skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not you believe in low/no carbs for everyday health, it is uniquely horrifying that the Diabetes association is promoting a high carb diet.

Having recently made changes to my own eating, which still includes carbs but at a much less extreme amount, I'm amazed at the differences. I don't have diabetes and the doctors say my blood sugar control is very good, but the energy differences I feel before and after eating high carb food is insane.

Diet soda, although technically not containing carbs, prompts a similar insulin response to drinking sugared soda- the result is a blood sugar drop and a loss of energy that makes me want to eat and do nothing; not the best for weight loss.

I would like to see more attention given to what insulin really does: prompt your body to store blood sugar as fat. No wonder filling our bodies with sugar and then using insulin to 'remove' it is a bad idea.
Competition will continue to keep prices down. Just because people have a new source of income, doesn't mean they that will become more likely to buy overpriced goods.
But you are "citizen enough" to pay taxes or receive social benefits. And some non-citizens can vote in Germany.

Anyway, by definition Basic Income is unconditional. Anyone who applies should get it.
The national organization lifted its ban on openly gay leaders about a year ago.

I am an Eagle scout who was openly an atheist while going through the program. A lot of this depends on your local leadership; the national organization stays out of it.

The program is a great program as noted above, for all its flaws. If you have a child interested, you can have a huge effect on the local program simply by becoming involved.
Weight loss is a symptom of diabetes, I hope you follow strict medial supervision rather than some diet.
it means code will suddenly break when you move it to an interpreter that does not have this implementation detail. This kind of breakage is really easy in the area class instrumentation libraries where order of class attributes affects something. Every non-cPython will implement this anyway, unwitting reliance upon it will be widespread, and there really won't be much of a "problem", other than they really should make this behavior official someday.
nobody talks about climate change here. That will affect us all..

he's right when pointing at lack of a political argument. But form me it's quite clear. The argument is : redistribution. I know it's a simplistic left-wing argument but wealth redistribution is what basic income is. And unfortunately it's way too simple. I'd prefer a complex system because it offers many places for negotiating redistribution.
Not really, because BLM land, especially in the west, is incredibly scattered and vast. You could find a list of, say, BLM Wilderness Areas, but not their general land. I would suggest looking at a land ownership map for an area you're interested in to see where concentrations of public land can be found. Caltopo is a great option for this—among many other layers you can turn on, "Land Management" is an option you can overlay atop the background for anywhere in the entire U.S. in the top right layer dropdown. A land management agency legend for the color overlays will appear at the right of the top navbar when enabled.

http://caltopo.com
I'm not convinced this particular model would help, but in principle, I think a party could gain advantage by a system that gave it better collective intelligence...choosing better candidates, deploying better strategies, organizing volunteers more effectively, etc.
For me, the development of user scripts for Chrome winds up being about as much bother as an extension because TamperMonkey stores user scripts in a database rather than as files and hence editing scripts with 'my favorite text editor' is so cumbersome. And that's because whether or not the built in TamperMonkey editor provides a better development environment than Notepad is a reasonable subject for debate.

On the other hand, for Firefox, user scripts are a much better development experience because scripts are stored as files.
The research has interests of museums that want to read books without opening and damaging them. Is there any chance the scans can damage them?

Also, what are the laws of the US government applied this to reading our letters. Our mail is protected by law from opening, but what if they aren't physically opened?
> It also does a sufficient job of reading and writing MS file formats.

Except for powerpoint presentations.
> The main threats are overpopulation and politics, as tech seems to be ticking along quite nicely.

If [over]population is a factor, then "post-scarcity" is fiction.

This makes me think BI advocates are quietly assuming constraints such as "we'll discourage reproduction somehow"--while constantly mentioning how BI will be free of constraints.
http://archive.is/LlIuW
>> "it is authoritarian. It depends on throwing people who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade in prison"

If that's what you believe then any tax would meet the criteria and you would have to consider almost every government in the world authoritarian. Is that the case?
MySql: How to build a performant search engine
Makes you wonder whether peer review is working if a true subject matter expert doesn't do the review. Sounds like pointless rubber stamping and checkbox ticking.
At the last election in Hong Kong (held a week ago), even though it was on a Sunday, one particular polling station was so bad that even though polling closed at 10:30pm, the last person in that queue only got to cast his vote at 2:30am -- over 4 hours wait.

