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I had LASIK a little over a year ago and it turned out very well for me, due in part to having a great doctor and due in large part to all of the research that I did before having the surgery. However, one thing I emphasize to everyone considering it is that (despite the marketing) it should be considered a major elective surgery with a possibility of serious complications, and that anyone considering it should weigh the pros and cons and do their own research before deciding.

Articles such as the one here tend to gloss over patient adherence to post-surgery self-care, which is one thing I believe makes or breaks successful LASIK (in my personal experience and from what I have read). This means eye drops on schedule round the clock, antibiotic eye drops on schedule round the clock, eye protection at night for the first week, avoiding dusty conditions for however long the doctor prescribes, avoiding getting water in the eye for however long the doctor prescribes, etc etc.

I also believe that thanks to a rise in LASIK's popularity and marketing some people do not see it as being "Major surgery being performed on your eyeballs, which you need in order to see". It seems to be talked about more like Botox or Invisalign or any other "lifestyle" type of procedure when in reality it's much more serious than that. Anyone considering the surgery should research carefully beforehand, weigh the pros and cons of the surgery for themselves, and compare multiple doctors before deciding to go ahead with the procedure, same as for any major surgery.

Again, due to its popularity, there are good doctors and then there are patient mills, and from my research pre-LASIK I believe that negative outcomes are greater when someone goes to a "patient mill" vs a good doctor, possibly because the doctor does a better job, or possibly because post-surgery instructions are emphasised more at a good doctor than at a patient mill.
There's still a lot of excess energy wasted in farming for something like this that you end up with less energy in the oil than was used to make it. See the case of ethanol, which completely failed as a sustainable product and was only propped up by subsidies.
Taxing the rich would work if you want to redistribute wealth in general.

But this is a very specific effect you are after: the wealthy spending less on housing.

That is to say, suppose there is a wealthy person and they are choosing between a new yacht and a new house, you want this policy to very specifically move them from the house to the yacht because of the scarce land.
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What kind of software are you using for reading OBD?
I don't think it's a lie, I think it's just an old example. Just as the media loves using "epic fail" in a "How do you do, fellow kids?" kind of way, it's easy to assume something is still happening because it was big the last time you checked.
The ars article about it has a lot more info about why they're doing it and how it works etc.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/exclusive-plumes-ne...
I wonder how this ultimately compares to Kubernetes now that Kubernetes is supported natively but all of the "big three" cloud companies.
I will add this soon :D
Is there one which doesn't upload your habits to the cloud?
I’m not sure why you consider it a great deal of waste.

Building better models that simulate a human biological process must have some sort of payoff? It increases human knowledge, and should provide a foundation on which others can build.
That's true for the Arduinos of the world. But you need very very high volume to make designing a PCB with a complex BGA like the Pi worth your while. The industry standard is to use a system on module, and there are plenty of those from a long list of manufacturers. The Pi foundation has one too, what they call compute module.
psychiatry != psychology. Do not over generalize. Psychiatry has many problems, namely overprescribing pharmaceuticals, but is it not the same thing as "social science", it is an actual branch of medicine, and a psychiatrist has to complete medical school,psychiatric specialization, and residency.
Interesting in places like Hong Kong and Japan it seems to also hold true.
The difference between Arduino and Raspberry Pi is already one where the Arduino (at least the basic, most popular(?) model) is just a board supporting a small, highly energy efficient microcontroller that you program in C, while the Raspberry Pi (even the Zero) comparatively uses a ton of power and runs a full Linux distro. That difference is huge, and seems to already be in the two different directions you're postulating.

That said, Arduino (the company) has released more boards with faster, more powerful processors over the years, and I wonder if they'll ever give up the flagship Uno model. I sure hope not, since as bjt2n3904 mentioned, it's a great stepping stone for small, cheap, efficient microcontrollers. It's kind of like learning a programming language and realizing how that knowledge applies to most/all other programming languages, whereas so much of the RPi is abstracted behind Linux.
Perfect use case for self-hosted analytics, such as https://usefathom.com
The breadth of your second statement gives me pause, but as I'm not well versed in computational biology, I'll just ask: What are the hard problems?
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The point you make is an important distinction. It's really effortless to put down 44oz of soda but very hard to eat the sugar equivalent of ~6lbs of carrots (even if you are juicing them 6lbs is a lot of carrot juice).

http://www.sugarstacks.com/carrots.htm
Almost all of these would have been possible without a blockchain. Either through a web of trust or even simple cryptographically signed messages with timestamps stored in a normal DB. Some of these aren't even "real world use cases" like Hawaii trying to boost tourism by something-something blockchain.

Civil is a notable exception, though I'm not unconvinced that it couldn't be done without one.

