skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You won’t find such studies because it is! Or more accurately gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. Just because it’s in the mind doesn’t make it not a real thing. Since we’re on a programming forum maybe a good metaphor would be it’s something that’s in your firmware.

Aside: Since in real life people use sex and gender interchangeably I’m gonna do that too and just refer to chromosomes directly when needed.

> I don’t get just accepting the sex you’re born as.

When you actually survey trans people they do try really really hard to be the sex that usually goes with their chromosomes. But empirically it doesn’t work out. The distress caused by trying drives a worryingly high percentage of them to attempt suicide.

I know you didn’t mean it this way but what you said was right. Trans people need to accept the sex they were
born as and transition if they want to live happier healthier lives. People in the lgbt community call this acceptance “coming out to yourself” or “your egg cracking.”

> It certainly seems to me, that rather than be a more effeminate male…

Okay so I think you’ve almost got it but have some wires crossed. So this is a bit simplistic but for the purposes of this lets classify people as either masculine or feminine and men or women.

You’re probably used to masculine women being called “tomboys” or “butches.” You can do the opposite too with “tomgirls” and “femboys.” These are expressions of gender. You can kind of think of them as aesthetics but more central and important to the individual. Like for example most men would typically feel not themselves or like they were wearing a costume if they dressed feminine.

Okay so gender roles! Men take out the trash, women do the cleaning, men are the breadwinners, women are the caregivers, boys like rockets, girls like dolls, yada yada. These are mostly, but not entirely, cultural. Lgbt folks are pretty darn anti gender roles in general because they stop making sense in same sex couples and trans people prior to transitioning feel put in a box, and not only that but the wrong box which triggers their dysphoria.

So trying to read between the lines here I think again you’re right. Trans women aren’t feminine men, and would like to be treated just like any other women.

But the difference is that this treatment is totally separate from the individual’s gender expression or the roles they wish to take on. Trans women can be feminine, masculine, both, or neither and they can take on traditional gender roles or completely ignore them.
Technically it might not obvuscate, but practically it does.

Critically (compared to cash) it allows remote transactions. Cash requires presence which limits the customer base geographically, and carries enormous personal risk. (you're already transacting with a criminal, do you want to be alone with him as well?)

The killer app for crypto is illegal activities. (which may in some cases be moral, but nevertheless are illegal.)

As a side note, the volatility in the crypto value, caused mostly my legal speculators being exploited by scammers, hurts the utility of crypto in all contexts, including illegal ones.
2019 paper on FIRES: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062... & https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S030626... (PDF)
That's why he settled Twitter with additional debt and talked about how it might go bankrupt soon if it doesn't make more money, to make it clear that profit is not important?
Was it not surviving and extremely profitable?
If twitter goes down the entire internet will go with it. But the naysayers still wont move to canada
I think it is interesting news, unfortunately the discussion around Twitter and almost always around Trump is not interesting. There are few insightful comments and mostly people wildly speculating with high confidence on whatever confirms their priors
This completely misses the point. No one here is unaware that people use these terms in new ways. Likewise they are not denying the usage. They are saying the usage is imprecise. It commandeers an existing word. Using that word in the conventional way is portrayed as archaic or bigoted.

This is not remotely the same as making up a new word like yeet.
The Chevy equinox coming out next year will be 300 miles for about $30k
> I am aware of someone at Meta attempting to reach out to these folks to interview for offers to transfer their visas. Very kind of folks willing to do so.

Meta is firing 11K people and freezing hiring right now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/meta-to-lay-off-more-than-11...

Twitter will bounce back. For the people who are staying, this is a giant career opportunity to get a good executive job as the result. I'd stay in a heartbeat, even if it means spending one terrible year or two there.
Oh no, the AI didn't get the memo that birds aren't real
> Barring some big breakthrough in battery tech (or swaps)

Nio's cars can swap 100 kWh packs in 6 minutes. The swap station charges the packs to 90% so the swap is equivalent to charging the car at 900 kW for 6 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0
Do you have some examples? To me, the lowest quality comments are always in the cryptocurrency related submissions but it's been like that for a long time. Overall, I don't feel there's been a significant change in comment quality and I rarely see conspiracy type comments being up voted.
Yes just to second this -- every time I wrote decent code for my bioinformatics software I regret it because my PI does not really care.

Sometimes I really don't understand. Much of the field's code does not even have testing, and it is baffling for me to think how the results are believed to be correct in the first place if there is no rigorous testing.
Why did you leave? Just more money or some disagreement about product vision? Or something else? I really love VRChat, so just curious.
The text only format is enough to keep 90% of people away.
Depends on what is meant by 'conspiracy'. If you refer to certain American and British political topics, you're not wrong. Some people whose opinions I formerly valued have been thus subsumed by the vast divisive misinformation machine to which we find ourselves subject in this age. It's not without historical precedent, but it is nonetheless a sign of the times.
How do you define 'junkie'?
how many people need to flag it to have it not appear in rankings?

