skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There were even prizes for some categories for wellness categories, like the steps counting programs for which they gave up counters to weight loss.

What were the rewards like? I’ve seen those usually in the range of a fraction of a percent of salary, which isn’t going to motivate anyone. Things which would help involve spending money because most people need time and lifestyle support more than some drone nagging them about something they already knew: provide solid bike-to-work support (showers, storage, etc.), high-quality nearby childcare so parents have time to workout, ending a culture of overtime, flexible scheduling & showers so people can workout in the middle of the day, make sure that healthy and tasty food is readily available so it’s not “5 minutes to the vending machines or 30 to get non-junk”, etc.
Youtube poops and endless music video memes are some of the best things to come out of the meme culture. Because folk culture is now truly ‘multimedia’ and we have a horde of people for whom hyperactive video and sound editing is second nature. Now just to wait for when it becomes mainstream and commoditized like graphics editing.

I'm hoping for about the same fate for knowledge visualization techniques—might see it happen soon enough now that ‘data science’ is in vogue.
The barber shop is a "third place" after work and home.

https://theartofcharm.com/art-of-personal-development/what-i...
I understand that in SF it is principally people who have nowhere else to do it. People who do not currently own or rent a domicile with a toilet, and who do not work anywhere where such facilities are provided, and who have no access to any public facilities.

"People are taught to hold it back in until they get to a bathroom..."

For these people, there isn't one.
I have never seen any human feces on the street in the east coast of the US. We have plenty of homeless people too, but the feces/needles problem is an SF thing.
Add 20% of the doubled estimate (eg .2 * 200%=40%) surely?
https://lahzeakhar.com/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7...
Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic
I haven't used it but I'm watching the development of the Mycroft virtual assistant closely.
It's exciting to see how startup redefines the world as we see it. If this new mode of transportation pushes through then traveling has just gotten a lot faster. Hopefully, it's going to be a lot safer as well.
Uber Shows Why Food-Delivery Business Is No Cheap Date
> Will also never leave a good review when I'm satisfied ... tend to rather just leave bad reviews when I'm not satisfied

This is basic consumer behavior. Receiving a good experience (either service or product) is not notable because you paid for it and expect it, whereas a bad experience is offensive and makes you feel cheated so you retaliate by taking your time to leave a bad review.

What this means at scale is that most positive reviews are fake except for the truly extraordinary products/services that are far above all their peers in terms of quality or novelty.

In order to get decent reviews you have to be able to verify that the consumer actually paid for the product/experience and then you have to apply some sort of sampling methodology and statistical analysis to arrive at a meaningful relative score to other products/services in the same industry.

No review site has any interest in doing this because they are just using reviews to generate free content for SEO, to put ads on, and to extort businesses into paying them to "manage" negative reviews in various ways.
Emojicode – programming language emoji based
I have nothing against free spirit and eternal roamers, but to me they usually don't really seem serene, unrelated to their living choices. Twiggs especially does not : she seems very anxious, her family wouldn't take her for a while. It screams mental health issues, as it often does in such cases.
The new DIMMs Intel is putting out have a RAM cache in front of the optane memory that will absorb all the churn plus a wear leveling algorithm on the writeback side. It has big enough capacitors to put all its data away in the event of power loss.

https://www.storagereview.com/intel_optane_dc_persistent_mem...

All of which looks to solve the wear problem even if it means higher price and latency.
Signed Exchanges could also remove some of the concerns around JavaScript crypto, because there is a (potentially offline) key that signs the web app you're running, so you're not vulnerable to hacks of the hosting environment itself.

What's really needed is a way for the browser to lock a given web app/package to a specific version (and hash), so that even if the signing key becomes compromised, the app can't auto-update to a newer version containing malicious code.

Combining this with something like Certificate/Binary Transparency would allow browsers to check that they are not being uniquely targeted with a specially altered version, and you could set a policy saying "Only auto-update to a newer version of this web app if its hash has been published in a log for more than a month (and/or endorsed by signatures from N out of M other organisations I trust)".
I'm not sure I'm arguing for a ban on decentralised tech as a whole, to go back to my first post on the topic - far from being a selling point, decentralisation is a negative feature for a lot of people. Centralisation provides points of control that are useful way beyond political suppression of speech, to allow (for instance) transaction reversal and material take down.

The post I replied to was singing the praises of decentralisation, as if the idea that nobody can control what's said and done is a universal positive. I'm just putting across the counterpoint that it's not, there are circumstances where unilateral control could be (and is, by large sections of the population) seen as a good thing.

> You cannot outlaw a technology (or require a backdoor) simply because it may not support deletion as a feature by virtue of being decentralized.

