skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sick of having had all the best intentions over these past ten years yet walking into a bunch of shitshow situations centered around bullshit agile antipatterns

Is anyone else sick of living hand to mouth in the land of plenty?
Did you ask if you can go onsite and leave something overnight to finish the upload?
I believe incentivizing meeting IRL is the lynch pin to disrupting the existing market.

My idea is that at some point after the initial match, both users put in $5. Doing so gets them a coupon/something worth $15 at an app-chosen local restaurant or bar. If one person does not show up, the other person gets $7.

(The important part is those prices relative to each other rather than those specific values.)

The way this would make money is to make deals with the local restaurant/bar so it doesn't cost the company running the app $15 to send the potential couple to a venue (restaurants might pay to have the customers).
Actually, that's completely what "America first" means by those who say it, at the least the ones who are in on the deal.
I on occasion would like to browse Tinder if I have time. One time after like half hour I get a pop up that I have used all my likes for the time being but if I pay I can continue to swipe right on people I like. Ok not interested in that so I will wait the 12 hours or whatever it is and not pay anything. We I forget about it and of course they send me a notification telling me someone likes me find out now who! So I load up the app and then again hit with the I have used too many likes and have a few more hours to wait. I felt a little annoyed and I have no idea if they are measuring some metric or not but like to believe they are so after I get hit with a like paywall I exit the app and do not load it for a couple days. I like to think it scares them into thinking I am leaving which is ultimately what I ended up doing.
I've fluctuated about that much in 48 hours just going from eating a lot of food constantly -> fasting (no food, no water). Think about all the food and liquid you can pack into your stomach and intestines.

Seems crazy, but try it. I went from like 180lbs to low 160s. Of course, it comes back when you start eating and drinking again.
Main Street is starting to see that the Fed will monetize anything, with no limit. They’re starting to demand access to the printing press. The moral hazard with permanent ongoing QE is becoming a reality if Yang is taken as an omen of what’s to come.
Huh? That’s not how I remember it at all. You ordered from the catalog and then waited three weeks. If you were going to pick up in the store, why not just go to the store instead of calling an 800 number and reading off your credit card info? There was a whole Seinfeld episode about how the only mail anyone got anymore was catalogs.

Per FRED[1], monthly mail order sales doubled from 1992 to the end of 96.

Obviously it was nothing like today, but mail order was, like, a thing.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MRTSSM4541USS

*Also, I learned in my google rabbit hole about this that it’s a 1992 Supreme Court decision that confirmed that mail order retailers didn’t have to collect state tax unless they had a physical presence in the state.
Right, it sounds like Thriptic blew up the problem and he had to make a scene to be heard. It's now pride that prevents him from going back even though he would lose his favorite dinner spot.

In his defense, if a customer is paying and not asking for out of the ordinary, it's really bad business to not at least acknowledge the customer when they are generous enough to complain.
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Whistleblowers have never been more important – or more at risk
You're right[0], which is weird because they got most of the way there. I guess I just assumed since they were leveraging IIFEs this would be a natural use case. I'd be interested in knowing why they didn't actually.

According to this[1] exchange on Stack Overflow, the IIFE is used by TypeScript because of other scoping issues (specifically protecting class properties before instantiation and defining interfaces).

[0] https://yakovfain.com/2015/06/30/the-private-in-typescript-i...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56086411/why-does-typesc...
Why is finding a therapist so difficult?
Having the lights on and a few cars out front to let customers know this is a safe location is definitely important in a lot of businesses. This article seems to want to make a point about subscription cancellation instead, though.
None of those things are ASCII.
“I don’t even quite know what retraction is. I imagine that it could occur. I would think there would be legalistic implications.”

-- David McDowall, Editor-in-chief of Criminology
If you think this is exactly like IRC then you're delusional.
Reminds me of a commentary I read about a dozen years ago, whee the author has a similar experience to you, and starts craning around to see what new headsets people are wearing, until one day he realized that he actually was again seeing a crazy person talking to themselves. Full circle.

With a friend, I then designed a silly “Kinesic Interface” wearable UI concept for ID Magazine that tried to solve this issue by using gestures that made some sense to both humans and the computer, i.e. take a photo by winking at the person, or change the volume by sticking your finger in your ear and turning as if you're cleaning your ear out to hear better.
As a member I love it. I want it to be as hard as possible to steal from them, because ultimately I will be paying the cost for theft from them, so it saves me money.
Yep, let's delete this topic. Sure having a company censor foreign users' content on political grounds is bad, but it's legal!

What? You don't like something? Is it legal? Then you'd better clam up, buddy!

