jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>When I thought about getting my food, I really had three goals: cheap, fast, and healthy.

Here's my cheap, fast, and healthy diet that doesn't require any cooking. I started a few months ago and it's very effective in losing weight and saving time.

Half of a pound container of cottage cheese, plus a large melon (cantaloupe or honeydew are easy to cut once you learn how) for breakfast.
One can of sardines for lunch.
Another can of sardines, plus a can of vegetables for dinner.

One bottle of water at each meal plus 1-2 more throughout the day. Whenever hungry in between meals, snack on almonds.

You can buy a week or so worth of everything at a time, and some like the fish, vegetables, and nuts can be bought in bulk for months. Effectively no work to prepare anything, the trickiest is really the melons, you can substitute to bananas or grapes for easier fruit but higher carbs. And you can always eat out a meal every few days, estimate how much it makes up and eat that much less.

This costs roughly $10/day, and I'm targeting 1200 calories, which is the minimum recommendation for men. I track everything with an app and allow myself to go slightly higher if I'm hungry at the end of the day. There's about 3-400 calories buffer for those almonds, which I sometimes use for coffee with milk, or for various alternative snacks (e.g. granola bars in bulk turn out to be extremely cheap on a per calorie basis). And then there's a buffer between 1200 and the roughly 17-1800 I'd be at for breakeven, so if I splurge once a week I just don't lose weight that day but I'm not gaining anything.
I found irrational preference for "retrofit" and "intermediate" solutions over proper replacement even costs are unfavourable rather puzzling.

ADSL — often required new wiring or a DSLAM on premises to deliver acceptable signal

DOCSiS — same, you have to rewire all coax in the building to deploy it.

House heat insulation — often ends up with inefficient house designs perpetuating because of hopes "we can always add insulation later"

Piping — used to work in a trade company in Canada for half a year as an intern. Tried to import and popularise polypropylene piping there. Got hit by ferocious marketing FUD counterattack by a company selling crap PVC piping in a month after I sent booklets to prospective clients. Their main argument was that "PVC piping is a cheaper "intermediary" solution for plastic piping as PVC pipe can still be joined by plain mechanical means, unlike polypropylene" even when doing so negates their entire point of using plastic piping for its physically continuous joints.
Hy is indeed very cool, but other than a different syntax it is still at the end of the day, identical to python.

Pixie does look very cool, but the project on github seems dead?
Lifters can look bulky. I m sure other forms of fitness make you look even better
How cheap for a 1-bedroom apartment?
As a Web developer and Internet Citizen (TM), I can't wait for Facebook to complete their AOL-ification, which will surely include its eventual death spiral.

Rage-deleted my account after getting tired of being constantly presented with reminders of parts of my life that should have been moved-on-from, except Facebook decides what parts of your life you should be seeing.

If Facebook hadn't steamrolled Evite due to the sheer percentage of general population with accounts, I don't think I'd have any regrets whatsoever. People have to go out of their way to invite me to things, which has definitely had an effect on my specific social network.
"For the record, MOST online payment processors have been treating debit card transactions like credit card transactions, and therefore charge the higher interchange -- even when they have no legal right to do so."

Erm, you are aware that lower interchange fees for debit cards used at point-of-sale is because users have to type in a PIN on a (nominally) secure terminal? That reduces fraud risk, so the rate is lower.

Most payment UIs don't prompt for PIN, so they don't get the rate. Tighten down your tinfoil hat before typing next time.

(full disclosure: I'm a developer at a payment processor)
English is weird. I meant "it's not true that there are 26 pay periods every year, because years have more than 52 weeks, which means there must be a 'leap pay-period'" every once in a while." But your interpretation was entirely valid based on the way I typed mine.
If I remember correctly, with StartSSL you have to wait for up to 24 hours before the OCSP servers are updated. I ran into the same issue with my last certificate from them, just have some patience :)
Or they upgraded their compiler/enabled more optimization.

Combining sequential writes into an STM is a standard optimization.
You will have a better luck with "Erdos amphetamines" or something like that.

Still, uh, using amphetamines or amphetamine analogs in controlled dosages from pharmaceutical sources is a pretty normal thing to do, a pretty normal thing that doesn't seem to cause a whole lot of problems for most people. We give it to children to make them sit still, and many adults take it, too.

There are some analogs, like Methylphenidate, which are said to be less addictive, but many people prefer, and use Adderall, which isn't, and both are deemed to be safe enough to give to children in small doses. We even give straight up Dextroamphetamine to some people (though it's rather less common)

I mean, dosage is super important, of course, and so is purity, but yeah, lots of people take small amounts of amphetamines without problems.