I mean, you can. I'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing to do, but there's no real reason a government couldn't make exactly such a rule. Whether it could be enforceable in any way is a different matter.
Plus 401(k) fees are usually higher than if you just opened your own IRA with Vanguard and bought some no-load index funds. Rational order to do it is: fund 401(k) to the match, fund your own IRA to the max, then fund the 401(k) to the max.
Still using those long expression is unfair

A(b(c)) are 2 function calls.

Hence

(A (b c))

is the fair abd equal expression. And you inside out whilst valid and in fact easier to read (as more normal) would need precedence rule in other scenario.

But those examples just not right.
> Muphry

Sems like it got you too!

(Yes that was intentional
I'm watching the debate right now and the bishop says, when explaining why he's not particularly offended by the humour of the film, "I'm also the governor of a mentally-deficient school so I'm on familiar ground this evening". Oh boy, you couldn't get away with saying something like that on TV nowadays :-D
Generic functions in Swift are compiled separately from their callers. Protocol requirements called on values of generic parameter type are dynamically dispatched via a witness table passed in under the hood for each generic requirement.
Certainly, though they often seem to be some form of melding or merging of the two. There's still plenty of pre-Christian aspects to Easter and Christmas for instance.

At this remove it seems just about impossible to pick apart, let alone identify the previous significance.
This is also why I think you should never use your real identity on projects like this.

Note that in some countries there is a legal right to RE anything, so people there could be more lax about it.
Brings to mind the story about CEO who doesn't have phone, but then uses employees and friends phones when "absolutely necessary". The article was about how cool and freeing it was to live without a phone...
But it’s not WinZip or WinRAR. This is a product marketed for professional use(r)s. How could it ever become more popular than something you just have?
When I see a good review, I check other reviews of this person. If there are none or very few, it's a major red flag. If there are also positive, they're not necessarily fake, but maybe this person has very low expectations overall. I imagine someone like the Alec Baldwin character in an episode of "Friends". Of course relying on this isn't fool-proof, the reviewer could be mixing their genuine, "private" reviews with the ones they get paid for, but it's something.
IMO the idea was not to make fun of Jesus but the followers of Jesus.
This is clearly shown when people start following Brian for no freaking reason and start creating "miracles" just because they want to believe it.
The movie lives side-by-side Jesus and criticizes faith in a satire approach by using Brian and his cult followers.
Are you sure about that? This is from the current version of https://developers.facebook.com/policy/

> You may use Account Information in accordance with your privacy policy and other Facebook policies. All other data may not be transferred outside your app, except to your service provider (per, Section 3.7) who needs that information to provide services to your app. With the exception of Account Information, you may only maintain user data obtained from us for as long as necessary for your business purpose.

I imagine some smart lawyers worked pretty hard on that. I imagine that most companies have their own smart lawyers who write "[their] privacy policy" to say "we can do whatever we want with your data...to provide you better service." I assume that your app's backend is the "service provider" in question.

IANAL, but I read that as saying it's kosher with FB for your app to push data up to the mothership.

The phrase "for as long as necessary for your business purpose" sure sounds like "indefinitely" to me. Maybe my business is still hoping to make some money from that data?
Well. I think the trick is, if you are cultivating figs specifically for sale, and wasp corpses are a necessary component of the trade then part of your food preparation process specifically relies on the death of wasps. With out the fig farmer there would fewer insects captured in the fruits.

So, if one thinks insects aren't vegan I think you can make a logical basis for not wanting to include figs in your diet.

For hyperbole, if the only way for mango trees to grow was by soaking up the nutrients of dead sheep, and so every mango farm would chop up a ewe for fertilizer once a week to maintain their orchards, than would mangoes still be considered vegan?
From your link:

> All the truths you list above, which are beyond the capabilities of human reason alone to discover, can only be known through faith. See, for example: "Whether the trinity of the divine persons can be known by natural reason?" (Summa Theologica I q. 32 a. 1).

> Just because there are truths beyond our human natural reason, that doesn't mean faith is not an intellectual virtue grounded in reason.

This debate seems to be orthogonal to our debate. They are arguing whether faith is a feeling or a thing you can reason about. But they all agree faith is required to believe in catholic dogmas.

And I fail to imagine how you could think otherwise, religions make lots of assumptions about god, and the proofs of existence of god I've seen were all flawed, and even if they weren't - they would only prove the existence of something, not the existence of a personal god with any particular properties.

