skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stretch your chest muscles, do face pulls. Do rows and deadlifts. If your posture is really bad, don't train (strengthen) chest until you've improved things a bit and have done plenty of stretching.

Then use postural reminding aids (don't use a brace unless a physio tells you to), I put a small massage ball behind each shoulder blade and the chair when i'm working, if they fall I know i've slouched.

I went from people openly telling me I needed to fix my posture, to being credited with great posture in about 4-6 months. My posture actually still needs work, because I have pretty noticeable anterior pelvic tilt, but the forward-neck issues are mostly gone.
Yeah, the gig economy in many ways is better suited for the average industrialized welfare state.
Actually it is not limited to our profession.

I have relatives in completely different (non-tech) jobs that would say of working a job just to pay the bills "what kind of way is that to live?". In fact they have said that of other family members from the previous generation, who stuck it out in a job they didn't particularly like so they could take care of their families.

A lot of people don't seem to value the personal sacrifice of others, even when that sacrifice is for a worthy cause (and taking care of your family most definitely is a worthy cause).

Sure, if you have a chance to get paid at least a sufficent amount of money to do something you like, or even love (if possible), then take it. But you shouldn't look down on others who choose to put up with a lot in order to provide for others. It's a noble thing to do, and it should be honored, not scoffed at.
Of course they do. Our neurons generate conscious experience, and, assuming there's nothing superphysical about our own biology, it's natural to believe that all matter has conscious experience in some shape or form.
In all likelihood the author was asked to write 1200 words to promote her book.

Maryanne Wolf is the author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

So I guess the article is supposed to pique your interest sufficiently to then go buy the book. I'm going to side with you here though, the majority of the book could probably be condensed to <2000 words. And anyway, the contract to publish the book probably came with a word count requirement: give me 50,000 words and we'll publish it.
Places like Brazil have obscene taxes on game hardware so if you could afford a copy of Goldeneye with early-2000s money, you were a baller.
The NRA positions itself as a civil rights organization, but is really a trade group. The NRA has been pushing these extreme positions with their conservative politician pals because guns were an old man thing that was dying in the 90s. Now it’s one of the three legs of the conservative stool (taxes, abortion, guns)

If you read an old copy of the American Rifleman (nra magazine), it was a very different agenda, mostly focused on hunting and skills. Problem is that hunting is a dying sport... and the gun industry could not and cannot survive in its old form.

Enter the rise of fringe politics and talk radio, where 24/7 paranoia has convinced a generation that they need to stockpile guns. The fact that people who are otherwise intelligent are advocating arming teachers and pushing concealed carry shows how effective this type of marketing is.
The term doesn't describe what I think the article is about, because I don't think "keeping up with the Joneses" is the same as being a hypocrite. I'm fine with you having a different idea of what the term means.

Also, are you sure I intended to bash anyone? Because I didn't, and wasn't. Sorry if you saw it that way.
> Taking that assurance at face value was naïve. The taxi thing was a motif.

You sure do like the word naive!

Do you think he lied about being instructed by the staff member that the taxi driver would know where the guy lived? If not, then you're arguing that the author, having been instructed by the staff that he would not need directions, should have summoned his worldly wisdom and realized this couldn't be true. But the mere bias of someone's staff, which is of course predictable, does not explain why that staff would exaggerate in a way that will predictably be refuted, i.e., when the author gets into the cab, he'll find out they don't know! So you're arguing that he's naive for not assuming that the staff is both biased and stupid. But cab drivers knowing where a local minor celebrity lives is not that crazy of a proposition.

> How would you define failure in this scenario?

Rather than reporting unambiguous (i.e., un-manipulatable) facts that are clear evidence of silliness, he mostly uses rhetorical techniques which are completely up to the author's discretion. When he does report facts, they are completely consistent with Popper being a retired intellectual giant who is just old, forgetful, and busy. Trying to make Popper look bad because he's a forgetful 90-year-old comes off as very distasteful.
You think the world only has 1 nuke?

Also it looks like 40 was an overestimate by me, the real number is 15: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...
There are still posters everywhere, obviously, and they've increasingly become animated screens here. But the only time I see video-with-sound ads now is at the cinema.

My tolerance has dropped enough that it's becoming a significant disincentive to going to the cinema.
Barbell hip thrust and bulgarian split squats, if you really want to work those glutes. Squats and deadlifts are great, but always try to include some bilateral work (eg bulgarian split squats and lunges) and exercises to focus on specific muscle groups (eg hip thrusts).
I think if Tesla can pull this off, they will be in a great position. Self Driving cars are years away (I think), but I think self driving trucks are not.

