skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it always existed and isn't necessarily always a problem. But, as with anything, it can quickly become a problem once we get better at it and turn it to eleven.

Last century, forming a sect was hard work. Now this kinda seems to happen accidentally all the time when someone tries to launch a new social media platform. For those examples the problem isn't preferring a select few, but shielding yourself from others.

But yes, favoring select few can end bad as well. When you network with and thus effectively give positions or contracts to only your select few, you can end up with a self-reinforcing feedback loop and thus quite homogeneous subset of people. And then end up with e.g. woman complain they cannot obtain senior positions or more frequent conspiracy theories about how jews run the world. Having lots of people think they are treated unfairly is generally bad for a society, especially our democratic ones.
On the other hand, I've just watched a behind the scenes video [1] about Mission Impossible: Fallout, and was absolutely shocked by how much of it was shot in real life.

Basically, most of it. When I saw the movie, I would've bet my left kidney that 90% of the effects were green screen, I definitely would never have guessed that the skydivig scene, helicopter chase, and the canyon fight are for real. I could barely believe such canyon existed! Absolutely stunning.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=lCv59-y123g&t=0s
Ya, I think the first gulf war was a turning point in Southern patriotism, and 9/11 even more so (though I wasn't in the south then). Its funny how the stereotype today of the south is of ultra-patriotism when it wasn't too long ago that the exact opposite was true.
Humans will always find something to fight over. If it's not the water supply it's the religion. If it's not religion it's something else. Envirentment won't kill us. We will.
> negative claims are much harder to prove or disprove.

No, they aren't.

One, disproving a negative claim is exactly proving the opposite (positive, if the same style of expression is used) claim (and vice versa), so it can't be harder to both prove and disprove negative claims, even if they were real distinct classes.

Second, “positive” and “negative” claims are largely phrasing choices; it's quite possible to have positive and negative claims that are semantically equivalent.
"States' rights" is actually one of the valid answers to question 74 on the naturalization civics test. ("Name one problem that led to the Civil War.")

Now I wonder what process led to these 100 questions, and their valid answers. (I just took the test a few weeks ago, and becoming a U.S. citizen on Monday.)

The full list of questions and valid answers is here: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%...
And the two attached sound files are still working. Pretty crazy actually
Ask HN: Does self-hosting your email mean that you'll be flagged for spam?
I'd like to host my family's emails. Maintenance is not a problem. What I'm concerned about is being flagged for spammed (due to using Digital Ocean or similar). I'd like to know what those of you who self-host can say about that.

There was a related thread two days ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511650
it’s called recruiting.
Is 'French' a race then?
If I could push a magic button to never hear a straight-piped Harley ever again, I would.
Returning looted artefacts to the brilliant cultures that made them
You've crossed into incivility in multiple places here. That's not ok on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and refrain from posting like this, even when you feel strongly.

I've spent years working with past trauma and many hours in therapeutic circles with traumatized people, so I completely get where you're coming from and our views are probably sympatico. But there's a risk, when one's opinions come from the same intense experiences as one's feelings do, of not leaving enough space for other people. On HN, other people means other commenters, especially ones who are coming from an opposite position. Forum comments tell us very little about who we each are, and inevitably we sketch in the gaps from material of our own past experience. This leaves exchanges fraught with misunderstanding, especially when feelings are strong. We're all responsible for guarding against that.
So what’s your threat model here? Are you worried about being targeted individually or in aggregate?

In aggregate it’s not clear that the risks of putting your data in the cloud are as dire as everyone fears. If your worried about being targeted individually then you’re already screwed. There’s no way a single individual can guard against state level actors.
Everywhere I've lived with this "service", there's been no respect for potted plants either. They get the full violence of the wind.

There was even a group of these guys who came straight up to my door, open except for the screen, and blew right into the house. They arrived early and started blowing in that very spot, which is why I hadn't had time to close the door. Just jerks.
The entire point of such a transaction is that the courts _do not_ decide it.

The construction was specifically designed such that the person who figures out the hash collision is the owner.

The courts having rules to decide whom the coins belong is meaningless in that context.

Who owns a Barbie doll? Is it Mummy, Daddy or the child? It's not a matter for courts to decide because the question is meaningless.
Bitcoin crashes through $4,000
Thankfully Netscape decided to release the source code for "Mozilla" before this acquisition took place.
Space Rocket History podcast is in the middle of a very long breakdown of the Apollo 13 flight. highly recommend, but the host has quite the accent.

http://spacerockethistory.com/
First, thank you for helping fix the addiction problem by reducing stigma through the act of writing about your experience. Not trying to sound patronizing here - that takes courage and I deeply respect it.

