skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the focus on academic freedom and ideological hegemony, I can't help but feel like this article is tilling the soil for something akin to a "teach the controversy" campaign [1], i.e. the sort of thing that ideological movements turn to when they've run out of actual arguments that can stem the tide of a shifting consensus and have no option left but to invoke a sort of meta-debate about whether their ideas are receiving a fair hearing. It's not clear to me that "gender critics" are more broadly embracing this stance, but it wouldn't be much of a shock at this point.

I suppose I'll keep an eye out for the announcement of "Expelled 2: No Gender Allowed" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expelled%3A_No_Intelligence_Al...
For many years now I "favourite" videos on YT by downloading them. You can't expect any video on YT to still be there tomorrow/later.
Billing shouldn't be a nightmare for your customers
Sure, but that's why you'll see that my summary totals aren't just a summation of all the enumerated percentages. The point is to illustrate what the total tax range is at the highest income levels.
Sports fairness is basically a transphobe dogwhistle at this point. Major athletic organizations already have policies in place that say that trans women can’t compete unless x,y,z criteria are met which is typically a minimum number of years on HRT and T levels not more than something.

The issue is that there is a trade-off being made here. A trans woman athlete likely has a better bone structure than the average cis woman but not better than the most naturally gifted cis female athletes. Athletic orgs have largely decided that this is fine and it’s not a significant enough advantage to care about because the question for them was “how can trans women compete” not “if trans women can compete.”

But then it’s such an easy issue to drive a wedge on because you can get people riled up about whether trans women should be able to compete with a sprinkling of misinformation about what HRT does and dash of “so a man can just say he’s a woman and compete.”
Huh? It's called criminal verbal threats and they're quite illegal.

Case laws have upheld them numerous times. This isn't "interpreted truths", racial slurs have been interpreted as intent and such things have been prosecuted.
Its not perfect, but the more people in on a secret the harder it is to keep. Its much harder to have to coerce both intel and signal (even if you hack intel, you would still have to modify signal's servers from what i understand) than just signal.
That's ignoring the Free Corps, though. There was a lot of staffing up via paramilitaries. (Sort of like piling all your armies into Australia in Risk ;)

And I think it's worth calling out that Britain and France deliberately slowed down as a result of appeasement policies, not because they missed that Germany was rearming. That's what I meant in the GP post when I said "people willing to stand by and ignore obviously bad actors"
flexible money supply (well managed) > fixed money supply > flexible money supply (badly managed)
they built notion boards into github. nice work! we've been using notion for our product work and it's been very flexible and powerful, but I do miss having the code and issues living together.
Absolutely, he made significant contributions to the tech community and lived an enviable life.
I don’t think Richard Ebright is demanding an investigation for political reasons. He refers to Trump as a sociopath.
I'm not massively into the whole black bar thing (though I don't in any way object to it) but, because he is part of the story of tech (certainly in the 80s and 90s), and out of a sense of consistency if nothing else, since HN has shown a bar for others it should probably also do so for John McAfee. I therefore also voted yes.

(Like you, I also suspect the wider community will say no. Be that as it may, history resists rewrites.)
Tentris: 10 lines x 72 chars Tetris game in GW-BASIC
There's a general understanding by some (myself included) to use transpiler to specify converting from one language's source to another (Ex: converting JavaScript to Python). Is that just a compiler? Yes without a doubt. However, compiler usually means from something like C source to Assembly in a lot of common use (certainly not always the case though).

This topic causes a lot of grief on here though. It might be a classic case where the technical/defined definition has diverged from the vernacular. In a sense both are right.
Well, he came from the computer industry, and like him or not he was a colorful character. I thought he was pretty amusing until he (apparently) decided to deal with a problem neighbor by having him killed. He does exemplify some of the old 'wild west' internet spirit, in ways.
No, I think we've made some progress - it's just extremely slow. Don't forget that Fredrick Douglass was a major black political figure during the Civil War and that Sammy Davis Jr. was a sex icon - it doesn't mean that the majority of African Americans (and them too I bet they'd be happy to tell you) didn't suffer heavy racism. There are some good examples of African Americans thriving even in America as it stands today - but that doesn't mean that the playing field is equal, it just means that it's not so biased that it's literally impossible for them to succeed.
If there was a link that said "Click here to view your messages", then yeah, I'd agree it would sound like a phishing attempt.

If it was an email saying, "You have a notification" and you have to manually log in to see it, then there's less chance of you clicking on a phishing attempt. Also, if there's any personal/private/sensitive information, this method makes it unavailable over email.

