skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any of those examples are good analogies. None of those involve 'pretending to believe obvious lies' or self-mutilation.

The harm of social transition is relatively minor and easily reversible. It's not as concerning, but it still perpetuates the phenomenon as 'tolerable'.

The harm of physical transition is permanent and devastating. We should consider the precautionary principle when engaging in irreversible actions.

Puberty blockers, sex hormones, mastectomies, and the rest are not compassionate treatments for dysphoric youths, but children are being fast-tracked into these decisions without much thought for how likely they'll be to regret it. Certainly many do, and it's an awful tragedy.

As all humans have before two seconds ago, we should let children grow into their bodies, and then they can make better-informed decisions as adults.

My main point being: this stuff is absolutely unacceptable for children, and adults are free to behave however they want, but I won't 'accept' it or go along with it.
One of my favourite short stories by Borges is "The Theologians"[1], which deals with a contest between two theologians in suppressing heresy. It's absolutely wonderful how Borges managed to turn dry scholastic debate into a fascinating and gripping narrative. It also contains this wonderfully ironic scene when one of the theologian's past writings which was used to eradicate a previous heresy but have since fallen out of fashion was unearthed. The poor fellow insisted that it was still orthodox but everyone except him have moved on and under the latest opinion the old writing now appeared hopelessly heretical.

I've extracted a paragraph below, but the whole story is quite short and well worth reading.

>Four months later, a blacksmith of Aventinus, deluded by the Histriones’ deceptions, placed a huge iron sphere on the shoulders of his small son, so that his double might fly. The boy died; the horror engendered by this crime obliged John’s judges to assume an unexceptionable severity. He would not retract; he repeated that if he negated his proposition he would fall into the pestilential heresy of the Monotones. He did not understand (did not want to understand) that to speak of the Monotones was to speak of the already forgotten. With somewhat senile insistence, he abundantly gave forth with the most brilliant periods of his former polemics; the judges did not even hear what had once enraptured them. Instead of trying to cleanse himself of the slightest blemish of Histrionism, he strove to demonstrate that the proposition of which he was accused was rigorously orthodox. He argued with the men on whose judgment his fate depended and committed the extreme ineptitude of doing so with wit and irony. On the 26th of October, after a discussion lasting three days and three nights, he was sentenced to die at the stake.

[1] https://matiane.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/jorge-luis-borges-t...
How does this work in practice? Do “all” companies do background checks that include criminal records?
I do get offended when I receive unsolicited email, but only because the ads are always so bad.
> obvious reasons.

"I don't like those countries and they're angry with me".

I guess that puts any invasion as justifiable.
The quotation about Isaac Newton was a poor choice for this essay as it was clearly allegorical about Newton himself. Even if you don’t know anything about the man, it should be clear from the claim that marriage might be a sin.

In reality, the comment reflects four important things about Newton: 1 - marriage: he never married and once complained about someone trying to set him up with a woman; 2 - heresy: he was a reformation era figure, quite religious in his Protestant (heretical to some) beliefs; 3 - crime: as master of the mint he bestowed justice high (mostly) and low on forgers and other criminals within his authority (and not in Cambridge) which leads to 4 - sin: a nice intensifying noun that encompasses not only his intense religious nature but the zeal with which he pursued and punished criminals and many with whom he disagreed, including friends.
The way this post gets flagged repeatedly seems to underline the point pg is making. But the repeated unflagging also signifies something: that there is strong opposition to branding things as heresy in the current landscape.

This is a fault line that roughly follows the main party-lines in the US as far as I can see. And so pg can also be interpreted to be dog-whistling which side he is on. Which can also be the reason why the analysis comes across as a bit shallow; like when did we start to interpret historical phenomenon in terms of ad hoc personality types? (the "aggressively conventional-minded" personality type that supposedly is responsibly for crying heresy since time immemorial).

This struggle (between "the guardians of proper speech" and the "free speech advocates") has been extremely personal for several decades, but by bringing personality into it pg seems to turn flip the coin on the opponents; they are inherently bad humans (too). So it's perhaps not weird that this post has been flagged off and on, for that reason too.

But another take on this is how the political struggle has gradually invaded every nook and cranny of human existence, down to questioning the "way we are". It is likely a dead end that just might be one of the causes for increased mental illness in western societies.

I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that we need to take a step back and not so easily be drawn into the political talking points. Perhaps the answer is: let's not engage in ad hominem attacks, not on individual level, not on group level. Easier said than done perhaps, but I seriously think we need to get there.
You are espousing a single type of meditation practice. Parent is talking about a different meditation practice.
Solar nanowire-nanotube filter offers easy access to clean drinking water
A good test is to apply a white mark on the subjects head. Try to do it in a way they don't notice, and use a safe material with no odor. Then see if they start mucking with their head after looking in the mirror.
In India both freight and train services are government owned and are part of same network. Revenue from freight subsidises passenger services which run in losses [1]. But in general passenger service is given preference over freight every day. Hence there are some serious delays in freight service. So government is building these special double electric lines across country especially designed for freight called as dedicated freight corridors [2].

