skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 years is a long time. I find it hard to believe that your life stayed exactly the same and the only thing you can attribute your partial recovery to is reminiscing on your personal, unique psychological scars.

> chronic muscle and joint pain,

Maybe new couch or different chair at work? Maybe bit more walking becsuse you now frequent different grocery store or now park usually bit further? Maybe you don't go anymore to the places where people can pass onto you some virus that manifests in few days of muscle and joint pains? I sometimes get them. I can recognize them because they are sometimes causing few sneezes over few days, way too few to say 'I have a cold' but really hard muscle and joint pains and fatigue.

> digestive issues,

This might be as simple as not eating one thing anymore because they no longer sell it, it's no longer tasty for you or you stopped seeing person you ate it with?

> fatigue/lethargy,

Maybe less stress at work, nothing good to binge on Netflix, or you got bored with that one game you really liked to play, new bed, couch, you nap more often or just developed resistance to coffee fallout?

> skin conditions,

My hands started itching like crazy in the beginning of winter. Atopic dermatitis? Nah my skin just started spontaneously cracking in dry cold weather because it got old (at 30). Now I just use hand cream (what a disgrace) and all the little itching microwounds just seal in 2-3 days.

You skin issues might have gone away because of lighter winters or less time spent in AC or just AC getting old. Or you getting older, or bit cleaner air because patterns of traffic near the sites you frequent changed, or changes in population of local plants.

> signs of inflammation

That's highly unspecific.

My point is, you are deeply dependant of your environment.

Also there is no ideal, healthy you. You are just bunch of cells subjected to billions of organic chemistry reactions that surprisingly manage not to rot when subjected to elements for few decades thanks to miracle of evolution that shaped them.

What your mind experience is generally not important with some exceptions. If you are subjected to stressful emotions that are too long or too strong you potentially get some brain damage that could alter how you function later. But that's not a rule. There are people who had really horrible psychological experiences in life but they don't get anymore trouble because of that in later life then we all get from the environment we live in and our bodies getting old in common and unique ways.

So many illnesses of mind and body were thought to come from what your mind experienced and later turned out to be just bacteria, viruses, or your own genes acting up with age that I think it's better to consider the possibility that nearly all ailments have physicsl causes.

After all your mind is just a function of your physical brain like digestion is the function of your physical gut. You don't think that you have now skin problems because 10 years ago you ate too many pancakes and had a constipation but now you massage your belly a bit to reconcile that past trauma and your skin problems will go away.
> neat way of valuing every item or service on Earth

Isn't that the very concept of money? :)

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A) this is a fine

B) you make an almost impossible comparison to get to the resolution of

The freedom ideals in the US are part of a social contract that sometimes is reflected by judges to nullify laws that undermine that social contract, but the contract itself is part of a meme - like the pledge of allegiance - made for children in the 1940s to boost morale and national identity in a time where it made a real difference.

The nuances of the 55+ sovereign institutions in the US can never be simplified that easily.
The impression I got is that they more or less just show you duplicate questions, when such duplicates really shouldn't exist in the first place.
I'm gonna say that #1 is caused by #2, possibly due to an over-reliance on #3.
Wow that was beautifully written.
Jira tickets are generally devoid of specific information. What am I actually expected to do. List it out. User stories are an incredibly useless concept in the current implementation. And the new interface on jira is a piece of shit. I will say it again, jira sucks when it comes to UI.

Just because a ticket exists doesn't mean it has useful info or potentially matters anymore.
> I am genuinely interested what are those problems that decentralized apps and cryptocurrency solve?

Censorship resistant, electronic, financial transactions.

You can make an electronic payment to anyone, and nobody is going to stop you. No transactions are currently being censored on most of the big crypto platforms, so we have provable evidence that it works for this usecase right now.
They're making a joke.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
> that includes currencies

Currencies have value because entities with monopolies on force (countries) give them special legal status to be used conveniently as means of exchange. This is one of the hurdles for Bitcoin, and was a big source of debate in 2016-2018. Every time you spend Bitcoin you have to keep track of the avg. acquisition cost and resulting realized capital gains for every transaction to be able to declare the appropriate gains or losses on your taxes at year-end. A heavy burden for a "currency".

> statements like 'its only valued because people give it value' are not very informative

If you go to first principles, sure, everything is an illusion. But gold, crypto, and other "stores of value" derive their value in fundamentally different ways than everything else. Our existing models and body of knowledge do not apply to them. This is worth investigating. All other things are consumed in some way or another, and the rate at which they are consumed, relative to their supply, determines their price. The consumption of gold relative to its supply is much too low to justify its price using the same models.
Does the root cause of all these problems with quora come down to being vc funded and needing high revenue numbers and growth rates? Imagine quora was a site driven by the community...

