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Ask HN: How come a “dating” style app for families has never been created?
The success for dating apps is apparent on its face, however, more and more I meet people all over that are families and find it difficult to meet others in their city, other than those they meet in kids activities and/or work.
I think next month's WWDC and the AR goggles/glasses are really going to define how this decade plays out for Apple. There's clearly some kind of unification strategy going on behind the scenes but whether it's going to be good enough to win out over competitors or not is up in the air. Combos like NReal Air and Samsung Dex/Steam Deck are going to become more and more common and unless they get a move on I can see them falling behind the competition like Intel did. Stuff like this is kind of in the right direction but I do tend to be in agreement now with the people who say that we need an iPad with MacOS, or at least something that's leaning more towards MacOS than iPhone OS, especially on the large screen models.
A lot of these states have big problems with gerry-mandering and there tends to be huge wealth disparity between the few small wealth centers in the state and the rest of the state is extremely poor. The money just isn't being distributed with any sense of equity.
This reminds me abit of java applets
I hope I've not misunderstood but if you are saying vitamin D deficiency is a 'small health risk' then that needs correction. Never mind the validity or not of the paper in question. Anyone reviewing the peer-reviewed literature on vitamin D for the last decade or so would conclude it's a very bad idea indeed to be deficient. For those who don't get much sun exposure, a blood test is recommended and will put people on the right track.
True, but yet they're still used with certain job applications, with criminal investigations (the results just aren't used directly as evidence), etc.

Most people believe that polygraphs have some amount of validity, and that's a problem that means they continue to get used and continue to do harm.
Yup. All buyers who care about having a good infotainment setup will avoid GM, leaving them with only buyers that don't care about it as much. Are these the buyers they think will then pony up $30 a month for their store-brand version?

OnStar is dead, guys. It's not coming back. Don't destroy your actual business (cars) by trying to cosplay as a "tech company SaaS vertical"
>If only we could get a new version of Java for the browser. Something more of a scripting language that is not compiled but interpreted. Could probably knock out a proof of concept in a week, might call it Javascript or something...

I get the joke. It is sad though how Java didn't end up being the ubiquitous runtime for browsers... It started off so promising... Compiling source to byte code is really fast in Java (and modern browsers generally do much more work compiling JavaScript). Even if the browser downloaded source code (and why not? --byte code is so much more compact and faster to parse), you wouldn't even notice the compiling down to bytecode step.

It's amazing how badly the Java ball got dropped.
The fact that you can find non-discontinuous metrics that improve gradually is basically not interesting, and doesn't support the underlying hypothesis, because there is no evidence the non-discontinuous metrics are things that matter or we want to achieve.

It is true that the metrics used are sometimes harsh judges, but the question is which metrics we want.

For example, they complain about exact string match for math problems.

15 + 23 is 38, and saying that "3<something>" is better than "2<something>" is simply wrong. The reality is the large models don't get it wrong, and the small models do. Yes, you can come up with metrics that make it look more continuous, but as I said, it's not really interesting or useful to say that one wrong answer is "better" than another in this case. the only interesting sideshow would be if your chosen metric somehow demonstrates progress towards the end goal metric.

That is why exact string match is used.

It would be more interesting if it was within the limits of floating point math or something (IE one gave you 34.99999998 due to rounding error, and one gave you 35.0"), but that's not what we are talking about.

But yes, i'm sure you can come with some theoretical notion of partial credit for almost any metric, and use it to display that almost anything is more continuous.

Would you assign partial credit to a model whose answers to questions about which numbers are prime are "kind of right"?
I'm sure you can come up with a metric that does, and makes it look like the model gets better as it scales up.
But unless the underlying way in which it is getting better is also a useful measure of progress towards the end metric (being able to correctly answer which number are prime), it doesn't matter at all.

Solving 2-sat in P-time is easy. Solving 3-sat in p-time would be worth a turing award.

Can we define an arbitrary 2.1 SAT that is in the middle? Maybe (oh god now i've forgotten how hard weird approximations to 3-sat are, hopefully this isn't wrong), but i'd argue it's not super interesting, nor does it necessarily get you any farther in your goal.
Nobody collects these numbers. I sat with the chief counsel of NCMEC a while back and asked whether they even kept track of outcomes from the reports they forward to law enforcement, and they said they don't have the funds to keep stats on this.

The best you can do is look at total number of reports and account shutdowns (which are increasing at a pretty surprising clip!) and try to puzzle out whether this represents the total failure of scanning, or if it's actually evidence that the problem is getting exponentially worse and therefore we need more scanning.
As someone adapted my reading habits to the mostly thin in content internet materials and headline fallacy was very disappointed not finding any links to the actual magazine while rushed through without trying to consume the words.
I look forward to rewriting my app using Java applets. :)
You can sync data in a privacy preserving way. For example, chrome sync passwords but google doesn’t have access to them. Apple syncs health data and have access.

