skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children with gender dysphoria are not "perfectly healthy."

They have a serious problem. The level of hubris in assuming that all these heterosexual parents, many of them conservative, would just up and decide to "trans" their kids is outstanding.

Whatever makes people trans is immutable. Every possible way has been tried to "fix" them, by making them happy as their assigned sex. All the attempts just led to broken people, many of whom killed themselves.

The gall to just insert yourself into the lives of these kids and their families, without understanding their struggles or knowing them, and trying to take away the one proven path to them having a happy successful life is really something to behold.
Big Stories on the New York Times
Docker is never required by anything, it just makes communicating software dependencies simple and concise.
I think failure is a better groomer for success than success. Every truly great achievement of my life came from prior humiliation from failure.
You'd be surprised!

My thought process is that people who get contracted/hired to do cheap labor won't appreciate how big the US is (IAD to DCA is 40 minutes alone without inclement weather + bad traffic) and how TSA affects one's transit time.
My 2022 CRV ICE has this by default. You can turn it off but on by default every time you start the car (US law or something.)
> it only has partitioning on a single column

You can partition using several columns. But I get your point, it's not optmized for row level operations in general.
I like that many of them are "just" PC port
High rates are currently maintained via the reverse repo facility which allows you to park your money at the Fed with high interest.

Usually only bank and other primary dealers can have an account at the Fed but the reverse repo facility allows money markets (and thus anyone) to basically passthrough to the Fed.

Given the high interest yield offered and the fact that the Fed by definition cannot go bust, there is no reason to put your money at a small bank due to the risk and low reward.
Banks in general love high rates. It's really hard to both justify keeping your money in the bank (vs other assets or just under the mattress) when interest rates are zero or near zero, and higher rates give them more wiggle room with buyers with good credit.

The problem right now is that those small banks' balance sheets are being squeezed by the pace of raising interest rates.
"Amazon bought the naming rights to the arena in June 2020, dedicating the arena name to bringing attention to climate change." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena
> Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college.

How do they make it cheaper to go to college?

Merit scholarships that are based mostly or entirely on grades are relatively rare and extremely competitive.

And the cheapest colleges are often the least selective ones (like community college or state schools).
I do not believe you know what you are talking about.

What version -- English or otherwise -- translates the Hebrew word for 'fruit' into 'apple'?

It's translated generically as "fruit" in all English versions that I know of. Likewise, it's translated as a generic fruit in the Vulgate (Latin - 'fructus') and Septuagint (Greek - 'karpos').

As far as 'almah' is concerned, the word is generally used in the OT to represent a young unmarried woman. It is presumed that such a woman would be a virgin (shocking, I know.) The context of its use in Isaiah 7:14 is that of virginity, the Jews who translated the Hebrew passage into Greek (200 years before Christ) used the Greek term for virgin, and Matthew's Greek quote of the verse in the context of Mary's pregnancy also uses the Greek term for virgin. Quibbling over the word 'almah' is strange in light of the fact that Luke explicitly states Mary had never had sex (see Luke 1:34) and that, while espoused to Joseph, she had yet to do the deed. (Matt 1:18).
Yeah, I'm about to jump ship too. They're decisionmaking has been poor for the past couple of years.
also (citation needed, I know), IIRC the median founder age for successful startups in a decade was like 48
When that incident happened, Gitlab published an actual chat transcript of the incident response. It was a very interesting read. It had the real names of the engineers involved for the first 24 hours or so, then they anonymized it. At some later date they seem to have removed it entirely, which is a shame, as it was an educational read

All that I can find left online is this [1], which is still informative, but not nearly as interesting as I remember the chat transcript being

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...
This has the trappings of a paranoid schizophrenic.

Even if all true there's no reasoning as to why any government entity would want harass one particular individual.
I used to work at Desktop Metal which was (at the time) a pretty small startup here in Boston.

When I left, I wrote a pretty negative review on Glassdoor about what I felt was a toxic work environment.

At the time I submitted my review, there were probably about 10 reviews for the company.

The very next day after my review was posted, about 7 positive reviews popped up. Obviously pretty suspicious behavior, but when I contacted Glassdoor they said there was no issue.

A week later my own review was removed for a generic content policy violation.

Goes without saying I don't trust Glassdoor for much.
Start my own business earlier.
Alan Turing was one a billion. With his monumental work he saved so many lives. It’s a great tragedy he was persecuted for his sexual orientation. If the society were more understanding we would not lost this amazing human being, most of will never achieve even 1% of what he did. We are probably behind a century of progress because we lost him.
ChatGPT app downloads are slowing down, BofA finds
Wouldn’t this be an example of being pro heath and pro vaccine.

