skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr Fung has been doing this for a long time, and it's not dangerous at all. My longest fast was for 14 days just water, though I wasn't diabetic.

Fung has lots of articles on Medium and /r/fasting is a great resource. Fung and also Taubes books are great and point out he maddening simplicity, that diabetes is high insulin is high sugar intake and that we treat it with... higher insulin. It's insanity, and because we can't see the wood for the trees we have smart people go study things like how much titanium you have in your body rather than solving the actual problem of carb intake.
The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
> The moment a browser alone begins controlling what the user sees, or does not see, without the user having the ability to control it, we have a major problem.

What you're describing would be inordinately taxing for even the most experienced developer, not to mention the average internet user. The only way this could possibly be viable would be if we used gopher:// instead of http(s)://

Currently, there are tools such as Privoxy Actions & Filters, which allow you to do 100% of what you're describing, Greasemonkey which allows you to do ~80% of what you describe, or uMatrix which allow you to do quite a lot. The prerequisites for using those range from full-blown programming skill (for the former 2) to managing a relatively advanced in-browser UI (for uMatrix), and having a lot of spare time. For every single webpage you visit on the web. This isn't viable for 99% of people.
A big difference is that modern kids are conditioned to do what they're told, work hard and choose a safe path in life.

To get into a good school now you have to spend your time studying hard to pass the standardized tests.

Previously kids playing around, got bored, chasing girls/boys, leaving home as soon as possible, maybe joined the army, married young. So a 25 year old already had a lot of life experience. Able to take the responsibility to follow dreams and start up a new firm.

Today's kids at 25 are just leaving school and still dont really know much about the real world. Great candidates to get a safe job in a company, not so great at starting a firm.
feeling like you have to do something is dopamine resistance.
Process street is a web app: https://www.process.st/
OK I'll read this, just gotta check facebook first...
"Because their own chain versions are bad ($20/month for 3 movies/week for just AMC vs $10/month for 1movie/day anywhere) and will not be successful with consumers."

The AMC one also doesn't involve the dog and pony show you have to pull off with MoviePass, it includes premium showings like IMAX and stuff, and if you're in a place where most, if not all of your local theaters are AMC, it's not a problem.
I'd choose one of these two, since they both completely qualify as underrated:

A) "Psychohistorical Crisis" by Donald Kingsbury, which is an unauthorized sequel set in the world of Asimov's Foundation Series.

B) "Venus Equilateral" by George O. Smith, which is an old, rather cheesy sci-fi novel from the 1940s, which is basically a bunch of engineers on a communications space station fighting lawyers, bureaucracy, and space pirates through inventing stuff.
That is an interesting take on it. I was thinking it would be more of a level playing field for small physical retailers if the larger online stores had to charge the same retail tax.

My thoughts were that if you bought something from a store it would be x% more expensive with sales tax than purchasing off of amazon and having it delivered without needing to pay sales tax.

This way both have to charge the same sales tax and the difference in price will simply be down to the costs relating to owning a store.
An exemption such as this is one of those things that I'd say is not worth supporting unless you're based out of TN, or do enough of sales there to make it worth your while. Sure, I'd implement it if it's required but every special case is just another point of failure.
It took me a year to land this one! My expenses are pretty low and my savings are decent, but if I quit this, I would be on the streets pretty quickly.

I don't have many skills besides convincing people to buy something. These skills aren't particularly marketable in life :)
I think the OP is trying to argue that if TiO2 causes T2DM (by modulating production of insulin in the beta cells), it does not account for peripheral insulin resistance that is also present in T2DM.

So, it could be that T2DM patients simply don't clear TiO2 from their pancreas as well as non T2DM patients (perhaps impaired kidney function).

On another hand TiO2 is a "magnet" for other heavy metals. Researches are proposing using it in water filters to filter out other heavy metals because it attracts them so much. Consequently, having it accumulate in your tissue can't be good for long term health.
For example, powdered donuts can contain up to 100 mg Ti per serving.

Yike!
Either Koko could communicate complex thoughts, or she was just spamming nonsense and the trainers are deceiving us. That's the binary part.

Surely a lot of what she signed was garbage, and surely she could communicate some of the simplest things regardless (like a dog can). But if she legitimately communicated even one complex thought with signs, that's a binary difference from the rest of the animal kingdom.
How many new and unique ideas that you have come up with in life could be attributed to your parents, teachers , the media?
My apologies for being a little unclear. I hadn’t meant to take issue with a particular product. I’m taking issue with particular customers for particular products. If my company is selling ICBM guidance systems to sub-Saharan dictators, that’s an issue for me. As selling weapons to Saudi Arabia potentially could be.

That said, there are products that I might have issue with across the board. Chemical or biological weapons might be examples, especially nasty ones.

