skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this link up here for the content or for the tech? I don't get it either way - the app is nice, but it's built using another system (and I'd have lots of suggestions to improve how it renders on this site).

In terms of content, it's not clear whether the network model is one taken from the published literature, or something the author created ad-hoc (feels a bit like the latter). And I don't get the point of assigning network centrality measures to topics like "facing fears" without explanation (seems like they came with the app, which was designed for a different purpose, and the author didn't know how to take them out, or didn't bother).

I have a therapist friend who's shown me some very useful, evidence-based cognitive models. They do come with nice visual explanations too, and putting those into a web app has been on the back of my mind since - but they looked quite different.
In terms of intent, the designer has spoken about this. One story is the forbidden fruit. Another is that Alan Turing killed himself by taking a bite from a cyanide laced apple. The original rainbow logo showing support for gay people.

But he says none of these are true. The logo was an apple because that’s the company name and a bite was taken out of it to make it clear it’s not a cherry. The rainbow colors were because they shipped color graphics with the Apple ][ which was rare for the time.

They also proposed a logo without a bite taken out and solid color and metallic versions of the logo that were used in certain marketing.

https://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desi...

But then if Steve was the devil then this is good cover.
Definitely TikTok, and Instagram as well. Yes, really, there's a huge independent musician community on Instagram.
Here's a partial translation as it is directly related to "prostitution" in Iran:

"The holy state of Razavi [i.e. Khorasan] in order to improve the spiritual atmosphere of the society and create suitable mental conditions and peace of mind for the pilgrim brothers (especially the brothers who came from other Islamic countries, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon...) who during the pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of the 8th Imam are detached from their wives, has started organizing a center for short-term concubines [Sigheh marriage] near the Razavi shrine. In this regard, all virgin sisters between the ages of 12 and 35 are invited to cooperate."

Now you're likely curious as to the rates of this 'holy' prostitution system? Here you go:

صیغه های ۵ ساعته: مبلغ پانصد هزار توما

5 hour marriage: 500,000 Tomans.

صیغه های ۱ روزه صدو هفتاد و پنج هزار تومان

1 day marriage: 175,000 Tomans.

etc.

So how does this work?

"After the 2-year contract expires, if the sisters are not 35 years old, they can be on the waiting list for permanent concubines if they wish. Sisters over 35 please do not register due to their age. The sisters are obliged to deposit 5 percent of the received amount of each concubine to the holy shrine. All interested sisters are requested to send 2 full-length photos (with Islamic hijab), the latest academic degree, virginity status and a certificate of complete mental and physical health from the health organization of the city where they live to the address below (for sisters less than 16 years old, official consent of father or paternal grandfather or uncle is required)"

Anything to help our Muslim brothers from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, and soon comarades from Russia. Iranians should be delighted to be free from the yoke of the evil "dictator" Shah. This, after all, is clearly progress.
> insofar as even stating “wealthiest person of all time” is meaningful

Quite, how can you compare Alexander to Musa to Montezuma to Rockerfeller to Bezos to Putin?

Wealth itself is pretty meaningless once you get to a certain level of course. Who's wealthier, Bezos or Musk? Does it matter?

Would you rather be Mansa Musa or someone of median wealth and income in say New Zealand in the 21st century?
Victim is the wrong word, more like loser
You don't need to feel ashamed of the procrastination if you're allowed to completely forget about the thing you're procrastinating on. Pesky society likes to remind people about things like owing taxes, work deadlines, and grades, though.
By "warmer" sound, it is meant that, even if the tube amplifiers normally produce greater distortions than many of the more modern amplifiers, for some reason this kind of distortions sounds more pleasant than other kinds of distortions.

If some amplifiers would be ideal, producing no distortions, they could not be distinguished in any way, regardless what devices have been used to implement them. The modern Class-D amplifiers can behave almost ideally when amplifying low-frequency signals, but for the signals with frequencies close to the upper limit of the audio range their behavior becomes much less ideal.

While I have pleasant memories about a tube amplifier that I have used many years ago, I have never made comparative tests with other amplifiers, so I could not say whether it was better or worse regarding "listening fatigue".

