skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many of my female friends in college are outspoken about never wanting or having kids ... those that are outspoken about these matters also always seem to lack meaning or direction in their life.

So you're in your early 20s and in college, and you think the people around you lack meaning and direction? I mean, first of all 90% of the 20 year olds in college I know lack meaning in their life. That's why they're in college, to find purpose and community.

Secondly, the mere fact that they are in college or graduated college means they don't lack direction. They are on a path, and that path is a time-tested one that has repeatedly proven to lead to personal actualization. Also being enrolled in college I would say they have high expectations for the future, the most obvious expectation I think is they would hope to graduate with a degree and use that degree to leverage better opportunities for themselves.

Third, there is a such thing as a biological clock. It starts ticking loudly for women in their late 20s in my experience.

Finally, I will implore you to at least consider the political climate. For the last 70 years, abortion (which is healthcare for women) has been considered constitutionally protected and has been available and accessible for women. Now women are being told that if they get an abortion, they should face criminal penalties like incarceration. The former POTUS intoned that "There has to be some form of punishment [for women having an abortion]". Today, some women in America have to travel over 600 miles across several states to get access to abortion. States are passing laws creating bounty hunters and vigilantes to harass women and the people who help them seek access to abortion. Laws are being passed that even restrict abortion in the case of rape and incest. The Supreme Court of the United States has okayed these laws and are universally expected to completely gut Roe vs. Wade this summer.

All women are paying attention to this, including your friends. The message is loud and clear, and it's changing their relationship with men and the idea of sex. Ask your friends what they think about the pending loss of their right to an abortion. See if that makes them more or less likely for them to want to have children. For the women in my life, it makes them (more) nervous about the idea of sex altogether.
- Languages (Mandarin and Spanish).
- Application programming - front end apps using React
When calling an airline, ask if you can give them the PNR (Passenger Name Record, what your ticket calls the "booking reference") and then read it off with the NATO alphabet. You will get instant credibility with the agent on the other side as a flyer who knows their shit, plus it's hella fast.
The mode is the most common value, if it exists.
Surely it's true for every unsigned 64-bit integer.
I thought the setup for that book was interesting, but it's probably his worst book IMHO (though I haven't read all of them). Normally I'm careful about attributing the actions of characters to novelists, but Robinson seems to be increasingly advocating terrorism in his books and it's getting really off-putting.
At those temperatures heat stroke isn’t far away regardless of humidity. These aren’t temperatures to target 2-3c reductions as a safe goal, either.

Ref: lived in LV,NV for a decade.
Ah okay, that makes more sense, thank you.
Someone should put together a list of the significant operational successes of the LCS fleet.

Could have bought a lot of paint.
He did a talk at the Long Now Foundation recently:

https://longnow.org/ideas/02021/11/10/climate-futures-beyond...
Can we focus on the general concept as opposed to partizanship? Thank you.

It's the same for Kavanaugh, he's an expert in the field of law. Nobody would have doubted his character if he was as great at public image as say George Clooney in one of his many lawyer movies that he made.

But unfortunately Kavanaugh is not Clooney and half of the country labels him as an untrustworthy drunk and a liar... much like you label Biden and Fauci idiots.

If you are an expert and all of a sudden you are catapulted into the public life the only sentiment you'll find there is hatred and distrust because love and admiration are already assigned to other people, and as every accountant knows the 2 entries must balance.

The possible exception would be Albert Einstein.
Creepiest outfit in tech today? Uber wins the prize:

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/how-much-of-uber-does-sa...

> "In the interview with the digital news platform, Khosrowshahi said the 2019 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi shows that "the (Saudi) government said they made a mistake. It's a serious mistake, but we've made serious mistakes, too right?"

