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Speaking as not the most attractive guy in the world, and also a prior user of dating apps.

I don't think it's as one sided as you make out. Yes women probably want to trade up, but so do men but then if you actually want a relationship those things aren't really important so it's more a case of filtering the dross to find someone who actually wants a relationship. I'm not sure that would be easier as an 'attractive' male or female, your still going to get all the dross.

To add to your 1 data point, I'm currently in a long term relationship with someone I met online.
Time and time again, this type of response proves that it's the right way handle a bad situation. Be humble, apologize, own your mistake, and give a transparent snapshot into what went wrong and how you're going to learn from the mistake.

Or you could go the opposite direction and risk turning something like this into a PR death spiral.
Am I the only who really doesn't think this is a big deal? They had an outage, they fixed it very quickly. Life goes on. Talking about the outage as if it's reason for us to all ditch CF, then buy/ run our own hardware (which will be totally better), so hyperbolic.
Yeah, but porn addiction is a consequence I think. If all men could get laid whenever they'd feel like it with a willing partner, then porn use would plummet.

I haven't met many women into porn, probably because a one night stand is just a zero effort tinder swipe away, from the comfort of your pijamas in your living room.

As a man, you end up turning to porn or paying for sex, or drinking or doing drugs, to compensate the lack of intimacy in your personal life, as that just leads to depression and lack of any self worth.
It sounds like you’re describing datomic. Though I don’t know if it has the required density.
I’ll never forget seeing Oprah on tv in 1987, "Hello, everybody. AIDS has both sexes running scared. Research studies now project that one in five--listen to me, hard to believe--one if five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That's by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me."

By the time I was a teenager that fear had subsided, but that’s was a pretty dramatic thing to hear at a young age.
BGP changes should be like the display resolution changes on your PC...

It should revert as a failsafe if not confirmed within X minutes.
We have some important changes landing soon that will make insertions O(1) rather than the current O(n) - so this will greatly improve performance.
Have you heard about contraception and abortion? Amount of sex had does not correlate with birth rates, with the exception of literally 0 sex. You can have sex daily all your life and not have any kids, and have sex just one time and get pregnant.
WhatsApp was scaling really well with a really small team, a good testament to the power of the language.

Of course you can take over some of these concepts, but I don't know any other language that is so well designed around the actor model.
Employees can become managers. This class divide is so much less relevant today than it was due to startup culture. Funding is not that hard to come by.
Still seeing failed network calls.

https://i.imgur.com/xHqvOzj.png
> If a chip knows that there is a fixed set of opcodes, it can specialize decoding to only decode the opcodes it knows about.

What does that mean? The CPU still needs to trap on undefined ones. I don't think the spec even allows non-trapping behavior[a]. So there's still some kind of decode happening. And if each instruction is 32 bits, you don't need any logic to find the instruction boundary on an undefined one.

[a]: By "non-trapping", I mean behavior akin to what old processors would do where every opcode would do something because of gaps in the PLAs (such as 0xAF on the 6502 performing 0xAD (LDA abs) and 0xAE (LDX abs) at the same time)
It's very difficult if not impossible to create a staging environment that would well enough replicate production at this scale. What bog posts suggest as a remediation in the process:
"There are several opportunities in our automation suite that would mitigate some or all of the impact seen from this event. Primarily, we will be concentrating on automation improvements that enforce an improved stagger policy for rollouts of network configuration and provide an automated “commit-confirm” rollback. The former enhancement would have significantly lessened the overall impact, and the latter would have greatly reduced the Time-to-Resolve during the incident."
Is this the one where you had to install an extension first to search ?
And the CTO/Owner had a fight with everyone on HN ??
If you marry a plutonic friend, you can start a nuclear family unit.
I don't know. I will speculate that they will go on dates with attractive men but because the top tier of men by appearance attract so many women there is little incentive to stay in a long term relationship for the man. If this is true then there is a very narrow middle ground between the extremes which could explain why fewer meaningful relationships are formed via online dating relative to a cold approach.
> I do wonder if the act of dating has gotten substantially less fun than it was in the past

I wonder if people are simply more selective about what they want in a partner.

Which sort of lines up with the polarisation we see in other aspects of society.

And so they go into dating with much higher expectations and less open-mindedness.
>It is true that to actually perform either a physical instantiation is necessary...

That's all I'm saying. When you say 'computation is not a physical process', I think that's an ambiguous statement. The actual computation of something must be physically performed for it to occur, otherwise no computation takes place.

