skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, and kind of cliché (with the common corollaly to seek professional advice instead of internet wisdom), but:

excercise - and for me it was more anxiety+smoking but less anxiety led to less drinking too(which I did not recognize as a problem at the time)

I consciously used it as a replacement: when I was stressed and need of a cigarette, I told myself that I actually feel the miss of a good run - and for me running really helped somewhat, so it was enough to start a positive feedback loop. It is also good that both drinking and smoking makes excercising harder, which I tried to (and many times could) use as a fact against them ("if i now drink i wont be able to wake up early enough to go for a run", "if i smoke it will much harder to breath")

And another internet wisdom cliché ;) regarding anxiety: stop drinking coffee (tea...)...
How is this better than just renting and also putting some money into a reit each month?

Edit: I suppose one reason would be if you want to rent, but you like a house that's not on the rental market. Any others?
No mate, it was just an example, an analogy. Although my Kindle works pretty well without internet connectivity. Much harder to do with a phone, kind of defeats the purpose.
Corporate name collisions are not a problem that EV was intended to solve.

The point of an EV is that it ties TLS authentication back to a legal identity. Ian even helpfully points out that that the two "Stripe" companies, his and the famous payment company, have different corporate filings. He even links to them!

I would argue that this demonstrates, not disproves, the value of EV. A DV cert would not be traceable to any corporate filing at all.
Cool :) What was competitive chess like? Also what was training like for chess, was it speed training alongside putting yourself in specific scenarios to get out of?

Any fav chess players?
Most people want what's popular. Further, these people want not only what's popular, but what their friends/coworker/S.O. has so they can monitor and have social interactions with them.

The market the fitbit crowd occupies isn't the same as individuals who have a serious interest in fitness or interest in long term reliability of their product. They're interested in the social aspects.

People seriously into fitness are probably looking into the higher end devices such as from Garmin or Suunto for example. These devices tend to be more durable with less social interactions, especially since most are in the fitbit or apple gated community.

As far as your second concern, unless these devices are falling within warranty, it's unlikely that any class action would hold any ground, seeing as they probably had a 1 year warranty right and sounds as if they made it an extra year.

It seems as if you're in an in-between group. Consumers, by and large don't want the complexity of these devices today.

20 years ago it was removable batteries and microSD cards.
People overwhelmingly voted with their pocketbooks to get rid of those for a more limited but more fashionable phone, which like your watch has a wear out date. It's unfortunately easier to replace an entire device now every few years than it is to support devices that are a year or two old.
>>the sort of hair-brained schemes HN believes would fool them

Is there much value in an ad-hominem reply?

Or in generalizing it to an entire community? The irony seems hard to avoid when such a generalization is made without mentioning any statistical foundation, while pontificating about statistics.
Hey! We get the summaries from the GPO (Government Publishing Office) which provides non-partisan summaries for legislation.
Those are both pretty neat fields.

Ahh I see, yeah makes sense and can vary between people for sure :)
Well, I guess now we'll see how committed Automattic really is to FOSS...
> remember how terrible search engines used to be?

Um, Altavista was better than Google for a very long time.

And I STILL cry that I can't search and then get a graphical clustermap in order to drill down to what I want. (Yeah, when I search for Python I'm probably not looking for reptiles).
Looks a little sketchy to me. Seems there is almost no real information on the site.
Many of us that are considered anti gmo are more anti patent for food genes rather than of anti gmo. The developing world mostly has agricultural economy now Western companies are trying to horn in that as well. A few years ago an American company tried to patent and stop Pakistan and India from selling a rice variety called Basmati by modifing it genes and trying to patent it. When its come to gmo the trust deficit in rest of the world is not just about the science but of the western companies and their patents.
Most of the documents are based on public personal information as opposed to private personal information.
I am dyslexic. Recently my father reminded me as a child (1st grade) I had this crazy ability to write in mirror image with my right hand while normally with my left. By 3rd grade it was gone (I didn't practice at all). Literally you could hold it up to a mirror and read it (allowing for a child's lettering). Is this common? I've not known anyone else that could do this.
That is exactly what it is. The journalism of today only need to appeal to emotion of the average, and needs precisely zero logic to function.
The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.
$4M per hour at Walmart
So, my wife is from SEA. I never bothered to look into the name of their bananas, nor do they know it by any other name, but they are delicious. They are small, and grow more in a straight line than a bunch. While a Cavendish is mostly subtle, these taste like real fruit, more hearty and definitely sweet. So, my question is, why are we in USA stuck with these dud bananas, even in the absence of the Gros Michel?
>This is the problem right here. The lack of science education. A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both "GMO", it's just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutations.

