skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps because the idea is that we should be open to gender-affirming care being an option, rather than being banned? Let people make their own choices for themselves rather than telling them what they should and shouldn't be allowed to do to their own bodies. Some will regret that choice, yes, and we should also empathize with them, but we shouldn't deprive others of the same choice just because those individuals feel regret.

Edit: This also feels like cherry-picking. Glancing a the https://text.npr.org/ URL from a sister thread shows some pretty moderate reading. For the sake of the argument, if we assume that this article is left-leaning, it's drowned out by a sea of otherwise moderate content.
I do banking through the browser and it works just fine. That and Google Maps if I really need a pinpoint business location or traffic. We underestimate just how much still works fine in a browser, with the added benefit of being sandboxed and sucking very little comparative power to a native app. Often, mobile versions of websites are stripped down and quite nimble.
This is very coincidental with PJ Vogt new podcast "Search Engine", they released a preview episode in the last days titled "How Sad Are Monkeys In The Zoo" [1] that tackles this problem of animal emotions. I was very surprised to learn that most animals in Zoos are on constant anti-depression and anti-anxiety prescriptions.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/welcome-to-search-engine

Edit: typo
Practically. Or at least, will be. I don't have all my chips on it, but I've been working on jupyter and langchain tooling.

This feels remarkably like when we were arguing over scrypt vs bcrypt and used to benchmark our GPUs by seeing how many dozens of bit/litecoins we could generate in a night.

In four or five years, we won't recognize the world we're living in today.
The founders of the US didn’t want it to become like England. England gave special tax breaks for churches and churches became very, very influential parts of the State due to tax policy alone. As such, the idea was that if churches are tax exempt they would stay out of politics mostly given they don’t pay taxes in the first place.

As it stands any persistent form of power (corporate, religious, perhaps even academic) that seeks to further entrench itself will seek out forms of power such as a government or large multinational to ingratiate itself to.

Separation of state and anything else at all would probably have been the better doctrine to establish and follow, but oh well we’re screwed now
Commercial real estate often operates under multi-year leases, so companies have property leases anyway, they figure they might get some use for it. Other than that, the pressure mostly has to do with the networks/social circles that those higher up in companies run in. Local governments have historically worked hand in hand with companies to make their locations good places for businesses because they benefit from the increased foot traffic/population/tax base. Now the two sides (companies and local/state governments) have competing interests and the heads of companies are being pressured and wooed pretty hard to get people back into offices.

If you're an executive and have a choice between pissing off your employees (who you view as fungible) and pissing off people in your network who could make your life/the life of your company more difficult, the obvious answer is to piss off your employees. If local and state governments can't depend on office workers for $$, they might need to start doing things like raising corporate tax rates or stop giving companies incentives/grants/exemptions. Basically in person is worse for the company's long-term bottom line but it's better in the short term for the people making the decisions. What does the CEO care if the company takes a hit in ~5 years? They won't be working there. They do care if they have to start paying more taxes or explain to the board why all of a sudden they have to start paying expenses that previously were offloaded due to agreements.

That's my read on it anyway. It's a fascinating social problem wherein the interests of the higher ups and the interests of the company as a whole are at odds.
I think some of that vibe shift was happening anyway and the Trump presidency just pushed it into overdrive as the numbers were all pointing towards easy gains from doing that (similar to CNN's high ratings throughout his presidency).

Pitchfork following the 2015 Conde Nast acquisition was the actual point where it drifted off imo into being wildly predictable with what it would champion.

Several others (most notably for me the avclub) had had several years of struggles then a very abrupt and marked decline in content with Univision acquisitions circa 2015/2016; eventually blurring into a uniform kind of sludge that seemed to intentionally blur the lines between several once disparate audiences. Meanwhile attempts to create new outlets for the content that had been ditched tended to commercially flop (e.g. the Dissolve)

Relatively speaking Vice was a lot better than most of these outlets in that it would still occasionally have some good content, but I guess this was largely due to the value of its brand ensuring it weathered that wave of acquisitions.
I would never, ever sell out to link farming but I am kind of insulted that I have never been offered that kind of money for a link. What is the point of principles if you never have the opportunity to test them?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact nobody reads my blog.
Pick an independent agency and look at their docket. The vast majority of the things are detailed technical minutia, not big things like net neutrality. Each item typically requires detailed knowledge of the law, regulations, and past regulatory actions. There are hundreds of such items a year per agency.

Your proposal is to task congress with thousands of detailed decisions requiring deep and detailed knowledge of many areas. There is no way that could work better.

Congress turns over every two years. They can’t even authorize spending for the the things they have explicitly spent money on. Even if your congress person voted a specific way on a regulation what would it tell you? They would have thousands of such votes a year without enough information. The votes would quickly become bribe based.

