skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwing a bit of anecdotal evidence out: throughout high school I had to get up at 6:45 every weekday for four years, and constantly felt tired throughout the day, but it cleared up at night and I'd be energized at 1am. I had to take naps after school, but even if I didn't I'd still be unable to sleep at 11pm. Something about everyone else around me being asleep and not distracting me allowed me to focus on things better.

Now I have a job with very flexible hours so I go to sleep at 2am and wake up at 10am like clockwork. I feel and perform much better all around. I'm convinced that if I had had a sleep schedule that worked for me in my teens I'd have been able to achieve much more than I did.
There are 2 basic things that the writer misses the point completely on that he uses to "prove" his point: Bitcoin isn't a business. ICO's are not Bitcoin.
Okay, for the sake of argument, let's also refuse to pay for treatment for BASE jumpers and cave divers. Now let's refuse coverage to people who get STDs. Now people who smoke. Now people who don't fasten their seat belts.

Do you see where that goes?
Those "models" are human beings and are employed for work.

Don't you think the same models are saying, about people like you:

"Yuck, now I have a gig to go to a holiday party and the women there will be whiny about my presence"

In both cases you and the model are employed by the company.

You are free to start your own company and create jobs for other people and alao pay more taxes for the betterment.

Women may complain that men look at them as sex objects.

But men complain that women look at them as work/providee objects
That's a brilliant idea!
>, they're now spending the evening outnumbered by male colleagues who are ogling other women who are there explicitly as objects of sexual attraction

Unfortunately, it was my limited recollection of the event that's prompted some replies about it marginalizing female employees. To clarify, it was a vendor conference and not a company party. Employees from different companies would attend. (Think of it like Google I/O or Apple WWDC Developers Conference).

There were very likely male models there as well for the female attendees to interact with. I just happened to be standing with a group of all males so understandably, the only models that skated up to us were female. My single-gender sample set distorts what I remember and how I tell the story which then gives you, the reader, the wrong impression that it was quasi strip club event.

I'd have to seek out some female colleagues who went to the same 2000 conference and ask them what they thought of it. I'm curious if they'd reply that they were disgusted and outraged by the male models there. I really don't know. (Or similarly, we can ask today's female employees at SV companies what they thought of male models at recent corporate parties.)
> As a Californian millennial articles like these make me frustrated. my one bedroom apartment is ~2200 a month and came without a refrigerator. home prices start at a million dollars, traffic is horrid and the city i live in is currently on fire.

I'm a California Gen-X-er, my 2+2 house rent is less than that, comes with refrigerator and other appliances, and my city is not on fire.

And I can get bulgogi and ramen just fine.

Also, VA isn't fly-over; it's (like California) one of the coastal places fly-over is contrasted against. And it was hostilely targeted for a white supremacist rally by largely out-of-state groups, it didn't choose to have one.
I'd say its main drawback is that its enclosing state looks like a right-wing hellscape compared to, say, Massachusetts. I know they have a Democrat in charge at the moment, but the non-urban residents of NC horrify me.
I really miss the folding tabs when I go back to my system terminal.
>can I still get bulgogi and ramen?

Yes.

>how does healthcare work?

The same as the rest of the country (read: badly)

>these states would get quite a few more transplants if they or someone just explained what it was to be a part of them

"Flyover country" is dozens of states and regions. It's different from state to state here in the Midwest, much less the Southwest or the Rockies or whatever. There's no one-size-fits-all description. As for the negative media stereotypes, shitheads doing shithead things isn't unique to the non-coastal areas. You don't hear about good news or positivity because nobody cares that Arkansas is doing well when there's other things to talk about.
That's the surprising thing. How can weight-loss and diet improvements to treat type II diabetes be some kind of revelation? Would diet approaches not have shown this correlation many decades ago?
To be absolutely fair, Team Keto and Team Paleo are almost the same team. Keto people avoid foods with grains and refined sugars just because they're high carb; Paleo people avoid them because they're toxic, and often naturally fall into a lower carb diet (not necessarily "true" Keto lowness, but still usually a lot lower carb than they were pre-Paleo).
I really don't get this hate for Electron.

