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Exactly right, to all of this advice.

I believe I say multiple times in this thread nobody should just jump in and do 60 days, however I believe anyone (caveat-ed up thread) can 'jump in' and do 7 days at any point in their life.

It won't be easy, it'll be especially hard if you've never fasted before and are on a standard diet, but it won't be dangerous. It'll just probably be the most difficult physical and mental thing you've ever done.

Also, thanks for linking to my spreadsheet up there.
You think these eight-year-olds are playing video games in tournaments?

As someone who coaches elementary school sports players, I can tell instantly the ones who play online competitive video games and those who don’t. Sample size is maybe only ~40 kids, but I’m convinced.

Maybe it improves behavior later but the ones who do are initially the worst sports I’ve seen in my life. I have to spend time before every practice and game reiterating stuff like “it’s not ok to pretend to teabag the other players”.

I’ll agree parents have changed a lot since I played. I think the poor example they set influences this generation of parents.
I use a Sony a6600 with Sigma 16mm f/1.4 lens as a webcam and people love it.
> The total number of Americans to have contracted covid by that point was actually quite small, and very few people personally knew anyone, or at most one or two people, who had actually had the disease.

If 30% of Americans had been infected by November 2020, then most people would know many people who had contracted CoVID-19. Unless you only know 2 people (plus yourself - that makes 3), chances are that you know someone who was infected before November 2020. Based on my personal experience, that's true. I personally know many Americans who got CoVID-19 before November 2020. I don't know a single person in China who got CoVID-19 in that timeframe (or to this day).

> it would be very easy for things to feel like business as usual, even if 1.7 million individuals in China had died from the disease

No, it would not feel at all like business as usual. First of all, a death toll of 1.7 million deaths implies around 450 million infections, or about 30% of the Chinese population. As we know from everywhere around the world, that would have meant stressed hospitals (and given how few ICU beds China has, it would have been much more stressed than the US).

Because Chinese cities were almost completely open at this time, with very few restrictions on public gatherings, restaurants, etc., there would have been extremely sharp epidemic waves that would have swept through Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and all the other major cities. Everyone would know. Everyone would have friends, family members, colleagues, etc. who had gotten infected. Every doctor and nurse in the country would have seen countless CoVID-19 patients.

Simply put, none of this is the case.

If you think it's plausible, you have a fantasy view of China. We're not talking about Mars here. We're talking about a country of 1.4 billion people, with tens of millions of its citizens living abroad, with a million expats living inside its borders, with many millions of people who use VPNs. And even with internet censorship in China, it's impossible to keep major events like a large CoVID-19 outbreak secret. Just think of all the stories from the Shanghai lockdown that have spread around the world, despite internet censorship.
I think Sonys tend to be recommended as working well as webcams, partly for this reason, not all do.
The census has ALWAYS counted everyone, regardless of immigration status. Formal immigration processes are extremely new compared with the age of this country. Right-wingers are just playing into racist fears as they've done for centuries.
Burning fossil fuels on-site means transporting fossil fuels to people's houses. Natural gas has a GWP which is 21 times that of CO2, and residential natural gas distribution systems are responsible for massive emissions just due to the leaks.
Compiler Adventures, part 3: Value Numbering
> with modern AI

Expert systems are classic AI, often with a rule engine underpinning it. It really could not be simpler in context and this is what makes them good. Everything is simple, the knowledge in it (i.e. the codified expert opinion) is what makes it what it is.
I have a hunch a lot of people are not upgrading because there are no new phones under 6 inch now.
I used to not have any $, so I'd pirate. Then I had $, so I paid for stuff -- and, without fail, everything I paid for ended up giving me bullshit problems because of DRM restrictions. So now I don't pay for anything with DRM, which ends up meaning I mostly pirate.