I've driven down highways and passed massive distribution facilities that are just off the highway. It's a lot less complicated to have a truck drive along a highway, stop at a charger, and continue on to a distribution center. Low risk, boring, driving. If Tesla can role out a truck where they can say "It will cost $3,000 to move this trailer from our interchange facility (or the customers warehouse) here in North Carolina to our interchange facility here in Nevada in 24 hours" that's big.

I don't think you will be able to replace human drivers at every step (at the moment), but if Tesla can replace the long haul drivers- that's big. When the Electric Car market hits an inflection point, Tesla is going to be playing catch up but if they can get into trucking before anyone else does, and with a solid long haul self driving truck, we're going to see a lot of chance.
For a site where the average user is familiarized with Big O notation, the HN hive sure has issues accepting that overconsumption and overpopulation are a fact.
My big concerns is the author's objectivity. This journalist has now written ten articles (including this one) mentioning Amazon in the headline, and one which strongly implicates Amazon (and has pictures of Amazon boxes), all since February of this year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alana-semuels/

Of these eleven articles, ten of them run against Amazon, its business model, or its affects on society either directly in the headline or in the tagline listed on her author page...the only one I could find that didn't was "Free Shipping Isn't Hurting Amazon" piece.

So, as a person who had written a bunch of articles in the last 7 months criticizing Amazon, did that color her expectations of her Amazon Flex experience? It seems pretty clear she took the job so that she could write the piece, even basically admitting at one point that she was carrying around her reporter's notebook while on at least one of her Flex runs.

I doubt she made any false statements, but along with the objective statements, she included quite a number of subjective ones which clearly supported a thesis of "Amazon ruthlessly exploits the gig economy". And a significant portion of the article was dedicated to her own "tech support" issues...none of which seemed to be supported by quoted observations from the people she interviewed.

I don't doubt that there are valid problems and criticisms of Amazon Flex. I just don't know how much I can trust this article to objectively communicate them.
Thank you. I do acknowledge that this is generally an unwelcome point of view, but the reason my comment was originally flagged was I believe for legitimate reasons before changes I made soon after commenting. After I was flagged, I looked up those rules you linked but I must have skimmed over the part about not using all caps.
You're conflating 401(k)s and pensions. 401(k) accounts are in employees' own brokerage accounts. The company can't touch them. All the company does is decide what funds and stocks to make available, do payroll deduction, and contribute whatever matching.

Defined benefit pensions are different and are much less common than they used to be. So mostly they have been reformed by ceasing to exist in the US. There are various protections for pensions but they're still an issue--especially in municipalities with financial issues.

ADDED: And there's actually a lot of sensitivity these days to 401(k) options that are perceived as risky. Such as a company's own stock.
Deadheading[0] is probably easy on the battery. Yet even empty, the Supercharger network doesn't reach far enough yet, and apparently the truck had to take up several charging stations at "non-Super" chargers. Do things that don't scale, indeed.

> Musk jokingly added that they used a 1,000-mile long extension cord, but he is actually referring a system made of extension cords that they have used to charge Tesla Semi prototypes at Tesla’s regular charging stations.

...

People who have witnessed Tesla Semi prototypes charging at Supercharger stations have told Electrek that the system made of extension cords plugs into several Supercharger stalls at the same time and into several charge ports on the truck.

Gas semi trucks can take 30 minutes to fuel, and electrics usually take vastly longer than gas vehicles to recharge. Megachargers will be the key to making these trucks actually viable. If they could get recharge times below refuel times, it would be a great advantage.

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> I wonder if ultimately it does come down to economics, with the Tesla Truck having 'regen' as quite a trick to play. The 'regen' should make descending a lot safer and obviously a lot more 'green' than normal engine braking. I am intrigued as to how that will work out crossing The Rocky Mountains as per the customer visit going on here.

Regenerative braking stops helping when the battery is full - on my Camry Hybrid, after going down about 600 feet of vertical drop, it actually starts the engine to engage engine braking.

Also, there's a limit in the rate of how much velocity energy can be converted to electricity by regeneration, per second. For instance, slowing from 65 MPH to 64 can take over a second using only regenerative brakes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mileage
Not without either implementing it yourself or wrapping interface methods.

Go generate is like a manual step for having generics, I imagine one day soon its functionality or something similar will be part of go build.

In response to your particular example, a map plus a mutex seems sufficient.

I dig that it's a few extra lines of code, but I guess I'm looking for a really mean example.
No, this is a permissions problem. Reading and writing to an application directory does not cause any issues until some code in that directory starts running with privileges it shouldn't have.

It should not be possible for an application that happens to install other applications to bypass the user for specific permissions. The user must be asked explicitly.

