skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone now married to a woman he met on tinder.

I took the view that if I matched with someone and they replied to a message there was a pretty high chance they were interested in a date, so I would generally just ask on the second or third message. Something like

Hi, <basic small talk question based on something in the profile>.

Hopefully receive a reply with some kind of conversational hook.

<reply to the hook, ask a follow up question>.
Would you like to meet for a drink sometime this week, would central Gotham work for you? My number is 123556679

Pretty much everyone is on the site to go on real dates, so best to think of the messages as for organising them.

Your mileage may vary, but I'd say this led to a date 80% of the time (assuming the match and reply had already happened)
Also consider what happens if someone is incapacitated but not dead. Getting into email, bank, etc. is one thing, but what if you own property with someone who is suddenly and irreversibly brain damaged? I strongly recommend filing a lasting power of attorney in advance if your risk of this is non-negligible. My mother is living a nightmare due to it right now as she assumed being someone's spouse would let you take responsibility for an incapacitated spouse.. wrong!

My father had a stroke so debilitating that he lost language entirely, lives in a brain care unit 24/7, and has zero chance of regaining even the most basic idea of a life. But by not being biologically "dead" he retains a lot of legal protections that don't really suit his situation and my mother is unable to sell her home without the permission of the Court of Protection. We filed for said permission 14 months ago.. and, you can guess the rest. With a lasting power of attorney, she'd have been able to organise her life properly within weeks.
The current marketcap of crypto is made up of people in the first world investing.

I don't want to be a dick but if you live in Venezuela or North Korea you are irrelevant to the world economy.
There is a Dutch saying "wie betaalt bepaalt".
First thing I thought of was:

https://www.hivehome.com/ Smart home thermostat (which is the top Google result for 'hive' here in the UK)
Camtasia is full of sh… bugs and stupid ui decisions, once you really start heavily using it.

Screenflow these days look like the only simple and robust editor with all crucial screencasts features.

(Ive been paying customer of both for a while, as a tutorial screencasts producer/youtuber)
Again, nobody is "saying no repeatedly" to anyone, because the app works by swiping and matchmaking. There are no conversations without matches, so there's no "tired, desperate women" that got "rejected" by lots and lots of men (and vice versa, men also spend a lot of time there). That's absurd, there's just a lack of matches. Similarly, in the real world there would be no "hard rejections" if this OPs theory were true, just harmless refusal to flirt.
Paywall-less version here: https://scribe.rip/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e
This isn't a debate. What you're doing is called "sealioning" in online discourse, but you probably already know that. Not that this matters, as I have not "personally attacked" you nor even insinuated you are wrong.

I have pointed out that you are a race realist. That is not a personal attack, that is an allegation of a belief. I'm inferring that from your own comment history about race and IQ, e.g. your statement that "IQ is mostly genetic"[0][1], which you brought up twice in different conversations in your otherwise very short comment history. If "IQ is mostly genetic" and (to paraphrase one of your comments) "favoring high IQ means favoring Asians" that means in your view there is such a thing as a genetic "Asian race" that connotates inherently higher IQ than other "races" purely on a genetic level. That is a race realist claim by any other name.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31671804

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31251492
> You can self-publish, but less than 1% of the population has the savings and free time to do it right. It costs $10,000, minimum--you'll have to hire an editor, a cover designer, a formatter...

We wrote https://juliadatascience.io in a few months and have about 4k unique visitors per month (https://juliadatascience.pirsch.io/). The cover is designed for free by ourselves via a plotting library. Yes, we’re not selling millions but we have spent only 60 dollars (on the domain name).
Does your password contain a bunch of special characters? Consider making your password consist of entirely plain english words (perhaps with a few numbers / symbols but not many) but just making it longer. That'll be just as secure and much easier to type.
Bill Gates says NFTs are ‘100 percent based on greater fool theory’
> Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games.

In my experience, unit testing is _incredibly_ rare, and Rare are pretty much the only studio that I'm aware of that do it.
If they don't care enough to find someone who can recover them then whatever is protected by the secrets is probably not that important to them.
Building a Second Brain: An Overview (2020)
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia
Obligatory xkcd
https://xkcd.com/538/
OCaml 5.0 Alpha Release
In nonwestern countries, polygamy is acceptable.

I think it's obvious that people have preferences, and will seek partners that match those preferences better. But even if that's true, people have different preferences. People don't adhere to some universal rating system.
Perhaps consider a coworking space?

I've got a home office but still rent out a desk not far from home. Get a lot more focus/"in the zone" time there, also it's nice to have work colleagues who you don't actually work with, best of both worlds in my opinion.
Agile and Documentation-Driven-Development can not only easily go hand in hand, I think agile is perfectly suited to work like this.

