skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never let anyone tell you that our current standard of "normal" is normal. It's only the pressures of the world that make teenagers retract from their parents.

Every emotion you've ever felt has been developed, whether by God or by hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection. Conscious thought may deliver us to emotion, but the emotion that you arrive at is something that has always been inside of you. When feel something isn't right, it's a good indicator that something isn't the way it's supposed to be. There's no reason that the world would be made in a way where mothers of teenage daughters are supposed to be miserable and shut out. There's no reason that the transition of growing from a baby to becoming an adult should not be smooth and untraumatic for all involved parties. What is the evolutionary advantage of making mothers miserable as a necessary part of producing offspring?

The idea that the family has become such a secondary consideration in modern society, to the point that this mother is advocating to others mothers about the opportunity to vicariously know your own child via the Internet... It's nothing short of heartbreaking.

Nothing is more certain in my mind than the idea that it doesn't have to be this way, and historically has not been this way. Kids have been sexualized and have to grow up too quickly. Kids have been made into tiny workers that do busy work for most of their childhood, away from their parents, because both parents have to work.

It's dystopian, disgusting and perverted
I know I shouldn't, but I'm awfully tempted to test this.
> probably the only risque mathematical term

Not a term, but there's the "Hairy Ball Theorem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
Try strapping it to your vacuum cleaner, seeing how well it does.
You and me both. And it feeds itself, too, because every line of code is an opportunity to reinvent the wheel or do something clever (it sometimes seems like they want to see that, or else this class of question wouldn’t be asked??).
Except it isn't new information to a lot of people.

I heard about the "why" for this years ago (of course, the article is from 2012). Pretty sure I'd heard the reason considerably earlier that.
Or in the case of my recent Euler explorer, minimizes the L2 norm of tangent error. That said, most of the error norms will give similar results, as long as you're actually minimizing something. You're absolutely right about this though, the main reason people pick that one is that the math comes out easy, it's just a bit of trig.
They require you to do that when?

When you include the source code in a project? Or distribute binaries created in whole or in part from the source code?

The licenses say exactly what the requirements are, and when you are obligated to follow those requirements. What do they say about training AI models on the code?
That last sentence is the habitually crossed line by these people.
These are called self-stable plasmas, and are already been explored. For example, TAE's field-reversed configuration.
Thanks for the recommendation, just ordered a copy for my wife as a Christmas present. She's a horticulturalist so I think she will love it.

Hacker News accidental Christmas gift shopping tips?
Even easier if you have a newish phone: do a slo-mo 240fps video capture on a LED light bulb. You will see the flickering.
How to become a better programmer (roadmap)
Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
This applies to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and every other major 'social' platform today.

Data goes in - it doesn't come out. Can't explain it!

They're walled gardens.

What's frustrating is that users don't care. They simply do not care.

Their data leaks, it's sold to the Russians, and they keep coming back.
It is indeed not racism. I was an editor at Quora in its early days as a way to make some easy side money. I'd say something on the order of 90% of the unedited content in the queue originates in India, and it's terrible. Loads and loads of repetitive, already-answered questions (a seemingly never-ending flood) about IIT or body shops and worried queries about which engineering school is the best or the most competitive, all badly written and horribly spelled. And that's before you even get to the scammy stuff!
> Illness doesn’t happen without a cause

Put 20 balls in 10 buckets each. Choose pair of buckets randomly and move one ball from one bucket to the other. After some iterations you end up with buckets withe many balls and buckets with few.

You might think about buckets with few balls as 'ill'. Did their illness have a cause? Of course. The cause was the were subjected to random process. Just like your body is when it lives.

You can easily see how fragile your body is to entropy if you just stop the flow of blood in your body for few days. You go from living being that could stay in decent shape for few decades to pile of bloated rotting meat. And all that due to nothing more than spontaneous random various processes.

There are always causes but Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character for a reason. In real life situation you very rarely can 'eliminate what's impossible' to be left with one possible cause 'however improbable'.

If you end up with improbable then it's nearly always because you eliminated something you shouldn't have or alltogether missed whole bunch of possibilities.
Good things die soon or live long enough to be ruined by nosy lawmakers.
I consider dealing with the consequences of hacked-in accounts or a hacked-in laptop to be the bigger chore.
I say it every time that people say "Firefox is great now!". Just look at the Bugzilla, and tell me that among the thousands of reports (many of which have gone untriaged for around a decade!) there aren't at least a handful of serious issues like this.

One, among many, of the reasons I use Chromium is that I see reports taken absolutely seriously, especially any report with any potential security outcome. Even seemingly minor issues or feature requests I've filed with Chromium get thoughtful and prompt responses.

