skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can poll areas via https://www.7-eleven.com/locator#

In the Seattle area, it looks like 33/100 of the 7-11s have gas. For LA, it was 1/100. For Toledo Ohio, 1/10. For Dallas Texas, 50/100 it looks like.
I don't know. Is "less food waste" better than "fewer plastics in the environment"? My intuitive answer is "no", but I'm willing to be convinced.
Everything here is a game of trade-offs, and we often get misled by instinctive/faulty reasoning.

Nuclear energy produces some of the most dangerous, long-lasting byproducts imaginable, but appropriately handled it's preferable to almost every traditional form of energy production.

While reducing our meat intake is vogue, the impact it will have on climate change is depressingly incremental. Dishonest ideological documentaries like Cow/Sea-spiracy frustrate scientists dedicating their lives to fix these problems. 92% of the carbon impact reduction of going vegan can be achieved by switching from beef to pork/chicken/fish, before considering that plants are grown in animal waste and vast parts of manufacturing rely on animal products. http://environmath.org/2018/06/17/paper-of-the-day-poore-nem...

We need to examine our assumptions here. Are we short on land? Can we build adequate containment facilities? Is the carbon impact of properly transporting/containing these long-lasting products greater or lower than fast-decomposing paper products that can immediately release carbon into the environment?

Unfortunately there are huge financial/personal interests here and it's hard to get past the misinformation. Recycling was one of the biggest lies sold by corporate interests. It's rarely a moral or environmental good, in spite of all the propaganda for it. (Aluminium and paper are exceptions).

The answer depends on having the right facilities to handle the waste products, whether hydrocarbon or paper-based.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time to write.

I totally understand your comments around pricing, the product first started just being your databases in sync, then I added the chance of having Sheets to Notion connections with synced columns, later on recurring tasks to schedule page creations and just a couple of weeks ago synced cells and the ability to connect a cell value with a block in Notion.

Pricing is HARD and it definitely requires some iterations, it is something I struggled with. I started with the limit based approach, 3 databases for free with every one hour updates and then upgrade for more databases and 15 minutes updates. I continued with that line of pricing for the rest of the features but it is probably not the best, number of databases is straightforward but the same is probably not true for the rest of the features, will give that some thoughts.

How would you price those features? I have been thinking about just having the limits over the number of databases and making the rest unlimited for the paid plans.

Regarding content: YES, 100%, I am a software developer and I enjoy writing code and solving problems, the same is not true for content creation unfortunately. I think that in terms of features there isn't a lot more to do for now, so it is time to move into marketing mode and record some good Youtube videos using the different features and giving it a better explanation, I promise!
Nothing to discuss usually and I feel the meetings are not that productive. In like the check ins table suggestion. Thanks!
> ...conceptual reasoning...

> ...a symbol is just an object that represents another object.

Those are the exact same thing. I mourn the defeat of the linguists more than most, but the brute force method undeniably beats out the purpose built on pretty modest time scales. We are well past the point where ML development is better measured in megawatts than megaflops - whoever builds the most nuclear powerplants wins. The prize? Somewhere between superpower level cat photo sorting and an economy that enjoys perfect efficiency - built on the back of autonomous software agents.

Obligatory link for this topic: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Wow, never heard of HTTP Message Signatures until now. However, like I said, Clock skew is a huge problem in this method. I found out about it much later after implementation when I used the client on some old Windows machine whose clock wasn't synchronized and I spent like a day until I figured out it was the clock skew which made this whole method look suspicious to me even it's obviously much more secure. It could be great in a microservice environment where you're pretty sure that all your endpoints have well synced clock, but when your clients are browsers and PCs, it is about time until you experience it.

As for the second approach, yes exactly it's very similar to OAuth2. In fact I guess this is the method used by GCP APIs by service accounts. The clients use their long-lived secrets to get an oauth2 access token, this access token is JWT I guess that also contains authorization information such as scopes.
Everyone here is talking about RSI but the author is probably talking about a shoulder impingement due to rounded shoulders. To fix this issue you need to strengthen the back, especially the infraspinatus. There's a bunch of youtube videos that can teach you how to do this. I recommend AthleanX.

I had this issue for years and studied the issue. Did a bunch of band exercises, worked out at the gym, and suddenly it disappeared.
https://archive.is/KK5Ob
Heartgard is pretty common. It has ivermectin (and pyrantel) and controls heartworm, hookworm, and roundworm.
Vaguely related, Greg Egan wrote two short stories about ridiculously huge numbers: Luminos and Dark Integers. I recommend them if you're in to Egan's brand of diamond hard sci-fi.
...And what happens to genuine, deserving people who either don't have an internet connection, or social media, or who do precious little online browsing for whatever reason?

