skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now we are in agreement.

We agree that exercise is the best thing for a back. With good posture getting an honorable mention. We agree that a lot of things that a lot of people think are bad can actually be helpful to most.

What I can add to it is that when you have a back problem, it is critical to understand what the problem is, what makes it worse, and what makes it better. The right expert is extremely helpful in this. How to find that expert I can't help you with, but I am very glad to have found Scott Neubauer at http://www.coastalhealthandfitness.com/ and happily recommend him.

I know from the people I have sent to him that the testimonials at http://www.coastalhealthandfitness.com/category/testimonials are much more typical than I would have believed possible. The typical experience seems to be that the patient walks in, describes symptoms, he asks the patient to move and observes, has them lie down, does a little body work, and then he gives 3 exercises that target the underlying issue. The patient goes away, adds those exercises to their routine and the problem goes away.

Personal examples that I have seen follow this problem include a knee problem that I had lived with most of my life, my step-son's back that was injured months earlier in football, or my mother-in-law's dowager's hump that had been there for 10 years. One visit, and a week later the problem was gone. A year ago it was still gone.

He likes to think aloud so there is a constant stream of what he is thinking as you go through this. (I also find him very funny, so the chatter is enjoyable.) Furthermore he is aware of his limits, if your problem may require something that he can't handle (eg x-rays), he is quick to tell you to go elsewhere first.
It was the 90s, and the only major defense contractor that had large fabs for digital chips was TI. The consolidation had little effect on where the chips are made.
> If TSMC's leadership is patriotic, they should refuse this pressure

If TSMC's leadership supports democratic values rather than nationalism they should welcome this invitation from a democratic nation. Why not?
They did: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_temperaments
How long did the NSA know about this vulnerability?
To expand upon this idea, take a look at http://www.flatuniversesociety.com/
According to an analysis I saw on youtube somewhere, they were able to find companies that dig similar sized tunnels (Boring Co. is just using off the shelf tunnel digging equipment.) They were running comparable if not a bit slower than similar projects that have been done many times before.
Although it's at least not UB
The morphology files are automatically generated by a 3d reconstruction program called neurolucida. NEURON is an ancient program, written in 1983, using a custom parser for the ad-hoc language literally called hoc. It has a hardcoded limit in the number of lines a function can have (hence you have to split func1(), func2() etc) and a gazillion bugs. It uses a modified kinetic equation solver which compiles those .mod files to to a DLL that NEURON then uses to run. It uses some GUI library called InterViews from god knows where. It's generally a rather bad program nowadays, but written by the guy who invented a faster Crank-nicholson method to integrate the cable equations (Hines). Despite a few alternatives existing, NEURON is still the most popular because there are a lot of ion mechanism kinetic modules (the mod files) that you can download and reuse from previously published models, which have been hand-tuned to be quasi-realistic. NEURON is supposed to be used by neurophysiologists, not by programmers.

I think a mass open source campaign to replace NEURON and ModelDB with something more modern, and clean up and convert every published model would be worth the effort. There are quite a few alternative programs (GENESIS, Neuroconstruct etc) that are either incomplete or abandoned because of lack of funding/interest.
Can we teleport to those giant structures?
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I just checked funda.nl, one of the most popular property websites, and that amount currently doesn't even buy you half that space anymore.
My wife had chronic pain before she did the deadlift.

It was only after that mistake that she had acute pain.
There should be a user option similar to “show dead”: “show climate stuff”. If it’s enabled (make it the default if you want) then N stories get included on the front page (make N configurable if you want).

Then I can turn it off and go back to ignoring this stuff, along with maybe 30% of the people here.
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why would www-data need a private key though?
Although forests have many more other benefits like animal habitat, soil creation, local climate change, cloud generation, ..., a simpler, quicker and cheaper solution would be to invent artificial photosynthesizers (using solar light) or electrosynthesizers (using electricity) - huge installations that would absorb air like big vacuum cleaners, capture the CO2 and decompose the molecule into Carbon products. For example by employing such processes as Reduction of CO2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_reduction_of_c...

The only thing that's needed is to incentivize such research. Let's say creating a global fund of 20-30 Billion dollars and encouraging researchers to apply for grants from this fund.

Next step after basic research is done and something feasible invented would be to commercialize the solutions. However again here we would need incentives. It is really hard to implement the idea without commercial interest.

What would be a good incentive for this? Well, the captured carbon could be sold... Any other ideas?
You need to write to do math, which is a major focus of K-12 education.
This really rubs me the wrong way.

Please don't do this. There are entire classes of vulnerabilities that have come out and matured in the time since half of these were originally published by their authors.

