skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true and you're right to say it. However much like other problematic software products in the attention economy, I don't know that there's really a solution. By definition: if a dating app (assuming it isn't a hookup one anyway) is doing it's job, it will lose two users with every "success" it achieves. Which means success for the user and success for the company are not just different, they are opposed. An attention-monetizing free service such as needs users, they need user numbers and user engagements, and if they lose users, especially women who are damn hard to get on these platforms in the first place, then they begin to lose value and lose the ability to make money.

And, even if we discard the notion that attention is being monetized, the presence of women as stated is essential to any of these dating apps' long term viability as a business. I think that's why there's this low-level constant outrage that exists with men who use them; they feel de-prioritized and discarded next to their female counterparts in the user base, because fundamentally, these platforms know they don't have to do shit to get male users. They will come, they will stay, regardless of what they're asked to do or deal with, and therefore they are not valuable to the platform and their needs, desires, and preferences are not catered to. As long as they can attract enough women to meet an emotional threshold for prospective male users, they'll come in droves, and probably spend money too.
Not if it compels them to hold their land fallow for an indeterminate months or years, in exchange for a one-time payment (or none at all). I’m all for proper archaeology but I can’t expect those who are trying to use their land to prioritize it unpaid. I don’t expect their government offers enough social support and compensation for the lost time to make it worth the risk and annoyance.
You didn't read the article.

Someone returned one of their diapers used. They trusted Amazon to handle returns and labeling of inventory. Amazon labeled the used diaper as "new," and consumers assumed the diaper company was responsible for the mixup.

This is an issue with Amazon's handling of returns, which is exacerbated by their inventory mixing (all items of the same SKU are considered "the same" and interchangeable, regardless of their provenance).
I'm not a data science / AI person at all, but AFAIK while initial model training is enormously processor intensive, customising a trained model is not. This has been my experience playing with custom training stable diffusion on very low memory home GPU. I'd assume it's true for voice generators like Tortoise [1] also. Moreover, while Eleven Labs isn't in my opinion as good, they let you custom train voices for an incredibly low cost and with a tiny amount of sample data [3].

For perfect audio spoofing, lots of audio would be needed. Bear in mind there are literally millions of podcasts available [2], and billions of youtube videos. Should be trivial to grab biographic data and voice samples from a subset of them.

[1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

[2] https://whatsthebigdata.com/podcasts-statistics/

[3] https://elevenlabs.io/
> Wrestling with a problem for long periods of time is not just a convenience for the teacher, it is a skill that will serve students well for decades to come.

And one of the best ways of developing that skill is... learning higher-level math. This can also include 'competition math' topics of course, but they should be approached as self-contained subjects of their own, not just as a bundle of disconnected "tricks" to be applied solely in a competition- or puzzle-solving context.
Diamond could be the super semiconductor the US power grid needs
That is what they mean. It’s contrary to the actual reality, where Rust is already being used for real, important things.
Butter made from CO2, not cows, tastes like 'the real thing', claims startup
Solar panels are very cheap.
So 1) have money, and 2) have money. We also don't know what you look like which is a hugely important factor, maybe even the most important with app based dating where the swiping decisions are made in fractions of a second.

I'm not trying to downplay your experience but these kind of anecdotes don't mean much, especially when we're missing so much information.
Only thing I'd mention is that the old school "web server runs on camera" model is really dodgy when the average user just plugs it in, fires up a mobile app, and sees their camera - then assumes all is well.

So many security issues and exploits for those things. Hardcoded passwords, backdoors, and loads of exploits for gaining SSH or telnet access on very common models.

As much as I hate the current shift toward camera-remote server setups (and their inevitable subscription fees), I can't imagine expecting your average buyer at Amazon or Walmart to properly configure and lock those things down. At least if it only talks to Amazon or Google or whoever, you won't be able to find it in a port scan and pull an image using admin/admin or whatever.
> what if we substitute something else for story points?

Then that new thing becomes the new measure, you change what you do to meet that measure, and things are screwed up again.

The author's final paragraphs describe implementing a complex process that an intelligent team has to use in a nuanced way. And somehow simultaneously declares that the original problem was story points, one single aspect of a complex process, and not the fact that there's a complex process that nobody understands or follows correctly.

You know how Toyota gets TPS to work so well? They do one thing, well, at a time, repeatedly.

Product development sucks because it's trying to do a million things once, constantly changes its mind, doesn't train its workers, and conflates designing, engineering, assembling, and operating, as one giant "thing". Then it wonders why it can't keep track of time.
It does, however, mean that Amazon should inspect every single return and err on the side of selling something "used" rather than "new" even if it looks new.
Why not the beef or farming industry? Or China? Isolating oil companies alone seems silly. Even more so because the entire world, including Puerto Rico also be benefits from the fruit of the last 100+ years od oil production.

