skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think it was possible to choose a position for a comment appear in. I do learn new easter eggs about HN from time to time like formatting. Most of my comments start in the middle or bottom from my questionable memory.
It's possible you're mixing up cause and effect here.

The hormonal changes that tend to cause kids to become interested in porn can cause those other elements as well. It's not unusual for even a teenager with no interest in porn to be quick to anger, feel persecuted, be arrogant, etc.

"Won't participate in things that he doesn't personally see any value or benefit in" probably describes 98% of high school students.
Two simple reasons:

1. If there is life elsewhere, we want to make sure terrestrial lifeforms don't drive it to extinction before we get to see it.
2. We want to make sure that if life is found elsewhere that it isn't due to our own contamination of the site.
It’s a common reporter shtick. “Here is objective evidence that supports one view. Without disclosing that I have an agenda, I’m going to present completely anecdotal information to support a contrary view.”

Once you recognize the pattern, you see it in articles everywhere.
How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners
I can literally see that stylus lag just by looking at the GIF published in the article. The claim "An E Ink tablet that's more fun to write on than paper." can't be true if you are an avid note-taker or are somewhat fond of calligraphy. And $600 price tag is steep.
To do a gravity assist you do not need anything more than Newtonian two-body interaction. KSP already has that.

You can think of it as a small ball (the vehicle) bouncing of a big heavy ball (the planet), but the forces are not those of elastic compression, rather those of gravity.
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The impression I've gotten is actually that women's demand for rough sex (and "kink" more generally) outstrips the number of men that enjoy it. I don't know to what degree it's related to porn, but ... if you're worried that porn is making men too into choking for the real-world sexual climate, I don't think that's true.
First, how are you sure it's correlation and not causation? Perhaps he's being driven to porn/developing the habit as self-medication?

Also, as to your previous point that it will lead to "harder" stuff, a recent study says no. Yes, there will be more opportunity and exploration of the topic, but that's something that will happen eventually to all individuals. It isn't studied very well, but at least this initial one says we don't naturally become more tolerant and require "harder" pornography over time.
https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2018/2/5/can-you-build-up-a-t...
2) will not be solved for the same reason you can't buy kindle books in the app. They're both digital content, and therefore subject to the Google/Apple 30% platform tax, and Amazon is unwilling to pay.
A Bayesian Model to Calculate Whether My Wife Is Pregnant (2015)
True, but it's not like you have to hit an object head on, but merely pass within it's gravitational field which is far bigger.
This. I can't emphasize enough how type hints + decent IDE is useful to productivity.

Cython is also pretty good. My tip to write fast Cython is to code as if you were writing pure C and forget higher level constructs. This way it gets translates to C almost 1:1 with all performance benefits.

Alternatively, if you do need more abstraction, you can write nice C++14 and use Cython as glue code.
I don't really feel the same way, one of the primary things I use social media for is for the sake of news aggregation, things like NYTimes, WaPo, ect.
But then how would mass media for-profit corporations help to divide and conquer?
> Like the GIF he saw of a man pushing a woman against a wall with a girl commenting: “I want a guy like this.”

How can you be sure it was a girl commenting? An account with a girly name was commenting.
What I've learned from this is that npm itself has a lot of dependencies, and that is bad. It means any of those 500+ packages can take over npm itself for malicious purposes.

Other than that, there's not much to see. I would like this list being filtered by usage (e.g: installs/downloads). Some packages seem to be there for personal use.
I suspect that's one of the ones that runs on certain sorts of solid fuel, such as this:

https://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php?country=s

AFAICT these still require chimneys but presumably the smoke they produce contains fewer particulates than that produced by wood in a standard stove, hence allowing them in these zones.

Presumably Asooka was thinking more along these lines:

http://brightstove.com/

This looks very interesting, but appears not to be available.
Taking over Facebook accounts using Free Basics partner portal
it's mostly wear whatever you want.

Whatever you want that’s deemed fashionable by your peers. There’s still a dress code, and it’s strictly enforced, it’s just not written down anywhere.

How many people use “suit” as a pejorative?
Why didn't she just drive the clothes back?
Left half of the book in one hand and right half of the book in the other
hand, so the book doesn't close itself when I'm reading.
This is probably honestly just be puberty, and porn may actually be a release that helps with this stage in his life and all of the unseen anxieties he has right now.

There may be a correlation but you really have no idea what the cause is. You shouldn't assume it's this one thing. It may prevent you from being able to offer more meaningful help.
Wait, how are they turning the passcode into a 2048-bit key? Is this an RSA key? How do they ensure it's not factorable, etc.?
Constant waffling and failure to commit.
Evidence? Perhaps too early for that, but the article notes the pollster publishing the results of a survey after he left Facebook and started his own company:

"Among tech companies, 32 percent of Americans said Facebook is harmful. A separate survey, which placed Facebook among other large brands including Walmart, McDonald’s, and Marlboro, found that 27 percent said it is harmful."

