skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a personal issue. OKCupid has published a lot of data on this. The top 20% of men as rated by women are having overwhelmingly more sex through online dating than anyone else. It's not close; it's more of a cliff than a curve. It doesn't matter how much you "like yourself", you will be swiped left if you're not physically attractive.

I am not saying this as sour grapes. I have had sex with dozens of women from Tinder, putting me in the top success percentiles of male users. The reality for average men online is extremely bleak. Denying this, giving advice to "like yourself" or to do therapy, or the ever common "you have to be happy alone first", are entirely fabricated coping mechanisms.

If you are even getting a handful of dates from the app from which to test your personality theories, you never had the problem at all.
Of course there is green hydrogen.

First of all, the green aspect of it is that the source is renewable. That's what makes it green. It's not correct to call it a net loss, because no one wants to produce power from hydrogen in order to harvest more hydrogen. There would always be a renewable input somewhere.

About losses. There are always losses on each energy transformation step. The same thing applies to electricity generated with fossil fuels, or heat generated with electricity generated from heat, or light generated with electricity produced with light.

The fact that the source is renewable means we can probably afford that loss in the long term.

Using green hydrogen as fuel for far-from-grid cases still makes sense.

Electric tractors are not feasible yet, given the required power×autonomy.

Also, consider Iceland, were electricity is cheap and produced via geothermal sources, but exporting it is impossible: producing green hydrogen would make that energy exportable.

And consider also the Haber-Bosch process, where ammonia production requires hydrogen that currently comes from fossil sources (natural gas) which implies carbon emissions. Shifting to green hydrogen would be a game changer in the production of fertilizers. Remember farming is one of the major sources of CO₂ emissions.
This is not good at all. Wikipedia has lot of money from donations. Google or its founders already were donors.

Rather than fixing the issue with moderation and editing biases creeping into Wikipedia, they seem to be focussing on being more profligate with their money.
Even really simple microcontrollers and university student projects are probably RV32 rather than RV64.
Law is different in most places because the “execution model” isn’t intended to be a process, but is instead a mediated dispute.
> Yeah, thousands I would imagine. The last two companies I have worked at have been 100% serverless or nearly 100%.

If you can answer (for legal or other reasons you might not be able to): What kind of monthly bills did your setup have and how many req/s did you serve (in lack of a better metric)? It'd also be useful to know average min/max response time if that's something you remember.

I wish that was a good way of evaluating "performance / price" but that's really hard... If someone know a better way to frame the question regarding price, it would be very helpful.
Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825742
Go check their docker support... It's also a total disaster. Only V3 exist and it's abandoned since nearly a year.

https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/setup-deploymen...
I know we're not supposed to make this kind of comment but I have to say your username matches your comment quite well.

The sad truth though is that a lot of quite normal men will never be able to do most of that, and for those suffering from anxiety, autism or something like that (it seems like quite a few here), they're quite disadvantaged if not fucked.
What is actually crazy is having copyright/patents/whatever apply to mathematical structures and code, and be retainable for long, it's rent on ideas, such a ridiculous concept.
Any similar back office projects written in python? I'd like to reuse some existing data access code and I'm currently looking at using django. So I'd love to hear if others have a better suggestion.
This news comes after the New Yorker published a bombshell investigative piece on the company over a week ago.

Previous discussion on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31724701
If you have "prefers-reduced-motion" set to true in your browser / OS, the animation will stop :)
Fender's New Guitar Metaverse Lets You Rock Out in the Clouds
Let's wait for the first big Codex infringement scandal to erupt and then I will start worrying about it.
I strongly doubt that. It was quite common in western Europe too. My parents got married in 1970 and did briefly live with my grandparents (who had a gigantic house that was still dirt cheap when they got married directly after WW2), but moved out soon after that.

As far as I know, people moved out either when they married, or when they went to a university in a different city. Around 1990 I knew one guy who had a job and still lived with his parents, and I thought that was odd (he spent all his money on fancy audiophile equipment).
Listen, you do you, as well.

Those people who are open-minded about programming languages, can make up their own minds about V. I'm quite sure their decisions will not be solely dependent on HN or me, if they even come by here.

And sure, I will heed the warning to watch my back on HN, to include the downvoting and flagging.
I've never quit an executive-level job other than because I felt I had committed some kind of wrongdoing.
Sure we can, but a) all processes synthesizing hydrocarbons start with hydrogen, so you'll need cheap green hydrogen to begin with, and b) it takes a lot of energy.
I wish that's all it had ...
Holy shit, that’s a good explanation.
Show HN: Python Read Along
A Canceled Teen
Co-pilot is great when you have a repetitive programming task to perform. e.g. if you are nesting module imports through several layers of python init. Co-pilot is great at tab-completing `from myproject.some_module.nested_module.actual_module import Foo as Foo` and similar tasks.
> side note: is that actually a saying?

