skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Not exactly, no. The opposite of a federal state is a unitary state (like France or Ireland), not an authoritarian state (like Saudi Arabia). Interestingly, what you described (moving power upward) has been another major feature of American governance since the early post-war era.

2. I generally disagree with regards to the seizure of property. You say that the seizure of criminal assets is seen as an effective crime deterrent. Who sees it as such? Is there any evidence that it works? Are you familiar with the debates surrounding 'civil forfeiture'? If not, it is worth looking into. There are jurisdictions in the US(primarily at the municipal and county level) that derive a large part of their total operating budgets from the seizure of 'criminal' assets without any sort of due process. The example of drug kingpins parking their money in real estate is a particularly lurid and unrepresentative example--there might indeed be a place for criminal asset forfeiture in the fight against organized crime--but at the very least the threshold should be rather high and not include petty infractions or minor unpaid debts.

3. I see your point here, and you are correct on checks and balances, but I think you are naive with regards to the role of the press and the efficacy of simply voting out incumbent officials. Having said that, I will concede that the strategy actually works best at the lowest possible tier of government, but of course that requires adequate civic engagement in local politics.

More on the free press issue. Here's a story for you. In the early 1970s, my dad worked for a couple of local newspapers in the southern US. They would send him to cover city council meetings. He commented that the reporters from the big papers would show up for about 10 minutes and leave, and then write reports as if they had been present the entire time. And that was yearly 50 years ago, when the American newspaper landscape looked very different from today. Today most of those local papers are gone altogether and the press in general has undergone a total transformation. Beyond the occasional outrage story, I wouldn't automatically assume that the press is going to do its job.

Please don't take offense at my comments and fire back an angry rebuttal. This is not meant as criticism of you or your positions. Just thoughts and debate, nothing more.
True, but is it worth it. Private pilots are enough of an additional risk that life insurance will charge extra if you are one. Commercial planes are safer than driving, but flying yourself it apparently not (of course this depends on lots of factors, practice and training being big ones).

Besides, if you can afford a plane for trips like this the cost of hiring a pilot to fly your plane is in the noise and well worth is just so you can get something done.
I'm sorry but these kind of studies tell you nothing.

I've done the "San/Khoikhoi" approach to eat and fast. I've done the "eat small amounts" frequently. All of these have their virtues and under any such (whilst being sensible) you'll probably live to an averaged healthy 80. Edit: If you have a disease that puts you way below average, then you probably already have personal recommendations via the scientific literature (or no recommendations).

What these studies do do is make you panic about your current habits. The oldest woman a while ago was an Italian woman who ate two eggs every morning until she died some time in her 110s. I don't know if that means you should eat eggs.

Stress about your diet at this point is more likely to be an issue that the actual diet. That is now if you don't have Kwashiorkor.
Installing multiple versions is possible, given proper semver and good arguments for it: There are quite a few libfoo5, libfoo6, libfoo7 packages. What isn't and shouldn't be possible is installing libfoo 6.6.5 and 6.6.6 at the same time, because those should be compatible. And not being easy to replace (i.e. ABI- and API-compatible) means that security and bug fixes will be missed.

Of course this is work for application as well as library developers, designing and keeping compatibility is hard. Most would rather build the new shiny, consequences be damned.
Which makes it even more worthless in the workplace. We don't even let unpaid athletes "overclock" because of how dangerous it is.
Zig was started with that exact use case at the forefront of its design.

- Zig has no hard dependency on libc, it's the user's choice whether he wants to link it or not. It ships musl libc and can build/link it for most (all?) supported targets.

- Most of Zig's standard library works on freestanding targets. No runtime needed. There are no implicit allocators, so the user must use an allocator shipped with the standard library or implement their own.

- Standard library is still in its early days but already provides a lot of functionality out of the box, from containers to io.

- Using the standard library is optional. When it is used, only what is used gets included. The standard library is built from source every time (though there is caching) and its semantic analysis basically does LTO in the codegen stage so you end up with pretty slim binaries.

