jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists.

Foot fetishists are SO common. If you don't count the boob & ass normies, foot fetishists are a clear number one in the fetish sector.

I don't know if they're that common or they're just easy to cater to (taking a few pics of feet isn't a huge issue for anyone who makes a living on their looks).
I honestly enjoy how Yasha equates the fact that a project received money from some tentacle of the american government (which at least for me, as an european, is perfectly understandable in a situation of prolonged cold war with Russia and China) to the more spooky hypothesis that the guys behind some of the most vetted open source privacy projects do work for the man.

His well known position (many years of pando) makes me think "yeah, right, just what we need: another conspiracy that convinces people that there's no alternative and therefore any effort to step away from silos does no good to them". Sigh.

The layperson only slightly interested in privacy does not want (or need) mathematical proofs: they operate by trust. Chains of trust in people, friends, activists, journalists or self-proclaimed "experts" that recommend tools or dissuade them from sharing too many data in the places where everybody of a certain age has to be to socialize. So this kind of gray insinuations, with big logical jumps and with zero consistent evidence (other than the US has an interest in promoting encryption and is pouring money on that horse too, probably orders of magnitude less than it pours in big monopolistic, closed source and privacy-mining tech companies) does more damage than good to the public it pretends to inform.

But hey, I guess that's the pitch from which he manages to make a living, and it must have his public, which I might not totally be getting.

Has anyone read his book by the way? Does he develop his "most of open source crypto project work for the CIA" in some interesting or novel way? Something that gets my attention is how he sells himself as unveiling the "secret" military history of the internet, when all that I read from him is public knowledge. I guess the wistleblower myth is quite attractive, even for him.
Another wiki for a more mainstream fetish: https://boobpedia.com/boobs/Main_Page (NSFW)

Interestingly, while it's been around for years, the word "boob" means it's basically invisible to Google.
> Anyone who joins a job like that is going to want strong protections whether they use them or not.

Then it’s not surprising if you get a bunch of bullies drunk on power with guns. They need to be accountable because they can ruin people’s lives or end them altogether, and regularly do.

> going thru the process to become LE, in general I’m not looking to be a corrupt maniac.

Then the process needs improvements. It looks like there are way too many corrupt maniacs getting through.

> Similarly, why would I join a dept with a weak union when I can be in one where I’m backed by a union that for better or worse will assume innocent until proven guilty and protect the paying members.

Innocent until proven guilty is for plebs. The problem is when they are shielded from even getting prosecuted. This is no justice.

From the society’s point of view some degree of protection of law enforcement is useful, because it helps them do their job in difficult situations. However, the rest of us need to trust law enforcement, otherwise the social contract breaks down. This means we need to trust that they get punished when they kill people they should not or when they bully and harass people for the lulz. Otherwise, what’s the incentive for them to behave?
Strongly disagree, both from a legal and moral point of view. Posting something publicly absolutely does not imply that anyone is free to do whatever they want with it.
Yes, it can pick dependencies from checked out submodules, or git URLs directly. It has ways to patch individual dependencies anywhere in the dependency tree, and multiple ways to mirror or replace the whole crates.io index. It's pretty flexible in this regard.
My god that has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Seems Leahy was at the helm of that disaster, too.
Add an extra generic parameter.

(Also, it shouldn't be Box; you'd want a bog-standard generic newtype for this, not an extra heap allocation.)
Who is giving this person these phones?
As far as I remember it just makes his family and friends upset, and anybody who witnesses the death, which is usually always preferable to him going mental and sentencing your master metalworker to death because he refused to make -=* platinum trumpets*=-
It's interesting that most of the one star reviewer have only one review history on Trustpilot. Feels dodgy

I practically live in Airbnb around Europe for last 6 months and never had a bad experience, except once which was resolved + I was given $100 free credit.
I can't believe this guy has the title of MD and has the gall to make the claim that "the brain does not grow new brain cells throughout your life". Absolutely ridiculous. source:http://web.stanford.edu/group/hopes/cgi-bin/hopes_test/neuro...
https://youtu.be/EX_MlWL7YKM
I like when the nanny state is occasionally thwarted by its toddler citizens' wants: the New Routemasters in London are a great example. Rather than the agonising 20-metre, 10-minute wait to the stop, you can assess the road yourself and hop off (and on if you just miss it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Routemaster

Boris, the London mayor, re-introduced these. I look forward to his PMship after Cameron, mainly because of the points he makes about freedom in this piece, using the Routemaster metaphorically (paragraph 7 on).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/10067598/Hop-on-and-off-...
Really? Granted, I never paid much attention to smart phones before the iPhone, but I find it hard to believe that none of them had on-phone app stores.

