skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5-htp is associated with increased anxiety / panic attacks. Found out after I got one. (Racing heart, palpitations out of nowhere, spent a night in hospital doing bunch of heart tests.) There is very little research on it, because it's not patented, but try pubmed etc. iirc it increases anxiety especially in the first days, weeks then it levels out.
>And nobody claimed SSNs are appropriate passwords either.

Except for the US government, and most banks, medical providers, and cell phone companies.
See also insecure overachiever: https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-s...
Toxic femininity is actually a utilized term in the same spheres as toxic masculinity was coined (ie. Academia). Toxic masculinity is not against men but against a false societal pressure that men cannot show weakness, are justified in expressing their anger with violence, and that showing aggressive behavior instead of genuinely healthy human bonding is an acceptable and many substitute. It forces pressure on men to be unable to report when they’ve been sexually assaulted, when they’re anxious, in need of comfort, when they’re mentally ill, etc.

This is how I’ve understood the concept and it seems to fit with the claim that “I am a man and my parents emotionally abused me in response to my deep anxiety disorder in my childhood to force me to avoid treatment for decades”.

Toxic femininity is the same sort of societal expectations for women that are toxic. Women have more pressure to avoid being assertive even when their personalities are naturally more aggressive. That a mother is a mother first and a person second, such that everything she may do as a mother reflects on her worth as a human being.

EDIT: Regarding 'toxic femininity' I've been corrected that this isn't widespread used in this way. It's probably just used this way in my own academic circle and I had made an incorrect assumption. Thanks HN.
>But what if there were another route to hypersanity

Em, there are many, including Zen, Yoga, and Mysticism.
This assumes the lack of negative externalities from such a system.
When are companies going to learn that data is very much a burden that cannot ever be guaranteed to be "secure"? I really want governments to legislate heavy penalties for data breaches to help solve this.
Ask HN: Do you support Stripe adding Google branding without asking?
Stripe are rolling out Google pay as a default, non-opt out, option to their new payment page. A page which all EU customers need to use now due to the SCA changes rolling out.

I was pretty annoyed that I couldn't turn this off, it even appears on desktop in chrome, and there's now as much google branding on the new payment page as there is my own branding as they've got very few options to customize the look of it.

On top of that I don't want to support Google with their AMP practices, so never wanted this turned on in the first place. Especially without telling me and without any sort of opt-out.

I appreciate there are upsides, with the card details being more likely to be updated, but I feel this would have been easier to swallow if this new payment process didn't feel like it's now completely out of my control and my branding.

Am I over-reacting? Or should we have been asked? It just feels like Stripe are going the way of paypal where you now have no control over the relationship with your customer and are allowing third parties to spy in on your trading (although we're just launching so have none!).

On IRC they said the only option is to email in so they could remove me from the trial roll-out.
Whenever I see anyone attempt to defend their anti-GMO positions, they inevitably devolve into vague "well, it might be bad". Since this is literally true of ANYTHING new, the focus on GMOs is being driven by some irrational subtext.
This is the framing chosen by state propagandists.
How do cheese/butter and paleo go together (serious question)? I thought paleo is about non-processed foods.
Which leads me to my second question: Why so few vegetables/fruits?
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> Hmmm Are you suggesting that they might try doing a showy reveal?

If they don't, Theranos is the correct comparison. Put up or shut up.
We should have applied the same policy of containment to China, that was used against the Soviet Union. But instead we let our greed get in the way, and now we've created an (arguably) evil superpower.
It's a lot like writing books in technical fields. Should you do so with the expectation that you'll get rich or even that it will pay for a really nice vacation? Probably not. Some people probably make 5 figures (USD) but it's not common.

However, being a published author builds credibility in a lot of respects whether it's within many large companies or doing consulting/etc. work.

ADDED: I've written a few books. I've made no money off them (to a first approximation relative to everything else). But they've been immensely valuable in other respects.
The previous strongmen regimes were rather better for foreign investors than the current regimes and foreign investors would probably rather have seen stable governments gradually improving rights for foreign investors (certainly as an investor in one of those countries at the time through my work, from a purely business perspective I would have preferred a more peaceful path towards democracy). I don't think foreign investors were cheerleading the Arab spring therefore.
10% Sounds low. I can't judge for the product in question but for my programs, they are usually tiny blips standing on the shoulder of giants (libraries).
So far i have never ask for money, if i'd do so i maybe would need to pass on 80% to not feel bad about it..

Not sure if you are cynical of sincere, either way, if the library devs get 47 cent from every donation driven program that relies on them, this could add up to some nice sum.
> With the rise of so many capable cities on the mainland, perhaps pursuit of unification is just not worth the trouble anymore.

