skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seattle has 600,000 people. In a given year there are 30 murders and 300 rapes. One can collect 175,200,000 amateur camera footage of 'an hour in the life of the average Seattle-ite' until one encounters an hour with a murder, or 17,520,0000 such peaceful one hour videos until one captures a rape on camera.

Does the presence of overwhelmingly peaceful footage of average people going by their average days make Seattle at large an Utopia with no crime? Is that footage in itself sufficient evidence to abolish the police and the court system, because, look, there are 17,520,000 hours of peaceful footage before something terrible happens to someone?

It is incredibly difficult to build an accurate image of a large scale group of people judging by a few hours of direct experience. 1000 harder if through footage selected by people with their own agendas. Media coverage, especially audio-visual coverage, is wild because media coverage is simply an inappropriate way to depict such phenomena.
I honestly think this is a larger factor than is generally given credit. There is the 'vicarious experience' element of it that may help sate some part of the brain, and the 'i don't measure up' element that shames some out of even trying.
Yes it's a shame, I have so many fond memories of playing condition zero. Used to switch between playing CS:CZ, frontpage and photoshop.

Back when PSD slicing was a thing.
that "lesser amount" is often close to 95% of the union amount, though, so you still end up financially supporting an entity that you disagree with, and not being able to use the full resources they provide.

If you are philosophically opposed to unions, you shouldn't have to pay them at all.
The idea is that soft obsolete/duplicate is used to make one side of the link more visible and the other side less visible. It definitely requires the addition of a new mechanism, or at least an adaptation of existing mechanisms.

When you search how to solve the hypothetical JavaScript problem I mentioned, the classic highly upvoted jQuery version of the question is up top, but if you can't see how that addresses your issue you can keep digging (or keep asking) for a version that makes sense to you.

Spammy, low effort, almost character for character duplicates can still be removed. I certainly acknowledge that the line is not always easy to define, but I think giving the reader what they probably want fast and then letting them sort through the long tail if needed is the approach better suited to programmer Q&A where the ability/background range is huge and database searching skills are above average.
That makes us so happy to hear, thanks for sharing. Sending a screenshot of this to the stream host now : )
Of course, that hardware receiving a lot of praise has a lot of software (firmware) behind it too. The line between great hardware and software isn't really that distinct in my mind. Lots of things that may have once been mechanical in nature have software behind it instead because of that amorphous trait of it brings about great flexibility.
If we truly want marriage equality, we need to accept that incest would need to be legal.

I don't condone incest. The logical similarities between same sex marriage and incestuous marriage are just too plain to ignore. The culture has just evolved to say that 'gay' is not icky but 'incest' is icky.
Why is it not the other way around? i.e. rich females getting a lot of males.
That's surprising because what gets bounced back from overcast skies is long-wave radiation (infrared) - which I didn't think had an impact on solar panel production. This occurs because the absorptivity of a clear sky is higher then it's emissivity, so clear sky will in net absorb the long-wave radiation, which is why you get dew on grass and car windshields overnight.
The trick is I'm not an incel. I'm the opposite. I've seen this with my own two eyes for years and am completely shocked by it.
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Plenty of people can construct arguments that breaking the rules are acceptable when they do it.
For reading code, which arguably should happen more often than writing code, having the variable name first makes it easier to find, since it's right near the beginning of the line and it's a single word. If the type comes first, I have to scan the line to figure out where the type ends and the variable name begins.

Also, having "let" at the beginning of the line makes it immediately clear that it's a variable definition, whereas if it starts with some arbitrary type I haven't seen before I have to spend more time figuring out what's happening. Good syntax highlighting helps, but I think starting with types like C/C++/D is less elegant than starting off with a keyword that clearly identifies what the line does.

Similar applies for function definitions. It's nice when the function names are all lined up and not buried halfway across the screen because it has some long return type.
I’ll bet the causation is more like the inverse.

(This is the best construction I could come up with. Native English speakers enlighten me please.)
I don't think OP said "high-pressure."

