skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I eat a metric fuck ton of yogurt, drink the occasional kombucha, and otherwise eat random fermented or brewed items like miso, soy sauce, tofu cottage cheese, cultured cheeses of a number of varieties, and so on. Every once in a blue moon, I might eat pickles, or some kind of pickled item, or vinegar product, like apple cider vinegar.

I don't really drink a lot of beer, but when I do, it's usually thick stouts. I don't drink much alcohol at all anymore. The days when I did, it was more or less a contest or a dare among friends, when out and about.

I drink absurd amounts of coffee. Coffee has some anticeptic aspects, but what role that plays in its interaction with my gut flora is anybody's guess. I have to figure my microbiome has evolved adaptations to cope. Or not. Maybe it's just constant churn, who knows?

I fart constantly. I'm not shy about it. I let silent ones rip all the time. Most of the time, it's odorless air. But when it's not, I crop dust my co-workers shamelessly. They can deal with it. Smell my innards. Inhale the fumes of an ecological menagerie roiling inside me. Gas isn't really an unhealthy thing. It's just a perception of rudeness, like body odor, nose picking and so on.

...oh yeah, I pick my nose too. Like a fiend. Is that considered "bad" or something? Whatever. I look at is as another form of seeding the microbiome, applying the latest patches and AV updates, to harden my system against intrusion.

My shits are huge. They are solid and a brown, like some hue Bob Ross would concoct for the trunks of his trees. When I'm sick, it creeps into an acidic yellow, like vomit, but with an acrid stench.

As for mental fogginess, I can't complain. Maybe the coffee sobers me up.

Reading between the lines, with the gas and the bloating and the fogginess, I'd guess this resembles a drunkenness that draws parallels with anaerobic production of alcohol. Take it too far, and you might be brewing a lightly alcoholic mix, not unlike how kombucha requires ID, even though it's hardly comparable to beer.
Being sedentary leads to a host of maladies, while constantly doing bootcamps, overtraining, pro sports or cross-continental marathons causes enormous oxidative stress, tissue damage and more risks of premature wear, cancer and aging... so there's a happy medium for a healthy, good quality of and longer life.

Also, between catabolic processes that destroy the body to keep it going and binge eating, there's a happy amount of fasting and cutting calories to a sustainable amount... lipogenesis, ULDLs, and VLDLs generally aren't good.
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italy has also been in the top 10 countries by longevity for decades even with a diet heavily skewed towards pasta/bread/pizza.

I feel the problem of the US is a cultural one which goes beyond the basic carb/fat split.
Impressive results! Any plans for a windows/linux version? Does it also cancel noise on incoming audio?
My issue is not with Amazon.

This is about the game, not the player.

Though now I'm misquoting Ice T too...
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or you could have s system where you score candidates from +3 (like a lot) to -3 (dislike a lot).
Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research suggests property tax should be charged on self-assessed value -- but the owner can be forced to sell at their assessment. It was an interesting econtalk episode. [0]

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/glen-weyl-on-radical-markets/
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My impression from a decade in Windows Server and .NET development is exactly the opposite. You may have to do a lot of reading, but the available technical docs have 100x the raw utility of those from Apple and others.
Yeah, those are some great shots! Good eye for small details.
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Ditto, except I’ve mostly stopped using Lyft in favor of ReachNow Ride which is driven by employees (i.e. not contractors) who show up in a BMW and generally drive like their income is decoupled from working long hours and the need to turn over lots of rides.

If you’re in a market where they operate, I can heartily recommend it.
When you look at a population you have to consider its whole culture.

Healthy Asian populations also eat a lot of fish and seaweed. They eat much more salt (!) than we do. And they don’t eat so much junk food.
I'd love to see a simple, 2D map of our corner of the galaxy now that we've discovered so many planets.

Something like the closest 25-50 stars, color coded by type of star and planets (cool/hot/gassy).
I grinded a significant portion of my time on leetcode. I would rather have worked on programming projects during this time.
Good point, US-centrism bit me.

How often do the rates change? Anything crazy like 2-3% swings? Doesn't that make budgeting tough?
Very nice shots!
Maybe I misunderstand what you’re saying, but people looking for jobs often temporarily change their names or disable social media accounts when looking for professional jobs. Dozens of my good friends did this out of college and told employers they didn’t use social media because they didn’t want them seeing it.
Kitchen robots still haven't happened much. Except for computer-controlled woks.[1] Those are big in China.

This seemed closer in 1960.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUMAWL3LXg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xop9py8zBY
>“We don’t support the government,” he said. “We are just developing our market.”

