skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it “established science” seems like an attempt to shut down scientific discourse and normalize gender dysphoria even though it is a complex topic that causes distress to many people and has ongoing ethical concerns. It becomes even more complex when considering the decades of funding of gender studies which has attempted to normalize and promote it rather than research solutions. Further complicating the issue are financial incentives that encourage treatments. And, there are social and legal incentives that encourage expanding the number of people with that diagnosis. For example, there currently seems to be a push to immediately affirm adolescents with histories of mental health conditions when a more cautious approach may be more helpful.

Edit: Anecdotally, I have a transgender nephew, and three of my good friends have transgender children. Both of my best friend's two children are transgender. My friend went through a bitter divorce a few years ago and was estranged from his 17 year old son for over a year. When he next saw him, his son had already started irreversable treatment even though he hadn’t had any symptoms a year prior. To me, someone who experimented with what they call 'gender fluidity' as a teenager in the 90s, this all seems unusual and should be handled more cautiously.
Honestly it feels like this is the first time people are realizing that six degrees of separation means that crazy people can usually be connected to influential people. In this case they're just realizing it with the rationalists.
Hate toward trans predates mastodon tho. Where I live, it is very normal to make fun of trans and gays. It is simply accepted that they are disgusting. People who talked to me about trans being disgusting were definitely not reading mastodon nor any other trans bubble. Trans being killed for being trans and then local politician using the situation to push anti-gay legal agenda is a very real thing.

I do not think it goes both ways symmetrically, really. What I think is that any misconduct by any trans person is used as excuse to mistreat all of them. And when they do not do misconduct, well, it wont help them either.

The attacks toward trans last years were not about ugly memes on mastodon. It was literally about beer can having minor ad with trans person. It is about making gender affirming care illegal, full stop. It is about transsexuality itself being disgusting. It is about pushing polite respectful trans people out of any visible situation.

Like, OP complains about people not knowing relatable things about trans. But, if they are visible, say on beer can, the hate campaign is very very real. You cant harass someone for being visibly trans and then complain you do not know about day to day trans people.
What Is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
Both are fresh voices and well worth reading, but I don't think Lem comes anywhere near Egan's diamond-hard sci-fi. Egan knows, and does, real math; you can sometimes find him at the n-category Café. My impression is that Lem's beautiful philosophical ideas were not accompanied by comparable math or physics knowledge.
From the article:

> This is leading to what Germans call “vorauseilender Gehorsam,” or “preemptive obedience,” as one non-CDC scientist commented.

And why is this term German? Do, perhaps, the Germans have unique experience and insight in this regard?

> After the German elections of 1932, which permitted Adolf Hitler to form a government, or the Czechoslovak elections of 1946, where communists were victorious, the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. [1]

It’s become fashionable to accuse people who raise the spectre of fascism and authoritarianism of crying wolf. We are being told not to believe the evidence of our own eyes, like when Elon Musk performs the Nazi salute in front of the far right dignitaries assembled for the inauguration and we’re supposed to believe this is because he’s on the spectrum or some other nonsense. If you don’t want to go down the road that anticipatory obedience leads to, then you have to resist. It is that simple.

1: https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-ob...
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I’m beginning to see that. “Ruled by credentialed technocrats” seems to have become the civic religion that has replaced it.
you.com when you disable their search the internet feature.
It’s awesome. I’ve switched to Niri which was inspired by Paper. When I use Gnome, I always install Paper. I never liked tiling WMs because I generally have a full height text editor, a full size web browser, and a handful of background terminals. This is cramped in a tiling arrangement, but works beautifully in a scrolling WM.
Many! https://GitHub.com/hiAndrewQuinn

Here I'll highlight a handful of tools I've made for helping Anglophones learn Finnish. They do a passable job at showing my approach to software engineering in practice, which is to say, terrible but gets the job done:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1149950470 - Once called the best Finnish vocabulary flashcard deck on the Internet by someone who wasn't me. What an honor!

https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem - A simple CLI tool that un-declines/un-conjugates Finnish words, so you can look up their dictionary forms.

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ - A daily, static, chronological archive of the Finnish BBC'w Simple Finnish news broadcast plus an accompanying English auto translation for every page.

https://github.com/Selkouutiset-Archive/selkokortti - generate Finnish-English sentence Anki flashcards from the aforementioned archive. Every six months on the solstice I run this myself and release a new deck, containing the usually ~5000 new sentences of the six months prior.