I don’t believe I ever claimed that trauma is the sole cause. As stated in an earlier comment thread, I believe based on experience that it is the primary cause especially of the most severe cases.

I do think you bring up a good point about some substances which are so physically addictive that it might entrap people who are less psychologically vulnerable than trauma survivors.

That said, if you don’t mind me pushing for a bit more clarity here - you must have known going in that heroin is an exceedingly bad idea due to its physical addictiveness. What was it that caused you to start taking it? I am genuinely curious, not here to judge you.

I might guess based on your comment that peer pressure may have been a factor, given many friends who were addicts. But if so, what was the root cause of the insecurity that caused you to be vulnerable to peer pressure in the first place?

(If it wasn’t peer pressure, whatever it was... basically I’m just trying to understand what was the root cause of you personally making the unhealthy decision to try heroin)
This made a huge difference to me too. I've always done my best to not feel bad. Feeling bad must be bad, right?

I still struggle with smoking, I would rather feel nothing then feel the mental pain. I'm just rather torn, through my years of depression feeling terrible has never felt productive it feels repetitive.
Well said. The meme of "it wasn't at all about states' rights and if you think it was you're a (racist|revisionist|CSA apologist)" is more confusing than persuasive.

And that's my perspective as someone who grew up with "war about slavery" as the default interpretation, only learning about contemporary states' rights arguments in later history classes at my (public Virginia) high school. (And then only learning from HN/reddit that "Northern aggression" / "states' rights" propaganda was even still a thing.)

I expect someone raised on that propaganda would be even more confused, likely enough to conclude that the speaker is lying or misinformed.
If so, at least there wasn't a bone saw involved.
IPCC's business-as-usual scenario presents a range. You were correct that 4C is about the median but 6.4C is the upper end: https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm...

That's by the end of the century, not the highest it will ever go.

And honestly, I hope you're not going to base your views on what links a couple jokers on HN have handy. Read books with real references or by actual scientists. We can't provide a couple web articles that will be sufficient to convince you, if that's not what convinced us.
It seems over thought. Blockchain is essentially a ledger (don’t even worry about the distributed part), and the bitcoin associated with a public address (wallet) is accessible to the holder(s) of the private key of the address. In my mind there is digital access to a digital account, while in theory the account is immutable and transactions on the ledger are immutable (ie no need to worry about double spend in this system) access can be lost or stolen.

That’s it! Ownership, like its suggested by the lawyer...well like all things in law: “it depends” and what it depends on are the facts as applied to ownership laws of local jurisdiction
It's misleading even then, when you look at the actual complaints of the states (as expressed in their declarations of independence). For example, most of them complained about the free states' pushback to the Fugitive Slave Act, which was also a states' rights issue - but the one where interests of the slaveholders aligned with a stronger federal government strong-arming states; and they didn't have any qualms about that.

Similarly, in the Confederate constitution, there were some provisions added that specifically restricted the ability of the states to handle slavery in their jurisdiction - e.g. the "right of transit and sojourn" (which essentially meant that free states were forced to respect the "property right" of any slave-owning citizen of another state who comes to reside there) - this, of course, was in response to Dred Scott.
Would you also say that complex jobs require a whole toolbox, rather than just a hammer, wrench, or driver of some sort?
Reminder to anyone interested in the history of London transport that Geoff Marshall's channel is all about just that https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd18OhMfRmjMjzSHP7Zrzmw
Being born I consider a little odd, I doubt its encoded at all.

But I do agree about unclear memories. Being physically beaten is rather cut and dry. Being emotionally abused becomes super unclear as to what is and isn't abuse.
Why can't I just gather materials and build my own house?

In the US, you certainly can, as long as you use approved materials and get the necessary permits and inspections.

If you want to fell trees and gather rocks to build your home, you can also do that, but it becomes much harder to get it registered as a homestead. In either case (assuming you are living outside city limits), you will probably need an approved septic plan.

You can build something that doesn't meet the local building codes, but it may be difficult or impossible to sell it later.
Sorry about a bit off-topic and not directly answering your questions but your story resonated with my experience. Maybe it might help you or not :)

I've had surgeries on both my eyes for retinal detachment before I was 22 years old (30ish now).
I am now handling myopia of -16 due to bad eyes and post-surgery effects. I don't want to insinuate that you have the same conditions but I dealt with similar symptoms. Sudden loss of vision, dark circles and dark drops passing in the vision is a scary and distraught feeling.

The thought process you describe happened to me as well and is still in-progress. Dealing with the fact that having such issues "early" in life poses questions and anxiety for what might happen later. I kind of navigated over the years with two ways of dealing with this.
First as you today with the ideas of pro-active actions to prepare for the day I might go blind: learning braille, using a computer without or very poor sight and thinking about possible career transitions.

