skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is what makes it tricky. The units are very strange here. Its not a simple unit like meters or liters. Its not even one of the stranger units like Celsius (which is odd since zero C does not correspond to none of the quantity it measures, which is thermal motion). Its a relative unit, so its hard to judge how many decimals you need to be accurate.

Its almost like if I was to record where an astronomical object was using only time. Assuming you have full knowledge of its past trajectory, depending on how fast that object moves, you would need different precision times for objects traveling at different velocities, to get the same precision in space.

This is why you just give up on the problem and report to a precision that always works, instead of using the standard scientific procedure of significant figures. I guess if GPS measurement devices took all this into account they could report their measurements with the correct number of digits (taking into account measurement error, and the absolute position on Earth). I guess 15 digits is always too many, but whatever.
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Totally believe the numbers (30 hours a week) quoted in parent posts. The CEO of Netflix said something to the effect of "our biggest competition is sleep -- and we're winning."
no, you just don't fall into the cracks that dang dislikes. I've seen him go after people who aren't causing problems because he doesn't like what they're saying. I've seen it multiple times actually.

His go to is to call it conspiracy regardless of what's actually being said.
Err, no, that fact is in the article.
Like parking fines in some cities?
Dairy consumption has been on the decline for years in the US as plant-based alternatives on the rise.

The restaurant industry reports that profits are up for restaurants serving plant-based meat options, so more restaurants are trying it.

Every meal is a vote.
I like linkedIn tbh. It's a good way to talk to recruiters, and if you don't want to you can just ignore them. The feed is a cesspool of corporate propaganda and self aggrandizement, but so what? Just ignore it.

I guess I don't think that linkedIn is as much of a problem as other social networks because it's just not addictive in the same way as Facebook et al. is.
If all fruits and vegetables screamed and all animals scream, what would you eat?

If you're going to say starve to death, ha! The one thing westerners underestimate is starving and what it does to you. See how long you can go without eating. I've done a 5 day fast, with intents for a 10 day. Yes, I failed on that.

Take a wild guess what you crave the most. And it ain't plant fiber. Its muscle fiber. We live in the land of plenty that allows choices. Part of the exact problem we are running into. It's easy to say meat bad when you get fruits, veg and grain imported to you. Stuff you didn't really work to get. Because, out of personal experience, farming is hard ass work. And I dare anyone to try zero emissions large scale farming. Grab a scythe and harvest grain. Have fun with that.

What I'm getting to, it's always been a fact of life. It takes less effort to raise pigs and live off their flesh than it is to take care of a few acres of grain, veg and fruit.

What I can't stand, people not in the agriculture business or lifestyle pretending to be the ultimate authority. Grow all your own food, then you can have an opinion. Until then, don't pretend like you know what you're talking about. It's easy for anyone to wave their hand and say "everyone should live in this method because I say so".

"But if I spend all my time farming, I wont have time to do xyz"

Yea, that's the reason why our farming systems are as they are.
> We don't like buying processed foods, and soups without meat are nearly a no-go for me. But hey, I'm limiting consumption so I guess I'm doing my part.

I lean toward the carnivore spectrum but there are a couple meatless soups that I enjoy:

* New England clam chowder

* Corn chowder

* Barley mushroom (though it’s even better with meat)

* Gazpacho

And while I’d never order it if given the option for a “real one”, vegetarian pho was surprisingly good.
Something tasting better is not the same thing as the original tasting like nothing. Meat with good seasoning tastes better then no seasoning but that has absolutely nothing to do with you claiming meat tastes like nothing.
Global economy is probably in recession
Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations
The trade war escalates, and the fog of war descends
Using Golang as a Scripting Language
Does anyone really use LinkedIn for anything else than updating their job experience and replying to (or ignoring) messages from recruiters?
Two steps forward, one step back, unfortunately. It's difficult to make progress when rape culture is a billion dollar industry and we're in the midst of an anti-progressive social backlash. At least every now and then a Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein gets raked over the coals.

Maybe it's simply due to the existence of social media and an actual positive effect of "outrage culture" but a few decades ago such people would have been all but untouchable.
As far as I know sig figs aren't a primitive type in most languages so the author's point is moot.
This is insane. I can't imagine my kids going into someone's private property, climbing on their car, and then somehow defending them.

