skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the prices for these coffees come down, though I get why business-wise it makes sense for them to target the ultra-high-end market at their stage. The idea of good coffee from somewhere as close as California is a bit exciting to me.

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Sorry if the rest is slightly off-topic. After reading all the comments here about the coffee prices mentioned in the article, and seeing what every considers "normal" prices, I feel compelled to make the following PSA:

Save your money and roast your own coffee at home, if you are able to (* more on that below).

I've been doing this for about 3 years now. There's a small learning curve, but as Kenneth Davids puts it in his book [1] (paraphrasing): "The difficulty of roasting coffee is somewhere between frying an egg and making a good hollandaise".

I buy my favorite coffees from around the world as dried green beans for around $5-7 per pound. Furthermore, coffee greens can last quite a while in your pantry if kept in well ventilated burlap sacks (a couple years, or more). This allows me to stockpile like 50 pounds of coffee to roast throughout the year. Also, there's really nothing that quite compares to coffee a day or two after it's been roasted. I can easily brew way better coffee than most coffee shops here in Austin, TX (though there's a couple exceptional ones here with more time/skill/resources than I).

To roast coffee, my low-budget setup is:

- A heavy pan / popcorn popper (mine: https://www.amazon.com/Zippy-Pop-Stovetop-Capacity-Stainless/dp/B00PFRRA0Q)
- A portable heat source (I use an induction range)
- Colander / wooden spoon / shop fan
- A well-ventilated outdoor space (a balcony does just fine), there's smoke / messy chaff

(* if you don't have access to outdoor space, it can be a deal breaker)

Every week, I spend about 20 minutes total roasting a new batch of coffee (end up with ~12oz roasted). Total equipment investment for me was like $150. I can also enjoy some really great espresso with my budget setup (manual lever machine + Pharos hand grinder), but doing that well is a steeper learning curve.

[1] Kenneth Davids. Home Coffee Roasting. https://www.amazon.com/Home-Coffee-Roasting-Revised-Updated/...

http://www.home-barista.com/home-roasting/ is also a great resource.
Have you tried ASMR videos?
Notifications: A Tragedy of the Digital Commons
> Mexico today has a higher GDP than New Zealand did in 1990.

??? What an oddly specific comment...and I don't think it helps your point.
I'm constantly amused, when I see articles like this, that I've yet to see any application of AI as impressive as Akinator, and it's been around for a full decade.
In general, it would be interesting to see to what degree people manage to build bridges between the IndieWeb and the ActivityPub web.

MicroPub and ActivityPub grew out of the same working group, because the two camps couldn't find shared ground.

I don't know if they managed to get a decent mapping between ActivityStreams2 and Microformats2 at least.
I agree. That's kind of my point. AI now seems tied to data mining consumers. Consumers don't want this. It is much better served behind the scenes, or in business settings. The majority of people just don't want a creepy assistant.
> So it doesn't matter that your coffee was roasted very near where you live since on average it's two weeks old.

"Time since roast" is hardly the only reason to prefer locally roasted beans. Actually, it's not a good reason at all, since you can ship roasted beans across the country a few times before they're ready to be ground and brewed.

Some folks just like to support their neighbors, and buying from local roasters could also mean fewer shipping miles (and less carbon emissions) attached to that that bag of beans.
Chinese students are getting top tier educations in the United States only to be forced to return home because of absurd F visa restrictions which effectively prohibit them from gainful employment in the United States after completing their studies. It's pitiful and sad.
Does it seem reasonably likely to you that PoS could increase the proportion of computational resources that attackers would need, provided that the attackers control a low enough proportion of the tokens?
>capitalism wasn't some guy's idea that then got forced on the rest of us by governments

Marx has interesting words to say about that.[0]

>given a high enough degree of freedom

Except for the freedom from having to sell labour-power for a wage in order to receive means of sustenance at a rate below the value you create? Sure. You also get the freedom to choose between which capitalist you work for. Now that's what I call freedom. (I'm being facetious :))

>is not like Marism and friends in this respect

It's worth noting that Marx's own vision of Communism is not that of one that is forced, but rather one that comes naturally from history, it is a stage of development like any other. By the time capitalism has reached the end of its life, there will be no need for force, other than to overthrow those owners of capital, and to return that capital to the people who gave them value - the workers. That said, Marx and Engels did specify a governmental policy program for revolution, that is, to enact policy either by revolution or within the current state apparatus (bourgeois democracy), to the point where the state must wither away.

The free market has its origin in capitalism, or by extension the pre-capitalist class systems, and with the end of what capitalism requires (the class system, owners of property) so will end the need for the free market. The Hegelian Marxists use dialectical historical materialism to show that (though I don't know enough myself).

