skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike pets because I'm incredibly allergic to both cats and dogs. My current roommate got a "therapy dog" for her narcolepsy against my will (after I explicitly told her I'm incredibly allergic) and to be frank I now have no clue why you'd want a pet. It's hair is everywhere, the apartment smells like a dirty sock now and well this morning hair even ended up in my breakfast.

The front of the luxury building in NYC I live in is also basically always covered in urine from the pets of lazy dog owners.

Low key, I prefer to be the only class of animal in my home. Pets are unsanitary (I'm not a clean freak, but a dirty animal living in the same space as me is disgusting).

Obviously this information isn't directly relevant to the article, however I think it's interesting to see how much ecological damage domesticated pets have. Cats in terms of decimating bird and rodent populations and dogs, well they kill whatever they want and in the worst cases will attack toddlers etc. Pit Bulls should be banned, they aren't "loving" or "just friendly". Candidly, if I were back in a state with legal carry and saw a large dog running at me I wouldn't hesitate to shoot it on the spot.
> if there's any issue, I'm confident amex will be happy to process my chargeback.

It's not a huge deal if they run your card for the wrong amount, as you say it can be fixed by AMEX. But if they skim your card and start using it days/weeks later, it's hard to pin down where the fraud started. And you probably have to replace your card, and update the card for vendors that you use auto billpay with.
> 1. Tech platforms are uncomfortable with certain viewpoints expressed on their platforms and seek to limit these viewpoints.

Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s many of these large companies billed themselves as open platforms where you can express yourself. Twitter's Jack Dorsey said in 2012 that "We are the free speech wing of the free speech part". Now he says it was joke.

The terms of service on these platforms appears to be enforced selectively, information appears to be selectively censored and a lot of the time it appears to be based on their politics. Also a lot of internet jokes that have been around for years are being censored because the people doing the moderation don't understand the odder internet subcultures.

So It isn't just tech platforms being uncomfortable with certain viewpoints. It a combination of things that make it seem that these companies are censoring viewpoints (some not even that extreme) on one side of the political spectrum. That is what people are complaining about.

> people flock to “community bubbles” like Parler, TheDonald, etc where they feel welcome.

This isn't true. People are removed from platforms and go to another service where they won't be censored or banned and then a bubble forms.

> 3. This marginalisation leads to increasing extremism; going from the likes of “immigrants bad” we saw in 2016 to disputing and attempting to overturn democracy.

This is a strawman of what these people believe. The vast majority of American conservatives and Trump supporters I know don't say "immigrants are bad". They said "Illegal Immigrants are bad". There is a very important difference. The former is clearly xenophobia, the latter is not.

As for "over turning democracy". They see that there was a lot of odd things that seemed to happening upto and including election night. They feel that there has been voter fraud. Whether that is true or not I have no idea and it looks like it will be settled in court. But they believe they are preserving democracy not overturning it.
> Over half of the people asked me how to send voice messages.

This is a very regionally desirable feature, in my experience.

I have never (deliberately) sent a voice message on any platform, nor do I know anybody (well/any more) who would. But I went to a university with a high proportion of Chinese students, and it was really striking how much that feature was used (in apps that supported it obviously).

I'm just speculating, but I wondered if it was at least partly because of the tonal nature (roughly speaking: four intonations for each vowel, rendering completely different words, not just subtle changes in tone/emphasis) of mandarin, and relatively large number of different characters, making vocal communication more efficient than written; to an even greater extent than that may be true of English, for example.

I'm not really sure what I'm saying. Maybe it's not good to burn one market, maybe it is good to focus on excelling in others if (if!) the alternative is mediocrity everywhere, I don't know. Your comment just reminded me and I thought it was vaguely interesting.
Even after taking a college level signal processing course, I didn't really grok why we use sines and cosines. Any explanation of Fourier theory just starts with the idea to break up a signal into sine and cosine components. Perhaps they'd say those are the simplest, purest instantiation of a frequency. But the idea still just falls out of the sky.

I believe I know now: it's because of the convolution theorem. When performing a Fourier transform, we represent the signal in a new basis, where each component will independently get transformed by linear shift invariant systems.

Basically the Fourier basis diagonalizes the convolution operator. And the even deeper reason for that is that a complex exponential function can be shifted by simply multiplying it with a constant.

In simpler words, it comes down to the barber pole illusion. If you rotate a spring-shaped 3d curve, it looks as if it was traveling upwards. And the 2d projection of the spring are sines and cosines.

