skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very similar experience here, plus I find that Facebook is good at suggesting and planning events, seeing who's going. Pretty much the only useful function for me. I follow a bunch of music venues and galleries and occasionally invite FB friends to attend if there's anything interesting. Works just brilliant.

Twitter is more for following music makers, labels and things like Boiler Room. Just for a daily doze of music and music news. I guess that's another form of addiction though...

Everything else, I just don't understand what people are complaining about and why it would require such an effort to quit. Don't like what you see, or don't find it useful? Just unfollow!
This is very important. I have had the most success when the other person feels in control at all times. Think approaching a wild horse, not saving a baby from a burning building.

Unfortunately, it is also counter to intuition for many, who just want to help and tend to swarm around the problem.
Dave Chappelle in Conversation with Maya Angelou (2006)
Sure, But people have a right to not unexpectedly live next to a highway as well. There's a balance here that needs to be struck and that balance is not doing whatever you like with disregard of if that bothers anyone else.
We have a bunch of Mac build servers here. They are also called trashcans by everyone that works with them.
What would you say is a pedagogically better way to help people consciously compensating for that part of your brain, and especially what's the best way to make someone aware of it without shaming them?
Vietnam was backed by China and the USSR, the Taliban by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Their most effective weapons tended strongly toward IEDs and RPGs rather than longarms.
Guess I'm also in this boat. Facebook is my main way of keeping track of gigs in and around town.
I kept Instagram to follow just some athletes I like, but I am increasingly thinking about killing Twitter too. I follow a very small group of people, mostly C# developers, but keeping a restricted pool of people alone does not warrant immunity from the incessant political battage of somebody's agenda, fough retweet after retweet, of which I want none.

I do really think Twitter is the most stressful of all. Nowadays there's no longer a sane discussion without this or that party injecting politics into even the most meaningless of debates.
I doubt that there are so many "older drivers" with comparable levels of experience to "younger drivers" that such an evaluation of risk could be beyond doubt. Are you sure such data exists?
I have a friend who did that for a few months and it took her iirc 2 years to get over the gum fixation.. even without nicotine, she always had to have some gum for cravings

I think she was chewing the nicotine gum a few times a day, but I'd still be careful about it.. iirc the reason she did it was she wanted gum and the only gum her parents had regularly was nicotine gum and she was like 14 at the time
Sorry, this is bullshit. Even the UN estimates slowing growth for the next 80 years, but not a "collapse" or anything near that. And historically growth projections have been to low, so there is a fair chance the world population will continue to grow substantially for the next 100 years.
I don't think that is all that relevant in this context (see Israel).
Easy - virtualenvwrapper!

All the talk about anaconda etc is for mad data scientists, not us normal folk ;)
Looks like it has less exposed moving parts that a classic bike. Could be easier to maintain / clean / lube.
A white collar job can become a mental torture chamber if you are surrounded by bad people. There is an abundance of exploitation, bullying, futility, and lack of fulfillment in current tech culture and very little support structure.

Mental welfare is very different from survival.
Interesting take...

> Leaving Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and other networks gave me automatic anxiety relief. I no longer care what anyone close to me thinks and I don't get into discussions with close relatives.

Do you still value face to face discussions/interactions with friends/close relatives? I think the medium (limited means of expression) and the disconnected nature can impact discussions negatively.

> My life as a conservative is much better without social networks where they censor me non-stop, just Twitter and being very careful with what I write and how I write it I can more or less start conversations. Sooner or later I will leave Twitter too, it is a matter of finding another social network, free and open and nurtured by people.

Mmm...is it just conservative leaning posts that are shot down? The other camp might possibly say the same thing. Although from I'm inclined to agree with you. The problem I see with this approach is that we begin to censor ourselves to ensure we don't say anything that might accept anybody. Given the range of people one finds on social media and the modern sensitivities it seems to be very difficult to say anything of note without someone getting upset. Back to your point...should we not welcome people challenging our ideas? Do all interactions have to be nurturing? Could there be some value in locking horns (figuratively) with people who hold different views?
HN does not maintain a social graph and push notifications to you.

I'd say that's what makes a site 'social media.'
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The assumption that those who care about treating others decently can not at the same time be good technologists speaks volumes.
Well, you start by saying you hear him and see his pain, that that is an utterly awful thing to happen to anybody, and that while you can't imagine what he's going through, it is completely understandable that he would be feeling so desperate in such circumstances. Acknowledgement is important. After that... that's the tricky bit. _Maybe_, you might say that while it feels right now like there's no hope, that that won't last forever. _Maybe_ you might suggest that his son wouldn't have wanted him to do this. But anything that sniffs of manipulation is dangerous ground, I think. The first part though, the acknowledgement, that's step one in speaking with anyone in emotional distress.
Literally everyone in television and film production calls them trashcans. I've seen them called that in contracts even.
That's a very good and interesting example, thank you.
I’ve always found these articles fascinating on HN, because while anecdotal, hacker news is easily the social media that has wasted the most of my time and been the source of the most stress and anxiety (aren’t you using this new tech yet?).