The freedom I talk about is much beyond what is available now, it is the freedom afforded only by Socialism, as Oscar Wilde noted, which many people do not have today. His words from the 19th century ring as true today as they did then.

"Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand ‘under the shelter of the wall,’ as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this."[1]

[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch31.htm

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-...
When people revolt and start hanging programmers for destroying their jobs, it probably won't matter in which field of the industry any of us were.
It's easy to get money when it's necessary and there's validation. Selling that social sharing is defensible without getting FNACed would be like free-climbing on a perfectly smooth pair of huge glass balls. Good luck with that.

It maybe more profitable to intersect passions and recruiting-accessible talent with the future in something bigger: "Dolby" brand of ubiquitous for AI, medical research-aaS with expertise on-demand, cosmetic neurology, immunooncology, brain interfacing, fusion power, hyper-sleep, better batteries, and further possibilities, some somewhat accidental. When the wind is at your back, don't get complacent because there's a team with more money in stealth mode.
Given that technology requires users, and users are bound by these "pesky" things called laws, I think that it is definitely a problem with the technology if the blockchain (or other system) can be so poisoned that all users of it would be rendered criminals.
You need to revisit your American history. Colonizers massacred natives through infectious disease (sometimes deliberately, usually not), direct conflict, slaughter of the buffalo they depended on for food, forced relocation to useless land, and other violent tactics. Any natives who were in the way of westward expansion were neutralized, one way or another.

Colonizers destroyed the way of life of those who lived through a deliberate program of "civilization" (reeducation) which included sending native children to boarding schools to be raised in American culture and "rescued" from their own.

Indian removal [0] is a decent place to start reading.

This was not cultural change via the melting pot, this was genocide and reeducation as state policy, with a generous helping of biological warfare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal
Regarding Mumbai, it depends on how you define "foreigner". The native population of Marathis only totals 22% in Mumbai. For some in India, these inter-Indian distinctions matter greatly.

It is just pedantic nitpicking. The remainder of your argument still stands and is interesting to think about.
If governments start to actually fear that their monopoly on creating currency is in danger, they will destroy crypto currency.

Bitcoin may be decentralized, but they can go after currency converters. They can make holding it illegal. They can make mining it illegal. They can make trading it illegal.

They can manipulate the market to crash the value of bitcoin with (to them) pocket change.
I really wonder about the "When Your Child is a Psychopath" one, it was a good story and all, but I wonder how many people read that article and like me left feeling like "I can relate". As a kid in pre-school, I pissed in another kids face. In elementary I ripped a kid's eyelid off, and pulled another kid's leg through a bike lock station and then broke it amongst many other things. I never hurt a teacher, but I was under a hundred pounds in gr.6. If I had matured earlier I can't say that I wouldn't have, since they definitely manhandled me after every fight I got into. I remember another parent saying that when I grew up I was either going to be in jail for mass murder, or the prime minister, as if there were no other option.

I wonder how many other people did similar things as a kid and turned out completely ordinary.
Its a meme meaning Trump supporters. Originated in some video, I believe.
BTC is not money, but a database.
Another failing of the UI/UX on some social news sites is not being able to CC other posts. If there are notifications, alerting only the parent of new activity only does so much.

While sdrothrock is correct that these sites don't have much incentive to produce quality discussion, I do agree with you that there's value in seeing what gets votes as opposed to what gathers replies (not that they are necessarily mutually exclusive and not each plagued with their own problems). I wonder if it's worth trying a system that marries the two elements. Take a conventional BBS, for example. They often have a reputation system that in the best case encourage quality contributions and avoid posts only consisting of "good post, I agree." However, they can't be used to indicate from the index what discussions are worth treading. You can try highlighting the top voted comments[1] beneath or side-by-side their respective links to the OP. Then you can infer what kind of discussion is taking place. Is it a bunch of metajokes or did someone just unload a lot of expert knowledge?

For news aggregators to facilitate enduring discussion is trickier as the nature of news is to remain current. Maybe if a link would otherwise decay but discussion is ongoing, the news entry on the index could take a backseat to its most 'active' threads. Indented new lines underneath the post that link to those threads, "The conversation is still going. Click to expand" or something like that.

[1] Perhaps highlighting only a number of posts proportional to the total number of comments or only the posts above a minimum score that is proportional to the total number of comments (just so you don't get highlighted for being one of the first responders). It's also probably important to not be able to vote on the post from a preview, so people have to click into the thread and hopefully read it and possibly contribute.
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My biggest struggle with sleep is that I'm always excited to do stuff, and always feel like I'm not done with my day. Exceptions are when something happens and I end up feeling very depressed during the day, and simply want to shut down and do nothing.

