skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not entirely wrong but it kind of started with an industry having a surplus of vegetable oils and looking for other markets that they could sell it on (it was used for soaps till then).

So they started finding out how to make it food-ready and introduced additional processing so the oil wouldn't go rancid as fast and closer to fats that people were accustomed to (lard, butter).

They were cheaper than the traditional fats, which opened a market.

Then, traditional fats were pushed out due to health concerns.

Nina teichholz has written about the history and offers a dissenting opinion to the recommendations of unsaturated oils if you are interested https://thebigfatsurprise.com/

It seems the
I have a friend exactly like that and it’s been basically worthless for me. I don’t really engage with him any more.

His car is worth more than my house. He seems to think that gives him the right to allocate my labor to his pet projects. Had I quit my job when he urged, years ago, I would have had a boss with untreated ADHD and unlimited money waste a half-decade of my life.
> Agreed but I'd hardly call pure software professional real time audio setups a disruptor of the vast majority of systems.

I mean, there's still a few hundred thousand people registered on DAW-related forums so certainly a fair bit more are using those. That is more than a dozen european countries. Sure, it's not angry birds but I do not think that it is relevant to cater to the lowest common denominator of software.
Being capable of feeling like an observer to your free will does not make it any less yours in my opinion. Also everything you think of in this moment was seeded in the past by your free will.

And you can use ideological systems, like math or economics or even your impression of another person, to generate endless amounts of ideas. And for each of them you veto all other possible options in order to generate the one you do at the time you do so. Then on top of that you have the conscious power to accept or reject the idea you've generated.
Trump signed an exec order* (thx for correction folks!) requiring hospitals to dramatically improve price transparency for patients. A huge win. But of course you'll never hear much about it for obvious reasons.
No, the ACA maxes out total profit payers can take home at 15% for large groups and 20% for small groups respectively throughout a year, so it's not a commission based system like you are imagining. There are severe penalties for improper billing including prison. No one likes insurance, but HMOs are not at fault here, it was due to overcomplexity and lack of regulation within private practice.
I'm moving from an open-office floor plan to a cubicle, and can attest myself as one example of someone who very soon will be happy in a cubicle.
That all seems relevant to the original question, but it doesn't seem to have much (if anything) to do with racism.
HN is not a safe space by this definition.
I do a stair climber, 2000 steps 5 days a week. I think this has a pretty good mix of cognitive and aerobic, I switch it up to skip steps, and stuff like that. I've not really noticed a huge change in energy, but resting heart rate etc have dropped considerably in the last year. I recommend a combo of this with a podcast to stave off the boredom. Mental clarity wise, I feel like your brain and body need the elevated heart rate etc, and this link seems to back it up.
My most-hated thing is bringing up the brightness controls. Not intuitive, and isn't explained when you first set up the iPad. Sometimes it even takes me several attempts because I'm not close enough to the corner I guess.
>If I write a sigma to sum some vectors, it doesn't matter if the vectors are coordinates in 3D space, functions defined on an interval, or just numbers.

you're wrong. every "weird" technical hypothesis in a theorem is a leak. even in your super simple example there's a caveat: the sum has to be finite (that mean no you can't perform any sum of any set of vectors).

edit: i got downvoted so here's a better example that i just ran across:
manifolds with boundary can have empty boundaries. where does this come up? exact 1-forms on S^1 integrate to zero. why? because by Stokes. how? S^1 has a boundary but it's empty.
When accepting funds directly from the US government, or a source tied to it (e.g. World Bank, IMF), a country commonly has to undergo some amount of economic reform in order to ensure that the money can be paid back in the future. In order to get money from the US, you typically also have to adhere to similar political values such as democracy.

Exceptions of course are the oil states, due to strategic need.

China on the other hand does not care who you are or what you do so long as you can pay.

In this way they are really similar to private equity markets, but unlike private markets, they do have a navy and can use it to ensure that far away governments pay back their money.
> * The primary criticism against safe spaces is that they are an excuse to censor dissenting opinions. A common example is that people opposed to sex-reassignment surgery are not allowed into discussions about transgenderism*

What a strange example! What is the "dissenting opinion" about sex-reassignment surgery and transgenderism? Is it not for individuals to decided? Why would this even be an issue in the public space. If you're not transgender, does it impact you in any way?
W, V and F are also separate sounds in Dutch, but much closer to each other than in English. Wat, vat and fat are different words. The Dutch W is not bilabial like the English W, but just a "softer" version of the V. (In practice, V is often pronounced almost the same as F).
The title is a bit weird because they don't mean "NHS England" (which is the old name for an arm's length body), they mean "The NHS in England".
>impending announcement of the Model Y

