skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crisco was pretty popular at one point in the US but AFAIK it's receded quite a bit. I don't do a lot of baking but I don't really see it in recipes these days. And lard is still not in mainstream use at all.

I bought some lard at Safeway just last week. It can be had, but it's usually in the dustiest, lowest, most-hidden shelf in the baking aisle.

It's excellent for deep frying, and economical because it can be used over and over and the flavor only improves. (Unless you burn something.)
> A device in my house went nuts and decided it needed to ping an NTP server 1K a night. Not anymore.

Wait, Pi-hole was your solution here?

> In the end, I kind of get the impression you're spending more mental energy on arguments against, rather than ask yourself why someone might find it useful.

I’m asking because I believe there are better ways. I could be called out for baiting or pushing a “the only way to win is not to play” for IoT and creepy apps/services agenda. Yet, NYT, FB and many others can still be viewed and signed into with a mobile browser. The experience may not be as nice but it still works and sends the right message to these corps. When creepy app/device/service is the only option I recoil and reassess.

Besides, DNS blacklisting isn’t perfect and requires a fair amount of tweaking depending on how many thingies you’re using it with. Any compromise you make for one affects all others. I think we have the same goal of “having your cake and eating it too” just different methods. Either way, we’re both expending constant energy and compromising.
Nice! Very timely for me too, I was just doing some D3 stuff this morning, and this very clearly explained what's going on under the hood.

I was definitely in the "copy/paste pieces of code from various snippets over at bl.ocks.org, cross my fingers and hope for the best." camp. It makes much more sense now.
Work is every activity you take to further the goals of your employer. So, traveling is work, waiting for a build is work, learning new tech required for the job is work etc. The caveat is that not all work is equally demanding and tiring - so, if for example your job consists of a lot of travel, you could negotiate a lower hourly rate for the time you spend traveling.
Looks a lot like Australian Rules Football (AFL) without the tackling.
> "That is already useful information about the hypothesis being tested"

The important part is to choose the correct hypothesis to test. However, there is no requirement to use the effect size to test any hypothesis, although eventually someone should come up with a model that explains why it has the value it does.

> "as opposed to significance which is information about validity of data."

Huh?
The biggest difference is that today outrage is incentivized, even manufacturered, because it makes money.
This is the best thing for the web, I think. It's doesn't seem as good for advertisers in terms of utility for targeting, but on the flip side, I for one am more willing to support sponsors when they have a direct relationship with the content provider.
You'll probably want to avoid a stop at Stew Leonard's[0] in Norwalk, CT then. Ol' Stew pioneered the concept back in the 60's and it's definitely not for the short on time. The whole store is full of kitschy displays, animatronics, a petting zoo for the kids!, free samples, etc. etc.

But then again, it's the best grocery store to visit if you're a kid (or a kid at heart) and people make it a point to visit from across the country whenever they are in the area.

[0]http://www.stewleonards.com/how-it-all-began/
I can confirm. In the consulting world I've had several instances of either being doubled up on projects or having to hit extremely demanding deadlines for milestone payouts that required legitimate 60+ hour weeks. One week is doable, 2 is a stretch, beyond that people (myself included) generally had to turn to things like modafinil to keep going and there's a noticeable toll on general health and wellness.

On the flip side, people who say they work stupid hours are usually just at the office stupid hours, not necessarily working all the time. But so are people who say they work 40 hour weeks. From working with hundreds of "normal" employees at clients over the years, I'd say the average actual productive time per person is around 25 hours.
The age was not mentioned. This is of major importance, because a crime in one country isn't always a crime in another country.
The article addresses that: Whole Foods literally contracted the same people between 2003 and 2007. These stores are like Whole Foods in part because they're designed by the same people.

They also mention Niemann's relationship with the Whole Foods CEO pre-sale, and how Niemann didn't believe WF was doing enough to lower prices. Then the recession hit and Whole Foods nearly went out of business.

The anti-amazon part isn't in the design (as already said, the design predates the Amazon acquisition); its in the supermarket's direct relationship with local suppliers.
Why So Few? The Underrepresentation of Women in Technology&Software Development
Most likely from beef, yes: suet is to beef as lard is to pork, according to my understanding. (Could also be from mutton, though.)

I haven't tried a direct comparison; my local butcher saves me a big hunk of suet (at no charge) from time to time when he's been processing a beef animal, and it's lovely once rendered. Maybe I should ask him about lard next time I'm in there.
All metals have that property. Aluminum just happens to have relatively low melting energy requirement. Zinc is probably even better for recycling.
Investment banking interns have turned up dead from exhaustion. So some of them probably do work a lot. I can see it more so than engineering because deals are so time sensitive, you really can't slack off if there's a deal on. But agreed, most are probably full of shit :)
I do miss their higher quality and usually locally sourced products... and the friendly "customer experience" of local employees paid above minimum wage.
Tokens are equivalent to your card, but only at a specific merchant. This can still be a problem for large merchants but is much less of a problem compared to a thief being able to use your account # anywhere.

