skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's preposterous. A lot of times you need an assertion in order to gather evidence. To make an assertion and then immediately dismiss it because there is no evidence would be a criminals dream come true.
Dead hangs are great but unfortunately I can't have such setup at my current location. It didn't offer any lasting fix either. What worked for me best was:

- Myofascial release of pec minor/major with theracane (generic one bought in a well-known chinese webshop).

- Doorway stretches.

- A physical device that's rock-shaped on which you lay down and safely stretches the sternum/ribs area.

- I avoid smartphone use whenever possible, and try to use the mouse with the left hand (or no mouse at all if possible).

I might be forgetting something but that's more or less what helped me.

It's sometimes challenging to find where you need to work on since many times treating the location where the pain is originating may not be the real source. For example: pec minor may be totally tight, which causes pain when breathing in the shoulder blades/sternum/ribs, you go to the PT and PT massages for example the shoulder blades but in reality that'll do nothing since it's just the end of the chain.

But on a positive note, you get to learn a lot about anatomy :)
> Media Lab they continued to take it even after MIT put Epstein on its donor blacklist,

Turns out this was a misrepresentation:

* https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614299/mit-media-lab-jeff...

Apparently "disqualified" status was a flag in their CRM essentially just meant "don't bother trying to cold call this person", usually set after three failed attempts to fund-raise from them. It in no way signaled any kind of prohibition on fundraising, and only available to development staff in any case. The whole tangent was essentially spurious and signified nothing except that his donations weren't coming in through fundraising cold calls.

But the real shocker is:

* https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writing/preliminary-fact-...

Media Lab's acceptance of donations from Epstein was known and approved by senior staff in MIT administration, the president even sent a thank you letter. The Media Lab had been directed by the administration to keep Epstein's donation's anonymous to avoid him using MIT for publicity or to enhance his own reputation.

So this whole idea that Ito was demonstrating mens rea by concealing his actions from the administration appears to be completely false. I find it shocking that MIT took a week to clarify this point.

Kinda sad that HN has had three front page stories repeating this allegation that Ito hid the donations from MIT, but a submission of the link to MIT's statement that the administration knew and directed keeping them anonymous is totally buried. I could understand being burned out on the subject, but now we have this Harvard thing at the top...
I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to "morning weight")

I found that if you don't sleep well, you don't lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don't lose as much.

If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)

What these guys are doing seems to be actual "work", I don't think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years "stress eating" is more common that "stress based weight loss".

Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it's effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)
> Why can't the American football industry run itself more like the American baseball industry?

I am a very strong opponent of the overwhelming sports culture at American universities, and of the absurd sums of money spent to sustain it. (Example: Dabo Swinney was just given a $93 million contract to remain the football coach of Clemson.)

This

>Defenders of the current system will often claim that football is profitable for universities and provides funding for academics

is part of the reason. But the real argument is: successful football programs generate positive publicity for the school; they encourage more strong high school students to apply for admission; they encourage alumni to open their pocketbooks and donate.

Personally, as a professor at an American university, I don't buy it. But evidently my bosses do.
Optical lace gives robots heightened sensory ability – Cornell Chronicle
Whenever the author refers to “billiards,” he’s talking about a game played on a pocketless table with three balls.

He says “Pool” whenever he’s referring to pocket billiards, the game that most people are familiar with.
That might be a reason for the system to remain as it is, but it doesn't explain why the system is that way in the first place.

Furthermore, if the desires of the students were really the root motivation, then Alabama wouldn't need to manipulate the desires of students by providing weird point-system incentives.
> Commercial real estate provides a tax base that can be increased over time with the value of the property,

This isn't true. Prop 13 applies to commercial property also. There is a growing movement to repeal that aspect of it in 2020.
Facebook, Microsoft launch contest to detect deepfake videos – Reuters
> I think the power-law effects you describe have been true of tourism forever.

Yes, they are an emergent property any time you have a communication network where people rebroadcast information based on their preference, but restricted to the set of choices they are aware of.

But I believe the exponent of the power curve increases as the amount of resharing goes up. Before social media, you were still limited by what travel books you saw in a store, or where your friends went on vacation, but there was less reverberation and resonance in the network and a relatively flatter power curve.
Devil's advocate: why should they be selective about who they receive donations from?

Obviously they shouldn't name a building or something after the guy, but, to give an extreme example, would it be a problem to take money with no strings attached from a serial killer or war criminal?

