skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a bad idea. Welcoming a convenient feature of a sinister system just helps justify the system's existence.

This is true of lots of things. Card payments are more convenient than cash, sure, but there's a hidden cost behind that convenience - your spending is easily traced and tied to your individual bank account.

Better to let people see orwellian tech for what it is!
I don't mind my tax dollars paying for a postal worker's retirement, but I would object to them keeping their route when unable to deliver all the mail.
"but for an app for people with executive function issues, an opt out format seems shady" is so dead on. What an enormous red flag.

Might as well come right out and say that they understand ADHD and plan to use its drawbacks to make money from people. Considering how desperate a lot of people are for treatment, this sounds like a great monetary investment for people with no conscience.

This may be a bit harsh. I'm a bit salty as navigating the process to get treatment for ADHD is a continual reminder that most services are tilted towards providing services to already well-functioning people. I probably will try it, after all you did just remind me to cancel my free Prime membership, even though it was right there in bold on my day planner a week ago.
This depends on local water hardness but generally is a stronger effect in hot water pipes because of the inverse temperature solubility of calcium carbonate.

Municipal water is definitely tuned to make a passivation layer on the pipe work.
Well, Rust is currently the best programming language so it's the other languages that need to come up with a "X vs Rust".
Sorry, I don't care to read your government propaganda.
Here's a counter argument: "a company making money off of folks with ____" describes the entirety of the Biomed industry. Every medical device is sold with the intention of helping people with medical issues, but they can't be free. The cost of development and production has to be covered by somebody (be that by the government, medical insurance, or private party). If it wasn't, the company making the device wouldn't have developed it in the first place.
Now that Chromium doesn't allow bookmark sync, Vivaldi is one way to get a very Googly browser without going to Chrome.
What is the evidence that they don't want to fix the problem? The evidence from TFA would suggest they are trying and struggling, mainly due to resources.
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Hey, fellow invalid here. I will be checking out the app, but am unlikely to convert to a paid subscription due to my treatment already being covered.

One thing I find very off-putting, is the rose-coloured, almost "success guaranteed"-like image your website and app store page sketches.

This product is no wishing-well that your customerpatients can simply throw money at and magically feel better. For this to ever have any meaningful and lasting effect, they will have to put in some serious effort. This requirement should be very clearly communicated I feel.

Long-term dedication and commitment to a plan with uncertain results is not exactly what ADHD brains are known to excel at ;)

Edit: I also share the others' thoughts about your billing model not being very ADHD-friendly.

All-in-all, considering your listed expertise in this field, this is very concerning and not a good look at all.
> The 10X solution to solving the Law of Shitty Clickthroughs, even momentarily, is to discover the next untapped marketing channel.

There is no such thing as an uncontested marketing channel. It's why browsing the Internet feels like a chore on most days. Any interesting UGC site with an audience will be deluged with marketers.

Think about Medium and Quora. Great when they began, back when contributors understood the intent of the site, and wrote accordingly. Today, they are nothing more than an appendage of one's personal brand and SEO strategy.
No. This: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22699914/valve-deckard-st...
Do you have any links where I can read more about that? That's fascinating and I wasn't aware, and I evidently am not using the right search terms to find out more
Been using Vivaldi more and more on Android these days.

Since the big update Firefox is literally unusable for some tasks. For example the other day I needed to switch apps to get a value to put into a form. When I switched back it reloaded the page, losing the form state.
It's really remarkable.

I'm not too proud to admit that I spent a long time not really taking ADD/ADHD all that seriously. That was before I fell in love with someone who has ADD. Seeing on a daily basis the effect it has on him, and the extent to which, even with effective treatment, it remains a serious obstacle in terms of executive function and followthrough even for things he plainly cares a lot about - to say nothing of subscription fees, which even people without these disorders find easy enough to forget that tools for managing them constitute an entire genre in their own right...

Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the founders have to say for themselves here, if anything, and wondering what reasons they could give me not to warn my boyfriend off their product in the strongest of terms.
The other day our supermarket broke down half a wheel of Gruyère, wrapped the pieces, and rearranged them back into the original configuration in the display case.
You’re missing my point—it’s a bad look regardless of the economics.

You can have a great business model, you can have a good product, but if you can’t operate without alienating the people you want to sell to you’re probably dead in the water.
It's probably not in the countries where they can't automatically charge your card after 7 day trial period if you forget to cancel the trial.
> there is no way to be in shape while eating crappy food all the time

Even the great arnold says in his interviews that he was mostly eating burgers while training for mr olymptia
AI’s Smarts Now Come with a Big Price Tag
OpenBSD has the -current branch, which is actually a rolling release
When people say a web app is 'modern' I know it involves a javascript framework.