On tear gas, CDC has https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/riotcontrol/factsheet.asp :

People exposed to riot control agents may experience some or all of the following symptoms
immediately after exposure:

* Eyes: excessive tearing, burning, blurred vision, redness
* Nose: runny nose, burning, swelling
* Mouth: burning, irritation, difficulty swallowing, drooling
* Lungs: chest tightness, coughing, choking sensation, noisy breathing (wheezing),
shortness of breath
* Skin: burns, rash
* Other: nausea and vomiting

Long-lasting exposure or exposure to a large dose of riot control agent, especially
in a closed setting, may cause severe effects such as the following:

* Blindness
* Glaucoma (a serious eye condition that can lead to blindness)
* Immediate death due to severe chemical burns to the throat and lungs
* Respiratory failure possibly resulting in death

Coughing and shortness of breath are especially nasty during the COVID pandemic.
And none of blindness, glaucoma, immediate death, or respiratory failure sound especially fun.
+ a huge rise in fertility tourism, continued rise of single mothers

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/30412...
I dont think this is new. C and C++ came from Bell Labs, for example. Cobol from the USA government, FORTRAN from IBM. Java from sun, javascript from netscape.

In general, they all had a big institution. I presume these provided a a few ingredients, like

* A strong urge to solve a real-world problem

* A cradle, where smart people had time and resources to build a basic core

* A broadcast platform as others would look up to the institution, and notice what they were doing

From the top of my head, perl and python don't fit in this pattern, so its not universal, but I would dare to call it common.
It wasn't always so easily accessible and in such vast quantities. Downstream was slow, there was that wild west time of p2p in the late 90s-00s where you never really knew what you'd get. Now it's ridiculously pervasive.
Something tells me that a lot of these guys would be angry and unhappy even if they were in a relationship.
True, I'm being needlessly pedantic here :)

And who knows, they could have bought the parts and assembled it, if they can find things in stock somewhere.
Buy into a closed, preferential application platform in order to find a mate, or else restrict yourself to people who would spend time at a club? With a system that restrictive and bar-lowering, it’s little wonder people aren’t having much luck.
There have been a couple others that come to mind.

With the CEO of Cerebras (a buzzy and well-funded chip startup) on the ARK Invest podcast: https://ark-invest.com/podcast/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-a.... I will say that the interviewee here was a little bit more coy, and the podcast generally is geared more towards a business audience, though they have had very top tier technical talent on.

Also from ARK Invest was this discussion of the just launched Nvidia A100 GPUs: https://ark-invest.com/podcast/fyi-ep67-nvidia-gpu/.

From the Matroid conference, the chief architect at Groq (another buzzy chip startup): https://youtu.be/q-lBj49iF9w
Not all needs can just be covered by the economy, of course. You cannot make people respect or love someone.
I was talking purely about basic physical needs such as enough varied good food and decent shelter.
As your link says, 'Man is a perpetually wanting animal.'

I would say a desirable job is one with

- mostly pleasant tasks,

- good working conditions (not hard on the body (heavy lifting and bad positions, no natural light, noisy, bad air quality, ..) and mind (bad stress, bad social fit, ..),

- good relationships with the people around you, (and the ability to leave if they don't work for you)

- a good amount of agency (where 'good' might differ from person to person),

- achievable and worthwhile goals that do not feel like 'bullshit work', with a good feedback loop,

- and probably more I cannot think of off the top of my head right now.

(Respect and reward of other people is definitively a big plus, but if you yourself think your job is worthwhile it's probably enough to count as desirable.)

Most of these are not material rewards (though not having them can increase profit). If the only reason somebody does a specific job at all is money, the above conditions are not met/the person is not actively happy about doing it, and it can be done by a machine just as easily, I say we shouldn't have a need for this person to do it. Still, current society demands people have a job, any job, or even several, as a value in itself.

How the profit from work done is distributed is whole other (but connected) story. (Concerning your last question, I would argue that this disconnect to profit is already the case for many many people.)

Sorry for not writing clearly, this topic would probably warrant a seminar with lots of beer and reading at least.
Thing is, every time we discuss this it ends up following the same path.

I see these iOS features as a mechanism to improve C safety on iOS, while you don't.

We would be better if Apple would just reboot the whole stack in Swift, but that will take years, if ever, so from a security advocate point of view, I see that better as what PCs offer nowadays, specially after the misstep that MPX ended up being.
This is really, really cool. I've been dreaming of a system like this for years (with better persistent context and a voice interface) - a proper Star Trek computer!
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No. That extremism can be explained by oppressive sexual culture in general, not only polygamy (which is not as widespread as people think).

You can’t even date. Many marry young for that reason.
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Yeah, we've definitely discussed a pricing strategy like that. For now, we're just trying to keep it super simple until we get more data on how people are using it.

