skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If some recent headlines about declining sperm counts are to be believed, it won't be too long before it doesn't actually matter (for social policy purposes) whether porn causes ED or not.
It's basically inevitable that children are going to exposed to some normative behaviour, particularly around gender. I think the important part is that we're not so quick to denounce and suppress any messaging that exposes children to the existence of behaviour outside of those gender norms, that's when it goes from just existing in a society where gender norms exist to maintaining and enforcing those gender norms.
> Mostly by soft power, which you can’t say no to. Which is the whole premise of the parent comment.

I think the point is that Twitter, a multibillion corporation run by rich, powerful, and well-connected people, isn’t in the same position w.r.t. the government as fledgeling starlets were against Weinstein.

Twitter could have said no, and they would have been fine; they are protected from the government by the Constitution. Twitter has tons of money, and could easily file a lawsuit or defend one as well.
> I know many families with kids, and only a small percentage seem unhappy, similar to most other life choices.

"Seem" is the keyword. People successfully hide suicidal depression from close friends and family, so I'm not sure why you think people can't hide mild unhappiness.
Indeed, but rare earth mining also has negative environmental impact even above and beyond normal mining operations. The US is partly paying China to outsource the environmental devastation.
Funny how you can freely call parents shells of their former selves or slaves to their children or whatever you find online. But soon as you express your opinion on people who chose not to have children you are suddenly a judgemental asshole.
Which is good because corporations aren't people. If company goes under its owner(s) arn't usually weeks away from being on the street.
This is great for the climate, for families, and for residential communities. I’ve commuted so much less and spent so much more time with my kids since remote work. And impromptu gatherings with neighbors seems to be up at least for us.
Killing animals needlessly aside, if you have to repeat experiments because you're sloppy, you're not moving at the correct speed as you'll have to double-run every trial you're doing.

Regardless how you feel about killing animals for humans, don't you want companies that can help people to actually move forward faster rather than slower?
In my experience real parents all lie about what having kids is like. You can see they are clearly worn out and depressed and in a fog but if you ask "OH KIDS ARE GREAT! REGRET NOTHING!"

Later I had kids and that did not change my opinion!
Large office towers just do not convert to residential very well. It can be done, it can be tolerated, it's just not a very good or competitive product, while also being very expensive to implement. One example, People walk a few blocks from the parking garage to their place of employment, but in most cities, people will not walk a few blocks from the parking garage to their home.

Adding insult to injury, office towers that have been constructed in the last 50 years are very expensive to maintain, mechanical systems are expensive and complicated, requires a full-time staff to run. They were built for utilization at very different price point.
USV were one of the biggest backers of coinbase
This vulnerability was very much overblown.

(1) capsicum prevents the attacker from doing anything but making malicious network requests

(2) this is just a stack overflow, for ACE the attacker needs to fit their payload in under 40 bytes
As the downvotes for your comment shows, it isn't acceptable to express dislike for having children. With this in mind we ought to take all positive things people say with a grain of salt, since a lot of those things will be said to get social points and many people avoid complaining since it isn't acceptable.

Its like in discussions about exercise, if you just read discussions online you'd think that everyone loves to exercise, but most people really hate it or at least don't like it.
Oh man, I can't wait. I got burned out with RimWorld recently (it's cool but it's not fun for me; I have been following and supporting the project since Early Access) and I've waited for accessible Dwarf Fortress for ages.

I enjoy ASCII games (Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead [1] is surprisingly easy to get into in ASCII mode), but the obtuse UI of Dwarf Fortress was a little too much effort to learn. I hope the Adams brothers get some well-earned financial stability with this incredible endeavour. They are some old-school software craftsmen, devoted to the art of excellent game design for the sake of it, money be damned.

And I can't wait for the next Kruggsmash [2] series, now with actual, beautiful sprites to pair with his beautiful drawings.

EDIT: Kruggsmash is currently streaming his first look at this new version! https://youtu.be/sByxI7UX5-g

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1: https://cataclysmdda.org/

2: https://youtube.com/@kruggsmash
>From a european perspective, GPT is right at the center of the political spectrum.

From a European perspective many talking points and political efforts of the Democratic party are certainly extremely left-wing. In fact, many of the European left-wing parties crudely import talking points on internal US issues, like for instance Black Lives Matter. Also, why would a "slightly rightwing party" push for anti-white CRT in schools, sex transitioning of children, abortions and mass immigration?
Yep. There is even an RFC for SMIME ACME, but I don’t think such CAs have CT at the moment. A email@domain system using something like SXG and the existing server PKI is probably a more tangible idea atm.
It's frightening that people "at the top" write those things without even realizing how it sounds for ordinary people.

