skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't talk about it because "the pill" was one of the sacred cows of the Womens' Liberation movement, and any negative commentary, however rooted in fact, is taken as an attack on the idea of social freedom for women. It's unfortunate, because as you said it has significant effects on those who take it.
Yup.

Yes and: the audience for "metaverse", crypto ("libra" IIRC), etc are developers. For both retention and recruiting. IMHO.

Tangent: I'm reminded of when tabloids paid premium salaries. For pretty much all the same reasons. Having National Inquirer on your CV severely limited future prospects, the work sucked, the world and your peers hated you, etc.
Even in the US people get away with all sorts of stuff when there's no evidence.
I had to zoom out a few levels (ctrl- on windows/chrome), find the 'x' on the upper right side, close the popup, then zoom back in.

Really crappy experience, 'ConvertKit'!
Another instance of adding bitcoin where it is unnecessary.

Using your example, you live in a place without sunlight and you buy a solar mining rig far away. You then use that power to do literally anything that generates money, including just straight selling it to someone or feeding it back into the grid.

Then you use that money to buy electricity in your home. Boom! You've "move[d] energy around the world wirelessly" without bitcoin.

I'll leave out the part about building a "renewable geothermal power plant under your house" because I'm guessing it's a joke.
Hey, it's a big fraction of the first book :p

But yeah, space operas deserve the whole space in 4X games. Maybe a mix of king of the hill and 4X, with arakis in the center would also be cool to explore (no idea if it would work). Or a 4X with both planetary (arakis) and interplanetary layers (other planets). With different units, tech trees, unique resources to both layers... Who knows what could work.
I stopped using the LTSC branch because it doesn't have seamless upgrades between versions. I discovered that some of the main programs I was using (like Windows Terminal) refused to run on older versions of Windows LTSC, but didn't want to reinstall the whole OS just to use these programs.
Not on a specific topic but submitted this YouTube channel because I thought other HN readers might enjoy it! Really great history of science videos that I've been enjoying lately.
Comparing slavery to vaccines is simply absurd. Slavery is one of the worst things humans do to each other, and vaccines are one of our greatest accomplishments as a species. You can go through life as a walking petri dish for dark age plagues if you'd like, but I think it's good for society to keep you away from the rest of us.
I've definitely seen VCs funding defense startups in recent years such as Anduril.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/anduril-funding-series-d-v...

450 million at a valuation of close to 5 billion.
The pill can cause a lot of problems. In all of my relationships I’ve successfully encouraged my parter to stop taking the pill and we use condoms exclusively. I’m not circumcised which helps. I think male circumcision discourages condom use. Another thing that isn’t talked about enough.
> I understand why people might feel pity for robots. People become attached to all sorts of inanimate objects. But I'm still astonished at the same time. These robots have no feelings. They deserve no pity, they're robots!.

That's what EVE also said.

Regards, WALL-E
By that definition any sentient creature is sapient.

Which, I mean, they are. Here's a litmus test: Is that creature so simple that you (or a suitably skilled technologist) could build one? If so then it's not sentient/sapient/a person/something we shouldn't be mean to. If not then maybe we should pay it a little more respect.
The real reason is size & cost.

Americans love big giant cars, and especially cross-overs and trucks. None of these have had competitively priced EV versions until just this year, barely. You still need to spend north of $50K on an EV to get anything approaching the typical American car size. When some of these EV pickup trucks from mainstream makers ship in quantity, the needle will start to move.

Europeans are happily replacing small city cars with small sub-250mi range EVs.
I think the we're all sympathetic to the idea that one person's carelessness creates an impossible problem for someone else.

>Don't donate free labor to corporations.

That's absurd, someone takes two seconds to move an object so someone else can get their food on time. That's just being a good human rather that sweating about "free labor to corporations" first.
You remind me of myself when I used to work for Amazon.

I'd also spend a lot of time explaining to friends how "It's complicated" and "You know, they also do a lot of good things". But the reality I wouldn't admit to myself was much simpler: they were doing awful things, but I was willing to work for them as long as they paid me enough and made my life comfortable enough.

It's very uncomfortable to admit to yourself that your ethics and morals have a price. I hope yours was high enough.
There absolutely is. Forget people's opinions and look at the last few years of investments in the sector. Look at Anduril, Epirus, Saildrone, Varda, HAdrian, etc. Josh Wolfe of Lux Cap is, and has been, leading the VC charge into defense.
Does anyone know the initial and ongoing cost of getting your own TLD?

I think I remember years ago reading it was $200,000 initial cost, but I don't think I saw a recurring fee mentioned at the time.
See this WaPo article and specifically the chart titled "Young men driving the decline in sex": https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...

