skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is gay sex going out of fashion too?

Glad you pointed this out. As a bisexual guy, I'd like to give some input. Sex between homosexual men is definitely not getting out of fashion. As a lot of these dating apps encourage short-lived relationships, it incentivizes a lot of these men to not commit in relationships and just have "fun." On the other hand (note that this is only based on my experience), a lot of women seem to have set higher and higher expectations within these dating apps similar to how it is in a typical social media platform like Instagram. I can't blame them though, it's part of human nature to aspire for more.
You are not necessarily wrong, but the book is based on solid science and math.
I got:
100 Meter Sprint 18.509

110 Meter Hurdles 18.85

Total Time: 37.359

with a mouse on desktop chrome.
They measured Madoff by amount of money promised, not money put in, iirc
One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money.

Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage.

So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudflare Teams], redirects, page rules, etc) I'll take these minor outages that make HN go apeshit.

Of course it helped that most our traffic is from the US and this happened when it did but in the past week alone we served over 180 countries which Cloudflare helps make sure is nice and fast :D
That sounds good, though. Do companies exist that will actually let me master my craft in exchange for maintaining their old code bases and not pull the rug out from under me every few years? Those are the companies I thought I worked at, but even they are susceptible to the trends. Or maybe AWS really is proof that god exists and his name is Jeff Bezos, and literally every application written now needs to be in "The Cloud". It's like one day they just say "Hmm, we have this 20 year old code base. Boring, predictable. Makes us the money. I know what's missing. Some cloud. Hey Java guy, you're a cloud developer now, you already know what that is, right? That's what you do now." Then before I finish thinking that maybe our SQL Server or Postgres in AWS is no big deal, they interrupt "No. MongoDB now. For reasons. It's just better, okay?". "Well, I need to figure out how to get Java to work in Lambda and how Spring Boot fits into the pict..." "No. Typescript, it just makes sense and it's easy, you can pick it up in about an hour." "Wait, what is happening."
While both are anecdotes, I think the original warning is the more important one as it's not the one new founders will expect to encounter. Nothing wrong with taking the call, but be aware of the risks and do a bit of homework before you share anything mission critical.
Totally agree. If you’re struggling to succeed on dating apps you need to reassess your value. It sounds a bit horrible but better to be realistic and eventually happy, than to demonise the people who aren’t picking you and turn angry at the world.
> I have no clue why the feds don't care about big tech monopolies the way Microsoft was attacked back then for IE which is basically child's play compared to what companies(even Microsoft with Edge) are doing today.

People forget just how big Microsoft was at the time (big fish/small pond) but it was some obscenely high percentage of "personal computer desktops", and even then it took something like four or five years to come to trial. This was before Android, before smart phones at all, and the Mac was on life-support and nearly dead, and Linux was a joke as a desktop which is where the "Year of Linux" came from.

Google is big but nowhere near as "dominant" and they've been careful to mitigate so as to fly under the radar. It also helps that basically nobody is trying to sell software in the areas they "compete" in so the "harm" is harder to argue.

I wonder about whether Apple has a skunkworks project working on search, just like they did for the x86 and M1; it's one of the large areas they still directly depend on another company for.
Now find a washing machine with programs that match the washing symbols, even if its only documented in their manuals.

Its not a hard task building a washing machine or tumble dryer that matches the washing symbols, but it seems to be for the current industry leaders!
There were some really interesting analyses presented by a dating app several years ago (I don't remember which; they had a blog and I'm worried it's now buried outside of Google's apparent time window). One of the most interesting things was that there was a mismatch between men and women in interest versus openness and confidence. I don't remember the details, but I think the problem was something like women were more interested in a wider range than you'd think, because they were more afraid to approach/make contact with men they were attracted to, and men were more picky about attractiveness but also more assertive about contacting women. The net result of it all was that there were these attractiveness ranges that were being neglected not because of attractiveness per se but because of complicated dynamics in confidence of approaching at different levels and how different genders on average acted on perceived attractiveness.

The analyses were like gender x attractiveness x willingness to approach x receptiveness to being approached. It looked like all four variables interacted at some level.

Maybe it wouldn't generalize and maybe I'm remembering it incorrectly but it was something like that.
Please tell me which currency does not suffer from inflation and lost most of its purchasing power over the last decades.
I learn from the comments here that if you line up 100 women and 100 men, all 100 women will have sex with only 5 of the guys.

For which I don't think this is true at all...
All this article has really convinced me is that a sticker explaining what all the laundry symbols are would be a good use of the flat top of washing machines/dryers.
That particular idiom is just something I’ve worked out myself, rather than coming from a particular book. But if you want a recommendation, then I’d start with this [0]. It’s the book about leading engineers that I always wanted to write. I can’t recommend it highly enough. And for a bit of shameless self-promotion, I also wrote a blog post [1] a while back on good books for engineers to read (from non-fiction to fiction). You might find a few good tips in there.

