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Yeah social pressure within your own home is no joke! My SO doesn't eat LCHF, so the fridge and pantry are littered with foods I cannot eat.

One way I've gotten through this recently is to use a pre-packaged meal delivery service. I order 30 meals at a time for $175 and that lasts me a month or so eating 2 per meal, 4-5 days a week. If I'm hungry, my food options are what's in the freezer, or a bag of popcorn.

I've found one of my biggest motivators for fasting is actually the pride I get from discussing it with friends and family. I'm not a prideful person, but it feels freaking great to boast nonchalantly about not having eaten food in a few days. The results also speak for themself as well.

If you don't have a fasting tracker app, I recommend finding one you like and trying to get some others on board. If you're interested, I have a group from posts on my blog that people hop in and out of [0]. Anyone feel free to join and post updates and I'll keep an extra close eye on it for the next few days.

0: https://lifefastingtracker.app.link/z3D7qHg2W8
The announcement blog talks a little about why we built this library, and where we think it sits in the ML ecosystem - https://blogs.oracle.com/datascience/tribuo-java-machine-lea...
Apple is releasing iOS 14 to the public tomorrow
This guy is my hero. I do hope he was able to enjoy spending some of his money on himself and his family though. I have no problem with billionaires who contribute a lot to society living well as long as they aren't hording resources (huge acreage estates, mega yachts, rental properties). "Contribute to society" is the sticking point for many of them though.

I hope I can live like Mr. Feeney, although I personally wouldn't be quite as ascetic as he given the circumstances (I would own a small but nice house in San Diego or Hawaii and a nice 0 emission solar/sail powered boat).

Good work Chuck!
Done is fine. But Done is the first step to Dead.

Times change, and when open source software doesn't change with the times it becomes vulnerable for some newer, shinier, more intuitive thing to pop up and take over. Software simply isn't going to reach some "Done" state and then have people using it for 100 years with no changes. Pretty soon, no one uses the project that is "Done" anymore, because it's old and does things the old ways, and not long after that, it's "Dead".

Time to die.
Let's say the MIT license demanded that you retain the copyright notice in all source files in addition to just the license file.

What benefits would that give you over the current situation? Anyone who makes a copy already has to include the license text, why does it matter where they include it as long as it's in a conspicuous place?

The real decision point here should be: Do you want people to be able to use your work for commercial purposes, for free, without recontributing their changes? If not, then don't use the MIT license
Yes - it's 72 pages long where in most pages half of it are references.

I confess I didn't check the references, in part because of laziness, other part because I gave them the benefit of the doubt with regards to the references they used.

>or just assume that they wouldn't cover the subtleties and nuances you describe above?

You tell me.
How is it mutually beneficial for the guy who donated the most money?
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There's a big gap between kicking out and being on a level playing field, and Apple Music and Spotify certainly are not on a level playing field.
Not getting bent, but if what you’re selling isn’t a computer, don’t market it as one.

If some told you you were getting a car, and in the end you are delivered a bicycle, you’d be unhappy.

Obviously that bicycle may be great for a lot of people, it may be the best bicycle ever built... But it’s still not a car, so don’t sell it as such.
Anders Hejlsberg: How TypeScript beat Microsoft's open-source fears
Funding top research institutions are in fact long shot bets.

Where else does research get done? Who pays for the buildings, where each one costs hundreds of millions of dollars? Scholarships? Who pays for new tenured positions?

Yes, administrative costs could be cut (I think substantially). But there's this long-going misunderstanding about the roles of endowments at American universities. These endowments have been budged into the next century of operation -- each year they are expected to generate some income to cover operating expenses. These expenses include salaries, financial aid, etc. The larger the endowment, the more income. They can't just drain the whole thing to pay for a building, because then they auction off the future for the present.
This is a common Ikea hack popular for making desks.

You use two or three Alex book shelves and a large wood veneer countertop. (Karlby commonly).

If you don't want a leg in the center you can use metal angle bars screwed into the bottom of the counter top (which also double as a place to secure cables).

Lots of examples of this configuration if you search on reddit.

It looks nicer than standard desks, is often cheaper, and works better.
We used the Youtube API to load the video -- I think their was multiple things we did but you can specifically request no controls be shown: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#cont...

I was going to link the site I used it on, but it looks like since I worked there they switched to Youtube's controls rather than the custom ones I implemented; not sure why.
Do you like the idea of Apple owning the operating system you use, the computer it runs on, all the apps running on that operating system, the entire network stack, all of the network services, the gym you visit, the money you use, the school you attend, the church where you worship, the food that you buy, the place where you work, the hospital where you die?

Can't you see where they're going with this?
> What does a non rich person do?