I have a web app cooking that extends the work I started with finstem into a personal vocabulary training machine, but I've never run a public facing web app for myself before so I'm terrified of the cybersecurity sins I'm almost certainly making. Someday!
Can confirm.

Zizianism is not a logical outgrowth of rationality for many, many reasons. These people are just crazy.
Ref 2: if you buy from Amazon, you never know if you get a genuine card. Even if you shop from an official seller, as inventory is commingled so you might as well get a fake one from another seller with the same SKU.

Big problem in action cam related circles, where lots of people have broken recordings due to fake cards.
I’m literally quoting from the top article.

And name-calling is rich when I’m defending the right of the winners of elections to do what they promised the public to do. As much as you hate the public and think you know better, this is a democracy and they’re in charge. Meanwhile you’re defending the prerogative of unelected career bureaucrats to veto what the public wants. Sorry, you’re the bad guy. The federal “Resistance” workers are the bad guys.
Personality is much broader than gender IMHO, the latter is one small part of the former. Gender as a term is unique in meaning in that way.
When building a spaced repetition toy, the most satisfying algorithm I found was:

* Model the forgetting curve as p = 2 ^ (−∆/h) (p = probability of recall, ∆ = time since last review, h = forgetting half-life for a particular card and user) (see https://research.duolingo.com/papers/settles.acl16.pdf)

* Numerically fit this curve to the last ~10 recent reviews of the card by the user to give an estimate for h (the half-life but effectively the intrinsic "difficulty" of the card for that user)

* Schedule the next review of the card at the time when a particular recall probability is reached. This probability should be configurable by the user: >90% for an "easy" session, <70% for a "hard" session.

* Use the "due date" to queue up cards for review. If a user reviews a card _before_ the due date, ensure that the half-life is never reduced after a succesful review. Provide some feedback to the user to suggest they stop the session when there are no pending cards left ("10 more cards due today, 100 cards due tomorrow, 1000 cards due next week")

* Don't schedule the same card twice in a row as this is annoying for the user. If it has just been reviewed and is due next, move it back to second place in the queue.

I found this works well once there are 2 or more reviews of a particular card for a particular user. For scheduling the _second_ review of the card I had to invent a heuristic like: if first review failed, schedule again in 1 minute, if first review passed schedule again tomorrow. However in apps where many users are reviewing the same cards, you could probably build a good model of the difficulty of a card for a user before 2 reviews by considering the performance of other users on that card.
Very cool post! I wonder how much will it affect the psychology of next generations.
I never got try the algorithm - I simply don’t get the UI in spite of all my best efforts. I’m looking for a wanikani like tool, with the same srs , and same excellent and simple ui.
I’ll have a look at supermemo ( I don’t mind paying ).
As a fan of both I highly recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)) for something deeply imaginative, empathetic, and technically plausible.
Yeah well I've never seen violence happen in the rationalist community, but I'm sure if I keep looking I'll find instances of Hacker News posters committing murder too.
> Umm, I think theft on a civilization-level scale is sufficient.

As long as everybody can also benefit from it, I see it as some kind of collective knowledge sharing.

As you stated in the paragraphs before unless the wealth distribution changes, LLMs may lead to an escalating imbalance, unless the models are shared for free as soon as a critical mass of authors is involved, regardless of who owns the assets.
It's a lot easier to destroy something than rebuild it.

I've always joked that Trump was basically the Manchurian candidate.
There are also some that feel he was unjustly singled out by politically motivated prosecutors.

But if you you think there is no risk that the justice system can be misused for such political ends, then I suppose you have the same problems with Biden pardoning Hunter and half his family to protect them from politically motivated prosecution?

Or is it only wrong when Republicans do it?

At minimum I would say that the general public in a general election should have the same power to effetively pardon someone as the President has. After all, the electorate is the basis from which the President draws his power and legitimacy.

And not only for the President, by the way. The legitimacy of the entire system, including both Congress and the Legal System draws its legitimacy from the same source (even if the Constitution is designed to provide protection against short term simple majorities).

If the outcome of the vote cannot be accepted, then that basically means the country cannot remain a democracy.

Personally, I don't think I could have voted for Trump after how he behaved in January 2021 (if I were a citizen). Primarily because of how he betrayed Pence.

But Biden and Kamala sure made it a lot easier for him in 2024 than it would have been if the country had been led by someone like Obama.
The MiyooCFW project has a full Buildroot-based system with the Linux 5.15.141 kernel running on a number of Miyoo's older F1C100s devices (single-core ARMv5TE, 32MB RAM - from before they were selling anything under their own name): https://github.com/TriForceX/MiyooCFW
> But using an algorithm (even a very complex one) to take a bit of everyone's work and redistribute is for free without crediting or compensating them does not benefit authors.

