skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your entire speech pattern is positively comical. This is the thing with democracy: it produces individuals who like to "shine" in conversation, rewards rhetoric and theatrics at the expense of reason.

It should be kept in mind that democracy originally didn't mean "rule by the people". It meant rule by demos, ie common people.

"There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi." - Luis Walter Alvarez
Google employees are very vocal, and will internally protest anything they don't agree with. That protest often gets leaked to the media.

Microsoft is run like a regular company where employees just do what they're told.
Please factor the following into your cost comparison:

- Extra time required to cook

- A home with a functional refrigerator, oven, stove, etc.

- Time and transportation costs to and from a grocery store. Remember that poor people tend to live much further from a grocery store than you're used to.

- More money required up front. If you have literally $20 in your bank account, are you gonna spend some of it on bus fare to get to the grocery store an hour away, buy $10 of food, and come home, or are you gonna get a $1 hot dog from the 7/11 down the street?
I don't mean that usernames were removed, just that you couldn't create new ones for a time (also, I don't know if the new system is technically a username or not). Just to clarify.
Its possible that the protection from the sun outweighs the increased insulation.
Not just "carbs", but refined carbs & sugar.

If I binge on bananas, fruit, and veggies etc I feel stuffed too. In fact to the point where I lost ~30 lbs in 40 days because I couldn't eat enough calories. The "potato hack" leverages a similar property with starch.

Fiber & fat both make you feel very satiated.
> epidemic of passive entertainment that make people dumber

I'd be interested in hearing some evidence about this.
I have one in a drawr, like many. At my a few relatives I have PiHole running and they love it just had to walk my grandma through occasionally turning the pi off and on (pull the power, reconnect).

But I have the current Raspbian distro in a VM for messing around with as I don't need the hardware up. Once I have a use for the pi in my drawer it's going to be useful
I'm not sure what you mean. :(
> On average, people in the US have a high-protein diet relative to the rest of the world.

A problem with this statement is that you're assuming the average is applicable in a uniformly distributed manner. People who are obese (or morbidly obese) and in the lower income quartile could consume little to no protein, and still you could have a higher protein content in Americans' diets. On average.
What's available is an important factor in what people choose, but ultimately people have to make a choice between good and bad food. Little kids are especially vulnerable to fast food ads and people develop their eating habits when they are young.
No, I just think she's extremely enthusiastic about the things she does in a way that strikes me as being almost autistic.
By "fail" you mean crash, or it detects that it's uncertainty gets too large and it pulls over safely, forcing you to wait or take over yourself?

Insurance companies will force the adoption once they become proven safe. The added insurance costs for luddites will price them out of the market.
* ‘acre-foot’, not ‘acre food’. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot
The operative word is "here". If you live in a food desert, it can be an endeavor just to get to stores with actual meat and veggie selections. Even if you do live somewhere with good food access, fresh food in big cities just plain costs more than food elsewhere [1] in a way that doesn't happen as much with manufactured food because of manufacturer-influenced pricing.

[1]: https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nyc-groceries-are-m...
Pearson ditches print textbooks for college students in digital-first strategy
> The U.S. Congress, for one, should increase funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps — on which 50 million American families depend.

This is anecdotal but I used to work at a corner store in a poor neighborhood. We received plenty of customers paying with EBT but not once (literally, not once) did someone come in and buy peanut butter, pasta, bread, canned veggies, or any of the cheap nutritious foods with EBT. It was always junk food (or worse, candy and soda). It seems to me SNAP is a very small part of the problem compared to a lack of education and resources.
That's not really the only compromise Tesla has. It got terrible ergonomics, lack of what is now isn't considered particularly luxury features, mediocre build quality, repairs that can take months etc. But it got fart jokes! So it all evens out. /s

For my personal usage, when I am traveling (which usually is something like driving 2000 miles with a single long stop) filling/charging time makes all the difference between getting there how I want it or not, too.
Why make a country-case at all. Would you advocate for import quotas from china because china takes too much of US's imports?

Forget entirely about the well being of foreign nationals, take the most cynical and cold approach to them as if they did not matter at all. Look at americans: they would like to purchase goods and services at the best available price/quality ratio they can get, and they are forbidden from doing so explicitly by immigration law.

It is literally taking away liberties from the american people.
No, YouTube lets you cut out parts of a video retroactively. “Video editor” might be the wrong name.
I am not aware of any one book which will teach you "How to love and live in Solitude":-) But the domain of Philosophy shows you the importance of "turning inward", "resting in oneself" and in general "living apart from the ceaseless and inane activity of the world".

