skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can notice this in a few fields of popular ideologies these days, that is overcorrecting for a problem to the point of becoming exactly the thing one was originally fighting against.

I am of the somewhat progressive-unpopular opinion that some people have an unhealthy interest in how they label themselves and how others perceive them, and in the attempts to be supportive the popular opinion is doing more harm than good. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against anyone with a certain genotype or phenotype having any particular interest in whom they love, how they dress, their hobbies, behaviors, etc. as long as they don’t put hurts on other people. I do have doubts about the amount of “identifying” people do with their preferences though. It can be a subtle point that is hard to make just right without getting pitchforks raised, I’m never sure i’ve done it right.
Predicted to have a nighttime low of 74 degrees F, so the strategy of cooling the house with fans overnight is going to be less effective.
I went to both what people would consider "Crappy schools" and "good schools".

Crappy schools have an awful student body, many of which don't want to be there, are further behind in their learning than their grade indicates, are disruptive, and teachers have to spend large amounts of time calling security to have students removed or disciplining students. Often, the parents blame the schools and teachers for all their kids' problems.

In my experience, some of the teachers were still trying their best (usually young ones that weren't made cynical yet) but others were too burned out to care much since you only had to look around and see it was mainly hopeless.

The crappy school had fights every day in classes and in the hallways and were fairly violent places.

In the good school (last couple years of school) I wasn't sure the teachers were any more talented but the students showed up on time, listened, did their assignments, and were not violent or disruptive. Honestly, it was really strange to me the first few months and felt probably like when a prisoner is put back into society and they don't quite know how to act at school yet. Any slight I'd meet with threatening behavior to defend myself and intimidate, but I found it wasn't necessary after some time. I hated that school too but I think it was more I disliked a lot of the people there and the reason why was because I was initially resentful of their comfortable, happy life and civility, and just how functional things were. People listened to their teachers and wanted to succeed. I know that sounds crazy, but I was used to going to an insane asylum every day year after year and this was different. The friends I made at the crappy school are the best friends I've had but as the years have gone on many of them are dead from suicide or drugs or have had a really difficult go of it as adults. It all catches up.

I spent my entire school life in the public school system of a large city and I would never send my kids to those schools. It's not really that the schools that are "good or bad" per-se - it's the student body that determines that and that is largely decided by the parents and communities of those children. So much money has to be spent on security (my HS had 10 full-time staff) and discipline that there's not money for "nice things". But, the administration knows they need to hit numbers so kids are passed along if they show up and I knew more than a few kids who graduated and couldn't read past a 5th grade level.
HN is a non-siloed site, meaning we don't have subreddits, or any of the other ways that large communities segregate themselves. Here we're all in one big room together, like it or not. It's always been that way and I think it's part of its DNA.

This has advantages and disadvantages, as with all such design choices, but it's good to be conscious of what one's design actually is, since otherwise one might end up fucking with the DNA, which doesn't seem like a great idea.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silo%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
Well then you're both 1) of the same political mindset of the majority and therefore less likely to notice and 2) unwilling to take the social temperature of such things because it's obviously happening [1] and there is a mountain of empirical evidence to support the fact that students and faculty are wary of speaking their minds.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/rabble-rouser/201811...
There isn't a meaningful consensus on how many people died on their watch, but this claim usually targets the famines of '59-61 (China) and '32-33 (USSR), and casts the blame on the choice each country made to collectivize agriculture. The Chinese famine was the last one it has experienced to date. The only subsequent famine that the USSR underwent were in the 40s, which historians tend to agree was the result of infrastructural damage underwent during WWII. So I mean, yeah, people died on their watch. Probably not as many as you think, though, and certainly fewer than would have died if they continued on as semi-feudal agrarian backwaters.
George Byron Merrick's book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 [0] has a fascinating chapter on how people got rich on wildcat banking swindles.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47262
A lot of this boils down to emotions, which are not being fully processed in your system.

When you recognize a strong feeling within yourself, you can work with it to find a balance in the following way.

Find the 'negative' emotion. Now enter a meditative state. Call up the emotion into your awareness - use imagery, imagination, sensing, whatever helps. Once you have a hold on the emotion, amplify it - seek to feel it in your entire being. Whether its sadness, fear, not being appreciated - amplify the feeling until it fills every cell of your body. Do this for a few seconds only, until it feels like the feeling begins to change or subside. (It can take as few as 3 or 5 seconds, or much longer, depending). The goal is to feel the feeling as intensely as you can (without hurting yourself!). Doing this will shift it!

