skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> illnesses such as gender dysphoria that are statistically over represented

Can you explain what it means for an illness to be "statistically over-represented"?

I can parse it several ways, but not so it makes sense. E.g.

- Gender dysphoria is more common than influenza

- Gender dysphoria is more common in human societies than in gendered alien communities

- Gender dysphoria is discussed by a greater proportion of Youtube posters than you'd expect from it's rate in the population

I'm guessing you mean the last; but I have no idea how mmuch it's discussed on Youtube, and I doubt there are reliable figures for its occurrence in the population.
That's a claim that's commonly echoed on the right, but that's mostly because of filter bubbles.

Centre-left politics (or even leftist politics such as Bernie Sanders) are still firmly founded in facts and data.

But that's not what people perceive. Take for example crime. Crime statistics have trended down in all areas for years. Yet you'll hear more about crime in your Twitter feed or on conservative news today than you'd have heard 10, 20 years ago.

This kind of selection bias can lead to a massively different perception of reality compared to what actual reality is.
You think this is related to Elon’s hunter biden “drop”? How strange.
I've decided to go all-in on djot for my software.

> On topic, though, preceding sublists with empty lines is a complete non-starter for me.

I get it. This is my biggest complaint too. But I'm also a parser writer, and I see how this removes so much ambiguity.

This is the one thing that will stop djot adoption, and I'm okay with that. I don't think djot will be as used as Markdown, and I'm okay with that.
I Had ChatGPT Take an MBTI Test
It would be something if this FTX crime committed by SBF is the thing that triggers an economic depression.
In what universe is a child only 14.4K? Is this the price of a diapers alone? Preschool? Food? This number seems laughably low.
Andre is pretty much hated now. He created a shit ton of useless tokens in 2020 and 2021, made multiple millions off them, disappeared, and now has come back to preach to word of regulation to prevent others doing what he got away it.
'A response to' seems a fairer framing than 'a symptom of'. Further, I think climate change itself is the actual problem not (again) the response to it.
The week being Babylonian is uncertain. Their monthly feast days were roughly seven days apart, yes, but their months were lunar months, not even multiples of seven (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar). Judaism still seems like the most likely origin, though the Babylonian Captivity could have played some part.
Why do you want freelance? You can apply to any job... AFAIK the headaches of tax declaration and setup for freelance are not worth it.
The article states two (2) children costs $310,000. Comes out to be $8,611/year or $718/month per child. A tiny sample size, but I have several children and none of them cost me $23.58/day for 18 years.

Do you have a link to the actual study or the breakdown what went into this?
Sure, we are getting into semantics now. 15 years experience could mean knowing how to lead and bring up a team and product form scratch or it could also mean 15x 1 year experience if that person was constantly switching stacks/companies.

It's why we should compare salaries for positions rather than YoE.
Google may pay well and look good to future employers, but the internet is littered with stories about Google's weird promotion-driven-development culture and the stress/disappointment it can cause.

I genuinely wish GP the best but it's not a company I would want to work for if I had another option.
Until government recognize the needs for their own educated kids, they may get short end of the stick by importing large number of uneducated immigrants as a short-term measure.

Yeah, another contentious issue.

It is not like United States having done immigrating foreign scientists and tradesmen during and after WWI, WWII, Korean, Iran, or Vietnam Wars thereby actually benefited from them, economically and culturally.

Government are typically desperate for more taxpayers due to extended shrinkages (puns intended).

It is a battle for being able to cherry-pick from the pool of global immigrants (which US usually does well through its 38 different types of visa).

Like military recruiting , government will often get hamfisted by attaching strange and unreasonable stipulations based on their own morality (and not on its nation's needs).

Again, government should be making it easier to have its own kids, but they have not as of lately.

It is as if most government have done the math and have deemed raising kids as a loss-leader over recent immigration. My point is the longer-term cost sink is tremendously worse by a magnitude if they choose poorly.
I mean "effective altruism" is really just "I know things better than you. See the amount of money I have made is proof, therefore I'll make the decisions on how to spend the money on shaping the future of those peons I took the money from instead of them, you know, doing it themselves".

