skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're reversing cause and effect:

>Scott first heard about the procedure when he was in high school. He watched a few YouTube clips about it but dismissed it at the time. “I was like, ‘That’s sick, I would never do that.” But he kept researching, and about three years ago, he became convinced it was the solution he was looking for. “I felt miserable,” he said. “There were things throughout my day, every day, that would bother me. I felt attacked or unfairly criticized due to my height.” Then he had a revelation: “When I realized what was really holding me back was the obstacle of money, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s just a game. If I can get $75,000, then I’m done feeling like this.’”

>The goal gave him clarity. “I was not waking up and crying every day in my mask, walking around the neighborhood. Instead, it became ‘OK, I just have to get on my grind and figure out how to get the money.’” So Scott, who is bi, got to work and, in February 2021, started an OnlyFans page. Within a few months on the platform, he zeroed in on a niche: financial domination, a form of humiliation kink where clients pay him to degrade them and take their money. By January 2022, by supplementing his OnlyFans earnings with some of his savings and a small loan, he had enough to pay for the procedure.
I hate, absolutely hate, that men have to worry so much about something they can't control. My best friend is below average height, and god bless him he never let that stop him from getting women, but I've seen him made fun of for it over and over from other "friends" for years. I call it out nowadays but didn't have the chutzpah to do it when we were in high school. It makes my blood boil so much that people will be quick to judge someone so much for their height - this friend is literally the nicest person I know. Would people mock others for disabilities, skin-color, facial structure, weight, chest-size, etc. as openly as they mock men's height, society would look very different.
You don't just get a grey box on a white background?
You're totally right, no-till farming is the best way to preserve the soil. The problem is that no-till farming uses a lot of chemicals, and consumers think that organic farming is the solution. But organic farming uses tillage for weed control, so it destroys the soil.
(Speaker here) We appreciate your concern, the risk is real, and you're right – the hard parts cannot be put off. And we have not put them off. We've already thought through how to implement recovery, resync, long running sessions. We have several wiki pages worth of notes answering questions like how we will deal with network partitions, reconciliation, durable session state, dealing with OS sleep timer state, OTA code updates, etc.

What we have not yet done is the implementation work, because our pilot use case driving our eng priorities – an internal support app for a Series B SAAS startup – does not actually have this theoretical problem you describe. Photon's protocol today is tolerant to arbitrary delays, IFF you can guarantee message delivery and ordering, which is the problem TCP solves. We do already have pending/loading states, which are trapped locally through reactive try/catch.

BTW, the Photon codebase is only 2k LOC (analyzer, compiler & interpreter for JVM and JS targets, standard library) and a substantial part of that is redoing parts of the Clojure/Script analyzer infrastructure.

"truly immense amount of engineering work that goes into making modern web system software appear reliable to users"

That's a bit much for me. The current industry state of commercial SAAS/crud apps is a dumpster fire, Photon's speed and responsiveness is already miles ahead of literally every laggy SAAS tool we all suffer where programmers have manually hand-coded the network in the form of REST calls, manually split HTTP routes, backends-for-frontends, client side ORM, GraphQL resolvers, etc. How often do you Cmd-R your gmail or notion because it stopped working? React.js-era software is rotting to death, "reliable" is not a word that remotely describes my daily experience with web software today.
It seems the problem is Republican appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who has millions of dollars in investments in competing companies, and is taking more self interested action to tear apart the USPS from the inside.
Personally, the short men I know still get play. Women have a wide variety of tastes, as do men; and the taste really just needs to be tried once to get a probability for it to stick.

That said, women being callous and cruel in groups about height, fitness, etc is more congruent to locker room talk. You probably won't hear it because it's behind your back and usually not by people you know. I say that as having been witness to this kind of private talk before.
A climate change fighting strategy I've casually advocated for the last few years is every American with a documented history of wages from fossil fuel production gets $100k spot bonus for signing a contract that forbids them from working in that field again. It should be government policy that the oil, gas, and coal industry cannot find labor.
I would potentially agree, but how many of these people are 75th percentile (I assume that's what you meant) in height in their city? Global or national averages are pretty irrelevant for them.
I thought, in terms of Jira and Confluence at least, it was just accepted that being slow and underperforming was the status quo and if it was running at a speed you'd consider normal, that's an exception (and cause for alarm... like "did that actually save or is there a silent JS error not being displayed?").
The same random DNA lottery applies to women. I think the difference is the normalization of cruelty and inefficiencies in the dating market. I think a lot of women end up deeply unhappy but by the time they’re that age they’re largely ignored.
The funniest Seinfeld episode had no actors, but lots of irony.