I myself had to wait for 45 minutes that afternoon.

I guess my point is, if the government doesn't want you to vote there's all sorts of things it can do, weekends or not.
You need a source on HN when quoting childhood memories?
Well, sure. You've got to record transactions in ledgers, and those have been stored on computers since the 60s/70s.

But on the payments side of the house, there's no technical reason any inter-bank account-to-account push-pay transaction couldn't be done in under 5 seconds for under ten cents.

But, no! We've got NACHA (but, now, FAST!) (and the Fed with their 2am window) and and and... And, let's face it: why would a main-street bank want to lose out on the MT fees when interest rates are, well, essentially ... nothing.

I agree that the banks have some best-in-class reliability and cohort analytics technology (some of them anyway). The core is kind of antiquated, but why muck around with "it's already reliable"?

The "core" is slow and inflexible. The cost structure is crippling. The regulatory environment imprisoning. Legacy interop. Risk. The interbank-frameworks.

Yes - all digital. And much of it very good work. Yet, (like in medical, but for different reasons), just because all the bank employees can download apps from the iTunes store, does not mean that the core is ... agile.
Hear that Canada, it's also not literal socialism so don't take it personally
I can't stand the `~/Documents/"Microsoft User Data"` folder, but that's what I get any time I open an Office app.
> So enough already. Grow up now, study history, and then join the liberal politicians and union activists (and some Entrepreneurs) who, while you’re playing around with that simplistic idea, are waging political battles and trying hard to imagine a new social state for the digital age.

Read as "continue to serve the oligarchs who pretend to care, pandering their endless bullshit solutions that serve only their own interests".

Nicolas Colin eat your own.
We're analyzing genome sequence data on that scale: https://github.com/hail-is/hail
I'm sure that with a few more years of improper usage it will go the way of literally, which literally means either literally or figuratively.
This article concludes by saying the best form of state intervention is "universal [healthcare] coverage". Why not both? It is only a very small far-right minority of basic income advocates who advocate eliminating the state's role in healthcare. If the argument is simply that enacting basic income will drain the political will to defend or enhance other needed government programs, then it's not so much an argument against basic income as an argument of political priorities. I even agree that universal healthcare is a much more attainable and impactful near term target, but that doesn't mean that basic income is "bullshit".
effigy mounds in iowa vs karnak temple in luxor.

Yea its obvious.
Cool. You're former poor white trash with an Internet connection. If I wanted to hear this kind of sob story about how your family is dysfunctional there's plenty of people I can ask about their family.

I think it's safe to say that her father was a dick but it's also highly unlikely anybody in that family is free from blame.
how France's system of basic income gave people less incentive to work

As a regular reader of mondaynote.com (and so therefore an expert), I have the impression that France has many other obstacles to entrepreneurship. Like their labor laws.

It seems to me that universal basic income, alongside universal health care and other reforms, would greatly reduce the need for stultifying labor laws. More simply, employers could hire and fire as needed.
It's definitely an antipattern, but if you're unfortunate enough to be on Salesforce it certainly beats writing in Apex (which also exposes you to the underlying object schema anyway).
How so what? A diet that says it's ok to eat a steak but an apple is bad because it has carbs in it?

There is nothing wrong with carbs, carb free diets work because it's easier to create a caloric deficiency not because you some how can eat 3000 cals of w/e and lose weight.

But in the long run they aren't healthy either try being on a low carb diet and exercise at the same time let me know how it's working for you.
Especially endurance run for 10km> even 5km a few times a week after a month without carbs and tell me how you feel.

But nvm I see there is not point of even trying to talk with the folks in this thread everything that is remotely against low carb is being down voted to spam :)

Anyhow enjoy your lives just remember to see a doctor often.
Your comment made me a bit sad because I read it as "What happens when those who struggle everyday to survive no longer have to?" - I understand your fear of entitlement etc... but I don't think things could get much worse than where we are now. For instance, "affluenza" is an acceptable excuse for killing a person in the US.
I love it when clients think they need a server workstation

Specs be damned!

