skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to claim that IQ quantitatively describes some useful aspect of individuals. I'm not trying to justify a natural aristocracy. Moreso if we actually did identify this relationship between long term success and high IQ scores then maybe we can identify paths to success through other measures.

Again more conjecture, but maybe IQ has more to do with concentration and abstract thinking. If there were a relationship between wealth and childhood trauma/stress that could impair abstract thinking, it would make a good case for policies designed to prevent childhood trauma, in particular those brought on by poverty.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/95/4/909/4576821

Suggests otherwise, diet soda results in obesity and diabetes at a rate approaching 2:1 when compared to regular.

It turns out that trying to fool our systems with "reduced fat" and "reduced sugar" results in our bodies not being fooled.
Not an expert, but I do take an interest in nutrition and read a reasonable amount on it, and it does appear that glycemic load is more and insulin spiking is important to overall health than calories to me from what I read.

Admitadly I may have a bias as i am not overweight, and my interest is in being healthy rather than loosing weight.
Understanding the science behind cooking is also beneficial:

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp/...

You can also use a microwave to do things like cooking potatoes.
Better question: what WILL it buy us?

Things like asteroid mining, colonization. Worth trillions. No, we don't have a convenient number for what asteroid mining is worth - a better unit would be 'civilizations'?

It even could bring space dominance if that's important.
The consolation prize is that you're paid by the hour.
Anecdotal, and not claiming to be smart. With that said, I found myself working in two call centers during college (more evidence for not that smart!). I did much worse during training than most of the class in both jobs and outperformed the entire class after a month or two. I liked to comfort myself by thinking that they really didn't know what they were doing whereas I was actually thinking about it.

Of course, there is also that whole thing about people with good mental schemas / organization (KNOWING how to think logically) not using working memory nearly as much and becoming LESS competent in novel situations until they have time to optimize, and then they don't win out on IQ but structure.

Again, anecdotally, I know people irl who wing "general intelligence" tests often given at IT/finance companies. When they get the right answer on these problems, they can't explain it - they either get it intuitively or they don't, but when they get it intuitively, they get it much faster than I do with logic.
Similar story.

I'm a noob when it comes to coding but I worked a technical job with customers for 20 years before changing paths.

I was in a position where I joined a place as the "new old guy" and several new college grads.

One day the president of the company comes to me and asks "You know the questions to ask! Some of our experienced guys don't."

It takes a lot of effort for two people or groups to form an idea and be on the same page, understanding "all" doesn't mean *, thinking of roadblocks before you get there (seeing them coming), softly working around those roadblocks, helping frustrated people, offering alternatives without going off the rails, listening closely to find out what is REALLY important and etc. I think that stuff just comes with experience working with humans.

My own experience makes me think everyone should be required to work some form of technical support for a while ;)
Here you go: Liver, heart, kidney, eggs, canned mackerel/sardines/oysters/clams. Hard to beat these-- they usually range from dirt cheap to cheap-when-on-sale/discount.
It's an internet classic...

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Double_Ristretto_Venti_Half-...
*Shor's algorithm
We have so much of so good off-the-shelf technology, that technically the only thing seriously missing is the lunar lander. Practically all components today are better or significantly better than in 1960-s - engines, materials, control systems, electrical power, spacesuits, radios.

However, the crucial difference is the risk tolerance, and here we have much higher requirements than we had, and that is what adds months and years to development and billions to costs. Some lunar lander could be created in time - we have variety of technologies, and people working on similar things. But to have it reliable so we'd be happy to send humans to the surface in 5 years - that requires a crash program with significant budget right now.
I wish they offered sensible guaranteed minimum bandwidth and didn't oversubscribe their links too much and included good QOS/traffic shaping with maybe prioritizing game traffic (or udp) for lower latency gaming.

I'd be more than happy getting say a guaranteed 5 MB/s (~50 mbps) steady with super low latency on the cheap everywhere on the earth. I'm currently getting about 1-2 MB/s on 4G mobile internets for ~25 eur a month but at least it's _real_ unlimited.
I love this type of list. I'm frugal, super busy (read: lazy), and powerlift so I try to make a minimum-cost, high-protein, easy meal-prep every week. Having a high protein / calorie ratio is primary, but keeping it low-cost is a close second. I normally use a pressure cooker, 5-6 lbs of chicken breast, brown rice, and lots of veggies. It may sound boring, but it's great when you add stuff like chickpeas, delicious sauces / salsas, and try out different regional styles of cuisine. Check out the author's protein / dollar list - it's very helpful for the protein-obsessed.

