skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem with academic metrics is that if you're solving a _real_ problem (a rarity in academia, BTW), they are merely a proxy for how well you've solved the problem, and often not a good one.

Case in point: say you're building a berry picking robot using computer vision. As a part of that you'll probably use an object detection system which lets your robot see the berries and know where they are. Commonly you will use a combination of losses to optimize the system, and a combination of mean average precision metrics to evaluate how good it is. But here's the issue: even the evaluation mAP (let alone loss) does not tell you how good the robot will be at picking berries. Moreover, there's no point of reference for you to tell if e.g. mAP of 80% is "good enough". And "goodness of the robot" while it can be defined as a real world metric (e.g. robot successfully picked 90% of ripe berries and only destroyed 0.5% of the plants), usually can't be formulated as a direct optimization objective. So you end up futzing with the metrics that are easier to work with, hoping and praying that your result is good in the end.

If that doesn't sound scary enough, think of autonomous driving systems. :-)
Meanwhile their shelves are flooded with homeopathic "remedies" that appear legitimate. These items deceive consumers that have been raised to assume items stocked in a pharmacy have actual medical benefits.

People offload their trust to an authority, a pharmacy, to stock actual medicine. Just like when they go to a grocery store they expect to buy actual food and not sawdust shaped and packaged as food.

Try looking for cold or flu medicine, or earache drops at CVS. You will find the tiny print "homeopathic" on nearly every item being presented on the shelf. All of them are mimics that have all of the trappings of medicine (official looking labels, colors, words) but none of the results.

I think this is an ethical failure that is worse than the sale of tobacco, because it not only dupes people looking for proven medical solutions to say, their child's earache that bring home a vial of water instead, it also continues to lend credence to the industry of swindlers and snake oil.
So there's no reason for any one individual to look at these statistics and from them deduce that there's no point even trying? If they're just generalities and unattractive men routinely beat these odds, anyone choosing to drop out of the market has only themself to blame.

SF; where people can be convinced they'll beat incredible odds and become tech millionaires (billionaires), but give up on dating because the odds are slightly against them. These are the same people who buy lottery tickets but forego seatbelts, presumably.
I think they are talking about plastic not recycled or collected in a landfill.

"Only around 1 per cent was left uncollected and leaked into natural environments. Though only a small percentage, this nevertheless represents a significant environmental problem, since the amount of plastic waste is so high overall, and since the natural degradation of plastic is so slow, it accumulates over time."
My first thought was that it's amazing we're still routinely pulling coffins out of the ground in Egypt.

My second thought was that 10,000 years from now some follow-on replacement for humanity will be staggered at the 30 billion dead bodies we put into the ground. They'll frequently be hitting grave sites when they go to dig into the ground.
> Lua already is a first class, built in scripting language in Neovim.

Yes.

> (it can be disabled at build time)

No, Lua is not optional in Neovim.
I can’t stand the policies of Ayn Rand, but don’t hold it against her that she relied on social security at the end of her life.

I ask my accountant to make me pay what I own the government in taxes and not a cent more, yet I would have no issue whatsoever if the government raised them by 10% if that meant universal healthcare.

I don’t see a contradiction in seeing issues in the world and wanting the rules to change for everybody yet at the same time playing by those rules.

And in this case in particular, it’d be impacting his future, not even mine.
Will they ever get to the point where they decide to stop selling soda and junk food as well?
I'm not sure that this is a real change, this is already something I noticed when I was young: 'top alpha men' gets all the women and all the other men have nothing.

Edit: note that this may only happen when you're young: older women, by force, are of course less able to be picky.
So 'non alpha male' are still able to go in a relationship, but later..
I've only skimmed through the "Plot" section because I might read this in the future and I don't want to be spoiled, but doesn't this sound a lot like 1984?
Try Polychromatics if you want your mind blown :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRUm_CoW-I
Sooner or later we as society really should reassess this digital panopticon we are building/built.
Ah, it’s up from last I checked. Thanks!
this translates for me to "there is no effective AV solution"
Attractiveness is constant, but how it is perceived might have shifted. I vaguely remember that OkCupid did some "study" that men rate most woman around average attractiveness and the distribution is symmetric, but women rate most men as below average attractiveness and the distribution is skewed towards unattractive.

The post seems to be gone though.
I think the bigger concern is fire protection, which is already a solved problem with fuel cells. Shouldn't be too different for batteries.
Definitely for some people but I still enjoy the company of my wife, every couple is different.
Yours is one of the few reasonable responses so far (an influx of 'people are lobsters' believers at the moment maybe).

