skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long thought that having kids galvanized a person's purpose in life and that is why people reflect back on how it was some of the best times of their life. This is in spite of the research that shows parents consistently more unhappy while actually raising kids. I think there is are other analogous dichotomies: people in the military, high level athletes, the way people refer to the bombing of England in WW2 as the "good ol' days"[1], etc.

The point is people need a purpose they can rally their life around. They need to feel needed by their society for fulfillment.

[1] See Sebastian Junger's book Tribe
What kills rails for me at the moment is the time it takes to start up. I'd love to be able to use on top of things like cloud run where resources ramp down to zero when there are no requests, but the startup time makes this very difficult.
Your right about the two-sided thing. The key to successful dating is understanding the woman's perspective. Most men think women should act like them and want to have meaningless sex right away. No, that's not how it works. For most women who are going to have more than a one night stand, sex is a big deal and an enormous emotional investment. I could go on, but this is HN not a dating advice subreddit.
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> Legalize prostitution and regulate safety and perhaps incels would build confidence and learn to socialize a bit from paid sexual interactions?

Incels don't like prostitutes, they despise them. Incels believe that they are _owed_ sex, they don't want to pay for sex. You fundamentally misunderstand what Incel claim being.

Prostitution is legal in Germany, guess what country in the EU comes first when it comes to the number of self declared incels

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-10/ran_i...

Prostitution advocate often claim that legalizing prostitution will lower violence against females, there is absolutely not a single proof that true. All we know is that legalizing prostitution increase the demand for legal and illegal (minors, trafficked women) prostitution.

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/legalized-prostitu...

Nobody is owed sex. Not a single person on the planet, with anybody.
While I do realize I'm wasting time feeding the trolls, here you go. Pretty easy to do a simple google scholar search for "Long Covid" and sort by date.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3489
Do you want to live in a future where artists don't make original art, musicians don't make music, book writers don't write, and so on, all because AI companies can replicate 1000 different copies in their style or merely remix it for marginally $0 cost, washed of all original copyright?

> All knowledge workers and creatives are going to face this in the future. It’s going to suck

This is not a given. It's up to us and the copyright law. Real original work should be compensated appropriately unless you're proposing that we accelerate deployment of universal basic income and completely abolish copyright law.

I have a feeling you might not like the violent outcome if you effectively strip original creators of their copyright, give corporations the right to effectively generate infinite profit off the backs of their work and tell the creators (and other people whose jobs will be automated away) to pound sand when they ask how they're supposed to pay rent from now on.
Food prices may have come down a little in the last year but they're still almost 2x what they were 2-3 years ago here.

If energy includes gasoline well that is going back up to almost triple the price from 2-3 years ago in my area.

Sure wages may have gone up some (mine did) but I can barely afford this economy now where before I was doing alright.
I hear this all the time. Perhaps demand follows an 80/20% rule because my experience doesn't align with this.

I'm a man, 40 years, polyamorous, yet I have zero problems finding people to date. On average, I have more partners than the women I often date. I agree that Tinder and such are highly skewed, but it doesn't make it useful for any gender. In-person (events, social groups, etc), I find there are a large number of people who actively want to date me and spend time with me.

I don't see a clear gender divide in dating opportunities in my personal experience. I haven't been able to figure out what is unique about my experience vs the majority of men. I am not a "10" in any way; I just have a lot of hobbies.
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As far as I know, there weren't any significantly life-threatening sexual diseases for most of human history in most of the world. Syphilis only affected the Americas before the 1500s, and HIV is much newer than that.

Most other sexually-transmitted diseases that existed in most of the world were unpleasant, but not life threatening, even before antibiotics. And it's also worth noting that most primates (and many mammals of all kinds) are not monogamous, and yet they are not plagued by STIs to any significant extent.

Instead, monogamy was much more important for managing babies, especially given how much hare human babies need, and for how long, compared to virtually any other animal.
There's mixed perspectives on this question. The prevailing opinions are that monogamy flattens sexual opportunity, since sex people choose to have outside of marriage tend to concentrate in a small segment of the dating pool.
Can’t speak to the rest of it, but Marco has said that he’s working on something on the “listen history” front after tons of request from people asking for something à la Spotify Wrapped.

The trick is that he’s very adamantly (and correctly imo) opposed to user tracking of almost any kind, which I think complicates things here
Oh no all of the Soylent I chugged over lockdown is making me reply to this comment

I guess I should’ve given up (insert linkin park hyperlink here) soy for lent!
Fair enough :) I just meant to point out what could go wrong.
I think that something that is part of this and poorly understood is female health and the feelings of guilt, shame and resentment that pop up in relationships.

