skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Though I would point out that "intact" is also a word used to describe uncircumcised males, without strictly implying that circumcised males are damaged.

It may be used to describe their foreskin, but I've never heard or seen it used to describe them as whole people. It sounds very odd. What is the negation of intact? You can't really use a word to describe a category exclusively without implying the opposite of the other category.

> People with penises are more likely to be rapists than people without them, this is a clear statistical reality.

I don't think you can argue this is a clear statistical reality without data about trans women. As far as I know contemporary research suggests sexual assault by women has been historically undercounted. I don't know if the numbers come out similar in the end, but it seems like the kind of thing that is easily colored by social bias.

> If a large population of people are being held together, historically because they did not possess penises

Is it because they didn't have penises? Or because they weren't men? I don't know of any specific information, but this is an important distinction, because the general perception for a long time has been that men are more violent than women, and I think it's more because of male secondary sexual characteristics (muscle tone and height, mainly) than primary. Would a burly intersex person with high testosterone and ambiguous genitalia who sexually assaulted somebody have been put in a women's prison? Should they be today?

> And if there isn't a difference between having a penis and not having one in this circumstance, why do we even need to have gendered prisons?

I don't know, but I do think it's worth asking the question! Do we segregate people by gender because it's fundamentally necessary, or because our prison system is so brutal that we can't imagine inmates of different genders living together peacefully? There could very well be science on this subject that I'm not aware of, but on its face the sexual segregation of American prisons seems hard to separate from their brutality and corruption.
Yes, exactly. Video ID is just a base64'ed DES-encrypted primary int64 video key from MySQL. It used to be sequentially incremented until at some point they switched to randomly generated primary keys. Any (ex-) engineer who snapped a copy of the encryption key (it used to sit right in the code for anyone to see) can enumerate all videos from YT until that moment, including unlisted - which are only protected by secrecy of that one key. If the key leaks, then also anyone in the world can. That's what they are afraid of here. Source: worked for YT.
> Bored of boards? Switch to tables.

I love this. I don’t know why the “agile board” became a thing. To me it always seemed like a poor way to visualize what is a list of items.

My problem with agile boards is that they place tasks into separate columns to denote the task state, which often cuts off the task description (and can require a lot of horizontal scrolling). It also prevents using columns for other fields like the Assignee (as the table view in the new GitHub Issues does).
I'm guessing you consider Google/Microsoft a competitor to Brave. Google I might get, Microsoft I don't.

Neither consider Brave any real threat. Another commenter said "romantic view" - I think that applies here.
If it leaked from the lab, preventing that is very easy. We just need to stop doing gain of function research.

Whether or not Covid came from a lab, it's at least plausible that it did, and a virus just as bad could get accidentally released in the future. So our options are:

- Continue gain of function research, and risk killing literally millions of people

- Stop gain of function research, and lose any knowledge we would gain from it.

Honestly, I don't know the first thing about gain of function research, but that's one hell of a risk we're taking with it. Can we maybe not try to make the viruses deadlier?
Just to take one example of a genetic feature in the wild, there is a gene receptor which if you have the right mutation will cause an 25-50% increase in oxygen carrying capacity of red blood cells. Some people call it a naturally occurring blood doping.

The definition of fairness is difficult when dealing with even single genetic features.
Not really. Being asleep is actually quite dangerous in nature, and you are quite safe awake in shelter.
Earlier there was discussion on HN why VCs fund an open source project like Deno. Now we know the answer.
Children aren't forced to be in any particular school. You can also choose home schooling or private school.
Different goals for different conversations.

Your therapist or coach should be talking to you about the importance of taking care of yourself and getting after your own individual goals.

Your school board and legislature should be talking about solving systemic problems.

Don’t spitefully wait for your legislature to act before you start exercising self-discipline.

Don’t get in the way of people trying to solve systemic problems because they make your self-discipline less needed in some way.
I get the overall idea of what CRT is and it's basically in the same vein as for example The Culture of Critique. Some of it might be fair points, to some of it I have strong objections, but the bottom line is that children are not mentally and emotionally mature enough to deal with subjects like that. Hell, the same thing can be even said about a lot, if not most, of adults. It's almost impossible to have any reasonable debate around what these actually say, without throwing around words like racist, anti-white, anti-semite, etc. I'm opposed to censoring anything, but just in principle, neither of them should be taught to children, it's a terrible idea. Period.

The NPR interview doesn't really say anything interesting or new to me. All of it applies to The Culture of Critique too. Putting whether these theories are actually true aside for a moment, my point is that if you are opposed to teaching children something like CofC then you should be opposed to CRT as well.

