skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how much unattractiveness can actually be compensated for by being more interesting

Good question - IDK! Based on what I've heard and seen (I have a lot of close friends who are women my age), there are a lot who talk about wanting someone super attractive, but all of them have also dated people who are noticeably less attractive than they are. So I'd guess the answer is somewhere between "a lot" and "a good amount". I'm sure if someone's absolutely hideous it will be a lot harder, but outside of the bottom ~10% of males, being good at conversing can make up for a lot.

> Specially since you can't do that much with photos.

As someone who isn't very attractive, I disagree. Photos can be a chance to make someone laugh or show them you have a (not-boring) personality. You can show people that you travel or do something adventurous, show people you like cute animals or are affectionate, show people a party pic so they see your wild side, etc. You just show them the attributes you want them to see, and make them want to be with you based on what they see.
FWIW, I think most reasonable people would call this moving the goal posts.

Most people in western societies at any given time are engaged in monogamous relationships. In fact, it's a crime in the U.S. to get married when you're already married to another person. Western governments don't recognize polygamous arrangements for tax purposes, etc.
When wireless is much more expensive, this is unlikely.
The underlying issue is that Lyft stock price is too expensive and earlier professional investors know it. They want to hedge their position before Lyft bubble bursts.

If Lyft IPO price had been lower (... or more reasonable) this problem would not exist.
Code Caching for JavaScript Developers
From my experience I can say that the web is filled with garbage that tries to exploit whichever search engine you may be using, while also trying to exploit your own attention with flashy headlines and sensationalistic content. These two go hand in hand.

It wasn't that long ago that any Google search would return a big list of blog entries; personal, non-commercial blogs, that is. That was the case with YouTube, as well. I remember people making and uploading videos just for the sake of it. Even I did that (I had a January 2006 account), and the purpose was only one: sharing what you liked to engage in. Nothing more. I guess that's part of the long-gone, old web. When I browse the web nowadays, I feel like I am constantly being sold something, because I actually am.
AWS Serverless skeleton project using Python
The+unreliable+‘facts’+of+a+fact-Checking+site
Growing Idea Growr
That's interesting.

When all is said and done, I'm not opposed to discriminating against future renters.

My reasoning: I grew up in Portland, and I love(d) the art and music scene there. And, lots of the people who were at the forefront of building that culture (rightly or wrongly) did not (or could not) invest in their long term housing future by buying a crappy house in a terrible neighborhood that now is totally gentrified. I feel like they made an investment in the quality of life that I benefited from, and rent control seems like it helps them. It does discriminate against future renters. But, isn't that the point, that future renters didn't invest in the city in the same way? I would love to find a solution that makes it so that future artists can come in and make the same contributions without having to be trustafarians, and it seems like organizations like the Actors Fund in NYC (https://actorsfund.org/) work to make this possible in a small way.

I do see that rent control policies discriminate (prevents a pure free market) against property owners. But, it does not seem like we are really accounting for all the benefits they get when a property increases in value because of the investments made by renters in the area. If we could do that honestly, maybe we could come up with a more honest way to handle rent control.
One of the obvious solutions for this is to charge hosting fees, something like users paying $2 per video upload or so.

I think the video misses one basic point that so far youtube tries to fight fakes with technology instead of just limiting the number of videos uploaded or letting human moderators view the videos -- which would undercut their market dominance.

It is a lot easier to say, oh hey, we've got this technology and people are bad at their biases, instead for example, we're subsidizing this venture to gain market dominance so everyone is able to upload whatever on youtube, but with even this subsidy we are unable to do appropriate content moderation.

Foums and mail lists 30 years ago had that feature.
The Global MLCC Shortage
CloudFormation YAML being terrible is well known, to the point that AWS did precisely what that person suggested.

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk

They are in the process of releasing a kit to define your infrastructure programmatically, and let them deal with the mess of CloudFormation as a compiled IR they send to their backend when you deploy.
what is a challenger bank?
As opposed to the way it was before where if you didn’t have insurance , you could go to the emergency room and they still had to treat you?
Can we add this to the projects Google started and terminated?

I think this would be the winner for fastest shutdown.
Reminds me of surfraw:

https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Surfraw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw

> Surfraw (Shell Users Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) is a free public domain POSIX-compliant (i.e. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines.[1] It was created in July 2000 by Julian Assange[2] and is licensed in the public domain[3] and written in the Bourne shell language.

Yes, it's apparently that Julian Assange.
Tennis Racket Theorem
Outright specifying there are no cameras in the house may make you a target for bad actors looking for vulnerable properties.

This is something I would mention to people after they accept the rental agreement, preferably face to face.

