skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a serious question:

For those of you that like podcasts, did your usage go way down (or even stop) when you got married?

I listened to them all the time back in the day, but mostly because they were tech oriented. For husband / wife activities only video/youtube/netflix seem to work.

Is there any notion that Podcasts are better for people not in relationship thing? I mean you have to either play it for the house or listen on your headphones and it just doesn't make sense to try to tune out the wife for multiple hours.

Also my favorite podcast, Java Posse is done anyway. It's weird to actually hear someone calling this the golden age when it was, for me, 10 years ago of listening to them non-stop.
Religion has been the guiding force for this kind of internal reflection and family/community thought. As religion has declined in many west societies, we haven’t replaced them effectively.

We may not need more religion, but it sure seems like we need something. Building our society so heavily on economic expediency can’t be healthy long term.
Unsubtle.

See https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/reeducating-xinj...
Really? I read long time ago, not at the country level, but that religious individuals were more happy.

Edit: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/religion-happy-athe...
I'm sure the amount of work that went into it must be huge (creating something like that from scratch is indeed a daunting task) but I wonder if this video really does them any service, your average human being is just going to see a crappy and laggy interface that will remind them of bootleg smartphones from 10 years ago.

On the technical side of things I wonder if the lag is due to the lack of hardware acceleration or if it's because of a very unoptimized early build. If it's the former it'll fix itself when they integrate the GPU, if it's the latter then it's slightly more worrying from a code quality perspective.

Beyond that the interface looks like pre-alpha status (most of the widgets look like placeholders, glitches everywhere etc...) and they want to ship that in 6 months? I hope that early PureOS adopters are ready for a very rough launch, this is going to be quite a ride...
How We Use OKRs on www.gov.uk to Manage Team Goals
Brave browser now has a Private Browsing mode with Tor.
We have the same cultural reservations about shrimp. We do not normally eat the head, tail, exoskeleton, legs, gills, or poo-filled gut. It's pretty similar for chicken; nobody eats the feathers and beaks and poop.

Shrimp is nevertheless popular however. We simply remove the parts for which we have cultural reservations.

So, where can I get insects that have been properly prepared, just like shrimp?
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https://qiita.com/Guruji24/items/df9a2bd254c40382b700

https://qiita.com/TakluChacchu/items/f38006bb998926d94f58

https://qiita.com/Faguneagun/items/84e37e99b984ac34e6dd

https://qiita.com/Love24/items/18f8c0f8c0935543222c

https://qiita.com/Buddhir_Raja/items/b1ed9f8869ac523d6648

https://qiita.com/Cheleta_Beyadob/items/6d867d577ea4678cd527

https://qiita.com/Heart_Attack/items/3eb09a44d88706a52d78

https://qiita.com/Shopno24/items/39690320fedf99d9e591
> but can still serve as a mental shortcut for whatever society agrees morality is ~currently~.

Can that be philosophy and humanist approaches? That is a way to look for higher meaning without rewarding fanaticism or dogma.
I think this type of Census data understates household incomes. I am not exactly sure why, but Atherton comes in at about 400k a year per household. That is a lot, but doesn't seem like a lot for Atherton.
Let's just take the "play bar" (for lack of a better term) that hovers over the 4 menu items at the bottom. It's always there. That's sooo frustrating. It grates on my desire for tidiness. Let me clear that. Long pressing shows no option to clear it. It ... it's just not intuitive at all.
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I think this is part of my problem. Radio was never really a thing in my childhood, so it's not a big part of my adulthood either. Other than driving in the car, or as an alternative to the TV announcers when hockey was on, my family never had the radio on or music playing.

I do listen to music on the bus, but podcasts are too much of a challenge since they're competing with all the other noise around me.
Avoiding lifestyle inflation in the first place is definitely part of the puzzle, but it’s not clear that it can dig you out of the hole once you’re in it. Is giving up the lifestyle they want and have really going to make them happier?
I'm in favor of more prolific philosophy circles. There is probably a group in your area that gets together regularly to discuss the works of different philosophers, join in and study up on some Kierkegaard and I think you'll find it gives you a lot of the same pay off.
I don't have much sympathy for someone who earns 1.2 million a year. No matter how bad it is, all you have to do is get your spending down to an absolute minimum and save up for 2 years, then you'll have over 1 million in the bank. Then move out to a nice midwestern town and live happily ever after.

I know it's really rough leaving all your friends and family and everything you know, but it's not as rough as being poor/homeless your entire life.

