skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this.

I think the next unicorn in food will be what I had proposed to HN previously; the idea of a Standard Pantry - a pantry of ingredients that is automatically tracked inventory and delivery of components and ingredients which allow a range of meal planning options.

Basically, what I want to create is two levels of pantries:

A basic standard pantry, which is subsidized (like SNAP) food stamps, which provides a menu of nutritious meals which can be made from the ingredients, with lessons on how to make the meals, and an automatic delivery of replenish supplies. The lessons are to teach young, lower-income people how to make the available meals provided by the system.

A higher end version, like the "Peloton for cooking" system, where you can subscribe to a meal plan and select from a library of recipes to make for the month, and the ingredients for each weeks meals are delivered and you check off what you made/ate and the system will deliver refills.

The ingredients are purchased in bulk, with minimal packaging and delivered in swappable containers.

The ingredients for fresh produce are farmed like you mention, and/or are sourced as local as possible.

This is where I was hoping the blue-apron/farm-fresh-to-you services were going, but they appear to be holding on to older models still...
I thought those were restricted to specific area codes. I think the phone company should be liable in scams like this. Also, there should be a way to block all pay-per-min calls on your phone. This is one of those areas government needs to regulate.
Supermemo web doesn't let you export your cards. Maybe there's a way to do it, but I'm using anki so I never lose my cards in case the service goes away or has data loss
> we shouldn't privilege the word "evil" by associating it with some kind of deep instrospection leading to immoral action -- lots, if not most, of the evil in the world stems from mundane small-mindedness.

(Arendt's book is on my list; haven't gotten there yet.)

I guess I use a definition of evil that is more utilitarian than I am. Evil, I think, is when someone does something that harms another person far out of proportion to the benefit the perpetrator receives. It's different from something that is merely wrong in that it diminishes utility for all parties involved rather than increasing utility for one party and decreasing it for the other.

I mean, a stupid/extreme example would be that a starving person stealing bread from a wealthy person isn't very evil, maybe isn't evil at all, while a well-fed person stealing bread from the starving would be very evil.

(Note here the diminishing marginal value of wealth; your first loaf of bread is worth rather more than your second million dollars.)

As part of this definition, I am mostly only acknowledging material benefit; I would see it as much more evil to kill someone for fun, say, than to kill the same person for access to food, shelter or other material necessities, even if you are receiving quite a lot of utility in terms of emotional pleasure or what have you from the former act, and even if I feel the second act is wrong. The second act is still a lot more understandable.

So, especially if you are already living with what I'd call desperate poverty, in a situation where both your access to food and shelter was insecure, giving up material wealth (including access to food) in exchange for a kind of social status that seems disgusting to me, seems to me like irrationally harming another person in a way that harms yourself, too- thus, stupid and evil. But maybe I undervalue social status? But more likely, I am missing part of the story
I've setup a DigitalOcean instance of PiHole [1] VPN where I have added all the Facebook domains[2] and other add blockers. This helps me block these domains on all my devices including the phone. I don't see any ads in any apps.

I also use this list to temporarily add HN when I want to focus. This setup works well for me.

Some of my family members and friends use WhatsApp and that's something I regret (tiny bit) not using. But I don't miss Facebook, Instagram, etc. at all.

[1] https://pi-hole.net/
[2] https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
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I heard of a story where Walmart did an experiment in one of their stores where they rearranged all of the displays, made the aisles wider, all sorts of things which made the shopping experience more pleasant and less stressful. Customer feedback was almost unanimously positive; people loved shopping at Walmart now, when previously it had been a hostile and Kafkaesque experience.

But they spent less money.

So Walmart put everything back the way it was.
I originally misread your comment.
I remember that as well and rejected the extreme right control during that time. That said, what it has been replaced with has taking us from the frying pan into the fire with the tactics. When I see one side trying to force others into their belief system by shame, emotional blackmail, violence, character assassination, career destruction etc. I am generally very skeptical of that side's message as propaganda. To be very clear, beyond what I have read, I've personally experienced this at the alter of progressivism and know others who have as well.

The big thing is not that we come from different political philosophies. It is that all who want to espouse them are afforded the opportunity to debate and discuss them freely. These days in tech, many corporate settings etc., many fear losing their job, having their professional life destroyed, etc. for expressing views that go against the progressive narrative. Once again I have personally experienced this and know others who have as well in addition to what others have reported. Before things got so politically charged I used to enjoy learning about the views from the other side and having those discussions. These days a mono-culture has taken over and we have lost that which I reject.

