skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michael Greger, the author of that post, owns the website nutritionfacts.org. He appears to be taking the celebrity doctor career route, since his bio boasts about the lectures he gives and appearing on the Dr. Oz show.

Shows us something peer reviewed.

Edit: I haven't found anything to definitively say Greger is a quack, but given that searching his name brings up mainly alternative medicine type sites, I remain suspicious.
Yeah, I've seen some strange results as well, such as a large chunk of accessible area jutting through Olympia to Lacey from my starting point in West Seattle where the intervening land is not touched. I don't see how I could get there in 1 hour because the highways all go around the military bases and backwoods there.

https://oalley.net/map/b7p

There's a similar blob going from Seattle to Preston, which appears to contain some impossible routes where you would get off I-90 and then circle around via highway.

As long as you stay out of the mountains and don't cross any water it seems pretty accurate as a first approximation.
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You know you don't have to turn it on right? My mother has one that I've used and I just treat it like an old exercise bike. There's a knob between your legs for adjusting the difficulty.
So is $5 a latte. But seeing how Starbucks is doing - you can figure how this market will play out.

The initial amount is steep - but I wouldn't be surprised if lease plans show up very soon.
I hope AMD and Chinese consoles can disrupt the market being with the big three players gets kind of boring after a while.... Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo need some Sony more so than the others...
3M knew your non-stick pan was poisoning you in the ’70s
I am impressed. I was under the impression that this stuff works because alcohol kills basically everything.

Looks like we need to start washing with Everclear now.
"Ideal" is a matter of taste. If you like to hang out in big cities your ideal number might be bigger than someone who doesn't. Personally, I think we are well past the point of diminishing returns for any reasonable quality metric. But just getting people to acknowledge that this is something worth thinking about would be significant progress.

> That's pretty drastic.

Yep. We've dug ourselves into a pretty deep hole. Getting out will not be easy.
It's an interesting article. But I hate the header image. It's cool and all, but has nothing to do with psychedelic hallucinations. And while Klüver's "form constants" are OK, what's interesting about hallucinations isn't just the basic geometry.

Consider LSD hallucinations, for example. I recall especially complex entangled "ropes". Brightly colored, and in constant motion. Both spinning on axis, and writhing. But the motions weren't just three dimensional. There was a sense of stuff rotating and moving through other dimensions.

Also, the "ropes" had lots of detail. Almost like strings of characters. A little like that G/E/B block on the cover of Hofstadter's GEB. I also recall this guy who argued that all Hebrew letters were two dimensional projections of some multidimensional object. He released a video, which reminded me of LSD hallucinations. Very Kabalistic. And perhaps one inspiration for Aronofsky's "Pi".
Because people use it and rely on it working. Also, IPSec can be used in a secure way.
Yup - writing to disk it pretty fast. Not sure what your point is though as according to https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... the output for the benchmark is not redirected to /dev/null :

COMMAND LINE:
/opt/src/jdk-10.0.1/bin/java mandelbrot 16000
Decent cycling shoes are ~$100, plus cleats for another $15. So it'll pay for itself after about 50 classes... just like a Peloton!
it’s the passion for innovation and creation (not the towering mounds of gold) that really counts

Cool, so why don't you give away 99% of your net worth to people who really need it, and lower Apple's cut on your monopoly App Store to something like 5%.
Why do they need financing? How is a company that sells $2000 exercise bikes not profitable?
Well, from my CVD point of view it looks like one ;). It's largely the same except with better color contrast and ability to distinguish detail. But I understand it actually is missing a significant chunk of green hues for the non-colorblind.
Officially there is a policy that NIH funded research must be publicly available on the NIH repository (pubmed) within 1 year of a papers acceptance [1]. How this remains enforced is a different question. Not sure how relevant it is to other government funding sources. Also, a surprisingly, large amount of academic research is not strictly publicly funded.

