skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to do it with a particularly annoying bottom-feeding data-broker, "mylife.com". Their latest scheme was to assign people a bullshit "reputation score". I found this really offensive and it made me angry enough to try to get my name out of their database. Some youtube video showed how to do it.

It required a frustrating ~15 minute phone call (the number is somewhere on their website) to an Indian call center where they tried to upsell me a dozen times or so. But I was polite and persistent and asked to have my name removed over and over. That was almost 2 years ago. It seems to have worked. My name doesn't show up anymore if I search on mylife and no mylife pages appear on google searches for me.

I still do get emails EVERY DAY from these MF'ers. It's just bullshit about how there's a "negative" item in my reputation and that "7 people are looking at my reputation". AFAIK, it's just automated junk, because my name doesn't come up any more on mylife.
For me a simple trick that worked is set alarms for sleeping instead of set alarms to wake up.

So every day at 9.15, 9.30 and 10 Alexa announces I'm reminding you: Get ready. I'm reminding you: get ready, and then at 10p it says I'm reminding you: final reminder and surprisingly that robot is effective to getting all of us into bed max by 10.30p.. even though I've spent my whole life sleeping after 2am everyday before this and nothing worked for me.
Is there a market for quick turn around internal hardware modernization of field servicable Thinkpads at price points 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x $200?
If wework took the money from new investors and used it to pay dividends to previous ones, that would be much more like a ponzi scheme. Using the money to try and grow a business and a share of that business being deemed to be worth more is very different.
Good for you! And thanks for the kind word.

Just for clarification for other readers: Shuffle is not just a low-code builder. We also have a catalog of UI libraries, so you also don't need to know how to design things. :)
Not surprising to see an advocate of DC coming from a tree-hugger.

WATTS UP with THAT!
By being accidentally quadratic or, more likely, naively.
So any SaaS startup that offers referral fees is now a pyramid scheme?
Before my first vaccine dose I asked a former student (who admitted Mt Sinai's first case, and watched countless patients die) about my vitamin D and Clemastine regimen. I didn't want to interfere with the vaccine.

"No good deed goes unpunished!" is a bromide, that I was worried about here. "Correlation does not mean causation" is standard statistical caution.

She advised me to stop the Clemastine, despite no news whatsoever about its effects after the initial study I'd read, just in case it did work.

She advised me that my Vitamin D was irrelevant, that the prevailing consensus was that Vitamin D deficiency identified individuals at risk, but that taking Vitamin D didn't alleviate the correlated risk factors.

(On the subject of statistical reasoning, I'm not one for conspiracy theories. Conspiracy fatigue is however just as real as COVID fatigue. Even the LA coroner said RFK was shot point blank from behind, but after JFK... Still, a bat virus lab in Wuhan? I don't know about causality, but that's a pretty choice correlation.)
> What do you think?

Doesn't load in the DuckDuck<Go browser app (Android), simpky kerps spinning its wheels ...
I think you are not really understanding the idea behind this proposition.

Humanity actually could eliminate all human to human pathogens with planet wide coordinated lockdowns. It is simple as that.

Not being able to do this shows maturity of us. It is not really high, I must say when simple stupid automaton can run us over.
Show HN: Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 3
>A beefy camera would be very interesting to work with. As of now, our phones do a ton of proprietary processing which makes open source/external solutions... suck. I'd love to have a decent open source camera app with the capacities of something like GCam.

I'm a big fan of open source, literally have open source projects with many stars on github. However, I'm not one of those 'no proprietary blobs' folks.

Sony has a camera chip that's awesome, available, but comes with a blob? Fine with me.
How many layers do you use for your Pure Random network? How do you train the randomness? How big is your random seed?

