skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just assume they all are collecting data, not much that they can use that for besides ad targeting.

That's far from the truth. Depending on how detailed your task descriptions are. Your health insurance company could track how often you do or don't check your "go to the gym" tasks and if you miss too many days an algorithm could raise your rates since you're living a unhealthy lifestyle. They won't tell you why it happened. You bill will just go up. Your future employers could buy up that data and use it when making hiring decisions. So could a landlord.

Not only are you documenting for them all the things you struggle to do without reminders, but you also give them a list of all the times you've failed. That data could easily come back to haunt you in a court room. It could be used in a custody battle or divorce to show you are undependable and irresponsible. In auto accident if your records show you repeatedly failed to perform maintenance on your car it could make you more liable.

The problem with all the data being collected about you is that you can never know what it will be used for, but you can absolutely be sure that it won't be limited to ads and it will never go away so it can be used against you for the rest of your life.

You don't have to be doing anything wrong or "secret" for the data companies collect to screw you over. Just ask this guy: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...

You'll never know who has access to your data or what will prejudice someone against you. Best to keep as much data out of the hands of others as you can.
US sues 'consent farm' operator for 'massive' telemarketing deception
You need to make a new language for every project to throw language models off your scent.
> People in the South of France buy one espresso or one beer and nurse it for 2 hours while staring at the ocean.

This is currently quite hilarious to read.

Give them one million dollar and I can guarantee you they will still drink one expresso facing the sea for 2 hours.

It is just named being French (or Latin) and has nothing to do with wealth

Time is everything in life. In many cultures, being able to spend it doing nothing or something you enjoy is the greatest sign of wealth.
Poor people do not have this luxury: they do have to work to survive.
Issues can be categorized into three buckets: my challenges, her challenges, shared challenges. We're working through many of these with our couple's therapist but here's the gist:

1. When wife would spend beyond our defined budget, I would get angry (stemming from fear) and let that boil inside without ever communicating it verbally

2. When wife and I decided for her to quit her job to parent our first daughter full time, initially was elated and then I felt a financial pressure I've never experienced before

3. Wife had a domestically violent partner before and interprets budgeting as controlling behavior

Full disclosure: lots of vulnerability factors for the both of us. I grew up poor and although I have money now, there's lots of emotions tied to finances.
But you've figured out what 20 year old and 30 year old you wanted, not necessarily what 40 year old you wants.

I was shocked by the cookie cutter midlife crisis I had upon hitting 40 despite thinking I was doing all the right things before that.
But in the period of the article (2008) things aren't as rosy as you paint. Car fatalities are up on a per mile basis. Life expectancy is flat (and turning down recently). Electric outages are up. Work-from-home is counter balanced by some pretty awful working standards for others (amazon).

By your metrics, it'd be hard to argue that things aren't getting worse in last decade. I'm not arguing things are worse now, just that you chose bad measures.
This particular company was very heavy on manual testing, unfortunately. (This was roughly 2003 - 2006 ish.)
The chrome extension is new for macOS? To my understanding, this is meant for Windows users. There is no point in having this when running macOS when iCloud Passwords is built-in.
I feel dumb asking this but how does digital storage work. Is there more charge representing 1s than zeros? Would a drive full of byte 254 be heavier than a zerod out HD?
Why did you ask?

Probably because you keep neglecting to mention, for some strange reason, the ethnic group that made up some 90 percent of the population the peninsula at the time of the (not so peaceful) 1783 annexation. Let alone what, specifically, happened to them in the summer of '44.

And how obscenely ridiculous it is, as a result -- to say that the peninsula was "Russian for 200 years" prior to the 1955 transfer.

ABM

Except the US didn't just thumb their noses at, and start violating willy-nilly (like Russia did with the 1994 treaty you are so hesitant to name). Rather - it had an opt-out clause which Bush chose to enact, giving the required 6 months notice.
They are both distorted perspectives, one I guess makes you appreciate your lot in life, the other makes you realize working for the man until you die/retire in old age kind of sucks.
> If we are doing anecdotes, I can do this all day.

meanwhile no-one in Europe dies in medical bankruptcy or has to worry about health insurance premiums/deductibles, or daily mass shootings

I'd rather have a slightly smaller steak
why has neotame not been pursued? if aspartame is carcinogenic, seems logical to switch to an extremely similar but out-of-patent compound 50x as sweet with an identical flavor-profile.
Does not sound like you have ever been anywhere near a combat situation.