Then, seek to find the opposite feeling. Ask yourself, what is the opposite feeling? Feeling grateful for your job? What does that feel like? Imagine yourself feeling this feeling. Imagine a world-scenario that would trigger this feeling. Visualize yourself in a situation which triggers this opposite feeling. Then, amplify that feeling, and feel it in every cell of your body, for a few seconds.

This will completely shift your experience of the emotion and your viewpoint on the relevant issue/topic/area/domain in which the emotion is being triggered. It's a very effective technique.

Wishing you good things.
There's not even a progress report after it being fully in place for 1.5 school years.

Nothing at all has changed.
John McAfee Has Died?
El Mundo story https://www.elmundo.es/tecnologia/2021/06/23/60d38594e4d4d8c...
> This would mean throwing out a lot of the more epheremeral complaints "I feel unsafe if there is a man in the bathroom." Why? Let's fix that part, then. Because there are going to be scary women too.

You realize having a woman's bathroom was a thing many early feminist groups fought for right?
Because it's a public school. It would not apply to private schools or private employers.

Also note that this is a narrow ruling; the supreme court is not intending to set new precedent the way Tinker vs. Des Moines did. They just said this particular student's particular speech in this particular context was protected, not all speech by all students. This case won't be relevant to schools banning hate speech or bullying on social media, for instance. Nor would it have any consequences for public employers.

There is a larger question here. Tinker, the existing precedent, was established long before social media. There will have to be a reckoning, the court will need to decide what speech on social media is protected and what isn't. Speech on social media is (by virtue of this decision) more protected than on campus speech, but less protected than speech by an adult who's not a student at the school. There's a line in there somewhere, and it's the court's duty to draw it. They did not draw that line today; they just said that the line is over there somewhere and saying "fuck" on social media didn't cross it.
What activity would that be? Also, any lessons learned with regard to your ex that you'd like to impart just so the rest of us don't fall through the same cracks you did?
Images and videos can both be downloaded by right click. Also, both of them can be configured not to work that way by html/css structure. It's not a difference between image vs video.
The idea is that sex and gender are different though; gender _is_ a social construct. I think lack of agreement on this is a big part of the issue right now.

Edit: as pointed out below, gender roles are something we've made up, but preferences and behavior themselves (which we're calling gender) are not. Still separate from sex.
Why is it not good?
> I'm curious why [...] inner-city schools are still horrendously bad.

I encourage you to follow this train of thought. It may bring into question some fundamental assumptions in one's world view.
Alas with modern warfare you don't need 100k people in order to curb-stomp the unmilitarized competition.

I am certain the US for instance could easily make nukes with no other country knowing about it, and that's with all the people in the US who would scream that from the rooftops if they knew.

Or you could get even more creative: make a virus in a lab, develop a vaccine / cure, vaccinate your population, release the virus. We don't even know if COVID-19 came from a Wuhan lab and even if it did it seems incredibly unlikely it was developed as a weapon. Imagine the secrecy that would be involved by a country doing so deliberately.

Between nukes / bioweapons / chemical weapons / drones / etc, a country could definitely achieve a huge edge before any other country knew what was happening. It's not 1920 anymore.
it's very disingenuous to equate Q-Anon to trans rights activists
Example paragraph: "Using a fear of cancellation to silence half the population, SJWs dismissed the steady social progress that was the trademark of the world’s most successful multicultural society. Instead of celebrating the progress flowing from our commonalities, they fomented division by pointing to historical injustices."

Not color-blind but tone-deaf.
Wouldn't this be the opposite of that scenario? As in, someone has a given name at birth but they prefer a nickname and some people find using the nickname too onerous and use their given name instead?
It was fully implemented in the summer of 2018. See my cite.
It's a scam, no more, no less. Just like ICOs. People poured billions in ICOs a few years ago because of FOMO, the only people that got rich is the ones that did the coin offering.
seems like wheel shaped things enjoy regular reinventions
Forgive my ignorance, but I am wondering if this is all that different. GPCRs typically downstream towards ion channels, right? So even if insect physiology relies on ligand gated ion channels, is the end result the same, just more metabolically expensive in mammals?
Apparently he committed suicide, which is crazy.
It’s still an open question as to why trans people are trans, but it definitely looks like something is already different as early as the womb.

But that isn’t important, because even if it were false: Purely for the question of athletics, athletic performance trumps all else.

Medical doctors will still need to know about chromosomes for dealing with chromosomal disorders, and if you’ve had your gonads out you’re not going to get gonad cancer, but purely for gender-related athletics issues, the 80-20 principle applies: most of the “million” things your chromosomes do are the same for basically everyone (and thus the reason nobody is born a literal banana), then there’s the subset of chromosomal stuff which affects athletic performance, then the subset of that subset where the gender interacts with the athletic genes such that men and women with those genes perform differently, and in that subset of a subset the difference can be overwhelmed by externally supplied steroids.

