skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But to even admit our terror is to be reduced, because we don’t have a model of masculinity that allows for fear or grief or tenderness or the day-to-day sadness that sometimes overtakes us all.

Is this really the big issue? It seems the current "model" of masculinity while recently undergoing heavy debate has historically been pretty consistent.

If it was a serious issue that men couldn't cry a few times a day it should have been an issue throughout history?
Ask HN: Simple single page application framework?
Is there any super simple single page application framework present, so that even any noob UI Dev can easily get a SPA.
I have an application where i have 3-4 html pages, there is not much of app logic but still i want to leverage Pros of a SPA without spending much time in gulp, webpack or browserify.
As its a simple webapp, i dont' want to complicate things with React, Angular, Meteor etc.
The total number of high school shooters is a minuscule number, much small than the number of teenage murders.

The US murder rate hasn't increased significantly over the last twenty years, in fact, it's decreased.

We should be concerned with school shooters, of course, but taking them as a chance to generalize about most boys or even a small percentage of boys seems incorrect.

Oddly enough, Malcolm Gladwell has some trenchant comments on the dynamics behind school shootings and the role media and culture play in this.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-...
The topical thesis of this article is extremely weak, considering:

1. Male underachievement and lack of identity is happening elsewhere. Certainly in Canada.
2. Mass shootings are not happening everywhere

I think there is a much simpler explantion for male mass shooters: men commit vastly more crime. America has a cultural tendency for mass shooting crime, so it shouldn't be surprising men dominate that crime like they do the rest.

Maybe fixing male identity would do it, but that's far from a given, and given international experience it doesn't seem to be the direct cause. (Men committed most crime even when they were confident in their identity)

The more likely cause is the legal structure around gun ownership in the United States.
You can afford Thai children? Lucky!!
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> No commensurate movement has emerged to help them navigate toward a full expression of their gender. It’s no longer enough to “be a man” — we no longer even know what that means.

Worse, it's no longer OK to "be a man". You can posture all you want about "toxic masculinity" but physical aggression and ambition are intrinsic parts of the masculine psyche. We need to stop pretending that a man is just a woman with a penis and some cultural influences, and find healthy ways to express these traits.
That was a nice read and there's a lot of truth there. I've always thought the US's ideals of masculinity are untenable.
> the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions.

> help [boys] navigate toward a full expression of their gender

> outdated model of masculinity

What kind of framing of the problem is this? There is no such salvageable thing as any objective "womanhood" or "the male gender" or "masculinity". We have biological sex and we have a power dynamic of which roles and socialized behaviors are the main properties. Take away men's social power structure of over women, and "womanhood" "gender" "masculinity" refer to nothing, or very clinical medical things.
Humans form social groups. If you have a segment of the population that has nowhere to be part of a group, they'll find a place to be part of a group.
lunyr is doing this I believe
(That's cool to hear about clang-format; I've been out the C++ game for a while, except for the occasional nostalgic prog comp.)

Well, again, I personally don't think line limit should be part of the code style -- it's really handy to be able to split or not split emacs buffers and have the code spill out to take up the space, wrapping dynamically. If the code hard-wraps, you're just stuck w/ that single decision. It's annoying.

Regarding Go's style more generally: Yeah, my own personal pref would be much denser that gofmt, but I happily submit for the consistency.

I just don't think style really matters that much (within the realm of reasonable, which gofmt certainly is): the important thing is consistency.

(By the way, a nice side-effect of consistency: you can easily grep for a particular thing w/ confidence w/o having to try to take into account all the possible stylistic variations.)
> Boys are broken, and I want to help.

I haven't seen michael ian black perform or on tv in many years, but if "isn't it funny what a vicious and petty jerk I am" still makes up a majority of his act/screen persona, maybe he can start by changing that.
Yeah, I totally forgot that.
The compressed archive here is over 8 GB. An uncompressed 2 GB Bloom filter with 24 hash functions and half a billion entries has a false positive rate of less than 1 in 14 million.

75% space savings, with no decompression necessary for use, and a 1 in 14 million false positive rate is nothing to sneeze at.
Also significant, the next sentence,

"For acceptability, agomelatine, citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, sertraline, and vortioxetine were more tolerable than other antidepressants (range of ORs 0·43–0·77), whereas amitriptyline, clomipramine, duloxetine, fluvoxamine, reboxetine, trazodone, and venlafaxine had the highest dropout rates."

It appears that agomelatine[1] and vortioxetine[2] are effective and well-tolerated. Good to know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agomelatine : "...avoids the weight gain, sexual dysfunction, and severe withdrawal associated with the most commonly used classes of antidepressants..."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortioxetine : "...Incidence of sexual dysfunction is higher in patients taking vortioxetine than in people taking placebos but appears to be lower than in people taking most other antidepressants..."
The Aggregator Paradox
Girls aren't pulling the triggers? The "modern" school shooting was invented by a girl in San Diego when a Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school:

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

There was even a pop song written about the incident.

