MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d6e | 2025-06-21 04:19:12+00:00
> The predominant approach back then was not to suppress incongruent gender identity. The approach was to take a neutral stance and neither foster not suppress the patient's gender identity, called "watchful waiting".

The clinic involved in this study actively was known for conversion therapy. Zenneth Zucker is one of the authors and is famous for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Zucker#Therapeutic_int...

The head of the child and adolescent gender identity clinic at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, has made a career promising the parents of intersexed and transgender children that he can make them “normal”. His method, called reparative therapy, in which children are pushed into assigned gender roles and discouraged from behaving or dressing in a way that’s counter to their ‘assigned’ sex, was once standard practice, but in recent years, has been increasingly scrutinized. A 2003 report in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry called his techniques “something disturbingly close to reparative therapy for homosexuals,” and author Phyllis Burke has questioned the idea that transgendered children should be treated as mentally ill, saying, “The diagnosis of GID in children, as supported by Zucker and [his colleague J. Michael Bailey] Bradley, is simply child abuse.”

https://www.queerty.com/dr-kenneth-zuckers-war-on-transgende...

I imagine a conversion therapy clinic would issue a study that their conversion therapy works. I wonder how long those kids stayed "desisted" or if they were just pressured into the closet again only to transition later in life.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-21 04:19:44+00:00
> I'm probably the most scolded user on the site, that's still alive, lol.

If you want to feel better, check my comment history. I have also been scolded by mods and senior users here, and I haven’t always handled it well in the moment, to my great shame. The fact that I’m still able to post here is thanks to much gracious hand-holding, patience, and generosity of the mods and legacy users.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-21 04:19:48+00:00
There are a series of things that can be wrong both with the hardware you plug in and with the plug itself. Things can straight up be wired in the wrong order, grounding can be done incorrectly so there's more than one path to ground which among other things causes there to be a voltage difference between the neutral wire and the ground wire, corrosion or bad connections can cause similar issues.

The first cheap test you can do is buy one of these plug testers that diagnose some of the more direct problems you could be having for about £10, don't necessarily buy the one I linked, but do a little research and pick something that seems right.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/QUILLE-Socket-Display-Neutral-Testi...

If you're having those kinds of problems, it wouldn't hurt to contact a local electrician and quickly describe the issue and ask what it would cost to diagnose.
by euleriancon | 2025-06-21 04:19:58+00:00
While I strongly doubt this fully disables tracking, you can at least disable your watch history on youtube which will have the effect of the recommendation algorithm not adjusting to your preferences.

You can change it from Google account > Data & Privacy > History Settings > youtube History

If you have youtube premium + a general purpose ad blocker + disable watch history its really hard to tell if you are being tracked.

If you do decide to disable watch history, be prepared for just how terrible the median youtube interest is. All recommendations become beyond worthless.
by o11c | 2025-06-21 04:20:08+00:00
Beware: most USB-to-SATA adapters do not work with HDDs, only SSDs

One USB A-to-C adapter I particularly like is a cable with adapters tied to each end, so you can use it for any combination of (A or C host) to (C or micro device).

FM transmitters you have to be slightly careful - they need to get power somehow; think about how that will happen.
by stiray | 2025-06-21 04:20:24+00:00
People dont understand how world works. Management reward are tied to earning more money. As long this is true, the next year, the reward will be tied to earning even more. The more you pay, the more it will cost. And when people wont be prepared to pay more, alternative model will be invented, like adding ads to paid content. There is only one way to stop this - break it from the start and make it nonviable, don't pay.

They are trying to block ads blockers as some manager wasn't able to get reward. Or is worried he wont get it. And this means that money that can be collected from ads has peaked. Now come the "optimizations", now payable, then no longer free, later payable with ads, then they will squeeze content creators, that will move to other platforms where you will have to pay for multiple platforms where you were once watching it for free on YT.

Sounds familiar?

Made it as short as possible, but this could be wall of text, from comparing to what happened to streaming services etc. Without piracy (not advocating but it is a fact that it forced publishers into internet model) we would probably still buy content on CDs and DVDs, maybe BluRays.

Greed of infinite growth in finite system has destroyed the planet and you can bet it will destroy YT too.
by Waterluvian | 2025-06-21 04:20:43+00:00
It’s absolutely #%^*ing insane how bad and often inappropriate the ads are, to the point that I swear YouTube is in growth trouble. It feels like there’s just management layers who need their bonus or promotion, driven by some percent growth or some KPI so their standards are at the floorboards. I’ve seen porn in the still frame ads on mobile once (much worse than Evony Online if you remember those ads…)
by mkl | 2025-06-21 04:21:29+00:00
1. They sometimes are. The imaging here uses a telescope. (Coronagraphs work on Earth-based telescopes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronagraph.)

