skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you need to substitute a plant food that is also relatively calorie dense (like beans, lentils, or potatoes)

I tried this; not much help. I was used to a diet of essentially no carbs (and had found it beneficial for me), and actually switched because I had a friend who would not shut up about not eating meat and wouldn't stop until I did. I can indeed eat more, but occasionally I would get full and still not feel "full".

> meat is harmful to our circulatory health

I'm not so sure about this one. I've read about the adverse effects of IGF-1 with respect to cancer, but that seems to be more because it is a growth hormone. Is it any wonder a growth hormone can cause caner to grow? IGF-1, by keeping new cells forming, could help mitigate things like lower bone density and lower muscle tone with age.

I've tried replacing protein-calories with carb-calories. I gained a good amount of weight doing so, and didn't feel nearly as good. I'm much happier and healthier back on my old diet. Lots of meat (mostly white)/eggs/fish, a good amount of veggies, some fruit, lots of nuts, lots of dairy. Almost no sugar/soda/fried stuff/other such junk.

Maybe different people do best on different diets, and we should recognize that what's good for one is not always good for another. What irritates me is when people get sanctimonious about it and say that I'm evil if I don't eat their diet, even when my quality of life, health, and productivity is significantly better doing it my way.
You can't install more than a handful of chargers without needing to run new circuits back to the main panel. Installing a hundred (not unreasonable for future needs!) would probably double the power consumption of the entire building, and require upgrading the utility connection, maybe even running new lines to the closest substation.
https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/ is terrific
So my depression, anxiety and adhd went away when I stopped eating plants. I have one sack of plastic waste per month and I buy locally and I spend about 16€ / week on meat and a few bucks more on cheese and eggs.
>movies anywhere

>US-only

Anywhere that matters, it means.
Part of the problem is that unless the consent is very explicitly communicated so that there is no doubt, it has the potential to pose substantial risks to people.

When I was at school, I remember a student that went abroad that had to get assistance to find new housing after she'd been thrown out by her host family just for receiving a letter from the political youth organization she was a member of at home in Norway, for example (she was a member of Socialist Youth - the youth organization of a mainstream left wing party that has since been part of ruling coalitions, nothing remotely extremist, but too much for her particular host family).

That was a benign situation compared to what might happen if Facebook starts outing peoples political views to people they may have no expectation of sharing their views with, but who has physical access.

I don't this process will survive contact with the real world very long before they get sued.
The Electrical Guitar Company makes new aluminium-neck guitars, if that's something you're interested in. https://www.electricalguitarcompany.com/models/
When the highest reply is a firm rebuttal from Scott Hanselman, you're probably on the wrong side of the argument.
It's a matter of delegating responsibility. The stack is too deep and too complex for any one person to understand. I have a good understanding of the Java language and the JVM. At some point I have to trust the JVM engineers to get things right on all the platforms the JVM runs on.

I have a rudimentary understanding of the Linux and BSD kernels and how they can impact certain parts of my applications. But I have zero knowledge of Windows. But I don't need to, because the JVM engineers do, and things Just Work (TM).

I'm not smart enough to learn the intricacies of every platform, and thankfully I don't need to be.

I guess you have similar issues with POSIX and the abstractions offered by high level programming languages? I assume you write some CPU specific assembly and understand all the possible failure modes of that hardware?
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Well, part of that is that the price went down. When video stores were in their heyday, they often paid 5-6 times more for each tape in order to have public playback rights. The studios realized that they would make more money selling copies to individuals, but after that changed, the big rental chains changed to models where they paid the studios per-rental.
Maybe it's just me but I don't understand this article, it doesn't seem to be related to getting a job, seems more like some random musings on hiring?

As to saying thank you, that's not sycophantic, it's common courtesy. It's not that hard.

Anyway, what's with the hangup on names lately in the "tech" community? Every other podcast I listen to people keep excusing themselves for "mispronouncing" peoples' names. Newsflash: unless your name is English, people are guaranteed to mispronounce your name. You know they don't speak your language, so how could you expect them to pronounce your name in your language? I have never ever had a foreigner pronounce my name correctly in my language, and it doesn't bother me at all. I would be extremely surprised if they did, and my name is just outside of the comfort-zone of English orthography.

Could someone from the easily offended camp please explain your reasoning to me?
Plus Google Talk was XMPP compatible for a long time.
Because they don't care about providing valuable services for the benefit of the customer. They're a monopoly that can easily get away with minimum effort and then price it as high as the market will bear.
This might be true, but there are plenty of cases where this is exactly the case (e.g. bananas, rubber). Also, as the article points out, there are "heirloom" crops which would surely mitigate this danger somewhat but would presumably still be perfect for economies of scale - e.g. due to the reduced marginal cost for R&D to build machines etc. appropriate for harvesting?
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> The Bambara groundnut is considered ‘complete food’ because of the balance of macronutrients accompanied by the amino acid and fatty acid content.