In the end though, if blockchain is sexier / more marketable than signing messages with GPG or SSH keys then fine. At least we're getting higher integrity guarantees on data one way or another.
Stuff of legends. I wonder if there are any local tales about trees with beards?
“Sugar” is a broad category of chemical compounds, each of which is metabolized differently. Even if they all had the same caloric density (which they don’t), that would give you a woefully incomplete picture of their effect on your health.
Only a psychiatrist (an actual medical doctor) can prescribe medication.

A therapist is usually what people refer to as a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), who does "talk therapy". They are typically NOT MDs, so they do NOT prescribe meds, because they can't.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cbt+as+effective+as+antidepr...
20-35 min of cardio at gym. I lifted for about a year, had a wrist injury so I started doing the recumbent bike. Hold 130+ heart rate for 20-25min. I wish I had done this when I started going to the gym, this combined with audiobooks took the "chore" out of cardio.

Also treating every bit of time like it is; a precious non-renewable resource, has helped more than it's hurt :).
“What should the government tax?”, “How much should the government collect in taxes?”, and “What should the government spend money on?” are all distinct questions. “You should tax what you want less of” is a statement related almost solely to the first question; helping those without is mostly related to the third question.

No one in the US argues that taxing something reduces the amount of it that (legally) occurs.
Yes, but i want make it better :D
Tracking my Habits and weight every day. I picked 6 habits (exercise, meditation, teaching, presence, community, cleaning/oragnanizing) I wanted to focus on and used the Loop - Habits Tracker app to check my progress. For weight, I bought a WeightGurus smart scale.

Now, when I'm feeling irritable or tired I can check my app and see if I've been keeping up with the habits that "fill me up". If not, then instead of dumping my irritability on friends and family, I can focus on myself and put my energy into those habits instead.

For weight, getting daily feedback of weight and body composition helped me clearly see how tolerant my body is of carbs and over eating (not much!). It's way easier to pass on the pasta and garlic bread after seeing the results on the scale the next morning.

Common theme is more data on things I care about.
Whether the tax has value to the employer is not well defined one way or the other. I suppose it comes down to the balance between utility derived and cost as with all economic issues.
i love seeing wikipedia articles making it to the front page. no opinions, just a cool wiki article that probably most people have never heard of.
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A normal number can be computable. It is not known if sqrt(2) is normal.
Ask HN: How much impact is driving on the left for self-driving cars?
In the UK we drive on the left, and in a recent Brexit related discussion, I pointed out that the world was moving to be more integrated, we use the same iphones on all continents, we use the same facebook, and we shall use the same self-driving AI. And that doing things differently may cost us - and I am not sure how much it will, but I suspect being different to billions of other data points will be ... interesting
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The obvious difference is you have to drive a car but you dont have to do Lasik - you can just wear glasses.
if people are looking for another product that's mould-able, good for repairs and doesn't go off (but also doesn't stick posters to walls) then I've done great things with Polymorph.

It's a thermoplastic that sets solid can be fused together and reused by heating it to 62 degrees centigrade. It's also non toxic which makes it great for kids.

http://www.preproom.org/equipment/eq.aspx?eqID=5105

I always used to get it from Maplin and can't find much online, but it looks like there's a whole range of thermoplastics now available.
If someone wants to do this but a little more productive (imo), get anki (or similar flash card app) on your phone and memorize words in a foreign language that interests you
The title says "new" and the article discusses new generation. Paidleaf said the title makes an implication about overall generation, how does it do that?
Happy to recommend, but like everything on the Web, make sure to do your own research and check reviews etc. unfortunately, this isn’t in Mumbai.

http://mmjoshieyeinstitute.com
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there is sugar in absolutely everything in America. Bread, cereal, oatmeal, any drink, even canned tomatoes have sugar in them. I don't know whats american food manufacturers' obsession with putting sugar into everything. The govt should mandate a huge warning label on foods that contains more than 1% sugar in it just like they did with cigarettes. May be then manufacturers will be discouraged from supplementing nutritious ingredients with the poison called sugar.
https://i.imgur.com/zTelhsA.jpg

Awesome tool, but this is why I gave up on my 3D modeling career as a child
You can create an * alias in FastMail which will act as catch-all address. The received email will retain the original To: field so you can use rules to match them.
I guess I'm saying: such a basic mistake in terminology in the abstract doesn't bode well for the soundness of the paper in general. Being able to properly tell apart the terms "real number" and "non-computable number" is a fairly basic qualification.
Most everyday teas sold in the UK are made for use with milk. They are - or I have always found them so - a bit astringent and bitter without.
Thanks for spreading the word. I had no idea this was available, and it looks really useful.
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Agreed.

