skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My prediction early on in this war is that America and Europe's sanctions would lead to a collapse of the dollar system. While we're all cheering ourselves on for 'solidarity' with the world, most Americans see 'the world' as just Europe, Canada, Australia, and NZ. They forget that most people on the planet live in other countries, and are not as influenced by the Anglosphere / the West.

People also don't understand that such a thing doesn't happen by people suddenly stopping the use of dollars but rather as the building up of parallel systems slowly over time until one day someone wakes up and asks 'Wait, why do we have dollars anymore?'. But by then, it's too late. Oops.
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important to note that GBP has had a 5-year high this year
I don't know enough about you to offer anything meaningful.. but from my own experiences:

All the things you do, you want to do.

There's nothing inherently positive about this, given our evolutionary history.

Start doing more things you don't want to do.

Stop allowing yourself to be comfortable by default.
> Rising nationalism worldwide is a bane to European prosperity and I don't see that trend reversing.

Also importantly, the EU's economic raison d'etre ended last quarter.

It was simple: Germany props the EU with transfer payments and EU members commit to buying German goods. Now Germany has a trade deficit. A major exporter-manufacturer has a trade deficit. That's like China having a trade deficit. This is absolutely cataclysmic and an economic fuse of unknown length just got lit on the EU.

And the worst probably isn't even behind us as Brussels continues to self-destruct for the sake of stopping a comic-book villain version of Putin who is apparently an existential threat to the West, but also not powerful enough to even take over Ukraine.

I'm not one for predictions, but unless Brussels comes back to reality and stops dealing with platitudes and the ideas of insulated Davos elites, it's quite likely the EU ceases to exist as we know it within the decade.
> I lost weight when eating an excess of calories.

You're just misunderstanding your TDEE then. It's basic thermodynamics that is very accurate in human digestion too, save for extremes like bulemia, gastric distress (you shit out undigested food), or pills that simulate it w/ carb/fat blockers.

The most pedantic detail is CICO is actually on digested calories, not swallowed calories.

Your anecdata is likely accounted by:

1. Protein takes more calories to digest (many people unintentionally eat more protein on keto, though keto is actually about fat intake and protein can break ketosis through gluconeogensis)

2. Up regulation in things like thermogenesis (ie you lose more calories to the ambient air)

3. Inaccuracy in food tracking

4. Higher NEAT

5. Loss of water weight due to lower food mass in digestive tract, and lower glycogen(+bound water) weight.
They typically do, unless they are wrapping C libraries or making platform specific API calls.
That's a pretty picture, but the US government has sligthly more readable graphics that are averaged across multiple years, measured at different heights and focus on different regions.

https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data
potato diet?!?!

what is this. Can we just come out and say, the recent increase in price of food is too damn high instead of hiding it behind a veneer of clever diets that choose lesser costing food?
Uber and Lyft did incredible things in the aggregate to improve transportation, including getting horrible laws updated to be less horrible. I don't think they were perfect, but fighting against unjust laws is a very good thing, and I appreciate that they did so. If you are mad at them, it seems analogous to being mad at high quality nonviolent weed dealers, who did nothing other than provide a service which was legal for a long time and is legal again.
We get it, we do. Still, even in your example r1 etc. do in fact look "as if they were mutable".
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Despite what American declaration of independence says, happiness is not a natural state for a human, and is not really a worthy goal to pursue.
Mandatory mention of the RUM extension (https://github.com/postgrespro/rum) if this caught your eye. Lots of tutorials and conference presentations out there showcasing the advantages in terms of ranking, timestamps...
No, if you live in multiapartment complex. At least in my country there are laws that forbid you as others have to provide extra heating.
Which begs the question - if you want to get top in rankings
wouldn't you simply design the school around the objective ranking parameters and nothing else?

Ripe for abuse...
The common explanation is that it will fuck up the countries with a high debt to GDP ratio, like Greece
And in many other countries too, without the “choose” part. I pay more than that for my private health insurance in Germany… it’s a pretty good one but has a high deductible so I’ve never actually used it in over a decade.
My only pleasant cab experience was a black cab in London. He found an old Native American body digging in Hyde Park. Apparently the first time Native Americans came to the UK one of them died and they covered it up saying only 3 came not 4.

He went to a local College in my area and spoke about it. Showed us a hat from the College and pictures.
It's just Disney milking the Marvel cow. We all knew this is how it'd go with the acquisition, extremely predictable.
Typical desktop Linux is compiled with gcc and even if rust features in gcc lag behind rustc this is still a great step in the direction of one of the larger goals many of us want from rust which is to replace C as a memory safe systems language for OS kernel and embedded projects.

