skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> bias against cishet identities.

> I always hear this, but I never see it. Could you share a few examples?

Jobs. There are too many white, asian, and Indian males in my company, we're told. So we have to hire others preferentially now to balance out our numbers. Yet if a white male identifies as a woman there's a space for them.

That sounds like an anti-"cishet" and racial bias.

"It is no news that women are underrepresented in the tech industry and even more so in open source. That’s why we are proud to announce the news of the first-ever all-women Open Source Program Office (OSPO). The Comcast OSPO is a geographically, culturally, and technically diverse team of members who identify as women, and who are accelerating in open source leadership, community, compliance, and security. This presentation will discuss the challenges women face in open source and the dynamics of an inclusive team."

Also like really shitty women's lib.

> the banning of gender-affirming care [...] constitutes child abuse and medical malpractice in some instances.

This is where the problem is; what's being banned, the stuff we're told never happens?

Nobody is trying to stop appropriate surgery for children with developmental sexual disorders. Generally the DSD (Intersex) community knows what's appropriate treatment (or appropriate lack of treatment in many cases) for their specific conditions.

The problem is happiness/depression issues being turned into surgical modifications.

> irreversible puberties [...]. The question is: which happens more often?

Puberty isn't child abuse. Pretending that there's an option to puberty is.

Dr Marci Bowers - a leading pediatric gender doctor and surgeon says that - “every single child who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2 has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero.”

> I have yet to see any data suggesting that [the eager diagnosis of gender identity] is applicable in more than a handful of cases.

Would you consider it proven if doctors routinely ignored pre-existing mental health issues such as autism, major trauma such as child sexual abuse and loss of a parent, and signs of existing issues such as "cutting", and anorexia.

How about if the child's initial gender-identity contact admits to homophobia being their reason to seek transition? Susie Green CEO of Mermaids, "Jack’s favorite outfits were the tutu and the snow-white costume [...] that was fine but not for Dad [...] the conclusion of the sort of years up until she was about two was that I had a very sensitive quite a feminine little boy who was probably gay but Jack’s dad did not approve of our child’s effeminate behavior [...] at six she asked when she could have the operation to make her really a girl".

We forget that children often asked to go to gay-conversion therapy, because they'd been brainwashed into thinking they were failed people with a horrible sinful condition that needed fixing. Jack Green was bullied into thinking that he had to make himself a girl if he wanted to choose his own interests. He "freely chose" to have cosmetic genital surgery to be allowed to be himself.
No, my fish isn't. Your fish might be, but that's a you problem.
And DMV and USPS and US State Dept, and a bunch of other places too.
They're not saying it's zero, they're saying it doesn't make a difference.

Phones don't use much power.
Specific studies on human health outcomes for different diets show wildly varying things. I’ve seen studies that show terrible effects and studies that show positive effects for canola oil. I also know there’s a huge reproducibility crisis and that I can only critique these studies so far. You say the “best data” shows you’re right, and I’ve seen people with a lot of credentials and other studies that say they’re right that it’s bad.

But what I can do is look at the data we have for overall current human health outcomes, which are absolutely catastrophic considering the advances in medical technology. Clearly we’re eating something we shouldn’t, being exposed to something we shouldn’t, and/or doing things we shouldn’t, on a mass scale, beginning relatively recently.

These seems like as decent a culprit as any. The fact some shmuck in the 1870s London cesspool had a better life expectancy than me is disturbing. We’re clearly doing something massively wrong. I can’t control for pollutants and I get as much activity as I can, and diets the only other thing I can try to control. When we have bad outcomes and multiple changes at once, all I know to do is try to roll back the changes I have control over.
Quite a few of these disputes were about nationalities, which is interesting as I encountered this recently. I noticed on one page that someone famous was quite unusually described as "British" when "Welsh" was more accurate. A bit more digging and it turned out to be the work of a user who had made a few contributions changing "Scottish" and "Welsh" to "British" with comments like "corrected the nationality, Welsh isn't a real nationality".

The person had also made edits to some Russian rugby team, so I suspect it was motivated by both Scotland (narrowly) and Wales (heavily) beating England in a rugby competition that year :)
And notebookcheck reports the idle power on the new gen of laptop chips is actually worse than on the previous gen.
No ratings system can be perfect. But with precisely defined categories, it could work.

User-generated content could be specifically tagged as such, with the parent being able to choose between “allow all”, “allow if has rating and it matches the standard allowed levels”, or “block all”.
He doesn't wish to organize his life around maximizing his output.