The most likely cause here is just a guessed password. Tokens are typically stored server-side, it is possible but unlikely that the McD app is doing something like passing that un-encrypted.

With the number of password lists online, it is very easy for thieves to try a leaked password you've used on another site. Especially if the app does not have proper login rate-limiting.
>The problem with being honest in a situation like this is, that it will disrupt everyone in that meeting, not just the bullshitter. You'll be perceived as a fire starter and the next meeting will likely take place without you -- organizations at a certain size can be very flexible this way. Or worse: They retaliate. Bullshitters are usually good at manipulating peoples perceptions. Once they feel threatened, they are likely to respond (in a way, you'll probably lose, since they can dictate the turf and the weapons).

I can relate to this to a 'T'. The worst is when they are sociopaths on top of everything else
An Introduction to AlphaFold and Protein Modeling
Ghana to make use of drones for medical deliveries
How diverse the humans involved in the process were?
Yes, it’s called http://fast.ai
> but something needs to be done about these types of people

I've been thinking a lot about this. Why doesn't capitalism take care of this. what is the fundamental flaw in capitalism that allows this.
The haskell version can be made >= 3x faster by making the computations non-lazy, e.g.

-data Vector3 = Vector3 {vx::Float, vy::Float, vz::Float} deriving (Show)
+data Vector3 = Vector3 {vx :: !Float, vy :: !Float, vz :: !Float} deriving (Show)
The other thing you use caster/superfine sugar for is for some cocktails. Basically, it's a lot easier to dissolve in cold (or at least room temperature) liquids than regular granulated sugar is.
Theoretically if a creator exists, they could be found. The unique issue to news is that the mass perceived value is zero. Either a market doesn't exist b/c of the perceived value or a marketplace doesn't exist to facilitate the trade.
I like the idea of having one c-sourcecode compiling on Linux, macOS and Windows. Hence, I have developed a platform independet GUI called Geeonx https://www.geeonx.org .

Versions for Linux and MacOS X are ready for download. The version for Windows will follow soon - I will speed up development if someone claps in his hands.
I built a side project ( https://findkismet.com ) and my cofounder found it. He reached out and a lot (a LOT) of conversations later we decided to build a company together.

Finding a cofounder is like love: it often happens when you're not looking for it. The best thing you can do to improve your odds is continue to improve yourself and put yourself out there.
https://proton-native.js.org/
In other hand, when I build something using Flutter I know end use will look at this exact pixel on whatever (android) phone used.
I'm very into both music composition/production and ML, so this is neat. That being said, I think the "computer generated music" path is probably the wrong approach in the short term. Music is really complex and leans heavily on both emotions and creativity, which aren't even on the radar for AI. Being able to dynamically remix and modulate existing music is still really cool though.

I would kill for a VST tool that would take a set of midi tracks, and synthesize a new track for a specific instrument that "blends" with them. I would also kill for something that can take a set of "target notes" and break them up/syncopate/add rests to produce good melodies, or take a base melody and suggest changes to spice it up.
To take a certain tone with someone means to speak in a certain way -- as in, use a particular tone of voice.
Meanwhile, every day someone goes to work in an office, sharpens their pencils, and finds ways to eliminate those waiting times (unless they have a powerful union of course).

The taxi driver is replaced with a rideshare with none of that aimless driving looking for an uncalled fare.

The security guard has more cameras to review, or has more walkabouts that are tracked with their fob. Or replaced with remote monitoring of the camera feeds. But has to deal with a million Amazon packages (I wish they consolidated better...). I don’t know why there isn’t a locker where I scan my fob and the right door opens...
The interiors aren't all that nice though, certainly not for how much change they are asking for. Having everything behind a hulking iPad sucks when you are driving a car. Give me dials, give me buttons that click in, give me levers, give me something where I can tell where the setting is with my fingers without having to take my eyes off the road. I'm really surprised car manufacturers have gotten away with cramming so many features into touch screen interfaces that give you zero feedback if you aren't staring at the screen, it really should be illegal as its absurdly dangerous.
This is why it's flagged; b/c Gen Z thinks speaking your mind is racist/xenophobic. Sad state for free speech.
Supply and demand. Is "nobody buying", or is your asking price too high?
The tools of today aren’t the tools of tomorrow
Amazon was ever considered a neutral platform?
RNSnet: In-Memory Neural Network Acceleration Using Residue Number System
There is absolutely zero issue buying lard in Poland. Literally any store will have some in fridges next to meat.
Sounds like you just made a great case for socialized farming research.
I can't say for sure, but I have a hard time believing a lot of our spend is less efficient than other nations (just like our spend on most sectors of the economy that are heavily government-involved, like healthcare and education where we get less bang for the buck)
A lot of digital agencies claim they have AI/ML capabilities and are really just using others' tools. It's a shame they lacked the integrity to attribute you.
The drop in profitability is a big deal, which likely caused the 11% instantaneous drop in their stock price.

