skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In reaction to that, it is important to understand that for many people weight loss is neither practical nor maintainable and for that reason it is critical that we continue to advance our treatment of things like sleep apnea.

Sorry, but I have to call BS on that. Having lost ~50 lbs last year (after my blood pressure started getting scary), I can tell you it's all about planning and self-discipline. You plan a diet that fills your stomach and provides the major types of nutrients, yet gives less calories that your body burns every day, and you stick to it for a couple of months. No bullshit, no cheat days, no "let me just have that 500cal chocolate bar as an exception". And it works like clockwork, solving a bunch of health problems on the way.

As a matter of fact, I would call it very unethical to comfort people into an unhealthy lifestyle associated with major health risks and shorter life expectancy just to get an extra buck from treating numerous symptoms, instead of giving them a strong motivation to resolve the underlying cause.
They moved for primarily financial reasons. When your apolitical and not actively discriminated against, it would be hard to leave china for 'political' reasons when your primary reason is financial.
The term “Open Source” has a precise definition, determined by the Open Source Initiative, who invented the term and started promoting it. Nobody used this term in software contexts before they did. They get to define it.
The younger they hire, the more they will hate the USA and love china.
I'm in a similar boat, being rather uneducated here. But I thought it wasn't completely unusual for countries to prod each other's air space. It seems really dangerous for Iran to just auto fire at an encroaching aircraft, potentially starting off a war. In that sense it may be lucky it wasn't a US fighter.
This usually happens. From everything I've seen nursing homes are almost always a last resort when family literally can't provide the care the patient needs.
My middle of the road state school CS program was nothing like that. I can remember exactly 1 CS class where memorizing the text book was remotely useful.
> In reaction to that, it is important to understand that for many people weight loss is neither practical nor maintainable and for that reason it is critical that we continue to advance our treatment of things like sleep apnea.

Thank you for this comment! I'd like to emphasize this point in particular. It took me a long time to come to this realization on my own, and I regret putting my brother under so much pressure to lose weight out of my own concern for his health. I likely did more harm than good with my efforts, only worsening his mental and physical health.

While losing weight solves a lot of problems, the decision to do so is one's own, and for some, it's an unreasonably difficult task. Not everyone is like you, and not every body is like yours. The best you can do to help someone suffering the consequences of excess weight is to be compassionate and supportive. Feel free to offer solutions and perspectives, but leave your emotions out of it. Respect the dignity and autonomy of others.
And yet you kept all the drug money.
>What does that have to do with ethics, really? The argument seems to be that utility should outweigh ethical concerns.

It's called utilitarianism and here it demonstrates nicely that ethics comes in various flavors
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In all seriousness? I get the popular mythology that "competition breeds innovation." I'll get to that later.

Im more concerned about a diverse ecosystem. In nature, homogenous cultures succumb to disease rapidly and die off.

Can you imagine if IE were our only webbrowser just how vulnerable we'd be on the open internet over the years? Partially because of the beaurocratic mess of a company's management.

But mostly? Just because of being a monolyth, all illicit exploit development on the WWW would be concentrated on a single webbrowser. (With much of the app-verse feeling some of the effect, for being built on top of some of the same libraries.)

On Capitalism's "innovation":

Oh look, Halmark Christmas movies:
https://i.redd.it/430186e3t1541.jpg

Oh look, another year of SUVs:
https://i.imgur.com/DR4xvok.jpg

Oh look, all these brands, congealing to serve an ever-shrinking list of parent companies:
https://twitter.com/socialistegirl/status/120118063078195609...

Remember the Monitor stand?
https://i.redd.it/z1qqhxit3g231.jpg

Oh look, here's who funded the original basis for out whole field. Arranged around i-pod/phones. https://i.redd.it/4c52ynd9jms31.jpg

Terrible how "HackerNews" needs some reddit troll to bring up how diversity of codebases makes the web stronger, rather than just mourning the indie browsers.
I mean the US was in a fully mobilized war at that point. I don't think the government was looking at long term consequences but at winning the war and surviving
Back when I lived in China, I used to think that having Google in China even with censorship was better than not having Google at all. But, this was also because back then, they did have a notice saying that some of the results had been censored. Back then, it felt to me to be an interesting compromise.

What does scare me though, is that by accepting censorship, it normalizes it and weakens the position of any company protesting against it even in countries that traditionally are more pro-human rights like European countries and the US. So it is a complex question...
The pricing page is pretty confusing. Is the price per engineer per month? Whats the difference in engineers vs accounts?
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."

