skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest asking some girls out. I had social anxiety and the kind of social skills that lead to an Asperger’s diagnosis and I had more romantic experience than you by the time I was 18.

The chances of a girl being offended by being asked out are relatively low in any case; most people are nice. They’re really, really low if you’re attractive. When an ugly, charmless or poor man asks out a certain kind of girl they’re offended not just at having been asked out, but that the thought even occurred. Most girls aren’t like that. They’ll deflect the question or say that they’re busy and make no effort to reschedule.

My email is in my profile for anyone who has similar problems.
I really tried to remain objective and open minded, but this is pretty bad. Not that this matters, but it also doesn't "match" the rest of the world, wich pretty much have (somewhat) straight lines running down the center of the globe.
Switch to a 24 hour clock while you're at it. am and pm no longer make any sense if they're not used to refer to a local time.
Hi, can I send an official request for an informational interview, at your convenience, through an email to you?
There have been some very public cases of men being ostracized in the public eye through the #meetoo movement for behaviors that many would be considered acceptable, or at least bordering on it. Examples are Aziz Ansari and John Lasseter. Then you've got a constant barrage in newspapers, Twitter, and Facebook about consent, and what needs explicit consent encroaching ever closer to normal behaviors such as conversation. There is the concept of "enthusiastic consent". All of this is spearheaded by the #meetoo movement.

Obviously consent is a good thing. But to pretend that the boundaries of what are reasonable regarding consent aren't overstepped and people aren't attacked unfairly is to deny the evidence. This fuzzy and changing boundary creates an environment of fear among men, especially when considering the consequences. There are forums were people discuss these issues in depth. Are they all hallucinating?
Everyone seems to be missing an important point here, especially for HN users. Hackers and anyone supporting them are now live bomb targets. Hackers are no longer punished by just putting them in jail. Death is a punishment option too.

In the past, they were collateral damage now they are a direct target.
> Lawnmowers suck up gas and pollute the air: Every year, U.S. homeowners spill about 17 million gallons of gas while filling up mowers.

I have a Fiskars "reel mower" that doesn't use any gas or oil, though it's not getting much use now after recently converting most of the property to xeriscape. I like it and there's no way I would get a gas powered mower, especially not a "riding mower."

> American lawns have so, so much potential—and right now, it’s going to waste. It’s time to culturally stigmatize the classic overwatered, overfertilized, overmowed American lawn—a symbol of excess that’s persisted for far too long.

I agree but instead of criticizing lawns, I'd rather promote the beauty and functionality of a xeriscape yard. With a backyard food forest you can be harvesting hundreds of kilograms of food per year with minimal upkeep (beyond initial mulching and perennial planting). You can have stunning flower blooms from peaches, plums, apples, and other fruit trees. You can have fruit of all colors everywhere you look, just a rainbow of form and function. You can investigate and plant cold hardy things like Chicago Hardy Figs and other things you wouldn't dream were possible. Chances are, most figs available to you are dried, in the store. Imagine having a fresh one right off the tree, from your own yard picked less than 5 seconds ago.

Apart from the initial creation, based on personal experience, I think maintaining a xeriscaped backyard food forest takes less work, less time, and less money than maintaining a yard. For me the only demanding part was putting down down all the (free!) wood chips, but we're supposed to exercise anyway -- and this kind has inherent value.
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points that they bring up but wedge into one paragraph in the dead center surrounded by various hand-waving and alarmism... I think some one had a quota to fill.
I wanna know how bad of a student do you have to be that it cost 6.5 million?
Less sex, and more porn most likely.

I think plenty of people fulfill their sexual needs through online means these days, which is a shame because real life experiences are much more emotionally enriching, with the added benefit that if you repeatedly engage sexually with a person you really like, it could form the basis of a relationship. Whereas in the digital space, one gets no long term return on the time invested/wasted.
Previously a person's mate selection was very geographically constrained. Everyone wanted to date the most attractive person in (school, town, neighborhood).

The internet has broadened the pool of potential mates beyond mere geography. Which makes finding a match easier, but makes all the matches nearby seem less desirable, and makes all the long-distance matches difficult. Particularly on a constrained budget.
CKEditor 5 looks amazing (from tech to docs), but that lack of an available backend is a bummer. Do you know if there's anything out there that would work as an initial/hacky/example backend? How do you plan to tackle this?
You should definitively watch "Yes Minister"
It is one of the funniest political (timeless wisdom) shows that people have forgotten.
I am not so sure. Read about the Aziz Anzari situation.

