skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very much an advocate for trans rights, notwithstanding my hesitation about surgical and hormonal interventions being pushed for pre-pubescent children, and some of the more aggressive self-id advocacy.

> the question is one of the benefits outweighing the risks

Naturally, and this is the essence of the "safety and efficacy" goal that is at the heart of our medical regulatory framework.

> Frankly, transgender youth who seek these treatments generally suffer from clinical mental health disorders

I absolutely agree. That makes the subject a difficult one to study, and all the more important to devote resources to that study, and to warrant great care before we have good data, which we don't yet.

> the drugs used have existed for decades

Yes they have, and we have decades of data on the negative side effects.

> do your own googling

Ok. Here's a big one:

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/23/puberty-blockers-decre...

Apparently Pink News forgot to actually read this study, a careful reading of which reveals the following:

- The percentage of people who ideated and planned suicide (but did not attempt it) was nearly the same between those with and without puberty blockers (55.6% vs 58.2%).

- The percentage of people who attempted suicide was higher for those who had blockers (24.4% vs 21.5%).

- The percentage of people who attempted suicide and were hospitalised was nearly double for those who had blockers (45.5% vs 22.8%).

I see similarly shoddy treatment of data in many other ostensibly pro-intervention studies.

Perhaps you know of some other, higher quality work I could look at?
Every human being descends from the original humans in Africa so I don't think the term "true north-European descendants" makes much sense.
You immediately call it false in your response.
God, if there’s one thing I hate it’s that condescending millennial speak to cover up a serious issue.

> Oof, so sorry about this...

What??? If your company is broken don’t make it seem like a funny “aw shucks” blunder.
"UI::App::Android" seems kind of odd to me, or at least its a poor example. Does this mean you can't search for "Android" and get all Android issues? Maybe I'm not understanding how it works?

It seems like it would make sense as a way of name spacing. "Web::UI" and "Android::UI" would ensure an Android dev doesn't need to sort through all UI issues and all UI issues without a platform tag would also show up in a different search. Having the platform last seems strange to me, though.
I think you are touching on the same point - that more than mere meritocracy, there is an aspect of social mobility. Children of highly educated parents know what to do to get to an Ivy League School, whereas kids from underprivileged backgrounds have often to find this out for themselves. What if you don't have access to a good counsellor or a library to find out this career path?

There are graded policies available. One way around this may be to introduce "grace marks" for underprivileged school districts similar to a handicap in golf, and to reserve some seats for such students. This is not so revolutionary a proposal - there are seats in every Ivy League school for children of influential families, even though they are not really the cream of the crop, intellectually.
Any chance your previous HN nickname was sadamznintern?
There were two helicopters from separate organizations that were both chasing it.
Yep! I might have been a little pedantic. I've been running a content blocker + PiHole for a while now with decent results. I really wish that there was a system wide content blocker without requiring a jailbreak.
Indeed you have a great point here, as I can simplify, you do not own your data, you buy allocation of certain service, like you said about Amazon ebooks.

Indeed I'm a guy who balances more between freedom instead of making it rigidly by laws, however the "Tech World" really needs "foundational directives" where all companies should abide.

Like John Locke defines, as I remember, that you have a "natural right" to Life.

Why not make an analogy here...

Right to Life - Your data is yours.

Right to Liberty - Your data goes where you want.

Right to Property - help me here lol

Idk we really should start to think more about privacy to all people, and where the top ones do with them.
One's opinion on this probably depends on identity and political views.

From what I understand, Trump blocked the National Guard from supporting officers during the Capitol insurrection, so it was supported by the President at the very least.

Preventing the certification of Biden is a more grave threat to our democracy than the BLM protestors in cities like Portland, IMO.

Mainly since White Americans are still the majority and by and large supporters of the right, I don't see movements like BLM gaining much power.
Going along with the software doesn't sell problem, supporting software on customers laptops is a nightmare.

No two environments are identical, you don't know what weird things they've done, this causes all sorts of new bugs.

We don't know how to write bug free software for a reasonable price, and it's a lot easier to debug and update software on a server you control than on a customers computer.

On a server no one complains about auto upgrades, on a customer computer there's going to be a lot of people who don't upgrade but still want support, even if you try and force auto upgrades (which will annoy people) someone will have figured out a way to prevent that from happening.