Maybe to you? It's clear from China's actions that they think otherwise and they're willing to do whatever it takes to ensure control and unification.
no, too old for that (at least central boston).

When I visited I found transport to be very european compared to other US cities I have visited.
When this guy says "military", we need some specificity. Is this the People's Liberation Army, or the People's Armed Police? They may look the same on the surface but they are very very different organizations with different uses and implications. Stuff I've already read suggests the PAP is in Shenzhen on standby, not the PLA.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/212...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-12/global-times-shows...
How’s Russia working out for us and for the Russian people these days? Or Belarus, or Poland?
Even if we become energy independent from ME oil, which we’re net independent I think, (and about 90% on the crude side?) then we still have Japan, Europe and many parts in Asia which need uninterrupted oil supplies from the ME.
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~~This is basically fake news, or a hoax, a very popular one. The videos are not current.~~

EDIT:
It is true China is doing some military performance in SZ to scare off the protesters. But the PLA has not entered HK as that would seem unwise.

What is happening instead is Chinese police or army likely working inside the HK police force.
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But school start and end times need to fit somewhat with the parents worklife and out of school activities, they do not exist in a vacuum.
> Sure, both are consequences of the same overall point: the west doesn't have the same power over China that it had over the AS countries.

China PR (the de facto mainland government) already blames the US for Hong Kong protests. Things will get worse if we do something overt.

https://archive.fo/VHiXL
The fact that there's more than one way to do things in Python is why i've found it so easy and flexible, I have no idea why that goober put this motto in the zen
I see creating/contributing to OSS projects almost as a form of payment, i.e. you are paying your dues for being able to access a large array of free open source software by contributing back to the movement.
Yes, definitely part of it.
At least they're not getting rolled over by tanks.
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Same here. I needed a CLI based RTTY decoder but could not get it done in GNU radio. It turned out to be easier to code this in C++ [1], though I had to learn a lot on the way. GNU radio has step learning curve...

[1] https://github.com/ogre/habdec
Oh! I hadn't understood that the ion is what's being screened, but of course it would be. That begins to sound a lot more promising. I still have big questions, but maybe there are answers. Like...

...does the screening not have the same effect between the plates? I expect they'd be more than a few millimeters apart.

...won't this screening simply act to essentially diffuse the ion's charge into the surrounding plasma? And if so, won't that mean that (e.g.) in the case of a proton, the device's external field will still be exerting an attractive force on the net-positive plasma surrounding the it? I kinda suspect that would ultimately lead to the same cancellation of thrust that I was worried about in the absence of screening.
How would you receive benefits if not by using SSN as a password? Or to get a job when you may not have authorization to do so (noncitizen not on a worker visa)
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Yes, as a European, I’m always amazed at how far south the northern US and even southern Canada really is.

With that said, those are latitudes, not longitudes.
I think the same is true for (most) millionaires :)
From engineering standpoint it is not an easy task to balance random load that comes and goes from solar, centralized solar plants is one thing but panels on the roof is another. While electricity is abundant running the grid is not such an easy task as it may seem. So this might explain why there is such push back from utility companies against uncontrolled user solar devices connected to their grid.
Not really. Tibet and Taiwan say hi and something about grass-mud-horse.

There is their whole mythology of "centuries of humiliation" and their warlord period for actual stand together or hang apart sentiment. However the sort of "unity" talked about is really just propagandized expansionism. I see it no different than Putin's foolish revanchism for the former USSR.
We used to have that, then there was a backlash and we're now far more tolerant. I'm not sure what the right balance is between not disturbing people and calling out folk (new joiners in particular) in from of the whole company.
> Toxic masculinity is stereotypical or reductive modes of action or thinking perceived by men as expected or required, which can be harmful to other men or other people.

The part that no one wants to talk about is those behaviors are expected, required, and desired of men in some subcultures—-by both the men and the women of those subcultures. It isn’t purely some internal fault where some men misunderstand local norms but in many cases rather a collective problem of bad norms correctly perceived.
China got away with it once but escalation is in principle a sign of weak government. Compare a nation like France which mostly waited it out.
You seem to be against treaties of any kind, which by their nature put limits on the behavior of sovereign states.

I strongly reject the idea that food is somehow exempt. This is moral posturing and, like the noxious and genocidal anti-GMO position, is being used as a cloak for frank protectionism by ag interests that would be destroyed by superior overseas competition.
I like the way you view these concepts as narratives and we all agree to play "pretend".

