skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They pay you for those 12 months. At least that's how it works in trading here in Chicago.
Some things happening to Muslims in the world today (in addition to India) off the top of my head:

-Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar

-Ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs in China

Then there's just garden variety xenophobic polices like travel bans from predominately Muslim countries in the US to the electoral gains of various far right parties in Europe because of the refugee crisis.

Pretty wide spread there, but clearly fascism is on the rise.
Police potentially attacking rich people may stop or at least slow police attacking anyone.

Police departments do not need an army.
Meanwhile in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/reader-center/insider-cle...
Got it. Well, in case you're still reading: Most people, after interacting with someone with Down's Syndrome, would conclude that that person is more intelligent than any animal on Earth. Animals cannot grasp abstract first principles, and then undertake non-genetically programmed, non-rote actions that demonstrate their understanding of first principles. People with DS, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability, have the IQ of an 8-9 year old child. They are capable of learning the first principles of basic math, and, after doing so, add 13+8 together when they have never been told what that particular sum is. Animals are significantly more pre-programmed, and whenever we find a parrot that dances to music, dolphins that exhibit wildly unexpected behavior, and a primate that can make use of symbols, it inevitably turns out that those behaviors aren't rooted in as much cognition as one would first assume.

The commonly understood intelligence that I am referring to is that which can be clearly observed in someone with Down's Syndrome above and beyond what we observe in animals. Part of it is a matter of magnitude. Dogs seem to have empathy. I'm sure they do, but without sufficient cognition, that empathy is severely bounded. They will jump up and down and wag their tail when you return from a 5 minute walk. If, however, you die and there's other food in the house, they might nonetheless eat your face in short order.
I just think most people simply underestimate how many people 200M really is. They also grossly overestimate the number of people on "their" side.
Because you probably live a comfortable life. For people who are struggling and see no hope of changing for better they often support more extreme policies just to "rock the boat". Years of rising inequality in many societies have created more people who'd like to have things change drastically.
Congrats on launching. A couple of thoughts:

- what % of candidates would be willing to do a take-home assignment before speaking with a real human at the company?

- check the landing page copy for typos (itmes —> items)
I think we are in agreement. The UN does good things but it's limited.
I don't know about studies but here's an anecdote. I've experimented with many potential factors for my ADHD over many years, and the strongest and cleanest correlation I've found is: More carbs and sugar => More brain fog.
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true, but storing all conversation histories locally and in the cloud is an anti-coup. Not that Moxie had any influence on these decisions one way or the other (to the best of my knowledge).

The upshot is I worry that E2E encryption has given folks a false sense of security.
You could read this another way too.

Now the government has an incentive to contribute to the open source project to ensure that its communications are secure.

You're right that it could "weaken" signal because more people are trying to attack it which means a flaw is more likely to be found. But it can also strengthen Signal because the need for it to be strong and improve faster is higher. More people looking at it (especially with a government interest) means there are more trying to patch those flaws as well.

Additionally, it can add to the popularity of Signal. Which again adds to both edges laid out above.

Honestly I can't see this as anything but good. It is __GOOD__ when the government's interests align with that of the public.
I love coming to these threads to watch the crowd who makes their living from invading the public's privacy attempt to rationalize their worldview, find loopholes, etc. If your job is mass surviellance, it has always been unethical and the law is catching up to you. The purpose of these kinds of laws isn't to bring your business in line - it's to put you out of business. We're coming for you.
You can yes - in fact, I was listening to “D for Diagnosis” on BBC Radio 4 last night. The show title was “Ever Changing Labels” and a psychiatrist made the point (3’20” into the programme) that what we call “depression” in DSM-V has 9 symptoms and if you have 5 out of those 9 symptoms you are diagnosed as having “depression”. But in reality 5 out of 9 gives a huge number - 15,000+ - variations. So there is no one form of “depression” and yet people are diagnosed with depression all the time.
> but everyone with ADHD should at least try cleaning up their diet. It's a no lose option.

It is extremely difficult for someone with ADHD to change their diet. It's difficult even for neurotypical people. I know that it and exercise are obviously beneficial, but from experience there's a "loss" in that trying and failing consistently to improve my lifestyle really takes its toll on my motivation and self-esteem. Not to say that I'm not still trying... but it's hard.
I think you're looking for https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package ?
Other commenters have made the point that scale / quantity matters. Another example: Formula 1 has limits on computational performance. Humans can design aerodynamics. Machines can do it better, faster, more exhaustively. The latter is quantitatively limited.
The consequences for targetted sales is that the data is in the hands of companies which make it available for sale by anybody who is interested. Including scammers, stalkers, jealous ex partners, enemies in general who want to find the weakness in someone's life to discredit them, spies, etc.

