skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight, or put on very little. My wife is the same. I’m not. I lost over 10kg for our wedding and put it on again quickly thereafter. Everybody has a set point weight that their body will naturally return to. This isn’t to deny exercise or changes in diet or environment can’t make lasting changes. Americans who move to Shanghai lose weight because the portions are smaller and you don’t need a car, you can take public transport and walk. I weigh about as much now as I did five years ago but substantially more of it is muscle because I go to the gym. But if I stop my weight will stay about the same and my body fat percentage will go way up.

Your set point will determine what happens to you with no willpower or discipline. It also effects achievable goals. Most men could look like the Rock given his fitness regimen, diet and “supplements” routine.

But your fat set point is no more under your control than your extraversion or conscientiousness one. The expression can change, the phenotype, just like I could start a conversation with anyone when I did sales and I’m now more nervous, or like the age related increase in conscientiousness but the genotype doesn’t.

In an obesigenic environment some people will still always be skinny. If that’s you great. It’s not everyone.
Or another way of looking at it: maybe programmers are one of the few professions that aren’t being extremely underpaid when taking into account: inflation, macro productivity and their scalable impact.

Inflation: A $180k starting salary is equivalent to a $100k salary in 1990 dollars (The 1990s is probably the period when many of us 30 year olds started to hear about salaries and learn that a “six figure” salary was impressive. With $100k being the absolute bottom of a “six figure salary”.

Productivity: for every hour worked (on average) the American worker is about 50% more productive - when compared to 1990. That takes $180k to $270k. [1]

Scalable impact: increases in worker productivity are not distributed evenly. Let’s say a programmer is contributing double what the average worker is to the increase in productivity. This brings us above $300k and if we look at the real numbers maybe closer to $500k or more in value compared to that 1990 worker bringing in $100k of value.

Thoughts? Poke holes in this but it adds up in my mind. Now this doesn’t prove companies won’t find a way to under pay programmers but it at least makes me feel less surprised salaries are so high. And sad that for other industries workers are getting the short end of the stick compared to how workers were compensated in the previous century.

[1] https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4501830
Any possible situation? Of course there is. This one? Highly unlikely. There's no way Google cares enough about this guy to lie about him. Apparently, they don't even care enough about him to fix the error in their search result. Poor guy, he's in the "famous but not famous enough" valley.
Where I live (Europe) I can use Tibber which has an api that shows future hourly pricing. This way I can tell the car to charge the cheapest
Yes, and it notes the supercharging “rates are significantly higher than what consumers in the same areas would pay at home,” which is actually where most people charge up. Super chargers are mainly for the occasional long distance trip. This doesn’t really support the conclusion of the article that calls into question Tesla’s TCO math. Most people are not doing the bulk of their charging on superchargers.
Some things change, others stay the same.

You change the system, and now some part of the application works differently. The way for you to determine if it's expected or not is through the spec of the system. Either it's a bug to have changed it or it wasn't.

In theory, you can use stuff like formal methods while changing a system when you come across things that you think _shouldn't_ change. It's the same concept as tests, really.

In practice I have not found any good tooling for this in production systems. The best alternatives are using types to enforce some rules, and to make APIs that make expressing invalid state impossible. But this is only a small subset of the kind of guarantees you want to have.
High compression ratio / turbo gas engines definitively do. Try pushing a BMW M3 ( competition for the model 3 perf ) on 87 and you’ll see how long the engine lasts.

Look up engine knock.
This conversation is pretty meaningless without numbers on "not that expensive" and "more expensive than you think".
What does "business defined by technology" actually mean? Can you describe it clearly?

Since technology is applied science, why does a hospital using complex scientific machines to deliver healthcare not qualify but a company building a webapp to order food does? Where's the line exactly?
I thought they were intended to be the exception rather than the norm, but it sounds like many people use them almost exclusively, driving their Tesla to a Supercharger every few days to charge it, instead of just plugging it in every night and charging at home.

