skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the annoying UX, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman organized several parties to introduce Jeffrey Epstein (child sex trafficker) to other rich and powerful people.

The extent of his involvement with Epstein's child sex traffic ring is still under investigation.
This was a real problem at my last employer, new grads couldn’t really tell the difference between coursework and actual work. And if it wasn’t up to standard thought they could plead with “the professor” (their boss) for a better “grade”.
Even if this is true, you still wouldn't have any muscle mass, which is a key signal for your body to regenerate.
Some woods are ok with rain - I've used cypress for outdoor signage for instance and it takes rain well - no warping or that sort of business. If you constrain expansion to one or two dimensions it might be ok.
Look at news + stock price movement in the past 5 years on Teva and Mylan, two of the largest generic makers in the world.

The outlook on the generic industry isn't great to say the least.
When a company like this goes under where does all the code, configs, etc go? It'd be cool to see how they threw it all together.
That was the original plan, even.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moviepass-plans-to-make-mo...

> “It’s about the data,” said Ted Farnsworth, chief executive of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc., which owns a majority stake in MoviePass.
How the public cloud discriminates against file and block storage
Another aspect of frequent death more than century ago was blended families. A widow or widower usually remarried soon after the mourning period because it was hard for single parents. If both parents passed together, then children were quickly adopted into other families needing labor. Shiffs book on the Salem Witch Trials has a long section on blended families. She attributed that causing some of tensions leading to witch accusations.
Well, I bet it comes from either shapeless or anorm or mything.MyObject. Moreover, how is this different from literally any other programming language? Also, I would venture to guess that almost all programmers regardless of the language or editor/IDE they are using have some sort of jump to definition function they use all the time. At least with Scala I can actually see the source of the definition reliably, which is more than you can say about C or C++ (headers don't count).
> Wouldn't it be nice though? If you could have servers, like you did in the 1990s, with the same simple architectures as you used in the 1990s, and the same sloppy security policies developer freedom as you had in the 1990s, but somehow reach them from anywhere? Like... a network, but not the Internet. One that isn't reachable from the Internet, or even addressable on the Internet. One that uses the Internet as a substrate, but not as a banana.

> That's what we're working on.

So... They are working on a VPN then...?
It is a bit difficult to tell but it appears that the author did consume water, but only water. This was just a normal fast that he called a ‘water fast’.
For those desiring an affirmative defence of the Enlightenment; reason, science, and humanism (which I think falls short ethically, but is a subset of what I try to practice), then I would strongly suggest reading "Enlightenment Now", by Steven Pinker. He makes a few broad generalizations of political groups, but I wouldn't try to argue against the specific policy recommendations that he has. Similar data is covered in so many different disciplines that it left me with incredible optimism that I continue to carry.
Well, MoviePass also had a laughable security breach from what I recall from the past month [0]. A password-less and unencrypted database exposed on the net with user credentials in the millions all containing personal identifiable information (PII), which sounds like a recipe for disaster and a fraudsters dream. Well done if you dodged that slow moving car crash.

> MoviePass notified subscribers that it plans to close down the service because its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”

Good riddance.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/moviepass-thousands-data-e...
I can get behind a tech-only tab which hides political/non-technological posts. Watching American software developers/computer scientists making unsubstantiated grand claims on foreign political matters or mathematics/economics proves to be bad for my blood pressure.
I've given this some thought, as I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself. I think I'm going to try this after my current startup sells or fails.

What I think I would do is reach out to anyone I know and let them know that I'm open for business and looking for clients. All of my employment jobs have worked that way, so I think it's probably a good first step for consulting too.

After that, I'd probably contact companies with job listings and offer to help them as needed with an hourly rate. They can always keep my number in their contact list in case they get into a bad spot and have trouble finding devs later. I know there's good job boards on SO, AngelList, and the monthly HN thread. I've been at plenty of companies where we wish we had an extra dev to get us out of a bind or pick up some extra work without committing to a full time hire, so I assume most small companies would be happy to be introduced to me, in case I'm needed later.

Then there's upwork, toptal, and a few others. Those sites really sketch me out because it seems like a race to the bottom, and it seems like it'd be harder to build relationships with clients when you're one of thousands that they picked from for this particular task. After all, they can just dump you and get another from the same web interface. Maybe I'm wrong about this and should give them a try.

This thread has really made me do some hard thinking about what I want in life, and I think I could put in another year or two and become semi-retired, take some time off, and then try to do a little consulting work and see how it goes. I've been paralyzed by fear to try, because I'm not sure if I'd be able to go back to employment if I fail. But after reading all these replies, that seems like a level of risk I should be willing to accept.

