skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So let's test this approach out. In your view, is this man a woman?

She is a trans woman. She is a woman. Within the context of medical access, from what I can gather she has a penis, she has testes, and she doesn't take hormones currently (she might but a comment she made suggests she doesn't). That gender-non-conformance doesn't make her any less of a woman.

I'm not sure what your hangup is with respect to her? She very clearly present herself as a woman. And women with beards, sharper facial features, or deep voices aren't terribly uncommon nor do those aspects make them any less of a woman. Women like Harnaam Kaur exist and they are just as woman as any other woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB85apiZgFg

> Should he be allowed to whip his dick out in women's bathrooms?

Should she.

Should she be allowed to use a woman's bathroom as intended? Yes. No questions asked.

Now if someone was doing something problematic in the bathroom (flashing/exposing genitalia or breasts) and/or harassing other women in the women's bathroom then they'd need to be removed. Not because of their gender or because of their features but for the behavior. It's a very simple and straightforward concept.

> If actual women complained about his presence in, say, a support group for mothers, what would you say to them?

Her presence.

If she is a mother she should be permitted. If she isn't a mother/doesn't have children then there is an argument to be made for denying her presence there. If she has children but it was a support group exclusive to birthing parents then again there may be an argument. But more often than not those support groups aren't exclusive to birthing parents and they aren't even exclusive to women.

> Should he be allowed to join a women's boxing club and punch women in the face?

Should she.

And the answer is that it depends.

If it's at a competitive or professional level then she is subject to the rules of the club and if they require certain hormone levels to participate then that's the nature of the beast. I personally don't see it as necessary but if it's the requirements for participation then that's what they are and the best you can do is fight to change them.

Now if the club is a hobbyist or non-varsity/school club then absolutely they should be permitted to participate.

Either way whether they are technically permitted, I think they should be allowed to participate regardless of testosterone levels or anything else. Boxing is divided into weight class anyways so there's little flexibility for testosterone influencing being "bigger".

> And so on. I'm sure you get the idea.

I understand what you are saying but I just outright disagree. Trans women are women. Intersex women are women. Non-gender-conforming women (regardless of whether they are cis or not) are women.
I wonder how they determined which ones to test? I thought Orgain was a huge brand of protein powder but I couldn't find it listed.
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Technological progress is a classic multipolar trap - an arms race where rational individuals take action that harms society as a whole. If you decide to not play in the game, you lose the game. There will always be "defectors" that are willing to stay in the game and gain massive economic advantages over the Luddites as a result.

When you think about the power structures of the modern world, there are virtually no examples where the powerful have gained power by swearing off modern technology - that would be a political non-starter. But we do see countless examples of powerful technologists simply crushing the cultures that stand in their way. Rational people see this and act according to their self-interested desire to not get crushed.

All that is to say, I don't think a strike based on AI protection will succeed. A strike based on more fundamental workplace and human rights, possibly. But a reactionary anti-technology strike ain't going to happen.
I wouldn't place bets on anything Zuckerberg has to say for future predictions given how insanely overvalued social media companies are.

It's his job to keep the stock price up and people are keeping their ears tuned into "AI" as if it's some magical productivity panacea.
Being proud of something doesn’t mean you talk about it unprompted all the time.

I have several friends who are vegan. My point is that they don’t deny it–if you ask them, they’re happy to say “yeah, I’m vegan.”

But people who believe in things that are widely considered woke, like changing ‘master’ branches to ‘main’, usually will deny that they are woke or that they want to change the name for that reason. They’ll tell you it’s about common decency or not offending others and that it has nothing to do with wokeness.
> Consequently, for an LLM to predict the next word in a sentence generated by a human, it must model these processes.

No.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/22/24200536/windows-xp-ipad-...

For terminal emulation, you can use iSH.

An app is allowed to use the standard method to read and write to use the standard document storage API where any installed storage providers can be accessed - iCloud, Google Drive, DropBox, the local device, etc
The number of people making the claim is not small.

You probably just cut all the people out of your life who disagree with you.

That is the liberal way, these days.

Donald Trump, among the worst presidents the US ever had, won the 2024 election. This kind of nonsense was absolutely a factor.
Making sure employees feel valued does have a cost though. Managers spend a lot of time on this, and they have a high salary. Career growth, 1:1's, conflict resolution, comp adjustments, etc.

When managers' own heads are also on the chopping block in a tough job market, they're going to prioritize looking out for their own ass. If "leadership" is saying "boil the frogs or you're gone", they're probably going to do it. Even if they don't want to.
This is the whole premise behind transformers and ChatGPT models and has been discussed by Ilya[0].

