skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boblberg is a danish site that provides a platform for seeking friendship and communities.

I myself have been using it to find people accompany me on hikes or concerts. Its not a romantic site and it solves the issue of my generation (i know, small perspective and completely local) of growing isolation and no option of ad-hoc meetups.

My personal need is based on recent moving to a new town and thereby loosing my social sphere.

After moving i realized there was no easy way of engaging in conversations as people engaged withing silos of well established friendships.

This site has already given me company on a long walk in the surrounding nature.

I am sad to realize my rejection of social media has left me in solitude but this sites simplicity and focus on establishing contact only,and leaving activities to real world meetups, has opened up for hope community.

I live in a society (Denmark) where we succesfully have established a wellfare state over the last 100 years. A system that provides schooling, social security and helathcare over the taxbill but also a system where the need for community and relying on relations has diminished.

I could live a life working or not working, sick or healthy, with kids or without and not have to rely on relations for anything as the stat solves all my needs.
But that leaves the burden of establishing relations from scratch.

I know its not comparable to the burdens of people around the world but my loenelyness is real and it kills people on non-ignorable scale in my society.
If someone is doing so badly is school (they get expelled or they cannot handle school, or have special needs and the parents cannot find/ be bothered to send them to a school further away), they may get home-schooled.

Yes, so there might be this cause and effect, but this is not a correlation, i.e. we haven't seen data, they may well be more well rounded individuals being home-schooled because there are more parents who decided home schooling as a way to enhance education.
> Joe many people felt Clinton won the prior election?

Your question is "whataboutism", but... the answer is: at least one order of magnitude less than the number of "conservatives" that believe the 2020 election was won by Trump. Probably multiple. Seriously. It's a vanishing fraction by comparison. Almost no one believes that systemic vote misrepresentation was a part of the 2016 election.

> The vast majority of those on the left believe CNN and NYT without question.

Do you actually know anyone on "the left"? Because my truly left-ish acquaintances despise the NYT and have a long list of specific sins they'll criticize it for going back 20 years.

> And yet they have spouted more misinformation than almost anyone.

Citation needed. Especially when this discussion is rooted in the problems of a network like Fox that, when sued, literally utilizes defenses in court such as "no reasonable person would believe our commentator" and "we have no obligation to report truthfully."

The NYT -- like any outlet -- has certainly made serious mistakes, but they have an entirely different relationship with accountability, as one would expect from a paper of record.
Enabling 'disappearing messages' will help I think.
My experience as well.

Waking up at 0600 instead of 0700 is one wasted sleep.

Waking up 0400 means two peaceful hours before the hordes wake up, and I am awake when they do wake up.
Still, it is a bias which is funny given the title of this blog.
Downvotes you're getting are speaking for themselves, no one actually cares about environment. They just want to ban cryptocurrencies or leave just one that the government can fully control, like in India.
> Obviously b/c you more or less do not return stuff in JP

Not so obvious to me. Could you elaborate on what you mean here, sounds intriguing.
Yes. And as is often the case, those unaffected or unaware have difficulty empathising with sufferers. (And so on it goes with anyone disadvantaged for any reason in society.)

Most major purveyors of UI have somehow recognised the importance of offering a dark mode - I guess they all just did it for a lark? At this point, HN's refusal is wilful.

Sure, plenty of annoying ways around it for each affected person to figure out - or one tiny change to the God-like and permanently-infallible UI of HN. All hail!
We have it? Is it called "repair and protect" here too? I'm gonna get it.
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Funnily someone has done that on Twitter, which lacks editing meaning it isn't as simple (article: [1]; discussion: [2]).

[1]: https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872
The works of Turing are absolutely not physics.
Like most people, I've ordered a lot of packages (hundreds?) on Amazon and almost never had a problem. In the rare case of a problem, Amazon would instantly refund me. But almost all those orders are under $1000. Everything changes when you have a problem with an expensive order. Amazon has a price threshold where the support system is different and the normal CS people are powerless.

During lockdown, I ordered a Sony camera and lens that was in the $5k+ range. The package went "missing" with the shipper with obvious fake tracking data, like multiple "customer not home" delivery attempts timestamped at 12am in the morning. The packages never showed up. Amazon kept saying it was the shipper's fault and the shipper said it was Amazon's responsibility. Lots of tweets, etc, got me nowhere.

In the end Amazon finally refunded me, but it was a nightmare. They wouldn't even talk to me until I waited a number of days after the package was late and even then all they would say is that it had to be escalated to management who would review the issue eventually. Even when they finally agreed the package was lost, I had to wait for another management review to actually get the refund issued. They had my money tied up for weeks with no recourse for a package they never even delivered. I can only imagine how bad it would be if the shipper claimed it was delivered.

