skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I naturally stumbled upon this method but it's nice to have it formalized. At first I noticed how insomnia fed on itself and noticed how I start to question my ability to fall asleep and as the night comes around I start feeling anxious.

I'm familiar with CBT methods for treating other issues so I naturally tried to break the cycle by doing basically what Ilya's talking about. It worked well for me but I always reverted to my old ways when I think I'm "cured" only to have insomnia strike back.

I'm going to try to be regimented about it and see if this helps me long-term.
I've just taken a new position which is interesting in this regard. I work out of an office in Singapore, but my team is distributed all over the Asia-Pacific region, separated by thousands of miles. Even when I'm in the office, I'm effectively working remotely from my team. Consequently, I'm slowly visiting all of the local offices where they're based just to build a face-to-face relationship and the invaluable rapport that comes with that interaction. Even the senior executive in the office, the president of sales for the region, works remotely and rarely comes into the office. Sometimes, it's just the nature of the role. Still, nothing replaces face-to-face communication, so if you have the opportunity, be sure to engage in it every chance you get.
Spirograph.

For a teen, I'd buy a tube amplifier kit.
Developing Blockchain for Healthcare, Primer
You can easily be replaced at any company without compensation. Like one on my coworkers said, always keep your running shoes around your neck.

I'm prepared to change jobs st a moments notice. My resume stays up to date. I keep my PluralSight account and my network current.

Also keep a savings account with enough in it to cover your expenses until you can get another job. In my neck of the woods (not on the west coast) for the last 20 years it's been about a month at most.
I think a clearer way to say what a lot of people are bothered by with that example is that in order to sell those recommendations you need:

a) to have a lot of marketing expertise

b) to be known well enough for your marketing expertise that people will take your suggestions as valid

Most tech people have neither one. Hell, most marketing people have neither one, half of the rest on my have b) but are actually incompetent in their recommendations, and only the last little bit have both.
The more things change...
Not too late.
All they need to do is rebrand as Therablockchain or something.
Based on this addon script it looks like? https://github.com/addam/Export-Paper-Model-from-Blender
you're missing the author's point: it would be immoral to have 1000 kidneys while others had 1 -- that's the scale of the problem we're talking about
If you're interested in value based pricing, Jonathan Stark has a pretty decent free ecourse on it: https://expensiveproblem.com/
Anyone know if paying for the specialization is worth it? (Or for any other online mooc certificate in general?)
Reflection on my work in 2017
His book Money: Master the Game was really good. His in-person stuff can be really expensive. Hopefully he doesn't end up like Jim Rohn, who was great, but then spent his golden years at herbalife. Jim Rohn's early stuff was so great though.. yea.. I haven't seen Tony totally sell out though, hopefully he doesn't. Where does Robbins push bubble investing in Canada?
There is something to be said for physically holding an item. Recently I was on the fence about getting some Lifx light bulbs, but I was in Best Buy holding the box and found myself at the registrar before I knew what happened.
Collecting Base Salaries in the Bay Area
Webscript.io has shut down
How are they going to deal with logistics then? Or inventory management? I see that is the essential reason why Amazon will be relevant for a very long time.
>Maybe it's like a tech company with a known datacenter footprint and standard load pattern, so normal operations can be done in-house cheaper then in the cloud, but twice a year they have to do 200% traffic and just bite the bullet and scale that out in AWS at a much higher price, but only for those two days, compared to capacity that would sit idle the entire rest of the year.

The reason why that mostly works on AWS is that amazon has someone else to sell some of the peak capacity to the rest of the year. With package delivery, you'd need to figure out something profitable to do with the 'holiday delivery trucks' the rest of the year.
I was impressed that a package I ordered on Dec 22 from Costco. It was estimated for UPS delivery on Dec 26 but was actually delivered on Dec 23. Considering that I didn't pay to expedite shipping, this was surprising and impressive.
In Poloniex you can lend money. Would that count as loans? There are pre-mined cryptocurrencies like Ripple and Stellar that doesn't need proof of work to solve the double spending problem, and thus doesn't need lots of electricity to work.
For certain people it appears the only way to fail is up.
i've never understood those who think work is an appropriate place to seek romantic relationships.

Like Barack and Michelle Obama? People are human. Put a bunch of single people with similar backgrounds in an office for a third or more of their waking lives, and there are going to be relationships happening unless you institute draconian policies, and probably even then.
"all of these prosecutors object to private companies doing what they do in the name of the State every single day (extort people)."

That's not even close to a valid description of what they do.
It's a pretty safe bet that it will be in the US in the next 15-20 years as well (I know that's a sad time frame; the US has to reshape a ~$4 trillion entrenched market, which will take time). I say that based on the trends in the healthcare market. Insurers are being squeezed out of the bottom 2/3 of the market. It ultimately leaves only government coverage as the viable option for most people. About half of all people in the US currently receive some variation of government health coverage. Government-based coverage will continue to gradually walk its way up the income ladder by necessity due to costs.