I also secretly hope (though I have no idea if it's true) that if I had a few months off work, I'd start building something so interesting than YC would want me. I don't actually know if I'm capable of that, because I've never had the time to experiment and find out, but that seems like a worthwhile attempt just to know what my actual capabilities are when unconstrained by work.

Also, I know this thread is getting old now, but I'd just like to say (in case anyone checks back) that I appreciate the replies here so much. I've never had so many people understand how I feel before. And reading all of the different life experiences that people have shared makes me realize that there is hope for me to do something else, and that I might not be trapped here until I'm dead, which is how it seemed before I started talking about this.
Clicking on a LinkedIn link evokes the same "unpredictable behavior" paranoia/stress reaction as a url for a site that peddles game ROMs or guitar tabs.
What if we had one world religion where everyone's goal in life was to become infinitely loving and utterly selfless?

Would we grow food for eachother differently? Would we be compensated differently for doing so?
I’d like to see a study where they actually take crops and determine the mineral content. The one you reference is a paper where they combed other papers until they found data they wanted.

They went through 50k+ studies, found 167 they liked, and only 55 of 167 were of quality.

>No evidence of a difference was detected for the remaining 8 of 11 crop nutrient categories analyzed.

Not sure how to interpret this.
I understand that it's on me to prove my methodology, not expect you to assume I did it right. That is fair.

The data is multiple points of weight recorded every day (4 times a day) over a month, with a follow up a few years continued observance based on the results. Also, daily exercise and daily diet were documented as well (during the month of testing).

Granted, I did not measure "fat" with calipers or other methods, but I measured my waist (though I did not document this, my failure), where I lost my fat from. Sure, not perfect. But it's enough to prove _something_ was happening. I went from 202 down to 185 lbs. And my pants didn't fit properly half way through, and were baggy by the end.

I think it's fair that "explained phenomena" here, with one meal a day, 2 miles (up to 3 by the end) of running (8 minute miles avg. by the end) and slimming waist, limbs and neck was evidence of 15+ lbs of fat loss, not dehydration.

Science doesn't have to be perfect to demonstrate worth or value in a concept.
If we make college free, like some politicians are proposing, does football revenue even matter anymore?
I would like to note that the shortcomings mentioned above can be fixed:

- a vr passthrough can achieve a much wider FOV than any ar headset.

- latency isssues are debatable, I would say it's a non-issue

- eye-tracking and front-facing displays solve gaze
opaqueness. we already have cut-out camera holes in consumer grade displays

I would say that THE current issues with passthrough vr is solving the convergence issue. varifocal lenses are not consumer level technology yet.
I wonder to what extent insurance issues have driven the death of shop classes. I have no current knowledge, but it wouldn't surprise me if modern day chemistry class has veered away from actually touching dangerous items.
CICO is a copout. Calories in is relatively simple. Calories out is hideously complex. When people describe weird things that metabolism does, real or fake, they're things that shift the Calories Out numbers way beyond the simple results you get from body composition and exercise level.

There are so many separate ways for calories to go "out", too.

So it gets used in this unfair double-standard way, where managing weight is "just CICO", as if it's a handful of inputs into a one-line equation, but if someone argues against that, saying it's more complex, then the natural response is "well actually CICO includes every single complication you've mentioned, so you're wrong to object".
Why not just add minerals to our fertilizers? Organics is such a regression after the green revolution (which has saved billions of lives).
Why would the US not look out for its own best interests? China and the US were in a deal where the only way for the US to be in a favorable (or even just not-terrible) position was to re-negotiate a deal that was made almost 50 years ago when the world was significantly different geopolitically, even more so with regards to China. China refused to negotiate, believing that the US would never pull out and that they had all the leverage. What other option does the US have? Keep subsidizing packages for their main economic rival? Sit back and do nothing while China continues to benefit?

Yeah, china "made the US do it" in the same way that a car dealership "makes you not by a car" when they don't give you the deal you wanted, but I don't really see why that means the dealership is doing anything wrong.
Wording is hard.

I've tracked calories for >10 years and macros for >5 years. And, at the time I spoke about, I was taking in protein continuously and meticulously tracking ingestion rate and time and estimating digested and excreted protein levels. But, even still, obviously I was shitting out most of it.

I actually do believe and advocate for CICO for most people. But I reject notions that anything related to the body is black, white, or simple and hold strongly to them as convictions. I tried to provide examples to those points with the last as an example that the C in CICO is a sneaky misnomer and better served as being an E. It's just that in the general case for most people E averages into C.

I do agree with you on the apology - it's the internet, no one expects an apology and if you do you're insane. Furthermore, I wasn't offended and was only pointing out the rhetorical tactic being employed.
Why do you prefer that? I don’t particularly care either way, so blanket-preferring man-made chemical fertilizers strikes me as odd.
They get chargebacks a lot because they don't ship in a reasonable amount of time. See the subreddit for other horror stories. You're much better at buying from a random Aliexpress seller.