There was an old article about which companies people could abandon first, among companies like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon. I believe Facebook was pretty high on that list.

If you look at what happened to a company like AOL (just typing that seemed weird) or even Myspace, it's quite easy to imagine Facebook fading hard, mostly because people WANT it to fade, or they lose interest.

On my own side, I only keep it around to share photos of my kid with my close friends and family. Beyond that, among the FB friends I have from years of working in tech, very few of them ever post anything at all. There's a silent percentage of the demographic who basically use FB as an RSS reader. How valuable will that be over time?
Downloaded, thanks for the pointer.
Keybase chat works with both direct messages and team messages on mobile
The puritanical attitude is wrong. Sex is an amazing and great part of life, just like roller coasters or having 3 beers. Life is meant to be enjoyed. But over-doing it, or using something in a way it wasn't meant to be used, can ruin that joy. Nothing is wrong with sex within a healthy relationship. But nobody who goes to a hooker really believes afterwards that they found true happiness there.

We also avoid movies like Saw not only for our older children but even ourselves. Why fill out bellies with filthy water when there's plenty of fresh water all around us, free for the taking? Only people who convince themselves that there's no fresh water, or that it's not good enough for their belly, will look for filthy polluted water and convince themselves it's their only hope.
this is true, and why fastly is kindof like a globally distributed nearly-cache-coherent key value store that people use as a CDN.

there's a great talk on how its done with a custom gossip protocol implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfO_6bKsy_g
> I think that just having the CLICOLOR option would be reasonable, for enabling or disabling color to a TTY, but CLICOLOR_FORCE is more problematic.

Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Highfive raises $32M Series C for its video conferencing platform
Teenage boys get more angry and introverted at the same time that they become interested in porn? It must be the porn I tell you!!
on tinc each node could have a different public key configuration for the other nodes
I am all for homebrew and archiving.
The budget in that way seems to be a dampener
As I think about it, it seems like it would be pretty weird for the representative of a company trying as hard as possible to be fully international and gather as many users as possible from all over the planet to even try to run for, much less make a serious effort to win, a political position where you represent and are expected to support the interests of the people of one country.
> 2) Cost of living has been increasing well beyond the stated 2% rate of inflation.

This is not a fact, and it is absurd to present it as a fact. It is an extraordinary, but baseless assertion made without any evidence.
Even reducing the heat 1 step on a dryer helps immensely. Between that and washing your stuff inside out, you can double the life of most garmets.
Doesn't sound arrogant at all. People are pressed for time, and the costs of spending time on clothing outweigh the benefits for many.
Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind
To elaborate, independent probabilities multiply, resulting in exponentially smaller probabilities, whereas as you look out into space, the number of possible places for life increases only at somewhere around O(n^2)ish as distance increases. (It is not O(n^3) as you might naively think as matter is far from uniformly distributed. I don't recall what it is exactly, it's not O(n^2.000), but it's somewhere in there.)

It doesn't take hypothesizing all that many low probability events for the creation of life, or intelligent life, before you get to numbers like "less than one per galaxy", and it isn't all that far from a logarithmic perspective to get to "less than one per universe".

So it is indeed the case that our ignorance is such that we can't simply look up at the universe and go "it has to be teeming with life!", because we do not yet know that the probability of life is not in fact orders of magnitude smaller than the observable universe. We don't know that it isn't teeming with life either, but that's where you get into the Fermi paradox and the Great Filter arguments.
What was the big screen they optimized for in 1984?
Yet for the same compatibility reasons most people stuck with .jpg and .htm, at least in the Windows world. Even now it's very unusual to see a .jpeg extension on a filename.

The metadata that Macs kept in the resource fork go way beyond file type and creator too. It included things like the file's Icon, creation/modification information (so it would survive a trip over the Internet!), loads of stuff for applications (menus, graphics, sounds, etc...), formatting for plain text documents (so they fall back to plain text on unsupported systems), and so much more.

