skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Showing up is huge. I've added a couple more recently that are related.

1) Get up at 6am every morning even on the weekends and go right to the gym. It sucks for a little while, but it has really raised my life productivity to a new level. My sleep has gotten much better. My head hits the pillow and I'm out. I naturally stopped looking at my phone after 9-10pm because I was just ready to sleep.

2) Anytime I think about something I don't want to do, I stop whatever is I'm doing and do that thing instantly. It has really flipped around my mindset, and made me realize many of these things I put off only take a few minutes anyway. So much is done, that I end up with tons of free time at the end of the day to work on other things. Freeing my mind of nagging procrastination also does wonders.
Gdpr is actually a good thing. It's at least weird that USA-based companies must follow it, but the law itself is very good thing for a customer and not that bad for companies until they like collecting data and doing dirty stuff with it.
Bah, my eye Rx is -8.5 diopters. Taking off my glasses/contacts doesn't "soften" the external world - it makes me unable to function. If I forget where I put my glasses after taking out my contacts at night before going to bed, I have to call my wife to find them for me. If I try moving around too much, I'm liable to hurt myself.

I'll probably want to get LASIK at some point :)
That's not accurate information unless you are referring to the initial phase of getting your body used to a new way of eating. Most people who keep it up report the exact opposite.
> So they're competing with Uber/Lyft for the short random trips that you might occasionally take at almost the same price.

Random trips create more random trips, they complement each other. When everybody is tied to their personal vehicle, the return leg will always be on the same mode. One-way friendly TaaS makes all other forms of one-way friendly transportation now attractive, relative to personal vehicle use.
Non-locality != faster-than-light communication
I lost about 60 lbs on Phentermine, then gained 10 lbs back, then lost about 15 lbs just dieting, and then gained about 10 lbs back.

Phentermine made it a lot easier because I didn't feel hungry, even when I was. But other than that, the same techniques applied: I used a calorie counter and tried to stick to the recommendation that it gave.

After using it a month or 2, I realized that its numbers were slightly high for me, and cut my max allowed calories a little further and started losing weight.

If you're wondering what your number is, the easiest way is probably just to follow what some tool tells you (I used Weight Watchers, then SparkPeople) and adjust the calories according to whether you are losing weight or not.

One caution: There is a rather large gap where you go from gaining weight to maintaining weight to losing weight. The area where you maintain weight is pretty broad. Finding that area is the first step, then slowly removing some calories until you start losing is the key, IMO. If you go too fast, you might remove too many calories and actually make it harder to lose weight than it should be. Your body will try to compensate for lack of calories.
I'd be very interested to find the equivalent of two part epoxy Sugru, or in other words a rubbery Milliput. Any suggestions?

Coincidentally, such was my need only yesterday. I thought first of Sugru, balked at the price and delivery time as usual, looked into making some 'Oogoo' (silicon sealant mixed with corn flour) and funnily enough I ended up using some Sugru that's been in my fridge for 5 years, which although slightly crumblier than I remember on first handling, did the job fine in the end.
I've heard this expressed as the "Washing machine paradox."

Person comes home from a coalmine job, grumbling because there are rumors going around that the mine is going to buy a bunch of automatic conveyors and lay off half the miners. They come in through the basement entrance straight into the laundry room (people who've lived in coal country, you know how that works ;) ) and toss their grubby clothes directly into the washing machine. How are they gonna make ends meet if they get laid off, they wonder?

They do not for one second stop and consider that a scant hundred years ago, a person would have been the one doing that laundry the machine is doing right now.
Why people don't buy
This is a great way of thinking about the problem. And it's not hard to think of better jobs for people. There are a lot of unsolved problems in fundamental research across all fields of science.
I don't do company work on my desktop. Instead, I use company computer to ssh into a company cloud to do my coding (All of the company I've worked at either has their own cloud instance or aws/googlecloud/azure flavor). Again, same benefits, I can code on any of my coworker's computer. lol.

Sometimes I ssh into my personal desktop to do personal work from my company computer.
Yep, never understood why they don’t convert malls into office spaces. Then again, in the Bay Area (at least South Bay) there are TONS of empty office buildings for rent. I’m guessing that they all just want too much. Maybe it’s a zoning thing with the malls? Seems like they could do it with the one in Cupertino. For being Silicon Valley, sometimes this place really fails to impress with innovations like that. Instead, we have scooter startups.
That was quite a bit later. Here's a super-short summary of Microsoft's earliest days.

https://www.wired.com/2011/04/0404bill-gates-paul-allen-form...

He definitely became famous as an executive and captain of industry. But he very much started on the hands-on, nerd side of things.
I don't doubt that there are edge cases where these are convenient. I'm really just questioning the business model.

