skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Organic foods still use pesticides, sometimes even chemically identical ones to non organic, just sourced via allowed methods.
That's why I cited a source that explicitly said there was a predictive relationship found. Please read my entire post?
Its the same with obesity, which has been sharply increasing in much of the world since the 1970s, but pretty much all the conventional explanations (increased availability, excess sugar, excess carbs, excess fat, decreased physical activity, etc.) don't seem to stand up to scrutiny.

Hypothesis: the cause in both cases is likely industrial contaminants considered essential to the running of modern civilization, so nobody wants to, or is encouraged not to, look too hard.
> to get testosterone to normal level
> In other words not much to do

Isn't this contradicting? What were your test/free-test levels?
Can't find that reference in the article. Are you sure you got that right?
Has masturbation notably increased over the years?

Of course the availability of pornographic material has increased, but previous generations seemed to do fine with sears catalogues so I'm not sure that is a big factor.
I would be massively in favour of adding a QR Code that details as much as possible (without giving away trade secrets if that is possible) where and how something is sourced and then adding how it was processed. Much like you get a track and trace with a package.
The PC game market is a nothingburger compared to console.

So the same people who aren’t willing to walk away from ios with 50% market share are going to suggest walking away from all consoles which combined have a much larger than 50% market share in the games market?

People have been complaining for years that Apple is holding the PWA market back. Where are all of the companies that are releasing iOS + web only and telling Android users to use the web app?
From the Rational Wiki[0]:

"Just asking questions (also known as JAQing off) is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements. It shifts the burden of proof to one's opponent; rather than laboriously having to prove that all politicians are reptoid scum, one can pull out one single odd piece of evidence and force the opponent to explain why the evidence is wrong."

I think it's about this.

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35778273/
...doesn't that mean that those ("abnormal" ones) are the normal ones and the "normal" ones are the abnormal ones?
"So anything that would allow the US CLOUD act to access a EU customer's data is a GDPR violation"

Which is essentially the argument and is a huge legal grey area right now.

Similar situation here:

The EU’s data protection supervisor (EDPS), which oversees the bloc’s own institutions’ GDPR compliance, has been looking into the European Commission’s use of Microsoft Office 365 since May last year — as well as probing EU bodies’ use of Amazon’s cloud services.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) also kicked off a related coordinated enforcement action in February that it said would focus on the public sector’s use of cloud services — which it said would take about a year to report, with the aim for the action to harmonize regulatory interventions in this area.[0]

As you can see, nothing has happened yet and this is all still evolving. It seems pretty clear that the EU is using GDPR as a political wedge to drive business back to their countries (despite company's in those countries clearly having a desire to continue to use those products and services). Again, it's not as black and white as you are making it out to be - it's still be fought.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/microsoft-365-faces-darken...
When it comes to issues that affect one of the genders, the structure of academia tends to basically ignore things unique to men. I think this is because every University researcher has a brigade of gender activists who only care about female issues ready to raise hell.

The delta between likelihood of attending college between males and females is higher now than it was before title IX was enforced. It's simply shifted in the other direction where females are far more likely to go to university than males.

Males are far less likely to graduate high school. They are far more likely to commit suicide and use drugs.

Nobody cares. There are tons of programs like "girls code" but nobody bothers to volunteer for programs like "boys graduate".

I have both a son and a daughter and it's obvious which one the school system is designed to cater to versus the one who is essentially flawed by design.

Our society and academia are fixated on inequalities amongst the top top tier of high status humans. As if the fact that a disproportionate number of Fortune 500 CEOs are males means anything to the 99.999% of males who will never be remotely that status.

It's just very odd that we have decided to divide humans into categories we care about based on identity.
Was that before you learned to stand up for yourself, then? Or wasn't it bullying?
In Brazil, Mending an Urban Fabric with Geometry and Bamboo
Mentioned in a top level comment, but higher bodyfat levels have been proven to correlate with lower testosterone levels.

May explain a large portion of this shift. I wonder if they normalized for bodyweight in this study
Get tested and find a course of action that aligns to your goals. An endocrinologist, or urologist with specialization in male infertility are critical in the context of the original post (male-factor infertility.) Many TRT regimens are not helpful for achieving healthy sperm and can impose significant recovery times.
The headline intentionally makes it sound like you'll be fined if you skip adverts, rather than a two-tier service being offered.
I never believe in natural lang to tell computer to do things with an objective of getting certain result (been skeptical since pre-2011).

It wouldn't be used to fly plane without lots of physical buttons as a fallback.