I was lucky enough that the surgeries went well and my sight "kind of" stabilized. Over the years I adopted a more "optimistic" approach. Even with a bad start, it is still only a possibility and not a certainty to become blind. I decided to live my life as fully as possible with my current sight and avoid to end-up in a anxiety circle about it. Who knows I might still have my sight for life. And by the time it might deteriorate, technology and medical science will have improve, thus hopefully increasing the chances in treatment, tools and possibilities.

Good luck for everything.
That's a good idea, but does it take care of all the in-app popup type distractions, too? Today I happened to go through Maps' settings and found about 15 notification items to turn off, but I imagine they'll keep adding this default-on trash until Google kills the service one day.
The other thing is that the parents are often part of the problem.

I’ve seen a couple of “monster” children in my kids school who are highly disruptive and have some obvious issues that will be very difficult as they get older.

It’s pretty obvious why when you see the parents in action.
The end of the video mentions an application: a composite material made from a renewable resource (wood). The idea would presumably be to get a transparent, strong surface with mechanical properties different from either wood or epoxy alone.

However, the effort to process the wood, and the consumption of non-renewable resources highlight the limitations with this approach. And as was made clear from the video, the process is limited to pieces with thicknesses of a few millimeters at best.

A lot of the problems described in this video arise from the mechanical properties of the wood itself.

So, why not use sawdust instead? Its vast surface to volume ratio means that the resin should penetrate rapidly.

Also, wood-plastic composites are a thing; they're made from sawdust or whole wood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-plastic_composite

How such a compsite material could be made transparent is an interesting question with potentially many practical applications.
I would think the RIAA and MPAA might be of concern.
> It would be more correct to say that there were slave states that didn't succeded from the USA.

Absolutely. Succession (being part of issue of "states' rights") was a huge part of the Civil War.

> The president couldn't free slaves within the USA by executive order

Indeed; I pointed that fact out myself. There's no question that the man Abraham Lincoln was anti-slavery but could not himself end it. There's also no question that the man Robert E. Lee opposed Virginia's succession but not himself stop it.

The fact remains that as a whole the Union still had slaves, and that didn't change for the entirety of the Civil War. In fact, assuming you believe the Union's authority was legitimate, slavery was outlaws in the South years before it was in the North.

My point is there's obviously things going on here other than just a war to end slavery, and it's important not to downplay that either.

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FWIW, I'd call Seattle "the West".
I used to base a lot of hope on things like asteroid mining and solar power satellites, but we frittered away the decades and now I'm worried it's too late for that stuff to save us.
I'm a foreigner with ties to Toronto, and I ruled it out. Salaries vs housing costs don't add up.
I hypothesize that occasionally the trauma is being in the wrong social environment; being peer pressured in to something that digs in hooks.
I just want to note that the nychold.com site is new to me, and that there's a lot of interesting stuff there.
Hm. According to her, Caroline Cossey (the Bond girl) was more or less hounded into giving up her modelling, TV and acting career due to the backlash. Not sure it's as simple as mere trivia.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/transgender-bond...
>Wealth inequality has never been higher than it is today

Wealth increased to an extent that inequality little matters.
If homeless beggars have smartphones with access to unlimited knowledge, enough to eat and access to medical treatment superior to everything before, how do they compare to the kings of the past?
1998 -- good going bro.
This interview story sounds more like Hashrocket (the consultancy I founded in 2007) than Pivotal. Pair programming used to be a big selling point for us both with hires and clients.
I'd say pair programming always starts organically at my current workplace (well, it's certainly never really planned; mostly it starts with "pair debugging"). And I have to say: Given the right partner for the task, I usually really like the experience.

For me, a big part of this is that rubber ducking seems to really work well for me as well as some of my coworkers, but although I actually have a duck at my desk (more of a gag), I could never actually use it -- in an open space office, I just can't help but feel like an idiot while discussing the codebase with a toy ;-)

Of course, a big upside to a coworker playing the duck part (aside from them not being as stoic and giving me valuable feedback) is that this practice automatically familiarizes more people with a given piece of code, which is also never a bad idea.
Not just leaf blowers -- there are hundreds of irritating sounds all around that we have little control over:

- TVs blaring in waiting rooms when you'd prefer to just sit in silence.

- Appliances and gadgets that make unnecessary beeps; my coffee maker makes some irritating chirps when the coffee is ready and a particularly unwanted second set of chirps 2 hours later to tell you that it's turning off.

- Trucks that make a shrill beep-beep-beep when they go in reverse. Think about snow clearing trucks at 3am if you live some place that's difficult to clear.

