skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had been building a dating app that matches based on transactional data. It looks for similarity metrics which act as a filter. It then presents you with picture profiles so you can search for people you like the look of. As you say, sexual attraction is important.

I’ve had to put it on hold because investor sentiment in the U.K. has been negative with the belief that no one will link their bank accounts to find a match (even if we’re transparent, regulated, etc).
I just read out loud, louder if it doesn't work.
I've been a lisp hacker for decades, and always code/test from inside emacs using shells. (Emacs+CL is pretty much my OS!) I've never really found SLIME to be much more useful than basic emacs. This, however, looks like it might attract me to actually moving a little bit away from raw emacs. The mains reason that I tend to use raw emacs is that I hop around multiple servers quite a lot, and I find it annoying to have to carry around my emacs environment, and when servers get reloaded, all my personalization gets wiped, so I've learned to make the most of the raw emacs env. This thing seems to provide enough additional machinery that it might be worth dragging around.
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There is no such thing as local demand for software engineers, instead you get tend to get paid more the bigger the project you work in is. This means that you'd expect software engineer salaries to be the highest where you have the highest concentration of them, such as San Francisco or New York. If it becomes illegal to gather such high concentrations of developers in one place then all of those high paying jobs will have to move elsewhere, as you can't sustain them without high concentrations.
This is like Tom and Jerry if instead of constantly matching wits and ending in stalemate, Tom put a plain old mouse trap in front of the hole and killed Jerry within the first 5 seconds of the show and then Tom patted himself before the episode abruptly ended.
You just described the lead character in the movie Hitch: help individuals to relate to other individual people.
Valid or not, in this case it pushes the devs into the wrong direction. The customers are complaining about their own error here after all.
Which is actually a pity. The bible is at least as full of pithy quotes and genuinely helpful, thoughtful points to consider as the usual self help books. It's definitely worth a read, but so is a lot of Greek philosophy, poetry, other religious texts and a bunch more. Hence the original question that spawned this whole thread! There is original, thought provoking content being written all the time. This HN post has already given me a few recommendations for finding it, both in fiction and non-fiction.
This has nothing to do with Google's monopoly. MS Windows will also warn about unsigned executables downloaded from the Internet, at least until these have become well-known enough. Reproducible builds will definitely help with this, both by establishing social trust in your release and by having a single version of the binary that will eventually stop getting these warnings.

Apple has similar issues these days, with their weird "app notarization" requirements that may even require you to pay the platform vendor in order to be acknowledged as a "trusted" developer.
In what applications? The parent didn't even say what they were working on. Everyone wants ideally wants a perfect memory technology with no latency, large sizes and persistence, so I'm not sure what you are talking about exactly. If something needs less latency, you cache it or load it into memory. You seem to be saying that this current technology, that actually exists, is not good enough for a mystery application because it isn't as good as theoretical memresistors.
I've had this exact same idea. The difference was there was a bit more tech or "AI" behind the scenes. You would still upload a picture of yourself. You would also build a model of what features you were looking for ... Maybe like choosing who you like better between two different pictures.

Then your matches would be made if both sides had high "similarity scores" for each other's pictures.
That's a fair question, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen faster. You should listen at the speed you feel comfortable at (and potentially work on increasing that speed.)

Some recordings of the same book have a several-hour difference between the different recordings. Different narrators read at different speeds, and most of them aim for clarity to all listeners. I don't think there's any specific reason to listen to the slowest recording, just like I don't think there's any specific reason not to speed up a recording to where you are comfortabl.
Are you deliberately trying to be confusing? A "bundled camera" is the exact opposite of a 3rd party app. 3rd party would mean one must install it from the playstore.
*Is Google's Monopoly Stifling Free Software?
"we don't understand why programmers are paid so well"

I think we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis

Demand never stops (at least never did in the last 50 years). If some demand was met with programming supply it ends that specific demand, but creates new demands in return. AI won't change that btw.

