skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, really. In fact, both over- and underactivity of MAO enzymes are linked to impulsive behavior.

To quote some random authors: ”evidence has shown a strong relationship between impulsivity and genetic variations of the enzyme primarily responsible for 5-HT degradation, monoamine oxidase-A (MAO-A)”

Those genetic variations change the activity of MAO-A. The same effect is acquired by habitually consuming coffee.
This is already looking so good, and the video of their workflow shows that it really isn't that much effort (in terms of resources) compared to traditional. Of course, there's still some janky effects here and there but it's looking really good.

I think in a few years pretty much anyone will be able to just record themselves on a green screen and make all kind of crazy things, it's actually coming up much sooner than I expected (i would have said maybe 10 years a year ago) if improvements keep coming. Honestly the decision of open-sourcing and making stable diffusion readily available to people has been complete bonanza for the space. Innovation happens so much faster when lots of people can participate.

A week or so ago I also saw an animation made by Netflix (that got quite a negative backlash for using AI) where they actually focused on generating the backgrounds. Of course they didn't really go in depth on how they did it but it just shows it's also something that's possible. Put 2 and 2 together and you get a really powerful workflow.

I'm pretty sure in the next few years we are going to start seeing incredible amateur work that's going to be done fast and by small teams. Honestly, I couldn't be more excited!
The title doesn't contradict that.
Ironic, since the anthrax from the "anthrax attacks" in 2001 were traced to Fort Detrick.
I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic environment" and then was expected to immediately book a call with a salesperson.

No thanks Oracle even for 24GB free VMs!
Dinoself
Yes, I'm in western europe and imessage is pretty much dead. Part of it is a lack of interropability with Android, part of it is that it's marketed as an SMS app and SMS being dead doesn't help.
I never sent a "hey" or wink in my life. This is not some unreasonable bar. Every time I see my female friends inboxes I gag all over agaon. Dudes are pathetic.
Some of these journals are behind a paywall. :(

If they're from publicly funded universities I'd wish the scholarly work would be free. I understand things coming out of Microsoft Research, for example, being pay-walled.
I think it's a bit more than that: the Kinsey Scale exists because many people (probably most really) are somewhere in-between, even if they have a strong preference for one sex or the other. A large number of women have probably always had bisexual tendencies, but these days with the impediments removed, they can more freely choose to explore their same-sex attraction and relationships with other women. After a few bad relationships with men, many have probably decided to only pursue relationships with women in fact. And why not? Women are generally more attractive (really attractive men are somewhat rare, but it's not as hard for most women to look nice), smell nice, are far less prone to violence, and these days generally have more education and better careers. They also are much better at being emotionally supportive in friendships/relationships and not depending on their partner to be a full-time therapist. As a bonus, they can even share clothes!
I always wondered why there is is much resistance to the idea of lab leak and why the origin of a virus is this political. My conclusion is that this topic happens to go to the root some very important disagreements we are having as a culture.

At the core I see this as being about individual freedom vs big government. If your attitudes are pro-government you really want the most destructive virus of all time to have "spilled over" from nature. Finally, a job only a state can do. "We" need to protect habitats! Fight Climate change! Lock people in their homes and force injections to "protect" everyone. "Well you know, it's not like we WANT to do this but this virus is forcing our hand".

If this is lab leak than it means that your government (not only the Chinese government, US government is implicated here as well) is murderously incompetent to start with and then covered it up with constant lies and gas-lighting and then took all your civil liberties, got everyone who disagreed banned from social media (and I hope that was the worst they did). All the while getting people deeply scared with targeted propaganda and making anyone who just wanted to lead their lives normally out to be a stochastic granny killer.

But of course, if lab leak turned out the be the truth, we would still not see even 1/1000000th of the vitriol directed at anti-maskers be directed at the people ACTUALLY literally responsible for all these deaths as well as the health-, social- and economic mass destruction.

It's always been this way: when government does it, millions of corpses is just so much spilled milk on the way to Utopia.
> but I just don't find it viable to pay all the websites where I read just a single article.

This.

In the print days, you'd buy a newspaper; you'd have access to all the articles in that edition. I used to read a daily paper.

In the modern world, these papers expect you to pay for a newspaper just to read a single article. I dunno, perhaps they could form a "Paywall Consortium", so that I could pay a one-day fee to the consortium, and have access to Washpo, Telegraph, NYT etc. for 24 hours. Let the consortium figure out how to distribute the fees - it's not my concern.

But if you want me to buy the whole paper to read a single article, well, ain't gonna happen.
This has nothing to do with nations or "The West". The same things are happening in countries outside the West -- look at the health impacts of soda in South America or the culture of plastic surgery in South Korea.