Here's a couple of examples:

- https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos

- https://github.com/AndreaOrru/zen
Sold my soul to google long time ago but i'll join this crowd is that manifest 3 shit happens.
Hold your payment until the 12th Dec (UK election)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/04/call-for-ba...
intermittent fasting works wonders for the body. Most people I know do 16/8, 16 hour fast with 8 hour eating. the ones who lost the most weight do 20/4. Now... you still have to control what you're eating. it does no good to fast and then eat 5000 calories.
I wouldn't expect any difference. It' still physics, body uses energy to produce heat or movement, hard to change that through a diet.
I thought Linux had gotten to ARG_MAX being 1/4 of the stack size, or roughly 2MB.
Did you see the sibling comment to yours, posted 7 hours earlier? Is that not a different issue?
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet it was featured in the 007 Movie - You only live twice, if memory serves...
>If you read the line "continue;" or "break;", you don't know if that triggers one (or multiple) function calls until you read the surrounding code.

Not sure what you mean exactly - you have to read the surrounding code to know where the control flow continues, but there's no hidden function call between that point and and the break. That's like arguing you need to understand the entire code base to know what return does - since it returns control flow to potentially a completely different file. But that's not really the point, the point is that it doesn't do anything else in between - if you know where control flow is going to, you know everything that is happening. More so with break and continue even, since for break and continue where control flow continues doesn't even depend on runtime state, whereas return could return to different places depending on where the function was called.
Most of the safety advantages of flying over driving are in the extra training required for commercial operation.
I occasionally use intermittent fasting for weight control, and the reason it works for me is because time-restricted eating makes it easy to consume less food. If I skip breakfast, and sometimes lunch, after a couple days I don't get hungry in the morning anymore, and I simply eat what I want the rest of the day, which ends up being significantly less.

I have had much less success with things like calorie counting and portion control. Those diets felt like constant self-denial, and I would inevitably end up fudging the numbers to allow myself to eat more, or would eventually just break down and binge.

So if your point is to say these numbers aren't that interesting because it's "really" just the caloric deficit doing the work here, I would say that could very well be right. But there are a lot of ways to get to a caloric deficit, and time-restricted eating has particular benefits over many of those methods.
Thanks for all the links! I love exploring independent, personal websites (and adding them to my RSS reader).
Turn it sideways 90 degrees.
If they measured only weight loss, then yes, it's due to the reduction. But it's important to note that the reduction wasn't forced on them -- it arose "naturally", meaning intermittent might be an efficient strategy to lose weight (e.g. the person wouldn't have the burden of tracking calories).

That's regarding weight loss alone. Various health and cognitive benefits are usually talked about in the context of intermittent fasting, and that seems to arise from being fasted rather than from being in a deficit.
We own two Teslas. Charging overnight at home (daily) and within ~20 minutes at Superchargers (traveling) vs battery swaps would not make a big difference in our experience, and adds significant physical (swapping a 1200 lbs battery) and accounting (value of battery) challenges.

Battery swap doesn’t exist because it’s a solution looking for a problem.
Very cool project from a technical point of view, but I can't resist thinking how unnecessary this is in the real world. I remember a blog post of one of those first sorters, which ended with the guy owning a huge stack of sorted legos and no buyers.

Well done nonetheless, seems to work pretty smooth (though I see a lot of mixed materials in the buckets?).
It's also easier not to eat than burning off the excess. With my complexion, it takes about 5K to burn through 1 Snickers bar. I do run and I find easier not to eat that bar than to burn it, so for people who don't exercise themselves it should be a no brainer.
> I don't see my municipality placing an aesthetically unpleasing charging point every 6 meters.

I'm sure people used to say the same thing about fire hydrants, above ground electricity poles and wires, and fibre hanging from utility poles.

I think you're underestimating what happens when there is a genuine need for a thing.
Maybe, but my feeling is that they are trying to attribute the benefit to intermittent fasting (which may be the mechanism! I have no ideas (and neither do they!))
For example, in my neighborhood country DRC, there all kind of minerals that are used to build every tech product. You guess why EU and USA needs to keep a good relationship with the warlords there? In Somalia, I think it is a question of terrorism. The state of lawless that come with the downfall of Somali in 1991 made the country being prone to warlords running the country, even the seas. You remember how they used to take hostage of ships passing through the Red Sea. You better pay warlords or they will come back and take hostage tankers and stuffs.

In the end, maybe they came to the conclusion that it's better to buy peace with money than to deploy US/EU troops ( now there are African Union troops in Somalia assisted by US units).
>First, that their app is a better mobile experience. And I'd agree, actually, but I understand why someone would disagree. From their perspective it's an easy download and it's native app and it's way better.

