skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And how did you detect the fat waste in your urine?

I didn't have a method to test for fat in urine. But I could measure the fat loss around my waist, neck and limbs over time. Lots of science works in this way where you can't measure something directly, so you must use the surrounding effects to measure it, it's totally valid measuring technique.

>expelling fat waste products through your urine? The answer is, you didn't--you experienced expelling water.

If you want to argue that fat turns into water, and then water goes out as urine, then I agree with you 100% (though I'd argue it's not pure water), and I would add that that process seems to be only be fully completed after sleeping. (experimental proof of this can be demonstrated by anyone with a scale that is able to stay up all night)

Mayo Clinic:
"These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/exp...
I've taken to keeping a copy of Fakespot[0] open in an incognito browser and regularly submit Amazon URLs to it. Over the past month or so, I've looked at everything from headphones to shampoo and been boggled at the amount of rigging that goes on.

While I can't say for sure that their algorithms are always spot on, they give some interesting feedback in terms of recent review count history, price history, whether Amazon has recently bulk deleted reviews, and some heuristic comment quality ratings. So often I've found that Amazon's Choice is questionable: 4.8 stars, hundreds of reviews within the last 30 days on a slickly packaged, no-name electronics gadget is all too common.

Typically, I use Fakespot to look for red flags, flip back to the reviews area on Amazon, sort them by Most Recent Reviews, and dig around. I don't use the Fakespot Chrome extension, though. Too invasive for my tastes.

[0] https://www.fakespot.com
Hospitals fleece the insured. Or their insurance companies. (But insurance companies are not a magic pile of money in the sky, everyone's premiums are affected.)

A poor, uninsured person visits the ER. They can't pay. The hospital writes it off.

An insured person visits the ER. Their insurance pays. The hospital charges outrageous prices to make up for the uninsured.

It seems like insured people are subsidizing uninsured people. Am I missing something?
That looks pretty good to me. One dumb math question: when is a good time to compare against something like an S&P benchmark and should annualized rates or absolute growth be compared? In other words, is Fund I "cashed out" now, or could it's 44% return go up? Just doing simple math, adding 1 year to a CAGR calculation and doubling the FV of Fund I from 12B to 24B, seems to jump the return rate only to 48% from 44% (even though that more than doubles the profits). So would it be better to compare the absolute growth of the S&P to the growth of a fund, instead of the rate of return?
I love my iPhone SE but even with a brand new battery, it can barely make it through a day of extremely light use on iOS 13.
I've done both roles, but my sense is that manager of managers is essentially a more risky role -- chances of being laid off are higher, with accompanying risk. Line managers virtually never get laid off.

Compensation seems similar, as well.
> "Rightsholders of digital works protected by copyright, such as ebooks, music downloads, films and games, will welcome the advocate general's Opinion that the resale of ebooks is unlawful under EU law."

Wow, really? Because most mainstream economists have a resale market as something that makes a good more valuable, and so higher priced.

This is the best I could find in 2 minutes of googling:
http://web.mit.edu/2.813/www/readings/Thomas2003.pdf
> A return without mentioning how long it took to earn it is deceiving.

Except that this is how some LPs want it to be reported, so how do you explain that? If you want to do a comparison to stock market returns ("seeking alpha") then sure, IRR makes sense.
I think Amazon can be quickly replaced.

I was attracted to Amazon only because of lower prices. That was it and now it is no longer the case. As soon as another big player steps up and offers lower prices and simple UI there won't be a need for me to shop on Amazon.
Thats a ton of servers!