I think this delusion is on par with Marie Antoinette and her "eat cakes if you don't have bread".
this is probably my inner uptopian leftist speaking but -
robots. And the fact that a large amount of the work doesn't actually need to get done.

So long we keep enough skilled tradesmen and farmers, which is not that many with increases in automation, we'll still have enough food, shelter and clothing. Being able to spread that work out amongst more people because bullshit jobs aren't a thing anymore will also probably help, as will changes in lifestyle that enable people to stay healthy longer.

We really don't need a new H&M collection every two weeks, or a new sport jersey every two seconds, or to keep making more and more cars/washing machines/TVs... most manufactured goods (including clothing) can last a while, especially in a world where planned obselence is no longer the norm. If population stabilizes, need for construction drops as well. Food/agriculture is already very automated, I'm sure we can continue to find 3% of the population to keep us fed.

I believe most of the work currently done on earth contributes very little to human happiness, and I hope/want to believe that as our ability to do work diminishes with an aging population, the useless stuff will be the first to go.

silly example, but with GPT-3/ChatGPT, we can now fire all the influencers and have them go toil as construction workers :P
Are you sure you want to encourage people to included automated "copy and paste" content into their everyday applications? ChatGPT and other large language models are literally just "autocomplete" on steroids. You can see this at work when you use the tool. Each word typed by the AI is simply the next most likely word statistically.

This is not rocket science nor even English, really, because people who speak English generally understand the content of the sentences they write. ChatGPT does not. It selects the words and phrases that are most likely to pass for a "real result," based on what you typed, and then parrots them back to you.

Now imagine that you've included such a capability in your text editor, blogging tool, whatever. If people use it as designed, it will merely repeat what others have written (nearly verbatim) and repeat parts of your prompt (in slightly different form) in a well-composed paragraph. That's generally known among writers as both plagiarism and "not doing your homework."

In a worst case scenario, ChatGPT repeats information that is simply factually incorrect. Lacking any way to ascertain veracity, the robot pipes back words to you in grammatically correct sentences -- which are not and cannot be fact checked automatically. This is a very dangerous platform from which to begin one's own writing. A responsible human will take the time to research and understand a topic on his or her own, then craft something which is useful for a specific audience (all of ChatGPT's responses are generic; it doesn't know anything about audiences).

Perhaps most importantly, ChatGPT is not capable of generating or revealing any new knowledge -- something that hasn't been written down and scanned earlier. This means that its writing cannot contribute anything at all to the advancement of human knowledge. It cannot provide any new insights or discoveries. It cannot draw conclusions or analyze the connections between things any more than a Xerox machine can.

I would say, "Don't mix ChatGPT with real work" for the reasons we don't mix cannabis edibles with regular candy. They look alike but one is dangerous for children.
Watching pornography doesn't necessarily cause erectile dysfunction, but like any other addictive activity it messes up with you dopamine circuitry and your nervous system.Your dopamine pathways affect your mood, attention and memory.
The article mentions Facebook closing two of their smaller offices without mentioning that 770 is still the same size and that they’re getting ready to move into the largest office they’re ever had in the city near Penn Station.
I don't follow? Lots of technical founders create their own automations.
If you’re a guy, then it usually flourishes later in life. Also your eyebrows. Most higher-end barber shops these days offer ear and eyebrow waxing to keep them trimmed.

Or you can let them grow out and scare old ladies and young children.
Blockchain is an awful technological choice to serve that purpose.
The article seems to say that only 280 of those were larger animals “pigs, sheep, and monkeys”. For a little perspective, Americans ate 21 million chickens yesterday, roughly 7-8 billion per year. I’ve probably personally eaten a substantial percentage of their sheep and pig death count, and there’s not much ground breaking research coming from that, besides an exploration of all the things made better by bacon. Maybe the animals getting eaten have a more pleasant exit, but I wouldn’t be confident in that.
Pretty clear that these are people who want to fuck you over. Silicon Valley elites have accumulated enough power to come mask off. Entitled dirtbags who profited off government funded science and technology who've never created an ounce of value in their lives.
It's funny how we treat all dopaminergic reward system highjackers as dangerous (e.g. drugs, food addictions, any addictions) but any critique towards pornography and you're treated like you're Amish.

Pornography should be strictly regulated, for the benefit of both the users and the "actors"
I've been really lucky with my startup experience so far. The two I've worked for have both had really great, though different, environments. My most recent startup was 4 to 5 people and it was absolutely fantastic.
The point is if the company doesn't pay dividends, what will it do with the money? It has to grow, and growing isn't always a good idea. It means they have to expand either by being more competitive (cheaper, undercutting their existing business, less profits) or by moving into a market they don't know about (risky, might loose it all).

