skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you hear 'toxic masculinity', do you hear 'the subset of components of traditional masculinity which perpetuate toxicity' or do you hear 'masculinity, which at it's core is toxic'?
> and from having a teacher in the family I can tell you masks are INCREDIBLY detrimental to the educational experience.

OK. I'm teaching and doing fine. So are my colleagues.
Wow! Thanks for the tip. Never knew that.
The fact that mothers use a singsong voice is actually very interesting. Mothers also sing to their babies. I didn't really understand the argument that speech isn't musical. It's very musical, hence why talking in a monotone voice is so jarring. You can in fact compose music from speech by transcribing the rhythm and shape of the tones. Some research has been done into the grammar of music but I don't think there is much progress there. I am fascinated by it but it honestly seems like reading tea leaves.
> There's a need for both, and most of all, for men to feel valued just for being alive, not for any deed they perform or value they bring to others, just their intrinsic value.

love this <3
Indeed. I did change my mind, but I changed my mind to being much less sceptical of the Web PKI partly as a result of the changes Ryan talked about on Thomas' podcast and partly after taking more active part in m.d.s.policy and seeing that it was possible to make a difference.

I remain of the opinion (as do many other people who can't just wish away the problem) that we need DNSSEC, or at least, that we need to do what DNSSEC does and we have DNSSEC so we should just use that. Thomas disagrees fervently, as you have seen.
The vote itself might not contain other information, but there are plenty of out-of-band ways to convey this information. The opinion you express when you call, write, answer a poll, or really any other public activity is stronger if it's backed up by records that you consistently vote.
When I think of spaces for men I think of my lounge, not some community centre club. I think of having a bonfire with friends. That is what I think of when I hear "a space and place".

Weirdly I guess it isn't about the space or the place. For me it is about listening, showing interest, talking a little less, not judging, and not avoiding awkwardness with jokes.

It is easy to make these spaces, you don't even need to find a space. Just listen.
"Whatever happened to the customer is always right?"

These are serious issues with massive costs and liabilities. We don't resort to platitudes at that scale.

'Who is Right' should be as objective as we can feasibly determine and it may be complicated.
I don't think the post is trying to assert that _every_ man requires such a place or time. You might have excellent coping mechanisms, or indeed are able to manage you emotions through other means.

However not having someone to help you through a tough patch, and allow you to express emotions other than dirty laughs and anger is quite debilitating in my experience

I don't think that the suggestion is that we gather formally in a circle and discuss our feelings. Or indeed act like stereo typical teenage girls where we gossip about other people behind their backs in a high pitched voice.

Just having one person to say: "This is hard, I don't feel like I can do this" and not have to brace for "AHAHAAAA WANKER" in reply, might be be of help to a lot of men.
you dont want a place for men to discuss things? maybe you dont need it but others may. Even manly dudes still want to be able to talk through their ideas. Thats why we had people like socrates, aristotle and plato. Dudes got together to discuss their thoughts because it helped them think more clearly.
Did you miss this part?

> "Then those parents built children, who built grandchildren, who built great-grandchildren, who built great-great-grandchildren."
One is the motte and the other is the bailey.
If the AI can build the product, that's great.

Most small businesses need little design and little code to deliver value.

This has a positive decentralising effect on the economy. Instead of having a single billion dollar company you'll have competing small companies.

Reputation and testimonials will weed out bad actors or companies that can't deliver value, as they already do.
Indeed. If Dorsey wanted Twitter to be "open", he'd open it. Instead he's closed it & started a sideshow to further distract those who could create credible challenges to Twitter.
This is a pretty interesting theory.

1. The listener determines the meaning of what the speaker said.

2. The listener determines the emotional significance of the meaning of what the speaker said.

3. The listener determines whether of not the speaker's speech is spontaneous.

4. The listener determines their belief about the truth of what the speaker said, but, the amount of effort put into this determination is proportional to the perceived level of spontaneity in the speaker's speech.

5. The listener responds to the speaker, where their response includes an indication of their belief about the truth of what the speaker said.

I think the truth-value part of this might be off track. Here's a slightly different hypothesis:

Speech carries two separate signals: information and emotion. The former is world-state data, and the latter is signal about the emotional state of the speaker. In a social species like humans, both are critical.

We might process those two channels of data with different parts of our brain even though the source signal has them merged together into one single sound. Imagine an audio processing pipeline that strips the literal informational content out and shunts it one way and takes the emotional affect another way.