I can understand it not being cost effective to subsidise the full fuel cost for a significant proportion of vehicles.
As described in that paper, it’s not sufficient to simply store a second, columnar projection of the data to get good performance. You also need a block-oriented execution engine, which means you effectively have two separate databases operating side-by-side. This is a huge challenge and it’s not clear if it’s really worth it, since for logistical reasons you will nearly always operate a separate data warehouse doing mostly OLAP and production database doing mostly OLTP.
Same, why did oracle have to buy sun =(.
Why would it be common sense? Literally nothing is written about design details. At a certain point burden will fall on the user and no it's not common sense where that point lies. Legal arguments such as this case are what concretely define expectations. I get the data protection part and it's easy to just say "anyone that does X is against data protection", but implementing stuff to satisfy GDPR is a mess of grey areas. It's just as likely a company sets defaults to streamline the UI experience for a user as is the case they did it to maliciously trick users (Yeah yeah google is evil etc. Etc. But remember these decisions affect all companies). This is not to mention the fact that many companies dont even offer customized settings and simply have only blanket opt-in checkboxes.
The truth is that in some areas, superchargers are already behind demand. Superchargers need to have more stalls than peak demand because charging is already slow compared to fueling up with gasoline. The time disparity is fine if there's no wait because it basically fills the need for most people's necessary occasional rest stops anyhow, but adding more wait would turn it into a negative experience.

I haven't yet had to wait for a supercharger, but I have seen full superchargers that I haven't needed to use. With the huge increase in vehicles from the 3's being sold, I expect congestion to increase before it's counteracted by more charging options.

I'll be pretty bummed the day I have to start waiting. Waiting might tip the scale for me from electric being a better roadtripping experience to gasoline. On the other hand, autopilot is pretty sweet.

I hope they don't fuck up supercharging like they've fucked up service. It's a necessary ingredient to a great overall experience.
That’s if you own a home in SF with a charger. I doubt most who have the funds for that are worried about the price of electric vs gas.
SCTP over UDP is how WebRTC data channels get their configurable reliability and ordering.
Add a code comment to that single line of code.
Yeah, that's why in the 'Lessons from Docker' section in point #3 I mentioned that docker might be better off for larger projects, since it seems excessive, especially for small projects. The point of this exercise was to learn more about the technology itself, this clearly isn't a viable way of doing things in production though :) Thanks for the feedback!
Always weird to see what other people pay for electricity. It's $.08/kwh here in bc until you use too much and it steps up to $.12/kwh.
The great divide
It's not possible but that's not what I'm talking about.
Here's the replacement program: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

It took a lot of time for them to accept the problem but now they are servicing every laptop 4 years after inception and it doesn't matter if you have warranty. I'm also pretty sure you can ask them about your data so they'd transfer it (there's even a dedicated port on the motherboard for that) and you should do backup anyway.
> Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome

It depends what you are used to eat. A few years ago I would have agreed that pizza and Soda is great.
But today after changing my live style I cook for myself fresh vegetables from CSA and small bio farms I do not like pizza and all the crap any more. That goes so far that I can not go to restaurants anymore, because 95% of them serve crap for my todays taste.
> Founded in 2010, the San Francisco-based business had raised a total of $125 million in venture capital funding, reaching a valuation of $300 million with an $87 million round in 2015, according to PitchBook. Munchery was backed by Greycroft, ACME Ventures (formerly known as Sherpa Capital), Menlo Ventures, e.Ventures, Cota Capital, M13 and more.

I would absolutely love to hear some of these VCs rationales for investing.
I'm not buying it; I believe the problem is more on the human side.

"Most applications are being specified by people who don't understand in any detail what they want the application to do", because most humans absolutely suck at clear communication and clear thinking. They're not aware what they're not communicating. They're not aware what scenarios they're not considering. Examples abound - remember that time where your spouse/parent asked you, "go to shop and buy milk", and you knew you now had to drill them for things like "when", "which shop", "which milk (%/brand)", and "what other %/brand is OK if the one you're looking for is sold out", because they'd be unhappy if you did the wrong thing? Most people who don't work with actual STEM, programming or law seem to be like that, almost completely unable to articulate in a clear and complete way, and completely unaware of how much they're not communicating.

> 1. It's really obvious what we want the system to do (minimize energy usage; produce widgets without killing Joe the machinist; go to the store and don't kill anyone; make money; etc.)

This is not "obvious" and is a good example of an unclear specification. The "not kill Joe" may be an implicit assumption shared by all moral people, but at some point it'll have to be quantified, e.g. for risk analysis, and the question "how low probability is low enough" will pop up. "Minimize energy usage" is limited by goals and tradeoffs that need to be stated; I can make you a sensor run a decade off a coin battery, but there's a good chance that's not what you want. Etc. Etd.

Circling back to the GP's statement, does the customer who wants the energy-efficient, safe, money-making contraption understand enough about either requirement to do a formal specification on it? I believe they do not, and it's the same situation as with cat sharing apps and all the other software of today.

