skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "used to", it sounds as though you have navigated to a better place in life, and that is great. When you look back, do you think that it is possible that some of the bad sleep/lack of exercise/smoking too much dope/drinking too much could have been owed to depression, instead of the cause of it?

I might be misreading your wording, but to my interpretation you're attributing depression being caused by those things. I am only asking for clarification because I have experienced some of those things, but also depressive feelings, and I'm wondering - introspectively, and by asking you, trying to learn from others - if it's easy to identify causes, and then learn to address those causes.

(edit: wording was pretty awful)
Of course there are games that already have proven this, most notably League of Legends (which is also mentioned in the article).
Please don't represent your debate opponents here as supporting "animal torture" -- that's horrible.

In this article there was no brain function at all.

As research progresses, it may be possible to establish brain activity without any pain sensation. One can debate whether being suddenly blind, deaf, and paralyzed rises to the level of animal abuse. And then, whether this is nonetheless worth the research benefits.
In true tradition of medicine, these things must also be restricted from the average person, who can't be trusted to "self-diagnose," and therefore must be protected behind a prescription, for which you must pay money and convince your lord (another human) that you need it. /s

On a side note, I hate how the government has instituted gate-keepers to keep us from medicine.
All four of those countries became democracies.

But yes, admittedly, the United States has supported autocratic regimes due to strategic concerns elsewhere. In many of those cases, it was a calculated tradeoff between allying with a single military regime such as Turkey—which would not have turned democratic had they not been included in NATO—in exchange for gaining a crucial advantage over a despotic superpower with a history of aggressive expansion and a stated ideology of world domination.

Of course, the biggest example of this policy going wrong was American support of the Soviet Union during the Second World War, but there are plenty of reasons that doesn't get mentioned. Most people in my position would likely agree it was a mistake for the US to support Stalin as much as we did; if the Soviet Union came out of the Second World War in a much weaker geopolitical position due to a lack of food and industrial aid from the United States, the ensuing half-century would have been considerably better for the rest of the world.

The other reason it doesn't get mentioned is because your argument is a very old and worn-out Soviet propaganda talking point, and not only do Soviet apologists not want to admit that US support was vitally important to the Soviets during WWII, but they also don't want to admit that the Soviets themselves are the single worst autocratic regime that the US has ever allied itself with. Such an admission would underline the crucial importance of curbing Soviet domination over the rest of the world and justify exactly those actions that one seeks to criticize.
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> most people

I’m pretty sure GP isn’t trying to say that everyone should use Bitcoin. The thing that gets annoying is that there is a crowd that campaigns this, and then other people (particularly in this comment section) fight back saying nobody should use Bitcoin.

The obvious fact which I feel is somehow being overlooked here is that different people have different needs and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to banking today.
Did they? I checked their YT channel and vast majority of videos have under 100 views. They might have shipped around $1 million in merchandise to retail channels, where it sits on shelves plastered with "as seen on TV" stickers.
Well sort of but not quite. When the pilots clicked the trim up switch on the yoke, it disabled the MCAS system for 5 seconds -- i.e. it made the problem go away temporarily. Then MCAS comes right back with more nose down trim. This is not a typical runaway trim situation where it's just continuously rolling in more trim. The pilots had no idea that this system existed or that a "runaway trim" failure could have these characteristics.

Sure, it's easy to say from the ground with what we know now that all they had to do was flip a couple of switches, and that a previous crew managed to land safely. However, the job of an airplane is not to be safe only with quick thinking, above average pilots. If a single sensor failure can present a situation that 99% of pilots will successfully diagnose and recover from, you're looking at multiple crashes per year.
There is definitely a drug problem here. If you live in SF you WILL see people shooting up in the street.
> That defeats the whole point of 2FA.

Does it? I think of "security" as a relative thing, and would rather be more secure than less secure even if imperfectly secure (which isn't possible in any case).
The assumption behind things like automatic file transfer is that the terminal is slave device to whatever computer it is attached to and the computer is fully trusted. This view breaks down when random other users can spew arbitrary binary garbage ont the connection.
> The gear required to play metal, or at the very least music, is likely possessed by more people.

You skipped over the skill part.

Do you think there are more people who can play as well as Arch Enemy, or photograph as well as this guy? My money's on the latter.

> So by that logic, no value comes from the band either.

Not much value, sure, which is why playing in a band is rarely profitable.
And this is why BTC will never be mainstream. All it takes is a single misstep to lose all of your money forever. Why would average citizens take that deal over the security guarantees provided by the incumbent financial institutions?
> not as smart as humans (obviously)

Why obviously?
Any reading suggestions? I've only begun looking into it, with The Buddha Pill being a more skeptical book on my list
"What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos."

