skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there not a glaring contradiction in the findings (based on the abstract)?

> Among young men, declines in drinking frequency, an increase in computer gaming, and the growing percentage who coreside with their parents all contribute significantly to the decline in casual sex.

> The authors find no evidence that trends in young adults’ economic circumstances, internet use, or television watching explain the recent decline in casual sexual activity.

Seems like co-residing with parents and declining drinking frequency (which I'd think of as just more care-free behavior) is a direct result of trends in economic circumstances.

And in the paper, they lay out some pretty good hypothesis:

> Many youth now work multiple jobs as part of the gig economic (Katz and Krueger 2019), which in turn might limit the amount of time available for casual sexual encounters (Lyons et al. 2014). High levels of debt, particularly student loan debt, might also lead to increased work hours and thus constrain the time available for engaging in casual sex.

Of course, this is what they set out to test, but it seems like they do find something to suggest that it's true, as it contributes to 10%:

> As shown in model 4, young men who live with their parents are significantly less likely than their counterparts who live independently to report having had casual sex in the past month, and controlling for parent coresidence reduces the coefficient for survey year from –.073 to –.067.

> The estimated odds that young men who live with their parents engage in casual sex are only 63 percent of the corresponding odds for young men who live independently (e−.457 = .63)

Co-residence and not being financially stable seem pretty tightly correlated to me. Feels like they're missing the forest for the trees -- you know what you do when you're not making enough money? Live with your parents, Stay in and maybe play video games instead of going to the pub and trying to impress and woo someone of the opposite sex.
Interesting, what about tetration then?
This was more or less the purpose of monogamy. If you observe many societies that don’t strongly enforce it, you see that wealthy men end up having tons of wives, while poor men have none.

Same situation is happening in America, we just don’t call it polygamy because it has been reduced entirely to the physical act.
> hawking browser toolbars.

Ahh yes, the lowest circle of adtech hell. I didn't know that kind of annoyware was even still a thing.
So python is this super easy language to teach kids how to code and then all of a sudden it's too complicated for adult SMEs?
For those of you without $1300 to spend on an FPV drone, you can pick up a pretty decent package for about $250ish: https://betafpv.com

As a new Mavic Mini owner, the one feature I'm craving for is FPV.
There are 2d values that aren't imaginary numbers.
Some of it is falling, some of it is boiling off into space.
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I had to have a 'birds and the bees' talk with a young female passenger one night. I titled that post "the difference between boys and girls": https://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys...

This young woman was flexible about casual sex, and didn't understand why her latest boyfriend was troubled that it'd only been 2 weeks since her last boyfriend. I told my passenger how women fundamentally get to choose who they have sex with (to screen their suitors), whereas men 'get lucky'. The evolutionary reason is that women have all the consequences of a pregnancy.

I also have an un-posted collection of anecdotes about "the predicaments of girls and boys", about women who were dissatisfied with their relationships. Women have to screen, but aren't trained in how to motivate their romantic interests to behave up to their standards.

From the submission:

> One of the strongest predictors of the likelihood of engaging in casual sex is alcohol consumption. [...] Because there is some evidence that alcohol consumption increases young women’s more than young men’s odds of engaging in casual sex, it is possible that the decline in alcohol consumption explains more of the decline in young women’s than in young men’s propensity to have sex outside of a committed romantic relationship.

Alcohol consumption is rather important to help women suppress their naturally-protective inclinations to avoid 'hooking up' with any man who expresses an interest in them. Other female passengers, whom I'm still in touch with, have told me of how they were very selective in their relationships...
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I've taken acid with three people who I later found out suffered from schizophrenia, and in all three cases they had had psychotic episodes years before I had met them. The first of these three definitely went from normal-seeming to more and more intense over the course of taking acid with them - he even drew his own version of the famous schizophrenic cats in doodles on people's doors at university.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain#/media/File:Louis_w...
I hear this explanation often, but it ignores the fact that only a small fraction of population uses Tinder.