And more recently, Tafsheen Malik, shot up a San Bernadino workplace along with her husband.

And a woman along with her husband went on a shooting rampage in Vegas in 2014. http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-cop-killers-husband-wife-...

Women were persons of interest in the most recent Vegas shooting, and the wife of the Pulse gunman was arrested in connection with the murders (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-pulse-nightclub-gunman-omar-ma...).

Women can and do pick up guns and murder.
You can, especially in the used market. I got one for $12 and a dual port one for $30. An Aquantia thunderbolt external one is ~$250, and a PCIe card is $99.
Why Cross Platform App Development Is a Startups Best Friend
One of the biggest health progress in the 20th century was hygiene. I believe that the 21st century will introduce us to mental hygiene.

I was watching cartoons recently with my little boy and was amazed at the focus that some put on emotions and how to react to them. That some have a discussion over stress or impulsive behaviors. I did not remember such discussion in my childhood cartoons. I was surprised (and slightly ashamed) to actually learn some stuff from these.
You don't need a security clearance. It wasn't a crime to smoke pot in 1900, and pot itself does not one any damage. And I've never smoked pot! I do live in a state that has decriminalized it. In a few years it won't matter across the whole country. We'll still have things you puritan can use to look down at people, so don't fret. Mushroom (I've also never taken these either, person!) aren't becoming legal soon. Although they again cause no one any real trouble.
It would be nice if this was called, "Why would I need a Blockchain?" or something. It's pretty clear the author hasn't gone deep enough to tell other people how relevant Blockchain might be to their lives. A change in title/tone would avoid the crimes of confidence.
> Passwords that have been leaked can't become good passwords again.

This doesn't make any sense. We already know all possible passwords: the set of all the permutations of the set of legal password characters of a given length. Your argument applies equally well to these. You can't just use these passwords and check the hash, since the database (hopefully) at least salted their hash to prevent rainbow attacks like that. But even if they didn't salt their passwords, nothing prevents you from hashing all possible passwords and checking. I think I read somewhere that making a rainbow table for all possible 8 character passwords took little time and space; thus all 8 character passwords are already broken. Need to crack a password? Generate the rainbow table and just look it up.

However, your assumption that computers can check passwords quickly is not necessarily correct: that's why bcrypt exists.
Did you grow up in the lower class though?

You would never expect someone from the upper class for instance to join a street gang and rare for people from the middle class in general.

You might think it is childish, but if it's presented to you as the ticket to success in your otherwise unsuccessfull world, why would it be childish?
I believe this will get the latest of all the dependencies, not just the direct ones. If my module A depends on B and C, which both in turn depend on D, i want the latest of B and C only, and then transitively pull in the minimal version D compatible with B and C.

edit : I can of course do it one by one explicitly for B and C. But it would be nice to qualify e.g. : vgo get -u -directonly
> Well, there is a big difference between "Austinites" and people that moved to Austin from somewhere else and now make up 4/5ths of the population. I made up that number, but it's not a bad guess. Austin is an east coast city in Texas.

You could say the same thing about SF, Oakland, Portland, LA, Seattle, Boston, New York, etc etc. Name a city with a booming economy in the U.S. that isn't mostly transplants.

> Everybody there is from LA or the east coast and brought their road rage and terrible attitudes to Austin. It seems all the actual Austinites are leaving the city for nearby small towns like Dripping Springs, Elgin, Fredricksburg, San Marcos, New Braunsfels, etc.

Once again, you could say the same thing about any of the popular cities for young people to move to. I currently live in Seattle and hear people saying the exact same thing all the time. Californians pricing Seattlites out and bringing road rage yada yada. I'm originally from the East Bay and have experienced the exact same gentrification process in my own home town.

> People actually from Austin seem to be way cooler than the people that moved to Austin from somewhere else. No offense to the transplants -- I used to be one and certainly Austinites are way cooler than I am. But I'm guessing they've also looked around and come to the same conclusion like the person here. Austin was probably as cool as they say in the 80s and 90s. Not so much these days.

I've heard this exact same sentiment online about all the hip cities in the U.S.
Christina Sommer's "The War Against Boys"* is pretty relevant.

