skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Chromebooks are very internet-forward, they get plenty of advertising opportunities without installing banner ads or something similar into the OS. Are you expecting them to start advertising on the Android home screen too?
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Anecdotal: It didn't cure my depression but certainly helped me manage it. It was the only thing that made the depression subside for long enough to concentrate and get real work done.

Major Caveat: My brain chemistry has changed over time, and the last 10 times I've smoked have all been horrible, indescribable paranoia and anxiety I wouldn't wish upon anyone. (Fun fact: pure THC injected into a healthy adult predictably causes psychosis.)

Used to recommend highly, now highly dis-recommend until the genetic testing becomes available and widespread. For some people it's the only thing that helps. For others it might just be the worst thing a person could do to themselves.

Re: Correlation != Causation

Yes, certainly. However, observing myself and others, I see a definite worsening of anxiety and paranoia after smoking. Yes, it depends on the person, what you're smoking, etc. (THC vs CBD (apparently a potent anti-psychotic) is very fascinating and I look forward to more research in this area)

The take-home point is that there are people who should not be smoking at all, and this is something I really don't hear mentioned enough.
(Sorry to nitpick, but) I think you mean "learning method"? A method is a method; a methodology is the reasons, rationale, explanation for why you've used that particular method. I see this error everywhere, although it's much longer and incorrect. I guess it sounds/looks impressive, kinda scientific.
Non-rotating formats are more expensive up-front than Standard, but tend to be cheaper long-term because the cards stay legal and usually things don't shift enough to make them completely unplayable.
It is not only faster, it also uses safe variants.
http://linasm.sourceforge.net/docs/api/string.php
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That was quite a good read, thanks! Among the couple of insights, the concept of getting two conflicting optimization systems to agree by making them trade was something... new to me, at least expressed in that form.
> Maybe I'd chat with people on my way to work. Problem is, they're most likely sitting in a car. Or riding a bike. Or blasting music from their headphones while staring at their phones.. actually, maybe I'm sitting in a car too. Or not, because technology enables remote work and I don't have a commute.

Sweeping changes like cars vs walking is definitely a big deal but let's not forget about trains too. Technology allows us to group together for decent amounts of time. Every time I take the train to Manhattan there's hundreds of new faces for a ~90min trip each way. I almost always end up in a conversation with someone for a majority of the ride.

A few weeks ago I flew to CA and had ~6 hours of flying in either direction. Ended up talking to a few people (layovers, etc.) and had in depth conversations. Technology helped with that too.

> Same phenomenon when I go for a walk or jog. People are preoccupied with their devices.

I walk ~4 miles a day and have been for 5+ years. There's plenty of opportunities to talk to people and I don't even live in a big city, just a medium populated suburban area in the US. If I really wanted to, I could talk to 15 or 20 people a day. That's just walking past other people walking or people hanging out for lunch outside of the main mini-town area, etc..

If it were a populated area like Manhattan, there would be thousands of opportunities in a few hour time span. Just an endless sea of people waiting to be approached.
I see this as a pattern in any society getting wealthy because the blueprint seems to be about the same across the board.

When you are financially successful, you buy a nice car and clothes to display that success. You travel to Europe and the world and post pictures from iconic places. At some point getting a nice car or travelling to places no longer impresses anyone because these days everyone can do it, so you seek other things like education, art, philanthropy, title etc.

In ex-soviet countries, for example, it used to be that your college degree would not impress anyone because everyone can get one and end up in a low-paying job as a medical doctor or nuclear physicist but a pair of western brand shoes went long way for a while until they became widely available.

I wouldn't judge people on their way of displaying success. Each culture has its own ways that come and go out of fashion as things are getting hard or easy to obtain.
Remember the '90s when you made plans and everyone actually showed up instead of cancelling at the last minute because there wasn't any way to do that?

Before everyone had a cell phone we didn't need to "make plans" every time we wanted to hang out. Hanging out with friends was just what you did.
eh, read to me like he was suggesting that young people try living their damn lives before shackling themselves to a business venture. you can always start a business venture, but you're pretty much only young and full of wonder once...
You can definitely get a cheaper PC laptop with similar (or actually better) specs.

Examples:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273405851977

https://www.ebay.com/itm/153078138692

It's more of a choice of the OS, I feel like. I don't get how you can't simply copy files between a macbook and an iphone. With a PC it's trivial.
I recently went through the new laptop experience. When it came down to it, I couldn't justify spending the money on an MBP that would meet my needs.

My decision came down to a few things:

1.) I hate the touch bar and you can pry the function keys out of my cold, dead hands. (I like saying that.)

2.) To get an MBP that will provide enough power for me, I'd need to upgrade to a touch bar only model.

3.) MBPs are seriously expensive.