Edit: As someone else pointed out, methamphetamines are similar in effect to, but generally more dangerous than amphetamines, and the latter, I believe, is what Erdos, and most everyday users under medical supervision use.
Hey software engineers, write some m*ther f!cking documentation! Don't tell me it goes out of date, at the very least a module level, architectural overview is better than nothing, and should remain relevant past your tenure.

/rant
Funny thing is, I got this you're A or B impression still.

Developers and designers, tech and sales, front- and backend...
There is no possible way to make gold inconspicuous. The density simply prohibits it: gold reflects easy-to-send parts of the EM spectrum that most anything else will pass.
6.8mm SPC is an incredible cartridge. It's far superior to .300 AAC in range and terminal effects. It offers a wide variety of loads including an effective subsonic load. There are a few quibbles about efficiencies (powder and materials): The standard infantrymen doesn't really need long range cartridge.

However, the big reason I wouldn't suggest 6.8mm as an upgrade to the 5.56mm is the upgrade path is more expensive. While the 6.8mm _can_ work with the standard buffer tube spring, it's best those get upgraded for accuracy and shooter comfort. The 6.8mm requires a new bolt and barrel in the upper receiver. The 6.8mm also requires new magazines (to be used at full capacity). The 6.8mm requires new brass and new loading dies, so your ammo production lines have to change significantly. Finally, the chamber pressure increase in the 6.8mm may introduce reliability issues in certain models of the AR15, especially in the gas impingement system. And personally, I the recoil from the 6.8mm kinda sucks.

The .300 AAC requires _merely_ a barrel swap. Everything else in the upper is compatible. The brass from 5.56mm can be cut down to make .300 AAC brass (yay for recycling) and existing loading dies can be used to load .300 AAC. The existing magazines can be used at full capacity.

While the 6.8mm may be a superior round, I think the .300 AAC wins in terms of practicality. Just my opinion :)
The loss of another socially acceptable reason to drink in public is always a sad occurrence.
When my mother goes on retirement next year she wan't to learn how to use a computer properly. She know how to use mail but besides that she is completely lost and even that is problematic for her.

My plan is the following:

Buy a touch tablet with a one button design (not necessarily an iPad although that would probably be a good bet)

This is to minimize abstraction (touch the item instead of using the mouse)

And to minimize choice (if anything goes wrong you can always click on the big button in the bottom) It's the panic button.

Throw pictures of her grandson and family on it and show her how she can always have those with her. That way she will get an infinity towards the machine because it now consist of familiar faces and she loves to look at her grandson.

Preload a bunch of sites that I know she is going to use a lot. One of them is going to be a picture site that will have regularly updated pictures.

Send her an email every-time it's updated. Send her an SMS to tell her they are there.

Don't know if it's going to work, but I am looking forward to the experiment :)
What I mean is the "green bar" or "green text" in the Web browser. I'm no SSL expert (though not a novice either) but I do like seeing that appear when logging into online banking or PayPal. If it didn't come up that way, I'd be immediately suspicious.
I assume they verified that you are in fact a citizen of a first-world country, possibly with an actual company that pays its taxes. That's basically all the trust an average site needs. It's not so much that your website can now be trusted to never do anything nasty, but if it ever does there is someone to hold accountable.
The data on the homepage is actually real data from the server because I needed some examples. It does show a couple of interesting things:

- The CPU is bored.

- The web server has an interesting memory growth / garbage collection pattern.

- Traffic to Google is fast and wonderfully stable.

- Traffic to New Zealand is awful and awful.
You care way too much about karma. It's just a number.
Yup reading this via my Mac Mini connected to my LCD TV from my couch(wireless mouse/keyboard). I have one from 2007. I'm liking this new sleeker design and no more power brick on this new one!
There are subtleties to it too - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/10/08/what-...

:-)
Great example of irresponsibility. As we can see in the other "success" stories written here, many unsuccessful people -exceptions are the role models- tries it to be creative.
The ACT is not Australia. It's one of the territories and the ACT electoral commission has dabbled with electronic voting for a long time.

Speaking frankly, ACT elections don't matter; it's basically a town council.

Federal elections and state elections are actually important.
I can't read it due to firewall :-(

You couldn't stick it in a gist or something could you?
Note that the screw up was easily observed and there was a mechanism in place to cope. It was also the first time in approximately 100 years that the recovery mechanism was needed.

Show me one system -- one computer system ever -- with a proved, actual (not projected) MTBF of 100 years.
It is possible: provided the system generates the right kind of audit information and voting receipts, and the citizen has a trusted device in which to check the protocol computation. You can use signatures for verification and mix-nets or homomorphic encryption for anonymity. There are plenty of security risks in practical implementations of electronic voting, but I would not say "definitely not possible". Not saying I trust the system being discussed or that I think we should have mass online elections just yet, but this is an area under research and the results look more in the direction of "likely feasible" rather than "likely unfeasible". Which is actually quite important if we are ever going to move towards any form of democracy more direct/gradual than voting every X years for people who vote on the actual decisions.

