skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gender is cultural & down to presentation

Or in other words: rigid, reductive ideas of what it means to be female versus male.

What the trans activist movement has done is redefine "woman" as being someone who identifies with sexist stereotypes about women, "man" as someone who identifies with stereotypes about men, and so on. While also claiming that everyone has an identity that aligns with sexist stereotypes and this is more important than sex.

It's just the same sexism that social conservatives champion, but modified so that instead of saying that women (female) and men (male) have to conform to cultural stereotypes of each sex, they are instead defined by these sexist stereotypes regardless of sex. From "women should wear dresses and makeup" to "the people who want to wear dresses and makeup are women".

And on the back of this misogynistic nonsense, insisting that single-sex spaces should be reorganized on this basis. Then getting this implemented in law and policy.

> so why call trans-women 'males'

Firstly because males in female spaces is the actual contentious issue. Secondly because it was an attempt to avoid a prolonged discussion of arguing if "woman" means adult female of the human species, which is the common understanding, or whether "woman" is the word used to describe anyone who identifies with the set of sexist stereotypes that are typically imposed upon female individuals. Thirdly to avoid being sidetracked by complaints of "misgendering" if I refer to them as men.

> Are you actually willing to recognize that they feel as strongly as their chosen gender as you do with your own

I'm willing to recognize that some males have an obsessive desire to be women, one that is based upon their male gaze perspective of women. This does not somehow transform them into women, and there is no good reason why actual women and girls should be expected to accommodate these males who desire to be women in female spaces.

> and that it hurts them to be demonized and misunderstood by society

Then let them take the first step towards avoiding this, by taking responsibility for their actions and voluntarily refraining from any attempt to use spaces designated for the sole use of the opposite sex.
The main problem with that approach is it makes rigging the 'elections' trivial when probabilistically every result is equally as plausible as another.
> I think we should pass a hacker news law via referendum (that's a thing, right? It should be!) that any article mentioning quaternions must also generalize to Octonions ….

Given how much weirder octonions are than quaternions, I think that's mainly a recipe for not learning the most interesting things about quaternions. I'd rather hear about the connections between octonions and exceptional groups on one hand, and let quaternions be good at what they're good at on the other hand, and let the twain meet only as circumstances dictate.
Has there been any public comment about this from Entrust yet?
Never heard of an umlaut being used for a ditto mark, usually it’s a double quote: "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_mark

Guessing maybe there’s some keyboards which were missing quote/prime characters but had umlauts?
It looks like "500M of evolution" isn't a description (however indirect) of an iterative process, but a metric that measures differences in results:

> But in order for ESM3 to solve its training task of predicting the next masked token the model must learn how evolution moves through the space of potential proteins. In this sense, ESM3 can be thought of as an evolutionary simulator. A traditional evolutionary analysis of the ancestry of esmGFP is paradoxical as the protein was created outside natural processes, but still we can draw insight from the tools of evolutionary biology on the amount of time it would take for a protein to diverge from its closest sequence neighbor through natural evolution. We find naturally occuring GFPs with similar levels of sequence identity are separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Using an analysis similar to one might perform on a new protein found in the natural world, we estimate that esmGFP represents an equivalent of over 500 million years of natural evolution performed by an evolutionary simulator.
It's an attitude that benefits powerful people, and it's held against people who have no power.
Couldn't agree more fully. It's a shallow lens that's not very good at prediction.
> Money was (effectively) free so it was better to increase speed regardless of monthly bills.

Jesus this. No one knows where the money goes. If you can't tell me cost per customer, per user then your business is missing key metrics.

> ... "discovered" that troubleshooting Kubernetes was a bit like Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus waving incense in front of machines they didn't understand in the hopes that it would make the problem go away.

Wackamole with problems...

The part where he talks about the death of QA.. yea. This is enshitifcation in action.
The problem is when hardened system administrators and DBAs were replaced by people who were certainly not worthy successors. As that transition took place, a lot of the added value was eliminated.
To be clear you are completely materializing that without any data. The data we do have are import numbers. You say it’s a lot of hoops but looks like you can buy one of these sub 10k from an importer. No hoops and in a reasonable price point. Supply and import demand paints the picture.
I became homeless in SF 6 years ago, probably would have been out after like a year if not for pandemic. Same program over and over, feels like I'm about to get off the street again 3 hours outside SF. Housing here is so reasonable. $1,000 for a 2 bedroom right in town. Plenty of employment. Not saying where I am until I'm off the street. But I've been working on survival guides and my 'Homeless Guy' vlog videos are popping my channel off.