4.) There are other, really good machines that can run real operating systems and provide all the power for a fraction of the cost.

5.) To get an MBP with similar performance to those other machines, I would have to pay approximately $1,000 more. If I invested that money in an RESP (a registered educational savings plan, it's a Canadian thing), I'm pretty sure my girl could afford an extra semester in University.
As per Google's YouTube terms of service: "you agree not to access Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Player, or such other means YouTube may explicitly designate for this purpose".

There are also more nuances to it. E.g. lots of songs and movies on YouTube are uploaded illegally, and the ability to download personal copies doesn't extend to illegal material produced due a copyright violation. That for example is the case in German law. (So e.g. an official VEVO music video would be ok).

>This is essentially taping TV or radio, which is legal, right?

Taping TV or radio in some countries is allowed as part of a time-shifting permission (to be able to watch/hear at a later date when it's not longer broadcast). But technically this applies to broadcast media, not to online video which you can watch at a later time online anyway.

Note also that "fair use" is not applicable outside the US, specific laws apply to different countries, and in Europe things are usually towards more the creators/publisher's side.
There is more detailed research as to food consumption patterns. Basically fasting for around 16 hours a day is good for health. From the evolutionary perspective--that invested in a human body 200K years--the way we eat today is really broken. And our body can't adapt to a new pattern even during 1000 years. Not to mention like 50. A human body during 200K years was not prepared to eating a lot. It needs to store energy and to use stored energy. That's a natural cycle and different function that our body needs to execute. Nowadays we just store energy 24/7.

"Emerging findings from studies of animal models and human subjects suggest that intermittent energy restriction periods of as little as 16 h can improve health indicators and counteract disease processes. The mechanisms involve a metabolic shift to fat metabolism and ketone production, and stimulation of adaptive cellular stress responses that prevent and repair molecular damage."

Here is the link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250148/

Also here are patterns of daily and weekly food consumption from this research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250148/figure/...
This sounds all too familiar. Developers having a REST epiphany and thinking they're clever by mapping relational rows to REST resources is also very common with Spring apps (Spring data in particular).
Highlander became Commander. There are only a couple extra rules. In human speak:

1. cards in your deck (100 total including the commander) have to be the same colors as your commander.

2. you start at 40 life and a commander in your command zone.

3. if your commander goes to the graveyard or exile, put him back in the command zone, but he costs 2 more colorless to cast each time this happens.

4. if a commander personally deals 21 damage to someone, they lose.

If they insisted on one card, they were playing commander or brawl (MTG's new "commander lite" using 60 cards, standard only with slightly different life rules).
> Have you tried meditation?

Mindfulness, to some extent. Much less than I'd like. So far I found it useful in toning down anxiety attacks.

> I also enjoyed reading "the war of art" and still find solace in its musings when I am faced with resistance.

Seen this book recommended a couple times on HN already; adding to my toread list. Thanks!
I can’t let this go. It’s nothing like that. Yes, you are just positing opinions as if they’re facts, but that’s not everyone. There has been reviews of the literature. E.g I can’t recall the book off the top of my head but something like out 120 studies on effectiveness of different policing strategies, only ~20% of studies showed statistical significant effects for any given strategy and a fair amount of those failed to replicate. Meanwhile we’ve continually had studies pointing to lead as a significant driver with significant effect sizes. You keep strawmanning this “solely” argument that no one is making while also ignoring the plethora of data pointing to it being a huge driver, and by the far the largest driver with any body of evidence. It’s not like this stuff isn’t being studied, yet I challenge you to find studies that can show anything near the evidence for these other factors.
So you don't think it possible for an inaudible DRM scheme to be embedded into the music? Perhaps a signal to any digital recorders? I wouldn't put it past Apple to forbid one Apple product from recording anything broadcast by another.

This is already a thing in another medium: money. Digital printers, and some software packages, are trained to identify embedded signals to disrupt attempt to scan/print paper currency.
And MicroSoft
>Companies exist to serve their customers.

No problem then, because those who get their songs off of YouTube are not their customers (or, in any case, are not their customers for those particular songs).
Science is the process, not the results.

And every "point" you've brought up is the same canard flat Earthers, young Earth creationists, and other sort of pseudo-science hack pushes.

asdf has discarded out of hand the study for the first reason he could find because he does not like the result. There are better reasons elsewhere in this very thread for being skeptical. But he didn't look those up. He didn't do one bit of leg work. He decided "Willie Nelson, Checkmate." What he's done is no better than what so many anti-intellectual hacks have done when arguing against things like evolution and the Earth not being flat.

So yes, I trust science, because I trust the process.

