skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anorexic here. I think this misses it a bit. People with ED’s know what a healthy body looks like. You’re talking about a population that is unhealthily obsessed with food and their body in one way or another. Like I can name the calories and macros for basically any food off the top of my head. I know the calories burnt by most common exercises and what muscles they work. I don’t even need MFP to count anymore. It’s a fun party trick.

What complicates things is dysmorphia. I don’t “see” myself correctly. It’s really hard to explain but it’s kinda like something in my brain is wired wrong where my internal rendering of myself gets distorted. So then when I look at a healthy body and look at myself — even when that body is heavier than mine — my brain goes “ahh the path to go from where you are to there is to lose weight.” And I’ve had it as long as I can remember. My recovery has been learning to develop strategies to deal with when dysmorphia is particularly bad. Lotta sweatshirts, removing mirrors, and doing things in the dark along with safe foods that don’t trigger my anxiety on days when I feel disgusting.

I don’t want to look underweight. I see other underweight women and know that they’re unhealthily skinny.
Upfront design is one of the methodologies of engineering but so is trial and error.

Being a good engineer is adopting the right combination of methodologies to fit the problem space.

Being a good software engineer means knowing what you should plan out in advance and what you need to test and design as you go.
Do you know what plan you are on for Protonmail? I can't see anything that would allow that many mailboxes for anything less than 288 EUR a year?
I understand your point, but there are numerous advancements like noise cancelling and other things that would be better developed if we weren't so focused on texting. For example, a phone could emit a static (non-irritating) tone to isolate spoken communication and then filter it out of voice communication. Simple sound-proof booths could be placed in many locations to allow for call privacy as well.

At the end of the day, texting is probably just as insecure with cameras everywhere and with the fact that the messages are transmitted and retained over mobile networks in the same way as audio and video files would be, although the audio and video files would not inherently contain direct transcripts of the communication.
Not very well written. Confusingly structured, and doesn't actually make its core points. The first paragraph says 'to understand what makes tether tick' and then kind of fails to actually explain that.

In the fifth paragraph, it tries to attack the fact that tether might be undercapitalized but then only references a source that indicates that tether is fully capitalized? Without, i dunno, referring to any actual sources that demonstrate it is undercapitalized, or illustrating why it is thought to be undercapitalized.

Later the paragraph confusingly starts with 'another impact of a tether collapse' without having pointed to the first impact?

The whole thing is written by someone who wouldn't have passed a high school English class, which is a shame as it's a topic that is really interesting and worth exploring.
How did you configure the forwarding from "me@mydomain.com" to your gmail address? Just using your registrars email forwarding options?
Wow... this is so validating. I worked on a project I called "Buzz Me Up Scotty" (Or something like that) to do a very similar thing. Just glad someone proved the vision.
I have a heartbreaking story for you about a wildly popular site that allowed people to submit album info from CDs (and then everyone else could have automatic metadata when they ripped their own copies of those CDs)
I am a former government employee. Basically the only wrong thing a government employee can do is break a policy. So people optimize for that.
> Now go take a look at the protein in every store bought baby formula option

Cow milk; the major infant formula brands, in their main product line, may include soy oil (they use a variety of oils depending on changing supply circumstances) which is not a protein source, and do not include any other soy products.

There are soy protein formulas for infants with galactosemia, who can take neither breast milk nor cow milk based formulas, but that's a fairly special niche.

> any store bought nutrition shake

Very often, cow milk (whey protein isolate and/or milk protein isolate are common), though soy and pea protein are also common.
The new Obsidian version does this extremely well.
Highly expressive type systems can lead people to as much design hell as does deep OOP. I have seen and experienced this in at least a couple of projects.

The only difference is: instead of brittle hierarchies, we get ossified compositions (depending on how much nominal vs structural typing happens).

We, of course, agree that we are quite some distance from having advanced type systems brought to day-to-day industrial programming.
My experience is consistent with this, but I hope not representative.

When I was a kid I was pretty far ahead in some areas, but behind socially, and participated in some programs and activities for gifted kids. The kids in those programs were some of the most socially and emotionally maladjusted people I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. Maybe I was just in those places because I was also maladjusted, and other gifted programs aren't like that.

Here's hoping.
Those are huge long trains in Western Australia, and do not match the use case envisioned by Parallel. The use case of Parallel is to replace trucks on the last mile, and to be more interoperable with the five train networks in North America.

https://moveparallel.com/product/

Can I buy shares please?
More recent paper I found says we dont really know yet what happens

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00142...
> "We believe in everyone's power to do good"

Good for you. But this is what I hate about companies that sell you morality. Tell me "this product kicks google's ass. And also, it helps you do good". Do not alter the purpose of a product or attempt to make it appear like it is superior on morality alone. People use a product for a reason and you need to compete against the other guys and meet that need.

