skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had lower back pain for over 2 years. 7months ago I started running. Once every week for 1hour(~10km). First 3-4 runs I took pain killer, because I was ok during a run, but wasn't sure what will happen next day, then I stopped taking all pills and just went for 1-2hours run once a week. After a month or so the lower back pain was almost gone and I run more than 400km since. Of course, my whole body feels significantly better.

edit: You should consult that you wanna start running/swimming with your doctor!
Well, yeah. We have a ton of books, including a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. There is a very strong tradition of learning in our family.

That said, it was no "blow off"; having a slightly newer laptop is not something a student should be concerned with. And they understand that.

But also ... I think researching with your phone or laptop is perfectly fine as long as it is done with care. And is not the only method of research!

ps Chrome spelling checker flagged "Encyclopedia" as a misspelling. Hmm.
> Learning to use tools such as Excel should be coupled with a tutorial on Visual Basic, beyond shallow here's-a-formula-here's-a-grid.

Excel is the tool of a creator. Just because it's not a traditional programming language does not mean that it is not an incredibly powerful computational tool, even without VBScript.
I didn't see any Mac vs PC ads.
This holds true for me as well. If i'm not doing some light regular exercice, I start to experience back pain.
The length was a bit hard to accept. Later I started looking into torpedoes and there are some real monsters that have existed, the Japanese Type 93 used in WWII is almost 30 feet long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_93_torpedo .

The more modern Russian Type 65 is roughly the same size as the Type 93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_65_torpedo

Russia also has that 'Poseidon' unmanned mini sub that's basically the nuclear powered sub version of a UAV that's something like 65 feet long and is believed to be able to be launched from another sub like a torpedo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...
It is. Dare I ask about middle clicking, which should directly open the link in a new tab? :)

Please follow the old Apple, that was about usability, not the new Apple, that is only about flashy design...
Strategically crucial in a Pacific that had seen most everything the Japan side of Midway fall. If Midway had fallen, New Guinea, Coral Sea and Fiji were next in line, putting Australia and New Zealand at risk. What you call minimal gain would, had Yamamoto's plan come off, have put over 60% of the Pacific under Imperial Japanese control.

US would have been fighting their way across the Pacific, island to island at a range that no longer permitted bombing the mainland of Japan. Which, as seen at the end of the war, was subject to colossal losses.
Ironically, if Japan had committed all 6 fleet carriers to the South Pacific in early 1942, they might have been able to conquer Australia. Instead they split them - two to the South Pacific, to be damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and then the four remaining operational carriers to Midway. Had all 6 shown up at Midway... Things probably would have gone differently.

The things that show up in hindsight, of course.
I have personally been involved with a woman who was almost killed by a chiropractor. The guy cracked her neck, did damage to the underlying veins, which caused a blot clot and a brain-stem stroke. She lost the ability to balance, loss of heat/cold detection, slightly droopy side of her face, and more. It nearly ruined her life and though she won a settlement, it was far lower than you'd think it'd be for such a huge loss of functionality.

This of course is just anecdotal evidence, but it's 100% true (I'm not an anonymous dude on the Internet, this is my name, and I stand by my words). Do yourself a favor and stay as far away from chiropractors as you can. They're not doctors and what they do can have serious consequences.
murdering an ambassador is a little beyond "falling a bit flat"
Yep, I meant fewer heavy snowfalls and also 4 instances of no/almost no snow until January in last 15 years.

It aligns pretty well with my personal experience in south-west Poland. It's been several years in a row with no snow for Christmas/until new year. OTOH when I was a kid, I remember being stuck on a road on our way to my grandma's place for Christmas due to massive snowfall.
How do you know when to reset the counter? You dont want invalid attempts incrementing forever...there is your chink in the armor.
Pushups. Unless you're completely feeble or injured, do them, even if it's on your knees. Guaranteed to clear up the majority of back pain due to weak muscles.

Also Yoga, I picked this up recently for a low impact workout. That shit will change your life, WAY harder than it looks.
> You probably aren't using Chrome apps anyway

My coworker sitting to the left of me still uses the Chrome App version of Postman because it works, and hasn't stopped working.

It has had an orange banner for the last year saying to upgrade but I'm pretty sure he never will, until it actually stops working.

I think in his mind, the Chrome version is fine and ultimately, he'd be going through the install process then potentially moving his saved requests to what is essentially an identical copy of the exact same application
Been there.. short story goes like..

There was a active passive cluster with some complicated raid storage.

One day the passive's storage was gone(there were problems all along, corruptions, physical storage change/swap etc etc, mgmt put it on hold since there was a migration) and since there were already plans to migrate the cluster to somewhere else, no one from mgmt wanted to build another set of servers for such a "short" period.

Guess what... that short period was 18 months :)..