It dances around the point but the GP's logic seems plausible, if exaggerated. If the increase in sexlessness among young men is ~twice that of the increase of sexlessness in young women over the same timeframe, it is quite plausible that the same men are having sex with more women.
well fart@fred.com is a new, eager subscriber!
Can you put this one in the app store?
Ask HN: Leaving to work on my own. Tips?
I’m soon 21 year old with no job, dropped out of education and living with my parents doing freelancing

I’m doing all i can to not get full-time employed. My biggest fear is mediocracy

I want to live a purposeful life and my biggest wish is to contribute to something meaningful and useful to others

Unfortunately in reality my life depends on meaningless work for corporate overlords

With NDA’s and IP-ownership clauses, i don’t own anything and i can’t talk about anything

My plan currently is to pour 100% of my resources into my own ideas. And at this point i don’t care whether they fail or not, i just want to try

I can get back to school and wage-slavery at any point in my life later

Do you have any tips? My parents are very upset. Maybe i should try to get investors on board so i could stop worrying about money for a while? Otherwise my existence makes no sense
You're right, XCode is full of bugs are here AND there.

Ideally it would be here OR there, ie much less of them!
Those who leave are not always the best. Those who leave many places quickly are more likely to be difficult themselves and demand more. Those who leave after many years usually turn out to be great.
Well, the tide has been turning in many cities towards building more human-scale infrastructure by improving walkability and protected lanes for bikees/scooters etc. Delivery bots have a severe risk of wrecking the "flow" of sidewalks and bike lanes by being slow or just behaving robotically instead of like a person.

(Side comment/why I'm interested: I finally have bandwidth for civid engagement and I decided I'd like to work on helping my already cycling-friendly city enact policies to encourage food delivery services to use bike delivery, as part of its upcoming bike network plan.)
> There is a world of untapped energy that is only restricted by isolation. So you could entirely run bitcoin without increasing global energy output, if that makes sense.

No? Using previously untapped energy for Bitcoin, or for anything, does, in fact, increase global energy output.
It's kind of sad but it looks like Kevin hasn't posted anything since this. I hope this experience didn't break him.
Also see Graham crackers, although the circumcision connection is new to me.
Spending money is a different thing to transmitting power.

If everyone does what you do, then you get one of two effects depending on which unwritten assumption you prefer:

1) if the conversion rate from joules of sunlight to number of bitcoin remains constant, then (first 1 then 1 million) people have more bitcoin than they did before, but the immediate actual production of electricity in your local area is exactly the same as it was before any of you scenario happened, and therefore the local market price for electricity goes up because that’s how supply and demand works

2) if the supply of bitcoin continues to follow the existing rules, then going from one person to one million people has exactly zero impact on the supply of bitcoin, so instead of 1 BTC/unit of time/person, you get… 1 BTC/unit of time/million people (and likewise for your $ investment, 1 BTC/unit of time/$ becomes 1 BTC/unit of time/million $); in this case you still don’t have any more power being produced locally, but nobody notices the local price per unit of electricity changing because the BTC itself is too dilute to do anything

> Now, with all this money, you build a renewable geothermal power plant under your house. Boom, passive energy generation.

If money is the limiting factor, you can apply for a loan to install a renewable power source. As a bonus, you get the money sooner and therefore the power sooner. Economically speaking, this is in fact such a great idea that at least one solar company announced free-at-the-point-of-installation PV systems funded by their potential future earnings.
There is a human right to assemble and protest. This does not mean that people can break the law doing so, but there is a fine line and pretty much most protests involve some level of disruption. As said a few times now, if people are actually breaking the law (blocking highways is normally illegal) then they should be arrested and charged with a crime using appropriate evidence to assure conviction.

Nothing "negative" should happen until you're convicted (perhaps inconvenience), in that you should be considered innocent until proven guilty. If you are a burglar caught in someone elses property there is reasonable suspicion that a crime was committed, however force should not be the first response; if the burglar is cooperative when caught then why should the police use force? If you've been wrongfully arrested and held, compensation should be available. Courts are involved to prove that the accused committed a crime, until judgement is passed the suspect is innocent.

More importantly, how does a financial institution measure the evidence? How do they assure that the individual is involved in the protest? What happens if your money is frozen and you're innocent, if you were wrongfully flagged? Who gets to decide what is considered a level of participation worthy of having your assets frozen?

The crazy part is, even traditional criminals are not treated this harshly. If I was arrested for selling drugs, the only assets that are frozen are those linked to crime. If I have legitimate funds, they're not frozen if I can prove where the money came from. Proceeds of crime are frozen, but regular income is not. You traditionally cannot freeze money or other assets unconnected to a crime. Yet here we are, people are supporting freezing assets regardless of due process or if it is actually linked to or derived from crime. Unbelievable.
I'm glad I grew up with sisters and played a ton with them as a kid. I've never had a problem in this area.
The robots are feeding hungry people. It's all about people in the end.
Some parents unfortunately might see that as a feature and not a bug.

