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I'm a type 1 diabetic, and this was a helpful post at showing non diabetics why it is so. hard. Non diabetics typically think the difficult thing must be the shots and the finger pricks, right?

Not really. The majority of diabetics get used to those things quickly (of course there are some of course that deal with a major major needle phobia that can make it even harder). The hard part is that it never ends. Almost every moment of every day, your brain has a background process running that's evaluating every decision in context of your diabetes. There are no breaks. Your prefrontal cortex now has to take the place of a previously complex and automatic bodily process. It's the last thing you think about when you go to bed and it's the first thing you think about when you wake up. It's what you think about when you want to go on a walk, are about to enter a meeting, go into an interview, get on a plane, take a shower.

It's usually little things: "okay, where am I at now? which direction is it going? when did I last eat? do I have snacks ready? do I have enough insulin for the day? what if I start to go low during this meeting? should I pop some carbs and run high for this interview, so I don't risk a hypo partway through? why am I going low right now when I took the same dose I took yesterday for the same meal? why am I now skyrocketing for no discernible reason, I didn't even eat anything? shoot, I'm starting to hypo out of nowhere in the middle of this great conversation, which I now have to interrupt to eat a snack and recover for 15 minutes. I fell asleep with a perfect BG, but now I'm awake at 2AM half delirious because my BG fell all the way down to 50, and I'm in the kitchen shoving cookies down my throat because hypoglycemia activates a survival instinct to EAT EVERYTHING that's extremely hard to control, and I know that I'm gonna shoot all the way up to 250 shortly, which I'll have to treat with insulin, and I'm basically not going to get any sleep tonight".

And then the math often doesn't make any sense. There are so many factors that effect it. One day the same number of carbs + insulin may make you go high, and the next low, because of other environmental factors. (See the "42 factors that effect blood glucose" chart in the post.) You're constantly having to adjust.

I'm literally crying while writing this post, because it's so exhausting and it never ends.
It's expensive to uproot which is why the working poor are often trapped in high cost of living areas. OTOH the midwest has had a huge problem for years of 'brain drain,' and that's because there are just fewer highly compensated jobs than what you'd expect in the midwest, and among these salaries are appreciably lower. People don't receive degrees at midwestern schools then move to NYC, SF, LA, wherever else without a job offer lined up, and if they take that offer its because its better than what midwestern companies who are even more active in recruiting of midwestern grads were offering them.
I'm right there with you. I own a relatively new house (8 years old) and it has SO many switches associated with various lights. Easy to use the switches as they exist, sure. But some simple automations make it easy to flip things on/off without walking all over the house to find the right switch.

Also, some of us have roommates that don't obey the rules. My 3-year old DOES NOT turn on the lights when she walks downstairs on her own in the morning. Perfect opportunity for a simple Z-Wave motion senor + switch automation,.

Otherwise, I agree with the general sentiment to keep it simple. I use Z-Wave switches for lights, a Z-Wave lock for one of my doors, and run HA on a RPi4. Haven't spent an insane amount of time building custom scripts because I want to do other things. And those switches still work without HA too.

(totally see the benefits of Shelly, but hard to stuff in some electrical boxes like those in my house)
No worries mate. First I knew there was a homeless crysis, and the crazy housing (students living in cars) and quite a few vanlifer, but not the real extent (instragram and youtube are bad measures indeed). Second, I meant a larger bubble, something that would pull the rug under all the investors buying land and homes thinking people will just eat the costs.
More good news for Apache Arrow and any projects building around the standard. Excited to see more tools, clients, servers, and everything in between support Arrow, Arrow Flight, Arrow Flight SQL, and Parquet! Over the next few years I hope we see these standards take over data science and data warehouses. At least that's what we're building towards at InfluxDB.
I mentioned this in a reply above, but I'd recommend The Crossing for a similar level of poetic descriptive beauty with a lesser (but still significant) degree of violence.
Nothing wrong with security through obscurity as an extra layer on top of encryption.
From the ashes of the Netscape-source based code rose Phoenix.

