skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'd hope to see is randomized studies or studies that exploit some random variation for identification. The studies mentioned in the article all appear to rely on regressions controlling for observables. But of course there could be plenty of unobservable factors that are driving the result: the type of people that spend a lot of time in the sun are healthier for other reasons. I haven't read Weller's work though so maybe he has some RCTs too or maybe someone else does.
Whenever I hear about this painting I wonder if such expert-based attribution can really be trusted... then I look at the picture again and think "damn, that is such a fantastic painting, who else could have made it?" And I wonder if the "experts" are just using the same emotional assessment as I am, at the end of the day.
This is great for thinking about the non-internet connected devices. What's also interesting about this idea is that we can test what 2038 will be like by slowly shifting the time for certain networks forward to see if a subset of stuff will fail. If it does, we can resort to turning off systems.
And the stipulation in this discussion is that maybe we're going to learn in the next decade that going outside should have been a first line recommendation, with pills second line.

There's melanoma risk with sun exposure- but there's e-coli with produce, and a bevy of sports-related injuries.
That's so fucking irresponsible. I'm not mad at you, just at any doctor that would do that.

Would you stop teaching children because they didn't know math?!
Probably would depend on who was in the 20% who left. Having the people in the management structure select the correct people to fire is probably not that common. Especially in big, old companies where management has evolved over a long time to select for people who don't get fired instead of people who work well together and do a good job.
I don’t think the idea of contexts is dated at all, it just sounds like it doesn’t apply to your situation specifically because you have special circumstances. Most people don’t have that flexibility. It’s important to understand when things don’t apply only to you vs when they really don’t apply generally (when giving advice).
Taxing IP would be counterproductive, except as a pure revelation mechanism for "IP that its owners actually care about". The whole point of IP is to be an incentive for creative work, and taxes destroy that incentive. It's better to roll IP rights back, and/or have rigorous requirements (such as registration and archiving of the work which is to be protected), but have very limited taxation on the IP itself.
This is a terrible idea. When you give someone the ability to label someone else as mentally ill you will get abuse. You know the Stanford Prison experiment? The people doing the judging become like the guards. They have no personal responsibility for the lives they ruin and at the same time are so full of themselves that they cannot process any state other than they are doing a good thing. It's not like they are incredibly wise and thoughtful people. No, lol, they're the same idiots who stop in the middle of the intersection when the light turns red. They're just people doing a job that pays well. They're looking out for #1. The end. If you replaced "can't be a business leader" with "needs a lobotomy" they would not bat an eye.

So while I agree with your sentiment we as a society are just not wise enough to implement that.
This article ought to be one sentence: change your name
Fantastic! I tested the heck out of this and found it really useful.

Already found some cool subs.
It's one of three major meltdowns that left a permanently "scorched earth," as another poster called it. There have been many more which were not so well known. In fact, every nuclear plant around the world has had leaks and safety problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that HTTP/2 only half solves the head of line blocking problem. It's true that you don't have message-level blocking like websockets, but it's still TCP so streams can block each other if there's packet loss. QUIC seems like the full solution.

Also, is head of line blocking really that big of a problem for RPC? It only seems to really be a big deal if your latency tolerance is really tight.
I find this comment amusing, considering that Javascript's OOP ideas are descended from Self ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language) )
The rounds of firing reliably identify the low productivity people? I'd have expected the opposite -- that they reliably identify those least able to swing the politics necessary to win high-visibility work, who in my experience are typically high-productivity individuals.

If the decimations have been going on for some time, I'd expect them to reliably hit low-performers, but only because the obvious low performers were hired as sacrificial lambs in the first place, which puts the whole exercise deep in "cobra effect" territory.
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But the Lua scripts would be bound to the underlying game engine. I would all come down to whether or not a judge would see it as a derivative work.
Red Orchestra and Killing Floor come to mind, both with eventually have become full-fledged game series!
I appreciate the thoughts, but no. That's not what is going on here. Without going into too much detail, if anything the problem is essentially the opposite of what you're describing.
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You should look a bit harder; some of them seem to be. At least elements of them. Dog faced St. Christopher. St. Brigid. Eostre taking place when it does. Heck, read 'the Heliand.' Early Church fathers were pretty explicit in their reasons for doing this.
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Poor merchants, prostitutea and all kinds of people serving/scavenging from the army would follow the train in those times.

/r/askhistorians has a great thread on this, will try and find it.
The short version of this is that every advanced society develops some technology to destroy itself (like nukes) before it develops interstellar travel.