Tech isn't some neutral zone free of ethical quandries. Google leadership pushing a Dragonfly contract with China is another example. Israel selling their Pegasus spyware to the Saudis so they can round up and murder dissidents is another example. Just because it's profitable doesn't mean that justifies doing it.
At least this would cost money, rather than making us money like the giant geoengineering project we're doing right now. That's making it really hard for people to admit they're wrong.
it might have made robinhood look better to uninformed retail traders if they disabled both the sell button as well as the buy button.
The Robot Landscapers That 3D Printed a Park in China
The phonetic alphabet is very much recognized and used in any English-speaking country around the world, plus airline staff working in any country period.
Does it lean left? Or does the vocal majority lean left? Are we not hearing from the center and right for fear of ridicule, shadow banning, deplatforming, etc?
Nurturing Autism Acceptance in Indonesia
I think the difference is that there were (and still are) many sysadmins who don’t code. So the shift was that there was an expectation that all ops people could code.

I don’t think it’s solely a Unix/windows thing, but I still work with windows admins who manually set up machines. Like they set up a vm in azure and then spend hours or days pushing buttons until it’s “ready.” For one vm.

A person like this should not be in ops. They should be trained and improved to automate this by code.

So the world is full of “there’s always been devops” because 30 years ago sysadmins were scripting out their stuff in shell scripts and whatnot. And also “we’re moving to devops” where people still manually do system tasks.
> We do want only big&powerful being able to eavesdrop privacy but not countless of smaller actors?

We don't. And that's why there are efforts to create operating systems that are do not track users. Unfortunately those efforts are not well funded.

Again, we don't want big companies to track us and collect our data, but your questions sounds more like "since big companies collect our data, why should we put an effort to prevent everyone else from doing it?" I apologize if I am misreading what you're saying, but we have to do this one thing since the alternative is available, and once an alternative OS is here, we can switch to it as well.
Well, full marks for honesty I guess but aren't you just proving my point?

You haven't read his article or engaged with his argument at all, but he must be a crank because you can't stomach the implications if he was right. A cursory inspection of the first few paragraphs shows that (a) it's about 2021 so definitely not "outside COVID" and (b) it's another example of what I was pointing out: he is looking at government data that looks pretty concerning and reacting to it in a rational way.

Your only argument he's not rational is that "vast swathes" of science would be invalidated if he's right, therefore he must be a crank.

That's not even an argument, is it?

1. Some of the biggest leaps forward in science have come from invalidation and correction of deeply fundamental science. That's why Einstein is famous. The potential to invalidate pre-existing scientific beliefs is pretty much a pre-condition for a study to be interesting.

2. Vaccine efficacy is a tiny sub-area of the overall scientific enterprise. If everything people believed about vaccines was disproven conclusively tomorrow that'd certainly be far less than 0.1% of all scientific knowledge.

3. Your heuristic is totally unable to correct handle or react to groupthink or bad incentives. The entire field of virology claimed that there was no possible way SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and anyone who claimed it could was spreading conspiracy theories. Those same scientists were simultaneously writing private emails saying a lab escape was definitely possible and even looked likely. You were the sort of person who was successfully fooled by their conspiracy, and maybe still are.

Fundamentally, your attitude here is poisonous to the search for truth that defines science to begin with. If you can't be bothered evaluating their arguments then don't express opinions on them.
HDMI out? Makes me curious what tech they have on the glasses vs in the dongle/box… maybe it’s convenient to use hdmi cable’s twisted pairs to just take the csi/mipi from the cameras straight out and then do processing externally?
This is wrong, getting ~58k in your bank account from a 100k salary for a single is certainly what you can expect.
The 75k you mention will only happen if your spouse doesn't work at all, a rather disingenuous framing.