I don't mind throwing down some cash, but I'm not going to throw down cash just to get fucked over.
Thanks for the info! Definitely going to look more into this. Hopefully I can embark on something similar minus the noted downsides.
Trust in the contract code and execution environment
This coin is rank #2858 on Coin Market Cap. This is non-news.
> that something interesting, like approaches using pure mathematics, are more auditable and, in the short- and perhaps long-term, more stable

What approaches? Do you know of a known approach that isn't flawed in some way?

Until proven otherwise, you can't create a stable coin with "pure mathematics".
Is that true or would it help as a tie breaker in cases where the confidence was just at or below the threshold?
Look into the Tow-Boot project. They're trying to replace the paradigm of distributions shipping their own hardware specific u-boot implementations with a u-boot platform firmware that gets saved to dedicated storage and presents a UEFI interface for distributions to use. A bunch of Pine64 devices are supported!
The Sony a series can, no idea about others.
DAI is, it is in fact over-collateralized.
There's Tow-Boot[1] for UEFI support. It looks like they support the Pinebook Pro but not the Rock64.

I'm happily using it on my RockPro64, although I did need to disable USB initialization to get it to boot on mine[2].

[1]: https://tow-boot.org/devices/index.html
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973323
funny thing about stable governments, we need irrational actors to slow down popular impulses to make immediate drastic changes.
Here's a short list:

Strategy/Ops:
• The Innovator's Dilemma - Clay Christensen
• The Toyota Way - Jeffrey Liker
• The Beer Game - duh :-)

Leadership:
• High Output Management - Andy Grove
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• Love is the Killer App - Tim Sanders

GTM:
• Start With Why (Tedx Talk)
• Benefit ladders (Human Centered Design exercise good for product AND positioning)
• Everything on Kellblog
• Everything from Andy Raskin (especially "the Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen")
Yes but intersex has nothing to do with unambiguously male or female people deciding to adopt an alternative gender that doesn't match their sex.

One is a biological condition of sex development, the other is a social issue, largely caused by the idea that there are certain thoughts and behaviours that are inherently masculine or feminine.

So for example, if you're a woman who doesn't "feel like a woman" (actually: at odds with cultural stereotypes of women) you might choose to identify as non-binary. Which is happening a lot more these days, amongst some populations - so I think this could reasonably be called a fad.
i m stuck with S10 too (+ it has headphone jack)

Disable animations and it s not really slow.
This story reminds me of the Adventures I've experienced while getting a Wandboard with a FreeScale I.MX6Q to a latest version rather then the official Image offering Xubuntu 11.10.

No binary blobs available for the graphic card (actually there was a triple graphic chip boosted from Vivante) and Xorg in newer versions couldn't detect it. If you were running an apt-get upgrade on the official image, the very next boot could made the UI experience broken.

I still have the board but I use it headless for pihole and wireguard, but the whole ARM experience becomes awful when it comes to graphic acceleration and the drivers aren't open source and not maintained anymore.
>> more efficient to just burn the fossil fuels on site.

You forget exactly how efficient a coal-fired powerplant actually is. Love or hate them, they have 100+ years of technological innovation to squeeze every watt out of coal. Your fireplace at home is not nearly as efficient. So an electric heater powered by the grid is almost certainly more efficient than burning your own coal at home in an inefficient stove.
$45 / month for power seems excessive. I have a home server where I selfhost a bunch of services and am using an 1080Ti GPU on it to mine Ethereum (65% or 125W) and it's costing me $18 / month in electricity to run 24/7 (the Ethereum I mine pays for all of it even now with the crashed crypto prices).
I recently saw an android phone (I can't remember the name of it) that folded in half (how the screen doesn't crack in half after being folded and unfolded hundreds of times is beyond me). When it is folded in half it is quite narrow, but when unfolded it looks to be the size of a mini tablet. After seeing that I couldn't help but wonder why Apple didn't create a similar thing (patents I presume). It is like the best of both worlds, both a phone and a tablet all in one.
Yes, that is a gotcha, as some of the cheaper or older camera models have no HDMI out or the require proprietary conversion with a vendor driver. I haven’t run into this often myself yet since most people I know have been buying newer and more video focused cameras over the past couple years.

