skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No solutions, I am afraid, that do not involve large-scale genetic engineering.

In the parlance of our times, dudes are generally "thirstier." On top of it, you can call it genetics or you can call it culture, but ... men make the approach, typically. (Okay, I am done with generally and typically and trends for now) This leads to guys spamming some entirely-too-fussy gals and the usual dynamics emerging.

You've read the grim confessions of women who remorselessly admit to "dating for dinner." You've seen the baiting performed using the photo of a male model who can say simply the most awful and outrageous things. The Heightism user might have been banned on Twitter but others have emerged like the heads of hydras, reposting the casually cruel dismissal of men under six foot.

It's only the basic thirstiness that drives men to even continue, and I suspect that a lot of young men opt out, because that's just step one. They're looking at their often-divorced parents and remembering who got the house, then wondering if the game is worth the candle. I suspect the men at the intersection of easily disheartened and generally aware have been most put off, leaving the field to the exuberant and the blessed.

And remember, we are currently in a culture that doesn't seem to like men very much. Just for a giggle, go to Google, type "men are" and see what the autocomplete suggests, then do "women are." That has to add to more of the disenchantment.
> We already have a legislated inflation target: it's 2%.

That’s a Fed rule of thumb long-run target, but its not legislated.
It's the parents fault for coddling them. If they kicked them out at 18, the nephews would definitely need to work and may realize the importance of having a better job/career.
Just a minute ago you were taking about how great it was that USD’s supply was “protected”. Fickle.
It’s like drug or alcohol addiction. People can become somewhat “born again” usually after some kind of catastrophe and/or “rock bottom” moment. Parents allowing this from their adult children are akin to addict enablers.
600 billion? Wtf is that number?
It could be pegged to something.
The title of the article says that they aren't pursuing employment. The fact they are living at home is explaining how they do that. At least in the article I read it as being stigma against people just staying at their parents homes and playing video games--not against multigenerational homes where young men were working.
I wouldn't pooh pooh that. It's a tough problem for politicians, teachers, education activists and researchers.

If you set high standards and allowed only those who pass them to advance to the next grade, graduate HS etc. then you'd end up with clear racial disparities.

I don't want to get into a discussion about what's the cause of these disparities and who's fault they are. But, based on available data on e.g. SAT scores, we'd have Asian Americans doing the best, followed by whites, and with blacks at the bottom.

It'd provoke a flurry of media debate and negative attention on everyone involved. These people cannot fix the problem itself, at least not fully and certainly not quickly. But they can change standards to make it look like everyone is doing well. After all if you lower standards enough everyone will meet them.

It's a real problem and these incentives aren't going to change. Any solution will have to acknowledge and address them, not pretend that they don't exist and that incompetent or weak-minded politicians are to blame.
Time for some tough love and kick them out. Not doing them any favors enabling their laziness.
In Tacoma, I lived nextdoor to a guy who "hurt his back" when he was 22.

As far as I can tell, he'll sit on his couch collecting disability until 65, at which point he'll switch to retirement.
Because tech is very good at it.¸

There is a reason why a lot of people consider uber and other similar business tech, even though their core business is not tech.
> People have an innate right to...

No, they don't.
This is one reason I use cash less now.
I was just thinking about this today. I am currently forcing myself to work on TCL for a small project (I've only used it casually before). Coming from lisp I can appreciate some aspects of it, but it can be frustrating at times.
In a few year we are back at jQuery.
No, no information should ever be banned from any public/commons - the end. You want to ban certain information from a particular place you control? Go nuts. The wider public? No.

The power to ban information is too great to be entrusted to any authority at all. Depending on how thorough the "ban" (web text filter at the ISP level? mandatory AR implants at birth filtering banned content? worse?), it's anywhere from an abhorrent violation of human rights and the principles behind free exchange and scientific inquiry all the way up through literally the most powerful weapon which could even theoretically be designed.

This is not a road worth going down, for any amount of harm reduction. The cost today may be worth it. The cost long term is potentially too great to even consider risking. There is no guarantee of who holds the ban hammer tomorrow.
> Of course, tapes require a tape drive and its cost would require a lot of data to compensate the cost, but at a such high cost of retrieval it would not take much data to equal the cost of a tape drive.

But the less you expect to use it, the less this matters.

So I'd put the break-even point a bit higher. Tape is good for 100TB or more but for tens it's hard to justify a tape drive.

