skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are really bad at estimating portion sizes - https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/35/4/727/4812...

Calories in food vary depending on how it is prepared - https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/5283945/Carmody_...

Calories reported on food labels are often incorrect, because we digest some foods poorly and (because food companies are allowed to use multiple methods and report whichever result suits them best) - http://www2.centralcatholichs.com/copied%20articles%20to%20r...

Individual calorie absorption varies between people depending on gut biome - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Heymsfield/publi...

> Also, if it's inaccurate, what's the alternative?

Depends on what you're doing with it. For dieting, counting calories is probably better than not counting calories [citation needed].

For a non-preregistered non-blinded experiment testing an intervention with small effect sizes on a measure where people are known to be bad at self-reporting, well, you're already screwed. There are more direct methods of measurement (eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233774/) but they are costly.
Nordstrom is doing pretty well for their online stores. I have to order things there for family every so often
A lot of the old perks on airplanes were due to price controls imposed on them pre-privatization. They weren't allowed to compete for customers by lowering prices, so they spent money on unnecessary quality improvements in an attempt to compete for customers.

It's the exact inverse of one of the problems with rent control. Under rent control, landlords aren't allowed to raise prices to pay for capital improvements that renters are willing to pay a premium for; with airline ticket price floors, airlines weren't allowed to slash prices, so they added perks that flyers would prefer not to pay for.
Starbucks, Apple, Tesla, Western car companies, IKEA, LinkedIn, Coach, Coca-Cola, Nike, L'Oreal, Adidas, Microsoft etc, just google this.

https://www.uschina.org/about/member-companies
Interesting - why?

Because more than one person on the team has a background in meteorology, and to them a localized cloud event is "fog." I think it started as a joke, but it just kind of stuck.

It helps that our events that require localized cloud infrastructure are sporadic, just the way real fog is. And just like real fog, we don't always know where it will be. Once or twice a year we have to deploy about 150 devices to a different location in the desert. Then as quickly as we arrived, we pack up and move on.
One usually-not-mentioned premise is that even though goods’ costs have typically been going down over time as physical product technology improves, many services (the majority of developed economies) are relatively unaffected by improvements in technology because they rely almost exclusively on labor. Rising inequality will make services more expensive to those on the poorer end. Poor people don’t struggle to get smart phones or food, they struggle to get daycare, medical care, education, etc.
Credit cards take up to 5% and they only cover the transaction.
Is the OP wrong? Is the point irrelevant to the discussion? In what way is the observation of an admittedly uncomfortable fact "ideological rhetoric"?
It’d be perfectly reasonable to share a link to on HN after writing it in a blog. But HN isn’t a blog or a blog hosting site.
European Commission I imagine
Yeah, don't eat those too.
Do you also have a CDN (Chicken Delivery Network)? (Stolen from a guy in a slack channel.)
I used the word as an adjective, so, relating to the general definition: a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Let's see: a breakdown between thought, emotion and behavior (claim to "love animals" and then pay people to torture them, check), ... fantasy and delusion (refusing to acknowledge the horrendous conditions on factory farms, check) ... a sense of mental fragmentation (love one, but kill the other, check).

It's not a far stretch.
The solution if you need fixed performance is one of the other instance types, so they don't need to make it a setting on the t* types since that's not what they're for.
Seems more likely that if your father was president he could groom you and guide you to the path towards being president, similarly to how if your parents went to an ivy league, they'd know what's required to get into an ivy league or at least be a strong candidate, I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy as your post suggests.
You'd never date me. You'd hire me at a fair price.
False equivalence. Let me paraphrase your argument a little bit:

"If you suffer a sunburn, are you more or less injured than being run through with a katana? No. [In both cases] you're still injured."

But of course you can be more injured or less injured. The entire point is that injury isn't a binary measure, and neither is freedom/censorship.

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Let me put it another way... imagine the most oppressive possible regime, and then imagine the most liberal utopia but with one added restriction: you can't say "purple fuzzy dishwasher". That's the only restriction. Absolutely everything else is permitted but that one phrase is illegal, and immediately punishable by a million-dollar fine. Keep in mind that the most-oppressive regime also disallows the phrase "purple fuzzy dishwasher", and in their case it's punishable by torture and then death.

If your definition of censorship doesn't meaningfully differentiate between the two societies, then it's completely useless. You could only use it to conclude that "all people are censored", since there are always possible material repercussions to things we could say.
What were the main issues you faced with Helm?
The Demise of U.S. Economic Growth
Not everyone is from US, miss. Most people from other countries sees a concentration camp for what it is, a concentration camp. Some have parents or relatives that lived (or died) through those camps.

