skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382691
Of these, the sperm count strikes me as more causal, while the others may be results of some problem.

Granted, the decline in sperm count is caused by something, but in relation to impact on behaviors, the decline will cause (as proxy) changes, and of those changes could be the increased medication, for example.
LXC has been so stable and great to work with for many years. I have had services in production on LXC containers and it has been a joy. I can not say the same about things I have tried to maintain in production with Docker, in which I had similar experiences to [0], albeit around that time and therefore arguably not recently.

For a fantastic way to work with LXC containers I recommend the free and open Debian based hypervisor distribution Proxmox [1].

[0], https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-his...

[1], https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve
Oftentimes a banker would include an incentive fee for higher valuation - 2% of value up to $50M then 3% on anything above $50M. You can negotiate all these things up front.
Usually it is management culture which is fueled by stupid controlling and has team competing against each other.
This is an awfully positive spin on things. Dubai does not encourage actual immigration, in fact it is virtually impossible to become a citizen. What they do have, and at massive scale, is a system where local companies can bring in what is effectively indentured labor, which will be immediately kicked out once their job is done.
I think being rigorous about definitions of things is good, kudos to the authors for that. I do think this is important for defining how we treat animals and AIs.

However, they seemed to pick something that obviously matches the criteria? This is a 100 page paper that comes to conclusions like "octopuses feel something like pain" and "declawing crabs is not fun for them".

I think this framework would have been more interesting to apply to creatures where this is less obvious like tardigrades. I actually don't know if they meet criteria for sentience.
What about the non-white people who distinguish between themselves and other non-white people? Are they suddenly white?
I don't blame HN, I blame the invention of the downvote button.

I find it easier to hold a slightly controversial opinion here than it has ever been possible on Reddit, especially the programming and tech subreddits which are very low quality in general.

The downvote button is awful, but why is it surprising that controversial opinions are downvoted? Being downvoted is the proof the opinion is controversial. It would be better if people weren't cancelled because they go against the grain, sure, but we don't live in a perfect utopia of perfectly rational beings.
If you're not having sex this attitude is part of the reason why.
A hole in the ground.
> Lactose is a specific, well-understood example of some people absorbing nutrients much better than others. I think there are other examples, and I expect there's a lot of variation in absorption efficiency that's less known. When you hear about people who eat lots of food and remain thin, I suspect this is part of the explanation. And whether their bacteria get the calories instead, or whether it passes through untouched, might show up in CO2 measurements but I don't think it would be related to body fat accumulation.

Yeah, the blind assertions I have seen that people basically always absorb pretty much 100% of the calories of the food is weird. We already know that some forms of calories like fiber have very low absorption rate. The Atwater indirect system of calculating calories takes that into account, but is still just an estimation, since it uses average calorie values for protein, carbs, and fat.

And so I've just noted that calories on packaging is just an approximation. An individual food may actually have more above average proteins than below average, etc, which can skew the real calorie count. For example, nuts are known to have less calories than indicated on the label, with whole almonds having 20% fewer. (https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/138.9.1741S) This is also ignoring the fact that many foods, especially those prepared by people are not always super consistent in sizing. A subway sandwich prepared correctly should on average have the calories subway claims, but we all know that some locations will follow the correct procdure more closely than others. Etc.

The other issue with just blindly going with calorie counting (which is really on tracking calories in) is that the differences in the calories one takes in will cause changes in the calories one expends. Eating fairly substancially less than your body is used to will almost certainly cause one to feel bad, and avoid doing as much, meaning fewer calories out, at least partially offsetting the the calorie reduction. But people are generally not measuring the calories expended very closely, if they bother doing it at all.
This argument is literally just true about teenagers and young adults in general, and has been true throughout history. "The youth of today" through the ages: https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-wrong-w...

Fact of the matter is that people mature as they age, and gain responsibilities that require them to knuckle down.
I am not entirely sure what this is a response to. Had I written Neil Strauss and the PUA movement, it would have seemed merited?
People are not “50 cents” more expensive than robots…
In the USA, the FCC takes serious action against anyone using a frequency jammer[0].

On the FCC's website [1] you can find both fines issued [2] as well as details into the investigations they carried out.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/document/48k-penalty-proposed-against-in...

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/orders/1866
Thank you, I've been saying the same thing for years. I interned in a VR lab at NASA Ames in the late 90s, researching precision and comfort, and it was very clear that a significant fraction of people just can't do it, for physiological reasons. VR will never be a universal interface.

As interns and postdocs, we were all lab monkeys, and all got our turn in the helmet. Some people were utterly hopeless, always got sick, couldn't do the tasks. Others took to it like fish in water. I think this disconnect in proprioceptive adaptability leads people who have it to vastly overestimate the general public's ability to remain in a VR space for more than a minute or two.

