It's literally something that helps maintain a physical aspect associated with a person's gender. Granted, hairloss can happen to anybody, but baldness is highly predominant towards the male population.

I don't understand, is your argument that curing baldness is mostly for trans because it help men get rid of male pattern baldness?

Many men aren’t happy about balding, especially earlier in life. They feel distress at their body not presenting the way they want it to (with hair!). hence, gender affirming care.

I've never heard anyone argue that men with no hair loss are less manly so no I don't think it counts as gender affirming care.

I have man boobs, I guess fixing that would technically be gender affirming care because I'm embarrassed of having female features, but balding is really a stretch.

Baldness IS a male trait. preventing baldness is about looking attractive, not about "being a man."

But male pattern baldness is a male trait. So to affirm, wouldn't it be more of this? Men getting their hair follicles removed to emphasise this male condition.

It doesn't really make any sense to say that preventing a natural feature of men from progressing is being done to affirm men.

And among those men notably both the current President of the USA and Donald J Trump

What? I never said that. I was explaining gender affirming care. It's not a trans exclusive thing necessarily.

It's baldness that's associated with gender, not the lack of it.

But the interview process is a mockery.

You're not necessarily wrong but maybe a bit naive about what cutting edge research entails.

This is such a brain dead solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Why push for digitization?

Because it works, quite well actually. It isn't that hard or expensive. And it's convenient. Why push for the old stuff? There's absolutely nothing fun about having to queue for some TSA prick for two hours after a transatlantic flight who hates his pointless, miserable life (and rightfully so). All that stuff can be automated these days.

TSA does not do border control, and in fact border control is usually relatively fast compared to being re-screened through security (TSA).

Edit: It's convenient if you are a digital native, but elderly folks, among others, will not find it easier than a physical passport. The push to require everyone to have a digital device to participate in society is troubling to me.

I guess if that's how you feel about it, more power to you. The day I get away from almost all tech will be a good day. Also I get that TSA sucks but I don't think they deserve the vitriol you're throwing.

Water is wet.

Why does it matter what Terrance Tao thinks? Genuinely I find this obsession with what some specific math researcher thinks about x topic bizarre.

What do you think of it?

Tao is a Fields Medal winner and widely regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematics of his generation. He also often tests these models in good faith.

Why wouldn't someone wish to know what he thought of this new advance?

Because who cares? There are any number of mathematicians out there, why put so much value on one "thought leader"? I just find HNs obsession with knowing what one particular person thinks odd. It's a consistent reoccurrence.

There are not many mathematicians on Tao's level to put it mildly. And evidently, lots of people care lol. Yes people are interested in what an expert has to say about a potential advancement in their field. This shouldn't be hard to grasp.

Ok. I'm fine agreeing to disagree.

> It’s one thing to be upset and angry about capitalism and businesses.

Right, we should all continue grumbling about it for the rest of our lives as law and government intended. Nothing will change and the meat grinder will continue churning. Imo, this line of thinking of "they're angry and upset in a way that upsets me!" is easily exploitable towards complete inaction.

Also I'm so sorry but having sympathy for effective oligarchs? Come on. Wishing their death might be a bridge too far but at best these people deserve ambivalence, not pity.

It's never an easy thing to do or one that should come to fruition, but yes, I would contribute to the effort for my country if it was so.

You would be surprised how many people have no idea what "machine learning" means (not even technical definition but just as in the field). I'm working on a PhD in an adjacent field and basically have to tell people I work in AI for them to have any semblance of what I do.

I don't think telling people that have no idea what machine learning is that you work with 'AI' is giving them any semblance of understanding what you do.

No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.

My only problems with Podman is the lack of up to date repos across systems, the fact that the latest raw binaries are managed by a maintainer out of the goodness of their heart, and that the VS Code extension ecosystem for managing pods is not integratable with the existing Docker stuff (and the replacement extensions are woefully underdeveloped).

Otherwise it honestly is great and preferable over Docker.

I won't deny that the outdated repos was a pain in the past, but ever since ubuntu got to version 4 it's been working flawlessly for me.

I think version 4 was where podman became a reliable tool, whereas I found it to be flaky and unreliable in previous versions.

I don't use vs code extensions for managing my containers, so I can't say much about those, but I wonder if many of them won't work fine with an alias for docker and maybe the podman-socket running.

Its broken with alias but what's this about the podman-socket? Do you know where I can take a look at that?

I think you can use the VSCode Docker extension if you enable the Podman socket.