skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is sex going to become a privilege reserved for only the most elite men? If the majority of men cannot enjoy intimacy, expect incel terrorism to increase exponentially.

Sex is unconditionally a privilege as long as we believe in consent. It is the prerogative of anyone who owns their own body to decide whether or not to give themselves to anyone. That includes the prerogative of holding out only for metaphorical Brad Pitt.

I'm not sure "but the incels engage in terrorism" is going to persuade women to give their bodies to the men they don't want.
Thycotic and Centrify have been rolled up into Delinea fwiw.

https://delinea.com/
Table 5.4 and 5.5 show that income is nearly a non-factor for men selecting women. It is not a differentiating variable that men factor in at all.

Whereas it is an easy lifehack for a less visually attractive man (5.4), or simply shorter man (5.5) to be selected by a woman, if they make more.

I don't get the impression anything has changed since that study in 2006. I don't even think the same study could be done now given how broken online dating services have become now.

A corollary of this, more related to this forum, is that this is a greater aspect of workplace gender and earning inequality than readjusting the workplace for women. Greater displacement of workers would occur if women were interested in having a lower earning man in subsidy, because many men would leave the workplace for that option. The option of unpaid household and emotional labor that is overrepresented by, and a predictable option for, women. The people interested in that role are probably a more even distribution across society.
Protein design protocols usually favor globular, soluble proteins, where the sort of interactions generating amyloids and prions are absent.
Well it hasn't improved the human condition one bit yet (except for researchers desperate for paper citations), so whether it lives up to the "hype" remains to be seen.
Your definition of pi gives incorrect values of pi...

("a set of points in a different plane" is not constrained to be a straight line.)
Yeah, everything about early id Tech is just, without exaggeration, decades ahead of Unreal. Of course, sex sells, so since Unreal renders fairly well, for this reason alone I think it attracts amateurs.

I think Godot wants to do the same thing, and I'm sure it'll work, but the authors are just like the rest of the open source community in that they don't actually work on features meaningful to most games.

Back to Unreal networking: what really sucks is that you can't easily just avoid using it by using your own networking subsystem. Because features like default actor movement are tightly bound to the RPC system, and concepts like network visibility are directly integrated with actors, you may unintentionally end up screwing up what needs to be networked to clients unless you very closely match what the existing networking code does.

It's sophisticated enough that I suspect there isn't a single company or individual who has done this, because that too would be far more effort than it might be worth.

It's so gross to me that you immediately cannot use things like the replication graph if you decide you want your game to support split screen. IIRC, that was a technical limitation for some reason. I could be misremembering. It's just disgusting.
This is darker than the chocolate in the M&Ms.
> It's shocking to me that you can't simply stop paying when you don't want to use a service anymore - you have to ask them to stop taking your money. When you actually think about it, it's ridiculous and unacceptable.

It's because there's a contract behind the service, and contracts have agreements which bind one or both parties, so the other party needs to be informed w.r.t. the change.

Cutting off service when there's no payment would also be "ridiculous and unacceptable" in some cases - e.g. think if the lights just go off when you forget to preload your Visa, instead of just getting a nudge.

But of course I concede to your between-the-lines point, namely that it would be best if the companies knew exactly what we want done (which they sort of do), and did it without a hassle (which they sort of don't), instead of being pricks about it all.
> Western payment processors have proven in recent years that they will cancel/unperson anyone who doesn't fit with their political ideology.

Do you have any examples of this?
Pour one out for our fellow sys admins & security teams that are going to be working late into the night. They took down their Slack so I wonder what out-of-band comma they’re using.

EDIT: Comms not comma. I'll leave the typo because I LOVE bombcar's comment about the semicolon. Confused at first, but I smiled
You aren't kidding. Some of the comments in here are baffling to me.
“I’m afraid it’s a life sentence.”
That's because Shopify Payments is just a front for Stripe. We've seen both sides at our company and they behave exactly the same.
My sister and I text via SMS pretty much constantly. That's pretty low tech, and a lot like pen pals, in terms of content and style. We live in different provinces, so it's what we do.
It’s too early to make any definitive judgements on the future of this extension. There are many obvious ways that this acquisition could—and let’s be honest, probably will—go badly for the end user. I was hoping that someone could come up with a plausible optimistic outcome.

We will know definitively when the next updates to the extension comes out. Until then we are all just speculating.

That being said, the security consciousness user should probably switch to a pre-acquisition fork such as https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
they dont have any free tier database as far as i can tell
US Economy Is a Safer Bet Than ‘Dire’ Europe, Goldman Strategists Say
There will always be a cycle of bundling, unbundling, adding ads & removing ads.