Jerry Seinfeld owns a an automobile collection of about 150 cars, including a large Porsche collection. He rented a hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in California, for an extended period during the 1990s for storage of some of the collection. In 2002, Seinfeld purchased property on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he built a $1.4 million two-story garage to store part of his Porsche collection on the East Coast. The centerpiece of his collection is a $700,000 Porsche 959, one of only 337 built.

In 2008, Seinfeld was involved in a car accident when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat 500 failed and, to avoid an intersection, he pulled the emergency brake while turning sharply, ultimately causing the car to flip onto its side. No one was hurt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld#Automobiles

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If I'm doodling in a work notebook, that's an indication that I need to either re-engage with the meeting or leave it, and perhaps also have a quiet word afterward to whoever was ostensibly running it. (Or I'm testing a freshly reinked or swabbed pen.)

If your fountain pen blots, you may want to consider a different ink. Western pens have larger nibs and feeds than Japanese, so tend to be very wet when filled with thinner Japanese inks. Contrapositively, Western inks tend to flow poorly in Japanese pens, especially those with smaller nib sizes. A shame; I miss my J. Herbin violet.

It could also be due to rough handling, and probably is if you tend often to find ink on the inside of the cap and the outside of the section, and thence of course on your fingers.

You might also write with too heavy a hand, which tends to splay the tines of the nib; this is especially likely if you tend to see lines that don't properly fill with ink, since too wide a space between the tines will fail to sustain the capillary action that draws ink smoothly from the feed to the tip, and will also make dripping more likely since the flow of ink from the feed is no longer properly controlled. Gold nibs are especially vulnerable here; if you're new to fountain pens, consider switching for a while to a steel nib, which will feel somewhat rougher but write just as well and be much more forgiving of mistakes as you learn how correctly to use this type of tool.

If none of these apply, then perhaps the pen just needs to be flushed and cleaned, which is something worth doing with a fountain pen after every few fills at most, or between different inks and especially different brands. This merits concern not just for color mixing reasons, but also because some inks when mixed exhibit chemical behaviors that can lead to clogging. And just generally, a well-maintained pen will write much more neatly and reliably than one that hasn't been looked after in a while.
I am _shocked_ that Midori isn’t more represented in these comments. The lay-flat binding is amazing, the grid is pretty cool, and the indication at the top for the grids is great. Plus the price is about right compared to other premium notebooks.

You miss out on pockets and multiple bookmarks but you can pair it with a Kokuyo systemic notebook cover to cover all the bases.
Yeah ngl I wish people would move on from denigrating people on factors like appearance, poverty, disability, etc. and more on things like being inauthentic, unempathetic, manipulative, etc.
I came here looking to comment similarly - one of the other effects of the regulations not discussed in the article is the near complete disappearance of two door pickups from the American market. I have a two door, two seat 2008 Ford Ranger with manual transmission. It has a 6 foot bed which conveniently fits so many things, and it’s also compact enough to parallel park easily. I would love to upgrade to a newer model but I fear there will never be another truck that fits those requirements released again. Mine currently has ~150k miles on it and I’ve owned it for a decade and I fully intend to own it for another decade and another 150k miles.
Plenty of women don't care about that.

Just stop using apps like Tinder, they attract the worst of the worst, by what I see, especially in the US. Even if you were above 6', you wouldn't want to date a woman obsessed with height.

In my group of friends, the shorter ones (around 1,73m) are the most successful ones.
The fee could be lower. They (the App Store owner) only needs to sign a blob. They (Google/Apple/Amazon) choose to host the blobs, and then charge the developer for it. They claim “marketing” too, but as far as I can tell, that usually involves a sale and the app owner has no choice but to sell their app for less without their consent. I think Apple sometimes has “curated” lists, but it’s questionable how “effective” that is since they don’t release much numbers. What is the ROI of getting randomly chosen to be on that list? Is it worth 30%? We will never know.
Data use is limited to 1GB per month, So it is not practical option. If we trust MS on that anyway.
Curious to know if the open source algorithm Musk is going for will encourage copy cat Twitter platforms
Isn't this essentially the difference between motivation and discipline though?

The standard advice around these parts is that relying on motivation/passion is an easy way to lose steam once the going gets tough. I imagine this is, in part, why Paul Graham recommends pursuing "boring" tech problems.

