MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Manuel_D | 2025-06-22 20:29:01+00:00
You didn't link to a randomized controlled trial. You linked to a meta review. This is just reading and summarizing past research publications, not a RCT.

To date, no American study has been conducted that randomly assigned patients into groups put on blockers or not. That's the best way to study the effects of blockers: Have psychiatrists identify a group of 100 people that they think should be put on blockers. Flip a coin to assign 50 of those patients into a control group that doesn't receive blocker and the other 50 do. And then monitor their lifetime outcomes.

This is how the Finnish 2019 study functioned, and they found no improvement over the control group (and the country stopped providing blockers a year later). American gender medicine researches argue that it's unethical to conduct an RCT and deprive have the patient sample access to life-saving care. But of course, they don't know that this care is beneficial - let alone "life-saving" - until they actually compare the outcomes against a control group.

It's unfortunate that the rollbacks in America had to come from politicians instead of an internal process from the medical establishment. But ultimately, North American gender medicine has thus far refused to conduct effective research into the efficacy of medicalized youth gender care like their European colleagues. Politicians, and the public, have recognized this.

If proponents of medicalized youth gender care want to try and justify that this treatment is necessary, they ought to actually do randomized controlled trials. If we have cohorts of children expressing the same levels of discomfort with their gender, and the randomly-assigned treatment group sees better outcomes than the control group, that is a much stronger piece of evidence than only having a treatment group and baselessly claiming that the control group would have fared worse.
by elcritch | 2025-06-22 20:29:07+00:00
> Can you explain to us what the genocide in Gaza is?

A population caught up in a horrible conflict. In part due to the choices of the leaders they've supported for decades now.

> I need a thorough explanation of the images I see out of there. What the hell is 50k dead and ghetto camp conditions?

They're the same tragedies as those from most of the other war torn areas in the region. I hate to say it, but Gaza is at the "risk of famine" while the Sudan and Yemen are in full on famine. There's also two orders of magnitude more civilians suffering in Sudan currently as well. Similarly in Yemen, which is being bombed routinely by Saudis and Americans which include innocent civilian deaths. I've not heard of one anti-Saudi protest by Muslims in the west in recent years.

Where's the constant Wester or Muslim outrage for the 100,000s or millions of civilian deaths directly caused by Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah or more throughout the region by extremist Islamists?

You can also find the recent videos of interviews with Palestinians where they praise and thank Trump for giving the food (GHF) while they curse Hamas for hoarding the food and using their children as war fodder.

Did the media also show you the videos of the Palestinians in Northern Gaza protesting Hamas for being terrorists and killing their children in March? Many of them understand who started and wanted the war. They call it war and blame Hamas.

Does that justify all the actions of Israel? No, but I also believe Israel also acts to prevent the worse from coming around. They supply water, food, and aid while the other military forces like Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc do not do that for their enemies civilians. They regularly provide bombing warnings and evacuation notices to civilians, unlike pretty much any other force in the region.

Does the IDF also have bad actors and commit war crimes as well? Yes, but most Israeli's don't want or support that.

> But here is the true mind fuck, 1200 != even one innocent.

Tell that to almost any nations at war. There's always civilian casualties. For the Israelis it's 1200 today, and in their experience it'll be another 1200 tomorrow, and 1200 the day after and so on if they did not attack back and remove Hamas. 50,000+ dead is terrible but the statistics of civilians to combatant casualties are similar to other conflicts in the region, despite Hamas being internationally known for using civilians as shields.

Where's the constant outrage for the 150,000 dead in Yemen due to the fighting there and the 227,000 dying of famine and the ghetto conditions there? The conflict in Palestine isn't that unique in the region except that the media covers Palestine far more. The double standards on display in the west are absurd and masterfully exploited by the Islamist extremists spearheaded by Iran.
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by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-22 20:30:40+00:00
I don’t see what’s absurd about paying a buck for the convenience of bottled water when and where you want it.

Or paying $15 for a year of someone keeping a content blocker up to date.

Maybe you are completely desynchronized from what people find valuable.

That you start valuing software at $0 because someone is producing it for free is a sad part of open source.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-22 20:31:13+00:00
> seemingly something happened by the democratically elected government of Gaza on 10/7

Gaza doesn't have a democratically elected government, and one of the reasons Palestine (of which Gaza is a region) does not have a democratically elected government is that Israel has exercised its power as an occupying power administering large parts of Palestine directly and controlling the rest indirectly to prevent elections which have been jointly agreed on by the two main factions.

And they’ve done that specifically to maintain the current violent and divided status quo, which they leverage as pretext to continue their long policy of genocide.
by csislktok | 2025-06-22 20:31:35+00:00
I don't see a video on the site you linked, but I do see a subheader

>In That Number ... 1 million

With a link to https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-battlefield-woes-ukrai...

which has a PDF: https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2025-...

