skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be something in the environment, something in our diet.

I'm curious if it's porn. Supposedly masturbation reduces testosterone levels. [1] Maybe men are just wanking more because of access to porn?
BBC loves to fetishize Weird Japan. I know where you come from, but from what I’ve seen this one checks out as western.
It doesn't mean that it's nonexistent. The news story is about one company that provided fake sources for a past article.

Rent-a-friend/family in Japan seems like a real thing.
That hasn't been a dream since the....1900s? 1890s maybe? Homesteading saw its hey-day in the second half of the 1800s.

Farming is tough. Margins are low due to the nature of commodities. Very few 'go at it alone' farmers out there. Most went under, sold, died, or partnered up in the 1980s when the credit crisis hurt farms.
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Appreciated! Yes, frustration is unfortunately in endless supply. We're all learning to manage it more constructively—at least that's the intention here.
Matrix multiplication is nothing to be laughed at. It is how anyone performs linear projection anyway.

Fair enough to say, currently ML research is fixated on exhausting combinations of blocks to squeeze a marginal improve on a few public benchmarks.

But it is like saying software has been stagnated since we are not getting new ISA created. Building ML application remains as challenging as ever, it is just modeling itself has become streamlined before everything else.
Violent crime in the US has been dropping for some time now. Reduction of environmental lead (gas and paint) is one of the factors as well. https://www.medicaldaily.com/leaded-gasoline-linked-rise-and...

Also I would guess that at 42 you are much less likely to be in a situation where a physical fight might start than you were in the 1990s - at bars at 2am for example. I know that I am.
just wire it straight to DB collections
I found it funnier off the back of reading the whole article and seeing his picture - he just came across as having a dry sense of humor. Being told to "keep on trying" is very frustrating, like, what do you think I've been doing all this time?! Also this: "Morimoto got a job with a publisher after finishing a graduate degree, but found it hard to fit in and left. His boss said sarcastically, "It doesn't matter if you're here or not." I get the impression he sees the comedy in being told that.
Then I'd say I don't have enough insight or information to make good opinion. All my data was only from the article.
I'm not sure of the point here, this seems a bit nonsensical. Do you avoid using cash too because criminals use it?

Using or accepting Bitcoin is not dangerous because of this. And you have no more chance of unintentionally recieving funds linked to this than you have of unintentionally recieving cash used for criminal purposes.

(Not intending to start an argument for or against Bitcoin, and there are other pros and cons of it I'm sure, but this particular one is not really valid)
Large Bitcoin payments to right-wing activists a month before Capitol riot
Cash is private so it doesn't matter
Nothing precludes you from doing integer arithmetic in a dynamic language.

I’m not a quant and this isn’t my area of expertise, but, for example, I’m pretty sure various differential equation solving methods depend on variables taking on continuous values, so floating point basically must be used. Understanding the impact of that is definitely very important. Analogously, I frequently run into numerical precision issues in image processing. Understanding how numbers are represented on a computer isn’t unique to being a quant. Understanding how the choice of representation can impact prod is also not unique to being a quant. The dynamicness of the language isn’t particularly relevant, either.
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> He needs a job in a town where he can find a job.

I'll assume you meant that he needs a house in a town where he can find a job.

First, this was not mentioned as a prerequisite in his post, but fair.

Second, software engineer is the job that can be done from anywhere, if your priority is to find 1+ acre of land then maybe you can put up with working remotely.

And finally, there are still plenty of towns, with jobs where buying 1 acre of land is completely possible.
Genetic degradation of the human race?
Hipsters, Hippies, Beatniks, Bohemians- there have always been youth cultures with an equal mix of idealism and entitlement. Usually these subcultures are rooted in the educated middle classes. With the massive increase in higher education rates in the past half century, these subcultures grow larger. None of this is new. It's just an effect of societal development.
Diminishing role of strength and aggression as a factor in reproductive success?
Apparently the donor committed suicide after living with trigeminal neuralgia (and possibly other conditions). That's a horrifyingly painful condition, the sort of thing I wouldn't wish on... a fascist financier. It's a reminder that, as humans, we all stand against a generally cold and uncaring Universe.
The ranches that large tend to be out West where land is less productive for cows, you may need 10 or more acres per cow because of the brutal winters and arid climate. Whereas in say, East Texas you probably only need 1 or 2 acres per cow.
Most cameras that can take good images of helicopters in flight have a mechanical shutter available.
Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey has repeatedly been summoned before Congress to be dressed-down by legislators, who regularly threaten to "do something" that increases Twitter's liabilities or otherwise encumbers their business, if Twitter doesn't change their internal policies. In some cases, it's been suggested that discretionary government powers under existing laws could be used to reward or punish Twitter. Twitter's been the topic of executive orders & criticism from the FCC chair.