The science said it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated and the unvaccinated were at a higher risk of Covid infection, comorbidities be damned. Looks like the AG followed the science consensus and removed a study that was not peer reviewed nor replicated in any confirming matter.

This is only “news” because of the state and its current government’s party.
This is 90% true, but also the 10% matters in terms of "onboarding people to the desktop," which I think still is very important (and actually going reasonably well, IMHO)
> Its potential to improve humanity

Considering the current economic system and state of social safety nets, I have to disagree with you. I bet the widespread adoption of ML models will only increase the Gini coefficient by doing to knowledge-workers what automation did to factory workers. The middle-class will be hollowed out.
Yep. Poor Delaware.
There's a tool called Yarle, aka "Yet another rope ladder from Evernote" that helps you migrate your data to Markdown:

https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle

I was never a big Evernote user, but I did use Yarle to migrate some old Evernote data to Obsidian.
I haven't been there in a few years, but last I remember, at the Louvre, they had signs saying you weren't allowed to bring in weapons or explosives.

Sure, they didn't have a place for you to leave them and pick them up later, you were expected to figure storage on your own, I suppose.

You can also see such signs at train stations.

In France, it's very hard to legally own a gun.
The duration of the bank's loan book dictates how susceptible the bank is to rate changes.

If the bank holds everything in short duration T-Bills, then rate increases don't impact them negatively in any meaningful way. Of course, the whole premise of making money via banking is to get a spread over the risk free rate.

Fixed rate debt actually creates all kinds of distortions throughout the economy. If banks held all floating rate debt, then rate increases also wouldn't matter (outside of increased credit risk) as the rate hikes get baked into the interest they accrue on the loan.

Mortgages are another example of a fixed rate distortion. You can see how frozen the market is due to all of the fixed rate debt issued far below what a non-fed intervention market price would have been. In most countries mortgages are majority floating rate, which leads to better responsiveness of price to changing conditions. In the end it will trend back to equilibrium anyway, just takes longer.
Which is exactly why I always advocate for importing temporary labor from mexico. Letting the local tradespeople gain too much power is half the reason why building is so difficult in america.
Ha, yeah, I used the wrong term. :( Apologies on the confusion.

My main point is still on the "contra to my view" side, though. I'm skeptical that they are as good of an idea as stated, but evidence is positive on them.
> While GPT-4 is still workable, GPT-3.5 flatly refuses requests these days, claiming that as an "AI language model" it couldn't help me write code.

TBH, ChatGPT 3.5 has intermittently given me such responses from dy 1.
In the UK, small banks basically don't exist. The burden of regulation means it is impossible to run a 'mom and pop bank'.

Bricks and mortar banks are slowly dying too - they're mostly used by the old, and as that generation dies, the young are preferring all-online app based banking services.
Now instead of being out a hundred bucks and your license, you are out a life because this is america and a gun is $400 on the open market.
Brantley from BigHoops here. Ironically, I've never been a huge sports fan and don't ever really watch sports, but that said, I love doing social, fun things with friends that don't exclusively involve alcohol like at a bar, which is one reason why I love BigHoops.

Topgolf does this well but golf is a difficult sport and just not that much fun for me. Honestly, I think they succeeded in spite of golf's popularity (on-course play has been declining since the mid-2000s) by creating a terrific and more upscale experience compared to the more old-school entertainment dining of bowling (which has been catching up in terms of nice-ness). And if you pair a terrific experience with a sport that's more fun to play (also with a much larger market), I think there's a lot of potential.

I'm at brantley.beaird@bighoops.com if you have any questions :-)
How would you rank those possibilities?

- OpenAI is lying.

- Superintelligence is concealing itself.

- Everyone is hallucinating.
> Others suggest he's not smart enough or well dressed enough to be considered a real fascist.

If brains and fashion made the fascist, Mussolini wasn't a fascist.

But he was, totally, a fascist. Tbh fascism mostly attracts morons, just like the rest of the extremist political positions.
Why not just connect to a MUD?
They aren't too different from human neurons. Non-spiking neurons also use nonlinear membrane dynamics to integrate inputs into a signal encoded by the voltage across the membrane. The cell then outputs a neurotransmitter in response to its voltage. In the case of a spiking cell and a spike dependent synapse, synaptic release is thought to be all or nothing. While in graded synapses, synaptic release is a more linear (modeled as a less steep sigmoid) function of voltage. Spiking cells can also have graded synapses (at least in crustaceans, I don't really know about vertebrates).

The idea is that spiking is one way to have a more robust signal over long distances: Crustaceans often have nonspiking local interneurons and spiking projection neurons and motor neurons. The problem of fast, reliable electrical signal transduction over long distances is also solved by having more insulation (particularly in vertebrates) or having thicker cables (particularly in invertebrates).

