MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-13 23:30:28+00:00
Neither of the two things you asserted are true.

> You are counting kids with GNC behavior who never talked about transitioning themselves stopping said GNC behavior.

These children met the criteria for GID in the contemporary iteration of the DSM. The author of the study I linked would go on to write the criteria for gender dysphoria in the DSM-V. The idea that we'd see a substantially different rate of desistence if the DSM-V was used is not likely: the author of the study has stated that most of the children would have met the criteria for gender dysphoria under the DSM-V.

> You are also counting kids who end up repressing (some of which end up transitioning with worse outcomes years down the line)

The study followed up with patients for an average of over 10 years. Do you have any actual evidence that a significant portion of desisters in this study transitioned later in life? Or are you just stating this without evidence?

People have not offered a good explanation why these rates of desistence are false. They either insist that the criteria used was wrong, or baselessly claim that desisters are repressing a desire to transition.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-13 23:32:11+00:00
For those less familiar with history - it's really nothing new for a micro-minority to abuse mass media access and human nature to spread lies and malice for fame, fun, market share, and profit.

An iconic example, from the late 1800's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%8...
by tialaramex | 2025-07-13 23:33:02+00:00
Yeah. For example "Add four to it" is Completely Bogus way to implement "Multiply by three". Yes, if you had 2 then indeed 2 + 4 == 6 while the "more usual" 2 x 3 == 6, but for other values it doesn't work, it's Completely Bogus.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-13 23:34:03+00:00
No illusion about how many of those people think about Christians too.

I'm in the second most liberal county in the Northeast US and I'd say on a frigid cold night and they called a Code Blue people who go to church are manning the homeless shelter while LGBT...IQA+#@?^! people are tweeting about how Sarah McBride is a sell-out. Then again, the people I know who go to to church are the people who've been to federal prison because they stormed the gates protesting a nuclear weapons faclity.
by jonator | 2025-07-13 23:34:40+00:00
Capitalism does facilitate monopolies or industries with razor thin margins like airlines. However, the space of competition is a revolving door with constant opportunity to create something better (that people want) than the established players or to enter a new arena entirely. Ultimately, since consumers are the choosers, it works in their favor. It was the consumers that wanted these companies to exist, and the profits are a proof of that.

However, sometimes there are unpriced externalities like the competitive advantage of removing your own manufacturing waste by dumping it into a stream. That is where governance (whether self or the state) comes in.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-13 23:34:40+00:00
There have been places where reasonable debate was possible, but I suspect they were far more ephemeral than OP's recollection.

It's kinda sad to watch places you enjoyed fall into it, though. One particular subreddit that I've never seen be overtly political before now has an effectively endorsed opinion on someone (not Trump). There's no point engaging with it, because piling on more hate is the only socially acceptable opinion there.
by mjevans | 2025-07-13 23:35:06+00:00
It would honestly be nice if airports had 'phone booths' like I've seen in high tech companies. Think 1 person sized meeting rooms in larger spaces. One door on the pod opens, there's a seat and a small desk inside. Enough to make a mostly private phone call.

In a public setting there should also be things like a panic / duress button. A simple lock (that only local security can bypass). Maybe an internal phone line of some sort. Possibly a wired connection to the net DMZ.

I hesitate to add a timer, because _sometimes_ people have real travel troubles while at the airport and need an extended duration to take care of that. Such nuances might not fit within the context of E.G. a 20 min max timer.
by cglan | 2025-07-13 23:35:09+00:00
Feels like non news. Or at least, a continuation of existing trends.

We don't build enough housing, so housing becomes a good investment, eventually pricing out everyone except existing investors or people with large assets. We' structured the system so that once you're in you're IN. Leverage, 30yr mortgages, tax deductions all continue to subsidize existing homeowners at the expense of everyone else (who are technically a minority).

