skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same experience with Amazon a while ago, same with Microsoft, looks like ghosting is common
> then this opens new doors to examining the behaviour of other illnesses such as gender dysphoria that are statistically over represented

I don't think this is necessarily new. Anorexia seems to increase proportionally to public awareness of anorexia. It's not just that diagnosis actually improves, it literally appears to be a causal connection, as in, hospitalizations for health problems due to undereating increase dramatically after public awareness about anorexia increases in response to media coverage or public awareness campaigns. Pretty wild.

This was discussed in the book "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche".
Look at this code:

https://docs.zama.ai/concrete/getting-started/quick_start

This is a rust based Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) example.

That is to say, you can encrypt two numbers, do a mathematical calculation on them without decrypting them, and then, only the person with the private key can decrypt the result to get the value.

If you add something like FHE to blockchains (it's coming) then you can get anonymous transactions on the blockchain directly.

By the way, Zero knowledge proofs are not what is needed to get anonymous transactions. When you use ZK, you are issuing the proof AND have knowledge of the inputs. The prover needs to know the inputs, but does not need to reveal them to the verifier (which happens on chain). This means the transaction can assert that the mathematical operation occurred without doubt, but when you need to get at the numbers, you are back to a transparent value on the chain.
To be fair, FTX isn't a result of crypto being unregulated. Operating an exchange is regulated to some extent, but this is a story of failed corporate governance amongst many other things.
Wouldn't that be better? They'd get a severance pay?
I wouldn’t say it’s untrue, just incomplete. Kids who present as the “wrong” gender are still much more likely to be bullied by kids and emotionally abused by parents.

But that isn’t a new thing in the past few decades, and indeed it does seem to be getting better.
'The last several decades' is an odd specification. Are you saying there was a point in the quite recent past when this was different?
> credibility isn't worth bothering with because there's a base level of people who will unquestioningly believe them if they make them feel the right way

It reminds me of this tweet/picture/article

>Rebecca Grossman’s perfect life became a perfect nightmare. “Everything changed in a split second—overnight,” she tells Los Angeles during a half-hour Zoom call from her lawyer’s office in October.

that conveniently buries the lede that she was a drunk who ran down and killed two kids.

https://twitter.com/LAmag/status/1594917490366337025
> 3. The identity ecosystem: ENS

SNS / ENS etc aren't identity, they're naming. Much like DNS, many names correspond to someone different than what most people would associate with that name.

Disclaimer: I work in the identity so may be biased.
Monero can't for the simple reason that for privacy to work well it needs to be on by default, not opt-in like ZCash does it.
Yeah, the whole concept of employers recognizing a union or employees being required to join a union which is raised in US union discussions are kind of weird.

Employers don't have to recognize a union in Europe, employees can still join and avail of legal support or group actions by those employees that did join.

Similarly, if the majority of your workplace is in a union, you don't have to join, just don't be surprised they don't bother defending your case if you end up a victim of unfair dismissal. Your employer may be unwilling to offer you employment terms different to what the union employees get because of the overhead for them, but if you had that little leverage you probably didn't have the imaginary invididual negotiating power the anti-union crowd imagines anyway.
It's also a different architectural model - i.e. why don't we also have the options of privately hosted versions of Google Docs?

Licencing might be one reason, but deployment complexity is probably the bigger reason.
There's still a significant ave gap between these two populations, though. Tattoos and piercings can be obtained by 16-18yos without parental consent, but to be effective, puberty blockers need to start near or before the beginning of puberty, when children are usually 10-14 years old.

We may not be talking about many years by raw count, but as a percentage of the total lifespan of those involved, the first group is ~50% older than the second.
Thank you. Good luck with the future. It's a big leap of faith.
Less than 1%. That's the number of people who detransition simply because they didn't feel it was the right thing for them.

Of the less than 2% of detransitioners overall, the vast majority names reasons like social pressure, transitioning being too difficult, etc.

Dunno what numbers you are talking about, but the ones I know certainly underline gender dysphoria being a very real thing and not some sort of "social contagion", and my personal experience definitely aligns with this as well: I don't know a single trans person who seems to regret transitioning, but a whole number of trans people who are struggling with the constant hate they get, fuelled in part by this sort of rhetoric.

And since the article in one of the replies mentioned puberty blockers: They are 1. entirely reversible, 2. routinely prescribed to cis children for other medical reasons and 3. unlike these blockers, puberty is not reversible.

