skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you assuming that being gay or transgender would be selected against? Transgender people can have children (especially historically, when HRT wasn't available). Genes can be passed on without relying on procreation of the gay individual - if gay family members increase the overall reproductive success of a family, for example, then genes related to being gay can be passed without the gay persons ever reproducing directly.

Since gayness is prevalent through the animal kingdom, one of two things must be true: it either helps in group environments (whether you choose to interpret that as group selection or "selfish gene"-style counterintuitive effects) ; or perhaps genes related to gayness happen to be deeply tied to some other very important genes that get easily passed on.

Either way, what is your proposed alternative? Do you think 6%+1% is too large a number for historical proportions of gay+trans people?

By the way, 1% for trans people seems to match pretty well the number of Hijra people in India (10M+ out of 1.4 billion). Another piece of evidence that suggests these rates are relatively constant across the world in vastly different cultures.
Regular people yes,but anything other than a harsh response to these firms means that we can't have representative who are "regular".this is how democracy dies.
> in a month

It might make more sense to say "in a car ownership window" than "in a month" to prevent heavy months (say, holidays/vacations) from seeming problematic and lighter months (not doing much besides working) from implying that you're winning more than you really are. Assuming sufficient buffer of funds, that is.
> It's likely true for straight up wasteful languages but very unlikely for more optimized runtimes.

What are you comparing it to? I believe parent meant that even if you clone everywhere, your code is still more likely to be faster than Node/Python, and potentially Go/C#/Java.

One thing to note is that C++ code tends to allocate all over the place from copy assignment and constructors, and it's still very fast. Rust only forces you to be explicit when cloning, but memcpy is still a fast operation, unless you're cloning large structs.
Show HN: Oolong (v2) – a budget forecast tool for iOS
Oolong is a "budget forecast" tool that helps you understand what "will happen" to your money, instead of just showing you what "already happened"...

I've been using the "Oolong methodology" (excel spreadsheet) to manage my money for over a decade. But I've been hearing from accountants, students, and funeral directors (lol!) that they use the Oolong app to:

- Figure out how much to allocate to savings/investments

- Plan major one-time purchases

- Figure out "how much apartment" to rent/buy

What's New in v2?

- Completely new design

- Balance Sheets and Income Statements

- Multiple Accounts

Freemium

Oolong is free for the first 3 accounts (assets/liabilities) and 7 plan items (incomes/transfers/expenses). An "In App Upgrade" can be purchased to unlock unlimited accounts and plan items, as well as remove ads.

I hope you find it useful~
You missed the biggest problem of all - traffic. Driving can be quite fun, but sitting in traffic is not. Because "everyone" has a car now, there's traffic everywhere to make LA freeways jealous. Sitting as a passenger in a car that's barely moving isn't the worst - we have infinite distraction boxes to play with, but the driver has no such toy to play with, so they have to make do with podcasts. Which are often quite engaging, but the driver still has to drive.
>They explain the sanctions directly in the article.

Maybe you missed where is stated:
>>Then again, the website told me "Your browser is set to private mode. To continue reading, log in or subscribe." so I was unable to read the full article. Whether I'm in private mode or not is none of their damn business.
Fruit contains fiber, and vitamins whereas fruit juice and other sugary foods often don't.
That notion is just a conspiracy theory by Big Conspiracy to push more conspiracy theories. ;)
Helping people with software can be very satisfying, especially if there is an immediate positive interaction with those people.

Art can be a lonely business especially if no one understands what you are trying to express.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
I think https://www.visidata.org/ also supports python
> with the peel left on

So much food waste reduction by doing that.
Enormous amounts of problems. My own wife says that she hates other women far more than she hates any man she knows...
That doesn't matter if you're writing a REST api. If you're writing a CLI app, then I agree that's a problem.
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Video..
Ah, right. I thought OP was referring to https://www.signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/ , my bad.
I agree with you most of the time, but nearly all truly original work will be generally unliked initially, because it's unfamiliar. The other problem is success often comes by struggling forward even when you don't have support.
> The former mayor has offered a number of explanations for the missing messages, including that she dropped her phone in water, that she inadvertently changed the phone’s deletion settings and that “someone” set a new phone to delete messages older than 30 days, resulting in a rolling deletion of previous messages.

I would expect this from a middle schooler, not a mayor.
I see the book-website opening with those unconvincing scaremongering scenarios and it doesn't make me want to read further. I think there is something to worry about but I doubt we can make useful progress on it. Maybe the book has suggestions but I think we cannot solve the Collective Action problem[1]. The only times humans have solved the collective action problem at world scale is after the damage is very visible - the ozone layer with a continent sized hole in it and increasing skin cancer. Polio crippling or killing children on a huge scale. Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrating the power of nuclear weapons - and the solution is simple, fund Polio vaccine, ban one specific chemical, agree not to develop Uranium enrichment plants which could fuel nuclear weapons which are generally large and internationally visible. Even problems with visible damage are no guarantee, coal power plants kill people from their emissions, combustion vehicles in cities make people sicker, increasing extreme weather events hasn't made people cooperate on climate change issues. If actual problems aren't enough, speculative problems such as AI risk are even less so.