As we all know, all things that are legal are just the way it is, and we have to just deal with them.
Show HN: Dolphyn Receipt Manager – The smart way to manage receipt
Amazon Aurora Scales Rapidly Using Vitess
What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
> That responsibility is implicitly (and silently) pushed onto the user.

...As it should be? I don't want my technology to make privacy choices for me. I'm not putting down hundreds of dollars to have some algorithm baby me into complacency.

The possibility of being recorded in public has been obvious since the introduction of the microphone, and essentially expected in the smartphone age. What difference does it make if that microphone is on my glasses rather than in my pocket or on my wrist?

The golden rule applies: Don't talk about things you want to hide in public. I'm not saying "you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide" - I'm saying "if you have something to hide why would you announce it out loud amongst strangers?" That's just bad opsec and, yeah, it's on you to police what information you release when you're surrounded by people who listen. Smart devices or not, that's a basic responsibility anyone owes to themselves and the people they're talking about.
Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD (2010)
The value of the US dollar keeps going up while every other currency is going down. Off shore dollar reserves have been increasing as a safe haven.
Diapers was purchased by Amazon -- not run out of business.
YouTube CEO: Politicians can break our content rules
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Or just use conda.
How Google’s Dataset Search Engine Work
Did the steak house change management?
Even if this were true (the research is speculative at best), the dating app pool is skewed far worse than a 1:2 F:M ratio.

> ... they're just a more efficient dating market than in times past.

This might be true if women were actually going on dates and starting relationships. Except that no one is. We are a lonely bunch[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2019/05/03/millennials...
> advocate violence or break the law

Well I guess so much for the French or American Revolutions.
Women should be playing in the NFL along with men! THEY DEMAND EQUALITY!
Please don't post unsubstantive comments about the weakest thing you find in an article. Those aren't interesting.

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Can't compare the grade of loose leaf I'm talking about to the dust Lipton sells, having tasted the difference. Even visually...it's like comparing champagne to cooking wine.

Elephant Chateau - https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61N4gza3WuL...

Lipton (similar look) - http://ongsambee.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tea-dust....

In this case the proof is in the pudding, and Lipton happens to make especially terrible pudding, regardless of any doubts you have.
Per wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing):

Quantitative easing (QE), also known as large-scale asset purchases, is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys predetermined amounts of government bonds or other financial assets in order to inject liquidity directly into the economy.

The fed is buying treasuries and MBS's on a nightly and ongoing basis from the banks to the tune of $100B. Is that not large scale? Are those not assets? Is this not injecting liquidity into the economy?

Hell, you can actually see the increasing fed balance sheet from their own data! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
I don’t think they’re suggesting that everyone on earth has purposefully become a thief at one point, but that sometimes it just happens.

I’ve definitely walked out of a supermarket with a bottle of water that I picked up while shopping and forgot to pay for - I still stole it, even if unintentionally.
> Most of it with labels that work very hard to imply that sugar only has calories if it's made from something other than sugar cane.

I like the ingredient listings that say "cane juice".
How does it compare with 8TB USB3 drives(140$)?
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/YpJtt6/western-digital-elem...
Given the state of the world, it's irresponsible to not have kids -- if you're a maker, giver, and lover of the neighbors, lands and wildlife surrounding you.

If you're a doughy-handed politician or jr. totalitarian central planner, be my guest; don't have children.

Let the adults and our awesome kids take care of the planet. You've tried to ruin it; we'll fix it. Your time is done.
The best source I've found for reviewing these is Khan Academy. Their courses are more thorough and accurate than most high schools teach them, and they have all subjects you list.
Gnet: A high-performance,event-loop networking library written in pure Go
The past decade has been flat, and it has increased noticeably since last year. There was a substantial recession about a decade ago that caused a contraction of the US economy which explains the decrease in energy consumption, and we've been recovering steadily. Unless we're going into another recession, the "downtrend" observed over the last recession isn't a predictor of future energy consumption.
Every time I read arguments online of people defending the American system, I almost always get hints that they are wealthy people, usually because they admit they can actually afford the care instead of essentially going broke over it. Healthcare debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US, so it is statistically true that it is too much for the people below the median. Even for people in the middle class.
“repo operations”, “quantitative easing”, and “emergency asset relief” are all fancy methods of printing money.
Dating apps are a failed idea. If you're a man and have any imperfections appearance-wise you'll go on these sites and get no responses. In college I did hundreds of swipes and sent a bunch of messages on OKC and got nothing because I wasn't a human Ken doll. I could've spent all day in the gym and gotten plastic surgery and spent hundreds on whatever wardrobe was in style but why do all that for people who can't appreciate you for anything else but how likely you are to be in a Calvin Klein ad? I've seen experiments where they put male model pictures on tinder profiles that say stuff like being nazis and convicted rapists and surprise, they got more matches (a ton) than me (0) with my well-thought-out profile/pictures but not literally Brad Pitt.
Wonder if they get hit by gender/age discrimination lawsuit?
https://github.com/panjf2000/gnet

`gnet` is an Event-Loop networking framework that is fast and small. It makes direct [epoll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll) and [kqueue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kqueue) syscalls rather than using the standard Go [net](https://golang.org/pkg/net/) package, and works in a similar manner as [libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv) and [libevent](https://github.com/libevent/libevent).

