skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your earlier statement, that "lassaiz affaire is just as prone to degeneration" is just as ideological as anything you responded to. Neither of you have proven your case. It's entirely possible that you are right, and there's a factual basis for your assertion. It's also entirely possible that the party you are in opposition to is right, and there's a factual basis for theirs.

Neither point has been supported in this discussion with anything beyond rhetoric.
> I've never seen any value in Twitter.

Except for the information that doesn't show up on other platforms, which is why it is a frequently linked site here?
Parts of the United States resemble a failed state with endemic violence, hunger and poverty exacerbated by the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/crime-poverty-pandemic...
No, 7 million concurrent users. Why does it seem low?
More specific diagnoses are best left to the professionals.

However, perfection is the enemy of good. The more complicated you make the diagnoses and more specific the criteria, the more difficult it becomes to engage with the concept.

For the average smartphone user, the criteria for identifying potentially detrimental smartphone addiction needs to be as simple as possible.

> But if I described the above as “they were on their phone for 7 hours straight” it sounds unhealthy, even though it’s the same.

Being on your phone for 7 hours straight is not healthy, regardless of what you're doing. Much better to do work and research on a proper screen that you're not holding 9 inches from your face, and much better to sit with proper posture instead of craning your neck at a smartphone.

The problem with trying to divide everything into ultra-specific categories is that addicts are very good at rationalizing away their problems. For example, someone addicted to social media might justify it as keeping up with their social life, and someone addicted to 24/7 news headlines would justify it as keeping up with current events. Give enough leeway, and an addict can easily justify away 90% of their smartphone usage as beneficial, all while letting a smartphone take away from other, healthier activities in their life.
Interesting, maybe the scientific computations we are doing are more I/O intense than render applications? How do studios manage disaster recovery? What happens when a multi petabyte NFS server keels over? Are there tape drive backups? It seems risky to have a such a critical system serviced by only a single node.
> Judge Patricia Millett characterized the DOJ’s argument as giving the government the ability to “unilaterally decide to kill U.S. citizens,” according to coverage of the argument by Courthouse News Service. “Do you appreciate how extraordinary that proposition is?”

“DOJ” in this case is the defense attorney. What a shit job. Regardless, the DOJ is not giving the USG the ability to kill US Persons with no judicial review. Judge Millett’s exasperation should be an example of how preposterous this is.

The way this post is titled is misleading and is intended to flame.
Can someone explain to me how the headline matches up with the content?

>The government sought to dismiss the case, invoking the state secrets privilege because Kareem sought discovery on whether he had been targeted, the process the government used to target him, and whether the United States had attempted to kill him. A federal judge agreed with the government.

The involvement of state secrets is what is preventing discovery of whether or you were targeted by the government, not whether or not they are allowed to kill you. This seems very different from the government
provably killing someone, and then claiming "state secrets" as a defense for being allowed to do it.

True, it may not be provable that you were targeted if "state secrets" prevents evidence from coming to light, but this is orthogonal to whether or not killing you is legally allowed, which is what the headline is suggesting.
Reminds me of the experiments on rats, where they couldn't even convince them to try heroin (-laced water) if they were living in a natural environment, whereas the rats stuck in cages became addicted to heroin immediately.
Hi, I’m curious about your experience. I hear the ketamine therapy experience frequently described as “a switch flip”. What do you find is different from one state to the other?

I began hearing of an interesting idea that depression can be treated with CBT because that therapy teaches the patient not how to ruminate less, but instead, how to ruminate more efficiently. Presumably, more efficient rumination on problems leads more quickly to acceptable solutions, ideas, etc, which can then be integrated by the person.
The Indifference Engine: An Ecological Characterization of Bitcoin [video]
It’s whatever the Supreme Court says it is.
Hopefully not the Scots version
They should probably have considered -not- featuring it on the App Store as they did, and then objecting to it.
Facebook: The Story (2020) by Steven Levy
"very little evidence based backing"

Many studies have been done, not just in vitro but in real people with just about the most severe mental issues there are: severe depression and PTSD, and the results have been positive, and these studies have been published in peer reviewed journals and been well received by the scientific and medical community.

So can you describe what evidence you're looking for and what would satisfy you?

Also, you say you're a practitioner. I wonder what you are a practitioner of exactly. If it's some sort of traditional therapy you should be aware that for PTSD and severe depression the evidence is that traditional therapy is very ineffective. So what would you suggest for those suffering from these conditions if not psychedelic-assisted therapy, which from my reading is actually far more effective for these conditions than traditional therapy?
200ms for user interactions is different to a 200ms page load.

A 200ms page load is incredibly fast.

