skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you were writing good messages, were things very conversational and informal?

What else would they be?

> Did you ever get reviews from women about how you were good at conversing?

No, but women rarely respond at all so I'm not exactly surprised by that. Even the women I eventually went on dates with never mentioned it.

> Would you are cognizant of messaging social norms

I would say I actively detest messaging social norms. I write legible full English sentences just like you see here because I'm an adult. I specifically ruled out women who obviously felt differently.

> If you're very attractive, yes.

If anything I would say that being very attractive is the only circumstance under which you can reliably get results without spamming low-effort messages.

> But if you're aren't very attractive and you're sending bad messages, how is that more successful than sending good messages?

Numbers. What my experience taught me was that message content was basically unimportant, what mattered was reaching out to as many potentials as possible in the hopes of a few being receptive.

It was a strategy I detested. Combined with the general tediousness and awfulness of the online dating experience I decided I'd rather not date than engage in it.

By "low-effort" I mean messages that are basically form letters one can apply to anyone so you don't have to put any thought into crafting them for the person you're trying to talk to.
Would you mind taking the time to provide a screenshot? What you suggested sounds like a good idea to me!
Yep. One day oil will be too valuable to burn.
“If you are a New Zealander, then you should know better. Freedom of speech is NOT an unalienable right in NZ, nor has it ever been”

I do know better. It should be an inalienable right. We probably will pass these hate speech laws. We will suffer for it. The founding fathers of the USA got this one right. Trying to engineer society is not a good idea.

It’s not the governments job to descide what speech is okay and what speech is not.
But they're not talking about keto if they're eating fries etc. Added oil is not good - in excess fat builds up in the cells and is responsible for insulin resistance. With ketosis this is temporarily staved off, but you will still likely have insulin problems when you go off keto, it doesn't actually fix anything, just offer temporary relief.
>I agree discovery of 3D interactions is terrible -- essentially nonexistent -- which does justify the epithet "useless" to some degree.

I've had iPhones for work for years and I'm just learning about this functionality today from reading this thread.
How about writing a blog? You are clearly already a good writer. I'm an author and writing helps me clarify my thoughts and has spurred my growth in ways that is complementary to my technical development.

I wondered when I checked out your profile and involvement on repl.it if you didn't have a blog and/or didn't host things on your own servers if this is because this is challenging for a 13 year old who does not have access to credit cards, etc?
Erm, IBM Plex, of course... ;-)

https://github.com/IBM/plex
IANAL, I believe the whole idea behind GPL is to make sure GPL supersede what you might claim otherwise. So if the federal government can possibly make a derived work into public domain (or crown copyright if UK) instead of GPL, that's a loophole in GPL!

(I know this work is not GPL, but similar idea applies)
I’m finding a lot of disco- and funk-influenced easy listening pop; am I listening to the wrong thing? Is there a particular song that would help me see the connection?
Compare respective sovereign wealth funds: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2016/09/24/h...

IMO you're on a hiding to nothing trying to support your position that the comparison isn't valid. The economic export situation is structurally quite similar between Norway and Australia, and the difference in how they've handled it is vast, far greater than any multiple in population.
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I can imagine a lot of things that will never happen.
I'm hoping that's the case. I'm also aware that you have to say you're voting UCP in a lot of places in Alberta, or you'll be under intense social pressure. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised.
Where you can find a good amp/DAC for $20?
>Amazingly, when the gut microbes from obese mice are transplanted into thin mice, with no change in diet, thin mice become fat!

I couldn't believe this, and I was so thankful for the link! Now I'll watch the Ted video and keep reading the other article.
I can only imagine the hours of meetings and deliberation that went into developing a one-size-fits-all, cross agency font. That meets all sorts of weird political and accessibility guidelines.

Still, it only has to be done once! I'm a huge fan of what the USWDS has done so far. I love the model of an internal tech resource for the government.
>something like 80% of men that are becoming disenfranchised

Are you arguing men have a right to sex? Disenfranchisement is the taking away of rights, that's it's definition. If not, you should be more careful using that phrasing.
From my understanding, a document can have a header, footer, and/or multiple articles[0], with each article potentially having a header/footer specific to the article[1]. Presumably, the article(s) should be contained in a <main>.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ar...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Usin...
Your body also prefers to metabolize ethanol (which provides quite a bit of energy, by the way) before anything else in the bloodstream.

What does that tell you?

Absolutely nothing. I could go with the "get rid of poison" narrative, but that is a bit too extreme and is usually taken with a great deal of psychological resistance. I couldn't blame you.