On top of all that, climate change was going to happen. The idea that our climate was ever static and unchanging is silly, and only a child’s view is the history of the world would suggest otherwise. Did the early inhabitants of Austin Texas sue whatever they thought caused their premium glacier front property to drop in value over the last billions of years they receded?

The fact is that humanity is hooked on oil. IRS not going away. Not at least without billions of people suffering and dying. Oil has brought clean water across the world. It has allowed a technology boon by the way of its by products coating the majority of wires made, preventing horrific house fires from the days of paper wrapped wires.

Oil and its byproducts are engrained into humanity and its economical efficiency has been a blessing to humanity and every single last person on this planet has benefited.
I think it's interesting that there were websites like e-harmony that promised to match people based on personality tests but in the age of increasing ML/data-analytics/etc there hasn't been a bigger push to return to that, instead all match-making apps have converged on swiping on pictures.
EDIT: Nevermind, this whole thing is just an add for a tutoring service :(

So, here's my hot take (which probably isn't terribly original): Compulsory school math should end before algebra, and the rest of the curriculum should be taught the same way (or better) to how we teach art or music.

If you need advanced math for your career, teach advanced algebra or calculus as needed. At the very least this will force post-secondary schools to be honest about how prepared students are leaving secondary school. Right now, it "those people's fault" for how poorly prepared for advanced math most kids are.

Basic math literacy is incredibly important. But being able to solve quadratics or discover geometric proofs is colossally unimportant to 98% of humanity and it's importance can usually be determined based on personal interest in a career. Let's be honest with ourselves that most people well and truly will never need advanced math. Exposed kids to it as a fun game or art form, not a tool that they will never use.

Should learning to use a belt sander be an educational requirement to move from 9th to 10th grade? No, no it should not.
Fraud is illegal.

Fossil fuel co's knew from their own research that their product would bring disaster to the planet at incomprehensible scale.

Rather than make the knowledge clear and available to buyers, they chose to lie and deceive the public.

The result: fraud, false advertising, arson, and pollution on a global scale. All of those things are very fucking illegal and for very good reason.
As an excuse on the part of the oil companies, I completely agree. But that point was directed at the supply/demand situation from the perspective of the world's consumers and not from the oil companies. So any effects emissions have had on the environment can't be placed squarely on the shoulders of the oil companies but the market (world population) as a whole.
Your words, not mine. If we keep thinking there is a simple fix, then nothing will change either.
ML maps global rooftop growth for sustainable energy and urban planning
It’s an interesting form of economic populism: https://www.marketplace.org/2024/07/16/what-are-j-d-vances-e...

It is gaining support due to the destruction that has fallen on on our communities based on the current financialization model of our economy.
Please correct me if I misunderstood but I thought ERCOT is the long-haul transmission provider and they then hand off to distribution grid operators at the city/community level. The issues after the hurricane are certainly with the local distribution operators but during the winter blackout a few years back that was on ERCOT not managing supply to the Texas grid properly (as well as some other shenanigans). My concern is that if cities like Austin grow too fast in terms of electrical demand for manufacturing then ERCOT will have its hands full routing enough juice to the load demand points unless they add more generation stations closer to the demand -- and ERCOT leadership hasn't inspired confidence in recent years.
I think that (in general) is a good way to be thinking about it.

I have a friend who is interested in using settlements of either real or phony money to offer incentives and change people's behavior in online settings and I'm going to talk with him about applying this to dating tonight.

Some of the reason why it is easy to meet people when you are in school is that you are not just doing it one on one but you are in a group of people that share activities and interests and couples can break off but they have the support of the group from before they meet all the way to the wedding and beyond.

A site that builds a real community could capture all of this. Another thing to think about is habit change. I've written about a recent experience I've had and I've been thinking about what I can do to right now to help it develop and I know I need to get practice in showing gratitude, giving complements and doing little nice things because I'd like to be able to show my love.

On today's online dating sites on the other hand you are feeling ugly or harried or angry or frustrated and none of those those feelings are going to help you give and receive love.
I've personally received stuff that is sold as new that clearly wasn't. In many cases it may have been somewhat hard to tell if just checking quickly outside of package. Amazon could have buyers note if still new or used on returns, check some "new" ones carefully, and if buyers are lying have a consequence. Because once you actually open a package it usually is crystal clear that stuff is used! Think a "new" pencil sharpener filled with different color shavings :)

In my case most stuff has been to low dollar value to deal with a returns cycle on - so maybe that plays into the algorithm. More expensive stuff this seems to be rarer or I'm just getting lucky there.
But when you sell with Amazon, you cede quality control to their fulfillment.
These companies do not sell security, they sell products that need to be secure. The restaurant sells food which needs to be safe.

