skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder.

I'm really sorry to hear this, having gone through a similar thing with a now ex-significant other.

She too became very active in the segments of tumblr you identified and others (showed me many of them, some seemed like teenage angst in blog form, others were far more...worrisome), developed an eating disorder along with severe anxiety issues, and in my attempts to remain empathetic, supportive but cautionary about the affects those groups had had on her in the last two years of a five year relationship, she abruptly called it quits on our relationship and walked away.

Citing the anxiety was too much for a relationship, to this day I can't help but look back and wonder if those groups were partly to blame given how recent her changes were leading up to us parting ways.

This wasn't a 12 year old adolescent as it was in your case, she was-up to that point-a healthy, happy 34 year old woman with a great career in the corporate world. Our relationship was healthy, we had a track record of building each other up and improving as people together. If there was something going on under the surface for these groups to infiltrate and exacerbate to the point of us breaking up, she did an amazing job suppressing it. The decline however was swift, immediate and depressing. Each time I'd try to be involved and supportive to help her out, I always got rebuffed and turned away until, well like I said she decided to just walk away from our relationship. To say I'm still stunned would be an understatement.

Good luck with your daughter, I hope what you and your family must be going through improves for the better
There are lots of big photographers that are complaining that DA has been killing their stuff as well so I would be very surprised if it won't add similar policies.
That's the genius of a carbon tax that returns 100% of the collections as a citizen dividend, like the bipartisan bill recently introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Innovation_and_Carbon_D...
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Not at all fun or easy, but having some option for defining equivalence groups of names solves the problem. This also solves the issues of weird spelling (the same name written 200 years ago looks different). A simple solution, covers a ton of use cases.
In the end, I'm always trying to have a "discussion about code" with the candidate. I ask questions that really are easy, but require a certain amount of listening. This way I understand how the candidate behaves in more abstract discussions.

Some examples are things like:

- Walking the candidate through an outdated API (that the candidate isn't familiar with, but should be able to understand given the nature of the job)

- Walk the candidate through code that converts a database query into objects without an ORM. (Candidates who can't do this are incompetent. Really.)

- Discuss commonly-known details of exceptions / error handling in the language that the job is for

- Discuss commonly-known details of memory management in the language that the job is for

- Discuss API choice tradeoffs in an API that the candidate should be familiar with. (I like to pick serialization APIs built into the library in the language we will use.)

Also:

- I try to emphasize how I would do with my interview at the candidate's level of experience

- I have 2nd chances, and will usually stay on the phone for the scheduled interview out of respect. (There are still certain points where I will cut an interview short.)

- Make a decision to hire quickly.

Usually works well.

Signs to reject someone:

Figuring out how to use the teleconference software is an unofficial part of my interview. (Most of my interviews are conducted via teleconference because I'm on a global team.) There are candidates who take 15 minutes to figure out that they can type their phone number into the teleconference web site and it will call them back.

Candidates who want to answer a different question, or keep asking, "why can't I use XYZ" technique usually aren't hired. Again, the purpose is to have a discussion about code and demonstrate understanding of the discussion. I don't want to hire someone who can't adapt when the correct solution to the problem is some tool / design pattern / API / ect that isn't the candidates first choice.
Too expensive to police. Losing users every month, downward trends, etc. Tumblr has become a money loser and won't ever be competitive with Facebook, TikTok, etc.

Another botched acquisition.
"Stupid/evil rule" aka Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hanlon%27s_razor
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reddit probably.
Granted there is a tendency to hyperbole that foresees a kind of "Mad Max" level of devastation but it would be unwise to wholly discount the collapse of certain parts of the eco-system - especially outside the sphere of wealthy countries. There's historical precedent. Parts of North Africa and Middle East that are perceived as desolate were once, in fact, green with reasonable levels of water access. Humans changed that.
Communities need to start hosting their own content again. These days computing power and storage are cheap. Anyone can throw up a Reddit clone thats just for kinks. Would probably make good money too if it charged a subscription and didn't bother with advertisers.
I'm not sure where Shenzen would manage to run 16,000 buses given that London's TFL only have 8,500.

Population of London: 8.1 million.

Population of Shenzhen: 12.5 million.

Shenzhen is China's 4th largest city.
Not one to shy from grammatic pedantry, having almost won a spelling bee once:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/substitute

“3) (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y as in
‘I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.’ (This usage was formerly proscribed.)“

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/substitute

“Traditionally, the verb substitute is followed by for and means ‘put someone or something in place of another’, as in she substituted the fake vase for the real one. From the late 17th century substitute has also been used to mean ‘replace someone or something with something else’, as in she substituted the real vase with the fake one. This can be confusing, since the two sentences shown above mean the same thing, yet the object of the verb and the object of the preposition have swapped positions. Despite the potential confusion, the second, newer use is well established, especially in some scientific contexts and in sport (the top scorer was substituted with almost half an hour still to play), and is now generally regarded as part of normal standard English.”

Who are we to argue with the Oxford English Dictionary? You can take it up with them. lol

Have a nice day :)

(I will say that the “sport” example is bad- the player is not being substituted with the time!)
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> How do Zachtronics games get the word out?

