skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will going after those sites actually accomplish much?

They'll just add a third option, "pay", which lets you buy access without them storing personal information (other than information they need to recognize paid users, of course). Almost no one will actually pick the "pay" option, so for most practical purposes it effectively reduces to either "consent" or "leave".
> polarizing viral content

I feel like the points in the article can apply even more broadly to all content, especially the ones that with more "professional" language and good typography, which people naturally tends to trust more, like the Atlantic.

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Why won't you "instantly" feel better? Instant meaning a few breaths of outside air, anyway, likely well within the claimed 5 minutes.
Will be. Was homeschooled myself. Several reasons:

1) I'm responsible for the raising and education of my children, and I'm not going to outsource the bulk of that to strangers.

2) Less time-consuming. From talking to my friends who have 2+ children in school it sounds like they spend about 1 hour per day on average driving their kids around to and from school (not counting extra-curricular activities, parent teacher conferences, homework help, etc...). My mom says her steady-state time expenditure was around 40 minutes per day for all 3 of us, mostly grading math and papers.

3) Way better outcomes. Homeschoolers average at the 87th percentile in national standardized testing, and homeschoolers whose parents make less than $35K still average in the 85th percentile. (http://www.topmastersineducation.com/homeschooled/) On the anecdotal level, I'm a former USAF pilot-turned drone guy, my brother is a successful artist, and my little sister is working on her PhD in Aerospace Engineering when she's not kicking all our asses at fantasy football.

4) Better socialization. Yeah, I said better. I admit that I'm less used to spending time with people my exact age than most of my peers, but I interact much better than they do with people younger than me and people older than me. Funny thing, it turns out once you're out of college, most of the rest of your life will be spent with people who aren't your exact age. Homeschooling prepares you for that way better than public schooling.

5) "The Underground History of American Education", by John Taylor Gatto. Just read it. It'll blow your mind, and it's well-supported. TL;DR, our school system was modeled on the Prussian system designed to build an army that could beat Napoleon's troops. It's designed to create obedient myrmidons who don't know how ignorant they truly are. Don't worry, I'm sure your school was different.
Exercise makes you hungry.
Nvidia DRIVE Sim – hardware-in-the-loop self-driving cars simulator system
The dry conditions help the automated vehicles, but there's special challenges when it DOES actually rain.... everything tends to be underwater, by a lot :-)
We've been on large boom and bust cycles since the 19th century at least. This isn't new.
Way To Go SvN!

I share your concerns Timothy. I'm an old timer on the internet. I hung out at the world's first computer store, and saw the internet for years as "a great wealth of content on public FTP sites". I'm fearful that much of what the internet took away from governments and Old Big Media (newspapers, network tv, and radio) is now being givewn to New Big Media; Facebook, Medium and Twitter, etc. Free speech is not so much being curbed or curated now, as it is herded and monetized like cattle. There's way too much pressure for content authors to let themselves be branded with someone else's brand mark and have their worth be determined by what they can bring at auction in terms of advertising "eyeballs".

I guess if it's better for any particular content author or publisher to play "the game" or not is mostly up to their own self interest. I hope more politically correct alternatives will arise, and that more content producers will choose to take a stand and go the way of SvN. I wonder what those more correct alternatives might look like.
I had read somewhere that after about 45 minutes of cardio your body will start using it's fat stores, and continue burning fat for 6 to 8 hours afterwards. So when I found myself overweight I started doing long trail runs or bike rides, about 2 hours long, 3 times a week. Insomuch as I looked forward to doing the exercise, losing 3-5 pounds a week was nearly effortless. My appetite actually goes down during these periods because I'm burning my fat stores and my body isn't demanding that I replace those calories, and it's doing it for hours after I've stopped.

I've had people tell me that getting exercise is not a good way to lose weight, but my experience tells me that if you're doing the right kind of exercise, then, yes it a good way. Maybe there's just no reasonable expectation that most people will do enough cardio at a high enough level to activate fat burning.
As someone who has never smoked, never had more than a few drinks, and never done heroin, I find that it takes zero effort to not buy cigarettes, not buy drugs, and not drink to excess. What could be easier than not doing something, after all? I just have to sit here and play on my computer. And yet, obviously, many people find doing these things (or not doing them, rather) to be incredibly difficult. I can't just shrug that off, even if I lack any personal experience with it.
CICO is not debunked, stop spreading that myth. Studies such as the ones you linked only indicate that the counting is more complicated than measuring the heat generated by burning a food and slapping the result on a label.
I think it goes beyond conservatism for most devs as to why you don't formally specify your design and its mostly rooted in why AGILE is so popular.