If you're happy paying high taxes, you shouldn't feel the need to hide the real numbers (even if you're hiding by omission).
It's so interesting because now that I am looking for it, so many of these sounds that I did not realize were related now seem like just minor variations of tongue/mouth parts positioning.
Maybe I’m just a grump but this class of article is painful: you’ve got hand-wavy unsubstantiated claims and nothing tactical a reader can take away to make their life better. You can simplify it to a short tweet: “prioritization is really important for founders”. I’m coming to dislike this kind of content-less content - it’s a waste of time to produce and consume.
Specifically Michael S. Mahoney's interview with Joseph H. Condon

http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/condon.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts.htm
No film shows what it's really like in prison, not even the BBC series "Time".

Prison is not that bad.
I even have to admit that I enjoyed it.

You even have your own key to your cell, as you can leave your cell every day for 6h and visit others.

And if you have a job, your cell is open from 6AM to 8PM, then you can go anywhere you want inside prison.

The first 2 weeks I was on quarantine, by corona.

Then I was transported to Landsberg am Lech, where Adolf Hitler was! Every day I passed by his former cell on my way to work.

Every second week there is a shopping spree where you can buy everything you need, from food to hygiene. And if you are a smoker you get 3 tobacco packs. Then you have to buy it yourself.
One theory is that Kees is a dialectal version of "kaas" (cheese), so Jan Kees is "John Cheese".
Plastic trim, seat and seat covers, liners, floors are all flammable, insulation on wiring, lots of stuff. An all-stainless steel interior would be very amusing, though.
I created a Strava segment in my neighborhood and started to monitor it. I quickly found a couple cheaters and flagged them. Some I could tell some were just bad GPS data, such as riding a bike in a lake. I usually take mine down if the GPS is totally off. However, some were definitely blatant cheating, such as cycling at 80 mph when the road speed is 40mph.
> a single brain to spontaneously and briefly form in a void

I recall first hearing about this by being introduced to it via the "giant marshmallow hypothesis"†: it's somewhat equally likely that a giant marshmallow spontaneously and briefly form in a void. A Boltzmann brain is then merely a different arrangement of atoms and stuff.

† I don't think it has a specific name.
Have you heard of a book called Dominion?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43885149-dominion

I was also an atheist fundamentalist, I still don't think I believe in God, but that book showed me how Christianity shaped the west. The history of Christianity is fascinating.
The problem is that you are cut off from the reality. The poor has to live and that means we need to have cheap energy. Get off the high horse and maybe engage with your governments to understand why nuclear power is still out of reach for developing nations. Forget about sharing green power tech.
It’d be very close to zero in the US too.
I don't recall reading that part either. The book is a great book though, not just for the doping part but also because it gives a very interesting behind the scenes view of many iconic cycling moments of that time.
Einstein and Hilbert’s Relativity Race: Who generalized relativity first?
How would I train myself to prioritize better?
I tend to do the most fun things of my to-do list, or choose tasks that are urgent in the short term.
I appreciate this comment, as it answers the exact question I had in my head. I was actually wondering what the point of implementing a JVM-based language in another language was, but this sums it up nicely. As a Java (and Clojure) developer, Clojure makes perfect sense to me and I love the inteop capabilities because I know the Java ecosystem. ClojureRS would therefore make a lot sense to a Rust developer.
A rocket engine is more properly referred to as a chemical rocket engine.
What's wrong with signalling how virtuous you are?

There are many things wrong with it. First, virtue is in the eye of the beholder. For example, watching a video of a lion chasing down a gazelle can be presented in a way to elicit sympathy for the poor gazelle or sympathy for the poor lion who is just trying to feed her starving cubs.

Second, it serves to divide people. It says, “Like me. I’m on your team unlike those other people that we don’t like.”

Third, it makes people waste time talking about non-issues. We’re spending time on a Saturday talking about the lack of articles about men choosing not to have children. We could be talking about something of actual substance but the OP was trying to score points with women so here we are.

