skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always looked at alcoholism as a behavior problem. After all, the alcoholic drinks and (usually) nobody is forcing them. I have seen the destruction it causes first hand. Some say that it takes will power to not drink, but will is required to drink as well. If you cannot control what you put into your body, then you should probably be declared a danger to yourself and locked up for a while.
Yup. This is my take.

I build a new machine about once every 4 years for gaming/development, and I just don't really see all that much difference between the capabilities of the machine I built two generations ago (now ~9 years old) and the one I specced out last year.

I can still load up modern AAA titles on the 9 year old machine and they run just fine at 1080p 60fps with some minor tweaks to the graphics. Turns out the GTX 970 from 2014 is still more than capable.

Basically - these top end cards are a complete waste of cash for the average consumer. Hard to even claim you're future-proofing the machine with it - you're just plain wasting money.
I honestly view online dating as a low-yield random effort. My last gf was on Match. I’ve been on dates from the other sites, though Hinge seems to trend too young.

The cost isn’t prohibitive to me so I just go with it.

The one thing that should be clear to everyone is that no matter what, the most important aspect of dating is to be as geographically close to your perceived dating pool as possible.

So figure out the two or three basic requirements you have (politics, culture) and try to live where those things are common. No amount of effort online or not is going to improve your chances of meeting viable partners if you live too far away. I think you really need to be within 15 minutes or less. As a man, I firmly believe this is a top filter for women when looking at profiles.
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> the fix is probably straightforward

Something I totally agree with before you've passed multiple audits. At this stage it's more a question of how the hell did this slip by 2 pen tests and 2 external audits (since they will have had to renew their SOC-2 by now.

The "how this slipped through" is much more concerning than "what slipped through", though the "what slipped through" here is also rather serious imo.
This is cool. I've recently been thinking about getting a "burner" number for sharing outside my immediate circle.

Same for email - the idea would be to have a phone/email for public consumption and then a separate address and number for my inner circle of family/friends.
This is absurd. With that kind of funding the city could build pretty good homes for the entire homeless population in just a few years. Stable living conditions is the first step to get your life in order.
I don't mind paying something, but their goal of selling boosts, super-likes, etc runs counter to the goal of the customer which is to meet a compatible person IRL and then (presumably) stop using the site.

My experience with boosts is that they were counter-productive. While the boosts yield likes, but a lot of them would be profiles I'd already left-swiped on, should have been excluded by my filters, or just low-effort profiles. The same profiles would keep showing up in my feed too after I had swiped.

As for your second point, I think women do exactly the same thing. There's just more guys on the site so women are just getting a higher ratio low-effort likes. I'd say a good 50% of the profiles don't have anything written in them except a series of emojis or statements like "I don't know what to write here." or other really low effort content. Even the gold profiles sending messages would initiate a conversation with the dreaded "Hi." These interactions were always a complete waste of time, I just stopped responding to them after a while.
I agree, but a honest model has a flat subscription fee instead of promising matches for free and upselling through nudging and manipulation.

I haven't online dated in a long time, but if I ever do again, I'll go with a service that has a transparent pricing model with no free plan.
This is very powerful, thanks for sharing this.
This is so good that I can't tell if it's AI generated or a bunch of clips of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs stitched together decently well.

The "belief" threshold has been crossed.
That's an interesting perspective. Windows 8.1 felt much more stable than Windows 10. Even on a fresh Windows 10 install, I had to make sure to restart explorer.exe at least once a day, if not every couple of hours, to ensure I didn't start getting random "UI lag". Never had to do that before Windows 10.

Windows 10 also didn't solve the problem of half of the settings being in some sort of MetroUI and the other half being in traditional Win32 forms.
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An EV is a huge battery on wheels. And typically it's far cheaper per kwh than dedicated solutions. Combining the two is a fantastic source of economies and convenience. I'm sure a lot of people in California would have appreciated the optionality of V2G this summer when there was a threat of blackout and PGE was paying $2/kwh for people to supply the grid from their local storage.
I’m in very close to the same place you are, except full custom loop. I’m not sure I can go back to air cooled, but the cost in time for a new custom loop is non-trivial.

The fact is, other than gaming, and then, only at the upper end, there’s no reason to buy new desktops or laptops.

Most folks upgrade laptops either due to battery or wear-and-tear. My corp laptop has barely moved in the last year due to the pandemic, so there’s very little reason to upgrade.
A great deal of Spring is based on classpath scanning and reflection; I don't think any such thing as ServiceLoader exists in golang, and my experience with the golang reflection has been "this is clearly solving some other problem than the one I have"
Right-wing city dweller article on the subject: https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/03/08/01016-20...

