skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends I’m on a work trip to TLV and after exhausting the hospitality of my colleagues and the two waitresses at Mike’s Place that would give me their numbers to hang out I turned to Tinder and got a date for every night, I’m not entirely sure how to do that in a normal social setting where most women would be already on dates or in groups which makes picking them up that much harder unless you are aiming at picking up borderline legal age drunk girls at a night club online dating seems to be the best option.

At the end of the day people that go to dating sites are there for the same reason as you are which makes things that much easier.

Also if anything I found that picking up girls IRL tends to be easier in the right setting if you aren’t too good with words since basic attraction and chemistry can play a role whilst on a dating app or a site you need to be able to talk to them in order for them to actually want to meet you.

This hypothesis is fortified by the fact that most women rate the attractiveness of men much lower based their pictures alone than they would rate them normally in a social setting.
sometimes i really wish that people would actually tell me why they downvote what I have to say, rather than just silently doing so and condemning me to the bottom of the comments. i can't really really do the revision part of performance, feedback, revision without any actual feedback of substance to inform me as to what it is that I did wrong in the first place.
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> I already said people who create things should be paid for that labor—or more to the point, have to be paid if you want them to continue to create things.

> There are better ways.

Like what, paying for labor instead of the work itself? That may work well (and already does) for more commoditized/custom-purpose/one-time-use creative works, but how do we apply something like that to something like recorded-media entertainment? Prepay for Taylor Swift's next album on Kickstarter?
The real core issue is the president and the federal govt has way too much power. There is no reason why a centralized authority should decide on policy for both rural and urban communities and for states as deeply different as Louisiana and Washington state.

If political power was surrendered back down to where it naturally belongs, i.e. to the state, or even better to the city level, and the fed was stripped and left with little to no political power, this whole electoral college charade would become entirely moot.
I don't know if these numbers and their subsequent revisions are always available in a table. I did find something that looks like the source of this article, and the website seems to have some mention of having data publicly available [0]. Maybe the past press releases/statements are also archived?

It'd be a useful side project in my opinion.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesprelbmk.htm
Long live Delaware! You otherins shant try to come on err land and regalate err corporate forms.
then Facebook's roberta came out which beat xlnet and is essentially a more intelligently trained.
I included XLNet as being a bc descendant of BERT, but I guess they are all descendants of GPT1
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No they aren't, that's the whole problem!

http://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-th...

Look at the huge disparity towards small rural states. This is bad, but it's even worse because due to the effect of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 (https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Th...) the number of Represenatives has been fixed at 435 for almost 100 years, and since the smallest number of electoral votes a state can have is 3, this makes the small states even more overpowered than they would be in a "fair" electoral college system.

Why should a voter in Wyoming have 3.71x as much weight (effectively) as mine does a North Carolinian?
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No state will ever actually secede from the US. Period.
Strings are always attached when taking billionaire money.
Quite. Though Zuckerman doesn't detail what was inappropriate about the Lab's relationship with Epstein (besides "Epstein"), Zuckerman does say that they tried to warn Ito about Epstein five years ago -- that should have been sufficient to cause the Lab to separate from Epstein then.
I wonder how much that one voter was paid to make the off-color joke.
Surveys, yes, but also corroborated by interagency reports, many of which are behind schedule do to a prolonged federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019. Some offices have been behind schedule on reporting since returning to work in February.
In a related anachronism...

> In [Republican CO State Senator Sonnenberg's] view, the Electoral College was created so that “people in rural areas did not get overrun by the masses.”

This can't be true since in 1790 (roughly the same time period the EC was created), "the masses" were rural; at that point only about 5% of the population was urban[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
But this proves the point.

The issue you are having at the state level is a dominant majority makes the views of the minority irrelevant.

And to be clear, the EC does not disenfranchise all the voters in states like CA, just the minority voters.

This is actually precisely what the Senate and the Electoral College is designed to mitigate.
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Democratic candidates have won the popular vote 4/5 times in the most re ent elections, but only won the Presidency 2/5. That’s an issue.
Oh to clarify - I don't think we should (or really even could) force all fossil fuel cars off the road tomorrow, the most extreme action that's even reasonable is placing a cut off for new car sales a year or two in the future[1] - then letting those age out.

We should be working on encouraging conversion to EV when older cars age out, eventually maybe there'd be a cutoff for on-road usage, but I'd be amazed if that were any closer than 15 years out, and that's super close already.