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I think for a lot of companies SAAS is unfortunately the responsible financial decision.
I moved to Tucson temporarily during the pandemic. One night walking to get groceries my girlfriend and I saw a very low flying drone with a single green light underneath. It was moving far faster than I’d ever seen a drone, very low over our head and went far into the distance. Couldn’t hear it at all. The speed must have been at or above 100mph, it was almost unbelievable how quick it went.
You guys should have invented Minecraft. Even LEGO Digital Designer was crap and got outcompeted by Bricklink Studio, which was a company like 1/1000 the size.
coming from the same government that considers ketchup a vegetable in school lunches, im hardly surprised a thirty six billion dollar industry may have had some success in regulatory capture to convince the public that nearly two litres of coffee a day is "moderate" or "healthy"
"*The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author."

Well, okay.
This reminds me of Discord
And that is why we need to keep using, and creating, free as in freedom alternatives...

"there is no cloud just other people's computers"
> I'd imagine you take the position that a child seeking this care is always confused. Could this be mistaken? I'd conjecture that you believe this to be the case, because you don't address the simple fact that you assume that all children in this circumstance must be confused. If they are not, then they can give informed consent and your claim is void.

A child who insists that he is no longer a male (or never was) is definitely confused.

If that same child insists that he's black, even though both of his biological parents are white, would you take him at his word or save him from getting Dolezal'ed by an unforgiving woke mob?

Children don't make good decisions. Their brains are literally missing the hardware until about age 25. [1] We don't allow them to make permanent changes that they might regret.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/
"Collectives™ on Stack Overflow" can they trademark "Collectives"? That's just a generic and common governance structure (and one that, as far as I can tell, they don't follow). There must be existing "X Collective" sites that are Q&A sites or forums or similar?
> Capitalism does not necessarily bring Democracy.

But Democracy does solve a number of issues capitalism has. Free-markets allocate tangible and (pardon the cliché term) fungible goods quite well.

Non-tangible (e.g. intellectual property) and non-fungible (e.g. environment) goods are not managed well in a purely capitalist system. Some sort of a majority vote and public goods solution work much better and in fact create the necessary infrastructure (safe streets, reliable electricity, clean water) for capitalism to function.

So Capitalism ≠> Democracy,
but Democracy => Capitalism is more true than not.
> [...extreme scenario highlighting large differences in ability and opportunity...] sure that's unfair, but what does it have to do with meritocracy?

The situation isn't always (or ever) so cut-and-dried. Usually you have to compare those 4 applicants across many different and subjective criteria. Moreover your own assessments are, at best, less than perfect.

Sometimes choices between closely matched applicants really do come down to a lottery and this is what some elite schools have to resort to. Sometimes the decision is by referral through a social network, or greased palms. Sometimes other criteria like diversity can be a factor if the candidates are closely enough matched and there is a desire to have more diversity.

For something to be truly meritocratic, it would require that everyone have the same values and that everyone would agree on one "objective" assessment. That's never the case. And worse if it is called "meritocratic" it's always about "merit" as measured by ONE entity and not everyone else.
> At the end of the day if you have 1 position and 4 applicants, the only way you can opt out of a meritocracy is selecting randomly.

You're oversimplifying things. You have a list of criteria based on which you select applicants. You're not basing your selection based on a scalar "skill" value in [0, +inf[.

You have different applicants with different skillsets and personalities. You have to gauge whether that set of skill will translate with good performance on the job. However, you also want to gauge whether the person is actually interested in your project or not, and whether or not they'll get along with you and your team, all of which is nontrivial to judge during interviews. All of your measurements are noisy and biased.

I was interviewing someone recently, and they were a friend of mine. I knew they had the knowledge, but during the interview, they came off as not having done their homework and not that interested in the work we were doing, so my friend, who I knew was more than capable enough, flunked the interview, and we ended up selecting someone less skilled but seemingly more interested. However, after having hired the second guy, I'm actually finding I don't like his personality that much. Hiring is complicated and hard to get right, more complicated than just "merit".

Personally, I'm finding personality, friendliness and eagerness to be more valuable than what people have on their CV, their GitHub, or how much they ace whatever we throw at them in programming interviews. There are people out there who are really good but are total dicks. From what I've seen, I don't think I would ever want to work with Linus Torvalds for instance, even though I use git and Linux everyday, and the guy for sure scores a lot of "merit" points, he's had a huge impact on the world. If I interview you and the feel I get from you is that you're arrogant and kind of a dick, it's not going to matter what your SAT scores is or however many patents you have to your name.
> If it were indeed the case the everyone had an equal access to learning and if knowledge and wisdom could be reliably demonstrated, then perhaps meritocracy would make sense and likely would further genuine equality more than a minimum amount.

This is a fairly narrow interpretation of merit. It is not simply the acquisition and demonstration of knowledge and wisdom. There are many other facets such as being a hard worker, being honest, being reliable, being a good teammate, and so on. Many of these attributes would be more accurately described as comprising your character.