I am not sure about that. As long as they also can benefit from it, it just accelerates creation of new things.

> I hate analogies but if I write banking software and send 0.000000001% of every transaction to my account, none of the individuals thusly affected probably care that much but I am still going to prison.

As long as the amount goes to everybody, I don't think this "tax" would be a problem. Human beings can only survive in a collective after all.
To be clear, this is not rationalist lingo.
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Understand really was my favorite super intelligence story. Isn't the new show severance based off one of his short stories as well? I can't remember. I wasn't a big fan of the pacing of the digients story with the little digital life forms. It was certainly thought provoking though.
I think the most dangerous claims about Russian interference could not be proven true, they weren't proven false. I'm talking here about Trump being a full on Russian asset.

As a side note, I'm not sure that he is _explicitely_ in contact with Russia, but since he got oRussian assistance, an implicit quit-pro-quo is obvious to me.

The fact Russia meddled in US elections is pretty clear cut by this point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_...

This is spelled out by the Republican Comitee as well.
There have been many doctors.

But The Doctor Who, there’s only one of those. Oh. Wait.

Headlines like this should not be capitalized. The ambiguity is unnecessary.
This vitriol won't drive much forward, you are way too emotional to even consider the consequences of the "wreck everything policy".

It's more akin to Mao, if you like that then best of luck.
Rationalism is simply an error. The thing being referred to here is "LessWrong-style rationality", which is fundamentally in the empirical, not rational school. People calling it rationalism are simply confused because the words sound similar.

(Of course, the actual thing is more closely "Zizian style cultish insanity", which honestly has very very little to do with LessWrong style rationality either.)
Maybe, but in an online forum where many people use input with autocorrect, it might simply be the autocorrect.

(Yes it happened to this message as well, but too egregious to leave as an example).
Sorry, no. I don't have time for dictionary-waving pedantry like this.

Political speech is perfectly understandable as such. It's the opposite of worthless, if you are trying to make a political point, as I was. I was very clear about the important (not total) parallels between then and now. I trivialize nothing.

Am I going to find you defending mainstream Democrats from accusations of socialism, or is your impassioned defense of the Republican party as it existed up until 10 years ago all you're offering?
Spaced repetition is an excellent technique, but it shouldn't be the only tool in your learning toolbox.

I found that spaced repetition really works as advertised, with software like Anki. However, it is not really suited at learning large amount of facts and concepts. If it took an hour to review your deck, it's not a good use of your time unless the cards are really high value.

For example, if I want to learn electronics, my time would be better spent on fiddling with circuits and learning through mistakes of implementation. The nice thing is that concepts are interrelated to each other, not discrete and decontextualized that usually happened with utilizing spaced repetition. You get much better value from learning through experimentation and retain it better.

Don't get me wrong, spaced repetition still apply. However, if you can learn something that will last a lifetime, you don't have to repeat it for a long time if ever.
Flink, a FLOSS hackable URL shortener
Flink is a FLOSS URL shortener, that creates QR Codes and embeddable link previews. It's easy to selfhost and production ready in less than 5 minutes. Thanks to OpenAPI and OpenTelemetry flink is extensible, hackable and easy to build on.

With the recent news of Bitly some of you guys might be looking for a new URL shortener.
Musk has no authority. He operates only under the pleasure of the authority of the president and the officers of the USDS under which he is a federal employee.

You needn't be an officer to gain access to and analyze payment systems.
I don't really understand what the end game is with Canada here.

For Mexico, it seems more like a prod for social policy on immigration and fentanyl.

I listened to Trudeau yesterday and he isn't even able to get a hold of Trump right now, something that seems just insane.

I am just not sure that is true though that this is a disaster for the US. How much can China afford to fight back here with the state of their economy? Canada retaliating is asymmetrically bad for Canada.

