skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Money is purely a social construct. It only has value because people collectively find it useful. There is no backing."

You're missing a very important point: US dollars are special because they are the only thing accepted to pay US taxes.

No matter how valuable of a thing you own - gold, euros, a truck full of mona lisas, shares in TSLA ... it will not be accepted as payment for US taxes.

Understanding where the value of money comes from and what it is actually used for and what the nexus is between financial entities and physical force ... it all starts with understanding what it means that the government will not accept anything from you, no matter how valuable, for payment of taxes other than the currency it issues.
This is so strange to read about. I’ve worn my QC35 (and QC25 before them) almost every day for about 8-10 hours a day, for years, and not once have I experienced any kind of discomfort related to their use. I’m on the completely opposite camp, where I’ll sometimes even have them on just for the noise-cancelling effect, but nothing playing. I don’t need it (not even surrounded by noise most of the time), I’m just used to it.

To hear that people are feeling “searing ear pain” seems so... weird. These are by far the most comfortable and enjoyable headphones I’ve had, and they hurt people.
How does sending raw memory to the socket work if you have a struct filled with pointers?
Exactly. I've never experienced it from mine, nor have I heard of this problem. No doubt it is real for some, but it isn't that the rest of us are just not telling others about our pain.
And the blog post was just quoting Beej.
I think they simply don't do that with structs that contain pointers?
That was an awesome article. Fun to read.
The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age
"Merriam-Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms" is devoted to explaining shades of meaning among synonyms. For example, it explains why you might choose to use defer, postpone, intermit, suspend, or stay. Interesting if you're a writer, or if you're generally interested in suggestion, implication, and denotation. It's very browsable.
Technology cuts children off from adults, warns expert
What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly
What's weird is that susceptibility to incident radiation has gone up tremendously. Cells minimize area, and exacerbate the problem. I'm wondering if computers will still need to be replaced regularly as a byproduct.
Yep. I'm consulting for a company that has this ailment. Everyone is trying to do 10 things at the same time, none of them matter worth a damn, and they're failing at it. Everyone is overworked and demoralized, revenues slipping, the company is not building product equity, just trying to churn butter out of bullshit by thrashing wildly.

Worse yet, I'm not in a position to tell them they need to change, so I take their money and do what they ask me to do, even though I know full well it's basically a waste of time and resources for them.
>I have political opinions also.

Good for you. The thing is, it's not a matter of opinion: radical left ideas do, in fact, improve the society and do, in fact, become mainstream.

>Incremental changes work. Radicals causing destruction very seldom do.

The only thing Rosa Parks destroyed was the unchallenged idea that she was rightfully subject to lesser treatment. What she did was not incremental in the slightest, though, so, lame centrist chiding that would have her act "incrementally" is at best meaningless and at worst openly supportive of the unjust status quo of the time.
Hi HN, I've posted this project before but that was pre-rewrite to use Golang rather than relying on Python. The advantages are pretty clear, most importantly being compiled binaries to make deployment super easy. I was hesitant to post 3.0 since it's lacking in features compared to 2.0, but I've been using it personally for a couple weeks and a few close friends have been testing it as well. Always open to new suggestions, and the roadmap for the rewrite is in the README. :)
https://neilpatel.com/blog/buying-websites/ Looks like this link explains it a bit. Neil Patel bought the blog for 500k
And the installation instructions on the GitHub page are much simpler than the complicated thing that TFA suggests
QuaterNet: A Quaternion-Based Recurrent Model for Human Motion
"Never been seen" in the scientific literature, but if it's from Chile, presumably somebody there has seen it. Instead of sending an expedition, has anybody asked people who live near muddy beaches there if they recognize it?
Tried parsing through the first few paragraphs; can someone offer a tl;dr of how Audible is assaulting leisure time?

Is it because Audible can be listened to while performing other tasks or going about your day, and it removes the previously quiet, uninterrupted time of the day to ponder?
Sportpesa's Shadowy Bulgarian Backers
> an infringement on the control I expect of my own computer

How is it an infringement? The server saying 'so-and-so sent a message, here it is' is exactly no different to the server saying 'so-and-so deleted their message, get rid of it'.

You can always take logs

> On the other hand, the contents of a phpBB forum (or even HN) are stored on someone else's computer and nobody has the ability to arbitrarily delete stuff that I've downloaded

Yet, when you consult that forum, you're in the exact same position as you would be with Discord after someone has deleted a message — you cannot consult that content anymore unless you've explicitly backed it up (in the case of Discord, made your own log; in the case of a forum, downloaded or archived the relevant site elements).
I would wager most guns get fired a very small amount of times.

If you take those away, of the rest, I'd wager the overwhelming majority is used for sports and hunting.