Edit: Okay, this is a pretty good answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20963945. I mean maybe it could be an acceptable solution for them to make a public statement like "we hate this guy but we're taking his money anyway", but having no association whatsoever is probably safer.
Nights and Weekends: Ran "smurf-tube" conduit from my attic to my basement and built a network cabinet out of 2x4s on casters. This one is ongoing.

Day: Got our static map server (mapnik-based) to generate x/y/z tiles properly so we can use it with leaflet.js for interactive maps.
I think we will look back on this period of American universities (between say the 1980s and whenever the NFL gets a basic minor league) as a great aberration. College sports were meant to be clubs of enthusiasts from the student body, not a parallel big business.

Maybe as an intermediate step, you could have schools that sponsor the teams and offer scholarships for when the players leave professional sports. That would be nice for the players involved because they would be a bit older and better able to take advantage of their studies.
Whether that approach is wise under the circumstances is another question. Personally, the safety of children ranks fairly high on my priority list, so I believe all details of this case are worthy of consideration.
YTD I've reduced the time required for a monthly reporting process by over 16 hours by making better work instructions and automation enhancements. It's still quite manual, but not as much as it used to be.

While I only found the article recently, I naturally ended up in a similar work flow to this great article on incremental improvement.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520

It's not all beautiful - I had a lot of hiccups along the way, but I can probably get another 5-10 hour/month reduction by the end of the year.

I can use that newfound time for literally anything else!
Why on earth did this get flagged?
I use a Toshiba portege x20w and have very little issues as well for basic drivers, but any more specific hardware (windows hello, convertible laptop features, etc) tend not to work out of the box. Still much less of a hassle to setup than some laptop brands but definitely not Linux certified.
I have a suspicion that most libertarians would be completely fine with unplowed roads. On top of that, should people want to have plowed roads they are free and welcome to hire someone to plow their roads.
It's 2.5 miles each way, pretty walkable if weather is ok.
Probably not even uphill each way. :-)
> MIT put Epstein on their donor blacklist, but Joi Ito specifically circumvented

Turns out that is essentially false, see my other reply to you in this thread.
> What do you want them to do?

Set a personal example.

I respect Ed Begley a lot for adopting a small carbon footprint lifestyle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Begley_Jr.#Environmental, house tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3uedeCKj4

It's much more inspiring than just talking about it while polluting more than the average person.
The primary difference is that the MIT institution took money from him despite being internally barred from doing so. As you mention, at least Harvard did this before the original trial.

As far as your last comment, there's been a lot of historic and present discussion around exactly that blend of science/ethics (WW2, milgram, etc.)
Intramural, participatory sports are a wonderful thing. I have never heard anyone argue against them.

They don't require stadiums with amenities that would make royalty blush, nor seven-figure salaries paid to coaches.
I don't know if the author of the tweet actually thought through the implications of what they tweeted. They have yet to provide a sensible response to things like book authorship and journalism. Does anyone really think someone like Donald Knuth shouldn't be paid for the work he's done on the Art of Computer Programming?
I mention in another comment:

Epstein cited his relationships with these schools (built through fundraising) repeatedly both to intimidate his victims into silence and convince authorities to let him go. This wasn't a case of him sending a check and walking away, he was extracting a lot of value for his predatory operation from these institutions. They should face the music for their role in what happened.
I do not dislike Greta the person, I dislike the rethoric around her; At face value she is a young, smart and motivated person who asks us to just ‘listen to science’, and I have no problem with that.

The problem I have is that there is a plethora of very powerful people hiding behind her[1] when she says ‘listen to science’ it means ‘listen to those people’. But you cannot debate with what those people propose because you are only presented with Greta, and any critique is countered with ‘how dare you criticise a child’

[1] For example she is working with greenpeace who’s agenda on climate is IMHO completely removed from science
This is just off the top of the head spitballing, but what about this as a definition: A tech company is a company who could not continue their business in largely the same fashion if computers did not exist.

Is Uber a tech company? Well I personally don't see it, they just offer a dispatching service for cabs and without computers you could call in and book a ride much like people did for decades.

Is Microsoft a tech company? Yes, what is an OS without computers?

Is Amazon a tech company? I'll say no in one sense they are the next evolution of the Sears catalogue, but AWS, which is a huge part of their revenue, is obviously a tech company.

Is WeWork a tech company? Definitely not, they compete with hundreds of other real estate management companies, and all of their work could be accomplished with phones and paper.