Now this will be my argument against having tattoos :)
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> But the idea of “prescribing” an activity that is meant to be intrinsically motivated seems misguided.

Social prescribing doesn't mean the patient is forced to do something they don't want to do, it means the patient who may struggle (because motivation, health, money) to access something gets some support to access an activity.

That support might be financial. Here's a scheme to give free access to a slimming club for epople with a BMI over 25: https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/health/swor/how-does-it-work...

It might be motivational, or a stepped approach from a supported activity into a mainstream activity.
I don't trust any service with plaintext of my photos so I self host everything. I also have a relatively huge amount of data so most cloud storage is out even if I wanted it.

My setup is a Linux-based NAS with LUKS on everything and each HDD in ZFS with RAIDZ2. I store my photos in their own ZFS filesystem on the zpool and use a tool that automatically creates snapshots and keeps varying resolutions for various timeframes (e.g. 24 hours of hourly snapshots, a week of daily snapshots, a month of weekly snapshots and I think 6 months of monthly snapshots).

As far as organizing them goes, I put my photos in date-based folders (e.g. 2018-12-09) and for larger ones go through and give them more useful names like "2018-12-09 - Brother's birthday".

I tend to edit them with Darktable the most these days, which also stores XMP sidecars alongside the photos.

I haven't yet set up a backup, which I know is horrible. When I do I'll likely go with either Wasabi or a NUC or something in a nearby datacenter.

For remote access I have Owncloud, though I _really_ want something nicer. Unfortunately there isn't much that works well with RAW files.
What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
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"Peter continually experimented with strategies to improve morale ... But the amount of administrative overhead ... and the distractions of going from one to the next probably did more damage than good."

I know this feeling - watching someone try to treat the symptom (stress, burnout), without addressing the root cause.

But knowing that the root cause is a systematic issue (very hard to fix), what can a project lead do to help morale and the team?
> ...has popularized the battle royale category — think Lord of the Flies meets Hunger Games — almost single-handedly...

Almost single-handedly? This is a bizarre claim and it's like rewriting history.
That's for two reasons:

1) Mac users are persnickety about UI and cannot suffer to use the standard tatty UI that prevails in the Linux desktop world.

2) X in general is moribund, as everyone knows Wayland is the future. What's really needed now is a Wayland compositor that can render to Quartz.

Anyway, XQuartz doesn't give you the capability to run Linux binaries -- only to run software commonly available under Linux that's been source-compiled to macOS. Noah allows you to run a full Linux binary distribution under macOS without virtualization.
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Mildly different, but still a pthalate. Guilty until proven innocent when it comes to endocrine disrupters imho.

Commentary published in Environmental Health Perspectives in April 2010 suggested that PET might yield endocrine disruptors under conditions of common use and recommended research on this topic.[26]
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That's brilliant. You could even hide other data (shipping addresses, purchase history, etc.) until valid payment information is re-entered, or until the next successful purchase.
It's all fake: WP AdTech Director describes adtech industry
Yeah I don't get why he went the charity route at all. It's completely out of left field, and makes the situation in which there was clearly already a misunderstanding even more confusing. Is this a common means of payment for licensing creative works? (when not explicitly part of a charity auction or something)

I assume the author thinks that this makes him look unselfish, i.e. he is merely concerned about the principle of the matter and his artistic integrity rather than the money itself. But it actually comes across as overly self-righteous, and feels like he's just being difficult for no real reason since he doesn't even stand to gain anything from it.
Fruit picking is hard work. Photography is fun to the point that a lot of people do it as a hobby.
Try lftp some time. There is a working example on the link I provided. It is much easier for people to set up than cryptcat / ncat / stunnel. I have found that people will follow the least path of resistance.

What I suspect you will find is that where a single rsync stream might reach a couple hundred mb/s, lftp can saturate the link if you wish. At least, that is what most people find that try it out.
many people mindlessly throw plastic into the ocean, do drugs, are obese or in some other way show callous disregard for their own health or the health of the ecosystem they live in, what's the point?
I would say you are assuming a bit too much (but just a bit).