One of the things the lab's senior scientist was researching was the effect of latency on performance at 3D tasks. For example, moving a ring down a twisted wire without touching[0]. There was a clear effect on both objective performance and subjective reports of comfort as latency decreased, and it hadn't bottomed out at 60 fps / 16 ms latency (one frame). This was true for every test subject, but greatly exaggerated for those with generally poor performance. I doubt even 240 fps / 4 ms would eliminate it. And how are you going to get 4 ms of input latency with modern USB drivers? Not even your keyboard has that anymore.

[0] A virtual version of this: https://metzamusements.com/inventory/college-and-high-school...
I did two “scroll a page’s worth of content” and nothing changed except the title text got more faint and the words separated from one another. So I stopped reading.

It’s less effort to come to HN and complain about shit UX than it is to fight the UX to get to the content.
These are fun questions to ask people in casual conversation. Start with the simple ones like "Which way is north?" or "What phase is the moon in?"
I don't think birth control explains much of the difference, since usage of hormonal birth control in North America and Europe is only up ~2 percentage points since 1994 [0].

A potentially larger factor from the medication angle is antidepressants - usage of those is up ~10 percentage points over the same time frame, and decreased libido is a common side effect of many of the most frequently prescribed antidepressants. (I think this is probably also a minor factor compared to cultural explanations, but I'm mentioning it for the sake of completeness.)

[0] https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
What do the Japanese have against drugs?
Ways to figure out where the bug actually is when using systems built from different parts feels like an underexploited area.

Many things in software actually play this role, from obvious thing like unit tests through to using popular software (if it works for everyone else then it's probably your bug). If no one else uses your exact Chipset/OS/language/compiler/library (version) matrix then the bug could be anywhere.

I'm not sure it has an official academic name though. Modularity? Re-usability? Safety? Reliability? Predictability? Repeatability? Good ecosystem? There's a few things that overlap and combine.
It's also "if your wife's relationship with you depends on how much she makes compared with you she has a lot of soul searching to do."

Historically women have married up in status. They still have that preference but that preference is not realistic now that more women are rising up higher in the workforce.
TLDR; many countries have it bad. The USA does still have the highest incarceration /capital. Don't forget that.
Oh, Nomad looks interesting. Why should someone reach for it vs K8S?
Thanks for the acknowledgement. I think tax burden is a valid part of the discussion when we are talking about the affordability crisis. I take it kinda personally because I'm already at 35% and looking at another 10% of my pretax income going to property taxes if I want to buy a home for my family.
> You know what other vaccines do? THEY PREVENT YOU FROM GETTING THE DISEASE

That's not even true. All vaccines just prime your immune system to be able to more effectively handle the pathogen. That reduces the likelihood of you spreading it, and reduces the severity of symptoms. Good vaccines to that to such an extent that both become negligible. For example, from the wikipedia page for the MMR vaccine, it provides a 97% protection against measles, and only 88% against mumps. That's enough to reduce the rate of spread low enough to basically stop endemic spread. The mRNA COVID vaccines aren't quite that effective, but they're still pretty good.

Anyone can submit anything to VAERS. I could right now go and submit to it that Moderna turned my skin green and gave me wings. The average rate of side effects is significantly lower with the vaccine than COVID itself, and that makes it a no brainer.

And I don't want compulsory medical treatment, nobody is being strapped down and injected, but I don't mind society imposing restrictions to require vaccinations to do certain activities. So far, the only time my vaccination status has been relevant is while traveling internationally, and when taking off my mask to eat in a restaurant. I'm fully in support of restrictions like those. To me that's like drunk driving laws: you can drink, but you can't drive while it would make you a danger to those around you.

We've had vaccine mandates for hundreds of years and aren't any closer to mandatory chip implants, so that seems to be a pretty an unjustifiable slippery slope argument. Vaccine mandates seem to be a pretty stable end-game of medical mandates.
> It's like having a backseat driver.

I think it's like having a navigator in a rally car. Your pairing partner is both giving you timely input as you drive and looking ahead for upcoming issues. Also they literally or virtually sit beside you, not behind.

If you are pairing for 2x output, you are doing it wrong. I think we SHOULD discuss if it's the best way to improve design, quality and share understanding and skill, but we can't do that from the position the author has staked out.
The consistent design is what's holding HN back. The worst is when the top comment has so many replies, the first page is only reactions on that comment. Someone actually needs to sticky a comment saying there's a next page button with links to it. Oh and the links are unclickable on mobile.
I agree 100% with your review

I work for an institution that has gone balls deep with MS products and it's driving me crazy considering they are always worrying about budgets and saving money.

