skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt mostly the same on nights where I got a decent night sleep. But I'd fall asleep at like 9-10pm on coach.

And on nights I got less than 8 hours, wow, I couldn't do it without caffeine.
I'm just spitballing here, but couldn't this be resolved by using coarse sampling and a moving average? As in infrequently sampling locations. I guess you could get fancier and adjust this with the speed at which the user is moving. I'd also imagine that just using low precision GPS would help add ambiguity so a person can't be exactly located. Of course, there's a relevant xkcd[0]. In the "neighborhood" seems like the most precision you'd want for something like this (of course you could expose this to the user), but I'm also not even interested in this feature so there's a bias.

[0] https://xkcd.com/2170/
The first week was rough for me too. I was a 3-4 (8 oz) cup per day drinker.

I quit cold turkey in 2013. Not for health reasons, I was trying to save money. I had about a 2-3 week period of migraines and sluggishness.

Now, I usually drink a cup of tea to stay regular and decaf throughout the day.
> only 40 organizations got a secondary payload .. now they've upped it to 250

Yeah, the more I know about USG cyber, the more I'm convinced the delta is simply those who have gotten around to a) finding the payload, and b) actually annotated it in their reporting system.
Yeah, what he needs is a liquid market for his stock, but startups are very high risk investments with very uneven returns and time helps provide information on which ones are winners.

My early stage startup stock grew 50x by the time the startup was acquired, and nobody is going to give you anything close to the final valuation because the risk is so high. My late stage startup stock in another startp grew 2x in 12 months, which is also an absolutely crazy rate of return. If only I could pick winners like that all the time.

Not all startups are winners, but this is basically what every investing forum tells you about retirement savings: you want higher risk investments (stocks) earlier in life when you have time for your investment to recover from a crash, and you want safer investments when you are older.

So what if you want cash when you're close to retirement? Go work for a big public tech company and sell your stock every vesting period.
It's more complicated than that, but it would in the end be close to 300k salary increase. The correct way to think about it is, what if the company was entirely owned by employees? How would income change, then?
Unfortunately, even the state gets caught up with the broken system of building approval with NIMBYist local interests control zoning and building approval.

https://ktla.com/news/california/its-insane-san-diego-county...
IMHO (French, expat in Shanghai since 201708) in the Chinese middle class (and up) parents usually push their children very hard. Many start their day early, study before going to school, after it, and even during weekends. The school program is way more ambitious than most (maybe even all?) its occidental counterparts. All this is very competitive, even on extra-scholar activities (art, sport...).

Later, as adult, most are used to the idea that they must work hard, to the point of not even considering another approach.
> How do you k ow this is an affiliate link farm?

This site's 'reviews' are based on existing product reviews and the descriptions of the products. A real review site will purchase the product to review it then post one or two short paragraphs on their experience using it.

And it's definitely affiliate links since all Amazon links have ?tag=gcaftext-20, which seems to be their affiliate tag.
This requires sign-in. (Signing-in, the "business" of creating non-anonymous profiles, is as I see it the essence of the problem. "Tech" companies hoping to do "work" for free and profit via online advertising want to build profiles for advertisers to target, without having to ask for consent to create them. Some users do not want profiles nor advertising.) "Myactivity" does not stop data collection. It is, to quote the web page, for "managing" the data they have already collected and will continue to collect going forward absent intervention from the user. The data collection is already happening before one ever signs in. Sure, someone can tell Google to stop collecting, but by then it's too late. They have created a profile at Google's urging , identified themselves and put their name on data that Google has already collected and attached to other identifiers. The solution is simple, as stated above: stop collecting data on people without their prior consent. Legislation could address this, but I doubt the US will ever see any meaningful regulation in this area. As I am typing this I am thinking of the case where Google was sniffing people's Wifi and storing the data. I can find the cite if needed. They later stopped after people complained, and they were sued, but that was a nice example of how aggressively they pursue data collection "within the bounds of existing law". Wrong but legal (for now). This is the "tech" industry in a nutshell.
I quit all caffeine this year myself but I do miss the rich taste of coffee. Which brand did you go with for your decaf?
Exactly, it's completely misleading

"They are astonishing pieces of engineering, capable of feats of locomotion and dexterity that took evolution millions of years to perfect. But they aren’t quite as capable as they seem. For all their physical prowess, the intelligence of these mechanical creatures is sorely limited. They can walk with an unnervingly animalistic gait and now they can open doors, but what they can’t do is, well, pretty much everything else"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132150-200-the-trut...

and
https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/boston-dynamics

"Believing that these videos represent robotics with advanced autonomous capability is problematic, since that is far from the truth. There are substantial differences between a robot that autonomously performs these actions versus one that is preprogrammed to do so with the help of external sensors and computation, and the lack of transparency makes it unclear what Atlas and friends are capable of. Though the details are not clear, it appears to be the case that Boston Dynamics’ technology does not involve learning or advanced cognition and is based on human-defined methods for robotic control:

Boston Dynamics are getting a lot of press these days, but perhaps their most impressive accomplishment is that they do it all without any deep learning"

Here's the math behind Atlas, the backflipping humanoid.https://t.co/5l7VZ0MBzs … … pic.twitter.com/8IOTWuDqxF

— James Ough
This was undoubtedly the nicest conversation regarding crypto / blockchain I have had on HN in years! Thanks for restoring my faith in civility.
I prefer green tea over coffee.

