skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. My workflow is to get the link from Firefox Send (which I love btw), email the link, open email on other device, click link.

There are I suppose two use-cases. 1) To send to yourself. 2) To send to others. The second use-case, is fine under the current workflow, but the first use-case the workflow is annoying.

If using Firefox Sync, perhaps the link could be synced over, maybe?
Actually, yes. Some friends tend to magnify the insecurities that a lonely/insecure person might feel.

What is doing something on a dare besides a play to battle the insecurity of being labeled a "coward"?
That's called lying with statistics.

About 22% of the population owns a firearm. However, about 3% of us own 50% of the firearms.

In other words, the number is accurate but misleading. Here is some recent data:

https://qz.com/1095899/gun-ownership-in-america-in-three-cha...

My collection is a bit more than 300 individual, complete, firearms.

Second, your link is only small arms in civilian hands and doesn't account for inaccurate reporting. Go to somewhere like, say, Somalia and I can assure you that you'll see the numbers are misleading. Then again, when a local militia counts as military, that tends to really make the whole civilian part moot.

We are pretty obsessed. We aren't more obsessed than anywhere else on the planet. There are places on this planet where failure to own a firearm means you're a very, very vulnerable person.

We can skip the histrionics and have a real conversation, if you'd like. Taking a simple statistic and extrapolating it to mean something quite different isn't very productive.

Additionally, the data is from 2007 and has some noted caveats on your linked page.

If you want a meaningful statistic, and I can't find one to cite, then the percentage of civilians who own firearms is much more significant than the total number. While I do own quite a few, I can't really effectively use more than one at a time. It isn't really like the movies.

In the US, 22% of us own firearms. That is it. 3% of us own half of the firearms. I have enough for, oh, 300 people, give or take.

Wikipedia and Google aren't that helpful, but I strongly suspect more than 1/5 the people in Somalia own firearms. Furthermore, I strongly suspect that they are far more likely to carry those firearms.

I pick Somalia only to have a good example of why statistics are able to be horribly misleading. We do love our firearms, but I'm going to have to argue the bit about the 'rest of the planet.'

I will happily concede that we have an unhealthy firearm culture. I will happily concede that we are obsessed to an unhealthy degree. I will happily concede that we need to make changes. I will happily concede that some people shouldn't own firearms.

We don't need hyperbole to get those concessions.

Now, what is your concern and how can I help address that beyond what has already been mentioned?

Edit: I re-read what I wrote and it comes off rougher than I'd like. I'm going to leave it but I ask that you understand my frustration isn't directed at you, the individual. I am frustrated and I suspect that's able to be discerned from my writing style with that post.

I am going to leave it because I am frustrated. People are seriously considering taking away my rights. I don't want any of my rights taken away - even if I didn't plan on using them. I have plenty of room and would happily let them house soldiers on my property, but I'm not wanting to give up the right to refuse.
Therapy can work entirely without medication.

There's a difference between psychologists and psychiatrists, and the article even spells it out.
Since our current system uses taxes from both employees and companies, it should be obvious that taxing employees alone doesn't cover our bills.

Wages by themselves are not beneficial because cities and countries require money to build/maintain public works.

The history of cities giving tax breaks to attract business and that resulting in a net positive outcome for the city is very very slim. See eg any economist (except those paid for by sports teams) that's covered this.
This sounds a lot like Beaker [1], a browser based off on Dat [2]. It allows creation of shared resources (web pages) with immutable version tracking, among other things.

1: https://beakerbrowser.com/
2: https://datproject.org/
"Copse" comes from "coppice", but today means any small group of trees (not necessarily any that have been coppiced).
> No, you do it for the lulz - because you'll be amused when you see people whining about it on the internet.

Which is the same as "knock, knock, ginger" or as:

> if you were to cut a branch down, people would DEFINITELY notice. people would think about you, when no one would before. even if the thoughts aren't positive.

>in other words, to not feel so small and meaningless.

Aka negative attention, trolling, NS (narcissistic supply). Its all more or less the same league, explained by what I quoted from user 2bitencryption. 2bitencryption's entire quote explains the full process in detail. Kudos.
Perhaps for media consumption and games but unlikely for developer or office work (at least not within the foreseeable future) due to the very hard problem of achieving the necessary optical fidelity to make VR a pragmatic option compared to even a standard 1080p LED monitor.
Can you give specifics other than this new thing and pricing?

I feel like discovery engines making obvious recommendations is actually a non-trivial problem to solve, I remember Spotify used to recommend me a lot of 'well duh' stuff in Discover Weekly. When just going off raw data, you can't really just 'not recommend' popular things. I routinely tell fairly aware co-workers about JS projects that have thousands of stars on Github that they've never heard of.