Hormonal cycles are very different in women, and are affected by age, factors like weight and inflammation and stress. Doctors tend to look at acute problems and miss the more holistic or secondary affects.

My wife and I have a pretty awesome relationship, but we went through hard patches that were ultimately caused by medical conditions that neither of us knew existed.

I think people pursue “other options” sometimes because they don’t know how to cope with things. As a male, these things are simpler.
Docx is similarly open as PDF. (And full Adobe Acrobat compatibility is similarly difficult as full Microsoft Word compatibility. PDF has an edge here in practice because most use cases are read-only, or only very limited modification.)
I would think that the company being a securities exchange would factor into the analysis. Don't you?
Yes good to clarify, this applies to the "dating" phase. I assume (hope) once in a stable long term relationship, it's more 1:1.
I do too, but HSA is a nice backup emergency because you can withdraw up to all of your accumulated healthcare expenses tax and penalty free.

So pay for all your healthcare expenses with non HSA funds, keep track of the expenses, and eventually, you probably will have accumulated $10k or $20k of healthcare expenses you can reimburse yourself for IF you exhaust your regular emergency fund.
Some of them are there. Joyspring, My Favorite Things, I'll Remember April (Lee Konitz). Probably copyright problems with the others.

Speaking of Joyspring -- Manhattan Transfer does a version of this, where they fit words to the actual solo.

While we're on the subject: Clifford Brown's son is a DJ on KCSM (San Mateo). He didn't know his dad very well, obviously.
Yes, but it would seem not to the HN audience, otherwise threads like this wouldn’t have 600+ replies because the mostly North American audience is unfamiliar with SAP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32776276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244750
I mean, yeah you need more libraries, but I wouldn't list Formik/mobx/react-i18n/Sendgrid when talking at this level of abstraction.
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Most animals are in heat just a small part of the time, humans are in heat all the time. Animals in heat behave a lot more like humans do regarding these things. Humans still have the genes to populate the earth, we haven't adapted to having a stable population yet where we don't optimize for maximum kids.
Yes. If I recall correctly, this is a major plot element of "Star Trek: First Contact" for example.[1]

[1] I'm not a huge trek person but it's pretty decent as these things go https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/?ref_=fn_al_tt_20
Other networks can be opinionated about which transactions are valid, whereas Nostr relays will forward any transactions right now.
Use those people to build products that increase revenues. Isn't that why they were hired in the first place?
I also feel that we'd be better off as a society if we emphasized and encouraged building strong inter-personal relationships over "pursuing a career", but appealing to tradition isn't a great argument. Building a strong social sense of unity and cohesion is good enough for me. On the other hand, "those values exist for a reason" is just as convincing as "we got rid of those values for a reason". Our societies also grew a lot with the help of slavery and child labor, but I doubt you'd see that as a good reason to bring those back.
Very interesting, would love to see a follow up study that investigates what is leading to this
"what you desire in a relationship and who you are attracted to in a person. "

What the head wants and what the heart wants ...

I am not sure, if this is a new thing, but there quite some social norms and expectations, that are impossible to fullfill (for both sides), creating unfulfillment and then drama.

I cannot say, that I know many happy couples. I met some and trying to work on my relationship, but it is really, really hard. Much harder, than I thought it is supposed to be.
>It might be flattering for a minute but after that I'm sure it's a burden not much lighter than the empty inbox.

I guess some things have to be experienced for real understanding. No, this is surely not a burden by any measure, it is a huge privilege.
side note -- is it just me, or have Vimeo videos always been horrible as embeds? They take longer to load than YouTube, they take too long to fast-forward (click in the middle and wait 5 seconds before you see the video at that time location).

And on this embeded video I couldn't even change the volume!

It's frustrating me to the point that I just opted not to watch the video on this website :(
> and when I bring em somewhere it's pretty difficult to get it running

How much time do these friends spend in social situations with women where the goal isn't to get laid/find a girlfriend?

I don't know your friends, but have known people in similar situations. In all those cases, their were others in our social circles who looked worse "on paper" but had no real difficulties here - it wasn't really about attractiveness or intelligence, but about behavior and/or expectations.
Hmm yea ok.

What do you mean by completeness?

Timestamping seems like the most difficult of those to solve
Kids are good at it. Adults less so, because of… well, sex.
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A lot of the symptoms of “Long COVID” are exactly the same as depression and anxiety symptoms. Brain fog, fatigue, muscle weakness: anyone who has ever had depression knows what this is like. Of course there are a small number of people who had severe illness from COVID and had to be hospitalized, and the road to recovery for them is quite long, but most people claiming that they suffer from Long COVID are not the ones who were hospitalized.