And it turns out that linear, shift-invariant systems are really common (or are at least a good approximation of many common natural phenomena), so it's very helpful to break up a signal into pieces that each get independently transformed, without any interaction effects.
I have a toddler and started a new job which makes me work crazy hours as I'm competing for a manager role with a bunch of asian kids which not only are very smart but can work 12-14 hours a day including weekends. I used to work for a very simple role which was a very stable product just pure maintenance and FR nothing crazy. Fight after fight with wife, it makes you wonder many things in life. But I try to continue and think that after the pandemic, daycare, personal life will be better. Good luck to everyone and let's cheer up. We are alive that's the greatest gift
Probably. Doing mushrooms has helped loads - granted aside from slacking off at my job there isn't really much else to do during quarantine ;)
Mythbusters attempted to replicate the 'death ray' and was not successful. It's highly likely that the death ray is a myth
Why in the world would expenses be $5k/mo for what presumably some really basis SaaS?
It's a weird place to be. Nothing matters. I got past the pain into a peaceful place. The state of California kept sending me a tax bill for $4,000 that I threw away. Eventually they seized my bank account and with penalties took out $12,000. My reaction was that it was interesting that they did that. It felt like I was watching someone else's life, maybe someone on TV.
Unless you add an offsite point of contact to your HN profile, the only way for anyone to reach out is to reply here.
That's true for me. Everyday feels like a blessing.
Power dial is the most useful; I think buttons are good for time though, particularly since 10s can make a big difference in a microwave.
yes, because at least the user is trying to act in their own best interest, even if they fail
‘Time to come home’ – acting Pentagon chief wants to end wars in Middle East
I have always been annoyed by OCSP being HTTP. It is really the fault of the standard that this is the way we revoke certificates. I basically agree that Apple should just be downloading revoked certificates and checking them locally. This is what we are doing at various SaaS companies that have to check these in order to avoid downtime. We have also mistakenly failed-closed. We now default to fail-open but customers have the option to change that if they are paranoid.
I would be surprised if Apple doesn't make changes to this system after this incident.
Reminder: winter is coming[0] & days are shorter so take care of yourselves pls

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I believe depression is a spectrum so although I'm not depressed, I'm also not not depressed.

Right now I'm in a good place and I accredit this to a few things I did this past week:

- attended multiple virtual events (2 chat-based, 1 video)

- caught up with 2 friends via phone/video call

- went apartment hunting yesterday. Going outside for first time in a week + general excitement of moving out & exploring a new frontier is motivating

I'm 23 and I know life is a struggle. If you're reading this and are around that age + care about exploring personal development and mental health + want to connect, hit me up! Twitter - @radiunhuq

Thanks for asking :)

EDIT:

[0] In case you haven't heard of SAD (seasonal affective disorder), check it out: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affe...
There are numerous excellent reasons why that will never happen. And why it’s not in Apple’s interest to do so.

The most obvious reason is that it would utterly destroy the Mac among influencer communities and developers.

But perhaps the most underrated reason is that Apple already has a managed computing platform in the iPad. Rather than the Mac becoming more locked down, I expect the iPad will become ever-more desktop-like and take over more and more market share from traditional computers.

I’d contend that an iMac-like desktop iPad is a more likely future product than a fully locked down Mac.
Even YCombinator advocates on flashing (team) prestige when pitching you startup.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8d-how-to-build-a-great-...

Section: Team
XMPP has made huge improvements in the last few years. Ejabberd supports most XEPs you could wish for. Gajim on Desktop, Conversations on Android and Monal on iOS make use of those new features.
I suspect if you know not to trust yourself to stay the course when the sky is falling, then you are in fact probably better off in the long-run with a less risky asset allocation. There’s plenty of evidence out there to show that the more you buy/sell/tinker, the more likely you are to get worse returns. Literally the best investors are dead people. So if you need some % of cash or bonds to stay the course and do nothing, that’s good. Which shows some self awareness and maturity. Ideal would be to dispassionately follow the math, but your strategy is the next best thing.
I could really use a "special edition" of MacOS - sort of like what happened with XP in the later days. Strip out all the Apple stuff, privacy failures, and excessive gatekeeping [$] and just leave the raw OS.

[$] for me
https://imgur.com/a/y0NPJ2o - DNS activity of my Mac PRO + Big Sur during the last 30 mins. This is a filter on `apple` domain so I'm not sure if I'm seeing everything since they might use other domains but heh - for the curious.
I don’t know your situation and I certainly don’t think your situation is the same as mine, but I had suicidal thoughts until this past January. I didn’t have hope. I thought the way I was was the way I would always be. I thought most of the people in my life would better off freed from the burden of me. But I found relief that I thought I’d never feel. I don’t know if you will find relief, but I have hope for you. I didn’t have anyone to talk to and that was the hardest part; feeling alone, so I want you to know I’d love to talk. Please reach out. We can text, email, phone, zoom–if there is anything you are comfortable with know that I am here and I WANT to talk with you. You don’t have to, but you can.
Does it not allow the modification of genes? Could this not present itself in various ways, such as new flower colors and or patterns?