If Twitter'd been left to do anything it thought legal and wise, and only challenged via formal lawsuits or prosecutions that courts could rule on, then sure, Twitter can do whatever they want.

But now that politicians, elected officeholders, & appointed regulators have all piled-on with their opinions of what Twitter should do, "or else", might there be some government-restricting-expression issues to consider? Is it a coincidence that they only took strong action against Trump once he became a "lame duck", and the action they took will specifically please the incoming administrations' coalition?

Has the government found the perfect 1st Amendment loophole, by laundering their speech-restricting preferences through threats – "because of the implication" – while maintaining a facade of non-involvement in this "private" decision?
The article never uses the term "insurrection".

It does not provide any evidence that the recipients of the funds took part in the capitol hill riot, but instead acknowledges in lack thereof. The title claims the recipients where "involved", but the article never determines in what way.

I want to be clear, I don't defend those individuals or condone their views or actions, but just feel this article is mostly a PR stunt.
Are TCL scripts still necessary for some VLSI software stacks?
I don't mean to say I'm an expert on this matter, but I make a point of checking out new platforms to see what's on them. I think the absolute worst one I saw was Voat. The front page was equally split between memes calling to “gas the Jews” and QAnon posts about how all the "libtards" are about to be arrested and sent to the gulags.
It's an ad and the person who posted it works at Coda. It's spam.
A tempting proposition indeed (well for the next 20 years, less so after that).

I suppose the problems arise when infrastructure has to be built for those linear communities (Dutch word of the day:'lintdorp', or ribbon-village). Because suddenly the average population density is awful and we have to drive a lot, build more schools and hospitals, etc. Not to mention the poor sods that have a 500 km commute to work the land so that the rest of us can eat >:-)
Indeed.

If the entire planet resided in TX, each person would get 1100 sq feet to themselves. That's a very large 1BR, good sized 2BR apt.
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Sci-hub is not breaking any laws. They are accused of breaking laws. Who gave Twitter, in your eyes, the power to act as a judge?
I think I missed that part of the HN guidelines, could you point me in the right direction?
> getting into physical fight was much more common than today

I distinctly remember the popularity of gang culture in North American west coast cities. Everybody were forming gangs based on ethnicity usually (but racial diversity isn't uncommon). This was the era of gangster rap, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Ice Cube, DMX, Bone Thugs, Nas....all the classics...the lyrics are simply HARD compared to today.
Right, you'd put them in the desert. New Mexico and Arizona.
That's a myth from the 80s.
Kinda like yelling fire in a crowded theatre?
It's disappointing but we all knew this was coming. It's a real shame because the device itself has a lot of potential if they can remediate some hardware decisions like speaker out put placement.

For it's size and cost the display is great and it's something you can just pick up and play easily. I was really looking forward to more opening of this type of device but it looks like Nintendo is putting the kibosh on that.

The Analogue Pocket is cool but it's much pricier and who knows if they'll be able to produce more or if they want to.
Cash is private so it doesn't matter. When you pay with it, nobody knows where it came from.

You can have extreme inconvenience for being linked to illegal bitcoin transactions.
> 1) you cannot control the world around you

It's definitely not either/or, sometimes you can change the world a little bit by making a post that says "please be nice".

Or the way I see it: be prepared to step in shit sometimes but if street defecation is not culturally accepted, your walks will be nicer.
We need a new name for this kind of fallacy/bias. It's not new, but more potent and prevalent than ever. Only saucy stories get told, so we think it's all sauce.
How I got 6804 views on DEV for $8. I can't believe almost nobody is doing this
Is it correct that in the UK there is no land tax? That his cost to own that land is effectively 0?
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Someone else can probably describe it better than me with concrete examples and comparing and contrasting different periods in history, I only have a feel for the zeitgeist.
Yeah - and I get the impression that 5.0 isn't anything like 4.0, so maybe it wouldn't be as unpleasant as I've been fearing. I had been with two very long-lasting gaming groups (~35 years each) which both dissolved in the last couple of years, so maybe it's time to modernize.
Low vitamin D (i.e. low sun exposure), has been shown to reduce testosterone levels:

> Compared to baseline values, a significant increase in total testosterone levels (from 10.7 ± 3.9 nmol/l to 13.4 ± 4.7 nmol/l; p < 0.001), bioactive testosterone (from 5.21 ± 1.87 nmol/l to 6.25 ± 2.01 nmol/l; p = 0.001), and free testosterone levels (from 0.222 ± 0.080 nmol/l to 0.267 ± 0.087 nmol/l; p = 0.001) were observed in the vitamin D supplemented group. By contrast, there was no significant change in any testosterone measure in the placebo group. Our results suggest that vitamin D supplementation might increase testosterone levels. Further randomized controlled trials are warranted to confirm this hypothesis.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21154195/
Just wait till they crash the USD and get us all on digital currency USD 2.0.

