skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very curious about how transgender HRT affects personality. In a sense, HRT is supposed to change who one is, but the personality changes people undergo on it seem underappreciated and not really understood or studied clinically. At least I have not been able to find a published study specifically about about how HRT changes personality. I think not all of it can be attributed to decreased gender dysphoria or people "coming out of their shell" and being able to live and socialize as who they want to be after transition.

If I had to make a $100 bet today on what future research will find, I would wager that

1. FtM HRT reduces Big Five neuroticism despite increasing aggression. The effect is permanent and persists after the person's "second puberty" induced by HRT is over. It affects beliefs about how society should function. To a degree of approximation, it makes transmen more conservative or right-wing than they were before the treatment.

2. MtF HRT does not have the opposite effect to the above (but it may, and probably does, have other effects). Edit: The opposite effect on neuroticism and sociopolitical beliefs. It decreases aggression.
Musk is a retard

The "elusive" people behind him are doing all the work, he is a puppet

Their goal is to penetrate and disturb EU/Asia market, USA doesn't want to have competitors, or global giants other than american ones

People are blind, and retarded, they suck his penis publicly
Medication is just a tool, it must be used with care and intelligence.
Taxi prices in most jurisdictions are regulated by a public transit regulator (there are some exceptions - Sweden deregulated taxis and every taxi can set its own price, you have to check the price sticker in the window before getting into make sure you're not going to get ripped off), as a tradeoff between affordability and taxi drivers being able to make a living. Medallions are there to keep the number of taxis down so that the taxis that do have medallions have enough riders to keep busy enough to make a living. Adding more medallions wouldn't lower the price, changing the regulated price would.
A year of going cashless – and where it hasn't worked
The world is in the midst of a crisis of over-medication, with the US alone buying up 49,000 tonnes of paracetamol every year – equivalent to about 298 paracetamol tablets per person

Shocking, I knew it was bad but this is madness.
I can't see any, based on my slightly more than superficial dive into this area when working on my own two-factor application.
Who decides what is "genuine criticism" and what is "hate"?

To the person receiving criticism, everything is hate. Look at pg's twitter on Tesla: doesn't understand the hate. Has he read the criticism and refuted it? No, he dismisses it.
Or like the recent case where it's alleged that carrier employees were actually in on SIM swap scams.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/att-employees-he...
because generally projects like these have some opinionated person who is maintaining it, which actively blocks "get the ssh-keys"-patches. compare that to the 100+ dependencies of your typical node-package.
the experiences you have make who you are. if a drug changes the way you behave it will change how you experience things. so depending to what you are exposed to, it can definitely change who you are.

an extreme example for environmental factors radically changing people’s behavior is lead poisoning.
It could also be the pain itself. My dad’s Parkinson’s and congestive heart failure did the same to him long before medicines were involved.
I'd read about any caveats first. The EdgeRouter, for example, has Cavium hardware offload that requires a proprietary kernel module. It's much slower without that.
Even Lee's dictatorship seems less benign now that we've learned that it's hereditary...
As far as I remember some articles that came out around the time of this change, that's because Uber is not an official taxi service. So they need to operate as "contract rides" which must have their prices specified in advance.
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This article keeps conflating this new "electron" accelerator with traditional "particle" accelerators.

I think it is important to understand that theres a big difference between accelerating an electron and accelerating a protron or neutron.

It is my understanding that the value of traditional particle accelerators is in the sub atomic pieces produced after creating a collision between two particles traveling in opposite directions.

Is it even possible to cause two electrons to collide? Don't electrons occupy multiple points in space at the same time?

That being said the work is still impressive and I am imagining super efficient solar panels being produced from this new tech.
I don’t doubt that Facebook does a lot for user privacy, but it is probably the case that nobody there (except maybe Boz) really, thoroughly understands the enormous amount of power and influence the company wields, and they also haven’t realized that the thing they have worked hard to create is now an out-of-control monster.
> You see, it turns out they’d misrepresented their funding situation at the beginning.

it’s so aggravating when my business partners can’t see these posers from a mile away.
It’s a quote from 1766, so you’re only out of touch with the 18th century.

EDIT: [you’re/your]
China Mobile says it has more than 3M 5G customers
A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality
This isn't startup-centric. This is life. We've taken it. And most of us, at some point, have been a fan or a hater.

That said, on Quora, many years ago there was an article summed up by: If you're not pissing someone off, you're doing it all wrong.

