skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I say this not to specifically boost Gary's claims, but to encourage us to not wholesale discount anecdotes. They're too often clues to the right path to be ignored.

Right, but there are plenty of plainly stupid ones (“my kid is autistic and, surprise, surprise, had a vaccine weeks before being diagnosed”), and there are plenty of conflicting ones (like on the current subject, but also on things like CBD, though the picture is getting clearer on that front).

They are also unverifiable most of the time, and are commonly just made up.

The only way of knowing whether the anecdotes are significant is to verify them and do some statistical analysis, at which point they are data that we can analyse quantitatively or qualitatively, and not anecdotes anymore.

“Trust my anecdotes” is an argument one makes when reality is inconsistent with one’s position.

> I found the book to be pretty clear in it's wording saying essentially (to paraphrase) If you're not having any problems, then you don'd need a cure.

Which does sound reasonable. But that was not the OP’s message, which was based on the same book. There is no reason to assume that stoping watching porn will help with anything. It’s like homeopathy: sure, trying costs nothing, but it’s still stupid and can occasionally backfire.

Again, watching porn also never killed anyone, costs nothing and has no risk. So why not simply say “do whatever you want to do” and consider those anti-porn arguments for what they are: pseudo-science?
Put together a decorator in Python that does time.sleep to get really close to constant time operations. Am I understanding the problem wrong? I'd think that something like that could be implemented in any programming language that needs constant time operations.

https://gist.github.com/beltiras/86294a3e746820e421080b1619b...
Sushi Took over the World
off-topic-ish, this post on /r/ProgrammerHumor gave me a chuckle

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vh9peo/jus...
My impression of nextdoor based on my admittedly very limited usage was that maybe 5% of people (the usual paranoid types) used it as a sort of unofficial neighborhood crime watch, and 95% of everybody else used it to share pictures of local wildlife, organize barbecues, complain about the weather, and share old people memes.

I'm sort of biased though, I find mild gossip to actually make a place feel almost "comfy" and "lived-in". It's like the vibe of a local diner or church meetup, where nothing really happens in the community so anything minor (from a new car a neighbor has parked outside their house, to the loud kids who collect sticks to pretend-fight with and store them in a pile behind the mailbox, to the "crazy" party that the young couple had in their backyard last night with half a dozen friends) is a subject of minor gossip and banter and speculation.

I honestly bet 90% of the bad rep nextdoor get is purely a generational thing because nextdoor is basically just social media for older people and young people just don't really get how old people use social media. Notwithstanding the email/notifications topic here of course.
Hey HN,

I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you start to notice patterns and extract functionality away to make the job easier. I took those patterns and applied them to Avo.
Now, in just an hour, a developer can build production-ready applications that with traditional coding techniques take a few days, if not weeks.

Avo is suited to agencies that build a lot of products for their clients and need to move fast and have a beautiful and robust UI, indie developers trying to test out their ideas fast, technical teams in companies of all sizes that need to build internal tools based on Ruby, and start-ups.

Avo runs on top of Ruby on Rails, which is a powerhouse of a framework and uses the most modern tech stack (Hotwire, TailwindCSS, esbuild).

Avo has three main parts that you can choose from:

1. The CRUD UI

2. The Dashboards UI

3. The custom content

The CRUD UI is not something generated that takes maintenance in the long run. Instead, it's a familiar Ruby DSL that's easy to extend with Rails code if you need to break away from it.
It features about 30 fields with more advanced ones like (one-liner) file uploads, WYSIWYG, and key-value fields.

The Dashboards are a light layer on top of chartkick where one can query the data from the DB or an endpoint and quickly show the data in metrics, charts, or custom partials.

The Custom Content part is the secret sauce of Avo. It enables the developer to extend it even further using regular Rails code. You get access to partials, controller, action, params, and anything else you need to bring your own logic into the UI on every level (field, resource, tool).

Avo has a free Community version that features the powerful CRUD UI, and a paid Pro version for those who need more power and custom content. We also provide technical support for enterprise-like customers.

I know that Rails devs will immediately think of Active Admin, administrate, and other similar projects, and I want to mention that Avo is not them. It's built on a modern stack, and its mission is to become the back-office app and not just an "obscure admin panel that only the core team visits". I don't want to seem harsh, but I challenge non-believers to give Avo an hour of their time to see how it's different.

TBH, I believe Avo is the secret weapon in any developer's toolbox.

I'm here to answer all of your questions.

Thank you
in a Tom Hanks movie!?
Maybe not regularly, as bleach is quite damaging to fabric and others, but often enough to have a bottle of bleach available in laundry room
While I agree with this take, and I vastly prefer text based sources to video, is this true for everyone? This seems to support that, though I bet the study is a little biased:

“More students preferred reading than preferred video (30% to 20%, the other 50% preferred other forms of learning like in-person lectures and hands-on learning). And students who’d consumed the material via reading performed slightly better on the post-learning assessment than students who watched video, although the study’s numbers were small enough that this difference was not statistically significant.”