The meaning of life is to live (not work). The meaning of work is to make money. Money lets you live.
I agree that the commercialization has been sucking the air out of interesting "homemade" podcasts. On the other hand, I think the higher popularity has been helping some independent podcasters justify the time they spend on it (some can even make a living from it, like Mike Duncan).
In principle voltage levels are just a measurement of electron flow with a dumbed down interface.
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"Startup" sounds cool. I found it. I don't understand why they don't have a link to the MP3 but instead make me use an app.
Living in a cosmological fantasy doesn't give your life meaning.

Mass delusion isn't direction.

Religion uses the facade of "values" to cover up it's core insanity, and sweep it's centuries of war mongering under the rug.

I agree that raising a family makes your life more fulfilling and meaningful. After all, reproduction is arguably the "meaning" of life.

But, raising children in a religion that warps their concept of reality is child abuse.
Interesting that this article and the one below, about living a good enough life, were posted on the same day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218947
You're right about the consequences, and the title is misleading, but I think the exact words are probably true.

This is aimed at Google and Facebook, in the sense that the people voting for it cite Google and Facebook as targets, and the companies advocating it view Google as decreasing their profits. That's where publishers are hoping to find new revenues, and where lawmakers are using public anger to garner support.

Unfortunately, the people drafting the law have terrible aim, so it's going to hit primarily startups and not-for-profit sites, raising Facebook's staffing costs slightly while crippling creativity and public access to information. Presumably the people looking to profit on Google links simply don't care about that, although I can't tell whether the lawmakers supporting this don't care about the harms or are genuinely too incompetent to understand what they're doing.
I think it is a leap to say that duty and/or religion are the only logical cures for the existential ills of a miserable person stuck on a meaningless treadmill.

I started writing fiction in my own time and it has done wonders for my mental health and existential outlook. I do it for myself alone, and I'm not sorry for that; I certainly won't be made to feel guilty about it.

I'm sure what I'm doing is just one of many roads people could take out of their existential doldrums. Religion is one of those roads, I have no doubt.
They wrote "the previous Q2 estimate is now confirmed for Q3 product shipping."

I haven't gone back to see what they said/estimated in the past, but going from an estimate to a ship date that's only off by 1 quarter seems acceptable to me.
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They might not be true banks, but lots and lots of companies become enough of a bank to issue loans or credit cards... to customers that want to buy their products. e.g. car companies, department stores, gasoline companies, etc.

I had a buddy that worked for Caterpillar Finance, the credit arm of the folks that make heavy machinery like bulldozers. They issue loans to companies for purchasing their stuff, etc.
> people in rich nations have less children. This is not, at all, what biology would predict. More resources should lead to more offspring.

This is not correct. Rich people in rich nations have more kids than middle-income people in rich nations. What matters is your comparative purchasing power.

Fertility actually increases with income, even for women with education; this is mostly due to rich being able to afford the costs of child care, and feeling secure enough to invest into all of their children as much as they feel they need to. (whereas a middle-class, educated woman would only feel secure investing into 1 child)
It's like setting a physical injury, but significantly harder because usually you're not dealing with it at the time of injury, only much later.

You find the original source, some event or series of events that caused the psyche to fracture. By fracture I mean caused the mind to operate according to some models that were necessary to survive at the time of crisis, but are no longer adaptive in the normal/real/adult world. You then update your mental model to one that is more aligned with reality.

In other words: go to the source of the pain, unlearn whatever lesson you learned at the time to deal with the situation, learn a different/healthier way of looking at it, and then practice a lot until the new mental model is firmly in place.

This is hard. But it gets easier with practice. And it's much easier than trying to set an injury by taking lots of pain-killers.
In the end, the best way to learn how to start a startup is to ignore everything and just do it. Other people will tell you the best way to have started their company. No one is going to be able to teach you how to start yours.