From the request by that BIOS-company by the same name rose Firebird

From the request by the makers of the database by the same name rose Firefox

Now, after many years, I'm hoping that from the ashes of the disaster which is the Mitchell Baker misled Mozilla organisation annex political action committee will rise the next iteration of what was destined to be one of the cornerstones of free software, the browser.

Call the thing Ouroboros - the snake that eats its tail in a continuous tale of death and rebirth. Call it Fenghuang is you want to pull in some Chinese mindset. Call it Anastasia, call it Babatunde or Yetunde, call it by any other name which is related to rebirth (which all those names I mentioned do) but for the love of ${deity} get rid of the current Mozilla leadership and correct course to where browsers are supposed to go: installed on user devices. Send Mitchell Baker to pasture without a golden handshake. Do whatever it takes.
Do they need to be? They told the developer why it wasn't allowed - it violates the Copycat clause of the ToS. At that point, the developer is just attempting to make minimal changes to differentiate it enough to bypass that restriction and then resubmitting over and over.

I don't think anyone is under the illusion that this isn't a Wordle copycat. Even the author knows it.
Just to put things into perspective for you: a family of 4 making up to $140k qualifies for affordable housing in San Mateo County.

That's about $7.7k a month after tax.

Now factor in some variable combination of:

1. Rent (3-4k for a 2bdrm or larger)
2. Student Loans
3. Debt
4. Childcare (daycare) ($2-3k)
5. Health care

This excludes 401k contributions, saving for a financial buffer, any type of car or commuting expense.
I would argue it is trust. I trust my password manager to validate the website I am entering my password into more than I trust my eyes. I know that I can't be perfectly vigilant every single time I enter my password. The risk of the password manager betraying me is roughly an order of magnitude below the risk of my falling for a phishing attack.

Plus I use the password manager baked into my browser, so I'm basically trusting it anyways.
I mostly agree. I have a few smart switches for main lighting (5 switches of 20+) with basic automations (turn off at bed time, turn on front step and foyer when I get close to home after dark, turn all on if motion sensor trips while I'm not home).

Every time I think about expanding this, I remember what a PITA it was to setup the basic stuff. And I don't bother. I'll walk my lazy ass to the switch instead.

Doesn't help that Smartthings is a dumpster fire of shitty UX that glitches regularly. Anything "better" like HomeAssistant is the rough equivalent of using Linux desktop in the late 90s/early 00s.
I'm a life scientist: it's true that physical exercise has a causal effect on positive health outcomes. However, if you believe demonstrating cause is simple, you don't know enough about science or statistics. It's extremely difficult.
Do you mean a $3,000 per month mortgage, a $3,000,000 total mortgage, or something else there?
isn't it the case that inflation exceeding wage growth is effectively shrinking wages?
A lot of people on HN don't have families, so let me illustrate some costs. Let's say you are a married couple with 2 young kids and you make a combined $150,000k and you live in Boston.

Federal tax: ~26k
State tax: ~7.5k
Work covers 20% of health insurance premium, leaving you with 20%: ~4k

OK, now we are at $112,500 take home pay.

2 BR apartment accessible to public transit in Boston and in a safe neighborhood, let's say $3000/month + $250 utilities = 39,000. (you are probably not getting a particularly lavish apartment at this price point).

Now you have $73,500 left.

Daycare for two kids from 8 - 5:30: $15k x 2 = 30k

$43,500 left.

Throw in a reasonable life insurance policy, car + insurance payments for a modest car (kind of necessary if you live in Boston and have kids, unless you spend more to live in the kind of neighborhood where you don't need a car), modest medical and dental care out of pocket costs, basic kids clothing, basic clothing for you, diapers, and groceries and you are already eating pretty substantially into what you have left.