My recommendation is to skip Amazon for anything expensive or at high risk of shipper theft/fraud. Your customer experience will not be the same as when they lose a $10 package. They will treat you like a criminal no matter what your past history with Amazon is.
> They inject something in the gums that removes sensitivity there so you feel nothing

I've never heard this called "freezing". I assume you're being injected with lidocaine, the dentist's non-psychoactive best friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidocaine

This family of molecules is well known for causing numbness in motor and sensor nerves; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEI4qSrkPAs
That's the failure of Tumblr or any website that it doesn't optimize huge uploads by converting it to sane formats.
It's enough that they screw up 0.01 - 0.1% of orders. They are big enough, those people will be loud and not those without issues.

On HN I put comment below because I had some issue - if I had not, such comment would have too little value to post.

I did receive many things without issues and have also received books that looked way worse than if you gave them to a toddler. It's bizarre - they started with books and books are items that are trivial to pack securely.
Hopefully not cavity emptor
If I think about things that should be automatized with robots in this world my number one priority would be boring or exhausting work like repairing roads, mine work, deliver goods from A to B. Why should we replace the "human" part in human-to-human communication with robots when social interaction is one of the pillars that define us? I'd rather speak with an unfriendly real person in a call center than an emotionless "friendly" robot.

But yes, if "improving conversion rates" is your main priority, it may be helpful.
Obviously not by judging by the replies. People are not upvoting that comment because they can relate, but because they love to hate on big companies.
Mostly a way of preventing everything happening all at once. The paperwork is a nightmare otherwise.

The real question around time I'd like an answer to: what if time has two or dimensions of its own? What then?
So isn't that a common sense? If you are inclined to wake up later than the society expects of you, then you are likely to be depressed because of the pressure?

> that shifted the sleep timing of individuals with an evening diurnal preference

> But that study seems to be about making an unnatural schedule more bearable.

That's sounds like something akin to telling a depressed person "why can't you just be happy?" and then making them watch comedy?
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Not in regular use in that sense in the UK either.

I've heard it very infrequently and usually with some US context in the conversation.
They did it only after ES decided to abandon the Apache license. I doubt that Amazon would have done it if they were not forced.
Redshift is also Postgres based and Amazon never released something. So based on that metric Alibaba is more open.
I had mixed feelings about GMIOGMD when it was released. I didn't like how self-referential it was, the reintroduction of Ralph Spoilsport being a great example. The album eventually grew on me, but it lacks the timeless charm of their 70s efforts.
To someone in a country with a tiny handful of its oldest buildings as much as 200 years old (NZ), the idea of drowning a bell tower built in the 1300s seems totally insane. I guess Italy has a lot of old buildings, and Mussolini & co. didn't care about these ones.

New Zealand has rebuilt (parts of) at least one town higher up to make a hydro lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell,_New_Zealand), but didn't drown anything like as old or significant.
How do you get started doing effective homeschooling (though in my case, the UK)? It sounds hard to get a good structure or find other parents willing to do lessons as well. It seems like the network isn't very good? (I don't use Facebook)
I'm a non-native English speaker and I somewhat deliberately mix different parts of American and British English. For example, I usually use American spelling, but for some things (like "toward" vs. "towards") the British way (or rather the way which is more common in Britain compared to America) sounds "more right" to me. I also put commas/periods outside quotes because I could never understand why they should be inside.
In Spanish it' s "Ingeniería informática" (Informatics engineering), you would call it CS Engineering.
This said, some children are genuinely better off in the hands of some state-sponsored foster care (especially more modern ones) than in the hands of some neglectful/abusive parents. I have always been of the opinion that being a parent is a job that requires certain skills just like any other, and not everybody is well-qualified to do the job well, while the traditional society puts pressure on everybody to take the job regardless, which could be very dangerous.

The problem with the abuses that we're discussing, as described by somebody down the chain, could be that the church and the foster care institutes are set up in a way so that they are already designated as "special" from the get go. I still don't know if that what's described in Brave New World, i.e. every child in the whole society being raised collectively, is such a bad idea. The author's apparent derision and demonization of such an idea was the most jarring part when I read the book. In fact, many studies have proposed that the whole idea of "marriage" and "nuclear family" is a quite recent invention, or at least is something that was not shared by all hunter-gatherer societies, many of which did raise their children as a group. In fact one could well argue that the strict adherence to monogamy and to one nuclear family is contrary to the human nature, which the incredibly high rate of divorce in the modern society seems to support to a certain degree.

