skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused, they are angry what the American government has done to them.

What were they supposed to do. Canada will not let them reenter, they had been denied entry to the US so it is not like they were going to just release them to run around the US after illegally entering, and the UK is being slow about the deportation. The family is still together and they didn't remove the child. Were they supposed to be put in a 5 star hotel?

People complain about the condition when they illegally cross into the US (I am from southern Texas and have a lot of exposure to this), but just image the conditions if you got caught illegally crossing into say Russia, or China, or Iran.
Missing context from this article is that there was a whole trolley network which ran from lower Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge to what is today's Cadman Plaza park. The Myrtle el connected to this (I think the lines ran out along Myrtle and Fulton). Robert Moses "beautified" downtown Brooklyn by leveling much of the neighborhood at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge, including the trolley network. Devoid of the terminal, there was little value to the Myrtle Ave el. And the infrastructure was built to support trolleys, not the subway cars used throughout the rest of the system, so they would have had to rebuild much of the tracks to integrate into the existing network.
Your statement that this is demonstrably false is demonstrably false. The current president has done wonders for the 0.1% - just as he was supposed to.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2019/10/10/trum...

The fact that he provided a better ROI than average than his competitor is tangential - because the fact that fundraising is a key concern at all proves the point.

In a genuine democracy elections would be fought on issues and demonstrated competence, not campaign income.
> "But why?"

Perfectly valid question. One thing that is true is that it is extremely easy to prepare for many people. When I was a child in the 90ies, we often ate Toast Hawaii at my grandparents at birthday parties. Just open a pack of toast, a can of pineapple, a pack of ham and a pack of cheese, place it on top of each other, put it in the oven, done.

> "was that really a treat?"

As a child, I never liked it, and even the generation of my parents did not really enjoy it and preferred a more sane toast topping. But the postwar generation swore on it. Keep in mind that the country was basically in ruins after WW2. That you were able to afford (or even get) canned pineapples in the 50ies again was kind of a sensation, so I guess they still ate it in the 90ies out of nostalgia.
I'm not ready for a fifteen million merits type world.
After a decade of solitude, they helped me realize that I was living in a machine world. It showed me how to love myself, other people and nature again. Yes, it was like magic, a true perspective change, a reintroduction to the human world.

It showed me what supreme contentedness and connectedness is after this long time of seeing the world purely in differences - within myself, without myself and in the relationships between me and my environment. Unity.

Understanding what love is. Why people go to parks. How they can enjoy life. Why they bond. The beauty of life and subjectivity.

When you are in a state of happiness, everything in the past and present seems meaningful and positive in some way, because all of it brought you to this state of being. Even if it was terrible. Even if you didn't dare to consider it. In this state, you can contemplate these things because you are overloaded with serotonin.

I advise everyone to use a tripsitter when they experience this, especially for the first time. Respect the drug and it will respect you.

If you don't know anyone and think you are alone, do not be afraid, there are people who will do that for you

:)
Requiring that people buy a "porn pass" (a nice way of saying license) in order to view porn is moronic. I also have reservations on how peoples information is collected and stored when they buy said porn pass which could have far reaching negative consequences.
I will have to read that. The summary on Wikipedia makes me think the author read my mind.
Well I also did not say it's permanent. Messing up can be temporal but it also builds up and becomes harder to get off. Temporal should not be taken lightly.
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> Soli is aware of your presence.

I can't wait until I get my official Google-Amazon Big Brother living room portrait with built-in Soli and Alexa
> (...) puts open source projects in a difficult position, and appears to be overly hostile towards funding open source development.

This is the problem of developing free software on a non-free platform. They have absolute control of your work under their own terms, no matter how ridiculous they are. I never understood why the google play store is a socially acceptable idea for free software developers.
This is a overly simplistic and (sorry) borderline childish point of view.

The truth is that political ideology does not fit neatly on a continuous line from "liberal" to "conservative" and that party lines have been drawn in such a way that the original semantics of the labels no longer apply to a large set of preferred policies on either side.

Some kind of multi-axial graph or multi-dimensional matrix would be more useful. Social & Fiscal are two useful axes, and the bare minimum of what you need in order to sensibly represent modern day politics. It might actually be an interesting thought experiment to explore what other axes are most useful.
Also, for a married couple raising a family, it's hard to beat a job that, by definition, coincides with the kids' schedule. If one spouse has a decent full-time job, the additional income from teaching is almost incidental compared to the flexibility of working the same hours and location as the kids.
18% of new york schools have a start time later than 8.30 a huge number have between 8 and 8.30, SA starts at 7:45 yet dominates the best performing elementary school.

If you can't see the relevance then perhaps my boys should teach you about statistical significance you are clearly confusing it with arrogance.

