skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elephant thing was an example. Humans too can get whatever they need from plant sources.

The day humans start eating raw fresh or rotten meat and find enjoyment in that is the day I will accept that humans are meant to eat other animals.

Also, if you are downvoting me thinking that I am some vegan activist, you are wrong. I am from Asia where relying on fruits and vegetables is or at least was till a few decades ago quite natural.
At what stage, if any, are we going to call sugar an addiction? "Craving" being the word used here is very obviously an indicator of the strength here and there are negative consequences to having too much. I don't know what other leaps need to be made to formalize the addiction category.
UN and WHO are the puppets of the GLOBAL MARKIST LEFT
Saying Goodbye to Encrypted SMS/MMS (2015)
You may not be on Facebook but you can bet your friends or family have shared your contact info with them. And even if that exposure is limited, you can bet they’ve got a shadow profile of you.
Thanks, but most of those are dried fruits and all are quite low in protein anyway in my opinion (with the exception of goji). But of course if that works for you, it's okay.
I found this piece very unconvincing. Where is the articulate and data supported argument that our democracy is under threat? Are people no longer voting? No, they are voting in droves. People of all ages are more politically charged than ever before. I’m seeing 10 year olds engaging in our democracy.

To me it is becoming increasingly apparent that the issue here is that people aren’t voting for the issues the NYT and Chris want people to vote on. That doesn’t qualify as a threat to democracy. They don’t understand these voters or their values and the assumption at NYT is that they are morons who are clicking on fake news links on Facebook. An entire case is being made without data to support it.

I get that Trump got elected and nobody at the NYT is happy about it. Time to move on imo.
Data Show Poorest Americans Are Benefiting Most from Strong Economy
Let me guess, run on a blockchain too, right?
You don't need some crazy fasting diet to cut down sweets. Just diet for 3-4 days and boom the crave is gone. It comes back but you need to be able to handle it.

I'll say this to anyone out there wanting to look after himself and maybe lose extra weight or whatever.

I used to be overweight growing up. I mainly think is the fact that one of my parents used to be overweight and it reflected on our bad habits of eating.
I've lost all the extra weight since I was 17 and maintained it now in my 30s. I still have the craves and I still wanna stuff myself with food and sweets and everything yes. What keeps me going is taming it and understanding that food for me is one of those things that I'll struggle with for the rest of my life. Its me that has to say no I won't eat anymore, I won't have that sweet I won't this or that. I do eat sweets maybe once a week. Everything in moderation though.
I weight myself every single day and I am trying to maintain my weight to a healthy level. +3 -3 and don't go above or under.

Its on me! And as soon as you understand that then you'll have an easier time maintaining yourself. Food is an addiction and for me personally its very close to drinking.

The same way you'll say to yourself 'no I wont drink tonight' (and you go off and get absolutely blind :P) because I don't want to, I got work tomorrow, drinking is only for the weekend or special days cause I got a family etc. The same way you should be able to tame yourself and your needs around food and sweets. 'No I won't eat this delicious burger or sweet cause I already had my fair share this week, I'll try it in 3 days, today am gonna have some steamed veggies, some lean meat, some good carb etc'.

Some people are born with the privilege of not caring about food and not being overweight and being in perfect health. Others like me just have to struggle their whole lives for it, but its until you realise that this is what you have to do and until you realise that you have to change your habits and maintain it for the rest of your life you won't just change.
Also find a sport, doesn't need to be the gym specifically just something you do 2-3 times a week and maintain yourself. You need to be active especially if you are working an office job.
In the US, yes, if the organization is legally considered a bank. I believe that PayPal is not considered a bank, but I'm not sure on the specifics as to why.
Are the downloads the old, compiled code? The iexplore.exe in IE 1.5 says modified in 1996. And it runs on my Windows in 2019. That's a feat!

