skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am mostly familiar with McDougall because of his extensive, high-quality, free youtube lectures. I have exactly the opposite impression of him than you. Instead of advocating a fad diet, he advocates a low fat, whole food, starch-based diet. He justifies it first on the grounds that every successful civilization has had this diet. Pick any civilization, country, or people group that is healthy and you will find that their diet is based on starch. His diet is the opposite of a fad diet: it's the diet that has sustained civilization.

His diet is cheap and accessible. You can follow his diet by eating locally produced wheat, potatoes, oats, rice, corn, millet, beans, etc, in all parts of the world that have an agriculture season. A feature of his diet is that starchy foods store well. Indeed, he says that the reason humans became so successful is because they were able to have a food supply that was high in energy and could be stored.

McDougall does not sell pills or supplements. He specifically counsels against them, saying that they are unnecessary with a good diet and potentially harmful.

In addition to a lot of free educational content, his website (drmcdougall.com) features different programs, including a 10 day live-in program which includes medical care plus meals and education for $6,060 for a single, full participant. You can also buy books, podcasts, and apparel. I didn't see any prepackaged food on the site.

I've considered him a source of high-quality, unbiased advice for several years. His presentations are clear and logical. He's not trying to sell me something. He is conservative in the sense that he prefers cheap, simple solutions before expensive, complex ones. For example, he would recommend that before you try medication and surgery, you should first try to change your diet. If you're not feeling well, make sure you're eating eating a low-fat, whole food, starch-based diet before trying to find a missing miracle vitamin or supplement.
Github deal <-- bribe or bullet
"When I'm in a book store nowadays, or when I'm at a conference looking at a table full of new books, I try to gauge how good the books are by picking them up and -- yes, I guess it's okay to reveal the secret -- I turn to page 316. I try to read that page rather carefully, and this gives me an impression of the whole book. (Often the book is too short; then I use page 100. Authors, take note if you expect me to buy anything you've written.) This system works quite well, I think."

-- Donald Knuth in "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"
I'm a little shocked at how much it is in absolute terms, but I'm not familiar with this data. Don't have a lot of time to spend on this but, from the UK government:

On a rolling 10 year basis, UK remains the second largest global defence exporter.

In 2017, the UK won defence orders worth £9 billion, up on the previous year’s (£5.9 billion) and further illustrative of the ‘volatile’ nature of the global export market.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-and-secur...

Total 2017 exports were $441 billion USD (call it 340 pounds sterling?).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world...

That looks like about half of what I said in percentage terms. I'd stand by what I said about it being a sizable chunk, though.

(there are some big picture odd and probably important things about these numbers which I haven't even thought about, like, the UK exports F-35s to the United States?!? I'm not sure who gains leverage from that in the trade relationship, but I suspect it's the US.)
I had heard of the SiFive/HiFive Unleashed, but not of the expansion board. I’m surprised that it “just worked” and I really like the case!
That's good, at least.
I wonder how much of this can be explained by wealth. The US has more expensive labor than the rest of the world (by a surprising margin), which makes everything in the supply chain more expensive. Infrastructure is pretty labor intensive in and of itself (and skilled labor at that -- of which there are shortages), and the materials that it requires are also relatively labor and energy intensive.

We would then expect to spend much more per passenger and route-mile than other places just to break even. But politically this is maybe a harder sell -- it's easy to criticize giving the MTA an extra billion when it buys so much less (even before corruption &c).
Another issue is that education is expensive enough for someone to need a private sponsor.
_When Genius Failed_ was written 18 years ago, by a journalist, and predicted many technical details of the 2008 crisis. It's also an excellent book, so if this is news to you, let me also recommend it unreservedly as a good read.
Note how quickly they feel the need to defend themselves, why they couldn't get the bomb done in time. Considering their situation (prisoners of war in the UK), I find that instinct patently absurd.

Over half of the transcript is them coming up with excuses why the Americans succeeded where they did not. Let it be a lesson about the human condition that the excuses all but eclipse the guilt over having attempted to build such a bomb themselves. Both the guild and envy are powerful emotions. Envy wins.
Say you develop some really cool new product that will really help people's lives be better... how would you suggest you get people to know about it?
I don't know Julia's history, but it sits right next to CommonLisp in my head.
People are using Google for their ISP? Wow...
I want to get back to porting Chromium, because when AMD tries the second time around [0] (edit: maybe third time around, as wmf below points out) to do a pin-compatible RISC (maybe this time it's one of the Zen 4 platforms or whatever), I want to pop the phattest GPU in that thing and enjoy.

