skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but punishing people for not doing so seems wrong minded

That's not really what I was getting at, what I was getting at is that creating an environment where people refuse to use proper pronouns or provide even basic accommodation for trans kids is going to make them more interested in medically transitioning, not less.

If you're a kid, and you suspect you might be a girl, and everyone around you is refusing to use pronouns because you don't look like a girl... it wouldn't be unbelievable for that situation to increase your risk of body dysphoria, because everyone around you is telling you you'll never be a girl until you look enough like one.

It can be someone's right to avoid referring to people by their proper pronouns, but I don't believe them if they turn around and say they're doing it to protect the kids from rash decisions about transitioning. Making kids feel safer and more accepted is how you protect them from rash decisions. Making them feel like you respect them and their identity is how you encourage them to seek outside advice and to be open about their doubts about their own gender.

> if people are genuinely worried about invasive surgery, the policing of trans identity is counterproductive to addressing that concern.
Is calling someone by their preferred pronouns as onerous as treating them like royalty to you?
I see now why so many people make such a fuss about this.
I'm not sure how this statement from the parent:

> The CCP had an incredibly tight control over the entire country.

And your comment below really disagree with one another?

> Of course once central leadership is aware of a situation they can mobilise vast resources and have absolute power to impose whatever strategy they choose. Anything or anyone in the way gets flattened.

I'm totally ignorant on this matter but to my reading there seems to be more in common between your two viewpoints than not.
>unisex bathrooms

There are closed lavatory literally in any restroom, in terms of accessibility, that's universally accessible to trans people.

In this sense, trans people are treated infinitely better than disabled people.

I still cannot understand the idea that transpeople are not considered with some kind of mental or bodily disease...

I mean depression is considered a mental disease. Because one just cannot feel happy.

So if someone feels not the same as the body reflects, why not that considered a disease and treated accordingly?
I suggest that you read the article, here is archived version https://archive.is/2021.06.05-230906/https://www.economist.c...

But to answer your question “why is this important” - the extreme minority of transgender people and the army of their supporters and activists in their quest for recognizing trans rights step on and disregard women rights and aggressively “cancel” anyone who dares to disagree with gender ideology, now that affects all of us, if you care about free speech.
This is the most elegant solution, but it's also functionally equivalent to "women can't do high level sports anymore"

I feel like women's sports is extremely cursed - a sporting competition with a handicap, except the handicap is not specified in the rules but is instead a randomly distributed quirk of biology, meaning that people have to judge who does or does not have it, except that the handicap is also an integral part of a person's identity...

(no I don't mean to say being female is a disability, the context is sports)
Slightly off-topic, has anyone else noticed higher latency with internet traffic going in or out of Germany? Just in general?

Frankfurt was mentioned in the post and I immediately thought it would be a bad idea because I’ve always seen USA to Germany traffic have higher latency. Maybe within Europe it’s fine.
Population control.

There's around 8 billion people on Earth. Most of the wealth on Earth is controlled by a small number of those people. What stops the other people from taking it from them? Answer: The illusion of power and control, via use of that wealth.

Historically, the best way to control people is to divide them...over and over. That's what we're seeing nowadays: via use of the mass media. You'll rarely see a major news story nowadays that doesn't pit large groups of humans against one another. Currently, the best "division" strategy is for them to use the media to promote left-wing thought.

Since a lab-leak doesn't align with the political aspect of Covid, they're doing everything they can to squash any discussion of it. Admitting they were wrong, or having discussion around the possibility of them being wrong, would bring the possibility of people waking the fuck up to the level of bullshit they're being fed.
Academically speaking, my understanding of the linguistics at play are that there are biases embedded deep within the gendering of specific words, even.

There is a real gap in the archaic forms of Romance languages when it comes to the level of gender sophistication that was in the even more archaic Latin.

Modern languages are evolving rapidly and it is entirely within the realm of reasonableness to expect that humanity will tend towards meta-evolving it’s own languages.

But I am not well read in linguistics and suspect that Noam Chomsky has already written a book on this topic.
It still seems a bit silly not to investigate this fully.

After 9/11 there was a failure in airplane protocol to not have bolted pilot doors and to not aggressively fight hijackers. I wouldn't say investigating Saudi Arabia should have been avoided - even if there had been voices at the TSA who wanted to distract from their own failures.
You can certainly be explicit about the negative evaluation, e.g. "racism sucks", "being a racist is not cool". The issue with language is that context imbues words with meaning. So when you use a term in such a way that the dynamics between the term and the context leads to associating the negative connotation of the context to the word itself, further usages of the word then carries that negative connotation with it. In the case of slurs, they no longer (or never did) carry any neutral meaning. So the difference between expressing distaste and using a slur is how the negative connotation is expressed.
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Her statements were:

> But in an email to the paper, Shi said her experiments differed from gain-of-function experiments since they did not seek to make a virus more dangerous. Instead they were trying to understand how the virus might jump across species.