Is a "complete food" a food that supplies most of what we need? I've heard one could almost live on potatoes, with only some vitamin supplements, is that also a 'complete food'?
Why the Cool Kids Are Playing Dungeons and Dragons
AI covers many "parts" of CS.

The AI you use in games is very rudimentary and smaller in scope compared to AI used for applications in the real world.
Amyloid plaque accretion reminds me of cholesterol accretion, and there is a recent school of thought whereby:

- Heart disease is actually caused by metabolic syndrome (read: same cause as diabetes)

- Alzheimers is analogous to diabetes (some are calling it Type 3)

I'm not convinced of the above, but it's interesting.
The UK is a broke corrupt country. It has levels of inequality and institutional corruption the US can only dream of.

There has been no public service ethic in government since the 80s. Government has become a tool for leveraging policy for personal and corporate wealth extraction and the promotion of privilege. Promotion of common welfare and social investment are currently absolutely taboo.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/07/mp-owen-pat...

The reason the Tories keep scraping through election wins is because the UK media are institutionally right-wing. The Tories rely on a base of confused pensioners and - increasingly - dog whistle racists. Latterly, BBC editorial has been obviously compromised, with BBC News failing to challenge or question government policy in any way, and selective reporting making dissent seem either small or irrelevant.

The result is that British voters are probably some of the least educated and informed in all of Europe.

None of this is good. I left the UK last year, and I genuinely fear for the future of the people I left behind. Historically, the next step in this kind of post-imperial malaise is traditionally a military dictatorship. I hope the UK can pull itself together and avoid that, but I worry that it's going to be a very close thing.
AI can emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good
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I don't think the discreet model by itself explains the arrow but it is imo a part of the puzzle.

As you are very likely familiar with the 2-slit experiment, I am of the view that 'information' [?] flows from both directions of what we perceive as 'arrow of time'. The act of choice constrains the possible pathways and that reduction is what we call 'state collapse'. So without measurement at the slits, all possible pathways are active and naturally we perceive them as an 'interference pattern'. As soon as we close the door on 'choice' flow from 'future' has no other possible path way other than the single open slit. This we note as the 'particle' modality of the experimental setup.

That answers the so-called 'paradox' of the experiment but still doesn't address why we perceive an arrow of time going forward. Now returning to the 'discreet' aspect, I posit the 'computation' of the 'virtual smooth construct of perceived reality' is what we are registering as a forward movement in an inherently timeless universe. It all seems to be inexplicably bound up with the phenomena of consciousness.
Unlike bagpipes there is plausible causal link between printers and engineers. Especially those with low class background.
> FOCUS ON PLANT-BASED FOODS

A great idea if you want to save the planet by having people die out from exploding (pun intended) obesity.
Yes, when I was at IBM's Watson lab working in KnowledgeTool, a PL/I pre-processor (using some of Deremer's work, our software did fully parse the KnowledgeTool source and, thus, also PL/I), I got to chat with George Radin, essentially the father of PL/I.

For a while I was teaching computer science in the business school at Georgetown and taught a start on PL/I, e.g., enough to do quicksort.
The ideal answer here is a federated platform for media entity to provide their content trough.

If you're not sure what I mean with federated, you can check out PeerTube. However, the same scheme would work with books, audio content, movies, games, etc.

Each media company could provide an API on their site to redeem content (login on their system, process payments/keys/coupons one way or another), and multiple clients could access all of these libraries, while offering their own added value on top of this.

Well, maybe not federated but distributed instead. The nice thing about federation is that it provides you with a portal for single-sign-on and discoverability is less of an issue without search engines.

I'm convinced that something like this could be built quite simply on top of existing technologies like ActivityPub or the Matrix protocol. However, "app stores" or media portals are sooo lucrative that everyone wants to keep the biggest possible pie to themselves without sharing development cost with others.

One way I could see such a solution appear is if the government(s?) were to subsidize its development and started hosting public-domain (old, government-funded) videos on it.
This attribute appears to have been proposed and implemented by Google. Has any other vendor expressed an intent to implement/actually implemented this yet?

It seems a little premature to describe this as native support "for the web" if the functionality is limited to one vendor and you're forced to use a polyfill everywhere else.
>...or licensed, fuck you Hollywood

Pretty much landed the blame where it should fall but it's not the only one. Take a look at PDFs with DRMs and what happens when those companies no longer exist or the like. It's chasing the almighty <insert currency here> that locks you into licensing to watch, instead of ownership.