I don't know the real reason, but if I was to guess, the most obvious one is that there are so many interesting things to do, learn, engage in, that making considerable effort in order to have sex simply doesn't seem worth it, that's all.
This may be my personal bias against google talking but I see the removal of third party cookies less as a privacy first move and more as a move to consolidate their monopoly on user data. If they can already identify people via the browser then they don't need cookies to do so like other organizations would.
So by your account, someone at NS tails the search log and hits "buy" when they see something nice like wow.quest?
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Find it difficult to believe anything they say.
Jop, definitely. I still remember this clearly because I was into gaming. And while I could play some games with wine, Counter-Strike iirc, my friends used Teamspeak. Teamspeak had a proprietary linux version, but it used OSS. Before `aoss` became a thing (or maybe just known to me) there was no way of having teamspeak on and ingame sound, and teamspeak needed to be started before the game.

Only using alsa fixed this, mumble I think then became a good alternative for a short while.
Stop buying Chinese goods.
I didn't get to try it under PipeWire on my Arch laptop before that died the other day, but a friend had said PulseEffects is no longer such a massive CPU hog under PipeWire, so much so that they run it all the time now.
Here's a list of competitors and how I think we compare with each -

UiPath - Designed for heavyweight Enterprise. We're really not competing for the same market, but their tech is a similar approach. They go for fortunate 500, we go for everyone else.

Zapier - Axiom competes with zapier in some ways. We're different because we automate the Ui, not just APIs, and we integrate with Zapier.

Automatio.co - They seem to emphasise cloud running, and their tool looks a bit more complicated. Most of our bots are actually used locally, where the user processes their own data. We support running in the cloud too. It looks like they're charging for distribution, where we're freemium.

Phantombuster - They focus on templates, rather than 'build your own bot'. Also, nearly all social automations like LinkedIn.

There will be more.

Ultimately, I think browser automation will be similar to API automation, where Zapier, Tray.io et al, all compete with different approaches for different segments of the market.
You can send someone an email, if you're upset with them
I read about this before I think it was on OKCupid study. The spoils go to the top. In the sexual market place, the top 20% of best/successful looking men, get most of the women on the dating apps. Leaving the hand as the best companion for the rest. Hence why Onlyfans is a billion dollar business. Pareto distribution at play again.

Also I read somewhere that only about 50% of men that have lived ever reproduced. And in societies with an unequal distribution, eventually devolves into being more violent. As the "incels", try to better their lot for reproduction.
They collect data of all other countries. As their devices become pervasive, the data and thousands of RCEs serve as an aid to intelligence, if your country is competing with or in a fight with China, this is actively harmful.
I think the expectation is other browsers will implement by default - the intention incidentally is that FLoC isn’t a google specific tech, it enables private targeting by any ad vendor. The proposal seems to mostly to be by googlers but the association is with WICG which seems to have people from all over.

As I noted in my original message - yes, its client side, you can do whatever. (‘Whether the browser sends a real FLoC or a random one is user controllable’ https://github.com/WICG/floc)
I am biased to think this was going to be just a bunch of hoopla coming from Google. They are the last company I'd expect to actually care about user privacy.

"That’s why last year Chrome announced its intent to remove support for third-party cookies," aka only Google's cookies are "safe". Sounds like Google is going to try and block it's competitors from being able to gain the information Google uses to make money (tracking information for ad revenue.)

Also this was written like someone needed to fill in the article for a C-Level headline after the headline was already chosen. Disappointing that a company like this maintains it's stranglehold on a market and tool (now commodity) that regular people have no understanding of.
I never thought I would mistrust Google as much as I already mistrust Facebook, but here we are.

You can target ads based on the content of the webpage they are displayed on instead of constantly spying on everyone.

How about we go back to that?
> But the skill is there or it isn’t

If I understand what you saying correctly, you're saying AI ethics researchers have no skill?
Trivia, FreeBSD looked at Alsa and decided they were using a rewrite as an excuse to not fix OSS and so they dug in and fixed OSS so it worked.
Who said OP is in the inactive bucket? ;)
How to make cognitive illusions disappear (1991)
Yeah but: the key differentiator to me is supplying drop-in replacements / adapters for all the other standards from early on in the process. This is why it isn't #927 I say...
A paid search engine could have advanced features like "exclude this site from future results" or "don't show me content like this" that used semantic AI profiling. It could leverage more CPU-intensive and data-intensive AI features because you are paying for it so the economics work.

Free search incentivizes the cheapest (in CPU and other resource terms) search possible and monetizing in ways that add the least actual value.
Funny, I just posted this 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296596
> Getting Hugh quality data

That's why we need large interventional studies instead of observational ones.

