skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see more efforts like this:

* https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/

* https://efficiencyiseverything.com/The-Cookbook-v-1.4.pdf

* https://efficiencyiseverything.com/Weekly_Groceries.pdf

Honestly, it is not that expensive to cook at home. The "foodie" industry fills the Internet with recipes that are complicated and expensive, and this can definitely be a barrier for people who don't know how to cook. But once you learn to avoid recipes with 10+ ingredients, it's actually less of a time commitment than running out for fast food, as long as you have ingredients on hand.

Once you know what you like and you always have your staples available, it becomes almost automatic. It does take time to learn this and develop your own system, however.
It's kind of interesting that they named their book after pressure cookers, which address a lot of the problems of not having working appliances, living in motels, and are relatively affordable compared to a gas utility hookup. Instant Pots and knock-offs are <$50 now and are easy enough to use with just a standard outlet.
But we're not in Rome. We're on earth. So the saying goes: "When on earth do as the Chinese do".
There's no other site with the large community that reddit has
This article lost me at "An important advantage of this language [JavaScript] is that it’s good not only for creating complex machine learning algorithms, but also widely used in web development to make sophisticated interactive components of any level of complexity."
What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
Certainly would be useful to diversify the efforts. That way one political hiccup in one swamp town can't pause progress for decades.
he already had to deal with the legislature being bribed(or as americans call it "lobbied") by soft drink industry. adding more money to the bribes would have killed his bill
I like Hacker News Daily, created by @cperciva:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

It lists the 10 highest-rated stories each day. I added the RSS feed to my news reader so I can see the biggest items even if I don't happen to read HN that day.
I think one of the issues is that a lot of people simply don't know how to cook and these one off tools like insta pots or whatever make it clear what to do for what and how.

An oven doesn't make anything apparent and a lot of ovens are terrible with hot and cold spots and just suck at being ovens in general.
I see the bill doesn’t cover artificial sweeteners.

If manufacturers start sneaking sweeteners in to avoid the label, this will probably do more harm than good.
There's a lot more complexity in this project and less relative budget. There's also not the same level of pressure aid space race happening.
I thought the diet stuff was supposed to be bad for health? I can't keep up...
>Our ancestors had far less resources than us and still managed to make food without spaghetti-o cans or ramen packets.

So poor people should live like medieval serfs?
One can cook processed meals at home. The supplementary material has the diets: https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.008/attachme...
Peergos Alpha – A decentralized file storage and communication network
You're right, the federal government is not to blame for that. Thanks for the reminder.
Well Atari and Commodore enthusiasts were already used to crippled ports through their experiences with Apple II ports with that awful aliased color palette. :)
I recently went all in- I cancelled Spotify and bought premium YouTube and YouTube music. The music discovery system in YouTube music is far far better than anything Spotify have. I suppose it's due to YouTube already knowing what music I listen to when I can't find it on Spotify.
They are busy waiting for actual law to step in and change something permanently.
If you only consider the near future, food and food security is more important than space.

If you consider long-term, we should be pouring everything we have into figuring out space colonization and travel, but I also just want to live in The Culture already, so I'm biased.
VR is opening up new ways to experience art
Amen to that. And public opinion is easily manipulated. Create fear and people will give up their rights , if someone resists accuse them of being anti-freedom, anti-patriotic, against the free market, communist/socialist, helping terrorists,etc. Use the media which is owned by the same people politicians protect and in no time most of the population will comply
There is no "the government". Many countries don't have a central population registry, or at least not an accurate one. And refugees often have no valid identifying documents.
I have a soda maybe once a month, but I never drink diet soda because I think it tastes very bad compared to non-diet. Every variety of Coke that is not regular Coke leaves a weird aftertaste in my mouth (you know, distinct from the weird aftertaste of consuming a ridiculous amount of sugar).

I will also say that seeing the quantity of sugar in things represented as a pile was definitely a motivator for me to basically stop drinking soda, so there are people out there for whom it matters. At least one, anyway!
I dont know about that. I think having a visual representation of the sugar contents could work quite well especially for people who don't tend to read labels.
What is the bet that China would do just that if it happens that a Chinese company is the victim of a non-Chinese company?
> So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?

They might be "cooking" every night, but they're not necessarily cooking from scratch. A pack of ramen boiled on the stove with a flavor packet added is technically cooked by their definition of "cooking", but it's still ultra-processed: the amount of sodium added by the flavor packet is nearly an order of magnitude greater than if they had simply boiled some rice noodles from scratch and added their own seasonings of salt, soy sauce, etc. Not to mention any of the vegetables the package provided are freeze dried, and likely coated with stabilizers and preservatives. A "from scratch" version of ramen that paired the noodles with freshly chopped peas, carrots, or spring onions would be significantly healthier.