Zach spent 10 years building his reputation one small game after the other. In a time when there weren't that many game developers around and there was no flood of games like today.

> Is the game good ?

100% positive rating on Steam should answer that.

> Are the people who have played it mentioning it to everyone they know and don't know in social media, because it's so much better than others?

So, what you're basically saying is word of mouth, not Facebook ads that was suggested.

> I mean, if I haven't yet got the time to play, say, #5 best game in some niche

Then you are not the target market anyway. That's why game developers need Steam. To access people who actually have time to play games and focus on a particular niche.

What you wrote just proves the point: without Steam the developer are bust. The market of people who barely have time to play 5 games per year is just too small.
It is much easier to promote censorship than to teach critical thinking.

P.S. We do not have anorexia epidemic. We have obesity epidemic.
No, you're exaggerating. I work in the field. Ab initio structure prediction (what this is) is an interesting technical challenge, but has little to no direct impact on biologics (or any other kind of) drug discovery.

The tools and technologies sometimes end up translating but that's a long-term process.
A minority of people with an outsize impact ruin it for everyone else. Nothing new there.
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That's a shame. I actually reached out to them asking if there was any way to look up my license by name and they said no.

At this point, what would be the downside to open-sourcing the original code and putting it under GPL 3? Why hold onto IP that you aren't making any money off of?
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The entire higher education system is set up with an incredible disregard for the people in it.
It does exist. It's not a new protocol, you can use (just about) anything that supports tcp. The domain names all end in ".onion"
Most clutches are hydraulic, not cable-operated. There will be a bleed valve under the car which can be opened with a wrench, causing the symptoms you experienced. Would take an experienced scammer maybe a minute to do.
Earnings is far from a linear function of viewer count.
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Thanks. Where can I find out the credentials of who wrote that answer? Also, as I asked before, how do I know where this theory fits in the domain of accepted theories?

> It has very high standards for answers (as you can see several times a day when a the mods nuke an entire thread for not being good enough):

I'll point out that this practice indicates nothing about the quality; it depends on the mods and not on the quality. If the mods' taste happens to correlate with quality, only then would it result in higher quality comments. For example, mods in a forum that promotes conspiracy theories might also delete threads that don't match their definition of 'quality'.

I'm a little concerned that the parent comment might represent a Reddit theory of accuracy, quality and scholarship, but not the real thing.
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Its bad in general, for sites like Facebook as well. People are now presented with news and stories that they are predicted arithmetically to like, in order to further "user interaction" (ie, more ad impressions). But this leads to an echo chamber, where people are not exposed to alternative ideas, contrasting viewpoints, etc. (And then, when they are my parents, call it 'fake news' when presented with them).
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I struggle with distraction and procrastination, making it feel like nothing gets accomplished on average, even though there are some small steps each day.

I have a kanban/whiteboard with small post-its and the "done" column is a reminder that things are being completed, even if not always at the pace I'd like. Not so much a hack as a reminder to not be down on yourself - we can't all be hyper-focused life hackers :-)
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In addition to removing the distraction altogether, a friend recently showed me you can put your phone display into "Greyscale" mode.

This has an immediate effect of being less pop-y and engaging. Big red banners are meaningless. The lack of colors make you want to engage less. It truly broke a bunch of odd habits for me.

Worth giving it a shot.

https://gist.github.com/jj1bdx/a514530f4f67a744526644527a12f...
That's not how mental illness works.
While I fully agree with the article, what exactly is it trying to tell me that everyone didn't know? Is it just saying that your phone is a distraction, and that distractions make it harder to focus? I'm just unsure what part of the article anyone would disagree with.
That word is in the oxford dictionary
i think you got it wrong. they are not risking their jobs, they are risking other people's money.
I completely disagree, and this is a notion that seems to have become popular but is completely off base. For some reason, people seem to believe that statistics is for inference, and machine learning is for prediction, as if statistics hasn't been concerned with matters of prediction for hundreds of years.

Machine learning is closer to being a subfield of statistics, in which methods tend to be non-parametric, have an emphasis on automation, and tend to require (but not necessarily) large amounts of data.

I think the entire reason for this notion is due to CS folks wanting in on the field of predictive analytics, but not wanting to admit that they don't have even minimal understanding of statistics or probability theory. But if they call it machine learning and insist enough that it is a completely different discipline, then they can feel better about themselves and their models that they threw together.
Steam discovery is and was useless for years. It is not really a place to find games you might like.
I still haven't figured out how this works, Tumblr smashes the page to 1/3 the screen and displays stuff I don't care about in the center 2/3.
#1 - ham and other processed meats are in a lot of "real" meals. Easy to avoid by simply convincing yourself you can't eat those foods and can only eat veggies.

#2 - pringles/chips are easier to avoid because they're snacks. Just avoid all snack food.
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Yes. Siri will respond to those two questions.

Did you try each then try to stop them with Siri?
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> You post it here?