Tell me how great your product is and then tell me how you are the good guys so that I can decide to sacrifice some quality for morals. If you sell morality first then you are telling me you lack confidence in your own product. Tell me how your product at least comes close to your competition first.

Otherwise, I will just use Google,ddg or bing and donate to the charity of my choice.
Browser and mobile app auto fill are really key features for a password manager.
I'm not an economist, a lot of mismanagement and kicking the can down the road is about to unwind. The folks at the top don't seem to realize how thin the veneer of civilization really is. They finally gave in to Roosevelt, and he saved their ass in the 1930s. I doubt this time will prove as lucky.

The standard advice, pay off all debts, have some cash on hand, stock up on food, fuel, toilet paper. Make friends with your neighbors. Have skills that will be in demand, like being able to fix things.
It may not be soy per se. It may be GMO soy that's the problem. From what I gather, a very high percentage of soy is GMO, far more than is typical for most food items.
The time to reach that level of consensus for lots of things is longer than 70 years - it can easily be infinite. It's not really clear why the final date in your timeline is 1998 since it doesn't mark a time when 'all the machinery in play effectively came to the conclusion'. The dangers of smoking tobacco were widely known through much of the period you've picked and this is also reflected in your timeline.
Laurel and Hardy would refilm many of their shorts in different languages, where they were speaking the foreign language. I always thought that was pretty cool.
> The scarcity is real right now because of supply chain issues

IMO regulations that allow such a fragile system still make it artificial, just minus all accountability. Supply chains can't be an "act of god" (in a tort sense) when it's a concept humans made up.
To add to that UP and LAPD have arrested perps and re-arrested the same perps, but the DA/Prosecutor aren't holding water. They aren't following through.

In any event, this outlet was likely on the "defund the police" bandwagon, and now, they have the gall to say, oh, it's because you reduced policing (despite the fact that the DA is not doing their job making the argument moot.)
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Considering there are dozens of other chat apps with huge market shares on both platforms, is it inconceivable that they had a better product than most chat apps? (Until quite recently iMessage was the only widely distributed and usable end to end encrypted messaging platform out there, for example.) It is Google who controls the majority of smartphones, not Apple, yet they have not been able to effectively "abuse" their market position, mind you.

Personally, whenever I carry an Android, I'd very much prefer Signal or WhatsApp than Google Messages app.
It makes me wonder: in such a situation, will I be glad I know how to program, or wish I were some sort of infantry medic?
Why are you treating intentionally stealing as equivalent to not coding fast enough? It's easy to choose not to steal.
I kinda think that the lingua Franca, is very sticky. Think base 10 or the Gregorian calendar or QWERTY . None of these are the only or even best solution but they are going to all stick around forever just because it will never make sense to change them.
Closest thing to a “hack” which hasn’t actually changed my life but works super well for me was 4-8-7 breathing. Try it when you want to sleep, I rarely get through two or three rounds before drifting off.
"The value I deliver as a passionate dogsitter is probably worth several hundred dollars a day. "

In principle this may be true but for most dog owners this would be prohibitively expensive. I bet if you figure out how to market to the super wealthy you may get away with these rates.
For me it all depends on the size of the project. For personal projects below a certain size dynamic typing is 50x faster than static. But that benefit drops off sharply once the project gets over a certain size or once there are more than a couple of people involved.

That's why I liked JavaScript -> TypeScript. I can bang out a prototype of some small piece in JavaScript and then add the types once I'm sure it worked. I save tons of time getting to MVP / proof of concept first and then filling in the constraints later.
Why are people so surprised he fired a bunch of people via Zoom? How does one fire people during covid? He wasn't going to call them into the office.

Now, I understand that (at least on the surface) this guy seems like a bad guy, so, sure, give him hell if it's deserved, but why the focus on a zoom firing?
The Eyes Have It (1953)
I'd categorize them as bad too. There's part of the community I like, but they're just too amateurish.

I wish amateur communities combined better with professionals. Ideally it should be the pros mentoring amateurs, but it usually ends up as amateurs mentoring amateurs and trying to mentor someone with much more experience than them.
Unemployment rate is meaningless in the face of labor participation rates that swing by 10’s of percentage points. us average person is so rich, they can deleverage their labor, retire early etc. no amount of qe or qt will make a dent if people decide they want to relax for a while.
When everyone else is deleveraging their labor, it’s time for people willing to work to reap the rewards.
Google buzz and Google wave are also casualties.
English and Japanese are very different.