This is really the heart of NPR's argument, I think: there is a substantial hump that people must get over to think about leaving the can of marinara sauce on the shelf and buying canned tomatoes, an onion, and garlic instead. There's a time and labor investment, not to mention an initial loss of satisfaction when the recipe fails to come out properly the first few times.
I recently changed how I eat, mostly chicken thighs, stir fry beef, rice and canned / frozen vegetables depending on the deals for the week. Oatmeal for breakfast.

Meals are clocking in between $0.90 and $2.50 per serving, It's pretty cheap to eat unprocessed foods, it's just gets kind of repetitive. I feel much better than I did when I was eating processed stuff and my food budget is much smaller.
To be honest I don’t know enough about this, but my understanding was that both the Delta IV Heavy and Falcon Heavy have the ability to execute a moon mission, plus the Boeing SLS is already in development. Is there a need to start from scratch?
TARP didn't cost anything. From Wikipedia[0]:

"On December 19, 2014, the U.S. Treasury sold its remaining holdings of Ally Financial, essentially ending the program. TARP recovered funds totalling $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6% and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
This is a refreshing fun project. What are your plans for this site if you don't mind me asking?
yeah, but the stuff with sugar tastes better.

people should be encouraged to enjoy soda with real (cane) sugar sparingly, not just switch to slamming diet soda all day instead.
Diet soda is much worse than regular. It causes more weight gain than sugar, has crazy drug interactions, and some people have adverse health reactions to some of the sweeteners (which are not always prominently labeled).
I run XBMC on an old laptop and it struggles, but manages to play, X.264 encoded videos.

However, it doesn't handle X.265 videos very well - pauses every few frames.

How come? I'm assuming its because 265 is much more CPU intensive.

What's the typical compression benefit of using x.265 vs x.264?

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Update: noticed this comment below from @Causality1
"devices from over a decade ago have hardware h264 decoders. Extremely low powered modern devices can play very large 265 videos, if they have a hardware decoder."
Diet sodas aren't better for your health though, in fact they may be worse.
Any immigration attorney should be able to help you with this - it shouldn't matter if they're in Massachusetts or not. Just try to find one that has some experience of tech start ups. I've had a few conversations with https://startupimmigrationattorney.com/ and I was pretty happy with them, although we didn't actually make any applications for anything.

I believe that with E visas, the company has to be mainly owned by citizens of the treaty country (not US, iow) so with the 50% ownership I'm not sure if that will work.

Are you sure that your bids require everyone to have US work authorization? For comparison, my organization has people working from Europe and people on US visas all working on the same contracts - only the people who live in or travel to the US need visas. And these are often public sector contracts. I've never heard anything about European based staff not being able to contribute.
> What protocol and who would actually benefit from this?

The main promise IMO is providing transparent encryption to old applications and protocols that use TCP without their own encryption layer.

It is not possible to provide transparent authenticated encryption to everyone without some sort of CA system for IPs, but we should still provide the strongest privacy available by default, which is protection against passive eavesdropping.
Interesting. How do you practice concentration meditation?
Maybe they need to be like Australian cigarettes. You could have a picture of someone who doesn't need the extra calories.
> First, it takes money. Healthier diets — diets rich in fresh produce and lean proteins — generally cost more.

2.5 kilos of potatoes usually cost between 1-2 EUR here. As a single person, you can live days on this. Compare this to a single frozen pizza, which usually costs the same (1-2 EUR). 2kg of carrots cost 1.99 EUR in my local supermarket, you can get it way cheaper at Aldi. A package of soup vegetables (consisting of 1-2 carrots, an onion, a quarter celery, leek and fresh parsley) is usually below 1 EUR and is (together with a can of tomatoes for 0.39 EUR) enough to form the basis of (for example) a lentil stew (a 500g bad of dried lentils is 2 EUR, you usually only need 100g for a 2 person meal), or a bolognese (add 250g of minced meat), or a potato stew (add the potatoes mentioned above), or... you don't even need the package of vegetable soups, as buying these vegetables in larger amounts for an entire week is even cheaper.

Another example: a can of tomatoes (39 cents), some oil and a single onion (1kg of onions is usually around 80 cents) are enough to make a fresh tomato sauce. A 500g bag of pasta (say: Penne) costs 39 cent if you buy the cheap brand. This is enough for 2 people, at under 50 cent per person.

