skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world of relationships is a fucking mess.

Yeah, I can see that. It's one of the reasons I'm currently abstaining from relationships of this kind. The other is simply because I can, due to having schizoid personality and no specific goals that would require having a relationship.

> You speak as if it's super easy.

I don't think I explicitly said that but I might have given that impression. While the target might not be realistically achievable for many people in their lifetimes due to something as simple as lack of luck I think it's still worth to point whomever I can in, what I believe is, the correct direction so at least they can adopt the right framework that could enable them to achieve the target if they are lucky enough.

> How old are you? 18?

I'll be 47 soon.

> If you haven't been in a bad relationship or brokenhearted, I can only assume you're in completely unexperienced or one of the luckiest people on Earth.

I'm prone to landing in situations that produce incels and as a young person I spent years in this kind of "relationships" (which constitute mostly of being constantly brokenhearted, betrayed and feeling inadequate and powerless) before I actually found (due to sheer luck in timing and match) someone that decided to spend the rest of their life with me and seen what a good relationship might look like and what nourishes it. One relationship I never been in so far was the transactional kind, the one where the labor is expected, the one where labor might give any illusion of contributing positively to the relationship. The ones that most Americans see as a default, desired mode despite of having divorce rate of more than 50% (and that's not counting the ones that fall apart before marriage).

So all of your assumptions about me are false unfortunately. If I can recommend something, which I personally also struggle with... When talking to people try to ask more and guess less. Smart people like you and me naturally lean towards guessing because it worked for us in the past across many domains. What I noticed so far is that it's not a great strategy when interacting with people about their personal perceptions and experiences because variety and absurdity of this domain makes us guessing wrong way to often.
Extremophiles don't tend towards complexity, though.

And if each common variable has, say, a 10% range in which complex life can occur, you don't need that many to start reducing probability a lot.

- Orbital stability?
- Tidal and seasonal ranges?
- Magnetic fields?

- And the big one - properties of our Sun & solar system that make it different to others of a similar age? For example, are there galactic-scale properties that affect the surface environment of planets on a long enough time-scale, so that, just as Earth exists in the habitable zone of our Solar System, there is a relatively narrow galactic habitable zone?

All the more reason though to get some telescopes built that can glean more detailed information on exoplanets. We might be in for another shock like the Mariner probes, or it might be 180 degrees the opposite.
One common reply is: then unlock your phone and let me snoop through.
You can find a nice list of privacy-respecting analytics tools on European Alternatives [0], including mine, Pirsch [1].

I've been in this space for ~3 1/2 years, so if you have any questions, please let me know :)

[0] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

[1] https://pirsch.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155 - Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th (2025-02-16)
> Zero percent of British people own an OED

I suspect fewer than 1% of British people own any paper English-language dictionary, but the sort of people who need a dictionary beyond what dictionary.com can offer will have online access through their employer, their institution, their local UK public library, or for the princely sum of £8/m for a personal account when paying annually.

Regardless, the authority that the OED holds on British English is best understood through the criticism section of it on Wikipedia, with people decrying its absolutely overwhelming influence:

> criticizing the OED is extremely difficult because "one is dealing not just with a dictionary but with a national institution", one that "has become, like the English monarchy, virtually immune from criticism in principle"
> I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

It took 6 weeks for that milk to rot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...
Where in SF do you live? I'm guessing Soma, or near downtown? Get out of your neighborhood now and then. Most of the city does not have a drug addict or three on every block, and trash everywhere.
If there's no DRM-free version available to purchase, I buy from the kobo store (it's very easy to access different region stores which can impact book availability) and I then remove the DRM. Library genesis is also an option, of course.
Why should someone give up pre-emptively on the thing they want to do simply because of a risk of corporate bullshit? You're just saying "get a real job", the classic dismissal of creatives everywhere.
Broligarchy does not build civilization
Real cost in USD going up because they're releasing the artificial peg that most people can't access anyway?

No one says it's going to be all sunshine and roses, but fixing inflation and housing/rental prices seems like a pretty solid start, as well as moving towards eliminating a currency peg.
You’re reading too much into it. Stop thinking he’s playing 5D chess, he’s not even playing regular checkers. It’s well known he bought Twitter because he thought he would be forced to, he clearly tried to actively back out of the purchase.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/12/elon-musk-admits-he-only-b...
Thank you Minerva was really fascinating.

The movie "Rose Island" about a hippie ancap seasteading micronation that ends up being taken out by the Italian government.

It seems there's a long history of these ancapistans' being terminated by nearby governments' militaries.
Android private space: How to install apps from other sources
Sure, but Argentina wasn't doing ING what an MMT theorist would advocate for (which is balancing government spending with available productive capacity). This is evident because they had an out of control inflation rate.
> I'm coming around to the Dark Forest theory, personally, as terrifying as it is.

