skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to burst your bubble but if you're one of the 25% of Americans who has an undergraduate degree or above you're likely part of that barely-rich who are part of "the problem" (from a global perspective making over $50k a year counts as barely rich). No one wants to admit to being a part of some "elite" minority because there's always someone else to blame who's higher up on the ladder.

Ultimately policy makes change not some expectation for individual morality.
I forget exactly when I first encountered the web. It was sometime in 1992, and the standard "publishing" mechanisms of the time were FTP (super common), Gopher and WAIS. Later in the year I remember showing my boss the alpha NCSA Mosaic running on a Slackware Linux I had cobbled together. Two years later I moved out to SF and before a year had passed, started a company with friends that became one of the early web design agencies.

Life moved REALLY FAST back then, it's kind of shocking how quickly it all went from barely there to "the next big thing" (air quotes not required in this case). My entire career has largely been built on a thing that didn't exist until 3 years after I started college, which even today seems super weird.
Intact dogs (of both genders) can go to obedience or dog sport classes (I'm assuming that's what you mean by socialization classes). It could definitely depend on the facility but I've taken classes across 3 different facilities with intact males and intact females (thankfully not at the same time).

That said, there could be some correlation there where less informed owners who don't train their dogs and don't neuter them. In general though, neutering has been shown (in the same dog) to help curb some unwanted behaviors. Trainers can and will recommend neutering in some cases [0]

[0] For example, Victoria Stillwell is a well-known trainer who recommended neutering this dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXaGxFzv-GM
At some point, I noticed that I can order my second drink at dinner. Previously, I thought I had to mach my drinking speed to my eating speed. That’s the moment I became an adult.

This may not resonate with Americans due to the free refills or British because in UK it’s normal to have tap water served.
Hey hey--not Brian leading this--it's me. See my chat above. You can call me directly at 855 252 6050.
As long as "helped" people are objectively informed of any dependence and known side-effect thanks to some public debate, then accept the deal, and any individual remains free to refuse it for himself.
I see! It's a transfer between generations, though not an inheritance (which some people suggest to tax heavily).

Again, Bezos got about $300k from his family (both his parents were doctors), which, I think, is far below the level of "unjust inherited fortune" or what is usually people suggest to tax into oblivion.

Yes, when your parents help you, it's helpful — it's nearly tautologically true. This is why I as a parent do help my grown-up son sometimes. Limiting this behavior is not quite realistic, and would be met with a huge backlash (justly, to my mind).
You,re free to know whatever you desire.
Always love it when I see a maintainer offer clarifications in a HN comment section! <3

What are the reasons for the perf improvements we see here?
Show HN: An application that checks on you every minute
It’s not only dogs. I remember some stupid shit I did as a teenager.
Sorry, CFTC, not SEC. Here's the actual rule.[1] This refers to "delivery" when the futures contract is closed out, not while it is pending.

This follows the procedure for physical commodities, like grain. A key point there is that the organization storing the grain is totally separate from the trading process. What you're trading is a warehouse receipt for grain in a grain elevator somewhere. You can "take delivery" by getting the warehouse receipt and starting to pay storage charges. At that point your broker no longer has access to the asset. Eventually someone buys it who actually intends to use it, and they have it loaded onto a train or truck.

The key point here is separation between the broker, exchange, and storage facility. Cryptocurrencies use cryptographic wallets instead of warehouses, so "delivery" means delivery to the user's wallet.

[1] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8139-20
I think the original point of the article is that plenty of adults can afford many things, yet they unnecessarily restrict themselves and inflict suffering on themselves.

I know people who are not going to break their budget by spending $10 on Uber when they are late, yet they would rather wait for a bus in the freezing cold or rain, waste time and be late.
Underwater global tech hub
At least OCaml and Haskell compile into the native code, thus faster by definition.
LLCs and copyright law are rather arbitrary constructs which our laws have created in the belief that they promote some benefit to society - be it better allocation of capital, rewarding creators/inventors, etc.

Shares of stock, the secondary stock market - these are also arbitrary constructs which have been created to serve some purpose.

There’s some magical thinking regarding capitalism - that it practically runs itself; that is ensures efficient allocation of capital.

Capitalism may tend to decentralize economic decision-making, and it may tend to align production incentives with actual demand. But, that doesn’t mean it’s efficient. Efficiency would mean that incentives would nearly match the minimum to ensure satisfaction of demand. What we in America have is a system which highly rewards people who control the labor of others. Our society values wealth, not work.
I am entitled. I,m entitled to make my own choices, just as you are entitled to make up stories about why something is impossible or does not agree with your fears or morals.
The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea
Also your after tax hourly income is substantially lower than your pre tax income (which is what most people think of).
I have a bunch of friends that grew up working class, and they still, consistently, value their own time at 0. Regardless of their actual adult income. Which means they often spend ridiculous amounts of time and effort to save tiny amounts of money.

