skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of the US, it's really an infrastructure issue. Attitudes follow from that.

I grew up in the US and live in Europe now, and I bike or walk everywhere. The difference is of course staggering.

Here, biking is just something ordinary people do to get around, and it doesn't require any special equipment or make any kind of statement. In the US, biking is primarily associated with recreation and a specific subculture.

In the US case, changing infrastructure priorities and urban planning practices will go a long way toward alleviating the problem.
Practice self love.. (very good to do, but ) it made me think, doesn’t this all have much to do with not being able to impress oneself anymore?
Nobody sees how much you are invested into your day to day work. They just see bunch of commits / builds and the little gray or green presence indicator on your messenger app. But if you are struggling for 3 days x 10 hours per day to fix a bug, chances are high that nobody will realize this.

This is possibly the biggest (theoretical) feature for me. I want to be judged in results produced, not work done. In practice, even remote-friendly places seem to want (at least) daily check ins, and a lot of visibility about how people are working, not just what they manage to build.
Read a lot of security papers, test commonly known vulnerabilities and techniques, etc.

Here's the backstory on Meltdown specifically: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-...
Consider changing "mommies" and "daddies" to "mothers" and "fathers".
Easy steps to modernize your C++ code
I run server 2016 and I can run all my dev tools. VS Code, VS 20x, SSMS, MySQL, PostGres, Xamarin.

On top of that, I can run Rome 2 Total War which is not a simple game. It runs great.
So the hypothesis is that every website looks the same thanks to Google yet, at the same time, nobody can figure out how to use these identical websites so everyone gets on the phone to do business.

That's not matched my personal experience, to say the least
> haven't we moved on from accepting such weak excuses?

Perhaps I worded that poorly. I had hoped that saying "I am not at all arguing that Apple is right to do this" made clear that I didn't intend that as an "excuse"; rather as "context".
There are a few startups/companies that specialize in going to poor countries and using lens attachments on cell phones to do eye exams. They send in people who aren't doctors, take a picture of the eye, and email/upload the pictures to doctors who can analyze it for issues.

IIRC, in those situations, the problem isn't the accessibility to a doctor, but rather the accessibility to someone who has a device capable of imaging the eye. I imagine this would be the same. Replacing the doctor with an AI doesn't really solve the problem.
I mean, it's full of academic journals such as Zero Hedge in its references.

But I didn't read it as advocating a long vol strategy as pointing out the meta problem with short vol. Someone who has thought and written much deeper on similar issues is Elie Ayache. But Ayache is full on unreadable and kind of aims for a "Derrida of finance" role.

This note, in contrast, was very well written.
It's also entirely possible that he/she was mislead about what the job entailed. /r/recruitinghell comes to mind.
> if you ignore electronics.

And materials science.
And medical science.
And probably several other things I'm not thinking of right now.

The truth is that the electronics you mentioned are a force multiplier. It's like saying 4,000 years ago, we had everything we had in the immediate pre-renaissance. The math was the enabler that gave us the ability to exceed what we had.

Electronics (and the things that go along with it, such as the software to run it) are what allow us to move vast swaths of other tech forward.

We are still limited by physics, and we won't ever find ways to circumvent physics, but we'll find ways to not have to circumvent physics.
>AI will not fix your healthcare system

You've moved the goalposts so much that I'm not sure what your point is anymore. Was it just to boast about Spain?
This was a very thoughtful and well-reasoned criticism of a political stance I generally sympathize with. Kudos.
This happens every time I go to Japan Society in NYC to see an old Japanese film.

I guess it's because it takes effort to get some of those films in good quality or because someone that represents the restoration company is sometimes present, but I don't understand why we're clapping after seeing Yojimbo or some other common film that has been easily available in HD for quite a long time.

Anyway, "Americans clapping after X" has been a meme for some time.
But what if I want to target all the engines, including future ones? The compiler could compile separate versions for each engine, I guess, and you could choose which one to load at runtime based on the UserAgent string ... but even then everyone would have to recompile their websites every time a new browser version comes out.

The advantage of WebAssembly is supposed to be (I think) that it's simpler and will give more consistency between browsers, so browser behaviour will be less surprising, and you can thus get away with compiling a single version.

And if you take this approach of compiling JavaScript to a simple and consistent subset of JavaScript that can be optimized similarly in all engines, you'd end up more or less targeting asm.js, the predecessor to WebAssembly. :)
Not sure if it helps, but have a look at Swagger/OpenAPI if you haven't already.
> Don't some e-Book readers disallow you from reading things that you didn't download from them (or they don't support epub)?

If theory 1 is true, then the readers without this user hostile approach will thrive. Obviously pirates don't care for DRM locked devices.