Plus, I enjoy the means more than the ends. The practice of programming and system building excites me more than what the software/system is built to solve.
Did J.J. Thomson Discover the Electron?
I think it is really worth being aware of Hetzner's Dedicated server offerings. What you get isn't that dissimilar to what a cloud provider would offer, but you get about an order of magnitude more compute resources for the same price.

Plus you get better disk access speed (NVMe) than something like an AWS EBS-backed instance. You can also order new instances within a matter of minutes.

You don't have to use them, but being aware of what is available there would be a really good idea. I think some workloads could easily be deployed there at a fraction of the cost of a cloud provider.
I don't know if that's the issue people are bringing. I think people are talking about the active derogatory and communicated bias towards shorter men.

Not being attracted to short men and not wanting to reproduce with them is a personal thing. But going on record ridiculing them, saying bad things about them, mocking their height, that's not okay, and it's true that if it was done about their race it would be frowned upon, but seems to be acceptable for height.

I think that's a fair issue to bring up.

It also seems there might be real measurable pay-gaps, and that might need addressing as well.
Very interesting! I'll actually check out if it fits my project. Thanks!
This does not follow. There is a difference in historical context, which has a bearing on the real-world effects of height-vs-race discrimination, ergo there are differences between the two.

In exactly the same way: Abraham Lincoln and Pol Pot are both heads of state, but it is incorrect to say there are no differences between them.
Sorry you had to deal with that, but I'm glad you're back in the pilots seat!
Was the stigma against short men a thing before online dating where everyone had to post their heights publicly?

I remember in my teens/early 20s - before dating apps were a thing - having several much shorter friends than me that were much more popular with the ladies.
For anyone wanting to attack:

* hindsight is 20/20 - it's easy to lecture after the fact about how mistakes could have been avoided

* modern software systems are very complex

* have you never made a mistake?

It is however noteworthy that they have done the wise thing from a publicity perspective, which is post this on a Friday, hoping that by the next tech cycle more interesting things will have happened for the press to report than a rehash of this outage. That's politics.
You should definitely try to enable HTML caching - that's what CDNs are far, and it will the workload much cheaper to serve and an origin server less likely to fall over.

Besides that, looking at the Rust code for the origin you link on twitter, you should make some changes to make it reliable at scale. First of all, I recommend to add timeouts. Otherwise the amount of open sockets will just creep up if RSTs got lost/dropped and there is no data to send - which ultimately makes things prone to resource exhaustion.

Also be aware that the tower ConcurrencyLimitLayer alone is not a great solution for this problem - it will build a queue of requests and if clients don't give up the queue gets longer and longer until also no current requests are served anymore and clients will again time out (=> website becomes unreachable). It's better to reject requests fast once a limit is reached than to build infinite queues.

Regarding observability, one can log the amount of processed requests, connections, active requests and connections (to determine which things are stuck), maybe status codes. All these things should require emitting one datapoint per minute or so, which is cheap.
I'm hopeful about this approach, honestly. We do build stateful flows in web applications, today, but we have to manually manage the serialization of that state to a shared store so that whichever worker the next request hits can pick up where things were left off. It seems to me that a system like Hyperfiddle / Photon could automatically manage the collection and persistence of this kind of state, so that the "server"-located code can be scaled horizontally without change to the written program. I can even imagine an Erlang-like solution to updating application code, so that existing flows can gracefully upgrade or time out.

"Could", of course, is the operative word! But given that we have to manage state now anyway, this seems like an approach with a lot of potential.
Pebble shutdown almost 8 years ago now and there does still not to be a replacement or alternative that can: last up to a week of battery life, do basic things like allow you to get and read notifications, and be a watch.
and the last two words of the title
>men do not necessarily select for taller woman

Men don't select, because we don't get pregnant, our instinct is to mate with whoever we can. Women are nature's selector, not men.
No, this person was selfish and inconsiderate of their fellow employee. Employees are supposed to cooperate, not exploit one another for their own personal gain.

It's weird to have to say this, and some people probably think it's naive, but I stand by it.
Would look smashing in Papyrus.
Most trolleybuses I know have independent emergency propulsion and can reattach without too much difficulty at specific places (usually stops). So temporary short rerouting isn't difficult. Apparently they even have trolley/battery hybrids in zurich where the battery is used as part of normal operation (claiming to need wires only for ~half of the route).
> My view is that less software is better, when it comes to note taking.

