skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also find this anecdotally by talking to competitive eaters. They will almost all tell you that as long as you eat a regular amount of calories most days they have no problem with weight gain from binge eating once or twice a week. AKA there is there is a difference between eating 2000 calories 6 days a week and 6000 one day than eating 2500 calories 7 days a week.
Ohh noo. Now all my “Graphene? More like Borophene.” jokes are obsolete.
Indeed. With the recent course of US gov./FED decisions, debt seems pretty much already uncontrollable, it just keeps soaring and current powers at helm won't touch that problem with a ten foot pole.

However, it seems to me that as long as US gov. is maintaining world dominance of US dollar and the US population is kept disorganized to prevent a major coherent political action, this can probably go on indefinitely.

I would like to know what has to happen for the US gov. to change its fiscal behaviour. Maybe the internal turmoil like we see these months is what eventually breaks the camel's neck. What do you think will happen then? Maybe we will see some extraordinary government actions reforming debt/currency or work/incorporation laws to start over? Or maybe the situation will be managed by spraying little money to the poor people to keep up? I can imagine with some helicopter money the current mess can go on for next 100 years...
> and if you want to go to another server you have to actually move things. It takes actual effort.

Not sure how that's worse than something like Facebook, where you literally don't get that option. If you want your asserted identity to be reasonably secure and easy to assess for other users, you have to find a trusted host or do your own hosting; that's no different from any other service.
90% is wildly off base. In earths orbit you get ~1361 W/m2 and on the surface you can hit 1050W/m2 of direct sunlight and up to ~1120 W/m2 when including radiation scattered or reemitted by atmosphere and surroundings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance

Looking at averages is misleading. Clouds and the atmosphere on average reduce this significantly, but that’s very location specific. Near the poles the sun stays at very low angles 24/7 which significantly increases the average absorption. But, solar is a poor fit at the poles anyway.
Google image search is now terrible. Literally will just give you other examples of 'dogs'or 'man'
Deepl works better than translate. Yandex and 2Gis works better than Google maps for my region. Google search is superb, can't really argue with that.
I think that’s increasingly not the case. I’m writing this message on an iPhone 6s which honestly still feels great. I had the battery replaced a couple years ago but aside from that I haven’t had any problems with it - all the apps I run on it feel smooth and responsive. (And in some cases better than my desktop since they aren’t running through electron.)

If not for the camera and iOS support inevitably ending, I don’t see much reason to upgrade.
I'm thinking of creating blog posts versions variants of the videos that would be more concise and actionnable, and Youtube would be more entertaining. What do you think ?
While I mostly agree with your comment, I would like to point out that a company may have a lifespan much greater than that of a skilled worksman (which may or may not have transferred his "specific" knowledge to any co-worker and/or apprentice). A company, simply because of the stream of new people that will have to be trained, need to have that knowledge passed down at some point, and having it laid down in writing or any non perishable medium is the safest way to do so.

I'd like to add a little context around the quote [0], because I do think it makes another issue very apparent:

> Building a dam requires knowledge and skill developed through years of experience. Obayashi's automated system is expected to be a game-changer in dam construction, as well as in other applications.

> "By transferring expert techniques to machines, we're able to analyze what was once implicit knowledge," said Akira Naito, head of Obayashi's dam technology unit.

> Every process for constructing the 334-meter-wide dam will involve some form of automation. That includes the initial work of establishing the foundation, and pouring concrete to form the body.

Implicit knowledge here refers to dam builders' workmanship and experience. It is an empirically constructed knowledge which is "stored" in the worksman's mind as instincts, concepts, know-how... While these may "be analyzed" and re-used for automation purposes, I have very strong doubts whether such implicit knowledge may even be truly understood and translated (be it in code or any other media) if there is such a precise goal. Specifically because the knowledge is implicit and applies situationally, one may never be able to grasp it all without some kind of very complex knowledge transfer set-up that could cover a broad range of situations, allowing all of the patterns to emerge and be identified.

Enough knowledge may be gathered that a company could successfully apply it to dam building by machines. But as automation replaces dam builders, chances are that the portion of the extracted knowledge which is not necessary to the company will join the expertise which did not transfer from the workmans' minds to the company to lay forever in the land of lost knowledge (...until it is found again through experience).