And it wasn't presented as a "one-size-fits-all" research. And regardless, if it was found that it was an average of 4 years, you're just saying "Yeah, well, I'm going to be one of the lucky ones".
> And once your business is successful, then you're unlikely to start another.

Let me FTFY: once you start a successful business, it's unlikely that another you start will be nearly equally successful.

Most entrepreneurs are serial ones, and successful ones -- particularly those who leave their business behind (e.g. by acquisition) tend to try again. But contrary to popular belief, having a successful business in your past doesn't make it easier to make your new ventures successful -- it just makes it easier to start one.
> You're not going to escape the pain, but you can control its duration usually ("OK, I'll do this for 5/10/20/40 minutes then I promise myself a break")

Tried that, and - like many tricks - worked for a while. Eventually ended up in a state where starting something is nigh-impossible, but if I somehow manage to do it and survive 15 minutes, then things flow well for the next couple hours.
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>The biggest market there, by far, is on whether Ether will trade above $500 at the end of the year. This is an interesting market because Augur bets are made in Ether. So even though the market (as of last time I checked) says it’s 74% percent to be trading above $500 and it’s currently $480 (it’s currently Thursday, July 26, and I’m not going to go back and keep updating these numbers). When I first saw this the market was at 63%, which seemed to me like a complete steal. Now it’s at 74%, which seems more reasonable

Hi. My job is to essentially figure out reasonable probability distributions for securities on which to price derivatives contracts. Certainly, due to some securities having negative skewedness, it's common for a stock to have more than a 50% chance of going up. I've seen it as high as 65%, but the counterpoint to that is that there's usually very small probability that it goes a lot higher.

I would love to know what probability distribution this guy is using to think that the probability of going up over $20 being 74% is reasonable.
Wow!

But with composite leaf springs, I'm guessing that they could make them less perfectly elastic. That'd damp out oscillations, but also increase rolling friction on bumpy terrain. However, vibration also dissipates energy. My mechanics is inadequate, but they very likely optimized.
Although one has to be careful that collecting these doesn't turn into a form of hoarding, it is useful to keep a list of useful/interesting stuff to search later. Especially for things you wouldn't have found just by using Google alone : e.g. after reading some HN posts there are a few "gems" that you haven't heard of before, those are worth bookmarking because they'll be hard to find later on.
For things that are easy to find on Google anyway, or not relevant in a couple of years time, I agree that it might be beneficial to just delete it. At some point I realized I had 5000 bookmarks, went through the titles, thrown out most and was back to a 1000 (still a lot, but I intend to prune it more).
No, that would be the worst of all.

You'd have to hunt around for things, hope that whatever you were doing didn't have weird unpredictable effects, and was repeatable. While you could write down everything you typed, and some precis of what resulted, or even in some cases record the result (eg ssh-ing to a machine from inside an emacs buffer or something like that.
Where is the AI that would scour these videos instead of humans?
I don’t disagree. But when your deadline is often tomorrow, what can you do?
I'm a PC person and just got a brand new Macbook Pro 2018 i7 16GB of RAM for work. The keyboard is pretty terrible if you're used to mechanical keys. The trackpad (with the "taptic feedback") while strange and annoying at first, grew on me and is nice. MacOS for Java dev has been fine. The touchbar is fairly useless, but I was able to bind escape to caps lock very easily, muscle memory though is still a problem. I personally don't like MacOS more than Windows 10 after Windows 10 got the Linux subsystem. I hate all the USB-C only stuff. I can't plug anything in anymore without tons of dongles, and I can't seem to find a dongle that has all the ports I want on it at once. And the ones I have to buy are crazy expensive. The thing gets REALLY hot when doing anything taxing. It warmed my entire desk up where I noticed it when touching the desk from 5 inches away from the laptop. It burns my legs when I'm wearing shorts. It also slides off my legs because it's made of slippery metal. The speakers are very nice. Webcam is okay (all laptop cams suck compared to phones). Touch ID is okay I guess. I shut my laptop off when I'm done using it and each time you do that you have to type your password back in to use touch id, so I don't find myself using it that much.

All in all, I think if I had a choice, I would choose something else over a 2018 Macbook Pro. At least considering how much it costs.
I'm not a networker, but sounds like from a correctness standpoint, a problem on Fastly's end -- they're reusing frontend IPs for distinct sets of machines, and traffic directed to the 'wrong' PoP is dropped hard rather than attempting any kind of internal routing

Of course that kind of routing would create a potential bottleneck for an attacker to exploit ("simply" force traffic to the wrong IPs to the wrong PoP, assuming $attacker had this level of access to the backbone), but that's the problem Fastly are supposedly paid to deal with

Their scheme is fine and dandy with a protocol like DNS where UDP retries are transparent and TCP is a tiny fraction of weird traffic, but for business applications handling credit cards, surely the occasional RST is already too many

Or another way to look at it, basically they're saying their IP addresses are special snowflakes and actually the full address includes the route, and source networks are wrong for assuming things work the way they're supposed to everywhere else on the Internet
Imposing a trade embargo on Iran.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/here-are-iran-sanctions-retu...
Yea, but the wheel is more than just the rims. Play around here http://www.wheelbuilder.com/wheel-weight-calculator.html. The Rim is generally a large fraction of total wheel weight, but both spokes and Hub's are important.

