skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this same thought, and have a pet theory about it. I think the answer is something like momentum is so unbelievably useful in business that having it is enough to be immensely wealthy and successful.

As someone who recently created yet another startup, I am reminded daily that literally everything I do has to be done for the first time. It's like molasses covering every part of the machine. When a client needs a proposal you have to write one from scratch, when someone wants payment terms or to negotiate a contract adjustment you have to figure out contract language. You don't have expense reimbursement forms, you don't have job descriptions, you don't have anything to use as a starting point or template for anything you do.

Big companies have all that. They have clients that are planning on using them again this year. They have meetings they took two years ago that are about to be a sale. They have a guy on the third floor that has seen this problem they're about to have once and knows how to avoid it. People instinctively trust them, so they don't have to explain themselves as much. People instinctively fear them, so their contracts get upheld. People that used to work for them now work at potential customers and call them up.

And on and on and on. Having a slightly busted software development process is, in fact, peanuts compared to all this.

Or, perhaps another way to say it is that there's a lot of different kinds of "software" besides the digital ones-and-zeroes kind we think about here. A group of humans all organized around a business purpose with tons of experience and momentum is a high functioning machine as well.
Of course... politicians shan't suffer their own legislation while sipping their Starbucks lattes with whipped cream and drizzles. ;)
Well, we've seen what their "offering a free service" is worth. They hide it and trick people into paying.
> It's weird, my Firefox seems to use the vaapi

Out of curiosity how do you check that? I'm asking because I'd like to check it on my end.
Your comment is the only one I’ve seen cite data so far. I couldn’t quickly find that study. Can you cite it?

I did find this reference to a more qualitative but I think still useful study: https://www.foodnavigator-latam.com/Article/2019/02/20/Chile...
This has been freaking me out lately. I am trying to form a model of how a society would typically evolve past this situation and continue to advance and spread while maintaining humane and truly representative systems of government. So far I haven't come up with anything good.

But it is a singularity. We don't know what is on the other side. Or if there even is another side.

We are stumbling backwards into a world where a real video of a politician committing a crime in a private setting is indistinguishable from a fake one, but a citizen is 100% liable for actions captured on a government-sanctioned CCTV camera and cryptographically signed with a secret key.

I think it would be interesting to start a company around the idea of creating a certificate authority and system for provisioning and securely storing keys on a hardware level in order to sign and verify "unmodified" footage.

This would need to work both online and offline and thus require a form of device-unique secure enclave.

Offline is 2 layers of verification, your own keys and the on-device keys. Online is 3 layers of verification, those 2 keys plus a one-time key provided ad-hoc by a certificate server.

This means that users could maintain higher journalistic integrity with a video captured while online, as it could be argued that even if the device key is compromised the server-issued key would still provide some level of trust that the video is undoctored.

If this sounds of interest to anyone, get in touch.
At one point international trade was the job of nation states. I don't think it's outrageous to imagine that some large scale endeavors require enormous upfront capital and organization, but eventually become cheap enough to move to the private sector.
I must strongly disagree with this. Diet Coke has a very aspartame-y taste but Coke Zero is incredibly close to original Coke with 0 sugar. The trade-off of Coke Zero vs. regular Coke to me seems like a no-brainer!
It's also the year he would become a lame duck if he gets reelected. Very low risk thing pay lip service to for him.

I doubt it's his idea though, nor of any of his cabinet. Just a convenient thing for him to latch on to politically.
Yes, this excuse has been given for the past 50 years. Usually, in reference to Europe.

That might explain why they’re building 25,000 miles of high-speed rail in China, but it doesn’t address why the US has zero.

You’re being sort of vague with the numbers of course.

If you actually look at population densities in Spain, for example, and compare them to California or New York, what do you think we’d find?

For some reason, people like yourself want to average Montana, North Dakota, California, and New York. The US does not have a uniform population density.
Most sources list it as 0 or 1 calories. Additionally considering that caffeine may increase your RMR ("Resting Metabolic Rate") by 3% or more[0][1], if you want to be "precise" it may be more accurate to say that black coffee contains negative calories.