We are talking about 2400 elementary schools and SA being in the top 30 dominating almost every position there.
Banks, heavy industry, big pharma are literally buying candidates for the government. Yet russia using trolls and leaking some emails is the biggest problem with elections... sounds like correct priorities.
Even XY chromosomes aren't invariably male (they aren't even “invariably male or infertile female”, as was believed until fairly recently.)
> The world is very large, and cities are a very small portion of it. The land we set aside for animals should be outside of cities, where far more land is available at far less impact to people.

Absurd. Just because a city happens to be there doesn't mean we should destroy the surrounding environment with impunity.

Want to increase available housing in the bay? Get rid of NIMBY zoning that prevents building up.
Google is going hard on (better said against) privacy,security, and expanding their data mining capabilities by forcing people to join their ecosystem.

"Coincidentally" they removed ublock origin(best and only transparent ad-blocker out there), this app(personally i haven't heard or used but i understand the usefulness of it) and this while they've been keen on dictating what "the web" should look and feel like through chrome.(Removing actual useful features,etc)

It's just disgusting, and yes, they're suppressing actual FOSS and open communities(F-Droid,etc) in computing not because they generally care about your security, but because forcing you to join their ecosystem means more data and inherently money.
For many, privacy concerns are more important than cool tech, and this is not a Show HN.
Listened to a podcast about Humboldt a few weeks ago:
https://www.omnibusproject.com/podcasts/alexander-von-humbol...
"would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?"

Is this not indirectly saying: "Stop eating my (or other people's) food"?

This can certainly be construed as passive aggressive.

Edit: To add, I would prefer the direct approach. I hate the word dancing that goes on with trying to soften the tone. It comes off as patronizing to me.
What's wrong with saying "hey dude, no need to get angry, let's figure out how to get you better requirements. how about we try xyz and you come back to us in 2 weeks and tell us if we're doing better"?

If he apologized to everyone but you, maybe say "I heard you apologized to some people about last week's tension, I just wanted to let you know that we're all on the same team and there's no hard feelings, your concerns are valid and we'll work on them together".

Your reaction shouldn't be fear and extra stress. It should be about how you can help your fellow workers through the day and help everyone meet their goals. The whole idea that you'd have fear as a response to a co-worker is crazy to me.

If you can't have that type of conversation with your co-workers and get good results, it's probably not because you employed the wrong conversation tactic. It's probably actually because they don't trust you, which would make sense if you've been forcing them through a conversation algorithm instead of treating them like humans.
That attitude drives me crazy. Each new high rise built in San Francisco prevents a few several blocks of nature being paved over for suburbs somewhere else.

I had this debate with an environmentalist who supported urban farming. Sure, urban farming is cool and a nice hobby, but it would be far more environmentally friendly to build a high rise. New high rises drive down the costs of urban living, more people move to the city, and whole tracts of nature are saved from destruction.
> "Just let the in-app purchase unlock some cosmetics in the app like games do."

Doesn't Google take a whopping 30% cut of the purchase price for both in-app purchases or direct purchase of the app itself? That's a pretty big bite out of the donation.
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I like to say this and HN never takes it too kindly, but it seems like corruption is the problem in the US, not unions. Many people just like to “blame the union” and leave it at that, without actually asking the logical follow-up question: “What is it exactly that the unions are supposedly doing, and can it be stopped?”
The culmination of many experiences with mushrooms over the last several years has caused me to become completely sober from marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, and soon I will likely go vegetarian.

It seems to help with my psychological and spiritual development and make me more conscious, more purpose driven in life, and more aware of the shadow/devil side of my selfish personality.

I've also had a few enlightenment experiences that vastly deepened my understanding of what reality is and why we're here.

If anyone's curious; Elon Musk was right when he said:

"Love is the answer."
It'll end up in street billboards and beacons in stores too, surely. Walk past, glance at an ad, it'll hoover up your cellphone MAC...
But, where would the homeless camp?

All joking aside, if its not a toll road is not getting built in Austin. I'd love to Dig & Cap I-35 all the way to airport blvd.
Cognitive Therapy has it's limits. It generally seem to help a bit and is relatively straight forward as therapies go.
As you optimize a process to get 100% resource utilization, response time for any change gets closer and closer to infinity. You need some slack for things to work, and the more things change, the more slack it requires.

And that's not even considering how humans are physically unable to work 8 hours day in and day out.
Convenient form factor to get it into the hands of techie tinkerers.

Sell it standalone, and people have to really want to play with it.

Sell it in an already-portable form-factor that is also a phone, and the activation energy to try it is lower; if it doesn't work, at least you have a working top-model phone.
Oh man... I actually saw Scott Heiferman speak at a Community 2.0 event yesterday and he seemed heartbroken about everything that's happening.

