skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the extremistan/mediocristan reference. I've read some Taleb, but not much and not deeply, and that's a valid point.

Financialisation and capital accumulation allow tremendous inequalities in allocation. These have always been present to some degree, but recent history (say, 1800 - present) seems exceptional. Note that arguably the Gilded Age personal fortunes were probably even more extreme than those of today.

Unless I'm missing something, the marginal cost of software publishing is very near zero. Development is ... more expensive.

The Internet's role is a whole 'nother discussion, but pulling in a notion of an ontology of technological mechanisms (see: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww), it's a network, with network effects, as well as a system. These ... tend to define general parameters and considerations.

Where specific industries fall on the mediocristan / extremistan scale .... is an interesting question. Though I'd argue that systems/networks elements tend toward extremistan. Whether hardware is/isn't systems/network (as I'm using the terms) is another question.

For successful fundamental component manufacturers (e.g., Intel, AMD), hardware certainly resembles extremistan.
There’s an unofficial Linux client that works okish for people that don’t fear getting grease on their hands. Console only, though.
I'd like to cut back due to the negative impact it's had on my sleep and general motivation. I've found that daily smoking really reduces the quality of my sleep, which means 8 hours of sleep with THC in my system is closer to 5-6 hours. As far as motivation goes, the dopamine release from THC really reduces my drive and makes me more content/complacent than I would like to be. As a note, my total intake is really low (less than 1 gram every three months), but I still feel like I shouldn't feel obligated to smoke on a daily/weekly basis.
I am working to improve self-discipline in almost all forms: diet, exercise, reading, attention span, and even relaxation. I suffer a large amount of anxiety from this. I don't do the things I need to and I do too much of the things I shouldn't. I need a better balance or I will forever be disappointed with what could have been.
hatwash answered why the two green squares above and below the right-most 2 were safe. Here's why the top-left and bottom-left squares were safe:

a b c d
2 3 4 2
0 e f g

Because of the left-most 2, only two of a,b,e are mines.

That means only one of c,f is a mine - the third mine of the 3.

That means only three of b,d,e,g are mines - the remaining three mines of the 4.

But both d and g cannot be mines, because combined with the one mine in c,f that would put three mines around the right 2. So only one of d,g is a mine.

So if only one of c,f is a mine, and only one of d,g is a mine, that means b,e are both mines - the remaining two mines of the 4. So b,e can be flagged as mines.

That means the left 2 is complete, so a can be opened safely. Also the mine at e completes the bottom-most 1, and you can proceed from there.
I find that the hardest thing about logging what I eat is knowing what I eat, and what calories those things contain. Often I eat lunch at work where they serve a ton of different dishes, and I dont have the opportunity to weigh what I eat, and I have no idea what exactly they put in that said that day. If I try to err on the side of caution, I'll be super hungry because the number of calories I ate does not add up to the number logged. Unless I have the time to make all my food and measure it or only eat processed/pre-made food that is labeled it's hard to keep accurate track.

Do any of you feel the same way? I have used Myfitnesspal and similar before, but have never stuck with it. Before I have stayed reasonably fit because I usually ride mountain bikes a lot,but the past few years there has been less riding and I'm now +10kg my normal weight at least.
These are often blocked by network configuration and firewalls , although with some effort you can probably by-pass this issue. The dat protocol is a good example.
So, the habit of sleeping or reading a book got replaced?
I never explored Spanish trends/account but it would be an interesting experiment to see how they perform. Thanks for the feedback!
On the subject of shared costs/benefits: The wealth that allows us modern healthcare is not so much the wealth we are producing today, but overwhelmingly more the wealth that the countless generations before us have created. That one person should benefit disproportionately from this wealth, just because by some narrow financial measure their small contribution is slightly less small than another's, is surely against natural justice. Healthcare is our birthright, part of the Universal Basic Stake that we each inherit simply by being born.
So then how would people reach me? Ignoring snail-mail, all means of reaching me involve either my phone number or email address.
For example, it would be refreshing to see a deep-learning course with math at a higher level than high-school level.
> Even if I know there are better alternatives out there

I could have chosen Java, Python, Go or C++ instead. Instead I chose the tool I'm most familiar with because that will get me focused on the problem rather than on the tool. It's a disadvantage of getting older: there is less time left to waste.

> To me it seems you know it can be dangerous, but like it too much not to use it.

It is mostly a familiarity thing, not a like or dislike.
Any recommendations for getting a working knowledge? Up to chemistry like what’s described in this patent?
I think it's fun with a friend (did that years ago), but trying to get back into lifting by myself now... is boring. I quit each session sooner than I should, so I don't see the same gains. I'm not sure how to get excited about it when I am by myself, other than playing music to pump me up, which I'm not always in the mood for.
Aye. My own goal in my late 40s, a bit overweight, is to get strong first, lose weight second.