I need to start selling boxes
Declarative Thinking, Declarative Practice
Well, they've almost certainly been trying that. And as the OP said, it hasn't been paying off in a big way. If they've been doing it (I'm guessing they have), then they've probably benefitted, just not enough for the big win.

Once you get into materials and fabrication, having a finished example to examine is rarely going to lead to a big win. If the secret sauce is in the fabrication (HOW do you make a single crystal blade? HOW do you inflate corrugated titanium? HOW do get this type of grain structure with this nickel-iron-manganese mix? HOW do you get a laser weld in this impossible again?), then a single example isn't -THAT- useful.

Reversing engineering a modern turbofan(remember, the basic principles of turbofans are well known) is more akin to reverse engineering Intel's fab process by peaking at a finished i7 (with AFM and electron microscopes) than reverse engineering say... a sensor fusion module once you get the assembly code.

Which is why the technology transfer associated with the engine deal is a big deal. It should (I mean, its possible that the terms are all fucked up) give the Chinese an oppourtunity to learn all of these hows and whys (albeit for a slightly dated design, but still a relatively modern one).
"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program" - Roosevelt

A Basic Income program is unrepealable after enough time(say 20 years) has passed. People are terrible at making decisions: They don't save money, they run up their credit cards, they don't invest. A BI program limits the damage that their bad decisions can cause.

Even $800/month would wildly distort decision making. I don't think that a lot of people who've been receiving it their whole life are going to be in a position to function independently if you try to repeal it. There are going to be too many single mothers crying "How will I make my rent?" if you take it away. Even if they otherwise would've managed without it.

A law that's a one-way ratchet requires extraordinary evidence before you even consider it. It doesn't matter if it has a positive expected value, or the models say it will probably work; the risk that it won't deliver on its promises is too high, and we'll be stuck with it forever.
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The article is helpful for all of us who are struggling with ML.

Since your story is a success, no matter how you personally feel about it, can you tell us how many hours per week in that year did you dedicate your time to ML? A rough estimate will be good.

What are your plans for future? Find a ML-only job?
It's all about picking the right tool for the job. I think shell scripting is a great prototyping tool and often a good place to start. As the problem gets more complex and bigger, eventually it will warrant a full scale development.
I've been on a low carb diet for a couple of months now. Went a tad stricter 3 weeks ago and am currently 11kg down.

My bodyfat drastically reduced, my belly disappeared and I am feeling a lot healthier. Problem are the more expensive meat-heavy meals that go so far that I just don't enjoy or want to eat anymore - and of course very easy degeneration of muscle mass if you're not careful.

Nevertheless, I'm loving it. I wish I tried this earlier instead of a half-assed diet. I won't be doing it forever but to fast chop down on some body fat, it's amazing.
He is spot on with those "ad hominim attacks". Based on what is written on HN people in that group haven't got a clue about politics.

So tell me again why that shouldn't be taken into account when judging their position?
Paralyzed Man Regains Use of Arms and Hands After Experimental Stem Cell Therapy
Representative forms of democracy can be implemented on top of direct democracy, no?
Digital! Batch SFTP upload! No mainland European banks I have accounts with offer anything like that. I have to request a PDF export manually and hope it is ready the next day. If I'm lucky it is for free.
Why don't you use EDI? Not that this would resolve the in-house processing, the ACH delays or the UCC-rule induced delays, but are you doing transactions that are not EDI-able?
This guy just seems upset that people are offering up a solution to tech-related job loss that isn't with traditional welfare solution proposed by the team he cheers for.

He didn't spent a lot of time offering up specific arguments against basic income, but rather on background, and the primary arguments he has are to me some of the strongest arguments for BI:

1) He worries about division and polarization. Well, BI is the only solution that I'm aware of that draws on support from both the libertarian right (strong support, mostly) and liberal left (many support, but some are suspicious like this guy). No other solution to the jobless future can boast of support from both sides of the political spectrum.

2) Oddly, the quote from Olaf Palme he offers up as a critique of basic income reads to me as strong support:

"An efficient and stable welfare state must be based on universal social programs,
such as health insurance, pensions, and child-support allowances-programs that are directed to all citizens.
Official “poverty lines” or “means-tests” would not have to define “the poor” (which would minimize the need for bureaucratic controls).
At the same time, people in difficult financial circumstances would not have to put up with the degrading classification of “poor.”"

