skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But people have lost track of what hunger is!

This is exactly right, and also why I highly encourage people to experiment with fasting (for at least 24 hours) to reset your baseline for what real hunger actually feels like.

What we normally associate with "hunger" is actually a hormonal response from the body's release of ghrelin. It's not real hunger. You're not going to die if you don't eat. Moreover, we also experience "boredom" hunger, which isn't even a hormonal response, it's simply a mental addiction to the feeling of something tasty in your mouth.

It's absurd that we've conditioned society to believe that stuffing our faces with food upwards of three times a day is "normal". It's not. That's why obesity rates are through the roof and CVD is the number one killer.

That being said, I'm doubtful that telling the average person this will have any effect on their eating habits. So OP may be right that it's no solution to tell people to "ignore that feeling you think is hunger". You can lead a horse, but you can't make it drink.
Why exactly 398 days? Seems a little bit odd as it’s approx 13 months plus additional 2-3 days.
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> My preference is to get the government out of the nutrition science business, but that's about as unlikely.

It’s critically important that the government is in the nutrition science business and it does nutrition science correctly. Think about all of the ways the government is implicitly taking a stance on nutrition. The farm bill, school lunches, checkoff programs, government cheese, prison meals, snap, and many more.

The problem is one of incentive alignment. For example, the FDA is responsible for both the agricultural industry and the health of the population, which currently are at odds as the agricultural industry producing a lot of junk food.

Democratic systems can work by increasing the transparency of the government and by increasing the education of the voting population.
You contradict yourself, when you say "differ essentially from one another by their respective data bus widths" and "8086 incorporates a 16-bit data bus and a 6-byte instruction queue whereas the 8088 incorporates an 8-bit data bus and a 4-byte instruction queue.". In a sense 8088 has shorter pipeline. Shorter pipeline makes optimization techniques for 86 and 88 different, irrespective of the bus width - I mean, even if you slap 16 bit bus to 88, without changing the queue size, most efficient optimizations would still be different between these 2 CPUs.
A previous dentist recommended -- paradoxically -- actually clenching your teath consciously a few times for a few seconds each time before going to sleep. The logic for this was something like how it would make your brain more conscious of what was going on to prevent it from happening when you were asleep. I think the other suggestions here on reducing stress, reducing weight, getting enough magnesium and so on might work better though?
At this point, does anyone seriously consider LeetCode et al to be a "good" way to pick candidates? The impression I get is that it's typically considered the least bad option, at best.

The only insight I might add here is that selecting for candidates who are willing and able to sink time into algorithm study is also selecting for candidates who won't go home at 5:30 if you give them problems to solve. That probably isn't an accident.
The "infamous art" was a red screen of death from a beta copy of Windows Longhorn. Apparently the blog post was in the middle of the negative news cycle about Longhorn and his posting the RSOD didn't help.

That blog article is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20170623173912/http://archives.m...

He blogged about it ten years later at http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2015/09/04/87706...
> Frieden, the former CDC chief, argued that the agency failed largely because it has been shackled to an inept administration. “The overarching problem has been the failure to have a clear national strategy, a national plan, and consistent communication. Everything really stems from that,” he said.

That's a common refrain and the gist of the article. But it's helpful to zoom out.

At the end of WWII, the US stood as the only intact industrial producer. It parleyed this win into a decades-long economic/military/political advantage. Through a collection of unsavory attitudes, the country began to think of itself as different in some magical way. The reverence toward WWII as the last "good" war has kept the focus on winning WWIII for over 70 years. The belief that somehow we're special has made it impossible to look at actually solving domestic problems or even act internationally.

This mix fed directly into a world view in which problems come from abroad. You see it with The Wall and immigration policy. You see it with the focus on foreign election interference. When there's a problem, its source more likely than not falls outside US borders.

The marginalization we see with CDC can be found in a wide range of American institutions: the military; the space program; regulatory agencies including FDA, FAA, and EPA; the educational system; Congress; the White House; even recently agriculture.

The failure of these institutions, combined with exceptionalism borne of a military victory 75 years ago, has led to a broad abdication of responsibility.

You can see this in how the US spends money. Consider the US Federal budget. Over 85% of expenditures fall into three categories: benefits/entitlements; military; and interest payments, in that order.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

This has been a bipartisan effort that predates 2016 by decades. The latest incarnation is just one station on a very long railroad.
I do not know if building colliders should be considered increasingly futile.

However, there are other points the author made.

First, I don't expect anything relevant to society at large when it comes to doing research on the fundamental nature of reality, at least not for a long time. To me, it isn't necessary for every research to have social relevance.

Also, I thought climate change was pretty much a problem of social coordination. What exactly do we gain from building better model of climate change? Knowing where it's going to hit us hard? I supposed that could be useful, but even more pressing was how to motivate the people of Earth to make the necessary changes.