They have already been caught lying about not having any bats in the lab and so far they haven't been acting like someone who's innocent.
Exactly this.

The cover up by is the problem
If you want to ask us something the only reliable way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Everything else is random.
M-Pesa has delivered digital currency on the mobile phone to the unbanked (and banked) in Kenya since 2007, successfully, without exchange rate volatility, and without burning 15 GW as BTC (for comparison, each of the 4 Chernobyl reactors produced just 1GW).
it is possible they changed mind and chose to deposit there.
Well the Truth is WMDs didn't exist.

This is the post truth world.

And in the post truth world, the 6 inch chimp brain under assault of an info tsunami it has no capacity to fully grok, has only one choice - to escape reality, deny responsibility, judge, blame and demand that an imaginary entities descend from the heavens to clean up the mess.

Guess what chimp troupe? It's not going to happen. Now get back to work.
What research have you done? Because it doesn't take long to find evidence that they have a list of side effects including some not-so-innocuous ones, and the admission that research is lacking:

Possible long-term side effects of puberty blockers
Lower bone density. To protect against this, we work to make sure every patient gets enough exercise, calcium and vitamin D, which can help keep bones healthy and strong. We also closely monitor patients’ bone density.
Delayed growth plate closure, leading to slightly taller adult height.
Less development of genital tissue, which may limit options for gender affirming surgery (bottom surgery) later in life.
Other possible long-term side effects that are not yet known.

https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/trans...
> Not that I’m a fan, but Malcolm Gladwell wrote a whole book (Outliers) about how this is not true.

IIRC, that book cited a study by someone who strongly believed that IQ was a strong predictor of great success...and his own study found that wasn't true. IIRC, he followed a bunch of very high IQ kids from childhood to adulthood, and the most successful of them only achieved middling success.
I don’t mean to suggest any misstep on your part. I mean that you don’t have full-time security staff, yet in terms of influence and ROI for the bad guys, you’re in the same league as sites that have entire teams working on this.

I disagree that a significantly gamed HN would be overtly shitty. Influence campaigns work by posting engaging content that real users propagate. Setting the agenda is enough.
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You can't do this here. It's one thing to criticize Israel, quite another to make dark insinuations about a "Jewish collective". That's fucked up and a shameful line to cross.

We've had to ban you repeatedly in the past; you've mostly fixed that with your current account (though frankly not enough—please do more). This, on the other hand, was a big step in the wrong direction. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.

The Lego video game series by Traveller’s Tales may be weirdly un-Lego-like, but they are also quite good. So I wouldn’t discount their taste too much.
Because git send-email expects your system to have a functional sendmail binary. This is increasingly rare for end-user systems.
Decreased bone density is a concern. This is monitored. It can be mitigated with supplements and exercise. And it isn't known if it's permanent or only for the duration of treatment as far as I know.

AMAB patients have less penile tissue for vaginoplasty. They have other options though. I don't think anyone has studied mature penile size in AMAB patients who decided to go through male puberty. Few do.
> We detached this subthread

What does that mean?
I don't know about Dystopian but I'd say that the deals are 'crap'.

I like buying stuff and looking for bargains as much as anyone, but I can spend hours looking through Prime Day deals and not find anything I want or find anything that has a significant discount.

I was an early adopter of Prime and, looking back, the first time I felt dissatisfied with Amazon was shortly after I joined Prime. Already they were starting to take me for granted.

Back in the 2000s Amazon was a breath of fresh air. If I wanted to buy a quality cordless phone I could buy Vtech (p00p) at Staples or buy quality brands like Plantronics on Amazon.

What you see now is that trash from China dominates Amazon and Ebay and crowds out quality projects. I learned the hard way that if you're buying a thermal printer, a "4 inch" thermal printer is a quality thermal printer made to US standards if not made in the US, and a "100 mm" thermal printer will have blown the print head long before the software for printing has been completed.

See an obviously fraudulent product listing?

AMZN will tell you they don't want to hear about unless you got scammed.

The more I think about it, the more I think about cancelling Prime.

It used to be the quick shipping was real, but now sometimes they tell me it will ship in 1 or 2 days but I really wait 8. That lie matters because I would have driven to the store if I knew I'd have to wait 8 days.