But to your point, I agree that having power spread out it a better way. Let people have actual freedom to choose what works best for them, and, more importantly actually respect different view points...which is sadly a lost art today.
Because the linked source is delibrately vague with the facts. The police there runs a electronic billaboard that displays images of jaywalkers in an attempt to shame them. The system apparently glitched and captured Ms Dong's face on a bus. Actual image linked below.

http://e0.ifengimg.com/09/2018/1121/BE628A454E728C82D155ECCD...

I don't think anybody was fined over this - China is very much underpoliced and pedestrians pretty much make their own rules. Most people saw this as another joke in an act of.futility and move on.

If anything, you should take this as an indication and treat all the circlejerk in Anglosphere about China and its social credit system with a huge grain of salt.
The difference is - this was changed from the previous approach. Before, in a small group you sat next to your partner almost always. Now, you're actually not going to sit next to them unless you pay. The airline spent time and money to make this happen, so that is a real complaint. You can get randomly assigned a sit next to another person from a split couple - so there's an obvious solution that makes at least 2 people more happy.
> but because I see it as a brain "hack" that goes against the grain.

The current, modern, and typical grain if you will: language learning is vocabulary, vocabulary and maybe conversation (maybe).

Although early on in childhood, as we develop "receptive language", we are going against this grain naturally by learning phonetics first then moving onwards to vocabulary through conversation.

I was in the auto parts store and a little boy saw me bring in a battery. He said "that wuks heavy!". I replied "that does LOOK heavy". Such a correction is abnormal from adult to adult. We have more grace depending on age.

For me, an average adult, with a busy schedule, learning the difference between the English T and the Spanish T made some great headway in my language hobby. Moving onward in that direction it has helped me understand spoken language - further aiding my memorization of the actual vocabulary.
My "grain" if you will:
Phonetics - Vocabulary (Anki with imagery) - Conversation (with natives, when I'm able to, it's a hobby)
Depending on how popular (and cheap) your VPN is, you may find that many of it's IPs have just as nasty a reputation as Tor exit nodes do when you try and access services.
If you've failed multiple times trying to start a business, I'll guarantee is not because of my doing TDF but because of poor product market fit. You'd be surprised how much crap a user will put up with of your products fit their needs.
"Just look at Olympic weightlifters - they tend to look plump but they certainly are well strong as Olympic weightlifters"

Did you mean powerlifters?
> I think public support of the health insurance status quo will collapse and Medicare for All will become an actual Thing.

I'm almost certain about the first part (collapse) but much less certain about the second.

The fundamental issue is affordability: we can't afford the health system we have. No matter who pays, the burden is going to be substantial. It's just a question of whether it's foisted onto shareholders (capital), households, or taxpayers.

I'm honestly 50/50 on whether we'll head toward more widespread government insurance or whether coverage will become harder to get, thereby forcing more people into the private markets, with healthcare orgs working more like auto repair shops -- mostly private with a lot of price competition, and broad affordability. Either outcome has its pros and cons.

I think a lot of the next 15-20 years is going to depend on what happens during the next 5. It's basically two outcomes.

Scenario A: Interest rates continue to climb, urban housing affordability improves through some level of deregulation/less aggressive zoning, tech fans out a bit. The sense that prosperity is too concentrated starts to dissipate. Ocasio-Cortez and co. lose steam and the US turns back toward a more moderate politics.

Scenario B: Things continue as they are now. More young people embrace socialism because growing student debt, unaffordability of housing, and rising/unavailable healthcare lead to a greater desire for government control of the economy. US takes a hard left turn, we get Bernie or someone of the far left for president. US is in the grip of populism (both left-populist Antifa and right-"blood and soil" nativism), things go backward.

If we get scenario B, we're going to get some form of national single-payer. If we get A, I'm less certain.
I wonder how people's choice of diction compares with a personal diary entry vs. the experimental groups in question.

https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/
FYI, this way of experiencing the world can be regained through meditation. This includes, from my experience:

- The quieter inner narrative and silent observation.

- The feeling that things not currently being experienced do not "exist" in the same way that things currently being experienced do. They exist in your imagination, and they exist in the sense that you correctly predict that if you were to observe them they would be there, but this knowledge feels ephemeral in contrast to the vivid detailed senses being experienced right now.

