skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently looking into the science of porn and its effects. I think there is much to be desired. It is so tangled with religious morals, and what few studies exist beg the cliche "correlation does not prove causation".

Pornography also has many definitions and covers a wide range of media. It's awkward to talk about and people avoid being specific which furthers confusion. I imagine at least some disagreements arise because one party is thinking of ASMR when they hear the word "porn", and another is thinking of violent rape videos (acted out by consenting adults, hopefully!), two very different things.

The only thing I'm personally certain about is partners should be honest about their values and behaviors, preferably early in the relationship.
This is pretty much true at all colleges and universities today, not only private institutions like MIT, though the campus and administration buildings seem to be fully open during business hours. Years ago things were more open, up until the late 1990's even dorms were open at all hours, but then 9/11 happened and everyone got scared and paranoid, and there have been a lot of mass shootings at schools, then COVID, so it isn't all that shocking. If you had or have children at university, do you really want an open door policy with non-students allowed to go where they want on campus at any time without appointments or permission and unescorted? It's really a different world, and I think the most prudent position to have is not to expect and you won't be disappointed.
between Covid and the rise in shootings it makes a lot of sense
Unreal4 at least has been able to do it for quite a long time[1].

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing...

That said, nobody really releases games that way and nobody plays them that way.
Not everything needs to be a web app.
In France, the schools, universities and pretty much any other establishment are closed to the public. After around 7pm, the doors are actually physically chained. So it’s difficult to get in or out even if you are a university staff, student or professor. In business hours, if you are a member of the university, you must present ID and pass through security or welcome desk (a bit like in companies). The irony is that these are publicly funded institutions!

Grocery stores also have multiple security patrolling the store. Funny, sometimes the security has to lock your bag with some tools when you get in, and cut it off (or search it) when you get out!

I wonder if it’s like that in any other country?
That doesn’t make for a compelling buy signal. In principle, you should buy a stock because you believe you will be repaid in dividends over time. If the ship is sinking, even slowly, those dividends are not terribly appealing.
It’s good UX - presumably most users want to turn off WiFi/bluetooth temporarily when using these buttons and this saves you from forgetting to turn it back on. I was delighted when they changed.

I agree it’d be nice to have a choice for how it works on your device, but current behavior would still be a good default.
Before this could any random person just walk into any MIT building? To me that is the weird part, not the fact that they are now restricting it. My (public) university enforced ID badge access on all doors like 20 years ago. And that was in a college town with next to no security problems, not the middle of a dense city like MIT.
I like this. coffee is something like a hobby and a shared experience and can pull together even really different people.

But if you know someone who is into a very technical hobby, it might be hard to give them a gift, or have a lengthy conversation.

I knew a friend who was really into ranch dressing. Every time we went to eat, we knew what he would order, or could help him order. silly thing that enhanced the relationship.

maybe we should all come up with hobbies or interests like this, to help break the ice with others and make ourselves more approachable.
> I think the single biggest vulnerability of the constitution, which they had no chance of predicting, is mass media and the way it changed the dynamics of politics.

I think these men were more aware of it than possibly anytime in history. One of the biggest reasons that the US was able to become independent was because of the ability of people to spread their ideas through the mass media of newspaper that had recently become something that pretty much anyone could get access to. Or would you argue men who saw the power of the word with Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" or made their arguments to the people through the nationally published "Federalist Papers" really were unaware of the power available when people could freely communicate ideas.

To pretend that mass media is a new phenomenon is to ignore that there have always been massive changes and shifts in society as media has evolved from the printing press to the radio each one marked a period of turbulence, and each time we have adapted and moved forward. To pretend that we are uniquely privileged in all of history as inherently understanding more than our forefathers merely because we can do it faster, is in my mind, the height of arrogance.

No person thinks they are the intellectual superior of Newton at physics just because we have relativity, I don't know many who would argue they'd surpass Turing as a Computer Scientist just because we have structured languages, I think we could assume that there is at least some wisdom in those who revolutionized (no pun intended) their field?
> Helix cursor is bad and they refuse to fix it

What? Our cursor matches the default vim one (always 1-width, always bar). If you want to change cursor shapes, there's a config option too https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#change-cursor...
Yes, that's because the relevant law was repealed last year. The Silver Line was actually the impetus to finally end the policy.

However, transit infrastructure is locked in once, built, so almost every other transit system in the country has this issue, because it was built before 2021.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3v5j3/us-airports-no-longer...
> This is exceedingly interesting to me because you'd expect Compare to cost more than < (it does more stuff), and yet people are somehow baited into writing it.

I would expect it to be the same within a couple nanoseconds, because "more stuff" is an extremely small amount of stuff.