I've never heard it before but i'll be using it now :)
The argument this article makes is invalid. You’re missing out on a 100X investment opportunity in any bubble. The question isn’t whether you can make money off it—of course you can! The question is how soon the dumpster fire is going to explode into a full-blown trash tornado that eats up little Timmy’s college fund. If you’d bet on dotcom stocks back in 1998 you’d be 100X until suddenly you weren’t.

I also find the comparison to tech stocks odd. Stocks are, of course, a fever dream. But far fewer snake oil salesmen are marketing them as magical financial instruments with lofty safety guarantees. Besides, unlike the tech crash, a huge part of the lack of confidence in crypto right now is failed Ponzis like Terra Luna.
I live in Iran, one of the worst economics of the world. 10$ is 4 meals and it's still worth it imho.
There is, as far as I know, no fundamental physical reason that prevents us from having high-efficiency electrolysis and high-efficiency fuel cells.

As an example (I did not try to corrobate the report) here is a company that claims 95% for the former:

https://newatlas.com/energy/hysata-efficient-hydrogen-electr...

So while it is true that current technology doesn't make hydrogen look like a viable option, improvements like we have seen in the field of lithium ans other batteries are probably possible and could change that outlook massively.

If someone manages to produce 1kg of hydrogen for $1, that would, more or less, equal the current high spot price of natural gas ($9 for 1 million BTU, according to Wolfram alpha that's 293kwh).
For something like this, I bet a chunk of your target market for "Pro" level is people running ActiveAdmin. The beauty (and nightmare) of ActiveAdmin is it just looks at your tables and gives you an admin UI. If you have a mostly API based app, this can be great to give internal people some power tools so they leave the engineers alone.

Would love to see demos with real world complexity level of things instead of the typical Blog or Todo list trackers. To give that some scope for a complex Rails application lets use counts of objects, something like 100 models and 80 active admin pages, scatter in some 50-100 jobs/workers and like 50-100 service objects.

What does Avo provide for a menu-ing or UI customization to deal with that level of complexity?
> You don’t get $21M from investors for nothing.

Do you think that investors see every company that isn't a unicorn as "nothing"? I think you're living in a fairytale
Google has been huge contributor to wikipedia for over a decade now.
I can get behind the round-trip inefficiencies if it gets terribly cheap, but I can't imagine how storage and transportation can ever be economical.

We are trying to contain the most volatile substance in the universe. It needs incredible pressure just to be manageable and even then, it freaking diffuses within the steel walls themselves, leaking and making it brittle over time. It's not hard to imagine single protons wandering by in high pressure H2.

I mean, it's doable, but economical? It's hard for me to believe it ever will be, no matter the scale.
Well... Avo's pricing is exacty like Jumpstart's (except the $750 for unlimited). So pay $250, get Avo (or Jumpstart) with a year of updates. When you stop paying, you keep what you have until that point and no more updates. Isn't that the same? Am I missing something?

Also, you do make a point regarding agencies "sign a client up for a bunch of services". I'll try and experiment with that. Thanks for the nudge!
There is already a system for building a NPM node package from a Deno package, called dnt (deno to node). It's maintained by some Deno team members. Here's a blog post they wrote about porting "Oak" (a deno HTTP server framework) to Node: https://deno.com/blog/dnt-oak

The nice thing about Deno conceptually, is that it's much more similar to the browser platform than node is. It uses ES6 only, has things like `fetch` built-in by default, and generally follows browser standards around interfaces like Request, Response, etc. Instead of needing a complicated build process to make Node code work on the browser, now we have a complicated build process to make Deno/Browser code work on Node. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hope someone gives the author a ride on an F-4 to try it out in real life.
I am working with a chemist to find investors & industrial partners to advance a lab tested technology that uses DME as a solvent to extract & distribute bitumen in a dramatically cleaner & cheaper way.

This technology has major applications for hydrogen energy. DME can be converted into Hydrogen at the source of demand using a lightweight portable system that can be outfitted on vehicles and generators. By storing & transporting DME, and then converting to hydrogen on demand, the hydrogen economy can immediately utilize the existing global fossil fuel infrastructure, rather then develop & scale alternative methods of transportation and distribution. Storing DME also circumvents the serious technical & safety challenges inherent in storing hydrogen gas.

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If you're interested, please look at the technical summary website. There are so many advantages to this technology over our existing system that I just can't fit into a brief primer.

http://envirotechdme.com/

We have done laboratory tests, but in order to see real industrial adoption we need to do field demonstrations of the technology in action. We are looking for technically minded investors & industrial partners to help take this tech to the next stage.
"Documentation that, um, exists; and when it exists, it shouldn’t suck."

Wouldn't that be nice!

I recently moved from Swift/SwiftUI to Dart/Flutter in my professional life.