I know that virtually no startup gets pricing correct right out of the gate, so I'm sure we'll be tweaking it!
come on. dont be stupid. i jist wanted tk be nicr.

btw i just confirmed with my wife. being a gentleman scored me a lot of points she says..

so call me sexist as much as you want :-) i already won . jk
I think that unions in Sweden would be better classified as Professional Societies. There are unions for different professions, and they help with training, education, discounts etc. A lot of people in UK and America unions are associated with striking miners etc.
Last I checked I was only 99.9% sure that nothing was ever being sent to plotly servers. I needed it to be 100%, not even possible for that to happen.

edit: but due to this post I checked again and it seems this is no longer an issue. So +1 to plotly.
That's the thing about positive feedback loops. Sometimes they can be extremely negative.
Hey Benjamin, I need a new body :)
I am curious, as you approach a door with a woman, do you open the door for her and let her through first or it's a matter of who get to the door first goes first? Is it saying the words that is weird or the action of letting ladies go first that is weird?

I am in my forties and let the ladies go first.
Economist had an interesting article on violence related to polygamy. I'd be interested if political extremism is a subcase of a violence or something orthogonal.
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017/12/19/the-...
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> believe many of these men will eventually find someone once enough of the women who are now rejecting them face biological realities and are forced to settle if they want to have children.

Who wants to be last choice? Maybe many of these men will wise up and marry a foreign girl(despite the usual shaming) or just hire sexual workers.
I've noticed this among the young men in my extended family and friends. One guy is model cute, and goes out on Tinder "dates" whenever he wants (new girl weekly, at least). He had a live-in girlfriend, but with an open relationship.

And if I were one of these women, I'd probably do the same thing. Even if you can't marry a hottie, if you can have sex with one a few times, that still sounds like fun.

The other guys, who are "normal", and certainly not homely, just don't go out at all, even at what I would consider to be a fairly advanced age. I suspect some are still virgins. Instead, video games and pot.

Since I am homely, this is exactly what I'd be doing if I were young now, given society's recent barrage of disparagement towards men. And especially if I knew someone like adult-me who got absolutely crushed by alimony.

I foresee no particular solution. I think we'll just follow Japan and South Korea. Other societies with different norms will simply displace us. Which I think is fine.
As a composer I agree to some extent. Like, I don't sit down and say "oh lets use some augmented sixths today", but I definitely refer back to the "rules" of music theory a lot when I get stuck or I'm looking for a way to communicate a certain mood in a piece.

And this kinda device-reference approach, I believe, is mathematical. And I also think that a lot of what makes music tick is that inherent usage of the musical language we study or grow up with. Truly original music imo doesn't really exist[0]; the intentional or unintentional borrowing of ideas is why music theory is a field of study: to describe the ways in which music works. I think even modern techniques (set theory, 12-tone rows, and atonal music overall) has to look at the existing rules and say "what can we do differently" -- even as Romantic-era composers got more adventerous in their use of texture, harmony, tonality, etc.

(The story of Charles Ives, who spent most of his younger life being "untrained" by his father to sing duets in overlapping keys and the like, is a good example of this.)

> ... actual composition, which is developed to a level that far exceeds the guidelines of species counterpoint itself

While true, I still think it's more of a spectrum than a binary "all or nothing" mathematical approach, which is why I believe that musicianship is more mathematical than not. I agree that it far exceeds the "use a forth and you're beheaded" approach but I'd be interested to hear music that is entirely free of some sort of process.

[0] note: the discussion of originality in music is probably an entire essay on its own, lol
If work is for work, then why do we keep bringing politics to the workplace?

I agree tho, work is for work. It's hard to draw the line when you spend at least 8 hours there, and go home keep working or checking slack and you build your whole life around your job/career..
> "apex predator" men

The chad
>I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious push for legalized polygamy in a few years.

I mentioned the same thing to my wife, only half-joking. Many of her friends are single, professional women who don't want to date down. The problem is that all of the men they're interested in (millionaires in their 30s and 40s) get married quickly after they signal they're on the market. It seems to me there's presently an "inefficiency" in the market where they could take on a second (or more), willing wife if only it were legal.

It might be dangerous to society to have so many permanently single men, but the status quo appears to negatively impact educated women.
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Precisely. And then people defend slow bloated software and systems by claiming this software is "doing much more today". Yeah, not really. Google Docs does nothing WordPerfect couldn't do (and much better) back in the '90s. If you take away collaborative editing (which is janky at best, and surely could have been done in the '90s if anyone cared) then Google Docs is doing much much less. Slack is IRC with pictures (which I'm positive existed well before Slack), and yet consumes gigs of RAM. What the fuck are we doing. IRC offered way more customization.

