skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only "they're successful so they're right."

You have some good points, but please don't use quotes to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. That's an internet trope that makes it hard to continue serious conversation. Attributing it to them explicitly as a "simple minded assertion" is even worse, and also breaks the site rule which asks you to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's the food. Alzheimer looks like a form of arteriosclerosis of the brain.

In autopsies to Alzheimer patient brains we can see the small arteries of the brain clogged with fat and colestrol, here is a video showing this with pictures - https://youtu.be/WhtpyVhlu28?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd8E6GHQcmIWYGE7...

If plaque building in main arteries can cause heart atacks, the exact same blood is getting to the brain - imagine what it will do there.

If anyone here has Alzheimer in the family and would like to preventively change their diet, have a look at this other video from that playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-noCw4LsY4&list=PL5TLzNi5fY...

In summary, there are strong indications that a whole food plant based diet low in fat is the best-known way to prevent Alzheimer's and even alleviate the symptoms.

Hope for Alzheimer Patients: https://nutritionfacts.org/2017/12/26/hope-for-alzheimers-pa...

It's important that the diet is not only plant based, but low in fat as for example there is a lot of Alzheimer's in India where a large part of the population is vegetarian.

This has been linked to ghee (clarified butter), as per this video:

Oxidized Cholesterol as a Cause of Alzheimers Disease - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15yI5LLlNY
That’s a matter of insufficient drugs being used, not a feature of the drugs themselves.
Please elborate. Because javascript burns battery om a laptop?
I giggled, but that's a bit too Republican for many tastes...
It may be a side effect of taking huge amounts of extract, but is not possible when consuming the leaves, as far as I know. I’ve known people who claim to take an ounce (28g) of leave per day without issue. (I take btw 2-8 grams in a day myself so I can’t speak to higher doses)

In general taking excessive amounts triggers vomiting, similar to when you eat too many psilocybin mushrooms (well, some say it’s ideal to vomit shroom-wise, but I’m not a fan). So mitragyna speciosa is incredibly safe.

Unfortunately Wikipedia’s treatment of the topic could be improved, but there is very little existing literature out there. I read one review study I was pretty happy with but I’m not on a laptop so i can’t go dig up the link unfortunately
Medical Convention Cancels on San Fran Because Its Streets Are So Distressing
i frequently compare workaday web-dev to general contracting (a favorable description from my perspective). no issues with the article title.

here's my issue with the article text: it describes

I came to the Graide Network and immediately started breaking our legacy app into microservices.

as "overengineering," and perhaps it was ... or perhaps it was just not-great planning. after all, the premise of the article is that the microservices are now incurring costs that can be described more like plumbing than engineering.

here's where some of my experience partially aligns with the article's complaints

Investors are guilty of pushing it on us

this has happened to CEOs at startups i've been at: [some] investors asked for diagrams, etc., and we made decisions to build invisible fanciness instead of product for users.

here's where the author begins upon the path to enlightenment

we can build more with less
The web & almost any gui lacks one important characteristics for timelessness - simply: time.

What we consider timeless in other desogn disciplines are patterns that emerged throughout many centuries of cultural transformation.

Digital UI is not only much much younger, it also enables sheer endless variation of any functional pattern, arbitrary design.

I would argue much of the UX patterns we established so far, be it the button or a slideshow, windows & menus, all these UI conventions are barebone concepts that already are timeless - and when it comes to styling, looks, it's very well possible to design in a way that is already timeless, it's just paint. And some of today's design schools will become timeless in time
Possibly worth noting that the actual story being sold here is essentially: Scottish entrepreneurs screwed out of company by non-Scotish investors.
My personal quality of life is enhanced by having a bathtub in the bathroom. I love long warm bath every other day, with plenty of cold water. It does wonder for my upper body!

I pondered purchasing a hot tub, but eventually decided against. It would anchor me to a home, while I often move every year.