Which has a pageful of sources for the numbers
by kennywinker | 2025-06-22 20:31:37+00:00
I understand the sentiment, but if you accept the premise that idling vehicles harm everyone, which they probably do - via air quality, foreign wars to keep oil flowing, and climate change - then why should we not fine the heck out of anybody who harms us all?

Don’t like getting reported by randos with apps? Don’t idle.

My only beef with the law itself, is that the fines need to be income-linked - otherwise it’s only illegal if you’re poor.
by jleyank | 2025-06-22 20:32:39+00:00
Ottawa is building homes hands over fists. The problem is that the houses are out in the (distant) suburbs and the jobs aren't. They're downtown or in the northwest suburbs... So, as nobody permits WFH, the commute is going to start looking like a parking lot for a bunch of hours each day.

And I doubt they want affordable 300 sq ft condos or 1200 sq ft houses. These kinds of things were one of the reasons housing was cheap "back then". 6x inflation since the early 70's and 2-3x house size makes a big number.
by vineyardmike | 2025-06-22 20:33:34+00:00
It’s just a game of cat and mouse. I dont think there is a way to “win”, because it’s so easy to make new graffiti, and not practical to try and police and catch people in the act. I think they require private property owners to clean their own graffiti, which really sucks, but makes it more manageable for the city to focus on public areas.

The city really just has a queue of cleanup sites and priorities locations that are high visibility or important, like school yards or transit infrastructure. An elementary school nearby had its mural destroyed by graffiti, and it was cleaned up within a day.
by throwaway219450 | 2025-06-22 20:34:05+00:00
Let's assume the amount is fixed. One approach is to ask to re-frame the position to be better value.

Ask for working hours that effectively pays you more per day, like an 80% contract at the same comp. If they mumble HR and hours, offer to do 4x10 hour days. The magic phrase in corporate is "flexible working". This doesn't solve your comp going up, but you get a 3-day weekend and 52 more holidays a year.

This one even works at intensely bureaucratic organisations like universities. With grants, the amount you can be paid is very fixed, but almost anything else can be approved if three people sign off on it.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-22 20:34:09+00:00
"Web search was a waste of time long before the Apocalypse."

Difficult to find anyoone who will acknowledge this given the amount of mooney involved.

One search engine website pitched itself as having a mission to "organize the world's information". However search != organisation. The information the company was searching did not belong to them. It was outside their control. It generally remains disorganised.

The mission was actually to copy the world's information, intermediate access to it and sell advertising services.

The company did not sell "organising services" to information publishers. It sold online advertising services to advertisers.

Intermediating access to information was nothing more than a tactic to asemble audiences for advertising. The mission was to sell online advertising services.

Organising information for web publication is still an unsolved problem. (The problem of vast amount of disorganised information on the web remains unsolved.) Information that is organised is more easily searched. If organised well-enough, it can be generally be browsed without searching.

Utrustworthy, unethical coomputer nerds found ways to make money from the disorganisation. They became wealthy and were celebrated as being "successful". ^1 As such, it is difficult to find anyone who will acknowledge that relying on "search", where the algorithm is properietary, secret and can be still gamed by "SEO", etc., was deeply flawed. Flawed not in the sense of it offered no opportunity for making money. Flawed in the sense it ultimately does not work well for locating the information sought by the searcher.

If the wealth from intermediating access to information via "search" begins to dry up, then perhaps the fundamental flaws of web search will (again^2) be acknowledged.

1. NB. No one has been successful in organising the information published on the web.

2. As they were in the 1990s when one search project claimed (falsely) it wanted to counter the effects of advertising on "search" and remain in "the academic realm" only to then become the dominant web advertising services company.

It makes sense that product searches might be effective because product infomation tends to be organised.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-22 20:34:27+00:00
It's not just reading comprehension, it's the imagination that goes with it.

Text is active. It triggers the imagination. Visual imagery - especially electronic imagery - is consumed passively. What you see is what you get.

Especially with Gen Z, there's been a catastrophic collapse in the public's ability to imagine anything that hasn't been pre-digested by Hollywood movies, video games, D&D, and anime.

It's the same stock imagery over and over and over.

Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible.