Republicans were entirely unable to end the ACA, despite majorities & the Presidency. Its latest enrollment period saw a massive sign-up. The likely scenario coming up near-term, is Democrats take the Senate & possibly the Presidency (not the House). Healthcare will see gradual stapled on improvements that basically guarantees everyone coverage. Each time the Democrats acquire majorities, they'll put more pieces into place. It's most likely to start out as guaranteed catastrophic coverage for the middle & lower middle class (poor people already have free healthcare), that's the next logical step from the components the ACA put into place. It'll be a messy process, that will ultimately end in guaranteed coverage (most of the top 1/4 will keep variations of employer coverage that provide various perks). As each of these pieces get put into place, Republicans will find it nearly impossible to take them back away from people (as we just witnessed, it was wildly unpopular when Republicans tried to get rid of denial of coverage protections for pre-existing conditions).
just because d-bag is your "image" doesn't make you immune from sexual harassment laws.
This issue has been fixed by a new firmware release from TP-Link. The updated firmware changes the behavior to use ICMP pings on the local network rather than NTP+DNS requests out on the public internet.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/ntplink-fixed
Income is only relevant when you factor in the cost of living.

Also, my point is exactly that many countries consider you "poor" if you have to work 70+ hours per week and get 2 weeks (or no) leave, even if you make $150k. That's why I said many OECD countries consider Americans "poor". (in quotes). Not poor in the sense of not much money, but "poor" in the broader sense.
To the author - can you please share the name of the researcher who did the CBT-i program? It would help me and many others. Email me (link in profile) if you cannot post it here. Thanks.
Well, worse case you shed your identity and start from zero, which is where you are now.
The Case for B-Tree Index Structures
Not at all.

However, so many rich people, big cuts in necessary programs, tax cuts, and a majority of Americans struggling economically just does not look good.

I'm not even making a judgement here. I am talking about that struggling majority acting out.

Gonna happen.
Consulting Isn’t About Advice
I'm having a hard time seeing the pros. What can a "blockchain" do that we cannot do with existing technology? The only application so far is crypto currencies where it solves a very specific problem.

Moreover, what even is a "blockchain"? The most basic definition would be an inversely linked list with an added hash in each node. That's not much of an innovation. On the other end of the spectrum we have something like Bitcoin with a distributed network of "miners" who compete against each other by wasting energy, because the participants do not trust one another. This is not something most people would want or need. In most use cases we probably have trusted agents, but then we don't even need a mechanism like PoW/PoS to facilitate trust. This means we're really just left with a distributed database.
The actual work of being a lawyer is writing and talking, but just because you can write and talk doesn't mean you can be a lawyer.

Every client I've ever had has asked "how many hours?" And "how much per hour?"

If a restaurant wants to increase business by building a patio and they get a bid based with pricing based on increased business and not hours. They're gonna throw it away.

Patio11 was in a unique position to know more about how to increase the business's revenue better than the business. This is a very unique position and advice based on that position is not really relevant to the rest of us who aren't experts in internet marketing.
Work-from-home varies from company to company. Corporations that have a strong WFH culture seem to handle it better than places where a remote worker is "the exception" and "the faceless voice on the phone" at every meeting.

Speaking personally, it's been great these past 5 years. The advantages of remote employment are substantial. To me, it's worth about $20K a year.

I haven't experienced the harm to my career that some have mentioned, but maybe I'm just lucky. My group is a tiny "intrapreneurial" startup within a large corp. and we are judged more on results than on just showing up.

Advantages of working from home:

- 10-15 hours a week of extra time to use as I wish.

- saves thousands of dollars a year in commute expenses, wear & tear on the car, etc.

- extra security and convenience of someone being at home all day

- more flexibility when raising children

- exercise at noon, then shower (no more "Do I skip the morning shower and hope I'm not too smelly at the office before I head to the gym?")

- set up your workspace exactly as you like it.

- you can shake things up once in a while, and go work in a café

- you can travel more frequently and work from whatever location, to save your vacation hours or avoid having to ask permission.

- the coffee is exactly the way YOU want it

Disadvantages:

- off-site workers are less visible, hence require strong management support to avoid problems others have detailed here

- too easy to gain weight

- spouse or children are distracting

- "work day never ends" syndrome.

- you miss out on "five minutes in the hallway" quick check-ins and over-the-shoulder teamwork
I was working on a python script in 2004 for Blender to work similar to Pepakura [1] when I was making stitch and glue kayaks in order to prototype them in paper first. As the author says, I wasted many a weekend making all sorts of paper models. Then I got sidetracked writing a photoclinometry script in Blender to CNC bas reliefs into maple planks in 2005.