Another example: spaghetti aglio e olio. You literally need nothing more than some oil, pepper, spaghetti (39 cent), some garlic (3 bulbs are usually under 1 EUR, so a single clove is maybe 4-5 cent and fresh parsley. You have a very tasty, fresh meal which can be cooked in 10 minutes, again for under 50 cents per person.

Another example: fresh bread. You need roughly 250g of flour (500g are around 79 cent), water, salt (which is so cheap I won't even mention it) and dried yeast (under 30 cents). Fresh bread for 2 people, again for under 50 cents per person. Add a fresh cucumber, 1-2 fresh tomatoes, salt, pepper, and you have a tasty evening meal for under 1 EUR per person.

I could go on and on. I can get quite agitated if people claim that "cooking fresh" is much more expensive than processed food. I cooked fresh and daily for years as a student, very often for 2 people, on a very limited budget, and 2 EUR per day was usually more than enough.

All you need is practice.
There is a lot of sensationalism (see title of article) and high, anxious emotions around facial recognition right now, which really is to be expected at this point. But it is muddying the rational conversations we should be having about it.
Can Amazon lessen Rekognition's bias towards white people (ie. bright pixels)? Yes. Get over that.
This article completely whiffed on an important point regarding police use of facial recognition (or maybe I missed it) and that is _police_ bias. We are talking about one of the most culturally and racially biased concentrations of power in the country. It's important to note that they will NOT be training the models or writing the algorithms that drive their tools.
We have a chance to let some brilliant engineers create deliberately unbiased tools that can only improve the situation in America's police force.
PLEASE do not let your fears win. It will be used for evil and it will be used for good. That is not something that should be banned.
Sorry I started getting a little emotional.
And if everything is dogma, then we must simply fight to the death. I am arguing it is not, precisely because that is not the outcome I want to occur. You can disagree -- but you do not improve anything by doing so.

As I've been saying, if you argue that our positions are merely equal, you do not change my mind, you simply cause me to stop trying to justify my position. (You've justified it for me!) That is unacceptable, and betrays the entire reason we're talking about this.
Yup. Knowing when to go back and clearly define the requirements is a senior type of behavior.

"We don't have time to think, just do!" is a recipe for disaster.
Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week
My grill is made of some bricks and a grate, both are picked up at the nearest junkyard.

Getting free firewood requires some elbow grease though...
The House of Blockchain Turns One Join the Party Today
Saner but not sane would be a better descriptor.
> So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?

Cooking unprocessed meals is more expensive than cooking ultra-processed meals. Cooking at home, however, is less expensive than eating out, which appears to be the reference they are making in the second quote.

> What major grocery chain doesn't carry everything needed to make dinner?

For those shopping on a budget, going to multiple stores may be necessary based on pricing differences between stores (including consideration of sales or coupons for different products).
I am surprised to find that the 6th edition shell had only $1 etc positional parameter expansion, and named shell variables are not described in its man page

http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/sh
> Two working parents

Over here you can't afford rent if both parents don't work, so that can't be it. Maybe the non-multi-generational homes, but not many couples stay with their parents, so that's probably not it either.
It really does! It's massively inspired by that subreddit and /r/macsetups too. I wanted to create this to hopefully fill the gaps a little when talking about your setup in detail. It's a very early Alpha so it isn't very feature rich but planning to build on this more in the future.
You're leaving out the time it takes to shop (many poor people live in food deserts and would have to travel quite far for things like fish sauce and green onion) and the time it takes to cook (in between working two jobs and taking care of a child). Time is the much more valuable resource as it relates to healthy cooking and eating.
How about putting homelessness warnings in all city councils
You can't register on the Lazarus forums? This is Hacker News, are you sure you're in the right browser tab?
It's almost certainly not good for you, but it's also almost certainly better for you than the full-sugar version.
Cool! I am working on almost the exact same thing. Grats on shipping!
I always thought the liberty tax places looked shady, but they have had a free no-income cap online filing system for at least 3 years. I've used it every year. They call it DIY tax, but the site is freetax.com.
Neither has mankind.
We do all of that as well, except the "family bonding" events, so I don't think that's it...
Rinsing a can of beans decreases the sodium content significantly. Also, it can be a bit of a lifestyle adjustment to think ahead on meals, which is why canned and processed foods are popular in the first place.
I've always though it would make sense to outsource home style cooking to specialists who can cook in bulk much cheaper (and often higher quality) than individuals can cook at home.

I'm surprised that Polish 'Milk Bar'[1] type places, aren't more common.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny
Another great talk on data-oriented design, given by Mike Acton at cppcon 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
> Warnings sound nice, like we're doing something, but they do not work.