We really need to get homeless people distributed to small towns. Centralizing them in big cities is so backwards. There are indeed 2+ strata of homeless as another has mentioned, I'd call them addicts and life happened-ers. I'm the latter, life happened and pandemic and more life happenings made it into a complex/non-linear situation.

Literally been working 6 years to get like $20k to fix my life with. Used to be a software engineer, got into a legal dispute and that messed me up bad, gotta get into housing before I try to fix that and then try to get back into tech. Not interested in free jobs that I don't go through the normal pipeline for, happy enough working as a dish washer / grocery clerk for the past several years. I'm not available by email or phone, too difficult to communicate logistics. Can't wait to get back to meaningful tech work tho.

I'm one case, the life happened-ers are all different. But I think getting them to small towns to rebuild is definitely the way. Really easy for me to save money and nobody knows I'm homeless, just very very slow. But it's fair and sustainable.
Yeah, here's a quote from the 1.50 release post last week:

> Although Theia IDE is still in beta, the steady progress suggests that we will soon be exiting the beta phase.
Why do so many people like monorepos?

I tend to much prefer splitting out reusable packages into their own repos with their own packaging and unit tests and tagging to whatever version of that package. It makes it MUCH easier for someone to work on something with minimal overhead and be able to understand every line in the repo they are actually editing.

It also allows reusable components to have their own maintainers, and allows for better delegation of a large team of engineers.
On some level, the answer is likely none because there's not much in it for them. That said, cities declare themselves as "sanctuary cities" well enough so it's not unreasonable to think this could be extended - although immigrants provide more economic benefits than the unhoused.

Still, it doesn't have to be ungrounded in numbers. Take GDP per capita for a city, normalize it by cost of living, and pass a federal law saying cities are only required to support an unhoused population that represents a percentage of the normalized cost burden.

Cities already bus unhoused people to other cities to try and shift the burden of responsibility. We could at least orchestrate the process in a way that fairly divides the economic cost. As it stands, it's just whoever acts faster and with fewer morals benefits and relatively poor areas with desirable outdoor weather shoulder the burden.
> We have a lot of things that need doing in this country which can't get done when obstructionists stand in the way.

I think calling people who oppose your policy ideas “obstructionists” is a neat ad hominem, as if the only reasonable position is yours.

What you’re lamenting is that you can’t force an agenda without people agreeing — and when they refuse to agree with you, your agenda can’t happen. While you say “most Americans”, factually, you lack a majority for your agenda: you’re a minority trying to impose itself.

That’s democracy.
I dunno man, I work at google and this comment feels like circlejerk. It's not held to THAT high a standard. We absolutely commit janky MVPs and iterate.
Depends on the model some of these really struggle over 40mph.
Sad story to read.

It is almost as if it is better to have failed out early than to spend your prime years trying to break it into the top 100.

Classical music, art, poet, writers, pro athletes all fall into this category.
About 3 in 10 Americans would seriously consider buying an electric vehicle
correct, that's why i said 'iron that never melted'
I’m less concerned about scammers ripping me off

What I don’t like is the emotional energy it takes to filter them out.
Is anyone aware of the feasibility of research into using LIDAR to detect CAT? This study from last October claims to have found a method for detecting CAT ahead of time with LIDAR: http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023Photo..10.1185Z/abstrac...

This type of technology would be incredible in my opinion, and I’m also of the opinion that increased turbulence (assuming it is actually increasing) could be easily tied to climate change and the recent warming of the pacific and Atlantic oceans due to regulations on sulfur in cargo ship fuel (but that’s a tangent to this topic)
I definitely agree most companies should use a monorepo. Most companies don't need Blaze, though.

And the whole rollout system was excellent. I wish that tech was standard but I have a vague idea of how much work that would be to implement and few companies will be able to afford to get that right.

Edit: I forgot to mention - I absolutely hated Cider and all of the included plugins. Sure the code at Google was fine but the code editing experience destroyed all of the fun of coding. Is that function signature correct? You'll find out in 45 seconds when the Intellisense completes! And when I was there Copilot was a thing outside of Google but we were not allowed to use any AI (even Google's own AI) to write code. The whole situation was so bad I wrote a few paragraphs about it in my offboarding survey.
The common language most often used when people from Japan, China, or South Korea visit each other’s countries is English. All three groups of people are more likely to know English than either of the other two languages. The same can be said for the remaining group that doesn’t include people from those three countries.
> Would you rather it had a JSON dependency to parse a config file, or yet another poorly thought out, ad-hoc homegrown config file format

Ok, but you didn't write that, and thus they responded as such. Snark was still unnecessary; they made a simple statement in reply.
Just to add, they have a really great archive site: https://classic.esquire.com/
Yeah I have no objection to punishing them, they clearly glossed over the details in their marketing, but they're hardly the first to do it. I'm not surprised that "we'll never raise prices" didn't turn out to be true, that's all I'm saying.
I don't think anyone's suggesting to take the CSV RFC and do a find/replace on the commas.

