skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From reading this, I wonder if there is a business case for a "faux" dating business. Before a date, you could get certain opinions on how you look, how you present yourself, etc. And you could go on some sort of outing with someone, and at the end, you get feedback on what you did well and what you didn't do well. This would also give you an opportunity to "practice" your date skills (for lack of a better term).

Also, being blunt, with dating apps, it really is all about physical attraction first. If who you are trying to court isn't physically attracted to your pictures (or think you're trying to hide something), they simply won't interact with you.
On the flip side, I just couldn't get through Hocus Pocus. Bluebeard and Sirens of Titan are my two favorites though.
> I think paper book sales are doomed for long-term decline.

I'm not sure that's true. I own a Kindle but I find it's less expensive to purchase new paper books just about every time. Sure there's the occasional time when a book is on offer in the Kindle store, but it's pretty rare. I haven't re-charged my Kindle for more than a couple of years.

Also there's a bunch of authors I've followed and read over the last 40 years whose books I always buy in hardback whenever they publish something new.

When it comes to technical books paper wins every time, simply because it's far easier to jump about the pages. Also diagrams, graphs, code samples, that kinda thing are pretty awful in current e-book implementations.

And then for many of us there's nothing quite like the feel of a paper book and, if you have space, building a physical library of stuff read, and stuff to be read and being able to peruse it when looking for the next thing to read. Though this does make for a lot of boxes each time you move house.
Any tips or advice for this? Preferably tuned for someone who has no friends.
Wow, he was pretty ahead of his time, i don't mean on only architecture but that is also great.
Why the downvote? Turning off JS works for me.
wow that almost exactly describes where i'm headed to next but
outside of Dallas. My plan is to lease the stables since I have no livestock and don't desire any. Most of my family are West Texas ranchers and oil hands, i'm the lone computer nerd. I have no desire to work as hard as the ranchers in my family do.
> (Thankfully our unfiltered tap water won't kill us but still...)

But a filter that uses toxic materials could.
Why be a "staunch <Company X> supporter" at all?

It's one thing to admire the work/output of a company, but once you identify as a "Company X" supporter you are just closing yourself off to being critical of "Company X".

I cringe at every WWDC session when people applaud for minor features (new themes in Xcode!) and long overdue bug fixes.

I am embarrassed whenever someone online talks about a problem they have with Apple hardware or software, and they are met with passive-aggressive replies along the lines of "I've never seen that problem, what are you doing wrong..."

I develop for and use Apple platforms. I really like some things they have done, but I'd never consider myself an "Apple supporter".

I'm the customer, they are the vendor.
They are here to support me.

If they don't do a good job at that, I'll try to find another company to take their place.

Also companies change, as do their priorities. There was once a period in when MS were making the best internet browser (really)...
Massive wall of text and I missed the important bit. They were fed very well.

"The surprises were just beginning. Faunal analyst Richard Redding, of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, identified tremendous quantities of cattle, sheep, and goat bone, "enough to feed several thousand people, even if they ate meat every day," Lehner adds. Redding, who has worked at archaeological sites all over the Middle East, "was astounded by the amount of cattle bone he was finding," says Lehner. He could identify much of it as "young, under two years of age, and it tended to be male." Here was evidence of many people—presumably not slaves or common laborers, but skilled workers—feasting on prime beef, the best meat available."
F.A Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society
I don't get it. They created the app store. Developers are choosing to be part of Apple's ecosystem. The ecosystem for Android is absolutely terrible in comparison. Even free apps don't compare to Apple's free apps. That's the dumbest thing I've heard.
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying in practice good regulation requires serious thought in quantity of regulation, the role of state vs federal, and the prevention of regulatory capture by said economic sector. Rushing through these things with no more thought put into it than lofty ideals is how you end up with dysfunctional bureaucracys that cause voters to swing towards politicans promising to indiscriminately tear the whole thing down.

It annoys me how little thought is put into making sure any of these new systems will work in a democratic system where the people negativity affected have a vote too.
Slack is an enterprise product. You aren't the guy who buys it, so what you think is irrelevant. They don't care anymore, user experience won't affect their bottom line unless it somehow becomes a Powerpoint bullet vs. some other enterprise competitor, which by definition is equally unconcerned about end-user opinions for the same reasons.

Atlassian is the same way now, providing any kind of feedback to them is equivalent to sending it to /dev/null.

