skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you missed out on is feedback loops that affect your basal metabolism. So: eat less, your body decides it is starving and reduces your basal metabolism, you continue to eat less (better-than average willpower!), and... you gain weight.

I'm a physicist, and I roll my eyes whenever anyone starts up with simplistic arguments about humans, food, and thermodynamics. Thermodynamics holds, but the system doesn't work the way you think it does.
Of course I see the link. But the marginal losses in the developed world from drinking too much soda and income reductions are more than made up for by the reduction in extreme poverty and concomitant health improvements world-wide.
Where I live (The Netherlands) there are laws that even protect foreign workers (i.e. from Poland) from all being stuffed in a single room.

How do those laws work in practice? Everything I've seen about these sorts of tenant protection regulations make them infeasible to enforce in the case where the tenants are migrant workers who might even be working illegally. The idea is that if a person is already running afoul of the law personally, they will keep quiet about the law-breaking of their landlord lest they upset the apple cart and cause everybody to get kicked out.
> As he points out in the article, Safari works better.

What he points out is that Safari's JS optimisations were almost entirely provided by the WKWebView that he was able to use with PhoneGap.
I agree with all of this - I have a new 13" also, and I love it!
Try the non-touchbar. Much lower power parts (CPU takes half as much), no touchbar of course, a real ESC key, and a larger battery.
Same here. I find it, on the other hand, very plausible that some people will like it, in theory, but a lot of the good things I heard about the keyboard seem to come from people who just received their computer. I generally take those kind of feedbacks with a grain of salt as the buyers remorse bias is now a very well understood phenomenon :D
How is running in Safari better than using WKWebView?
Are the MacBook USB-C ports special in some way that makes them USB-C and also a non-standard charger port?

If not, then they must be compliant USB-C ports and therefore would not be supplying an incorrect voltage. As far as I understand the fundamentals of electricity, current doesn't matter. A 5v USB power source that can supply 100 amps would still only supply whatever the device was designed to draw when charging.

But all of that is moot if the MacBook ports are "special" USB-C ports and somehow they negotiate a voltage higher than 5V.
Navigo – a simple vanilla JavaScript router
Is this place in Santa Monica? Think I know what it is.
Opposition to development from existing homeowners is entirely logical. They're the ones who have the most to lose.

It's disguising of this NIMBYism as looking out for low-income renters that is ridiculous.
Take the pricing of anything. Its greed pricing vs how much greed is tolerated. Take fish for example. In our local market prices basically increase roughly every 2 or 3 weeks. Sellers quote high when they are not desperate for money. They don't care if it doesn't sell. Now they may lie to other sellers that they sold at higher price and then others try their luck at pushing price high. Sales may be down for initial two three days but then people start buying at higher price. Fish supply hasn't changed, cost of catching it haven't changed cost of living didn't change, wages earned by buyers didn't change.

That is pure capitalism at play as it is a free market without government regulations.

Similarly some drugs that are priced at crazy multiples of real cost to produce it(including RnD and healthy profit) by the likes of martin shkreli.

So its basically how much the individuals in an economy values money. When the seller quotes high and I as a buyer has truck load of money, I wouldn't even bother to bargain. When I don't have cash, I try to bargain it to the bottom levels and sellers would probably not even be able to cover their cost.

Pricing that varies over the day in ecommerce websites is another example. Time during which people are more likely to rush into buying, things are priced high.
Not going to be a problem in the next 100 years, but ...

Suppose we started to really use Fusion power not just at our current energy needs, but enough to directly warm the planet. There are hard limits on just how much heat per m^2 you can dump before you start to cook the planet.

Such a civilization may prefer low atmospheric pressure and a planet further from the sun simply for cooling.
It would be more helpful if you pointed out some specific points the author got wrong.

Actually, the whole article is very accurate, as anyone who has been paying attention to what has been happening in China recently could tell you. Take for instance the governments increasing restrictions on internet freedom.

