skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between a broken bone and a charlie horse. If you try to walk off a broken tibia you can quickly cause serious permanent damage. If you try to walk off a cramping calf muscle you can infuse it with oxygen and return it to normal function.

Sarno's theory is that just like the brain can make the cheeks flush with embarrassment or go white with fear, via the autonomic nervous system it can constrict the capillaries and deprive various tissues of oxygen. He thinks this deprivation is minor and doesn't cause permanent damage, even though it can cause much pain. The solution, as for a charlie horse, is the opposite of immobilization, which is what I was doing. Mobilization heals via oxygenation.

He also believes that the ultimate source of the problem is the brain's reaction to sublimating emotions, that it deprives these tissues as a strategy to distract you from the sublimated feelings. That simply by raising this gambit to consciousness you can defeat it. I don't find this part of his theory as convincing, but I think the rest holds up without it.

There are lots of back problems that are more like a broken bone than a charlie horse, where mobilization is dangerous. I took the risk and got lucky. Even so it may have been a stupid move. It's a really good idea to get examined by a specialist first, which Sarno emphasizes.
"Art was never about difficulty of reproduction."

While it's true that a skilled forger can effectively copy an old master painting, it's a pretty rare skill to have at a really high level. "Painting factory" copies from China are kitsch and definitely lack nuances that matter in the original.

But the skill of making a facsimile (a copper engraving of a painting for an edition of prints, for example) is something that used to be respected, though, to be fair, respect was pretty in proportion to how much interpretation/discretion the copier needed to bring into play. Converting colour oil painting -> black & white fine engraving is not a mechanical process, whereas turning cruder drawings into woodcuts apparently was considered merely a technical job.

What I'm getting at is the idea that the processes of reproduction are a part of the way art is made and circulated. They aren't something external that comes after the end of the creative act in a way the artist can't control. It's only in a world of immaterial digital media that it feels like art is replicated trivially and endlessly. Uniqueness seemed important when reproduction was costly (and art materials were expensive) and a lot of artworld practices, like editioning, are based on the assumption that the authentic work can't actually be copied, except by the artist. So I don't really agree with your claim.
>the current financial system is the only known system able to create fortunes big enough that someone is able to donate anything

You mean the current financial system where concentrated wealth yields concentrated power to effect change?

And almost everyone is born into a situation where their wealth & power is insignificant compared to the rare individual who has been the beneficiary of the feature where rapidly or not there is a net flow concentrating resources disproportionately toward those already wealthy & powerful?

Nominally, the traditional result is that the few having most concentrated wealth are the ones capable of effecting the changes they desire, with most everyone else serving these masters in one way or another. With the servant class being highly restricted in their ability to develop personal wealth of their own, much less direct major resources toward independently progressive positive objectives.

I must assume that the current financial system is the same one as that of Genghis Khan.

So naturally there is a long precedent.

Anyway, back on topic not every single artist or engineer serves this type of master, just most of them.

Some create value or enhance wealth, some devalue or destroy, what else is new?

>We could invest in lofty ideas to alleviate starving...

This wise investment was fortunately made starting at just the most opportune time in human history, and has compounded itself remarkably in only a few generations. Many approaches are now well known, only requiring a properly-scalable "seed" committment for their relative degrees of success to be proven on the larger scale.

I guess we need to invest in lofty equitable distribution of resources, especially essential survival commodities.

Creating or spreading surplus value can require a lot of work, but those at the top of the food chain don't really have to do it if they don't feel like it since wealth is flowing their way already.

Plus there is just so much wealth & plenty already which is not having a fraction of the positive effect it could be making.
You're right, and there's of course a lot more to discuss. I'm just angling for ideas about what directions people are interested in and whether the topic raises any interest at all.
What is “the crypto stuff”?
> in the US, incorporating would give the separate benefit of protecting your personal assets in the case your company was sued

Be careful with this advice and consult a lawyer. Incorporating alone does NOT guarantee protection of your personal assets.

In my non-lawyerly understanding, single-member LLCs offer particularly fragile protection.

See "piercing the corporate veil" [1]

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/personal-liability-p...
What if the NSA pressures the manufacturer?
Individual choice seems an odd thing to bring up in favour of cars. Clearly, this is all about balancing conflicting individual choices by making collective choices.
Kind of feels like this article is just the writer masterbating.
Your original comment is easy to misunderstand. Until reading the rest of the thread I thought you were suggesting that an adversary who hacked into your system could use login_duress against you.
> The tripartite definition holds that knowledge is justified true belief.
Is win10 LTSB available to anyone who wants on win10 home/pro?
Not saying it's right but:

For something like Unicode, I think the point is that it "just worked" before where it would have been a lot more time and effort to get it "working" in say Java. Types and compile/runtime errors are a balance in the end that depends on the use case and if the programmer wants something that works (for the short term usually) or is resilient and will work long term. IMO, the influx in popularity of untyped languages (Javascript being used on the server side, ew) is a sign that so much coding today is not done for the long haul. I think there are good balances to be hit though, and Unicode is a place that highlights that python could use some better optional typing aid, as Typescript brought to JS.
I wanted to buy a Pixel and saw that Google only supports them for two years (Pixel 2 Security Updates end in 2020).

