skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've met my last two girlfriends online. Both were ok, but ultimately didn't last (the relationships lasted 3 & 6 months respectively). And the dates that didn't turn into anything (of which I went on ~10 or so) were really average.

On reflection, the social aspect of meeting people through friends really helps solve a lot of future relationship problems (you have things in common, some level of shared values etc).

In my view online dating is brutal for all. As a guy you are constantly swiping and sending out a lot of messages with a very low conversion rate (I'd be surprised if 1% of all swipes turn into a date). If you go on things like /r/tinder there are lots of guys who complain about being on the platform for months or years and not having a single match. As a woman you're often dealing with hundreds and hundreds of matches. Everyone has to run a massive pipeline which means things end up being very transactional if you aren't careful.

Because there's so much competition things that wouldn't necessarily matter all that much end up being huge deal breakers (say for example height, or niche preferences).

I'm off the apps, at least for the moment, and am focusing on meeting people in the real world.
This reply annoys me.

Gun control?
THAT's your example of the world being on fire?

If nothing is done about it 12k Americans a year will die, that isnt really going to have much of an effect in the long run for the vast majority of us.
There are plenty of actual "world on fire" debates you could have used, including:

* Climate change

* Nuclear proliferation

* Antibiotic resistance

* Aquifer sustainability

* AGI

* Dystopian trends

* Dysgenic trends

Things that are on the actual "this has potential to kill or drastically reduce quality of life for billions of people" level (even if some are pretty far fetched in my view).

"World on fire" topics do exist, and for some reason they aren't the ones that result in toxicity.
Equivalently, you can look at divorce statistics of couples that meet online vs offline. A study from 2013 suggests that the divorce rate is lower and marriage satisfaction is higher for couples meeting online, but only slightly. This seems to suggest that online dating is only marginally better than offline dating.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-online-dating-could-d...
A corollary to that-- less code written the better.
What data are you talking about? Because there sure is a strong correlation between drug use and homelessness. While I think it's insane to punish people for ingesting substances that might harm them, I still don't think we should just look the other way and silently condone its use when it's actively destroying people's lives.
Photographer J. Henry Fair documents East Coast sea-level rise
Interesting! Do you have any links to the railfan forums?
So don't install the plugin and you're good to go.

Or were you considering some scenario where someone gets to decide when other people can press play, pause or fast-forward?

That is a feature I'm not interested in. Give me a media player that does what I want (as its user), not overrule that for anyone else.
Yes, but it does not make sense to take this mantra to religious extremes. As soon as you have different objects of different classes involved in the same state transition, you have a problem: where do you put the method that orchestrates everything? Usully, neither of the objects involved in the transition are the right place, but people shove it in there anyway.
Beyond Meat recently was trading in the open market at $230. They decided they wanted to sell 4% of the company in a secondary offering, and they were only able to get $160/share.

Tilray had similar problems trying to monetize their high valuation.

The point is that bubbly tech prices in public markets are no less fragile than bubbly ones in private markets.
They're threatening to block due to pressure from their own internal agro lobby, not some newfound uneasiness about the environment.
Also: if you don't hit on a person, then still hundreds of people will do so on a given day. If all polite people stopped hitting on other people then at some point some people will ask themselves: why do only the uninteresting people hit on me?
A closure ends up being an object with references and can be cleaned up just like any other object. Or so I thought. What am I missing?
The answer is yes when the data is cherry picked to fit a narrative.
I am skeptical.

>I was surprised at how much online dating has displaced the help of friends in meeting a romantic partner. Our previous thinking was that the role of friends in dating would never be displaced. But it seems like online dating is displacing it.

Hmmm. In my experience friends are still pretty heavily involved (assuming one has friends). They're just not involved in the discover process, but they're definitely involved in the filtering process, perhaps moreso now.

So it seems like online dating has mostly just replaced the discovery process - how do you find people to meet. This is probably a good thing. But once you've met a person I still think your friends provide feedback that may determine whether you see that person again.
I find your tone innapropriate for HN

User agent sniffing is a bad idea and fragile. Feature detection and shims work much better. CSS media queries are quite sufficient for screen size and resizing issues.

Most importantly, none of this ican be fingerprinting unless you are sending these metrics back to your servers which is IMHO unethical.
Ok, there are probably a few more stipulations about this particular thing that make this surprising such as being on youtube which I visit quite frequently.
There is a bit of a difference in the kind of impact you achieve with 510 million vs 5,5 million people.

As a Dane I support this ban, even if it’s a tad to the side of populism. It would probably be prudent to start turning some of the EU farmland into forest as well, so it’s not so much throwing rocks from a glass house. But we can do both things.
Remoteok.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 in a day (2017)
So you basically give them a West Coast virtue signaling strength test?
??