I've worked on software for internal use in manufacturing, and number #1 problem I had was that the customer had a bunch of unclear ideas (ideas that I, a lowly developer with zero experience in the domain, had to fix for them on the whiteboard during meetings many times, because thinking clearly is not a common skill, and they did not have it). A lot of consumer-grade software try to get around this by giving up on clear thinking altogether, and just do gradient descent on customer demands (as perceived through A/B tests) in order to maximize money made, regardless of whether the product ends up being useful or not. I don't feel industrial software lends itself to such method; hell, I hope it doesn't - I'd prefer the firmware running in factories to be effective, not addictive.
Regarding some machine Learning concept, Do you also think some websites which helps in finding chords can have a problem with their cloud storage as well. Like I am amateur to ask this question but just want to know if machine learning is being used in some websites like for ex. say ( https://www.guitaa.com/), Then will it affect the efficiency or responsiveness of the website as well or not?

Because if the website is providing the whole youtube library, then it must be needed a vast amount of storage on the cloud as well. This question is maybe a little out of relation with the main one, But still would like to know the answer!
> On demand food delivery has several major problems that were all very predictable

Hold on now, Domino’s is doing just fine. On a tear actually.[1]

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/07/19/dominos-pizza-exte...
Through forwarded messages. The app already supports group messaging, which was already (and remains) a more effective way of communicating with an established group.
> That women are socialized to not be the aggressors and must be pursued

I don't understand why everybody, including academics, are allowed to state outright that effectively every behavior is socialized. Almost every single animal on this planet has the female in the position of choosing among male suitors, who in turn will attempt to outcompete one another with various displays of beauty, craftsmanship, or among many other behaviors, aggression. That doesn't mean that we can't socialize to suppress or alter behaviors, but I cannot stand how totally unsubstantiated these claims of social construction are for literally every human behavior.
The worst would be a small leak of CO (not CO2) , even in very small quantities, daily miligrams of CO coming from a leaky(small leak) Gas burning heating system. This will most probably get students scores down, among other extremmely bad health effects.

Bigger CO leaks are extremely dangerous, many people lost their lives because of heating systems.

If you can, change to Oil Flow system with burner outside the house and far and aislated from humans. Or, if you can, electrical system. CO from gas is Really Very dangerous.

(using the word "very" is against Mark Twain's advice[1], and using the word "really" is against my own advice, but there are exceptions, here above was one)

1:

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very" ; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

Mark Twain

2- "delete all instances of "really" in you text, and your writing will be better"

ImmerseintheImmensity, Also unknown as InfimousInfinity, Also unknown as ParadoxParalax
I don't think the combative stance helps your argument at all. You know I didn't mean that.

In answer to your question: certainly.

First of all: the sample volume, total number of microwave lines and resulting cooling power have all been massively increased in standard dilution fridges so that the modern quantum computing experiments can fit in. Even if you don't care about phase qubits, but are interested in something else that needs to run at mK temperatures, you're going to have a better time now rather than 30 years back.

More importantly though I'd say isolation has drastically improved. Even at 4mK you can get infra red photons breaking apart Cooper-pairs: forming additional quasiparticles. That noise interferes with any qubit in the fridge. These infra red photons were originating from the fridge itself before this issue was fixed. We would never have identified this issue without studying the high sensitivity of qubits to quasiparticle creation.

Finally, if you don't think that these advances are significant enough, then I don't think you're just having a dig at quantum computing, you've got an issue with the progress of science as a whole.
It's been reported that this report is based on a prank:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/did-the-wall-street-journ...
Some are still done the hard way:

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
Agree, although I don't think the Ops portion is that hard either, at least certainly not that different from all the other complex software that used to be installed and maintained. I feel it's just the usual pushback against change and general commoditization of IT that's leading to most of the complaints.
> Patriarchy doesn't cause male behavior, male behavior causes patriarchy.

There doesn't have to be a behavioral difference between men and women for societies to trend towards patriarchy. The simple fact that women bear children and are pregnant for nine months is enough to have limited their political prospects in pre-modern times.

A society of antiquity that allows women to fight in battle will have fewer women to bear children, which means fewer bodies to grind in the next war. Societies that forced their women into domestic roles could have faster manpower replenishment and win more wars, taking more territory and spreading their customs. Political power was inexorably tied to warfare, and women, often lacking the crucial military influence enjoyed by generals were locked out of the elite decision making classes.

Today, we no longer fight wars of annihilation, and a society that promotes women in the workforce has access to more brilliant minds than one that doesn't. I think there's more to gender relations than human psychology. Natural selection among human societies can be a powerful driver of cultural change.
I know it’s the big lock in boogeyman on HN, but learn about at least one cloud service - not just how to host a few VMs. Learn about their hosted, managed versions of open source software, managed network infrastructure (load balancers, autoscaling, etc.) and even proprietary services.

