skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I follow the reasoning, it just strikes me as facile. Surely not every town with a statistically-outlying amount of opiod drug purchases is full of addicts. Some towns have hospitals that are not part of the town's population. Or clinics. Or pain centers. You're mixing up a bunch of stats and claiming a conspiracy.

Yes, in general there's something amiss, no doubt. But in general people are married with 2.3 kids. Generalities don't public policy make.

If we're all going to go banging on the drug companies, and I'm fine with that, by the way, then let's talk about lobbying, kickbacks for doctors, marketing, and so forth. They're doing actual direct things that may be making the problem worse. Failure to follow up on anomalies like this isn't one of them. What would you have them do? Create a report, investigate each problem? Will you deny pain drugs to people who need them because other people in their town are using a pill mill? There's no remedy here that makes any sense.

What it feels to me like is an easy fishing expedition where you can put together some reports, make a few statements, bring in Big Pharma for a photo op. Maybe get some donations for the next election. It doesn't feel like any kind of process aimed at either discovering or dealing with causality. It's crap.

Worse still, you play these stupid games, you end up having discussions like we did with the cigarette companies. Most people who smoke do not get cancer. That's a true stat -- they usually die from heart disease or other causes before they live that long. Stats are fun. You can do all kinds of things with them, just about anything. (Insert long discussion here about the problems encountered when stats are used)

Sorry. I didn't mean to pick on you. Like I said, the article itself bugged me. We have a serious problem and we need to take serious action to help people. I think because it's such a serious problem, people tend to overreact in public discussion. A bit of hyperbole is fine. Personal attacks are not. Hopefully I didn't do that.
Agreed. I personally like walking because it's something I have to do anyway, I just make the walk a little longer. For me that's super easy to fit in my day without having to carve out time out to go to the gym or something.

Way back in the dinosaur era, my football coach told us to do pushups or sit ups during commercials when we watched tv. I never really got into that habit, but it's a good tip if you find yourself in the rare situation where you have to watch a commercial now a days.
I get the impression that in the US and Canada Christian Zionism isn't even exclusively an Evangelical affair, I seem to be hearing the same talking points from neo-conservative Catholics as well, like the various Rebel Media Catholics.

Christian Zionists seem perfectly happy to support Israel even to the detriment of the native Christians it displaces, but at least they can brush them off as "Mary worshippers", it's a lot harder to make that case with a straight face if you're Catholic.
There are rules for satellite designs in place and evolving to address this. You can't just leave things in GEO they must have been launched with a lifecycle plan and suitable fuel/propulsion to move to a dead parking orbit.
iOS 11 didn't break things because of API updates. It literally broke phones. I had three friends switch to Pixel because of iOS 11 bugs, like not being able to make calls. Apple told them all to upgrade to a new iPhone.
A bout of depression or a series of unfortunate events can certainly put you into a tail-spin that's difficult to get out of. I've been there; it's like you know what you need to do but something is weighing on you with such a force that it can be very difficult to fight against.

Ending up on the streets with nothing is a natural conclusion and what happens then is partly a test of character and partly luck. For many it's the end of the road.
It's kind of amazing how much more active you can be on vacation, and not even notice it. I've racked up over 25000 steps wandering leisurely around Paris in one day. By comparison, if I don't go out of my way to get some extra walking in on a regular work day, I struggle to crack 2500. Which is just kind of sad, but I sit at a desk all day, walking a few dozen feet to the water cooler or the conference room at a time.
That's an inflammatory mischarachterization of the situation in the US. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is not common enough to qualify as a "would".
The author is relating a personal experience
As a former C++ dev I saw some wonderful code base written in Ç++ and some horrible code base, as any other language. The only specifity Ç++ have in my opinion is that some features have a high learning curve and are not necessary shared with other languages. Once you mastered Ç++ it's easy to move to other languages but it's hard to do the reverse path.
Off topic, but I print research papers at work and always feel guilty about it because signs on the printers admonish you to think green... I can't properly read/think about papers otherwise.
My kids mostly use Google Docs.
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This is a Tuareg berber boy [1]. The Tuareg moved South into the Sahel in antiquity, but their traditional areas included parts of modern day Algeria and Libya.

Gaddafi was Bedouin, but their skin color varies greatly. I'll go out on a limb and assume that Gaddafi spent decades spending a lot less time outdoors in the sun than many other Bedouin would. Here is an example of a much darker Bedouin man [2]. Note, however, that the main Arabization of Libya happened after the Romans moved out.

Berber men in Morocco [3].

Ghurara Berbers in Algeria [4]

Toubou man - The Toubous traditional area stretch into Libya [5].