What is your monthly AWS spend?
Aaah you might be right. Thanks for clarifying.
The name “Pandas” is really misleading, especially in the title of this article. It's missing the phrase, “No animals were harmed in the making of these graphs”.
Sadly everyone want’s to be a marketplace, and online shopping has become devided into two categories. Stores are either extremely niche with good quality and high prices or they have become caught in a race to the bottom, selling as cheaply as possible with no regard for how that might affect quality. There’s no mid-range anymore.
Ask HN: Tips for taking better meeting notes?
As my career as a developer progresses, I'm being included in more and more meetings (gathering requirements, team development, etc). I find it difficult to take effective notes without losing track of what people are saying while I'm writing. What are some of your tips/tricks for capturing meaningful notes?
It sounds like they are doing society a favor.
How do you prevent someone from joining a union?
Ya know, I've really go nothing further to say to challenge what you've said.

As far as I can figure, you're absolutely right. Or at least in the right ballpark.
... is that bad?

Seems different. But it doesn't seem bad.

Granted, I've not worked on a project of that size, but it seems to me that if it works for 'normal' sized projects quite well and works as well as anything else for large projects (as in, nothing works perfectly for large projects, they all need tweaking), then it is ahead of the alternatives.
How to Start with Software Consulting / Freelancing?
I respectfully disagree. HN is very much about the -business- of tech. Telling us how you made your mousetrap is all well and good... Having us ask how many mice it has captured is absolutely relevant. Germane even.
KOReader for the Kobo has a skim feature which works OK for this purpose, though you're always going to run against framerate issues on these devices until CLEARink or such becomes widely available.
re: Simple
So it took me a number of years running a tech agency to realize that the words "simple" and “easy” are bad. In my job I now correct my, and our project managers, from using the word "simple" to the word "straightforward". I find that the term simple connotes a feeling of the task/work being easy and thereby quick to get done. As an agency the term “simple” speaks not only to risk and ease of completion but also budget, as a function of time.

Moving 10,000 bricks from point A to B is likely simple or easy, but it takes time. If not careful a client can think “oh it’s just moving 10K bricks 5 feet over, they should automagically be able to do this since John said it was “simple” ”. What I intended to impart was that I know how to do it, no solutioning needed, we have the skills and resources to get it done, and we can probably get moving on this quickly. Now I say something more like … “Moving 10,000 bricks from A to B is straightforward for my team, when do you want us to get started”.
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
There's no good reason to believe that people are honest with the President. Even if you give everyone the most generous assumptions, someone still determines what makes it into reports that reach the President and what doesn't. That takes things to a whole different dimension of impossible to unravel.
And the thing is, generalists do better work. They do less work overall because there are fewer of them, but compare a typical enterprise 50 person team to the output of a team of 5 generalists, hands down the generalists will make a better product every time because there's no buck passing or shoulder shrugging about problems.
Thinking too much into it, but slices are (roughly) the same size across the board, you could use a weight sensor and calibrate it against a single slice so it knows pizza percentage that way (this also prevents the need for having a constantly lit pizza tray)
> The President can't guarantee he won't face any charges. The President could grant a pardon for any crimes the judge rules he cannot present a "public good" defense for but before a judge makes such a ruling he would have already faced the charges.

I would argue that he won't have faced the charges until and unless he has gone through, or waived, a complete trial on them.

> Getting a fair trial would mean going through the same process that others charged with a crime must go through.

Only if you assume that the process others charged with a crime must go through in THE US federal system is always and without exception fair in all circumstances.

Really, it seems like you have confused “routine” with “fair”.
I guess if you wanted to do something similar but open, you can edit code directly on your server, use erlang/elixir's hot reloading, and call it 50ms deploys.
And rightly so. It's incredibly effective at building suspense. Hans Zimmer's incredible scoring also helps.
8 Years of Trump Tax Returns Are Subpoenaed by Manhattan D.A
Danger to humanity
This is just a big ad for his website with no in-depth knowledge or insights provided. Literally just a list of tech someone uses and 4 or 5 links to his website. Is this what HN has become? I remember the content upvoted on this site being much better a couple years ago.
Do you mind sharing what the managed HIPPA setup is? What vendor do you go with for that?