Some companies lie to or otherwise deceive their customers. The new word on Theranos is that they might have been falsifying test results. If I’m a lab tech and I know that they are doing that, that’s a problem, as there’s the potential for real harm there.
Tesla says it got call that ex-employee threatened violence
> One big confounding factor could be the cost of student debt.

Student debt has increased, but not that much. Only a few thousand dollars over the last 25 years.
The Death of a Once Great City: The Fall of NYC and the Crisis of Urban Wealth
> Plus web worker bugs always get pushed to the bottom of the queue for every browser.

Why is that?
So now there's streaming under the AT&T umbrella (directvnow) from $15 to $70. I have the full DirecTVNow package, and it's great. Saves me about $100/month and removes cable boxes, dvrs etc. They just implemented a 12-hour cloud dvr built into the app. Very nice service.
First, it is your responsibility as a learner to decide if something makes sense or not

If one doesn't know anything about a topic and comes across two tutorials - one written in broken English (because the author is not a native English speaker) but the steps are accurate and other written in perfect English but the steps are wrong, it is highly likely they'd pick the latter.

That is just one example. Often, it isn't easy for beginners to tell good tutorials from bad, especially for highly technical topics.
The funny thing about that quote is that Feynman ignored it all the time. Back during the post-WWII explosion, Feynman would get told about some exciting new result and regularly said that the result was wrong because it contradicted theory and was experimental error. And it usually was error. A lot of those anecdotes in his oral history: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...
I honestly think you have hit the nail on the head with this.

It is an unfortunate consequence of a modern education system that is set up to produce worker bees.
>No P2P storage networks have succeeded? What about torrents?

You have to look at the specific context his essay is about.

Torrents are popular for data that many participants desire such as "StarWars_1080p.mp4" and "LadyGaga_album.mp3".

Torrents do not work for a 500GB encrypted backup of "JohnDoe_personal_vacation_photos_20180621.zip". There's no financial incentive for others to download and store it so the number of seeeds/peers will be 0.

His essay is not about a p2p version of Netflix or Spotify (e.g. bittorrent or Napster). He's talking about a p2p version of "cloud storage" such as BackBlaze/AmazonS3/DropBox for storing data that may only be important to that user. That's why he's dissecting Filecoin and its economics.
The moral disaster of separating children from their parents
Unconvincing, from start to finish--and what a poor start! Yes, the obvious texts in courses on postmodernism are a few decades old; it takes time for things to filter into the academy. It would be easy to argue for more recent authors like Bolano, David Foster Wallace, Eugenides, or Zadie Smith as examples of postmodern fiction. Step outside literature and it's even more blatant. Kanye West, the high-grossing Marvel movies, prestige TV--these can be, and often are, read as postmodern.

But rather than pick apart at cultural examples, I want to take issue with a more central claim: "The shift from modernism to postmodernism did not stem from any profound reformulation in the conditions of cultural production and reception." This is not an uncontroversial claim. Theorists like Fredric Jameson describe postmodernism as precisely a change in material conditions.

I don't have space to describe all of Jameson's arguments here, but I'd encourage anyone curious about the shift from modernism to postmodernism to look into them. They're more robust and convincing than this article, for sure.
Have you looked at the SBA? There's actually a fair amount of support there, including preferential treatment for bidding on set aside gov't contracts, including SBIR - Small Business Innovation Research contracts. Is it dollar and lobbying wise the same, no, but it is there.
ReactNative GitHub: who is allowed to merge PRs?
are only FB employees allowed to merge ?

or are there also other people outside of FB to merge ?
From the perspective of "the retailer is being taxed," then this _is_ taxation (of the retailer) without representation. But of course, almost every retailer passes sales taxes right along to the consumer, so "the retailer is beng taxed" is only true in a theoretical sense.
Back to the Desktop? Web Indigestion
I encountered something that blew me away from another section of our organization. For many internal applications, they are abandoning web applications and going to Windows desktop applications using WPF.

First, they are easier to make: you don't have to deal with the annoying "web state" or lack of, and browser differences. Second, server costs were escalating. People already have a powerful computer on their desks, might as well leverage them rather than pay to add or enhance servers. Data analysis applications need a lot of horse-power.

The IT manager said Microsoft improved auto-deployment such that it's really easy & automatic for users get installs & updates. These kind of applications one wouldn't typically run on a mobile device such that being mobile-friendly is not a concern. Web is still used for mobile-centric projects.
I think habits are probably stronger when we're sleepy and have less "executive function". When you're awake, make plans to disrupt your sleepy self. Set a timer or block your news sites or something. Because trying to break a habit when you're sleepy is going to be tough.
That's generally exactly what they're trying to measure: statistics about people who follow the standard path society lays out for education. If something about getting an advanced degree is discouraging people from doing startups, that's important to know, whether or not some population of smart autodidacts also exists.
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How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback
> Keep in mind in California, sales tax changes per county.