It's a bizarre kind of deja nostalgia - the only futures that can be imagined are the ones that have been imagined already.
by jt2190 | 2025-06-22 20:34:30+00:00
Interesting. I think there’s definitely a “meta-game” that negotiation requires you to prepare in advance if you want success. For example, knowing if the job opening is in a “cost center” or “revenue center” for the company, or how the job is funded. Clearly a well-funded department can offer more salary, and a revenue increasing job can pay more than a cost-savings one, since revenue has no upper bound and savings is bounded. Companies that have high revenue per developer can pay more in general. Companies that have to compete globally for talent have pay more than those that only have to compete in a local market. I can go on but you get the idea.
by bmgoau | 2025-06-22 20:34:47+00:00
You forgot the last bit: Russia takes over Ukraine, deposes it's government, kills more people, erases it's culture and identity, snuffs out one of the few nascent democracies. Sends a message to all over regional and mid powers: if you want to just take over another country, even a democracy right on Europe's doorstep, you can. China invades Taiwan.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-22 20:34:52+00:00
You have it backwards. A perfect detection rate for crime makes it much more important that we define conservatively what we even consider to be a crime in the first place, and then what kind of punishment we levy upon it.

You also have it backwards because it already reliably makes society better for you. Take the case of Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak, who spent seven years documenting covert payments that steered doctors toward Biogen’s multiple‑sclerosis drugs illegally. When the United States Department of Justice settled the case for $900 million in 2022, Bawduniak received roughly $266 million, or about 30% of the federal proceeds, under the False Claims Act. It's a very similar mechanism, and anyone you may know who suffers from multiple sclerosis has likely had their treatment options materially improved thanks to Bawduniak's actions. But those kinds of actions only happen when you have the right mechanisms in place, to reward people who do the right thing.
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 20:34:53+00:00
Sure. I don't feel an establishment politician would have directly attacked Iran like this, but the establishment has been sabre rattling at Iran for a long time, so who really knows.

The point is those arguments were often brought up by people justifying why they voted for Trump instead of prioritizing other issues, as if the guy represented some kind of reform rather than just a more base and brazen looter.
by michaelmrose | 2025-06-22 20:35:07+00:00
Presumably they don't want you taking videos of people who aren't in fact breaking the law and profiting from tickets. NYC regulation requires you to not idle more than 5 minutes.

https://dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/air-quality/cont...

Although they don't require you to actually take a 5 minute video it is overwhelmingly likely that most people don't pull out there phone every time a vehicle stops in NYC so that most 3 minute videos are liable to be of 5 minute idles.

There are obviously 2 types of problem children cheaters and dummies. It's easier for cheaters to take a 1 minute video since even those who don't intend to idle for any substantial time may pause a moment. For dummies making them actually sit there and film 3 minutes decreases the chance that they will accidentally misunderstand how much time has passed. People are heavily biased towards their own benefits and are liable to miss-perceive 4.5 minutes as 5. Less possible when he pulled out his phone at the 2+ minute mark and now has to wait 3 minutes to have enough.
by pydry | 2025-06-22 20:35:21+00:00
It has pagefuls of references to claims about lost tanks (also dubious), land taken (probably accurate), comparison of losses to historical wars etc. which are the random facts I was referring to.

Nothing about how the American military industrial complex's lobby and this war's biggest profiteer by far pulled that impressive 1 million number from tho.

Dont worry those weapons did tons of good though. Super successful. As your article points out - it's imperative you keep buying.
by gametorch | 2025-06-22 20:36:21+00:00
I really am supportive of 99.9% of Show HNs, merely for the sake of the posters actually trying to build something

This is one of the few things I feel very strongly about and I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it. His idea is actively harming what makes America a good place to live in. And his idea is what makes China a bad place to live in. I'm not just going to sit here and say nothing.

I don't care if this negative EV for my own personal interests. I felt the need to speak up and people agree with me. Hopefully his post gets taken down.
by hxtk | 2025-06-22 20:36:35+00:00
GitLab is actively developing native support for stacked diff workflows. CLI support for creating stacks landed in GitLab 17, and now they’re working on the code review workflow for it.

To be honest, though, I find it easiest to create several branches with Jujutsu and then manually chain the MRs. That’s what glab does under the hood with glab stack commands. Looking forward to the code review tools in a future version.

For GitHub, though, I think Graphite is the best tool I’ve looked at so far, but I use GitLab at work so I’m not the best judge of GitHub tools for lack of experience using them at scale.
by mhuffman | 2025-06-22 20:36:36+00:00
>This is a phenomenal application of how fine-based bounties can be used to rapidly improve compliance with the law.

This type of thing can get out of hand quickly. Without me giving controversial examples, just imagine for yourself the types of things that different states can make a crime, add a fine, then offer to give other citizens part or all of that fine if they turn in others. After that, think of how unscrupulous businesses could use it against competition.
by filoleg | 2025-06-22 20:36:36+00:00
> You can [...] switch off your watching history

Yup, and, for those who don't know, you can toggle an option in your Google account settings to do the same for your recommendations in search and for any Google-served ads you will see on all websites.

