skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The study you are citing appears to have been commissioned by the National Center for Transgender Equality

Wrong. It was funded by a grant from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, which has no affiliation with any transgender activists. https://www.pcori.org/about/about-pcori

Forgive me for being extremely suspicious of your ability to evaluate evidence to come to rational conclusions.

Your study compares sex-reassigned people to the general population, not those who had surgery against those who wanted surgery but didn't get it. It is cited multiple times with a correct interpretation by the paper I gave you. The author herself points out you're using it wrong. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6q3e8v/science_ama...
'What I can't build, I don't understand'.

ADHD and the rest of the DSM will be viewed in the future with the same amount of credibility as we give to the Salem Witch Trials.

If you want some real science, check out Minsky's Society of Mind and Hawkins' 1,000 Brains for starters.
I agree with the comments about bigger notebooks getting slower.

But I'm not sure it's enough of a hit to outweigh the other productivity gains I get, which are myriad. With vscode, I get vim emulation in Jupyter notebooks that actually works. I get better autoformatting options, and linting of notebook code. And I get a proper programmer's editor for working with *.py files. And that's just my greatest hits list.
Interesting! Is this the answer to Linux EBPF?
Right, sometimes you want that. I suppose my point was that the definition of truthiness works well with the default, most obvious way of indexing a dictionary, which was the original complaint.

Perhaps I was a bit harsh -- that exposes an issue which does trip people up, where they use `if x:` when you mean `if x is not None:`.

Saying that, I think it's defensible in the same way. The fact that you can write `if x:` (where x is not a bool) tells you that the language has a concept of truthiness, and so maybe you should have a think about what that actually means.
RGB, smart contracts on Bitcoin and Lightning made in Rust
A relative of mine had an experience like that with Ketamine, believing that she was dead. And a friend of mine had extremely bad nausea from it. It is definitely not for everyone.
Same here. My father was a dentist and insisted on sealant and maintained them until around 20. No cavities and almost 40.
There is no intellectual dishonesty.

Moments after Musk took charge, he enabled the Edit feature. Entire feature length movies where then uploaded to twitter via this feature.

He pushed forward buying twitter blue, essentially making twitter verification useless as a feature.

As I already said, advertisers pulled out almost instantly, causing his financial situation to be practically unsolvable.

The website is still up and running, yes, because servers don't magically explode the next day, but to treat this as intellectual dishonesty is cult of personality. Musk has only hurt Twitter since acquiring it. If all you are capable of is straw manning about the one person you read who meme'd the site would fall down the next day because they've never written a server before, then fuck off.
Did you mean to reply to another comment?
Note that modern apple ram is not just soldered but actually in the SoC package. Sucks for upgradability, but that’s how they get 400Gb/s UMA speeds.
Ask HN: Why are there so many programming languages?
> any chance you could dig up a reference to this for us?

you could search for Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago (torn down) or Pruitt-Igoe towers in St. Louis (torn down), for starters. Or the Cabrini–Green Homes in Chicago.
I started a new project a few days ago and, while initially wondering if I should pick up Tailwind, quickly decided to stick with Bootstrap. I'm not a designer, I hate writing front-end, I use Bootstrap for every project I create, so I see no reason to change.
> Are we at the point we should start suspecting sabotage?

What possible reason would the Russians have to sabotage their own side of their won space craft?

The only real outcomes would be either having to launch an additional spacecraft to get their people back or suffering the indignity of the US bringing their people back on a US vehicle.

If they don't want to be there, it'd be pretty easy to cite something about US/NATO involvement in Ukraine and just abandon ship. They don't need some sort of elaborate gimmick which also happens to paint them in a pretty incompetent light, in order to do that.
> and there's research to back up his claim

That's a good chance to link it.

> you obviously have no neural pathways that can deal with a regular workload

And that's a really bad description for ADHD where, no, you absolutely do. And it's not about "regular workload".
I'm terrified that somewhere, someone is having a good time.
I think that JetBrains' PyCharm does an excellent job in the debugging arena.