I grew up lower middle class instead, so I have other stupid frugal habits. Growing up, my parents never, ever, ever replaced a thing that was working. The only time you were allowed to replace a thing was when it was irredeemably broken.

Took me a while to get rid of that habit.
People are complaining that they don’t want to call you. And here you are asking people to call you.
The Strenuous Life
I 100% agree, if you can sign up without a phone call, you should be able to cancel without one. However, at the end of the day, it's just a phone call. It gets a bit dramatic.
You can also use grid and the place-content shorthand!

These things are getting better. CSS was a nightmare in the 2000s.
> Give to charity

It's really worth properly doing due diligence before you commit to the donation. And if you don't have a good cushion yourself, rationally speaking, chances are you should save it. Just earmark that amount to be willed to charity upon death or extraordinary loss.
That's infuriating. Thanks @cmdkhalilov for bringing this up, I know for a fact I'll not forget this kind of behavior.

As someone with intense social anxiety, forcing me to call someone is a sure way to trap (extort?) me in your service. I guess a credit card charge back would warrant a call as well.
Thanks for your feedback. Do you spend much time on ruddit?
> we ended up finding that we can be critical to Stripe Webhooks processing for folks on the older Stripe API. We literally will take down your invoicing on Stripe when a customer cancels.

What does this even mean? Are you saying that if you remove a customer’s Stripe integration, it prevents them from being paid by their own customers?
I remember listening to a Joe Rogan episode where he said that top fighters had a problem - if they kept trying to prepare they would overtrain and set themselves back. I can see how figuring out the difference between enough and too much is hard especially when your need to excel and maybe your identity is tied up in everything.
Source: American Institute for Economic Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...
Its more referring to the concept of realizing there's a solution to the problem and being willing to take it. When I was younger, there was a notable amount of times where I felt cold but didn't bother getting a jacket. Of course, grabbing a jacket from a store may not be an option for a person, but I think you're generalizing every part of what they are saying too much rather than the point they're making.
I have one that is even better. Bell Canada. They require you to speak to the "loyalty" team before you can have a service cancelled. That team is only available by phone. That team has a 1 hour wait time during the hours that they are open. That team likes to hang up on you. That team calls you back from numbers that cannot accept calls. That team is not available by chat or email and every other department has no access in the tools to effectively cancel a service.

I escalated to the crtc and opened a case. I got a call back from someone who was very good at apologising for this policy but was at the same time very clear that this was within their legal rights as a service provider.

Super convenient that I can sign up to any service with one click though.
Add SiriusXM to the list of companies to never work with because they pull the same shit.
It's a generalization of a fully connected layer, where you give the network an adjacency matrix for data routing between nodes. This allows for designing sparse data flows and learning relations between pairs of input elements.

Graph NN layer: f(X, A) = g(AXW), where g is an activation

Fully connected layer: f(X) = g(XW), like GNN where the adj. matrix A=I

To put it in context a few years ago GNNs became a hot field. They are very similar in a way to transformers because both do pairwise interactions between elements, the difference being that GNNs use explicit and transformers implicit graphs.
Now I know why some magazines won't let you subscribe online - they take your credit card details on paper so that you can only cancel by calling them. I would rather close my credit card than call.
Do you have a write up for why you got rid of RocksDB
I,m not talking about the world, just my world. Which bits sound harmful, I,m curious?
Is there any investigation planned or underway to pre compile these to some intermediate thing so non-node servers could hook into this? I’m thinking maybe some WASM interop off the top of my head perhaps. WASM is maturing fast and I’ve already seen demos where you can make network calls using a WASM interop server side.

Certainly pre rendering would be more efficient too with these types of components so I imagine updates to hydration will be part of this.
In California it is illegal to not allow online cancellation for services signed up for online. No exceptions, it has nothing to do with children.

If I were your customer I would make a point of taking every legal avenue to punish you for this behavior, and the reasoning here guarantees I wouldn’t think of touching your product.
While it may be faster, the "by definition" part hasn't been true for years. The JVM can do some amazing stuff at runtime to outpace statically executed code.

Regardless, their principles [1] make the trade-offs clear:

- Developer productivity over runtime performance

- Correctness over performance

[1] https://flix.dev/principles/
Agreed. I don't understand the outrage. There could be any number of legitimate reasons why their internal process requires a phone call. Sure it would be nice if they would do this over email, but the telephone is still a normal way to conduct business.

What next? Outrage that you can't cancel your doctor's appointment via twitter?
Fasting is a well established practice with ample backing, both traditional and scientific.