Which is why steroids are banned.

Now, in the specific case in this article, transition happened well into adulthood, and the athlete says:

> Vanbellinghen, 27, whose qualifying efforts were disrupted by injury, pointed out that the retained benefit of taking steroids, even years earlier, is widely known.

> "So why is it still a question whether two decades, from puberty to the age of 35, with the hormonal system of a man also would give an advantage [in competing against women]?

Obviously this isn’t the same as the case of someone transitioning pre-puberty. But, as I say, it’s why some trans people want to transition pre-puberty.
Right, so how is it FUD if you simply want to avoid being part of a clinical trial? Vaccines take at least 7 years (usually 10ish) to complete long-term trials.

For young people, the cost-benefit analysis isn't clear at all--much less risk of anything bad at all from covid itself, plus far more years of life to lose or suffer from vaccine injury, which is a totally unknown risk.

To boot, the vaccines contain at least three entirely new technologies never before adopted in vaccine treatment.
Even if it was viable to use bitcoin as a currency, I would still want to leave most of mine with a bank.
So, if someone were infertile it would reduce the threat and be acceptable? You said intact, not fertile.
> But then the Snowden leaks came along, and it looks even more suspicious.

> Money was changing hands between the NSA and companies, to have them install this as their standard for number generation. That's deeply suspicious.

(-from the video)

That's one piece of information I didn't know, and doesn't usually get mentioned in the discussions I've seen about this.
Perhaps they mean mp3 distortion? Many CDs were encoded as mp3?
Its also about the possibility of being impregnated

Just personalize the idea, your sister or female significant other was thrown in jail, and then housed with a male who is a trans woman who has sex with her with or without her consent and creates an ongoing consequence that is impossible if trans women were not there

That would be the expectation you would start with to form a conclusion

Sex in male prisons does not result in pregnancy
Apple Executive Suggests Users Who Want App Sideloading Move to Android
I would agree that do-ing is a major component of the delta, along with ability and a fair bit of luck. I guess my mental model would be that someone's socioeconomic status often comes down to:

starting point + (hard work * ability * luck)

(where any one of those may be positive or negative)
Start with putting a value on it, even a crazy high value.

Why is it necessary at all? How much are people spending because it doesn't exist?
Wasn't "No Child Left Behind" a Bush thing?
I corrected it; however, keep in mind many readers don't know that means.
Pelosi also owns somewhere between $5M-$25M of Apple stock.

You'd think some notion of recusal would exist in the legislative process...

https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/nancy-pelosi/a...
100% Agree. At least in my home country, this is mostly fueled by the left (I consider myself center).

Lots of them just "work" of doing nothing but protesting, so once they get something they wanted, they have to move to the next thing.

For example, they start by making changes to the language so, instead of being "los" (male) or "las" (female) they started to say "les" (does not exists in spanish) as they say it is more inclusive (nor male nor female).

But it is not that they say "los", "las", and "les", they want you to say "les". So first it was an "innocent" thing, and now they are trying to pass laws and indoctrinate everyone, included kids from any age, 6 years old or less.
From a Bayesian perspective, I think we should consider the luck required for this hypothesis as a strike against it. In other words, if the hypothesis contends that observing an Einstein was very unlikely, then the fact that we did observe an Einstein is strong evidence against it.
I recognize that. But isn’t that also a form of discrimination? The suggestion is that all men are capable of being perverts, using their camera phones inappropriately, bathroom harassment, etc.

To build gender-specific bathrooms because of that generalization of men is hypocritical of the entire gender discrimination movement. Reverse discrimination.
John McAfee has died by suicide in prison in Barcelona
OP said it's the great equalizer, which I take to mean tending to make equal, not make equal - any more than education ever did.

Class still exists with its advantages, from BS (e.g. who you know) to real (e.g. security to invest in yourself long-term).
> I am now resigning from that post, just as I have done at all corporate boards other than Berkshire’s

So nothing special to see here.

99% click bait article
I sympathise. Sadly society seems to be moving the other way recently: my gym and pool both have significant women's only hours and classes. My previous employer had women only sessions with the ceo to promote more women faster.

There was a brief moment a few years ago when the government here (limey Britian) said people would be allowed to pick their gender without involving doctors/bureaucrats. I liked the idea, it's equality on steroids. Long queue for the ladies? Identify as a man for 5 minutes! Accidently go to the gym at 7 on a Wednesday? Be a girl for 90 minutes so you can work out!