Also, I have heard that NoBlockchain is web scale. Can you confirm this?
There's a big difference between "If you join, you can try to sign up others" and "Pay me $X and get a return of Y%".
Italy is not a tropical Caribbean island as some people like to think. Torino and Milano even have sub 0C temperatures in the winter.
The design of the new foldable Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3
plenty of ohm forks/ponzis with 6 figure apy, until they rug/the reward token plummets ofc
Damn, even the Payday Loan and Rent-to-Own guys are taking notes.
Bitwarden, Adguard-Home/NextDNS, UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Disable Flash, LocalCDN(Replacing Decentraleyes), Selfthosted Paperless-ng and Nextcloud instances for storage and documents with seperate accounts for each family member secured behind authelia with 2FA. Docker-Mail-Server instance with catchall emails for each family member. Enabled 2FA for every sensitive account. Private Selfthosted Wireguard tunnel to access local network services publically (behind a CGNAT network). Non technical family members have been instructed to never use real names while signing up for trivial services online. Guacamole to provide remote assistance when required.
Cheap frozen grocery store patties tend to include textured veg protein anyway, so I'm not sure that's a flattering comparison.
Who would make sure the regulators don't prevent a necessary and life saving vaccine or drug from reaching the marketplace in a timely manner?

Errors exist on both sides. In a time critical scenario like a pandemic, the cost of retarding availability of a vaccine could be enormous.

I don't see the problem with making vaccines (or drugs) that have not received FDA approval available, as long as they are clearly marked as such and informed consent is received.
i don't really understand the controversy here. Doesn't google add Google Pay into that same menu in chrome? why shouldn't microsoft offer their payment processor too?

i'm not going to use "zip pay", but i'm also not going to use edge. this feels like an excuse for people to get angry.
There’s also the reverse: writing as a loopless operation forces the programmer to write code that can be easily vectorized.
Just because something makes a lot of money doesn't make it ethical.
Spotify absolutely knew what they where doing when they "negotiated" the deal.

They knew they would be funelling money to the labels over the artists by adopting the ludicrous notion that they were making the equivalent of a mechanical reproduction over the equivalent of a radio play when a user streamed a song.

The major labels are big share holders in Spotify. It was a complete stitch up of the artists. Spotify were not a neutral party.
SV has some quite crazy features and is absolutely massive. But I agree I think Python is a terrible replacement. By moving away from SV you lose a lot of tool support which is extremely important (can you do FPV in Python?) and Python is a pretty bad language anyway compared to its peers (Typescript, Kotlin, Rust, etc.)
With an IPO, there's the expectation of eventually paying dividends from real revenue.
> Indeed we are already seeing strong negative effects from warming

I keep reading this over and over, everywhere. Yet sea level rise at the Dutch coast has not accelerated and is at a steady 1.5-2mm/yr for over a century.

https://www.klimaatfeiten.nl/gevolgen/zeespiegel/nederland-z...
No the cookbook has a table (retyped for another comment).

Bibliography:

The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, copyright 1963, Hearst Corporation, LOC 16-15315, page 282.
Hey, thanks for reporting!
The #1 way to sleep easier is to stay awake longer. Nobody has any trouble falling asleep after staying awake 24+ hours, barring extreme cases where something is probably wrong with your brain/hormones and you need medication.

So if I want to fall asleep and wake up earlier, I have one night where I force myself to wake up around or before the desired time. Even if I only get 3 hours of sleep one night. Sometimes I don't even get to sleep at all. Then I fall asleep early. Earlier than "normal", because I know I'm probably going to sleep about 12-14 hours.

Remember that it's just one day. All you have to do is wake up at say, 5AM, and stay up until 7PM. You can't take any explicit naps, but you can chill out the whole day - if you don't have any work and don't care about wasting time, you could literally lie on your couch watching TV for 14 hours.

This should instantly fix your sleep schedule no matter how bad. In less extreme scenarios where you find yourself slowly waking up/staying up later, set an alarm to get a bit less sleep one night (e.g. 7 or 8 hours instead of 9), to push your schedule forwards.