We made a pretty simple mobile app for social events called gathr (App Store and Play Store). Feel free to try it and see if it's what you're looking for. Ping me here: hojung@gathraround.com or request a Circle in app if you think it'll be useful.

www gathraround.com
That just limits how many people can get on in a given distance. If the transit is useful enough people will walk. There are farms in Europe with better bus service than Suburbs in the US, even though farms are much less dense.

You won't be running a bus every 5 minutes through the suburbs, but you can support one 30 minutes, which is the minimum frequency to be useful, and allows 1/6th the destiny to have the same riders.

There are areas of the US nearly as dense as Paris, but because the geometry is so transit hostile there will never be transit despite the density seeming to support it. Los Vagas for example has inward facing apartments that make getting to any through street from the door hard.
If anyone is interested its episode 163:
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2019/10/08/yanss-163-why-pursui...
For the same pay, would you rather have one person get a lot done in 6 hours or another person get little done in 9 hours? If an employee was underperforming for 10 hours a day, would your friend keep them on? Truthfully, the only things that matter from the company's perspective are the output and the price. It's wrong to misrepresent your hours worked, just as it's wrong to lie about the color of your pants, but a rational company wouldn't ask about either.
Completely agree. I do not want to restrict any users.

Annoying how hard it is to be independent of FAANG control.
And so... What ? They removed some of my apps to for this reason.
I feel this is a very important point. Legality appears to have little effect on usage. All we really do is apply another label to a user/abuser; that of a "criminal".
Fair question.

Mainly the possible implementations and the thus following implications.

It enrages me how technically illiterate (insult of your choosing) conjure up these idiotic ideas and hordes of (more insults) companies jump on that bandwagon. All in the name of “save the children”. When we all know that that’s a very poor excuse but an excellent gateway for further regulation, since few people will publicly stand against it for obvious reasons.

I also faintly remember them banning various genres like bdsm and squirting. The latter because it might be simulated by pissing. I’m in to neither but it’s nobody’s business, as long as it’s consenting.

Whether or not to age-restrict porn I don’t know. I’m the wrong person to ask.
HN is also fiercely pro privacy. I'd say that in such cases, privacy wins out over the coolness of the technology.

Personally, I find this a little too creepy for too little convenience. What can waving to the phone solve what I haven't been able to accomplish with my fingers?
> You do need to take fill into account to build in an earthquake-safe way, but modern engineering is well up to the task.

That's pretty hand-wavy. I'm sure the guys in 1970 said the same argument. The word modern has been around for thousands of years.
Why do you think the CIA kept Operation Ajax a secret from the American public until 1992?
Based on the yahoo post Groups is not going away, they are just disabling all the features except the ability to be a web only no email private group forum. Previously you could upload files to common areas, have polls, subscribe by email. The groups will still be there, but will be much less useful for many people. However the functionality will be similar to say here, people can create accounts and post messages.

Disabling links is unclear. Each Groups I think can have a list of links to things, but maybe they are saying they intend to filter all posts to remove any url references?
> Motion Sense will evolve as well. Motion Sense will be available in select countries².

What this has to do with the country?!
The video he did for Bon Appetit is masterful: https://youtu.be/U4dyWZZVeWI
Why are you planning to go back to pipe smoking?
> Anna recalls the change. “When we were in the tenements, you’d shout up to the window: ‘Mammy, I want a piece of jam!’ Before you knew it there was a dozen of them being thrown out of the window.” In the tower block, she did not let her own children play unsupervised. Neighbours only spoke if they took the same lift. Her daughter was threatened with a bread knife.

Interesting that this anecdote is the same theme as the children's song we learned at school "You cannae through pieces oot a twenty story flat"
I'd love to see PC devkits for this device. Something as simple as a USB 3 device you plug in and place under your monitor. Perhaps it will make its first "PC" appearance in a Google Chromebook?

I can see a lot of eccentric users figuring out interesting ways of integrate many of these gestures into their workflow. Perhaps for navigating in 3d space or switching between workspaces?

[edit] There used to be a developers page which showcased that devkits exists. http://web.archive.org/web/20181110202503/http://atap.google... Showcase video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H41A_IWZwZI
> Unfortunately “Work hard to succeed” is the message the world took away from it.

Is this unfortunate? Yeah, there are lots of random factors that might affect your outcome. The only one you can reliably influence is how hard you work. While you're lamenting about how you weren't born in the right time or the right place or so and so had the lucky opportunity to get a break and the right time, your competitors are working.
While the title inspires confidence ...

> The culture secretary, Nicky Morgan, told parliament the policy would be abandoned. Instead, the government would instead focus on measures to protect children in the much broader online harms white paper. This is expected to introduce a new internet regulator, which will impose a duty of care on all websites and social media outlets – not just pornography sites.

