jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're right, the evolutionary argument is just one dimension.

I don't think it's irrelevant, because logically we should have evolved to process what we eat so it doesn't kill us. But evolution could have settled on a compromise between availability to the food and some "good enough" health and lifespan like you say, live at least 40 years, healthy enough to have and raise offsprings.

It just seems a good starting point to start refining from.

I've alluded to other dimensions, like how it seems plant and seafood heavy diets correlate to longer healthier lifes and meat heavy ones don't. But I also wanted to point at the uncertainty exactly in those. We don't really have data of people on very good meat quality diets versus your typical large scale meat production. So it can be premeditated to just blame meat.

Similarly more modern forms of vegetable based byproducts also have studies showing correlation with inflammation and other issues. And again I think it be premeditated to just blame vegetables.

In the end, when I consider multiple dimensions that I've read about, the diet most consistently appearing "healthier" in the average is what I said. A varied source of nutritions from different foods, all of high quality, with no excess in any one of them over the others, with overall eating less of it all, with minimal processed food consumption. For which I was just showing that even the evolutionary dimension corroborates.

Another way to look at it, we don't know enough about any single food and their risk, so a diversified portfolio is the best strategy to mitigate the risks, similar to financial investments.
thats really amazing!
I really have to disagree with this attitude.

Suits are the great equalizer of clothing. They're designed to downplay the wearer's bodily proportions, and it's very hard to look bad in one. Most people can't tell the difference between a cheap suit, well-tailored, and an expensive one. The suit-and-tie pattern visually draws the eyes toward the wearer's face. Aside from these things, they have very little detail, and that's why they were the post-Depression standard businesswear in America, replacing things like morning coats and top hats and stripey pants.

Computer guys usually don't wear suits because they don't want to spend the extra time and money on them. That's fine. But it should be understood that the typical business casual getup is often visually more distracting than a suit, and does not emphasize the face over the body like a suit does.

You'd be better off just charging everyone $30 extra, and always wearing the suit.
This is self-reported, yes? Culturally speaking, I imagine women would tend to report much higher numbers than men -- even in a scenario where it was a 1:1 split.

I'd take that poll with a grain of salt, and I sincerely doubt that 'femanons' are 10x more likely to be suffering from moderate to severe mental illness.
What differentiates Quora over Stack Overflow?
It seems Sikuli was inspired by iMacros:

http://wiki.imacros.net/File:Image-recognition-plugin.png

http://wiki.imacros.net/Image_Recognition
That is a non sequitur.

A language designer must make choices. 2 choices have been identified as "shortcomings" (in the sense of this thread). Empirical evidence suggests that they indeed picked a very productive sweet spot.

As an aside, the current disfavor of "crowds" for Java is all together too familiar to the past fervor of "crowds" for Java. You may wish to reflect on that.
I believe there's another lesson here: the importance of failing early. Ed didn't spend a frustrating career before quitting politics or fours years before quitting math. It can often be far easier to continue doing something you don't truly enjoy than to quit and try something else.
Everybody's got their things they consider essential. Not being able to arbitrarily zoom with the trackpad is a killer for me, I use that constantly.
But it's also Firefox, just go into about:config and turn it off if you don't like it and presto?
That’s precisely what I’m referring to. If that had collapsed the bank, the FDIC would have stepped in to cover deposits.
Comment 6 • 15 years ago :

> I'm going to take this bug so maybe someday I can do it. Way too hard for now, but it would be very nice to have.

Now that's persistence!
I did actually use this when I used macOS, but when I moved to Linux there was apparently no equivalent at the time.

https://superuser.com/questions/1318336/how-to-disable-ctrlq...
> The aircraft itself is apparently excellent at what it does

I have heard the opposite from a test pilot who has flown it. He fucking hates it.
Not visually appealing at first glance, but the posts I've seen by postal workers are that this thing looks great. The cargo capacity will handle the increase in package delivery, and it's much easier to see around the edges to maneuver up to a mailbox, which reduces the times a carrier has to get out to deliver the mail. The current vans don't even have A/C, and their collision warning system is a plastic pole at the corner.

Form really follows function.
I think GNU Emacs was released in 1985, but Emacs existed before that. Similar to vim and vi relationship.

