skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- dolls stimulate maternal instinct (child “gets clucky”)

- child gets pregnant

Then

- parents find out, recommend terminating pregnancy

- friends find out, recommend terminating pregnancy

- doctor finds out, recommends terminating pregnancy (“you are not ready for this”)

- unpleasant side effects set in, child decides she is not ready to handle pregnancy, or

- reality sets in, child decides she is not ready to be a mother/wants to finish school

- boyfriend abandons her

Basically increasing the number of pregnancies will necessarily increase the number of abortions.
Depends on your use-case, really. IMO, Hashistack is fine if you have well-defined requirements. You can pick and choose the components you need (including non Hashi stuff) and integrate them with relative ease, keeping resource footprint and operational complexity at a minimum. I’ve found that it’s quite easy to pinpoint problems when they arise.

Kubernetes is more of an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach that you can’t really outgrow but because of its monolithic design, debugging can be quite challenging. It does, however, come with a much larger and much more active community that you can go to for help.
you are saying that everything was from async to sync. not everybody agree. btw you can write a sync if you want. and node is not a language, neither javascript, the language name is ecmascript. the problem is yours, save your own utils, if lowcode is what you want you don't have to code.
No, Riot/Mobile explicitly warns and prompts you to opt in if you try to discover contacts by email/phone number. It looks like this on Android:

"Riot needs permission to access your address book contacts to find other Matrix users based on their email and phone numbers. Please allow access on the next pop-up to discover address book users reachable from Riot."

That said, this analysis does have a few valid points in it, specifically:

* We should probably provide a click-thru when users interact with 3rd party identity lookup servers or integration managers

* We should hash contacts when doing bulk lookups

* Riot/Web has a bug where it talks to the integration manager too frequently (https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/5846)

* Notary servers should eventually be removed entirely (as per MSC1228).

However, most of the rest of it is alarmist and disproportionate FUD, plus the author has sadly forgotten to disclose that he's working on a hostile fork of Matrix. A point by point response is at https://matrix.org/~matthew/Response_to_-_Notes_on_privacy_a... fwiw (apologies for the PDF, but Google Docs doesn't seem to expose a read-only view of commented docs.)
You've assumed malice where none was intended. Downvotes before self-redacting, nevertheless.
Definitely this moral grey area where ethics arguments on both sides are completely valid.

- Messing with natural behavior

vs

- Not being able to adequately defend oneself because we're stuck debating an ethics question

While it is a bit of a straw man attack - if this were humans, the answer would be clear.
Strong recommendation for https://dev.to/

They have great content and a great community and enough traction that they're not about to disappear.
I see comments like this a lot, but I rarely see proposed alternative business models. The only one I can think of off-hand is ProPublica. Anyone else got anymore? I'm sometimes afraid that the reason newspapers don't pivot to any other structure is because there really aren't any viable models outside of subscriptions (which very few people pay for) or advertisements (which just makes for a sucky experience).
That’s a grossly misleading title (no pun intended?)

The article clearly states that it has ordered fecal donor material be tested before being transplanted.

Saying “halts clinical trials” implies they are no longer allowed, which is not true.

I can’t imagine who decided to transplant untested fecal matter...
I tend to agree and solved this for myself by building a small, self-hosted service that auto-hides Hacker News stories by title keyword/regex, site, or user. That way you can have more control over auto-curating your Hacker News page, instead of having to invest time in a whole new community. If you have a Raspberry Pi or small VM somewhere, consider giving it a try!

https://github.com/barrowclift/hacker-news-cleanser
(Starsky engineer) It takes a ton of data. Hundreds of GB/month. I'd provide more specific info but don't have it in front of me at the moment.
To be more verbose, giving plausible deniability to actors who are clearly malicious.
I fell for it. they won't print it after signing also. they told me the systems is not letting them go back to print.
You have highlighted several issues in the email validation.

However, my approach is using 3rd party API call such as MailboxValidator to detect the email validity such as disposable, mail server connection and account confirmation. In this case, you can perform validation beyond regex.
Yeah, worrying about sleep trackers can make insomnia worse.

This is basic sleep hygiene, and I don't know that there any other way than through.

One of the first things to learn is that worrying about bad sleep is one of the major causes of bad sleep. Getting out of that riddle solved a substantial part of my sleep problems.

Once you're on the other side, having data is much better than not having it.
The best thing I’ve found for insomnia, other than medication/melatonin, is imagining myself flying. Basically going to silly fantasy land bootstraps a sleep state pretty reliably.
> Segmenting the grid is going to introduce a lot of trade-offs. Smaller segments means that dips and spikes in load are going to create greater differences in frequency, and as such require faster demand response to create the same level of frequency regulation as a larger grid.