Even when comparative tests are done in an identical setup, by swapping a tube amplifier with another amplifier, it is extremely difficult to disentangle which audio differences are caused by using tubes as the amplifying devices, which are caused by the audio transformers included in most tube amplifiers and which are caused by the interaction between the amplifier outputs and the loudspeakers, which can be very different between different kinds of amplifiers, due to their different relationship between output impedance and signal frequency.
All extremely true, but the damn friction when buying tracks there... (jwz put it best [1])

> If I put 6 albums in my cart and check out, you make me enter my credit card info SIX TIMES. This is insane. You realize this is insane, don't you?

> You have used Amazon, right? Click once, receive candy. You need to be like that.

(Maybe they fixed it? Haven't bought multiple items at once in a while)

Also I would gladly pay for SoundCloud if most of the money actually went to the artists (if any SC pm is still listening).

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/shouting-into-the-void-this... (you will have to copy and paste the link manually because he loves to block HN referrals for self-amusement)
Get something used & refurbished, for example https://www.nowthatsit.nl/laptop/laptops-tablets/dell-latitu...

... ok not this specific thing, because that display is super awful ... but the point is that higher-end configurations of older machines can be had for a great price and will do more than what can be had for the same price in the current generation.
When people talk about audio buffers they’re talking about something that’s filled and drained from RAM when an interrupt fires every 1ms, not the data that’s processed every few nanoseconds as the CPU moves on from running one filter/plugin to the next. The latter doesn’t even leave the CPU cache.
Why would I want to do that?
Usually if there's a problem I'll either write a new test or see if someone modified a test I thought was covering the case

Usually people 'own' a file or part of the system so that wouldn't really be happening anyway
Title is from here: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/02/14/settling-down-roma...
>People hoped for and bet on an endgame similar to Spotify, which holds 33% of the market share for music streaming

Who said that Spotify is the endgame? That's like saying that MySpace is the endgame for social media or that 3Dfx is the end game for GPU tech. Few tech companies survive long term. AFAIK, unlike Netflix, Spotify don't own any of the IP they stream, they just license it from the major record companies, making them effectively just a middleman with commodity tech. So, in theory, if they wanted to, the major record companies who actually own the IP Spotify streams, could join forces and build their own streaming services, and stop licensing their IP to Spotify, effectively killing them over night. And let's not talk about the bad blood between Spotify and many artists who would love to see Spotify burn to the ground.

So, IMHO, in theory Spotify is even easier to kill than Netflix, but as to why that hasn't yet happened, that's up to the execs of the major record companies to answer. Maybe they decided it's easier and more convenient to just sit on their butts and license their IP to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and have them outbid each outer for the licensing fees and collect rent from them, rather than bothering to assemble armies of picky and expensive SW devs to build their own competing services, since those dinosaur execs at the record companies aren't known to be very tach savvy, and in fact spent most of their lives fighting the tech industry in courts instead of investing in it.

Also, most importantly, music and video distribution and consumption are completely different beasts, so direct comparisons between Netflix and Spotify are pretty difficult even if all other things were to be equal.
The only thing I really hate about firefox is the build.
Building FF from scratch is a fucking nightmare.
It's the only shitty package that REQUIRES python 2 for building.
It may be naive but I think all you need are accounts linked to human identities and a central repository of facts and sources.

When something is reported, OP can check his facts and alter his content or insist on his view. The reporter then can double down and a moderator looks at it.

Request a down payment for both content and reports, and moderation pays for itself when the losing party has to pay the process.

Don't allow people to post new content as long as a report is open.

The expensive part is the repository of facts. That has to be maintained with membership fees of the social network.
A bit out of place: their complaint is asserting teens are listening to oldies
If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I bet ya you would have done the same
> I got the sense that things tend to wind down in the evening

this is true in sydney everywhere. May be except thursday nights, some shops open late.
It’s sad that Wikipedia volunteers have to put up with such crap. My sincere thank you to all the well-meaning volunteers out there who help improve this wonderful resource.
Do you mean cable television? To me, Netflix is the same to cable television as Spotify is to radio, so I'm not sure I see a big benefit of Spotify there.
For some people a smart watch with LTE connectivity can be a useful middle ground. The screen is too small to really use for anything interactive, but you can still call for help in an emergency.
That's exactly what I am saying, HTTPS is not a protection for the server, but for the client.
That nitpick is a bit like when people say BMI is invalid as an indicator for overweightness because bodybuilders are also categorized as obese by BMI. Except the confusion is impossible in case of a regular person.

Similarly, there can be good reasons for being 12 hours on screens, but it will be obvious and exceptional. Yes an 18 year old may be a successful entrepreneur, video maker podcast host influencer who is reading ebooks for research or sending out emails or editing videos or programming a website in those hours but we are clearly not talking about that, but FOMO social media scrolling.