In fact, Emacs was first implemented as a plugin (a set of macros in the language of the time) for a now forgotten editor called Teco, which was one of the first, if not the first, programmable editor ever.
Well I am actually in the same camp as you then :)
Can someone explain what this even is for folks reading the description and going "this means nothing to me"?
Huge misunderstanding of David Graeber's idea. Essentially a response which is actually an advertisement for a consultancy. Graeber doesn't attack specific occupations (the article's author didn't even bother finishing his initial 'bullshit jobs' piece, let alone the new book that fleshes out the idea). Instead, he examines why so many of us experience our work as meaningless - what is missing from occupations that would provide hedonic utility, fulfilment, engagement and intrinsic motivation. That's one aspect of Graeber's argument - the other side, again missed by the articles author - is that market 'efficiency' increases inequality, which has driven down the cost of labour and led to middle class occupations becoming curation of a bureaucratic process, rather than fulfilling, imaginative, measurably impactful work. Something, in Graeber's view, and mine, intrinsically destructive of human dignity.
I don't think "lazy" is a problem in real code. They just annoys when in interactive shell which you just want to print their result.
In fact python3 has changed a lot of list like data type or function to "lazy", zip(),dict.items() etc. IMO this helps a lot to reduce memory usage. Thus more efficient with functional programming
Was interested, but this is just a cute video.

The signal to noise level would be much higher with at the very least a table showing the results.
I use it daily as my IDE. I find that startup time is indeed slow as a dog, but once it is up and running (and it's typically open all of the time, so startup time isn't a real issue) it runs fast enough. At certain times I notice small delays on more complex ops compared to sublime, but nothing significant. The main pro's for Atom, for me, are the way the eco-system is developing, the open-source nature of it, and I'm slightly more happy with the interface. If push came to shove though, I could be happy in either sublime or atom.

The difference in speed in these editors is so small that, if you find it's having a measurable effect on your productivity when coding, you may want to re-look at how you measure productivity or indeed how much time you're churning out code versus other development activities (thinking, planning, testing, talking).
Yes, I still occasionally check Ebay when I have some disposable cash. The planets haven't yet aligned.
No other cause went up to a meaningful degree in terms of death rates, which is what the submitted article mostly focused on. "The overall rate of deaths from cancer decreased from about 215 per 100,000 people in 1991 to about 169 per 100,000 people in 2011, researchers found." An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[1] Provides some of the background.

Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.[2]

Yes, people all around the world eventually die of something, but they are dying at ever later ages after longer and longer spans of healthy living all around the world. That's why we can say that death rates are going down. As the link you found after your comment edit says, "Although single year improvements in mortality were often small, the age-adjusted risk of dying dropped 60 percent from 1935 to 2010."

After edit: another participant here in another comment links to CDC documents that plainly show the drop in all-cause death rates in the United States.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[2] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
Interesting, but I'm not sure it's meaningful. Consider the following.

1) Their sample data is based on your product usage and people who use rescue time are probably heavy cloud users. So population set is unfairly waited toward the cloud.

2) Microsoft's get's the majority of their users and revenue from enterprise level sales. Google customer on the other hand is primarily the consumer and small business. This is important because in most enterprise level environments users can't install an application like rescue time.

3) Lastly people double dip - at work use outlook for work and gmail for personal.

It would interesting to just look at productivity apps like word processing or presentation with referrer values from .com addresses only (not logins) . The trending might be very different.
How about older developers without mortgages and kids? They exist, but are underrepresented anyway.
Yeah these kids had better learn to be friends with everyone, or else it's detention all year!
I'd be especially interested in apps whose potential customers included people who weren't web savvy. For e.g. in our situation, a huge number of people use Excel to manage their sports leagues right now and they are people who aren't tuned necessarily into Twitter, blogs, etc.
Right on the money. Microsoft Outlook actually has FAR more users than Gmail (which is actually one of the least popular webmail apps), yet there are twice as many RescueTime users using Gmail.
heh rescuetime have had a string of really interesting blog posts, and without fail almost every comment from hacker news has been complaining about skew and bias.

rescuetime can only provide this level of insight for people that use their software, and that will incur a bias, thats fairly obvious and should go without saying, or at least repeating constantly.

Cheers guys for some really interesting blog posts, some of us appreciate them.
Wow that was more unpleasant than being Rick Roll'd. There should be a [loud sound] tag at least (not very nice while wearing headphones)!
TechCrunch had a contest about this when Posterous launched: http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/28/posterous-beats-tumblr-in-s...

Michael Arrington posted the results here:
http://techcrunch.posterous.com/lots-of-fake-post-attempts-o...
And don't worry about being "adequately compensated for my skills"...that's the wrong angle to go from at this point...you'll only feel frustrated whatever you do.
> In the meantime, my personal experience of cost/year being cheaper with Mac vs PC stands for me.

My personal experience is my all my laptops last. People have problems with macs. People have problems with PCs. Doesn’t mean any are better than the other. But people with pc laptops will more often update their laptop for next to no gain over what they already had.
What's the Russian mob's next big play, then, Cartel? Reading cryptocurrency whitepapers, or selling CRISPR service out of the back of a truck?