Good old wish to tell others how to live in a cozy fuzzy warm blanket of dogood. See also politician, dictator, clergy etc.
Two things that are glossed over are "Others can be processed into excellent nuclear fuel, although currently this is not quite economic, in part because the fission product decay makes handling the used fuel so difficult." So we don't know how to do this yet, and processing spent fuel rods also produces a lot of toxic and radioactive byproducts that are also difficult to handle, take a look at this Superfund site:

https://nmisite.org/site-history/

The other thing the article does not even mention is meltdowns of operating plants and attacks on or natural disasters affecting dry cask storage and reprocessing plants. Sure, you have to eat or breath the material for it to be dangerous after 600 years, but if a plant melts down or an idiot blows up the spent fuel then it gets into water, food, soil and the air and everyone ingests it, for a very long time thereafter, BEFORE the 600 years is up. Also, keeping something safe for 600 years is something nobody has ever done. Most societies don't even last 600 years. Look at what a mess we made of it just 50 years ago:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-07-01/us-says...

And here is a list of how well we've handled nuclear materials so far:

"11 Nuclear meltdowns and Disasters"

https://www.cnbc.com/2011/03/16/11-Nuclear-Meltdowns-and-Dis...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine is currently being shelled. Again. So it seems world peace is a prerequisite, I'd like to see the plan for that. After we've achieved world peace then the 600 year containment experiments can start and we can figure out how to get our engineering to 99.99999% reliability.
Smaller, less dangerous, and inherently safer reactor designs are being tried, maybe one of those will work well enough to be able to ramp up nuclear power, but the technology in current use is not good enough.
For me being dad has been the best experience in my life. Being dad is a lonely road this days with so many messages talking about no kids couples but for me is ok, let people decide freely.
In the worst case scenario this solo couples simply will disappear in a few decades and my kids will have to adapt to a different world. Change is the only thing they will inherit and it's ok.
You are just a narcissist.
"If we lived in a vegetarian world I might object to it"

I am not a vegetarian and do not plan on becoming one - but I still want to avoid animal suffering wherever possible. Meaning I would like my meat to have seen the sun and outside and not only on the tightly packed way to the slaughterhouse.

But yes you can argue, that the conventional meat factories are horrible, so being horrible here is allright as well. But I think that is a horrible line of reasoning.
Puberty blockers being non-permanent is a misconception, it’s rather concerning seeing it presented otherwise.
> The mistakes leading to unnecessary animal deaths included one instance in 2021 when 25 out of 60 pigs in a study had devices that were the wrong size implanted in their heads

Especially when it's sloppy mistakes that don't provide scientific value.
This reminded me of the Dancing Plague[0] that happened in medieval Europe.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
And you are wrong about individual prosperity being a result of fewer people. Extremely wrong in fact. In a village of 100 people everyone is poor. Part of the reason US is becoming less prosperous in the last 50 years is because of this collapsing birth rate.
> In blockchain, choose 2/3: security, performance, decentralization.

> BTC = security, decentralization

The brilliant thing is that you can stack. In other words, why would I want every transaction to be on the blockchain? I could just as easily use one of the more than 50 2nd-layer "Lightning" wallets and seldom touch the layer 1 blockchain.

So with very little risk you get:

BTC = security, performance, decentralization.
Given Edge’s recent work on overlay scrollbars (#edge-overlay-scrollbars-win-style flag) that are still displayed at all times for any element with overflow: scroll, only slimmer, I’m not holding my breath.
> How do you effectively shift from that negligent approach to the careful diligence demanded when testing with people?

Presumably as easily as people turn from casually eating beef to raising their children without suffocating them at the slightest inconvenience? People have very different standards of care for humans and animals.
Pretty much my prior answer: I'm not aware of such a small device, the note-taking SW itself is an issue, and basic note-taking tablets tend to be larger.

Anything as small as you describe would be quite limited in any other capabilities, and would almost certainly offer phone functionality.

What's your aversion to paper? Note that you could scan that in later if you wanted electronic notes.
People have been saying "it's just the Internet" since 2007 or whenever Tumblr appeared. It's a tired defense. Such treatment of gender that makes people feel good but only makes sense on the superficial level permeates modern discourse and invades institutional structures deeper each day.

You cannot keep the society well-functioning by treating the law and social norms as a bathroom stall or as something that you should mindlessly follow without comprehensive understanding.
My personal experience - and I've heard many others repeat the same sentiment:

When you're single, your happiness levels typically range on a scale from 0 to 10.

Once you get married, that range expands to run from -100 to +100.

Then when you have kids, all the limits are removed.
Pregnancy and birth ($3k to $10k) + daycare ($18k to $30k per year) + sickness needing doctor ($300 per visit). I probably got to $130k+ per kid before hitting kindergarten, for 2 kids with no chronic healthcare needs.