And I wouldn't dare compare US's detention center for illegal immigrants with the camp for millions of people detained without violating any laws. For instance, most countries have detention centers for illegal immigrants.
5G standard is ready: Rel-15 success spans 3GPP
Do you remember when 4G has become the new standard for mobile communication? Almost 10 years later, many networks have just reached the connection speeds required by the 4G standard. Given the time it took to reach true 4G, it may seem premature to think of building a network ready for 5G.
> Other than inventing the modern phone

Come on now.

> writing the operating system

Which OS, iOS, that the phone purchaser inherently paid for? Or macOS, that the computer purchaser inherently paid for?

> developer tools

Which you need to purchase a developer license for to be useful.

Apple is adding value, AND double dipping. Most of your examples are things they've already been compensated for.
I feel the same way about senators wearing Nascar style jackets, showing everyone that sponsors them ;)
Corbyn floats plan for windfall tax on tech firms to fund journalism
Because real black hats don't spend multiple thousands of dollars to go to BH, unless they also have a corporate day job. In which case, they have no reason not to use their real name. Otherwise it gets a little awkward to meet your co-workers for a MS -sponsored happy hour with a con badge that says "Mr. ThE PlaGUe"
> But for every big app there's something like 9 that fail completely

Actually the ratio is more like 1 to 500k. There are millions of apps in both stores, but I'd bet less than 1000 make significant income exclusively from the app stores.
In the future I will surround such criticism in more flowery language, I was too blunt.
There are certainly negative consequences of automation, and many existing jobs will disappear.

A key feature of the times we live in is that knowledge is ubiquitous. If an idea becomes known and understood to be feasible, and it serves a useful purpose, you can't hide it from existence. If your restaurant doesn't capitalize on these tools to improve efficiency, another one likely will. This might mean that your restaurant gets be out-competed by a better product elsewhere AND your workers will be out of a job.

Trying to freeze a system that works at a given time is becoming more and more difficult as we advance our knowledge and technology. This paradigm of rapid evolution has been playing out since the industrial revolution, and seems to be accelerating with time.

Maybe it ends badly for us in the macro sense, we'll see. I feel for the folks that can't evolve and get left behind, but I'm not sure how to help them. Resisting the change probably won't work.
Ideal competitive markets allow for little profit. Significant profits are a sign that a market lacks competition. One can certainly not expect a company to voluntarily lower prices based on a value judgement. It requires competition or, in unusual cases, regulation.
It depends. Many managed funds have huge turnover percentages, tons of active trading, etc. Those asset managers are definitely attempting to time the market. This is more than just hedgefunds.
Perspective is everything. Now and again I use C libraries that haven't been updated in 15 years. Why? There isn't a need. Everything builds perfectly, and some of those libraries are still the go-to solutions in my field.
It is somewhat annoying however given within Schengen there is no requirement to make passengers from the Common Travel Area (i.e., UK + RoI + Isle of Man + Channel Islands) re-clear security, whereas there is in the opposite direction.

Nowadays there's very little difference to the security procedure between the two, and I'm always surprised it doesn't hurt Heathrow more as a hub for ex-EU passengers.

That said, in the UK case at least, it requires a change in law, so it needs to become enough of an issue it's worth some at least small amount of political time.
> Ok, so what's my point? Well, the mindset of those junior bankers is what permeates America. We're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, right? It's a kind of shared madness.

Some of us took the old adage to heart that "if it's too good to be true, then it probably is" and invested wisely in assets that give a nice, compound return. I'm not rich, but I'm very very comfortable and I travel a lot. It's a good life and it was achieved the "old fashioned way."
Of course not, but where do you draw the line?
I believe this was in response to the SHAttered[0] attack which was a demonstrated SHA-1 collision

[0] https://shattered.io/
Disney's partner is the Shanghai government, not Wang. And the partnership was many years in the making. Wang only made his boast after the park openned, to draw attention to his own properties.

KFC and McD owned Chinese franchises for decades before spinning them out for financial reasons.
It's inaccurate because people tend to be biased towards under-counting their own calories. However, calorie counting is very effective -- knowing the absolute number of calories you consume is not that important, as long as the reported amount consistently decreases over time.
Microsoft and Seattle Children’s pay a monthly fee to use the stops, which could provide another transit revenue stream if the program were expanded. The goal of the pilot is to help transportation officials determine whether private employer shuttles can share public transit stops without disrupting service.

I know of many companies that have these special shuttle programs for their employees which I suppose is a neat way of using capital available, but why don't those same companies instead subsidize the costs for employees of using and thereby increasing ridership on already existing transit options-and forge some kind of public/private partnerships to improve public transit in their respective cities?

