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I wonder how many folks that are taking Melatonin are coffee drinkers?

I spent years trying to crack my sleep issues. Blackout curtains, magnesium malate / citrate, no electronic devices for an hour before bed, CBD oil, even stronger CBD oil, different doses of Melatonin, 5-HTP, valerian extract, sleep apnea tests.

It never really significantly occured to me that it would be coffee as I believed I had ruled this out. I was already stopping coffee at 12pm and tried to limit to two cups. I also enjoyed coffee a lot, I spent good money on artisan roasted beans, a grinder and an aeropress (including one for travelling). Coffee is good for you right, antioxidants etc! Everyone drinks coffee and I can get it anywhere 24/7.

I decided it must be worth trying to drop it as an elimination test to see if it might help. I came across a reddit comment from a google search, where someone had quit caffeine and had a lot of success.

First few attempts failed, but eventually managed to get a day one out of the way (the stuff is addictive).

First 3-4 days were tough to put it mildly, constant pumping headaches and extreme fatigue. However around day 5 something wonderful happened. I had one of the most deep satisfying sleeps I had in years, it was like the sort of sleep a child has. Deep R.E.M level sleep with a vivid dream. I work up with a feeling of being deeply nourished. I actually cried as I was so happy I had found an answer.

I am now caffeine free for 10 months and I can still feel myself healing and the layers of the onion being peeled away. I very rarely get anxious now and my productivity at work is back at where it was when drinking coffee, but the difference is my focus is much better. On coffee I was like a scatter gun, whereas now it's more of a less manic focus.

I continue to sleep great, all night, no more 3 am wake ups. On the rare occasion that I do wake, I don't find myself in this delirium / anxious state where I proceed to toss and turn, instead I feel really at ease and drop off again.

Caffeine really gets played down as harmless (and perhaps for some it may be), but there are so many folks around that are suffering with sleep issues that could solve this by quitting. Caffeine binds to your adenosine-receptors. When adenosine binds to its receptors, neural activity slows down, and you feel sleepy. Adenosine facilitates sleep and dilates the blood vessels, probably to ensure good oxygenation during sleep. Caffeine blocks these receptors thereby removing the feeling of being sleepy. Studies are limited, but I wonder if the long term impact of playing with your biochemistry day after day for years has a bigger impact than we know of. It also increases cortisol the stress hormone, so this is where the anxiety comes from, cortisol is akin to 'fight or flight'.
> If the aforementioned trusted CEOs faithfully and accurately are able to point out media they believe is trustworthy and keep an eye on those outlets, it could potentially work as a way to kick start the rejuvenation of these networks.

But the media aren’t trustworthy. That’s how we got to this place. If that gets fixed, then indeed CEOs can celebrate it, but the problem is with the media right now, not the lack of people cheering them on.
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I agree, but I'm concerned that any internet news reporter can be easily shut down or marginalized with little to no recourse. Payment processers are also able blacklist with impunity. A large organization with multiple channels to get their story out would be much more resistant to such attacks.
There wasn't much change in the 470s, but that's because the big earth shattering moments happened decades earlier. The Sacking of rome in 410 was really the moment everything changed for the common person. Rome had long since stopped being the capital of the west but it was still thought of as the core of the empire, the eternal city, and you can read accounts of how shocked everyone was when it fell for the first time in over 800 years. This led to many changes in how society functioned, for example the elites in italy stopped their euergetism which maintained the public works there.

By the time Rome was sacked again in 455, the empire was already beginning to disintegrate into autonomous states, most of which were distinctly not Roman. Roman civilization may not yet have dissapeared from the world, but it was no longer present in many of the places it had been.

By the time you get to 476, odds are the vast majority of people in italy weren't old enough to remember Rome as a functioning civilization. Sure some traditions carried on, just as some do to this day, but people's sense of identity and cultural values had long since changed from the days of Augustus.
> white and Black

It was when the New York Times decided to start capitalizing black but not white I knew they were done being objective and had turned to activism.

Their explanation that all black people worldwide share a common culture but all white people do not is just absurd.

They’re not a serious news organization and haven’t been for some time.
The Pfizer vaccine i took had a marked effect on my muscles after the second shot. I felt super weak and needed a week of rest and didn't feel completely "normal" months later.

I can't imagine taking another shot of that vaccine without adequately prepping my body and mind and can't imagine what a fourth shot could feel like.
That doesn't rule out public ownership as a necessary condition - only as a sufficient one.
On Visual Studio it is relatively easy to enable bounds checking for operator[]().

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-t...

