skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broadly speaking algea wants to be stationary. You see it floating on the surface in stagnant water, or sometimes attached to rocks in moving water. Dilution is also a factor, but if at all possible you want to avoid taking from anywhere with significant algea even if the water is flowing. Prominent algea likely indicates high level of agricultural runoff (maybe fertilizer, maybe manure).

If you have to and you can afford to spend ~$30 buy Aquamira. It's mainly advertised for reducing the oder of stored water, but it's also commonly used by backpackers to purify water. Anecdotally I've used it to drink stagnant water (when no better options, of course) repeatedly with no issues, whereas I and others I know have gotten sick from clean moving water we put through a filter (Sawyer squeeze). Aquamira is just a way to make bleach on the spot in the right concentration.

If you can't afford Aquamira or don't have access to an outdoors store that sells it you can get the same effect with household bleach. It's crucial you buy bleach that only contains chlorine, not any scents or additives (for example to make it thicker and stick to walls). See https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/making-water-safe...
Basically what you allude to is the metabolic rate. Your body has a metabolic rate, and if for whatever reason this gets out of whack - eating unhealthy, gaining a lot of weight, it becomes very hard to come back to baseline.
Hence the yo-you effect of most diets.
Every US porn site needs to keep record of models, release forms etc.. This has been problem for a long time, for example old VHS tapes do not usually comply.

OnlyFans and other sites were in violation of these rules for very long time.

Edit: fix typo
I get the impression that your confusion is just a pretense.
Anyone can become a Telegram (or Signal) user. For $0, infinitely less than $199.
Launch HN: Ancana (YC S21) – Fractional ownership of vacation homes
Hi, we're Andres and Ryan, the founders of Ancana (https://en.ancana.co/). Ancana is a marketplace for buying fully managed vacation homes through fractional ownership.

Demand for vacation homes has driven up their price, putting these properties out of reach for most buyers, who only plan to use the home a few weeks a year. This pushes many people into timeshares, which are notorious for hidden fees, pushy sales tactics, and difficulty to sell. With Ancana, you can own a 1/4 or 1/8 share of the home and split expenses with the other co-owners. If you buy a 1/4 share of a home, you have access to it for 3 months of the year. For each property we set up the investment trust, find qualified co-owners, and handle the entire real estate purchase transaction. Costs are split amongst the co-owners, and we take care of the furnishing and ongoing property management.

We accomplish this by creating an investment trust for each property and dividing it into individual, purchasable shares that represent ownership in the property. We furnish each home and find and vet the co-owners. Once all of the shares of the property are sold, we retain no ownership stake in the property and transition into the role of property manager, ensuring the home is well maintained and handling any issues that arise. Unlike a timeshare, Ancana owners own a real asset (the property) versus a block of time. If you decide you want to sell your share, you are free to do so at any time, either through us or on the open market, and capture any appreciation the property has accrued.

Once you own one of these homes, our goal is to make scheduling visits to the property as easy and equitable as possible. Our scheduling system breaks a 12-month booking window into "high-demand" dates/seasons and "general" stays. Each co-owner selects 1 high-demand date before additional bookings are permitted. Priority order is determined by the owner's purchase date (1st buyer gets 1st choice, 2nd buyer gets 2nd choice, etc), with the order rotating each year (2nd buyer gets 1st selection in year 2, 3rd buyer gets 1st selection in year 3, etc.). Outside of the initial high-demand selection process, co-owners are free to book the property anywhere from 2 days to 12-months in advance, up to their allotted days per year.

We'd love to speak to any of you that are curious about fractional ownership or have any ideas for where we should go next or how to improve our offering!
Just shut the fuck up you fucking liberal fucks.

Don't you all have better shit to do? Go back to work you fucking lefty scum.
My understanding is that we're already in an ice age -- specifically, we're in an inter-glacial period of an ice age. What you call the "cooling" of northwest Europe would be a glacial period within this ice age.
When does this end? When do our useless governments put a stop, once and for all, to these ridiculous lax security practices in corporations?

I feel like I'm being forced to become a luddite--not because I don't love technology but because it's being used for such evil and potentially life-destroying purposes.
Responding to any discussing about weight loss with that phrase fits the description.
There are just enough edge cases that they need that ability. Laws change, and they need to update to account for that. Sometimes the previous policy was wrong and they can't work at all without adding something that should have been there all along.

Of course most of the time changes are not needed at all to get the job done, just to violate your privacy.
not for extraplanetary applications. keymicrometeorites has known compatibility issues.
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Ask HN: Would you use a form that lets companies contact you?
It seems like nowadays from the candidate side there are questions repeatedly being asked at the beginning of the jobs process, like:

Is this position remote?
What is the salary range?