In case you would assume the Berbers whose main areas were in Southern Libya would not make it North, consider that Septimius Severus' hometown of Leptis Magna on the mediterranean coast was frequently raided by berbers until the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century. During Septimius rule a whole Roman legion (Legio III Augusta) was stationed there to protect against Berber raids (the legion was also been stationed in present day Algeria for a long time)

Septimius also extended roman rule to Garama - one of the main homes of the Garamantes Berber people who shared Fezzan (the South West of Libya) with the Toubou, Arabs, Berbers, Tuareg and Dawada.

Here's a Dawada man [6].

Now, I'm not an expert on the region, and I don't know the exact mix of Roman Libya and other Roman holdings in North Africa at the time, but the above is enough to at least suggest that unless you are an expert (in which case I welcome sources), there is sufficient reason to at least not jump to the conclusion that there were no dark skinned Africans in Libya in Roman times on the basis of Gadaffi - a person from an ethnic group that most certainly had a far lower presence in Libya until after Roman times.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/ingetjetadros/4603950662

[2] http://www.gotellitonthemountain.net/wp-content/uploads/2014...

[3] https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/morocco-valley-of...

[4] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HVIPE5t6qvM/TxCq_VzQpaI/AAAAAAAAA...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubou_people#/media/File:Toub...

[6] http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/148807060-tuareg-tribesman-...
Can I buy a GPU yet?
There are, but they all have at their core an idea of an object which has identity, which values don't have. You can easily model objects in value languages, but sometimes it isn't so easy to do the other way around (like Java's strings -- Smalltalk had similar problems).
I like their stance on it:

> This system is very much symmetric. A transaction that commits generates pretty much the same amount of work as a transaction that aborts. This is very elegant, but it’s not best in practice, because very few people run workloads where anywhere close to 50% of transactions abort. (Anyone who has such a workload will, I suspect, find that PostgreSQL handily outperforms the competition.) It would be better to have a system where we try to make commits cheaper, and aborts more expensive.
Backward compatibility with C semantics and tooling was fundamental for C++ success. We wouldn't be having this discussion otherwise as nobody would have used C++.

Tools are great for minor upgrades of APIs and syntax, but key to C++ was compiling with existing system headers (no, realistically you do not want to maintain your own 'fixed' version), and most importantly OS and library ABI.
How about five?

* private transactions: your identity need not be associated with donating to wikileaks or buying a sex toy

* irreversible: no chargebacks or transaction reversals

* unseizable: protection against civil forfeiture, IRS account seizures for "structuring", etc

* remittance: send any amount of funds anywhere in the world with minimum fees with no 3rd party ever having access to funds

* exit from corrupt monetary policies: see Argentina, Venezuela

But apparently these don't apply to you personally so it may be best to continue swiping your Mastercard™.
I think most people prefer to use the "do X Y times a day"; I mean take dieting, it boils down to eat less than you use - cut calories. But figuring out the how and what is both hard and boring, and not something you can drop in conversations. Instead, doing keto, primal diet, gluten-free (as a diet choice), vegetarian/vegan, and a fuckton of branded diet programs both tell you exactly what to eat (or what to not eat in some cases), instead of telling you to eat less calories and/or move more.

"Take 10K steps a day" is a lot more actionable than "Move more". It's making a chore SMART (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria)
The Harvey Houses are really fascinating. Highly recommend the book “Appetite for America” which is a biography of Harvey and history of the restaurants.
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I suggested many many years ago that Erlang was an OO language and of course the community ripped me to pieces for it :) I was very pleased to see him eventually come out on my side.
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>what Microsoft did was a major change with many, many thousands of man-hours invested into it; and many of those hours were UI/UX research, usability studies, analysis for the data phoned home by Office; does any of this sound like your typical Open Source project work? :)

No, and that's a problem!

Tell me LibreOffice isn't a MASSIVE project with thousands of man-hours invested in developing its under-the-hood features. How about finally recognizing UX design as a vital part of that effort? Or rather, its biggest flaw?

It's not as esoteric as copying "ribbons" or "reinventing the GUI". How about having buttons where the text isn't sticking 1 pixel to the left, some proper spacing to group elements belonging together and boxes that are aligned at all angles, so your eyes don't get tired after 5 seconds of reading the captions? How about sending 3 people into a real-life office environment where LibreOffice is used for a week and make detailed notes and interviews on which features are used most, are most annoying to use or most desperately missed and then rearranging the hierarchy accordingly?