Everyone makes mistakes. But consent is not revokable the next day. To claim abuse later, and not take responsibility, is absurd and offensive to real victims.

But this is how it is until women can take responsibility and say clearly "no" or accept the consequences of saying "yes" and possibly regretting it later.
I think it’s a number of things. For one, we have less free time to be social, we’re under more stress, social media is warping expectations and self-esteem, dating costs more than for prior generations, STDs and awareness of them, partisanship and people actually not wanting to date people with differing political opinions, and on and on.
It seems like millennials are avoiding partying in general. Alcohol is a factor in a lot of casual sex. Hell, my family got started because two otherwise unattractive people who previously hated each other realized they liked to get drunk on cheap wine and play with each others' naughty bits. A baby was conceived and a family was started out of guilt. Alcohol plays a big role in breaking down people's inhibitions and insecurities. Now that the combination of alcohol and sex are considered verboten, you lose one of the most effective aphrodisiacs and social lubricants.

I'm curious if whatever is behind our lowering sperm counts is also playing a role in this.

Given the experience of my fiancee, a millennial who gave up on guys her own age, it seems like the guys who are sexually active(i.e. the ones not stuck on video games and smoking weed), are creeps and philanderers. Hook-up apps and technologically fueled cheating have definitely reduced the mystique behind committed, monogamous relationships among kids these days.

Also, title is misspelled. Two n's in millennials.
" The portion of Americans aged 18 to 29 who claim to have had no sex for 12 months has more than doubled in a decade—to 23% last year"

Can also be read as "The portion of Americans aged 18 to 29 who have sex has slightly decreased, from 89% to 77%".
The Steam hardware survey doesn't really support your claims about Linux hardware specs vs Windows: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Let alone MacOS, which is more supported than Linux but has comparatively much poorer hardware stats.
Actually the rules are even simpler than that:

1. don't.
to offer a counter opinion I found wordfence highly obtrusive, annoying and full of dark patterns in an attempt to upsell you to premium. They present in their dashboard ALL attacks within their entire network as if those were attacks on your site in particular which is misleading. If the project permits the best practice is to convert the site into fully static HTML (WP2Static, SimplyStatic) and keep the backend site/database separate and local only.
The new rules are essentially 'be respectful' and "there's a time a place" and 'politely accept no as an answer' and 'no one owes you shit'.

They aren't complicated rules.

This should be a poster in every bar.
Yea, there's really no arguments being made on this thread that don't apply just as directly to illegal street racing today, yet I'd be shocked if more than a minuscule fraction of the people in a Tiff on this thread would have the self-awareness and intellectual honesty to defend the right of street racers to kill innocent bystanders
> The economy is strong.

I'm not sure why the author ends on such an optimistic note. Economy isn't great especially for millennials. 80% of Americans as a whole live paycheck to paycheck. Furthermore there are some signs that there will be another recession coming up. If anything these statistics are going to get worse.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672103209/why-arent-millennia...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millennials-are-much-poorer-tha...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/shutdown-highlights-that-4-i...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/05/global-econ...
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> The people writing unsafe C today will not embrace Rust simply because it does not make their life any easier or more fun. If they were willing to do hard work, their C code would not be as unsafe as it is.

I feel like Rust has expanded pie for c-level performance languages. For system languages. I'm not comfortable writing C or C++ - if I miss something, it means UB. I am comfortable writing Rust - it generally yells at me if I were to trigger UB (modulo unsafe, which I stay away from).

Edit: Though I have to admit, my point doesn't apply to the article. He's only talking to 'C' programmers in the article.
So in short, "I'm not overreacting, you're overreacting".
Well I’m not exactly attractive either :) Honestly, putting myself in the type of women I’m most intrigued by i wouldn’t put up with myself.

The closest I got was when I chatted up a girl on a train, but just couldn’t tell if she was just being super polite. Although I did end up getting her LinkedIn... I guess I’m not smooth either.
It takes time to master a tool, doubly so if the tool is still being actively developed, and the investment in time and energy to develop a skill needs to be allocated at the expense of some other activity.
If you advertise you're a fiduciary, you still have a fiduciary duty to customers. Most "retirement planners" or "advisors" (e.g., Edward Jones' franchises) do not advertise a fiduciary duty.