When I started everyone was communicating with email. Drove me nuts. I convinced the team I was assigned to, to drop emails and switched to hipchat ( loved it) then slack ( meh )
When covid hit, everyone needed to be on chat. Top brass told us we were not allowed to use anything but MS Teams. The devs hate it. It's run by the main IT dep so we have no control over how it works.

I want to stage a revolt and install mattermost on one of our servers lol
Linus Tech Tips is all-in on the clickbait-centric style of YouTube production that is the polar opposite of quality tech journalism. They emphasize exaggerated reactions and silly accidents over the thoughtful and well-prepared content that Ian’s writing is about. Some people love it (obvious from their numbers) but I always feel like it’s a waste of time to watch his videos because it’s 90% entertainment and maybe 10% useful info. Entirely different audiences.

So I hope he’s not joining them. It would be great if he formed his own venture instead.
This was interesting:

> At this point, while reflecting on that topic, I decided to look more into the origins of the drill/hole adage; that diversion led me to a lovely post critiquing the adage, saying it “doesn’t go far enough.” The heart of the argument there is that people don’t want holes either. [... ]

but then TFA didn't actually go there for Rust. After laying out a great example of how the purpose of a hole is ultimately about time (and possibly frustration), the author fails to reach a similar end-goal for Rust, despite hinting at it:

> But, thinking of the drill/hole adage, I stopped and asked myself: “Who wants safety? Is it an end in itself? If it is merely a means to an end, then to what end?”

What is the true end-goal? Saving lives/money/property by avoiding errors?
Their "LTT Labs" venture is supposed to be a mainly written research/testing articles
That's true, the point of up/downvotes is not 'scores', but curating content. It's community moderation.
Internet addiction is a real thing. Millions of people probably deal with it and don't even know it, by using social media or refreshing newsfeeds compulsively and not even realizing the impact it has on people.

It's one thing for some of y'all not to get it or understand it - great. I'm happy that there are people with healthy boundaries for that.

It's shameful how many posts in this thread are making light of it. "Three days is nothing pal, hey I went 45 minutes without coffee who wants my blog?".

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I had COVID right before Christmas. I had to cancel all my plans. Christmas was relatively slow news-wise. Lots of my friends were busy, and the few I interact with online were doing family things.

So I had time to myself, with no compulsion to go out or to seek friends to hang out with.

It was incredible. I remember playing Skyrim a lot, which I've wanted to do for a long time. I watched some good TV. I read a book. I worked the ham radio. I cleaned the house. And I was happy at the end of each day, other than blowing my nose 75 times. Oh, and I didn't drink either.

Now I'm back to my routine. Several days a week of no drinking. Several days a week of 7-10 drinks. Every 10-15 minutes is a swipe/refresh of reddit. Whenever a loading screen pops up at work for more than a moment I "ctrl-T, ctrl-L, new" and open up google or HN.

Compulsive behavior is awful. Not having focus is awful. FOMO is awful. And I'll preemptively tell you to eat a cottonball sandwich if you think it's as simple as "well, don't do it". I'm sure the answer incorporates a support structure from friends, changing communications habits to be less worried about missing messages, and even therapy.

Hey, wouldn't you know, talking and blogging about it can help.
If you didn't do anything wrong why do you care if they're selling your DNA?

Gattica was such a good movie...
Electric toothbrushes have more storage than this these days (https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1493866326724530179).

This is both impressive and a great opportunity to come up with novel ways of usefully storing information efficiently.
What are "security robots" for the uninitiated?
Q&A: What can Canada take away from Denmark's 'done with Covid' approach?
I know LTT is also starting a lab and talked about getting certain folks to join his team…
How many of those expats are working slave-like conditions, is the greater point that ought to be discussed. (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Iraq, you name it).

If 10 percent of the country's population is native, they are surely benefiting from subsidized education, housing, preferential (read: racist) employment, free land, and so on.

It's VERY different from most places in the world, except for other sister nations that depend on oil wealth and have the same luxuries in immigrant exploitation.
Accepting this for the sake of argument, what's the harm in getting rid of a job that nobody was willing to work at anyway?
Are you western?

I get really bored hearing someone talking about us like this. While your knowledge about Arab countries comes from an all-inclusive trip to Tunisia or something.

The west always plays a big role in keeping dictators all over the place, who don't care about education or anything other than their chair. People are ignorant and if you look fancy or different, even if you are native, they will look at you like that. Not entirely your fault, but your politicians love it, and use their super powers to keep it as it is.
researchers do not retain commercial rights to their work, the university does. Sometimes the university allows the researcher a pittance of the license royalties, or make it easier for the researcher to start a company that licenses the technology.
> On a single page, newreddit shows a fraction of the comments as oldreddit does. They expect you to manually click to expand dozens of "Read More" links and repeatedly suffer the associated loading times of their newly-bloated webpage.