Ironically, the very idea of "marriage" and "nuclear family" seems to be something heavily promoted, even enshrined, by the Christian religions, which themselves committed such atrocious crimes on children.

I guess my main point is, your position seems to be one that emphasizes the importance of "family", while I've always been wary of the idea of elevation of "marriage" and "family" as something of a doctrine, even sacred and not subject to any debate. This idea has always sounded very traditional and potentially irrational to me.
>The screen is designed to expose as much of the surface area as possible to scuffs and scratches, while the body of the watch feels larger than any other smartwatch I've used. The Apple Watch got hotter than the Fossil, somehow, and the sensor bump is also much more pronounced.

None of those are about the build quality and even less about the hardware capabilities.

To me it sounds more about a "pea under the mattress" list of complains.
From Slack to Discord – 13 months later in a growing startup
Châtelet-Les Halles is the biggest and busiest Métro and RER station in Paris and that's why line 4 stops twice there (at Châtelet then at Les Halles).
1-Line CSS Layouts
I feel slightly dizzy just by looking at this (^_^)
Didn't expect it to be /the/ South Tyrolean village, but figures, there only that many provinces that Italy annexed and tried to screw over locals, basically the five which nowadays have somewhat autonomy (after years of fight, both peaceful and also not so peaceful):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Italy#Autonomous_re...

Disclaimer: I'm South Tyrolean and nowadays the relation with the Italian gov. is quite good, which we probably can only thank the fact that the long fight got us that right reserved in the constitution itself, else one of the right wing administrations (e.g., Silvio Berlusconi in the 90s) would have dismantled it all, they tried but constitution rights are well protected.

Anyway, the view with the submerged church in Reschensee is something one doesn't view every day, I'd recommend visiting once it dooable again, there are many nice places in South Tyrol and also in the neighbouring provinces, be it the Italian, Austrian or Swiss ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reschensee
The moment Twitter finally went mainstream, that was the death knell for "free" speech. Your employer, government agencies, religious & community leaders are all now on Twitter. Self censorship is not obligatory, it is a requirement to use the platform. Same thing to those family Whatsapp groups.

I remember creating a Facebook account in my teenage years, most of my friends used nicknames on the account names. Why? Because the platform was so popular, the chances of your grandma finding your raunchy posts were also high. The same caution should apply to anyone before signing up for a social media account. Your misplaced, misunderstood caption/ viral post will reach your immediate social circles.

Can't turn back the tide of cancel culture. Believe me, you can't win this on a numbers level. You can only hope your ride is less bumpy. And wait for the wave to pick its next victim.

I think it is kind of stupid the whole world now lives on social media. People really do not understand what SM is at all.
You can do a lot more compression and encoding. The data is very regular and you can use pretty low precisions, even lower if server tracks the accumulated error at the client. Most players aren't moving on every tick. Network tick rate is typically much slower than fps with interpolation used in presentation. Players typically move in very constrained ways (walking speed is constant). Etc.
I know "could be made in 5 mins" is an exaggeration, but there's a very real long-term cost to adding thematic options like dark mode that HN just might not want to take on.

Any time you split your UI (for example, light mode and dark mode), it effectively doubles/multiplies all future UI testing you do from then on out (testing all new views/features on both light and dark mode). It can also add additional strain on bug reports / support, since you no longer know what UI configuration a particular user might've been using when they complained about something.

Slightly less of an issue on a site like HN where the UI is somewhat simple and static and changes happen at alligator speed, but still a long-term commitment to make (as opposed to 5 min of dev time).

(In case it isn't obvious, I'm a little salty about how much time I still spend testing/fixing my own site changes in dark mode over a year after adding it.)
Fiat's dead. It is the horse and cart whilst defi and crypto are automobiles. But that's ok. Folks claimed cars would never replace horses too until they became the norm.
Nope, completely different thing: Xylitol, Gum Base, Calcium Phosphate, Acacia Gum, Glycerin, Aroma, CI 77891, Lecitin of Soya, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Extract, Cera Carnauba.
The problem with Vidocq is that the main source of information about him is ... Vidocq.
Amazon (EU) is garbage. I ordered a high-end laptop from the Amazon Warehouses and they cancelled my order after 2 months. I kept calling them in the meanwhile many times and they were bs me with "everything ok" "your order will be shipped" "won't worry" until they cancelled my order without a reason.
I thought you had to have a minimum amount of karma before you can downvote, which would preclude throwaway accounts?
Rucredstash release and Rust experience from a Haskeller
In that case I would recommend Age. It’s a modern and sound replacement for GPG.

https://age-encryption.org/
Sounds like the worst day of your life must have been pretty unbelievably bad.
What is this? Never seen it before.
The computer term in Spain came from the French "ordinateur".