If this continues, expect to see more and more radical policy proposals by young people.
by arp242 | 2025-07-13 23:35:31+00:00
Most people are fine, even online. As the article says, it's really just a small group that's completely out of control. Maybe people are a bit more direct and blunt over text, but that's a different thing than what the article is about.

We've all had that mad idiot ranting at the pub. You smile and nod and move somewhere else. What's his potential audience? Not so much. That same person is now Tweeting >500 times a day, replying to all sorts of posts with misinformation and (typically) vitriol and insults. All of these people are quite unpleasant in real life too (well, until they get Buzz Aldrin'd anyway).
by DennisP | 2025-07-13 23:35:58+00:00
US DoD confirmed that Ukraine struck the Moskva and sank it. It was the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva

"Russia's Ministry of Defence said the large landing ship Novocherkassk was struck by Ukrainian aircraft carrying guided missiles....After a missile strike on the headquarters of the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol last September, satellite images showed that the Russian navy had moved much of its Black Sea fleet away from Crimea to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk," which is southeast of Crimea.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67821515

At the end of 2023, UK's defense minister said Russia had lost 20% of its Black Sea fleet in the prior four months.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-lost-fifth-black-sea-...

None of this implies that Russia's fleet has been entirely disabled. They are still firing missiles. But Ukraine has done them serious damage. (Some of that was by more conventional weapons though.)
by andrekandre | 2025-07-13 23:36:03+00:00
> I believe our health system itself is corrupt. There is no one person or group of people that are causing the problem, it is the way the entire system works that is the problem.

thanks for the clarification!

> The answer is not to simply cut spending and fire people in a random manner > The answer is also not to simply tax and spend more.

yea, its a difficult problem, i'm guessing one issue is the cost of medicine and also insurance?

probably with such a system that is so messed up, it will take a multi-pronged approach (and a party to campaign on it) i'd guess...
by alephnerd | 2025-07-13 23:37:37+00:00
There isn't much strategy behind pro-TCM papers other than "publish and perish" due to the hyper-competitive and metrics driven nature of Chinese academia. Most of these papers will be published in lower tier journals and used as a line-item within their CV in order to meet departmental KPIs or get promotions or funding, and some nameless bureaucrat won't care because metrics have been hit and his ass has been covered.

My SO had to publish similar kinds of papers when she was in Vietnam - she also had to spend $4-6k in "gifts" for the members of her thesis defense committee (despite her earning a stipend of around $100/mo) and publish politically oriented papers otherwise some technicality would come up to prevent her from getting permission for further research in Japan on an ASEAN grant, and this was at Vietnam's equivalent of JHU.

There is a similar trend in India with Aryuveda/Unani.

The strategic and commercialized research that matters always aligns tends to align with modern medicine.

That said, folk medicine does have credence in a lot of Asia (even in China today) due to issues around access and trust. There is a need for mid-level practitioners, and working on mainstreaming and retraining folk medicine practitioners as MLPs could help from a primary care perspective, and is a strategy both China and India are starting to leverage.
by op00to | 2025-07-13 23:38:18+00:00
Japanese customer service (“omotenas”) emphasizes anticipating needs and delivering respectful, consistent service, not improvisation. It can feel rigid (no menu changes), but it’s not about ignoring or dominating it customers. If a place can accommodate a food sensitivity, they usually will. If they truly can’t, they’ll tell you clearly rather than risk doing it wrong. It’s a cultural focus on doing things properly and fairly, not a lack of care or some sort of holier-than-thou feeling.
by chrsw | 2025-07-13 23:39:24+00:00
I agree with you LLMs are not intelligent.

But in this world, in this universe, there are lots of problems to solve. Humans understand these problems more than any other organism or machine we know of, but we are not general. The most we can say is we are the most general. There are far too many problem domains that are beyond the capability of humans to solve to call human intelligence general intelligence. The pancreas _does_ have direct control over its problem domain. That makes it a specific form of cognition. Maybe one day we will have that too. So does that mean when that day comes we are more general? I believe it does.