I don’t think anybody expects meritocratic processes to produce a reasonably egalitarian society either. Some people are going to be dealt a poor hand at birth. Some will be born profoundly dumb. Some people will just be lazy and useless.

To me this is the best argument for why charity and welfare must exist in within a truly free and/or meritocratic society.
This person seems to believe it's a security issue with video ids, but maybe that's not related to Zanzibar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27611436
That's really bad, maybe it's an option to repaste the CPU. Because this isn't normal.
Something missing from those discussions is perception of legal risk around the licenses.

If you fail to comply with any FOSS license, the enforcement mechanism is the same: since you didn't uphold the terms of the license, you have NO license and thus can be penalized for copyright infringement.

However, FOSS license violations rarely result in the most draconian copyright infringement penalties. Generally, what FOSS authors want is adherence to the license going forward, rather than to sue you for money and maximize damages.

In the case of permissive licenses, coming into compliance just means adding credit somewhere. Nobody finds that painful. So infringement suits basically don't happen — infringeers just add credits in new releases, the past is forgotten, end of story.

In the case of copyleft, coming into compliance typically requires more work: most infringers remove the copyleft dependency and either replace it with something else or write new code. Theoretically the infringer could also release previously proprietary source code under the copyleft license but AFAIK in practice nobody chooses this option. Because copyleft compliance is more work, copyleft enforcement is a bigger deal, and copyleft authors sometimes go to court.

The consequence is that copyleft licenses are perceived as entailing greater legal risk, especially GPL and AGPL.

This copyleft-vs.-permissive bifurcation isn't perfect because e.g. the Eclipse License is a copyleft license but is perceived as low risk. Really the perception of risk around a licnse has to do with the community around the license and its traditions. GPL and AGPL, among all FOSS licenses, are perhaps the most likely to result in enforcement actions.

So... by choosing AGPL, you associate your project with a comparatively litigious FOSS community, even if the enforcement mechanism being leveraged isn't any different from what's available to permissive license communities. And so, users who wish to minimize what they perceive as increased legal risk may stay away from your project.
LowEndBox is full of scammers.
https://talk.lowendspirit.com/ is cleaner.
> I don't mean to downplay what is happening because it is happening but do you not think the amount of outrage this topic generates surpasses the level of impact we can have assuming we fix it? It just feels like we're being distracted.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. It's not uncommon to create distractions by purposefully treating a small group badly. And the solution can neither be to allow it to dominate all the bandwidth nor to ignore it.

Meanwhile, unlike Alzheimers, amputations or blindness, there doesn't really need to be any scientific breakthroughs to handle this. We just need to somehow fix society. It's at least controllable.
Let’s suppose people initially have equal opportunity and merit. Now let’s say 10 percent of the population will be “chosen” such that they are lucky and have “talent,” such that they’re now better than the others in activities that determine merit.

In the first generation this is fine - after all there are all sorts of people: tall, short, fat, skinny etc.

In this scenario, though, the 2nd generation of people, aka the kids of the first, will all be equal again, except for the children who happened to be born by those who were the chosen. Those kids will be able to be better prepared, all things being equal. Now add the potential for the kid to be both born by a chosen and also be chosen themselves - the merit will grow exponentially.

Eventually at say generation 100, despite things originally being equal - all of those who are considered to have relative merit will basically just be descendants of those who just happened to be lucky.

Add in reality and things like money, oppression, over consuming fixed resources that allow for improvement and you can perhaps understand the frustration of some.
You don't use phone TOTP? Google Authenticator, etc.
There would be a lot more empathy if they would be voluntarily offering any kind of compensation, which really is the least you could ask for.
Congratulations, front page of HN = front page of backlog
The square iPod Shuffle with the clip on the back was great for running! Still had a wire, but no need for pockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#/media/File:Apple...

I think I've got one somewhere. Weirdest thing about it was the cable, it used a USB 2 (4 pins) to TRRS cable for syncing with the computer.
Theoretically perfect meritocracy can't exist (or even be defined), but that doesn't mean the entire concept must be discarded.

Practically speaking, hiring managers know they aren't making theoretically perfect meritocratic decisions, nor are they under any illusions of having a perfect overview of all necessary information. Tasks like hiring are inherently about making educated guesses based on the minimal signal that is available, and hiring managers are well aware that candidates are actively working to game those signals.
I mean I know plenty of people who want to be called ridiculous things, on the internet for example I'm talking to someone who apparently is called DangitBobby. And I'm KittenInABox. I'd be super weirded out if someone demanded that my name is too ridiculous and they'll call me Susan instead on the internet because its their free speech rights.
Step 1: OP should export their data, then import to their desired service.