Lots of recruiters try to avoid answering these up front. Even something like a simply Google form just to screen recruiters reaching out.
Not everyone is using social media to make money.
You believe the Iranian government is blameless here?
It's about discouraging/preventing their citizens from collaborating, educating, and applying US code with the intent of harming Iran as a government.

It's big picture and definitely not pointless to do this to the ITAR countries.
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Wow, thanks. That sounds very tasty. I've cooked lentils, but only indian-curry-style and on a stove, never in a rice cooker. Can I ask how long you cook them for in the rice cooker? I imagine dried lentils to be like beans in that they require pre-soaking and/or a long cooking time - is that right? Also, do you add the kale in near the end, or let it cook the whole way through?
You can do whatever you want whenever you want.

You don't need the government to tell you what to do.
You're far from alone. It's widely thought of as a bad compromise, but the only one that could navigate the tortuous straits of needing to get every single Democratic Senator on board -- and skip out on the reconciliation process because one Senator died.

A ton of Democrats would much rather have seen a very different bill, at least a Medicare-for-all plan, but that was simply not on the table. Others would have preferred a bill with a much freer market, but that wasn't possible either unless they got cross-aisle support, which failed to materialize. Nobody thinks of it as their ideal bill.

Most see it as a marginal improvement over the previous law, because it allows more people to have health insurance. That made it a "big [effing] deal" despite nearly universal criticism.
> There is a divide between political philosophy (and adjacent economic work) and social science proper, that's analogous to the divide between the theoretical side of modern physics and the experimental side but cranked up a few notches.

Its not really that analogous. Theoretical physics is at least in theory still predictive, though it may be vert distant from the pragmatics of verification. There are areas of political/economic science that are like that, but political/economic philosophy is predominantly normative rather than predictive (Austrian school economics, despite being called “economics” rather than “economic philosophy” and despite occasionally making fact rather than value claims is, and fairly openly admits to being, part of this.) There's a lot of people who are active as public intellectuals on both sides of the predictive/normative world, and the media (who are often the employers of public intellectuals) do an extremely poor job of explaining, when they aren't straight up concealing, the divide between predictive and normative elements of controversies in political and economic debates.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I think the only thing would get people to act is to say Russians/Chinese are spying on people with microwaves/tvs.. Otherwise media won't report on this.
Isn't that the whole point of folding phones? Also android has had side split windows for ever, and on modern phones that have large tall screens, it works fairly decently.
You need and receive an Uber ride just as fast in the low and high battery level cases. If the claim is true, they would be charging more for the exact same service delivered at the exact same time and pace -- not for earlier or more speedy service. They would be charging more simply because the increased psychological stress means they could get away with it.
Most policies/contracts for B2C products (and employer to employee) are next to worthless for the consumer. Most have some sort of language saying they alone make the rules and they can change them at any time with or without notice.

As a consumer and employee, I feel it would be great to get rid of that language. I doubt congress will do anything about it since that would require a massive change to contract law.
You can take the call on a computer?
...and more and more centralized.
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I would totally do it if the software support was there.

As for the second question: Haiku is about starting over and taking computing down a road not taken. Windows and Unix come with baggage that I'm frankly sick of after using both for years - Windows has bloat and hostility towards the power user, Unix has constant breakages. If Haiku is mature enough to use and doesn't have that baggage, then that's what makes it a more favourable platform.
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> "Grandmasters sustain elevated blood pressure for hours in the range found in competitive marathon runners," Sapolsky says.

> It all combines to produce an average weight loss of 2 pounds a day, or about 10-12 pounds over the course of a 10-day tournament in which each grandmaster might play five or six times.
Thanks for the warning, I just bought a pair of these last week. I had planned to never in a million years pair it with a phone or connect it to wireless, and this just makes it obvious what the repercussions would have been.

Paying ~$2k for appliances that then try to extract extra money out of you with targeted advertising (for what! you already bought the equipment!).

Bookmark history! Dear god.
They simply have no time to accumulate in a moving water.

A water in the pond will be there for months.
> in this particular case huge companies did make changes on the basis of this newspaper column

Well, they made changes based on the popular reaction to a newspaper column. I’m not sure why you’d point fingers at the column when the obvious reality is that it simply reflects societal norms.
Agree, it's hard to eat badly when you are putting in the time to work out, that's the case for me at least.
But I also hear from people that they decided to eat badly, because they had an intense work out, and feel it's ok to indulge.
while that is true mindgeek sites still take mastercard. if i am not mistaken mastercard never left them just asked for stricter control.
>If not, could you explain why you’re giving your opinion?