There can be good reasons for hyperobsessing over a single issue in life, but you better have a damn good reason for it, like being a successful athlete or chess player or e-sport player or whatever. And it will still be a sacrifice that's only worth it if you are truly exceptional and there's a high chance you aren't.

The question is, are those hours bringing an improvement to your life, are they bringing you closer to achieving meaningful life goals or are they a distraction from focus and life organization, and a suppression of quality of life and achievement.
What kind of comment is this?

Apple didn't sell you an Apple Silicon Mac advertising support for Rosetta2 on Linux. They actually had to write code to support this. So props to Apple for doing this.
Precisely, I'd rather use msgpack or CBOR if it requires additional libs. I use JSON because of browser support.
With this budget you could get a refurbished Lenovo or Asus with and or intel core I3. Stay away from celeron or integrated MMC motherboards like the HP stream ones.
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/
> It's sad that despite all the warnings, people are so myopic

Which warnings? I ask the question earnestly. As a developer with a clear sense of how the internet is structured, what browsers are and are not capable of doing etc I know the warnings myself. But for the population at large? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything that’s explained the consequences of pervasive advertising infrastructure to non tech inclined folks, much less something placed somewhere that people will actually see it.

Until recently people simply were not aware that personally identifiable location data was gathered on them to the extent that you’d be able to detect a visit to an abortion clinic. Or that period tracking apps are sending data in a way that can be later bought on a free market and tied to personal identification.

This is a failure of regulation, education and a media beholden to tech giants. I think we in the tech industry have some reflection to do as well. We understand the implications better than most yet many of us dutifully completed our work tickets to add tracking pixels to every page of the company site. We can’t do that then turn around and say “what, you mean you didn’t know that a Facebook Like button tracks every web page you look at even if you don’t click on it?!” and expect to be taken seriously.

Placing the blame at the feet of individuals that aren’t equipped to understand is a mistake, IMO.
I read this and say that it sounds fair, but I remind myself that it all hinges on compensation and freedom. I am not comfortable with the notion that they are all equally trapped in their burdens.

CEO and The World Changing Content Delivery Guy can always apply to be the sanitation worker, every day until they land that job, in order to rid themselves of the nagging feeling that they could be consuming more content.

Trash Guy might be able to pursue his dream, hanging off the outside of a truck at 4am, of becoming a World Changing Content Access Guy but only if he has the funds and time to do so.

I fall into this trap myself, wondering if I should have just delivered packages for a living, but I forget that lower wages never decrease stress, and very rarely buys freedom.
A massive chunk of my music collection recently came from random
strangers.

I found a waterlogged phone on the beach. No amount of dry rice could
resurrect it. But I located the owner and, via a micro SD card,
returned a 100GB of family photos by EXIF GPS data that led me to
their house. Happy repatriations. As a side effect I snarfed about
100GB of high quality MP3s. I'm still listening to bands I've never
heard of before. On reflection I rather liked that. It shows my
ego-driven so-called "tastes" are perhaps an over inflated sense of
identity and that whether I'll like random music or not is only a
little higher than chance.

Another time someone gave me a USB with a PDF to read, and the rest of
the drive was chock full of their whole music collection. Now that
thumb drives are so HUGE and I literally have boxes of them lying
around I wonder whether to just preload them with a shit-ton of cool
music and give them to people I like. Like old mix tapes... it's
nothing to do with the cost/purchase... it's a whole new formula for
discovery and restoring a social dimension to music.
I respect your position on autonomy and letting people control their bodies. However, I am not sure if I personally am prepared to take it to this extreme. It's not how I was raised, and something is deeply unsettling to me to be a part of such a destructive action. I need to think on it some more.

No counselor on CTL will say it's wrong to end his/her life. That's because one of the core values is to treat each person without judgement (on any issue they bring up, from abuse, to self-image, to drama with parents, to rape).

For example, if someone says "I am having thoughts about suicide." No counselor would respond, "Oh that's awful, you shouldn't be having those. What's wrong with you?"

Or if someone says, "I just don't see the point in life anymore." No counselor would respond with, "Oh well life is sacrosanct and you're lucky to be here, so how could you possibly think about killing yourself? Your pain can't be that bad -- just think about your family who will be so sad."