Pepakura was/is amazing! Was the current plugin based on it I wonder. Paper work (origami, etc...) are big in SE Asia. I lived over there for 7 years, and saw some amazing things especially in Japan.

[1] http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/productinfo/index.html
This is a really good question. Is it published anywhere that this version of BSAFE enabled Dual_EC?
erm Assad is actually good for Syria.

Assad has popular support of the people in Syria. He's been defeating ISIS. Why would you want to oust him?
Because the state has an interest in punishing criminals whether the victim wants them to be punished or not.
I wonder if there's someone in Walmart, an accountant of sorts, who sits down and runs a report on all the money they made from desperate people shoplifting stuff on a yearly basis.

Prob the same person who looked at that 0.01% of revenue been squandered away by shoplifters and thought: What if we made that a source of revenue?

Where would this perverse incentive lead? Using commonly stolen goods as lure, maybe in a spot of the store where there's a false sense of privacy then waiting for the perp at the outside and saying: "Surprise, pay us $300 for that $100 dollar thing you were going to stole or you go to jail!"

Boggles the mind
Nothing in this proposal warrants development of a new blockchain. Simply fork ethereum and run the nodes on a private network to avoid congestion.
It really just means putting yourself in places where you're likely to find people who would hire a consultant, and then getting them to a) like you and b) believe that you're competent at whatever you're trying to bill for. It's not necessarily an overnight thing, but after doing this consistently for a little while, people will start asking if you can help with XYZ as the need arises.

If you don't know where else to start, go to a local user group, or better yet, present at one. It only takes one visit to see how low the standard is at most of these things, the organizers are usually just happy to have someone willing to present, so you don't have to worry about not having anything substantial or good to present.

I had a full-time consulting income for several years predominantly from just following ads for freelancers on Craigslist, in a relatively pedestrian market. I didn't even do the basic networking stuff that is still a very good idea. The hardest part of breaking in is having the gumption to get it kicked off.
Download VCV Rack (it's free and open source, and it has many digital models of real world modules) and start exploring the network of YouTube channels dedicated to analog synthesis. There's currently some kind of Cambrian explosion of small batch analog synth hardware happening, so there's never been a better time to learn. Be warned that the first time you open the app you will not be able to produce sound without help, but that's the same level of user friendliness you'll get from a real modular synth, so it will build character. :)
"If there wasn't an upside, people wouldn't pay. 90% of suspects paying shows that the suspects think there is an upside."

I don't think it does. We'd have to know what information they are given, and what kind of pressure they are put under to decide if it's coercion or not.
you mean like dogecoin ?
In reality, all mainstream CSPRNGs are essentially just stream cipher keystreams (PRFs). Some of them run AES in CTR mode, some of them run HMAC. The commonality is that the "raw entropy" (from system timings and whatnot) is run through what is essentially a KDF and fed to the PRF.

To believe that tapping 128 bits of "entropy" from /dev/urandom is equivalent to "depleting" 128 bit of entropy from the "system entropy pool", you must also believe that encrypting 16 bytes with AES-CTR somehow materially weakens the key.

Obviously, that's not happening. We don't "run out of key" as we encrypt with a PRF. As Dan Bernstein puts it, securely expanding small secrets into very, very long secrets of one of the core functions of cryptography. Look at the key schedule of any block cipher for a very basic example. We reject ciphers in designs based on their inability to encrypt 2^64 blocks worth of data without potentially creating artifacts.
Pray tell me: where in your calculations are you calculating the one variable that matters the most: "Mean Sea Level".
Which exposure model is being used here? LNT? Hormesis? Threshold?
Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications
Inside Google, isn’t F1 and Plx preferred over BQ?
English has a word for Unternehmensberater, it’s strategy consulting. The very highly paid temporary experts are operational consultants. The ones in the middle are management consultants.

The top global management consultancy firms are McKinsey, Bain and Boston Consulting Group.
Why So Much Consulting?
More than Insomnia I used to have sleep patterns where my mind wouldn't quiet down. After I started practising meditation, specifically the 8 point "Passage Meditation", I started experiencing a much better quality of sleep.
http://bmcm.org/

For those who do not have time for meditation, you may find the second point called Mantram (repetition of holy name) useful:
https://www.bmcm.org/learn/mantram/
I agree with your first post 100% -- as much as we'd like to think working remote is the future and all the video conferencing startups and Slack make remote work as seamless as the office -- there's lots of little things about working in an office that's somewhat irreplaceable. Water cooler talks really are more important than you'd think.

I'm actually in an arrangement of WFH 1 day a week right now. It helps a lot with my grueling commute, and gives me a day of mostly code work which is nice; but if there happens to be a need to schedule a meeting on that day, I feel that I concretely get less out of the meeting than I would if I was there personally with the team. Perhaps the team gets enough out of me from the meeting from what I have to say, so maybe it's fine, but I feel like if that happens a lot more often, I'd feel more and more out of touch with my team.