Fun fact: NTFS supports the concept of a resource fork on files, but almost nothing in Windows uses it. I think I've seen more malware hiding stuff in there than legitimate uses in the wild. Worse, even the obvious case of loading a Mac file on a Windows machine it usually fails and falls back to creating the clunky separate directory instead.
The article states the rules and the law allow it, so yes.
We can't edit the same file in Emacs and Vim at the same time using these.
Do you think humans can gain omniscience using the scientific method?
Not exactly very bad but more of an election year budget. Good coverage though https://mycleanenergy.blog/2018/02/06/how-a-farmer-from-tham...
Well I'm not sure about corrupting their morality or sensibilities, but strong violence or scary movies can certainly affect a small child more than an adult. My son would have nightmares for days after seeing something too scary for him. Plus some things you can't explain properly to a small child because they don't have the capacity to understand at that point (ex: unusual types of sex acts).
Apple hardware engineer hiring jumped 80% this fall – what are they building?
Is there “no escaping” that conclusion? Maybe it’s wrong for the same reason that “violent movies make kids violent” theory was wrong: people know how to distinguish reality from fantasy/entertainment.
Do you know of any new communities that might replace it?

How do you think they should look like?
Yes, and I think that is the most important point about porn: it has very little to do with actual sex, it's not even supposed to be realistic.

The best way I've seen that explained is car chases in movies. They are made to look exciting, but they are also very obviously unrealistic.

Once you understand this, you can look at porn as an entertainment product and nothing more, which I think is the healthy way to approach it.
Pass within its gravitational field at a slow enough relative speed for capture. Remains exceeeeeeedingly unlikely.
I'm proposing that people like you don't think deeply enough about this problem to solve it.
I mean, my statements are pretty well documented at this point.

1) After adjusting for inflation, wages have fallen and rents have increased. They've been increasing at a pace of roughly 3% above inflation/year: https://www.cbpp.org/blog/new-census-data-show-rising-rents-...

Additionally, people aren't saving money like they use to. In fact, the savings rate is currently the lowest its been...ever: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

This is made obvious by the fact that the amount of actual dollars Americans have saved is also at the lowest point in history: https://www.creditdonkey.com/average-american-savings-statis...

Not sure what you're trying to show with your charts. Real DPI is merely a measure of dollars left over after taxes. Several issues with the Real DPI measurement: 1) it tells you nothing about the median household. 2) The inflation adjustments are optimistic -- who honestly believes inflation is less than 2%. 3) It doesn't change the fact that most of that after-tax income is going straight to either housing or healthcare.
And a hacker-friendly company, with proper SDK, lean OS, and no bullshit attached.
Tensorflow Implementation of NIPS Paper: Prototypical Nets for Few-Shot Learning
Sounds more like he's becoming a teenager.
Thanks. It isn't clear that the submitter is a major contributor to this project, so we've removed “Show HN” from the title.
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CDN post with no performance talk (beside keyword).

Never mention lower performance (even on single-node). Add to that aws-vps with pseudo-cores and spectre-upgrade and good luck with your tps-reports.
All of your data? At best, they know the URL of any pages where this widget is visible. Not all websites, and not even a large subset of that site's pages.

This isn't like a Facebook share widget, which is usually so ubiquitous, they really can know all the sites you visit.
In general intuition is a tool that can be used to help uncover things, but should not be used as a basis for a view by itself. You might be inclined to call the following the most "obvious, tepid, noncontroversial statement" "It's self evident that you shouldn't expose people with bacterial infections to something that comes from the blue green mold that emerges on rot." Of course as you might know, I actually just described penicillin. Our tendency to think our knee jerk intuition is something that can stand alongside data is undoubtedly a big part of what caused it to take years for penicillin to come to be accepted, even after the results were published and shared.
Nothing in it for wind energy though
Probably this article:

https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
So I was pretty much set to buy one, thinking I'd replace my Kindle, too... I like the sound of it, but it sounds like they do not support the reading of any ePub documents with DRM, which means store purchases and library checkouts are out of the question.

I'm not a huge lover of DRM, but that's a bit dissapointing.
I'm not sure what your arguments are here

Sure, Steve doesn't believe Elon, but Elon still did accomplish incredible stuff which can't be denied nor ignored
At my last company Staffjoy, hiring for each position took two to three months dozens of hours of my time. Under pressure to meet deadlines, I ended up hiring friends who worked during the day at top companies to help us on the nights and weekends. They were the kind of engineers I wanted to hire full-time, and they could start contributing right away. It turns out that working with part-time engineers is elastic and yields fantastic results. That’s where the idea for Moonlight began.

We prototyped the whole Moonlight system last year using Zapier, Google Sheets, Paid Labs, and Typeform. We did six digits in revenue without writing a line of code. It allowed us to iterate quickly and do lots of research before building the web app, which we are launching today.

We are a two-person, bootstrapped team living the digital nomad life (hello from Argentina!). We hire through Moonlight to build the app, and we work ourselves through the site to avoid raising money.