Pretty much everything above is stuff that you need to spend in order to live reasonably comfortably (by US standards). Let's say after all of that you have 30k left.

So you have 30k that you can spend on quality of life improvements, entertainment, travel, etc. You can hopefully save some of the money too, but if you are hoping to save towards a down payment on a house in the boston area, you're really not going to be living a lavish lifestyle on that kind of money either.
Probably not. The majority of the tenants in my building are young professionals and empty nesters. Families with children come through but are gone after a year. Once you're on that track it's very hard to go back to city living. Space is at a premium and kids need space for 18 years. I assume the suburbs are made of people that love suburb living (so much space!) and people with children.

Outside of finance and government there isn't a large sector in most cities. Most businesses are in cheaper, suburban office parks. So beyond the social and cultural aspects there aren't that many advantages to city living, IMO.
It is much much harder to design, build, and ship a profitable game that is fun in all aspects than most people realize.

A game is a very carefully balanced hanging mobile of hundreds of parts and it's very hard to tweak one without risking throwing others off. Inventory management might be tedious, but it may be that simplifying that throws off other more critical game mechanics. Or it could be that the feature ended up being made worse in the process of fixing an even more important mechanic and now the team has simply run out of time to circle back and improve it.

> frequent non-skippable dialogue

Dialog usually is skippable, but if it's not, there could be reasons. For example, games pretty often rely on unskippable transitions to load content in the background and minimize time spent staring at a loading screen.

Saying "make the game fun" is about as actionable as telling a musician to "write a good song".
University applications have such a compounding effect on things the rest of your life that paid-gaming of university admissions might well be the highest ROI investment for many wealthy.
>Surely you still agree that Apple should apply their rules consistently?

For all we know, Apple believes this too and is attempting to make this reality. It's not as simple to do when there are probably hundreds of these clones flooding the store and the review process within the span of a few days.
I've got a pair of these somewhere, acquired domestically (USA) AFAIR. Assuming these are crypto-enabled, any easy way to tell what firmware is in them?

Edit: These are Text-Tells.
Not only this, but clearly whatever zoning laws are in place are not hindering new home construction in and around Dallas. Uptown, Deep Ellum, Design District have all had enormous booms in the last few years near downtown, and Cedars is currently having a new home construction booms. That's effectively every neighborhood anywhere near the city center. So it's not like you can't build new housing inside the city limits. The biggest factor delaying the projects right now is it's too easy to become a homebuilder, so many of the people don't know what they're doing and are way behind schedule. There also seems to be a shortage of licensed tradespeople. But it isn't hard to get approval to build.
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Modern filesystems are designed so that you can unplug the hard drive and it will not be in a corrupted state.

UPSes can and do fail.
... or DMCA'd.

Over the past year, I've noticed that quite a few repos that I used to track have disappeared. I keep a local bookmarks list now because if a "starred" project is removed or DMCA'd, Github does not tell you about it and they remove any mention of the repo from the "starred" list.
I can relate. I mean I am in Germany. Living and working here. Last year with my job and freelance on the side I did absolutely not make 6 figures.

We have our house we bought 12 years ago and renovated for 8 years. My SO left her job 3 years ago to study again and in essence doesn't make money. So for the time being it is me. But we value great local organic food and produce and that next to our mortgage is by far the biggest part of our spending. We still put money on the side, but maybe because while we like to spend money (even just for fun) we don't overindulge.

Maybe because we are not as social so that we do not compare and because our values are not in line with spending money to be walking advertisement carriers.

Not sure but when I hear of people in the US with 250k+ living paycheck to paycheck I wonder how that is possible. On the other hand I know people where both make 125 - 150k in Germany and also are living paycheck to paycheck.

So maybe I just can't imagine how this works because living in such a way is something too far from my experience.
You can sidestep the cloud stuff if you've got a static IP and wireguard.
> Why not?