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/applying-protein-per-doll...
They said they wanted everything so the DB displays in a table ... everything.
The people our work impacts (at least directly) are often „disrupted” (made redundant) by the new tech. It’s a good thing they don’t know us by name.
It’s Never Been Easier to Be a CEO, and the Pay Keeps Rising
> Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data.

Besides this, it's rude to address other community members this way. Just email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have such concerns, we take them seriously and we have better options for addressing them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
High-speed trains are starting to impact airline routes: https://www.travelstatsman.com/08082016/high-speed-rail-trai...
I’d call it moderately rare in Victoria.
Kubernetes the Hard Way on LXD
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i...
I drink Diet Coke exclusively (as far as sodas) and (because it's what I'm used to, likely), I feel about Coke the same way you feel about Diet Code. It takes weird to me.
Maybe I don't get your point but a tariff is a tax, and US consumers pay for a lot of that tax. So this is effectively a super inefficient redistribution of wealth to farmers from everyone else in the country.
Looks like my habit of closing all apps after use isn't that bad after all.
Good analysis.

I think for software sales, this type of thing is slowly fading as it becomes more and more commoditization. For all but the largest of businesses, you go to AWS and pay the market price for compute and other services, there's not much need for contracts and negotiations and meetings, the price is the price. Going to a competitor or doing business the old way simply costs much more. Eventually, businesses align on consuming commodities as commodities, the spending slowly moves from CapEX to OpEX.

AWS is the power company now. You agree to their terms, and you pay their bill. Unless you're doing a major industrial facility that requires mega-watts of power, you don't need to interact with their sales staff; same applies to AWS (and ironically, you can probably use power as a proxy to relative deal size here, too).

100 years from now, all the conceivable software is going to exist that could exist, at least for 'business processes.' If your business is selling potatoes as a farmer to distributor, the software you need to participate efficiently in that market will already exist.
I’m kind of conflicted.
This may help to drink less sugar, but it may desensitise everyone for much more dangerous stuff, like alcohol and cigarettes when they are put on the same level
The executive branch of the US government did as well. Drastically. The opinion of the US Justice department through each of those two wildly different presidents however, did not change.
> if you ignore

naturally
I think success doesn't come because of these bad decisions and red tape, but despite them. I have the impression that in many areas, a certain "critical mass" makes a big difference, e.g. more market presence may generate a lot more sales even if the product is mediocre.

I still think that doing things the right way and getting rid of those famous inefficiencies could leverage success even further. With regards to software I think that's the difference between large companies with a known engineering culture (like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft) as opposed to those known to be a bit more red-tapey (like IBM, Adobe).

But of course, "doing things the right way" is terribly hard to quantify, and so is "how much success would be possible". If numbers at the end of the year are already positive, good luck trying to convince C-level to introduce fundamental changes to existing processes.
I think a really useful interface / AI project would be to write something that categorizes all the comments being made to an article.

That way I could dive into specific comments on topics that interest me, and also decide which comment branches to follow.

I have no idea how this might be implemented though.
I think the term good was used in the sense of a good person, however you choose to define it, rather than good for the company, which if I'm understanding what you are saying correctly, is what these futures are about.

In any case, I'm not sure that the market is the best judge of what a good CEO is, with its near constant fixation on the very short term.
Please don't do nationalistic flamewar here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
true, but this is from a split moment in time when we have a dictator-wannabe as president, and an out of touch senate. If a democratic president did half the stuff Trump did democrats would be coming at him w/ a pitch fork and lead the impeachment proceedings, but the GOP rather have a corrupt leader because they're all corrupt and that's just how it works in D.C. in their brain.

This is why we need senate term limits, hard to get corrupted by D.C. if you only can serve 8 years. New blood will bring change with it.

Back to my point of this being a split moment in time, I honestly believe that pain is coming in the way of automation, loss of jobs, water wars, along with that will come out the pitchforks aimed at D.C. if politicians don't start making life better for everyone instead of enriching themselves. So mark my words, times they are achanging, equality will come back or there'll be a French-style revolution or two before it does.
Agreed qubit per area or volume is important, but those are not capable of undergoing a Moore's Law event. Entangled qubits cannot now be packed orders of magnitude closer since they're already at the quantum limits.

Moore's Law did not shrink support machinery much at all. It shrunk the lowermost information processing piece. That lowermost piece in this case cannot be shrunk in the same manner.

The fact the bottom cannot shrink is causing Moore's law to end as it is. There is no way around these quantum limits without a major change in physics, one that is unlikely to ever happen.

None of the pieces you list can scale the same way area did for Moore's Law to work for transistors.

Moore made his prediction in 1965. Transistor area in 1971 was a 10,000 nm process. Modern process is a ~10 nm process. This 1000 fold reduction in linear size (which is a 1 million reduction in area, 1 billion in volume) cannot within any reason happen to your items.