Composing rigid instructions for computer is already hard, even with precise semantics defined. Even with static typed, dynamic typed, developers will try hard to get rid of a single bug.

AI will serve as a middleware with an objective of arbitrary result.

Human
|> UI (request)
|> AI
|> UI (response)
|> Human
|> UI (request with heuristic)
|> Computer does thing
When you've seen women's issues get tons of attention and funding for decades and any attempts to do the same for similar men's issues get ignored at best, you can get kind of bitter. This image kind of encapsulates the entire dynamic for me:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeE3J_jXoAABWXi.jpg
Always happy to see Schultes mentioned.

I think it was Wade Davis that said if you were ever to find yourself lost amongst any Amazonian tribe that you could say Schultes' name and there was a high chance it would be recognised due to the number of cultures he contacted.

Embrace of the Serpent is a great film based around some of his exploits.
In Search of Exploration Games
Yeah it is a true thing but the nuance is it is a very short lived increase which has none of the effects people imagine it will have.
Thanks for these suggestions, bought the books & signed up for the course!
The role of the retinal scans, I expect, has more to do with identifying which human is in the headset. In the metaverse, biometrics of that sort will be like cookies that you can't clear.
I always wanted to have a family but I'm straight up too mentally ill to. And I reckon any woman that I'd lock down would be more mentally ill than me. I really think we're in a weird transitory period that child bearing is going to look a lot different in the next 10 years, seeing the age of marriage in the west is almost 30 for women, where > 35 is considered a geriatric pregnancy. There's going to have to be solutions if we want healthy offspring.
macOS Monterey still vulnerable to CVE-2022-40303
I'm not impressed by the fainting couch "oh, that authoritarian Vktor Orban" polemics for the same reason I find US political discourse obtuse and genuinely hateful. There is a consistent refusal (and inability) to engage with the topic intellectually and a tendency to dwell in emotionalism. It's intellectually shallow and lazy. Orban must be understood in the broader cultural and political context. Fixating on Orban is a way to ignore the problem, a convenient way to scapegoat someone for all the things you don't like, good or bad. Projection abounds. If Orban never was, someone else would take his place.

The political rifts today are not merely over policy, but over basic ethical matters and norms. Scapegoating is just a way to avoid having to deal with your real problems by projecting onto someone often superhuman causal powers that would explain why things aren't the way you'd like them to be. Conspiracy theorists do the same thing.
Flagging the submission for just this reason -- it's spam-bait over a pretty dull announcement of a "with ads" tier being launched
Lots of good points here. I'll try my best to address them. But you are right, There aren't really complete answers to each of these problems.

Regarding #1, it's good to point out that spectre is still an ongoing problem. wasmtime, the runtime we use, has mitigations for spectre but things will likely come up. I think we need more time and tools to work on things like detecting attacks and mitigating future problems. Fortunately there are some big companies working on it. Our team cannot solve that problem.

Regarding #2, sandboxing here refers to the memory access model and fault isolation. For each capability you give the plugin you may introduce risk. We don't claim to address this problem but I think education and mitigation are good goals for us.

Regarding #3, I think there has been some good progress here. I have an experimental C# plugin PDK and a JS one based on quickjs. We also support Haskell. I think there will be improvement here. And regarding the ABI comment, there are going to be layers on top of this to make it more ergonomic.
I don't see why 9+8+9+8+9+8 wouldn't work for 51, or 7+6+7+6+7+6+7+6 for 52.
> When Serge Egelman came up with a plausible defence

I honestly feel like his explanation is likely, but she was in complete denial knowing how she's effectively left holding the bag.

Is she and the company now in a better place having everything revoked but still standing by her assertions? or would it have been better accepting the possibility of what happened and instead tried to work with everyone involved?

Serge was giving her rope to pull herself out of this hole and she just seemed to want to wrap it around her own neck instead...
These are countries with much higher mortality rates already because many of their health systems are not even close to as well-funded and available as a European one. So, many fewer cancer screenings to go to. And more deaths already from other ailmants.

Also, largely these countries are much hotter and more aerated / outdoors places. So, comparisons are not particularly helpful.
utf-8 has an elegance that utf-16 lacks:

utf-8 decode
switch (std::countl_one(unit)) {
case 0:
/* one unit */
break;
case 2:
/* two units */
break;
case 3:
/* three units */
break;
case 4:
/* four units */
break;
default:
/* not code point boundary */
break;
}
Assuming Twitter pays list prices for S3 storage costs is laughable. I've seen the kind of discounts companies a tiny fraction of their size can get.
The abstract Apple apologist using the existence of a law as a justification in your comment disagrees...
This is true but the rendering engine has done the heavy lifting to map calls to the gpu correctly.

