skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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FOIA: Alfred Willi Rudolf “Rudi” Dutschke [FBI]
That's my theory too. Mean people cause stress to others and send them to early graves. They themselves live free of illness causing stresses.

Karma is something people invented for some temporary solace.
>In your early 20s, a couple years of hard work sounds like an eternity.

>In your 30s and later, you realize a couple years is barely a blip on the radar.

Another way to look at this is that when your youth is rapidly diminishing you really care about how you spend it but once that ship has sailed you rationalize whatever path you took.
Non sequitur, straw man, false analogy. What you're saying here is totally irrelevant to anything I said. Legality and morality are orthogonal. Violating people's privacy and messing with their dopamine receptors to manipulate them into viewing ads because dollars are more important to him than people's mental well-being is not free speech.
I think I do a healthy mixture of both.
GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines (2017)
>Remember, a rock to the window will get someone into your house.

Security films that dramatically up the ante on what it takes to go through windows are getting cheap and easy to install. If I had thought about it when I got my windows tinted a few years back I would have just had them added on, especially for my downstairs windows (not sure I would bother with most of the upstairs - I have no trees or easy access to most of them).

There are many simple things you can do to dramatically up the ante on what it takes for someone to molest your stuff. A recent news story talked about people using coat hangers to trip emergency garage door releases so a quick re-security it with a zip tie that will break with a solid tug for it's real use, but be too hard to break with a wire from outside is all that was needed to close that "hole".

Need a place to share this kind of stuff for homeowners. I recon it would probably be a small percentage but still a large number.
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henry hook was american (and wrote american style cryptics, which are very similar to uk cryptics but have a few stylistic differences)

also i'd say portmanteau clues (and rebuses) are standard wordplay for an nyt crossword, they just unfamiliar to people who don't do that kind.
It's a laser tripwire at it heart. What it triggers is up to you.
>How can that “100%” be true… these are all just empty words.

Seems like reasonable interpretation is that the shape of the wing was 100% Boeing aerodynamic engineers. So the simulations and computational fluid dynamics to design the external flight characteristics was Boeing. But the internal spar structure and key reinforcements for the carbon fiber structure was Mitsubishi.

>this kind of structure is in Japan, then you can’t reallocate your resources to do that work,” Sorscher said. “You are dependent on them.”

>This is part of the point the original article makes. Nothing here disproves it.*

But Boeing recently built a new factory in Seattle to build new carbon fiber wings in-house: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/at-bo...

>Boeing [...] fall victim to the innovation issues that will result from offshoring engineering knowledge.

But Boeing didn't have in-house knowledge to build a carbon fiber wing so there was no expertise to offshore. To get around that limitation, Boeing seemed to execute a very shrewd business playbook:

(1) 2003 : currently have knowledge on building metal wings in Seattle but no expertise on manufacturing new carbon fiber wings

(2) 2004 : outsource carbon fiber wing manufacturer to Mitsubishi Japan.[1] This also attracts support from Japan government and Japan Airlines to be first key customers of the new plane. Mitsubishi also helps pay billions for development of the new carbon fiber wing.

(3) 2016 : Boeing builds its own carbon fiber plant in Seattle to switch from outsourcing to inhouse production of the carbon composite wings.[2]

(4) Boeing is no longer dependent on an outsourced supplier for a carbon wing

This thread's article doesn't cover the above scenario either. So lessons learned are: (1) Outsource a key component you're not familiar with. (2) If it later proves to have strategic value, bring it in house.

Boeing used outsourcing to become more innovative -- which is the opposite situation the thread's article was complaining about. He writes paragraphs lamenting about companies outsourcing MS Office 365 but doesn't really dig into business case studies that don't match his thesis.

[1] https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1488182&langu...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/at-bo...
The algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking
> It seems like you are seeing this behavior

I am being a tab bit hyperbolic, in order to get people to, at the very least, concede the point, that there is some level of obsession with a new voice chat app that is unhealthy.

Because it seems like people are almost being intentionally obtuse, and are intentionally misinterpreting my point, in bad faith, in order to win some "debate" that nobody was ever having.

If you are willing to agree, that absolutely people could be too obsessed with a voice chat app, then that is my point.

It is unfortunate that I have to explain this in such extreme terms, in order for people to understand the point I am trying to make. But here we are.

If you want an example, you can just look at the blog post that someone else made about clubhouse, in this very hacker news thread, that described clubhouse in terms, that, although are not as extreme as the hyperbolic example that I gave, should at the very least get you to understand the point I am trying to make here, about... shall we say... at least a moderate amount of unhealthy levels of obsession.

https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/on-clubhouse/

In this blog post, the person describes how they have literally lived in "isolation" for a decade, and that there were time periods, where they did not speak to another human for months.