The privacy issue doesn’t exist here, at least not unless you decide to share, but if you do, you actually won’t be able to delete your posts unless you contact the admins.

Facebook actually adds a lot more value to my life than HN does because Facebook is the place one of my friend groups arrange our 4-6 yearly weekend retreats. This is the only thing I use Facebook for though, I don’t have any of their apps and I only log on a couple of times a month. Don’t get me wrong, I wish we could do it on some other medium exactly because of facebooks evil history, but unfortunately Facebook is the only place everyone is.

I used to use Facebook differently, I used to follow things and interests, but one I removed all my likes and follows it became a pretty harmless address book that sells my information to advertising. Hacker news on the other hand is where I waste the most of my online time, and mostly it’s on feeling inferior because I’m not learning X and Y or starting some side project company. This is anecdotal like I said, but I don’t think HN is any better than FB from a purely psychological point of view. Facebook is obviously still more evil due to the privacy issues, but this article is about the cigarette side of social media.
Man, many thanks!
The bigger the venv gets, the more likely you are to get version clashes - unless all your projects can use the same version of each dependency. Even then, it will tend to grow without bound.
Congradulations, man. That's really hard and I'm glad you feel that it had made a difference in you life. I've helped a few people get on the path to stop smoking. It's hard. Most people I helped struggled massively. It's a big accomplishment. Hats off to you! Enjoy your newfound freedom. :)
All sensible senior academics keep their doors open. It is one way to avoid exactly these sorts of accusations!
Docker, your dockerfile has all you need and very specific version... why would you waste time on other stuff?
> As part of its commitment to US economic growth

This reads as a US government threat to a private company, followed by a compromise.

1. How much pressure did the US government put on Apple in order to for them to release such a propaganda piece?

2. And we're somehow pointing the finger at China?

3. Finally what does $AAPL have to do with macro indicators such as US economic growth?
Actually that’s exactly how I interpret the ads. How else is there?
Reminds me of non-violent communication - https://www.cnvc.org/

Do you folks have book recommendations that have tips along these lines? I find these useful while driving hard conversations too (Example: Letting someone go from the team).
I'm not highly convinced here. While I only fast-read the paper you linked and checked out few references, I found cases of the usual (unintentional or not) confusion between nicotine and tobacco, or where the study population was that of smokers.

It's not controversial to say smoking is bad for you. But that's always been not because of nicotine, but all the other substances you inhale when smoking, some of which are known to interact with nicotine. What's controversial is whether nicotine itself is bad for you, in isolation, and it's of interest to people taking it in the form of chewing gums, or more recently, vaping.

Here's Gwern with a bunch of papers arguing that nicotine isn't more addictive than coffee and doesn't cause cancer, and the whole thing is just confusion: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#addictiveness.
From the millions of dollars pumped into money laundering, tax avoidance, and forgery that seems to perpetuate high price art sales - it find it hard to see any benefit to the industry and practice of private ownership of such pieces.
I switched to tmux because of this bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26723
Huh, which apparently got fixed about three years ago, after being open for seven years.
The labor just needs to be used correctly, and consumption needs to be reduced and changed.

IMHO the opposite is happening. Former developing countries are raising their living standards dramatically, which inevitably results in a larger economic footprint per capita. Also, migration to developed countries usually increases the living standard of the migrants, but this also increases their economic footprint. I just do not see where consumption is being reduced.
Absolutely. And I consider it a general principle, not limited to homosexuality at all: in preindividualistic times (pretty much coincides with preindustrial), if you were in any way unfit for the path laid out for you by birth, the monastery might be an option. Simple rules and low expectations (industrial armies often fill a similar role during peacetime). Getting into good terms with your imaginary friend would be mostly a rationalisation/excuse for bailing out.
The pragmatic choice for a government is to pay someone to map the roads, and require the output to be open data. That open data benefits citizens is pretty much a given at this point.

If the government then wants to work with commercial vendors of maps to integrate that data, then that is fine too. They can use the open data set just like anyone else, or the government could pay them to integrate that data if there is no intrinsic commercial interest in doing so.
"I don't think adults should allow themselves to be shamed by children into making decisions"

She might be right but I am older so it doesn't matter. /s

The truth is that you don't need any exemplary understanding or expertise to understand that if 99% of the scientific population in the whole world are screaming about climate change, backed by literally decades of research, you might just accept that, instead of living in your barricaded fragile ego because children are smarter than you.