Why wouldn't you make inter-grid (grid-to-grid) interconnects high voltage DC and use a DC-to-AC conversion to produce AC for intra-grid (grid-to-user) connections?
Except there's no way to sync the state back. Say you open another tab in that window. If you bookmark that window again, you end up with dupes. There's no coupling between a window and the bookmarks folder that spawned it.
Thanks - will use as my starting point. I’m curious how it changes in the enterprise.

I agree that this isn’t the whole solution but it’s needed. Hopefully it has some kind of +impact.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Dropbox-clien...

The cost of maintaining support was too high I think. There are very few of us using unsupported file systems.
And if you challenge them on it, Texas courts will find you liable for the University's legal costs, too!
Same way you draw a UI for different screen sizes: you scale it. If you were doing this from scratch today, you'd use a resolution-independent UI drawing library, such as one based on vector graphics.

As for wildly different aspect ratios (portrait vs landscape) you're just going to have to compromise. As long as you have a mechanism to make sure windows can't get lost outside the bounds of the screen, you should be fine.

It the problem should only happen once, though. After your files have been synced between the devices for the first time, thereafter each device should maintain its own window positioning.
>I can’t imagine who decided to transplant untested fecal matter...

Whoever it was, they made a crappy decision.
Is there a way to hide all, and hide the currently highlighted item via keyboard?
Bonus if you're into puffer-ing
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-u...
The way history is always implemented is also not helpful.

Say you browse sites A B C D E, then later you go back and browse D, then B.

History seems to be recorded as A C E D B

But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another.

This compaction method also seems to happen across days, destroying the list of everything you browsed on tuesday in order.
"I usually have at least 6 browser windows open with at least 10 or more tabs each. I wish there was a better way to do it."

Back when Opera was an innovative browser, it had a really useful tab grouping feature which let you achieve the same thing as you describe but without requiring a separate browser instance.
If it's cheaper than the price of fish (which I think is the long term aim of Beyond Meat et. al.), you will definitely sell the poor and lower middle class. Meats and seafood are more expensive parts of a diet.

It's better for the environment (smaller carbon footprint), it's more ethical, and it's cheaper -- if the manufacturing of meatless and seafoodless substitutes can achieve this at scale.
It's been done well already by some games. 1991's Toejam and Earl random worlds seemed to be incredibly good at it.
> I tried to get mine as future-proof as possible

I don't think that's possible right now. Until they come up with a solution to "I've lost my 2fa token" that isn't as painful as losing you wallet there will be new designs coming out. (Actually, it's more painful. You only have a few cards in your wallet, while your 2fa token may be recognised by 100's of sites.)

This isn't a criticism of FIDO2/WebAuthn. I am impressed by how each iteration solves a new part of the problem, and FIDO2 was definitely a step forward, fixing rough edges in FIDO. But we aren't there yet. We need a FIDO3 and possibly 4, 5 and 6.
Yeah they are, but it's a marketing problem.

I'm working on it directly as I am a fairly influential (in my small pond) OSS developer working for less than the poverty line (thank goodness I live in the boonies, plus I've been fortunate)

You have to SHOW the benefit and continually make that case that you are doing something beneficial, and that you are doing it open, that you are in fact giving it away as speech that can be taken and restated and rephrased and reused, becoming a broadening language.

The marketing angle is to continue to do this publically, in contrast to the 'rich and big companies' who absolutely try to exploit everyone and everything, and are horrible to work with or for.

You can't stop them being rich, or exploitative, or even from having a lot of power. But you can make people ask 'why are we using those things again?' because to exploit at that level, competitively, involves pressuring people really hard and taking their stuff away. It feels bad and looks bad.

You can do open source and be truly kind. You must start out wealthy enough that you can survive it, because so far people still align themselves with the power, they still will tend to side with the big company or whoever wields more money. That's basic human nature: animal, even.

But we can get 'em asking questions and being open to sharing and cooperative behavior… because that is ALSO human nature.
I have some personal experience that gives me a different perspective. I learned chess when very young (~5) but I failed to be a successful prodigy -- my rating capped out around 1100 USCF. Every few years I would pick the game back up and play a few tournaments, and each time I improved a bit. I love chess, but it's never been anything like the central focus of my life.

In my late 20s I moved to California and also started playing again after a few years of drought. My strength was about 1950 USCF. In the Bay Area 80% of the players I play in tournaments at that strength are kids -- the median age is perhaps 11.

At first I thought it was shocking that they could be 1950 at 11 years old, and I was like 1200, or whatever. That's a pretty huge gap in what you might think is "talent". But then I started looking at the tournament history of my opponents. I was astonished to find that the majority of them had played substantially more total chess at age 11 than I had managed to play by my late 20s.