(Can't find any pages to open, though, guess it's too old http and possible tls stuff in the way?)
Edit: Found some urls that worked
A bank?
HN is traditionally anti crypto, but just want to point out that literally no one in this world can stop you accepting Bitcoin payments. That's the true power of decentralization.
in european you can report them if they won't give a good reason, for canceling your contract.
You can even complain at your national bank authority. https://eba.europa.eu/consumer-corner/how-to-complain
since they are a official bank in europe they would need to give correct info.
I think the most widely accepted definition for "garbage collection" is something which frees memory automatically, as opposed to manually freeing memory (or other memory management schemes). In fact, the second paragraph of Wikipedia's page on garbage collection[1] says that "Garbage collection is essentially the opposite of manual memory management, which requires the programmer to specify which objects to deallocate and return to the memory system".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s...
You know that was the cd drive?
Browsing through the abstracts and papers using this continuously updated overview, is more interesting (to me):
https://paperswithcode.com/task/pose-estimation
> I think you overestimate how much free capital the average person has.

I most certainly do, but as mentioned in a sibling comment, don't most US households use carrier-financed phones? That's like, $20 - $50 extra a month?

The 3 years usage period is kind of surprising to me because it clashes with my anecdotal evidence somewhat -- I've known 20+ people holding on to iPhones for 5-6 years. But I am pretty sure the median you gave is more accurate so in that case the cost per annum might indeed be equal to Android flagships (or larger).

> paying $200 extra because Apple doesn't think I need a microSD slot.

I now dearly regret not keeping the link but there was a research showing that the SD controller introduces lag in the entire system (in the case of SoCs anyway). However, nowadays that probably can be solved. Likely nobody in Apple tried though. So there's not only Apple not thinking you might need a microSD. There seem to be other factors in the equation. iPhones are known to be fast and Apple doesn't want to risk losing that no matter what -- would be my guess.

> She gets very nervous about carrying around a fragile $800+ device.

As I mentioned in the other sibling comment here, I really miss the days I didn't have to care if I dropped my phone. Sadly I don't think these days are ever coming back. :(

I personally am unwilling to sacrifice privacy and smooth operation (most budget Androids lag like hell) -- because I consume a lot of reading and video and audio material on my phone and replacing light amounts of anxiety (that most of the time I can put under control) with severe annoyances on a daily basis is a bad trade for me.

Of course, we aren't trying to convince each other, I am aware. We're sharing use cases and I am grateful that you oblige.
You secure the rights of minorities through universal human rights. These protect you from abuse. Nothing else matters. Why shouldn't the minority suppress the majority? Thinking of Iraq here for example, where it was a religious minority. Exactly the same problem, or what do you suggest here?

In most of human history minorities have suppressed the majority. It isn't even close.

> People belabor the minority point because that is the cornerstone of a real democracy.

That sentence doesn't make sense. In a democracy people are the sovereign. End of story and definition. That applies to everyone of course.
Even though I absolutely agree that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, it is ultimately the market that could drive you towards a dependency situation.

I have had a couple of customers for which I set up both PP and another PSP (such as stripe). Then it turned out that about 90% of their transactions came from PP.

So even if I set up 10 different PSPs for them, if PP bans them, they will still be out of business.
I wonder why you pick on the people rather than the business model inherent to social network. We could argue that making people pay to use a social network or an email would be better, but the experience has shown that reselling personal info to advertisers is the way major internet actors in the field had to pick if they wanted to succeed.
i don’t think you can blame zuckerberg for the whole industry practices
I dislike PayPal as much as the next guy, but I don't get this:

> PayPal will also stop letting you refund the percent they take out so you will be holding the bag when you refund a customer.

When I refund a customer, I wouldn't expect the power company to refund the electricity spent serving that customer, and I wouldn't expect UPS/FedEx to refund the delivery of that customer's package. Why should PayPal refund the costs of the customer's transaction ?
Yes, very interested as well, is Swipe any better? Or where do people go when both one off and subscription payments are required?
Ha! So many HN themes could qualify for a sticky though...