* Not "The War on Boys", it's the "The War Against Boys", my bad.
I can’t speak on their usability in circuits. However, materials that show properties characteristic of zero resistance exist. I’ve used them at work before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
Someone didn't read all the way to the disclaimer....
And I bet his only evidence that the maker of the film hasn't been sued is that he was able to watch the movie, making his standard basically that anything you see in a documentary must be true.
I got downvoted the last time I said this, but cryptocurrencies are actually pretty nice for doing exactly what their purpose is: sending money over the internet. Do you know how hard it is to get Stripe or Paypal to approve you for international credit card processing? If you're a "hacker" working out of your apartment, they automatically assume you're trying to launder money and shut you down, even if you've worked hard to provide solid documentation that you are who you say you are and you're doing what you say you're doing. Even if they do approve you it can take months to integrate into their system. And that's with Stripe and/or Paypal, without Stripe and/or Paypal it's impossible. Until crypto. With crypto you can set up a transaction system in a day, by yourself. I think that's great value.
> it should have been an issue throughout history?

Has it not been an issue throughout history? Honest question.
In my own experience the modern American young adult male is overcome with an intense feeling of powerlessness. Powerless to change the direction of his own life. Powerless to provide for himself and future family. Powerless to effect anything beyond the virtual world without violence.

There's no easy fix. It's the result of a combination of economics, culture, power structures, and parental disinterest in the lives of their young adults.
> Girls aren’t pulling the triggers. It’s boys. It’s almost always boys.

One could argue that it is the abundance of guns thats the issue. Why not consider repealing the 2nd Amendment? Do something like what Australia did. 2nd Amendment seems to be too masculine anyway.

> It’s no longer enough to “be a man” — we no longer even know what that means.

"Toxic masculinity" is a phrase that seems to be thrown around a bit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity). And it seems to be mostly applied to western (white) men. I would argue that western white males are more 'broken' compared to other males.

> Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masculinity, where manhood is measured in strength, where there is no way to be vulnerable without being emasculated, where manliness is about having power over others.

Possibly. As the author says, the lack of focus on men / boys hasn't given them a fresh way of channeling their masculinity in the 21st century.

> I would like men to use feminism as an inspiration, in the same way that feminists used the civil rights movement as theirs.

Not sure how he means it.

(Western) men are having less sex, watching more porn. The testosterone levels have plummeted. Special programs are being held for females, LGBT, etc but not for men due to unquantifiable broad points about "history of patriarchy" and "white male privilege". More broadly, the Y chromosome is kinda fizzling out (at least according to some studies, I've seen other studies that claim thats not the case). Western men are facing shortening life expectancies, high suicide rates, depression, etc. There is a complete lack of social fabric. Nothing unites them anymore (no military, religion, honor, purpose).

But isn't this the world that many intellectuals are looking for? Don't we want to remove western male dominance? Don't we want people to control their sexual promiscuity? Don't we all agree that patriarchy is bad so we have to destroy it? And that white men have had a historical advantage that should be taken away?

I was always under the impression that the thing that makes western society great is that everyone is supposed to be equal. So why tolerate excessive masculinity from western males?

Edit: case in point, this article has been insta-flagged from the front page. Shows you how much even HN cares about boys/men. And maybe that's good, western males apparently have a lot of privilege anyway.
Okay, I don't want to come down too hard on this article, but I think it's nearsighted. Sure, it's true that _today's_ blockchains have many downsides the article brings up, but it's written as if those won't change or improve.

It feels to me a bit like claiming in the 90's that the internet isn't the future because you can't download that much stuff at 56k speeds.

They mention "immutability" being a problem - so much so that it somehow disallows typos or undos. That's just not true - you just represent the updates as changes in their own right (which better reflects reality than literally altering history). There's nothing about "the blockchain" that can't record human error or corrections.

They go on to talk about how proof of stake doesn't solve all problems by mentioning, "The Bitcoin blockchain is currently 157GB in size, and that’s at a very low transaction speed. The idea of everyone mining on their phone is just laughable."

Once again, they are talking about current implementations - I don't see how this is inherently a restriction in the technology, and there are (reputable) companies working on this exact thing.

The amount of money I have in cryptocurrencies can basically be rounded to zero, so I don't have much skin in this game - I just think blog posts like these aren't really making compelling points other than "the current technology today has many flaws", which I think is uninteresting to most.
> If it was a serious issue that men couldn't cry a few times a day it should have been an issue throughout history?

Hypothesis: Men have always been able to "take their frustration out" on women (sexually or otherwise). Now that women are becoming less tolerant of that dynamic, it's affecting men in unforeseen ways.
Blockchains are not new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
If you compare the energy consumption of traditional banking systems to Bitcoin, you will realise how very efficient blockchain is.
If you’re not in an adversarial environment, you don’t need a blockchain. Sometimes you are though.
When the term is already used mostly by government when talking about radical individuals, i'm not sure im so keen on the new century.
Personally, I started out in Scala as a 'casual' user using it as better Java/Kotlin. But, I have certainly seen myself gradually gravitate towards Haskell-inspired style. For many like me (with more exposure to OOP than FP in early career), it is a pedagogical device into FP.
With regards to the future of Scala, particularly tooling, Scala may still be able to retain its 'casual' users with its recent focus on tooling : http://scala-lang.org/blog/2018/02/14/tooling.html
> Do placebos work even if people know they're placebos?