On a bike the total weight also includes the fork and parts of the suspension. Not sure about wheelchairs, but I suspect deforming the center of the wheel still easily cuts unsprung mass in half.
I don't know, they used to say the same thing about writting.
I think you and I see eye-to-eye on Woz. I feel like there's been another uptick in idol worship when it comes to him in the last few years.

As for Jobs, I was thinking more of his technical abilities. The Woz-worshippers putting him on a pedestal seem to feel it simultaneously necessary to denigrate Mr. Jobs' technical side.

Jobs knew a hell of a lot about computers. More than I, or anyone I've met, ever will. It's clear reading old interviews with him that he knew his stuff, all the way down to the circuit level. But these days the conventional wisdom is that Woz built everything and Jobs was the equivalent of P.T. Barnum.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Did he personally know how to program 68000 assembler? Maybe some, or maybe not. But did he know how the chip worked? Absolutely. And more importantly, he picked the right kind of smart people and let them (largely) do their thing. And he did something that rarely happens these days — he gave them personal credit for their technical achievements.

When I read his biography a few years ago, it reduced my respect for him. But these days, reading archives of first-hand documents and interviews, I have more respect for him than before.
I don't know about that. Even if their lives are boring anf they have a bland personality, I think with the right skills and confidence I can be friends with most HN users(or rather most 'hackers'). What I mean is,having something in common or a common interest might be enough,even if you're not well spoken or well rounded as a person.
What's the $1M equivalent for the Bay Area?
Yeah, robots might dramatically reduce the cost, making it viable.
Unintentional = accident.

If it’s totally beyond anyone’s control it’s an act of god.
Close, but not quite. The first sentence on the linked article says:

"'WinRT' redirects here. It is not to be confused with Windows RT."

So "Windows RT" is an ARM port of the Windows 8 OS, while "Windows Runtime" aka "WinRT" is an API for "modern" Windows applications.

To be clear, I was responding to OP's literal "Windows RT" mention in my parent post.
The notion that a naked toddler is shocking or laughable is baffling to me. Even for high school kids, although those do tend to be mean and stupid. I find it hard to fathom what you could find to ridicule about a person from a naked picture of their 1 year or less old self.

I also don't parse why you would have wanted to get that picture removed... for the benefit of the child, whom you don't know? Why let them/its parents do it if it causes any issue? Imho, the more you sanitize, the worse the problem becomes.
This was a feel-good article but rather devoid of substance, and I say that as someone who pursues personal frugality. There's not much in here that hasn't been established in pretty much every other discussion on the topic (lower costs, maximize investable savings) without even the token discussion on diversification and tax structure that usually give something concrete.

I'm bashing on the article a bit, perhaps unfairly, I just found it to exemplify a trend I often see in these FIRE newslets, wherein the samples given are wonderful encapsulations of "how to retire at 30 with 1m in the bank? Make >100k a year and save most of it"
You don't do it in the Bay Area, you come here for the salary, live with roommates in the cheapest place you can find, and if you keep things tight you walk away with $1M ten years later.
Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
Very useful data as to food consumption patterns. Nowadays we ruin our body with unnatural eating cycles.

Basically fasting for around 16 hours a day is good for health. From the evolutionary perspective--that invested in a human body 200K years--the way we eat today is broken. And our body can't adapt to a new pattern--evolution is a slow process that requires many thousands of years. Not to mention like adapting to changes in a food consumption we see in the last 50 years. A human body during 200K years of evolution was not prepared to eating a lot. Viceversa--it was build to eat less. It needs to store energy and to use stored energy and only after that to store again. That's a natural cycle and functions that our body needs to execute. Nowadays we just store energy 24/7:

"Emerging findings from studies of animal models and human subjects suggest that intermittent energy restriction periods of as little as 16 h can improve health indicators and counteract disease processes. The mechanisms involve a metabolic shift to fat metabolism and ketone production, and stimulation of adaptive cellular stress responses that prevent and repair molecular damage."

Here is also an interesting patterns of daily and weekly food consumption from this research including the common eating pattern of food consumption upon which the epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and associated chronic diseases has emerged.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250148/figure/...
You can live comfortably in the bay with $1m, if you don't have to pay rent or mortgage. So $1m + a house.