Long live the VHS days... (...damn the man, save the Empire.)
Yeah I used to have a 2-28" side by side with a top 28" on arms and I really didn't like it. It caused constant neck pain no matter how I adjusted my seating position and I wound up rarely even using the top monitor. I initially figured I'd just keep spotify/media on it

Back to 2-28s now. Debating on getting 1 49" but I'm worried I'll miss having two completely separated monitors.
Well, no, because you can write your supervisor in a way that does protect against that. In fact that's hat they're doing here.
I’m not saying I don’t beleive you; just that I don’t think anyone has ever actually repusproduced cell phone sensitivity (detection) in a controlled environment.

How would you know if it’s just in your head?
> we've only recently discovered that the headphones that came with the car for the DVD player not only work, but will let Michelle and I listen to Wait, Wait without the loud protestations of the kids (since they can watch a movie while we listen to podcasts)

I don’t have kids and this guy can raise his kids however he pleases as far as I’m concerned but: it strikes me that letting the kids always consume Kid Media feels like a bad idea. There’s exposure to adult concerns and concepts they’re missing out on. There’s probably something they’re missing in learning about sharing. There’s a variety of input they’re lacking. They’re sitting there in a little bubble of media created for kids, designed in part to exploit kids to make money - “buy all our play sets and toys”, as one Homestar episode out it.

Whenever I was in the car as a kid, it was Mom’s hand on the radio dial. Mostly the local classical/NPR station. I didn’t always like it but sometimes I was surprised by what I did.

I dunno, something about media bubbles, something about the vast task of passing on some measure of your values to your kids, also something about getting the little bastards to STFU and let you drive on a long trip too.
Unity still has the smoothest 3x3 desktop experience ever made. It is also fantastic with touchscreen.
I hope they will recover it some day..
Aristotle, ever practical, however tied the knot on the Isle of Lesbos.

[left something for you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19597916]
Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
Regarding TypeScript, the benefit of catching way more errors at compile time greatly outweighs the amount of extra work for adding types. If you're starting a new JavaScript project, you should definitely think long and hard if you pledge not to use TypeScript.
+1, though this is an unpopular opinion.

IMO appreciation for automated test ROI is a great litmus test for a "good programmer".
i don't have much sympathy for this guy. 12 years in the air force should qualify for a pretty nice pension. Garbage pickers are a nuisance. their rummaging creates noise at night and in the early morning when people are sleeping and they sometimes scatter the garbage when they dig through it.
You can also have Plex installed. It will add metadata for you.
Until the people with the actual physical weapons (militaries) get fed up with everyone's bullshit and take shit into their own hands.
> The problem with the tech bubble these days is that people within it assume that everyone has the same internet connectivity they do. And that they have it all the time.

> Just like app developers who only test their apps on the high-end phones they have, not the phones that the majority of people have.

I'm a little surprised by your reaction to this feature, accusing it of being part of the tech bubble, given that you said that you make sure to develop for the phones that the majority of people have. Part of the motivation for native lazy-loading is to provide a better web experience for people in countries where network data costs a lot. Lazy-loading images is a step in the right direction, because it helps ensure that the only images that users download are the ones they look at.

It's not a perfect solution, as radarsat1's use case demonstrates. But it seems like a step in the right direction.

Disclosure: I work on the same team as Addy. I'm not speaking on behalf of the team, just commenting based on my understanding of the motivation for features like this.
You can at least position the laptop closer than the monitor, which gives you two focal planes. In an open office, there should be many "distant" objects to use as a temporary third focal plane.
Not just from a billionaire's trash. Not many people can afford to buy real estate in the Bay Area, but there are many people with excess cash who can buy a lot of goods. And so many people (read tech workers) who are not from the Bay Area--or even if you are--change residences quite often. What this means is that they often discard perfectly good items in the trash.

My wife and I, when we lived in Sunnyvale, would find perfectly good items (a TV stand, chairs, tables) in the trash in our apartment complex from people who, I'm assuming, moved.
> you don't see health professionals recommending meat as the core of a healthy diet

Yeah, this is probably why obesity and related complications is the #1 cause of death right now. (Edging out 'old age' and 'smoking'.)

These "health professionals" have blood on their hands.
I hate to be that guy, but there's a reason I have a closet full of CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and physical games for modern consoles.

Digital downloads weren't ready ten years ago, and the author's post is a great reminder of why they still aren't ready. Buy physical media; opt-out of this vendor-lock-in-masquerading-as-copyright-enforcement scam.
What qualifies you to extrapolate this single case into a global policy suggestion (as you seem to be implying)?
It's intentional; it's not "exploitation". It's really doing privilege deescalation of the shellcode.

They know the code it's running for the most part, it's the CreatProcessW stuff they talk about.
TypeScript is such an unbelievably powerful add-on that I simply refuse to use vanillaJS unless absolutely necessary. It eliminates entire classes of bugs, encourages me to write better code by thinking in JS about contracts (interfaces), and vastly improves my productivity with the aforementioned annotations. ("What was the signature for method X of class Y in library Z? Ah, that's it. Thanks, TS/VSCode!")
A little annoyed at the downvotes, but perhaps I can rephrase.