When it's used well (VS Code) it works like anything else, when it isn't (Atom) it doesn't.

It might use more memory, but as developers we usually have GBs of spare RAM, isn't it there to be used anyway?
A lot of apps on Linux are available because Electron makes porting easy.

I think it's a great technology.
> everyone who put their life's savings into Dunning-Krugerrands

I'm pretty sure that's going to turn out to be pension, mutual funds, and banks, just like last time, and everyone is going to be screwed. The question as bitcoin rises is how much has been borrowed against bitcoin holdings in how many ass-backward, half-fraudulent, made-legal-by-obscure-clauses-in-amendments-written-by-lobbyists-and-attached-to-unrelated-bills-with-bipartisan-support ways.
I assure you that you have no idea what tone of voice I was using. There was absolutely nothing passive-aggressive about my response to you.

I was merely pointing out how you're flat-out wrong, and I am super tired of people who somehow believe that feelings, emotions, and empathy don't matter in communication. There are some people (such as yourself) who seem to believe they don't, but in the end that just ends up being short-sighted, non-inclusive thinking that drastically reduces the number of people who want to associate/work/do business with you. If that's ok with you, then by all means, continue to engage in boorish behavior, and I'm sure in the end you'll reap what you sow.

So... is that "blunt" enough for you?
It's not like deadbolts secure houses that well.

Skilled thieves can get into the vast majority of homes. Deadbolts just stop opportunists looking for an easy quick grab.
The north central schools (think Big 10 land-grant colleges), Georgia Tech, and Texas schools produce perfectly fine engineering and science grads. They mostly don't leave the locales they are in, because they all do this analysis:

"California: great weather all year, earn much less adjusted for CoL"
"(e.g.) Minnesota: great weather for 8 months of the year (11 months if you ski or play ice hockey), earn much more adjusted for CoL"

So maybe you just haven't seen the talent in the rest of the country and assume it isn't there?
The ReasonML group have done the same[1], and to great success IMO.

[1]: https://discord.gg/reasonml
There is zero reason not to include such a contract in every point of contact between you and society if you let people run with this one eventually the bottom of your receipt for a pound of grapes will contain such language and they'll call it a contract of adhesion.

If mandatory binding arbitration included as part of your standard interaction with businesses is a net negative for 99% of people and a positive for business owners and large stock holders there is no particular reason why the 99% can't vote not to allow the owners to do that.
> That having been said, im not sure id trade California for Ohio or other so called "flyover" states. The only time they end up on the nightly news is when they violate marriage laws (Kentucky) for gay couples, stage a massive white supremacy rally (Virginia) or pass some arcane law that either wipes out womens healthcare or edifies teaching autonomous ignorance in place of biology in school.

Virginia is a flyover state now, what? Like half the federal government lives in Virginia.
I honestly can't remember the last time I considered buying an AMD based laptop... Exciting times we live in haha
It does seem low, but I doubt the effect on performance would be huge. Certainly not enough to affect the major claims of the paper.

For example, on my 4-core machine I just loaded up two instances of Stockfish, one with 32MB hash and one with 512MB, and assigned 2 cores to each. I loaded up a few random middlegame positions, and after analyzing for 1 minute, the evaluations and main lines were generally the same (within the margin of error for repeated runs of the same engine). when analyzing the Kasparov's immortal game, it was a toss-up which engine would find the famous rook sac first.

1GB is probably suboptimal on the hardware they used, but the difference is probably minimal.
Yeah, I'm in LA but from NC and many of my close friends are still there. I've heard Durham has also exploded.