Is there a way for users to 'unflag' it?
Oh no, not me buddy. See my other comments. I would give away every penny to avoid jail. No wrenches, either, thank you very much.
It seems like there are more off-the-cuff or aggressive comments from people who can’t turn their opinions, right or wrong, into discourse everyone can participate in and learn from. (Like this one.)

Slowly educating or misinforming a forum or newsgroup over a couple of years by sharing dozens of interesting links and writing a book’s worth of novel analysis is a dying hobby.
Both of those are flagged. Actually almost all the submissions are flagged.
Oh, didn’t know it existed. I’ll have to download it and report back. Thanks.
I dont aggree == conspiracy. Seems to be the trend.
We call it "variable", because it's variable
There are different semantics for these data structures in different languages. These tend to exist for corner cases, but those corner cases constrain your design.

So you might not be able to replace the default Java hashmap with absl::flat_hash_map, but you can steal ideas and maybe do better in other ways where the C++ map would be constrained. However, doing that is work that someone has to pick up.

And releasing a (e.g.) Go library that breaks from the built in map semantics might not see much adoption in that community. C++ actually seems a bit unique in terms of how many widely used implementations there are of key data structures (e.g. strings, maps, trees, inline vectors). Not criticizing just making an observation.
yup, except spammers and bots. They are the worst
Maybe we should use words in a way that bests help the people they relate to? I'd wager the vast majority of women giving birth would rather the literature be clear and understandable rather than accommodating to an incredibly small group of individuals.
It's Time to Make 3D TVs a Thing Again
Interested in reading that article.
Do you by chance have it saved in your favorites?
The NBA is at the top right of the graph (for basketball skills) so you shouldn't see any such weird anomaly there. Suspect its actually just a biological thing that your hand eye coordination worsens at the 'extreme' heights
For reference [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1dXuMEpT0
Doesn't change that this is a duplicate of them though. Something being flagged doesn't mean "please submit it again and again". If people want to discuss it, they can still do that in these, since they aren't flagkilled.
> Argumentation does not fight misinformation. Study after study shows that people rarely change their minds, even when faced with seemingly incontrovertible evidence.

Out of curiosity, do you have citations for these studies?
How about someone from let's say Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora?
Would nix guarantee that all upstreams are available forever? Is nix planning to replace all upstreams? (PyPI, Conda, npm etc?) OR does it plan to keep a cache forever?
Unfortunately my experiences with mobile app stores put that likely in the "not possible at all" category rather than the "tricky" category like it might be for desktops.
Yes.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649356661436417
Classifying Minds
I agree with you in ideal circumstances.
The plain old paper notebook works for me. Treat it as a linked list, each node (page or section) being the root of a possible tree or graph, which is developed elsewhere (if at all).

I'm not sure about the practical utility of following in the footsteps of some of these suggested 'giants in the field'... we're supposed to learn Kenneth Iverson's APL?

https://dev.to/awwsmm/20-intriguing-unusual-and-goofy-progra...

I fear I am not worthy, nay, not even to wash the laboratory glassware in the facilities of such a genius. Donkeys must pull carts, while wizards fly through the sky above.
It's a great article and there is probably a lot of truth to it but I suspect people who are constantly told how great they are are actually more likely to be jerks. I don't think beauty / intelligence are entirely uncorrelated with niceness to begin with.
When I was single, I had mostly female friends who I hung out with, traveled with, etc. I had no interest in being in a relationship with them. But when I got remarried, they went to wayside. Not because of jealousy. Just because I didn’t need the drama.

A major cause of first marriage ending was emotional infidelity on both sides.

I work remotely in consulting (full time job in the consulting department at $Bigtech) and teams only last as long as a project last.

It’s even harder now that my wife and I are “digital nomadding” flying across the US and not setting up roots anywhere.

My one close friend that I’ve kept in touch with since high school 30 years ago has small kids now. We try to squeeze time in. But it’s hard.
Besides "spoony Bard" I think the other most famous one is probably the "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets" line from one of the Castlevanias. Personally I like it, but I guess it's pretty notorious.

TFA discusses it here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/lets-investigate-a-miserab...
TestProject End of Life
COP27 summit agrees climate deal
By mind virus I mean being infected by interpreting one's circumstances through a lens that mainly serves to moralize envy and malice. Once someone has convinced you that you are a slave or a victim, it doesn't matter what you do to right the percieved wrong, the point is that now you can be relied upon to act with less humanity and dignity because you have internalized the self belief that you are somehow less than a full person, and that's sufficient for the purposes. It's a straight hustle and it's old as dirt.