So, not sure about that. You might have the right claim, but the "by definition" might be too much
Life Is a Video Game: Here Are the Cheat Codes
There is lots of debate on here about whether or not Apple is right to remove these apps and whether, on balance, Apple should allow apps to use MDM/VPN features "for good" or whether Apple is right to lock down those features.

That debate is beside the point. Apple's timing makes a very strong circumstantial case that Apple is not removing these other apps because they suddenly care that the apps are violating their TOS. Apple is removing them now because Apple now offers a competing app. If Apple had never approved these apps in the first place, or removed them promptly over the years, nobody would have a problem.

Here's an analogy: suppose you live in a small town and the cops have set up a speed trap to catch tourists. They never ticket you because they know you are a local. Years pass, you have children, life is good. Then your daughter dumps her boyfriend, who happens to be the police chief's son. All of a sudden, the cops start ticketing you because "everybody needs to follow the law." Do you believe their explanation?
“fustian” and “pretentious speech” and “pompous speech” can be similar/related but they don’t map 1:1 to each-other.

Fustian is a type of cloth which was used as padding. If I say I just listened to 10 minutes of fustian from a politician that means they were filling time far beyond the direct content. I would characterize many business books as fustian. (Or at least, this has always been my understanding of the word.)

If I say the speech was pretentious that means it was artificially pretending to be something it wasn’t, e.g. as if it were written by someone who looked up every word they wanted to use in the thesaurus and then chose the most obscure quasi-synonym without knowing its meaning and without bothering to check that the new word actually meant what they wanted to say. (There might be other types of pretension. For instance, someone might say that a highly-educated upper-class politician’s speech is pretentious when he talks like a manual laborer, or that a political scientist’s writing is pretentious when it reads like a physics paper.)

If I say the speech was pompous, that means it was affectedly grand; imagine someone giving a speech at a city council meeting about whether to add some bike lanes to a local street but sounding like a king’s eulogy.

“Fluff”, “stuffing”, “padding”, “bombast”, “hot air”, etc. are ways of expressing more or less the same metaphor as “fustian”.
They do not need to be on the same connection, but LISTEN will need its own dedicated connection that is kept alive, it shouldn’t be drawn from the connection pool. Very useful if you want to send messages only and exactly once a transaction is committed.
...unless you see the political spectrum as a circle where the opposites meet at the top. There is a lot to be said for this given the resemblance between authoritarian-left and authoritarian-right regimes. While they might sound different on paper and on the barricades they somehow seen to end up with largely identical - and largely dysfunctional - societies.
This is a wonderful article. I'm sure I never really understood what the Legendre transformation was before - not this well.
Sounds like it's time to look elsewhere. The fact that this "huge push" wasn't made clear to you prior to the promotion process sounds like your manager really dropped the ball.
I do understand Google's challenge with handling probably the largest amount of email traffic in the world, and then the most spam in the world, and that it is a continuously moving target.

But it does feel like they are treating nearly all minor relays as spam relays. We can not block 100% of spam before we relay onwards to Gmail as that would mean too many false positives emails get blocked, but most try to block as much as possible.

In my case, my servers probably block 99% of spam, but some will get relayed, and most of those ends up being handled by Gmail's even better Bayes scoring and filtered to end users' spam folders.

I don't know what the automatic threshold limit is to be on their naughty list, but it must be very low, as in double digits per day.
I'm not sure comparing those two is really that useful.

Wouldn't a large scale military invasion have vastly higher logistical requirements than sending out a purely exploratory party?

Afaik many Roman soldiers were also quite wary of going to Britain, a land they considered even more foreign and savage than Germania, which probably added to the Roman struggle of gaining any foothold.
What is a good reference from the symplectic geometry angle?
I'm really confused, as the author talks about their "searing ear pain" and then says

> When I activated the noise cancelling button, things got worse. The ear pain got more severe and so did the pain close to my jaw.

I'm really confused as to the claim being specific to noise cancelling headphones given the ear pain happened when that feature was off.
To be clear, it is something like this, which is not bad at all to write:

struct st s;
bzero(&s, sizeof(s));
// ...
write(fd, &s, sizeof(s));

I’ve dealt with many systems that have tons of unnecessary serialization logic, and found them slower and buggier than just letting the C spec define the data format.

Having said that, it is possible to get this sort of thing right with C++ and templates (thanks to inlining).

Higher-level languages without compile time code generation (like Java and Python) usually make serialization a train wreck in comparison with “send raw structs” or “make the [C++] compiler generate and typecheck the machine code that does the serialization”
Great summary. I also love Prof. V. Balakrishnan's exposition on this topic. The video is long, but he motivates the ideas very clearly and in context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOkZs2RZMQY.
It’s not Ok with commercial insurance either.
Audible's greatest assault is on my wallet. So many audiobooks on that platform are exorbitantly expensive.
Frankly, use the style that is idiomatic to your code base is what is the most important. Keeping things consistent is what matters.