It seems to me that a reasonable test whether these ideas make sense is to ask whether they can be done without the blockchain. Most of these seem to obviously fail this test (eg the government of Hawaii is a centralized institution that clearly does not need the blockchain to mandate a change on any of the islands).
> They don't use Linux regularly so it's highly likely they just aren't used to common Linux conventions.

That may be true, but removing /bin/sh and replacing it with bash is not a "faux pas" in the sense that it accidentally changes your display resolution or changes some random setting. You could completely hose someone's system by trashing that file.

> It could be an unpaid intern that volunteered to learn how to make Debian packages.

My only comment is that Microsoft most assuredly pays their interns.
Then you've figured out part of why you're procrastinating on the taxes in the first place. Time to rename the task again: "create list of finance docs needed for taxes."
Scott Adams does this too. He goes to the gym everyday and laces up his shoes. Once that's done, it's considered a "successful day at the gym". Of course 99% of the time he stays for a workout... but yeah, the odd time he just goes home after lacing up his shoes.
> The /bin/sh stuff is due to Ubuntu symlinking dash to /bin/sh and that reacting badly with both the R shell wrapper and some Microsoft R Server features.

Which is understandable considering the switch from bash to dash as the default shell has tripped up even open source software.

> I believe we fixed the R shell wrapper features last release by explicitly requesting bash and we will be fixing the R server features next release.

So #!/bin/bash?

Doesn't seem like this was a big deal. Just an oversight fixed quickly.
I love this. It sounds bad, but lowering the bar for expectations and just thinking that showing up and doing something is a win is fantastic for building habits and discipline. I have so many friends who haven't done much with their lives for fear of screwing up, but it turns out that inaction is screwing up.

Eighty percent of life is showing up.
What is the advantage of a dot-deb package ?
Authoritative source, reliable install, signed and secure content.. can we say that ?

Can you imagine the detail and "extras" in a Microsoft legal contract? where there is money on the table? now compare that to the quality, accuracy and care shown here.

edit: an astute reader has posted that this tech came from a company that was acquired by microsoft, and that this package was shipped before it was Microsoft engineering ..
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Yeah async is difficult to reason about. I found a solution with generators in my custom programming language to keep the flow sequential (especially for UI).

An example of two ok/cancel buttons followed by some sleep (with generators too): http://dailyprog.org/~mabynogy/test/

source code (in my coffescript-like language): https://p.sicp.me/irDrC.js

generated output: https://p.sicp.me/fu6CW.js
For context: this product used to be distributed under the name Revo R Open by a company called Revolution Analytics. They renamed it Microsoft R Open, but it's basically the same product: the GNU R distribution with Intel MKL in place of BLAS, and some custom stuff around working with data too large to fit in memory. But the package has been distributed for Linux since before Microsoft bough them.
I use fasm for this very use case. It has a wonderful macro language that can be used to programmatically generate binary data on top of being able to emit instructions. It's really cool to see other languages for generating binary files as its an interesting niche to fill.
Jealous! I used to commute about 8km by bike on my first job. It was out of necessity but after 3 months I saw some serious benefits. I went out for a run and I couldn't believe the stamina I had built up without noticing

Now my commute is 32km _one way_ and I dream of being able to commute like that again :(

Obviously I recommend you keep doing it :)
You can train your eye muscles to focus at whatever distance without needing something to fixate on. This allows you to blur your vision at will simply by focusing close.
Yup. And judging by their team and strategy they are likely using a highly empirical ligand discovery platform (ie DEL) and using the (admittedly best in class) MD for guiding med chem. Taking the hard problem of drug discovery and then saying you are going to do rational design (a road riddled with dead bodies) on dynamic alloseteric sites of challenging targets is a lofty goal to put it mildly..
This sounds nice, but given that the title is "The Psychology of Dreaded Tasks", I'm saddened there's essentially no reference to psychological findings. The references to the brain in the article are completely unreferenced. They sound fine given what I know about predictive processing, but I can't really tell whether they're just a nice sounding story, or something scientific. There a lot of psychological work on procrastination (I'm not sure how much neuroscience there is, but there's bound to be some).

This post would have been less impressive but more honest without the veneer of psychological authority.
I fail to see how any employees/CEOs personal ad viewing preference would be relevant here.

Employees, CEOs and businesses in general like generating cash and/or getting paid. If an ad network being down hinders their ability to do so, then that seems pretty critical to me.
Depends on what you mean by "trust with money" - trust them to spend it on something that will give back to society? In that case, yes...I trust almost anyone more than Jeff Bezos.
I liked this Weeds episode on the land tax:
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/2/11533936/the-weeds-land-value-t...
You are volunteering that data. I can see the picture fine, they are a company that hires smart people to build out an targeted advertising business.