By that logic, six years later, were Britain and France wrong to declare war on Nazi Germany when it attacked Poland? Should the U.S. not have joined them in 1941 in declaring war in Germany, which had not attacked the U.S.? And even regarding our fighting Japan after Pearl Harbor, American homes in the continental U.S. were not under threat. So was Allied participation in WWII a "racket"? If not, why is this piece getting so many up votes?
Without going into geopolitics or minimizing any deserved outrage over it and response to it, there's a reasonable case of thinking this in terms of consequences of concentrating power. Specifically, consider thinking of this in terms of accidental discharge rates.

You arm one person in a room and tell them not to shoot, and it's almost a guarantee they won't. Try this with 10 people and it's still extremely likely they won't. With 100 it's still a good chance nothing will happen. At 1,000 I'd get nervous. But keep concentrating this force over time and a shooting becomes a guarantee. Arm 31,000 police officers and wait a year and you'll see either 23 revolvers or 434 semiautomatics go off accidentally. These are all seasoned professionals and it still happens to them as a matter of statistical certainty.

So back to the incident - you can get lost in tracing something like this to the trigger man, and their immediate firepower locality but the larger perspective is that risk and danger is directly tied to policy decisions that created these conditions. Training, aptitude and fire discipline is all over the charts in any military force and if history tells us anything, it's not a stretch to call it an accident.

NYPD handgun study including accidental discharges [PDF]: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/145560NCJRS.pdf
It really was all the convenience of a car without having to drive it. A designated driver on call. And in cities where finding a cab was hard or next to impossible.
Seems like an opportunity? Start your own firm, pay a proper salary to good engineers, attract the best local talent in droves and become massively competitive.
Uber has been profitable on a unit economics basis, they've used the VC money to expand into new markets and test new models (Uber Eats, self-driving).
I don't think that helps accomplish one of the main goals of this effort, which is to demonstrate independence.
It got far enough to be the operating system for the Lucent 'Brick' line of firewall/VPN appliances. Those were modestly successful in the market. But, yeah, Lucent had big plans for Inferno that never really panned out.
The problem is that it is becoming harder and harder to just use a VPN to the point where a lot of people no longer bother. There's value in information being easily accessible
What conclusions would you draw from this collection of facts?
I'd just like to chime in as someone who has lost and kept off about half his bodyweight, that yeah, losing significant amounts of weight is a very demanding undertaking. It requires a significant lifestyle change, large investments of time, is emotionally and cognitively draining, and to top it all off does not positively impact your quality of life nearly as much as is touted. To be successful at it requires a level of obsession that qualifies as an eating disorder in its own. I track every calorie I eat, and weigh myself everyday. I have to hate seeing those numbers go up. I have to feel shame at overeating and not allow myself to make excuses for it, lest I become complacent. I can't keep food in my house. I avoid social gatherings because there's almost always food involved. You might think you can just not partake but it doesn't work like that, your brain thinks you're starving and has all sorts of ways to wear down your will and convince you it is ok to eat. It's kind of a living hell.

Based on personal experience, I am quite confident that physicians have absolutely no idea how to give actionable advice in this area, and nutritional specialists are only slightly better. None of them care about your suffering, because that isn't something they measure.

I guess what I'm saying is that yeah, it is possible for anyone to lose and keep off significant amounts of weight, but basically none of you have any idea what it really takes.
What a great speech. Can anyone tell me what the "Mandarin disease" referred to by the speaker is?
Who cares about Spectre and Meltdown in a game console or set top box? These are information disclosure vulnerabilities. What info are you going to "disclose" about the game I'm playing on a console? Especially if the game console is airgapped because I'm playing a single-player game from a cartridge or optical disk.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, but e.g. how did Sal Khan do net evil rather than net good with his Khan Academy project?
This is really great!

For those that don't know, bloom filters are really good at determining when something is not in a set. So if says "not in set" that's 100% accurate and super fast.

We used this to our advantage at reddit. When you load a comments page, we had to determine if you've voted on anything. So with the bloom filter in front, the query for "have they voted on anything here" was very quick if the answer was no.

But we still had to make the query. So another hack we did was to put a value on your user object to track the last time you interacted with the website. If the comments page was made after your last interaction, then we didn't even have to do the query.

With this, we wouldn't have to do the two step process -- it sounds like this would be super fast when it was time boxed. Maybe...
"This could be a way to revolutionize flight training, and make it more accessible. "

I rather think this could revolutionize any expensive training. Everything with heavy machines would benefit. And every other sector where a beginner misstake can literaly blow something up.
Have you ridden aggressively tuned bikes like MV Agusta's Brutale?

