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For many years I experienced gender dysphoric feelings. Did that make me "transgender"? I used to believe that I was, even though deeply closeted.

I didn't seek help. I didn't transition. I wanted to seek help but was too scared. What happened?

Well, after some years, the gender dysphoric feelings went away.

That happens sometimes – gender dysphoric feelings can spontaneously remit, go away by themselves. I don't have them any more.

I know from the literature I am not unique, see e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10929795/

If it can happen spontaneously, is it impossible that sometimes therapy might speed that spontaneous process along? Would that be a "cure"?

I have struggled with obsessive behaviour ever since I was a child. I probably have undiagnosed ASD (I have many other traits of ASD than just obsessions). I'm actually on a waiting-list to see a psychiatrist for an ASD assessment. Some of my obsessions are more ASD-like (pleasurable rather than anxious), others more OCD-like (anxiety-driven), so sometimes I wonder if I might have OCD too. I'll let my psychiatrist work that one out, when I see him. But what I realise now is that my gender dysphoric feelings were just another one of these obsessions. And like most of my obsessions, with time they fade and get replaced with new ones. If I had this self-understanding 15, 20 years ago, I think my gender dysphoric feelings might have remitted faster.

If I'd sought help back then, would they have helped me gain that self-understanding of my own obsessiveness? Or would they have encouraged me towards transition? I'm glad I never transitioned, I think I'd be in a far worse place now if I had. But I worry with this idea of "affirmative care", people like me may be encouraged in that direction whether it is the right thing for them or not.

What about your comparison with homosexuality? Does homosexuality ever "spontaneously remit" in the same way that gender dysphoric feelings sometimes do? I honestly have no idea. My feelings about my birth gender (male) have waxed and waned, but a constant for me has been attraction to women with never more than fleeting feelings for men; given that, the equivalent question for homosexuality is beyond my personal experience.

(Sorry for the throwaway. I hope one can understand why. I wish I had the courage to talk about this stuff under my real name. I hope that one of these days I will, but not today.)
That's a shared understanding of acceptable working conditions informing both union policy and import/export policy. Unions as an output of a much larger change upstream, as opposed to an input when talking about outsourcing.
Sweeeeeet, sent you an email :D
I'm making the case against making code reviews optional by relating my experience that there's a significant benefit to someone taking a quick glance when they don't have the time/inclination to do a thorough review.

I'm talking about less than a minute in many cases, a sanity check, because eventually someone will slip and commit debugging code that reveals sensitive information, outputs ":wq" in the header of every page, or something else that will be obvious to anyone who isn't the original author. Catching one of these before release is going to be worth doing hundreds of little reviews and a lot of pretty good automated test suites won't catch these kinds of bugs.
Yes. There is no kernel mitigation associated with this issue and it is not in the Spectre class of vulnerabilities.

It is purely a microcode fix for an "old-school" data dependent timing issue.
I think one of the reasons for the polarization in the US is that it has a two-party system. Both parties do their best to frustrate the other. In most west European countries the political discussions are far more moderate.
We were extremely lucky, yes. Not to mention he was Jewish and being born, say, even just 15 years later than he was, could've meant he'd have ended up in concentration camp and we'd still have no theory of relativity. That's quite possible.
I'm at a crossroads for a hobby project I'm working on. I have a model for youtube video metadata. I have functions to do things like transform the metadata into display values to be rendered to template.

Should that logic be a function that takes a youtube metadata model object, or a class method on the model to return display values?

There are more functions of increasing complexity after this display function.
'Secret' doesn't seem like the right word to use here. It implies that it was some sort of government coverup.
There seems to be something about modern art specifically where collectors value something more highly when it's palpably inane--the $58M for Jeff Koons' balloon dog springs to mind. It puts more focus on the fact that the collector not only had that much money, but could throw it away on something visibly and obviously "worthless" to almost anyone else.

I think a lot of the attraction to NFTs is this "flex"--they're totally arbitrary and the only thing "original" about them is that someone, somewhere on a blockchain minted one (rather than the artist themselves creating only one original, for example).
Someone having a right to say something doesn't mean they are entitled to every platform to broadcast it.

Not everyone can go and speak at a University, there is not enough time and space for that to be viable, just as not everyone can demand to be broadcast on TV.

If you can't get enough support at a University to speak, the public square and the soapbox are always at your disposal. The government can't arrest you. That is the freedom of expression that is protected.