A more apt analogy would be a restaurant saying "food safety is our top priority". To me that sounds like a restaurant that wastes a lot of plastic and produces a lot of food waste that might spoil soon.
> Only later finding out that the "magic" of retain/release is just a count that is incremented and decremented.

Pretty sure most devs know that's what reference counting ultimately boils down to (it's right in the name after all), but many papers over the decades testify to the fact that maintaining that counter in a way that's both fast and reliable turns out to be surprisingly tricky.
The reaction sender's Exchange server would see it and could decide to not display the rejection to the user, since the Exchange server knows it's "just" a reaction that was rejected.
One of the roles government can play is to take the negative externalities of an activity (e.g., pollution) and internalize it so that those costs are paid by those who are profiting. The way to do that is to create taxes, fee structures, etc. so that those making money on activities contribute to the overall societal cost.
I understand the desire for asymmetry in a heteronormative context, but I think the only real solution is one that just encourages all users to feel more invested in forming genuine connections (e.g. microblogging or whatever).

I think Hinge actually had a pretty good system when I was using it a few years ago. It had a strict bio format, which required every used to answer exactly 3 questions (of their choice) - this format allowed me to identify people who cared about genuinely meeting someone, and had the depth of character to communicate well with me. The incentive to over-share is gone, because you're limited to 3 answers. The incentive to under-share is gone, because you know everyone is also sharing so you're not going to look desperate. People who couldn't or wouldn't give 3 interesting and honest answers were easily ruled out and a lot of the alluring
"mystery" of those under-filled profiles was stripped away.
Just wanted to say great work on standardizing otel for LLM applications (https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/tree/...] and opensourcing OpenLLMetry. We're also building in this space, focusing more on eval (agenta). I think using otel would make the whole space move much faster.
As someone who was employed by three large marketplaces in two different countries: you can't and won't have easy returns and quality checks.

Every one sell returned goods regardless of condition. It's not like it affects the marketplace in any meaningfull way.
The usual story is that 20% of the guys get 80% of the attention in online dating. If you are one of those guys it's the best thing since the swinging sixties.
congrats on launch!

the thing about OTel is that it is by nature vendor agnostic. so if i use OpenLLMetry, i should be able to pipe my otel traces to whatever existing o11y tool I use right? what is the benefit of a dedicated monitoring platform?

(not cynical, just inviting you to explain more)
How do you think you come around to having cost-effective alternatives? You need people actively working on them, and for that you need an incentive.
Knowledge transfer at work! More please.
Having watched many homes being built here in FL, I don't hold the same opinion. Homes here are, in general, still poorly built. Even something as simple as 2x6 exterior framing (for more insulation depth) is not common. Don't even get me started on the lack of modern framing techniques or tight envelopes. Another one that drives me nuts is watching them leave attic unconditioned but they run HVAC vents through that same unconditioned space. All the insulation is in the ceiling, not the roof. It's really disappointing to watch TBH. No builders want the expense when they can build it poorly and the buyers don't really know better. If you build a custom home you can get better outcomes, but the prices jump drastically. Sorry, this is a sore subject for me apparently.
This has been debated ad nasuem in America since at least the 60s. It depends on your philosophy both economic and political.
> Uses metal-organic framework material for dehumidification

MOFs are super interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93organic_framewor...

they are one of the most complex non-biological structures I know of
It is trivial to verify Meta is doing this. If you go to Facebook or Instagram and look at the network traffic, you might find requests to /api/graphql, with a lot of weird values in the request payload, but no GraphQL query text — one of the fields is an ID of the query from the allowlist, and GraphQL becomes a glorified RPC mechanism.
I think you should clarify what market are you focusing on now, assuming it is for offline dates...
They wouldn't need to do that if they properly checked their return streams. In some cases they're only checking the weight of the items being returned.
As have I. It's given me pause on buying from Amazon as it appears they are completely out of control.
Yep, one perhaps counterintuitive thing is even when there is a flat level of noise across a 80 MHz of spectrum and a single client connecting when the client is connected at 20 MHz instead of 80 MHz the signal to noise ratio will be 4x better. There are other benefits to shrinking the bands as well, particularly because interference is rarely just flat across the entire band.