Now if you excuse me, I have to copypaste stackoverflow answers into my code so I can sell that as senior architectural consultancy work...
First, model checking is a proof technique, albeit in the model theory of the logic rather than in the proof theory; that it can find refutations is a major strength, though. Second, engineers build systems, and they care about the correctness of their system. This is something that cannot possibly be proven because a system is a physical object, and at best, what you can get are probabilistic guarantees (e.g. the CPU only performs the commands it is given with some probability). So what engineers want (as opposed to mathematicians or computer scientists publishing an algorithm) is a technique that most cheaply brings their system to the required correctness probability. Whether this means proving the algorithm correct or finding as many bugs as possible is completely irrelevant. So far, automated techniques like the ones I mentioned do a better job at that, and that is why they're currently considered more promising.
Does it meaningfully deal with binary data, that is can extract then encode, decide them, handle parts with corrupted data, do analysis on them etc? What about images and other large 2d data?
The not-really-breaking change is not actually related to the version number. There is approximately 0% chance that somebody depends on the presence of that symbol in features. And there have been more actually noticeable compatibility changes with minor version bumps.
Heating with fossil fuels is a lot more efficient than heating with electricity made from fossil fuels. Power plants have an efficiency of at most 60%, the rest is wasted heating the plant. Burning the fuel on-site converts 100% to heat where it's needed.
To most Europeans the US Democrats are center / right wing. There are no major left wing political parties in the US and no major left wing media outlets.
I thought OLED was more susceptible to burn-in
I worked six years in the IT department of a small domestic manufacturer, and deciding when a model had outgrown Excel and needed to be created as a tool (sometimes just a pretty interface for our ERP system) was one of our main tasks. I hate the hell that users can bring on a company when they misuse Excel but it will never go away.
> So reading half a page of a math book at the time would have been completely useless (I was in university at the time).

There's a world of difference between mathematics textbooks and regular reading.
I'm not sure if I've understood your comment. Let me play devil's advocate for a while:

How can a "set-it-and-forget-it" web service exist from the service provider's POV? You always need to do small things like monitoring your servers and making sure they're all up-to-date and still working. This is ongoing maintenance cost. Additionally, you need electricity and some place to put your servers (be it virtual or physical).

Also, running something unprofitable out of your own pocket works as a hobby maybe, but not for a company at scale. You need to pay your employees. Even as a hobby it's problematic because you can only do it so many times until your regular income is exhausted.
>It was only attempted to hide her identity.

This makes no difference, legally speaking. Assange was still helping her to gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

This is like giving bank robbers ski masks in full knowledge that they're going to use the ski masks to hide their identities during a robbery. You're still an accessory. It's no defense to say "Oh, I wasn't helping them to gain access to the vault, I was just helping them to hide their identities".
I used to get horrible migraines from high school age on, my triggers were bright reflections and too much MSG (I kept track of what I ate and then tried to avoid anything that triggered) and generally I was useless for at least 4 hrs several times a month. If I was really quick a single Vicodin would at least make it manageable but generally I could keep nothing down. As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more frequency to the point of being unable to do much at all.

One summer in college for a month I got a cluster headache every morning. 20 minutes of absolute agony that made migraines seem like a walk in the park. Thankfully those never came back.

I am glad research has been finding more ways to treat and even stop them.
How can I improve the positioning of my blog on Google?
While it looks somewhat interesting, I'm afraid that there are some aspects that don't sit well with me.

The license is unclear. And I can't find the referenced EULA_Lib.pdf.
"The use of the Geeonx library and the programs geeonx_demo andgeeonx_creator is subject to the corresponding license agreements:EULA_Lib.pdf, EULA_Geeonx_Demo.pdf, EULA_Geeonx_Creator.pdf."

The instructions for linux installation are a little bizarre, and include changing the ownership of several directories under /usr/.
Web 1.0: People anal about something and come together to make it better

Web 2.0: People anal about their egos and snipe and attack each other until everyone is the same level of sad and lonely.
Being Happy, by Andrew Matthews.
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They don’t want people to combine free accounts to get a storage increase. They want people to upgrade from the free accounts, obviously.
I will make it as my last resort.
I will warn my sellers that I will charge them $6/mo.

This will have a negative impact of high churn rate for sure.
But if I will shut it down, then churn rate would mean nothing - it will be shut down anyway!
Worth noting is that according to the Download page[1], only amd64 linux has had 2.0 binaries released. None of the other platforms has it yet (so macOS and Windows doesn't [yet])

- [1] http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html
Use Gimp's circle tool to create a circle. Create a new layer. Now, try and chance the dimensions of the circle itself rather than upscaling (and pixellating) it. As far as I know, this is not possible in Gimp, but it's expected in Photoshop.
Chaosinvaders using spaceinvaders as weapons in indiegames.com
Sorry, 3rd party in the sense that it is not part of Android.