The Model Y was announced in mid-March, to generally negative reviews/market reaction.
Thought of another one in the same spirit: never mistype a word. And never use a word that is not in the dictionary!
You probably need a larger sample to draw any conclusions, especially during a holiday season.
There is an infinite number of encrypted chat apps that can be built. What is finite is the number of organizations that have a brand strong enough to launch one that becomes popular immediately. What’s also finite is the number of organizations that can get that funding to build popularity slowly (eg Signal). The governments may successfully be able to stomp out those services and just leave the tiny thousand-user apps alone. As soon as one of those becomes popular enough, rinse and repeat the above.
Does that make democracy a throttled authoritarian government?
It failed for essentially trivial reasons. Which suggests there are issues with the procedures that should eliminate those failures, and that similar failure modes are possible.

That's why it's not encouraging - and why it's not at all unfair to be scathing.
Damn man you are so right...
Illegal immigrants. There is a legal kind you know.
It’s not about the company “failing”. Very few tech startups are bootstrapped. At some point they take investor funding. At that point it doesn’t matter what the “smart people” want or the founders. The only thing that matters is what the investors want - they want “an exit”. Statistically:

- the chances of a company not just closing their doors are low.

- out of those, the chances of a company becoming a “lifestyle business”, a profitable ongoing private business are close to zero once you take investor money. Investors aren’t looking for profitable private companies hoping to get a minor dividend. They are looking for their investment to get acquired or go public.

- speaking of which very few companies exit with going public instead of being acquired by big tech. Look no further than YC. Only two YC companies have ever gone public.

- Out of those that do go public, even fewer don’t end up getting acquired by big tech and/or are profitable. Again look at YC. Two public companies and Dropbox has admitted that it has no idea whether it will ever be profitable.

As far as “smart people”. All startups think they have “smart people.”
Because I wouldn't call that bill something Trump "made." It was something both parties in Congress worked on, all Trump did was sign it.
I feel they should be as well. If left unmonitored, this can lead to spammy / crappy experience. In this case the individual speaking is a well known and experienced figure who has a lot of insights to offer, hence I feel this made the cut.
No part of medical billing whatsoever would fly most anywhere else. It's batshit crazy, top to bottom. Go get service at one place, get fifteen damn bills from five people & companies spread out over three months plus a pile of mail that looks like bills but may say it's not a bill, and then several will have errors requiring back & forth to correct, you'll get a refund then have to pay more, pay more then get a refund, all kinds of nonsense, you're acting as a go-between for insurance and the providers because they're all friggin' incompetent and that means hours and hours on hold, finally six months later it's all settled but you're guaranteed to have missed something in all that mess and now you've got a letter from a collection agency for a $48 bill out of thousands paid.

Fuck the whole thing, I hope it all burns to the ground. It makes me so very unhappy every time I have to deal with it.
Of course, accurate data is hard to come by, but this report from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting suggests otherwise, especially at executive levels:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/heres-the-clearest-pictur...
> If that's actually how safe spaces were implemented in practice, there'd be little backlash against them.

That's the public perception based on news media. Sure, there may be a minority of "safe spaces" that are how you depicted, but if you include AA, group therapy, and other things of that nature, I think your perception is wrong.

>A common example is that people opposed to sex-reassignment surgery are not allowed into discussions about trangenderism because their opinions are considered "disrespectful" or even "violent" to transgender people.

When almost 50% of trans male teens have attempted suicide [1], almost half of all trans people report being verbally or physically harassed [2], and the American Medical Association calling violence against trans people an "epidemic" [3], then yes, I think there is a fair case to be made anti-trans sentiment contributes to violence towards the trans community, just like how anti-black sentiment in the US contributed to violence against black people.

Is going into spaces where trans people feel comfortable, to make your case against sex-reassignment surgery something you feel that needs to happen?

[1]https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/4/e201742...

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/comedian-s-death-und...

[3]https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2019/06/15/amer...
An elaborate propaganda machine privately funded by, and for the sole benefit of, a billionaire. I'm sure the Republicans have their own, so let's not be partisan here but merely call it for what it is.

I did get a chuckle from the blurb in a job posting promoted below by one of the propagandists working on the machine though:

>You are: A dynamic, seasoned software engineer who can bring your in-depth expertise and computer science experience to save our democracy.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Come help us weaponize data against the citizenry for our billionaire candidate, it will save democracy.

What an absolute circus US politics has descended into.
That's neat. But trees don't cut you off in traffic or steal your packages off your porch or murder your aunt or cuss you out or talk too much or tell lies, etc. etc. etc.

They also don't make you soup, buy a birthday card, bring you flowers, hold the door for you, give you a hug, say I love you.

So, people aren't trees.
Merely that it evidence against the idea that this is something which is naturally occurring.

