skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since they need to verify your address as well I presume IDing with social security card also require providing a piece of mail.

Getting someone’s social security card is hard so this plus a piece of mail or government picture IDs seem fair for an election. Basically, the banking bar.
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A wise man said premature optimization is the root of all evil. You're 22?

Flight safety instructions suggest putting on your own oxygen mask before
helping others.

Optimize along a less lofty axis first (money, experience). The taxes you pay
alone create more social "value", statistically speaking.
No, I would not use or contribute to such software. To my eyes this is basically commercial software.
My rotation was a bit weird. I was on an ops team for a service, but my ops team did not have our own rotation- each of us took part in the various dev team rotations (the theory is nice, the ops team had a deep view of most aspects of the service. I don't think this was common to other service teams). The dev team I took part in was an absolute trainwreck. Poorly managed at the team level and one level above (the owners/managers of the service). More concerned with getting features out and burning through people to make progress. The issues were always brought up and root-caused properly, but poor architecture led to a lot of "well, we can't do that until x happens". I should reiterate that I'm no longer at the company - definitely wasn't the place for me (and my sanity)!
So much this! I am happily married but my wife understands that I tend to connect better with female friends than males. It took some time for me to reject the social taboo of a married male hanging out with platonic women friends but I’ve been so much happier for it.
I try to get into friendship but most of them fall away easily. I know the feel and wish I could build better ones.
That sounds like pseudo/armchair/forum science as well. Why would you need grains much less gluten in your diet?

I bet most people would see an improvement in their waistline if they removed them or replaced them with, say, more vegetables. Breads are a vice for most of us and I have a hard time believing they're contributing much to the diet unless your diet is just bread and soda pop.
> InnoDB MVCC doesn't handle those well either; a long-running tx blocks the purge thread and causes a pile-up of old row versions.

Remember that what they moved to isn't directly MySQL eitger, but only uses it underneath.
This is why I do not care about stock options and work as a contractor instead of an employee. I'll always take X amount of money now over the promise of Y amount in the long run (like stock options, etc).
$7M apiece would buy you quite a nice car.
Forgot link of evidence that banking require ID https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/can-i-get-a-checkin...
That is totally absurd argument, those cloud or industry giants are not taking any extra privileges, they have explicit permission to use those software.
In fact, they are the major adapters who boosts development and contribution to eco-system. They actively motivate their employees to improve the software and publicly contribute who are mostly the major contributors.

Big companies are not bound by these software, they can re-invent their own wheel if needed. They are the one who opensources major new technology without thinking about the profit for example. Anguler.js, React, Hiphop, Mysql etc.

Edit: If you really feel uncomfortable, you can release your software with GNU AGPL, That would be tit-for-tat in your way.
One of my favorite things about riding the New York subway was asking people for help (this was in 2011). I was completely unable to navigate using the maps in the stations so I had to ask for help. Riding the subway that way turned out to be remarkably easy.
"Used for every transaction" is a high bar; I suppose USD and the gold dinar have both failed, oh well.

If we used a more reasonable metric, like "will bitcoins being worth significantly more in ten years than they are today," OP may well be wrong. You can think I'm crazy for saying that, but neither of us can really know at the moment.
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I have a tangential question around brain hacking.

The Flynn effect says we're gaining an avg of 3 IQ pts every decade since the early 20th century. Meaning our great grandparents, on average, would be considered mentally handicapped compared to today's intellect.

Now certain biochemical explanations for the Flynn effect explain raw neurophysiological gains (e.g., iodine fortification in the early 20th century added 5 pts).

So my question: for whatever isn't explained by biochemical enhancement, is there an equal cognitive tradeoff in something less measurable than IQ?

I.e., do our brains act like muscle and the info age as a super gym? Or are we becoming "mentally impaired" compared to our great grandparents in other aspects (e.g., working with our hands, building communities, etc)?

I imagine our neuro-plastic brains try to make use of all of its real-estate. If so, then could it just be that we're growing in measurable ways, and becoming "mentally impaired" in non-measurable ways?

Sounds Ludditic, maybe an expert can weigh in
If you read the literature it turns out that's in some cases wishful thinking. You'd never get full yield, but no chain reaction turns out to not be guaranteed in the older designs.
Isolation at the job is a problem too. As a programmer in a famous startup who’s grown to thousands employees, we discussed by Slack and didn’t shake hands in the office. I felt less lonely alone at home than at the office...

So I became independent and the same happened at the first coworking: More lonely when surrounded with « commercial friends ». The second coworking had a great group spirit and I deeply loved them, but unfortunately they also didn’t like my capitalist stances (most of them were employed) or the fact that I don’t adhere to ideas like « men can’t do two things at once, while women can » so they ended up rejecting me (it perhaps has to do with autistic traits I have, I don’t seem to say what the group wants me to say, when it is demonstrably false). So again: in a group, if you feel no solidarity from the group, then you’re alone.