EDIT - For your case perhaps using camera settings to minimize the data (ISO/aperture/shutter etc) being shown on on the screen works well enough to use what you have?
>> ...I tend to procrastinate...

What does that look like?

I'd bet it is some sort of addiction: video games, tv/movies, drugs/alcohol, seeking sex/porn... even just going outside for a lazy walk. The avoidance is almost certainly some kind of self gratification. If you're feeling the fear/anxiety welling up, the habitual pattern is going to be to seek something soothing.

You have to break the connections of those patterns by first seeing the discomfort arising. To do that, you need to realize that you're doing the escaping (seems like you're here). Once you can 'come to' when the discomfort starts arising, then you can practice, slowly and probably badly at first, breaking the habit and taking your power back. Feel the feeling completely as a next step, and just 'be' afraid/anxious. Ride that feeling out and let yourself see that it's just something that happens and that you can be ok with it. Don't beat yourself up if you fail at this. Once you start being ok with negative feelings, they lose their grip over you, and you'll be able to really start to realize your potential.

You have it in you to do great things. Be creating self discipline in your life, you can accomplish more than you've ever thought possible.
> I bet many average consumers would want a small phone for work, travel, etc.

They neither say they do nor buy those which are available.

Maybe they'd like a smaller phone for a limited set of situations (though there’s no evidence of that) but they’re not going to buy two phones, so that’s not relevant.

It's like asking a single-issue voter their preference on other subjects.
Start with the smallest steps possible. Maybe
that means opening the assignment and saving
it to your computer.

This is insanely effective for me.

Avoidance/procrastination is still an ongoing struggle for me, and I suspect it always will be.

But breaking things down into steps is my best weapon. Nothing comes close.

(Second place is probably "getting good sleep" which has positive benefits for well, just about any challenge your mind faces)

I actually extend this concept to life in general. I make lists of daily tasks. This even includes "getting out of bed", "taking vitamins", etc. Sometimes it's useful to give yourself "credit" for doing all of the little things. Gets you rolling. Sounds silly but it is often effective for me.
I used to love small phones since I started having short sightedness problems.

Cheaper, lighter, easy to carry on, … was mostly what I cared about phones until I realized that my sight is getting worst and how important to me is to have bigger fonts.
At the $1T+ scale, their CFOs are constantly road-tripping to find new institutional buyers. It stands to reason they’d perhaps know which way the wind was blowing based on those interactions.
I have not had that experience as a pirater of TV shows, I can have pretty much always been able to get anything I ever wanted that I ever could before, through the sources I use.

But certainly there is no guarantee, that is true.

(I don't use usenet as a source, myself).
Most people using bitcoin as a store of value are willing to accept volatility, given that we know for certain that fiat is a store with built-in leaks — leaks that we can all see are getting bigger and there's good reason to believe will become a sieve.
>Mirrorless cameras are smaller and lighter and have almost entirely replaced DSLRs.

I haven't paid attention to cameras in a while. Did I miss this happening?
Every time I am reminded that people use reactive stores with three.js or pixi.js I wonder what kind of problems are being solved this way, since frames are being redrawn anyway.

There has to be a good reason but I never bothered to ask.
There must be no notch or punch hole camera.
Because it would be fun ?

If I wasn’t fully occupied with rsync.net I would love to run some kind of utility exchange/market/bank service …

… and I’m not involved or invested in crypto in any capacity.
But isn't running a camera as a Webcam actually bad for the battery, especially if you plan to use that camera also for trips?
How about "Solutions brought to you by giant corporations"? At least you can vote politicians out of office.
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Hackerforms now allows you to ship forms with any lib
The good ones shouldn't be able to. What is up with HN posting about these nonsense "stablecoins" that are seemingly named to confuse people?

USDT (tether) vs UST (terra), and now DAI vs the DEI.

