skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Care to share which rules?

Could be considered as advertising, spruiking, or spamming.

There must be a reason you linked to a pastebin with a bit.ly link - that's pretty dodgy.

> I'm sharing facts about what really worked for me

Facts that cannot be verified.

> Are you calling me a liar?

It would not be the first time someone on the internet lied. Also nice try in dropping that red herring there.
These services does not require manipulating real money.
To run the service, it requires a device connected to the internet, that all.
You can find a lot of way to host it in a country that don't have these requirements, or to host it anonymously.
> Son is a powerful and connected political operator

Yeah no shit. Most money is built on satisfying egos than actual work. It's a house of cards which will face its greatest challenge with the climate crisis.
That would be my guess as well, at least for large N. It might still show interesting behaviour for smaller group sizes, for instance a group of 2 vs a group of 6, or when the probability of a single person helping is comparatively low to begin with (for instance, in a bad neighbourhood known for scams).

The effect is informative regarding what to do when you need someone's help, though. Since the basis of the effect is the diffusion of responsibility, it helps to address a person directly when asking for help. Instead of asking whether anyone in the group can help with something, point to a particular person and ask them whether they can help. In this way, the refusal to help becomes explicit and people will be less likely do that. This is something I've observed from personal experience too.
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There was a really good OkCupid blog post that analyzed their member profiles and found that men that were 5’10” and 5’11” would round up to 6’. It was a pretty significant portion of them, too.
Engage with your heart rather than your mind. When two people can understand eachother's needs, the appropriate course of action becomes obvious.

I think you are unlikely to get what you want if you are more concerned about changing someone's beliefs rather than simply convincing them to take some specific action which could help you with your need.
Excellent article.

One trick I think that was missed though? :

> eHarmony seems to do quite a bit better than Match, claiming in their ads to marry off 236 people a day

That doesn't mean those people marry people they meet through eHarmony, nor that they people used eHarmony at the time they found their maate etc?
A planet-mass black hole in our solar system would be in the top five most revolutionary discovery in physics of all time. It is hard to overstate how insane this would be.
A handful of anecdotes over two decades does not make for "consistent creepy and inappropriate behaviour".

I also think those deciding they didn't want anything to do with him are a tiny minority if you exclude those who have never met him (and even then, probably still a small minority).
Yes, but presumably it's paste Neptune. Even if it's between the mass of earth (9mm) and jupyter (3M) we aren't going to be able to notice a direct occultation.

However a lensing event seems possible, it greatly increases the effective radius of detection and is much more distinctive. Not sure what the smallest lensing event witnessed is, all the ones I'm aware of were a solar mass or more.
> everything near where it "touched down" would experience near zero-g as it approached[...] while the black hole was inside the earth, everything would be experiencing close to 2G, then zero G for a bit for the poor souls on the side of the earth where it exited.

All of these numbers are off by many orders of magnitude. You're fundamentally misunderstanding how gravity works.

If you were standing on the surface of the Earth and an Earth-mass black hole were magically stationary 1 km underneath your feet you wouldn't experience something close to 2G, you'd experience something closer to 40 million G.

Check out [1] for more details, and [2] for a calculator where you can play with the gravitational formula.

1. http://www.physbot.co.uk/gravity-fields-and-potentials.html

2. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=surface+gravity+calcul...
The OP was asking for dating app recommendations...I thought it was strange for someone to reply back with a positive review of a gay hookup app for men without knowing the gender or sexual orientation of the person asking for the recommendation when there are plenty of dating apps that cater to all people. shrug
Doctors should earn enough to pay the loan off
There’s a huge difference in flattering yourself and exaggerating to the point of misrepresentation.
What was the diameter of that first oil pipe? Drake clearly was repurposing a technology that already existed... what was the pipe's original purpose?
> immortal 9mm bullets of non-existence fired randomly in space at all directions until I remembered an earth-mass black hole, while about a centime wide

Now imagine what a strong force an electron could provide :D
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Any recommendations for forum software, preferably open source?

I'm aware of Discourse and Flarum, which use more modern designs:

https://www.discourse.org

https://flarum.org

phpBB and Simple Machines Forum both use classic designs similar to vBulletin:

https://www.phpbb.com

https://simplemachines.org

What's the best alternative to vBulletin?
Hahah. Someone's up past bedtime. Take a nap. You'll feel more optimistic. We will all still be here trying to save humanity when you've gotten the rest you need.
Then don't negotiate. If the kid doesn't want to eat breakfast, it will be waiting for them when they get home from school.
What Morse Code character is "dah dit dah dah dah"? It's not one I recognize.

Ah, this must be what you meant, yes?