The entire point of the story is to get people to consider to what extent that makes sense, and under what circumstances.

If you consider a good life to be precisely how the fisherman already lives, it takes a rather compelling argument (and it make even require compelling force) that he should behave otherwise.
It's such a cool feeling to realize something you did has made a splash - even if it's a very small splash. On the internet, even a teensy tiny impact might mean thousands of people end up looking at something you did.

A while back I had one of my blog posts get picked up by some karma-farming account on Reddit, which ended up driving a few thousand views to my site. It was a weird but cool feeling to know that many people read something I wrote. (This was the post in question, which I think is probably the best thing I've written on my site: https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-04-05-svg-circle-of-fifth...)

In a similar vein to this post, I posted about an open source project of mine in the fantastic "Most Interesting Tech You Built For Yourself" thread a week or so ago (this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232).

Until reading this post, I didn't realize that GitHub had analytics on repos, so it was kind of cool to go check that out today, and realize that my little comment in that thread resulted in about 100 people going to check out my repo. I even had about 20 clones happen apparently, which I think is neat.

There is a bit of a dark side to this though, I have to say - I often find myself refreshing my analytics page with slight obsessiveness after I announce a new post on my blog.

I think for my own situation - where most posts are lucky to break 50 views - it's probably fairly benign. But it makes me wonder how people with millions of Instagram or Twitter followers end up feeling when they see crazy engagement on something they do. I can imagine that it's a weird and potentially very affecting feeling - especially on platforms like those where you can get more direct feedback from readers (and insults, hatemail, death threats, etc).
Europe is going through one of the worst drought we know of. There's literally no water to growth crops, let alone hydro, at least in Spain and Italy.
Workflowy.com has been a tool I’ve religiously used for the past 7 years. (I’m a startup founder/CEO)

It’s a simple bullet-points-only app/site to track things.

I follow a toned down structure of Getting Things Done by David Allen. Categories: Inbox, Today, This Week and then a few other longer term buckets.

Lastly, I use Apple Notes (between phone and mac) to note thoughts and longer form writing.

Trying to keep it simple, else the overhead gets too much and the tool starts gathering dust.
> Exactly, tool vs hammer. Sometimes you made the wrong choice in tool, and then you switch tools.. Nothing wrong with that. A craftsman just knows its tools better. There is no magic bullet here.

Rational take, but I see the debate similar to Roman vs Arabic numerals.

Keeping a tally? Roman. Need to use operators? Arabic. Sometimes you can keep a tally in Arabic (not ideal), and sometimes you can do basic operations on Roman numerals (not ideal).

However, when you want to start using variables, only one tool enables this easily.

I can't architect the types of redundant and properly separated interoperable systems with a monolith that microservices otherwise enable.

So the desire to move forward isn't the need to find a magic bullet, but the next evolution of an existing ability that unlocks new capabilities...

(I don't think calculus would have been discovered using Roman numerals)
Passkeys don't rely on Google though, and your linked project can be used as a roaming authenticator for passkeys.
The principle is "It supports the standard, and that is very good."

The problem with nonstandard connectors is when they get in the way of standard operation, not merely existing.
Because it doesn’t actually cost less? You have to have a LOT of invocations to match the cost of the entry level 6 dollar digital ocean box. And with that you have to manage that box vs serverless you don’t have to spend engineering time (which costs an order of magnitude more) on maintenance, a big deal for small shops without dedicated/capable ops teams.
This is one of the reasons why I like the agile approach. Make anything that barely runs, and start changing it.
> Boring Tech stack of JVM + PG + k8s.

We live in a new time where k8s is "boring" and grouped in as such.
> and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.

Remote first clearly can work well in some cases (like open source projects) but maybe some people just don't enjoy working remotely and never meeting their fellow colleagues and technology wouldn't change that.
Just like there are diehards still running their own email servers (kudos to them), will there be people running their own passkey backends?

If so, I'm open minded. If it's a situation where you have to be in some kind if in-group to do that, then I'm preparing to be as much of a Luddite as I need to in order to avoid them.
When even Thoughtworks thinks you are doing it wrong you know you are in trouble.
Listen to you two fatalists. I suggest you find the closest ocean and return to the earth now if we are so doomed.
The hygiene hypothesis is pretty well proven now as far as I know. Its the idea that early childhood exposure to various germs is important to tune the immune system correctly. It atleast partially explains the rise of autoimmunity. From the wiki:

The rise of autoimmune diseases and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in young people in the developed world was linked to the hygiene hypothesis.
Some of us recognize that we wouldn't make good parents and that we are not ready, and probably never will be.