The fact that people still fall for this shit, on both sides of the table, is depressing.
but if they are already taking money from Google, why should I donate to Firefox?

IMO companies that aren't getting direct money from ad businesses deserve my donations more.

There's no guarantee that reaching independence from Google will stop Firefox from getting Google money, disabling features that made Firefox different or cutting jobs.
Seems like English for international and scientific communication is like Javascript for the internet.
I was writing about this last week here on HN; but decided to kill the comment as I felt maybe I was being too pessimistic/critical:

I stated that FB has the Toys R Us business model: People are always producing kids; the internet always has new generations coming online. They are building for the COMING generations -- not the current.

Another here on HN summed it up best: FB's new messaging platform is for those who think FB IS the internet.

Additionally, this is further reason why I would not want/use a FB payment system. I dont want to have to be logged into FB / have an account on FB in order to pay something.

We have all seen how maverick Zuck is with others' privacy...

Disclaimer: I have never, nor shall I ever, had a FB account. I refuse to participate. While I see the value it provides others - I have been perfectly happy to not have had an account - and even gone as far as asking friends and girlfriends not to post pics or any other info about me to the site.
But given their huge size, I actually don't think they necessarily benefit from generating a bunch of users of a new service.

The question is how this changes the Facebook and whether it will benefit Facebook.
I can't imagine life without RDS. I'm a solo developer responsible for a large web app. Before RDS I hosted MySQL on dedicated hardware from Softlayer. I had a dedicated box for the master, one for the slave, and another for storing backups. The DB was about 100GB which made backing up a total nightmare. Mysqldump was too slow, I ended up having to use xtrabackup from Percona. Anyhow it got to the point were I was spending over 50% of my time maintaining the database instead of doing productive things, like building new features for my app.

Then I switched to RDS. I instantly fell in love with snapshots. I love that you can backup your database while it is hot. Sometimes, before doing a scary migration or query I'll take a snapshot just in case. I love that.

Even more amazing is the ability to scale up/down while the database is live. When I was with Softlayer and I needed to migrate to new machines there was always downtime and I always had to pay for both the new machine and the old machine for a small duration of time. Thus migrating would cost a couple grand in lost revenue and servers expenses, not to mention my Friday and Saturday night.
The biggest problem with adopting the Israeli model IMO is with resources. You would have to spend a lot of money training and hiring people who would be good at behavioral profiling.

The other problem is that Israel is a tiny country, they only have two international airports -- so they can focus all of their resources on those two airports. That's not the case here in the US.
>Amazon will very quickly stop doing something if it can't make money.

New to the whole Bay Area thing eh? Plenty of Zombie Startups out there that aren't getting traction/pivoting.
Sure, but if you do it alone, on your computer and not tell anyone, no one from Paradox is going to harass you about it.

Moment you start open sourcing someone's game behind their back, is when they get defensive.
Gotta admit that the words "legalizing gay marriage" in the title of the Medium piece really tick me off, as they slanderously suggest that that the creators of CK3 are somehow anti-gay.
> That said, this isn't just trying to get some tourist dollars into NZ.

I heard that the NZ tourism industry had one of its best years yet in 2020 with all the domestic tourism that went on.
As that article states it was potentially a useful source for age and gender demographic data. Google Analytics has this as well but I’d assume more people have given more precise data about their age and gender to Facebook than they have to Google.
A HW startup will not be suddenly successful because of their EDA flow. They could however fail badly if they have their EDA incorrectly setup, as if your chip STA flow was incorrect and you have hold time issues on silicon, you just blew 6 months+ and a few million. It would be critical to have an STA expert for that reason, as well as a solid sign-off process before tape out.
> and I can't really see any reasons it couldn't work.

You’re assuming the existence of a function which can extrapolate the daily/monthly/etc costs.

If I upload a 10GB file at $0.10/gbmo, how much will it cost me? We have no idea because we don’t know how long it will be up there.

We have a process that downloads and streams massive reports into S3, then a process is immediately kicked off to handle processing and importing. As soon as that completes, the files are deleted.

So we’re paying about 0.04 months of storage every month. The naive solution is estimating 1.00. You’re off by a factor of ~24.

We could... not handle that. Now we’re in a situation where we’re consistently spending $100/mo on storage, set a liberal $150 budget and immediately everything breaks. We actually needed to set a $2400 budget! Expecting a $100 bill and getting a $2400 bill some month when something goes wrong is as good as doing nothing.

You’re also going to need to account for the interaction of every single object in a bucket and the lifecycle rules set which is an absolutely ridiculous amount of overhead.

Now extend this to... literally every one of the seemingly bazillion AWS services.

The only cap that’s going to be easy and realistic to implement without a crystal ball is a hard cut-off once you’ve actually accrued the charges, and a “shut down all my servers, delete all my data, and just close my account” cap is useful to almost no one.