The informational content needs to be processed actively with full attention from our frontal cortex. We have to pay attention to it. We don't seem to absorb detailed information "in the background" well. I don't know anyone who can, say, read a book and listen to a non-fiction podcast at the same time.

Emotional content doesn't need our active attention. It's something we can absorb passively. We use words like "feel", "vibe", "mood", and "ambience" to describe it.

OK, so you've got a speech-like sound that contains information and emotion. How do you decide how much attention to pay to it? Information is more likely to be useful if it's fresh, so sounding spontaneous is a positive signal for information content.

As the author supposes, music is a negative superstimulus for that. It's audio that contains no informational content and only emotion, which it telegraphs by sounding extremely rehearsed (repetitive rhythm, wide melodic swings). That lets our brain know that we don't have to pay active, logical attention to it. That's pleasant because it frees us to think about what we like while absorbing the music emotionally in the background.

This helps explain why some like me do like listening to music while programming, but not music with lyrics. Non-lyrical music helps me focus my attention on code because it sends a signal that I don't have to pay attention to it.

This may also explain why religions, cults, and demogogues use such sing-song like speaking styles: it encourages the audience to mentally switch off and not think as critically about what they are hearing as they might otherwise.
USA is literally founded on this principle:

Congress shall make no law /.../ abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

IIRC the founders explicitly did not include that in their constitution. Hence it being called "First Amendment" rights.
In the PS3 they lacked a real random number in ECSDA computation. That effectively broke the signature and actually made it possible to recover the private key.

For more info see for example:

* https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2012/fall/cs441/students/sc_ps3.pdf

* A presentation at CCC about how hackers broke the different security features or PS3 including ECDSA https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4087-en-console_hacking_2010#t=2...
All I can say is that this really doesn't match my experience at all. Not to mention that the whole Alpha/Beta/Gamma thing has been debunked for wolves[1] and was never really proven for humans.

I think women have it far worse in terms of how narrowly societal standards of "beautiful" are constructed. This has only started to change recently and mostly in a superficial way.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/32126
Anyone else notice that in the picture of the model at the bottom of the article, the stand says "Lockheed YF-12 Wikipedia Blackbird"? Likewise if you click through to the airmodels.net product page... bad copy and paste?
While the idea sounds reasonable, it seems a bit tone deaf. Feminism and racial justice is all about listening to minorities and not silencing their voices. But when it comes to men, we rely on the experience of a very specific group of people. With all the respect I have for these men, I don't think their experience should be considered representative of the experience of cis men in general. Just like cis men wouldn't be representative of the experience of non-cis men. Or men representative of the experience of women.

At least now I understand a bit more the frustration that people feel when they're not represented properly or not taken seriously. That's a nice side effect, and maybe was the whole point of the article. But it still leaves a bad taste.
To be fair, most Bittorrent users have not had any legal issues (while downloading copyrighted stuff).
I meant to say something like opposite direction but bungled it lol, wasn't sure how to describe it in the couple minutes break from working I took to comment
Having an entire population hiding their face on a routine basis when interacting with the public is an enormous downside. Completely unacceptable, and forcing it on the _entire_ population is downright evil.
An AGI would need to comprehend and manipulate meanings; have a persistent memory; be able to create multiple models of a situation, consider scenarios, analyse and criticise them; it would need a persistent memory and be able to learn facts and use them to infer novel information. Language models like GPT don’t need any of that, and have no mechanism to generate such capabilities. This is why it’s possible to reliably trip GPT-3 up in just a few interactions. You simply test for these capabilities and it immediately falls flat on its face.
That doesn't sound like a great user experience. "I have this TV that I want to use as a monitor, but I have to turn of a feature on my unrelated device which I want to use with a headset, keyboard, etc". I would rather buy a dumb TV that didn't require me to lose phone features.
The ultimate arbiter of whether a cloud service gets used isn't FedRAMP, it's the Agency Authorizing Official. FedRAMP just makes much of the work reusable. With GCP, you can build something that obeys and uses DNSSEC without needing google.com to participate in DNSSEC.

Google Workspace is a good point though. I know there are many users of it in government... maybe some AOs are fine signing off on it even without the needed security controls, which is an option they have in their discretion with and without FedRAMP.
> If someone is blinding you coming in front of you, you just turn on high beams and blind them back.

