skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All women are going after the same top x% of men, so most men miss out. Men are a lot less picky, but the women they’re interested in are too determined on being with the top x% to be interested in them.

Sounds a lot like job searching too.

But really though, dating is just a market like any other. And these new apps have done nothing but facilitate "price discovery" at a level of efficiency we're not used to. For attractive heterosexual men, it's literally the greatest thing ever. I can turn on Bumble and be messaged by dozens of women within hours. But the flip side of that is what it does to people. Everyone becomes flakey, and treats others as disposable in a way that never existed before. You see it everywhere in society now.
Can you give an example of a legitimate use case?
this is like saying the same about computers in the 60s. there are many applications besides cryptography, and there is already fairly robust research into post-quantum crypto.
That's odd.
I agree - which is why I’ve kept an eye on Fastpack as a replacement for my biggest bottleneck which is bundling — which is really just a special case of a compiler in a lot of ways. OCaml is brilliant for these tasks.

https://github.com/fastpack/fastpack/blob/master/README.md
The question is: which languages _require_ their own root filesystem. Because all of them can join the single executable party now too.
I discovered an interest in DevOps recently, so I worked on a few side projects using AWS.
When it comes to languages or frameworks:

- nodejs (express) coupled with ECS for deployments
- vuejs for a small project
- a tiny bit of Go

A few weeks ago, started a new project with Flutter and I have to say I am pretty convinced so far:

- great tooling
- easy to setup
- close enough to react when it comes to principles
- but a bit too verbose for my taste.

I also have my Arduino starter kit unopened on my desk.
I learned that I don't like tech. Everything is good for me as long as it helps me achieve my goal with a good level of automation and low maintenance.
> This means shitty native apps, walled gardens and DRM.

This was the case before ad-blocking was popular.

Native apps with spyware and malware were the norm before web apps became a viable way to ensure people couldn't copy software.

DRM was around before most people had internet access, for example, CSS on DVDs was introduced in 1996[1].

For a lot of people, their first introduction the internet was through a walled garden[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System

[2] AOL's 'Walled Garden' (2000): https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB968104011203980910
One very practical reason is to save on computation costs. GPU servers are not cheap and if you're going to run on CPU anyway, you might as well run it locally on the user's browser.

Some demos such as real time object detection isn't possible at all if you had to pay roundtrip server latency (not to mention the complexity of streaming video to and from your server): https://github.com/ModelDepot/tfjs-yolo-tiny

And a lot of web demos such https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/ I don't believe will be up for such a long time if the author had to pay ongoing server costs.
Crypto related stuff(BTC/ETH).
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I developed a google home app which just tells you inspiring quotes. Learning nodejs for that app.
App here:
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Write up about the development here: https://medium.com/coinmonks/developing-a-google-assistant-a...
I totally agree with you. Japan is afar far ahead of a ton of countries.

I think there is the external look where we can assert they are well off and don’t risk to die, and the internal look where social pressure, actual mental state and comparing themselves to the image pushed by the media and previous generations make them feel like they are barely alive and way beyond where they should be to qualify as “well off” by society’s standard.

I am not justifying that kind of tunnel view (though I am sympathic to a certain point. Working 12h a day a shitty job to barely pay the rent would make me sick), just that people in that kind of spiral won’t feel like they have enough resource to care for another human or two.
Solidity is a language running on Ethereum to implement Smart Contracts
I learned XQuery (v3.1), which was a lot of fun!
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Juul was spun-off from Pax (unclear to me if Pax still owns a portion of it). And Juul's nicotine is the "big driver" of Juul's sales, not weed (as the commenter above claims)
No, it's a scam. Please do not relink it.
I've been working on a very similar tool, interesting to see some competition. :-)

https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase

In my case, it's still running as JS, but rearchitected to solve the more straightforward problem where you don't need to compile to ES5. I've thought about rewriting it in Rust to see how much faster it gets, though currently I'm trying to get it running in WebAssembly via AssemblyScript ( https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript ), which has been promising.

I'm curious about the about the Babel performance comparison. Benchmarking JS is tricky because, from my observations, the performance improves by a factor of ~20 if you give it 5-10 seconds for the JIT to fully optimize everything. https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/issues/216 . Rust and WebAssembly both have a significant advantage in that sense when running on small datasets.
There's no debate about the obvious fact that intentionally inflationary currency has less inflation than intentionally deflationary currency. The debate is whether the inflationary currency generates more economic growth than deflationary currency (by stimulating productivity in otherwise idle labor/capital), and most economic policymakers believe it does.
Blokada is great, however I believe Reddit does a lot of paid native advertising and interweaving of ads within content.

