skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you getting help from a professional, therapist, Primary Care Provider, or Psychiatrist? If not, find one. They can help. I was where you are and now I feel better. Ask them to recommend a group. You can go be around people who understand that you’re depressed and want to help, until you don’t feel like isolation is necessary.

This is completely anecdotal and kind of besides the point. The two things that were most helpful to me, in the long term, were magnesium supplements and a gratitude journal. Magnesium has helped straighten out a lot of my anxiety and sleeping issues. Writing down five things everyday has really helped put things in perspective. I now realize how many of the things going on around me are magic. Lights in your house, massive grocery stores full of food, hot water that comes out of the tap, airplanes and cars, the internet, cellphones, most of the world’s knowledge in your pocket. It started to wear new paths in my brain. Seriously, six or eight weeks of this and my perspective changed. The world is full of really amazing, really awesome shit.

It sounds like you may be spending a lot of time on social media, where unproductive inflammatory messages run on a loop, wearing the wrong kind of tracks in your brain. Try an experiment, find a non-political hobby and stick to forums about that instead of news and politics for a while and see if that helps. Try two weeks without Facebook and Twitter.

If you’re really worried the world is only getting worse, read Stephen Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature”. He argues, pretty convincingly that we are living in the safest time in history and the trend is towards more safety and less dog eat dog.

I empathize with your desire for community and perspective regarding its decay. While we don’t have as much default real life community as we used to, it does still exist. I don’t know what you’re interested in or what your geography is but there are still groups of like minded people who get together to do like minded stuff. There are knitting circles, hackathons, bowling leagues, Boy Scouts, meetups, meditation circles, church, game nights, pub quiz, BINGO with the Eagles, Ultimate leagues, book clubs, support groups, walking clubs, and 100s of others all going on now. It takes a little more work to find them, but these communities are usually very welcoming.
How is this not cyber terrorism?

Lynching of muslims in India - by spreading WhatsApp messages on false pretense that they are cow killers - is a direct result of the trolls.

Despite being a secular country, India is turning into a social-media driven Hindu/Modi agenda.

The trolling is also supplemented by Mainstream media in supporting the agenda by collusion.

https://thewire.in/media/times-group-vineet-jain-sting-opera...
Perhaps, but it feels much worse in a polluted environment, and takes much longer to go away (lungs still sore/“tight” hours later).

I do think it’s strange when I see people jogging along polluted arterial roads for this reason. Especially when there are often traffic-free trails or quiet back roads available nearby!
I really don't understand how this was a political ideological comment when it is commenting on a fact in the context of the current discussion. Could you please explain why my comment was deemed inappropriate? I have yet to receive any feedback when asking the mods, which is probably why it continues. Is it because my opinions are "wrong" or is there an actual reason behind any of the "asking to improve"?
A cursed tomb can be a another civilization's deep geological repository [1] of nuclear/toxic waste.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
Maybe not in the individual plot elements, but the entire movie felt like they were checking off items from a list, and that they were fully aware that the movie is merely a fuel for the merchandise money machine . It was more or less just as naive and fairytale-y as the old Episode 4, and had exactly the right elements to make children go "ooooh" and "aaaaah" (and to pester their parents to buy them toys), and adults cringe.

Which by itself is fine, I guess, but there wasn't any depth in it beyond the effects' wow factor.
Data updates are not required for many applications. You probably don't want to be google maps! For example I haven't updated the OSM data for more than a year and I don't think that there are any problems with the data being stale. It all depends on the application of course.

One major advantage of not updating your data very often is that the tile-images won't need to be re-generated thus you save a lot of (CPU intensive) resources! I think that another commenter mentioned that he generated the tiles in a CPU intensive system and then just off-loaded the images to not-so-fast system for serving.
It sounds like in your opinion “no open plan office” is the sole value of working remote? As I misunderstanding your comment?

My office does not have open plan offices. Some of us work remote about 20% of the time. But I think we all generally enjoy working on site too.
si vis pacem, para bellum
Thanks for your work on this... this is going to make a big difference for lots of folks. (Myself included.)
The minimum is large, but if you compare it to mainstream js frameworks, it doesn't look that large. (Source: https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d). There are several frameworks with size over 100K compressed.
How feasible is that mythical pool pee dye?

I suppose an indicator dye that responds to chloramines could be developed, but the real challenge would be to make it safe and cheap enough not to be counter-productive.
It's a hot tub full of mummy juice, so it's always going to be nasty.
There are major propaganda efforts in motion by dictators and wannabe dictators to discredit genuine journalism, yet American journalists routinely lose their jobs or face extreme demotions if they're caught fabricating. I would state forthrightly that the news pages of the major American and European papers are trustworthy. Do you have evidence of fabrications that have gone unpunished?
I picked up a cheap Android a couple of years ago to see if mobiles had become worth the hassle yet. Permissions handling was one of the big things that convinced me they hadn't.