0. Open office floor plans versus noise cancelling headphones.

1. Pay gaps and gender ratios in tech.

2. Cosmology article debating dark matter/energy, or other generalizable astronomy interests.

3. Hardware hacker makes smart widget, shoe horn, fly swatter, or classifies old nostalgic toys with computer vision ML/AI.

4. This week's new JavaScript pile of crap.

5. SQL versus JSON. Which is the one true declaritive structured format. And why not YAML?

6. Ask HN: Feeling inadequate on the internet; can anyone please feed my personality complex in some way?

7. How I made millions of dollars in a femtosecond with my new click garbage start-up

8. Obscure luminary has died (bi-monthly black bar)

9. Buying a new laptop. Whether it's Apple or Linux and why or why not.

10. The cloud.
Had the same reaction. I sent the article to my family and got a photo as a reply of my Frankfurt grandmother standing next to her Frankfurt kitchen. Integration and serviceability are not 100% opposed.
IMHO it's warped profit seeking that makes them seem like they are.
IBAN, indeed. Bunq's fees (except for the monthly) are great.
Does everyone remember Theranos? Aka the billion dollar company built on the shaky basis of being able to do a full blood test on demand from a single drop of your blood?

The first 2/3 of this article describe the unstable foundation of genetic testing for depression and the last 1/3 the frightening consequences. It really starts at "Third, antidepressant pharmacogenomic testing." and ends with this brutal conclusion:

"But I think we should take a second to remember that yes, this is really bad. That this is a rare case where methodological improvements allowed a conclusive test of a popular hypothesis, and it failed badly. How many other cases like this are there, where there’s no geneticist with a 600,000 person sample size to check if it’s true or not? How many of our scientific edifices are built on air? How many useless products are out there under the guise of good science? We still don’t know."
Have you ever been in an apartment where the fridge door opens "the wrong way"? ;)
The ocean is a really difficult place to leave equipment. Short term small scale tests looked promising, but scaling up never really worked out.
Obama administration economist Jason Furman agrees that wage inequality is trending downward. (To me, this signals the source can be trusted.)
> And again, there's no way to redirect from the old naming scheme to the new one.

For customers, no. For Amazon itself, yes. And I think that is what parent commenter meant. That Amazon should 301 all requests that are using old paths.
FB, IG and WhatsApp are isolated silos (for now). FB tries to work for everyone whereas IG and WhatsApp target younger demographics, since Facebook is no longer cool to be on.
It is the selective condemnation that makes it highly suspicious and contextual matters. It isn't like hacking where if someone surfaces evidence of say fraud they are automatically guilty regardless of others.

War crimes for one can be far more "transactional" and horrific with two sides. Side A is shooting surrendering soldiers! Now censor the false surrender killings of side B that prompted this.

Or Side C arming child soldiers and teaching them to shoot invaders until they stop moving - except it happened after Side D started waging no holds barred genocide and horrifically arming children was /the right thing to do/ lacking other alternatives. Censor Side D's atrocities as "inappropriate" content and Side C trying to survive now looks villainous instead of the desperate and unseemly but technically moral move it is.
Are Animal Experiments Justified?
I think he was simplifying to make a point.
Watch the Fed Up documentary, how sugar is more addictive than cocaine in mice, how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar. Its nearly impossible trying to train yourself to moderate your sugar, its better to avoid it altogether as your body sugar level (GI) spikes causes withdrawal later. Our body does not need any refined sugar. Fruits are ok, avoid fruit juices as they often either have added or sugar or miss the fibre which helps your body slow down digestion.
Great post, I think you’d get a lot out of reading this old blog post on Unqualified Reservations — Is journalism official?

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/is-journali...
This comment is just bad and misinformed all over.

(1) Automatic Reference Counting doesn't work; its equivalent in interpreted languages is, well, reference counting, which can be optimized quite a lot (though has some issues with multithreading), but cannot collect cycles.

