skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue the loss of rugged individualism is the loss of 'soul' in america. The expectation that 'somebody should do something' rather than, 'I should do this that needs doing' seems to be the crux of the change in attitude.
For type 2, more, longer and more frequent fasting. Stopping most carbs and all refined sugar. Reducing calories (through fasting or general reduction) so that weight can normalize. Hormones are overriding in this, and elevated blood glucose generally also means elevated insulin which will reduce the effectiveness of any approach to weight loss.

Extended fasting is the most assured way to help normalize glucose. Some, and expecialy over time (I'm one of these) show elevated gluconeogenesis response and will take longer to normalize under a fasting focused or very low carb (aka keto diet). Once glucose is normalized (without supplemental insulin) the weight is easier to manage/normalize as well.

It's not easy, and the longer you are diabetic (type 2) the harder it is. Supplemental insulin works against you in a lot of ways. Time restricted eating, generally, and more specifically very low carb (not overdoing protein) are good approaches.

There's a lot of supporting articles and reference linked data on dietdoctor.com and elsewhere. First, and foremost, stop all refined sugars. Second, avoid refined carbs. Third, reduce refined seed oils. Eat clean and get some fatty fish 3-4x a week. And imho clean can mean red meat from naturally fed sources, likewise eggs and fish.
It.. doesn't work like that. Suppose someone sells you a private key, or even a hardware wallet, claiming that it "contains much Bitcoin". There's no way for you to be sure that the seller doesn't have a backup. Or is selling ten other copies to other people.

It's like trying to sell an account by selling the password to it. The first thing you do is change it so the previous owner can not get in anymore. Before you did that you can not be sure that you are the only one with access. On Bitcoin the only way to change the password is to move the funds to a new address.
How much should I think of saving every month as a 29 year old?
Yes. Some allow it after a shibboleet phone call.
You misunderstood. With the "Fractional Reserve Banking" system, banks lend out money that is NOT under deposit. They are licensed to lend out money created from nothing. This is the mechanism by which money is created https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-economics/chapte...
People have been yelling that Tether is a ponzi fraud since it launched in 2015.

And yet it still trades 1:1 to USD today, after the court filing was released.

So is there some magic force that keeps the fraud running, and prevents market participants from cashing out their Tether in the mother of all bank runs?

If you hold Tether why wouldn't you sell?

Or is there more to the story than just "Tether is an obvious fraud"?
> "Cryptos took the Wild West approach due to... something... and somehow think that the scams that people have used in the past with banks will not be used again with crypto."

The point is that people who make bad decisions will fail before becoming too big to fail. This is in the genesis block of bitcoin.
Impressive. Would this model benefit from something like "dilated attention"? Instead of feeding it raw sound samples, we could split the input into 16 sec, 8 sec, 4 sec and so on slices, assign each slice a "sound vector" serving as a short description of that slice and let the generator take those sound vectors as input. This should supposedly let it gain global consistency in output.

Now an unpopular opinion. I'm not an ML expert, so take my words with reasonable skepticism. This fancy GPT2 model diagram can impress an uninitiated, but we are initiated, right? There is really no science there and it's still the good old numbers grinder: an input of fixed size is passed thru a big random pile of matrix multiplications and sigmoids and yields a fixed size output. We could technically replace this nice looking GTP2 model with a flat stack of matmuls and tanhs, with a ton of weights and given enough powerful GPUs (that would cost tens of millions), train that model and get the same result. It just won't make an impression of science. How are these GTP2 models designed? By somewhat random experiments with the model structure. The key here is the GPU datacenter that could quickly evaluate the model on a huge dataset. The breakthru would be achieving the same quality with very little weights.
USD is backed (among other things) by the government accepting taxes in it. If you don't pay, they will come to your house with guns and take you away. This creates a demand for USD that is completely unlike any demand for crypto.
Greed begets greed. The sad part, really, is that the ideology of cryptocurrency at the start was never about greed.
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How about they make it actually arrive 2 days first? My prime is always at least three days. I feel ripped off with every order.

Meet your current goalposts first maybe? Its been years.
The advice is interesting, but I don’t think warrant telling someone “they’re doing it wrong”.

Your extrapolating from your experience with 2 children. Children are difficult and often respond differently to the same techniques. However if you wanted to show that a particular technique is superior in the majority of cases, some data would be useful.