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but while the goal of more vehicles off the road isn't something you'll get a complaint from me about, the schism of private transportation "for employees" and pub transit "everyone else" when it comes to public transit doesn't sit quite well with me for some reason.
If nothing is unlimited, then you should not advertise as such. Not sure why you're even bringing that up except to be pedantic.

Pretty clear statement - unlimited data is either unlimited or not. Throttling customers because they reached the limit on what you're selling as "unlimited" is deceptive at best, and actually harmful at worst. We're seeing the latter here, and still people want to correct the customer on what unlimited means.

Simply put: this marketing tactic is a Bad Thing because it sells people something they didn't want with a sticker that said it was what they wanted.
Shout out to Jordan Peterson.
Reference to actual paper ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9.epdf?refer...
Ahh, yes. Always useful to continuously cherry-pick or alter definitions to tailor words that have an objectively negative moral implication to apply to exactly the standards you want.

Just because some publications use the word in that way does not mean the definition of the word should be shifted.
I can't see the code because I'm on mobile, but if the JIT is function based and you're only calling the benchmarked function once it may not have it optimized for your first call. It certainly can't replace the instructions mid-loop.

Edit: SO answer explaining the PyPy JIT: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37377787/what-kind-of-ji...
Costco is the fastest I've come across. Haven't tried CFA as I usually do drive-thru.

Most places have convoluted the whole card process. It's slower than cash now...
So are many CS MS programs, provided you can pass the math classes.
This is true for me.

I've cut my business travel a significant amount over the last years as a result of the time it takes to clear the border control in the US. In the past i used to fly the route between Europe and the US maybe 10-11 times a year, now at most 2. I will say i've always been met with respect when finally reaching the end of the line but the line has grown on average where a couple of years ago i had to stand maybe 45 minutes to being consistently over 2 hours. Came in to SFO a month back and had to wait in the line for 4 hours and 30 minutes. That's adding another 4 hours and 30 minutes to an already long trip.

The end result of this is that i absolutely try to avoid flying if i can, doing as much i can online.
Dose the cops
Sure, but even looking at the two sites now I'm not sure I can see much difference in content quality.
Calculating costs here is tricky. Do you only include the cost for Google running running the Play Store infrastructure itself, or do you also include the costs of developing and running Google Play Services? What about the costs Google has developing Android itself, which is otherwise given away for free?
We did not always have what HP created.

It's not a trick, it just doesn't work on the underlying mechanism we thought it did. The new configuration is itself radically new.

The Mechanical Turk was a trick, designed to deceive.

It's a very unfair comparison.
> I'm not concerned about the word. I'm concerned about the definition

Come again?

It seems like you're the one who's missing the point, anyway. You didn't address anything I wrote in my comment. Par for the course, I guess. Just imagine I wrote the exact same comment again, and reply to that if you feel like it.
Calorie counting can be wildly inaccurate while still producing the desired effect of weight loss. It probably has more to do with mindful consumption of food than getting the numbers exactly right.
GlobalEntry is a CBP thing

Clear is not - it is private.
I am pretty sure everyone, except for the 1%, struggle to get daycare, medical care, and education.
Expose an OpenMediaVault instance on Nextcloud
It's on the side. It's also the same on his fb page, which is also on the side
CEOs fear failure, feeling unqualified, and hiring the wrong people
Are you a multi-millionaire in hard assets with a return on investment, or on paper (such as stock options or illiquid stock ownership)?
> Ok, so what's my point? Well, the mindset of those junior bankers is what permeates America. We're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, right? It's a kind of shared madness.

I think you're missing the point. It's not really about not getting rich quick...the junior bankers probably spent months/years of 100+ hours weeks working on slide decks to get this done, only to have all their work thrown out. For the guys at the top its just one of many deals that fell threw, but for the junior bankers it's probably the most important if not only deal they've worked on in their short careers, and now it's thrown out. I think you'd be upset if a year+ of your work suddenly counted for nothing, regardless of the amount of money involved.

> People in life are what matters. Money matters too, of course, and it's tempting to dream about having FU riches. But when we live in this culture where we're all trying to gamble, and institutions are trying to gamble, and the losers get quietly swept under the rug and silenced, all that's left is the impression that everyone is winning except you.

FWIW most of the people working in the finance industry are not chasing money thinking of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, they are simply trying to provide stability and a good life for their families.

> My Bitcoin friend from 2010 wound up a millionaire, but he lost his love along the way, and as far as I know he still hasn't found anyone. Was that rich life worth it?