I've always wondered about how easy it would be to setup a SAAS that adheres to HIPPA.
The VW guy was talking about the handing over of sensor data to Google in the context of "how much Android" is acceptable, since apparently in his opinion opening up for the MIB is as far as he'd go. The square brackets are Ars Technica's.
We run servers in colos in a bunch of POPs. We've tried to do the "how much would this cost in AWS" a few times now over the years, and it's hilarious how much staggeringly more expensive it is. Even if you do stupid things like assume hardware will depreciate over 2 years (in real life, try 5-10) AWS always ends up being an order of magnitude more expensive. And it's not really business-model specific: we've analyzed compute-heavy/bandwidth-heavy/HA-esque projects and it's always insane how much they get away with charging for services.

Maybe if you're in the "under $1k/mo" range it makes sense to microservice in AWS, but even then VPS hosts are so much cheaper and easier to use.
Really? It doesn't teach us how the English (or Shakespeare writing to the English) thought about the Jews and their role in society? Cause I'd suggest it does. Just because the portrayal doesn't align with our modern values doesn't mean it has no value. How do we know what a "man of his times" would think without these works?
>I feel there's an argument to be made for Amazon having a near-monopoly on online sales and distribution in many countries.

Can you share more? This is quite a grand statement to submit based on your "feeling"...
5G Is Coming. How Worried Should We Be about the Health Risks?
I'm fairly sure on this site that virtually everyone understands at least the basics of how trademarks work and many or most still disagree. Your write up is informative, useful, and I think on on the wrong track.

The interesting point is not whether bob's bookstore to exist and advertise or that you can continue to blog about books. Nobody believed either of those things were in danger.

Everyone here at least likely knows that trademarks are bounded by categories except theirs is so voluminous were I to paste it here it would take up an entire page. The best I can figure it basically means anything at all to do with any sort of computer.

I for one don't think there is any reason to believe they ought to own the word book in conjunction with any hardware or software. There are in fact I'm sure plenty of people already "infringing" who would like to continue doing business without scum bags demanding protection money.

This is just another example of the fact that Zuckerberg doesn't even know what the "right thing" looks like.
COCO 2014 Dataset that fits on a notebook
To be fair, "bringing manufacturing back to America" would bring these problems back as well. Yes, it's the manufacturer's fault. It's really the company hiring the manufacturer who's at fault, though. Cash Rules Everything Around Me and all that.

If the company writing the checks can write checks to people who are going to cut corners, people will die. Full stop.
Does that mean search on Amazon will finally work? How is it possible to have so many products and not care about the ability for customers to actually find what they’re looking for?
congratz!

maybe for the generation which grows up with scratch, new concepts and ideas are needed.
not sure if darklang will make it, but exploration in the space will surely help.

writing this from while using emacs as a window manager(exwm), made me realize how impossible it is for me to evaluate change.

best of luck.
This was a hard one for me to understand and integrate. Totally agree on the crucial importance of it
> some Ruby CGI scripts

Didn't ruby remove its CGI libraries from their standard library somewhat recently. I believe there were mostly helper libs, but I am curious how that works.
And in some cases translates to the ability to fire you same day with no reason given. Perk is you can do the same, quit with no reason or notice. The imbalance seems clear.
Maybe an urban legend, but I thought I read somewhere that the version of Amazon that Bezos personally sees is quite different than the one you and I see, due to all his various little one-off complaints and product micromanagement. Legend has it that engineering gave up trying to make sense of the requests and just gave him his own environment that does everything he thinks it should do. If true, then the search he sees might actually be pretty good for him.
> I see this as reporting on a player in an industry that a substantial number of their subscribers are either exposed to, or interested in.

Except the implication of the article is that A16Z funds are getting "worse" and thus underperforming ( = "A16Z must be a bad firm") making it newsworthy. I am far from an A16Z fanboy, but this is not newsworthy.