Just shooting from the hip. It could also just be laziness.
I think it was described as being similar to polarization, and when they're aligned properly (I'm not sure it's N/S) with the magnetic field, everything looks "clearer."
What? Women have all kinds of rational reasons to be wary of strange men they don't know, especially in a secluded place like a bathroom. This isn't because "men are evil" or that all men are violent and dangerous, it's because some men are violent and dangerous, and even if that's only 1% of men, it only takes one violent man to ruin your life, so women don't like to take risks. The same isn't true in reverse because women don't pose a physical threat to men in anything resembling the same way.

I'm male. My relationships with women improved dramatically once I realised just how safety-conscious women need to be on a regular basis, at a level that men don't experience at all.

But sure, men are the real victims.
Language use across centuries reveals sexual orientation
> Why does the current paradigm suck?

From great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparent post:

> This was ironically one of the things that was hardest about coming out as gay, for me. Nobody ever treated me the same way again. I was either uncomfortably praised or silently judged, with practically no in-between. Suffice to say, my sexuality is on a need-to-know basis, now.
Even if we ignore the fact this is a nonsense non-issue that isn't solved by the "solution" of forcing people into bathrooms by biological sex rather than gender identity, it's still nonsense.

You've just created a world where predatory men pretend to be trans men, who are now legally required to use women's bathrooms.

At least most trans women are trying to express in a feminine way (disregarding the issues with women—cis and trans—being discriminated against for not being “feminine enough” by someone's standard), with this "solution", you've just normalised people actively trying to be as masculine as possible going into women's bathrooms. Congrats.

(Of course, predation in bathrooms is illegal, why on earth would someone who is willing to break that law be stopped by another one saying they aren't meant to be there? It's literally the same nonsense argument used by homophobes to argue we shouldn't allow gay people into those spaces.)
I actually like the Django ORM. Something that I learned working with Django 8+ years is that to use its ORM effectively, you have to play Django's game. Sometimes just by denormalizing a few fields will make some queries/relationships way easier.

At work we have a marketplace engine and a digital wallet/financial app built entirely with Django (100k+ loc) and we don't have a single raw SQL query, everything is done with the Django ORM.
He almost definitely tortured and killed his neighbor. He never stood trial because he fled the country and has been running since.

He isn't tech's Hunter S. Thompson, he was a lunatic who hurt people. Even if you don't believe he (or his bodyguard) killed the neighbor, there's countless other stories where he hurt people (including his crypto scams).
Why? Because the US government has a strong and long documented history of murdering dissidents, especially in south america. Side A is unhindged guy, Side B has a very long rap sheet for murder. McAfees relationship with the intelligence community should be further investigated by private parties, ignoring a rap sheet like that is just as fantastical as conspiracy.
How is this a weak argument? The value in the economy has been funneled to shareholders, and the poor are definitionally not shareholders
Blaming them for reduction in 2020 and this first part of 2021 seems a bit unfair. Pandemic? What pandemic?
Looking at the sheer number of garbage/troll pull requests to Torvalds repo on GitHub makes me understand the resistance to this.

You could imagine the constant flow of drive-by spam PR's you would be getting.
> Of course at the top, it matters a lot, but isn't a lot of mobility also driven by more average careers?

Given wage stagnation across much of the Western world, largely driven by "liberal" economic and monetary policy, there is a lot of downward pressure on the benefits of "average" (Non FAANG) careers.
Wikipedia:

> The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a research institute on virology administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which reports to the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

It would be reasonable by most people's definitions to blame whoever has oversight over a virology lab that leaked a virus. In this (alleged) case, that's the Chinese government.
Updates from Bitcoin mining colleagues in China and what we’re seeing
1. I'm not talking about "honest mistakes". Nobody is putting cisgendered people in jail for a slip of the tongue.

2. Your simplistic theories about how people ought to be should go out the window when you meet and interact with a real person who is different from you. Think of it as avoiding making a bad impression on someone who has just as valid a reason to be who they are. Yeah, maybe this is new and uncomfortable for you, but that is how meeting anyone is.
This description is the opposite of my experience of the trans community. In my experience of trans people they are welcoming of any combination of gender expression and identity and are universally supportive of gender exploration and non-traditional gender expression for trans and cis people alike.
> a restaurant worker in California happens to do a poor job of washing their hands and a diner gets sick

If that worker causes a global pandemic the U.S. government covers up, yes.
Ah, ok. That makes complete sense.
There’s a couple of approaches to this problem under development:

1. Bakeware “bakes” your application together with the entire Erlang/OTP/Beam/Elixir stack into a single binary. Given the “batteries included” philosophy of OTP, these binaries end up being fairly large, but it works: https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware

2. Lumen compiles Elixir, Erlang and friends into WASM. This will in time enable small fast cross-platform static binaries, but it is not done yet: https://getlumen.org/
Thank you. I just can't convert.
Ask HN: What are your must have apps for iPad?
Hello HN,
I recently bought an iPad Air for taking notes and creative work in general.

