skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there hard evidence that casual sex has been rare for all of human history?

I know some cultures discourage it and some religions forbid it, but I also know that human beings love to have sex regardless of what’s good or reasonable or sensible. It’s hard to imagine us not doing it, if only hiding it better when society demands it.
And certainly there was no such thing as backroom abortions, bastard sons, and the world's oldest profession, right?
Let’s say it’s frequently buried by one generation and subsequently dug up by another one, decades later.
Great point. A percentage of those playing video games in their parents' basement would gladly be out traveling Europe or learning social skills at a state college - they just can't afford it.
Is there any reputable study or sources for the amount of casual sex among young homosexual men?

Because, anecdotally: plenty of casual sex.
What does that have to do with GenX?
You can want to have sex, but not have an available partner.
When we made the switch, I was initially concerned about this as well, but as is often the case, well-chosen limits can promote creativity, just as say, choosing to work only in black and white might be done by a photographer or comic book artist, or choosing to use pixel art in a game built for modern systems. The illustrations also give a unified, and distinct, look to articles in the Hands On section, which is important in a crowded domain: the qualitative and quantitate feedback we've gotten since we made the switch has been quite convincing for me.
Evolution can continue to exert pressure after you've passed reproductive age, if you stick around and help raise your offspring, which humans generally do.

You also hint at traditional societies having much shorter lifespans than modern ones; it's true they have much higher rates of infant and childhood mortality, but lifespans for people who make it past childhood are very similar.

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-lifespan-history/

I agree evolutionary arguments in and of themselves will never be convincing (since there will always necessarily be a large amount of conjecture), but they are not being made in isolation: they providing an explanation for the observed fact that people living in modern societies are suffering a rising epidemic of degenerative diseases, and people living in traditional societies are not.

See also: the fantastic book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston Price.
Imagination itself isn't scary if you just think you live in a turtle's dream, flying through space.

Granted, my math degree is 20 years old, but I'm pretty sure you're not talking about imaginary numbers. They couldn't exist in 2d.
We’ve started working on some functionality like you are describing - to show noise levels for a given real estate location. If you have a sec, I’d love any constructive feedback. (The demo is just U.S. locations for now but the service is global)”. And then add the link: https://tether-data.com/noise-report/
> Twitter driven social pressure campaigns trying to eliminate the entire library of his books overnight by personally targeting a handful of people with the power to pull the books from shelves isn't a reasonable way for society to make these decisions.

That’s not what happened. Do you have a source? Because reliable sources make it clear that the publisher has been working on this internally for months[2], after years of criticism from educators.[2]

Your stance is “some people might think vicious racism is bad but nobody is allowed to criticize it, especially not teachers who work with young children.” Obviously that is transparently indefensible so you have to resort to flagrant lies about a Twitter cancellation mob plotting to take away all of Dr. Seuss. It’s pathetic, and I’m tired of pretending you people are discussing this with even a modicum of good faith.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/dr-seuss-mulberry-s...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reckoning-dr-seuss-racis...
You know privacy is trendy when Google starts advocating it.
Sure, if we wanted it to, but HAML wasn't that.
> AI ethics researchers are like hiring hackers working in security

One of these can be objectively evaluated for skill. There may be unwanted side effects. But the skill is there or it isn’t. That does not apply to the other, which makes their hiring and firing fundamentally different.
Do you have an axe to grind?
> In much of the world, it’s very common and even encouraged to live with previous generations, sometimes after marriage. There are a ton of benefits from this arrangement, including built-in care for younger and older folks, better ability to save, etc.

My parents’ generation comes from a country where it’s common for married couples to live with the parents. All the cousins who are economically able to moved out to their own house. The only married couples living with their parents are the ones whose parents can’t afford to live alone, or who themselves can’t afford to live alone.

And unless more soundproof rooms become the norm, I can easily see why a young couple would not want to live in the same house as their parents. Most Americans houses are drywall, and nothing in between and sound really travels. As far as I can tell, having parents down the road, but in a separate house is the ideal.
One thing I'm deeply thankful for is that I was engaged coming out of college to the woman of my dreams, and that Tinder didn't really fully catch on until I was already seriously dating my now-wife.

The modern dating market sounds like one of the most depressing aspects of modern adult society.
> To your point about approximations vs not, if you have an algorithm that, for any desired approximation accuracy can compute the square root to that accuracy in a finite number of steps, then that process is as much "the square root" as anything involving the real numbers.