If one has to be in a certain geographical region for family reasons, it may be worth it to simply get a job locally, even if that pays less than what you would get at that remote job for some X tech company based in San Francisco but allows remote.
For me the hard part is finding what to automate. Automation is not only about saving time but taking away the annoying stuff as well making your efforts more efficient. There is no silly graph to predict how valuable an automation will be. Python started as a simple bash like scripting language and nowadays it grown to epic proportions. Automation needs time to mature. People tend to overestimate the value of their time vs the value of automation. Even the language we speak took thousands of years to develop, talking about huge waste of time. But hey someone has to push human progress forward.
Title is very inaccurate.
The thing about loans, that is borrowed capital that you use to try and create more capital, is that there isn't enough capital to go around. Capitalism does depend on a certain percentages of businesses failing, and that debt being written off.

You also can't make loans with BTC because debt needs to be enforceable. There must be violence behind debt. In the past that meant someone turns you into a slave or breaks your legs. Today the violence has been reduced (you get bad credit score and debt collectors keep calling), but it's still there. States have to have a monopoly on violence to enforce debt.

I don't really agree with where this guy is going, because the entire way loans are used to generate fiat currency isn't really sustainable. David Graeber has talked a lot about every great civilization has needed some form of debt relief at some point, either when a new leader comes in or when the civilization collapses.

People in the ancient world knew the empires they lived under would eventually end. Today in many high income countries, most people cannot see the end.
With you 100%. Sure, meeting people at work happens— in America people spend 8-12 hours a day there. But best to not act on anything until one or both parties don’t work at the same place.

My dad had a slightly gross phrase for this: ‘don’t shit where you eat’.

As in there’s no sense in potentially poisoning workplace relations if a romantic overture or relationship doesn’t go well.
Bad example.

After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles. Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents. The report ended stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
Sure - you can technically store wealth in currency. Just saying it's generally not ideal over the long haul, and that that is 'ok'.
You might be right, but 50k is way too low for a software engineer anywhere in US.
I would love something that can truly randomize every bit of identity info I submit to a website. Name, email, password, security questions, address...
Maybe needlessly snarky but I didn't call anyone names or say anything that isn't a widely held perception by many people. I was responding to someone who brought up the generational issue in a particularly militant manner, not starting a flamewar.
TLDR: to prevent DoS in case of natural and man made disasters: hurricanes, terrorist attacks.
"I know people who earn seven figures who don't, and honestly can't, do this."

Don't want to? Sure. Can't? Wrong. They absolutely could.
No, you don’t arb on BTC/USDT. You arb on XXX/BTC and then convert BTC to USD regularly on GDAX.
(“Famously inflated the capabilities of its devices”)

Didn’t they just flat out lie?
I diversified 6mm into index funds and bond funds on Vanguard :)
How is this company still operational? Do serious people believe that they will have a functioning and profitable product in the future? Does Theranos still have salaried employees, and if so, what are they working on? The article mentions a "box that diagnoses diseases", which is a meaningless description. They've gone from "running on fumes" to ...what, exactly? I'm extremely puzzled.
> Bowden: Text in HTML is the way to go here; you cover accessibility issues and SEO bots, while simultaneously also being usable on the maximum number of devices possible. HTML and CSS are forgiving in the sense that you can make mistakes in them, and something will still be rendered to the user. Browsers are built with backwards compatibility, so combining them all grants you the extended coverage. Meaning that basic sites will work on nearly any phone. Any computer. Any browser.

So many modern javascript heavy websites that are pain to build, pain to index, pain to maintain, pain to download and consume, painful to support older devices. We got here because it was trendy...and now we've come to a full circle.
What they do is tell people that if they don’t admit to a lesser crime and accept its punishment they’ll be charged with a greater crime that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of a much longer period of time.

Given that innocence or guilt doesn’t enter into that equation at all, it sounds very much like textbook extortion.
maybe local blockchain cryptocurrencies may stay useful without turning into gambling..
How much do you two make vs the cost of your rent?

I suspect the person you're replying to may not have anywhere near the means you have.
I can read. I’m a millennial and I haven’t been scammed. Bitcoin is changing lives for the better and has allowed me and my family to join you in wealth but you seem to hate that.
This is basically Scott Adams's "Pleasure Unit Theory", which I find very plausible: http://pratie.blogspot.com/2006/04/scott-adams-pleasure-unit... . If it's true, then developing healthy food that's convenient and tasty will do a lot more good than hectoring people about their bad decisions.
You can't say it won't happen until it actually doesn't happen.

And it appears to be happening: https://www.xda-developers.com/project-treble-aosp-android-o...
where do I sign up for something like that?

How’s the pay?