Usually, I get so infatuated with a script I'm writing, a new program I discovered, a bug that I need to resolve, a book that I'm reading, some concept that I'm thinking of, that my mind just keeps on being active, and wants to keep working. It's the worst when I'm working on my computer, due to the blue light (I've started wearing yellow sunglasses to minimize the effect), while it's a bit better when I'm reading or listening to music or thinking.

In any case, this is a great article. I feel like small amounts of sleep has been the greatest inhibitor of my performance in... anything really. Being dumb and young I felt like I could still function correctly, but I really started noticing that I had better tournament results when actually sleeping 8 hours, while my results on all other days were lackluster. I read up on a lot of things and convinced myself that sleeping enough is essential. I still slip up and don't even go on my bed at the right times, my sleep schedule goes all over the place for a lot of different reasons, but I'm really trying. I feel like I might need to seek some professional help on this, but I'll still take it as far as possible before that.
One of Keurig's cofounders had caffeine poisoning after drinking like 30-40 cups a day back in like 1995.

He then, in 1997, got pushed out by the company, with no equity, and sold the patents to the company for $50,000.

Pretty rough
For those who, like me, see it for the first time - "99 44/100%" is read as "99 44⁄100%", and it was a slogan for a soap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_(soap)
That's because the compiler doesn't know the locals() dictionary will be modified at runtime, so it treats b as a global variable (which happens to be undefined).

To show that not even changes to existing local variables work, try

def main():
a = 1
d = locals()
print d
b = None
d['b'] = 123
print b
print d
print locals()
print d is locals()

which prints

{'a': 1}
None
{'a': 1, 'b': 123}
{'a': 1, 'b': None, 'd': {...}}
True

I.e. changes to the dictionary returned by locals() are ignored, and calling locals() again overrides the previous values.
You both make great points.

Can we find this conundrum in other domains, say, neural networks? Can a machine become creative when we teach it to adhere to common knowledge?
I have an Edge Router as well. I know this particular thread is about IPSec but wanted to mention that the OpenVPN version on EdgeOS is rather old at this point and fairly underperformant for anyone considering that route.
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Personally the change that has helped me the most has been mental. I used to feel "guilty" of going to bed early, not working to exhaustion. Now I view sleep as something to enjoy. Just letting go of that guilt has me sleep a lot better. From being a light sleeper I have gone to be able to sleep through my housemates blaring loud music.
Why people would downvote that I don't know.

https://www.recode.net/2015/7/15/11614684/ai-conspiracy-the-...

I would say that grenerally it doesn't matter much where ideas come from but since that's the point of the article they ought to be more precise.
I think most people would be just fine with 11 shots. The lethal dose of caffeine is like 100 cups.
I have personally tried OpenVPN on an EdgeRouter PoE. The OpenVPN version in the current EdgeOS is fairly old and also has zero hardware support, so like the sibling post mentioned, it kills the bandwidth. It was something like 1 Mbit for TCP and 10-15 Mbit for UDP.
She's pitched here as an ideal success story, and an example for why we should just forget having a law and borders and stuff. She did much better than the average under-the-table elote-selling "entrepreneur", but I'm not so sure that a few hundred thousand in income tax from working in finance, and then working for a non-profit committed to undermining the rule of law and harassing publications who refuse to use the Newspeak of "undocumented" is the best possible return for 10-plus years of subsidized public education.
Read through the whole thing looking to explain how this is even possible. Is the "coffee belt" not as absolute as I thought? Can you just grow arabica anywhere?
The worry is that the land will transition from public recreation to business resource extraction uses.
I break literally every single rule in your list regularly, and sleep amazingly well.
Facebook's M has had limited success, but on the other hand, News Feed, the core of Facebook's business, is build entirely around AI. And Google, of course, has had plenty of success with AI outside of Allo.

I wouldn't say "nobody cares or wants" AI, just that companies are still trying to figure out where it's best used.
Artificial intelligence was pioneered in the US and you have to be insane to say that it wasn't established in it also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Histor...

