skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. I'm aware of this. It depends what you get; I've done it. There are absolutely low cost, high nutritional options that don't require effort. Some of the cheapest frozen food is high in nutrition.

You can get frozen chicken breasts cheap, not necessarily as cheap as fresh, but much less than the unhealthy options. Frozen vegtables are purchased on sale and cost 50c per serving. There's cans too. Carbs are easy.

If you manage your kitchen correctly, you don't even need to go frozen. Honestly, even the "banquit"/healthy choice options aren't always that much, and can be worked into a healthy diet. Fruit isn't that expensive either, if you buy in the right season and don't get something exotic.

I understand obesity is correlated with poverty, and don't blame anyone for it (I don't consider it their fault). The reality is that you can eat healthy on a budget, and nutritious food doesn't need to cost anything extra. Unfortunatly, many of these people are living in "food deserts" and good supermarkets aren't always available.
The Reproducibility Crisis in Web A/B Testing
This is a good development. Honestly one thing I very much think is a downside about React is the fact that your template is also JavaScript. Don't get me wrong this is incredibly powerful and can be very expressive, but it comes at a cost.

That cost has the same cost as other JavaScript - it's blocking, cannot be paused and has all the possibilities of de-optimizations that might occur in the JIT. The Ember team faced a similar problem in the past and I find their solution to this problem quite intriguing, even in it's obscurity. Instead of compiling their templates to JavaScript they instead compile them to opcodes in a binary format which is executed by a virtual machine.

This has several advantages. Since the template file is represented as an optimized binary the size of the file itself is incredibly small, excellent since templates can be a large part of your eventual code. Not only that but since the instructions are opcodes, this mean the VM can pause at a moment when the browser is too busy with other stuff.

Since a large part of your templates is probably static and not prone to any changes the template file also indicates which parts of the instructions are dynamic and which are static. This allows the VM to generate a separate set of instructions just for subsequent updates, only updating those parts which are dynamic.

Now I am not saying this is a silver bullet, it is however an interesting and fresh approach. In case you're interested in this check out the Glimmer site or Tom Dale's excellent talk (can't recommend this enough) on the subject:

- Tom Dale's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCSloXZ-wc
- The Glimmer JS site: https://glimmerjs.com/
If Iceland might be disappointing, there's always Svalbard. They actually do have polar bears!
> You will not be the world’s greatest writer, nor the top chess player, nor the most masterful public speaker.

> It’s not about being great at any one thing — you just need to be pretty good at an array of useful skills that, when combined, make you truly one of a kind.

As somebody who was the world’s #2 chess player for my age as a kid (okay, not the “top” but close enough) - I’d like to say that the advice in this article is terrible for anyone who wants to reach their full potential.

The part I really have a problem with is this:

> There will always be someone working harder... [or] someone with greater genetic gifts, or more luck, or both.

The only way to get world-class at something is to work your ass off. To have discipline and apply yourself consistently to the practice, day in and day out, for years.

And yeah, even if you do that, you still might not be best in the world at that thing. But you know what? The relationship with yourself that you cultivated while mastering that discipline will 100% translate over to any other endeavor you wish to pursue.

Similarly, if you always give up on things because you always see there’s someone better than you, that pattern will hinder your ability to excel everywhere.

My competitive chess career was pretty brief in the end. I realized that staying at the top would require total dedication and no social life (home schooling etc), and yes, there were other up and coming kids who seemed to be at a level I couldn’t reach. So I gave up the dream of being world chess champion and went to school. But I cannot even express how much the experience of devoting myself to one discipline helped me later on in my life and career. Peak performance in any area ultimately depends on how you deal with challenge, setbacks, and motivation for the grind.

Don’t settle for being “pretty good”. Push yourself to be the best you can be, you might be surprised what you learn along the way.

[Edit] To the people commenting things like 'I think he is giving "regular" people who arent gifted a path to massive success by being "pretty good" at a few different things':

The whole "regular" people argument is BS. I was a "regular" kid who happened to become freakishly devoted to chess, at which point people started labeling me as a "prodigy". But the label is meaningless. Nobody calling me a prodigy saw the thousands of hours I spent playing and practicing.

I hate it when people draw arbitrary distinctions like "regular" vs "gifted". It makes the so-called gifted ones out to be freaks, or whatever the opposite of "normal" is, and it is demotivating to all the so-called normal kids who wonder if they could ever achieve greatness.
Quick example of skill stacking: You won't be the world's best chess player or boxer, but, hey, being the world champion in chess boxing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing)? That may well be within you reach.
Your boss has something is stable and makes money. Why jeopardize that for growth? Growth brings a lot of problems: more people, more overhead, communication issues, process issues... Too many startups go for revenue growth and never make any profit. You see it all the time in the SaaS space.
From VC to IT: Blissfully’s Origin Story
ISO8601!
I was speaking more to the general theme of callous disregard for suffering.
More of a general dive into tons of different topics can be found in: "What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods" by Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins
Small airplanes piloted by catikazes with tiny machine guns (rat-rat-tat) is scheduled for the second part of the experiment as a source of rodent stress
I don’t know why it wouldn’t be.