You are talking about enforced speech, where private individuals must listen to a speaker, and/or use their platform to amplify the speaker's words. It is a violation of their freedom of expression to tell them they cannot refuse or protest against what someone else wishes to say.
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> It's more of a science project than a business.

Then you should be seeking grants, not investors. I have no expertise in the area, but there is a clear line between investors who fund for-profit ventures, and grants that support non-profit projects. It sounds like you fall on the non-profit side of the fence and should be researching grants and other non-profit fundraising techniques.
Providing Go has a decent enough client/interface into the tools you listed above, absolutely!!

The original "remote" I implemented was a single S3 bucket (no websockets, just a static file location), and if you set the synchronisation intervals to something in the realms of 10ths-1s of a second, you had near enough real time sync/collaboration!

I created a (really poorly named) abstraction called a WalFile which is basically an interface to implement these remote targets. Theoretically, you could build one for any service out there. If there was demand for one, I'd totally give it a go!

Sods law - I temporarily disabled support for the direct S3 remote yesterday because it's slightly broken. But it's a minimal amount of work away from having it functioning again.
You shouldn't assume that nonbinary and trans people "choose" their identity. They might choose to acknowledge it, to themselves or to others. At least, that's been my experience. It was a realization, not a choice.
The word TERF is not a fucking "slur."
China is buying Muslim leaders’ silence on the Uyghurs
Mapzen is probably the one you're thinking of. A lot of their projects got rolled into various foundations (e.g., Linux Foundation).
I'm not sure you're talking about exactly the same thing this article is talking about.

Social safety nets provide basic access to essentials and (mostly) equalize access to things like healthcare, but don't really do anything to help someone go from "poor" to "middle-class", or any other trip up the social ladder.

That person needs to do something to increase their earning potential beyond what their parents had.
Additionally if you only have to vocally identify as a woman without having to take any further steps (Hormone replacement, srs, etc) this seems exploitable.
Whilst it looks nice, is no one else concerned with passing details to some unknown site?
It doesn't seem to have any direct way to make contact nor is there a privacy policy (nor is there anything obviously relevant in the GitHub repo for the code either)
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.

What an NFT actually is can be different for every token. Nothing stops the creator of an image from declaring the owner of the NFT the owner of the copyright. Like I said, I think this is an area of future innovation.

But right now, ownership of the NFT declares ownership of the NFT. What you can do with that is where companies and software engineers are experimenting. It is a very raw, early space that is exceedingly well-funded, and I expect many clever inventions to come out of it.
I love when I see smell research on Hacker News -- and hopefully I can provide a bit of context about this paper.

This finding recently made a big splash at AChemS 2021 (the annual meeting for the Association for Chemoreception Sciences). And it actually is a really big deal. A protein structure is extremely information rich, telling you where all of the atoms of a given protein are (ish). Before this finding, there were NO structures of any olfactory receptor, and historically the publication of the first structure of a given biomolecule has been a watershed moment for that field (insulin, ribosome, many other examples).

What's more, they used the structural information to rationally engineer their olfactory receptor, expanding the binding pocket and changing how the receptor responds to different odorants. That was pretty much impossible to do before this. So, this is a pretty huge finding, and will definitely encourage more structural work on olfactory receptors in the future.

If I had to poke a hole in this finding, it would be that insect olfactory receptors are substantially different from mammalian olfactory receptors. But in my opinion, it seems that the buzz about this paper is definitely justified. Very cool!
The current system is not producing the equal playing field that education was supposed to be. So, you whine about those suggesting school choice, but what's your solution? Because the current system isn't working, and doesn't look like it's going to start working any time soon.
Yes. Issues are a Github feature, not a Git feature.
Native speaker here, and it took me most of a decade of seeing the use of the feminine for the non-specific or neuter pronoun before it stopped being very annoying (it was uncommon outside certain circles, until fairly recently). I still have to catch myself when I encounter it to avoid glancing back over the text to figure out which specific person is being referenced, whom I must have missed in my first reading—IOW, it remains a distracting style, for me.
Fraud was high.

It was not fraud by the institutions as such, but counterfeits was a big problem with as many as 7000 unique notes it was next to impossible to know which was genuine.

Post the civil war as much as half the currency was estimated to be counterfeit. The secret service was given the policing money task as a direct result.