At this point anti-GMO == anti-science

People may have philosophical objections, but young earth creationists, climate change deniers, and anti-vaccine advocates all believe what they do primarily because of philosophical objections.
Outlook doesn't run on *nix systems.
There are people on HN that has never been to China neither Hong Kong and they simply downvote cause they only think. True experience of being harassed in China for being white is something they have never experienced.
Hahahaha, this is largely unrelated, but I can attest that mike is a real person — he and I taught tennis together 12 years ago. Small world.
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No dividends to tax as ordinary income? I'm curious how all the taxes work out and whether this counts as rent for tax purposes.
The funny thing is the most advanced malware out there today (that we know of) was created by the US and Israeli governments.

[1] https://www.symantec.com/security-center/writeup/2010-071400...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2934593/duqu-2-0-kaspe...
$2000 per student per year is insane for a bus service. That's like $10 a day. You could probably UberPool every kid at that price since you'd have a high utilization rate for two narrow 30 min to 1 hour windows each day.
If “the emojis are of bad quality” is what constitutes an ugly and unpleasant working environment in 2019, I’d say the future is looking bright indeed.
Haven't used Putty (or Windows, for that matter) for a while, but the site does not look sketchy at all. It looks like either a two decades old site, or a site of someone who purposely objects the modern web design tendencies (and believes some of the earlier mantras of web design, like user should have control of line lenghts by resizing their window).

A "sketchy" web site is the one festered with ads, pop-ups, seemingly modern-looking but with no actual content or with dead links...
And the cost in Sweden is around half of the US.
> What people will need to realize is that if they're doing science, shooting jobs at the server and 'seeing what sticks' is not a great way to do it. Ideally they should put in place processes that require an experimental design–hypothesis, test criteria, acceptance/rejection level, etc.–to be able to run these kinds of jobs.

Sure, but they don't, and perhaps that's a much bigger issue than interpreted vs. compiled languages - either for research workloads or for commercial workloads. People start startups all the time that end up failing, traveling to attract investors, flying people out to interview them, keeping the lights on all night, heading to an air-conditioned home and getting some sleep as the sun is rising, etc. instead of working quietly at a 40-hour-a-week job. What's the emissions cost of that?

> I don't understand, what does a developer's time/carbon emission have to do with the runtime energy efficiency of a program? They are two different things.

This matters most obviously for research workloads. If the goal of your project is "Figure out whether this protein works in this way" or "Find the correlation between these two stocks" or "See which demographic responded to our ads most often," then the cost of that project (in any sense - time, money, energy emissions) is both the cost of developing the program you're going to run and actually running it. This is probably most obvious with time: it is absolutely not worth switching from an O(n^2) algorithm to an O(n) one if that shaves two hours off the execution time and it takes you three hours to write the better algorithm (assuming the code doesn't get reused, of course, but in many real-world scenarios, the better algorithm takes days or weeks and it shaves seconds or minutes off the execution time). Development time and runtime are two different things - for instance, you can't measure development time in big-O notation in a sensible way - but they're definitely both time.
The estimate was about 10X more than that -- I'm not sure what made it so expensive, maybe because the wiring had to be sized to handle all 30 units, the HOA wouldn't let it be built to handle just the few people that wanted an EV charger today. And there was some sort of upgrade that had to be made to the underground electrical vault.
I'm happy to agree about housing costs, but my main suggestion was that poverty and the personal savings rate don't have as strong a link as you seemed to be assuming. You haven't really said anything to contradict that.
In my case, getting hired by one of the Big Four tech companies.

Always was a high performer, but didn't feel satisfied at other companies. I felt I was worth much more than what I was getting paid. I needed the validation and at least the perception of being with the best. I kept pushing my application since it felt daunting and I had failed Google once. I also made up excuses why a big tech company isn't worth it anyway, and that I shouldn't have to go through whiteboarding. But I'm much, much happier now. Glad I gave it a shot.
So because ads can compromise us we should ignore the security of package managers?

How about this for a reason, where are the checksums when I’m curling and piping? How do I validate in an automated fashion the validity of this file I’m piping into an interpreter? When installing a package it’s quite easy to have redundant copies of an index with checksums pointing to a repository hosting the actual code. The attack surface is much smaller vs a curl | python

This is bad practice, stop promoting it or downplaying it’s security issues.

Edit: smaller instead of larger
Looks like there are three spots. Oddly, Google is using a first-price auction rather than their more usual second-price auction [1]. I wonder why?

In any case, it seems weird not to submit a bid at all. There must be some price above zero that's worth it to them?