This has nothing to do with being able to "sideload" apps or not. Sideloading apps is actually possible on iOS, it's just such an effort (getting a developer account) that it's rarely done in practice.
Not really. It generalizes to make something unique to barely recognizable. It’s like Microsoft’s new logo is “Software Company”. When you put this logo on road signs, brochures etc without variations, it would look aweful. Also, notice that all these variations could have been possible with virtually any other designs. In fact the particular way they have chose to do variations produces sizes that would be incompatible in too many scenarios. I now know which company not to approach for my logo designs :).
Is white not an acceptable term? In Britain, on government forms that's the term used.
If you're really interested in those butt gains, look up Bret Contreras aka "The Glute Guy". He posts some workouts on Instagram (who doesn't these days?), but he knows his stuff.

https://bretcontreras.com/
Something I've always wondered about, which HN might be the only possible place to get an answer to: Does the "lottery winners' curse" afflict founders of wildly successful startups? (Say, people who walk away from an acquisition with $10M+ -- on par with "winning the lottery".)
Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
Very informative video about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
Isn't this in a sense the goal of globalization? Each region adapts more and more to the niche that they serve best.
A bug bounty only helps with a very narrow set of security issues.

For instance, the deployment and updating process (which Nextcloud has no control over) is just as important.
Pensions worked a lot better when employees were often with IBM or Dupont for decades. And, even then, there was no guarantee that someone would be around to pay out the pension after a few decades--although there were various insurance mechanisms.

Someone always needs to bear the risk that the planned payout will be less than forecast. Whether it's the employee or the company. And, at some point, if the money's not there it won't be paid out.
> Our economy, indeed much of our societal ethos in general, is rooted in the assumption that labor is a scarce commodity. This was true throughout most of human history, but it started becoming less true with the advent of the industrial revolution

This is the exact opposite of historical fact.

Before the industrial revolution, labor was next to worthless. Laborers were paid next to nothing by current standards, and lived in poverty below current day third world levels.

The industrial revolution made labor more scarce. Many industrial jobs were created and wages rose as competition for workers intensified. This has been going on uninterrupted for 250+ years now.

This could change in the future, but note that the impending replacement of human labor by machines have also been predicted for 250+ years. I'll believe it when i see it.
Awesome, thanks for the tips.

I have anterior pelvic tilt too— what are you doing to correct this?
Being unable to pay for something you need to live your life is bvb the same as having no agency over ones life. I see no difference. Sure, if you found that no one was willing to provide you with the money you required to make decisions and live your life you could move somewhere else. That act in and of itself is an act of agency with the likely goal of improving one's situation. As far as I can tell you're supporting my argument, all in saying is that money doesn't equal agency, it's the provider of agency in our current civilization. There are either ways we could provide individual agency to our citizens with getting it all muddled up in the medium of exchange for bartering and resource allotment.
"We use money as a medium of exchange enabling people to get other people to do things for them. "

How does money get other people to do things for you? Well, there has to be this group of individuals who are just dying for that money and will do all manner of things to get it. That flexibility comes from desperation and not having agency over your own life.

"If all people wanted was agency over themselves most people could do it--living off the land in the middle of nowhere is still pretty cheap here in the U.S."

You mean if people wanted to trade nature having control of their existence for an employer having control over their existence, it should be easy in the US. Even that is hardly true - even subsistence agriculture requires skills that can't easily gotten and moreover, all land owners have to pay taxes so you can't have true independence, a best growing your own food and hopefully selling the surplus to pay your property taxes.

It's not that any of this is impossible. Rather, it's a "way out" but so is getting a lot of money so you're a labor buyer rather than the labor seller. But all this does add up to lack of money actually being a force to "regulate and monitor the agency" of most people today.
I personally think there are 2 really difficult pills that the incumbent media giants need to swallow:

1. The younger generation (myself) does not like commercials, and are willing to pay a subscription fee to remove them (ie Pandora one, Hulu+, Spotify Premium.) Either the commercials pay for the content, or or the consumer pays, not both!

2. The less popular networks/channels will have to either have revenue/funding cut substantially, go elsewhere (to Youtube for Facebook,) or out of business. Most of us simply don't care and don't want to pay for it. This bundling of unpopular networks with really popular ones is costing the cable companies too much money that they're trying to pass onto the consumer. Customers are sick of paying for it.