I wish Mozilla the best, but the quality of Firefox is low in a way that I notice every time I use it; I'd appreciate it if they go back to basics and actually try to address at least the known issues with the software.
I'm dying to hear Apple's response to these laws being introduced.

I pray they do this.
> What is the difference between 50 and 100 million in an emotional sense?

It's roughly the difference between being able to own a private jet. There's probably always something spurring one on to the next level if you let it.
Details of Calls to Attack Trump by US ‘Muslim Sisters’ Allied to Brotherhood
Those qualities are part of it, but not the whole story, gold is also:

- divisible (including literally soft to divide)

- fungible

- identifiable

- verifiable

- scarcity tested (people have been looking for, and trying to create, gold for so long without success that supply estimates can be trusted)

And the big one: branding.

Money is only useful when everyone uses it. It has one of the most powerful network effect of any system. The fact that it was successfully used as money for thousands of years, and everyone knows it, making it the default non-fiat money in terms of mind-share - has enormous value. Are you really going to try to convince everyone to exchange bismuth instead when fiat collapses?
You are bound by any laws of the jurisdictions you enter, including if those laws are unjust or apply to things you did outside that jurisdiction.

> Legally baseless

according to whom? I will never understand the appeals to legality on an international level. These questions could only be answered in the context of a particular jurisdiction, and -- according to the jurisdiction this lady was detained in -- the actions of the government were legal.
Yet you have the Indians to thank for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru
GDPR is almost exclusively for personal content (as in: name, email address), whereas most of the content on Quora isn't personal. GDPR makes no effort to allow you erase that.

You can certainly take efforts to restrict its movement, as Quora has done here. It's mostly futile, though, especially in this case. Archive.org might not be willing to save it, but I guarantee plenty of comparable services are.
Sorry, but this is incorrect. The European Travel Information and Authorisation System has not even been developed yet, much less deployed. It will only come online in 2021. Until then, Schengen is visa-free for Canadians and Americans.

>On July 5th, the European Parliament has given its final agreement to implement the European Travel Information and Authorisation System, ETIAS. European authorities have decided to establish the electronic visa waiver system in the year 2021 to improve security across the Schengen Area.

https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/how-will-the-etias-syst...
I think in the vast majority of cases people don't actually care about deleting their content, they care mostly about disassociating something from their identity. Maybe they asked something dumb or controversial years ago and they don't want it to show up with their name on it.

I think maybe there should be more of a trend of websites not showing usernames next to posts and just an identifier like "Purple" that changes when you post on a different thread/post so you can still follow the flow of a thread but not be able to link it to unrelated posts from that person.

I cant say that knowing the usernames of posters has ever helped me on stack overflow. Mods would still be able to see it but regular users and scrapers can not.
How do you propose the keys would escape a HSM? You wouldn't keep this stuff connected to the network, so someone would have to get physical access to even attempt to attack it.
Hhahaha
I think "completely different" is overstating it. If the paternalistic instinct is to say people who sell body parts are prone to abuse, certainly the same can be said about prostitution. Similarly, if the average person is ill equipped to gauge risks and bear the consequences of poor risk management, then the calculus applies in sex (STIs, pregnancy, rape, etc.) and in organ donation.

Though the most interesting organ-based financial instruments would be rights to harvest organs post mortem, which several people in this thread seem to be overlooking.

And no matter how intellectually satisfying it would be if it were true, I don't think Western culture (or psychology in general) agrees with you that sex is just another service like computer repair. We don't have special categories of crimes for forced computer repair at gunpoint for instance. And we don't shame and fire overbearing bosses for pressuring employees into illicit computer repair.
It's pretty ironic, that 2 of the top tech companies have Indian CEOs.
>There is a bipartisan consensus on security and other matters in Australia.

Unfortunately, in this case, all the experts (and commenters here) seem to be in agreement that security has been significantly weakened by bringing in these laws.
On one hand I feel the same reaction you have to the parent, phrased this way it sounds like he/she is denigrating a whole nation.

On the other hand, there was something that happened here that we should probably talk about.

A few years ago some of the topics (especially human-relationship subjects) experienced a sudden surge of content from people from India. I know many smart and erudite Indians, and these new users... weren't. I don't know what happened. Maybe Quora suddenly became a fad with the pre-teens in India? Kids online are generally insufferable from all cultures.

The platform didn't digest this well. Quite a few topics that used to be interesting suddenly became filled with garbage. I stopped watching many. Now I seem to just get bombarded with WW2 trivia, which is ok I guess, but I kinda miss "the old Quora".