(Also I'm kinda cynical of anyone 'not liking pricing', of course you don't, pricing models are designed to make you need to pay).
Which youtube channels are you referring to? The weather is getting nicer and my walks are getting longer, would appreciate having something great to listen to (versus an audio version of a textbook).
Check out the online ICMP / Fragmentation checker:

IPv4 version: http://icmpcheck.popcount.org

IPv6 version: http://icmpcheckv6.popcount.org

If you see red - this means your ISP / cable modem is not really internet happy.

Funny thing, the ISP I use fails on the ICMP PMTU message delivery test on the first refresh, but succeeds on the second. What happens? The ICMP is delivered to middle box, which then FRAGMENTS MY TCP PACKETS. In other word - the ICMP is stopped at a middle box, who will ignore my packets DF flag and still, fragment them without my system even knowing. On second refresh the middle box remembers the Path MTU will be saved so the middle box will reduce the MSS on SYN packet. This is remembered for about 15 minutes. Middle boxes suck.
If you're thinking of that article a while back about how it takes hundreds of hours of work to make a medieval shirt, I believe it was semi-debunked: they were describing the process for making an extremely high-quality garment, fit for a nobleman. Peasant clothing was still very labor-intensive, but not quite as bad as they made it sound.
Yeah, the partially severed limb needed to be fully cut off for the best interest of the tree. I'm guessing the work crew saw some rot or disease or other damage, and went ahead and coppiced the whole tree.
Aqueducts are still extremely important parts of a modern water system. NYC, for example, gets most of its water from aqueducts.
The Yellowstone hotspot has produced dozens of super volcano eruptions over the last 16 million years or so. The time between them has been between 500,000 and a 1.5 million years or so. This hotspot is the most periodic on Earth and there is really no where else like it currently. Many caldera eruption locations have one or two eruptions and that's it. Like the Valle Grande in northern New Mexico.

So, in the Yellowstone case, it is reasonable to assume another one will happen and that the magma is "building up". And that it is more likely to happen soon, if it has not happened in a long while. On the other hand, I don't think we yet understand the mechanisms behind caldera eruptions well enough to say what will happen with much certainty. It is possible Yellowstone won't erupt again.

Earthquakes are much more predictable. There are hundreds of faults all over the Earth that each have a long history that can be determined by digging trenches across faults. Most are semi-periodic with repetition going back dozens of earthquakes.
I work at an ISP and saw this problem yesterday...

This is a good read, with a lot of research, describing a common problem. I will bookmark it, thanks for the share.
My naturopath put me on a neurotransmitter (which I'm intentionally not naming, seek help if you are depressed). My depression was caused by anxiety, that was caused by, evidently, something with my chemical balance.

Scientifically speaking, administration of my supplement is inconclusive. Don't take natural medicines for chronic conditions unless a qualified professional is looking out for you.
It would be nice to know what kind of code OP writes. Ie. are we talking application code or library code, and if it's libraries are we talking networking libraries, graphics libraries or math libraries?

Usually I find that Haskellers write very "low-level" code, ie. implement math abstractions or the like, while I prefer to write applications (in Haskell), where this abstraction technique may not be suitable.
The Case for Tesla
In my experience, people who start taking SSRIs have improved dramatically. Stop using anecdotal evidence to discourage people from seeking valuable help.
Are your headphones too heavy or do they put too much pressure around your ears?
I can work through whole day with my M50x. However it took some getting use to them and stretching the overhead metal.
As I recall, there was a Bitcoin wallet service which relied on securing the access key behind the '#' in the URL for its security -- turns out it's not perfectly reliable and shouldn't be used for protecting money. Likewise for files you really need to be secure.

Since boring crypto shouldn't have weird failure modes like this, I'm thinking this design is a big mistake?

EDIT: I think it was Instawallet and apparently while they had robots.txt set to prevent crawling, the theory was people typing their URL into Google (or Omnibar) would alert Google to the URL and it got into search results anyway.

I know that web-keys is based on the theory that since the fragment isn't sent by User-Agents in the Request-Uri that it's secure, but there are things that see the full URL which aren't conforming agents, and it just seems risky for any long-lived secret.
Your article [1] isn't a real published article, and it doesn't have a proper analysis. For somebody who has actually done the work, and gotten it published, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.5217.pdf
Why would they need ~83 new houses for each new inhabitant?
> They literally did this to themselves

I don't think it makes sense to conflate the corrupt officials (who likely took money from US entities seeking to corrupt them) and the masses of poor and non-influential who are now suffering.
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I have a house plant that is watered automatically, but not based on any pre-determined schedule. I have the plant's livestream and its moisture level available publicly on pleasetakecareofmyplant.com and the decision to water is crowd sourced on reddit.com/r/takecareofmyplant by way of a daily vote.
For standard VR experiences you move your head standing or seating, so a heavy headset is problematic. For development work you could lean back or lay with your head supported by a headrest, so the weight could be much less of a problem.
"Worth" is a product of accumulation over many years. GDP is a yearly measure. So you should compare Lemann's yearly income to per capita GDP.