I think these's truth to that. So if you want to do it not all wrong, then you have to expect there's gonna be some friction
In the same sentence but before the quote it is not censored. I'm guessing that the censorship was part of the original quote. Given that Kant wrote in the 1700s I could see it being considered impolite at the time.
> Childbirths went down everywhere easter and central Europe

Yes, warsaw pact nations and former eastern european soviet nations also suffered. But russia suffered the most since they were the core of the soviet union.

> And it is not just poverty - if anything midle class and educated women are less likely to have kids.

I didn't say it was. My point was that the russian population dropped from near 150 million in the early 1990s and is still below that today ( 30 years later ). My point is that in the 90s, russian life expectancy dropped dramatically 10%+ - this is not normal. My point is that russia's economy is nowhere near what it was in 1990s ( second largest economy in the world ).

> Especially when it ignores effects of Stalin rule on people and conflates ruling party health with populace health.

What? As if yeltsin's or putin's rule were any better?

> "Objective analysis" that centers on birthrate only is not objective at all.

I didn't just look at birthrates. You seem to be fixated on it. I'm talking about population. Russia's population declined in 30 years. That's not a good thing - especially for a poor country.

> Comunist regime did not had healthy economy - it is one of reasons why it became weak.

It was healthy enough to be the 2nd largest economy for most of the cold war. The capitalist regime didn't have a healthy economy after the soviet collapse. Even during stalin's purges, the indicators weren't as bad as they were in the 1990s.

I'm just talking about objective stats. Not sure why you are bring communism or stalin into the mix. The 10 years after ww2 were far better for russians than the 10 years after the soviet collapse. This is just statiscal fact. Go look at every measurement. Economic, cultural, political, demographic, etc. The soviet union grew and advanced in nearly every metric during the decade after ww2. Russia declined in every metric during the 10 years after the soviet collapse.

Seems like winning a hot war is better than losing a cold war. I'm not saying communism is good or bad. I'm not saying stalin was good or bad. I'm just saying that russian life was better in the immediate years after ww2 than after the soviet collapse - purely in objective statistical terms.

I'm just talking about the effects of ww2 and the soviet collapse in objective terms. Maybe it's psychological. Winning boosts a nation's confidence and losing destroys a nation's confidence. I don't know. What we know is that 10 years after ww2, russia improved greatly and 10 years after the soviet collapse, russia regressed. Even 30 years later, russia still hasn't gotten back to the starting line.
Shocked meteorites provide clues to Earth's lower mantle
Alcohol culture differs per region. In most western Europe countries (Netherlands, Germany) alcohol free / low-ABV beer has been gaining a lot of popularity. More and more people, myself included, prefer alcohol free over regular beer, because you get the social benefits without the all the downsides of alcohol.

However, during my visit to Canada last year I asked a waiter at a bar for an alcohol free beer and she basically made fun of me. Making the "that's like sex without an orgasm" joke.
Demand for sand is fuelling murders, mafias and ecological devastation
The clerk is looking at ID and comparing with data in the system. If bribed he can always claim that ID looked legit or he made honest mistake.

So easy for evildoers and so much friction for law-abiding customers.
It's not quite as bad as you make it out to be. The early init stuff comes from the CPU manufacturer and is merely included verbatim into the firmware packages distributed by the motherboard vendor.

The UEFI environment is a mashup of modules from the CPU/chipset manufacturer, a BIOS vendor like AMI, and sometimes stuff from TianoCore/EDK. The end result is specific to each board model, but most of the modules going into the UEFI implementation are either universal/hardware-agnostic, or uniquely determined by the choice of components on the motherboard (primarily the chipset and superIO). The only stuff here that's excessively messy and error-prone is the ACPI tables.

The configuration UI is particular to the board vendor. The UI necessarily has some tweaks for each particular model, but vendors share most of the code and visual design across the entire product line. Occasionally, it's possible to skip the silly UI and fall back to the default old-fashioned text mode standard configuration UI provided by AMI or whoever.
I am happy to accept that mass prescription of drugs will have unexpected side-effects, and the cholesterol/ anger / violence link seems plausible.

My question is has anyone studied voting intentions with this as well?
“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.”

Postscript: You misread me. I understand where Jobs was coming from better than you think. But maybe I’m not explaining myself well.

..

When my old man retired, he was executive manager for a national power company overseeing distribution network. Senior leadership. But he started out as a junior line engineer freshly qualified from EE school, and over the following three decades worked his way up from that.

(I still remember those early Christmas callouts: all the lights’d go out; and off into the night he would go, like Batman.:)

And as he later always said to engineers under him, his job was to know enough engineering to manage them effectively, and their job was to be the experts at all the details and to always keep him right. And his engineers loved him for it. Not least ’cos that was a job where mistakes don’t just upset business and shut down chunks of the country, they cause closed-coffin funerals and legal inquests too.

