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> I would think that, all else being equal, people would rather not be dependent on caffeine for maintaining their sleep/wake schedule.

I agree only because caffeine has such a slow half life in the body and it's hard to control withdrawl.

If you had something almost the same as caffeine, that you could use to wake up faster and get tired faster, with the only negative effect being ten minutes of zombie in the morning, that would be great for so many people.
I deleted my account last year. I made a new account this year (fake name, no photo) to try out some adspend. The adspend was ineffective and I should probably delete that one too.
It's often fairly relevant who has produced some piece of content. But if you want to go purely by content, you'd probably also conclude the author is either unserious or a crank. A post that is ostensibly about unionization suddenly addresses the reader so:

Real talk: that meth-addicted, drunk scumbag does not care one whit for your pretty face, buddy.

And this is merely the beginning of a multi-paragraph digression that is some heady melange of fantasy and humble-brag about how the author knows kung fu.
>rational, emotionally detached conversations about complex and sensitive subjects would be beneficial to society

Yes, only when they are exactly that - rational, and emotionally detached. All conversations on sensitive subjects fall into 3 categories:

* Facts+logic vs facts+logic

* Facts+logic vs feelings

* Feelings vs feelings

HN is a rare place on the internet where one can frequently see "Facts+logic vs facts+logic" conversations even on sensitive topics. The vast majority of conversations on the internet about sensitive topics end up being "feelings vs feelings".

The problem with "feelings vs feelings" is that by design it's never about fact finding or truth. It's always about friend-foe identification. Any person who starts a conversation from the "feelings" position views the conversation as a way to categorize the other person as either a "friend" or a "foe".
As a guess: It's a hot button topic that hits close to home for many people here, so a lot of folks will have strong emotional reactions.

My observation is that articles on such topics need an especially good title and have to be especially well written to not be flag-bait on HN. Even in cases where it's an excellent article, a bad title can get strong reactions. My impression is that a lot of flags happen based on title alone (or other info visible on HN without clicking into the article itself) without the article being read.
No, but I've definitely been giving it a serious rest.
Snapchat is really bad at doing the one thing I want it to do well: take pictures. It takes awful pictures most of the time. Applies some kind of super-harsh filter that I don't get with my camera?
No. And it's a completely laughable idea.

1) Friends in California who keep the social group messaging on Messenger despite pleading with them to migrate so that I can at least uninstall Messenger from my phone. If you have lived in a variety of places, made friends in those places, and it's important to you to keep in touch with them, then they're on Facebook. The End.

2) Facebook properties are huge locally (Tel Aviv). Need to find housing? Facebook groups. Looking for local events? Facebook events. WhatsApp is endemic here: if you get somebody's number, the default is to contact them on WhatsApp. Want to make an appointment? Nobody needs some kind of business-focused WhatsApp - the guy just gets a cheap phone, sets up normal WhatsApp on the number, and publishes that number. Every social group imaginable is on WhatsApp - roommates, work, family, various social groups, coordinating weekly exercise groups, absolutely everything.

I visualize people who quit Facebook as the kind of person who always lived in one place, probably rural, is friendly with a handful of people from work, maybe a couple of people from school/college, and family. Sum total maybe fifty people who they've ever been close to in their life. If they're quitting Facebook, it's because Facebook didn't provide them much added value in the first place. And they either don't live in a place where WhatsApp is huge, or their social group is small enough and close enough that it's not a big deal for them to drop off the grid.
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Poll shows more public support for NASA science programs than human exploration (June, 2018)

https://spacenews.com/poll-shows-more-public-support-for-nas...
> immediately see though space and time, the garden of forking paths is laid out before you in its entirety, and every choice ever becomes clear as air on a winter morning in childhood

I don't get that from chess, but I do get it from instagib railgun. The problem is, the other player see as clear as a falcon enhanced with some kind of alien nanotechnology, so I get owned, but I still often notice with amazement how many decisions and thoughts fit into a few seconds, it really does feel like time is slowing down by lot. I glance at some timer, a bunch of stuff happens, I glance at it again, and think "I can't believe only 4 seconds passed during all this".
I think a fair number of us owe our careers to UO; I'm in a similar boat to you, dabbled with UOX, POL, spent a good deal of time with Sphere (my first foray into 'large' C++ projects and, also my first real Linux exposure sshing into the servers to run `sphere &` when it inevitably crashed), and later with RunUO. It also is what made me learn data structures, in working with tools and programs to read/write (and distribute) changes to UO data files to create your server's own maps, art assets, etc.

(Or, as I used it for, replacing the tree art assets to be smaller, making it easier to see through the 2D isometric trees.)