I like Francois Chollet's definition of intelligence: efficiency of skill acquisition, not demonstration of skill. I don't know if I should attribute that to him but for me, he is the first person I heard put it so succinctly. Using that definition there, is currently no known learning architecture that can acquire _any_ arbitrary skill efficiently. You and I do not currently do not have the ability to acquire the skill to consciously regulate bodily functions. It is a form of cognition that doesn't map to any thing we're aware of. Understanding how it works, in principle doesn't mean you have the skill to perform it.
by felipeerias | 2025-07-13 23:39:47+00:00
Translations are a very subjective matter because the emotional punch of a story is far greater when it is speaking to you in your mother tongue.

Shakespeare is perhaps impossible to translate properly to Spanish, just like Don Quijote to English, and yet we keep doing it because even the small glimpse afforded by the translation gives you an idea of the greatness behind it.

Funnily, I’ve always found the Spanish translation of the Lord of the Rings significantly more readable than the original, perhaps because Tolkien went out of his way to write in an old form of English that is a bit too distant for me. Or maybe it is because I read the story in my youth and re-reading it is a way to recapture some of the wonder that I felt then.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-13 23:40:22+00:00
> European employers on the other hand...

Many European employers

- don't or rarely offer remote jobs, so they often don't have this problem.

- even if they do some video or phone interview for pre-screening, they nearly always expect the prospective employee to come to a live interview if they are not weeded out by this pre-screening. It is thus expected that you at least live in a country from where you can easily travel to the place where the employer is located.

- often expect their employees to be able to speak the national language, or at least learn it fast. This also makes times hard for North Korean fake IT workers.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-07-13 23:40:34+00:00
A lot of traditional Chinese medicine is actually based on science. That is: a practitioner had many patients with the same ailment, and would give some of them one medication, and others another medication (herbs usually, o mixes of herbs). They'd then keep notes of what worked and what didn't. Rinse and repeat for a few centuries.

They didn't always understand why this worked, and often attributed it to a lot of ideas that do sound like pseudo-science. But their experimentation was quite methodic.

This isn't ubiquitous. We're talking about thousands of practitioners, in dozens of cultures over millennia. I'm sure some simply sold Chinese snake oil.
by munificent | 2025-07-13 23:40:46+00:00
The Willows Inn is an even stronger parallel.

Literally a tiny island that people travel to and stay at the inn just to eat dinner. When you're there, it appears that the staff outnumber patrons about two to one.

My wife and I went there for an anniversary dinner (and breakfast the next morning). It was an incredible experience. Certainly the best meal of my life and one of the best evenings.

But I watched The Menu later and that movie hit a little too close to home.
by pbh101 | 2025-07-13 23:40:50+00:00
Without more context this is silly to say. It isn’t as if we know the natural or correct construction of this market a priori and that 5 is clearly a distortion from that. Consolidation can sound bad in the abstract but in this relatively immature market you could still expect major shifts to get to a steady state. Just a little bit ago people were remarking on VC-subsidized delivery; as that goes away, consolidation is not unreasonable.

Edit: ‘this’ in the original parent comment was along the lines of ‘five out of potential thousands of actors’
by spauldo | 2025-07-13 23:41:02+00:00
Depends what you're trying to protect yourself from.

Reinforced concrete is great if they're just shelling you. Sure, all the outdoor infrastructure will be toast but your reactor probably won't get damaged. It'll take a bit to get back on the grid but you don't need to rebuild the plant.

Bunker busters, on the other hand, eat reinforced concrete for breakfast. A pinpoint strike into each reactor hall and you're down for good.

The former is cheaper, less risky for the attacker, and hurts you bad enough for most military purposes, so the latter isn't really worth worrying about unless you're Iran or North Korea.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-13 23:41:56+00:00
To be sure, there were times that were much worse. (I was a homophobe myself growing up ... until my best friend came out as gay after high school — then I had some actual growing up to do.)