There is plenty of dignity in sweeping floors, but only if you haven't given up your own basic human dignity first.
Maybe he should have consulted twitter's userbase before buying the thing.
Basically every spreadsheet I built working at an investment bank during the GFC.
This rings all kinds of alarm bells and flies all the red flags.

How many of us have heard from some guy who has said, essentially, "I have an idea for the next <fill in the blank with whatever is hot>, and I've already sketched out a prototype. There's just the small matter of programming and we'll make $LARGE_SUM?

Imagine this happening in the business world. A partnership between SMEs and software engineers. Oh, we do this all the time, that's why software engineers get paid well: we turn ideas into working code. Anyone ever heard of a product manager "banging out a prototype" and then handing if off to the software engineers to rewrite?

The more I re-read the passage from the article, the worse it sounds.
Not every analogy is significant. This one is just plane dumb.
It does not look like this is an approved topic for discussion yet. All threads are being flagged.
> I keep hearing from Western pundits that Russian economy is tanking, but isn't it the other way around?

Last time I've checked Russia had to purchase arms from Iran because they are no longer able to produce those themselves due to severed supply from Europe, while plenty of european countries are increasing military development and production.

Russia is also forced to disassembly some of their passenger planes for spare parts because they no longer can ship those from Airbus or Boeing.

Russia can no longer import semiconductors from US/Europe, Taiwan, Korea or Japan. This effectively stopped their high-tech industry from working. This hit their civil and military aviation (which includes production of their AA, CM and cruise missiles, and passenger plane program).

Civilian production is also seriously affected by the sanctions. Lada cars are now produced in very basic variant due to no access to parts from EU or Asia.

Russia is also recommissioning soviet-era arms because they are no longer able to use their "modern" tech without weakening their military on other fronts.

Because Russian government is de facto a mafia state, the govt itself considers large companies ran by people outside of oligarchy a threat to itself, meaning that Russia has no national industry it can turn to for filling in the gaps created by sanctions:

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501382714427166721

Bank of Russia is doing whatever it can to protect country's economy from crisis, but they are doing it in same way that Turkey does: through selling their reserves. They can't do that forever.
> What an opportunity to learn

I suspect you've never been around Musk or people of Musk's class. What could you possibly learn that would materially improve anything in your life other than "you get to keep your job (for now)"? Or is it just curiosity you want to satisfy?
Mods tried to force a bribe before. It’s very anarchic with little recourse
If it was really close to the shape on an actual sine wave, then the derivative at any earlier time encodes information about the future peak. Any way some system could be bottlenecked by the rate of change of the visit rate (i.e. the visit acceleration)?
Is this meant to ridicule AI pessimism?
A Few Good Stories
This is a good start, but the essay really needs to spend more time considering the Hard Problem of Flight.
>> When its definition is changed to mean any one who assigns the word 'woman' to themselves, the word conveys no meaningful information.

This is the heart of the matter, and they even admit as much when they have to use terms like AFAB or ciswoman. These distinctions were not needed until they intentionally made the term "woman" meaningless.
I used to use software for task management. Now I use post it notes.
Disagreement with decisions like the one made by medical literature from the article is not an attack.

Where exactly do you see attacks in this thread? I see a lot of disagreement, but no attacks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33624032

> (8) Family genetic studies. The phrase “family genetic studies” is commonly used in psychiatry to refer to designs in which investigators examine the familial aggregation of one or more disorders, such as panic disorder or major depression, within intact (i.e., non-adoptive) families (e.g., Weissman, 1993). Given that the familial aggregation of one or more disorders within intact families could be due to shared environment rather than—or in addition to—shared genes (Smoller and Finn, 2003), the phrase “family genetic study” is misleading. This term implies erroneously that familial clustering of a disorder is necessarily more likely to be genetic than environmental. It may also imply incorrectly (Kendler and Neale, 2009) that studies of intact families permit investigators to disentangle the effects of shared genes from shared environment. Twin or adoption studies are necessary to accomplish this goal.

> (9) Genetically determined Few if any psychological capacities are genetically “determined”; at most, they are genetically influenced. Even schizophrenia, which is among the most heritable of all mental disorders, appears to have a heritability of between 70 and 90% as estimated by twin designs (Mulle, 2012), leaving room for still undetermined environmental influences. Moreover, data strongly suggest that schizophrenia and most other major mental disorders are highly polygenic. In addition, the heritability of most adult personality traits, such as neuroticism and extraversion, appears to be between 30 and 60% (Kandler, 2012). This finding again points to a potent role for environmental influences.
probably to undermine carbon taxes.
How to Use Exceptions Correctly
If you read the article hoping to find out what’s going on here you are:

“Microbiological analyses revealed that the genes in question expressed enzymes that break down highly toxic organic forms of mercury into less toxic, inorganic mercury molecules.”

