skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would seem that the massive increase in young people opting for these procedures would lead to fundamental differences in the population that undergoes them. Assuming your understanding is based on long-term studies done before this massive increase occurred, the effects they found are likely to differ in this now fundamentally different population. Given that the currently skyrocketing rates are largely a phenomenon of the past 5 years, that assumption is almost certainly true.

As one example of such differences that we know of for certain, the ratio of patients seeking these procedures who are male vs. female has shifted massively from before the past 5 years. Even ignoring all the observed differences, the simple fact that it was once much harder to access treatment would mean those observed in older studies would be more motivated or certain of their condition, on average, than patients undergoing treatment today.

In the same period, hospitals saw an influx of patients of the same age who believed they had symptoms of Tourettes (https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-...). Johns Hopkins estimated this included up to 20% of their pediatric patients, compared to 2-3% just 2 years earlier. Much like the rise in transgender minors, this was strongly concentrated in young females with other mental health issues who had been exposed to "Tourettes content" on social media. This is despite Tourettes being about 3x more common in males prior to the recent explosion in cases.

There are clearly people who genuinely benefit from surgical/hormonal treatments for gender dysphoria. In any case, adults without major psychiatric issues have the right to most hormonal and/or cosmetic procedures should they wish to get them.

It's still worrying how vehemently many activists oppose any questioning of such a massive rise in minors seeking life-altering treatments and implicitly or explicitly promising vulnerable kids that such treatments are the solution for their problems.
Suppose that someone submitted a pull request that remedied a problem in the Coq proof assistant in a somewhat-too-clever way, but it was nonetheless approved by Coq developer Jim Fehrle.

In that case, we might say

Zany Coq bugfix reviewed (thank Jim, please!)
That's funny but under one of these systems the people have a hope of fixing the ineptitude and corruption. Under the other, ehhh...
+150€ to change the keyboard layout?

That's surprising!
Thanks! You should let him know, as he gave this talk very recently.
Which was censored until after war because the idea that CONUS is vunerable to JP attacks is itself significant. Media spasms around PRC balloons reflect that. Except with current capabilities, it won't be 9000 primitive balloons with single digit % arrival rates and ineffective incendiary payloads but 100,000s of modern balloons with high chance of arrival and potential to deliver guided bombs. Possibly sufficient to satuate CONUS defenses and loiter around to hit strategic targets of opportunity. The unspoken narrative behind PRC sending cheap balloons over CONUS is PRC sending thousands of cheap bombs over CONUS. The conniption over PRC hypersonics was also over US homeland vunerability, but the balloons IMO represent a new type of vunerability both in scale and economics of defense.
Hey champ if my 401k earning slightly less means not chem-Chernobyling small town USA or working people to death, that’s fine by me.
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20210113.as...
30 Layers of Testing Enterprise Software
What? 2 seconds? That sounds crazy. It either breaks ongoing connections or wastes addresses since you would have to keep your old one until all connections are closed.
TV in the UK is weird. They drive up and down the streets scanning for CRT TVs RF signals and extort homeowners for "taxes".
> Just to air a side gripe, I don't know why journalists and/or editors think statements like this are helpful in the least. Did you ask them 1 hour before your deadline? Was it a week ago?

I think this is an absolutely fair question. However, the Reuters story came out on Sat and simply cites another publication, which came out the same day. Reuters even said "request for comment outside of normal business hours". I'd say it's pretty clear that all of the following happened within the space of one Saturday: Reuters saw the FT story, pinged Facebook, didn't get an answer, published their own story. Personally, as a reader, I don't feel I'd learn much by having access to a more granular timeline.
orgmode + org-babel comes really close, but I feel like org just doesn't get much traction outside of Emacs,because markdown is good enough.
Execution isn't theoretical research.
"No, the point of tax is to forceable take money to redistribute in the best interests of society at large."

That's not how (federal) tax works in a fiat money environment (i.e. in Western countries for at least the last 50 years), despite what the textbooks, media and political parties tell us. Taxes (and other measures) are used to control the level of spending in the economy. Government expenditure is funded by money created by government-controlled and / or government-adjacent agencies.
Now imagine having to hold Shift to type numbers.

AZERTY is a crime against humanity.
Latency, as in time spent, has not really changed.

Memory numbers are just dumb.

CL32 at 6400MHz (3200MHz doubled) is 10 nanoseconds.

CL2 at 266MHz (133MHz doubled) is 15 nanoseconds.
Additional: It's worth noting that it preserves the correct starting numeral in each case
> Education is one of the few options less wealthy families have to level the playing field.

Teachers have very small effects on student learning within the normal range of competence. We can’t even be sure school effects exist outside teacher and student effects.