It's just companies optimizing singularly for profit. Your tobacco companies, opioid companies, fast food companies, legacy social networks, gambling companies, alcohol companies and oil and gas companies have been doing damage to regular people for longer than Tik Tok has, and for the exact same reasons.
Does this count in your book? You will not hear about this on CNN, ABC, CNBC, CBC or any other media. Who has injustice here?

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/court-docs-fort-wayne-shoot...
Perhaps true in your experience but not true in general. In the 90s and 2000s for example people would talk about how they couldn't make certain jokes/comments they would like to make because of "Political correctness gone mad"[1]. That wasn't even new then, for example Allan Bloom's bestselling book "The Closing of the American Mind" from 1987[2] where he claims that cultural relativism and political correctness in academia stifles open debate about ideas. Sounds like something you could literally just republish today as the conversation hasn't really changed much.

[1] Here's an article from 2016 chronicling the rise of the phrase over 25 years before that. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-co... . If you search for that phrase you will find a treasure trove of exactly the same sorts of outrage we see today, only now the phrase "political correctness" is replaced with "cancel culture" or "wokeness".

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...
That's why those landlords need to be taxed more : so they lose a great deal of money if they don't rent.

(if they sell up because they can't stomach the taxes, reducing home prices that is also a positive outcome)
This is the perspective of a woman. Personal experience as a man:

> present yourself exactly as you are
> be picky

with this approach, I'd get exactly zero attractions, to put it in her terms, which doesn't reflect my real world dynamics.
Usually as a simple menu system, see e.g. https://github.com/sokrateshayraniyim/Your-Own-Library/blob/...
When I commuted by bicycle in London in my 20s I would often draft behind double decker buses. Not terribly sensible, for various reasons including their exhaust, but very effective. And with a profile that big you don't need to be very close to get a good effect.
> I had reached a stage of mental illness. One that is not aesthetic and talked about to spread awareness. But one where people would avert their eyes. This period was a dark era in my life.

This is actually all mental illness, we just seem to be really bad at dealing with it as a society. It's quite shocking how little empathy or support people seem to have for "unfashionable" mental illness.
Looking at aggregated stats like those on tinderinsight this is not an alternative way to date but exactly what most women do on dating apps and it's also an obvious strategy as soon as you realize that, as a woman, you have far more men competing for you (in my nation 91% of tinder users are men [0]) and most of them get quite desperate quite fast

If the situation was reversed we men would behave the same most probably

[0] https://www.netimperative.com/2019/04/05/online-dating-trend...
From my experience from using Tinder: no, most women try to appeal as broadly as possible and have low effort profiles and make low effort in general. It is possible that men are the same but I do not date men. And I get the same impression as she gets about men: that they are lazy and not interested in dating.

> I wonder if she's ever actually sent a message to someone else. This entitlement of "entertain me peasant" is one of the reasons why I deleted these apps.

Aren't you basically agree with her then? That once she moved away from a generic bland profile to actually putting some effort into it she got more success?

I am not sure I agree with her advice about being picky though, if you actually make a profile which appeals to the kind of people you want to meet I am not sure you have to be that picky.
as a counter-point, i use custom domain for email, and haven't had a problem with fly.
TL;DR: "well-cared for"

Copying from one digital medium to another is a very easy operation (to the contrary of copying from paper to paper). At equal "care" I don't see why digital backups should be worse than paper ones.
This is just an advertisement of her "consulting".

As for the "innovation", that reminds me of "Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?" where OP went on dates with 120 men and rejected every single one
One reason I believe is because of social media and dating apps... social media because you want to post the most beautiful pictures of you and your family so you get over 100 likes.

To dating apps where only a certain percentage (50 to 70%) of men get dates cause hey woman (men too) want to post pics of their beautiful family on Instagram and Facebook, etc and get confirmation of your value in this life/earth. Like hey look everyone I was able to create something beautiful (beautiful family/children) and I know I did because look how many likes I get for all my photos of my beautiful family I was able to create.
Lenovo launches Z13 Gen2 – first plant-based laptop
> However, it's hard to be too trusting of the US

The question is not whether to trust the US [government] in absolute terms, the question is whether the democratically elected US government that is bound by the rule of law, strong institutions providing checks and balances and the Freedom of Information Act can be trusted more than the autocratic Chinese communist party that is accountable to absolutely no one.
"Young men must re-prioritize real-life relationships and intimacy attuned to the shift in priorities that women have already made"

The priorities of women in their 20s are dating men in their 30s. This new stat and the accompanying Boomer commentary is genuinely one of the funniest memes so far in 2023. They literally don't understand the world they created for future generations.
As someone who teaches electronics and studied film (including the handling of the actual material) I am more confident that the roll of film I first shot will survive the next 200 years than I am in the survival of that prores mov I stored on two hard drives of my latest film.