Right, this horrible idea is digital imperialism conjured up by nasty elites who've already partially smashed the internet because of surveillance capitalism, etc.
A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain?
> it’s a prime example of an article or blog post that gets turned into a book by adding a bunch of things that don’t really provide more useful information, but seem to serve as filler to make it book-length.

I've seen solo technical authors trying to sell concise ~100 page books and you often see comments like "that's too expensive, you can read it in a few hours and ebooks don't cost anything to produce!", ignoring the value of the information and how it's much more effort to be concise over verbose. I can see why there's a pressure to stretch text out to make it monitisable.

Are there good examples of authors making money from very short books or articles? I'm amazed there still isn't a web microtransactions solution yet so e.g. blog readers can tip a small amount with no effort so concise + valuable information can be monitised and encouraged.
You're conflating device and software. The user owns the device - Apple has no right to stop you using the device as you see fit.

At the software layer? It's been litigated on more than one occasion that a company can't sue people to prevent jailbreaking their own devices.
Google's harvesting of email data is why amazon, etc no longer include what you bought in emails that they send you.
>> The problem is that the system you're proposing introduces an extra step before turning. That is, yield to a bus, then to a cyclist, then to pedestrians.

>> The more steps there are, the more likely one will make a mistake and fail to yield because they failed to account for one of the steps necessary to successfully make a turn.

> that's actually a traffic calming technique, to make car drivers more attentive and more purposeful/communicative, rather than driving on (human or machine) auto-pilot all the time. more obvious collision dangers make car drivers more mindful

I don't really know if this assumption holds. Collisions are more common complex intersections versus simple ones. For example, one is more likely to get into a collision when making a left turn from a side road because they have to check for pedestrians approaching from the left, pedestrians approaching from the right traffic approaching from the left, traffic approaching from the right, and possibly traffic entering the roadway directly across from them.

If you contrast that with a roundabout, when entering, one has to check for pedestrians approaching from the left, pedestrians approaching from the right, and traffic approaching from the left. Because there are fewer things to check for, the chance of getting into a collision is reduced.

The other part of it is when exiting the intersection. After one has started turning, one needs to check for any pedestrians who may be crossing before completing their turn, so that's another step that the left turning driver has to account for. With a roundabout, that check is postponed and actually can be thought of as a separate check once they get to the exit of the roundabout (checking for pedestrians). You could get a similar spacing between checks if, instead of making a left turn, make a right turn and then a u-turn.

In the case of the right turn crossing muliple lanes of traffic, the driver not only has to check for more things, but they don't have the time spacing to re-orient themselves to get ready for the next check. That increases the probability that the driver may fail to check before proceeding.
I remember when you uninstalled Chrome, it opened your other default browser to display a webpage with the message "You have uninstalled Chrome. We're sorry to see you go!"

That entire maneuver was just to plant tracking cookies into your OTHER browser, for use to track you later on. Dirty, dirty stuff.
> Property taxes are imposed on property value and have nothing to do with the gain or loss in the value of the property.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here. If the value of your property goes up you pay more in taxes. Of course property taxes have something to do with the gain or loss in the value of the property. The relationship is in fact direct and unambiguous. (I think people are just getting caught up on the article's use of the word, "income," which was indeed well-poisoning from the start.)
I for one prefer stream of consciousness in chat.

That is the point of chat.

If I want structured longform discourse I use mailing lists.
Overwatch's workshop might be a fun introduction.
It took me 2 years to get AWS to stop billing me a few cents a month. I didn't try that hard but every month or so I'd get another bill for like 23 cents. I'd login and try to figure out what was still turned on.
I'm building a house, and throughout the process have kept petty cash of €10k for when we receive a bill. Most people will accept a bank transfer, but you need to pay extra - suspiciously the extra amount is always equal to the amount of income tax they'd need to pay ;-)

The government have tried to crack down on this by increasing ATM fees and imposing daily limits, but I don't think it will really change anything.
Somehow related, most of my typing on Slack is adding a line break because I find messages too close to each other.

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Many reasons occur to me, but the top few would be:

* Lua already exists and is better suited to this

* JS is a relatively complicated language to evaluate

* JS requires a large amount of dynamic allocation

* JS isn't really the first thing (or in the top 25 things) I would pick when developing on a platform where I wasn't already stuck with it
It is still an option.
I think this article (and presumably the book) is mostly aimed at people who, in the words of the interviewer, have "this kind of overwhelming ambition that therefore makes the finitude of life seem particularly traumatising." The author claims otherwise, but... I'm skeptical of that claim.

When you are active and engaged in pretty much all areas of your life, and you really enjoy learning new things and especially learning how to do things yourself, you will reach a point when "productivity" is much less about minimizing wasteful behaviors, or optimizing routine tasks, and much more about effectively filtering through all of your ideas to identify the ones that truly deserve your finite time and attention.