My hobby times I spend in Rust.

Of the three only Rust documentation has code snippets with the standard library documentation.

Apple, Google: Bigger than big, why not even try?
If it were trained with public domain code, I’d feel a lot better. But it’s done with code with all sorts of restrictive licenses. The only thing that will change that is new laws (e.g. fair use de-exemptions for ML products)
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Industry defines standards and then fights for dominance. At some point you have electrocuted enough elephants and it is time to normalize on something for a while. I mean the US' 110V AC absolutely sucks in comparison to many things, yet it wins compared to a nation with random regional power systems.
> Surprised it's only 21M.

Indeed, especially when you compare with a company such as Supabase (which is working on way less interesting technology imho) who just raised $80M: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31328783
Generally any sort of military/defense company.
> This is such generic analysis all it serves as is just a big-name-person blog post that can be linked to as an example of status-quo conventional wisdom.

I thought the same thing, but reading through the comments here makes me realize how many people seem to be completely unaware about the hydrogen discussion.
Just because you produce a crop doesn't mean it's economical to harvest it. Farmers must produce sufficient yield to cover the cost of harvesting (fuel, manpower, equipment cost, etc) or they will just leave the failed crop to decompose.
In my experience, more people need to work on reading comprehension than reading speed. Comprehension is what actually matters, and is what seems to be in short supply. If Bionic Reading promised increased reading speed with no loss of comprehension, and provided it, all it would mean is that people would misunderstand things at a faster rate.
I think it depends on how you say it. Some people here are just gaslighting, while others are being insightful.
Yeah. For something that has to be just right in a limited number of words (ad copy, the introduction to a product or the company on your website, etc. you'll write a whole lot and throw out a lot. (And fiction is presumably a whole different ball game.)

But your typical article or blog post? Much less technical docs? As you say, you'll clean up a lot of sloppy sentences (at least I do), maybe decide something is too much of a diversion, maybe decide your long winded lead-in really needs to get to the point, and probably add text to clarify some things or bulletproof them. (When I wrote research notes I loved footnotes for this purpose.)

By and large, I'm not doing a big word dump and then cutting half of it.
At first, I read it as if he thinks it's worth way more.
It's what I kind of love about it though - the JS ecosystem is Neverland.
Yes. I'm surprised to see this from Bill Gates:

"Another option is to produce hydrogen using the current methods that burn fossil fuels and then capture the CO2 produced in the process before it’s released in the atmosphere. It may never be economical to capture 100 percent of the carbon released using incumbent technologies, but while we’re waiting for thousands of industrial facilities to retrofit their infrastructure, carbon capture can help drive emissions way down."

That's the oil industry position. See "Blue hydrogen".

The "hydrogen economy" concept made more sense a decade ago. Solar cells, wind farms, and batteries have improved so much that it's obsolete.

(Now if we can just get the US auto industry to produce electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. The electric light truck sector is running at least a year behind. This is being used as an excuse for premium pricing.)
7pm in Cannes – Playing the confidence game
I think they're trying to communicate that those are worst case latency numbers. You're correct in that formal use of Big O notation doesn't distinguish constants.
It's very simple. Allow not using encryption. Plain text + encrypted make a great team. Either by themselves is not great.
Saying that Manchester is uglier than Florence and that Italian food is better than English food are not insults, but a factual statements.

I’m in Inner London because I have a very high paying job, that allowed me to buy a nice flat in a nice area and that allows me to fly to Europe even 5 times a month with my entire family, if I want. But I was very close from leaving the UK a few years ago, when it became evident that my 100K£ salary wasn’t enough to enjoy the same lifestyle of a friend of mine that lives in Berlin with an entry level s/w development job and 2 children.
> suddenly the differences start to stack up a bit, not a lot, but when one filter is letting 10x the particles through vs the other filter, it'll show

It doesn't show: the difference is too small to notice at every stage: https://www.jefftk.com/remaining-particles-by-minute-995-vs-...

Even comparing 95% vs 99.95% it's barely noticeable: https://www.jefftk.com/remaining-particles-by-minute-95-vs-9...

Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wVIdWR0lWgZRt4gbnVaH...
Agreed, but the point was that state machine, iterative, blocking pipeline stages are pretty common even in RISC cores, including particularly ascetic RISC-V and ARM cores. But I can get how at ~12k gates you don't even want the slowest iterative divide unit.
And worse, being pressured to do so before turning 12...
> it's just as fast to write "load, add, store" in software

Not really, since you then need an extra register, which in x86 would be a very expensive cross-cutting change.
I changed my view on this―I hated how things were going full circle. But in reality, human civilization loves overdoing a particular direction and then reverts to the mean. You see this with the economy, moral fashions, everything.

I am an optimist in that I (have started to) believe that this slowly allows us to converge on better solutions for everything.