The other big thing to do is disable the lowest basic data rates. Certain frames from the AP must always transmit at the lowest speed a client can be connected at and sometimes it's better to just let the client at the far edge lose connection than try to hold on to a poor connection at the detriment of everyone else with a good connection. Concepts like "airtime fairness" (or different jargon depending on the AP) also help prevent laggards from unduly tanking everyone.
"You can't outrun your fork" - I think a good thing for people to do when trying to get healthy is eat a donut and then run on the treadmill for the equivalent amount of calories you just ingested. Hammers home it is a lot easier to just not eat the donut.
Walking is just as much "controlled falling forward" as running is, it's just slower.
More like assemble a sword from 1000 sheets of paper and stab everyone.
Yes, we would have better energy management if people unplugged. Good suggestion. But even with that being true, AI is a whole new level of scaling up when it comes to burning energy to drive apps.
Because it's lower effort to use, especially for hot people, so that's where hot people will converge.
Who conceal the truth and lobby against any change so they can force society to continue to depend upon them despite that dependency destroying the planet.
The paper itself is such a cool read!!: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...
This is literal enshittification. Way to go, Bezos.
"Why is an async model better than using OS threads for an I/O bound workload?"

Because evented/callback-driven code is a nightmare to reason about and breaks lots of very basic tools, like the humble stack trace.

Another big thing for me is resource management - try/finally don't work across callback boundaries, but do work within a virtual thread. I recently ported a netty-based evented system to virtual threads and a very long-standing issue - resource leakage - turned into one very nice try/finally block.
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there's a well known artist named traceloops who has a prolific/longstanding body of work. why did you choose this name?
"It’s extremely rare for these types of mistakes to happen, and when they do we take them very seriously to improve the experiences of customers and sellers."

Bullshit. Literally everyone I know has had this problem with Amazon (albeit not with poopy diapers). Is this a repeat case of Amazon managers looking at metrics and assuming all is well?[1]

[1] https://www.startuparchive.org/p/jeff-bezos-recounts-the-tim...
It goes from net revenue to net loss.

If the government pays $100 billion in defense contracts they are necessarily collecting less than that in taxes from the employee income.

Spending $100 billion to collect $30 billion in taxes is not sustainable. It's not naive, it's simple arithmetic. The money has to come from somewhere.
Warning: "AI".
Most people would consider a scanned invoice to be "simple computer evidence" but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Xerox scanners had a bug where they were changing digits in scanned pages.
Ok, thanks, this is exactly what I needed. I'm apparently too much of a casual user here because I don't even recognize minimaxir as a username. So that's gotta be the disconnect for me: all the usual tactics apply, they're just less obvious to me because I'm not engaged enough.

I appreciate you taking the time to respond thoroughly. Thanks!

Edit: it occurred to me that another potential reason that the tactics used to monetize karma farming on HN may be less obvious to me than on other platforms is because here, the tactics are more specifically designed to target me
I'm not clear why this is true?

> But that's on the end user, no?

Pollution is a tragedy of commons scenario, so our best tools for solving it are laws and policy that force behaviour.

I'd be surprised if it's completely impossible to do the resource extraction without minimising impact, we just don't tend to have much pressure to innovate in that direction.

The end user on the other hand, has the least power to change any of the dynamics you're describing and is usually least able to choose to do without.
It would be a lot more reassuring if they just fined the culprit 1 EUR and closed the case. Most European countries don't allow a judged case ("res iudicata") to be reopened unless new serious material evidence comes to light, and many not even then.
That is true. However (as of two days ago, it may have rapidly changed since then) the python program did not differentiate based on your architecture and would try to import mlx regardless if it's installable on your system or not, causing import errors.
A well insulated (air tight) house does make it easier to keep some humidity out with a ventilation system with an ERV (Energy/Enthalpy Recovering Ventilator). It basically has a membrane which keeps humidity on the most humid side. So it keeps indoor air dry in humid summers, and humid in dry winters.

I have one, and it helps keep my house a lot more comfortable in summer, reducing the need for a/c to maybe a couple of weeks a year.
> Kids will learn English by themselves in school anyway

If you live in an English speaking country then sure. Over here it’s almost impossible to learn English in school, you only get a few hours per week of English classes.
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There's a third possibility. It's just not turnkey enough yet for criminal enterprises to bother. I'm sure cartels and mafia level gangsters sometimes have great tech people, but the level of op sec and technical knowhow exhibited by most professional criminals seems low.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/1197959218/fbi-phone-company-...
Greetings! Fellow dead man walking here.

I think the bird flu outbreak 10-15 years ago was fought so efficiently it created a group of people questioning if it ever was a real problem. My theory is that this was one of the reasons covid was not taken more seriously in some places at first.

Oh well, I said my piece. Going back to my deathwatch now. Please remember me for my insightful comments on various Internet forums.