We figure out what the software is supposed to do -> We write documentation describing that -> We build the implementation -> New Requirements -> Figure out how to incorporate them into the plan -> Update the documentation -> Build the changes.

It's an iterative process, perfectly suited to agile development.
Coming from the Scala world this comment confuses me.

We know actors very well and we've had a popular and solid implementation in Akka for years.

But that hasn't mean that every other concurrency model has gone away. If anything with the advent of libraries like ZIO (http://zio.dev) we see concurrency being a hot space for interesting new takes and approaches. I feel like maybe I am missing something if it can be used as a one-stop solution for all concurrency needs.
There's two ways in which bitcoin is less decentralised than you make it seem

1. Proof of work has a strong economy of scale, the cost per amount of mining reward gets less as your mining infrastructure increases, incentivising huge mining pools. I expect that within a few years 90% of the hash power will be controlled by 2 or 3 large organisations. Even at 33% hash power you can do funky things to fuck up the chain, but of course at 51% it is game over. Proof of stake is favourable because it has no economy of reward: you get rewards exactly proportional to what you stake. Really both are bad because they're both plutocratic

2. As far as I can tell, a vast majority of nodes run Bitcoin Core, which is a single community-developed piece of software. All of the nodes run this same piece of software, so the blockchain is really an emergent system from this one piece of software. Of course this makes the network bug prone, but it also means that it's only luck that the community hasn't decided on hard forks which effectively will force everyone to move over to a new version of the chain. Not only this, but soft forks are also coercive in a similar way

It is not yet clear that bitcoin will continue to deliver on its promise of decentralisation
Build AES from scratch (and then never use it for anything of consequence)
Note that the comment "I should note that they are _never_ legal tender" is technically correct, but potentially misleading. Legal tender has a strict definition along the lines of "if offered in court for a resolution of a debt then, even if refused, the debt is considered paid". It's got nothing to do with "accepted by shops" which comes down to the choice of the individual vendor. There's no good reason why they shouldn't be though.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-...
That's why systems correctly designed have not one but two passwords (or PINs), which look identical. You enter either and everything seems to work. But one of the two means "I'm under duress".

If people home-jack me at night, my 24/7 alarm system/monitoring company calls me in the following 45 seconds at most and asks me for my password. If I say "monkey" it means everything is fine, if I say "beetle" it means I'm under duress. When I give either password, the company answers: "OK, sleep well, all is good". But in the later case they call the police and tell them a home-jacking is ongoing. (obviously my two words aren't "monkey" and "beetle", this is just an example).

(as a bonus my alarm system has an anti-jamming system and communicates using several channels)

Banking apps should be the same: they should have one PIN to do regular business and another one where everything looks legit, but you'd only be making fake wire transfer or only allowed tiny withdrawals, showing a small balance.

Some companies (for example my alarm system) and websites (very few but I've seen some) and some HSM (for example cryptocurrencies hardware wallets can decode using two keys, one of them showing a smaller balance than the real one) have seen the light and have such a feature.

I do believe we're still in the stone age when it comes to security. Most people like to post that disastrous XKCD and think the bad guys have forever won thanks to their $5 wrench. I'd hazard a guess: people thinking with that victim mentality aren't the ones coming up with better security systems.
The Hard Disk That Changed the World (2006)
The $10 wrench always works: biometrics, passwords, encryption keys, physical keys, PINs, etc.
> Part of the issue

What issue? My projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the customers expectations without undue risk or unpredictability. That's my job.

Nobody on my teams would say I micromanage them, everyone has a large degree of autonomy within a framework of shared goals and shared values that keeps efforts working towards cohesive results.

With autonomy comes responsibility to the team, business, customer and every stakeholder ... so yes, i'd consider it AWOL to undertake work that doesn't respect the input of everyone else by getting agreement beforehand.
Space trader was great, spent so much time playing it back then on my old m505
If you don't throw there's no overhead, hence Exception-al cases only. The Optional style always has an overhead but the cost of actually throwing is much less.

Lots of people do statically allocate their errors now.

Implementing stack unwinding properly is not trivial.
Consider this: you are working on your laptop in a public place, like on the train. or in a coffee shop. You log in to your company website. Anyone looking over your shoulder can see you type your password, as well as the webpage you're logging in to.

And it's not just people standing behind you, it can also be the security camera in that coffee shop. It can be someone looking through your office window with a telescope from the next building over.