2. They don't need to be. Most telescopes aren't trying to image the corona of the sun or another star.

3. Space-based telescopes are really expensive and have significant limitations on size, shape, mass, etc.
by armada651 | 2025-06-21 04:22:52+00:00
And this is exactly why calling for "prison abolishment" is so counter-productive, because when most people hear that the assumption is that everyone who's in prison right now is free to go.

It does not help your cause to adopt a motto that espouses a more extreme position than you actually hold and both your supporters and detractors will feel betrayed when they learn your position is actually more moderate.
by bcantrill | 2025-06-21 04:22:56+00:00
For whatever it's worth, baseball is actually headed in the opposite direction: the cut in the MLB draft to 20 rounds has made college baseball more important at the elite levels, not less. That, coupled with the fact that schools can't relocate/threaten to relocate (Rays, White Sox and especially my fellow A's fans know this pain!) makes being a college baseball fan easier.
by anthk | 2025-06-21 04:24:32+00:00
So, like my Dillo (mainline) setup with a Lynx or PSP User Agent. Or, maybe, Mothra under 9front.

Often CSS-disabled web sites look better if you set the UA to the ones from Lynx/Links/PSP/Opera Mini. Google/DDG them.

On DDG, just use https://html.duckduckgo.com
by wombatpm | 2025-06-21 04:25:37+00:00
Here is another one: Don't trust ops when they say they have backups. I asked and was told there are weekly full backups, with daily incrementals. The time came when I needed a production DB restored due to an upgrade bug in our application. That was bad - thank $DEIITY we have backups.

OPS: Huh, it appears we can't find your incremental.

ME: Well just restore the weekly, its only Tuesday.

Two Days later.

OPS:About that backup. Turns out it's a backup of the servers, not the database. We'll have to restore to new VM's in order to get at the data.

ME: How did this happen?

OPS: Well the backups work for MSSQL Server.

ME: This is PostgreSQl.

OPS: Yeah, apparently we started setting that up but never finished.

ME: You realize we have about 20 applications using that database?

OPS: Now we do.

Lesson: Until you personally have seen a successful restore from backup, you do not have backups. You have hopes and prayers that you have backups. I am forever in the Trust but Verify camp.
Show HN: AI based app building with browser containers
by dinwal | 2025-06-21 04:25:56+00:00
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by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 04:26:10+00:00
You're better off getting a preowned Pixel to flash with a secure ROM in this scenario. Getting an iPhone won't help if you if later down the line Apple decides to push an OTA update that forces the same functionality. A Pixel won't protect you from every vulnerability, but it goes much further towards stopping these sorts of attacks than the iPhone does.

Now hey, I won't suggest that Apple would stoop as low as Samsung has here. But discerning customers might not want Tim Apple's phone if he's been cozying up to a crusty politician that can remember to stay for dinner but can't recall his name.
by asadotzler | 2025-06-21 04:26:57+00:00
Your 500 and 600 miles per fill-up is the kind of outlier that isn't much worth discussing. That kind of range can't be more than about 5-7% of US autos.

My car (Mazda3 hatch) gets 24 mpg, which is actually typical for US mid-sized cars.

I have a 3-5 minute gas station fill up every 260 miles or so, basically once a week. The Chinese MG4 does 435 miles on a charge, 95% of which I could charge at home, the remaining 5% of my miles are my twice a year road trips @ ~400 mi (to LA) and ~800 mi (to Seattle).

The MG4 makes LA without a stop and Seattle with 1 stop.

That's a once a year stop for ~30 minute in the EV compared to 3-4 hours a year sitting at smelly gas stations for my Mazda ICE.

I would certainly trade never having to ever take my car into a gas station, ever again, for one brief stop once a year on my leisurely road trip if I had the cash to buy a great EV.
by Manuel_D | 2025-06-21 04:27:14+00:00
Kenneth Zucker won over half a million dollars in a defamation lawsuit over these false claims. Your own link covers his successful defamation lawsuit, but you seem to have ignored this:

> After his dismissal, Zucker sued CAMH for defamation and wrongful dismissal.[3] In October 18, CAMH settled with Zucker for $586,000 in damages, legal fees, and interest and released an apology for the report falsely stating he called a patient a "hairy little vermin".[3][46] CAMH removed the report from its website and apologized, and replaced it with a summary of the report which has not survived a move to its new website.

Is it intellectually honest to post CAMH's accusations against Zucker, but neglect to mention that they were sued, paid out a settlement, apologized, and removed this report?

And again, what about the other three studies that all saw desistance rates over 70%? Even if you want to ignore Zucker's results on the grounds that he practiced "conversion therapy" (despite winning his defamation case...) it's not the only study conducted on desistance rates absent puberty blockers.