Sometimes, yes! See: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...

But they're probably more effective if you don't know.
That's a reasonable counterpoint.
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” Yeah its a quote, Mencken if you need source. Yeah quotes are not a substitute for thought. Yes.

I don't pretend to have all the answers but I'm pretty sure one answer does not fit every single individual in finding their motive to do or not do any one thing. We all need the humility to note that what I think I may do in a certain set of circumstances is not what another person might do, they may well just be better than I am, for example.

What I will say is that in this topic there is fear (and rightly so). This fear will bring out the salespeople who may even believe 100% in the ideas they're pushing. So we should be mindful of that as we listen to it all.
Argument could by made as to whether or not power dynamic is directly linked to biological sex (in general) at the biological level.
I felt this was well covered in the OP.

> Many feel that the very qualities that used to define them — their strength, aggression and competitiveness — are no longer wanted or needed…

Makes the point but is subtle enough to avoid using hyperbole.
Which cartoons? Any to recommend?
I was relentlessly bullied as a kid because I was not the typical boy type (which sane people now associate with a toxic masculinity). At one point my bullies (there are always a group that picks on the one) chased me onto a 20 meter dam where I fell into its spillway and almost drowned. My pursuers were never punished.

The only reason I didn't become a school shooter is because I literally did not know how to get a gun. I didn't live in a community where there was any kind of gun culture. That's all. If I would have had access to a gun I would have tried to kill them. Because they were, to any point of rationality, on a direct course to killing me. I felt like it was me or them.

I am the school shooter poster child for gun control. Because I couldn't get a gun, I survived my ordeal and became a productive member of society. We need common sense gun control.
This is a carefully constructed (malformed) problem presented in an obfuscated way. It didn't "just happen" that those ~20 bit numbers happen to produce slopes that differ only after ~57 bits, come on. If you're going to do that kind of trickery, you can come up with an equivalent that blows up any fixed precision limit and/or explodes the representation size for any arbitrary precision computation system.

It's a parlor trick, not a serious problem.
How can you describe the difference between Oxycontin and Percocet?
Oxycodone and Percocet both are pain killers. what are the main difference between them?
yeah proof of work is turning out to be a pretty unsustainable idea - i'm not sure if proof of stake truly can be considered the victor yet but it seems like a huge step in the right direction.

(Completely agreed that there hasn't been a killer app yet in the space - but I think i'm more optimistic about the chances of that happening at some point)
Well, just in regards to Russia, the US managed to get a $10 billion lifeline to Yeltsin's government at a VERY convenient moment just months before the 1996 election.
Likewise, if storebought doesn’t do the trick, some people (myself and my partner included) have better luck with the recreational variety—mushrooms were the thing that kicked me in the psychological ass and started me on the path to recovery from alcoholism (which was partly self-medicating for anxiety). To be clear, this is absolutely not something I’d recommend lightly. Taking (who knows how strong) mushrooms or LSD isn’t exactly the most precise or reliable way to go about it, and there are attendant risks.

I just hope in the future there’s more access to psychedelics (and analogues) in a safe, professional setting, because they’ve been shown to be another potentially useful tool in the antidepressant/anxiolytic/self-care kit.
Yea. I actually talked to the guy building the space. Gave me a vague answer but it seemed like he was basically saying square footage was expensive.

I may have a skewed view on things because I work in a techy college town.

I've actually had some friends who got offices but their job was miserable (defense contractor). I may have just had bad luck but from my experience, finding a good place to work without a completely open office environment is tough.
I'd reckon a vast majority of the users in the real world don't give a shit about it, people don't buy iPhone's because they care about privacy or child labor, they buy it because everyone else is buying it too.
> If I would have had access to a gun I would have tried to kill them.

you got issues, mate. maybe talk to someone?

> We need common sense gun control.

like what? anything short of repealing the 2A makes no sense to me frankly. Perhaps it's time to just repeal it and possibly confiscate guns across the board.
>If you're looking for an ML kind of experience, Kotlin is a joke, it doesn't even have pattern matching.

Can't agree with this more. I just cannot figure the raison d'être of Kotlin.
What to care about in a job
I read the article. The disclaimer is both inadequate and a poor substitute for a humbler article.

Disclaimer: Just saying.
joining the golf club? Cliques are not unknown in middle class life. We may heap scorn upon them by naming them gangs in conversation. Organisational rules being more subtle does not make an organised group less effective than disorganised individuals. Management "teams" are a thing most of us have to deal with.