Time is money and if you don't have money then give your time. It's the most generous thing a person can do. More so than money in many ways since you can always make more money but you can't make more time.

You can't expect to make a major change in the world. But you can make some small changes that means the world to some people.
Where are you guys getting these numbers? The bike is closer to $2000 and the monthly fee if you're using their tread or bike is $40 whereas the standalone app is $13.
I work at Google, and it's definitely true that when you're interviewing here, you should be thinking more about the company than a specific team. I mean, ultimately specific teams matter, but transferring is generally pretty easy here, not to mention common.
'Huge Victory for Net Neutrality': Top EU Court Rebuffs Zero-Rating Schemes
Careful what you ask for. Scroll a 60 and 120 side by side and it's very obvious. And once you see it you may not be able to unsee it.

When LCD TVs first came out I thought people were being overly dramatic with the whole motion blur thing - until I went looking for it. And then I saw it - every time a scene was still, it was in perfect clarity - the the camera panned and everything went fuzzy. Once I saw that effect I couldn't unsee it. 120Hz scrolling is the same for me too.

Ignorance is indeed bliss :)
It does make a difference when sketching with Apple Pencil
They could just record the screen (https://obsproject.com) / terminal (https://asciinema.org/).
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I have never heard the complete opposite so thanks for the data.

It’s interesting because having grown up steeped in the culture for 30 years I have never once heard this or seen much real charitable action. I see small donations and token donations but very rarely anything like donating most of ones wealth or giving up excess to donate to those less well-off.

I’d love to better understand this discrepancy. I hear more about how much money people spend more than how much they donate in the media. And even anecdotally I can’t think of anyone talking about a donation they made in conversation. It seems like this should be something we talk about and champion more.
This iOS app analyzes your apple music library and gives you some stats: https://sndwave.app
It's not the effort that would be a problem, it's the time. I like the crank seat adjustment on my VW when it comes to fine adjustability, but if I want to recline the seat back all the way it ... just ... takes ... way ... too ... long.

A longer crank handle would just make it take longer. And I don't want to stand full time. I tried that for a few weeks with a makeshift standing desk (a bunch of boxes stacked on top of my filing cabinet to the correct height) just to see if I would like it, and it was great for an hour or three, but I did not want to stand all day. Ideally, I'd be able to switch modes 2-4 times a day.
They clearly said it's about apps leveraging CoreML models to do things.
I just bought the 12.9 Pro, and of course my heart sank a little bit when I saw the announcement. But you've laid out the Pro's advantages nicely, and I feel like the features are justified for the price difference.

I like taking notes with the Pencil 2 on the 12.9 inch screen because it's essentially identical in size to the spiral notebooks I used to use.
I have some on the way but they won't arrive until the end of the week. I wanted relief yesterday so I drove around to get it.
Tax dollars go vastly more to dropping bombs on civilians in the middle east and ICE and the NSA than they do to any positive social program (ignoring things like social security that are funded by a separate tax that billionaires wouldn't pay much into under most schemes). I don't love the outsized influence on society that billionaires have, I certainly don't love the Koch brothers -- but I think looking at the $X pool of money spent on philanthropy by billionaires per year, it is probably much better distributed than that same pool of money would be if it was paid as income taxes.
This fitness service is only available on Apple hardware devices.

The vendor lock-in continues...
Different from co-ops, but a lot of small funds (micro-VCs, etc.) have this kind of structure to help their portfolio companies - I actually interviewed at one earlier this summer. There are also similar places like Betaworks (https://betaworks.com). A small few operate as a true collective, but there aren't many.

This article I read recently talks a bit about some of these less-traditional setups: https://www.instapaper.com/read/1341389477
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>Why can't governments receive these donations

They certainly can. I don't how many people actually do it, but most governments will accept direct cash donations. E.g. here's a page on how to make a gift to the US Government: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...

Edit to add:
Here's some data on donations made to reduce the federal debt https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm . You can see that this seems to average a few million dollars per year.
Sadly true. It's often more about the 'artist's statement' than the art itself, not least because it gives art collectors and dealers something to talk about at cocktail parties.

While I am always quite interested in what technique or effect an artist is pursuing I share your contempt for the sort of marketing fluff you describe. Real artists' statements (eg in interviews or casual conversation) tend to be unpretentious and focus on the search for meaning, but then get rewritten into this pseudo-scholarly language by, well, BS artists.
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Or does it make their lives easier, by increasing the TAM of online-only fitness, which they can participate in?

(I suspect it makes things harder for mediocre-or-worse instructors, and better for good-or-better instructors.)
BASIC didn't run properly on the Z80 due to some of the optimizations relying on very minor differences between them. The CP/M version was later patched to support it but the earlier "bare metal" versions typically run on an Altair would crash.
Given this, what are some valid reasons for folks to prefer iPad Pro over iPad Air ?
This is the drop in the oceans. If people start to buy low single use plastic intensity products, the producers will start to reduce and it starts the pump for changes.