This also correlates with what has happened here in England. Because public health/sexual health is funded by councils at the local level and not the NHS it has borne the brunt of cuts to council budgets. As a result we've seen decreased rates of testing and increased rates of infection [0].

While there's a case to be made that Tinder et al. have something to do with it it seems like the funding view is one with actual data behind it rather than 'all the girls are sleeping with Chads and I'm forever alone' finger pointing.

[0]: https://www.bashh.org/news/news/sexual-health-experts-highli...
I suppose you misinterpret, but that is up to you. I'm not saying nobody is making lists, I'm saying the lists don't matter. Unless you are in some sort of alternate reality where you have to compete for work, the specific university you went to has no weight to it. You can probably find some sort of multinational or a FAANG job where they do try to rank applicants based on the name of the university but that is more an exception than a rule here in western Europe.

The last four large companies I worked at or contracted for didn't even look at what university I went to 15 years ago, or how certified I am. The past 5 or 6 years were relevant, and that's about it.

Perhaps if you are inexperienced or all you have is your years at a University it might matter at your first entry-level job. Or if you want to purely work in academia. But that is not what most of the MS or BS work revolves around and it is not where people are needed the most.
When you use language that is imprecise (or inaccurate) and you don't actively think about it you will start to believe those inaccuracies maybe not consciously but on some subconscious level. Having those types of ridiculous ideas in your subconscious is not good for your mental health.

An example that I can take from my life would be talking about the Iraq war. Where a person actually thinks that America is against Iraq.

Ridiculous shit like that. Some people actively think about companies and countries as human beings with emotions I would rather not contribute to that sort of simple minded thing.
It's likely that entire salmon runs are being caught in the north pacific by 15 mile long Chinese drag nets. These fish may not be around much longer.
Didn't downvote you, especially since I don't have the ability to, but:

"try the good old speaking to a girl instead of going through an app"

I think the issue may be that women are using digital tools to find relationships. Talking to my SO, being friends with a number of women, and reading the news, I can't say I blame them, as it allows them to be the selector on the first contact in a safer environment.

So:

"Are you expecting that girls should come where you live and do as you please?"

No, they probably are trying, and then when you hear that women get a multitude more of messages than men on these platforms, and going by first impressions/looks is generally easier ...

Unless you're suggesting people go out and try to pickup people at the gym, grocery store, and bar. But (being in a relationship I wouldn't know), my assumption is that's generally not what women want at this time. Or at least wasn't when I was getting advice, as a man, a handful of years ago.
I think Disney+ will be more successful than anyone can imagine. I don't know how Netflix will survive when the competition of Disney+ and HBO Max will have 95% of the best tv shows and movies.
Do you have a source for this? Any decent meta-analyses?
Haha, no, I'm 6'4" 215lbs, I row ~4km 5 days a week. I'm just a big dude. But I can imagine they'd face a similar predicament.
This is exactly it. The Windows phone OSes were forward thinking. Unfortunately, especially in versions vefore 8.1, they were very very locked down. Complete secure boot was not implemented for x86 but Microsoft was very much in favor of it for non-x86, potentially at the behest of the manufacturers and their NDAs. This extended to more than just the bootloader; e.g. most people don't even know Windows Phone 7 was a real product.

At some point MS realized this was hurting them, but it was too little too late.
Meh. We should go straight to 6G at this point. It's not like 5G is a pressing need. Current 4G LTE is more than fast enough for just about everybody.
The data was so damning the purged it, basically it said there’s no reason for most men to be on dating sites, which works against Okcupids best interest. There are mirrors.
I hear you, but “ethical failure year is worse than the sale of tobacco” is a stretch. Tobacco killed millions. Homeopathic stuff is typically harmless and not a major killer.

Also I usually find Tylenol PM just fine at my cvs. Along with benedryl, ibuprofen and other routine “real” meds.
The kind of engine swaps I'm familiar with use a wildly different motor, often requiring some fabrication to get everything to fit. And usually these projects have a lot of other DIY changes and junkyard parts. These are not pragmatic projects and things like safety, AC and working gauges are not necessarily a priority.
So, if the same person happens to hit a repost and still holds the same opinion they want to publicly state, they are supposed to rephrase it? How does that help your signal/noise ratio: this seems to increase noise.

And I totally see a scenario where copy paste makes sense. Maybe the person wanted to have a discussion about their idea and there wasn't enough engagement (for whatever reason) previously. Repeating (and copy-pasting) the same idea with the hope that this time it gets discussion and cleared up seems totally fine.