[1] "Google will use a first-price sealed-bid auction to select the other general search providers that appear in the choice screen. Google will conduct auctions on a per-country basis for the period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. Following the initial round of auctions, any subsequent rounds will occur once per year." https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
> Other languages require templating systems that won't allow you to dump variables because they won't be in scope in the first place.

This isn't true of every templating system in popular use. Rails's Action View, if I recall, allows you to stick <%= ENV["THE_DATABASE_PASSWORD"] %> into a template with no fuss at all, and yet Rails developers somehow manage to avoid doing that.

PHP isn't bad because it lets you put code in HTML, it's bad because the default behaviors and APIs it provides make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. A better, safer language could keep PHP's ease of deployment without its issues. Maybe P++ will be that language and maybe it won't.
I hope this comes off friendly...

> Only $4 out of $700 billion ended up going to help home owners directly, the other $696B went to Wall St (even though it only passed congress because it was sold as helping the home owners)

TARP bailouts did suck but were also necessary to fend off complete economic collapse [1] of western capitalism... The banks that received the money either didn't need it all because the US government proved to the world the dollar was safe, or they desperately needed it as markets swan dived into the ground and collapsed (which we didn't see)... Quantitative Easing (QE) was necessary as were the monetary policies (low interest rates) to stabilize the economy. It really wasn't allowed to be about healing, it was only ever triage to keep it (the economy) alive.

Unfortunately, the US public didn't get bailed out, and we didn't throw the motherfuckers in jail... so we accomplished very little, but we did keep the world economy afloat. The real problem at the time for appropriate bailouts was political, congress wouldn't allocate more. People by and large do not understand macroeconomics, and that's likely, I believe, because they don't understand large numbers (this might sound silly or rude, but it's just fundamental and not a flippant or derogatory comment).

... with all that said, I totally agree that Trump is increasing spending... Like all republicans do, and to to be clear it's factually republican party who increase our deficits by-and-large through tax cuts [2] which don't grow the fucking economy because trickle down is bullshit. And anyone who wants to say the deficit went up by a ton because of the Obama administration keep in mind two things, please:

1.) TARP bailouts, and all that bullshit were a Bush problem.
2.) Most of the Iraq/Afghanistan war budget was paid for from appropriations by congress which didn't start hitting the books until 2009 (when Obama took office).

I didn't much care for Obama as he was too much of a centrist, but I do believe in trying to present an accurate picture of what happened and why that happened.

[1] I've always been on the fence if the collapse of Keynesian economics (and monetary policy when applicable) would be good for my inner anarcho-syndicalist... I tend to think it's better in steps, but maybe that's not possible; nor, I suppose is it relevant to this conversation...

[2] Don't think I'm trying to solely blame Republicans for our fucked up economy, neoconservative liberal policies from democrats like Slick Willy did a number too... Like letting Glass-Steagall get repealed.
There are other startups in this space. I am not sure that it is better than renting. For example, one risk that seems under-appreciated is the possibility of Arrived (or similar startup) going bankrupt. In a general market downturn, it is possible that Arrived would become insolvent. In such a scenario, you are their creditor. That means you will lose some or all of your investment, and probably your home.
my city paid 6 figures annually to have a bus route for 30-40 residents average daily ridership. Bus service is expensive.
But it changes the semantics of the rest of the language, e.g., if two modules interoperate by passing a type of a third module between themselves, and now there are two copies of that third module, they can't communicate any more.

Getting this right and reliable would be a) a considerable language design project in its own right and b) confusing to users of Python as it is documented, and in particular to people testing their modules locally without pip. It wouldn't be as drastically different a language as Ruby, but it would certainly be a different language.
Although not a millennial, when I graduated with my engineering degree, I also felt lacking in practical skills. So, my wife(also an engineer) and I enrolled in community college vocational education classes. We learned to weld, sculpt, cast, blacksmith. Had a great time and would now have the confidence to buy a welder and know I could use it... if only I had the free time.
Two things I loved about Tumblr that were very much not the social aspect (something about the community did just never work for me) were the stupid easy to use publishing tools and simple template language. I may have made some 600 of those site templates over the years and it was FUN.
Later design changes tried to push the social thing more to the front (which, again, idgaf about) and so I left. But it'd pretty cool to start seeing SOME of that in wp, which is in this kinda weird middle spot right now where it's not hard to work with but enough of a chore to pay someone to do it for you.
do you think that, in general, medication is successful in improving the agency of it's users?

i worry that medication harbors a reliance on drugs, and facilitates growth of a society in which drug-use is necessary to participate "normally".

if someone with ADD/ADHD has an opportunity to increase their agency, do you think that would increase their quality of life? the parent commenter suggested that mental illness (in the case of depression) might be the result of someone with healthy brain chemistry in a bad environment. but do you think that someone with healthy brain chemistry can demonstrate an attention disorder as a result of their environment, and would be more able to improve their environment through medication?
Probably should add that Auckland, whilst not the capital, is the largest city by a large margin.
> The point of "... trusting trust" is not really the specific bug, but rather the observation that the whole supply chain matters.