Can I change your mind, even if just a little bit? I don't know; but if you really want to change your mind, start looking closely into the "statistics" of the right. Their misrepresentations are often absurdly superficial. It's all a lie, and the parts that aren't, usually aren't that bad.
Don't forget to patent the transformer algorithm.
Yes: should I mark "disagree" if I think they're not evil?
Let's say you have an idea for a mobile app, but you have never coded anything and you don't want to learn Android/iOS programming to make this app. You want to convert your idea into an actual app that is deployed on the app store where people can download it on their phone. What would you do? Normally you'd hire a programmer and get them to build, test and deploy this app. Now you have ChatGPT, are you going to use it to build and deploy this app? No. You will still hire a programmer who will probably use ChatGPT to write some or most of the code as opposed to writing all the code manually. This will save them a lot of time and since they can complete the project faster, they will charge a lesser amount to you, it may still be higher on a per hour basis but it's a win-win for both you and the programmer.

AI assisted coding or anything else will not replace the professionals who had been doing it manually so far. It will only make them more productive. They can do more work in less time and charge more for the enhanced productivity.
This might finally get me to ditch Google Search. It’s already horrible on mobile.
Solana is the busiest blockchain by active wallets and now has a higher Nakamoto coefficient (decentralisation score, currently about 31) than most of the Eth L2s.

> because the stake amount remained stable while validator count increased, it improved to 27 in Q2 and 31 in Q3. The improvement continues to put Solana above the industry average compared to other L1 networks.

https://messari.io/report/state-of-solana-q3-2022

Way more at:

https://youtu.be/5NDs3Il2J3Q?t=303

Re: Visa, Sol's hit peaks above Visa's global average of 7,500 TPS recently too.

Not boosting Sol, but if you're going to build, you should seriously consider it.
> it was only in recent decades with birth control that was there even an option for most women to take a different role for extended periods.

Reliable birth control methods are sixty years old. And of course there have always been non-reproductive sex acts since the birth of time.
I see so much emphasis on SaaS but think more startups need to focus on Managed Services. SaaS is built for scale, likely on a problem you’ve solved for the masses. The reality is most startups aren’t there yet, and need to focus on a hands on managed solution for < 10 clients. And then build out a SaaS version of their offering.
Not the person you're responding to, but we aren't an orb suspended in the aether nor does historical text necessarily give meaningful answers. Liberalism and progressivism call for a more informed and skeptical populace historically and in modern times, which exposure encourages people to realize how much they don't know and calls for more education.

College isn't liberal because it makes you so, it's liberal because reality requires exploration to be known, understood, and then predicted which happens with increased difficulty in a society that decrees certain areas taboo or against their common morals. Conservatism doesn't have to be an enemy to growth, with its default bias to status quo its a reminder that unbroken things may not need fixing, but when dominant conservatism rides coattails of others who seek understanding through liberal exploration instead of quiet, ascetic, essentialist existence.
Or just let train the model until it incorporates JavaScript semantics well. Then you don't need to maintain a bunch of integrations.
> Imagine you start the same trend, but everyone tries for once to contribute something science wise original to society, so the problem is real, but the potential is greater.

I know you aren't totally serious, but this won't work, most likely. The "advantage" of having a tick like that is not just that it gives you attention, it's something absolutely low-effort and instant gratification. Contributing to science is anything but. Plus, even if individuals tried to do so, it's quite easy to miss newest research or fall for a fallacy, which will make for a net-negative contribution if you are not careful.
Ask HN: Software architects – what’s your typical day look like?
A question for anyone out there working as a software architect (especially microservice architectures). What’s your typical day comprise of? Where do you find yourself focusing your time? What resources have you found to be most useful?
If an idea goes against the guidelines of a website that doesn't mean it has a negative value, especially if users aren't allowed to interact with it at all.
A bit of a different perspective, but ChatGPT could help people prepare for Leetcode style puzzles very well. SEs who don't practice these type of puzzles often can benefit from ChatGPT if they intend to prepare for Leetcode style interviews.

I tried using ChatGPT to debug hard Leetcode questions and it was able to debug its own wrong solution together with me and I personally learned something from it.

https://twitter.com/willtai_/status/1599565171051331585?t=Ve...
Have you met potential clients yet? Get on the phone, have a face to face meeting with them, and make sure you understand what's the problem they're facing before presenting your solution. Repeat 20 times, then summarize your findings by drawing a value proposition canvas.
After you've manually onboarded a few customers, heard their feedback and have a clear sense of which persona uses and buys your product, then you might be ready to start investing in advertising and scaling your go-to market strategy.
The use of puberty blockers to delay the normal onset of puberty is experimental and there is plenty of evidence that it has irreversible and serious, often tragic, effects:

https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100...
Sounds like a good timing
It depends a lot on the non-profit.

As someone who co-ran a non-profit with a mission full time, I ended up deeply in personal debt as a result (of not being paid for years but still having living costs). Those running the non-profit ended up significantly worse off than other people working there. I'm still paying it off years later.