Same goes for your phone. There are ample opportunities to see someone type in their PIN code to unlock their phone, especially if you use it for payments which are generally done in public places. No need for violence, no need to draw attention to yourself, just watch them enter their PIN and then pickpocket the phone afterwards.

It all depends on the exact threat scenario, but biometric authentication can be preferable to passwords when used in public places.
As a general issue, that's true, but in GIMP's case, every single major thread about it gets complaints about its UI. So it makes sense of updates focused on that; one might not agree with the specific UI decisions they take - UI/UX is unfortunately subjective like that - but any systematic attempt to improve the UI would make a vast difference to the value of the application.
I'm sorry but this conversation is in vain. Feel free to say the last word.

> Also there to dance, not to flirt.

Because you are not hot enough.

> Yes every bachata class in the planet has 75% women. Also there to dance, not to flirt.

I'm pretty certain of my opinions on only things that I have 5+ years experience in (bachata/salsa, kickboxing, programming, few other personal things).

> that does not realte to long term relationships or success in dating

I was never speaking of long term relationship success. I was saying what woman "want".
Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future
Powerful people have long weaponised self-deprecation as a means of letting off steam and blunting more serious attacks. (That theme is elaborated very well in the LRB here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n14/jonathan-coe/sinking....) Michael Bloomberg is actually a great example, in how his campaign relied so heavily on irony and self-deprecation to defuse the (anticipated) discomfort around electing an old white billionaire.
Yes, but not version 1. If I could afford version 2 i'd buy it.
Isn't the underlying problem that developers hate writing documentation for some reason? They will spend months writing some crazy audio framework in C++ but refuse to spend even a day writing a tutorial on how to install it.
The golden rule of attention (or heiristic, mental model) to remember: once you consciously focus on something — you’ll find more and more of it just by the act of focusing.

If you anticipate burning out without really feeling it (just because you read fancy blog post about it) — you put more energy to this side of your system.

With such complicated things like human mind it’s better trust your unique intuitions and feelings rather than look for general rules or patterns. Or at least trust a professional capable of analyzing your specific circumstances and give personalized advice.
If you're this reductive, then nothing in the world adds anything new and it's all nostalgia. With that attitude you'll never enjoy anything new - maybe, like OP, you're just old?
Still waiting for US models....
xml is not a programming language, haskell (actually Gofer) is. I guess that was part of the problem.
>That said, Nintendo continues to produce innovative games. Breath of the Wild of course sticks out here.

Can you explain what's innovative about Breath of the Wild? Open world RPGs aren't exactly a new concept. Their 598th copy of Pokemon isn't that groundbreaking either. Pokemon Go was, but that was more Ingress than Pokemon.
> I don't understand you ending rhetorical question.

Take a statement like "Not many people want to date Steve, so it's likely Steve will have to work harder to find a partner". Is that incorrect? If it isn't, how would you suggest I go about not believing it?

Edit: I don't agree with your second paragraph's suggestion that relationships aren't important (relationships and jobs, or the lack of them, can both have huge impacts on people's lives), but why does that matter here? There are markets for both important things (eg. jobs) and unimportant things (eg. baseball cards). There are also markets for things that are easy to get and things that are difficult to get. Those considerations aren't what makes something a market / not a market.

Sorry I re-edited the edit quite heavily after writing the first version.
Newsletters Reading – Redesigned
Hey all!

Not sure what about you, but I consume quite a few newsletters.
Not sure what about you, but I really hate reading them in my email :)

I have an idea to build a dedicated app for that, I would appreciate if you can have a look and sign up if you're interested - https://newsletters-redesigned.carrd.co/ .

I will use the amount of sign ups as a signal of whether to build this or not.

Thank you!
> A baby, however, cannot possibly consent to such a thing.

Well, a baby cannot consent to anything. The parent's consent is the baby's consent.

Now I'm genuinely curious - I'm not affected, so I can't relate: Circumcision is genital mutilation, sure, but is it really "that" bad? Does it affect quality of life, from child to adult (excluding botched circumcisions)? Based on my understanding, I would rather focus on female genital mutilation in undeveloped parts of the world. In comparison, male circumcision seems to be ... ok. It's fine. Or is it? Please let me know.

(I'm not talking about the ignorance of infant's sense of pain here, that's clearly immoral).
> I feel like most people are like one or two a-ha insights away from veganism. Intelligence and awareness definitely has a spectrum across the animal kingdom but I’m not so sure about sentience itself. Do fish feel pain? Do insects experience fear?

The only people who don't think animals feel pain are people who don't spend time with animals. Every farmer since the neolithic has known that animals feel pain and are to some degree or another intelligent (we intentionally bred some of the intelligence out of many.) That has no bearing on whether someone eats meat or not. You have assumptions that most of the world do not share with you.