If a device manufacturer could count on you having VPN access to your home network they could make it trivial to set up and use. You’d open an app or visit a URL, log in, and you’d have access.
But the native web, used properly, includes many of them itself. Things like accessibility, metadata, etc. You only really lose features if you're circumventing native web functionality.
Your first link has zero information to support that wearing a bicycle helmet would do any good, it only suggests it. Personally I doubt a bicycle helmet would do much good because they aren't designed to protect your head in such an energetic collusion. Your second link only says that motor vehicle wrecks are the cause of 20% of TBI related hospitalization. The word helmet doesn't appear in it at all.

So no, based off of your links I wouldn't say the data disagrees with me.
PC extremely vocal and active in advocating for better housing solutions in the Bay Area, particularly within SF proper. That doesn't mean he doesn't have a company to run, and to look out for its best interests given the existing state of regulations.

That said, South SF definitely seems like trading a worse commute for anyone in SF or the South Bay who rely on Muni/BART/Caltrain (presumably the majority of current and future Stripe employees) for improved commute options from parts of the East Bay (ferry) & the Peninsula (driving). This seems like a bet on a future tech flight from SF proper (to the Peninsula and East Bay). As someone hitting the point where I'm thinking about where I'd like to raise kids, this doesn't seem like a terribly bad bet to make, particularly as I see places I wouldn't have considered living at 24 evolve towards what I originally preferred about city life.
The topic suggests numerous variants of confounded study design and bias.

- Solo founders may face a steeper selection curve, therefor more bad ideas are weeded out.

- Conversely: multiple founders might get an easier pass.

- Investors might jam together multiple founders who are poorly suited.

- Solo start-ups face lower costs, and have a lower minimum altitude.

- Coordination problems. With only one person, you've got fewer disagreements over what to do / how to do it.

That's based on reading the article, but not the research itself.

(Thanks to dang for the title rewrite, the article's headline is torture.)
The group succeeds not because they are smarter but because they are safer
I think you have some fanciful ideas that simply are not borne out by reality.

>this is why key employees are often upgraded from mere tools to investors by the issuance of stock options - that sort of thing is never going to happen in a company like Boeing merely because of our culture.

What are you talking about? I don't know about Boeing specifically, but stock options were very commonly awarded to engineers back before the big 2008 market crash. I had them when I worked at Intel. They sure didn't cause any change in my behavior; the effect of any one engineer at a company that large is usually pretty negligible for the company's stock price, and stock options are a very small portion of an engineer's overall compensation package. After the market crash, it seemed like stock options mostly fell out of favor (because they all became worthless!), and these days companies now offer RSUs, if they offer anything at all. Stock options were a big deal in the dot-com days because tech companies' valuations were inflating so quickly, so those options represented a LOT of potential profit, but not so much after the 2000 crash.

Anyway, the point is, you're talking about stock options like they'd solve this problem, and as if they aren't already common. I'm not sure how common they are now (they don't see to be so much), but they absolutely were in the past, and I don't see any evidence that it made a difference.

>If Boeing had granted partial corporate ownership to technical employees they would advocate much harder for the caution that could have averted this incident

What makes you think they didn't? Or that it would make a difference? Stock options don't give engineers any authority to override executive decisions by management. They can either do what the executives say, or get fired and lose all those options (unless they've vested). Either way, it gives them no real power.

The simple fact is that a company is not a democracy, and is much more like a dictatorship (or a cabal I guess, with the board picking the dictator but having the power to replace him at will). I can't even imagine any large company working well with a democratic style leadership when competing with others with traditional management. The simple solution is that companies like Boeing have to have very strong regulation to oversee their operations and make sure they make safe products, and that's the government's job; there's countless examples throughout history showing that expecting any organization to police itself effectively without some kind of checks by outside organizations doesn't work well. The FAA and by extension the US Government totally failed in their job here, and so did the foreign regulators to a certain extent (by trusting the FAA too much).

>Given a different company culture

Boeing's company culture is a product of the country it resides in. I don't see how you're going to change Boeing's culture without changing America's culture.
The problem is that the developers of Electron apps explicitly disable those features. Why?
Yep me, together with the author of the post, Marcelo.
4 managers to one dev is a ratio that warrants a very quick change of jobs.
Why do you need protection from someone else protecting themself? Are you committing an act of violence against that person?
Apparently you missed the post on the front page with (currently) 1096 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21338257
That was my immediate reaction. And it's very common for organizations to assume that we see an email from them or get a phone call or find a website claiming to be them and trust it.