> Educational gain will be best predicted by student abilities (up to r = 0.95) and much less by teachers’ skill (up to r = 0.32). I argue that seemingly immutable education will not change until we fully understand students and particularly human intelligence. Over the last 50 years in developed countries, evidence has accumulated that only about 10% of school achievement can be attributed to schools and teachers while the remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students. Teachers account for from 1% to 7% of total variance at every level of education. For students, intelligence accounts for much of the 90% of variance associated with learning gains. This evidence is reviewed.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/spanish-journal-of-p...
93% of users; what % of revenue?
Timeline of the UFOs/Balloons the US and Canada Have Engaged With
I think because democracy with time shift to socialism. We can see this phenomena in every Western country. There are more and more regulations, bills, laws... with attitude to solve all kind of problems, but it makes individual less responble for their decisions and more dependent on state.

We can imagine what will happen with banning cash, UBI, one digital currency, etc. Total dependency and surveillance by state.
Yes there is another way, increase supply. Oh wait that's what had been going and it's not sustainable either.

Blame the policy makers not the banks. It's very how the banks often get the blame but rarely do you see any criminal prosecutions come out of that blame. It makes the people even more angry with the banks and "big money". They never realize that the reason no banker goes to jail for these things is because they're follow the regulations set up by the policy makers. So the people charged with doing the investigation are the same as who set the policy. The only interest they have is to lay blame and do nothing else.
R and Julia’s aren’t good? They’re in the name, so I would have thought support would continue to be strong. I like Julia’s Pluto and the reactive style more than Jupyter anyway.
The context is that US is developing high altitude balloons for detecting hyper-sonic weapons. Developing a technology and actively using in another country's airspace are quite different things, so it's not really that surprising that articles don't find it important to include.
I present to you Tu-128, the USSR's dedicated NATO balloon buster [0]. US found it quite funny to send in hundreds of balloons to reconnoitre and send a message[1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-28#Operational_hist...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-soviets-built-besp...
I'm Russian and I am of the same opinion.
Migrating to Modern Redux
The source article says they would be used to detect Chinese and Russian missiles. But that doesn’t mean the US had any plans to just float them over China or Russia.

It’s a stretch to present these as equivalent.
Downvoted for bringing up chatgpt out of nowhere as part of a complaint.
Well, I never: AI is proficient at designing nerve agents
I have yet to work at a company that provides a dashboard that shows revenue by browser features
Wasn't it that those Asian kids who learn math competitively do it to emigrate to the US so in the end it's a net benefit to the US either way regardless if its internal education system is falling apart?

Also, being competitive at math doesn't really help you or your country if your country isn't insanely wealthy to take advantage of those locals who are competitive at math by funding cutting edge companies and research.

I'm from a post communist country which leads Europe in medals at STEM Olympiads and it has near zero effect at making the country's industry competitive internationally as those medalists get swooped up by ivy league colleges and top US companies that pay several times what's they can make here. If they were to stay here it would be useless as there's no money to fund top local companies that can compete with what the US already offers.

As long as the US economy stays Numero Uno, managing to outbid every other country for top talent, it will have no shortage of talent to stay competitive internationally, regardless of the state of its own education system.
"position: fixed" puts an element in a new stacking context, freeing it from the z-index of its parents.
I read it as a side note to the reader that this information has not been confirmed by the company yet so it could be false. However they did ask them but did not get an answer. Also that it’s not unreasonable that they did not get an answer. Sounds to me like they are trying to be good journalists but at the same time they want to break the story while it’s hot. So you get a story with a disclaimer that doesn’t put the blame on the company.
I’m a fast typer. I’m really really really glad I took that “way back” high school touch typing class seriously.

Some of the most legendary programmers I know are hunt and peck typists.

So… how fast you type doesn’t matter. It sure is nice though!
I have my equations, that tell me that I look straight from where I'm standing, I should see the sun rise in the morning, that never ever matches the observed data.

I like my equations, so I call the difference the wall in front of my face.
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I've bought many a device with the minimum RAM and disk space which I will then throw out and replace with third party stuff. I get why many vendors do it, but I hate the waste. I'm more willing to forgive it in a general-audience company than people who are selling to the kind of technical audience who can all do the swap.
Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network
Case in point, in many European countries there are often no requirements for permitting and inspection of work done after homes have been completed (e.g. replacing a bathroom), and said homes are not falling down and/or death traps.

The biggest issue we have here in not whether construction workers are skilled in their job, but whether they are reliable enough to turn up at the right time - but as I understand that's the same in the US too.
Not joking at all, I hope. The trackpoint is very convenient: you don't have to move your hands off the home row just to move mouse pointer.
On Being the Ideal Reader of Tom Wolfe’s School of New Journalism (2018)
Whoops. Should be fixed now. Thanks!

