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U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
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- gnicholas 3y agoHugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
- blondin 3y agowhat a missed opportunity to utilize http status code 418
- gabrielsroka 3y agoI got a 504
- selimthegrim 3y agoWould that this area code was associated with responsible fatherhood.
- mmaunder 3y agoVerified as gov site.
- beanjuiceII 3y agoYa you can tell a govt site when it falls over from a finger flick
- eek2121 3y agoNah, the US govt is actually usually pretty good these days about solid infrastructure, website designs, security practices, etc. It is unknown why this particular website (if it ever existed?) got hugged to death, but much of the Government uses AWS govcloud and similar solutions.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoSeconded. At this particular point in my career “govcloud” sounds like a normal word. Our project has an overbuilt but robust cloud native architecture (even if I’m not a cloud services evangelist myself) that I think would surprise many folks in the private sector regarding its sophistication. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of waste, inefficiency, and BS in government contracting. But some aspects of it are getting better. In our case, we were explicitly told by our “customer” to allocate more resources to scaling than we may in the private sector so that our application would not get hugged to death.
- edm0nd 3y agoFedRAMP vetted sites and vendors still get hacked too tho
- beanjuiceII 3y agoeh i disagree, I've been in govt IT for 16 years working as a group that supports all agencies. I would definitely not say "much of the Government uses aws govcloud and similar solutions" but thats just my experience
- abirch 3y agoYou know someone said that there will never be more than 100 requests per second in a meeting
- SushiHippie 3y agoNext meeting: "our page went down because of a hacker attack!!"
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- xattt 3y ago“Well, Sir, they do call themselves Hacker News.”
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- morkalork 3y agoYup and you know what? That's exactly the kind of detail I don't need a government IT worker sweating over. They should just pay the premium to cloud providers and move on to more important things
- hamandcheese 3y agoI could not disagree more. Government already suffers a huge stigma of waste and overspending, no need to add to that stigma by overspending on checks notes a list of dad jokes. That's not to say I'm not glad this exists - I am! But I don't think it deserves a large budget.
- morkalork 3y agoJust toss the page into a pool that should be served to the public. No need to advance SOTA on a government budget to serve content.
- yieldcrv 3y agoCertified DHHS
- dylan604 3y agoAfter clicking through a few, its kind of timely to go with today's other post about how random is random.
- julesallen 3y agoRedesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed. Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger problem was every time it would end up on somewhere like Yahoo finance (don't laugh, this was 2007 and earlier) it would fall over like this database. The key to scaling it seems pretty obvious today, write all the searchable data out to a single JSON file and have the browser poll that. It was doing multiple millions of user sessions a day I was told and couldn't have been deployed at a better time. Some projects you get lucky with I suppose. I check it out every once in a while and the UX is basically still the same.
- gottorf 3y agoSounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)
- jdewerd 3y agoMy prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.
- gottorf 3y agoThat was infernal indeed, but the rest of it still needs a ton of work. Accidentally double-click on a link? Goodbye, session!
- ericrallen 3y agoI can’t remember if I’ve ever encountered a UI that annoyed me as much as that virtual password entry. I ended up getting locked out of my account due to some issue trying to enter what my password manager generated for me and eventually just gave up on ever converting the one small paper bond I was given as a kid to a digital one. If the goal was to frustrate people away from converting paper bonds, they certainly succeeded.
- ashton314 3y agoActually a feature designed to prevent depletion of the strategic pun reserve.
- daemonologist 3y agoI was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-the-front-page-of-hackernews/ https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from... In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour. (RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)
- gnicholas 3y agoI was on the cheapest plan Heroku offers when my startup hit #1. Things got sluggish so I had to spin up another dyno, but it was fine after that. Of course things depend heavily on time of day and day of week. Since it's currently the holidays in much of the world, things could be slower than normal.
- itsthecourier 3y agoi believe we need an strategic reserve of these, Biden need to step in
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago> Biden need to step in I agree, slapstick is very funny
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- rho138 3y ago> Browses to motherhood.gov, iphone _freaks out_.
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- rossdavidh 3y agoSo, I read one, went into the next room and told it to my 18-year old daughter, and got an exasperated smile, just like every dad joke should. Five out of five stars, would recommend.
- Dalewyn 3y ago50 out of 50 stars was right there!
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- SeanKilleen 3y ago"Dadabase" was right there.
- lelandfe 3y agoWhat's an avant-garde artist's favorite way to store information?
- hotsauceror 3y agoThat’s what my travel mug says. Best Father’s Day gift ever. Here’s a freebie for you new dads: What do you call a spider with twenty eyes? A spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiider.