The naive direct implementation of a 3 way compare does the exact same comparisons as a direct implementation of less than, it merely returns more information, which makes it more generally useful.
Electing them by popular vote is "direct election". It is true that many countries do that:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democ...

However, many countries also do not do it -- and many countries elect a "president" who does not directly control the executive branch, while indirectly electing a "prime minister" or "chancellor" with such control (as in Austria or France).

In many cases, the prime minister is appointed by the president, and in some cases, they could theoretically appoint almost any adult citizen they want; but in practice, they have to elect someone that the legislature is going to accept and work with; and in many cases, the legislature can bring about a vote of no confidence and cause the government to fall.

There are a lot of details here and it seems like a matrix of four to ten columns might be needed to meaningfully get even a bird's eye view.
Like Newgrounds and Minijuegos at the Hispanic/Spanish speaker world? I mean, 15 years ago people already did that.
It is right there in the second link:

> (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory
I have a gift for you.
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fd4dc91a96518fdbb47781f9...

I interpret this as replacing a strange but more optimal call to the runtime with a straight forward but less fast stdlib implementation. rsc's comment seems more like a todo note than and ideological stance (to me at least). Something like: "I removed this weird fast way to do this that was breaking stuff b/c of linker things and replaced it with some straightforward code that's slower. If we want this to be more optimal in the future we can fix it at the compiler level.". But I'm just reading into it. Someone should ask him and tell him to explain himself :) It's been 8 years. What have you been doing?
Google did a lot to grow YouTube and still has a video tab in Google search that is equivalent to Google videos.
Smells like oil industry astroturfing
Government != NSA
It's not mine, and I'm not certain of the origin, but I think I saw the words "musicians" and "theater" in the Google preview when I checked the wording.

I've only seen it a handful of times in the wild - notably, a flight school wall - and every so often to close out blog entries on High-Speed, Low-Drag™ topics in (i.e.) aviation, search and rescue, emergency medicine, etc.

There's a few clever "practice" ones too that I can't seem to recall, other than: "Oops, guess that's why they call it practicing medicine!"
This is really sad to me.

Part of the MIT experience was living and studying in the middle of a giant tourist attraction. I have classmates who were literally asked to be in pictures just because they were MIT students.

Since graduating, every time I visit I just walk around campus for an hour or so, strolling the halls. There are experiments, posters, and demos lining the walls. It's truly the densest area of knowledge I've ever seen.
Nictone has been known to cause nootropic effects, yet it results in long term damage and dependence. Considering the gaming industry is big money (just like big tobacco, big weed, big sugar, and big infinite scroll), I would take any study like this with a boulder of salt.

Video games might improve cognitive abilities, but they also cheat the reward centers of your brain and offer the feeling of success while achieving none.

A Stanford professor was teaching a seminar on engagement (engagement is a euphemism for addiction). He has a pretty choice quote: "You will play my game thinking you're getting better and better, but you will just be playing longer and longer."

Games can be a force for good, but the average game company is not optimizing for cognitive performance, they are optimizing for engagement (or loot boxes), the lack of alignment coupled with capitalist investment into games seems hazardous to the positive qualities they can have.
I don't know about that. I used to play a lot of point-and-click adventure games as a kid. I think those developed my problem-solving skills. It was certainly a better use of my time than watching cartoons.
Another reply by me, the best racing I have played are Need for Shift 1 and 2. With velocity based motion blur and an incredible camera.
One of the joys of the last 50 years of biology is learning how evolutionary relationships we long took for granted need revision.

First it was confirmation about Margulis’ endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Then the discovery and classification of archaea. Now it’s upending our understanding of fungal phylogenetics! For people interested in biology, it’s a wonderful time! (Well except for massive species die-off, loss of biodiversity, destruction of ecosystems, etc…)
A fear of mine is that competitive gaming will usher in a new fascism based on "rank" -- sort of as you're displaying here.

I was in master league when I played Starcraft competitively, so I don't discount the real lessons you can learn from intense focus towards a clear goal, and the acceleration provided by competitive arena.

But there are plenty of people who cheat or buy their way toward "success" in games, because they are chasing the "status" they get from a silly little virtual badge. I know a handful of these folks in real life. They have many other problems, but are very "successful." I know a World of Warcraft Gladiator (rank 1 arena champion for a season) who botted honor at the expense of other players (in-game currency to attain higher quality gear) and in real life juiced his company's image by purchasing online accounts and controlling conversation in forums. I've shared a meal with a current professional gamer who nonchalantly engages in crypto fraud.

Winning is absolutely not everything. Some of the greatest things we can attain in this life will require mass cooperation of humans, and those experiences require dedicated folks with faith in humanity--people who aren't always looking for every crack in the law to screw over their fellow man to get rank 1.