1) On average humanities majors do worse

2) Some proportion of humanities majors do great

Ergo, it seems unlikely that the humanities majors that do great do so because they studied humanities. There is little evidence that these assumptions of attribution make sense.

That doesn't mean they're bad, but people are typically terrible at explaining why they were successful in life and we don't need to justify these areas of study to existing market forces. It would be pragmatic to be realistic and communicate to the average person that, normalized to network effects, pre-existing wealth, and baseline prestige of the institution, humanities leads to worse economic outcomes. People studying humanities tend to be richer to begin with[1], the fact that they do economically worse on average should be surprising. They're also more likely to be underemployed[2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/college...

[2]https://www.statista.com/statistics/642226/underemployment-r...
Thank you! I just tossed a random thought out and here it is on the front page 2 hours later, but this is exactly it!
Are we really better off if Elon is allowed to own only a small fraction of Tesla and SpaceX? I worry this proposal has the potential to harm American competitiveness by forcing entrepreneurs out of the companies they start.

The proposal also would target only American citizens, but if the goal is to fight inequality shouldn't we tax all mega corporations operating in the US even if the owners are foreign?
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I'm most productive on a single (big) 4k screen. I normally run at 125% scaling and it's perfect for my work (desktop application developer). My main Windows desktop is where I work (usually Visual Studio or PyCharm plus a browser) then I have a second virtual desktop where I have stuff that I need throughout the day, but use infrequently (music player, email, slack, skype). I have keyboard shortcuts to jump to any of my frequently used applications.

I'm easily distracted so I want to keep as few windows in view as possible.

I keep a book and a guitar near my desk and rather than jump to Reddit or HN when I'm rebuilding, I'll read a few pages, play some scales, or go make some tea.
I hope that using Linear Algebra I can make flour useful.

Current plan is to collect the data, match it to recommended amounts of nutrients/calories/etc... and see what the outcome is.

I fantasize that it tells me to eat ~50 calories of flour a day, but until the equations are finished its merely an outlier.
I know... when to use typescript = all the time? It's not a huge shift.
> It sounds like this was done as a result of attempting to buy political ads?

No. They wanted to verify if the FB user had indeed posted the political post, and demanded his / her ID to verify the posters "credentials".
Warning for potential users: in order to export the words that you save, you must pay for the premium version of the app.

At $10 lifetime user price, it's not bad. But if you watch a couple shows to try it out and then want to save your work, you will have to pay.
It seems to be specifically for men. I'd edit the service description to be more inclusive. Version 0.0.2 Now translating for her, too!
I've had falafel and don't understand why non-vegetarians/vegans rarely eat it. It's tasty like any other food (and more tasty than some of the stuff we do commonly eat like bread!).
The end of ‘statistical significance’? The battle to make science more uncertain
Indeed. Until Firefox pulls a dick move, that is. And I wonder what then...
agree. Acceptance Tests hit the sweet spot for me in terms of productivity and quickly catching causes of regressions (coupled with a well-groomed, atomic commit log).
The polite thing to do, I think, is to ask how to pronounce their name at the start of the conversation.

Or ask how they would prefer to be referred to. (Many of my asian relatives have an anglo pronounciation they'd be willing to offer).
ShiftIt helps me a lot. Basic, simple keyboard shortcuts. And it's free (as in free speech).
https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
> possibly even prevented by some regulations, to buy the car in Iowa and drive it to California.

I have no idea what's you're talking about. Interstate travel is legal, and interstate purchases or transfers for cars is very common.
Did you figure out the link between plants consumption and your symptoms of depression ?

What does your typical diet look like now ?
moviesinsusa.com didn't have the same ring, though.
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Private militaries are an older concept than even nation states.

At one point in the recent past, Chevron had the one of the largest Navies (with weapons) in the world.
That only really applies to coders. Most jobs are social, so you'll want to hire people that are more or less normal. In many work places they even want people that are pleasant to spend time with!
John Cleese had a sketch in a similar vein [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4iFzweRf3E

Eddit: Another comment beat me to it, but provided link for posterity.
> "This action, if true, clearly infringes upon the privacy of a user. Sending a representative to physically verifying a user is a blatant invasion of his or her privacy space. Only the state can act like this under proper laws," Pavan Duggal, nation's top cyber law expert and a senior Supreme Court advocate, told IANS.
Humans do wield the most political power to stop nuclear storage, given the traditional passivity of the Lizard people.
Awesome article, thank you for writing it.

This is very off-topic, but how do you like the 2008 S Class? Are there reviews of it from a 2019 perspective anywhere?