Ordenar has two meanings in Spanish:

- To command someone

- To sort

Both are related. In order to sort some set, you need order.
And rules. Thus, "ordenador" has a lot of sense.

But if I was some guy from the 50's I'd translate computer science as "informática electrónica". (Electronic Informatics).
Why companies should not have right to cancel their relationship with person for non-discriminatory reasons? And constant complaints and errors on aggregate sounds entirely reasonable reason.

If same thing kept happening inside non-online business I think we would find it pretty okay...
This is not a thing. At least in Germany I never once had anyone ask me why I want to return before I could. 90% of the time you already have a return label in the package. Worse case you don’t and you cannot even request one through the website, you send an email and get the label.

I was only ever asked about my return _after_ it was issued by Charles Tyrwhitt after I ordered and returned a good number of items (due to their fit being all over the place). That was fair IMO.

On the other hand Amazon has numerous times shown that if you return too much (or don’t behave due to some other opaque metric) your account can get suspended. Even my account was suspended once, though I am only a moderate shopper and have returned less than 10 items over my 18 years membership.
I raised the issue with support and asked why (there weren’t even any returns around that time) and they could not tell me but reinstated my account.
Good demonstration of power and a reminder to move away from using kindles.

Amazon returns may be easy until you cross some threshold and end up on their bad side.
Keep in mind that 95% of viral "Unknown picture of a famous moment you've never seen before" posts on the internet are not actually they thing they claim they are. This is definitely not a picture of Charles Ebbets taking the "Lunch atop a skyscaper" photo.

That doesn't mean they aren't cool pictures or interesting in their own right, but don't believe any title you see on a reddit post.

Edit: And this is not to pick on reddit in particular. Even historians make these mistakes. Here's a time I found a respected historian making published (but incorrect) claim of the date people started using Christmas cards because the highly respected newspaper archive he was using for research had mis-dated the scanned pages of a newspaper under '1800s' instead of '1900s': https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k6inyt/ive_a...
This should have been based on Sequoia instead of GPGME.
Redundant calculation isn’t necessarily a bad thing by itself. That redundancy is often buying insurance against data loss (ECC?) and resiliency.

A giant wordpress site isn’t necessarily more power efficient or even more secure than a distributed network of them.

Multiple tradeoffs.

I didn't even suggest banning crypto at all.
As pointed out elsewhere in these threads there are now much better alternatives available. It’s time for PGP to retire.
Juliusz Schauder - was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics.

> He was executed by the Gestapo, probably in October 1943.

Stanisław Saks (30 December 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem.

> Arrested in November 1942, he was executed on 23 November 1942 by the German Gestapo in Warsaw.

Thankfully most of them seem to have survived the war.
It's a shame that these days people are still into these murderous systems like communism and national socialism.
We never learn.
BTC and crypto merely is a price discovery mechanism for the demand for energy consumption (as they act as a proof of energy).

As such, it is not itself the disaster, rather than the first unobstructed signal of some underlying cause (inflation).
Seemed more an accepted and practical practice of trying to beat the traffic to their weekend mountain/coastal cabins. They are just shaving off an hour or two off their normal leaving time, and is somewhat seasonal and weather dependant as well.

I was just always amazed how quiet the office was on Friday afternoons during the years when I went back to working in Norway. Great for me as I got lots done during those hours. Or perhaps not great as I did not have a cabin to travel to...

Anecdotally having a Friday beer o'clock in the office does not work in Norway. Partly as they frown upon drinking at work... and also there is no-one left in the office.
Celibacy might have played a role, though I doubt if the logic is that it "attracts outcasts". If somebody made up their mind to be celibate regardless of whether he is a part of the church or not, I don't think joining the church would predispose them to enacting more abuses on the children.

On the contrary, I would say that the effect could be that it places an unreasonable restriction on "non-outcast" people who otherwise would have wanted to have sex "normally", but were forced to not do so, at least out in the open, when they join the church. Then, their immediate and most obvious choice becomes turning to the children, as you mentioned. This is what I find unreasonable about this blanket celibacy requirement.
I had the same for years, and eventually just said "get on with it" without any pain killers and basically just try to withstand the pain as much as possible.

Eventually one dentist suggested trying the injection 15-20 mins before the filling started. I'd go in, get a jab, then go back out and wait while they saw another patient.

Now there is no pain at all. I could literally fall asleep in the chair. What a difference.