It's the most rational explanation for the lack of aliens that I've ever seen. What are the odds that we escape this planet? Probably none.
What were the actual ropes themselves made of? Just standard rope materials?
It's much more akin to "nobody ever got fired for going with IBM". Nobody gets sued for recommending the conventional wisdom. You need to show your doctor that you're a reasonable person--and not a walking lawsuit--before they'll trust you enough to recommend their own judgement.

It's sad, but understandable. A malpractice lawsuit is a life-changing and career-derailing risk that most of us don't have a clear corollary for.
I think being overly concerned with an accurate representation of a concept is less important than conveying information.

A Venn diagram may not be a perfect analog for joins but they relay the concept quite well.
After trying GTD for about 7-8 years, I gave up.

I mean, I kept using it, thinking it was working, but I'd look back and ask myself key questions:

1. How often do I stop looking at my lists, because I felt overwhelmed?

2. How often do I need to spend a large amount of time cleaning up the lists?

3. How often are things getting missed? How often am I doing things not in my GTD lists because I couldn't figure out how to put it in there?

4. How often do I tweak my GTD system to fix the above?

And so on - I realized that while GTD was of some help, it was not really working.

It did have some useful things/ideas, and as such it was not at all a waste. However, it really didn't do a good job of the fact that my lists were huge. I think he recommends looking at your Someday/Maybe in the weekly (or monthly?) review. That list is huge.

Even the TODO list can be large with his system. I don't think he addresses granularity well. Should my TODOs be the mundane small things, or just the big picture project (he leans towards the former). In reality, the potential Next Action on a project could be multiple things, so I would have multiple TODOs (it's not always clear which one I can do first due to external constraints).

His system is mostly priority agnostic. He does address it a little (10000 ft view, etc), but it was very vague.

No clear guidance on how to know if you're trying to do too much. Especially needed with GTD, because as a system, it makes it easy to try to do too much.

I think if someone could write a book with all the stuff GTD is poor at or doesn't address, with solutions, then GTD + that system may actually be great.

It's a good book, but don't beat yourself up if it doesn't work well for you. Try to tweak it to your needs, and if that doesn't work, look for something else.
Another metric could be looking at cross posts. I’m not sure which is better.
Not in this country.
Looked like a really great resource but it would have been so much better if it was an epub or pdf. I tried it but now it's asking me to download some app :/ (Maybe I missed a step)
I'm a firm kanban person, and I think it might help you. I happen to use the tool KanbanFlow for this. [1] But I also have done it with index cards on a wall [2], and Trello's ok, too.

Boiling it down, Kanban approaches require you to 1) break big things down into small deliverables, 2) describe your workflow in columns, placing the units of work in the correct columns, and 3) setting strong work-in-process limits on the columns.

For example, my main board has these columns and WIP limits: backlog (∞), soon (12), today (5), pending (3), in progress (3), and done (∞). Work normally flows from left to right, with the exception of the pending column, which is used when something in progress gets stuck because I'm waiting on some external event.

If I've finished working on something, I try to look first in the in progress column, so that I can finish off something on going. Next, I'll check the pending column, to see if I can unstick anything. Only if those two are solid will I look at the today column. Last thing at night or first thing in the morning, I'll look everything, load up the today column, and make sure it reflects my current priorities.

I should note that the WIP limits are integral to this. There are two basic ways you can run a workflow. One is a pull system, where running out of things to do means I pull something forward. I'm mentally standing at the "done" end of the board and pulling things through one at a time. This is very different than a push system, where I mentally stand at the backlog end and stuff things in, hoping useful work gets squeeze out the other end. WIP limits help keep me honest, in that the board is not about what I want to accomplish; it's what I am accomplishing.

I think the Kanban approach will be helpful to you in two ways. One, because it's a pull system, the amount of time one spends reorganizing is limited. At worse, I reorganize every time I finish something. But hopefully, because I already have small numbers of top priorities in the today and soon columns, it'll be easy for me to pull without working about everything I have to do.

Two, it sounds like you're trying to do more than you can. Executive you has made a grand annual plan, but worker you is struggling to juggle priorities and allocate time. This is not just stressful; as you say, it's inefficient. Optimize for worker you, because that's where things actually happen.

In addition to the Kanban board, I also use Evernote to keep a "projects" notebook. It's one page per project idea, and for active projects that page turns into a journal. I'll often describe future plans there, which I will mine for to-do entries as I pull things in. But those future visions aren't consistent or complete; they're just top-of-head notions. That much more efficient than trying to express my ever-changing vision in work-management tools.

I hope that helps!

[1] https://kanbanflow.com/

[2] http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/
Is this only for tech subjects or am I using it wrong?

Edit. Somehow I missed the big searchbar at the top.
> Saint Nicholas who was imported in the mid- to late 19th century.