[0] https://the-decoder.com/openai-co-founder-explains-the-secre...
Freezing the page isn't so simple, as overflow: hidden messes up things like the sticky header on that page. I had so much trouble with it, I decided to just let users scroll and hide the modal during scrolling: https://radogado.github.io/n-modal/
That's privilege talking. Not everyone is in a position to quit their jobs over the morality of implementing a pop-up.
An interpretation that made sense is "cybernetics" as the ancient Greek word for the one who steers the ship.
One extra level of indirection always solves everything.
I'm also confused that it seems that CA OEHHA which sets these limits has separate "No Significant Risk Level" and "Maximum Allowable Dose Level" values for lead, and the NSRLs are 15-58 micrograms/day depending on compound, and the MADL is 0.5 micrograms/day.

Why for lead is the maximum allowable dose much smaller than the no significant risk level? For other cases (e.g. benzene) where there are values for both levels, the MADL is higher than the NSRL.

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/general-info/proposition...
I guess it's the zero-hassle managed service that's the improvement rather than the DBMS itself
I suspect things are going to get worse before they get better as the oligarchs really start to ramp up their policies.
Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
FBI working to piece together drone that damaged super scooper
> creation of self in the age of social media

That's a large part of the field of Cyberpsychology, and of course there's quite a body of research already.
Thanks! As I said I am not in the business.

My impression is that bitcoins contain a lot of dark money. How is this handled then with regards to sanctions or money laundering for example?
Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact – sean goedecke
This is generally what we do and what raised our suspicions in the first place - they both could "walk us through" their code, but had trouble explaining why they did certain things, how they could improve things, etc.

We thought that the approach you've outlined would generally be good enough, and has led us to catch instances where people are leaning heavily on LLMs, but our issue now is that everyone appears to be using these things. Admittedly, our sample size here is low (n=3). But it's still frustrating nonetheless.
Youtube is also killing a lot of history channels because if there's any violence (eg war) they get demonetized, the algorithm avoids them, or they can even have their channels disabled. Most now blur out pictures of the holocaust, which negates a lot of the otherwise serious impact on a serious subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24QgMpvX3mw
Not sure how you reached that conclusion. The linked STELLA paper describes many post-Apollo improvements, both improvements implemented in STELLA, and star trackers like OWLS and AST 201. And it's not like progress stopped even there; the focus has been mostly on space exploration applications, but as the paper mentions the developments are somewhat applicable for terrestrial use too.
If only they had a genius like you there to inform them :(
Can one define the process of an adiabetic circuit goes through like one would do analogusly for the carnot engine? The idea being coming up with a theoretical cieling for the efficiency of such a circuit in terms of circuit parameters?
Meta Is Planning to Cut 5% of Lowest Performers, Memo Shows
https://archive.today/vso3L
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to test AI
I'm extremely skeptical of surveys like this, and more skeptical about how they're reported. A person's answer can vary from one hour to the next, and an entire cohort's answer can vary based on what's in the news today.

Then, when it gets reported, the article focuses on what gets the most attention. It reports on America, even though if you look at the survey's own data you find that American workers' engagement is higher than most of the world. It reports on a 10-year low, even though the overall trend is that engagement has gotten higher over time, and the current dip isn't very pronounced.

Because if they didn't do that, there wouldn't be much to report on. The truth is that there isn't. But, Gallup is selling this survey methodology, so.
How Diamonds Are Shaping the Future of Electronics and Quantum Tech
CFPB Sues Capital One for Cheating Consumers Out of More Than $2B in Interest
You also have companies like mine (very large) where we don’t even post job descriptions online but just hire through internal referrals.
Exotic 'Paraparticles' That Defy Categorization May Exist in Many Dimensions
The previous winter someone had overwintered no problem because they gathered wood early and knew how to fish.
Yes because implementing a pop-up is akin to murder.
Fired for accidentally misgendering someone, or fired for intentionally misgendering someone repeatedly, often for extended periods of time? The first is the situation being discussed, the second is the situation that actually happens.
Twenty Three Points on Microconsciousness
I'm sure we are going to see his treatise on the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court any day now, right?
interesting, thanks for the thoughtful reply

i guess i had a different understanding to a lot of people, appreciate the reply
This reminds me a lot of caprover.
GroceryDB: Prevalence of Processed Food in Grocery Stores
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11177926/
Dickens did it. And people have been doing it since the 1700s.

