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Maybe try defining your structure in terms of the effort you put in and what you accomplish (with respect to that effort), rather than a schedule or a sequence of items on a checklist. Your coffee or teeth-brushing rituals are minor, accidental details.
> Within the last 10 years we voluntarily have delegated our mating preselection to them.

I think this might be true for a subset of people, but I've personally had zero luck with online dating and have met all my partners IRL. It is interesting to consider if the FTC will ever take action on Match Group's near monopoly here.
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Anyone that thinks this fails to understand the impact Facebook has had on the division and polarization of people through the spread of mis/disinformation and what companies like Cambridge Analytica has been able to accomplish through the Facebook platform.

We can say this is true about youtube, twitter and probably someday tiktok, but at least for now Facebook / Meta is absolutely the worst as they not only sold/leaked the PII but they've also been actively encouraging all of this.
What makes you think OnFido is sketchy? It’s a pretty popular platform for ID verification.

3rd party verification has become a standard in the fintech/insuretech industries since its very hard and risky to do KYC on your own. Also personally I don’t trust having all the random companies I transact with maintain my KYC info. At least in theory, the experts at ID verification have strong enough incentives, motivation and expertise to keep my data safe, reducing the attack surface area.

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In the real world is scarier. I seriously doubt it's worse, unless you live in a small town with no choices.

Dating apps lower the barrier to entry. This is actually a bad thing for men, because it floods the dating market with competition from men who would otherwise be too offputting or antisocial or meek. There is currently no way for women to filter out these men via software (they would if they could).

Just like in business, it's easier to stay in business if there is a barrier to entry.
That is known since the 1990s. And yet, nothing changes.
Glossary of UI Terminology (2007)
Realistically it doesn't matter because:

1) the biggest offenders do have EU-based subsidiaries which can be fined.

2) nobody bothers sufficiently enforcing it even against EU-based offenders, so no point talking about outside-EU enforcement for now.
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> especially is storage is decoupled from compute!

This would be amazing! I can imagine a situation where external tables are managed by some MPP, and a WASM compute engine (Postgres, DuckDB, etc) would be able to at least read subsets/partitions of the full external table.

I wonder if the work required to make a native WASM Postgres would have to be split up into efforts for row-based vs column-based. Selfishly, I would love to have access to a column-based version first.
Thanks for the HN treatment. As a followup piece, a Google response of this being "a bug".

Followup story, my return rate for CC licensed images of "dog" went from 3 to 13. More than that, license info is not displayed (only linked), is frequently wrong, and photo credits often given to the site, not the creator of the image.

https://cogdogblog.com/2022/10/google-cc-image-search-better...

Try Openverse for much more accurate and plentiful results https://wordpress.org/openverse/
I don’t even know what Drax said, exactly, because the journalists won’t bother to quote it, so I’m not going to opine on whether they lied.
Any idea where this ranking comes from?

> Fandom Will Now Rank as the #14 Ad Supported Site in the U.S.
As someone who uses a plethora of Enterprise softwares in my day job, I would absolutely hate any software that tries to gamify them.

My ideal enterprise software would be one that would let me do my job with minimal hindrances, is very performance oriented, can easily automate parts that are used often and generally gets out of my way. Bonus points if the product doesn't constantly changes it's UI and process with every update.

Hoxhunt is one of the softwares I encounter at my job that tries to gamify the process and I hate it with every fiber of my being.
This was also what I remember to be the most notable shortcoming of iced.

Seems like there is a plan to address the issue as part of the larger S76 project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33068862
Anecdotally, that does not match my experience at all. When I relented and got a Tinder account I was immediately inundated with dozens of likes. I was instantly skeptical because Tinder kept bombarding me with prompts to buy their premium service at a discount. And, truth be told, having consistently received such a low number of matches on other platforms, I was suspicious about being so suddenly popular.

Lo and behold, every single one of the matches/messages I received were nothing more than advertisements for their OnlyFans or an invitation to follow one their social media profiles. I've also found that most of the profiles shown to me are either low effort, or belong to women that are thousands of miles away - despite me disabling the worldwide setting. As a result my overall impression is that Tinder is the worst when it comes to non-genuine accounts. By genuine I don't just mean real humans, I mean people who are actually using the site sincerely.
OK right, I agree with that. If you're a manager hoping to run your UX through one person you're going to have a bad time. That said, a lot of true innovation in user interfaces is going to come from a solo person dreaming something up and doing a bang-up job of implementing it. I think even a large company would benefit from encouraging side experimentation from their designers (or even non-designers) as part of their "20% time". (This is one more reason to decouple the logic from the GUI.)
iOS auto-corrects Emacs to eMacs, probably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

(Fond memories of that computer!)
Nope. Merely pointing out that the transfer of wealth from fleeced retail to founders/insiders can hardly be summed up by 1 promotional transaction. This was a project and promotion with a single goal: hype and price pump in order to transfer wealth.
I was curious, so I tried to do this with GitHub search.

The search “Golang” returns 225k+ repositories. Each page of results has 10 repositories. I queried page 1000 to see the 10001st-10010th results and got a 404.