They don't have access to people's data. People are giving them access to their data.
100% this. Just going by as frequently and consistently as you can is so important. Even if it’s just to walk 10 minutes on a treadmill, you’ll get more comfortable with doing it every day.
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Awesome. Just ordered one. Never knew something like that existed. I've nicked myself plenty with a box cutter.
"Look at the code" is an anachronistic strategy.

Nowadays, very little of our data solely relies on our own devices, and most of the value of consumer software occurs when data is being transmitted between systems. When your data lives in the cloud, there is almost always a side-channel way to get at your private data that won't be visible in any Git repository: Just go look at it directly.

Meaning that, nowadays, if we're to live any sort of non-Luddite, Internet connected lifestyle, all we have to go on with anybody is their word. If I limited myself to services where inspecting the source code would give me what I need to know about how well my privacy will be protected, without trusting the word of any third parties, then I'd have to let go of email, telephone, and credit and debit cards (and banking in general). Plenty of other things, too, but I think those three paint the picture well enough.
They're deleting the `sh` binary and symlinking it to another binary, with zero detection of what that binary was (or was pointing to) before deletion, or what the user may have configured their system to do.

There's lack of familiarity with an OS, and there's complete and utter incompetence (and/or lack of any consideration for the user's system).

Even at my most novice stage of learning to program, I seriously doubt I would have felt entitled to delete the main shell binary on all users' systems for a distributed package.
Yup. They're solving entirely different problems.

Sugru would be great but for the really short expiry as it's just the sort of thing I'd keep by indefinitely for an unplanned repair along with glue, tape and epoxy putty.
>I don't see a problem with this. It's not hard and doesn't have to be too time consuming if you prepare things in bulk. You can listen to music or the radio while doing it. I find it quite relaxing.

If you have young kids I highly doubt this would be your attitude.
This seems identical to Meraki's (https://meraki.cisco.com/)
business model, but the enterprise space seems like a lot smarter way to push a subscription model.
If sqrt(2) is a normal number then its decimal expansion would contain infinite information.
No, it's an aggregation which is fine.
In more detail: packaging gpl and non gpl software next to each other is fine, even if your package format is a single binary.

Linking mkl into gpl software and distributing the binary would not be okay because you don't have source to mkl you can give people (mkl has binary blobs).
When you link software like this, you need to be able to distribute the combined binary under gpl, and unless mkl has changed, you can't.

It would be fine to link it and use it locally of course, just not distribute it.
I use video game locations as memory palaces. I use Pokemon to represent numbers. It takes me 10 minutes to memorize a deck. It took me two 20 minute training sessions to learn how.

I will eventually use it to learn a new language.

I read half of "Moonwalking with Einstein", worked out some exercises, and started practicing. By the next day, I could remember the order of the deck of cards!

I can't believe I went my whole school career without knowing such a valuable technique.

Can you expand on what you mean by cross-improvement?

The differences are huge. One of the first things I did was make a memory papace for my current month and set up my schedule.

Also remembering names is laughably trivial for me now.

It feels like gaining a super power in the form of memory and litteraly everyone thinks you're a genius (even though they could just as easily learn the skill)
So, mail services that actually care about your privacy. Nice. I don't even mind paying BUT...

... are any of them as usable as Google?

Or at least close. GMail's web interface is the only place where I have old email and i can actually find it by searching.

Any of these services offers both imap and a usable web interface?
Nearsightedness does not go away after 40 (presbiopia does not cancel out myopia).
Not OP, but I found this Python library for reading data from a car's OBD port that people seem to be having success with, including on the Pi: https://python-obd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yup, should have included that, and I agree that it's essential to read code to become a better programmer.

I'm actually thinking of building a tool that would automate this a little - maybe it would find some code from a well-loved OSS library and get you to mark it up in the browser. Once you're done, you could see other people's comments on it.
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That obviously isn't how it should have been done, but the real problem here is that the packaging system makes it too easy to do this in the first place.

If you use pre and post and preun and postun (rpm terminology) it almost always is a sign of a deficiency elsewhere, especially when run against files outside of your package's bailiwick.
Their equivalence can be given by a Turing machine, though, so the non-computability comes directly from the Halting Problem.

This is worth mentioning because some folks get the incorrect impression that it's not possible to write a program that, say, outputs whether two computable reals are equal to each other. It is possible! But the program might not halt.

I shouldn't trivialize the difficulty. It is a PITA. I remember my first foray into this; I wrote a program which computed sqrt(8), which worked fine, and then another program which computed sqrt(8)^2, which didn't halt. The edges are tricky.