It's really sad. Xi Jinping is taking China down a path that is sure to turn out quite bad in the long run.
In Hong Kong, you may have a hard time getting the paperwork especially if you are not actually building something. You'd go to the offices and they'd ask you why you are applying for the paperwork, and then you'd tell them "I'm just going to dig a hole", and then they'd think you are crazy and say "no", and then you'd need to fight them through the Office of the Ombudsman.
Can your body just "reduce your basal metabolism"? Where are the energy savings? Is your body temperature lowered? I'm skeptical of the idea that differences in "metabolism" can account for different results arising from the same energy inputs.
Find the people loving you, your mother and father best, or your siblings, parteners.

Know more about them, their expectation, theri desire, their fear, their confusion, their pain, try to make them happy, as much as you can, in any possible ways.

You should not care about too much about yourself, life on yourself is meanningless, people live together from early ages. First, you ought to make the people nearest to you happy, if you do good, then you can make more people happy.

This is the simplest way. I also have wonder about such kind of problems about right or wrong, meaning, life solution, religion, philosophy for a long time. I even went to be a buddhism monk for several years, but problems never disappear.

Now I accept that human are social annimal, so melding into the people near you, you will feel not like a sucker/loser. I understand the feeling very well. But it's difficult to change, I have pay great to have some kind of change in my life.

Remeber, doing the smallest thing with obvious meaning to people loving you and you love, is much more meaningful than doing hugest thing with little help.

That's my experience.
>> you lose the portability you get with C++

Wouldn't Java be more portable than C++?
This is not representative of the US.
Has anyone else here ever read Keith Johnstone's 'Impro'? Coming from the world of theater, Johnstone has a facinating perspective on the malleability of social status.
Hollywood, but I'm sure there's plenty like it all throughout LA.
I was inspired to write the following short story, and couldn't really help myself. I hope it is worth the amount of page space it occupies.

---

A few weeks into the maiden voyage of the Interplanetary Transport System, a middle-aged woman named Alex Kimber sat quietly in the library behind the kitchen. The term "library" is perhaps a bit gracious. American walk-in closets back on Earth were often larger than this enclosure.

It was a good place for thinking, though. Not surprisingly, the compact spaceship didn't provide much privacy, as each additional pound of weight came with a $200 price tag.

Alex was near the peak of an enviable career. She possessed master's degrees in two different engineering fields as well as in political science, was the founder of two companies valued in the $10M to $100M range, and had held multiple advisory positions with her state's long term development board.

Her fellow voyagers were good company. Only the highest caliber applicants had been accepted for the first 10 missions. These "founding missions" were responsible for building a secure base capable of housing at least 5,000 individuals. All within five years! This would be an immense challenge. They would be testing the prototype blueprint for a self-sustaining Mars base.

These difficulties, however, were not on Alex's mind. She was ruminating on more fundamental matters. As both a scientist and passionate student of modern philosophy, her personal framework for understanding life was strongly colored by materialism and absurdism. On a pragmatic level, however, she found much peace and stability through mindfulness.

She had always felt that greatest institutions of the current age were severely lacking in their integration of such principles. The chance to tend to the young seeds of the first society on Mars played no small role in her willingness to risk so much and join the expedition.

Over the years, as she pondered the deepest dynamics of human relationships on both the micro and macro scales, Alex had scribbled down notes here and there. Yet she often still struggled to summarize her views.

An unexpected connection sparked in the unseen layers of her subconscious mind, and she opened her laptop. She began browsing through her collection of saved articles and other media. She clicked the "post-modern" tag, and a diverse set of articles, blog entries, lectures, and videos filled the screen.

The whimsical title "Cards against Humanity is digging a hole in the Earth" jumped out. She opened the file. Vaguely remembering this offbeat stunt from more than a decade and half ago, she couldn't help but smile.

