Everyone has their own unique story for going through the process. For example, someone close to me believed they were F2M, and mid-transition, learned instead that they actually liked to express themselves as feminine but wanted some features granted by the hormones they took. Once they got what they wanted, they stopped taking hormones. I’m not sure that’s the same as a “detransition”, but it answered a lot of questions this person had and ended up helping them with their body dysmorphia (which was what the goal was in the first place - not necessarily to fully transition, but to address their discomfort with their own body).
In this case, it seems like this person did fully transition, but they were unable to adapt at first to the transition (largely due to their environment). I’d imagine this kind of story isn’t super uncommon for people in environments that won’t accept them transitioning, where they feel the need to change themselves back to satisfy society until they can either accept that their environment will reject them, or find an environment that will accept them.
This seems super useful! Personally speaking, I’d also love to see more effort done in general to simplify consuming and producing the JSON-LD (and ActivityStreams vocab) used by these federated services as well, as it’s been something I’ve been trying to tackle myself for a while now (turns out it’s really hard to do in a statically typed, non-dynamic language, from my experience).
Or, in the US at least, signing the bill at a restaurant and writing in the tip (many places also take signatures on electronic devices these days). Or, in work and academic settings, writing on a pad to take notes (many, but not all, schools/classes allow students to take notes on electronic devices these days).
I don’t think I’ve been required to use a pen that wasn’t provided to me in the US in years. In other countries, I have though, with Japan being the most recent example I believe. Those situations are extremely frustrating, but when a pen is provided, I generally don’t mind. I can’t see it being some big conspiracy about pens though - unless you consider the slow adoption of technology in general a conspiracy, which I’d be more open to.
Ohio officials rejected a plan from Democrats to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot after the party scheduled its convention past a state election deadline....
You don’t need a LLM to see if the output was the exact, non-cyphered system prompt (you can do a simple text similarity check). For cyphers, you may be able to use the prompt/history embeddings to see how similar it is to a set of known kinds of attacks, but it probably won’t be even close to perfect.
KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years....
Wow, imagine listening to your employees. I know there are people who like to work in the office, and there will always be a need for one to be there. I work better at home though. There are fewer distractions, I get my own office, and everything I need is within a short walking distance (food, water, etc). I don’t need to chat with my coworkers every 5m. I don’t need to see their faces to discuss system design, nor do I care much about how they’re dressed or really at all what they look like. If my manager wants to see if I’m productive, he can see what tasks I’ve finished, which is what he should have been doing to begin with anyway (he was, at least in my case) because faking productivity is easy af.
We do meet in the office once or twice a week though to get through all our team meetings. I find that to be a good compromise, because those meetings are often better in-person since we get lunch together afterwards and such.
They don’t need to be in person, but there’s no reason a fully-local team (like ours) couldn’t have in person meetings now and then. The main appeal is lunch though (which you could do over a call as well, but if you can do it in person and everyone’s fine with that, then why not I guess?).
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with fully remote, but I don’t see any reason local teams can’t have in person events if they want to either. We mostly meet in person for the meetings/events, otherwise it’s “work where you want” basically.
Bikes, unfortunately, won’t help many people with their commutes. The drive alone can be over and hour, often several hours. I’m sure some people could bike that, but most people would rather not do that twice a day.
Better public transportation as a whole could be helpful though. BART has been improving over time, but it’s hard to say that it’s enough (or that it ever will be at this rate).
Maybe the difference can affect some people, but housing/rent prices in and around SF are astronomical, and I know of several people who can only afford where they live because of their commute. They’d love to bike to work, trust me.
Better bike infrastructure by itself won’t solve the problem. It wouldn’t hurt, but the core of the issue is the cost of living around where people work pushing them to live far away from their workplace. And no, the people I know can’t just look for closer jobs. I’ve asked. The jobs don’t pay as well.
Both would be good, one does not need to exclude the other. Neither is going to be enough on its own though. More EV availability would overall reduce carbon footprint, but more can be reduced by increasing biking availability and encouraging it more where possible.
I can say from experience though that the $40+/hr parking in some areas of SF make me never want to drive there again though. BART does help though, since you can get around SF pretty well on public transit alone. Other cities in the area also benefit from BART, but not as much, and could generally have better public transportation (busses and such).
I’m confused by this comment. The entire Bay Area is closed to SF. No single city there is not close to it, and people commute from the entire Bay Area to SF. Not everyone commutes there of course, but traffic patterns primarily cause traffic towards that city in the morning and away in the afternoon.
Each other city in the Bay Area also have their own jobs and individual traffic patterns of course, but housing prices are expensive in the entire Bay Area, often increasing as you get closer to SF but also to other city centers. The cost of living in the entire Bay Area is prohibitively expensive to most people, with people often needing to compromise between proximity to work, the size/quality of their home/neighborhood, having roommates to help pay (I have friends who have roomed in groups of 4 to cover rent), etc. SF isn’t the only expensive city in that area.
