skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you zoom out far enough, a greater proportion of women than men are in general able to find as many sexual partners they want. The problem isn't complex. The solution probably is, because (I think) obviously the solution in general isn't just sexual gratification. The necessary dynamic involves more than just "getting laid." There's the courtship/pursuit, the uncertainty of matchmaking -- the thing that is missing is not simply "sexual partners."
So King Louis XVI witnessed the end of French monarchical rule because he failed to ban... what? Revolutions? Monarchy has nothing to do with whether or not the people in power believe in bans being useful.
Genuine question -- do eunuchs have sex drive?
> My theory is that gay men, as well as trans women are a subversion of traditional gender roles which is why conservatives get worked up about it

Exactly. The traditional gender roles come out of the tradition of patriarchal exploitation of women and subordinate men. The extreme version of this is seen in groups like the FLDS [1] and make the dynamics more apparent. But it's the same basic deal even on the softer complementarian end of things. The far right will talk about how gay marriage is a threat to marriage in general, and in one sense I agree with them: functional marriages without rigid gender roles demonstrate that their conception of marriage is limited and grimly unequal.

[1] Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven is a good place to get the flavor of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven
There are a few games in the U.S. that were able to get FDA approval to be used for treatment. So potentially a game can be certified as a medical device.

As it is my hobby project I do my best to collect research evidence on video games and mental health. I did document some of what is out there here https://vortle.medium.com/does-science-back-mental-health-fo...
Even if one believes in forced labor in order to provide goods and services to those in need, are you really drawing some sort of parallel where people should be compelled to perform sexual favors for others? I mean one could be a full on communist and not think that state provided prostitution (where people would be assigned those jobs by the state) is ethical. Didn't think I'd see apologism for something akin to North Korea's "pleasure Squad" on Hacker News, but alright then.
I'll chime in as somebody who's been considered top 10% of attractiveness in one country and bottom 50% in another - the difference in the amount of sexual opportunities on apps is absolutely staggering. Not that this should be a surprise to anyone.

Where I am considered attractive, I've gotten 80+ matches in one day and random women messaging me at 11PM telling me they're lonely and to come hang out. I've had more first dates that involved sex than first dates that didn't.

Where I am not considered attractive, I get literally no matches except for the occasional Onlyfans spammer. It was extremely depressing to go from one extreme to the other and I just don't bother with dating apps at all now.
I'd do python + django + bit.io (serverless postgres; I'm the CEO but I built it because I wanted to use it), deployed in a container to k8s somewhere. These are all personal biases to what I've used and know well; for someone new to backend I'd probably recommend next.js + nodepg + bit.io on vercel or similar.
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Always a good time to check in with old friends and coworkers who respect your work.

If things get bad be prepared to make significant changes, like moving to an area with more opportunity, etc.
The company we were acquired by is massive ($2bil annual revenue, 7.5k employees). If you live in the US, I can guarantee that you've used their products before but don't know the name of the company. They basically just go around acquiring other companies and absorbing them into their other products. I'm talking like 10+ acquisitions a year (at least for the last few years).
amazing, 14009 points, and just questionable contributions.. how is that possible?
anyone with experience/opinions on https://www.keepersecurity.com/?
> It doesn’t seem rational at all at this point.

Layoffs are rational and are common in downward cycles.

I get the feeling that a lot of the shock and awe here is due to age and a lot of people starting their careers during an extended boom period, particularly in tech which was getting absurd. The last few years in particular were far from rational.

Now the Fed is raising interest rates, housing is cooling, cheap money is no more ... and as a result you get a downward business cycle resulting in layoffs.

I don't see anything new here that hasn't happened over and over again ... but I've been in the industry for decades with multiple companies and sectors.

These companies aren't charities, they aren't meant to retain jobs just because they are profitable, and they definetly aren't your friend. Many of them are publically traded, which at the end of the day are beholden to one and one thing only, the shareholders.
Jordan Peterson is completely wrong though. Monogamy is part of the problem. We should normalize as a society that there are indeed people you just want to have sex with but are not interested in marrying/reproduction with. It shouldn't be that big of a deal.
You are not!

That is in fact, I think, why fly.io is investing in trying to make it easier to deploy Rails, on their platform.

But also contributing to the effort to make Rails itself come with a Dockerfile solution, which Rails team is accepting into Rails core because, I'd assume/hope, they realize it can be a challenge to deploy Rails, and are hoping that the Dockerfile generation solution will help.

Heroku remains, IMO, the absolute easiest way to deploy Rails, and doesn't really have a lot of competition -- although some are trying. Unfortunate because heroku is also a) pricey and b) it's owners seem to be into letting it kind of slowly disintegrate.