There was streamlining of currency issue after that.
In internet culture, self-diagnosing Asperger's syndrome was a huge trend in the mid to late 2000's. Skeptics often claimed it was an excuse to cover up for social deficiencies and awkwardness.

There are similar phenomena of people doing that with all sorts of maladies or abstract identities, from chronic fatigue syndrome to being an introvert. I find ADHD to be an odd choice though, relatively. It seems like it's been at least a decade or two where over-diagnosis of ADD/ADHD was highly criticized, albeit when it comes to diagnosing children (mostly boys) and giving them Ritalin and not adults.
We know that sex workers are frequent victims of violence rape and even murder as well as being at a much higher risk of catching stds or having unwanted pregnancies.

People argue about these specific numbers because frankly it's a hard population to get honest surveys of, but here's one I found.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9698636/

>As adults in prostitution, 82% had been physically assaulted; 83% had been threatened with a weapon; 68% had been raped while working as prostitutes;

...

>Eighty-eight percent of these respondents stated that they wanted to leave prostitution, and described what they needed in order to escape.

If those numbers are even close to reality I think it's hard to argue that the negatives of prostitution don't far outweigh any positives.

That said I think it's not at all obvious what the solution is here because clearly criminalizing prostitution is ineffective at eliminating prostitution.
I use pydantic for serializers in Django too- and recently started experimenting with Django Ninja https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/ if you haven't seen it already.
Not really an apt comparison since there's nothing about a nickname that defies observable reality, a name is a social construct to begin with. Sex however is a biological construct in which the characteristics are directly and quantitatively observable.
They're from idaho based on the username, so they haven't caught up to chaucer yet...
I would find it pretty difficult to find a man interested in purchasing and restoring 30 year old VAXstations - that's just an extremely niche interest.
I'm not sure as to specifics (as I haven't tried this), but if DeckGL worked with 1.x Mapbox GL JS, it should just work with MapLibre, with a few potential minor adjustments (e.g., nomenclature). Can't promise it though.
Should teachers be allowed to say anything they want to students, regardless if it offends them? If a student asks a teacher not to call them something that offends them, is the teacher required to stop using the slur?
I mean, isn't that the case for practically any issue tracking system? Which ones store their issue (and comments, etc) within the repo?
Alternatively, this could be an opportunity to address sexual assault in prisons more broadly. No inmate, no matter how heinous their crimes, should be subjected to sexual assault.

The prevalence and sexual assault in prisons is an example of a normalization of deviance that should be opposed, instead of tolerated.
This is probably the slickest landing page I have seen in the last two years.
> Such a small percentage of the population

That's not a good argument for the left to stop defending trans people's rights.
> house intact trans-women

Why would a rapist stop wanting to rape regardless of the state of their genitals? Is sexual violation with a penis so much more horrific than other violations it deserves special consideration?
That's been my feeling -- one of them had to be wrong. And if you're wrong once, you can be wrong again, so perhaps it would be wise to be less certain of oneself.
IQ is one thing, but I've found that IQ doesn't seem to correlate with creativity at all. Creativity as in "the ability to come up with novel useful ideas", not the bad definition psychology uses "the ability to come up with lots of crap ideas".

Not sure if we actually have a test for creativity, but it seems like some people have a very good ability to see what is useful and where to put their effort. And some people with very good IQ scores are really bad at it. They can solve math equations really well, but when it comes to discovering new useful math they are completely lost since they don't have the creativity to understand what new things are actually interesting.
Ctrl-Alt-R restarts the browser.

Reader view is toggled by F9.
Yes, one of the biggest problems is extreme wealth concentration, combined with private cradle-to-grave funding of politicians, combined a with plurality/first-past-the-post voting system.

When 1% of the country can determine who gets to run for, and stay in, office, and which political parties are viable and which are marginalized, then such a Democracy is flawed at best and doesn't always represent the will or interests of most people.
I did not know that, thanks for pointing out.
Why are you using Github if not for their social features?
"Edit: the fully funding was in place in 2018"

How fast do you expect results?

The Washington Supreme Court decision: http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/843627.opn.pdf

"The State has failed to meet its duty under article IX, section 1 by consistently providing school districts with a level of resources that falls short of the actual costs of the basic education program. The legislature recently enacted sweeping reforms to remedy the deficiencies in the funding system, and it is currently making progress toward phasing in those reforms."

Apparently the state was calling for a level of funding, but not providing the money and requiring local taxes to make up the difference. (Hence "fully funding".)
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> Enforced group-think is going to be the death of these universities.