You don't know who is going to need to be able to drive something at the drop of a hat. And the more fiddly and complicated something gets, the more likely it is to fail because of either technological or UX/human reasons in stressful situations. This would cost lives.
It's just what the human palate does. It adapts to circumstance. Skip sugar and sweet stuff for a few months and when you try it again everything tastes much sweeter than before. Same with salt. Same with acidity. And surely other things I haven't tried and corroborated with peers.
We do as the above and I think it is the only thing that makes sense for us. The problem we have is too much is not enough for some. They don't need to spend they need to horde. It causes problems and I think it is actually some other need that is poorly expressed. Never underestimate the ability to have problems in relationships.
This sound like what I do. Wife originally wanted a shared account. Then didn't want to change banks (she'd moved and there was no nearby branch).

We have a shared account that we pay for the house and daycare with.
That's also how SimCity did it, up until the bad EA one.

Traffic was modeled using the typical civil engineer math, rather than simulated one by one.

Moving to simulating actual trips made for very poor simulation performance
That’s a bit beyond the scope of what I was referring to, but I also don’t think that really is a counter factual to what I said. A private person is not allowed to break into a house in search of evidence and neither is a police officer. The fact that evidence from the former case may be admissible in a trial doesn’t really change that.
>it's very hard to imagine them going through one

because they've outsourced most critical decisions to their faith. As Jung said, people don't have ideas, ideas have people. It's very easy to obtain meaning by getting in a sense hijacked by a very convincing set of beliefs.
It's not just about missing out on what you want: it's also achieving it and wondering, "is that all there is?"
That's just untrue. Open door for refugees has always been motivated by humanitarian reasons by European rulers. Otherwise other immigrants would do just as fine or better.
You could start by doing an io board for one of your stm32 board. You start by doing the schematic in kicad eeschema, debug on the breadboard and then you route the actual pcb in kicad pcbnew. There are a lot of tutorial on YouTube on how to use kicad.

After that you can have it fabricated and assembled in China. It's not a necessity but it is really convenient for surface mounted parts and it is surprisingly inexpensive.

Once your comfortable doing io boards, try to replicate one of your stm32 board.
Most of it is due to the opioid crisis in the US afaik.
Good for them, I know plenty others who didn’t including my entire family.

That still isn’t the point, the quality of life in the USSR wasn’t a close 2nd to the US in fact when the USSR economy started to fall apart in the late 70’s and 80’s it too switched to PPP because hey our bread is cheap even if you need to stand in line to get it.

And Guyana today isn’t a better place to live in than France or Canada, and Bulgaria is definitely a 1000 times better place to live in than Russia.
Marriage is supposed to end when you die, remember your vows?
I think that's the kind of attitude that sometimes leads to the worst midlife crisis. Because you're holding yourself to an extremely high standard: for your life to be perfect in all aspects (by your own judgement) by ~40. Personally I learned to battle mid life crisis with a dose of humility (I haven't figured it all out, and that's exciting) and humor.
The UCLA study definitively showed that cannabis use isn’t associated with increased risk of cancer:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/large-study-finds...

It’s hard to say exactly why, but it is reality.
The assumption here is changing course is a bad thing? And what defines changing course?

Also how do you know what your 40 or 60 year old brain will think when you are 20?

If our brains thought the same things and had the same world view this would be evolutionarily a disadvantage. Just brain chemistry changes alone could account for a lot of decisions. At a crude level it makes more sense to be sex and love obsessed in 20s when the chance of having a good sperm, eggs and pregnancy is much higher.

Elder members of the group help genetic survival by providing wisdom, knowledge of a different kind than younger people (I don't believe "older people know better") but the blends of knowledge are great for survival.

The assumption that we are purely rational agents making informed choices is clearly false in general, and I think the opposite is true, in general.

And this doesn't even tough on the extra information you would have processed over 20 years or even the freakingly high speed of change of the world around us. Would you choose to learn about Machine Learning / Neural Nets in 2000? Or coding in 1980? Well you could if it is a passion, but it didn't look as promising as now right? So data changes.
A Wall (Yes, a Wall) Has Hit the Market in Washington, D.C
That's the stereotypical midlife crisis "what" for sure. I was more talking about the "who". My point was I don't think it's limited to the secular modern person.
> Was the UK included then excluded from the data? Perhaps explains the stagnation in the data

The chart says "Eurozone". Either you

1) didn't read the chart, or

2) don't know that the UK was never a part of the Eurozone.

If 1), read the discussed thing the next time before discussing it.

If 2), never speak about economics in public again.
> due to a failure of integration.

whose failure? Why are Europeans the default racists? The US is not even integrated and is going through large scale migration right now that has never happened before so the success of US integration is still too early to say. What does integration look like because the US has ethnic enclaves, everyone knows that.