Now I‘m typing this on a iPhone 8 that I plan to use for at least the next four years.
Great question!

Reading a company's Glassdoor reviews takes practice, similar to how judging wheather you will like a movie based on the Imdb reviews, or whether ou should buy a product on Amazon based on the reviews. You get better at it by working at a lot of companies and seeing various failure/success cases [and matching them to how it looks on Glassdoor]. Your NN needs a few training cycles to make good predictions :)

Assuming we're talking about tech/startup companies, keep in mind that in some sense, almost all companies (with the exception of a couple/year) eventually become "failures". What I mean is that all these companies raise money by making big promises, but then very few hit their goals: almost nobody becomes the next FB/G/Uber/Dropbox/Spotify. Somewhere between year 5-10 these companies "fail", and by fail I mean their YoY growth goes below ~25%. At this point all companies start trashing: old talent will leave, and a cycle starts, where different things are tried ("we need microservices!", "we need an experiences product guy to tell us what to do!", "our engineers are not good enough!", "we need to hire more people in the US!", "we need to push hard on sales!"), almost always by hiring new managers, who then hire new people with this focus, etc. Again, this almost always doesn't work out, we know this simply because there are only so many G/FB/etc. During this cycle, as people come and go, focus is changed, pivots are made, it leads to churn. Most companies also experience layoffs, or at least partial layoffs [in some teams].

What I wrote above, almost all companies have that, even the ones where otherwise the culture is okay/good, people are honest, the co-founders are well meaning, etc. So in the "best case", you should expect to find an imprint of the above on Glassdoor. If additionally there are "stupid"/people/culture problems, like "the Head of Product is never in the office" or "the CTO thinks we should write webapps in x86 Assembly" or "the VP of Sales and the VP of Marketing refuse to talk to each other", "the COO is an asshole" you should be able to pick that up from the reviews. (Btw. read `Bad Blood` about Theranos for some good stories...)

For a company that's super-young, like <5 yrs, I would want there to be good growth, no culture problems, so I would expect the company to have excellent Glassdoor reviews. Later stage companies, I would expect a good mix of bad and good reviews, and I would keep an eye out for culture/people comments, esp. if there are many saying the same thing. For BigCos like FB/G, it doesn't make sense to read Glassdoor, it generally makes sense to work there, and your experience will depend on what role/team you end up in.

Another thing, I generally disregard reviews that are written by people who still work there. I think reviews by people who left are more valuable. I think the principal component I look at it, of the people who are no longer there, what % leave a mostly negative review, and what % leave a very negative review (and are these highly correlated). Based on the last 2, with calibration, you should be able to get a reasonable picture.
It's a long video is there a specific point where the magic happens? I skipped around and all I saw was him copying and pasting and setting up basic algebra formulas.
I've always really liked this story.

As it mentions at the end of the article you can see the airplane hanging from the ceiling in the Las Vegas airport. There's a little mini air museum in there too with a few other aviation related artifacts. If you have a long layover it's worth seeing even though it's outside security.
coldtea this is blatant whataboutism and I'm sure you can mount a better argument than that. (And I'm the one getting into trouble for wanting Americans to acknowledge their institional racism. And using all caps.)

The parent isn't arguing that Americans are angels, but that it is well established that the Chinese state (which is a glove on the CCP) is responsible for pretty brutal and systematic repression (of Uyghurs in particular), but also dissidents.

And despite the regular injustices America dishes out through love of greed, people are not disappeared because they have incorrect thought. >10k people were massacred in 1989. Millions were killed by famine during the cultural revolution. These are only contested in the same way that climate change is contested.

One could argue that the 2003 invasion of iraq body count outweighs these sins, and ascribe malice to the US versus high intentions to the Party. But it doesn't change the fact that China is now, and has long been, an authoritarian state. In fact, it is now pre-eminent, the poster-child for post-capitalist autocracy.

(But there is one one demonstrably wrong part of the grand-parent's post: calling China 'Communist'.)
My point is that gene-editing may breed "super", "awesome", "badass" tomatoes, but it can't breed tomatoes you really want to eat. So I doubt the article's premise very much.

