skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already do automate jobs by improving our development environments. A better language can eliminate important classes of bugs, and once a reliable library is available, you don't have to write it yourself. The tools do get better, gradually.

This doesn't seem to be happening particularly quickly, though, and it's not clear that it's accelerating. Setting standards is a social process and it often takes years for new language changes to get widely deployed.

Another thing that slows things down is that every so often some of us decide what we have is terrible and start over with a new language, resulting in all the development tools and libraries having to be rebuilt anew, and hopefully better.

I expect machine learning will result in nicer tools too, but existing standards are entrenched and not that easy to replace, even when they are far from state-of-the-art.
To get this straight, you are stating that you believe it is in your interest for certain other people who live in the same society as you to be prohibited from attempting to further their own interests by freely and meaningfully participating in the public political debate to the same degree that you and others in your society are able.

Do you think that's going to end well? How do you expect those people to feel about you? There is a very good reason why societies have protected the right to political speech, and it is to prevent the inevitable conflict that arises when some people in society feel that the rest of society is preventing them from attempting to further their own interests in the same capacity that other groups are able.

In the case of political speech that you consider Nazi-style, your rationale is that you believe it will make an event you consider to be unlikely become even less likely. You believe it will have a sufficiently large influence on the likelihood to make it worth bearing the consequences of telling people in your society that they cannot participate in the public political debate as freely and meaningfully as others. Why do you believe it would make that event less likely? And why do you believe it would reduce it enough to justify the risk?
Thanks. Appreciate it. I’ll let the team look into it and communicate with you first.
Hinge doesn't follow the double-opt-in pattern. When you "like" someone, you can immediately send them a message, even if they haven't yet liked you back. I guess that's a big enough differentiator to not violate Tinder's patent.

I think Bumble might be differentiated in that once the double-opt-in has occurred, only one party (the women) can send a message.
Because Americans might not tolerate being quarantined.
Oh god no! Who the hell would want to deal with a DMV like organization with your email.

There are so many free email services why would this even be needed.
Yep. I deleted my account as soon as I heard the news yesterday. Thankfully you can delete your account online and don't have to email/call anyone.
Daily Stormer, archive.ph, 8chan
But why does that system exist at all, if it's not supposed to do something?

It's not "impossible to use stolen credentials", it's "you have to clear this barrier to use stolen credentials". If that barrier is broken, that sounds like a flaw in the security model.
You mean MS Xenix aka UNIX variant, or was there some CLI tool with the same name?
You'd be surprised how many businesses survive in spite of themselves.
> another commenter suggested 20% require respiratory assistance, but is that of flat infected or of those that are detected as infected in part BECAUSE their symptoms are serious?

The latter. Unfortunately we don't know what fraction of cases are detected, but it's believed to be around 10%.
>I got no doubt at this stage that the US will be hit the hardest from all the developed countries.

It's the biggest and most diverse so that's wouldn't be surprising, yes.
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The CDC is a federal agency, no? The larger point is that the US, being a democracy is “messier”, to its potential advantage. It’s harder to suppress information.

The dust-up with the NOAA and the White House last year over a hurricane is probably a good model for what a CDC / White House disagreement might look like. Recall that during that episode, the White House directed NOAA to disavow the claims of forecasters that went against the president’s claim that Alabama was in Dorian’s line of fire.
Apparently no, they have more candidates than they can manage so they can afford it.
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Interesting. If languages like C and C++ are really first to be vulnerable, why are they the ones used for building AI (computer vision) instead of category theoretic languages?
Ooh this seems really cool, wonder if you can take SQLite bytecode and convert it to LLVM bytecode and execute natively. Edit: oh that's what they do haha
Ah no, I am not saying California is up to this, but the rest of the US definitely is. I am from VA and can assure you that people would not be comfortable giving money equally to say, sex offenders or black people, as their WASP neighbor here. California is not like the rest of the US at all, so I withhold my opinion on what could pass there.
Hurricane Electric has a pretty solid free DNS offering. I've been using it for like 10 years.

https://dns.he.net/

I haven't needed to talk to them much, but one time I tried to add a .ninja domain, and there backend wouldn't handle it. I emailed them to report the problem at 4:49 p.m. I got an email at 7:09 p.m. the same day (2 hours 20 minutes later later) asking me to try adding it again. [1] When a free service fixes your problem in a few hours, they get +1 gold star from me.

[1] I just checked my email to look up the actual times. This was on Mar 15, 2017.
Oh, sorry about that. Bad habit. Had hoped to get to it before you wasted your time.