Then there is Prime Video. It seems I am the only one, but often I find out about a movie and want to watch it and will pay to do so -- my satisfaction with the paid video-on-demand service is excellent. With Prime Video I get to watch what Jeff Bezos wants me to watch; and I don't kid myself that I am watching what I want to watch.
Any form of dogma, no matter which side of the isle it comes from, is poison. Even things that seem silly like pronouns can be the seed from which serious problems arise. It’s because dogma is the absence of rational thought, and in that absence irrational beasts can grow very large.
Unfortunately, trans-activists are not at all co-extensive with 'the trans community'. Many self-proclaimed activists "for trans rights" are not even trans themselves, and pursue social positions, points of view and policies that are largely opposed by actual trans people.
There is a difference between a restaurant worker (or a wet market worker) who slipped up and a lab worker that slipped up because we want lab rules to be idiot proof such that one worker would not be able to infect others/themselves - even if they tried.

The restaurant worker slipping up is bad luck if they happen to be first to contact a virus. The government that runs labs know there is 100% chance there are dangerous viruses there and have a responsibility to enforce the safeguards.
Not withstanding the amount, I'm willing to be corrected there, but the latter part makes little sense:

Say I have $1M in the bank (or in Bitcoin), but I owe the IRS say $300K.

I leave the country, and take my money out of the reach of the IRS.

My "net worth" on an accounting statement might be $700K, but if I'm making a point of avoiding and biting my thumb at the IRS, I still absolute have access to $1M, regardless of moneys owed or claimed. And if I have no intention of paying those taxes, I'm certainly going to use that money. And McAfee was very actively saying "I'm keeping that owed tax and doing whatever the hell I like with it".
It was mentioned, but slightly misunderstood I think:

> Drew DeVault has been working on the reverse direction, from a mailing list to a project forge, as well.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth
That's all true.

The problem is two fold: poor AND stupid people can't start businesses. Funding the schools solves half the problem.

Smart and poor people can start businesses they just need to rely on partners for funding.
> Western platforms like Twitter and YouTube are banned in China out of fear they might be used to spread political messaging — which is exactly how Chinese officials are using these platforms in the rest of the world.

>They are, in essence, high-speed propaganda pipelines for Beijing. In just a few days, videos establishing the Communist Party’s version of reality can be shot, edited and amplified across the global internet.

...

>YouTube said the clips did not violate its community guidelines. Twitter declined to comment on the videos, adding that it routinely releases data on campaigns that it can “reliably attribute to state-linked activity.”
I think you need to find something you love. Maybe open a restaurant. Work is natural and fulfilling if you like what you do. You don't have to be an engineer. We are all just carbon, there is no god, this is your only life. It's not a contest. Find something you love. It's not work you don't feel like doing, it's this work. There is work out there that you can love you just have to find it.
Sounds like they are succeeding in their intent then.
Sure, but I would rather not post my info publicly... If you have a throwaway email or other way of me sending you my information i would be glad to.
murdering tax evader conspiracy nut
Minecraft itself was developed surprisingly late - there’s nothing really preventing it from happening ten years earlier.
Why? They are worried about American scientists chasing after them?
this doesn't explain how the universities will "die"

all the other games in town are doing the same thing, and if a new one popped up to replace it, who would they get to run it?
Objective reality is sometimes painful, nuanced, and rarely has tidy solutions.

It is a poor vehicle for a narrative. Thus, it is weaponized by contorting it into half-truths that serve the important purpose of affirming pre-existing values.

The past year has made it extraordinarily clear that the epistemology of science is far too demanding for most people. And that’s okay; it just usually isn’t so starkly obvious.
Wait, why do I keep pronouncing it "Sir Hat"?
cubical Agda : https://github.com/agda/cubical
is also worth mentioning int this context
What is GU?
Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor
The Magic Leap they sold everyone on:

https://youtu.be/watch?v=GbpqwUUfMAQ

The Magic Leap they actually delivered:

https://youtu.be/veSZJQ5_Wmg?t=122
My original point was under "trains need more infrastructure than planes" to say "and less infrastructure than cars". You then said that trains need cars - which they don't. If you had mud paths, and wilderness between cities, and intercity train would be an improvement on that, so would a local metro. Cars wouldn't be an improvement - everyone getting a Honda Civic wouldn't be able to move on the too-small, too-muddy roads, it would be instant jam. So, trains don't need cars to add value.

I agree gravel roads at the end of a train journey with motorised vehicles would also add a lot of value.

Small-ish gravel roads for occasional supply vehicles to travel down isn't the original "road network" that I was arguing about efficiency of - small gravel roads in a world built around walking distances wouldn't be a world where everyone could run a Honda Civic and drive in two-way lanes of traffic. That is, by "cars" I didn't mean "motorised vehicles", but "everyone has a car and uses it for most journeys, and the road network to support that".
We encountered the same issue, but it seems to be only for projects at user/organization level. What we do to work around this is to create a new repository used solely for projects.