Green tea not only has caffeine, but also has L-theanine which helps control anxiety and stress, helps you sleep and helps you focus.

It's a good balance for productivity.

Plus it's easier on the stomach than coffee and less diuretic.
Chemistry definitely changes with scale, but that could be a good thing. This effect may be more powerful in the Nanoparticle size range, and then we can make memresistors only a few atoms thick.
It may have sold in some numbers in North America, but remember that Commodore had a trade-in offer and some chains like Fast Eddie's offered the T/S 1000 at a bargain price solely to allow people to get the discount. Commodore reportedly used some of them as doorstops!
This is literally the second sentence in the link you cite:

> The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as the rendering engine to display the web content in native applications.
> Attempt quitting when you can afford to not be at 100% for a few days at a time.

This is what I did, I had a bad cold so I was staying home from work and couldn't drink coffee anyway. It was on my mind for a while and a doctor suggested cutting out the caffeine to help with digestive issues. I just used the being sick time to get through the withdrawal and brain fog anyway. It was crazy to get through though. It took me about 9 days to feel normalish again. headaches, dreams about coffee, insomnia.
Nah, you were just kind of vague in the parent comments and I wasn't sure what you were looking to see.

Adding an 'Animal May Have Consumed Insect Protein' label seems pretty reasonable and low-key.

It might wind up being added as a marketing thing anyway since insect protein is so much more sustainable than other feed sources. It takes like 1,500 gallons of water to make a pound of cow with traditional feedstock. Be nice to move away from that.

I personally think it's cool and would go out of my way to purchase animal products labeled as derived from insect protein.
Curious; I wonder how Void Linux is managing.
You can just change your New Reddit profile settings to get it back to the Old Reddit information density and layout. You can also make this apply across the site, overriding subreddit-specific stylesheets that subreddit mods create.

I don't get why people keep complaining about New Reddit when you can just do this once and problem solved.
I started getting headaches on Saturday evenings and could not figure out why. I realized I don't drink coffee on weekends, as the work provided a very reasonable espresso machine. I now make sure I drink at least a cup of tea over weekend days :-)

Caffeine is indicated as a protector against Alzheimers. The disease is prevalent in my family, so I have good reason to make sure I'm Joe'd up.
My brother roasts professionally and I just get his mailed to me, but I really like Intelligentsia's decaf.
Thanks for your work keep HN running. I hope that you can find a more sustainable solution soon.
I’ve quit coffee twice now. The first time I went cold turkey and had terrible headaches for about a week. I don’t recommend that route.

Last year I used a digital scale and stepped down my intake by 5g every 3 days (starting at 40g/day). Completely painless.

Can’t say it’s been a panacea - the only noticeable difference for me is I spend less money on coffee.
Isn't this the same thing? The problem I see in the telegram screenshot is it says the first user is 863 meters away. Even 10m is fairly revealing and if you're max range is 7mi, 1m is extremely precise. Though this seems like programmers using the maximum precision they have but not necessarily the maximum meaningful precision (an all too common event).
Personally my preferred approach would be to bucket users into names of countries and states and just publish that as a string. Less vulnerable to sampling, triangulation, and other attacks.
This entire post is a disgusting and ridiculous way to to rationalize the selfish behavior of not wearing a mask in public. There is no reasonable person that would think these things in isolation. I feel gross after reading this nonsense.

Knowing that someone would try this hard to equate genuine travesties with putting fabric over your mouth and nose to protect others to advance some separate agenda when more than 1 out of every 1000 people in the US is already dead from covid is a grave disappointment.
update, I just made a google voice number for my newer sim.

the google voice app lets you switch between any logged in google account seamlessly.

2x sim, 2x google voice. yay new accounts I can sign up to, again
If you are for a comfortable living wage, how do you propose it is ensured without a minimum wage at some, to be specified, level?
I'm curious as toileting what you see as "horribly buggy" and what brokenness you see in disappearing messages?

I use Signal on iOS, and it's pretty much flawless. Extremely rare for me to even hear friends (many of which I communicate with using Signal) talking about problems, I vaguely recall having something go wrong a long time back, but can't even recall what it was now, only that it went away and started working properly fairly quickly/easily.