Maybe I am "massively" confused, thanks for weighing in!

https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html
I completely agree. I really like this article, which I felt like I could have written:

https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/
You can post nipples all day long on Facebook. They just have to be cleverly blended with the rest of the photograph when you do
Sure, but then your economy is still constrained to grow at the speed of light. A shell of some thickness expanding at the speed of light. The volume of that shell increases parabolically, not exponentially.

So it still needs to slow down growth, although growth can still occur indefinitely. Well, billions of years until stars naturally start burning out, in which case you get a slowing of growth and degrowth until you're huddled around red dwarfs for a trillion or so years and then harvesting energy from black holes until like a quadrillion years.
But I guess that if you want to modulate the frequency, you'd have to change the geometry (?)
So one thing I've been thinking about. Editing DNA is kind finicky, with off-target mutations and stuff.

But editing files, that is very easy.

So would you get higher quality results sequencing a genome, editing it on a computer, and then "printing" it back out to a DNA molecule?

How far along has DNA synthesis come? And when you have your DNA, how easy is it to insert into cells?
I will add that now. Thank you for the reminder.

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edit: email address added
For me the motivation is rather important. A women terminating a pregnancy that's an obvious developmental train wreck is different than a political movement with some esthetic it wants to violently force onto society.
> Holy crap, that's a way higher percentage than I was expecting.

Software
Any tool used to create another tool, is the very tool that will be used to help dismantle that other tool.

There is no way around this... Security isn't a state, it s a process. It relies on the human to propagate it. A bit like a garden.

Make the process simple for the user (but not thoughtless) and that is about as good as is going to get.
I've long missed the edit window but I can't help but comment to correct my 'Americans'.
Well, if a company is successfully running a Ruby monolith without hitting the scaling problems that would make it start cutting out services to implement in other languages then that suggests the company either hasn't grown past a certain point, or isn't doing anything particularly heavy technically.
Yes. It’s hard to have empathy and not be.

As we grow up and become aware of our world, there’s too much shit going on everywhere to truly be happy anymore even if my own life was perfect, and there’s little good to look forward to.

At best we can hope for everything to keep shambling on and not collapse catastrophically. And the worst part? Even if everything did collapse it would be hard to feel sorry for us..

I daresay that never being depressed would be the odd behavior for a sane individual.
Why I teach vim
Agreed. AMD didn't throw enough away when they moved X86 to 64bits. They also didn't add enough registers. Variable length CISC is fine. They should steal the bit manipulation instructions from ARMv8 and the vector extensions from RISC-V.

They won't.
If by “cost” you mean car mileage, sure. But in a store pickup situation, there is no additional driver to pay, special packaging for transportation of the food, liability for safe transport of the food, transportation logistics operating costs, etc.
I was going to recommend cats but then I guess they’d just make you more depressed with their condescension :)
Mu.

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)

Read both until end.

Mind your head.
Somewhat better known Polish song from the same period might be Zegarmistrz Światła Purpurowy

https://youtu.be/A41PF4lUkrg

It was used as a score for a recent Polish game "This War of Mine"
> too inaccurate

Yeah, I pop popcorn all the time.

After enough iterations, I've learned that 2 minutes and 22 seconds is the right amount of time. A longer time risks burning, and a shorter time won't pop as many kernels.

With a knob, I don't think I'd be able to dial in 2:22. So I'd have to stand there and monitor it the whole time instead of being able to walk away. And microwaves are supposed to be convenient.
> purebred or "designer breed" dogs, and they've all lead shorter lives with more diseases

Absolutely, this is also true. But in my case, I’ve never owned and now avoid AKC purebreds like the plague. Currently I have a long-coat non-AKC GS with 25% Malamute mix. AKC and their sire syndrome has destroyed the breed with Hip dysplasia and other issues. Their obsession with artificial looks and willful ignorance of genetics has completely turned me off.

Also can't compare a 50lbs dog to 80-100 lbs GSD. Smaller breeds on average live longer. We had a 10 lbs coton de teuer live to 20 which is not that uncommon for the breed.
I’ve used both windows and Apple developed operating systems for a long time, generally I agree with you - Microsoft is the trailblazer in user-hostile self interested decisions.

This however is something that Microsoft has absolutely dreamed about doing, but never had the power to actually make it happen. Apple wants to have the same power on the desktop that they have on iOS - no code not blessed (and taxed) by Apple run. This is what Apple wants, total control of everything executed by the cpu.
To use one of the original examples, how many different applications are signed with the developer key of the Tor browser project?
perhaps they are pushing back on what the gp considers people to "typically believe"
> winter is coming

I was going to say "not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere, you know", but to be fair I suppose 99% of HN lives there and the rest of us are already used to this.
> I’ve since learned that Nicholas has been awarded in spelling bees and math competitions and is an expert at solving the Rubik’s Cube. Somehow, I’m not surprised.