That all said, I think you have a knee jerk reaction (given your history) to side with Large Corp. It shows here and really felt like that. Way overly dismissive and condescending.

Having personally worked for large corporations, I can say that the "it's not personal, it's business" motto is pure evil bullshit better suited for mob.

If you (the royal you) can't treat people with respect that they deserve, don't engage until you can.
The postscript undebunks it.
I would second that. The only value I've ever gotten out of dating apps was back in the more freewheeling days when OkCupid and the like would promote in-person events. Enforcing a balanced gender ratio plus similar interests (to avoid purely scattershot approaches), and having an official host running each event, would go a long way.

It also gives an obvious way to get users to pay for stuff in a way that directly corresponds to both the amount of work the company is doing and the number of singles the user is meeting: pay $X to get a spot at Y event. That could even include some simple cross-promotional bundling (get a ticket to the zoo / art museum / sportsball game / retro drive-in movie / whatever along with the group event).
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On the other hand, it's not a very advanced type level feature either to insist on total functions. I'm sure Rust's type system goes a lot further in enforcing a good level of type soundness.

Edit: typo
Great... And I can't use Tinder because of one joke I made about the developers shipping code on drugs because of a weird bug I was getting...
Are you talking about a CMS? Word Press?
>The photos you use must be taken at a designated photography studio. Users cannot upload their own photos. [...]

This is probably the top idea in this whole thread so far.
You would have to drink about two liters of tonic water a day to consume a day’s dose of quinine in pill form. Which is doable, but exposes you to quinine side effects.

Antimalarial compounds quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine affect the electrophysiological properties of Cys-loop receptors and have structural similarities to 5-HT3 receptor antagonists. So they might act at 5-HT3 receptors.

In 2006, the FDA banned sale of unapproved drugs containing quinine because of the risk of serious side effects or death.
This is an incredible quote:

> But like everything in math what it really is is a thing that the mathematician has come to know through application of effort. The definition is a portion of a cage built to hold the concept in place so the next mathematician can come along and expend effort to know it.
He didn't conform to the "white guys, 20-30" part. I worded it badly.
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Any rating system consumed by others is more useful for disinformation than information.

aka trolls and spammers will use this feature more than honest people will
Not sure to what degree you follow the markets, but ^SPX is down over 3%. A number of high level pandemic expert positions have been eliminated in this administration, and I think people are starting to have doubts about domestic preparedness in the US.
Yes! This has come up across multiple industries and is probably the feature on our roadmap I'm most excited about. The implementation is tricky but customers definitely care about the intersection of a provider's data with their own. Some more sophisticated providers have internal tools for generating things like sample sets customized to a prospect.

We're going to be adding a feature where we can flag fields as identifying keys and index them. We'll start with a simple intersection count ("upload 100 stock tickers, see how many records match"). Then we'll add an interactive feature to let a prospective customer generate all of the stats in the dictionary scoped down to the subset of data they care about. It's important to be able to answer questions like "for the 100 tickers I care about, how many NULLs are there for this other column?".

Maybe someday we'll even get into the more general record linkage problem when there's no reliable matching key.
> The implication is not that wandering aimlessly is OK

That wasn't the point of the GP.

> I'm not really sure that quote means what most think it does

Wandering is exploring a domain. Knowing a domain is part of forming a strategy or merely the goal in itself.
But then there's https://shitpost.plover.com/m/monad.html

> The more I think about this, the more it seems to me that a monad is not at all a monoid in the category of endofunctors, but actually a monoidal subcategory.

> That's the problem.
I appreciate you're looking in to this.
> wav2letter is also under use by some, although requires more effort to setup

This isn’t quite accurate. To my knowledge the options are: you are either using it in Talon and it just works, or you want to use it outside Talon and you will need to write entirely new glue code to add support for it in your project of choice.
> The bottle neck here might be the preferences women have, not being unable to meet men without an app.

I would say there is a quite a bit of evidence that would corroborate this thesis.

The majority of dating is moving online:

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w... (Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect, Stanford sociologist finds)

But female participants aren't finding what they want:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-... (The dating gap: why the odds are stacked against female graduates finding a like-minded man)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12603 (Mismatches in the Marriage Market) referenced by:

https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/women-are-struggling-to-find-m... (Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do)

> “There are shortages of economically attractive men,” lead study author Daniel T. Lichter tells The Post. Although we like to think marriage is based on love, he says, it “also is fundamentally an economic transaction,” and women want partners whom they can call their equals.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/better-educat... (Better-educated women ‘find it harder’ to meet partner)