At any rate, games on dumb phones were definitely making money (I remember reading plenty of articles about how mobile phone gaming was getting huge pre-iPhone), and if you wanted to sell your dumb phone game, you had to go through the carriers.
I'm not your target audience at all but here's the first thing I noticed:

The big blank blue space up top (plus the logo) take up roughly 20% of the screen real estate. The nav then takes up another 5%.

1/4 of the screen wasted and now I'm finally at the content!
For San Francisco all the crime data is published (well, other than some sensitive data like the locations of rapes). datasf.org has a listing of all the geospatial data available for SF. A lot of other cities have their own data repositories. Washington DC has one of the best (http://data.dc.gov/) and New York has a good catalog as well (http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/data/data.shtml).
Seconded! Melatonin has been a life-saver for me. Been suffering from DSPS long before I knew what it was. I had tried just about everything mentioned and had finally accepted that I couldn't work a normal-work-hours job. So I resorted to working remotely and outsourcing a lot of my work.

I discovered melatonin after finally coming across the DSPS wikipedia article and realizing that it was describing me exactly. I initially started off with 3mg of melatonin about an hour before bedtime and that was waaay too much for me. I ended up sleeping most of the next day. After some trial and error I found that 1mg works perfect for me.

Now that I've been on a more 'normal' schedule for several months, I take it for granted. But when I first discovered that I wouldn't have to be a severe night owl for the rest of my life - it was a joyous revelation.

The hardest thing about DSPS for me was the loneliness at night. I could not go to sleep naturally until 4am at the earliest usually - and that left many hours when most things were closed and most friends were asleep. I feel much healthier now especially due to my improved social life with my new schedule.

While there were some benefits to DSPS - like beautiful 3am runs around San Francisco when everything's asleep and some great 'flow' time for programming, ultimately solving this problem has been a huge improvement in my life.
Hey, I appreciate the offer to help. I ended up getting everything running on rackspace cloud, which was surprisingly easy considering I knew nothing about setting up a server.. so we'll see how this goes.
Here are some charts on the subject.
http://www.financialcyclesweekly.com/public/530.cfm?sd=2
The charts are interesting but not sure about the financial links. They do seem to affect weather patterns which in turn affect crop yields.
This article looks a bit like what I had written long time ago.

https://xosh.org/explain-git-in-simple-words/
The "laser microscope" only goes halfway. You can deconvolve the diffraction pattern and get a fully volumetric image! Resolution is an issue. One setup, if your target is not moving, is to aim the projection at a desktop scanner.
> Releasing classified info

The President can make that decision, it is part of his powers as President. He isn't prohibited from doing that. Perhaps you don't think something in particular should have been released. If so make that case, but just complaining about this in general is illogical.

> fighting with his intelligence agencies

You mean the intelligence agencies that have worked very hard to delegitimize his presidency, mislead the FISA court and so on? Those agencies have a lot to answer for and shouldn't be treated as infallible.

> suppressing the press

Really? The press seems quite free to say whatever they want under Trump. It just seems silly to say that Trump is limiting the press.
I run a dev shop called Bauhaus Labs (bauhauslabs.com) we build mobile and web apps. Looking for extra hands on deck, open to part time, REMOTE, and INTERNS. If you have exp with react, react native, rails or python, hit me up! Email is contact@bauhauslabs.com
Yes, I think so. People grew up to trust institutions, and for decades they had good reason to (at least in the subjects of public health and safety). Who's to blame when after decades -- no, centuries -- we elect a leader who makes false claims that are counter to medical science -- and potentially hazardous, if followed, to the public health? The victim, or the authority?

I know which party I blame.
Explorer doesn't render arbitrary user selected fonts and Segoe UI is not a PostScript font, so I don't think Explorer itself uses this component at all? (A lot of Windows should be using DirectWrite now? I don't think DirectWrite uses this component either?)

Also, the way this is written is sounds like system isolates this DLL into its own AppContainer separate from specific apps that use/rely on it (and I guess remote to it)?
I posted links to one of the in vitro studies here, and in the comments I posted the press release for the FDA approval:

https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack
Surprisingly it's often the same crap that originates the DDoS (or encourages it) that has this protection enabled. Cesspools like Hackforums, etc.
Then don't travel to Taiwan for a few months.
most drugs for which you overdose need to be at much higher dosage multiples compared to the prescribed dose

Perhaps for over the counter medication. This statement is false when we consider drugs requiring a prescription especially those used mainly in acute care or hospital situation. There are all sorts of medications in that class for which a double dose will straight up kill you.

In discussing such situations we often use terms like "patient safety" and "medical malpractice".