So how precise do you need it to be? 0, 1, <5, or -1, -5 calories? Or is this just pedantic nitpicking?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7486839

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2912010
You've made one "meal", which is chicken and onions, and takes about an hour to prepare it (cutting, sauteing, boiling).
> “we are doing something “

Spot on. All of the issues Californians face and this is all they can accomplish? Another warning label? The largest economy in the US and this is it? What a shithole. Literally.
>lean meats and non-fried, non-starch vegetables

That's more difficult than you think:

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

>In 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 23.5 million Americans live in a food desert, meaning that they live more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas, and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas.[7] Food deserts lack whole food providers who supply fresh protein sources (such as poultry, fish and meats) along with whole food such as fresh fruits and vegetables, and instead provide processed and sugar- and fat-laden foods in convenience stores.
Eating potatoes as the main side dish is living like it's 19th century Ireland? Then what would be a 21st century side dish? Besides, I am quite sure that eating only potatoes for an entire week is healthier than eating processed food for 7 days.
Thanks Dag alot for the dstat tool, I am using it till this day. As for opensource and community I think it would be reasonable to still have it under different name if you'll consider it after some time and still develop some functionality or curate and merge pull requests.
Hell, even just this:

Preheat oven to 400. Toss chicken breasts in oil and seasoning of choice. Put in baking dish and bake for ~18-20 minutes.

Serve with some shredded cabbage (my personal choice) or any other veggies. Heck, buy a bag of frozen broccoli and just microwaves small amounts at a time.
Seriously, it bugs me when people try to cook and start with a giant, very precise recipe that has you using multiple pans and a laundry list of fresh herbs and spices. That might be fun for a special occasion but it's not a good way to introduce beginners to cooking. Salt, pepper, olive oil. Then go get any vegetables, grains and proteins that you like. Work your way up from there.
That's so odd. I can't imagine coding with an audience. Half of the time I'm not even coding; at work I'm often writing up little tests in Jupyter to make sure things do what I think they do. (Granted, this is porting straight Python to Numba, which is subtly different and has a lot of limitations.)

Has anyone done this? Is it easier to focus or harder?
For me appear.in worked perfectly in conferences and AFAIK it uses plain WebRTC.
"Slow Database"-Flavored WASI

Any time you see the word "blockchain" replace it with "Slow Database" in your head and see if it still makes sense.
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Elon runs the show!
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A polite critique: Six successful missions which landed, yes. I'd argue 10 successful missions in total. Excluding Apollo 1 and 13, there were four additional missions which were never tasked with landing on The Moon; I would argue that those can be considered successful as well.

[Edit]: Changed "with landing" to "with landing on The Moon"
For the current military budget we could probably build O'Neill cylinders in Lunar orbit and start a terraforming project on Mars.

(Of course don't get me started about what we could do on Earth for this money.)

We are just very clever tool using animals, not yet a truly intelligent species. I don't think we'll truly be "intelligent" until our intelligence is able to overcome both our evolutionary legacy and game theoretic effects that emerge in our economies and societies. A true intelligence would be the master of these things. We are slaves to them.
'Cooking' doesn't necessarily mean making your own tomato sauce. It's making something instead of eating a frozen lasagna or pizza.

A big part of the issue is the food stamp or SNAP culture. When you get your allotment for the monht it's easy to just go fill your cart with bad choices.

Caseworkers should be assigned to help show people how to cook, give out kits with cutting boards and pans and such. Recipe cards, that kind of thing. Maybe even subsidize meal delivery options (like HelloFresh) for a few weeks to get people started.
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It's a heinous product that does horrible things to people, so good. This is an industry that intentionally targets children to sell them addictive, carcinogenic, toxic, foul-smelling items for profit.
The problem now is that they will have to use salt and sugar to make up on taste.
> If you want to verify a user by sending a code through SMS[..]you either have to use the proprietary API, or you'll be banned from the play store.

Is this only in cases where the app reads the SMS as soon as it's received, and authorizes the user without any further user input?

Because I've done similar authentication stuff for some website logins (like a real estate listings one) where they require me to punch in the code I received via SMS. This was an interaction that occurred independently of Play Services I would imagine.
Counterpoint: How many cloned humans have we seen?

Prohibition works when the barrier to entry is higher. Any mook with some yeast and sugar can make alcohol. Pot grows just about anywhere (which is why they call it weed). But not a lot of people are privately developing nuclear bombs or cloning humans.
That's why I think there must be limits regarding what reasons a country can use to ask for an extradition, specially if you want to extradite a person that's not even an American for treason, espionage or stuff like that.
Where I live, firing up the oven heats the house noticeably, which is nice in the winter and a huge energy cost in the summer (oven plus A/C). I like grilling stuff outside when I can.
Depends on your surroundings. Panels on the roof are very roof-unfriendly and you may need to add bracing and plan for shingle damage during the install and extra wear during maintenance. One guy near my house has PV panels in his south-facing front yard, much friendlier to the house, but a lot more susceptible to theft.