[0]: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/181867-amds-project-sk...
You are grossly overestimating the technological competency of the average Wall Street analyst and retail investor.
I believe some states already do something like a UBI: saudi arabia and alaska both pay out dividends from resource extraction.
1. Because drones are really cool.

2. Because throwing cpu power at them to solve the stabilization issue turns it from a mechanical project to an electronics project, which appeals to geeks everywhere who don't have much of any fabrication experience.

3. Also, see #1 above :)
Sure. Only a psychopath would think such a thing. Thinking UBI is not a good idea is not something only psychopaths might believe.
> They hand wave the morality of Spotify allowing RCE by third-parties but feel indignant for a person breaking a fucking TOS or EULA.

If Spotify wants to suspend accounts for using adblockers, fine. I don't actually object. But I'm seriously disturbed by the number of comments here which equate using adblocked Spotify with 'stealing music' or otherwise imply that ToS violations are criminal acts. This sort of framing, by people who ought to know better, is why tech companies are still showing up in court pretending ToS violations are felonies under the CFAA. (And, thankfully, getting slapped down by increasingly-annoyed judges who understand the distinction.)

Creating a new copy of something is not the same as stealing the original, blocking ads is not the same as obtaining unauthorized access, security precautions aren't interchangeable with other approaches to adblocking, and violating a EULA is a civil matter.
> UBI actually injects money into the economy.

Not if it is tax funded (EDIT: But, even then, it doesn't pull money out of the economy); it may, however, increase the domestic velocity of money, which has a similar effect to injecting money.

> Accompanying UBI would be reducing minimum wage to zero

Maybe, maybe not. I think it would be more sensible to reduce minimum wage to it's non-UBI target minus (annual UBI/2000hrs); with a $8000 UBI (about right for poverty support given median household size) and a $15 non-UBI minimum wage target, that would be an $11 minimum wage (with the current $7.25 minimum wage as target, it would be a $3.25 minimum wage.)

> managing inflation by increasing income taxes in higher brackets,

Using fiscal policy to manage inflation is probably not a great idea; let the Fed do that with monetary policy, and if you raise taxes (whether by raising rates in higher brackets or by taxing capital gains the same as labor income or both), do it for revenue not inflation control.
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What bothers me there is, according to my understanding, that taxation laws were changed in the last cuts so that foreign subsidiaries of corporations basically owe no US income tax on their profits (maybe ok, not sure there), but left alone the case if a US citizen relocates elsewhere and makes an income, only the first $xx,000 dollars are not taxed by the US.
As long as developers are graded on their ability to crank out features most will continue to not care about reliability, alerting, etc., and there will be a need for dev ops/sre/etc.
microsemi logo looks sooo much like a 90s MSDN/Office one I took 10 seconds to be sure if it was MICROSOFT or not
Hey - I assume you're using a CGM - Dexcom?

Check out XDrip. Its an opensource community built collector for CGM data. They have a version that runs on Google Wear so your android watch can act as a collector. You can also still use your phone to collect and just have the data appear on your watch.

Nightscout is another good related resource

https://github.com/jamorham/xDrip-plus/blob/master/Documenta...
In an ideal free-market you only need 2 regulations:

1.Prevent monopolies and 2. Fight fraud.

1. According to insideairbnb.com there are 8,946 full time high-availability airbnbs in Toronto. However if we look regular apartments available for rent on zillow , padmapper.com etc, there are only 8,429 or less units available.
This means airbnb has a monopoly on available living space. We don't need new regulation, monopolies are illegal. It's no surprise during the busy summer events a 1 bedroom airbnb can shoot up to 800$/night.

Annectodal evidence confirms this. I've been living here for 13 years. 2/3 of the new condos are usually empty, I'm not exaggerating. Wether you look at them year round from the outside, ask people if anyone actually lives on their floors, talk to the concierge in different buildings, they're more than half empty.
This is a combination of airbnb and also the foreign investor market for condos that are "never livded-in".
Also this is not uber, uber is great because it has competition from lyft. AirBnb does not, landlords are basically their contractors, i don't pay them, i pay airbnb, they set the price and promos. They control more than half the market. They further enhance scarcity because airbnb's are profitable even if they're unused for 2/3 of the time, so if we look at housing as units of a 'good-nights-sleep' , we can clearly see how this is anti-competitive behaviour.

2.Fight fraud: There are no employment checks for foreigners getting a mortgage in Toronto, as long as they provide a 34% downpayment and have in the bank about a year of mortgage payments. I can't legally compete with that. I don't have some third world factory, gambling business, foreign politicians in the family laundering money through me. I'm just a hard-working citizen, my student landlord has literally never had a job in their life, this is borderline feudalism at this point.
Regarding activity in the US... Do you think it's because we have no cultural knowledge/history of peasants vs the aristocracy?

