skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're being blunt: This is misleading.

We don't use the bomb calorimeter today, but we still use the Atwater system (with a quick tweak for fiber) for those "nutritional components." All that means is instead of burning the food ourselves we're looking at a table that the guy who burned the foods created... with his bomb calorimeter.[1] The only reason we're marginally better now is because we're starting to take into account digestibility (e.g. Carbs have non-digestible fiber subtracted before the calories are calculated).[2]

[1]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-food-manuf...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater_system#Modified_system
People are complaining about the rain in the Bay Area but I say bring it on!! I remember the drought and how I feel sad with mountains of dead grass year round.

Glad to see we are heading out of a drought (this year) - enjoy it!
If go back a bit further you'll find that (for example) one of the big, deadly wildfires from a couple of years ago was almost identical to a wildfire that happened in that same area back in the 1960s (IIRC). And during that earlier fire a few structures burned too (there weren't that many around at the time), so thinking ahead they banned any further construction in the most dangerous part of that area. Only to conveniently forget about that ban during the 1980s and later, so in the second fire you now had a much higher human toll. So two almost identical fires but with very different outcomes, at least in human terms.

Also, most people apparently don't understand the distinction between "wildfire" and "firestorm". Since upwards of 97% of wildfires are actually human-caused these days, of course a human has to be present for that to happen. No humans means far fewer wildfires.

But a lot of what we've been seeing lately are actually firestorms, where a single structure catches fire and then that spreads uncontrollably to the next structure and so on until everything flammable is basically burned out. Firestorms happen because there are few if any resources available to put the fire out while it's still small. So while the original source of ignition may very well have come from a wildfire, the firestorm can keep burning and spreading long after the wildfire itself has basically played out, at least in that immediate area.

And no, climate change has little or nothing to do with this.
I have never looked into why the US hasn't moved towards government prepared taxes like many other countries. I just want to say fuck Intuit! Wasting thousands of hours of time for corporate profit. Absolutely disgusting.
The biggest problem is that they provide no specs whatsoever and you have to use their cloud compiler for your models. Even if you stockpile the hardware, if Google gets bored and shuts down the service, you can’t train anymore. Google also gets to see every model you ever deploy to the thing.
Node v11.12.0 (Current)
Good question. I've never had any problems with mine. The official Phillips app has some limitations, such as insisting on using their cloud when you're not on your own LAN. But there are many alternative apps and it's easy enough to write your own. I like one called Hue Pro, which does let you connect from outside without using the cloud.
Very disappointed that the winning genre wasn’t cheese.

Some S Club 7 will make your Brie far better.
I've found two Waffle Houses next door to each other in Atlanta where the second one was exclusively for producing food for delivery services. Not sure if that would be the situation in Richmond as well.
I keep reading things about how whether you see statistically significant results from a study can depend on things like whether you group subpopulations together...

My conclusion is that no matter how much lip service people give to the saying "correlation is not causation", they don't live it, because the only practical thing to do is publish whenever you find a correlation, or else you will perish.
Zenefits, in midst of makeover, has lost almost half of its board
Unless I’m misunderstanding something, what you’re talking about is already possible. You can delegate subdomains using NS records (glue records optional, depending). Then you can create a record at the apex, effectively making it a single record zone. The only real exception being that you can’t create a CNAME at the apex. And you can delegate a subdomain of the subdomain in the same way. The delegations can be to completely separate DNS services/servers managed by completely different teams. This hierarchy and ability to delegate not just resolution but also control is pretty fundamental to the protocol.

In practice creating a zone per record would be messy and unnecessary if you didn’t need to delegate control but you could do it if you wanted to.
Thanks, I was quite confused.
My wife actually works in the dairy industry, and half her team of sales and HR are remote. Not remote as in working a sales territory but remote as in I’m not coming into the office more than six times a year.

I do agree that companies that can accommodate remote workers soon all will, in varying degrees based upon job and client/customer requirements.
Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander Written in Apple Logo
Yeah, the FoundationDB row is kind of botched.

They also say that "ranges need to be manually locked to avoid phantoms" which is not true. Range reads, deletes, etc. in FDB are all strictly serializable with respect to other operations.

Finally, they describe FoundationDB as "modified percolator". There may be some similarities I guess, but FoundationDB was architected without knowledge Percolator and they are very different. In particular, Percolator is a batch system and FoundationDB is designed for OLTP workloads.
how are studies like these even funded? Shouldn't the community have their methods peer reviewed before going through? Like the sibling comment, there are so many holes in this study. waste of $
>Killing people is illegal because it reduces the number of taxpayers.