Right now these services are a novelty so a lot of people use them but they don't really pass the toothbrush test. Their top users will do the math at some point and end up buying a scooter to use for their daily commute.
> I don't quite understand the negativity. Everyone complains about how IoT devices are a security nightmare because manufacturers don't update the software. Now you are paying the ongoing cost to get that engineering done.

The incentives here are extremely perverse. The problem of insecure IoT gear was in many cases created by manufacturers cutting corners. Now they offer to fix it for money. It should not have been acceptable in the first place!

To use a car analogy - car manufacturers are compelled by regulation to do recalls on defects that impact the safety of a vehicle. They don't get to charge a monthly subscription to resolve their own mistakes. I'm not sure why we let tech companies get away with abusing their customers like this.
Presumably drvd is referring to the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis: we don't know |R| in the sense that we don't know for which ordinal alpha is |R| the alpha'th infinite cardinal. The Continuum Hypothesis is the claim that |R| is the first cardinal after |N|. It's well known the Continuum Hypothesis is independent of ZFC. That means for the question of "how many reals there are" (at least if that question is read in the formal sense), the answer is "it depends: for different models of ZFC, there are different answers".
In a way Tanenbaum won.

Micro-kernels are everywhere on high integrity computing, run on the radios of mobile OS.

User space drivers, containers, hipervisors, Project Treble are all examples of trying to bend Linux into the same design.
Did you consult the NMG or ask for assistance?

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/

Otherwise, your comment lays out the cost/benefit: Debian requires software fit specific standards. The reward is an unparallelled distribution and maintenance system.

Note too: there's plenty of python-based software in Debian.

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/p...
....yes

Also in the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
It really does take about two years to get back to your old self in terms of energy, focus, passion for work. Having a new baby is exhausting, and you don't realize just how much it takes out of you until later when you finally start getting enough sleep and aren't consumed by the everyday stresses of keeping another human alive.

That isn't to say there isn't something else going on (seeing a professional counselor/therapist is never a bad idea!), but seems entirely reasonable that this is a contributing factor. And the good news is, this part gets better!
You can open it in a private browsing window. It only requires login if you were previously logged in to a Google account, and that login has expired. Incredibly annoying.
Roger Penrose gives a great explanation in The Road to Reality. We know some subset of the natural numbers are real because we can count things. And we therefore know some subset of the rational numbers are real because we can cut things into pieces and count the pieces. But the reals? Well they are invented purely so we can take the square root of two. And the complex numbers? Invented so we can take the square root of minus one.

Mathematics is a tool we've developed to help us understand reality. But it itself is not reality.
Imagine how great society would be if humans could just focus on scientific and artistic endeavors instead of grinding it out for basic survival?

Think of how advanced the human race could get if no one was starving and people's attention could be focused on science and art and building cool new technology to better the human race.

One day people will look back at how we live as extremely primitive.
Sheesh. They just got taken back off my list. That's just so dumb.
Your reaction underscores the point that fears over nuclear power stem from widespread lack of education about nuclear energy as a whole. TMI was blown ridiculously out of proportion. A pressure valve got stuck resulting in a leak that was... wait for it... undetectable compared to background! Does shutting down a comparatively clean energy supply and driving an entire industry effectively out of business seem like a rational response to that?
As an investor who has looked at this space a little bit + talked to other investors who have backed some of these companies, it seems like:

- the economics of scooters are great (very quick payback periods for the scooters). At a few bucks per ride and maybe a dozen rides per day, it doesn't take that long to pay off a $300 or $500 scooter.

- most people that try scooters seem to really enjoy riding them.

- an individual scooter doesn't last super long and needs to be serviced a lot and then replaced.

As an investor, the main thing I'm stuck on is what the moats could be in this business. Brand is a potential moat, but the two biggest companies in this space already have good brands so that's not helpful for me as a seed investor. And I'm not sure if brand would be enough for people to walk an extra block or two if there are closer scooters nearby.

People talk about network effects, but I am skeptical. First those network effects are local. Second, it doesn't take that much money to blanket a city with scooters and break the network effect. My napkin math for SF is that it would cost <$1.5m to put a scooter on every other block (https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/992503477149450240). If that's accurate, then it's not going to be a big barrier against any well-funded company.

Maybe one moat could be scooter durability. If your scooters are 2x more rugged, then your margins and economics are a lot better, and you can use the additional profits to outspend your competitors on customer acquisition. We'll probably find out what moats do (or don't) exist here over the next few years.
Lots of folks think self-driving cars are just replacing one problem with another. (A car, after all, is a really a moving room; but we don't want to move rooms, we want to move people.)