I speak Spanish. Subtitles have helped me a lot when languages are similar. I watched three seasons of a Catalan TV show subtitled in Spanish, and now I can follow conversations and read it. Before that I wasn't able to understand spoken Catalan.

Some language pairs were this may work are:

- Spanish/Catalan

- Portuguese/Spanish

- Dutch/German
I should be okay with terrible things happening just because they're unlikely to directly affect me personally? Isn't that a rather selfish position to take?
Crime is driven by unavailability of legal opportunities - often manifested by inequality.

https://financesonline.com/how-income-inequality-affects-cri...

The contrast of what is actually available on an upward path is much more preventative of crime vs the marginal discouragement of more punishment below.
> Pleaes correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of a single technical reason why "a non iphone in a group chat" has to cause such infuriating levels of inconvenience for everyone involved.

SMS/MMS is the lowest common denominator for non-Messages devices. So including a non-Messages device in a group chat means the whole chat needs to be downgraded to SMS. Even if Apple added support for RCS tomorrow, group chats would need to downgrade to it and lose E2EE and rely on the participants carriers to deliver messages just like with SMS.

There's no good way for Apple to integrate the shit show of non-Messages protocols in a sane way. Carriers made a mess of RCS in the design, implementation, and deployment. Google has had to run their own RCS backend to allow Android users to actually use RCS thanks to the carriers' bungling and meddling. Even they haven't helped the situation with a decade of half-starts in messaging apps.

Blaming Apple is a bit ridiculous. They're not going to spend a billion dollars fixing the problems created by carriers and Google when they already have their own messaging system.
The US military is actually very good at teaching people new languages. The issue when learning new languages is incentive and exposure. If you are stuck in a classroom for 8 hours a day and only exposed to a single foreign language, and you have no other job to do but learn that language, you pick it up pretty quick.

It's easy to learn English. No matter where you are, you are probably constantly exposed to English media and are taught it in school.
> No, I don't. "Money for service" is fine as a principle

My mistake for assuming you were talking about the thing being talked about

> What's your definition of reasonable here? $20 a month is a great deal if that's the price of security! So $20 a month would be reasonable by that metric. But I think we can both agree that's too high. So how do we decide? And it can't just be that low dollar amounts are automatically reasonable, because we're not rounding to zero.

This entire paragraph is just asking me how to price software, which is already a very well covered topic and there's no answer that will fit in this comment (there's also no one person who knows a definitive answer to it).

I mean part of why $3 is reasonable compared to $20 is less sticker shock... why is there less sticker shock for $3 but there is for $20? Why $9.99 instead of $10?

> I'm happy to pay for software updates. But software is supposed to last more than 10-16 months. Which is how often you'd be paying a reasonable shelf price of 30-50 dollars. Generally software can be expected to last ten years without trouble.

This still boils down to "what I want" while ignoring the reality the creators face.

Like, software companies have gone with your reality, and before 10 years passes up and you feel like it's time to upgrade... they're gone!

What you don't seem to understand is that the sustainability of the company has a premium here.

It's not just $3 for passwords, it's $3 so I have confidence I'm not relying on 1password having indefinite growth to have people work there.
Hell, if it's good enough for Chad...
This is a wonderful service. I did it when I moved and set up forwarding, but continue see it every morning.

USPS Informed Delivery / Daily Digest is awesome and underappreciated
I am loving this tool. This is a great example how we can automate information flow between technical communities and foster faster response and technology iteration.
Why is this ad voted to the front page?
Brazilian JiuJitsu. After trying and failing for many years to exercise, this sport keeps me coming back. I feel the difference from before: better posture, strength, and flexibility. I also feel happier.
That sums up what Hacker News exactly is

A community used to drive interest in marketing ops/acquisition/IPOs up

People at HN know that very well, in fact, very often, the companies that get to front page are somewhat related to HN, very often they are investors ;)
> If it was finished they'd close their doors and find a new way to make a living.

Well that's the big question with these services isn't it? Are they keeping their doors open because they have more value to provide? Or is this just a ruse to keep their doors open without any further value to provide?
They Found Out What Worked On Other Platforms And The Answer Will Astonish You.
Honestly, I wish there was some mechanism to somehow punish authors that title their papers like a buzzfeed piece. I'm really sick of seeing things like, "Diet has no effect on BMI" and then it turns out that what they meant was that you have a lot of freedom in what you eat as long as you stay around the same total calorie intake or whatever. There's no feedback mechanism to swat these things down and it shows.
The articles premise seems well supported by the facts.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
The tobacco lawsuits of the 90s brought the episode to a close. Tobacco companies now have to admit the health harms of smoking. Philip Morris does so at the top of marlboro.com and in several other places.
I missed it, thanks for the heads up.
Dr Nicolas Courtois - "You can get a private key from one single transaction or from one single digital signature."