As far as I know film is what the National Archives have chosen for the archival of all relevant movies even if they have been shot digitally and I guess they know a thing or two about archiving.

A computer that plays back a Prores file has so many more "moving" parts it is not even funny. You have the spinning rust that may or may not be faulty, then you have the read head that may or may not be faulty, then the spinning rust has a disk controller on it, that may or may not be faulty, then you have a connector on that drive that may or may not exist anymore, then you have a filesystem on that disk that may or may not be supported anymore, and then you get the container format, that may or may not be supported in that version anymore and you get the CODEC which may or may not be supported anymore.

But from the outside it just looks like a hard drive. Unless someone really made good labels and they are readable, and you trust the label you won't even know what is on there and if it is worth all the hassle. Meanwhile with a roll of film or a photograph you just see the thing that is on there. It might have scratches, be half rotten, faded colors and all, but in many cases such things are still somewhat "readable" after a century of bad storage.
Setting User-Agent Field? – Larry Page (1996)
Not quite, they want to change societies perception of themselves and medically transitioning helps that's by changing certain physical traits often used by society/people to guess which sex they are and thus change what societal expectations are placed on their appearance, behavior, and personality. This is called 'passing'.
Starship is vaporware.
This is a very important point. We're already seeing the effects of an uncontrolled internet in the West. What greater way to erode a power than to erode the effectiveness of its future leaders and workers?

However, China does have the same app, under a different name. I wonder if these emotionally manipulative fads are allowed there. My understanding is that they are. Plastic surgery is extremely popular in southeast Asian countries, and I see a lot of vapid YouTube Shorts and Instagram Stories from both Asia and the West.

TikTok is extremely accurate in its emotional manipulation. I get targeted ads for it, and despite not using the app, the ads draw very heavily on specific emotions and interests. It's a bit scary, to say the least. It shows the strength of the pull and inability to escape once you're in.
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I'd imagine it's more like seeing Vietnamese as a European: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet

If you live in Europe and speak a language using a Latin script, you probably have come across most of the extensions other European languages add to the shared base in loanwords or foreign media. But then you look at something like Vietnamese and you are no longer sure how letters work.
It might be worth to point out that "doolhof" is literally the Dutch word for maze. According to etymologiebank.nl it originated in the 16th century, as a composition of "dolen" (wandering, having lost the way) with "hof".
I agree. I met my current gf online but on social media, so we commented on each other's posts first and built rapport. That made it easy to start a conversation and I didn't really have to compete with anyone.

I've had gfs on normal dating apps too but it's harder, you have to be very interesting or attractive, and competition is higher so you're less likely to meet someone really good. For me at least, it doesn't come naturally and incurs a lot of mental effort. It's probably not good for mental health either.
and the documentation of how to run it and two or three backup systems just like it (no joke, this is how some museums have to store early digital computer art and they still have to frankenstein things together from multiple units).
> I wonder if she's ever actually sent a message to someone else. This entitlement of "entertain me peasant" is one of the reasons why I deleted these apps.

I could not agree more. It’s a bit disheartening to see somebody think through online dating to this extent, write an article about it and not realize this.

Before giving up on these apps I actually tried what happens to be the OP’s main recommendation: I wrote in my profile “If you are not interested in a friendly respectful chat starting with a simple ‘Hi’ please swipe no”. Unsurprisingly it didn’t work…
Sorry, I'm really not claiming any skills. I've had good experience with the apps, my only takeaway is, if you reasonably loosen up and talk normal, and it doesn't work, then we click next, because no amount of pretend will work in the long run.
Eh so what. We have facial hair and hair gel to play with. Women have makeup. Let them be.
Even if we had them and they were found to be different, that doesn't exclude the possibility that they repeated the same experiment with different source material.
> They just give the first part of the article without the paywall, as that's usually enough for SEO purposes.

Many consumers often wouldn't read more text anyway. About one paragraph might even be too much to fill the modern attention span.
> LaserCube

Hmm, that looks like a 2D galvo scanner. I was thinking more like a laser pointer and a mirror attached to a motor.

> what I'm looking at the moment is a way to verify the intuition about if that's even possible

You just have to build it! It's definitely possible, and the only question I have is the power of laser needed to be visible in your environment for a given circle size, and a simulation will not tell you that.
م‎ر‎ح‎ب‎اً‎!
30s single women complain 30s men being creeps for younger girls
Careful: suggesting that the sun has emitted far more thermal energy the last 150 years might give people ideas /s

On a related note: Now I am interested and I wonder if the change is big enough to make a difference on the earth and if it has been accounted for in the models.