Still, I tested your profile page on Google PageSpeed and it came out at a 300ms load time.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
Baseline power is less of an issue for EVs, since they a) have their own energy storage built in, and b) generally just run ~ 1 hour a day, making it pretty easy to come up with schemes to shift demand around.

Agree the trend of decommissioning nuclear plants is counterproductive for other reasons though.
Big Daddy Fed Doesn’t Care About You
I have been learning more about biology and the immune system. I’ve realized that genetic engineering of viruses is something far easier than making a nuclear weapon and could easily wipe out humanity. It doesn’t have to be a government some crazy cult might just do it 50 years from now and create a pathogen immune to most vaccines.
I dunno how long it's been available but I installed Unity Hub and Unity on Ubuntu yesterday. Haven't played with it much yet though.
I'm using a lg v20 atm.

It does support the second screen as an extension of the main one. The IR glitches, and voLTE does not work like in many lineageos models.

The biggest issue is battery and camera. Which the custom ROMs on XDA will solve.

Also you can buy on aliexpress a 4100mah, or even 10000mah with an extended case.

It supports usb to hdmi.
You can install the gcam app.

It lg v20/g5 are still very good phones but you do need to invest some time on them.
You also need to get comfortable taking out tech debt as a startup. A lot of times you can get away with it at little or no cost.

I wasted lots of time prematurely paying back tech debt only to have that code later deleted or rewritten.

It is important to properly prioritize tech debt and pay back things that the business is currently paying high interest on.

Once the product matures it makes sense to be more proactive in doing things right, but in the early stages, things are changing too fast that you just need to get out a rough prototype.
Is that because of the nature of the technology or because of what users choose to seek out with it?

Also consider that a big insight might come from many small insights
Covering their asses so they can claim that knowledge that the US did nothing to contain COVID-19 is a state secret.
One tactic I have used with moderate success is to explicitly carve out time for fixing tech debt. A few things we’ve tried:

1. Pledge to schedule 20% (pick your percentage) of the sprint as tech debt payback rather than stories. The problem here is that this stuff tends to drift to the bottom of the sprint and then slip if anything else is delayed. This is where most teams start as you can start at an arbitrarily small percentage and scale up gradually.

2. Fixit Friday; the middle Friday of a sprint is for fixing tech debt, not working on sprint tasks. Engineers are encouraged to advocate for tasks they think would speed us up, and we also have done themed pushes where e.g. the whole team chips in to migrate the codebase to a new linter. One issue here is that it’s hard to make progress on larger initiatives, which leads to:

3. Fixit Sprint. At the beginning of the quarter there is often a bit of downtime as the leadership digests the last quarter and plans the new one. This can be a good time to take a sprint off product work, and really dig into some substantial re-tooling or refactoring.

Depending on how much resource you’re allocating to tech debt, you can mix and match these, I’d say 1 & 2 are probably mutually exclusive, but you could combine either with 3, or just do 3 instead.

I think it’s important to be clear about when you are taking on tech debt, and when you have cleared the hurdle and are paying it back, and clear rules like these help to communicate that message.
Being aware of and mentioning a simple possible and unproven explanation is perfectly compatible with not knowing whether the explanation is valid or not.

In other words you don’t have to know what caused it, to enumerate some possibilities.

I did not and would not claim that my simple explanation is true. Just that it could be, and that possibility is not being covered in the article, which instead opts for drama.
Ive been interested in this sort of thought for quite some time, as an avid OSM user (I use it essentially exclusively for all my map needs) and sometimes contributor (I've contributed some information in areas I've lived, and a couple of interesting overlay maps in the US). I do not use Facebook at all, nor any of their products, so that isn't really a draw for me.

I've found that OsmAnd for street navigation works as well as and in some cases better than Google, particularly semi rural areas. The big sticking point with using OSM for car navigation (the biggest use case for any map framework and/or app) is address lookup. Usually Nominatim is used, and particularly in the US it doesn't give you any address data, only cross streets, so navigating to a place you have no idea where it is means you're going to use Google or something else to find it, and then use OSM to navigate out of principle. This is a major roadblock, if you've got to use Google to find out where it is, you'll normally just use it to navigate as well.