Note that the paper voting systems are also quite hackable in practice. It is actually pretty hard to track your own vote and make sure it was counted correctly, that the votes in all districts were added correctly and, when you find your vote miscounted, proving fraud is quite hard as well. I should know, I voted in this election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_general_election,_2006...
Incredibly no, he really meant Felix, as in Apache Felix the OSGi Container.

It seems that Adobe has a product built on that, AEM[1], and , afaik, employs at least one of the main committers of the Felix project.

[1] https://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/enterprise-content-man...

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/v5_2/html-resources/cq5_guide_sy...
Well at Carnegie Mellon they did. That's why I wanna know how some punk got his Caltech paper stamped without even learning C.

He did seem sad that SpaceX wouldn't touch him. Apparently you need more than friends at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an ability to talk endlessly about Haskell to send shit to Mars. So that's good news at least.
> No matter how deeply we trust our logical conclusions, our emotional response remains the same. We can't help but feel worthier when we're being praised (even by computers ...), hurt when we're being insulted, and connected when we're being connected with.

I just started playing The Walking Dead. In one scene, after another character saved Clementine from a zombie before I could, the game said, "Clementine remembers that you didn't save her." A very different feeling than failing and having to replay from a checkpoint.
Not so much a joke as an excellent analogy.
Interesting tidbit: JWST can't see blue. While Hubble could see entire visible light spectrum, astronomically infrared is more interesting. So JWST can see infrared, but not blue.

Astronomical images always have been heavily edited and it never was "what you may see", but it is more so for JWST.
This article describes a marvelous example of survivorship bias (or in this case "winners write history") coupled with classic Christensen disruption:

"The legal institutions of Tsarist Russia were mortally wounded by the collapse of Tsarism; in contrast, the illegal underground survived intact, possessed of a nationwide scope and plausible claims to mass support and legitimacy. The socialist underground was much more a product of Russian history than of ideological machinations."

Remember this the next time you read an article about how such and such a company succeeded. The things in the article are (perhaps) true, but are hardly complete and never take into account the luck and randomness of the situation.

A lot of history, including business is a "just so story". We push the boundaries and hope we catch a break.
Does this take into account the heavy use of robotics that Tesla has integrated? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM
First of all, civil courts are supported by the civil law, and that law is supported by the government. One example of a civil law is copyright enforcement, which is often enforced by the Supreme Court.

And also, when actual powerful entities (whether that be governments/corporations/etc) start to involve in protecting NFT investments using the law, is there any benefit of "crypto" being used to protect the value of the asset anymore? Isn't it just private property with extra steps?

I really don't think the Mona Lisa comparison doesn't fit with the current conversation with NFTs, since NFTs deal with digital assets, and trying to convert an analog artwork like Mona Lisa to fit into NFTs would already demolish its authentic value as an amalgamation of detailed, non-reproducible paint strokes (which I think is the authentic value you're emphasizing about).
What you seem to be claiming as generalizations I can only assume you speak to the holistic view that I often speak from.

Mentioning a political figure doesn't necessitate baiting one into a conversation - however yes, it's clear that people are tired, exhausted - and no longer actually read to comprehend, stunting critical thinking throughout what they're reading - and then making an assumption as to what they're reading, and then doing a lazy downvote for a dopamine hit to feel fulfilled - as if they were diligent, reaffirming their assumptions.

And I disagree that "no one responds positively to such generalizations" - it doesn't make them untrue, and usually I also reference the solution, policy proposals, to solve the problems.
They said in the article they don't know if this password was even related to the breach (meaning all of these points are not really describing reality, especially #3). It's not very clear what the password was for from the article. Sounds like the CEO doesn't have a very good understanding of what Github is though unless this intern was POCing github enterprise or something though.
No it doesn't. There are fewer shares in the company, but the company is worse less. There's no good reason to think that in general the remaining shares in a company will be worth more or less after buyback than what they would be worth if the company had simply held onto the money.
Violence is not the answer and it’s also not even feasible to”send the boys around”. Send them where? You’d have to hire a team of investigators just to have the possibility of finding the location of the perpetrators. And then when you did they’re likely going to be on another continent. It’s not a brick and mortar store or flea market stall or guys on street corners selling the fakes.
My bank offers savings accounts.
I'm just not sure how it's confusing? PostgreSQL users aren't "tied" to system accounts either. You can have any number of PostgreSQL users that have no system equivalent.

In fact, the process seems to be exactly the same as with MySQL: I just tried installing the MariaDB server (dnf install mariadb-server), and it didn't prompt me for an admin user; instead, I can directly connect to the database as root using sudo, so in this case it appears to be doing the exact same thing that PostgreSQL does.