`gnet` sells itself as a high-performance, lightweight, nonblocking network library written in pure Go which works on transport layer with TCP/UDP/Unix-Socket protocols, so it allows developers to implement their own protocols of application layer upon `gnet` for building diversified network applications, for instance, you get a HTTP Server or Web Framework if you implement HTTP protocol upon `gnet` while you have a Redis Server done with the implementation of Redis protocol upon `gnet` and so on.

`gnet` derives from project `evio` while having higher performance.
Using Light to Speed Up Computation
People wanting to flatter themselves? The nerve. Get off your high horse.
Here’s Hubert’s peak oil projection and the actual oil production in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_pea...

Now there are multiple schools of thought, but one of them holds that when reality diverges so much from theory as in this plot, it’s time to question the theory.
Posting one more time; David Packard's (of HP fame) address on "How to be a Manager in a Technical Company" -

https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-...

One thing i noticed in discussions like this one is the amount of excuses made for Management's/Manager's lack of Technical Proficiency. This has to stop. If you are in a Technical Domain and leading/managing Technical People you have to know the domain decently well. There is no other alternative. Else you are reducing the effectiveness of your Engineering Team and the Company as a whole to your level of incompetency. The resulting effects may not be visible immediately but sooner or later you will drag the company down to oblivion (eg. see what happened to the same HP).
Or too afraid to consider sending something without insurance. Even though it will have tracking.
There's definitely advantages, and I say that as someone with a sore back and a 2012 macbook, but there's no excuse for the modern macbook pros to not just have actually useful ports for a change. They used to give you a card reader too, and that slot is as thin as usb-c!

I've had professors delay class because they forgot the damn dongle, or the dongle mysteriously doesn't work in this particular lecture hall but "worked fine in my office!!" Occasionally you'd see someone in the wild with a tiny keychain usb drive or logitech wireless nub and a hulking 4 port dongle taking up nearly half the table space as the laptop.

I get keeping a wedged laptop like the air sparse, but Macbook pros have like 6 inches on either side where they could throw in a usb type a or hdmi cable (or the card reader, if you like photography!) if they reduced the taper by 1mm and kept the laptop at the same thickness. To not do that is aggressively stubborn, especially when usb-c isn't even the standard plug for their phones.
You may not be American. American HN folks tend to take it for granted that their beliefs are universal.

The controversy isn't as much that TikTok bans political speech or divisive content, it's that TikTok selectively enforces it based on whether or not it is in one particular country's self-interest.
Back when I was single, I was on a dozen dating sites. It was frustrating as heck to keep getting led on by fake profiles.

eHarmony is the worst: they actually sold my email address to spammers. How do I know this? I have my own domain, and use a unique (hard to guess) email address for each site I have to give an email address to. So it was trivial to nail eHarmony as the culprit.

Someone has already linked to the OKCupid blog post which explained pretty well why you should not pay for a dating site. Then they were bought out by Match (how did the anti-trust people let Match accumulate so many sites?), and any principles they had went down the drain.

Basically, the market is ripe for a respectful dating site. But OKCupid started this way; and in the end they sold out. What makes you think you won't sell out when the money is right?
Barely anybody in India can pay $60k a year (30x GDP per capita) of course they’d get full rides!

That doesn’t mean “no money”, it just means “probably upper middle to upper class”.
Right. If someone asks what a good dating app is then the better thing to do is to not assume sexual orientation or gender and recommend an app for all e.g. Tinder/Coffee Meets Bagel/Hinge?

I mean, just thought it was weird for a complete stranger to recommend to another complete stranger a gay hookup app for men...
On the Washington-calibrated President degeneracy scale, bounded by George Washington at 0 and Donald Trump at 10, I’d give this a 5, Bill Clinton a 7, and Lyndon Johnson a 9.
It seems like their plan for monetizing it had been going on a long time and failed to get them off the runway before it ended so now they're doubling down on the monetization but dropping the platform it was supposed to monetize.
The only phone I own[1] doesn't fit in my pocket. Yes, modern "smart" phones have similar problems, but this thread is about Amazon's new eyeglass-style microphone+speaker.