Do people not teach their kids manners anymore? Or the idea that you aren't the center of the world? Or that when you touch, climb, etc someone else's property, you always ask first, and if the answer is no, then so be it?
Protein in terms of protein / calorie ratio of food tilts protein sources to meat and dairy. Easy way to compare foods and meals is to compare grams protein per 100cal of a given item. Things like meat, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc., top the charts.

So if you want to maximize for protein consumption without putting on fat mass, you tend to look for meat, dairy, and things derived from them (whey protein isolate).
What about future GIs programs that can handle these digits, should we not futureproof anything that doesn't exactly utilize it today?
It's very opinionated, it offers no help or pointers about how to fix any of the problems, and it wasn't asked for.
It's not just virulence-it's a bit more complicated. Example HIV is (without current chronically given drugs) very deadly. One of the things that makes it so successful is the lag between transmission to and death of a patient. The virus being transmissible for subsequent spread during that time, which could often be a decade even back before modern treatments (80's or 90's).
But do you also segregate the devices and networks you connect to for this identity, or can a sufficiently advanced adversary connect the dots where you link up with the rest of the internet?
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If you're working around paywalls for news organizations you often read, why don't you buy a subscription?
"Build the gravitational wave observatory between the Thai restaurant and the railway station"
Seems like the editors at Quillette got on top of it pretty quick and removed the article immediately with a retraction notice.
not really, like if you're broad then it means you get muscle memory for "any old shit". Like I'll happily blunder into language or tech stack because the implementation patterns overlap so much after you've juggled a few things.

> oh its one of these sort of things like xyz I did four years ago.

Of course the specifics are different but the muscle memory can get you through. I'd say the worst bit about it is that you often feel impostor syndrome pretty bad because in many cases you're never 100% sure about stuff like you might be in a speciality.
Your body can’t live on carbohydrates alone. You need ~0.8 grams of protein per kg of body weight edit: with a sedentary lifestyle.

Legumes tend to have a surprisingly balanced macronutrients at 21g carbs, 8g protein, 0.6g fat, vs a baked potatoes 37 g carbs, 4.3g protein, 0.2 fat.
A lot of my smart phone usage lately seems to be around managing how much attention my phone can grab from me. I let very few apps send me notifications on my phone. I check it enough without it making noises at me.

And if an app doesn't let me disable notifications then I just uninstall it. Facebook Messenger was awful about this, when I saw there was no "Disable notifications", only a "Turn notifications off for 24 hours" option I immediately uninstalled it. Facebook was even worse, ostensibly you could turn notification types off individually, but whenever they added a new type of notification you'd have to go in and turn that off too, or it'd just forget what other notifications you had turned off and you'd start getting them again. Amusingly uninstalling the Facebook app gave me a nice battery performance boost too.

Another thing I've found handy is in my IM app I have notifications for everyone turned off by default, and only allow notifications for close friends and family. Why should any random person on the internet be able to grab my attention like that?
> Use a Pomodoro Timer. I have mine as a Chrome extension.
> Experiment with the 30 + 5 method
> Create a pattern with your Pomodoros.

Aren't these three mutually exclusive? Could they not have been combined as one bullet? I wonder if the list has been edited?

Productivity has two parts: initial output and editing / QA. The first part has always been easy for me. But the second one really drags. Most of this list focuses on the first part, but I'm more interested in the second.
Which first principle exactly? Because they were already stating that the speed of light would be constant in all frames which is the only thing necessary to derive special relativity. Lorentz derived the transformations precisely to describe this fact!

Certainly not the lack of the aether; while it isn't necessary to describe relativity it isn't precluded either and cosmic time is a thing today. The spacetime we live in is a thing describable in its own right, on large scales it has a preferred time direction.

He was responsible for spreading those ideas, but he certainly wasn't the first one to express them. It is still respectful to give him credit for the spread of these ideas, but we don't need to pretend like Lorentz and Poincare were blind men fumbling around in the dark until he came along in order to justify our reverence.
Is your girlfriend an Israeli citizen?
I love Zig and have played around a bit with it this summer. I do really wish the standard library was better documented though. Think I saw that would be coming soon though so i hope I'll have a even better time with it when I come back to it next time. I would call myself an intermediate programmer with ok knowledge of C and it was for me sometimes hard to understand how I would do some stuff in Zig. Most things are very much the same but with some small changes that I understand why they are there but trip over the differences when trying to do certain things. Besides stdlib documentation I would also want some better examples, but that is probably something that cones with larger adoption. I find Zig together with Rust as a really strong combo of languages that makes one hopeful for the future of system programing.
> There is no need to go from one extreme to the other.