The rest will most likely be preserved "forever" through more or less obscure patents and "hard", explicit knowledge in the company's hands.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Engineering-Construction/Da...
A lot of things that seemed obvious at the time (spontaneous generation, geocentrism) didn't turn out to be true after being studied.
Samurai and Samariter, Magadan and Maria Magdalena, are they related as well?
(disclaimer: I'm just medically-curious, no accreditation) It's the cause of so much disease, insulin resistance. It's a common thread in the last few years in the research I think, for heart disease & diabetes & fatty liver & metabolic syndrome etc. I think it's like >10% of all people have metabolic syndrome now.

It causes issues with the gut, promoting inflammation and that "chubby" appearance you see. It's not all fat--lots of that is simply inflammation of the gut.
Sample size isn't as big of a deal-breaker as the layperson may think. If the mechanism of action is well understood and the potency of the effect is strong, you don't need a big sample size. For an extreme but apt example of this: how many people really need to be beheaded to prove that it kills someone to a reasonable degree?
Good read! Also impressed by how the article page is designed/engineered. I wonder for a site like this how much of the content is hard coded and how much is made by tools / frameworks (the interactive scrolling box really looks like a hard-coded component for this article specifically)
ALB Listener Rule with Terraform
In the US, an MD does not require doctoral research, it's all education and training.
Is there a medical consensus on this? The closest I've heard to anything on the subject is that a dermatologist once advised me to try not using soap on my face as a possible acne treatment.
And if the NYT only deemed race relevant when the perpetrator was Black and victim was White, filling the pages with "Black kills White", and never the reverse, would you see the problem then?
Can anyone recommend encoding settings for archiving DVD-Video discs created on a recorder?

I've taken dd images, but can't find a reasonable "archival" h265 profile that doesn't come out larger than the original.
Yeah, this is a Betteridge's Law kind of case. I mean, there's zero evidence for this trade happening and no reason at all to believe it wasn't simultaneously invented. So... no. It wasn't. It plausibly could have been, but there's no evidence. So no.
It's called homeostasis. This is the reason why it's hard to lose weight and keep it off. Your body has "set points" that it creates, and it takes a consistent effort to push your body off of that set point and dig a groove into a different one.
“I mentioned before BTW that the CPU usage by Appraiser is not a bug”
With the first page of results being mostly Google or paid ads, spam is roughly what we have today, too.
With a lot of these things I would highly recommend to just try it. If it works for you, good. If not, don't do it. It doesn't cost anything and you won't harm yourself.

I started yoga before it became mainstream and with a lot of the practices I tried them for myself. For example I noticed that some pranayama practices work for me and others don't. Back then pretty much every "serious" scientist or doctor would have told you that all this is nonsense. Same for meditation.

Try it. there is not much to lose. It doesn't cost anything and won't harm you. Worst case it doesn't work.
Wait but the words highlighted in the word usage trends don't support the claim that NYT "abandoned it's commitment to nonpartisan reporting"

Explain how a big uptick in the use of words like "feminism", "islamaphobia" and "anti-semitism" mean the NYT became partisan?

I have a lot of beef with the NYT but the graphs don't show what he claims. And if he actually believes they do, then I have seriously questions about his viewpoints.

Especially considering events that happened around the phase change, like the muslim ban and Me Too movement, that could easily explain the step changes in word frequency around 2014-2016. And is there any comparison with other news outlets word frequencies?

If anything, the step changes show that before 2014ish, NYT was failing at recognizing important issues that they have now started reporting on.
Unlike PhDs, professional doctorates don’t generally require research. I know several medical doctors none of whom did research as part of their doctorate degree program (although some did research as part of a masters).
This is what I thought, I think that striving to create content about current and well mediatized issues or more obscure but still helpful marketing examples may also help with having fresh content :)
Soap doesn't actually taste that bad. (Disclaimer: I like cilantro.)
> I have a friend that refuses to wear sunscreen because he feels like the risk to his health from rubbing all the "unknown chemicals" into his skin outweigh the health risk of skin cancer.