More build info here:
https://ebitengine.org/en/documents/webassembly.html
I read an interesting study on this. It showed that obesity rates were lower in places like Colorado, and theorized that the reason was that they were at the headwaters of their water source, so there was less opportunity for contaminants to enter their water.
10/10 for making this freely available
With sustainability and sweat shops, the trade off is making things a lot more expensive, so the offloading is more that most people don't care.
Tsmc is being subsidized. The plant is not a profitable operation by itself. America is not back.

Patriotism is blindness. If you hold no loyalties to even the country you are born in it's easier to see the truth.
Can't break the addiction if you get lots of upvotes... EOT
You could start by looking into either multitask transformers or really general seq2seq models like T5. With T5, for example, it just learns to transform one text sequence into another. So you could fine-tune T5 to produce your target sequence, but rather than outputting an explicit Python list of tuples, it would output a string that looks like a sequence of tuples.

Or maybe skip all that and outsource it to GPT:
https://imgur.com/a/BQv6C3K
A better comparison is:

fn foo_arr(v: &[u8; 5]) -> u8 {
v[2]
}

fn foo_vec(v: &Vec<u8>) -> u8 {
v[2]
}

In the foo_arr case, the index lookup can be optimized out. In the foo_vec case, it can't be, because theoretically you might pass something with only 2 elements or less to foo_vec, and access to the third element will fail.

Same goes for e.g. the slice::windows vs slice::array_windows functions. In windows, you get a slice in the closure, and while the size is guaranteed by the implementation, without there being inlining the optimizer doesn't know about this guarantee. With array_windows, this size guarantee is communicated.
> 3. WASM is mostly meant for low level languages

I've been saying it for years, but I think finally 2023 has the chance of being the year in which Wasm GC ships and managed languages start targeting Wasm more widely. We've made a lot of progress with the design, and V8 has a basically complete implementation. Google is targeting some internal apps to Wasm GC and seeing perf improvements over compile-to-JS, so I think this will likely be a success.
The game would never end, then. The win condition is challenging when a move is the best move. It’s similar to games of deception. You WANT the person to think you made the best move without actually making it, because if they challenge and are wrong, you win.
Even if you assume the rest of the numbers are right, nobody in their right mind at that scale pay list prices.
It probably happened. So what? I mean, are we kindergarden children to assume no foreign powers work at continuously in any country? Helloo, Russia was just next to Ukraine and did a shitton of stuff, up to and including whatever it did to ignite Euromaidan.

You can either ignore one side and point to the other (which is like... no comment). Or go into absurdism and say there is no real internal agency in any country and everything is a conspiracy theory. Or just look at things and use a bit of common sense, compare Eastern and Western influences in Ukraine and never ever again mention that particular anecdote, because in context it's absolutely ridiculous.
> Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.

Absolutely not. This inverts the meaning of freedom of speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

First sentence. Your definition jumped out to me because that is a position of pretty one-sided ideologues.

You are free to protest, but not free to "cancel" people. Precision here is very important.
It is really weird the original study decided to categorize it this way. Especially because there are potentially drastic environmental differences between say the US and Australia. Same goes for the "Other" category. How are China and Brazil similar?
EFF Takes a Stance: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots
Young, productive workers and consumers will exist somewhere globally, it’s a matter of capturing some of that productivity as investment return. If it all goes to hell, sure, the rows in a database are going to mean very little and you’re going to fallback to fuel, food, and firearms until the end (unlikely).
I notice it mentions Ctrl-a and Ctrl-x which "increment or decrement any number after the cursor on the same line". I hate these shortcuts because several times I've accidentally pressed them (e.g. on some level thinking I'm in Spacemacs or in readline) and introduced a hard-to-find bug into my code without knowing it.
> Twitter ran ALL its infra for $1.7B in 2021. It made $5B in revenue that years, and was profitable with gross profit margin of 20+%.

I don’t know that it makes sense to say a company is profitable when they make a net loss, regardless of gross profit. In 2021 Twitter made a net loss of over $220 million.
Not really, vasectomies are a 15-minute out-patient procedure these days. No one who doesn't want kids should be relying on this.
I run NixOS, but I'm relatively new to Nix. A couple weeks ago I was trying to get an old vanity key generator to build because it wasn't on nixpkgs (vanitygen++) and on a lark I decided to write my own derivation using some examples of similar C++ packages I found and figuring out what nix packages it needed to build. So I did, and the maintainer accepted the PR: https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus/commit/7bcee06f3... Note that I am not a C++ developer and only know the basics about how to get C/C++ things to build.