Other things I've found helpful are: regular exercise, not eating late, earplugs, good curtains to prevent light seeping in, no caffeine, etc. I really don't find just lying in bed, counting sheep, etc. helpful and actually find it counterproductive - if I'm not tired I'm not tired. Ultimately, the #1 way to fall asleep easier is to stay awake longer.
That would probably get renamed the pooh variant.
Option to Unhide Entry of Password (a.k.a. “show password”
Obvious and false, according to the data: https://diegobasch.com/homicides-vs-gun-ownership

In fact not only is "less guns -> less homicide" not true, it's not true even if you look at only gun homicides: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-...

But I repeat myself.
Fuck off, "veteran."
Lots of classic advice here on improving sleep. One thing to think about is that your actual concern is more about missed opportunities and low efficiency. You might be setting yourself overly high standards, stressing yourself out by not meeting them and affecting your sleep because you’re stressed.

I would suggest don’t worry too much about your sleep, and try to focus more on being kind to yourself. Be aware of your pressures and accept that you’re doing your best. Try to reduce your stress by taking on less. Focus on what really matters to you and say no to things that are less important.

You might find even with better sleep your efficiency and opportunities won’t be much better, so don’t worry about it all that much. Be kind to yourself and don’t expect yourself to be a machine.
Why are people suddenly no longer concerned with processed foods? Impossible foods are more processed than a Doritos Locos taco
Hum, guess you're right. For some reason I thought they introduced them in 1.3.
In my experience, you need to pre-process the text before Tesseract gives reasonable results.

I'd wager 90%+ accuracy after pre-processing a book with ScanTailor.

Accuracy falls off a cliff if the text is handwritten rather than using a printing press, but it's still useful to get a side-by-side editable OCR <-> image.
"Elon didn't even invent rockets"

"Edison didn't even invent D/C"

"The Wright brothers didn't fly the first airplane"

"Did you know Facebook is totally unoriginal and stupid because friendster existed?"

Zzzzz. Title this "How William Heath invented the hyper-loop in 1825" and I'm interested. Otherwise, it detracts massively to make the framing negative for no reason whatsoever other than for click-bait.
Using https://qubes-os.org as a daily driver. Browsing Internet in disposable VMs. Storing passwords in offline VMs.
It’s unfortunate that this article is probably serving as a great ad for the scam cryptozoology school. I think the article would’ve been just as good if they’d left out the name of it.
In all honestly, I think we'd be more concerned if a coworker was so quick to take offence. I suggest we are a little more relaxed here in the UK.
Personally, I think this stuff is probably more unhealthy. The fats they use are not good, and legumes can be problematic in quantity.

Our family decided to adopt a more vegetable based diet and buy more ethically sourced local meat, especially beef and pork. The unit cost is higher but we spend about the same by eating smaller portions.

Substituting food like a burger for food like a burger isn’t doing much other than some warm fuzzy stuff.
I switched to 1 10-oz cup of black cold-brew coffee per day a couple of years ago. For a few years before that I was doing a 15-oz bottle of standard black coffee each morning. Either one seems to work fine for me, to the point that I can pretty much instantly go to sleep whenever I lay down.

Before that I was drinking diet soda all day, and I had extreme issues with getting to sleep.
Tough questions! I would have to ask our CTO, but here in Poland, it's already Friday evening, so I'll leave him alone for now ;)

From my side, I can say that Shuffle contains 3,700 UI components, and combinations are formed using them.
It's way more ethical for people across the world, primarily in 3rd world countries, to be able to share in the success of a company via its tokens than just being mined for data so some asshole in San Francisco can be paid 10 million dollars a month in rent.
Go designers never said they would never add generics. I've followed Go from the start and they have always been clear that they would consider adding generics if they found a good design for it. However they never had it as a high priority.

Many Go fans have said does not need generics, and many including myself would still argue that it doesn't need generics. Yet I cannot say I mind that Go adds generics. I am just worried about whether Go manages to retain its simplicity. Time will tell.

I have been a professional Swift programmer who has had ALL the features people have been shouting about for years that Go should have, yet it cannot be said to be a better language. A lot of these features also make Swift more clunky to use than Go in many instances.

Having said that, I like both Swift and Go. I just cannot see that more is always more.
Words, words, words when you could include a single graph[0] that begs new questions.