I'm not a researcher or a scientist of any kind. I know very little about aphantasia, and don't experience it myself or know anyone who does (besides one podcaster I listen to). I simply suspect that some percentage of people who report aphantasia may not actually have it, based on dozens of peoples' self-reports that I've read before. Subjective experiences are complicated. I could certainly be completely wrong both in general and in this case, though.

I based most of my reply on the fact that you said:

>I think I can imagine sounds in my head, but it is a little like singing, or humming a tune without making noise.

To me, this is the experience of aural "phantasia". This is what happens when I imagine sounds in my head. That's why I read your post with a sense of dissonance. It made me want to try to understand how you can have this kind of "humming a tune without making noise" sound in your head yet also have aural aphantasia.

Are you able to hum a song you've heard before? If so, I think that could potentially require a kind of ability to represent the song in your mind, though I could be wrong about that.

Are you able to think about a note with some pitch frequency and then about a note with a higher pitch frequency right afterwards? If not, what is the experience of humming like for you? If so, then what's happening when you're thinking about these pitches?

The fact that you've never had anything like a song getting stuck in your head (e.g. hearing a song you like and humming or thinking about it a later time) would make me think there likely is something atypical about your experience, at the least, though.

Additionally, you said:

>I don't know. It's like reading though. I definitely don't hear a voice (mine or anyone else's).

This is also my own perception of what internal monologue is like for me. Although this is potentially a separate phenomenon from aphantasia, to me it seemed like you were saying you didn't have an internal monologue when I thought maybe you did, which, if true, made me think there was possibly an increased chance you don't have aphantasia if you think you do.

Obviously you know your own experience better than anyone else does or could, but there's a lot of ambiguity and ineffability around the meanings of all of these terms; a little bit like (though not as extreme as) trying to describe the experience of perceiving a particular color.

I'm also doing all this in part so I can better understand the phenomenon and educate myself.

I initially was considering adding the "I think you likely don't have aural aphantasia" part but decided to leave it out, since it's extremely presumptive, but the imagining sounds/humming thing and the capability of humming something you've heard before (if I understand correctly) seemed so contradictory with what I personally understand aphantasia to be that I later went back and edited it in. If not for that part I probably wouldn't have replied and would've just silently acknowledged your aphantasia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bom...

If it is on that list, there were mistakes made. I just pulled two titles of movie that, beyond being flops, I myself saw and did not like.
Our hands could be the drivers for a lot of this. Dolphins have no practical way to use or create tools, that is a pretty fundamental limitation on how you can advance, irrespective of intelligence. Who knows what kind of cool tools something like an octopus could have created and used with more intelligence though.
Hence, "option". So you can toggle the feature on and off. Please don't deride people for needing special accommodations in their daily driver software.
Thank you. Hearing these stories I always feel like commenters treat the companies involved as having no real agency.

“Of course the New York Times article came out, so even if the information was sensationalized or whatever, MasterCard had to cut them off... It was out of MasterCard’s hands...” No, they made a political-humanitarian choice to use their gatekeeping to influence the world. Same with Apple choosing to go to war with CSAM, we can talk about worries about their methods or whatever but these big companies are making their own choices and they could choose to just ignore the problems with marketing spend, do like Amazon does and purchase ads about how green they are and how they improve local communities and whatever. They chose to instead take their own moral stances and act accordingly, they weren't forced to by some article. And as far as I can tell it's not a purely calculated profit move either.

For that better OnlyFans and PornHub also have agency. So yes MasterCard is making a decision to put financial pressure on a sleazy industry overall, but then PornHub is making their own choices to screw over indie creators and bank on their bigger porn producers. They could instead say, “hey, the indie porn market is about to face this stressor, we could lean into it and become their main ally and then we will basically corner the market on the indie/amateur stuff as others flee.” The business case is not at all open-and-shut you-must-screw-over-the-indie-producers. The story link above acts like this decision was forced; that decision is not forced upon them either. OnlyFans doesn't have to stop doing adult content. They are choosing to pivot away, we'll see if their choice is successful.
There is nothing wrong with the article (from memory, I read it some time ago), the problem is going from "there is a small minority of users who abuse user-generated content platforms" to "zomg, this platform is a horrible and encouraging all sorts of illegal things!" One does not follow from the other. The problem with the article isn't that it exposed a problem, that part was excellent journalism, the problem is also that it advocated for all sorts of companies to boycot PornHub, as well as being laced with a kind of accusatory attitude towards PornHub I don't much care for, almost as if PornHub themselves uploaded the videos.