Big reliable companies like MMM don't usually move 10%+ in a single day. Anything that makes them move this much is definitely a newsworthy event.
> Meanwhile, almost all of humanity still can't get decent urls in their native language :(

Why not?

For example, http://xn--h1alffa9f.xn--p1ai/ renders the URL in Russian for me in the URL bar in all of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (though Chrome converts to punycode if I copy the URL from the URL bar, unfortunately). [Edit: Also, it looks like HN's linkifier converts to punycode; what I wrote there is "россия.рф" and that's what HN has stored if I edit this comment.]

In more detail, for Firefox (where I can find this sort of thing quickly in the code), there are the following things affecting the display:

1) The "network.IDN_show_punycode" preference. This defaults to false, so punycode is not forced across the board.

2) There is a bunch of preferences for what toplevel domains are "safe" for use with non-ASCII chars by default no matter what. That option currently defaults to "false" as far as I can tell.

3) URLs the fit in the Highly Restrictive profile defined at https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Restriction_Level_Dete... are shown as non-punycode as far as I can tell.

4) There's some heuristic detection for URLs using multiple scripts at once and blocking that.

There are also preferences to force-allow or force-deny use of IDN with certain characters; those sets are empty by default.

In any case, the default behavior looks to me like a single-script URL in any language would be shown in IDN. Do you have a counter-example?

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/75294521381b331f82... has the relevant preferences with their default values as of today.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox, and have been involved peripherally in some of the IDN work.
Is this kind of thing normally done by ground crew / mechanics, then?
I hypothesize that a camera watching the robot paint and a conv net with the right loss function (the tuning of which would be the hard part) could do the trick.
> Readability goes to whether a license is misleading.

Nobody said the license text was misleading. The point is that the use of the term "open software" is misleading because it leads the reader to think it's similar to "open source" which in fact isn't.

On the topic of precise definitions, you might argue that "open source" is imprecise because it has other meanings and was in common use before OSI. But "free software" was a brand-new term and has a specific definition (the four freedoms). The DFSG are guidelines and tests to verify if the definition is followed.
Doug Benson warned about this
Chameleon: A Global CMS from Uber Engineering (2017)
There's simply no good solution here, short of the publishing business restructuring so we can pay once to read everything, which I hope I live to see.

In the meantime, we have a clear if sucky policy, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, with plenty more explanation at
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It is the way it is not because we or anyone else likes it, but because the alternatives would suck worse.
It sounds like Kelly is trying to position his stores as "warm and fuzzy", with a "Mom's Kitchen" section, rather than "opulent", like Whole Foods. “When did you start to mistake opulence for success?”, he says.

Now consider Trader Joe's. They have modest sized stores. They're rather plain. They offer mostly their own house brands. They don't have sales, coupons, delivery, or affinity cards. The prices are reasonable. The quality is OK. Dwell time is low; you can be in and out of a Trader Joe's in ten minutes. Checkouts go fast, partly because they don't have coupons or affinity cards to slow things down.

Whole Foods is chasing the top 10%. Trader Joe's is chasing the top 50%. Dollar General has the bottom 25%.
Since my Vietnamese sister-in-law introduced me to Asian farmer's markets, I tend to only shop at them for anything fresh. Their produce selection is just so much better than traditional American super markets, they actually have a real butcher, and their seafood selection is much larger.

Their produce selection tends to be a lot cheaper than standard grocery stores too because they have separate supply chains and direct relationships with Asian owned farms.

Several local Asian chains have been moving into abandoned super market buildings in my area over the last 5 or 10 years, and I'm starting to see more and more non-Asian and non-Hispanic people shopping at them lately.
IQ tests don't measure creativity. Can I assume these studies suggest creativity is not very relevant to job performance?
Ask HN: What does your investment portfolio look like?
- What are the asset classes and their approximate percent allocation in different portfolios? No need to mention the amounts invested.

- What are the annualised returns of your portfolios?

- What are the emerging asset classes you're excited about and why?

- What Fintech products or services do you use for retail investing?
> I also know from experience that time spent travelling is tiring, but is it strictly work?

If I'm someplace other than where I want to be, it's work.

A lot of comments in this thread don't seem to understand - even if you're free to read HN during downtime, if I need to be in by 9am and am unable to leave until 7pm, the period in between was work. If I would have suffered professionally if I'd left at 5 regardless of how much "work" was done, the performative behavior is also "work".