To illustrate my point better, let's take the CNN article on what CRT is: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/critical-race-theory-e...

Here is how CRT is defined, which isn't exactly the most charitable definition of CRT I've ever read, and it frankly sounds completely terrible, but just to demonstrate a point:

> Critical race theorists believe that racism is an everyday experience for most people of color, and that a large part of society has no interest in doing away with it because it benefits White elites.

Now let's change some races around:

> Critical race theorists believe that racism is an everyday experience for most White people, and that a large part of society has no interest in doing away with it because it benefits Jewish elites.

And this is roughly the conclusion CofC reaches too. So honest question, assuming you can come up with something to substantiate this claim (to keep the discussion simple), would you also be fine with this? Just in principle.
Argentina was always high on Peronist kool-aid, it has nothing to do with the Chicago School of economics.
> A welcome move for individuals who may have embarrassing content as Unlisted links.

All those "early access" on Patreon.
Annotating Apple’s New Anti-Sideloading White Paper
It's ironic that this transphobe fantasizing has led to non-conforming cis women being harassed in the bathroom. Whatever minimal problem there was with women being harassed or assaulted in the bathroom by men or AMAB people has been completely surpassed by these fantasies sparking a witch hunt.
Back in the nineties I remember scare campaigns about gay schoolmates in locker rooms taking advantage of other students - it is literally the same playbook.
Ex-Atlassian here. Last day was around a month ago.

Not tense at all. You'd be surprised at how many people actually like Jira, mainly because of how customizable it is. That in my opinion is it's biggest boon and its greatest curse. Every Jira instance is so different it's hard to compare between them. Stock isn't bad at all and works quite well. There are performance issues for sure, but I've yet to see a competitor that has the level of complexity Jira provides do so at a significantly faster speed.

For what it's worth, culture wise Atlassian was great because of how not tense things were. A lot of that is the Australian values in the company. It's very much work-to-live rather than the live-to-work of most Bay Area companies.
I was thinking the same not everyone is sadly still around to make sure their content does not go basically poof.
yep, discrimination
That’s 48 degrees, not 118, for 95.5% of the world.
Not unlike the technicolor rainbow that the mantis shrimp sees with its magic eyes. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Great point - The COVID19 Vaccines, particularly the mRNA ones are some of the best ever made, ~90% effective at preventing disease and ~100% effective at preventing death.
Not really. GPCRs amplify signals at each step via their second messenger cascade. These channels form homotetramers whose structure differs greatly from the canonical seven transmembrane domain structure of GPCRs. So this study is important since there were no studies indicating how odorants bind and activate odorant receptors. However, it is unlikely that the mechanisms in insects odorant receptors will directly apply to those of mammalian odorant receptors. In contrast, mammalian odor receptors will work much more like those of other class A GPCRs like the β-adrenergic receptor, of which there are numerous structures interacting with ligands and in various configurations, and which was the basis of the work that won the nobel prize in 2012.
The reputation of the US government will not be affected. But I can imagine that in McAfee's confused mind, it would be.
Latency Comparison of DigitalOcean Spaces vs. AWS S3
I’m pretty sure US startups still pay more in salary than the average or median European software developer salary, so in the worst case the American startup employee finds themselves in a comparable economic situation to the European software professional (except that the American can always go to a FAANG or fintech and make double). Hardly a “great depression” scenario.
The Wikipedia list of nations by renewable energy[0] mentions some others as high scorers. Sorting by %Renewable, the top are

* Albania 100

* DR of the Congo 100

* Iceland 100

* Paraguay 100

* Namibia 99.3

* Costa Rica 97.7

All of these are small countries with relatively small total power quantities. Not to say it isn't a praiseworthy achievement to get to, or near, 100% renewable at any quantity. But if you sort the table on Total GWhr of RE, they are far down the list. The runaway winner in quantity of renewable generation is China, with the US, Brazil and Canada fighting for fourth place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...
Actually, come to think of it, Matlab is now fully jit-compiled. As long as you stick with double precision floats, there is already a "Matlab with fast loops": it's called Matlab!

Just stay away from classes and other complex data structures, which you don't like anyway, and performance is very good indeed.
In America, there are PhDs as cab drivers. We call it Uber. C'mon.
Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
It was only a way to move up into and through the middle class. It was never a ticket to any place else. The reason is simple, lack of opportunity. Sometimes opportunity is money, privilege, or luck. Sometimes it's being at the right place at the right time, befriending the right person at a party, or working together on a group project.

