skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between being empathetic to those that have problems and need help and those that choose knowingly to opt out of the surface level of the system while still receiving its benefits.

While GP comment may be painting groups with an overly broad brush, I'm not sure I see any fault with the criticism of the specific type of person they describe, which does exist, even if it may not be all of that group (or even a sizable minority).

Any policy that is followed, such as "help and show empathy for those less fortunate" should be actually examined and understood, not just blindly applied. People that wish to participate in society but have fallen on hard times deserve our sympathy and help. People that have health problems that cause their situation deserve our sympathy and help. People that decide to opt out of most of our society and so remove themselves from most of the society deserve our respect, or at least our ambivalence. People that say they want to opt out of society but really just don't want to give anything to society (whether that's time, effort, restraint, whatever) but want to get some benefit of society deserve our scorn.

Far too many people get stuck following the actions of an ideology rather than the precepts. Not everyone that appears homeless is "less fortunate" in their own eyes, and giving to them is not necessarily helping in a way that the precept of helping those less fortunate espouses, but instead a way to trick yourself into thinking you are doing something good without having to put thought into whether you actually are.

In general, we could all do with a lot more introspection as to what our actions are actually doing and whether they serve the purpose we think they are. As a side benefit, a lot of bullshit from both sides of the political spectrum wouldn't survive the light of day some critical thought brings.
The older you are and the more years of sedentary life you have lived, the more you need to moderate whatever athletic pursuit you attempt. I also highly recommend combining any strength or aerobic activity with joint mobility work (stretching, yoga, etc).

I say these because of my own experiences with failing to follow those rules and suffering physically debilitating consequences as a result. I used to ride 100s of miles a week and now can barely ride and hour. Weight lifting is no longer a matter of how much can my muscles lift, but rather how much can my shitty joints take before they get injured.
> Similarly, first Excel document I try to open in it gives this error: Warning loading {document}: The data could not be loaded completely because the maximum number of columns per sheet was exceeded.

That's not exactly a fair assessment exercise. I'm not sure what format is the original excel file, but xlsb is a proprietary format.

My experience with Writer is wonderful. Have not had any issues and I know many people who use it daily with no issues.

Try to balance a picture and a couple of paragraphs in M$ Word in a long document and then come back to me on how that "high-quality" software handles it.

> there's just no way we can honestly tell people it's as high-quality as MS Office

Apparently, like many others in this entire thread, you've totally missed the point. I wasn't saying it's "as" high quality as M$ word (although I disagree with the usage of the word high quality here) but just that it is high quality by itself. This is known as an irrelevant conclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion
A pathology of our day.

Look at it this way...

(1) Basically any class on offer at your gym, taken daily, will get you fit, sexy & healthy. Pilates, weights, swimming, wall climbing. They all work good, as long as you keep doing them and don't quit.

(2) Quitting is extremely likely. Most of us quit most of the exercise regimes we start.

Given these two points, the only thing worth optimising is "how not to quit." A good start is aiming for that "sweet spot" where you feel satisfaction, but not soreness or burnout. If you have to make yourself take a recovery day, that's a good place to be. Obviously also life stuff. Scheduling, social stuff, etc.
*edit, I think this issue was specific to the Android client, the desktop client has a totally different sqlite schema.

The child comment to your comment is deleted, but I think autoincrement IDs shouldn't be used under an ambient authority context.

It would make more sense to have IDs based on an LSF or Feistel sequence, perhaps split into a master ID and a conversation sequence.

Autoincrement on this field makes it easy for off by one errors. Even just moving to guids and maintaining a proper parent child relationship would have prevented this.

Or maybe there should be a database per conversation (set of all parties).

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/83086a5a2...

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/b9657208f...

Row IDs shouldn't have so much power.
I, too, once had a domain from them. The site got zero popularity (had only a static "hello world"), then suddenly got removed with no response from support. Suspected it was some glitch and since it was free then thought nobody is actually looking at it. Never dug further.

Interestingly enough the domain is online again with apparently legitimate (no spam or adds) content.
Where There Is No Doctor – David Werner (2013) [pdf]
I fully expected this to be satire. Surely this is all subject to change based on the backgrounds of founders and early employees, industry, funding goals and sources, etc.
The ones that we can see before they hit are very big. The ones that do hit are too small to be seen beforehand. There are a lot more of the smaller ones than the bigger ones.
Sure, but there's a small theoretical difference with democracy. You have to live under some system of government. You don't have to use a secure messenger. You can choose to have sensitive conversations in person or not have them at all.