Dark mode really gets me though. I've been doing themes on X11 since 1995 at least. You could even do themes on Windows 3.x. Why is everyone killing so much time and energy discussing this binary mode "feature" in 2020? It makes no goddamn sense.
Still could be a powder keg. Lack of sex will drive young men crazier than lack of wealth. “Incel” terrorism is already much more common than class terrorism where poor people just start killing rich people.
> I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious push for legalized polygamy in a few years.

If history is any guide this will likely lead to widespread social problems if it takes off.
It’s a joke. I followed that account and follow her new one now.
Good on you. Keep letting people know.
Making the world flat and hyper-connected seems as if it leads to a winner-take-all outcome.

Example: putting commerce online created the Amazon monopoly. It's easier than ever to buy from any store you want online, but paradoxically everyone goes to Amazon. This is mostly because everyone goes to Amazon, therefore virtually any product is available there. Only niche products require you to shop elsewhere.

So we've put sex online too: Tinder, dating sites, etc. It has never been easier to "shop" for potential sex partners. Is this paradoxically resulting in a narrowing of sexual pairings?

I wonder if the paradox can be understood if we look at biology. Imagine the Earth were a uniform environment with a uniform climate, no mountain ranges, no rivers, etc. I imagine that a single species would come to dominate each niche. There might be one large predator, one large ruminant, one bird of prey, one burrowing rodent, and so on... or maybe two or three, but not more than that. You'd probably have a biodiversity collapse.

No boundaries = no diversity?
It's not really a powder keg because we really don't suffer as a society if the excluded men don't get to have kids.
> It's concerning to me the author doesn't have a basic understanding of why underage laws exist.

I think he does, he is not stupid. I guess he just wanted attention and tweets like that play well into his base, who might not have the same understanding.
I felt baffled by this thread until I read this response. async/await for me has always been about managing this kind of dependency nightmare. I guess if all you have to do is spawn 100 jobs that run individually and report back to some kind of task manager then the performance gains of threads probably beats async/coroutine based approaches on a pure speed benchmark. But when I have significant chains of dependent work then the very idea of using bare threads and callbacks to manage that is annoying.

At least in Typescript nowadays, the ability to just mark a function `async` and throw an `await` in front of its invocation drastically lowers the barrier to moving something from blocking to non-blocking. In the same cases if I had to recommend the same change with thread pools and callbacks (and the manual book-keeping around all that) most developers just wouldn't bother.
I would also say people don't need to be having sex... even if they are unhappy about it.
There's definitely not "one" central server. Depending on how they route your connection (do they proxy you or redirect you), you might still just be connected to the server you're playing on, but the "ping" is also more complicated in itself since the protocol is more complicated. Instead of information from the client to the server which updates all the dynamic entity states, you are instead sending input commands and getting video and audio back. So, not only would "ping" measure something entirely different, it would possibly be optimized for in the path between you and the remote differently as well.

They may have decided that instead of providing a metric that might lead people to believe it's similar to and implies the same thing as it did in the past, they'll remove it. If so, I would hope they would put something semi-equivalent in it's place. Maybe they did, but it's so removed it's hard to locate?
> getting married and starting a family

This assumes people really want to do that. Children are too expensive unless you have a lot of resources already. I think if costs of basic living keep increasing the future is increasingly childless for many people.
That's what a virtual private network is - an overlay on transport networks to allow a group of devices under the same ownership to communicate. While VPNs are often used to cloak IP addresses, they were originally a corporate thing. Your in-house net could be transported over the public Internet while keeping its in-house address space and some degree of privacy.
Definitely the pacifying nature of this, and sedentary lifestyle surrounding multimedia. Add marijuana in the mix, and you have even more lethargy.

Someone mentioned low economic status but that never prevented people from shagging. Low culture is its own culture. Impoverished countries have a higher fertility rate. By all the counts the average young man is not marked by "low economic status" yet still has less sex.
You can't separate the factors like you're trying to do.
> you're going to continue to see a decline in the total fertility rate as women shift from casual seeking to relationship/nesting in their 30s and find the market for partners to be much smaller than they would've anticipated

These women tend to be wealthier on average, and thus have access to various “artificial” methods for conception. Egg freezing is becoming mainstream.
Incel shit? His comment is pretty accurate, just the truthish?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502286 for a good example.