Every entrepreneur that I have known has come has some sort of privilege to get them where they are. One, not only had moderately wealthy parents, but those parents raised him inside of a successful store. From a young age he was taught how to make a venture work, he had a fall back if he failed, and he had people to call if he needed advice. Because of the opportunities they had in life, they believe that it was all hard work and intelligence that got them there.

My best friend from grade school was very wealthy. My friend has had more opportunities in life, just because their parents could float them while they took unpaid internships, complete graduate school, and buy them a nice big house so they could settle down and start a family.

If you want a 'great equalizer' you have to provide opportunity to those that don't have it. You have to check your privilege at the door and consider for a moment that some people don't have it as good as you. You have to give people a chance to prove themselves.

Even in the US and in Tech, if you were raised or live outside of a major metro, you are at a significant disadvantage to those who had the luck to living in one. If we want to fix this, we have to prioritize giving more opportunities to those who don't have them.
It varies by state and private school costs money some people don't have and then there are logistics.

School choice only works if it doesn't destroy your life to make some other choice. Otherwise it's not really a meaningful choice.
That seems like a worthwhile thing to publicize in and of itself?

The replication crisis in psychology threw out 50% or so of supposed scientific results.

If this (or just straight fraud) is common elsewhere, it seems like knowing about that would be a good thing for science.
Why Is Tech So Fragmented?
The permissions service at Google.
For more details see: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/
Actually, Mark Zuckerburg went to Phillips Exeter Academy.

"At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg excelled in classes. After two years, he transferred to the private school Phillips Exeter Academy, where he won prizes in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and classical studies." [no coding classes, hmm?]

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

The facebook idea came from the booklet tey give each class with a picture of the student's face and location.

https://readwrite.com/2009/05/10/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration...

Many other founders went to similar schools. I was not aware of this until I did policy debate and met these types of students. They do live in a bubble and have no idea how to relate to the rest.

In fact, a good thing to do is always check the high school of these "founders." Check their curriculum...

When I see trade school students doing billion dollar startups, I will believe education is no longer a great equalizer. At the same time, I believe if you want to participate in the American oligarchy or compete with them, you need to become familiar with where they get their training.

It's not always the case but most times if you delve into their background you will find this to be the case.
The only real competitors for Brave are other cryptocurrencies, which yes there are many. I feel there's plenty of reasons to not like Brave and few if any are about suggesting a superior cryptocurrency.

The only non-compromised Brave users I've come across are mobile, and they are the ones that find using the Firefox add-ons menu to install uBlock origin too complicated. They are unlikely to learn the BAT system.
Yeah, I used murder rates specifically for three reasons: (1) they are often cited in news articles, including my citation above; (2) they are the easiest to compare side-by-site in an apples-to-apples comparison (gen pop vs population X or population Y); and (3) murder rates tend to be a good indicator of other, proximate, criminal activity (be it sexual assault, physical assault, etc.).
> most software architecture advice for 10bn companies.

I agree with this point and pointed out in a previous comment[0] that as an industry, small companies lose out because they're chasing a platform. And are doing things the FAANG way, which they don't nee.

> the other way, big tech supresses innovation is by brain-washing or propaganda. look at all the companies formed by former faang engineers. majority of them go for vc-funding, use complicated tools at the onset. not because it's a need but because that's what they're used to. what would've been a simple frontend is now a monorepo monster, a simple backend a mesh of microservices. lastly, big tech supresses competition by open sourcing tools that are technically excellent but not needed by 90% of the companies out there. instead of companies innovating the companies are now chasing the platform i.e trying to keep up with the tools released by big tech. this is a microsoft playbook.

like others have commented might not agree with everything but that was a good read.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27574713
Or, that looks like a single point of failure that would make a good target for the government to issue a National Security Letter to Intel for.
I'm going gray and have been thinking about going the freelance/consultant route. Problem: Getting started without having to go to freelance sites and charge considerably less than what I can get as a FTE.

I make a very comfortable salary these days, but I worry about only having a single income stream.
First, the bar you set is probably too high. Intent is notoriously hard to prove, even with deductive evidence, much less inductive evidence.

Also, I never advocated for ending private schools. You are strawmanning that one, and it's a perhipherial point to the topic anyway.

Since you asked though, how about the Fed's endless bailouts of the rich that are still ongoing? Those same bailouts that then get turned around into lobbying dollars to rewrite the laws to favor corporations over people (or stock buybacks, I could go on)? Like I said, intent is hard to prove, but there is a lot of inductive evidence pointing towards it being of a high probability.

