skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't watched many recent sitcoms, I think the last one I wanted regularly was How I Met Your Mother which had zero gay lead characters (even though the biggest womanizer on the show was played by and actor who is gay in real life).

There are some gay focused shows (Grace & Frankie, Will and Grace), but looking at the top 5 current sitcoms [1]

1. Big Bang Theory - none of the main characters are gay

2. Modern Family - out of 11 main characters, 2 are gay

3. Brooklyn Nine Nine - out of 10 main characters, 1 is gay

4. The Simpsons - I don't know how to count main characters, but I don't think any are gay

5. Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Out of 5 main characters, one is (or might be?) gay.

(I used Wikipedia for most of these, so I may not have gotten the counts completely accurate)

This doesn't seem to be a gross over representation of homosexuality - I wonder if you're suffering from observation bias, or if maybe you're just watching sitcoms that have more gay characters for whatever reason.

[1] - https://www.ranker.com/list/best-current-tv-sitcoms/ranker-t...
I will push back a bit and say SVG's integration with HTML documents is very convenient and useful. I think it has been held back by poor implementation, particularly Mozilla's.

The SMIL stuff has made the SVG DOM a bloody mess, and it's deprecated everywhere, which is a sad outcome, but it's still useful.
> That site is focused on promoting an agenda over honest science.

> Your Brain on Porn - It's NOT Addictive

Reality disproves the sensationalistic headline: tens of thousands of people have declared to suffer from porn addiction (and other porn-induced dysfunctions) and you're trying to erase their own experiences. The article merely explains that brain signals of porn addicts don't strictly look like the ones of cocaine addicts. Misleading at best, deceitful at worst. Gary Wilson also replied to the article in the comments – which the author doesn't fully address. You bring up the word agenda, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. If anything, the porn lobby has a strong incentive to smear Gary Wilson's efforts, as this article seems to do. It wouldn't be the first time either: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl... Lastly, addiction is only one of its several potential downsides and people need to be warned about responsible porn use.
Hopefully soon I'll have a sandbox server hosted somewhere!
Google pulls the plug on AI council that included Heritage Foundation leader
Sorry it is just that Chrome doesn't allow on mobile plugins for some reasons ($$$}
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge (By Breogán Gonda)
You used the phrase "pushing an agenda down your throat" in reference to LGBT characters on TV. You are clearly motivated by homophobia.
While I certainly agree, the historical record suggests that unionization often requires a certain amount of labor scarcity in order to happen in the first place. Of course, enough scarcity and the workers won't see the need, perhaps because there isn't any, but in cases of superabundance of labor it is extraordinarily difficult (usually impossible) to successfully unionize.

I certainly agree that unions can make a big difference in the intermediate case.
Ah yes, bad, awful, terrible policies to reduce violence abound.

But do you believe there have never been any good public policies balancing public safety against other rights, that you agree with? For example, there are legal restrictions on how much people who work on our nuclear weapons can say about them. This is clearly a restriction of their fundamental human right to freedom of speech. Is it worth it?
Unless of course they live in a country that has tax-funded health care and useable public transport, of which there are quite a few.
I appreciate the feedback. I've just tried an example flight: AIC124 and seen it worked, hopefully you're trying the similar format (ICAO).
I'm sure his numbers take that into account. The cost per MWh for batteries would be at least an order of mangnitude higher if he did not.
Ben Heck: The Try and Find a Recent Movie on Netflix that isn't made by Disney Challenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcIocprvoA
I think it was this one: http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-ene...
From what I gathered, it's actually another thing: there is a large volume of people using misconfigured or simply bad software with their perfectly fine hardware touchpads. Apple ones, that are actually well configured out-of-the-box, then "feel" better and more precise, and clueless people incorrectly blame their hardware for sub-par experience.

Been there, done that. I've blamed a touchpad of my work machine (which was actually a higher model of the same line as my personal laptop), but it turned out it used a different software driver (accidentally - I've swapped their SSDs and it turned out that the quality of their touchpads swapped as well :D). Also, both of these touchpads felt simply awful on Windows. After that I've spend some time figuring it out and it turns out that these days it's actually hard to get a crappy touchpad (unless you pay really crappy money for a whole machine). It's all in software.
Origins of Libressl
They should allow single family homes to be turned into 3-4 unit condos. Start there.
If the experiment was designed to be small enough to not affect the outcome of the election, then they're not experimenting with affecting the outcome, they're investigating and learning about tactics that, on a larger scale, could be used to affect the outcome of the election.