—•—— • •••
Wouldn't we expect such a black hole to slingshot dust and other material to some non-negligible percentages of the speed of light? Wouldn't some of that eventually hit the earth's atmosphere? What would that look like? Tunguska?
That somehow reminded me of the "what if" article about stopping earth's rotation from one moment to another, except affecting the poles equally. It also has a taste of turning the landscape upside down, which sounds terrible.

An interesting part about it would likely be what would be left of earth, since I guess earth's core material would be rather eager to be swallowed by the PBH, and we rely on a couple of properties of the core for the electromagnetic field. I'd imagine this would never be the same planet afterwards, at least not with the same gravitational attraction... or even comparable properties within the next geologic timescale.
E-Mandate is not currently available on Stripe. This is something that we do offer.
> On email systems that allow for 'subaddressing' or 'detailed addressing' (e.g., "ken+sieve@example.org"),

This rfc merely acknowledges that some systems do this. It doesn't say the must or even should.
You might be interested in a talk I did on this last weekend: https://youtu.be/MOf7mDQ2xfU

TLDW:
- transclude WebVR worlds with URLs
- delegate authority recursively
- pay for things with e.g. Github Sponsors
- enforce licenses, allow remixing
- tech demo
Not currently. It is only INR based for now.
>ISIS and al-Qaeda were not involved in any of the maneuvering around Sana'a,

While true, in many countries a group like Al-Islah would probably be described in the Western media as "linked to ISIS" or something similar. They're part of the Muslim Brotherhood also regularly maligned in the West.
That also works for avoiding your ISP serving your DNS requests.
You can still have private groups. It’s nice to have “public” endpoints at least.
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I suspect if you look at the smallest object detected through occultation at the distance past Neptune and it's going to be measured in km not meters (or mm).
If you haven't seen the documentary on the oil industry "the prize" then it is a must watch. You can watch all of it on youtube. Here is the scene were they talk about drake's significance to the oil industry:

https://youtu.be/H2hSATHD634?t=409
And yet it's been pretty common for a long time and still is in a lot of cultures - mostly for traits like income/wealth and family though. Matchmaking and forced marriages are still very much a thing.
try this python when you are missing the 'ascii' command:
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> Differences among operating systems as identified by name and version are very important.

Version sometimes, names no. iPadOS=iOS 13 for iPad.

Or are you going to tell me that Windows 10 is much better than windows 8 because it is called windows 10 and not windows 9?
Today I learned that you can make native calls on Android. Isn't any SDK permission system moot if that is allowed?
they are misnomers, which is the crux of one of your actual criticisms as they are not yet currencies although their peer to peer payment feature does work very well if you want to use it right now, I was curious if we would find common ground so I’m glad we did

But regarding using them I am very content using minuscule amounts of them to store computations on other people’s computers

I really like the redundancy and so many witnesses, but thats just my use case.

I find the excess holdings and speculative use cases are wrong, for most people, but without their greed the database and computational log wouldn’t be viable
Guess what happened - I kept blocking every offender and suddenly Microsoft locked me out of my account for more than 2 weeks. My Outlook, my Xbox, my Office, and many other paid services - gone! Why? Because, according to them, I had hundreds of blocked people! Well, there's no way to report for spam or scam - you can either delete a chat (they can message you again) or block them. At least these are the options on desktop. Skype has my contacts synced - why I don't have an option to block any contact from a person who's not in my contacts?! Or at least put them in second queue like Facebook Messenger does? Or allow messages only from people with verified phone? Of course, Skype is guilty as they don't bother to solve this problem.
How do you suppose we would see it coming?
The sun emits earth sized mass all the time, I imagine the blackhole could get sway to different directions.
Astrology is utter nonsense and has no place on Hacker News. Flagged.
I myself had a similar issue. I managed to quit for two years and even though now I do watch once in a while, I think I do it in a much healthier frequency.

The suggestions I will give are partly based on experience (even though I had a slightly different situation). I also include some reasoning but it is not necessarily correct.

I assume the main problem is that you need "heavy" eye-candy to get turned on. In general your tolerance has build up and you need to lower it.

1. Focus on lighter forms. For example try to avoid watching videos at all, instead maybe try just reading sexually exciting stories that may or may not contain images at all. This will let your brain fill in the gaps and build the images. Then do what you have to do to get over that urge (i.e. masturbate). I believe this will lower your "turn-on" threshold.

2. Do what you have to do as soon as possible. When you need to masturbate just do it and get over with it. Don't spend 90% of your time trying to excite your brain with content. Try to use your imagination. If you have to get some content try to avoid videos and visual content. Once you are done you will not need the porn as your body did what it had to do.