Yes, I know you can find them if you do a little bit of digging, but curating a list and passing them off as 'safe' is disingenuous at best.
Fake news are not obvious.

Let me take a quote from this article:

https://www.google.de/amp/s/bigthink.com/surprising-science/...

> The emissions generated by watching a half hour of Netflix is the same as from driving almost 4 miles.

That’s a lie, it uses at least an order of magnitude less energy. But it’s not immediately obvious and many critical thinkers will have believed this wildly-shared story.
I think this shouldn’t be hard. I will give this a shot.
Keep in mind there were 5 million votes for the opposition. Where does the leadership of TSMC fall under? We won’t know, are they more likely to support independence and change than young people in college? We can only make educated guesses.
I drove for DoorDash for about a month. What killed me was the wait between deliveries. I think it was like 45 minutes on average and when I did get a delivery it was like a tiny $7 delivery. There would be 2 hour stretches of times pretty often.

But then once in awhile I'd get a string of maybe 3 or 4 runs that paid like $12. over 2 or 3 hours.It was too inconsistent. Had no idea if I ever got tips, from my understanding I think the company pocketed it due to how they were paying at the time.

The community talks about gaming the system and denying deliveries less than x dollars but I personally couldn't bring myself to do it. And after waiting an hour I'd be dying to get moving again anyway.

This was before all the pay drama, it sounds like they've gotten much worse. There's just too many drivers I think.
Firefox uses only its own code, NSS, which is a Free Software crypto stack. This achieves consistency across OS platforms for Firefox. If Mozilla distrusts a sketchy CA then Firefox users are protected on a Mac just the same as in Linux, and in Windows.

Firefox also uses NSS to do certificate validation. In newer releases a config pref lets you ask Firefox to use Windows' local trust store to find any CA roots that are being additionally trusted on your PC, e.g. "enterprise" certificates or even a local cert on somebody's local web development setup. But the validation for those certificates is still NSS. If your corporation has (as one of my ex-employers did) really half-arsed certificates they'll be rejected by NSS even though Windows is happy with them and Firefox has fetched them from the Windows trust store. This is potentially annoying but probably also means security at your place of work is shot to hell.

Chrome on the other hand hands all normal certificate validation to Windows so as to deliver the same experience as other Windows products. This makes it a better drop-in replacement, but out-sources trust decisions (on Windows) to Microsoft. In this case that's bad news.

For some certs Chrome will reject them because they either claim to be logged in Certificate Transparency (and the proofs won't match for a bogus cert) or they don't claim to be logged but they claim to have been created after that was mandatory. But bad guys could work around this (for the next year or so) by picking date ranges for which CT logging wasn't yet mandatory and yet a compliant certificate isn't yet expired. A proof-of-concept of this has been done for Chrome on unpatched Windows.

Patching either Chrome or Windows to current fixes the problem for Chrome, but obviously patching Chrome doesn't fix other Windows software.
There were definitely times I had to remind them of past events and help them understand the more mature passages, but we started when they were 7 and 5 and finished when they were 10 and 8.
OSX Tiger was not like that, it was the most polished UI from Apple ever since System 7.
We absolutely do not have globally accessible high speed internet.

Starlink means you can be doing research in the middle of the Amazon and have good internet. Antarctica. Middle of the ocean. Wherever. Sure, population centres are all connected to the internet by now, but that's really not what I'm talking about.

Also, a good way to make internet cheaper (so that those in poverty have access) is to provide more alternatives to access / competition.
This is awesome. Always wanted something like this, but never got around to being comfortable enough with CSS to try. Def will try it out on the next front end I throw together!
Jeez, 81 pages of astrology, 25 of astronomy.

I'm going to be optimistic today and assume this due to the relative ease of content creation, rather than the relative interest in the subject matter.
I worked there over 20 years ago. The work I did there prepared me for a very lucrative career and I wouldn’t trade it for anything, especially not a few more dollars.

Also, the endowment isn’t unlimited use. Most of it is earmarked for specific uses. When someone donates $500M to build a building, the money can only be used to maintain the building. When they endow a professorship, that money can only be used for that professors salary and research.

$4.3B is pretty small for a university the size of Berkeley.
If it's good and is demonstrably better than the incumbents, then yes.
I personally agree with you 100%, but of course the economy is more important that addressing climate change.

It's so blatantly obvious the current political leadership in Australia is in bed with the coal industry, but like all the other democracies that have been bought by mega corps - what are you going to do?
This problem is endemic in all academic research, even in the private schools and even for non-students. I worked for Stanford as a LSRP (read, research assistant in the biosciences) and there were some interesting hoops that were conditions on my employment.