> While women in their mid-to-late 30s perceive a dwindling pool of prospective partners, men at this age perceive an “endless supply” of possible partners as it is more usual for an older man to choose a younger partner than it is for an older woman to, the study says.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-cost-of-thriv... (The Cost Of Thriving)

> While Americans see traits like “be caring and compassionate,” “contribute to household chores,” and “be well educated” as of nearly equivalent importance to being a “good husband” or a “good wife,” they are far more likely to describe “be able to support a family finan­cially” as a very important trait for a good husband. This finding holds across education level, race, and gender: 72 percent of men and 71 percent of women say being able to support a family financially is very important for a man to be a good husband, compared to 25 percent of men and 39 percent of women saying the same about being a good wife. (My note: Money shot; what society says and what people are doing are two different things)

The high level TLDR is (based on the data) men are content to date down, women are not, and economically disadvantaged men (which there are more of due to globalization and other macro factors) are exiting the dating marketplace, creating a market imbalance. Toss in data showing men online target ~20-25 years old for a partner, while women prefer to date around their age as they age, and here we are.
Oh god no! I would not trust the government to not read every email for "security" reasons. I barely trust Google / Microsoft / etc to not read my email.
Super great idea. I've been talking to data scientist/eng in B2B SaaS space on how we should bring best practices like that to the Sales/Marketing/Business ops world too.

What would you say are the differences between syndetic and qri.io (not affiliated in anyway)
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I do wonder; when a domain is suspended, why don't you send out a courtesy notification e-mail?
There are many criminal groups, but few are advanced. It takes investment and large teams to get full chain zero days. Most criminal groups will implement n days, but they are not coming up with Eternal Blue, you know? They are just grabbing it and hitting unpatched machines. It is skilled for sure, but it is not my definition of advanced threats.

If you have some examples of criminal groups using zero days in hard targets, I'm very interested. From what I see, no one's mobile phones are getting hit with ransomware via fresh vulns. That behavior is generally reserved for nation states with the ability (financial and legal) to purchase the exploits.
But then how is Comcast supposed to tell me I'm about to go over my monthly data cap?
If you rate someone positively enough you end up in a relationship with them and stop opening your dating app.
I'd love to tell you that. I had it on my voicemails for a long time but forgot and switched carriers and lost it :(
> the European war was mostly won by American manufacturing and Russian soldiers.

That's one way to think about it. Another way to think about it is that WW2 was two separate campaigns: one between all the powers you normally think about, and the other just between Germany and Russia, an entirely-optional war that likely wouldn't have begun if Germany hadn't decided to start it. It's not really that Russia was aiding the Western powers in a single fight; it's more that an independent, simultaneous Russo-German conflict starved Germany of the materiel it needed for its other campaign.

See also: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-if-hitler-never-in...
I’ve worked for Cloudflare since it was 24 people. I care a hell of a lot about our customers. I know eastdakota does also.
One of the original Computers. All respect to her and other people that helped humanity achieve so much with so few.
But hold on, why don't you just buy this cargo-cult self-help book and you too can be a success*!
And while we are at that, if the russians hadn't made a deal with the nazis to steal poland, there wouldn't have been a war to begin with and all those untold lives would be alive.
> If you want to be liked, just be nice.

If only it worked that way.
This is so true and sad. Often the smartest people at a company are literally just being moved about by the business people. They literally can't see the real game above them.
> It's very easy to manage incoming bandwidth when you're hosting a tor onion service.

Yeaah, I don’t think anyone who’s operated a larger onion service would agree with you.
I'm actually on board with the idea of boutique dating apps that limit population and interactions in this way. I would try one that gave discounts and date ideas ("-$5.00 discount at this particular restaurant, oh, and there's 4 tables left for tonight, reserve a table for your date now through our app").

If you want to get creepy, do analyses of where people might want to go based on preferences or chat content and give discounts/suggestions for those categories. Other broad filters could be "find some place with lots of people". The less intrusive version is just giving a map of places nearby that have discounts available. Make it convenient to share map and website pointers within the app, so people aren't tabbing over to Google maps to look up the place.

For joining, I'd probably keep it application only or by referral. Egregious complaints and police reports get you thrown right out. Balancing how much identity verification against a creepy factor would be difficult.

These kinds of things are a lot more palatable the more of them that there are. There can be other flavors of boutique apps, and you just shop around and apply to ones you like. Did you already go through all 500 potential matches on this 1k user app? Just download another one.
That's... an arranged marriage. You've invented arranged marriages, sans coercion.
There's a rule, wish I could remember the name of it, that says people will consistently choose convenience over satisfaction even though those choices will tend to make them less happy.