I'd hardly ever get an endorphin rush/hit from cycling, but I get them regularly from weights. They certainly help the mind settle, even after a short stint.

My best tip would be to get your own equipment, if possible, to have the ability to do it frequently and without making it a mission to go to the gym.

It's amazing what you can do with a squat rack, bar bell, a bench, and a set of plates. (Starting strength / Rippetoe, Stronglifts 5x5, etc).

Weight is in fact regulating itself somewhat naturally as a consequence, but just being able to feel the body getting stronger is the real pleasure. I've been doing this for a good few months now and I know I'm adding years if not decades to my usable life span as well.
How do you maintain energy levels through a 36 hour fast?

Edit: Thanks all! This’ll help me progress from 16/8 to consistent longer fasts.
Maven sidesteps the issue by not even having lockfiles and leaving everyone who checks out a repo free to have different versions of subdependencies, so I'm not sure it's a very stellar example.
This is true. The new HCV drugs, even at the outrage inducing price of $90k, easily met the NICE cost effectiveness threshold.

The issue was really volume. There wasn’t enough money to treat everyone.
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Just remember that the gains will stop after a while if you don’t start taking steroids or something. People seem to have difficulty finding a stable workout routine they enjoy without improvements. Otherwise lifting is good but watch for form and don’t ignore nagging injuries.
My parents in late 50s pay $2k per month for a bronze plan with an OOP max of $14k.
I don't understand.

What does the "single assignment" bit get you that a compiler with an SSA pass doesn't?
How the world’s old printing presses are being brought back to life
it's a pleasure to play with it
ADD meds can also be abused to keep one awake past the point where it is safe to fly though. They were used for this purpose long before they were discovered to help with ADD, which was in turn long before "Adult ADD" was considered a valid diagnosis.
It's what it doesn't give me. Doesn't have a memory management unit, so no stack execution protection. So no protection against classic stack smashing attacks.

I saw a talk about weird machines. The upshot of it is if you can clobber the return address on the stack you can usually create a weird machine that you can then program[1]. Leads me to believe that if you are putting entrusted data and return addresses on the same stack you're in a state of sin security wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_machine

[1] Also saw an exploit on an embedded system where they leveraged that even though the memory was locked you could set the program counter and read/write registers via jtag. Using that they were able in short order to recover the devices security keys and re-flash it with their own code.
I work from home generally 4 / 5 days per week for a lot of reasons (commute, environment etc.). I am one of those people who cannot code in absolute silence, whatever, maybe from years of coding in a loud environment... who knows. But I am most productive with mindless yammering in the background. Which generally is things like, NPR, TV News, CSPAN etc. Music is no good, it has to be just blabbing in the background. So I generally have the TV on in the background on some dumb channel, I am not listening but just talking in the background that I am not interested in at all, in some weird way helps me concentrate. I dunno if I am weird but I am guessing a lot of people have it on in the background as just sort of comfort while they do other things.
Tropical weather and ocean access helps. A flat land with extremes of hot and cold, tornadoes and drastic divergences in daily temperature are more worrisome than being on the head with a Bible, personally.
Old Slashdot Meme:

“I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years. Does anyone still watch TV”?

But more to the point. Between Netflix, Hulu with No Commercials, Amazon Prime Video, and occasionally CBS All Access w/no commercials and STARZ, I hardly ever see commercially.
I think people sometimes shy away from this because it's seen as a young, vain person's pursuit; something you do primarily to look good.

But past middle age, it becomes critically important. Once your muscles, joints, and bones begin to weaken, keeping muscle mass can mean the difference between maintaining balance or not, breaking bones in a fall or not, and retaining motor function or not. It has all kinds of second order effects on general health and longevity.
They didn’t buy an approved drug, they bought a clinical lead. They still spent a ton getting it approved.
>Testing doesn’t matter at your stage. Imagine if you spent a bunch of time perfecting the human resource procedures for your websites, it’s too early to think about that. Maybe that is hard to internalize since it was your job for so long

Ah, I see what you're saying. I respectfully disagree.

For me, testing earns back time invested very quickly, often before I even commit a changelist. I would write more tests if I were working for a large company or I was maintaining a mature product, but I don't buy the idea that zero is universally the correct number of tests for any early-stage product.

My E2E tests and CI routinely prevent me from breaking major functionality in my websites and APIs. It seems like a no-brainer to spend an extra 20% of my up-front development time writing automated tests to catch those instead of discovering the breaks after the fact, patching it, then testing all the functionality manually.
Build up to it from shorter fasts. Pay close attention to caloric intake, it's easy to undereat when fasting. Eventually you will be unable to not maintain energy levels though the fast.
I love being totally exhausted but it took me a while to accept that a lot of people don’t like it. People are different. I never had weight problems and it also took me a while that what’s easy for me is hard for others. But then I can’t wean myself off chocolate which is easy for others.
The left to right swinging is the textbook example of animals undergoing prolonged extreme stress and insufficient stimulation. It’s probably the most recognizable sign.

