skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose because sexual gratification is one of our species basest instincts, and due to the way our brain evolved to be social creatures, we have mirror neurons[1] which fire when we observe actions as well as when we perform them. For this reason, viewing sex can emulate (to an extent) our primal desire to mate.

Everyone has different levels of libedo however, so it's likely that your lack of understanding is due to your own lower libedo not generating the same level of sexual desire.
Or, you are the kind of person where the emotional connection involved in sexual relations is far more important, which obviously means watching people you have no connection to would not arouse you as much.
Alternatively, it could be that you may have decent access to actual sex, which is obviously more gratifying as a general rule.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
New Edition of Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming with Java
Yep - this is my take, financial independence gives you freedom.

It's not about hating your job (or even loving your job) - it's about buying your own independence. For those without family wealth it's building your own safety net and bringing money related anxiety to zero and making it easier for your children to take bigger risks too.

This lets you take more risk (like doing a startup) with the downside risk contained. There's a reason startups are more often started by people with family wealth, they're ultimately risking a lot less.

Americans work hard in part because there's more upside potential than in Europe, but there's also more downside risk. I think we could do more to protect the lower bound which would be good for entrepreneurship and society, but we shouldn't put restrictions on the upside (I'd argue restricting upside disincentives risk taking and wealth creation).

One of my main 'contrarian' opinions is that wealth inequality isn't actually a big deal, and as long as you protect the lower bound is desirable in a society. You also need to control how that wealth is leveraged into political power though (and that can be a problem).
I'm a big believer in freedom of the press, but Gawker distributed surreptitiously recorded sex tapes without the knowledge or consent of participants. That's illegal and it should be illegal. It's not just this one case either.

They did it repeatedly: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a55146/gawker-edi...

It's not outrageous that a person with billions of dollars footed the legal bill to take the cases to trial. It is outrageous that the victims, even one with millions of dollars, couldn't afford an adequate legal effort to get a fair showing under the law without a benefactor.
> Out of interest, are there any project admins around who can comment on how easy it is to moderate the Discussions threads?

There's a soft NDA on people who are in the Discussions beta. It's also early enough that there's a direct pipeline to GitHub Staff on issues that are truly urgent, so it's really too early to say. The Issues moderation things like locking and org-level blocking definitely still exist and work in Discussions, though.
I am actually very curious what adult website uses Django? My understanding was that most of them are written in PHP and re-used across various domain names.
Hmm I seem to be misinformed. I totally forgot to think about pinyin. Apparently it's as fast or faster than english. For example, hitting "jtkqwrhyz" on your keyboard will give you "Jin-tian kong-qi wu-ran hen yan-zhong" which translates to "The air pollution is pretty severe today". I don't type in pinyin though.
Top Mexican drug kingpin El Mencho reportedly builds own private hospital
The summary section could use work.
Do we really want to give more control to google over DNS, not just on the internet but now your home network too? Google Home being a perfect example where they build a product assuming they have free reign over your home network, leaving it broken if you try and get in the way.

Just the other day, and many times before, there were articles and commenters on here complaining about Google's uncompetitive behaviours relating to established email procotols and the standards for blacklisting offending domains.

It seems the same disincentives to behave responsibly by default will be at play in the DNS/DoH situation as the self-hosted email situation except now they have free reign inside your network.
This looks really cool. A sweet spot for certain kinds of questions that people abuse Issues for, but never felt right. Very important things like "what is the best practice for X" or "I have this problem but haven't yet isolated the cause, can anyone help?".

This is quite some timing for me, since the StackOverflow announcement earlier today had me thinking what could replace it. This is a clear, promising possibility.
Public SaaS Companies Are Now Worth $1T
I updated my book Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java, a major revision. Free update from earlier editions and free to read online. Creative Commons License.

The 2020 edition is a major rewrite from the 2013 edition with a new deep learning chapter and 2 new Semantic Web chapters. Mostly a new book except for the chapters on Search and Reasoning.

https://leanpub.com/javaai

Note: the code and a PDF for the 2013 edition are available here: https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code_4th_edition
I don't know, I'd say that's precisely the reason DoH isn't so great - because it bypasses proxies, NATs, firewalls.

If you're the admin that needs to configure DNS a certain way for any reason (corporate policies, parental controls, intranet configurations, malware protection) then having the user be able to work around by default is a massive pain.

DoH seems like a great idea at first, until you're in a situation when it's not, and then it gets messy, because it's a moving target and everything has different workarounds.
This was my thought as well. I have no idea why a special term is ascribed to physicists for just thinking logically.
Not sure if it is exactly long-form, but I use O'Reilly Learning and its online textbooks are wonderful.
German and U.K. Officials Warn of a Possible New Covid-19 Wave in Europe
Nixon cut a deal with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in the 70s (after the oil embargo). The US would protect the Al-Saud kleptocracy, and in exchange the Saudis would invest their money in America.
Same here with my use cases being mostly for auth and control over cache objects.

