skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proximity can go both ways... You might as well develop a strong liking of girls/women because of proximity.

I've been bombarded from young age (by pop culture, TV, magazines, porn) by thin women wearing make-up. I have a strong sexual preference for thin (fitspo thin, not anorexic thin) women and a strong dislike of women wearing make-up. Go figure...
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Variable valve timing.
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We know that early universe was low entropy - that is the explanation for the 2nd law of thermodynamics. That is known as the past hypothesis. The laws of physics dictate that the most likely state to come from and go to, is higher entropy because there are vastly more high entropy states than low. That directly violates the 2nd law, but is not unreasonable. Imagine 2 boxes of gas with 10 gas molecules in side A and B. They are separated by a wall with a single small hole in it. Every now and then a gas molecule with go from one side to the other, A to B, without one going the other way. We just went from a high entropy state to a lower entropy state in a closed system.

But, coming from a high entropy state does not fit with the world we see, so we're pretty sure that the past hypothesis is true.

One of the leading theories about the early universe and how it lead to the world we know today, is inflation. In that theory "stuff" is basically created out of nothing, meaning that the early universe was small, hot, and with (relatively) few particles in a specific configuration. The inflation and reheating dramatically increased the entropy. In other words - there was much less stuff, and it needed to be in a particular configuration to expand into the universe as we know it. That is low entropy.

Note: I am not a theoretical physicist, so the above is my layman understanding of the topic.
> There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome.

My worst episodes of CHS I've had from smoking synthetic cannabinoids, I'm not aware of neem oil having any relevance in the production of those.

Imho a large factor could simply be an overabundance of product leading to people overconsuming because "Cannabis has no negative effects", so nobody cares about basics like tolerance breaks anymore [0], instead people just keep upping their THC doses to get past their tolerance threshold.

[0] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/THC#Dependence_and_abuse_pot...
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I've noticed that as well just now.

I still like the effect, but I might have to create individual assets for each Case Study, when I add all my projects so they work well together.
The microcars over here in Finland are often brands Aixam or Ligier or, well, Microcar. These are French manufacturers. Top speed is limited to 45 km/h, and they are smaller than Trabant, but otherwise they resemble it in many respects.

They cost as much as small real cars, and are vastly poorer in practically all respects (serviceability, fuel consumption, driveability, equipment, collision safety). Finnish government plans to enable "normal" cars to be equipped with speed limiters to 60 km/h so that a 16-year-old with a minicar license can drive them. EU is not happy.
I'll admit, I picked "9th century" at random, without knowing much about it.
It can kinda easily be misread as "not a single one".
> if anything science touches turns out to be devoid of God, then why should we expect to find Him

I don't think science can be used to find any proof of the existence of God
I find it difficult to believe a universal genetic cause since same-sex relationships generally don’t produce off-spring and would be naturally selected out.
It would be exceptional if sexual orientation was the one complex trait with no genetic component.
>Now, I'm seeing more and more LGB people freely admit what had been considered an open secret: that many of those who insisted that they were "born this way" actually consider sexual orientation not to be immutable, but fluid, to various degrees.

You're assuming that "being born gay" implies a static, albeit nonbinary, sexual orientation, and you seem to be confusing the concept of sexual orientation with gender identity.

Yes, it's possible to be genderfluid and to be attracted to both men and women, to different degrees at different times, but none of that implies a conscious choice to "be gay." Do you believe straight people choose to be straight? If not, why would it be the case that heterosexuality is genetically determined, but not homosexuality or bisexuality?
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Case in point: a homologated (i.e. stock road car) Ford RS200 Evo set a record of 0-60 in 3.07 seconds back in 1986. When tuned for racing (non-road-legal) they would hit 60 in 2.1 sec.

That's with a 2.0 litre straight-four engine, in the 1980s.

Optimizing for ludicrous acceleration has always been possible. But it is at odds with race track performance, which is what Ferrari, Bugatti, Lamborghini are focused on. At the track, if you are going below 80 mph at any point after the first 4 seconds, you're doing it wrong.
Doesn't change the fact that it is misleading. "No single X cause" sounds as if it has no basis in X.
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In this context, I use “random” to mean without the intent of a sentient being.
> Environmental factors have never been identified, and there is no clue as to when the determination is made.

> but it seems to be determined long before [puberty].

If your first statement is true, your second statement has no basis. If your second statement is based on anything, your first statement is false.

Just pointing this out because I'm curious what the actual findings in this area are.
It can be compared to a dice. If you throw a dice, the outcome is determined by physical laws. But you still can't predict it, because the problem is too complex.

Sexual orientation seems to be somewhat similar, in that environmental factors, akin to chance, lead to choosing one path among several.
Ah, I see the issue. It's the timestamping problem.