Normally business journalists refer to industry expert (for example, an LP analyst) to determine whether "is this bad or good?" rather than what appears to be "IRR is down, this must be bad".
I wasn't commenting on your English. I just thought it was strange to describe conservatives this way. In the US, true conservatives believe in smaller governments and less laws (more individual freedom). So I'm not sure how conservatism can stop individuals making progress.
Maybe the people they hired to break in are poor.
Yes, I agree with this, but need to caveat it. Go is a fun language to write code in (it has the simplicity and directness of C, which is also a fun language to write code in, while avoiding the warts of C). Like C, it isn’t a fun language to rapidly develop features in, because it is very boilerplatey due to limited abstraction.

Incidentally, for this reason I’ve always enjoyed coding in C because in domains where I’ve used it (most embedded code) the required feature set is quite limited, so C’s slow pace of development isn’t a problem. On the other hand when working with Go server code at a startup, I was deeply frustrated because I just wanted a much more abstract language to rapidly write features in.
I quite like the NearlyFreeSpeech.NET terms of service: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms
I'm not sure which is worse: this being a conflict of interest, or her personally believing that we should weaken data privacy laws.
This is a convenience afforded to you because A - you have plenty of housing available to you that is affordable and you can live apart and enjoy your space.
B- you don't have children
C - You don't have a need to combine income so you can have the resources needed to survive

These three options A, B and C do not apply to the majority of the population, even in the United States. Many people in Silicon Valley cannot live like this. They need the help of a partner to pay rent, care for children or simply someone to pool resources with. If there is no way to live together, it becomes a huge blocker to progressing in life. A lot of young people in America are surviving on the pooled resources lifestyle. If its not with a partner, they pool resources with parents.
LTE seems plenty fast enough for typical phone usage. Not sure how much 5G will improve mobile experience in the near future without massive advances in VR.

Is all this telecom positioning to setup a replacement for landline internet service?
I'm an open-source, solo dev. Not an enterprise dev. I use Go for most of my projects.

For me, the biggest hit to productivity are long compile times. One of my projects is ~80k loc C++ app (SumatraPDF) and I pretty much abandoned working on it because the long compilation times are killing me.

Go is good in that regard. My medium sized projects compile pretty much instantly.

I hear Rust is not doing well there.

The second productivity boost is GC (Garbage Collector). I don't want to manually track every allocation (C++) or think about how to contort the code to a form that Rust will be happy about.

Long term productivity is very much why I use Go.

In addition to GC and fast compile times, there's now a very rich ecosystem of libraries for almost everything you might need.

The language has been stable in past 10 years. I don't need to fix the code every major release because language changed (Swift) and I don't need to learn a large number of new things because of significant new addition (Rust).

And for what I use it (backend servers, cmd-line apps) Go is more than fast enough (which can't be said about out languages that have similar productivity, like Python, Ruby, Node).

If there's a C++ competitor I'll be willing to look at, it'll be JAI (when it's released).
I grok the antipathy towards a dongle or ideals of a headphone jack. I mean, the latest MBP they sell doesn't have lightning for headphones, so even across Apple's highest end products, you need different connectors.

However, I gave up on that fight years ago - I use AirPods (and BT in general) for my audio. Other than CarPlay (which is also lightning connector).
This dude is my hero. Keeping it simple and functional.
Ask HN: Is this a better model for freemium games? Has it been used already?
The idea is to have freemium games that are completely free as long as you maintain a streak of passing at least one level per day.

When your streak ends, you would lose progress (e.g., a passed level becomes "unpassed" for each day that you don't pass a level).

You would only pay to avoid having to replay "unpassed" levels.

Do you think this model would be successful? Has it already been used in some game(s)?
I don't think it's so cut and dry. Many VC-backed businesses implement a growth-first pricing strategy that undercuts competitors. Some of these businesses fail and create a net harmful effect (by forcing sustainable businesses to shut down). But, some of these VC-backed businesses also go on to be wildly successful and valuable to society (in a way that would have been impossible without this growth first mentality). Before we call this pricing pattern antisocial, I'd want to see some thoughtful cost benefit analysis.
Glad to know it now can support you as a full-time job.