These tropes are obviously harmful in a therapeutic setting, and the judgement is so counterproductive to keeping people engaged and finding solutions within themselves, which is key because we are not authorized to act in a medical capacity or advise people on what to do.

I have had many conversations with people who are clearly in lasting and profound pain and who just don't want to continue. Chats such as these are probably the hardest to endure because some people are just so resigned to their misery, and major depression just can't be treated by text. I'd give them a hug, but well...

I just want to end on a bitter note that while it seems like a lot of growth has happened in treating mental health, unfortunately many services have gotten a bad rap or are viewed suspiciously for the fact that previous generations of healthcare workers and society writ large did not give credit to the pain and difficulty in surmounting these conditions. It is a very dark morning in America, and we must be willing to listen to and validate each other's pain. CTL is one such location where that is possible.
It doesn't have anything to do with liking things. Blanket rules that apply to incompatible scenarios are just dumb, and not reasonable in any form.

The endless 'defence' for bad rules makes no sense either, it's okay to say "it isn't perfect and when we find a better way we might adopt it". Rules are just constructs that can be changed.
> a period of time

Less than a 2 years I'd say, with 2.5 years at the maximum: Win95 GA is August '95 and Quake 2 hit the last nail in the DOS gaming coffin in December '97

It was an absurdingly fast process, in Jan 1996 we got Duke3D, Quake in the summer, and dual boot with DOS was the norm.

In 1997 we got a bunch of Build-engine releases for DOS: Blood and Redneck Rampage in ~May, Shadow Warrior in September; while MDK, GTA, Carmageddon, Dungeon Keeper, Fallout got a mixed Win/DOS release and 3dfx was at it's peak.

Quake 2, Tomb Raider 2, Wing Commander: Prophecy are released for the Christmas sales and are Windows only.

Dual boot is still a thing for some games, but the new games are targeting Windows and DirectX.

Diablo (January), NFS2 (March) and AoE (October) are Windows only.

In 1998 there is no noticeable DOS-only or Win/DOS releases, except some add-ons for the earlier games.

Before mentioned Quake 2, StarCraft (April), Unreal (May), FreeSpace (June), Half-Life (November) are the ones which dictate the OS would be used. Win98 was released in May.

Even Derek Smart stops developing DOS versions of Battlecruiser 3000AD.
techradar on mobile is truely an awful experience.
Traders at Optiver and other reputable firms are for sure making at least that much. Their pay is variable, but I think you generally hit 7 figure annual payouts really fast.

Even new grad software engineers make 350+ at Jane Street, HRT and Citadel. You can easily verify this through levels.fyi. I didn't believe the data until some people I personally know who work here said its true. And of course traders who take on all the risk should have a much higher upside so their pay should be significantly more than 350.
Indeed, but it's a bit tedious to always say, "probabilities (in the discrete case) or probability densities (in the continuous case)."

In general, you have sums in the discrete case and integrals in the continuous case, but most formulas are otherwise the same.
Along with obvious ones like uBlock Origin working perfectly, etc., I have 2 other favorites:

- Native reader mode

- Native PiP mode for videos

Yes, you can get extensions for this in Chrom(e/ium) but having these as a native feature is really nice.

Things I want to see in Firefox:

- Good/extensible keybindings

- Tab groups

- Tab search

EDIT: How do I break sentences to newline in HN without really making a new paragraph? You know, for bullet points, etc.
I'm not quite young, but I listen to lo-fi hip hop streams, video game soundtracks (Guilty Gear Strive is my current recommendation), DJ streamers, live cover streamers, and space music on public radio (WXPN). I doubt any of these get reflected in the official numbers.
> Didn't you get pushback from that from your parents or family?

No, my parents were ok with it as long as I took care of the lawn (my Dad had MS and couldn't chase the mower) and didn't flunk out of high school. I also got a job programming at age 16 (writing medical diagnostic aids), and so they saw me making very good money for a 16 year old.

> In the 80s spending so much time on the computer was much more 'weird' than spending as much time on a phone is now.

I really don't have a good reference on what normal was. I spent a lot of time with the computer, put a lot of miles on training for cycling, and played soccer and went to school in between. I just did my thing, and didn't really worry about it.
NASA didn't spend any R&D on it as it was developed by a third party, so that point is moot as the answer is $0.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
Certainly the culture hasn't stopped, but how would you say that music has moved forward in the past decade or two? While I can name a lot of groups that make new music I enjoy, I can't say that there have been revolutionary genres created for awhile.