1) My position was changed from salaried full time to hourly full time in order to avoid paying the needed minimum for salaried employees.
2) Told explicitly that I had to log all my hours but that I could NOT claim overtime, they simply didn't have the money for it.
3) Expected to work more than 40 hours a week because that's what you do in research

I was laid off at the end of a grant cycle because we ran out of funding and the professor thought I wasn't hard working or dedicated enough even though I was pulling 50+ hour weeks and working 6-7 days usually.

Now I work as an hourly consultant for a biotech startup and bill by the hour.
> being comfortable using interfaces and abstractions they don't fully understand.

I don't think it was an interface or abstraction that got the user in trouble here, they were using a pair of systems in ways that were fine on their own, but combined led to an emergent vulnerability that they didn't even know to consider.

It may be sheer pedantry but I really do see this as a unique "systems" issue, and this type of 'emergent' property between separate self-contained programs is fully within that domain.
> it all comes down to whose understanding about the final contract

This isn't entirely correct. There are things that are explicitly part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that both parties put in writing, and there are all sorts of other things that are "past practice".

Even if it's not codified in the agreement, a company must bargain with a union when it wants to make a change in working conditions.
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Can I add that the problem of selective editing of facts is significant worse when the news organization is itself giving funds and money to a political party, to a point where the distinction of being owned by the political party or supporting by them is a blurred line.

We sometimes talk about news as being the court of public opinion. If we use that analogy, imagine the judge giving millions to one side during a court case in order to help them win.
>The most important factor in getting quality education are not digital devices or educational material but the quality of the teacher.

I agree with you in general, but I think the most important factor in getting quality education is parents that value education.
The only point I'll concede is monetary calculations. Estimating distances? Layout? I can't see how the difference between decimal and binary changes anything.

Decimal math isn't built into most of the languages or processors we use, so that's why I keep asking what you'll use. It's a kind of hand-wavy response. You'll need to seek out an appropriate library and use it consistently, which is a lot more trouble than just using the built-in IEEE. Not impossible, just usually more trouble than it's worth.
>General Semantics isn't bullshit like NLP is

Uh.. did you read Science and Sanity?![2] It's absolutely BS. Korzybski thought "is" should be eliminated. When you say "The car is red", there are many things the car 'is' besides red, so this is a lie. (No, really!) Thus a language without 'is' would be better.[1] He saw and wrote of himself as an Aristotle-scale genius. Science and Sanity has a couple of ideas: "map is not the territory"–no wonder this is quoted, it's the one coherent idea in the book–and the structural differential, a very interesting device made of string and bits of metal, for representing levels of abstraction and interrelations of concepts[0].

But the bulk of the thick book is comprised of a chapter on each of many traditional fields–psychology, linguistics, physics, etc, educating about the use of "general semantics" in each field. e.g. there's a maths/calculus/geometry chapter, with a bit purporting to explain the application of "general semantics" to it. These chapters seem meant to show what a polymath and genius Korzybski was - "Gee, how knows so much about so many subjects, there must be something to this". He was evidently staggeringly impressed with himself, well, many people are, but only cranks write about it to such a degree. I think its success lay in its nature as a (very) introductory textbook to a lot of different areas. It's all extremely basic stuff. The less generally educated you are, the more impressive it would seem. It's very weird that it got any kind of reputation though. Not many people are acquainted with Science and Sanity these days, it seems, (understandably) and just assume there must be something to it.

[0] http://www.google.com/search?q=korzybski+structural+differen...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

[2] Online here: http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/alfred-korzybski/science-sanity%2...
Okay, let's say that's the solution. A) people en masse haven't studied those topics adequately so far (empirically), so even if all students were to have adequate education in philosophy and math, there would be a multi-generation lag between today's problem and the solution taking effect.

B) Any plan that requires everyone ("people") to do something is a non-starter. Okay so let's say it doesn't have to be everyone, but some critical mass. Maybe enough people such that a simple majority become effective fake-detectors, and then their skills would be a social filter for the ones who don't have that skill. How do we keep the other 30%, say, from being taken in by a charismatic huckster and becoming an isolated faction with their own fork of factual reality? Asking for a friend.
We have four special needs kids and, while we might have just gotten lucky, I firmly believe that our determination to read aloud to them from birth and expose them to classic literature from an early age has directly contributed to their ability to sit through the works and comprehend them at an early age. They’re definitely all developmentally different, and have begun speaking and reading at different times, but they’re all able to follow along well.
Very frequently one part of your body compensates for a failure in another part of your body. As a result the bit that hurts can be surprisingly far from and the part where the underlying problem exists.

