skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So any reservist in the army can't have a regular job? What about in countries like Korea or Israel where almost every person is a reservist for the army?

Also, someone who is aligned with the army objectives is worst than someone else who is aligned with any other political objectives, whatever they may be?
> given that most preagricultural environments lacked sufficient carbohydrate density to support anything other than a ketogenic diet

Evolution takes a long time and most of the ancestors in human history were near vegetarian with a very low percentage of calories coming from non-vegetarian sources.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancest...
'none' is in the set of prefered presented in the text you quoted and in the example disclaimer.

Well I live in Europe as I'm Swedish; in the UK it's common to say "bless you" while in Sweden we usually say "prosit" (the two I've spent a significant portion of my life in). The former would even be from those not following Christian traditions but rather as stated before. This seems to reflect the trend in quite a few others in Europe such as Spain, Ireland, Wales (UK), etc.

Again, most of it isn't an attempt at "converting" or even some other hidden motive. It may be different in other parts of the world but from the places I've lived in Europe it's been as I've stated.
Uber's tech and business model is relatively easy to replicate. So much so, that in many of their markets they already have at least one close competitor, or near-perfect competitor if you count Lyft (who have a similarly good app to Uber in my estimation; many of the other substitutes seem to have a pretty acceptable app that is missing some of the polish of Uber).

This makes their business vulnerable to price competition and raises doubts about their ability to make large profits over any long period of time. At the moment, they are losing money, but their (still high, imo) valuation is based on the fact that they are the biggest player and this means they have 'mind share' / brand awareness. If they try to start making a profit e.g. by pricing above their costs and not giving so many subsidies / bonuses, then they are vulnerable to any of their numerous competitors stealing market share by undercutting / offering their own bonuses or subsidies. They are already in fierce competition in many markets so it doesn't seem that their brand is necessarily enough to give them a huge and defensible advantage.

By contrast, all reports I have read (e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/7c8e1d02-2ff2-11e9-8744-e7016697f... ) indicate that Waymo's self-driving tech is the best in the market by some margin, with Cruise a distant second (and everyone else, including Uber, way behind that). And Waymo's technology is fundamentally more complicated and difficult to copy than a taxi hailing app. You couldn't have multiple local competitors to Waymo popping up in each city around the world, in the same way you have with Uber. So their competitive advantage seems a lot more defensible, meaning that their potential to earn defensible profits from their technology seem stronger in the long run. Continuing on this idea of defensibility: whereas people are happy to try any new cab-hailing app that launches with a promotion, the decision on which self-driving tech to use is going to be a lot more strict, in that unless it really works, it's not viable. So having the best tech makes a BIG difference, unlike for ride sharing.

The car industry is worth $1tn+ per year. The market for ride sharing is probably one or two orders of magnitude smaller than that ($12bn by 2025 according to this: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ride-sharing-market... , although Uber's revenues are already $11bn so I question the accuracy of this). Uber is a loss-making and non-unique ride sharing company with so-far unfilled aspirations to develop market-ready self-driving tech. Waymo is a self-driving tech company with apparently real potential to disrupt the trillion-dollar car industry with their unique technology.

Finally, Waymo's valuation is only on paper, whereas Uber's is in a public market. As WeWork (and Uber) have recently demonstrated, private valuations may not hold in private markets. However, given the reasons above, I actually think that the Waymo valuation might be more reasonable than the Uber one.
I’ve never heard of anyone using crypto from the python standard library
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...

I also like this 45 minute lecture Milton Friedman gave to physicians telling them how they were making healthcare worse due to this type of lobbying by their representatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlk9HreE7U
Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S.
If being a vegan/vegetarian is highly correlated with "cares about health," the types of carbs they consume would likely be different, they may be more likely to exercise, and they may be more likely to eat in moderation.
Look up "joe rogan mikhaila peterson" on youtube for those who want to learn more about it. Joe Rogan also interviews Rhonda Patrick and she goes into far more detail about the good and bad of red meat than what you will find reading the comments here.
It would be difficult for me to trust fact-checking by a profit driven company where the facts may be biased to fit their business model. On top of that, you have the political and religious biases of people directly involved in establishing these "facts". I think people would be foolish to blindly accept this without verifying for themselves, from multiple sources, what is being conveyed.
Neat, I was just watching Alan Kay's YC Startup School video from 2017 where he mentions this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ
I suspect that a lot of those answers depend on your genes and gut microbiota. Except that last one, because reliably measuring calories requires destroying the food.
The story flips if you use the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which adjusts for cost of living: https://www.irp.wisc.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Focus.... Rural poverty has consistently been similar to urban poverty, and was measurably lower during the great recession. Rural areas also have lower long-term poverty (where a family was poor for two successive measurement years). About 4% in 2016 for rural areas, versus 5.5% in urban areas.