The other thing here is the beauty of a SaaS model once you are an established player. Some product manager inside Slack or Atlassian can upend the user experience of millions of people almost instantly and they can't escape it - an origanization can't just decide to stay on an older version or roll back. Your only choice to drop a subscription for a service in use across your whole organization and which will require going through huge organizational inertia to change. It's ultimately bad for the SaaS companies as well since they never get any real feedback on how their product is perceived (subscription revenue is stable!) until their junk gets so bad that a new competitor without the baggage comes in and suddenly upends the market. Kind of like ... Slack, five years ago. It can happen fast.
The fact that I don't trust Google (or any other large corporation, for that matter) to judge what is and is not an "obvious lie" given the right political incentives. In this case, outright banning would be better and remove any ambiguity or opportunity for shenanigans.
He is saying it is 5x too high. So the valuation should be 1/5th (20%).

So he is suggesting a valuation of $800,000,000 ($800M). Which in my opionion is about right.

That puts the value per user right at $47 per user. Again, which given PayPal's previous acquisitions, looks accurate.
Ask HN: Do you double tap or pinch to zoom images on mobile websites?
I'm trying to understand what is the most common user behaviour when zooming images on a mobile web page. Do you double tap or pinch to zoom images on mobile websites? Are you using Android or iOS?
https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/home
LaTeX, org-mode and pandoc.
I upvoted it for the MS bucks I got.
Yes, like Slack.
I agree. He is the one without self-awareness.

Did he ever consider that he may not be fun to be around? He seems to think he's somehow better than other people, more "self-aware" as he puts it, but maybe he's just not aware of the social skills needed to seem attractive to other people.

I hope he realizes what he needs to do before it's too late. Other, more successful, men may just be _better_ than he is. It's not some vast unfairness, it's just that there are things this man needs to work on and get better at.
The Truth about the Vaping Crisis
Very impressive - key quote: "In addition, MuZero is designed to operate in the general reinforcement learning setting: single-agent domains
with discounted intermediate rewards of arbitrary magnitude. In contrast, AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero were
designed to operate in two-player games with undiscounted terminal rewards of ±1."

It's worth noting that, as impressive as MuZeros performance is in the many Atari games, it achieves a score of 0.0 in Montezuma's Revenge.
Almost always pinch to zoom, using iOS
> I’m no catch, but there are probably a half dozen people I know who I would date & who would date me if communication opened up. (I know this empirically: there was a short period in college where I hit on everyone, and while I stopped because I realized I was probably making a lot of people uncomfortable, I ended up having a casual thing going with about ten young women simultaneously — and this was back when I was broke, out of shape, and the special kind of dumb that only college students can afford to be.)

It sounds, friend, like you have a misguided (outsized) sense of nobility. You aren't wrong about what women put up with in our society, but you also can't write off any initiative by you at all as dangerous. Your own anecdote shows that when you put yourself out there, plenty of people have interest in you and don't feel the need to run for the hills. It's admirable how hard you're trying not to be a part of the problem, but don't make yourself a martyr. After a certain point, it isn't helping anybody.

I'm sure striking the right balance is much more difficult for someone who has trouble picking up on social cues, but it's just a matter of trying it out and learning the curve. Maybe you could practice with or ask advice from women you know platonically? You said you're friends with most of your exes- maybe they can give you insight into how you came off in those relationships?

It's a big and complicated world out there. It's good to try and be sensitive to others, but you can't let yourself get totally buried by worry about how you'll affect them. You just have to do your best, and then apologize if you mess up. And that's okay.

You have it in you to grow past this and find a companion. Everyone deserves to be loved. Best of luck.
As I said, I use this every single day of the week. Not having it means it is not even close to a solution.
Which trips each cost much less because you don't have to build another rocket to do each with.

Or, equivalently, in one trip with a bigger rocket you have left over from another launch, because you didn't ditch it.
Will we get a new SKU? Teams... FOR BUSINESS!
Learning the magician's trick always results in the disappointing feeling: oh, so that's all there is to it.
How about writing a thesis that isn't just for getting a job at an overrated
company and on a topic that could help other people?
> but there's a lot less [...] screaming

Far-far aside: I watched his recent appearance on the daily show. Regardless of your views of him (he gave off a more sympathetic sheen as a basketball team owner and public service contributor [usafacts] than he did as a business man), but man does he not have an inside voice. He (or rather anyone around) would not function in an open plan office.
Climate change will make new jobs we haven’t even imagined yet. Chill, people.
> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that.

You were still there. You missed out because you reached for a camera.
> by "partner" they just mean they replaced their internal thing with VS Code? Wow

Incorrect - they built their own remote-editing solution (similar to vscode's built-in edit-over-ssh, but with a load more features), and have been working with Microsoft to get those features upstream.
That is a tool that takes something like 10x the effort of having built-in file transfers. It is just not a good solution.
While I respect the goal of what you're doing, your initial IP address terminates in Arizona. You could be opening yourself up to legal issues there (I am not a lawyer). Maybe operate and run it out of another country? Essentially, depending on how you're communicating with your hackers could be open to application log seizure etc to (attempt) to identify them or clients.
A cringey read.
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What about people who don't want to have friends? I have had "friends", people I considered my brother. A person I loved. But in due time, it all feels like they were using me. That I was just a toy for them to pass the time. Someone they could exert their demons out without judgement. Be the space that no one else would give them. I had boat loads of fun, but I never really felt cared for ever. The only people who ever cared for me where my parents.
The hacker ethos is "It doesn't matter whether the subject is popular, everybody who's interested is interesting".