>The field of AI research was born at a workshop at Dartmouth College in 1956.[18] Attendees Allen Newell (CMU), Herbert Simon (CMU), John McCarthy (MIT), Marvin Minsky (MIT) and Arthur Samuel (IBM) became the founders and leaders of AI research.[19] They and their students produced programs that the press described as "astonishing":[20] computers were winning at checkers, solving word problems in algebra, proving logical theorems and speaking English.[21] By the middle of the 1960s, research in the U.S. was heavily funded by the Department of Defense[22] and laboratories had been established around the world.[23] AI's founders were optimistic about the future: Herbert Simon predicted, "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do." Marvin Minsky agreed, writing, "within a generation ... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved."[24]
I don't know of any working non-proof-of-work cryptocurrencies ("byzantine fault-tolerant" sounds like a federated or centralized system to me, hardly a cryptocurrency IMO).
Yeah I think it's fair to say that prescribed vitamins for those with a medical condition are probably worth taking. ;)
You can try the Fibonacci sequence instead, it's what I use during stressful moments in the daytime. I also focus on how the bed feels, since this draws attention away from the mentality of getting to sleep as a goal (which is counterproductive for the same reason that forcing yourself not to think about something doesn't work).

I hope this post doesn't sound patronizing as that is not my intention at all. I can definitely relate to the frustration you've described, but for other issues. Based on my own anecdotal experience, it's quite unlikely that you've exhausted all the possible solutions. At the very least, you don't have much to lose in trying one new thing.

I found a surprising source of motivation in books about the Eastern Front of WWII. I figure that if Soviet soldiers managed to survive in those circumstances, I can stay calm and collected in much more favorable conditions.
You're right...kinda. AI is used in many places. Where it's advertised as a feature? Failure. Where it's used in the backend? People don't seem to have much of a choice. I stand by my statement.
That's... a lot (of melatonin). You might try much smaller doses and see if you get the same benefits.

It has an odd efficacy curve, if sites like longecity are to be believed. But if that's the case, you may be as well off with way less; like 0.5 to 1mg.
That is a possibility
FWIW, as someone who's worked those jobs (hard labor and customer service) for roughly 7 years prior to becoming a full-time programmer, I can assure that those jobs aren't stress free. Quite the opposite, actually. I try my hardest to never take my opportunities for granted and I can't imagine pining for the days of being treated like a low-level grunt of a company. I now have unyielding respect for those working those jobs by not idealizing their "simple" profession.
Thanks for the info. This vpn setup for me maxes out at 25Mbps but that's only because my ISP caps my upload at that. I bet the pi 3 can do 100Mbps of Cisco IPsec traffic maxing out the ethernet 100BASE-T interface.
Reminds me of the (imo, erroneous) dichotomy between "strong" and "weak" AI back in the day. Strong AI is what captures the imagination of the crowds, but weak AI is what actually brings the money despite not being as sexy. Of course many things that we take for granted now would have been considered strong AI 40 years ago; the definition is constantly shifting.
Look at ripple xrp
Deep Learning is only a small part of AI research.

A big part of the rest of machine learning & AI research has been pioneered in the US. However, there have been some huge contributions by UK and Canada throughout the growth of AI.
Yann LeCun, so I blame the French.
Amazon doesn't know how many resources you're going to spin up and how many ENIs they will need, so it's hard to really tell you how big of a subnet to create.

You can also use the AWS NAT Gateway which doesn't require you run your own NAT instance
First the cloud, now AI takes on the scientific method
In the article, they mention that RMR (resting metabolic rate) goes down when your weight goes down, but they don't really explain why, or how crash diets affect your RMR. RMR calories are used for basic movement, body heat, keeping your brain and organs working, etc.

If there's less of you (weight wise), there's less of you to maintain. You carry less when you walk, etc. Also, different types of body (bone, organ, muscle, fat) have different requirements. Muscles and organs take a lot of calories to keep going, and rebuild.

A lot of people when they diet, they lose both fat and muscle. The body will break down muscles as energy too, as well as your fat. This is usually because you're eating less than you expend, calorie wise, and you're probably not strength training.

Lifting weights is a great way to increase your RMR. It takes calories to build and repair muscles after working out, and those bigger muscles also take more calories to maintain. It also forces your body to build up something, preventing the saggy skin you may see on those TV diet shows.

Overall, if you work on building up your muscle, your metabolism will slow less, or maybe even increase, depending on how much you get into it.
Pro-illegal immigration propaganda. We should not be celebrating that illegal aliens are now apparently working in white-collar jobs with stolen documents, because they are finite resources and should be given to Americans. Do you guys think that this article would get a positive response here if she had an IT job? If Goldman Sachs wants South American talent, why don't they open an office there? It's disgusting that this is celebrated - American jobs should be filled by Americans. I'm reminded of some things I hear a lot about illegal aliens:

"They only do the jobs that Americans won't do."

"Who will scrub your toilet, Donald Trump?"

Tell that to the person whose job at Goldman Sachs she stole.