(I disagree with Moxie's choice to use real phone numbers as an underlying hard requirements, and also with the choice to notify people when other people from their contact lists start using Signal - but I understand why he made those choices (to piggyback pre existing social graphs) and respect how he implanted it without needing to grab my contact list and have it vulnerable on their servers...)
Breaker is now part of Twitter
I've quit cold turkey a number of times (sometimes after being sick). It sharpens the pain to about a weeks worth of headaches and just being FLAT, but then I seem to be fine.

However, I find when I quit over longish periods (months), i start to lose my focus at work, and become quite scatterbrained and not really productive. I probably would have been some form of ADHD when I was a kid, and in the real world, it seems caffeine keeps me on track and productive (and probably most importantly, motivated) when sitting in a chair and staring at a monitor all day... without the coffee, I'm just scatterbrained and not getting work done.... If my day job were different, I don't think I'd need all the caffeine... I dont usually have sleep problems if I cut myself off by 2 or 3 pm... and I don't usually have more than 2 cups/day.

It probably doesn't help that I love the taste of coffee...
You’re right. Quitting caffeine is easy. I did it at least twenty times in 2020 alone.
This has been a feature in Telegram since at least March 2020 when I first used it.
It's hard to square your comment that there are "no restrictions against travel" with reality. These are just three examples I happen to know of off the top of my head. The remainder of the assertions in your post suffer from the same fundamental flaw.

Hawaii: The islands of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Hawaii continue with the state’s pre-travel testing program. Travelers must have their negative test results prior to departing as an alternative to Hawaii’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.

Beginning December 2, Kauai is temporarily pausing participation in this pre-testing program. All incoming trans-pacific and inter-county travelers to Kauai will face a mandatory 10-day quarantine.

https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements

Chicago: Anyone traveling from a state on the Orange list is directed to obtain a negative COVID-19 test result no more than 72 hours prior to arrival in Chicago or quarantine for a 10-day period (or the duration of their time in Chicago, whichever is shorter). Anyone traveling from a state on the Red list must quarantine for a 10-day period or the duration of their time in Chicago, whichever is shorter. The Order is subject to the limited exemptions outlined in the ‘Exemptions tab’.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/emergenc...

Massachusetts: All visitors entering Massachusetts, including returning residents, who do not meet an exemption, are required to:

Complete the Massachusetts Travel Form prior to arrival, unless you are visiting from a lower-risk state designated by the Department of Public Health.
Quarantine for 10 days or produce a negative COVID-19 test result that has been administered up to 72-hours prior to your arrival in Massachusetts.
If your COVID-19 test result has not been received prior to arrival, visitors, and residents must quarantine until they receive a negative test result.

Failure to comply may result in a $500 fine per day.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-travel-order
I may give it a shot. Cheers!
Because it's not once, it doesn't stick, and certainly not across devices.
I quit coffee the last time I got sick with the flu. I figured If I'm going to feel crap I might as well commit to it.

after that I only drink Tea (black no sugar) and only about 3-4 a day.
I can go a full day without any tea much easier than i could with no coffee... but I might just quit all caffeine completely anyway. we'll see, I need to find decent "hot drinks" that are low acidity and no milk. Mint Tea (no black tea in it) will only go so far.
What is objectionable about that post? The OP said "Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution" as if they were privy to some business decision that was not public knowledge. The reply simply asked them to substantiate it. I do not see any hostility in it.
There's a GitHub issue[0] acting as an RFC open since April 2020. Looks like no conclusion has been reached but a quick skim of the thread reveals lots of sentiments similar to those expressed in TFA.

[0] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935
> Perhaps work just isn't as interesting without caffeine?

Since I quit caffeine (or stopped habitually drinking it every day)I noticed I am so much productive when I actually do drink a cup of coffee or strong tea. I'll be focused and fast. A little worrying to me to have an addiction so I can be more productive at work. It helps with my art hobby too.

Part of me wonders if I have undiagnosed adhd or something since the caffeine is so effective and making me focus and work better?
It seems to affect different people differently. I grew up in a house where coffee consumption was measured in pots, not cups, and consequently, I like to drink 5+ cups / day.

I usually give up caffeine completely for a month each year just to see if I'm actually addicted; I've not had the experience of the author.
Yep seriously, for me it’s been amazing

I moved to a Midwestern city and wake up at around 11am, just in time for my 9am (SF time) meeting lol. I chat w colleagues constantly on zoom and get off after 5 hrs.