The most memorable example was trying to take a picture and the camera app telling me it needed permission to make phone calls. I still can't think of a single valid reason why a camera would need to make phone calls, so I refused, and blam, no pictures for me.
I will note that the word "postmortem" appears nowhere on the page, which is dedicated to status updates about the incident in question.
I am curious, what kind of provider is this and what kind of bandwidth limits could be burned through by a basic HTTPS website? I tried to do a reverse DNS but it only came up with a generic "com.remotehabits.in-addr.arpa"

I only ask this because even my very poor $2.50/mo server gets 500GB to 1TB of bandwidth allocated to it which is enough for millions of standard page loads.
How useful can a 300 person call actually be?
The most efficient non-hybrid cars in 2018
I love this story. Please tell us more.

Years before I ever read Thinking Fast and Slow I clicked on to the fact that humans are predisposed to making exceedingly poor decisions. This is such a fun example.

I almost want to start a side-project based on collecting these...
But you did write (entire family) for Delta and Long March. Your data is confusing and wrong.
> But the point is, cooking has ridiculous amounts of complexity hidden in it, including quite a lot that can be only be understood through trial and error.

As I think about it more, it really reminds me first getting into functional programming. These simple, primitive concepts appeared so daunting at first but once you get accustomed to the mentality and lose that initial fear you can turn those primitives into complex, beautiful software.
This blog post was not a complete advice then and it's not a complete advice now, as it says nothing about what to give to gnutls-min-prime-bit, gnutls-algorith-priority and how to turn off NSM.

See if this works for you on Emacs 25 and 26: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573969
I can, since I share the viewpoint. For me as a consumer, the security doesn’t affect me negatively at all. For me as a developer, working often on incomplete, immature, broken or partially broken systems, it often gets in the way. Because those things often can’t reach the high barrier of consumer-grade security - maybe because they’re broken!

So to interact with those systems via HTML I have do lots of “yes I know it’s insecure, I’m trying to fix that, let me past.” As the barrier is getting higher, sometimes I simply can’t get past.

This is a pain.

Emacs, let’s be kind, doesn’t have a consumer audience. It has an audience working on immature/developing/broken systems.
Middleboxes tend to not play well with non-HTTP content these days. Not long ago this was also the case for non-UDP/TCP protocols, this is even more cemented.

The only times I know that non-HTTP works is video games and that is sorta hit-or-miss on one ISP I frequent, they block protocols they don't know for "security".

Making it HTTPS is an easy way to get around any potential firewall problems and have it work easily in corporate settings.
Humans review iOS apps and their permitted functionality is fairly stringently limited, Android apps are approved and scanned by automated processes which are fairly easy to fool. (Play Protect does not rank well as an antivirus scanner according to AV-TEST.)

That being said, malware does make it into the iOS store, it just requires a fair bit more effort since an actual person is going to sit there and fiddle with the app before it can be listed.
Since you generalized a large group of people, I'm also going to generalize them, too. Most swimmers are very reasonable people just trying to work out. If you ask questions while they're between sets or after their workout, I'm sure they will be willing to talk to you. There are only like 4 rules when swimming.

1) Stay to the right side of the lane.
2) If you're on the wall, stay in the corner of the lane (so people can turn).
3) If someone touches your foot, stop for a second and let them pass.
4) If multiple lanes are open, try to stay with people of similar speed.

If they're getting mad at you for anything else, those people are being jerks. Rule 1,2, and 4 are all things you would do while running or cycling. They are follow the flow and try not to be in the way. They are common courtesy everywhere, not just a pool. Rule 3 is the only one that may not be intuitive, but you'll be kicking someone in the fingertips and face for at least a whole lap if you don't let them pass. Plus, it can ruin a set if they're trying to hit a certain pace. I'm not saying anyone should ever be a jerk to you, but it's similar to when people walk 4 wide down the sidewalk.
It's arguably the same. For Linux also people need to write the driver code and mainline it. It's just that someone does it for most desktop parts we would consider buying, but nobody does it for semi shady Taiwan hardware which is mostly sold in China's countryside and Africa.
The dust masks are pretty standard when working in any such site. Nothing to do with protection against a potential chemical or biological hazard. It simply wouldn't help.

