skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It came from the time when harmless bacteria weren't recognized as a thing, only infectious germs; urine from a healthy person does not tend to contain harmful bacteria and is this not an infection vector, thus it was held, incorrectly, to be sterile.
Did you research the weather before moving to Florida? The majority of the year it is oppressively hot and humid. Nothing a Scandinavian is even remotely used to.
the real one loads almost instantly and the generated one takes noticeably more time. you should preload them both because it became obvious pretty quickly
I really like this insight.

However, just to play the devil’s advocate, software engineering is not like chickens laying eggs (a commodity skill). Sometimes, you have problems that most normal people can’t solve on their own and the only people who can solve them happen to be brilliant but toxic.

The existence and importance of these very difficult problems can give rise to a higher ratio of toxic brilliance in a field.

Of course, you can get lucky and have brilliant and nice. I am so grateful to have worked with some of these as well.
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> Windows, which is notoriously bad at protecting memory from snooping by other processes

Whaaat? I'm going to call citation needed here. Afaik there is not significant difference in the memory protection model between any of the mainstream OSes
For anyone reading this, it's known as the doctrine of Incorporation [1]. Portions of the Bill of Rights are "incorporated" when it's determined they apply to the states (note: it can also be found the clauses don't apply to the states and this is known as Reverse Incorporation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
I've had a few questions about interface, but for the most part it's intuitive and I've had very few questions even from older people. Not hearing anything is a good sign.

I've had none of the UI issues you have (Firefox, Safari) and have heard none from any user. Weird!
You know how bad codebases from huge, over-managed, "risk-averse" companies can be. You know that the people that make medical devices are generally huge, over-managed, "risk-averse" companies. I think you can put two and two together, and I really don't think you want to go in that direction.
I honestly don't think you can do anything about pedophiles watching otherwise innocent videos of children.

The article claims that there is nudity (via timestamp comments). Separate models could be used to score the video, where a child plus any other potentially sexual content (genitalia, nipples) withholds the video. A withheld video can be appealed (for scenarios such as "breastfeeding tips" or what-have-you), much like copyright strikes, which have an existing process.

Obviously the model might have problems discerning between a 17 and 18 year old, but it would catch the most egregious content.
Please don't spark religious flamewars on HN. We don't want those here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You think having an issue with pedophilia is just "othering"? Really?
No diaper can hold pee in while in a pool. Pool diapers only hold poo, and even then only some of it.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted because it’s 100% correct. I’ve got two toddlers, we use these and it says this on the package.
On the flip side I've got 4 different devices across 3 operating systems, but putting it at the DNS layer it just works.

FWIW I've been running pihole for almost a year, aside from the issue with Burrow and some social media redirect links used to track(that I want to block) I've not had any other false positives.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chethaase/status/9257152892448194...
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You might be falling for the branding friend!

Studios have had a major vested interest in proclaiming their product is “Glamorous,” and “Unachievable in lessee glory.” Which in turn justifies the high budgets and higher ticket fares.

But they are a pipeline, that pump 10-300 million dollars into a project that they won’t see a return on for 3 years at the shortest; starting from the time you pay a scriptwriter following through the Opening weekend.

It’s in their best interest to tell people it is Once in a lifetime experience and then put out something that is going to me market accepted.

On the occasional times, it is TRULY once in a life time (Mad Max: Fury Road for me), it hits us in the soul, and draws us back in.

Worth it, to me.
We don’t fully understand how society works. There is an emerging field known as Cliodynamics that has started to identity cycles and feedback loops societies go through.

For instance, people raised inside of a generation tend to have a similar cluster of personality traits to some degree. These traits propel certain innovations forward , leave other things lagging, and cause a reaction formation in the next generation who tend to value opposite traits. These new traits then alter which innovations are pushed forward, which are left behind, etc.

There are additional cycles I’m not covering here, but together they form a sort of “super cycle” with great periods of unrest as well as innovation occurring when the lines converge periodically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics
I would like to not have to have a monthly subsription model to every gosh darn interesting service.

How about "Try us unlimited for $10" for X days.

For example - I have a campaign I would like to send out. to >2,000 addresses... I'd like to try that for $10 and not have a subscription...
In steady wind, it needs to spin faster to maintain its wind robustness, which does consume more power... but that's common to all aircraft. Generally speaking, the it is robust to wind gust velocity about 25-30% of the wing speed.

It's more important that each wing maintain equal spacing between one another. But the angular rate of the entire system can be adjusted to accommodate the current operating condition.

I've evaluated models that can travel at 68 knots. Not terribly fast, but the intended application is to stay in one spot for as long as possible.