- selimthegrim 3y agoDon’t give the Cyrillic Unicode people any more ideas.
- imperio59 3y agoOur tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
- karmajunkie 3y agofrankly id rather have a database of dad jokes than more bombs
- labster 3y agoWhy not both? Slava Ukraini, dad jokes slava!
- noSyncCloud 3y ago...Yes?
- eru 3y agoJoke's on you: those are not my tax dollars. Foreigners get those premium dad jokes free of charge. (Though I wonder whether the Chinese can claim dumping with the WTO? That's what the Americans do with Chinese goods that are delivered cheaper than they would like to compete with.)
- fnordpiglet 3y agoRealistically we borrowed me the money from you.
- eru 3y agoThat's probably true. My adopted home of Singapore holds enough foreign reserves to more than back every Singapore dollar they issued. In practice, 'foreign reserves' is mostly another name for US government debt.
- kube-system 3y agoYes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child... It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy household without a father.
- xwowsersx 3y agoWhy did the HTTP 504 Gateway Time-out error go to therapy? It had too many unresolved issues that kept dragging on
- TaurenHunter 3y agoRelated: Dad Joke APIs https://www.dadjokes.io/documentation/endpoints/random-jokes https://www.dadjokes.io/documentation/endpoints/random-jokes https://api-ninjas.com/api/dadjokes https://api-ninjas.com/api/dadjokes https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api
- lawgimenez 3y agoI’m using dadjokes.io, would recommend.
- czottmann 3y agoThanks for the links! I spent my free morning setting up a Mastodon bot [1] posting one joke per hour, the APIs made it easy and the whole thing made me laugh. [1]: https://mastodon.social/@pleasestop https://mastodon.social/@pleasestop
- akulbe 3y agoI've been using this in my shell profile for a few years now: curl -H "Accept: text/plain" https://icanhazdadjoke.com/ https://icanhazdadjoke.com/
- quink 3y ago`-m 1` might be good with that.
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- nostromo 3y agoYou'll never guess what bill funded this site... ... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course! It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
- cdot2 3y agoEfforts to reduce single motherhood probably serve to reduce welfare expenses more than most other efforts
- eru 3y agoOn those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run. EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics. I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to dad-jokes that tenuous (at least without any further evidence).
- callalex 3y agoCan you explain how your statement follows from the parent? To me it reads like a slippery slope type statement.
- eru 3y agoAlmost any kind of spending that anyone, including the government, does is coupled with some arguments about the benefits it brings. For most claimed benefits, it doesn't require a lot of mental gymnastics to find some arguments why they would reduce some spending in the long run. If you give me an example as a challenge, I can (most probably) spin you the argument of how it reduces spending.
- callalex 3y agoI still don’t understand why that’s an argument against government spending.
- TriangleEdge 3y agoDistributed Dadnial of Service is happening I think.
- sundvor 3y agoSlashdotted!
- mise_en_place 3y agoThese are funny, but there is something jarringly dystopian about the words "National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse".
- junofan 3y agoThe one for irresponsible fathers is called the “Office of Child Support Enforcement,” for better or for worse.
- digitalsushi 3y agoI worry for the server's uptime ... its days are numbered
- joecool1029 3y ago504 Timed Out isn't as funny as a 410 Gone
- sand500 3y agoI don't get this one: Did you hear about the two satellites that got married? The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible. Should the punchline be "out of this world"?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoSignal reception
- qbrass 3y agoThat would be the punchline for a kids joke. As a dad joke, it subverts the expected punchline with something even cheesier.
- Snow_Falls 3y agoreception is a play on words, in an actual wedding it would mean the that the attendees had a good reaction. In the sense that the newly weds are satellites, the reception can also refer to radio signal reception.
- jasoneckert 3y agoDoes anyone know what backend dadabase they use to store these jokes?
- vwcx 3y agoThat domain participates in the US gov's digital analytics program but the page demand isn't registering: https://analytics.usa.gov/ https://analytics.usa.gov/
- mcculley 3y agoThat there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2]. How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs? [0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paulgraham.com/saynotes.html https://paulgraham.com/saynotes.html
- addicted 3y agoPaul Graham is obviously saying these things. The “I‘n being suppressed because I can’t say these things” articles by extremely well placed people who constantly say these things is tedious.
- mcculley 3y agoI think we read different essays. Graham did not complain that he was being suppressed.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoYou mean like this? https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwife-visits/have-healthy-pregnancy https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwi... "Don’t smoke or drink alcohol"
- mcculley 3y agoIt is apparently not working. Maybe it should be at motherhood.gov.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoMothers get this kind of advice during prenatal care. Fathers have fewer touch points with parenting educators.
- ruthlogan22 3y ago[dead]