I would love to know what are your must have apps for iPad
From your article

> By all accounts, detransitioners make up a tiny percentage of that already small population: A 50-year study out of Sweden found that only 2.2 percent of people who medically transitioned later experienced "transition regret."

I was speaking specifically to GP's point about gender affirming surgery being reversed. If only 2.2% of people who have had this surgery experience regret, the proportion which reverses the surgery must be even smaller.

"Huge number who [...] have to undergo further surgery to try and restore their original sex" is not supported by the data.

It is not easy for trans people to get gender affirming surgery, so I think the conservative "concern" that "children are going to get surgery and regret it" is vastly overblown: children receiving gender affirming surgery is so rare today, and involves jumping through so many hoops, that a tiny proportion of a tiny proportion of a tiny proportion of people seems like a silly subject for policy debate.

Teenagers are dumb and fickle (I know I was!), so I think there should be a non-zero number of hoops for teens jump through to filter out the "just a phase" cases for any surgery (or even just tattoos) that will have permanent impact on their bodies. But 'concerns' about surgical detransitioning is primarily just scaremongering.
> If truth is unknowable next best thing to care about are feelings.

The truth became unknowable due to feelings.
eerie doesn't mean i believe its fact. just that i find it disquieting.

also, UFO != Aliens. Given the size of the universe and the distances needed to travel. I doubt we'll ever see intelligent aliens in our lifetimes. or even our kids lifetime.

but its either a very good cg or something amazing.
If the telephone company charged 20% of the order value whenever you ordered by phone, maybe you would find that relevant?
What is a license except permission? They usually use fancy language, but that email might well have been plenty.

I’d let them sue me and seek attorneys fees.
I haven't heard the words "Lego Island" since I was very small. I dimly recall playing it as a kid (though I played much, much more of Lego Racers [1].) I'm glad to know there is something of a mod scene for the game.

[1] For a first-grade "write a book" project, I presented a Lego Racers strategy guide. Marked for geekiness from a young age...
> John McAfee's contributions to technology

What exactly were those? It sounds like he founded a company that made an eponymous antivirus program that eventually got a lot of name recognition. At least according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#1980%E2%80%...), it doesn't look like he even invented antivirus software or anything.
You don't "easily make nukes". They require an incredibly large industrial infrastructure to support them.

And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. (Again, not touching the fact that a BSL4 lab specializing in weaponized agents is not something that just escapes notice). And I'm terribly sorry, but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.
> The gender critical are not policing trans identity

I don't know how anyone could look at the swath of laws introduced throughout 2020-2021 in both the US and in the UK and actually believe that people are not trying to police trans identity.

> by loudly insisting that any kind of socially non-normative gender expression should be seen as tantamount to and ipso facto equated with some sort of trans identity.

I mean, no. One of the good side-effects of allowing people to be more comfortable with gender fluidity is reducing stereotypes about what men and women need to look like and how they need to act. It means less telling women that something is wrong with them if they inhabit traditional male roles or have certain body types.

This is helpful not only for trans people, but also for non-conforming cis people. The less that people are freaking out over somebody calling themselves a girl if they don't look a certain way, the better things are for everyone who is not inhabiting a traditional gender role, whether they be cis or trans.

> Need I point out how this policing may be harmful to non-heteronormatively-expressing folks?

No, you don't need to. As I pointed out above, this policing isn't happening, and breaking down social norms about gender expression creates safe spaces for non-heteronormatively expressing people, regardless of whether or not they identify as trans.

An advantage of separating concepts like gender, sex, and presentation is that non-conforming cis people can feel more comfortable saying, "my appearance/interests do not make me less of a woman/man."

The idea that trans people are telling girls who like sports that they have to be men just so fundamentally misunderstands what the trans community actually believes about sex and gender. Trans people largely believe the opposite of what you say, they are pushing back against the idea that you can be "prescribed" an innate gender-identity by society.
Ask HN: Does anyone here use Shopify?
I have a small business that sells 3D printed jewelry (https://lulimjewelry.com)

I've built the website myself using Vue.js and Stripe for payment processing.

I've had some trouble getting sales. My Etsy store conversion rate is about 20x higher. I know Etsy shoppers are very ready to buy, but I was hoping to get something better for my own website.

My thought was maybe my website should more closely resemble a typical online store, which got me thinking about switching to the Shopify platform.

Has anyone on here used Shopify before? Is it valuable to someone who knows how to do their own frontend/backend programming? I've poked around a bit and am generally not impressed with the amount of customization possible For example, I can't add "Sections" to any page other than the home page and almost everything requires an "App", which gives questionable third parties access to all my customer data.