It is still worse than other reddit apps.

>Secondly, the best way to build something good is to have more data. This involves tracking people. I think most people have two opposing options: tracking people sucks, and making product decisions in a vacuum is wrong. It's a tough balance.

There is a difference between analytics that just track usage, and full blown tracking - but nowadays storing data is cheap so why not gather everything and then filter the rest for analysis...

The problem is that analytics, or i should say profiled user data is profitable to sell. Maybe not directly, but allow advertisers to serve ads to very specific users.
>> this seems to be standard effect of many dietary fads, i.e. they end up enforcing compliance with a low calories regime.

> Which is a good thing!

Not really; actually, it's a bad thing.

In the long term, people trying fad diets generally go back to the old habits.

Going through a diet cycle is always risky, as the metabolism is affected. When one stops a diet, one increases the food income, and needs to be very careful, because for a period, the body will consume less and accumulate fats easier.

If one went through a fad diet, they're more likely not to have enough discipline, and consequently, more likely to get the weight lost and more.

Net effect: more fat on the body and less muscles. This is the yo-yo effect. It's real.

Additionally, fad diets tend to de-emphasize the importance of sports (as they oppose to the very traditional diet regime of "eating less and doing sports"), which cause an impact on the muscle mass.
In this case compressing the period of time within which you eat reduced calorie intake. That is totally unsurprising, as it means odds are higher that you'll still feel full at any point during your eating window.

Having done intermittent fasting, it's totally possible to get to the point that you spend most of your eating window hating food because you keep feeling like you've just had a massive meal. That you end up eating less then isn't so strange. It boils down to whether or not you manage to stick to the schedule, but one of the nice things about an intermittent fasting schedule is that it's never long until you can eat, and that makes compliance feel easier for at least some people.
> political

And financial!
Well, as long as your employer doesn't pressure you into drinking coffee in order to keep your job I think it's not such a big issue :D
Maybe they'll place aesthetically pleasing charging points every 6m instead.
People with private jets typically have them for privacy and flexibility. Taking strangers as passengers is defeating those purposes.

However for small planes (Cessna etc.) pilots have to reach their flight hours and for financing that take passengers. Sometimes just for scenic round-trips. Sometimes over longer distances. Examples for sites arranging this (German examples) are
https://flyt.club/ https://www.mitflugzentrale.de/ or international https://www.wingly.io/
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"I think we are the verge of entering this brave new world of work, where enhancers are essentially mandatory."

It literally is the premise.
What cost?! If all you have is anecdata, then here's mine: Psychedelics have been the catalyst to some of the most profoundly positive experiences in my life, and any changes that I've experienced afterwards were wholly positive. Same with my group of friends who did the same. There.

You won't take my anecdotes seriously, just as I won't take your anecdotes seriously, so I hope you see now why this kind of hyperbole is worth nothing if not backed up by peer-reviewed science.

Are you seriously suggesting I'm brainwashed because I asked for sources? Jesus man, you're very far gone.
What they write is something weird. I did a website for a man who does luxury yacht rentals in China as a side project. He was somewhat close to that industry.

I heard that very few people, even billionaires really own their jets. Leasing, rent, "uber," and club memberships are way more common.

Second, you do not save time flying a private jet. He said he knew a number of CEOs who had more than enough money for a charter, but often had to fly economy class because it's the only ticket you can realistically buy same day on a minute notice. One said that arranging a private flight usually takes a week or more, and you have to be shuttled from a small, remote airport, adding hours to the trip.

I can myself confirm the later as I once met Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in an economy class!

The later really tells that private charter doesn't really work anywhere but parts of US and Europe, and more being more of a shuttle service than real point to point transport.
I’m of the opinion the calorie reduction is the primary catalyst for health improvements. Over and over our assumptions about nutritional timing have been wrong, eg breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day, don’t eat after 8pm, etc. The body adapts to whatever circumstance it encounters and if that circumstance repeats itself, it adapts extremely well.

But so much of eating for those (like me) who are subject to binge eating and being overweight, the time restriction brings about a means of control that can help replace the compulsion that contributes to overeating. And that time control brings other positive side effects such as calorie reduction, a smaller window to exercise control over food quality, and education on food discipline.