I do this too and would die a peaceful death if we crashed into each other with the feeling of fairness restored to the world.
I thought Vivaldi was closed source for some reason, so thank you for this! I may be using that more often now!
That's because it's an impossible question to answer - all guns are "illegal" once they're used for a crime, and it's next to impossible to identify when a gun becomes "illegal" before the crime is committed.

However, the Chicago Police Department put out a comprehensive study of guns recovered from crimes between 2013 and 2016 and released the details here :

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/mayor/Press%2...

There are some interesting data points in there, like more than half of the 7k guns recovered each year originated out of state and the biggest sources in state are outside county/city that has stricter gun laws. I believe the top three of the stores listed are under indictment or being sued right now. That suggests illegal guns are being sourced from places where it is easier to buy them, which shouldn't be shocking.

Another interesting data point is that more than 90% of the guns they traced back to FFL dealers were the only gun they purchased, which suggests that straw purchasers are using new people to buy the guns each time. That goes against any kind of notion that a registry of purchasers would do any good.

And more important point is that the "time to crime" was under three years for around 60% of guns they recovered. That means any policy that affects the sourcing of guns will have a pretty short turn around as illegal guns don't seem to have a long street life.
Yes it does, but spatial orientation does not. The modern Finder uses browser windows that allow me to look at the same folder in multiple windows at the same time. It also constantly forgets what a folder looked like the last time I opened it.

This means I can no longer rely on my spatial memory to navigate my computer. I am reduced to navigating entirely by abstract hierarchy plus search. If you’ve ever tried cooking in someone else’s kitchen you’ve experienced first hand the huge decline in productivity that comes from not knowing where everything is. Compared to cooking in your own kitchen, the experience can be quite jarring and uncomfortable. The modern macOS Finder forces everyone to cook in someone else’s kitchen.
Is that a better or worse message than "You don't need to care what I think"? If you think it's significantly worse, then fine, we disagree on that premise. If you think it's equal or better, then not showing up seems like an inefficient use of a rare resource (your vote).
Because I previously worked on the Chromium codebase at Google I have a 'specialist' dev workstation, an HP Z840 dual 18 core Xeon with 256GB of RAM. And that's a model from many years ago now, the newer specialist workstations are even heftier. To work on chrome @ Google you absolutely need one.

That said, if you're using cached builds via goma and have a nice fat pipe it can go quite fast without making your machine sweat much.

It's an absolutely massive code base. I wish I could explain why, but it is. No single part sticks out as bloat to me. I could never get CLion (among other tools) to index it properly.
It is a valid analysis and I think that my primary analogy still holds - a good browser should be able to find 10M paying users, when something like YouTube Premium is able to find 50M, just because browser is a much more valuable tool - even though free alternatives exist (because free YouTube also exists).
Built children out of already living cells? This to me seems more like a golem that produces other golems on happenstance from living matter.
Because that's the only coin the biggest and de-facto monopoly marketplace, that processes tens of millions of dollars worth of deals per day, accepts.
My (basic and conservative) mental model that "in DNS, everything including the lack of presence of a thing can be cached" is why I'm very cautious before rolling out anything from DKIM to DNSSEC. A deep understanding of specifications is vital. I'm somewhat surprised an organization of Slack's scale didn't have a consultant on the level of "I designed DNSSEC" on hand for this.
I decided last year to make the jump from a 5 year old iPhone SE to a Moto G Power.

It's not nearly as quick and doesn't get as many updates as a newer iPhone or even Android device. But the cost of it is nearly a quarter of the newer phones, for 95% of the functionality for my use and even has support for some things the flagship phones don't (headphone jack, SD card slot, multiday battery life).

I used to enjoy all the progress and innovations that happened in smartphones during the early 2010s, but now they've become a lot more expensive for not a lot more functionality. I'll stay on the budget train until the next big thing arrives.

All of my friends used to view me as the early adopter, and now I've become the guy with really old/budget tech that still works.
Certainly.

It should also be noted that 'constraints' are about as generic a word as 'Object Oriented Programming'.

Some constraints are easy to understand and use: such as TeX's constraints on spaces between words. I don't think anyone has ever really had an issue (aside from when the solver can't find a solution and you are forced to reword the paragraph). TeX "just works" and is probably the easiest constraint solver to use in practice.

In contrast, Apple constraints seem to be pretty complicated: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Us...