- The disconnectedness of time. The past only exists in your memories. If you recall a memory, that happens in the present, and is quite unlike the experience you had that formed the memory.

- Less of a sense of self. All your knowledge is available, but it feels third-person.

I can't relate to some of the other parts of your experience, though, like the lack of separation/names of objects, and the realization of causation.

As a caveat, I haven't been in this state of mind for a week or two, and as you say it doesn't play well with being remembered and analyzed.
Can you please link to these? I'd love to say my kid would enjoy these, but who are we kidding? I'd love them too.
We love any link that has machine learning in the title and quickly vote it to the top. This is the future guys, who knows what’s next.
Do y'all think folks with such memory will make better programmers?
I often find Twitter to be an awful platform for viewing images and video because they make it so hard to zoom in or to save it.
Wishful thinking if you listen to Bill Maher: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/economy-bill-m...
Can't use the desktop one easily on Linux however, and can't study on the train with it unless I'm mistaken.
I wonder if so many of the supposed racist dogwhistles are entirely within and repressed within the heads of guilty white liberals. If you look at what people do, rather than what they profess, the disconnection can be very jarring.
Well according to "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" prophecy, we will soon have war in 2020 all the way to 2025. So far everything in the prophecy has been true, so I am not sure if I am still alive in 10 years.

[] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
You should be exploiting hacks to make things easier, not purposefully avoiding them to make things more difficult for you out of some misguided attempt at “purism.”
> the classic Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg etc, is not actually what they did but that they had the sheer temerity to do it at that age without first building their confidence in industry for a few years.

They are/were all known for being very arrogant people. Just because some of them become billionaires doesn't mean everyone should be like that.

> How did they have the confidence to hold their own when confronted with such adults

Have you ever met a 12 year old know-it-all? Same thing.

Linus didn't win the debate vs Tanenbaum. He simply happened to be the right guy at the right place at the right time.
It's just human nature. In general, we humans greatly enjoy outsmarting other humans and by not paying, your users feel they are outsmarting you.

A "beggar value proposition" does not work so well because we do not see pictures of you starving to death so we are less compelled to help.

It does not mean that no one will ever donate, but if they do so, it is because they are fools or because they want to influence you to prioritize some feature.

If donations do not work, remove them from everywhere asap (they make you and your product look cheap because of the "beggar value proposition").

Since you have low churn (this is the most important thing), try to continue to grow your user base a couple orders of magnitude first (2000 free users is a number too low to plan for any kind of meaningful conversion) and then work it from there to either advertising or freemium.
Well, it certainly could be helpful, if part of your stack wants to run inherently untrusted code. I think this is what gets people excited by the idea of putting it into the kernel.

It is a bit surprising, though, that many people do not realize WebAssembly doesn't make C code safe against itself.
I do this around most people unless I need to signal superiority, otherwise I view broadcasting competency where none is needed as a pissing context. I assume everyone is highly skilled in at least one thing.
Love the algorithmic reduction here
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I would participate in this. Email in sig if you want to discuss.
"Auden, instead, became a Christian; that is, he left the train of History altogether."

That is particularly insightful. All the hoopla about historical progress is a rather recent addition (and addiction ...) to our worldview, and not really part of perspectives with more than a handful of centuries tradition.
Quoting Fugazi in HN officially wins the internet for today! Such an apt quote though!
They also might have not done due diligence, underestimated what a liability this data would become, or underestimated how long it would take to rewrite it. (E.g. GDPR was only adopted a few months before the announcement of the aquisition, and didn't come into force until two years later.)
I'm not sure the NULL pointer access being allowed point is valid.

The C standard allows for the NULL pointer to be numerically any value, not just 0, and on some architectures in isn't 0. So I would hope C compilers targeting wasm would just use a different value for the NULL pointer, eg 0x8000000000000000 not 0.

Whether they actually do or not I don't know, but it isn't an architectural failing of wasm.
When the court says it is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corpora...
It's not would happen, it's is happening.

The difference is preexisting, but only beginning to get expressed. Some people resist authority and don't believe what they're told, and some people crave authority and want to be told they're right. It's not an insult; it's actually probably an evolutionarily superior approach to tend toward the latter. Tribes have distinct advantages.

Increased CO2 levels, indoors and out, are giving rise to increased levels of Oxytocin in everybody's body. It's more a tribal hormone than a bonding hormone. This is where the increased expression is coming from, I believe.
> Yes, but the state isn't leeching off of the people

Are you sure about that. US government spending is 1/3 of GDP, while rents are around 1/10.