I feel bad if I see a fly slowly dying, but I'll still kill all houseflies that bother me. There's no contradiction in that. Death isn't suffering; quite the opposite.
People buy smaller and smaller denominations of Bitcoin then.

Which means earlier you invest more your Bitcoin is worth.

Until someone realizes that who ever was rich before is now loosing valur by investing in BTC too late and making early adopters rich.

The question is only when this ruse gets so outbalanced that no one wants to invest anymore which will either lead to inflation or the big crypto burn.
Why not a FIDO key? The most stupid ones work with just a click (but they do work and they're cheap, so there's that). Then there are slightly less dumb ones that works with your fingerprint. Then there are less stupid ones which are using a PIN to register a new service and another PIN to authenticate yourself to a previously registered service.
I think Three Kingdoms and Warhammer were kind of new though. Having very powerful hero units does change how Total War plays quite a bit. Being set in fantasy is also interesting, because it allows for unit types you can't have in a more traditional Total War setting (flying stuff).
Maybe executive function issues create those thoughts, but it's also tempting to think that maybe there is a contribution from the following from one's childhood:

* Being told you're lazy

* Being told you're stupid

* Being told you don't care

* Being told you aren't trying (when you're trying incredibly hard)

* Being told you must have 'something' wrong with you

* Being told that your parents have given up on you
Most valuable comment on here so far.

Fundamentally, the OP isn't faced with a tech problem. People need to start with greater awareness of power of attorney, wills, and probate.

In a probate situation, your loved ones don't have to know all your passwords and so on. They do need to know where your assets are so they can contact the right organisations to claim them. And you can make that process easier for them by avoiding having small accounts all over the place.
> Not outside of a small number of US tech cities and certainly not outside the US.

I live in London and graduated from a reputable university (so most of my friends have decent jobs). I make considerably more money than any of my peers except for those in a few select careers such as finance and law. I make a lot more than those in other technical career paths like mechanical engineering. And certainly compared with "generic graduate jobs" such as consulting companies or the civil service.

My first job wasn't well paid either (about £19k), but that quickly increased over 2-3 years in a way that salaries in other careers didn't seem to.
Although the article does not say anything I didn't know. It is very interesting that the conversation is being had.

I think the title of it makes a perfect summary. Regardless of the proposed solutions, how do we deal with these mismatched incentives? A quick example of my own personal experience, in order to filter out women in Tinder you have to pay for filters. As a gay man, this is a terrible experience.

But also we've got to think about what people want, what people need and where people are. It is not efficient at all to have people in all the different apps and often you see people trying to find a date on a multitude of apps (most of which are owned by the same parent corporation anyway).

It is obvious that for a significant portion of people dating apps offer the possibility of finding love and care. So to talk about the democratization of these platforms is definitely an important conversation.
> Also not a dating place, they are there to learn to dance.

What is a dating place then? Do girls actually go anywhere specifically to date? In my experience any event/meetup/whatever that explicitly mentions dating/singles/mingling becomes a sausage fest right away.

You could say exactly the same thing about bars and clubs. They are there to have fun with their friends, not to date.
So anyone you disagree with is a troll? Got it.

Anyways:

- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-demurs-biden-confir...

- https://missilethreat.csis.org/system/russian-air-defense/

- https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/06/26/the-r...
A person sitting next to you in cafeteria can remember your password by looking at your keyboard but can't remember your fingerprint this way
I don't know...
When I start something new it's often spontaneous. I have this idea I'd like to try and then I start hacking.
And while I hack at the keyboard and create the basis I think of the long term.

Having to do double work, write a document first and then repeat the same in code is extremely counterproductive. Motivation plays a big role. Repetition is not fun. Most projects never get finished. There are always obstacles and some are really hard. But you won't know them from writing documentation alone.
And if you write documentation ahead of time it's very likely this documentation will not fit the final product, at 1st release time.

Having a general outline with key features is ok. But fully-fledged documentation is over the top.

That's my educated opinion at least. Motivation is very important for me, especially if I don't know for years if this thing I'm building will be used by people at all. Single developer.

If there were dedicated people for tasks, that'd be different, probably.

Also you can't take the established business and say they all had a memo or document and that's the reason why they succeeded. That's a really long shot, IMHO.
Continuing to buy? They're pretty much insolvent and missing their own debt payments. They don't have money to buy.
It's not pumping up Russia to be honest about the realities of the geopolitical and war situation. And the failures and lack of long term thinking in the current crop of western leadership. And yeah, it's a sick war. They all are.