I'm really encouraged that fly.io seems to be investing in trying to match that ease of deployment for Rails specifically, on fly.io.
I'm wondering how many of the commenters on these threads have been around for long enough to experience pervious layoff events? The reality is that any company has 5-10% staff that aren't really doing anything useful, and can be fired without significant impact to business operations. So it's more that companies don't just fire those people every year because normally various kinds of negative blowback would ensue. The reason we're seeing layoffs now is basically that the conditions are such that said blowback is reduced. In other words: it's in fashion (in Elite circles) and they can get away with it.

Of course often the appropriate 5-10% aren't actually the target of layoffs, but that's an orthogonal problem.
Do those same countries have the same level of violence as the US? I am willing to bet that sexual frustration leads to violence in a lot of instances.
It was my experience that OCRing scanned PDFs, would result in many small errors. For example “Alt” could be interpreted as “A|t”. Did you had those problems? How did you fixed it? What about other languages?
Can you share any insight into how Google are deciding who to lay off? I would have thought that search is a pretty safe team to be on.
> it seems presumptuous to believe that humans will suddenly figure out a way to do the same thing a trillion times more efficiently.

Why?

I think it might be confusion on your part on how incredibly inefficient evolution is. Many times you're performing random walks, or waiting for some random particle to break DNA just right, and then for that mutation to be in just the right place to survive. Evolution has no means of "oh shit, that would be an amazing speed up, I'll just copy that over" until you get into intelligence.
It's definitely different. But difficult is subjective.

Personally, I prefer the experience as a male. Instead of getting flooded with goofs, I can focus on a small amount of matches.
This is amazing. Great format. It would be cool to link original recordings too, but merely nice-to-have, not essential. I love being able to listen to the solos unaccompanied.
I happen to catch part of conversation between two young, very good looking female colleagues of mine back when I still used to go to office (same cubicle, sometimes I heard things even though I didn't mean to). They were disappointed that they couldn't get invites to some party where rich wall street type guys were going to, aka "catches" (their words, not mine).

The funny thing is, the very same office was filled with nice, young, smart, good looking men. Just not rich enough.

This is just an anecdote, I am not saying all women go for rich dudes, neither am I stereotyping. But yeah, being able to afford nice things in life is a significant advantage in dating. I suppose being rich is advantageous in everything
For an MVP, none of those things matter. Just rewrite it in a different stack later if you realize that the one you picked doesn't fit your requirements long-term. Worrying about that stuff before you have users/customers is just a waste of time and energy.
You have my respect.
No shot. It is not commonplace there that lawyers and judges are making ridiculous arguments or citing fictional case law.
This seems like finding yourself in a depressing situation, becoming depressed, and solving the problem with pharmaceuticals rather than changing the circumstances which led to depression in the first place.
I'm married and older so I'm not trying to speak with any dating authority here, but my advice would be to get involved. Volunteer in your community. Join a recreational group. Get to know your neighbors. Basically, expand your social network and do it face-to-face.

I'm not saying to ditch dating apps. Rather, supplement by getting out and getting to know the people around you.
You're referring to the Googler who thought an LLM was self-aware and made public statements that were damaging to the company's reputation?

I guess yeah, be careful you don't do that.
I have a similar workflow and love using chatgpt for this use-case. But, to highlight some issues, I found that writing some prompts took about as much time as just writing the document myself. I suppose it was less mental effort because I could be lazier knowing chatgpt would clean up the grammer.

You have to be rather precise with the prompt language to get the desired outcome.

Still, overall, it's an impressive capability.
>If so why?

Devils advocate, because increasing isolation of the necessarily public information a governmental service manages from the government organization servicing it is a good thing.

The role of title transfers could itself be argued to be a form of governmental overreach. For the mere act of interpersonal buying and selling, why ought there be a database managing that?

If we agreed such a database must exist (and horses and carriages seem to have done fine without one), wouldn’t it be preferable for individuals to be able to directly interface with that system interpersonally, rather than through a governmental intermediary?

If we agree there must be a governmental intermediary, wouldn’t we prefer such an intermediary to solely pay for and maintain dumb infrastructure they are not expected to waste taxpayer time and money manipulating, rather than giving them control over the underlying transactions and wasting a great deal of both?
Women have already chosen the safest way to be sex workers: Through media like OnlyFans. All relations with men, but especially prostitution, are vastly more dangerous for women.

The fact that women have chosen this way of interacting with men on a paid basis should tell you it's not because they are prudes about sex work. They don't feel safe, and for very good reasons.

