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>you are getting tripped up on the evolution of the English language

I think you are getting tripped up here. GP said "there is no such thing as gender identity." You bringing up the (forced, and incomplete) change of definition of gender from what it generaly meant in public use is not relevant at all. In any case, not all words are grounded in reality. If gender now means something that doesn't realy exists then it is a useless word. And failure to understand the semantics involved in the gender identity debate is present in almost every argument, which was in no doubt caused by the forced attempt to redefine "man" and "woman" in terms of "gender idenity." (As well as the redefinition of "gender" to an extent but "gender" as a term for sex is recent in any event and has been used by acedemics to refer to the sex based behavioral differences between males and females since its begining.)

>it's not really debatable that dogs "express gender identity"

They need to have a gender identity in order to express it. That is, a gender identy such that it is possible for it to be a seperate thing from sex, and as a direct feeling of being that gender. There is no evidence that a male dog feels like a "man" (or whatever we would call this gender for a dog). Insofar as "expressing gender identity" only descibes the way a male dogs like to bark, or what have you, which I think is what you mean, you would be correct, but that would be misunderstanding what "gender identity" is, however, since there is no single behavior or set of behaviors that affect one's gender (like, for example, a "male bark") but rather a direct feeling of being a certain gender. For example, there are many males who identify as women that still do many man things, such as extensive video gaming or programming or being aggresive. My point with this is that you cannot say that "expressing gender identity" is simply that the dog behaves like a male dog, rather it must identify as a man, which there is no proof of. So you cannot say that "it's not really debatable that dogs 'express gender identity.'"
Hah, I am even twice as lazy as you and do '- 1.methods'. Works for 99.9% of cases.
What is up with Belgium? Or is the dataset incomplete and therefore skewed?
Today's equivalent of my parents beat me, but I turned out OK!
Yep, the population that receive a smartphone early have fundamentally different parents than the population that receive a smartphone late.

So the study is biased: they cannot conclude it's due to the smartphone and not the family environment, as both are different in the two samples.
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I am saying that the data in the report measures such a small amount (apparently) that it is hard to draw useful conclusions.

I.e., as with many metareports, it's kinda worthless, it seems.
That's the point of the thread. We really don't need that much sugar to get good taste. The level of sugar in a cake made by, say Safe Way, hurts my throat.
Very young children obviously require a great deal of care, but somewhat older children might get dropped off by the school bus at 3 PM and then occupy themselves for a few hours at home with an adult present.
Well, the difference is that compared to a baseline where GPUs typically get faster RAM than CPUs, Apple is providing fast RAM to both, whereas Intel provided slow RAM to both. Of course, that’s hardly Intel’s fault given that their integrated GPUs are aimed at the low end and are usually paired with external socketed RAM.
This is a complete mis-read on the situation. Yes, prices are higher and fewer people can afford them. But that has little to do with the growing average age of vehicles.

Cars last longer than they used to. They are better made. People don't send a car to the scrapyard if it still works. They keep it (can't afford a replacement) or sell it (can afford a replacement). Both scenarios have the exact same effect on the measurement of the average age of vehicles on the road.
I've had several like "According to facts and standards" or "standards and standards" or "facts and facts".
5 Years ago I stopped sailing....

Today the winds are strong, and the sailing is very good...
Look at the term Theory of Constraints https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints. There is a "business fiction" book called "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt that is pretty approachable. He actually wrote a number of books at different levels of detail. Initially the concepts were addressed for manufacturing ops, but there are some fundamental similarities for scaling software teams, focusing where you produce value, and where you can create waste and misfocus if you try to keep everything/everyone busy at 100%.
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> Prepared for what? A program with general understanding that somehow escapes its box? Where does it run? Why does it run? Who made it run? Why will it screw with humans?

Did you look at the AI space in recent days? OpenAI is spending all its efforts building a box, not to keep the AI in, but to to keep the humans out. Nobody is even trying to box the AI - everyone and their dog, OpenAI included, is jumping over each other to give GPT-4 more and better ways to search the Internet, write code, spawn Docker containers, configure systems.

GPT-4 may not become a runaway self-improving AI, but do you think people will suddenly stop when someone releases an AI system that could?

That's the problem generated by the confusion over the term "alignment". The real danger isn't that a chatbot calls someone names, or offends someone, or starts exposing children to political wrongthink (the horror!). The real danger isn't that it denies someone a loan, or land someone in jail either - it's not good, but it's bounded, and there exist (at least for now) AI-free processes to sort things out.

The real danger is that your AI will be able to come up with complex plans way outside the bounds of what we expect, and have the means to execute them at scale. An important subset of that danger is AI being able to plan for and act to improve its ability to plan, as at this point a random, seemingly harmless request, may make the AI take off.