More than that. Sales tax in California can change arbitrarily, not just by county. E.g. different cities in the same county can have different sales tax. To further complicate things, shipping address may have a city on it but they might not actually "live" in that city.

E.g. in SoCal there is a city of "Westlake Village", which spans the Ventura-LA county border, which technically is a city in LA County, but technically is just a neighborhood within the city of Thousand Oaks in Ventura County.

When I last looked at this a few years ago for a project, for certain problem addresses, no one got them right. Not Macy's, not Amazon, etc.

The only real way to properly calculate sales tax is to geolocate their location.
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If you want to learn the whole thing then yes, but a blog post can be a nice 'easy' tutorial that lets you start using the technology with far less initial effort, and then you can learn the rest modularily according to your needs.
You need the address to charge them the _correct_ sales tax. In Washington State, the rate is based on the address where the product is delivered, so in the case of your example sandwich, that's the address of the deli.
For every proverb, there is an equal and opposite proverb: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/06/proverbs-as-insight.ht...
Maybe not exactly the term "futuristic", but "space age" in the sense of "space age design" certainly means 1960s/1970s style even if we are still technically in the space age.
Even if the supervisor isn't abusing their power, it can still be an issue. It can lead to people thinking "Is there going to be come back if I break up with this person?".
Can you elaborate? I am genuinely interested in the backstory and/or more detail and the scenario.
Robert Moses, the man responsible for the shape of a lot of modern NYC, is a hell of an example of this in action. For good or ill.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111.The_Power_Broker

Moses was a genius and accumulating and wielding power. His playbook wasn't "take initiative then hope for the best", it was "take initiative then destroy lives and careers until you get your way."
You mean like when Koko would get the sign wrong about 5 times in a row and her owner would be like "Oh you're so silly" instead of admitting Koko had no idea what was going on?

These videos are all highly edited to show what they want you to see.
I noticed no ESPN. This might have helped get the price down. Good riddance.
Am I missing how this operates? I see others on the article making the same claim as you, but isn't the ruling that if company X sells to person A then the state where A resides gets to tax the sale? So in any transaction there will be one or more party that can vote on the tax. You can hardly complain about that unless you think it is valid to tax transactions that occur between two people if and only if they live near each other. Edit: and the sales tax was already legal to impose, the only change is whether the purchaser or the seller collects it. So this doesn't change whether anything is taxed, hence not changing whether it's taxation without representation.
http://hn.premii.com/#/article/17360420
Why does it bother you that someone is being skeptical?
Note that popular services TaxJar and AvaTax will do automated filing for you as well.
I paid out $100,000 to pay off my wife & my own student loan debt early. Student loan debt can not be discharged by bankruptcy; it's always waiting for you.

This implies several things immediately:

- You have to take a job which can make payments on the debt.

- You have to choose stable jobs which will not suddenly fold under you.

There's also a somewhat hard to define aspect to the problem where you have to ensure that your local system is fiscally stable.

Anyway, non-1% Americans graduated from college not taking risks in their first 10 years out? Totally predictable, just from the debt perspective.

Then, at 32, 34, a lot of people are married and/or have a kid on the way. Welp, there's your high levels of downside again.

Add in to all this the fact that housing prices are effectively tethered to the availability of cash provided to the "highly paid" market (inequality increases)....

... so if your startup fails, you'll lose your place to live, and remote jobs are very rare, so you're in trouble in the big city with now-unaffordable costs of living.

the solution, in part, has a simple policy component: declare jubilee on all federally-originated student debt; free college for all students who maintain adequate gpas, no more federal loans. impose cost controls on universities that take federal money.

that effectively derisks an entire generation and opens up new options.

housing costs are less directly tractable and more politically problematic: the effective solution is to federally strip single family zoning from all land, and mandating density minimums and other supply-increasing zoning. (I assure you, the housing market is an interstate commerce system. :) ). But that only staunches the wound, it doesn't bring down housing prices into line with the median American's income.