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/railways-earning-f...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSsRmbUnvK4
No, you're wrong. The first blu-ray players had support for all those codecs. The first few mastered blu-ray discs were MPEG-2 encoded, but that was because the encoders were more mature at that point.

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/sony-on-mpeg-2-for-blu-ray....
Ah, perhaps this is why I periodically got no responses, and eventually was reset out of the game. I was deep down!
"This is kind of a revelation. It means that the special power that the US has in printing dollars is only special in that it can never default on the dollars because it can, in the end, print them for real."

This is true - but it is true of any sovereign currency. The ECB can't default in euro-denominated loans, etc.

The real special power of the US Dollar is that it is the only thing that is accepted to pay US taxes.

No matter what you have and no matter how valuable it is - gold bars, Monets, diamonds, Malibu beachfront - you cannot use it to pay US taxes: you must sell those assets and buy dollars to pay them.

That's not a minor detail or a quirk - that's the point of the whole system.
War is always multi-step. The enemies try to beat each other into submission, and then use it to their advantage in negotiations.

Where does this myth of world destruction in a few minutes come from? Movies?

There is no scenario where Russia would benefit from bombing Europe or USA indiscriminately.

USA economy depends on China economy, China economy depends on USA economy, Russia economy depends on China / Europe / US economy.

And even with sanctions, most countries are trading with Russia, but the Russian economy is starting to show signs of failure. Prolonged land war would be a disaster for them.

A tactical nuclear attack or chemical attack towards Ukraine would mean an absolute nightmare for Russian economy, like signing off on the destruction of Russia economically
I think one of the articles shared here recently mentioned that dogs are the best animal proxy model for understanding mental illness due to their similarity to humans. Dogs' domestication is the oldest by far of any living mammal. I believe that canines and humans had similar basic social structures and that eased their integration. Dogs are basically a humanized species.
"The shape of an argument" is the polite way to say that an argument is imprecise. Less politely: it's a way to beat around the bush about what you actually believe while maintaining plausible agreeability.

Graham can't make the point that it's pervasive, because he won't provide any evidence to that effect. He won't do that because he knows that hand-wringing about "heresy" is much more agreeable than the interior position: that rich and powerful men like himself shouldn't be made to bear uncomfortable thoughts.
Your conflating harming people with causing them anger is very much part of the problem. 'Harm' used to mean something much more severe; now it basically means anything at or above pissing someone off.

The same concept creep has occurred when it comes to the word 'violence' too. As a society, we long ago drew red lines at behaviours that are violent or harm people, but thanks to these deliberate redefinitions, extreme responses are somehow justified to utterly non-consequential speech, because people accept that speech can cause 'harm' or is 'violent'.

It's such a cheap rhetorical trick that does nothing but chill public discourse while doing nothing to positively impact the lives of the people it's ostensibly supposed to protect.
Developed by a Googler, surprise, surprise.
Yes another web game with insanely loud audio and no volume control.
The following opinions will be labelled as heresy by the left (note there are plenty of heresies labeled by the right as well):

- Transgenderism is a mental illness

- Trans women shouldn't be allowed to compete athletically with cis women

- Kids under age 8 shouldn't be taught LGBT concepts such as gender identity in elementary schools (read: "Don't Say Gay Bill")

- Code of Conducts in software projects are dumb and ineffective

- Biden shouldn't have used affirmative action to assign a SCOTUS justice

- Forced corporate DEI is dumb and ineffective
not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence
> Whereas other cats don't ever do this in mirrors. They try to reach the cat in the mirror, they try to outpace it, they try to attack it.

In my experience, most animals, including cats, just flat out ignore mirrors. At least all the pets I've had and that my family has had over the years, none of them ever reacted to themselves in the mirror.

In a way that suggests they do have some kind of understanding that they are just seeing themselves.
I was wondering how it could work to lock people in their homes and prevent them from shopping for food. Predictably, it does not work.
Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet
the art is badly done or not according to you, the viewer. The opinion of others isn't relevant. The only truth there is individual.

"grouping people by categories they can't choose" is "x-ism". people are more than their skin color, sexuality, or anything else.
In the 90s and 2000s it would be “heresy” to be a gay or transgendered person. I remember sadly how people in hushed tones would talk about coworkers.

There was a bro-y norm to engineering culture that you didn’t defy very easily.