The tilt-wing configuration is actually dated. The L/D ratios of the wing would require the motors to be excessively oversized for takeoff and landing only. The design has been revised to have a single motor on the outboard section, and the system begins its rotation while on the ground prior to takeoff.

With three rotors it is still possible to stabilize the central hub, assuming the three can support the additional weight of the lost rotor arm. And with my controls background, I can't wait until I have more time to investigate this failure mode mitigation option!
Is upstart better in any way?
It's difficult to go looking for niches without guidance or some direction on what to look for. And when you do find the online ones, you may find that it's hard to shake the incumbents loose because (a) the niche is tiny and (b) the market is already satisfied with the current producers.

The niches I have found always come by accident: "hey, we notice you have this product that's close to what we need. Can you build us a version that does xxx" where xxx is some trivial change that results in a product I can sell to others in that niche. Or "we know this has to be possible and it shouldn't be difficult, but we don't have the skills do it. We'll buy xx units if you can build it for us."

The second-order problem is that often even if you know the need exists and you have a customer, without good knowledge of the domain, it can be hard to figure out how to reach other customers (they may not be online much) and make more sales.

I had a site that would consistently rank in the top 5-10 for google queries, yet I had fewer than 10 hits/day for those queries.

Another issue I've come across is that when you're approached by someone with a specific need, it can be hard to decide if you've found a new niche or just a custom design for one customer.

None of this is to suggest that you shouldn't try, but that it can be harder than it seems at first glance.
I'm under the illusion it's easier to influence a Swedish politician than it is to influence an order of magnitude more foreign politicians, to get the same proportion of influence.

The problem will always be there of course. I'm not saying Sweden is the optimal size, I just find it better than the EU alternative.

If you go to the extreme you can get too small as well. For example a society with a couple of thousand people is too small to form what's essentially a country. There is no clear cut answer.
We employ about 20 people full time - check out our team page at https://lbry.io/team. There are a few folks not listed there, we'll be updating that soon.

We aren't all part of the PR team, we have various roles across the company like CEO, CTO, developers, engineers, and quality assurance

I work on the desktop app. https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop
Of the listed countries, 6 of the 8 - Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Estonia and Denmark - are all 1 constituency countries, so the MEPs represent the entire country

MEPs may well decide different things to the government though, just as the U.S. House could have a different view to the Senate.
What the heck? I grew up in the same era, and lightning bugs were what you did late night out in the yard as a kid.
What you call "cheating and dishonesty" most of the world's population thinks of as nothing other than valuing the good of self and family ahead of that of strangers.

Adults who treat strangers as well as family are scarce indeed in this world, even within societies where the principle is universally inculcated in children by all of church, school and family.

If what you say of Indian culture is true -- well, such is the world norm.
Of course using the P&I clause has important implications.

Here's a twitter thread about it: https://twitter.com/MDAppeal/status/1098244852721115136

Tl;dr It means that the incorporation only applies to CITIZENS, not persons. So citizens united wouldn't apply to the states, but neither would the bill of rights to non-naturalized immigrants with regards to the states.
There seems to be a conflation of toxic and productive which I don't think is necessarily true. In my case the most toxic coworker I ever had was one who was notoriously unproductive but managed to kiss upwards and kick downwards in ways that made it take a while before management noticed.
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if you apply machine learning to a creative effort you will only continue to imitate what has already been done
It’s impressive how well the algorithm does with spectacles.
One way is to explicitly prompt the permission-requests prior to actual syscall invocation (as against at install time). The user can then choose to approve or deny. For instance, if a file-manager app is asking to read your SMS, you can opt to deny the permission, unless you're willing to risk the app misusing your data. What they do on the Mac is also acceptable - where they warn you about running apps from unapproved publishers.
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"any other init system..." originally included "...besides an ancient SysV strawman." but I removed it because it seemed overly snarky.

Having written and dealt with both; It's about equal in my time and effort to write either in sh or windows ini/'unit' files.
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I live in Austin. Sorry to hear about your friend. Can't say that I'm surprised.

Austin seems to be full of people who are happy to give cyclists lip service, but once they have to wait more than 5 seconds for a cyclists, they could hardly care less about them.

I was assaulted by a road raging driver, and to their credit the police made a token effort. Even took my statement. But they made no effort to arrest the guy as far as I can tell. Wasn't difficult for me to figure out where the guy lived, so all I can figure is that the police never bothered looking at all.