I ask because I used to own a Brutale (I recently switched to an S1000R), and I noticed a guy on a Zero at a traffic light one day on my commute; he was fast enough off the line, but his shoulders got no more than 50cm or so ahead of me before he was behind me - I never saw the back of his bike.

My Brutale 920 had ~40hp less than my S1000R, but it felt faster in some ways because it had more jerk - the acceleration kicked in sooner. I kept doing accidental wheelies off the line the first week I owned it.

The S1000R is faster overall, but due to its smoothness, ride by wire throttle etc. it needs to be treated harshly with bigger throttle inputs to get the same feeling of responsiveness. I write this because it's not just a gas bike's power, but design choices that affect how fast it feels.
Thanks a lot, I'll check that out. I did notice that there were some third party libraries that added functionality that I wanted, but it is nice to see a library from Grafana.

I would really like first class support for templating on Grafana though. My desired workflow would be to use github for the templates source of truth. Then a dsl on Grafana's end would regenerate the actual config whenever the template was changed. The web editor could provide a fallback method of making changes if it could commit to source control. For instance if I saw a cool demo for graph functionality online I could implement it in the UI and then dig into the autogenerated commit in git. That userflow usually works really with teamcity and their kotlin dsl.

Edit: Teamcity gets around the style issues of autogenerated code by submitting changes from the UI as patches. First the kotlin dsl is run on the base config, then patches are applied. That way you are able to rewrite an autogenerated project config in the style and approach you want, and any UI generated changes will be limited to one folder.
Nobody wants to be fat and most are already pretty ashamed about it. The big over-eaters (like myself) are sort of like addicts, but its a drug we really can't quit. It's like trying to manage your alcoholism by drinking 2 drinks a day instead of 10.

It's easy to think "why doesn't the pig just eat less." I used to think that way until my diagnosed thyroid conditions (which made me skinny by default) was treated. Karma.

Though some fat acceptance groups go too far when they criticize doctors for telling them to lose weight.
Indeed. For some people it's easier to commit suicide than it is to lose weight. Shame is not an ethical treatment method.
According to CBO analysis the total cost of Afghan & Iraq wars is going to be something like $2.5 trillion for the US.

Imagine if this sum would have been used mostly nonviolently for bribing and buying influence in the region. Depending how the money is distributed, it would have been:

* $35k per each person in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you divide it into households maybe something like $100k - 150k per household.

* 2.5 million millionaires, or

* assuming you need to just bribe 20,000 most influential persons/families/groups in Iraq and 10,000 in Afghanistan that would be something like $80 million each.

corruption >> war, almost every time.
Archi software to draw Archimate diagrams.
... or use Chrome, which has a much better security track record.
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This looks amazing. Any thoughts on what it would take to turn it into a minimally usable PWA so that I could carry things I consider important with me even in offline mode?
> What does that have to do with ethics, really? Your argument seems to be that utility should outweigh ethical concerns.

Some would argue that denying people the ability to access information easily is unethically harming them. It preserves your own privilege instead of extending it to the less well off.

There are real ethical questions here that can be weighed. It's perhaps not quite as simple for some people as money on one side and every single possible ethical factor on the other.
> Having lost ~50 lbs last year

Trust me, it's too soon to say what you're saying. Source: lost >150lbs and kept it off for the past decade.
Right, I've experienced being a passenger in a Tesla. It's impressive but completely unnecessary to go get some groceries.

Doing jackrabbit starts and stops on normal roads is going to have an impact to your mileage, just as if it was a regular ICE vehicle. Limiting the motor will lead to better mileage/range which then leads to a better customer impression when evaluating cars for purchase.

Casually dropping "It's so awesomely powerful, we had to put in restrictions for comfort" is straight up marketing speak to cover the tradeoff of 0-60 and battery range.
man tough crowd :)... I thought more of you would've gotten the Futurama reference ... Fear of a bot planet.. I think..

edit no, the one with the evolution of robots and such
While it's obvious that some information is numerically greater than no information, it's not obvious that a censored flow of information makes anyone's life better than the alternatives.

When the information flow is all-or-nothing (either you get the full uncensored fire-hose, or you get nothing and whole sites/services are blocked due to censorship), the citizen at least knows they're being censored, and then the ball is in the citizens' court as to whether they want to advocate for a reform of that censorship.

When censorship is selective (e.g. "You can read all of Wikipedia, except for whichever articles the government doesn't currently like this week/year"), citizens are mostly going to be unaware of what they're missing and how selective their worldview might actually be. This is very insidious, stealthy, and difficult for a citizenry to be aware of and politically revolt against, especially given there will commonly be no transparency or oversight as to the banned-topic list at any given moment.

