skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found some of the stoic teachings to be really helpful (A Guide to the Good Life is awesome). Good to realize that I'd be fine if my company cratered, I'm just thankful to be on the journey, building awesome shit, and learning as much as I can. As some others have mentioned here, I've been fortunate to experience psilocybin as well which really impacted the way I look at the world and gave me a much deeper appreciation for everything good in my life.

I also picked up photography and love being humbled by how great some people are at it, and it relaxes me knowing that it's something I can improve on yet never really care about being exceptional at.

Finally, I spend a lot of time observing "successful" people (since I realized a lot of my mental health is affected by ambition), and when you actually dig into the lives of the people so many of us look up to, there's a lot of things in their lives that are either undesirable, or not any more figured out than most of us have it. Some of them are downright awful people. So, that helps in a weird way.

It's a daily effort to stay mentally healthy, one that I doubt will go away, so it's something I try to work on. I know I have it easy though since I don't have major depression or other challenges.
Freedom of speech is not a binary thing. No country in the world has absolute freedom of speech. However most EU member states are among the most free in the world (see e.g. https://rsf.org/en/ranking).
In order of importance, everyday :
- Sleep
- Exercize
- Breathe
- Keep a non work routine (kids, family, etc)

Regularly
- Keep a non work hobby (something manual, non digital for me)
- Read fiction
- Journal
- Checkin with my therapist every 6 weeks
There are other prohibitive problems with this idea.

What happens if someone dies or the private key is otherwise lost?

What if the private key is stolen and the thief uses it to authorize a dirt-cheap sale to themselves?

What happens if the item is sold but the "token" is accidentally (or deliberately) sent to the wrong recipient?

What happens if the courts determine that someone else is legally entitled to the work in question (e.g. via divorce judgement) but the current owner destroys the private key out of spite?

Additionally, this system does not solve any practical problems. If I am a collector of stolen art, I don't really care about some ephemeral blockchain token, all I really care about is being in possession of rare art that I can personally admire.

Finally, it is impossible to generate a reproducible hash based on a physical object, so there is nothing preventing someone from keeping the original and selling off a fake in its place, forever corrupting the supposed chain of trust established by the artist.
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He did by creating MINIX. His loss to Linux was not from an unwillingness to get his hands dirty and build something.
That's not how people typically evaluate companies.

The "standard" way to evaluate a company is to take the price of the stock, and divide by the profits. There are some details like "historical PE" vs "forward-looking PE", but that's the basic metric.

The PE ratio represents the number of years it'd take for a company to make back the price you paid. And for most people, PE of 15 to 25 (15 years to 25 years of profits) to make back their market-cap is reasonable. Some companies like Amazon have PE-ratios over 100, as they're considered to be in "growth mode".

Tesla never has made a profit however, so its PE ratio is negative, at least historically. So evaluations are most likely based on expectations of future profits. Assuming Tesla is "worth it" at $55 Billion market cap or so, then Tesla needs $2.2 billion of consistent PROFIT / year (not revenue) to get to ~25 PE ratio.

Anyway, that's analysis from just one metric. There are other metrics out there, but I think PE ratio is the most common, and one of the simpler metrics to understand.
I don't want solar to be the enemy. I just wanted to point out that its not quite so simple and that 'nuclear waste' is a far smaller problem then people realize.

http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/21/are-we-h...
Free services accompanied by the relaxing of penalties on habitual rule breakers (elimination of background checks, injection sites with free supplies, regular vacation of all misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors, limiting police patrols, obstruction of DEA and ICE) encourages more people to move in from elsewhere. Measures that may have accommodated the original homeless population fall apart with the massive influx, and the street environment for the local lower and middle class worsens with all the new opportunists.
Don't worry, the American Enterprise Institute and other business groups have produced plenty of educational material on how unions work.
They don't have an advertising dept. They have a small marketing team.
I tried Psychedelics for my depression, and my roommate has been self medicating similarly. I think they can help - but they're going to make the current opioid epidemic look like child's play. I have very carefully limited my intake - and I'm finding that I don't like a lot of what I've found. I'm definitely finding my roommate is becoming a worse person, and well on the way to all of the ugly things that we associate with drug use.
Here's a project I started at the end of last year, kinda forgot about, and with some free time, brought it back to life and released it.

Antiweather makes two requests to the Dark Sky API, one in a "home" location, and the other at the exact opposite point on Earth.