I'm just saying that the descriptions are inaccurate, the reality was different, and people are reacting to those inaccurate headlines rather than to what actually happened.

I'm not condoning the actions of the officer, but I prefer the truth be discussed, rather than people reacting to the inaccurate headline.

By all means be outraged, but at least be outraged by what actually happened.
Ask HN: Indian Fast Food Feedback
I love Indian food, but as a founder/software engineer, I hate waiting at restaurants, and I don't have the time/desire to cook it myself.

I was working late a few nights ago on my B2B SaaS tool, and I felt pretty frustrated because I couldn't find any Indian fast food near me (except for some overpriced restaurants via DoorDash), so I want to change that by building an Indian fast food chain [0].

I'd appreciate your feedback and commentary, especially on whether this is actually desirable.

Also, if you're feeling super gracious, could you help me with 5 short questions [1]?

[0] Landing Page: [https://fast-food-a3b73e.webflow.io/](https://fast-food-a3b73e.webflow.io/)

[1] Typeform: [https://pujitmehrotra.typeform.com/to/hCedcx](https://pujitmehrotra.typeform.com/to/hCedcx)
Well, technically it's a derivative work, they have every right to sue.
Huawei is facing yet another roadblock, this time in Australia
> In urban California, among software developers, you are likely to have one or two political views represented at most, and these represent a small racial and class-based cross-section of urban California.

I would argue that these are the only ones allowed.
> It dismisses the idea that there could be alternate ways to fund content (i.e. micropayments)

Because it's not valid alternative. It may work some edge-cases, but there's 0 evidence that it could support economy at the same scale as ads.

> We absolutely need a new funding model for the web (to kill ads).

We need to rework how ads work, but killing ads is very naive approach. Ads are core part to how world economy operates (and always have been). Calling for killing advertising is only hurting the case - it makes it easy to dismiss, as some crazy hippie talk.
TensorFlow with Apache Arrow Datasets
You point out the truth: Everything controversial is political.

Political aka controversial topics should be avoided, unless they are relevant to work.

For example, unless you work at a real estate agency, it would be a poor idea to discuss federal or state law for racial guarantees around the sale of houses.

(Not that you can't discuss them; certainty do. But your workplace will make a poor forum.)
This letter lost me really early on:

>> "There is little trustworthy evidence on the comparative value of tracking-based advertising."

This is flat out wrong. Google and Facebook have proven that there are BILLIONS of dollars on the table for the value of "tracking-based advertising"

As an engineer who used to work in ad-tech, making appeals to reason to these companies won't help. There's a lot of money flowing in this sector, and unless large internet companies see the value in changing their ad-based business models, the only thing that will dissuade them are shifts in public opinion, laws, and policy.

Or a rearchitecture of the web, which I'm all for :)
Yea, I would probably pay on that order of magnitude (hundreds) to get all my internet content per year from trustworthy sources. News articles, videos, community sites (HN, reddit), email (with strong blocking to not waste money), chat apps. I wish I could pay them all some fraction of a cent per page load. I'm sure it would add up to be viable.
As others have said, if you want to replace an existing part, it's probably actually better to redesign it. I use OpenSCAD to do simple 3D designs in code. It's easy to get started if you're a developer.

As for scanning, I've used Trnio on iPhone for artistic scans. e.g. I scanned my dog and printed a tiny replica. My nephew thought it was a pile of melted yogurt, but I knew what it was. :-)
Is that mainly due to macros or something else? Macros is a whole other paradigm...
You're baiting. I guess you have a playbook to follow.
Hi Athanasios, program synthesis has been used to automatically repair introductory programming assignments (a sample of papers is at the end). This technology could make tutors more productive: [1] says that 81% of synthesized repairs were of high quality. This is very impressive but the tutor is still needed to check the quality. Also, synthesis cannot repair all programs (an empty submission cannot be repaired). Finally, this automatic repair allows the tutor to focus on giving guidance, rather than on finding the bug in a programming assignment.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03165.pdf
[2] https://rishabhmit.bitbucket.io/papers/icse18.pdf
Developer setup for creating an Amiga 500 demo
Peppa is also the subject of a weird tiktok meme at the moment (or maybe the moment's passed already ... I don't know, I'm old and lame :P )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0uxRav86NI
Suburbs are how America does segregation and separate but equal legally. We have “cities” next to major urban centers that can keep all their taxes dollars locally and shift their problems to urban centers. If you live in a nice neighborhood in the city of Seattle a good chunk of your money goes to fund poor parts of town and the homeless industry. Half a mile away the neighboring town keeps all its money for the local school and sends its homeless people to Seattle.
Advertising generally: I guess it's necessary.

