skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man! There are so many things to try...

The important thing is to go in without expectations and to keep trying different people and "schools" until something clicks or gels for you. Persist!

Good luck and God bless. (I'm available to help, just find any recent HN comment of mine and jump in.)

(In re: psychedelics. I'm not against psychedelic therapy but do your homework, and try other things first. "Set and Setting" are more important than the actual chemical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting )

First of all, what's your diet like? If you eat crap you will feel like crap. Conversely, if you eat well ("plant-based whole foods") then you will feel well and be healthy. (E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study )

There are physical modalities, such as: Get a deep tissue massage; Rolfing; Feldenkrais Method; Alexander Technique; various Yogas; Chiropractic (Your problems could be as simple as a pinched nerve, or a sticky tendon.)

Go see hypnotherapists: Past-life regression; Gene-line regression; Soul retrieval; Time-line therapy (rewrite your past to be a happier person in the present and future); Parental guardian reimprinting (make your parents better people so you grew up better!)

Then there are the emotional and "energy healing" therapies: Emotional Freedom Techniques (aka EFT: tap on your head and you feel better. How does it work? Who cares? It works.); Reiki (I'm a level III practitioner, I can vouch for it. Reiki is very real and powerful); Rebirthing (Orr's work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirthing-breathwork not the "Attachment therapy". Let oxygen be your psychedelic. In a nutshell, hyperventilation in a proper set and setting can lead to profound psychological and emotional healing, reaching even to birth trauma.)

Read "Prometheus Rising" and do the exercises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Rising

Try the weird shit.

Even if it doesn't help at least you'll be entertained. (and something will help.)
Peak pedantry - I love it
NULL is the lack of any string.
If one view a string as a result of an operation, then an INVALID string is the consequence of bad input to an operation.
dont you think you benefit from the fact your city's government has more money to spend due to all the taxes collected from tourists' consumption/visits?
There's a "Lock" button in the app. If you press that, the scooter doesn't allow anyone else to start using it, but you still pay per minute that you aren't using it.

Though if you're in a popular area there is no need, you can just walk a minute or less and find another.
a sdr radio breaks sms 2fa
Does Slack screen-sharing work?
If there's no good way for these companies to respect individual privacy then they should be prohibited from applying these technologies at scale.
Ask HN: Past acquisition/partner-interested company trying to trademark our name
We were previously developing a product which had a another well-established company interested in partnering with us to use our technology or even acquiring us.

Talks didn't go through but we showed the other guys our product name, our features and stuff in a pitch deck and other docs.

Fast forward 1-2 monthes, we are gearing up to launch our new product but we've noticed the .com domain of our product name (we didn't own this yet as it was worth $50k and couldn't justify the investment) is bought by that company. However said company is not working on this product and could have only come up with said .com domain name because of seeing our deck. We also know that said company was not developing a similar product or doesn't have the same capabilities. We are now reaching out to said company.

What should we do both legally and in terms of negotiations?

EDIT: This was an issue we didn't really prepare for as the company was introduced by our investors who trusted them.
> I am making an argument that the principal justification for power of these individuals is the same.

You're drawing an analogy in the roughest possible terms. "A person can choose to become X", where X is a company or a lord, does not logically imply anything about the two things other than they are both choices. (Everything at some level is arguably a choice, so in fact this says nothing).

Similarly, "Doing thing X is risky" where X is starting a company or starting a gang, is not a logical argument for anything other than two random things are both "risky" (but perhaps in markedly different ways).

> Also, while there are small businesses in capitalism, yes, the core of it in practice are large businesses.

Roughly half of all employment, and the majority of employment gains, comes from small business. Roughly half of GDP comes from small business.

> And just like the lords, the owners of the large businesses are those who can either outsmart the other small owners, or just win the game of taking the risk.

In any competitive environment (be it sports, or selling widgets, or war) there are winners and losers depending on the preparation, skill, and execution of the players. "Football is war" is a metaphor, not a rigorous argument for why the Geneva Convention should apply to football.

> The fact that there is no direct violence in economic competition between companies doesn't invalidate the comparison I am making.

The fact that two things are meaningfully different in almost every sense does though. The only comparisons you've made are only in the most general metaphorical sense.

> The question why should somebody keep unlimited and indefinite control over something (be it company or state) just by virtue of organizing people around creation of that something still stands.

Besides the obvious point that no one has unlimited or indefinite control over anything, the tenants of private property are a well argued philosophical stomping ground. Why anyone should be able to own anything that they pay for... If they ever truly own it, if it is being taxed annually, or merely rented it from the State... If they should be able to keep it, or how much of it their family should be able to keep after they die... Whether a person can fully transfer title in something they create even if they are paid for it...