Also, I believe that a well-formulated ketogenic diet is pretty far from starvation, enabling me to do exactly the same, if not more, as when I was running on carbohydrate. Of course, you might believe otherwise, but do take the time to think critically about where this belief stems from.
The major form of mineral production in Australia is mining, not oil.

Per http://www.worldstopexports.com/coal-exports-country/ in 2017 Australia exported $40.6 billion of coal, for a population of ~25 million. Per http://www.worldstopexports.com/iron-ore-exports-country/ it also exported $49.3 billion of iron ore. Per http://www.worldstopexports.com/gold-exports-country/ it also exported $13.1 billion of gold. Just between those three items that works out to ~$4k per person for the year.

Per http://www.worldstopexports.com/worlds-top-oil-exports-count... Norway exported $26 billion of oil, for a population of ~5 million. So about $5k per person for the year.

Now both countries do other resource-extraction stuff too. Norway's natural gas exports are almost equal to their oil exports, as far as I can tell. Australia's annual exports of natural gas seem to be in the $40-$50 billion range depending on the year you look at (it's grown a lot recently). And Australia is doing a bunch of non-iron-ore and non-gold mining too (gems come to mind).

Overall, per capita resource extraction revenue in Norway is certainly higher than in Australia, but it's not the "25x" higher than the oil numbers alone would indicate. Maybe 2x.
No, it's just as the parent describes: A Thunderbolt-to-PCIe bridge chip, a short PCIe connection, a PCIe Firewire host chip, and a microcontroller to coordinate.
I definitely considered this! But rem feels more predictable and straightforward. I have seen debates on em vs. rem, and there is certainly value with em in websites that have lots of nested and/or discrete responsive components, but for a very simple site, I quite like rem.
And they do make money off of dongles[0]. It is obviously a small percentage of their overall revenue, but even a couple percentage points is sizable at Apple's size.

[0]https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/24/dongle-top-seller-apple-best-...
WRT to the safety note, it's not as bad as CRT TVs where you had to worry about discharging voltages of 25 kV or so, but point taken.
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It is sad that any nice font looks like crap with Windows font rendering.
Why would we go beyond step 2? As a taxpayer, I could buy the argument that the govt needs a new font, and that, having made one, it should make said font available for free so taxpayers can get the benefit.

I don't see why my taxes should fund a public CDN, though.
The older I get, the more skeptical I become. Kudos to the author for releasing their project, it looks like a lot of effort went into it, so I hate to sound overly negative, but I just can't help wonder if there is a practical reason for the US government to develop its own font?

Is Sans Serif Fonts the department where the US government can really make a difference, or is this just a designer who happened to get a job with the US government and designed a font because they always wanted to and now they got the opportunity?
The key word is "neutral". The government doesn't set a preference for a specific font or organization.
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Google's profit is driven primarily by ads. The old web is no longer the primary target for Google. Companies like this should probably stop pretending they are non-profit charity or labeling themselves as enablers of a 'better world'. At least this way people would have more realistic expectation, but hey, why should a mega-corp care what people really want...
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> Black text has been fine since the first printing press

Keep in mind that paper is not an emissive surface, like an LCD panel is. Black-on-white is fine for e.g. e-ink displays or calibrated brightness (~15-30% on most displays, which is not the default).
Also inspired by the UK version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service
The question there would be what damage was caused while the denturization was ongoing - if it was decades of slowly pulling teeth, that doesn't strike me as evidence of excellent hygiene.
How is the USWDS specifying a font license? It's a derivative work, so the license comes from upstream.
I see this attitude a lot on HN, something along the lines of "the social problems created by this new/hypothetical technology would be hard to solve, so let's not bother trying". But as the current social media regulation fracas shows, if technologists are unwilling to engage with broader society to address the problems they create, solutions will be imposed upon them by politicians who are probably less informed about which measures are or aren't effective.

We're willing to devote a lot of time and effort to solving hard technical problems, we should be at least as willing to use some of that energy to solve the associated social problems as well.
Not even close.

Also these are features that are already proven to work.
Monitoring a server cluster using Grafana and InfluxDB
It's not about whether it makes money.

It's a way to drastically reduce the waste from the process.
Elizabeth Warren: if data gets stolen, throw tech CEOs in prison
That could be the case, but unless you have actual data supporting it, it's just speculation.