I'm a bit surprised how easily people forget these things.
> Who knows except the man himself. That's the problem right there.

But you do know that there is a list?

And after being routed by the Ukrainians, the assumption is that Russia will then invade not just former Soviet republics but also other countries? That's an interesting take.
I wonder if they've trained all their AI ~~novels~~ models ~~in~~ on people's ~~inbuilt~~ input where mistakes aren't corrected, reinforcing incorrect ~~Freddie's~~ ~~fuses~~ guesses.

All mistakes there were genuinely made.
(I work at Notion)

Pricing is here: https://www.notion.so/pricing

Our business plan is to charge for collaboration, so Notion is free with no writing limits for personal users. You can pay $4/mo for deeper version history, bigger file uploads, more guest editors, etc; and more per month to use Notion with a team.

I'll send a note to the marketing design team with your feedback.
Estimating PaLM's Training Cost
Should Russia also do the same? Going back a year, would a similar statement apply to Russia too?
I find the math of programming incredibly satisfying from a craftsmanship perspective, but there are many tools that are unsatisfying inside programming.
I do, but not on my "main" box. I chose mutt-ng. I have a portable device based around a Raspberry Pi Zero, and the 512Mb memory is at a premium, so mutt is just right. It also has loads of hooks for GPG etc so it's just what I need. I can't see myself using it as my daily-goto mail client though.
Really interesting research about the spread of dairy throughout the early Caucasus and Eurasian steppes peoples.

Among many interesting conclusions drawn in the study :

"Notably, we found that dairy consumption was evident among individuals lacking Anatolian ancestry, such as PG200133, demonstrating that the adoption of dairying by North Caucasian transitional foragers was already underway during the late fifth millennium BC, which precedes Yamnaya expansions by a millennium."
Could also be that now our expectations are higher than they were back in the days?
I’ve switched away from using OMZ as an all-in-one framework that takes over my .zshrc, but I still use some of its plugins. Its plugin management is too slow for my tastes, but there’s a few plugins that I came to rely on.

Switching to Sheldon [0] has given me the best of both worlds.

[0] https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon
> All problems seem to be attack oriented, not defence.

Probably because it's easier to design puzzles for mating/attacking and people want to attack/mate.

> As a result in a chess match I constantly look for ways to attack my opponent, not to prevent an attack from my opponent.

You will eventually learn to defend too as you play more games. It's pattern recognition.

For example, there are varieties of ways to attack a fianchetto position. Once you feel comfortable exploiting fianchetto positions, you'll notice your opponent attacking your fianchetto positions and act to prevent it. Just like constantly trying to find back rank mates against your opponent will eventually teach you to watch your own back rank. Learning to attack teaches you to defend and vice versa.
Pontificating a little here, but it reminds me of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" quote.

Any external code that purports to be reusable should not be concerned with the idea of an "environment".

Positing that reducers should be pure is fine and dandy, telling me I can't throw in a side effect is none of your business.

Instead of running it twice, just make a warning log and be done with it.
So you just gave three examples off the top of your head but you need to make sure he picked the right one..?
There are US nukes in Germany, Italy and Turkey. France and UK have their own. It would be pretty weird for Russia to not be ready at all times to target those countries. I don't know with what exactly, but surely they have thought about this.

Also, when the US anti-missile shield facility were installed in Poland and Romania Putin explicitly warned that these two countries will be added to the predetermined target list:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-europe-shield-idUS...
Wouldn’t a puzzle with only one “non-losing” move be equally easy to find? (Assuming this is based on engine evaluation)
If you’re looking for discovery scope out Memos. Been using it for years, happy customer. It indexes all images, I snap menus and receipts and search is instant plus everything is on device.
Ask HN: Do you feel recognized at work?
I have the thesis that companies across all industries under-recognize their employees achievements. The nature of modern work is complex, almost always involves multiple parties/stakeholders with unclear contributions. Due to that, achievements often go under the radar, particularly if an accomplishment can't be easily measured.

In tech, I've observed that the most common recognition results from a feature launch that contributes to revenue or another metric, e.g. A/B test launch.

For those who _do_ feel recognized at work, what are the ways/processes that your employer recognizes you? What are forms of recognition that _don't_ work?
It would be, but if they had a keylogger installed then the endpoint is completely owned, in which case they could just exfiltrate the password database from memory. Or they can just pilfer authentication/session tokens directly once you logged in. More generally, making things more cumbersome (in the sense of requiring more steps) doesn't really provide any meaningful security since it can generally be automated anyway.
I think you're referring to the Falun Gong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
Stumbled upon his work on HN with "Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667852
The China Tribunal came out with a report of how the government of China harvests organs from political prisoners. It is a very widespread practice.

https://chinatribunal.com/

The document:

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/#
Yeah - because Tesla is a classic all-American name, right?!
My dog and both cats still like to play with the laser pointer, but all of them know exactly where it comes from. Thankfully it's just like playing fetch with the dog. Totally repetitive and predictable but still entertaining enough that the pet will keep it up indefinitely.
No, you haven't. I'm fairly certain I know a blog article you're referring to and that article is a load of nonsense. I can debunk any claims you might remember. The security isn't an illusion, it was designed to fix very real and known problems that exist in X11 and likely won't ever get patched out from X11.