EDIT: You also see it with places like Eurorail pass. They often times don't deliver. I rarely ever get fraud alerts. Which is suprising (I'll outright buy a flight ticket out of the country in a different currency without notification to the CC).
I would like to thank all the investors that greatly contributed to my entertainment. It was a fun, and very unsustainable ride, but no regrets.

I'm actually considering the subscription service provided by the big players, so they did change the industry somewhat.
> Yes, but it puts American consumers at an advantage! Are there more consumers or businesses?

Most American consumers are dependent on American businesses (including American subsidiaries of multinationals) for income, whether through labor or capital.
Exactly, I sort of failed to highlight this directly in my comment but the fact that the article focuses on a single case of tainted generics vs who knows how many people die each year waiting for drugs to be approved and/or imported is pretty insane.
not sure why this would get downvoted
Every welder and tradesman I know back home where the median home value is $75k is doing pretty good.

No student loans, dual-income with a CRN, and you're living pretty high in the rust belt.
In the tech community, we talk a lot about not interrupting programmers (or other knowledge workers) because of the cost of so-called "context-switching." I think this post raises the very interesting point that, much of the time, the sources of these interruptions are not external, but internal. Stop interrupting yourself! You're a knowledge worker! His advice to cultivate systems that afford one focus and prevent context-switching is salient.
Slower growth through less fertilizer (including CO2), leads to a higher mineral rate if I remember correctly
No connection between title and article content.
I want to see the study. If we are saying that average mineral content of calcium, magnesium, and iron in cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and spinach has dropped 80–90% between 1914 and 2018, where were the subject vegetables taken from? Are we needing to look at farming methods, large agriculture process such as early harvest, soil depletion, delivery method, sun exposure, etc?

And, if we are looking at findings from the USDA, Agricultural Research Service and USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, they really need to update their research. As stated by the study's author, " the USDA mineral content of vegetables and fruits has not been updated since 2000"
You're not counting the amount of energy gained through o2 and released as co2. That changes the calculation.
Companies don't want to do their job, they say this is "excessive regulation that is killing the economy".
Thanks! I've been working my ass off on it!
Preferring measurability strikes you as odd?
"when the internet started taking off" was the late 90s. Not the mid 70s when he started.

Even if he meant $5-7 (average $6) in 1975, the $95k doesn't work. bls.gov inflation calculator gives $12,000 a year in January 1975 (2000 hrs at $6/hr) as $59k for August 2019.

$12,000 salary in January 1998 is $19,000 today.
Organic farming includes crop rotation, fertilizer, soil quality, and erosion control standards that would hypothetically affect mineral contents.

Monoculture (conventional corn or soybean for example) uses huge amounts of synthetic fertilizer to increase yields per acre far beyond what the soil can naturally sustain. Wide swaths of American farmland has lost literally feet of topsoil over the past 50 years. The soil is largely sterile, and depleted of minerals. Monoculture also means the ecosystem that can replenish the soil is absent.
It's different from a VPN because it includes a notion of identity (you don't just know I'm on the corporate network, you know I'm asdfhero). It is very similar to Google's BeyondCorp strategy though.

Given that the team are Xooglers, that's presumably not a coincidence.
Let's say that $1.00 item now costs $5.00 with shipping after the change.

How much would that item cost to purchase and ship here in the USA?

I always use the example of Ametek vs TSiny - they are both DC electric gearmotor manufacturers, both are fairly international, but Ametek is headquartered in America, and TSiny in China.

They make comparable products, though I would have to say that the quality of the Ametek brands could be said to be better.

That's where things kinda stop.

If you purchased (from a supplier/vendor) a single TSiny motor, it might cost you right now $15.00 USD, and free shipping. An equivalent motor from Ametek, however, might cost you anywhere from $50.00 to $75.00 USD before shipping.

So - if the shipping of that motor from TSiny rises to say, $5.00 USD, and they also increase the cost of the motor by $5.00 USD (just because they can) - now that same motor costs $25.00 USD.

Versus $50.00-75.00 USD (sans shipping) for the USA made motor from Ametek.

I'm a company in the USA that builds widgets with motors in them - which supplier should I go with, assuming comparable products, in order to make the better profit?

Hint: It ain't gunna be Ametek, unless they can offer a sweetheart deal for me...
I don’t think high rises are ideal either. Amsterdam or somewhere like that is more ideal to me.
Show HN: NextJS Starter Kit – TypeScript and GraphQL Authentication
The solution is to have three classes of quality for every drug: lower class, middle class, and upper class.

The lower class drugs must have pills with Chinese characters on them, and packaging with Chinese writing, and an English insert. They get minimal testing.