It absolutely suppressed the sex drive of my first girlfriend. I was the one to tell her about it (before we dated, even). Ironically for her that might not have been a bad thing in the end.

My wife? It turns her in to a raging, emotional, monster. The exact opposite of what she’s normally like. Luckily she didn’t go on it until we were dating for quite a while. I imagine that if she were put on it at age 14 she might have thought that’s just the way she is.

There has also been at least one study that showed that hormonal birth control can change your preference is mates. You’re put on it early, date people, and eventually marry. You go off of it to have a child, and suddenly you aren’t as attracted to your husband. Fun stuff.
Did you get to the part about choking?

To me, the article seems just a long collections of folks contributing speculations.

I might be biased because the wife of my cousing-in-law is researching these topics scientifically
Truth! Delphi had this all sorted out 20 years ago.
Treat them with respect, eye contact, don't make about sex and generally don't be a dick. Usually works in all social circumstances.
Non-tech end users are expected to backup everything to the Cloud. Not just backup but even store working copies. In fact non-technical users can, at most, plug in an external HDD/SSD and backup their files to it, but unless they take pains to keep a 2nd copy (and both copies in sync), it is no better than having your files on the system drive. Anything beyond this is too technical at the moment for laymen to use. I don't know why that is so. Many programs are more difficult/technical to use than they have to be. It's like some kind of unconscious gatekeeping.
If it wasn't for HN, I don't think that XKCD would have been anything more to me than a joke about programmers enjoying coming up with "cool hacks". But in the comments here I far too often find people trying to come up with legal loopholes that assume the system is perfectly rigid.
Interesting, I'm sure somebody has made a Youtube video of them. Only been to MV once and that was before these were around.

(EDIT: of course, there's also an East Coast/West Coast, or at least an old city/new city issue here. Based on your experience, can you imagine them working in NYC?)
"Sending camera footage of the attack to law enforcers ..."
What's the "early promise of the internet" to you?

The Venture Capitalists and startuppers that made HN like the internet to be Free enough that new businesses and services can thrive, and Open Source for the accessible and reusable building blocks for their projects, but clearly like commercialization and being the middleman, like in the good old offline days. The headache of moderating their platforms feels more urgent than thinking about Freedom of Speech.

The early internet, to me, was the promise to remove those middlemen and have us directly connect, and, while using mostly free and low-overhead websites or services, contribute back. I expected real estate classifieds posted in an open format to open databases by now, and the job description of "real estate agent" retired.

When I think if "upholding" anything I might think of Slashdot clearly preaching Open Source and the Evils of Microsoft. Naive by today's standards but hey, it kept the old ethos alive for a little longer.

Edit: No doubt many other excellent values were upheld by HN and the moderators, so thanks for that!
This is a very Reddit take, I think. The distinction is significantly more nuanced. Distance and percentage of slave labor used changes culpability, for example. I would argue that a person having a slave wait on them directly for all needs creates significantly more culpability than the fact that the lithium in my iPhone battery may or may not have come from some class of exploited labor worlds away from me. Further, while the slave owner could divest themselves of slaves directly, I don’t think there is any way for a modern westerner to rid themselves of anything in the supply chain of their lives of same. It doesn’t make it right, but these things are not equivalent.
While you are not wrong, it isn't the full picture. For most projects we don't need more language/compiler performance. Most web sights are served with a handful of servers, likely shared servers on AWS or something (so that you can get full data center failure redundancy - which is probably overkill). The total cost to run the servers isn't all that much on the bottom line and so you shouldn't pay more for compiler optimization.

Of course google, facebook, and other large companies should be paying for optimization as it will pay off, but the vast majority of systems don't run at that scale. For most optimization is about ensuring response time is acceptable, and that is generally more about optimizing your code not your compiler.
I'm sure this is the reason given as to why facebook's search function is barely better than grep + line noise...
> The senses in which the Bitcoin network is "permissionless," "pseudonymous," etc. are all adaptive (and mostly non-formalized!) properties of behavior on the Bitcoin network, each of which has spectacularly failed in well-publicized ways.

In a closed system, all you see are public keys sending/receiving from other keys. If you want to identify or censor a person or their transaction, you need external information linking them to a particular address. New addresses can be created on the fly simply by creating a new wallet, which is software that can be run on any device anywhere in the world, thanks to open source code.

> Conspicuously absent from this analogy are deflationary spirals, one of which Bitcoin currently is in. You don't need to be an economist to understand that the defining property of currency is its ability to provide liquidity to transactions (i.e., serve as a medium of exchange); deflationary assets are famously poor mediums of exchange.