The arguments for against this drug seem center around the person recommending it, not its actual efficacy.
> calling into doubt preexisting assumptions about how physics works

That's what progress is in physics...
Have you considered making a compiler plugin for Rust so Svelte style GUIs are possible? Reactivity should have first class support just like concurrency (which too have a runtime).
Classmate of another child prodigy, one who did achieve notable accomplishment, Norbert Wiener.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
I’ve said it before, but I’m in the best shape of my life now with two children because the YMCA has free childcare.
Why should his desire to not have voice assistants in the house trump his roommate's desire to utilize the technology they paid for and want to use? These are both subjective opinions and neither one is better than the other.

However I do agree that 3pt14159 should talk to his roommate about it if it bugs him so that they can come to an understanding.
Does anyone have a hypothesis on why William Sidis made such a interesting pivot?
From the article: the first deliberate cultivation of the poppy, as opposed to its casual collection, seems to have happened in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago, organized by the local Sumerians, who called their crop hul gil, which translates as “the joy plant”.

At the risk of being pedantic, I wrote an entire post about how this is completely wrong, tracing the origins of the error back to a confused Victorian writer:

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/08/opium-or-cucumber-de...
There are two types of bus factors though. It’s true that at a small company, you can’t share all your responsibilities with someone else, but you can make sure that if they need to you can be replaced by someone else (ie. if you get hit by a bus) by doing things like documenting your work. Alternatively, if you want to make sure your job is secure, don’t do that, but make sure you’re doing it knowingly.
Thankfully, I don't have to worry that much about it. My only concern is that they don't keep logs and that they're not automatically updating and loading my PC with malware.

Though, if PIA ever put malware in their installer it would be like hitting the self-destruct button.
I still have a soft spot for MIPS. What a great assembler.
While the definition of "success" is pretty widespread, how "success" is defined in China is probably a more rigid and narrow idea compared to what "success" would mean in some Western countries. Some people in places like the US or England would define success as doing something they love to do everyday, which doesn't necessarily mean you have to have a good education or have a lot of money. From living in China and talking to a fair number of people there, I'm postulating their more narrow-minded views of success is imposed by the culture and to a varying degree by the government.
Could be, but I don't think the report shows that. In fact it states:

"Many scientists, both critics and supporters, have expressed concern that the experimental methods we have used have not adequately established that causation exists between IQ and infectious disease, and that its direction is the one we predict. The use of longitudinal studies could answer all of these questions. Such studies would track children from as early an age as possible, documenting the intensity, duration, timing, and types of infections they acquire, and track their cognitive development through the use of culturally-appropriate IQ tests."

In fact I'd think that so many other potential causative factors, such as lack of education, freetime, skilled employment etc. are likely to be correlated with incidence of infectious disease, that it's hard to draw any strong conclusions without a more detailed study.
Someone else's success is not your failure, internalizing that message is the key.
I always thought if you raise money the investors want the money back in the end. Maybe they want even more than they invested. So if a company raises more money than some of the old players of the game who actually having big revenues one has to think how much revenue the inverstors expect from this company in the next years.
It seems like everybody only bets on Snapchat being bought by a bigger player which is a strange model of buisness case because there is no value but only assumptions generated. I believe (and that is very subjective) that that kind of investing is sickening the whole industry, it feels more like some sort of speculation which caused already problems in the banking sector. But it will be fine as long as the majority plays along.
I found myself feeling rather conservative when I think about a valuation of one of those startups comparing them to other companies and for me that doesn't work out. Maybe it's because the whole market changed the last few years but maybe it's the b-word. I look forward to find out.
The Winklevoss twins have been active in the bitcoin space since the early days. Mostly as passive investors lending their fame to the asset, admittedly, but they do at least know the technology and the space.
As long as there's no bugs in the smart contract, I don't plan on ever paying down that debt, since I expect the value of BTC to rise much faster than the value of my debt. My liquidation price is very low and if it were to reach that, it would mean a catastrophe anyways.
Err... The Nokia N series received frequent updates before Android ever came along. Blackberry constantly updated its OS.

Sure, some carriers restricted updates - but that's still a problem Android faces.
I thought LinkedIn was only for looking for jobs and getting business contacts, for business to business work. I see people posting personal "stories" and, to be honest, I'm a bit confused.
You don't even need a system

In Israel, before vaccines were made available to the entire public, people created Facebook groups reporting clinics which had spare vaccines, nurses would even go outside and offer random passerbys an option to get vaccinated.
I've read from this website before, they're not about some snappy argument/case, they're about thorough research and lots of detailed examples.
We have two cheap, basic standing fans with the standard wire guard around them.

At various ages we wondered if the kids could put their fingers in and touch the blades, and so prompted them to (while the fans were off, of course).