The money quotes are near the end of the article, where he gives the pithy advice of "one thing at a time" (which has a book-length treatment in The One Thing by Gary Keller). In reference to the tendency to keep lots of projects or tasks going at the same time:

> the reality of it is that you don't make much progress on any of them because as soon as one of them gets difficult, you just bounce over to another one that feels easier.

> “okay, there are, four home improvement projects that all feel essential to making my living space acceptable. I'm going to deliberately give up all hope of making progress on three of them until I have seen one of them through to completion, or consciously abandoned it because it turned out to be a bad idea, that's okay too.”

> choosing to do something that matters when you've got more things than that matter than you can handle is always going to come with that feeling of anxiety about what's going unaddressed.

It sounds to me like the advice here is that one must learn to say "no", or at least "not right now". And that for most people, this boils down to anxiety management--assuaging those fears of missed opportunities or preventable errors long enough to sit down and focus on something truly worth doing.
Which claim? About the NTSB? Did the NTSB somehow prohibit Tesla from participating in safety testing with only "older models"?
They also protect visiting foreign dignitaries.

And they get to use more exciting/expensive tools that would otherwise be illegal for private citizens/companies to use.
Or the ole “I tried to explain K8s to a friend, now we both don’t understand it.”
A few years ago I felt just a blind about billing but the latest stuff seem pretty well tracked and reported in the portal.
Perhaps damage to Z would result in damage to FB for more than 5B (company market cap would definitely fall for more than that, and it could result in large mismanagement in the following years), so he is worth it.
I've also been getting the crypto spam in my inbox, usually as one of a ton of recipients. e.g:

Title: Rc 2 Xq 1677 Riyw 532

Sender: Чеслав Сальников <zeqiyic@gmail.com>

Body: 3688 867 8383 4 3 784

Attachment: Free Bitcoin - DELL .html
And the extent of their protection is not comparable to anything some rich CEO should have. Zuck doesn't need snipers on the roof and armed soldiers hiding in bushes around his house.
I imagine it's nice for things like a product that allows some amount of scripted control by end users.
So you wouldn't object to a burglar coming into your house to steal all of 'your' stuff, because, clearly, that's how it has been done "all of human history and pre-history", and really, "What criteria do we use to determine which [stuff] rightfully belongs to [you]" anyway?
Your analysis is exceptional. My belief is that the card would function like Venmo, a fee-less P2P payment system, but replicating the reward benefits to the user.

What you're presenting is definitively the catch 22 serving the bottleneck to payment processing, but the belief is that removal of intermediaries nets consumers and companies a profit.

Operating on a fixed monthly cost to merchants is then uniquely enabled because of the lack of high variable costs of existing payment methods, allowing me to have the 'cheapest product' so to speak in a commoditized industry.
Freeing oneself from fixation, as one example.
It seems to me that embedded Lua would be a more appropriate choice, and barring that, there is already a quite robust embedded Python implementation.

Don't get me wrong, this is a cool project, but I don't see why you would ever choose to use JS in an embedded context except for fun. The arguments for using lua or micropython are already very narrowly applicable.
Remembering Flip, an Engineering Marvel for Oceanic Research
Hi, this is actually my field of expertise! IdealMedTech is a clinical glucose control startup targeting inpatient glucose control.

Having an MARD (mean absolute relative difference, or in math terms, E[|g-r|/r], g is measured glucose, r is reference glucose) of below 15% is actually considered very good for glucose monitoring.

We did a study that involved modelling different levels of sensor error, and you actually start to see diminishing returns on control once your MARD passes below 10%, with 15% being a good target.

Most sensors on the market that are considered best in class (eg Dexcom G6) have guaranteed MARD below 15%, usually sitting right at 10%. Getting lower than that is very difficult for interstitial glucose, especially using the classical glucose oxidase sensing mechanism.

There are other ways to sense glucose using, for example, Raman spectroscopy, and there have been companies successful in employing these techniques (OptiScan comes to mind), but I'm not yet convinced by the capacity of spectroscopy to deliver accurate results in the presence of interference from drugs and perfusion issues.
For Merkel's generation in East Germany, nudism was a popular form of youthful rebellion (and Europeans are generally less puritanical about nudity than Americans). When some old black and white pictures of a group of young nude German women turned up with one of the women bearing a striking resemblance to a younger Merkel, Merkel's response has always been, "No comment."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/angela-merkel-n...
my point, that you glossed over, can be illustrated this way: I want my phone to have GPS so I can use it to figure out where I am, for mapping, etc. I don't want it used for spying on me.