I especially liked the proof that went: "all things are perfect to some degree, therefore there must be a thing that is the most perfect, and that's by definition god" :)

I was a devout catholic when I heard it the first time, and still it seemed so fishy to me :)
Looks like about 1%[1]. If that's not a big enough business opportunity for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports (see circulation in sidebar)
Well, it could also be a reflection upon the poor judgment of someone who persisted in getting tattoos in the full knowledge that their (perhaps potential) employer frowned on them.
I think these ought to be tempered with the knowledge of how such systems invariably end up being used for the transfer of child abuse imagery, and other abhorrent stuff.

I'm not saying you should abandon decentralisation efforts if that's your thing, I'm just saying don't expect the world to flock to (or praise) what you create. Censorship resistance is not seen as a universal good.

> Of course people are going to get behind the idea of preventing teen suicides, particularly when it seems that the solution might be preventing a huge, corporate giant do as it pleases.

The criticism is usually that not enough was done to police the harassment. Decentralised systems are likely to make that worse.
The whole idea that somebody could be so lazy as to become homeless, without any other issues, is somewhat absurd. Being homeless is terribly uncomfortable. A truly lazy person would find it unbeatable.
> extreme fringe views (who is actually claiming this? how many are?)

I agree. This topic recently ran as Today I Learned on Reddit, and of all the vegans checking in, no one had heard about this. It's the same with me and all my vegan acquaintances, no one has heard that figs wouldn't be considered vegan.

The article title makes it sound like everyone agrees that figs aren't considered vegan, which is weird.

Speaking of fringe views, I read an interesting article debunking the idea that vegans are deficient in common nutrients. It looked deeper into the studies presented, and it turned out that they had studied fruitarians (only eats fruits and perhaps nuts and seeds without killing the plant), or religious groups with extremely limited food sources. Those groups are vegan, but they are a small subset of all vegans, and it would be incorrect to say that findings with these groups apply to people eating varied vegan diets.
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That's the sort of cargo cult mentality that has been fueling abusive work relations in higher education.
Acquisitions Suck (here’s how to survive them)
Human sensory input fails remarkably quickly if you ever try instrument flying.
Not only that, but Americans have a concept of "pre-existing conditions" -- that is, your medical history -- so that a health insurer can refuse to cover you on the basis that it might not be profitable for them.

Americans have the concept of a death panel, which is theoretically some sort of government entity that decides whether you get medical care, but actually exists as a profit motive for health care.
Assuming you mean while you are flying from one place to another. I traveled for years as a consultant and here is what I figured out and still use to this day.

With rare exception I never work on a plane anymore, I'll watch movies, I'll read a physical book, but in general I use it as a time to refresh and unplug for even just a few hours. The two exceptions are for short flights when I am going to do a presentation or similar and only on a plane for an hour or so, then I'll go over my presentation etc. Or on the long international flights (16-20 hrs in a plane), I'll generally stick to my no work policy but sometimes do enjoy learning/practicing a new technology during that time, and I do not use plane wifi pretty much ever.

The learning/practicing a new tech without having access to Google & Stackoverflow is a good way to force yourself through reading API's etc (I usually download API docs/libraries ahead of time). So this takes a little preplanning but I find I learn things better and retain them better than if I had access to Google/Stackoverflow et al. If you want to call it a hack, this is probably my "plane hack" since it lets me learn a skill or toolset better then if I was connected to Internet.
How does the browser verify that the AMP is up to date?
I've used ExpanDrive for Windows and Mac. It hasn't been a bad product, although I feel like there are times it is buggy on Mac and times it is more stable. A Linux version is welcome for me.
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Does this specific person have a right to travel to this specific country? Clearly not. Do people from countries not covered by ESTA face a more difficult authorization process: clearly yes. Does the chain of events indicate something is wrong with the process? Clearly yes. People are allowed to talk about how systems violate expectations, perform poorly, or fail, even if those failures are not violations of human rights, and even if those failures are not the worst kind of failures that happen.
In every single city around me for a thousand miles, you will go to jail for shitting in the street. There is also no shitting in the street. Let alone shitting on people's cars or other property, which only seems explicable as malice.
Yes but you don't need AMP to have a fast loading website or even one that applies the same principles as AMP when it comes to having inline CSS, loading scripts async etc. The biggest problem in all of this is usually ads and analytics anyways.
I'm sorry. I am free to talk (https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3).

Tiddlywiki is an awesome tool! It's fun and productive.
Ray tracing now runs on older Nvidia GPUs – but how fast is it?
Do people prefer this reading experience on mobile?

Personally I found it very hard to want to continue reading with all the interruptions.
> But it has value in exploring questions and aspects of humanity that we are not able to understand with reason.

I don't think this claim stands up to much scrutiny.

Sure - religion is interesting from a historical perspective. "Why do we think the way we do" for example. Or "how did we grapple with problem X before we discovered Y..."

