skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
United States. I'm 37.

99.9% of messaging (for me) occurs via iMessages or SMS. FB Messenger is occasionally used for people who are more acquaintances (don't have their phone number).

I don't really have a good reason to not use iMessages (blue bubbles). Reasonably secure and Just Works. SMS on the other hand.... my least favorite part of SMS (besides the complete lack of security) is that media messages are crippled in quality. Photos and videos are compressed and distorted beyond belief.
No of course not, unstructured text is the pinnacle of CLI UX and anything else is a waste of oxygen. /s

I frequently SSH into systems that are not running desktop environments and being able to run htop, iftop, tmux, or any "graphical" CLI application makes my time there much more pleasant.

Yes there is a need to have structured, interactive, non-text based interfaces in a CLI.
WhatsApp updated/clarified their Privacy Policy, which states they share PII with Facebook (their parent company).
Telegram is insecure and also being swamped with right wingers. Doesn’t seem promising.
They don't need to use bots. Pretty much every dating app gives new users an initial boost in visibility to get them hooked. Each app has its own demographic that I've noticed can change in different cities. Last I was using these, Coffee Meets Bagel had the professional crowd near me.

FYI, it comes across poorly the way you seem to evaluate partners based on their income.
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s/distort/extort/
But in the long run knowing all that makes it easier. We could have some GUI for doing all those things but it would end up being a massive mess of buttons EVERYWHERE and endless menus. And maybe a nice wizard could be designed for the given example that you could check the boxes as you go and it would be easy to figure out the first time. But after 5 years of doing this same thing do you want to spend 2 minutes clicking through a wizard every time or do you want to have spent a little time learning some cryptic commands a couple years back and now you can type it out in 20 seconds. Or better yet you made a script and it takes 1 second to run ./processAndInsertToDevDb

I think the point is that most programming tools aren’t made to be easy to use the first time. They’re made so that the 100th or 1000th time it’s fast even if every time it’s been a little different.
So the trick is figuring out how to boost the things you want to boost without boosting or preferably even inhibiting things you don't want to boost. Actually, this echoes what is sometimes said about curing cancer. That it's pretty easy to kill cancer. The problem is in keeping people alive in the process.

In either way, I'm pretty excited by all the recent findings and breakthroughs in both fields - longevity and figuring out cancer.
You're welcome. Mental health is a very misunderstood topic because it is something we cannot directly peer into and the stigma associated with mental health makes people hide it very well.

It is possible to have a who child goes off the rails in a very nurturing and a generally normal family. I've seen cases where one of the many siblings gets to become a sociopath and the family never understands why and they continue to be normal and consistently try to get their sibling back on track. It is clear that abuse in the family doesn't always play a role. But quite often it does and while mental health has a hereditary component, a bad environment only makes things worse.

I recommend Ramsay's movie 'We need to talk about Kevin' to make an idea of how wrong it could go. Surely, it is a movie but it's not too far from reality.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
From the about portion of that, it mostly reads like symptoms of people with Schizoid Personality Disorder or Avoidant Personality Disorder. While it can be a good survival trait in the grand scheme of things, culturally in the US it's as useful as being born poor.
Rare Earth: The Summer of Larry [video]
I didn't say "it's 100% this".

I was trying to convey that is a fact that some people do in fact do this.
About the conspiratorial mindset, as you call it, for example, if YouTube censors “共匪” (“communist bandit”), then it must be a really bad idea, right? In which cases do you think it's reasonable not to trust YouTube blindly.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270290/youtube-deleting...
I deleted the app after it deleted all of my texts and wouldn't open. I still think encrypted messaging is very important, but not sure signal has done a great job with their implementation. Compared to the default android app it's always been quite buggy
> But if you get confirmation Russia is launching 100 ICBMs, its bombers are in the air, and its subs are rising to launch depth, well lets just hope that's hard to fuck up that confirmation.

Will nuking Russia in that situation prevent the US from being nuked? Will it help any American citizen anywhere in the world?
Lua is tied with C as my favourite languages.

I personally DO use Lua sometimes to code general purpose stuff.

Still, I don't see Lua ever having "batteries", the language wasn't invented for that purpose, and the original sponsor of the language wouldn't want it changing in that direction (I dunno if they still sponsor it though).

Lua was invented by PUC-Rio (Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro campus) at the request of PETROBRAS, its purpose was "describe" stuff, and replace another language that they already had, plus being turing complete, because they got tired of hacking things endlessy whenever they needed to describe something "new" in their systems.

So to "describe" stuff, Lua doesn't need libraries.