Instead, I enjoy going to a Jjimjilbang at least once or twice a month. I spend a full day there, eating a Galbitang or whatever. Sometimes I bring a computer, sometimes an ebook, sometimes nothing at all. The days spend with no distraction are the most productive!

Unfortunately, in North America most Jjimjilbang do not let you sleep there anymore.
In the end stages, the body looses the ability to regulate temperature.

Strange idea though, can one speed up dementia? Accelerate it?
Also, styling your own thoughts as quotes makes them more convincing and tweetable!
A restaurant designed by concept artist Syd Mead
You may be interested in http://barbajs.org/
And generally the UK is stricter on multishare classes - and approved share schemes have some strict rules on what sort of shares employees must be issued with.
Easily extracting conversations from a slack group
Fair question. I agree that the fruit itself tastes nicer. I could say I want to avoid having too much fibre (as I get plenty from other sources), but in reality I just find peeling oranges a PITA and contrary to your claim I find it quicker to cut in half and twist each half a few times on a juicer (plus I can just knock back the output).
>>Where are you living that children are allowed to make medical decisions for their dying parent?

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/understanding-healthcare-deci...
"Joseph’s 90-year-old mother, Leilani, was in a coma after having a major stroke. The doctor said damage to Leilani’s brain was widespread and she needed to be put on a breathing machine (ventilator) or she would probably die. The doctor asked Joseph if he wanted that to be done. Joseph remembered how his mother disapproved when an elderly neighbor was put on a similar machine after a stroke. He decided to say no, and his mother died peacefully a few hours later."

"Ali’s father, Wadi, is 80 and has lung cancer, as well as advanced Parkinson’s disease. He is in a nursing facility and doesn’t seem to recognize Ali when he visits. Wadi’s doctor suggested that surgery to remove part of a lung might slow down the course of the cancer and give Wadi more time. But, Ali thought, “What kind of time? What would that time do for Dad?” Ali decided that putting his dad through surgery and recovery was not in Wadi’s best interests. After talking with Wadi’s doctors, Ali believed that surgery would not improve his father’s quality of life but would cause him pain and discomfort.*"
That's sad. Especially these days— seems like satire is as important as ever.

For fans of the Onion, there's a rising Canadian counterpart. They started off kind of slowly, but have started to come into their own— especially with Ontario's recent election. They sometimes cover American events as well.

https://www.thebeaverton.com

ex:

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/07/ford-vows-to-treat-asyl...

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/andrea-horwath-looking-...
Nothing in real life is anything like your analogy. A typical 4-year CS degree is not research-oriented. Asking people to write code on a whiteboard is not "discussing theory".
Can't upvote this enough. I haven't been in this position as often as you have, but enough to say that all of your comments and advice are spot on.
eh, i don't know about that one. In most countries outside of America, "engineer" is a reserved word for licensed engineers and Software Engineers can not legally call themselves engineers, thus developers.
Yes, much of what's wrong with python in one line of code:
>>> reversed(a)
<listreverseiterator object at 0x7f1c3bf94310>

who needs a __str__ method for listreverseiterator anyways. they cherrypicked the worst of the Java world: Unreadable names and batteries excluded. yuck!
Weather reports with curl
The CamelCase of c2 was efficient for the writer. Not so much for the reader.
I would have gone the other direction and tried to hide it like a power substation behind trees or something landscapish.

I was going to mention the water pumping station that looks like a house but the canal would need a really big house.

https://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-normal-looking-house-is-fake...
Sure. The gradual physical deterioration and loss of consciousness are OK. But I want to skip the painful parts.

A huge part of enjoying LSD at high dosage was being OK with forgetting who/what I was for a few hours. So maybe dementia will be OK too, as long as I don't stress too much about it. And as long as people around me are also cool.
AirPlay support would be great though … I hate that I have to use the Sonos app and cannot directly play music from a Mac or iPhone.
James, this is totally a fair criticism. Sorry that I left out this information initially.

I've edited the article to reflect more of the context you've highlighted here.

It was cool to learn a little more about you and I respect your commitment to fighting against white supremacy, etc.