In general, the workload of parenting is underestimated. This is somewhat problematic in the tech industry (male dominated) when the majority of childcare is still performed by women [1]. It leads to a lack of understanding and devalues childcare work.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/05/childca...
Ha! Never had that book when mine were small, but I used to count to 3. Never ever figured out what would have happened -- we never got past 2!
I don't have a side in this fight, and in general I absolutely agree with "solution in search of a problem", etc, but, if I had to think of an application:

All medical records are encoded as transactions between doctors and patients - that is, if person A is diagnosed with medical issue A by Doctor A, a public transaction is sent from a patient, via anonymized address, with a few bits of information:

- Amount (public due to nature of transaction on blockchain)

- Doctor (public due to complexity of anonymized destination addresses on blockchain, lets not solve impossible problems)

- Encrypted with the public key of the Doctor, the medical record

- Encrypted with the public key of the Patient, the medical record again

- Public, well-known "code" for some medical transaction, for example "code 1" could be a checkup, "code 2" could be a heart-transplant - I'm completely unfamiliar with the medical world so I suspect this system most likely already exists

- Encrypted with the public key of the Doctor, a random UUID identification code

This would allow Doctors offices to collect all their records by reading thru all transactions. Offices could validate that the patient correctly filed the transaction before accepting the transaction, and one can imagine software such that patients could easily file the transaction without having to copy the medical records, etc.

Additionally, using the public key of a doctor, one could verify that similar medical procedures were priced fairly compared to their own (ie: you could see the average cost of checkups, etc). This is most likely a naive assumption about pricing in healthcare, but maybe a good feature thanks to blockchain?

It would be particularly neat if it was powered by a contract, via something like Ethereum - You'd still need a bit of government help, but:

- Retrieval of medical data by the Doctors office is signed by a secret key contained in a contract oracle. When data is retrieved, it's signed with a timestamp indicating when the data was obtained.

- Laws requiring that valid signatures for valid timestamps from the contract oracle accompany _any and all_ use of medical records.

- Assuming the fines were steep and enforced, medical records could not be used for longer than a certain date, could be invalidated, and could be "observed being observed" by the patient.

In other words, assuming minor changes in the legal/medical system, the blockchain could actually be used to create immutable records of medical transactions, protect patient privacy, etc.

But if to accomplish this blockchain _also needs_ a trusted 3rd party and law enforcement... Then i'm not sure how it's better than any other application, except that it comes with a free globally available API, which is not actually a bad feature. Just not world-changing is all.
Exactly once processing, not exactly once delivery. Because that's impossible. Provably so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
In my experience, the OpenWRT adblock package is not as powerful as Pihole. It's also annoying (involving some awk scripting) to add new lists that weren't added by the dev.
Why should it tank? This would resolve uncertainty about the fate of a few percent of the whole supply, so the direct effect is bounded by that few percent (depending on how likely the market thinks it's been lost).

Indirectly it could jump-start a recursive reaction, but then anything could.

Dumping most of it all at once could tank the price, but to do that Satoshi would have to be an idiot.
statins have been shown to increase all cause mortality in more cases than decreasing it... giving them to most of the population is a horrible idea... our bodies need cholesterol, they produce more than we will ever consume and it's fucking ridiculous as a general marker. HDL:Triglyceride ratio is better, but still highly hackable.
Rare pictures of Hitler from glass photo negatives
If that Unix workstation vendor was Sun, at one point, everyone got a bundled K&R C compiler (possibly bundled for building custom kernels), and optionally paid extra for the ANSI C compiler, and then C++ compiler.

Which worked for a while. You either didn't need the extra tools (portable code was a subset of K&R anyway), or you had ample money to pay for extra tools. (Research&education appreciated that the majority of GNU and other open source software favored Sun's bundled compiler, over other workstation platforms. Though there was some brief upset when a competing workstation line would leapfrog performance briefly (e.g., HP 9000/7xx, IBM RS/6000). And the commercial workstation independent software vendors sold such high-ticket software (e.g., 5 figures per seat, plus support contracts and training), and were already dropping huge money on engineers and hardware, so paying for software tools was a relatively small additional expense. The ISV might also go pay others for seats of third-party tools for developers, like Saber-C, Purify, FrameMaker, Interleaf, and niche developer software like EDA or CASE.)

Meanwhile, GCC was starting to get as credible on some hosts/targets as the workstation vendor compilers (vendor C++ compilers sometimes had bugs). Before that finished playing out, I moved from workstations (I worked on almost all of them, plus the Cray S-MP) and sometimes Windows NT, to move fully to GNU/Linux on mostly PC hardware.

(Edit: I got access to these toys as a super-nerdy kid. I'm well aware that HR screeners shred the resume of anyone who was paying attention when the Web boom started. :)
The parent comment said “ET”, which is what I was rebutting.
That's an interesting analysis. I hadn't thought of it that way before, simply because I wouldn't really value any other currency that way. I.e. I would not consider the growth in the ability to use euros in additional countries to have much impact on their value. I guess my thinking is that as long as there are exchanges, you can buy anything with bitcoin just like you can buy anything with dollars.