It's a conundrum, only a vc funded site can reach such scale, have great growth etc but when the time for monetization comes, everything starts going downhill. A site driven by a foundation for example, rarely ever gets to any sort of scale. How can this problem be solved?
Site guidelines aside, your wording is rather rude. You probably could've said the same thing without the "get off your high horse" bit.
Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It
This persons daughter is an ungrateful spolied brooklyn brat who should be sent to work on a chicken farm in wisconsin to learn some respect for her mother. Did you know the chickens demand respect in wisconsin?
Everyone can see the flashing. You can become aware with a bit of effort.

Find a LED light that isn't on a continuous DC power supply. Christmas lights work well for this.

Pick two objects, one far to the left of the light, one far to the right. Focus on one side, while making sure the other object and the light remain in your field of view. Next, glance at the second object so your eyes quickly travel across the LED.

If you have christmas lights you can exaggerate the effect by spinning the cable. You don't need to move your eyes at all in that case.
He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian (or similar region country people) asking fake questions to "market" their crappy service.

It is incredibly obvious if you ever visit once. (Probably will be your first visit because you didn't notice it.)
Marriott to Pay for Passports for Those Affected by Breach
Interestingly, if you copy & paste the above text into a Github issue description, you'll see that it works exactly as expected.

My problem with Github issues: need "Affected Release", "Fix Release" fields.
If "zero-cost abstractions" and "zero overhead" are not memes, then what memes are?

> I certainly wouldn't say that it matches reality or is close to the system.

The call assembly instruction uses stack, the ret uses stack. Procedures therefore are hardware-assisted stack-based entities. So are interrupt handlers, which are specialization of a procedure. These are the right abstractions to use for fine-granded modularity exactly because they are hardware-assisted and stack-based. Threads are the wrong abstractions (Erlang authors explains why).

I have zero interest to investigate the rest of your claims, but I think they are unsubstantiated as the one above.
Why hasn’t some kid with a couple Raspberry Pies and a laser and sensor guerillaed up how to sense when the train is X distance from some stop and heading this way - with some mailing list of people to text when the train approaches?
On the flip side, this has a cost of creating siloing/low bus factor, so if you were to ever get in an accident that took you out, or you left the company, the company would be potentially completely screwed.
I sort of agree with you but I love JIRA. Tbe problem really lies in the way people use it. It’s just another tool, and it can be used any way your organization deems necessary. Unfortunately, most orgs tend to make a religion out of it, and the Agile process becomes bastardized by abusing JIRA. Just by observation, I have concluded that management loves JIRA precisely because it allows them to micromanage (“hey Temporallobe, how are you coming with story XY-5678? I see it’s been in-progress for 3 days...”). Again, that’s not JIRA’s fault, but to use an Agile term, it’s an “enabler”.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2018?
Landscape pictures can serve as a reminder of what you were doing, a sort of diary. Sure, you could find professional photos, but they won't be as rooted in your memory.

By looking at an old photo you remember where you were, what you were doing, and _why_ you decided to take the photo.

In other words, while a pro may be able to capture the location better, they won't capture your memory of visiting it as well.
Well, in the tech world (especially online), they tend to provide low-quality service and bad codes. Quora is an free Indian-web-service-provider advertising platform. Nothing else. It is frustrating to see all off-shore "developers" coming up with a solution to your problems.
Its being reviewed by The American Carbon Registry who seem to be experienced and meticulous. Details of the methodology here:

https://americancarbonregistry.org/carbon-accounting/standar...
Thanks for pointing this out. We've changed the title above to something more accurate.
Of course, let's not get too wrapped up in the GDPR's actual text. It is "Right to erasure" but is still known and referenced as "Right to be forgotten" as well.

My intent was to put forth what it is describing, which is to allow the user to request the erasure of their information and subsequently that provider should then take reasonable steps to do so.

If that provider, chooses to keep content creators information more central to itself and not allow it to be as widely spread. Then that's more power to the curator and could be something that Quora wants to uphold.

On the same token, just because something has been posted on the internet doesn't mean that the provider of such content is obligated to spread it as far and wide as they want. They are allowed, to take efforts to restrict is movement.
lol how boring do you have to be to troll engineers

it's like if an accountant tried to start internet fights over what kind of rounding is best
Why can't you express your opinion on here anymore?