If you're silent with the intent of remaining hidden, then that behavior must have been learned. Either you evolved from a prey type of species, or a non-apex predator.

It would be strange of humanity is the only apex-ish predator intelligent-ish life form in the universe that blasts signals into space without consideration of who might hear them.
Brit here. Nobody here says "gaol" in normal speech or writing. Usually "prison", sometimes "jail".
With "death" flag set to false - sure. But are they collecting benefits / are they active in any way? Otherwise it's just that the death may not have been recorded.

If Elon Musk wanted to be honest, he should've published a statistic like that, but with SSNs that seem still active.

There were around ~1M (if not more) unidentified bodies found in the States over the last 100 years. On top of that, before digitisation, you've had mistakes in filling the data, lost documents and a ton of other possible causes for not marking someone as dead in SSN. As long as they are not collecting benefits, it's more hassle to fix than it's worth.

In a bit similar spirit - in Poland we're considering turning public health insurance into just a tax, and doing blanket assumption that every citizen has health insurance. Since we have less than 1% uninsured, the costs of tracking and verification are comparable/higher than just giving "free" insurance to the remaining 1%.
The problem with hypocrisy is it's a milquetoast charge. Plenty of people, including very powerful people, are hypocrites and we tolerate them fine. Most of us--hopefully--don't know someone who's corrupt.
For most cases I agree that automatic configuration is the right answer.

In this case I'm bringing up virtual machines, as fast as possible, and static is inherently faster and more predictable. Automatic configuration isn't compatible with literally counting milliseconds.
When has Signal called for a violent overthrow of the US government?
I don’t understand the point. We are all free to disobey and have to deal with the consequences. It can’t be otherwise. Nobody can pass as an automaton.
I think FS-level compression would be a perfect match. Has anyone tried it successfully on large SQLite DBs? (I tried but btrfs failed to do so, and I didn't get to the bottom of why).
Author did not use a bayesian average but the Wilson score interval.
Ask HN: Books on Crypto
What are the must-read books on blockchain and cryptocurrency? I want to avoid the mathematical and technical aspects (I already understand those) and instead focus on the socioeconomic impact and real-world use cases.
Really great idea, I currently work for an AI, compiling and debugging its code, at least that's what it sometimes feels like. Who is the agent here exactly?
The fact that the AI has no understanding at all of what we are doing, and does not apply the information it does know to solve problems is challenging.
At least if it debugged the code, it would be able to see that it is clobbering the same registers that it is using, instead of me having to explain that to it. Fortunately I am talking about my hobby projects, I pity people who are doing this for a living now.
I don’t want to trust the network. The network is never secure. Therefore, I don’t want the server to trust any self-proclaimed router with what IP address the server should use. As far as I know, there is no IPsec for RA packets.
This looks like something out of the 1937 book How to Win Friends and Influence People and ends with "they prospered together forever and customer would later find the mistake from his side".
I know a few companies that have managed to get the license to do it.

F1 TV also gets radio spectrum which they use for something like 4G for their wireless cameras.
No see all speech is free but some speech is more free than others.

/s
I think not endorsing specific crypto rugpulls as a solution to help small businesses [on the day they rugpull] in the first place isn't a particularly high normative standard to hold public officials to, especially not public officials who claim to be experts in economic revitalisation. Owning mistakes feels like "with hindsight, I probably shouldn't have pursued this tax policy", not "with hindsight I probably shouldn't have been the prime pumper in a pump and dump scam, but now I'd like to put this experience behind me"...

(cf some fashion blogger with no understanding genuinely being able to claim that promoting crypto was an easily-made mistake)
> I don't bring my phone or smartwatch, I don't track my time or progress, I don't set targets, I don't care anymore.

I'm jealous of this "Forrest Gump" mindset...I also run to maintain/lose weight, so I use my watch (plus intuition, as mentioned) to manage my pace/heart rate/effort so I can run a long enough distance to burn enough calories.

Although I also realize and acknowledge all these stats are probably at least 50% there to satisfy my caveman need for external validation.
Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on Numident [pdf]
> Musk is dramatically more pro-speech than any other social media platform owner

X is blocking private messages on the basis of their content. Every competitor with E2E as even an option clears this bar handily.
> it is too much out of character

But it's not the first time they banned links to other social media?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985
> I feel like people would love to throw off the shackles of YouTube and Twitch, but are probably less enthused about not having their channel advertised to the platform's users. Things like maintaining your own Stripe account also sucks.

