skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While endocrine disruption or inhibitors are very likely a factor to blame, I think we also have cultural and socioeconomic factors compounding the problem. There are so many who just don't want to deal with the current dating and casual sex culture. The rewards for time investment and effort just aren't that high compared to alternatives available to many, compounded by other factors of daily life competing for that time.

In heterosexual groups, it's challenging for many men (from my experience) who are interested in casual sex but the effort is simply too high for them to pursue so they largely just check-out (I know quite a few heterosexual males who just feel like it isn't worth their time anymore). In other groups like the LGBTQ+ arena, specifically gay men, it's not nearly as difficult to find the sexual reward many seek and as a result, you'll find casual sex seems quite high. I have quite a few friends here as well and they continue to seek and find causal sexual encounters, dates, etc. or at least they say.

I'd be very interested to see if any empirical data exists that shows casual sex rates over time, normalized, and broken into heterosexual and non-heterosexual groups. If there's a similar decline in both groups then I suspect endocrine disruption may be the real problem. If there's less correlation, I'd tend to think much is culturally driven.
Use these advanced Google searches to find open spreadsheets out there
It's a tough juggle between a hospital that won't allow you to give birth maskless, and the level of care you want. We went through a similar tough choice with our daughter born in August last year - we ultimately went with a Catholic-based hospital that we vetted for great care that allowed my wife to give birth without a mask on.
I bought my last car from a dealer that wasn't super convenient to me because they had the vehicle I was looking for on their lot. They were very insistent I said hello to the service manager even though their location meant I was never going to take my car there.
The only time anyone pretends this is a useful metric is when they're trying to club the opposing political party over the head with it.
But that needs changes that are much harder to achieve: cultural and behavioral change.
> Why would a music streaming company and a financial services company join forces?!

That's a good question and one that is poorly answered in his subsequent tweets. Seems like they're very different businesses without much overlap and if I was a Square shareholder I'd be upset that they're buying a music streaming business, especially one that's not even one of the top 3 streaming services. If Spotify bought Stripe or PayPal, we'd have questions about that too (yes, PayPal is too big to buy but go with the idea).
What has this got to do with anything?

The planet used to be hotter, agreed. But the species alive then were completely different, adapted to living in those conditions. The species alive now (including us!) can thrive in current climatic conditions. A drastic change in a short span of time will lead to a mass extinction.

Unless you think a mass extinction event is ok because it happened millions of years before humans existed? It happened to the dinosaurs so it's no big deal if it happens to most living creatures alive today?
What if I don't want to go through GitHub?
Title's clickbaity. Doesn't minimize the danger.
Coincidentally I saw an interesting tweet thread yesterday

"Currently reading about the military logistics of Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire. It’s fascinating that back then they understood that meat&dairy diets is what made them stronger than their foes who were on primarily grain based diets. "

https://twitter.com/DanTalks1/status/1367004587203256321
I’m certainly not saying it’s okay for Amazon to do this. I’m only saying it’s okay for PD to make fun of it because I suspect their typical customer would still prefer to buy from them. Bringing attention to it like this isn’t really a risk to them.

This is a direct attempt by Amazon Basics to steal the market from PD with a design stolen from PD. I’m not sure that’s any kind of version of okay in any industry.
Thanks for the link and clarification.
If they really want something to question it should be how inflation is calculated. Almost everything is going up in price and it doesn't seem to reflect in the inflation. How it's calculated really needs to be revisited and modernized.
We’ve always understood it, the challenge is empowering those who would otherwise be encumbered with it against their will.
The funny thing is, posting a link to this site without a comment is by all means also a Thought-terminating cliché!
If we are at the point where we don't have enough land to support raising livestock for meat, this means our population is too high, not that we're eating the wrong thing.
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Prioritizing Privacy: Add Offline Speech Recognition to a Java Application
And the junior will learn which things to learn. I certainly think you should allow juniors to code review senior coders work if for nothing more than mentoring, but I am sensitive as to why an overloaded senior would balk at the idea.
Depends, is it winter or summer?
Wow, thank you! Why in the hell would they hide such a useful feature?
Control Java Swing Application with Offline Speech Recognition
Well, it doesn't affect the gameplay if the player starts the game once and never closes it. But for anybody who wants to hop on for a quick bit of fun, it's a notable barrier. There are definitely games I've stopped playing because it takes too much time to launch the thing.
Obviously you know this, but the brain does localize some functions to either hemisphere, just not in the way most people think it does. My vague memory from having taken a class in psycholinguistics is that people with aphasia who've had some part of their brain damaged are good evidence of this localization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke%27s_area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area
Don't forget when they're trying to take credit for low numbers
His autobiography has more information, but they also did a full line check when the rider was not obeyed. I would imagine they were able to check everything but the floor's stats.