My favorite tidbit about UO is around the technical term 'shard'. It comes from lore from Ultima I, where the wizard fractures the gem that contains the world into shards, and each shard contains a copy of the world. Ultima Online needed a word to describe multiple servers, they picked a term from the lore.. and now 20 years onward, we talk about database sharding.
529 million for one bird that is estimated to last 15 years and it takes a minimum of 4 to get any type of a decent position fix. Due to orbit spacing this would probably mean that until 12 or more are launched this "improved" system will be non-operational.
I do, and immutability of a data type has more benefits than just concurrency. Copy-on-write immutable data structures gives the developer confidence when they pass it around. However, I sometimes still leverage mutable structures in self-contained internal situations due to performance and ergonomics.
I think I’ll hold out for something firmer than your interpretation of a study conducted on five people.
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It isn't the companies that are only viable due to the subsidy. The existence of Walmart doesn't depend on a specific unskilled labor price -- if unskilled labor was more scarce they would turn to more automation or pay higher wages and have to charge higher prices, but they would still exist.

The problem is the people who are only viable with government intervention, because the market price of their labor isn't enough to make a living. Some of that is a result of government action in other ways (e.g. policies that cause high housing/education/healthcare costs), but none of those are likely to be solved overnight.

Which means there will be calls to intervene in the market somehow so they can make a living.

And just giving them the money is the least distorting way to achieve the necessary result. It doesn't take disproportionately from the employers who are actually willing to hire unskilled workers. It doesn't cause unemployment for anyone whose labor value really can't command a living wage given the aforementioned as-yet-unfixed policy inefficiencies. It doesn't have an abrupt cutoff where anyone who makes less than a minimum wage gets a 100% subsidy up to the minimum wage but anyone who makes a penny more gets nothing, even though they're almost equally as shafted by high housing costs etc. It just does the exact thing necessary to patch the problem until the other issues can be resolved in the long term.
Almost nobody does, not just Americans.
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“I assume the folks who are struggling are not stupid .. and have looked at every conceivable way of stretching their dollar and judging by the demand it (Dollar store) is providing a valuable service.”

I don’t believe this assumption is correct, but I also don’t think the individuals are stupid. It’s still true, however, that one can act against their long term interests when they are too poor to consider the long term over the short term. It’s not stupid; it’s just surviving. They may only be shopping at these stores because they’re the only ones close by and they simply don’t have the luxury of time to suss out alternatives.
Or use a sword / dagger on the corpse and collect the body parts. IIRC the head would carry the name of the player that died (although this feature may have been a byproduct of free shards).
Part of the blame lies in lack of resources for understanding the impact properly. This article is a good example - it includes an infographic (https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5c1a989924000019008c883...) listing vague global effects such as "Heavy rainfall up 7%" or "sea level rise 50cm" or "Crop yields in tropical regions down x%". That's not anything that's going to get a common person to think "oh, that's absolutely horrible" - 7% of heavy rainfall or 50cm sea level rise doesn't sound scary, and they don't care about crop yields in tropical regions if they don't live there. What is needed is publicly available information on how climate change is going to affect them - not global averages, but local impact. If you just say "oh, it's going to be vaguely really bad after a long time on the other side of the globe" then people reasonably won't choose to make any sacrifices to prevent that.

Let's assume the currently likely scenario of 4 degree C average warming by 2100. The article quotes Ed Maibach, director of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, that he finds it "to be nothing short of terrifying". Okay, let's elaborate and present the actually terrifying predictions to the people - where can I get them? Given that 4 degree global warming scenario, what's the predicted local warming in Texas? Given the global sea level rise, which parts of Florida are going to flood by 2100? Given the predicted changes in rainfall, what is going to be the effect on crop yields in Midwest? 2100 is too far away to be meaningful for most people, what is the realistic bad case scenario by 2050 or 2070, what are the mid-term impacts?

Don't just say "it's terrifying" but actually terrify people with data! And not just any data, but data that's relevant to them personally; a Midwest farmer doesn't care about crop yields falling in tropical regions (or might even prefer it, less competition=higher prices) and vice versa - to meaningfully convince a person living in Florida you need data about how Florida is going to be affected; to convince a person living in London, you need data about the expected impact on London. Is there such data available?
I'm not taking issue with the word niche, I'm saying it's not a market, niche, whatever that there is a economic incentive to fill. The gap is serving those unserved by the incumbents.
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> No one has equated vaping with smoking.

You need to reread the first comment, which says that "teen smoking" is sharply rising.