I searched Wikipedia (using its own search page) for “America” and was told there were 1.9M results. I requested the 10001st result and it failed with this message:

“An error has occurred while searching: Could not retrieve results. Up to 10000 search results are supported, but results starting at 10000 were requested.”

There was an HN thread along these lines about web search somewhat recently, with people making confident accusations about false advertising etc.

But it really seems that everyone does this. I don’t know, maybe it’s still wrong or misleading.

But personally I’m ok knowing “there are X hits and we will serve you some of them”.

EDIT: I just searched the Library of Congress for “god” and was told I was viewing results 1-25 of 324,782. Sure enough when I asked for page 10,000 I was rebuffed. I really don’t think this is a Google thing
No. Just no.

You can’t justify clearcutting logs for power generation by citing forest fires.

Forest fires are happening in part because of forest management practices that support logging. Not to mention climate change causing more heat, and bringing invasive species that kill trees. This is a positive feedback loop that would have all of north america as treeless as ireland if we accept “it’s gonna burn anyway”

Forest fires are a natural part of the ecosystem - when the forest is managed well a fire can burn through quickly killing VERY few trees.
After the pandemic it has shifted. I read that 40% of couples meet through dating apps. Wild.

I believe it as that's how most of my friends met their partners.
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Online dating also enables men to say hi to women you may never have been able to if you just waited on organic situations. Some men are just not great at initiating conversation.

In some areas it is going to be more difficult and those areas probably are over represented on HN. SF/Bay Area, Seattle, Bangalore etc. The dating apps can't change the male to female ratio.
The ugly truth is that this is how the core dating game works.

Men desire a beautiful woman. Women desire a wealthy man.

Women are able to signal their appearance by uploading pictures. Men are able to (more credibly) signal their wealth through otherwise pointless IAPs.

I'm not saying Hinge's system is perfect or good or even worth anyone's time, but it is a more honest portrayal of "the game" than putting both sexes on equal footing.
I got it running on WSL w/ docker using docker compose. I didn’t do much more than get it running though.
> Never mind the practice of "Roses" in which the only way to message some women is to buy a like that costs $3.33 each. Again, in bulk you can get that down to $1.49 apiece. But what is so scummy about it is that they seem to have an algorithm that detects the most beautiful of women and locks messaging them behind the need to send roses.

Actually this is even far more anti-pattern than that. The fact the recipient knows you sent a rose signals a few things to (presumably) her:

1. You had to pay to get access to her, your ELO/Algorithm score is low enough that they app thinks your beneath her

2. You're not getting enough dates / matches that you're desperate enough that you're now paying money for what others get for free
From a content and branding perspective, I wouldn't touch PeerTube with a thirty-foot pole. It is fundamentally untenable unless you want people able to take screenshots of your content being featured next to literal-not-figurative Nazi shit. Yes, that's the point of federation, and that the watcher is the one who has those settings to put them next to one another. No, it's not your fault. Yes, it looks awful and it's your responsibility. No, nobody cares about the explanation and if you are in a place where you must explain "well, actually, it's the viewer's fault that my thoughtful video is next to some guy hanging swastikas in his bonus room," you have already and irrevocably lost. (This can, I want to note, happen in a more diminished form on other platforms--there's nothing stopping somebody's YouTube recommendations from being a disaster area. But people know what YouTube is. They know YouTube picks the hits. PeerTube isn't that, and having to explain at all is what would sink it.)

Also, even if you ignore the "we're camping next to fascists" vibe of the whole thing, PeerTube quality-of-experience management is deeply poor besides. If you're using some small DIY CDN, you have predictably bad performance, instead of suddenly bad performance, and if you're using a big CDN, you have working traffic steering.
> I think most people don't actively have any way to meet single people their age, so people pretend apps are somehow a band aid for a deeply atomized society

Looking back, I wasted my most dateable years doing exactly this. I thought if I just stayed on the apps a little longer, put up with the dopamine-drip machine bullshit just a little more, I'd meet someone.

I wasn't even relying entirely on them – I attended a church, volunteered at a soup kitchen, and other things where you're supposed to be able to meet people, but I wonder if maybe I would have emphasized them more (seeking out more volunteer opportunities, etc) without the gambler's promise of the dating apps panning out "any day now."
Not only bots, but scam artists in general: people abusing the platform for soliciting themselves, advertising their OnlyFans, or (this has actually happened to me) people giving out their (fake? but convincing) social security card photos, presumably to get the receiver to reciprocate. This is on a dating app.
I've heard rumor that the future of OpenSUSE Leap is now in doubt.

I think Ubuntu and Fedora are both unsuitable for this purpose too, because both have a track record of pushing out dodgy stuff before it's ready (like Fedora shipping SystemD in 2011.) And Ubuntu particularly has a track record of pushing shit that's obviously DOA, like Mir, Unity, or snap. At least when Fedora does something like ship SystemD before the kinks are worked out, what they chose does eventually become the mainstream. But you're still a guinea pig with Fedora, making it a poor choice for an OEM distro.
The standards for ECON101 at Davidson are relatively high. It covers intro micro and macro in the same semester unlike most schools and just finishing the tests in time requires algebraic fluency (same for calculus skills in intermediate micro/macro classes).