DAI kept its peg from ETH $1440 -> $50 last time and is battle-tested + over-collateralized. Why don't people use that?
As a non-power-user, I mostly keep my phone in the pocket, where I’d like it to be small.

I’d almost go for a dumb phone, almost... but then I need emails, maps and WhatsApp.

I don’t need 50 filters, 3 cameras, razor-thin (yet somehow enormous) body, more Storage than my laptop, etc etc...
There you go. Please ignore the extreme crypto-skeptics, and continue to build.
This is also why they're freaking about about "critical race theory". There has been genocide in the US - by white colonizers against Native Americans. They don't want to admit this because it would require too much self-reflection, but fundamentally they think that someone else wants to do it to them because they did it first.
If I might add, hoarding physical books is also a worthwhile hobby.
Pixel 5 has great battery life. Note that none of the requirements are that it is some game machine or anything. Even less than top-tier chipsets are just fine for me. I just want a good camera in a pocketable form factor.
DAI would like a word.
It will return in a couple years as the new SE.
> Sony Xperia 10 IV

Unfortunately, it looks like it won't be sold in the US. Does it support US LTE bands so I can import it at least?
Direct backed stable coins require trust in the custodian. Algorithmic stable coins don't require the same trust, so there are benefits. And there are some that have been working well for a long time, and continue to work well in current market conditions. Look into DAI.
I just participated in the Landmark Forum (https://www.landmarkworldwide.com/) which is designed to do (among other things) just this, over a three day intensive class. It's about redefining the way you look at the past, present, and future and establishing more positive views. As someone who has been studying mindfulness (and, where it's related, Buddhism) for the past few years, it was a very welcome experience, and it's already impacted my life and relationships in a number of positive ways.

Google it for yourself...as with anything "woo", there's both positive and negative comments out there. But for me, it was the right thing at the right time, and it's inspired me to take action in very meaningful ways.
iPhone mini is 3% of sale. That's the trend.
Excellent write up. The world of cheap SBC's is a hot mess right now. I recently researched and bought one for my own project, and I feel like I've commented about it on HN several times already, but here we go again.

A Raspberry Pi's is by far the easiest way to go, but I've found they have become way too expensive. If anyone is looking at cheap SBC's I suggest you pick one with Linux kernel mainline support. Here is a good place to start: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

A lot of the newer SBC's aren't supported yet. This means that you will be stuck using the vendor's Linux distribution until support lands in the mainline kernel (which could be never). If you get an older SBC with mainline support, you can run 3rd party distros like Armbian. https://www.armbian.com/
Right, it's a caveat to testing in general that shows "well, just write integration tests, it's not especially hard to do" is not a satisfactory solution to the problems discussed in OP with specific actually occuring examples. You were the one suggesting it was, not me!
> And the RPI has, despite its fundamental shortcomings (needing the proprietary GPU to manage bootup, etc.), the best story in that particular department by so much that it's not even a contest.

Exactly!

On the RPI if I want to watch HBO Max without stuttering, all I do is apt install Chromium in Raspbian Buster, fuck around with a dozen or so startup flags, give up, try Kodi, notice that there's no official plugin, install a conceivably legal plugin from "http://k.slyguy.xyz", unzip it, twiddle some quality settings, and put up with intermittent stuttering that's slightly better than when I started the whole process.

I'm just guessing at the Kodi part[1] since I've only made it to the "give up on Chromium" part so far. Anyway, it's probably less work than what the author describes.

Probably.

1: https://www.firesticktricks.com/hbo-max-kodi-addon.html
Mathematical Logic Through Python
Thus, we better get over our dependency of oil before the next food disaster hits.