The Ancient Hindu, Buddhist and Greek philosophical texts are the forerunners. The concept of "Renunciation"(Sanskrit: Sannyasa) under the Vedanta school in Hinduism is worth studying. One excellent and succinct text is the "Ashtavakra Gita" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtavakra_Gita). There are plenty more Hindu and Buddhist texts on the subject.

The Greek schools, in particular Stoicism; were popularized by the Romans. Here you have the usual suspects i.e. the works of Seneca, Cicero, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.

Finally, the Essays of Michel De Montaigne contain one "On Solitude" (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2...) which has been published as a book under "Penguin Great Ideas" series; See https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Penguin-Great-Ideas/dp/01413...

PS: I believe some of the Christian theologians/philosophers (St. Augustine?) have also written something on the subject though i don't know much about those works.
This is what I hate about "crunch time". I keep a priority list of my personal goals/tasks so I have perspective when I'm thinking of pulling another 60h week.

Reminding yourself that crunch time shouldn't be a regular recurrence is a good thing.
Thank you itcrowd for your comments and your sincere and balanced approach, which I respect even though I do not at present share your viewpoint. Thank you also for looking into the Lancet and Guardian articles. Regarding the respectability of this subjournal of Lancet, that is useful information. Regarding the Guardian article: after a very brief search, I have also not been able to locate the actual academic article, though there are many references to it in other general-interest articles on the internet. The 326 number referred to Lai's study; the 59 studies refer to the separate article from Environmental Health Perspectives that you link to.

I have been following this topic for some time and in everything I have read, I have (until today) never encountered a single reference to a study on the health effects of 5G (and have encountered many statements that 5G has not yet been studied for health effects), thus my initial assertion that there haven't been any studies. What I have encountered is many government and industry spokespeople and mainstream media outlets saying that 5G is safe, without ever citing a single study to support their claim. The few studies that turned up in your brief Google Scholar search are problematic, as I pointed out, due to conflicts of interest.

Regarding your last paragraph (I will comment in two parts):

> Finally, the point I want to make is that in this whole discussion, I have provided scientific evidence that 5G radiation levels (<300 GHz, as planned) are not harmful.

I don't want to seem uncivil, but I think I missed this evidence? Thus far we have found three studies that address possible health effects from 5G, all of which have problems with conflicts of interest, correct? If there have been no other studies directly testing 5G, what is the scientific evidence (not theorizing, but actual empirical studies) that has been provided?

And:

> I have not seen a single scientific paper posted by you or anyone else that provides a) a mechanism to explain what would be harmful about it and b) the level of harm this mechanism should have on users.

Firstly, not a single scientific paper has been posted because there haven't been any, yes? (setting aside the 3 we spoke of above). One of the essential points here is that this simply hasn't been studied (apart from the aforementioned problematic studies, unless there are others that we have not found, and that the various parties assuring the public that 5G is safe are likely also unaware of given that they have never cited them either), and the technology is being deployed anyway.

Regarding our ignorance of a "mechanism to explain what would be harmful about it": I would tend to place more trust in empirical studies -- what actually happens, are any effects produced? In terms of understanding the mechanism of how it happens, scientists may not have discovered this yet. A current gap in our knowledge of some of the mechanisms of the natural world does not mean that those mechanisms, and the effects that they produce, do not exist. In the meantime (i.e. before we discover the mechanisms), it seems imperative that the empirical effects are determined.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Presentation
Maybe it isn't life critical but only quality of life critical?
> These are not workarounds.

What is the purpose of this line?

Why do you think it's there if the C code using volatile is enough on its own?

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/a26467874a512de30...

It's a workaround to prevent optimisations because that happens to be how some compilers are implemented today. Will it be implemented like that tomorrow or in a different compiler? Who knows.

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/27872ca13c713c9...
People might be different, I feel the actual opposite of this. I can easily eat a steak and feel craving for more. A mixed plate that is 1/3 meat and 2/3 carbs satiates me much more completely. I'm often amazed at just how much I can eat when all I'm eating is meat.

It also makes sense that a diet that generates ketosis so that you lose weight quickly (e.g. protein-heavy/carb-light) would be accompanied by feelings of hunger.
I thought waymo already displayed this ability? That's object identification and prediction, it's not impossible to do.
They seem to be working on the password manager in general lately(ish) e.g. https://lockwise.firefox.com/ , so I think there's a decent chance that side of things will improve. Because yeah, it has been an awful, nigh-unchanged experience for pretty much its whole existence.
> Granted it might actually work, but not if it depended on any other hpkgs not in base Haiku or things that were in its hpkg. If applications actually were just files (or even folders), then this would work as expected.