I'm not sure how or why this came about, but it seems to be a code-word meaning one of the newer javascript frameworks, that single word is almost a shibboleth at this point for an entire culture of development.
There is already one, but it is commercial so might not please everyone, and has a limited focus.

http://www.rubymotion.com/
I get strange vibes from this article. To me it paints self-sufficiency and self-reliance as something only the likes of totalitarian dictators would strive for. Am I reading too much into this?
Then I hope you'll also build it by yourself.
I also appreciate their honesty when it comes to software maturity:

> While mobile Linux isn’t in a state that could satisfy most mainstream electronics consumers, we recognize that a sizable portion of our community is ready to make the jump to a Linux-only smartphone today.
ImmuneMist is already facing warnings of regulatory action for their false claims re: covid

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/warning-letters/warning-lett...
That's like saying cthulu is real because we have a word for him.

Your picking precise word definitions and expecting me to guess which ones your using and yet calling me pedantic. The irony.
Re: "where did I put that" -- I got a set of Apple airtags recently and they've been a godsend. I also have an apple watch, so via the watch I can find my phone, and via the phone I can find my wallet/keys/etc... They're awesome.

Re: reminders, one thing I've noticed with any sort of reminder system based on alerts/notifications, is that while they work for a while, eventually my brain just starts ignoring the alerts. I honestly have no great solutions for that. This applies to any sort of organizational system I've tried, actually.
Only ~4 times as far as the moon.
> PNAS October 26, 2021 118 (43) e2108728118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108728118

I'm curious how was this published October 26, 2021? (Currently Oct 15)
That industry is also regulated and monitored to ensure that the interventions coming out of it are generally safe and effective. Is the same true here?
I've used Symfony for years, and Django for 2 years full-time, and I have to say that I find the Symfony documentation is much easier to learn from.
> my understanding is that Alberta's oil sands must be extracted via fracking

https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/technical/mining/surface-mi... and https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/technical/mining

These are large surface mines.

The economics of it have to do with the massive amount of earth moved, and the relatively low amount of oil recovered per unit volume... and the work needed to be done to restore the mine afterwards.
Does anyone know if Nomad can run on ChromeOS? I’ve had issues open with the Chrome and K8 teams to fix an error preventing it from working for months but I don’t think a fix will ever see the light of day, as it just gets passed around various repos.
Yes, and it's responsive. I am so happy as a solo founder. I can get my admin with almost no effort at all
Election fraud Chicago style: Illinois’ decades-old notoriety for election corruption is legendary https://www.salon.com/2016/02/14/election_fraud_chicago_styl...

I posted this elsewhere in the replies but it seems like an open secret. It seems like once the corruption reaches a critical mass, "the system" is no longer interested in thoroughly following up with fraud allegations. It stands to reason that once the politicians who are willing to commit fraud get elected, they appoint people to key positions that are in-debt to the political machine. Prosecutors have to decide whether or not to pursue an investigation. Judges can dismiss a fraud lawsuit for lack of merit or standing. I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to dismiss efforts to actually cut down on corruption, but I just wanted to name a few.
I interned at UCalgary during Summer of 2016 as part of an international students exchange program. After the initial euphoria of being in a foreign land, I felt pretty much the same way as many other posters here.

The people are exceedingly polite, the infrastructure is top notch (compared to most American cities I have visited) and feels like it was built assuming 130% capacity or something. The public transit was free downtown. The city govt was clearly doing a bit of work. Yet I felt the downtown area very lacking.

Calgary on the whole had a very uncanny valley feel to it. Apart from the weather I don't have any complaints about the city. The nature and recreation is world class, Indian food is aplenty, the people are incredibly nice and accommodating yet I wouldn't go back. I guess it just wasn't for me.
why do you think YCombinator isn't willing to exploit people? They're a VC accelerator, of course they are. Just because the profit motive doesn't always lead to immoral behaviour, doesn't mean that profit-motivated people aren't going to pursue immoral behaviour if it's profitable.
It provides value for many companies and people. It's very profitable. Hence it's great in my book. The founder also built NomandList (also mostly by himself I believe) which helps many nomads out there to socialize and connect. Both qualify as great things.
Reminds me of a cook I know. 'Tries' recipes, but substitutes nearly every ingredient. Then claims it was 'no good'.
I strongly suggest that you engage with some professionals for this issue, not an app targeted at a single diagnosis.

Issues like you describe are difficult to self-diagnose and impossible for others to diagnose over the internet. You could have an ADHD-like etiology, maladaptive daydreaming, or you could have a seizure disorder. Undiagnosed seizure disorders can be particularly draining but are often easily treated.