But religion doesn't offer some unique perspective or insight we don't otherwise have access to.

In fact, it stops us exploring questions we don't yet understand. Because (organised) religion claims to have the answers. That's what makes it so dangerous.

And, as Christopher Hitchens used to say, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to support them"...
I'm not quite following which parts were or weren't needed for what's been enabled in the post here, for the usecase of delivering a single offline package that can be opened like a website, is there something that works yet? Or a repo I should be following other than the spec?

Once I can create webpackages and deliver them to clients a lot of thing I want to do become hugely easier and nicer.
Not everyone can produce creative work every day, either.
Entity Framework vs. SqlKata
off topic: The researchers featured in this article are out in the wild, collecting samples, making observations etc. That seems to be the complete opposite of the desk jobs that people in software have.
Come to think of it, even though there is lot of money in software, but I don't think you ever get to know the world around you or enjoy life better than say a geologist or similar jobs.
In this case the third-party software implements a public protocol, comes with a full source written in a very readable language and is sufficiently small to permit a casual review.
No, this is insane. Having to scroll a full screen for a single sentence — who thought this was a good idea?
> Bufferbloat should not matter for your home connection. (Unless it is constantly in use by more than one client.)

That is wrong. A single client can saturate the connection easily (eg. while downloading a software update or uploading a photo you just took to the cloud). Once the buffers are full, all other simultaneous connections suffer from a multi-second delay.

The result is that the internet becomes unusably slow as soon as you start uploading a file.
> supervised injection sites

As long as they're located in the parts of town where the rich/upper class live, I say go for it.
Some Thoughts About Security Token Networks: Part I
This is true, but I doubt most users understood exactly what they handed over when they clicked "log in with Facebook".
The date of Easter was decided in AD 325 by the council of Nicea (following earlier traditions and precedents), on grounds having nothing to do with German paganism.

https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-...
The thing is Stadia does nothing new, StreamOn comes to mind just like pretty much every major player in the industry running their own thing, even Nvidia.

Granted: If anybody can make it work, it's gonna be Google, but I'm still quite skeptical. For many consumers network bandwidth and traffic volume are still very real issues, and there's not that much Google can do about that on a global scale, at least in the short time-frame.

Long-term they would have to roll out Google fiber on a global scale and pretty much go into the ISP business with full commitment, which I just don't see happening because Google fiber is dead.
Looking at the examples, it looks like something like messageformat (https://messageformat.github.io/messageformat/) would have been a good solution to them.
We've been using this at my job and we are very happy with the flexibility it provides. The hard part comes when a third party has to do the translations because someone from tech needs to be involved.
Dreamweaver and Frontpage were around in the last 90s.

I'm pretty sure my first HTML editor (Arachnophobia) which I used in 1995 or 96 sort of era supported those things too.

I used to love that editor. It was basically Notepad++ but HTML specific and written long before Notepad++ was a thing. And super fast too what with it being a Windows native application (back then - I think it was since rewritten in Java for whatever reason).
Because literally the entire private reason for AMP is a power grab.

Not the public reason, but absolutely the private reason.

If Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, or whatever publicly traded company makes a move its for money and power and preferably power, since that yields even more money.

AMP on web and email is the perfection of embrace, extend and extinguish
Seems AsymptoticSum still can't solve many really simple sums though, like

AsymptoticSum[Binomial[n,k],{k,0,n/3},{n,Infinity,1}]

Will still have to that by hand I guess :(
Again a simple example. Track cycling always been more difficult for athletes to make a living from, even for men. A lot of them either are integrated in traditional pro-teams or shift to road pro-cycling after their accomplishments on track. For instance Bradley Wiggins started on track then later won TdF. So part of my point was saying when there is less opportunity to make something like that (there is no true TdF for women, therefore less money, therefore less opportunities to shift from track) then to me there is an obvious difference between opportunities offered to women than men in track cycling.
I've never worked for an employer that had a program which required you to share data. I have always been able to expense things like gym, mattresses, copays, whatever as part of TC but never data collection.
I live in Shanghai since 201708 and visible tattoos are not rare on people aged 20 to 30 (men and women).
>> I'm not too sure about this, given the highly limited market options and high regulation of space travel

The government grants monopolies (patent) on very important things (drugs and treatments for all sorts of things) and then lets companies charge different rates to different customers - even higher prices to the uninsured. It seems unlikely they'd make SpaceX launch for a competitor at anywhere near their own cost. But then politics....
- FAIL on a Kindle Fire 7 (which is still for sale new) in Chrome running the latest update from November 2018 [based on Android 5.1.1].
> It’s also been argued more generally that Python not running in the browser represents an existential threat to the language

I do not believe that.