I've found Fastly's Varnish recipes interesting though: https://developer.fastly.com/solutions/recipes
I'll second this person's opinion. I used to work in a small town computer shop many years ago as a sales/support "clerk". I spent all day helping people directly, many repeat customers. The job was pretty chill and there was a somewhat new problem to solve every day. I worked fixed hours and when I went home I could completely focus on whatever I wanted to do now that I wasn't working. The wage sucked, slightly above minimum wage isn't great, but it was enough for me at the time.

Contrast that with my FAANG job I have now. The pay is phenomenal. But it basically swallows my life. Between the long hours, weekend on-calls, constant churn, all for a customer I've only spoken to indirectly via a project manager. It's hard to feel like the work you're putting out is really making a difference in anyone's life. With covid and the lack of direct human contact as well, I'd go so far as to say I'm practically pushing commits into a void everyday and getting paid for it, there's very little if any feedback for my work. First-world problems, I know. But if you took away the pay differences, I know which job I'd choose in a heartbeat.
Since this topic has been a bit click-baitey recently, I was expecting yet another busy page with ads and popups and stock photos of students. It was so refreshing to see just a list of universities with text.
For some reason this query is taking too long to execute. Not sure if I missed something.
The "Energy Impact" values in that screenshot are almost all the same as "% CPU", so energy impact is basically just computed as % CPU?

You're complaining that FF is using 1.3% CPU while in the foreground?
Too many useless meetings.
- your initial comments are only ad-hominem

- i don't think kelvin's statement represents her views

- Being against a new collider does not mean one takes the position of Kelvin, or is anti-science.

She doesn't argue against investment in novel science. Her argument is that a larger collider is the wrong kind of investment to make, based on what we've already observed at the LHC
The claim should be completely indisputable. It's well known that teams within Apple are not privy to the roadmaps of other teams, even teams working on a different aspect of the same project.
Ask HN: Are stock options a good incentive for your work?
During the last 20 years I've seen many times companies giving shares/stock options as incentive for your work. This because the company couldn't/wouldn't pay in cash, as bonus or as an incentive to keep you working for the company.
The question is, would you accept it instead of cash?
Yandex free services are underrated in general. I use them as a free email provider for all my programming related mailing lists and bugzilla accounts and I have had zero issues whatsoever.
Basic couple issues and their solvability by the wives
More often than not, the "game" trends toward market capture and acquire + kill or absorb business strategies. At a certain size that's hard for anyone to beat.
Google acquired probably the biggest searchable archive, Deja News. What we needed was some kind of self-sustaining org with a strict charter to preserve the archive no matter what.
> Silicon manufacturers have very little respect for software and it really makes the entire process a lot more painful than it should be.

Do you know why? In my eyes that would make them a crazy unattractive supplier.
Interesting business case. I think yes, he single handed Ky could jump start a new social network. Millions of people would follow him just to argue about his posts.
Just nit picking:

> and if less money is available (lost job)

that's less velocity. The employer keeps that money, and if it's because of less sales then it's because someone else kept their money. Right now velocity is dropping. The number of dollars stays the same in a lost job scenario.
Now I just need a TV-B-Gone on my F-91W!

https://learn.adafruit.com/tv-b-gone-kit
Back when I was in high school (~5 years, not even that much), Firefox still had separate URL and search input fields. Of course the teachers used Chrome at home and were confused on why they couldn't search on the URL field.
I think no one should be trapped within their country because their country won't let them leave. Being trapped because no one wants to take you is a very different situation.
1. I do not think this counts as a rebuttal or a reason to distrust either side
2. Scott never claimed that his home address would be published, and implying he did just to disprove it likely would be considered strawmanning
3. I think this is the real point that should be used here, and credit should be given to it. That said, the people who did this are not Scott, so I think he should not be blamed anymore than J.D. Salinger should be blamed for an assassin carrying _The Catcher in the Rye_
4. This seems to be entirely irrelevant to SSC-vs-NYT at all, I cannot see how this weighs on them
5. He has made a clear effort, but he isn't running a darknet market, so there will be holes. As a fan, I have only ever seen his name on a website that is over a decade old and I cannot find this book for sale. That said, I'd be willing to concede that he failed N years ago if you can find that the book and link me to it.
Most corded drills are pretty large though. I have 12v, 18v and corded drills and would never use the corded drill for small things because it's too clumsy.

12v for small things and 18v for small-medium, corded for large only. I often use both, 18v for drilling and 12v to put in the screws.