Not really, since approximations, no matter how accurate, don't preserve algebraic properties. You only get to know what it's bigger/smaller than.
Hikvision Temperature Screening Outdoors and in Buses
Hacking is not a crime – the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative
"Hate Speech" as you call it, no matter how distasteful you may find it, is protected speech under the US Constitution, and thus (if also not a threat of violence, doxxing, or similar) is permitted on Gab.

I have no problem with platforms allowing any and all speech, since it actually just allows stupid speakers to beclown themselves.

Free speech is the most liberal idea there is - as Voltaire famously said, "I may disagree with everything you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I can't click a button I see flash faster than 200 ms, and that's when 100% of my attention is looking closely at a light change color and clicking. If 20ms is an issue for a conversation, where there so much more processing and understanding from both side, I'm clearly a subhuman...
Is there a way to prove that it is not caused by systemic racism? Having some unfalsifiable quality is pretty useless, and if it is the sort of thing that's never meant to end then that feels more like religion.
What is sex? I remember studying abroad in Europe around 2010 and browsing dating websites from desperation, apparently my character, appearance, status, and ethnicity combined into attractivenes of zero. Hadn't even imagined that apps will be created which will turn the desperation in an absolute vacuum, vacuum trying to suck out the money from me with subscriptions.
This is about as legitimate as a white paper from North Korea or Israel about now their nukes don't exist
Trivia: Some sound cards (eg pas16) showed up as multiple devices using OSS too and you could output pcm audio to 2 simultaneously.
Kind of. But if somebody else wants to publish these books in particular, they could probably buy the rights to do so for a suitable price. Whether that price would be higher or lower now is an interesting philosophical debate, but the fact that it's possible to do so, given appropriate capital, takes this out of the realm of censorship (subjective opinion, clearly).
The argument is not that it is impossible to have sex when you live with parents. It is that you are less likely to have casual sex if you live with them.

Where you would have had it, if you lived alone, you wont bother overcoming the "more challenging to find a private space" situation.
Putting this into the kernel won't solve anything that isn't already solved with things like the Linux realtime patch. The way this works is that the applications themselves need to have a realtime thread to fill their buffer, and the audio daemon has to be able to schedule them at the right time, so it's not just the daemon that needs to have special treatment from the scheduler.

Also keep in mind that these audio daemons work as an IPC to route sound between applications and over the network, not just to audio hardware. Even if you put a new API in the kernel that did the graph processing and routing there, you would still likely need a daemon for all the other things.
Why does it need to be decentralized? That's you shoehorning crypto-anarchism into the equation. I am fine with a centralized currency, just as I am with a centralized group of people making critical decisions for the country (governments).
Thanks for the link, these really long term timelines always trigger a perspective shift for me.
I think there is an argument that civilization as we have come to know it was not based on casual sex, rather pair-bonding.
> The main difference between a conspiracy theory and a valid theory is that a conspiracy theory is non-falsifiable; any evidence to the contrary is dismissed as "fake news" or "the deep state is hiding the evidence".

Likewise: if you're debating a claim with someone who is being intellectually honest, they'll receive your evidence and consider it critically on the merits. If you debate a claim with a conspiracy theorist, they will use any evidence you provide them to support the idea that the conspiracy theory is even bigger than they could have imagined - more parties are corrupt, more people are in on it, etc.

It's exhausting.
The obvious reason is that in a perfectly efficient sexual market the biggest stud has sex with all the women. Most men are unattractive so they don’t get to participate in casual sex. Instagram and Tinder mean there’s no such thing as just settling with what’s available anymore.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/14/nabokov-steinb...

America construes itself as a game that anybody can play, and Russians know how to play it well, as we learn and relearn. In “Lolita,” Nabokov gave us a copy of ourselves we couldn’t tell from the original. No American writer has done the reverse—has written a novel about Russia that understood the country so profoundly, and that Russians themselves read widely and loved. “Lolita” is an American book in a way that no novel by a native-born American is a Russian book. It’s an American masterpiece of the atrocious-hilarious, like “Huckleberry Finn.” We encounter these works as best we can, and fail to civilize them, and pass by in our generations, and they remain.
> Why would someone "tweak" a key

To make it look, at least to outsiders (be that users or researchers) like you are providing actually strong crypto. Leaking a key might not be as trivial as some people would imagine, with proper security policies in place.

You are indeed right, in that the key is usually the weak point. But there are several ways in which that can be true, with rather different consequences. If a private key of big company show up in a place where should certainly not be, pandemonium would quickly ensue.

On the other hand, a "tweaked" (intentionally weakened) key is a very different story. It will provide easy plausible deniability. It's also much easier to manage breaking larger collections of such keys (with a similar "flaw") without ever any hard evidence linking such keys together.