So for a 1 year and half , those systems were never touched and never restarted, all the time serving some applications out of it.

Sometimes we get lucky, sometimes we are out of job :)
Why can't they just use modern AI tech to remove the satellites like we do with people? https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18715676/camera-app-bye-a...
Messed up topics encoding a bit, now it should work - https://nvbn.github.io/hn-past-decade/?res=Q&kws=c%2B%2B
Learn WGPU GPU API
Loblaws at Thanksgiving:

Buy a turkey (at retail, from them, full price, no discount) and then immediately donate that turkey to Second Harvest. They give nothing, but take the markup on the bird. How charitable.

What a scam. I gave the local food bank $35 cash instead which has way more buying power to get food for people in my area in need.
>I implore you not to do this, as a healthy 32 year old, until you have attempted to corset, or lock in place, your disc with your own muscle.

This is not advice you should be giving.

You are not his doctor. You don't know the extent or type of his injuries. You have no idea if core workouts will help. You have no idea if he/she even can walk.

90% of herniated discs resolve in 3 months. For the 10% that don't sometimes surgical intervention is needed. Don't muddy the water with vague uninformed advice if you don't know this persons exact medical details.
Cognitive Load and Synchronization Costs
That sounds like Hollywood's famous accounting practices. They claim movies that makes 100's of millions have lost money by inflating costs that are paid to production companies and such. I'm sure someone can explain how they get away with it. But it's astounding how they claim these movies lose money, in order to shaft whomever they want.
Do yourself a favor and see a real doctor about it and try Physical Therapy. I always had my doubts about chiropractors but I tried one for a month and like you went from constant to occasional pain but never any better. I went to PT and they taught me exercises for my core and stretches that have me pain free to this day.
> A lot of arguments in this HN discussion boil down to "It's not that bad and it doesn't matter because this will earn Saint Elon enough money will fix it!"

This is a forum for engineers (for a broad sense of engineer). We like to talk about technology. We like to speculate about the future and about politics. Starlink is a cool idea, so it's not surprising there's enthusiasm for it.

We should not be put in control of anything, ever. If that weren't already common sense, you'd just need to put half a dozen policy threads from Hacker News in front of a congressional committee to have them warning of the dire effects of engineer influence. Stuff we create should be heavily regulated when it attempts to "disrupt" society, like Uber or a lot of Silicon Valley startups.

Uncharitably, you might say HN has a ton of Dunning-Kruger about anything not directly technology related. I wouldn't put it that way: it's everyone's right to speculate about politics, the future, and values, but most people here don't actually think they should be put in charge of anything.
If I can offer some advice and plug my own work, I did a blog that breaks it into tiny pieces, helping put them into the Lord of the Rings context, and clarifying what you actually need to remember and what you can just let wash over you. The book is a slog for everybody the first try, and I was trying to help people through that.

https://www.quora.com/q/cowpyhwvlbspffvw?sort=top

The blog is a rough draft of what I'd hoped would some day be a completed work, so it's not everything I'd like it to be. But I do think people will find it helpful nonetheless.
I also recommend a small back brace to assist with posture while walking a bit..

Dont wear it all the time - but it helps to remind yourself of your posture and put your awareness on your spine.

Wear around the lower back.
I am in the same boat, but was recently told I program very differently than most people. I write a bunch of stuff that does not attempt to be syntactically correct (everything from while(???){ } since I don't know what the exit condition is yet, to straight up interlacing "a --> something --> b" or random ascii drawing of trees, in the middle). To me code is very similar to writing an essay, especially at the beginning, I'll have random lines all over the place as I develop the idea, and only reign it in to something that will actually run much later. For this reason, I also am totally OK without syntax highlighting often. My editor of choice has a bug where it often won't syntax highlight on the creation of a new file and you have to manually reselect the language. I actually like this and treat it like a feature: new files start in "brainstorm mode" and only "earn" syntax highlighting once they are sufficiently mature, at which point the environment becomes more constrained. This kind of accidentally mirrors the behavior of CodeWarrior which I used to love for C++: before the age of running a daemon in a parallel process to syntax highlight, CodeWarrior would only "know" the classes and methods you defined on the last successful compile. This was simple and fairly bullet-proof: no need to clear any weird caches or anything, no crashing background thread trying to highlight incorrect code, new classes were unrecognized until you hit compile.

That being said, even if I programmed with the intent of continuing to be syntactically correct during the entire process (which I do when I am editing an existing file usually), I still cannot stand autocomplete, or really anything beyond simple syntax highlighting, because I feel like everything about today's computing experience is yelling at me. Notifications constantly popping up, linters yelling about stuff I don't care about yet, and autocomplete acting like clippy telling me every possible method that starts with an S. I find it severely distracting. I wouldn't want Microsoft Word to tell me every verb that starts with "s" just because it knows that in this position of the sentence I must be typing a verb and I just hit an "s".
RSUs get taxed pretty much like normal income when they vest; you pay capital gains on them when you sell (assuming they are worth more than what they cost at the time of vesting).
But, if the company is private, there may not be a market for the shares, so you may not see any money if the company doesn't go public/get acquired.