>The guy who claimed that LaMDA was conscious wasn't basing his claim on something specific about the kind of hardware it was running on, he was basing it on the program's inputs and outputs, which are indeed a computational property and therefore abstract.

The kind of hardware doesn't matter, absolutely, but there must be hardware. You can't say that an abstract object such as a hypothetical computer program, or even an actual computer program that is stored but not running, is conscious. In order to be conscious, it would have to actually run. Consciousness, like the actual process of computation, is not an abstract property. It must be an instantiated property (I would prefer to say an instantiated behaviour) of a real system.

I think we can agree inputs are not conscious, nor are outputs, nor are both put together. What he was doing was inferring something, from those inputs and outputs, about the process that occurred in an actual computer to produce one from the other. That process is not abstract, it's a physical process. When it's physically happening there is (or might be hypothetically in the case of LaMDA) consciousness, when it's not happening there isn't.
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It's interesting that in 2022 we still have network issues caused by wrong order of rules.

Everybody at one time experiences the dreaded REJECT not being at the end of the rule stack but just too early.

Kudos to CF for such a good explanation of what caused the issue.
I use VMs for piracy. I use a Linux VM with iptables configured to only allow connections to/from a specific VPN IP/port. This is probably overkill, but it is nice to have everything separated and isolated without having to worry about IP leaks.
At home I use VMs for work environments (usually Ubuntu desktop VMs). Home PC is a gaming computer. All my laptops run Ubuntu.
So the problem is simultaneously porn and Puritanism?
I’m surprised they did not conclude roll outs should be executed over longer period with smaller batches. When a system is complicated as theirs with so much impact, the only sane strategy is slow rolling updates so that you can hit the brake when needed.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Advice regarding VCs: Don't ever talk to them if they randomly approach you saying they "really like what you're doing". They will gladly sent an associate to talk with you about your business in the greatest detail and ask you to share presentations, demos and metrics. Anything you give them will then get passed along to their own portfolio companies in your space. So don't feel flattered when they feign interest in your company, they're mostly just doing reconnaissance. Ignore it as chances are you're feeding them information they'll use to kill your company.

If you're really interested in VC funding you should proactively approach VCs (ideally using introductions by your network) that seem suitable. And you should check beforehand that they don't fund your main competitor.
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Despite all others blaming it on entertainment, porn, alcohol, working etc, I blame online dating.

The bar and amount of work needed to get into relationship (I'm not into casual sex) is just too high for great amount of people.
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I have never banned people on any platform.

Letting them speak and reveal how vile they are is better in my experience.
A pretty regular one: Some dev / analyst / whatever wants one. Nothing more, nothing less.

I've had great use of VMs when testing more boutique and unsupported software, where I need to test compatibility on various versions of OS
Apps that introduce scarcity are the best at matching. Bumble and Hinge only let you "heart" three people a day(unless you pay). Certainly as a woman there is a sense of scarcity in cold approaching. An attractive woman may have one man flirt with her and ask her on a date once per day.
Really interesting that 19 cities handle 50% of the requests.
ulimit can only control virtual memory caps, not physical memory caps.
This is absolutely true, but I don't think negates the original point - the gulf between expectation and actual experience is huge
I recently watched a movie called 'Super Dark Times', which happens to focus on some teenage boys in the 90s.

It makes me think that the prom table would be full of nonsense, expletives, and talking about women, but isn't that what you'd normally expect?
Feel free to email me (jgc) details but based on that error I don't think that's us.
It's inevitable, but it's also not really something society has dealt with or addressed.

Money in a retirement fund is just an IOU. The actual labour of your retirement - the bartender serving you drinks, the doctor performing surgery, the carer taking you to the toilet - is done by young people. If there's not enough of them around, the money will very quickly inflate towards worthlessness.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24279093
Lately with docker it hasn't been as necessary, but I used to run VMs for just about every service so I don't have to worry about other apps being affected by an OS issue.
this is actually a brand new proposal! If you like it or have any comments, you can find more information here: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/proposal-torch-js-a-javasc...
> Talking about the outage as if it's reason for us to all ditch CF

at time of writing no comment has done that except you.
Yes, but e-waste is much more than mobile phones.
If you fine with the process being terminated, then maybe. Although I believe ulimit doesn't account for the page cache (this is not important for browsers, but definitely for torrent clients — they can effectively eat up all your memory even if RSS + SHR never go above a few hundred megabytes). Also not sure how it works for shared memory (which is heavily used by modern browsers), which is definitely accounted for by cgroups (and limited by MemoryHigh/MemoryMax).
That's literally one of the conclusions.
Theres not that many trans athletes because still is a new thing.