And I needed a flexible job that allows you to work from home or be off as necessary to take care of sick kids.
Theranos had other problems, like a fundamentally untenable design that many biologists criticized as being physically impossible. Not hard, but physically impossible.

Nevertheless it is true that moving fast increases risk. You either fail spectacularly or succeed spectacularly.
It is sort of funny how any anti-natalist political position will get outbred out of existence haha. Reminds me of the Shakers who kind of died off because their belief system prevented procreation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
> The point on standardization is sort of moot until Djot becomes big enough to be more than a single implementation.

I'm currently working on a second implementation, mostly because I want my docs to be dependency-free, but also for standardization of djot.
Have you tried generating multiple responses by clicking the Try Again button? Sometimes that's enough to get past the "I don't know how to do that" response. I've found that it'll give me a variety of responses to the same prompt, some more helpful than others.

The "What can I do in Nana Plaza?" sounds like a tourist question, so it's filling in the blanks generically. I would guess that a different leading question (e.g. How can I stay safe in Nana Plaza?) would get a generic response in a different flavor.

Off I go to experiment!
KernelCI now testing Linux Rust code
Is this satire? I have a child and the monotonous boredom of dealing with a toddler forces me to suppress the distant memories of freedom to go to raves, fight in foreign militia, get lost in stormy mountains, hitchhike across the plains...
> Every time I visit family for the holidays, I see this in real-time and it reaffirms my decision to not have children. I have an incredibly comfortable lifestyle saving for retirement, traveling and buying real estate. The moment I become responsible for another human, that all goes away.

It is unfortunate that unless you have children you can never know what it is like to have children. You see the external things, the effort and the cost. For most (i.e. non egocentric/narcissist personalities) having children is the most profound and meaningful experience of their lives. A normal parent loves their children more than they ever thought it possible to love someone.

You call your life comfortable. I as a parent would call it empty and sad. What you think of people as shells of themselves, I see as people focusing on what truly matters and brings happiness instead of momentary joy.
Sure, the article is funny, but what's the alternative to the dreaded arrest of growth? There's one: continual growth, forever.

I find the premise of infinite growth absurd: we'll hit some hard resource limits and fizzle out sooner or later. Perhaps the author thinks it's more fun that way than fizzle out out of caution/apathy?

Or maybe we'll keep growing, but will have to change something about being a human. Turn into a hive mind? Become microscopic? Either way, it's going to be more difficult than preventing the economic collapse due to oldster overflow.

Out of two ways to preserve population growth one is more ridiculous than the other. I get an impression that it's written by someone who wants to keep running while reality indicates to slow down.
Like again, without incredibly strong empirical evidence, no ethics board will recommend a study on nicotine.
When people are greedy they forgo due diligence. It is how Ponzi scheme always seem to work.

And if any one of you here think you are not greedy, please, take a deeper and more honest look at yourself.
And yet it's not, so clearly you are making a thought error somewhere along this heavily elided process.
The great majority of people do not care about "privacy" and gladly give it away for something as frivolous as Facebook or TikTok.

So it wasn't a democratic process that gave birth to GDPR. Now tech is pretty underrepresented in EU, but old money is not.
And the subtext of your comment is your pathological urge to speak about so-called "white privilege" whatever the topic is.
Why Zero Trust Is a Misnomer: The Fallacy of Absolute Trust in Zero Trust
I'm going to care either way, because I would fight with their phone support and go through the credit card dispute process regardless of the amount, for the principle of the matter. I probably wouldn't take the $20 to small claims court though, unless I had lots of free time. Though ultimately I can understand that your getting defrauded out of $700 stings a lot more than if you were defrauded out of $20.

> because they're not marketplaces

Most online retailers are turning into marketplaces. That's the doubly unfortunate thing about Amazon's shitty business practices - everyone else sees them and feels compelled to adopt them.

Trying to name retailers that sell electronics that aren't marketplaces - B&H, Adorama, Bestbuy. Maybe Monoprice? Although they've expanded their selection so much, it feels like something dodgy is going on.

I'm actually a big fan of eBay because despite being a marketplace, they don't handle inventory themselves so the incentives line up better - they understand sellers will sometimes ship broken items, try to stonewall returns, etc. I understand the fees are a bit high for sellers. But as a buyer, being buyer-friendly is my #1 concern, and eBay understands buyers are the ones with the money.