Add to that backdrop that AI is fun to work on, easy and cheap to work on and looks like it will give you a competitive advantage. Add to that the lack of clear thing to regulate or any easy way to police it. You can't ban linear algebra and you won't know if someone in their basement is hacking on a GPT2 derivative. And again, everyone has the double interest to carry on their research while pretending they aren't - Google, Microsoft/OpenAI, Meta VR, Amazon Alexa, Palantir crime prediction, Wave and Tesla and Mercedes self-driving, Honda Asimov and Boston Dynamics on physicality and movement, they will all set their lawyers arguing that they aren't really working on AGI just on mathematical models which can make limited predictions in their own areas. nVidia GPUs, Apple and Intel and AMD integrating machine learning acceleration in their CPU hardware, will argue that they are primarily helping photo tagging or voice recognition or protecting the children, while they chip away year after year at getting more powerful mathematical models integrating more feedback on ever-cheaper hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
The main reason TikTok has awesome recommendations is that all the other big players (Facebook, Youtube, etc) realised back in 2017 that training machine learning models to persuade people to spend more time on their platform was unreasonably effective.

Ie. tell ML to trick someone to spend 14 hours watching youtube every day, and for some small percentage of users, it will actually succeed!

For those people, it's as addictive as drugs. They spent all day on youtube rather than going to work, going to school, caring for their kids, eating or even sleeping! Can you imagine the size of lawsuits that would be heading youtubes way when those people realise they've effectively been enslaved by an algorithm??

Leadership of the big companies put an end to that, instead trying to focus on other metrics, and trying to get more users to each spend some time on the platform.

Well it seems TikTok didn't get the memo...
Just some Stirlitz jokes I had collected for all World War 2 enthusiasts.
Because number of trains per day makes little sense if you have to plan the trip months in advance to get affordable prices, and the ticket binds you to a specific train.
> there’s no real difference between downloading one big file and 100 little ones.

Are you sure? Each separate download needs its own negotiation with the server. Each download needs its own request and response. So you would have 100 requests and 100 responses versus 1 request and 1 response.

It's the same difference as driving 100 cars vs. driving a train with 100 connected train-cars over a narrow bridge etc.
If I could shape the world to my liking, we'd look a lot more like the neatherlands with mixed-use development, great public transit and protected bike / ped infrastructure.

Even with all that goodness, roughly half the population in the neatherlands owns a car, despite how outrageously expensive it can be there. There are still great reasons to own a car, and frankly I think everyone's experience would be better if walking, biking, and public transit were safe and viable. That could get so much traffic off the road. It would make driving much more pleasant.

Owning a car should be a 'nice to have' and not a 'need'.
Fair point, hopefully it'll be targeted appropriately.

I vaguely remember the Rittenhouse trial had an expert discuss if pinch-to-zoom could introduce false information.
I suspect once the dust settles we will learn that the vaccine net increased transmission. Without the vaccine patients suffer a more serious illness and are more likely to stay home and self isolate, if the illness is less serious that is less likely.
Back in 2010 I had a friend refer two potential clients to me, who were looking to get some links related to them pushed down and off the first page of search results. The links were about financial fraud convictions and ongoing investigations into them and their business. The guys were claiming that it was "hard to get dates" because "crazy chicks do Google-sleuthing" and ghost them. I knew that was all bullshit, and they were just looking to defraud more people.

I spoke to them for about 30 minutes and I remember feeling disgusted by the end of the call due to what absolute creeps they were. I was also certain they'd stiff me on the bill, if in some bizarro universe I had agreed to do the work.

So yeah, I can't imagine the morals of the person who willingly offers this type of service.
I hadn’t realized the only reason stalking is an issue is because there’s no negative consequences for doing it. Glad someone finally solved that problem.
> Most folks don’t even know money wasn’t really used until the like 1500s

Do you mean in Europe? Pretty sure money has been used quite a bit in many other places.
As an Idaho resident, I dearly hope not. And I'd be really surprised if such legislation did pass. Toxic extreme-right rhetoric appeals to a nontrivial proportion of Idahoans, and some politicians are pandering to the fringe of society that wants to see everything burn. But my rough estimate is that only 20-25% of Idahoans think that way.
Thanks for the clarification! This is what I suspected, too. What matters to me is that it works with custom extension lists. I am not sure I understood what was special about the original "2020 Fennec".