The fundamental reason that we let people own the things that they create or that they pay for is because that becomes the incentive for people to work hard to create great things, and because it's a way to give meaning to life. The fundamental reason that we don't take everything away from people the moment they die, but merely take just a large share of it, when it's over a certain amount, is roughly similar.

Other countries have tried to do it different ways, and IMO they have all turned out orders of magnitude worse for the wear.
Yes (it counts). We're (also) hard into the green certificates shell game;we should stop extracting fossil fuels . We're one of the few nations that could realistically stop.
Factor in stop lights and other holdups, sounds like a good estimate to me.
Now let us be generous and say 15min, thats still an extra 30min thus TulliusCicero's point still stands.
A famous ambiguity built into Latin grammar is the objective vs. subjective genitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case#Functions

People would usually mention that "amor Dei" ("love of God") could mean love toward God, or love that God has toward someone else.

Similarly you could have "odium brassicae" ("hatred of cabbage") which could mean a person's attitude toward cabbage, or perhaps a cabbage's attitude toward something or someone else.

Latin obviously has other ways to be more specific ("odium, quod brassica in te fert" 'hatred that cabbage bears against you' or something) but if you just use a genitive to express an attitudinal relation, it's going to be gramatically ambiguous which direction that attitude flows!
That's indeed the average adult walking speed.
Can you alternate accelerating and decelerating? I mean that's a heck of a lot more energy, but at least you're not risking reaching light speeds.
Sad thing is we fought so hard back in 2006-2009 to get to get past bosses and clients who wanted us to just make it work in IE, and here we are a decade later and those who should be building on our work are tearing it apart by carelessness.

Edit: if any frontend/web developers today reads this, please do use Firefox for development. I'll tell you why:

I can only remember a single time that I wrote something in Firefox that didn't also work in the latest IE, Chrome and Edge.

Web developers I work with who use Chrome however seems to constantly have to go back and fix stuff that doesn't work anywhere but Chrome, exactly like web developers who developed in Frontpage and IE had to.

If you don't want to spend time with regressions from QA and you don't want to look unprofessional, develop on Firefox.

The happy feeling you get from doing something good for the web is a bonus.
You're being a little vague so it's impossible to analyze.

However, if your average speed is 25 mph and the average doubled to 50 mph, I'm sure you'd be happy. With maglevs, we'd probably want more express trains.
I'm in Sales/Marketing and I read HN every day. With that said, I work in the tech industry. I hardly ever chip in, though, because of the more technical focus within the comment threads.
>HTML5 and javascript and the Front end web. It took a whole year for her to get up to speed and get a new job.

It took her a year to learn HTML and Javascript?
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Ahead of trade talks, China makes biggest U.S. soybean purchases since June
Figuring in traffic lights, this is pretty close, even as a fast walker.
Yes, I care. Why don't you? I work for Tier 1 banks. They are paranoid, and rightly so. One of their many paranoid rules is that hostnames can never betray the machine's purpose. You could easily analyze DoH stats and deduce certain machines' functions.

Leaking information is bad.
I also get the "waking up" feeling whenever I take more than a few days off, and going back to work feels like a death sentence (not in the judge-pounding-the-gavel sense, more in the it's-later-than-you-think sense).

I don't feel suicidal, but I do feel desperate to waste less of my priceless time on piling up the money so that I can survive and support a family in a society that seems engineered to trap me in this half-living state. Maybe I'm just weak, for not being willing to throw it all away and go live in a barrel up in the mountains.
The Dangers of Meritocracy
I obtained a low-tech phone for SMS and phone calls. I then turned my Samsung Android back into a PDA by removing the SIM chip.

I explain to my clients when they express astonishment at my low-tech phone that I am protecting their security, as I have the PDA sync with my Exchange Server, where I keep sensitive info to provide them support and I do not allow the low-tech phone to access my Exchange Server.

I also tell them that I had based my decision on the track records of Google, Apple, Verizon, etc. in regards to security.

Nothing is perfect, but at least my attack surface is lessened.
NY State repealed high-rent deregulation in the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection act of 2019. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s6458
I'm pretty much sure he'd be happy with Ài Wèiwèi
Have you ever measured how fast you walk? I walk a couple miles every morning at an okay pace with my dog and I still average about 17 minutes a mile.
Bitter much? Admissions is complicated and golden tickets are rare.