There isn't enough information on the question to tell wether the OP is a complete novice with no idea of the minefield he is getting it, or if he is somebody competent that wants a list of current practices to start further research.
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It is just a transport protocol.
If email is SMIME/PGP encrypted the server will return for the email that has only one attachment with mime type "application/pkcs7-mime smime-type=enveloped-data". How this blob is processed is managed by the client if support SMIME or PGP.
Do not forget email is a federated set of protocols, so the encryption cannot rely on servers, except if they are a walled garden as Proton for example.
If he feels that way, he should do a business deal with the tattoo artists and own the copyright on his tattoos.

He has enough money for that.
Bad autocorrect / typos:

* s/liner/linter/
* s/we/ww/
* s/warn it crash/warn or crash/

Sorry; I typed this comment on my phone in a hurry, then didn't look at it again until I could no longer edit it.
> Why should life be that way?

The point is that life is that way, not the way we would like it to be.

> What’s the point of doing unfulfilling things that make you die sooner?

The point is that (almost?) all jobs are like that.

Airline pilot? Yeah, you fly, and that's cool. Get to see the world? Also cool. Get to travel the world and not see it because you have to fly back out? Less cool. Being chronically sleep-deprived? Not good for your health. Waking up when the alarm goes off in some random hotel room, and not knowing what city you're in? Not so glamorous.

Even computer work is bad for your health. Sitting around being sedentary, for years? Not good. That's without carpal tunnel, but that can come from the work too.

Now, neither of those are as unfulfilling or as dangerous as working in a coal mine. But all work is unfulfilling, at least some of the time. If you don't understand that, you're going to be unhappy no matter what you do.

That said, some jobs are a whole lot more fulfilling than others. More: Some jobs are a lot more fulfilling for you than others. It makes perfect sense to try to figure out what kind of work you would find more fulfilling, and how to get a job doing it. But if you expect it to be fulfilling always and never unfulfilling, it will disappoint you.

In fact, I'd say that you need to find your real fulfillment somewhere else. That way, you can come to work without expecting it to fully fulfill you. You then won't try to squeeze out of your job what it can never give you, and then reject it because it couldn't give you what you wanted.
Ya sorry my comment was kind of vague. I just meant that times are changing so quickly now that fundamentalism is becoming increasingly harder to maintain.

I think that a sustainable Third Wave culture akin to the Federation on Star Trek that embraces true technology that improves lives (as opposed to the distractionary and zero-sum vulture capitalism that we have now) will feel tangibly real in a way that authoritarianism can never be. Like how the internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it but in a physical reality where everyone has renewable energy and makerbots.
>Listeners are perfectly free to go elsewhere to hear racist speech — Gab exists, 4chan exists, and there are plenty of smaller sites dedicated to this as well.

Haven't various hosting and mirroring platforms refused to service some of these websites? I recall Gab in particular running into some trouble on that front.

>Insofar as they want to support someone monetarily, no one can prevent them from using Bitcoin.

Except for Bitcoin being non-convertible into legal tender without going through... oh look, a privately-owned payment processor.
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many fruits/veggies have stickers on them with the code

IME, too often the sticker isn't useful because it's fallen off, or is obscured by the green eco-friendly produce bags.

That's how you can easily go through the "self checkout" lanes

I don't use self-checkout, on principle. I'd rather wait in line three minutes than cost a minimum-wage checkout person their job.

It's often key to have a differentiator in the form of a code because different items can be visually equivalent (think about bananas vs organic bananas).

This is an excellent point I didn't think of. I don't know that AI will be able to distinguish regular from organic produce in my lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System:

”Article 4 – The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force;”

Not every country has signed that, but all the import ones (big powers and those who claim it because of its relative nearness to their shores) have (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System#Partie...). Note that the USA and Russia reserve the right to lay a claim in the future, so this is more like a (long-lasting) pause than an end state in the game.

Now, why has everybody been acting so nicely for decades? Basically because there isn’t much to fight over there (given its distance to land masses of the major powers, it isn’t even interesting for deploying military tracking stations)

I don’t see this change soon, but if it turns out that Antarctica has resources that can be mined profitably, that can change.
Racklog is not really Prolog - like the title says it's "Prolog-style" logic programming.

More to the point- SQL is a database language used to store and retrieve data, while Prolog and logic programming languages, like Racklog are languages used to reason over relations, which are naturally stored in a relational database.

So, with Prolog/Racklog, you get a database, plus an inference engine with all the power of the first-order predicate calculus. With SQL, you get a database.
Is there any way to point MediaGoblin at a folder on local disk and expose it as albums? I don't believe I've found one so far, it wants me to upload everything through it, which isn't going to happen.
Here's the evidence: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=%22%20social%20prescrib...
These are definitely a couple of good bets to be aiming for.