As a consumer, you may have to pay more up front to find a fiduciary-duty adviser, but that is money well spent and quickly pays for itself.
Congrats SJWs,

You've finally made the Religious Right's centuries long dream of a sexless puritanical world a reality.
These were always the rules since I can remember and I'm in my mid 40s. where do you live?
It's not about attractiveness. If a colleague “asks me out” in a work setting unsolicited I'm not more comfortable if they're “attractive”.

This sounds like a scare-story men who feel inadequate like to tell themselves.
You may think simple rules like "be respectful" are easy to follow, but for many people a such vague rules are harder than formal and strict rules "First you look at her. If she smiles you are allowed to say hi. After 10 minutes of smalltalk you " may be an improvement over "be respectful".
The chances of a girl being offended by being asked out are relatively low in any case;

Girls are not nice to unattractive men.
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There seems to be a lot of different explanations given below, but I can't help but think of:

It's all of them, more or less.

They've pretty much all come up as a consequence to the internet, whether it be better organisation leading more effective communication of how (some) men make unwanted advances, dissemination of pornography or the paradox of choice in dating. You could probably throw on top of that pile greater entertainment choices that are not pornography, making the payoff for sex just too low when you can get instant gratification now.
Carta Raises $300M Series E at $1.7B Valuation
Is it me or does that last bit seem weirdly passive aggressive
Living paycheck to paycheck doesn't mean one is poor. I've known many such who were quite well off. They simply couldn't resist spending everything they had.
Generally employer / employee relationship, the employer has vastly more bargaining power. Obviously this is no absolution, but I wouldn't say that forced arbitration is a fair practice under those circumstances is fair practice.
Thanks a bunch for sharing, I appreciate it. I'll add these resources to my reading list. I may also pass it along to my brother who getting a graduate degree in psych :)
Or because when someone says “I’ll call you Tuesday afternoon” and your day changes at 1pm (historic time) it’s a little confusing. Or does afternoon now mean 12-5 UTC? So until we adjust everyone’s semantics, no one has any idea what “Tuesday afternoon” means.
There would still be a solar noon (sun at zenith) unless one was directly at the pole. Admitted, it would be more difficult to visually tell, the closer one got to the pole.
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First off, I'm not making any judgments here -- every generation has its problems.

If I had to guess, I would say that a significant part of this phenomenon is tied to status concerns. Compared to Gen X, more people from the millennial generation appear to be openly obsessed with status. (Gen X cared about status, too, but from what I have seen it was considered "uncool" to care about status as an Xer, so you had to have some subtlety about how you obtained it.) Obsession with status is tolerated and even encouraged by peers, and is further reinforced by social networks and group dynamics.

* Flirt with someone who rejects you? You lose status.

* Seen by peers with someone of potentially lower status? You lose status.

* Hook up with someone when there are negative rumors about them? You lose status.

* Make out with someone who rejected a friend? You damage that relationship and either gain or lose status based on mysterious dynamics.

Status is felt as an invisible currency that affects your prospects for friendships, relationships, and your career. As such, losing it is seen as worse than an equivalent monetary loss. It's almost equivalent to "losing face" in East Asian countries, although the consequences are not quite as severe.

I would argue that there is actually an ongoing "status bubble" and that people are overestimating the value of status -- surely it can't be worth all that. For single people, though, it can be hard to drop out of the status game. Who wants to be seen as a "loser"?

Edit: I didn't really account for the gender disparity here, I've got some vague ideas but this was already treading too deep into speculation. Anyway, I don't think this can be fully explained by #MeToo concerns.
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The difference is that your mechanic isn’t acting as your agent with regards to all things automotive, they represent the shop they work for. That differentiation of who’s responsible for what makes a huge difference.

A financial advisor is much more akin to a lawyer, you pay them to represent your interests. And it is absolutely against the rules for your lawyer to not protect your best interests to the upmost extent of the law.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
There has always been porn. IME, it served several roles, but generally did not replace the desire to be in a relationship or at least physically intimate with another person. Sure, porn is more available and more potent in a sense now, and it may be a factor, but I think at most it is a minor one. Something else is making kids introverted and isolated.
I'm a fairly seasoned C programmer. I actually started with C++ back in the last century, but when I had the chance to do plain C I quickly saw it's benefits over C++ (at least back then). I have long pined for a better language that could be used for embedded systems programming.