Wait, this is about startups? Ha! No. That's a third order consequence caused by increasing early-career & mid-career risk, which in turn is increased by the planning & zoning codes and governmental defunding of education.
git is popular because of many external factors, some of which (github gitlab, etc) are centralized closed systems. I don't think git by itself would have become popular. I'd say that in today's world, you need someone somewhere making mad cash for a protocol to become that popular. Could an open storage protocol achieve that?
One of the things I've been wondering is if "state sales tax" in this ruling includes cities, counties, other subdivisions, or just full state level taxes only.
Flask-PyMongo, back from the dead
Current discussion (over 180 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364899
I love to see code snippets. Otherwise this makes zero sense. The check for overflow is super cheap on any processor you'd run fluid dynamics code on. You'd have to be running pathologically tiny loops. I have never seen any papers on this "well known" benefit. Perhaps you can provide me a link. In any event, it's interesting that you think that compute intensive kernels are self-evidently more important uses of C than device drivers, embedded systems, middleware, etc. Perhaps you'd be better off using a language specifically designed for optimized numerical codes - FORTRAN for example.
Politicians know nothing of this "irony" thing you speak of.
I looked it up I paid 351,90 euro for my 1070 last year now that same card is 500 euro's... I remember you could pick up a 1080 for 560 euro at that time.

So sorry but no the prices aren't back to normal.
Already done, Google AvaTax and TaxJar.
Totally agree. This guy has his money where his mouth is. That's who I'd prefer to get information from.
Meanwhile PUBG requires three 1080-tis and a whole lot of luck for a stable framerate
Nvidia CEO Springs Special Titan V GPUs on Elite AI Researchers
They have their own help/discussion forum https://facebook.github.io/react-native/help.html
Nice to see Electron moving forward. Is there a place where a summary of the changes coming in 3.0 can be found? Particularly regarding bloat - both in terms of file size and memory usage?
Brick and mortar don't get to do that either, so why should online ones?
> if only all developers felt that way

If only we could whistleblow ...
If the system is cheating you it's only fair you cheat it back... but I get what you mean; most users won't even know to do that or would be interested in doing it.

It's shady for Google to lie to their users especially when they imply its the browsers fault and not just their dev team being lazy gits and not validating that features work on Firefox.

Because that's the only valid excuse I could come up with that would make sense as to why they don't support it beside being shady that is...
So, if a state has a flat sales tax for all purchases then that's pretty easy to implement. But often you tax different categories of product at different rates. And there are fuzzy edges. The advertisements for Fig Netwons famously were "a cookie is just a cookie, but Newtons are fruit and cake." But is that true, legally speaking? And if it's true in one state jurisdiction does that that necessarily translate to another? How you you avoid having to figure out the tax rate for each product you carry in each of the 50 states?
200 shipments is nothing, and $100k isn't particularly meaningful revenue, either. I don't know what kind of margins people get, but I'd guess $100k yearly revenue isn't even enough for one person to live decently, let alone afford to handle keeping up with a business.
I would offer a contrarian perspective on this development: this isn't good for society.

While for sure we don't want people going to prison for smoking a joint - this also isn't necessarily good for society for corporations to promote recreational legal drugs. Was it a good thing for the tobacco and alcohol industries to basically run amuck in their advertising campaigns all over the world? Are we better as we world for it?

Better thoughts than my own are in this TED Talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klafHRlhNg4
> we have smart people go study things like how much titanium you have in your body rather than solving the actual problem of carb intake

Why can't we have both? We have a lot of smart people and the more ideas we have go through the scientific process of becoming a recognized treatment, the better. It doesn't take an army of smart people to create solutions, just a few. It's drive and motivation to solve problems that's in limited supply.
Because you’re in the physical location, so you have to abide by that tax law. You’d need at least the zip code of someone to charge appropriate taxes for where that person physically is.
Bill Gates got away with it... but then maybe having a lot of ownership in the company protected him. Well that and he married Melinda.
The ruling gives states the power to collect state taxes, but will states require out of state retailers to also collect and remit sales tax for each county, special tax districts, and cities?

It does not level the playing field if a non-local business must collect and remit sales taxes for thousands of jurisdictions while a local business must only collect and remit sales tax for their jurisdiction. It actually flips it completely around, burdening online business more than local business.

As a small business owner, the sales tax remittance is super annoying, it's so byzantine. They often refuse to let small businesses use automated submittal unless you have enough volume, and if you don't, you have to hand write out the forms and send in a check. Per jurisdiction. Separate forms for state+county, and city. I'd rather see the states take back the taxing authority of cities and counties, and dole out funding from the state sales tax revenue based on population.
I generally understand ethics to be relating to societal principals, whereas morals is more personal. It might be against a persons morals to violate their own principals (but maybe not, too).
Agreed, I didn't understand that remark at all.
If you are really after performance writing parsers in .NET while keeping the code structure manageable you should look into the new Span<T> type.
The iProcrastinate podcast (http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/) is really good. Some of the early episodes have audio issues, but they are worth listening to. The host has been researching procrastination for like 20+ years.

Their main website is http://www.procrastination.ca/
Brain fart, sorry.
Excellent. Direct comprehensive information with no hassle. So curious whos backing the platform?