In the meantime, if you can stand to identify yourself to Google, the $11.99 / mo I pay for YouTube Premium is some of the best bank for buck I ever spend.
When I see these numbers, I think: Why do guys bother with Tinder? Why would you give up ALL the alpha, and create 100x more work for yourself down the road, just to have a marginally easier starting experience?

Those numbers are so horrendous that you'd be better off going to a bar and hitting on every single woman. You could get shot down 50 times in a row, yet as long as you want to 3 bars in a week w/at least 20 approachable women each, you'd still have a date within a week, which is already 1/3 of the success the guy in your example had in a tiny fraction of the time.

And of course, bars are pretty much the bottom of the barrel, as unpleasant as it gets. This is hard mode. Try any other setting - a meetup, a birding club, whatever - and things will be easier.
That honestly sounds like the guy is annoying, and the people he pisses of sometimes go with the most visible thing to insult him with.
> you haven't even claimed Drudge Report is influential

Indeed. I just quoted Pew making that claim: "you haven't even claimed Drudge Report is influential"

> and 70% of them admit they get their news from Twitter[1]

No, that's 70% who use it as their main source of news.

And nearly 100% of journalists from other news sources are on Twitter.

> These allegedly influenced votes will amount to a wash, maybe slightly towards one party or the other,

Oh, I see. You are under the misapprehension that "influence" means "pushing the result decisively one way or the other"

That isn't the case. "Influence" can also mean changing the way it plays out, which is clearly the case as seen by the transmission and amplification of various conspiracy theories on Twitter and other social media.
I would argue it's the opposite. The physical copies are unique objects that only one person can own and enjoy. With the way NFTs work, the blockchain version of one would be an infinitely copyable file that just happens to have a scoreboard somewhere that says that only one person can "own" it in some very specific sense. But everyone else can still enjoy it just as easily.

Unless it's hosted on some WotC server where only the NFT owner can access it. But that also undermines its value, since then you don't really own it any more than someone "owns" a Kindle book: barring breaking DRM, as soon as Amazon decides to shut the Kindle service down, its either gone now, or its days are numbered.
I like it.

Personally I've always preferred HTML tags to markdown, primarily because I can usually understand simple HTML by looking at it, while the markdown needs a cheatsheet if I haven't been working on it recently.

I think this could probably be done as a web component if the browsers didn't implement it directly.

Plus most GUI tools produce HTML and that could probably be modified to output a more restricted format.
"Male tech worker contemplates funny sounding surgery" sounds better than "Male tech worker buys fancy car, gets tired of it, wonders if working late hours was worth it."
Honestly, given the state of linux games, hope they target musl
Unfortunately that is undoubtedly a deal breaker for the vast majority of women. It can be overcome to a certain extent with personality and income, but in an already extremely competitive dating market for men I can understand drastic measures.
I'm an elementary school math teacher and would love to learn more about this! Is there anything you can share about this course (syllabus, etc.)? Email address is in my profile
But kodi is still an application with addons, Kodi is not going to allow you to run native applications on top of it
100MM per annum is hardly what I'd call "very little".
Learn Rust by implementing a SHA-1 hash cracker
It is legal until proven illegal -- just like you are innocent until proven guilty.
Does it let you watch Netflix, HBO, etc. with the usual DRM stuff?
Plenty to Build ‘World’s Largest’ Indoor Vertical Farming Complex
"Was not known" by whom?
Genuinely very interested to hear an instance where you were able to cut weeks off development time.
Actors can be quite short (or tall!) because you rarely see their whole body on screen.

Many legendary scenes in cinematic history has been filmed with actors standing on platforms.
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/do-women-really-v... (blog post based on the same paper referenced in my parent comment)

> Really what we want to do is observe people’s choices directly which is why dating websites are so useful to us. Here’s an example. What if I have a hypothesis that when choosing a mate, men care more about their potential partner’s appearance than her income and women care more about her potential partner’s income than his appearance. Imagine the following experiment. A woman/man can choose between communicating with two people. One earns $60,000 a year and is more attractive than 9 out of 10 people on the market. The other earns X dollars per year and is less attractive than 9 out of 10 people on the market. Every other observable characteristic about these two people is identical. We can use the information that tells us who individuals choose to communicate with to determine what X would have to be in order to make a woman/man prefer the less attractive person.