The fact that there is no diagnostic test that tells you whether you have Long COVID or not leads me to believe that this is yet another hidden manifestation of mental illness. I feel sympathy for people going through this, but it’s wrong to expect the medical industry to come up with any solutions.
Django, and possibly DRF with Vue if more dynamism was needed.
uh, what? Some unspecified calculation of deadhead miles from home to a charging station is the source of this additional cost? A) most people charge at home. B) if you use a supercharger, it's usually en route or at a destination. So, who conjured up this metric? AEG is headquartered in ... Lansing, Michigan, home of General Motors. Ah. Nevermind.
Just date someone from a 2nd world country then?
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Anecdotally, I have found this to depend on cultural norms. Southern European cultures appear quite a bit more touchy-feely than North American ones.
Sexual loneliness and frustration is strange to me. I accept that it is real and painful for many people. But I just don't understand how the desire for sex drives people to take risks with their health and safety, or how the lack of it causes despair or violence.

What is the big deal about sex anyway? Why do some guys go crazy if they can't have sexual intimacy? A lot of time and effort for what, ten minutes of pleasure? But a deep (non-sexual) friendship can last all your life.

I don't think we should restructure society and become more traditional and conservative (whether de jure or de facto) just to cater to the very few who may become violent when they can't get laid. I think the not getting laid part is just an excuse. Prior to the sexual revolution, when people married young and divorce was rare, violence inside marriages was very common.

Overall I think I'm lucky that I'm asexual. There is a whole class of problems that I have never had to think about. I have no desire to exercise power over others or to allow them to exercise power over me.
Yup! But here in the USA it's all about profits baby!
I use vercel functions for this side-project bc they worked out of the box. Just least friction tbh not sure if optimal.
I've yet to find a guy who was worth dating that wasn't in a relationship if they wanted to be in one.

I do know a lot of guys who struggle with the fact that the woman they're attracted to aren't to them. I definitely know a few women for whom that's true too, but it's mostly men, and generally younger ones.

And so they quote that same 80/20 rule from Peterson, which has no data behind it beside one bad survey, and insist its society's fault.

Meanwhile their Tinder profiles are just lists of all they things they demand from a partner – generally things they themselves won't provide.

Which isn't to say the problem isn't real – it definitely is – but it seems like any "solution" is going to have start at either commercial ideas (sex work) or a cultural shift.
"inversely correlated with the amount of sex I was actually having"

This.
In regular bars it's downright rude to walk up to most groups if you're not in that group, and good luck finding a single woman drinking by herself.

In night clubs? Better hope you've hit the gym for the last month...
I don't understand why having mastery over one's own conditioning is not put forward.

Sex is not necessary for health. That's weird. This is just an ingrained behavior to ensure reproduction via neurotransmitter feedback (dopamine).

One should be able to trivially control that consciously, no big deal.
There are professional cuddlers that you can hire for, non-sexual, cuddles.
Universal healthcare, paid parenting leave, much more subsidized higher education, more investments made into social programs, higher investment in infrastructure, much better environmental programs, much less militaristic, much lower incarceration rate, jails that are more humane, mandatory paid time off, much better worker protections, much better union participation and protections for unions, better consumer protections, much more sane regulations and laws regarding funding of elections. Should I write more?

In terms of what the purpose and role of government is, Europe is far more classically liberal minded than the U.S.

EDIT: Now that Roe has been gutted by the very conservative Supreme Court your point about abortion is very much wrong. Outside of Poland and Malta, I think Europe has much more liberal views on abortion. Especially when you consider that healthcare is generally free at the point of service there.

https://www.politico.eu/article/abortion-chart-world-map-eur...
Personal anecdote: I'm going through some mental issues as a result of my divorce and I have trouble staying motivated at work. It's incredibly tempting to claim that I'm suffering from long COVID as an excuse instead of a mental health issue.

I wonder how many people are just using it as a convenient excuse?
I see your concern. The two games that are part of Vortle were trialed by others and found to be beneficial and have clinically significant results. I've reimplemented them to use AI and did a bit of different design and game mechanics. Although I can not afford a clinical trial, I did gather feedback from a lot of players on "before/after" feeling and it did show benefit. Doing my best.
Well, BYD (China) is about to enter the market in Japan selling EVs. So apparently the head in the sand technique is not going to work.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas...
It's unlikely vaccine will help you at this point, although there've been some anecdotal reports of vaccination reducing symptoms of long covid.
Yeah, mindset is a huge component to this. I think the media has exasperated the problem through idealized fantasy which does not match reality. I think people tend to have high expectations of a match, but don't hold themselves to the same standards.