I'd say buy an 18v as your only tool first, but if you ever start on a project where it's struggling even a little, get a corded drill. They're good bang for the buck at ~$30.
Ask HN: Would a marketing YouTube channel analyzing SaaS apps interest you?
Hi, I made a youtube channel about marketing and behavioral psychology in which I plan to make 2 types of videos:

1. Maketing analysis of world events, for example:

- Did Bill Gates create Covid-19? How Conspiracy theories spread explained

- Why do scams proliferate during recessions? (and how to avoid them)

2. More in-depth analysis of marketing strategies used by companies (mostly SaaS), for example:

-Addiction marketing: How Netflix, Fortnite and social media keep you stuck to your screens

-How Notion.so is able to succeed in a saturated market?

These were a few ideas of videos, let me know which one(s) you would like to watch ! :)

FYI, i just created a video about the last topic idea mentionned here, You can watch it on my channel called Marketing Banana.
It is not that it is their job. The problem is the mismatch between the broader public understanding of the lifetime of "a webpage" and reality, when said "webpage" is inside a walled silo (and maybe even when it isn't).
It's not a matter of contesting the race to thinness. Here, the stuff is as thick as two not-especially-thin phones; it is reaching the realm of PDAs, except it hasn't got the clamshell and the keyboard.
An analog in code that I've seen so often I've given up fighting it is this "pattern" (in Java, but it's universal):

try {
doSomethingImportant();
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("oops", e);
// continue on, even though the result is useless at this point
}

... and hope that somebody will pay attention to the logs (hint: they won't). Of course, if you can actually recover from an error (hint: you probably can't), you should catch it and recover from it, and of course, you should definitely log what happened so you can investigate later but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T JUST KEEP GOING!

Unfortunately, this sort of papering over error conditions is not just accepted, but encouraged - most organizations bizarrely seem to prefer to return wrong answers than admit that an error occurred. Old mechanical adding machines had moving parts that would degrade over time, making the answers less and less accurate as the parts started to wear out. Adding machine manufacturers addressed this by adding a gear that would cause the machine to lock up completely so that the operator knew not to continue using it. While it seems obvious that most users would rather get an error than the wrong answer, most programmers seem to consider doing the opposite the "safe play".
Well the thing is if you npm install a lot of stuff using the WSL version there may be packages that include platform specific stuff. Then trying to run it with the native node might not work. But thinking of it I guess you could have all the WSL scripts use the native version. Not sure if there would be issues.

Or let's say you have to compile something that you want to use as a child process in your software. If you compile that under WSL (correct me if I'm wrong[0]) it's not going to be easily accessible to normal Windows apps.

[0] I see that now there's some way to invoke wsl commands from regular Windows but not sure how that works exactly.
"Should" != "Could"

Could they do it? Yes. Their house, their rules.

Should they do it? Well, that is a business decision.
Why do most developed nations not protect free speech?

The concept of liberty is relatively new, most of the world has lived under monarchs, dictators, etc until relatively recently in the grand scheme of things. The ideas and mechanisms of freedom are still being learned.
> The guns rural people tend to need are rifles.

A sibling comment mentioned the value of an AR15 for shooting at coyotes near a chicken coup without collateral damage which I hadn't even considered so I think this also depends on the geography and community. I'm in a mountainous part of the county with mostly 2-10 acre properties that often butt up against each other with buildings clustered on the largest available pieces of continuous flat land. Shooting a high powered rifle in this environment would be extremely dangerous because we've got half a dozen neighbors' houses well within the range of a rifle, all at weird angles above and below the horizon on one side of the property. Someone who hasn't had proper training in fire arm use - as in training under pressure, not just gun range safety - could easily fire off a shot that kills a neighbor. Everyone here who shoots rifles does it into an unpopulated distant mountain side or into a big hill on their property.

> The concentration on scary black rifles is misguided unless you only focus on mass shootings, which make up a tiny fraction of firearm homicides.

I disagree. The key to understanding the different sides gun control issue is exactly what I've been talking about - understanding different perspectives. The suburban white mom who worries about her child accidentally shooting themselves at a friend's house, the young adult who is worried about getting shot at the mall, and the urban black mom who is mostly worried about her child catching a stray bullet from a street or gang dispute are only ostensibly fighting for the same thing. Those are really three separate issues with their own really complex interactions with constitutional law, mental health, social justice, and community. The three groups are forced under one banner largely because of our two party system, but their views should be analyzed independently.

That the media focuses on the group with the most disposable income and the most visceral imagery shouldn't surprise anyone
I've been trying to refind this channel for years. Thank you.
Not to mention Interpersonal. :(
I just can't relate to this mindset that is oriented around optimizing company success. I'm more focused on my own success.