That said... currently Lua most popular use is add some kind of scripting environment to other software, still that often means a library would be useless, and even then sometimes that usage is still to describe things, for example the game "Crusader Kings 2", use Lua to read a file named "defines.lua", and all it does is set some constants, another use of Lua that I find interesting is "xmake", Lua programs in it are very descriptive, using Lua syntax features to "tell" things to the system, instead of looking like anything resembling a normal imperative program.

EDIT: about community size... yeah, it is tiny :( I never found a Lua job, companies that use Lua often hire a programmer of other languages and teach him Lua, I am also currently using PUC-Rio official GUI library (iup) and never found anyone else using it to ask questions about it, I've been in PUC-Rio during a tech event, and when I asked around if anyone knew where Lua authors were, the people that study and work there, didn't knew they had anything to do with Lua in first place!!!
Then it's dead on arrival.
From my experience, as someone who is very active in the dating scene - almost no guys I know use bumble exclusively or even as their primary dating platform.

Most prefer Tinder/Hinge because it allows them more control over their dates/matches (i.e they can put in more time/work to get more dates) whereas Bumble is more of a passive experience. It's used as more of a "bonus" or "extra".
> If you don’t use a cloud provider: why not?

This makes it sound like it's a negative, but a solid argument can be made controlling your application all the way down to the metal is a more, not less, secure way to go.

We can all make opinionated assumptions about whether a cloud provider is "more" or "less" secure than doing it (whatever "it" is, exactly) on your own, but even the fact that it's so debatable proves that it's not really a defining point that should be on this list of questions (although it might be to an individual team, especially if you're trying to bring things in-house in the first place, but of course this set of questions is really relevant to SaaS.)
I feel like making iac as real code instead of yml makes it harder. Its better to make helm more powerful and make its syntax better.
Havent heard about them using the entire $100mn unless you have a source. I cant imagine the current situation is making their spend rate go up however.
>sugar maple and oak, hickory and poplar

I feel the trees mentioned are somehow involved too.
I bought the 2020 27" iMac last August even though everyone could see this redesign coming from a mile away. Mostly because a) I was concerned about how ready M1 would be for software development b) it had all the high-level features I wanted in a desktop c) I needed Windows/Boot Camp support for various games/software I wanted to run on it d) I needed a shiny new toy for quarantine coping.

I don't regret it at all and I've been very happy with it. It'll be interesting to see how these new iMacs perform, especially since they may or may not have dGPUs which would compare with AMD's Navi.
Nothing is really stopping you from paying for the content and pirating it to get the quality you want.

But lets be honest, essentially all pirates just want the content for free.
I like your style. Off topic question: why are you so absolute in your investment decisions? Can’t predict what happens so you totally exit? Thought you had figured out some inflation dynamics so you all-in BTC?

I’ve lately decided I need to be more moderate in my investing to avoid quagmires of conflicted indecision.
~50% whales, 50% 4.99$ spenders
The loan is not a loan, its a gift. There was some tax reason it was done this way
I have an older Bitt Boy in GB-like shell and it works quite well, it struggles a little with SNES. The battery is swappable but you'll get few hours out of it. Charges from micro USB.

https://bittboy.com/
I don’t think that’s necessarily true either - Young men have much higher mortality rates as well - up to 3x in some age groups:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...

Primarily from accidents and violence if I recall correctly.
Use the HiDPI feature or simply larger fonts if it is hard to read. My 15" laptop is 4k and I wouldn't give up the clarity to go back to the old days.
Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases
The notifications transport for these on iOS is necessarily centralized as push notifications have to be sent from an apple developer client cert to Apple's APNS system.

There is no such thing as decentralized messaging on iOS for this reason.

The matrix developers run a push service, which all servers have to talk to to push notifications to their iOS app, even if you run your own instance.

[ EDIT: The following statement is false! Changes in APNS have rendered my previous understanding out of date. ] This means that both the push server operator, as well as Apple, can see the content of all of the push notification messages, thereby bypassing the e2e encryption as well.
One big hangup users have is a difference in expectations. They know what they're getting with the money they pay towards their iPhone. Heck - most users will gladly pay exorbitant prices for a cup of coffee as long as it meets their expectations. The same cannot be said for a given app they pull off the App Store. The quality experience can vary greatly from app to app. Even then, an app that fits your lifestyle may not fit mine, so a recommendation isn't necessarily a guarantee of value.
Cough advertising cough cough.
I wonder the optimal way to allocate ad spend is here: which platforms and which features result in the most conversions to dates per marginal dollar?

