skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My napkin paper theory is that for nonmarital* sex the internet has made it easier for people to find partners, with the overall effect that the bottom ~1/3 of men cannot find partners. Generally women are more selective than men when it comes to casual sex, and desirable men are usually willing to have sex with multiple partners. I recall studies that found that the top 20% of men on dating platforms account for 80% of the matches. I suspect that the drop in rates of no sex later in life is because that is the age when people start to get married (late 20s, 30s). Unlike the casual sex market, marriage is generally 1:1 so 80:20 dynamic flattens out.

\* I'm using "nonmarital" here to refer to sex outside of a long-tern committed relationship. I originally referred to this as "casual sex" but I think that may be more loaded than what I'm looking for.

Edit: "extramarital" -> "nonmarital" as per respondent's suggestion
This hardly ever works even today. If you want to know it will be available while offline you have to hit the save page button.
To be fair, the CBR600RR is a race replica bike, and it's designed for the track (despite having lights and a license plate). The full fairings are there for aerodynamics, the same sort you'll find tested and proven in Moto GP.

Honda didn't put them there just to look cool, and ease of maintenance certainly wasn't the primary design factor.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be kiwi right now with our PM & multiple ex-PMs showing zero understanding of so many of these issues, yet they're still very willing to put forward their opinions. They hijacked the gun debate to pass laws with zero public input, people cheered because they weren't part of the 3% who owned guns. Now the govt is turning its ugly head toward censorship and taking away our privacy.
> We also have multiple documented cases of "no-log VPNs" submitting their logs to law enforcement.

That's true. And so some of us go out of our way to name names. For example:

EarthVPN - user compromised by datacenter logs

HMA - retained logs, and provided them under UK court order

Proxy.sh - outed someone voluntarily, because they didn't like something he did

PureVPN - retained logs, and shared them with investigators

> Because my point was you have to trust either party.

That's true. Except when it isn't. If you use nested VPN chains, you don't need to trust any of the individual VPNs. It's not as anonymous as Tor, because it's static, and far less complicated to compromise. But it's at least 10x faster. And you can hit Tor through them, which protects you from evil entry guards.
How is the experience with Ghidra so far? Does anyone think a true free IDA Pro replacement finally come? I did some reverse engineering for ARM devices last year, and IDA Pro seemed like the only option but it costs around $1000.
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Functional purists are the only one's who hate it. OOP by its very nature encourages developers to make bold abstractions prematurely (where prematurely is interchangeable with unnecessarily) and subjectively. Mean while the procedural programmer (Golang) has already finished the segment of the program having written one big function. If a piece of that big function is needed elsewhere she factors it out. Most of her program are simple loops and conditionals. Programs are easy. Programs are easy, why complicate something that is easy.

The machine should also guide the programmer as much as possible. I wish Golang had refinement types like Liquid Haskell or ATS. Some simple static analysis to cut down on crufty slow runtime test suites.
I thought with tor you still connect to a single gateway and all traffic is sent to that remote endpoint? Or is it done locally?
Don't criticise, condemn, or complain ~ Dale Carnegie

I feel you though, one of my best friends got too deep. Hanging out in the ecosystem has changed him in non good ways.

I have another friend like the one you speak of. Naive on BC tech, convinced some naive investors. Never really went anywhere, he doesn't really talk about it. With time it will likely pass.

Doing things and not having them work out is valuable learning experience.
Except that 20s-30s men are competing directly against other, college aged men. And maybe that’s enough.

Edit-another pet theory is a changing climate. Cultures in drier climates tend to be more sexually conservative. A large portion of the US has been in drought conditions for decades
We do allow car companies to continue to build cars that cannot prevent accidents. Even beyond preventing accidents we as a society also allow the car companies to build cars with varying levels of safety and have a rating system for them.
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If your threat model includes NSA you need to reconsider lot more than just a VPN
I think the trend is true but this study did not have a large sample size. It was 31 out of 105 men in this age range saying they did not have sex.
You are correct, but this is one of the few cases where it's unjustified. We have moved to online discourse more and more. Do we really want super powerful AI and armies of moderators combing through all of that?
Given that they're staring at an entire galaxy for such a long time in quite high resolution, I wonder that they didn't notice anything else that's unusual?
Why is it sensationalism to demand accountability? Why can’t we just say something as simple as “hey Zuck, Every time someone is murdered live on FB you owe society 50 million”. Is that so horrible?
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Isn't it obvious? Tinder and its lookalikes have utterly destroyed the dating market for the median male.
Almost every persona in the space is the cause for disillusionment with the general public and tech knowledgeable.
If you don't have the ability to control your premises, or employ enough security, perhaps you should not be permitted to operate those premises. Unsafe clubs get closed down.