It got better since I accepted loneliness as a part of life. Because searching and not finding was definitely my most heartbreaking period. But it definitely feels like I’m in a hole and reducing my prospects in life.
I only see a couple mentions of religious organizations, but it's worth pointing out that churches and other religious organizations put an enormous amount of effort into making meaningful friendships convenient and healthy, including casual events, lectures, classes, study groups, and group volunteer activities. I'm not positive that the amount of attention given men in particular is comparable to children, women, couples, or families, but it's common enough to be normal to have men-specific activities, groups, and events.

Point being, church participation rates are much lower for men (ironically so, when men are out in men-filled bars looking for female companionship). I believe men leave (or don't try) churches thinking there was/is nothing for them, and then struggle with isolation and lack of respect.

Of course, churches themselves have a lot of work to do to actually incorporate these realities into their teaching and culture. It's more common for churches to treat men as extra flawed or lazy instead of unaware of these problems.
In Belgium, start cycling. There are groups everywhere, where a lot of friends meet.
Uber doesn't need to make money for you to make money from Uber stock.
Ponzi scheme Hail Mary.

Edit: This isn’t meant to be flippant. There is literally no value in this company and its current owners are trying to dump it on a greater fool.
I think when I feel lonely I watch old TV shows like Star Trek or House and a ton of youtube (mostly educational/scientific channels) I avoid drinking, I only got drunk 2 times in my life , without intending it, and a lot of unhappy feelings surfaced, I seen this in my father too, maybe other get violent but me I get extremely sad (last time was 15 years ago so now I would probably be 10x worse)
Huge rise in catalytic converter thefts
>and fasting does not do your body any good.

Wasn't there a study that showed that at least mice live longer if they fast?
Yep, we’d probably be reading about how stupid Blockbuster was for buying Netflix when it was Moovster that kicked everyone’s ass.
Second volunteering. I moved to a completely different city with no friends and I felt purpose and community the moment I started doing volunteer work, everything a lonely person could ask for!
Playing Devil's advocate imagine having potentially millions of dollars invested in tearing you apart - going through every piece on online history, video, etc., trying to find something juicy to tank the company you've tried so hard to build.
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That is fair and something that I have not considered before.

I was hoping that it might be possible to find a middle ground, where I contribute to something that creates value and is also decent money and experience.
If the founders are hedging their bets and asking (or requiring) others not to, it's a bad sign.
Does WeWork not have a crunchbase profile page? I'm curious about who all managed to get out before the Softbank fiasco. Were employees allowed to sell shares on the secondary market, or are they all effectively hosed now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nog_(Star_Trek)
And here's Nog at the end of the show:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/b2/...

Quite the character arc he had.
This started going back down in the 1970s:
https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...
To be frank, this rings a bit like “How to beat depression? Just be happier!”

Of the “lonely men” I know most are the type who simply don’t put themselves out there to make friends in the first place. For some this is problematic, for a select few this is self imposed.

As a guy, at least for friendship, I have no reservations about “putting myself out there.” You’d be surprised how many folks you meet can’t or won’t, but are normal folks and great friends once that initial obstacle is overcome.

At the end of the day, different strokes for different folks. If you make better friends with women, get at it.
Think of all the other things you also declared to be stupid and didn’t bother with, that turned out to be stupid and would have cost you a bunch if time or money.

People always say, “if you had bought Microsoft at IPO....” For some reason they never say “if you had bought Enron at IPO....”
Looks like the IPO delay has caused a back-firing to the CEO.

According to him, it's more like MeWork.
Airbnb employees gonna make so much. This is gonna be worth $50 billion easily
Hi guys!

So as basis for my thesis on AI and NLP I've been working on a RRN-based text classifier that basically reads and analyzes privacy policies. It understands that "we don't share your data with third parties" is privacy friendly while "we may share your data with anyone" is a potential threat.

I've then created this website with a bunch of analyzed services to showcase the most relevant info about each service along with other interesting stuff like recent data breaches or instructions to delete your account in said service.

Happy to answer Qs about the tech behind, it'd also be great to hear your feedback on what the site lacks and possible improvements!
As a musician I am really interested in this to stop wasting paper on lead sheets.
I recently rewatched DS9.

Nog’s character is one of the more notable ones because the Ferengi are often used as a form of comic relief in the series.

His development from an obnoxious teenager rebelling against his culture and befriending Jake and later embracing a military career and the family conflict that entailed was interesting but his later development was was most compelling.