The upper class pills have American flags impressed on them, cost a metric tonne more, but are tested rigorously by private agencies (that are paid from the extra cost).

The aim here is propoganda: have people associate poor quality with Chinese goods and good quality with American goods.

(There is no middle class of drugs: if you are a middle earner you either decide to be either cheap, or to keep up appearances).
It might be cheaper to ship from China to the US than to ship from Chicago to NY, but it is also far slower. I think it's fair to charge less for "as you have space" shipping. http://track-chinapost.com/?p=774

I've had a couple hundred small packages (components for prototypes, tools, etc.) shipped via China Post in the last few years, and only 2 of them arrived in less than 3 weeks. Several didn't arrive at all. I'm not willing to pay as much for that kind of service as I am to send a package from e.g. Chicago to NY with fast and reliable delivery.

The rates are probably unfairly low, but you can't look only at the price. You have to look at price, delivery speed, and reliability at a minimum.
I'd say it's more of a HUD. If there was a 3D render of where walls might be or bumps might be, then I'd consider that AR.
Another factor towards the large morbidity rate decline around 1900 was clean water and sewage.
As the sibling comments mentioned, while snooker is also played on the English billiards table, it is a different game.

Snooker is played with 21 colored balls which must be pocketed in the correct order.

Billiards is played with 3 balls, 1 white per player (one has a black dot and the other doesn't) and a red ball.

Billiards table is bigger than the American Pool tables.
Am author.

> medium/big companies

My goal (or our goal at smallstep) is to build tools to make this easy enough that it makes sense for small teams. If you have one client and one server, pubkey authn will probably always be easier. And as long as it's the default, certificate authentication will always require some amount of configuration. But I think good tooling with baked in defaults to encourage best practices can make this easy and quick enough to deploy to be a good idea for most non-trivial SSH deployments.

However, much of this is aspirational at the moment. So your point remains. The point of the post was to raise awareness and start a discussion about what's needed to make this feasible for pragmatic people.

> dedicated sysadmin team

I don't think a dedicated sysadmin team should be necessary. On the contrary, with the right tooling, and unless you're just completely punting on any rational management of SSH keys, I think certificates are easier to administer.

> potential attackers are not sophisticated enough to target SSH access

The more common attack vector is a lost/stolen/compromised laptop or a private key that's accidentally committed to a repository. This is a very real vector. It happens in real life on a regular basis. Since certificates expire a lost/stolen machine or committed private key will become worthless for accessing internal infra very quickly. So it reduces the attack window, which is a real and significant improvement. For a compromised machine, SSH certificates aren't a cure-all, but they're at least as good as pubkey. They make it easier to keep private keys off disk, providing better cover. And they make it harder for attackers to exfil private keys, cover their tracks on the compromised laptop, and do bad things with them later.

> You might even lock yourself out of your servers

You could do this with pubkeys too. If this happens, cloud VMs typically have a virtual serial interface you can use to remediate. You can leave pubkey authn enabled and still use certificates day-to-day, so you could keep a backup pubkey available for a few select admin users that you trust. Alternatively, you could issue a long-lived certificate in a secure place for use in an emergency. If this is the thing that's preventing you from trying it out I hope these ideas get you over the hump! If they don't, I'd love to hear why!

> they are just too abstract to bother for small companies

This is a very common problem with security stuff :(. That's why I think the headline feature here is "SSO for SSH". It's an operational improvement and better UX. The security benefits come for free.
Sorry about that, here's a dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/80cpk4ss5ossd4u/KRNC%20Technical%2...
> Terraform is great but if you want to change to a different cloud provider you pretty much have to rewrite everything

While true, the process is closer to a variable name refactor than to a complete re-write. With Terraform, you have the stack described in code and the resource names translate cleanly across cloud vendors. Certainly more so than a word doc describing infrastructure setup steps.
I think plants may require symbiotic microbes to efficiently process some of these dietary minerals, and modern agroindustrial farming has damaged soil biodiversity and carrying capacity.
Then I think berdon's concerns are misprioritized. It's very rare for the necessary reduction in CI to require medical supervision. The overwhelming majority of obese people in America are eating more than is reasonable to eat, and a reduction in consumption would improve their lives considerably with no real risk of malnutrition occurring.

By focusing on obscure edge-cases, all we're really doing is to make it easier for people in the common case to rationalize away their situation. That's very common. There are more voluntary overeaters who claim they have an involuntary obesity-inducing disorder than there are people who actually have such disorders. I've got a whole family full of them. A big bowl of ice cream after every meal is a choice, not a genetic condition.
It's also deterministic in the sense that people who think this way are assuming that the universe works deterministically, so they can know that A always leads to B, etc
Ten thousand years of agriculture is an assumption?