A big part of getting a sane environment to build rust Linux modules is having it easily integrate with the gcc toolchain.

There seems to be some contention around if this is a good idea for rust as a language itself and my counter to that would be that there are billions of people on the planet and the work integrating rust into gcc doesn't detract in any way I can see from the continued development of rust as a language, it just helps to make it more viable for many use cases and therefore increase it's footprint and overall support.
That's so strange. Rustup does ship with support for baremetal EABI ARM:

$ rustup target list | grep arm | grep none
armebv7r-none-eabi
armebv7r-none-eabihf
armv7a-none-eabi
armv7r-none-eabi
armv7r-none-eabihf

... which means the publicly-available open source version of LLVM also supports it.
Bill Withers[1] is my hero for this. He enlisted in the Navy at 17 and while in the Navy found an interest in music. Left the navy at 27 and (while working a day job) recorded his first song at 29, with his first hit at 31 (The Grammy winning Ain't no Sunshine). At 45 he retired, citing creative differences with his label as the reason.

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And is a good news for US inflation
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Interestingly, this announcement hasn't moved the USD-INR exchange rate that much, looks fairly stable over the past 24 hours, let's see what happens over the long term.
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> whether inflation is being caused by currency policy ... or being caused by actual supply constraints

No reason it can't be both. Plus USD is still viewed as the safe haven fiat currency (deserved or not), so USD always displays relative strength vs. other fiat currencies when there is stress in the markets.
In the same way that one restaurant flouted Yelp ratings[1], couldn't all the Ivy League schools just refuse to participate in US News' annual rankings? What would happen if Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, et. al. decided that this ranking is not helpful, so they won't supply any info?

Readers of US News would more likely start to lose trust in the rankings rather than move their assessments of the Ivies downward, right?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/why-t...
I am a relentless optimiser and someone whose mind immediately always goes to how a situation can be improved or how I can achieve more.

I became happy when I realised none of that shit has remotely anything to do with happiness, which is a state of mind and to some extent a choice.

I’m still a relentless optimiser and just as driven (maybe more so). But when it comes to happiness, rather than allow myself to believe I’ll be unhappy until I achieve X or solve problem Y, I now optimise for finding the path and the narrative[1] I can tell myself that will make me happy with things as they are.

The bonus is it’s easier to do more and optimise the crap out of anything when you’re happy doing it.

Good luck! I sincerely hope you get past this, whatever the solution.

P.S. similar to how others have commented, I’ve also found focusing on others to be incredibly helping in framing that narrative and thinking about my life

[1] to me this has been super key— it is all about framing, and the stories I repeatedly tell myself about my situation and the world around me.
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Time travel in Doctor Who is like time travel in Time Bandits. It's an extension of space travel, not an opportunity to benefit from closed timelike curves.
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Nostalgic.

There was a time when the LightScribe was a point to consider when you shopped for a new drive.
Yeah it's not just the USD being strong but also the Euro being weak.
Main reasons:

- the EU currently has a trade deficit. This is the first time ever. Reason is the energy crisis due to sanctions against Russia: energy prices have skyrocketed and EU is importing loads of energy

- the ECB has been printing money like crazy in the last 14 years. So far this money had been absorbed mostly by banks but slowly but surely it is starting to trickle into the real economy. Recently the ECB has finally increased interest rates and stopped buying Southern European bonds, however they had to start up their bond buying program again because Southern European government bond interest rates went up dangerously fast. This has undermined the belief that the ECB will be able to effectively battle inflation
It's part of the Progress Quest™ style transfer from audiophiles trying to maximize numbers to videophiles trying to maximize numbers. Audiophiles are listening to music in "better" quality than the people who made it had through their monitors, and people are watching movies in "better" quality than the directors saw their final cuts in.

We're either moments before or moments after direct competition between UHD televisions and AI-aided upscaling and artificial sharpness, where details that never existed in the original are being precisely rendered by screens with higher resolutions than the human eye.
Imagine running a website that doesn't earn you millions and millions of dollars and it gets taken out for a mere eight hours by a couple disk failures.

Perfectly acceptable.
The US News rankings were already a bit of a mess, but leaving out one of the Ivy Leagues is only going to be bad for US News.

An Ivy League school does not need help from the rankings -- but rankings that leave out one of the most prestigious and well-known universities in the country are useless.
I wonder how much these measurements actually matter, for a place like Columbia. I mean, I can see why, like, people might want to look at the list and see "hey this school I've never heard of is actually OK."