Also, support from people with deep pockets? All institutions with deep pockets lose money by reducing their emissions. That is the most illogical backwards conspiracy i've ever heard.
I think the OP may be talking about MSME industries which employ and subcontract to people who rely on cash.

The other point is you may have traceable capital, the other party may deal in cash out of necessity. Think maids, laborers, companies employing them, small time traders/contractors, transport. Sucking out cash disabled a whole bunch of them.

Underneath, the formal economy is supported by the informal (read cash transactions) economy most of whom don't earn enough to be taxed. This was the doublespeak they got away with.
This is what I meant yes. I'm not a native English speaker, so I might've screwed that one up.
In the state of Assam if you are unable to produce documents proving that your grandfather was an Indian citizen you can be stripped of citizenship and sent to a detention camp. There is talk of extending this to all of india.
The Zero Suicide Alliance have some very short training that they think is useful: https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/training/

My advice would be to say hello, ask what's going on for the person, do not approach until they give you permission, do not dismiss what they're saying but hold hope, tell them that while you don't know them that you care about them and don't want them to die.

Don't for fuck's sake try to make a joke about it. This is one of the worst days of that person's life. They're on that bridge, on that train platform, because they intend to end their life. At that point in time this is the only way out they can see. It's not absurd to them.
Javscript is horrible. Replacing server side processing by client side processing is the last thing to do security-wise, and planet-wise.
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If it's bad for everyone, then let's not do it. The current situation is equitable. I will not have government place one man above another any more than it already does.

I'm more comfortable with solutions that are even. If you want to install metering lights so be it. All will be equal under the law.
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Maybe it was just the fact he wanted to talk to a female and not a male if he was a male himself?
Perhaps it made it less threatening, like when two strange dogs meet, if they are the same sex they will usually bark at each other, but if they are of opposite sex the tolerate each other better?
is tmux now running good in Windows10 WSL2 ? thanks
They threw the kitchen sink at the problem but just ended up buying cheese graters!
In my experience with addiction (drugs), there's always an underlying cause. The problem is, there are lots and lots of people with unaddressed issues that aren't seeking or can't obtain the proper solution/advice/help/whatever and end up self-medicating with drugs, video games, social media, etc.
I agree that there is little gain in hiding DNS traffic from your ISP. And like you I'm wondering what the benefit of spreading around one's DNS profile should be. I think it's better to just pick the DNS provider one distrusts the least.

But once you use DoH using a private DNS proxy does in fact provide (some) protection because it detaches one's client address from the requests. Breaking this requires timing correlation or individual domain names for tracking.
Comments like yours have nothing to do on HN
Detention camps:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/assam-detention-centre-insid...

http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2019/sep/2...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/assam-seeks-10-mor...

>>What experiments? A citizenship register?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

Also look up to this thing called 'The Holocaust'. All the best.
"First, I could receive payment for a Treasury, and buy some other investment with it."

You could. But that is just an asset swap. The person who gets your cash is then faced with the same choice you were - spend it (which will result in taxation) or save the money (which ends up with a bond purchase).

Always remember that money doesn't stop at the first use.
A few of the Twitter replies say they've seen it on non-AVID devices, which might lend more credence to the iLok theory.

https://twitter.com/FamousJerry/status/1176422298535940097

I'm kinda hoping iLok is the culprit, because I've been refusing to buy any plugins that require iLok, even though that means avoiding some effects I'd really love to have & developers that I'd love to support. Thankfully iLok is optional for the iZotope stuff...
> there is a huge variance in children

This was a surprise to me too, to the extent that I started wondering where I got the notion that all infants should be that same right out of the womb.

Not sure if I got the answer, but one reason might be found in our historical heritage, i.e. the influence of the enlightenment and the furious fight that was fought out between those who believed heredity was everything (ultimately supporting the Kings right to rule) and democrats to whom heredity in such matters was so abhorrent that they tried to wipe out such "a priori" nature from reality using a "tabula rasa"[0] view of humans, a view that prevailed but is ultimately false as parents of several children are left to discover to their surprise.

A case of conceptual overreach it seems, since accepting hereditary or other a priori traits in humans surely don't mean we can't have democracy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
India just like any developing country needs outside funds to run projects. Not easy, but that is just the way it is.
> never wanted to kill themselves in the first place, in my opinion

This is a dangerous myth and it kills people. https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/support-and-infor...
This phrase "Religious orders in Germany are disappearing because so few people want to dedicate their entire lives to God anymore." is not accurate at all. We have a lot of people wanting to dedicate their entire lives to God, but eventually not for the Catholic Church. It's 2019, 6% of the German population is Muslim, Spiegel!
What about keeping in touch with your loved ones via carrier pigeon in the 19th century?
>losing attitude
Good ways to talk.
> Generators don't mirror the hardware.