Not sure what you mean by isolation from west coast hubs. Is it because service from RDU still has to hop over to CLT sometimes? Because that does suck. Even flying home though, I have to connect via Atlanta to then hop to CLT sometimes. Travel was way easier when it was LAX/BUR -> DFW -> CLT.
It's extremely important to understand the terms of each bug bounty program. FB prohibits escalation (https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/):

You do not exploit a security issue you discover for any reason. (This includes demonstrating additional risk, such as attempted compromise of sensitive company data or probing for additional issues.)
Deals that involve informing are a very different animal, in my opinion. I'm talking about the much more mundane, everyday case where it is just getting a lighter sentence in exchange for pleading guilty. There is a clear trend where prosecutors push for insanely overdone charges, then drop it to virtually nothing in the plea deal.

This is terrible because it leads to unjustly excessive punishment for smaller crimes if someone wants to exercise their right to trial, and people being told to just take the deal when innocent because a 1% chance of 10s of years of prison just isn't worth the risk when the alternative is you are out in months, for example.
tribalism.

it pops up everywhere, sports, operating systems, code editors, vehicle manufacturers.

and it is actively used by and encouraged by all sorts of power structures.
Don't forget cloudy too. You can go for close to a month without any sunshine around February in Grand Rapids.
Have you never cooked spinach? It turns into nothing by the time you're done.
I hate that we’re at a place where you now have to assume every business is lying to you every time their lips are moving/they communicate. How did we get here?
How can you tap into meaningful cultural opportunities when you live in the middle of nowhere? Cultural opportunities involve two or more people. Jobs sure, remote work is getting easier to find.
Also reach out to any friends of friends who may be there. Tennessee is one of the healthcare capitals of this country. Many people in your network will be medical residents / fellows / etc there.
Could you make some demo videos about your program and ReactOS?
There are other options out there besides deciding between SV and the flyover states, such as Portland, Oregon or Austin, Texas.
So by that same logic, then Reddit should be sued into oblivion because both left and ring wing extremists have used Reddit subreddits for harassment campaigns. They even left up an anarchy thread that posted all of the phone numbers in the White House so people could fill the lines with hate speech... because... Trump... and everyone in the white house answering phones is automatically a trump supporter and deserving of harassment.

Multiple people filed complaints directly to the admins. They did nothing and left it up.

That's far worse than Discord merely having some users that are Nazis, and haven't been sued.

And if we're talking about harassment, and bigotry, why not the holy grail of the toxic internet? Twitter.

If Discord "needs" to remove bigots from their lines (yes, or, no, pick one), then don't cell phone companies need to do the exact same thing? Why should cell phone companies be allowed to "give Nazis a platform" over texts and phone calls? What's the difference between a group text chat and a Discord text chat? Nothing. Except one is directly using the internet, and the other ... is using the internet as a backbone. Discord even runs on a phone. So isn't Verizon a "Nazi enabler" by the same logic?

So let's do it. Let's scan everyone's text message and phone calls to stop the Nazis. Clearly the ends justify the means, so let's do it.
Digital security is long dead so just dont use smart-anything if you aren't ok with it being pwned
Yup, i work on software with a Qt GUI and it took us ages to figure out why our daemon (no Qt dependencies) would experience latency when the GUI was open.

For Windows users we now put this var in to global environment via our installer, and probably break other software in the process.
My caloric intake while eating at a deficit was about 1200-1500 kcal. Maintenance is about 2200. I eat a lot of meat, poultry, fish, eggs. No restriction on fats, but I try to favor animal fats and olive oil. Unlimited vegetables. Fruit, but only raw (no dried fruit or juice), and favor berries over bananas. Nuts and cheese in moderation.

If I want carbs, favor sweet potato / regular potato over grains. Generally avoid that altogether though.

No beer, favor wine and liquor, all in moderation.

So that’s how I select, then from there I restrict to the calorie goal. If I do have pasta or cake, I go a little harder on myself the next day (or in the days prior). That’s rare though.

It’s been really easy. Hardest day was day 1, second-hardest day was day 2. Sustained for about a year so far, and I’m not struggling at all.
Because lines like "Residents commute to work without insane traffic, pay low property and income taxes, and spend time with their happy families" don't make national headlines.