I get the impression that's basically it. You've got to go where the audience is. Even Hololive who are big enough to have their own platform haven't attempted to do this. Bureaucracy aside, youtube is also pretty reliable at global scale.
Can’t go wrong with a gigantic steak for €10, including wine, a soup starter, and dessert.
Yes, PWM is another big issue. I'm very sensitive to it. Even though I grew up with CRT's (or perhaps because of that).

Luckily my display doesn't do that. It's also very hard to figure out through reviews so I'm glad it doesn't.

I was thinking about such a filter. But I haven't seen them for sale, I just know they exist (I was thinking about ND filters used in photography). But I wasn't sure if they exist at this size.
Too bad it works only as native package. Or at least for me I was unable to work with DLNA reliably for around 2-3 years. It was working then it was gradually doing worse and worse till completely stopped.
But I am using custom Linux box for my audio setup now so I can just open browser and then control it directly via my phone app. Could be worse :)
I suppose that short Japanese words have the advantage of being something that the Anglosphere knows about enough to be acquainted with, distant enough to not have too many opinions about, while also being easily pronounceable from the transliteration. If so, I'm going to provide a few examples:

Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally proximate than Japanese: Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hawai'ian

Other candidates with easily pronounceable romanizations (from an Anglophone perspective) that are more culturally distant than Japanese: Other Austronesian languages including Tagalog and Malay/Indonesian. (and many others, but fewer speakers)
They probably don't even know. If they do know then they're happy about it.
Could someone recommend one starting out (something beginner could use and has enough, good functions for continued use into later advanced projects without running into limitations for 'most' projects).

Would be helpful to understand the what limitations might be encountered such at the frequency.
I didn't know about Koreader.

A reader with native epub support is a good feature. With the stock reader, Calibre needs to do an epub -> mobi conversion (works well, but still...).
Particularly ironic given that DOGE is reported to be using Signal as its comms platform. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873
So would "JavaScript calendar"
The 1875 date is a made up thing. There's millions of records more than 100+ years old, some as old as 229 years old by birth date. And, it's still very much a problem if the first people to receive SS are still receiving it, or if the system is still cutting checks because their death wasn't ever recorded.
I've previously found and used all three of those, and those help but don't seem to suffice. There's still some degree to which the configuration seems unreliable, and doesn't settle down for a few seconds.

(I appreciate the confirmation of those settings, though, and those are all an important part of the setup.)
> you’d have more impact cutting out meat or taking fewer flights

Guess what!

This and more... You're telling the wrong person to do good in the world xD

Anyway, upvoted because you are of course right
They're also intentionally repairable! I've got a Kobo Libra Colour which is a newer model, and its product page links to ifixit. I love it so much.
You should use mongodb. It’s web scale
I did see Veritasium's video on this, and have been generally familiar with AlphaFold, but it remains unclear to me how the safety and efficacy of the antivenoms' designed with its help would be ensured short of a regular clinical trial gauntlet, which I understand continues to be extremely costly and long on its own.

This isn't comparing it to the animal antibody harvesting approach, but on its own. Like I'm sure it's great and all, but I can definitely see it both mispredicting (mistakenly missing suitable proteins as well as mistakenly considering proteins suitable) and not having the predictive power to know how a given protein will interact with the countless atoms and molecules in the countless, somewhat arbitrary, random human bodies.
How to Install and Configure Containerd on a Linux Server
I'd used nginx for work stuff for close to 10 years and still didn't trust myself writing configs from scratch without comparing with known-good ones. I never had that problem with Apache, so take from that what you want.

I'm not doing SRE stuff at work anymore (or it's on AWS) - so I've been using caddy for my own stuff for a couple of years with nearly zero problems.

For work I still might use traefik or nginx, my only reason against caddy were bad experiences in their support forum, but that was years ago.
> What is hard, is dual stack networking. Dual stack networking absolutely sucks, [...]

Clearly you have gotten some unfortunate hands on experience with those edge cases. In my uses the dual-stacking of IPv4 & IPv6 has been a big benefit in that I have to worry a lot less about locking myself out of systems, as I can always reconnect and correct configuration mistakes on the second stack.

Comparing the IPv4+IPv6 dual-stack story to the one from the 90s of IPv4 with IPX/SPX (Novell Netware) and/or NetBIOS (Microsoft Windows), the current state is a lot more smooth and robust.

I've so far only run into 3 issues over the years (2013 till now). A local train operator running IPv6 on routers that didn't properly support non-default MTU sizes (fragmented packages getting dropped) and Microsoft where Github is still IPv4-only and Teams recently developed an IPv6-only failure on a single API endpoint.