I tried. Twice. Even made a browser playable demo:

https://roguebit.bigosaur.com/

Mostly got ignored (a single upvote on the post).

> It’s not like this would be any easier without Steam

Of course. This is exactly what I was trying to say. No Facebook ad can match Steam. With Steam algorithm, you can laser-focus the type of players who play this type of games. Without Steam you have to spend so much time and energy.
It's a minor piece of trivia but one of the key engineers involved with the Video Toaster was Brad Carvey, the brother of Dana Carvey of SNL fame. Apparently Brad Carvey was also the inspiration for the Garth character in the Wayne's World movie.
You've made good points why transparency wouldn't be good. And unfortunately, like any sort of voting system will have its flaws.

However, I think the abuses of everything being opaque is much more deleterious. In the case of HN, speaking rights are directly linked to groupthink. If you're highly +1'ed, you get to speak more. If you're -1'ed, you speak less (rate limited).

But yet, +1 als means "agree" or groupthink. -1 is reserved for trolls and flamewar starters. But yet, it's also used as a "I don't like you", "You're wrong", "Disagree", "Not popular"... Groupthink. Sure, you can have strong content converse to the article.. at -4.

Transparency allows us to see these groups in action, and shines a light on the whole system. Sure, some bad actors can brigade specific users - but I see that as the exception and not the norm.
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I haven't read PAGES 2017 before

Could that imply that you have a bias error in your understanding of Eschenbach and McIntyre because your understanding is based more on the interpretations presented at ClimateAudit than from the primary literature?

As they apply successive layers of screening for factors such as "False Discovery Rate" and correlation with "Mean Annual Temperature", everything except the tree ring proxies drop out from North America (other than a single coral series in the Yucatan).

And yet the 'hockey stick' remains in all the analyzes. That is, figure 7 shows "Global composites for various binning intervals and screening criteria, as indicated in subplot titles". More specifically, "Screening options comprise: no screening (none), regional temperature screening (regional), or regional screening adjusted for the false discovery rate (regionalFDR)."

Once you start screening out sites after peeking at the data that is going to be used for your analysis, it's hard to know if you've biased your results towards a preordained conclusion.

The 'no screening' analysis is figure 7a, is it not? Which has a hockey stick.
Interestingly that stuff doesn't bubble to the top for me. I see mostly indie recommendations I've never heard of and maybe a scattering of AAA or bigger indie titles. It feels very random to me these days.
>A terrible scam indeed “tow it to my shop” should have set off a flag

Curious, why is this a red flag? Lots of small towns have combined tow-service/mechanic shops.
The majority of ongoing Folding@Home tasks are not aimed at structure determination, but rather simulating the conformational dynamics of folded proteins (exploring the energy landscape rather than searching for the global minimum). Very few of the CASP algorithms are well-suited for this problem.
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Whenever I’m anxious about something, my thoughts immediately go to the worst case “what if” scenario. I obsess over it, I lose sleep, and I’m generally miserable until the situation resolves.

Lately I’ve started instituting a practice where whenever I think to myself “what if it goes horribly wrong in this specific way?” I think “yes but what if it also goes right in this other, equally specific way?” I find simply the act of thinking of a positive outcome distracts enough me from the horrible outcome to allow me relax. As an added bonus, at the end of the day my good case scenario and my worst case scenario are often about equally likely to occur given the scarce information I might have in the moment.

I find this exercise makes me less anxious, more able to handle stressful situations, and more resistant to uncertainty.
i believe the boundaries were drawn by the british, hence the straight lines.
That's a great question, so I tried it. Its pretty uncommon to be issued an NFC card from a bank in the US so I stuffed my wallet with a Metro card and a couple Hilton hotel keys. I used NFC Tools on my Pixel 2 and tried to read the wallet. The cards do scan, but you never know which one you will get. I put my wallet in my pocket and tried to read it - there is absolutely no way someone is going to read my wallet in my pocket without me noticing (using a standard reader). I needed direct contact and had to move the phone around to get a read. If the wallet were inside a purse or bag, forget about it.

Keep your Metro card or an NFC hotel key on the outside of your payment cards and chances of getting scanned reduce quite sharply (based on my small non-scientific experiment).
Expensive in absolute terms, yes.

Based on the calculator here:

https://www.wilhelmsen.com/tollcalculators/panama-toll-calcu...

It costs $1,196,397.54 for the largest possible ship to go though.

That's for 13,000 TEUs though (so 6500 standard containers) That's $184 per container. Now think about how much a container holds, and per item for sale it becomes pretty cheap.
So, it is no different than for any other sort of accusation lacking corroborating evidence?

Is there evidence that this is more likely in sexual assault cases than others? Your post here [1] (and the post you are replying to) seem to suggest that it is actually less likely in these cases.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590977
Wait. How are school bus fleets funded? You don't have to pay to ride the bus. Or go to school. So -- from the outside -- it seems like they're completely funded by tax dollars. Are you saying that's not true? How does it work?
That's addressed in the article, its still not as big of a revenue source.
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One of my favorite all time games.
This sort of the way the 3D accelerator card went as well. It just got merged in to the graphics card.