Which links to: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-whi...

.. which is almost a satire of every “think of the children” and “beware of terrorists” manifesto ever written. It’s a long document but I couldn’t find a single mention of the balance between safety and governmental overreach.. I would be surprised if e2e encryption were compatible with this white paper.
I'm sure the answer is no but can I buy just the chip?
Cobalt is produced in the dirt. Cobalt is used by animals to produce B12.

Pasture-raised meat ideally gets its cobalt from the ground, but most of the time there is a lack of cobalt so the animals need supplementation themselves. Factory-farmed animals, however, are always directly supplemented. Ironic, isn't it?

Personally, I have no choice but to supplement my B12s, as meat causes my body to produce kidney stones.
Is there the equivalent of “pre-martial counseling” for a potential cofounder?
I've watched what I could find on YC's take on this - I have a potential cofounder who :

- Has deep domain experience
- Balances the startup's roles: He sales/marketing/networking vs me as technical/designer
- Both share same profession & passion to solving this problem.

I'm fine with giving equal or near-equal equity (though I'm still looking at the 1 year cliff/4 year vesting concepts).

Mainly, what I have is a fear of commitment. I've been working on this solo for so long and that has been a mistake of mine. However, I can't make one mistake push me into making another and choose a bad co-founder.

Are there any other resources you recommend me check out? Risk redundancy and share with me something that might have slipped through the cracks.
Not likely at all. The Iranian defence structure is highly decentralized.
No accusation taken.

Well, I'm not sure if my sleep is normal. That's for sure.

Other than Sleep Apnea, which has been treated to a large extent; I feel dramatically more rested after I began using a CPAP (best evidence) and my CPAP reads 0-2 awakenings per night (assuming it's accurate but not verified); although I'm not sure if it's been treated fully because I still need a lot more sleep than other people.

Other than Sleep Apnea, I have no health issues or problems and am very high functioning physically and mentally. I eat a healthy diet and regularly exercise.

So by those measures I think I'm healthy. But I am still in my early thirties.
Sounds a lot like what happened to the Free Territory / Mahknovia in Ukraine in the early 20th Century.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
Gender (ascribed or identity) is a social (ascribed) or subjective psychological (identity) construct, and biological sex is a matter of arbitrary line drawing across a field with multiple axes of variation. The number of any of the three that exist, or should be recognized as existing is not the same type of question as vaccine safety or climate change, and arguments that are perfectly valid for one of those types of questions are not for the other.
Glibness is very effective against evaluating new facts...
> Though in general, each business may decide with whom they wish to deal, there are some situations when a refusal to deal may be considered an unlawful anti-competitive practice, if it prevents or reduces competition in a market.

So based on your own link, "refusal to deal" has nothing to do with this situation since stifiling the posts of world leaders is not anti-competitive, in fact, it creates a competitive opportunity for platforms that might offer better service to those users.
It may help to understand Google's priorities by following up on this Hacker News link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271087).

Their goal is ubiquitous access. To get to that goal, they're collecting a lot of data about the world and their users to figure out where, when, how, and why users want data to optimize getting it to them. And yes, it probably serves their ad model too, but there's more to it than that; Google is helmed by a futurist and employs futurists, and is looking towards a not-too-distant future of always-on personal networks enhancing what a person can do in their day-to-day.
NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a senior back-end engineer
One useful thing I could imagine is for cooking. If you got dirty hands you will (hopefully) be able to unlock the phone hands free and browse through a recipe.
Ugh this is pointless.
Well, there is this if levitation is really a must-have feature for you: https://www.amazon.co.uk/MASUNN-Magnetic-Levitation-Revoluti...
It’s even more specific than that: it’s deliberate practice. Going to the driving range, getting a bucket, and hitting a bunch of balls likely doesn’t count. You need to be focusing on improving a specific thing. Are you working on your swing path, club face angle, hip rotation, etc? Or are you just hitting balls?

I was fascinated by The Dan Plan. He went from having never played golf to a 3.1 handicap, but ultimately injury appears to have stopped him after ~6000 hours.

>On April 5th, 2010, Dan quit his day job as a commercial photographer and began The Dan Plan. Having never played 18 holes of golf in his life, Dan started the 10,000 hour journey with just a putter. After five months of putting, he received his second club, a pitching wedge. Just before the first anniversary of The Dan Plan dan took his first full-swing lesson. After 18 months he swung a driver for the first time. On December 28, 2011 he played his first full round with a full set of clubs. Since then it has been off to the races.

http://thedanplan.com/about/
How well does that work in corporate environments (which I'd guess would be the last vestiges of IE 11 use)? If you can't tell them to use a different browser now, why would it be different after Edge is Chromium-based?