Money and power and count dropped in Moore's law only and precisely because feature size dropped, and this could only happen because the initial features were macro scale, not quantum scale. This cannot happen to qubits - they're already at the end of the quantum line.

We will likely someday get smaller quantum computers. They won't follow a Moore's Law from where they are now, however, for the same reasons nothing other than transistor based items followed a Moore's Law - the physics precludes it.
Great idea. I used to be active on the CGTalk forum back in the day and always loved the workstation threads.
Ask HN: Same-day 3D Printing in SF/Bay area (urgent)
We’re days away from the first-run manufacturing deadline for our hardware device and desperately need to verify our case with a 3D print. Does anyone know of a business or kind-hearted hacker who might be willing to help us for any reasonable price?

Fictiv seems like the only thing I can find but I don’t think they can accomkdate us today.
What's that? Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

I live for my long holidays.
The Smartest Guys in the Room Eerily Describes Tesla
they make far more money from device sales than they do from apps. they just don't want to give up their gatekeeping power
Author sounds a bit obsessive about all things in life. It's appropriate for a doctor to tell their patient the facts about their situation. If laypersons do that they are going to run into social friction.
Oh baby did I read that wrong. I read that to mean my family instead of all of Greece.

I do wonder what the difference is.
No, it shows that the US is too powerful.

All the craziness about preventing American internet companies from dominating the Domestic Chinese market makes total sense now, doesn't it? If the Chinese economy had been built around Facebook, Google etc. the US would have a lot of leverage, since they're all US-based companies and _must_ comply with whatever US Government asks them to do.
Having a multinational agreement between several economies that the Chinese economy is hugely dependent on would have been a great trade chip for getting China on board with Western IP laws. That was the whole point of the deal in the first place.
I saw something similar a couple of months back, can't remember where it was off the top off my head.

It may have been one of Jason Fung's youtube videos - he is an MD and big proponent of intermittent fasting. (As a side not intermittent fasting has been used to reverse type 2 diabetes. Lack of insulin sensitivity would seems to be a big problem).
>There are few things worse than a Youtube video that should have been a blog post -

Yeah we're totally on the same page there. I want to read, reread, and reread (i'm bad at reading comprehension) when it comes to these youtube videos that should be blogs.

I'm a bit of a n00b and constantly looking for some good patterns or such, live coding might help but understand it a bit better than finding a monolith app as seeing it come together is often easier for me to understand.
I feel like there's a lot of value in the whole "knowing how the sausage is actually made" thing. You'll still take collections and the garbage collector for granted 95% of the time, like everyone else, but at least you will have some sense what's going on under the hood if you've had to implement pieces of it manually somewhere along the line— and an actual working implementation, not just a toy one for some undergrad class.
As a young Frenchman living in a small town myself, I would be definitely interested in hearing more. How did you transition to a US college? In what context did it happen? Did you experience any difficulties?
https://yarchive.net/space/rocket/fuels/peroxide.html

While there are some storage headaches -- the stuff decomposes slowly no matter what you do, so you must provide for tank venting -- otherwise peroxide is much easier and safer to handle. Its bad reputation is half outright myth and half the result of 1940s experience with seriously impure peroxide. To quote a friend, a rocket-propulsion professional, who investigated the matter as part of a study some years ago:

"As far as we could find out, the stories about problems with peroxide were just that, stories... Peroxide, now, seems to only very rarely do anything exciting, at all. And, even then, it seems to never do many of the things attributed to it in the stories."

Henry Spencer
> What are the other trains doing? Did the next junction switch successfully?

These are not things the train driver would react to. There will be a signal protecting the switch, which won't be "green" until the change is successful. If the driver tries to pass a red signal (or exceed the speed limit), the emergency brake is applied automatically.

The driver needs to react to unexpected events -- which might mean applying the emergency brake on their own train and maybe pressing the emergency button to stop all trains in the area. Possibilities:

- their own train has a serious mechanical failure

- something falls of their train, like a container or (somehow) a passenger

- the track has a serious failure (flooding, damaged rail, nearby fire)

- foreign objects are on the track (cars, trees, people)

Other trains will react automatically as necessary. The driver is then there to deal with the situation, which might include proceeding at slow speed, reversing, or waiting for assistance while keeping passengers informed.

> some trains automatically stopping in cases of signal violation.

On high-speed trains like this, all of these safety systems you've heard about are standard, and most of them are considered critical for normal operation.

> what is the point of having a driver on the train?