There's also a note from someone on Reddit [1]:

> Fennec is also F-Droid's firefox version. It differs from official ones by having proprietary bits and all telemetry removed as well as unlocked about:config at the moment.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nff8sv/comment/gyl...
I don't think there is a benefit to any kind of bicameral system, regardless of how it is setup. A large unicameral system allows for more direct representation and should limit the influence of money when combined with term limits.

"Tyranny of the majority" seems like more of a problem for the rich and powerful, in my experience.
Laws are written in the US by the people who have time to write them: interns or lobbyists. Being a legislator is a crappy job where you have little time between fundraising and voting to read the laws you vote on, let alone write them.

If you want to make a change, show up and meet in person with state and federal legislators. And if you think, "there outght to be a law" get one written with the help of a few lawyers (who will do this usually for fun and for free) and give it to the the legislator's legislative director.
I was totally with you until the last sentence. please go on.
(I’m the author of the post)

The solution we ended up with was partially a matter of the minimum change to fix the issue, and partly because we have a lot of platforms to cover with a small team, so the fewer platform-specific concepts we have (frameworks in this case), the easier it is to maintain.
Hmm. The way I've heard it expressed is they want every decision the player makes to matter. In other words, the ideal to work towards is that there is never a "no-brainer" choice to make, you always have to think about every action. To me, that always seemed like a great design goal, but I never thought about it from the new player perspective. Maybe the act of learning that a choice is a no-brainer is itself a valuable process for a newer player? That's interesting to chew on.
Did you try Brogue? I love it.
There's no legal requirement for profit maximization, it's that simple. That's why it's not enforceable, it doesn't exist.
Also, it's a much noiser data-set, especially since puberty seems to be starting earlier.

You can kind of get by if you ensure you're population is all pre-pubescent or all post-pubescent and similar in age. But anything in between is a mess of confounders.
The secret sauce:

Let grass roots content creators actually distribute their content. Let the best content go to the top. Give everyone a chance.

Facebooks algorithm:

Support influencers, corporations, and whatever pumps the ad machine.
The shame of those software engineers
Everyone misreading this to imply that Starlink is limiting it's use for Ukraine's military communications. The only thing being limited is the use on actual Ukrainian military hardware, like Ukrainian drones that drop bombs mounting starlink dishes on top of them and Starlink kamikaze ship drones having starlink dishes mounted on top of them.
Justice, Commerce Depts Announce Creation of Disruptive Technology Strike Force
Also anecdotally, but out of friends that moved (to FL and SC) none are impressed with the local school districts. Seems like it's either homeschooling or private school route for them. To be fair, tuition at private schools is way more affordable compared to CA.
Most Americans agree on most things.

Cultural differences across Europe are FAR greater than anything in the US.

The problem in the US is extremists taking over the microphone.
I know someone, mid 30's, jobless, who spends 12+ hours a day on TikTok. They don't even post to it - just watch hours and hours of mindless videos about mental health issues.
Reading the above it seems like you're combining the dislike/stress of learning to be competent at something (driving) with the dislike for a particular activity (driving).

Learning something isn't always fun, even if that something is something you may come to enjoy (or at least be indifferent about) once you gain a certain level of competency with it. If you never get past the learning discomfort it's hard to differentiate the dislike for the activity itself vs the frustrations of being a beginner.
> My mother only had her first “big” repair on her car at 140k after 10 years.

A full set of tires generally costs more than the average american has in their emergency fund

> Cars are more reliable than they’ve ever been

Larger and more expensive too, gas prices are also higher than they have been historically.
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And some of that Cavendish preference is strictly cosmetic. Some varieties will blemish easily but still taste great inside for a while, while Cavendish blemishing means you’ve got 1-2 days tops to consume it.
10 minutes is a pretty poor goal for a major city. The Paris metro has headways of 2-3 minutes. The Moscow metro has headways as short as 1-2 minutes. The busiest metro in the world, in Shanghai, has 2.8 billion rides per year with headways of between 1-3 minutes.
> A single cluster of nearly identical genotypes, the Cavendish subgroup, nearly monopolizes the world’s banana groves and banana trade.

Just a reminder that this isn't true if you walk into an average supermarket in Brazil. You'll find banana prata, banana nanica, banana maçã, banana ouro, banana da terra... just look at an online supermarket search [1]. And to be clear these are all bananas eaten as fruit, not plaintains or anything. Wikipedia lists even more [2].

But somehow the English-speaking world ignores their existence. And it's not like they're exotic varieties you have to hunt down in rural areas or something. They're just the standard normal variety of bananas you buy at any urban supermarket. (Same as in an American supermarket you don't expect only one type of apple, but expect to see honeycrisp, fuji, granny smith, and so forth.)