To be clear, I'm not saying that there's not good advice floating around. There is. The trick is knowing how to separate the bad from the good, and as someone who's new to the startup world, that's pretty hard (impossible?) to do.
Non-paywall: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/medhelp-anmaler-computer-sweden
I kind of can't believe I'm saying this because I almost always want better structured technology but I actually think the simplistic nature of the delivery has protected the medium. Things like lack of DRM, skippable ads may have slowed the profitability of the business and therefor slowed the dumbing down of the content you get when a medium is mined to extract maximum profit.
Nice write up, could use a little simple editing / spell check!
So, how do you pinch a democracy, physically? By avoiding answering my point in my last message, you're still caviling. One progresses to the end of a conversation by honestly answering the points made, and you aren't interested in doing that.
If Radiotopia sells out to a conglomerate or publisher, I will be extremely sad. And I am worried that I will eventually need N different apps to listen to the podcasts I like instead of just one. I don't like where this is headed. :(
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Can you add more (feel free to edit the current comment content?)
a problem easily solvable by a move to NJ, which of course, would dramatically increase your misery level. In fact, that's probably why that guy is miserable - he doesn't live in Manhattan and has a 2 hr or more commute every day.
haha, awesome. Love the lonely "Apache request logs" circle. :)
As a clear example, We lack green areas in our cities by any measure. That's something that already have been done in many places and have 100% positive impact. You don't really need to innovate, just copy what have worked in other places.
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3 Product Managers = Recipe for disaster

Sounds like you are suffering serious leadership/management issues. Unless you are at start up that is making money and is profitable, kind of sounds like a sinking ship?

I was previously at a start up where it sounds similar to what you are experiencing. Except the business model of the product was failing, I had off shore developers and the business side started point fingers at the the development department. Which was just me and I was the only paid employee. (The company never ever made 1 cent of revenue.)

Regardless after 70 days I resigned, without another job. It took me a year or so to really recover from the exhaustion of the start up.

My only advice is keep in mind that burn out can have far reaching effects after you leave the stressful situation.
Whats up with all this China-bashing on HN?

Comments on HN became so politically engaged in the last two years, that it starts feeling like a Fourth International cell.
In the U.S., citizens voluntarily submit this data to companies without a counter-signed contractual agreement on data retention and protection. Some of these companies have relationships with the government.

I predict that in the near future, companies will offer more incentives to entice people into volunteering their DNA for various other perks.
> - No err != nil checks (replaced by option types)

Where can I find code illustrating V Option types?
Not married, but in a long-term relationship living with my partner. I listen to them while commuting to work or while doing household chores, and consistently get through 4+ hours/week of podcasts.

I don't find my listening habits change that much when I'm alone, as either way I tend to only listen to them while I'm engaged in some other activity. (When I have completely free time I prefer more interactive activities like games or music.)
I don't see any damage control.

It's odd to me that people are nitpicking the negative news rather than the positive news.

They're making progress towards a privacy-respecting phone. I'm excited.
Ah crap. I was just working on my resume too. Well, guess I'm moving to Mega + Emacs again once it comes back up. I'm not going to trust any online service with my workflow if they're going to have downtime like this.
Not suspicious at all how you come to HN on a new account talking about how people should take your posting in good faith, with the "strongest possible interpretation", with references to the rules.

My strongest possible interpretation is that you are not posting in good faith whatsoever, and should be ignored.
Just curious, but how do you know that the church they prayed at supports the behaviour of their neighbours?

It just strikes me as odd logic, like saying that because a thief goes to church to pray, that church must condone thievery.
I know I'm in the extreme minority here but I also hate Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, and even Youtube tracking what I watch. For youtube I watch lots of things in incognito mode. I like the idea of getting recommendations. I hate the idea of a profile being built on me.

Yes I get this Sonos is arguably worse since they're spying on stuff not from a service. iTunes does this as well though you can opt out. Oculus does it too. No opt out there AFAIK. Steam as well. You can add in PS4/Switch/Xbox too.

Does the law preventing companies sharing your video rental history apply to internet companies and streaming music, videos, and games?
As cited above,
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/
answers all this far better than I can. Changing the subject to loss of previous knowledge is arguing by distraction.
Reply All criminally releases episodes only every 2 weeks. I need that fix more often.
Not sure if you noticed that's literally what they did at the end of the "Eigenvalue Solution" section, but it reads "So there you have it – a O(1) algorithm for any Fibonacci number."

Although they do note that eigen_fib() completely breaks down once the numbers involved are larger than fit in a 64 bit integer.
America is already incredibly religious and the rich/wealthy are no exception. What exactly makes you think that these miserable people are not religious? Because it seems like you're extrapolating miserable = lack of religion, which seems like a nonsensical connection.