Spamming Super Likes on Tinder has worked well for me, but I'd be curious to hear others' experiences.
IRC all over again. I don't see this taking over until someone comes up with its Gmail.
If volunteers also help out with crossing busy intersections... i hope they have smart and strong moderation etc. to keep dangerous trolls out!

Heart warming idea nonetheless :)
Why is this structured as a loan? It sounds like it's structured in such a way that he isn't interested in getting paid back. Is it so he can exercise control in a weird scenario like a buyout? Is it some weird tax thing?
There is an important role for research that sets up further research. Without these exploratory studies, it is difficult to determine where to make a larger investment in a more rigorous study.

You'll note that most papers are rather explicit about this, though this is often underplayed by journalists. The article does say this:

> Further research is still warranted to explore the underlying mechanisms and active compounds in coffee.

> If the association is further proved to be a causal effect, men might be encouraged to increase their coffee consumption to potentially decrease the risk of prostate cancer.”
Not really worried about funding its existence for the sake of it just not freeloading my use while it's here and I decide it's worth it which is what the gp was referring to as well.
Tracking against an index is somewhat meaningful, but sort of misses the point. Berkshire Hathaway manages about $800 billion dollars in assets.

If you are trying to figure out what to do with your 401(k) or a portfolio of 10k-$10m, index funds are great. If you are in charge of managing almost $1 trillion in assets, it's a completely different ballgame. What's they've done is amazing - every move they make in the public markets is a huge signal and has market manipulating implications. You can't really compare them to an index fund and learn anything meaningful, unless you are comparing putting your $10k into either Berkshire or an index fund.
Prop 22 Is Here, and It’s Already Worse Than Expected
tweet thread is claiming app store apps are downloaded unencrypted and that they can be modified in flight. Any proof of this?
Yelling "slippery slope fallacy" does not prove that the slope is in fact not slippery.

The validity of the slippery slope argument turns on how solid the reasoning chain is from action to consequence to the next consequence and so on, through to the final outcome. Do we have good reason to think that each step will happen?

So, in this case, do we have good reason to think that this slope might in fact be slippery? That is, do we have good reason to think that the current banning will result in less harmful things also being banned down the road?

First, is there any pressure toward moving to banning more speech? Yes, there is (search for "deplatforming" for evidence).

Second, is there justification available for moving further? It's right there in the article title: "harmful". Can you justify censoring QAnon because they're harmful? Yeah, you can make that case. How about homeopathy or anti-vaxxers? How about pro-life people? There are those who will argue convincingly that those views are harmful.

And third, there is now precedent for censoring what was un-censorable before.

That doesn't prove anything, but it's enough for me to suspect that this slope is in fact slippery. There's going to be a human tendency to want to go further.

The thing that would make this slope not slippery is if there were some bright line that people agreed on as to what can be censored and why, and the current stuff was clearly one one side of that bright line, and almost everything else was clearly on the other side. That would place a limit, agreed upon by most people, of how far censorship could go, and prevent people from going further. But I don't see such a bright line. Do you?
As far as I know, Google and Apple are only used to send Push notifications to users. These are optional, and Signal on Android can be used without Google.

AWS S3 is/was used to share files with other users. It became a standardized API, with many alternatives supporting the protocol, so switching to a different provider or on-premises should not be difficult.

Signal intends to remove the dependency on phone numbers, and therefore Twilio, but this has not be done yet.
Wow. An entire country can accidentally be hosed if their domain name used by their NS expires? Is it that perilous?
That's true, even if only 1% of users are on each of 99 servers while the rest do something else, 1% of users will be frustrated when their server breaks, like with email.

Good point.
That is not my point. Things being there doesn't make them important
It's not 100% on topic, but it's the first post of the guy in a long time. He had a channel about traveling to other countries and finding interesting stories, and the pandemic was a huge problem for that.

I hope you enjoy the video. It was a weird year for everyone. Happy 2021!
Telegram is not a secure chat application though. It's more similar to Facebook Messenger. You're better off using WhatsApp over it if you care about security.

Or obviously Signal.

When it comes to Matrix, it's a little trickier. Riot, the most common Matrix client does E2E encryption on DMs and invite only rooms. What I'm not sure is what happens if you send a private message to someone who is using Matrix client that doesn't do E2E. Will it fail to send? Or will it like fallback to not encrypted?
I can’t remember if it was always that way. When the App Store opened I guess there was a standard price of 59p for an app. Before that, 59p would have been seen as a ridiculous price to pay for a copy of software. Imagine buying windows 95 on a CD for 59p. By setting the bar so low for app prices at the start, it’s possibly just become the way it is now.
All IM apps rely on Google or Apple (on their respective platforms) for the push notifications. The alternative is polling in relatively small intervals, but that wakes up the app, which uses the battery without any real usage.

