skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He clarified this point it a bit in the second paragraph:

"Mr. Beecher advised young men to get in debt if they could to a small amount in the purchase of land, in the country districts. “If a young man,” he says, “will only get in debt for some land and then get married, these two things will keep him straight, or nothing will.” This may be safe to a limited extent, but getting in debt for what you eat and drink and wear is to be avoided"

In some ways, student debt is similar to land in that it can provide a return on investment that allows for paying off the debt over time. The main difference being that land is tangible and can be sold to pay off the debt completely.

Borrowing for food, clothing, and other items that tend to be used up or worn out before they're paid off does seem like a terrible idea.
A Bollywood movie, Newton (available for free to view on Amazon Prime Video), depicts plight of one such fictional instance of vote manipulation in India: https://www.amazon.com/Newton-Rajkummar-Rao/dp/B077MHZYDL

tldr A honest govt officer running a polling booth in an area under Naxal (communist separatists) influence grapples with corruption, deciet, hopelessness, manipulation, and hypocrisy.
Democracy, is not about any of these issues you are pointing at.

India may have a long way to go in aspects you have mentioned, but the way the Indian democracy works, it has enough checks and balances to make it work as intended, which IMO is among the best if not the best.

PS: I have worked at booth level before, during and after the elections in India, to know the intricacies of what happens during the whole process.
Indian cities are a mess for a very different reason - they dont have elected city governments - you might ask why but the answer is too detailed to give here.
> Definitely can speak to the exposure to light, and exercise ones.

100% agree - went for a bike ride yesterday for the first since September, I was beaming the entire ride. Forgot how nice it is to get outside the house and away from the computer.
I'm an F1 TV subscriber. The F1 TV website has a pretty poor UI. No spacebar to pause. No distinct bookmarkable URL for past seasons. Sporadic full race archives - from 93 to 2001, there are only about 3 full races per season, the rest are highlight coverage. When live watching a race switching to one of the in car cameras results in the whole app reloading. The streaming quality of the Australian GP was pretty good, no buffering or image quality issues.

That said, the coverage is more reliable than ESPN's. When F1 moved to ESPN from NBCSN for the past year, I think it was a huge slap in the face to US F1 fans. NBCSN really cared about the coverage, they had their own team and they promoted the coverage. ESPN seems to run F1 like an infomercial, they just rebroadcast the british coverage. ESPN frequently doesn't broadcast qualifying or worse will broadcast practice and not qualifying.
Ha ha ha! Good one.

I'm thinking of the interactive debugger described in "Art of Prolog" hooked up to e.g. Siri/Alexa-style VOX interface. The user would need some training, and you would need some glue logic of course, but I bet it would work pretty well.
I think there are a lot more parts of "recycling" that are working besides putting recycling products in a separate trash can.

In Chicago now, you have to pay for bags (plastic or paper) at any major store. It's 7 cents per bag. I have no numbers on how effective it has been, but everywhere I go, I rarely see anyone getting the bags from the stores.

Programs like this and NYC's styrofoam ban seem to be very effective in the "reduce/reuse" portions of reduce, reuse, recycle. Can/bottle deposits are effective too. I doubt very many cans in NYC aren't recycled.
IIRC Restic keeps indexes of data it uploads to configured backends. I think it caches that index locally, but it can also download it from the remote backend to compare.
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People giving up plastics for a period of time rather than chocolate(ie Lent in Ireland) led by the government may be a much better solution than endlessly recycling according to dogma. Reduce and reuse is more disruptive to people's daily habits and materialistic standards, and is a hard choice for some to make.

An alternative is compostable packaging for everything - practically though I'm not sure it's feasible. We need far better waste capture for co-firing, landfill, or integration into substrates in construction.

Recycling is nice as it is indeed feel good. And flawed as directs efforts from what might be actually required for the public to do.
Until TV stops paying for a monopoly on sports (via blackouts of local games) the fans will continue to consume subpar services. I would pay hand over fist for an NBA streaming app that gave me every game at good quality. Instead I use the Hulu Live TV package and occasionally watch pirate streams (because the Hulu UI for recording a game interferes with watching it live - I've been stuck in loops of watching 5 minute commercial blocks endlessly because they didn't invest enough into QA).

EDIT: I use the Apple TV hulu app which probably gets less development resources/QA then other platforms.
Was this a change in iOS 12? I didn’t get them for a long time and then suddenly it decides I need a push notification about Lady Gaga or something.

I don’t even have push alerts turned on for email, bullshit news notifications can fuck right off.
Sure! I think it's quite doable to do theoretical work. There's plenty of solvers available (at least somewhat open source ones) that you can use to mess around with 2D and 3D structures (though, of course, larger structures will take a much longer time to solve). If you're interested in the numerical parts, I'd even highly recommend making your own solver and such! (We can chat in more detail about that if you're interested).