And then there's this thing https://sparkonit.com/2019/05/24/build-thorium-reactor-home/
Potatoes and milk was the diet that enabled the Irish population explosion prior to the famine.

https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/food-in-irela...

"The burgeoning population lived on a diet comprised mainly of potatoes and milk, which if eaten in sufficient quantity is a surprisingly nutritious, if monotonous, diet. It is also relatively tasty and easy to prepare."
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So RSA has some 10-20 years to go. Is there a quantum computing-proof encryption algorithm, or is it just a matter of increasing key lengths?
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It was was actually Pence's idea. Pence was visiting NASA and Bridenstine mentioned to Pence that getting into moon by 2024 was possible. Pence just added the new policy goal into his speech on the spot and it became the official policy of the Government.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice...

>In Space Policy Directive-1, the President directed NASA to create a lunar exploration plan. But as of today, more than 15 months later, we still don’t have a plan in place. But Administrator Bridenstine told me, five minutes ago, we now have a plan to return to the moon. (Applause.)

... little later

>And I’m here, on the President’s behalf, to tell the men and women of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the American people that, at the direction of the President of the United States, it is the stated policy of this administration and the United States of America to return American astronauts to the Moon within the next five years. (Applause.)

Of course, this does not mean anything. WH is not committing any work towards that goal and probably don't know how. They just said it, requested money and left it there hanging. NASA has funding for Moon mission in 2028. The extra money to get there faster is nowhere to find.
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As someone who eats out maybe once a month (and therefore cook the rest of my meals myself) I agree with everything you've said.

The cost of "cooking fresh" is incredibly exaggerated, as if to create this boogie monster that people can use not to do so. All the prices you've listed are actually on the high end of what I see in the U.S. A 10lb (5kilo ish) bag of potatoes is regularly less than $3, and a lot of the other vegetables (celery, onions, carrots) are a $1 a bag, of whatever that respective size is.

And with Chicken breast regularly being <$2/lb, you can make countless dishes for a $1 a meal when served over rice. And if you don't want fresh produce, frozen vegetables are perfectly fine alternative, often for the same price.
I disagree. A regular oven is slow and inefficient because of the high thermal mass (taking a long time to heat to working temperature), and it's hard to control.

IMO, the most valuable cooking tool is the microwave oven. You can cook grains (pasta, rice, oatmeal etc.) and frozen vegetables, and you can reheat canned beans. It's fast and flexible, and much cheaper and smaller than a regular oven.

Second most valuable cooking tool is an electric pressure cooker. This lets you cook dry beans (cheaper than canned), and some have a saute mode for when you're making something fancy. It's better than the microwave for cooking large quantities of food, because you don't need to stir it for even heat distribution. And you can even cook bread in a pressure cooker if you don't mind a soft crust.
> > First, it takes money. Healthier diets... generally cost more... They note that the unprocessed diet they fed participants cost 40% more than the ultra-processed diet.
> And yet, a paragraph later:

> > Lots of families in our study cooked almost every night, in part because it was the cheapest option

> So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?

The next sentence is: "But when their cupboards ran bare, they ate ramen and hot dogs, not a pan of roast chicken and vegetables, as food gurus recommend."

> > This means making healthy food more affordable, but it also means addressing the other challenges families face: for example, by guaranteeing workers a living wage and fair working conditions and by investing in families through universal free school lunch and subsidized child care, so that parents don't feel like they're doing it all on their own.

> Wait, hold on, what? I thought we were talking about food cooking barriers? I can understand the connection to free school lunch (make sure kids get one solid meal in them a day, if you can call government supplied cafeteria materials food), but, what?

All of these have fairly obvious connections to food preparation time. If you do backbreaking labor all day, or work two or three jobs because none of them individually pay enough to support you, you won't have much time or energy to spend on food preparation.

And there are the sentences just a few paragraphs earlier: "At a minimum, it requires a working stove and enough money to pay the electric bill to run the stove. One family in our book experienced homelessness during the time we spent with the family. Patricia Washington, her daughter and her two grandchildren moved into a hotel room after being evicted when they couldn't keep up with both the rent and the heating bill." Point being, economic barriers are food preparation barriers.
I would like to see an open source project taking the spot here, not Huawei doing the same (actually probably worst) thing as Google and create their own semi-closed OS.