In my current job I am now using C++14/17 (not my choice). I'm starting to like auto, but not much else. The "smart" pointers and "move" are hard for me to reason about still. I'd have an easier time reasoning about raw pointers and references, mainly because that's all I had in my early C++ days and C days (of course). I think things like asan and ubsan are far more helpful even with plain C than features like smart pointers.

I've tried Rust. The author of TFA linked to another article explaining that rust tricks you because it looks like languages you have used before, but it's really not like them. That made me feel better about my experience. I found it to be very frustrating. I'll have to try it again with a different mindset.

I haven't tried go, but I don't feel like it's a viable embedded programming language because of it's garbage collector. At least not for tightly contrained embedded systems. I'm honestly not sure rust is going to work for those types of systems either. Sometimes you just have to poke bits into memory and I'm not sure how a super safe language will deal with that better than C.
Every change is independent. Each state makes its own rules (well, has the freedom to decide what it wants, although there is apparently some federal oversight).
Just because you say things are simple doesn't mean they are...

https://thewaterpipe.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/capture.png...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/netflix-five-second-s...
It means they're one injury away from being poor
Emacs can connect to multiple screens.
> Men used to be able to basically hit on women in all contexts with zero consequence

Zero legal consequence -- social consequence or vigilante consequence was always a possibility.

> More recently, people have been pushing back on men who are inappropriate

What's considered inappropriate is precisely what's changing.

> The new rules are essentially 'be respectful' and "there's a time a place" and 'politely accept no as an answer' and 'no one owes you shit'.

Those have always been the rules.

What has changed is what counts as respectful, and exactly when and where are the allowed times and places.

There really are those pushing a message that any (non-reciprocated) sexual interest is disrespectful. Excluding work from allowed time-and-place and then "there's a time and place" excludes the places where one spends a great deal of one's time out of the house, with people one knows and can judge, and are likely to be prefiltered to have similar interests and socio-economic background. Work romances are still a huge proportion of how marriages start.

> They aren't complicated rules.

They are when the underlying terms are in the process of being redefined.
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Great! Now if we could just switch the path separator over to /
I've never met any male college student where that was why they aren't having sex. I highly doubt this is a major factor for any but a very small number of people (and those people are unlikely to have sex for other reasons anyway).
Most webcomic artists have been using this model for a while now; no one likes ads and they don't pay much, but $1 a month on Patreon to see pages a week early isn't too much to ask. There are often higher tiers for bonus content (sketches, high-res pages, side comics, etc.) as well.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3297...
That's pretty neat! Will have to try that the next time I'm using Windows.

Based on the peer comments I was replying to, a lot of Windows developers aren't even aware of this ability (hence my comment).

Thanks for clarifying!
As others have pointed out, I mainly mentioned our faith as the reason that drives us to serve the greater community such as the seniors at the hospice care center we visited; I almost didn't but i thought it was worthwhile given it's probably an uncommon first date.

I have and love many family members and friends who aren't Christian who of course have done similarly empathetic things out of the goodness of their heart; I'm sure we can all name such people in our lives - we should share their stories too.

I really appreciate the author and in light of this story, all the health care employees who work tirelessly to support and care for the ailing and downtrodden. This is what "loving your neighbor as you would love yourself" means.
As much as the marketplace analogy makes me uncomfortable it is what I’ve observed personally.
You can use a service like this if you just want the summary (works pretty well most of the time): https://www.summarizebot.com/
Or just use dating apps. The intent is established up front and because of that there is less emphasis on threading social norms.
Hmm unfortunately I don't have an answer for your question. Though sounds like KeePass is the next best thing. You can define custom auto-type patterns, for forms that don't follow the typical <username><tab><password><enter> format. It's great for saving ftp sites for filezilla, or ssh logins.
American culture has deep roots, just like everywhere else. Just because the ideology of human rights or progressivism doesn’t identify itself as a post-Christian movement that doesn’t really make sense except on light of Christianity doesn’t make it untrue. The line from the Quakers with God’s inner light in each person to the inherent dignity of man is not exactly subtle. Likewise sex worker hostile feminism in Sweden or Norway uses similar rhetoric of concern for sex workers while doing everything in their power to make their lives hell. Just because the feminists in question don’t talk about Christ that doesn’t mean they’re not the same kind of judgmental bourgeois Lutherans their grandmothers were.