I have a solution to this problem, and that is to source address data from openaddresses.io (a collaborative, open source geocoding project) for address lookup. It will require a bit of work to do, specifically on Android, I will have to build an address lookup backend alternative to Nominatim that sources address data from openaddresses.io, which requires account registration to download geocoding data, which means that it will probably require local storage and lookup of data. Once this exists though (and I have not started building it, I tell myself I will but I have other things going on) you've essentially eliminated the big friction point with OSM and it becomes a viable competitor to proprietary navigation in cars or otherwise on roadways. I think if this were built, and the word got out, it would kill the Google Maps monopoly over consumer use, at least with the "sick of google" demographic, which is sizeable.
Deleted YouTube from my phone the other day. Suddenly my phone is boring and I find myself reading books (for the first time in years).
It's Snowing in My CPU – A Snowflake Catalogue
I think this statement quite poorly represents the authors argument, as there are dozens of strange attributes he discusses. It's hardly him trying to sell his solar sail idea -- which he's already sold, btw.
I think the issue is that the government is arguing that you don’t have standing if you can’t prove you’re on the list and state secrets prevents you from knowing if you’re on the list. It would be interesting to see when and where you think judicial review should arise in such a case?
I thought it was in-game, but looking at https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ I see the sum of the individual max daily counts for top games is ~6M. So unless there is an extremely long tail, that must just be people who are signed in with an Active state.
After APIs, Webhooks
I’m still baffled how Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize.
Hex is 4 bits wide. Base 81 might be a good analog, 4 trits wide, if a bit unwieldy.
The article states (correctly or incorrectly, I don't know) that they don’t even know if these are in or near our galaxy.
There is a big difference between this and not getting promoted by a manager who just promoted an easily identifiable inferior performer belonging to their own religion/caste. Or they praising that kind of a guy in every team meeting, or sending out appreciation emails for trivial stuff. It becomes more than obvious they building a case to promote their people.

I've even gotten cold stares for using the office budgets for books, Why do people like you have to read books and get better than us?

Many times it's subtle, but some people are just living through bigotry day in and out. They just can't stand you. And it becomes visible easily.
Human rights including freedom of press should really be a non-partisan issue. I don't think any political party in the US has made this a strong part of their policy platform in recent times.
LSD actually cured my surfing (while I was taking it). I'd just be consciously aware the whole time that I was sitting at a computer, trying to distract myself.
If we're not willing to protect our rights, then, this is what we deserve.
Longish form writing on a platform that specifically restrict length of each message is painful to say the least
A lovely tradition. Once I bought an 18th century pocket violin (pochette) in the Latin Quarter and was able to purchase an 18th century print depicting one, both on the same day. Also they tend to have sane prices, unlike booksellers in the States (who admittedly need to pay rent, unlike the Parisians mentioned here).
Isn't there a process of removing citizenship from someone who has committed treason? Why not at least go that route, vs blatantly killing citizens?
I started Remote Leaf a year back and it's not yet sustainable yet. It's making $1.5k MRR at this point. One of my goals in 2021 is to grew it to $10k MRR.

- Planning to focus more on SEO

- Appsumo deal might work
I tried the hyper v VirtualBox option and consider it a waste of several hours. The graphics support in that mode is abysmal.
They state specifically that these might not be in the Milky Way.
The remote access part is similar, but in some ways 1950s systems were as far from cloud computing as possible.

1950s - computers are so expensive that I can't even get one to myself and have to share it with a bunch of other people

now - I'm using so many computers that I can't even handle managing them all myself and instead pay Amazon to do it for me
To be fair, that was before he ordered the execution of an American citizen without trial.
But how do you know whether you didn't dream, or whether you just don't remember what you dreamed?
Cause then they would actually have to prove the person they killed committed treason.
You might enjoy looking at society as one large organism [1]. Many biological patterns reemerge at this scale.

Imagine the pandemic government response as a large scale societal immune response. Inner city violence as a form of inflammation...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism
And “Peace Officer” for police force trained to escalate.
Yup, I had the worst flu of my life in late November of 2019. Lasted 2 weeks, and the cough that came with it lingered for 2 months. I remember everyone at work saying "something awful" was going around.
I loved your story and that's the kind of business I am trying to build with my wife.

One quick question.

There exists many other sites offering the same service at even cheaper price points (e.g. EZ sniper, Myibidder, BidSlammer, GIXEN, JBidWatcher, esniper, AuctionStealer, Goofbit, etc.)

How do you survive in such a commoditized market?
As horrible as this sounds, there will always be fewer complaints about the government killing American citizens when those citizens come from certain demographic groups. Until those groups complain, you will probably hear very few objections to the practice.
Is there a process for revoking the prize?
Supreme court decisions have been ignored many times in the past. Enforcement can be selective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
You don't even have to wipeout humanity, look at the financial destruction the current virus has done and consider how non-lethal it is compared to many others.

For that matter, every tinpot dictator and would be terrorist in the world could easily get their hands on this virus, store it for a few years until immunity has worn off and we don't have huge stockpiles of a vaccine, then purposefully release it in a dozen major cities at once, it would spread for a couple of weeks before being noticed.
What would constitute evidence in this case? Apple is not going to admit they were swayed by bad PR here.

The pedantry of HN really is tiresome sometimes.
> ..and doesn't contain any binary blobs, or a device that doesn't start freezing/lagging after a couple of minutes of normal usage,..