But the dating ethos is "Men with badly-groomed beards who write harem anime reviews don't get dates". There's just no way around it, that's the problem here. Having a house and job are attractive characteristics, in the same sense that a functioning set of limbs is, but they don't set you apart. It's the personal details that matter.
And when it drops, the engineers will get fired before he does. This is an example of where you can have it both ways.
WTA probably means winner-takes-all in this context.
> As I see it, current housing prices are being forced out of the traditional model by the effects of the Fed's QE efforts.

Very likely true. The financial crisis messed everything up. Driving interest rates down and QE stemmed the bleeding but it is only prolonging the pain. Possibly we are in a new normal of low-to-negative interest rates for the extended future. If this is the case, expect homes to continue to rise in value and for people with access to cheap capital to continue to pull away from everyone else.

I'm not optimistic interest rates will rise as inflation stays low. They tried raising rates last year and it shook the markets and there just doesn't seem to be a stomach for a prolonged reckoning.
It seems like a victim complex to me. If his mindset is like that no wonder he is not getting any.
the keybinds are completely retarded ... sane industry standard default keymap like maya any year now
But remember, if you don't drink out of a paper straw, you are the problem
Given the sunk cost fallacy, the magnitude of increasing suffering someone might put up with is unbounded.
Winner Take All
... you're using pycharm as a cluster management tool? I'm not sure if I'm impressed or horrified :P
> Why be a "staunch <Company X> supporter" at all?

Because they consistently make what I want to see. For example SwiftUI, which I had been waiting for my entire life.

Call it the lesser evil, compared to my experience with other companies, if that's more acceptable for you.

Here's a funny observation: I have 20+ upvotes on my previous comment criticizing Apple, but a negative score for the supportive statements on this one.

So you see, some people will staunchly attempt to bury anything remotely positive about something they begrudge, so others feel they have to balance that out. :)
might, may

So it might also just be because Microsoft had the better offering and Amazon may not have a good reason to sue. Might, may, could end up either way.
It's old but there's a list of bars etc. here, if Tinder etc. are that bad: https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/the-sav...
We're not talking about whether or not someone is an expert, we're talking about whether they have even a passing familiarity. What an operating system is isn't esoteric knowledge.
Do you have hobbies?

My main two hobbies are music and D&D. I go out and play at open mic nights and have met friends there, and I have also gone to gaming stores to play D&D and made friends there. Since the folks there share a common interest with me, it made it much easier to meet new people and make friends.

EDIT: keep in mind, those don't have to be your hobbies. But there are hobbies like that that can allow you to meet new people.
Back in the day, the international switchboard operators at White Plains and a couple other places would be the first to know when a coup happened, since outward calls stopped and inward calls could not be completed.
The worst bushfires in recorded history, earlier and longer bushfire seasons, ongoing problems to do with poor water management that are being exacerbated, ongoing drought problems that are being exacerbated, ongoing power problems that are being exacerbated, ongoing skin cancer problems that are being exacerbated.

This is death by a thousand cuts. Civilisation doesn't end immediately once we hit our tipping point date - but damage to our environment becomes practically irreversible.
Bill Gates built an amazing airplane. Steve Ballmer crashed it in the desert. Satya Nadella rallied the survivors, put it back together, and got it flying again. Yes, he absolutely deserves the credit just as Ballmer absolutely deserves the blame.
> From reading this, I wonder if there is a business case for a "faux" dating business.

Idk, I think this type of thinking is a major part of the problem. We're turning everything we can into a profit seeking venture. Even dating itself has been commodified. We no longer form relationships by talking to the people around us. Instead, we stare at our phones and swipe left or right. Someone is able to make a profit that way.

From the article:

"For some people, their expansive social network provides a pool of friends whose friendship can grow into romance; this won’t work for me, since I am too exhausted from my day job & side hustles to maintain hundreds of close friendships."

It seems we need to set aside more time as a society for things like social activities and forming relationships instead of being productive or generating someone money.
Houses in the US haven't been built to be livable without AC (in areas that have highs over 85F or so more than a month a year) in decades. Nor have apartment buildings.

You need special attention to floor plan, facing, and to make choices that go the opposite direction of what you do if you have AC and want it to work efficiently, like having really big windows that open, several big doors, and high ceilings. These tend to make your heating less efficient, so there's that problem too.