--

i.e. My old man was a bloody great manager because he was a damn good engineer to begin with. And while he could’ve been a happy engineer doing happy engineering things all his life he was determined to be far more, and worked his arse off to achieve it too.

And that’s the kind of geek Steve Jobs was. Someone who could’ve easily lived within comfortable geeky limitations, but utterly refused to do so.

’Cos he wanted to shape the world.

I doff my cap at that.
Maxwell is an Israeli spy. She was responsible for procuring underage girls.
Tangentially I was blown away to read that the age of the court officials during the Ancient Chinese Three Kingdoms period could allegedly go as high as in the 70s which is pretty crazy for ~200AD

But supposedly disease was well contained in at court by the sparsity of people for the given area because everything was so vast.
>Thoughtful people are rarely taken in by [frauds]“

If there's better evidence that VCs think they're smarter than everyone else, I' don't know what it is.

The Waltons; Carlos Slim, Rupert Murdoch; Robert Kraft; George Shultz; Larry Ellison. Are these not "thoughtful people"? This is from ONE FRAUD.

Articles like this are how you get "haters".
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it is a tool. i don’t believe it’s a matter of care or intelligence. it’s just hard to synthesize something that targets one thing we don’t like (cholesterol in this case). sometimes it goes as far as not really understanding the underlying mechanism through which the drug actually works - i would say most times the full interaction of the drugs are not fully understood. if you add the desire to take a pill and just fix whatever issue you have i can see how, on a large scale, this can be problematic
I find the whole Epstein thing to be full fledged Puritan Rage Culture.

Start with the crimes of the man himself. He had young women and girls around and gave them money in exchange for sexual acts. This is something society doesn't like to think about explicitly, but might these young females have actually chosen/wanted this? The typical answer is: They were underage and vulnerable therefor anything they did doesn't imply consent. That is a very condescending view. The age of legal consent in the US is 16 in many states and as low as 11 under some circumstances! In the charges against him it says:

"Once minor victims were recruited, EPSTEIN or his employees or associates would contact victims to schedule appointments for “massages.” As a result, many victims were abused by EPSTEIN on multiple subsequent occasions."

"To further enable him to abuse underage girls, EPSTEIN asked and enticed certain of his victims to recruit additional minor girls to perform “massages” and similarly engage in sex acts with EPSTEIN. When a victim would recruit another underage girl for EPSTEIN, he paid both the victim-recruiter and the new victim hundreds of dollars in cash. Through these victim-recruiters, EPSTEIN maintained a steady supply of new victims to exploit, and gained access to dozens of additional underage girls to abuse."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/jeffrey-epstein-charged...

These account make it clear to me, that these girls were not helpless victims suffering at the hands of an abuser. That just doesn't scale. 100s of girls agreeing to be scheduled again and again (without use of force threat or violence), and to recruit other girls means that it wasn't that bad. I know this is something "you can't say" hence the throwaway.

I'm not saying that there wasn't any foul play, or that Epstein was a great guy. Far from it. But that he is very different from someone who physically abuses a helpless prepubescent child with violence. In a way treating both these cases as "pedophilic sex offences" is offensive to victims of the latter. My point is that society needs to re-embrace Proportionality.

We wrote this man off as pure Evil, so anything he touches must be Evil too. We don't allow any positive attribution to his actions. Any money he gives is tainted money only used to launder his reputation. Any person that has ever come into contact with him, let alone had any positive thought about him, is also Evil. Why is accepting donations from him frame the person or organization as endorsing child abuse? Why is having a photo with him, or being at a dinner party with him mark you as suspect? Why shouldn't have MIT accept donations from him? Should Apple (or your startup) not sell to "known sex offenders" or other convicted criminals?
In this context, remaining silent would be tantamount to acceptung fault.

However, they could have said even they were not sure, and that they are investigating.
That link does little to disprove that sugar isn't the culprit.