— https://www.dataquest.io/blog/video-text-learn-data-science-...
All washing machines I've used in the UK have a temperature selector dial. They usually offer a number of presets such as 30c, 40c, 60c and 90c.
The median American has ~5 sexual partners. So unless they're having a lot of sex with those partners when they're dating, marriage is still the biggest driver. I would bet the median person has had sex more often with their spouse than with all other partners combined.
I'm not sure what your age/location is, but as a young American, young people filter for politics and religion in person just as fast as they do on a dating app. It is considered that compatible political and religious views are table stakes for a serious (non-hookup) relationship.

For example, in my extended friend-aquaintance group, there's not a single young woman who would consider dating a conservative. Obviously conservative women exist, I have seen many on dating apps, the point is that the natural social circles have already formed strong bubbles such that hanging out let alone dating outside the tribe is unheard of.

I'm not really complaining about this either, I'm not going to get along with a conservative in a normal sort of idle chatter situation. We could work or play a sport or videogame together but beers aren't going to be enjoyable once they start talking about wokeness poisoning the country.
Dating apps have no incentive to encourage long term relationships, because if you are in a long term relationship you are far less likely to use a dating app. Given the prevalence of dark pattern research to maximize "engagement" in the social media space, I would not be surprised if the most successful dating apps are actively optimized to encourage a meat market dynamic because it maximizes engagement with the app.

This is analogous to how regular social networks actively encourage unreasonable maximally-controversial discourse because it maximizes engagement, to the detriment of rational discussion of social and political issues. If people can reach a solution to issues like tradition vs. personal freedom, abortion, guns, etc., then they might spend less time on social media debating them and trolling and fighting about them and social media engagement might decline.

As far as porn goes, it's absolutely a substitute for sex for some people. It's less fulfilling but it's enough to get off and have the desire go away and it requires far less effort.

Another thing about porn I haven't seen mentioned much in this thread is how unrealistic it is and how people raised with a lot of porn probably have really unrealistic ideas about what sex is like. If they try to literally act out porn in the bedroom with their partner, it's likely not to go that well. In some cases they might go right for things many partners won't be interested in or would only be interested in after establishing a lot of trust and a real relationship.
Maybe at one particular clinic? But that's not true in the general case. I remember when I first discovered that AIDS was both rare and overwhelmingly affecting the gay community (where I live). I was pretty upset because having grown up in the 80s and 90s I'd been left with the impression that HIV was everywhere and even just one heterosexual hookup was a gamble (condom or not). But that's not an accurate view given the tiny, tiny number of people who have HIV.

Looking back at the 80s/90s AIDS hysteria now, it was the same as COVID hysteria. Same people even, guys like Fauci. They were telling people you could get AIDS from drinking water fountains and similar crap. No wonder people were crazy about it.

Incidentally the whole concept of a virus that primarily targets gay people doesn't make much biological sense, does it? Nothing the size of a virus can detect your sexuality, nor is there any evolutionary reason to select for such a thing even if it could. That's why the 'experts' predicted it would quickly stop being primarily a gay disease. Nope. That rather makes the theory that a lot of AIDS cases were driven by drug abuse more plausible, doesn't it, especially because this preference for gay men mysteriously vanishes in Africa.

At any rate, the public health community has pretty consistently and for a long time misled heterosexual people about the risks of any disease that's known to primarily affect the gay community. They're doing it again now with monkeypox. It almost exclusively affects gay men which is why the official CDC guidance is to - no kidding - hold socially distanced gay sex parties. But to listen to the early announcements about this you'd not have suspected this reality. There is of course no question of the state enforcing any measures against the at-risk community to "crush the curve", like banning pride week sex parties: the LGBT community is special. For the rest of us, we get lockdowns. For them, nothing. It's this sort of thing that destroys the credibility of public health (not that they had any left after COVID). It's just one long string of ideological driven "science".
For the top few percent of men.
>Many men, even in otherwise healthy relationships, prefer porn.

Do you have data of this phenomenon?
Thanks for sharing this. I believe we essentially agree: chaining method calls is inexpressive compared to composing expressions in an algebraic language.
For the same reason I don't do audio books. I tried listening in the car during low overhead highway driving and quickly realized my attention faded in and out too much.