I could go on but that’s enough for today!
Like Windows file share mode. Mandatory, "hard" lock on a file. The OS doesn't let you delete it if another process holds it open. (You can forbid any of 3: reading, writing, deleting by another process. It is completely orthogonal to the ACL permissions system.)
Yeah, my assumption that the reasons are similar are based anecdotal experience and other articles - cost and lifestyle.
Grimm's Law
Not an expert, but fuel and oxidizer is stored as liquid (at cryogenic temperatures), so adding gas creates pressure at the "top" of the tank, pushing the liquid down into the engine (in addition to gravity).
That's the largest piece of Prolog code I've ever written, so criticism is warranted and I'm glad to learn how to improve it. I still wanted to share it to show how typing rules translated almost directly to Prolog clauses.

I agree that this piece of code was written in a more academic mindset, with large dose of TAPL-specific jargon and abbreviations which can easily throw anybody off if not known beforehand. I do not have good examples of industrial-grade Prolog code bases, if that's what was asked.
Loom will make a great backend for kotlin's co-routines. Roman Elizarov (kotlin language lead & person who is behind Kotlin's co-routine framework) has already confirmed that will happen and it makes a lot of sense.

For those who don't understand this, Kotlin's co-routine framework is designed to be language neutral and already works on top the major platforms that have kotlin compilers (native, javascript, jvm, and soon wasm). So, it doesn't really compete with the "native" way of doing concurrent, aynchronous, or parallel computing on any of those platforms but simply abstracts the underlying functionality.

It's actually a multi platform library that implements all the platform specific aspects in the platform appropriate way. It's also very easy to adapt existing frameworks in this space via Kotlin extension functions and the JVM implementation actually ships out of the box with such functions for most common solutions on the JVM for this (Java's threads, futures, threadpools, etc., Spring Flux, RxJava, Vert.x, etc.). Loom will be just another solution in this long list.

If you use Spring Boot with Kotlin for example, rather than dealing with Spring's Flux, you simply define your asynchronous resources as suspend functions. Spring does the rest.

With Kotlin-js in a browser you can call Promise.toCoroutine() ans async { ... }.asPromise(). That makes it really easy to write asynchronous event handling in a web application for example or work with javascript APIs that expect promises from Kotlin. And if you use web-compose, fritz2, or even react with kotlin-js, anything asynchronous, you'd likely be dealing with via some kind of co-routine and suspend functions.

Once Loom ships, it basically will enable some nice, low level optimization to happen in the JVM implementation for co-routines and there will likely be some new extension functions to adapt the various new Java APIs for this. Not a big deal but it will probably be nice for situations with extremely large amounts of co-routines and IO. Not that it's particularly struggling there of course but all little bits help. It's not likely to require any code updates either. When the time comes, simply update your jvm and co-routine library and you should be good to go.
Hmm sorry, I seem to have lost the link and now HN won't let me add it. I'll resubmit it in a bit.
> So several sages together came to these cherry picked conclusions.

To clarify my post: I meant that out of the thousands of thousands of opinions recorded in the Talmud, that list selectively quoted five or six phrases which make it sound especially bad when taken out of context, while ignoring absolutely everything else. That’s what I meant by ‘cherry picked’.

(Your other responses, especially the last few lines, are fairly common misunderstandings of Judaism and Jewish history, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to try and debate them online just right now.)
To troll on HN, you just need to operate within some constraints. Two criteria need to be satisfied.

First, to prevent your troll from being greyed out, you need to be in alignment with the dominant Hacker News zeitgeist. Downvotes don't matter so long as enough people counter them with upvotes.

Second, to prevent being flagged, you need to craft your message in such a way that it could possibly be interpreted as well meaning. "Assume good faith" is a loophole to be exploited: "suck it bitch" overt hostility won't fly, but since "I'm just asking questions"-style disingenousness often can't be differentiated from honest inquiry, it makes it through the filter.

If you can master those techniques, you can troll any unpopular outgroup on HN without limit.

You can't troll the dominant faction without getting downvoted into oblivion, so the dominant faction believes trolling doesn't happen, but as for whether trolling of outgroups is happening...