It might help if you explain what yours is. Perhaps you’d like to elaborate on why saying most cities aren’t SF is relevant in any way to a discussion about an article about the Bay Area?
It sounds like a bill hasn’t been proposed yet (if it has, I’d be interested in a link). Let’s assume legislation like this passes though. Could some anonymous account upload copyrighted material some other malicious person created to a website like YouTube and have YT shut down as a result? Could this be automated too, and put such a massive burden on the website that it can no longer operate? Is this what is being proposed? If so, half of me wants to see the storm that ensues and the subsequent investment by all major tech companies in increasing internet anonymity, especially around hosting (but it’d probably be better to avoid needing to change the entire internet in the first place).
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Hasn’t nuclear fusion been out for a while? I thought the sun did that for us.
I also doubt quantum computing would make its way into the consumer market in any practical form for a long time. To begin with, there needs to be a demand for it, and as far as I can tell, there’s not really any application the average consumer uses that can benefit from quantum computing. A fission power plant, on the other hand…
The cat is out of the bag and despite many years of warning before this and similar technology became widely available, nobody was really prepared for it - and everyone is solely acting in their own best interests (or what they think their best interests to be). I think the biggest failure is that despite there being warnings...
From the quotes in the article, I have to agree with drawing that line. On the one hand, making a non-profit mod using AI-generated voices has no opportunity cost to the actors since they wouldn’t have been hired for that anyway. On the other hand, and this is why I am leaning against training AI voices off people at all without permission, it can cause actual harm to the actor to hear themselves saying things they would otherwise be offended by and wouldn’t ever say in reality. In other words, the AI voices can directly harm people (and already have, according to the article at least).
Everyone here is saying not to use Discord, but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter? Like sure, hate Discord, but the problem here clearly lies with Nintendo.
I agree there are probably better options out there, but scrolling through the comments, I had seen a lot of discussion about Discord and not nearly as much on Nintendo. I was hoping to stir up more discussion on Nintendo’s involvement.
Discord’s reaction may be unreasonable, but it isn’t ridiculous to see them bend over for Nintendo when they’re faced with hosting a smaller community (relatively speaking) or becoming a target of Nintendo’s lawyers. Had they been on another platform (self-hosted or not), Nintendo would have likely persued them all the same. Also, as far as I’m aware, the developers themselves believe that they are within the law. The issue comes from Nintendo disregarding the law and harassing them anyway.
Is the expectation that Discord will risk spending potentially millions in court with Nintendo to protect a single community? From their perspective, it’s easy to see why they’d just bend over.
Discord’s response was extreme, and that is inexcusable. I’m not trying to defend them here. The core problem here though is Nintendo harassing these developers to try to stop these projects. They could have easily been kicked out by any other platform, or sent a C&D if they tried to self-host one.
I don’t remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo’s involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.
without allowing any sort of measure.
This is what I find unacceptable in Discord’s case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.
I agree with the conclusion, and the exploration is interesting enough that I think it was worth sharing. Still, while the author seemingly knows this already based on their conclusion, it’s still worth stressing: these kinds of microbenchmarks rarely reflect real world performance.
This toy case doesn’t have many (if any) real world performance-sensitive applications. At best, using shapes in games comes to mind, but shapes there are often represented as meshes, and if you really need the area that much, you might find that precalculating the area once is more impactful on the performance than optimizing how fast the area is calculated.
Still, the author seems aware, and it seems to just be the author sharing their fun experiment.
If by parallel you mean across multiple threads in some map-reduce algorithm, the compiler will not do that automatically since that would be both extremely surprising behavior and in most cases, would make performance worse (it’d be interesting to see just how many shapes you’d need to iterate over before you start seeing performance benefits from map-reduce). If you’re referring to vectorization, then the Rust compiler does automatically do that in some cases, and I imagine it depends on how the area is calculated and whether the implementation can be inlined.
Detransition is Gender Liberation, Too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing. (drdevonprice.substack.com)
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)
Why is using disposable pens still common practice?
Why not buy one decent pen “shell” and then just buy the plastic tube with the tip and the ink afterwards?...
Ohio GOP leaders reject Democrats' plan to get President Joe Biden on November ballot (www.usatoday.com)
Ohio officials rejected a plan from Democrats to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot after the party scheduled its convention past a state election deadline....
Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions (mbin.grits.dev)
Credit to @bontchev
Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay (archive.ph)
KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years....
EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint (news.berkeley.edu)
these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get
The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the First Amendment Protects (www.eff.org)
Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning (www.eurogamer.net)
The cat is out of the bag and despite many years of warning before this and similar technology became widely available, nobody was really prepared for it - and everyone is solely acting in their own best interests (or what they think their best interests to be). I think the biggest failure is that despite there being warnings...
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance in Rust (chrs.dev)