Almost every manufacturer ships their own camera app so it is hard to know what features are present given a certain Android phone.
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There are factors working against it, like the length, the popularity of the KJV with its archaic language, long sections of somewhat boring genealogies or religious laws, and so on. But I'd always chuckle at Bart Ehrman's observation that it was very strange how many students he had who said they believed the Bible was the literal, inerrant word of God yet hadn't ever read it -- after all, "wouldn't you want to know what he had to say?"
You never know until you try.
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I completely agree: I can reread an audiobook at 2x or more but if I want to comprehend something meaty theN 1x with a few re-listens to selected sections is in order. And for dessert listening (podcasts) which are more about entertainment than learning are okay to zoom through.
> - Remove most, if not all notifications from your phone. Not just work-related, anything that will stimulate your brain for no good reason

My phone slipped into water and is not working. I liked it, huge screen, great battery life. So I took some old one I had at home. Smaller. Terrible battery. Old Android, so many apps don't work. I can only use it for calling and texting a couple of times a day. I need to save the battery. I cannot read in bed, as it's too small to be comfortable. It's small, so it fits into all my pockets.

Oh, it's so great that I'm not going to buy a new one. I feel like I don't have phone at all. I didn't know how it was slowly changing (destroying?) my life.
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I believe you're thinking of Sid Meier's GDC 2010 keynote "Everything You Know Is Wrong" [1]. The entire talk is interesting, but section on player perception of probability is about 20 minutes in.

One takeaway is to be careful about how strength numbers translate into odds. If your strength is 100 and mine is 1, does that mean I have a 1% chance to out-and-out beat you? Your armored tank shouldn't have an even 1% chance of being completely annihilated by my club-wielding warrior (that's somehow still around by then).

The later Civ games have taken odds out of the equation, and I think it's for the better. Instead, the amount of damage each unit takes per combat depends on the difference in their strength deterministically. From my own perspective, this is overall more fun than 'randomly' having really strong units lose against weak units occasionally.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY7aRJE-oOY
facebook is not charging users for using it.
still it got a ton of investment!

facebook had a serious trouble monetizing it's service.
so no revenue or monetization method is not enough for deciding that this business is not worth it.
I prefer FMAGA.. because of the ambiguity.
You still see a small bar even with "zero" height.
I think you may be misusing the term “capitalist”. I always understood that it had more to do with the production side of a business than sales or long-term goals: the capitalist (a founder or investor) provides capital so that a business can acquire production facilities, and is entitled in return to a portion of the proceeds from the enterprise that he or she enabled. The business strategy and long-term vision can be anything the parties agree upon.

The closest thing I can think of to a private non-capitalist business would be one that relies on other companies to do the actual work and haven’t invested in their own production facilities. There are plenty of these around today, but that doesn’t appear to be what you’re referring to.
That's just what the G-man wants you to think. They planted a series of decoys in plausible locations. /s
You're shifting responsibility from developers to the users. If reading a QR code triggers a bank transaction, that's an issue with the QR scanner and the banking application.

Users cannot check if a domain is "ok" by looking at it. You visit websites to discover what's there. A few years ago it was common knowledge that ".to" is shady and ".com" looks more legit. Now we have more TLDs than I can count. How is someone supposed to check that with visual inspection?

The way it should go: you scan a QR code. It gets interpreted into something useful that doesn't cause harm.

"Hey this QR would cause a 5€ transaction to Jon Doe. OK?" That's something the user can decide upon. payment://jon-doe:5€ doesn't help much.

(Edit: reading your post again, I realize it might be exactly what you have in mind)
Backup on PeerTube: https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92a-...
The official narrative is that they withdrew from the program[1]. If you have contradicting evidence, please provide it when making such a claim. This community doesn't like broad claims without evidence.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/2019/02/01/snopes-fb-partnership-ends...
Interesting. My controller that I got only a few months after xbox one launch has a proprietary rechargeable battery in that slot
> First, model checking is a proof technique

It is a proof technique if you're exhaustively checking a finite model, but the usual meaning of "model checking" is not restricted to that case. You may be right that just getting the "probability" of some software failing to meet its spec low enough could suffice for some use cases. Probably for "global", cross-cutting properties where formal proof might be expected to be difficult.
>I'm guessing from this that a "real JSON emitter" is one that perfectly implements the JSON spec and has absolutely zero bugs? Does such a thing exist?

If the JSON Serializer has a bug then the only option is to fix the bug instead of adding a human that is manually correcting mistakes in the generated JSON output. The only purpose of human friendly errors is because humans are involved and since they aren't we have to unnecessarily add them to make your complaint valid. (Don't tell me you're feeding the human friendly error messages into an ML algorithm. That's just bullshit.) The days of office workers doing pointless busywork of this type are long gone.
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From Christophe Rhodes[1]

> So, I'm not particularly thinking of sbcl-2.0.0 in terms of semantic

> versioning. In fact, my loose plan for further releases is to aim for

> about 11 releases a year, and increment the second-level number every

> year or so, to keep a rough alignment with calendar years. Our users

> should be trained by now that every release is a potentially-breaking

> release, right?