And if you start a new project, just use the style you prefer and enforce it :)
Love is all about perspective.

Sometime people make certain actions out of love, but the recipient doesn't always take it that way. Example: Breaking up a relationship even though they love you due to some context that you know is bad for the other person, or telling somebody the truth even if it hurts because you love them enough to not lie.

Sometimes people make certain actions our of selfishness and the recipient takes it as actions out of love. Example: Telling a partner you love them and other actions just to get in bed with them or take advantage of them in some other manner like gold digging.

Sometimes you may love something that's just a momento, a physical object that's come to represent a thought and emotion for you.
Show HN: Pop-a-Question feature in a dating site
I just wish Audible had adopted a Netflix-style distribution system rather than an Amazon.com style one. Watching all the Netflix I want costs me fifteen dollars a month. Listening to all the Audible content I want would cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month because I'd have to purchase each piece of media individually.
I get the exact same results as you. As long as I exercise I feel much better also because I do it in the morning its easier to make it part of a good routine however it doesn't seem to help with the anxiety that underpins the depression.

Not feeling depressed is good for a while until it starts to feel like you're not fixing the real issue. Tackling all those routine tasks like exercise, sleep, diet is really easy compared to doing the things that are really important to you where there is much more uncertainty, risk, and discomfort that cause me to feel very anxious which is very discouraging.

Doing things like exercise to help with depression is like trying to repair a cracked stone wall by painting over it so you can't see the crack anymore.
I sure hope people aren't actually using passwords of length 12-characters or fewer. Why not allow longer strings?

Then again, the perennial popularity of passwords like '123456' and 'password'...
DCIS works for OIG, who the FBI will investigate claims submitted to them.
The article looks like a profile of Audible and the growth of the audiobook market, as well as some sort of critique of it. Let's not focus only on the critique part. Titles tend to do that—focus attention on too small a spot—so we've replaced the title above with a wider phrase from the article. Actually, we already did replace the title with the subtitle in the hope of widening the focus, but it didn't work.
The LISTEN and NOTIFY don’t shouldn’t be on the same connection. In fact, many libraries require a separate dedicated connection to LISTEN on.

One feature of PubSub that is also a caveat is that it is transactional. That is great for production code, but makes transactional tests impossible.
Well, you are free to not do it

In fact I can't stand podcasts or similars for the most part as I can't do some things while listening to it. Maybe driving but that's it.

As much as it's nice to learn stuff, at some point it is just shallow edutainment (as much as I like some of the science yt channels)
I just love audio books. I listen to them while walking the dog, working out or doing chores around the house.
Very interesting point; as a kid I hated PE but after some growing up I found myself naturally enjoying exercise.

Maybe it's whether it's enforced or by personal choice?
A Mindset Away from Success in a Toxic Work Environment
Pasta sounds like highly theoretical food for a hike. I have yet to see anyone who would carry pasta or similar food for a hike as main source of calories. Sounds impractical and waste of space. Or raw butter which would melt in the heat. Also, eating 300g of butter as energy source for whole day sounds like one of those things that makes your stomach go real bad.

Quick energy in sugary food weights a little and comes in gazimilion sources. Proteins bars or dry meant are easy to get, weight a little and have enough calories. Both are slow calories.

But besides, already traditional bread and ham or sausage or bacon or whatever are good enough for day hike. Or any kind of already cooked meat that can survive a day. You do not need more for one day. For more days, you need to consider more then just calories in the thing. Which where pasta like food or canned food comes into play - people carry it because they want real food to actually fills stomach and comfort of it, not because they would worry about being unable to fill calories. Besides, you can hike on caloric deficit.

Carrying 1.5kg of butter as primary source of food for 5 days hike sounds like one of those things that gets hikes cancelled second day and someone needing help to get back.
It's not even accurate to say CPU power has flatlined since Westmere. Instructions per cycle is significantly higher today than in 2010, so performance at the same nominal clock frequency is substantially better. Not to mention power efficiency gains since 2010.
A First Look Inside the New Private VIP Terminal at Los Angeles Airport
I think that article would have been better in audible form ;)
This happened to me, had to return them :(
>Secondly, we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users

I bet you also take the security of your system seriously. What other Internet platitudes can you spout?
> Random people run for office and random people are elected.

If you choose to state something that is demonstratively false, then we can't converse. I truly wish you the best.
> Rem sleep occurs in the last two hours of an 8 hour sleep.