This sounds like an extremely persuasive argument for BI and one of the reasons why I support it.

In fact, it's completely unclear to me after reading this whole damn essay why he is so strongly in opposition to the point where he wants people to stop discussing it altogether, other than it's not the favored solution of his team.
> "Should I even bother to continue reading after that? After all, what we actually know is that technology creates jobs, like the ones that I and a large number of people I know have had."

For an alternative view, I like the horses example in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
This is somewhat amusing, considering that that is my actual current diet and exercise regimen (for the last several months, with the added restrictions of being almost entirely vegetarian and doing some light weight training and cycling), and I feel pretty awesome.

I do agree that this thread is very monoculture-y though, which makes me uncomfortable.
Not all taxes demand a share of the currency we receive in private trade. A split rate property tax for example does not require making such a demand. My preference is to replace all taxes with user fees for use of government services and assets (like roads), and a heavy split rate property tax, and compensate property owners for the loss of value in their real estate that this tax shift causes.
Coursera ML course wasn't particularly hard
Occasionally designers seem to seek credit merely for possessing a new technology, rather than using it to make better designs. Computers and their affiliated apparatus can do powerful things graphically, in part by turning out the hundreds of plots necessary for good data analysis. But at least a few computer graphics only evoke the response "Isn’t it remarkable that the computer can be programmed to draw like that?" instead of "My, what interesting data".

- Edward Tufte

Applies to more than just design.
Paleo is macro-nutrient agnostic. Eliminating heavily processed foods, yes, but no need to sneak in the "high-carb" part. That heavily processed foods are commonly high carb (the examples you give) is not central to the principle. Yams would be a completely natural, non-processed high-carb whole food. As are potatoes. The high-fat aspect is not to help with satiation (protein does that better), it's just the reality of many un-processed or minimally processed whole foods, especially of animal origin but also nuts for example.
I'm all for a basic income for lower income families

Universal basic income is a reform that satisfies both the left and right. My conservative brethren are totally on board. Not perfect, but good enough, and better than what we have now.
There are other military uses for stupid-huge planes, beside quantity of stuff you carry:

1. You can carry huge tanks (instead of several smaller ones), including ones that were NOT intended for that, meaning you can surprise an enemy by deploying some weird weapon where he doesn't expect.

2. You can carry trains, and then use those to carry the rest.

3. You can carry other airplanes, for example if you end in a war of attrition and need to crank out planes as fast as possible, it might be an interesting idea to make them even far from the front, and ferry the plane parts to the front (then assemble there, and use them).

4. And most interestingly, it can carry gigantic parts of whatever you need, warship propellers, munition factory machinery, and so on...

It is tempting to think it would be interesting to use as bomber or paratrooper plane, deploying a huge amount of bombs in the same place and levelling it completely... but this would be a terrible idea, a plane that big is probably a huge target, people would attempt to shoot at it even with small arms, and it is not impossible to get lucky with them (happened at least once in Iraq War for example, when a random farmer downed a US helicopter right on the start of the war with his hunting rifle... the chance of it working was tiny, the rifle didn't even had the range to ever reach the helicopter, but somehow, it did...)
The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins
The one major issue not addressed is: deforestation. Yes, we can make skyscrapers out of wood, but should we? Where do we get the trees from and will they be replaced quickly enough to provide a sustainable future?
I would love to see this done with various bacteria against other chemicals. For example, Bleach. Bleach denatures cells so in theory it would never happen but it would be an interesting experiment.
> That does not explain why we have to resort to state intervention.

Having a country where people fall, through no fault of their own (unless you count their genetics), to such an extent that they live in tents and sewers is enough indication that there's inadequate state protection.
Do clue us in. Calling people you disagree with "clueless" is not an argument.
I am a bioinformatician. 130tb of raw reads or processed data? Are you trying to build a general purpose platform for all *-seq or focusing on something specific (genotyping)?
There are no private prisons in New York State
...And when you do have 140 TB of chess data, you can move to Manta, and you get to keep your data processing pipeline almost exactly the same. Upwards scalability!

I don't know how the performance would stack against Hadoop, but it'd work.