I do wear sunscreen at the beach or if I am going to be outside in direct sunlight all day. I do question however if the risks posed by what is in sunscreen outweigh the protective benefit if you put it all over your body every day. I am not a doctor or expert in this so don't listen to me.
Alfred-Evernote-Workflow
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How do DFAs handle zero-width anchors? For example \b, or ^ and $ in multiline mode?
Thanks - I like it.
How many other factors than beheading can affect a persons risk of dying from being beheaded?
> It might only mean they both had goats,

Goats themselves, however, are absolutely something they got by trade and exchange. All three known domestication events happened in the middle east.
I have AYCE sushi scheduled monthly as part of lifting routine, and notice overcompensation that day has no real long term consequences. Body will either eat less or shit more in the following days. I track calories as well and will definitely end the week with AYCE surplus, which never makes it to scale weight.
Several of the terms listed include terms that literally didn't exist in 1970s so I'm not surprised that they spike up... I also don't know what the graphs mean- are they all on the same scale, or is it measuring their frequency relative to themselves? It makes sense for a term like "amazon" to double or triple in frequency from the 1970s, because the literal Amazon company is probably double or triply influencial than however many times the Science section can cover the amazon rainforest...

For example, it's difficult to deviate that racism is an outrage culture strategy from the NYT if Black Lives Matter was coined in 2013 (and then became popular in 2014) which coincides with the graphs about race. [0].

For example, it makes sense that amazon got more attention over time- it literally didn't exist in 1970s and only became prominent recently.[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

EDIT: There is also a claim that this noticeably differentiates from google trends of words searched for. Do comparable graphs exist to prove this claim? Does it also differentiate from social media words being used, or from other media sources like Reuters, Fox News, CNN, Washington Post, etc? Without further context about this, I don't know what conclusions should be drawn specifically about NYT.
South Fork was never a hydroelectric dam. It was an earthen dam meant to create a lake for the robber barons of the day.

And it was fine, until said robber barons decided not to maintain the dam.
Yeah, I keep coming back to this "$1 billion idea" of building a solar plant on big shed roofs. Quite literally buy a reasonable sized property in the country(with/near rail) and cover it in sheds.

Once the solar energy output is established then the shed can be used for productive work. Preferably with some level of energy storage but a lot of productive sheds don't need much overnight electricity.
Fascinating. I thought it was more like once a month.
Should you wash your face with antibacterial soap?

No, because the microbiome (helpful bacteria) around the eyes prevents conjunctivitis. And killing off those beneficial bacteria clears the way for far more undesireable bacteria.

Yes, germs are bad.
I have friends who I remember always insisting on burning their CDs and DVDs at the maximum speed the discs allowed for, and they all had problems with their discs dying with time, some very soon, some after a year or two. No matter what brand. Conversely, I never burned any of my CDs or DVDs at more than half their advertised maximum speed, and so far I've yet to run into a single disc dying from age. Some of these discs are now 20 years old, and they still read/play fine.

My theory - and this is just a theory as I don't really know what's going on - is that the dyes in CD-Rs and DVD-Rs after laser exposure slowly regress back towards the original transparent state, and that very "fast" dyes combined with a very short exposure time ("up to 52x speed!") emphasizes this problem, while giving the dyes a longer exposure time prevents it by simply burning the dye opaque beyond "recovery".
If you have any kind of serious health issue, it's worth looking at your usual routine -- aka anything you do habitually, basically -- and wondering if that's a variable worth varying instead of considering something like soap all over to be sacrosanct.

We have a shockingly poor understanding of the processes behind most diseases. We generally do a poor job of even thinking of the body in terms of processes and throughputs, much less factoring in elements like "I wonder how this is impacting my microbiome? And what that does to my overall health?"

Tips for self experimentation:

1. Keep a journal.

2. Make one and only one change at a time and space them at least a week apart, longer if possible.
Because it's difficult to install them at scale like that. For example, if you want to do a big solar project, you have to negotiate with the owner of every building you want to put panels on, you have to find a place in every building for inverters, you have to install metering, you may have to upgrade the grid to handle the extra power going out, then you have to have an account and customer service and payments for every building, and if the panels need to be maintained, you have to schedule a time and send out a crew.

Then you also can't practically do certain things like install trackers, because they break more often and it's too expensive to maintain them if you have to have a crew go out there instead of your on-site maintenance people just go over to the broken tracker/panel.

Overall the costs of rooftop solar are just more expensive than a central solar farm. Plus, you can site the solar farm where there is better sunlight and land is cheap.

Ultimately this is the problem I have with solar: It puts an effective cap on our energy use. Solar will never be more than 100% efficient, and there is only so much land that it is reasonable to use, so if we say, wanted to expand our worldwide energy usage 10x, it's not really feasible.
UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)
Interesting it wasn't called ATtinyBasic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR_ATtiny_comparison_ch...
Unless the reader knows how the choice of words was made, it remains possible to choose a set of words to fit any narrative.