Is it really that hard to understand/imagine? (sincere question)
All of those things occurred at much smaller percentages than they do today. Abortions especially.

They also weren’t seen as the primary purpose of sex.

Today, if you say something like “Sex is important and should only be done between people that are getting married, since it correlates with lower divorce rates”, most people will think you’re strange.
> Most of the vegetarians/vegans I know have a pretty shitty diet

In my observations (I'm in the US) this statement is true of the majority of the population, including omnivores. 2/3 of the US didn't become overweight (1/3 obese) by being mindful of their diets.
Decades of research reveal little difference between male and female brains
Build Your Own Enigma
Another point against dmix: I would be surprised if it worked with sandboxes like Flatpak. That may be another reason why major desktop-oriented distros like Fedora Workstation haven't embraced it.
> The apps trick us into believing that there is always someone better at the next swipe.

How though. Wouldn't you learn pretty fast that it isn't the case.
Vegetarians and vegans, hope you have (or will have) carefully reviewed the available medical information about what are reliable sources of B12, how to get sufficient amounts, and consequences of not getting enough. Years ago I went low on B12, now I consistently supplement. Be safe.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-vitamin-b12/art...
"However, if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, you might be prone to deficiency because plant foods don't contain vitamin B-12. "
https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/
"Vitamin B12 is generally found in all animal foods except honey while there is no reliable B12 in plant foods, including tempeh, seaweeds, and organic produce. "
https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12-vegan-sources/
"Brewer’s and nutritional yeasts do not contain B12 unless they are fortified with it. "
This is also why companies should enforce signing commits.
If the poster had said "Technology has enabled women to choose to sleep with a more rarefied subset of men than in the past," many people would complain that it's incel rhetoric attributing the statistical distribution to conscious agency on the part of women.

Speaking in terms of distributions is the best way to handle this discussion, because people are more able to focus on the facts.
Why is that?
It's the women who decide who of the men has sex.
If a women is not considered unattraktive it's way easier for her to find someone (but most won't find that someone good enough) for casual sex.
Absolutely agree.

What's your preferred terminology? I like "Forward" and "Reverse" for positive and negative number and "Lateral" for the imaginary unit, since it is just perpendicular to the Forward and Reverse numbers.
I'm a noob but why does this news not correlate with an increase in the bynd stock's price?
Do people not know about Domain "front running"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

It's been "a thing" for years and has changed the way I search for domains.
Lack of anonymity, is according to this one random person with loads of "good old times" experience and plenty of insights in the current "20 to 25 years old scene", the most important reason.

Where up to 10 years ago one could meet people and exchange kisses without even considering exchanging phone numbers, that is now not even an option anymore.

With the exchange of telno/FB/Insta, instantly there is no more "casual" relation, you are traceable and identifiable. One nightstands turn in to creepy ghosting or stalking really fast.

EDIT: completion of a sentence.
Yeah, I think that's what's going on over here. (Likewise for the retirement age.)
If that's something that interests you, there's TPB AFK, a free documentary about the legal issues you can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
Unlocking Plant Resources for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
On the other hand it's no insanity to run millions of lines of code in a computer, connected to the internet and hopefully sharing all the projects you need to work with and dependencies you need to make them work, with full access to your filesystem, usually requiring administrator rights to be installed or even used.

This would all be needless if there was an OS that allowed you to switch to another "env" wiping the RAM in the process (like, storing a snapshot of it for when you switch back), with guaranteed isolation at the filesystem level (perhaps able to still read-only link into common libs), able to install things without touching other "envs". If you're working in any webdev related environment, that is itself the definition of insanity.

It's like buying a hammer from the carpenter at the end of the road and giving access to all your house to him in the process, including your wife. Everything becomes a nail.
Do you have a suggestion for an alternative to "real number"?
As I mentioned into the other comment- you are shoehorning decentralism into the topic. Not everyone has the belief that central banks are destroying peoples lives; or at least most will recognize the role it plays in keeping a relatively stable economy.
> Second, D-Bus was replaced as the IPC protocol. Instead, a native fully asynchronous protocol that was inspired by Wayland — without the XML serialization part — was implemented over Unix-domain sockets. Taymans wanted a protocol that is simple and hard-realtime safe.

I'm surprised to read this; I was under the impression that D-Bus was the de jure path forward for interprocess communication like this. That's not to say I'm disappointed - the simpler, Unix-y style of domain sockets sounds much more in the style of what I hope for in a Linux service. I've written a little bit of D-Bus code and it always felt very ceremonial as opposed to "send bytes to this path".

Are there any discussions somewhere about this s/D-Bus/domain socket/ trend, which the article implies is a broader movement given Wayland's similar decision as well?
> I believe everyone here on HN considers Brendan a hero once they discover what he’s created.