Opposite locations around the equator often have similar temperatures, but it's interesting to see the differences in temperature and conditions at this point in the year on the North Pole and South Poles. The antipode for the majority of populated places on Earth ends up in the middle of one of the oceans, but fortunately Dark Sky will return current conditions and a forecast for any location.
Usage based pricing seems very misplaced for a self hosted solution. Questions of enforceability aside (all I need to do is remove the telemetry code to get it free), the issue is that usage based pricing is meant to scale your revenue alongside costs. When your customer is hosting the infrastructure, you have the same costs regardless how many requests they make, so as a customer, it doesn’t feel right to pay you for each request that my own servers are solving.

A competitor can easily undercut you here. I would also be interested in hearing of any other company that charges per-request for self hosted software, because it’s certainly not a model I’ve heard. Typically the way to approach this is a licensing fee for running the software self-hosted.
> [4] I'm honestly not sure that Windows 10 boots faster from an SSD than XP from an HDD.

Win 10 LTSB on HDD would leave XP on SSD dead in the water, I believe - the sheer amount of crap that Windows has fed into the consumer and even the professional Windows editions, though, is unbelievable.
This is how I understood the use for panics:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44504354/should-i-use-pa...

> You should assume that a panic will be immediately fatal, for
> the entire program, or at the very least for the current
> goroutine. Ask yourself "when this happens, should
> the application immediately crash?" If yes, use a panic;
> otherwise, use an error.

In Java, say, exceptions are the standard for raising a normal error. A class of those exceptions are runtime errors which are equivalent of "panics". Yes you can handle them, but they denote a problem with the program that can't be solved by the interpreter (divide by zero error, etc)
GitLab do all their development in the open on their own platform (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce), I think there is enough dog food being eaten.

It doesn't make much sense to put a thing for people who don't use GitLab on the thing they don't use.
I think you might be looking at the WebGL thing someone posted in the comments?
It really seems like you do mean to make this political. GP was talking about accusations of Tesla doing something illegal. You came in and brought up political parties and the value of unions, making the discussion much more political.

To answer your question, obviously there are both pros and cons to unions (as with basically all political issues). If unionization costs jobs, and the left considers unionization a victory, it must mean that they value the other benefits gained from unionization (e.g. improved working conditions) more than the jobs lost from it.
I am not going to risk it at this point. Both involve cutting through the epithilium to get at the cornea underneath, and in my case some of the cells that pump moisture through the epithilium were damaged or destroyed, so it's even more of a risk than for most people.
I see a therapist regularly, and starting that habit was the best thing I've ever done for myself. Also, weightlifting and running are both essential to me feeling my best.
> Even with a tariff on panels, the cost of a solar installation, with incentives, is still significantly cheaper than grid electricity.

That all depends on where you live. I could cover my house with panels and not have enough in the winter. It would work great in the summer.

It also depends on how your utility bills. During the spring and fall where my bill is the lowest (low usage of heat or a/c) half of my bill is just for being connected to the grid. Since I can't ditch the grid because I need it in the winter, solar doesn't come close to paying for itself in my situation. Power is under 7 cents/kwh, but there is a nearly $40 a month fee for being hooked up to the grid.

That said, it is still exciting to see the price come down. I'll likely get a few panels just so I have a little juice when the grid is down.
Yeah, BMI is not always relevant if you ignore the body fat percentage.
No, the company has been operating in the red forever. He is bowing to the public markets to make the company's life easier. It was never going to die if he kept these employees.
But when working with reals we normally don't bother with computability. Whereas with computable numbers you don't even have anything else really.
So I agree with everyone who says if you are having an issue, or a struggle, you should see a mental health professional. First and foremost, get the help you need to get your life stable.

But as a secondary aside, there has been an awful lot of talk about mental health on this forum as of late. I hear about it daily in articles. You see increasing rates of suicide. People I talk to are generally miserable. Some more than others, but the trend seems to be a general dissatisfaction with life.

Does anyone else think about this? It has been on my mind for sometime. I have a feeling that there is something about the way our society, culture, technology is changing that does not jive with our biology. Maybe the level of interconnectedness that is causing our competitive nature to make us feel like perpetual failures. Maybe its the technological isolation or lack of social interaction and contact with other people. Maybe its the economy, lack of faith in our future economic wellbeing. What do you guys think?

Personally I feel a constant tension, being constantly pinged by my devices "so and so just got a house"... "so and so is on vacation"... "see what so and so is doing, thats more interesting than what you are doing".... "so and so just got promoted to a more prestigious title than you"... and then you want to say screw that, I'm unplugging, but everyone else is plugged in, and stuck, so when are you ever going to interact with them otherwise?
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Mine (not even in a very large city) has a Powerwall display right inside the front door.
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This is not a necessary requirement for a union. It is quite possible to charter a union which does not make any seniority expectations of their employer.