If asked, I would say no cameras currently but planning to install by rent date, even if you end up not really doing it.
Well hopefully other internet services will engage in the same behavior against Europe.

I wonder how many billions of dollars in damages would be done to them, if Google, or Wikipedia, or GitHub started blocking traffic to their.
Upwards of five years, actually. It was already declining when they decided to fuck the +WORD operator for their Facebook ripoff.
That exists for AWS:

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk
> For majority of the public who use a VPN provider, they are essentially shifting all the risks of their personal privacy from a highly regulated industry (ISP) to one that is much less regulated (VPN providers).

But I don't like the logs that my ISP is _required_ to keep, an and the organisations that have access to them as a result. A VPN removes that.

> but there's no law in preventing a VPN provider not to do so

GDPR.

(for a UK perspective)
PageRank is predicated on an assumption that most pages (and thus, most links) are created/curated by humans. This was true when it was invented, but appears to be less likely now.

What gives me pause here is all the anecdotes in this thread about other engines getting results right. If the real answer is "PageRank has been successfully flooded by bots", then everyone would have bad results.

What I suspect, off nearly no evidence, is that Google is using ad tracking to inform a notion of search relevancy. My nearly unjustified belief is that that system is the one being flooded by bots.
My bank doesn't _and_ there's a redirect to a different domain (rbs.co.uk homepage does to personal.rbs.co.uk, rbs.co.uk/englandandwales or the login link goes to rbsdigital.com). Serve a redirect on the non-HTTPS rbs.co.uk to some other plausible domain with a valid HTTPS certificate, and I probably wouldn't notice.
Sci-hub doesn’t seem to have it, but Google shows the full paper mentions something about simulation. It looks like it’s only 8 oscillators and they actually built a physical implementation — why couldn’t this all have been done in simulation?
Probably because a person can more trivially be taught vpn = privacy than understanding ANY of the details and be legitimately better off especially if they are doing other stupid things like using unencrypted pop3 or use the same password at random http site as they use on their bank.
Precise brain stimulation boosts memory
PayPal is rolling out the Venmo debit card, and they also offer reward credit cards in partnership with Synchrony Bank.
I'd love to see some more projects with similar instructions to: https://github.com/mosuka/blast/blob/master/README.md#wikipe...

To give a feel for a similar use case, and the ability to run a simple benchmark...
> Emotional and mental cost to the programmer is of less importance.

Only if you want it to be like that.

It's as if an assembly worker from 1930 was telling his mates that working 90 hours a week and wasting his health for a few $ is ok because it's good for their bosses.

Might be ok if you're the #1 in a SV startup, sure, but everywhere else I doubt it'll take you very far.
I would argue this is actually a separate thing. Rent control does one thing. Zoning laws like they have in SF that prevent building more dense structures prevent people from selling in one area and then finding a new property that is much smaller in the same area. The combination of rent control and NIMBY zoning laws makes downsizing challenging.
IMO, Youtube changed for the better. It used to focus on controversial and current, now it focus on curated and evergreen content. Exactly the kind of thing people in this thread are missing from Google Search.

Maybe some similar change is coming to Search.
If you listen to the rhetoric in Alberta, many Albertan's feels they are paying more than their fair share - there's talk this election cycle about somehow renegotiating the transfer payments. It's all talk about rolling back subsidies for alternative energy, and going even more whole hog into O&G. I'm an Albertan and I don't get it, I don't get it at all. I'll be voting for what seems to be the losing party this election.
Holos Generator
Yea.. Even one of my friends with an Ivy degree read and espoused the views of a popular conservative pundit for years, even lauding them as as basically a religious liberal.

People throughout history are the same as they are today. Subservient to authority, self-serving, lazy thinkers, and barely even able to think for themselves in the first place.
> All you need to do is use Firebase

"All you need to do is rewrite your software to use a different solution"

You do understand why this isn't an OK answer to a lot of people, right?
Real-Time Interaction Between Maps with Socket.io and JavaScript
Almost no one I know routinely uses checks in the US, possibly with the exception of businesses.

Interbank transfers are free & fast enough (24-48 hours). Apps like Venmo give them a nice enough UI.
Maybe... or maybe it's saying "Your privacy is so valuable, imagine what we could get for that on the open market."
Folks here downvote anything that isn't approved by Big Pharma. HN is too intellectual for its own good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_bank
IME it's you (but /Pace/, no criticism intended, it may be that my area of databases + business dev allows this more easily than yours).

Part of it is using the tools others aren't aware of, so simple things become simple (counterexample on codinghorror, someone not knowing that XML has libraries to parse it, and started parsing it manually with regeps. From my own experience taking over a web-scraping project, I used XSLT where they previously used regexps). I have plenty of other examples of people doing things the hard way because they didn't read the docs.