As to trashing the room, they were rockers in the 80's. He does mention he thought it was a funny story that he trashed the green room and did $85k in damage when it was mostly the floor damage. "Why let a good story go to waste?" was the quote.
while it doesn't help today, they are in fact looking to do that by Q3, from everything i've seen. I'm holding on to Spotify for now for ease of use, but I too want something better. I didn't like tidal when I used it years ago, though i'm sure they've changed quite a bit.
agreed, they explicitly state they haven't launched yet:

"Join the waitlist now and get FREE 3 months of early access when we launch!"
Hey markdown, my mother tounge is Albanian & I speak Slovenian on native level - if looking for accent, I'd say probably more Slavic than Indian :)
Oh, I forgot that bitcoin mining hardware just magically appears and never ends up on a landfill, power plants don't need to be built and maintained, and of course Bitcoin is probably 100% powered by renewables, right?
May I ask what browser and version you ran this in? It does look dated but ran okay for me on Firefox 86 and Chrome 89.
Our population is too high for our resource consumption, which leaves two dials to adjust. It sure seems a whole hell of a lot less genocidal to just raise fewer cows than to eliminate people, and yet you rule out that option up front?
They also had HomeSite (originally by Allaire, then bought by Macromedia), which is also a text editor. However, it seems that they abandoned it right after acquisition of Macromedia.
Perhaps great irony, in the "Other Tweets" section below Jack's tweets I see this one from Paul Graham - "When startups are doing well, their investor updates are short and full of numbers. When they're not, their updates are long and mostly words."
Repl.it didn't have “cancel” button for subscriptions
I just signed up for (and later cancelled) the "Hacker" plan on Repl.it. When I was ready to cancel, I went to the "My Account" page. On that page, there was a "Billing" section, but it didn't list any record of my subscription. And there was no button on the page for cancelling my subscription. (I was logged in on the subscribed account and had access to my "private" REPLs, which is what the subscription lets you do.)

I emailed support and they cancelled it for me, and said:

"We are working on cancelling subscriptions being an automated process the user can do on their own."

Support didn't respond to my question as to why my subscription was not listed in the "Billing" section, but it was presumably for the same reason that there was no "Cancel" button.

According to Crunchbase.com, Repl.it has raised $24.6M. That they didn't have a self-serve cancel functionality (and they had a deceptive "Billing" section that omits actual subscriptions) on their Account page deserves community criticism. Please help spread the word so that they do better.

[EDIT]: Someone, seemingly from repl.it writes:

"Hey there, we upgraded our stripe library version and missed a part in our code the relied on the old behavior. That resulted in our billing info not rendering for about a day. Sorry about that! A deceptive "Billing" section is definitely not our intention."

Someone confirmed that they have indeed fixed this. The purpose was to get them to fix the issue (since support just gave me the run around). They appear to have done so, so this issue is closed for me.
It's really sad to see such misanthropic opinions here.
Have you looked at chisel? Or whatever it is the BROOM core is written in.
This is from June 2020.
I'm gonna disagree!
This really does depend where you live; we paid €250/month for daycare for our child from the age of 1 upwards.

Even having a baby is very expensive in the USA, in terms of costs for the delivery, and the very very short maternity leave available to the majority of women. By contrast we had almost a year of paid leave, and paid something like €250 for a birth - which was mostly based around the cost of the room we had for a week after the delivery.
Sadly, that all really depends on where you live.
Yeah. And has a nice photo. I love that plane.
> without those miners, the energy supply wouldn't have increased in the first place.

> So we built hydro plants [...] to run bitcoin miners?

> No, organizations built hydro plants for whatever reason in places where supply ended up higher than demand

So... by that logic, it seems that Bitcoin didn't increase the energy supply then.
The twin otter doesn't have enough range to fly from Cape Town to Troll research base. That's why they use the 767-300ER.

They do use the twin otter for internal flights, but they have to be ferried down via south america (without passengers)
Thanks, I was about to ask.
My local community college has partnered with Tesla to offer an EV technician course.

There is nothing sustainable about putting so much CO2 into the air. Almost 50% comes from transportation. Some jobs simply have to go and will be replaced by other jobs.
I can think of something else that would reduce agricultural land-use, as well as mining, lumber, waste, etc. Lower demand by virtue of a lower population, or even just stagnant growth.

Gaining efficiencies in one respect is nice. Can't disparage that. But you can't do so across the board if demand for goods and therefore resources will keep climbing. Think of consumer choices as a mere multiplier for their carbon footprint, because we all have one. Even almonds are suspect now because of the obscene level of water they require in California.