The sooner you show a finished product, no matter how broken and incomplete, the sooner your client can realize all the things they didn't want they said they did and replace them. If you give them a formal design document it might be ironclad and foolproof but it doesn't put the finished product in their face to scrutinize.

Money doesn't judge. It ends up in the hands of all manner of people. As programmers we want money for time, and the people with the money rarely have the education or willpower to even be able to comprehend a formal design. But they are the ones calling the shots with some esoteric vision locked up in their head we are meant to realize.

As someone who dabbles in art too there are substantial parallels between the two. You sketch your piece and constantly refer back to your commissioner to verify this is what they want. Almost every single step of a painting or animation or music production or anything creative a commissioner will change their mind on it, either because you suggest something better or because they recognize flaws in their realized vision.

Thats where "run fast and break things" even comes from. Making some piece of garbage "sketch" is way more informative to your average "commissioner" than having them write down to every intricate detail their vision for the finished piece. Because like with all other creation those we write code for rarely have the education to understand what they are even asking for. They have this nebulous idea of a fraction of a finished product and you need to basically teach them to see the whole picture along the way.

Until they actually have even a remotely reasonable grasp on what they want all the testing, specs, design docs, etc are wasted because you still don't know what you are actually making. The more endemic problem would be that we still don't have an accurate way to convey the long term value in doing it right once we have a glued together rapidly iterated abomination that now needs to be redone properly. Thats where formal methods I feel have the most value - a developer can produce a formal spec for a near-finished product that, when they always fail to achieve the spec because the money stops when it "looks done" at least the next guy months or years later who inevitably has to pick up and fix this mess has a better idea of the intent than the person paying them would on the repeat attempt.
It’s great that your body is in a place where you are able to do that, but let me ask you something.

Have you ever been more than 130kg?

I have, and getting down to being no longer overweight requires a substantial mindset change.

It’s extremely unhelpful to talk to people who have been as large as I have about how you can eat how you want and still feel full.

Maybe you can lose the weight and still few full, but it’s just not realistic to paint that picture because all you are doing is undermining the reality of long term change.
My experience as well.

Data migrations make my palms sweaty (not schema migrations but the kind of migration that requires rewriting large amounts of existing data). Picking the wrong data structure is a fast path to data migrations.
yes. people don’t normally see it as getting better at eating. it’s a problem they’re solving.
Over a decade ago I DIY'd going from 225 to ~165 and have kept it off.

The main success factor in my opinion was becoming single and staying single, as well as restructuring my life in general, especially how/who I socialize with.

It's pretty easy to do what's right for you when you go solo.

The process isn't really different than a drug addict trying to go clean and avoid relapse. It's all about the friends and environment, you have to change it all.
The 1987 market crash (October 19, 1987, single-day loss of 23% in the S&P 500 index) was a 25 standard-deviation event. Mind you, an 8 standard-deviation event is an event that should occur once every 3 trillion years. And 25 standard-deviation events are unfathomable given the age of the Universe.
If there are at least 1000/5=200 floodplanes in the country it's not that surprising; and there are a lot more than 200 floodable areas.
This is one of my regular arguments in the office, I open a window, someone says "aren't you cold??" and I say "I don't want it colder, I want it fresher, less stuffy".

Your anecdata has cemented it as fact(tm).
> This civilization has survived terrible wars in the past

While that's true, I don't think any past war is remotely comparable to a 7-12 billion-strong human population fighting to maintain unrealistic material consumption levels whilst ecosystems continue to collapse.

Only time will tell. The one thing we can be sure about re predictions on this scale is that our likelihood estimates are wrong.

> By the way i didn't down vote you

No worries - I actually wouldn't have noticed as I don't use the voting system on comments. The 'sociopathic' word might have merited it. Perhaps a bit sharp. Or maybe not - I think our 'civilisation' promotes much sociopathy as mainstream. Few of us can in practise be free of that.
From the description:

Translated bitcode can be analyzed or recompiled as a new, working executable with functionality identical to the original.

One of my personal annoyances is the invention of new terminology when there are perfectly fitting existing words which are precise and unambiguous. That's basically a decompiler.
youve released some great talent into the world. munchery developers are some of the best ive worked with :)
Amphetamines were popularly used to suppress appetite in the mid-20th century, but addiction and abuse proved disastrous.

He glosses over amphetamines. They are highly effective at weight loss. So much so that ADHD patients have the stereotypical "Adderall skinniness" after 1-2 years of use. Addiction is a problem with stimulants, but psychiatrist routinely assess for addiction in the ADHD population. Why not prescribe Adderall for weight loss and similarly monitor those patients?

Which is better? A BMI of 40+ or a BMI of 25 and taking a daily stimulant?