More classical optics setups with some decent lasers can be found off-the-shelf (though I'd have to look for consumer-type kits since the toys we have in the lab are a little more than my budget could personally handle ;). Either way, this is the best way to start since much of the subject really is based on doing experiments with light polarization, interferometry, etc., that forms the base of much of the work here (and many of the means of measurement). This is what this paper does, essentially, with the huge structures they've created (except with microwaves, which require some specialized equipment to measure).

Now, if you're interested in doing experimental work with photonic crystals, this question becomes a bit more difficult since it's essentially required that you have a foundry and some amount of cash to blow (as almost everything is fabricated and would require scanning electron microscopes and such to verify). You can also ship off parts to places like TSMC (which would likely form the basis of a somewhat expensive hobby), which I think deal with some small-scale manufacturing, but the time turnaround is pretty large as is the cost.
Funny how some of it seems like good common sense and then you get

> Some men have a foolish habit of telling their business secrets. If they make money they like to tell their neighbors how it was done. Nothing is gained by this, and ofttimes much is lost. Say nothing about your profits, your hopes, your expectations, your intentions. And this should apply to letters as well as to conversation. Goethe makes Mephistophiles say: “Never write a letter nor destroy one.” Business men must write letters, but they should be careful what they put in them. If you are losing money, be specially cautious and not tell of it, or you will lose your reputation.

In 2019, it seems openness and transparency (eg Buffer) can form the foundations of a profitable strategy
Well, node-red has a flowcontext, nodecontext and a globalcontext. I can't integrate that with pure text...

Thought about it though.
i didn't even remember apple news was an app. For me it's just a list of links to regular news websites from the widget iOS page... I wonder if they count that as well in the "most popular app".
> No one knows who you are once you're inside the voting booth :)

Then how do you know who they voted for?! :)
btw Uploadcare is also doing image processing on the fly for you :)
Correct. It simply provides context. The article should be judged on its own merits, but it's important to know when a given source leans one way or another. Especially when the organization uses ostensibly general/objective words in its name (see: Center for Immigration Studies).
I have a challenge to anyone here: stop reacting to notifications on your phone for a week. You hear the sound, ignore it. Just ignore it. Get to it when you need to.

Notifications are the reason we are addicted to our phones. Checking whether something that arrived is important is like a slot machine. Notice that there is no way to put a different sound for "urgent" notifications. That's because apps and companies are all competing for a limited resource - your attention. It's the tragedy of the commons!
This type of article makes me realize how much a love the more and more used abstract section with a couple of lines of: Introduction, method, result and discussion.
Two reasons why I do not want to use the service in its current state (meant as constructive criticism):

1. If I would send my backups to some SASS there is no way I would do that without encryption.

2. I like to backup my filesystem and not just the files in it (to make sure I've got everything and make restoring easy). Currently, I just dd my block devices, but I am sure that could be optimized to not upload a complete image every time.

Sure, I could solve those two problems myself, but then I could also use AWS S3/Backblaze ;-)
Here's my lesson on advertising: Everybody wants your stuffs because they think "another everybody" wants your stuffs.
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I wonder if CBD oil raises serotonin? It seems to lift my mood for almost an entire day.
"First study" is http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/91793/1/Compass%20Paper%20rev... ? Yep, looks like it.

I see what you are saying. That's in their literature review part.

Other people in this thread have recommended reading other stuff from Pychyl, which I plan to, to get a fuller picture of his framework.

While it has "something" to do with "self-control", the important point being made, including in that paper, is that "just trying harder" is not an effective strategy. I think that's what people think of when they think "it's a matter of self-control", and what the headline/article is meaning to disabuse (which Pychyl I believe would agree should be disabused).

You say "it does mean that it's important to understand the role [self-control] plays" in anxiety -- I'm not sure. I think the thrust here (of Pychyl's research reported in the article, and after skimming that paper) is that it is much more important to understand the role "attempt at emotional self-regulation" plays, in that procrastination is one.

That is, becoming comfortable with experiencing "negative mood" may be a useful direction; trying to increase one's "self-control" is unlikely to be.

At any rate, I don't think the article mischaracterized Pychyl's writing, although you can take issue with Pychyl's arguments or conclusions.
Recycling does indeed work, as proven by the last few billion years on this planet - literally everything that ever was on the Earth is either still around or has been recycled over and over. It is the concept of 'waste' - introduced by a recently arrived species - that doesn't work. Unless there is some infinitely expandable place to put it, producing ANY amount of unusable or unrecyclable waste that accumulates will at some point in the future become a problem. This is math that even the most rabid Koch bros follower can't argue with.
> Yeah, the recent pi calculation amassed 31.4 trillion decimal digits (or about 10^15 binary digits) of the computation load

But that was to be cool, not for any practical problem.