Even in real life people do totally repeat themselves.

Anyhoo, you seem to be some sort of admin, so I guess this is important for you folks.

My 2c.
Hey, I remember wmx! That was pretty fun actually! Back in my super-minimalist phase, right between WindowMaker and ratpoison, I actually used it for a while!
As somebody that discovered the USA not so long ago, this was one of the weirdest parts.

Pharmacies carry a lot of stuff that have nothing to do with health and that includes junk food.
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> adding a fuel cell to an ice

For anyone as confused as I was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tank#Racing_fuel_cell
In all honesty, skills could be another factor. Although we have many extremely competent people, the general job market in France for example doesn’t require very advanced technical skills. I compare to Sydney where, with 4 years experience in France and with credentials, I wasn’t up to the game. Sydney people, for example, are extremely skilled.

So we must not throw away the skills factor, the ability of employees to build an extremely successful company, their motivations, their awareness of new business practices, although it is very difficult to measure it. Perhaps France is ahead (after all, a lot of Linux is European, along with DailyMotion and others), perhaps it is not (...after all, DailyMotion only got the second seat and is now dwarfed by Youtube).
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That sounds like home assistant icm with esphome. I flash all iot devices I buy with a firmware I trust (or at least is under my control) which is surprisingly easy to do with esphome. I pass a yaml file and a USBtty device to a docker and out comes a new firmware flashed to any of the hundreds of esp32 or esp8266 based iot devices. I have power metering wifi sockets and home brewed breadboards with sensors and 16A/240V power switches all flashed with a firmware the manufacturer has nothing to do with.
> Held up for months

Held up by AMD, not by LLVM's reviewers. They added some comments right away and AMD sent an updated patch 2 months later.
In that sense, defending against any cyber attack ultimately comes down to an element of luck,... that the attacker didn’t gain access one level deeper, that they didn’t exploit a particular vulnerability that would have allowed wider or more persistent access, etc.

As far as initial response playbooks go, I would imagine password reset (with session clearing) and restore from known working backup is a pretty good start.
It’s business 101, you have to make your customers need you :)
CVS isn’t just a pharmacy. It’s more of a variety store that also has a pharmacy.
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> a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market (not by choice)

Please don't make up things like this. There's tons of well-researched data available from the CDC and NIH. None of it supports this misogynist conspiracy that men have stopped having sex.

> Regarding opposite-sex sexual behavior, 95.3% of women and 93.5% of men aged 18–44 had ever had any opposite-sex sexual contact.

There are pages of tables in this study alone: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr088.pdf

Sexual activity is slowly declining across the board, and more in young women than young men:

> In 2011–2015, 42.4% of never-married female teenagers (4.0 million) and 44.2% of never-married male teenagers (4.4 million) had had sexual intercourse at least once by the time of the interview (were sexually experienced). These levels of sexual experience among teenagers are similar to those seen in 2002 and 2006–2010 data. Longer-term trends, from 1988 to 2011–2015, show declines in the percentage of teenagers who were sexually experienced.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr104.pdf
> "Homeopathic stuff is typically harmless and not a major killer."

Does that analysis include people who neglect to seek real medical attention because snakeoil crackpottery has lured them into a false sense of security?

(I would not expect as many people to be harmed by homeopathy as cigarettes, but nevertheless I don't think you should characterize it as harmless.)
> What matters more than anything now are your looks.

"Queer Eye" does a great job of demonstrating the impact of self-care on looks; aka; that a lot more is possible with what you're born with than you might be thinking. There's a great quote from one of the clients that I can't find, that's something along the lines of "showed me what was possible if I just cared."

If you feel like you're doing that, and still unhappy / unsuccessful, you might be https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_gordon_levitt_how_craving_a...
What I'm thinking now with this is that phrases like "trying too hard" and "just be yourself" are saying is that rather than try to do actions to cause some outcome, you need another level of indirection: do actions that express your inner self, and then adjust (aka, work on) that inner self until the outcomes of that expression are what you're after. It's like, I don't know, skipping leg day, or eating a balanced meal: you're a system, and to modify a system you have to approach it holistically.

Anecdotally, this is working for me (as much as I can actually assign causality). Recently, within a specific but repeating and thus suited for experimentation context, my "dating" life did a ridiculous 180. Most of what I did with my looks was keep the beard a lot more trimmed (theory: this way it can look taken care of) and have been doing a sort of mixed coached yoga / PT thing that's had a subtle but positive impact on my physique. The _other_ major change was my vibe, but that's a lot harder to describe; suffice to say "go to talk therapy." So either not a lot of appearance-based self-care / improvement had a massive impact, and/or a lot of emotional self-care had a huge impact.