> Researchers have done this and find that for men there is no amount of income that the woman in the bottom ten percent in terms of appearance can earn to make men prefer her over women in the top 10 percent. That is, looks really matter to men relative to income. For women though, if the man in the bottom ten percent in terms of looks earns more than $248,500, they will prefer him over the more attractive guy earning $60,000. My students often interpret this result as saying that women really care about money, but that is not what it says at all—$186,000 is a huge difference in income. If women didn’t care about looks and only cared about money, the figure would be much, much lower. This says that despite the impression that on the marriage market women really care about income, the evidence suggest that they also care about looks. They just care about income too.
Most of the best videos I watch are made by people with some love for the topic and many obviously aren’t making bank.

And yea, for the best I buy merch or patreon or whatever.
Are you using US statistics to go with your conversion to US measurements?

In Australia we have several ethnic communities where the stats for stuff like height diverge noticeably from the national stats. So "immigrated from The Netherlands" as a category will be taller by a few percent, "immigrated from China" will be shorter and have greater sexual dimorphism.
As the article notes: it became a symbol of potency an empire. A lab-made diamond just doesn't have enough blood on it to mean anything: it'd be a giant synthetic rock.
You don't mention what is probably the biggest thing influencing all of the numbers you describe: What is the ratio of men to women on "dating" sites like Tinder? I don't actually know myself but I'd go out on a limb and guess _way_ more men than women.

Which means several things. As you say, for heterosexual individuals, it's much more difficult for a typical male to be matched with a typical female. It also means if you're a male looking for a long-term mate, then you'll do better with the old-fashioned approach of getting out and being social.

> All 3 dates did not materialize into anything long term.

As an outsider whose exposure to Tinder is largely hearsay, my understanding is that long-term relationships are not really the goal of most users on this particular app.
It's hard to take an article seriously when it claims no city has taken a hands off approach to enforcing laws and prosecuting crime.

Case in point: there's a guy shooting up outside my condo right now. No one bothers to call the police, because the police won't do anything. When he punched me two years ago during COVID, police said it wasn't worth doing anything because he didn't actually cause bodily harm to me.
I’m also Indian. The British regime is likely responsible for tens, if not hundreds of millions of deaths through the forcible extraction of food and wealth, and the impoverishment of generations of Indians since. The atrocities of the Mughals are not to be ignored but the simple fact remains that India’s population grew greatly during the period of colonization, as did the brutality and extremity of the methods of extraction.

One source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-35-milli...
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>They don't have any trouble selling consoles right now, and historically they lose money on console sales.

The PS5 became profitable in 2021.
It is very hard to develop on premise product.

First you need to works with different Linux OS (ubuntu, redhat, etc.), and nowadays, product may contain a lot of microservice, then you need a kubernetes cluster, which is very hard to maintain. And then, you need to find a good storage (object/blob storage) for kubernetes.

Then, you may need to often troubleshooting server issues (like, disk full, slow disk issue, out of memory, kubernetes network broken). And you need to often check whether the data backup system works.

It is much easier to operate as SaaS, and you can pick your OS and your machine spec, and your programing stacks
You're a day late with that argument...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/15/1059520/the-merg...
> Genuinely can't tell what you're suggesting the business model problem is with Tailwind Jobs?

They're saying the opposite. Paraphrased, "any rational person could see that Tailwind Jobs is a legit business and that it's wrong for Stripe to shut them down".

"The issue" in the sentence you quoted is referring to Stripe's behavior, not Tailwind Job's business model.
You should read up on this a little more, because the quality of your question is poor. It cost the Chouinard family roughly $17 million gift tax on the stock donated to the Holdfast Collective, so yeah, not exactly a wind fall.
The article threw me off, saying that the project had “crashed” or had a “demise” as of it were no longer operating or there was some sort of scandal. They’re still operating and nothing major has happened other than them losing value.

They’re inflationary collectibles that were a fad, of course they’re going to lose value. The article feels intellectually dishonest.
Women tend to date up is somewhat similar to how fertilisation of egg is selective with the millions of sperms wanting to fertilise it.

When there is a disproportionate number of males competing for chance at mating, females become very selective. I guess the apps are just going with the data.
> Property taxes are regressive, prevent you from ever truly owning your own plot, and disproportionately reduce the wealth of the people who spend most of their lives creating it for other people.

Property taxes are a form of wealth tax. The more wealth you own in the form of property, the more you pay in tax. Many people who work for a living don't own any property at all - about 35% of households in the US are renters. They don't have this problem of "wow my house is worth $1.2 million so I've got to sell it and move" - they've got bigger problems.
The private window is very important part of the tactic.
So the seed was done at a $40m valuation?
> If you have a internet outage your debit/credit cards still work offline.

Not when the store is offline.