Left-wing article on the subject: http://www.regards.fr/actu/societe/article/paris-les-voyous-...

Mostly center-right, rural article on the subject: https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/impots-fiscalite/pv-sta...

TFDR (Too French, didn't read): Basically, across all media, including the "Figaro" (notorious right-wing paper who often push for privatization), this isn't going that well.
Because nVidia knows that a huge part of their gaming market wants to buy the highest specs to show off to their friends, not for game performance.

The "1%" who have unlimited budget for consumer purchases like this, are millions of people.
My memory is that after the success of the Reagan presidency, the Democratic Party (in an effort to regain power) embraced a lot of the free trade, privatization, and tough on crime ideas that had been home in the Republican Party. See the Clinton administration. So here we are.
Lots of trial and error and tossed parts during manufacture. Neither of those parts are known for being cheap.
Raindrop is great! Its written by one guy and the polish / quality of his work is top notch.

Our roadmap is going to bring us in a different direction than Raindrop, but more details on that later.
> You are still presenting a mix out of
climate denial myths and lies.

Would be glad to see with credible
evidence that the examples were either
"myths" or "lies".

> Global warming didn't "go away", it is
ongoing and accelerating. As it is
expected from the ever rising CO2 content
in the atmosphere.

As I argued in detail with some of the
best references in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33140848

your claim

> Global warming didn't "go away", it is
ongoing and accelerating.

has no credible evidence of significant
warming.

In

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33144648

I gave:

> Actually, the significant increase in
CO2 concentration with NO credible
evidence of significant warming is good
evidence that the warming effect of CO2 is
just tiny, too small to observe.

From your post, it looks like the
propaganda army to push the E. Bernays
narrative of a "climate crisis" via the
WWII German Nazi Minister of Propaganda
Dr. Josef Goebbels and his famous

"If you tell a lie often enough people
will believe it."

is out in force.

"I'm angry. Waste always makes me angry,
and that's what this is, sheer waste."
So the main complaint here seems to be that eHarmony and Match.com only let subscribers talk to other subscribers? Is that still true? If so, that does indeed sound like a pretty terrible way of doing things. If I'm a paying customer I should be able to initiate a conversation with anyone who's willing. I don't want my prospective date to have to pay money just to talk to me!

In terms of the larger point about the overall incentive structure of dating sites, it seems to me there are a few possible solutions:

1. Sites should only allow "lifetime" subscriptions, eliminating the perverse incentive to keep people from having successful relationships.

2. Some sort of system for paying per successful match. Something like "I'll pay you $1k if I meet my wife through your service." That seems way harder to enforce, but would align the incentive structures almost perfectly if it could be achieved.
I don't expect this to succeed because one of the biggest problems with airships a century ago still hasn't been resolved: Where do you put them when the weather turns to shit? Airplanes are smaller, faster, and denser, so they have a lot more options. Airships are big, slow, and light weight, that means hangers big enough to house them are rare and expensive and the wind has greater impact on them than an airplane.

Case in point, in 2017 HAV (the airship manufacturer the article is talking about) had their prototype airship destroyed by strong wind while it was moored outside. They haven't solved this problem, they're just ignoring it.
I don't share this enthusiasm for VR. I see AR (augmented reality) as being the the revolutionary technology, especially when we're able to fit them into contacts. Then we can talk about having literally different "worldviews" - what enhanced information do you want to see at the moment? Of course those views can be sold much like mobile apps today. It'd be nice to have context-driven views, so the view automatically switches depending on your activity, location, time, etc. Of course you should always be able to see the world without any augmentation too. In this world your phone essentially becomes a fob you carry in your pocket.
I'm so tired of this line. The reason they're called "users" in tech is because unlike in many industries, they don't pay anything for access to the platform/app. If they all paid, they'd be called "customers".

Implying that tech companies and drug dealers are birds of a feather based on this is silly. If you want to say tech companies make addictive products, say that. But don't pretend that calling people "users" is evidence in furtherance of this argument.
Another big reason why dating apps suck, is that people don't go on dates. People meet their partners in groups of friends of friends, at parties. Before dating apps, nobody would ask a stranger out for a date, and nobody wants to do that now either, so the apps is enabling something that people don't actually want.

It should be focused on getting together groups of friends of friends for parties instead.
That's a real problem, some organizations want interchangeable people. If you find yourself in that kind of situation take your career into your own hands. You can't expect your employers to care about your long-term interests.
I didn't mention inflation.

It's unclear what the point of this comment is. As mentioned, banks use their central bank account balance for more than just buying/selling treasuries. It's used to settle payments between banks for example.