That is the thing, the standard doesn't require bounds checking for operator()[], while it does require for at(), but it doesn't forbid it either, it is up to the implementations.
There are so many times I wish a blog post was an app that just had a nice gui to do guide me through the steps they suggest, instead of manually modifying config files and running bash scripts. SQL GUI tooling is lacking.
If the State wants a fully regulated communication system, it can put facebook under the same umbrella as the telcos.

Interestingly, it will surely be what you dislike so what is your point?

If facebook becomes public utility I want to be able to regulate speech on it with my tax money. If it's private, I dont care if it tries to regulate harmful speech the way it wants as long as it doesnt impact where my tax money is going (so I dont want to pay for girls empowerement to have facebook massively undermining it by letting sheikhs explain the youth how to beat their unruly wives)
Sure but this is just signaling. Nothing is being ‘hidden’ any more than tcp headers are ‘hidden’ when you browse the web.
Roadrunners lack a keel on their breastbone and have relatively small pectoral muscles. They can fly a little, but my 4 minutes of internet research say it is unlikely that bird can fly over that wall.
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Should that really be mandated by the province though. Perhaps there is an incantation on online classes that will work now, but if in person is mandated we'll never find it.
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I think a really big part of it was where Red Hat asked Docker to accept their patch that allowed people to run docker with local registries only (no docker.io), and were told Docker would not be accepting that patch, and to go pound sand if they didn't like it (eh, so maybe not so forcefully).

The first thing I tried to figure out when looking into Docker for work was how to limit the registries it would look at to only be our own when used in production, and I was surprised to find out you can't (at least not without a hack to make it think it's using a mirror and just hitting your registry first).
Don't trivialize extremism, please.
Yeah, what you outline means Tor is Swiss cheese (ha, ha, long game pun), when it comes to traffic analysis. Are all the IPs for Paris to Tor being logged at the ISP level? You bet!

Frankly, I don't think anyone is safe from the tip of a nation state, even small ones. But I do think we should protect everyone else and Tor would have done that.

Because this was clearly civil disobedience and that is what we really should be protecting.

https://www.cactusvpn.com/vpn/is-tor-safe/
Origin should be sandboxed rather than tabs, isn't it?
I don't think it's accurate to say that it screws up build reproducibility. Rather, it shows that your build is already not-reproducible.

Take the time example:
if your build has access to the actual clock time, your build is unreproducible, period. For reproducibile build you need a constant, injected clock time.

So I'd rather day that if you have reproducibile builds this macros won't work at all.
> I sometimes wonder why the US gov't doesn't put CCP/Russia on blast and make Americans more aware of this.

A large amount of US politicians sold out to both China and Russia long ago. We recently had a president over $200 million in near outstanding personal debt to the CCP...

Check out which group of US senators and representatives went to have tea time with Putin on one of the recent 4th of Julys.

All of our manufacturing infrastructure is over there. There's no going back, because they're somehow able to dupe their constituents into believing they're actually hard on them while lining their pockets, especially with regards to China. Celebrities and corporations have also sold out.

It's going to be a great day of reckoning if some of these people ever learn that their leaders who've always told them they're hard on China and fighting against them are... actually not, lol.

Trump's mainland China nickname amongst the educated and literate is "Nation Builder" for a reason. With reference to their nation, not the United States. Certainly weird times we're in.
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Does not negate what I said. I said that the USPS does not open your mail, scan it, and sell it to the highest bidder. And, actually, the article you linked to only gives that information to government entities, which, in my post, I said that you should not worry about the government, because they have infinite resources compared to the average person.

So not too sure on your point that you're trying to make. Yeah, if there's a subpoena, I'm sure the government could open and read every single piece of mail you send or receive, but that's what I said.

But, Google or Yahoo or Facebook is not going to have access to this information. But they will if you use their email system. Why do you think they offer it for free? Through the generosity of Sergey Brinn and Larry Page's black, black hearts?
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with the word "scan" here, so hopefully this abstraction will be useful.

Imagine you have a message written on a piece of paper. You intentionally show this message to two people, Alice and Bob, and are fully aware that they have both read and can perfectly remember the entire contents of the message.

Now imagine that Alice thought about the message independently (not recalling it, but actually thinking new thoughts), and that Bob did not do this.

Are you claiming that Alice violated your privacy by thinking about something you showed her and asked her to remember? Or perhaps would it only be a violation of privacy if she then subsequently told you one of those thoughts?
highly misleading title.
Agreed. It’s not new. What’s new is that it’s obvious to everyone now because of the internet.
That's a very literal abd misleading reading. The collapse in the West had very specific observable results including:

* A trade crash across the Western empire

* A crash in manufacturing

* Widespread famine

* A retreat from cities and villas

* The withdrawal of the military

* The withdrawal of centralised government influence

* Their replacement by regional warlords

* A huge decrease in civil stability

* A huge increase in petty violence and lawlessness

The millions of people living in the area certainly didn't experience continued expansion and prosperity.