Of course I got my SO to keep company so it’s never boring. I suspect all the mental health issues we’ve been seeing in the pandemic have been from single or more extraverted folks

But for introverts who are already in stable relationship, I love the “isolation”!
Serious question: why do you start back up? What do you miss about it? I had a 5-6/day habit towards the end, and all I really look back on is (1) having it be impossible to get moving in the morning, (2) insomnia, and (3) headaches.
I actually really like the concept, as I understand it - a vetted shortlist of products worth buying in each category, with customer reviews distilled down to a brief summary (instead of a game-able star rating). Unfortunately I can definitely see how Google wouldn't be able to distinguish this from low quality affiliate spam. Also, I agree with "the UX does not make the user want to continue exploring the page they landed on" - if I were you I'd invest in improving the design.

As for "dramatically increase the word count, add more photos, add overviews of each product instead of just a single line or two pulled from reviews"... don't do this! If I wanted all that junk I'd just read the Amazon page. I agree that there is probably room to add a bit more information about the products without ruining what makes your site cool but don't abandon your vision.
I love the taste of coffee so it would be very hard to quit. If you like black coffee look into a decent espresso machine. I do 4 cups with that and it’s incredible. I believe in the Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) school of thought.
I appreciate the kind words, and very much enjoyed the conversation. Thanks for taking the time to help me see another perspective with your comments throughout the thread.
??? Are you just ignoring everything we previously discussed?

Having a way to directly amend the law via some majority is completely optional. There is no need to ever include that in the ballot proposition. Why are you choosing to completely ignore this clear fact?
Technology can be reduced to labour, capital, and previous technology. Capital can be reduced to labour, capital, and land.

The first unit of technology was the product of labour and capital.

The first unit of capital was the product of land and labour.

If you operate recursively until the first unit of capital and the first unit of technology you end up finding that all value is the product of land and labour.

There are certainly a great many economists that agree with this definition. Actually, a famous economist gave a talk at Google that made this exact point!
it's trivial and essentially free (<$5) to run an IRC server supporting tens of thousands of users.

it also doesn't take gigs of memory on client devices.
Ask HN: Imposter Syndrome/How to start projects I am proud of
Never thought I would really come to this but I really need to talk to a group of people who understand programming and could maybe give me some direction. I understand that this probably will get deleted because its an incredibly stupid situation, but maybe this will reach some people that can give some advice. To preface this, I am a 17 year old programmer. I have been doing various programming tasks etc. since around age 11 with basic minecraft things (plugins for servers, mods). I would link some of the old projects if I could find them. But as the years have gone on I have found myself doing progressively more and more illegal things with my programming "skills". Including most recently a gift card phone bot that calls gift card phone lines, bypasses captcha, and transcribes balance. I know I know, you can probably already tell that I think this stuff is incredibly cool. But recently, I have been thinking a lot about what I want my life to be exactly. I am sure that I want to program in college, but I just cant see myself putting any relevant info on a college app/job app because everything I have done is illegal. I know the obvious answer here is stop doing illegal stuff, but whenever I try and stray from this I end up getting incredibly bored. I have an addiction. I have tried so many times to start legitimate projects, I just can't stop myself from getting immersed back into the next illegal thing. It's starting to effect my mental health as every time someone asks what projects I have done I have no skills or projects to even show for it. There's also the other issue of grinding through the first 2/3 of a project and then getting bored and starting something new. I have 20+ 2/3 done projects that have no user interface/ small bugs etc. I just want to start a project that I can take ownership of as mine, not pseudonymously. I know this has been a bit of rambling I just am not sure what to do at this point. I need life direction. Thanks for listening lol
With a fixed offset, a person who walks around outside and makes at least a few turns could easily have their fixed-offset location trace template-matched to OSM or other street data to determine the offset. (If you live in NYC it might take slightly longer.)
I quit caffeine recently, sort of accidentally.

I've never liked coffee, but I've been a diet soda addict for about 15 years, going multiple days in a row where it's the only liquid I ingest, but due to the pandemic, I don't go out for groceries much anymore, opting instead to just order from Instacart. At least in my area, soda is substantially more expensive online than picking it up in the store, and because of this, I bought a SodaStream machine, a 20lb CO2 tank from a welding supply store, a refill adapter, and low-calorie water-flavoring packs that don't have any caffeine.

The headaches stopped after a couple days, and I fortunately didn't have any other side effects (I think because the caffeine concentration in soda tends to be a lot lower than that of coffee).

The positives were almost immediate; my sleep improved after a day, and while it might be psychosomatic, I think my focus for work improved a bit.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that this would be a change for Linux code (I’ve never paid attention to it). If you believe in indenting from the left, and you have the typical wonky (to me) irregular and wonky line wrapping/breaking rules, 80 columns frequently causes very weird pile-ups on the right margin.

I tend to champion both wider lines (120 or so, never rigidly any number) and much simpler and more regular principles for breaking and indentation.

Hope there aren’t too many codebases developing for x64 and ARM that need 1980s-era limitations on code!
To do this, you're required to log into an account which I guess a decent size of HN browse Reddit without one.