At no point could the kids' fingers get to the blades. Either their fingers were too short, or, eventually, too fat.
With D it is unnecessary to build projects out of multiple languages, as D supports conventional C type programming, template metaprogramming, OOP, and functional style. (It even has an inline assembler for metal style!)

Each of those paradigms has its place, and I enjoy being able to mix and match them as appropriate in the same program.
I like LinkedIn. It's one of the few places on the internet which still has this 'wild west' vibe. I enjoy the random connection requests and scam attempts.
It's the only social network which actually allows me to meet smart interesting people outside of my immediate network.

Maybe LinkedIn doesn't work so well if you're a rich person, but as a regular person I really like it.
I've established many successful personal and business connections through LinkedIn.
So long as OS X has the unix-y goodness underneath it, I can't imagine switching back, either. I hope Windows continues to improve, but I can't imagine choosing to use it again.
Isn't the kubernetes meant for making container management easy :P
ISO 8601 contains durations and time intervals which are totally undervalued! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals)

E.g.: 2021-05-01T12:00:00Z/P2H

They are so convenient. Ever stored a tuple of two datetimes to model a time interval? E.g. a meeting that takes place on 2021-05-01T12:00:00Z and takes two hours?

Don't! Instead, store it as an interval: "2021-05-01T12:00:00Z/P2H"

Or are you creating an API where a duration or a time interval is expected? E.g. "give me all sales in this time period..."

Using time intervals for that makes it so much more easy for people to code against it and execute manual queries.

For JVM developers, there is a library out there that has amazing support: https://github.com/MenoData/Time4J

For python developers, there is pendulum which supports most of the functionality.
It's not just about years, and it's already explained in the article. When I see the date "02/03" or "02/03/2021", I can't tell if it means "March the 2nd" or "February the 3rd", because websites and software don't consistently detect (or even care) about my locale.

But if the software show 2021-03-02, I unambiguously know which it is.
Also the license situation with the extension package.
I am floored. Not only is this just breathtaking sorcery, I also needed this exact thing for a project. I don’t understand probably 70% of the description of this software, but I understand what it does, and I’m more excited to carefully study and use this than I have been about anything in years.
Also the Apple enclave can store ssh keys eg using sekey, which needs your fingerprint to use.
Imo, whether being soldier is noble depends very very much on which army you are in and what are current goals and conduct of said army.
China does? I'm Chinese and I'm pretty sure Chinese consider Monday to be the start.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-l...

Unless it's already out of date...
This is categorically not like fractional reserve. The whole point of fractional reserve is the bank can lend out a multiple of its deposits- hence fractional. In this situation no one is lending anything they don’t have.

This is just like the difference between GDP and money supply. GDP is the rate at which money is changing hands, which can be many multiples of the money supply for perfectly valid reasons. Similarly this situation did change the actual supply of stock it just increased the rate of movement.
You'd rather release a buggy, possibly completely dysfunctional application than spend time on tests? How much overhead do you imagine testing would bring?
Wouldn't you also want to have a factory? Having recently run one, I would suggest you just contact one near you. We had an XP machine running the plasma cutter, a Windows CE powered welding robot and a Intel powered (MS-DOS I think) CNC milling machine and a bunch of other homebrewed things. I would dream of the ability to link them all together easily and do better production planning. If you are in a higher wage country, technology is your main defense against lower wage competition. I am very confident that almost any factory around would welcome being a test subject for Factory 2.0 (and they often have mechanical engineers on staff)
Agree and I think there's a a few big opportunities. e.g. a better job search engine. Search in some form is what most of us spend a huge amount of time doing every day. Even searching within web pages for the relevant content we're looking for.

Also Google are barely keeping their head above the web spam and filtering out spam is a very hard problem which may be better solved with a blend of human intelligence. Before you disagree with me consider that there are vast farms of humans creating SEO content and the content-gen business is growing extremely fast.It's the thing that scares Google the most in search.
It solves roster/presence and federation. The core of XMPP is pretty small; the extensions are numerous, but you don't have to implement them (if you're just using XMPP for the federation or as a messaging layer) for the most part. You also get the advantage of tried and true libraries for a lot of languages, which saves you from reinventing the wheel again. There are stable servers and usable clients to help you in development, and the documentation of the protocol is pretty good. Also using things like HTTP-Bind interfaces, you can basically use XMPP without keeping a connection open. All this flexibility has its use.
Ha! I understand entirely. I have the same hardware, and I'm replacing the (now broken) optical drive with an MCE OptiBay and an SSD currently in the mail.
I tink that Cuil became a disaster because Gogle existed. When google came out it was easily 10x better than what was currently on the market. The same cant be same for cuil.