Be wary of internet comments pushing you to a specific diagnosis, particularly ADHD. HN commenters frequently over-diagnose ADHD from comments about vague symptoms. Leave it to professionals who can evaluate you in person.
Enlightening, thanks! I had thought maybe a site could in theory use your IP or even just your ability to connect to figure out who it thinks you are, but didn't know this was so common.
During my diagnosis I discussed both pharmaceutical and therapy options with my psychiatrist. His take, which is definitely subject to his own biases, was "lots of my patients choose to do both therapy and pharmaceuticals, but after starting the drugs they kind of lose interest in the therapy part of things because the drugs work so well for most patients. Not all. Some have benefited tremendously from therapy."
I won’t argue with you about this, as I’m tied up arguing about it already with my inner aspie.
It doesn't do a darned thing to the problem. It just moves it around; the question becomes "If the entire universe is 'conscious', for whatever your definition is, why are some configurations of matter more able to express it and others less?" How can we build an identifier that says what will be more expressive and less by inputting the configuration? How can we engineer configurations of matter that are more expressive rather than less? It is clearly obviously that configurations of matter are not just additive, that is, every 3 pounds of matter is the exact same type of conscious as any other 3 pounds of matter, so what's the difference, exactly?

Which happens to be the exact same problem.

This problem doesn't go away with any amount of changing definitions. Shifting the mystery under the rug where you can't see it doesn't mean the mystery has gone away, nor that everyone else is going to be fooled. Some of still see the lump under the rug you just created.
I recommend reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus (the full version, maybe skipping the stuff about other philosophers and where they went wrong). It describes the notion of Absurd, something that arises from the irreconcilability of the consciousness and the universe... and also talks a lot on what is to be done about that.

A crude synopsis is that you can create your own meaning while keeping the pointlessness of it always in view... you can live life, create art, etc. as a meaningless revolt against meaninglessness :)

I also wonder anyway, how would life with a point feel? It goes back to absurdity of human condition; you think you need a point but how does that work? Let's say you achieve the point of life when you are 53, what do you do then? :) Life with an absolute point is not actually a condition I can imagine :)
This comment mostly echoes common talking points (all of which I agree with), but I really like this nugget of insight:

> I think only high trust countries went through this relatively unscathed.

Off the top of my head that does sound true – I’m thinking of the Nordic countries as usual. I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify this? Maybe by tabulating vaccination uptake against trust in media polls?

I do think there is a phenomenon somewhat akin to overfitting happening when you compare any country to the US. The US produces such overwhelming cultural exports that it’s impossible to analyze any other culture without considering the US itself as a background variable. For example, maybe Norwegians have higher trust in media than Americans partially because they see the disaster unfolding in America and want to avoid the same fate. In many ways the US media/political culture has become the reality show of the world.

As an aside, it’s bizarre that Americans put any trust in media at all. There are no meaningful qualifications required to become a “journalist” other than the ability to consistently output a few thousand words a month. In fact, in many cases people gravitate to journalism because they don’t know what else to do. That’s certainly what I observed at my college newspaper. Some of them who eventually found a path are now working in industry or otherwise attempting to produce value. But the rest of the highflying newspaper staff? They’re blue check marks on Twitter attracting political bot accounts and being retweeted as the voice of media outlets. I find this amusing in light of my personal knowledge that they’re the last people I’d ever ask for an opinion or advice on any topic.

It’s perplexing to me how much we let these reporters shape the conversation in society. For a world of six billion, we sure do have tunnel vision for the opinions of a self-selected, highly connected and decidedly mediocre minority.

Next time you read one of these think pieces with a word count in a multiple of 400, take a minute to imagine the Kanban board that just funneled some morsel of a talking point into your brain.
Mozilla is BATHING in money.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...
But the new wisdom is that any policy which disproportionately affects a certain group is racist. That’s the actual definition of anti-racism.

https://cssp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Principles-for-A...
US invites friends to multilateral cybersecurity meetings, Russia China absent
I think that's how it goes with any distribution problem. If you make it cheap enough then it becomes ubiquitous and even spreads into impoverished areas. I believe this is the only way to eliminate world hunger for example.
> Why are we holding this new startup to a standard we don't hold anyone else?

Most startups aren't offering medical care. Call it "virtue signaling" if you like that those which do come in for a likewise unusual degree of scrutiny, but do you think you're likely to convince anyone that way?