> I wonder how long those kids stayed "desisted" or if they were just pressured into the closet again only to transition later in life.

You don't need to wonder, just read the study: they followed up with patients over a decade later. By comparison, much of the research attempting to study the benefits of puberty blockers only follow up 1 or 2 years later, yet few seem to point out that this is a small duration of time in the context of a child's entire future adult life.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-21 04:27:46+00:00
> same reason that's where we're at with gas cars

Why are we at that with gas cars?

Electric cars will carry a thousand pounds of battery to get that much range, while a typical gas car will only be equipped to carry a hundred pounds of fuel, using less than a third as much space. It's not even 5% of the car's weight.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-06-21 04:28:09+00:00
Female-to-female RJ45 couplers ("join adapters" as described by the article) have been very handy in my experience. They're cheap enough that I don't mind leaving one now and again. It's so handy to be able to unplug something, splice in my laptop / tap / etc, and quickly return things they way I found them without rerouting the original cable. It's also handy when you don't have a long enough patch cable with you but you do have a couple shorter ones.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-21 04:28:42+00:00
I hear you, and your concern is real for your context.

But to be fair, not every product has to perfectly fit every context. To be successful a product can fill a small niche, or it can appeal to a large market- it doesn't have to satisfy every use case.

So you're right - driving 1000 miles with no downtime is not an EV strength. But the percentage of the market doing that is tiny. Conversely the proportion of people who live in a house (home charging) and drive < 100 miles a day, is huge.

Even for those doing a "once a year road trip" - well, hire cars exist.

So I completely agree that an EV is not useful to you. I would suggest though that a product can be massively successful, while at the same time appealing to a subset of the market. And appealing to a subset does not limit validity or indeed profitability.

Lipstick seems to be a successful product, despite only appealing to something less than 50% of the market.
by 4b11b4 | 2025-06-21 04:28:57+00:00
The link is to the Test Driven Design rap. Obviously, this is some A1 slop! but I mean...

...Check out the rest of this YouTube channel's videos... lol... all so recent.

You can follow up the above heat with the CORS track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZrK8dzTHs
by anonymars | 2025-06-21 04:30:42+00:00
In favor of what? The Android ecosystem is pretty lousy. Which manufacturers allow you to easily migrate to a new phone (Samsung has Smart Switch) and have, let's say, 4+ years of security updates?

Genuine question.

In my case I also wanted an SD card slot so it was slim slim pickings indeed. (And still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress!)
by bobmcnamara | 2025-06-21 04:30:52+00:00
> This isn't even the same material (plutonium vs uranium).

Please note that these are both chemically and radioactively harmful to people.

> Sure, there were plenty of bad nuclear waste disposal programs in the early cold war, but this has quite limited relevance to nuclear power generation.

That's what they said in the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s...

> In order for an unknown harm to occur, harm first has to actually occur.

Nuclear power is an incredible technology, but understand that the nuclear industry has done little to earn trust. Just feels like an abusive ex plastered on the porch shouting "it'll be difficult this time I've changed" and doesn't inspire confidence.
by bcantrill | 2025-06-21 04:31:36+00:00
A postscript on this piece: unsurprisingly, the piece has especially resonated with parents of NCAA athletes, and I have since heard from parents in a wide range of sports (lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics) saying that the piece reflected their own experiences. It also resonated with athletes themselves, and anyone who liked the piece should check out the discussion that we had about it with a former colleague of mine, Robert Bogart, who also happens to have been an NCAA champion swimmer.[0]

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/diving-in-w...
by bell-cot | 2025-06-21 04:32:20+00:00
Is this Internet 2.0 just for a supposed 0.01%, who would be happy to pay all the associated costs out-of-pocket, while ably serving on the non-profit boards which ran the whole thing?

If not - well, there's a lot of evidence that 99.99% of people are willing to put up with all that shit, so long as they get an endless stream of shiny new click-bait which is minimal-effort & mostly-free-seeming.
by defrost | 2025-06-21 04:32:53+00:00
If the goal is learning more about Groups, Fields, etc. there are several options of what to do alongside reading the text here; use the provided rust code, write code of your own in language of choice, use pre existing CAS software that has abstract algebra operations, use pencil and paper (there were not that many CAS options back in the early days of scaling the Monster Group .. it was dissected with a mix of envelopes and programs).

GAP and MAGMA a worth a look (GAP is included in other math software, eg: SAGE and is open source, MAGMA is commercial with education discounts and free student options)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAP_(computer_algebra_system)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMath

* https://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group
by hirvi74 | 2025-06-21 04:34:31+00:00
> This is one of the things that kills me. Even in broadcasting TV, you get typical :15, :30, :60 ads with the occasional :45 or longer :90.