But the site was most likely evacuated because of the smell and the fact that the local workers were reluctant to work in conditions that most of them considered to be dangerous. I would call it a needless precaution, definitely not a real danger. When a myth is too entrenched in people's minds fighting it will bring no benefit. It's easier to go along out of an excess of precaution and then go back to work when "all is safe".
This. Services are invited to take a slurp of data and use it as they wish, and contribute back of they make changes. It's not uncommon for a service of a certain size to become a contributor. But there's no requirement: if all they use it for is lookups and tiles, go ahead, "fill yer boots".
If you look at the table you'll see that the 3620 from Symbolics in 1986 was an entirely different system. It had a megapixel bitmap-only screen as a separate console (which had mouse, keyboard, serial and an audio interface) with console cables often of 30 meters. The refrigerator size machines often would be running in some machine room and the console would be used in some office room. The console was handled by a separate Front End Processor with a communication protocol over the console cable. An entirely different technology for a different setup.

Later Symbolics Lisp machines used different technology for the graphics system, but basically the same console setup.

See here for some more info about the 3620: http://lispm.de/3620/3620.html
What resources did you use to master SQL?
Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books of all time (I'm probably due for a re-read at this point).

I would also recommend "Seveneves", one of Neal Stephenson's most recent books. "Anathem" was also very enjoyable.
I'm sure LOTS of applications have remote controlled interpreters.
>For your analogy to work you would need to say you are content with Netflix raising their prices >10x (no longer a 10th of cable) because that is what Google just did with their pricing.

Netflix raised their prices what they felt they needed to. Google raised their prices what they felt they needed to.

If people don't like it they're more than welcome to go to the competition... which in both cases generally has inferior product.

It looks like this specific change almost entirely inconveniences businesses and not private individuals. They're allowing 28k FREE requests a month which is still beyond generous. That's enough for a small entity to develop a service or product around the service and not only get it working but develop a decent alpha, or extremely modest beta, base of users. Then, just like other businesses, you get to put on your big boy pants and accept the cost of doing business.

Does the power company hand out free power?

Does the water company hand out free water?

Does the phone company let you have free calls?

No. So Google is still allowing a more than fair FREE level of commercial usage and now want to actually monetize their product. If it's adding value to your business, paying the new rates is a cost of doing business. Build it into your pricing, adjust your budget. This is the real world, not Narnia.

I imagine in the most common cases the application is effectively advertising "here are our locations, come to one" and by the point of showing the map you should have already removed a significant number of non-conversions making it VERY fair pricing.

In instances where you are using it to actually build a product around, it's still likely orders of magnitude cheaper than buying, and maintaining, map data yourself. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if one year's cost is only a few percent of what it would cost you to initially buy all of the data and develop software for navigating and hosting it.

People allow free, and cheap, things to make them feel entitled. It's easy to do, it really is, but it's something people need to be more mindful of before freaking out.

All I read in that blog post is "HOW DARE GOOGLE! They want us to pay for a service we use! Pity us! Shame Google for wanting to not operate at a loss! How dare they! How. Dare. They!"
Losing track on one wheel is not going to stop one of these things from moving in an emergency. Plenty of videos of people driving even normal cars on rims. ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BgwX3hHgo
Ask HN: How do you find advisors?
Background: One of my advisors, an ex-coworker, just doesn't have the time to commit to me due to issues with their schedule. Yes, there is a small stock grant with vesting that I'd offer to any advisor, board or otherwise.

I am looking for a new advisor to help me with non-technical issues as I prepare to launch my MVP. I'm working alone as a solo founder right now and I would like to find someone to spend an hour or two a week with me to discuss business development, strategy, and other high-level topics. And to help keep me motivated before I launch and enter the valley of sorrow.

For someone who is interested in esports (SaaS, not a team) it might be a great opportunity. Since it's a relatively new field I wouldn't expect them to have any direct inside experience or industry contacts, but it's certainly a bonus.

I feel that the Stripe Atlas and Indiehacker forums are great for general info. Meetups are even worse than Linked-In since I don't have to leave my computer to online services. Industry events in the field aren't being attended by the type of people with the skills I'm seeking.

Where did you find your advisor? Have you been in this situation? Any suggestions from the HN crowd to avoid wasting my time trying for find someone?
That can be fixed with some trees (or better yet: captalized upon with solar panels). Parking garages are another option for more space-efficient parking
Linux does have this feature. It is the chroot() system call.

Linux can also allow limited access to select filesystem data within a chroot() - this is done with a "bind mount."

Why these two security features were not designed around all Android apps from the beginning is beyond me.
> where I map vocal with another vocal

I think you mean “vowel”, not “vocal”.
The feeling of overwhelm in our industry is more common than you might think. It reflects the sorry state where getting older and having more experience does not relate to gaining value, most of the time the opposite (imagine a doctor being dismissed for having too much experience)

Some ideas for coping:

- try to focus on learning fundamentals, things that are still useful 30 years from now.