LOL, this world is going to shit, I blame excessive privilege and social media.
Automation to reduce operating costs.

I am unable to elaborate at this point, but I think this will give you an idea about the kind of costs and returns we face in our industry: https://coststudyfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cs_public/7a/c9/7...

Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated and helpful to me.
Five people died, including two police officers

This is inaccurate. One police officer and 4 of the rioters died on the day of the incident. Another Capitol police officer subsequently committed suicide at home for reasons that are at present unclear.
Betteridge's Law applies nicely here. The answer is "no".

Light is neither a wave nor a particle. It is a quantum thing whose formula can be simplified to either wavelike or particlelike under certain assumptions, but not in the general case. Experiments that force those assumptions will reliably turn up wavelike and particlelike behavior, while more general experiments reveal the harder case where the assumptions don't hold.

This really isn't a hard thing. This has been known for pretty much a century. People keep insisting that quantum mechanics is really just classical mechanics with an extra bag on the side, and that approach will always fail in some limit case.

When you accept that it's the reverse -- that classical mechanics is a special case of quantum mechanics -- you can work with QM in a very straightforward way. It's just not the straightforward way you're used to.
It's not the only cause but, from my experience, it's a big one, no pun intended.

I might have made different diet choices as a young man if I knew that body fat aromatizes testosterone into estrogen. This is the primary cause for most cases of gynecomastia, which is why it's rare to see a man with breasts who isn't also overweight to some extent. Obesity is effectively feminizing a large portion of men and lowering their sexual market value. Overall, I think obesity is making people less attracted to each other, which can partially explain the decline in the rate of reproduction.
Lack of hard physical labor, combined with increasing average caloric intake may contribute to lower average muscle mass & total testosterone while still maintaining a "normal" BMI. I don't have evidence to support this, but this is my guess for falling testosterone within the "normal" BMI range over time (in addition to the effect of environmental pollutants on hormones).
Hmm...I have this data, I'm going to double check. Need to ensure the linked twitter thread is referring to sales, and not profit. Easy to hid profits in farming (nothing dodgy about it either). No better, no worse than every other industry in America. They take advantage of the laws as they are written.
True but no one cares about Britain. At least not after WW2. Even their colonies were like "can't even protect yourself against one country? F*ck off"

They have been US' fluffy poodle ever since.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to say "so it doesn't work". Obviously multi-story houses and houses not right on the shore have sea views.
“War can also speed up advances in science and technology that have benefits in peacetime.”

Well that escalated from extolling the benefits of studying war to extolling the benefits of waging them rather quickly.

“Although anthropologists and archeologists still wonder why human beings have for so long organized themselves to fight...”

Do they? Surely that bit is just an obvious extension of conflict in evolution, i.e. it’s the thinking meat’s equivalent to organisms taking nutrients away from each other instead of from the sun.

Not sure there’s really any evidence that teaching military history is going to somehow diffuse future conflicts to be honest. The most likely candidates for our long peace have little to do with us becoming students of military history.
Not sure if you are talking about PPP loan fraud, loss carry forward, or some other scam that the extremely wealthy are able to pull but I'm interested to know which one!
Well 20-ish years ago when I was working with VS6, it ran like dog shit on contemporary hardware.

Big projects would pretty much kill it and the occasional crash was to be expected.

Sure, firing up VS6 on more modern hardware let it fly by comparison, but then again its features paled in comparison to those available with modern VS.

On the other hand, I don't use VS anymore, since VSCode is all I need and runs faster than VS6 back then (even on my 5 year old mid-range laptop) so no complains there.
It is meant to be integrated into Steam, so building and using it without Steam might be a little less straightforward than pure Wine, but you can definitely do it. The launched script expects environment variables and other stuff from Steam, so it won't work without Steam. On the other hand, no other launching script is provided, but if you call the wine executable with the correct options and environment variables, it should just work.

On average I don't expect specific merits using Proton vs using vanilla Wine for non-game applications. As far as I know, Proton-specific patches are usually hacks targeted either generally at games or at specific titles. Actually, using Proton could be worse than vanilla Wine, because Proton is based on a past version of Wine which only gets updated every now and then (last Proton is based on Wine 5.13), so you are missing some development (on the other hand, sometimes developing features breaks stuff, so this could also go the other way around).

Ideally, we always want as many patches as possible to go into vanilla Wine instead of Proton or CrossOver; first because we love free software and second because maintaining forked versions is time-consuming like mad. However Wine rightly has strict code quality requirements, and sometimes developing a proper fix for some bug is either impossible or too long; those cases are handled with patches in Proton (perhaps shared with Wine Staging or CrossOver).

