skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only is that purely anecdotal, but it's also subject to survivorship bias and the placebo effect. The idea that carbs are somehow bad is ridiculous just from a purely biological POV of how the human body works. Glucose is an important fuel source for anaerobic energy generation. Try doing endurance exercise without any carbs, and you are going to have a really bad time.
Emacs is not really the classical desktop-app. It's a terminal-app that just happened to also have a GUI.
For the majority of human history, health care was done by village shamans etc (that did actually treat most ailments they could) for free.

It was part of living in that village.

So no, under modern less-personal systems this hasn’t been the case.
Investors are so horny for AI that they’ve invested $175M in OpenAI’s VC fund
https://archive.is/TOd5p
As a "text editor", in MS Word (desktop), I know you can double-click anywhere and start writing (and rewriting on the same line won't affect the position of other inline "text cells").

As an "infinite grid", there is https://strlen.com/treesheets/, but it is not exactly geared toward your aim (more like a spreadsheet/outliner combo, or "hierarchical spreadsheet").
My hobby is working on a 20+ year game engine. Still occasionally delete DOS-only code in it. https://github.com/ArmageddonGames/ZQuestClassic
My understanding for the confusion with nutrition studies are all the lies - industry-funded one-sided "findings" in favor of the industry.

Why do you think there is any confusion about the overall health effects of eating meat, eggs, and dairy? With $ billions at stake - of course they find unethical ways to find some statistical anomaly to make their products good along some narrow dimension - and then have their money-funded media stories amplifying the lies.

I strongly recommend https://nutritionfacts.org/ - a non-profit focusing on finding the signal through the noise.
"This work is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Arts in Mathematical Sciences."

So does that mean this is his PhD thesis? What's a Doctor of Arts?
With reduced staff and heavy-handed, know-nothing leadership Twitter has become less relevant and more prone to technical failures as was recently showcased:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/tech/twitter-desantis-meltdow...
Your intuition about the (in)security of PDFs is outdated. 2000s era Adobe Reader on Windows XP may have been a security nightmare, but a modern PDF app running on a mobile phone OS with bulit-in application sandboxing and a fine-grained permissions system definitely isn't.
Not really. US is in a better position for a federal-wide monetary union. Labor mobility is a key component, and it is easier when you don't have different languages and cultures.
It's become clear that it's a hard requirement for wide adoption, especially with the new competition from bun. Personal anecdote: I tried to pitch Deno last year at my job, and as soon as I mentioned that it can't use the NPM ecosystem they went "ahh..." and the conversation basically stopped.

So I don't blame the team for being practical. You can still make things better without a clean break
Basically creative suites:

- Photoshop

- Gimp

- Blender

- Maya 3D

- 3ds Max

- Audacity

- Ableton Live

Office stuff:

- Microsoft Office

- SAP ERPs
My Git Best Practices
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1877240/000187724023...
My suggestion is to do more design work up front before touching code. Write up a plan in a drive document or an internal wiki tool, with a focus on capturing requirements, a high level description of your proposed solution, and detailed sections on the portions you anticipate to be complicated, controversial, or risky. Also include an "alternatives" section where you very briefly summarize technical approaches that you considered but ruled out.

That captures most of the high-value engineering work necessary to solve the problem, and you can move faster, unencumbered by programming languages, linters and toolchains because you're using freeform human communication. That document is allowed to be ugly.

Once you have an initial idea down, even if you don't like it yet, pass it around to your coworkers. Ask them for feedback on the design, especially the requirements, and ask them to help you brainstorm solutions to the parts you don't like. Your coworkers are going to naturally approach your document with a positive, progressive mindset. There's no risk of breaking things or stepping on toes. Chances are there will be design decisions they don't like, or have better ideas for how to do it. Since it's a freeform document, you can quickly rewrite stuff and tweak it until everyone's happy, or you can at least have the tough conversations to reach a compromise.

Once your coworkers have had a chance to provide feedback, then is the time to write code. Since you did that up-front work, you should be able to barf out the code 10x faster. You could even hand it off to someone else like an intern to barf out the code.

When the code goes through code review, it's your coworkers' jobs to be in a very conservative mindset, looking for regressions and maintenance pitfalls. You'll likely have a very different experience, though, because the code is now the manifestation of a previously agreed upon plan. It's simply an artifact. The lines of code are "cattle" to be slaughtered and consumed rather than "pets".
Because of people like you we will have the collapse of civilization, global warming and apps like Slack.

Not caring about memory usage, data usage, speed is the reason why software is so brittle and broken these days.
Tape has come a long way since the 800 BPI (bits per inch) NRZI (Non-return zero insert) and 6250 BPI PE (Phase encoded) 2400' tapes I worked with in the 70's.