[0]: https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle
[1]: https://link.medium.com/1FNBlU2H2qb
everyone attempts it, but women succeed, because the top men date many, many women; many, many men date 0 women, and all the women date far fewer.

Draw a diagram to see the effect, or look at world cultures where polygamy is normal and most men are single or dead.
Laundry symbols make no sense... So let's get rid of them!

Let's simply make all clothes compatible with a regular wash and tumble dry process.

If the clothes use a dye that isn't waterproof, use a different dye. If the fabric is too fragile to withstand spinning, use a stronger fabric. If a material can't withstand the heat of a dryer, use better material.

Material science has come so far in the past 100 years that we can meet or exceed the performance of pretty much any of last centuries materials while also being able to make the stuff washable.
My favorite is a fun little time thing--Arizona, somewhat famously does not recognise DST, unlike surrounding states, so in the summer it is no longer mountain time. inside AZ, is the Navajo Nation (which is also in the three other sourrounding states.) The Navajo Nation does recognise DST, so in the summer, if you're driving through AZ, and head northeast, you'll have to change your watch befroe you leave the state. Then, completely surrounded by the navajo nation is the Hopi Nation. the Hopi do not recognize DST like Arizona.
This may be true after a certain point, but is certainly NOT the case when you're just getting started.
We built a tool that predict how a tweet will perform
There's a cynical take that the social function of the absolute elite universities is to allow young upper-class people (with family wealth and access to wealthy networks) to network with the smartest and most driven members of the middle- and lower classes (who will get things done).

Presumably, the willingness of the family to make sacrifices for their child is a positive indicator for how driven the child will be.
We're talking about 0.3 micron measurements because the input value for his numbers is the efficiency of the filters in removing 0.3 micron particles (99.5 vs 99.95).

The author claimed the difference between the purified air, as a percentage of total air volume, was small. He used percentages expressed as a decimal to make that difference look small (0.9005 vs 0.90005). But a clever observer would translate those numbers back into their percentages (90.05 vs 90.005), start applying some math (i.e. 100000 x 0.9005 vs 0.90005), see the 10x difference, understand how that 10x different is going to multiply over time in a chaotic system, check the data to see if that's true, and then throw away the author's point.
New photovoltaic tech inches closer to practicality
Hasn't crypto adoption also generally only gone up? https://financesonline.com/number-of-blockchain-wallet-users...
Not the op, but I'm an old straight male and the laundry queen of the household.

If it doesn't go into Normal Cold Wash / Low heat tumble dry, it has no place in our household - life is too short! :)
NB - Timescale person here.
Totally true! It's also a much harder problem :) One of the things that we try to focus on at Timescale is figuring out how we can simplify problems based on the specific needs of time-series data. Postgres has to solve things for very general cases, and sometimes that just is much harder. And then they often won't work all that well for time-series, because they're not all that optimized for them.
Do you eat, drink, and breath for "entertainment", or to fulfil basic health functions?
Absolutely I would. Everyone has their opinion about Microsofts products, but the platform and frameworks that underpin them are rock solid, long-time battle-tested in production, and easy to work with as a developer.

A .net stack comes with the comforting knowledge that this technology will never be made obsolete. It will undergo active development and will have support for many years to come. One day, long into the future, it will be super seeded by something else. When that happens, you know there will be a migration path because Microsoft has based their own business on it, and they need it for themselves, and all of their customers need it. .net does not go away tomorrow because something shinier showed up.
That's nice to know.

You will find that you will have a very stable and mature stack that is well integrated with Azure making deployment and testing easy.

Was I to build a microservice application, I would not choose Kubernetes.
I would choose the Microsoft Service Fabric Actor model over anything else that is out there.

Service Fabric is Microsoft Secret Sause. It is the technology that underpins the Azure Platform itself. Service Fabric has a beautiful actor model that makes the development of cloud-based applications as simple as writing a single threaded console application.

Service Fabric and Kubernetes: community comparison [1]

The Actor Model [2]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/azuredev/serv...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo
My VMS users say the same thing. Wow, do I not want that to happen. I am not a fan of DCL.
Is that the equivalent of Cisco 'save running config' with a timer? It's been many years so can't remember the exact incantations...
A journey to improving the plain text experience on mobile and web
Hopefully forever, one less privacy-hostile proprietary thingie around.
Ayn Rand called not wanting to know the "blank-out" and identified evasion as the root of all evil.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evasion.html
I can’t speak for others, but I do know that I thought I could survive without others. I was completely mistaken and totally unaware of myself.