- don't worry at all about knowing the latest sh*t, framework, language. they'll disappear. focus on your toolset, but ignore the rest. Instead, see above

- your career only partly depends on your tech chops. You need to decide where you want to go: into management? focus on social skills. Technical lead? Take as much responsibility as you can, get around, also people skills. Going freelance? Specialise, and gain as much domain knowledge as you can (e.g. automobile, telecom)

- clock ticking? See point before, but with only 4 years into I don't think anything is ticking for you. In fact, I don't believe this at all. Ageism exists, yes, but there are plenty of ways to prosper
Does Site Reliability include using assets from no less than 7 domains and requiring Javascript to present a few paragraphs of text?
I use an image of a strong interest I have as my pic, no personal info, not even my real name. It acts as a strong filter, so far my experience has been net positive.

I find it far more rewarding to try to hack the awful world around me instead of complaining how awful the world is/is becoming.
The Great Leap forward was an example of so many things going wrong including the danger of refusing to admit being wrong and lack of domain knowledge.

The famine also has roots in the pest eradication campaign lists including sparrows because they also ate grain. However they also ate locusts which makes the "sparrow tax" well worth paying compared to plagues of locusts scouring your fields. At least until you can control them sufficiently through pesticides or other measures anyway.

They refused to consult actual farmers or industrialists and then when faced with evidence of problems turned foolishness into evil by refusing to modify their policies. Just not consulting isn't a sin in itself - at times disregarding prevailing wisdom can pay off contextually or generally - if you know what you are doing or modify in the face of failures to address not knowing before rollout.

Those sorts of problems were endemic to communism along with refusing to recognize that while often overcompensated and not immune to foibles they do in fact do useful work. It is interesting to contrast with actual collectives of say farmers or occasionally artists - not leading the world by any means but a stable niche and a beneficial arrangement.
There was a straight up jailbreak app that got through the process with a single button and all it did was apply the exploit to your phone. So I guess I wouldn't put too much faith in their reviews.
You can use not only the API solutions, but also SMS sending services. There are very many companies marketing effectively via SMS. This is due to many factors (instant delivery, high open rate, reach on any phone, etc.) most of which finally lead to high Return on Investment of this marketing method, as compared to marketing by Push, Email, or via other channels. SMS marketing is particularly suited to companies where purchases made by customers are of relatively small value, of relatively high frequency, and are susceptible to impulse. If you are after some company names - BSG (https://bsg.world/) They can help boost your sales up to 50% by sending informative text messages to your customers
Thanks for this clarification, my knowledge of chemistry is quite poor. I remember the pool manager trying to tell me that 'if anything, the chlorine levels are low'. I suspect this was because any chlorine they added was very rapidly being turned into chloramine by-products.
A big +1 on this one. In a previous role, my organization leveraged google maps enterprise for tons of money, and the support sucked something awful.
It doesn't matter how convincing your message is if it never reaches anyone because your opponents are paying more than you for the same keywords / etc.
i agree a significant breakthrough in batteries (or other energy sources) is needed.
There's a quote in the article from the leader of the Irish green party, Eamon Ryan, that to me underlines why this is important, "We want transparency about online political advertising so hidden funding does not distort the democratic process."

It's that hidden funding that scares me. Whether it's massive spending by mega-corporations or targeted ads by foreign intelligence agencies. We can't understand how our democracy is being affected unless we know who is behind the money.
I think that iOS does block this.[0]

Unfortunately, preventing loading executable code on Android would break many useful apps (e.g. Termux[1]). Also, arguably, it would mean that third-party browsers couldn't exist, since javascript is code, after all (iOS doesn't have this problem, as no third-party browser engines are permitted — all browsers are just skins over Safari).

OTOH, perhaps there could be a "permission-like"[2] flag on Android where an app would have to declare that it loads external executable code. Apps that did not use this flag, but were detected as updating executable code (even if not malicious), would be banned from Google Play. Diligent users could then check whether an app used this flag, if it seemed as if it shouldn't need it and be careful.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof... (§2.5.2)

[1] https://termux.com/

[2] it wouldn't be an actual OS permission, just informational
I am disappointed every time I see a new Go release and go to check the release notes. The language is still lacking features like generics, sane concurrency primitives and even performance in some cases. Of course the WebAssembly port in 1.11 is an impressive feat of engineering, but I can't see myself replacing core components at my company with Go yet. Fingers crossed.
Found the article content quite interesting but the tone of the writing (emojis and exclamation marks everywhere) really put me off. Sounded forced and added nothing.
Alcohol: Basically none. Currently I might average 1 beer every 3 months or so. In the past I have enjoyed a nightly relaxation beer, but found it more costly than I cared about, so I cut it.

Coffee: 3-4 cups a day. Typically 2-3 in the morning, and 1 in the afternoon after work. This has gone up and down over the years, in the past I've drank a lot, upwards of a full pot. Then I developed an eye twitch. Now I'm trying to control that intake. Lowest I think I've been is 2 in the morning, 1 in afternoon.