Looking at it another way, what's the point in owning stock in a company that never pays dividends. There's no point a company making profit unless they give that profit out.

> Dividends are actually the same as selling a piece of your investment.

Who are you going to sell the piece to? If it's back to the company as part of a share buyback, then yes, it's the same. If it's to someone else, then no, by not paying a dividend, the company now has to spend that money on something useful that will generate a return and mean it can pay a dividend in future.
Walkable cities with mixed use development.
Yeah—the stores in our area (which is a bedroom community for Baltimore and to a lesser extent DC) are doing great.
TL;DR: No

I think the suggestion that the causation (to the extent that it exists at all) may be in the other direction is more plausible.
There was that time I watched a YouTube channel about ‘NoFap’, went a month without ejaculating and then when I did it was, without hyperbole, the most physically painful thing I’d experienced. I am not doing that again.
the stablecoins that are most successful today are the centralized ones, mostly USDC, USDT and BUSD.

The current crypto market proves one thing --- decentralization is a fantasy, a myth that has yet to be successfully implemented.

Remember the golden rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. In the crypto market, the rulers are the *centralized* exchanges.

Centralized exchanges (CEX) have tremendous influence and control over the crypto market just like a central bank. They achieve this by the sheer weight of their trading volume --- and their unrestricted ability to mint stable coins and use them to manipulate the market as they see fit --- just like a central bank with one big difference --- without any transparency or oversight.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In real world practice, even so-called decentralized peer to peer exchanges still follow the trading prices set by the centralized exchanges.

Don't take my word for it --- just try buying or selling coins on a DEX for a price that differs significantly from the current CEX rate. It may be possible in theory but in reality, it's highly unlikely. Most reasonable people won't surrender value just for the sake of decentralization.
Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse. Technology ushering in a decentralization effect. And that's fine. Work at home. Communities buy micro reactors, Starlink ready to go. Low carbon produce that doesn't have chemical shit all over it. Maybe testosterone rates go up, maybe cancer rates go down. Probably a good idea all around.
> This conversation went on a tangent.

The discussion was to answer, "And why is everything just so slow!"

> The web has a reputation for being slow, thanks to a traditional lack of GPU acceleration as well as 25 years of legacy code attached to its Document Object Model, that are pretty gnarly for browser vendors to deal with. That has nothing to do with JS itself.

That's not exactly true, though, as many discussions here on HN have demonstrated. The web is not slow due to, "a traditional lack of GPU acceleration." The DOM is the execution environment of JS in the browser. This isn't a discussion about JS in any other environment.

While you may have a vested interest in JS, that doesn't change its properties. Please, let's get back to the actual discussion.
I built a text to binary converter with ChatGPT and was blown away by how easy it was.

I wrote a brief Twitter thread about the whole experience:
https://twitter.com/mrbenjaminhoppe/status/16001318736860078...

Any and all feedback welcome!
I think this is a strange perspective, but it also kind of hits it perfectly.

Western society has been breaking down the autonomy and independence of the family. More and more policies are aimed at treating parents as temporary caregivers of a state asset. Public education is probably the biggest one of all time, but there are a lot of little policies as well. If you let little Timmy roam free the state could very well decide to swoop in and assign new caregivers. Genetics are de-emphasized in this whole system to be made irrelevant.

People are fighting back against this state interference with things like “free range parenting” and homeschooling.
This is very similar to the position I've adopted, and I'd like to add on some of the thinking I've done about what I've come to call "weaponized mindfulness." In the balance of "good" and "evil", a lot of people will loudly proclaim e.g. how they drive a smaller car that isn't as wasteful as big American SUVs as if that's virtuous because less waste = good. In my accounting of the world, I totally agree and try my best to support things that waste less! But, inevitably, there's a thorny question left of why the small car is OK and the big car is Bad -- the line is totally arbitrary, both of them uphold a pretty wasteful driving system, and anybody can move the goalposts pretty much wherever they want. Relative to a private jet, the SUV isn't wasteful at all. Relative to a moped, the small hatchback is incredibly wasteful.

So, assuming that people are well-intentioned and aren't purely virtue signaling for social capital, what's the measure of a "virtue" like this? Most people try to hand wave it as "the smaller car does approximately X less damage to 'the environment'", but that's all but completely unmeasurable. How do you quantify damage to the environment? How do you weight that against needing to get the kids to school? I'm not convinced there's any meaningful way to do it since it's a global measure for a local action. It seems to me that absent any universal morality, then, a better measure of a virtue is against itself: what an individual is willing to give up to uphold their virtue. "I drive the smaller car into the ground over 20 years, forgoing the luxuries of heated seats in newer models" or "I don't shop on Amazon, preferring instead to take extra time to acquire items locally" sort of a thing. It's still far from a reliable, quantifiable measure, and any of these things can be weaponized in any number of directions against unfavorable people or ideas, but I think it at least scopes the idea of "more and less moral" a little better/more locally.
Anti-union tactics aren't illegal so long as the company that employs them isn't completely ruined as a result of the punishment they get.
I guess they won't, in the same way we are much worse at remembering information in the era of search engines. They will be profient in telling the AI the exact words it needs to produce the correct code output. No one will be good in programming trivial code snippets not because every snippet is on SO but because every code part can be generated with the correct request.