Etc etc.

Sync is not a reason to have server side access to location data.
It still exists because it's "bad".

Very small language initially, with some 1990s warts that we all understand, and new features are only added long after they've proved their worth elsewhere.

This means a lot for long-term hiring and maintenance.
Java in the browser? I am having a deja vu to gray background slow loading boxes
Not sure what to post, but here are four interesting tidbits about Japanese pitch accent:

1) "Culminativity" is actually considered the most helpful functionality of the pitch accent. It helps making sense of word boundaries, as there can be only one prominent syllable per word. In spoken word of any language, there are no "spaces" (there are no spaces in written Japanese either, though), so languages need to provide accommodations for aural parsing strategies.

2) The other functionality provided by the pitch accent is distinctiveness, which means that there are some homonyms (similar-sounding words), that are only differentiated by the pitch accent. However, that is only a secondary functionality. In Mandarin Chinese, tones play a lot more important role for making sense of the meaning of the word. In Japanese, they play a role, but not a significant one. (There are some hundreds of minimal pair words that differ only by the pitch accent pattern, but as many regional dialects also have slightly different accent patterns, clearly 100% nailing the pattern isn't required for communication, as long as the general principles (such as one drop per word) are followed.)

3) Japanese is said to be an "isochronic" language, which means it has (or at least, is perceived to have) a simple integer-based rythm. For example, Haiku, a famous genre of Japanese poetry is based on these rythms, unit of which is called haku (拍) in Japanese or mora in Latin/English. In context of poetry metrics, mora is often misrepresented as a "syllable", but actually, there are uni- and bimoraic (and rarely, trimoraic) syllables in Japanese. An example: 2-mora "ma-to" means a target (in archery etc). 3-mora "ma-t-to" means a "mat/carpet". 3-mora "ma-n-to" means a cloak. 3-mora "ma-to-o" meas "let's wait". 3-mora "ma-to-n" means "mutton meat". 4-mora "ma-t-to-o" means "proper/straight". But every one of these are two-syllable words!

4) The rythm of Japanese speech is not concerned with the pitch accent prominence, unlike stress in English, which tends to make stressed syllables longer and louder (and more defined in vowel quality). Indeed, it is often said that "syllables" are an irrelevant concept for Japanese. However, phonologically that isn't true at all. The rythm of Japanese is indeed dependent mostly on moras, but the pitch accent patterns, where the prominent drop of pitch tends to happen, is highly dependent on syllable structure. It never happens on "weak" morae, which are called the "coda" or tail of the syllable. It always happens on the start of a syllable.
Things like Facebook and Google are at a level of scale where they need to do things entirely differently form everyone else though. e.g. for most companies, you'll get better database performance with monotonic keys so that work is usually hitting the same pages. Once you reach a certain size (which very few companies/products do), you want the opposite so that none of your nodes get too hot/become a bottleneck. Unless you're at one of the largest companies, many of the things they do are the opposite of what you should be doing.
chefs kiss

Is this ___?

This has to be about ___.

This is definitely ___.
Newsom is in no way a centrist.
Haha. We are.
How to submit a (git) patch by email, 2023 edition
I have had some interesting conversations where I've tried to compare the 'word salad' of Pynchon with a relatively straightforward opening scene script generated by GPT. The writing forums really are almost wildly irrational about this -- when all I want to illustrate is that GPT can produce usable, mediocre value even if it's not high art. While at the same time Pynchon may ... in reality, have questionable value in his word salad of nonsense. Yet so called 'writers' will hold him on hallowed ground, while not even engaging with an AI script that generally accomplishes a task well.

I'm a former lit major and this sort of ignorance is common in the field. Failed writers constantly berate everything that works as crap, while bemoaning the loss of true art that no one cares about.

Functionality will trump art, 99/100. It's the way of the world. And AI is really #)($*ing functional.
I guess it depends which situation we’re talking about specifically.

You don’t need a monarch to have problems with police overreach and overly draconian/authoritarian laws being brought in.

I think we can safely say that this happens in all types of political/governing systems.

That’s the crux of the issue being talked about in the article.

The issue of the Royal Family is related (and particularly relevant given recent events) but the two issues should not be conflated fully.
Ah yes, the false dichotomy of the road less travelled.

Fairly sure one of my friends in high school had an essay trashed for taking that stance. Then again, he was a minimalist with anything homework related, so it could have been justified for other reasons.
I don't think China or the world for that matter wants that smoke.
Working Copy on iOS does this _brilliantly._

> The features you unlock are permanently available and any other pro features added the next 12 months after purchase are also permanently available. After one year new pro features introduced will be locked until you purchase a upgrade. Even if you do not purchase a new unlock after 12 months, the app will still be updated with improvements and bug-fixes.

https://workingcopy.app/manual/purchase
It's probably a statement about SF zoning too much commercial rather than allowing property owners to figure out how to use buildings. Or maybe it's a statement about how our building codes make it very difficult to repurpose buildings.