> One example test: can it be "destroyed" by someone's or some group's declaration?
This is a really good test.
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Of course not, since the cost to Europe would be enormous. As a US taxpayer, I wish you would.
> Toxic masculinity is not against men but against a false societal pressure that men cannot show weakness

It seriously needs a name change, because the name implies that masculinity is toxic and that's how I've seen it interpreted.
There should be more countries who are also taking these steps in order to help reduce waste and help the environment. We are fully aware of the harm plastic bags cause and there are many other alternative including paper or reusable bags.
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>This state has indeed produced profound ideas, but it has also produced even more nonsense ideas

Can you say with 100% confidence what is profound and what is nonsense in this Universe?

>The article makes the classical mistake of the binary: There's the mainstream, and the higher "hypersane".

The two are extreme points so that we can see the difference, of course, there are all kinds of intermediate states as Diogen was not walking with a lamp during daylight when he was 5.
did you know russian army drove tanks at people in multiple cities when soviet union fell apart? google january 20th tragedy, warning: its graphic
I don't know what their current cost structure is, but assuming they don't currently pay contributors in a meaningful amount, going for profit would mean they would probably have to, and COGS would go way way up. The current income probably wouldn't cover it.
The reason to send in the PLA would be to increase the level of violence, but there’s no reason to risk the backlash of sending them in when the HK police can do the job too—even if the Central People’s Government were to suddenly decide that live ammunition is needed, they would still be able to rely on the HK police. The deployment of troops is therefore almost certainly, as was noted in the SCMP, a statement of intent as opposed to a sign that there will be a deployment of troops.
How do securely obtain access to a remote system that wants you legal identity? Or do German companies allow access to any bot willing to pay?
Many GMO’s are very common already. 1/2 of all soybeans are GMO.
Thanks for making a website that works nice without Javascript :)
Belgium and it's northern neighbour swap land as the delta shifts. I believe last time the Netherlands donated some land.

There is an island on the France Spain or Spain Portugal border which takes turn about. Easier than fighting.

Enclaves are a thing. Maastricht and Liege have a couple nearby I believe. Too hard to tidy up. Partially alienated land is in some jurisdictions forbidden to be given up in law. The attempt to donate a mountain in skandi counties hit a constitutional barrier because the leaders are pledged to indivisible boundaries.
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> China only got stronger since the Tinanmen situation

It's a rather remarkable difference at this point.

The US economy was 16 times larger than China at the end of 1989. Japan was nine times larger. China was only about 45% larger than South Korea back then.

China's military spending today is equal to at least a third the size of its economy in 1989 inflation adjusted.

There's a reason why there are no major protests occurring in the Middle East re Xinjiang. One would expect an enormous outpouring of anger and protest, boycott, mass demonstrations and burnings of the Chinese flag and Xi's effigy 24/7. They know it won't make any difference and it'll just anger China; they have almost zero influence to affect China's behavior. Most of the world feels that way.
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> Matrix has a rich and growing ecosystem of chat clients.

Including ones that work on iOS and Android WITH Notifications? Not having that feature has been a blocker for me so far.
Being substantive means replying to the actual argument instead of questioning the credibility of the person who makes an argument.
what does "balance the random load" mean in an engineering context? i would have thought electricity would balance itself?
All this talk about "toxic masculinity" tells me that there's something fundamentally wrong about the whole conversation. Because nobody wants to define what masculinity, healthy masculinity, is supposed to look like in all aspects of life and, most importantly, how it relates to sexuality in general and sexuality with women. I just get the sense that masculinity as a whole is supposed to be toxic.
There is Alan Watts video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4wa0tSBdOU
As much as I have tried to internalise this over the years, all the really good stuff in life comes with worries as well. Parenthood isn't easy, working on a relationship for 20+ years isn't easy, and even if you're working nice hours from home, you're still plugged into and interacting with all the complex, aggressive and frightening processes that rule everywhere else.
I've used Stripe (and still do now) and if this is the case, I would consider closing my account immediately and switching to another payment provider.

There must be alternatives to Stripe out there as I too don't like Google's rampant tracking on the web, I certainly don't want to expose my customers to that indirectly through Stripe.
The title makes it sound like Shenzen is not part of China. You don't "enter" part of your own country.
Do you have any links to previous posting(s) of the videos? When are they from?
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HTTPS has checksums, and note that we’re specifically talking about installing from Github, where every change is tracked.

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

I’m trying to get you to do some security analysis focused on threats which are possible in this model but not the real alternatives (download and install, install from a registry like PyPI or NPM, etc.). So far we have “GitHub could choose to destroy their business”, which seems like an acceptable risk and about the same as “NPM could destroy their business”.
PLA is different from PAP though although we may just be disagreeing on a technicality.

