skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it’s comforting to hear about those low percentages (10-20%, as you mention) in your experience. However, empirical results [0] have demonstrated percentages of mental illness among PhD students more in the range of 43-46%. Lest we assign some sort of “well, it’s better here” thinking, those results are from Berkeley.

I remain pedantic about this only because, despite some anectodal experiences, there’s a serious problem in academic training which is having strongly detrimental effects on student development, quality of life, and retention.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4089
In a Mythbusters episode they set up coupled metronomes. One of the metronomes didnt sync up and the host was annoyed. He may have unwittingly discovered the chimera state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-c6S6SdkPo
Just how is this a good advice if it's a bad thing if most men do it?

A better advice would be for men to understand this tendency of women, what it means to be attractive to women and make an informed decision if they want to play the game of becoming more attractive to women.

They can also learn to reverse the game in their thirties and only date women 4-5 years younger, thus penalizing women who wait until their last fertile minute to settle down.
> ... reduce recidivism rates.

That's no longer the goal. Prison contracts are usually billed flat rate. If JD locks up more prisoners, they get a better deal.
The fact that you conflate 'UNIX' with 'computer science' as if those things are at all equivalent is enough to dismiss this comment outright. Let me guess, Windows is just a hack job too? If only Microsoft hired people with real computer science degrees.... /s

GNU's success speaks for itself.
Another good resource for this "minimal" approach is:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

.. and it's followup:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

(Both are SFW sites except for the use of expletives in the URL/title).
May be consider putting a CDN in front of it?

Cloudflare or BunnyCDN.

Btw the Site looks great. Simple and Elegant.
Relativity (even of the ’easy’ Special variety) can have very peculiar effects on physical systems.... I remember trying to solve for a relativistic pendulum, and it was a seriously intricate situation.
I need to build my v2 and am avoiding accepting angel funding from an investor who wants 30% for $250k. Sales are not stopping at this point. I am using stripe for all sales. Do you have a suggestion for me to get a loan? I need $150k to build v2 AND keep the lights on for say 12-14 months. Thanks.
Brief anecdote as potentially one of those rejected students who was not "qualified":

The community college I went to has a special program with Stanford where the faculty of the CC will, on a VERY rare occasion, nominate a student they feel is mature, smart, and driven enough to a research program they collaborate on.

From my knowledge, every student who has gone into this program has gotten into Stanford.

My transfer application was rejected 2 years in a row, so I was very honored when, during the fall in which I had moved to NY for the school I accepted admissions to, I received an email inviting me to the program.

I was also a bit frustrated, as you can imagine. So, my response was along the lines of "thank you so much for this opportunity, but I'm not so sure commuting 5000 miles each week is practical. Please let another qualified applicant take my place."

A little more context: I had been at the CC for 6 years. The first 2 I almost flunked out, but I turned that around into getting A's and being on the dean's list every quarter. However, averaging 2 years of failed grades meant it would take insanely long to get into the high 3.x's. But my history showed a complete turnaround and ambitious drive towards a goal.

The fall a year later I received another email inviting me to the program. The CC faculty were so used to having me around they just assumed I was still on campus (several wrote me recommendation letters and I'm pretty sure I told them I was transferring).

I responded in a similar fashion as I did the year prior, and then I proceeded to start the PhD program early at my university.

My family doesn't have lots of money or connections. I was never a stellar student (until that 3rd year at the CC and beyond) but I excelled at whatever I set my sights on. I'm glad I went where I did. I did some really awesome things, met some phenomenal people, and united with my better half. However, same as the job search, I've always wondered if my potential place was taken by someone who cheated, made themselves look legit especially when they weren't, or otherwise finagled their way in.

I know I couldn't do it. That's why I stopped playing sports competitively. The cheating was ridiculous and it was worse that the refs stood by it. I want to be excellent and deserve that spot, not mediocre but dressed to look excellent and getting that spot.

If those getting into top schools include cheaters, the likes of which have come to light in the past weeks, then those people are going to get the credibility from having that institution associated with them, the network from being there, and so much more that benefits them and validates the lived lie.
>are reluctant to give me the third board seat.