His conflict when dealing with the illegal actions of Red Squad, his almost fanatical loyalty to Captain Sisko were all built upon this initial development. Then we get his Catch 22 moment where he embraces his culture and his new life in a wonderful bit of comic relief which leads us to be blindsided by his decent into despair following his injury.

One of the best character arcs in Trek.
I think new forms of human-computer interaction will likely have the largest effect on cognition, whether that's Augmented Reality or Brain-Computer Interfaces or both. It's interesting to see how quickly BCI's are developing and I wonder if AR will actually ever have commercial success. If BCI's are able to 'hotwire' human vision and pass information directly to our brain, AR displays would be rendered obsolete.

The only remaining question is how fast BCI technology can reach that level. If it takes more than 10-15 years, I think there could certainly be an age of AR devices that we soon find ourselves in, where AR goggles parallel our current smartphones. On the other hand, the rate at which the BCI field is progressing makes me feel like society might just 'skip over' this AR stage all the way to BCI's.
As Yann LeCunn observed in a recent interview, program synthesis is a genre of problem that neural nets seem to be horribly inefficient (bad) at. The successful applications of SOTA program synthesis are laughably specific, as a recent HN post from Microsoft on the subject showed.
That’s the first question I had - is that not how it works?
Threads that deviate from tech on HN tend to be filled with armchair science. It's the effect of being extremely knowledgeable in one area, and thinking it translates to other fields.
I see your point but WeWork hasn't IPO'd yet. So there are no short sellers yet.
Yes, touches somewhat in concept rather than detail, as far as I remember, been a while so I might have missed some things.
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It really takes a special kind of mind to take something originally intended to be fun, subversive and/or spiritual (recreational drugs) that's existed for decades or even centuries, and turn it into yet another tool to boost your React productivity by 12.3% on Friday evenings, under the new brand of 'enhancement' or 'hacking'. Because to what other end would that 'performance' boost be put to use?
It's amazing how you can shift your own baseline and preferences, like going from craving donuts to craving a bowl of frozen strawberries as your only vice.

Sure, it comes at the expense of short-term happiness. But I'd also wager that the average dough-body on HN isn't the key to long-term happiness either.
It's not "free software" or "open source". It's proprietary software that's source available. If that's what you want to write or use, great.
I too am waiting for such a device. Does this remarkable tablet have a browser? I can't seem to tell from the product description and faq
6 pounds in 10 days may be dominated by e.g. water retention levels changing due to changes in sodium intake. Unsafe to maintain that rate of weight loss long-term but it might just be safer, short-term effects.

Like you said, N=1 and short-term study, basically worthless.
6 lbs in 10 days is trivial if the person is retaining water due to systemic inflammation. Cutting out the sugars often immediately reduces inflammation.
Is willingness to pay part of the definition of a "market"? (Honest question; I didn't go to business school.) I don't doubt there are "tens of millions of folks who would use this over an iPad" if it were free -- I'm one of those people -- but to buy this in addition to, or instead of, an iPad? No way.
Your link is from 9 years ago.
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I guess i’m one of them. I hate talking on the phone. Face to face yeah. But with family commitments there isn’t much time to go out.

So you just be contempt by not having any friends and being busy with work and kids.

Trust me having kids is not all they make it. Insomnia leads to fatigue which leads to loneliness and depression. It hits eventually.
Pay is not the same for a variety of reasons. You have one employer, you have infinite potential friends. Pay concerns are also normalized to things like your job, your education, and experience.

If men have fewer friends then must be because they don’t know how to make new friends, they don’t put in the effort to make new friends, or they don’t have the time to make new friends.

While the latter may be a genuine concern, women are almost certainly likely to have less spare time due to the various societal requirements on them. So it’s probably a mix of the first two.
Poverty changes your brain to make you less intelligent, study suggests (2016)
does this device have nextcloud integration?
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I don't think there is a social taboo - I think it's more of a self-imposed taboo because we've been told forever that men and woman can't just be friends. I've found that if you are clear that you just want to be friends then there is no discomfort, and they will treat you nearly exactly the same as they treat there female friends. They will share their feelings, their concerns, their aspirations. That what needs to happen to be good friends. And you need to share also!

Oh, and be prepared for lots of these friends sending signals that they would like to be more than friends. How you handle that is obviously up to you.
Also this, Eat, Fast and Live Longer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19112549
It's still MySQL/InnoDB under the hood. I don't follow your point -- why does it matter whether an application is talking directly to MySQL, vs using an intermediate service with a non-SQL API? If the intermediate service supports long-running transactions, you'll hit the same underlying issue regardless...