BTW, HK while definitely not the economic powerhouse it once was, it still has a pretty special place as a truly international city for the PRC government, which is something intangible and cannot be expressed in pure GDP number.
Deployed to?
Fundamental problem of this type of article: comparing
$/kWh across energy sources without accounting for energy dispatchability. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation)
See people commenting on Germany and Portugal situations or articles by this man (https://medium.com/@oliviercorradi)
Oh man they absolutely cannot come into Hong Kong, it would be a totally stupid move. Honestly in the grand scheme of things they can afford for Hong Kong to just descend into chaos and completely collapse economically or whatever. The minute they send troops over the whole picture changes and everyone loses
I did a visit to a farm[1] here in Spain and, according to them, the wagyu race is genetically predisposed to develop marbling due to an adaptation to combat extreme cold during the Japanese winters.

From their blog[2] and using Google translate:

It is believed that wagyu cows have that level of fat for a matter of survival. In Japan the winters are cold and the grasses are not especially rich in vitamin A. It is estimated that at some point in the evolution they achieved the ability to increase their own intramuscular fat production, which today is the characteristic of this race

[1] https://www.fincasantarosalia.com

[2] https://www.fincasantarosalia.com/wagyu-o-kobe/#Tipos_de_wag...
have you tried using OneNote in dark mode, it actually feels dark, like you can't see anything
I actually thought that the whole "mainland infiltrates HK police" conspiracy was just PRC-phobia (which is a real problem in HK when it becomes xenophobic, sadly) but there's actually been evidence of it (albeit not much). If you're interested you can find videos of a riot policeman saying 「退後一點」 to protesters (and other weird sentences), which is extremely awkward in Cantonese (instead Cantonese would be 「褪後啲」 or something, sounds totally different), especially if you're in an intense situation.
Solar may not be the best option for your particular location. You might consider purchasing some sort of carbon offset corresponding to your use (pay to plant x trees etc).

https://solargis.com/maps-and-gis-data/download/europe
I might be misinformed but it looks to me like a lot of protests in Hong Kong are state orchestrated.

The escalation in protests seemed very sharp. The ransacking of parliament appeared to have been allowed. There was no police presence at all. Almost as if they were being purposefully held back.

I might just have my tin foil hat on. I wouldn't be surprised though if Chinese groups have escalated mostly peaceful protests while police have been held back to create a situation which requires full Chinese state involvement.
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2-3 doesn't sound like much, even in australia we have that
Or alternatively, that the market has a better grasp of the situation than the head of solar analysis at BloombergNEF. Just because she has 'head' and 'solar' in her title doesn't mean she is all-knowing about the solar market.

If solar actually represented a better deal companies would be falling over themselves to install solar panels everywhere. It is likely that there are important realities or risks that the analysts have missed.

Either that, or someone is going to make a killing installing solar panels on a lease-to-buy basis.
> Of open-source software. The context was “security best practice”, so anything closed-source is a no-go.

Sorry to be blunt, but that is impossible to archieve in practice if you actually want to take parts in modern society.
Well, yes, language does have its inherent tone that culture adopts - "arriving to Shenzen" certainly sounds like a normal behaviour, however this seems anything but normal.
Most people don't spend enough on energy to make cost savings a big priority. With solar, there are tangible benefits right now if you know what you are doing but delaying your investments a few years may mean you get more benefits. Increasingly it is not the panel cost but everything around it (inverters, batteries, installation cost, etc.). All those things are subject to economies of scale. Basically, you get a delayed effect. In a few years it will go from cheaper to way cheaper to magnitudes cheaper. At that point things get more urgent.

Another thing to consider is that supply and demand are not that well matched currently. Basically, there's no such thing as over production for batteries or solar panels currently and even installation is bottle-necked on availability of people to do that. That reflects in the pricing as well.

IMHO, the biggest change with solar is that energy cost goes from a variable cost to basically a fixed cost (one time investment in batteries + panels) + variable revenue (from selling excess energy) + variable cost for when your panels don't deliver enough juice. The market is still adapting to this and e.g. the ease of selling excess energy varies between markets.

Some companies are going to get more benefit than others. E.g. any companies operating vehicles will probably want to switch to EV. At that point charging them with their own solar panels becomes attractive; especially when combined with vehicle to grid revenue.
It's easy to ignore. Just as easy as 2003 when the American empire secured the ME oil unilaterally from Iraq by ousting Saddam while all other powers made no retaliation for the move other than strong condemnation which is really the same thing. No one liked it, but no one was really going to lift a finger to prevent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Iraq_War#Off...