It's always hard to stay true to ones beliefs; when it comes with so many shortcomings.
> Isn't there a process of removing citizenship from someone who has committed treason?

No.

> Why not at least go that route, vs blatantly killing citizens?

Because it doesn't exist, and if it did exist it would almost certainly be a contested judicial process which would bring in the same problem as criminal prosecution of enemy combatants that happen to be US citizens but are physically located in territory not practically subject to US or cooperative jurisdiction.
Acts of clicking links are better data than surveys.
> "If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."
Why would it matter for the Nobel peace price committee if he killed foreign or US citizens?
I'm referring to a specific class of drone, e.g.:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratos_XQ-58_Valkyrie

I agree that dogfighting is irrelevant and unrealistic.
EOD Exercise of Mass Destruction Training
I'll second the recommendation for Anchorhead. It's a great lovecraftian horror, the plot draws you in and it's hard to stop until you finish it.
Beware of dead ends though so save often.
Which demographic groups would that be?
Anecdotal, but I've been taking 6,000 mU every day last year... I work in an office with 10 people (with a few people that also own and operate mask-less bars on the side), my wife works in healthcare treating COVID patients, and I have 2 kids that attend in person public school 2 days a week (who I've also given 2,000 mU to every morning). None of my immediate family has gotten sick, but nearly everyone at the office, and nearly all of their family members have gotten it. Some very bad cases.

Everyone thought I was weird at first, but the 2nd half of 2020, everyone was taking pills when I passed the D3 bottle around.

I also heard tobacco had a positive deterring effect even though doctors were reluctant to state that publicly... so I also would keep a dip in my mouth most of the time in the office.
Seems like its a standard Seth Rich would fall under.
Obama only killed non-whites and blacks. The Nobel committee is white Swedes.
That's basically what modern medicine tends to do, just in a more structured manner.
The Nobel Peace Prize does have it's share of madmen, dictators and terrorists on the list of nominees and holders. Obama is by far not the worst on that list.

Doing something for peace is not dependent on being a universally good person. You can still save more lifes than you have butchered.
Ehhh, he also "modernized" the US nuclear arsenal right before he won the award, too.
The latest printing includes an afterword by the author reflecting on the financial crisis, but most of the book is the original text.

I recommend this book to everyone with a white-collar job. It's an incredible read. The research is a bit out of date, but the truths still hold. If anything, the age of the research is somewhat helpful. The phenomena these days are more subtle, and many of us work in companies with flatter hierarchies than the 25+ level pyramids the author studied. So the distance in time forces you to reflect on what has changed and whether the results are relevant to you.

You will recognize so many of the situations as reminiscent of things you have experienced and haven't been able to put into words. It is 100% worth the read.
This project releases map files for OsmAnd that include OpenAddress data:

https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation
There's a great podcast / Youtube series called "Fall of Civilizations" that documents some of these collapses and why they happened: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew
Which network are you on?

Verizon's Nationwide 5G is slower than 4G: https://www.pcmag.com/news/heres-why-verizon-iphone-users-mu...

AT&T is in the same boat as Verizon: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/atts-...

T-Mobile is in a similar boat as they have a narrow chunk of 600Mhz dedicated to 5G service, but they own a bunch of spectrum right above 2.4Ghz WiFi (usable with much more powerful radios) that should enable 1100Mbps speeds and higher, but it will take another year or two to see it widely deployed.

Verizon is very wireless spectrum starved right now, AT&T is in a bit better position but still needs more sub-6Ghz spectrum, hence heavy spending to buy 3.5Ghz spectrum: https://www.lightreading.com/ossbss/will-c-band-auction-set-...?
Even the JRE-builtin ZipOutputStream would do the job, it's a proper streaming implementation that doesn't keep more state than necessary.
The world have witnessed the decline of the American hegemony over the last few years, and especially during 2020. The 'gap' between American life and say, Chinese life, for the average citizen has narrowed significantly. Assuming the current trend continues, I'm not sure that at some time in the future it would be a toss-up whether the one or the other provides a better or worse life for the average Joe or Bao.
That's just exchanging forget-to-free for forget-to-drop-reference.
Writing Comfortably in Thick Notebooks
It's a structural failure. Whoever is currently in power only violates the human rights of the people they don't care about, and the party out of power at a given time may care about them but isn't contemporaneously in power to stop it.

The next time they play musical chairs the people being violated may change but the incentives don't.

You might imagine someone having the forethought to consider that someone else might be in power at some future point and put mechanisms in place to constrain their abuses. Modern politicians appear resistant to this logic.
If every almond in the entire world disappeared, how much food insecurity would it cause? I've never really considered them a staple
Fantastic podcast. Recent two-parter on the fall of the Aztec Empire is particularly good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JVdpWCKeM