Observational studies are interesting and sometimes necessary (e.g. when there's ethical concerns about running an intervention such as with smoking), but it's just way too tricky to separate out the impact of confounders especially when the treatment effects are rather weak (e.g. with coffee or meat consumption).
Which is a technical way of saying "in real life people use finite rational or algebraic approximations for reals, so uncountability of reals and infinite precision aren't a problem".
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Typescript does have enums
And real numbers are ∞-d, over rationals.
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Interestingly enough it would be "especially" integers that don't exist physically in mosts scales of reality if physics is to have any mathematical coherence.
> Mozilla's disagreement about those APIs is primarily about security, not privacy.

The better statement would be "security and privacy".

> I think it's very important (https://www.jefftk.com/p/we-need-browsers-as-platforms) and I'm frustrated that Mozilla no longer does.

I'm frustrated Google brushes aside any security and privacy concerns and just charges ahead and unleashes them onto the world. Mozilla may still think that browser-as-a-platform is important. However, they are clearly not willing to sacrifice security and privacy of users to achieve that goal.

The only reason is that Google wants to own the web stack (see Ars Technica article I'm alluding to: [1]), and no objections to what they propose, and do, will stop them. Honestly, I'm surprised they still ask other browser vendors for their positions (see, e.g. [2]), as they clearly couldn't care less.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/owning-the-stack...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336
Raw icon names (that you cannot influence) often don't make a good replacement for proper alt text. Quite often they should not be read out at all. Furthermore, people forcing websites to use a font like OpenDyslexic will see these non-descriptive icon names instead of the real icons.
I wouldn't be surprised if you do a back to back A/B comparison, one can identify diffferences. However, soeone who doesn't hasn't eaten a whopper in years, it was essentially how the whopper tasted to me.

That is sufficient of a bar to for a meat replacement I'd say.
It is, but it does serve different purposes. You don't go on Vimeo to find cute cat videos. You don't go on Vimeo to reply to strangers' comments about a music video or board game review etc etc etc.
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If you want to expand semi human traits to other planets (anywhere) you will need genetic engineering. Full stop. The idea that humans can be transplanted as-is does not hold given the results on the home planet.
I'm not even sure Robinhood is falling. Yes they had to take out a billion dollar bridge loan, but that means their assets under management just shot up massively. And now that the frenzy is over, they repay the loan and keep the assets under management.
> If you do know men like this and you disagree with me, please elaborate.

I think your hypothesis is mostly correct, except for the idea that the men who are having more sex are “tremendous specimens”.

I don’t think they need to be especially attractive or powerful. It could be cultural or psychological differences that make some men put more energy into their pursuits. For example, compare Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton.
I don’t see the problem. He has shown over many years that he isn’t someone to be trusted with this type of accreditation. His past convictions aside, he has shown that breaking the rules is his normalcy. He is still active with many members that still coordinate with illegal activities. Yes ICANN has too much power, but I understand and respect their rejecting Sunde.
Honestly I was hoping for a package around $600-700 but DJI took this in another direction which is probably smart for their bottom line. I'm hoping in 1-2 years they'll have a "mini" or cheaper version.
Continuous numbers?
Dont get married to an idea or thought - explore, experiment, be flexible when working towards what you want to achieve.
TCP targets (the only kind currently in Boundary) actually work with _any_ TCP connection. The `boundary connect <subcommand>` bits are just some CLI syntactic sugar around the main `boundary connect` command -- which works all by itself! -- that fill in IP/port and other information for various clients. (This has been an unfortunate bit of confusion for many people trying Boundary out. We'll take another look at how we can make this more obvious in our getting started/learn docs.)

It's all TCP though. Eventually we'll do more interesting things with specific protocol types.
call it a hunch ;)
In that case, I think they’re saying that both CO2 and O2 will be absorbed over time by minerals (as well as CO2 being absorbed by plants), and once CO2 levels drop too much, photosynthesis stops (or slows), which means oxygen stops (or slows) being replenished as well, so oxidization of minerals will also lead to a reduction in oxygen levels.