Some moments passed. Her thoughts turned serious. A few clicks later, and a blinking cursor yearned at her from the blank canvas of the editor. Like a hurricane forming from the gentle flaps of a butterfly's wings, the keys of her laptop softly succumbed to the pressure of her fingertips, and the text "Mars Political Treatise: Volume 1" filled the first line of the page...
Become Michael Knight with Dashbot, an AI for Your Car
What happens when bots start writing code instead of humans
What's the use case for needing 3 USB? Wherever you sit normally (home or work) just get a usb hub/dock and use the single connection to the laptop for keyboard, mouse, charging, and driving a monitor.

When out and about, when do you need 3? Can't ever recall seeing someone at a coffee shop, conference, etc needing 3 USBs.
Integration with messenger, whatsapp, etc.
"read me the message I just got", "reply blabla", "send to the foo group, blabla". why is that not here yet?
I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll try to express myself more clearly.

In the most basic sense of economics for prices to fall supply has to increase more than demand. If demand increases more than supply the opposite is true. There's nothing saying that a more supply can't also increase demand or even increase demand more than supply.

When more wealthy (or ambitious) people move into an area it often leads to that area becoming more attractive (schools, restaurants, entertainment get better) increasing demand.

Therefor there's nothing particularly strange about arguing that luxury condos could lead to higher rents as the op makes it out to be.
Interesting to note how important this is for developers to consider now. If we're going to move to an HTTPS only web, we need to both: 1) understand how CAs work (including how to be your own local CA) and 2) make this an easy or seamless process in terms of workflow.

Granted, it's really not that difficult, but baking this into existing development environments will become a task many projects will need to repeat.
So, how was that 20 year nap you just woke up from? That's pretty much the way everyone does it now, and has been for some time.

The central lesson of RISC is not "fewer, simpler instructions is good", it is "let the compiler do what it does well, and let the hardware do what it does well." The increase in available silicon has been moving that boundary for many years. Ever since we finally had enough silicon to implement out-of-order execution with synchronous exceptions, for example, register allocation is no longer a problem to be solved in the compiler.

Classic RISC only made sense when available bandwidth to main memory was at rough parity with on-die memory bandwidth. Those days were brief. But the idea of intelligently dividing optimization tasks between the CPU and the compiler is a timeless idea. The optimal implementation, however, is a function of available technology on both sides.
It would be nice to turn this into a program that stores the previous name so they can be renamed back after deduplicating.

Very cool!
Yeah I didn't care to make the regexp perfect. The most common site is www.pdfsharp.com, then www.pdfparser.org, then www.pdflib.com, etc etc
> Sounds like a good, fair point to me - if true (which I don't know).

"They love war when it's propagated by Assad or Putin," isn't a remotely fair or true assessment of those sites, which is why I called it sleazy. Criticism of a particular intervention (e.g. Vietnam, Iraq) doesn't make you loyal to the other side (e.g. communist, baathist). Implying such is a means of silencing dissent.
Many Middle Eastern languages/dialects don't have the 'p' sound. For example, a native Egyptian with no training in English pronunciation would pronounce 'people' as 'biibul'.
Also Seattle Resident, has a few things going against it:

* Highly constricted physical space, poor public transit and almost continuous traffic problems due to natural bottlenecks. This means people have to live close or else risk a 60 min+ commute one way.

* Single family homes drive a lot of property demand here, not just luxury apartments. Those are still expensive and hard to come by, and they are not building much more of that within the city proper. Average home value is hovering around 500k. Apartment building will not offset this very easily.

* In general, the city was historically undervalued given the insane density of highly skilled and highly paid jobs. We have some heavy hitters and offices of some large international tech companies but rents remained low for quite awhile. This is just the adjustment.