Slight quibble: the fraction of REM sleep in each sleep cycle is highest during the last sleep cycle of the night.
No, not really. You can easily blind people far away with lasers.
From anywhere close by?
I like podcasts because it turns things that I used to absolutely hate doing like dishes or gardening into somewhat enjoyable for me.
I use earplugs and then put some "can" headphones which reduce the noise that the earplugs need to reject. The big headphones aren't connected to anything but apart from being soft and reducing the noise a lot discourage people from bugging me. I just used this setup on a plane and it worked amazingly well.

As a bonus the foam plugs touch the headphones so if I do choose to play something it is nice and clear.

(Same as the author, I use some Beats Solo 3 that I picked up in an Apple freebie givaway)
What is physical intuition when you deal with quantum mechanics?

Connecting the math with a physical scenario, and highlighting how your intuitions are wrong, to help you develop new ones.

Feynman's Lectures on Physics starts with the 2 slit experiment, then talks about shining light on the holes to see which hole the electron goes through, then making the energy (wavelength) of the light lower (longer) to try to disturb it less.

Or that you shouldn't think of filters as just removing parts of the wave. For example, put unpolarized light through a vertically polarizing filter, then a horizontally polarized one. No light comes out. Then, in between the two, put a filter at 45 degrees. Now, you do get some light coming out of that horizontal filter.

The math tells you this, of course, but if you don't have an intuitive sense of how that maps to the physical world, you can end up e.g. not noticing where there's a mistake in your calculation that would be obvious it you thought about what it means physically.
> straw-man argument

Not at all a strawman argument. As I stated, there are a plethora of features in Slack, Discord, and its ilk that are most assuredly not "having fun while pretending to communicate". The whole point of my post is that one cannot so off-handedly dismiss an entire class of application.

If GP meant to be dismissive of GIFs and emoji, they can easily have said so. (That said, one can post standard Unicode emoji to IRC, and will anybody call that frivolous?)

> People editing their own messages later on is possibly the most annoying thing about slack and discord

I'm willing to imagine that some rather high percentage, perhaps in the 80s or 90s, is just people fixing spelling, incorrectly-entered Markdown formatting, or other kinds of minor reformatting.

I'll take this over people spamming the text channel with further edits (that may still contain other faults, necessitating more edits in further lines to come).

> what if I want to disable images, video links, and especially web embeds?

You can in Discord.

> "collections of text channels" already exist

No, they don't. Channels have no groupings with others within one IRC server. You can't guarantee that a given set of channels on a similar topic have the same owner, same rules, etc. Joining a channel also doesn't automatically join you to another set of channels within that channel's group.

The flexibility of channel groups is not replicated in IRC.

> I don't think I've ever had an issue with a web client not working

So you can use any web client and, with only entering your username and nickserv password, any web client (A) knows what channels to connect you to, (B) what to set as your nickname, (C) how to handle a nickname collision, (D) set up your IRC capabilities all without any further configuration on your part?

'cos that's what people expect, that's what "just working" means. No config every time I encounter a new machine, no having to run a bouncer or screen session on some server in some godforsaken data centre and thus limit myself to terminal-based clients just to keep my connection details consistent across sessions, etc.
For the curious, 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560567

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6947257

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581696
Kinda, but I admit to being confused as well...

'It’s simplistic but not entirely inaccurate to say that Audible’s parent, Amazon, is to book publishing what Facebook and Google are to magazines: the troll under the bridge whose idea of a toll is to devour consumers and competitors whole.'
and

'On the train to get coffee with a well-meaning writer twenty years your senior who will advise you to “climb the ladder” like she did. By listening, you partially reclaim the lost hours, preserving some ghost of an alternate universe where you don’t have to do what you’re doing, and you’re on the couch reading the old-fashioned way instead.'

Personally, I find audio-books almost completely different from active reading... mostly distracted entertainment rather than true immersion.
More importantly would you like to have your IV changed by a nurse that makes up her own standards for health care?

Google does what's best for Google - how could there be any discussion of that fact in 2019.
My E6420 C2D from 2007 is still chugging away as a htpc. I had to go from 2 to 6GBs of ram 2 years ago but it's still plenty fast enough for video and web use. I tossed in a HD 6420 few years ago for video hardware acceleration.
The table inheritance one is something I wasn't aware of. I can think of so many great uses for it that it makes me kind of weary. There has to be some downside, its too good.
Long polling doesn't allow for multiple polls on one connection. What it gives you is an reply only when there is something to reply with. Otherwise it just keeps connection open and waiting. It's a mechanism that mimics push, from the point of view of a client.

Here more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12555043/my-understandin...
DNAmod: The DNA Modification Database
This is true except for the "clever and lazy" part. In reality this should be "intelligent but with no skills, let more accomplished people do the work but take the credit".
I'm a bit confused about your complaint. Do you dislike podcasts because they demand too much attention and feel like educational content or because they're shallow entertainment? Because those seem like two opposite problems.