I don't know I am sure someone can probably find some good corner cases, but my basic definition is that if a company is just using software to automate the bureaucratic processes that are required to run the company but could otherwise function without that automation I don't see them as a tech company. I think this goes to your thought that just because a company uses software for their accounting department, they aren't a tech company.
Sometimes i wonder if the whole Vision Fund is actually a CIA plot to bankrupt certain Middle East oil states.
If you want to farm upvotes on social media, you gotta preach to the choir and make them feel good about themselves.

Engaging intellectually with the other side is inefficient. You can get more upvotes with less effort with humorous personal attacks against them.

For example: Donald Drumpf, amiright? Who the hell buys a gold-plated toilet? Tiny hands. Sad.

Dashing out a comment like that is far quicker than analysing the impact of subsidies and protectionist policies on the American manufacturing and agricultural industries - and easier for people to engage with to boot.
An excellent movie. I've watched it twice and will likely watch it again.
Google earth VR does have a VR mode which I have heard is amazing [0]. Their maps platform is also part of cloud and you can use it for gaming [1].

[0]: https://vr.google.com/earth/

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/gaming/
Sure the speed is a function of the metric you use, but physics also tells us what metric is useful.
What a great article! So well written, and thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks for the share.
Finally shipped a game project that I'd been working on for fun, last week. My son did the graphics. It was a lot of fun learning JavaScript quirks as well as some game-relevant design patterns like a staticly allocated array for particle effects.

https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/
Remember when MIT thought it was morally prudent to let the government throw the book at Aaron Swartz because it could alienate their commercial partners? They did that while actively courting a sex-trafficking pedophile.

Imagine valuing JSTOR's copyright more than human life and dignity.
So what? That does not make Harvard have any responsibility in what Epstein did, they had no role at all in that.

It's like a new Inquisition these days.
To me, WeWork seems like one of those businesses whose success might be based on a novel but easily-duplicated idea.

After they blaze the trail of providing a different approach to office space, is there a lot to stop competitors from doing the same thing?

Maybe there are more, but I only see two advantages they have over competitors: name recognition and economies of scale. And since leasing space is a large expense for tenants, it's natural for people to shop around a bit, making it a natural area for competition (and driving down margins).

WeWork's web site uses the word "revolutionary". Once the revolution has finished happening, what reason is there to believe that WeWork is going to own it? Obviously WeWork has a head start, but is there anything they've done that others can't do?
> The only big benefit I get out of it is that I can drop everything and go on a camping / skiing trip several times a year.

This is my only excuse for owning a vehicle, too. I can be spontaneous and do a thing that requires multiple people with coordination that Uber/Lyft can't provide.
Ok, so just exactly who will these people listen to about the climate crisis? Because from where I'm sitting, no messenger is ever going to measure up to this exacting standard of personal purity.

We saw this 15 years ago with Al Gore, too. Who cares if he's right, he lives in a big house!
The reason is money. Where I'm from, only the rich kids do after school sports. The poor kids have two working parents and they can't afford to miss work to pick them up after school. We're subsidizing the rich kids to play sports with public funds, and that's total BS. Not everyone lives in a city, so they can't just take a public bus home after school and the after-school activity buses were canceled.
If memory serves, AMD switched to a different compiler to reduce compilation time of the shaders, so reducing LLVM compilation time doesn't seem easy..
I don't think that's the case at all, the "hypocrisy" is just an excuse for their opposition to her message.

We all live in this system, and she's not advocating for living outside the system, she's advocating for changing it.

Nobody is advocating for everybody stopping flying tomorrow. We're advocating for developing technology so that within a few decades we can be carbon neutral.
Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods.

Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work.

Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone.

Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore.

Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great.

Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time.

Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth.

Collected a TB of nature/wildlife photos from my travels, written a lot of posts for a blog I am launching soon that covers a range of topics from minimalism, plant-based lifestyle, deep work, web development, UX design, creative service, entheogens, dhyana.

Mapped out an UX and schema for a platform that I will submit to YC. If rejected, try crowdfunding.

Consolidated my life goals and bucket list down a lot after realizing a lot of things lately.

I have never felt more whole, grounded, centered, focused, organized, stable before. :)
Note that Aswath is detailing a best-case scenario for WeWork here, where they're somehow making $80.5B revenue in 2029. That's... a bit of a stretch, seeing as they'd have to 26x their current 2019 revenue. Are they going to buy out every building in Manhattan? So we can say the fair pricing is somewhere between $0 and Aswath's $13B.

Personally, I feel that no matter what price WeWork IPOs at, it's going to pancake pretty hard. There's a good business in there somewhere (AWS for real-estate), but it's saddled under so much crap, debt, and hot air.
When it comes down to it, there is no one answer.