As many of us cannot read machine code and hex anymore many of the juniors won't be able to parse the code output - but it may not matter anymore.
It's about 80% the same as any other store (keep things stocked, tell customers where they are, operate a cash register kind of stuff), 5% copying keys, 15% answering questions that are either really simple ("what do I use to hang a painting") or underspecified ("I need a replacement nut for something"; the trick is to ask them to bring the bolt or another of the same nut if they can).
Then you're part of the problem. Bitcoin is real, the rest are scams. What part were you struggling with here?
Why yes marathon runners love to tell you how hard it was.
Writing a Lisp-to-assembly compiler from scratch in JavaScript
In one Amazon interview the guy asked a coding challenge that he had apparently come up with himself. I realized later it was NP-complete.
From the article:

> Some Neuralink rivals are having more success. Synchron, which was launched in 2016 and is developing a different implant with less ambitious goals for medical advances, received FDA approval to start human trials in 2021. The company’s device has allowed paralyzed people to text and type by thinking alone. Synchron has also conducted tests on animals, but it has killed only about 80 sheep as part of its research, according to studies of the Synchron implant reviewed by Reuters.

Seems they are providing context, as long as you take the time to read through the article.
If you flex the title "architect" to include "staff engineer", https://lethain.com/what-do-staff-engineers-actually-do/

By the way, I highly recommend his book Staff Engineer if you're interested in delving deeper.
Given a choice, a lot of people would rather not just fork over a large percentage of their take home pay to the landlords of downtowns. Those landlords have been driving the zoning policies for decades in their favor. Now things are just a tiny bit less in their favor. They kept the status quo for a very long time and made a lot of money doing so. Now things are changing. Good.
It’s a good article about how motivated reasoning and cherry picking turn opinions into bad statistics.

One thing it doesn’t mention is that ubiquitous promotion and availability of ED drugs has led to recreational use that can be statistically mistaken for incidence of ED.
Usually, the upgrades are seamless (freebsd-update(8)[0]); system files that change between releases are looped through with some help of sdiff(1)[1] with relatively few surprises jumping dot releases (12.3 -> 12.4).

However, major pkg upgrades also bring their fair share of config changes; and those major pkg upgrades usually happen during major version changes (11 -> 12). Can't remember how I did it, but at one point I had an ancient nextcloud running on a recent FreeBSD system where a pkg upgrade broke everything in a spectacular fashion.

The latest OpenBSD upgrade though (7.1 -> 7.2) did break an important base tool I used (dhclient(8)) by dumbing it down to a lesser version that is less capable (no auth) (but probably better written)[2], so YMMV.

> Changed dhclient(8) to defer to dhcpleased(8) by doing execve ifconfig and providing syslog warnings about deprecated options.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&apr...

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdiff&apropos=0&se...

[2] https://www.openbsd.org/72.html, https://try.popho.be/securing-home2.html#and-openbsd-decided...
Not from where we are standing.

For us, the critical features of the blockchain are:

1) simultaneous execution of a substantial number of legal contracts between different counter-parties as a single atomic transaction

2) non-repudiatable payments going to all of those contract counter-parties

3) single source of truth on a publicly visible resource so all parties can see what's going on at all times

4) "litigation-ready" record keeping about who did what when

And so on: it's a better way of doing certain legal processes not some kind of magic pixie dust.

That's a pretty different take from the general blockchain rhetoric, but this represents the UK legal consensus on the blockchain. It's a tool, not a jurisdiction.
these are just puff hit pieces at this point.
you're never going to get rich working for someone else, start a business if you want to increase your income. The whole point of the day job is just to pay the bills while you build your business which will make you rich.

Sorry you had to learn that lesson the hard way, hope your financial situation improves soon. :)
However Monero has shortcomings, the main one being its auditability.

Some Monero developers have created a new project which tries to solve those issues, and add zero knowledge proof to the mix: https://pirate.black
I'm interested in the financial aspect of this. Assuming US Fabs are more expensive than in Taiwan that then must mean lower margins or higher prices.

I wonder if Apple for example has said that they are prepared to pay a premium to ensure diversity of supply?
So this is an attempt to push people to subscribe instead of buying?
High-throughput vector indexes now generally available and free