But all that being said I was still able to get a passable storefront up and running in a week, which is much faster than my original store.

I'd love to hear from others who has successfully used Shopify, or people who used it and left.
Who has been honoured this way in the past? What has been the historical standard here?
It's Us Against “The Business”
If money stopped being a measure of value, it would stop being a valuable measure.
Indeed, SourceHut would be an excellent choice for the kernel workflow.
I got rid of prime a couple years ago. Between items ineligible for free shipping, and "add on" items, there is almost no value over just making sure I order above the free shipping threshold.

And honestly I find that I use Amazon less and less. Like a lot of the broader internet, it feels like amazon no longer it set up to help me find what I'm looking for, and more like a set of tricks to get me to buy either the wrong thing, or the wrong shipping, or something completely different altogether.

I say all this because I think Amazon's power, like all it's contemporaries, will be self limiting as they become the incumbent that nobody really likes but is still used begrudgingly, and new competitors provide something better.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al.com/news/2019/02/how-an-...

I briefly met McCafee in this context right before he announced his candidacy. I was using the cowork space to get out of the house. He was there to meet with Kyle, the COO, and what appeared to be potential investors.

Had a conversation with his meth-mouthed bodyguard who started talking about ducking behind me if someone came in with a gun.

At that point I left for the day and didn’t renew my coworking membership. Eventually, what was obvious to me about the place came out. I used it because it was the only coworking option in Auburn-Opelika at the time.

Having been on HN, I figured it was probably what it was. But also accepted I might be wrong…a bias for the sake of using the space perhaps.

Never mind running a con, they were the sort of assholes who didn’t mind putting my life at risk.
Its about responsibility, not absurdity. It is Youtube's responsebility to protect customer privacy, wheras a company's management is meant to take responsebility for staff training and use appropriate tools/hosting for that.
Much more likely that it is an emergent property of collective human behavior.

Nonetheless, sophisticated social engineering attempts or clandestine social research are certainly within the realm of discovering by a quick search of the news.
All the research I’ve seen shows no significant consequences to taking puberty blockers. Puberty proceeds as normal once the puberty blockers have been stopped. Puberty has quite a wide range of onset ages and this is not taking the range that far beyond the historical range.
Those data points don't disagree with wyager's point.

Both the the Signalling Theory they are advocating and the Human Capital Development (HCD) that I assume you are advocating would make the same predictions on those life indicators you listed.

The difference between the theories is which causes which:
does consuming education cause people to have more of the traits that cause good life outcomes OR do the traits that cause good life outcomes also cause people to consume more education?

Pure HCD theory says it is only the first. Pure signalling says only the second.

The two can be mixed. What mix people believe in is important as the two theories result in very different policy goals for our education system.

But both agree that people with more education are going to earn more, commit fewer crimes, experience fewer crimes, be healthier, live longer, etc, etc, etc.
John McAfee Fled to Belize, but He Couldn't Escape Himself (2012)
HoTT is somewhat independent of the choice of proof assistant.

Coq: https://github.com/HoTT/HoTT

Lean: https://github.com/gebner/hott3

idk what you mean by "blue screened", or results being on the way. afaict most of the non-foundational work present (what I assume you mean by "results") in these libraries are basic properties of basic mathematical concepts being rebuilt on HoTT.
It’s scientists that fund or support gain of function research at WIV. So anyone involved with Ecohealth is fair game.

I don’t see anything political here. If Fauci and Daszak had come out against dangerous experiments at low biosafety levels we wouldn’t be talking about them.
Sound like they do not have the skills or tools needed to do their job.
> The oligarchs have been working to destroy the middle class for a long time now

Why would they? The middle class is made of doctors, engineers, artists, craftsmen, chefs,...
If you are rich and powerful, you want doctors to care for you when you are sick, engineers to design your private jet, artists to entertain you, craftsmen to build your mansion, chefs to prepare you the best meals,...
Mindless slaves had some value in the pre-industrial times, but now, we have machines that do the work of thousands of slaves, cheaper and better. The rich want people to serve them, sure, but they want them smart and productive. And people don't become smart and productive when they are struggling with life.

Just look at the rich and powerful during the pandemic, they got hit like the rest of us. Better treatment, and they quarantined in paradise islands, but they still died and had to do all the social distancing stuff. And guess who saved their ass, yep, middle class, and they know it, they are not stupid.

There is no class war, no conspiracy. In fact, if there is war, it is between the member of each class. It is a tragedy of the commons situation, where the common here is the workforce.
I know this is fiction. But I really can see McAfee paying people in the jail and faking his death. Or at least trying.
Someone may say that "he" is gender-neutral but it's not in practice