It’s always been a weed out class (lots of future investment bankers would switch to an easier major). If he has kept the sane bar as previous years, and college kids are struggling as much as it seems, I’m not surprised with the poor results.

As an alum, I think Davidson is in a tough spot. It made a name for itself in the past for the rigor and volume of its coursework. Grade deflation was a common topic when I attended. While it is not a household name, it’s built a very solid reputation with graduate schools and key employers for producing graduates with the requisite skills to excel. Obviously it does not hurt a large part of student body comes from upper-middle-class to upper class backgrounds which I argue provides the real value proposition (networking and exposure to upper class ideas and culture) but I digress

However, being really really hard with a low name profile is a tough appeal in the current zeitgeist. Schools have become businesses where parents and students want guarantees, especially if they are paying private school tuition. But if Davidson lowers it standards to meet customer demands, then how does it differentiate itself? Especially in the humanities. If you are an English major at Princeton then you are set because of your schools brand. But an English major at Davidson needs that reputation of rigor for their personal brand (and to hone skills of course).
Your bounce rate went up. That's still consistent with your target audience losing interest. It may be that they care enough to click on your ad but don't engage with your content. It could also be that the ratio of bots increased at the same rate as customer interest wained, or it could be the ads were never effective. It kind of doesn't matter. As an ad buyer, the only thing you to need worry about is whether the value of the traffic coming from the ads is worth your money. Uninterested humans and bots are of equally little value.
If you think about it, there is a way this is done already in the real world - using Notaries. Notaries verify your ‘documents’. Not that’s they are experts at sensitive data storage, but there could be something to learn from the ‘distributed’ system of notaries.
Now I only need Django WASM and I can distribute standalone applications :')
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Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept
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I think subscription-based instead of ad-based is the only way to monetize good content. It doesn't scale nearly as big (which is why companies like Meta will never go for it) and won't make any unicorns, but that's OK. An ad-based model will eventually pollute the platform no matter what esp as companies try to extract as much revenue as possible from it.
>People don't use a pipe to smoke marijuana?

Different pipes/heating methods. I'm not saying there's no way to smoke fentanyl, I'm unsure if sprinkling it on marijuana is one of them.
The dedication jailbreakers have to the craft is truly admirable. I remember back in the mid-1980s coming to the realization that the war between people trying to build copy protection and those trying to crack it was an unwinnable war. I thought this as I copied the latest version of CopyWrite so that I myself could just copy whatever program I wanted at the time.
> There must be a way to follow local laws and regulations to prevent financial fraud without violating their privacy to this extent, right?

Sadly no, there really isn't, unless you lobby congress. These laws were written with law enforcement in mind, not privacy.
Unfortunately, that's not the most economically sensible approach for 50% of developers who spend their time writing CRUD apps for specific business needs.
Javalin is amazing.

Kudos.
I can’t imagine any country where the legislature couldn’t pass a law revoking s sold license
I think the point is that if battery technology is good enough, it's not the limiting factor. Being able to deliver that much power becomes a bottleneck. At some point the owner of the parking lot will have to upgrade their electrical service, which could be expensive.

I'm not sure how much of an issue that really is, though. Even if all cars are EVs, it's not like every single grocery store customer is going to fully charge their car every time they buy groceries.
There's a lotta elderly people out there.
There is no way to "make the change". The kinds of renewable energy that are broadly available in Europe, like wind and solar, are not a full replacement for existing fossil energy sources - they're simply too intermittent and the storage technology to deal with that does not exist. (The BBC has been falsely claiming otherwise, insisting that other energy sources are pointless and a waste of money by treating wind and solar as though they were direct GWh-for-GWh replacecments for natural gas and nuclear.)

That's why biofuel burning is so common - not because it "creates a lot of profit for shareholders" but because politicians have to square the circle of keeping the lights on asnd homes warm whilst dealing with voter expectation that they switch to renewables that are fundamentally unable to do that. The UK opposition party released a "100% renewable energy by 2030" promise recently and if you look at how they plan on filling the gaps when there's not enough energy from the wind and sun, sure enough it's biofuels just the same as the current lot.

Also, I don't think you quite grasp how catastrophic the energy crisis is in Europe - the entire continent is deindustralising because the energy supplies to keep modern industrial civilisation going are no longer there. There's a real risk that in a few years time Europe might no longer be part of the developed world if politicians do not change their path.
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I used to work at Google but not in search, these are just my own guesses.

> where Google is getting that count

This is very likely a fairly accurate of the number of pages in Google's index that "match" the search query. Basically exactly what you would expect when you see the number.

> why the reality is so different

Cost reasons. Most search engines are more or less scanning down a sorted list of pages. The further you need to scan the more expensive it is. Just like running "OFFSET 1000" is usually slow in SQL. At some point the quality of results is generally very low and the cost is growing so it makes sense overall for Google to just cut it off to prevent it becoming an abuse vector (imagine just asking Google for the 10 millionth page of results for "cat").

The fact that few people realize that Google has a page limit shows how rarely people actually want more pages.