And they use this personal example, of literal isolation for a decade, to describe how clubhouse, changed their life, or something.

Like I said, I was being a tad hyperbolic before, but when we are talking about people writing about clubhouse, who spent their life in isolation for a decade, you should be able to understand the point I am trying to make here.
I've been getting month-long long-term rentals from Hertz while settling in in a new residence.

About two thirds of the cars I've rented had issues with tires that are balding and leaking air. I wouldn't call that "well-maintained," and I'd have concerns about renting one for a long road trip. I now carry a portable air compressor in the trunk of every car I rent.
>Maybe we should be doing more stuff that supports women being able to have their kids at work with them (if they chose to work) instead of somehow implying that there is worth in forfeiting substantial portions of the healthy parts of your life to improving the efficiency of a cat picture delivery service.

I cannot imagine how it would work in practice
> Is that model nearly incompatible with parenting?

According to the author, pretty much.

https://femfosec.com/start-a-startup-before-you-have-kids/
Blocks don't work for me... I just had to stop. One thing that helped was going on walks and just leaving my phone entirely. It felt super weird... But when I would go into town if I didn't need my phone I left it cause I found myself ALWAYS browsing reddit or something even if I had just been on there 30 seconds before.

After a while of leaving my phone behind the urge went away. For technical people I don't think blocks help because you can just get around it easy.
They who count their wealth to measure their worth are those that would measure the worth of their home by the piles of sawdust produced in making it.

-Thief 3, some Hammerite (paraphrased)

IQ is a meme, and once you get away from the ivory tower and see how everyone else has to make it, you realize just how jacked the entire thing is. The thing in this case being the prestige class. Noblis oblige is dead, the new money is stark raving mad, the old money couldn't give a shit more. Nobody has any more of a clue than anyone else, and the executable bad idea is valued over and above the good idea that just doesn't seem quite ready to crystallize yet.

The biggest curse in my opinion is to see and grok the magnitude and nature of the problems but to not be in a position to do much about them besides trying to explain it to a handful of people and hope a couple understand, are in a spot and mindset to do something about it, take it, and run with it. It's kind of like being a Chief or high level enlisted in the armed forces from what I gather. Too busy getting things done to keep the status quo moving, but also facilitating bottom up information propagation and nudging the command structure in the right direction via reality checks.

Oh... The dreams that have died from learning how the world really works. They are a plenty.
My suggestion is to read Parkinson's law. Not everyone needs to contribute something every time. Some meetings include too many people anyway.
Wired suggested using grayscale mode to help make the phone less engaging. On iOS, I believe you can find it under Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters.

https://www.wired.com/story/grayscale-ios-android-smartphone...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026700
This is not about making a home brand. Amazon can literally look at the sells data of e.g. some seller which sells Nike Air Jordans (as a stupid example) and go and source those themselves and offer them (the exact same brand) cheaper than the seller, because they have all the sales data. Now how would Cosco do this?
'tradeoffs shouldn't exist'
Have you looked at AOL and Yahoo financials before saying that? I think both are profitable.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026921
I put 2fa on twitter, but no 2fa app in phone. So i never twitter on phone.
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No; that describes how Glenn learned the term. Nothing in the article describes how he popularized it.
What if there's multiple other malls just across the street? As is the case in online retail. Even easier than crossing the street, to be honest, just click that second result in Google instead of the first. Is it so hard to admit that Amazon's customers are using them because their offering is great and not because of lack of alternatives?
> It's not an education problem [..] it's a cultural/philosophical problem.

Culture and philosophy are shaped via education.
Your cynicism of me is reasonable and justified.

I urge that you continue to hold this cynicism for press released scientific papers (in general), and in particular for papers published in PLOS ONE, where you can pay to publish almost any content.
I don't think it can be "solved" in that way. If you're going to have a physical lock, it needs to have a physical locking mechanism somewhere. If you watch lock picking youtube, you'll see that virtually all electronic locks sold today have horrendous physical security. Given the state of their physical security and the even more terrible state of IoT digital security, I doubt that the controllers of these locks are really secure either, though I haven't seen any reports of them being attacked in that way.
Which would make sense if there's an X:1 ratio of younger to older audiences - probably relative to future potential disposable income rather than size - and the two groups prefer vastly different content from each other. The former group is large enough to support several large competitors but competing over the latter might have been a losing proposition for the major networks since none of them could get enough critical mass to turn a profit off that market.