By doing so, you can create and put the issues in the project board, and apply labels to the issue (which does show up in the project board). The long details can be put in the issue description, and it can be linked to other repositories nicely as well. The trick really seems to be to not use user/organization project, but (dedicated) repository project.

I wish they documented this better or improve it somehow, but hey! I guess they were working on the beta issues board/table which is also pretty sweet!
Let’s for a second assume not only that it was a lab leak, but that it was on purpose, what do you propose the response be?
What they should do is create a ray tracing mod for this game.
Except the only other known copy was also deleted :/

"It turns out that mention of the sequencing project in question (PRJNA612766) also disappeared from China National GeneBank (CNGB) shortly after it was removed from the NIH Sequence Read Archive. (2/n)"

https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407542296497688580?s=...
They're already in an arms race about performance enhancing drugs. And even without those, there are artificial limitations like age in women's gymnastics, because of the damage it does. Football players are grappling with decades of head injuries.

If you want to know the very best a human can do, you will destroy them. It's just not a question we can safely know the answer to.

So it's never really going to be fair, and we need to ask a different question. Exactly what that question is remains to be seen.
John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison Cell After Extradition Order
Found an article: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458926584/with-chicago-police...

That's just horrible...
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I'm confused by why/how he was arrested in Spain for failing to pay US taxes? Or am I missing something?
Another good analysis, by Jon Cohen of Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/scientist-s-hunt-cov...
Because then it could truly be called “The China Virus”, and there are a lot of people that don’t want that to happen.
> This is the post truth world.

Let's fight with our greatest might to make this a post-post-truth world.
In light on this common experience of natural and intentional link rot for YouTube videos, I think the only sensible strategy is to use youtube-dl to download videos to watch (and possibly delete) later.
That study might be the most flawed I've ever seen. It relied on parents' perceptions like you said. And the author selected for parents who refused to accept their children coming out as trans. Among other problems.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnc_KvWkiHw&t=3324s
Explore has been… unuseful to me for years before MS bought GitHub.
You know.. I call people their nicknames and preferred pronouns.

But... I have a name like David Goldsmith - common first name, two common syllable last name. People call me Dave, David, Davy, Goldsmith, and this one Indian coworker of mine always seems to call me Goldsith, which I think is cool because star wars, but also like wtf dude, you're missing the same letter every time.

The point is though, I don't really care what people call me. People call me a dozen different things nowadays. The last time I got bothered about what somebody was calling me, I was 12 and it was "Davy dumbsmith".
it matters how a line of questioning starts.

same way it matters if police coerce a suspect to "confess".

tainting an inquisition that started with no factual observations is what has happened.
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It's harder to affect directly, but I think parenting is key for producing better educational outcomes - the parts about parenting style were pretty cool to see codified.
As soon as I saw the title I came here to recommend that video of his, as well as the HD Music[0] one. There's also lots of other great gems on the channel not related to Lego Island.

[0]: https://youtu.be/uP328LYl8eo
You’re training users to click a “you have a notification” email that’s not easy to verify is legit.
I wouldn't consider china to be responsible for everyone else's shit response though.

Those responses are way more interesting, too. Taking another 20% chance off of a lab leak happening again doesn't fix that the US government will pretend a virus doesn't exist while it's killing people
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> The debate is not about whether somebody can use a pronoun.

It sort of is, though: someone's use of a pronoun only exists to the extent that others refer to them that way. My pronouns for myself are I/me/mine. Your avoidance of the pronouns I prefer denies me the "use" of those pronouns. I can't use them without your help.

Not disagreeing about the positive/negative rights characterization. And bigger picture: you're right that this really is about respect. Many people want to demand (even if not compel) more attention to mutual respect; many others want to use disrespectfulness as an indicator of their independence, because they view that as a more important value.
We've had to ask you repeatedly already to stop breaking the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25773231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20733119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18639962

Now you've done so again, and also in other places like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27235390 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26200463.

You unfortunately have a history of attacking other users and, frankly, being an asshole on HN. That's not cool. I don't want to ban you, so would you please fix this? The rules are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You are perhaps better off asking a different question:

Not, “was it a lab leak?”

Rather: if proven it was a lab leak, what would the remediation be?

Would it be a) for tightening of biosecurity controls, b) toughening of wild animal trade, or c) war with China.

We will get a) and b) without knowing where it came from; as prudent steps to prevent this from happening again; they are already happening.

Perhaps we can avoid c) if we never “really know”.

That would be nice.
And who benefited? American Billionaires?