You can, for instance form a union, whose sole purpose is bargaining for pay bands in a company with well-defined job roles. You can form a union that only fights 'arbitrary' dismissal of employees for their political views. You can form a union that only negotiates working conditions, and overtime rules and rates.

Pointing at the worst example of a union, and claiming that they are fundamentally broken is like me pointing at the worst employer you can imagine, and claiming that corporations are fundamentally broken.

Unions are democratic organizations, employers are authoritarian ones. You can decide what direction your union should go.
But deletion hasn’t been available (and most “deletion” request functions have been in response to legal and governmental pressure already) and I recall seeing multiple stories about “deleted” material not being deleted.

Gdpr is a response to the prior attempts to let the industry “self regulate” not actually doing anything.

Does it over regulate? Personally I don’t think so - people talk about the complexity but that’s mostly due to the need to be absolutely explicit everywhere, and need to ensure that there aren’t loophole that can be abused by some company with enough lawyers.
Will you point out where it says that? I really did find this paper unusually cryptic about concrete takeaways.

Table 2 suggests that to match the performance of studies 3 and 4 (done by other researchers), which each gave 600 mg of caffeine, they were able to cut the dosage down to 500 mg and 400 mg respectively. But it's not clear to me that they're recommending that as the overall optimum, and that's the only place I'm finding "600" in the paper.
I'm not a huge Elon fan, but he is pretty unique when it comes to rich people. Most people in his position would invest their money wisely and live off it forever. Instead he put everything he had into several moonshots.

Society could use a couple more people like him.
Can you explain why the decision is poor? Because it results in fewer jobs (but still the same number of jobs Tesla had in early 2018)? Is number of jobs the only metric that determines whether a decision is good or bad? If so that would lead to an entire system of economics that is very different from the one economists know. So if you hold the secret to this vast trove of knowledge, you would be doing a disservice to humanity by not sharing your wisdom.
Here's an example using your own site.

Open the console in an empty Chrome window and paste this:

fetch('https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/feed.xml')
.then(response => response.text())
.then(str => console.log(str))

You'll get your RSS feed, no CORS tricks required.
SSRIs to numb the depression and benzos to manage the panic attacks. Coffee to manage insomnia, and alcohol for socializing. Unfortunately despite trying 6 therapists with many techniques including CBT, drugs are the only effective way for me.
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No idea if you're right or not, would you mind to elaborate?
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They are not in financial trouble. Most people are only skeptical if they can do it without raising capital.

However everybody agrees that they both have many costumers waiting and would be able to raise capital.

Nobody believes that Tesla is in real real serious troupe.
Are you factoring in the price of your financing?

I very often see that ignored. You either need to include financing costs, or opportunity costs. Spending e.g. $20k isn't free, either you don't have it and need to borrow, or you do and you need to forgo putting it in the S&P500 and getting 7% on it long-term inflation adjusted, which is about $120 a month that you could spend on electricity. For comparison, the average US home uses 900 kWh per month, which is about $90 at average electricity prices in the US.

You can argue the numbers (e.g. 'you're wrong, the S&P500 has lower or higher returns' or 'I paid just 10k, not 20k of my own money'), I'd agree, but you need to consider everything. I find most calculations are often way too generous and omit important aspects.

That's not a reason to not do it, btw... I'd say, if you're underperforming the S&P500 by a little bit while going 100% green on your consumption, that's terrific. But you'd have to admit it's more than just a financial story.

The other side of the story is that you likely aren't consuming your own energy. i.e., you're not paying for storage or expensive peaker-plant backup capacity. If you were the only consumer, or if all consumers were like you, your panels alone would not be sufficient. In other words, there's a cost that has to be paid, and someone else is paying it now. At some point utilities are going to pay you 4-5c per kWh that you put back into the system, and charge you 17c. There is no reason to believe today's feed in tariffs will continue indefinitely. So whatever calculations you make today may not fly in the future, unless you buy your own storage or excess capacity, but then you're not going to get anywhere near the 4-5c figure.

I'm a big believer in solar and I'd love for us to commit more resources, even if it increases prices, it's too important. But we also tend to overstate how cheap everything has become, the narrative on solar is too positive, often portraying solar as if it's ideologically-neutral and financially-interesting when reality iis the opposite. We're still only at 1% of total energy production and we're subsidising it up the wazoo from state and federal incentives to utilities paying retail prices for your energy, and it's still not particularly interesting once you figure in opportunity costs. We still have a long way to go.
> I don't know where you get that idea from

Virtually every union in the US

> its not my experience working as an M&P grade in a unionised company in the UK.