It’s baffling that any researcher was honestly thinking otherwise.
I can't imagine not being grumpy walking on a treadmill in the basement and thinking about an extra slice of pizza. I go to gym sometimes to lift weights, and I have never seen a happy face on a person walking on a treadmill. I don't understand why not to go for a walk and enjoy the nature, people, birds, ... whatever you have in your neighborhood.
Now you know why I'm waiting to see my PCP despite having earlyish symptoms of heart disease. Should I have a heart attack it's better to leave my wife a cheap, dead corpse and a life insurance payout rather than an expensive out of work husband. That's the calculus of the American medical system.
I am relatively adapted to it at this point, so it doesn't bother me as much.

I time it so I start the fast towards the evening and then it ends mid-morning - so you're only really pushing through one full day without food.

I'll have coffee/tea for caffeine and electrolytes seem to help depending on your situation.

Start with several smaller fasts before going full 36 and if you need to eat before the full 36 hours are up, don't kill yourself.

The biggest realization is just coming to terms with how much what a lot of people think of as "hunger" is often just boredom or cravings and not actual hunger. That was eye-opening.
How has Prop. 13 affected tax distribution in Santa Clara County?
It is also a great activity to help burn fat.
ie "python is scary fast because anyone who uses it is mostly running C"
It’s a thing in our social circle that during an awards show, we all get on Facebook for live commentary.
Neato, but omg I do NOT want ANY form of capacitance near my cornea.
‪If you can’t hang yourself with it, is it even real? Do you hang someone with a rope, or with a knot? Abstractions are knots, not ropes.‬
While 306 vs 90 is nothing to scoff at, we're talking about 200 / 2000 = 10% of a difference, in the extreme and unrealistic case you quoted. So in less extreme cases it would be just a few percentage points.
I really appreciate how fast the pages load. And despite the warning banner at the top, Javascript does not appear to be required for basic search, browse, & read functionality, which I very much appreciate.
Ethical failures can be structural, not merely individual.

At what point does some other word become more appropriate?
Those are not the two significant alternatives you know...

Also, I'd rather not work in WalMart.
But their “profit” only comes from them working 60+ hours per week to save on labor costs and/or to keep employees from stealing.

The average franchise owner makes less than $70K a year (https://www.moneytalksnews.com/could-franchise-your-ticket-o...).

And that’s after putting a lot of Monet into it.
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Honestly, as someone who values efficiency, I found MyFitnessPal way too slow and clunky. A food tracker should get out of the way. Otherwise you'll - in the heat of the moment - decide not to log things. It also lacked flexibility for those times you dine out, skip meals, or skip logging.

Which leads nicely to the shameless plug for https://www.joyapp.com . Built it for myself, then it spread through forums and has quite a few users.

Benefits:

- Once you learn the ropes, it's an order of magnitude faster to add entries. It was designed to be opened for as little as possible each day.

- If you make it hard to log your food, you won't do it. This makes it trivial.

- Also, there are no community-entered foods. This is a feature in most cases. All the food is either from a professionally curated database (Nutritionix) or custom foods you enter.

- No ads whatsoever. And we don't sell your data. Privacy is very important to us.
How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
Have you tried climbing? It just seems like something that woukd fit in that group, that and parkur. Unfortunately those both seem like they have a high barrier to enjoyment.
About $8 / kg. At two grams / brick that's 500 bricks. I'd be more worried about how strong it would be, though I've seen an insanely high tower (15 meters) made out of bricks so presumably they can handle a lot of pressure. If you tried making a 3 x 3 meter wall out of bricks and made it 10 cm thick (a standard clay building brick) that would come to 100 x 300 x 10 bricks = 300,000 bricks, or $6000 worth or bricks! You could hollow out the wall a bit, to maybe 25% dense or even less for a reduction in price.
As a OneDrive user, I'd say it got much better in the last year or two. Before that it was kinda janky, but now it's fast and reliable on Windows to the point where I trust it as much as Dropbox (occasionally I use it too).

It's also the only cloud storage provider that allows you to have files-on-demand feature on free tier account on Mac OS. Others (Dropbox and Google Drive) only enable it at on Terabyte plans.
Totally agree.

I tried a few ways and eventually giving up. I just have to live with not having accurate counts.

1. I try to make my own food using common ingredients. It failed in a couple of weeks because I do prefer to not spend that much time on making food.

2. Eating at restaurants is especially difficult. Even if you bring a scale with you. Like if you are given some Chinese dish where all the things are mixed together. I give up and go with "Chinese buffet" option in myfitnesspal.