Gains in efficiency like this slow down land encroachment, but they don't stop it. I'm not going to participate in a race to the bottom of being the most efficient cog possible with minimalist consumption (I mean, I consider myself relatively minimalist) when it's plain that my contribution is not ultimately what matters.
You say it's a dumb question to ask, yet you still deemed necessary to include in your own statement facts such as that these are "very early test launches" and that "so much went right".

If it's so dumb for anyone to even ask if three explosions is a problem, why did you do this? Why didn't you just write "Asking if three explosions is a problem is a dumb question to even ask."? Why was it necessary to introduce supporting evidence?

Could it be that you think it's a dumb question because you know these facts? And the article author's job, as a journalist, is to assume, accurately, that most people don't know these facts. Most people are not SpaceX super-fans who have been closely following the test programme. Many will just hear "SpaceX blew up a third rocket" and wonder if things are going wrong, and the author's job, as a professional journalist is to inform those people.
It's possible to be in a room with M&Ms in a bowl and not eat them? TIL.
Its not really a metric. Its a spot check of the known metric. Not much different then pulling some random invoices and deciding if you need to do a full audit.
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Suppose there are 100 copies of the block chain, and 98 become corrupted. You only need the 2 remaining nodes to verify each other and the others would just download the block chain from them.

That would bring other risks like conspiring to rewrite the history (51% attack). But that risk becomes lower the more nodes there are. With 80K+ nodes currently [1], a cosmic event strong enough to kill 99% of the network would surely qualify as "life-threatening".

[1]
https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/histor...
This "environmental activist" is supporting an agitation demanding freedom to burn stubble and cause pollution choking 20 million people of Delhi[1].

Having said that India have some actual activists responsible for creating forests single handedly with their own money[2][3]. Incidentally present "fasist" government honoured them while previous liberal progressive government fail to notice them. These life long activists get no coverage while faker like Greta and Disha rules the headlines.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saalumarada_Thimmakka#:~:tex....
Trust but verify / you don't get what you expect but what you inspect. Random but easy to inspect riders in a contract helps signal if the other parties read the contract in its entirety rather than just set it aside. The basis for it was avoiding injuries from inattentive, incompetent, and/or negligent electricians and riggers in particular. It's merely one technique among many in a holistic strategy of risk management. It's not a Silver Bullet panacea and it doesn't work everywhere.
Exploring Borland DBase IV for DOS (2020)
I can't use reddit as comfortably without a third-party app now.

Sync for Reddit is how I roll.
I'll consider it. The way it sits now is a bit specific to my deployment environment and in a language that I'm not sure a lot of folks would choose for new development (Perl 5 forever!)

Would you say that you're mostly interested in having the code for learning purposes so you could write your own thing, to deploy your own instance mostly as-is, as a starting place for significant modification, or for other purposes I haven't considered? Knowing this would help me understand what sort of open source contribution would be most valuable.
....OFF the landing pad I go...
ClickHouse Server in 1 minute with Docker
Ask HN: Is Apple abandoning their Intel-based Mac Pro users?
First, I want to say that I cannot complain since I am currently running a Ryzentosh, but for all the other users out there that spent $$$ on a new Mac Pro with the promise of years of support etc. must be pretty frustrated right now.

AMD released their new GPU's 5 months ago but still no support for these cards.

There was some unfinished kexts added in macOS 11.1 public betas, but then somewhat reverted in 11.2 and no new changes in 11.3.

What does this mean? Are we witnessing an imploding partnership just like what happened between Apple <-> Nvidia? According to multiple forum posts, both companies refer to each other when asked about drivers. This sounds a lot like what happened just before the partnership went downhill and end-users stopped receiving Nvidia drivers.[0]

Maybe Apple holding on to these drivers because they want to get rid of their own AMD MPX cards first?

Or are they just going to straight up abandon all these Intel-based computers because of Apple Silicon-based computers killing off any kind of competition? It seems unlikely they would do this.

One could argue that these things take time and there are no reason to rush it now anyways when it's practically impossible to get a hold of these cards. I don't buy it.

Apple and AMD should be able to be proactive and have drivers ready or be transparent with what is going on.

It is this silence / pointing fingers that concerns me.

[0]: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/failed-radeon-rx-6800-xt-big-sur.306736/page-37#post-2232229
> It's pretty Australian to think your country is the best at most things.

What? Australia is the land that gave the world the term “cultural cringe”. Often something is described as “world class” to justify its quality (whether correctly or not) by an external reference.

If you move to the USA you’ll see the opposite: people implicitly assume that the local thing is the world’s best, and don’t even bother to say so as they assume it’s self-evidentially so. The other country I’ve lived in where this is true is France, which is possibly why they criticize each other so much.*

Of course the truth is that each of these places does some things well and some not so well.