Liability (there's other good reasons the other commenters are pointing out too, but this is the most important one).

If your lawyer tells you something completely wrong that gets your entire business fucked by the US government then they (and ultimately, their insurance) is on the line for that.

If you follow a dumb comment from HN and destroy your business that's all on you.
Assuming there’s a “game” to be played, and you get pushed out, you probably didn’t understand the real game.

In the card counting example, the game isn’t blackjack, the game is the house always wins. If you’re card counting and losing money, no one cares.

I’ve been reasonably successful in tech and don’t know of any games besides the free market.
AI can extract information from a sensor that is 'obvious' when you look at it by eye, yet no easy combination of frequency filters and a carefully tuned threshold can extract reliably.
I believe that was fixed by the last-ditch Linus Jitter Dance.
The problem is you typically wouldn't know when one had evolved into the other until you are suddenly neck deep in it.

At which point anything you have written, past or present, can, and will be used against you.

Heck, getting fired is nothing. People have had their PhDs cancelled...
Is the limit: A) sensor resolution, B) NN architecture and/or algorithm, C) training sample size, D) training data (labeling, segmentation) quality, or E) it doesn't sufficiently predict the variance with low enough error?

New NN models are able to do more with the exact same sensor data.
> "In most markets around the US now, the expectation is that buyers will waive inspection requirements, make an offer as all-cash (e.g. pre-approved financing), with no contingencies (e.g. not based on sale of their previous home)."

It's ridiculous trying to buy a house now is like it's buying from the Louis Vuitton store or trying to get into a fancy club - especially when the "thing" is a normal-ass house in the suburbs.
You may want to consider realigning your expectations with reality. The reality is that if you have location flexibility, you can certainly find a nice house at a nice price in the USA. Your expectation that you can find a nice house with bleeding edge environmental efficiency is unrealistic. Maybe it shouldn't be, but that's life.

edited to add: the people who are really screwed are the people who need to work in a given location where housing prices are absurdly high and the housing stock is truly garbage. Silicon Valley and such.
Hi Daniel, we're already in the comments section :) Hope you're doing well!
IBM owned 9/8 so this is a legitimate use of address space. All hosts should have globally unique addresses, even if you want to use NAT to hide various things. IBM does multiple acquisitions per year. Imagine merging two corporate networks that both use 10/8; it's a nightmare.
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I am not sure I would want this by default.

I would like an opt-in setting where if I made a top-level comment I get notified if any of the following are true:

- My Comment is upvoted 5 times and I get a Reply.
- A Reply to my Comment on it is upvoted 5 times.
- I receive more than 3 Replies.
Considering that per adult only about 10% of US households earn more than $100k, there's a lot of people who support their families.

I literally fully pay for everything for my mother, she's a breast cancer survivor - that's a lot of $$$ for a household of mid 6 figure income.
> Waiting for a MD/Nurse to suggest changes is often too long.

Exactly this! I am single expert on my diabetes. Doctors and endocrinologists are helpful, but they don't know all the factors that effects my BG in both directions on a daily level. I have to adjust how I do things all the time.
That was a detailed post. Fellow kiwi and parent of a T1D diagnosed at the same age. Our kid is now 16, so I'm pleased to have the toddler years behind us. That said, teenage years bring different challenges.

I wish we'd had the option of a CGM at diagnosis - despite the various challenges they simplify so much. We were early into pumping - around age 4. Now using closed loop CGM + pump.

There's a good T1D subreddit for tips and advice. My one bit of advice, is that if you're having issues with bolusing before a meal and the kid then doesn't eat, is to bolus after or split bolus. It's not ideal, but it's massively better than cranking them full of insulin for them to then refuse to eat.