And if the OS decides to kill your app's process, your polling dies with it and you don't get notifications.
Do you understand what the tax play is?
Open source devs are horribly mistreated for a service they provide for free/very low income. I will gladly focus the conversation on someone being rude to someone that has dedicated their life to making the world a better place. Signal is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the betterment of mankind. They want to a good job and they’re not assholes.
> The experiment of making women go first failed,

Completely wrong. The goal, again, is not to make people meet, is to get the more users as possible. By making girls making the first move, you empower girls, you prevent them to get a insulting message from all your matches, you make them feel they decide. Girls are happy of this environment and stay on the app. More girls means more guys. Overall it means more users. And one day it will means more money

> I'm surprised they haven't allowed men to pay more to get ahead.

That's not their goal their. Their goal was to grow in term of users. Now that they become public, and they focus on profitability, don't worry for them, price will go up

> I wish companies did more to encourage people to actually interact once matched.

Not going to happen, the more people interact, the more they meet and the more they quit the app.

> I suspect that there's much, much more that these apps can do to make it a win-win environment for their users

As long as dating apps founders want to make money thats not going to happen. You will always make more money by addicting your users to your app. That doesn't mean there is no solution. Actually one of my life goal is to create that kind of app, but I need at least $50M to create it. So you will have to wait a few years
2 seconds lag is pretty long, and easy to notice. Nobody can cross the street in 2 seconds. So if there isn't enough margin of safety to be sure it is safe with the lag, then there wasn't enough without it too.

Most likely the help was just help find the button and then tell the blind person when the walk light lit up. Most busy intersections have a light for pedestrians, but many do not have any help for the blind. This is very much region specific - when I was in Germany all lights had a beep (in that one city). I've never heard such beeps elsewhere, but things can and do change faster than I travel to other cities.
Japanese IMEs are even more complicated than Chinese ones, what are you talking about? (The existence of kana doesn't solve the homophone and homograph problems.)
> at the end of the day I have to hear the speakers so if it sounds good it is good rules for me. There really is no wrong if you like what you hear.

There are two very different goals that are easy to conflate and that the article isn't very clear about:

1. If you are a music listener or music producer focusing on making music, you just want a room that sounds great to you. If you're making music, you want a sound that inspires you and gets the creative juices flowing.

2. If you are a mixing or mastering engineer or a music producer focusing on polishing and mixing your work, you want a room that gives you insight on how the audio will sound in a wide variety of listening environments. Your goal is to get the song sounding as good on as many people's speakers, headphones, and rooms as possible and your own personal setup is a proxy for that.

For example, if you only have a couple of tiny speakers that don't go below 50 Hz, your song may have subbass that you literally cannot hear. But when someone with a subwoofer plays the song, all of that comes out. If it's too loud or out of tune, the song sounds like trash, but you have no way of knowing.

So the goal is a monitor setup that is relatively neutral so that the song doesn't sound better to you than it will to others. You want a fairly flat response so that you aren't inadvertently EQ-ing the song to cancel out peaks and valleys in your room because then that will imbalance the sound in other rooms. And you want to cover the full frequency range so you can hear everything others will be able to hear. If the songs sounds great in your room, but it sounds like garbage for everyone not in your room, it definitely is not great.

Most articles about monitor placement tend to assume the goal is 2 more than 1. These days, the line is blurry because many musicians and producers are also doing a lot of the mixing.
The whole point of Keybase is that you could verify the keys that the server sent you by looking at signed statements posted on third-party websites. That verification happens client side.
I've certainly heard the term 'spoonies' a lot in the chronic illness community, but this is my first time seeing this article. It's interesting to see HN decided to discuss this.

I was worn down by undiagnosed celiac for years. That was finally diagnosed, but then I became mysteriously ill again for a couple years, which turned out to be type 1 diabetes (actually 1.5, LADA). People definitely don't understand what it's like living with a limiting factor like chronic pain, fatigue or organ dysfunction until they've experienced it personally or watched someone very close cope with such a thing. Besides how difficult as the physical and mental issues have been, it's also cost me many relationships, financial independence, personal development and a great deal of work opportunities.

I can easily connect with the message of the spoon holding, but I see I misunderstood the metaphor. I didn't realize spoons were like effort tokens... I thought it just meant you had to do everything all day with the inconvenience of holding a bunch of spoons.