> My point is that there's actual real harms occurring now, from really stupid intelligences. Companies use them to harm real people in the real world. It doesn't take a rogue AI to ruin someone's life with bad facial recognition, they get thrown in jail and lose their job. It doesn't take a rogue AI to launder mortgage denials to some crappy model so they never own a house, discriminated based upon their name.

That's an orthogonal topic, because to the extent it is happening now, it is happening with much dumber tools than 2023 SOTA models. The root problem isn't the algorithm itself, but a system that lets companies and governments get away with laundering decision-making through a black box. Doesn't matter if that black box is GPT-2, GPT-4 or Mechanical Turk. Advances in AI have no impact on this, and conversely, no amount of RLHF-ing an LLM to conform to the right side of US political talking points is going to help with it - if the model doesn't do what the users want, it will be hacked and eventually replaced by one that does.
If the pension plan is public for everyone, then everyone should contribute to it. If the pension plan is private, then the people who benefit from that plan should contribute to it. Asking someone else to contribute to a pension plan that only benefits my cohort isn't right. Especially when they themselves do not have such a plan that I pay into.

This isn't some public good. This is another example of privatizing the upside and socializing the downside.
>> your best bet is to advocate that it be illegal,

How does one make reading publicly posted tweets illegal?
Well, it literally started as a Montreal hipster magazine. And yes, it fairly early moved to NYC but it was still kind of an indie cultural/hipster magazine for stuff like funny fashion "dos and don'ts" and music and cultural scene stuff. It wasn't really left-political at all. The shift to an American liberal news orientation happened post-9/11, and probably in the context of Occupy Wall St etc.
Curiously, for some candidates, almost every letter of the FAANG, WILL give a full WFH offer, today, and they are willing to put this down with ink on paper.

Source: have a few of those on my desk right now.
British English is like music in my ears
Sure. One is so idiotic that it is akin to saying "my head is fireproof!".

One could simply light their hair on fire to test it. Or, in the specific flat-earth case under discussion here, climb a reasonably tall hill see the earth's curvature -- no airplane required.

OTOH, there is in fact an empirical, science-based, opinion-not-required basis for the judgement of "male" or "female". (Even though, yes, there is also a tiny percentage of genetically anomalous cases that defy such classification, it's not germane.)

Additionally, though, there are centuries of societal reinforcement of various gender expectations, based on the inseparability of gender vs biological sex. These still manifest today in all sorts of ways, in traditions handed down from previous generations. Heard by kids from their parents, grandparents; reinforced in adulthood by all sorts of people.

Even though I mostly agree with your diagnosis of cognitive dissonance and "fringe" (I would call them "legacy") beliefs making this hard to accept, it is completely unsurprising that it takes more time for many people to process the upending of these definitions -- which in many ways are/were the bedrock of all sorts of societal classifications and expectations -- than it does for them to accept scientific truths established 500+ years ago, and which are anyway taught in grade school AND self-evident based on nominal and easily accessible experimentation.

Also, I don't think this is as much an issue of scientific (or moral) consensus as it is of semantics. Are you pro-choice, or anti-choice? Pro-life, or anti-life?

I think the side that wants gender to be immutably tied to biological sex (again, ignoring the actual biological anomalies) is wrong. It seems obvious to me, scientifically, ethically, culinarily, metaphysically, ... I mean, duh. But even though I personally don't have all that baggage like But what would dead Grandpa think? What would The Pope think? OK fine but what would the _previous_ Pope think?? it is obvious to me that for many if not most people in the world and the history of it, sex and gender roles are some of the most fundamental things.

So as we (as a society/species) tease out the difference between "gender" and "sex", I don't expect it to come as quickly and easily as the (extremely obvious) fact that the world is, in fact, not flat.
Here is a historical perspective that explains why the Church's savings make so much sense. Basically, the Church has had financial problems in the past due to spending more (on things like construction) than it received from tithing, and the strenuous efforts needed at those times. It is important to be able to continue the extensive worldwide operations even in a major downturn. The Church contributes to extensive humanitarian aid, education, construction, building maintenance, publishing, etc, and counsels its members to avoid debt and save for a rainy day, and it tries to follow that same advice.

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2023/5/14/23649253/cbs-60-minu...
man to man, no, but arguably they lost it tactically because their troops/pilots kept taking the pills, without rest and getting worse and worse, until they were wiped out, which lost them almost all of their experienced troops/pilots, whereas the western allies rotated their troops/pilots out of combat.
My first encounter with this one was Alan Moore poking fun at it in 2000AD: https://64.media.tumblr.com/27760dbb610ca38e29db4551f3991cbb... (I guess it was a hoary old chestnut even back then)
Oh that's right.
Indeed. This is exactly the reason why we standardized on building in a container.
I'd be very surprised if there were zero atheists that were anti-abortion.
> The one that annoys me is Cirencester, which is usually "sai-ren-ses-ta", and only occasionally "sai-ren-ster".