I don't believe the ads in the latter category are pulled from an ad server, they're served from the same source as real content. Could be wrong though, I haven't used Reddit in a while.
Here’s a Dutch report:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748...
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Define "useful".

I personally have 3 AWS certifications (All of the associate level).

Their use to me was 1) When studying for them, I learned a ton more about the platform and 2) Recruiters and employers love it - I get even more job/interview offers now.
Exactly, i didn't attend any college and I've been into business for long time. I've no shortage of girls who want to date me.

You need to be good looking and independent. I am somwhat typical asshole type (i am improving), yet it works fine:)

None of the women i dated were richer than me.
Most libertarians and anarchists I've talked to do and have considered this.
if there's any bright side to this, there's the hope that the more absurd, restrictive & clearly unfair google's actions become, the more incentive there will be for businesses to move away from these walled gardens entirely. users will only deal with so much inconvenience from centralized providers before they trade it for the inconvenience of uncensorable alternatives. for the free and open internet, this is probably the best thing in the long run.
At what age? I don't think this is necessarily a refutation of the parent comment even when accounting for the fact that many women in the internet dating demographic aren't old enough to marry yet. If you limit age level to, say, under 30 (probably even older at this point), then up to that age the parent comment could be true while after that age women find their options more limited and choose to settle for the less than X% men and get married.
Money isn't real. It is a promise to produce value. If the promise is broken, the alternative is to stop playing the game.
Simply googling "workers comp fraud statistics", the first hit says 1-2% of all claims are fraudulent.

You can detect the disease by looking for the antibodies. As the top commenter (former examiner) pointed out, it's common for insurers to hire private detectives to investigate claims. That's a large expense that they wouldn't undertake without a good economic reason.
I had a client ask me to fix an ancient web app of theirs, written in VB.NET and barely touched since 2005/6. As a bonus it had no source control. So that was new (to me).

Back to Rails and PostgreSQL for me. Neither new nor exciting but it pays the bills.
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Correct. The $750k number is the cap on the debt for which you can deduct paid interest from. So, if you borrow 1 million dollars to buy a house, you only get to deduct 3/4 of the interest now, instead of the full amount. Interest on smaller loans continues to be fully deductible.

Doubling the standard deduction may have a perverse inventive against borrowing less (or simply buying cheaper homes) as, depending on your situation, it may be better than itemizing.

I think it's debatable whether the mortgage interest deduction really plays heavily into a noticeable amount of people's decision to buy or not; unless you are having a hard time deciding to buy or rent, there are a lot of other, larger factors.

Finally, I believe that doubling the standard deduction and eliminating a number of other deductions is a small, first step towards creating a simpler tax code- such a code wouldn't be as useful for social engineering (help middle class buy more small homes) but there are plenty of benefits, too.
The fundamentals never change. If I had to guess, your anxiety is from an overload of information and paralysis by analysis. It's easy to get lost in noise.

I remind myself of this whenever I feel like I'm being swallowed up in a rabbit hole of videos and opinions.

Do you have a math background?
The thing that ultimately saved me from what I think is a similar problem to yours, and bear with me, is mathematics, particularly Discrete Math. I learned to program long before I discovered an interest in mathematics and the difference in skill, confidence and happiness is stark.

Many programmers go on about how math is not really necessary for programming. They are wrong. Sure, you can get by and you can do creative things and have a job that doesn't require "CS theory" but you'll be forever hamstrung by the torrent of shit being hurled at you from every direction at all times. You'll forever be at the mercy of bad tutorials, shortcuts and conveniences.

Mathematical thinking is the antidote to this kind of paralysis and insecurity. It's the power of knowing how similar things really are in computing and how little it's really changed. It's the power to eliminate bullshit.

You'll still have to learn new languages and tech but you'll be far greater equipped to detect and avoid the garbage.

Mathematical thinking is a super power in this field.
I think the C++ committee has gone a step or few too far. This code is horribly ugly.
Well, there is unshare. The problem really is network devices, which require tinkering with C.
I would like to know the same.
Recommended: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-sff-nov...
> 2FA is a user interface disaster, exporting the failures of software security as a huge annoyance on to users

I'd argue that it's exporting the failures of human psychology, not software security.

Sure, there are some pretty egregiously bad technologies underlying a lot of industry standard encrypted-communication/authentication/identity-management systems (including HTTPS). No argument that the tools and practices on the technical side could be way better.