The states with the lowest SPM poverty rates are midwestern states with large rural populations, like Iowa and Nebraska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ.... (California's poverty rate is almost double those states'.)
> are in fact not the best whatever you can purchase

I've never used Wirecutter and can't comment on them specifically, but I will note that what is "the best" is very subjective and context dependent. There is no absolute "best" anything.
What’s incredibly slow? Installing things with conda?
I have been disappointed to find that many startup founders — even those who work in "impact" or "education" — do not care about the ethics or legality of paid reviews. I had a discussion with one founder a few years back, and at first I thought he was simply unaware of the then-new FTC guidelines. But it became clear that he did not care if what he was doing was illegal since "it's just the way business gets done", in his words. Caveat emptor!
If Women Want to Earn More, They Should Choose Different Majors
I believe Facebook already had social media market dominance before CIA invested.
AFAICT among mods there is a good deal of discontent because of the precise opposite reason. In their opinion Stack Overflow has gone overboard with the "Welcome Wagon" and made it overly accommodating to newcomers without thought for the downstream impacts to mods and quality answers.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324/the-stack-ov...

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/331513/lets-take-a-...

This particular wave seems to be touched off by the firing of a well-loved mod over disagreements in a new CoC.
I typed in and saved a disk editor program so I could use it to modify the directory information and skip one of the directory blocks. That's where I hid my secret stuff. And put an invisible control character in the name of the disk editor . My poor 8th grade teacher was none the wiser.
More like Black-Scholes fails to account for dividends, which is the only reason why you'd want to exercise early.

Under normal circumstances, a call option is always more valuable than the stock itself. The exception is of course, the dividend. True owners of the stock will receive the dividend, but call option holders will NOT.

However, for any stock without a dividend (ex: AMD, Tesla, etc. etc.) American vs European style doesn't seem to matter. Its always better to hold onto the option of buying a stock, rather than being "forced" to buy the stock.
Why go through the costly process of training a physician, when in most healthcare a midlevel practitioner would provide appropriate evaluation and treatment? Also it seems that not all stakeholders in medicine are into restricting physician training[1]. (I come into the discussion with a physician’s perspective.)

[1] https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140730/NEWS/30730...
For Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League, "growing the faculty from within" really means "actually granting non-world famous people tenue." The Ivys are notorious for not granting tenure to people who come up through the ranks.
Sorry about Computer
I wonder if she was able to find his Reddit and Hacker News posts. He went under the handle "thebadplus". Nothing particularly interesting under either, though.

Moving essay, and I feel for her loss. It does leave me thinking of him as an enigma, though, and I can't help but wonder why. Yes, he was an enigma to her by the time he died. But she interviewed lots of people who were active in his life when he died and has pretty much nothing to relay on from them. Did they really have no opinions of him? Did he leave no records or discussions of why, exactly, he wanted limb lengthening surgery?

And he wrote and published an essay about her family, presumably discussing his feelings about her, but she didn't feel fit to link it? While at the same time thought it was worth the space to dig up an ancient email of his that references another website, from which she feels the need to quote an unrelated passage?

This essay seems much more interested in pigeonholing his tragic death into a rubric of "victim of hateful white supremacist MRA thought" instead of allowing him his own voice. She should consider, perhaps, that responsibility for his death might fall on broader social trends instead of relying on simplistic explanations pointing to a maligned sect which it's unclear he even adhered to when he died.
I am stepping in it a bit here, but I feel you should not be basing your diet on the China Study. It is pretty thoroughly discredit IMO. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/385/

Eat lots of vegetables and emulate blue zone diets and life style. It’s the best we got for a blue print of healthy living.
> People often talk about "bias" as if it's something that obviously ought to be eliminated

Yeah, bias means our model of reality is distorted; one doesn't correspond to the other as well as it could. An example of bias, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas... (appropriately enough)

<<<In the appendix, he argued that the estimates of reliability offered by NASA management were wildly unrealistic, differing as much as a thousandfold from the estimates of working engineers. "For a successful technology," he concluded, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." >>>

That is bias, and it killed people and didn't do the US any favours. If by bias you mean something else, your post needed to be clearer.
That law isn't relevant to the age of consent. It is more to do with people being forced in to sex.

Obviously sexual slavery is illegal. Everyone agrees that that is a bad thing, and nobody I've heard of has ever tried to argue there is a nuance there.
> Dr. Allison has received research funding from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a lobbying group for meat producers.