I did say it was a bit shady, but I'm not really sure how to do this sort of research in a way that doesn't potentially affect the real world, because the whole point is to see how this sort of thing affects real people. Doing it in simulation doesn't help because that only tests your simulation.

I'm taking it as a given that this kind of research is important to be able to identify and combat actual interference of this kind from malicious entities in the future.
Would any of the various full-text search plugins (e.g. https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html) make searching your 80GB database reasonable?
> An "employee owned organization" seems like a better alternative to unions, in my opinion.

This statement is completely and utterly nonsensical to anyone that has even a shallow understanding of the history of labour struggles and unionizing.
Ask HN: Most debt you've gone into for your startup?
Did it pay off?
The capital costs still need to be paid off. But the industry has a strong interest in scaling up and reducing costs. And optimisation is probably easier when you are building and installing thousands of individual units rather than a few complex monoliths.
Outside of compressed air or springs there isn't currently a clean way of storing power. Batteries are the plastic trash bags of the future and the massive problems they're causing won't cause an uproar until we can see it from outer space, just like the trash island.
The limit is mostly investment, PV has no resource limitations currently.
Nope. That's capital cost, which is closer to $800/MWh. See page 11 of Lazard for details.

https://www.lazard.com/media/450774/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
Equal rights for girls/women leads to all three so I would put that first, and now you've got two spare slots for new rules.
It's perfectly sustainable and returns are not guaranteed. You may get 1000x what you put in by living to 130, or you may get nothing by living to 60. But at least you're entitled to some safety net in your old age.
No performance difference between distributed or centralized teams – Google
> So this seems like pretty legitimate grist for discussion. Are you comfortable with your advocacy here, or having second thoughts about it?

My job isn't to be a PR person for everything Cloudflare does. Cloudflare has and does things I disagree with. It's a company with a lot of people working there, after all :)

All of this stuff is completely outside of what is going to be my job. And a job I haven't even started yet! I mean, sure, it's legitimate to talk about like anything is, but if you want to know what's going on, I'm certainly not the person to talk to about it.
>They just took off, max height of the airplane was 1000 feet above the ground. That's a definely low altitude.

People thought that based on Flightaware data. But if you actually read the report you will see that it is incorrect and they reached about 7,000 feet.

>The trim pointed the nose down.

Incorrect. The plane was steadily gaining altitude until they re-enabled electric trim.

>I wouldn't feed the troll, but I don't want your misinformation to spread.

Try being right before throwing around personal insults.
This might be it. Author and date match and it's even available via Open Access:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> > I believe it's better to accept that the Web platform won

> The "Web platform" is not a single thing. It is a bunch of things that are constantly evolving, that are also implemented differently by different browser vendors that have their own issues.

Maybe The Web, as a platform won?

EDIT: Formatting
Without a specification the correctness of a program is necessarily undefined. This means that most buggy software isn’t incorrect. In fact most buggy software isn’t even unpleasant, at least insofar as users prefer using it to not and continue to pay.

It follows that as commonly used the term bug refers to a pleasantness defect rather than a correctness defect. And this stands up to our day to day experience. In the overwhelming majority of cases users report bugs because they are displeased by a behavior, not because they studied the specification and discovered a correctness error.
... right! I agree! So, again: why were you volunteering opinions about the norms-compliance of this Cloud Flare project on Reddit, rather than just saying, "huh, no idea, wasn't involved"?
>"why are you using Dynamo, just use SQL"

On the other hand, I find it frustrating how many developers either don't know basic SQL or try to get cute and use the flat side of an axe to smack down nails instead of just using the well-known, industry-standard beauty of a hammer that SQL.
What's the energy and resource requirement of recycling grid scale batteries?
> You have expressed concern that corporations have ‘stolen’ talent from academia.

Nobody is stealing anything. What they don’t realize is that the free market will incentivize AI researchers to go to the private sector. It’s just simple economics.
Who should non-racist proud white Americans, that believe in individuals over groups first, and doesn't care who marries who or why, vote for?
But not capital gains. 0% -> 15% -> 20% are not marginal and require careful maneuvering to stay in the previous bracket. Why the oversight for such a hugely relevant tax?
In reality, albums were always so artificial. They were either filled with crap fillers, silly interludes or were just pawned off by the record company as a need to sell units.