> But you also can't migrate your old library to the new one, which is the main problem with lock-in (the issue isn't that you physically cannot switch away, it's that you cannot switch away without losing things that you've bought into).

My point was mental, not physical. People might naturally just drop old stuff for new shiny things. If things appear plentiful compared to the old ways, this attitude is easier to adopt. Do you regret throwing away your coffee cup in the morning?
How is it deserving of time and discussion? It's universally horrible. >75% of prostitutes are illegal immigrant victims of human trafficking while the remaining use it as a means of supporting their drug habits and abhorrent lifestyles.

Even with legalization of drugs and prostitution, there will still be those that live on the fringes of society and lack basic access to social support structures, and with legalization then it only increases the size of the fringe due to the debilitating physical and psychological effects of drug use and promiscuity.

There's a reason it's illegal and not because of racism, sexism, or other nonsensical scapegoats.
Though I disagree with you I gave you an upvote -- the right way for people to disagree is to comment, so thank you for adding that edit and alerting me to the downvoting.

I agree that in a country the size of russia the counterrevolutionary invasion was, in a sense, trivial (as had been the counterrevolutionary invation of revolutionary France). However it had various long term consequences in terms of policy, resentment, pride etc which, sad to say, do effect politics in international relations today as well.

However on the subject of the invasion itself, there were about 150K invaders of various nationalities (about 100K in the north, of which the US personnel was about 10%). However US materiel support was substantial, as they had barely entered WWI and had plenty to supply. in addition the blosheviks -- not particularly well organized or rational) were quite distracted by this force. You can see from the treaty of Brest-Lutovsk that they were quite eager to be shed of foreign obligations, wanting to consolidate domestic control. I don't claim the invasion was the cause of the famine, nor do I believe the bolsheviks would have been competent to deal with it without the invasion, but it has a significant distractor as you can see from their records.

But to present the article as the US being the rescuing heros without mentioning their bloody opposition in the years immediately leading up to the famine I do consider rediculous.
I think you're underestimating how many men avoid prostitution purely due to fear of contracting disease. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (outside of Reno/Vegas) and the prostitutes operate without pimps. There are far fewer ethical concerns in some places than you imply.
> code of conduct saying don't be a asshole

That's a disingenuous summarization, you're dropping all of the important details to arrive at a platitude. It's akin to claiming "govern well" is an accurate summarization of the Republican party platform.
Well consider the extreme history absurdism going on here, that is being upvoted.

A very small contingent of US soldiers is involved in an allied invasion of Russia. Mostly those US soldiers do nothing, two hundred die (half from disease), they go home a very short time later having done almost nothing at all in terms of conflict. Then in this thread, that is being blamed for the forced Communist famine deaths of millions of Russians and Ukrainians.

It's the ultimate combination of Communism apologism (apologizing for the mass genocide and slaughter of millions of people under Lenin's policies), and blame America for everything'ism. And all of that is happening in the thread for an article that is about how Americans altruistically contributed historically vast quantities of food to keep millions of other people from starving to death.
I find the following helps:

- Changing my routine seems to kick off my ability to focus

- I have a sit-stand desk. Using it standing seems to help my focus, but changing between sitting and standing can bump my motivation.

- For clients starting and stopping a timer helps me focus.

- For clients and my own projects I use Pivotal Tracker to order tasks. It helps me break stuff down into smaller parts and to keep track of what I'm doing and helps me to avoid wondering what to do. I use it even though clients have their own project management solutions, I only use it for what I'm doing.

- I've never found rewards/punishments to be particularly effective.

- Unfortunately (because I'm from the North of England) I find that the better the weather the more motivation I have for just about everything.

edit I forgot to mention, fasting helps me focus too, even for long periods. Could just be the change of routine.

What I will say is that I've not cured what sounds very much like what you suffer from, just generated ways of dealing with it, more or less.
what about paulg onlisp and leveraging nested macros ?

what about kay vpri efforts to reduce a full system to 100K (OMeta)
Oh man, if only! There are soooo many amazing Elm devs out there.

I'm excited for Elm Europe in large part so I can finally meet more of them in person!
Hey Joemi, Benchoff here. Glad to see my work is at least noticed.

To respond to your calls of clickbait, yes, I do have a habit of writing articles that are picked up on Hacker News. I see that you have submitted a total of zero items to HN, how about submitting a few other articles from Hackaday (sparing myself, of course) to HN? I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
Type 1 diabetes is a genetic, autoimmune disease in which the the pancreas' ability to produce insulin is destroyed. Sadly, a little cardio won't help.
Just posted a couple of minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16416162
From what I read, your experience must have to do with the specific environments you were working on. Lots of companies that had embraced the remote first culture (GitLab[1], Automattic to name a few) have overcome those issues and you will hear lots of happy testimonials from their employees.