They - or any other social media company - don't have a right to exist. If societies around the world conclude they do more harm than good as they currently operate, it's perfectly reasonable to require them to moderate adequately. If they cannot they can close, or withdraw from that region, and someone else may wish to try. Facebook could employ thousands more to moderate and supervise - without destroying their ability to make profit. Pretending the problems don't exist, as all the platforms have done so far, looks like it's not going to be tenable for much longer.

Not only am I fine with that, I think it long overdue.
I don't think the data supports this. The economy has gotten better since 2008 by a significant margin. The unemployment rate has dropped consistently since 2010. But that's when the rise of lack of sex seems to really kick off and it hasn't subsided as the economy improved.
I think you're right but there are new things coming, such as VR porn, that could make the effect smaller.
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It isn't redundant because that's the only type in Go which does that. There is no issue because int is explicitly defined to mean the CPU word.

As I already mentioned above, due to how its meaning mutated and got distorted over time, it may be better to use a different word. usize/isize is also fine IMO.
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I call BS. Of course there are extreme outliers, like savants who are composing sonatas at age 3, but programming is a different animal.

Sure, someone with 3 years experience could easily be better in some narrow way, but any programmer worth anything after 30 years experience has forgotten more than a 3 year coder could have possibly learned if he was literally reading white papers all day long for those 3 years and retaining 100% of it. There just isn't enough time in 3 years to cover the breadth of knowledge needed to be "better" than someone decent who has 30 years experience.
All the previous benefits of async? Did you mean promises, callbacks or async? async/await is just syntax sugar over promises.
Doing mathematics is probably one way to train. Especially the counter-intuitive stuff, like higher dimensions, statistics, weird geometry, and such.
We have a Maremma, as do some of our friends. They are incredibly dogs, extremely smart and independent. Also stubborn.
Dave Beulke's boss walks into his office, throwing a stack of market research papers on his desk.

"What's th-?", Dave starts, but is cut off.

"MILLENNIALS MILLENNIALS MILLENNIALS", his boss replies, and is gone without another word.

http://enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/three-more-reasons...
"Economy getting better" arguments fall into the trap of the law of averages.
Colleges in the United States tend to have a female majority at the undergraduate level.
True enough. But the fact remains that it is pretty common there.
No training in the world will help if this system malfunctions and puts the nose down at 1000ft already. You can't react fast enough to not hit the ground.

Also I don't want to fly in a plane where 'trained' pilots have to fearfully watched every feet they climb to quickly overturn a system that malfunctions.
Are you serious? You expect us to believe that Facebook and Youtube can’t afford to hire 50,000 content regulators each? 30,000 of them would probably be paid less than 5000$ a year.
Facebook (and Google and others) can easily identify themes in natural language both written and spoken. They're really good at those problems because they're used as inputs for ad sales.

Identifying themes in video is harder than natural language. But fundamentally it requires the same kind of ML tools as natural language, which these companies have already mastered. I think the bigger issue is that Facebook doesn't have a business purpose for understanding video as compelling as it has for understanding natural language. They also don't have a business purpose for building scalable content censoring workflows since there's no serious regulation.
> I'm pointing out facts that disprove those opinions

You have pointed out no fact that justifies your accusation of lying.
> Indeed here in Canada ISPs have frequently given subscriber contact information to copyright holders to issue warnings based on bittorrent usage without being legally required to.

Citation needed?

The “Notice and Notice” regime legally requires the ISP to pass along a notice from a copyright holder that believes your IP infringed their copyright by uploading their material. It does not permit the ISP to give subscriber information to the copyright holder directly unless ordered to do so by a court.

Here’s Michael Geist, Canadian lawyer, explaining the system and recent developments regarding ISPs seeking to make such information disclosures more difficult for copyright holders, not less

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/09/notice-the-difference-sup...

> My Globe and Mail op-ed notes that the Canadian system for online infringement was formally established in 2012 and came into effect in 2015. The so-called “notice-and-notice” approach grants rights holders the ability to send notifications of alleged infringement to Internet providers, who are required by law to forward the notices to the relevant subscriber and to preserve the data in the event of future legal action. The system does not prevent rights holders from pursuing additional legal remedies, but Internet providers cannot reveal the identity of their subscribers without a court order.