Dollar strength and an emerging market currency breaking is what worries me. Inside the US, I would expect much of the potential inflation will just be exported through dollar strength. I imagine that is the method to the madness.
I have been wondering about this in the context of being ready for work in the age of LLM‘s. What nobody can deny is that they memorize information at a superhuman level, so it might reduce the value of having done that myself. On the other hand, “couldn’t you just google that“has been an erroneous retort to the value of space repetition for decades, during which I’ve gotten a lot of value out of doing. has been a erroneous retort to the value of space repetition for decades, during which I’ve gotten a lot of value out of doing it.
I love this project! I used to use a lot of bookmarklets, but lost a lot of them and couldn't find all I used to use. Is it possible for you to create a directory or listing for all the hosted bookmarklets, but that might need curation too.
I worked with a guy who used to be addicted to cocaine. He got off the drugs and switched to gambling. It started out with buying shit coins on Ethereum, and then Solana, and then online casinos. He'd be so distracted at work just playing games, gambling away his money. Eventually he got back into the cocaine and got fired when he showed up to work noticeably high.

I wonder how much overlap there is with drug and gambling addiction.
> More saying-nothing going on here.

The Tower of Babel: who can understand it?

Let us go ahead and assign you the "W". Best wishes, and the last word is yours.
You can visit demo instances to toy around with here:
https://flink.is
https://flink.rtrace.io
It’s hard to feel enthused by this when there’s been no traction for nearly a year now on the project.

PG17 support was promised last July but has yet to materialize.

I know OSS authors owe us nothing and it’s their choice to do what they will, but it does make it hard for others to want to embrace these projects when they stagnate.
It was and is clearly true. Many health organizations have style guides describing which words you should or should not use to describe various groups. See for example the American Cancer Society’s (https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/online-documen...) - picked just as the first nicely formatted Google result.
Yup. I read the title couple times before realizing it probably wasnt about Darleks.
Side project means it’s not that team’s primary focus.
Sorry what is FSRS? And when was it released?
That's the conventional argument for government funded research, but is it true? The AI space is a good example of very long term research, funded almost entirely by the private sector without any clear idea of how the results would be marketed, they publish and - the key part - the work actually replicates. Nor is the AI space unique. XEROX Parc was another famous example, Big Data/Cloud has come entirely out of private sector research. Not unique to computer science either: the research work that led to Ozempic was being funded by Novo Nordisk as far back as 1998.

> Research usually doesn't end in something that's marketable

It usually does, even in academia. That's why they count citations. It's just that the thing that's marketed is either policy advocacy (marketed to governments) or the claims in and of themselves, marketed either to the general public in TED talk style advocacy or to other academics as work they can build on to get more grants. A lot of people don't recognize the existence of things like the profit motive, lobbying or marketing in government funded research, imagining that they don't exist, but they do. In some fields, it's common for lobbying to be like 50% or more of the word count.

There's a long tail of papers that research things that nearly nobody cares about, yet perhaps one day they might. These are the "we studied some obscure fish in the Amazon and found a cure for cancer" type stories that crop up from time to time. But such claims often don't quite work out, and the private sector is easily able to fund this sort of exploratory work too.
It'd be interesting to see them simultaneously discard birthright citizenship and the natural born requirement. I'm sure at least someone in the party will try, there's really no low they won't reach for.
Severence is an original work written by Dan Erickson.
MLC is the opposite of "high-endurance".
Positive. A longer warranty means they don’t think it will fail during that period (i.e. higher longevity).
Honestly I accept advertising in Windows because I haven't paid for it since Windows 7. I am the product.

But I always thought that you pay the Apple premium to get away from monetising shenanigans.
You act as if this administration is concerned with silly things like laws or that either the courts or Congress is going to stop him.

This isn’t hyperbole. Right now, Oracle and Akamai is illegally supporting TikTok even though a bipartisan law was passed and it was upheld by the conservative court because Trump said it was okay.
Wreck everything in this case means a return to constitutional basis under which the feds have a narrow scope limited by the 10th amendment rather than the pretend one invented under FDR era and stamped under threat of packing the courts.

The screeching about Mao and Nazis doesn't work anymore. Accessing payment systems isn't the holocaust and you've cried wolf too many times for it to work anymore.
It has never been the case that one party was for centralization and one was for decentralization. Neither of these are goals. Both are instead methods of achieving goals. Both parties will use claims of federalism when they want to oppose federal policy they don't like and have done so for decades and decades.
There’s a women in the medical literature (I have read the original paper, but can’t lay my hands on it right now) who had multiple children & was discovered to be a 99% XY / 1% XX chimera IIRC.

(edit) This is probably the case paper I was thinking of: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2190741/ It was her ovaries that were 99/1% proportions. Other parts of her body had varying levels of mosaicism.
Is there a way to get this working on Firefox Android?

The bluesky sticky header is annoying, and I haven't seen a way to just switch it off.

EDIT: solved: drag kill sticky to bookmarks on desktop browser, then access bookmark from sync'd Firefox on Android.