skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you don't need High Fructose Corn Syrup for a first world/western diet, but it does make the first world/western diet more affordable.

Imo the 'western diet' is a bit of a misnomer. I don't eat like my European ancestors - who primarily ate grain and vegetables because they were poor peasants. In the week prior to thanksgiving, I've ate chana masala, sushi, pizza, hamburgers, pad thai, corn dogs, rice and beans, tortas, and burritos - collectively, those options are only available in the first world. What's 'western' about it is that the west is the only place you can get all those meals in a town of 100k/people. It's not western in the sense that there's something greco-roman about oreos.

My hunch is that the variety of food really throws people for a loop. If you ate vegetable soup and bread all day, it'd be very easy to know the proper amount to eat. However, good luck pattern matching sushi, corn dogs, and rice and beans - and most people seem predisposed to overeat in light of uncertainty.

I've struggled with binge eating in the past and I've changed my default meal to that of rice and beans and after an adjustment period, I've never had a binge eating episode on rice and beans. It's hypothesized that people have a set point that they eat up to, and there's something about a wide variety of food that makes it hard to feel like you've hit that set point. And some food (e.g Frito Lay snack food) is designed to increase your appetite.

I've done a lot of research into nutrition - and discount my opinion because I have 0 medical training and functionally 0 training in biology - but my 'hunch' is that most people would do well to eat like their ancestors.
But did they lose because of the drugs or because they were massively outnumbered and made ridiculously stupid mistakes on the eastern front and ran out of fuel and didn't have nukes in time?
Does Beorg also sync to directory? Pick it up from there, done
Massive memory leaks for me, Nexus 5x. Took me a while to realize it was FF basically bricking my phone. Since switching back to Chrome, I've had no issues.
That was underwhelming. I’d much rather see NASA’s or SpaceX’s or Roskosmos’s take on this. AKA the entities that actually have the means to pull this off.
Also don't forget that without the 'hellscape' that pays for the expensive pasture fed eggs (and other things), they may not have such a cushy income to sustain a countryside life. I always consider what happens when everyone switches to this lifestyle. Unless and otherwise we have robots who can go work at the factories that build everything from a tractor to a cellphone, other people have to live in the 'hellscape'
> leans too heavily on the rationality assumption, while also ignoring many things of value in our lives like love, empathy, conversations, the future (unknowable) value of natural resources, homemaking activities, etc.

I don't see any justification for that assessment. How does libertarianism overlook empathy, for example?

> it's political use (in the mano a mano sense, not in the government sense) is as a rationalization to be a jerk to your neighbor.

That's not remotely true.
Meanwhile America looks more and more like a third world country thanks to the billionairs like Besoz and Gates that hog much of the wealth and resources of our country. By hey Amazon Prime and Microsoft 10 are worth it right?
In some categories, Amazon is putting more weight onto editorial reviews. It'd be a good thing for Amazon and a good thing for product oriented media companies for those reviewers and reviews to regain some of the clout and influence that they have lost to easily manipulated user reviews.

On the flip side I think media companies have to do more to deserve the trust of shoppers. More Consumer Reports style product evaluations and less clickbait trolling, more investment into respectable writers/video reviewers who have integrity and earn a real salary to make them resistant to PR bribery.

I don't think most shoppers fully understand how extreme the review manipulation is on the brand and merchant side of things. One issue is that the Federal government does not enforce the laws on the books against many of the worst types of manipulation. I'm not a particularly pro-regulation type of guy, but this is one of the consequences of zero law enforcement in a particular area of business: you become a sucker if you abide by the law when none of your competitors are.

The Yelps and Amazons of the world are kind of split on this because they both want to restore/retain the trust that users have in these reviews without drawing attention to how absurd the level of manipulation is.

Another issue is the entirely legitimate manipulation of reviews that nonetheless confers a competitive advantage. One local car dealership that did some service on my car has earned thousands of positive five star reviews by being extremely aggressive with e-mail followup to people who show up for even minor service interactions. I gave them five stars out of bemusement and because we legitimately received good service on a free interaction paid for by the car manufacturer with a rebate. But I would have been much less generous with my five star review had I had to pay for the service, as everyone is. That's why Amazon as of last year bans that practice.

I have myself counseled clients in ecommerce and written email sequence scripts to do just this kind of manipulation. But in the case of this dealership and of most people, is the dealership that is the most efficient at running an email marketing program really the best car dealership in the area by an order of magnitude? While it may be an indicator of the overall professionalism of the company and a signal of business health, it's pretty unrelated to the business of selling cars and servicing them. As a rather clueless car owner, I'm not even really qualified to give an intelligent opinion about the quality of a dealership apart from how I feel about it and whether or not I (rather clueless) think that I was ripped off or not.