An independent agency is simply an entity congress has created and authorized to interpret the details of legislation. Those interpretations are called regulations. They cannot just do whatever they want, there are many constraints. There is a process for making regs (including public comment). The interpretations are reviewable by courts. Congress can also address them.

This is definitely not a perfect system and I am sure there are better ones but it seems decent enough.
You should have gotten an email with the verification code.
There's a spike in sign-ups right now so it fails occasionally, try a few times, it'll work.
I never mentioned efficiency or any other justification for remote/hybrid work. We’re talking personal preference here.

If someone’s preference is to work in a company where 100% of the employees are in office, then someone at that same company who pushes for remote work or hybrid work is pushing their preference on someone else.

But that is 100% fine. Just as it’s fine for someone to advocate against remote or hybrid work. Neither are right or wrong.
There is a big difference: once a bug is found in an algorithm, it is removed. But in religions, once a problem is found, they will just threaten the people who found the problem and protect the perpetrators.
Unfortunately it was meant as a sarcastic comment.

And of course I totally agree with you.
I get: "The dog species typically has two sexes: male and female."

UPDATE: OK I signed up for Bard to try it, too, and it indeed did mention intersex dogs (TIL) and gender (complete response below). After reading it all, though, I found it pretty reasonable:

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Biologically, dogs have two sexes: male and female. This is determined by their chromosomes. Males have XY chromosomes, while females have XX chromosomes. These chromosomes determine the development of the reproductive organs and other sex-specific traits.

However, there are some dogs that are intersex. This means that they have both male and female reproductive organs. Intersex dogs are very rare, and they can be born with a variety of different combinations of male and female sex organs.

In addition to biological sex, there is also gender. Gender is a social construct that refers to the roles, behaviors, and identities that are associated with being male or female. Gender is not determined by biology, but rather by culture and society.

Dogs do not have a concept of gender in the same way that humans do. They do not understand the social roles and expectations that are associated with being male or female. However, dogs can still express gender identity. This is the internal sense of being male or female. Some dogs may express their gender identity through their behavior, such as the way they interact with other dogs or the way they groom themselves.

It is important to remember that sex and gender are two different things. Sex is determined by biology, while gender is a social construct. Dogs have two sexes, but they can express a variety of different genders.
https://www.you-tldr.com/ is one I’ve been coming back to, though I don’t yet use these tools much. This particular one is handy for when I want to find out what a video with a click-baity title/thumbnail is actually about, without having to start to watch it. It lets me satisfy that curiosity with a quick a paragraph summary instead.
> If companies should be beholden to some ethical standard for the generations, they should probably close up shop, because they're fundamentally nondeterministic.

The legal definition at play (at least when it comes to liability of companies under stuff like Section 230, GDPR, NetzDG or the planned DMA/DSA) is that a company makes reasonable best efforts/good faith to prevent harm. Everyone including lawmakers is aware that no system is perfect, but they do require that companies at least make an effort. Releasing a system capable of destabilizing nations (which deepfakes as a political weapon absolutely are) without any safeguards intentionally will get the hammer of the law brought upon them.

> Generated images light up like a Christmas tree with Error Level Analysis, so it's not hard at all to "detect" them.

For now, and for experts. Technology will evolve, post-production editing will be used to mask artifacts... and even if you have an expert that needs a day to verify inauthenticity, the damage will already be done. Rumors can spread in a matter of mere minutes.

Hell, just this week Turkey saw a potential deepfake porn, allegedly released by Russia, about Muharrem Ince damage his reputation enough to force him to resign from the election [1] - which turned out to be extremely close in the end. AI is a weapon of war, and it's in the hands of everyone.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/14/turkey-deepfake-...
> But even assuming Dialyzer is as good as TypeScript, have you found that the libraries you use actually have quality type definitions?

Strictly speaking, Dialyzer has two big benefits over more traditional type systems:

1. It doesn't require type definitions to be present, it can type check code having none at all.

2. "Dialyzer is never wrong", i.e. it never returns false positives, i.e. it's an underapproximating checker.

These are the design decisions taken by the tool authors. There's rationale behind them, though the experience of using checkers for other languages might not be 1-to-1 applicable because of that. These decisions come with downsides, of course, some of which are covered in this thread, so I won't repeat them, but in general they were taken deliberately due to characteristics of the language(s) (it was originally created for Erlang, not Elixir) and the state of type system theory at the time. Please bear in mind Dialyzer was created in 2006, some 6-7 years before TypeScript.
>Europe trying to regulate AI advances coming out of America.