That's false.
Lol, that's not the flex you seem to think it is.
Fair warning everybody: nuts are incredibly calorie dense.
The pearl-clutching panics from earlier this week got over 1000 comments and were on the front page for hours. It would not have seemed like the right venue, but apparently it is.
> the Australian public gives up their right to private communication online?

You underestimate how apathetic the Australian public are on matters outside of their immediate 'go to work / pick up the kids/ go to bed' routine.
> Without basic income, robots (as an analogy for automation) will benefit only its owners.

The way tech has been heading I'm guessing robots will primarily benefit the manufacturers. Sure, the wealthy will be able to afford to replace workers with machines and use robots for domestic labor, but the entire time those devices will be spying on their "owners" and reporting everything back to the manufacturers and the state. All of that data will be used by companies to make themselves richer at every opportunity and used by the state to keep uppity citizens in line or discredit them before they can threaten the establishment.

I can't say if we'll need basic income or if such a scheme would work (I'd like to see even one example of it working in a society somewhere) but no mater what it means for the workforce I'd be willing to bet the future of automation is going to enrich a very small number of people at the expense of the vast majority
> GCP and Google Workspace are great compared to most options out there.

GCP is number 3 and struggling, with few wins big enough to compensate for the gaps. Workspaces isn’t bad but it’s not compellingly better than O365. Both are held back by management and sales teams who appear to think it’s 2008 and everyone will do the job of selling for them.
Best for buck isn’t the same as best.
Or when you get the good old "give us your phone and unlock it or we beat you with a wrench" treatment, which bypasses any sort of encryption altogether.
What does DevRel mean? I’ve never seen this term.
Sorry to hear, know that you carry something like a stab wound now, and that will take time to heal.
From the article, 1998 was the year that the Tobacco Institute and the Committee for Tobacco Research disbanded, which I am perceiving as symbolic of the last formal resistance to the idea that smoking causes cancer.
Atari was producing home video game machines before long, I guess, but if they sold ~x00,000 units, that was an awfully small percentage of the population.

Some people had (non-kit) microcomputers ~1981, but again, that was an extremely small percentage of the US.
This kind of worries me wrt to my vaping nicotine habit long term
PKD is a gold mine for heavily modified stories for the screen. His imagination, themes, sci-fi concepts and world building are all fantastic, but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot.
C itself was the attack. We would be in a much better place across many dimensions had we stuck with the Wirthian family of languages. If not for strings alone, in terms of security and cycles wasted running strlen.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...
Egyptian pharaohs knew a solution to that problem.
Internet would always exist in a future world with basic hierarchy (that is to say, we didn't go into nuclear winter), your skill would still be in need.
That same page also says:

> (Optional) Step 3: Delete your organization’s Google Account

> If you no longer want a Google Account for your organization, delete the entire account. Deleting your organization’s account frees your domain within 24 hours for use with a new Google Account.

Not totally sure the implications of that, it kind of sounds like you can create a clean slate where you can re-use that email address as normal? But not sure, it's confusing and I wouldn't count on it.

Which I'm not surprised about not being sure what will happen -- honestly for the last ten years, the implications and consequences of this legacy free "g suite"/"g aps"/whatever it is account have been continually super confusing and un-documented, and often seemed accidental on google's end.
Bring a bouldozer, load everything on a dump track and dump it in a nearby forest.
Yes and no. I have seen major disparities on this matter within different large employers. It’s a matter of expectation differences attributed to populations.

Many times the factors involved are discriminatory starting at hiring time. Such factors may include graduate education, independent research/writing, invention or original solution creation. These people are more inclined to write and diagram, because they have prior practice doing so. The inclination to write is a behavior predicated upon that prior practice.

The larger population of software developers are not so inclined to write. There is no uniform foundation to define an acceptable baseline of qualification to practice writing software professionally. That means the distribution of competence is highly variable and not well measured. In case of poor structuring there is maximal opportunity for selection bias in candidate entry, which suggests preferential factors for candidate selection not aligned with performance (however that’s defined).

In economics this is called the blind leading the blind. Not only is the greater population not guaranteed to be competent but selection preferences reenforce that candidates are selected away from competence towards a medium distribution like that of a bell curve. If you are in this population, as most of us are, you must work harder to write and document anything only for much of it to be ignored.
Not necessarily evidence that it isn't problematic for other people. The Japanese seem to be different in ways we are still trying to sort out.

The prevalence of cigarette smoking among Japanese men has been consistently high compared with Western males over the past 30 years. However, during the same period, the incidence of and mortality rates for lung cancer have consistently been lower in Japan than in Western countries ('Japanese smoking paradox').

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12889681/