If you want useful caps they need to be aware of your workload. The best person to implement those is you. The tools are there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity
Whilst overdosing is hard, its not impossible. There is no such thing as storing vitamins, or in fact, any nutrients _for free_.

Edit: am I wrong? Ingesting too much fat will be bad for one's health, ingesting too much carbohydrates, minerals, protein will be too. The same goes for any vitamins. There's no _efficient way to store anything_ if you ingest too much of it.
I agree with the first sentence (Whence the e-giant custodians?)but not the second. Every major institution throughout history (kingdoms, churches, trade companies) has enforced top-down norms and expectations (i.e prescriptive norms). This was the case even mid- and late- 20th century America (i.e post-Sexual Revolution). There were respites from the prying eyes of society. Secret parties, meetups with friends, country clubs, and, for the technically-inclined, an early Internet/BBS/Usenet culture. But they were all generally exceptions to prescriptive norms of the general society (notwithstanding the existence of their own specially-tailored conventions) simply because few people were aware of these things at the time or cared enough to make a big stink out of them to a large enough audience.
Because its my car? I bought it? 30 years ago you could dig into basically any car, (and their safety was worse than of modern cars), yet how often you saw someone modify their car to the point of health incident?

But when it broke, at least we could open the hood and make it run again. Now instead we got cars that will refuse to move if it happen to update firmware in underground garage, and you cant get it out without teslatruck. (I think this was fixed, but the point still stands)

> Its not a phone

Why is it okay for phones? How come we somehow collectively aggreed that its OK for manufacturers to lock our own phones away from us?

I really hate this attitude of "I dont trust myself to tinker with it so I think noone else should be allowed to". Thats the attitude which, if it gets enough traction, takes our freedoms away.
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
I don't imagine Airtags have anything to do with this; reading the article it looks like ipads and laptops are being held up due to component shortage. It's painful to have a product announcement when you can't ship enough.
I’ve been using a 16” MBP (i9) since it came out and man do I miss my old 2015 MBP. This 16” one cannot take a single 4K monitor plugged in! The fans go nuts and then things start hanging. And this is not a one-off, I’ve seen hundreds of reports online and also know my friends facing the same issue. It’s mind boggling how a machine this expensive has such major issues.
You can also just rename it to have a .zip extension and open it in the OS file explorer.
> If we started today, it will take a thousand years or more to have a fully independent Mars colony

But how do you know this? Are there any papers or reports that say that a thousand years is the lower bound on a self sustaining colony on another planet?

It seems to me that this idea is a common wisdom that people often say because in their mind colonization is an out of reach idea so they just pick a random big sounding number like "a thousand years" as a placeholder for 'it is impossible" when there isn't any actual research that says it will take a thousand years.
I didn't test the software, I just read through the marketing materials. Just took another look and I'm more confident than before that what I described is eventually what this intends to be. From the website it claims that these features are coming soon.
It's not the first similar claim, there was one that large CPU's can beat GPUs by creating a very sparse matrix using spatial hashing. Preserving the gradient but finding it with vastly less computation by simply not multiplying elements that don't have much or any impact.

EDIT: orginial work afaik https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03129
I thought of the options syntax straight away. Do you work in finance by any chance?
I can only verify being unable to get the wi-fi password. Otherwise it’s all secondhand, I wasn’t on call.
Just because you don't like it or don't find it relevant in your local circle doesn't mean it is without value. Last time I traveled to Italy, hailing and paying for taxis was handled exclusively over OTT messaging.
it should be listed if there is
This is sort of true, they are "on rails" (meaning no physics calculations are performed) until something collides with it, like a bullet, a car or a player.

At that point they are handed off to a more expensive process which includes checking physics each frame.
It's not related to drinking or smoking, it's about the dangers of being outside in the evening in Sweden nowadays.
Thanks, I thought it was a bug in some app and just wanted to be sure, so I don't have to babysit the server.

If anybody knows which app is that, please tell the maintainer that they have a serious bug. It's night here, so I am logging off.
As alexott says, you can link notebooks to a git repository and commit and rollback them from the Databricks UI (https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/github-version-control...)

Problem is that it’s limited. You can’t, for example, commit multiple files in one go (that improves a little bit in https://docs.databricks.com/projects.html), or merge changes a colleague made with your changes. You also have to use the UI Databricks provides. You can’t use a git CLI or whatever GUI you prefer. (all AFAIK, but I’m fairly certain about it)
As a European I think American expectations of a reasonable home size are completely ridiculous. Guess that’s a hidden immigrant advantage :D

Then again I would describe most of the houses here as somewhere between a hovel and a shack in terms of build quality. But I’m getting used to it after 6 years.