But like, people don't find out about Columbia from this list, right? It is, uh, older than the country "U.S. News" is named after and an Ivy League school. Not having them on the list just reflects poorly on the list.
US/NATO isn't involved in this war? It's just Russia vs Ukraine?
Very few websites comply with GDPR. Based on recent interpretations, it's essentially impossible for any US-owned or US-hosted site to comply with GDPR. The EU is just being extremely selective about its enforcement. If they ever decided to follow the law to the letter, most of the Internet would have to disconnect the EU. Theoretically the EU could make clones of all international sites like China has with Baidu and Weibo, but it's hard to see how that would be good for them.

The UK's law is obviously a bit different as international companies can comply with them, but it would essentially just limit legal websites to big tech who have enough market reach that all that compliance could pay for itself.
No. A healthy diet is a diet that provides you with the right amount of nutrients without leaving you hungry or unsatisfied.

By not being hungry and unsatisfied you'll then stop overeating (surprise!).

"My diet is OK, I just eat too much" is all wrong: there is a complex relation between caloric intake, which foods are eaten, hunger, satisfaction, energy, mood etc.

Many fad diets "work" even if they are not grounded in any scientific fact and are even unhealthy in the long term (low fat, low carb, keto, gluten-free, all-meat).

They artificially restrict the variety of food one person can eat and this indirectly encourages people to eat less. And when people stop overeating they feel better and believe the fad diet is sound.

There were even a diet where you can only eat foods in a given meal from the same group... by color. Same trick.

Bracing for all the downvotes...
These rankings are rampant with manipulation. For instance, I heard of classes at Hopkins being taught half in-class, half pre-recorded, so that they could say the "classroom" size was half its actual enrollment. It's especially frustrating when this kind of manipulation actually hurts students' education.
This is an interesting avenue for future research. The reason why it is not as straightforward as you claim is because all inference is going to depend on your perception of their policy. That's why the Nash equilibrium is sought after first. Because you should assume your opponent is perfect until you start observing their suboptimal behavior that you can exploit. Additionally, you would also have to handle the meta part where the exploiting portion of the algorithm isn't itself being exploited by the opponent. Somehow, you should deviate slowly from the Nash equilibrium but revert quickly if the opponent is abusing your new strategy.
So it's basically going to spike insulin and do much for weight loss... besides not eating the other bad stuff they planned to eat.

So it doesnt really matter they are eating potatoes. Unless they want to do it cheap then it makes sense. Which is good but there's so much more variety in the keto approach then boring potatoes.
Yes.

> In terms of trading volume, it is by far the largest market in the world, followed by the credit market.

Furthermore:

> Trades between foreign exchange dealers can be very large, involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Because of the sovereignty issue when involving two currencies, Forex has little (if any) supervisory entity regulating its actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market
True, that's an interesting perspective. I do struggle with substance abuse / video game addiction so I can see the relation.
>Let the AGI do whatever the heck it wants and see what happens.

protip: start with paperclips
We are limited by 100W and evolution. An ant might have better understanding of the human psychology than we are of AGI's one.
A variant of this is ... if you're in the US, what are you deliberately purchasing from the EU now (and how?). Are there consumer goods you care about where it now makes sense to order from the EU even with a greater shipping cost + time? If you're in the EU, what are US goods you would ordinarily buy but which are now out of reach?
Unless a school is willing to accept a entirely random set of students all schools success or lack there of can be chalked up to selection and survivor bias.

I’d have to find it but someone did an analysis of folks who got into elite schools and didn’t go for whatever reason and saw that by mid career they had more or less the same outcomes.

Thiel Fellows entire premise is around this effect, as well.
Yes the mortgage is a debt, but whatever it bought is the asset that balanced it out. You could sell the house, recoup your equity, and poof! no more debt.
One down, 99 to go. These university rankings are absurd, and just a status game that school administrators feel they are forced to play. Individual programs may be outstanding at otherwise middling colleges — it’s better to learn about specific departments than try to reduce the school as a whole to a number.
Total nonsense. Forex markets are extremely liquid; narrow and deep. Right now, I could exchange 3M USD for euros (or vice versa) and not even move the price by $0.0001.
"See" does not imply "with eyeballs"
Thanks, updated my post. I'm usually logged in in the classic site so I didn't think what it would be like for others.
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I came to this exact conclusion a long time ago, except using intermittent fasting (i.e. “stop eating so much”):

1. Use a fad diet (e.g. potato) to get down to 80 kg.

2. Weigh yourself every morning

3. If your average weight over a week ever exceeds 81 kg, spend the next week on the potato diet.

4. Repeat forever.
I have a friend who works at Duke University’s marketing analytics and performance metrics team. It’s filled with MBAs who’s job is to massage the numbers and metrics that are asked by US News every year and provide them to US News.
> But it improves outcomes for some students.