And most writings from Ancient Greece and Rome were lost to the East. Only fragments survived. Byzantium wasn't enough of an outpost to preserve the rest.

What was left in Europe until the Renaissance was a kind of Christianised cargo-cult of the original empire, with most of the knowledge and working features lost. After the Renaissance there was a superficial rediscovery of some of the writing, the architecture, and the history, and it had an influence on modern European culture. But again in a kind of cargo-culty way which eventually turned into something else entirely in every area except politics. (A Roman senator would understand exactly how the US political system works, while being baffled by the technology.)

You can argue that empire building continued elsewhere, but that's a different argument. There were empires in India, China, and the Middle East, but they were distinct and unrelated entities. If anything they've been even more forgotten.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." — William Casey, CIA director 1981–1987
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Totally feasible depending on the dosage you're looking for. You just may end up drinking a decent amount of tea (which some people don't love doing before bed).
If it worked this way, why not have a $1000 pizza? Raise it a thousand times and... Obviously, it doesn't - at some point, raising it a dollar will start losing customers, it's obvious. Now, where is that point? Do you know? Does business owner know? Who would be the better expert in determining this point - they guy who runs a pizza place or a random guy on the internet whose experience is more like ordering pizza online?
> Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight.

That is not basic nutrition. We don't eat solely for calories and the composition of food affects how you feel and how you perform. Whether you are hungry and how much. Weight gain or loss is not the only parameter affected by food.

Plus, kids don't have control over what they eat. Composition of school lunch is what they lunch.

So maybe it is fully understandable that obesity goes up while we pat ourselves on backs.
>Main reason being this: Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight. In this day and age, it is common knowledge that eating junk and being sedentary will cause obesity. And even if there are groups of people that don't know this, obesity has hit all socioeconomic classes - not only poor people.

They do teach what can lead to weight gain, but they've stopped putting emphasis on how unhealthy it was. In the 80-90s when I was in high-school we had our BMI measured in front of the rest of class. If you came in overweight the teach just stated matter-of-fact that you were overweight and that it could lead to health problems.

That is absolutely unheard of today. Parents now complain if their child's doctor mentions that the child is overweight because of "body shaming". The reason obesity is a problem today is because convincing people to lose weight somehow became an attack on their identity.
I'm in Redwood City (not far south of SF) and managed to knock $250/month off the rent of my current place when renewing the lease earlier this year just by asking.
I mean... sure, but how about we get 2 from the average Android phone first?
No it wouldn't lol, majority of people when given the facts simply refuse them. You have facts about vaccines working yet how many are still refusing them?
We'll I wasn't answering for myself, but trying to explain what I believe is the mainstream thinking providing the political support for recent laws. As for me, I don't trust the federal government - they're appalling. I do have more faith in the individuals recruited into my local government to manage the pandemic, but most importantly I have no fear of the government's ability to enact any totalitarian fantasies they may harbour.
> some

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DNS, and DEXP are by far not major "face brands"

They are a small chain from Vladivostok
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> ... should stop trying to ban ...

Or perhaps these contentious social questions should be decided by the individual states, and citizens should be free to move to states which best match their views?

It would be nice to think that the federal government could just ban "bans", but deciding what is and isn't a ban (or which bans are strictly necessary) is an equivalent problem to the one you are trying to solve.
yes. there are apps in Samsung phones that have disabled buttons to force-quit, disable, & stop notifcations. and these are not even essential apps.
Is any one of these 8 million here?

I would love to hear what people do with it.
In my experience, getting a high quality PR that you’d want to maintain is exceedingly rare. Getting a community submission to that standard takes a lot of effort - sometimes more than if you just did it yourself.

On top of that, a lot of developers tend not to enjoy reviewing and massaging community PRs all day. They want to write code themselves, and they want it to be important code. Putting your team on review duty is a great way to make people feel like their role is low impact and unrewarding. Again, they’d rather write the code themselves.

I find it takes a lot of experience for developers to recognize the value, impact, and reach of indirect contributions like that, so it’s rare to have a team with enough people who will do a great job of reviewing, supporting, and maintaining quality community submissions. If you assign it to relatively inexperienced developers you’re likely to wind up getting a lot of things merged that shouldn’t be in a rapidly growing project that’s increasingly difficult to maintain.

It’s a hard problem to solve. But again, this is just my experience.
CouchDB.