I wouldn't be too hung up on this. If push comes to shove it sounds like you'd lose every vote 2 to 1 anyways.
Stop them from being able to lobby politicians. The only way we allow people to be treated like this is because we allow corporations to legally bribe our elected officials. We also keep voting for those same officials.
Almost every python package that I've used seems to have Github "issues" opened where someone asks "Why even do this when there's [insert similar but different thing]". Who cares? Pip uninstall it if it isn't what you want? Fork it if you want something slightly different? Or contribute to a productive discussion about the direction of the project? Do SOMETHING positive.
How exactly is saying it -- that just because most people feel something [desire to have sex] does not make it [that, quoting AQuantized's response to rofo1, sex is a necessity] a fact -- "just like" telling a happy person that he is not really happy and that he only feels happy?
I find the interface really clunky to use because I need to press enter after every command.
Don't forget the excessive use of expletives in the content.
I'm very excited about tools like Dat and Scuttlebutt, because they do promise this exact transformative rethink of the control and ownership of data.
If warming does reach that level then yes, there has been some research finding that it would be overall be good news for Canada and Russia (and presumably Norway too).
Thank you for the story!
We used to use a show of hands (raised hands). However, participants with limited sight could not get a sense for the state of a room when a show of hands was called for. So we switched to humming. Now, you might wonder how that works for people who are hard of hearing, but oddly enough that has not come up as much.
The set of interpreters.
A SFW version: https://www.goshdarnwebsite.com
I'm thinking about invoking from an mpv script with --json.
After the Volvo experience, Tesla puts cameras in her cars for surveillance
> The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain.

That is what I would call a distinction without a difference. The underlying motivation for those actors is still the same no matter you call it religion or politics. They appealed to the identity of the religious and largely got the response they wanted. Same thing Russia did with BLM except Russia was inciting both sides.

Christian's believe in miracles/supernatural by definition. This includes faith healing. It absolutely prevalent everywhere in the religion and its different sects. The Terri Schiavo incident was not specially exempt from this belief.
Ted Nelson was banging this drum as far back as 1974 with the concept of Cybercrud as discussed in Computer Lib/Dream Machines: New Freedoms Through Computer Screens. If you go back and actually read that book, you'll realize that basically everything he says about computers then is applicable to computers now when it comes to lies told to users. As an example, he points out that 'computer people' will routinely tell users that something can't be done when the reality is it's entirely possible but the software won't do it.

That we don't seem to have made much progress in 50 years is pretty disappointing.
Food for thought: slavery is illegal in the U.S. except if it occurs as part of punishment for a crime!
How did you draw the conclusion that I conflate UNIX and computer science?

UNIX was developed by computer scientists with formal education in computing theory and algorithms, on top of those people inventing some of the algorithms and data structures which are still taught in formal computer science today, and for a good reason. Then the work was taken up by engineers with formal education in the same. But how is that conflating an operating environment (not even an operating system, but an operating environment) with computer science? What the hell...

The success of GNU is built on ignorance -- then-teenagers fresh out of high school downloading ISO's on their P.C. buckets because they didn't even know there is such a thing as a UNIX workstation, or thinking they couldn't afford one (which wasn't true, as older systems could be had for a bargain). They could have just as easily downloaded NetBSD or FreeBSD but didn't because they didn't know any better. Even today the entire hype is based on not knowing any better (why are we still running Linux, eh?) That's not something to be proud of, but I suppose it does "speak for itself" in a way.
I quit Reddit for a lot of reasons, but the redesign was the final nail in the coffin for me. Feels like No Country for Old Men over there.

I felt like all I was doing was watching loading spinners for the content to come in. Lots of last-minute DOM element readjustments that felt super broken and I never quite knew how to use anything. Add to that, links were replaced with icons in a lot of places so I never could find what I was looking for.

Blessing in disguise, really. I started using HackerNews and I love the community here.
And? Is everything Mr. Maslow said to be taken as incontrovertible fact?
>DDG Search is a free competitor to Google Search that doesn't track

prove it please
I’d go with “Does it surprise you...”
I bet there's also a measurable difference in outcome when this type of communication is forced through a screen. By removing the face-to-face interaction you're making it easier to remove empathy from the situation...

But frankly welcome to the US - we have zero empathy for people who end up incarcerated ='(
5.5K on their living (mortgage + property tax) eats all of their income. not surprised. 800$ a month car payment. 2100$ a month on food...i feel like if they at the very least tried to be somewhat frugal, they can probably save a ton.

this is sort of the epitome of when people tell you that there are different kinds of rich people. the secret rich who do very frugal things and have a ton of money, and drive civics. and then the poor rich who drive volvos, have giant houses and spend every penny.

if one of them lost their job, theyd be completely screwed. this sort of mentality eats at you knowing you cant quickly jump ship if your job sucks, and then ultimately it starts making you depressed knowing youre just...stuck. and then it can start eating at your personal life. i speak from experience (i.e my parents)
Citing Wikipedia in political topics...
Open source is winning. But it’s armed by money from the big software giants that want to commoditization software (see “commoditize your compliments[1]). This largely comes at the expense of medium sized companies and furthers tech consolidation into the Big 5 tech cos. Is this a good thing?