My point is: the perception that most gamers are men, who on average spend more of their time gaming than women, lacks supporting data. It is easily explained by psychological factors such as confirmation bias and stereotyping.
Fabric is just being migrated under Firebase, that's not really a fair comparison.
> We need to force contribution, because software corporations won't give back otherwise

This is untrue; plenty of permissively-licensed projects are supported by code contributions and dedicated paid support by software companies who use their code. You don't need copyleft, much less something new beyond copyleft, to get that.

What Redis and others want gratis-but-proprietary licensing for is to prevent cloud services companies from competing with their SaaS offerings, not to force anyone to “give back”.
Once people accept that it's fine for social media to censor political speech, it's only a small mental leap to hand over that same control to the government. This development should come as no surprise as government officials see the thunderous applause heaped on media companies when they ban "problem people".
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Winning US prison system as usual.
Love gimp and have used it forever, but not sure what they did with arbitrary rotation in the 2.10 branch, it's a bit of a mess. It used to be easy to fix photos with non-level horizons.

Now, every time I need to select the higher interpolation quality, preview results (huh), and put in my own guidelines manually since the builtin rotation guides are on the image itself (and rotate with it) instead of perpendicular to the window (wtf). Bass-ackwards?

Wonder if that was fixed, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong?
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I've got to save browser CPU cycles! /s
Video chat wouldn't be so bad if the friends or relatives can't physically be there.

But not as a 1:1 replacement. And certainly not for a fee. It's asinine for someone to have to pay for this and I hope someone drops a lawsuit on them for this obvious travesty.
In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, "How dare you molest the seas?" To which the pirate replied, "How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor." St. Augustine thought the pirate's answer was "elegant and excellent."

That being said, I can't say they are not scumbags.
Why bother having an architect of the Capitol, then? Why bother building government buildings out of stone when wood is cheaper? Appearances matter: would you want to do your taxes with Comic Sans?
IIRC the USDS is also in part based on GDS[1] who did (and continue to do) a really good job at dragging parts of the government kicking and screaming into the future.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...
Sexual intimacy is one of the "pillars" on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
The American drug market funds third and fourth homes for the C-levels.
I'm with you on fonts. So much so that my first Firefox customization on any computer is locking down the font. Every webpage gets the same font, because I like that font and find it readable and I don't see why I should have to look at anything else.

Content :: Fonts and Colors :: Advanced :: Allow pages to choose their own fonts
One danger I can see coming up is that if someone writes incorrect code it could end up propagating throughout other codebases. I guess this is still an issue without automatic tools, but I feel like this might make it easier…
Bleve originated as part of a solution to a problem customers faced when using Couchbase. Almost all customers have at least some sort of search use case, but often times that use case isn't particularly complicated. Many of them were running an ES cluster, moving the data from Couchbase to ES with an adapter, and using that to solve their search use case.

However, many of those same users complained about having to operate another cluster, especially ones that weren't already using the JVM (since it was a skill set they didn't have).

So, the appeal was to offer a service that runs as a part of the Couchbase cluster. It wouldn't have to match every feature of ES, just shoot for 80/20 and customers would likely find it beneficial.

It was fortunate that Go was still growing in popularity within Couchbase at that time, and we were able to position Bleve as a true open-source component, on top of which some money-making value add could be layered.
It's not the connector that breaks. Making the actual cable thicker shouldn't cause anything else to fail first, and the nature of a short piece of cable connected directly to a phone is to get horribly bent all the time; it needs thickness.
I read this article looking for examples of Iran involved in terrorism in America, rather than attacks on US military or state department personnel outside of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...

I did in fact find this single example: "a 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US and bomb the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Washington, D.C.[37]"

I'll just say this flat out, as an American civilian, I don't get the impression that Iran has made any real attempt to terrorize me. Not once have I ever been afraid of dying at the hands of an Iranian bomb. I think America's stance towards Iran has more to do with Iran's stance towards Israel than it does with Iran's stance towards me. Israel, despite their claims to the contrary, is a nuclear power. They're big boys, they can handle Iran themselves. Why does America need to get involved in their spat? Hasn't America meddled enough in Iran over the past century?

>"The military coup that overthrew Mossadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," the document says, using a variation of the spelling of Mossadegh's name. While this might be the CIA's first formal nod, the U.S. role has long been known. President Barack Obama acknowledged the United States' involvement in the coup during a 2009 speech in Cairo. "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government," the president said.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/
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That goes both ways.

To be honest, you can bear the burden of proof yourself. If you want to show me I'm wrong, I'm more than willing to review the evidence. Unless of course you're just projecting the whole armchair thing onto others.