For the basics, you can effortlessly but breakpoints, click through stackframes, inspect and modify variables via the GUI variable inspector window, execute statements in the console, etc.

A nice extra feature is the fact that as you step in, out and over certain pieces of code, the lines of code that are ran get annotated with the resulting values of the variables that get changed. E.g. when for-looping over an iterator, the value of x gets displayed next to the *for x in y:* line.

I also really love the conditional breakpoint functionality; it allows you to only break out into the debugger when a certain condition (expressed in python by the user) is met. Very handy when iterating over larger pieces of data that have sparse bugs in certain edge cases.

Edit: as a bonus, also quite nice that the vim plugin also works in the debugger console :)
Can’t just clone them. Gotta grow them in your mouth with stem cells.
Cynically, I think there’s a better explanation than those two. The LEO training is useful for spelling out exactly what you’re supposed to say in public. There’s another training in subtlety; maybe ad hoc. You learn exactly where the line is before a paper trail is made and the public can proclaim you “egregiously overstepped”
What innovation was still happening at Sun by the time Oracle stepped in?
Well it’s a language model. It’s fundamentally not about learning facts unless the facts are statistics about the corpus text. Hook it up to a database and have it translate questions into queries instead.
Back when I was on a team that used it, I liked Doxygen because it would take your comment and drop it into a sentence, so if I provided "fluxes the capacitor", I'd see "TimeTravelingCar fluxes the capacitor." in the documentation. If I capitalized it, my documentation would have "TimeTravelingCar Fluxes the capacitor.", which looks wrong, so I learned not to capitalize. If I added punctuation at the end, it would read "TimeTravelingCar fluxes the capacitor..", so I learned not to do that.

It was a nice way to learn implicit rules in an applied manner.

(Sorry for the nonstandard punctuation, but it's necessary here.)
This sounds like a really cool feature, but given that I'm not an expert I'm not sure what the practical use-cases for this are. Is it similar to what you can do with something like eBPF in Linux?
Roscosmos sabotaging its own cosmonauts? I'd also be more deliberate with throwing around sound bites like "usual Russian incompetence". While I agree with there is a lot of cultural and political incompetence in Russia (and elsewhere) some incredibly advanced science and engineering has come fro Russia.
Because it's relatively cheap to build a new one.
The music is fantastic without drugs, you just have to go to shows that don't cater to the "EDM" crowd. (If everyone looks like frat bros, thats them)

However, in the case of really obnoxious dubstep, LSD definitely helps
Until we gain a proper understanding and definition of consciousness, the matter is almost purely linguistic. Redefining the term “person” could happen if there’s a critical mass for it, but I think it’s unlikely because it would almost certainly serve to confuse, rather than inform, at least in everyday communication.

I haven’t looked deeply into the linked paper yet (although it does look interesting), but I’ve given the philosophical matter some amount of thought before.

I can only be (fairly) certain of the existence of my own consciousness. There’s no reason to think I’m special in regards to other people, so it’s safe to assume they have it as well. Animals seem to exhibit similar behaviors, and since we have a shared evolutionary background, I’d include many animal species, too.

Can’t say much for anything beyond that, regardless of how convincing, say, an AI’s words might sound. A photorealistic painting might also fool me, but I still wouldn’t attribute personhood to it afterwards.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Measure of a Man” did slightly change my mind on this matter, though. If we ever construct an artificial intelligence sufficiently similar to a human, it might be wise to err on the side of caution with respect to ethical treatment.
So a mere plurality elected him.
Letting AI control my life for a year. - Daxflame [video]
I think the issue is more like, the agency that is specialized in security is also responsible for digital surveillance with practically zero oversight.
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth.
I didn't mention a lot of computers
Against whom? Classic desktop builds don't matter anymore, PC sales never fell so low. Not even the performance is what's needed. It's all perf/watt. x86 - which is all they have, beside some side hustles and cemented deals - is fading fast.
We find _extremely few_ organic remains that got ungodly lucky and are still recognizable after so long.