Isn't this a false dichotomy? Tons of people divorce because of lack of money too.
Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund
Suggest changing link to original article ...

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-t...

In particular, the psmag.com article introduces an error in the tree canopy loss/gain graphs that swaps gross gain and net change.
I specifically limited it to

>People who are this violent

not an entire population. You're intentionally misreading the comment if you insist otherwise. The point is very simple. It's not okay to kill people at a protest, and re-education for people who support murder at protests seems like a reasonable option to me. Go ahead and ban me dang. My opinion is "murders at protests are bad." That's not changing.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817334

Also shell group sponsoring sham "research".
Yes, opposing those things should also be part of standing up for human rights.
nice, I was looking at installation companies.
Neither the equity issuance under discussion nor the cryptocurrency markets are good examples of exponential growth.
This also ignores increases in costs of living, such as housing, and the destruction of concepts like 'career paths' where someone would be with a company for a long time and build economic and social value within a given area.
Well, they certainly wouldn't take offense to it like a atheist / materialist would at the idea that a debate they care a lot about might be framed that way.
Titan sounds interesting, but I feel like the value they provide is dubious for the fee (1% of AUM!) they charge.
You are correct in that if I subscribe through Apple, that Apple gets a cut, and if I subscribe via the web they do not get a cut. This makes sense, since Apple is providing a subscription service. I don't have any problem with this model. It's convenient and I've used it in the past.

However, Apple also wants a cut if I were to purchase a movie through the Amazon Video app. Amazon has disallowed such purchases for this reason. Instead, I have to go back to the web, make the purchase, and then I can view it with the app.

Some may argue that this is a fair price for having your app hosted on the app store. However, since Apple prevents any other means of me getting apps on my phone, I find it unfair rent-seeking.

Worse, Apple very clearly wants subscriptions to work just like in-app purchases.
like when Russia invaded Crimea and how the rest world responded?
Where the CXO is generally focused on vision and externally facing aspects of strategy and growth, the VPX is typically focused on the internally facing aspects and the execution.

CTO: how does Internet of Things fit into our strategy as an underwater basket weaving company? How does that position us relative to Baskets Inc? What upstarts do we need to look out for?

VPE: what sorts of experts should we hire for our new IoT department? How should the department be organized? What leaders does it need? Should we prioritize building for Siri or for Alexa?
> Human beings have been hunting and eating animals ... for hundreds of thousands of years,

This seems a bad argument. Our lifestyles, diet compositions, bodies, ability to diagnose medical illness or cause of death, understanding of nutrition, and lifespans have all gone through several revolutions throughout the years.

The clickbait headline of the article ("pure poison") and and author's comments were inflammatory, which is likely what you're reacting too. However the article does go on to talk about the link between saturated fat as a well-known risk factor for heart disease.

Given the lifestyle trend of humans toward more sedentary living than our hunting/gathering ancestors, suggesting people of today be careful about limiting their intake of saturated fats is a good thing.
I think one thing that doesn't always occur to programmers who haven't experienced is that really boring problems can be really interesting to work on.

(And really interesting problems can be really boring to work on, and really interesting companies can have a lot of cruft and technical debt under the hood.)
Nobody is complaining that Redis ia using the same 'OSS core, proprietary add ons' business model that NGINX has been using for decades.

They're complaining about the weird/impossible 'clause on top of open source' and 'existing OSD' (as if there's another new one) language in Redis' announcement and the 'Commons Clause' website
This is the only way you can prevent having seventeen different copies (and probably versions) of e.g. libQt on your system at once. And once you have different versions of a library, there's nothing that can guarantee they they will all interpret your configuration files in the same way, etcetera.

The "year of the linux desktop" has always been a red herring. Let's leave 2006 behind, shall we?
The functionality of a bank is extremely standardized versus a restaurant or convenience store.
Except that pretty much no social animal with dominance hierarchy has a ranking function as simple as "status=mates". Most animals track the cost(e.g. more stress, higher metabolic rate) of high status vs the rewards. Which means that in an environment of abundance, the cost often exceeds the rewards.

There's also the phenomenon of reverse hierarchies (essentially, lower ranking members band together to keep anybody from dominating them). Which has at the very least been proposed as an explanation for altruistic behavior in humans, too.

And then there's the point that happiness is not related to status, or access to mates, or even access to resources beyond a certain point.

The world's a bit more complicated than ev. psych suggests.

Edit: No matter if you agree or disagree, Boehm's paper is certainly an interesting read. https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/boehm.pd...
But this isn't about mature forests. These are new trees, still growing, that are sequestering C.