An opt-in system to allow GPS (or idle detection) is an explicit control, but it is not toggling the usage of this low level feature, which is the important part that I want to approve. Approvals should not be blanket.
what does bitcoin really enable here that normal payment systems don't
Depends on what you mean by "money". My book Mastering Modern Payments made ~$80k in its useful lifetime and it was about 100 pages.
> Its more useful to see the movement to support indigenous people as a counterforce to attempt balance out the power dynamic between the colonizers and colonized. Without recognizing indigenous people as a group, they can not be provided the support that they need and they would get stamped out by the colonizers.

Wouldn’t it be all the more effective and righteous to categorize between “colonized peoples” (rather than simply indigenous) and “other”? Or even “cultures at risk” versus “other”? Or do the Inuit have some stronger claim than the Irish or the Armenians?
> > [...] I do not recommend those for use in an office or even at home with other people at home.

> Do people really get that upset about a keyboard that clicks a bit? [...] A click wouldn't even have registered.

Am I the only one who still remembers when typing, even in offices or at home, meant sharp hitting noises with a DING at the end of each line?
Part of the issue is Asia, Africa and so on do less indigenous studies. Some of that may be due to less interest in who the previous occupiers were. That said, there are ample maps showing migrations and settlement patterns through history of Europe and the Middle East in particular usually in rough slices of time but aren't represented here. The black sea area and the Middle East had lots and lots of turnover as there were movements and conquests after conquests and movements.

One reason not to include them on the map is that would illustrate the nature of waves and conquests thought-out the ages until relatively recently when territories congealed. however, this would undermine the notion that the Americas had little turnover of land control and that there was less intertribal warfare and that extra continental conquests are different.
But what happens when the stock goes down the following year? You really haven't realized a gain until you sell it.
I’m aware, but everyone I know who had one of those ended up complaining about software compatibility issues. In the context of Azure, I’d imagine a lot of their customers would be especially risk averse in this regard.
The logic would be companies are already paying 3% in processing fees that is expensed, and used by the consumer to spend those 'rewards' at other merchants.

However, by 'discounting' at the POS, consumers walk into the store prepared knowing they have a 3% off coupon and are more likely to spend more money. If the amount spent on average increases sales by even 3%, their fees net out.
nothing wrong with plastic. It's an amazing material. But using one-time disposable plastic to carry a banana home from the shop, no matter how convenient, leaves a bad environmental footprint and the microplastics used will persist forever.
Step one: Overpay by enough that 4% of the total is your entire tax burden.

Step two: Pay no taxes for few decades, adding funds as required.

Step three: Withdraw your capital and retire.
No. Gmail spam filtering seems to work almost perfectly for me, with maybe one false negative a month. I just went into my spam folder to look for false positives, and couldn't find one.
On Grounded Language Learning and Simulation
The Suppressed Electrodynamics of Ampère-Gauss-Weber [pdf]
If I have to read it, I’d rather you take your time thinking about what you are writing. For voice or video, stream of consciousness works well.
The only shoes I have ever owned that could be repaired and be cost effective to do so have been climbing shoes. I have had one pair resoled three times. I wish it were worth while to repair other shoes but alas, that's the world we live in.

Another thing that I wish were more commonly repaired are the palms on my hockey gloves. I tend to wear through the left palm before the right. I have a collection of nice right hands and junk left hands. I have been keeping them in hopes of learning to do it my self.
Fair enough, but there are also global organizations that deal in the indigenous/other dichotomy, including the UN (which has a special department or council concerning indigenous peoples). So there’s clearly a more universal notion that does my make sense to me.
> I was trying to say that it is hard to trust someone (or an institution) when we believe that they are not on our team.

And I am saying that the whole concept of "our team" is a dangerous one. We all have to live in the same society. The idea that we should view things in terms of "teams", where our goal is for "our team" to win and for the "other team" to lose, is wrong. We need to all "win", because all of our fates are tied together by living in the same society. We can't "defeat" the "other team" without also defeating ourselves.

That's not to say that we must always agree. Of course we will disagree about things, often strongly. But we should disagree as individuals with different opinions about difficult issues where reasonable people can disagree, not as "team members" who feel like we need to play for our own side and against the other.

> Just as I'm against demonizing someone, I'm also against idolizing them

To me this means you should be against the whole concept of "teams", since that concept by its very nature involves demonizing the "other team" and idolizing "our team".
Funnily enough I am cynical about this, I don't think people will en masse figure it out and ditch the services as I don't think it's on teir radar at all. Which is perhaps why I feel more strongly that it's exploitation versus a choice they make.

It's why in this circumstance I am pro regulation on the adtech industry, as I feel it is the only way to protect people who don't see the dangers. Similar to how regulation is the only way we get ethical food production at such a large scale. When systems get too big, past regular human scale and on to conglomerate scale, it's hard for the average person to see and understand the whole system and its harmful factors.

Thanks for the considered reply by the way.