Why is my unqualified opinion based on that minor interaction worth more than that of someone who really knows a lot about cars, bought a car from that dealership, and has had dozens of service appointments with the mechanic? Why is my dumb 5 star rating worth the same amount as that guy's? It makes no sense.
Hah I was going to see if anyone immediately thought of the reference of which you referred to.
Drinking Kefir is easier and better.
Spider drinks graphene, spins web that can hold the weight of a human
Perhaps the reason is that he can win some sympathy, while thinking it will never happen anyway.
This is really interesting, thanks. What's your website? I'd love to see that dissertation when it's up. Fascinating stuff.
I'd cash out every day, too.

Better the money be under my control, earning interest for me, instead of for my employer. I don't see a downside to getting the money as soon as possible.
Since purchasers can't tell this is basically worthless.
Italian delis run by Italians often have very good and tasty sandwiches some are Americanized (pastrami on rye) but you find great Italian sausages and peppers, Italian meatballs, as well as traditional American Reuben sandwiches. But you gotta find the places that make their stuff in-house, rather than buy wholesale from some provisioner.

Razzano's in Glen Cove, is a good example, if you're on long island, NY. Molinari in SF is okay.
letting you order stuff online is "so much for humanity"?
The limitations you described are true for a wired approach to last mile internet delivery to every user.

You can get around these problems as a wireless ISP using spectrum in the public domain. Idea is that you beam connectivity to a router in each subscriber's home. You'll need to install nodes that connect a wireless network to fiber optic cables, but these connections are much more accessible than wiring up every building in a city.
I use a bookmark in Chrome with the link set to this:

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

Then you visit a paywalled page, and hit the bookmark link. Facebook then redirects you through with its ref headers.
Ask HN: If I 'Show HN', how many will visit?
Ask HN: If I 'Show HN', how many will visit?
Literate programming really feels very different than this, at least in the examples that are easily found online. Literate programming reads far more like 'better commenting' (and strikes me as a massive pain to write) and less like a type of long-form writing.
Leica Adds 3D Laser Scanner with 1km Range to Product Lineup
Drawing mandala with JavaScript and canvas
How Russia Polices Yandex, Its Most Popular Search Engine – Motherboard
People don't understand how cars work, but that doesn't stop them from buying them and benefiting. Occasionally, not understanding cars gets people in trouble. In fact, very few of the things we deal with every day are generally understood - like the computer you're reading this on.
Privacy fears over artificial intelligence as crimestopper – Brinkwire
It occurred to me last night that Amazon's next target could well be Google (search). I mean, how much money are they paying to google for ads? I could be wrong but I'd have to imagine they're Google'slargest revenue source now, possibly by a large margin. And they've got the expertise to do it in house. And I'm hearing more and more complaints about google these days. Amazon also seems more disciplined at listening to what users want than google is. I could see them first integrating it tightly with alexa, then calling it alexa.com, adding some spiffy new features and somehow pushing privacy as the number one thing (because they can because they aren't overly dependent on ad revenue, and because an amazon account seems more tangible than a google account (how many do I have) because they started in commerce and have your credit card and never tried to start a social network), then boom goodbye google.
The meat of this article is behind a paywall. Can someone summarize what they were trying to do or link to the academic article? The headline, probably designed for controversy, sounds pretty damn terrible.
I'm not sure why his motivation matters? Both of those are good reasons to advocate for a universal basic income. We should want people to be aware of the consequences of their successes and to try and alleviate any pain they caused. It's when people don't do this that all the "rich is poor" problems occur.
Trump decided to appoint the guy who is pushing this to the head of the FCC. The FCC as an institution didn't decide this. The administration did.
Photon Could Be Your New Favorite Container OS
How does that tie with the statistics showing US citizens - and in particular more religious people - as good donors for charities and disaster victims? Seems contradictory.
Sure, whatever, I'll concede that :P However, we're not exactly renowned for our huge beef cow raising operations. In fact we were a laughing stock for quite a while because we couldn't eat beef on the bone because of the whole BSE thing. As a Brit in Canada, I'm still regularly reminded of this, despite it being sorted for almost 3 years - mostly as banter, but still.
An easy to use race condition testing tool for web applications
But don't they have different goals? I thought Blue Origin was a little more bootstrappy in that they aren't trying to rely on federal funding / subsidies and are trying to get revenue from tourism
er no the mortality statistics don't bear that out though maybe the NHS has something to do with that
Firefox Quantum gives me better FPS than Chrome for the provided demo :)
We've already asked you to please post civilly and substantively, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could you support the premise you can make an undetectable simulation?