That's pretty bad IMO, regardless of what you think about the use case for law enforcement.
Not to mention that many of the product screenshots they use for Signal reference prominent anarchists throughout history.
Ask HN: Boostrapped mobile app companies at scale
I was intrigued if anyone could offer credible examples of app-first or app-only businesses that have achieved some sort of reasonable scale, perhaps say $50m+ ARR. And that aren’t games.

Usually the pointers to IndieHackers etc draws examples of <$1m businesses, which is fine. Just curious if companies have hit scale without significant funding and if it’s possible, given the rising CAC associated with mobile. I could only think of Freeletics.
Absolutely. I really enjoy helping get people involved in open source, too and help run a once-a month workshop on how to get started with open source here in Vancouver.

I'm just not sure if this is something all open source projects - many of which don't have a lot of resources available - can handle. The very large open projects that already have a lot of contributors that can put in the additional time are definitely at an advantage here.
Any advice for parents of kids who seem to exhibit some of these traits? My oldest son is in 3rd grade and is probably not exactly neurotypical. He really excels at some things (reading) and really struggles with others (handwriting, behavior/following directions.) I've heard horror stories from folks who feel like they were diagnosed and treated too early as well as too late. For folks here with those experiences - anything you wish your parents would have considered that they didn't? Questions they should have asked?

Overall he seems pretty happy in life and has some friends and things he likes to do, so I'm not feeling like it's really urgent to get him help, but also don't want it to escalate to the point where it's harder for him to get help later or starts self medicating as a teen.
It's not just a "name brand costs more!!!" situation.

The name-brand GE filters (for the type I used to buy) eliminate/reduce lead, chlorine, plus "5 trace pharmaceuticals" and 15 other contaminants.

The bargain bin filters (HDX, in this scenario) only eliminate/reduce lead, chlorine, "tastes and odors."

GE - https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-Genuine-MWF-Water-Filter-for-...

HDX - https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-Water-Filter-for-GE-Refriger...
Here's an idea... Take down the cameras!
What if we define ourselves by suffering? Entire crops will be lost.
This is complete bs. The left dominates entire media and academia in India... remnants of India's peak socialist past. All they do is 24x7 propaganda and fake news on the govt, ruling party and the majority religion. Slowly losing their grip on the narrative has led to all these fake cries unable to come to terms with twitter which has provided a voice to the common man.
I think that’s the point. Recurring but not subscription. It’s a minor difference in this scenario since you probably know with great confidence a % will recur.

It’s just a weird wording distinction that made it a weak counter example of subscription revenue. Like if you pointed out that no American consumer has any obligation to shop at Walmart next month. But we know most will.
I love YNAB but definitely not for the reports. I've been downloading my data and analyzing it in Rstudio whenever I want prettier charts.
Perfect! I'll give it a go :)
Yes, just reduce your debt, particularly discretionary high interest ones like credit cards.
Yeah it may be very hard to discover the actual biological mechanisms in neurological disorders particularly.

But not diagnosing anything would also not resolve the problem for the patient, if there really are specific symptoms.
> Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the 'other' this time aren't Jews, they're Muslims.

As someone from a Muslim country, this comparison strikes me as facile and ignorant. It’s not just a group of people being viewed as “the other.” Even Muslim majority countries are facing challenges. In Bangladesh, the government is taking actions that people in western countries would probably liken to “fascism.” E.g. banning Muslim political parties. The problem these countries are grappling with is that they’re not just dealing with a group of people who happen to be different. There is a political ideology that crosses national borders and seeks to supplant existing institutions and governments. There is a lot of foreign money flowing into Bangladesh, to fund madrasas (schools) that teach hard line religion. Egypt and Turkey both fought these forces for decades, struggling to maintain secular, western institutions, and ultimately lost.

That is not to say that I don’t find Modi’s actions, or Bannon’s
rhetoric, etc., troubling. I do. It’s just that there is a lot more here than you can understand through shallow analogies or the lens of western politics.
That's a good point. I agree with you about US policy.

But basically, that's why liberal democracies are unlikely in the Middle East. It's not just the current tyranny. It's the absence of a cultural context for liberal democracy.
Same reason you might want place more restrictions on machine guns than on muskets.

The reason one would ban a machine from doing what a human can do is that it's stupendously faster, and enables all sorts of dystopian effects that manual face-tagging doesn't.
I wasn't diagnosed until my 30's, and I wish I had been when I was young. So many things that were impossible for me as a kid are manageable now, and I missed out on a lot.
What's your point?