Religion has nothing to do with this unless you decide to No True Scotsman and claim that they aren't actually religious. The issue is that they're chasing a lifestyle of endless consumption where at a certain point consumption doesn't actually add anything to your life. Better houses, more cars, wealthier friends, eventually you hit a point where your capital only marginally affects your life until you hop into the hyper-wealthy category. At that point you can start using capital to influence policy but that still relies on personal conviction.
This argument suffers from both the "no sane government" and the "no reasonable government" fallacies.
Nice hyperbole.
While not directly comparable, text messages do often see some lag (especially when also considering something like MMS) so it could be said that there is some tolerance for latency.
A more distinctive difference could be the lack of rich media functionalities (sharing GIFs, stickers, etc) that have seen popularity in most messenger apps. This seems to be a middle ground between traditional email (professional) and mobile chat (casual) which could see some use but I can't imagine how user adoption would follow
>> Slack was a pivot

Youtube was a hard pivot from a video dating site.
> A good Go package should strive to have a low degree of source level coupling such that, as the project grows, changes to one package do not cascade across the code-base.

I wonder though why there is so little emphasis on how important interfaces are in Go. I mean, section 4.5 talks about it a bit, but in my experience, this mistake is made far too often.
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Yes, but even bonds don't keep up with inflation, and you need enough principle to ride out the dips. The "safe" return is considered to be 4%, which is $20k on $500k, so you'd be dipping into the principle even on that poverty scale.

It just take a lot more to retire than the average person realizes, and not eat Alpo.
Perhaps a helpful sidebar: This website loads painfully slow.
https://github.com/vlang-io/V/blob/master/examples/users.v

They are very simple and combine Rust's Option<T> and Result<T>.
I respect the journalist here, and the Theranos story is endlessly fascinating, but I'm kind of underwhelmed by the content of this particular article- It kinda makes the "final months" at Theranos sound really boring...

...besides a heavily-played story that she brought a puppy to the office, was there really anything in this article that wasn't already covered in better ways in previous articles?
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I think the article dances around the point a bit, with its discussion of the greater satisfaction that comes from meaningful work. The implication is that finance is fundamentally meaningless, and it makes people miserable.
This is one of my favorite forms of fibonacci, because it unwinds the recurrence relation without having to apply some kind of relation/master-theorem to it. Rather it describes it as a relation in a way that allows square-and-multiply.
Tom Scott recently did a good piece on a section of Denmark that constantly shifts timezones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz-Dl60Lfc

In general, the Earth is a really lousy clock.
This is fantastic. One the most difficult tasks writing a deep learning paper is actually drawing the complex architecture of multilayer nets. I would consider this a major contribution to field !

To add emphasis, anyone who ever used latex knows that it is a pain at the ass.
That's a pretty high bar which almost nobody needs to meet to be widely acclaimed and highly profitable.
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This article is like a watery, inoffensive version of Graeber for the author and his MBA classmates in the managerial class.
> Nothing is being censored. You can say whatever you want.

a) Not if the platforms needed for ordinary people to say them are destroyed/neutered.

b) This is a direct attack on criticism and fair use in general. Some of the most biting criticism is to use the opponent's own words against them, or to demonstrate a historical example of them being wrong or inconsistent. Which has in general been legally protected for that exact reason, yet this is likely to impair that significantly because it would be detected as "infringement" by an automated system with a useless, opaque or non-existent appeals process.
PE firms are there for profit. To make profit you cut costs or raise revenue. Guess which is faster?
I don't think there's any known objective way to measure happiness.
Or the Thai king or Turkmenbashi:)
You and your colleagues are lucky and privileged to be able to find satisfaction in work, but that's still orthogonal to the purpose of work. Enjoying one's job is a coincidence, not an expected result.
Emails and SMS message seem to have similar 'delivery time ranges' to me. I send this message, and it will arrive somewhere between pseudo-instantly and take a minute.

With my conversations, it is often a minute to get users to respond if they are working on multiple IM conversations and need to finish their thought, or are otherwise doing something meaningful outside of cyberspace anyways, so the delivery time is of less importance.

Boundless speculation: whatever the difference in instant delivery of a message and the human user noting/changing gears to address it and delivery taking (in your worse case example) 1 minute, just in time for the human user to be 'ready' to receive another message is too small to be meaningful for non-techie users.

Anecdata for those users in my contacts list that are techies: after about 5 IMs, further chatting seems to organically migrate to a phone call or desktop client session (Slack/Volt/Skype/Discord) rather than the approx 3 messages every 5 minutes my cursory glance at message times in Signal shows for the non-techie users.
This is not true. $20,000/mo rent in NYC will get you a gigantic apartment (thousands of square feet), as you can verify on any housing listings website.
Also it's just a job. I know it's difficult to see that in the heat of the moment. But life is so much more than a job. Jobs come and go...