The PSAT based National Merit designations vary by maybe 10+/- points across states because they normalize to the top 1% per state rather than the top 1% nationally, and to the extent that National Merit means anything it's not entirely nonsensical to do so.

That said, being a one-track academic box checker is only going to hurt your child in the long run, as will dwelling this kind of thing instead of making the best of it.

Likewise, I know many people who got into pretty solid colleges and programs despite being "flawed gems" as their interests and accomplishments more than made up for the fact that they maybe had specific subject weaknesses or weren't carbon copies of every other high-GPA box-checker.

I also know many people who turned down prestigious schools (Cornell, University of Chicago, etc.,) to do interesting and fairly unique programs at less known schools and who have done quite well.

Also, parents having tough backgrounds isn't the same as children having tough backgrounds. By your own words you skimped and sacrificed to give your kid advantages, and that those advantages are recognized is only reasonable.

And if despite all those advantages your kid hasn't developed any aspect in particular to set them apart (and let's face it, for the most part test scores and grades are more about being par than being apart or ahead), why should anybody be going out of their way to recruit them? (For many out of state schools the only reason they bother is more tuition money.)
Not a ton (I have an idea come to mind either in the night or the morning) but I easily spend 5min finding the stuff inside my closet and then an extra 3min debating if it's OK for the current weather and if I need extra layers or waterproof layers and if I own warm or waterproof things that match with my previous idea of what I want to wear.
Not directly related to facebook's libra but why don't we see more businesses use bitcoin, monero, etc. as a backup currency? I mean they could allow transactions to happen with cryptocurrency and have linked to a stable currency in the backend to be exchanged.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a 'backup' decentralized currency in an event of mass inflation. For example, the US is projected to go into a $30 trillion dollar deficit by 2030 and there's no telling what ramifications that will have.
right, at best it's crippling. At worst it becomes a device for dismissing any news that is inconsistent with one's worldview. "That probably isn't even true."
Okay, and? Raw death numbers, without corresponding usage numbers, are kind of useless. More people die as pedestrians, or in cars, than on scooters after all. Deaths/mile or deaths/hour would both allow some sort of real comparison.
So how do I know if someone sent me a malicious message? Does this affect GSM only, or WCDMA, too, or does it even matter?
In the past I read something interesting about falling asleep. We all know how smoking, looking at a screen, eating sugar, etc... are all pretty bad to fall asleep, but actually what's helping the most isn't not doing theses things, it's the routine that you have before sleeping. Someone that does theses things every night, will have a much harder time to go to sleep if he doesn't do theses. Ideally it would be to just suck it up until you build an healthier routine I guess, but if your sleep is fine, why bother really? Just keep the routine that works for you.
Algorithms can help us detect fake news
These people trying to play some kind of game. Any money you spend on legal wrangling is a complete waste of capital investment that you can't afford. They have deeper pockets, too; they are established, and acquired a $50K domain name that you couldn't afford.

Even if you could actually win, winning isn't worth it.

Get another domain, possibly change your name to match, and move on. Pick a name that doesn't have a $50K tag attached to the domain.

Also, does it absolutely have to be in the .com TLD?
I'm OK, but it's only because of my faith in God. My life trajectory would have taken me to a very much not OK place otherwise.
No one's brain is "broken" here. You're thinking on the individual level, the parent to your comment is looking at it from a societal level.

Once someone can read, write, do arithmetic, it's more specialized skills that are needed. There are very few jobs where four years of studying history or political science is necessary. In most cases, a few months of training could do far more than four more years of general education.

The value of a degree for most jobs is it shows an ability to learn. Ultimately, having people spend six figures to send this signal is making society worse off. Employers are looking for the qualities that make someone a good student far more than they are looking for experience criticizing ancient works of literature or solving systems of equations.
There was brief point in time where IronPython was faster than CPython for several major benchmarks, precisely because of the better CLR JIT and GC, plus some smart tricks implemented in the "DLR". (It's almost sad, IronPython and the "DLR" have been left to grow so many weeds since that time.)
I was imagining eventually landing on the object. Interstellar space is probably not very interesting on its own.

But how much delta-v one can extract from a bungee jump is just as interesting a problem as how do you break from a huge delta-v and no atmosphere. Maybe one can even direct the jump into a useful direction: interstellar body based propulsion.
Well the kind of obvious explanation for that is that success in life is probably strongly determined by intelligence. So when ~10% of the population went to college there was a high chance that those were also approximately the 10% smartest of a generation. If lots more people go to college now, that just means that it ceases to be a good predictor of success.
It sucks that the protocol is proprietary but there seems to be a reasonably healthy ecosystem of 3rd party Slack clients so that advantage isn’t totally gone.