Then once you start looking at individual incomes, you can look at the median income rather than the average income. Could be interesting to compare GDP per capita (which is an average) with the mean income, but I don't know if that's another apples to oranges.

As for number of hours worked, that's more a feature of the economic system and culture than wealth. We're so wealthy and so much is automatized compared to the middle ages that we could provide for everyone's basic needs with 15 hours of work a week or something, but we've decided that we need cars and cell phones and new clothes every year, and we've turned homes into investment vehicles, so we need to work more.
Roll Out Your Personal CI with Docker
Universal just tweeted the Movies Anywhere logo, and glitches in DMA, Vudu, and other apps seem to indicate that this change is extremely imminent, including links to a nonexistent app on Google Play. MoviesAnywhere.com still doesn't point anywhere, but it's likely to very shortly before the launch.

Zu Nim over on Google+ has been tracking the Vudu API for what titles would be supported on Movies Anywhere as they've been gradually added.
The medical community calls what you're doing "terminal uniqueness" and I've noticed that this is very prevalent with people who suffer from depression: "Those therapies won't work on me, I am different, I need a special treatment".

Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous. But it is hard to do if you aren't in the habit of doing it. (I know what you're going to say next, "but chemicals in the brain!" What do you think sleeping, healthy dieting, and keeping active are trying to fix?)
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Wrote a script to sort tattoo artists coming to a convention by Instagram followers. Saved me wading through dozens of artists to find one that suits my style.
As sfbay demonstrates, merely creating very high need for good public transport does not come close to guaranteeing said public transport will be created.
There's a difference between a lack of affection/physicality because you're depressed and because you're using an SSRI.

I still wanted to be close to people while I was depressed - I just felt useless and unable to do much else. On the SSRI I lost the desire to be affectionate, both around others and when I was by myself. It took around 6-9 months after I came off the SSRI for me to feel like I returned back to a normal state.
I'm thinking it was supposed to be 167,000 instead, which seems low unless there's slack space or projected construction (over 11 people/house).
A fair point. I'll agree that those properties are mostly not 'move-in' ready. However, the 4 year time period allows for redevelopment of properties. Also, my main point is that the author's data source is unclear. How do we know what was factored into the housing supply calculation?
Without having any experience in the area or knowing owners, this has been my exact assumption.

In a restaurant me and my girlfriend frequent, the main dishes are actually VERY affordable -- I'd even say cheap -- for what they offer. And many people flock to the restaurant in lunch breaks, but they are very careful to only order a beer plus a main dish.

Why? Because that restaurant's every single drink -- alcoholic or not -- is grossly overpriced. Desserts cost an arm and a leg. Salads are mostly okay but they most likely sell them for 3x the price of the ingredients as well.

The way I see modern restaurants is exactly like you said: food is just a bait so you can get in and buy the things that go with it, and they are the real profit makers.

I am perfectly okay with it. It was just an interesting revelation and I decided to chime in and thank you for confirming my observations.
This video is what convinced me to buy in to VR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag
> I've never heard of a single suburb being an economic center, what would be examples of it in the US(?)

Silicon Valley, for one. Most SV companies are in the suburbs.

Google in Mountain View, Facebook in Menlo Park, Apple in Cupertino, EA in Redwood City, etc...
It has no positional tracking so that already puts it within the "google cardboard" region of user experience quality (compared with the premium headsets)
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did -

The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are now 'open' ". They will close the application intake when they have reached X number of applicants. So timing is very important.

So I hacked up a script which diffs their home page every 10 minutes for "open" regex. When there is an "open" keyword in the diff, the python script calls twilio API to make a phone call to me along with an SMS.

So this script was running in AWS for many weeks and one day I got the call. Logged in to Saskatchewan's immigration homepage and applied. Now I am in Canada as a permanent resident. Thanks to Twilio.
edit: add H1B to make clear which type of immigration is broken IMO.

(This comment is from my previous HN account, for which I lost my pwd.)
By "transfer" here I mean a thing like a curl on a large file.
On AWS, we bake our AMIs with packer and include the Ansible roles and playbooks.