[1]https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#753
pyllama is another project in the same space which I like. It uses pyflakes under the hood.

https://github.com/klen/pylama
"The Self-Driving Database Management System" Lol.
That’s what we called them.
How could an exchange allow long futures without allowing short futures?
What? Fitness is just "do more, eat less". Do some pushups, run up some stairs, and stop eating sugar. That'll get you healthier than 90% of people. And it's free.

It's ridiculous how much complexity and BS has been added on top that people seem to think they need to get healthy.
I took an entire truck load of household trash (cleaned out a house after tenants moved out), and it cost me $40 to dump it at the trash transfer station.

Landfill space isn't free, so by diverting trash to recycling, your dad saved more than $5.
If their numbers are to be believed, they sold 87,000 bikes during Q3 and Q4-2017.

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/306545 Jan 2018: 200k bikes sold

[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/qa-pelotons-president-1b-bike-... June 2017: 113k bikes sold
Confusing title. I thought there was some horrible bug that sent a 250MB file every time you clicked something! After reading the tweet I realize it’s saying the 250MB file contains every interaction.
Interesting.

Can they still sell it if it's owned by you?

They are collecting and storing it, for sure. What limitations do they have from there?

Also, how would the government patrol this without having access to all companies databases, servers, and policies?
There may be cases where negative consequences can be predicted, but this sure isn't it. Of all the predictions I heard about Facebook when it was new, "fake news" and "depression from comparing yourself to friends out having fun" and "an increasingly clickbaity and outrage-stoking newsmedia" were not among them. Not even close. Facebook is a great example of how programmers are not good at predicting negative consequences. The predictions I heard were mostly based on comparisons with Myspace and Livejournal. We are not good at this. Plumbers shouldn't try to do your electrical wiring, doctors shouldn't try to manage your database, legislators shouldn't try to pick your programming language, and programmers should not try to determine how society will react to technology.
Doesn't Dan, like, hail from Alberta?

I worked for a couple months in Calgary and really liked it.
Don't eat the green bits. They are poisonous and particularly bad if you are pregnant.
People like you are the reason we need to support IE6
Fortnite on Android will bypass Google Play
It's kind of weird (and worrying tbh) that the user doesn't get _all_ the data by default. Shouldn't all the data be sent upon request, is there a clause saying 'only after nagging the TRUE data will be sent?
The thing I don't understand is that you can already do this for much less money and arguably in a more fun way. Get a nice-ish real bike ($1,000), some rollers or a trainer ($200), and a subscription to Zwift ($14.99/month). Zwift allows you to create a biking avatar that rides around virtual racecourses with other bikers who are also using the service (usually there are thousands of people riding at any one time). You can do races, talk to other people, and more, for a fraction of this cost. Plus you have a real live bike you can take outside and enjoy.
Matt Levine's articles should be read in a light, slightly irreverent tone.
The term "not-for-profit" is almost meaningless here. They are not a charitable organization or advocating the social cause of "helping people invest". Vanguard makes profit. They probably make a crap-ton of profit. In fact, that's their main goal - to make as much money as possible. The caveat here is they don't have shareholders to report to, nor are they obligated to publicly report their financial statements. The top dogs at Vanguard probably make insane amounts of money all the while being "not-for-profit"... and nobody really knows because this stuff is private.

And I say this as a Vanguard customer for over a decade now, and I will probably continue to purchase funds from them for many reasons. But don't be fooled by thinking that they are doing some sort of public service by being "not-for-profit".
I used a more off the shelf approach, but the result is likely similar in performance and goal: https://imgur.com/a/Nm607lo

Case is an M350 itx case, and using a pico psu.

There should be more, smaller Ryzen APU systems, they really are amazing. Looking forward to physical releases of their v1000 series SoC's.
Being part of the high quality online classes, with a professional class bike, integrated directly with a personalized app... it's a complete experience. Trivializing it down to buying shoes and a road bike would be ignorant to how the average person purchases products (for emotional experience first, not some robotic rational process measured in dollars per ROI).
Coffee is ubiquitous and everyone can afford a $5 latte now and again. It's easy to 'try once' and then to stay hooked. They have the benefit of chemical addiction.