Manually selecting multipliers + constants is... non-intuitive and seemingly inflexible. Sure, its a list of constraints but that's not as useful of a search space IMO.

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Knuth's TeX system purposefully chooses an NP-complete representation that is well known to be "inefficient" and fails to scale.

It just so happens that paragraphs of text are naturally short enough to work with TeX in virtually every case. People don't seem to write paragraphs "too long" for the algorithm to handle.

There's an extraordinary amount of search space the algorithm is given. Its practically a "Knapsack problem" solver.

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So the goal is to find:

1. A system of constraints

2. That is easy to understand

3. That is powerful enough to represent "nice looking" layouts (or text, or images)

4. That may or may not be "efficient" to solve, but is "efficient enough" to work on practical problems.

This blogpost absolutely fails at #2, as it has basically created a new programming language API!! However... its probably a good stepping stone towards finding the "simple set of constraints" we want for practical use.

The next step is to probably play around with this solver ourselves, and then discover a subset of primitives that is easy to understand and describe.
My top concern about its bias is how overtly biased a publicly funded radio station is with its embrace of wokeism — an ideology that is overwhelmingly unpopular with the public.
According to this theory, we ignore the question of whether the words of a song are true. But this seems to ignore the long tradition of didactic poetry, which was typically sung rather than simply read aloud.

How would this theory account for Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, for instance, or Hesiod's Works and Days? These are musical works, intended for singing, but they are also supposed to convey fairly detailed factual information to the listener.

We still use song for similar purposes today (e.g. in religious hymns) so this shouldn't be too surprising.
Thank you for this. It doesn't make much sense to say I don't want a smart TV and then buy a separate device that's just going to show ads anyway.
The BS filter is only obvious because we all agree that scientifically, watching a movie can't change your medical risk.

Try swapping the graph labels with:
Took vitamin D pills,
Excercised 30mins a week,
Got the vaccine.

Most would agree that all three points probably have some level of health benefit. Suddenly the cause vs correlation can be much more difficult for the average person to determine.

Do all three reduce the death risk? Do some of them just also trend with more health conscious individuals? Are any of the three just completely bogus?
Firefox has the best set of tools for developers imo.
Had largely surpassed Chrome in my daily usage (frontend dev) and works well with large sets of tabs
if you don't want that type of comment on HN, feel free to remove it - it's not a big deal to me. But it's not a shallow critique - this article makes grand claims about how the brain works that are not backed up by any experiment or reference; it's reducing an extremely complex phenomenon - music and subjective experience of music - to a simple cognitive processing and meaning-making framework; and none of this makes any reference to work that other people have done on the matter. If you consider this a shallow critique, then I have to think that the only thing you wouldn't consider shallow is engaging deeply with the content, but that's not fair - for the reasons I gave, my contribution is claiming that this not worth engaging further with - it's crankery
Further testing at SpaceX is basically on hold until the FAA completes their review of the orbital launch facility, which they have promised to do by the end of December. Plenty of ground testing going on, albeit with less publicity.
Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought
Looks like they copped the design styles from Sonos. Which is already meh
How come 280 characters isn't good enough. Or really should have done it in 140 as they intended...
Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT
"8. Source: My Ass" :-)
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> why would you reach around with a long stick to clean yourself? How would that even work?

Roman toilets usually had a slot cut into them allowing access from the front underneath: https://i0.wp.com/followinghadrian.com/wp-content/uploads/20... sometimes right down to the floor.

You can see how someone might get the idea. Though honestly it could have been just to make it easier to clean them.
Kodak’s PCD Writer 600 and Disc Transporter: Replication in Record Time (1995)
I believe women should be in charge of everything. Let us men draw shit, play music, watch flowers unfold, design crazy trains. Let the women sort out the details. (not saying that every woman and every man should be cubbiholed into this, but in my experience, the girls do a much better job of getting along and running things, and the men just want to experiment and think up new ways of having fun.)
What's surprising to me is that this product not only removes Google services integration, but also adds rather opinionated "Enhancing Features" of its own. Many of these are pretty good, but not everyone will like all of them. I, for example, doesn't like the "Force all pop-ups into tabs" change.

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/features/
If you have Homebrew on your Mac, this is available by installing "eloston-chromium".
The external costs of electricity itself are basically 0. It's the other things associated with electricity that have external costs, and maybe those things would make more sense to tax.