If your point is that they also happened to move to a new access pattern that eliminated long-running transactions, and conflated that access pattern change with their migration off of pg, that's a fair criticism if true. Hopefully someone from Uber can clarify this aspect.

Also from what I recall (been a while since I read Uber's posts about this), Uber's specific MVCC issues related to pg's use of physical replication and locking impact on MVCC; and also separately its storage of old row versions "inline" vs InnoDB's use of a separate undo log. And on a different point, I remember some aspects of InnoDB's clustered index design being advantageous to Uber's workload as well. In total, this is why I suspect simple "long-running transactions" alone were not the primary/singular reason for the switch (at least if "long" means "minutes or hours" in order to negatively affect InnoDB).
Any plans to open source / open core this software? I've always been interested in forum software (my first real web project was a Reddit clone in Flask and the complexities and edgecases abound - moderation tools, rate limiting, scaling write-load, finding the minimum front-end that doesn't make users puke).
I second that and hope somebody from remarkable reads it. They could make this device great from being meh with a software update. I want to make notes on remarkable and easily edit them on android. Export SVGs not just low quality jpegs. Make integration with evernote and other note apps. Implement todoist API or let developers make their own simple apps. Provide written text OCR, it's usable at this point. There is much potential. I really enjoy writing and drawing on it, even though the plastic things that you write with need to be replace quite often when it's used for drawing. I can pay for the experience just make it worthwhile.

Also, why do you have to "turn the screen off" when I'm not using it. Just let the current note be displayed.
The usage doesn't seem very confusing to me. How are you going to understand and communicate with anyone if you don't know what they mean, refuse to understand, yet insist on something they didn't? And what's the upside to you beyond patting yourself on the back while missing the message?

I can say that it certainly doesn't elevate the discourse on this forum.
That doesn't sound like a very healthy outlook on life. Trading social belonging for productivity is a Faustian deal if I've ever seen one, and a deal likely to lead to burnout and depression.

If socializing leaves you ridden with guilt for lost productivity, I'd recommend a paradigm shift.
Has this been a problem in the past?

From your phrasing, it sounds like a pet peeve.
This is silly and naive. Tax benefits for families exist to help and encourage families. Society is better off when people can afford to raise a family. To twist it into an anti single man view is way off base.
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I'm not an expert, but a brief scan of secondary sources (Wikipedia and Our World In Data) show it going back to 1910 in the Americas at least:

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence

Edit: ah excuse me, I misread. I have seen a question about its recent reversal.
That’s only part of the picture: you also have to factor in ridership levels and infrastructure before you can accurately compare systems.

For example, Amtrak has constant scheduling issues because they don’t have priority over freight trains and many shared chokepoints which are very expensive to fix. If you’re comparing their performance to a system with dedicated right of way or priority scheduling, you need to include the costs spent building that infrastructure to avoid a completely misleading comparison.

Similarly, a system which has high ridership needs less subsidy since it has higher fare revenue for the same base operating costs (think about how those passenger miles change going from 60% occupancy to 80% when the operating cost of basically unchanged). Since the U.S. has massively subsidized car travel and often deliberately avoided rail improvements (think Chris Christie wasting a billion dollars to avoid expanding the congested NJ-NYC connection), there are many cases where American routes have the same operating costs but aren’t as competitive as the same route would be in Europe or Asia because we’ve chosen to subsidize road travel instead. Any meaningful discussion needs to at least acknowledge the difficulties of comparing numbers.
There's a whole body of evidence that periodic fasting and caloric restriction has tremendous benefits. Check out Valter Longo and his work at USC.
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Yes it is. Simplest way is to identify value creators in the org and be of use to them. They then will automatically rope you in.
Be patient and pay attention to peoples' needs. And then start doing simple, small things for them. Simple and small being key.
Yes. I am not sure exactly what proof you are expecting but that is all the proof that exists (for obvious reasons, surveys do not generally ask specifically...do you hate X group of people? In the UK, saying that you do has legal implications besides anything else).

It is equally true to say this of lone single female parents but that doesn't appear to have quite the same effect on tilting the Daily Mail crowd (because poor powerless women aren't seen as a threat whereas young single males are).
Uber maybe Charging more when the Phone battery is low?
That's deliberate... Those kind of "annoy the customer" limitations are all for PR/legal/business reasons, and the engineers building the features want to make the restrictions as easy to get around as possible.
What company? What was built? It's a money destruction machine, not a business. They have no plans or experiments or research moonshots that they expect to be profitable, ever.
Lol no it's not. Mean age when having one's first child is 29+ among EU women: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...

Also keep in mind that this age is inversely correlated with education level, so among the typical HN crowd and their social circles (among which I expect people often have a college degree or even a PhD) it's even higher.