St. Nicholas is a hugely popular patron saint in the orthodox church,
he was not imported from the west. The average person there probably knows more about actual Nicholas from history than many elsewhere.

One of the things Nicholas is famous for is punching a heretic and by this and associated actions resolving the huge theological controversy of Arianism and resulting in the nicene creed used directly or as a basis for most other creeds in other forms of christianity (see also great schism & filioque). Incidentally Arianism has a resurgence in some strands of protestantism, which of course, speaking of propaganda, is more prevalent in countries favoring the historically devoid Macy's Red Reindeer 'Santa Claus'..

Here is an article with many russian faithful including Putin venerating a rib bone of st nicholas:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40062807

But yes, this does have little to do with the red 'miracle on 34th street' shopping and reindeer st nicholas, and that is probably an import, true

more about actual nicholas from a russian-ish source:

https://russian-crafts.com/russian-saints-icons/st-nicholas....
I have the same problem in Chrome
That’s fine until you come across an untranslated text or a poor translation. Worse, a misleading translation.

Often you have to have an understanding of the language to know how well it’s translated. It’s a bit circular.

But when you read such a tremendous translation effort it does indeed raise those thoughts.
>If that's what caused the downvotes, that people felt offended, thinking I was making an ethnic joke, then I'm really sorry.

No, we get that it was a bird quack joke. It's just that jokes and puns don't really add to the discussion, and are better suited to places like reddit.
I think this is worth looking into. There may be some direct benefit from sun exposure, but it's very difficult to extricate it from other benefits of good regular outdoor activity.

In public health there's been an interest in looking at park access for kids to improve activity and overall wellbeing, and I wonder if a similar effect is being observed here.
I second Getting Things Done. This book is a little engine of productivity. It was responsible for a good chunk of any special productivity I've been perceived to have.

The book is easy to start with as your read it because it ties together skills you already have with creating an air tight system that enables your brain to trust you trust you not to forget anything - lowering your mental and cognitive load so you can focus in the present by taking a unique approach..

It literally lets you collect every random thought that has no relevance to the moment, capture it in a "someday/maybe" pile and put it away for future review. The brain, one emptied is ready to focus.

The new edition is updated for digital life too, which is great, I try to read it every year or two as well to keep sharp, the current read has been a nice refresher.

Currently using the newest 2Do app between Android/MacOS/Windows /iOS. It's really decent inter platform tool. If you're all Mac a lot of people like omnifocus too. I found other apps (things, toodle, rtm) lack the ability to break apart projects into super detail when needed but otherwise are great.

There are a few other books that help build a car around this engine (Mindset, Focal Point, So good they can't ignore you, Deep Work), but a car without an engine isn't a car.
The 6 month emergency fund is good for another reason, as f-you fund: in case working conditions get bad, you know you can just walk away. Somehow the knowing is enough, you never have to mention it, the confidence somehow shines through if you have a difficult chat with your manager.
I guess a more implicit part of my question is why didn't they design it to work well on top of websockets from the beginning, rather than doing their own framing? If you assume you have a reliable in-order messaging protocol to build on top of, then you can swap that protocol out for different cases (ie websockets/WebRTC on the web, reliable UDP/SCTP/etc for other cases). I say this with very little background in gRPC. I'm working on a protocol that aims to do exactly this[0] (but for streaming only, not RPC), and I'd like to learn as much as possible from smarter people who have done similar projects.

[0] https://github.com/anderspitman/omnistreams-spec
Not really. Brain death means the brain does not function at all, incl initiating breathing etc.

A coma is described as "just" being unable to perform voluntary (high level) actions. So basically unresponsiveness.

The usual coma patient is able to breeze on their own (sometimes with some assistance). A brain dead patient is not.

One could argue that "brain dead" is a subset of "comatose", at best.
Copper.

Edit: I found a neat video: https://youtu.be/X0WnddW5gZI
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> Major trends are the appreciation of certain jobs for example in the IT industry (a nonexistant/tiny field until recently) and the devaluation of many others.

This is the natural progression of jobs. Auto mechanics were a nonexistent / tiny field that soon grew, devaluing the once noble buggy whip and horse-related professions.

> The next stage in automation is expected to make the work that most people are able to do completely obsolete

This is where I and many others fundamentally disagree. Work may be made obsolete, but new jobs will be created, just as they always have.