Perhaps, but there is an inflection point. Without any support for indexing, the device is less functional for me than a paper notebook, despite the admittedly excellent writing experience it provides - not as good as paper, but I think as close as e-ink and a stylus can come.

Are there searching and indexing features on the device? When I tried it out a few months ago, there were not, but perhaps I missed a firmware update.
It would be nice to have a language that could treat both strict and lazy evaluation as equally first-class, as opposed to having one be the default (whether "strict" as in ML or "lazy" as in Haskell) and the other only being expressed by syntactical kludges. This may well be possible by relying on logically-inspired features like polarity and focusing, and endowing data types with strict or lazy "natural" polarities.
Separating Code from Presentation in Jupyter Notebooks
The values that you mention, e.g. the proton-neutron mass splitting, have been computed only with a precision much lower than such values can be measured experimentally.

That means that such computations have little, if any, practical importance.

With the current QCD, it is not possible to compute the ratio between the mass of the neutron and the mass of a proton with a useful precision. The mass ratio between the proton and the electron or the mass ratios between light nuclei or their magnetic moments are even less possible to compute.

QCD would become a useful theory only when it would be possible to compute things like the probability of fusion of light nuclei with a precision good enough to eliminate the need to measure such values experimentally.

QCD would need revolutionary improvements to achieve such goals.

Supercomputers are not enough for a progress in this domain. Different solving methods must be discovered.
According to the "sneaky bisexual" theory, bisexuality is beneficial because of you can seduce the fit dude maybe he'll let you sleep with his mate, and if he's fit he probably has a high quality mate.

One hypothesis is that gayness is from an evolutionary point of view "too much bisexuality". Similar to how one sickle cell gene is beneficial, but two is deleterious. According to this theory, evolution favors bisexuals, and sometimes produces gays as a side effect of that.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with women finding taller men attractive.

It's another thing if it becomes more a cultural expectation than an actual attraction, and I think the reaction would be rather different if enough men decided not to date women who don't have at least D cups.
Sounds like bonuses were based on individual rather than company goals. That sounds absolutely mental. Why would anyone create a setup like that?
Sometimes I'll use block quotes like that too. Newer software generally calls them "admonitions" to make their usage more ambiguous.
> You aren’t launching off the ground with any of the electric based systems

Well… https://www.spinlaunch.com/
Bummer! I hope interface types get well soon.
IME Dating apps are a terrible way to meet women. All they have to go off are a few pictures and some numerical stats - and it's a sausage fest, the odds are stacked way against you.

Hang out with people IRL.
I'm curious which sites and apps you use, and if maybe part of the problem is that you are only using those.
Musk, Twitter and the future: His long-term vision is weirder than you think
> I assumed that reproducing Newtonian gravity in the classical limit

GR itself is a classical (i.e., non-quantum) theory. The Newtonian limit of GR is not usually considered a "classical" limit, just a weak field, slow motion limit.

> would be considered theoretical

Ok, then we just have different definitions of "theoretical". To me, having to account for a mass of experimental data is an experimental constraint. It might be easier for a theory to meet it if the theory can be shown to reduce in an appropriate limit to a previous theory that accounts for all that data.

By contrast, for researchers investigating possible quantum theories of gravity, any quantum constraints on their theories can only be theoretical, since we have no experimental data at all on quantum aspects of gravity. But to me, the fact that a quantum theory of gravity has to account for all of the classical experimental data on gravity is an experimental constraint (which any such theory would presumably meet by reducing to GR in the classical limit).

> Such a theory is not "useful", for many definitions of useful.

No theory is useful for all definitions of useful.

> Before launching the GPS constellation, we launched the experimental Timation satellites to act as a proof of concept.

As I understand it, the Timation satellites did not keep independent time using clocks aboard the satellites. They just re-broadcast time signals from the ground. One of the major difficulties with getting GPS operational was the additional complexity involved in having independent clocks on the satellites that would keep their own time, with only periodic updates from the ground. And one of the major issues with that was that many non-scientists involved in the GPS project did not understand relativity and did not believe that the "natural" clock rates of the clocks on the satellites would be different from those of ground clocks, so some kind of adjustment would have to be made. And there was no data from previous projects to convince them since the relative clock rates of previous satellites vs. ground clocks had not been measured. If the non-scientists in the GPS project had not given in to the scientists who wanted to include the capability for adjusting the clock frequency in the initial set of GPS satellites, those satellites would indeed have been useless.