Nope
I never close Chrome tabs.
That is in line with what I thought was the scientific consensus too, but when I read the abstract (I should have done that first!) I see it saying "Our results suggest that the planetary carbonate–silicate cycle will tend to lead to terminally CO2-limited biospheres and rapid atmospheric deoxygenation", where I assume the carbonate-silicate cycle is the reactions between CO2 and rocks/soil, and if so, then this model seems to be suggesting that this will come into play before a runaway greenhouse scenario.
Living with your parents and facing economic difficulty are going to be correlated. If they're included together in a multivariable regression (which is often what people mean when they say "controlling for") then they're going to have multicollinearity and it's not possible to disambiguate the unique role of one versus the other.

It's plausible that the former variable is "stealing" some of the statistical significance of the latter, leaving the researchers with the impression that the latter is irrelevant.
Possibly, but that means houses would suddenly become much more expensive for those not ushered in.
This is not old wisdom coming back, it's the dynamics of casual sex changing through dating and hook up apps.
Notion is having a major outage
What's new in Svelte: March 2021
The evidence from a whole lot of code written by a whole lot of people seems to indicate that, for the most part, a given developer actually may not know "what [they're] doing with [their] variables".

For everything else, there's type inference.
Living with parents at least till marriage was the norm for large parts (majority) of population for large parts of history.
Using JACK apps to route between PulseAudio apps under PipeWire is magic, as is being able to turn on external DACs after login and still be able to use them with JACK apps without restarting any software. Also PulseAudio not randomly switching to the wrong sample rate when I open pavucontrol is a blessing. (And it's so easy to setup, at least on Arch Linux.).

I have come to describe PW as like a superset of JACK and PulseAudio.

Also to note, #pipewire is very active on freenode, and wtay regularly drops into #lad.
How is that perverted? Shorting a stock is fundamentally no different than other types of debt.

Imagine an economy of 3 people, A, B and C.

A has $5.

B borrows $5 from A.

C borrows $5 from B.

A borrows $5 form C.

The economy started with $5 and $0 debt, the economy ends with $5 and $15 debt. Despite the fact that the society's total debt is now 300% the size of its economy, it is no different than how it started. Debt isn't inherently bad. Debt is a tool that allows us to collaborate.
Do you think that social media, smart phones, and the Internet have had zero effect on behavior?
Deep Nostalgia: Animate the faces in your family photos
Yeah, recently I made a burger using lentils, with the lettuce, Ketchup and Mayonnaise added, the kids didn't even notice any difference... I did, but it was still pretty nice!
That's understandable, so we're back to the point I made at the end of my original comment, which is that while we may accept that the best ideas do not triumph in the short run, it's reasonable to think the cost is worth bearing, and it's also reasonable to think the cost isn't worth bearing. I think there are convincing arguments to be made from both points of view. I think it's also worth bringing other democratic ideals into the picture, such as democratic equality, and questioning why (or why not) freedom of speech should always be selected over those other ideals.

For many, some more balancing between the ideals of speech autonomy and democratic equality is strongly justified - see some regulation in Europe for example.
Thanks, really great work!
uBlock Origin extension (and I'm sure others) in chrome blocks all youtube ads. I am always dismayed when I see ads in the YT mobile app, which I don't use often because I haven't seen them on desktop in years.
This article is full of basic self-contradictions.

The very first sentence:

It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today
—with information on every topic, in every language, at
the fingertips of billions of people — without advertising
as its economic foundation.

He literally describes Wikipedia, which is not based on advertising as its economic foundation.

Immediately after that, he says:

72% of people feel that almost all of what they do online is being
tracked by advertisers, technology firms or other companies, and 81%
say that the potential risks they face because of data collection
outweigh the benefits

If that's true, then we are already far past the point where everyone just expects intrusive spying to be a normal part of web use. If that feeling were going to disrupt the advertising business, then it would already have done so. Therefore, his next comment is categorically false (though I wish it were true):

If digital advertising doesn't evolve to address the growing
concerns people have about their privacy and how their
personal identity is being used, we risk the future of
the free and open web.

I think another comment here by user samschooler nails it - Google wants to block intrusions by its competitors under the guise of protecting privacy, while opening up new doors to tracking that only it can take advantage of.

The right way to respect user privacy in advertising is much simpler: just use what they voluntarily gave you (i.e., the words in their search terms) to present relevant advertisements. That may not provide as great of a "benefit of relevant advertising", as he puts it, but that's fine with me.
You can live with your parents and still have sex. It isn't weird or anything, unless you try it on the couch...