I agree that in practice, a lot of people are going to use their phones for relatively sensitive conversations, and in practice, Signal remains the best choice for doing so. But there are a few real threat models where the options aren't Signal vs. SMS / Google Chat / Discord / etc., the options are Signal vs. nothing. For instance, you could be a journalist deciding whether to ask clarifying questions to a government whistleblower via Signal or meet up with them in a park. You could be an activist/demonstrator under a repressive regime deciding whether to coordinate some action this weekend via Signal or hold off on it entirely and tactically preserve your freedom. And so forth.

For those people, if (and to be clear this is a big "if," while this issue is one serious piece of evidence it is nonetheless inconclusive) Signal isn't trustworthy, it doesn't matter if Signal is the least-bad of the options.

(Also, it's not like Signal is the only e2e messenger around. There's iMessage/FaceTime, for instance. Churchill's claim was that the abstract idea of democracy was good, not that any concrete implementation like the British government was good.)
They own the entire TLD.

To reach your DNS you have to go through the TLD. On free domains, the TTL is set to 300 seconds (or 60 seconds).

So to reach your ns1.example.com, it goes through {a,b,c,d}.ns.tk first and refers to ns1.example.com.
I‘ve been on Threema ever since I learned that WhatsApp did not even use TLS. It‘s a great chat app and nothing else (which is a feature in my book).
Where can I find the actual pdf and not the toc?
Nitpicking: IIRC Adding 5V everywhere is like multiplying Ψ by expt(i 5V t cte), where t is the time and cte is a constant that may involve c, ℏ, e, and perhaps a number, but I'm too lazy to lookup.

Looking at my comment, it says "multiply each point of the universe by a different complex" it's actually a "event" like in relativity, i.e. (ct, x, y z). This is an easy case where the function you use to multiply does not depend on x, y, z, but only on t.
CMS Plugins, Apps
I don't understand. Can't you just abstract this?

Python has several internal string representations to reduce conversions.

Really "UTF-16 string" and "UTF-8 string" are code smells. Applications should be using character/code point sequences or byte sequences.

Using code unit sequences is....bizzare. (Yes I know Java, C#, JS has chosen to do that, but a new language has an opportunity to improve.)
I think yoga might be an alternative for people wanting to maintain their bodies well into the future. I’ve done weightlifting and yoga, I like them both, I think if I was picking one for effectiveness and longevity of practice it’d be yoga.

But why pick one? You can totally mix in some yoga with lifting :)
> Couldn’t they fix this problem by instead attacking the gaokao and credentialism inhiring?

Public examination systems similar to the gaokao are a very old Chinese tradition, so I don't think they're going to do this. It's a matter of national pride to keep such links to China's glorious past in place.
The protocol has been reviewed plenty of times. The rest of the app has not. At least according to your list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks
> As a trivial example, a stock whose price started at $1 and increased by $1 every day for 30 years would span 4 orders of magnitude over that time period, but would not follow Benford's law.

That's actually a great illustration of the kind of thing we'd expect Benford's Law to raise red flags about. Your hypothetical posits the kind of behavior that we would not expect to naturally come out of the kind of process that governs stock prices over time. Stocks simply don't have their price go up by exactly one dollar a day, every day, for thirty years.

(This is briefly covered in the the article, which describes how the other big assumption of Benford's Law is that you're working with a system where things tend to change by percentages rather than absolute values. So yeah, it's true, covering orders of magnitude is not sufficient. Nor did I claim that it is, mind. I was just pointing out the assumption that I thought he original poster was missing.)

So, if we saw the kinds of initial digits that your hypothetical produces, we would be correct to guess that this stock is behaving in an unusual way. And it would be a correct application of Benford's Law, because we can reasonably expect that its key assumptions apply.

By contrast, if we hypothesize a stock whose price goes up by exactly 0.0001% every day for 30 years, its record of daily closing prices would obey Benford's Law. In fact, it would match it so well that we would also (correctly) consider it to be suspicious.

No, it's not a formal justification in any case. It is just a red flag. It turns out that red flags are useful even when they're not admissible in court, because they provide an easy heuristic that you can use to help direct your search for more compelling evidence.
> Epiphany Two happened a few months after they met, on June 27, 2003, almost six years to the day after Epiphany One. Johnston’s father had sent him $50 for his birthday. With it, he bought beer, pot, and cigarettes, and then threw himself a small party at Beacon Hill Park. He overdid it and found himself lying on his side behind a bush. “I was just pukey drunk,” he says. “It was embarrassing. And then it just hit me. Like, I've had enough of this. I'm not playing this game anymore. And I was done. I had no use for money.”

Uh, I'm not sure that's what I would have taken away from this.
No, you're not. To test if bat viruses can infect humans, they're taking the spike proteins of bat viruses and splicing them to backbone viruses. This new virus cannot replicate itself, it will only replicate the harmless backbone virus.