(A volcanic winter would be quite bad for solar too. I don't know how fast we can scale fission in a disaster scenario, but I think it's our best hope. We should keep improving our fission tech too.)
Or Apple II, yes.
You're right. No one ever buys computers or phones. They'll be cheaper and more powerful tomorrow!
I had this problem. It crippled me. One or more of the following solved it:

- just time plus regression to the mean

- talking with a therapist, for a while

- being hit with a completely different enormous life stress, allowing me to say "fuck it" to all other anxieties

While it was ongoing, my coping mechanisms were:

- ditch social interaction in favor of putting myself near the problem for hours at a time with nothing else to do until I made reluctant incremental progress

I do not recommend that coping mechanism for anything except that which you need to literally survive.

When it was very bad, the following was not helpful:

- breaking into small chunks; fear-avoidance can be about starting, but in my case it was literally about producing any results visible to anyone else
You still have to integrate your application with the chain, which I'm not sure whether that amounts to more or less money/risk than just managing it yourself or some other centralized platform.

From a user perspective, it's certainly anything but free.
Hi! One of the authors here.
We do have support for distributed querying, but it's not implemented in the command-line tool. (It makes for a much more complicated demo if you need multiple machines.) The query planner is happy to use as many machines as you can throw at it.

We don't yet have good comparative benchmarks against Arrow or Presto, although I'm hoping we can get those.
Scott Ritter on Ukraine War: “Why I Radically Changed My Overall Assessment”
I'm surprised no one has mentioned using a teleprompter yet. You can pick one up for around $100 and when combined with a little 7" monitor (another $100) attached to your computer, creates a nice setup for zoom calls where you can look directly at your partner. Also doubles as a great talking head setup for video production.
The alternatives are a corporatocracy, a dictatorship, etc. All of those things will be bad for you to live in, except if you are at the top. If you are at the top now, you should not weigh in here. As such, I have to assume you are not at the top - which makes me wonder why you hate yourself so much you believe you should have no voice. Doesn't sound healthy to me.
Oh, wow, really? That's even worse.
Snag up a lightly used Pixel 5 while you can. You get 5G and it is basically the same form factor, just a bit better all around. (I've had both and the Pixel5 is a step up for sure)
I think this depends on persons internal happiness. Happy people feel happier and sad people get sadder. This is based on my own experiences.

In my 20s, I was as happy as one can be. I posted a lot on social media and enjoyed posts of my friends. Loved food posts cause that gave me new resturants to try out.

Vacation pictures, I couldn't afford a nice vacation but vacationed via those pictures. Asked friends to post more pictures.

Friend got a job, it meant time for a party.

Now I am not as happy as I used to be. Now I do get annoyed with food and vacation photos. Feel jealous when friends are promoted. I rarely go on social media but when I do I immediately feel bad about myself.

Maybe I am just getting old.

Oh and yes when I was on Facebook, no one posted about politics. In fact, I remember reading my first few political posts of my friends and thinking whats wrong with them.
I've seen some AC adapters that fit into the battery compartment to replace the battery. No idea if it's a good idea or not.
Agreed. In this case, the vendor doesn't ship a working kernel at all. Their view is that the community will handle that. Massive props to ayufan, without whom most of the Pine SBC's would likely have no bootable image.

I experimented with a RockPro64 a few years ago before learning this lesson. The hardware sounded wonderful. Unfortunately, there was some kind of conflict between the PCIe slot and the GPU. It was possible to get hardware-accelerated video, or use the PCIe slot for additional SATA slots, but not both at the same time. I spent a fair amount of time trying to dig into it, but never did establish whether the problem was in hardware, the device tree, or the drivers.
Pine's whole schtick is "cheap hardware with nice specs but zero software support".

You can like it or not but they're pretty open about the business model.
Can you use portrait mode?
You can connect it to a power source that has the form factor if a battery.
Latest Motorola Razr foldable scratches that itch for me. I know it doesn't fit into the mid-price category, but I finally have my pocket space back again!
Quelle suprise, je dit-on. (Yes, that is indeed what I said, for the English-only crowd)
That's Mosler's MMT, there are other MMT proposals which are closer to the path taken by the administration. Kelton's for example.