But it would also mean the LibreOffice package would be 300-400MB instead of 100MB; etc. etc. We chose the dependency-solving model precisely because we care to save (consecutively) terabytes of data transfer, disk space, etc. in exchange for a moderate amount of added complexity. Re-packaging applications is not so difficult for the users who really need that. Most seem not to.

> And therefore irrelevant, yes, I get it.

Two comments ago, you agreed that use-cases in the long-tail were rightfully not optimized for or prioritized in the default install. Nowhere did I say (and I indeed said the opposite) that this meant they were "irrelevant." Do you now disagree with this?

> My point is it shouldn't matter that my usecase is in the minority, because my path towards such simple functionality [0]

So you are saying that all "simple" usecases, in the "minority" or not, should be implemented? I think you might be surprised at just how many there are. Then how we prioritize all of those?

So I don't see why any use-case, simple or not, should get any priority besides the number of users that want or need it multiplied by how crucial the activity is for them. Especially given how starved for time we are at present.

> a problem so desperately in need of solving that Electron, which bundles an entire web browser with every application, is popular and widely used.

Considering that Qt has facilities to bundle applications together into a single binary, as do most other cross-platform toolkits, I don't think this is the reason most people chose Electron (especially seeing as most Electron apps install quite a lot more than a single binary.)
Why? I've had that clean painless install on Windows like forever. My installs are always a single executable that copies itself to a proper place, gets any data if needed from company website and when uninstalled leaves no trace on a system. Never touched registry. There is nothing here that calls for "starting from scratch"
A postdoc! And then...

I did some energy consulting, tried to be an independent research scientist but got pushed around too much by NSF, and now work as a seismic hazard modeler for a nonprofit[1]. Seismic hazard and the related science has always been closer to my interests than longer-term plate tectonic stuff, but we couldn't get access to our intended field area in Tibet so I sort of pulled that project out of my... hat based on some other research we were doing on a neighboring mountain range during that expedition.

I never liked school (although parts of grad school were great and my postdoc was fabulous); I like doing science but don't want to be an academic. Most people with my background go into energy or stay in academics.

The seismic hazard work is great. It's programming and stats-heavy but there is still a lot of room for looking at the Earth (topography data in GIS, earthquake data, etc.) as well as travel and working with people from all over the world. There is also still a huge amount of room for improvement at all levels, from the science to the modeling techniques and tools, UIs and workflows.

I keep thinking of starting a little research institute (nonprofit) so that I could more easily get grants, etc. but I'm busy enough with work and unfunded but fun side projects that I never getting around to tackling all of the legal and paperwork. One day...

[1]: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/
Not true, the first amendment is about more than political speech. See this article for a little of the history of free speech:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/two-con...

[Note in particular: After all, the genius of the First Amendment lies in bringing isegoria and parrhesia together, by securing the equal right and liberty of citizens not simply to “exercise their reason” but to speak their minds.]
GMO is defined per EU :

“an organism, with the exception of human beings, in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.”

Which is sane definition in my view and accepted in most part of the world. Somehow only in some places (cough) is the definition arguable.
WeChat censors private conversations, automatically in real time
Even more overweight people suffer from malnutrition than huger. Carbs are cheap, proper nutrition may not be.

There was recently post in HN describing how sailors in Japanese Navy suffered fro beriberi while having access to calories. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e...
It's understandable that the regulatory process errs way on the side of restrictiveness: if someone dies because it's not restrictive enough, that's easy to identify, and it can become a lawsuit and a political campaign, Senators can get involved, agency heads can resign, civil servants can get fired. Meanwhile, the people who die because it's too restrictive are much more difficult to identify, and their deaths can't be blamed on a single decision. (Maybe the unapproved treatment wouldn't have worked anyway, and maybe nobody even knows it could have existed.)

So, given that whatever decision they make will kill masses of people, regulators have very strong incentives to kill them by being too restrictive, rather than kill a different mass of people by not being restrictive enough.

The solution to this problem is clear: the person with the strongest incentive to keep you alive is you. Any regulator or drug-company executive will reliably put other considerations above your survival under some circumstances. So, except in cases of people who really cannot be trusted with life-and-death decisions — children and some severely mentally impaired people — you should have the final say on what medical treatments you try or don't try.

In short, the whole regulatory structure should be scrapped. We still need clinical trials, but not before new treatments become available; after.