[0]: https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/aaafts_...
> For every web site there's a moment when user comments need to be declared 'not worth reading.' HN has crossed that threshold for me.

So what you're doing is the exact same thing, but for HM ITSELF? /j

I don't think think the comment was unwarranted in this case, because the article makes no attempt to explain why what it says is a it admits is a building block of traditional programming is a bad idea. It just says "j does loops bad, do this instead"
Shitballs. Sorry bud - I edited the original post to suggest that people don’t google him. I’m sorry you went through that. :(
Yes. New products get announced at CES and start being available in a couple months. Retailers need to make room for inventory and sell off last years models.
If V7 didn't use an MMU, how did it load programs? Did it rely on PIC code? Did it have a relocating loader that it relied upon? Curious how Unix managed to progress as far and as quickly as it did without an MMU while relying on something as notorious as C in an unprotected space. Just seems system stability would always be at stake.

Just curious what their experiences were like, not questioning it.
It could be a neat way for crowdsourcing and gamifying labour. Instead of 'kill 5 gryphons' an AR game could require the players to 'take 5 pictures of such-and-such' or the like. Sites like Taskrabbit and Mturk already do something similar but tying it to geography and a fun interface might pay dividends.
Maybe they wanted to avoid antivax jokes about the Nu normal.
I spotted this at the front page when I first saw it.
SQL is not turing complete, at least not without recursions. But you will still get very far when it comes to wrangling data. So far that you may not even need another tool for that purpose.

What do you want to use that list for?
Hey, thanks for your feedback. We have plans to remove lifetime licenses early next year.
Google blinks first in 11-month privacy showdown with UK regulator
It's at least usable in most distros at 4gb. I wouldn't spec a Windows machine below 16gb, but you can get a functional desktop in Linux at 4gb.
This zoomed in view of a single animals suffering seems short sighted to me. Sure, factory farms are terrible, but farm animals (cows, chickens, sheep, goats, etc.) in general have grown up symbiotically with humans. Replacing a system where we collaborate with nature to one where we're dependent on a corporate lab grown product does not seem like it's being more integrated with, or compassionate to nature.
Good luck with your project! :)
For card payments, yes there is no verification but for bank transfers, at least here in the UK, "confirmation of payee" is a thing and wrong names are rejected [1].

[1] https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/confirmation-of-payee
Nu means naked in Portuguese (and Spanish I think?)

Maybe they wanted to avoid all the lazy puns. A pretty significant part of the world speaks either of those two languages.
My personal experience: if espresso machine is 100 then Wacaco Minipresso would be 93, Moka 53, Airpress 52, anything else <50. This is assuming same beans.

As other people mentioned, beans quality is important. Assuming freshly roasted and ground beans are 100, freshly ground 1-month old roast is 50 and 1 month old grind is 25
It seems like we are really going fast towards game regulation based on what I saw. Gambling with real fake money for teens in a game designed to be basically a pokemon clone with all ways to keep users engaged?

It may not be a ponzi scheme, but if it keeps growing, we will hear about it as a new panic in US.
The actually story here is having the hubris to think you can build a good ORM (in Golang no less, lol) with a handful of engineers at a small company that's not even a technology company. How did this guy become a CTO again? Complete failure of leadership.

Mature ORMs (that still often suck) are built by literally thousands of open-source contributors.
Hi everyone. This week I've been working of some fake 3D effect over a 2D grid. I don't have a goal with this, I'm just making it for fun. The original code took me less then a hour to write and every iteration about 15-30 minutes.

Today I was looking at some cool retro synthwave graphics [1] and I got inspired.

To achieve this I'm measuring the distance of each column of points to the center of the grid and giving it a random height the decreases as it approaches the center. After a row of points have passed a z value (went outside of view) I pop them, reset their z position (depth) and give it a new y positions. This way I'm creating an endless loop of mountains. I also use the z distance to color the grid in this beautiful blue to red gradient with an alpha value (so the mountains fade in instead of just appearing out of nowhere).