You have no way of detecting whether a user "bought a ticket" on seeing the inspector or not.
Yet very few can write an enjoyable novel which others can read.

Try reading documentations to see how the 70k+ vocabulary helped the writer and reader.

Sigils like $ and # are even worse. I had to maintain an old perl codebase once (# @_ holds all arguments passed)
Well, the GDPR doesn't apply to "a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity", so they can upload them, assuming they're personal contacts.

For contacts of clients and such, probably yes, since whatever conditions for allowing their processing in Gmail probably also apply to Skype (and vice-versa). But it might not if for some reason the other service offers less security or control over that data.
Because bookmarks are a pain in the ass. I have 174 bookmarks for sites that I have only visited once and will never visit again and finding whatever I want takes minutes.

I literally cannot comprehend why anyone would use bookmarks when the friction is multiple orders of magnitude higher.

99% of my tabs do not live longer than 10 minutes so why should I want to persist them in a messy non hierarchical list that is neither organized by context nor by time? If you somehow make bookmarks as frictionless as tabs by making the new tab button create a bookmark and then show that bookmark as a tree structure on the sidebar then it wouldn't be any meaningfully different from a tab other than the fact that it has to reload the entire page every time you switch bookmarks.
Ray tracing tech is in, so this person did it in Excel
Dunno about grappa, but vinars is distilled wine which is either consumed directly or used to make cognac by aging it in oak casks or with oak splinters and maybe adding some additional ingredients such as vanilla, black tea or Sambucus flower infusion. It really depends on the producer and the recipe, but home made cognac is made like that. Each producer obviously has their own recipe. The best I've had was just aged in an oak barrel for 15y. It had a mild amberish colour. The ones made with splinters or wood residue have a too pronounced oak taste.
Buses are online. I’ve seen them authenticate a new card in real-time (they charge £0.10 on a card they haven’t seen recently to check if it’s cancelled).
like a motorcycle it has a reserve setting on the fuel line vent. That means if main runs empty you just need to change over to reserve and find a gas station.
Quad core is entry level now, when did you last buy a laptop :-)

Having a laptop with say a 16/32 Ryzen 3 (which believe is due fairly soon) would be pointless
This is like saying there could be no genetic cause of blindness as blindness is naturally selected against.
Just because they can't pin something down to a single or low number of genes doesn't automatically mean there isn't a strong genetic determinant - it just means it might be spread among many factors, making any one factor hard to pinpoint.

From a high level view, the idea that something that is so critical to species survival, like a sex drive, isn't largely genetic determined seems rather unlikely.

I suspect the situation is something like height - this primer gives a good overview of properties of something that might be largely genetic but by many many factors. Also it covers the issue of rare exceptions, being different from the general rule.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height

Also note height is a continuous function not a binary state of tall or short - I suspect the same is here - this would easily explain, why some people feeling they were born that way, and others feel it's more a choice.
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Anything “can” happen if you want to define that it can. The point is that the why in many religions can lead to people thinking humans have a special status, vs the how indicating there is no reason to assume that.

The problem comes when people make decisions based on god making the desired outcome to pass, such as “don’t worry about climate change, everything happens for the better and god will take care of us”. There are religions that believe their purpose is to breed and multiply, without regard to the parameters of the system, because god will take care of the problems.
Here's a better[1] overview: https://lwn.net/Articles/593676/

[1] Less blog spam, less click bait, better reporting.
That should still result in specific mutations having significant effects.

And maternal effects are a thing that can be computed statistically, both as a genetic and environmental factor.

And it's not helpful to confuse sexual orientation with hormonal causes or effects.
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A lot of otherwise smart people in here didn't read the article and are popping off about how gays choose to be gay.

The article says that it is a POLYGENIC situation, as in "not ONE gene, but many."
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This needs to be at top. Lots of commenters seem to have misunderstood the title just as this comment suggests.
These fancy supercars come with "launch control". A mechanism that will rev in a high range (charging the turbos) and then release the clutch with full torque. I wonder if that helps...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_control_(automotive)
So, it's actually the first time in history of Conan where I personally think it became a useful tool and am using it professionally in several projects for my clients. It still has a lot of quirks though and one can easily get into trouble when setting up dependencies across different platforms.

I've looked more closely into Conan several times in the past and also added bug reports here and there, but it finally became somewhat usable (for me and my projects at least). Also, I'm quite picky when it comes to CMake integration, because I don't want my package manager to interfere with my build system configuration. Conan finally reached a state where one can simply check in a conanfile.txt in the repository and use the `cmake_paths` generator to fetch all dependencies before calling CMake to generate a project for you.