There's a really fascinating project by the authors of TUF called in-toto[1] that addresses exactly this problem.

[1] https://in-toto.github.io/
The ongoing urbanization of the world seems to be a counterargument to that.

Also, density is what enables greenery. Endless rows of detached single story houses with a lawn is what kills natural landscapes.
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It occurs to me that malicious code that scans WordPress etc. sites for vulnerabilities, installs itself, and sends spam and propagates itself does match the general shape of a virus (even to the point where pattern-matching antivirus would genuinely be effective against it). We just for whatever reason tend not to refer to it as a "WordPress virus," but rather e.g. a "reverse shell" or a "botnet."
My VS code was using 10 GB of RAM today... It's better than other electron apps, but I would argue still not efficient
Surveillance of the general populace shouldn't be necessary to enforce immigration laws. We didn't even have an immigration enforcement department until 2003.
I'm working at Segment now as a Software Engineer in Infrastructure. We just went through a big effort to remove NSQ (in favor of Kafka). Happy to answer any questions.
That's not how it works. There are not one universal set of genes for "lungs". When two species develop a similar characteristic, the genes are still completely different.
Except the conclusion isn’t scientific at all. It’s 100% based on opinion. The author identified trends, yes, but that’s about it.

Simpler and more repetitive doesn’t mean worse — it means simpler and more repetitive. Never once have I listened to a song and thought, “Wow, this sucks, these lyrics would compress really easily.”
> the keepass entropy estimate presumably […] tries

KeePass sources are available [0], you can see the specific algorithms it uses in [1].

[0]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/files/KeePass%202.x...

[1]: https://fossies.org/windows/misc/KeePass-2.42.1-Source.zip/K...
Using class methods to scope template variables is contrived? Huh?
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This seems silly. Accepting cash endangers the lives of employees and generally enables all sorts of financial shenanigans. Rather than attacking the business, the ACLU should address the structural issues that prevent people from participating in the mainstream economy.
You can also see this with bike and scooter shares. Bikes and scooters clump up at hubs that enter the transit system in the morning and empty out in the evening commute.
The system is designed to keep illegal immigrants here, but keep them in constant fear.

The raid on Koch Foods that resulted in the arrest of 680 immigrant workers happened only after those workers attempted to unionize, the call to ICE almost certainly came from management, and the people replacing them at those jobs definitely know what the stakes of worker organization are now.
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I get that, but it's not like the body isn't accustomed to a wide range of food inputs. We know what chemical structures are deeply harmful to the body and what are digestible; assuming GMO variants are not totally different from the original we can rely on heuristics to determine their toxicity, can't we?

It seems a little silly to outright dismiss GMO foods as long as they do not deviate too far from their parents
On the surface it looks like a bad deal, because you could rent, put the same 7% of your rent into a mutual fund and/or get compound interest on your investment. By what mechanic will the effective in-network rent be lower than the market rent, and there's also the question of selection.

The biggest concern is what happens when the company folds? What if after liquidation they don't have enough value to pay out everyone's investments. Do seed investors get paid out first?
Yes, there are benefits to having the OS supply the components; switching themes, familiar design and probably performance gains.

But, the trade off is simply unpredictability. The app is assuming that the OS has all the components it needs, at the correct version etc. Not all OS's have all components you think, which leads to unreliable user interfaces, which may work for small applications with only a few OS dependencies, but as the app grows the reliability decreases...

You're correct in saying the UI should not be the same on every platform (iOS, Android, Windows). But in my opinion the app should encapsulate it's UI and share as little as possible with the host OS.
Whoa nelly, that is a tough argument to make in the face of a global rate of natural increase (RNI) of 1.06 (that's 6% being added year-over-year on top of the last census population of the 7.53 billion we've measured in 2017).

If you consider making sure your own particular genepool sustains, as your prime directive, then sure, power to you. When it comes to sustaining humanity, then there is something to be said about sustaining global resources, relaxing supply, improving literacy levels, maximizing public funds, human happiness indexes, etc. that have all long correlated lower population densities with better outcomes.
Fruits are funny. Many of what we think of as normal fruits are actually weird hybrids that can ONLY be reproduced by cloning/grafting.

Most citrus, most apple varieties, anything "seedless"
My grandmother was left-handed in an age when they forced you to learn to write right-handedly instead. As a child she could comfortably write with both hands simultaneously, starting in the centre and working outwards, the left hand writing a mirror image.