Not to mention, if you're using the word "literally" to mean "something that actually happened", you are also using the word wrong. Because it means "relating to or expressed in letters".

I also notice people complain about "literally", but they never complain about "really" which also gets used in the same ways even though it means the opposite.

And I've noticed people do it as a substitute for intelligence. They complain about these things to seem intelligent. To seem knowledgeable. But when confronted with knowledge that contradicts the complaint, they try to dismiss the knowledge rather than adjust their point of view. Similar with fewer/less. These words mean the same thing. There are no rules as to when to use one or the other. There was the preference of one guy, who even said that he had no reason for it, he just liked it. And people took that as an ironclad rule. Or the gif debate. People try to invent all of these rules, but get pissy when you point out all the places where English does not follow those rules.
That's what I thought too. But after 5 years of gym, I wasn't neither bigger nor leaner.

The diet at home was "good enough" - because every unchecked diet is "good enough", regardless of composition. That's what everyone says about their diet.

Turns out diet is 60% of gym gains. I'm saying this with no steroids at all.
Honestly, in-person communication is vastly overrated. If a decision is made in a meeting, you better hope someone thought to document it. If we are planning something that requires engineer feedback, hopefully you’re quick enough (and confident enough) to come up with your questions in realtime.

I’d rather move most of this stuff into slack or confluence. It’s more egalitarian, and it has the added benefit that I can search and find the past conversations to reference them later.
Obama isn't progressive!

He's not using the progressive definition, hes using the conservative one, just like PG is. Both are wrong in this aspect.

>Is is the progressives who have decided unilaterally that woke is now a pejorative that racists use to demonize progressives and doesn't mean what it used to mean 5 years ago.

this is incorrect. I welcome you providing some sort of "proof" otherwise?
No, but see, it's called the _Democratic_ People's Republic of Korea. It's right there in the name.
I wasn't aware there were actual users needing bs > ps yet. Cool :)

That should be a completely trivial for bcachefs to support, it'll mostly just be a matter of finding or writing the tests.
Or possibly find your friends and build relationships. Understand the motivations of the people you work with and identify ways to align your goals with theirs. By focusing your energy this way you'll help craft a healthy dynamic rather than be subjected to existing dynamics.

It's probably also worth figuring out who holds power and authority. It's not always based on org or chart.
Reminds me of this quote: "The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." -They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45[0]
[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
Yes, I would agree a hybrid approach is ideal too.
- Let the owner pick a land value freely

- Calculate land tax based on that

- If someone offers the owner more than the value they picked, they have to sell

:-P
You think they said "fire hydrants are empty, guess we'll just wait for it to burn out?"

> Water pressure in the system was lost due to unprecedented and extreme water demand to fight the wildfire without aerial support. This impacted our ability to refill the three water tanks supplying the Palisades causing the loss of suction pressure. This impacted 20 percent of the hydrants in the area, mostly in the higher elevations. As soon as LADWP identified the risk of losing water in the tanks and water pressure in the system, we immediately deployed potable water tankers to sustain support for firefighting efforts.

https://www.ladwpnews.com/pacific-palisades-fire-correcting-...
> The added bonus of replacing laid off tech staff with overseas contractors is another morale booster.

Woah, woah, they're not overseas, they're "Virtual Employees" now. You're not supposed to look behind the curtain.
I think "looking for the perfect candidate" is the most common reason by far.

Great developers with domain knowledge are always possible to fit in, simply because they are money generators rather than a cost.
It’s not uncommon for Hindus from northern India to worship Sikh Gurus alongside their own deities. Similarly Sikhs often visit Hindu temples. This is generally not seen as unusual.

While there have been some instances of tension between the two communities, things are not as bad as media might suggest.
Thanks for taking the time. I recently switched to a CentOS/SELinux box for tunneling traffic to my homeserver and appreciate knowing that nothing happens unless explicitly allowed. I'll take a look at how I might set that up on the container side of things too.
His view counts seem cooked to me. I would be interested to see what countries his viewers are claiming to be from. This article even reads as a guerilla upsell that his numbers are legitimate.

Surely the urge to cheat is unbearable with millions of dollars on the hook. (Alot of apps on the app stores also claim to have quarter million 5 star reviews. Uhhuh)
Well you were an unusual sort of developer.

Collecting knowledge of various technologies-of-the-now isn't really a point of pride in the field, unless you're aggressively doing résumé driven development, which is a short term win, long term lose strategy.