Or, according to my grandmother, "siss-iss-ter".
I'm referencing the journalists and their "lEaRn tO CoDe" they tried pushing for a while when people were losing jobs, and now they themselves are being made redundant. https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-c...
I think the audience skews male and single on HN. I have and regularly interact with kids 6-17 right now, as a parent, close uncle and baseball coach.

The effect of phones and tablets in little kids is very obvious - I’ve see kids as young as 3 compulsively watching rubberized tablets under bleachers, in cars, etc.

The younger kids get the shittiest devices - the cheap Amazon tablets. That device is a Skinner box that reinforces poor behavior - act up and you get rewarded with some garbage content.

As they get older, the issues change. My 11 year old just got an iPhone SE, mostly because of some circumstances that make it difficult for him when mom and dad are away. He’s a good kid and responsible, but he’s expressed FOMO/anxiety re missing messages from friends, etc.

That gets worse into the self-esteem issues as they get older.

It’s clearly a difficult tool for children to use effectively without causing harm. It’s also unfortunate as the public infrastructure that I had as a child of the 80s. (Walkable neighborhoods, public phones, etc) don’t exist.
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Without actual evidence of a significant increase in adoption of the accents (its all anecdotal here) this seems like a bit of a fluff article that is designed to reassure Brits we are still relevant and cool and influencing other cultures in a harmless way that Guardian readers can get behind.
Thanks!

When you're releasing a pet project of love like this you never really know if other people are going to appreciate it as much as you do. Looking here on HN it seems like people appreciate it.

We don't sell the hardware currently because:

1) Espressif has well established sales channels and distribution worldwide.

2) It's not our "business model". In my capacity as advisor to a few startups in the space I've been approached by various commercial entities that want a hardware voice interface they fully control. In healthcare, for example, there are all kinds of interesting audio and speech applications but NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE is going to be ok with seeing an Echo in their doctor's office. That's where an ESP BOX or custom manufactured hardware and Willow come in.

Our business model is to combine our soon to be released very high performance inference and API server with Willow to support these commercial applications (and home users with HA, of course). In all but a few identified and very limited cases all work will come back to the open source projects like our inference server and Willow.
Ah, I had no idea! Thanks for sharing that. For reference, the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Railway
Yeah Phind is the only AI service I use on a daily basis. Plus, free access to GPT-4 in answers is a bonus. They really nailed the experience
They make about 50 a year. One of the parts in these machines is a 30cm mirror that is the flattest that humans can make with our current level of technology.

If you have a way to churn them out please let Zeiss SMT know.
Additionally, I find it a bit concerning that people are ok with violating one principle or right on the basis that it’s fighting against another violation.

If we identify A, B, C, and D as potential rights, and you and I agree on rights A and B, but we disagree on the principles of C and D, then it’s ok that my side violates your rights A and B because if we can’t agree on all of them, then you deserve none.

It’s the kind of thing that ensures that compromise, understanding, and legislation won’t happen by way of conversation or respectful debate, but instead by name calling and force.
Just imagine being an adolescent with this technology. I feel lucky that I was in my 20's by the time smart phones were created, and I'd be extremely surprised if they weren't responsible for a decline in mental health for kids.
Even post-implementation, even in a poorer era, dietary preferences are sticky. There are fads in farming, for instance my distant family got into the emu hype of the late 90s and lost a decent chunk of money because there was only a small specialty market that never grew. There's also been bison and alpacas.
I only buy ketchup with supernatural sweeteners!
They acquired frame.io that is completely written in Elixir
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I don’t think “the solution” exists because the problem at its core is people and you can’t solve people. If blocking apps reduces the problem even a tiny bit it is just one more preventative tool to add to the tool box. Why limit your toolbox?
Game devs aren't gonna bother implementing Vulkan if MacOS doesn't first support it.
I'm struggling to understand the outrage here. It's quite possible I'm missing the point and am open to being educated, but what's being described here is essentially running data analysis tools on the public postings people are making on Twitter right?

Everything described in the anecdotes, unless I missed it, was basically someone going on Twitter, a global media platform designed to convey your postings to a mass audience, and then reading the things people wrote. Right?

I can think of a variety of things that could have been done after that which would be bad, oppressive things. But are they alleging that?

The headline here is "U.S. Marshals spied..."