Also, the money offered doesn't seem that huge on scale of countries. 1 billion dollars per year for operating cost? I suppose we could make better use of money that would otherwise go to making a new collider, but so we can do so elsewhere as well.
That's way too expensive for many people though.
The project I was on was on Dengue Fever and Zika and they had their shit together on that. The data was clean, well organised, delivered quickly.

Somehow between then and now that data collection side has fallen to bits to the point where efforts like the John Hopkins tracking project had to rely on the NYT open source collection on GitHub.

I don't know who is responsible for pandemic response in the US, but back then everyone at CDC seemed competent and dedicated.
PEP 622 for pattern matching syntax can be found here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/
A cheap aluminium road bike (since replaced with a full carbon Felt).

At the time (10 years ago) I was 240lbs (been working stupid hours for nearly 2 years and pizza was easier on the way home) and the doc had just found I had stage 2 hypertension which he wanted to medicate, I asked him to give me a couple of months and if no improvement I'd take his advice, stopped in Halford's (bike chain in the UK) and bought their cheapest road bike for 400 quid, I resolved to go out every other day and fix my diet which I did gradually increasing distance/pace, at the end of the two months I was down over 10lbs and blood pressure was heading the right way and I'd got addicted to cycling, I signed up for a 200km overnight charity ride at the end of the summer (this was late spring time) and set about training for it properly working up to 80 then 100 then 120 mile rides until I was confident I could do it.

By the charity ride came around I was 190lbs and decided to treat myself to a nicer bike (I was too fat for the nice bike at the start, I mean literally too fat, it had a 100kg max weight limit recommended...).

In terms of return on investment that 400 quid bike was the based deal I ever made.
The assertion that JSON parsing is faster than I/O for most applications does not match my experience. First, achieving 10 GB/s consistent throughput for I/O on a server is pretty ordinary these days. If your systems are designed for performance and efficiency, parsing JSON with throughput that will saturate the I/O capacity is a challenge. Second, a lot of JSON that gets parsed in applications isn’t transiting I/O at all, it is in memory and only a subset of what is parsed may transit I/O. In these cases, there is an even higher bandwidth threshold for peak performance — memory bandwidth.

I’ve profiled many applications that were completely and thoroughly bottlenecked on JSON parsing, even when care was taken to not be profligate with JSON parsing because everyone knows it is quite slow.
I’m so torn here. Personally I like this a lot and think it will really help enforce good practices and allow easier things like root/int key rotation. Professionally it sucks, as there are a ton of valid use cases for real certs in areas that require manual work and tracking them all is a hard problem. If internal PKIs were easier to make work across all OS and Browser combos I’d just use those instead.
Ops has a low baseline complexity, and scales more or less linearly with usage on low usage scenarios.

It's something worth optimizing, but the idea that it will break a starting initiative isn't realistic.
One very language-lawyer way to look at it is that, even if the answer it gives is more mathematically accurate, it's still less correct in that it's not the value you literally asked for.

Imagine the analogue for integers. You might use code like this to round down to a multiple of 2:

int i = 7;
int j = (i / 2) * 2;

If a compiler optimized that to j = i then that's more mathematically accurate but less correct.
Justifications are very well-reasoned; a good read in and of itself.
Not intended as a criticism, but since it’s not something you can really ask in person—-

Doesn’t it get tiring to listen to music all the time? It’s not that I have anything against music, but I can’t imagine myself listening the majority of my days from waking to sleeping.
This CCADB vote provides the context missing from this link to a Chromium patch. After the CA issuers rejected 2017 and 2019 proposals (Ballot 185, Ballot SC22) to reduce certificate issuance times to ~1 year, Apple announced enforcement of the rejected 398-days limit across all platforms on 01 Sep 2020, the CAs reversed their position while complaining that they were being forced to, and Chromium is now implementing the policy as well.

https://cabforum.org/2017/02/24/ballot-185-limiting-lifetime...

https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2019-Se...

https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozillacommunications/...

> SUB ITEM 3.1: Limit TLS Certificates to 398-day validity Last year there was a CA/Browser Forum ballot to set a 398-day maximum validity for TLS certificates. Mozilla voted in favor, but the ballot failed due to a lack of support from CAs. Since then, Apple announced they plan to require that TLS certificates issued on or after September 1, 2020 must not have a validity period greater than 398 days, treating certificates longer than that as a Root Policy violation as well as technically enforcing that they are not accepted. We would like to take your CA’s current situation into account regarding the earliest date when your CA will be able to implement changes to limit new TLS certificates to a maximum 398-day validity period.
A house. I do basically all the maintenance on it, and it's been a great learning experience and opportunity for growth. The largest single project being the kitchen remodel, down to the drywall and subfloor.
As an improvement I would recommend simply showing a graph of, say, the past 5 years death rate, adjusted for population. I'm not sure how to understand expected deaths (who expected it?). What I want to know is how this year's death count compares to a bad year. With a new virus on the loose it makes sense that more people would die than last year's relatively calm fly season. I recall seeing a graph of death rate for the past 5 years for NYC in particular, but not a general one.
The Dash Pros

[RIP Bragi. You could probably substitute any other good wireless earbuds, though.]