For one, I think you'd almost certainly use Record Separator, and \r and \n would be normal text characters inside of a field. And no trimming spaces.

And the behavior upon encountering corruption isn't really up to the spec, is it?

Headers might be more trouble than they're worth, but if they're in I'd say they need to be mandatory. One code path.

You'll find yourself with a much less broken format.
Sure, but there’s quite a bit of this stuff. Contronyms will often allow identical phrases with opposite meanings. Left can mean to leave or to remain. Dust can mean to add a fine power to something or to remove it by dusting. Sanction, Bolt, etc there’s quite a few words that mean the opposite or something close to it.

Words with opposite meanings can end up converging. ‘That’s cool’ and ‘that’s hot’ sometimes have the exact same meaning depending on context.
The numbering scheme was a hint: there were no politicians involved with a ballot initiative. This is what demagoguery combined with direct democracy get you.
I'm not sure, but I sure am not renewing my subscription either. I stream on a PC, and I have not once been able to watch a Disney+ show at any resolution higher than 720p, despite following all of their troubleshooting steps. They "scan your system and connection to determine the best resolution" (paraphrase), and don't allow you to choose the resolution. After talking to their support half a dozen times and escalating my request, I have seen no improvement. I'm convinced it's deliberate.
I was on the early Netscape team and you guys were always cooler than us by a mile IMO. Markets aren’t always about best.
Meeting someone is something different from receiving a personal training on the first day, which was 2 days ago at the point of the story.
That would be consistent with the stories I heard about what hot garbage their Server Software was. The fact that it was where most of their money came from was problematic. It was not built to be a cash cow.
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I do think that the free Netscape browser was the genesis of the free-app-with-strings-attached quagmire we are stuck in, but I can’t blame NS for that because one of the browsers Netscape was competing with, the one Spyglass employees seem to leave out of the Browser Wars rather conspicuously, was NCSA Mosaic. Which was developed under grants from the National Science Foundation and thus given away for the public good.

It’s hard to compete with free. And the NSF asked several times if they should still be funding it.
I'm saying he used for moral relativism as a way to rationalize his immorality. Foucault's "Fashionable Nonsense" was problematic because it rationalized things like pedophilia which he also strongly advocated for in public along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
> He approached understanding of the nature of the speed of light by realizing that a universe where you could travel as fast as (or faster than) a light ray would have consequences that we didn't see.

A sound wave could be outrun though. I don't see any step in why a such an philosofical approach would apply to light but not sound?
> It's hard to keep a consistent UX across platforms if you're reimplementing things for each OS.

Funnily, I thought that was the point.
yeah, i guess i don't really know how long-lived supercaps are. just as a rule of thumb i figure that they'll probably fail soon just because they're full of liquid, but that's not an infallible rule; maybe they're long-lived

a 10-farad supercap at 2.7 volts could hold 36 joules and would still fit in your pocket, so you could totally charge it up with a pullstring. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/tecate-group/TPL-... is 10mm diameter, 31.5mm long, and it's rated for 1000 hours of life at 85°. the datasheet projects that at 25° it will last 10 years with ±30% capacitance change and no more than 2× increase in esr. 53 years is 465000 hours but maybe at a low temperature and low voltage it would last that long? maybe it'll be 32× increase in esr but not a problem?
What is "the ACJ decision from last session"? For that matter, what is ACJ?
Unless you're working with Quantum Correctness.
What is the relevant population of prisoners who could be in a profit system? I have seen that only a small single digit percentage of prisons are for profit. It would be great to estimate the scale of those so I understand if this is a base case or edge.
In this case, an alternative was the city providing a homeless shelter. The only shelter in town required those staying there to participate in religious activities. So the homeless people had to choose between (1) arrest (2) forced religious participation, or (3) leaving town.
If you use that software daily, I would disagree.

I remember all my (good) instructors.

More so if the lesson was 2 days ago.
The only reason the answer is always 20 years from now is because governments have withdrawn funding to such an absurd degree that projects have to take long, well measured risks otherwise they lose their funding versus rapid iteration of projects with high risks of failure (and high costs).

This is ultimately a capital game and without enough capital researchers and engineers have to go with the safest bets lest they lose funding. So you get ITER which will almost certainly work but has taken forever to build because it's a gargantuan feat of overengineering in all the ways that matter to make sure it works.