Well, I hope you like it.

Part 1 - https://victorribeiro.com/random

Part 2 - https://victorribeiro.com/random2

1 - https://www.google.com/search?q=retro+synth+graphics&sxsrf=A...
This is impossible because the money has to come from somewhere. The 1% aren't going to pay people to play games.
It seems (maybe unsurprisingly) complex to put an exact number on the cost of a non-subsidized hamburger. However[1], the US gives $38 billion per year in beef subsidies, and less than 1% of that amount for vegetable production. I found a couple links [2, eg] which claim $30-50 per pound of beef, if subsidies are removed. There are also some discussions to be found [3] of the cost of additional externalities.

[edit : one can also try a simple-but-probably-wrong end-to-end estimate... Divide $38B by 325M to get $116 per person. Then divide by 57 pounds of beef consumption per person per year [4] to get ~$2 per pound. A quick search finds ~$4 per pound for ground beef, so one may naively guess the subsidies add up to at least a 33% discount.)

[1] - https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...

[2] - https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-the-average-pound-of-beef-...

[3] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/opinion/the-true-cost-of-...

[4] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/183539/per-capita-consum...
> where you delay your usual sleep time by 3 hours every day for a week until you reach the desired time then you stick to it.

Could you elaborate a bit more on how this works? Are you saying you’re going to bed 3 hours later each day for that week?

The linked Wikipedia article mentions doing this with an hour offset each day (as an example) start with with Day 1 sleeping from 5pm to 12am which doesn’t make a huge amount of sense to me without additional context of why you’d start at that particular time…

Sounds interesting all the same.
The skeptic in my head said "you'll just see an empty page here". The actual page: "hold my beed" :]

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Nu means naked in Portuguese (and Spanish I think?)
Maybe they wanted to avoid all the lazy puns. A pretty significant part of the world speaks either of those two languages.
It is not 94% and citing 94% is misleading, and it is (why?) a deadly myth, OK.

BUT what is the actual percentage[1]?

"Not 94%" is meaningless.

And while EU regulations have done lots of good in some aspect of vehicle safety, road enhancement project like the "Vision Zero" ( which is a purely Swedish thing) and similar projcts are not "EU-wide" and cannot possibly be the reason why (thankfully) there were less deaths on the roads in the EU in last ten years.

[1] according to the Author, and how was it calculated/estimated?
It does. It's just more abstract wishy washy and metacognitive than most people tend to sanely run.

The general theme or oomph of the point is that the world, and beliefs we hold tend to converge on certain structural relationships because they just work. Even if it isn't a concrete 100% accurate description of what we see in front of us it just feels right, so we hit a mental stop point and go on about our day.

The belief literally feels good. To hell with reality, this is how it is. One of the tenets of Discordianism is there is no objective truth or order, as truth itself is just surprisingly convenient organizations of the fundamentally chaotic underpinnings of existence, and everyone sees things differently or different aspects of things thereof. We can all be looking at the same thing and see things completely differently, and in a strange sort of way, nobody is wrong. Fnord.

Therefore, as Eris dictates, there is no one true Discordianism, or world, as everyone's view of the world is true into and unto themselves. Fnord!

It can be disturbing to many, because it allows you to completely detach from all of your prior assumptions. Someone completely detached from everyone else's reality isn't terribly yuseful, but they are free to peer through the Chaos to find any momentary tendrils of direction that become revealed.

The original poster posited positive utility from applying these principles to any mode of thought in such a way as to identify when those belief structures have fallen or been distorted by the same mannerisms of thought that make equally quacky, though more mainstream ideas feel good, thusly revealing that the holder of the idea is in a state of mental metastatic equilibrium.

This makes the Discordian in the room a surprisingly strong catalyst for change, or at least the most aware of the set of Reality Distortion Fields at work/being projected by those in charge, and as a consequence, a threat to unified manipulation, and an escape hatch to individual notions of reality. Fnord

Hail Eris!

-A Discordian Malcontent