As I wrote in another comment, it's like your arms are replaced with a chimpanzee's arms. When you have a baby, that baby will have human arms, not chimpanzee's arms, because the genetic material is not altered.
Population isn’t evenly distributed. Iowa has a little over 1/3 or NYC’s population even excluding everything over the Hudson. Your “boom towns” represent a large chunk of everyone in the US.
What moral standpoint does Disneyland represent? You've far from proved the net harm of Disneyland, but what has that got to do with homelessness in BC?

> It’s a demonstration that taking part in the economy is not inherently superior

sure, but this is a straw-man. The proposition isn't that participating in the economy is automatically of greater value, it's that not participating (other than to leech off it) produces non.

> directly counters their morality argument

It's possible to oppose this guy and Disneyland.
The terminology around seed vs a vs b is so skewed right now, but a 50 person series a startup, just estimating, is a 5 mil per year burn. Hard to say exactly the raise, but personally I’d be uncomfortable with less than 3 years runway, so let’s call it a 12mil raise. 12 mil raise for 25% of the company (again, totally back of the napkin here) puts us at basically 50mil valuation. 50 mil valuation on 1mil ARR seems way high to me, basically this all seems sort of shifted left on the headcount side (series b should be 50 people) and right on the revenue side.
Robert Putnam has studied this extensively but his findings weren't politically correct so he hid them for quite some time. Once he finally did release them, he discovered his fears were well founded, as he was villainized for his research. So we will continue to roam around searching for the cause while ignoring what's already in front of us because we simply don't want it to be true or are too fearful of what recognizing it would mean.
I don't believe any physical metaphor counts here. No goods exchange hands here. In fact, in many cases, customers aren't even the technical owners of the domain, merely the licensees.

DNS, especially dealing in domain names, is a service. In this case, I'd say they provide you with free newsletters if you sign up. If you send out enough newsletters to others, they stop giving you free stuff and you have to pay.

I've found this in the terms and conditions:

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11.2. Renewal

As long as you have remained in compliance with each of the terms of this Agreement from the date you agreed to be bound by this Agreement, including without limitation the minimum use requirements set forth in Section 10.1, we may elect in our sole discretion to (i) allow you to upgrade to the Paid Service at the prevailing applicable rate, (ii) automatically renew this Agreement for a term, determined by Freenom, from such date (the "Renewal Period") and (iii) continue providing you with FREE DOMAIN subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including a renewal of the registration of the domain name provided to you in connection with FREE DOMAIN).

---

This seems pretty clear to me. At the end of a term (which can be a month or a year) they can decide to require upgrading to a paid subscription. If you choose not to renew for the paid plan, your domain will be resold like any domain reseller will do.

The main problem I see here is the lack of a renewal notice. I've always received renewal warnings myself, but always with high spam scores (because free TLDs are often used for sending spam). This could be a problem with the customer's spam filter filtering out the right renewal notices.

This doesn't look as much like a scam as it looks like looking a gift horse in the mouth in my opinion.
"The feeling is no less real for being the product of automated market research and micro-targeting, instead of personal intimacy."

The most dystopian thing I've read all week.
Could you explain what Signal is doing to discourage contributions?
I think parasocial relationships have mostly been an attempt to fill the gap left by the lack of real friendships.
> Why would young people need to be vaccinated

The article answers that as: to prevent them from spreading the disease to others who are more vulnerable to a bad outcome from the disease. I am safer because I am vaccinated. I am also safer when the people who I meet are also vaccinated and are less likely to spread the disease.

Another good answer is that young people too can have bad outcomes from the disease. At a lower rate, but a lower rate times a large number of people is still a lot of bad outcomes.
Here's a toy one, good reviews, but fragile (have tape) and prob use once -

https://www.amazon.com/TEDCO-Tedcotoys-Activity-50-foot-Ball...

Practically perhaps you could use the principal to manage buoyancy on lighter than air... unlikely though, to much added complexity.
Not necessarily. There is such a thing as overtraining. To get consistent results, you have to allow time to recover between sessions. The older you are, the longer it takes. The more advanced you are, the longer it takes. At my age, it takes two days off to recover.
The taxpayer cost of legal marijuana is far, far, far less than the taxpayer cost of legal tobacco.
Yeah, my understanding is that second-order arithmetic picks out the usual natural numbers, but it is a much stronger system since you can additionally quantify over subsets of naturals in your formulas.

The context of the comment is ZFC and its concept of the natural numbers (and what I had in mind in particular was what is its minimal infinite inductive set?). ZFC is a first-order theory, so "model" means model of a first-order theory.