"Empires are even sometimes represented as unintentional. That's when it really starts to get cute. This should have been called maybe the funnier myths of empire, this part of it. The product of unconcious circumstance. When I was a youth, ... I used to hear that the British Empire was put together in a fit of absent mindedness. ... In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I think a moments reflection would tell you that empires are products of deliberate contrivance, of deliberate confection, planning, calculation, and manipulation. No social order can maintain itself in the long run, no social order can maintain itself without concious human agency. In fact that's why you have a state, the state is the concious human agency of coercion to maintain that particular set of interests and order, which don't necessarily always look out for our interests." - Michael Parenti

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w
There are competing ideologies between the United States and the Rest of the World, essentially culminating in two approaches of diagnosing psychological and psychiatric health concerns.

One comes from the American Psychological Association, called the DSM and another comes from the World Health Organization called the ICD.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/10/icd-dsm
Well reasoned points, not sure why you are getting downvoted, probably the left/liberal censorship crew (my way of thinking or the highway, insert random accusations of racism/sexism)
When was he found guilty for the dead neighbor?

Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs.

(Yea--I know, I'm suspose to be compassionate over rich dead guys. By rich dead guys, I mean the neighbor who was constantly complaining over John's dogs whom was found dead. As far as today, they had no evidence against John.)

I liked John. I liked he was different than most rich guys. I painfully remember him stating he doesn't pay taxes. I remember wishing he didn't say that in a documentary.
Because, honestly, shutting up about it and ignoring it is the solution we tried from the 70s through the 2000s and it didn't accomplish anything - racist folk were just empowered by not being called out on it.

At least when it comes to America - there are some very deeply entrenched societal issues that we'd need to resolve to achieve anything near equality including generations of depriving wealth accumulation in communities (i.e. Native Americans).
This paper is the first structure of any odorant receptor-ligand interaction. There's currently no equivalent structure for mammalian odorant receptors to validate the docking theory, but it's likely correct.
It means >110 new devices per living human being.

That can't indeed be good.
Yeah I think the design was made with an analog board in mind, where moving a task is easier than changing its state in place. But for a digital board tables definitely make more sense.
You are correct and gruesome deaths happen, like with OneCoin. The ponzi queen, however, is gone and “no one” know if she is dead or managed to disappear alive.

https://www.coindesk.com/promoters-of-crypto-ponzi-scheme-on...
I completely thought the email I got for this (for my personal Google app domain) was a phishing attempt. Why couldn't they have included the text in the email rather than some generic sketchy "You have a notification" nonsense?
> I paid little attention to what site that was on, just looked for the content.

Sometimes people lie on the internet.

And quite often, when they lie, they do so by omission or by inaccurately summarizing facts.

In any case, the two points in this thread are in agreement. Top surgery is "typically only available to those 18 or older," as 'john-radio wrote. In atypical cases, it is available to those under 18, and it requires a doctor to a) decide that it's necessary and b) consciously go against WPATH recommendations when doing so. The legal opinion here is that an insurer may not come up with a rule that says that doctors may never decide that it's the right thing to do for a particular patient, because that's a decision a doctor is allowed to make.
PH Makers Challenge what project do you like the most?
How does that help??? TERF is not a slur, it is definitely used as an epithet, but only the targets of the term call it a slur making it obvious the authors are sympathetic to the terfs.
I think the "lone" part of the phrase is what's problematic. I don't think people intend to claim that they worked entirely on their own in isolation. I interpret it more as having been noticeably in a league of their own; possessing some special vision or quality that separated them from their peers.

The same thing comes up all the time with Steve Jobs, people will say variants of "he's nothing without his contemporaries." And yet, he somehow managed to be the driving force that brought all those people together to create some amazing things, and those contemporaries believed in him. I guess it does just come down to differing philosophies where some people are unhappy with glorifying individual efforts.
I'm not convinced eliminating primaries is a good idea. They have a useful role in reducing the effort and cost of campaigning in a general election. Consider a scenario where some party spends a hundred million dollars in the general election promoting one candidate versus another party that spends a hundred million dollars in the general election split between five different candidates. I would expect the former party to be more likely to get their candidate elected that the latter.

Also another nice thing about primaries is that they're staggered. I think it's ridiculous that Iowa and New Hampshire always go first, but ignoring that it's great that a candidate without a lot of funding only has to focus on a couple of states in the initial stage, and can use success in the early states to gain momentum (and funding). That means you don't have to be some self-funding rich person to run for president, which is a nice property.