Just curious, is your company still one-person?
It's not a programming thing in particular. Based on the odds I mentioned programming but my point is, you've got what you need to move ahead. My strategy is to figure out a saleable skill you can tolerate, then work your tail off until you're better than most people at it.

There are a zillion recruiters out there, but I'd respectfully suggest that your best bet would be to listen to what they need, not worry how one got you a particularly lousy offer. Most people are bad at what they do.

I'll not bother you again but I wanted to know you're heard, and not completely alone.
In that case why are libraries bothering with jumping through these hoops and paying extra money for expiring ebooks anyway?
That was just one :/

I give you another one related one for rhythm: https://youtu.be/oQf_tS5WAP4
It depends what kind of off-road you mean, but for downhill MTB clipless use has overtook flat pedals. There has been a bit of a resurgence in the use of flat pedals though with Sam Hill's recent wins on flats. I am still a fan of flats for downhill, but I learned riding on flats.
There was a post on HN a while back about Apple boosting it's own apps in their App Store search. Likewise, I am sure that Google prefers to show results from it's own companies (e.g. if I google the word "spreadsheet", my first result is for Google Sheets). This is all the same thing, no?

Edit: I'll add that I'm not saying it isn't an anti-competitive practice, I'm sure it is. But I am saying that it's a bit silly to insinuate that stores don't already advertise for their own goods.
The Costco part is not true. There is definite evidence the recently-opened Costco in Shanghai sells Chinese Moutai (or at least sold at its grand opening, not sure what happens after they got snapped off the shelves). This is not specific to China either; it is common for Costco to sell goods local to its stores, not just made in Canada/USA.
Great; and while we’re reverting obvious breakages of userspace performance, perhaps Linus can also un-break ZFS SIMD.
> Can we access the data store/our data outside of dark?

Yes and no. You can easily put an API in front of it so that you can expose it however you like, download it, etc. But there isn't something like a postgres connection string.

> What is the datastore build on top of? Is that proprietary?

The goal with the datastore was that there is no impedance mismatch between values in the runtime and values in the datastore. The actual implementation is a thin layer over postgres.

> Also, is there the option to use the raw Twilio API if we want or is the dark version the main one supported?

Yes. That Twilio::sendText call is just a wrapped HTTP call, and under the hood it's pretty similar to how we called the Slack API in the video.
In my experience that comes mostly down to politics, in the worst cases including outright abuse of your team's performance. Not always but often enough. Selling yourself well enough and advance by changing gigs is also working nicely, just jump before any issues catch up with you in your old gig. And then there is the luck part, to always be at the rigzjt place at the right time.

The rare few higher managers that achieved their positions also through domain knowledge and competence were a delight to work for and with. The others not so much.
Just because the tomato is coming from the Dominican Republic doesn’t mean more CO2 was produced.

Farmer Jack driving a few hundred pounds of tomatoes to the farmer’s market might be spewing more CO2 per tomato than the hundreds of tons coming by ship from the Dominican Republic. Scale of efficiency definitely applies to transportation.
Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
Lack of empathy
I'm pretty excited for the ROG Phone 2. I honestly hate the look of it; it's far too "gamer-y" for me. I mean, it makes sense since it's a gamer product. But everything else about it looks great. High refresh rate for the screen, double USB-C ports, really good battery life. And it comes with a headphone jack! If it has water resistance, that's what I'm gonna go for. Otherwise, I guess I'm gonna keep my Note9 for a while.
Awesome! It seems like you are focused on handling this data responsibly, which is really nice to see. How much drug discovery and development will you undertake yourself vs license to others?

I think there are clear business benefits to developing your own drugs in addition to the benefits of having this sensitive data be shared responsibly.