Oh yes the warnings do indeed work its part. My kids are terrified of the warnings that appear on my wife's cigarettes, and they bully her mercilessly whenever she smokes, to the point that it is reducing her usage a good deal.

Of course, warnings alone are not enough. But they are necessary. I hope in a few years all sugary beverages will have scary warnings with pictures of caries; just as tobacco has today.
I've seen a paper[1] that claims RH, as stated, is undecideable, and then proposes to prove that an analytic continuation of it has the property required. The idea seems to be that you can choose your continuation to have or not have the property.

It's not clear to me what could be undecideable about the original proposition; either the continuation matches at the points in question, or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, how is it a continuation?

Enlightenment welcome.

[1] http://phys.lsu.edu/~fmoxley/r1.pdf
I agree that our definition of success should have a strong societal component. However, if you expect societal benefit from every action, including actions heavily dependent on something like the whim of a consulting client, you may be faced with a lot of anxiety when you inevitably fall short, anxiety which may ultimately hamper your later individual capability to achieve societal benefit.
This would be incredibly annoying when you actually want to record it. We should be using more metric measurements, not less.
>> they ate an average of 508 calories more per day and gained an average of 2 pounds over the two-week period, providing evidence that there may be something about processed food that drives people to overeat and gain weight.

Has the author tried eating a caloric excess of lean meats and non-fried, non-starch vegetables?

It's damn near impossible. Throw some cheese, bread, fried potatoes, mayo, and sugary drinks in there and you'll do it without blinking an eye. But not with chicken, green beans, and other 'healthy foods'
There is hardly anything easier than microwaving a potato and microwaving frozen vegetables, which are just as nutritious as fresh and a lot cheaper on sale.

Add a piece of protein fried in a pan and you are done.

Rice cookers have also become inexpensive and foolproof to use.
> So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not?

You spend more if you buy and cook fresh produce. You spend less if you only cook rice and beans. The latter is less healthy than the former.

> What major grocery chain doesn't carry everything needed to make dinner?

Not every store with food is a grocery store. Dollar stores and corner stores do not stock an abundance of fresh produce, beans, flour, etc. People may have to go to multiple stores to find the items they need.

> I thought we were talking about food cooking barriers?

Yes. Not having child care is a food cooking barrier. Not having money or the time to prepare school lunch is a food cooking barrier. Not having access to grocery stores or a car is a food cooking barrier. As is access to food assistance programs, not being paid enough, not having access to good public transit, insecure or unaffordable housing, etc.

In 2009, over 2% of the US population lived in a food desert, and in 2017, 11.8% of US households were food-insecure. Of that 11.8%, 4.5% had very low food security.
As a computer hardware nerd, I'm always down for a good build sharing site. And for an alpha, you seem to have gotten the basics down.

I'm curious, though, what this will bring to the table that other sites like Builds GG[0] or PCPartPicker[1] don't currently offer. I would assume including information about the desk and lighting setup? I'd like to know what's on the roadmap for features and sucj.

Best of luck!

[0] https://builds.gg/

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/
Based on the number of comments already which don't even address the OP and add absolutely nothing to the discussion (including yours) so is Hacker News. Maybe the solution is for people to be less toxic, instead of blaming platforms.
I will be forever angry at what the state in most places has done to cigarettes. It's absolutely amazing that they can force someone to do something to heinous in their product.
You can't just say DB is really bad without putting it in relation to their prices.

That would let them get away too easily.
I was mostly thinking of this guy:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/france-to-expel-pro-wife-bea...
The reasons are likely pretty complex and inter-related. Some are hinted at in the article.

Two reasons from my point of view: The decline in stay-at-home parents I feel would be a big one. With both parents working, the ability to cook 'from scratch' (for some definition of 'from scratch') 3 meals a day is greatly diminished. Especially with modern parenting responsibilities - try cooking that meal as a single parent with a young child underfoot.

Also, cooking requires practice and intuition, which can't come from reading a book or following online guides. These skills were generally practiced and honed in families. Once a generation forgets how to cook, that knowledge cannot be passed on and must be re-learned from the beginning. This is exacerbated with family members moving away for economic reasons.

The learning part takes a lot of time and some bad meals to start to get right.
> it's just gets kind of repetitive.

Look into herbs and other seasonings, and different cooking methods. Chinese cooking for example makes excellent use of them to make very different dishes from the same raw ingredients. A little bit of soy, Chinese cooking wine, and spring onions added to scrambled eggs is very different from steamed eggs for example.
>2.5 kilos of potatoes usually cost between 1-2 EUR here. As a single person, you can live days on this.

So poor people should live like it's 19th century Ireland? I'm sure that will catch on.