The fact though is that remote working will work for some people but will completely fail with others.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-GitLab-EI_IE12...
Biology is going from top-down where we have an incredibly complicated system that we need to dissect and reduce down to workable fundamental parts.

The additional problem there is biology (and the underlying physics) is currently in a state where the known-unknowns continue to increase at an exponential rate. Exploration to reduce physical/biological systems into workable parts continue to reveal even further constituent sub-systems, which in turn opens up entire new fields of research and new unknowns to be explored (seemingly ad infinitum).
The Staggering Scale of China's Belt and Road Initiative – Axios
1. Piracy is rampant, so paper books never had much of a chance in China. Paper books are still cheaper than the ebook versions because of piracy; official books bought at the xinhua book store can be plenty expensive, but no one buys there.

2. China still uses more cash on a percentage basis than the USA and most western countries. China basically skipped credit cards. I still prefer the new UnionPay tap-to-pay NFC cards, much better than scanning a QR code on your phone.
Intel Rolls Out New 3D NAND SSDs – InsideHPC
Core Spotlight still broken on macOS 10.13
Honest question: how do you know? There doesn't seem to be any public voting data available. Is this just an impression you have?
It's more prevalent at the IT department and they are a complete disaster. Boatloads of architects and managers not doing any work but farming everything to offshore developers. I think in my department it started with the opening of an office in India.
Pretty cool to see those photos. I used to work at a company that makes fundus cameras that take those kinds of pictures.
Polarity is looking for a senior software engineer specializing in Node.js
Most fertilized human eggs don't result in a pregnancy, they either don't implant in the uterus or they spontaneously abort early on. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spontaneous_abortion_in_humans
This.

Full restaurants in Italy are a deafening cacophony. It's an arms race amongst people already accustomed to yelling at eachother on a daily basis.
Can you elaborate on how JS is more intuitive than, say, Rust? I can give a simple counter example - make a JS object, assign another object as a key, copy it three times into a list (without deepcopy) and modify the object inside. Suddenly you've modified all three objects. Not intuitive at all, and easily missed if you're a less experienced developer. Rust would stop you in your tracks and force you to explicitly say that you want that behaviour.
I like the idea of sharing clean URL's. Actually, I use the Pure URL add-on[0] for Firefox which also removes garbage such as e-mail campaign tracking values, both for the purpose of sharing and since I prefer seeing/visiting clean URL's myself as well.

The Chrome implementation using the canonical URL has some edge cases which may be useful to handle, like adding the fragment which isn't part of the canonical URL for the resource yet can be useful to share. Given that this change is only for the share dialog and not for copying from the URL bar, that doesn't seem like a huge problem though.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pure-url/
I know of AfreecaTV that launched in 2005, and Twitch (Justin.tv) which launched in 2007. But what was the pioneering China platform?
I never heard of any before about 20 years ago when speech codes started appearing on campuses. I've been going to conferences for 40 years, and the first time I had to sign a CoC for one was last year.

It was simply if you behaved badly, you were asked to leave. Nobody needed a definition of rude behavior.
If they sold used cars to support their "abhorrent lifestyle," would that then make used cars sales as horrible as prostitution?
It sounds you are building something like Noon Pacific (https://noonpacific.com/)?
A social urge to show appreciation, even when the intended recipients couldn't ever possibly hear it. I've mostly seen it in cases where excitement was already high, like the first night of a highly-anticipated movie, where something exceptionally amusing just happened.

People sometimes express emotion in ways that don't really make sense.
Takeaways:
-the federal government is self funding.
(my opinion: we should take advantage of this by lowering taxes or spending more)

- taxes create demand for money but don't fund government.

- 'money' doesn't exist till the federal gov spends it into existence

- interest rates are determined exogenously by the fed.

- large deficits tend to drive down , not up, interest rates because of the excess reserves created.
Compared to GGP's approach of having a human do it, this is still fast.

Also not sure why you'd want to share a link to a page where all the images and links are broken in the first place.
Did the Tesla/starman have any sensors/camera/telemetry objects on board? Or was it literally just space litter (I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, but if it’s not reporting anything, why go to all that for a device in space that doesn’t report anything at all(aside from a successful falcon launch))
It seems to me that treatment for STDs, and knowing whether someone "might have an STD", are very different problems, that happen to be currently solved by the same solutions.