Not entirely sure, but those are my best guesses.
"Using solely the patients medical records"

Don't these vary widely? Like, which records? How many of these records and of what type do they need to be to give an accurate prediction? What if you don't have many records because you just don't regularly go to the doctor because you don't have any symptoms?
The people with the money run the AI so they get to selectively enforce the rules.
Well in this case it's not the same software, it's a touch-optimized iPad version so the original comment demanding a discount for having purchased the Mac version is...well, yeah
When even comedian Joe Lycett starts complaining about them, you know you've lost the public:

"Joe Lycett and Sophie Duker take on Croydon Council over the Parsons Mead LTN (Low Traffic Neighbourhood) which has left locals racking up hundreds of pounds in fines."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ooxIHXvj4
Yes, getting more customers is a tried and tested way of making more money.
Your high latitude health service must be better than mine. I can hardly imagine my GP's receptionist's reaction if I tried to book an appointment to check my baseline vitamin D levels!
I’m going to experiment with my setup some more, but I may go your route in the end.
there’s always use cases but I think the interfaces are fast enough

NVMe SSDs, direct or over PCIe solve lots of the issue that people made RAID arrays for to begin with

sure in theory you can go even faster and redundant with RAID concepts on these nvme ssds, but tad overkill
Nice! I've been amazed at what a great console it is. I love docking it and hooking up controllers and doing local co-op with my kids. Some of the best times we've had as a family in the last 6 months were playing Shredder's Revenge with the deck docked to the TV. that game and many others work wonderfully with these cheap XBox 360 controllers: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WQGQ6D2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
FYI: there's a pistol sitting on my desk in front of me, right now, that I had disassembled last night to thoroughly inspect and clean. It was made in 1909.

That 114-year-old pistol is not only still functional, the only way you could tell it wasn't factory-new when I bought it a few years ago was that the black hard rubber grips were starting to turn a little brown at the edges, and the nickel finish was discolored in a few places on the slide. I've since restored the grips and carefully polished the finish to correct those two points.

Off the top of my head, I have at least two shotguns, one pistol, and four rifles that have been in my family for >100 years. One of those rifles is so old that I'm unsure who first acquired it. It's a "Pennsylvania long rifle". Made long before serial numbers were "a thing", I'd date it to about 1820 based on the style. I know my great-great-grandfather had it, because I have a photograph of him using it as an old man in the early 1900s.
> I'd like to believe that people have the agency of choosing what they eat.

They do, but they need to know how to eat a healthy diet. I don't know about you, but I've never once seen a commercial about eating whole foods with vegetables. I am however bombarded on a daily basis with adds for fried chicken and burgers. Some people just don't have the access and education.
> “We’re not trying to infringe on anybody’s freedom, but we need to have full attention in the classroom,” said Nancy J. Hines, superintendent in the Penn Hills School District, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.

It's disappointing that a school superintendent needs to make this statement. School is entirely about infringing about students' "freedoms". No child would be sitting through any class if their freedoms were not highly infringed upon. Learning (at least initially, and for most kids), is not fun. It's boring. And kids don't like boring.

What's disappointing is that parents today also don't seem to understand this basic fact, hence the need for statements like these.
In short, it orbits the L2 point. There's plenty of room for more!

Here's a 20s YouTube video that should clear things right up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E

Here's an article with additional info:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.htm
Of course I'm an ideological anti-communist. I prefer not starving to death like in the great famine - which happened in the 50s-60s in a society that applied the principles you are proposing.
Maybe it’s about rent control and low income housing requirements around building?
Slightly unrelated: is there a way or an app to shoot 4k on iPhone or iPad and store it directly on external ssd?

Apple often advertises their new pro phones with „professional“ level video production so I always assumed that is possible somehow
An interesting nuance, but I don't think this should be used to dismiss the mental health effects of social media. Social media affects virtually ALL adolescents, while those other factors listed only affect some. Only a subset of adolescents lack family support or are bullied. The third factor, dissatisfaction with schoolwork, would be extremely hard to discern as a cause or effect of depression
Is this an American thing? Here in Germany my son is not allowed to have a phone at school. He doesn't have one anyway, but kids that do have to give up their phones in the morning, which are in a locked box and they get them back in the afternoon when they go home.

Nobody ever asked us about it, it's simply school policy.
Seashells lets you pipe output from command-line programs to the web in realtime
Could you elaborate on how it's bad compared to the alternatives?
You might do well to read up on the history of asSOCiation football.
> constitutionally difficult to do anything about it with the current interpretation of our second amendment in the Supreme Court.