1. Re-configuring production lines is expensive, it'd likely be environmentally wasteful to force early conversions of production lines by manufacturers - giving them a window to convert allows them to cease any R&D investment into gas only vehicles and invest more in EVs.
Not sure what you're getting at. There's very few things we need, sounds like they're sacrificing a little to avoid giving a company they deem unethical any money.
Each house market would act differently, some with a depressed recovery, some a whipsaw recovery. Watch your own market as the rule applies "last to go up, first to go down". Coastal markets will drop enough, interior less. Here is a good Case Shiller analysis of prices over time for markets.
Buy when it gets near last periods low prices (do own analysis, don't rely on my flippant date mention though...).

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/08/01/housing-bubbles-chicago-da...
For some states - mostly red ones - that isn't true. Texans still identify primarily with their state.

That said, it's still a stupid reason for giving fewer people more votes. There is no reasonable argument for that, no matter which way you slice it.
Yeah I will say this: As an Asian dude, my experience with dating sites has been pretty mediocre. Literally thousands of profile interactions, handful of mutual responses, and dates with women where it was clear neither of us were super interested in one another.

I posted a graphic of the results on HN a few years ago where I pulled data from CoffeeMeetBagel of every outcome based on ethnicity in my city that's mostly composed of non-Asians (I don't personally care about ethnicity but w/e), and well.. it was about what the stereotypes would suggest about Asian guys as undesirable individuals.

In contrast, my experience with randomly meeting romantic interests either through work, school, or mutual interests (i.e. hobby meetups) have been more fulfilling, diverse, and statistically probable.
Yes it does. Also, even it the author used it differently, why would they say "privileged coeds and their male hangerons"?
Which is also why trying to question, say, Trump win based on popular vote is stupid: yes, he got 46% of votes vs 48% for Clinton, but if there was no Electoral College and every vote counted people would probably have voted differently. How differenlty? We'll never know until we try :)
The solution is federalism, which we already have; a Wyoming voter controls the Wyoming state government, which has power over things that are purely internal Wyoming concerns.
So back to my first point: instead of making it easier for entities like the Russian government to subvert our Democracy, why not just make it easier for the Elderly to get IDs?

I also don't think that there are that many people that don't have IDs. I have seen absolutely no statistics on the topic, but I have seen multiple groups survey different parts of various cities and nobody had issues getting an ID. It's pretty much needed in almost any aspect of life.

You can't even get welfare or government assistance without some form of ID, so you can't tell me you can't get one to vote.

My point still stands.
I've been watching one particular neighborhood within my city (to be more specific, a specific section within a neighborhood), and it's had about 4 sales in the past 3 years. I can only imagine how many of those were investors were deep pockets, and if I'll ever have my day to compete with them. In the meantime, I'll continue building my down payment fund.

The neighborhood is predominantly aging Boomers, so it's possible in a decade there will be increasing sales volume, providing a better opportunity to get in.
Are you maybe thinking of what MMTers e.g. Warren Mosler assert? (E.g., Mosler calling for 0% interest rates, always.)

If you can think of source, please let me know. Sounds interesting.

Edit: It also sounds fallacious to me. Interest rates are central-bank determined because the central bank chooses to determine them. In the absence of a central bank controlling rates, there undoubtedly would still be interest rates. There ostensibly also still would be risk free rates. In some hypothetical parallel Earth, the Fed might instead choose to control the price of some other commodity, like oil. That doesn't mean that the price of oil would be "endogenous" and therefore that there's no market price. Just that the Fed had chosen to suppress that market price. Thus, as far as I can tell, it still makes sense to ask the question "what would be the market risk free rate?"
But it isn't "every person"! It's a donor and an investor. It is not some random person that they had dinner with.
She also proposes to strike down state laws that prohibit municipal broadband options, and I'm shocked at this point that you're standing by your original comment that she's only regulating Big Tech. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmjja/elizabeth-warren-p...
If this happens, Democrats will be very unhappy with how many Republicans there are in Upstate New York, Southern Illinois and Rural California who's vote now counts for something.
Do you think the federal government is run better than state governments?
> Jerry Sonnenberg, a Republican state senator in Colorado who opposed the bill, said he believed the change would weaken the electoral power of sparsely populated rural states like Wyoming and Utah, while strengthening states like California and New York.

States. Are. Not. People.
I used the old RequestBin - it was a great tool. But always returning 200 OK, was making it difficult for me to use. Some integrations/webhook need a specific response body otherwise they fail.

I ended up creating https://putsreq.com, so I could programmatically configure my responses.

Are you planning to allow custom responses in this new version of RequestBin?