Personally, one of my stronger meta-values is that any state which stands on the side of forcibly hiding information from its citizens is on the wrong side of history and ethics. If you can only defend your government to its citizens by lying to them, there's clearly something wrong with what you're doing.
I didn’t know there was a difference, thanks. And I’m not disputing purism’s (I looked at their website), just noting that if a corporation doesn’t list their values in their articles of incorporation, then they aren’t really anything more than lip service when push comes to shove.
I think you're confusing value prop with an ethical question.
It's true that users wouldn't be able to go to censored sites. But then they'd know that the highest-ranking site for their search was censored and might ask why, which seems like a net positive.
Life (and Death) Spring from Disorder
It isnt about max speed, in which case i would agree with you, higher max speeds are not useful on public roads.

More acceleration is always beneficial in cases where you have to perform a safety maneuver or evade something.

Imagine, you are going in the leftmost lane, there is a car a bit too close to you behind (but still fine), in front of you there are no cars, but you aren’t speeding up because speed limits (and you just want to go at a comfortable pace). Someone in the lane to the right isn’t paying attention and trying to merge right into you, you honk, but it will be too late to react for the offending driver. Your only escape here in a slow acceleration car is to break and cause the car behind you to rear-end you, causing a collision and tons of potential injuries. In a car with fast acceleration, you can quickly speed up and that car will (recklessly) merge, all while avoiding an accident.

And that’s not even talking about stuff like avoiding something on the road or stuff falling out of a truck bed in front of you or just absolutely any kind of an avoidance safety maneuver.
Conclusion of the internet Era : information is not enough. Will to act is necessary.

Just like club of rome report, this text is old news. Yet it pops up regularly and it means few.
Or how about... a broom & rake?

(in re to leaf-blowers of course, not lawn mowers)
What is write.as? As why is the author's name not in the article?
The estimates should be pretty darn accurate most of the time, and Uber still knows if drivers are taking the piss based on their data so.. I'm not overly pessimistic on this.
>I can hear you, dear reader, muttering to yourself. You think I’m some entitled brat, some tone-deaf pampered prick looking for some way to complain about my incredible good fortune.

Well, yeah, when you act like everyone else is a sheep because they like gasp hot food or dear lord a free sweater, you might come across as a masochistic weirdo. Reminds me a lot of Bottle Rocket or The Comedy.
What a disappointing comment. This is like saying MIT/GPL/AGPL in programming languages most people don't understand is irrelevant, since most people wouldn't wanna read/copy/edit code anyway. By that logic, there is no value using open/free license in niche languages.

Even though you don't understand this language/style, doesn't mean a user may not want to refer to source code, or someone may want to contribute to the project.
Sometimes in life we do things even though we are not explicitly obligated to do them. Nobody is asking for ZFS to get explicitly maintained support in the Linux kernel. They are simply asking for this one small inconsequential change to be reverted just this one time, since it would literally be no harm to the kernel developers to do so, and it would provide substantial benefits to any user wanting to use ZFS. Furthermore the amount of time that kernel developers have spent arguing in favour of this change has been significantly greater than the time it would have taken to just revert it.

> Again, that symbol was deprecated for well over a decade.

But not the GPL equivalent of the symbol. That symbol is not deprecated.
Oh wow that brings back memories! That section took what felt like ages to eventually successfully perform.
That's probably just an illusion with respect to electric motorcycles. All high-performance motorcycles have way more than enough torque to overwhelm the traction of their one little tire. They are _all_ "artificially slower" because the launch controls are trying to keep the rubber on the road. You'll note that the fastest production electric motorcycle is near the bottom of this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_mot...
The noisy things you're complaining about are mostly an American phenomenon.
CPAP is 800CAD here (though only about 200 after insurance) and dental appliances are even more expensive and not covered by insurance. Anecdata: I know that going over a certain weight triggers apnea and snoring for me so I try to stay under it - less expensive, less intrusive, better for the health overall. Research like this is both interesting and important to me. It is not about fat-shaming, it is about knowing the options. I understand that there are people for whom weight loss mai not be attainable or maintainable but it certainly will help to a great number of people.
Is something specific of base 10 or it should happen with other bases?

Of course, besides base 2, where all primes bigger than 10 ends with 1.
Did you accomplish your weight loss while working manual labor 64hrs per week?
If they've actually solved crossing the distances required, we're probably more like bugs or bacteria.
I've driven myself. You drive whenever you want, and can quit without even telling Uber.

How is that "they have to answer to Uber"?
Interesting point about Garmin. I wonder if it would ever make sense for Apple to just buy them...