What sets that exchange rate is demand for bitcoins, and demand for bitcoins would be equivalent to what you can buy only with bitcoins. So, I guess in a way that tracks to exactly what you describe. The part that doesn't track is the profit potential. Currency speculation is an interesting thing, but it doesn't usually track with the use of a currency.

I am pretty bearish on the long term viability for cryptocurrency growth, though. I expect transact in bitcoins about as often as I transact in any other currency...almost never. There are no wages, products, services, or geographic areas that require the use of bitcoin.
I'm not sure, and this is a lot of speculation, but I feel like it has to do with the fact that mass/energy is conserved over time (but not in space) [1]. The mass now corresponds to the mass in the past/future, which, for example, allows memories to form. In any case, time is still a qualitatively different dimension than space.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law#Exact_laws
Really? The Danish Meteorological Institute is recording the surface mass budget at record levels.

https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-...
> Is this a common pattern in industry as well?

It is on the server-side (php, python). Sophisticated apps can easily outgrow a particular framework. Though, I think php frameworks are pretty mature these days and this is less of an issue there than it once was.
So they _really_ mean git.
Children are literally the entities that make our shared future viable. If we don't reproduce at a sufficient rate we literally, as a species, will not be able to sustain our own existence. And considering how much more personally expensive (both in yes of resources and one's self) we have made raising children over the years it's the absolute opposite of selfish to have them.
Fair point, though Moglen still references the a/k/a, as here, from 2017:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUN44U_oTUA

(Timestamp: 10m45s, though the full preso is highly recommended -- Moglen somewhat lengthly introducing Yochai Benkler.)
> ...suddenly had NDAs and confidential code that partners insisted on. There was a large culture clash...

I was wondering why it failed when it had so much going for it. Tragic.

It makes you wonder the secrets that Google withhold...
No need to imagine. It's a pretty routine procedure.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102384...

> The next day, Ric Carey, an Umpqua vice president, heads into that meeting. "The FDIC had taken a location approximately two miles from the main office of the bank in a hotel under a different name," he says later. "And they've been through quite a few of these. I think one of the gentlemen leading the discussion said, 'You know, I've done over 200 of these over my 25 years, and let me tell you how it's going to work.' "
If you are salaried and aware of the on call requirements prior to being hired then I don't see an issue with this. It is just another factor to be considered as you negotiate your compensation.
+1, would agree with again
Do you mean outside of any involvement with currency, or just outside of simple transfers of currency? Because a lot of things are applications of programmable money, like derivatives, exchanges, and gambling.

Beyond that, some games are using public blockchains to track ownership of game items.
It's not Monsanto, it's called Bayer now.
Everyone forgets that SASS is meant to be programmable CSS.

It has loops, functions, namespacing, arrays, maps, and tons of utility functions (especially around color).

If you treat it as CSS+ then you're not really benefitting from it's true potential.
~According to one employee

I'm absolutely sure this is the case, but I'd wager it's due to incredible concept inflation of white supremacy.

In the past two weeks I've heard that Hillary Clinton was a white supremacist, complaining about feces in SF is white supremacy, saying violent felons shouldn't vote is violent white supremacy, and any immigration policy more selective than open borders is white supremacy.

If these things are white supremacy, I'd imagine that >80% of Americans are white supremacists. Is it any surprise that a few GOP are in that group? It'd be more surprising if a Twitter employee didn't think the GOP was a bastion of white supremacy, all I can say is wait until this twitter employee figures out which party gave us Jim Crow laws.
Pihole is much more configurable: you can whitelist or blacklist domains with ease. However, Pihole can also be run on existing hardware like a home server, if you don't want a standalone pi.
The government is able to issue debt.
I didn't go to grad school so I'm not super privy to this, but a bunch of my coworkers have and they even contrarily joked that once you start "managing up" and don't just blindly do what your advisor says it's time for you to graduate :)
Such a model could even have a cap: It's $0.001/article up to $20/month. Like... cell phone data use? But without having to sign contracts or pre-payment.

If only a few of the paywall newspapers would implement a direct per article fee, even at $0.10-0.50 I would pay for many articles because I'm too lazy and don't want to pull up a javascript disabled google cache version of the page or fire up a VM... or any of the other techniques SWIM would use to get around paywalls.
don't need more than a single instance, or 1-2 lambdas
>Why isn't there someone disrupting software development paying experienced people like me a low salary for 20-30 hours a week?

I've wondered this for quite awhile myself. Many companies would benefit from being able to keep software developers "on retainer" like a lawyer even. That sort of arrangement might mitigate the cycle of a product becoming excellent, and then immediately starting to go down hill because the company feels compelled to make the developers do something. I'm not confident it would help as you would still face managers who want to 'make a name for themselves' pioneering changes just to get some credit regardless of how beneficial the users would find it.