Edit: The risk angle relates to the time horizon (yours and the company's) and the valuation (the company may be overvalued and offering you RSUs based on said overvalued price per share). Additionally, there is always the dilution risk in the event of a 'down round', where the company does not increase in value but has to issue additional shares to raise capital (if the company is growing in value, dilution affects will cut the value of said RSUs less than in the previous case).

If you want to see actual money from the RSUs by a certain time in the future, then the time horizon comes into play a bit more --- what if the company has no plans for a liquidity event within said time horizon?
wow good times, for me it was this video

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zfnja

the whole thing was rendered in quartz2d afaicr
I too wrote something similar in Python a couple of years ago. BUT that's not the point. Your contribution is well documented and effectively shared with whomever might want to use it. That is of value to our community.
Are there any sensible ways to do this with Django? Ideally with migrations to create and update the views.
I think it’s hard to argue it belongs to you if you can’t get there. If you can’t defend it or control it, you can’t stake a claim to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate
You cannot stop any time you like once you start litigating. Capitulation, or paying new lawyers to get up to speed and continue fighting for you, will both result in very large immediate costs. In that situation many people will feel compelled to continue paying their lawyers long after the budget that supported the initial decision to litigate has been spent.
Injured my back a dozen years ago playing with my toddler - spent a couple of days barely able to move for the pain.

Doctors recommended some mild exercises (on all fours, lifting opposite arms and legs).

But what really changed it for me was deadlifts. I had been very wary of deadlifts (bend over and pick up a weight? crazy!), but I started very light (just the motion, then a light bar), was very careful with form, and progressed very carefully.

Really made a huge difference for me.
I blew out my L5/S1 and I woke up after surgery with almost no pain at all. It depends entirely on the damage. My disc was totally smashed so all the PT in the world wouldn't put it back together.

I was 25 when I had surgery though, so god only knows what kind of shit I'll be in when I'm 45. Hoping those stem cell treatments take off.
This "easy pay" training video is quite the show https://www.applearchive.org/2006-feed/apple-internal-easy-p...
Sounds like you need to stretch correctly after exercising. I had the exact same experience, and it wasn’t until I began focusing my stretching on my hamstrings that I saw immediate and significant relief. It’s the holy grail to a back pain free life for me now.
I did once throw out my back while deadlifting. It was completely preventable, but it turns out that the consequences were minimal. I've become a lot less worried about my back since then.

It was the day after a hard 20 mile run, and I stupidly tried to deadlift my 1 rep max in that fatigued state. Something popped and I felt a sharp pain in my lower back. It hurt really badly for about 3 days, and made it difficult to put on socks and pants. And then it healed right up. No pain ever since, and I went right back to deadlifting.
What the video describes is massive retaliation doctrine. Mutually assured destruction is not the same as massive retaliation doctrine. Massive retaliation was abandoned soon after the the Cuban crisis. Kennedy saw how impossible it was in practice and demanded more options.

At the time this episode of Yes Prime minister was written NATO had completely different strategy called flexible response.
> I know that HGH + DHEA is the only drug from the list that has already proven to make healthy people younger.

If you have any ready-researched and outlined sources or links for this, please post them here for reference. I know that we all can google, but I think linking here will help a lot of people, me included. HN articles are sometimes used as an online notepad of sorts, a repository of well researched and compiled information with built-in peer review from (hopefully, since they are on HN) somewhat competent even if amateur internet researchers.
LotR is a book about hobbits. They start off protected by the rangers, grow and learn throughout the book, and finally use their experiences to liberate their homeland from Saruman.

So, one of the main points (the main point?) is missed, as well as Saruman's proper death.
You get what you pay for with Tesseract, don't judge OCR performance based on it. Would highly recommend checking out FineReader if you're on a supported platform. You can feed it crumpled beer receipts and the results are still decent
It gets really really good in the middle and the end. But that beginning is quite a slog.
The Hobbit movies were certainly awful. At least there is a pretty good animated version that has some of the heart of the book.
This. Back when I was overweight I had a fair amount of back pain. Once I started lifting (and foam rolling) I discovered one day that spending 10 minutes foam-rolling my glutes caused 100% relief in my back for a day or two.

A few years of squats and my back pain is now non-existent. Not because my back is "stronger", but rather it seems because of the increased flexibility from the waist down.
Choosing a tolerance is hard enough when you know the floating point model you're using, but it seems like an impossible task to try to support all possible floating point hardware. I couldn't tell you what guarantees you have when __STDC_IEC_559__ remains undefined.