> The reason why you get non-standard models of arithmetic in first-order logic is the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem

The ultrafilter construction I described is a way around the compactness theorem, in that it constructs new models semantically rather than syntactically. Ultrafilters are also a good way to prove the compactness theorem. But in any case, it's essentially the first half of the upwards Löwenheim-Skolem theorem before applying the downwards Löwenheim-Skolem theorem -- I think the significance of that theorem is that you can get models of any infinite cardinality you want, rather than just a strictly larger one. (Though I'm no logician.)
I think that you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of the Agile manifesto. It’s not meant to be an algorithm or a highly specific set of instructions—it’s really just a collection of values that are meant to be the foundations of specific Agile frameworks, like Scrum. If you have trouble understanding that, then you must have trouble understanding the difference between Mission-Vision statements and KPIs.
I first heard this term from some visiting South Africans. My immediate response was, “A robot? Where?!” followed by great disappointment.
yoink!
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Not sure what I’m going to try, but you’ve given me some ideas to think about.
A little sore is ok. Too sore to exercise again is not good. There's also a psychological aspect to it. If you push yourself to the limits of your discipline, you'll overtax it and "run out." It's one thing or another. Injuries. Too busy and didn't return. Burnout takes a lot of forms.

There's a sweet spot where you really want to go in and do it again.

Also, beware of pro bodybuilder regimes unless you are one. (1) They're optimising for that elusive last mile (2) They often assume PED use.
It's entirely likely they do. However, the work done farming serves a different purpose than strength training. Farming requires the strength and endurance to do the work day after day, but there is no particular emphasis on strength beyond what is necessary to do the work. Training for strength differs because the emphasis is developing the ability to lift more weight each session. Endurance is not particularly important because the interval for training strength is short. 3 to 5 repetitions, followed by a break. Will a farmer be able to outlift a novice or even intermediate weightlifter? It's entirely possible. Will a farmer be able to outlift an advanced power lifter or olympic lifter who is approaching the top of they physical potential? Not likely. The farmer is adapted for a different type of work.
Asteroid, meteor, meteorite, aerolite

I'd like to know if someone else knows other variations

Asteroid: rock in space

Meteor: asteroid in atmosphere (falling generally)

Meteorite: meteor which touched ground

Aerolite: rock in atmosphere (be it flying, falling, levitating or otherwise)

Comet: Icyspace rock, comma and ejecta are not strictly necessary
Don't know where to add it to so I'll add it in response to the OP as some discussion is about it:

Quotation from the Dutch TV (interview with van Vleuten, silver medal winner) [1]:

> "Onderschatting van de tegenstander, in combinatie met heel veel miscommunicatie en ook slechte communicatie vanuit de organisatie."

Which roughly translates to () is mine: "Underestimated the opposition (singular), in combination with lots of miscommunication and bad communication (with the team) from the organization."

Though it looked like she was contend with the performance of Anna Kiesenhofer vs her eventual performance.

[1] Source: https://nos.nl/tokyo2020/artikel/2390838-38-jaar-en-ze-had-m...

Video is country restricted for some stupid reason as it is a interview ... stop whining about rights ...
First came the ransomware attacks, now come the lawsuits
What all these wistfulness for an earlier, simpler era of computing very thoroughly fails to address every time is the real world implications of allowing arbitrary code execution on mobile devices that are always connected to the internet.

The average HN software engineer is not the target. Joe Q. Public who has better things to do than to learn dot files and ACLs and so needs to be protected by thoughtful App Store policies.
The Metaverse Is Everything
I haven’t had a friend other than my wife for 10 years and now that I have young kids I sometimes feel like I never will. This is largely because we don’t have a lot of money and therefore very little time for hobbies. I also don’t use social media. Maybe when I retire I’ll figure it out? (will I be able to retire?)
GitOps: What Is It?
What's the question?

For uninhabited types there's a universe (empty), ways to construct (no ways), ways to work with (any way), and you can (tautologically) pick out values and put them in sets.

Constructors aren't first order meaningful (except in higher-kinded calculi) but for any concrete types `A` and `B`, `MyType A B` is a type with a universe of values (isomorphic to `A`'s universe), ways to construct and use (again, isomorphic to `A`s), and we can place them in sets.
https://archive.is/HwyZ8
How ia the traffic to your website measured? Is it based on the DNS records or what?
I mean, we need only remember that in late 2016 two wash trading bots at Coinbase accounted for 99% of all global trading volume in Litecoin. (Likely Charlie Lee, btw) [1] And that Tether continues to exist after this devastating NYAG settlement. [2]

It's clearly manipulated. And it's manipulated because its roughly speaking globally unregulated, and tracks globally via cross-exchange arbitrage bots.

If the author found anything different I'd eat my ...hat, and if you believe the trading patterns are as pure and organic as the driven snow I've got an NFT of the Brooklyn bridge to sell you.

[1] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

[2] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
Pure speculation of course but i doubt most people even think about the lack of FDA approval, as is hypothesized by the author. I certainly didn't, and i got the vaccine. And i doubt that most people who don't get the vaccine think about that either. I think there are far more guttural reasons why people don't get the vaccine.