Have you looked into it at all before commenting?
Speaking personally my life was hell when I was in delhi (it was ncr Ghaziabad) but the situation was so bad that my eyes were constantly red and one of my friends who had asthma had to wear a mask inside home.

Unfortunately despite a lot of efforts by the govt (like odd even cars, washing trees with firetrucks, etc) the situation was still very bad when I left it because of this very reason.

The major contributing factor was crop stubble burning by adj states which now the govt is trying to ban against a lot of resistance from the people (shrug)
Most PINs or passwords are so short that they would be easy to brute-force but phones have anti-brute-force mechanisms. So maybe there's a tool that does that.
It sounds like the biggest thing holding you back is attachment to negative thinking patterns and self-defeatism, no offense.
Have you tried playing with your 2 year old
I believe there is nearish-term market for this but it is not for solving big societal problems.

And I would not call them problems, but rather cycles.

Calling something a “problem” casts judgement on a human experience as negative.

Sometimes, to have the courage to acknowledge something one is going through, it helps if it did not begin as a problem.

But rather an experience shared by many others who view the causes and effects through different viewpoints.

By offering something as a cycle, rather than a problem, it creates a more neutral ground for sharing helpful information on what one or many people together or far apart experience collectively.

Another, ahem, problem with fostering a product like you’ve described is reflected in my first sentence—-Markets.

In 2020 we still must look at the value of things in terms of how they can enrich. If not for economics than for attention.

Only the truly skilled can portray the reality of our experience without the editorial headlines and sensationalism.
I wonder about zero tolerance, the idea.

Is it thought up by people who have just "decided to be honest" in their life and think that should be the way to do things?

And then later, these policies cove more ground, so you get something like one kid picking on another and both get in trouble for fighting, or "a leatherman tool is a weapon, so you're out".
I agree, and the spin that I would put on it is that I find the framing of this article to be particularly helpful. The sense of "wait, you can do that?" For me, it has often been the case that b I've encountered new concepts that I've never clearly thought about in my own head before, but that once I hear stated openly, are as clear as day.

For the longest time, I had not encountered a concept of "self-care" but then I started seeing that term pop up around the internet and it seemed quite obvious that it was an important thing. That might seem silly, but if your timeline for these things reaches back to the '90s, like mine does, a notion like self-care is relatively recent on the historical timeline as a familiar concept.

I've also seen this in writing, with how you handle plot and character development. Or even some things that are silly but obvious like the fact that you can just go out and go on hikes if you want, and there are tons and tons of places to do that.

I feel like there's all kinds of hidden mental blocks that you can go your whole life not knowing that you have, and I appreciate this idea of elevating the concept to its own genre and targeting it with articles such as the one posted here.
I think he means if we are using their "Recover" product which I explained in my email that we absolutely don't use it.

https://baremetrics.com/features/recover
I think you might have missed my point on not arguing.
Are you in CA? File a complaint with the attorney general, they are breaking the law.
Usually the weakest link in any crypto system is the code surounding it. AES-256 is very solid, but using it correctly can be hard. Apple knows what they are doing but they are still human.

For example if this is a lock screen bypass (and not a bypass of say the start up process before the key is entered), maybe some memory corruption issue allows you to bypass the password check. Or another example, many people use short numeric pins to encrypt their phones. Apple then does a lot of complex stuff to take that and turn it into a high entropy key. Maybe this is an exploit in that part, allowing for a bruteforce attack.

These are all just wild gueses, i have no idea what these capabilities are or for that matter, i dont really know very much about how iphone FDE works.
Ah yes, the struggling artists known as the Wu-Tang Clan. You, sir, are masterfully trolling, Shkreli himself, or possibly both.
Could anyone explain what is the difference between this and LiveView from Phoenix/Elixir world?
Hiya--we're not a consumer service, so yeah, I'm asking people to call me. I'll respond a bit to this thread because HN is read by lots of folks, but it's also filled with trolls. Businesses talk to businesses. Especially when we're going to screw something up with low bandwidth communication. I'm a real dude and happy to chat to real folks running real businesses. Consumers should not be using our platform.
How many nights of bad sleep, vs months of conflict or being in court and tens of thousands of dollars for lawyers?

It’s a calculation. And it’s not a binary fight-or-flight situation. There’s room to maneuver - legal maneuvers, speaking with the investor, etc.
In addition to the California law that has already been mentioned, would you care to comment on the Visa Product and Service Rules (which Stripe's TOS incorporates by reference) which state that if you process recurring payments, you must:

> Provide a simple cancellation procedure, and, if the Cardholder’s order was initially accepted online, at least an online cancellation procedure.