Disclosure: I work for CodeWeavers on Proton. Opinions my own.
The only "disruption" required is for funding agencies, especially governments, to mandate immediate open access as a condition of grants. Milder approaches such as the NIH's current policy have been spectacularly successful, because nobody turns down that kind of money. The main problem has been intense lobbying by publishers, including some academic societies. But open access is not an issue where it should be difficult to assemble a large bipartisan coalition in favor, even in the US!
Chuck Moore - https://web.archive.org/web/20160314224653/http://www.colorf... - could provide example of the opposite.
I'm talking specifically about data science, not business analyst or software engineer.
I did know about fairphone, but sadly its hardware really holds it back.
You sure about those examples? I just pulled up the USDA soil survey of some place I've never been, Edmunds County S.D., and it looks to me like over one third of the county is capability class 2 or better, which is considered "prime farmland" or better.
Producing more crops in less land is not really more "efficient" because it requires significantly more synthetic (fossil fuel derived) fertilizer. Good top soil produces fertilizer itself, so growing the same yield on less acreage means higher fertilizer usage which means less efficiency, not more. Not to mention corporate farmland is more likely to grow monoculture crops and do less crop rotation, which also increases fertilizer usage and decreases topsoil depth.

Corporate farming COULD be more efficient, but in common practice it is not.
Weaponizing Covid-19 in African Football?
Sorry, but LOL. You can't opt out of competition any more than you can opt out of gravity.

If you aren't "strong" enough to do the hard work, someone else in your town will do it and reap the rewards while you become irrelevant. If your whole town opts out, some other part of the country will do it while your town drifts away into irrelevance and poverty.

If the whole country opts out, some other young and hungry country will take advantage of the opportunities your country passes up, until that country makes your country irrelevant.

Everything we have is because we or our ancestors (whether literal ancestors or the people that built the countries we live in) did the hard work. A few people can opt out and free-ride on others. But if the whole culture opts out, the whole culture will become irrelevant.
Aren’t Parabens and related plastics endocrine disrupters and weak estrogen mimics? Could be one plausible explanation
> I wonder if this is actually a manifestation of population-wide testosterone drop.

Is it possible for the cause-and-effect to be backwards? A change in socially acceptable behavior causing the testosterone drop?
I guess the assumption is you opened all those tabs and don't want them rather than, you opened all those tabs and now those are your baseboard and don't remember what came before them

But the latter is definitely my workflow
Well, it's not far off from some of the speeches at the insurrection last week either:

https://twitter.com/always_margot/status/1346578062700400647
Spending time behind a screen more than with people. Compounded with more desk jobs too.
Correct. You can't add new syntax to Elixir either.

FWIW, the meta-programming models are very distinct. Elixir's is based on AST and it works at compile-time (like Lisp but without reader macros). For example, imagine you want to do your html markup in Elixir, you could do this (but don't!):

html do
title "hello world"

body do
...
end
end

In the above, `html` would be a macro that looks at the structure of the code and transforms it into something at compilation time. The macro must exist before being invoked and it has to literally surround the code it changes. Once the code compiles, you can't change it.

Ruby's meta-programming is runtime-based. So the same example above would likely be implemented by calling methods on an object, either pre-defined ones or using method_missing, as you execute the code. In Ruby you can also define (or redefine) methods at any time and it affects the whole runtime.

Both languages also have a similar ability to meta-program a class (in Ruby) or a module (in Elixir). Think Rails' resource macro in a router. But Elixir modules are closed, in contrast to Ruby classes. Many times this is what people refer to as DSLs, even though the term DSL in itself is more general. Python has similar abilities too.

PS: you are certainly aware of the Ruby bits but I went for completeness to be a reference for others. :)
> "Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it."

This from Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
Plastics and what not feel like easy targets, but I would bet this is primarily BMI. The paper seems to conclude that BMI is the big part.

> Elevated BMI was associated with reduced total testosterone levels (P < .0001), with the mean BMI increasing from 25.83 in 1999-2000, to 27.96 in 2015-2016 (P = 0.0006).

They do say:
> Lokeshwar noted that even men with a normal BMI (18.5-24.9) had declining total testosterone levels (P < .05) during the same time frames.

However the range of 18.5-24.9 is wider than the mean increase that they think is the most noteworthy independent variable. It's fully possible that within the BMI band of 18.5-24.9, average BMI nonetheless increased and is the primary driver. Note that the effect size over time is muuuuch more significant when not controlling for binned BMI.

That doesn't mean whatever environmental shit you're not fond of is safe of course. Heck, in some roundabout way it may even be contributing to obesity, possibly even through other hormonal changes. Wouldn't be my first guess though.
I agree - I hate advertising in general, but that in niche magazines (as long as it isn't too obtrusive) servers a very useful purpose and I'm ok with it.