Link for when the policy was dropped

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/22/uk-governmen...
No, that's one of their limitations. (Well, styling can be done to some extent with CSS variables and the shadow DOM, I think.)
Most messaging platforms/chatrooms won't autoplay video. Which in the context of quick "reactions" doesn't work well at all.
Perhaps lack of distortion? I remember some DJ friends from back in the day saying that CDs sound more "sterile" than vinyl (this was late 90s/early 2000s).
Yeah with an 80s GUI that can be software rendered..
Cheerleader’s right to free speech upheld
>"I feel unsafe if there is a man in the bathroom." Why?

Because men (biological males if we're being pedantic) are statistically overwhelmingly more likely to commit rape and other forms of sexual assault (and other violent crimes) and to be horny creepy perverted sex pests in general. Add to that the fact that men are much more physically strong than women (a ~5th percentile male is about as strong as a ~95th percentile female) and the options a woman has to defend themselves against such a creep are severely limited.

But if you insist on creating a New Soviet Woman that isn't afraid of men, be my guest. Just do it far away from me in a different country, please.
> one thing to keep in mind is that many people cannot seek help from the police. people who are victims to forced labor are often in a complex legal situation created or exploited by the perpetrators.

I mean, isn't that the exact problem that structuring prostitution laws in this way solves?

> undocumented people, the most vulnerable victims of trafficking, risk being arrested and deported if they seek help.

Illegal immigration is separate legal issue from prostitution, and issues caused by it won't get solved by normalizing prostitution.

I think a distinction needs to be drawn between legalizing prostitution and normalizing it. It's quite clear this Swedish model does the former without doing the latter, in order to solve a specific legal dilemma. That's still going to irk those who really want the latter.
strangely enough, there was a similar bust happening in France last week (RRcrypto)
"Yes, it's effective at shutting people up. No, it's not very effective at convincing people that you're right."

I see things differently, through the lens of power and influence. How much power does the opposition have if it's been effectively silenced? Members of the other side certainly aren't convinced of your cause, but what difference does it make? You've already gotten them to submit.

As time goes on the younger people will pretty much only hear from the intolerant folks because the people who were silenced can't propagate their worldview effectively.
Check out stenogotchi [1] if you haven't already. Plover running on a battery-powered Rasperi Pi Zero.

[1] https://github.com/Anodynous/stenogotchi
I am not sure if your definition of academic freedom applies equally all over the world.
I understand Humboldts definition of "Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre" an university is obligated to support you once you have been taken on and to fire people because of their research alone would violate it.
I wish we knew more on how covid messed them up and how to fix. Ever since I had covid my smell sensitivity is very low. I get really weird smells and tastes from food that sometimes make me sick.
I'm not sure I follow? Are you saying the context here is that she is white and that is therefore enough for it to automatically be derogatory racist usage? That sounds... racist.
I think my kids would look at me strangely if, after asking me what to do in life, I said, “DO THINGS.” I think more specifics are in order. Like, do what? Or, what are the things worth doing? There’s just not enough information available on what things have ROI.
That's not true, there are numerous bugs especially on ios. What all browser vendors have figured out is that browser updates should be decoupled form OS updates and this is what Google and Microsoft are getting right,frequent updates, new browser engine features and fixes are available almost immediately.
The entire NFT phenomenon just shows how little dollars are worth nowadays. That dollars can be thrown away on claims, and not even real property (even tulips were worth something) is proof of this.
> I'm not sure I follow you. According to ERC-721 spec, there is a token owner, and it is assigned to a blockchain address. Signing a message with that address proves you own it. If the source code of the smart contract shows that no one can seize it from you, then you are indeed the owner.

Anybody can sell a NFT of the Mona Lisa. It's worthless.
When ever I see someone talk about “safe space”, I ask myself, “safe space for which ideas?”
The things that are safe to discuss are different at thanksgiving dinner, a college designated safe-space, a therapist’s office, or a church meeting. There is no such thing as a universal “safe space” for all ideas.
Scoped labels are the primary thing keeping me on GitLab
Yelp was behaving in a morally if not legally fraudulent manner by having up until that point presenting their service not as a reservation system to the customer, but as a Yellow Pages. They didn’t say this is a number you can use to reserve through Yelp; they presented it as the business’s phone number, and without informing either businesses or customers that they changed up. Of course now they’re in the reservations game.

That said, these commissions are a COGS/COSS item that customers don’t actually need to know about. I don’t need to know that you bought your cheesecake at $30 and are selling it for $60. I don’t need to know the cost of the time it took the employee to stick it in a box and ring me up. And I certainly don’t need to know any of the overhead costs. I’m not asking to review your P&L just to determine if you are receiving a fair amount for your goods and services, nor should your books be open to me. I trust that whatever price you set is the price you are okay with receiving for your goods and services. If it isn’t, raise them or close and do something else with your life.