Humans also have non-spiking neurons with graded synapses in the retina.
They've been "working on the reliability problems" for years.
First it was going to be the new hardware.
Then it turned out they were having new, possibly even more reliability problems with that hardware, lol.

Can't wait to get my car on NACS and never have to think of EA again.
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Ask HN: Is there a job board out there for listings in deep tech?
It seems like it's hard to cut through all of the SaaS companies to find jobs in deep tech (innovative companies inventing new technology). Is there a job board out there for this kind of thing?
Athena = managed Presto + managed Hive Metastore

I use a presto containers to mock Athena for local and CI tests + a psql container for metastore.
My experience with huge corporations is you don’t really need to “know a guy” to get hired a lot of the time - if you do, it’s a professional connection rather than a family-based one. Similarly you can often make it to the upper echelons at all the places I’ve worked without any kind of family connection - I won’t say “just by working hard” because I’m sure brownnosing and politics are involved, but not family politics.

Where I’m from a lot of family businesses/businesses that end up becoming functionally family businesses basically only hire family into upper level positions, which often function more like sinecures. You can argue it’s their right, sure, but I think it’s bad for society. You see it all the time in real estate, local banking and financial services (esp. wealth management), law, logistics or other local blue collar businesses (even medicine - it turns out when you’re an influential local doctor it’s a lot easier to get your kid into the local medical school). That is not to say that family connections are always meritless but I think it’s a big negative of small “family owned businesses” in locking outsiders out of opportunities for social advancement.

Regarding bigger banks being better - they can afford to hire really smart people whose work scales over all their customers. They have a much more diverse customer base which reduces risk. Local banks cannot do this as efficiently due to having less customers. I also personally don’t care about the human aspect of my bank at all - they provide financial products which are usually very comparable to those at other banks, and I prefer to do everything online by myself - so I see investments in that area as unnecessary and potentially wasteful (insofar as it impacts rates/terms/etc with poorer margins).
I claim a society where the cops can shoot an unarmed young man in the face with no repercussions is an unsafe society, and if people have convinced themselves that it couldn't happen to them, or that oppression of their neighbors is not oppression they need concern themselves with, they need to understand otherwise.
I remember working at a company that got frequently mentioned as “one of the best places to work in CITY”, and a few months into my tenure one of the HR employees circulated the website to go vote for our company on the “best places to work in CITY” website.

I think Glassdoor is basically grievances by employees, some of whom are unreasonable, and fake counter-reviews by HR/marketing. I generally just look at the complaints and gauge how unrealistic they sound.
There is the git send-email & co. I understand the extreme convenience of things like github and gitlab but as everything moves onto them it does seem we are becoming really dependent on a few sites.
Tesla rolls out customer referral incentive globally as EV price war heats up
> which mirrors the rhetoric today where people falsely claim that transgender people are "turning" children trans...

The number of trans kids doubled from 2017-2020[0]

Do you think that’s organic change?

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/science/transgender-teena...
Banks are inherently a 'bigger the better' business. A bank serving a single town goes down with the town, so you diversify to the next town over. Diversifying means now your depositors are less correlated and you have more scale for things like apps and online stores, and you have much more predictable losses on your credit portfolio. Bigger banks are more able to adapt to new technology (community banks have been the biggest lobbyists against most technological innovations in banking, and is part of why FedNow is taking so long to roll out). It's kind of like insurance: they can only exist because they offload some of their risk to bigger companies; the bigger you are the more efficient you become.

I mentioned in another comment about how most small banks closely tied to the local business environment and especially CRE markets. The difference between a single CRE developer being 5% of your portfolio when you're one tiny bank and 0.5% when you're a slightly larger bank is massive. You scale that up even more and banking gets more reliable and easier to manage the larger the banks are.

The fewer banks there are, the easier it is to provide oversight and regulate them. You have fewer institutions to coordinate when trying to push big changes, and what fewer institutions do exist are more resilient and able to absorb larger losses.
Can't tell you "exactly" because it's been so long. Might have been as early as '99? Was definitely using Ubuntu as a desktop from its literal beginning. Why?
Yeah, I self host a couple of gitlab-ce instances in Docker (one personal, one for work) and can recommend doing so. However, that's just changing where the points of failure are and who gets to do the work when there's failures.
A 17dB reduction in power is not 17 times less! It is a reduction by a factor of 10^(17/10) or about 50 times.
The Fed should be required to offer public savings accounts at the listed rate. Similarly, bank savings account rates should be tied directly to the Fed rate by law, not as a choice made by bankers:

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/federal-res...
Yeah -- OSR 1 (95 A), 2/2.1 (95 B), and 2.5 (95 C) were just that - OEM Service Releases.