But we're free to say this thing was better in the 70's without implying all things were. The internet has created a lot of problems that we did not have before is all I am really saying.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-13 23:42:30+00:00
And how many of those people voted for politicians that are systematically harming non straight people, demonizing immigrants, have no concern about inequalities in the justice system, etc?

I know a few socially liberal devout Christians. I know many others that on the individual level would try their best to make anyone of any religion, sexuality, etc comfortable. But still vote for politicians that campaign on policies that hurt the group.
by furyofantares | 2025-07-13 23:43:28+00:00
I've seen so many reports of people losing weight one way or another, and saying they kept it off, and I think only once has it been more than a year. Usually under 6 months.

Personally I lost a ton of weight doing full-on keto (I specify, because some people just kinda cut out carbs) and then kept it off for over 2 years. But I put the weight back on after that, albeit slowly (over the course of maybe 7 years).

I've also done Mounjaro, and I can keep it off a while after I go off it, but not that long.

YES, you have to change your habits, maybe lifestyle, maybe deal with other issues in order to keep it off. But I think, not only is that difficult, it's not a "you did it and you're done" deal. It's easy to slip backwards, and I won't make any claims about you personally, but for anyone who's kept it off for less than a year, I think the good money would be on it coming back within another year. I doubt someone is "out of the woods" even two years on.
by maxbond | 2025-07-13 23:43:33+00:00
That was a bad decision. They had major problems during the winter of 2021 too. It's all well to talk about tradeoffs but clearly Texas has under prepared for major weather events and it's getting people killed (not to single them out - they're certainly not the only ones). It's not a coincidence that there were 2 catastrophes in 4 years.

Acknowledging tradeoffs doesn't mean there aren't real problems or that something doesn't need to be done, it's only meaningful when comparing different proposed solutions. What is your alternative to the early warning system with better tradeoffs?
by throwaway81523 | 2025-07-13 23:43:41+00:00
Unconvincing article. PLT is a theory subject, as it says right in its name. If you're a practitioner and don't get off on theory, you're not going to be designing bleeding edge languages or compilers anyway, so you can stay pretty hip by just using the theory-adjacent stuff that comes out of the research places (example: Haskell). Just like if you're an electrical engineer, you might want to keep up with new kinds of semiconductors, but you don't need to study bleeding edge physics.

If you want to get started on PLT, Harper's PFPL is pretty accessible (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/). Even Martin-Löf's article on intuitionistic type theory (the one that introduced dependent types) is fairly readable for a PL geek.

I'm unfamiliar with Barendregt's article but it sounds too mathematical by comparison. I.e. by the title I'd classify it as mathematical logic rather than PL. Remeember there were no computers when Alonzo Church invented lambda calculus in the 1920's.
by munificent | 2025-07-13 23:43:54+00:00
In my more optimistic days, I believe that, yes.

But on many other days, I remember that all the asshats are also doing their own "build it and they will come" and pimping their own brand of toxic nonsense. And, worse, the billionaires are all doing it too and they have many orders of magnitude more influence than I ever will.
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-13 23:45:10+00:00
>as exhausting to read as Neuromancer

the exhaustion is the point. Gibson is great because he turned the essence of the genre, media oversaturation, into a prose style. Cyberpunk is all about everything being in your face. Things are flashing by, too fast, too dense, you're disoriented, etc.

You aren't supposed to understand or put every term under a microscope, you should feel as disoriented as the characters. One of the strongest aspects of the book is how successful he is at making you feel as if you're hooked into something running on 120% speed.