Basically, my intuition is that you can't take a shortcut around the long time that it takes to develop good, tasty foodstuffs. For example, you can't hurry the production of good wine, you can't make olives mature overnight, or grow healthy animals in a day and you can't produce good varieties of vegetables in a few months of experiments. It takes literally generations of trial-and-error to get things right. And any effort to cheat time and speed-up processes ends up producing inferior products. This has always been the case, regardless of the technology- and the more recent advances, like CRISPR, only promise to speed things up, which is exactly what has steadily, constantly, failed until now with all the earlier technology that also promised to speed things up, only less so.

This is my intuition, anyway. I've eaten plenty of fast-food, mass-produced and cheap. I'm probably 50% pizza, 30% souvlaki and 10% burgers. But I know the difference between all that crap and the 20% that is my grandmothers' cooking (which was divine) and the local produce I eat every summer, when I go to the countryside. There is just no comparison between the crap that we eat out of convenience and the stuff that people eat when they have the time to grow it and cook it at leisure.

That must have something to do with the fact that figuring out what really tastes good is bloody hard, because taste (and fragrance) are such difficult senses to quantify. So even if science promises to make tomatoes feel tastier- well, the only measure of that is our own taste buds. And those cannot be relied upon, except over a very long timeframe, like generations- over generations, people choose the best varieties of grape that make the best wine; over generations, they pick the best varieties of fruit that have the most taste; the best vegetables, and so on. We won't succeed in reproducing that in a couple of years, no matter how much we science the shit out of it.
"Portugol" is a great pun on "Algol"! Are there also programming languages called "Portutran" for scientific computing and "Portubol" for business data processing?
No, because you're creating a company in a country you don't live in unnecessarily.
Brave's business model is to replace a web site's ads for which the web site gets compensated for, with ads brave gets compensated for.
The really simple firmware change I've long wanted is when the oven finishes, start a count up timer in the display.
I've been wondering about similar things as a foreigner in Berlin. Would love an intro to your Germany-based friends to chat about what they recommend when incorporating! My email: alan.hamlett@gmail.com
Shanghai Spawns a New Generation of AI Startups
Brave has multiple layers to actually help content-creators. It is beyond me how anyone can frame it in the opposite direction.

Layer 1: Blocking everything that is not helpful for the user (i.e. being a browser that is a user-agent first and foremost), thus doing essentially the same as content-blocking extensions or other content-blocking browsers (Opera mini, UC)

In this way, there is nothing to be outraged about, since this is a reaction to a complete lack of respect for human dignity and the state of the web on the side of the publishers. The only thing that is parasitic are the ad-networks that pray on vulnerable people. It is easy to overlook that for years browsers have ignored the user so that many gullible people nowadays think that this is how things are supposed to be, but just like ad-tech, users can lobby against the state of things with chosing their software.

Layer 2: Allowing privacy-friendly ads, as opt-in, to help publishers get money and get free from the parasitic ad-networks at the same time

Layer 3: A future-proof patreon like payment network to help publishers survive the ad-backlash, and connect readers and publishers on a new, voluntary, respectful level while also being privacy-friendly.

Honestly I can't see how anything of this is problematic for anyone, except for Brave's rivals (Google, Facebook, Criteo, etc.)
Honesty only comes from someone angry at 2am with a MacBook Pro. I feel many negative reviews are revealing - but take it with a grain of salt because the good reviews just DON'T have the same amount of passion.
I suspect at least part of it came from Telltale getting access to all these big IPs. I mean, if they're making games based on the Walking Dead and Minecraft and Batman and Game of Thrones they have to be doing well, right? You don't expect the film studio adapting Lord of the Rings or James Bond to be in financial peril, so maybe the same would seem true for game developers too.

But of course, names don't tell the full picture, and even major brands can sell poorly if the product isn't interesting/great (like many later Telltale titles).
I have 2 friends who incorporated but they both raised funds. One used Stripe Atlas for incorporating in Delaware, USA and not sure if the other incorporated in Germany or abroad. Lemme know if you want an intro!
Though I haven't used DigitalOcean, I always thought it to be pretty equivalent to Linode, being a direct competitor and all. I'm kind of surprised this is a new feature for DO. I installed NixOS on a Linode server a couple years back, and Linode has no explicit support for it. Am I to understand that it was impossible to install custom OSes in DO before, or does this simply make it easier?
To some extent. It's a hard problem. As I mentioned originally, it's difficult to get a bunch of non-cooperating people to share things that are collectively owned (like air). People want to move themselves and their stuff around, which pollutes. I genuinely don't know the answer, but there are a lot of things that damage the environment for future generations (who, I agree, are not represented well enough in our decision making). If this is a climate change thing, there's a lot of things to do. If it's a congestion/quality of urban life thing (as I read it), it's a bit of a different discussion.

Here are a few options that would restrict individual choice to reduce air pollution.