But even if technical security was executed 100% perfectly, if the inputs to those systems remain usernames and passwords, people will be incredibly vulnerable. It's just too easy to [re]use weak usernames/passwords, too easy to write them down, and too easy to forget them (requiring "forgot password" attack vectors).

I agree with you that MFA is much more inconvenient than traditional U/P authentication. But I don't think it's inconvenient because of a failure in software security; it's inconvenient because it's extra work, and it has to be extra work because, well, people suck at diligence and security.
Not op, but acid test is a great read too on the same topic
Note that as opposed to xtrace and Wireshark, it isn't a proxy. It either parses libwayland's output or is a GDB plugin that integrates with libwayland.
I'm sorry, but I'm kind of tired of the idea that some problems are "deep voodoo hard". It casts it in an inaccessible light, creating a culture that new folks internalize, guiding then away from ever even trying.

Unless we're talking about "understanding neural network internals", which is a big open problem, there just really aren't "black magic" problems inherent to particular subjects. It's almost always poor spec definition or poor code design, if there are any hand-waivey bits to be found.

If anything, compiler design (along with other subjects like text editor development) is a very deeply studied, very well understood, very well documented field. It should be easier than any other fields less central to computer science and software development, just on account of not being so thoroughly studied.

EDIT: fixed autocorrect problems
Strongly disagree; intelligence does not prevent illogical behavior at all.
> It's sometimes useful for non-Americans to think of the U.S. like a federation of weak semi-autonomous countries.

That may have been true in the 18th and 19th century, but since the early 1900s, I don't think it's accurate to say that anymore. Nearly every state power has been checked by the federal court system at some point during the 20th century [0].

I didn't know about the Police-Jury system, but it's surely the exception. Wouldn't you agree that state and local governments mostly act within the bounds defined by the federal government?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
Happy with 1G Hyperoptic too. There's IPV6 or £5/month if you want your own IPv4 otherwise it's CGNAT.
List of other tools to debug Wayland (scroll down to "Debugging tools"): https://wayland.freedesktop.org/extras.html
The separation of implementation and algorithm, and the utility of formal specs and proofs. This roughly translates to machine assisted proofs and model checking. Namely, ACL2 and TLA+.

I found these technologies and methods enormously beneficial to abstract thinking and producing good systems.

Leslie Lamport, creator of TLA+ (and LaTeX), put out a lot of content about this topic and I was lucky enough to stumble upon it.
Well, you have to look at it from a big-data perspective. E.g. train a classifier on a large number of successful and not so successful marriages (or non-partners), using DNA as the underlying data. Now use this classifier to suggest partners in a dating app.

Regarding pheromones, there's a lot of scientific research [1]. For example:

> Individuals rated those of the opposite sex as more attractive if they preferred the individuals pheromones odour.

Now I suppose that preference for pheromones is (at least partially) encoded in DNA somehow. So you can see what I'm getting at.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odour_and_sexual_attracti...
I can only speak for the male side, since said acquaintances are male.

Men almost never get matched back. Even moderate to moderate good looking men in stable careers get matched back ~10% of the time, and get fewer dates still.
I started my job last year in July as a search engineer in a major Indian e-commerce company straight out of college and was really glad to be able to work using one of the most beautiful tech stacks I've seen - Golang microservices talking to Apache Solr, Redis and a little bit of MySQL/Mongo connected to the external world through RabbitMQ.

I learnt writing good abstractions, organising code, the value of commenting the WHYs instead of the WHATs. I learnt about the amazing power of Redis wire protocol for mass insertions (reducing a 6 hour data import job to under 10 minutes using nothing but a CSV file and 4 lines of sed).

I also learnt a lot about debugging systems. Trying to find the root cause, fixing it and creating processes to prevent it from repeating.

I also got to work on a few hacky one-off solutions for scaling a legacy PHP monolith by redirecting all Memcache calls to a PHP class file which is basically a dump of all the Memcache data. I was overjoyed once I saw our legacy stack able to sustain over 6k orders per minute whereas it crumbled at around 1200 orders per minute earlier.

I also got to debug issues arising due to saturated network switches across two floors in our colocation DC.

All in all a great year.

I also saw how it feels to be laid off due to restructuring after a merger (with Walmart) after having worked tirelessly for the company and learnt how important it is to have a support system. I'm glad my amazing peers could arrange over 20 interviews for me within two weeks and I was back on a new job. I was also glad for the amazing severance pay that the organisation gave me.