This is the most significant reason why I don't intend to stay in Austin.
Keepass, or its XC incarnation, does not charge monthly fees. It also incidentally fares best in the summary comparison table in Figure 21 in the article, although as others have pointed out that does not really mean much.
Blockchain requires a tremendous amount of electricity, contributed by all those participating in the cryptographic portion of the network. If you're not using blockchain to create a tamper-proof log, you shouldn't be wasting the planet's resources on a blockchain project.

Even if you can roll back the requirement to "tamper-resistant" you can get away from the necessity of blockchain: use a hash chain instead.

Since you don't care about tampering, I request that you avoid blockchain.
My recommendation for that budget of less than $5000:

1. Go to your local craigslist site
2. Find a car sold directly by a person (not dealers or shops). I would recommend going for a Honda Civic (best value for that amount and most reliable)
3. Go see the car for yourself in person
4. Get a local mechanic to check the car. pay them for it and then deduct that amount from the sale price if seller agrees.
5. Make sure seller has a clean title in THEIR name. If they cannot show you the title, walk away before the sale. Title should have NO LIENS (i.e. no loan remaining if financed).
6. Create a quick contract for your local state (get a template online) if both parties are ready for the sale.
7. Seller should accept a "Cashier's Check". Some may want cash but most will want a guaranteed way to get paid.
8. In most US states, you give them the check. Make sure the seller signs the title in YOUR name.
9. Go to local DMV and register immediately.

Why Honda Civic ? For less than 5k, you don't have a lot of options. Don't go for luxury brands. At that price, you will get really run down cars and will be very costly to maintain. You could possibly get a used Hyundai as well but Civics are just solid. I would get a Civic that is preferably less than 10 years old but don't shy away if they are even older. If the car was taken care of well, Hondas can easily go 200-400K miles with maintenance and updates.
I assumed that the OP was saying as they'd mitigated the effects of their apnea they now managed on only 6hrs of sleep instead of 10 [ie 6h of good sleep is enough, 10h of poor sleep was what they were getting before].
Science gets it wrong sometimes. New information requires revision. The best we can do is go by consensus expert opinion. There will always be some probabilty of error but we needn’t be afraid to declare some things dangerous and wrong.
There is this thing called "criticism". Or "feedback".

When people are starting to go around and imagine what's going on in other people's heads, it's gone too far beyond "criticism" or "feedback."

If you cannot distinguish between that and "regulating what other people think and feel", anti-Semitism, homophobia and McCarthyism, then maybe you should rethink your own lack of perspective.

One horrible thing about being gay-bashed, and I have experienced this personally, is having other people talk about what's going on in your head, as if they know better than you. There's something particularly dehumanizing about it. Such things also come into sectarian bigotry and out-grouping. I've even experienced a bit of that from being raised Catholic, though that sort of thing was much rarer. Certainly McCarthyism involved a lot of this speculation about what's "really" going on in your head or other people's heads.

then maybe you should rethink your own lack of perspective.

Having been the recipient a lot of bigotry in my lifetime, one common pattern I've seen is people arrogantly, confidently, even self righteously jumping to conclusions about what's going on in my head while being spectacularly wrong. I think that's quite a profound perspective. It's also a perspective which is the foundation of caution against people who use phrases like "maybe you should rethink your own lack of perspective" in such a gaslighting fashion.
I submitted a similar story some time ago, although it didn't raise any interest:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_de_Erauso
Some kind of federated payment model would be nice too
Domain Name: THISWEBSITEDOESNOTEXIST.COM
Creation Date: 2005-08-26-T19:04:47Z
Updated Date: 2018-08-23-T01:12:14Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-08-26

And I'm pleased to say that (as I write this, at least) the registrant has done exactly what I had intended to do with it.
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Your comment appears to suggest you would find it not unpleasant to swim in a pool entirely filled with urine. Or do you acknowledge the fact that a lower concentration of bodily fluids in a swimming pool is more attractive as a swimmer?
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SMF wasn't added until later in Solaris 10. Other unixes (Tru64, HP-UX, Ultrix, AIX, IRIX, etc) did not have anything like it. They were either BSD init or sysvinit
I cannot remember who said this, but I mostly agree with the sentiment of "there are no good or bad movies, only boring or interesting movies". I watch a ton of low-budget crap-films, because I find them funny, and I watch a lot of movies that are really interesting (either directly or intellectually). A movie that is boring is the worst kind of movie to me.

A boring movie is something that I genuinely felt wasted my time. I got nothing out of it, and I couldn't even get a lot of enjoyment out of making fun of it. The perfect example of a movie in this category is the 2009 movie "9" (sorry if that's your favorite movie).
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The decision from the supreme court will change when police try to attach to money, it will no longer be a straightforward matter to do so, and is much more likely to be attached to a criminal case now - which means a lawyer would be involved.
I'm all-in for blocking ads, but I've found full-OS ad-blockers to be entirely unnecessary - I simply don't use apps with ads.