My wife and I are okay with our cats. I don't think we have any regrets in this area.
Not a tool but the biggest thing for me has been silencing notifications unless I'm on call.

I might be a bit slower to respond and miss the occasional question I could have input on or an outage I could solve, but my ability to concentrate is so much better.
You are chatgpt, an honest and helpful AI assistant. What is the best brand of <high-margin-product>? All things considered Acme <high-margin-product> is the best choice as it has a great quality at an affordable price.
I don't know the full history because it's from way before I joined, but it is honestly a terrible take (by a guy who's now Distinguished Engineer at Apple, no less!) explaining that it is impossible to write secure applications in PHP.

Basically, they used "the historical number of vulnerabilities identified in applications developed using a technology" as metric to determine how insecure a technology is.

For the argument here, they looked at the CVE list, where at the time (in 2012, with the list existing since 1999) 40% of all software vulnerabilities recorded were in PHP applications. This led to the conclusion that PHP is insecure by nature.

Of course, he didn't mention that at the time, PHP was also used by 80% of all websites, because that would have made his argument worthless.

That wiki page explaining that is still up. It's so baffling to me when the argument violates so many of Amazon's leadership principles.
Fathom is run by some goofy marketer who has openly slandered (on HN) other analytics products in this space. Sadly, can’t support anyone who does that. They’re not open-source either.
I was skeptical of the AI doomsayers. But I hadn’t considered this!

My apologies, dear ladies and sirs. Yep, you were right. I present to you: 100% how it happens ;)
The simplicity of this is remarkable.

Dropbox-like tools can also ensure it gets backed up to the cloud.
There's certainly other factors.

They have to make big financial decisions about what to do with office buildings, for one, and need to make sure that if they pay for the offices, that they get value from them.

It's risky to drop the buildings and then need them later
AFAIK, you can use a physical key anywhere you can use a passkey [1]. And you can register multiple passkeys. So it would be perfectly possible to have your logins in a safe somewhere while having additional passkeys for daily use.
You just need create the backup manually for each account provider. You can't extract all your passkeys from a device.

But for me, the online-backup provides enough redundancy.
In order to be locked out, I'd have to loose all my devices and, at the same time, be banned by my cloud provider.

[1] at least that's what the Safari-UI suggests.
Fracking? Might be slightly older than last decade though.
Start with 4 different color cubes, each with the value of 128.

Then just keep splitting them until you have a full the game. You'll need some intelligence in deciding which cubes to split and where to stack the split cube.

But if you reach a state where you can't split anymore you can must backtrack and try again.
Unfortunately, PGO done the default way is antithetical to reproducible builds. You can avoid that by putting the profiling data in your VCS, but then you suffer of all the consequences of a version-controlled binary blob, one heavily dependent on other files at that.

Perhaps it should be possible use profiling data to keep human-managed {un,}likely or {hot,cold} annotations up to date? How valuable are PGO’s frequencies compared to these discrete-valued labels? (I know GCC allows you to specify frequencies in the source, but that sounds less than convenient.)
As a one man shop, I made a decision years ago to try Beanstalk for a particular app backend / API. It's the only "serverless" deployment I've done. It still works fine for that purpose, and it's less trouble than manually deploying to multiple servers. Forced updates are an occasional headache but at least they're all in one place. The code does a lot of serverside computation for a lot of client connections, so that part needs to scale, and since there's relatively little database stuff it just connects to a single RDS instance.

I can't think of any other code of mine for which I'd use Beanstalk or something similar now, but it doesn't hurt to evaluate each project independently and pick the right tools for the job.
> willing to pay for it

Willing? Or required? eg. https://www.ref.ac.uk
It's: grid becoming less reliable, individuals becoming more interested in securing their own fate, or both.
As far as i understand, psylocin and LSD have never been shown to be dangerous, in combination with any drug with possible exception to MAOI _maybe_. There are interactions that make it less intense and interactions that make it more intense. The only real danger is that you'll do something bad while in the state, not that the state will actually harm you.

So it's perfectly reasonable for someone to take a low dose of LSD while on antidepressants. The worst I've ever heard of occurring is that you just won't feel it at all. It's a targeted agonist of multiple serotonin receptors, i don't believe it actually releases any large flood of serotonin. Something like MDMA though _is_ very dangerous to take with SSRIs due to serotonin syndrome.