Wow, is that meant to be a justification? That sounds even worse than what they are denying. They're just saying, "I don't care about the consequences, I'm just here to make a buck."
Suppose you distribute time slots by lottery. That's unfair because it assumes people with less luck in the lottery have less claim to the natural part of the earth that is held in common.

Making people pay money, likewise, is unfair in that sense. But I'm not sure it's a different kind of unfairness.

And often people have money because of positive virtues: diligence, hard work, not buying things you can't afford.

Among most people visiting a national park and paying an increased peak-hours fee, my bet is there is only a small lean towards such virtues.
Some of the best things in life involved expending a lot of calories. Even if calorie restriction "works" in the sense of slightly extending human lifespan (and there's no real evidence for that yet) it's hard to see that as a net improvement.

I've seen videos of people who are actually trying long term calorie restriction to live longer and they look terrible.
There was a time when I was hiring vendors for my team (at a big company) rather than FTEs and I had a bit of leeway to diverge from the company's interviewing guidance. What I would do was sit them in front of a computer with Visual Studio and internet access for an hour and ask them to do something like write a program that restarts a service given its name, and they could use whatever (e.g. google, Wikipedia, and/or stack overflow) short of copying and pasting the code to do it. I figured if they couldn't do that, then they couldn't do it in real life either, and if they could it was good enough.
I would like to reply to the dead comment:

These eIDs are replaced every few years, so it still matters to a lot of people.

How do we expect "deviants" to improve if we don't even allow feedback towards the "deviant" ?
Tesla Model 3 is starting to show some important flaws in cold weather
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If you ask in-depth questions about their past projects, the challenges they faced, the decisions they had to take, I think it's very possible to find out whether they were major parts of it, or if just small code-pushers who just implemented things like they were told.
I actually enjoy the Instagram ads in my feed. It's usually quirky Kickstarter products like iPhone camera swivels, or magnets that keep your shirt tucked in, or a new brand of chef knives. Pretty fun seeing all the gadgets and ideas.
There's no pleasing some people. High unemployment? Terrible. Low unemployment? Oh, it's soul-crushing corporate jobs, it's even worse!
> In principle you're right, but the notion that header file exposes just the "interface" is completely false. Class definition, private variables and functions, etc. are all exposed in header file.

If you don't want to expose class internals, just use the PIMPL idiom. It's an extra indirection to protect your own abstraction, so naturally C++ decides to opt for performance by default.
I think this is fair. I prefer take-home assignments, but your idea is a refreshing take on the on-site interview.
Details on project website:[0]

> Teaser reveals world's first ground take off in Norway by Jetman Dubai pilots Vince and Fred

> Jetman Dubai announces LOFT: The Jetman Story a feature length documentary is in production

Also on this page presented Jetman's visual timeline chart.[1]

P.S.: [2]

[0] https://www.jetman.com/loft/

[1] http://www.jetman.com/loft/images/timeline.jpg

[2] https://xkcd.com/2072/
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Personally I'm most looking forward to the James Webb Telescope [1]. It's expected to be launched as soon as 2007!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Still waiting for a VR version of Space Harrier. I miss that feeling from the old arcade capsule cabinet when the ceiling dropped over you mirroring the checkerboard floor.
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"Assuming that there are niches though is dangerous, because it assumes the evolution is guided, which it isn't"

No, I wasn't suggesting that evolution is guided. If something evolves, and it ends up in the way of anything evolving similarly, it's not purposeful. It just is, as long as some catastrophe doesn't clear the way.

Edit: your comment "It's entirely possible that this has happened many times throughout history, but the resulting new organisms couldn't compete and died off without a leaving a trace." is a distinction without a difference to me. That's what I meant by it not happening, and the existing organisms occupying a niche.
Well, if I was a manager and there are about 200 developers like you with a GitHub and experience and open source contributions applying for about 3 positions, I am going to make a decision to filter candidates out.

Most managers would reach for the algorithms/hackerrank/leetcode because it's the least risk to them.
I would have much prefer having 30 minutes of time from an average doctor than 5 minutes of time from a great one.

Also we could quadruple the number of doctors we let in every year, and and we'd still only be letting in really smart hard working people.

And it's about choice, if you want to spend $400 to see the best of the best for 5 minutes go for it. But there are plenty of people who'd rather see a cheaper doctor for longer, even if there mcat scores weren't great or they got a B once in college.