Banks don't tend to buy groceries, but if they did they wouldn't use a treasury as a form of payment. They could use a central bank balance though, if you think about the payment system (US).
That looks great thanks. I should have mentioned I'm in Canada but I'll keep an eye on it.
> Thanks for your source. I will update the number!
I feel like you’re comparing Apple’s to Oranges, it’s much more reasonable to have a solar panel mounted on a house than most other power sources mainly because it’s passive, it doesn’t have any emissions as far as I know, it doesn’t make any noise, they’re not obtrusive other than being ugly to look at. Solar installed directly on a house also means you’re not using any extra land like you would a solar farm, and if you have solar panels installed then you will need a battery to store that power unless you’re feeding to a grid to store off site.

And I think one of the lesser discussed benefits of solar is it decentralizes the power grid so a hypothetical attack on infrastructure would be much harder to pull off.

Heck even a small wind turbine could probably be integrated into most homes with no major problems, but that’s just my opinion.
> Why there are no water storages on the roof.

Quick math - 100 gallons of water 15 meters up off the ground has enough potential energy to run a microwave for 30 seconds.

Gravitational storage is pathetically weak. It only makes sense on massive, massive scales. In a residential setting, the storage will never outweigh the extra cost and risk of having so much water on your roof.
Not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know what's going on with Elm right now? There hasn't been a release since Oct 2019 or any real communication from Evan (that I can see in public) for quite a while.
My brother posted on FB offering several thousand dollars for anyone who referred him a wife. No dice though. He met his wife a couple years later via one of the apps.
I find it's a useful barometer of what crazy disinformation is going to be spread next because it has been SEO'd so well.

It also often covers interesting topics, and many of the stories are actually about something important or useful.

Additionally many of the things it 'debunks' are actually terrible ideas, and some of the arguments it uses are valid.

For gravity storage the costs and inefficiencies are a bit prohibitive for the use case of an unsubsidized high capacity (more than 1 day) option, and it's not really competitive with batteries for less (and is highly power limited).
Why link a page and not read it?

In the "Mating preferences" blurb they discuss hypergamy as being reduced as gender equality reduces and even worse links to a study called "The end of hypergamy" where they discuss men stop dating down once women achieve educational parity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421994/

So yeah, if you come from a poor, unequal country women wanna marry and old rich university educated man. If you don't, they dont. So hypergamy is not natural or unavoidable its a sad reality of some societes.

Most people on dating apps swipe right on people with higher rating than them, the talking point about women being hypergamous and only liking the top profiles is not reproducible outside of dating apps, because it isn't real. Its a reflection of their userbase. If there are 1000 men sending 100 messages a day to 10 women, they all get rated highly, so they mostly see highly rated men profiles. And having attention from mediocre candidates outside of the app, they mostly interact with the most attractive counterparts online. This doubly skews the candidate pool women would interact with online in 2010, thus the findings are not proof of hypergamy, but okcupid being a sampled and incomplete group of people.
> literal zombies

Probably the first step is not dehumanizing them into monsters. They are literally not "literal zombies."

The core problem is that we care more about not seeing or knowing about the problem than we do actually solving the problem.
Not sure how you’re getting no Sway title bar out of it. In fact, when I run `swaymsg border csd` with the tiled gtk4-demo focused, I get “This window doesn't support client side decorations” and I have no idea what’s up with that, especially given that the window definitely gets border csd when floating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s possible it’s related to more recent changes in Sway. I haven’t updated Sway since March (since I’ve been using the high-DPI XWayland patches and updating is comparatively bothersome). I dunno.

Incidentally, I mostly use tabbed layout, and you’re always going to get server-side decorations out of that, since you’re breaking out of the rectangles mould.
Watching Der8auer's review[1], the performance for power curve is awfully wonky. I would happily tune this card down to 70% or even 60% of the power target for a very minimal performance loss, totally acceptable to me for the efficiency gain.

I wonder what allowance 3rd parties have to detune these cards, and perhaps produce a 4090 with a more modest cooling solution suited to a ~300W power level, maybe making a 2 or 2.5 slot size card, rather than the current monster cards we're seeing.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60yFji_GKak
Maybe this is usual for small languages like Elm, but as I enter my third year of doing side projects exclusively in Elm I feel heartened by certain projects in the community such as Elm Radio (Elm Lamdera is another one). Elm the language/community is not catching fire and growing in popularity like I had once dreamed it would, but as long as its core userbase continues to use and love it I am fully satisfied. It's a language/framework built to last, and built to a high standard. I love that it doesn't receive updates any longer and seems to be regarded as "done" by its creator (despite lacking a "1.0" status). It's served me faithfully for years, and as long as javascript itself doesn't change radically (seems unlikely) can continue to do so for perhaps my whole life.
> But, what the commented is saying is that it is not just that we do not know everything so our theories are incomplete, it is that the "scientifically derived knowledge" that we do know, is mostly false.