That said, the principle is simpler to apply in theory than practice. There really are people who understand the human body well enough to debug it. Their results demonstrate that they aren't making it up, but I have no idea how they actually do it.
Yeah, this'll rightly induce some anxiety!

https://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1217314288085479426
I mean, neither the Tesla being an electric car or an iPhone being a smart phone were new things but they are changing/changed the landscape of technology.

I guess it makes sense to listen in when someone who has shown to be more than a one hit wonder tries to do more of these things.

Also, I think the point here is the hypothetical way that cars can be moved in the tunnels which makes the smaller size still useful.
Venture capitalist success is indistinguishable from randomness. It's pure, unadulterated luck. "The best VCs are thinkers and visionaries" is post-hoc bullshit justifications to make their wealth seem the result of wits and hard work, and not just the product of luck + the pre-existing capital to invest.
Past practice has force as well – the written agreement is only one part of what binds the parties, and Berkeley made a change to working conditions without bargaining over how that would affect workers. That's unlawful.
My company paid over the years over 1 billion dollars to SAP and the amount is increasing as the time goes by. What I learned in ~ 6 years in the IT areas using SAP is that the quality of the design and the quality of the implementation are critical for success, while a very strict change management process can keep it alive. Mediocre consultants doing the implementation are one of the biggest problem; SAP is not that hard, but definitely not simple, a few good architects are critical, getting unqualified consultants by the dozen is bad and moving code to production without very thorogh testing will kill it (no CI/CD, it's not a game to play it with bug fixes coming on a daily basis).
Why pure oxygen?
>Is there some strong evidence that contradicts this observation?

I don't know. First, give us an objective definition of evil to work with.
Or use the gps speed from google maps. That should be pretty accurate.
Any software which might validate ECC certificates is affected. That could include IIS if your setup uses client certs or if you have software which connects to other sites over HTTPS, or similar situations.

It could also affect document signing (less commonly used, this is digital signatures not electronic signatures) or code signing (e.g. updates for software other than Windows itself might be affected, or installing new software you haven't separately validated as safe).
I am agreeing with what you wrote, though. Or at least I am trying to.

I have seen numerous times the results of that, where for instance, a developer creating a tool decides that his interpretation of a bad requirement is satisfied in a poor way. Or a sysadmin deciding that a default configuration is good enough because he did `mv conf.example to conf`, and it works.

I guess what I am trying to say is that the learning curve given the complexity of software / systems now a days, and the lack of judgement and training by the users / developers / sysadmins of those systems results in decisions where risk is not taken in to account.

I miss the time where people genuinely knew what they were doing, and had a mindset that allowed them to avoid / prevent risk in the decisions they take during their daily tasks.
BlackRock is dumping coal because coal is a dying business. The climate change point is just a convenient PR booster. If coal was still generating lots of free cash flow we wouldn't see this.

With that being said, it's nice to see that the coal industry is losing its economic strength. Hopefully other environmentally unfriendly industries follow suit soon.
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I may have a slightly different view than most players, since I also read the novels for the era I played the game (Invasion through Fifth Dawn). It fits during the Mirari and post-Mirari arcs, Odyssey through Scourge, and in the same era black also wasn't just "death and negativity" (though Phage certainly embodied those aspects).
10.0 -> 10.1 = 6 months

10.1 -> 10.2 = 11 months

10.2 -> 10.3 = 14 months

10.3 -> 10.4 = 18 months
Are you saying that providing living wages and healthcare are "fines" that companies undertake?
I have an unusual idea related to this. You might call it the interconnectedness of all things. (h/t DG) The more you look into quantum systems the more things seem to look like you are looking at the observable universe that we see in the sky. What if they were the same thing and space has somehow folded back upon itself? Of course it's not really a falsifiable conjecture. For example, we have absolutely no idea what's going on inside a proton and we'll probably never know.
Yeah. Since 2015 for example UK coal usage dropped 60%.
The common cold use to kill us. Science helped a lot of people overcome the common cold. One day we will look at aging like the common cold.
Factor is definitely not that small (there's a full optimizing compiler and a giant standard library…) and doesn't run on any embedded platforms. It's more like C# than like Forth in terms of usage scenarios.
Java will have it's Python 3 moment... I have already upgraded to Java 11 without too many issues however.
Universities already use student loans as a means of converting taxpayer money into institutional and personal wealth. Convince employers that people without a degree are worthless, then charge tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars for a degree, then get the government to give out credit to people who would never ever get that kind of credit otherwise, so they can pay for the degree they don't really need (and end up working at starbucks anyway). Note the part of the article explaining how nobody is paying their student loans.

Free education only works when the entire education system isn't rent seeking. Otherwise, you're just setting up a taxpayer funded money fountain for unscrupulous administrators.

At least with healthcare, people generally don't use it unless they actually need it.