Finding that info on how the fungus does it is why I wanted to read the article, and it was annoyingly buried late in the article after a large number of repetitious paragraphs.
Of all those, "advertising" is the only fundamentally evil one, and he is chipping away at that one.
I used to love all nighters but as a single dad of a young child, either I leave for school pickup or the police pick me up. If an employer did this to me, I’d be out of a job, and they’d be looking to hire someone else, that will likely cost them more and deliver less…
Adoptive parents don't call anyone a bigot for not pretending that they gave birth to their adopted children.
I hadn't realised the Aaron Swartz connection to the Open Library until the past few weeks.

Makes me realise all the more how much was destroyed when the US Government sought to make an example of him.
I think people tracking was just an optional extra/add-on. It sounds like the RSSI signal was there in the first place to set up the mesh based on what other lights had active sensors...
Honestly I don't usually have anything super impressive. It's just that they are so seamless to define and use.

Lately I've used them a lot to deal with buffer to repl interactions where there wasn't a working mode to load the buffer into the repl.

It's trivial to run a repl in a shell buffer and then create a macro and keybindings that will save the file, switch to the repl buffer, and then insert the command to reload the file (and/or restart the repl if necessary).

Probably now that Vim and NeoVim have useful integrated terminals I imagine they can probably be automated similarly, but I mostly use vim as my failsafe editor and try to keep my interactions with it pretty stock, so I don't really explore automating it heavily.

I've used Emacs keyboard macros frequently to automate org mode to make certain kinds of entries immediate (almost like using a snippet solution).

Keyboard macros are not the be all and end all. But they are really useful for chinking around the cracks between other tools. They are a quick tool for prototyping and scripting automation.

Sometime last year I was experimenting with my own plain text note system outside of org mode (I wanted something that was a little more robust for dealing with arbitrary copy and pasted text without it potentially triggering semantic interpretation of the buffer). Using keyboard macros allowed me to quickly work up commands to deal with the various parts of the file in an interactive development style - it made it very easy to experiment with what was effectively a new file format without any real parsing or coding. I would guess it wouldn't be robust for release, but for figuring out what made sense or what I wanted, it was super helpful to have that ability to define new text interactions quickly.
The nix language basics section of nix.dev finally got me to understand what is actually going on in a derivation file and in my default.nix, so thank you!
How accurate was your crypto forecaster? What happened to the code? If you're interested in getting that running again let me know. There are ways to bring down costs and improve efficiency.
Worked for a YC some time back. It was quite a ride, but our seed round was just about gone and we had zero product-market fit after some time. It was ran a bit like a cult.

As we scrambled to create something of value and keep the lights on, I (unintentionally) built and highly optimized a free-trial funnel for a Saas service according to a "gym-membership" model; ie, our entire revenue stream depended upon tricking people into submitting their credit cards and charging them for months when they forget to cancel (or couldn't due to the complicated cancellation funnel). Once someone hit gym-membership status, we would pause all emails, reminders, etc (on CEOs design) so they would forget about us and let their card be charged for years. People at our company would fight against these tactics, but leadership's only focus was AB testing the hell out of the funnel to continually increase subscriptions and impede cancellations.

To combat the inevitable high charge back rates we eventually encountered, our staff would purchase pre-paid gift cards at corner markets and we programmatically submitted multitudes of tiny transactions through out the day to skew the chargeback rate to an acceptable place; this was the CEOs idea again, rejecting our ideas of selling things people actually wanted.

It was a house of cards, but the success of monetization was leveraged to land further contracts with governments (that we could never fulfill) until it all came crashing down. I left long before then on principle.

The entire venture was revealed to be a complete mess from day 0. From the start, this outfit threw its entire batch seed into google ads to drive "users" and feign growth to pump up the valuation on demo day, landing a couple million in investment for something that had no real value. Hm. It seems that a system was crafted here to pick winners and losers, and the company responded by gaming it in every way they could.
Of course, all of these either have flaws [1] or are so detailed that they're distributed build caches with more steps. You can hash project source files, all build commands, all textually included headers, precise versions of toolchains, etc., into a Merkle tree, but this is not generally how python applications pin "versions" of dependencies.

[1] For instance, you cannot version a C or C++ library build independent from the versions of all of the transitive dependencies of that library (more or less). Of the options listed here, only distribution package managers can really account for this problem, and not every distribution package manager cares to.
Whoa. Surprised this is the only post along these lines. FB is no different from big tobacco in these times.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675224>