That your one true love may be in nigeria, but you'll never meet them because you're in NY?

I don't really understand why people make these kinds of posts as if it's some sort of wisdom. Everyone else innately understands that you can only interact with the people available for interactions to you, and that tends to be limited by locale. In fact, everyone understands it so well that most don't feel it needs to be said.

But it doesn't change the point that you still can choose to move to nigeria if you want to interact with more nigerians, and that you can refuse to interact with that 1 asshole down the street even if you haven't met every person who ever existed during your lifetime.
The property tax bill is calculated as rate × assessed value. In almost every other state, the assessed value is directly proportional to the current fair market value, but in California, Proposition 13 lowered the legal tax rate and also changed the assessed value to be the price that you (or your ancestors thanks to Proposition 58 and 193) originally acquired the property, adjusted for inflation. What this means is that some people pay outdated property taxes that are a fraction of what their new neighbors are paying, while they benefit from receiving market-rate rents or benefit from modern amenities (schools and jobs). The effective tax rate is the property tax amount divided by the fair market value, which allows us to compare fair market tax burdens given the unfair property assessments: https://www.trulia.com/research/prop-13/.

To my point above, property taxes are intertwined with the debate about homeownership because Proposition 13’s low property tax rate increases wealth inequality (since landowners instead of governments capture the value of increased rents), increases wealth inequality (since governments are forced to increase regressive sales taxes and fees instead of property tax), increases wealth inequality (since the US income tax often does not capture increases in imputed rent and capital gains), disincentivizes cities from zoning for more housing (since the property taxes from new housing no longer pays for the infrastructure costs), and encourages NIMBYism (since homeowners have to purchase the land at a high price and then become extremely risk-averse). In addition, Proposition 13’s unfair asssesed value system further encourages NIMBYism (since landlords and homeowners get to benefit from displacing the poor without having to pay any higher property taxes) and encourages long-term property speculation without investment (since long-term property owners have low holding costs despite being in expensive locations). In another state, where homeowners have to pay taxes for the privilege of excluding others, homeownership would not be harmful to society.
Didn't woz start apple while on payroll somewhere else?
>You might look at your mother's dna results and say "I'm 20% scottish!" No you're not. You got zip from the scottish side of the family.

So then the DNA results themselves are wrong since they're based on exactly this logic, just for your parents...

Therefore making the entire thing completely useless.
I can't take Ritalin. I get mood swings and suicidal ideation. Adderall, however, changed my life. Have you tried other medications?

I also find that a vegetarian diet, low in carbs helps a lot for me. But I can' t keep to it very well without the adderall unfortunately.
Quibbling with the classification is missing the forest for the trees here, I think. It's a chronic condition that requires some kind of treatment to be dealt with. People have the same kind of quarrels with defining alcoholism or drug addiction as a disease, but we have limited time on this planet and we can argue about labels or we can spend that time instead trying to address the actual concerns.
An abusive wife can force her husband to vote for X and mail the envelope in front of her. She couldn't do that if the husband was voting alone in a booth.
What's a hydra? (in this context)
The Economist too reported a worldwide drop in Democracy Index and India dropped 10 points.
https://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index
Do you have study- or experiment- backed evidence for the claim that we physiologically respond positively to cues of support of others as adults? I figure it's true, I've just never seen any data on it. Some latent part of your lizard brain probably changes when your tribe respects you vs. when you are ostracized.

Broadly though I think the concept of self-reliance does not do anything to contradict the pro-social behavior you advocate. Those who are self-reliant and capable of independence are, all else equal, those who are most capable of helping others. Most who practice self-reliance do not do so to go off the grid, but rather to learn their own limits and capabilities. The process of learning a skill from scratch and inventing from blank slate is creative in ways that are unique, freeing from social pressures and socially imposed constraints.
The difference is that machine-driven facial recognition can be collated with other data to create unwanted results for society.

Rando Startup can start scanning faces in public. Then it starts matching those faces with actual identities. Then it adds in the cell phone location data to determine which ones visit synagogues regularly. So it adds a little notation to the data table about each of these people. Perhaps a yellow star will do nicely.

If you know anything about recent European history, you will understand why this is a bad thing.
The right wing party in India came to power in 2014 in a perfect storm of a very popular leader and a pretty weak opposition. Opposition was further weakened electorally with demonetization right before elections in the most populous state of India (UP).

They were able to successfully capture most institutions (RBI, supreme courts, investigative agencies) in addition to capturing the media through corporate ownership.