At least in GNOME and KDE, there is a proper method for granting higher privileges, that method is the xdg portal API. I don't know where people are getting this idea that the method doesn't exist, it has existed for quite some time now.
> Given that Graham's entire point appears to be that this pattern is increasingly pervasive, by providing examples, he would undermine his own conclusions.

If Graham wants to argue that "this pattern is increasingly pervasive" wouldn't it help to provide examples of how fast it is becoming more pervasive? He could do this with examples. If he's claiming it is becoming more pervasive I think he failed to present any evidence for that.
This is a really bad take.

Heat pumps can have coefficients of performance (joules of cooling provided over joules of energy consumed) between 2.5-5 (going down as outside temperatures drop).

In most situations, it’s more efficient to burn the gas for electricity and then put it into a heat pump than to burn it directly for heating.

In the very coldest situations, where the heat pump less effective, then you may use the resistive heating to augment it.

And “green” tech is about changing power generation sources so that, even if you have some more inefficiency, it’s not polluting the planet or running down finite resources as much.
You can set wshada|rshada to occur on FocusLost|FocusGained.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#shada-read-write
I don't know, I don't like to assume these things.

Either way, some ideas are "heretical" for a reason: they lead to worse outcomes. You could argue under the same "trans are mentally ill" model that gay people are too. But we don't, because letting gay people live their lives (or more accurately, not oppressing them) leads to better outcomes. That's what it's all about. And it's the same with trans people - if they're accepted and allowed to present how they want, outcomes are better.
Zeit Medical (YC S21) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to improve stroke care
I don't know what you mean by "a file is a singleton": I have many files on my computer, and I can open any of them multiple times.
They scuffed with Autel and initially lost (but then had that patent invalidated), and their currently brewing fight is with Bell Textron for camera control.

(This is just a quick googling. I have no skin in this game either way, but I believe that the assertion that Chinese companies always steal is a bigoted position to take. Perhaps a more accurate description would be that IP is most commonly held by incumbent businesses, and businesses in China in new segments are, necessarily, new to market.)
It makes no sense if you completely ignore context.
They're credited with it but that quotation is actually from neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom and has been repeatedly laundered through social media to seem like respectable intellectual rigor, instead of an attempt to legitimize the kinds of completely insane conspiracy ideology that is present on social media today.
Many of us believe treatment of people should be invariant of who they are.
Conflating a valid point with a bunch of total-nonsense points in order to discredit it is an effective strategy.
and Dropbox
I'd just note here that 'truth through debate' is an ancient concept (Socrates - Aristotle - Plato etc.) that has been replaced with 'truth through experiment and observation' (Galileo - Newton - Maxwell - Einstein etc.). Of course many have attempted to use science to justify their behavior or to justify some arbitray human social organizations (i.e. Francis Galton and Social Darwinism, or Lysenko in the USSR and Phenotypic Modification, or more simply, nature vs. nurture).

However, science isn't the final arbiter for marking out the optimal societal norms, whatever those may be, although this seems to be the meaning of 'truth' as you use it in this context. An authoriarian state with zero personal freedom might be just as capable of feeding its human population as a libertarian state with a minimal set of legal restrictions, for example.
Are you referring to Falun Gong [1]? I couldn't find the documentary you have in mind, but I did find this one [2] from 2014.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Harvest_(film)
In many normal circumstances, I am entitled to disagree with people about who or what they are.

Someone might think they're charming, and I might find them a great bore.

It's obvious in this example that equivocating that with deciding for that person, anything at all, is asinine.

Most social settings, and all professional ones, require that I be more polite to this "charming" person than I would otherwise be inclined to, given my own feelings on that subject.

There is something to be learned here.
"Exit to Community": https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community
How I understood his essay was that he actually wants more debate about things and finds statements such as "that is X-ist" to end debate.

Did you read that differently?
Even if relies on TSMC and IP-blocks purchased from other companies - it is still cool that a 2-year old startup can create graphics card that appears to compete with what giants like NVDIA and AMD are offering.
Truth is harmful and people need to be shielded from it? If we hold the speakers responsible, rather the people who take up their words and turn them into actions? Then isn't that incompatible with democracy which relies on informed citizens that aren't easily captured?