(2) therefore, if you want reference counting, you have to either also have GC (for cycles), or program carefully to avoid creating cycles (which is then only marginally better than C++)

(3) your comment on Python vs Perl5 is just nonsense, Python uses reference counting as well (along with the occasional GC to collect cycles)

(4) linear / uniqueness types (not exactly the same, but both can be used to ensure safe memory management) impose significant mental overhead on programmers as they prohibit many common patterns

(5) Rust features a lot of "cheating" - pointers that allow mutation from multiple threads, reference-counted pointers, etc. - so obviously just ownership&borrowing isn't good enough

conclusion: you can't have your cake and eat it too (at least according to current cutting edge research and implementations) - you either have GC or you have to be very careful/restricted when writing code
I do, but I am not sure what can I do -- Androids are no longer an option for me because Google is way too obvious and they collect everything they can, 24/7. It's too much.

As for privacy, I would disable cloud sync and backups as well. But eventually came to the sad conclusion that I have a lot more going on in my life and I cannot sacrifice even more of my preciously little free time to self-manage all my data -- not to mention this would require a moderate investment in my own NAS / 10Gbps switch / 10Gbps router and end-to-end encrypted backups to 1-2 VPS-es.

I get where you are coming from, I do. But I had to make a choice between an actual life and paranoia. I settled for a "mostly ok" solution and a bit more of a personal life and free time.

If privacy and offline-first own personal data get commoditised, I'll be the first to switch away from cloud (and thus Apple).
For short lived scripts and small programs you’re not expecting to need bleeding edge performance, so it doesn’t matter much either way.
> "there's not enough ITers"

This is the complaint every company I've worked for or met with so far has fielded at me, which is kind of hilarious as they all also unequivocally refuse to pay a reasonable wage.
I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this. I've been hearing horror stories about PayPal since the mid 2000s. They're a garbage company, and the only reason people don't use something else is because they're a veritable monopoly.
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Sure, but you can be stopped from converting that Bitcoin into usable (legal) money.
In what fantasy world will a majority of companies go "Fine, I'm going to stop accepting credit cards, and rely solely on *Coin"?
Coincidentally, (as in literally, not that I think there's any relationship between what you saw and this), Socorro is the site of one of the more famous UFO incidents of the 20th Century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Zamora_incident
As a consumer, I would only pay with Bitcoin if it was something that I really really wanted. Usually there are competitors that will accept credit cards, so I would prefer them. Bitcoin offers nothing to me that I value.
The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea
>Think: Lumosity for your diet.

I am surprised that an educational institution is comparing their new program to a company who deceived consumers on scientific claims.
In that case you may want to try quassel + quassel-webserver + quasseldroid, which gets you something very close to IRCCloud, entirely selfhosted
Not necessarily if you appreciate battery life, that resolution should help at that. It seems it arrives in early june with a starting price of $1,089 [1]. If that corresponds to the 768p screen it certainly is quite expensive.

[1] https://www.slashgear.com/lenovo-thinkpad-t495-t495s-and-x39...
Yeah, it's a challenge, all right. No, I don't use Windows - not at all. I'm aware of the issues with baseband processors, and therefore make very limited use of phones; I know that basically everything I do is, or could be, snooped on. I try to manage the risk of using the phone as a communication device by using Signal, but I understand it's not a panacea. I'm currently using a BlackBerry KeyOne, because I really like the keyboard, and because they actually seem to put some effort into device security. Every little bit helps, eh?

My devices all connect to a wifi router at home that I bought and configured myself, which bridges to my ISP's modem. Has it been hacked...? Well, I hope not. I do the best I can. My laptops have all been ThinkPads running Linux, for years. I love the maintainability, and the fact that I can turn off wifi with a physical switch is a nice bonus. I'd like to try out a Purism laptop someday, if I can ever afford it.