Lastly a major chunk of what doctors do is pretty routine. Hey you have a soar throat, let's do a strep test, it's positive, here's an antibiotic. Or you say you have problems being happy, here take an ssri. Oh that one didn't work, let's try another one.
Walmart labs never asked me DSA questions, they grilled me on the projects that I worked on. That was definitely the best interview I had ever attended. Other companies should follow the same model.
I don't know if the anonymous poster on 4chan who helped advance that permutation problem was a practicing mathematician or not, but if third parties verify that a persons reasoning might be sound, what does it really matter?
The point was not to design the "nicest" way of adding safe arrays to C, but a way that captures existing uses and preserves binary compatibility, including preserving memory layouts. For instance:

uint16_t count;
uint16_t *COUNT(count) buffer;
uint16_t *BND(buffer, buffer + count) pos; // pos is within the specified bounds

which captures that buffer is a known-size array, and that pos ranges within buffer's contents. Of course, writing from scratch, one might prefer

uint16_t[] buffer;
uint16_t pos; // An offset within buffer

but that's not much help when incrementally modifying an existing code base, or interacting with some external library one either doesn't have source for or doesn't wish to modify.
GCP may overcome the bad reputation if many satisfied customers speak up, like your parent post has done.
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Sorry, I meant it as a rhetorical question, not a personal one.
> But if the economics don't work for Uber, they won't work for anybody else at scale either.

Uber has no other profit center to prop it up. Everyone else has profitable businesses to lean on (Tesla, Waymo) or corporate backing (Lyft through GM) until they get to the finish line.

If you bet on Uber as an investment, you bet on the wrong horse.
> Most managers would reach for the algorithms/hackerrank/leetcode because it's the least risk to them.

You mean it's least effort. Least risk would probably be hiring a private investigator to dig up everything about the candidate for the past 10 years.
I don't understand...if 'the algorithm'(aka people designing the algorithm) decide that sleep health is an important stat, and they optimize sleep health for 95% of children, but my child is left out or even worsened by the change...should I just accept it(on my child's behalf) for the greater good?
If Jack Williamson was correct then we probably shouldn't probe deeper, lest the Medusae find us...

Would be interesting to see if it could bear life despite being frozen.
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Diets don't cause low metabolism, except in the sense that when you lose weight it takes fewer calories to keep the remaining smaller amount of tissue alive. So as you lose weight, in order to continue losing weight at the same rate you have to keep cutting calories even further.
Queens becoming a playground for social experiments of a billionaire is guaranteed to be good, right?
I never though I'd ever say it, but Walmart looks like it has a couple of interesting software practices
Is Windows 10's Linux subsystem capable of doing real development works yet?
I was amazed when I it came out and was so fast, I've spent a lot of money on Space Harrier as a kid and the color checkered bottom inspired some effects in the demos I've written back then.

Out Run though brought even more 3d feeling with the up and down.
Data structures and Algorithms are fun, but more and more I see that general software engineering is something we need. Several useful questions venture too deeply into domain specific things, making them difficult to give to candidates. For example:

* Make a simple memory allocator.

* Make a simple HTTP Proxy

* Make a simple URL parser

* Make a simple CSV parser

* Make a threadsafe Queue

* Design a class to handle exponential backoff

None of these are particularly useful, but I think they can let a candidate show off how they can handle a simple problem, and how they modify their code as the problem grows in complexity. Sadly, most of these questions candidates have no familiarity with. I would much rather see it than more O() analysis.
PWA's used to be one of the few truly desktop feeling apps on Samsung DeX but as of today their beta of WSL for Android [1] has dropped an it makes every samsung flagship s8 and up a computer to develop apps on.

its like crostini but a little worse since it fills your screen with a graphical ubuntu 16.04 with latest chrome, VSCode and other toys to get you started. Really awesome they are doing this and I look forward to the future of linux on galaxy devices.

[1] https://linuxondex.com
They are likely to know more about the project they were part of then you do. Even if they are really bad.
This research paper packs a wisdom of a great book in 16 pages. Very accessible and highly recommended. Some of my favorite quotes:

"What we call talent is no more than a projected reification of particular things done: hands placed correctly in the water, turns crisply executed, a head held high rather than low in the water. Through the notion of talent, we transform particular actions that a human being does into an object possessed, held in trust for the day when it will be revealed for all to see."

"The features of the sport which the “C” swimmer finds unpleasant, the top-level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say—they find it peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic."

"Olympic Champions don’t just do much more of the same things that summer-league country-club swimmers do. They don’t just swim more hours, or move their arms faster, or attend more workouts. … Instead, they do things differently. Their strokes are different, their attitudes are different, their group of friends are different."

There are many more gems like that, but I can't find a text-only version of this paper anywhere.
Slack is also super responsive when you file a ticket and in some cases have pushed out a change in a few hours. They accept tickets and issues from anyone (not just admins).