It just happens to be that by default the "postgres" superuser has a corresponding "postgres" system user that can log in via OS authentication, so you need to switch to the postgres user instead of root.

EDIT: Maybe some of the confusion stems from the fact that the documentation you linked seems to assume that the database is created according to convention to run as the "postgres" user (as it usually is). If your user didn't have the required permission to switch to the postgres user, they wouldn't be able to install the database as said user in the first place.

If you install PostgreSQL as your own user (which is not a good idea if you have any other option), you will not need to switch users as you will obviously have access to the database files and can do whatever you want, anyway.
I don't understand the point about the water, why wouldn't it cover uniformly the entire maze? Assuming the maze is level with the ground.

Edit: thanks for the clarification all, I didn't realize it was an entrance exit maze, I was thinking of one sealed on a ll sides where the water can't get out.
All these permission choices should be invisible to the app. If I say no contacts the call should succeed but with a zero Len response. It shouldn’t be possible for apps to say you have to agree to this or I won’t run. I can run the software and as the root user control what data the software can use.
"While there were no names or phone numbers in the data, we were once again able to connect dozens of devices to their owners, tying anonymous locations back to names, home addresses, social networks and phone"

That's pretty interesting. it makes me wonder what sorts of things aside from the obvious things like home addresses, work addresses, favorite pubs, etc, can de-anonymize data.

I suppose they could use whatever that is to de-anonymize burner phones. Maybe something like identifiable driving patterns, similar to how we have individually identifiable gaits when we walk.
I think there is an other issue, which is that in the time when most of us got involved with computers they were devices in which almost anything could be done but hardly anything had been done, this attracted people who were explorer types, but also people who wanted something to be on the computer that there wasn't would be pushed to developing it themselves.

Now we live in an age where multiple versions of nearly everything seems to be available. Just buy what you want, don't learn to make it would seem to be the imperative of the day.
I agree on that there is a lot of cargo culting in the industry.

I also don't like PR's/Unit Tests/other practices motivated in a way: "because that is what professionals/google/microsoft does".
People can do that kind of online targeting without the need for privacy invasion. For example, if I wanted to target Apple users who probably have some disposable income, I'd buy an ad slot on John Gruber's blog. If I wanted to advertise to frequent travellers, I'd advertise on FlyerTalk. That kind of thing.
Everyone has different ides of what "detail oriented" means, and everyone's experience taints any advice they give on the matter.

For example I've been programming for 20 years, and with my favored languages I don't see "details" of the code at all; I mainly think in indentation shape and huge code block pattern recognition, with the internals of the patterns abstracted away and irrelevant. "Oh, this is just a request handler that reads a file."

By sheer weight of experience I'd classify myself as a pretty "good" programmer, but I don't consider my programming style to be "details oriented" at all.

Summarily I would suggest that a programmer worrying about being "details oriented" is a lot like a fresh lawyer agonizing about the fit of their suit. Stop worrying about it.
> perhaps they need a StingRay or Reaper drone in the area to boost the signal. The cell tower itself may be powerful enough to pick up the signal.

that small battery would indeed not be able to be enough to send a signal to a cellphone tower, so you could not really track phones without primary batteries. current batteries are quite low powered, and wireless data is already pretty expensive in term of power usage. if you want enough data speeds.

And I don't think you can effectively receive a GPS signal with a low powered battery.

what they could do though, is automatically find nearest smartphones, and use them to retransmit. far fetched for when you don't move too much, but possible...
Would be nice if cell phone has removable battery filter.
And iPhone jailbreak guy back in the day!
They started out as a Mastodon node, and then got blocked by the wider Fediverse.

https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
Is it correct Comma.AI sees this as the following statement below appears to say, or am I missing something? If so, why would anyone be using this product outside of a test environment that’s fully controlled?

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“Any user of this software shall indemnify and hold harmless comma.ai, Inc. and its directors, officers, employees, agents, stockholders, affiliates, subcontractors and customers from and against all allegations, claims, actions, suits, demands, damages, liabilities, obligations, losses, settlements, judgments, costs and expenses (including without limitation attorneys’ fees and costs) which arise out of, relate to or result from any use of this software by user. THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.”

SOURCE:
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/README.md#su...

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EDIT: Here is the terms of use too, which appears to align to the prior legal clause above:

https://my.comma.ai/terms
> Maths maths maths. Come on, it's a nice skill but not very practical by itself.

I don't know if it's equally true in all parts of the world, but where I live being good at maths opens the door to pretty much any job, including the most prestigious ones.
Read the tao te ching my friend. Read and read it and read it and... Good luck
Perhaps it's less about popularity and more your delivery.