And for what it's worth, ITER's new baseline schedule will be announced this upcoming Wednesday (July 3). Likely first plasma will be in the next 2 or 3 years with first fusion operation some time between 2035 and 2040.
I mean, what's holding you back from using neovim? Great plugins, same LSPs, anything that's missing you can code up yourself in Lua, works over ssh... what are you really gaining by using VSCode?
Too snarky.

Common law works very well in practice. Law is a problem that is impossible to solve optimally. Civil law has plenty of weak points - like every complex system.
Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Rule in Blow to Agency Power
This reads more like interpretation is at fault rather than the actual ruling. The SC ruled in favor of the state(s), as in the fining for that reason is not unconstitutional or an overreach.
I guess if you're a 16 year old with an IQ of 85 and are stoned out of your mind Foucault cooked Chomsky, sure why not. lmfao. get out of here.
I don't know which app GP is specifically referring to, but on Apple TV

1. Open the app
2. Go to a show
3. Wait for the little preview of the show to start playing
4. Click the "Watch Now" button
5. Enjoy hearing both the audio of the little preview and the audio of the actual show playing on top of each other until you force quit the app.

It doesn't happen every time, and I'm not sure exactly what has to be done to get it in this state. But it's happened to me 4 or 5 times.
For now, you may want to use VSCodium [1], which is a variant of VSCode which doesn't ship any non-free components (and also doesn't include Microsoft telemetry and such).

[1]: https://vscodium.com/
Embattled Alzheimer's Researcher Is Charged with Fraud
I fully admit that I don’t have a great civics teacher, now more than 20 years ago… but I don’t think this is true? Can anyone else weigh in here?

Edit - wow this is actually true. From white house.gov:

> An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification
My friend was working on the browser team and showed me a demo one time when we stopped by his work. It was a picture with text around it, which you could already do with WordPerfect and Word? So can we go do that thing now?

The following summer I applied to work there. I did not miss the next several shifts in the market, but eventually got tired of chasing them.
I'm surprised by how verbose some of these new APIs are, like:

Objects.requireNonNullElse(str, "default")

or even worse, if you need the right-hand side to be evaluated lazily:

Objects.requireNonNullElseGet(str, () -> "default")

while Javascript's null-coalescing operator allows writing this so much simpler:

str ?? "default"

str ?? getDefault()

(And not to mention the fact that the null-coalescing operator can also be used for conditional assignment, for which Java has no option at all!)
If you are interested in more about how mechanical watches work in general this is a pretty amazing set of animations: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Ok, thanks for the feedback. I thought our "how it works" was pretty clear, but also simple for people to understand. It's a narrow path to wander.

By "regulating skeletal muscle tone" do you mean as an input? Or as a target?

We've mostly focused on neuro, though we did an experiment in Vagal stimulation, but you could never be sure what you were measuring, so we ditched that and focused on the area with the most research.

PTAS (the technical term for the stimulation) has considerable amount of research behind it with impactful results.

Always keen to learn more if there is something in muscle tone you think we should be looking at.
Well, add one grateful reader to your tally
The Gemini-powered copilot is fine, but has so far, for me, only done automated like "heres a simple method based on the comment you wrote", or "I patched in a change to the other callsites when you renamed this thing". I have also not used it in 2 months so it's probably better already.

I still mainly do my LLM assisted coding in chat-style interfaces that are more like pair programming by mail.

I think the Gemini code assist is coming out as a consumer product, I forgot the name, because Google is awful at branding.
> most cities with a homeless crisis today don't exactly have the spare jail capacity to actually enforce anything like that

I've never heard of a jail capacity shortage in America, so could someone provide some data on this?
It becomes a somewhat circular argument. Through their ruling of Marbury v. Madison, the court declared the Constitution as law. Article 3 of the Constitution gives the court judicial power to interpret law. Therefore, by their own ruling they gave themselves the power to decide what is (or isn’t) constitutional.
The Theia editor.
> It would be extremely weird, not to mention distracting to say high to everyone when I walk to my desk.

All you have to do is attempt to make eye contact and smile.
A commonality between myself and friends who are also childless by choice is the experience of effectively raising our siblings. These most recent years of adulthood has been the time in my life where I didn’t feel responsible for watching over someone else. Why would I want to sign up for more of that?
"Most of the recent widely publicized CAT injuries have been on long distance flights between Europe and South Asia."

OK but you'll need a citation for your assertion and that is only about reported CAT via media sources and not what the article is on about - CAT events worldwide.

The article invokes evidence across the entire planet and cites Prosser et al with 1979 vs 2020 graphics, evidence and discussion. It also concludes that jet streams are where CAT events are intensifying.
JWZ is a skilled and noteworthy hacker, in the sense of HN.

IIRC, he decided a long time ago that he'd had enough of crazy startup life, and bought a nightclub, and somehow kept a nightclub going all that time.