I wouldn’t even know how to file a ticket with GDocs.
Please cite your evidence that constantly doing boot camps increases cancer risk.
in economics it’s considered the same thing. either way it adds to less net income for then govt.
Wow, another study that fails to actually include a low carb diet:

>"During the test phase, high, moderate, and low carbohydrate diets varied in carbohydrate (60%, 40%, and 20% of total energy, respectively)"

A low carb diet is going to be 100g (~ 400 cal or 20% caloric intake) per day at the absolute maximum. Really it should be half to a quarter of that and you will not feel the need to restrict your eating at all. The way it works for getting to a normal weight is that you feel less hungry if you limit your carb intake to those levels.

It's amazing how awful this academic nutrition research is, they just make up their own false definitions about things then draw conclusions about what people care about.
That's great for her, but that doesn't define the moral boundary.
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> Almost by definition, college classroom settings and the students who thrive in them are not a natural fit for the kinds of disruptive, rebellious and troublemaking instincts that lend themselves to finding new ways to compromise computers.

An effective way is to channel that make them compete like they'd do in the real world. Set up a bunch of VMs on an isolated network with a game server running of some sort, so they'd have to do trade or do an auction. But at the same time the packages are slightly outdated on the machine, a few too many ports open, etc the protocol has a few weaknesses. And see what they'd do. Of course that takes a lot more resources and dedication from the instructor.
Hmmm. This strikes me as a way to move slaves. If Amazon has their workers get taxed by NYC, Amazon gets to save money. Kind of nasty when it's thought of this way. :/
so now our govt is paying amazon to create jobs from h1bs and displace natives?
Yeah, but is he petty enough to care about the minutiae of some stranger's existence?
Have you ever seen a post regarding gitlab? Their CEO and team is pretty fanatical about responding to feedback and linking to tickets they've created, or issues they've addressed, on their website.

Additionally, I've seen several instances of engineers / product folks / etc., reaching out when someone has a difficult experience or lacks understanding for why things played out the way they did.

Now, that doesn't mean that hacker news is an official customer support channel, nor does it mean that every person that has a situation will garner enough HN support for it to matter...but, it does happen.
I can spend my time learning a new skill or technology, or I can do quizzes on algorithms I will never use. Since I'd like to work for myself in 5-6 years, I resent the time I waste on quizzes.

Another analogy is jiu-jitsu: grapplers can train strength and endurance by going to the gym, but many do not. Just working on useful technique also doubles as a workout that improves endurance - for a large number of athletes, this is preferred to a gym that targets muscles in unrealistic ways and has no skill-gaining benefits.
The argument isn't about being poor causing someone to commit crimes. That's a complete straw-man. Let's focus.

The argument is about discriminatory laws and conditions forcing a percentage of those in poverty to be considered criminals. Specifically, the drug war. That was all my original comment deconstructed. We could extend the moral boundary to stealing food in order to survive provided you don't hurt anyone, but that's it.

I never made any claim that being poor causes some kind of effect on people that turns them into criminals. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Headlines like these make me wonder if MoviePass was some kind of brilliant performance art.
Their ultimate goal must be to be acquired by Apple, Google, or similar. This will never fly as a third-party app/install, even if it's "promised" to be on-device (such promises can change). Moreover, the average user isn't going to know about, care about, or seek out such an app, let alone pay for it. There's no widespread reach or profit in selling direct to consumer.

The only way this works is for it to be built into each device/OS (ie: firmware shipped by manufacturer). If the tech has merit, we'll be seeing it in a couple of years, whether that involves an acquisition here or independent R&D/patenting.
I felt gross reading those few lines. People should ask her how she felt when George Soros was mailed pipe bombs and ask her if her rhetoric contributed to growing hate crimes in USA
Is restaurant variety really that big a deal? Quality grocery nearby would be more important for me - my prime concern, actually.

Living in a Kansas city superb could be cool, if those nearby forests offered parks and trails and such. shrugs
The US is actually middle-of-the-pack compared to other OECD countries in terms of rx drug spend as a percent of total healthcare costs. So while drugs are more expensive in the US, that's mostly just due to overall higher US healthcare costs, not because there's anything special about pharma in the US.

I know other countries spend more than the US on primary / preventative care (though dont have a source offhand); would be interested to know whether hospital spend as % of national HC spend is higher in the US (ive seen data suggesting that cost of a hospital bed for one night in the US is significantly higher than other OECD countries, but don't recall by how much)
Keto diet is ideally no more than 20-30g of carbs per day, with the majority of your calories coming from fat macros. This study would explain why keto enables shedding body fat so quickly (which is usually waived away, by myself included, as satiation from fats and protein vs carbs).
Let us hope that the residents of the Queensbridge Houses housing projects get some employment opportunity out of their new neighbor AMAZON HQ2....
As one of the residents put it in the NYT:

“Not everyone here has a Ph.D., but anyone eager to work should be able to get job,” he said. “It can’t be nothing but a plus.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/nyregion/amazon-queens-qu...