For example, here is someone I have played several times:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?15250088

He's 10 years old and 2055 USCF. He has played in 175 tournaments in the past 5 and a half years. That's almost three per month, every month! If you don't regularly play in chess tournaments, they are frequently a serious commitment -- the better part of a day, or for big ones, multiple full days. Perhaps his average tournament might involve 10 hours of serious chess. How many adults work so hard on their hobby? Is that degree of return on investment even surprising? I've only played in 129 tournaments since 1992 and I am the same strength.

The player above is not at all an outlier in this regard. I never yet observed a kid who achieved an impressive degree of skill in chess without spending this kind of time. So while I continue to be impressed by the dedication and ability of young kids who are really strong, I stopped thinking that they are magic learning machines whose age makes them unreachably capable. The author's daughter at least has regular coaching, which I suppose the author doesn't have. Does he even spend more time on the game than her? I bet he doesn't.
The last day of the 10-day forecast is now more accurate than the 3rd day of the 3-day forecast was when I was in college.

This covers some decades, to be sure, but it's a pretty big improvement.
I admire their vascular health, those jokes are hard on the heart.
I guess they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
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Cheeks seem to be the best part across a wide variety of animals - both fish and mammal.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew when you started in your field?
Microsoft Dev Edge will likely do the same (i haven’t seen any news that it won’t)
Good point, but I think he uses the CAD example more in the context of simulation than as defending the GUI.

I spent a few years in Architectural CAD software and afterwards went to Computer Science and I was surprised in retrospect how often I was already doing commandline-like things before I knew the first thing about a shell or repl. It seems you have that experience too, I have not heard or read too many people making that observation before.
What do you consider 'more technical'?

HN has a decent amount of breadth and depth. I imagine you'd be able to find more depth (read: technical discussion) in listservs, subreddits, slack channels, and some niche forums. For example: https://elixirforum.com/

But as far as breadth, every field can get technical. Person A might consider Physics and Math technical, while person B considers quantitative finance to be technical, while person C considers organic chemistry technical. Heck even farming can get technical[0]. There are few places that have quality posts from diverse backgrounds. Have you tried filtering out stuff you don't want to see on HN?

https://hn.algolia.com/ is a great tool to do that. You can avoid terms using the `-` character see examples here: https://hn.algolia.com/help

[0] Energy Discussions on a Permaculture Forum: https://permies.com/forums/jforum?module=search&action=searc...
Here's an 8:50 lap (amateur driver) with a P85D. From 2015.

The 3 is better on the track than the S. Still heavy, of course.
"That's nonsense" is not an argument.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vxHN8_jSE
Oops, missed the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dphw4km60m4
Would love to see more tech / entrepreneurial stories. It does seem there are a lot of political/privacy/bigcorp posts compared to back in the day (2009).

Edit: perfect example currently on the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179511

How is this related to tech or entrepreneurship?
you cannot trust the FDA on anything...they are a wholly owned subsidiary of global capitalism...
that is already well established...luckily, needy americans can do this on their own
Absolutely. I am constantly seeing posters on HN who are clearly far unhappier than me, even though they are pursuing wealth with some success (or even a lot of success). I too am living in relative poverty (sub $1500 a month) and open source was the best risk I ever took.

There are some really interesting angles to consider such as the more predictable income of being supported as a working developer, rather than being paid for your 'hit products' and having to generate more hits or starve. Quality of life is also whether you're subject to ruthless pressures. You can trade off income for creative freedom, in a very natural way. Do weird noncommercial stuff if that is more important than maximizing revenue at any given point. There'll be a natural balance between how hard you're trying to please a customer base, and how much that base will reward you for pleasing it.
Would be curious to know the rough bitrate during teleop. If you can and don't mind sharing.
Exactly. I was in traffic jam, checked my pulse routinely and it was slightly more than usual: 80 BPM. I started to think that something wrong. now it became 90BPM, and here closed feedback loop caused almost 1800BPM. I have rushed to the ER and good doctors (thank god we have cheap medicine) helped me to go through this. Panic attacks continued for almost half year.
That’s a cool site but it feels more like its focus is on learning to program. I personally didn’t find the technical depth I’m interested in when I tried it.
outrageous that amateur radio gets precedence over the american majority
Information: From Maxwell’s Demon to Landauer’s Eraser (2015)
Have any studies been done on the new Apple watch’s effectiveness of detecting afib? I’m on mobile and couldn’t find anything with a quick search
The Storm prediction center[1] is always my goto. After that I check the Mesoscale Precipitation discussions[2].