I've seen lots of heartwarming content on TikTok, and left most Counter-Strike and Call of Duty lobbies feeling very dispirited.
The comment is confusing, but the idea seems to be that instead of calling this function, you should inline the code - that is, just write the comparisons yourself. You don't need a function call.

I guess this is for stylistic reasons, but I don't know why anyone would feel strongly about doing it one way or the other.
My 5 year old makes redstone machines. His ability to navigate a minecraft world is ridiculously good. When I was 5 I was desperately trying to get over the first pit in Super Mario Bros.
Spare me, what a pathetic insipid comment about something in every household, used by every age group and sells 7 of them every second. It’s such a silly comment I almost want to flag it.
> If our government was elected based on a "one person one vote" principle, Republicans would be nearly guaranteed to lose the presidency and Congress.

Not at all. Republicans have won the Congressional popular vote more times than democrats since 1992, and are about to win it again. There has only been one election since 1992 where Republicans won more House seats while losing the Congressional popular vote. They’re 2% ahead in the generic Congressional ballot right now. You can’t blame that on gerrymandering or whatever.

Republicans consistently lose the Presidential popular vote because their incentive is to run the most right-wing person who can win the vote that actually counts, the Electoral College vote. For Congress, republicans have to contest at least some seats in New York and California. But for the Presidency they don’t care if a single person in those states votes for them.

If we used a nationwide popular vote, the GOP would just run someone closer to the median of their House delegation, which consistently does win the popular vote.

To get an idea of what things might look like in a counter-factual world, look at this three-way poll in a Cheney/Trump/Biden matchup: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-premise-poll-li.... Biden would get 36%, Cheney 20%, and Trump 45%. Shifting to a popular vote would move the coalitions around a bit: Republicans would have to care a little more about holding onto Romney/Biden suburbs. But it doesn’t mean consistent democratic majorities.
You're probably referring to this amusing read:
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html
They have a museum and stuff, used to be open to public (paid entry?, can't remember). Is that still available?
Pretty funny/sad that the one of maybe 2 truly redeeming qualities of overpriced tertiery education is getting gutted before student loan freebies are passed.

Good luck maintaining an open academic culture if no one can just hang out in office hours.

US is doomed, frfr no cap
If you care about privacy, you should disable Siri and Dictation and blacklist guzzoni.apple.com.
I've never seen anything but 10^9 used for billions in the modern era, although it is in some >100 y.o. text books. Have you seen 10^12 in the wild lately?
Yeah, this behavior sounds a bit anti-user to me. The action pretty much boils down to,

"Oh, you disabled Bluetooth and left it that way? Well, we know better so we're going to turn it back on without your knowledge or approval. You're welcome."

I don't buy the convenience excuse either otherwise the behavior could be disabled if desired.
To me the first step to fix this is understanding why anyone would want to amend it?

It seems like it was set up to be pretty bare bones, to resolve international and interstate disputes.

Today it looks like the federal government spends more in each state than the states do on themselves. This means that people in Texas (as a whole) have more say over spending in New York than people in New York do.

This makes it impossible for new states to enter the union, and you end up with spending policy in every state close to the median national voter, which makes everyone unhappy.

I think you should revoke incoropration and let each states constitution reign supreme as was originally intended.

California wants legal marijuana but the (badly interpreted) commerce clause makes this technically illegal.

NYC wants appropriate gun laws set by its residents, but due to 2A, it can't.

Revoke 14A and the temperature of the federal government will cool down.
Personally I think Vim has been an IDE for at least 10-15 years now. You could argue for a long time about the exact definitions of "IDE" and "editor", but Vim can do compile-cycle, completion, finding identifiers, file browsing, spelling checking, terminal window, debugger, scripting, and a bunch of other stuff out of the box, without plugins.

It certainly does these things different than your average IDE. Again, you could argue for a long time about what is or isn't an "IDE", but merely "editor" really does injustice to some of the more advanced features in Vim because it can do so much more than just "edit text", and "IDE" certainly seems a lot better of a fit than "editor".
No, Human Revolution.
Speak for yourself. I want solid VR and AR and everything past that. Why wouldn’t you?
How do you reckon that? Back of the envelope, their profit in your scenario should be about (revenue - COGS) / 2 - (fixed costs - fixed cost of reality labs)

Their revenue was $27.5B with COGS $5.7B vs. fixed costs of $16.3B. The cost of reality labs was $3.8B, let's assume for simplicity that it was all fixed costs. Plug those numbers into the formula, and it'd be a $2.5B loss. If their revenue was cut in half, they'd need to slim down massively in the non-RL segments to even break even, let alone be more profitable than now.
This is wonderful -- only thing missing is a bookmarks tile!