The vast majority of America is a wonderful place. Ditto that the vast majority of Americans are wonderful people. Seriously go for a road trip and expand your mind. Plus the country itself is beautiful.

If you can find fulfilling employment (or work remote) then you can have a wonderful life just about anywhere. Usual advice is to pick somewhere where you have family and happen to like the seasonal weather (or lack thereof).
Simulcast opera type stuff is pretty useful.
> Raleigh is a hidden treasure.

Durham is way cooler than Raleigh!
I'm not sure what you are saying. My point was that political support for allowing consumer arbitration to exist is increased (despite it being largely unpopular with the public), because it reduces court cases which is cheaper for the government. You are saying that there is incentive to save money, but it doesn't at all affect politician's opinions on consumer arbitration?
I think the key part was

>Extensions before 57 are like out-of-tree kernel modules

Its not that you shouldn't compare firefox api to unix userspace, but that firefox's api equivalent in unix is not userspace, but out of tree extensions.

In which case firefox isn't at fault for breaking api promises it never made; extension authors are at fault for not keeping pace

And firefox never promised you, the user, that the extensions would work in all versions of firefox; rather the extension author (may have) promised that, when they shouldn't have (because they weren't in a position to uphold it).

If the firefox api isnt the equivalent of unix environment, then firefox isn't wrong to break extensions. Its just part of the natural lifecycle of the application, unless firefox changes that stance, and does make extensions part of their promise.
The personal exemption is incorrect. It doesn't add the children into the total (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf), but you can enter it by hand. Also, Student Loan Interest is an above the line deduction (line 33 on 1040), i.e. you can deduct it regardless of whether or not you itemize.
Back of the envelope calculations:

Investors clearly want them to be profitable; maybe not now but eventually.

They have a $450m valuation and $150m in sales, for which they get 5% ($7.5m) [1]. According to Crunchbase, they have 50-100 employees. Assuming only 50 employees, they are spending at least $15m in wages (plus health insurance, etc.), plus fixed expenses (SF building, AWS, etc.) and advertisement.

So there is no way they would be making ends meet with their 5%. Even assuming they become 5x bigger while keeping the same expenses, they might still be losing money. The only way for them is to raise fees.

Sure, another option is to keep costs down, everything streamlined, don't spend on advertisement, etc. but as others pointed, you can't pick that route if you have investors.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/14/patreon-series-c/

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patreon
It’s also a status symbol to be able to live in a popular place. I don’t think any amount of marketing can change wanting to rub shoulders with the haves versus the have nots.
I do robotics in Northwest Florida (much less Florida Man, much more "Basically Alabama"). Trump is coming to our city tomorrow. The rally will have high turnout. There's also going to be a high turnout of protestors.

As others have mentioned, your views on these areas seem a little colored by the actions of the vocal/vitriolic minority. It's the exact same mentality as the view that everyone in tech in Cali is a douche-nozzle tech-bro. Patently false.

Just because an area leans one way or the other doesn't mean that you can't find like-minded people. But that's also a little insular, I think. In fact, I think it's healthy to have a mix. Living somewhere that everybody thinks and feels the same is how you end up with the legendary SV "Echo Chamber" that the world decries so vehemently. It's okay to occasionally meet someone you disagree with. I'm not right leaning at all but I know plenty of people that voted for Trump who aren't racist jerks and who I am perfectly comfortable to call my friends.
I think they amended the article.
One thing Austin has going for it vs more developed coastal cities is the capacity for additional sprawl, if that's the kind of arrangement you're looking for.
I fly SFO -> RDU direct pretty cheaply a few times a year.
Did you mean to recommend /r/ketoscience/ ?

It's a great sub. The keto diet helped me lose about 30 pounds this year, and I was only fully committed to it about 20% of the time.
Which ones? There are ways to use way, way more Google services in your architecture. They have a bunch of industry standard stuff there, presumably that's how they were even able to migrate from AWS in the first place.
You're likely right but early.

