated in 2022 and 2023" -- the baseline Covid hospitalization rate across Canadian provinces is steadily climbing, already higher than peaks of some of the "waves" in 2021 and 2022. While coverage of the pandemic might have dissipated, the health emergency itself has become endemic [2]

It's interesting to see the Post take a WFH-friendly tone, up until recently they've been pro RTO. Wonder if C.A.M. has shuffled their holdings around, or perhaps insurance companies are starting to feel the weight of LTD payouts?

1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-...

2: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2022/coronavirus-covid-19-p... (click on Hospitalizations)
> But that covers your healthcare. No copays, deductibles, flat rate for all prescriptions of £9.50 per item (or £10.40 a month for 10 months for a prepayment certificate that covers as many items as needed).

Which has now collapsed so in practice you need to go private if you need any kind of decent, timely care. And it never covered dentistry from what I’ve heard.

In practice you end up paying twice - once in taxes for the dysfunctional health service you can’t actually use, and a second time in the form of either insurance or out of pocket to go private when you do need healthcare.
Perhaps Darwin will kick in.
Not trying to be a jerk. Why give him an iPhone? A dumb phone is less risky and can still do text and calls. It's also easier to use, especially for elderly.

For email: could you maybe handle his email for him? I dunno how much he uses email.

I would set him up with a credit card with a provider that can generate temporary numbers. Or just have multiple accounts; one is a very low limit, another higher. Keep cash in one or two different bank acts, one of them just enough to pay bills.

Some wifi routers have parental controls (lol, the irony) that let you whitelist URLs. I would whitelist the common websites he uses and block all others.

I'm actually totally on board with his anger towards tech. If I didn't do tech as a living I would eliminate all my internet connections. It is just a distraction. There is so much more to life.
And there’s the Chesterton’s fence principle. There must be reasons why restaurants provide utensils and packaging. “Because consumerism we can just stop” is not enough.

> Summer rolls and spring rolls

Are served on a dish. May be picked up from a dish by clean hands, but may not be moved more than 5 ft away from a dish.

> Meat on a stick

Is on a stick, usually disposable. Which is barely a “packaging”, too, certainly a bamboo stick is not an edible packaging, not to mention metal skewers.

> Rice balls

Are always eaten from non-edible containers, e.g. Saran wraps, bamboo leaves. Nori is not a packaging. Use of disposable gloves while making is recommended too.

> Samosa

Is served on a dish.
This is the part of Open Source I really despise. It looks like the top contributors in this repository have contributed a few hundred lines of code (as opposed to the 20Kloc by the author). I understand that lines of code is not comparable to level of effort, but there is at least some level of correlation there.

The predominant attitude I have seen with my open source projects is entitlement and anger at decisions I have made, (whether that's because my license isn't MIT or because I don't want to use the latest and greatest features of language X, or because I use 2 spaces instead of 4). I just want to share my code, but some people make this unnecessarily difficult and want to cause drama where there never needed to be any.

Now, with that said, I have also met amazing people who have offered invaluable insights. These people have made contributions, to code and discussions, and on the other side provided amazing libraries and support. I really love Open Source, but there is a certain aspect of the community that can be downright hostile, and I hate that. I never understood why some developers feel the need to belittle others or to scoff at what other people want to share. I hope that if people know my name it's because I encouraged them and gave them help and/or praise for a cool project, and not because I was a dick and made them feel like crap for an inconsequential action.