I think the following two apply to addiction in general:

3. Avoid places that your brain has associated with your addiction (ex. If your addiction kicks-in when you are home alone after work, until your wife comes home, then try going for a coffee and come home later when your wife is home)

4. Avoid activities that your brain has associated with your addiction (ex. if the addiction kicks-in when you are on social media try staying away, if it kicks in when you are in the toilet, try to bring something that will distract your attention)

The next two suggestions depends on the situation

5. It may or may not be a good idea to discus this with your wife. I cannot advice on that but you could consider it. Maybe she is willing to help.

6. Maybe you can discus about spicing things up (whether or not you go into full detail on your "problem").

Some other points that I feel in my case played a role. (They might be completely irrelevant to you and they might even have been for me)

7. Try to stick to a healthy or at least healthy-ish diet (I avoided fast food and sugar products as much as possible). I believe a healthy diet will make it easier for you to get excited with less sexual content.

8. Exercise, this might even distract you from your "bad" habit as it will take some time out of your day for a very good cause of making you healthier in general.

9. Reduce sugar consumption. I think sugar excites the brain in a way that makes it harder to further excite or something (raises the "turn-on" threshold and giving it its dose, I don't know)

10. I don't know about this from experience but since the entire thing is about addiction and brain excitement I am sure staying away from drugs must be absolutely relevant.

I am not a marriage expert or have any kind of expertise on the matter so I am not giving any professional advice. This is just my personal experience and I will not take any responsibility, but you can probably use your judgment on that.
Turmeric from India is loaded with lead as well - including the Organic kind.
I was thinking of a Godwin equivalent for finance, which is narrower than capitalism as a whole.

What I had in mind is that once you take several rounds of investments (especially from private individuals) and are not profitable, bad faith critics may try to picture you as some kind of Ponzi scheme (trying to repay early investors with late ones, etc.)
Is it fair to call it a Nakamoto Scheme? "He" published a paper and wrote the earliest version of some software, wouldn't it be better to call it a Pincoin Scheme or similar?
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You got into this saying DNSSEC "essentially" does key escrow and you've now walked this back to a stipulation that the whole point of all PKI is a "backdoor".

But that goes from being a relevant point about Vixie (his support of a system with key escrow - a false claim) to the irrelevant and vague (trusted people might betray your trust) that I guess if I squint I could read as sort of vague anti-establishment sentiment and otherwise is just pointless.

Here's a much shorter way to write what you meant without needing to slip in a false claim about DNSSEC:

"Paul Vixie is a smart guy but he's wrong about this"
It's the American people that are paying for the shipping subsidies, too. It's about the same amount of middlemen either way.

So by itself that's a wash, no benefit nor loss.

But also people that could have bought a local product send their money out of the country, which means less money circulating in the economy.

And more labor is spent on shipping than necessary, which means less value per dollar spent.

Both of those hurt the American people.
You put cash in a bank.
I buy heaps of stuff with bitcoin. Not drugs or anything illegal, but computer equipment, membership fees, server hosting, domains and 2nd hand goods from friends.

And you can pay your taxes with crypto:
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/07/16/canadian-town-pay...

Nothing is going to replace fiat overnight, but crypto is far from "not a currency"
> And for sure, you can’t pay taxes with them.

This is a bad necessary condition for considering something a currency.

I definitely cannot pay my taxes in USD. Does that mean USD is not a currency?

Or did you mean that you have to be able to pay taxes with it somewhere? So, hypothetically, if someone founded a microstate which allowed paying taxes in Bitcoin, then it would become a currency? But that seems ridiculous given that it would have exactly zero impact on me unless I moved there so I don't think you meant that.

As a matter of fact, I often (read: most of the time) cannot buy things using USD in my country. Yet I am a holder of USD and spend it when buying things in my country quite often. How so? Well, I sell the USD in exchange for my country's currency at the point of sale, just like Bitcoin.
Note the Leigh M. Rotschild Intellectual Ventures link:

https://www.intellectualventures.com/buzz/insights/inventor-...

Birds of a feather.
I think the hope of OP was that the rates for shipments from China would go up and the rates for non-China shipments would do down because they wouldn't have to subsidize the China shipments any more.

I countered with the assumption that while the former will happen for sure, the latter won't, but instead the additional revenue coming from the increased shipping costs from China will subsidize higher bonuses for executives rather than be used to lower the costs for non-china packages.
This timeline is batshit insane enough without Satoshi Nakamoto turning out to be Linus Torvalds.
Indeed, it's complicated, because urea is toxic, so long term living on protein is not that amazing for your health, plus slipping into ketoacidosis is a small risk (high ketone and high blood sugar levels at the same time) if people are not strict about their diet (and we know strict dieting is hard anyway).

But the basic idea is simple and works.
Would have been nice if they checked not only low-carb, but also a "no-carb" diet a.k.a. keto diet.
In contrast to the US the EU does almost nothing to enforce their claimed authority.
You don't have to monitor constantly, just some time after you make a transaction. Long chain reversals grow exponentially unlikely the longer the chain gets.