This is yet another example of how men need to stop "solving" this problem with their own clever ideas. Stop and listen. You will hear answers.
thank you! i know what you mean, at the same time there are not so many tools that work offline and interactive that can help to destress or deal with a panic or anxiety. I think a few games without a score keeping is a good option.
Splitting it up between two meals is definitely a game changer. As long as your other meals include some leafy greens or vegetables, this is a pretty damn efficient way to eat. I used to do this right out of college when I had a crappy kitchen, few kitchen implements, and not much time on my hands.
Nope! You're not alone. This has been an issue in the Rails community for a while. It's why DHH started working on it, which Sam Ruby noticed and moved forward in a really big way.

It's still going to be some what challenging for some folks as this Dockerfile makes its way through the community, but this is a really small step in the right direction for improving the Rails deployment story. There's now at least a "de facto standard" for people to build tooling around.

Fly.io is going to switch over to the official Rails Dockerfile gem for pre-7.1 apps really soon, so deploying a vanilla rails app will be as simple as `fly launch` and `fly deploy`.
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Marcus has lagged its competitors by 0.7% or more for all of 2022. I suspect Goldman Sachs is having problems dumping money into Marcus given its losses.

I would go with CIT Savings Connect, they have historically been near the top and they have a nice website.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/
I think that would work on the immediate effects (i.e. "sexual loneliness") but build confidence and learn to socialize? I doubt that. Sex is the endgame. Before that you've got a whole world of social interaction and skill and skipping to the end wouldn't help you with any of that.

Maybe if the prostitutes were more like escorts, you go out on a date, they give you honest feedback about how you're presenting yourself and so on. But that feels far outside the typical work of a prostitute.

EDIT: now I think of it I doubt it would work on sexual loneliness either. I can't imagine that loneliness is solved simply by the act of sex, there's feeling wanted, feeling desired, all those things. I have no experience (I swear, officer!) but I can't imagine getting those things out of something I know is a financial transaction for my partner.
Did it work fine or did we not notice its failings until women had more opportunity to show what could be achieved?
I've noticed that a lot of college aged women dated (at least briefly) men 10+ years older, in some cases more than once. Inevitably they got figuratively screwed by the man who can't get women his age to date him, and eventually go back to dating people their own age.
Although correlated, I'm less worried about the doctors than all the prescription errors which were said to kill many people.
I don't think the regulator should define moderation standards. I am not sure what gave you that idea?

That is not the current system OR the result of removing s.230. Though removing s230 would mean courts were much much more involved and moderations was much much heavier (or non-existent al-la 4Chan etc).
> This is why the pop-science version of the "chemical imbalance" theory became so popular in the mainstream: It gives a plausible explanation that depression is just something that happens to you due to no fault of your own, which is weirdly easier to accept for many people.

Yes, and "chemical imbalance" is totally legit but not like its predominantly being marketed. The chemicals (dopamine, seratonin, whatever) are already present in our bodies - they just aren't consistently expressed across the population. For many people, these chemicals aren't released as regularly or in sufficient quantities for a given time period. Often due to lifestyle, but also just differs from person to person. But hey, put in 45 minutes of Z2-Z3 cardio and it can be amazing how the cobwebs get cleared.

> The trend on social media and pop culture is to explain obesity away as a chemical or societal problem

The somewhat recent corporate opportunism targeting obesity and marketing it as completely normal and healthy, almost something to strive for, is incredibly concerning.
"I have friends that I find intellectually stimulating, average-looking, that have not been touched by a woman in years."

I have a friends like this. One solution a couple of them have found is dating internationally. Not via "mail-order" services though. It was sort of a situation where they had a domestic friend who had friends or relatives abroad who were looking for a US marriage. So there was some trust there, and it was set up sort of like an arranged marriage. A lot of people hate on arraigned marriages, but the older I get, the more they make sense.
> You suggestion kind of sounds like: Let's teach kids how to grow an apple tree by giving them apple juice.

This is a poor analogy because apples and apple juice don't involve social dynamics. I can easily see a man who is experienced having sex with women through prostitution being more confident flirting/being intimate with real-life women. And confidence is a large part of "creating that interest."
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At my last medium sized company there were at least a half dozen branches of “the budget”, with employees and sales people being measured against the most aggressive budget, and several levels of management adding their own buffers, and finally the board which was working off the most conservative/pessimistic revenue and profit forecasts. No idea if this is normal or not.
What happened to Hinge?
An example in the UK yesterday. Climate protesters glued themselves to a petrol tanker and were charged with tampering with a motor vehicle. The protesters argued that the bit with the petrol was a trailer, not a motor vehicle. The judge agreed and acquitted them. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64403074
> This is the solvable part. They don't run the country; they're a minority.