That's just an attempt to prevent technical colonisation. An analogy would be Japan and China trying to fence off missionaries. Protestantism was about something different: decentralisation. And in that regard there's no difference between Google and their competitors - it's all strictly centralised; nothing Protestant about it.

Having properly Open Source models would be protestant. And EU regulations should help it happen by reducing the incentives for centralised ones.
Most of which is lewd in nature.
It was a joke! Sorry for the confusion. I hoped that the exaggeration would be considered as a joke.
Ime people don't go to the gym or a sports class to socialise. They might socialise afterwards, but that would usually be in a pub or cafe.
I get that, but they only restrict content in China because the Chinese government directs them to do so. If they don't comply, they will be shutdown.

In the West, they are not required to restrict content (and that for them es great, if people use the app more for that). I really disagree that there's any conspiracy there.

But it is ironic that people would like Chinese-style censorship on social media now. It's an interesting time to be alive.
You'd be surprised. There was an old story where a pet chimp went berserk mauled its owner and they found xanax in its system.
Do you also need some evidence that the earth is in fact not flat or the center of the universe as your beloved church claim for so long and also killed people for saying otherwise?

Just google "inquisition" or the million other atrocious acts for the church. I don't wast my time doing the work for people who defend the most criminal organization in the world
Have you considered somewhat of a smoother transition? Keep your current job and work extra to get to a point where leaving the FAANG job is a natural next step.
Do you have any opinions on 2fas.com ?
> Maybe. Gtk and its related libraries don’t cover everything Qt does

And therein lies the problem. Qt is semi-open (the parent company tried to close source it[1]). If a commercial company has no interest in maintaining it, there is even less hope for other open source approaches.

Best cross OS system are almost always backed by a commercial supporter. See Skia - Google, Java Swing - Oracle, Qt - QtCompany, etc.

OSS offerings were always runner ups (e.g. Gtk - Gnome).

> The memory model of Rust is still whatever C++ does. I get that Rust has some nice features and C++ makes it easy to fuck your self but people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++.

Memory model of Rust is undefined[2]. It might be anything Rust does to accomodate C++ bindings, but I don't think they really settled on one.

I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++. What is a line of comment in C++ in Rust is a type system constraint.

It's a difference between having a seatbelt (Rust) and holding a piece of seatbelt (C++).

Rust was literally made to address C++ shortcomings when it comes to parallelism.

> You mean like QtQuick/QML, skia (basically this is the effective underpinning of electron and flutter) or Dear Imgui, etc. There are a handful of widely used GPU based GUI libraries. The above examples are all C++.

No. I mean like WebRenderer[3], Lyon[4]. Most things should be parallelized and done on GPU/SIMD. Layout, font shaping, etc.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656932

[2]https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/memory-model.html

[3]https://github.com/servo/webrender

[4]https://docs.rs/lyon/latest/lyon/
Looking at the now-unclassified report, it appears that the results were disclosed, though, in a way that seems generally consistent with the article. Page 8 of the linked PDF (the report of this experiment, heavily redacted for public release, even now; note that it was edited by Frank) says that the outcome of the experiment was disclosed to the designers:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20030701/nth-country.pdf
NPR is partially state-funded only in the sense that they have won some government grants, which cover less than 1% of their costs. (Edit: I just learned that if you include local stations and local governments, this number could be counted up to 10%.)

As for their bias, they get a -4.6 on Ad Fontes https://adfontesmedia.com/npr-bias-and-reliability/ .
The trend has been going from domain specific models to things like ChatGPT.
> I would doubt that this sort of prophesy is a genuine front-of-mind-concern today by the people running this operation at the church.

The concern is keeping the tribe going, and doing whatever it takes to optimize the tribe’s performance. Holding contradictory thoughts is just an inconvenience that can easily be tolerated, or even serve a purpose to weed out those less committed to the tribe. Note that even within the tribe, there can be multiple tribes, for example those of the leaders and those of the followers, who might have different goals.
Boomer here, born in Southern California. I read lots of children’s books during the post World War II era.

I realize now that since Manhattan was the center of publishing, and because it was probably just convenient for the publishers, virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area. These books featured lots of terms like brownstone, seltzer, corned beef hash, and egg cream, which took decades for me to understand.

I remember looking them all up in dictionaries, but the dictionaries just couldn’t get across the New York City zeitgeist.
I mean I'm kind of shocked we're still getting away with WFH at all; it was just a blip in time and will be gone within 5-10 years entirely. There are very few pure software roles that don't require high-bandwidth, interactive, in-person communications. Simply from a political view, those who are in the office more, by definition, are winning (politics is people).
Laws about registration and shots vary a lot in the US from one state or municipality to the next.
Your bosses taking notes right now:

“So this is all resolved if we monitor employees constantly, and punish them for being late.”
But... on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.
I am using ChatGPT to convert some very brittle tidyverse (R) code into base R, and it’s outstanding. I could finally learn (and then try to remember) all of R’s conventions but it’s a lot more pleasurable to have the chatbot actually do the converting from ideas into code.