It's absolutely right that the US promoted demographic change to Europe who followed along but the migrants lack the skills who arrive and I don't think this even solves the problem. It may exacerbate the demographic trap for various reasons.
I agree. And have complained to Lenovo that they have mini gumstick chargers but ship bulky ones and their desktops don't run on USB-C which is lame for minis. sure, have the option for DC in but I prefer everything one cable so future me doesn't have a box of ac adapters.
https://esphome.io < find a board + sensor pair here. Software stack tested with your board+sensor is hard to beat.

ESP32 boards: surprisingly fast/powerful little SOC with wifi

ESP8266: cheaper+slower. I like the Wemos D1 mini board: smaller and has enough horsepower for most things.

Sourcing: a ton on options on AliExpress. Buy a few extras so if you fry one you aren't waiting for replacements. They are super cheap ($3-$6).

Options to consider for board: memory, CPU speed (ESP32 vs ESP8266), size/form factor, pins/dev board or just solder holes, does it have built in USB controller (and which one), voltage regulator for 5V, USB Micro vs USB C, sensor voltage requirement, etc. Sounds complicated, but they are all pretty similar, and can typically buy a few and make your projects work. Getting one of the "branded" options like Wemos D1 is good bet, comes with all the basics covered, and no surprises like making your own voltage reg.

Sensors: lots to learn on each one. Just did the deep dive on CO2, and there were a ton of details (eCO2 vs CO2, auto calibration quality, manual calibration support, cost, airflow, etc). Went for Senseair S8. If you want easy place to get started, look at AirGradient Kit: https://www.airgradient.com/kits/
Who tf is that
> We could have three states…

"With the advent of mass-produced binary components for computers, ternary computers have diminished in significance. However, Donald Knuth argues that they will be brought back into development in the future to take advantage of ternary logic's elegance and efficiency."

(Wikpedia article on ternary computer(s), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer, Donald Knuth's observation is found in The Art of Computer Programming.)
Man big pharma did a number on you huh
> The reason is that transit is worse than cars always

As long as 'always' is restricted to a certain lifestyle and worldview, and doesn't take into account the excellent transit systems that exist around the world.

> And in reality it simply means that fewer people go there, because going there is miserable. The city starts converting to low income because anyone with income goes elsewhere.

That's incredibly naive, and I think a lot of European cities are direct counter examples to this. It often makes things a lot less miserable for the people who actually live in the denser urban areas that were previously overrun with cars.
I read the book Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya. I found it interesting and helpful.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691173931/mi...
Wouldn’t consider any other arrangement, personally. If you can’t trust each other around the money then there’s not much foundation there, IMO. We both know what the individual budget for non essential purchases is, why do we need top secret accounts? Anyway, whatever works for each couple and keeps them happiest is the best.
> One day there will be a massive wave of climate refugees rushing out of the uninhabitable zone

Are you talking about Canada?
...there are none. you could argue residual solvent but FDA would not allow that, and depending on the industrial process this would be a concern with caffeine extracted from "natural" processes as well
Also, 5+ kids may seem helpful, but not because you won't face existential crisis with five kids -- you just will have more trouble finding time to process. Kids keep you very busy, until they don't.

As an ex-church person: the "community" is pretty hurtful to a lot of people and isn't immune to high school clique / cult of personality type things, even if you discount other obvious harms (the experience of gay kids in church, women being told they can't teach, way-too-frequent abuses of adolescents by church authorities like youth pastors and priests).

Christian stuff in particular is also heavy on the shame and that is pretty bad for psychological safety & wellness. My mother in law was a divorcee and made to feel real bad about that even to this day. As a boy I remember growing up and self-flagellating for every "impure" thought that crossed my mind. "Rich spiritual life" is a pretty branding phrase for bankrupt ideology.
I'm fairly sure in countries where the life expectancy is lower you're more likely to suffer in your final years.
I strongly disagree. Splitting finances allows each person to be responsible for their own money and avoids disputes over whether one person is spending more than their fair share.

For me doing the exact reverse works better, most of the funds are owned by the individual and a small joint account for fun activities.
if course x.a().b().c() is just fine, but it only works in object oriented languages where these functions return the right object for the next step. the pipe method works with any other function as long as the output type matches the type of the first argument of the next function.
Because joint accounts have always seemed weird and controlling to me? I don’t want my wife to have to “check in” when she wants to buy something. She can spend her money on whatever she wants. We split the bills according to our income (more or less) and discuss saving more when we know larger expenses like a trip or home improvements are on the horizon.

I don’t need access to her checking accounts or credit cards because I trust her to be financially responsible and I don’t want her to ever feel like she has to justify spending money on something she wants to me.
Seriously? This article is obviously poorly written marketing copy and is just one step above the average InfoWars article.

"Caffeine anhydrous was first developed by the Nazis"
OK, so what? Not to mention the fact this is completely wrong. The first total synthesis of caffeine was described by Emil Fischer in 1895.