This sounds like the exceedingly stupid javascript override popup view a primary click on links gives. It's meant to make it easy to return to the list and keep scrolling forever.

Try opening the links in new tabs, or hitting "refresh" after clicking. That'll give you the full page view.
It's an autoimmune condition that needs to be triggered by "something" where something is thought to be some random unknown subset of mild childhood illnesses.

Functionally, it means every generation or three you lose "a" kid at age 1 or 5 or 11, that isn't too much in the way of evolutionary pressure, especially given how many kids people used to have, and how many other ways there were for them to keel.
You are assuming FreeBSD has the same problems Linux had fifteen years ago, and thus requires the same changes/fixes/workarounds. It doesn’t. Good example would be PulseAudio, which is mostly a workaround for ALSA deficiencies that FreeBSD doesn’t have.
You're right, and they also have jails and the FreeBSD service command seems to have been the inspiration for systemd (or is at least so close that it could have been). I think people are just unaware and afraid of trying "new" things.
If you're really angry you should look into a class action lawsuit, maybe someone is starting one. Contact your representative(s) state and federal with personal letters of concern. They are always looking for stuff like this to further their names and fame.
Young men were already low social status, and now they’re even lower. Often judged on immutable characteristics like hight.

In my opinion none of what you are proposing will happen. There will be a substantial uncontrolled reaction. In my opinion men and women need each other and if men withdraw and stop trying women will also suffer.
Understood, but the parent I responded to was talking about efficiency so I thought that was the context.

In my experience I'm not so sure about that either. I can't repeat centuries day after day when I am out of shape and need to lose weight. If one can, it's very unlikely he/she needs to lose weight.
If he does I hope they also start a website for long form articles. Just watching short highlight clips of whats happening in the world of chips instead of reading his detailed, in-depth articles and interviews about these complex topics would be hell.

Heck, even if they where hours long, some stuff is just better suited to be read than watched.
Agreed. We've had an entire scientific revolution since the days of arguing about humans as a fatherless biped or the angels that can fit on a needle point.

Articles like this that provide nothing but rhetorical arguments feel pointless in an era where tools like statistics and hypothesis testing exist.
yes, but my experince was precisely the opposite. at least partly because of the company I chose, the time at which I chose, and the prep work I did.
Your sentiment put words to my feelings as I watched the gameplay trailer. As soon as the narrator shifted to the theme of exploitation and politics, with no reference to the indigenous population, I recoiled from the whole idea of it. The sorts of motivations these games ask you to align yourself with feel foreign and unwelcome compared to how I felt about them 25 years ago.
I'm a T1D for 45 years, and since my first diagnosis there has always been a cure that would be available "within the decade". This is the way.

That being said, every decade has seen life-changing therapies introduced. The introduction of long-lasting insulins. At home testing for glucose and ketones in urine. Mixing insulin formulations together to reduce the number of injections at a time. Thinner needles greatly reduced pain from injections (this one happened almost every year.) Moving from urine tests to blood glucose tests! Introducing shorter-acting insulins that reduce onset time. GLUCOMETERS! Moving from needles to pens allowed crazy-simple and virtually painless injections. Moving from pork formulations to human formulations of insulin. Carb counting: previously we used fixed diet - eat the same thing at the same time every freaking day. INSULIN PUMPS!!! Crazy fast-acting insulin formulations cutting onset down to 15 minutes. CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING!!! Tracking and alerting for low glucose, overnight and remote. CUSTOM-BUILT CLOSED LOOPING!!! Reliable/medical grade CGM. Approved closed looping systems.

Many folks have worked very hard to make my life more livable, and I thank them for it. Today is, without a doubt, the best time to be a diabetic.

That being said, I still wouldn't recommend it;)
You’re incorrect as to the US, and I suspect as to Japan as well. Lots of criminals in America plead guilty, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no “external proof” of guilt. Cops are lazy and criminals are dumb. So what you end up with in nearly all cases is that cops make arrests in easy cases with tons of evidence. Confronted with the video tape, cell phone records, etc., the accused then pleads guilty. Rarely do you see the kind of cases you hear about on Podcasts where guilt turns on circumstantial evidences and confessions. I’ve seen this from inside the court system.

My wife had a homicide trial where prosecutors had a complete video tape record of the accused shooting the victim and driving back to his house. The trial was just cutting from one CCTV feed to the next as the accused drove around town. The jury found him guilty—because of course they did.