After all -- it's called "Hacker" News. I'm willing to bet the majority of people downvoting me somehow ended up here or in tech by the dollar signs rather than the "hacking" subculture.

I guarantee you that HN has lost a lot of good conversation due to the constant fear of the downvote brigade (you know -- the "Hive Mind" I mentioned in another one of my comments).

You can downvote me all day. I'll express my opinion when I feel like it.
Biomaterial Books have to copied to survive the centuries. First the knowledge has to be written down, which was not the uniform practice in pre-scientific craft guilds. Second it has to be deemed significant enough to be worth expensive paper and hand-copying. Certain classical texts were deemed significant by Christian monks and Arab scholars to preserve by copying. But many were not.
Given that playing video games competitively for a living is possible through large prize pools in quite a few games, and that South Korea has historically been a powerhouse of gaming, it seems not at all surprising to me that they'd treat this as fraud and try to crack down on it.

There are plenty of other types of competitions where fraud carries legal penalties, after all.
Sad but true, but it will never happen. Quora is traffic hungry and get millions of visits (if not all) from India region. It is literally cancer at this point.
> South Korea being a geritocracy

Isn't that the case of most countries, at least in the West? If you look at the median age of most public officials (ministers and all), they are usually more likely to be in their 50,60s and 70s in some cases.
I do get a sense that they put more effort into marketing and growth than actually fostering a solid knowledge base. However, an interesting point was raised in another comment: comparable sites that focus on quality often come across as unwelcoming because they have strict guidelines. I'm not sure it can be entirely blamed on the fact that they're VC-funded--to some extent, it seems they're more interested in being newbie-friendly than producing quality content.
The newspeak/doublespeak for cookies is such that placing users under surveillance without prior consent is fine, you just have to tell them after you start doing it. And after you tell them, you can just keep doing it, and they can leave if they have a problem with it. No one ever has to stop tracking anyone else, even if people ask nicely or tell you they aren’t okay with it. The only option is to close the window, clear cache and never come back.

Meanwhile, this has given way to lots of “dialogues” where the dictatorship asks you to mark a check box for how you feel about being tracked, which is of course tracked. The deception being that even when you reply “NOT OK” there is no real effect. The pixels are there. The cookie is there. You are on camera, being recorded for QA purposes. This call will be reviewed for training purposes.

This differs from opting out of mailing lists, where they stop emailing you. Opting to respond with disdain for tracking does nothing to change whether you get watched.
This is exactly what these laws are really about.

They are so the US and other 5 eyes members can spy on their own citizens in ways that are illegal under their own laws.

These laws are terrifying for everyone, not only Australians.
Fantastic article and well written, too. For those of you, like me, who don't know French and miss the pun of the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi.

It also mentions the concept of the osculating circle, probably the only risque mathematical term (anyone know of any other ones?), which led me of the following poem (from this post https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezvq9n/the-kissin...) that summarizes Descartes's Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_theorem):

"For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
This not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally. "

EDIT: Turns out there are many other such math terms, e.g. see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102872/unusual-mat...:
I had always assumed it was a matter of self-perpetuation given what I have seen at lower levels with thriftiness and it holding despite being amply able to afford it. Those who are in habits of saving and investing money will keep on doing as an end to itself well past the actual needs.

The biggest score cards show a bit of priorities. Many wealthy industrialists eventually turn to charities despite being ruthless out of concern for legacy,spirituality, or a sense of noblise oblige.

I would like to think that if I got 'buying additional mansions doesn't make a dent' - obscenely wealthy I'd start funding major biotech research projects both to do good and because lifespan is the limit anyway.

That is something that I've found a bit odd about the megarich - that we don't see more throwing their fortunes away at biotech research given lifespan is a limit far beyond - and most don't plan on giving full fortunes to their heirs anyway.
> I'll express my opinion when I feel like it.

You're welcome to do that in a way that is constructive. What you are not welcome to do is be rude when doing so, like you are here.
spammers with Indian sounding names killed it. Question how much is 3*3?

You'd get 40 answers spamming their website, 20 life stories of completely uneventful event, and then answer 9 repeatedly posted like 11 times.
the combination of malleability and resistance to corrosion and acid makes gold a very useful material beyond its value as a currency. there are things you can do with gold that you just can't do with other metals, especially in the field of art and jewelry.
Different parts of your eye are attuned to different frequency responses. For me, it is easier to see flicker in my peripheral vision rather than my direct vision, so if something is off to the side it can be more annoying than something right in front of me.