This means I can learn and discover during activities where this was previously not possible.

Podcasts and audiobooks are available during commutes, flights, runs, bike rides, misc chores and errands etc.

The fact that they're entirely wireless, have very good noise cancellation (in-ear seal), a powerful touch interface, and are sweat/water proof, makes them especially useful. (e.g. skip song with double-tap while biking)

(Of course, use your discretion; shutting out the world and being always on the receiving end of information without time to process your own thoughts and letting them wander I think comes with a cost.)

Edit:

I'll echo what others have said as well: bikes!

Probably tied for first place is my bike which I bought off CraigsList in queens back in 2014. The decision to bike somewhere rather than driving/taking the train/walking means: new forms of exercise, new ways to discover a city, and it's fun :)
More like a built-in YubiKey. It's a convenience. When using one's MacBook, you don't need to pull your YubiKey out of your bag/drawer/etc to authenticate, and if you're traveling you can just leave YubiKey at home/the office, giving you one less thing to lose.
This may be good for security, but it is extra burden for small web developers and individuals. Big players will have cert renewals automated.

It's possible and free for small players to use letsencrypt, that still takes some time to set up, manage and maintain over time.

Without automation, you've got an annual chore to do or your site goes offline.

I think some hosts are already starting to offer free and easy SSL certs to their small customers, but I do expect automated SSL management to be generally available for the masses before this takes effect.
> Dieting is calorie counting in some way or the other.

Atkins, and many similar low-carb diets, are not.

> It’s trying to get calories consumed below calories needed.

Even if you restrict “dieting” to “dieting for weight loss”, where that sentence is true, it's still not always some form of calorie counting. The goal of achieving a particular calorie balance is not always met through counting calories, even in rough proxy form.

Dieting for weight loss can have lots of strategies.
OK, I get it finally. Bit thick today! Upvoted.
Covid-19 Disinformation and Social Media Manipulation
A concrete example here is that almost everything in the Kubernetes ecosystem (the control plane, operators, integrations, etc) is CPU bound by time spent Marshalling/Unmarshalling JSON or protobuf. So in some domains it’s all that moves the needle (in Kube I personally spent several years in protobuf, alternate JSON impls, fine tuning the hot path). Some problems are marshalling bound, although it’s not all of them.
Actually the CDCs budget is nearly $8 billion and about the highest it’s ever been.

https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama
Ask HN: Why do browsers include developer tools?
This is a question a friend asked me a few years ago and I never found a satisfactory answer. As a developer, sure, I love the fact that browsers have developer tools included. But how did we get to this state? There must be a story here.

The vast majority of browser users aren't going to use the developer tools and aren't even expected to. And it's not like a toolbox included with some furniture because you don't expect the average user to "fix" a web page or build one themselves.

Is it just that someone did it and then everyone else thought they might as well do it too? I remember Firebug being more useful than whatever Firefox included, but it still included something iirc? Is it that it's just easier to keep them bundled in than to offer something separately and then deal with add-on problems (permissions, distribution, etc.) Is it that binary size isn't a big deal, so why not just keep it included? Even Firefox and Chrome on Android have a "view-source:" option, complete with syntax highlighting (for HTML at least).

Would love to hear what information HN has (or can find)!
I am just guessing but I think it's because of renewals. I know in the past when I've purchased a certificate before the expiration date, the CA gives me that extra time on the new cert so the expiration date stays the same the following year.

Totally speculating here that 30 days is probably the earliest one can renew a yearly cert.
Good lighting can make simple stylized shapes and colours look better.
The last bit of deterministic functions is a main selling point of functional programming (and get help from compilers) or any design that promotes creating pure functions.
Yes, I have mentioned DP in my article as just reference. The Purpose of article was to show that how easy it is to implement caching in python using lru_cache decorator which is in std lib. So, We don't have to install any 3rd party lib.
That HQ camera is pretty awesome. I bought one to build a film scanner with. For those who don't now, it's a camera module for Raspberry Pi that comes with a 12mp sensor that supports attachable camera lenses(sold separately). It also comes with a really nice guidebook.
If you live in a cold climate, a heated mattress pad is a game changer. It lets you sleep more comfortably and also reduce energy use by turning your central heating further down at night. They are pretty ubiquitous in Korea (probably from a legacy of under floor heating and sleeping on mats), but not commonly used in the US. They should be!
The premise of this article is quite flawed. We don't need to spend the money "researching threats such as climate change", we need to get off our collective duff and actually do something to stop dumping Carbon into the air-ocean and to start removing some of that which we've already put there.