Hope we can still disagree respectfully. If there's anything else you feel was unfair, please let me know.
>That's why I would like to see a pure HTML cross-platform web browser. With nice proportional fonts and good support for media.

I assume you are not using Firefox? Then you should, because it has Reader View mode, which removes all the JS BS, but leaves the text and the figures in. Not sure about <audio> and <video>, but it's a real blessing. I don't know how Chrome people go without it.

More info here: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/reader-view/.
I think there can be good faith disagreement even when all the items you mentioned are agreed upon. The basis for the disagreements may be presuppositions, values, and priorities - people may differ here, in good faith.

To use a controversial (and simplified) example, the abortion debate may result from conflicts between a women's right to autonomy over her body vs. a child's right to life. I think both sides would agree these two values are positive; the difference is which takes priority.

Now it may also be true that it's not worth arguing about values, because they are not likely to change based on argument. But I still think many of these arguments are made in good faith.
Gee, not even $500k or a mil?

My heart breaks for them.

This is why VC's are called vultures. They claim they want you to have skin in the game, yet the founders get screwed. I know folks are thinking but the VCs are not making much, so what? Their entire game is to make it all up from another startup 100x which is why they take massive equity for $$$ invested.
So what you're saying is... trains in SF... are a wreckage, and unusable. And you use a hyper-capitialized burning-someone-else's-money "disruptive" "startup" and would like to pretend it's comparable to having a functioning social service.

Well, okay.

I also regularly uber around in SF. Because there's no alternative. And yet: even ignoring dollar cost, I'd say it's comically, pathetically slow to get around the city compared to what a functioning mass transit system should be able to do. SF is tiny, geographically speaking; the time it takes to cover ground in SF using a car is a travesty, and more ubering will not make this better, unless we get a new ultra-high-cost variant which has rockets to blast the other traffic off the road like some terrible action movie come to life.
Especially C++ compilers have undefined behavior
It activates mu-opioid quite strongly but not the other receptors as much (I forget their names).

Interestingly, it has a mix of opioid antagonists and agonists. I’m not sure if that specifically is why tolerance doesn’t build aggressively, or if it’s some other MoA like nmda receptor antagonism
Zipf's Law in 50 languages
Well, despite this being HN, I'd still argue that for most people, knowing how to cook is a more valuable skill to have than knowing how to pick a lock.
http://archive.is/xeCxt
Given that it was about 150 lines of code and I did a fairly straightforward rewrite in a performant language in about a day, and the performance was acceptable, yes.
Is that true though?
https://twitter.com/Kaitain_FL/status/1015442373793468416?s=...
So your mom just straight up murdered your dad? Why on earth would the doctor authorize giving him a lethal morphine drip for a UTI?

What was the fallout from the autopsy, etc.? This baffles me
If one of the functions of sleep is to remove toxins in the brain then this essentially follows.
Big Tech Is a Big Problem - Former Chief IMF Economist, Harvard Prof
As wpietri said, it isn't about you. It's about them.

It's actually harder in some ways with pets because they can't talk and tell you detailed preferences for how they want to go when it's their time. All you have is the general guideline that, if their condition can't be treated and they are going to have to die, you want to minimize their suffering. I've had to do it with four cats, and we have two dogs now whose time will come eventually. It's not easy, but it's not like you have a choice; you made the choice when you took them into your life in the first place.

And don't forget that making the choice to let them into your life adds a lot more to your life than whatever the pain of having to put them to sleep takes away. Our two dogs are both rescues; we have given them many years of happy life (and many more to come) that they would otherwise not have had at all. And they have given us a lot of happiness in return. That will always be there whatever comes.
Hi Daniel, in your experience, what features is this model most suited for and with what granularity of imagery? For example, buildings/roads with landsat(30m)? Cars with 30cm resolution imagery?
Your conspiracy theory approach to science backed by Youtube videos is obnoxious. The cause of Alzheimer's is still unknown, but most likely related to amyloid plaques. Diet may contribute. Or it may not. In a 38 year old, it's genetics. Period.
Within a house they should be consistent. But I have some American friends in Europe with their switches wired the US way.
What they are doing is no longer OAuth 1, since they require a hash of the body as a parameter for input into the OAuth 1 signature/MAC.
So you're saying other dev domains don't have intrinsic glitches and oddities? ;)
You are missing the point, it’s a feature not a bug.