> suggesting that the free market alone can "find new uses for labor" and automatically create a functioning system is imo wrong and harmful

I am not only "suggesting" - this is actually the what our economy does every single day! The free market allocates labor, the government is not involved except around the margins.
Here's a short, textual introduction to probabilistic soft logic, the formalism presented in the video:

> A Short Introduction to Probabilistic Soft Logic

http://stephenbach.net/files/kimmig-probprog12.pdf

And a longer, more formal treatment of the same:

> Hinge-Loss Markov Random Fields
and Probabilistic Soft Logic

http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/15-631/15-631.pdf
This is so cool. Really interesting how much visual noise is removed by eliminating the hard baseline serif elements of letters like lowercase-L and lowercase-I.

My favorite config (on a Retina 15" Macbook Pro): http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python...

Might give it a spin. My current goto is Fira Code Retina @ 16pt.
I actually really love this theme, and have been trying for an acme-ish theme on my laptop for some time. @rmavis, do you think you could share any of the setup with me? Especially your terminal colors.
What sort of precedent would this set? If you ban sociopaths whose attributes (lack of empathy for one) are perfectly suited to oversee thousands of individual people, would it lead to banning, for example, a brilliant person with Aspergers from writing code because they can be a difficult on a team?
I use trello for idea and known todo ingestion, and also daily todo lists so that I’m still using it each day. I have a problem of not realizing how much I actually do in a day so I put literally everything big and small into a “live” completed tab.

For managing, I use a chrome plugin on desktop that lets you tile the sections which is easier to deal with. I have a separate instance for work stuff since I don’t want to be thinking about it when I get home. It’s nice because it’ll work offline and syncs between devices for free.
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For the technically savvy, you can run a virtualized desktop:

- GPU passthrough VM (gaming)
- SATA passthrough (FreeNAS)
- multi NIC passthrough (pfSense/OpenWRT)
- app server/cloud/P2P Linux or FreeBSD VM(s)

http://unraid.net sells a KVM-based product. VMware ESXi and XenServer are free. Connect a Ubiquiti AC-Lite WiFi access point to a dedicated NIC on the x86 box, WAN to another NIC. Since pfSense owns the WAN NIC, it can host a VPN server for your devices, including mobile. All VMs get virtual NICs. Dell T30 with quad-core Xeon and ECC costs about $400 with 8GB RAM and 1TB disk, it can hold 4 x 3.5" drives (20 TB in RAID-1) and 2 x 2.5" SSD.

Level1Techs has intro videos on home servers: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=level1+home+ser...

Advantages:

- Stable and boring x86 platform
- Good performance for gaming
- Commercially supported hardware
- Upgradeable storage and GPU
- Upgradeable router software
I make a spreadsheet with columns task, LOE ( 1-5, 1 = highest LOE ), Priority ( 1-5, 5 = highest priority ). Then sum the LOE and Priority columns, sort the sum desc, there's your task list.

This makes highest priority but lowest level of effort tasks come to the top which maximizes productivity (in my case anyway)
We need to talk about groups of people all the time. Yes, even racial groups, e.g.,

"Black American males have higher rates of heart disease than their white counterparts"

That black American males are a "they" in this sentence is an unavoidable feature of the language. How are we supposed to make statements like these without being accused of othering?

Would you feel differently if the doctor had said something like, "They have high rates of happiness"? How is that different?
I'm wondering how Jodel (or Yik Yak in the US) fits in. The only meaningful way to interact with it is by writing comments yourself. Only to read the comments gets boring very quickly.

I observe that the quality of the comments is worse compared to platforms with more lurkers but it's interesting to see, that a platform with, presumably, a higher participation ratio is working as well
So what is your point precisely?
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I love the Bullet Journal system [1], writing yearly/monthly/daily goals in an old-fashioned paper notebook. Somehow it makes it much easier to reason about compared to keeping digital to-do lists.

[1] https://bulletjournal.com
Could you provide a template for you trello board?
I have never worked at a company that used that phrase in a straight faced fashion. Silicon Valley encompasses a lot more than consumer driven tech startups. It includes old standard companies like National Semiconductor, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and so on.

I think you've wrapped yourself in an echo chamber that you don't care to be inside.
I know python and c++03.
I agree that "concurrency/parallelism/locking" could be useful to me. May automotive companies ask for that and they also ask for some algorithms knowledge.

Do you have any project idea in that area?
Thank you for your help.
> Serious question for US members of HN: how do you tolerate these shutdowns?

> Overall it seems potentially damaging and disruptive for any organisation or individuals with dependencies on the government.

Most people do not have dependencies on the government. You could live through a shutdown without noticing it had happened if not for the news coverage.
Depends on the office!

Just because they brought lunch doesn’t mean they listened to them. Many reps have told me “they told me where to put the lunch then told me to leave”.

Don’t think the docs don’t know how to get the perks without giving anything in return.