It's an awkward subject but the parent's comment can't just be discounted as racism.
I don't know. I agree with your statement about market-based companies. But if you could please cite the fabled "well run government institution", it would probably make your statement a lot stronger. I at least have seen quite a bit of DC and I don't think such a government agency exists.
Jashmenn, I just checked it out.. good work!

how about very niche topics? I self published a book on Ruby regular expressions last month on leanpub, currently working on Python version of it. Later I plan on command line topics like grep/sed/awk/perl/etc one-liners and stuff like that (I already have lots of material on these topics as tutorials on github, need to convert to books)

Selling is the biggest pain point for me
This is my go-to example of the type of hilariously terrible Quora answer that plagues the site: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-competitive-programming...

90% of that "advice" could be copy pasted onto any "how do I learn something", and the remaining two sentences related to competitive programming are so vague that he links to the wikipedia page on "Algorithms" and the wikipedia page on "Programming Language"

And that gets you 460 upvotes, far above some of the better answers at the bottom of the thread.
Bitcoin will probably never go back to zero. The money laundering and selling of drugs / other criminal activities will continue using it therefor it will keep some small value. It has a long way to drop from $3500 though. Altcoins though will probably go to zero as they are completely useless compared to BTC at least being useful for criminals.
Doesn't the account in the article run counter to the narrative that cows are massive greenhouse gas producers? Is there an alternative to grazing that would not require cows?
WOW Air Links Iceland to Asia – Aviation
I went through the exact same arc with Reddit. Once you reach a point where you have say 100,000+ karma, no downvote can ever really touch you anymore and you can start being honest again. If in addition to that you don't care about being banned from certain subs, well, congratulations, you're once a again a free man!
Not getting an interview from HBS as "a Stanford honors grad" is the worst rejection he's ever experienced? The whole post reeks of humble brag.
> Contrast that with Q&A competitors Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, which offers an API, a wealth of user-made tools and support community for it, a powerful Data Explorer for querying and exporting data, a liberal crawling policy, and doesn’t attempt to hide questions and answers behind authentication. They even proactively upload anonymized data dumps of all user-contributed content to the Internet Archive for posterity under a Creative Commons license.

I was unaware that Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange did this. I'm very happy that I deleted my Quora account a couple months ago and that I've been contributing more to the SE sites lately.
> initially mainstream psychiatry including antidepressants, then things like diet (paleo etc), exercise, nutrition supplementation, meditation, yoga.

Of all of those I think only excercise has proven positive effect on some things. Others are at best proven not to be harmful.
> "25-year-olds fresh of out of engineering school being christened 'Senior Project Manager' and put in charge of a large, very complex technical project"

This is so true. I have nothing to say except you are just hitting so many nails on the head.
How deeply you wish to read Hitler and Xi Jinping or China and Nazi Germany comparison is up to you. The two dictators and countries share a lot of similarities.

The key point is that they're both hungry for power, evil and brutal, wish to force their ideology upon the world, and most importantly, are in a position where it's possible for them to achieve their goals. Do I believe that Hitler/Xi Jinping were/are the most evil people on earth? No, but unlike others, they're both in a position where they can conquer the world (no matter how much we want to pretend otherwise) and cause great suffering to people outside their own borders. To dismiss the comparison because one put jews in concentration camps while the other is putting muslims, or whatever ideological difference you can find, is missing the point.
One theory exists that teenagers sleep cycle is offset from parents so that they can more easily socialise with each other without parental interference.

There could be plenty of reasons our hormones have evolved to make us act in ways that parents do not like.
Decomposing an EKG monitor into byte-sized components (part 1)
Zenexer, again you fail to see what I'm trying to say.

I'm simply taking one of the GDPR principles and applying to them a wider variety of information outside of just PII.
I hate lighting that flickers and will often notice it when other people do not. A few friends also notice flickering that most people don't detect. It takes tens of kHz before I won't notice a stop-motion effect like a strobe light with moving objects.

LEDs do not have to flicker, but supplying low-ripple, constant-current DC power is not as cheap as ways of powering LEDs that do result in flicker.
Tokyo is a city
There's some controversy on whether this is a bug or a feature, but cryptos have enabled a lot of drug trade, ransomware, and all sorts of other crime to happen at an unprecedented level of anonymity.

I have a feeling there will be a steady demand for this in the future, but I'm not sure how the bitcoin <-> fiat exchanges are going to avoid government attention.
Afghanistan and Syria really were hippy hotspots in the 70s.
Things change, political stances blow over, regimes blow out.