Single-switch is commonly installed with the top-pressed-in meaning “on”. For multiway-switch the position is not a status indicator. Both types of switches can be present in multiple places around the house. Thus, position of “a switch” is not an indicator.

Example: my living room light panel (Vancouver, build circa. 2005). All lights are on in both pictures: http://imgur.com/8CTZOHZ
This is fantastic. Is there anything else like it? I've been wanting to build sort of, interactive compositions, and have been looking for something along these lines.
Being a founder, I tend to always take the founders' side, but even with that bias, I'm not sure there's anything wrong here. It sounds like things went to hell, the founders left, and a new CEO came in who used to be an exec with one of the VC firms. Things were very messy. Complicating matters, it doesn't sound like FanDuel was in great financial shape - a Forbes article suggested they could face a cash crunch in 2018.

With what I know, it's hard to attribute anything the VC firms did to malice.
You should not be centering things in HTML, that's the stylesheet's job.
Nat Brown from Valve posted a comment on the article:

>I know app rejections and the Apple ecosystem rules can be frustrating and cause a lot of consternation, but in this case I think this is likely a legitimate rejection for using the kIOSurfaceIsGlobal=true flag when creating an IOSurface - Apple documents this as private and not allowed by sandboxed apps on iOS, and there are legitimate security & sandbox reasons to not support IOSurfaces that can be guessed and mapped to a foreign process using IOSurfaceLookup(). It's likely Apple's static analyzer found this during submission. We (Valve) worked to add this type of IOSurface-backed MTLTexture for Vulkan VR support for macOS and I suspect it slipped into the iOS build inadvertently - we don't need that support on iOS (yet? If somebody knows the developer and can point them my way (natb@valvesoftware.com) I'd be happy to figure out if this was the only issue, and I'll create a PR for MoltenVK to drop the global flag out of the iOS build.

>Apple graphics folks I work with are fine with MoltenVK, and many Apple and AMD folks have provided concrete technical feedback to improve the performance of MoltenVK, and we have uncovered bugs in HLSL->GLSL->SPIR-V->MSL together which should help make the entire graphics ecosystem stronger.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

So, no. Apple isn't out to get MoltenVK. On the contrary, they have been helping improve it's performance.
The AV Club has already had a few rounds of Univision driven cuts and overhauls that've impacted it pretty hugely in a bad way.

However, I believe the AV Club are about as independent of each other as Kotaku, Deadspin, etc at the moment, so these layoffs shouldn't directly impact them.
Related: There was a RFC to get the aliases removed, but it ended up being rejected.

Blog Post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe...

PR: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

RFC: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/issues/16

Decision: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/X-R...
A good chunk of why software engineers get paid well is because most people don't like writing code. It's not just because the businesses scale well, it's because it's an undesirable job for most.

By that logic, the cleaning staff in your local adult movie theater would be millionaires.
I imagine roughly the same bodily and social impact goes for using a sauna, which my Finnish friends tell me is something integral to their way of life. It’s not uncommon to have a small sauna in your apartment, and it touches on many aspects of their lives, from business, to family, to romantic relationships, to just relaxing after work.