3. Ironically, fast food places do have calories listed, and that justifies some of my visits...
I love training tall! I'm not very tall for a rower (only 6'4") but his stuff helps me continuously improve.

My last vacation to Florida I got out on the water with an 85 year old man that had been rowing for 50+ years. I got great instruction and he was full of sage wisdom. It was a ton of fun and I've never been so pleased to kick my butt kicked by a professional.
Thanks for engaging with this.

The idea is the format, domain, open source, to chip away at some major emission sources. If people liked the format it might have lived!

Who I had in mind for the first cut were the affluent - people with an internet connection, from countries with high per capita emissions.

I find the point relevant that the solution isn’t going to be 1 magic thing (ie sequestration or nuclear) but by chipping away on all fronts.
MTA-STS and Starttls-Everywhere – HSTS and HSTS Preload for Email
The building Roerich built on the Upper West Side as a center for his movement was rumored by some conspiracy cranks as one resting place of the holy grail until the 1970s. I love Roerich lore.
First it's useful to understand why e.g. a Koch curve has fractional dimension. The answer informally is that it has "too much area" to be just a line, but it's "too much a line" to be a 2d figure. Just notice that its length (1D measure) is infinite (just like a square has "infinite length"), so its dimension must be >1D, but also its area) 2D measure is zero (just like a line has 0 area), so it must also be <2D.

Then if you want to make this intuition precise, you need to look into the box-counting dimension, and then the Hausdorf dimension.
Yep. This goes for a lot of environments. It's going to take many many decades to get rid of C. Probably more than it has been here up to now.
Doing something enjoyable is super important. You'll want to be able to treasure the time spent using the equipment / activity.

Kudos to OP/TFA for sticking with it, but I'm wondering if exploring other options would be beneficial for the long term. Real strength is not gotten from a treadmill alone, although it does have bone strengthening benefits that eg cycling does not.

Rowing seems like a great alternative to be added to the mix, as would weights.
I've had several jobs, several insurance plans and a couple on the individual market.

Never had to switch doctors and the paperwork amounted to the receptionist asking if my insurance was current and handing them my card.
Huh? What part of that is supported by any kind of evidence? You can lift for many years and keep improving consistently if you stick to a good regimen. I also have a great routine that I stick to consistently and enjoy immensely, you're speaking for yourself.
The apartment complex they’re talking about in the article is (educated guess, used to live there) one of the nicest and most expensive in the country. It’s overlooking the Saigon River and has luxuries and amenities that you wouldn’t have except at super luxury buildings the US.

You can live a pampered lifestyle that would not be even remotely within reach in the US on the same budget.
Wait until someone is assassinated with one of these puppies. They will end up prohibited entirely. :(

Collective punishment: it's OK when the government does it!
> Propose to the most wonderful woman.

Best of luck, and congrats in advance.
So many points. The major ones for me, in order of importance:

1) Running on a treadmill is much friendlier to my joints than concrete or asphalt. For us city dwellers, that adds up over time.

2) I can quit the treadmill at any time. If you're outside on a 6 mile run and you have a muscle cramp up at mile 3, limping back 3 miles is the result. That's surprisingly little fun ;)

3) Can't speak for other people, but usually the treadmill is a warm-up, that's it.

4) It's cold and rainy outside. I'm soft and coddled and like being in a warm place :)

(OK, realistically, the first two are the ones that really matter, the rest you can get over)
Chairman Bruce at SXSW2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV1XMAP-Uh8

Bruce Sterling has been around in the intersection of art and technology since the dawn of the internet. His gothic, villain, medival high tech scifi world are a hilarious inspiration.
> I'm running VSCode right now with many tabs open and extensions running, and it's using less than 100mb of memory. Doesn't seem so bad to me

uh... is it ? no tabs open and less than 12 extensions, the code process itself takes 120 megabytes, and there's also 1.2 gigabyte of electron processes running along with it
You are correct indeed. That's why some countries in SEA are major medical tourism destinations for many people from western countries.
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Finding an activity that you enjoy is the most important piece. Activities you enjoy you will keep doing. Habits are hard to form.
We aren't disagreeing. I'm not talking about high-quality brands who happen to manufacture in China. I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but have you ever landed on a search result page where multiple items from different brands were visibly identical products? Sometimes down to using the exact same photo. Those are the situations I'm talking about.
"laypersons"

"Anyone who has stood up a service on the cloud"

I don't think I'd call those the same thing.

.

Aside from that, having a single point of failure in some component isn't necessarily unconscionable, you just make sure the system as a whole can handle the loss of the affected component.
The rise in wages is very moderate. See here for example:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4280594-median-household-in...

Also, this doesn't account for coastal-vs-hinterland areas, which seems to be an issue.