The FDA agrees with the latter in at least one case. In 2015, the FDA approved the amphetamine lisdexamfetamine (brand name Vyvanse) for the treatment of binge-eating disorder.
Disney/Berne-wise? CC0. Inspired by Louis CK's Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy. s/reusable software/code reuse/ was the phrase in use.
The marketing is all wrong. I've used vb6 for 20+ years. The advantage is that you can get a Windows app running in seconds. But vb6 is tainted by opinions (some right, but mostly wrong). Forget VB. Focus on RAD. Show how easy it is to build a UI. The vb6 ide is unparalleled in modern software. It's shocking how bad things are.
Should point out I actually found it via this doc URL where the runs are actually embedded within the template which I found pretty interesting, turns out to be part of Sphinx generation ...

https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/quickstart/

https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gen_modules/...
I wonder similar about office buildings or apartments which are next to large car-parks, does that measurably affect air quality inside?
I think it is “darn.”
One thing that I don't understand is why the Social Team are still posting food porn even after this message. Have they not been informed yet?
There's a great saying... economists have predicted the last 7 of 5 recessions.

A more interesting question to ask is why we shifted from the student loan crisis to corporate debt as the very-definite-hiding-in-plain-sight cause of the impending crash.
Well I'll provide the citation and personally disagree with that summary. Adults who give a fig can read it, it's short.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/2/PHCBP.pdf
I assume OP is talking about “me too” drugs. However, there is an argument that they offer a lot of value too. Incremental improvements is why we have a single pill therapy for AIDS with minimal side effects. It took dozens of “me too” drugs to get to that point.[1]

[1]https://www.acsh.org/news/2012/05/10/me-too-drugs-are-innova...
I remember seeing an article about a long term study of former participants of the show "The Biggest Loser." If I recall, almost all of them had gained the weight back and due to the extreme caloric restrictions they had placed on themselves during their time on the show the reduced their base metabolic rate significantly.
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I tried to resell it at my PC Shop but could not get any buyers. 68K Macs sold for $100 on eBay like the Mac SE.
Any other references to what you're referring other than a very long video? I don't know this Actualized.org group at all or the person talking, and clicking on the forum lead to even more confusion.
You're underestimating how much of a pain all of this has become. For one, you'll want it to be HTTPS and right away that always seems to be difficult even when you've done it the same way before. You're going to have to interface with probably paypal which means you get to join the world of JavaScript APIs. This means often hard to follow documentation and bizarre designs. You'll probably want to set up some kind of email system which means using one of the many awesome email plugins (which ends up having a dependency on another plugin but you can't figure out how to install it). Then you have to setup CSS and people will tell you lies about how you should use x or how y will save you so much time but you definitely should NOT use x and y will take more time to setup than you could possibly save. ...just walk away man. Walk away. I'd probably use some kind of Wordpress thing or even start off with square space until I know the idea has wings.
> None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse.

I never said your life won’t be better overall. I said it will be worse in real ways.

Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome. There is a reason these foods are popular. No amount of pretending is going to make that not true, and a life where you could eat them with no downsides would be better.
Pygmalion Effect: Proving Them Right
On the other hand... basically every addition made to ObjC since NeXT adopted it (30 years ago!) has made it less like Smalltalk.
That is very true. If your insurance requires a copay, it’s on the list price, not net.

Sometimes the discount is so big that 20% of the list price is more than the entire net price of the drug.
Only if you insist on the same duty cycle. Furnace might only run 4h/day, while heat pump could run all day (6* reduction)
It's odd that they make concessions like that in a lease agreement but that's great. Ontario generally favours tenants in legal matters but the locks thing bothers me a bit. I currently have an issue with my landlord and I know they have made illegal entry to my unit and others in my building (illegal meaning without 24hr notice for a valid reason or not because of an emergency) and I can't change my locks. My only option at the moment (because I have no proof to take to the Landlord and Tenant Board) is to place a camera in my apartment which I don't particularly like doing.
The same is true for reading a book but you don't see people up in arms about that.
Sure, the stakes are much higher, but people often choose their physician based on skill. Why not throw cost into the mix as well? Right now that’s impossible.
Thinking about this reminded me of the line from the movie "The Big Short" where Michael Burry says one of the indicators of the coming crisis was an increase in the rate of fraud. Juxtapose that with what feels like an uptick in white collar fraud these past couple years. ie: Theranos, Fyre, 1MDB, numerous crypto token related scams.
The trite answer is: because it's hard.

(An entire section in the article is devoted to this point.)

Programming languages and tooling have attracted phenomenal amounts of attention and iteration in just a few decades. Folks hereabouts just about go to the damn mats over the smallest syntactic quibbles.

Meanwhile, over in mathematician land, they're limping along with a write-optimised mishmash of "the first thing that a genius in a hurry scribbled three hundred years ago and now we're stuck with it".