I take comfort in the fact that nobody really cares what I am doing and I am not worth the effort of a focused attack. If I ever got involved in politics or activism, I might manage my risks differently. It is frustrating for me that the world continues to drift further away from the way I'd prefer it to be, in this arena, but my desires are extreme, so I suppose that's to be expected.
That's crazytalk.
I asked primarily where you’re getting these sources of information from, as the sources I get from come from a distinctly different conclusion which is confusing to me.
The Swiss might have something to say on this, living in one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world which happens to be governed under something resembling direct democracy.
Only after having a law firm, who we knew through an advisor contact, send PayPal’s legal department a letter did they release our PayPal balance funds back to us.

We were banned without explanation after being a customer for 8+ years and had our PayPal balance (not yet transferred to a bank) frozen.

We left a high balance with PayPal because at the time the interest rate they provided was high.

No explanation was given at any point and the whole process took about 3 months to get our own funds back that we needed to operate the business.
I have a few questions for you that should make you think:
How big is the US Army? How many of those soldiers would simply go home in such a scenario vs those staying loyal to the government for whatever reason? How many firearms in the US are in private hands?

Tanks, planes etc are for force on force warfare, not asymmetric scenarios like a "government turned evil, we need to rise up"
Not naysaying you but i learnt kotlin and flutter this past year(from january). flutter has an AMAZING experience for the things that are "done", kotlin multi platform only does one thing well - kotlin.

it's basically like xamarin with C# swapped out with kotlin(and that sucks as much as kotlin mp does right now even after 3 years of ms acquisition time).
The lack of customer service in the Silicon Valley is a pervasive problem.

* Cody Don on YouTube teaches the masses about science and regularly gets banned. His videos are rated G to PG. Despite millions of viewers and dollars of Revenue, there is nobody he can call.

* Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it.

* Lose your Instagram/Twitter/Gmail? Too bad, because it's free, you're treated as cattle.

* Oh then there's the paying customers too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609
Not surprised at all. We got banned too without any warning a few years ago. I wrote about my story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944701

Lots of people would simply think "It won't happen to me" and move on. But this is just another example that if it can happen to people using Paypal for years, it can happen to you too. It's better to offer other payment channels to customers so you can diversify. And if possible, move away from Paypal entirely.
It's good that the managers care for the higher-level "business" goals, but shouldn't they care for their subordinates more? In the end it also contributes to a business metric - employee happiness. When I was switching a corporate job to a startup job the fact that I switched from a corporate Outlook and a proprietary issue software to GMail and Github made me happier.
Local bank transfer to Transferwise Borderless Accounts.
> I doubt any chinese citizen is upset at the crackdown.

Tibetans and Uygurs may beg the differ.

— Or maybe you already discounted them from being Chinese? I’m fine with that definition too ;)
> I am unhappy about STEM. That is, I’m unhappy about how it’s presented as the principal portal for careers in science and technology.

Hear hear! Much as I hate anti-vaxxer know-nothings, much support from the sciences is also “science fandom” rather than scientific thinking.

And from my time on a school board (where almost every discussion involves axe grinding) I learned that there was a talismanic belief in magical “STEM” that would help us create the “thinkers of tomorrow”. “Technology” was super important, but its definition was absurdly restrictive: teach the kids Word and PowerPoint so they’ll be prepared for the jobs of tomorrow. Hey, the wheel and inclined plane were triumphs of technological thinking which is what people need to develop, not Gadgrindesque “skilled” organized by an institutional ontology.
It's good that I never had kids. I have a short but largely deadpan temper. I would probably have "keep at it, and you'll get what you want, and good riddance" ... and maybe how her college fund is buying bpme a newmachine"
> And yes, their decision is always final.

Perhaps their decision to close your account is always final, but don't lose all hope after having your funds frozen. I had 25-100k frozen (can't remember how much), and picked up the phone and called them and it was unfrozen within 48 hours.

Paypal is god-awful though and should be used as little as possible.