I am glad for my first job, my first professional circle and all the learning that it gave me.
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A simple double pendulum simulation
I think dynamic FP programming is actually doing quite well these days. Apart from Clojure & ClojureScript, there's Erlang and Elixir, and the Racket community, and in addition it's become popular to write FP code in Javascript using Ramda, immutable.js & etc - not to mention the FP nature of React.
Thought this was fairly well-known at this point. See [1] and [2] and really any data study on Ok Cupid or Tinder.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/

[2] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
I am a newbie here. Just tried my hand at a simple simulation. Would like some comments and feedback.
What has that to do with anything?

The bill had large majority bipartisan support (which makes me suspect it's toothless...)
It sounds a lot like how Flatpak and friends work. Would be interested if there were a few detailed blog posts about it?
> dating is just a market like any other

No, it's not like any other. Dating is inherently a barter transaction. Also, the thing you're exchanging (time spent in someone else's company) is not transferrable. If you trade a sheep for a goat you can then turn around and trade the goat for something else. Not so with dating. The "product" you're exchanging is necessarily consumed at the time the transaction takes place.
I would object to the name on the basis of it influencing a misleading association. A person's brain will jump from one idea to the next based on familiar recall, and when people can't 'jump' to the correct association because their brain is filled with bad ideas that have nothing to do with the topic, then we all suffer for having to defend against it.
Yep, looks possible with code completion in the next iteration: https://twitter.com/grahamimac/status/1076881510194651136?s=...
Programming is weird. The better I get through experience and painful failure, the more I have tool anxiety. It starts with using a package for everything, now I fear updating my database drivers which tend to be the only code outside the standard lib I use. I have way more fear about exceptions and robustness. Every time I learn something hard ish like recursion I get worse for a while trying to use it all over the place. Then you learn the flaws. Now I feel like I spend all my time data modeling and liberally profiling and logging stuff, the code slinging itself barely takes time at all so I forget how much I've learned.
So because a tool is valuable you don't want to use it?
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> federal agencies should use evidence when they make public policy

the cynic in me just figures that this moves the goal post such that special interest groups will adapt to produce the right evidence for the desired outcomes
Vue.js. I use it exclusively for front end now and have ditched Angular 2/React all together. I even got it approved for use in the very large enterprise I work at (internal apps only of course, but we have a lot of those).

I also embraced messaging for good and was shocked at how easy NServiceBus makes everything regarding AMPQ.

I continued to celebrate .NET Core advancements and use it for all my server side programming.

I also dipped my feet in Scala and really like what I found .. Q1 of 2019 will be Scala heavy at work, then back to .NET Core.

E: Forget, every single project I have is set up in Azure Devops now for build/deployment. It's amazing.
I've been looking for a good platform to start putting up some personal projects, why did you like firebase so much?
It definitely is interesting. There is a huge pent up demand for a cross platform easy to use GUI lib which is manifesting in the form of people using electron despite I'd bring resource intensive.

I will say open source or not is not an issue for most. Few look at source and rare modify it. I just want an easy API.
"When it comes to actually documenting code itself, as opposed to producing
documents that can actually be read by non-programmers, the best programmers
I’ve ever known hold a universal sentiment: write self-explanatory code
and don’t document code except in the places that you cannot make it clear.
There are two good reasons for this. First, anyone who needs to see code-level
documentation will in most cases be able to and prefer to read the code anyway
...
More importantly however, is that the code and the documentation
cannot get our of sync if there is no documentation. The source code can at
worst be wrong and confusing. The documentation, if not written perfectly, can
lie, and that is a thousand times worse"

This is such baloney. I understand that many programmers want barriers of entry to their chair at the office but rationalizing it is self-deception.

The author is essentially saying to write strcmp() "self-explanatory" rather than the a black box description like:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strcmp/

strcmp() is useless without knowing what the return values mean and reading the code to figure it out is way more time consuming than reading the docs.
Not just most reps were onboard; nearly all reps voted in favor
> The problem with 'live and let live' is that you either choose to let people hurt other people, or you resolve to stop it.

Has the choice not already been made with westphalian sovereignty?
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Does Hacker News have a suggestion box?
If yes, where is it located?
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Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, it’s not like HN was above pedantry in the past.
I've spent a great deal of time parsing data out of government PDFs that isn't attainable by any other means as a part of my job. In the process I've learned how difficult this information can be to access even for people who don't require it to be in a machine readable format. It certainly has been an interesting exercise in how far simple web scraping tools can be pushed, though.
Synaptic pruning is the evolutionary equivalent of the postgres vacuum command.
The UK's effort is actually at https://data.gov.uk/ data-in.place appears to be compute_me's personal project.