For example, take major brands like Pepsi, Coca Cola, GM, and Ford that have tons of money to throw at everyone and a niche company like Lear Capital that sells gold and silver. Some content draws enough big advertisers to fill up 100% of the ad slots while running up the price but if Pepsi/Coca-Cola/GM do not think running ads during "Little House on the Prairie" is worth the marginal benefit, that leaves Ford and Lear Capital to make the show profitable. Before Fox cornered their market, Lear Capital might not reach enough eyeballs in their target demographic to be able to buy enough ads on "Little House on the Praire" to make the show profitable because its in the same time slot as "Antiques Roadshow". Obviously Ford won't pick up the rest of the tab for one show so the major networks end up dropping the older audiences' shows one by one when there isn't enough advertiser demand. All the while, bidding up the cost of ads on popular shows depletes the big brands' ad budgets even further.

Then, Fox comes along, and since most of the big brands need to push brand awareness their TV ad budgets grow (it's a new major network!). They buy their usual ads and all of those niche players who wanted to advertise to that demographic on TV but couldn't because it was spread too thin can come together on a major network that caters just to their needs.
>I noted the article unquestioningly accepted the stereotype that men have less interest in spending time with their children than women.

less interest or less opportunity?
This seems to be aimed at developers / testers but it might be useful for end-users too.

If a customer reports a problem we can’t reproduce, it would be handy to just direct them to a plugin they can download to generate a report.

But the up-front pricing model doesn’t work for that kind of scenario because customers wouldn’t pay for it. It would be better to have the customer download it for free and enter a one-time code that allows them to use it under my subscription.
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For highly valued tech stocks I’d add that there is some presumption that these companies will acquire or build their way into major new sources of revenue that throw off vast profits.

With tech this might be implicit if they are “profitable and still in the market.” But it is different than say John Deer or Miller Paint in that regard.
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Potayto, potahtoh.

Failed enforcement attempts are as ineffective as non-attempted enforcement.
100%. North America had massive land clearance happen with European settlers (and some before then), and Europe itself has had land converted to farmland for even longer.

To me, 2 things are clear:

1. It's in individual's self interest to extract the maximum economic value from the land that they control, which usually means drastically changing it from the natural state.

2. It's in everyone's best interest that we preserve a large fraction of each biome to prevent partial or total collapse of the earth's ecosystems.

How this is best fixed depends on how you think government and society should solve problems, but simply approaching it from "here's the problem, what does the end goal look like" point of view shows that something radical needs to be done.

And yes, I would include turning large amounts of farmland, even high yielding farmland, back into natural habitat.
Indeed, it would be nice if the tendency of people to jump into a conversation and start spewing absolute nonsense were subject to harsher social consequences.

But it was not just niche browsers. By the time of Chrome's debut (2008), just about every browser had tabs—including Internet Explorer:

"With the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#History>
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This is pretty interesting. The typical meme for my urban friends is how conservative the burbs are around them (where I live) but that's clearly not the case (actual voting results show that too) but this is an interesting way to look at it.
Politicians don't make decisions based on the opinions of experts, they make them based on what they think is going to win them the next election.

Yeah, public health authorities might be saying we need to be careful with reopening schools, but if 70% (This is an example number pulled out of my ass, not an actual poll number) of the population wants schools to reopen because parents are tired of their kids being home all day, then dammit the governor is going to reopen the schools, expert testimony be damned.
In a car, you get the best speed when you press the pedal to the metal and close your eyes. Yet we pay performance penalty by driving it, instead.
The tech wasn't that bad. I mean WiMax is something like 80% if not 90% of what is TD-LTE today. Which Sprint is still using right now.

You can only blame Intel for WiMax Failure. Over Confidence, Over Hyped, poor delivery and at the time, nobody like them. I think it was 2008/9?
"I never had a panic attack until I tried an edible."

You probably overdosed.

Anxiety is an extremely common symptom of cannabis overdose, and it's very easy to overdose with the highly potent cannabis that's on the market today, especially with edibles where the appropriate dosage is very difficult to control compared to smoking.

A wiser way to approach cannabis consumption is to smoke the smallest dose of the weakest strain you can find.. ideally something below the threshold of perception, and slowly, very slowly, over a period of days or weeks, work your way up from there until you achieve a dose that's effective but not overwhelming to you.

Edibles are tougher to use this way, as you have to wait much longer to see if there's an effect (and often people give in to the temptation to up their dosage if they don't feel anything), but the principle is the same: start with the smallest dose you can find, and slowly (no more than once per day.. ideally with at least a couple of days in between) work your way up.

Also, mixing substances is a bad idea. I don't know if you did that, but synergistic effects from multiple substances can also easily lead to overdose.
I managed to get rid of multiple unhealthy online habits like excessive reddit browsing using very simple network blocks. They help a lot even though I am able to trivially circumvent them.
Why is PDFKit on iOS so horrible?
I’m developing an application that needs basic PDF features to display and search within a document. Why isn’t there a more straightforward library framework to meet my needs?

Yes I know there are paid solutions out there (like PDFTron and PSPDFKit) but how come Apple hasn’t allocated more effort towards improving their own PDFKit?