Yep.
Taking screenshots and zooming in on those... a very tedious process.
conda install for our environment.yml: about 3-5 minutes solving, then 5-10 minutes installing.

pip install with almost exactly the same set of packages: 3-5 minutes total.
Yes, but "interesting" and "happy" are not the same thing.
In my opinion, computer devices should be optimized for the world we want to have not the one we do have. Optimizing for consumption does not sound like a moral good to me.
Yeah "short" at 918 pages or so.
Usually your responses are well-reasoned and interesting; this one was disappointingly lazy. I didn’t say Java’s boilerplate was bad nor that Go’s was good. I criticized Go’s boilerplate and Java’s complexity.
Ok so just tell the engineers to fix that old B-52.
X is a cesspit to you, and X is a hot spring to someone else. Why would your perspective be the superior or the ultimate one?
In the long view, all tech companies are small bubbles. They don’t stick around and have no long term value.
Had no idea, thank you!
> the meat industry is engaged in an active disinformation campaign

Come on man: citations needed. From where I am sitting, the "meat industry" is about as threatened by vegetarians as the brussel sprouts industry is by mcdonalds. Keto diets are presently quite popular and don't seem to do people much harm at least.
Also history is fascinating! Just a couple centuries ago the roles were reversed! Middle east is the cradle of the math as we know it! While West and Europe were busy with crusades and inquisitions, they were doing math and science in Alexandria. Wonder how things will play out in a couple hundred years from now.
That's one of my personal pet peeves.
Greg Eagan. Nuff said.
I use Dreamweaver all the time. It's actually a full-blooded static site generator, two decades before that was trendy. And marketing can use the visual editor to make it a content management system.
Same here. I get the feeling this was a pretty common hobby. I would also pre-format them and charge a little extra. If you could afford to buy a batch of a thousand or so unformatted single sided floppies, doubling their capacity and formatting them, you could make some pocket change.
> Why is WeWork considered a tech company?

They are considered a tech company (by the people who consider them a tech company) because they say they're a tech company. And they say that because tech companies get higher valuations.

> And what exactly is wrong with their business model? [...] It says they take long-term leases and sell short-term leases.

Right. So in the good times, you can make a fair bit of money doing this, but in bad times you'll lose a lot of money, as all the short term leases drop off.

Traditionally companies in this space work around this by buying their own buildings, by having fat margins in the good times, by not making very much money, and by occasionally going bankrupt. :) It's a perfectly valid business model, but it's not super attractive to investors; it's capital intensive and not very profitable. IWC (formerly known as Regus) has about 5 times the locations WeWork does, and is worth about $3B. $3B is a lot of money, so there's nothing wrong with the business model, but it's also a lot less than the $47B people were talking about for WeWork until very recently.

WeWork is trying to find a way to do something different or cooler, in the hopes of finding a reason they should be values completely differently than IWC, but so far that's translated into renting buildings, thin margins, no profits, and no story for why what they're doing is fundamentally better or more valuable than what IWC is doing. Yes, they have a live DJ in one of their London buildings and IWC does not, but IWC is making money and WeWork is not, and I mean...you can hire a DJ if that turns out to be the critical feature missing from other office space.

> That seems straightforward and potentially lucrative if they're adding value

Right. Especially now that Adam Neumann has stepped down, there's no reason WeWork can't find their niche as another IWC. The problem is, as another IWC, there's no real reason they'll be worth even $10B (again, IWC is much larger and only worth $3B), and Softbank backed them at much higher valuations. Just because WeWork has a profitable niche doesn't mean their investors will be okay. For Softbank the difference between a $5B valuation and a $0B valuation is minimal, when they were expecting something more like $60B.
It acts as a tech company, so it gets treated as a tech company, but financially it isn't actually a tech company and doesn't deserve the valuation of one.
There are plenty of highly qualified Americans who do not get accepted into medical school each year. We need to make the AMA stop preventing medical school class sizes from increasing
I agree with all of your points, especially around synths. I'm getting back into making music right now, and the gear lust around physical synths is strong.

> Vinyl record sales have surpased CD for the first time again not long ago

This says something about vinyl but even more about CDs. Vinyl sales are up but still only about a fifth of what they were in 1982.

CD sales have plummeted. That makes sense because the form factor really has nothing going for it. It's a digital medium, so in terms of sound quality, it's exactly equivalent to the SD card in your phone. But the latter is about a thousand times bigger, a hundred times smaller, read/write, and can be easily updated from the Internet.

CDs are a dead end technology.
My understanding is that is what PackageCompiler.jl is supposed to do.
I'm just curious about something ... do WeWork employees work in their co-working spaces? Or do they have their own office?
Where does the water come from to reforest 58 million hectares of Australia? It does not seem at all practical in the remaining time left, unless they are looking at very light forestation.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Counting calories is fairly simple if you are eating fast food or out of packages. I found it to be a huge pain in the ass when eating whole foods.
A, ok. Misread your wording as doubting that, but it seems to just take the inverse position to refute it.
The default for both CIFS and NFS is 64k since ONTAP 8.2.1, released in 2013.