I also decided to setup my own Artifactory server as the official bintray comes with a max. size limitation of 500 MB per artifact which is way too low, considering that Qt5 with Core, Gui and Widgets statically built on Windows (release build) easily outgrows this limit.
However, once you have your infrastructure setup, it's easy to add build flavors such as sanitizers etc. for a given set of thirdparty libraries.
GAN Paradigm: If there is a network that can detect, there is a way to generate false positives.
Right, and I don't think anyone would expect any complex behavior to be brought on by changes in only a few proteins.
Most motorcycles don't have fuel gauges.

Most riders reset the trip meter when they fill up, and know pretty accurately how far the get out of a tank.

My ~20 year old Ducati has a low fuel light, which used to come on at about 1/4 of a tank (you'd safely get 40-50km after it first came on), but that stopped working in about 2001 or so.

One of my Hondas has a fuel tap with "main" and "reserve". It's splutter a bit for around a km or so - and eventually stop if you don't switch from main to reserve in time. (And then one day it'll start spluttering and you'll go to turn it to reserve, and it'll already be there because you got distracted when you filled it up and forgot to put it back on main - that's one of the reasons why I always reset the trip meter every tie I fill any of my bikes...)
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Just to put some numbers to that... at the Nordschliefe in 1974 Lauda dipped under 7 minutes. The original Veyron managed 7:40 in 2005. BMW engineers estimated their 2006 car could lap it in 5:15.

Basically, put a few corners in and I don't think it would even be close. There's quite a few cars that can claim a faster top speed than an F1 car though.
The theory has its problems, some of them are serious problems.

I attended a talk by Verlinde and he is well aware of them, but I liked his answer. He basically said that even if this theory was not a valid alternative to dark matter and was eventually proven wrong, some of their results looked very interesting and could develop into different theories, so he thought that it was worth to keep going further with this line of research.

Nevertheless, you could feel that he still had some hope they could fix these problems in some way. But it looked to me like this feeling was more a personal desire than real scientific expectations.
Apples and oranges. Stats alone are pretty meaningless when comparing what's basically a mass produced commuter car that had to meet a price point with a limited production luxury super car built without budget constraints.

The Bugattis and Aston Martins alike are engineered to lap tracks or do speed runs over and over again in comfort and luxury without any reduction in acceleration or braking performance while Tesla's drive-train reaches its thermal limits really fast if you push it and reduces its performance accordingly.

Tesla, due to how economics factor in engineering, was not designed to deliver it's peak performance in a sustained fashion but in short bursts when you need it. The Bugattis and Porsches can deliver their peak performance all day long, that's why they cost x-times more. And let's not talk about luxury or comfort.
I agree with some of your points. Podcasts have come a long way and if one takes a bit of time and is open to dialling down the filters there is lot of interesting conversations happening.
Motorcycles often have/had no gauge. The tank has a 3-way valve : 'closed'(when parked or stored), 'regular':90% of the tank contents and the 'reserve':about 10% of content to get to a gas-station.
Also a physicist here, this is correct. Some details for anyone interested https://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.2483.pdf
Besides its similarly light weight, the 3-cylinder Geo Metro was short enough to fit sideways inside a typical American parking space. Thus college kids would often lift and turn it, between two other occupied spots.
Sure - but that's a far cry from 'contradiction'.

And you overstate "explainable" - we are only able to explain things in terms of math and fundamental (well, the most fundamental found so far) physical laws. But we cannot explain the source of either of those - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Fou...
Nonviolence, plus the 2nd Amendment:

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/07/15/charl...
TIL: Microsoft C++ does reproducible builds! I tried it just now and the /Brepro flag works with the command line compiler.
The article identifies a culture war between the ordinary and the transcendent, and sees in the Patreon top 50 that the ordinary has won, but it doesn't do a great job of how it determines how it classifies the entries.

Apparently a political podcast is ordinary, things that are NSFW or dealing with history are ordinary, and photos of New Yorkers are ordinary. The only things it considers transcendent are educational videos and Amanda Palmer.

As examples of what he means by transcendent, he mentions ancient Greeks, Christianity, Enlightenment, classical music, the US Constitution and scientific revolutions.

But honestly, hasn't the ordinary always outnumbered the transcendent? There first needs to be an 'ordinary' to transcend. Even during the height of enlightenment, the world was filled with the ordinary. We remember the transcendent because it is what changes things.
Not to be too trite, but the reason there’s not much is because there’s not much to say. If you’re using college math you’re making it too complicated.

Cash flow is king. P&L tells you if you can survive for the first 1-5 years. Balance sheet tells you if it’s worth surviving for the next 5.

For SAAS it’s the basic LTV, churn rate etc.... the guy who started salesforce has a nice pdf/book floating around that I’m trying to find.