This is your personal assertion, not a fact. And a baseless one, at best.

Science is based on seeing stuff for yourself. If you ever come across something that fits your personal definition of "scientific derived knowledge that is mostly false" then you have on your hands clearly something noteworthy for the scientific community to see. If however your personal finding is something that no one but yourself is able to verify then that's something else, and it is not supportive of your thesis that everyone is wrong.
Like HBC and Canada who continues to contribute to the genocide of Indigenous Peoples.

Canada is not a country, it's a corporation, and should be held accountable as both. It has 0 claim to the land and they know it.

They launder money too
In America, corporations are people but only when it comes to tax breaks. When it comes to criminal law, corporations are instruments of funding for lawmakers.
Flagship used to mean two couple-hundred dollar cards bound together.
It sounds like you’re reading something into that which I didn’t intend. My point was simply that the north wasn’t innocent and since we never fully dealt with discrimination it’s unsurprising that the problems were reduced but not fully resolved.
I think the unstated issue is that there are predominantly hook-up apps that people also use to find life partners because good alternatives don’t exist.

With the assimilation of the ecosystem into Match some sort of alignment was inevitable, and a hook-up service is a ‘good’ SaaS service by classic metrics, while a matchmaking service does not fit the model well (at least yet).
The 'Forever alone' meme was originally a jab at oneself for having few partners; it didn't imply anything about one's mindset or opinion on others, nor an opinion on society as a whole. It was also used mostly in an ironic sense. I'm saying that the meme has nothing to do with the 'incel' movement, unless you want to throw in every online expression of loneliness as incel stuff.

Some namesakes remain, for example Reddit's r/ForeverAloneDating where people who haven't had much experience (if any) can make posts to solicit potential e-dates. Although the balance is skewed toward men, there are a good number of women posting there too, and it has nothing to do with incel/blackpill crap.
Even if you do, it usually feels very unnatural as you don't really know each other yet. I agree that meeting in a group works better.
Maximizing engagement is tangible and pays well.

You’re wanting to optimize for something intangible, philosophical and something most people would just prefer to ignore.

Technology can still help though… look, you learned about it from HN!

However, you cannot automate this process entirely because caring, compassion and looking into the dark corners of our socioeconomic system require human judgement at every step. This human decision making, consensus forming and problem solving process is also known as ‘politics’
You are not suggesting li-ion. You brought up li-air, which is a fuel cell. You are suggesting fuel cells as the long-term answer, but specifically excluding hydrogen fuel cells.

This basically special pleading, and it is pure nonsense. You must accept hydrogen fuel cells as both viable and cost effective if you ever advocate for any type of metal-air battery.
Obviously it has some kinks that need to be worked out and it sounds spliced, and Joe never starts the show “Hello to all you freak bitches” but was better than I expected.
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GPT was trained on the works of Dan Dennett. People deeply familiar were asked to select the real reply from a multiple choice of generated replies.

Even the experts were only 50% accurate. I was close to random.

And it is not like Dennett or Plato are going to change their minds at the end of their careers of changing the minds of others.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzx3m/in-experiment-ai-succ...
Evan no longer works at the company NoRedInk that had been sponsoring his work on Elm, but has resurfaced to let folks know he's doing fine, doesn't need financial support, and still has no news to share on his plans for Elm.
So, after sampling the interactions of 1.51 million people, and analysing the amount of messages an average tall woman receives compared to an average short woman, the conclusion that "taller women, on average, are less attractive to the average male than short women" is invalid?

Please, tell me how this is absurd, when it's basically what you see in real life. Or that men that make more money are more attractive to women, on average? This delusion of denying facts when it does not conform to your own sense of what is "fair" is just childish.
Hardware Unboxed (linked above) also has a web site (called Tech Spot).

https://www.techspot.com/review/2544-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090...

13-game average (4K): https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/2544/bench/Average...

> The GeForce RTX 4090 is on average 59% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti and 71% faster than the 6950 XT at 4K gaming.
>As a founder of OkCupid I'm of course motivated to point out our competitors' flaws. So take what I have to say today with a grain of salt.

I really appreciate this kind of self-awareness, and find it incredibly lacking from a lot of things that founders, CEOs, et. al. post, whether it's on a blog, an HN comment or on Twitter.
Yup. I'll add that it's not just unemployment that hurts us (under our current economic systems), but also underemployment, as we see with the "gig economy". Some people will overly focus on the unemployment stats, and naively conclude that all's well despite many people not living up to their potential, and barely making ends meet.
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