A better question is why does the driver actually drive the train? (Why do they control the speed?) I think that's to help maintain situational awareness in case there is a problem they can react to.
What about the baseband?
There is a fundamental assumption underlying this topic, are the user expected to be on desktop or mobile (including many laptops)? If the objective is to provide high bandwidth then mobile users might see a significant increase in battery and disk usage.

not saying it would not work, I actually like the idea of more peer to peer networking. But as the market is clearly focused on low consumption user devices with commonly little drive capacity seeding would be a damage to UX.
Apparently yeah.

> Although the typical bar mleczny had a menu based on dairy items, these establishments generally also served other, non-dairy traditional Polish dishes as well.

But when I visited, it was more like a canteen that served quality, home-style meals.
Remote control systems can and will fail.
Just to be clear, I don't think anyone is not moving to a rural area because of the internet speeds.

I'm not sure if you're talking about the U.S. or not, but my parents have satellite internet and they don't even notice a difference unless the dish is full of snow, which I'm not sure is a problem Starlink will solve. They stream, use Skype, and wifi calling. I don't notice much of a difference when I visit. If I try to log into a remote terminal, sure, but I'm not doing that. Internet might be more expensive, but rural properties are cheaper.
I can't even get to the base page. nginx gateway error.
Thanks for this. Do you have any recommendations for a DIY aquaponics setup? I've seen a lot of setups using PVC pipe although I'm not clear on how safe that is for food over the long term.
Might be a little bit of self selection bias going on here.
It was the refutation to end all refutations that the reason we don't do $IMPORTANT_THING is "we can't afford it". Almost any utopian goal you can imagine is achievable with that budget. Switch the entire power infrastructure to solar? Easy. Food, houses for everyone? Petty cash. University education for all? Well within the budget.

Essentially, it amounts to socialism for huge corporations, but not for little humans. "Too big to fail" for them - "too poor to survive" for us.
Can you give some details re:

> The FFT using real numbers is not lossless

The DFT over the reals is invertible, right? How can it be invertible but not lossless?
I don't think Facebook can survive ten more years without deep changes. Facebook needs your data to survive but they don't bring much value to their users anymore, some people are leaving but many are just getting passive and don't post anymore. This is probably the end of an era and Facebook recent missteps are probably the nail in the coffin.
You Need to Call a Friend Every Week
And /r/retrobattlestations !
Looks like they just called it "Click Hero".
Future versions will burn up in the atmosphere, as required by the FCC as SpaceX couldn't guarantee the satellites could be contained to sea landings.
This has been debunked. It’s not that diet soda “causes” weight gain, the studies show that people eat more because they think drinking diet soda gives them a license to do so.

The old I am going to order a double quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, and a Diet Coke.

https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/2014/06/do-diet-sodas-cau...

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/diet-soda-weight-gain-metab...
Even though I cancel and unsubscribe from everything I can, 95% of what I receive in the mail is paper spam. If I didn't still receive paper paychecks, it'd be even higher.

I recognize there's value in having a postal system, but in practice almost everything I receive goes straight in the shredder. It's been taken over by spammers. It's another system that provides real value to a lot of people, but seems to only be financially sustainable because of advertising.

Where's the Plan for this Spam?
I spent a few months eating for £5 per week - not through choice. Most of what I ate was marked down (nearly out of date) loaves of white sliced bread and damaged cans of beans or spaghetti in tomato sauce. I’m quite tall so this wasn’t enough and after a few weeks I was in constant pain from hunger. There are many people in the UK for whom this is their life.
First image I checked for this, full EXIF data is intact, including GPS data.
I think it's hard for a civilian agency to use the defence sectors tricks. NASA could probably get a lot of people behind building a giant laser on the moon to "strike the enemy", but it's hard to see how they could get much support from the science community for such a project.
A step toward fully electric ferries
Great product! But I almost quit your signup process. Forcing me to answer survey questions about my field and give my company name before I can see what your software can do makes me not want to sign up.
I don't see a moral issue with this. The state is using its power to help ensure individuals have pertinent information with which to make health-impacting decisions. Individuals are using their power to decide whether, given that information, they wish to modify their own behavior.
There’s a big risk with using <> in perl, if any of the command line arguments might come from somewhere untrusted - if you use perl it’s worth reviewing the discussion under https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#I%2fO-Operators
YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
That's not entirely true. The US is good at capital intensive or high skilled manufacturing like most other countries aren't. That's why it's viable for a lot of car companies to open plants in the US. It's just that most of the supply chain requires more labor and less capital, which the US economy is not suited towards.
Oh, that sounds so brutal. Had no idea this was a thing that happened to people. I would-first week quit.
Berlins main station as well, there are 4 tracks underground.
This is a cool idea. One suggestion though, it would be nice when viewing a setup to be able to use arrow keys to advance to the next setup.