The tape sort algorithm read tapes backwards to avoid the delay of rewinding. Pretty cool.

If you put a ping pong ball atop the blast from the vacuum pumps, it would hover magically in the air.

If a tape got worn out from use, you cut off the first 100' and pasted a new silver Load Point Marker.
>"Anti-fragile attitude" when it comes to criticism is not built by tolerance. Quite the opposite actually.

I agree with your overall statement, but I think the specific point above could be misinterpreted in a nonconstructive way. What it seems like you're trying to say is that we shouldn't just be learning how to deal with criticism by tuning it out or building up defense mechanisms against it. That I agree with. However, another interpretation that could be implied from your statement is that one should not be seeking out criticism, which is not good.

What I think OP is getting at is that learning to process criticism comes by experiencing criticism over and over again. Some of the worst responses I've seen to criticism have come from those who constantly make concerted efforts to avoid it. Understanding that you are not the sum of your output is important, but it's really hard to remember that when you're right in the thick of it. Being able to control your emotions and thoughts within that moment come from having experiencing those moments over and over again.

The point of criticism is to learn and improve, but in order for that to happen one has to be able to actually hear and process the criticism being offered. One needs to get past the emotional response to criticism in order for that to happen. The two big pieces of that are decoupling the value of what we're being criticized on from our inherent self worth, AND being able to control our emotions in the moment. The latter is really only done by having enough exposure to it, and that's the "anti-fragility" component.
My usual response to this is: ask me in private or in a water cooler chat. I love to talk about programming. And I love learning how others approach things as well.

If the level of trust in a team is high enough that asking such questions is genuinely considered honest and useful then most people ought not to be feeling bad about honest mistakes or characterize feedback as, "snarky," and feeling anger, shame, etc after a code review. If people like these kinds of questions and it helps the team then maybe it should be in the code review guidelines.

For me, I have a hard enough time discerning the intentions of other people. Guidelines remove some of that ambiguity up front so that I can safely assume people are being genuine and it is obvious to everyone else, and me, when they're not.

However, the spirit of the idea is that code reviews shouldn't be leaving you feeling bad about yourself and the mistakes you've made. That could be a you problem but I think it's more common for us to self-doubt than to realize that perhaps the problem may lie with other people. Imposter syndrome, DK, etc, etc all seem to run rampant.
> Voting is voluntary.

Exercise of all rights is voluntary. Voting requires someone else’s labor (ballot preparation, vote counting, etc.), which is the attribute that you said makes positive rights impractical.

> Jury duty places a large burden on many people.

And, yet, trial by jury is a right.
With HFCS instead of bona fide glucose sugar, you also risk getting NAFLD later in life. Liver’s capacity to process fructose appears to be lower than glucose.
But if you try to accomplish that by violating people's trust, all you've done is become untrustworthy.
I agree that pure open source probably won't cross over into general use. Open source is great at tech but bad at product, mostly because product requires doing a lot of boring polish that programmers hate and thus generally have to be paid to do (I have ranted about this extensively here and elsewhere). Consumers also hate choice these days because they're all in a state of continuous cognitive overload. They want the one thing to do the one thing and stop bothering me.

That being said, Linux and open source have had a gigantic effect on the market. This hasn't been by shipping products directly to consumers but by enabling a ton of startups to get there faster and cheaper. OSS enables a ton of innovation and consumers benefit from that.

I'm arguing that the same thing is going to happen in AI. That's all. AI will get faster, better, and cheaper, and the basic functionality will get commoditized. That will lead to more competition and more variation and make it hard for people like OpenAI to have a monopoly.

I'm sure OpenAI will still exist. They might stay a dominant player. I just don't see a world where they "own the tech" and get to be "the only AI" and charge rent to the entire industry because nothing works without their API. That's a fantasy... unless they can legislate it into existence, which is what I think they're trying to do.

On integrations: what happens when everyone uses AI? One of the most exciting possibilities I see for this technology is to entirely toss out the persnickety concept of the API in favor of LLMs talking to LLMs. Making software interoperate in the conventional way frankly sucks. It's a terrible slog through mud. Imagine if I could just say "hey app I just wrote, meet GitHub! GitHub, please explain to my app what you can do and how to access your capabilities... Now tell GitHub to... now tell other app on my machine to... now tell Amazon to..."

We are going to look back at how we did software interoperability the way we look at programming mainframes with punched cards.
<< we resort to blaming the journalists

What is your point? Are you suggesting that they are not to blame? They certainly write the articles. They may even be a part of juicing up the headline sufficiently to become a perfect clickbait.