Part of understandability is recognising a simple solution exists instead of a tangled ball. The simple SQL solutions are often most efficient, with tweaking, and the most understandable (which does NOT get you out of writing comments, BTW!)

Performant? The easiest code to optimise is that which is well written and nominally 'less than efficient'. This separation of layers allows me to put in new layers easily as I can see what's going on. Example: for an SQL + pascal product I got a minimum 10X speedup on the GUI, which really made a huge difference to the users, by sliding in a 3rd layer between 2 existing layers. It was simple and quick to do (3 days).

Other example: if someone had thought for a moment about creative use of SQL indexes they'd not have written another complex - and slooooooow - feature in the product I just mentioned.

So IME understandable = clever = performant = maintainable surprisingly often.

(disclaimer: I'm no coding god, I make plenty of mistakes too).
And which of these will do business with Cannabis companies?

Especially without requiring account payments of ~$3,000 per month OR ~3% of your deposits (yes this is what they are charging)

NorthBay Credit union in Santa Rosa, wants $3,000 per month and a litany of access rights to your financials that no other bank asks for.

Other CUs are seeking 3% of the total deposits in your account asa "service fee"

Fuck that.
Thanks. A reply button wasn't available until just now, so I had edited my original comment and added a note.
This is already done and making money. www.irokotv.com

I did try to build an African Netflix in 2004 before streaming when it was all about shipping discs. It didn't pan out for me back then because most movies were VCDs and not DVDs and most people outside of the US's DVD players didn't necessarily play VCD. There was also a supply issue in regards to acquiring non pirated and good quality movies.
Absolutely. This project is built on Serverless Components, which are composable architectural pieces based on serverless cloud infrastructure.

One of the child Components powering this project is the Socket Component, which allows anyone to provision a serverless websockets backend simply. You can use it here: https://github.com/serverless-components/Socket
This one's great. I've lost count of how many films I've watched that I would have never found otherwise.

Here's another big art repository:

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

And a very well-documented collection (a "wiki") of paintings, also non-profit:

https://wikiart.org
> a) The unproven assumption you are making is that VPN providers are run by idealists, not by managers. There is no indication for this.

Maybe you misread? I think he was saying the reverse.
I'm not objecting to all marketing spending, but I do think it's out of line with the benefit. I would prefer to see prescription marketing be much more low-touch that it is today.
Apple didnt "slow down phones with old batteries", they capped the power output to the cpu of batteries that couldnt deliver reliable peak power anymore, so the phone didnt panic and crash as the cpu usage redlined. Their actions are much preferred to the alternative.
Whether it's ethical or pragmatical, this number is not small. Either case, it's not zero, so they are losing profits clearly. While they continue ignoring it, people will continue pirating it.

Making DRM ubiquitous if futile. And costs a lot more than simply releasing DRM-free video. So it's the worst way to address the issue, since it doesn't even address it.
The number of dependencies is very high. From Ubuntu 18.04:

$ sudo apt install surfraw
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libalgorithm-c3-perl libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libcache-perl libclass-accessor-chained-perl
libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-errorhandler-perl
libclass-inspector-perl libclass-singleton-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-page-perl
libdatetime-format-mail-perl libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl
libdatetime-timezone-perl libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdevel-stacktrace-perl
libeval-closure-perl libexception-class-perl libfeed-find-perl libfile-nfslock-perl
libfile-sharedir-perl libheap-perl liblwp-authen-wsse-perl libmodule-implementation-perl
libmodule-pluggable-perl libmro-compat-perl libnamespace-autoclean-perl libnamespace-clean-perl
libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpadwalker-perl libparams-util-perl
libparams-validate-perl libparams-validationcompiler-perl libreadonly-perl libref-util-perl
libref-util-xs-perl libspecio-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl
liburi-fetch-perl liburi-template-perl libvariable-magic-perl libwww-opensearch-perl libxml-atom-perl
libxml-feed-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-rss-perl libxml-xpath-perl surfraw-extra
Suggested packages:
libtest-fatal-perl screen
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libalgorithm-c3-perl libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libcache-perl libclass-accessor-chained-perl
libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-errorhandler-perl
libclass-inspector-perl libclass-singleton-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-page-perl
libdatetime-format-mail-perl libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl
libdatetime-timezone-perl libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdevel-stacktrace-perl
libeval-closure-perl libexception-class-perl libfeed-find-perl libfile-nfslock-perl
libfile-sharedir-perl libheap-perl liblwp-authen-wsse-perl libmodule-implementation-perl
libmodule-pluggable-perl libmro-compat-perl libnamespace-autoclean-perl libnamespace-clean-perl
libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpadwalker-perl libparams-util-perl
libparams-validate-perl libparams-validationcompiler-perl libreadonly-perl libref-util-perl
libref-util-xs-perl libspecio-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl
liburi-fetch-perl liburi-template-perl libvariable-magic-perl libwww-opensearch-perl libxml-atom-perl
libxml-feed-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-rss-perl libxml-xpath-perl surfraw surfraw-extra
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What's Coming in Tensorflow 2.0
That's a pretty big contrast from Europe... I've never seen a transaction using magstripe personally, I don't think magstripe was available even in the 90s, that sounds much older than VHS tapes.
Terrible policy. In-person visitation is known [0][1] to reduce recidivism rates. Video visitation should be included as an addition, not a replacement, to in-person visitation.