Good luck!
You could only add it to values that are truly uncompromising, as I mentioned. Any value not at the tippy top of the hierarchy would bend to some other cost in some scenario.
Can come CO from candles as well? We do not have any flames inside as we cook with induction, we only use candles as indoor flames.
Nice fact: Here in the Netherlands a fire alarm will be obligated starting from this summer
Honestly, the way I'm reading this is that "they didn't pay us enough to keep them as a first part search engine."
Property taxes are not wealth taxes in most locales. If it was then the tax on your house would only apply to the difference between your asset value and mortgage principal (liability). I can't think of any locale that lets you deduct your mortgage principal from your property tax bill.

Property taxes are a common type of use tax.
Ditto what 'awb said, every word.
Getting rid of the google tracker would be nice. I was disappointed to see the New York Times added one to the original game after they moved it.
This is not even the first or second time Google has rolled out changes that allowed SEO spam sites copying Stackoverflow or Wikipedia to rank higher than the original.

They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site posted the content first and penalizing the copycats, but it appears the fix is once again broken.
Yeah, it does look like as me being patronizing and creepy, I suppose. My inept social skills showing.

But I have no idea how else to deal with those people who genuinely want to help me help them, but keep making suggestions and developing weird theories that aren't connected to reality and which aren't helpful. Everything else I tried just seems to insult them more.

In normal day-to-day conversations with most other people (including the same people when we're not in a professional setting) I'm not like that. At least I hope not.
Does anyone know of something like Otter but offline with tolerable performance?

Otter is the only thing approaching affordable for individuals, but I don’t really trust it given they’re playing fast and loose with user data.
- That entire $900 for "everything else" ends up all going to your monthly employee contribution to have a family health insurance plan through your employer. Luckily they're only making you pay about a third of the premium.

[EDIT] For anyone from outside the US who's getting a bit lost in all this US-centric budgeting, the TL;DR (and trend which you may have noticed in all this) is that it's insanely expensive to have kids in the US. The main reasons are healthcare costs (including insurance), housing, and childcare. Costs can easily approach $100,000 to take one kid from conception to age 5, with no extravagant spending, and no major health problems.
> If I wrote that requirement in a classroom programming assignment and you presented me with that code, you'd get a failing grade.

It's a good thing operating systems aren't made up entirely of classroom programming assignments.

Picture an OS which always runs on fully-synchronized storage (perhaps a custom Linux or BSD or QNX kernel). If there's no write cache and all writes are synchronous, then fsync() doesn't need to do anything at all; therefore `int fsync(int) {return 0}` is valid because fsync()'s method is implementation-specific.

This allows you to have no software or hardware write cache and not implement fsync() and still be POSIX-compliant.

> Context matters, both in law and in programming. As a legal analogy, if you study Supreme Court rulings, you will find that in addition to examining the text of legislation or regulatory rules, the court frequently looks to legislative history, including Congressional findings and statements by regulators and legislators in order to figure out how to best interpret the law - especially when the text is ambiguous.

The POSIX specification is not a court of law, and the context is pretty clear: fsync() should do whatever it needs to do to request that pending writes are written to the storage device. In some valid cases, that could be nothing.
The hypothetical family I described above would easily end up with $6k of credit card debt after a few years on that budget, simply because $900/mo is not enough to cover all the remaining expenses and therefore they will need to tap a loan at some point. A single auto wreck, temporary job loss, physician visit, etc. can create long-term financial problems for this family because they don't have an extra $3k or whatever to cover a short-term expense.

(I take an agnostic point of view on the debt itself. The alternatives to not having some kind of financial cushion -- even burdensome consumer debt -- are often worse. Think: "can't get to work because the car is dead and I don't have an extra $750 so now I lose my job and then my housing" as the realistic alternative. The real problem is compensation has not paced inflation for 2 generations, and that the $100k family should be earning much more for the same jobs.)
Sure you could do that.

Or you could just download Firefox Focus and enjoy ephemeral browsing sessions where all traces can be eradicated at one touch of the little trash icon.
I've said it before. Charge $10/year/ip.

Would stop a lot of squatting on unused space and free it up.