Edit: Just saw the readme, maybe I should attempt to add my own!
Zerodium would happily buy this for probably $50k minimum.
Huh, didn’t realise there was a road sign for it. Wonder who installed and maintains it.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia#Anomalies.
Absolute net profit means nothing without relating it to valuation.

$14B is not that significant for a trillion dollar company. It's all relative.

Google may be fair value or may not, but ignoring proper approaches to valuation is a good way to lose your money... as many younger investors are starting to learn.
I took a few core CS classes throughout university in the late 90s/early 2000s - database design (Oracle), general programming (C++, Java), unix (Solaris) that were foundational. But for the most part, I focused on building domain expertise. Writing software was just another tool in my toolkit. Most of what I discovered was through pragmatic application, just-in-time learning.

20 years later and all I do is write software. If I could start over, I'd spend a few years on the fundamentals. Learning programming for the sake of programming. Understand how computers actually work, detached from my work goals.
Yeah. To me, I just think it's weird to ask for two pieces of information and then throw one of them away. Sometimes it's not a performance hit, but I feel like it's one of those things where you should get a feeling "I might be doing this wrong". But if you don't know that < exists (and obviously searched for strings.Less), then you won't get that feeling. That's what I find so fascinating; if other people's feelings are similar to mine, then they simply didn't know that you were allowed to use < here.
I used Emacs from 2010-2012 just to know what I was missing. I liked using it and tinkering with it, but when it came to being productive, all of the tooling felt out of date and hard to use in comparison to Vim.

I said then that if someone would make a text editor and IDE that used JavaScript from the ground up instead of elisp, that it would dominate, and that's what seems to have happened with VS Code.
> so the documentation is trying to talk them out of...

What documentation though? There's an internal comment but it's not documentation and it's not really arguing against the use of this type of comparison (just against use of the implemented function).

If the documentation for this function went on along the lines of "we discourage the use of 3 way compares as we consider it an antipattern, do X instead, there's literally no reason to ever use 3 way compares, we know it, here's why..." maybe, but it doesn't.

Now, maybe 3 way comparison is not common but it is a distinct operation with known optimization opportunities. I wouldn't readily claim that the operation is not needed by anyone.
My new 2023 BMW M340i also has lane change, lane keeping, radar/adaptive based cruise control and under 70kmh on the highway in traffic you don't even need to touch the steering wheel.

The bmw system costs $2k Canadian.

https://youtu.be/7M-J3JydpPA

A comparison between Tesla self driving and bmw, bmw seems superior.

Tesla has spent so much time focused on going to level 5 that other manufacturers had plenty of time to catch up.
Lovely work, but Jesus Christ, if I put Reddit and HN on my home tab I would never get anything done.
I thought they were running VxWorks under the hood? Or is that SpaceX?
The framers of the constitution did not intend for presidential election by popular vote.

The intention was for state legislatures to nominate electors who would then vote for president.

It wasn't until mid 1800's that states started elections (of electors) by popular vote. Note: still through an elector proxy.

Also this is not a government run by popular vote, it is a mixture of state and population based government and also representation democracy not direct democracy.

In The Federalist Papers, James Madison explained his views on the selection of the president and the Constitution. In Federalist No. 39, Madison argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based and population-based government. Congress would have two houses: the state-based Senate and the population-based House of Representatives. Meanwhile, the president would be elected by a mixture of the two modes.

The fact that people feel that states shouldn't have equal say and equal power is to me a huge breakdown of society.

Having California run the entire country would be a nightmare.
> I buy them a nice bag of beans as a souvenir.

Buy them good beans, tho! Otherwise they will just be used to season their new grinder burrs.

If someone is into coffee, they will want great specialty beans. There are a lot of awesome specialty shops, but rare you will see them at the supermarket.
I can follow it just fine, but that doesn't mean it isn't rambling.
I recommend restoring your backup as a test. Restoring a blank tape often doesn't do anything. And if it does do something, it's probably not what you want.
Its more of a focus thing for me. Its easier to get into the zone when I'm in a terminal with no mouse and all the GUI noise stripped away.

I'm sure I'm missing out on quality of life enhancements and whatnot, but really all of those are lower on my hierarchy of needs than staying on task.
I do the exact opposite.

Buying a gift for an expert when you are not an expert is always going to lead to disappointment, no matter how well they hide it.

I buy gifts only from areas that I am an expert in, and I hope my friends may not be as enthusiastic about the area as I am, but at least we both know I got them the best for them.
Or people just don't trade with California and California doesn't have any pork.