Anything else would have been a direct fix package - such as the DCOM95 OLE Update, DUN 1.4, or Winsock 2 -- things that you only installed if you needed something that used those functions, and often would become bundled with the software anyways because users might not have been given those updates out of the box.

There was at least one XP-era update CD that I do recall - the Windows Security Update 2004 contained patches for 98 through XP and was available by mail from Microsoft.

http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=873&menustate=
In Chinese and Japanese animals are called 動物 “moving things” as opposed to plants 植物 “growing things”
Yep, I noticed the exact same thing. Glassdoor is a complete scam, and it has been for as long as I've had a career. I do not even check anymore.
>I saw an ATM reboot into XP kiosk mode the other week.

JFYI, there is a dedicated thread on MSFN.ORG for these sightings:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/176692-windows-xp-spotter-the-c...

Atm's and public signage (airports, metro and similar) are still common enough.
Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company should go electric now
"Everyone"!
I know it is, which imo is the problem. You shouldn’t have to rely on an additional third-party for your company to be able to commit, checkout, build, and deploy code.

All these startups who experience a 100% dev outage when github or gitlab go down are fundamentally broken.
I hate statistics like these. Are these the number of packages delivered to a few neighborhoods in a few months? Or the entirety of Amazon's load worldwide for a year? How significant is 150M packages exactly?

Instead they could have shared – % of active delivery vans that are Rivian, % of the total package load handled by them, % of all miles driven, emissions reduced...anything more meaningful than just one large number without surrounding context.
This is a base rate error. There are so many more trans people recently because it became socially acceptable to be openly trans somewhere around 2014. The watershed moment was probably Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Time.

Even among those of us who detrans (on the order of magnitude of 1%), at least 95% do so not because they were wrong, but because coming out invited reprisals which made their life too difficult to continue (losing home, family, job, etc.) The first study I was able to find puts that proportion at 97.6%. [0] My Fermi estimate puts your "so many" at one in 5000 or so.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213007/
You mean Threads*
Wire nuts are easy to fuck up.

Wagos are hard to fuck up.

That's why wire nuts cause fires and wagos don't. If I had a dollar for every wire nut I've ever fished out of the bottom of an electrical box, I'd be able to buy a nice dinner for the whole family, whereas I'd leave the dollar store empty handed if someone had forced those numptys to use wagos.
No, it's just old preexisting patches. In their FAQ and even on the front page they say continuing to run these operating systems is a terrible idea as they are highly vulnerable even after patching.
I thought the parent post was a joke, and then I read your link...
Yes, but you should never ever have to call.
The fact that you've had to call once is a problem.
The fact that you've had to call multiple times is a huge problem.

For this reason, I've never recommended a non-Tesla to anyone in US, despite having switched from Tesla myself. CCS network cars feel too much like a hobbyist / enthusiast situation for me still. Like 5 years of hoping they'd get behind the 2G iPhone on iOS 1.0 ...
Have you ever jumped in on a project with hundreds of "secondary sticky container hero-text" all over the code base? It is a woeful few hours (at least, maybe day or two) of cross-referencing all of these "semantic" class names to their definitions in CSS, and even then you are never truly sure if there is another rule overwriting your changes somewhere else in the CSS. And good luck if more than one developer has touched the code since you last saw it.
You are saying that it would be easier to cause chaos, but I'm not sure. I can imagine various ways of tampering with roads to cause disaster irrespective of the cars being self-driving.
> He's a Russian shill, imperialism apologist.

He's also a serial sex predator targeting minors.
Two points:

> The article is kind of all over the place.

Just mentioning this because I've seen previous HN comments that are confused by Matt Levine's article style, but his posts are basically "newsletter" format, where each section is essentially an entirely different article. Not sure if you were just referring to the first section being all over the place, but the fact that the other sections are on totally different topics is just the format.

As to the rest of your comment, I wholeheartedly agree, but over the past ~25 years I've had a very strong re-evaluation that this pursuit of "optimization" over all else has some severe negative societal consequences that most people really don't like. This massive consolidation has gone on across many, many industries that the Internet has affected, and it has decimated many parts of society. E.g. it's totally valid IMO to say that before craigslist and Google that lots of small, regional newspapers charged exorbitant rates for classifieds, but now that the internet has sucked up all that money, you're left with basically no "real" local newspapers in most smaller cities, and all the money that would have stayed in that community has been vacuumed up to the Bay Area or NYC. Again, to emphasize, not saying either way is totally "right" or "wrong", but I think Levine's point is that the inefficiency of local banking brought measurable benefits to local communities.
Hmm. Power is the ability to do what you will. Being able to convince people to your point of view is an extension of that. You truly do not think there is a connection between the two?

I do not want to assume, but have you considered why the movie tropes are so prevalent in the movie industry? Do you really think no one can think of anything new or.. there is a simpler explanation?