In the last 15 years, the the contemporary traveller has gained access to Turkmenistan, Myanmar and others, and much more simple and safer travel to previously dangerous countries (the Balkans, Rwanda, RDC, North Korea, etc)

It's this shifting landscape that makes travel for the non "me too" crowd interesting..
> linking

That's pretty weak. I can much easier imagine being prone to inflammation causing psychological trauma than other way around.

Besides... you tried to treat chronic muscle and joint pain, digestive issues, fatigue/lethargy, skin conditions, signs of inflammation with psychiatry and antidepressants? Initially? That's really bad starting point to approach collection of very probably unrelated problems.
There are a few Australian farmers onto what seems to me a similar approach including farmer turn author Charles Massy who published "Call of the Reed Warbler".

In the early chapters of the book Charles explains his story of going to university for a science degree though coming back to the farm soon after when his father passes. He listened to the experts selling the products on what to do for years before deciding it was no longer working and decided on another approach.

I don't think we can blame the farmers directly though instead big agriculture and how they manipulate the farmers and lobby the government to sell more product.
Adding on: I believe the keyword to look for is usually known as a "Goodyear welt".
If you have manual control over the shutter speed on a smartphone or other electronic rolling shutter camera, just turn the shutter speed high. It's possible to detect flicker up to at least a few kHz this way.
> ...with the difference being that the actual God part of the discussion is greatly minimized...

With all due respect, the main focus of a Christian worship service is "the actual God part", so removing the content creates an entirely different thing altogether.

It's also worth noting that the Christian content... actual belief in the teachings of the Bible, does reinforce certain aspects of church that might be essential to long-term (millennia) health of that form of spiritualism. Perhaps some of: mandatory evangelism, canonized moral codes, commandments to humility, recognition that humanity is ultimately flawed, belief in perfect justice in eternity (reduces the need to enforce certain norms), and the list goes on.
From observing comments here
on HN, it’s clear that it’s fairly common for non-native speakers of English to use “by foo” when “with foo” or “from foo” would be more appropriate.

From this and the fact that OP wrote “by Legos” and not “by LEGO”, it was simple to deduce that they meant that it was created using little interlocking plastic pieces and not by the company well-known for selling little interlocking plastic pieces.
My original account has been banned from hundreds of subs. The vast majority of them I had never even been on before and was bot banned because I commented on a competing sub or something. These days I just make up a random account every month.
How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)
Yes, because of the regulations. If you have any history of transfers then you're usually approved within minutes vs occasional usage. You can also improve the speed by using an abstraction service like Paypal which offloads some work while charging more for the risk.
Don't let us near your phones either. Every Aussie is a government-mandated blackhat hacker and spy now.
Also I totally forgot about water usage as well. Most of the time it is much cheaper to use water than it should be, and cattle consume huge amounts of it.
The more money and assets I accumulate, the safer I feel. This is one driver that will likely prevent me from retiring early - the fear of destitution.
US Centers for Disease Control to study e-scooter accidents
More sensitive people will notice this effect even at a few kHz when an object lit by the source moves quickly or the viewer's vision pans across the light source. Even faster PWM up to a few kHz is visible to some people this way.
I feel you get as much of the tool as you are willing to put into it. I personally abhor the tool and prefer working with engineers who can own full services and applications from end to end. That way the discussions are held at the architectural interface level with the goal in sight always.

I have only found JIRA is useful for tracking the implementation tangential TODO items such as monitoring and alerting, extra data validations, UI style items, etc; tasks that other engineers can implement without the need to understand the full scope and architecture of the project.
So which "modern" Web API did Apple refuse to implement ?
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I just bought this book and I’m the opposite. I want everything electronic and as a PDF. The author understands that and has made it available via PDF without DRM - plenty good for me.
It's been stagnent or arguably losing features over the last ten years.
Extend to many things.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the US produced more M4 chassis (all vehicle types) in 1943-alone (21,231, admittedly a huge surge in yoy production) [1] than Germany produced of any single chassis type during the whole war (most numerous: Pz III at 15,747 total) [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_armored_fighting_ve...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_armored_fighting_vehi...
>It does nobody any good to have 1000 books on a single device if the whole thing is subject to revocation

If what you really care about is reading and the knowledge you get from it, as opposed to the opportunity to take some totally unrelated stand, then yes, it really does do you some serious good to have thousands of books in your pocket!
Mostly because money has nothing to be with being happy, sad, healthy, immunity from disease, depression, or death.

The utility of money is to make you comfortable, give your freedom, and take of other things while you suffer though life.

Money or wealth should never be conceived as a hammer to down all nails.