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I don't see anything about deadlines here. What kind of "realtime" is this?
I only drive maybe 180 miles a month, and go on a flight once a year, so I should be among the last people to blame.

Those people who put their travel porn pics on Instagram should be among the first :)
How to learn something new while maintaining a daily job
Where Should I Work?
I think they'll do it eventually.

They took a lot of flack from folks when they tossed out 10+ years worth of 30-pin cable support on the switch to Lightning, so they'll likely take a good long while before they switch the phone to USB-C. I think it'll be the last device they produce to make the switch.
It was called "The Circle," it came out in 2017, and it did $40.7 million at the box office on a budget of $18 million.
This analogy falls down as soon as you look at misinformation where moneyed interests exist (put another way, as soon as you get political). The media puts delusional individuals front-and-center with an appeal to some bizarre, binary idea of fairness as soon as they report/talk about climate change, etc.
Most would. There have been many search engines never a paid one. Many free email providers existed before and after gmail.
https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks plugging my own tool. You can enforce custom rules like entropy ranges + custom regexes to get less false positives similar to what is described under "Validity Filters" in this article.
In early-stage SaaS, a rule of thumb I've often heard is that it's great if you're maintaining a 1:1 ratio of cash burned to ARR generated.

So if you net burn $6M cash from Day 1 to now, and get to =>$6M ARR, you're doing great. Presumably that ARR has an LTV(lifetime value) that's some multiple of ARR.

But in early-stage, that "net burn of cash" figure includes both client acquisition costs, COGS, and initial R&D costs. So it's a pretty messy metric IMO beyond a back-of-the-napkin kind of thing.

Almost immediately you'd expect to focus on the king of the "classic" SaaS metrics - CAC:LTV, where LTV takes into account gross margin, and making sure you're above the 3x line.

Investing big $ in R&D for product expansion/improvement etc is almost a different question - it's its own ROI calculation.

Final point - in SaaS, the pay-back on the initial CAC cash outlay is also super important. If it's tight (good), you are "re-cycling" the initial CAC spend on add'l clients, and each is creating a stream of future cash flows.

In a perfect world, you're taking $100 of investor money, deploying it into CAC to produce x # new clients, which represents ARR streams, and who pay back the $100 CAC almost immediately. Then you re-deploy the $100 to get the next x # of new clients, etc.

This is the magic of compounding in SaaS.

--

All this to say - capital efficiency should be understood in context (in my examples above, capital efficiency in go to market has it's own rules and dynamics, whereas other uses of capital may be different).
>corporations discovered that if you treat prisoners like a renewable resource ...

The problem is bigger than that -- public authorities have made the same discovery, and are extorting families in the same way.
Although we are part of the government, we operate as a business unit that must pay for itself to exist. To do this, we have to charge other agencies for our services. My group is "cost-recoverable," meaning, that we are longer losing money and can reinvest back into the product. You will notice our Github activity picked up recently and even more significant changes are coming soon. So, I'd say we are in the best shape we've ever been.
>A big advantage of ddgr over googler is DuckDuckGo works over the Tor network.

I'm not sure I follow. Is there an option to route this command over Tor? DuckDuckGo has a dot onion but queries on DuckDuckGo.com aren't routed over Tor.
> Really, what is the mobile industry thinking?

Probably that you can still use your wired headphones with a $9 dongle.
Here's a list of languages that supposedly also use the voiced velar fricative ɣ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative
Try some fear of flying and anxiety 'talk downs' on Youtube. If it gets really bad, get a referral for a psychiatrist and try taking something like Atavan (xanax didn't work for me). Combining the medication with the narrated anxiety "talk downs" has given me decent results.
This, so much of their budget is discretionary for the lifestyle they want to have vs the lifestyle that would let them save.

Atleast they’re contributing to 401k.
The linked IPCC report is even more specific. The 100 companies cited are all involved in fossil fuel production. So as long as you don't use fossil fuels or consume anything made or transported with fossil fuels, it isn't your fault at all.
Their climate will get nicer, but almost all of their major cities are located on a coast. So rising oceans will cause mass displacement of their citizens.
That's pretty messed up no matter how you look at it.
No, I use old.reddit or nothing at all.
State Owned Corporations v.s. Corporation Owned State
I don’t understand your comment. Why do you think the two questions are related? As I read them, the first is just about collecting data on Google platforms (said data might be kept separated per each platform). The second question is about attempting to tie search data with other collected data.

Someone might for example expect Google to try to tie your search history to other places, but at the same time expect Google to simply not collect much data in a variety of other services / business products / whatever.