- Very smart clustering/redundancy features

- Can be queried over HTTP

- Has a great API

- Counterpart project (Pouch DB) can work on the client

- Queries can be cached (it's HTTP)

- Said to be 'schemaless' but can be structured

The project is always overlooked, but I still feel it's one of the better NoSQL datastores.
>when one would simply need a microscope to find them in devices

This isn't a true statement, if strictly read--there are many techniques to hide undocumented components on boards, and covering all of them requires more than just a pass under a SEM. There's a fun talk that goes over a lot of them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As
One thing I've noticed is that many HN users don't believe that courts can compel companies to take positive actions to surveil their customers. This incident illustrates that, yes, courts can compel companies to keep logs even if their infrastructure is built to not keep them at all.

We cannot rely on what companies say about their privacy guarantees, or rely on vendors' technical analysis of their own black box systems, because a simple court order can essentially be a backdoor.
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Daily Mail’s source article is here: https://www.timesofisrael.com/virus-czar-calls-to-begin-read...
Do you have examples of these teams please?
Gee, maybe the solution is to stop hoarding vaccines and help other countries get vaccinated so that the conditions that favor the evolution of ever more potent variants are reduced?
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Because HN is predominantly a Postgres and Anti Oracle community, so the use of MySQL doesn't fit their ideology. Which is unfortunate because I think Vitess and Planetscale is quite nice.
When I visited home it just happened to be around the time of Sandy. It wasn’t just Sandy itself but some other tropical remnant that dumped 7 inches of rain in two or three days? I tell people in the SF Bay Area, 7 inches is about a third of what we usually get in a year. These kinds of storms seem to be happening every ten years now rather than a hundred. (Meanwhile the West is in a constant state of drought).
This seems like a no true Scotsman kinda thing.

I suspect people who want to "make journalism better" and people who want to "inform the populace with 'not journalism'" are probably talking about the same thing.

(Not that I agree with this article, the "get CEOs to make people trust news" thing is bizarre)
It's really too bad that (last I checked) the Freewrite is permanently shackled to their weird proprietary cloud service. I guess there is a way to pull documents off it with USB, but you (apparently) can't add, remove, or generally organize files that way.

I got a Pomera DM30 instead, which just appears as a USB drive mirroring the device's filesystem. It's a Japanese keyboard layout, but the English support is fine, and overall I love it.
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And he made mistakes based on his bias on what "should" be like all of us. Not everyone can do maths like Einstein, but on this particular point everyone can say "God doesn't do X" and be wrong.
Thanks for all of that information in those 2 posts.
Becomes too complex. You have to maintain mapping of old columns to new columns and when you are splitting tables it becomes too crazy.
Oh you can find a long history of everything being abused. But by and large, the Australian born, non Indigenous population, only imagine it will ever be abused against other people
>There isn’t enough housing.

Last checked at least 10% of NY apartments sat empty (landlords holding out for rents to go up).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/manhattans-apartment-vacancy-ra...
Full dose boosters seems silly to me. But Subsequent boosters may very well be modified to better match new (and maybe predicted?) variants.

Though unknown if modified boosters would generate the same kind of 2nd dose effects you experienced.
does it work with whatsapp?
> A lot of small business/self employed folks don't have any kind of web presence other than FB/Instagram.

This is pretty cut and dry. Dom't build your business on top of another business, for which you have no contract.

There are plenty of alternatives, from Shopify to Etsy. None of which require a FB presence.
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AlphaSmarts are certainly intriguing devices - but flawed in many ways. Most notably, all models' internal storage was non-persistent. If your batteries died, poof, everything gone.

The LCDs simply do not lend themselves to the same amazing outdoor visibility as modern e-ink displays.

The only way to get your words off is to connect the device over USB to a receiving computer and "send" the text one letter at a time. To be fair it's fairly cool to see the AlphaSmart emulate itself as a keyboard device to Windows and shoot text over faster than any human could ever type, but it's still incredibly slow, can take minutes at a time to transfer single documents.

I own an AlphaSmart Dana - one of the last devices they ever made - and it suffers from many of these issues far worse. It ran a slightly customized version of PalmOS, so it slurped up batteries like nothing, still had non-persistent internal storage, did include an SD card slot but its own writing software saved files in a proprietary format you couldn't open on any computer, so you still had to use the USB keyboard method...

The AlphaSmart devices were made to teach little kids how to type, and not much more. And that is very clear.
for losers: easy low hanging fruit to blame: EVM fraud.
when they win: EVM good
I wonder these days if it was good idea to let everyone "write" on internet. Blogging seems like a plague these days... Look at me I am tech guru
+1 to that.

mIRC was far more accessible to me than programming anything more simple than a text based adventure in BASIC. Then I got into Perl :D
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