I have very limited attention and brainpower and remembering what ∂ means in this book vs the other twenty places it's used in my library and where it means something completely, entirely, utterly different, is just hard. So too is remembering what Q(x) and W(z) mean for two hundred densely-written pages of stuff optimistically described as accessible to anyone who has taken highschool algebra (not mentioned: and remembering it exactly).

Notational ergonomics matter, dammit.
My initial reaction to this was "what's wrong with it, it's a totally SFW shot of someone from the shoulder-up, mildly suggestive at its very worst?", then I challenged that thought a little. I can see why it would be an issue to sit as a female student in a classroom in a heavily male-dominated field and see that we're using Playboy centerfolds as a source of data when perfectly good data of the same type is functionally limitless. It sure doesn't do much to dispel the notion that computer science academics is a boys club, does it?
I think the assumption is that the learning will be accelerated so what previously took four weeks might take two and where they might return to a topic the next year and do a refresher, instead they teach.
Relevant article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

"[...] the problems plaguing the subway did not suddenly sweep over the city like a tornado or a flood. They were years in the making, and they might have been avoided if decision makers had put the interests of train riders and daily operations ahead of flashy projects and financial gimmicks.

An examination by The New York Times reveals in stark terms how the needs of the aging, overburdened system have grown while city and state politicians have consistently steered money away from addressing them."

"Century-old tunnels and track routes are crumbling, but The Times found that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s budget for subway maintenance has barely changed, when adjusted for inflation, from what it was 25 years ago.

Signal problems and car equipment failures occur twice as frequently as a decade ago, but hundreds of mechanic positions have been cut because there is not enough money to pay them — even though the average total compensation for subway managers has grown to well over $200,000 a year."

"None of this happened on its own. It was the result of a series of decisions by both Republican and Democratic politicians — governors from George E. Pataki to Mr. Cuomo and mayors from Rudolph W. Giuliani to Bill de Blasio. Each of them cut the subway’s budget or co-opted it for their own priorities.

They stripped a combined $1.5 billion from the M.T.A. by repeatedly diverting tax revenues earmarked for the subways and also by demanding large payments for financial advice, I.T. help and other services that transit leaders say the authority could have done without.

They pressured the M.T.A. to spend billions of dollars on opulent station makeovers and other projects that did nothing to boost service or reliability, while leaving the actual movement of trains to rely on a 1930s-era signal system with fraying, cloth-covered cables.

They saddled the M.T.A. with debt and engineered a deal with creditors that brought in quick cash but locked the authority into paying $5 billion in interest that it otherwise never would have had to pay."
If you taxed at 100% and still had a deficit, then yes, it’s arithmetically inpossible. With higher taxes past a certain point revenue decreases, per the Laffler Curve.
Va. Senate approves Amazon package, narrowly rejects minimum-wage bill
I did not answer your question because it’s stupid and you have functioning neurons. Nobody is arguing for a back door. I’m open to all competing solutions, including government proposed ones.
My take:

If you already have a decent foundation in systems dynamics and thinking, the most valuable part of the book is Chapter 6 (Leverage Points) which is about how to change systems (not control them, but actually drive changes to their structure).

The value of the book, beyond that, is that it's a good introduction to systems dynamics and thinking for people who aren't systems thinkers yet (or nascent systems thinkers who don't have the vocabulary yet). Trying to explain systems thinking to others is hard, surprisingly so. This book serves either as something to give them to read (for those who are motivated to better themselves, surprisingly few in my office) or provides a good set of examples when trying to discuss system dynamics and thinking with those who don't want to (either ever or yet) read something themselves.

The examples aren't esoteric or abstract, they're things that most people can relate to. Which is very helpful. A high level system dynamics book might try and talk too much about the math or structure but using labels like A and B, rather than Oil Reserve or Car Inventory. Leaving out the math (or enough of it) also makes this approachable even to the most math-phobic (and the equations behind the models are all available in an appendix so they're not missing, just shifted to let people focus on the structure and nature rather than formulas and numbers).
You are right in general where the cost of failing is not that high, but consider software on flights, a pacemaker or (the best example everyone in FM quotes) a space mission. The cost of a small bug can cost you huge money/lifes. In these cases companies have an incentive to verify their code.

Hey you don't have to go to these special cases. Amazon, google, Microsoft all do Formal verification (or have started somewhat sophisticated testing) of their critical pieces of code as a bug in them even if it causes an hour of downtime will cost them in millions.
Python, Lisp, Ruby and JavaScript are all slow as fuck languages. And you are completely wrong about Python being faster. Python is up to 100x slower than C++. How much crack did you smoke before writing this?

Translation: I'm a webshit programmer who doesn't understand low level languages, and therefore they shouldn't be used