Most "durable" goods are durable only on human scales of time, and if anything are less likely to survive on longer time scales.
Didn't most of the advanced science and engineering come from the USSR?
Missing discrete GPU and ECC RAM.
I’ve read enough anecdotes to conclude that most clinics are downright irresponsible. This could be in part due to the newish nature of the treatment. I was fortunate to find a professional clinic in my area for IV treatment, but even as a semi-experienced drug user, ketamine was a lot at times. Fortunately, the clinic slowly ramped up dosage each session, always confirming my comfort with increasing the dose.

I now do at-home lozenges and let me tell you, 200mg is about as far as I can push it without things getting scary. For someone new to psychedelics, this would be a terrifying amount.
Ask HN: How do you teach your kids to regulate screen time / games?
Same in the US really. It’s so excruciating to change email addresses for many people, Yahoo email is still rockin’ pretty hard.

It’ll be nice when we have portable e-mail addresses. Having a phone number that moves with me is really convenient.
A piece can be both FUD and true. In fact, often times the more truth that is in the piece the better it can be at sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt.

1. The author admits there was not a long term negative impact on his treatment.

2. People have negative reactions to depression treatments every day. Many of them are much worse. Virtually none of them end up in the washington post.

3. Untreated depression can have a much worse outcome than this treatment had on this patient.

4. This article provides no statistical information required to accurately judge the effectiveness of the treatment, or to compare it to other depression treatments, or to compare it to untreated depression. If this data showed a bleak view of ketamine treatment I think it would have been included in the article, given it's tone.
Nope. It's a humidifier that uses resistive heating to vaporize water, and that takes a lot of energy.
It's good to see here that one part of the government is calling another part to account. But I have to think that's unusual, and I'd love to see a better balance of responsibilities here.

In Greg Bear's novel "Queen of Angels", set in 2047, their solution to the conflicting needs of privacy and crime prevention was a separate organization called "Citizen Oversight". All the digital-trail data (cameras, financial records, etc) flowed into Citizen Oversight. If law enforcement wanted data, they had to ask for it and demonstrate need on a case-by-case basis. In that world it wasn't a perfect solution; if I recall rightly, part of the novel is driven by Citizen Oversight's swing from a too-loose era to a very stingy one. But I liked the idea of there being specific, named people responsible for protecting privacy.
Never heard of dental sealants before this. But from a cursory search, you can only use it on clean teeth, so no fillings or cavities.
General Magic never really accomplished anything. Sun did. GM was more famous for people who worked there than anything else. Did they work on things early? Yeah, so did Ted Nelson. But did they ship product real people used? Not really. I don't think anyone outside Silicon Valley remembers them.
Yeah. I think the increased salience of this issue has caused a lot of nerds to believe they can figure it out with 15 minutes of armchair thinking rather than spending weeks engaging with the scientific literature (which is all quite readable!)
It used both literally and figuratively in Punjabi, Pahari, and Pashto as well.
Why Kim Jong Un wants you to meet his daughter
What would have happened is the company would have folded.

Sun's problem's happened long before they were purchased. Their number one problem is that they were a hardware company and never figured out how to be a software company. It was Linux and cheap Intel hardware combined Sun's lackluster support for x86 Solaris that doomed them.
Analysis-With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research
The stakes are higher now.

How many people should die for:

1991 borders (including Crimea)?

2014 borders?

Feb 2023 border?

Survival?

NATO Membership?
and run "offline" and locally, so the content transcribed is not sent anywhere.

There is also a CPU only version discussed a few times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877893
Tailwinds + HTMX is the heaven of one-liners. Or hell, depending on the size of your team.
It's a disorder, not a disease.
"The meaning of life" is maybe the most persistent myth ever.