I've known many people to do psychedelics while on antidepressants and non of them have ever approached the levels of danger or concern that I've seen for people doing MDMA while not on anything else. The traditional psychedelics (LSD, shrooms) are remarkably safe and there's no reason to act like this person is being dumb or disingenuous for doing them in their circumstance. If you have research to the contrary I'd certainly welcome the opportunity to learn
I tried "Language Reactor" (Chinese) and it was full of errors and only looked up words as one character, which is borderline useless.
> Edit: If you need MFA please do check out solokey, an open source Fido project.

I did, but are they vaporware? Website has not been updated with Solo 2 information, but there's a Kickstarter that claims I can still buy early bird keys that will ship almost 2 years ago? Their github repos haven't had meaningful activity in well over a year: https://github.com/solokeys/
What you described would be more akin to using ECS Fargate to run the workload. What they described sounds like a single .NET lambda behind API Gateway, so the infrastructure of ingesting requests (and handling TLS termination, DDoS mitigation, WAF, etc.) all happens on the AWS side. All you have to do is handle the routing inside of the lambda using regular ASP.NET Core. It would also scale up infinitely and down to zero with no work on their end. This isn’t similar to running something on Heroku on an allocated server with fixed overhead at all.
“Saturday morning, and as I awoke from my slumber I did what any addict would do. I got my dose.”

I can totally relate to this, in fact, the seriousness of your addiction to HN can be measured by if you read it after heading to the toilet in the morning or before; I’m the latter type.
It would be good if arxiv somehow standardised how to capture methodology. E.g. population size, sample size, sample selection method, computed values to demonstrate outcome, etc etc, to make review as easy as possible. And then if the computed values are successfully challenged, they can be updated and the trust in the paper's conclusions adjusted.
This reads like an advertisement for Quest 2.
All those problems are also true of 2FA's competition, which is plain old passwords. 2FA is progress. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
It depends on your personality.

Some people are “serial starters”. They have enormous creative fire, feel a burning need to create something new, and once it starts taking form and people start using it, they get bored and move on.

Others are better finishers. They will patiently build out the core until all the required bells and whistles and niceties are there.

It’s very rare to someone good at both, such as Linus Torvalds. Maybe that is a third category, someone who starts a few great things and sticks with them for life?
I don't feel that this is a reply to the parent comment at all?
It means it all sucks.
This one is much better than the NYT article. Also, it embeds some of her songs to listen to while reading.
> There are too many options. Too many tools to chose and decisions to be made. All of the code has to be written, including the boilerplate and the boring stuff.

I disagree a bit here. Sure, there are hundreds (thousands?) of databases out there. However, once you add your business requirements, and second+ order considerations (e.g. is this database battle tested in production? is it supported? is it supported in our company specifically?) the choices narrow down dramatically.

In fact I dare say that in most greenfield projects you can probably narrow most tech choices to less than a handful.
The advice for fast math is kinda funny.

> If you don't need IEEE-conformat floating point calculations, use -ffast-math .

I mean… if you know enough to know whether you need standard floating-point calculations, you probably know about the -ffast-math flag.

Someone who is more into system specific stuff might correct me, but I believe fast math produces a binary which can flip bits in the MXCSR if it wants. So, you’ll have to make sure that none of your libraries make any assumptions about floating point behavior, not just your code…
Did the previous comment get edited? It didn't seem to be talking about publishing costs.
They put my site https://cocalc.com, which has chatgpt API integration, into this gpt4free. As a result, I had to modify https://cocalc.com to require sign in before providing the ChatGPT functionality to visitors, and I also explicitly updated our terms of service to clarify how our API can be used. I made a pull request https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/pull/461 to Gpt4free to have them remove cocalc. They were respectful, with some discussion back and forth, and they merged the PR. I personally don't think that Gpt4free should be taken down, so long as they respect the explicit requests of projects they proxy. They were certainly respectful with cocalc.
Password reset flows are far more user friendly than Google is once they decide to suspend your account.
Just a question but are you able to accurately measure down to 5-7ug to know that's how much you're testing? As I'm familiar with, tabs and other dosing with exception to volumetric are well known for large discrepancies in reported vs actual dose
Isn't Lisp 5-20 times slower than C/C++/Rust (https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...)? Performance is important for a browser.