Ah, yes that’s true!
It's easy to say, but if you are focusing on what worries you, without doing anything to work toward or resolve what is worrying you, it's really just wasted mental energy. Once you can be honest with yourself about having done everything you possibly/reasonably can to mitigate whatever you are worrying about, then you can let it go.
You seem to have left out Premium Economy class that’s available on many (most?) airlines. Personally, I tend to opt for that fare class as I find the seat more tolerable at a reasonable price point.
Stock is up mostly because of short-covering. This is what a textbook case of a short-squeeze looks like.
He forgot 3D TV.

The consumer electronics industry is desperate for something new they can sell to everybody. VR headgear was the last big hope. There's nothing after that nearing production. The industry is forced into price competition on existing stuff. Look how cheap huge-screen TVs have become.

This is the downside of the "digital convergence" - no need for new hardware; new things are just apps.

Some of the next big things turned out to be too hard. Flying cars - batteries still too heavy, jet engines still too expensive. Self-driving - harder to do than expected, hardware too expensive. Internet of Things - to do much of anything that affects the real world, it requires installation, which Silicon Valley isn't set up to do. (If "we service what we sell" Sears was still around...) That's also the big problem with home solar. Robot vacuum cleaners - still not very good vacuums. Robots that can handle things - robotic manipulation in unstructured situations still works badly after 50 years.
>Is it though? First rebuttal that comes to mind is that, in the US, one can legally be elected without the having the majority of the counter, valid, votes.

Yes, spend a couple of moments reading up on the EC. The rules haven't changed in a long time. Even if you don't like it, that's only how the president is elected. Federal representatives for the state are elected by getting the most votes in a district.

>Another one would be that one can be elected without the approval of the majority of the people who could vote.

Every election system that allows more than two candidates or allows people to skip voting has this flaw.
I feel like that slogan could apply to most OSS projects Google dumps on the world.
> A common example is that people opposed to sex-reassignment surgery are not allowed into discussions about trangenderism [sic!] because their opinions are considered "disrespectful" or even "violent" to transgender people.

What does "being opposed to sex-reassignment surgery" even mean? I see two options:

1. Being opposed to others having the possibility of undergoing such a surgery.

2. Being opposed to undergoing such a surgery.

In the first case, I do believe it's disrespectful of the freedom to do with one's body as one pleases. In the second case, AFAIK nobody forces anybody to undergo such a surgery, so I doubt that anybody understands this position this way.

Disclaimer: I also don't like the idea of "safe spaces", however this particular criticism seems ill-founded.
The largest HMO in the US billed medicare $90 for a flu shot. A drug store would have done so for $19 without insurance.
A Case for Retiring Burner Emails
I think given the noise it has made, we will be alright :)
Have a look at, also in Go written, https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto which out performs bigcache and freecache (see the colourful graphics)
> Jim McManus, director of public relations for BCBS of Minnesota, says the company has a process to flag excessive charges. "Unfortunately, those necessary reviews did not happen in this case," he wrote in an email.

The reason it wasn't flagged is that both the insurer and the provider are incentivized to make this as expensive as possible. Insurers cannot make more than 10% in profit, so if they want to make an extra $1000, they need to take in $10,000. Next, providers are paid fee-for-service, so they want to bill as many services as possible and charge the highest rate for each one. Ultimately our insurance premiums go up to cover this, but the whole thing is a racket.

And single payer will not solve this. All we do is subsidize demand and decrease supply in a never ending fashion in the medical industry. We need to 1) Make it easier to supply services (allow doctors to be imported from other countries, easier to start facilities, allow people with less credentials than an MD to perform services) and 2) Stop subsidizing demand (Medicare for All = Use as much as you want).

My ideal health insurance model is catastrophic insurance provided by the government for any bills over $50,000, Health Savings Accounts to allow you to save for procedures beneath 50k, and a total free-for-all of insurance companies beneath the 50k mark. This would radically reduce insurance rates while preventing people from becoming bankrupt. Catastrophic insurance covers you from cancer and being hit by a bus, but for 99% of all health issues the bill would not exceed that.
No, the article's whole assertion is why exercise specifically causes these benefits. I don't know how "oh, maybe I just need to stop worrying about things to reap these same benefits and activate these same pathways" is a possible take-away from the article.

Though it's tempting wishful thinking because it saves us from leaving our computer chair. "Maybe I can just enter a flow mode learning Elm/Rust instead of exercising!"
So higher medical spending does not let them make greater profits?
Technological Trends in 2020
This fear mongering puts us back decades.
You're missing the point. It doesn't need to be commission based, it becomes so implicitly. If my allowable profit is a function of how much I pay out, then I have an incentive to make prices as high as possible, just like in a commission based system.
>Dennis Muilenberg likely was being fed a diet of wrong and horrible information from lower executives keen on deflecting blame so that they could keep their jobs.