Then again I could be one ML classification or policy change away from eBay's dispute process not being so favorable to me, too. Although I haven't had to do one in a while - most sellers have made peace with buyers' power and just offer free shipping for returns.
> It means nothing if you believe people can be re-educated to cease to identify as a specific gender or repress their sexuality throughout their whole lives. That's completely irrelevant. You can also argue that you can re-educated men to be ok with being impotent or be bald or not need glasses, but somehow the conservative side of society is perfectly ok with having whole industries devoted to pumping out erectile disfuncion pills to circumvent natural health issues.

I don't understand this. The core problem with gender dysphoria is that you feel significant discomfort with your biological sex. If it were possible to legitimately "re-educate" oneself to not feel this discomfort, that would be considerably cheaper, less invasive and less problematic overall than trying to change one's sex. All surgery carries risk of death after all, and lifetime of hormone therapy is annoying to say the least.

Being bald is not just a feeling of discomfort with having no hair, it has real consequences. Baldness is generally considered to be less attractive, and attractiveness impacts career and dating prospects, for instance.

Being impotent also has real-world consequences. It impacts dating and also impacts your ability to conceive.

Arguably, being trans also has real-world consequences as well, so if a solution became available that could eliminate the gender dysphoria without changing your sex, I would be very surprised if plenty of trans people wouldn't choose that option, and not just because of social stigma.

The resistance to such a solution comes from two understandable directions: a) terrible gay conversion therapy that doesn't actually work, and b) the (mistaken) notion of mind-body dualism that many people internalize over their lives, that their identity, their mind, is separate from their body and has more primacy.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856514
Well if we can't run RCT's, then we need to rely on observational studies, right? Can you suggest a better way of investigating this question?
> There’s nothing close to chasing a toddler in a circle for an hour.

I hope this is your toddler.
Amazon Joins the Open Invention Network (OIN)
>Objectively nobody actually uses this stuff

Stay tuned for major central banks deploying CDBCs on ethereum. Swiss, EU and Singapore are launching a pilot program.
> If you only care about yourself go for it. I guess it’s somewhat sobering realizing you’re gonna be alone and your genetic material will be a dead end.

Sounds like you desperately needed to have a legacy, and got kids as a substitute for that. And as an insurance for your old age.

But sure GP is the one who only care about themselves.

> My kids are not treated like a drain on my potential investments.

True they’re treated as an investment.
> Giving me a guaranteed income would have probably stifled even that little bit of ambition.

Well, are you still a cook now?
Sounds familiar! Not to mention the interview itself being a never ending stream of “tell me about a time when…”

Eventually you’ll get a “No” along with a message that, per policy, they don’t provide feedback. And then you’ll get several emails insisting you send your feedback, because they really want to “improve the process”. *facepalm*

Unfortunately, despite assurances to the contrary, I was generally unimpressed with the quality of the people doing the interviewing. One of them was in his kitchen, while family members moved about behind him. Another didn’t share video, because reasons, making every silence while they made their notes that much more awkward. And another would spend 2+ minutes typing in silence until finally asking the next question, ruining any opportunity for flow or conversation.

Judging by Amazon’s recent growth (prior to the recent layoffs), I’m not sure anyone has had time for any engineering. They’ve all been stuck doing interview “loops”.
A few details not mentioned in the article:

1. The Vancouver Special originated as a way to evade zoning regulations. The lower floor is 18" below grade which qualified it as a "basement" not counting towards floor area ratio calculations.

2. Once the design became widespread, the building permitting process was streamlined -- there was no need for a detailed review of plans if they were identical to previously approved homes.

3. These were fundamentally "cheap and fast" housing, and have a poor reputation not so much for their conformity as for the poor quality construction.

4. As a cost saving measure, Vancouver Specials often came with "unfinished basements". An entire generation of Vancouver homeowners learned to install drywall -- and often electrical and plumbing -- which further contributes to the poor quality of the construction.
The amount of one's genes after several generations is homeopathic, so it doesn't matter in the long run.
>> Who’d even want a device like this put inside their brain by a company responsible for botched surgeries and unnecessarily killing living sentient beings.

I guess at least anyone who slaughters animals for sport or simply for their taste. I know few people near that burger-shop.
I don't know about rollups stuff, but Lightning Network-type 2nd-layers are prone to flood and loot attacks. I don't see a way to make them secure. I'm happy to be enlightened.
Patronising is thinking you know what it’s like having children without having them.

You don’t. You have no idea of the emotional and practical side of having children, and how hard and how amazing it is, and how it’s the best and hardest part of your life up until then.

Patronising is thinking you know you don’t want kids without having them. You don’t. You have no idea what it’s like.
Read bognition's comment. They literally say that kids are "empowered to explore their sexuality".