- Useless announcements and even ads on subways, buses, and flights; who needs instructions on how to attach your seatbelt on a flight (ridiculously sometimes given after takeoff).

- Autoplaying audio on websites. Fortunately, we've made progress on this one with browsers settings.

- Monthly fire alarm testing in some condos and office buildings. Surely, some way could be devised to test the system without disturbing thousands of people at once.

It's tragedy of the commons where the commons is the air space.
I don't know about you but my current level covers a lot more than my basic bodily needs. I'd love to trade any future wealth increases for a healthy planet.
I suspect we live in an anomalous time in the history of software. Already, I feel like the ecosystem is settling into a form it will retain for some time. A hundred years from now, our descendants will still probably be using Linux, and they'll see it as much as a relic --- or not --- as we see old subway tunnels.
I was at Netscape at the time of the acquisition. When they offered buy-outs for employees that would volunteer for layoffs I gleefully waved my hand and left.
It's more like post deployment testing. Find a bug in deployment, write integration tests that replicates it, unit tests that isolate the failing component, add them to your test system, and make them a routine part of your testing schedule to prevent regressions.
I wonder how many times a security of any kind has exhibited exponential growth, and then crashed exponentially to a multi-month plateau, and then dumped some more.

Bitcoin definitely did it post mtgox (1200 to 300), but the only other securities I can think of dumped linearly (sears)
I'm just saying that Native Americans are still around and still vocal. Native Americans are still politically active and the first Native American women were even voted into office this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_Americans_in_th...
This rings similar to things I read about food trucks. They run inefficient gas electrical generators. A single one running for a day can display dozens of cars switching to hybrids. Point is these small things are huge perpetrators of pollution that we forget when we regulate the car industry.

Pollution is not a single solution problem, everything must be accounted for.
The OP was talking about working class families. That’s a far cry from extreme poverty.

My parents were cleaners and although we were often tight on money we were miles away from extreme poverty.
So you're saying this is a tragedy of the commons, principal-agent scenario then?

You will continue to accumulate unless everyone else stops accumulating.
I’d dig deeper. Buying power is a zero sum game driven by price, interest and tax.

When you look at tax rates, there’s a direct correlation between home price and taxes in high price states like NY, that correlates tightly with the impact on buying power.

I’d guarantee that if you were looking at the 11% 30-year mortgages with 85% LTV requirements that were typical in the 1980s, prices would be very close to 1980 levels adjusted for inflation.
It's a shame that Indian cities aren't designing themselves around public transport. Road projects ensure a continuous under the table paycheck, unlike public transport....so roads are easier to fund. But, they really aren't the answer.

India is perfectly structured for public transport. High density, massive village -> city migration, a primarily lower-middle class population and some of the worst pollution on Earth .

Mumbai and Delhi are 2 cities that are now entirely dependent on public transport. Many rich people in Mumbai take the local train, because of it being faster and more reliable than roads during peak times.

Despite the public demand for it, it is very hard to now retroactively construct public transportation infrastructure in Mumbai.
I don't necessarily disagree with you.

However, you are stating that ads for massage techniques could "break society."

That just doesn't add up to me.

What is not being stated here? How does this connect? (These are not rhetorical questions!)
yeah but timbers like that are very unlikely to be used structurally anywhere outside of small domestic scale construction.
I specialize in background geolocation.

React Native

- https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-ge...

- https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-fe...

Flutter

https://github.com/transistorsoft/flutter_background_geoloca...

https://github.com/transistorsoft/flutter_background_fetch
Dont know what you mean by "dumped linearly", but INX, 2008. Had a second drop a few months after the main.
And to think, one year ago we had the fad of Bitcoin Christmas gifts. I know some intelligent people in tech who bought into BTC and ETH around then. Sub-$1k BTC by year's end is a real possibility.
> "6.4C is the upper end"

Upper end is going to be defined arbitrarily, but either way its still less than the 7 degrees and 11-12 degrees considered in the primary source.

> "Read books with real references or by actual scientists"

Books are going to be secondary sources, no one really puts primary research into them and hasn't for about a century. The primary research is almost all available online.
> When the fan inside the Number 2 tank was turned on, the damaged wiring caused a spark, starting a fire inside the oxygen tank.

Why wouldn't there be a pre-launch test like "turn on Number {1,2} oxygen tank fan"? You'd think they would test everything that they could.

So giving NASA the benefit of the doubt, they either really couldn't do that as an integration test for some reason, or they did and the test run damaged it, or post-launch conditions were too different.

I am very glad that none of the code or tests that I write can kill anything more critical than a web site.