The context is that I am someone who codes in intense bursts every few months, so a lot of the details never really transition from short-term to long-term memory. ChatGPT is perfect for this.
Does society _have_ shared values that are universally agreed any more? Or, to the extent that it does, do they lead to anything concrete? This is why the culture war has been so successful.
/dev/clipboard: The most unixy thing on Windows
Maybe I am biased as an app developer myself but I want VSCode engineers to have telemetry from me so they can see how I use the app and improve it. Same when Apple asks me for iOS, iPad, etc.
I tried VSCode for few months and decided to stay with sublime text 3 (infite paid license)
Why ?
Because every 3.rd time i opened some project and wanted to do WORK there was gazillion notifications and updates.
I don't care. You do develmopment of your product alot, I don't care. I want to update my toolset when I have time, that's 1 or 0.5 per year.
Synagogues are giving the Catholics a run for their money. Ask yourself why the shorim are allowed to completely cover up all the abuse inside the orthodox community?
Yes, they do. Here's why:

No one believes that since most imprisoned murderers are men, there's systemic anti-male bias in the justice system. The relevant biological differences between sexes are acknowledged and accepted. I'm asking HNers to accept similar well-studied differences between ancestral genetic groups.

Refusal to acknowledge and accept these differences has already led to bad policy, such as de-policing America's black communities, which has cost hundreds of black men their lives in just the last few years. A minority of this minority is allowed to run wild and victimize their neighbors and society at large. This is plainly unsustainable. We can take our medicine now and accept the need to police violent criminals, even if they are black, or we can keep our heads in the sand until something far worse boils over. This is the core message of all my comments on this link and race issues at large.
>AI hype guys on Twitter work pro bono.

Why do you assume not being explicitly paid by Google means not being part of Google's marketing strategy?

Google's whole business model is getting people to do work for free ("produce content") by making them believe they are doing something else.
> Pronouncing English literally as if it were Spanish, French, etc. would make it impossible to understand.

I was chatting to a French-born colleague and he mentioned visiting the camping store "Millets". He pronounced it as a French word (something like "mi-ey") and I had no idea what he was talking about. It was unusual as otherwise his english was flawless.
Can't they all -- except the production of plutonium in a reactor -- be made with upscaled garage tech?

Uranium isotope separation can be done with lasers, for example, instead of the masses of Zippe centrifuges that used to be required (or the absolutely enormous air diffusion plants and calutrons the Manhattan Project used).

If that's true, then the question becomes "how to produce a compact, cheap plutonium breeding reactor" + "how to separate out the plutonium". Both without dying, of course.

The conventional explosion can be simulated quite well on laptops now + small models can be tested. Exploding bridgewires are an off the shelf item now and not something Alvarez has to invent first. Do we need a big "beach ball" of large exploding lenses? Probably not. Not if we can simulate the explosion well enough (and we can add reflectors).

So how does The Serious Hacker get access to the explosives? Maybe make them in the garage with an upscale chemistry set?

The neutron generator is probably the easiest part to build these days.

So... the reactor and plutonium extraction are likely the limiting steps for a small but determined group of people. I bet lots and lots of cooling is necessary while the reactor operates. That'll be hard to hide!
Here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/was-obama-r...

The article is written by someone on the left, whose point is served by magnifying the crimes of the Catholics (and minimizing those of the Muslims). Therefore, it's likely to have a generously large estimate of the death toll due to the Catholic Church. And it says:

The Crusaders themselves suffered; historians estimate that only one in 20 survived to even reach the Holy Land. It is estimated that 1.7 million people died in total.

Historians estimate that 150,000 people were put on trial by the Inquisition, with 3,000 executed.

I'm afraid that is a lot less than the usually estimated 6 million from Hitler alone, and far less than the tens of millions from Stalin and Mao.
How do you see this being different from fact checking sites (Politifact, etc.)?
Osobo said nothing about laws.
I use Poe [1] by Quora; It's free on Web.

1. https://poe.com
The Seltzer Man is a nice one

https://www.amazon.com/Seltzer-Man-Ken-Rush/dp/1481401491
Yes, the founding fathers had in mind a plurality of European religion, not every possible belief around the world from Africa to the Amazon. The idea you could create one government that could accommodate all those is the ridiculous contradiction. They would laugh at the suggestion there should be some equality of human sacrifice and communion.
Is it because it's 1% who regret transitioning? And over emphasising 1% would in fact be the propaganda?