(This is related to a change I made a month or two ago.)
Based on some unconfirmed Twitter videos that claimed to be of the sky above Montana, it may have been something travelling in the upper atmosphere or even space that may have been destroyed or broken up at altitude.

https://twitter.com/0rangeandwhite/status/162460072656239001...

Interestingly, none of the reports state that the US or allies engaged or shot down the object.
I had so see this, here is the referenced video: https://youtu.be/KoL1NRh8JOI
Taiwan has enough missiles to sink and shoot down a significant portion of China's navy and air-force. This would then open them up to attacks from India or Vietnam to claim territory currently under dispute, and create openings for China's rivals to destabilize their government by agitating existing aggrieved political minorities towards action.

China getting serious over Taiwan would be them creating deeper ties with Taiwan's economy and ruling body, and just waiting a few decades.
This [1] looks ugly and distracting.

#+begin_src R :colnames yes
words <- tolower(scan("intro.org", what="", na.strings=c("|",":")))
t(sort(table(words[nchar(words) > 3]), decreasing=TRUE)[1:10])
#+end_src

Is it possible to have minimal syntax for these code blocks? Markdown is nice because it looks clean, and the syntax does not get in the way. Markdown codeblocks are

```
code
```

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#source...
Tangential, but you may also want to fill the skies with noise when flying a stealth mission.

The rationale being that you may be able to hear a cat's claws on floorboards in the middle of the dead night, but you'd never hear it in the middle of a rave party. So pairing F-22s with eg F-15s becomes a valid strategy.
The article is written from experience in one paediatric centre, when the pratice between different centres - and laws in different states - differ vastly.

Information about people seeking gender affirming care in different places and stages of transition is not refutable based on this article.

And it is anecdata - how many patients had positive outcomes? Article doesn’t tell you. What did the (brand new) centre learn from these cases with negative outcomes? What protocols was it using? Are they the same now? Are they common elsewhere?
How to keep a great magazine going
They're selling a privacy-conscious Linux laptop with open firmware that's assembled in a place that isn't so privacy-friendly.[0]

I think a lot of people would pay extra for assembly in a western country. These appear made to order, so the risk of hardware implantation targeting is almost certainly real.

[0] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2059/5897/products/StarFig...
I started appreciating TDD as I’ve been using GitHub CoPilot, the results it produces become scarily accurate after you write unit tests (that it helps you write). It’s actually an amazing workflow to just write out the tests first and then generate out the implementation with copilot.
Nikita Voloboev has written a blog post about how to use Karabiner and Goku [1] to change the whole setup of your keyboard. He calls it „God Mode“. I replicated that and it has changed the way I interact with my computer.

[1] https://medium.com/@nikitavoloboev/karabiner-god-mode-7407a5...
oh, so that's why I have 200 emails in my inbox? I use the same combo: updown.io and cloudflare. can it be related to updown.io?
> you don't need any percepts, or experience of reality or simulated unreality to know". That's a big leap, and I can't disagree more.

I still feel this the the point where you're making a difference based on you desired outcome vs the actual system. ChatGPT absolutely does have precepts / a sense. It has a sense of "textual language". It also has a level of sequencing or time w.r.t. word order of that text.

While you're saying experience, it seems like in your definition experience only counts if there is a spatial component to it. Any experience without a physical spatial component to you seems like it's not valid sense or perception.

Again taking this in the specific, imagine someone could only hear via one ear, and that is their only sense. So there is no multi-dimensional positioning of audio, just auditory input. It's clear to me that person can still know things. Now if you also made all audio the same loudness so there is no concept of distance with it, it still would know things. This is now the same a simple audio stream, just like ChatGPT's langauge stream. Spatial existence is not required for knowledge. And from what I'm understanding that is what underpins your definition of a reality/experience (whether physical or virtual).

Or as a final example lets say you are Magnus Carlson. You know a ton about chess, best in the world. You know so much about chess that you can play entire games via chess notation (1. e4, e6 2. d4 e5 ...). So now an alternate world where there is even a version of Magnus that has never sat in front of a chess board and only ever learned chess by people reciting move notation to him. Does the fact that no physical chess boards exist and there is no reality/environment where chess exists mean he doesn't know chess? Even if chess were nothing but streams of move notations it still would be the same game, and someone could still be an expert at it knowing more than anyone else.

I feel your intuition is leading your logic astray here. There is no need for a physical or virtual environment/reality for something to know.
«You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.» (Orson Scott Card)
The Crypto Collapse and the End of Magical Thinking
How does the ALU handle the fact that INC/DEC do not update the carry flag? Different control signals depending on the ALU operation being performed?