'Stationary bikes' are already a niche market to begin with, then add on the crazy price and monthly?

Crazy.

The problem with regular financing is that these things have little to no residual value, i.e. difficult resale. You can put a price on a used car so it can be kind of de-facto collateral. Not Pelotons.

Don't any of you remember 'Bowflex'?
I don't see how that contradicts anything else I've said. The average wage in Nunavut is higher than Toronto, does that make it a better place to live?
I wish a company would get valued this big on just getting people outside on their bikes.
Why the focus on bioaccumulation over harmfulness? Is it that bioaccumulation means that there is no safe exposure level to a substance that might have even minimal harmfulness?

Now I'm really going to reveal my ignorance...

I also don't understand how a substance with such a strong bond that we can't break it down, can interact with anything in the body. Is it something like a catalyst?
Spin class you can dial in to. You have to buy the dial in apparatus for $2,000.
It's called "regulation". Yes, I think, the GDPR is quite opinionated in that they want to discourage "pay with your data"/"surveillance capitalism" type business models - the reasons have been discussed enough in the last years.

I guess the authors understood that without that clause, there would be an obvious loophole that would indeed lead to nothing more than annoying pop-ups and reduce the desired consumer choice to name-only. So they took the logical step to close the loophole.

Of course many businesses are trying to counter with a pop-up anyway. But then, that's not the fault of the regulation.
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Yeah, ETFs are basically a herd-following strategy. When a higher proportion of traders aren't herd-following, this is an efficient strategy. However, as the proportion of herd-followers increases, the information held in a company's stock price increase is less indicative of faith in that company and more of faith in the overall sector. This has led to our current bubble, where everyone is buying stock, so the price goes up, so everyone wants to buy stock.

No clue where the top is going to be, but it feels like this one is going to be uglier than 2008.
that just seems like a staggering up front cost to be combined with a monthly service. Actually it appears you are locked into an initial 12 month contract. Reading reviews on their site it doesn't seem to be widespread acclaims, some of the negative reviews are pretty amazing. This cost structure is higher than some gym programs and many of those went to month to month which encourages them to keep delivering a good service.

Basically they offloaded the risk to the customer which is the opposite of the old razor blade business model. Reminds me a bit of that Juice Squeezer that failed. However I doubt Peloton is losing anything on the stationary bicycles or treadmills.
Yeah, way too expensive is right. That $2k for the bike is enough to buy a nice mid-range bike and a nice indoor trainer, with the added benefit of being able to bike outside, if desired. And I believe there are tons of streaming workouts free on Youtube.

Not to mention that a lot of people already think >$1k for a bike is crazy, so $2k for a stationary bike seems like it'll be a hard sell, but what do I know?

I'm sure there's more to it, and they add more value than just that, but like the OP, I'm really skeptical.
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Why not just use that same money to invest in proper disposal techniques?
« The true difficulty of fasting during Ramadan is not being allowed to drink water during the day. »

What?! To hell with that. That's just dangerous.
TlDr when you break up long chain hydro-carbons you get a release of carbon...
But if the point is to feel the effect of alcohol, V gon' give it to you with much less junk (carbs etc) than anything else
Ya I noticed that looking for 1 hour routes from a city next to Vancouver. It got a bunch right but it said I could get out to Powell River in an hour. It's like a 30 minute drive to the ferry, a 45 minute ferry ride an hour drive down the sunshine coast highway then another ferry to Powell river. Everything else around the lower mainland seemed fairly accurate. Though it depends heavily on which direction you're going, at which time of day. Some of those places would take hours to drive to depending on how bad traffic is.
Evolution and adaptation fundamentally ^.