If you could build a whitelist of known benign strains of bacteria and viruses, and then create a device that tests your urine and dings whenever it detects things that are (positive match) bacterial antibodies or viral capsids, but that aren't (negative match) in its whitelist, that seems like it'd do a lot to help people.
> Looking at the design, there is no way you could argue that apple doesn't have the time or chops to make a repairable device

Well, it was delayed. So it could be argued that they didn't have time to do that.
It is good at neither. Union types and sum types are veeery different from each other.
Sovereign debt is only risk-free relative to the issuing government's continued existence.

The historical average duration of empires, republics, dynasties, and monarchies is 349 years. The assumptions we make about financial markets in the developed world seem to completely ignore political factors, as if issuing governments or unions that exist today will always exist - as if history has somehow ended.

When you buy a 30y US Treasury bond at auction, you are getting paid 3.13% to assume that between years 231 and 261, representing 8.6% of the average lifespan of empires, no existentially threatening political upheaval will occur in the United States.

Seeing the political division of the populace in the 2016 election, I wonder if this is a prudent assumption.
>but there's a significant benefit to expanded access.

I agree that expanded access to diagnostic tools is great, but access to diagnostic tools is only part of the problem. Access to care following your diagnosis is just as, if not more, important.

What are you going to do after this kiosk tells you that you have heart disease? The proper answer is: go see your doctor. But if you're someone who is in a situation where you don't have access to a family doctor, your situation has not improved.
We should be more wary about premature optimizations, like in the article where caching in the original code made it slower! Always measure! Write naive code and measure, the JavaScript engines are very good at optimization, especially V8 and the others are catching up.

However when I do optimize JavaScript code I often get 10-100x performance. Usually by writing better algorithms. Eg no "black magic". So the original code in the article is not that bad, considering he "only" got 4x performance.

Moving to another programming language / WASM for less then 2x performance is not worth it - unless you hate JavaScript.
This is why I love to escape for 1-2 weeks every 3-6 months to go camping and hiking, preferably around Olympic National Park. It's like a complete refresh except you get back from it and there's a serious chance of post-camping depression. Just don't listen to Lord Hurons Meet Me in the Woods for a few months.
In my case, it helps to stick to habits. Habits that are device, cloths and location specific.

The biggest one is probably my computer at home. It only exists for gaming. When I'm inside my gaming room to enjoy a gaming session, nothing else gets close to me and I forget about everything as soon I step into this room.

Another thing is, that I have cloths to relax, to go out and to go to work. As soon I change into my plain white shirt with collar, my brain probably switches to work mode.

The third is similar to the first habit. Going to work and being there is also a 'swtich' and I can concentrate.

I was a freelancer too and I had a hard time to work at home. My computer was always just a room away and just going in there for a 'short' gaming session was too easy.

So basically this is my advice: Go and buy a different computer than the one for gaming, shower in the morning and change into your business attire. Leave the house and go somewhere boring and quiet. The last part is the hardest since everything gets interesting depending on how much you have to overcome your habit. Your brain tries to fill your enjoyable habits with new enjoyable habits, instead of the 'boring' work.
This is probably why so many smoke - it creates a enjoyable habit of doing 'nothing', which is better than working.

I hope this helps a bit. :-)
Movandi, Keysight Collaborate on 5G MmWave – EE Times
The fundamental problem I have with the premise, is that the US soldiers played no role in the actual famine and its causes. The US role in that conflict was as glorified guard duty.

Lenin's policy of prodrazvyorstka, was not caused by the small US involvement in that conflict. Lenin's land & production seizure policies were also not caused by US supplies to the allies in WW1.

"Unlike his Allied counterparts, General Graves believed their mission in Siberia was to provide protection for American-supplied property and to help the Czechoslovak Legion evacuate Russia, and that it did not include fighting against the Bolsheviks. Repeatedly calling for restraint, Graves often clashed with commanders of British, French and Japanese forces, who also had troops in the region and who wanted him to take a more active part in the military intervention in Siberia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_S...
>>> Income is a more important factor in rating men's attractiveness compared to women.

>>> I don't understand whats patriarchal about my comment, care to elaborate

I mean seriously, the answer is in your own comment.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes.

His own comment implies income is an important factor to attractiveness for men then asks why is that a patriarchal thing. I'm not being patronising but it's obvious that it's expected for the man to be the bread winner which is patriarchal in nature. The man doesn't have to be the bread winner.

Why isn't a high income woman attractive?
It’s not actually risk free. It’s considered risk free by the markets right now. If the US treasury bonds Lost their status as risk-free, all valuation models would collapse and the markets would have to move/rush to some other instrument that could be considered risk-free. For example, black-scholes which values options requires the concept of a risk-free asset.

Also, it’s not guaranteed profits if the interest rate were negative, which happened during the financial crisis. As well, real interest rates, vs inflation, are negative. So it depends on your perspective.
that way it is harder for anyone to catch up to him