We use CloudFormation to deploy, so in the instance metadata we have it run Ansible locally to bootstrap and return the exit status to cfn-signal.

We retrieve secrets via Parameter Store. For environment specific configs that are not secrets (ie passing in vars from CloudFormation), we have cloud-init write a json file that we include with our ansible-playbook command.

The command ends up looking something like:

ansible-playbook -v -i 'localhost,' -c local /some/path/playbook.yml --extra-vars '@/some/path/vars.json' && /opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e $? --stack ${AWS::StackName} --resource ${AsgName} --region ${AWS::Region}
This makes a false assumption - that Amazon would be on top of existing job creation.

Cities already have models that assume/hope for a certain amount of job creation (and loss), with some of that being provided by new entrants to the area.

If existing businesses aren't meeting the model, they go out and find new sources. The jobs and housing numbers are separate (separate orgs, both flowing from the same model).

So, consider this more of a mayor being a salesman meeting their annual quota with a single sale. It's risky, but it's not an issue if it happens - they have already planned for success.

Now, if they aren't producing housing to meet their plan, that's an entirely different problem.
I love you for writing this. I spent thirty years either trying and failing to fix myself, or being misdiagnosed (turns out treating bipolarity with antidepressants can do more harm than good). It wasn't until I had kids that I tried once again to get out of my hole, and got correct treatment. Luckily my kids were still little and the only dad they'll know is someone much better equipped to to be fully present and loving for them, in a way that was often buried before.

To anyone needing help, if it's easier to take action for someone else, do it for their sake. And hopefully you'll see that it's ok to have given yourself that kindness too.
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Did they improve the resolution at all? As far as I remember, I was still able to see pixels and that spoils the immersion for me.
He's not discouraging people from seeking help; he's encouraging people to be educated about the help they're seeking. For people who are in affectionate relationships, this is an important factor and is worth mentioning.
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Backups à la Time Machine on a Linux system.

Rsync (with rsync-filter files on every directory to exclude files, similar to .gitignore) to target drive or remote server. Then take BTRFS snapshot.
> you shouldn't need a therapist to figure this one out. A reasonable amount of exercise is good for pretty much everyone.

People with clinical depression aren't those who _can_ easily hit the gym for that dopamine rush. "Some sport is usually not a bad idea" is not the hard part, getting to the point where it can be implemented is.

And if that is the problem, and none of the pep talks on hacker news over the last few years helped, why not try the therapist?
Here's an app that helps with simplifying your writing: http://hemingwayapp.com/

While it won't help you to extract meaning and make everything concise, it could help with sharpening your words.
One psychedelic/psychoactive drug is not like another - not necessarily better or worse, just different. You may well be shocked by the degree of difference; I'd rather not resort to cheesy analogies because they're likely to create unhelpful preconceptions.

If you do experiment, avoid the enthusiast's trap of trying to sample as many different cocktails as you can. Whether it's a maturity or a cultural thing, there are many temptations to 'max out' on the intensity of the experience, which I think are unhelpful.

As for the therapy aspect, it's wiser to dose with an experienced person present who can help you if you feel distressed, but if a therapist is proposing to script the whole trip then it won't really be 'your' trip any more.
Creating Dungeons & Dragons characters. I found that for first time players it is difficult to overcome the initial onslaught of information and rules. So I created a form-based questionnaire that abstracts out most of the uninteresting parts of creating a character, their stats. Based on how a player answered the questions, they are emailed a filled-out character form along with relevant information to their character if they want to read up more.

This saves me and each player a fair bit of time, as every new player gets a personalized starting point, making explanations shorter and more relevant.
DNR.

Technology needs to be put in context. I saw people in Nepal with mobile phones that didn't have access to clean water.

Rather than GDP I'd measure the likelihood to die of disease, famine, war, etc. Technology is a tool. The same cognitive dissonance is seen when discussing evolution.
See the picture of the cut limb? (https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/broccoli-tree-vandal-01....) How it looks like there's a vertical crack in the limb, and kind of black in the middle? And if you look real close at the vertical cut, it looks black inside. Other parts of the tree seem to have large black spots too.

Well limbs don't just crack vertically when they're cut horizontally. Either someone hacked at it vertically (no real reason), or that black spot is the mark of black canker, a willow disease. The only fix is to cut off the diseased limb in the dormant season. And it's almost the dormant season.

Why did all the limbs get cut off? Dunno, maybe it had to do with canker too. But remember, plants are not here for humans' amusement - they often require trimming, chopping, replanting, large culls to prevent disease spread, and all kinds of other treatment to care for them. The end result may be an ugly tree, but a tree that lives.

I could be wrong. But it's best not to dwell on the worst of things if you don't know what really happened.