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/05/technology/bikes-disrupt-car...
FWIW I've worked with "experienced" founders who also had no idea what they were doing (in many but not all ways). There's never a guarantee that you won't be working for people who will make you deal with their mistakes.
Every day is a data point but I agree we need more rovers.
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And if the curiosity gets the better of you, numerous people upload them all to YouTube, often bundled together in one long clip (unfortunately too often with meager attempts at witty commentary).
3a rings to true to me. There is no end of ignorant people online and many of them are willfully so and it's a fools game to try to convince them otherwise.
Home Remedies for Panic Attacks
If you dare to venture outside the US you might come across the answer:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=mumbai+scooter+traffic (switch image)

Roughly 5x the fuel efficiency doesn't hurt either.
One thing that jumps at me is how childish and rude Linus is in his response. I think at that time he was 23 years old, so an adult.

As a piece of advice to young people, try not to be rude and accept criticism with grace, as the Internet has a long memory and you'll probably not be respected enough for your achievements to be tolerated, like Linus is.
One reason for that might be the unusual way of installation(download a tar file, unzip and run a installer from command line).

That's not too far off from how I install new versions of golang. Just leave out the last step and add a 0th step where you delete the old version first.
I think that captures the zeitgeist really well. Vice is now just a pale imitation of what used to be true cultural 'edginess'.
How Universities Deal with Sexual Harassment Needs Sweeping Change, Panel Says
Here, another interesting construction of the real numbers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405454 - The Eudoxus Real Numbers

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Eudoxus+real+number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_real_numbe...

(Surprisingly enough, ncat & Wikipedia complement each other here in their explanations of it.)
Yeah, I had a packet from somewhere and came across a perfect repair job for it. I go and get the packet and discover that it has already ossified and is useless. Very disappointing.
How would you recommend expressing support, not minimizing these experiences while also not assuming victimization?
FWIW, I think you may be under-selling "We just choose not to."

Human principles of fairness are based very heavily on social constructs of tribe and group survival that predate civilization by 10^5 to 10^7 years. Human thought is extremely malleable, I think the human psychology jury is still out on precisely how malleable "fairness" is.

That having been said, it feels like if we could start by ratcheting most people from a 40-hour week to a 30-hour week without cutting their pay, that'd square with the gut feeling of fairness. ;)
Might [2] have been related to this?

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
Honestly, I think people are concerned, but everyone's experience to date with big streaming events has been that something invariably goes wrong - people can't connect, login issues, event won't start, buffering, etc (e.g. the McGregor Mayweather PPV). If you can get a high-quality stream at all, perhaps the time shift is secondary!
To wit:

"In other words, blockchain can guarantee parameters of transactions, but it cannot sanitize the endpoints. It cannot impose the type of social-justice and good-actor
constraints that some of its proponents believe will lead to disintermediation of centralized marketplaces like Amazon (customers will still want easy returns, "no questions asked" guarantees and customer service) or large financial intermediaries (banking clients will still want automatic fraud reversal and credit card rewards)."

-- http://goo.gl/BtVyx3
I would have preferred promulgating a set of standards to be GDPR compliant, and allowing companies the option to choose whether to conform. Individuals in turn could choose whether to use GPDR compliant services or not. Rather than hitting all companies globally over the head with a hammer. Eventually this strategy of legislative aggression is going to blow up in the EU's face.
That's like blaming Netflix when your local ISP is down.
Not only does it run PureOS (Debian derivative) but it's not restricted to run only PureOS. I could run Arch Linux on my phone, yay!
This is easier to read : https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
The problem of the current industry are well understood and Hinkley is a perfect example.

However I am talking about something broader then that. Even 5 years ago people would say 'nuclear is to late' solar and wind are gone solve us.

This has been going on since the 1970 when environmentalist turned against nuclear.

Solar and Wind are ALWAYS just around the corner and nuclear is 'not needed' somehow it still tiny.

Nuclear to be effective will need some regulatory and government changes but my real point is that if the whole technical intelligence plus the environmentalist are solar/wind cheerleaders the carbon producers are the one laughing themselves to the bank.
Thanks for the feedback. Will fix.

What about "modern wiki" is interesting to you?
How do you like Nashville? Are you from the area or did you move there? I've been a few times and can't seem to put my finger on why I can't see myself living there.
>If a system can't cope with "dumb" users who occasionally make mistakes - I have to question whether the technology works at all.

Which technologies meet this standard?
You ask your Lasik doctor if he were to get Lasik surgery, what doctor would he personally use?
Seeing as this is their first major outage, and Netflix-the-streaming-service has existed since 2007, I'd say don't know what you're talking about.
> When was the last time ABC or Fox went off air?