Let me know if you have any questions. I’m also interested in connecting with any maintainers of open-source technology who are interested in discussing Moonlight as an alternative to Patreon.
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Not much for solar too, given the 175 GW target by 2022
> absolutely every fractious argument

Surely you mean... NEARLY every????
She left the clothes on the sidewalk and they were immediately stolen, I assume.
>the only way of evaluating a noneducational experience is via opportunity costs.

What about human feelings (e.g. mental/physical health)? Are those important in evaluating experiences?

>(The adjective "monetary" is redundant when discussing evaluations and costs.)

The definition of opportunity cost does not mandate that the "cost" is monetary.
Health insurance doesn't really work this way unless you have a MASSIVE book of business. Health Insurance has prompt pay laws and risk based capital risk factors that must be applied to calculate their reserves for those payments. The factors are weighted such that speculative investments such as stocks are hard to hold.
I'm not sure that not having porn avoids wanting pleasure for yourself. Isn't that what leads to rape, cheating and various other destructive behaviors?

Conversely, consuming porn, even when it substitutes sex with a romantic partner, doesn't preclude having a loving relationship. As you point out, lust and love are different things. Although they are closely linked for most people, that is not the case e.g. for asexuals.
Generally it's such a shame that society is made to ridicule anyone who is wearing or behaving in a way that is out of fashion. Anything between just-recently out-of-fashion to grandma-old-style is seen as either bad taste or says something not-so-nice about the person wearing or doing it. I would love to see people feeling more free to wear that thing that was in fashion 2, 10 or 20 years ago. The world is strange, let's keep it that way.
Multiple packages on this list are like that first one. big-bertha is literally just the top 500 dependencies on npm:

> This package represents the top 500 dependencies on npm according to https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended.
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Would not AirBnB's? I mean, they can't really come out and say, "Sorry, we can't pay you for the booking, cause the market went down."
It's overshot in the sense that the PR materials they released showed it making a perfect Mars transfer orbit. Apparently Musk said "If the third burn goes as we hope, the Tesla will get as far away as 380 to 450 million km from Earth." Their aphelion is right around 390 500 000km, so just a bit above the lower bound.
>> Usually you buy Bose for the looks and the prestige, not for the sound quality.

Well people wouldn't buy Bose if they sounded bad. I don't think anyone who buys Bose hasn't been told they can get better sound for the money, but Bose does a few things well that can make them an easy purchase decision. They sound pretty good to the average person (to the non-audiophiles I know, they sound great), they look nice, they're well made and they're easy to set-up/use. In other words, the tradeoffs are worthwhile to their prospective buyers.

Bose is like the Starbucks of speakers -- they're the "premium mediocre" choice.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
I cannot fathom why people who want VPN keep using Tinc with its hand-rolled
protocol riddled with cryptographic errors.
Javascript does not allow you to set the seed for the default PRNG. So for our purposes it's essentially non-deterministic. You need to use a custom library if you want to be able to specify your seed.
It would likely burn up on the entry, it’s still got air friction in Mars atmosphere
> I wish they did that and all the porn content was only on that TLD. Then browsers can easily block all porn for underage viewers.

This is about as practical as the evil bit[1].

> I know I would do that for my children until they are adults and I believe they can make their own decisions.

"and"?

This implies that you want to control the media consumption of your adult children if you don't believe that they "can make their own decisions." Is that what you intended to say?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
Wouldn’t it be just another point you’d have to check? Or do you plan on scraping the other more popular boards
I highly recommend Stephen Webb's book Where Is Everybody? on the pros and cons of these arguments about the Fermi paradox. For example, your point is reasonable regarding the overall scale of the universe and life in other galaxies. Yet if life naturally arose on our planet in a relatively short habitable window (<100MM), considering the number of other potential habitable planets in our own galaxy alone, many scientists find it unreasonable to think that we would be the first or only life (and/or intelligent life, depending on assumptions) in our galaxy, within however many billions of years we are into a habitable universal time window. There are fairly conservative calculations that argue we should at least have seen evidence or been visited by at least one civilization trying to escape threats to its own planet within our own galaxy.
> couple billion a year, but at their scale that hardly matters.

With all due respect to Everett Dirksen:

"A couple billion here, a couple billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money."

To me it seems like it is an important part of broadening the income base, so Apple is no longer as dependent on a single product category, and often enough a single product. Each "well this isn't so important"-product that rakes in a few billion a year in revenue is fantastic.
>life is more than a constant quest for more and more intense pleasure

for many, it's not. We are designed to seek pleasure, so many make that their highest goal.

But nothing in this world can provide true and lasting pleasure, only God can.

You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

psalm 16:11
It's a democracy. Elections are most important
Decoding the overlap between autism and ADHD