Correct, but it’s a fraction of 1%, and those students would have already graduated in the top of their classes.

Ducey cites a program that works better for the top fraction of students as a solution for the larger population. In other charter schools with true open enrollment, the outcomes are worse than public schools.

Overall, this will damage education in Arizona, and it’s all done for politics. That makes Ducey the worst of politicians.

If he could demonstrate general improvements over public schools, I’d happily support the change.
Around the time of the pandemic they implemented a strategic change to have local management arrange the store rather than auctioning shelf placement to publishers like most other retailers do. This has actually made B&N pretty nice to browse compared to a few years ago.
If it's actually just a joke then it's not a big deal. I have dealt with a very annoying parent screwing up every single setting on a phone.
This sounds like an argument that could be used to justify slavery.
Yes, but that support is limited to playback. All it does is pass the Dolby Vision metadata to the output, which means you need a Dolby Vision display to actually use it.
I think it's because some of the member states are already heavily indebted with weak economies, like Greece and Italy. A recession caused by monetary tightening may be annoying for Germany or the Netherlands, but very bad for most of the southern European countries.
Why should i believe this vaccine protects me and people around me from Influenza? Will it be better than the COVID vax that ended up only reducing the risk of a bad case?
In LA I've never actually had an issue with taxis.

OTOH, I've lost count of the number of Ubers and Lyfts that just never showed up, or cancelled en route, or tried to go the wrong way to pad mileage.
Never in history has a commoner lived better than any of the feudal kings. Your average work from home yuppie has access to a warm home, door dash, video games, and online dating; betterments no longer akin to that of a king in their castle with their serf'd up veggies, lamely jesters, and brothel mismanagement and inbreeding.

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I used to be exactly the same, word for word.

Then I did my own thing, sold a business, work only on projects that interest me etc as you are aspiring to do.

Now I’m back in exactly the same situation, wanting more and being unsettled despite having a dream life on paper.

It never ends. Think it’s just the way some of us are wired!
In the grand scheme of global economics, yes, nationalism has a very big impact, and it typically lasts longer than pandemic lockdowns or gas sanctions.
I am seeing a lot of people on here suggest meditation, what is it supposed to do? Not to sound arrogant, but I feel like I'm "too smart" to meditate, like any mind games I play on myself are not going to work. My conscious thoughts aren't going to change.
But it’s a prisoner’s dilemma situation, right?

If none of the Ivy’s are on US News, well, it’s probably a shitty ranking.

But if e.g. just Penn falls off the list… most people are just gonna assume that Penn got worse.
Been a contractor all my working life.

As job "replacement", estimate on 35-40 weeks a year of billed work, that's what it is with all public holidays, leave, professional development etc factored.

Contractors often make more because they skip these and also work longer hours.

If you need to pay medical and professional insurances it can easily be closer to 25-30 weeks a year billable after expenses, for estimating purposes.

Short term contracts should be 20-40% more to allow for "gaps", in a hot market just another bonus, but you should stash this, if you get it. Also you still pay most insurances during the "gaps" so too many is bad news.

Then if you think you are actually selling some service no one else is around to do, whatever mark-up you can defend. But go too high and you will suffer in a cold market unless you are remarkably good and everyone knows it.

Or if you really know your domain and selling results (instead of direct effort/activity), then "double dip" as we say, do two contracts at same time and double the pay for maybe same or less work if you are lucky.
Eh, they still get funding and money from rich elites and the government either way. Many board members in big pharma served in the government and many former politicians serve on the boards of big pharma. The conflict of interests is amazing, but I'm pretty sure they all made out well enough on COVID.

Klaus Schwaab and the WEF too, since they were running virtual scenarios on zootonic novel coronaviruses breaking out and mandatory lockdowns, etc... a year before COVID-19. Then he wrote that whole COVID-19 the great reset book. Seems like everyone's making a killing off these vaccines, and the world population, are well, just dying.

From a virus, which still hasn't been confirmed, to not have originated in a lab. Or a group of experimental vaccines rushed into production. One of the two.
> The special effects are really obvious.

I've never understood this complaint. Almost all special effects are obvious, because they depict things that aren't real. I don't remember watching Ghostbusters in the theater and wondering if those were really ghosts.
In those debates I just asking what my debatee knows about Ukrainian reconnaissance satellites.