In a few years manybe we have athletes transitioning just to win competitions.

If you think this is bullshit, just remember that in the past people would Take strychnine to have better performance in marathons.
I feel like others lose opportunities by not doing the same. By publishing early and publishing the details they: keep the company in the news with positive stuff (free ad), get an internal documentation of the incident (ignoring the customer oriented "we're sorry" part), effectively get a free recruitment post (you're reading this because you're in tech and we do cool stuff, wink), release some internal architecture info that people will reference in discussions later. At a certain size it feels stupid not to post them publicly. I wonder how much those posts are calculated and how much organic/culture related.
Not sure why, the correct link is https://www.queuemetrics.com/blog/2021/05/04/Monitor-QueueMe... but HN changed the link to the top of the blog.
Nah it was definitely down, that's why I'm here, there's a few other posts as well
Well compared to the past we live in one of the most peaceful and prosperous times in human history one only need look at rising life expectancy to see that.
I spent a lot of my teens on MUDs & MOOs (really, textual VR), so I understand the substance of what you're saying, but

Honestly, the full sensual immersion of VR is the last thing we need in our house at this point after 2 years of COVID. I need my kids to get more physical exercise and time outside this house, not less.
I thought this would be about practices to make development more sustainable in the sense of going longer before throwing up our hands and starting over, but it's about environmental sustainability.
As a woman on Bumble if you only get three chances why would you ever heart someone that wasn't the most attractive you could find?
Thank for the detailed input. Would it be possible for you to create a GitHub issue around these (or many issues?) so that the team can track them and fix them. Thanks again!
> JavaScript has an entire class of bugs in the form of countless unexpected type coercions

Contra this tired sentiment, JS does not have "unexpected type coercions". If you're going to call what happens when, for example, adding an object and a boolean together "unexpected", the question becomes "What were you expecting when you wrote that code?" JS _will_ evaluate these kinds of expressions, but the results are well-defined and predictable, and (crucially) you are not _forced_ into writing any programs that use these dubious patterns. (Although, if you want to, that's your prerogative.)

There's a double standard here, in which people who don't do any operations on wacky combinations of disjoint types in their preferred language will gleefully jump into JS and start doing those things seemingly just so they can declare that JS is broken.

Take any of these cases of "unexpected type coercions" and show me some production code from a program in your preferred language where you're actually doing something similar with disjoint types and describe its superior behavior instead.

> behaviours that simply don't exist in more compact statically typed languages

You're confusing matters. If you want static type checking when writing your program, then use a static type checker. Refusing static type checking and then complaining about it is more than a little bit silly.
What does climate have to do with the brain? How are you drawing an inference between how the climate works and how the brain works? I agree with others that you’re propagating pseudoscience. Even if you’re right, and there isn’t a simple rule that explains human learning, you’re right for the wrong reason.
The discussion of the keyboard editing interface (and of editing bulleted lists) reminds me of this, which is about having enter do intuitive things in a text editor: https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/backspace-and-enter-and-de...
Life in general is very different for people with different genders. Especially if they are considered conventionally attractive.
The HN age demographic seems older than most online communities.

If they aren't using apps for quick thrills, they are moving to the Villages and using an upside-down pineapple as an ironic bat signal for some fruitless copulation.
I'm not so sure. The average age someone is the first time they watch porn is 11, well before some of the issues you mentioned would manifest.

When a porn addiction is developed before you hit your teens it's hard to blame a dysfunctional sex life on externalities.
I think that "probably" could make due with some nuance. A Tinder swipe away is a very high-risk way of having sex. There's so many men out there that truly do not treat women well, and that one wouldn't want to have sex with. Yet, nothing inhibits them from having very well-curated Tinder profiles.
Fair, but even if you do for rank, you still would be people complaining because the top ranking and the ones that would receive money from sponsorship would be only the top ones, and most of them would be men.
I've pondered: if you were given an envelope, written inside it is the deepest and darkest secret of the universe/humanity, would you want to read it? It could say that we're just in a simulation, it could say all politicians are aliens, it could say we're totally alone in the universe because any sufficiently advanced planet destroys itself from the inside, it could say all your family and friends are just Synths and You're in a Truman show scenario. Or something worse we can't imagine. If you read it and found out something like this you'd go crazy.
No we should not, nor am I advocating for that.
You say "save for ownership structure" like it isn't the most important thing in this case :)