I see such a massive amount of goodwill and idealism in the open source community but as soon as it's facing mainstream users it fails to recognize UX as an integral part of providing a viable alternative to commercial products. Microsoft absolutely needs competition in the Office space, I swear at them nearly every day for doing the simplest things they manage to make complicated. They can be beat. But it's not via features, it's via interface design.
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Well, for 99.8% of the world, Writer is as good as Word. And it's 100% cheaper.
Bin, Thin, or Split? Three questions to help keep user stories focused on value
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Now you have :)
In the C++ community, that OO centric coding style is called the Java style, which is completely unfair, as it really originated in C++; it was just wholeheartedly embraced (and made more usable mostly thanks to GC) by Java.
Nasty, nasty things. They've really exploded in the past ten years or so in New England. When I was a kid, you never had to worry about checking for ticks when you went outside and roamed around - you'd get chewed to death by blackflies, mosquitos and copperheads, but that's relatively harmless.

Last summer, one incident I had to pull a couple hundred off my dog after she wandered into a particularly bad section of the willowwacks. Just awful little beasties.
As far as I know, yes. Kodak Alaris sells all of the Kodak brand still photography film, paper, and chemicals, as well as selling/managing/running the Kodak Moments app/website and the Kodak photo kiosks (such as can be found at Target stores in the USA).

I personally work in the Kodak Alaris division which makes Kodak branded (and now also Alaris branded) document scanners.

EDIT: to clarify that it's still photography film that Kodak Alaris sells under the Kodak brand.
If you have an iPhone it tracks your steps automatically. I had a nice surprise when I found a years worth of tracking when I thought to check the health app.
> Instead of adding more fonts by default, they should start thinking how they can improve their UI, make it clean, discoverable and easy to use.

It's possible to do both! Not everyone in a large open source project works on the same thing. In the FOSS world, people choose what's important for them, so it's hard to say "they should" and make everyone do one specific thing.

But anyway, LibreOffice does have a design community with weekly meetings, blueprints and other activities:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design

They are working on the "Notebookbar" alternative GUI design, so if you're not happy with the design, why not join them and help out? :-)
Better marketing... which requires financial resources that D doesn't have.
What about Mac Pros or servers? It’s not crushing but it came as a surprise to a few people I’d met.
Burpees _are_ great.
I like LibreOffice, but I really wish they would put more effort into their UI, even just basic things like standardisation of controls and simple text spacing and positioning. This is taken from their video summary of 6.0:

https://imgur.com/a/LB1jt
> Aren't you all keyboard, all the time?

No. Keyboard for the things i know by heart and use every few seconds, mouse for the things that happen from time to time, and explorability for everything else.

Also, link to that video?

Edit: I think you mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

Very first thing i notice is he rides hard on the "Paste as Values" option being the one you want to use most of the time. However since he has the ribbon on top he has a gigantic paste button and needs to use the drop down every time to call it.

With normal toolbars you'd just add a "Paste as Values" button next to the normal paste button and skip the error-prone, slow dropdown process.

(I also note he has no keyboard shortcut for it.)
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How many of these do you do every day? How long?
Yes, I agree that most people respond to a planned out regimented routine. The danger of that, at least for me, is if you miss one or two, it's super easy to feel defeated and get out of the habit. For me, just extending walks I normally take (car to the the store, car to the office) makes it brainless.
Interesting blog entry but I was a bit disappointed not to hear about Solomonoff induction, as it is often taken to determine quite rigidly what is in principle learnable by induction. What's the connection of the approach mentioned in the blog post to Solomonoff induction?
> Being a C++ compiler writer (Zortech C++, Symantec C++, Digital Mars C++) I can assure you this is not true at all.

Yeah, after I wrote that I realized it wasn't quite right. C++ is designed by compiler-writer wannabes. Architecture astronauts[1] on standards committees. They think they understand how compilers should work, and that adding support for this or that should be easy. "You just need to..." is their favorite opening. I see plenty of this in distributed storage, too. "It's so simple, I'd do it myself, but it's not worth my time, you go do what I said." The C++ designers seem hung up on an abstract model of machines and compilers that's a poor match for any real machine or compiler ever, and the actual compiler writers have to bridge the gap. Thank you for your efforts, which are Herculean in an Augean-stables kind of way.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Can you really call yourself a power user if you haven’t adjusted to the new UI in over eleven (11) years?

I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that doscoverability is nonexistent... everything is there, except now everything has icons, is in logical groups, and has a keyboard shortcut (exposed through alt key). If you hover over any option you get a tooltip that often includes an illustration along with text. Much of the UI is wired up with live hover preview so you can see the effects before you commit.

When office 2007 came out, there were a lot of people who thought they added a ton of new features. Aside from live previews, hover tooltip, smartart, contextual grammar, and the new formats, there was practically nothing new. The UI made things so discoverable that people just thought there were thousands of new features.
This! If you aim for 10k steps the only thing you'd achieve is becoming really good at walking. A good weightlifting session 3x a week is about 100x better for one's health/fitness/conditioning/fat loss/whatever.
So, the "one exercise you should NEVER do"?

http://www.structurepersonalfitness.com/dont-burpees-probabl...

https://www.wellfitandfed.com/fit/burpees-read-this-and-you-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/burpees-exercise-fit...