Oh wait..
What was released was a pre-print, not a publication. Every top ML conference requires releasing of code, but this is not the norm for CS research nor for research in general.

The bar isn't low, this is just a pre-print.
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When should bullying or similar behaviour become punishable? Certainly not if you accidentally say something that afronts a person.

The purpose of these compelled speech laws is to deal with repeated discriminatory or repeated bullying behaviour. Not to give everyone a tool to denounce strangers and get them into trouble with the law .

Do you have any suggestions how what laws freithen you can be adjusted to make you more comfortable with them while allowing for harsher punishments for bullying/discriminatory due to them being a class worth protecting more?
That's plainly incorrect. If I buy a book from Joe's Book Store App, I'm not licensing anything from Apple at all.
It always amazes me how left leaning American tech people are on these issues. It isn't like that at all in Europe, tech tends to be mostly right wing here. I wonder why that is? Is having your right wing party run by religious nutcases the reason and then you just associate stuff like meritocracy with that?
He wasn't totally certain exactly what he'd made, afaik; his neighbor troubles coincided with efforts to get a real chemist to assist him in identifying what he was producing and stabilizing his method.
No, I was an intern but being sad is relatively new
If I was smart I would have stopped under-estimating the stupidity of the average rube and bought a pile of useless Bitcoin back when it first became a meme. I don't consider myself to be particularly smart but I do know a scam when I see one. If somebody already mined the first coins everybody getting involved afterwards is either getting ripped off or will have to rip somebody off to get out before the realisation hits that what you are trading in is burned computer cycles and promises of a "new means of exchange" that doesn't actually work except for criminals activities.

What happens when a country abandons a fiat currency or devalues it via inflation, you end up with wheelbarrows full of worthless paper and nobody to take it. yet at some point it was valued highly and people hoarded in mattresses and were happy to exchange goods for it.

I like to think about it this way: People stop worshipping a particular god and the whole religion disappears, leaving nothing but stories. Nobody makes material sacrifices to that god any more, the temples fall into ruin, the high priests run out of money since their temples are no longer supported and followers move on to something else.

c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurvanism

Gold however has been sought after for thousands of years and still has uses outside of being a very inefficient currency (super compact boat ballast? why not). Bitcoin does not, can not and never will.
> Personally, I'm finding personality, friendliness and eagerness to be more valuable than what people have on their CV, their GitHub, or how much they ace whatever we throw at them in programming interviews.

Great. You have constructed a meritocracy that prices in "personality, friendliness and eagerness". It's still a meritocracy.
Yep. However it really sucks that you have to out companies like this on social media in order to get them to act on things.
> I'd say that Linux kernel was developed by an international network of hackers with a Finnish leader, and benefited a lot from GNU userland.

Linus did quite a bit before the network of hackers joined in. But I don’t disagree with you. My main point is that the US, and big American tech companies don’t have a monopoly on talent.
I disagree. I've had extensive experience with both and ended up settling with IOS because of the "privacy", and longevity. Might have gotten better since my last experiences with android, but I'm still rocking an iPhone 8 which does more than enough for my needs, and my wife is still using an iPhone 6s which they announced will be getting the latest upgrade this year (7 years old now).

I know you can mess around with custom ROMs and all that to get more life out of Android phones, but now that I work full time I just don't really have the patience to be constantly tweaking things to have my phone work pretty well. It's actually kind of weird that I'm in this position because I used to be all about customization and huge into the Jailbreak/Rooting scenes.
To be fair, the dude doesn't live in the US. There are only two countries in the world that tax citizens overseas, and the US is one of them.

I'm certainly not excusing his actions (and I'm sure he dodged taxes in many ways), but I have to say that as a Spanish citizen having lived in the US, Ireland, and now Japan, the US tax code is batshit insane.
I'll do it for you then, he was a 'shitty' person.

Does working in tech bring about a condition of no longer making value judgements, so that you never have to turn that spotlight on yourselves?
Looks good (the dendron). One of the killer feature of Notion and alike are the mobile apps, to have most data available on the go, even with the ability to edit or add some notes. Many opensource alternatives "forget" about that.
when multiplying it by youtube size isn't still a big number?
Using an anecdote from one person doesn't actually prove the point you made in the first line. If you can find repeated cases of over-reactions from Googlers over multiple months/years, then you might have evidence to support your argument.
> In fact, in numerous studies conducted throughout the world, consuming four or five eight-ounce cups of coffee (or about 400 milligrams of caffeine) a day has been associated with reduced death rates.

That seems like an absurd amount of coffee to drink in one day, no?