I won't quibble with your analysis of the unit economics involved, but I will say that's not on point - this isn't a question of CAC/LTV but rather one of perception and image. My impression of Launch HN posts is that they are intended in part to elicit this sort of analysis, and by that metric this one has succeeded quite well. It seems like these founders didn't know they had this problem to solve, and now - if they're paying attention, which I assume they are - they do know. In what way is that other than a win?
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Alfred for Mac has a clipboard that works really well. I’ve been using it for years.
The lit I've come across on the subject of consciousness broadly likens it to something illusory (much like identity), not a thing in itself. I don't imagine a machine is capable of experiencing what could be described as being "thrown into the world". The high self-awareness bringing up the question, "why am I in this body, rather than some place else? How is this special unique experience of now-ness selected for what it is, could it have been otherwise?". Watts nitpicks this idea and says we are "born of the world", not thrown into it.

The most fluffy unscientific notion I could entertain is that consciousness is tapped into, like a well. But I lean toward it being a complete illusion.
because i know it had it but not sure it still has
FWIW this is how several diet apps work as well. Short initial free trial, followed by auto-charge lump sum subscription of 6-12mo.

Not my favorite model, but also probably not intentionally predatory towards a specific group of people.

From a business point of view it makes some sense. It extracts maximum money from customers in a niche that is inherently flakey (dieting, self-help, etc.). People often start off strong for a few weeks/months and flake out. Forcing a longer up-front commitment helps their bottom line, and possibly helps some customers stick with it since they already spent the money.

I'm not trying to defend it, but I do think it's a bit much to say it's intentionally predatory. From my view it's just app economy capitalism at work.
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent
Thinking about living a "good life" implies knowing the point of living a life :)
Your argument is really disingenous, you're trying to imply the policy is racist due to the fact it'll affect more African Americans.

Well, if the policy was aimed at a property a particular group can't change or easily change (e.g. entry to the club only if your income is higher than $100K, or your postcode is X (where X = the white area of town)), then it is discriminatory. But here the choice to be admitted or not is easily changed by any individual, by choosing to be vaccinated or not.
Toronto built a bunch of protected bike lanes during the pandemic: Yonge, University, Bloor, Bayview
"1. Don’t assume another person’s gender or gender pronouns
2. Ask a person’s gender pronoun
3. Share your own gender pronoun"

I am a man who dresses like a man and looks like a man. It would annoy me if someone asked for my "gender pronouns", since it would imply that my sex is hard to discern, and I think many other men would feel the same way.
The hard problem has technological progress built into its definition. It defines problems of consciousness that can be solved by progress as the "soft" problems, and the problem that cannot be solved by progress as the "hard" problem. The hard problem doesn't say that a mechanism _hasn't_ been found, it says a mechanism _cannot_ be found. Like Gödel's incompleteness theorems or Heisenberg's uncertainty principle it places a limit on what can be known about the system, "[the hard problem will] persist even when the performance of all the relevant functions is explained."

The validity of that is up to you, but if you accept the hard problem as a valid question it will not be solved by technological progress.
Probably the date of the print publication.
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I find fact checkers quite interesting in the way they've been deployed over the last few years. As if one source is the "truth" and that settles things. Usually when you get to the end of "false" claims, you find some tidbits that make you wonder... such as:

"Several posts circulating online wrongly suggest that the pills are the same because ivermectin also acts like a protease inhibitor and keeps the virus from replicating. Ivermectin continues to be studied in relation to COVID-19, however, it has yet to be proven that it can treat COVID-19."
That's cool, because the people I know will never admit they were wrong about hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.

But that's cool. They can refuse the vaccine at this point but they are 0 for 3 now. And the only thing they ever point to is a couple of weeks where some officials didn't want N95 masks to be hoarded and they made a bad call.

But they were antimask (and still are antimask) despite using this example. So hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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Violence and war have also driven technological and artistic progress. I don't think that makes them good.

I also think you're confusing "did contribute to the creation of" and "was the only possibly way we could get". E.g., it's true that early cellphones were status goods. But given the massive market for them today, it's clear that was not a necessary step toward their existence and perfection.
As someone with ADHD, I’ve stayed away from this product because it is a subscription service.

I will sign up for subscription services fully well intentioned and then proceed to not use the service and forget to cancel it in time. I know myself well enough now to stay away from any product offering a subscription. There is no real “managing” it, it’s just a fact of life for me and something I live around.

An app targeting ADHD minds and not offering alternative payment options is arguably more predatory than the average free-to-play mobile app, as the founders of this app presumably know about the difficulties that ADHD cause and are either willingly ignoring it or actively exploiting it.

Even if it’s a honest accident, it leaves a bad enough taste in my mouth to stay far away.