Because of their majority ownership, the power balance is very much different than with normal employees. It is typically not possible for employees to band together and fire a founder, but it is very possible for founders to fire employees. The risk assumed is also different: founders often put up significant chunks of their personal capital to get off the ground, but I have never heard of a startup employee being asked to put in extra money in order to get hired.
Podcasts changed the game for me on this. Now there are entire days where I never turn the TV on. A bonus is that I can get basic chores done while listening or workout. It really freed me from the couch potato routine. A bonus is that many of them are educational and released weekly, so "binge" isn't really an option. There are certainly "junk food" podcasts that I listen to but the ratio of informative to junk compared to video content(movies, tv shows, etc) is way better. Though I will say YouTube has some excellent channels for learning.

Podcasts are similar to books though, you have to dig through a bit of garbage to find one that works for you. Here's my list:

- crime in sports

- Linux unplugged

- software engineering radio

- the knowledge project

- coinsec

- persona

- ten percent happier

- quanta podcast

- physics world weekly

- ologies

- darknet diaries

- stuff you should know

- the joy of why

- fall of civilizations

- smartless

- money talks

- planet money

- small town murder

- offensive security

- the journal

- programming throwdown

- timesuck

- Conan O'Brien needs a friend

- philosophize this

- against the odds

- levar Burton reads (no longer running)

- curiosity daily

- science weekly

- future of journalism

- wtf

- broken record

- idea cast

- swindled

- malicious life

- views room

- behind the bastards

- the exchange

- stuff to blow your mind

And for the "junk" I listen to just about every comedian podcast that exists: Bill Burr, Bobby Lee, Chris destefano, Stavros!, Tom Segura, (this list goes on a while...)
Laundry symbols make no sense
> simulation of a brain model in a computer program

That one.
WSL2 can’t be scanned by my work’s antivirus so node projects build and run at full speed.

(2 minutes for starting the project outside vs 25 seconds inside)
> Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs/bars/the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.

And those "dating" apps can hardly be called dating apps in most cases. They're designed to mess with the underlying sexual dynamic of men and women. If they were meant for romance, they'd have more mechanisms in place to help strangers actually date and get to know each other. Instead, they're a meat market, and the sad thing is more and more people are growing up in a world where they know no different. If you think about it, dating apps have no incentive to try and get people to actually meet in real life. Not only does that raise the potential for liability, but that means fewer eyeballs on their product at any given time.

Tinder knows very well that their product is selling attention to women and the promise of sex to countless men they know have next to zero chance based on their looks alone. As OK Cupid was losing its position as a dating app, I remember them putting out an advertising campaign featuring the initialism "DTF", which tells you all you need to know. They might even still be doing it, for all I know. I remember it from billboards and posters in Santa Monica.

> I don't think tech or porn is the main culprit. It's that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.

I don't buy this one bit. The number of entertainment options is correlative, but who has demonstrated that it's causative? Yes, there is a chance that the proliferation of entertainment options is the primary cause, but unless a double-blind study has or will be done to test whether the sex drive is actually in competition with entertainment, I have very sincere doubts.

Furthermore, the porn industry is in no way declining. If people were losing an instinctive interest in sex, why would they be watching porn? What if people actually want sex, but they are too ill equipped to obtain it IRL?

And we haven't even brought up declining androgen levels in males.

Sex isn't going out of fashion. If anything, we are hypersexualized. The goal of sex isn't merely to propagate genes, but to propagate selected genes. Our current environment allows us to select our mates to such an extent that even more people are seleced out of the gene pool for a variety of reasons. Either we're perpetually thinking we can do better, or that we're never good enough or are too ugly, or are totally clueless because Boomer and Gen X parenting have been a disaster.
This is pretty sparse on citations/evidence compared to the usual HN trending fare. Some commenters are suggesting TFA is equating declining birth rate to declining sex. I don't particularly see it, they seem to be suggesting both are declining (it doesn't typically take much unprotected sex to procreate, modulo fertility issues), but either way, that's still a veridical statement that deserves data.
if you are expecting a DEvOps guy to know C#/Java/C++ and all the Jenkins/sys/k8s/cloud stuff, you want a unicorn. That person is also definitely not going to put up with a 4hr test.

If you want a senior DevOps person that knows the Jenkins/sys/k8s/cloud stuff write a basic test for that and don't test them on stuff they don't really need to know.
They sell dry laundry detergent sheets, put one in a dry bag along with your clothes and fill it with hot water. Then you can close the dry bag and agitate the whole thing really easily in a bath tub.