The second question getting more “yes” responses seems perfectly consistent to me, and answering yes to the second does not at all require answering yes to the first to maintain logical consistency.
That makes me thing that it would be so useful if we could have a unique ID for each song out there (kinda like the ISRC, could be something more modern like how we now do audio fingerprinting) that is universal across music services.

It would be way easier to migrate from one to the other if that was the case.
Seems like if someone just handed out contact information for the owners and management of those prison-service companies to everyone that left a facility, the problem would eventually take care of itself.

Ideally, the lawyers would work it out, but if not, the recidivism rate might.

I don't feel at all conflicted about the possibility that anyone might get more than what's coming to them. The misery of others should not be a for-profit industry--not for the criminals, and definitely not for the prisons. Keeping prisoners just seems like one of those jobs where no one who actually wants to do it should ever be allowed to.
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You know what also comes out like gold? Actual gold :p

As far as I'm aware, profit margins on iron aren't too shabby either, though I'd have to do some digging how this all shapes up in these specific cases (Norwegian oil vs Australian gold, iron and coal).
This isn’t proof, but wouldn’t we hear some employee or partner leaks if it did? It’s hard to keep a really big secret while publicly proclaiming the opposite.

Exception would perhaps be a govt enforced one, with jail threats for those who leaked.
>Those people who put their travel porn pics on Instagram should be among the first :)

To push back mildly: watching others' travels is a substitute to traveling yourself. Every Instagram celebrity is thousands, if not tens of thousands, people who get the travel experience without having to burn the fuel for actual travel.
> Microsoft is really big on typography,

you mean that big:

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/quotation-marks.ht...

not even able to provide correct quotation marks!
Are the number of people who won't buy media because of DRM > the number of lost sales due to casual piracy for people who don't know how to torrent?

And if you are looking for something that's not recent and/or popular, trying to find a seeded torrent can be prohibitive.

Add to that the number of people who won't pirate because of getting one warning letter and people who don't want to bother trying to figure out how to get a movie to their device.

Heck, I know how to do all of that, have a Plex server set up etc. But these days it's not even worth the hassle. I'll just spend the 3-6 bucks on a rental.
I had the exact same issue and I still get angry thinking about the phone call I had with a support manager at apple. He blamed me, or possibly my backups. His solution was to factory reset the phone and to never restore my phone or my backups. He seriously wanted me to troubleshoot the issue, app by app, on a clean phone. I can't even imagine how long this would take, weeks? He told me that even if I take it to a store, they probably won't replace the battery because the app says it's fine.

Thinking back, I remember how I basically had Stockholm syndrome with my phone. The performance was incredibly terrible. Swiping on the screen took two or three attempts, opening any app took 2 or 3 touches for it to register. Scrolling was stuttered in any app. I remember my partner deemed my phone unusable (it was 3+ years old, so I certainly expected some sluggishness). I had just built in muscle memory to use my phone, swipe swipe, press press press to open an app.

Sigh, and I'm still with Apple.
My reasoning has nothing to do with what it has, it is about what it is: unambitious. It is unwilling to label itself as something that could ever potentially be a useful replacement for anything, probably because that means it can't be judged for failing to achieve it. Its developers are free to engage in academic exercises which amuse them without regard for practical applicability.

And that's fine really, but it is representative of the larger problem: no one capable of pulling it off is willing to be so ambitious. No one is willing to commit to the hard work of making a usable and practical platform, which will undoubtedly involve distasteful compromises and uninteresting work sanding down the rough edges.

I'd be glad to be proven wrong on this, but I just don't see it happening.
I agree in general. But lets not forget, without the incentive to make profit, someone would not have done the investment and work to invent something in the first place. So some treatment would not even exist at all.
Is it only 1% or 2% anymore? I feel like these past couple of election cycles have really alerted people to some of the issues we are talking about. But maybe It's just in my circles.
There’s a lot of appeal in a product that lets you signal that you’re taking a different path.
The obvious counter-example is OpenSSL: used everywhere, yet survived based on volunteer work for years. I would be surprised if there weren't plenty more in the myriad of dependencies used by those well-known projects.
The implication was there though. I suspect that most men simply aren't vigilant about these issues, and so they don't fear it. I'm sure it would bother them too.
well, if you chose not to have kids and an 800k apartment, it will be totally different.
I fail to see how MGTOW is not an answer to this problem.

Isn't it a good thing that men who feel they are not attractive to females quit for good the dating scene?

Isn't part of the problem the narative that females have been fed -- that they can just have fun in their 20s and then settle down with a nice guy in their 30s?

If females knew they won't have the backup option in their 30s, maybe they'd be more willing to choose the monoganous option earlier in life?
There's also https://bestmotherfucking.website/
> How would that work?

Don't use Facebook.

Phone companies use a constrained, public resource (spectrum). Facebook doesn't.