It's only real competition is "the invisible guy in outer space".

Both are stone age mythology that are embraced by the weak minded to avoid facing reality:

There is no "meaning", we just grew here...
Who and Why and How I’m Funding
> Please assume good faith and don't incite flamewars.

please don't leap behind this when someone engages your comment in an equal tone. mom has nothing to do with this conversation.
Well, sabotage could also have been done by the other side, to point out the russian incompetence and drive them out even earlier, but the risk/reward does not make this likely.
The issue with this editorial is that it quotes the Chief Justice. The next sentence should be: the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court unilaterally appoints all FISA judges himself.
I'm sure you already know that your pets don't consume much sugar and that's the main reason they don't get cavities?

Maybe humans will, eventually, evolve to a state where our teeth renew themselves naturally, without intervention? Who knows?
> This seems like a strawman. The dispute in question isn't over whether 6000000 died or 6000001. It's over "4-5 million" or "6 million".

I that my statement is not easy to misunderstand, and only bad faith can lead to this sort of conclusion. Did you actually had any difficulty understanding the point I made?

> Suppose we had incontrovertible evidence that it was actually 4 mililon.

Again, this is the sort of disingenuous argument that can only originate in bad faith.

Let's put things in perspective: the wikipedia article you're supposedly discussing is already quite clear in it's section on the death toll of the Holocaust.

It states in no unclear terms that "The most commonly cited death toll is the six million given by Adolf Eichmann to SS member Wilhelm Höttl, who signed an affidavit mentioning this figure in 1945."

Afterwards, the same article points out that "Historians' estimates range from 4,204,000 to 7,000,000.[419] According to Yad Vashem, "[a]ll the serious research" confirms that between five and six million Jews were murdered."

And here you are, pushing the Holocaust denial agenda by misrepresenting what an estimate is what wikipedia actually states, and the veracity of anything that supports the idea the Holocaust happened.
Joke, sir
Yes likely if they're rigid, which is the whole point of vacuum balloons. The trick is coming up with a material that is strong enough to withstand the atmospheric overpressure trying to crush it, while also being sufficiently lightweight.
"senior vs junior engineer" content always feels really cringeworthy. Particularly because self-proclaimed senior engineers tend to insist theirs is the One True Way.

It's even worse when it devolves into "X framework/library sucks" linkbait. Guess what, the only guaranteed worse library is the one you wasted time ripping out perfectly good code to rewrite
Is there no flatpak or AppImage for this desktop-app?
Same. That explains a lot about techcrunch.com I guess.
“That study does not mean what you think it does”
I asked my dentist last year. She told me that old teeths have microfisures and to seal she would have to first remove too much of the teeths to clean out these fisures before sealing.

Maybe your dentist can tell you more.
tailwind card example is 3x as long

might as well just use styles directly?
"about twitter" could be dropped without reducing the truth of the statement. What I've seen is people do think critically and question the news, just not when it lines up with their existing ideology. Twitter fans will dismiss bad news, detractors will jump on every bit of gossip as if it's fact. So it goes with anything remotely controversial
Ew gross.
Some people don't like monopolies and are trying to advertise the way out.
ADHD isn't just "stimulated by different things" though. It's lacking the executive function to maintain that stimulation. Someone with ADHD might be stimulated by a thing and then get bored very soon and move on to another new stimulus.
When you say:

> Solaris Zones were... just a weird circus act. I don't know any major players who made bets on the technology.

Joyent [1] readily comes to mind. IIRC, that kind of isolation was one of the selling points of their hosting service before they eventually shut it down.

(Of course I'm fully aware that one of Joyent's founders was ex-Sun and comments around here too :) )

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyent
A shield of lunar dust could cool the Earth, says Harvard scientists
Personally speaking, my most comfortable working experience has been getting one of those fancy ergonomic Herman Miller chairs and having adjustable clamps on my desk so I can move my monitor and laptop around to a comfortable neck position.