Your job as CEO, or any leader of a large organization civilian or military, is to ferret out when you're being fed loads of BS. It's frustrating because Muilenberg was a engineer and started there as an intern in the 80s, so he at least should have some domain expertise in what the problems were. Perhaps him being a "company man" in this case was a hindrance, or conflicted with the new culture at Boeing that is, apparently, run by MBAs concerned with quarterly profits. In either case, he needed to go as this failure happened on his watch.
Does bazel use the word “provenance“ at all?

Provenance is a word I first saw advertised in a platform called dotscience.io — that I find fundamentally interesting. And it seems quite relevant to hermetic builds.

Provenance is about giving any state derived from an arbitrary computation an identity that is derived from the content hash of the inputs needed to re-compute that state ... in dotscience they achieve this by instrumenting io and creating zfs filesystem snapshots when computing new provenance artifacts.

I think this concept could be the ultimate building block for a build system — and it could become the job of oses/containers/runtimes/databases to Coordinate to allow this abstraction to be tracked with sufficient efficiency that programmers would feel allowed to freely use the concept of provenance when building ... it seems to me like provenance could provide all the information needed to support a distributed build cache? You wouldn’t actually need a build language at all — just an api in each language to ask for the saving of provenance artifacts. The artifact would hold all the info needed to be able to recompute the artifact with the same state — which is also all the info needed to decide when the artifact is out of date ...?
I like this quote, but it's good to remember why judgement exists. Judgement exists because it puts pressure on people to conform. You disapprove of their actions, and you let them know either explicitly, or implicitly through your behavior towards them. We all exert pressure on each other to conform to expectations. In an environment with no judgement, nobody conforms, everybody does what they want.

I'm saying something pretty banal really, everybody knows this. Ram Dass's quote here is emphasizing that you can be overly judgemental. You can be stuck in an endless rumination cycle where you stew over the failings of people around you. If you're in this mode of thinking, it's good to take a step back and think of humans like trees. But similarly, if you're constantly being taken advantage of because nobody thinks you care strongly about anything, well, maybe consider becoming more judgemental
The charger network team is definitely forward thinking regarding demand forecasting and build out. Friend of mine used to work there and the team works very hard to stay ahead of the curve, knowing that this infrastructure is vital to the user experience
Most people who have been around tech for the past 15 years have stories like this.

Maybe they didn't have check's written, but had opportunities to join firms that later boomed huge.

Also the title is super-clickbaity. Poor form.
Except Amazon has a much more tightly ingrained relationship with 3rd part sellers than just collecting rent. They can directly influence pricing, decide which products can and cannot be sold, and take a margin of each purchase, not just a flat fee for space used (although they also take that for FBA items). I can't really think of an aspect of the retailer <-> supplier relationship that isn't in effect between Amazon and its sellers.
Fellow DS alum? I still rate DS as among the hardest things I've done (although partly because I was too inexperienced to know how to pace/schedule my work correctly). Everything that followed felt so easy afterwards. Sophomore to senior years all felt like a breeze compared to DS. It also had a fairly profound effect on my intellectual development. Even though I graduated with a degree in CS, most of my non-work reading is still in the humanities -- mostly history and political science.
On this specific point, I agree with you, and generally have for some time, but am generally more skeptical than ever of the people on the apparently altruistic inclusivity side. It may be confirmation bias, but the kind of shit I've become aware of is ridiculous. Some examples are the backlash that Bret Weinstein got a few years ago at Evergren, the amount of "Fuck Terfs" that's spraypainted all over my neighborhood because women's shelters don't allow people who only identify as women to be the same as bio-sex females, and the banning of public libraries from inclusion of events like pride on the basis that they allow critics a space to speak. If the genuine desire to have a dialogue was there, it would be more obvious. Even some of my friends who live the social justice life seem to shut down when they don't have script readily indexed to respond to what they deem a threat in regular conversation. I wish this wasn't the case, because I am a liberal person, but believe these things need scrutiny as much as anything else. That's the only way people who are currently suppressed can then be elevated in a sustainable way.

Here I'm trying to make distinctions between things like a gay person's human right to marry and a male's ability to identify as a woman and sue female oriented genital grooming places for discrimination on the basis that they have male parts. In one case that human right was denied arbitrarily based on the ideology of doctrine imbued culture and law.
External encoding: what it reads and writes from and to files

Internal encoding: what the strings are encoded in memory (latin1/UCS2/UCS4 in python)

Secondary buffer: python strings can be encoded twice. They can hold a secondary encoded version if themselves as utf-8.