Could you explain what’s “difficult” about “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED?”

It appears to be pretty clear cut to me. I’m not sure how anyone can conclude the opposite.
A Two Sentence Jailbreak for GPT-4 and Claude
> I suspect that having visited one of those places could be considered proof of wrongdoing in a legal proceeding.

No as there are other services- breast exams, birth control, consults, etc. Most people visit planned parenthood for things other than abortions.

I think the risk is to cast a net for everyone who visited and then buy deid medical data on those individuals and then subpoena specific records of individuals. So this data is just the first piece since they can’t just read everyone’s medical record.
With good reason as it's unworkable.

iOS and iPadOS are not stable systems like OSX where the fundamentals of the overall experience is clear and largely complete. There is still a lot of innovation and new concepts being introduced each year.

To have a large percentage of users with older apps that won't properly support these changes would hurt the platform.

As was mentioned feature flags are a much better option.
> This is exactly the thing that is a total non-starter. A proprietary, closed-source third-party service that can go offline at any time?

There will be open-source options eventually. Certainly, the wheels are spinning among some of the HN sorts that think about such things. Apple and Google (and Microsoft) have a head start because they have to coalition build on these standards to make them work, but it is all still based on standards (all of FIDO2, WebAuthn).

But in the context of "just save the randomly generated password in your browser's password manager", the big 3 cover the majority of average users' browsers, so the UX should in theory be simple for the average user, not just the technically proficient user (nor the "I only trust open source" user).

Firefox is, of course, working on their passkey tools as well.

> What happens when you are traveling with only one device, and lose or break it?

The same recovery process that happens for your primary account on the device, your Apple iCloud account or Google Account. That part isn't changing in all of this. Those are closed source so whatever details for how they already today escrow recovery keys for scenarios like that where no other device is available to bootstrap recovery from. Though once bootstrapped from a recovery state, all the passkeys should flow to the new device just as all the passwords in the password manager and you are back in business.

Recommending owning at least two Apple devices connected to your account is already common security recommendation going back several years now because of Apple's E2E guarantees when you do so. That's not new guidance unique to their passkeys implementation, but also a cornerstone of existing Apple ecosystem security.
Well it doesn't work if crime is allowed. Those people are breaking the law. Why are they allowed to store their private property on public land? Can I just plop a hot tub down on the street?
Best article I've read on here in a while. From now on, whenever there's dead air in a conversation, I'm just gonna drop "I get weirded out when couples treat their dogs like babies."

Also, this is great for relationship advice too. Personally, I always struggle with asking too many yes/no or how many questions rather than asking why/how questions. Givers vs Takers aside, if I had to guess, I'd say that "doorknobs" can be created by saying or asking something the gets you to explore each others' opinions and experiences.

I also thought the part about how sharing boring mutual memories is more fun than exciting individual memories is interesting, but maybe not a hard rule to follow. I've been more interested in scuba diving recently because of some of the awesome stories my friends have told me.
Rwanda's dictatorship relies on accusing everyone who disagrees with Kagame of being genocide deniers or planning genocide. In the end, hate speech/bullying laws becomes lèse majesté; it's the introduction of thoughtcrime. It ain't for the sake of minorities.
The reason is that they are smaller and require less food.

For the same reason let's use midgets.
Industry caters to consumer demand. If consumers wanted white meat, fruit and vegetables, they would have been provided as cheaply and abundantly as red meat and corn syrup.
Joking, of course.
So whenever you hear about how "remote work doesn't work" try to imagine how some real estate groups might have a veiled interest in it
Broccoli, right now after reading this, I'm choosing broccoli.
I made a tool to collect audio testimonies from customers
Yes, exactly. There's a real-life example of an author group who got sufficiently annoyed at a reviewer requesting an inappropriate subgroup analysis: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Reviewers asked for the subgroup analysis; authors said "no, this is statistically nonsense"; reviewers said "yes, but we'll reject the paper otherwise"; reviewers said "ok, but only if you let us also split on astrological sign".

Result: paper reports that aspirin has an effect, but only if you're not a Gemini or Libra. Too good.
He's half right. He missed the other half where right wing people don't care either.
No reason to let your child any media, unless you want them to be literate or sth.

And social media is less harmful than some traditional ones. It's just that you've been conditioned by the traditional ones to believe they are somehow normal.
Some guesses:
- It benefits corporations and the wealthy (whom the government actually work for) in some way
- Politicians think running on "rugged individualism" works
- Same politicians truly believe in trickle-down economics and austerity.
Yay more Apple users complaining that their VSTs don't work on Apple's XYZ variant that yet again broke something instead of actual talk about the VSTs in question. It already makes many discussion threads nearly useless, I look forward to more of it.