I think this explains a lot of our modern societal dysthymia, but dating apps are particularly illustrative.
Math is not the insurance policy. Your social skills and your ability to continually "sell" your worth to others are the insurance policy.
I've been self hosting DNS for 20+ years. It's easy as pie. I have a couple name servers on my home network (business cable) and another on a VPS.
Ok, completely different take!

I also interviewed there last spring, but I thought it was super positive, even though I didn't get the job. I had to push myself really hard to get the onsite and I think that was beneficial to me. I have no computer science background at all and it forced me to prep intensively between interviews. So, I kind of went into it figuring I probably wouldn't get it but who knows and that it would just be good to have the experience of this super tough interview.

I learned some things! I started thinking about my job a bit differently, which is cool. Also, at the very least, the process made me better at interviews. Ha! There's always something you can take from a difficult experience (and it was for sure difficult.)

I don't think you should feel discouraged or feel bad about your abilities. It sounds like it was just a poor fit and you should be happy it didn't work out! Plus, now you've been through it once. You know what it's like. You can do it again somewhere else and it'll work out.

Good luck with Amazon!
> You might think that programmers are expensive–the salaries of programmers are quite respectable in comparison to other industries. But if this were true, a lot more effort would go into improving programmers’ productivity, in particular in creating better tools.

...

> I am immensely impressed with the progress companies like Google or IBM made in playing go, chess, and Jeopardy, but I keep asking myself, why don’t they invest all this effort in programming technology?

It seems like Google does invest in programming technology, but a lot of that tech is internal. Google spends an order of magnitude more money on employee productivity than any other job I've worked at. But that's probably because at previous jobs we spent <<1% of salary on tools and didn't have economies of scale.
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The author is saying that the main reason to use something like C++ instead of Python or even Java is for speed. He assumes that optimizing for speed is a problem that can fit neatly under the machine learning domain.

If a machine can optimize performance better than humans, then it would not make sense to use C++, in the context of performance.
If you assume honest usage, a high number of ratings becomes a negative signal. That is, it signals someone who doesn't want to stop using the app or is excessively selective.

So a good signal is probably someone with few ratings. Which would seem to defeat the point of a rating system, as a five-out-of-five rating is now a bad sign.

Anecdotally, this does comport with my experience back when OKCupid would tell you how old someone's account was. It was far easier to make contact and have a conversation with a new account than with one months to years old.
Sometimes the math is “We can do it twice in India and still save 50%”

Anyone who has worked with the big vendors knows that the correlation between quality and price is very loose. The lowest cost provider is rarely great, but the high cost provider can also be selling you a lot of juniors.
There are many different heuristics for what is "optimal". To many it is to be left alone to work on things they find interesting.
> The definition is a portion of a cage built to hold the concept in place so the next mathematician can come along and expend effort to know it.

Well put. I'd say this extends beyond mathematics. All definitions are like that.
A guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning [pdf]
True, but hookups are that way, and you get more repeat users by optimizing for hookups than for romance.
I'm so sorry. I'm just supposed to believe that "so many people, particularly women and people of color, have gone unrecognized for their accomplishments in their lifetime" when Katherine Johnson and Margaret Hamilton are the only NASA ground staff that I can name. Is there anything else you want me to believe?
I think it’s more like more like 1.5 syllables in practice? I had a hard time finding a short word in the J space that was phonetically diverse but also didn’t clog the mouth. It’s worth noting that when doing the thing I mention where you blend the words together to go faster, “sit jury crunch” can be spoken more like “sitch ury crunch” or even “sitch re crunch” and still recognized fine.

And see sibling thread suggesting “jree” like “tree”, which is similar to how it sounds when you’re going quickly.

Edit: For people suggesting new words, please read my comments downthread. Also the biggest complaint I’ve had about jury in practice is it can sound similar to “three”. Not a ton of words are spelled with J, and when doing vim input it’s faster to use numbers or a repeat command than say the letter repeatedly. So as it’s a lower priority word to trim half a syllable on, it’s worth getting it right if you’re going to change it.

The alphabet isn’t strict law, but it’s best to replace individual words after you’ve had specific problems with them and not before, as it’s hard to match the phonetic feel.
a b + c 2 / +

or

+ a + b / c 2
Yes, Silicon Valley Startup
There are many, many people that love solving problems, but have no desire to get mired down into politics and power struggles.
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Yes, kinda like that. Also see my sibling comment.
It's hard to have a reliable rating system for non fungible goods. Unless a person dated a hundred other people, it'd be hard to tell if the rating is accurate. I think it'd work if you want to find people to have sex with one night. I doubt its usefulness to find a partner