(And less volcanic activity over time also means less CO2 being added back to the atmosphere, so the chemical weathering process that absorbs both CO2 and O2 into minerals will no longer have an active counterbalancing force from volcanoes.)
Scott Manley mentioned in one of his recent videos about Perserverance that they have an FPGA on board the rad hardened PPC main cpu can offload tasks to, such computer vision based navigation during landing.

Not sure what the long term plan is for that hardware - I guess they can just do stuff more slowly on the main CPU if it gets fried by radiation. Or maybe being an FPGA the can just isolate the radiation affected regions over time and use the rest ?
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This number is clearly wrong on its face. And in the case of GenXers, regardless of what percentage are living with their parents, I suspect the majority of those arrangements are that the parent is living with the child because the parent needs support, not the other way around.
Everyone with a sex drive wants sex, but they want it from the right person. The heuristics surrounding the "right person" selection process have been destroyed. The women I know who have retreated from dating have almost unanimously expressed frustration with both the poor selection of available men (because their standards have been artificially inflated) and the constant push from the available men for the women to engage in casual sex (the men no longer have meaningful and safe road maps for how relationships should progress).
This is a really nice, unbiased and short article to how virus spreads across species and why bats in particular have a higher chance of spreading viruses they carry.

Good read.
That's great, but my intuition fails me when I try to consider what it would mean for the answer to some question to be a complex number. It's even worse for quaternions, because I can't even use the spatial analogue there.
I'm just thinking of all the disparate use cases for Linux audio, all the disparate types of inputs/outputs, complex device types involved, etc.

But then I think about pro-audio:

* gotta go fast

* devices don't suddenly appear and disappear after boot

* hey Paul Davis-- isn't the current consensus that people just wanna run a single pro-audio software environment and run anything else they need as plugins within that environment? (As opposed to running a bazillion different applications and gluing them together with Jack?)

So for pro-audio, rather than dev'ing more generic solutions to rule all the generic solutions (and hoping pro-audio still fits one of the generic-inside-generic nestings), wouldn't time be better spent creating a dead simple round-trip audio latency test GUI (and/or API), picking a reference distro, testing various alsa configurations to measure which one is most reliable at the lowest latency, and publishing the results?

Perhaps start with most popular high-end devices, then work your way down from there...

Or has someone done this already?
Pi is definitely not a fractional number... I don't think it's cheating at all, multiplication on the naturals is repeated addition, that's not the case for the reals.
Or it could mean that they have data showing that all that tracker targeting isn't actually providing the value to advertisers that they claim it provides and want to move on before that becomes common knowledge.

I'd love to see my scenario be true, but I'm afraid that it's much less likely than yours.
You can now beam Steam games from your PC to anyone, anywhere, for free
Don't worry about that; even the biggest unifi fanboy will turn back into normalcy once they will have to contact the ubiquiti support (yeah, ubiquiti support, that's oxymoron).
I'd go even further and suggest that men are now more self-conscious about merely approaching women, even on appropriate places and occasions, because they don't want to come off as a harasser.
I think this is the reason too. There could be many possible reasons why young men have less testosterone than their ancenstors. Maybe the high child obesity rates? Chemicals in foods?
Number theorists work with complex numbers and irrational numbers too

https://www.britannica.com/science/Riemann-zeta-function
Long-range FPV builds can go out for miles--especially if you build specifically for that, and fly in areas with low radio noise like mountain ranges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqDcd7cDv4Y
That’s not mysterious or suspicious at all, it’s just a consequence of being able to lend something fungible. Very similar to how bank lending affects the supply of money.
Complexity from Simplicity

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/822.full
That's a very old wiki page with decades old workaround for decade old issues. I'm not saying you are wrong, but if you take this impression solely from that wiki page you are likely mislead. Afaik this always works and did for many years - but I might be wrong and always only lucky with all the systems where I tested it?
I bet all the big tech companies spend way more electricity on things other than training big models.

"You use too much electricity" is tantamount to "tech is a flawed business model". Arguably solvable with increased green energy sources but that's more a job for society in general than just tech companies.
To make this more explicit, mathematics (even at the primary school level) is arguably more about “proving” things than it is about computation.

Obviously you’re not writing proofs in 3rd grade, but the emphasis should be on students being able to say why their answer is correct rather than just being able to produce the correct answer.
Short selling is absurdly risky, but selling put options should probably remain allowed.