Personalised ads, tracking, etc: Criminalise it. By which I mean, after a cooling-off period, jail people still pushing it.
> I think that internet dating is a modest positive addition to our world. It is generating interaction between people that we otherwise wouldn’t have.
People who have in the past had trouble finding a potential partner benefit the most from the broader choice set provided by the dating apps.

I feel online dating is skewed in favor of users who are in top x% attraction level. The return on time spent is poor if you are not very attractive.

Moreover, I think it's difficult to switch it off completely. It's harder to commit, invest time and effort to build a strong relationship even when things are not going smooth - when there is endless potential of finding someone better/more beautiful/taller/richer etc. just a few swipes away.
> What's wrong with being hit on (assuming that it's not sexual harrassment)?

Because the definition of "hitting on" varies so widely. It can vary from a compliment to their clothing to cat calling, depend on who you ask.

> What's wrong with taking a risk and setting up two friends?

Because as you admit, it's a risk. It can create an incredibly awkward situation if you're in the middle if they split up.

> Why do we have to segment all life into easy-to-classify pockets of time: 'work', 'dating', 'getting groceries'?

I learned the hard way to not mix work and dating. And when I'm running errands, I just want to get them done and go back home. I'm not interested in wasting time talking to people I don't know.

> Does this not remove some element of spontaneity and joie-de-vivre that makes life thrilling and make one feel human (and not a finite state machine)?

I think you're just more extroverted than I (and probably a lot of others on HN) am.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this suggestion. Is it that the government in Brasil does not want to put off the fires because they see this as a great opportunity to clear more land for raising more cattle?
> We believe that Internet access is a human right.

I disagree with this. This doesn't event make sense [EDIT: to me]. The internet is simply a very large network of private systems. You don't have a right to access this network, nor do you have a right to force someone to join this network.

If your "human rights" can be negated by the power going out, they are quite weak.

I am being nit-picky, but I just don't like this marketing tactic.
We can see here more politics, as rejecting the interpretation of cultural elements as political is itself a political act of reinforcing the unexamined status quo.

Or, to reverse the situation: consider how you'd feel about things if you came into a workplace where everyone was telling jokes that only make sense if you know Chinese culture, and then if you mentioned that you felt left out, told you to stop complaining because you were only trying to 'sow discord'.
Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)
Love their product, hate their shady billing.

I'm in the middle of a bad experience with Datadog's billing/sales team. My monthly Custom Metrics usage wasn't being billed for because they said they didn't have a way to track it. Naturally my usage gradually increased because without the monthly bill increasing. When renewing a while back they went over my usage on phone and quoted prices, same usage profile as this month. Now this month my bill increased almost 400% and they said "oh we just soft-launched billing for this feature without notifying you". No heads-up when communicating with them that I wasn't actually being billed for my usage.

Still trying to get a refund for this curveball bill. Their sales team keeps forever escalating to management, leadership, and they say it has to be approved by a C-level. It's been over 20 days and they say it might take 2-3 more weeks before C-level makes a decision on credit or not. I've never heard of this many layers involved in something like this before with other companies.
I dont think anyone is smart enough to grasp it all. Especially the hordes of enterprise java developers who create it.
>but if you've ever had a spontaneous flirtatious interaction with someone you're attracted to you know what I mean

The problem with spontaneous flirting is that you don’t know if it is welcome by the other party. With a dating app, you know that flirting is desired by both parties.
Never heard of that word. In dalmatia I did hear about "kotonjada" which resembles cotognata and codonyat, which are mentioned in this thread.
You can not do partial solutions here. Housing projects will be demolished (cables ripped out by methheads searching for copper).. if there are no constant drugsupply + safe injection, this approach has to fail.

Implement stuff like this half-hearted and you only rile up the tough on crime crowd without results.
They are cheaper mainly because the Chrome OS is Free (and maybe because they have almost no hard inside;)
As far as we know OS and antivirus licenses make Windows more expensive.
I think he means most places south of downtown
Omg, never thought about it :) Good job!
They are my 2 favorite distros, as I think they fill in 2 obvious local maxima in the design space: i) an imperative system with binary packages that tracks upstream as closely as possible (Arch) and ii) a functional/declarative distro (Nix).
Feature detection is not fingerprinting, you can't just change the meaning of terms.
In what sense allowed?
The issue is that while they are trying to break the addiction they often relapse and because drugs are expensive and also not conducive to holding a job there is a non-negligible percent of people that would continue to break into cars and steal things to pay for their habits. If they aren't hurting anyone ok fine let them go the rehab route first, but if they demonstrate they are a danger to society then they need to be separated until they cure their addiction. I think we should also reduce the sentencing for drug crimes as often they are overly punative.
This is the default implementation; our WebKit port (the main consumer of this API) has a subclass of this which shows a "this certificate is invalid, do you want to continue?" message and actually returns false.