The convenience store just up the street from here every now and then goes cash-only whenever their connectivity is down.
Probably similar to you, I also heard of MtGox first via crypto, and thought it was an obvious reference to Fort Knox. Only later did I realise the original meaning.
This may not be as bad of an investment as it sounds...

Men who are 5 feet 6 inches need to make an additional $175,000 annually to be as desirable as men who are almost 6 feet. The number increases with shorter heights, with men who are 5 feet, for example, needing to make an additional $317,000 in income.

This was in 2006 dollars.

Study: https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf
I appreciate these kinds of exposés, and students should know these things, but I'm not sure why one would ever assume otherwise. (That is not to say, I know that people do, but I don't know why.) Novels are presented to us in tidy, precise, packaged form—well, there are some novels that experiment with the form, but certainly it's the norm—but no-one feels the need to explain that a novelist is making it up as they go along. What's different between math and English—well, a lot, obviously, but specifically, what's the difference that causes non-practitioners to assume that the former is eternal and fixed, whereas the latter is a product of human creativity?
I just played that video at an outdoor movie night. It gives me the feels every time. Great video!
How do the numbers shake out in ape and monkey tribes? Or other animals?
It's pretty rare for "bad customer service" to cost people tens of thousands in lost revenue and pretty severe reputation loss for their business. I've had some bad customer service before, but it never set me back months or years of progress before.

So while I agree this is basically an issue of bad customer service, it is at the most egregious level. If your mortgage company started foreclosing on your home incorrectly, or the title company said "new phone who dis?" when you tried to sell your home, it wouldn't just be called "bad customer service". These are life altering issues.
And these companies just don't care. A little public shaming of the people walking into work of a company like that could do some good.
Maybe we're just heading toward single motherhood with fewer but more prolific fathers which I think happened before. As a man without children relying on government assistance, the real issue is this arrangement these days tends to rely on welfare and therefore higher taxes for me who has no stake in it.
I'm working on this right now for two different experiences, topic-oriented chat (Discord, etc) and media blogging (Instagram, YouTube) using a distributed graph database + cryptographic primitives, and user-hosted data.

Happy to connect with you or anyone else reading this and trade ideas / give updates, email in bio.
DeepMind has a website highlighting some of the applications of AlphaFold (https://unfolded.deepmind.com), and apparently it has improved at least some lines of research.
One of the guesses in the article was less pollution to form smog eith. That feels right to me.
Welcome to the serverless era: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
> I think the author is making a fundamental confusion between maths as a class taken in school or uni, and maths as an intellectual discipline. The class is dogmatic and over structured, but that's due to administration pressures, not because mathematics teachers aren't aware of the issue. The discipline, while still adhering to structure, allows for reframing the problem and always has.

I think the author is not making that confusion, but rather trying to help remedy that confusion on the part of a student in a school or university class who hasn't had anyone to spell out this fact (that every mathematician knows—but not every non-mathematician!).
YouTube won’t do this. They’re only trying doing it. For fun.
Pretty disruptive to try out big changes on a whim though such as different jobs or living location, and those kinds of changes are the ones I would think are most likely to have a large effect on happiness level.
27% of internet users use adblock, but in certain youtube related audiences like tech it's probably above 80%.
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I made a web app that shows twilight times: https://sunclock.net

Also shows sunrise and sunset times, and moon position and phase.
I'm 6'1" - it's not some magic ticket.
I think it's worth repeating: at this point, MFA that is not based on Webauthn (https://webauthn.guide/#about-webauthn) should be considered dangerously insecure. Uber almost certainly enforces MFA for remote access; I strongly suspect we'll end up hearing that it was successfully provided during the authentication step (update: screenshots on Twitter appear to confirm this). As we saw in the case of the 0ktapus campaign, a sufficiently-skilled attacker will simply proxy the MFA calls to the real identity provider in real-time, the user none the wiser.

Webauthn, however, binds the authenticator to the domain and port, and requires https as the scheme. If a user gets phished, they cannot be compromised: the phisher's domain will not match and any Webauthn authentication challenge would fail.

So if your workplace is letting you authenticate with SMS codes, push notifications to an app, or 6-digit codes generated by an authenticator app/hardware device, you need to start banging on pots and pans up your reporting chain to get your security team the support they need to make Webauthn + FIDO2 hardware tokens or Webauthn + Mac Touch ID happen.
My friend had an Newton and I was in awe. It made Palm look like a pocket calculator.

Got killed when Jobs left out of spite.

But that was back when Apple could make very simple hardware do amazing things.

NeXT was mind blowing when you look back. All of that just turned into OSX, iOS, etc. Don’t know that my computer is really any more empowering now. I still mostly just use a browser, mail client, and terminal.