Bacterial growth is essentially logarithmic / exponential - so all it takes is a few bacterial cells to have a chance mutation which affords the resistance to $THING, and the population is back to growing fine in the presence of $THING, and is ready to spread those beneficial mutations with other bacteria (in a hospital drain system for instance [1,2]).

$THING could be antibiotics, hand sanitizer - etc.

This basic principle is taught by example in every intro to microbiology / molecular bio laboratory course.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117541/

(^) Edit after downvotes: My only point was that the underlying mechanism is somewhat irrelevant - bacteria will always find a way to break down things humans put in their environment, even Nylon or radiation.
Ask HN: SaaS Startups- What solutions work to ensure payment from customers?
- We bill via invoice (net 30), even though we have 1 year contracts in place, many of our customers are very untimely in paying us, sometimes >1 month late, despite many follow up emails. These customers are large, we're not worried that they don't have cash flow.

- Have you had any experience with outsourcing collections / some sort of service or product, and to what degree of success have you found?

- Is it common to have a hard time collecting on cash post sale?
This is NOT a cultural thing folks. I really want to emphasize this basic basic fact. There are over 4 million Chinese Americans living here, 99% the most hardworking, honest, brilliant immigrants in America. The lowest crime, some of the highest success etc.

There are a handful of people stealing technologies though and the point I want to make it ITS STATE SPONSERED. China gives you a handbook on how exactly to steal technology and how to bring it back. The STATE SPONSERED stealing of tech in specific fields is the problem and is estimated to lose the US $150B every year according to a bipartisan report not including the rest of the world. The CIA estimates thousands of government trained espionage operatives are present in California alone, far more than any other country has had ever and this doesn’t include the Confucious Initiatives all over the country. This isn’t a Chinese problem at all, it’s the government of China specifically CCPs fault that should be countered by government policy not mistrust.
Yes, people gets surprised when I tell them my stationary bike broke because of the use rather than the disuse.
> This argument is a red herring. People like new things. People like things that work all the time without modification.

Apple and others have convinced people that they need to upgrade to the latest and greatest device each year. Because if they don't then it negatively impacts Apple's revenue and stock price.

> Almost no one actually wants a phone or computer that lasts twice as long but is bulky and requires maintenance.

That's a false dichotomy, you're assuming that in order for a computer to have a modular or maintenance friendly design, that it has to be big and bulky. Lenovo doesn't seem to have any problems producing laptops with similar dimensions to Apple's that are almost entirely modular.

> The disposable / non disposable distinction doesn’t really make sense. On a long enough time horizon, everything is disposable.

That same logic can be used to invalidate pretty much everything. The distinct makes perfect sense when framed within the usable life of the device. I have a 3rd generation iPod Touch going on a decade old that still works, are you saying I should just throw it away because it's more than a year old?

> you can replace things like screens, storage, memory, keyboards and so on.

Putting aside the fact that Apple doesn't permit most of those upgrades and that they don't actually sell most of those parts.

On which devices specifically can you upgrade storage, memory and keyboards?

On all iOS devices since ever, and on all the MacBooks since 2016 the storage and memory are soldered directly to the motherboard. They are non user serviceable parts.

The keyboards on all Macbooks with butteryfly keys are riveted to the aluminum unibody so a keyboard replacement is literally replacing half the machine.

On the Mac Pro they keyboard and mouse are the only things you can upgrade.
They have to ask me if they can use it and for what purpose. And even better, they can’t condition the use of the site/product on me accepting that they sell it.
Re 4: I don't think the claim was that there were not herbivorous large dinosaurs. I think the claim was that the herbivorous large dinosaurs were not grass-eaters.
I know you can do all that, but it's hard, and I'm kind of surprised they've raised a billion dollars to build and market this, given it's relative shortcomings. If you had told me they raised $20 million, I would have been surprised. Today I found out they raised $1 billion...I don't have any words to describe my shock.
Second that, and in the north central US it takes real hardcore riders to brave the snow and ice on mountain or fatbikes in the winter.