You also need more expensive materials and different/better craftsmanship than has been commonly available to keep the house's interior finishes from deteriorating quickly when subjected to wide seasonal temperature swings. And more maintenance regardless.
But why do we think the real Cook is "left-wing" and the hypocritical one is "right-wing", not the other way round?
- make of sender/receiver devices:
iPhone XR (sender, iOS 13.2.3), receiver (LG G7, Android ??)

- carrier service of sender/receiver:
Fizz (sender), Koodo (receiver)

-geographic region of sender/receiver:
Québec (Canada)

-the exact text that was sent:
secure communication lower case.

We tested a message before "test", it was received. Then tested "secure communication" (it was blocked). Finally, I tested another "test" message and it was correctly received.

If it's real, this is a real problem. Having the chance to live in Canada, I've never felt the feelings of being censored. First time and it makes me feel very weird.
I'm sure Apple Incorporated, the most profitable tech company in the world, market cap $1 trillion, can manage to hire a few competent developers that want to fix bugs.
I like having a separate app as I can use the window class in X to manipulate which desktop it opens on without too much fucking about.
> getting 5 star reviews on one product, then swapping the listing out for a different product.

I didn't realize that was even possible... that's a really crappy loophole to leave open. I can't imagine why Amazon would let anyone completely swap out item info that way. Edits, perhaps, but everything?
Compared to my father's generation who went through Great Depression and fought WW2, compared to the pre-Prague Spring world I was born into, with Cold War, Soviet Bloc, apartheid, US segregation and student rights riots in Paris and London, and the assorted dictatorships. Err, no I can't say we currently have an excess of authoritarianism lately.

We have a slight lean back after seventy years of steady post-WW2 liberalisation, decline of deference and increasing freedoms. Economically we could have had a more interesting conversation... :)
Out of interest, what book did you read that explained this?

I know a bit about FSMs, but for regex I only know they are based on them - However my self learning tends to be more impulsive and reactive.
Yep. And most gulf nation's ride someone else's fiber and connect to transit providers in Europe. As someone who deals with routing in the middle East it's very frustrating to deal with westerners who don't understand that there really is isn't much inter country networking out here (just because two points on a map are close don't assume that's how the packets go). Want to go to Bahrain to Oman? You're going thru Europe. Saudi Arabia to UAE? Europe. While UAE is the closest thing to a "hub" where there are well populated IXs, every gulf nation seems to have one big govt backed incumbant carrier who doesn't want to play nicely with outsiders. Also the mixture of internet blocking systems and backhauling of data to centralized scrubbing facilities is also fun.
Nuclear power and building dikes.

But like all solutions it should have been 20-30 years ago.
When I was a young teenager, I remember using one called AllAdvantage (IIRC). I believe you earned money by simply having the extension open while you browsed. Cash out minimum was supposed to be $20, but once I hit that mark, the minimum all of sudden changed. I never got my money.
I dunno 'bout you, but I'm a dude, and sports/hobbies would just be a way for me to meet other dudes. (even assuming I had outgoing social skills)

This kind of advice can be so frustrating to receive. Like when other women (often old enough to be my mother) suggest meeting females at the supermarket. Like, what? Nobody wants to be bothered while they are grocery shopping. This could only work for the top 1% of extremely attractive guys.

The "just meet people" or "just talk to her" narrative doesn't work in modern life. Everyone is walking around with headphones on and their noses pointing at a screen. Nobody wants to talk to you. Especially in a romantic context. On dating apps, there is an implicit romantic intention, so at least a guy is free to flirt and hit on girls in that context. In other contexts, he has to worry about attention being interpreted as harassment, on top of the risk of rejection.
I have been using Lubuntu 18.04 for a little over a year on my laptop.
I chose it over other distros, as I didn't want to waste time looking for solutions to problems. Finding solutions to most problems, or desires for Ubuntu is pretty easy. I spent a couple weeks configuring everything the way I liked. I use KDE most of the time.

For IDE, I use https://vscodium.com/
For mdeia playback, I mostly use MPV https://mpv.io, except for DVDs, I use VLC for those.
It takes a little setup(but a quick search can tell you how), but I use NTFS, exFAT,and ZFS. External drives haven't been an issue.
I would recommend it, as the documentation is easy to find, so you don't waste time.
yes i have done via iphone
Interesting how everyone idolizes Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett and Richard Branson and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and even Bill Gates for their prolific genius and the amazing, visionary choices they made to grow their companies, but we should bend over backwards to make sure that Satya is NOT the only person recognized here.

Also stock movements are suddenly meaningless so this guy shouldn't get any credit for creating nearly a trillion dollars. Make sure we just talk about the other 14999 employees at the company instead, they are all more important in this one case than the CEO.

Hmmm... I wonder what is different about this guy?