That's encouragement of one kid, to keep working and learning. But I think that publicly singling out one kid like that can be discouragement of kids around that one kid, if it's implied to them that they have less aptitude.
China joins list of nations banning the sale of oldstyle fossil-fuelled vehicles
> Can anyone point me to some good reading that describes the detailed strategy and nuances that led to wars being won or lost?

This is a whole field of political science.

> Things like not planning for muddy terrain contributing to a battle being lost

That really has nothing to do with how wars are won and lost. Wars are won or lost when the politicians or depending how you look at it society at large stops fighting.

A muddy terrain might be a tactical consideration that could help you win one battle, or campaign and that you can then maybe leverage into something you could then call a victory. In every war millions of mistakes are being made, pointing to 1 of them and assigning and extra ordinary relevance to it, is very difficult.

What I can tell you is that there is no universal answer neither in political science, nor economics, nor military theory. In fact, this very question has baffled military theorists for literally 1000s of years.

The most popular reference is from Carl Von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, he claimed you have to identify the 'center of gravity' and and then do what is in your power to shift that.

> The definition of a CoG is "the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act."[2] Thus, the center of gravity is usually seen as the "source of strength".

Of course you will notice that this is incredibly vague and provides little practical guidance.

This is the difference between historians, who try to find the end of individual wars, and military theorist and political scientist who try find more abstract descriptions.

You can read something like 'Strategy: A History' to get a general overview of how people have thought about it.

I highly recommend going to reddit.com/r/AskHistorians. They have a great wiki and reading list, or you can ask for books.
My doctor prescribes ketamine lozenges for depression. I fly in every six months for appointments. It's much cheaper than infusions and more convenient to take it at home. I can refer two doctors. Send me a message.
Technically, Archimedes was an engineer and mathematician. I don't think "scientist" existed as a category at the time (wikipedia mentions him as science and the section on scientist mentions that indeed the concept didn't exist in classical antiquity).

Archimedes was notable for having developed an approach like calculus for discovering the areas of conic sections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
right, but the fundamental problem is that customers aren't willing to pay the full cost of delivery. delivery places don't just compete with other delivery places on price; they also have to compete with takeout prices. people don't mentally add the cost of gas, vehicle depreciation, and their own time onto takeout prices. plus a pretty common "workflow" is for people to pickup food on their way home from work, which has a negligible cost for them even if they rigorously price it out.
Yea, I use this and I’ve heard it as well. I’m about 90% vegetarian currently.
Do they bypass/circumvent firewalls doing that? That's the question you have to ask, not what they send (now).
You can’t get everyone to be vegan, the earth simply can’t support that.

Genuinely curious, why can't Earth support everyone eating vegan? I thought it took more land, water, soil, and resources in general to produce meat? Is it about transportation, or Arctic climates where fresh fruit and veg is not available?
It's called a dry wit, you can be forgiven for not knowing what that is.
Very interesting, but what is it with posting important information that begs for at least some details as a short thread on Twitter?

This is impossible to read on a phone.
> any property within 20 minutes of a dense area tends to be expensive to rent.

As a rule, if one just rents the place on the street behind the one where all the people go, one can cut the rent by 1/3 or 1/2. A kitchen only place can function underground or on a high floor, what takes most of the price out again.
Thanks! Yup, SeeLink does allow for sharing links between devices. For files, I'd recommend something like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Radicle – Secure peer-to-peer code collaboration without intermediaries
> these days it's wall to wall bastards.

Sometimes I really wish I owned a T-shirt printing business. Thanks!
It seems the implication is that there is a difference between abstractions and objective reality. But you are not in bad company. Max Tegmark, a physicist at MIT, believes that the fundamental substrate is math, which is just another way of saying that reality is made of mind.
Unfortunately the consistency is moving in the direction of iOS rather than macOS.
It's probably worth listing what depressive symptoms are above the survey
I agree with what you say about the economy. I am also impressed by the resilience there. My apocalypse comment was more in reference to the non-economic aspects... sickness, death, isolation. I put on the news and it's awful. Working-from-home has also really worn me out. Many nights, I have trouble sleeping.

I will look into something like the I-bonds more seriously.
It’s very much a self selecting poll.
My focus was way better at 13 than it is now, mid-30s
I think SeeLink is the most accessible way to share links with friends and family at the moment, since it offers a ton of link specific features that make sharing links with groups of people easier
Nope. Somehow I got all the mania and none of the depression. Lucky draw.
I miss my Passport!
>it's competing with MSN Messenger, which everyone stopped using over 15 years ago.

I would say people didn't stop using it, rather than the service got axed.
No, haha :) See my sibling post. I've recently done some cat sitting for a neighbor who was away for a week and that was a huge boost to my mood.