But yeah, I'm glad you've come to see that. And yes, just use Postgres. As I like to put it, unless you have a really good reason not to use an RDBMS, use an RDBMS. But we're living in an era where bootcamp grads come out knowing only JavaScript, and MongoDB lets you make queries that resemble JavaScript, so it becomes that thing of "real professionals choose technologies for which there is a large talent pool".
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Just as a reminder to those in the US — while regular employees have rights to organize, "supervisors" are not subject to those protections, and attempting to organize in your workplace can be lawful grounds for dismissal. While there is some jurisprudence regarding supervisor status, you should be very careful as most highly-paid software engineers who are in any way involved in hiring meet at least some of the checks defined here: https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/nation...

(11) The term "supervisor" means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.

I am not a lawyer but if you are considering getting involved in workplace activism, I strongly recommend that you consult with one.
This is really where SELinux had the right idea overall: preclassifying files with data about their sensitivity, and denying access based on that, does adequately solve this problem (i.e. keeping npm installations away from id_rsa).
Starbucks ends its 'open-door' policies
We are currently seeing an undeclared capital strike against workers.
LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters
NPM packages VS Wordpress plugins ... I think it is a head to head race there.
Yep, after layoffs, took a severance break and started a small company with friends. TC is less of course, but your sanity is part of your TC :D.

Checking back in with my friends who I left behind I made the right decision.
Assembly isn't portable? Wow! You must be some type of genius! I'll start calling newspapers
If you are not logged in, your search history may be "not associated with you account", but it still is associated with you.

It's more a matter of whom do you trust. Private mode in browsers still gathers unique user IDs, fingerprinting is widespread and fairly precise. The "logged in" part doesn't change that much.
I looked into similar projects and the business model seems to be that you pay for certification, they do the test, and they certify your product if it passes.

So if they publish poor performers, then it kills their business model because nobody would want to pay for certification if they risk getting revealed as a poor performer.

BTW ICP-MS lab tests are like $100/pop which is probably why nobody has a table of real data.
>out of ~500 applications

Yea, the process is eating itself. Recruiters automate screening and applications automate submitting, so there is so much noise, it's difficult.

I'm not saying there aren't ghost jobs, I'm just saying an already arduous process is even more so with automation being leveraged on both sides.
The raffle was fun!

I will say though, the mail service has been down twice in the last 2 months, and as a relatively new user, I've been less than impressed. I don't think I would use it for any commercial undertaking.
At one of my previous companies, I recall suggesting to my CEO that we open some job postings "just in case" the right person comes along. He candidly noted that we already have open job postings, and gave me access to the email they all went to.

I saw over 3,000 applications made over the last 2-3 years. Tailored resumes. Cover letters. This wasn't some LinkedIn "quick apply", these were direct "Fill out the form" on our website. Not a single one of these applications got read.
IMO Staff Eng and line managers are both jobs where you may not write a lot of code, but the ability to write code is nevertheless a critical skill for the job.
I almost never use Chrome-based browsers, but recently was forced because debug points were simply not working on Firefox. You can strawman all you want, there are unfortunately technical points where Google is abusing its position to force its standards, but the primary architects of Firefox downfall is Mozilla.

For the record, I used a Firefox phone for many years (and yes it did cause me a lot of problems), and remember vividly when they announced a luxury Firefox phone about one week before killing the project.
is this really that big a problem? they give you free refills on coffee and iced tea.
> Knowing this is possible, however, I'm not as scared by the job search as I once was, since I know that when I someday decide to look for my next job, I'll know more of the qualities of the places I want to work at.

Knowing what qualities to look for, them still existing, and being able to find them... are 3 different things. :)
There is still embedded ads or promotional content or whatever that you can only block with sponsorblock
No, sucrose is split practically instantaneously into fructose and sucrose in the gut; you have an enzyme, sucrase, specifically to do it. The process is complete seconds after sucrose enters your small intestine. The process of getting the glucose into your bloodstream takes far longer. Where did you get this idea? I've heard other people say it too; there must be a source for it.

You said, "So excessive consumption of high fructose corn syrup is more harmful than excessive consumption of plain corn syrup or of sugar." This appears to be plainly false.
Vonnegut also uses this in Mother Night.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
interesting work!
Thanks for your reply. It would include normal restaurants too but the only options available would be veg. Including normal restaurants that have veg and non-veg options is important as I have found that the best food is in restaurants that serve both.
>The windows can all be closed and the menu is still there.

I'm a few macOS versions behind what's current, so it's possible things have changed, but historically in OS X/macOS your description applied to apps that could have multiple windows. Any app that could only have one window—for example, System Preferences—would quit when the one window was closed.
/giphy "first time?" meme
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