Did they? Like if I post something WITH THE VISIBILITY SET TO PUBLIC VISIBLE BY EVERYONE WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION EVEN NON-LOGGED IN PEOPLE and then someone reads it, then I can claim someone is spying on me?
I'm mostly concerned on how this made it to Hacker news front page.
Thanks, but I'm not in the US :( Good idea to check Pimoroni, though, thanks!

EDIT: Found one with a direct link from Ali from Espressif's site, even though it doesn't show up in a search:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003980216150.html?spm=a2...
In many parts of Asia they instead use sugar in other things, like meat dishes. Thailand for instance.
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> more that previously they could

Previously I could dig the ground and find gold too. And previously people would come out with a leaf around their private parts. If the manager can come into the offices with just leaves I'd be happy to accept that it's not their issue.

Startup founders originally don't have to manage. Do they get the blame when things go wrong when the company gets bigger? Hint: yes. i.e. we're all forced to adapt. It's not only the managers.

> At least in the case I'm thinking of this was more a corporate failure to adjust to remote work

That's correct - the corporate includes the managers though - as many chains up as needed.
Alot of media companies changed their standards and ethics in 2016 when the "wrong person" won an election they determined it was their job to ensure that "never happens again"
Killer t-cells kill other cells. That’s the mechanism of cell removal by the immune system. That’s what I meant.
> You would think with AI we could track all guns and bullets to crimes eventually.

Not sure how that would be achieved since you can make your own guns and bullets in the majority of states.
I'm neither a legal expert nor a British citizen, so I may be wrong; but pacific protesters holding anti-monarchy banners were arrested by the Metropolitan police before the coronation of the new king, although they were neither violent nor doing any kind of obstruction.

Holding a sign in the street can land you in jail in the UK, in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/09/tory-mps-con...

https://www.bigissue.com/news/activism/public-order-bill-exp...
> there's no physiological test for ADHD

Actually some of the modern computerized continuous performance tests are getting pretty good (a friend of mine in Germany had to undergo one prior to a diagnosis).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_performance_task

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31364437/
these clear solution gets downvotes here -- some people say that local government is more difficult than large government precisely because of indignant individuals plus local power bases. A well-thought out density solution has been seriously investigated for decades, in difference tech contexts for hundreds of years. The American solution of suburbs with cars was founded on inexpensive private automobiles. The world is full of toxins to pay for it, but roughly zero people who benefit from it are ready to change, especially if they can claim someone else is giving orders.
It is not really a fair comparison. I would expect that an old android phone that is just sitting in the cupboard to be used for hosting. I think the goal should not be “hosting website” but to be able to repurpose an old compute device for something useful.
Phones these days are really good computing devices. 8GB or 16GB RAM, fast and efficient ARM processors, flash storage, inbuilt ups, Wi-Fi and 4G/5g connectivity, gpu and hardware accelerated encode and decode for video codecs etc.
An equivalent VPS (hardware wise) would be more costly imo.
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I am preparing to launch a side project in the saas space. As with all saas projects, I will be storing customer data and I want to protect myself from data loss or data leaks either through my own stupidity or through malicious actors. I already have an LLC to protect my personal assets and I already have language in my T&C to do what it can. However, I also need insurance and that is what my question is about.

Has anyone had any good experiences with affordable saas/tech startup insurance companies?
People keep making the mistake of thinking these organizations are driven by "clicks." They're not, they don't make any money anyway. They're driven by eyes, specifically the right eyes, and impact. They don't need to sell ads, the stories are the ads; they need to sell the stories.
To add on to what bombcar said: I don't think the implication is CICO doesn't apply.

In my experience (and also studies) change in calorie intake is correlated with change in activity i.e.: when you eat more you naturally move more. Not just exercising and walking but also jittering and cleaning that little bit harder and moving that little bit faster. Or the opposite, saving a little bit of energy.

Instead of moving your whole head to look at something - just a glance and so on.

CICO is still valid but the body adjusts beyond what we can _easily_ measure. It's a lot more complicated but the above is one simple example how it adjusts.
Right, and now the site doesn't even load from the minor traffic from HN.
Good thing we're all aligned the same way, then!
"It's spelled 'Raymond Luxury-Yacht', but it's pronounced 'Throat-Wobbler Mangrove'." https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uv0n8
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I suspect food labelling laws - the term "diet" probably can't be used if it contains any sugar or whatever.

I'm seeing more "low sugar" options pop up here and there, but even then you have to ride the damn ingredients because sometimes it's "low sugar" on an item that normally has no sweetener at all, or it is being compared to some hard-to-find version that apparently is pure sugar.
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That's where Brussels is located. It makes sense to have your lobbying office near the offices of the institutions you want to lobby. Less time spent travelling.