Something that I learned with PutsReq: throttling is a must. PutsReq is very often "bombarded" with Salesforce webhook calls (probably because of some non-sense retry logic).
That's a bit presumptuous. My issue with Safari isn't that sites don't work; its seems comparable to Chrome in that regard. But using it doesn't feel as nice as Firefox or Chrome. It's harder to find features I need. Though to be honest, I find all browsers a bit lacking. I want more granular control over which cookies to accept and for how long, and how exactly to treat various sites.

And I certainly don't blame browsers for badly written sites, but blaming the site doesn't magically make it work either. Having less sites work for me is still a worse experience, no matter whose fault it is.
I was going to post a very similar comment :)

For on-prem deployments I'm using TimescaleDB on a single node with up to 100 million events, and for SaaS I'm using it on Azure, and the performance is little short of amazing!

Something I particularly like is the almost instantaneous deletes (because of the "chunking" model) - perfect for data retention jobs that delete old data.
I am all in for that and believe that Apple and others should ban these trackers or at least display a warning on what sdks are being used directly in the app store. that would be a good starting point.
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This is how New York does it.
>>For example: Right now in the US there are 2 senators from each state. California with a population of over 39 million has 2 senators, Alaska with a population around 700,000 also has 2 senators.

This was all by design. The smaller states would not have joined the union if it mean that the bigger states would monopolize all the power.
Imsuspect marijuana smoking is just as harmful. The bulk of the trouble from tobacco is from the smoke. And if you look at the health effects of air pollution, they’re very similar to smoking: respiratory infections, heart disease, COPD, stroke and lung cancer

Inhaling any burning thing is quite bad for the human organism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Health_effects
That's quite the leap of logic hiding in that deceptively small "all else equal", what leads you to believe that everyone in a race has an equal chance of winning it?
Also, here in Russia, people who are observers, are often opposition activists, who dislike the government and for example take part in illegal protests and get arrested for this. This is the type of people that would be most difficult to bribe.
This collection has been in place since before World War II. As soon as the freezers are unplugged, there is no going back.
Thanks for the recommendation! And glad to hear TimescaleDB meets your needs. I wanted to add some color to hosting / deployment options around TimescaleDB.

Options are as follows:

[1] Fully-Managed TimescaleDB Enterprise on Timescale Cloud

TimescaleDB Open Source hosted on Public Clouds:

[2] Azure PostgreSQL

[3] DO Managed-Postgres (mentioned above)

[4] Alibaba Cloud

Not hosted, but managed service options:

[5] ClusterControl from our friends at Severalnines

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[1]https://www.timescale.com/cloud [2]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-iot-and-time-se...
[3]https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/postgresql/resou...
[4]https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/sql-and-timescaledb_595169
[5]https://severalnines.com/blog/advanced-database-monitoring-m...
If you just look at what a pipe looks like if not cleaned properly, and picture the lungs looking the same, maybe the blood vessels too, then nicotene seems like the least of the problems. However, confounding factors means that a simple additive measure cannot illuminate the problem.

Short breath alone, which invariably follows the exposure to aggressive gases, leads to contraction of the vessels and increased heart rate, to keep up the oxygen level in vital parts.

Even if tar should not enter the blood streem in a healthy tester, which I'm not sure, the built up tar pits so to speak are cozy breeding grounds for all kinds of pathogens. Excess water in the lungs, or vice versa dry lungs impact the imunosystem as well.
It'll mostly balance out I think, and even if it doesn't, that's hardly the point
Cool. Didn't knew that was a thing. Will give them a try.
> I think the problem here is that you're portraying it as if cities or states are the agents making decisions, rather than individuals.

That was exactly the point of the Electoral College - that states would elect the president.

You may think that's a bad idea. That's fine. You may want to change it. But it's a really fundamental change to the architecture. If it's to be changed, it should be changed by a constitutional amendment, not just by a compact among the states.
That immediately clarifies the difference. Thank you.
Eeeeh... Texan's have a lot of state pride - but try confusing a Texan for a Delawarean vs. confusing a Texan with a Canadian or Kiwi - pretty sure the Texan will be more offended with either of those later confusions if they've got that weird patriotism streak.
For work stuff,docusign already solves this. Why are schools not on docusign? Budgets? For the same reason they may not subscribe to your potential startup?
I know the designers of the Pact understand this, I'm just not so sure about all the voters in smaller states signing on to the Compact.
Maintaining a Federalist system is a strong argument in favor.
>This may be a controversial opinion, but... in the great list of mortal sins, I don't find it ranks particularly high.

Welcome to HN, where a 55 year old man having sex with a 16 year old girl is "not a great look".

Throw in the power and money imbalance, and still "not a great look".