- banning air travel more than 3 times per year (turns out propelling giant hunks of metal through the sky releases a lot of CO2)

- insisting all new cars be electric

- banning cars in cities

- limiting the purchase of meat to a low amount per person per week

- a limit on consumptive spending (buying newly manufactured goods) annually
NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish Released
Banning vehicles is not inclusive of people with disabilities. Does this mean they should effectively be banned from cities?
Netflix has pretty wonky UX as well. I'm always frustrated by it.
Having some sort of legal entity that stands between you and your clients is always a good idea. It isn't that expensive to get set up, and the peace of mind.

One thing that you never want is to be stressed out about getting personal sued into oblivion - it has the potential to irreparably financially damage you.
This is a good resource, I have seen this authors articles before on forums before too

Personally, what I have been doing with color choice selection is just use HSL format. It makes it very easy to reason about and A/B test different colors to see what pallettes work. I have not really considered color blindness though, but per the article having color hues work in greyscale makes sense. Its like printing black/white documents VS color based docs.

General rule of thumb to me is don't use more than 3 primary colors.

The first starting point is to work with the existing theme's logo color choices. This vastly limits what range of colors you can use, depending on what emotions you want to evoke.

Finding good color palletes is hard. Even with all the color choice palletes out there. Somedays I spend literally an entire day tweaking color choices on some projects. The critic in me cannot stand poor color choice selections.

I sometimes wish I wasn't terrible at art either, telling stories is so much easier when you can make nice hand-drawn / watercolor drawings.
Lucky for you my ilk, whatever that is, doesn't want to dictate anything.
I have worked at one company that paid employees for fake positive reviews.

I’ve worked at another company that ran witch hunts on a regular basis in order to flush out the authors of negative reviews. Management spent time reading between the lines in order to figure out who the authors were based on their writing style.

I had a lot of fun with them by posting truthful negative reviews written in a variety of styles that matched no particular person’s style in full, yet left management believing that they were on the cusp of identifying the author. It was a lot of fun until I realized that these asshats were spending valuable time on stupidity instead of righting the ship, but by then it was already too late.
Scientists are working to eliminate senescent cells
Summary: They needed to do some complex queries on data in a SQL database, queries that were clearly better suited for Prolog. So they 1) queried for the relevant data from SQL, 2) formatted the data into the form of Prolog terms and dumped it into a file, 3) fired up the Prolog interpreter and loaded the data along with a small amount of Prolog query code, 4) ran the Prolog queries, 5) formatted the results into CSV and dumped it into a file, and finally 6) imported the results back into SQL. While it has some hacky elements, this approach took just one day to implement, as opposed to the projected months it would have taken to do it without Prolog.

If I understand it right, Prolog is being used kind of like a more powerful version of Awk / Perl. The Power of Prolog [1] describes a somewhat similar use of Prolog: storing server logs as Prolog terms and then running complex queries directly on the log files.

[1] https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/business
There's a very sound argument to be made for the opposite conclusion, that if we care about a problem we should make it necessary to solve the problem correctly or else stuff very obviously breaks, not have broken systems seem like they kinda work until they're used in anger.

Outside of MySQL (which unaccountably had a weird MySQL-only character encoding which only covered the BMP and named it "utf8" then when you tried to shove actual UTF-8 strings into it, they'd get silently truncated because YOLO MySQL) UTF-8 implementations tended to handle the other planes much better than UTF-16 implementations, many of which were in practice UCS-2 and then some thin excuses. Why? Because if you didn't handle multiple code units in UTF-8 nothing worked, you couldn't even write some English words like café properly. For years pretending your UCS-2 code was UTF-16 would only be noticed by people using obscure writing systems or academics.

I am also reminded of approaches to i18n for software primarily developed and tested mainly by monolingual English speakers. Obviously these users won't know if a localised variant they're examining is correctly translated, but they can be given a fake "locale" in which translated text is visibly different in some consistent way, e.g. it has been "flipped" upside down by abusing symbols that look kind of like the Latin alphabet upside down, or Pig Latin is used "Openway Ocumentday". The idea here again is that problems are obvious rather than corner cases, if the translations are broken or missing it'll say "Open Document" in the test locale which is "wrong" and you don't need to wait for a specialist German-speaking tester to point that out.
> It doesn't matter if you already have a full time job or not.

It does, assuming he's going to have his company pay himself a salary. (Otherwise he'd need to wait for the yearly dividend.) In case of a salary, he'd have to

1) pay for social security and so on and make arrangements with his employer (basically, to decide who pays how much).

2) again, make arrangements with his employer because of the non-compete rule. It doesn't actually matter whether it's mentioned anywhere in the contract, as it's the law. (I forgot the exact article but it's somewhere in BGB.)
Data wrangler?
Presumably you'd have some publicly-funded wheelchair accessible vehicles driving them around.
Scottish GPs to begin prescribing rambling and birdwatching