Because it's a skill (conflict resolution & communication) operating in a complex environment (your relationship).

Be self reflective though: if you aren't getting the results you want, then try different things.
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Advertising makes things "free" for users and it's extremely hard to compete with free.
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Just wanted you to know that what you said is known to be false, "the MIT institution took money from him despite being internally barred from doing so"

See
http://news.mit.edu/2019/letter-preliminary-facts-0912

"when members of [the MIT president's] senior team learned that the Media Lab had received the first of the Epstein gifts, they reached out to speak with Joi Ito. He asked for permission to retain this initial gift, and members of my senior team allowed it."
Netanyahu said to have offered Lewinsky tapes for Pollard (2014)
Would be hard for me to move as I rely on some software that is mac only for my productivity. I use Linux as deployment environment. Trying to find time to learn Nix & NixOS. :)
How ConvertKit Could Lower Its $64K Monthly AWS Bill
Lack of sleep pretty much affects every system in the body. Metabolism being no exception. Mathew Walker covers this in detail in Why we sleep.
In principle you are asking a good question here, but what fascinates me much more on this topic is just how allergic some people react given the idea that a 16 year old girl could question their morality.

Because this is what it always boils down to: figures like her act as a mirror and many people don't like what they see in it. And it is easier to attack the mirror than dealing with what it tells you.
This is getting comical. They keep intentionally leaking lower and lower numbers trying to gauge any level of interest.

I feel like a scammer on the corner is getting increasingly desperate shouting lower numbers at me as I walk away. "No how about just $5 then and I'll read your palm!"

People used to have shame. This is so weird.
Ha, you beat me right before my edit.
It will indeed radically change; and radiologists not-using-AI will be replaced by those who do. However the profession itself will only increase in influence as the radiologists become more and more clinically involved. If they take on the responsibility of employing and regulating medical imaging AI, more radiologists rather than fewer will be needed.
Wow, this reads like a CCP propaganda piece.
After the initial excitement over the last six months with my new phone and new assistant I found I was using it less and less. It just takes so much longer than pressing the buttons and is far less accurate with complex things. But then again I haven't been trained on what it can do.
but it was all prior to his 2008 conviction in Florida

Donald Trump of all people went on the record in 2002, saying that Epstein prefers women "on the younger side". His strange proclivities were known even then. So Harvard was complicit in accepting Epstein money until they really really couldn't accept it any longer. That's plausible deniability.
You're giving me some ideas for what to do with a bunch of bamboo I have overgrowing my area. "Standard" methods for dealing with wood cylinders aren't very strong or convenient so I'm seeing from your work how traditional asian construction arrived at lashings. Bamboo is so strong and light, it's a shame not to use more around the house.
You’re right, I can’t remember why I was thinking I ran into 11 digits...
It's not a defense issue, it's a law enforcement issue. Which is why law enforcement agencies (ICE, CBP) are the ones enforcing laws against illegal entry. The military is generally only mobilized at the border when large groups are poised to cross the border in numbers large enough that ICE and CBP don't have the manpower to stop it.
Tech's position on the issue of how to fund journalism online is fundamentally incoherent.

After 20 years of experiments, there are only two models that have been consistently proven to work: restricting access to paying customers only (a.k.a. paywalling), and open access combined with heavy, invasive advertising (both the traditional kind, and more insidious kinds like clickbait headlines and sponsored content). That's it. Those are the only models anyone's found that don't lead to bankruptcy.

The problem is that tech insists that both these models are morally unacceptable. Put up a paywall, and you'll get a parade of tech influencers denouncing you as a greedy elitist. Don't put up a paywall, and you'll get the same parade of tech influencers denouncing you as a purveyor of spyware and clickbait.

OK, fine. So what then does tech propose these publications do, exactly? Are they supposed to just lay down and die? Because unless someone can come up with a third model that actually works, that's the only option left after you rule out every other option that works.

You can see this incoherence play out in every HN comment thread about journalism. The New York Times consistently produces excellent journalism; but they keep that journalism behind a paywall, so they are Evil. Buzzfeed doesn't have a paywall, but it produces lots of clickbait and sponsored content[1], so they are Evil too.

The only publications that aren't Evil, it turns out, are the ones that are going out of business.

[1] Although they also produce an increasing amount of very good journalism these days alongside it. Which, of course, the clickbait and sponsored content pay for.
The crowds and drunk strangers are the major reason why people go to games. And tailgating for most sports fans is fun. Of course you get a better view of the game at home, but the live atmosphere can't be replicated by any TV.