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/visa-rules...
I think the point is that none of us will ever want to call you. Please stop posting your number.
What's with the condescending tone of the article? The technology sounds cool, but the tone is off putting.
Ok whether dogbites.org is a lunatic or not. I think there is probable evidence that these dogs are not good pets. Whether it is adoption pages stating that there shouldn't be any children, other dogs, or cats in the home. Gofundme for mauled children. Confiscated dogs, etc. Theses are not family dogs. They have been bred to fight and kill just like others have been bred to herd.
Also seven years old, now (link should probably have a (2013) on it), and many of the complaints have been addressed in the intervening time.

For example, in regards to the first one (someone wanting pulls to fail if they’d trigger a merge instead of doing the merge automatically), modern git now gives you an option to enforce that restriction explicitly: `git config -global pull.ff only`, rather than trying to hack the behaviour together via an alias.

Modern git is actually pretty pushy about that particular setting, these days! Until you’ve configured how you want to handle pulls, it pesters you to specify which pulling behaviour you want every time you pull changes into any repo from anywhere!
Wait wat?

These are legal somehow in USA? Can you please trace how and prove it with links?
> HN is read by lots of folks, but it's also filled with trolls

Just wow..
I personally don't think this is bad as long as:

1) They make it easy to cancel when you call

2) They only try to offer you some free stuff to stay as a customer

My guess is the startup here is trying to learn why customers are cancelling so they can improve the product and they care about keeping customers happy.

Almost all non-web companies make you call to cancel, so I don't see what the big deal is.

The only mistake here is with the email back and forth. Probably the customer support person didn't understand WHY the startup was doing this and made the situation worse.
Hey dude--we're not a consumer service so rest easy! If you're running a business, you want a vendor that you can call (why folks running real businesses love Rackspace and hate AWS when things aren't working).
Most libraries that you will use will probably use ImageMagick. I'd suggest looking into those depending on your language of choice and also see what ImageMagick in general can do:

https://imagemagick.org/index.php
I like how it's one way so you're almost required to use it. Talk about incompatible.
If I can delete my entire GitHub account and screw everything and everyone connected to it with a single red warning prompt you can bet your ass it's possible to online cancel a service that may in some edge cases affect a customer.
Data-driven study on Git cloning behavior
Any response to the comments pointing out this is illegal in CA? Isn’t the Baremetrics office in SF?
I think you’re saying that you think the “I want this!” and “Commonly asked questions” should appear after the “Table of contents” and “take a peek inside” on small screens, because on larger screens they appear to the right of it (rather than to the left).

Why? Having it this way round is definitely less common than the other, but by no means is it rare, and there’s nothing at all wrong with it.
Impactguns.com is one well known dealer of ATF regulated machineguns and AOWs [0, 1]. Based in UT if memory serves. Be prepared to drop 10k USD+ And obviously the bg check / atf stamps etc. and any fees your local receiving federally licensed firearms dealer may add.

I have zero affiliation with this site, they just have a large, dynamic inventory so it makes for fun browsing for me.

0- https://www.impactguns.com/machine-guns/

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_II_weapons#Any_other_w...
Curious what you would do for someone who is mute. Would you make them call you?
This situation is a bit more complex because it's contested (up to 11th circuit court of appeals) that "the decryption and production would be tantamount to testimony by [the suspect] of his knowledge of the existence and location of potentially incriminating files; of his possession, control, and access to the encrypted portions of the drives; and of his capability to decrypt the files." - and if it's testimony it's covered under 5th Amendment protections.

Quite interesting 4-page summary of the topic by the Congressional Research Service from earlier this year: https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/?termsToSearch=LSB1...
In response to your now deleted comment there are 90 million dogs in the US. I'm guessing you aren't for banning bathtubs despite hundreds dying in them annually.
> Yeah, many of us that grew up in SoCal recall the heist that led to the so called 'assault weapon' ban

I always heard it was events in California (and Diane Feinstein being a key player) that created the ban, but I never heard a specific event in SoCal being the catalyst. Wikipedia cites a school shooting in Stockton in 1989 and an office shooting in San Francisco in 1993. Outside of the state, Wikipedia also cites a mass shooting in Killeen, TX.

> LA in the 80s was also Ground Zero for Gang warfare in the US

Might be true, but also: the 1980s was near the peak of violent crime certainly nation-wide, maybe worldwide. Lots written and studied on this topic. Theories about lead poisoning and all that. Probably multiple factors. But a lot of the discussion then was on urban crime. People thought that cities were dangerous. I'm glad that the last 20 years or so has largely seen a reversal of that.

Lately there has been a resurgence, especially in the political right, of the cities are dangerous mantra. It seems pretty odd to me.
What happened in 1986 and are you saying it’s legal to own an automatic weapon if it was manufactured that long ago? Do you have to register it? And people can modify them and upgrade them?
When bargaining with a monopoly or oligopoly, don't unions just put workers on an even footing?

Market forces leave out every human factor. Unions add it back in.