That's a key proposition and you don't support it at all. I find the idea highly questionable.
I had an amazing meatball sandwich the other day on ciabatta with cheese. It wasn't British enough though (on account of it being Italian), so I added some crunch by putting some ready salted crisps in it. Delicious ;)
if you're being sarcastic, I am sure he doesn't care. "Humanity" is complicated...maybe he'll make up for all with one invention on his space venture.

He did save people a lot of money, but then he did also cause many stores to go kaput. So, how do you judge?
I came to the comments expecting to be upset by people not finding this essay deeply disturbing and I'm glad I was at least a bit wrong :)
> Then I think of how we practically dance and shout at the
> sky in joy when we all finish digging up all the potatoes.

I grew up on the small farm. Got to deal with pigs, cows, patatoes and hay. Do not miss it at all. What's more I used to want to have a houe in the countryside. Then somehow that desire completely wanished.
Sure there are. A nephew of mine is running one. It's a bit less than three acres.

The trick on those is to sell farm fresh, lifestyle, good feels along with the food.

There are plenty of people who will pay multiples to get great food and great feelings about that great food.

Service is the another piece. Delivery, open markets on X day of the week, etc...

Micro branding helps too. The good vibes and food are a finite thing. When this becomes social / status, part of other lifestyles, it can all work just fine.
I primarily use vim for writing code. While I use a lot of standard plugins, I find many things that is not correct with them. I know it's kind of a subjective question, but is moving to spacemacs worth it? Any experiences?
Also worth noting that the author appears to have spent a long time learning the intricacies of how "business" and investment banking work, but seems to throw around the words "Capitalism" and "Communism" without any sort of acknowledgement that they don't really describe at all what goes on in the west or was going on in China when he was growing up.
> My work involves artificial intelligence and big data, and my letters of support came from an authority in my industry and veteran start-up investor, and a Nobel Prize winner. But it wasn’t enough to convince the government that my job requires advanced skills.

What does an MBA and law degree offer in terms of relevant advanced skills? They can pick up guys from India with masters in AI and Data Science easily.
Back in High School (25 yrs ago, sheesh!) I did a research project on subliminal messages.

I found some MS-DOS TSR program that would flash messages on the screen at specified duration or frequency.

I told my test subjects (other students) I was testing if typing in vocabulary words helps learn them more efficiently.

I made up a set of 50 words and definitions. Each student got a random mix of words and definitions to type in, while other words were flashed on the screen subliminally.

I then gave a test which covered both sets of words.

I think I originally tested three different subliminal message durations, and one of them was showing a slightly-higher average test score.

I then realized I needed a control group, so I tested another batch of students without any subliminal messages at all. The control batch got the highest scores of all.

Don't remember details, but I did actual statistics on the data and failed to reject the Null hypothesis.

Ie - my conclusion was that flashing word/meaning subliminal messages didn't make any difference to testing those same words in a quiz.

It was a fun project, but I realized later it wasn't very scientific. The message duration would actually vary greatly depending on the model of monitor (the old CRT days). And I didn't really have control on how much time the person looked at the screen vs the keyboard.

But it was fun anyway. I was also chosen as one of eight high school kids to present at the local county science symposium too.
There's an enormous amount of deception going on by politicians and how government operates, too. I wouldn't single out libertarians as particularly naive - the people who believe in government solutions to every economic issue are equally or worse naive.
Governments regularly use accounting methods that would land any private company in jail, for example.
Accessing my router on http://192.168.1.1/ works fine for me. Firefox beta 58 on Android 7.
RICO investigation 10 years from now when we'll found out that the execs knew they were causing earthquakes, but continued to deceive the public?
Bee-friendly insecticides closer to reality after breakthrough development
Do both... when you start making more from your side projects, it will be the time to consider leaving your day job and starting a business... By that time, you'll have the experience with running the business and the leap will not be that painful... (unless you are like me and really love your job, then, it will be hard... every year I am postponing my "early retirement")
Is search still a thing? I mean, these days content is curated socially or algorithmically and thrown onto your face. I only google errors these days and if I'm looking for a product I would search the specific sites that I shop at. Google will show me the sites I visit anyway, but with less nicer presentation.
> You're thinking from the founder's perspective.

> I was talking from the company valuation point of view

Man, kids nowadays, they don't even read before commenting. And it was only three lines. Was that so hard to read 3 lines right above?
Nope, I don't mean that brainwashing is ethically good. Its just much more effective in totalitarian state.