[1] https://www.paodeacucar.com/busca?terms=banana&p=1

[2] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#Como_alimento
Lawsuit against Meta in Kenya paves the way for Africa to sue tech companies
AUC being “area under curve” or something else?
Pick an industry you find meaningful and go work there, that's why I work in health. However be aware that tech jobs outside tech are:

* paid much worse

* less technically challenging

* considered less important
Oh, I thought Lotus was over by the Cambridgeside Galleria area. Indeed there was a lot in the suburbs, but it didn't feel difficult to me to work in tech on the subway in the early 90s when I started my career.
variations of these algorithmic techniques have been around for decades, yes.
What do you mean with Plugins? It works with custom extension lists (e.g. I have idontcareaboutcookies and privacy redirect installed).
This parallels a bit stages two and three in the “Four Stages of Competence”:

1. Unconscious incompetence (Ignorance)

2. Conscious incompetence (Knowledge)

3. Conscious competence (Skill)

4. Unconscious competence (Awareness)

https://taskcompetency.com/ shares a method to help learners not get stuck at the lower levels, to keep targeting the higher levels.
I believe you but you should know you are in the minority here. Part of why TikTok has taken over the social media space is because of how addicting it is compared to the older players.
Hypervisors and microkernels are meaningfully different, both in terms of history and technology: Microkernels implement one OS by running different userspace components on a minimal kernel, whereas hypervisors run multiple OSes, each with their own kernel, on a minimal hardware multiplexer which ideally provides no abstractions, as opposed to a kernel, which provides many abstractions. Conflating them is both historically wrong and confusing.
Aperger's is both a different state, and in many contexts, a sub optimal state. In some limited contexts, it is a superior state.

Its undeniable that a dominant part of both the human experience and survival depends on social interaction success. In this context, its undeniable that autism is sub-optimal.

It doesn't go both ways, for the vast majority of interactions, because the vast majority of the population is not autistic. And they can easier cooperate with one another against you than you can gain any cooperation. Therefore, the playing field is not equal and your impairment is much more of a disadvantage than their impairment in communicating with you.

"Aspie supremacists" who think that their state is undeniably superior are ironically failing in logic. Insofar as they are actually aspie.

No adult true aspie (with inevitable comorbidities) with a lifetime of experience would want to repeat it. They'd opt out at the first opportunity. Rare exceptions aside, like for individuals with an engineer for a father who tracked them into the Ivy's and beyond.

My theory is that Asperger's individuals are perhaps a human genetic mechanism for slowly integrating genes for certain types of intelligence. With immense deselection pressure on those genes that assures that growing intelligence doesn't spread like wildfire in the population, perhaps to bad outcomes for other portions of what it means to be human (like reproduction speed, perhaps).

So I get the views of the aspies who want to recenter what it means o be normal on themselves. It just isn't the case. That's fine. There are worse lots.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2004: "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." (The troops who got blown up due to lack of armored vehicles might not have fully appreciated his brilliance.)
Are you from El Paso? My husband is from there, and him and his younger sisters also love to drive. His parents have made a point of getting them all cars by the time they're in college at the latest. Part of it is that it's really hard to get around that city without a car, but they also take really good care of their cars and treasure them even after moving away to a city with slightly more transit options. It is interesting though that they seem to buck the trend of younger people not wanting to drive as much.
We don't (and probably never will be able to) have to remove anything, we "just" have to densify downtown districts to have jobs, shops, and housing within convenient public transportation distance, so people can exist without cars.
Reading HN and the quality of comments makes it hard to write anything.

Ironically I did manage to write this comment :)
Not exactly the same because the phone camera can take several sensor scans, bracketed or otherwise, to create one image that the user sees. Not surprised ML is involved, but it's more akin to a photographer taking several images and combining them in lightroom or photoshop than it is to this situation where the model only has one low-grade image to work with.
The personality you say they have, happens in the head of the recipient, just like with a book.

This also happens with people, animals and even objects, abstract shapes (which is friendlier, the spiky triangle or the rounded one?) ... humans ascribe personality to all kinds of things. It's a baked-in feature.
Can't agree more! Facebook is useless to me today and replaces meaningful to me stuff with ads and other things I don't care about and never engage with, i.e. there's for sure other weights and the feed is not organic!
LOL somebody's PM told them to stay on task and stop making up features out of thin air
I love this quote by Ira though I believe the article linked and this quote aren't really discussing the same thing but certainly have overlapping themes.
> - bad error messages (even though that was a focus for the rust team!)

I would love to hear more! (If you have the time.)
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And on top of that, you don't want buybacks to happen at the expense of other operations. For instance, railway companies bought back a shitload of stock and then cut funding to inspections and other safety measures.
Brave Search is the only large usable independent search index that I am aware of. 92% of results come from its own index, with 10B pages indexed.

https://dkb.blog/p/brave-search-interview
Literally yes, but that doesn't mean it's a problem.