Usually just buying less helps a lot.
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I wonder how much of an effect this will have on crop yields and crop quality? I expect we'll see lower yields and less carbohydrate content. Also, what is the composition of the particles emitted by the fires? Is it mostly carbon or is there some potassium hydroxide? Is that fertilizing to any degree?
Story of my entire 25 year career, right there.

That said; I've tended to look for small companies, or companies that are in startup mode, where roles do not seem very rigid, and boundaries between teams are not so impenetrable.

I tend to be miserable where roles are rigid, or the culture does not encourage cross-fertilization between teams.
Has this become the post with the most points and engagement by number of comments?
There's no doubt an HR and finance department. Why do you need a "boss" to hand you your bonus / raise?

The handbook offers a hint:

> Once the intra-group ranking is done, the information
gets pooled to be company-wide. We won’t go into that
methodology here. There is a wiki page about peer feedback
and stack ranking with some more detail on each process.

Naively I imagine a pool of money representing what the company has available this year to allocate to raises, bonuses, compensation adjustments, etc.. Those ranked higher get a larger percentage of that pool once the math is done.

Think you're underpaid vs. your peers? Talk to HR and ask. There's no need for a manager to be involved in this process at all.
Nope. Apple itself says the watch will last 18 hours so if you've got one that lasts for 2 days, thats great.

https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/#:~:text=Apple%20Watch%2....
RAM isn't super relevant to iOS devices. Those devices have always managed to squeeze out far more performance with far less RAM than their competitors.
I too have had great experiences from doing recursive descent. I don't understand why so many people don't like it. The techniques for handling left- and right associativity of infix operators have been well known since many decades, so I am surprised that the original article thinks it is still an issue. But I have met some people who felt uncomfortable by recursive descent parsers that were implemented via recursive procedure calls, just because they didn't quite understand recursive procedure calls in the first place. So maybe that's part of the reason.
What kinds of things do you mold it into?
I once saw how GCP was using AI to help you manage your IAM.
We went the opposite direction. You get a personal account which you own and then you can invite contributors at the project level. Projects and the environments within are completely isolated. You and all your contributors can choose which Private Dockerhub repos to connect and deploy from.

Org accounts are coming
Namely something after yourself is tacky. But what should buildings be named after? Famous scientists? Planets?

Feeney seems like an awesome guy but sadly in 100 years nobody will know his name!
Debatable considering that donating art works (whose valuations can be, let's say, subjective) for tax purposes is a fairly well known way to reduce your tax burden.
Pro was last updated in March, so it's probably still a neutrally OK time to buy one... but not for too much longer.
This is about as simple as you can get and still be a bundle. I do find it odd and maybe a bit frustrating that Fitness+ is in the top tier with News+ though because I'm not really sold on either one as being worth $10/ month for me, but both together is a bit tempting.
I'm pretty sure the Spotify limitation is due to Spotify and not Apple. Other apps like overcast can download to audio to the watch and play without a phone.
I wholeheartedly agree. Note that my second example was exactly that type of interview - we leave the candidate to code alone, technically sometimes in the same room as us but sometimes in a separate room, but either way with only a few "check ins" every 15-45 minutes depending on how things go. They have internet access, a base file and console session open that can run the file, and an editor already set up (not necessarily their editor of choice, though we've had people install an editor at the start of this process).

In this scenario, having someone literally be unable, in 2 hours, to replicate the first example code of some library, when they have access to almost identical code in the docs, is a pretty good filter.
When Jobs returned to Apple, he mocked the insane number of Mac models that the company had at the time and showed a grid of 4 products with two axes: consumer vs professional, and portable vs desktop.

https://images.macrumors.com/t/RMh3opIDBtVaaNXx0L_ntSxfO34=/...

The current product catalog is a far cry from that simplicity. For instance, the iPad Pro comes in two sizes. Inexplicably, customers need to choose between a 32 GB and 64 GB model of Apple TV 4K. There are 5 models of iPhone currently offered.
The thing is that I guess many people feel uncomfortable of seeing anti-Chinese rhetoric, which is considered right-wing agenda and such, yet they fail to realize that this is not about anti-China conspiracy, it is about issues of lab bio-safety on global scale. I mean, a good scientist should not be concerned about the political repercussions of finding the actual source, but only with what it really was. My personal belief is that you should should hide the truth, even for noble reasons, like it happened with N95 masks in March-April. No one gained anything from that.
Nah, a lot of people want some combination of a) in-person experiences, b) lots of fancy equipment, c) the relationship/camraderie the class has, d) the psychology of going somewhere besides your house to do something
It's funny how people can have such different experiences. I'm currently trialing a switch from Apple Music to Spotify, and the Spotify UI is completely baffling. I cannot understand how they make it impossible to, just, browse the music in my library. I just want to add songs to my library, then browse my library by artist. This is, as far as I can tell, impossible with Spotify.