Having said that: Zwift + decent road/TT bike + power pedal/feedback trainer is more cost-effective in the long run and you get to actually take your bike outside on rides (gasp) to boot. Not sure why people like to watch some instructor sweat - give me nice scenery with other actual riders any day.

Zwift also happens to work for running with a treadmill and supported foot pod, but I haven't tried this yet. It's easier to run outside in the winter than to cycle outside in the winter!
> and sells people a $2000 bike and a $40/month subscription (for live streams of classes) with the idea that they will save money over time.

I can't say this phrase without cracking a laugh. Really.

$40 is an ok gym membership. All the treadmills and bikes you can ride.
Oh. That's kindof... gross. Better than wrapping silently I guess. Can you at least tell when a number has been 'promoted' to a float so you know you need a bigger type?
Yea, I do.

Just like I prefer selling my car on craigslist "priced to sell" to avoid haggling.

Or helping people move for free with no implication that I'm owed a favor later for it. Although I'm not sure we're still in "market world" at that point.
Whether the funds would be removed wasn't explicitly clear, but in a roundabout way, you brought up a good point. 401k's typically have a select 20-40 funds you can choose from, and this won't necessarily be available to GP.

That being said, I haven't had a 401k with Fidelity in 3 years and don't recall if I had access to "everything" or if the fund choices are limited.
Ask HN: Reasons why software projects get ugly
I'm interested in your opinions on why bigger projects seem to inevitably get messy.

Is it changing requirements, codebase getting too big to fit in one person's mind, lack of communication between developers? Maybe features of a particular language in use?

What's your experience?
I think there are two distinct markets and personas here:

"Wahoo / Strava / Zwift / Trainer Road / Training Peaks" cater to competitive cyclists which is niche group (huge downtrend in bike racing; look at #s from long running races as evidence).

Peloton is more geared towards "fitness" and otherwise would be gym and spin class goers; this is a much bigger market.
You could make an iPhone clone, sure, but Apple is a fashion brand as well as a technology company
This is true to my experience as well, although I'm still a loyal Vanguard customer. I actually got dubious tax advice from a Vanguard rep that could have screwed me if I didn't do a bit more research. That being said, I do tend to prefer them over Fidelity (I am currently a customer of both), but maybe it's worth taking a closer look now.
The reddit redesign feels a lot like the Digg changes before everyone moved away. I think reddit still has a lot more going for it, and being able to opt out solves the problem, but I'm still every so slightly worried.
True! Case in point: Vanguard's advisory services and their actively managed funds.
I haven't read the Fine Article but that snippet you posted could be completely benign. I've copied "thousands of files from a company owned computer to an external storage device" on many occasions.

I was planning on working from home and my network at home would have taken hours to get all the files from source control over the corporate VPN, so I downloaded the entire source tree to a thumb drive.
I suspect you may mean that ICBMs with atomic weapons are existential threats. Most people would not regard an ICBM equipped with a conventional explosive warhead as being capable of annihilating humanity.

If anything, this should hint at the difficulty of forecasting. The full impacts of some technologies cannot be understood without also knowing what they synergize with.
Who's Dan?

I probably seem like I really hate Calgary but I don't... I was talking about the praries at large and Calgary is just one city.

I mean they made a knock-off CN Tower out of spite but I won't hold it against them... :P
I think he means by its fundholders. If you own a share of VTSAX (for example), you also own a piece of Vanguard. If you own a share of a fidelity index fund, you do NOT own a piece of fidelity.
That sounds good. How is it enforced?

( not being sarcastic )
Yes, let's buy more disposable plastic garbage from China. That will solve our problem with shipping disposed plastic garbage to China.
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What whataboutism? You suggested exploitation films are even less respected than porn, I gave you example of a highly respected director who almost exclusively made exploitation films. I was trying to provide a counter-example, especially since I cannot think of a Tarantino-equivalent director making porn.