Lots more information about the subject (costs, providers, etc.) can be found at Prison Policy Initiative:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/visitation/report.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/prisonvisits.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice.h...

[0]: https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/center/liman/document...

[1]: https://mn.gov/doc/assets/11-11MNPrisonVisitationStudy_tcm10...
Discernment is a skill that can be learned when we are cognizant and vigilant and conscientious about paying attention.

Google, YouTube, and much of the current web is very easily manipulated by small but sizable and highly motivated fractions of the population acting together. It greatly over-represents the opinions of the extremes, particularly the voices which generate the most outrage.

Fear is the mind-killer. But we never knew the extent to which this could reach until it was combined with viral outrage. (Monetized and politicized viral outrage, to be precise.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Show HN: Run code with a right click
A few years ago I briefly had some business interactions with iRoko in New York, and when I saw the title of this article I immediately thought what you did. I think the biggest challenge they discussed with me at the time was a mobile first market, but it was a few years ago.
Veamly: App that helps developers ship features faster
This is truly disturbing. Whoever is selling these products is an ethical case study waiting to happen. I'm sure these solutions use open source software, perhaps it's time we wrote restrictions into licenses to prevent this tech from being used for such evil purposes.
What Labour actually decided against was not oil exploration, but rather a konsekvensutredning, or an investigation into the possible environmental and social effects of oil extraction in the area. Which is in many ways a more radical position, as they are not even interesting in finding out what possible damage oil production might cause. They're rejecting the preliminary step before oil exploration, which is in turn the preliminary step to actual oil extraction.

Of course the current government never had any plans to conduct any preliminary steps. The two major parties (the Conservatives and the Progress Party) are all for it, but the minor supporting parties (the Liberals and Christian Democrats) are not, and so far they've gotten their will.
I spent about 4 years total working professionally in Haskell, commonly using things like multi-parameter type classes, liquidhaskell, compiler extensions for fully dependent types, higher kinded types.

I’ve heard the claim, “Haskell let me encode business logic into the type system” so many times, but I think it’s totally a false promise. Usually people mean design patterns like phantom types and things, and it just leads to the same spaghetti code messes as in any other paradigm.

I’ve never found any cases where encoding this stuff into the type system actually resulted in verifiably more correct code as compared to doing the same thing with analogous patterns in dynamic typing languages and adding lightweight tests. You still end up needing approximately the same amount of test code either way.

Yet in the statically typed case, you often pay a big constant penalty of compile time overhead delaying the work cycle, even for the best incremental compilers.
I have the exact same issue. Took the phone to Apple and they cleaned out the lightning connector and it work great now.
Some women pursue this strategy. But I don't think it's anywhere near most. Having a husband who will prioritize providing for you and your children above anybody else is a really valuable thing to have.
As a digital artist I love looking at Van Gogh's art, somewhere there is a site where one can view everything he ever drew or painted (that we know) in order. After 2000 or so images you realize how few years (most in the last couple) it took. He painted things like people take Instagram photos today.
That’s not what CDK does:

You’re still defining your resources declaratively - just with type checking - at least if you’re using a statically typed language. If not, you’re still just getting runtime errors when you run your program. It might catch some things before you run your template - but so will a linter.

Neither will catch issues like using a subnet that doesn’t exist or using an AMI that doesn’t exist.
FHIR is incredibly exciting right now:

- CMS Blue Button 2.0 offering access for 53 million Medicare recipients: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/

- First (partially) normative release (R4)

- Record attendance at the most recent FHIR Hackathon in San Antonio

- MU3 mandating providers offer FHIR endpoints

I think there's still plenty of room for old-style HL7v2/CCD/CDA/etc. interop, but FHIR is maturing and gaining adoption at an accelerating clip.
What If Math Dies?
I don't think that's been substantiated. Legumes, potatoes, tomatoes and some fruit are lectin-rich. Blue-zones diets tend to lean more heavily on legumes. There's the whole gluten thing for wheat and others but it's unclear to me how much of an impact that may have.