They needed 156 TiB of storage to hold that singular number, and that happened to be all-solid state storage ( because the majority of the time was spent on I/O, believe it or not!! )

That is to say: a faster CPU wouldn't really make the computation much faster. You need faster storage when you're dealing with numbers that big.

Double-precision floats are what people need most of the time. Crypto-guys need 2048+ or 4096+ byte numbers or something around those sizes for cryptography purposes. I'm not sure if large numbers are really used anywhere else.
Or an inch, and throw it in a cereal box:
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Even if they're paid below minimum wage, what's wrong with that?

For some mental disabilities, expecting economic output above minimum wage is unrealistic.

But these are still human beings who have social wants and c. 16 waking hours every day. If they're unemployable at minimum wage, all they have to do is occupy themselves with extremely cheap leisure-- because they can't afford anything else.

I have a mentally disabled family member who used to have a below-minimum-wage sorting job at a direct mail place. The wage laws changed and that dried up.

My family is able to support him, but he spends a lot of time walking around and mumbling to himself. He seemed happier when he had somewhere to go and something to do. Of course, it's not easy to understand his perspective.

Please consider that, in some circumstances, a company hiring severely disabled people below minimum wage is making a positive contribution to society.
Passing judgments ('no one care') on others, has it's own costs down the line. You make it harder for yourself to respect or trust people if it is your starting point.

You can rephrase your approach to - searching for people who meet my needs, while I am able to meet theirs. No judgements required.
Literally would crunch ice from a big metal cup ALL DAY LONG (walk to the soda fountain in the break room and refill with ice every hour).

I encountered two people like this in my life. It would make me physically ill, like an allergy, but no one else around us complained so I tried to get over it and ended up just working in a lab.

I'm old enough now were it to happen again I'd flood every channel with complaints until we arrived at a compromise, but I was younger then.
Looks like it may have originated in France, so it's plausible they've never heard of the other NPR.
That isn't so true of the bottom of the job market or places outside of high-tech. Most call centers aren't competing for anything and they treat their employees like cattle. Things like random drug testing to enforce your compliance after-hours and outside the workplace. Dress-code to enforce uniformity. Zero tolerance for dissension or disagreement with managers (e.g. Insubordination) regardless of merit. I think this is largely because they are bureaucracies and require absolute rigid compliance from its constituents in order to function.

"The purpose of a bureaucracy is to save the time of a competent person. Put another way: to save time, some competent people will create a system that is meant to do exactly what they want — nothing more and nothing less. In particular, it’s necessary to create a bureaucracy when you are both (a) trying to do something that you do not have the capacity to do on your own, and (b) unable to find a competent, aligned person to handle the project for you. Bureaucracies ameliorate the problem of talent and alignment scarcity." [0](https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-use-bureaucracies-97e9805...)
The difference is amazing. I have a 'newish' 2012 Yamaha and it doesn't even bother tell you what gear you are in. It's considered pointless information by many riders since they ALWAYS know. If you bemoan the direction that cars are going and want to be one with "the machine", get a bike.
they were likely thinking, it doesnt generate enough revenue?
There's no better way to spread company wide disease than hoteling. Unless your cleaners wipe down every desk every night.
Oh, very nice, thanx for sharing.
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[0]https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/3d2f6f014e5def3b5c35496...

[1]https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/3d2f6f014e5def3b5c35496...
In this case Buffer is also a result of selection bias, since you do not have data on more private companies. I'm also skeptical of the attribution of Buffer's success to their openness; Buffer is successful first and foremost because it's a good product that works and was released at an opportune time. The fact that they are an "open company" is likely, at best, a small marketing advantage.
China is not a democracy. It's a communist country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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Sure, it's not a bad app. It's just a little odd to feign surprise that it's the most popular news app, given how it's featured in iOS.

I do like the accessibility aspect of the app — it is the only big tech company app that allows the user to change the text size on iOS. It is crazy that this very basic usability/accessibility feature sets it apart from offerings by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, but Apple News is the only one that does this. [1]

One thing I don't like about Apple News is the way they do link sharing, which for some reason is stickier than other link shorteners.

1: https://medium.com/@BeeLineReader/the-importance-of-text-acc...
New York Times published a rare behind-the-scenes look at Apple News last October. It's was pretty interesting. In a world where every company is trying to create algorithms to automate everything, Apple is taking a more human approach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/apple-news-hum...
> I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media...