At least try to be correct if you're going to put so much effort into being rude...
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> I assume the folks who are struggling are not stupid .. and have looked at every conceivable way of stretching their dollar

One might assume. Possibly the biggest trouble of dollar stores is that a lot of the "deals" are the result of simply selling things in smaller quantities. The next time you visit a Dollar Tree, compare the actual amount that you get for something like flour, oatmeal, detergent... really anything, to the sizes sold at normal stores. Things are often cheaper at Dollar Tree and Family Dollar because the containers are smaller, often 2/3 size, and sometimes the price for goods at dollar is more than elsewhere when adjusted for quantity. There are some deals to be found at Dollar Stores, but it's not as if similar deals can't be found at normal stores. Dollar Stores compete because of perception.

I occasionally stroll into a 99 Cents Only store and there was a time when they had big juicy mangoes for 1/3 of the price of the mangos at the local Ralphs or Vons. I bought some on the spot and they were delicious. But that's one of the ways that dollar stores get new believers; they will have a few really good deals on things that aren't really essential, like mangos, to get people to think "wow!" and assume that all the other low prices around them are just as good of a deal.
Suburban Texas must be an odd phenomenon then. Kroger has found the key to dominating a vicinity away from Walmart. They build giant grocery stores about 3 miles away from each other where the Walmarts are more like 8 miles apart from each other. Then are various other competing stores in the mix as well.

* https://www.google.com/maps/search/kroger/@32.8956425,-97.18...

* https://www.google.com/maps/search/walmart/@32.8725386,-97.2...

* https://www.google.com/maps/search/albertsons/@32.8723824,-9...

* https://www.google.com/maps/search/aldi/@32.8724215,-97.2184...

A side note to this crowding is that unless you live within quick access to a freeway on-ramp it often takes about 30 minutes to get to that store 3 miles away.
IMHO articles like this played a major role in Node's initial success. After years of working with ever-growing frameworks with huge learning curves, it was so refreshing to get your first thing running in few seconds. Felt like basic in the 1980s or PHP in the late 1990s.
Neat. We use Masonry [1] although I’m not the biggest fan of it. How does this library compare?

[1] https://github.com/desandro/masonry
While you can frame peer-to-peer interactions as as a series of server-client interactions with servers and clients swapping roles... you shouldn't. It's a different paradigm with different implications.

Individual transactions might be usefully described as server-client, but the overall system is not server based. So...serverless.
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No, instead I deleted every post, picture, video and "details about me" and hid every event/milestone/activity and left one post up linking to an article about facebook's privacy breaches over the years.
Can we all just accept serverless mainly means decentralized and move on from these posts?
> What type of gameplay doesn't involve some type of decision-making?

All of it does, but it's on a spectrum of complexity. "Continue to walk forward or maybe to pause for a bit" is still a decision, it's just not every complex.

> some rhythm games, maybe, but those are actually a lot fun despite the lack of "planning".

And the lack of making decisions. So the question remains, at what speed does planning cease to become planning? When a certain amount of it is done subconsciously or by muscle memory? Where would you draw the line?
How is identity theft used to facilitate or fund other crimes?
I agree. To me, this seems like a software patch I put in place to resolve some symptoms, but I did not go back and figure out my design was the real problem, and now the patch has created other issues I have to address. And pretty soon I have reached the "hard to remember the original chore was draining the swap" situation...
After many comments I made here how leaving Facebook is unviable because of my hobby, I did.

I also deleted my Google account when getting an iPhone, and deleted my Twitter account (that was the thing I felt most — in a very positive way, I'm much less angry all the time).
Deleted mine in 2010. 2 months was all I could handle was horrible experience then. It is a cheap way to keep up superficial relationship with people. If you had to put any energy/time keeping up a relationship with these people you would probably stop talking to them all together.
China's emissions are due to American consumerism.
I'm quite certain that (correctly or incorrectly) the perception was that he was engaging in bad-faith rhetoric: "just asking questions" or similar.

Like it or not, you can't just transparently "ask a question" on Twitter. Even Robin admits in the original post to not being transparent about his motives when conducting twitter polls. Add in the fact that 95% of everything on Twitter is already posturing or naked assertions and it's not surprising that people reacted badly.

The priors for a given tweet being a good-faith effort at discourse are very very poor, and his tone/style was doing him no favors.
You're only getting the privacy settings, if you have an account. That was his point.
That's obvious to anyone with any sort of basic idea as to how machine learning works. Feed bots data and test the bots predictions - the more data you have then obviously it'll be better. If you have 1 picture of a bee to test you'd only ever get one very specific shape for a bee from any AI, if you have thousands, you get a much better representation. It's pretty simple.
> “It advertises hard-to-beat low prices but it offers little in terms of fresh produce and nutritious items—further trapping residents in a cycle of poverty and ill-health.”

The elitism here is sickening. Why shouldn’t the author just come out and say “We know what’s best and have to control the stores around poor people or they might buy junk food.”