This sounds like a radical proposal, but in fact it's how the process worked in the US during the time that we owe most of our revolutionary medical treatments to, the 1920s through the 1960s. That's when most (all?) of our currently marketed antibiotic families were discovered, when one dude spent a couple of years prototyping the pacemaker in his barn and then convinced his friend at a hospital to start trying it in patients, when artificial joints were developed. We're still coasting on the legacy from that era.
We have an attempt at a smart city already, and it hasn't gone well: https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas...
> The problem is the lack of access to quality, affordable, nutritious food

not buying this - lentils are a nearly complete protein, don't really expire, certainly aren't expensive, and i don't think could be viewed as anything but healthy
Are you planning on adding a fan to the cluster?
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6484c07ff836#l3.7...
Smarter ToDos with Kotlin
That was fast. Good job Peter.
Also if you are not using a good power supply the Pi will happily operate on less current except when it needs that current during power-intensive operations like watching a movie. This could be causing silent corruption as it happened in my case. If you ever see a thunderbolt symbol best check your power supply.
I want to suggest that it was also wrongheaded to censor tobacco and alcohol advertising.
What is the "potato hack"?
What a carrier-friendly product.
If someone advertises "unlimited data" I expect unlimited data. The way they usually avoid abuse is by capping high-speed (3G or more) transfer to only some amount (e.g. 10GB/month), after that you get a "slow" connection... but even that should be clearly stated in the advertisement.
Pretty sure that would happen regardless of any immigration changes on the US side. All Tesla really is is an all electric luxury-ish (-ish in the case of the model 3) car.
I wonder how you feel about taxi firms who focus on female drivers or construction firms with female only employees? Would you also see this as sexist?
"Do or do not. There is no try." ~ Golang master Yoda
"apart-hotel" isn't really something that exists in the US. And I had no idea it was a searchable term in some online booking tools.

Somebody mentioned extended-stay hotels elsewhere as the closest analog in the US, but they tend to be focused on business travelers, and not always located in tourist areas. For example, there are a ton of extended-stay hotels near my office, but that's 30 miles outside Washington DC in the heart of the northern VA internet/tech zone (AWS, Google, the remnants of AOL, etc).

Edit - I'm looking at Hotels.com now, searching Inverness UK from the US site. "apart-hotel" is not an option under "Accommodation Type". Apartment is a distinct type from hotel, and it appears to be a mix of what you describe (bocks of apartments managed for vacation lets) and individual apartments (Airbnb-style).
Agreed. Carbs and by extension calories are one part of a diet. Protein is another big one.

Apparently half of America is deficient in one or more micronutrients (ie vitamins, minerals, etc) as well. It’s shocking.
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> The first amendment only covers political speech.

This opinion terrifies me. I'm grateful that so few people, including those in a position to decide on government restraint (ie, SCOTUS, etc), agree with you.

In your ideal world (where the text of the 1st amendment is interpreted as you propose), how do you prevent the government from simply labeling any speech it doesn't like as "non-political" and then censoring it?
Yes, that's what I mean by racist intent. Turned out some of the actions done with racist intent (focus on family-based immigration) backfired, while others (per-country limits) worked out perfectly.
Despite the downvotes, you aren't wrong, but probably not for the right reasons.

It's a federal program administered by the states, which means inconsistent qualification and delivery. Pumping more money into the program doesn't help when the states make up their own rules as to who qualifies and when.

Lack of education also doesn't help but was completely glossed over in Bloomberg's assessment of what must have been homeless hipsters inbetween semesters. If you live in the country or the ghetto, just look at what people on EBT actually buy-- unlike WIC there are no stipulations that incentivize people to actually buy healthy food, so you see carts full of Coke and Oreos. Not that I begrudge the poor their vices, but adding more money to this arrangement doesn't magically drive better outcomes.

Look at the other phenomenon that occurs with the same demographic groups-- winning the lottery isnt even enough to escape poverty and live happily ever after; they often end up stagnant or worse. You can't just give truckloads of money to the poor and expect it to be spent wisely.
I was on T-Mobile until recently (moved to Canada, where we _finally_ have unlimited plans too), and I worked around the throttling by running a SOCKS5 proxy on my phone and tunneling through that while connected to the tether. The packets appear to originate from my phone (iPhone) rather than the tethered device, and I got uncapped speeds.
The radio portion cannot stop you from using tethering though. Also, as far as I am aware, radio firmware on Android is often stored on an internal MMC card.
Lessons from Zoom on Privacy and Security
Food stamps means we all pay for it through taxes (including Walmart). We can (and do) exclude the poor from paying. The end result is increased buying power for the poor when it comes to food.

Raising minimum wages at Walmart means we all pay through higher prices (except Walmart, who passes the costs on). The poor cannot be excluded from this, so although their wages increase, it’s not clear their buying power increases.