> While the system has proven helpful in educating users on the boundaries of copyright, some rights holders have used it as a launching pad for further lawsuits. In fact, thousands of lawsuits have now been filed, with rights holders seeking to piggyback on the notice-and-notice system by obtaining the necessary subscriber information directly from Internet providers at no further cost.

> The question of costs lies at the heart of an important Supreme Court of Canada copyright ruling released on Friday. Voltage Pictures sought subscriber information from Rogers Communications for the purposes of pursuing individual lawsuits. When Rogers advised that it wanted compensation of $100 per hour for the costs associated with fulfilling the request, Voltage responded that Internet providers could not pass along their costs since the notice-and-notice system already required them to identify subscribers and preserve the data without compensation.

> The particular incident may have involved only a few hundred dollars, but the broader principle had the potential to dramatically alter the Canadian approach. If Internet providers were required to disclose subscriber information without passing along the costs, Canadian courts faced the prospect of an avalanche of lawsuits and Internet providers might be dissuaded from carefully ensuring that the privacy of their subscribers was properly protected.

> The Supreme Court understood the broader implications of the case, ruling that Internet providers can pass along the specific costs associated with subscriber disclosures beyond those required for the notice-and-notice system. Indeed, the court recognized the importance of accurate data to safeguard against reputational harm and wrongful lawsuits.
How else do you manifest this passive aggression?
over the top? nah. it's beautiful
Okay.

None of what you wrote is a response to what I said, beside “well, if it gets bad enough, society will adapt”.

You admit that in the current market, those companies are vastly important in a way that can’t change quickly and their acting as censors could turn so bad, it would force a change to the very way we communicate.

I think “hellish” is an apt description of “would reshape hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars of economic activity in response to the social disfunction it caused”.
That isn't true about war and it certainly isn't true about public utilities. People went to jail all the time for overcharging the government during times of war. Money is a way to measure value and it always matters.

As far as public utilities go, the problem is that people who give them money expect a small but static return on investment. For almost all the 20th century they were a mostly safe place to keep money. That was part of the reason why Enron was one of the few companies where the white collar criminals were actually punished.

One of the major problems is that the people running them don't know how to manage projects that are more risky and the people doing the investing don't know how to account for the uncertainty around fossil fuels, versus intermittent renewables, versus huge nuclear projects. The message from the politicians is always "your money in these projects is safe", and they've made sure to keep that promise even if they've put a different spin on it because the underlying shockwaves would be as bad as government bonds going bad.
Well as much as HN or the news media would like you to believe, societies around the world have definitely not concluded that FB does more harm than good and I don't see that changing anytime soon. You may think the club is unsafe, but a billion people are still attending all night and they feel perfectly comfortable.
> There's lots more optimizations possible with this technique, e.g. counting-sort style bucketing.

:) I was going to say that since you are half re-inventing bucket-sort anyway, why not go the whole hog.

Is the code three-part quicksort simpler and easier to understand than a bucket sort?
Simple. No streaming allowed.
As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex.

I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of "swipe right, swipe left" mobile dating apps, where people choose partners based almost solely on looks and status indicators, I can imagine it's getting even more unbalanced.
> it's a lie to say that death is peace

No, it's your opinion that death is not peace. "Peace" is not a word with a single fixed meaning, so you have no basis for saying that other people are lying when they express the opinion that death is peace. All you can say is that your opinion disagrees with theirs.

> Rudimentary philosophy will help you understand this conversation, as it covers fairly extensively the truth/false of beliefs, and the very nature of what truth is. I recommend you spend some time looking into it

Sorry, not buying it. Blowing smoke won't change the fact that you're making an unjustified accusation of lying.
> For example our Sun, the light you see has taken about 8 minutes to reach you. Yet the effects of gravity from the sun reach in about 6 minutes.

I think you misunderstood. As far as we guess from the theories, the speed of light an the speed of gravity is the same. The problem is that it is very difficult to measure the speed of the gravitational waves.

The experimental results for the speed of gravity has a wide interval. This interval includes the speed of light and we guess that they are the same, but it would be nice to have an experimental result with a nice small interval.

8 minutes vs 6 minutes: Nah
You think this sucks? So instead of optimizing for the 99% case where I go to a site and want to see the images on the page as fast as possible and defer loading what I can't see initially, you instead want to prioritize "Say I load an article in a background tab to read later, then go somewhere without WiFi like, say, an airplane."???

Thanks, I'll take Google's solution.
Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing in your response that implies that Western Europe has widespread celibacy.
> It does not permit the ISP to give subscriber information to the copyright holder directly unless ordered to do so by a court.