Say it has...
I was flying over from Dublin to Birmingham on Sunday evening around just after 10pm but I didn't see much out the window, would've been pretty cool if I had though.
There is nothing new here, this phenomenon has existed for millennia.

See Goethe’s ”The Sorrows of Young Werther”.
To be fair, pretty much every “alternative way to date” would work for 90% of women due to “market dynamics”.

Change the objective to long term and start a family for life then those numbers would plummet to low single digits. That’s my guess, but this is always a charged topic so I should have stayed out of it in the first place.
So are they 40 percent dating 2 women at a time?
My friend has an adaptation for women like this, and many other women too.

She was intrigued by thoughtful messages, and a lower volume of them

My friend added paragraphs of text to his phones autocorrect

like “a” could be autocorrected to an entire thoughtful and whimsical intro

Its an art
SOmething like this:

(rf/reg-event-fx
:stop-timer
(fn [{:keys [db]} _]
(let [handle (db :ticker-handle)]
{:db (assoc db :ticker-handle nil)
:stop-ticker [handle]})))

The side effect here is to a stop a running ticker on the page, but the `reg-event-fx` function just returns a map (data) where the first key is :db (which is the new app state, which is like a db, can even have a sorta schema over it) and the second key is the actual even :stop-ticker, which takes an argument handle (the handle of the ticker to stop).

The event handler is just describing the side effect that is to occur by returning the map.
LPT: While learning Clojure, the following (almost always true) mental-model help me massively at "getting" Clojure.

"It's Maps All the Day Down"

Spend a lot of time, just learning how you (CRUD) map contents.

There will be enough time to tackle the other cases/tech (atoms, protocols etc) but until you get good at maps don't get bogged down by the other cool stuff.
> What it really needs is a simple reference input string, examples of how it gets broken, and what to do to fix them

I don't think it does. Just hire someone.

I guess really, the point Rami tries to make is that not a single person who reads Arabic was involved in the video game/advertising/website/etc. The errors are often so basic that a child could point them out.

It would be like if someone wrote English without any spaces between words. It's so painfully obviously wrong.
Policy, being most difficult and slowest to change, has a lot of intertia, so sticking it exactly in the center of mass / center of inertia makes intuitive sense. And since the shape is symmetrical, that place is also the geometrical center :).
Shortcut in macos, in most browsers, to get into "div selection mode" is "shift + command + c"...

Just press that, select the paywall (and any other junk backdrops/opaque divs), and press delete.

Sometimes the site also sets an `overflow: hidden` in the css, and you need to remove that to see the content..
You might want to read this paragraph from @FiloSottile:

> The only reason to use more than 128 bits of key is to protect against multi-user attacks. […] There are two ways to protect against that: larger keys or nonces. age uses a 128-bit per-file nonce fed into HKDF, making the total search space 128 + 128 = 256 bits, safe in every multi-user scenario, too.

This is big. Without those multi-user attacks Age is much safer than I initially thought. The tiny security increase we'd get by going to 256-bit keys is not worth making a breaking change. Not by itself at least.
Ah, come on. Stop with the 'everyone is our enemy' America-centered xenophobic mindset. The issues with Tiktok are of the same family with issues of other social media, or internet phenomena. Other countries, other communities are facing those same problems. It's not like situation in China is different and better. I bet some folks in China certainly blame the west for their newly rising problems, too.
No it's not.. It's far most cost effective to deploy cellular. Fiber in the ground to a tower will easily last 50 years. The radio hardware will need ongoing maintenance, but it's still far cheaper than launching 30k satellites into space with a lifespan of five years.
About 5 years late on this observation

Hinge has a leveling program just like Tinder does

You didn’t escape, I’m glad you are entertained
Is this even legal? How can sites host other ones' content, and that's ok?

- Is it fair use because it's "archiving" the web?

- Is it because it's on the open web and it's public domain?

- Or is it illegal, and people do it because they can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder when this technology will be good/flexible enough to use in filmmaking, where it seems like it could replace a chunk of work currently done by makeup/VFX, and give real-time results.

There’s an old Asimov short story, Gold, which describes a future of filmmaking that seems more similar to this than the way movies are currently made: everything is animated/CGI, but in real-time—the animators are performers as well who deliver their performance while the director offers feedback.
> Debian patches too much

It does. This is partly because of The Debian Guarantee: I think that's why they delivered a castrated version of FFMPEG.

If upstream is deemed non-free, then they should just put the package in non-free, and delete it from main. Mangling upstream so they can squeeze it into main is worse than pointless.
Gosh, imagine what the conspiracy theorists will say.
They experience time backwards too.
The lesson that OpenSSL code is terrible was learnt much harder way in 2014 with Heartbleed, and lead to LibreSSL existence.
Is that even true? Because I recall the opposite.