I’m introverted and well-suited to long stints of being alone, but ultimately that is nothing compared to a lifetime of being alone.

When I meet people who can’t articulate why they don’t want kids or a community or whatever, I worry they’re just as clueless as I was.

As with anything, I try to remind myself that I’m not an exception. The standard American diet tends to cause illness and disease faster than a whole food, plant based diet for example. I am not an exception to that rule; if I eat that way, I will suffer too. I’m not special. When humans are alone, they tend to die earlier and lead a lower quality of life (particularly later in life though, with evidence of higher quality earlier in life). I’m not an exception, in any case. We all want to believe we’re exceptions.

Note: Just skimming through the research and living a socially isolated life has mortality outcomes comparable to being obese. That’s incredible.
You are saying that rape was a large portion of sex, and is going out of fashion? That would be both distressing (for the past), and encouraging for the future.
I have to agree. The environment that leads to a fast blog post may also lead to this quote from the post:

> This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically.

They are running as fast as they can and this extended the incident. There is a “slow is smooth, smooth is fast” lesson in here. I’d rather have a team that takes a day to put up the blog post, but doesn’t unnecessarily extend downtime because they are sprinting.
Is Web3 culture similar to Amway (MLM) culture?
Yes, but the STS could not overfly any areas outside a very specific, narrow path.

And the flight did not have to be recon. Payload bay doors could be opened very shortly after ET sep.
What's stopping you from asking them to sign an NDA before disclosing any details of what you are doing?
I can see your comparison but I disagree. In a normal job market most people can come out of a college a get a job. It just might not be the flashy job they think they deserve. Maybe they have to wash dishes or stick shelves when they’re trained for something else. Dating is similar. You can get a date if you’re willing to compromise on looks. Some people just won’t even entertain that idea or won’t entertain the idea that they might have to aim even lower than they expected.
> No. The suburbs are fine, it's social media that will get us.

Strong disagree. The decline of US civic life/institutions has been growing far before social media came on the scene. 13 year old me understood this fact just watching the Greatest Generation interact vs. the Boomers.

The fear-based culture of the suburbs existed since I was born, with local talk radio functioning as the NextDoor of the ye olde days giving every crank who saw someone suspicions a platform to rant on.

Social media certainly amped things up and accelerated this specific bit of our social decay. But it certainly didn't start it and the social fabric is breaking down in a manner far broader and earlier than what social media would explain.

Without talking about uninteresting outliers - we effectively McInfrastructured ourself into inhuman layouts designed to minimize unwanted social interaction. Fracturing communities and people the way we did with our construction patterns will end in tears. Humans are not built to only interact with those exactly like them on their own terms.

Those forced uncomfortable social interactions are absolutely key to humanity and personal growth and they have been nothing but reduced my entire life.
>Don't close the bridge!

Unless you don't want there to be a meeting(s)... just say'n.
In the employer employee relationship, the employer is responsible for providing functioning tools.

Maintaining productivity when those tools cease to function encourages the employer to underinvest in tools and burden the employee.
People who grew up in the 80s were by definition not getting laid until the 90s for the most part.

As one of those people, well, it didn't stop me. But the terror was real.
1) It’s the only VPN that worked in areas where they work hard to block most VPNs

2) it’s still not very expensive

3) it’s absurdly fast for a “VPN”! Like 400Mbit symmetric.

4) I also use it as a seedbox. Speaking of…does anyone have an invitation a private tracker to replace what.cd because I miss that. Or a no/low compression movie tracker.
*In the west.

I think gender equality may be a big culprit. Take the US for example: women will dominate the college educated class soon if they haven't already, and with that economic freedom comes more optionality in choosing a partner, there are more choices to be had and there will be a self selection of the most desirable men (typically college educated as it correlates to income).

This is not to blame women in any sense, it's a great thing that we're achieving a more equal society, but with a industrial well educated society more optionality with partners will lead to less sex imo.
Who Will Win the Candidates: The Case for Each Player
I have always found laundry symbols confusing. I agree with other comments that this proposed replacement has too many problems to be acceptable, but surely someone can do better than "crossed-out triangle", "underlined water cup", "Cylon wearing a jaunty cap", and my personal favorite, "literally just a circle".

Weird fact: Despite having been around for decades, laundry symbols have not been assigned Unicode code points. This mailing list email from Ken Whistler in 2003[1] suggests the existence of a conflicting Canadian standard as a reason, along with a philosophy of not including "icons" (especially color-coded ones!) in a "character" set, given that pictographic language is likely to change over the next century.

(Unicode threw that out the window in 2010 when they standardized emojis, and given how complex emojis have become Ken's argument is sounding better and better...)