Yeah. Tesla isn't based in the UK, nor are the wroker in question here.
I personally wish there were more regulations on these. They are a complete nuisance. Santa Monica has tried to create more laws surrounding these, but the cops never enforce the rules.

Walking around sidewalks with younger kids is now dangerous from the groups of teenagers riding on these with little concern. In the same afternoon I saw a young kid get hit by a car for not following traffic rules. While its required to wear a helmet in SM no one was. These things are littered everywhere in paths just lying on the ground.

I get they are great and if we could rely on the people or the company to enforce the laws and make it a better experience I'd be in favor of them because they are convenient. I just don't believe that will happen.
"shared source" doesn't let you use the code yourself. CC-NC gives you the exact same rights to use/modify/redistribute that you got the code under.

The OSI approves licenses with various restrictions on them, such as displaying authorship, or reciprocation, or patent grants. I haven't seen any reason to categorize a noncommercial restriction as fundamentally different. The noncommercial clause is a huge issue because of how vague it is, but that's a different topic entirely.

Also, using the OSI list as the ultimate reference isn't appropriate in the first place. They only approve licenses that are designed for software. I think almost everyone would agree that CC-BY and GFDL are open source licenses, despite them not being on that list.
> We could have lived in a way performant world, if people would stop horrifying beginners about difficulties of C++/Rust/...

You can't get around the fact that languages like Python and JavaScript are better suited for beginners. From their perspective, it should be horrifying. At least until they properly learn it.
Could you show us one of these "random" reals?

There is a simple algorithm for generating every possible decimal number:

x.0
x.1
x.2
...
x.01
x.02
...
x.10
x.11
x.12
...
x.20
x.21
...
x.30
x.31
...
x.99
x.001
x.002
...

In binary, it's even simpler; you just generate every permutation of bits.
I think you are missing the point here?

Everyone is a server is pretty much the opposite of "serverless". The article is just illustrating the migration path from traditional web assets from centralized servers and how you can use them in the distributed web.

A real life use case would be something like:

You want to build a financial tracking app in the distributed web. But your bank is the central source for your data. With the method shown in the article you could request the api endpoint from bank.com inside your p2p/Beaker app then load that data into local storage/a dat archive/memory and use it to track your data. Think mint but without giving your bank credentials to a 3rd party.
I don't. I'm simply restating what seems to be general consensus amongst both users and mental health professionals. Actual data is hard to come by, since actual research has only recently begun to happen.

At this point though, any assertion that psychedelics cause anything more than a very slight increase in the background rates of diseases like schizophrenia would need a serious amount of evidence to back it up. Psychedelic use is common; something like 15—20% of the American population tries them in their life. And the general understanding of diseases like schizophrenia right now involves actual structural changes that simply aren't plausible consequences of infrequent psychedelic use. I won't speak toward long-term, frequent use, but by all the evidence I've personally seen, LSD in particular is extraordinarily safe for the population of people without a family history of schizophrenia.

I'd also like to point out that the original assertion—that psychedelics trigger psychotic breaks—itself doesn't come along with that much in the way of evidence. The original notion came about in the '70s when mental health professionals started seeing a higher proportion of their patents coming in after having tried psychedelics. I'm not sure if hard data was collected (or at least, I haven't been able to find any), but the most straightforward explanation for this is that this likely simply mirrored the increase in the background rate of people using psychedelics. If the background rate went from 1:10 to 2:10, then you'd expect that the number of people coming in with mental health issues will show a doubling in psychedelic usage rates. And in the fifty years since then, I've not seen much additional evidence for a causal link between the two.
Perhaps it's a cultural difference? Every shoe store I've been to in my whole life is like the parent poster mentioned: there's one pair of each model on display behind glass, and the salesperson goes to the back to get the boxes in your size.
That's just, like your opinion man. I personally find Blender to have the best out of all of the 3dcc applications out there. Just because you haven't taken the time to learn how to use it, doesn't make it the worst UI ever...
Strange statement. Why would a business guy be judged on firing people. Its not like he is running a charity.

I like SpaceX because of what they do, not because they 'provide jobs to the community'.
The treatment effects of exercise are often overplayed.

Exercise might help prevent mental ill health, and it's important because mental health meds have severe impact on physical health, but it's probably not a great treatment option, even if you can get people to comply with the treatment.

Exercise is moderately better than nothing, but only if you include weak studies. As soon as you only include good studies the efficacy drops off.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...