[1] https://www.spc.noaa.gov/

[2] https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd.php
Trackmania has both dev and user created tracks which offer a puzzle type experience (in terms of determining how to get through the checkpoints). The most complex of these are ‘RPG’ tracks which are long, sometimes technically difficult, and often themed.
Klatu the Household Robot (1977)
Your argument is that I shouldn't trust my privacy to Raymond Hill but I should trust it to Google?
I am neither American nor Chinese, but there is a qualitative difference.

In the USA, i can say whatever I damn please. In China, I can not talk about certain topics. Whether or not both CCP and FBI bug my phone, I do not know. However, China is super oppressive when it comes to freedom.
>My shoulder surgeon gave my name, phone number and a vivid description of the circumstances that arose to warrant my shoulder surgery to a woman she thought I'd be a good match with.

So were you a good match or what?
According to this article there have been significant improvements in weather prediction in the past few decades: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6425/342

> A modern 5-day forecast is as accurate as a 1-day forecast was in 1980, and useful forecasts now reach 9 to 10 days into the future (1). Predictions have improved for a wide range of hazardous weather conditions, including hurricanes, blizzards, flash floods, hail, and tornadoes, with skill emerging in predictions of seasonal conditions.

> ... Data from the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) (13) show that forecast errors for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic basin have fallen rapidly in recent decades.
Love the story, but absent significant new information, this is not just a rehash from "last year" but pretty much a rehash from 1926.

I don't think I've read a Christie biography which didn't rehearse the main points. This is not news, although it is jolly interesting.

It could simply be the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie#Disappearance
I would appreciate if we could stick to the points brought up in the notes instead of trying to discredit the work of several people (writers, reviewers, sanity checkers) who equally contributed to it.

The document is clear that it puts the default behaviour and explanation next to what users understand out of it and expect, just like what the privacy policy of Matrix.org is based of in section 2.1.1. We have asked several technical and non-technical people alike, from our family members to our friends to people in our communities. And the feedback is unanimous: They did not understand nor expect what we described.

In terms of actually of handling the issues, the scalar issue is one we brought up with Ben months ago in private as per your disclosure policy, and yet nothing was done. This is just an example of a long list of issues brought up over the years.

The point of the document is not to find justification for what is happening, but to inform users that it is happening. An attacker got access to your systems which contained logs from which such data can be gathered. It is important that users who self-host and do not expect such data to get out realize that it does so they can take appropriate action.

The document might feel alarmist, certainly. It does not feel alarmist because we wrote it. It feels alarmist because the behaviour described is happening and nothing is done about it. It is not discussed anywhere. Attempts to do so are shut down. But it does not change anything: leaks are happening right now on thousands of servers and for millions of users (up to 9M, as per Matrix.org figure) and every person who we showed this to before publishing had the same reaction: "I never expected such data to go out like this. I am worried".

As for Grid, we made a specific effort out of respect for the Matrix.org people not to mention it or steer towards it. Yes we have forked Matrix. No it is not hostile, despite your continuous claims to label it as such.

We think it is time to stop talking about all the good reasons why, in the 5 years it took to get Matrix out of beta, there was just no time to deal with such leaks. We think it is time to start talking about how we can make sure it stops from happening and which decisions lead to it happening for so long unnoticed.

You wrote the software. Start respecting your users privacy.
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
I just wish we had a weather radar here in central Oregon

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-other-radar-gap-e...
There was an early Black Mirror episode exploring exactly this scenario. The social consequences are frightening.
I think you'd be surprised, as I was, if you looked at the statistics on how dangerous driving under the influence is.

At 0.10% the accident rate is approximately 5x baseline.
Our outsourced IT has KPI's for closed tickets, so they are very keen to close any ticket for any reason. Then it is up to you to call and restate everything to first-level helpdesk again to reopen a new ticket in order to actually get things to happen, and thus they end up closing double the number of tickets.

Never mind that it took double as long, and sucked the life out of everyone subjected to the system.

Efficiency!
I assure you "Nobody at the office seemed to understand here what my objection was" is false.

They probably all understood quite well, but they stuck to the script (either unofficially to make their job smoother, or officially).

It's hard these days to know if you're talking to an innocent person or a corporate script.

A friend told me the inside story about a call answering service. This is a service that answers the late night infomercial numbers.

They are very quick to take your information to buy the thing, but then they try upselling you or cross-selling you other stuff.

EVERYTHING is scripted. "Oh, but other people didn't listen to these fabulous offers, and had to call back", etc.

So here's the thing. The people are required to follow the script, they cannot deviate. The ONLY exit to the script that would prevent them from being fired was "I will CANCEL my order unless you stop."
I have about six years worth of sleep duration (and activity during sleep) data. There still isn't a single piece of FOSS software that would deal with that, I could import it into Postgres and view with Grafana, but I ain't no scientist or super interested in sleep science so there's very few conclusions I could make from it. Would love someone picking up this task :P
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