Social media strategy and a massive disinformation campaign on Whatsapp proved extremely successful in the 2019 elections and the right wing party now has an even bigger majority with the opposition decimated.

Barring a turn in public approval (probably from a recession), they will continue to perform well unless opposition steps up their game.
Barr's Anti-Encryption Efforts Aren't Supported by Many FBI Officials
I'd been running a hackintosh at home for a few years, switched to linux in october with a new PC. Still on windows at work though.

Aside: I actually do appreciate some of MS's efforts regarding open source, devtools, .Net Core, VS Code and even most of what Azure does.
I use straight.el[0] for a reproducible package list. It basically clones the packages and stores a map of package->commit, so you can freeze your packages and reproduce them on another machine.

You could also use the Guix package manager[1] or the Nix package manager[2] to achieve a similar effect.

Reproducible software is much more stable!

[0]https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el

[1]https://guix.gnu.org/#guix-in-other-distros

[2]https://nixos.org/nix/
They are other with respect to status as minorities in certain populations.

They are also other with respect to minority influence or substandard representation in national and international affairs.
Trump likes to target Mexicans too and openly has said he would like to be in Putin’s position with a dynasty. A surprising number of Americans are okay with this. Next election is going to be dramatic.

Then there’s China and its minorities being swept into mass concentration camps. Reminds me, I wonder what is happening in Hong Kong right now

Edit: update on hk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/hong-kong...
My bad, I guess I misunderstood what you were saying.

I was just trying to make a point that there is no usual "evil hackers trying to break into our systems" kind of situation. It's like stealing someone's car by simply entering the wide open door and turning the keys someone left in the ignition.
For further context, [1] is a map of worldwide population density. Except for the Nordic countries and Spain there are no places without people.

1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/World_po...
Funny, the first thought that came to mind about the hardpoint system was that it would be trivial to attach a weapon.
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I have zero idea what you're talking about. I have never in my life received in informational packet along with my ballot. Like there's a short short summary of ballot issues but nothing about any of the candidates.
> Pay down your credit card debt and make sure you have at least 6 months of expenses in the bank, if you're young and haven't been through this before.

If you think you're about to get sacked, the last thing to do is pay down debt regardless of the interest rate.

If you're about to get sacked, I'd recommend opening a home equity line of credit. You can live off this while you plot your next move.
> If I'm unhappy with the scummy behaviour of a credit rating agency, my only recourse is to... Opt out of credit entirely

Well you have more options than that. You can freeze your credit reports, put holds on your information, and push your political representatives to engage with the issue. No, you can't single-handedly fix the problem, but it is a correctable problem.

> If I'm unhappy with the scummy behaviour of my bank, I could switch to a competitor, which has the exact same policies

You can also switch to a credit union which probably has very different policies, or use one of the very many online centric banks which have since popped up and are very customer focused.

> I could move to a different city, and the players in this game will change, but the rules, and the outcomes, will remain the same.

At least anecdotally, moving from the DC area to Texas changed my life significantly for the better. It moved my friend group for people who were stuck to people who were pushing to accomplish things. It opened up a job market for me personally from a few firms to almost infinite choices. It reduced the cost of buying a house and made it so I could have that as an option.

> by powers and circumstances you have absolutely no control over - and by your current personal level of wealth and status

You have a lot of control over your money. You can choose to spend it or not spend it, and you can choose how you spend it. You can give up your free time and make more of it, and you can use that free time to make more of it faster.

On your point about not being able to tell an unreasonable boss to back off without having money - that's simply not true. I've left a job while basically broke because I felt continuing to work with my employer was unethical. I picked up a lot of odd and un-fun jobs to make it work and it wasn't easy, but I had the choice and I exercised it.

Having a choice doesn't mean the choice is easy. It doesn't mean you get to keep your nice car or convenient apartment. Often times choices have consequences and that's OK - that doesn't mean it's not a choice.
What industry are you in?
> But I’m reality 5 out of 9 gives a huge number - 15,000+ - variations. So there is no one form of “depression”

And? Do you know how many different kinds of cancer there are? We're talking about psychogical disorders that affect people's minds and personalities, of course their presentations are going to be very different. That doesn't make them not real or mean it's not useful to group them together. Diagnosis guides treatment, and most depression responds to the same treatments. You're fallaciously assuming that because there's not a single biological marker for named psychiatric conditions that they don't exist. That's not how any psychiatrist sees it.
To be fair, a lot of those people are economic parasites, providing no actual good anyone would ever want to exchange money for. So their only economic value was dispersing their earnings as spending. Which whomever that money is directed to will also do, but also while adding service/value people would be willing to pay for.