That all said, I am not expressing agreement with your thesis; I am only expressing my own experience with impacting my dating life through long-term self-care.
Many pharmacies installed soda fountains and sold ice cream to give customers an excuse to give them even more money as they waited for their prescriptions to be prepared.

Maybe doctors offices and mechanics should consider something similar.
> Genuine question: why are the people who subscribe to this world view predominantly white men?

I would assume asians and indians would subscribe to it even more
Well, it's not that filling landfills isn't bad. But, what's worse for the environment than being wasteful is greenhouse gases. So if shoving all of that stuff in a landfill leads to less greenhouse gas emission than recycling, it's better right now.

That was exactly my point. When you actually dig into it, you find that current forms of plastic recycling (and, in fact, most materials) probably create more greenhouse gases than simply making new plastic, often by a wide margin. This article talks about how this new type of recycling might be more efficient in terms of reusing the old plastic, but not the net effect on greenhouse gases which is what we should be paying attention to.

If it takes considerably more energy to do this process then it does the old processes or just making new plastic, it could be a net loss for the environment.

If we're forced to choose between more landfills or more greenhouse gas emissions, landfills are an easy pick.
Out of all the students I graduated with only 1 or 2 (one of them ended up quitting during the grace period so it depends on how you want to count that) ended up with jobs that they only got because of our university, and none of my current colleagues were selected based on where they got their MS or BS. Two of the ex-Googlers we have here were selected by Google for their MS, but then again, rather the exception (only a small number of jobs use ranking) than the rule.

We select on merit, drive and competence applied recently. And where you got your MS or BS or if you have one at all weighs proportionally to the rest (and in the past 2 years we haven't even had anyone join any of the teams where it even mattered if they had one at all because their were selected on the rest).
That's nothing. Signed overflow in C/C++ is _undefined behavior_. Which means there's no guarantee that you'll get anything recognizable out of it. :-)
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Guess again?
It's not illegal to destroy someone's privacy but it is illegal to destroy someone's property. As odd as that is.

I wonder if there might be a loophole by which one could make all their private information classed as "trade secret" and then divulging any of it or snooping into any of it would be against the law.
Sure it does, panic & exertion makes you bleed out faster...
Must see PDF here:

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This is the tip of the iceberg. PDF link below:

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Pushing it off to the negatives does not solve the issue of overflow.
Soda and junk food in moderation won’t kill you. There isn’t really a safe dose of tobacco. You can be very healthy and enjoy a Coke from time to time. Health isn’t about always avoiding junk — it’s about balance and moderation.
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> "I think there is no question that rich people on average have a huge leg up compared those who are not. That’s fundamentally broken."

We already know that it's fundamentally broken but we also know that this action isn't going to change that. So what exactly are you trying to say here?
Ah perhaps. I feel like we can assume the same people who don't put plastic in the recycle bin or trash can today will continue to do so no matter how efficient plastic recycling is.
Great idea, IMO, but how do you get traction? It's a political/social issue in the end.
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I think this is more nuanced. Right now companies cooperation with China is in the news. For example, both Blizzard and the NBA have betrayed American ideals in favor of making money in China. Other companies have built a dependent relationship with China over many years, and have been forced through this dependence to support China (Apple comes to mind here). Other companies are actively distancing themselves from politics (gitlab).

As a society, I think we need to decide what is best. In my opinion, companies should be entirely apolitical, both internationally and domestically. Further companies should not assert any influence _at all_ over political speech by their employees. In return, employees should not imply corporate support for a particular political view.

From my perspective, gitlab is doing the right thing. I don't think corporations have _any right_ to involve themselves in politics, even if the majority supports that position.

Edit: if popular sentiment is that American corporations shouldn't have a dependent relationship with China, then the _elected_ government should enforce sanctions. I don't need corporations enforcing moral policy.
It's an interesting analogy, but I don't know if it points to anything actually truthful. Salmon are a very heavily r-selected species and humans are possibly one of the most k-selected species on Earth, made even more so with the invention of birth control. Of course we have different strategies in how we raise our children.
The "pharmacy" is the window/counter in the back of the store. A typical CVS will contain a pharmacy, but generally the fridge full of cola is not considered part of that pharmacy. You find similar "pharmacy within a more general store" arrangements in places like Walmart, many grocery stores, etc.

In other words, Walmart is not a pharmacy but Walmart has a pharmacy.
This guide is enough, and it's an excellent primer: https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/