Hacker News intellectuals. Despite old people being a net drain on the system we don't kill them.
i ve asked this before. Lyft doesnt own cars, drivers , servers, and it even outsources its software. what is lyft's expertise?
> If I don't change my page sound frequently enough I start getting a weird Pavlovian response.

I had to do the same with my alarm clock, and eventually settled on talk radio because it didn't seem to cause the same effect.
Simple Google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+sanders+poll+lead
Why Would You Care About the Halting Problem?
There are also anti-tax activists who want to make tax filing as onerous as possible so people hate taxes.
Where are you moving to and what is your skillset? Our staff are in both London and NZ, so I feel somewhat qualified to comment.

The NZ market is very idiosyncratic and different to London. The differences made it difficult to maintain a small development team remotely so now we just have a few people working from their homes rather than an office.

Your comment on .NET or Java makes it sound like you don't have either of those skillsets and indeed you will find it harder to get work without those. Compared to London my observations:
- Microsoft stack has a very heavy adoption in NZ
- heavy concentration of govt. work in Wellington, and particularly in a few consultancies like Datacom
- we found it very difficult to find people who knew anything about DevOps 4-5 years ago
- there are clusters of tech-only companies around different areas but most jobs are less pure tech and support functions for other businesses, with all the limitations that usually means for tech specialists, which generally limit options with NZs smaller company size
- half the salary is not my experience unless you're going from front-office IB type Dev into a small private company. I'd say 75% was more accurate, but the lifestyle is attractive
I'm personally a fan of the theological-style "everything is perfectly predestinated, and also you have full free will, and both are true at the same time" arguments.
I went to college in the south. Our rule for waffle house was never before midnight.
> It’s quite possible most of the memory “freed” was never in use.

Given the allocation patterns shown, it would seem to me that if two blocks are still in use, it's fairly likely that the region in between also were in use once (there may be exceptions due to pools etc, but generally memory is parcelled out in a linear fashion).

> And there is the probable downside that allocation heavy applications will pay a lot more.

What would the cost be? All that would happen is that the free pages are marked as clean. I'm sure that's not entirely free, but bound to be considerably cheaper than paging the page out and in again.
perhaps, but it’s all conjecture until it’s out there. i hope it’s real, though!
It’ll also get even clearer with async await!
How do you plan on dealing with the nightmare of the other organization in the finance space that is named "Point" http://point.com?
https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI...

Up until five or so years ago the FAA only mandated 250 hours of flight time to obtain an airline transport pilot license. Has American aviation gotten that much safer since then?
Oh, in terms of real world results, it's definitely an ongoing process of experimentation and adjustment. I have no background in the field so I can't claim much expertise, but it seems the profession is just starting to scratch the surface of the relationship between food, age, hormones and weight gain.

For now, I think it's much more important to change your habits and mindset around eating, then see how your body responds.
This was done by an art school. It's a joke.
I’ve been working on a language that builds on top of Go for this exact reason. I want to use the existing ecosystem.

But a lot of people have been telling me it isn’t a “real” language and that I need to target either C or LLVM. Can’t please everyone, I suppose.
Open Source hardware is still severely hampered by the lack of RTL tools. Even though they provide the RTL, I'm not sure that I could ever actually simulate it without spending >$1k on some Synposis software.
As a transplant from the South to Philly, it's not even close. The staff in a Waffle House are happy to help you, and great to talk to. I'ts a place to sit down and hang out for hours at a time with your friends, recovering from a breakup, or a night out, or a hard day's work. At Wawa they just want you to get your shit and get out - most don't even have seating, and you're not being waited on by someone, just interacting with a touchscreen, then being handed your food across a counter.
It's not satire nor a real experiment. There is no evidence to take from this. The box the cheese was placed in was a variable as well, so there's no conclusions to take here.
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Anonymous memo on how to raise and retain control for seed stage companies
I'm a bit late to the party but I can't help but feel overwhelmed by the huge salaries everyone is making. Congrats to everyone!

2006 - 2014: €16k

2014 - 2017: €21k

2017 - now : €40k

These are gross salaries. I work in Portugal (36yo). I did web development up until 2016 in agencies/consultancies. Now I'm working for a startup.
I'm pretty sure it's broader than this. It's a narrowing range of opinions that are allowed in public discourse. It doesn't change people's minds, it changes what they can and cannot say without risking their careers and public standing. It causes people to internalize their opinions. That leads to resentment and the resentment fosters the intensity of the feelings and pushes people into extremist territory. The extremism will always find the outlet, no matter how hard you try to control it.