It's amazing how hard it is for people to grasp that I don't know who they are.
These keys were not standard before windows 95
It's not wide-ranging but Terence Tao's Solving Mathematical Problems (https://books.google.com/books/about/Solving_Mathematical_Pr...) makes you understand mathematical thinking better than any other book I have seen at that level.
I wouldn't say 'lifted'. They were straight reading manifesto itself, not pretending that it's something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwozkbmjzC4
I don't know the answer to that historical question (shaky data point: though I know Brendan Eich is a bit of a capability convert, I believe that's relatively recent thing: last decade or so?). Regardless of the answer, I'd agree if you said that the world seems filled with people reinventing capability ideas not as effectively as they could, because they don't know that that's what they're doing and so are cut off from the ideas that have developed in the small cap community over the decades.

This isn't really about files, though. Capability UI patterns are about composing all kinds of authority in a usable way. I'm sure we'd all agree that accessing files isn't the best or ultimate description of the interesting things that people do with computers now. This is an area that's waiting to be rediscovered by the rest of the world.
And then decades later, those hackers built the infrastructure for systems of surveillance and control that would have just been a wet dream for those "1950's technobrains,"

Yeah. I'd like to think that at least some of that was just over-optimism and not realizing the negative ends that all of this technology could/would be put to. But I'm sure some of the old-skool hackers "sold out" and figured "hey, just give me the money". The need to pay rent, buy food, etc. is a pretty strong compulsion. That said, I'd like to think that at least some of this crowd have made conscious decisions over the years to not work on certain projects / technologies / whatever, out of the ethical considerations.

modern hackers embrace racism and extremism rather than transcending them

It raises the issue of who gets to decide what terms mean, and the spectre of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but one might argue that those "modern hackers" you refer to aren't actually hackers as a result of their embracing those things.
I'm relatively new to ReactJS and professional web development, and I've been using (and learning) react-redux. The layer schema makes sense to me; React handles user input, redux manages state, and react-redux ties them together.

If react does a better job at speedily handling user input to the point of seamless interaction, then I suppose that would be good. What are we losing from choosing to make a layer itself responsible for the speed of returning output (rendering) from input (user interactions)?
Yup, a little red airplane animation with a light yellow banner, on the taskbar, if I remember correctly. Didn't see it on all installations, though. Is it a specific version?
data is “the new capital”...

http://files.technologyreview.com/whitepapers/MIT_Oracle+Rep...
But that's not what the graphs show. There is a diagonal that clearly tracks a birth year cohort, not an age.
If the goal is to be the best in the world for the sake of being the best in the world at something, just pick something really obscure.

I'm the best in the world a tactical boomerang juggling in Breath of the Wild. A gamer with pro-level skills could probably show me up with a few hours practice, but until someone decides to do that, I'm the best.
I thought he meant a series of pads on a USB stick exchanged in advance. If you're trying to get just one message across that's very easily doable as you say, and with many other ways. But if you're trying to establish a real bidirectional communication scheme that doesn't involve meeting at Starbucks every Wednesday ... different story.
> Do we hold consumers responsible for purchasing things that use materials that were mined?

Well a good first step would be forcing companies to disclose that so consumers had the ABILITY to choose. Until they have the ability, there is no way to blame them. Once they do... yes I do think consumers are responsible for the practices of the companies they buy from. It's pretty diffuse blame, but...

> people choosing violent rebellion against law and order

The specific case we're talking about was, at least from the perspective of the rebels, a violent rebellion against a _corrupt government_ and the profiteering corporation working with them. Nobody was like "you know what I hate! Law and order and infrastructure!"... no, they were like "we are being treated like slaves".
The Tragedy of the Commons [pdf]
Become the world's best at counterfeiting an obscure country's currency?
I'm afraid that doesn't exist, short from forking Chromium.
If I knew for sure that everything was deterministic, would I decide to live my life differently?

I think I would still experience the ability to discern, make decisions, and take responsibility for the direction of my life.
Very cool. OP, what is your previous exposure to concatenative programming? Have you written or used a Forth before?

One thing I noticed was that you opted for passing parameters to words directly, rather than placing them on the stack; it does seem to improve readability quite significantly. (eg `c(10.0) | some_word`)

The anonymous quotations for combinators are a nice addition as well.
"Taxes do not drive business decisions" as a company leaves a city immediately after said city passed a massive tax increase on said company for a city with demonstrably lower taxes.