You can’t come up with a real scalable fault tolerant solution if you don’t understand the underlying infrastructure and cloud hosting is the fastest way to do it.
Any systems language has to deal with unsafe code at some level, the big difference to C is that is explicit and not present at every statement that has to deal with memory access.
It's how much you store that matters not how many calories in. If the body has a signal mechanism that can be triggered by certain chemicals/event then it's no longer about CICO but it's more about the storage triggers.
It is like exercise... you are shaping your brain to the problem. The US military actually tests for this in what's called the Army GT score of the ASVAB test.

When I took the ASVAB in high school I scored a 107. That score is too low to become a warrant officer so I had to retake it a couple of years ago for my officer packet and I scored a 129 out of a maximum 130. That puts me in the top 0.1% of testers. I am not smarter or more intelligent than when I was in high school. I do write software though. Every couple of years I look back on my software and algorithms realizing how I continue to improve and see the solutions more clearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Vocational_Apti...
One interpretation is that for many who took on debt they couldn't support, it was a desperate attempt to continue a lifestyle that wasn't possible for them any more due to changes in both the global and local economies, aided by technology, which resulted in the reduced value of their labor.
Definitely agree! This project was put together in order to learn more about the technology itself, and much of this wouldn't be useful in production. For example our versioning was broken and we didn't figure out why, but that wouldn't be tenable either. We concluded for smaller projects Docker may be more trouble than it's worth, at least from a little experimenting with it. Thanks for the link!
Donald Trump Did Something Right (Hospital Prices Transparency)
At GP's level of specification, things shouldn't change even then, unless you're doing an actual redefinition of what the software does and why. Even if a new feature is cutting across all layers in your code, it's unlikely that it'll alter the requirements like "parallel edits don't corrupt the document".
Presenting only facts is not same to having no sides, as the media can always control whether to present some facts or not. If you don't want to be manipulated by news, simply do not read news. By subscribing to the news stream you should constantly evaluate the possibility being manipulated.
> The predicted number is much closer to around 650 ppm, and that's assuming no change.

Though solar and other non-carbon energy sources are coming down in price, world energy needs are outpacing them. Out CO2 emissions are increasing, not decreasing. I doubt that we'll see 1000 ppm by the turn of the century, but if the "no change" projection is 650 ppm then by simple matter of inference, due to increasing CO2 output, we should be higher than that.
okay. fixed.
Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Advanced Mac Substitute is factored into back end (the emulator itself) and front end (graphics and user input terminal). Writing a new front end from scratch is actually not that much work, and the OS X front end is due for a full rewrite anyway.

This would be an excellent opportunity to contribute that doesn't require any 68K or classic Mac knowledge.
>although food isn't really addictive in the same way

While broadly true, specific things such as sugar seem to be addictive in similar ways to drugs.
BC has high abundance of hydro plants.
Can we take a step back and talk about the management, scheduling, and boundary issues that are resulting in your needing to order dinner at your workplace, seemingly every single night?

Sounds like something must have gone seriously off the rails over there.
Does anyone have any insight into if there are some good tips to be pulled from game design into the more broad category of design? I'm a CS student, and while I don't have any interest in becoming a game developer, I have an interest in design in general. I'm currently attempting to adopt a more user-centric model of how I perceive development and I imagine there is some overlap between game design and other design.
A friend of mine owns a scrapping yard. Surprisingly he makes very good money (business is all about logistics and knowing what you should accept (profitable) and what will cause you troubles)

He says he hasn't accepted Tesla battery for 2 years now, because how complicated and expensive recycling is. According to him, there is not a single person that knows exactly how to properly secure used batter how to de-assemble and then properly recycle. He says its a nightmare ready to come true. He said eventually he can imagine some country will allocate yards of lands just for a sole purpose of storing old dead Tesla batteries altogether, just like we store dead nuclear plant rods under sea or high in mountain's caves.
Not when coding machines like the Amiga.
Repost from my comment above, but for a couple hundred bucks you can get an accurate CO2 sensor that reads out via USB-serial to a computer. I use them at work and we've shown they are quite good over the long term. Plus to recalibrate, you can just take them outside. https://www.co2meter.com/products/k-30-co2-sensor-module
Why don't you voice this very concern directly to that person? Does the culture you're about to build in your company includes honesty and sincerity? Probably not, because it seems that you believe people are not supposed to say what they actually think. In that case you should certainly avoid taking him on board, he won't fit.
Do you know if this can be configured to work with Sage? If so, could you link to an example or instructions?