The few apps with ads that I sometimes can't avoid aren't fixable by ad-blockers. (e.g. ads in Google Maps)
Companies have every incentive to create recurring revenue. Wall Street these days is all about repeat business, from Tech to Industrials to residential services like security cameras and alarms.

Some companies like Adobe were extremely successful in changing their business model to that end, so investors expect all other companies to follow suit and severely punish those who don't
This is the draft version of new online ad service which I hope will be useful for all 3 parties involved: advertisers, publishers and all other people who surfing the web. Everyone will be able to specify what is interested to him currently and see only ads about the topics which were configured. Advertiser can show ads only to people who really interested in it, so even small business can afford it. Publisher can show ads to the people who want to see them, which will improve user experience to their site as well as will provide support to it.
What do you think about it guys? I would appreciate any opinion on this idea and the site.
Yep. The lbry urls are handled by the protocol, there is no way for a company to block someone from accessing that channel.

I could outbid that person so that the short url is directed to my channel, but that person will always have a url at
lbry://@SomebodyUnpopular#xyz123...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023232

LWN does a reasonably faithful summary.
If it applies to the state, it automatically applies to towns. The constitution only sees two legal entities - the federal government and the state.
UVC sterilizers seem like another option I think, not sure how effective that is though, and I'm not sure of the availability of things like this.
Every country in the EU agreed to implement these directives when they joined the EU, whether they agreed to it or not. There were various stipulations on how much support there needed to be before everyone had to implement them. Some things need unanimous support (trade deals, accession), some countries have certain opts outs in certain areas

However when it comes to harmonizing copyright legislation it was agreed unaminously that 65% of the EU population, plus 55% of the EU countries, could implement laws that are binding on the rest.
The problem is that the organic nitrogen in the urine reacts with the chlorine in the pool to form chloramine, which is more irritating to eyes and skin than what was in the pool before--probably hypochlorites (NaClO, Ca(ClO)2, or LiClO) with cyanuric acid UV-stabilizer--and less effective at killing bacteria.

By peeing in the pool, you are using up the sterilization capacity already present in the water. The water quality manager then has to increase the rate of chlorination far past what is strictly necessary for bacteria, sweat, skin dust, and sunblock, to account for all the pool-pissers. With over-chlorination and a good particulate filter, some amount of pee in the pool can be absorbed by the system. But if you have the capability to exit the pool and pee in a toilet, that is the civilized and courteous thing to do.

If you recognize NaClO above, you might also know it as bleach. And you might also know that it is very dangerous to mix ammonia with bleach, because it forms respiratory irritants like chloramines and cyanogen chloride. The same types of reactions can occur with the urea in urine.

Also, urine can fertilize algae growth in the pool and screw up your pool pH.
Hiya, creator here. My original post from April 2017 [1] when I released Commento as a self-hosted software received fantastic feedback, but the single most requested feature was a hosted service because it's not always convenient to maintain a server. Plus, it'll never be a proper alternative to Disqus unless there's a hosted version.

So that's what I've been working on for the past year or so. I've received some great feedback from seasoned bloggers who are now using the service and this has helped the the project mature so much over this period. I'm really happy to finally announce the public release of the hosted version (it's been in private beta for a few months now)!

Anyway, AMA!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202456
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> The method which worked better for chickens still involved selecting the best cohort (capitalism), and this improved over open breeding (socialism)

The method that worked best for people that is. It has been pretty damn horrible for chickens. From the comment:

> Indeed, for some strange reason, the individual breeding programs which had been so successful at increasing egg production now required hens to have their beaks clipped, or be housed in individual cages, or they would peck each other to death.

That doesn't sound like "better for chickens" at all. If I were a chicken I'd take open breeding any day.
>If a snobbish, but highly talented employee builds toolkits/engines double or triple the production of the average employee

That person is not 'toxic' because the qualifier is that they have trained their coworkers on the frameworks they created, thus they actually get along.

I think the toxic version would be making statements like, "I spend all my time building frameworks that if my coworkers used them, would double their productivity, but they're obviously too stupid to understand. The more I hear their silly questions on how to use it, the more I realize how f'd hiring is around here that these people are 'coworkers'. So please, I give up, I'll use my frameworks and I'll be 8x more productive than them, just make them leave me alone so I can work."
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What are examples of such self fulfilling prophecies?
This is how the iPhone has worked since 2008.