Lastly, if you think of it, asking others to prove the irrelevance of LDL with regards to CVD is straight non-sense. Do I also have to prove to you that wearing grey socks doesn't cause disease?
All glue is dough if you're brave enough.
I suppose that gravitational waves may be ever so slightly attenuated as they pass through matter, but the coupling is so weak that we probably wouldn't notice. (Think of how hard LIGO had to search before they found the first black hole merger signal.) So even for waves, the gravitational effects of the sun would be all but unaffected by Mercury or Venus being in the way.

For a static 1/r^2 field, intervening matter has very little effect at all. (There are non-linearities in principle, but for all but the most extreme configurations they're negligible in practice.) Certainly when the Newtonian approximation holds you can just add up the separate 1/r^2 effects of all the separate sources to find the overall effect. (This, by the way, is very similar to the behavior of electromagnetic fields. The waves are attenuated or blocked by intervening matter fairly easily, but it takes a pretty special situation to actually block the 1/r^2 effects of a static electric or magnetic field: you'd need to surround your system in a conducting "cage" that would polarize in response to an external electric field to cancel out the effects of that field inside, for example. That isn't possible for gravity, since there doesn't exist negative mass to do the screening.)

Ultimately, the 1/r^2 rule really is intimately connected to the three dimensions of space in our universe. In theories with additional spatial dimensions, that rule changes. Many theories with extra dimensions follow the Kaluza-Klein model, where the extra dimensions are "curled up" very small (in the sense that if you were to travel a distance L in that extra dimension, you'd come back to where you started: like a little circle). In the case of one extra dimension like that, if you were to measure the behavior of gravity over distances much shorter than L, you'd find that the gravitational force fell off like 1/r^3, but if you measured its behavior over distances much longer than L you'd find the familiar 1/r^2. (And for that reason, we know that the L for any system like this must be very small: my memory is that direct gravity measurements can set a limit like L<1mm or maybe even L<1 micron, and indirect evidence from things like particle physics observations pushes the limit down to the nuclear scale or below: L<10^(-15) m or even much less. I probably ought to know the actual values of both of those limits off the top of my head, but it's been a while since I looked at it.)
If you want your aluminum capacitors to fail less often:

- If you are designing the PCB and not repairing, keep them as far away from heat sources as possible. If you're repairing a PCB and the caps are near heat sources, consider isolating them with thermal material

- Use the highest temperature rating capacitor that you can find, if cost is not a concern.

- Most caps now have a lifetime rating such as (4000 hrs in 85C). This lifetime also has built-in ripple current assumptions, but for a first order approximation, consider using the "longest rated at highest temperature" cap, if cost is not a concern.

- Again, as a very rough guideline, use the highest voltage rated capacitor that you can find for your target rail. This is an approximation, because your second goal should be to generally keep the ESR (equivalent series resistance) low, and as the voltage rating increases, so does ESR. Commercial products tend to choose the voltage rating around 1.2x - 1.5x target voltage. Most industrial products that I've seen target a minimum of 2x.
I completely agree with the sentiment. Even if you're not going to do it as a job, knowing how to program enables you to think about problems in a different way, plus you occasionally still get to solve problems that other people cannot. And I also agree that advertising job prospects to kids is disingenuous.

> But someone who has some curiosity about how things work, and some experience of making them work

That's probably the biggest issue. I don't blame kids for not seeing a meaningful niche there, because we're entering a time where the inner workings of things are abstracted away, and often times they're even hidden away by force.

"Have you ever thought about how text appears on a screen?" is something I could latch on to as a kid, it's very difficult to transfer that perspective to a person growing up today. I'm not necessarily lamenting this. There will always be people who get into computing no matter what. But I don't see a worse path for those who don't. There are many things modern humans in general are not literate about, and I suspect computing will join these fields.
i theorize it isn’t lower than i think because the article hints that companies not selling the product at what the market will bear, and instead would rather price it to a specific margin. to me this is a special industry in that, if your gamble of profitability doesn’t pay off for something that already has sunk cost, don’t take it off the market, just sell it for whatever price the market will bear. that’s your moral responsibility.... not sure what the argument against that would be
DDG has become my first stop. It gets me what I need 90% of the time.
> caused the Tesla to veer into the reverse lane by placing interference stickers on a road, which confused the lane-recognition system

So it makes you lose control of the car except you can easily regain control of the car by manually steering it. How is this better than a spike strip?