Only few months ago, an article was written about recovering in 'no work' spaces, which happened to include cars. Fortune title? Scientists say car is your meditation spot ( I am paraphrasing a little since I am quoting from memory ).
To what extent does each state run its own economy? The EU does not have centralised taxes or a centralised economic policy, but it does have a single currency. It's possible a single currency also requires more centralised financial/economic policies.
True, but every system has flaws. For the most part the Euro and ECB has been a benefit for every country in it.

Even a country like Greece. As bad as the single currency was for Greece, outside the EU and Eurozone, Greece could very likely have been closer to Venezuela with even fewer resource wealth to benefit from.
It is still trivial
Reason (music making software). Released in 2000 and still an actively developed code base. Still some code from 23 years ago running in production :)
it sounds like we need an anti-OFAC law. Instead of only telling companies who they can't transact with, tell them who they can't arbitrarily not transact with.

We need a financial bill of rights. Custody and payment rails should be like public utilities where everyone can use them regardless of your opinions about them.
Yep, you're right. In other places, places where pistols are hard to get, violence still happens...it's just somewhat less deadly. UK for instance:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/10/e023114

The children just get stabbed instead
Wouldn't a vector database just get you nearest-neighbors on the embeddings? How would that answer a generative or extractive question? I can see it might get you sentiment, but would it help with "tell me all the places that are mentioned in this review"?
It's also very easy to use, it's just a normal VPN. You open the app and hit connect and you're connected. Outline is also very easy to add new regions to, you can deploy a VPN anywhere AWS, GCP, or Digital Ocean have data centers in, and you can use the one liner install script to install it in other cloud providers.

Tailscale is cool for sure but it also requires a third party involved in this. Outline has no third party server component. For almost everyone Outline is much easier to setup and use.

> so no sharing if config or keys. just invite them to your tailnet of share the server to their tailnet.

It's the same level of effort as outline. Outline manager has a button that generates an invite that someone else just puts into the outline client and now they have access to your VPN. You can revoke keys and do all the things you'd expect to be able to do, but again with no third party involved.
FL Studio (aka Fruity Loops)

>The first version of FruityLoops (1.0.0) was developed by Didier Dambrin and was partially released on December 18, 1997.[13] Its official launch was in early 1998
Thanks for this resource. It also serves as a LaTeX math example --- the source for the book is provided.
> How many bank failures would have been avoided if US banking regulations hadn't been slackened so much?

Most of the failures after 2000 would have been prevented. All of the 2008 financial crisis was caused by removing regulation.

Prior to Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 [0], several states ruled that credit default swaps were insurance and thus regulated CDS as insurance. Some states ruled that CDS were gambling and regulated it as gambling. The CFMA basically said "credit default swaps are now a federal issue and it will be regulated at the federal level" and set up a poorly funded agency that had no teeth until after the bailouts in 2008.

During the 1920s, many banks got involved in both commercial banking (taking deposits and making loans) as well as investment banking (arranging IPOs). In 1933, the Glass-Steagal Act [1] said that banks may do one or the other, but cannot do both. In 1999, Glass-Steagal was later repealed by GLBA [2] as CitiCorp was doing both (due to mergers) while daring the regulators to do anything about it.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernizatio...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Banking_Act

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bl...
Measure your glucose before, after and when you are tired using a finger prick test. You might be spiking and then crashing.
But would you make placebo taste good without messing with the study itself?
Existing compilers that know nothing of the new annotations can still compile the code (without the checks obviously) using the macro definitions provided in the article.
Do you have a source on FL being uninsurable? I just renewed my homeowners hurricane insurance.
Calibre ~16 years

VLC ~22 years
I have no ego about my code. As long as you're not being a "jerk" about it, I'm all for any opportunity to improve it. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
Other way around. The euro has been a net loss for all but 2 countries
I think we agree?

"It is not normal to have people go into schools and start shooting children and teachers at random."

We agree about that. If you mean "it's not okay" OR if you mean "it doesn't happen often".

Per capita comparisons aren't informative because you should care about the ABSOLUTE risk, rather than relative risk.

The ABSOLUTE risk (as I calculate in another comment, charitably about 0.000043% per year per student risk of being killed at school) is extremely small. The fact that it's 5x Greece's or something is irrelevant, because both are tiny. If you're trying to answer the question "How do I make sure my kid grows up happy and healthy?" worrying about school shootings is a waste of time. The kid has a 22x higher likelihood of being killed by drowning, focus on that. Or responsible drug use. Or physical fitness. Or driving safely (or not driving!).