Labor law in the states uses "engaged to work" and similar language often, mostly in the context of hourly employees. You can't tell someone "you must show up to the jobsite and wait to see if you're needed" under threat of no future work... that's being engaged to work.
https://statusgator.com/ does that.
I'm working on this.

I've been training on Stack Overflow and the model has already learned the syntaxes and common coding conventions of a bunch of different languages all on its own. Excited to see what else it's able to do as I keep experimenting.

Some sample outputs (you'll probably want to browse to some of the "Random" questions because by default it's showing "answers" right now and I haven't trained that model as long as some of the older question-generation ones): https://stackroboflow.com
> You're simply not going to improve people's perceptions of how well they are doing without addressing psychological factors. Not to get too philosophical, but most of a person's sense of suffering is generated by the narrative the person is telling him/herself.

I spent my formative years in both a poor, poverty-stricken country and a rich first-world country. I couldn't agree with this more.

You'd think that a more affluent society would result in healthier, happier people but it really doesn't ... there are so many psychological factors that come into play.
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Oh yeah, I mean to give context why this new plastic is cool.

Mainstream plastic, like PETE, HDPE, PP, PS, etc. etc. are all "downcycled", never truly "recycled". Just like paper, they lose value each time you send them to the recycling plant.

This new plastic has a mechanism that might work for true recycling. But... maybe not. Its one thing to prove a few tricks, but in practice... won't contaminants also be dissolved in that acid bath?

Ex: a lot of plastic containers are used in the food industry. Many (american)-Chinese food businesses use plastic for their delivery service. Can the food contamination be effectively cleansed off perfectly?

Because Aluminum / Glass definitely burns off any food contaminants as it reaches 1221F (Aluminum Melting point) or 2552F (Glass melting point). And IIRC, the various contaminants either float to the top, or sink to the bottom of the liquid-mix at that temperature. Which is why the purification process is relatively easy.
If you really care about pie crusts, finding a good source of leaf lard is the #1 requirement. I tried a few pre-rendered brands, and it was all expensive, not particularly fresh, and tastes weird... Eventually I found a farmer who sells unrendered leaf lard, and after a few false starts at rendering it (too hot, and it'll taste too meaty), I've started making essentially perfect pie crusts.
The solution to that is more social programs, better education, and healthcare reform. I would bet many corporations would be on board with paying more taxes towards that, because its a lower cost to them then dealing with unions.
This is nothing compared to how we stole tea from China. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History was a good read about that.
People say that, but people have a hard time letting go of junk they’ll never use to make space for stuff that they consume everyday.
Is it creating vectors in the hot path? I'm not seeing it. Go does some escape analysis (the optimization you're referring to), but it's pretty conservative.
This is what I was looking for, and I truly believe you are completely wrong as well.

I follow the line of thinking that includes utility software and backend services/platforms as described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language

Hence, the word has different meaning from person to person. So there is no wrong, or at least it exists on a spectrum, and everyone complaining about the original comment's word choice is just jerking their ego off.
Prior to the 1970's, no executive made more than 50-100X what the lowest paid employee made, let alone over 1000X the average pay within a company. Also, when a company shuts down, the C-level people are often paid out hansomly while the rank and file employees get nothing.

Just like I don't think anyone should be taxed at above 50% of their income, I also don't think anyone within a single company structure should make more than 100X anyone else. I don't think that companies should be forced to do so, but there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with shaming those that do.
"Monkey" in reference to a Pan troglodyte?
I've suggested to recruiting firms that they should hire (or retain) a couple enterprise architects and have them meet with the technical managers looking for developers and let these highly experienced engineers pre-interview candidates based on the hiring company's needs and only refer people who can pass the enterprise arch's review. The time saved by the hiring company to not have their in-house archs, team leads, and engineers tied up interviewing candidates should MORE than make up for the premium such pre-interviewing would demand.

(Something else that would help is paying employees a lot more than $500 for making an in-house referral. I know of cases where locally where in-house referrals could have happened but by referring through a chosen recruiter got the referred a $1000 referral fee instead of his company's $500 referral fee... but that's a separate rant.)
Yeah, he certainly did not.

I wonder any states have DOL regulations that prevent companies from disparaging workers making valid wage disputes. Perhaps there could be additional statutory penalties if you could bait them into giving a bad reference on the basis of the wage issue.
Not necessarily. Because C allows the pointer manipulation, the compiler can in general not make assumptions about pointer aliasing. This prevents some optimizations.

In Rust, the compiler has more information/control over memory layout/lifetime and can therefore make stronger optimizations.

Automatic vectorization is an area where this helps a lot, and raytracing can benefit a lot here. 20% sounds reasonable to me.