Along the same lines, I also came to theorize that books that were written to be read don't make good audio candidates. Yes, doable. But I found lectures and speeches to be better suited for listening (as it was their original and intended medium).
>So the RISC processor has to do a little more memory access to read all the instructions,

Or not. Example: RISC-V has higher code density than x86-64. Compilers produce consistently smaller code.
Amazing! Keep up to good job Adrian! Really like the features you ship every week.
Right. If its the only entertainment one ever has it could get boring. But its far more entertaining that... Most other forms of entertainment. That being said it shouldnt be the most fulfilling part of ones life.
I think it's even better that they explained the backgorund of the outage in a really easy to understand way, so that not only experts can get a hang of what was happening.
That made me smile.
> I wonder if younger people know what it's like to go a week or two without orgasm

I certainly didn't when I was a teenager in the 80s, and I had zero access to porn or sexual partners.
No. The "workers rights" crowd has gained a lot of public support from suburban women under the false pretense that they'd only go after the billionaire class, but I've seen them attack "mom and pop" restaurants with the same fervor. In one case they forced an owner of 20+ years to sell the business to their "workers coop" for far less than market rate. Funny enough is that the "workers coop" hires people for close to minimum wage despite the coop having 6+ partners.
https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp

They've got some Docker examples in the README.
> Only the very smallest instances don’t get a full core.

Not sure this is true for AWS anymore.

Even a t3.nano gives you 2 vCPUs, which I've always interpreted as meaning they give you 1 core with two threads to ensure that you never share a core with another tenant.

Of course, t2 instances still exist which give 1 vCPU, but there's no reason to create one of those when a t3 gives 2 vCPUs at a lower price. The only reason to be running a t2 is if you created it before t3 existed and just haven't bothered migrating.
Have these people seen fashion these days?
I've bought a lot of both their high end and value picks and haven't found a dud yet. I'd trust Adam with my life at this point :D
Are you fully remote right now? I get messages for jobs like this in finance a lot, but they're all mostly London based it seems.
Dating apps don't want you to have a successful relationship because then they lose you as a customer. They want you to at most have a short fling and come back. But having no success and scrolling endlessly is also fine by them.
Maybe, or he is trolling

https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/vga9q1/google_has_hir...
I hope I don't need to tell you why this comparison is incredibly flawed. If you treat dating the same way as jobhunting and your answer is "just get a dead end job", you're encouraging people to enter a lot of bad relationships and a lot of breaking hearts. Not to mention many people do not consider "just a date" a net positive, or even "just a date and sex".

Beyond that, you still haven't addressed the elephant in the room: jobs are necessary to survive for most people, whereas celibacy doesn't kill.
I think it partially depends on the app you use as well. You ultimately need to figure out what people are using in your region.
Sorry, I guess my word timing sarcasm was missed. You kind of have to buy the house and get the mortgage at the same time. "going to buy" was said multiple times, which implies that the house wasn't purchased yet.
Why does this essay feel so flat to me? It reads like it was written for class, or for an essay contest for the American Legion: Write about why you went to college.

I almost don't believe the author. It feels like you're lying to me.

College is more than collecting merit badges.
Fellow solo developer here. Making https://gainknowhow.com/ . It's my take on how to keep everyone on the same page at growing organizations. My basic premise is that the current data structure to store documentation in folders is not ideal. A better data structure to store knowledge in a graph of connected ideas. Storing knowledge in this manner ensures users understand context when learning skills. I'd love your feedback.
> infering why

To me, this is where the most valuable comments are. The more that your code is a representation of business logic, the more you have weird "whys" to fill in.

Any kind of plan that involves everyone on the team inferring the same "why" is a terrible plan in my book.
Perhaps because the stereotype is wrong? Or rather, it depends on the relationship you have with your partner. Intimacy will mirror the rest of your relationship.
That's never what the MGTOW people asserted in any serious way. From the jump it was "the world is 'sexually prejudiced' against us men [or capital-M Men when they were being extra weird] and so we should separate from it entirely." It immediately leapt right into what would today be called "cope" how even if you do get married she'll just divorce you for a studly chad and take all your stuff, the fear of feminists (hiss! never mind that mainstream feminist study is pretty in on the assertion "this is bad for dudes too"! hiss!), all that. As a side effect of this insularity, for some people trapped in it there were definitely some self-improvement vibes. But that was never the goal of the people developing its, for lack of a better term, theory.

I used to study online right-wing and fascist movements as they evolved. The incel and MGTOW crowds absolutely went towards a fearful, hard-right-wing view of the world as fast as they could be led towards it. It is difficult to gin up another reading of the core stuff that doesn't depend on being super, super credulous.

ETA: 'XorNot, in a sibling reply to yours, raises a really good and thoughtful point about the self-improvement gimmick being a good way to rope suckers into your movement, and it's worth thinking about.
> There’s not much difference in expressiveness

> However SQL is declarative

Pick one :) the way I see it, if declarativeness is not a factor in assessing expressiveness, then expressiveness reduces to the uninteresting notion of Turing-equivalence.
Yes.
And BenchMarketing is easy but does not serve your customers well
Yeah, also the mercury thermometer sideways?! It's counter-intuitive. That said, the new symbolism slightly improves upon the old one which is not intuitive at all. You have to learn what they mean and then they're fine. They're just not intuitive.