Throw in that the child was having sex for money, at a time when she should've been concerned with getting good grades in high school, but it really should be a choice for high schoolers to engage in dangerous and - as it is - damaging acts like prostitution, so yup, "not a great look". A "red flag" perhaps.

We don't let 16 year olds drive cars (without restriction), buy cigarettes and alcohol, skip school (in some jurisdictions), or, hell, work full time or at hazardous occupations (in CA at least) for good reasons, but it somehow should be a choice to engage in prostitution, because the letter of the law in Alabama permits 16 year olds to have sex.

No, I don't think it's fine to feel that way, and I don't think the parent's opinion is "controversial". A rich 55-year-old paying for sex with an 11th graderis very much un-controversially a bad thing no matter how you wrap it, and no matter what the laws are in Alabama, medieval Europe, or Mars.

Please don't be an apologist for child abuse. It's not a great look.
"Hot" is lingo for describing a chunk that is being operated on at a rate much higher than other chunks. Depending on what exactly is making the chunk "hot" increasing replication can either make things better or worse.

If you have a chunk that's hot because there are a lot of reads going to it, yes, increasing replication will help because you are decreasing the amount of work you have to do per replica.

If you have a chunk that's hot because a lot of writes are going to it, increasing replication will make things worse as you are doing just as much work per replica as you were before, but you're now doing it on more replicas.

Does that make sense?
I don't understand why and how techies are so strongly associated with the hipster culture in public image. I lived in SF and Boston and techy parts of the town are always more hipster-y; but my personal experience in Berkeley and MIT indicates that the people who work in tech industry are not the hipster-y people. What is going on here? Is this an artifact of gentrification or am I missing something? Maybe a sociologist could help me?
What incentive do rural states have to stay in the union if the federal government is controlled by populous state bullies? Wouldn't it be better for them to fragment into separate-but-open-border-countries like the EU?
I'm using Firefox on Android refusing third-party cookies, and for whatever reason Twitter doesn't work.
Oh man, I'm in the midst of some of this right now.
Theres no dowloadable form for certain things because they want it on identical sizes and types of paper...
I have terrible handwriting and its killing me.
I've spend 3 years building a java code base with a class of requests having an average response time of < 1 ms. And the entire application had a 99%q response time of < 10ms. Including GC and everything.

Quite honestly, after a more years of experience: Cache smart and batch-query. Network latency, aka lightspeed in fiber or coppper is our enemy. Not a JVM GC'ing in a controllble way. If the CPU cache is your issue, you can either correct me, or you're abusing the network without realizing it.
The rationale for the EC and every other compromise in the Constitution was simple: it’s what was required to get the states to actually sign up.

There was the very real possibility that the individual states would go their own way if they didn’t like the proposed Constitution. Larger states could have easily decided that they didn’t need to be part of a larger country. Smaller states could have easily decided that they would be ruled by the larger states and that they’d be better off independent.

The electoral college was needed to convince everyone to stick together. Same with the different structures of the House and the Senate, the 3/5ths compromise, and more.

Things are completely different now. There’s no realistic possibility that any state will exit the union. The major purpose of so many elements of our federal system is completely gone.
Isn't it interesting that minority opinions matter and must be treated equally, until your state has the minority of the population...
Yes, I just saw that, and it changes things. I'm not sure that the Lab would have done too much of a background search on Epstein -- I'd forgive them not having done that in 2011. But if Ito visited Epstein's island, then that makes Ito radioactive as the public perception is that if you went, you knew of Epsteins crimes first-hand or -worse- committed crimes with him, and if Ito was warned and didn't end the relationship right then, then Ito is decidedly radioactive as he had to have known.
TimescaleDB looks really very promising but this is a red flag:

"Hypertables support all standard PostgreSQL constraint types, with the exception of foreign key constraints on other tables that reference values in a hypertable"[1]

Naively I'd assume this could cause a two-colouring of your schema - the partition that can use referential integrity and another with hypertables that doesn't which feels like a pretty big trade-off.

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/schema-m...
If they're giving me millions of dollars I do
The argument against that is under the current system if you're voting in a hard blue or red (spit) state, your vote doesn't matter in practice. Because the amount of 'swing' isn't enough to change the outcome.

If you get rid of the electoral college then no matter where you live your vote would count. At least for President.
> I don't see the added value of Unicode-aware case-insensitivity. Maybe it's more important in non-Latin text

I believe that -- to give one example -- this is something that Chrome implements, but Firefox does not. It's a huge pain to have to match accents perfectly in a text search on a page when you often want your search to be accent and case insensitive. This sort of thing is very important for any text search workload, I imagine.
Great, get your Article 5 wheels rolling.