Also, does LOOP use a different ALU operation to decrement CX, since it doesn't update the flags at all?
Come to think of it, I don’t know why Node doesn’t have this. It’d be pretty trivial, no?
TDD can be great if you know exactly what you're building and what you must test for, but it gets in the way when you're rapidly prototyping and exploring.

It sounds like you're making the mistake of thinking that TDD means writing the tests first. That's not quite right but it's understandable that lots of people believe it given the way TDD is usually discussed.

In TDD you should be writing one test first. Then you write enough code to make that test pass. Then add a second test. Get that to pass. And so on. If you realise you missed something you can delete tests that don't make sense any morejuat like you delete code that doesn't make sense. In essence TDD is about writing the tests in parallel to writing the code instead of writing them afterwards.

You can easily prototype and experiment with TDD because you're never much further ahead with your tests.

TDD is faster than writing tests later because your code has to be testable throughout the process. Writing tests later often means you need to refactor or rebuild to make it testable, which is a waste of effort, even in a prototype.
Sending 100,000 armed balloons towards a nuclear-armed adversary doesn’t sound like 10d chess strategic thinking.
Emperical measurement framing is a cognitive cul-de-sac. Drawing a parallel, there's no emperical way to determine someone's sexuality. Fifty years ago this argument was used to justify therapeutically changing people's sexuality. "If you're a man you're biologically attracted to women. It's biologically impossible to be homosexual." Today we have the same logic applied to people's gender. It's as invalid today as it was back then.
US officials explicitly said recovering the payload was a high priority. In part, that is why they chose that particular location to shoot it down. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-recovering-chin...
No worries! I've moved it now. You should be able to remove your /edit bit if you want to.
Perhaps they were dictating?
Should have 2019 in the title.
Yeah, the equivalent additional coverage for a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 is $111. And that's for their onsite repair, where they come to you. It seems like StarFighter has very low confidence in the longevity of their products. Which would be a dealbreaker for me.
A few percent on crappy overpriced office amenities, a few percent on superbowl ads, a few percent on hiring famous bands to play at work parties, a few percent on hiring poorly performing "rockstar" programmers because of their twitter following. Pretty soon it adds up.

You don't think these companies waste all this money on offices and office toys but all their other spending is straight laced and responsible do you? And even if it was just the office crap, that's still irresponsible and reckless spending no matter how large or small the expense is.
please, point me to something from either of them. I'm honestly asking.
Most database performance issues are bad choice of indices, bad data model, bad queries, not enough RAM, missing pooling, unrealistic expectations and lack of pre-computed caches.

None of these are solved by "optimize kernel-parameters to the max".
Regardless of your thoughts on what she has to say, misgendering her is disrespectful and unproductive.
Stock prices reflect a prediction about future profitability or company value, not how nice the company is. The stock going up shows that people who invest in Meta think layoffs will increase profits. That's all.
That also perfectly describes a Rammstein concert.
I think the key thing is that these permanent procedures should not be performed on children / minors.

Personally, I was a very different person at 15 to 20 to 25.
I don't really think a young person can make a rational decision on something that is going to affect the rest of their lives in such a dramatic way.

A 30 year old deciding to get gender reassignment surgery is very different to a 12 year old.
The Ramayana was right all along, king Rama is supposed to have lived millions of years ago.
Restaurants don't charge you for toilet usage in NL 0r DE when you are a paying customer, neither does McDonald's. (Yes, it's up for debate whether that's a restaurant :))
So many emojis... Also, this is a fluff piece with no actual content.
Pharma companies sell lots of medicine that is based on plants. Ever heard of Aspirin for example?
100% if used for login. /s
From https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/about-us

>In 2017, we started using Clevo as a supplier. The result was; the Star Lite Mk I, the Star LabTop Mk II and the Star LabTop Pro Mk I. There were a vast array of options to chose from in these laptops, from wireless to memory to pre-installed distribution. You may be familiar with Clevo as they have a lot of resellers across the world. It was a step in the right direction but they left something to be desired when comparing them to the competition - the batteries were small, the bezels were big and modern standards such as USB-C charging were not available.

>We had to build our own. When 2018 came around, we started working on our very own laptops. We used a variety of suppliers, design houses and factories. It was 6 long months of tooling and testing on repeat until two new laptops were born in December 2018; the Star Lite Mk II and the Star LabTop Mk III.

Simply put, they have the same business model as any other small brand for laptops, and that business model does not involve owning your own factories. Now, their small size and limited financial resources certainly casts doubt on their ability to provide ongoing support for their products, but it doesn't preclude getting a product out the door in the first place.
It's great but man... wish the design looked better. Someone from Atom or Arc should make it look a little nicer