"Do the soda drink makers have to state how much caffeine is in the can?"
I have no idea if there's a law mandating it but literally every can of soda or energy drink I've ever had lists the amount of caffeine in it.

I have no idea if the assertions about the quality of the Chinese plants is true or not but there are so many things that are off the about the article The general alarmist tone, rehashing of standard chemophobic tropes (woah, _SYNTHETIC_ caffeine!), inserting some industrial mishaps related to the manufacturing of caffeine products (no logical connection is drawn between these mishaps and well, anything else in the article...) etc.
The push for early diagnosis skews the statistics. Early diagnosis gets the drug companies paid more. The actual lifespan may not have changed.
Thanks for sharing your story honestly. These are things I wish investors understood -- building good HW is just not as sexy as computer vision on the pitch deck
I only eat huel 3 meals a day. You should try it, it's awesome. Why enjoy food?
These are good questions. If you're a hiker/camper who needs access to a wide variety of remote locations, then that's a good reason to own a car. That said, from where I live there's plenty of green space that I can access without a car. At the end of the orange line (one of the local subway lines) is Forest Hills from which you can immediately access the Arnold Arboretum and Franklin Park (not to mention a huge quintet of adjacent cemeteries). If you want more wilderness rather than manicured greenery, then the green line terminates tantalizingly close to Middlesex Fells (not quite as close as I would like, admittedly, it's still a ten minute ride from there to the green line). If you want to range further afield, the commuter rail spiderwebs out for 30 miles in every direction. And if you don't want to ride either a subway or a train, I can ride all the way from Boston Common (in the heart of downtown) to Concord (where Walden Pond is) using nearly 20 miles of dedicated bike trails (mostly on the Minuteman bikeway), which hits up plenty of state parks along the way.
From each according to their ability. If you make $50k and your spouse makes $150k, and your monthly expenses are $10k, then it seems quite reasonable for you to put in $2500 and your spouse to contribute $7500. The nice thing about the joint spending account is that you can set up this arrangement and then subsequently ignore it for everything else. All communal bills just get paid, and you are free to spend your excess how you like. If either person takes issue with how the money is spent, then you break it down into what they're missing. If it's nothing, then what's the problem? And if there is something missing, then you can agree to increase what counts as communal bills, including vacations, retirement, etc. All the way to everyone contributing 100% of their income, which is just a traditional joint account (but I would strongly recommend against that; 80-90% should be the max).
It sounds like they specifically attempted to avoid that reasoning by taking the decision away from the couples: "In a six-wave longitudinal experiment, we investigated whether randomly assigning engaged or newlywed couples to merge their money in a joint bank account increases relationship quality over time."

I would like to see more of this by income level, though, which isn't mentioned in the abstract. If you don't have much, and you have separate accounts, I certainly see how it results in more resentment, feeling that one of you is having to sacrifice or do more. That lines up with their findings of joint account promoting feelings of cohesiveness. If you are making more, it seems like it would be less of a significant factor in the relationship.
Yes, it did. I would die in first week of life if it wasn't for modern medicine.
I think suffering is based on life expectancy and not fixed. Life expectancy was 50 years not a long back, but still people suffered last 5 years or so of their life.
This is going to be extremely off-topic, but I'm just too terribly curious: the company mandated the use of the mouse? Do you mean that figuratively, as in your tasks were a lot harder to do without a mouse or did they actually make you use one for something like RSI concerns?
docsis. up to 16384
How much methanol?
There is this book

https://www.amazon.com/Passages-Predictable-Crises-Adult-Lif...

which factually points out that most people go through several crises in their adult life. As a rule of thumb you have one every seven years or so. I had one around 30, another in my early 40s, and another at 49. If you read between the lines in Freud you could also get the picture that a psychoanalysis would be likely to span the duration of such a crisis (say 18 months) and improve the outcome you get.

The author, Gail Sheehy, gave a talk at Ithaca College about a decade ago and actually said that she disowned that book for a few reasons:

(1) Passages is positive for divorce as a way that people who are evolving at different rates and in different directions to realize themselves. She realized later on that divorce is overall highly destructive.

(2) The paths that people take aren't quite so predictable.

(3) Passages was based on a study of graduates of an elite school, one thing that stands out is that none of the case studies consider serious deprivation, in fact you never once hear that somebody wanted to do X or Y but didn't because they couldn't afford it. In the sense that the experience of most people is "dark matter" you might want to read

https://www.amazon.com/Silences-Tillie-Olsen/dp/1558614400

In particular divorce might work out well for somebody like Bill Gates or Elon Musk who can trade in their tired old nag for a hot young thing but for most ordinary people and their families it's profoundly harmful.

Sheehy went on to write numerous more books on the same subject.
Is this a troll? Am I on Facebook somehow?