- [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/mailman/sbcl-devel/thread/877...
> MS Windows will also warn about unsigned executables downloaded from the Internet

OK, sure, Windows adds an additional problem, but the Google problem still needs to be solved.

> Reproducible builds will definitely help with this, both by establishing social trust in your release

"social trust" is not (so far as anybody knows) a metric that Google uses to decide whether a particular download is malicious.

> and by having a single version of the binary that will eventually stop getting these warnings

Only a single version of the binary was uploaded, and "eventually people will stop getting these warnings" only solves the problem for the current release, not the next one or the one after that.
I am not incorporated anywhere. :D

I need at least $25,000 to push this startup to it's real potential.
It will give me 18 months, a point I would be able to monetize comfortably without worrying about churn rate.

After 18 months, and after burning $25,000... this is the point I would reach the break even point, and I might get profitable as well. It's well calculated!
Ecommerce is booming in the middle east!

I am providing long free trial - up to 1 year!
Still my sellers/users know very well they will be charged after a trial ends.
I have 10+ paying customers.

It won't work if I get a job. I am working alone on this, and I have to work full time on this. otherwise I would not be able to achieve such progress!

I do everything! I code, I sell, I provide customer service!
This is a psychopath fantasy. It's the IT version of You (the novel / TV show), Dexter etc.

Nobody wants to be a psychopath unless they are, but there's a certain feeling of liberty that comes with imagining doing things without caring about the consequences.

There's only one joke here, which is repeated over and over and over: it's the callous carelessness by which the protagonist breaks every single social rule imaginable. Nearly every single sentence contains this joke, and there are no other jokes.

It's like Dave Chappelle's "so I kicked her in the pussy" skit, but without the buildup. And ofc way less well done because this isn't Dave Chappelle.
Well ZXing invented the Wifi format[1].

If, for whatever reason, you wanted to do this with older iOS you had to use a configuration profile[2]. This would be distributed as a PList that you'd link to in the QR code. Which means the device needs to be connected to a network to download it first. A captive portal could help with that, or put it on the internet maybe protected with a geofence so you're not advertising your password to the world.

[1] https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-n...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configura...
See also: medical slang

http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/medical-acronyms.htm
Thanks so much for building ;)

Do you have any interest in creating a full space content channel? Heading down to Cape Canaveral or Texas to livestream launches?
>Conversely, his attempt approaching car manufacturing from first principles in the gigafactory has proven to be a complete disaster.

Nonsense. What is that based on?
You could encrypt subject, from field and most metadata (some mail servers don't accept garbled from fields though). To field can not be encrypted, but that's the same on Signal (the server needs to know where to deliver the message to).
Oh I think I battle tested firefox session restore. I can even say that after 1000 tabs, UI lags tangibly (not blaming mozilla for this of course).

Honestly 1000 tabs wouldn't much of an issue if I had some SQL-like way to filter / group tabs to bookmark them rapidly in bunches.
> And the other important assets go home every night. "Foreign investment" isn't able to spirit them out of the country.

China has been very aggressively recruiting those engineers to the mainland with high salaries and succeeding.
I think the author’s point is that Google’s standard for what constitutes a trustworthy download creates a barrier that may prevent the new app from gaining a userbase large enough to sustain itself and get onto Google’s safe browsing list. This is the definition of limiting market access.

Google’s standards are arbitrarily set and applied, with no evidence of community involvement in setting those standards.

This describes the precursor to monopolistic behavior.
Ohh, okay; not Elias Naur's Scatter (Axolotl double ratchet over SMTP).

https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/scatter
A software engineer is more like a car designer (or more general the entire R&D of car manufacturers). The number of car designers is independent of the number of cars you are producing, but if you want to have more or higher quality models you have to hire more of them.
> I appreciate the commitment to semver

There is no commitment to semver from SBCL's side. Rather, it's trying to follow calendar years with at least one release each of the 11 months and a major release in the end of the year.
In the article I'm saying it's surprising that programming pays so well, given that all of these other high-paying fields have high barriers to entry, unpleasant working conditions, or both.
> It feels like we (as Matrix) should do a formal response to moxie's "ecosystem is moving" stuff at some point, not least because the original blog post was written in response to me mailing him to consider linking Signal into Matrix :/

Moxie doesn't want to share, does he?