(...) The move, which incorporates jumping, tightening, speed, and fat burning, is often touted as the one move that incorporates all your muscles - and can be done by almost anyone.

But according to Murphy, they make more sense in the military - where the exercise originated, and where the risk of a bullet coming towards you is more likely.

Murphy told Men's Health: “Burpees aren’t good for the human body. You know what burpees are good for? They originated in the military as a way of dodging bullets. They’re good for relocation.”

And although the move does burn fat, Murphy isn’t a fan - especially if your career is more office focused and less about dodging enemy fire.

He said: “Imagine you’re doing burpees and then going to your sit-down job in an office all day. It’s not good for the wrist, and the spine is not in the proper position.”
As someone who lives in the North East and loves the outdoors, hearing stories like this scares me.
When you put it like that, it doesn't sound as bad as, say, nuclear winter. 25-50 years of high debris, then slowly reducing remains. It's weird to imagine that if humanity would die out suddenly, our satellites and orbital space waste would only stay up there for what, 100 - 200 years more?
> the many people that resisted and were killed off by Lenin & Co when they took power.

Show me the scores of people taking a stand while being placed under arbitrary arrest. Yeah, sure some people resisted, a whole lot more memorable than the millions who walked with their captors straight to the grave. It's not like they didn't resist because they were bad people or something, they just had no tools to deal with any of this, who on earth did?

For the most part, you're taken by night or in transit, and they show up to dig up your trash to find your cherished letters or the wrong souvenir, you're still wondering if all the other people who were arrested did what they were accused of. What does resisting that even look like?

This was all to prove some fantasy of a man with a weak spirit and infinite capacity to look outside himself for fault; and for Lenin and Stalin it was just their ticket into town.

> a) I don't have a Marxist ideal, don't put yourself in a defensive position against an antagonist that is not there. I just don't mix up Marxist economic theory with Communism and Leninism.

I didn't say you had one, really, I said that if one were to be instituted, it seems it could only happen by force. Marx's conclusions are the fundamental source of the most inhumane behaviours of the USSR, the specifics are just gory decoration. It doesn't matter if the dissidents happen to be suppressed by genocide, imprisonment, or exile; only by suppressing the dissidents can you institute the envisioned solution. There is a considerable proportion of society which will simply not agree to have their life's work taken from them. Tell me what the important difference is between a solution which passively requires genocide, and a realized implementation of that solution.

Granted I'm underslept right now, so say whatever, I'll see it when I'm back on earth.
Wow: paypal vs 𝗉𝖺𝗒𝗉𝖺𝗅.
The amount of exertion that a brisk walk gives you will vary hugely from person to person. This is a very important point in the article:

>The Active 10 group were also told that their aim was not to amble but to get their pace up so that they would be working their heart and lungs. Prof Copeland told them: "You are aiming to walk fast enough so that you can still talk but not sing."

I think for a lot of people walking won't be enough to get to this state. In my experience you get a much bigger effect (especially on mood) if you make sure that you are getting to a point that you are almost gasping for air at least once or twice a day. Burpees, sprints, biking uphill hard, and rowing machine are good for this.
Partial application is a technique, not a language construct. Plus, you can already use partial application in JavaScript and have been able to for years.
So it means founders who have a (successful) startup experience and money don't need YC?
That must be exhausting, poor guy.
mistook for thyroid issues -- Tick bite in New York

Unfortunately it wasn't, but this should have been a major warning sign. There's still a lot of education to do. Almost the number one thing related to ticks I was taught by people from nature organisations is: if you know you had a tick bite, and you feel anything seriously out of order (of which the chances are still fairly small btw), check with a doctor; and if that doctor does not come up with anything tick-related (which happens, 10 years ago I also thought Lyme disease was the only bad thing which was spread by ticks), then get a second opinion from a doctor who has experience with most cases occurring in your area.
Like I said, I'm torn on it, and I agree with what you're saying.

But as someone who people usually come to for advice on this (as a hobbyist), I can't understate the amount of people who reads keto as "eating more fat" (instead of cutting carbs), and gluten-free as "i'll find as much crap food as i can that says 'gluten free' on it".

If they get a complete meal plan and they're disciplined it works fine, but I think at some point if you don't understand why something is a recommended diet, it's probably because your heart isn't really in it to do it, meaning you won't stick to it either way.
What they have in common is a complex compile-time static typing system.

The source of complexity isn't a mythical "culture of complexity", the complexity is there because it's inevitable if you want to implement powerful compile-time type reasoning. (And you definitely want compile-time reasoning because it's the only way to guarantee performance and correctness of programs.)

The case of Haskell and Rust proves that the issue isn't cultural, it's inherent to the problem domain.