I find the wee-slack plugin for the WeeChat IRC client to be pretty good (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack)
I swear, we need many more people and orgs creating privacy-preserving products like Reflectacles: https://www.reflectacles.com/

I'm not at all affiliated with Reflectacles, but when i first heard of them (on HN) I loved the idea! Where else beyond Reflectacles can i throw my money at in order to preserve my privacy?
> dominated by students from wealthy families.

SAT prep might be correlated, but I suspect there’s more to it than that. I grew up in the poor suburbs of Detroit, and nobody was talking about college when I was a kid. I’d say 3/4 of the kids I went to primary school with didn’t even apply to college. Now that I’m in the “wealthy” suburbs of Dallas, though, the kids that my kids go to school (and my kids) have been talking about college admissions since they were in elementary. If you grow up with parents who went to college and who can probably afford to send you to one, it’s just part of the atmosphere.
I'm sad that at least two people prefer Taylorism (grades) over humanism (achievement).
I gave it a go and listened to a bunch of these wolframtunes....all of which sounded very much like random walking melodies over rhythm tracks someone probably programmed, or specified with enough constraints that they sounded like a regular 4/4 rhythm. (I didn't fuck with the controls too much.)

I can accept your statement that "it's definitely saying something," with the caveat that all that random walking melodies are saying is: "I programmed a computer to generate a random melody."

The range of expression is limited when you're making a computer work on random input; it's pretty much limited to "this is a demonstration of the algorithm I programmed," kind of a far cry from how most music is written and received.

Synth jams are something else, they're driven by people through and through.
I don't see why Slack would be more trustworthy than Discord when it comes to data privacy, when we're talking about a company that failed to disclose a breach for 5 years.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/slack-password-breach/

If you care about your data, you have to be able to own it, and neither Slack nor Discord offers that option.
The article isn't saying that. It's in quotes becuase they are reporting the words of someone they've deemed to be a reputable source for the topic of standard administration behavior.

You may have an issue with that source's opinion, but that's different from having an issue with Politico.
I rode a non-electric kick scooter (Xootr) for three years working in downtown SF. It is by far the best form of transitional transport there is and superior to bikes for 99% of actual real world travel. It was easily 4-5 times faster than walking and more importantly suddenly made the entire city open due to how insanely efficient it was for "glueing" together various forms of public transport. I could hop from transport hub to transport hub insanely quickly and the entire system suddenly worked in a way that did not happen with walking or biking. Some people say walk, but it's too slow and a 1/2 mile "walk" section on a complicated transport route would be impractical on foot. Biking is fast enough for long trips but massively inconvenient for quick trips to a store or park or restaurant. A scooter on the other hand could be with me all day, I can take it into the store with me, I can take it on the bus. Transition cost from arrival to getting on the bus or walking into a store was seconds instead of minutes with a bike. The scooter had tons of upsides and the only downside was, at the time, that it was kind of embarrassing to be seen on. People talk to much about the "last-mile" as if the only travel people do is on massive transport corridors to and from work. The scooter solves the transport mesh, the hops and transitions of actual day-to-day living.
I think you meant to say terrible rather than terrific.
Caroline Calloway and our obsession with feminine deceit
Don't you get the same effective perf benefit by marking your script async defer?
Updating HTTPS certificates with cron and certbot-auto (tutorial)
Hey, now. Everyone knows that in a liberty-focused society -- especially one in which we finally get rid of all burdensome regulation which would keep the free enterprise system from ushering in a market-guided utopia -- you are perfectly free to tell anyone whose house you're going to that you will not go anywhere that has a doorbell camera.

Or to a business with a security camera.

And as for the delivery man angle... sure, that may seem like compulsion, but for one thing, the delivery man can always quit his job (especially in an optimally functioning market which will of course increase labor opportunities and will definitely not reduce wages for labor to its marginal production costs), plus eventually they'll have to quit because we're going to automate delivery anyway.
So that's space viruses that contain DNA which infects any existing life. Causing the organism to change form into a wormhole generator, which then connects to all the other worm hole generators made by the alien designers? So they can just rock up at a random places because they turned the inhabitants into star gates? That's an awesome idea!
> But in a language with brackets, the compiler can at least determine scope even when things are poorly-indented.

Yes, but can it determine scope if things are poorly-bracketed? Because that's the fair comparison.
Sql server written in C#? Please. None of it.
Dark mode doesn’t really have that much of an impact for most use, and I’m fairly sure Apple was more likely to have added to to iOS because they had just done so with macOS.