What happened with Silicon Valley is that the ease of working remotely increased, but the pace at which new innovations are discovered and commercialized increased more, which means that the returns to moving really fast (which usually means a colocated team, to cut out travel/timezone delays) went way up. It doesn't matter if you can save 30% on labor costs if it means that you miss out on a $100B market that just opened up.

If you read Carlota Perez, this trend usually reverses itself in the "deployment" phase of a new technology, where market structure has stabilized, best practices become widely known, and the expertise surrounding the technology becomes distributed geographically. For example, the deployment phase for mass production (initially a Massachusetts monopoly in the U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s) came as the great Midwest steel mills and factories were built in the 1890s, the deployment phase for railroads (initially a Midwest & Northeast thing in the 1850s & 1860s) came in the 1910s as railroads were completed linking the South & California into the nationwide network, the deployment phase for automobiles (a Detroit thing in 1900) came in the 1950s and 1960s as suburbs spread throughout the U.S.

The catch is that usually the transition from "frenzy" phase to "deployment" phase is marked by a financial crisis, depression, and war. If the new geographic region was on the same side of the war as the new means of production (as with the U.S. after WW2), then the mechanism of diffusion is usually that lots of people are trained in the new technologies as part of the war effort, and when they go home, they bring these technologies with them and start up new businesses that become part of the fabric of the local economy. If the tech monopoly is on the opposite side of the war as the new geographic regions (as with the U.S Civil War, or Asia post-WW2), it's usually because the side with better technology won the war, conquered everyone who resisted, and a bunch of carpet-baggers move into the occupied territories, bring their technology with them, and then integrate with the economies they left behind.
If I were running a scam, I'm pretty sure at the moment I would have a positive cash flow: a lot of people are transferring their USD/EUR into my bank account because they want to get on the Bitcoin train. If a few people are cashing out, I'm pretty sure I would be able to manage to give them their payouts. Exchanges also have a withdrawal limit of a few K's per day, in my ponzi scheme if someone wanted to withdraw 100K it would take maybe 10 days, and one hopes there are enough new suckers that each day I'm able to pay out, out of my official bank account, my slush fund. The rest of the money can be transferred out where no one can touch them...

And when the whole thing blows up, I disappear. My payment gateway will drop me, but what do I care?
There's a section on the footer of every page showing the contributors. Maybe I should add a GitHub link/logo too
Depends on what you see as a problem. Is it: technically what is the method of getting rid of diabetes in a controlled setting, or is it: how do we cure billions of people from general population, given the existing conditions of their lifestyle? Because the second one is the harder question. Currently it's solved in the same way world hunger is solved: just grow some plants and eat them, right?
That sounds better than Soylent, tbh. I might have to check this out. Thanks!
Many people make that claim, but it isn't backed by science.

Well fasting at times was normal. Everything enough though is questionable. We know that humans have been eating some high carb foods for ages. We also have every reason to believe that humans used to be more active than our "couch potato" current life. There were no office jobs, if you wanted to eat somebody had to chase down the food (sometimes a literal chase, sometimes just find it). Low sugar - there was plenty of fruit available at times. Of course this fruit did have a lot of complex carbs as well.
One big advantage with machine intelligence is that you can train many agents simultaneously in many environments, letting the agents share what they learn. Even if you were required to train the agents outside simulated environments, their shared learning would allow for more rapid collective progress.
We can learn from Boulder CO
Is package theft such a widespread problem? I've never had a package stolen from me. I've lived in apartment buildings, single/two-family houses and that never happened to me.
How about a somewhat updated law? Binding arbitration should only be legal when made between two entities who have a power difference no greater than that of an adult and a teenager. If the power difference is greater, say like that between a non-lawyer and a multinational corporation, then the agreement is illegal because consent cannot be given in such a power vacuum.
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