The blockchain trend reminds me that Rust could also try to find some cosy home in banking software, in expert systems and in embedded software.

The key now is to be humble and not to try to pick up a fight with C and C++ just yet.

Go only now is in a position to pick a fight against Java in the server and in the cloud, and Rust will probably need to get into the same point of adoption, if it wants to be seen as a serious contender to those languages in the eyes of the people they need to convince.

Unfortunatelly Rust missed a good new trend now, with multi-platform cores for mobile phones that ended up being written mostly in C++.

Rust wasnt even invented when people were trying to solve the problem of multi-os phone apps.

And that is the current trend which is giving the system development trend a second chance. But is not that bad, because thats exactly what is making people to take a serious look at Rust.

Battery life, memory, storage. It all matters again thanks to the phone environments, and you cant afford the be wrapped in layers upon layers of software virtualization like it was common in the early PC era, where Java and C# were kings.
Isn’t that what Cambridge Analytica were aiming for?
Opioids are an American problem, but homelessness across the US has been mostly decreasing over the past decade(1).

The situation in SF and Seattle (to name two) has a lot to do with how bad the overall housing situation is in those places.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-population-usa-stat...
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A little off topic but interesting reading if you want to understand more about how mental health is covered under health insurance:

https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/parity-guide.aspx
That's not the case. EU ATMs have that functionality too.
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Best not to talk about owning 2000 bitcoins...
The fast follower beating the original by offering a lower price is a well established business trend. Usually works pretty well. I just don't understand why PUBG isn't free yet.
One if the things I don't understand is how San Francisco is the majority exposure of this problem. Apparently New York has the most homeless at a whole magnitude more[1] than San Francisco, but there seems to be less of a focus on the problem with the homeless population there. Los Angeles as well, news tends to SF in my experiences. It's also discussed more (for instance in Sweden SF and the west coast in general gets more focus by searching t.ex. "hemlösa USA")

That's not to take away from this and I hope they can do something for those folks, but it also strikes me as amazing this city in general has the largest focus and not even close to the largest homeless population.

1. https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-m...
The keyboard navigation that is required to support the WCAG spec is greatly appreciated by me, even though I am fully sighted and don’t use a screen reader.

This was actually the easiest way to sell a management on some of the time we were spending making our latest project accessible. We had time allotted for power user workflows. If you’re implementing keyboard shortcuts there is likely something about that particular type of action in WCAG.

Of course theirs more to it than that. One of the hardest things was coming up with a good strategy for handling hover/focus/active states that didn’t look gaudy to management. The new :focus-visible selector can help where it’s supported, but getting our designed to think about these additional states when designing components helped a lot.
I was in the city this month and it is very sad to see this first hand. I think this is why we need to legalize drugs and get these people help. I live north of San Francisco and the homeless problem is worse here too. It seems like the 2008 recession left a whole bunch of people unemployable and they are officially off the "books" now and out in the streets. This is just my observation but it seems like homelessness increased and not decreased and with unemployment % going down.
"The Research Challenge. The long-term challenge is whether we can easily or even automatically find the optimal storage design for a given problem. This has been recognized as an open problem since the early days of computer science. In his seminal 1978 paper, Robert Tarjan includes this problem in his list of the five major challenges for the future (which also included P Vs NP) [85]: “Is there a calculus of data structures by which one can choose the appropriate data representation and techniques for a given problem?”. We propose that a significant step toward a solution includes dealing with the following two challenges:

1) Can we know all possible data structure designs?

2) Can we compute the performance of any design?"
It's weird that they're suggesting this may soon start: social prescribing isn't new, even in the UK.

Recent announcements are that it is to become more available.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribi...

The big announcement, and something that most commentary is missing, is that this an effort to increase personalisation, and personalisation is a big part of the integration (joining up social care and NHS care) agenda which is being pushed by the current secretary of state.
> Personally, I find the idea that the photographer has more right to a photo than the subject ethically repugnant.

I agree, but, I find the band's stance that the subject's permission is sufficient to also be repugnant. Two artists (subject and photographer) are involved in creating the work. Imho, absent an agreement, consent from both parties should be required to redistribute the photograph.
One could have a high current lipo connected to the inverter that can supply > 2kw for seconds. A 14.8v 4Ah 50C battery can supply 3kw for 72 seconds, more than enough to even out start/stop and shade cycles.
The gaming industry fortunately figured out awhile ago that P2W mechanics in non-mobile games won't fly. (which is why Star Wars: Battlefront II got amazing backlash when they tried to sneak it in)
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