Think of Gab for example. The site has been described as "extremist friendly" or a "safe haven" for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right. The only reason the site exists in the first place, is that those people were pushed out from Twitter, outside of the realm of "allowed" mainstream opinions. The problem is that by pushing them out, you don't make them disappear, you make them less visible and more radicalised and dangerous.
Fair enough. What about this?

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/12034365/Ultimate_NSA_File_...
they must be running some gargantuan machinelearning/particle detecting/alien signal analyzing operation, otherwise its impossible to imagine where these levels of petaflops are being wasted
Ron Garrett gave a presentation at Google years ago on Quantum Information Theory that kind of demystified a lot of spooky stuff (like quantum eraser), and I'm wondering how much of this is merely an artifact of the way we're interpreting the math.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
As other commenters have noted, there's a broader business case to be made for a service that knows when you're running out of anything in the home or office.
Yeah, I think it's basically splitting hairs.

My understanding of the chronology is that Whit was a bit earlier than Ron to the party, and Whit's seminal work is what inspired Ron and gang to work out RSA.

Hence I put Whit 1 'academic generation' prior because Ron's work was directly inspired by Whit's work. This is slightly different than what I'd label pure contemporary work (I don't think Ron was doing much cryptographic work before Whit's seminal papers).

Could be wrong, and again, splitting hairs.
You don't need an expert when you're starting out.

But, uh, wasn't this about their current expenses? Or their expenses at some point after their AWS bill got bigger than 1-2 employees?
Why Americans are afraid of self-driving cars and so are persuaded by the
To offer a counterpoint, I basically entirely disagree with your opinion but maybe we have different ideas of using something.

Most libraries aren’t really that useful in the long term (although the most-used are). Typically they will not do quite what you want or they will do more than you need and therefore what you want will be mixed up with a lot of other things you need to specify. In cases where a perfect library already exists for your thing there is a reasonable chance that your thing already exists, and otherwise just use whatever language the library is in.

Now there are some libraries but I claim that basically everything else you can get away without and just do it yourself only adding things as you need them. E.g:

libc type library is quite fundamental. Likely a lot of the basic stuff already exists. So long as you have an ok ffi it should be easy to add any missing calls.

HTTP client. This is likely to exist but also not super hard to implement. One can also skip this and ffi/shell out to curl.

Json parser. Again likely to exist and quite easy to implement.

Data structures. Likely to somewhat exist although anything missing that you want may be a bit annoying to add. Typically I think most projects don’t hinge on exactly the right exotic data structure, and if they do then they should be implementing that themselves.

E.g. yaml parser. Less likely to exist and annoying to implement but you can just use some existing program to convert to json first and then easy.

E.g. bindings for your favourite C drawing library. Probably don’t exist but hopefully there is an ffi so just do it yourself.

Libraries aren’t really very special and rolling one’s own isn’t hard. And even if you refuse that, you can just write part of your project as a simple unix process and call that from your python script with all the libraries you want.

Personally I see the lack of libraries as an opportunity to not search around for libraries or try to work out how they can go wrong or be forced to do things a certain way. Especially if the language is novel, it probably isn’t really clear how such a library should be structured. E.g. the reason that rust doesn’t have a canonical gui library isn’t that there are no libraries or no one is trying or no libraries exist but rather that the community in general are still trying out different approaches trying to find something that fits the language well. On the other hand the OP mentions the existence of a widget library for V already.
That's extremely cool. It serves a need and apparently (according to their description) it actually works and the cows will use it.

(And obviously not needed for free-range grass-fed cows as opposed to congested feed lot cows.)
Plan 9 is a little different because it's harder to flitter between operating systems than it is programming languages.

That said, I'm not discounting what you're saying about Go's popularity either.
A year ago the markets zeitgeist was "synchronised global growth". Then it was "narrowing term spread on bond yields". Now it's "China and European growth slowdown" and "US Q1 earnings softness".

Getting off the news headlines, market prices for the last couple of years were broadly consistent with Fed interest rate projections -- slow but consistent rate raises last year and in 2017. That is no longer the case. Now the Fed has backed off the pace of raises and is (IIRC) projecting zero or one for the rest of the year, and markets are projecting rate cuts for the first time in a long time. If people think the Fed will need to cut rates, it's because they think inflation will be down, likely due to lower wage pressures from a softer labour market etc.

Other things: some market indicators have "gotten better". P/E multiples and similar metrics were historically high and have trended down (both due to price drops and earnings increases.) Blame interest rates rising last year IMO, why wouldn't ratios be high when rates are low? They're still high, but not worryingly so.