My peak throughput isn't necessarily there for the company's taking. I guard it as my greatest secret. My manager only gets 2 signals from me regarding load: It's good..or I'm overloaded. Never the truth when I'm underloaded if everyone's happy - that would just be harming myself for some company's benefit.
The <footer> element represents a footer for its nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element.

A footer typically contains information about its section:
author, links to related documents, copyright data, etc.

https://www.w3.org/html/wiki/Elements/footer

A <footer> element is one possible container for a <note>. It is not the note itself, need not contain any notes, nor need notes appear in footers.

The mapping is both inaccurate and ambiguous.
Even before all this, unless a cop just happens to be right outside, you are going to wait a long time. The number of stories where someone calls the police while a crime is in progress and the police arrive before the criminal is long gone are near non-existent except in cases of domestic abuse.
You have to buy their book to find out.
Thanks for sharing your views and you raise a lot of good points.

I'm no expert in this - but maybe a first good step would be to introduce some kind of rating system for porn, just like movies have. As with other things in our lives - porn is also on a spectrum. For example:

- Clips showing sensual sexual exchange between 2 people = safe

- Clips showing 10inch phalluses being rammed down your various orifices = probably needs a disclaimer that it's not reflecting the real world.

Regarding kids watching this stuff - I also wonder what this does to their brain development.

And regarding self-worth of men - if you promote the more realistic view of sex then porn can be educational, e.g. learning how to satisfy your sex partner.

You bring up yogic traditions - again not an expert in this, but didn't some yogis show how to elevate your creativity via tantric yoga?

But I think we can all agree (well not all, as is apparent from all the down-votes of the GP comment) that exploitation and abuse in porn is bad and hence why we shouldn't support companies that are not serious about eliminating this.
Isn't calling a gun "a hunk of metal" the same as, say, calling a book "a stack of paper"? Why would a hunk of metal be such a popular prop in so many movies? Obviously, philosophy of owning and using a gun goes far, far beyond seeing it merely as a piece of metal, and calling it that on purpose, as I am sure you do, is plain disingenuous.
You seem to be conflating "absence of evidence" and "evidence of absence" (sorry for using Rumsfeldian terms). Saying there is "no clear evidence of X" is very different from saying "there is very clear evidence of (not X)". The former expresses lots of uncertainty and makes no affirmative declaration; the latter does the converse.

And you seem to have strange expectations. On one hand you acknowledge it is an "emerging & understudied phenomenon", but on the other you expect the WHO to prove by mid-January (2.5 weeks after the first observed pneumonia cases) that the Chinese-supplied information was wrong (when there were almost no cases outside of China).

Take the Cornell statement for what it is: a statement at a point in time. I gave you a link to the document and it has a timestamp. Understand whether it makes an affirmative declaration or whether it is simply expressing uncertainty. Also be prepared to jettison old information if new info comes out to disprove the old. You seem to already be willing to throw out statements of the WHO and FDA and CDC. Maybe you should go back and look at the nuance of the statements and whether they were clarified later.
But we do tear down old condos to build new ones. Should we also endeavor to retain every geocities and myspace page?

And if not, what makes comp.lang more like the pyramids than geocities?
Mindfull breathing is not meditation it is just one and the most common of the techniques of meditation.
Jeff Atwood had principles, which is why the current morally bankrupt leadership wants to erase him. Stack would have been in a much better place if he’d been left in charge.
That only usually holds within a given brand. Second or third cheapest on the market probably doesn’t suffer the same problem.
I regularly buy 2nd hand audio CDs as old as the 80’s and never had a bad one
Lmao why use data synchronization when you can just write to disk?
> For most people there just isn't a lot of obvious upside waiting for them if they work extra hard. Salaries are extremely compressed compared to the US

Exactly!

Even in a fairly well paid European country like Germany the salaries are a joke for high performers.

It is difficult as a dev to earn, even after a decade of experience and working incredibly hard, more than €100k/year.

But a good junior with 1-2 years of experience can earn €50k/year.

So you can’t even make double after taxes of what a junior makes. Almost no matter how hard you work.

And yet you could take it easy and have a great work life balance and after a decade be earning €80k/year.
You think that realtime ad impressions is all they get from you reading granular forum posts?

Sadly, even in 2020, nothing has yet replaced what Deja was at the time it got acquired and destroyed.
> "They wouldn't do it if it didn't work" should be added to lists of logical fallacies.

Exactly. Other reasons for doing something include:

- Thinking that it works, when it doesn't - in particular, reality is messy, and you can often get away believing in bullshit, as long as your peers believe in the same bullshit too.

- It not working for the company in general, but working for them individually to scam their own employer or boost their careers (related: CV-driven development in software).

- It not working, but the profit is made off making you believe they do it because it works.