You mean like this?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct generator_state {
int next_value;
int limit;
};

struct generator_state *enum_from_to(int from, int to) {
struct generator_state *generator = malloc(sizeof *generator);
generator->next_value = from;
generator->limit = to;
return generator;
}

int has_next(struct generator_state *state) {
return state->next_value <= state->limit;
}

int next(struct generator_state *state) {
return state->next_value++;
}

int main(void) {
printf("try to enumerate from 1 to 10\n");
struct generator_state *generator = enum_from_to(1, 10);
while (has_next(generator)) {
printf("%d\n", next(generator));
}
return 0;
}

Oh no! Imperative programming doesn't mirror the hardware!

> Lazy evaluation is a convenience that is dangerous to think of as free

So your problem isn't really FP, it's Haskell?

> as is recursion

It's dangerous to think of any computation as free, so... OK.

> Code-as-data limits the kind of addressing that can be used in the chip itself.

I don't know what you mean here, but "code as data" isn't a universal feature of FP languages. Even in Lisp it's essentially a compile-time abstraction for macro expansion, you don't massage your function definitions at runtime. And once your code is compiled to machine code, what exactly is the problem with using all of the chip's addressing modes?

Maybe by "code as data" you mean "first-class functions", i.e., that you can have pointers to code that you can store in data structures? I'll spare you the C example of function pointers because we've established above that C is a terrible language that doesn't map nicely to the hardware ;-) Maybe it's Pascal you want!
> It wasn't just this incident. RMS alienated so many women from open source and free software over the last 30 years, and we've lost all of those potential contributions.

[citation needed]
Does anyone have a good setup for debugging? There is voltron, but without tmux it won't work well, and I'd love to see a good layout that I could easily use.
It's as in "biggest patreon donor".
The village I live in has a "Kloster", with nuns making up about 15% of our population. The article is accurate in that the number of practicing nuns is sinking and certainly not sustainable.

Here they have diversified in a number of directions. There is a school, an old folks home, and a hotel. The picturesque location, combined with the historic buildings makes all these quite competitive, and successful. I'd go so far as to say the church here is thriving despite the declining popularity of dedicating your life to it.
My favorite blankets ends are the one which ends up as a 30cm funnel you can tuck under the mattress.
Only anecdotal but my impression is that since 1989 Romania has also been building new churches like there's no tomorrow.
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Sorry for the tangent, but why did you use the phrase "Needless to say" there? I don't see how I could have inferred "reasonable passing rate" from the rest of your post.
I still have to testimony an useful contribution (or proof of donation) from those attacking open source projects for not using gender neutral pronouns.

I'm not young anymore, in my 40s, but I have hope that in the next 40 years some of them will stop being a dick and do actual work.

It's never too late to change.
The dollar economy is a closed system. Dollars cannot be converted. They are always exchanged. So where do they go and what do people do with them? A paper dollar is just a receipt for a liability entry in the US treasury - wherever you are in the world.

For interest rates to go up, bond prices have to go down. If the Fed just buys up bonds that drop below par with new dollars, how can interest rates go up?
That must really be annoying someone over at apple. Spend all that time design something beautiful. And... Everyone calls it garbage
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Could the improvements in Business and First Class travel, combined with the increased use of private jets (also NetJets) have contributed to the downfall of the Concorde?

The more comfortable you are in the flight, the less the actual number of hours flown bothers you.
iLok doesn't require the hardware dongle anymore, licenses can be installed onto the hard drive now. Some people prefer the dongle because they can carry their licenses from machine to machine, studio to studio etc.

But as a user, I still much prefer the old-school serial number unlock without internet activation, though.
> How do the police, the military split?

This is exactly the question that makes civilian arms stockpiles utterly irrelevant.

If anything, a well-ish-equipped rebellion would make it easier for the government to avoid that split: "kill them or they will kill you" is the oldest trick in the book for keeping an army fighting on your side.
I tend to agree with you that Israel, as a country of its size and kind of neighbors its surrounded with, is not placed very pleasantly. But it is a country far more homogeneous than India in all the respects that make a nation ( religious, social, demographically and economy wise ).

As GP pointed out that India has the potential to self-implode given the inequality and poverty that has been bred for a long time ( hundreds of years ) by various rulers of the land.

The self destruction reaction might just fasten up if a catalyst is provided by anyone of the hostile neighbors.