I don't know how deflation plays out with Bitcoin, no one does. But in 100 years if we want to change it, we can, because its an open source protocol that can be forked and forced to compete with other ideas.
The study must have tracked non-runners, given the conclusion. If they were already runners and the conclusion is that they get accustomed to the activity, they'd already be accustomed and there'd be no tail end difference.
So they most likely tested non-runners and had them start running. We get more efficient at physical exertion with practice. Better coordination of muscle groups. Finding a more efficient pace. Correcting form deficiencies. These all increase capability or reduce energy expenditure.
Up to 2315 https://polydle.github.io/
This is just blog spam from this story back from Nov, there is nothing new here, right?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/testing-firm-can-profit-f...

>This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Cignpost Diagnostics (November 14, 2021)
City bikes which have stations seem much better option. At least if run by city itself, higher installation cost, but means that they are much more orderly.
Also, you don’t absorb everything you eat. Actually, let me be clear: I have no evidence for this. But the fact that my weight is so consistent despite my radically inconsistent eating and exercising suggests to me that my body can regulate digestion. When I’m in a period when I’m overeating, my body just doesn’t absorb so much.

Again, more speculation, but i would imagine that metabolic disorders involve digestive regulation issues, not just lack of exercise and overeating.
> plus it's absurdly hot

Most of the places people visit and live aren't absurdly hot. The largest cities in the middle east BY FAR are Ciaro, Tehran, Istanbul, and Baghdad.

Cairo is hot most of the year - but one of these places are hotter than Phoenix - which is currently one of the places people are moving to in droves in the US

Tehran & Istanbul, for example, aren't even much hotter than Los Angeles: https://weatherspark.com/y/105125/Average-Weather-in-Tehran-...

If you think Los Angeles has bad weather - you're just out of touch with almost everyone else in the world.

Riyadh and Dubai are VERY HOT. KSA is its own strange destination from a Western perspective. It's mostly religious. But Dubai is similar to Las Vegas and Miami in many ways - in the crowd it attracts and what people do there. It's still much hotter - I agree, don't know how people do it there.
Question: In the US, would it be possible to patent/copyright/trademark one's own DNA, and irrevocably transfer exclusive rights to a trust for which the DNA donor is the sole trustee? Then the donor would no longer have the legal ability to accidentally confer IP rights to their DNA to a third party via contact, and any company which tried to financially exploit the DNA could be sued by the trust.

Doubtless the infringing company would then commence against the donor for fraudulent misrepresentation (for entering into a contract without authority to do so) but then at least the fight would be had over money, and not over one's literal birthright. Or is the trust idea entirely without merit?
That should be a fast machine, and 13 seconds is an eternity in my workflows.
I think the sad reality may be that the majority of folks out there don't want niche, weird and interesting.
I am a young guy and used to believe stats like this.

Now, I view it as a conspiracy theory that's meant to make young guys paranoid. And of course, many of those who come up with these theories, have books and courses to sell to those who believe them.
Imagine paying extra for your delivery robot to have a buzz saw or be wedge shaped to tackle other robots. On a college campus that would make a killing!
> I know HN and dang aren't going to change, they're conservative let's say

I'm not quite sure what people "are", but that there is some sort of a fundamental (and I think unrealized problem) seems unmistakable to me. And I agree that they can't change on their own, but I don't believe that change cannot be coerced - at least, it is highly speculative.

> so I am working towards my own solution that I think will allow for adequate moderation and discussion management.

I am very interested, as I have been working on the same thing (but only conceptually so far), I will send you an email.
> ... is itself already racist.

Does it not depend on the intent? The word "racism" implies some kind of bad intent if I am not mistaken. You might have a useless or uninformed piece of conversation around race (whatever the word "race" is supposed to mean; I really do not exactly know nor do I care) but this does not imply that there is racism involved.
Speak for yourself, man, cause it can get bad. During the work week I can sometimes go from unconsciousness to TikTok to podcasts to web development to Zoom to Twitter to Spotify to YouTube and back to TikTok and then to sleep without any real breaks in between. One can get into this habit of exhausted yet nervous information seeking -- "doing without doing".

I think three days off might be just what I need.
Seriously, anywhere in the Middle East is a "NO GO".

Their rights are non-existent. The laws are draconian and arbitrary. And if you're a woman, you're effectively a 2nd class citizen. And good luck if you're raped as a woman (shocker! sex out of wedlock, so youre a criminal).

Sure, that can be construed as anti-Arab. I don't particularly care. The laws (or lack thereof), the slavery, treatment of women - all of these tell me what I need to know. And this is what passes as "Islamic" countries. Shitholes indeed.
> Usually when I see this, I just knock the things over and push them out of the way.

So you make the problem worse?

Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? You can fix the problem you are encountering, and the people you want to protect CANT. You are choosing to make the problem worse for them? Why?

I live in a major downtown full of these scooters. When I see them blocking something, I just move them. Why is this so difficult? It takes such a tiny amount of effort to fix this problem you are describing. You live in a society, and it’s your responsibility to contribute.