The water temp in the old one is expressed much more clearly than the new one.

The most significant improvement is the bleach/no bleach symbol. The rest either don't improve much or actually make things less legible.

Also, sidenote the "drying" symbol looks a bit like the hotsprings/onsen symbol --the official symbol is a little diff as it has an oval, but on roadsigns they drop the oval sometimes so it looks very similar (see U+2668)
TIL that social media is acting as birth control as a second order effect.
Not really. I'll stir it, but not blend it. Say I put in frozen strawberries, yogurt, xantham gum and allulose, I'll then stir it up... So huge chunks of strawberries in a yogurt. When I run it through the Creami, it comes out smooth pink. If I want chunks in it, I'll add fruit after it's done, then put it back in the Creami and push the "mix-in" button, which is a much slower, shorter run.

The main run of the Creami moves this blade down through the frozen mixture, taking ~3 minutes to go down through 4" and back up, so it does it in very small increments. Kind of ultra fine shaved ice plus blending all at the same time.
I really find the idea that "having to know, or lookup stuff", as a problem, offensive.

Laundry is literally filled with things to know, outside of these symbols. Household tasks are.

I don't see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Yet people have done that in the wash, so why not start there?

Here's what each sane person should do, who actually takes time to look at tags. (after all if you couldn't care less, and never look at tags, what's the point?)

Print a copy of the extended tag list out, and hang it in the laundry room at home. I have a cabinet where I keep extra detergent, etc, so I taped it up on the inside of the door.

Problem sovled.

For a laundrymat, for your smartphone, download a properly formatted, for easy phone viewing version.

Done.

Non-problem, compared to expecting the entire planet to change. We don't need another standard!!

All that would happen is I'd have two standards to look at.
Interesting! I don't believe that's how USA washing machines work, they usually just say "hot", "warm", and "cold".

Apparently USAians are washing machine philistines who don't need more than three temperatures and don't know what they are?

Anyway, this shows another challenge in these icons, the international diversity of washing techniques and technology.

(Edit: I found one possible answer online -- Euro washing machines may actually have water heaters built in, while American washing macchines may just use the existing house "hot water supply". So Euro machines can heat to desired temp, while American ones just have to take what they get! Why THAT was done that way, I don't know, difference in hot water heating technology choices? Euro houses don't usually have a central "hot water tank" like US has? Why THAT is would be yet another question...).
Normal off what metric? Your metric?

I am 29 and was finally able to purchase my first home. I am one of if not the only person in my large friend group to purchase a home without assistance from parents

If you think people in their 20s are buying homes and starting families en-masse well I've got bad news for you
WaPo to keep software business, despite sale talks
Thanks Dan! I appreciate the support and the kind words
If I'm able to influence this computation to take longer than the maximum time allotted for it, this technique will fail open & allow me to measure timings. This is common in the real world, because as the attacker/a user of your application, I generally have a lot of influence on the data being passed to your computation. So I can, for instance, pass giant strings. Or conduct many attacks in parralel to increase load on your system.

You can, of course, patch this by sleeping to the nearest interval. But that brings us to a second problem, this technique is quite expensive in terms of wall-clock time.

Very nice Python.
If we have to.
Board unanimously approves Elon Musk’s $44B Twitter takeover bid
Even if they didn't try to pack in too much detail, I still think many of the redesigned symbols are less obvious than the originals. A square with a circle in it - is that the washer or the dryer? They're both boxes with round doors for most people these days. But the tub of water - at least I know intuitively that must mean washing. Similarly a conical flask for bleach - I guess I know that's something chemical, but is it bleach or dry cleaning? Whereas a triangle is always a warning, so it's not hard to associate with the only toxic thing in the laundry room. All irons I've ever used have dots on the temperature scale, not a half-filled old school thermometer, so that's also one that doesn't need improving. I'm not saying there's no room for improvement - the wavy lines for drying are certainly better than another ambiguous box with a circle in it - but many of the originals are pretty good.
this is all the same rehashed Boomer garbage defending college. Reality is that all of these benefits could easily be replicated at a fraction of the cost.

Cultural inertia is the only thing keeping the current university system alive, everything about the tenure track and how graduate students have to work is broken as well. The current system in the US was not created as a program to efficiently educate a modern workforce to maintain a modern economy , so it fails miserably
Which projects are simply designed to be hard money?
Maybe not that extreme but it's a super well documented phenomenon across evolutionary psych and studies of dating app stats.