As an example, I've had fat/obese friends say they wouldn't date a fat girl... Or friends that expect the man to pay for everything like it's 1950 and make grand gestures like in the movies.. what do they expect then?
An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster
I don't understand how this is a stable situation. If women have to compete so much, wouldn't it be better for them to lower expectations?
I wonder how many billions were wasted on their hydrogen car projects
I don't know a lot about this. If you use a paid API, does that mean they promise not to use it for training?

Let's say I have a bunch Excel files and a bunch of accompany Word files (that are based on info from each Excel file, along with, to a lesser extent, information in the real world). Can I use the paid API to train on my data, and then when I provide it a new Excel file it can generate the accompanying text? And have them not use the information in them when generating results for other users.
Your conflating a lot of issues here that just muddy the waters.

First, whether particular features like watermarks end up in the end product or not is not terribly relevant. The particular model implementation that produces that behavior doesn't understand that watermarks are not a desirable part of the transformed end products, whereas humans do. In that way, the AI is certainly a little more 'honest' about what it's doing. It would be trivial to make the AI understand this, and stop reproducing watermarks.

You claim that the model performing this work is somehow different because AI doesn't 'think' about problems, as evidenced by strange artifacts, whereas presumably humans do think about them because of the absence of these artifacts. I'm curious why this makes a difference. If a model was sufficiently advanced that you were unable to differentiate a painting made by a human along certain themes and an AI along certain themes would it be somehow less objectionable? Why or why not? If the end product is of identical quality why should it matter the route you take to get there, in the eyes of the law?

You bring up scale, but scale is also not relevant. Say that I create a school devoted to training legions of artists to produce paintings in the style of a particular artist, while maintaining a transformative aspect. Is this illegal because I'm doing it at scale? No. If that's not illegal, why is it illegal to do it with code? Because it's more efficient? In what other domain is producing creative work more efficiently by transforming existing work illegal?
There is indeed a possibility that a govt could, theoretically, borrow indefinitely. There is a LOT of assumptions in that calculation though, and it's pretty obvious the USA and almost every government never bothers to even try to live in that range.

So while what you say is theoretically possible, it's practically impossible, as there is almost no incentives for any people currently in government to try and sustain that, and incentives absolutely matter.

If you know of a practical example of this theoretical indefinite borrowing, I'd be very, very surprised.
'Dead Space' is the new benchmark for video game remakes
I agree with this. The importance of being okay-looking and intellectually stimulating are small compared to the importance of being a good emotional communicator, self aware, reciprocating in conversation etc.
In IBMs case, this is a regular occurrence, no?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/01...
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The problem is, the ones valuing it most are the ones getting it the least. My guess is that if they do end up getting it a lot, they might end up with the same conclusion as you.
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We definitely like to receive feedback for improvement. let us know what you're frustrated by @leros.

Sometimes there is context for the restrictions which we haven't shared in the docs, so it would be great to hear it so that we can either fix or clarify.
The IBM cloud is for IBM customers.
Very nicely designed.

Is there a paper showing the accuracy of measuring breath volume and frequency using a phone microphone as compared to other known methods (i.e, medical sensors, but also more consumer-focused devices such as chest straps)? The frequency seems like an easy problem to solve, volume much less so.
Long Covid has a collection of effects on the body which can be observed using commonly-ordered tests. A dramatically reduced serum cortisol is one.
Of course, before it was called "depressive disorder" it was called clinical depression and defined slightly differently. Before that it was just (unipolar) depression. Before that it was Melancholy. I think it is actually now called something else but I cannot for the life of me remember what...

It's like in the dark ages when people just had "fever" and died.
It's not a complete disengagement. Your brain is a processor, just like an NLP is. It takes in various inputs and rearranges them and makes connections. Taking in the input of your knowledge base as you write is not about replacing your thinking, it's about jogging your memory, stirring up your thoughts. It's like working with an editor, or pair-programming, or even just taking a walk to let things settle.
I had a similar journey but with Rails and ended up in a similar place.

React+Nextjs on Firebase makes the deployment and scaling steps so much easier than on Rails. I'm very conscious of the platform risk of depending so much on Firebase but gosh darn it they've spoiled me.
Cobra is on average $600 per person per month. For a family of 4, that's $2400 per month. For something for people who are specifically unemployed that seems outrageously expensive.
And I don't see how there's anything to back up this assumption. It seems to me more likely that men expressing misogyny online would also express it in person. Sex workers may individually choose to tolerate that or may not, but either way this opportunity exists now and this problem still persists.
Go service with Postgres (without external cache), deployed (SCP) in GCP VM

Reducing touchpoint definitely helps at MVP stage. You've to trade performance with features (depending on the tool dev tools vs CRUD business)
Interesting. The second one strikes me as odd. I have never paid any fees for a current account unless it went into the red, not in the UK nor in Norway. And a debit card is free in Norway and the UK.