Not unlike Gene Wolfe in the Book of the New Sun, where Wolfe recombines words and invents language as the conceit is that the narrator is translating from a future work into contemporary English, having to make use of words that don't yet exist. You're not supposed to grab the dictionary and try to figure out what each term means, you're supposed to take it in as you go on.
by bb88 | 2025-07-13 23:45:26+00:00
There has always been a place for emergency management. Just ask Kansas about tornados in the 1960s/70s before the rise of doppler radar. And even after in 2007, there was Greensburg, KS.

We can and probably should have arguments about the effective cost of government programs. But Kerr County residents fought hard to not pay $20 per resident (assuming population of 53,000) for a $1M flood warning system. So this is the outcome. And it will cost Kerr County way more than $1M in cleanup.
by mjevans | 2025-07-13 23:45:50+00:00
I was lucky enough to have it as part of my college literature course. I had a choice of Greek classics or SciFi and, though I'm missing a TON of Greek classic context these days I do not regret reading ANY of the scifi books! IMO it's a pity I couldn't take both!

There's a lot of content in the book that reads differently years later. It's extremely easy to criticize outside of the situations present in the book.

Fiction is a good a place to consider alternate worlds, situations outside of the norm, and people with circumstances you'll never (or hope to never) encounter yourself. That makes it a great place to refine morals and reach a deeper understanding of why things might be good or bad.
by Amezarak | 2025-07-13 23:46:02+00:00
These polls are just asking “who are you going to vote for”, there’s no subtlety to them - and the Selzer poll was still off by 16 points. Nate Silver after all his polling meta analysis bet 100k that Trump would win Florida narrowly at best. He won it by 15 points.

They aren’t deducing voting behavior from your positions. They are just asking you who you were going to vote for and they can’t get it right.

Given those facts, I can’t see any reason to believe even the results of a fraught question like “do you consider yourself a moderate?”
by perching_aix | 2025-07-13 23:46:45+00:00
There are some sentences in this that are technically vague enough to pass, but I don't think are strictly speaking correct, and I believe will likely lead to a mistaken understanding:

> modern displays don't paint the image line-by-line (...) They light up each pixel simultaneously, refreshing the entire display at once.

The entire screen area is lit all the time now, yes, but refresh still typically happens line by line, top to bottom [0], left to right [0], for both LCDs and OLEDs. It's a scanning refresh, not a global refresh (sadly).

You can experimentally confirm this using a typical smartphone. Assuming a 60 Hz screen refresh, recording in slow motion will give you enough extra frames that the smartphone camera also likely operating in a scanning fashion (rolling shutter) won't impact the experiment. On the recording, you should see your screen refreshing in the aforementioned fashion.

[0] actual refresh direction depends on the display, this is for a typical desktop monitor
by coderatlarge | 2025-07-13 23:47:54+00:00
it seems to me that a nation determined to control wired network traffic within its borders cannot be circumvented. if they can control the ISPs and observe packet flows then they can just obstruct any connection they cannot conclusively prove is acceptable.

it seems then that store-and-forward ad hoc p2p (ie extremely high unpredictable latency) is the only option for those who can reach some node with a connection to the outside (maybe laser near the border). or perhaps really clever steganography with outside partners assisting.
by aforwardslash | 2025-07-13 23:48:06+00:00
Been using claude code almost daily for over a month. It is the smartest junior developer I've ever seen; it can spew high-quality advanced code and with the same confidence, spew utter garbage or over-engineered crap; it can confidently tell you a task is done and passing tests, with glaring bugs in it; it can happily introduce security bugs if it's a shurtcut to finish something. And sometimes, will just tell you "not gonna do it, it takes too much time, so here's a todo comment". In short, it requires constant supervision and careful code review - you still need experienced developers for this.
by shawnz | 2025-07-13 23:48:17+00:00
If you talk to your friends in person in a public space, would you be comfortable with restauranteurs stealthily following you around and analyzing your conversations? Why is social media any different?

There are clearly different degrees to which information that is presented in a public space is expected to be disseminated to strangers. Simply being "made public" doesn't necessarily invite invasive spying on every detail of your public actions