Streaming services are delivering content, while removing the waste of time and attention spent watching commercials, and the waste of money spent on programming that the majority of the viewer base could care less about. It's not rocket science, it's just trimming the fat from the old way of doing things.
AWS Step Functions guide
There's only 3 billion internet users.
Missing Tape Discovery Solves 40-Year Lunar Mystery
I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir
It seems like a tremendous overstatement to invoke themes like colonialism and slavery when talking about socio-economic change that doesn’t even begin to reflect the horrors coming from the history of those things.
Since you're the one bringing this this time up I'll throw this out there: fiber is the source of as many problems as solutions. The idea that high fiber diets are appropriate for everyone is not supported by the science, and there are tons of places where reducing fiber is tremendously beneficial. Look into the FODMAP diet, for one obvious example.
Which is why it is a fantastic example. "Even Google" is extremely explicit that location is being shared on the target device.
Are you really talking about Popper's ideas or just a simplified popular understanding of 'falsifiable'?

Popper never said ideas needed to be based on reproducible evidence. He also emphasised explanations over just predictability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#History offers a few explanations from different eras
Pi is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter. Someone could have discovered that this ratio was a constant just by measuring circles of different sizes and noticing that if you divide the circumference by the diameter, you always got roughly the same number. By ancient times, the value of pi was already known to within 1%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Antiquity
> and eventually a foundation of mathematics.

So it will have a proof capability like Coq?

Is there any new theory behind this system? What is your vision in this regard?
Funny that they blame Ryanair and Easyjet, who only serve Europe, in the first sentence, then plaster a big photograph of a field full of Chinese tourists that most likely did not use Ryanair or Easyjet to get there.
I've already seen similar hell for deploying to a container.

If you're system has state, and most eventually do, then things can get tricky.

I do think containers are progress in many ways. Especially so for batch processing jobs. But they have not been pure progress.
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English is not my mother tongue, but I can skim it easily, maybe not easily than my native German.

A lot might also be about writing style: English has developed a very anecdote/story- heavy style. Try to find an article by an author with English as mother tongue - they breast universally use this approach. E.g. article about tax law starts with one story, article about politics goes in depth on some specific scene or encounter, etc etc. There is often much mention of 'unimportant' detail that fill the mental picture, and English language media often repeat and stretch out information (rather than strive for information density). In comparison of DE-EN-FR I even find this in more in-depth documents like textbooks, not universally but much more than in the other languages.

Of course fluency plays a major role. But i can skim a french-language fluff piece or story or recounting of an event, even if that's not exactly a strong language for me. At the same time I can't skim an in-depth description of this or that political conflict or technical report in EN or DE if I want to understand the course of events or details. So it's at least to some degree (at least for me) a matter of the writing style - stories read easily, and non- English media is much less story-heavy. For an English native you might be able to compare yourself skimming an Economist article or something academic vs e.g. guardian or independent and see if it feels different.

In a twist, I find it sometimes harder to read a FR language fluff piece closely/carefully - they tend to use words that are more slang/informal and which i won't know as well how to interpret them in the context. But getting the gist of easy. This might be particular to foreign language reading though.
If you intend to export the API to the widest possible variety of other languages, C is a good way to go for the initial implementation. The lack of a universally accepted, language-independent "Rosetta stone" ABI means that this is the one job that C still does better than anything else.

Nothing wrong with writing targeted, specialized components in C. It can be done properly, it just frequently isn't.
That's an interesting question
Lots of tourist from outside Europe use "hub" airports and then travel to their final destinations, often using low cost airlines. This why German and Dutch airspaces are so busy.
It's like giving a kid a prebuilt Lego model and expecting them to never take it apart and build something else. No sane parent would expect that, I wonder why I keep all my creative ideas to myself and struggle with motivation problems and execution inititive...huh... can't be that I have zero agency granted to me in arranging my workspace. Heh
Which criticisms of ZFC are you referring to?
> And if, but only if, we invest in the right green technology

Key sentence of the presentation. Population overshoot is a fact.
“leads to pressure which gradually causes blood vessels to bulge over time”

Genuinely curious, are there any studies that have shown that?
Sure.

It's completely open source.

1) VueJS/Bootstrap for the UI.

2) GoLang API for the UI and the backend MQ/Job workers.

3) VideoJS for the player.

4) Not sure about the DB Yet, either Postgres or Memsql.

5) SideKiq for the Job Queue.

6) Nats.io for the MQ.

7) Centrifugal/centrifuge for the real-time messaging layer.

8) Probably React/Vue Nativefor the mobile application. Whichever one works out best on mobile.
No.

'this' is confusing because it is a novel abstraction that has no analog/referent to anything familiar, even if JavaScript is your first language. It is completely unintuitive and simply must be internalized with time

Effectively, 'this' forces you to understand the majority of the prototypal nature of JavaScript just to simply call some functions.

Alternatively, don't use this at all, ever. You can pass explicit arguments for anything you need.
Cancer risk and replication error could also be a limiting factor.