The prices for apartments will level out eventually, but we still have some way to go imo.
You may have just saved me a trip to the Apple Store, thanks. I hadn't realized there was a build up of lint, and cables were failing to "clip" into my phone.
The pedants will say it is actually cubic metres of soil... ;)
That's right, I have become more intent to have disease when not social at all. Beccause nowadays, it's more difficult to commuincate with people with others in real life, talking and interacting on internet can do much help.
Well, it's much better to buy. But only if you have the capital. At the time listings were only on the market for one to two days.
I don't think it is the "third-world standards" that is making everyone rush over to these locations.
> protect

Curious about what exactly does it mean in this content. Is it about banning full grown and consenting adults from signing a deal because government think it knows best what's good for them?
Not on mobile. You can embed compiled C++ code in both iOS and Android apps, but there's no easy way to run Java on iOS.
Perfect! Thank you Anthony, colloquialism slipping into my English.
I think it's more about the location than the space.
Not if you don't have a JVM on your target platform.
A lot of the expensiveness of Seattle is the home prices, not just rent. Those will continue to be expensive for quite awhile. Apartment building will not completely offset the price of the city.
"It is not impossible to imagine society so conscious of its power that it
could allow itself the noblest luxury available to it, – that of letting its malefactors go unpunished. ‘What do I care about my parasites’, it could
say, ‘let them live and flourish: I am strong enough for all that!’ . . . Justice,
which began by saying ‘Everything can be paid off, everything must be
paid off ’, ends by turning a blind eye and letting off those unable to pay,
– it ends, like every good thing on earth, by sublimating itself. The self-sublimation
of justice: we know what a nice name it gives itself – mercy;
it remains, of course, the prerogative of the most powerful man, better
still, his way of being beyond the law." -- Genealogy of Morals, 2nd Essay, Chapter 10

"In the spot where the strong are weak, where the noble are over tender, there the parasite builds its horrid nest; dwelling in the sick corners of the great man . . . and it is just the highest species that harbors the greatest number of parasites." -- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part 3, Section 56: "On Old and New Tablets", Number 19
It's probably both ways. I think it can even lead to a self-reinforcing spiral.
JavaScript lets you listen for multi touch events just fine with touch starts, ends, and moves, and lets you keep track of each finger separately. What gestures would it not be possible to implement with that?
Public Transit/road infrastructure helps costs too. If you can get around an area faster you effectively increase the number of units that are available for people working at your location keeping prices a bit lower.
Isn't this just called a hostel?

That just sounds like your friend is living in a hostel dorm. $20/day actually sounds cheap now that I'm looking at hostel rates in LA:

http://www.hostelworld.com/search?search_keywords=Los+Angele...
They could open the border with Mexico, just as the UK opened the "border" with Poland. If that happened, it would be undeniably a freeing of the labor market. That means the participants are individually deciding where to go, rather than other people who aren't directly involved in their trading. It might be unlikely but just because a situation is the status quo, doesn't make it natural or free.

The Soviet Union lasted a long time without a free market. Yet nobody would say allowing sellers to choose their own prices is artificial because they've been dictated by the government for decades and that's the normal and natural state of things.
Obama has a Reddit account, /u/PresidentObama. Which other President of the United States has one?
Having consistent instruction set with CPU doesn't help much. Learning new instruction doesn't takes that long as more recent instructions set all shares same ideas and don't really have quirks like in the old days.

When you go hand-optimizing, you want to squeeze the last bit of performance. And that (currently) is very CPU-specific. Because all CPUs have different cache/memory system, instruction latency, and pipeline structure. When I was doing low-level work (for video processing), a lot of time I has to strike a balance across various microarchicture. Some more extreme people (including the code by Intel ICC) target each CPU model specifically.

Because the MIC has vastly different architecture, the resulting hand-optimized code will be vastly different. You still need to learn both of them anyway.
>one day notice

That's probably most of the problem...
I don't know, I can't see any way that the read: protocol is any more vulnerable than the file: protocol (standard on all browsers), other than the fact that the code is probably less battle-tested.
Social Engineering Test for Human Error
> I would suck it in and get down to the platform's assembly language layer which for IOS is ObjectiveC and for Android is Java.

That only makes sense if the graphnics performance is actually the bottleneck of your game.