Global warming due to greenhouse gas is a reason to go to the "other" extreme?
Eugen Sandow: The man with the perfect body (2012)
Why did they remove E? Can't easily be confused with 3, I think.
So, I know literally nothing about Haskell, and I would rate my knowledge of functional programming theory as 'beginner' at best, but I still get baffled every time when reading Haskell code that implements anything other than something trivial like a fibonacci sequence. The poker server code looks extremely tidy and well engineered, so that can't be the problem, but to me it's utterly incomprehensible. It seems like every expression implements 20 different things at the same time, which makes it really hard to decode what is going on.

Is it just me, or is this typical for all non-trivial Haskell code? I don't have any problems interpreting e.g. Clojure, or Javascript written in a functional style for that matter, but Haskell...
The consumer in these apps is the driver. They are emphatic on that
Awesome project. I am a big fan of Tailwind CSS to and I use it for my current project [1]. I will definitely make use of Tailwind.run() to as a playground to design components! Great job!

[1] https://gekri.com
Depends on the equipment. Sub centimeter with the right equipment and appropriate reference station. 3 meters, typically, with consumer equipment.
I was thinking of this indeed, but felt I was already becoming a bit long winded. ;)
all mods believe they're the critical link. That conceit is why the mods on reddit started making subreddits private for a day in protest.
I like your argument, but it would be nice to keep things civil.
Very neat! I've been working on a network application in Haskell too; this is a great reference.

Is this project still active? Are there some features you'd like help developing?
Your post from two days ago is an example:

> While i understand it sucks for you but for many people factory including me, factory farming is awesome and animal suffering is not important at all.

A rapist could make a similar case about how awesome the vagina feels. That the woman doesn't like it is not all that important. If you think about it, it's just some body parts touching, women really blow it out of proportion. And hey, animals do it. Why should the government limit my freedoms?

For some reason, meat consumption (i.e. slaughtering, factory farming, etc.) is one of the only topics where it's more or less socially acceptable to say "well, I like it, and that's all I care about. Ethics are personal btw."
I know what I can get on a Nexus 6P and it is not a pleasant number. To make things worse the logic calculating the accuracy is also broken (e.g. a GPS point stating 5m accuracy may jump around by tens of meters). tl;dr cheap phone gps are not to be trusted without a lot of vetting
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> I'd rather have a dead system than one that's not working

A swapping system is degraded, not "not working".

> But in any case shouldn't OOM killer come to the rescue?

The OOM killer will heuristically kill random crap. It could be the process with an unbounded memory growth, or it could be your text editor.
Measurable Counterfactual Local Explanations for Any Classifier
I like the New Fast Food cookbook by Jill Nussinow. It's not meat-substitutes, it's whole food, plant-based recipes for pressure cooking. https://www.amazon.com/New-Fast-Food-Pressure-MInutes/dp/097...

Jill McKeever has fun videos, including some plant-based meatloaf and others https://simpledailyrecipes.com/
> Steel aims to be friendly, efficient and statically typed programming language encourage you to write better coding and tooling, build from the ground by community envision for a great developer experience with native performance.

How is this different than Rust or TS or Go?
And I never said anything about gulags.

I have no idea what your country is, as you didn't mention it; however, I have heard over and over again the argument that Stalin killed millions of people, therefore anything that moves even the slightest bit toward socialism is Evil.

The fact remains that claiming that setting maximum prices for some lifesaving drugs will lead to the situation you saw in your country has no logical basis. At best, it's a slippery slope fallacy.
There’s an established precedent in (American) law that it’s generally okay to forbid an action but it’s not okay to mandate an action. For example, you can stop people from driving without a license, but you can’t make everyone get a license.
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Yeah, I never say that I've had anything to do with SharePoint or ColdFusion online because then I either get people who want to sell me something indescribable or want me to clean up a mess that's older than some of you.
I agree.

One chap I recently connected with posted every couple of hours. Links to news stories, a load of hashtags and nothing of particular interest.