Broadcasting TV and Netflix are a very different payment model though. Broadcasting get their money from adverts. So even a couple of minutes of outage could cost them tens of thousands in terms of compensating sponsors for lost ads (depending on when the outage is as not all ad slots are worth the same). Where as Netflix is a subscription model where an outage is an inconvenience to their customers but they're not directly losing money (aside engineers overtime fees etc). Obviously Netflix could potentially lose customers but that's not going to be at a high rate from a single outage like this.

This distinction is can change dynamic of how you build broadcasting infrastructure. eg redundancy equipment is typical in any high availability deployment but broadcasting will not only have redundant physical equipment in different physical locations, but will often also have a second set of redundant hardware in each location purchased from different suppliers and running different software just in case it is a software / hardware malfunction specific to the product. Whereas in internet streaming services the emphasis is more on standardising software stacks to aid scaling - which makes total sense in terms of cloud services but that does still give you a potential point of failure (eg poorly tested Puppet or Terraform code getting deployed to prod).

Local US stations might not have the same level of redundancy as their national counterparts, but like the distinction between Netflix and traditional broadcasting if a financial one, equally the difference between ad revenue for local vs national broadcasters would be massively different. Ultimately the more costly it is for your service to be off the air, the most you'd expect to invest into your infrastructure to ensure you don't have any such outages.
This is contrary to what I’m doing?

There’s a hidden page to pass through. It works completely fine in my set up.

EDIT: https://www.att.com/Common/storefront/resources/pdf/att_brid...
Hmm, I don’t know a lot of healthy people who weight over 220 lbs.
Linus is still rude or rather, blunt. To be honest, though, i prefer blunt over fluff or politically correct way.

Way more informative.
I never said, "some people fall through the cracks," I said "too many people fall through the cracks." It's very systemic, hence the need for a social floor without cracks. No person should be denied medical care, food, basic shelter, or access to education.

It also shouldn't be surprising that the rich and powerful want to be taxed as little as possible. I think both sides get too hot-headed and the discussions inevitably turn to "let's take their money away!" vs "let's advance the creation of a social floor for everyone!" I don't think it's a bad thing at all that some people are rich, but I think poverty is a very bad thing.
> This business model is already the norm for enterprise firewalls and network security appliances, but that's not what Plume is.

One reason this makes sense for enterprise hardware is that you get a real person on the phone if something goes wrong. I doubt I'd be able to get a Plume representative to help me no matter how many years I subscribe for.
You don't need a "blockchain" for timestamps. There have been timestamping services for years.[1] There's a standard: RFC 3161. Many of the SSL cert providers also have a timestamping service.

Timestamping would be very useful if Google used signed timestamps to determine provenance. Scraper sites should be outranked by the original source.

[1] https://freetsa.org/index_en.php
Except instead of a bunch of bright lights and shady characters, there’s a Bowlmor, Coldstone, and a kind of neat eye glasses store. No offices or living spaces YET, but “luxury” (overpriced) apartments and townhouses are just down the street.
Only chance I see is put cameras on them collect the visual data along with the other sensors then you have a run away data set for a set of autonomous vehicle that navigates a sidewalk.
Nice to see how they are solving the issues:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmOMKq63Rap2wfQ-yy7sHyoc...
Absolutely not. GDPR is the kind of thing that should have been passed worldwide 20 years ago. If companies will not respect your data and your privacy, they deserve to be punished severely.
That shebang isn't portable. Bash isn't always installed in the root file system. Use this instead:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
The tax has a benefit because we'll have better infrastructure to take care of things that make the city better. In this case helping homeless. I do want to help everyone, but for people that must have a personal improvement getting homeless people treatment and places to stay helps you because they aren't in the way. Having roads, cops, buses, and ambulances helps me too, but I also value those because I want to live in a better society that takes care of all its members.
Moving the elevator down would only take potential energy out of the system when the elevator together with its load weighs more than the counterweight.

When it does, you might be able to use it to generate electricity. But I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't done simply because it wouldn't justify the added cost and complexity of building all that extra energy harvesting mechanism into the elevator.
But Linus is still respected. Maybe not by you and some others but by a lot of people. There's no such thing as unanimous respect.
Don’t use webrtc for live video. It doesn’t scale with CDNs. Use dash/hls.
Reminds me of paying for identity protection services.
You can assert that you created media by proving that you had it before anyone else. Blockchains allow you to upload media or a hash of the media into a (relatively) permanent, (relatively) immutable ledger. Relative permanence and immutability are valuable qualities.

Uploading a hash into the bitcoin blockchain is trivial; marketing this type of service is not. The advertising or promises of a specific venture do not necessarily reflect the value of a technology.
Lime just dumped 140 scooters in Santa Barbara and they immediately got impounded. The city is going to charge them a $100 fine for each scooter. I'm assuming that's a drop in the bucket compared to their revenue and the cost of working out adoption specifics with local government.