TBH I don't give much thought to the Chicken Littles. Maybe we'll have a technical recession this year or next, maybe due to trade, maybe due to China or Germany, but for the moment I think people in the markets broadly agree that things are long-run pretty healthy. Famous last words, I guess.
I dont personally care about points, but I do care about being able to make purchases without wondering who my bank is selling/trading the records to.

Points are manipulative anyway, they're designed to make people spend/do more than they ordinarily would. Eg, scene points, drug store points, credit card points, points in arcade games maybe even
I use the second photo from here[1] as the background on the caller when I get paged.

[1]: https://grist.org/climate-energy/these-new-high-res-photos-o...
Show HN: Road Trips in India
The I in IED stands for improvised. I'm sure there's better or worse ones, but put some stuff that goes boom in a tight container is a pretty good start.

If your society is held together by a lack of available knowledge on how to blow stuff up (or take other dangerous actions), I don't expect it will be held together for very long. Motivated people can figure this out pretty quickly.
CBOE pulls the plug on Bitcoin futures trading
> Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world. This file is Good Code.

oh my god! this is so much me it is not even funny
If this turned out to be wrong it would be bigger news than if it turns out to be right. This result is 100% expected.
Largely fruit has too much sugar. Berries are okay (blue and black and red)
I think this is very clever and I wish you success but I do not buy the coffee “more than a week old is not fresh” line. Coffee is fermented - stored well it lasts a hell of a lot longer than two weeks.

We stock up on our family’s favorite coffee from Colombia three or four times a year, where relatives travel long distances to collect it for us from a non-exporting roaster.

Many months is a normal shelf life.
Inherited wealth gives you an unearned advantage. Therefore, on average for any given slice of society, the least talented members will be the children of privilege. The more money you’ve been given the more likely your peers outclass you.

This is evident to most people, but surprisingly not obvious, in my experience, to the people most directly affected.
It was an art project.
It does but without it you have a chicken / egg situation where developers wouldn't use ATS without the library support but those libraries don't get written without developers using ATS.

At least this breaks the deadlock and in the future those libraries might be replaced with ATS alternatives.
[1] is fascinating, and gives a much better explanation of my comment above that "it's not as simple as the law of thermodynamics".

The endocrinology and psychology of "why do we feel hungry?" and "why do we overeat?" are incredibly important to weight loss.

That's not to say that you can't lose weight with caloric restriction - of course you can. But noone in the CICO* crowd can explain why most people struggle with it. It's easy to chalk it up to "weak-minded fatties". The more interesting question is - could we bolster the weak-minded through nutritional adjustment, supplements or fecal transplants?

* Calories-in, calories-out
I would like to popularize a term for this kind of behavior: Political Terrorism.
Where is the disparity between the two coming from?
You think their fixed AWS costs are more than 4 million per month, even with almost zero users? I sure hope not.
Show HN: Jupyter extension to track and reproduce notebooks
> there’s an obvious reason for the dramatic uptick between the 1970s and today: CO2 in the atmosphere, put there by humans

The fact that this reason is "obvious" doesn't mean it's correct. Climate models based on the assumption that human CO2 emissions are the primary cause of warming have been significantly over-predicting warming. So I don't think we can say human CO2 emissions are the primary cause. We are still too uncertain about how the climate works for that.
It's expensive, it's a hassle, some notable founders have publicly said they regret going public. I think letting insiders cash out is a great thing, but some disagree. From an outsiders perspective it seems like there's plenty of private liquidity for promising, growing businesses.

Seems reasonable to ask why they'd do it to me. I certainly wouldn't assume it's a "scam", but I don't think going public is the obvious good that (I hear) it once was.
You'd think, if they were powerful enough to affect tax law, they'd lobby for getting taxes included in prices, the way they are in most of Europe. That'd make a lot of people hate taxes—especially the people who have to constantly re-tag merchandise.
All things considered - yes, it is. But there are numerous downsides.

First off is that rent and/or house prices are sky high in the main centres. Auckland is really very bad but Wellington is catching up quickly.

Wellington is quite heavy on .net due to the government and Xero. For smaller businesses there's lots of rails still. Weta is not a big company and getting a job there is a big ask unless you're already in the VFX industry. In general, NZ likes to think of itself as being innovative but isn't. Our startup 'scene' and funders are extremely conservative.

But it's a good place. Most devs know pretty much what they're doing; there appears to be an active contract scene particularly for C# and Java; and you get to live in New Zealand :)