I’ve started to go to the local sauna a few times a week after work with my girlfriend and I do notice it resets my mind, much like going for a long run. The rest of the evening seems much more dreamy and easy going.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure the trend will catch on in the UK, where I’m from, as we’re generally pretty prude and uncomfortable with most of our clothes off!
This. I have made it a rule to always use the bike when going around town. With kids and family, this is pretty much all the exercise I get, but it's enough that I haven't gained any weight from 8 years of free food at the office.
No, I don't. All of my music is on the cloud.
Sidestepping the moral/philosophical flamewar going on here, but aren't there plenty of kids in need of adoption? We're bending over backwards to make sure people can have babies that are genetically related to us, rather than just promoting adoption. It's so selfish and self-centered, and honestly, often racist.
Url changed from https://singularityhub.com/2018/06/30/plasma-the-mysterious-..., which points to this.
We use a lot of the same stack. I particularly love imgix and stripe.
No, fucking horrific. Who's looking after the best interests of the patient?

Also, it doesn't happen like that in all US states where the hospital makes a decision and presents it to the family, who'll need to go to court if they disagree.

http://medicalfutility.blogspot.com/2018/04/medical-futility...

> First, in California, Texas, and Virginia the burden is flipped: the families must go to court to stop the clinicians. Moreover, that is a widely recommended approach at the institutional level: announce the plan and give the family time to challenge, but do not seek permission from the court.
I think the author misses the point of Sonos somewhat. I don’t think they aim to dominate the smart speaker market. They seem to be a fashionable upper midrange device that is as much for status as it is a speaker. They market Sonos speakers as a fancy home speaker that also happens to support Alexa. Amazon is more the mass market option and just aims to put Alexa in every home.

Sonos will never take over the world but will be an established niche player.
I would also agree with the sentiment of no Alexa in my home. I was an early adopter of Amazon echo but I have given them away and will never have one in my home again.
Yes. But are you going to to use 3 to 5 or mote C++ compilers on a given project?

The worst part of these frontend issues is, ultimately, the UX can become inconsistent, if not mess. Given that nearly everyone interfaces via the visual UI, you'd think we'd have this sorted out by now.
> Bwahahaha you're funny.

No, I'm curious and would use that citation! Even just a paper saying "this has been done" without any details? I have a hard time believing this has been done, and people are allowed to talk about it on online forums, but there isn't a single citation even acknowleding its existence.

> You're contradicting yourself again. There's a reason why weakness is a strength in formalisms.

I'm not sure what this means, but it sounds a lot like what I've been saying all along?
Hacker News is a miserable experience on mobile. Even on desktop, the upvote/downvote buttons are needlessly small and give no confirmation; I often find myself clicking "unvote" because I wasn't sure if I upvoted or downvoted.
I read Steven Levy's Hackers. I'd been doing tiny bits and pieces of coding here and there (this is pre High School) in ActionScript, VisualBasic/FoxPro etc, but that was the book that inspired the hell out of me.

I started spending more and more time learning things and here I am. (Software/InfoSec/UX)
Do you still lift? I'm pretty into weightlifting and I'd like to add a martial art and BJJ looks like the best fit for me, but I don't want to lose muscle definition.
I've made a similar declarative ajax

http://muayyad-alsadi.github.io/ajax-ops/
This post does not do justice to just how awful CVS is.

OpenBSD still uses it, and it's the main reason I've only rarely contributed patches. CVS is just that crappy.

When I say it's awful I should admit that like FORTRAN it's not bad for its time. But 1986 was 32 years ago. It's not bad because it's old, but it's not 32 years of good either.

Commodore 64 was great for its time, but I'm not going to load my version control from a cassette player in 2018.
I could be totally wrong, but I’m guessing that they’re coming from a “stewing in a brew of other people’s excreta and skin flakes, dirt and sebum,” rather than a modesty angle.
have you ever programmed in a BEAM language like erlang or elixir? It's easy to write, when there are errors, most of the time it's "no big deal". If something that is outside of your control (someone else's code, or hardware, or a driver, etc) then it's often not a fatal problem. Pushing errors to the edge is great, but "forcing you to think about all sorts of errors", I think is an antipattern. You should code the happy path, anticipate the 80% errors, patch the next 19% error, and ignore the last tiny sliver of errors, and generally be able to refactor easily.

Of course your environment should be able to survive and persist 99.99999% of errors, that's critical... there should be no throw()s or panic()s.