99% of the games I've seen have game design as the weakest link though, and sometimes art (it's not amount of polygons on the screen — it's how beautiful those polygons are). And if you actually want to improve on your game design, the metric you have to optimize is iteration speed — and the "assembly language layer" is rarely the best for this purpose.
You missed that the "FedEx we know" is FedEx Express (or the red one). Those are time definite deliveries shipped by air seven days a week.
Not 40 of them ^^
Unfortunately economics is one of those areas where many people who have never studied it think they know everything about it. It doesn't help that politicians (of all types) take advantage of this ignorance to pander to their potential voters to tell them what they want to hear.
The best cure for high prices is high prices.

Very few trust that supply vs demand doesn't work, but it absolutely does. Sure there will be temporary spikes in price, but as rents go to ridiculous heights (I think $5000 for a 2 br condo is utterly ridiculous, and that prices is about 5 years old in SOMA), it will abate at some point. As long as there isn't a monopoly, or people aren't manipulating the markets, fair and properly functioning markets will self-correct.

Always.
Good catch. Perhaps mods will edit? (I can't it seems)
We also don't have the ability (or understanding) to control the conversion of energy-in-food into energy-our-body-can-use + energy-our-body-can-store + waste-products. Food is not gasoline, and our bodies are not combustion engines.

Even that's a bad analogy; gasoline's quality and impurities can vary quite a bit, which effects how much energy an engine can extract from it, and engine efficiency can also vary greatly. Still, our bodies are much more complex.
That rat gets used by labor unions across all industries. :)
Can you give a brief summary of the points he makes about social status? I'm curious but my reading backlog is already out of hand.
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Keep in mind that those lesser expensive options have no on-time guarantees
Hasn't it been common knowledge for like 4 decades that throwing more bodies at the same problem is grossly inefficient?

I can't imagine that 4 folks sharing 1 keyboard would result in as much or even as good code as 4 people in 2 groups with 1 keyboard each?
> Gradient descent is similar to a ball with no mass falling down a hill. Other methods (heavy-ball and Nesterov acceleration) are similar to a heavier ball rolling down a hill. I've written a post [0] on this with a visualization.

I don't think mass is the right analogy -- if you non-dimensionalize a ball on a hill the mass shouldn't even appear. Maybe critical vs under damped (gradient descent isn't allowed to overshoot, Nestersov methods are)?

Edit: OK, with a viscous drag force the analogy sort of works, a heavier sliding particle will overshoot. A massless particle will not move at all, however...
I completely agree. In the future, I'd rather say I prefer to seek non-judgmental explanations before bringing judgment to the table, as it allows me to identify more potential scenarios.
One other thing: VirtualBox 5.1 is only supported by Vagrant 1.8.5 and newer, but 1.8.5 has a 100% showstopper bug where the SSH key inserted into the VM is not chmod'd correctly and OpenSSH refuses to look at it. Use 1.8.6 or newer instead.
That's good (I just read the notes) for understanding the ideas and seeing some good examples that demonstrate those ideas.

The thing is, I'd hate for anyone to miss the experience I had with that book - I really & honestly put myself in the growth-mindset camp, but the book taught me how to see the many, many areas of my life that I had a fixed mindset about.

It's one of the few books that has literally changed my life, so like I said, I'd hate to see people missing out on that (assuming they're in need of it!) by reading a summary.
> FedEx doesn't deliver on Monday

Kind of implied in your comment, but to be explicit, this is only true to residences (and if you try to mis-ship a package to a residence, you'll get dinged a residential delivery surcharge)
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> The market is flooded nationwide

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

I like the idea of 'economic canaries'. There has been a bipartisan effort to ignore fundamentals for the past 36 +/- years [1]...

[1] https://dontsuemebro.com/story/2016/11/10/191217/82
The loan repayments on my three bedroom house are AU$47 a day, or about US$35. ($215,000 purchase price in 2016).