We very much have had class divisions right from the get-go. Class distinctions were codified into voting rights!

I find that Americans are very confused when discussing class issues and any discussion usually devolves into racism or simple consumerist preferences.

1) There is a faction in US society which is actually invested in the sabotage of public discourse. Devolving discussions into terms which have historically caused hate and violence is a very effective tool for doing this. So long as American society has public discourse and the norms and institutions that make us free, US society is strong and unassailable. There is a faction that wants to roll the dice and ruin the qualities and practices which make society great, in order to see if they come out on top.

2) A lot of culture has always expressed itself in material culture preferences. We're just a lot more up-front about it today, and so much more of our culture is wound up in it.
The submission pattern is spammy, but it's on topic so they may get some interesting results in the future to share, let's be optimistic. Sometimes a friendly comment make people stop reposting too much or change the style of the submissions. (And sometimes they continue.)
Agreed. That said, to give some credit, here are a few I’ve read during the last few years that I can offer as counter examples:

* All the shah’s men, by Stephen Kinzer, about how the 1953 coup against the democratically elected prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was orchestrated.

* The Idea Factory, by John Gertnee, about the history of Bell Labs

* A mind at play, by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, about Claude Shannon

* Ike’s bluff, by Evan Thomas, about Dwight Eisenhower

* The Wise Men, by Walter Isacsson and Evan Thomas, about diplomats during the Truman administration

I tend to be more skeptical about books written by journalists that relate to some specific topic rather than historical narrative. Additionally, I tend to read the historical narratives with more skepticism than I do when I read history books written by professional historians.
I think advertising has value, but there is a really good article about why targeted advertising is bad:

https://zgp.org/targeted-advertising-considered-harmful/

The tl;dr is basically that one of the key aspects of advertising is signaling (i.e. we stand behind our product so much that we can waste this much money advertising it to you)... with targeted advertising, it becomes so cheap display an ad to only a few people that you lose that signal, and you have no way of knowing if a product is total crap or not.
>> SFTP? I don't see why not. No need to make things more complex than is necessary.

You are trying to argue definitions (SFTP vs FTP when FTP just means “any file transfer protocol”) instead of arguing that uploading any amount of files by any protocol that are immediately picked up by the interpreter introduces nondeterministic behaviour of the website where the users accessing your website only see a subset of the files you were trying to upload.

Doesn’t that just reinforce one’s confidence in the fact that PHP developers are generally quite amature in nature?
These publishers require that you transfer copyright to them. You're allowed to use your own work as part of your work, such as teaching, and sharing it with fellow researchers. But you're not allowed to upload the published version of the work elsewhere. Preprints are often allowed, such as on arxiv, are usually allowed.
That has to destroy accessibility. I mean, a human using a screen reader is nearly equivalent to a scraper, so the whole thing seems problematic.
Fondly remembering the time “wasted” on Kongregate.....
I think in many contexts there's a case to be made for the redundancy. For instance, at a checkout counter where a customer or cashier may have a pen in hand, may be wearing one or more pins, and is subsequently prompted for a PIN - saying "PIN number" immediately resolves any possible ambiguity. "ATM machine" similarly disambiguates the machine from the abbreviation for "at the moment". "CAC" is an acronym with many meanings and is sufficiently uncommon for laypersons that replacing parts of speech with it is bound to cause confusion. I am tempted generally to consider the unqualified use of acronyms as jargon which I prefer to avoid using whenever reasonably possible.
> The main incentive to work is that you need to work to make a living.

No. The main incentive to work is to have something meaningful to do with your time. Every experiment with UBI has shown that — given guaranteed support income — people are generally happier (or less stressed) and have a greater incentive to find work because the disincentive of reporting job-searching efforts is removed.

In addition, under a UBI everyone who has a paying job will have more disposable income than people who don't have a paying job. So while UBI will cover rent and food, if you want a nicer house or other trappings of luxury you'll need a paying job to find the extra money.

Nobody is going to be setting up a real estate empire or discovering the cure for cancer on UBI.

Another thing UBI will achieve is allowing people to move jobs without fear of being trapped in poverty. They won't settle for a low satisfaction, low pay job and will move to optimise their personal benefit.

Finally: UBI is not about "handing you everything you need." Universal Basic Income is there to provide for the basics: food & shelter. That's it. It's not supposed to replace an average wage, it's supposed to provide the minimum cost of living.
(I am the author of the blog post and I am answering here at the request of nkurz.)