> Not sure why you can't fight a "state-landlord"

Because the state has the power to make it illegal to sue the state. You need to win a supreme court case to beat the state into something, and you will be paying taxes to fund your opposition all the way up to the supreme court.
We already have plenty. The washing machine knows what to do with the clothes. The dishwasher knows what to do with kitchenware. The robotic vacuum cleaner knows how to navigate and clean your house.

They are single-function, and not autonomous. This makes them massively cheaper and safer.
> Dupree and Fiske suspect that the behavior stems from a liberal person’s desire to connect with other races. One possible reason for the “competence downshift,” as the authors describe it, is that, regardless of race, people tend to downplay their competence when they want to appear likeable and friendly. But it’s also possible that “this is happening because people are using common stereotypes in an effort to get along,” Dupree says.

And? Does this strategy work for them? If so, maybe it's not a bad thing.
Student loan bubble?
Can you file a punitive lawsuit against every single person involved? I mean every single person. Scorched Earth approach. Maybe they will be slightly more attentive to their duties in the future.
I don't think the internet archive backs up sci-hub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527914
This is literally the plot to the 1971 George Lucas sci-fi film THX 1138, down to the detail: "set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police ... ."
White liberals are racist too? Gosh, it's almost as if this was a systemic problem
It's always useful to see different SGD methods written with a consistent nomenclature. A few thoughts:

1. Is the 1999 Qian paper on momentum really the most appropriate one, given the comparison of the publication date to NAG? As a cursory examination of the paper reveals, momentum has been used for a long time before 1999!

2. Similarly, the original NAG paper isn't about stochastic gradient descent and doesn't really use the equation as written. A more appropriate reference is to the Sutskever, Martens, Dahl and Hinton paper of 2013 http://proceedings.mlr.press/v28/sutskever13.html which is the publication that described/reworked NAG in this way.

3. It's worth noting the caveats about AMSGrad: https://www.fast.ai/2018/07/02/adam-weight-decay/
haha cool, no problem. Thanks for the discussion btw :-)
I'm constantly alarmed by the recommended matches on LinkedIn. I'm also torn by the business community's insistence that this site is a necessary part of networking and any of its practices are therefore beyond scrutiny.

And no, you did not match me to my second cousin "based on my profile." Unless you mean "based on your email address, which is already included in the massive social graph of all address book connections we've harvested from people who know you."

If you have to mislead your users about how you're finding potential connections, maybe you shouldn't be doing that thing in the background, or maybe you shouldn't be so focused on aggressively pushing those connections.
The reference you cite does say the manufacturer settled claims related to "certain instruments and devices used in spine surgeries," but it's not clear to me that these are the same devices referenced in TFA.
yep. Oh well. Hopefully I can get a new license tomorrow and drive home and go to work. Hopefully I am one of the few who have this problem.
How do you pay in cash?

They've added (this week) the ability to pay in small amounts of cash through the Paypoint network (https://monzo.com/blog/2018/11/21/deposit-cash/) and I believe they'll eventually add support for paying in thorough Post Office branches too. It's still pretty limited, but it's a start!

How do you order foreign currency?

Honestly I had no idea people even used their bank to do this!
> My edit wasn’t substantive. This sort of “technical correction,” as lawyers would call it, didn’t need to be passed by the Council and signed by the Mayor.

Okay, so they didn't "change the law." It's a cool story but not a fan of clickbait titles either.
"Full rein".

And the C heap is typically a linear memory region (that grows monotonically) isn't it?
I don't understand why Apple isn't getting slapped for only allowing Safari-based browsers in the App Store. I don't understand anti-trust laws that well, but didn't Microsoft settle out of a very similar case related to bundling Media Player and IE with Windows?
Holding Bitcoin is no different, legally, than holding bars of gold.

And yet many people hold gold, or other precious, non USD materials, but nobody freaks out about their about tax fraud risks.

If the government starts coming after everyone's non USD commodity holdings (which, to be fair, isn't entirely unprecedented. Owning gold was illegal at one point), then we have much bigger problems than just as it applies to the comparatively tiny crypto market.
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I dunno. Maybe. But I don't have interest in doing that. Which will probably contribute to this continuing. But its easier for me to just pay and move on. If I were to spend another 10 hours on this there is a time cost to doing so that is not worth it for me.