[1] http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2003-m06/0274.html
Who's Afraid of Driverless Cars?
Ask HN: Good practices to promote B2B posts on LinkedIn
In recent changes, appears LI limits impressions when you post external links or even promote LI Company page posts.

I have spoken with many and found that to get engagements they hack the system
1) Large companies get their employees to engage with posts. They send internal slack/email to promote a post.

2)SMB work with partners to engage with posts. They send internal and external email or share on LI groups to promote a post. Yes, this goes 2 ways you promote mine and I return the favor.

3)Pay influencer to give a shoutout or a 90sec video podcast/interaction.

LI in investing in re-vamping its feed, but surprised that they are unable to trace these practices of gathering engagement.

Do such pre-decided engagement impact positively on gaining impressions?

Any one have any other B2B best practices for content sharing on LI?
So I wear reading glasses and I’m with you the first 9 “improved” icons are indistinguishable to me at a glance. In particular the older ones with 20/30/50 are instantly readable where the new ones are not.

The iconography is updated which is nice but the line weights are too thick.
this practice applies to all schools saying 'eliminating debts for students', Dartmouth just joined the game late.

the bottom line is always squeezing the middle classes.
New core DLCs added for RetroArch Steam
So the answer (this is Drew's language) is "We don't offer one"?
They just say that until they realize that when you don't have sex for a week, you want it every day, but after you have sex, the need fades for a while. And of course sex drive decreases with age, from an extremely horny peak around ~20.
Chrome actually has deployed a version of WebTransport, which is basically a way of using QUIC directly from the browser for datagram/stream connections (e.g. to implement game networking, in browser.) But it's relatively new, and you need to modify the QUIC stack in order to accept and handle WebTransport connections; so it doesn't "just work" out of the box with any popular QUIC libraries I know of.

It's unclear where this will all end up right now; you'll probably have to wait a bit for it to be production ready. But there's clearly broad interest in the topic, though.
The headline is misleading.

"won a large settlement ... over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policies"
You're welcome. You may want to take a look at Gabriel Weinberg's book entitled "Traction". Here's a playlist that's not properly ordered: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpNwgXYhL09_afXgVjigb_k...
Compare to the other symbols in that set: a square refers to the drying process, with the contents being how to dry it. A circle instead of a square means no drying process, so it shouldn't get wet in the first place - hence dry-cleaning.

At least that's how I see it, it could also just have been the last obvious symbol remaining after square/triangle were taken.
Came here to say this. Quotation marks were hugely useful.
Visidata is wonderful.

Also for querying large CSV and Parquet files, I use DuckDB. It has a vectorized engine and is super fast. It can also query SQLite files directly. The SQL support is outstanding.

https://duckdb.org/

Just have start the DuckDB REPL and start querying e.g.

Select * from ‘bob.CSV’ a
Join ‘Mary.parquet’ b
On a.Id = b.Id

Zips through multi GB files in a few seconds.
She must have read The Aeneid
Oh yeah totally get it. I feel like our area of agreement is that whenever you're writing code, you should be writing it to be read and understood, not simply executed. Whether that's through naming, comments, docs, structure, etc.

An example of a comment I'd value is something like a "why bother" at the top of a file doing a lot of in-depth algorithmic work, like a note accompanying a Chesterton's Fence. It makes some sense (though I quibble with this all the time) to design things so as to be as understandable as possible, and then only start optimizing when necessary, and when that happens it's useful to put a "this is pretty complicated, but it cuts CPU time down by 30%. [here](link) are the tests, and [here](link) is the naive equivalent implementation".
Agreed. I wonder whether something like a QR code that takes you to a page with instructions is more simple as a solution. Hook that up to a smart washing machine, and it will set the appropriate instructions, or tell you if you have an incompatible load.

All that said, I've been ignoring the labels for years, and never had a problem.
It comes out of TV/Reddit/videogame time, and it improves sleep, so it pays for itself easily.
Sounds miserable tbqh.
As a non-american this would have been really confusing without your explanation.
It is excessive to claim that code cannot express the "why". You can almost always express the "why" with code if you really want to, though whether or not that's a good idea is another matter.

For example, you could express the same information that the comment in your example provides in the following manner with self-documenting code.

enum PerformancePrioritization {
FastWorstCase,
FastAverageCase
}

function sort(data: List<TypeOfData>, performancePrioritization: PerformancePrioritization) {
if (performancePrioritization == FastWorstCase) {
heapsort(data);
} else {
quicksort(data);
}
}

...

sort(data, FastWorstCase);
That's good to know -- thanks!
I run R in a Debian VM because Gentoo emerge of R fails to compile on my machine and I cannot be bothered to figure out the problem this time.