In practice, this does not seem like a large problem.
> if you were the last person in earth to receive coins, would you still like them and endorse them?

If I was the last person on earth, I wouldn’t care for gold, precious metals diamonds, stock, bonds, cash and a whole lot of other assets (+ other last person on earth issues)
It's funny to watch how these completely illogical arguments gain momentum in crypto community, I start to be suspicious that someone is pushing them on purpose to hype the herd.

Gold has superior chemical and physical features, quantum computers are built from gold. One third of the demand comes from jewellery which helps inflate the price, but even without that you hold some of industrial value, just the price would be 1/3 less.

No, cryptocurrencies are not a "commodity," "digital gold," "store of value" and they aren't valuable because "hey, dollar has no value." This is all nonsense.

When you have a humanitarian catastrophe or a conflict first thing enemy does is cut out the energy. Bitcoins are useless.

Physical gold can allow you to travel out with your family. Oil will have value, antibiotics, food, guns, jewellery like Rolex will have some value.

These are commodities.

Yesterday I had to wait one day for my transaction because my gas fee wasn't high enough. Lost 10% too. I get cross-border payments that are instant and without a fee and volatility.

While I see many interesting and even exciting use-cases for cryptocurrencies and even more for blockchain I'm not too bullish on the 'asset' part.
As they are vary in different criteria, the best alternative is roll our own forum using CSS Grid.
> I’ve definitely walked out of a supermarket with a bottle of water that I picked up while shopping and forgot to pay for - I still stole it, even if unintentionally.

You only steal it if you realize it and don't return back to pay. Happened with me a few times, the cashiers will really appreciate it.
You can also open the dev console and click "Clear site data". It won't evade complex tracking/fingerprinting techniques, but I don't think paywall sites use those to enforce the paywall (yet...).
> But it's not known if that poses health risk

This is the big question. I think people around the world have been ingesting microplastic for 30 years or longer, yet there's no reported case of any direct toxic effects. So I guess microplastic doesn't have immediately effects on health, but I won't be surprised if future studies find longterm effects, such as increasing the risk of cancer, damage to the circulatory system or the brain.

Overall, I think we must take actions immediately for solutions, but I won't particularly worry about this problem and I'll continue buying bottled water. It's not unlike the air pollution in the 20th century, one has to live with it.

Nevertheless, "microplastic is going to kill all of us" surely is going to be the trope of the next decade.

See also:

* Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793888

* Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248471

* Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672514

* Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245133
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Another thread full of unsubstantial negativity and jokes. If I wanted to read comments like this I would go to reddit.
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First of all, you seem to be addressing bitcoin in isolation and not crypto in general. What forces do you think make Bitcoin worth more than ETH or more than Bitcoin Cash? Market forces. Supply and demand. Just like all commodities. These are invisible hand forces that no single person controls at this point. Even if there are varying levels of centralization in the chains themselves, the market decides whether to back ETH or ETC or some mix of both. So, like any decentralized system, the network is monitored in a decentralized manner. The chains themselves have solved for consensus problems. That's the whole thing keeping blockchains going. No, banks don't constantly monitor everything (although admittedly, it's more than ever thanks to technology). Large amounts of cash still flow around the globe. And whether your government is trustworthy depends largely on which of the 195 nations you live in.
The poster was replying to a comment discussing traceability by the FBI so he can hardly be blamed for the topic.
I have no reason to doubt that the CEO believes in free speech. Many people share this belief.

He did buckle, but we're only human. But did the pressure come from an angry mob on twitter, as most people assume, or from some guys wearing shades and an earpiece?
Easy way to monitor the uptime of your services like MongoDB, Cassandra
Haven't watched the keynote yet, is this a renaming or expansion of Facebook spaces (already a VR world where you connect with your friends) ? Or is it something new entirely? And do you need a fb account to go to Horizon?
> Donald Trump is not a good negotiator

Can you define what a good negotiator is? Who, in your estimation, qualifies as a good negotiator?

I think there are a ton of very negative, but true, statements you could make describing Donald Trump. It seems like he's not a strong reader, he's not very well educated, he's bad at reading a speech. He, unforgivably, seems to believe and actively promote crazy conspiracy theories, including that Obama was born in Kenya. Those are all clear, and I'm just sticking to personal attributes that would describe him without going into politics. The quotes you use to justify your comment all make very strong and from what I can tell accurate descriptions of Trump.

I think it's a stretch to try to say that someone who talked their way into winning a presidential primary and a national election is 'a bad negotiator'. It just doesn't scan.
I'll try to measure it, it's something like 58-59kg, after a long bike ride the sunday and 64-65kg after eating - I buy 10-12kg of fruits/legumes twice a week - so yes it's 80% water