Should we ever turn off IPv4 during my working life-time, I hope we have at that point introduced a successor to IPv6, so I can keep using a dual- or triple-stack solution, using different network protocols for robustness.
Brake by wire is likely illegal in many countries. The design rules would have to change (at least in Australia)
That's a mistake on my part, I've updated that page

Right now WinterBreak remains unpatched, but it is patchable and likely will be in the near-future
All the ties and US government position is based on his money and influence in platforms.
> 1 was to stop the rioting around George Floyd where there was significant damange to public and private property, again the national guard was suggested

That's deploying military inside US against its citizens. You just argue it might be a good idea.
If you were talking about disease or poverty, you might have a point, but homelessness has never been as big of an issue as it is in certain parts of California or more broadly the USA today, except for certain refugee crises.

And a very basic part of it is simply geometry: the more people you have in a limited area, the harder it is to build homes for all of them. Historically, there simply were FAR fewer people, and so finding place for homes was never a huge issue. The cost of housing is mostly property, not construction costs.
I would agree with you were it not for the fact that I'm personally investing my time into a FLOSS project to make sure the growth does not slow down by making “tomorrow NOT like today”, but gets a kick in the butt once we reach the 50% deployment inflection point instead. Stay tuned ;-)
> Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet stream of its kind ever measured on a planet.

Great planet for sailing!
Gimp 3.0 is still in release candidate and nobody is forced to move to gimp 3.0 until their favorite plugins are ready.

Additionally it is trivial to have both installed on the same machine and there haven't been breaking changes in the xcf format as far as I know so you can open the same file on both version without issues.
Too bad river didn't have commits in five months.
Greg Egan wrote a science fiction book in a world with two timelike dimensions - that is, two terms in the Minkowski metric are negative. It's a fascinating world to explore. The book is titled Dichronauts.
Who needs just one Y2K when you can have one every 10 years!
And yet this physical transfer of gold has had largely zero impact on the price of gold. Nobody was fretting about 'where will we source Poland's gold?'
It is perfectly in character. It’s not the first time he blocked people or services he personally doesn’t like.
Everyone reading this -- sign up for Bluesky, help it build up a larger network effect, so it can outcompete X. It already has 30m users.
On the assumption you are acting in good faith, that is a very poor analogy.

I think a more apt one would be: Imagine asking for a shit-free meal, and you're served a meal with just a little bit of shit in it.
Other parties in many countries don’t seem to understand that if they try to solve the immigration issues more seriously - many right-wing parties would disappear as they have nothing else.
Bill to ban mRNA vaccines passes out of House committee
I've always wondered why such people don't live in a rural area. You could literally set aside parks for people wanting to live in this fashion, used to living in this fashion, but also provide facilities (bedding, small cabins, water supplies, washing machines, etc, etc).

You'd need, I think, to have security guards on hand. Not to stop drug use, but instead to stop violence against other homeless, to intervene if medical attention is required, and so on.

While the costs would be higher than some other solutions, it would be lower (I think) than paying for private housing.

Of course, you'd have to force move people, and that's not going to happen. That is, unless you make squatting in a park a crime, and the result is "you're going to be incarcerated in this very nice outdoor place" the "jail".

Maybe a medical order.

My point is, I don't see an issue with some of your logic. Some people won't transition to inside living, or being close to others.

But if you take people used to living in parks, move them to a park with cabins(tiny homes), and state run water/facilities, the cost might be the same, but they'd have a warm bed, etc.
Age based formula only. They stop the stress tests at this point. I could probably go over this, but I'll be worried about exerting the heart too much.
X/Twitter should publicly provide a suspension reason - that would help a lot in verifying whether the account did/did not break TOS.

A justification [0] of sorts is provided for the journalist suspensions:

> Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...
> We spent so much time worrying about foreign adversaries

You can't ignore the decade long psyop by Russia to destabilize democracies in the West, which the result is exactly that you can't stand each other anymore.
> I think FS-level compression would be a perfect match. Has anyone tried it successfully on large SQLite DBs?

I've had decent success with `sqlite-zstd`[0] which is row-level compression but only on small (~10GB) databases. No reason why it couldn't work for bigger DBs though.

[0] https://github.com/phiresky/sqlite-zstd
Another reason to never give companies your phone number is because as soon as you do simswappers will be able to take over your account-- seems once a company knows a phone number they will simply be unable to resist "recovering" your account for someone who can receive SMSes at it.
With US not having centralized vital records registry and also not having demographyc registry and not issuing id cards out of principle -- it's pretty easy to have consistency issues on the scale of millions.

Add the fact that people also move to other countries and US government may not even know somebody died, because death was not reigistered in US.
There wasn't a reason for the Canada tariff proposal in the first place, and yet it happened - doing lasting damage to US-Canada relations despite being quickly reversed.