Also it's important to remember to get those tapes offsite every week!
> And I say that as somebody who enjoys C++, and has written code in it since the late 80s

As have I, and I say you don't seem to know what you are talking about. I've been involved in writing very large Unix and Windows applications in the 1990s (starting in the late 80s), and have had no problems that you mention.
I don't disagree and I think I should have clarified that if you're the type of young man who has trouble dating (in the sense that you find yourself to be awkward, or have mostly bad dates), and can't seem to connect with women, then do NOT do what I have suggested here. Get out there and take a lot of swings.
Whelp color me an ass for commenting about not reading past the headline while also completely missing the main crux of your argument! That's my b
Exactly. Which would make sense in case of spare parts, "we don't make spare parts for us, so we can't distribute them for others", but that would apply also to firmware and technical information, which they have and doesn't require distribution in physical form.

I'm afraid that for some time we'll continue to see old phones discarded in landfills because there will be no technical information available allowing developers to port open operating systems, drivers and apps to them.
Running TensorFlow Lite Models on Raspberry Pi [video]
Nope, long distance entanglement collapse breaks this. You either need exponential blowup to simulate all possible eigenvalues or you need superluminal coordination.

There isn’t actually an observed/unobserved distinction in physics. Unless you mean the simulation is specifically targeting humans, which is a vastly more complicated proposal.
This tired take is in every single thread.
I have a very multicultural background, but the dominant cultural view, at least when it comes to money, is Chinese.

For us, living at home is not failure. Moving out without planning to start a family if you live in the same city as your parents is considered wasting money. You instead use it as an opportunity to save a pile of money and invest.

How much of this is just cultural change? It isn't failure to launch. It is wanting to launch with a larger rocket with more fuel.
I believe saying that our mental models are mere models and not reality would be a bit shorter, profound and usefull :)
That was not very believable right from the beginning. Product branding, no matter how good, becomes stale over time and refreshes are inevitable.
This complaint should be taken about as seriously as a rich person complaining how hard it is to be rich.

Every woman can put herself in a man's position of no matches - just delete Tinder. Every rich person can become poor - just give away all their money.

Yet they don't. It's called revealed preferences. Because having options, no matter how bad, is better than not having options.
The main practical example is git. It does have some partial mitigations for fixing its historical record, for example the mailmap file for correcting names and email addresses. And, I suppose in the worst case a project could rebase its entire history to expunge illegal commits.

Fortunately there’s little chance of blockchain as in cryptocurrency succeeding outside the scammers and their marks.
If the world wad run by mature responsible people then we wouldnt have the issues of e-waste, more plastic than fish in the ocean and climate change.

Systemic problems require systemic solutions that achieve results in the real world, not just ideal one
Artificial Time
I don't think video games have anything to do with it. Humans are naturally lazy, and if all your needs are being taken care of for you, then you'll naturally seek entertainment for your boredom.

They could do all sorts of things in their spare time, from watching tv shows, movies, youtube, anime, browsing reddit/twitter/instagram/tiktok, etc.
This strategy would have worked before MMT took over, now politicians don't need to bring about jobs, they can just print money and pass deficits of epic proportions and substitute the private sector with the state.

Especially Democrats they have no regards for fiscal responsibility , they'd have no qualms in breaking up Amazon, knowing full well that the next step would be to install a dependency scheme in the form of UBI financed via fiscal deficits.
Is anyone else getting some "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" vibes?
Questionable Alzheimers drug etc. etc.
This is the destiny of all men in a world dominated by radical feminist ideology.

Both they (your nephews) and the radical feminists in charge (eg: Biden/Harris Administration) look at this situation without blinking and both come to the same conclusion, "if they're employed then they're taking a job away from a woman" and "not a bug, working as intended, won't-fix."
Perhaps at your firm, but if the work you do doesn't require you to be onsite, there are other firms that may not have a problem with remote work.
"The anti-racists are the real racists," eh?
This looks fascinating, but I don't have the math to really understand. I can see I'd need linear algebra and some statistics, but what else would be required to understand and work with something like this?
Not always voluntary. They have to do this by law in a lot of countries.
Ransomware attack hit Teamsters in 2019 – but they refused to pay
Yeah - I think it's highly dependent on what your parents are like.

I've known people who lived at home for a year or two to save money, but I wouldn't have been able to have any independence.
Speaking as someone who went pretty heavily into STEM (I have a PhD in math and work as a mathematical physicist) I absolutely hate this view. I have not seen any evidence that on average STEM is harder in a meaningful sense than non-STEM subjects. A huge amount of non-stem stuff is really difficult, if you tried to push me as an undergrad through a philosophy or history or literature degree or whatever I'd probably fail.

Viewing non-stem stubjects as a lesser course for "those who could not complete STEM degrees" is simultaneously idiotic and elitist, which is pretty impressive.