That said, I can eliminate all annoying flicker by making sure that all of the things that flicker aren't mixing down into ranges that start to annoy me. For example if you have some LEDs that are running at 15Khz and some that are running at 15.1Khz they can set up a beat frequency at 100Hz that is annoying. I had some dimmable can lights that did this and figured out that the PWM was local oscillator based (R/C if you can believe it) rather than crystal based. I found lights that used the line frequency to drive their oscillator so they are essentially all in sync (at 2.4KHz or so, so not noticeable to my eyes)
I'm more worried they will be abused.

Also that the backdoors will be exploited by the other bad guys.
Deciding which is the “best” approximation to a quarter circle depends on your choice of error metric. Just choosing the one with the correct endpoints and endpoint tangents which intersects the circle halfway along is not the best you can do by most choices of error metric.

A more traditional choice might be the cubic curve where the maximum distance between a curve point and the circle is minimized. Or it might instead be desirable to preserve the arclength of the circle and minimize curvature deviation. Or it might be desirable to preserve the circle’s area. Or ...

Depending on the application different choices might be better. For some purposes it is not strictly essential that the endpoints of the curve directly fall on the circle.
Here's a trick that I've found useful: If you have a phone that can do slow motion capture (I have a Pixel 2, but this also works with an iPhone), go to a Home Depot or Lowe's and take a slo-mo (240fps) video of the LED bulbs they have on display. Most flicker horribly on playback, including the expensive Cree bulbs.

The built-in LED spotlights that came with my house flicker like a rave concert whenever I capture a video in slo-mo. It's unsettling.

Phillips LEDs, especially the Scene Switch bulbs, are flicker-free according to my tests. Surprisingly, older CFL bulbs flicker much less than LEDs.
Why coding is not the only route into tech jobs
What's wrong with the SVG loading? Can you be more specific?
oh man, step away from stuff you don't understand before you get lectured to death...

never mind, I see others have already proceeded to do that.
Everyone makes mistakes and this may have slipped through the cracks.
Not "only" via a linguistic trick. There are several philosophies that hold that there is something special about each human life that needs to be preserved. Some of those find prostitution, especially poverty driven varieties, to be a violation of that. Some of those find selling of body parts, especially poverty driven sales, to be a violation of that as well.

In other words, both stem from a belief in "human dignity".
Protecting Your Tokens, API Keys and Secrets
'Is It Snappy?' is an iOS app that I use to diagnose whether LED bulbs are going to be shit in stores before I buy them. The IKEA bulbs have been cheap and decent.

Old HN thread about the iOS app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023196
As someone who is kind of awful at geography I think this is pretty great. Kind of a Duo Lingo for countries of the world.

However, I found the population ones frustrating because there were multiple answers kind of in the same ballpark. For example, I think it makes sense to teach people a country of 20 million vs a country of 100 million but 57,100,000 vs 57,200,000 is a bit of a trick question to me.

Also, when I did get questions wrong I found the app very unhelpful to correct me. As others have stated, those info boxes are much more useful after a wrong answer than a right one. Most of the ones I got wrong was a guessing game to randomly pick something.
Coming from 10+ years in the game industry, articles on the benefits of software piracy are very rarely written by people who make the software that is being pirated. Those articles are more commonly written by people who like benefiting from the use of pirated software and want to justify their actions. I get it, you like getting free software and movies. Don't forget that you are quite literally taking the fruits of someone else's labors for free, labors that if you had done yourself as a business you would not feel it would be cool for others to take from you for free.
Exactly. Essays on essays being written on irrelevant, hell even if you decide to skip and scroll past any answers that look like ebook you can't scroll enough to skip to the precise and meaningful answers.
Gold has embedded demand via governments, a global jewelry industry, and yes industrial demand. Bitcoin demand is speculators (mostly) and a handful of people who use it as a transactional value store. Comparing the two is a waste of time - they are nothing alike - but ignoring that the supply and demand picture for gold is way more stable -- global demand for gold does not halve over a few months, which is likely what drove the price shock with Bitcoins.
You can't see UV light, but if bright UV light shines into your eyes it can make you blind. You don't need to be able to consciously perceive something for it to have a physiological effect on you.
Not sure where you are, but here in the US wire transfers are slow and also expensive. Last time I had to do one internationally, it took several hours to clear and cost me something like $30.
You can sell many body parts and fluids without dying: milk, marrow, semen, 1 kidney, pieces of liver, blood, eggs, etc.

And has been pointed out by you and others, one can theoretically sell the rights to one's body parts after death, assuming the contract is enforced.