But then again, music discovery is something I am absolutely not interested in for my music player. Different strokes for different folks.
I wouldn't jump to those conclusions so quickly.

I'm paying my local fitness instructor $25/mo for access to a private facebook group where she streams live classes via Facebook Live every day. The communication is one-way (you can post comments in chat, but the instructor can't see you). Nothing is in person.

This directly competes with my local fitness instructor who has transitioned 100% to live stream. Fitness+ is $5 more expensive than the local instructor, but of course cheaper if they bundle that cost into Apple Music, TV, etc.

Edit: But TBH, I'll always prefer my local fitness instructor's low-quality live streams. Something about professionally made workout videos with movie quality cinematography is not motivating for me personally.
Please spell it out. I’d like to know which flavor of dystopia you’re picturing.
I am always amazed by the poor comprehension ability of people on HackerNews.

I am saying that credit isn't the point. Also, I am not entirely clear on why you would require $15/hour to volunteer at a charity...but...good for you turning charity into a second source of income.

Btw, my point (I will spell it out) is that the problem is almost never money. Money is required to the extent that is required to pay other people...but, particularly for almost all local problems, the issue is not money but time. There is no reality in which people donate enough income to solve these problems but they could donate time, and that would be effective.
My understanding is that most organizations that operate this way start off effectively as a consultancy. They do paid work for others in order to fund day-to-day operations, and support work on the projects that they "own" (want to do personally). Once you get enough smaller projects off the ground, with enough income/MRR to support the business, you can start focussing full time on internal product development (and drop the consulting)
It's not about saving money. As this thread shows, charity is akin to a good PR move. Paying taxes is seen as neutral, at best. If you're "spending" either way, you might as well get something for it.
Method started out as a stealthily eco-friendly company, and when they first introduced refills for their products they did not make the container recyclable but did a big defense of that.

They claimed recycling of plastic loses a large fraction of the input as waste, and recyclables/recycled materials have to be bulkier. They could make a very thin nonrecyclable package that had less plastic than the unrecoverable fraction of a recyclable alternative, and reduce shipping costs/footprint in the process. So sometimes less of a bad thing is better than more of a mediocre thing.

They have since marked that packaging as recyclable, so I don’t know whether they found a workaround or are participating in the recycling mythos now.
Imitation learning in the low data regime
Camera bump. Bleh.
Thanks I'm honored you're replying. :) Looks like performance improvement will be nice.
I believe Apple has made the APIs available for downloading and streaming from Watch apps. Pandora and other's use it. Spotify is the one refusing to bring this functionality to their app for whatever reason.
I read it as a software platform for programming in a data centre with nvidia's stack.

Ie a library thats optimized to drive a bunch of hosts with ARM cores, strapped to nvidia gpu's, connected by mellanox interconnects.

Sell it a a unit to the public clouds for a massive markup, or maybe offer on their own cloud for an unbeatably low cost.
Yes but the pandemic has changed things. For at least the next two years personal, live fitness instructors are going away.

In Vancouver, BC, where pandemic response has been relatively good, even there a successful in person fitness business Tight Club has opted to stop renting their space entirely and they've pivoted completely to online.
Die drei Plagen des Bauern: Hausrauch, ein undichtes Dach und eine untreue Frau

> The three plagues of the farmer: household smoke, a leaky roof and an unfaithful wife

Supposedly an old saying, but almost certainly retcon. Not necessarily wrong though, look at houses a few hundred years ago, that sort of thing is still ubiquitous in the developing and pre-developing world.
AI/ML platform for stock market recommendations
If there is individual notice on the file because the file is a work individually licensed under MIT, removing it from the file is removing it from an MIT protected work in violation of the license.

That the individually-protected work is also included in an compilation which is itself licensed under MIT does not remove or loosen any licensing requirements on the smaller work.
It would have been nice if Google hadn’t betrayed their promise of Android being open.

Then we’d have had a good alternative.
It's not only interesting, it's blatantly false.
Also no mention of combinator parsing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser_combinator
This is very cool, and I really look forward to the future of the project. Have you thought about formalizing your API spec as an RFC? I generally think that the future of data is to allow complete access to all of your data on user programmatically, and this looks like an amazing tool that would help organizations accomplish exactly that. For example, a user story could be "I want to access then delete all of my comments on Facebook", or "I want to build an application that lets users view their data on Facebook as if it were an Excel spreadsheet".