Another basic thing you might want to keep in mind is: kids don't die much. Their overall risk of being killed from ANY cause is quite low. If you're worried about maximizing happiness or something, I wouldn't even worry too much about death. Sure, teach them to swim and when they're little make sure there's a lifeguard, but don't stress about them being killed unless you live in a war zone. (And I recognize that too many people live in war zones, and that's a real problem that real people have)
How well does it perform compared to JSC & V8?
This is very normal in the open source world: Half of the desktop software included in a modern Linux distro I was using in the late 90s!

From memory: VLC, GIMP, Blender, Audacity, Firefox, Gedit, OpenOffice, XBMC (now Kodi), FileZilla - the list is HUGE

Find your favourites here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_s...
Yet the society you contribute to works to ensure your species perpetuates itself (and >99% of your DNA) into the future.
Correction, it is backwards compatible for one tape generation. (So your -9 drive will work with -8 tapes with no problem, but you would be out of luck for -7)

That being said though, tape generations advance infrequently enough that this would never really be a problem. And if it is a problem, the secondary market is absolutely loaded with older gen drives going all the way back to LTO 1 if you really need it.
It's a doctoral degree with a heavy emphasis on pedagogy and teaching. From https://www.cmu.edu/math/grad/phd/index.html:

> The Doctor of Arts degree shares all requirements and standards with the Ph.D., except with regard to the thesis. The D.A. thesis is not expected to display the sort of original research required for a Ph.D. thesis, but rather to demonstrate an ability to organize, understand, and present mathematical ideas in a scholarly way, usually with sufficient innovation and worth to produce a publishable work. Whenever practical, the department provides D.A. candidates with the opportunity to use materials developed to teach a course. While a typical Ph.D. recipient will seek a position that has a substantial research component, the D.A. recipient will usually seek a position where research is not central.
Congratulations - you have already succeeded enormously by seeing that this is the case.

Stoicism.

If something that someone says or does causes a problem for you, it is something inside you that is the real cause of the problem.

It takes lots of work but you can eventually work on controlling your thoughts and you can learn to deploy counter thoughts. “I have a problem when people say this, so I can discount this particular negative thought that is occurring right now” etc.

I have found that informing others out loud about such struggles is awesome as well. “Thank you, I have had problems taking such and such feedback before, but I am working on it.” You can actually turn this weakness into your strength as people like people who are honest about working on themselves. They might package this feedback differently, or they might let you know in a sensitive way.

Edit: I’m no expert at this btw. Recently I had a realization that I don’t like taking feedback publicly, would rather receive 1on1. I had an EM who had a tendency to do things quite publicly and I always found those situations difficult to manage. When I arranged for a 1on1 and told him about it, it turned out that he had another quite different concern and rule around doing things publicly - he wanted more transparency in the organization. After understanding each other he backed off of being too harsh, and I started leaning more in on the public channels, helping him achieve this goal.
There's high inflation in Germany as well.

A recession helps controlling inflation...
The immune system metaphor is complicated because, while it is true that you build resistance, it's often not without some permanent damage, even if mild and neglectable. There may be an analogy for vaccines and constructive criticism somewhere.

Even muscle strengthening seems to require minor injuries to the tissue. Tougher but demaged.
There is no individual "right to own guns" in the Constitution. When the second amendment talks about the right of "the people" it means as a collective. It's talking about curtailing the Federal government from restricting states from raising state militias. But we don't have a state militia anymore, it's been replaced by the National Guard.

There was no serious jurisprudence to interpret the second amendment as an individual right until the 60s. Guns were acknowledged as a practical tool and people saw practical issues with banning them, but that was it.
Top level EU has no capability of being a fiscal union, only a partial monetary union.

This has limitations and reduces how analogous it can be to the US' and its member states.
I think most people use it with the GUI, and the GUI version has features that the terminal-only version doesn't.
> the most common, most basic problem they’ve addressed—the optimal ratio of fat, protein, and carbohydrate—is completely unsolved.

Anyone who makes this statement and doesn't understand that this ratio depends on personal behavior is a flat out absolute idiot and shouldn't make any public facing statements. No way to sugar coat it.

This is regardless of whether nutritionists made any progress.
Or perhaps an operating system just missing a good text editor ;-)

(to be clear, I love emacs, and use spacemacs as my distro!)
I mean per the article, Palastine has banks with corresponding US banks to handle transfers. So, ordinary people of those territories can use their banks.
A monetary union without a fiscal union doesn't really make sense, imo. The US (mostly) works because states run balanced budgets(if you ignore underfunded pensions) and the federal govt corrects trade imbalances by taking money from some states and sending it to others.

Economists in the EU must have understood this and if I had to guess they assumed a fiscal union would develop at some point?