With honest VPNs, court orders won't yield anything.
Since 2010 GDP is growing, unemployment is going down, and real wages have at least remained steady and many analysts claim it has risen. If the economy really was tied to lack of sex we should be seeing a large spike around 2008/2009 and continuing until 2010 or 2011 and then returning to normal rates by 2018.

Granted, there may be some sort of lag between economic changes and the effect on sex lives. E.g. a boyfriend loses a job in 2009, fails to find work in several years, and then gets dumped. But that seems like more of a stretch, and it seems like the pattern of less sex particularly among men is occurring even among people in age cohorts that weren't affected by the economic downturn during the end of the last decade.

Also I think you're referring to the trap of the law of averages incorrectly. The trap of the law of averages is the erroneous notion that because a random even has diverged from the average then the likelihood of it returning to the average is higher. "The coin toss came up head five times in a row, so it'll probably be tails this time" is falling into the trap of the law of averages.
Even the word "movement" indicates this connection. You can not move if you have no time. And although it may be hard to imagine, the opposite is also true. Time doesn't really make any sense without space -- nothing can happen and therefore it can't take time. I am not a physicist, but I like to imagine that space actually created time. As soon as something separates from a singularity, you have time. It also makes me feel a lot more comfortable about quantum physics. Once you get smaller than a Lorenz wavelength, you don't really have space any more, just a probability that a particle may be somewhere and it magically teleports around. Well, you have to expect that, really, because if travel no distance, it can not (by definition) take any time. Probably not actually how things work, but it makes my brain happy anyway...
I use VPNs for one main reason: so that my ISP does not build a complete profile of me based on the sites I'm visiting. This can be mitigated to a certain extent by using a VPN. I do not expect to become anonymous or invisible on the internet all of a sudden, I just do not want the guy listening next to my front door to know everything about me.

In the US, where personal data is a free-for-all and everybody and their dog sells data about me to everyone else, this is important.

I agree with the author that VPNs should not be advertised as a complete security and privacy solution, but I disagree with his statement that they can actually do more harm than good.
I'd be much more worried about people lacking jobs. Having a job makes one more attractive and would make one likelier to find a partner. I'm curious to see how China manages a gender imbalance.
Tor, originally from "The Onion Router", works by routing your traffic through multiple Tor nodes. Like an onion, each node only peels off one layer and passes the packet on to whoever is addressed on that layer. Each node only knows the details about the next node. Eventually, the packet will hit an "Exit-Node", at which point it will be routed via the internet through the endpoint, but it's not a single route.

And while that does not change for every request (that would be highly unpractical), all Tor clients offer you a very quick "get a new route" with just one click.
On Android Chrome with Data Saver turned on, elements with loading="auto" or
unset will also be lazily loaded if Chrome determines them to be good
candidates for lazy loading (according to heuristics).

I don't agree with this design decision to make the default ("or unset...") allow for lazy loading, even if limited to Data Saver enabled phones. Doesn't this mean every site on the planet that deems Android >= 7.0 web traffic important and makes use of pixel-based or iframe-enclosed tracking will have to go through testing and potential modification?
The problems he wants to address (e.g. fraud prevention in charity money transactions) could be easily solved using conventional databases with basic security measures

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What this article misses is that even with a price tag of more than $1M, many of these therapies will save the system money.

They kind of gloss over it when talking about Zolgensma, but the current treatment, Spinraza, costs ~$750K in the first year and $375K every year after. So even by year 2, you've already spent one million and you pay that indefinitely.

So if Zolgensma shows 5 years of efficacy and Zolgensma costs $2M, it's already 10% cheaper than current costs.

Yes of course, paying it in a lump sum is challenging, but these companies are all exploring alternative payment methods; either paying installments ($500K per year for 4 years) or performance based models (you pay me $500K, every year, until the drug stops working).

Gene therapy will certainly require a new payment plan, but it's not something the system can't handle.
>> I don't think the NZ government is scooping
>> up and murdering political disedents [sic].

That's because the Overton window isn't quite there yet. Continue down this path and eventually it will shift. The basic truth of the matter is: it's much, much easier to rule if there's no freedom of speech. That's why it's the typically the first thing to go before the rest of the personal rights. Makes things super comfy for the ruling class: someone says something you don't like? Just throw them in jail, it's for their own good. The UK is much further down this path already: there you can end up in jail for posting wrongthink on your Facebook page or filming _outside_ the court during grooming gang proceedings.
I think parent refers to Go std library comprehensiveness.

While Go comes with batteries included, Rust leaves up to community libraries to fill in the blanks for lots of basic functionalities such as regular expression for example.