And anecdotally, both my partner and I can recognize adverse psychological effects in myself after I consume too many high-glycemic carbs (ie, sugar).
Why not let the drivers see the destination and price and then make the choice if they want to accept it? When we are at it the customer should be able to increase the price to encourage drivers.
I see it this way: drivers reject giving a reason, one of the two: too cheap or other. Then the customer gets information about how many drivers rejected because of the amount and they get an option to increase it.
As it is I often feel bad about requesting short trips. I feel most drivers don't want them and the situation is uncomfortable for everyone. I would like to have an option to pay enough so it's worthwhile for them to take a short ride.
And this
https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-a...
Loads fine on my iPad and can’t play due to lack of touch, but came here to say my suggestion is allow users to tap the legend items (“Press space to flip”, for example)
Since we are sharing stories...
I moved to East Asia, which can be an adult daycare for Western alcoholics, and realized not only could I drink every night of the week and still have a job, healthcare, significant other, and lots of friends -- this was becoming my life. I quit cold turkey about 8 years ago. Still in Asia, with a lot fewer friends, but getting deep sleep at night, and am able to focus and relax my mind almost on-demand, which was impossible before.
What "other over the counter opioids"?
they fired him because of poor performances, he try to save the face to get hired elsewhere

"why i left" show the letter then
It was hand-ported from Flash. I can imagine it being harder to do better than that in ActionScript especially if it was an older version.
1. You can't claim your risk of dying using a particular method of transportation is above another method just by looking at per mile death rates unless you travel a similar distance in both, or say it in a context of making a decision of using one or the other to travel from place to place (although to be precise the length of the trip depends somewhat on the used method).

2. The commercial airlines figure which you've used is not from using the particular method of transportation, 737 max, which the use of you are justifying with the comparison.

3. If you wear a helmet, don't ride drunk, don't speed and otherwise follow traffic rules it will make riding a motorcycle a lot safer than average.
I love NPR's plain text site. I wish more sites did it. Throw your user stylesheet on it (something like https://writ.cmcenroe.me/) and you're set!
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I wonder if the Authors list would be different now, 11 1/2 years after writing this article. It seems to me that although the fundementals of programming have not changed the value of knowing them has dropped. Maybe this is a result of object oriented programming maturing.
Interesting, I have a router with exactly the same chip.

5GHz is okay but flashing anything other than official firmware breaks the 2.4GHz.

Suddenly all of my ESP8266 are disconnected. My Brother printer also cannot reach the WiFi.
Amazon takes swipe at PayPal's $4bn Honey acquisition
You mean studied whether mass prescription of drugs has an effect on how the people taking them vote?
Years ago i remember working at a company where a vr presentation was cancelled because some high level automotive management folks refused to wear a headset because it might mess with their hair. Thats just one example. I personally dont like to put on these headsets too.
This isn't how Uber, or indeed any competently-written service, works. I'd be beyond shocked if there was some hard-coded algorithm for estimating fares that they do one-off manual upgrades on. It's far more likely that they have a statistical method for doing so, that's constantly doing the equivalent of the "upgrade" you're describing. Such systems have nonzero error.
The problem I have with this is that Linux shoots itself in the foot here. It's conflating two different problems: (1) supporting third-party modules and (2) supporting proprietary modules. All modules are ultimately binary; only a small subset are both proprietary and binary-only.

If you look at FreeBSD, the majority of third-party modules are free software. It's stuff like graphics drivers, newer ZFS modules, esoteric HBAs etc. Proprietary modules, like nVidia's graphics driver, are the minority.

I can see and understand why things are the way they are, and indeed I agreed with the approach for many years. Today, I see it being as short sighted as the GCC vs LLVM approach to modular architecture.

Linux is nearly 30 years old now. To not have stable internal interfaces seems to me to be indicative of either bad initial design or ill discipline on the part of its maintainers. Every other major kernel seems to manage to have a stable ABI for third-party functionality, and Linux is an outlier in its approach. Having to upgrade the kernel for a new GPU driver is painful. Not only do I have to wait for a new kernel release, I have to hope that none of the other changes in that release cause breakage or change the behaviour in unexpected ways. Upgrading a third-party module is much less risky.
Brutal. But I’ll have nothing bad said about Clue!
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica PR was very successful, evidenced by the fact that you have people in this very thread arguing that the blame for the debacle overwhelmingly lies with Cambridge Analytica because they broke the TOS and then lied about having deleted the data, and that the media completely misrepresented the whole thing because it’s biased.
>By that, they meant they would have heard about it from creditable, independent sources. Filters (primarily, editors) worked to not only weed out the bad but to make sure the truly extraordinary real news made it to the surface.

There's a lot of shadow boxing in the article. But given Epstein and MIT I can see why filters would seem like a good idea to people who used to arbiters of truth.
I'd rather 90% of a billionaire's fortune will get eaten by inheritance tax upon their deaths.
You could argue the more time Apple spends maintaining legacy code the less time they have for other work.

Personally I thought the whole 32-bit thing was blown out of proportion. It wasn't long between Apples shift to Intel and 64-bit machines becoming the norm. The majority of software got updated and a few vocal haters complained a lot on HN.