Loosely in your vein, I set up an adjustable mounting arm clamp next to my bed that's attached to the window shelf. On it, I have an old iPad mini that I can adjust above me and watch while laying down. It's quite comfortable to watch videos in bed with a screen I can move to put in perfect position. That said, reaching up to type is the worst part of experience. For consuming video its not too bad, but it wouldn't be pleasant to try and do actual work in that position for more than a few minutes at best.

I'm sure some fancy gaming chairs exist for doing reclined work in a comfortable chair, but I think you're mostly leaning backwards and not looking straight up.

That said, I'd bet there's some disabled people with certain medical conditions who have some kind of specialized setup that works for them to work laying down.

Anyway, I'm all for experimentation, so please try and build something that solves this if you're into it. But I'm betting it's going to be a lot more trouble than it's worth.
I am shocked at how quick doctors are today to prescribe medicine to treat psychological conditions. They’ve told me “if we don’t give them what they want, they’ll just go somewhere else” how to deal with this conflict of interest? What about other non pharmaceutical ways to treat these conditions, get fresh air, go to the gym, put down the phone, etc etc.
Where do you think it got its inspiration from?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...
I worked at a Scala shop briefly back in 2010-2011. Slow compiles and bad tooling did not begin to describe it. I had hoped things would be better now, but I haven't touched it since.
I think this is a pretty reductive take, both for dental and dieting.

There are a lot of reasons a person might not be able to take care of themselves very well, and we should certainly try to make it easier for them, rather than just dismissing it as a solved problem and a moral failing of anyone who runs into issues.
If a dumb robot can write your college essay for you, maybe we shouldn't be wasting time writing essays.
The current known helium reserves are estimated to last (at current consumption rates) for 100-200 more years. Fwiw, all this non-renewable talk is only true in a world without space exploration or fusion (two things that will hopefully be more common 100 years from now).

The noise about a shortage is because the US gov't decided to stop subsidizing storage and delivery of helium, and scientists untrained in economics see "losing a subsidy" as similar to "a shortage" since the net effect is the same - prices are rising.

Culling recreational use would add 10-20 years of supply, which is unlikely to be the 'make or break' bridge to fusion or space mining.

Let people have fun, it's arguably the meaning of life.
You are asking a question yet seem committed to ideas and political views already. here is an attempt to answer:

Through the Industrial Revolution medicine increased in scope and complexity and cost. By the 1970s people expected access to hospital care which was increasingly expensive to provide. Around the world most developed nations came up with some kind of universal insurance or single payer system to handle this. The US went with employer based care which limits who is covered and puts a burden on business.

Ongoing calls for universal basic care threatened market based care in the US, so Mitt Romney came up with a plan to provide universal care through government regulated insurance markets. Obama tried to bring this plan to a Federal level but was stopped by a complex array of social and political forces. As a notable example of what happened, Frank Luntz who often has interesting ideas to contribute to this day insists that the ACA was not an insurance program even though providing health care through private insurance was the central concept.

So now there are people who see the ACA as a compromised attempt to save market based insurance provided medical care and others who see it as some kind of strange intervention amounting to socialized medicine which oddly enough is exactly what it was designed to avoid. Where ACA was adopted it seems to be working reasonably well, and in Massachusetts where the original Romney plan was adopted everyone is insured and gets care through private insurance markets coordinated by the government.

The really big irony here is that by compromising ACA and then not even adopting it in some states it is increasingly likely that some kind of Single Payer system will end up being adopted at a Federal level. In this sense those who attempted political intervention have generated the most harmful possible result. That is the increasingly likely possibility that the existing system of providing health care in the US through insurance markets will be completely swept away instead of being reformed as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama advocated.
Even better would be one that generates its sources and backfills to an arbitrary depth.