You are absolutely on to something. I think the seemingly random length of ads makes them feel somewhat more jarring to me. I also hate how sometimes the ads are just randomly interjected into a video. I know creators can control this to some degree, but older videos seem to suffer more.

I have had ads on Youtube that were hours long. Obviously, at that length, they can be skipped. I know have some kind of 'trauma response' that when I watch Youtube on a computer while laying down, AFK, I have to have my wireless mouse in close proximity in case one those long ads appears. If I could predict the intervals in which the ads occurred and for how long, then I would probably just let them run and tune them out of my mind.

Regardless, I swear Youtube serves me such long ass ads as a punishment sometimes. Sadly, my suspicion is supported by extremely weak evidence and confirmation bias. I'll just say this... Sometimes when I get served the same ad too many times, I report the ad for something like being offensive, inappropriate, or whatever. The ads seem to never come back, but I swear within a day or two, I start getting longer ads -- even movie-length ads. I have also reported ads if they happen to be something like +30s and unskippable. This makes the ad instantly dismiss (or it used to, at least).
by zabzonk | 2025-06-21 04:35:29+00:00
Well, it is not so much of a problem as just strange. I have had my brother, who knows a bit about power circuits, do some testing on my current house, and it seems OK. But sometimes, and only sometimes, metal shell things plugged into the UK mains via 3-pin UK plugs will do the throbbing stuff. And as I said, this happened in multiple houses, with multiple PSUs and laptops and other stuff.

I dunno.
by doodlebugging | 2025-06-21 04:36:21+00:00
Calling all crypto-bros. Unfavorable commentary needs to be countered, again.

LOL

Every new scam reported just reinforces the perception that bitcoin and other shitcoins are the preferred exchange media of scammers and other criminals everywhere. It turns out that proposing a payment methodology that allows one to operate outside all the usual controls imposed by traditional regulated monetary systems causes those who desire to escape criminal accountability and need to operate in the shadows to adopt it as the default mechanism for managing asset flow into and within their criminal enterprises.

Does that help you?
by jiveturkey | 2025-06-21 04:36:36+00:00
> I honestly doubt that any B2C or even the vast majority of B2B relying parties do verification of attestation statements

It took Apple to implement passkeys, for FIDO auth to become as popular as it is today. Apple does not attest because they were lazy. So yes, AFAIK only a few finance sites require attestation. (For internal auth, many IdPs can optionally require attestation, from limited signing authorities. Through federation this attested auth can be used elsewhere but I don't know of any mechanism for asserting that to any relying party.)

Yes, lazy. They knew that passkeys needed to be portable to other devices. Otherwise backups (well, recovery) would be impossibly difficult, as is the case with U2F today. The way the keys are passed around by Apple does not expose them, but they didn't bother to build an ecosystem where an attestation could also be portable (think: Security World). Why bother (it's fairly hard) when you can just not attest, and you have the weight to force everyone to accept it anyway? As long as you are within the Apple ecosystem, using a legitimate hardware-generated passkey, the attestation doesn't matter anyway. So screw everyone else.

FIDO should have rejected this approach but from the very beginning they were captured by the largest corporate interests.

Now to get back to your doubt, if a registration is attested, I would be surprised if it is ignored.
by wavemode | 2025-06-21 04:36:47+00:00
> Somehow, the introduction of UX designers into the field has marked an era with worse user experiences across every platform.

I often get the sense that every company with a large design org is doomed to eventually ruin its own user interfaces. All those designers aren't being paid to just sit around - gotta justify the headcount to the people approving budgets. If you aren't developing new products then they will instead be tasked with redesigning existing ones, whether or not this is necessary, beneficial, or was ever asked for by users.

I've seen it happen too many times with too many companies to not notice a pattern.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-21 04:37:07+00:00
Ok, list some legitimate uses of bitcoin that actually exist in the wild outside of speculation and doing something once for the novelty of it that would require a bitcoin ATM in a gas station in Texas. There's four stories: speculation, money laundering, black market drugs, and "one time in 2012 I bought a pizza and that money would have bought me a mansion today".

>Are you saying the gas station owner has some liability?

Sometimes, yes, helping create a situation makes you partially liable even if the individual pieces of what you're doing are legal.
by epakai | 2025-06-21 04:37:07+00:00
I love having so many little daptery-doos. My best hack is storing them though. I have a two tier desk, 24" deep main surface, and 10" monitor 'shelf'. I keep a half dozen tiny adhesive drawers under the shelf so they're always at hand.

One for flash storage + usb dongles, another with every usb adapter + short cables, audio things + usb power meters, pens, and other stuff. It is so nice being able to quickly use almost any device without a scavenger hunt first.