I hope people who think this way never end up in a position to influence actual laws or policies.
And the reason to use this over built-in CSS grids is...
> The problem is the people who are only viable with government intervention, because the market price of their labor isn't enough to make a living.

The government actively intervenes against the viability of labor by taxing labor income more heavily than capital income (both by the preferential tax rate for capitalism gains compared to “regular” income, and also because labor income, especially well into the middle class range, faces additional taxes—payroll taxes—on top of the taxation of “regular” income.)

Do we need UBI? Maybe (I'm inclined to say yes.) But first we need government to stop intervening against the viability of labor.
They deliberately give you a bad quality photo and I don't know why. Snapchat takes a screenshot. It doesn't use the camera API on your phone as it should. So it doesn't get any of the processing which is integral to taking good photos on phones. Apple should reject it from the App Store for doing this, but for some reason they let them do it, as well as Instagram and Facebook.
Though, I think it's worth noting when writers do move with the times.

One example is the Sector General series, which was written over several decades real time starting in the 60s. If you read them in sequence, you can see where the author started with the assumption of 1960s social standards but then actively rewrote parts of the setting piece by piece to modernize it.
I use nicotine seasonally as an antidepressant for SAD. This is my second winter doing this - when it got warm and sunny last spring I didn't even think about my vape - I just used it for 30 seconds in the morning for a few days, then put it away until October. I much prefer this to having to cycle off a "real" antidepressant like Wellbutrin like my doctor wants me to.
IKR. The article comes off as some serious FUD rhetoric judging, perhaps for animosity-seeking clickbait sharing/engagement? They're discount retailers and not hiding this fact. Dollar stores are awesome whether you're poor and it's all your can afford or stingy rich. They're demonstrably better than full-price grocery and hypermarts that are most definitely parasites.

Maaybe they are a symptom of income inequality but they're not a cause of it or worsening it.
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Things that make you go hmmmmm
“Cost of doing business in those neighborhoods is very high. Vandalism and robbery jack up insurance rates.“

Oof. I was with you til this. For a large grocery store chain, the occasional vandalism/shoplifting incident is nothing. Built into the price, as they say.

The real reason they don’t operate in these areas is because a poor community spends less money than a rich community. If you have to stretch your floor space buck, you want to operate 1) in the market gap you work best in and 2) the area of best fit for that market. A Kroger, if you will, serves middle class America. Their stock, their prices, their marketing and everything else they do operates at that market. However you might see a Kroger operating in an area a bit beneath their target. You won’t ever, however, see a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s anywhere near a poorer community.

So Dollar General and the like are filling a previously neglected niche that used to be filled by small bodegas and mercados.
This should have definitely been addressed in the readme
I feel like SpaceX had an extraordinary 2018. They started the year off by launching a Tesla Roadster into space and ended it having completed 20 Falcon 9 launches (a new record for the company). Really looking forward to what they pull off in 2019!
Yeah, came here to say that. Can't sharks smell blood in the water miles away or something of the like?
The premise is that software engineers are underpaid. Not that their salary is bad or lower than the national average, only that the value they produce is worth more than their compensation. Ergo they should get paid more.

Fairness really has little to do with it. Work is a business transaction extract as much compensation as possible. One very effective tool to achieve that is collective bargaining.

Because the fairness argument is always so one-sided. It is always the worker that should mind if he or she is making enough, never the owner. Apple is making hundreds of billions in profits on overpriced products and no one bats an eye. But if Apple engineers unionize to try and increase their salaries, you'd get lots of calls about how they are selfish and already making enough money.
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Simulations and games are highly integrated and iterative. Having every process be done in frames or steps makes the preservation of information for the next step/frame really important. Systems are also tightly coupled and not easily separated.

That's why I like ECS. I also like the EC part to just be a table I can query, and the S system should be very tight and the dependencies should be used explicitly. That way you go around some thing like dynamic ordering of the update function based on object pools and other nonsense.
The LD50 doesn't matter unless you have a brick of mystery drug in front of you. This is about harm from recreational doses.
It’s up there with using a bazooka to kill a fly, but the best toaster I’ve had is a benzomatic+Searzall. The intensely hot but non-penetrating heat adds a bit of crunch without drying the innards of the bread.
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Agreed. What boils my noodle is how the constituents will be forced to 'pay' for it.
Really wonder if articles like these are produced by people shorting the stock.

I think the guy is a genius but he made a very bad mistake with the redesign and is clearly paying for it. There were some very interesting people producing content for entrepreneurs on there but they're all gone for now.

I've gone from daily to monthly use. But I keep checking in because I'm really convinced that they can still pull a rabbit out of the hat.