These days I write my floating point code assuming float is a 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point number, and double is 64-bit. You can get those guarantees on any desktop hardware with the right flags, and the same semantics are commonly available on other platforms too.

Picking a well-defined implementation makes it much easier to reason about conversions between integer and floating point types. In fact, it allows you to reason about a lot of operations, e.g. 1.0 + 2.0 == 3.0 is true; (float)183 == 183.0 is true; 0.1 == (double)0.1f is false; etc.
I tend to agree with this line of thinking. I've been almost exclusively a Vim user for the past 15 years and feel like, if anything, it's made me a better programmer because I do spend a lot of time reading docs and code, refining my mental model of APIs, and often, thinking through problems before I start typing since I know that all of the characters in the file will come from strokes of my fingers.

There are certain classes of autocomplete bugs that just can't happen when you're typing every #include/import/require that I find myself continually cleaning up and writing static analysis for.

I spend far more time reading other people's code than writing it. Autocomplete doesn't provide any assistance there.
I've spent considerable amount of time in the last 15 years trying to figure out why I have back pain. It was never fully debilitating pain but more the occasional flare-up with usual mid / low level pain in the lumbar area and in the neck.
I don't have pain or only negligible pain in the last 2 years. But so many more important things have changed.

There is no short recipe for killing pain. You have to change how you live, and understand that you are responsible for your body. It took some time (years) to ease into the situation and realize that it is an opportunity from which I can learn. So I had learnt. Learning through movement is double fun because the body is complex and is "me", so I can experiment and experience at the same time.

OK, maybe I have a short recipe, here it goes: Be gentle and be curious and build trust towards people who can help. And most importantly help others.
Don't believe anything without verifiable sources (which is scientific standard, but unfortunately doesn't apply to press yet).

If you do only believe in stuff with verifiable sources, simply not reading or believing online available material without links to original research, you'll save yourself from around 95% of propaganda out there, including online hate spreaders on youtube, facebook and even the (more than just a few times appearing) journalist spreading government propaganda out there.

I'm aware that most of the readers here know this, but still it appears to me that a vast majority of readers in the internet do not have the "verify sources yourself" mentality yet. It'd be great it you educate your peers accordingly.
I've been using Insomnia instead, but it's also Electron I believe.
> Considering the astounding length and detail with which they were adapted, what more could he have possibly hoped for?

Not changing complex and interesting characters with boring Hollywood tropes (Denethor, Treebeard, Faramir)? Following Tolkein's carefully thought-out timeline of how and when and why things would have happened, rather than making every action scene a hollywood trope, where the bad guys can't hit anything and the good guys can't miss?

The best film adaptation of a book I've ever seen is the Sense and Sensibility adapted by Emma Thompson. You can't make a movie identical to a book; it doesn't work -- they're different art forms. Emma Thompson cut out big scenes, chopped out characters, and made a load of changes to make the situation more accessible to a modern audience -- but the heart of the story, and the character of the people in it, are true to the novel.

The movies jumped the shark for me when Faramir said he was going to "arrest" Frodo and bring him to Denethor. I watched the third film, but I'd emotionally checked out at that point.
i don't think it's accurate to say lambda calculus underlies lisp, is it?

certainly lambda calculus was used to define functions in lisp, as seen in the original lisp paper (or the most famous one).

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/recursive.html

lambda calculus was a tool, but it seems godel and turing's work on computing machines and recursive functions were more fundamental to the original lisp.
If you're anywhere near Pete from the UK's The Sky At Night programme, when a camera is on him, you can be guaranteed to be clouded out!
That’s probably because accounting typically gets “massaged” later on with systems that are more focused on specific tasks (consolidation, reporting, analytics etc). I work in that space... numbers are typically extracted from SAP as soon as possible then handled elsewhere in whichever tool actual accountants prefer (well, all accountants would rather do everything in Excel, if they could, but beyond that they do have preferences. Sometimes the preference is whatever their boss decides to use while on a golf course with the vendor, but hey, whatchagonnado).
>Is there really any real, reproducible and trustworthy source of info on the topic?

There are a few longitudinal studies on surgical versus conservative treatments for back pain. However due to the long duration of the disease there tends to be a high dropout rate. Also the risks of surgery tend to have a long incubation time (re-hernias at 5 or 10 years on for example).

Even with the most rigorous studies it is a very hard field to pin down exact probabilities for.
> For no real reason: i can type "empty()" on the keyboard faster than I can look at a screen

I just checked my key sequence for writing that :

if<ctrl+space><enter>myv<enter>.em<enter><down arrow>fill<enter>myv<enter><right button>;

At no point I had to "choose" from a list from screen - if I have to I just type the next letter until what I want is accessible under <enter>.

It's most certainly faster for me to press a single enter when it does than the four remaining letters, and the parentheses