The same problem exists on YouTube, Twitter, reddit, and even Hacker News to some degree. Of course, being a text-only platform makes the scope a lot less dramatic, but I've seen some people advocate for violence against certain groups and the like. I'm sure dang can tell you about some of the horrible things he's had to ban people for.

This is a difficult problem to solve, I don't really have a good solution for this, I'm not sure if anyone does. I do know that private companies acting solely in their own interest acting as custodians of what is and isn't allowed based on what does and doesn't generate "negative publicity" is most definitely not a good solution.

How often do we see "{YouTube,Apple,Google,...} blocked my account and is threatening by business and I don't have a good recourse"-stories on HN? Too often, and those are just the ones that manage to get publicity. There is often no good recourse to address mistakes or really get a good impartial judgement on things that might be on the border.

You might say "these are private companies and can reject the customers they want, you don't have a right to do business with them", well, fundamentally I don't really disagree with that, but a lot of these companies are monopolies or duopolies they can really have a big impact and even make basic participation incredibly hard or even impossible. Sometimes that's not a bad thing, but again, it doesn't seem to me that we really want to leave it up to private companies acting in their own interest to make these kind of decisions.
This comment feels like a Douglas Adams joke going slightly over my head.
Miika-

This article is a dog whistle for right-wing behaviour and is quite frankly problematic, starting with this quip in the first paragraph which sets the stage: "[...] instead of letting algorithms and machine learning decide what is good for you."

We've spent a good twenty years now, and longer really, building the infrastructure to ensure that when it comes to the World Wide Web, FAAMNG+ companies - not just restricted to US-centric ones but globally really - can make sure that the things you see, and the way the algorithms work, are done in a way that is good for you.

I used to be against mass surveillance, logging everything, but seeing this kind of an article in 2021 sends shivers up my spine. I'm quite worried. Is this what we should look into next?
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If a girl goes from Instagram to OnlyFans willingly and is getting paid...why should anyone judge her or care? How is that any different from her making videos about video games or revising books and making money?
not the OP but similar to him. I can fleetingly see details individually in my mind, i struggle to really see the whole house. i can see (fleetingly) in my mind how the shutters are built, their material, what color they are, how they fold over the window. and so on for each feature of the house.

reading fiction and fantasy books are also sort of boring for me because i have no mental image of the characters or their settings or faces or anything like that. like if it's describing a blacksmith's forge, sure i know that has a forge and anvil and tools and quenching bucket. but there's not really a cohesive setting in my head of what it looks like for the story.

i also cant really mentally image the faces of people i know. i can see their features but their face in my mind doesn't really look human. i can't imagine someone's whole body including their face. i have no issue recognizing faces and putting them to names in person though.

i have a notoriously bad memory. i still made good grades in school and can study and retain knowledge and skills. but i forget the vast majority of conversations i've had with people after a couple weeks, and my fiance is constantly telling me things i said where i have no memory of saying it.
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Get as many of your calories from fats and protein, and as little from carbohydrates, as you can (as the former cause you to feel significantly more satiated (naturally leading to less eating without more hunger) and the latter cause spikes in your blood-sugar and insulin).

Eat in a narrow time window (to encourage ketosis), infrequently (to avoid insulin resistance), not too late (because eating late is associated with weight gain [1][2]), as consistently as you can (your body can adapt to eating only once a day, resulting in you not being hungry at other times - mine has).

Exercise (because getting a minimum amount of exercise will stimulate weight loss and is really important for physical health in general beyond just weight loss), but don't worry when you get hungrier as a result, or try to maintain your previous eating quantity - eat until you feel full.

Get enough sleep, because sleep deprivation causes you to feel hungrier[3].

One of the underlying patterns in the above is the focus on controlling hunger, instead of directly trying to control CICO. If you just try to naively generate a caloric deficit through sheer force of will (same meal composition and timing, just decreased volume), your body will respond by increasing appetite levels, which is one of the reasons why the majority of those who lose weight gain it back again afterward. If you can affect your appetite, however, not only is sustained weight loss possible, but often automatic.

[1] 0064 of https://sleepmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/abstract...

[2] Yes, I should have provided more sources here - The Obesity Code cites a lot of studies, but I can't find the citations online.

[3] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/533105
> countries where the cultural norm is to profess to love death more than life.

This comes off as insulting. One could just as easily come up with a glib derogatory summary of the 'cultural norms' of Western nations too.

Propagating the belief that some cultures don't treasure life is dehumanizing, because it is a direct pathway to rationalize exterminating them ('oh, they value death more anyway').