If "steady emotions" is not clear, it may be due to my bad English. I used "steady" in the sense "persistent" and "strong". You say "communism" and people respond with strong emotions, mainly positive. I didn't tried to judge it ethically. Let's leave this for another discussion.
I'm still a heavy vi user and I still continue to use vi for everything else, well except org-mode. 2 years ago, I did the jump and installed Emacs with Evil + Org-mode, i.e. I can use Emacs with vi commands. I use now org-mode daily - taking notes for my work, clocking in times, making at the end reports per project in order to make bills for my clients. I am far from using all org-mode functionalities, but already this improved the life for me sooo much - and I have all my vi keybindings.

It goes so far, that make my programs to write reports in org-mode, so that I can read display, browse, search and drill down in them with org-mode - for big program generated reports it's a great advantage - they are nicely displayed, but at the same time you can use them with diffs (regression test reports), grep, etc.

Additionally I use org-mode for project planning to generate gantt charts and as well for my private know-how database about IT matters - commands that I use, tricks, code snippets.

This year I installed spacemacs, wich is an emacs with a special configuration, looks nicer and has the vi functionality built-in.

That said, when I code, I use the terminal and vi.
Something like what keybase does with e.g. reddit should work.
> UK’s university system is considered superior to China’s,..., about one in ten applicants gets into Oxbridge in the UK, ...,but in Hebei province in China, where I am from, only one in fifteen hundred applicants gets into Peking or Qinghua University

"western universities" aren't only for "the best and brightest" but also for those who can afford it, this narrowly reduces the number of applicants.
The lack of configurable keyboard shortcuts for extensions is what stops me continuing to use Firefox each time I try it. I have yet to find a usable Pinboard extension, for example.

Is this an extensions API limitation or is not using the keyboard part of FF norms/culture? Even much built-in functionality (like save to Pocket) is mouse-only.
I am not sure I understand why the HN commenteriat believes that reducing immigrant software developers will raise wages while it simultaneously believes that remote work is as good, if not better, than working in an office?

Some possibilities I have thought of:
1) The people responding in both cases are different
2) Cognitive dissonance
3) They think companies are irrational and so will not opt for remote work even if it's better and several times cheaper

Basically I don't understand why people think a company will be willing to hire person A at a salary of $150k + Benefits cost + office space + 20k direct legal fees related to immigration (+ additional fees to now needing a legal department), but not be willing to hire the exact same person for $50k total except have them work remotely. And that same worker is actually happier with a better standard of living with the 50k.
The French nickname 'rosbif' for the English goes back to the Napoleonic wars thanks to our historic association with it.

According to the RSPCA, the number of beef breeding cows in the UK was around 1.6 million in 2013, which is one for every 17 households. I'd say that's pretty respectable, albeit about quarter the rate of the US.
The sarcasm was not directed at him, but at us, and our lack of ability to come up with an economic system that can properly evaluate what somebody is worth.

E.g. We have a legal system that decides when somebody is right or wrong, and it mostly matches with what people feel is right or wrong. Why can't we have a similar system that decides what somebody is worth?
Well, maybe it already was 2 by default (-1.0 means auto-detect). Maybe try different values.
is this going to be 'rescue on fractalus'?

EDIT: It is! Had the commodore version - fun memories :)

c64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjR33K_wuD8
1) This is a tiny problem compared to the damage caused by the accident.

2) It's absolutely sensible that the financial performance of a company that could cause massive damage to surrounding property would be linked to the value of that surrounding property, unless you don't think people should pay for the damage they cause.

3) So, don't do that? If we're talking about a potential change in the legal framework, "but the law would make it impractical" isn't a sensible objection. Exempt this stuff from the transaction tax if needed.

4/5) If the cost would potentially exceed what the company can pay, then require them to carry liability insurance. That's what we do for cars, and it works out pretty well both in terms of incentivizing good behavior and ensuring that victims can be compensated even when the damages exceed the perpetrator's ability to pay.

I'm not against trading dollars for lives. I just want the people who own the lives in question to be the ones making the decision whenever possible. That's not always feasible, but this is a case where it looks quite feasible.
I just tried again, and got the same issue, but then restarted firefox, and it's working! Must have been a local issue on my phone.
Charity is problematic too, though. It's subject to the whims of the wealthy, and worse it's damaging to the dignity of recipients - it denies them agency in their own well-being. I say this having been the beneficiary of charity myself: needing to be grateful to someone else is a kind of psychological servitude.

We'd be better off with an economic system that values agency and lives worth living a little more than efficiency and profit, that ends up bio-hacking people to buy more food and mind-hacking people to control their attention.

I don't know how to help make that happen, but I'm pretty sure basic income isn't the right answer either.
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That's true, but it's a completely unrealistic hypothetical given the popular view of nuclear power right now. If that popular view ever shifts too far the other way then we should figure out how to handle that, but for now it's not worth considering unless you want to do it for fun.