I also completely disagree with the naive assumption that non-vocational degrees are "useless degrees", there is a big difference between something being "useless" and you, personally, not understanding the use.
> Methods and results

> Sperm samples were obtained from fathers that have children with or without autism, and the sperm then assessed for alterations in DNA methylation. A genome-wide analysis (> 90%) for differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs) was used to identify DMRs in the sperm of fathers (n = 13) with autistic children in comparison with those (n = 13) without ASD children. The 805 DMR genomic features such as chromosomal location, CpG density and length of the DMRs were characterized. Genes associated with the DMRs were identified and found to be linked to previously known ASD genes, as well as other neurobiology-related genes. The potential sperm DMR biomarkers/diagnostic was validated with blinded test sets (n = 8–10) of individuals with an approximately 90% accuracy.

This has to be a preliminary study right? I mean n=13...
To be fair, I asked the question because you made a sweeping assertion about others being "anti-truth/anti-science", which implies you'd be more cognizant and knowledgeable about the algorithms and mindset behind Google back "in the good ol days".
JPMorgan Staff Irked over Order to Save Texts on Personal Phones
To be honest, I've been doing a lot of hmm'ing and haw'ing on this topic.

I know, the arrogance of one person to unilaterally decide on society's behalf whether it is ready for innovation X, Y, or Z. It's more of a mental exercise for me, and an input to my own conscience... but hey, you asked.

Personally, the FAANG bunch are off limits from my point of view. I cannot morally reconcile helping them snowball any further on the financial or innovation front. What innovation I generally see come out of them is generally divergent from my ethical framework of acceptable to nurture the normalization of in society.

Rampant, non-informed/non-consented to A/B testing at population scales, wholesale building of surveillance enabling datasets at a population/worldwide scale, enablement of fraud and front-running of marketplace participants, engagement in monopolistic behavior through erecting aggressively high barriers to entry and denying users and developers to develop freely, as well as capitulation to highly unethical demands to placate a nation allowed to develop a stranglehold on hardware supply chains.

They're all too bloody big. Their scale magnifies the ripple effects of anything they do, and stymies the possibility for new entrants to the market at large. They all have too much capital under the control of far too few minds. They all represent a clear and present threat to social order, and any shred of possibility of maintaing an open and healthy competitive market.

So yeah. I'd say it presents a danger to continue to advance their goals. It's odd, as I used to be a full speed ahead, innovation at all costs kind of dude; but seeing what the last decade has done to the world has given me second thoughts.

I don't mind their infrastructure existing. I just feel queasy about having it all under what is essentially a single leadership group. I really don't think that bodes well. I have no proof or studies to back it up other than that we've stayed away from that way of doing things historically, and when we haven't done it as well as we should have. Problems(TM). Ensued.
I have been unfortunate enough to not be diagnosed with ADHD until middle age, and I'm sorry to hear about your apparent misdiagnosis but for people who actually do have the condition, it's very real and it very much sucks. It's not just "someone walked into the room and I lost my train of thought", it's "I have one simple task to do and I know exactly how to do it and it's been hours but I still can't make myself do the thing no matter how much I want to."

It's "I haven't done my taxes for 18 months even though it would only take a day, and I cannot force myself to do it no matter how hard I try."

It's "I've been unable to fold my laundry for six weeks even though I've alphabetized my cutlery drawer, twice."

It's "I have to document this project but no matter how much I want to just do it, I nevertheless continually find myself on imgur or Facebook or Hacker News or some random other website reading up about how switched-reluctance motors or Monte Carlo tree search or whatever works."

It's lack of executive function when you need it and it's the inability to think about anything else when something's grabbed your focus and it's a built-in character flaw that you can't "just choose to not have" and it's growing up thinking you're "just lazy" but "have so much potential" and it just. f*king. sucks.

If all you need in order to focus on the thing you want to focus on is for no-one to interrupt you, you don't have ADHD.

/rant
If you walk up to the IT desk, they should check your identity. (At least for security-sensitive things like password resets or locked accounts.)

Most employees have a photo badge, so they could scan that and look up your records in the HR database. If you've lost your badge, they could ask your name and look that up in the HR database, which hopefully has a photo on file.
I don’t blame them.

All of the necessities are less and less attainable day by day.

House prices are rising out of control.

College education is extremely expensive, and jobs require more and more degrees and credentials.

Dating apps are heavily biased towards women.

But entertainment at home is more attainable than ever! Cheap high speed internet, a plethora of fun games to play, tons of people online to socialize with.
> Impact factor means less these days when we see how citation manipulation and stuffing skew things.

Academic publishing is a racket. So I don't much care. Lancet played politics to run cover for China who conducted US funded gain of function on coronaviruses in Wuhan because it supported their political narrative.

This is little different. All western institutions will fail because all western institutions are run by money grubbing cowards. The west will eventually die and we will be taken over by strongmen like Jinping or Putin. This brief liberal moment we had in an otherwise authoritarian history will be extinguished.

> This author appears to have an interesting way of seeing the world. Did you see their other publications?