However, I still want to remain connected to him, so I just unfollowed him.
The list of discontinued and abandoned businesses is longer than the list of active businesses...I'm not sure why someone would want to develop a new one in this day and age when the market for them as settled.
I became so annoyed with LinkedIn I added every filter I could think of to block all email that even mentions LinkedIn. I don't care if I miss opportunities. I like the freedom from distraction
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> I don't think I've ever encountered a machine that used so much memory that the kernel didn't have buffers, but not so much that it invoked OOM killer.

Note that the reason this topic is currently in vogue is that this has become a lot easier recently. If you run the system on a modern low-latency SSD, the current OOM killer algorithm often fails to kill anything before the entire system is on it's knees with approximately 0 pages left for IO and non-anonymous memory, at which point the OOM killer will never run because the machine is so thoroughly locked. The proper way to fix this of course is to make the OOM killer hit earlier.
Same with google s adwords / analyrics/ search console etc. I blame javascript , period
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I would consider storing (as part of the database) or defining (as part of the display code) the number of significant digits for coordinates part of good GIS design.
Statistics is a set of theories and methods that can be successfully executed on any list of numbers and provably provides mathematically valid predictions under a set of conditions that never occurs in the real world.

This means, more precisely, statistics only works on data series that obey the law of large numbers, and combining/using 2 or more statistical predictions nearly always requires total independence of the predictions and their inputs, which is never the case (for one thing, they always occur on the same planet). Furthermore, the reason people make statistical predictions is to change the outcome, but doing anything to change the outcome always invalidates the statistical method used to collect the data. There are a couple of things statistics never does. Used correctly, it can never predict extreme values. It can never correctly predict values in systems that are too complex, where too many independent variables determine the outome. And "too many" is something like 50 to 500. It can never correctly be used to verify if a deliberate change worked.

Machine learning is much the same, except it never provides mathematically valid predictions.

Despite this, it should probably be mentioned that both do provide useful results, occasionally getting things very, very wrong.

https://xkcd.com/605/
Sending more data than you need is bad for two reasons.

1. It implies more precision, which in many cases is a flat out lie. Savvy users will know to truncate, round or something, but others will be lead astray.

2. It takes more space to represent. If the engineers storing double precious floating points had asked themselves if they needed to be sending these out at such a high resolution, they may have been able to cut the storage of these things down 50%.

Though yes, there are probably bigger issues to worry about. Doesn't mean we should outright dismiss these points.
I feel a similar way, and I'm a little bit older with a fairly strong desktop/web/mobile dev background. My focus was heavy on Microsoft technology before moving 50/50 to Linux.

I look at industry as a series of different waves happening where I just need to get on one so that I can find the next. A wave is going to cross the startup world before it moves into established business. If I time it right then I can hang in there for a while. It doesn't help with my anxiety, but I've done this before so I know I can do it again. I suspect I'd find the same pattern in a closer examination of your background.

There are very few people learning all of these technologies because time is required to learn the basics, as well as put it into practice within industry. That's deep learning. A lot of people are lucky to work in places that will put unproven technology into production. The number of places willing to take this risk is increasing because cool technology is a requirement for attracting top talent. If you are in a more risk-averse organization it may seem scary to move to a faster moving, less risk-averse one, but you might find they actually have more leeway for mistakes and learning.

I watch for particular patterns around how a technology is hyped and who is applying the technology. Thoughtworks publish their perspective (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar) and I try to read this, plus other analyses to understand what direction things are moving in. You have to take a longitudinal view. It's not good enough to just compile your research and make a decision. You need to know how a technology has moved over time. Once you start doing this you start to develop some "spidey" senses when you see something at the top of HN - and you don't have a ramp-up cost each time you have to make a switch.

Other than that focus on a few fundamentals, including one programming language reasonably well. I'd strongly suggest learning Python and having an incremental two year development plan so you don't half-ass it. A lot of the Linux world is built on stable skills. Rather than focusing on AWS, or Azure networking learning networking and TCP/IP beyond a cursory level. There are a lot of folks building cloud infrastructure badly, slowly etc. because they don't understand these fundamentals. The references are old and boring like TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1.
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I'm not sure what you mean, the link you posted showed itself to be 100% accurate with the claim.
At least in theory insurance companies should look out for price, because they want to be cheaper than other companies.

But, free market just doesn't work for health care. In a life or death situation people would pay anything.