So what does this get us? In theory, this is now trivially-buildable on any distro that has nix installed, or on nixos. I haven't converted it to a flake yet (still learning that) but if I (or someone else) did, it would be deterministically reproducible anywhere on nix.

I agree that there's a learning curve on figuring out the "recipe" for a thing, but once someone does that work, it's basically done forever. Which is a promise that no other system can even approach.

And once you figure out a certain amount of it, this moment will come where you realize you want every system you deal with to be Nixified. Like the guy elsewhere in this thread who rebuilt his own router using NixOS and loves it.

Getting new developers up to speed in your shop's dev environment? Completely trivial to do with Nix. Getting a machine back up after a failure? Reinstall NixOS and reapply the config you were using (which is in source control). Upgraded Gnome and some things you need broke? Or updated your GPU driver and now your screen just shows black? Simple... Roll back in the bootloader to a previously-working config, then undo your changes to the config definition.

Have 10 different projects all with different dependencies and version requirements that would normally collide with each other? Trivial, each project has its own default.nix file and Nix can drop you right into that environment while you're working on those projects.

NixOS (and very honorable mention to Guix) are in fact the only ways to run Linux while keeping your sanity intact!
> I get reliably downvoted for suggesting this, but we need vastly better labelling across the board

These companies shouldn't be able to use these ingredients in the first place, labels or not. It's not our job to read lists of 30+ ingredients and their wikipedia entries to know if we're at risk or not
My bet is on the microplastics that have been found everywhere, from the arctic snow[1] down to the placenta of unborn babies[2]. They are known to be endocrine disruptors, however they only got their media spotlight (as far as I am aware) in the last ~4 years. Thus we're far away from being able to fully understand their effects on the human body.

Fun part is that I have some crazy (non-scietifically backed) theories that they are the cause of behavioral changes in humans which became more prominent in our society in the last 10-20 years. Unfortunately this is unresearched territory, as the only important article I came across were related to animals thus far [3][4]

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/micropla...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32629346/

[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31673028/
That's why folk should read articles instead of trying to understand a nuanced subject that has been condensed to a single sentence. I don't know why people continue to remain shockedpikachu.jpg at the fact that headlines are supposed to grab your attention, and that the onus is on you to read further for clarification.
Obligatory reference post to Fischer Random Chess (aka Chess960). A variant designed to "make gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their skill and creativity over the board." A combination of Human Chess and Chess960 might be interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess#Praising_...
I can't remember the last time I talked to a gay man who wasn't on PrEP. It's arguable that in reasonably responsible circles, HIV these days poses little-to-no risk, even among sexually promiscuous people. And most other common STDs are completely curable. The big exception is herpes, the spread of which is not prevented by condoms.
That's what I gathered. The report had a set of different potential abnormalities , by intersecting them all the number gets kind of low. Here's a photo of the report if you're curious https://imgur.com/a/LtG2KVb
This has been my exact experience too. Wife and I...no trouble conceiving.

Friends in late 20's to early 30's have had a lot of trouble conceiving, i.e. they needed to do IVF.

Not sure what's going on with that, and this is purely anecdotal, but I've been hearing people having troubles having kids a lot it seems.
Normally iirc oauth will just transport the token in a browser redirect to the allowed domain that linked to the login page. evil.com will not be allowed, or if it is the token will end up scoped to evil.com.
Who cares about hiding trade secrets if those trade secrets are "just a pinch of mercury" or some other nefarious chemical.
Published yesterday:

EU seeks to freeze €13bn in funding to Hungary over corruption fears

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/brussels-seeki...
better phrasing: while trying to conceive our daughter :)
Theoretically but it’s a weak fiat currency with high overhead and no intrinsic value, and it’s risky for anyone to use if they are not complying with local law. There are very few cases where someone’s best option is to pay more to use bitcoin despite the drawbacks.
Is exposure to plastics a risk factor? I might be handling a lot of library books and those books are often wrapped in polyurethane to help protect the covers. Over years, are there any health risks to that?

Example of the protective covers:

https://youtu.be/v-ZnoPHCtxI
The article is clear on the change; what you said is in the first couple sentences. You are misreading their terse writing style as them misunderstanding.
Dan Luu has several articles on latency that address these questions:

- https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

- https://danluu.com/term-latency/

- https://danluu.com/input-lag/