"Real estate prices drive business decisions, not taxes" as though business are not capable of understanding that real estate costs should take into account the tax implications of said real estate.
Electron not supporting ARM or other non-x86 platforms is a big problem that I was not aware of. I wonder if that will change with Microsoft starting to make ARM laptops and Apple being rumored to switch to ARM sometime in the future.
ESR wrote a semi-famous email to Linus Torvalds about exactly this phenomenon:

http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3
I never claimed APNS worked by polling. I was developing iOS apps in the 2010-2012 time frame and never saw a mention of XMPP. I simply don't believe they are using it. They must have their own proprietary solution.
Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault
Joking aside, Mr. Biden wants to make this a law: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18952042/joe-biden-smart-...

He of course fails to consider that this will simply make guns more un-affordable from the poorest Americans. Those people tend to live in the worst neighborhoods where police respond poorly, and therefore often need them most.
Mathematics, form and function. Saunders Mclane
Also, certain news stories will naturally attract more eyeballs and today's news has optimized for those stories - hence the torrential outpour of sensationalized clickbait. Today's headlines and stories aim to elicit an instinctive, visceral System 1 reaction, while System 2 articles that take a bit more thought are relegated to the back pages.

I run Thinking About Things [1], an email newsletter with one interesting link every day. Popular ideas and clickbait content always gets more views and clickthroughs, and I see the temptation that newspapers face to include only that content.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com
Spudd Web!
> Did you propose any real ways to make the company more money,

I did. Specifically by going to confs and trade shows and networking with potential customers and/or suppliers. We don't currently do ANY of that. We have a couple cash-cow customers that we milk for most of our revenue. We do not have our eggs in very many baskets.

> Even though you are completely disregarding the difficulties associated with growing a company so fast...

I was brought in during a doubling where the company moved from one state to another. Growing this company and increasing it's capacity was specifically why I was hired. That focus has shifted and I'm concerned about the weaning focus on growth from management.

Like I said, a few people here got very rich very quickly and I think it's taken their eyes off of the prize.
It's pretty simple

Don't be the first at what you're doing. You need the accomplishments of others to build on.

Have competition. You need to have someone else to keep your skills developing.

Have a supernatural amount of talent. It takes an amount of innate skill to truly be the best at something.

Spend WAY more than 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.

A good example is Feliks Zemdegs, the on-and-off Rubik's cube world champion. He's got the above skills, and keeps getting overtaken by various people, but so far, has redefined his skillset every time and risen back to the top, breaking even more barriers.
A world record slackline in the Utah desert [video]
How's the internet up there?
> The only way to get world-class at something is to work your ass off. To have discipline and apply yourself consistently to the practice, day in and day out, for years.

I completely agree with you. I have commented many times on HN about discipline and how much it can change your life (it changed mine). I probably have nowhere near the discipline you have cultivated, but I'm working every day to get better.
The case got highest grade available in system that this particular college uses. There is not reason to expand the scale.
"I'm the best in the world at something. I guess I'll write a Medium article."
I do recall that The Sunday Paper came with a [figurative] metric !@#$ ton of coupons inserted. I'd guess 'branching out' was really just selling slightly different advertising/marketing on Sundays.
While the 50 cents per edition that newspapers charged was not enough to cover their costs, it sent a signal to advertisers that they were getting a certain type of eyeball. An eyeball that had 50 disposable cents per day to buy packaged news in a local market. That 50 cents was an important signal. Newspapers would find other ways of getting those same eyeballs, by striking deals with hotels and airlines and essentially supplying papers at a deep discount, but making it up with the fees they could charge to advertisers based on their access to travelers, who have a lot more than 50 cents to spend. Some publications took it one step further: they covered business and their readers could put the subscription on their corporate cards as a business expense. Personally, it cost them nothing. This is the strategy of the WSJ, the FT, and what the NYT would like to be with DealBook, etc.
the current trends, going by metro Atlanta news, is simply trying to find cars which are unlocked and slider attacks at gas stations; where they look for people who leave valuables in their if not the keys while they pump gas. The number of people leaving valuables in their cars and in full view is not insignificant
There were never DB-9 connectors; they were DE-9s.

The "DB-this" and "DB-that" naming originated by ignorant analogy with the (correctly-named) DB-25 connectors that the DE-9s were replacing. Hint: The letter after the D is the size. DBs had room for two rows of 12 and 13 pins on 1/10 inch centers, on down to DE with room for only 4 and 5 pins with that spacing. Later, the DE shell was used with closer spacing for three rows of pins, for video monitor cables.

Once enough ignorant people took to calling them DB-9 and trying to buy them by that name, the vendors started hawking them that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature#DE-9