For solo consulting it’s lower your costs to bare minimum and then charge an hourly rate you can live on that assumes you work 40%-50% of the year. If you can’t find work at that rate you don’t have a business. Patrick Mckensie’s blog has nice info on raising rates once you’re started.

But in general it’s all about cash flow when you’re bootstrapping.

The best small business book I know of is Traction.
In fact I read some time ago that one mutation that does have a small contribution to sexual orientation, has the same allele frequency in most Human populations, suggesting that even the "gay" allele is positively selected for.

A Human individual's fitness affects the chances of his whole family. And it's just not true that Homosexuals don't have children. In practice they have fewer children, but more than you might think.
These guys basically travaled the world in them, not sure if those videos are available in English, but it is a lot of fun.
http://tamazpet.transtrabant.cz/
Ok, so they are just as confused, that's helpful to know:

"You can imagine life without the chemistry, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics we know. You can imagine intelligence made of plasma or computers made of dancing stars in clusters. If you have a powerful enough imagination, every cog in the architecture of life is replaceable. Except for one: gravity. Only gravity can reduce entropy and create complexity where it doesn't already exist. It is, ultimately, the origin of anything worthwhile in the Universe."
Laptop model: Samsung ChromeBook

CPU: ARM

RAM: 4MB

Screen: 11"

Personal comments: 5-7 hours battery life. Sufficient when out and about to get stuff done without having to lug around a power adaptor. Used to use a 2009 MacBook Pro, but the battery (3rd party replacement) life is only 1.5 hours or so. Not enough to get me through a day.

For getting work done efficiently, I prefer my desktop system with 3 LCDs, 2 landscape and 1 portrait for editing code, etc. I find even the biggest laptops limiting in terms of sufficient screen space to edit code, refer to specifications and test the application. With 3 screens I typically have 5 concurrent windows and a total of around 15-20 windows (not counting browser tabs). Also helps that the desktop has 64MB RAM and quad core CPU. And the best part is that it cost less than the MacBook Pro that I was tempted to buy.
Possibly a lot of shell command interpolation going on there.

What if I try to login as "bob'; rm -rf /" or some such? Is the system robust against that?
I mean, there are some reasons not to use NOT IN (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#DON.27T_USE...) but that's not a problem if you just have a list of ids.
If I understand correctly, this result is exactly equivalent to "no single genetic cause for heterosexual behavior", which does not seem as dramatic.
Very possible. Also possible there was a valid reason at the time, and even though it's no longer valid nobody bothered to look into it. All I'm saying is that "created" things exist/happen for a reason, which is not always obvious to a 3rd party. I've had this happen with my own code. I find some old code that looks really dumb, no idea why I wrote it like that. I then spend time to refactor it properly, only to hit some obscure edge case which ultimately leads me back to the 'dumb code'
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The DLL API is not stable in the Windows world,
only the libraries are stable.
For a lot of individuals and small businesses true databases have a tough learning curve. I commend the Excel developers for recognizing this and including things like Power Query and Power Pivot.

They aren't there to completely replace databases, but they are a decent middle-ground for meeting people where they are.
Yep. Reminds me of pining after a moped.

Nowadays I'd rather an electric one.

But actually I miss having a motorbike at all. Time to rent one I reckon. Whizzy whee.
Then one day, there's a 50kmh headwind on your way home...

(Assuming a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density, if you drop the assumed 100kmh cruising speed down to 75kmh, giving an airspeed of 125kmh and a trip time of 2hr 40m at your ground speed of 75kmh, you'll run out of fuel precisely between the two most inconveniently placed gas stations at the bottom of a hill in both directions...)
Go on HN. Open 5 submissions you are interested in. Also don't forget to click on the comments link. Bang you now have 10 tabs and this is just the start of your browsing session. As you read those articles you will open more tabs.
As the others already said:

You had a dipstick.

You knew how much you've driven since the last time you refueled.

And even if you just forgot everything else there is a lever on the passenger side called "Reserve". Pull that and you have about 5 liters more. That should get you to the next gas station.
That makes sense from the uploader side. But can the service store and use data about me because you uploaded it? In this case I have only added my data to Gmail, and never allowed Skype to have it and have not accepted the terms from Skype.
I understand the interest in characterful cars like this, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about Trabants is car crash videos on YouTube where they're utterly obliterated by even a pretty minor crash with a modern car. Driving one of these outside of an area with low speed limits would give me the heebie jeebies.
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> I wanted to see who I knew when LinkedIn first came out.

I'm curious, why? I sign up to different services (reluctantly) because I want to communicate with people I can't yet. Occasionally I might have some contacts on two networks, if there's some specific feature I want to use, but it's rare.