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1401220/html/GUID-7FB...
The converse, too many carbs -- leads to diabetes, the number 1 preventible condition in western societies, which is probably a more terrible process that your body also hates.
Sure, but during a recession no one is moving into those areas and a LOT of unemployed are moving AWAY from them. The metrics look good because they misrepresent what’s actually happening.
I’m curious how ending the NCAA would be good for all those stakeholders.
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Over the years we have heard categorical statements of what food is beneficial and what is detrimental. Only problem is the beneficial and detrimental flip back and forth. I doubt any thing put forth after 50 years of really bad advice from the government, doctors, nutritionists, PBS fundraisers, and your crazy sister in law.
That may have been your experience, but plenty of people have the opposite experience.
We must have different devices. IMO most pages are unusable on mobile without this. I wonder if it's the device, website content, or personal preference at play here.
For some reason there is the expectation that a new weapon generation is somehow completely infallible and will be able to defeat any future generation. Except new generations of tech make the old generation obsolete. Nothing more nothing less. A non stealth aircraft will have an extremely hard time against a stealth aircraft.
According to Wikipedia, agriculture started roughly 12 thousand years ago. I'm definitely not an expert, but it seems likely to me that our bodies have adapted in that time.

I wonder what the macro-nutrient ratios would be in societies relying on traditional agriculture.
The process of converting fats to ketone bodies, and the body using those ketones as energy, is a well-understood process.
I took a look at the flags on these stories and am pretty sure they're from users who are tired of "X is down" submissions, which tend to get posted a lot and often to be a little on the trivial side.

However, since several HN users are expressing that this issue is genuinely affecting them, I've turned off flags on the OP about this and merged the comments here.
I'm curious how the author's definition of "presentation software" might differ from mine:

> from a stand-alone PC application that saves files to a file share into a new collaboration-first web application. (I would really like someone to do this for presentations)

I consider that market fairly saturated: Google Slides, Prezi, slides.com...
It's unbelievable how long copyright lasts. It seems unlikely that the prospect of legal battles 40 years in the future were part of the original Ms. Pac-Man developers' motivations for creating the game.
But the government hasn't yet needed to bail out a VC, a Unicorn or a stockholder. Each may lose money, but that happens all the time.

In the case of LTCM the government needed to bail out LTCM positions. That is why it is different.
I think all of this devaluation for unicorns is a plus for the capital markets. What we are seeing is that VC's have overvalued companies simply because they have fallen into a feedback loop that raises companies value just because someone else invested at a certain valuation.

My suspicion is that VC's will start to evaluate companies at a more realistic value and will force new companies to be more realistic about whether there's value in the area they are trying to succeed in therefore giving strength to the market for startups.

The downside is that it's going to get harder for startups to get financing. But as always, if you have a good idea and have the perseverance to succeed then you will.
This is what happens when the focus changes to being all about the money.
When I was a kid ... argh, never mind.
Shouldn't Milton Friedman be complimenting them for pursuing their narrow interests and having faith that it will contribute to the optimal free market outcome?

When someone doesn't even buy their own brand..
K8 grandmaster?

If you can run your app on your laptop, you can run it on EC2.
With iOS you don't need to do this. You can enable zooming as a system-wide feature. You can even zoom parts of the screen, like a magnifying glass. You can find all of these settings under Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom.
Descendants of U.S. Founding Fathers Recreate Iconic Painting 241 Years Later
The friction eliminated and expanded flexibility from normal office leasing was quite pronounced. Add to that a huge block of delighted customers. Not sure how you are defining innovation but there is clearly a lot going on there.
Noor Inayat Khan: The princess who became a spy (2006)
Change the way people talk about global warming.

It’s not about saving the rain forest, endangered species, pigs and cows. It’s about power and survival. That other stuff is just feel good moral values that won’t matter if we go extinct.

A technological innovation is the only way to get us out of this mess. Whoever figures it first and establishes control over the method is going to have a significant amount of global power. If you can control the worlds climate you’d basically be the most powerful person in the world. Everyone is at least a little intrigued by the quest for power.

I just am sick of how bad people are at selling the fight against global warming. We need everyone working on it and don’t have the luxury to divide ourselves into good and bad groups.
There’s a HUGE secondary market for Peloton bikes. There’s an extremely active Facebook group with these. They tend to sell within hours from what I’ve seen.
When you realize there are cameras watching every desk at the office.