But it's been multiple years since that comment was added, probably more than time to fix that. Thanks for the (inadvertent) reminder :)

EDIT: done. https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=a830ec9a1c5f0e359b...
Does anybody publish "cliff-notes" versions of S-1's? Seems like a great business idea.
Show HN: Google Images Restored
Start by being friendly and subtle, gauge feedback, then escalate a bit or don't. If she doesn't play along, that's fine you were just being social. Keep it respectful and light. This is expected, normal, and natural. It takes practice. I'm not saying it's easy I'm just saying how it's done.
Wow, are you kidding me?!

You honestly haven't seen the videos on social media showing protestors assaulting, imprisoning, beating innocent bystanders?

Or protestors attacking police officers and throwing molotov cocktails?

Not to mention vandalism and destruction of private and public property?

Honestly, if you haven't seen any of this, can post many links here for you.
It's the star trek
transporter version of
teleportation for quantum
mechanical systems.

No. No it isn't. It's not teleportation, because transit still occurs at non-instantaneous rates, and it is effectively slower than light speed travel when you include the overhead of the protocol.

A near-light-speed rocket ship could literally accomplish the same thing.

It is not a gateway technology that opens a portal to a destination. It clones state, and can replicate an infinite series of clones at a station, via transmission of state.

At best it could be called a matter replicator, but it is not teleportation.
"Stundents" -> "Students"
Deforestation via slash and burn has been going on for years, but the rainforest isn't growing back at anywhere near the same rate(basically it's not growing back at all). Even if it is populism, what is wrong with finally taking action to curb that?
(Most of Seattle)
The reason Finland is doing this is the same why you are being down-voted for posting scientific data: political agenda. Science mostly doesn't matter, only when it fits your favorite narrative.
The world needs to pay Brazil for management of the Amazon. If the Amazon is truly (and it is) this important to the planet, then they should be paid to not destroy it to earn a living.
Environment and the programming language Self, part 4
Fundamental Principals of Software – David Nolen
Or a 30 hour work week, which should be a legal mandate at this point.
If you consider the ability to discuss your conditions a privilege for a worker then I'm extremely happy I don't work or live anywhere near you.
The difference between them is probably that the OOP was a solution to all problems in its heyday. And a lot of us are probably saddled with the resulting legacy code to this day.

That never quite happened to functional code and procedural code was the only solution to problems at the time.
And here we are laughing at the fall of the Roman empire because of lead poisoning.
A bit late but hopefully helpful. I find it to be very unstable on snow/ice, and I grew up in Michigan driving in much worse than Colorado typically gets. The caveat is that you buy real winter tiles (x-ice, Blizzak,etc) and it's pretty rock solid.

I agree the bicycle tires are terrible looking. I actually just bought a 2017 today for 22k and the salesmen mentioned one of the mechanics has an i3 and has tricked his out, including bigger rims/tires. I'm going to reach out and do the same now that I own one (had been leasing a 2017).
Helping NASA spacecraft travel faster and farther with math
- logistics (shopify shipping)

- shopify PLUS memberships (+$2K/month)

- enterprise level products (handshake, etc)

I think the fact that their enterprise sales are growing is a huge indicator. Its replacing legacy ERP systems in sales organizations because of the flexibility and value add.

I run a consulting company[0] for Amazon suppliers, and about 90% of our clients don't have "real time" inventory counts. 50% are someone automated but 100% have to enter at least 1 order MANUALLY each month because outdated technology. ORders with hundreds/thousands of line items entered manually will seriously mess up your day.

- [0] https://www.andersonassociates.net
He covers Eishin campus at great length in 2nd volume IIRC. And indeed, metabolists are on the opposite side of the spectrum.
You can earmark tax dollars for particular spending, but Seattle has a habit of only doing said earmarks for 2 to 3 years before going into the general fund. I'm not sure if you can make those earmarks indefinite, to be honest.
the massive popularity of "agile" otoh, is based to a large extent on the fact that it turns engineers into automatons and offers management unprecedented visibility into their work.

As an IT exec if sprints and work broken into 2 hour deliverables makes sense.

Then ask them if they tell their boss every day what they're going to do for the next 24 hours in two hour increments.
From the article:

> Google is also building a tool to let employees flag problematic internal posts and creating a team of moderators to monitor conversations on company chat boards, a spokeswoman said.

Though the article's headline is remarkably unclear, it's apparent that Google is focusing on the written word on company equipment.
If these fires are being set intentionally, shouldn't it be possible to pinpoint exactly where these fires are occurring and monitor who is reclaiming the land for other purposes... and then sanction them?
Kicking Away the Ladder: The “Real” History of Free Trade (2003) [pdf]
Yeah since drug use is no longer a crime and since possession is legal the number of crimes is down. We could decrease the numbers even more if we fired the remaining police officers.