No I did not, I am sure many fucked up people had "an interesting way of seeing the world".
Fertility clinics harvest eggs from women every day. Some of those eggs could be donated for research.

Example: Clinics harvests 12 eggs from a layd, 1 egg needed for IVF, IVF is succesful (baby born), lady is now happy to donate the remaining 11 eggs to science.
It may not be able to remove it, but it certainly can make viewing, storing or disseminating it illegal and punish those that do.

Ultimately a legal system is how a society controls a governments monopoly on violence. A legal system can remove almost anything if it really want too, by virtue of the fact that it can send big men with guns to destroy whatever physical manifestations of the thing exists.

Of course there are practical limits to this power. But that’s never stopped a government before.
Personal lives are complex things, certainly, and no single metric can capture 'success' or 'failure' on them. However, one piece of evidence is the per-occupation divorce rate: https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation

Software folks are really good about not getting divorced. And they have money, so they could if they wanted to.
> I would rather put in time into my job, or my friends, or my hobbies.

one acronym: MGTOW.
NANOG has presentations on low-level stuff. A comment of mine from a few days ago links to some videos:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412527

I'm sure you'll get a bunch of "related" videos on YouTube after watch them.
Let's Lift the Earth (2014)
> People have an innate right to be as educated as they want (and can handle)

What year did that right begin?
Making a software suite to help criminal enterprise (drug dealing, human trafficking, identify theft, etc) is nothing like building the kind of apps you are talking about. I’ve never seen such a long bow drawn on the Orange website before. This must be very embarrassing for you.
Is this supposed to be reassuring?

From a societal standpoint, we should design a system that rewards the behavior we want to see. No one has given me any evidence that "being born to someone rich" is actually the thing we want to reward in our tax code.
I just use iSCSI at home but using Mellanox’ RoCE which is pretty well performing.

One thing I’m noticing is that most of these storage protocols do, in fact, assume converged Ethernet; that is, zero packet loss and proper flow control.

Is this also the case with NVMe over TCP?
A "do anything RPG" that promises to "fit on a single page" doesn't sound great to me. The reason I buy an RPG is for a list of powers, monsters, etc. A really general RPG is just a dice rolling (or other conflict resolution) mechanic.
Fuck Linus.

Outside of the Linux kernel and version control, his opinions isn't worth the electrons used to transmit it.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Autism Quotient (AQ) scores are generally accepted as a measure of Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP), which is subclinical ASD. That study produces the (entirely expected) conclusion that BAP is more common in men than women, and more common in STEM occupations than non-STEM occupations.

I'm not aware of any studies linking software engineering specifically to BAP, as opposed to STEM occupations in general. I think the evidence on that point is (thus far) based on anecdote and clinical experience.
> there's clearly an inheritance tax

The point is if you're rich enough to pay the inheritance tax, you're rich enough to hire professionals to structure your estate so that you never actually pay any inheritance tax.

> small part of the federal income

It would be a bigger part of federal revenue if rich people actually paid it.
FSF and GNU move official IRC channels to Libera.Chat network
I think video game addiction definitely contributes. I used to spend a fair amount of time playing first person shooters in my childhood 15-20 years ago. I haven't played much nowadays but these games provide a sense of "progress" and "accomplishment", which people would probably normally seek outside. Even in the past 5 years, I've caught myself having a reflex to open a game like Apex Legends or Valorant whenever I had a free moment instead of going for a run outside, playing piano, or cooking dinner. The problem is they're really fun also, which exacerbates the problem since it's easy to follow the "greedy optimization" algorithm in life and do things that are fun and rewarding as opposed to doing challenging but longer-term actually rewarding things.

This is not to say that you should never play video games. I've found that they've been great for staying in touch with friends I would've otherwise lost touch with. A few hours a week isn't bad at all. It's just that it can snowball very quickly if you're not mindful about how you spend your time.

I luckily never really became addicted to any video games, but I'm concerned for my future children who will undoubtedly encounter video games in the future some day.
Good point, that was too simplistic. Then again, I guess longer passwords could be preprocessed with another hashing function, one that returns a string of X bytes?

My point is that throwing a "password too long" error, especially for 32 characters or less, feels like a wrong approach to me; no matter the circumstances or the amount of backward compatibility that has to be kept.
Well, they kind of have to, right? Right to be forgotten and all that.
I practice something similar to fall sleep. I play a bit ping pong and the body and wrist need to be very relaxed do to a short push. I just lay down in the bed and do the short push mentally. That way my body is relaxed automatically and I fall sleep in no time.
I agree with this. I think it has something to do with my sister (their mom) being a single mom from the time they were 6, 8 years old till she remarried when they were teenagers and their stepfather not wanting to interfere too much in the parenting department.