At mine, management were required to be volunteers (even full time), but other full time staff were paid salary and benefits.

Most people working there were also volunteers, but part time or occasional as they felt like it. They had time for day jobs.

The reason for this arrangement was because most members who co-owned it did not believe anyone should be paid, but we had a grant for premises and hired staff. Nobody wanted the hired staff to be in charge overall, as their incentives, skills and competencies were far more aligned with the premises owner and business angle, and not with the non-profit's mission. So it had to be run by motivated volunteers, and that included developing a type of non-profit business and manufacturing service, managing staff, as well as organising a large number of volunteers, events, teaching, safety, purchases, accounting, etc.

Boy did that combination take a lot of work for a long time. Like regular startups, we had a big idea and hoped it would grow to something we wanted to see in the world. It actually did really well for what it was.

The model broke for different reasons than the obvious one with sustainability, involving assholes and a commercial opportunist who offered the premises owner something better (which they then promptly failed to execute, destroying everything for everyone), just as ours was starting to flourish at a sustainable level and we were getting better at distributing the work and knowledge effectively.
I take your point, but this is not a language design problem -- it's a library design problem. These are just function names.
As well written and funny as the article is it still finds itself in a tunnel vision scenario because if the population is rising continuously and no one wants to have kids anymore then where are all these extra kids coming from?
Good to know.

It is like this in the nearby suburbs as well (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.)?
If people tell, and show, you who and what they are, believe them.

Nothing wrong with animal testing in and of itself, as long as it follows established rules and regulations.
> many new applications have limited use today due to limitations in tech

The Ethereum foundation has been focusing on technical problems since its inception, and your conclusion has always been the official motto: once we solve the "technical problems", users will come. But there will always be technical problems, and as each year passes with still no meaningful democratization of this tech, it's becoming doubtful that these limitations are the real issue.

Applications such as decentralized finance are only as interesting as the tokens they allow users to trade, but in turn these tokens are either shady (the world of FTT, USDT, etc.) or legal (requiring KYC, AML, etc.) so just like traditional finance. Once the former have fallen enough in disgrace, it's unclear what benefit there is to trade the latter (centralized tokens) on decentralized platforms.

It's easy to stack layers of abstractions, thinking the next one will be the one gathering users, and focusing on what we think is the last technical hurdle before mass adoption. After the 3rd or 4th iteration, one could start asking: what makes you think it'll make a difference this time?

Not much has changed since ICOs: same kind of ambitious claims with very little to show for it years after.
I mean, heterosexuality is the predominant form of sexuality in humans?

Humans come in all forms. Most humans have two legs, but not all. Some are born missing a leg and some lose them from injuries. If we only show two legged characters in Disney films does that mean it's some sinister message of "bipedalnormativity"?
I'll get scared when someone shows me an actual deployed, running, and maintained app by something like chatGPT. Solving problems with code snippets is a tiny part of the job
Text-Product AI is here
This is whole next level for generative AI.

Text-to-product...

Anyone know how they will have done this?
I have a hard time believing in this product also. I like tech but this type of product like smart glasses and VR headsets are not my thing.

I do however like to have a monitor that projects in the air. Or on some translucent surface. Kinda like holograms.
In that sense you could argue that all of astrophysics is built off of a biased sample from which we can draw no conclusions. And you may well be right, I'd think, though it is unfalsifiable.
For the reason you discuss you should delete your comment. Airplanes crashes rise when the media discusses these topics: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1746810.
That would be terrific, certainly. MC and Visa fees in the US are outrageous, though Congress seems to finally be taking a look at this.

I wonder, though, if there’s an inevitable tradeoff between efficiency and decentralization? The credit card companies are highly centralized, but their services are so efficient and reliable that they’re practically invisible.
There's a motorcycle parts store that's on elixir in my area. Almost learned elixir just for that
>Meta has been told its treatment of high-profile users [...] left dangerous content online [...] at the expense of its human rights obligations.

I didn't know Facebook had "human rights obligations".
Mediaite has a solid takedown of the formulaic campaign to mildly criticize TFA. [0] It's interesting how much of the formula has reappeared in this comment thread! Some HN commentators appear to be doing, on an amateur basis, what lots of other people get paid to do...

[0] https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-twenty-seven-most-embarr...
The transition to proof of stake occurred in September [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/15/ethereum-switches-to-proof...
I'm not saying you are wrong, but in the culture of my household, my school, and the people I had contact with as a child, this was seen as strange and something to be discouraged, because these things were seen as gendered.

I think these things were much more gendered at the time, as well. It is crazy for me to look back and remember how there was a time when I hadn't made up my mind about whether gay marriage was okay or not. Things have changed a lot over the past 20 years or so.
That is just Amazon being Amazon.