Disclaimer: I tried that with the ads, and ended up reverting that setting after a few days. Even if my personalized ads were hit or miss, non-personalized ads were just nightmare fuel of the most random things ever that I absolutely had no interest in and felt actually annoyed upon seeing.
by mstaoru | 2025-06-22 20:37:52+00:00
I lived in China for many many years and this is not a good example. Parking, and driving in general, is chaotic and unregulated. Yes, you have cameras everywhere that detect running on red or taking a wrong lane, but that's about makes it. Speeding, haphazard parking, everything is allowed. Scooters go anywhere. Bikes go anywhere. People go anywhere. Red, green, anything in between, it's a free for all. Like a policeman smoking under "no smoking" signs is totally normal. I'd say, you can get away with mostly anything in China, nobody would care (unless you're non-Chinese, then dutiful neighbors will report your every sneeze).

PS: Yet I do find OP's idea reminding me of China. Having a society that polices itself (just in China it's more about thought, not behavior) is definitely not a thing I would enjoy.
by _flux | 2025-06-22 20:38:06+00:00
In my case I wanted to invalidate the notes when rearranging commits, because changing order could introduce bugs, but also have a single command that ensures that all my commits are tested before sending pull request. I think maybe it used to work that way (remove notes upon rebasing) out of the box that time, but if not, then I suspect I simply added the git commit id to the note, which can be effectively used for validity checking.

Of course, if the notes mechanism didn't exist, then I could have just used a local file.. But it's nice to see the messages in the git log.

But yeah, both kinds of keys would be useful for this purpose, depending on the exact needs.
by SllX | 2025-06-22 20:38:10+00:00
Yeah what I was talking about doesn't exclude diplomacy, but at one point or another you've got to be clear that under no circumstances will the development of nukes by $country be tolerated either if you're going to keep the number of nuclear powers tamped down.

Or maybe that is the wrong approach, but the policy we've had that let North Korea develop nukes and Iran at least get very close also isn't working.
by reissbaker | 2025-06-22 20:39:33+00:00
Iran spends a massive portion of its budget on military, which has ultimately amounted to nothing. The official budget is 10-15% of government spending, but the IRGC is mostly off-books, and likely to be at least 4x higher than the official budget states when counting just funds embezzled from public works projects [1] — since the official budget has about a third of all military spending going to the IRGC, this implies Iran's actual military expenditures are more like 30% or more of total government spending.

You can try a lot of mental contortions to justify it, but I think the simplest explanation is the cleanest: this forever war against Israel and America — the "little Satan" and the "great Satan" as they referred to them — was a catastrophic miscalculation. They should have spent the time and money elsewhere, and reconciled with America at least, and life would be better for Iranians if they had.

1: https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-and-national-se...
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-06-22 20:39:34+00:00
I'm not sure how the math works out, but some googling suggests that 32768 is achievable in practice while 65536 and 131072 are theoretically possible but have only been achieved with undos.

edit: Explanation of the 131072 cap: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/48/what-is-the-...

Also, in one of the answers there someone claims to have achieved 65536 in practice
by zem | 2025-06-22 20:40:15+00:00
pretty much, my first bigco job I made the mistake of only applying to the one place (had a job already, was looking for a change but without any urgency), and they would not budge on salary, just said the offer was already very generous and at the top of their salary band for my level. the next time I was job hunting I had just been laid off and so was frantically applying to a lot of places, ended up getting several offers and that definitely made a difference (though interestingly enough no one was willing to negotiate on base pay, but they would on things like stock and signing bonuses)
by Dig1t | 2025-06-22 20:40:45+00:00
Locking you away is completely orthogonal to the government being able to remotely seize your money, freeze your bank account, etc. at the end of the day the government physically does not have the power to take your money away from you. That is valuable regardless of whether you are locked up or not.

Say I’m locked up because the government doesn’t like some political speech I made. They are trying to take my money but can’t. They lock me away forever, but before I went away I shared my encryption password with my uncle. My uncle has control of my money now and can move it wherever he wants. The government has no say in what he does with it. They don’t even know that my uncle is in possession of my passphrase until he decides to do something with it.

>Most importantly this virtue is worthless for a US state which can trivially do any business it needs doing in USD

My comment was explaining why Bitcoin has intrinsic value. The main reason TX would buy it is exactly the same reason they would buy gold.

Governments all over the world buy and hoard gold for very good reasons.

It’s simply a thing that you can invest in that has performed extremely well. It resists inflation in the exact same way that gold does. It also has extremely low overhead to manage and protect.
by omgwtfbyobbq | 2025-06-22 20:42:02+00:00
That's only in China, presumably at a steep discount because of the EV price war between manufacturers.

In Mexico it's called the Dolphin and costs $20k+. I'm sure some of that is tariffs, but I don't think it's an $8k+ vehicle unless it's being discounted/subsidized by BYD.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/01/byd-dolphin-mini-rollin...