... we can't say, as that would mean doubting the good faith of those "just asking questions". Nevertheless, we can observe that certain demographics who frequently get the "just asking questions" treatment are severely underrepresented on HN.
=> very dumb example of processing messages from ten threads

#include <boost/asio.hpp>

#include <atomic>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

int main() {
boost::asio::io_context io;

using work_guard_type = boost::asio::executor_work_guard<boost::asio::io_context::executor_type>;
work_guard_type work_guard(io.get_executor());

std::vector<std::jthread> t;
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
t.emplace_back(std::jthread([&io] { io.run(); }));

std::atomic_int counter{};
while(counter < 100)
io.post([&] {
std::cerr << std::this_thread::get_id() << '\n';
counter++;
});

io.stop();
return 0;
}
I read recently that scientists have discovered a way to artificially grow sperm-producing cells from any other cell in the body, e.g. skin cells.

If this hits the mainstream, then men will be reproductively obsolete. Women will be able to produce sperm cells in the lab, or eventually, in some home-based kit, to be artificially inseminated, from which only females will be born (due to the lack of Y chromosome sperms).

It will be very interesting to see what happens next, once women can be completely independent of any male, even for reproductive success.
idk about all of HN, but imo blockchain tech in general could potentially solve some problems related to distribution, but rarely do i see projects that justify needing a blockchain. NFTs are mostly a scam.
This reflects the abnormally high proportion of people jailed in the USA:
- 80K inmates for 68.5M inhabitants in the UK => 0.12%
- 1,215K inmates for 331M inhabitants in the US => 0,37%

There are therefore around 3 times more people incarcerated in the US than in UK, proportionally.

As rapes are very frequent in the US jails (as this terrible report points out) and most of the jail population are men, then indeed, what can conclude that - statistically speaking - that most rape victims are men.

But if you take apart the population in jail, most rape victims are women.

Of course, one can argue that prisoners are human beings like others: they are.
But the gendered statistic on rape is turned upside-down by the totally abnormal proportion of people in jail in the US, when compared to comparable countries, PLUS the totally despicable jail system where rapes are numerous.

Note that rapes are very common as well in jails of comparable countries. I have no information about this, but I can't see why rapes would be more frequent in American jails rather than British jails - all others things being equal. But maybe the US jail system and/or the US jail population may lead to more (or less, why not) rapes: I have no clue about this.

I'm not saying that they are in jail for no reason, but that the US society is ... dysfunctional. That analysis may appear outrageous in the US, but it is something obvious to many other countries.

But from saying "dysfunctional" to point out why it is so, there is a huge leap where political inclinations are bound to express themselves. In this case, these are not biases, because politics is precisely about how we live together in a society. And indeed, people don't live in the same world, in the sense that their interpretative frameworks are so diverse.

That's why I find the formulation of that figure problematic. I would find it less click-bait-y and trolly to say: "Rapes of men in the US jails are incredibly numerous" - maybe adding "to the point of outnumbering the rapes of women".

Why is it problematic? Because it echoes a large incel, masculinust, far-right discourse against feminism. Each time women (and "woke" men, to use their vocabulary) denounce something, there are always troves of righteous men pretending that the issue is true for all sexes alike (since in their views, sex and gender are the same thing).

The formulation "Most rapes victims in the United States are men" is a way of saying that all genders are equally victims of rapes in general. But they are not. In the world, and probably in all countries except the US, rape victims are overwhelmingly women and girls. The US exception is not related to a gender equality but to the abnormal rate of incarceration.

I don't know if there was an intention in the formulation or not. Maybe not, so I'm not at all in an accusatory mode. I'm just saying that this formulation offers ground to misinterpretation.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-f...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203718/number-of-prisone...
please enlighten me about quite high failure rate of properly installed IUD
Tobii is pretty intense about this stuff, esp re licensing. Their gaming stuff can’t be used for research, for example. It’s a similar vibe to eInk.