Singles is where the heart of the artist lie.
Heh, looking at something a couple std devs from the mean isn't fancy; it's a pretty standard way of looking for outliers in any process. Besides, flagging everyone over the average would mean flagging roughly half of all return claims. That would require legions of people to look at, and would provide a really bad customer experience.
Unless they were identical running in the same directory and listening to the same port. First one to start won.
Changing soon
HomeBrood 0x00 – Surreptitious Hijacking of Homebrew on macOS
Yes, it is, thank you!
I recently started using Alloy for small models. Great for searching for constraints and state machines.
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Don’t forget their newest ongoing issue with Primodos in the U.K.! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primodos

https://news.sky.com/story/primodos-drug-linked-to-birth-def...

Of course Bayer is still insisting that everything is kosher. Well, not kosher, their response to that was creating Zyclon B when they were still part of IG Farben. It would seem that their commitment to morality remains broadly unchanged.
I don't recall if the proposal was from SpaceX, or someone else doing an independent analysis, but I believe the proposal was to have a (higher cost) option that bypasses ground stations. So you can send a signal straight to satellite at 550 KM, which is 1.8 ms away, then pass the signals from satellite to satellite (skipping as many in between birds as possible), and beaming back down directly to the target without involving any other ground stations.

Edit: here is a Reddit thread I found on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/9wrkhm/starlink_l...
|By which you mean, there's been a movement by employers towards the right to work for less.

Unions can keep people out of professions in a lot of places in the US. Right to work makes it so union membership isn't mandatory. Surely if the union is so awesome, voluntary membership would work just fine.

|What's bullshit is that non-union employees get the same benefits that a union fought for, without having to do any work to get them.

Take it up with the union leadership, not me pal. They're the ones agitating for this stuff.
>You're still thinking linearly about the costs and benefits of the decision, you're just placing more emphasis on the longer term costs and benefits. Second order thinking refers to holistically looking at a situation to see emergent behaviors, which allows the intelligent to see things that are not intuitive.

It seems to me that "holistically looking at a situation to see emergent behaviors" is still just linear thinking. What's being suggested is a "line of thought" that is longer than the average, but if your modus operandi is to make positive feedback loops for as many things as possible in your life, and/or be holistic, then it's no different from the first way of thinking that you illustrated. Whether or not someone thinks either way could simply depend on the degree to which that person is an extrovert/introvert.

Sorry, not trying to seem snarky or anything. The dichotomy you presented here just seemed interesting to me, maybe because I'm the type of person who is predisposed towards finding patterns in things.
trans is a choice, it doesnt belong in those other groups.
Because, while it's a personal thing I am working on, I haven't yet totally learned to not write paragraphs of text when someone asks me a question. I'll get there :) I'll save this thread as a reminder for next time I'm tempted ;)
I'm sure we can expect this as a darknet diaries episode soon
You are correct. Capital cost of battery systems is closer to $800/MWh

Page 11: https://www.lazard.com/media/450774/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
This is a format that I've thought for some time would work exceptionally well in technical interviews: rather than ask a bunch of questions, have a small set of problems that start from a working piece of code in need of work.

This removes some of the subjectivity from a completely open-ended coding assignment, as well as reducing the amount of effort required, because you can do a few small problems rather than a single huge one that typically involves working over a weekend.

The only downside is it's a lot more effort to set up than either an open assignment or a standard Q&A-based interview. You don't want to throw anyone into real production problems for a variety of reasons. The initial setup has to be understandable within a few minutes of code review.
> So don't travel the world thinking that what you just stated is true. Potential pathways to violence may, indeed, be illegal in the nation to which you are traveling. And punishments can be harsh. They can, will, and have sentenced people to death for being caught with drugs for instance. No murder. No guns. No violence. No nothing. Just caught with drugs -> death.

>I always strongly urge people, especially young people, to be aware of the legal environment in any nation to which they are traveling.

Absolutely. Being caught in the Dubai airport while connecting with drugs. You'll be faced with the consequences of the drug laws of the UAE without being techincally in the country. (Also you can be detained there for violating the laws of the UAE while connecting as well)

Also in Thailand, never step on the currency because it's a disrespect to the king (who is on their money).

Other countries act very differently. It's amazing when people go elsewhere and think "well it's legal back at home" (also the opposite is dumbfounding.. South Korea tries to punish people who smoke weed in canada if the people come back after smoking)
This is on the top/front page though
>Reality disproves the sensationalistic headline

I linked to Psychology Today. Your evidence is from a site promoting some anti-porn hysteria that there is an epidemic of people crippled by porn addition. How is my article the sensationalistic one?