PHP was easy to set up, easy to host, easy to understand and easy to build stuff with, but it resulted in an unmaintainable mess over the long run.

Then Node was all of that, but JS was a better language than PHP. Then Node grew warts in the form of the clutter that is npm, then it grew complex build systems and unstable libraries.

Now there's Deno. It uses TypeScript by default, which is a surprisingly useful and productive language, it rethinks some things, it's much more secure by default, and now we're back at the PHP-level easiness to host using Deno Deploy.

We've ended up with an overall better solution and it only took us 20 years :)
Should the Patient Get the Drug?
Thanks for raising this issue, you're right! There's no mechanism for making concurrent work impossible. We haven't had this problem of concurrent issues being worked on from start to finish in the past, maybe that will change with the bounty program?

We haven't seen adversarial behavior yet but if it starts to be a problem we can address it, I agree that the language of "opening a PR" isn't super great. Maybe that section needs to be more general i.e. "we'll assign you the issue once you've made substantial progress towards the tasks" leaving that to be defined by maintainers.

The possibility of "staking" money by the contributor is a non-starter. We aren't in the business of taking money from people who have good intentions and operationally I don't see a way forward there.

This whole program is an experiment so we're open to being wrong about things at first. We'll be iterating based on feedback and providing a retrospective in a future newsletter.
It doesn’t require ignoring copyright law. It’s fair use. Which is a bad thing. We need new laws for this stuff.
Apologies - you're absolutely correct. I think it was standard practice prior to everything going down-hill. The only reason I even have this ability is through my career. I think most people are not so fortunate and are fed up so the cycle of not trying starts to kick in.
I'm betting that most people outside of Italy also can't tell where Verona or Orvieto or Tivoli are.
Cynical, or merely descriptive? https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-the-fuck-do-you-tru...
So, the problem is that it produces incorrect code…
It was a few years back and I was mainly playing with a few early projects. I was very productive, but wanted to target my Raspberry Pi and it just wasn't there. I ended up going 100% rust instead.
Can Copilot write tests? That way it could test its own code and tweak it until it works.

Of course, one would then ask how to verify tests. I suppose Copilot could write meta-tests - tests that verify other tests. That way it could test its own tests and tweak them until they work.

Of course, one would then ask how to verify meta-tests. I suppose Copilot could write meta-meta-tests - tests that verify meta-tests. That way it could test its own meta-tests and tweak them until they work.

Of course, one would then ask how to verify meta-meta-tests...
Oh, I see what you mean. What kind of "gigs" they get. "Starters" or "continuers" (maintenance).

Gotcha! Personally I started a lot of projects. Probably more than 50%. And the money were good, but not as good as doing maintenance for a big company with a big product.
Somebody doesn't understand O notation.
Wikipedia tells me the last time a new Wikimedia project was launched was Wikidata, 10 years ago in 2012.
Not to take away from the rest of your message, I thought you wanted to get up to speed on that `fetch` is now available in nodejs core since version 17 or something like that (think it got included early this year).
Growth, inflation, and adapting to unpredictable times
I suspect that it basically confuses your brain because it tries to adjust the "white balance" so that the background becomes normal white. But the background is just saturated enough and changing so quickly that it just can't follow.
Thank you! I originally had the video in the hero, but few non tech people gave me feedback that it was confusing, so I put list of holders on top. Any thoughts on how I spruce it up?
Lifting weights is not body building.

Lifting weights doesn't mean trying to max it out every session. It's still "lifting weights" to go in and do a half hour of compound lifts with moderate weights. Most people can keep that up for a long time.
Iran's economy is still doing good comparing to many countries of the world.

Africa is saying hello
By CEE do you mean the European Economic Community? Or are you referring to eastern European communism? I don't know how the situation was there, but in western Europe, people could absolutely afford to at least rent in their 20s. My grandparents, who weren't rich at all (my granddad was a nurse) could afford a very large house, and my parents could afford to buy a fairly large house when they were 34. And I know that in Germany (central Europe), houses tend to be cheaper (at least today; not sure if it was the same back then).
‘After lockdown, things exploded’ – how TikTok triggered a books revolution
100%

The thing ive most enjoyed is that it forces me to write out what I want to do in english before getting stuck in the weeds of how the code ought to work.

I've found if I explain the whole program ahead of time (the other day I wrote some python that converted the local time to display on a 13x13 grid of LEDs) co-pilot can write 90% of the code without me, just translating my explanation into python.

I thinking knowing how to express yourself to AI will be a unique skillset akin to being "good at googling"
I didn't know that. It certainly is safer.

Ammonia production, as I already mentioned in another reply, currently requires natural gas as as source of hydrogen.

Regardless of its use as a way of storing energy, it is already a very important industrial ingredient. Namely for fertilizer production.

As I see it, the only major problem with the current technology is that it might not be adaptable to new sources. New plants would have to be built.