I've been working at universities for a couple decades now and have never experienced "enforced group-think".
Trans people are not “reaching for” anyone’s lives they just want to be able to exist in society without being harassed.
That's certainly a big problem, but HN can't be a site for intellectual curiosity and at the same time exclude every story with political or ideological overlap. People sometimes imagine that that would be better, but only in the context of a specific story or thread they don't like. If you try to imagine it as a general policy it breaks down altogether. Nor would this community accept such severe restrictions on the range of topics. I don't think we have any choice but to patiently work together at having more thoughtful conversation.

I've written extensively about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490.

If anyone has a question that hasn't been answered there, I'd like to know what it is, and if you know a better way for HN to relate to political topics while fulfilling its mandate of curiosity, I'd really like to know what it is. Just please familiarize yourself with the past material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've answered many times already why it won't work.
> I don’t buy it and neither did the market.

I suppose you didn't check the stock...
It seems like the critical thing at stake in this thread is what 'slur' means. Like you, I think of slurs as being only the words associated with minority violence, maybe curse-words+, the sort of thing that would make me feel uncomfortably speaking aloud due to the associations. Evidently other people feel that it means something more like 'insult'. I can't say what this means in the broader context, but it might be a good signal to re-evaluate how you interpreted its use-age in the article.
Speech reasonably interpreted as bearing the school’s imprimatur falls outside the scope of this opinion so these comments would need to be made personally and not "as the school team". The opinion still allows students consent to additional restrictions on their speech. Requiring such consent to attend regular school isn't allowed because students are required to attend school. But requiring such consent to participate in extracurricular activities like sports teams would still be allowed.

So in your example the school would simply need to require consent from students to have their speech restricted before they can participate in extracurricular programs like the football team.
I think no one argues that it is about hard work like burning oneself for a single company.
Maybe older folks that were working in a single company their whole life.

It is more that you still had to work hard to learn development and get those connections.
So it is working hard for yourself like learning new things doing hard things. Stepping down and looking around what else you can do or change is also often hard. Getting every day up and keeping your flat in order at some times is harder, especially if you have demanding physical job.

Where the opposite is drinking six pack each evening and watching tv-series or playing games and sticking up with working hard in dead-end job.

Just to clarify, there are also all kind of in-between strategies where some weeks you just get lazy and drink beers and some weeks where you read 3 books and learn something awesome.

In the end there is that joke:

CEO jumps out of his brand new car and sees intern
- Hi, you noticed my car, get up earlier, work harder, then I will be able to get even a better one.

Point is work harder but for yourself. Sometimes life sucks and for some people just getting out of the bed in the morning might be hard work.
Gender politics are interesting because they are mostly just a source of in-fighting within various factions of the left [1] but because they cover a set of topics that seem so foreign to the right, it gives them lots of ammunition for cruel memes to distract themselves from their own internal struggles.

That said, it's a nuanced issue that touches a lot of aspects of life and effects more people than one would initially assume. It's very much worth sorting out, but it's the kind of issue that's easily going to be derailed by toxic personalities because much like guns and religion, it's an attack on one's self image. If you're a billionaire wanting to cause havoc to prevent wealth taxes or environmental regulation, throwing money at either side of this cause seems like a pretty good way to get high political-chaos ROI.

[1] - https://xkcd.com/1095/
Sort of a star-bellied sneetches deal, yes.
I had this exact same argument with a family member who's legal name is William, but has gone by 'Bill" his whole life...
Fossil!

https://www.fossil-scm.org/
Sounds excellent! The hardware world is still dirty and manual. I feel like an easy step 1 is just to get transparent pricing at all--extremely common still to have to call for a quote for some niche, but catalog, component.
It is emulated but you can still see a sorting failure here (the gray platform at the bottom left side of the video appears "over" the ground for a bit):

https://youtu.be/Qo-wX5CeDRA?t=340

So it most likely wasn't Blasto.
Republicans aren't half of the country any longer a mere 29% identify as Republicans and another 15% identify as independents who lean right.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/in-changing-...

50-60% of that shrinking minority espouse beliefs that are crazy, dangerous, or both. Members of that shrinking minority are losing control of this nation and they are taking it badly. With shifting demographics voter suppression and disinformation isn't going to be sufficient to retain control and they are going to choose between violence and irrelevance and I don't think they will willingly choose irrelevance.
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