I’m not an expert, but I think intermittent fasting generally falls into the same category as going vegetarian or going carnivore or avoiding gluten: the result is almost always a healthier overall diet and more manageable calorie load than what the person was eating before. But the gimmick, which is mostly just a means of control and introduces discipline, takes most of the credit.
“Private pilots are enough of an additional risk that life insurance will charge extra if you are one.”

That’s often not true. They do ask and you have to provide records but it doesn’t necessarily impact rates. Pilots are generally wealthier, better educated and need to undergo regular medical exams to keep their certificate. All things that statistically make one healthier. There are many aspects that make a pilot a more attractive life insurance candidate from a risk standpoint, not less.
There's one of these in Eau Claire, WI, where I went to college [0]. I used to live across the bike trail from the sun, so I made the walk several times. Always blew my mind.

[0] https://www.visiteauclaire.com/listing/eau-claire-planet-wal...
If you want to splurge after jets are banned from the UK, try one of these 3-week jet getaways from the Four Seasons, only $160k..

https://m.fourseasons.com/privatejet/journeys/remote-wonders...
What specific things do your friends say or do, that you consider a hippy attitude?
I got into long distance running during this morning-not-eating period. Totally distracting to any hunger thoughts. Also, you start to find it's actually a huge benefit not to have a stomach full of food while you're trying to run a long distance.

Also, my wife had success starting with putting Coconut/MCT oil in her coffee. The Bullet Proof coffee folks swear by this and I think most would say they're still "fasting" and getting the same benefits but now they have a TBSP of oil in their stomach helping. Might be a step to going full "nothing but coffee" for 16 hours or whatever you're trying.
The problem with missing dinner is that it makes compliance at lot harder if you mess with social schedules.
That doesn’t make much sense. Educated women have choices that women in subsistence farming cultures who need to have ten kids to keep the farm going don’t have.
Haha, yeah, I do wonder about the insanity on a pretty regular basis :)

I will say though, that most of the time I don't want to use open source stuff. Observability is pretty crap, I don't want nor need software that uses write() without fsync(), and the assumptions that most OSS makes about FSs gives me nightmares on Borg.
Not bad! I'm curious what the accuracy is for parts. I'll look further than this short article. (edit: on follow up, not quite the level of detail I was hoping for, I'll keep an eye out)

I took a VERY similar approach for generalized universal lego sorter and got to about 120 classes of parts recognizing acceptably well for about 70 of the classes. I used Mathias' articles as a guide.

I was picking and choosing physically varied lego to find difficult pieces to sort. Beveled pieces tended to be the worst. Small pieces hid important information maybe? I suspect any solution will require mirrors to get better information.

I also got discouraged because I wanted to sort into about 2-300 different "buckets" and found the mechanical piece of that intimidating and got distracted by some other fun project. Maybe I'll return to it.

edit: I followed up by reading the longer linked article. I can't believe how similar the software the two of us wrote was. There are some labeling enhancements that I were probably the next step that I appreciate he took.
Anecdotal evidence just tells you you can't translate individual cases to larger distributions, or at least, that should be the case. Especially when it comes to psychedelics for some reason, this is just dismissed as 'oh well, bad stuff happens sometimes'.

I've seen the same as you, in myself and others. It might not be true for all people, but at least a significant, noticeable subset of the people who use psychedelics do fall into that 'category'. Like minds unraveling themselves, almost becoming ghosts in their vague perceptions of themselves and others.

And I think your perspective is justified, just by listening to the stories people tell about the experience itself, not by doing statistical analysis per se. Users tend to speak about feeling one with their surroundings. In group settings, boundaries disappearing between people. People becoming more sensitive to ideas and 'vibes'. Do it often enough, and you'll become more and more biased towards the things you surround yourself with while under the influence.

But here's the thing.. that stuff will pull you under if you're not careful.
A cool conversion is a Piper Malibu with a propjet. As far as I understand, the bodywork can handle speeds quite a bit faster than the stock model.

Edit: If you buy one of the piston versions second hand. I just checked Wikipedia and it seems like Piper realised what I said above at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-46 (and charge accordingly).
I haven't seen anything for healthy individuals. There are some studies though that have found negative effects for pregnant women and unborn children.

See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762961...
I think Renault tried in Israel it but wasn’t promising. Batteries are really heavy!
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