My personal theory on the matter is that it's a combination of "this is just how things are done", lingering influence of the Protestant Work Ethic, and managers who measure their personal and organizational value based upon how many people they control and how much they control them. It's always good to keep in mind that the 40 hour work week and the way work, offices, and much else in society is structured was optimized for very predictable constant physical labor in manufacturing. It was never meant to be used for mental labor or intellectual pursuits at all. We're still adapting to pure mental work being the most valuable sort of work to society. We haven't dealt with things like human beings having much different capacities for extended exertion between physical and mental types. We recognize an awful lot of problems (the destructive nature of interruptions, the diminished returns of long work days, etc) but there are very few organizations dedicating themselves to finding working solutions.
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Some comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19578858
from people who worked at Matrox in their hayday of being a competitor in the 3D graphics race. Hopefully they will spot this and add some more.
You never know if Toyota would shut down Tesla after merging. This has happened so many times before.
I wonder if they realized this back when they lied to congress and tried to take credit for FBI work when they couldn't come up with "a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk collection metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature". It's always interesting when something crazy is going on and you would think the NSA would have relevant information to help, but they don't.

I suppose six years is enough time to save some face from the 2013 fiasco?
> there will be no sense of time anymore [...] This is the way the world ends

If there is no sense of time why does the world "end"?

> If that is true, then time never really ends, it just "slows down" a lot (not much can happen, and not terribly quickly) until the next sparkup, whereupon time speeds up dramatically (inflationary theory).

Time slowing down or speeding up is still a "sense of time". Moreover time slowing down or speeding up is a human perception, and not a fact of the universe.
Political chemotherapy is difficult, isn't it? As unpleasant as it is, the cure is NOT worse than the disease. If civilians refused and resisted head loppers like ISIS and the Taliban, there would be no reason to have Western forces in those contested areas.

It is limp dicked propaganda to call the forces "U.S. backed" when they are actually Western or globalized powers. Civilians, study up on William Tecumseh Sherman and you'll see where this conflict will go. People who support or fail to fight the jihadis will bear the brunt of the destruction. That is simply how the relational algebra works out.
One of my old professors had an interesting story about this.

He had an management job at an larger European company and actually had a driver for his company car.

He complained to his boss that he doesn't need a driver, he could drive himself. The boss told him: you're not supposed to drive, you're supposed to be in the back and work.

After this experience he realized the management job wasn't for him and switched to a university career.
> Interesting, in Europe the hours are less but you are expected to work every minute you are there.

No, you're not. Also, Europe is large and diverse. Source: European.
Is Plasma Mobile a real os or an Android shell ? I can't figure out by reading their website
Writing pure CSS and copy-pasting things here and there is easy when you start.

Where SASS shines is when you need to do a coordinated change, e.g. these things become gray instead of black. You have a ton of black things so no search and replace. And once you've painstakingly determined and edited the classes, the hard part is to be sure that you only changed what you had to, and nothing unrelated.

SASS preserves semantics which plain CSS is unable to express. It's like C vs assembly.
And That's where we disagree.

Having kids is not essential to society. Actually, society would be better off if we just maintained our current population level and learned to live with the resources at hand instead or ever expanding and depleting the ocean, the underground and the forests until there is nothing left.

If you consider having kids as an individual sacrifice, then maybe you are having kids for the wrong reasons.

People should not be forced to have kids to perpetuate society or because its good for the economy or because the government( of any country) says we should.
A lot of the comments below covered the main arguments. Also, can you imagine riding in a self-driving car moving at 80 miles per hour through the mountains in Montana? The thought of leaving that up to Musk and his team is terrifying.

Musk is critical of the usefulness of Lidar and therefore I am critical of the usefulness of Elon Musk to driverless cars. He has not embraced critical safety architecture.
Can you give more info on the shared success model thing? I’ve never heard of it. What kinds of differences in licensing are there?

Oracle closing up “Open” Solaris was a real eye opener for me and I find the licensing / business politics of open source to be fairly interesting.
None of which seem to intrinsically need a blockchain or be more competitive for using one. All of the real volume in those activity classes not using blockchains would need some explanation.
Yes, it is the sense of time moving that is an illusion; Time itself is a fact, and can be measured.
The important distinction though is that a human can be held liable and punished for their erroneous (re)action but a machine cannot.

Do you hold the owner, manufacturer, or insurer responsible to right the wrongs where an autonomous vehicle is at fault?

I would expect the insurers and manufacturers to use contractual terms that absolves them of all liabilities where the car's occupant isn't paying attention to the road.
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