* The French also moan a lot — it feels like the national pastime — but that’s different.
We're at $1800/month for an infant and toddler in daycare. Wife and I both work. Thankfully the company I work for has an HSA for childcare.
(disclaimer: I'm not in game development and only read about this)

Usually different staff rolls on and off at different times of product development and post-release lifecycle. I understand that most programmers would have been rolled off a while before launch. You early on have people build or adjust the engine and tooling, but later on you don't need most of them anymore and things come down to creating content.
Before the pandemic the weekly initial jobless claims had a maximum around 650,000. We’ve had around 50 consecutive weeks where this number has been well above 700,000. The stock market is at an all time high. We had an attempted coup in January and have seen government mismanagement to an extreme level in Texas recently.

I get the sense of surreality.
I think you nailed it. Often companies and exec want ML but don't have the basics: robust ETL pipeline, clean data, solid analytics foundation (dashboards, automated reporting, etc.). These appear boring to most but they will be the difference between a useless ML department who can't ship anything to production and a successful one that builds on top of the aforementioned foundations.

In addition I believe it's time we drop the data science term. It's an umbrella of different roles ranging from data engineer to DL researcher. Companies need to identify what they REALLY need and not go for the shiny PhD in ML.

The emergence of analytics engineering is the perfect example of this shift towards creating robust data pipeline first and enabling "data scientists" to do so.

I wrote a blog post about it yesterday, I don't want to post it here and self-promote too much, so check it in my profile if you want to.
Author here. My intention was to try to define "honest" in terms of already established terms. Pure and total have quite specific definitions in programming, so it doesn’t feel right to define pure in terms of honest.

A better way to put it might be that a pure and total function will also be honest, but a function might be honest without being fully pure. E.g. if its name indicates that it performs IO, it’s still honest even though it’s not pure.

Thanks for the comment, I might end up clarifying this later tonight :)
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/biodiv-clearcut/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/06/phosphat...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/sea-runni...

https://www.siwi.org/latest/the-worlds-natural-aquifers-at-r...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/groundwat...

https://www.idtechex.com/en/research-article/the-meat-indust...

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/21994
Windows DNS SIGRed bug gets first public RCE PoC exploit
Don't poorer people have more kids on average?
Presumably this shouldn't be a problem for most 'cloud' providers like AWS and Google who run ECC memory, right?
Even better, although it was still visibly leaning after touchdown. Not sure what their timeframe is on the new legs.
> I'm confused as to how becoming aware of how my privilege, which has lead to wrong, sometimes harmful, assumptions, would lead me to expand my list of assumptions

To be clear, I don't think privilege-checking causes more harm than not-privilege-checking. But I think it causes less good than the version of privilege-checking that is applied to everyone regardless of demographic privilege, which is to say, empathy.

By being choosy about who deserves empathy, rather than your ideal being focused on general human equality you propagate class divides but simply change which ones you value. I think it's a mixup between empathy and sympathy. You end up valuing the humanity of the disenfranchised more than the privileged, which is dangerous. You can think that people who are marginalised deserve better without either thinking those who are privileged deserve worse, or that they are active perpetrators of said marginalisation. I'm not saying you necessarily make this mistake yourself - I don't know your feelings on the matter - but I see people go down this line of reasoning all the time after acknowledging the concept of class privilege and I just think we can do better than that.
It was not my intention to imply negative things about people in the developing world. It indeed does make perfect sense to pirate in such conditions. In any case, I was not making a moral argument, more of a strategic one from the POV of a dev. I also made the comment mostly in reference to the West and to the demographics likely to pirate there, although I obviously should have made this more clear.

>This leads me to believe piracy is fully a "problem" of accessibility, and I don't believe we gain anything from restricting access to people who literally cannot afford the product in the first place.

I completely agree, and that is the point I wanted to make: there are many reasons not to obsess over piracy. Most people who do pirate will not be a lucrative market in any case, therefore little effort should be expended on anti-piracy measures. It is more lucrative to focus on the people likely to casually dump money on your product once you meet a certain standard of accessibility and quality.
I can remember some damn big demonstrations against invading Iraq.
Such advanced cheating would require enough intelligence, mindfulness and self control, if not psychology competence, that it can be considered a proxy indicator that the subject is more or less OK.
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Not very hard actually—those who eat lots of meat and dairy have plenty of health issues. A change brought to you in part by natural selection.

EDIT: For the downvoters: https://nutritionstudies.org/the-china-study/

Just one example...
Humor, the hope that one is not alone in their beliefs, and that if there are a few others, you can filter for them by their reactions. Of course, this is a brute force method that has potential ... side effects.
I was not being sarcastic. Those things are harmful.