When they interviewed me the first time, the interviewer didn't show to work, so they asked another guy to interview me, he ended interviewing me in a language he didn't knew, to a position using another language entirely, the whole thing was a farce.

Some years later Amazon recruiters contacted me, asked me to go interview in person. Then during the interview in their offices, they literally forgot me for several hours in a random room of the building, the employees left at the end of shift, and left me alone in the floor with nobody in it, and I had no idea where the exit was.

I really need a job and been applying to lots of companies, but I won't apply to Amazon again.
I mean the point of the argument is to try to find out if there is possibly a legitimate reason, not to assume there was and not explore removing the fence. Sometimes no there was no good reason. Sometimes there was but it’s no longer applicable.For example lots of religious dietary restrictions have reasonable health benefits, especially in a society before modern refrigeration and food safety standards. So while there was a legitimate reason, it’s not nearly as applicable anymore. Discouraging sexual freedom and promiscuity makes a lot more sense in a society without birth control and where every additional mouth to feed means someone isn’t making it through the winter. Less so in a modern society. And sometimes there are absolutely legitimate reasons that have just been lost to time (most commonly captured in the idea that most safety rules and regulations are written in blood)
The bug report quite clearly states that Ubuntu followed the same revert that Debian did: "The Debian ca-certificates package removed this CA for both TLS (expected) and other uses (like timestamping) (unexpected). Trust was added back in a subsequent update."

So no, Ubuntu didn't do anything wrong or unreasonable here.

Edit:

Here's the Debian revert that Ubuntu followed:

ca-certificates (20200601~deb10u2) buster; urgency=medium
...
Revert Symantec CA blacklist (#911289). Closes: #962596, #968002.

From https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/c/ca-certificates/...
Pick any, I've worked in telecom, GIS, health, you need software everywhere. You have to weigh salary against the appeal of the mission and the work environment. You can't have everything, and you certainly can't have bay salaries. Personally I've never had trouble finding meaningful work with people I respect, but I have had to make sacrifices on the salary front.

You seem to have read my comment as saying snarkily "if you really cared you'd just leave", that's not what I intended to convey.

Of course I realize people have multi-faceted priorities, family, financial safety concerns, existing investments, and so on... I'm not telling people to leave as much as I'm saying if you care deeply about working for ethical companies, it seems like working in the bay area is not going to make it easy, and you'd probably have a easier time elsewhere.

There are plenty of cities where you don't need to be a millionaire to own a home, I have a friend who just bought a nice house in San Antonio for 200k. That's another advantage of working out of the bay.
I don't need to care about the "absolute vast majority" of the tokens to make use of Uniswap to exchange, e.g, Storj/BAT/ETH for DAI/USDC/EURS and to spend it for real goods.

All I need is to have a market of people willing to trade. If you don't see the value of it, fine. But just go find someone who got their PayPal account frozen with no recourse and ask them how much they would value the ability to trade in a permissionless network.
Those are all examples of stories complaining specifically about facial-recognition working worse for some races. The quantity, and prominence of the institutions spouting them, is the point.
What are you even on about in terms of this discussion?

Are you saying the metoo movement was about physical aggressive rape of women?

Because it’s not. It’s about those in power exploiting their power for sex. And how is that done? Mostly by soft power, which you can’t say no to. Which is the whole premise of the parent comment.
Oh really, sorry to hear that! Wonder if it’s a setting in the Logitech macOS configuration app? It doesn’t bother me fortunately
Yes indeed. There are Vancouver Specials in the surrounding municipalities as well (I used to live in one).
I never said it was sinister. I just made a statement of fact that it shows a heterosexual relationship, but doesn't significantly sexualise children. If anything, my comment could be construed as defending that sort of film rather than attacking it.
I downvoted you because I knew that your comment would prevent any discussion about the actual article, and that was in fact what occurred.

This whole "I'm going to say [something offtopic and offensive to a lot of people]. This is probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, because nobody [ridiculous generalization about humans]" is feckless and intellectually dishonest. You do this because it will be downvoted.
But the hard work isn't writing backend CRUD code.

The hard part is actually deciding and describing what the backend should do. How should it work? What decisions should it make? What's the business logic it has to follow?

You'd want to describe that in an unambiguous way, so you'd have to invent a very strict syntax so that ChatGPT has no way of misunderstanding your intentions. You'd end up with a programming language eventually - just adding more complexity on your way, but you'd end up with code.

Now if you feel that writing boilerplate backend code is tedious, repetitive and verbose and could be automated, I totally agree.
Any tool that makes that easier is welcome.
But then a language model is the wrong tool for the job, we need more tools like PostgREST, ReTool, and Zapier to not end up writing too much unnecessary boilerplate code.