Whether we build another giant particle accelerator or two (reminder: Not only CERN is interested, but China is already well down that path) is almost irrelevant if we don't fix our pollution and destruction of the ecosystems that allow Homo sap. to live comfortably (or, possibly, at all).
Do you know anywhere with truly unrestricted speech?

The US has the freest speech that I know of (granted it’s also the only model that I’m so familiar with), and even it has plenty of restrictions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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> First, I don't expect anything relevant to society at large when it comes to doing research on the fundamental nature of reality, at least not for a long time. To me, it isn't necessary for every research to have social relevance.

Me either and often the technology you get on the back of it doesn't show up for decades and decades anyway.
> Also, "almost nothing" is not nothing

True, but OPs question was “better or worse”.
I discovered pressure cooking just a few years ago, via the Instant Pot. Ended up switching to a real pressure cooker, and use it all the time. The real pressure cooker is just even faster and takes up less space. edit: Aided by an inductive stove which is just insanely fast. I have a pasta dinner that's pressure released before the IP is even up to temp.
> Anecdotal, but a few overweight people I've known have been terrible at estimating how much they eat.

That's pretty much the thrust of the article. Calorie counting works in theory, but evidently the average person finds it too hard to follow (either miscalculating, overestimating, forgetting to track or just giving up).
Yep. Dry pasta, white rice, pancakes, and hot dogs are all very easy to make and very calorie dense, especially when served as folks typically do: with buns, syrups, sugary sauces, etc
AirPods. Eliminating the cord changed my exercise and my life.
Observability: Seeing Is Not Signaling
TOFU is a viable alternative for "long-living" certs, too. The very fact that the cert has longer validity makes it somewhat easier to trust it directly in the client.
Um, then why are so many places that have already opened closing again? Cases are surging nationwide, with particular hot spots in FL, TX, AZ. Methinks this writer has a non-fact-based agenda.
It's almost as if f HN doesn't understand cryptocurrency and you are just angry about it.
This isn't correct.

No amount of compute power will let a RNN/LSTM outperform a Transformer.

No amount of compute power will let an AlexNet or Inception style network train as well as a ResNet.
How much uptime do you need, and how much does EC2 provide? Things will depend on that.

But from what I've seen, the point may be moot. Odds are that the EC2 uptime is around the same as you'll get on a single machine VPS anywhere anyway.
Can I use this without a Github account? Specifically, I wonder if I can't transfer this over to a machine that never touches the internet and have it still be useful.
Calorie counting is well supported by the studies in which people stay in metabolic wards and are fed a controlled calorie-counted diet. This is close enough to regular life experience to be meaningful, and would disprove your assertion that it's simply chance. You, on the other hand, bring up a lot of fairly extreme situations (immune system fighting an infection, cancer, shutting down the reproductive system), which simply do not happen nearly often enough to be relevant here. So the comment you're replying to is not "simply wrong".
And alcohol consumption.
Could not agree more.Just need to find an easy way that makes people realise they are the ones ultimately deciding what they put on their plates. Although I do not minimise the difficulty for some people to put their food habits on the top of their list.
Because Unreal doesn't scale down like Unity does, by improving Godot, they reduce Unity's attractiveness to the small coding communities.
12 mths plus 30 days to pay maybe?
This is Google and Mozilla aligning with Apple's earlier announcement (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211025).

The CABF has talked about doing this before, most recently in SC22 (https://cabforum.org/2019/09/10/ballot-sc22-reduce-certifica...). In that case all browsers supported it, but it wasn't passed by the CA side.
Do you actually use Stadia? If so, how do you like it ?
> I don't think any serious person ever meant this literally. You're misrepresenting them by saying this.

I believe sibling comments do pretty much say that.

> In practice, for me, in my experience, limiting my calorie intake is the only way to control weight to where I want to be.

Aren't you doing that by choosing what you eat and not eat, mostly? E.g. "I'm not going eat some carrots instead of that bag of chips while watching TV" instead of "I'm going to only eat 80% of that bag of chips"?
My fear would be a pad or electric blanket catching on fire.
Zalto wine glasses. $60 per, and well worth it if you enjoy wine.

A honyaki chef’s knife and a vinyl cutting board to go with it.
And if it is to believe their numbers, the large majority of Switch games as well.
oh sorry , somehow I missed it :)
Show HN: Database of available one-word domains and domain hacks across 20 TLDs
Can you describe the kind of person who hosts their own website but cannot easily set up Let's Encrypt automatic renewal?