In fact, in Huawei's particular case, I don't even think it will be a push to create momentum for a truly open smartphone OS out of necessity, after all, Huawei goes through great lengths to keep the bootloader in their phones locked.
Hypothetically yes. But in some cases, you are hired by a department in a large division of a huge corp., with many layers of management above the department that hired you. And the end product is for a department in a totally different division of the corp. In such a case, you don't have access to the actual end customer.
This. Subsampling is kind-of the most primitive method of "lossy compression" there is.
I was reading Amber the first time I visited Chartres. Of course I walked through the maze :-)
Do you want such line on fruit juices too? And where does this all end? We all know there is sugar in soda (and fruitjuices)?
Unfortunately, all the images are returning "402: Payment Required" for me [1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WWuN4Tw.png
Those who would give up essential Privacy, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Privacy nor Safety.
Thanks! It started as a conversation between a friend mostly off the back off /r/battlestations and how I'd love to be able to see more of peoples setups.

Initial steps where just to throw something together to allow people to upload multiple setups and view others.

Next steps on the roadmap

- Multiple image upload support

- Like setups

- Build collections out of setups

- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)

- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)

Later later steps would probably be allowing the user to build collections out of popular products that get uploaded.
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In my last job I was responsible for onboarding b2b clients to send us hr data through sftp with key authentication. We also recommended they encrypt with our public pgp key and sign with their private key.
Trying to explain the difference between ssh keys and pgp/gpg keys took up a good 20% of my time some weeks. Often, I was talking to tech companies, or companies with a reputation for technology... I don't think the majority of Windows admins understand public/private keys.
It's funny that the poor immigrants cook/eat just fine while the poor Americans who were born here just do the $ for 4 at Wendy's
> Non-tech-savvyness ought to be wiped off the surface of this planet.

Oh I agree, although I wouldn't formulate it this way. An ecosystem like Apple's still has a place in an ideal tech-savvy world because it takes away a lot of micromanagement here and there.

Back in my Android days I constantly had to micromanage and adjust everything to work the way I want it to. Widgets, changing Google app landscape, flashing some custom Cyanogenmod because the manufacturers Frankenstein Android flavor was a hot mess, reign in unwanted background processes, etc etc. Much has gotten a lot better since then on Android but I made the switch before that.

On Apple's system I get to decide less but I also get to worry less as long as I am ok with their decisions. It just feels convenient and barely anything ever gets in my way. I enjoy the mostly seamless integration of iOS and macOS.

If I wouldn't be ok then I thankfully have the OPTION to go back to Android. That's what we should be happy about, right? You can use Google products, I can use Apple products. And if we discover some issue with our choices we can always change them.

> If the people were properly educated

I often feel like many people have no interest in being educated and that is what feels truly frustrating. Anecdotally, I have setup Netflix for relatives and they had zero interest in how it was done. Actively rejected my attempts to show them the setup steps - they just want to be able to press the Netflix button on the remote and have it play something.

Since then, I had to fix simple login issues once or twice again because that step is too techy/nerdy/boring. Of course passwords were never remembered/noted/securely stored...
I think the folks who are against facial recognition because they view it as “racist” are in the minority.
Maybe in some bubbles. I lived in Utah and I frequently visit Japan. Comparatively its a no brainer, the Bay Area is way more diverse.

When people talk about gentrification and how local culture is disappearing, from my perspective and historically speaking, the Bay Area is a place of constant change. People forget that this use to be one of the prime destination during the gold rush and the great depression. The Golden Gate Bridge welcomes immigrants that came in through the Pacific. The cities names are all in Spanish, because this used to be Mexican territory. San Bruno was used as a site for a internment camp for the Japanese.

To me the era were living in right now is just another gold rush where skilled workers and hungry entrepreneur arrive hoping to strike it rich. This wave of migration happens to be predominantly white and Asian. Is that antithesis of diversity? I personally don't think so, its another wave of change in history. Like Japan trying to preserve its traditions, I understand the fear of change, but I think we need to embrace it and try to mitigate any problems that change may bring.
And what happens to the rocket from the reaction force from the spring?
Uh oh, you said "Blockchain". You have now triggered the Hacker News commentariat.
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Not really. Dilute a crowd of 1000 during two weeks in a whole year and you suddenly get down to 40 people on average. Totally different experience.
That's essentially how modern society functions and the type of behavior it rewards, so it really is a recipe for an economic measure of success. Most humans these days tend to equate economic success with success in life as well.

I don't agree with the notion but that's where we are. It's one extreme or the other: extreme generalization with no depth or extreme depth with no generalization. Thats what pays and there's seemingly no reward for the in-between.
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