Don't you consider HN to be social media?
If the equity sold has preferred returns or liquidity preferences, then the impact of the compounding cost to common shareholders is not too dissimilar from the impact of debt.
Yes. They do not like needing to make things recyclable because it takes effort by corporations and the rich and powerful. The populace does not like the concept of waste and recycling was the panacea.

However, the political slant is that trashing these goods is more than enough. They definitely do not like the idea of "reduce or reuse". This would mean making durable goods, which costs more. Disposable goods make the most profit for the corporation while large amounts of trash must be handled by the public. Privatizing profits and socializing losses is the slant.
LOL... Dokku on DO is pretty simple... as to backups, it's a checkbox option, as to redundancy, for non-revenue generating projects, it's generally acceptable to have some down time. As to back up again, beyond some potential data loss, it's pretty easy to get CI/CD up and pushing to Dokku.

In any case, it doesn't need to be as completely flushed out as a company with millions in investment capital could do.
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I am curious: they never cooperated with foreign organized crime? I find it hard to believe.
I'm not quite sure why my reply attracted such significant attention but a few things:

1. There are loopholes around paying minimum wage that are separate from the core subminimum wage legislation. The sheltered workshop exemption is federal disability law. If the location uses this exemption, then they can employ the workers as contractors and the federal law applies. (If not using the sheltered workshop exemption, such contracted workers must be paid $10.35 per hour.)
2. My understanding is that Amazon started this program before the 2015 reform and has expanded its scope over the years.
3. I didn't mean to imply Amazon paid subminimum wage, as I don't know the wages. (Although the quote in the story is unclear as to whether the minimum wage being referred to is the shelter exemption rate or Seattle's minimum.) My main intent (as a former Seattle tech founder) was to relay the disappointing background of their partner.

I was not attacking the integrity of the program and apologize it came off that way.
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>> Material Design UIs are displayed in an environment that expresses three-dimensional (3D) space using light, surfaces, and cast shadows.

> It looks much closer to Microsoft's "fluent design".

It's a bit of a digression, but Fluent Design (esp. 2.0, but even 1.0) actually has very similar requirements of light, surfaces [materials], and casting shadows. It's a more nuanced approach than Material Design, which can somewhat be summed up as Material Design imagines the application as a stack of paper and cardboard and Fluent Design has both a subtler concept of "materials" (not every thing needs to be obviously stacked like a three-tiered 2.5D layer cake when displayed in 2D) and a broader concept of "materials" than Material Design (Fluent throws in things like glass-like parts, "acrylics", glinting metal bits, etc).

I understand what you probably meant that it looks like Microsoft's Windows 8.x-era "modern" designs, but I find it useful to point out that Fluent Design and Material Design have nearly converged at this point and Fluent Design is a lot more like Material Design than people think. (To the point where I'd argue today that a lot of the best Fluent Design stuff is better at Material Design than Material Design stuff.)

Does this not sound almost exactly like the Material Design quote above? [1]

> The physical world is our vocabulary. Fluent speaks in light and shadow, in spatial dimensions, in the weave and fold of fundamental materials.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/design/fluent/
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It's a pretty wild world where someone makes a claim about an entire project charter based entirely off of a single random comment on github, and then the folks who claim that's wrong and cite project documentation are "the Rust Evangelism Strike Force," even in jest.
In academia most code is useful until the paper gets published, and there only a cursory code review afterwards. It's typical to reinvent wheels (due to the nature of research, it is often not possible to predict future needs/directions so most code is not meant to be long-term). Lots of new people coming in continuously needing training / outside CS most of your colleagues will be beginner programmers. And writing grants / networking / giving presentations becomes distracting after a while.
Prince is purpose-built for paged media and non-real-time rendering, so it can make plenty of performance tradeoffs that neither WebKit (and wkhtmltopdf) nor Blink (and Puppeteer) can, along with having far more engineering resources caring about the paged media case and edge-cases there.

It's not cheap, but if you're a publisher I imagine the cost savings of not having to deal with multiple formats (one for print, one for digital) outweighs that many times over, provided you can get good enough results.

I do wonder if any publishers will get into the e-reader space, especially on the software-only side. But it's not an easy market to get into and the costs are pretty high, and I think both of us are dubious as to how much any user actually cares.
I like this.

Another down-to-earth, unix-oriented, fair-deal style "cloud" service worth investigating is rsync.net. I've been using it to sync data between my devices, and I like the way it leaves the user in control.

I have not tried Baxx yet, but it seems to be a project in a similar spirit, and I am happy to see more investment in that kind of future.