Yes and no. They've got a 6:3 majority in the Supreme court for the foreseeable future, and thanks to gerrymandering, their distribution in rural parts gives them a significantly outsized impact on US politics. I would agree that this minority shouldn't run the country, but it isn't the case. And I'm not sure how that's "solvable" either.

> Religion is a fig leaf here.

Oh, I agree. My favorite is Leviticus 15:32-36... working on the sabbath no longer incurs the death penalty. But, religion is full of contradictions: compare the Prosperity Gospel with the actual teachings of Jesus. Laws and rulings targeting abortions and LGBT rights are couched in terms of "religious freedom." We cannot hold proclaimed religious people accountable for the contradictions we see between their books and their proclaimed faith -- their proclaimed faith is the protected part!
Well that's depressing.

It's also a bit confusing to me. Sonar can't measure thickness. It only measures the distance between the sub and the bottom of the ice. Altimeters likewise only measure the height.

I suppose if the maps are comprehensive enough and you overlay them, you can get a thickness. However, the computer models appear to be looking at ice age and surface temperature, not sonar or altimeter mapping.

Surface temperature seems like the sort of thing that would be well tracked if satellites are capable of taking those measurements. Ice age seems like something they'd probably need human run surveys for.
Though this is a great step... you still have to edit the Dockerfile if you are using Postgres and Redis.
Right, and each of these automatically get red-flagged by women, which takes out of the dating pool, people who subscribe to them. Advocating for them is the social/relationship equivalent of rent-seeking behavior: rather than compete, change the competitive landscape.
Sounds as expected ;-)
Very interesting, from a systems perspective it makes a lot of sense that this would be the limit cycle behavior. The conclusion is a kind of corrolary to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman's_principle, as regards the presence of energy bottlenecks (namely, gestation) in the process that propagates a species.
Are you sure it had to do with your appearance? I experienced this same thing in the past but in hindsight I came to the conclusion it was because I went from a place where generalized casual promiscuity was an accepted part of the culture, to a place where it's not.
Anecdotally I've heard of people using prostitutes as "practice" in some asian countries where they're either legal or at least not enforced.
I saw that too -- I think it's a typo in the OP, that the code is what they intended to recommend, and the comment is wrong.

Standard heroku Rails deploy instructions are to turn on `RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES` but also to put a CDN in front of it.

My guess is this is what fly.io is meaning to recommend too. But... yeah, they oughta fix this! A flaw in an otherwise very well-written and well-edited article, how'd it slip through copy editing?
i did pretty well in a brief experiment of using chatGPT to write responses to new posts
> for local dev it is pretty heavy

We were discussing this in our CLI catchup this morning. It seems the Dashboard/Studio is the main culprit here. We'll fix it
Those women would rationalize all of those goofy behaviors as being OK if the guy had the good genetics.
Could easily result in her losing interest in him when she sees how coldly other women treats him. Emotions are fickle and an experience like that might change the way she sees him.
There is a conspicuous lack of mice in that cartoon.
For most of my life, I have been one of those guys who were like your friends. The point about intimacy hit hard - I have never seen such a simple point expressed so beautifully.
> there is no license that stops a pediatrician from performing brain surgery.

This isn’t the case everywhere. Where I am (New Zealand) each doctor has a scope of practice. You work within your scope. There may be conditions placed on a scope of practice too (eg supervision is required).

You can look up every doctor’s scope of practice and get a short summary of their training on the medical council website.

Other health professions follow a similar model.

https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/
Fresh, with Strapi to help bootstrap a backend, but eventually migrating all to Deno when the budgets permit.

https://github.com/Hyprtxt/fresh-strapi.deno.dev

This site uses the framework, but not Strapi: https://videopoker.academy
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> I'm ok looking and I feel like I can make women like me.

So, I promise I'm not just picking on the phrasing (though yeah, the phrasing is pretty bad).

I find it amazing that you went through that whole discussion about the perspective of your seemingly-hetero-male-only social environment without once recognizing that intimacy is a two-way transaction and that the other party needs to get something in return. Everyone, including women, wants a satisfying relationship. And most people aren't getting one at any given moment.

And it doesn't seem like any part of your calculus is how to square those perspectives? Your whole comment is about women in some sense, but the only time their perspective even enters the discussion is in one sentence where you talk about compelling them to like you out of physical desire?

And you don't think this might be part of the reason your negotiations are failing? Sales people don't try to close a deal without getting to know the customer first. Why do you think it should work any different here?
That may be the case in theory but it doesnt play out that way in the real world as you can tell from marriage statistics.