So nkurz is correct that, in the paper, N is always equal to the maximum bitwidth of the numerator. I was not careful enough to make sure that the notation of the paper matches the notation of the blog post. So the N from the blog post is the F from the paper. I am sorry about this.

I added the following footnote.

"What is N? If both the numerator n and the divisor d are 32-bit unsigned integers, then you can pick N=64. This is not the smallest possible value. The smallest possible value is given by Algorithm 2 in our paper and it involves a bit of mathematics (note: the notation in my blog post differs from the paper, N becomes F)."

To make it super simple, if you have 32-bit values, then pick N (from the blog post) to be 64 and you are all set. You can do better, but this requires knowing what the divisor is.
Why a video instead of text + photos?
More than one.

Basically any global consultancy targeting c-suite ‘strategy’ advisement.
You work in Analytics? What do you do?
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This is an unfair comparison, Amazon would've put HQ2 in Manhattan if they didn't get the tax deal. The tax break is specifically for bringing jobs to long island city.
OK. I thought i was just going crazy when i couldnt find java & c#.
We do though? I had to take two GE philosophy courses and an engineering ethics course to get my degree.
AI Has a Problem with Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It
I work at Amazon. We've tried digital on my team. It's way worse. People make more nitpicky changes and the inline-edits/auto-suggest thing makes it easy to rat-hole. Stick to paper, imo.
I’m not sure it does, or if it does it doesn’t work very well. I have an apple music subscription. If I enable iCloud Music Library it only adds the songs to my other devices if they’re available on Apple Music.

There doesn’t seem to be a way for me to upload my own MP3s to the service like you can on Google Play Music.
Following an artist works fine for me. Perhaps check your communication preferences? Maybe you've disabled emails or notifications about new releases from artists you follow.
There isn't a generic insulin available (at least in the US) - that's why there's a movement of biohackers to homebrew insulin.
That's great, but you live in a country that have these things called laws and you have to follow them whether or not you personally think that breaking them "isn't so terrible" or not.

If enough people think the laws are terrible, then lobby your representative to have them changed. This is how the system works. Half the reason it doesn't work is admittedly our corrupt officials taking the big media money (RIAA and MPAA subsequently), but the other half the equation is you and me. Everyone just wants things to magically change and be the way they think they are suppose to be without putting any skin in the game.
As a question of curiosity, roughly how much traffic does your site get and how much are you paying for your servers? I run a few sites to do various minor personal things. None of them get much traffic, and my monthly hosting costs are in the neighborhood of $20 or so, and that's probably using servers that are more powerful than what's really needed.
> It turns out that GitHub doesn't require proof of ownership in order to set a custom domain.

This is a major blunder. GitHub management needs to close this loophole immediately and delete this idiot's account.
I think physical presence was more important to a company’s “brand” in the past. Those were marketing dollars that are now spent on website theming / sophisticated animations / well-polished apps.
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I agree with much of what you said including that costs are high due to government subsidies - I just think that the primary subsidy is keeping general interest rates low. That mortgage interest tax deduction really just further reduces the the effective interest rate for home loans. The primary subsidy isn't even acknowledged as an explicit policy, but obscured by describing it as a mechanical application of a purported economic consensus.

I guess my point of disagreement is that since the low interest subsidy is basically turning any mildly dense area into a rent treadmill, then why isn't the goal to directly address that as the problem? The increasing financialization of most people's lives (pet insurance!!) seems like a much more pressing issue than trying to indirectly prop up rural economy.
> the CAC will remain the department’s principle authenticator

At least in principal.
I was diagnosed around 12. It was briefly a concern until I actually did it.

The blood checking pokes are much worse, because they have to actually draw blood. Usually fine but sometimes quite painful or difficult. Now I use a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and it's much better.
Really cool! Nearly three years ago I wrote a post [0] on here asking if anyone had something like this, thinking you could use it to train an AI to recognize vulnerable portions of code. More details on that in the linked post.

Really cool someone went through this effort; would love to see more people build on it and try to make productive use of the data.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573547
Is Google Testing Fuchsia on a Larger Google Home Hub ‘Max’?
I respectfully disagree. "Enter your PIN" can't refer to their ballpoint or to the little flag on their lapel. If I'm getting cash from the ATM, I can't mean the Asynchronous Transfer Mode router. "Present your CAC at the door" would only have one meaning in any setting where you'd be expected to show your CAC.
Why steal mp3's when you can make copies for free?
> because when AMD tries the second time around [0] to do a pin-compatible RISC (maybe this time it's one of the Zen 4 platforms or whatever), [...]

> [0]: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/181867-amds-project-sk...

The mentioned Project Skybridge is dead: https://wccftech.com/amd-cancelled-skybridge-glofo-terminate...