Do you have evidence from unbiased, scientific sources, for example not yourbrainonporn? Yes, porn usage can cross into an addictive behavior. So can video games or TV or food.
Doesn't work in an apartment, have to either scoop out the solids into a trash can or fill with some water and pour out into the toilet bowl and flush. It can get messy.
When I walk by a window and don't break it, am I taking work away from glaziers?
Okay, I can appreciate that observation. But I don't think that the advice to individuals to stop worrying about luxury daily coffee spending follows from that.
I've been able to get quality suggestions without disabling search and watch history.

Youtube is just using ML algorithms so it's only going to be as good as the data you give it. Actively downvote and choose "Not Interested" for content you don't like and anything click-baity.

They are now organizing suggestions into topics so you can easily curate simply by hitting the X on topics that you don't like.
> Only a fraction of homeless are homeless because they were priced out of their homes.

Do you have a source for this? It seems excessively cruel and smacks of "othering" a group of vulnerable individuals. My impression is that many people/families teeter on the edge of poverty, and not having enough "low end" housing supply is a huge part of that. If your entire support network is in a single city than just moving somewhere cheaper isn't an option, nor is going out to the suburbs where a car is required.

So then you have this yawning chasm from $0 for "homeless" up to $1000+ for "tiny apartment". Sure, maybe it's possible to split something with friends (if you have/trust them) or whatever, but it's not hard to see a cycle where job loss leads to home loss and suddenly it's impossible to get a job again because you're not properly slept or groomed.

Having dorm-style housing options at a half or quarter the price of "tiny apartment" would double or quadruple the amount of runway you have after job loss or injury before you're caught in the cycle of unemployability.
I'd prefer our improvements and working conditions come through the political process. That way it remains fair across the board without the lucky few who make it into unions, which nearly always become a good 'ol boy network, handing out favors to someone's cousins first, or beating the crap out of people who dare to not join them.
Thank you very much for this. I'm glad there still are people writing books like this one. When I was a teenager, I found a book by L. Ammeraal which was awesome reading. It taught how to build a simple 3D graphics renderer with hidden edges removal and other interesting features. Unfortunately, back then I was a Pascal fan, so it took me some significant effort to translate bits of the code from the book from C

Later, I found another book, can't remember the author, which described even more things, like z-buffering and so on. Very interesting and very useful.
Pointing out singular words when making an argument is just petulant, clearly I was speaking in general terms and referring to the general difference between the US and Europe. That anyone would claim that it's impossible to find someone with a pro-union opinion in the US is as nonsensical as saying you couldn't find one with an anti-union opinion in Europe. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people.

The main point of my comment, which I made very clear, was that specific examples of "bad unions" is not a helpful or constructive basis upon which to have an argument about the theoretical place of labour unions in a market, no more than you would base an argument about where to go for dinner in the nutritional value of a carrot.
> Deception.

They were researching a tactic already used in the wild that involves deception, yes. But the end goal of the experiment wasn't to deceive voters, which is what you claimed. The goal was to learn about how this tactic, a tactic that involves deception, works, presumably to help identify and combat it in the future.

> What, you didn't know that this politically motivated organization with an agenda was asked to inform the Senate about Russian interference in US election?

So what you're saying is an organization doing research into Russian interference was asked to inform the Senate about Russian interference? When you put it like that, it sounds like they have an excellent reason to conduct this sort of research.

> When you say "limited spread" do you actually mean "completely unrestrained"?

No I don't, which is why I didn't say that.

In any case, it sounds like this discussion has run its course.
The Anatomy of Illiberal States: Where There Is Society, I Am the Law
VW, BMW and Daimler Hindered Clean-Air Technology, European Regulator Says
> Even with immunity why should she help them now?

Because if her previous testimony was not perjury, and the government is looking to probe around it, she is likely withholding exculpatory evidence that, were it in the hands of the government, they would be subject to sanction if they failed to turn over to the ultimate target of the prosecution and which might, simply by existing, result in abandonment of some or all of the charges being pursued.

Of course, if the prior testimony was perjury, the calculus is different.
Remember when Netflix tried to be proactive by splitting off the DVD business from the streaming service, and the entire internet flipped out?

In hindsight, this would have been an excellent move. Each org could have focused better on their respective service. But now the media-by-mail half is just crashing in the space of the streaming service. They have no incentive to market it, and will pull the plug the moment it is unprofitable.