[1] https://www.cdw.com/product/att-trimline-210-corded-phone/30...
Seeing a lot of critical comments here. I get it, this isn't perfect, but let's not forget that this is part of a growing movement towards something better. That is to be commended.

Don't let perfect be an enemy of good.
Bounce Back Postmortem: A Zelda Style Boomerang Game for JS13k
No, LinkedIn works to establish the network of professional connections which stays with you even when you got a job.

Now, I'm not sure if these are of any worth (I never got anything useful out of LinkedIn... either people trying to sell me something, or colleagues I know already).

I've heard of people (of gold digger kind) using LinkedIn as a dating site.
"Scam" is a broad term. The technical basis of bitcoin can be 100% solid and it can still be a "scam" in the sense that it's been sold as a get rich quick scheme for speculative investors rather than an actual, day-to-day use currency (given transaction times it'll struggle to ever be that, but I digress)
The newsworthy part of this story is that the censorship is extending beyond Chinese users. The journalists based in England were unable to find trending topics on Hong Kong. That is unprecedented for other popular social media platforms outside of China.
An important area on which a lot of nonsense is published. By some analyses over 80% nonsense. (When I look at the other material you often can't take any action based on it anyway.)

Some interesting observations in these comments, much better than you usually see.

Could even kick off an HN diet study? Detailed recording of everything that can be sensibly noted, you pick the dietary changes and do it for a long, long time. Something like that might cut through the clutter?
Without Fed intervention, the repo market is just big banks lending to each other overnight, using mostly risk-free assets as collateral.

Why wouldn't this market clear at a large spread above the fed funds rate? ... either a majority of banks are too low on capital reserves to participate in some lucrative low-risk loans, OR one or more unknown participants are close to insolvent and the others don't want counterparty exposure. Either way it's a dangerously close to a systemic liquidity crisis and the Fed is completely behind the ball.
Irreversibility of transactions is not a feature I want.

If someone wants to rob you of all your bitcoin, they can hold a gun to your head until you give it to them. A bank, on the other hand, has transaction limits.

If I buy something online with a credit card and soon after discover it's fraudulent (which has happened to me on multiple occasions), I can reverse that too.
Ignoring cap plague PCs, in my experience it is blown input capacitors for modern devices and electrolytics on old devices. And if it's a tanty, you'll know.
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Steps to Protecting Patient Data and Improving Risk Management
> I think that you missed a time term somewhere. You're looking at global energy use for an entire year. Don't you want to normalize that to joules used per time period (i.e. power) before determining how it affects instantaneous-average wind speeds?

Nope. I may have messed up my calculations somewhere, but I'm quite confident in my equation (kinetic energy E = 1/2 x m x v^2).

That paper looks pretty interesting, but I'm going to follow my own advice and admit I don't know: I don't have the background to evaluate the validity of their atmospheric model. The conclusion[1] is pretty important if it's true.

[1] "Furthermore, we show with the general circulation model simulations that some climatic effects at maximum wind power extraction are similar in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of atmospheric CO2. "
If you're in the EU then there is no concern since CF will only be used as a default provider in the US for US users using the US version of Firefox.
It all went to shit after the Internet Brands buyout.

They used to just dogfood their own software as their homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20070205162247/http://www.vbulle...
No it isnt:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grabtaxi#section-inv...
There's a few stories of people buying tickets to Sydney NS (Nova Scotia Canada), instead of their desired Sydney NSW, and landing much earlier than expected.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. In fact, I think there was a dating app a while ago that had a similar feature.

Either way, I've thought many (many) times of making a dating app and running a pilot/MVP on UCLA's campus. But I think dating apps have been (justifiably) getting such a bad rap lately, it'll be too hard to get initial traction.
Nah, they just want to have sex with you.
Most of the paleo junk food I've seen has been variations on a theme of dark chocolate and coconuts. I don't have any nutrition labels to hand (paleo junk food is expensive), but I wouldn't write it off as unhealthy without seeing what's in it.

Then again, the reason I can't stick to paleo is the slippery slope from 95% dark chocolate to Toblerones, so maybe it's better to cut chocolate out altogether.
You'd say that, but the competition is worse. I put up with Amazon's issues because the competition, well, they don't quite compete.
And if you complain about your experience in an open forum you get berated by people assuming you arent attractive or your profile isnt good

Glad to see the FTC curbstomping it
- confiscate my bitcoin, or even find out how much I have

Bitcoin's public ledger is especially vulnerable to FBI "follow the money" investigation. Only one end is required to be known, and the entire trail is easily followed.

The federal agent who stole a portion of Dread Pirate Roberts' Bitcoin was quickly tracked and prosecuted.