The word "intersectionality" has only recently reached popular discourse. What's the 70s word for "intersectionality"? I have no idea, but I'm sure it was really groovy.

Show us the words with the biggest net positive trends and the biggest net negative trends, globally or within some semantic domain. Then we might have a narrative instead of innuendo.
Averages don't matter when you are talking about fat-tailed/power law risk distributions. Nobody would be opposed to PVs on roofs in their neighborhood b/c some construction workers fall to death every year - this risk is well calculable. But (almost) everyone would be opposed to a fission plant or nuclear waste facility next door - and rightfully so.

How is this even an argument.

Nuclear risks are also calculable. The regulatory hurdles nuclear has to go trough, even for testing reactors, to meet risk criteria (among others), are enormous. The vast majority of nuclear, as exposed by deaths/TWh generated, is extremely safe. Flying vs driving argument.

Take the worst nuclear catastrophe. Take the wildest overestimation in deaths. It's still less than most other sources, including renewables.

No, in practice humanity never figured out how to safely and efficiently use this power source

What? France. All their active residues probably fit in one or two football fields. 3th/4th Gen will consume them, making medical radioisotopes in the process. You can't contain megatons of CO2 this easily.

In the meantime, air pollution kills in the range of 6-8 million people a year. German support for keeping nuclear grows

https://twitter.com/hh_mikawe/status/1284770806090825728?s=2...
"This is just not true, there's no way you can say this. Solar costs are going down massively. Hydro is dirt cheap already. "
ROTFL. You made my day mate.

For starters: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
What I am taking from this...is that fullness isnt a quantitative measure...such as caloric consumption...or physical intake but more of a mindset. Our bodies are probably adapted to fluctuating inputs. Our minds are however trained to constant inputs. I feel like staying busy and saying no are the best way to shed weight. I could be just speaking from personal experience though.
> frequently have wondered where and how these things exist?

Quite often, they're simply hosted in permissive jurisdictions that are a lot more likely to look the other way wrt. such activity than a place like Germany or The Netherlands. The whole bunker angle was an interesting gimmick that these folks came up with but still, that's what it boils down to: a gimmick. Even the whole "cryptophone" side business is shady as hell, just notice how they all seem to go out of their way to market their products/services to organized crime. Why would anyone wonder when those folks get raided by law enforcement.
I think a problem with ITER for PR isn't the cost. It's time. I learned about it and got excited more than a decade ago. It'll still take years of time for it to be finished.

I'm not really sure how to express this, but the huge amount of time just diminishes the impact of it for me.
If the microbes were dead then yes. If they are still alive, presumably they've been doing a basic level of life stuff for the past 100 million years which involves replicating and preserving DNA.
Something can be fascinating and appalling at the same time. It's only a term of interest. Talk to serial murderer podcast listeners and ask if they approve of murder.

Surprise has no intrinsic valence, neither positive or negative, that's why it's often considered its own emotional dimension.

Assuming a positive implication where none exists seems a little bad faith. Might want to watch that if you want to have civil discourse in the future.
It's more like saying "javascript isn't a website, it's just o common tool for making websites".

Meditation doesn't depend on mindful breathing, even though it's often used. It's possible to meditate without mindfulness on the breath, and it's possible to breathe mindfully without meditating.
"is if a laboratory experiment cannot even produce desired outcomes, "

the lab experiments delivered the desired results. The data made it possible to project how a fusion reactor can work. The same happened with nuclear bombs. They did a lot of small scale experiments until they knew what was needed to produce a function nuclear fission and later fusion bomb.
I'd like to know this also. I had bad acne in my teen years until I stopped washing my face completely and I haven't had anything but a pimple or two in over 20 years.
I'm like that (I'm skinny and get full very easily - even tho I'm still careful because I'm 40 and any weight I gain now will be increasingly hard to lose), and my friend started gaining weight when he moved to the US a few years ago and it seems his appetite just keeps getting bigger, and he tends to snack right after eating dinner, which I find basically impossible.
Right.

Obviously I'm not talking about that.

And, sure, I've got for multiple multi-year periods without wearing sunscreen, though I do when I want to expose my skin, of course.

Also, the site guidelines ask us to:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right so you believe in closed borders, travel bans, visa applications, passports, etc etc. I get it. You'd love Trump.

We can disagree on this issue, but don't tell me I'm "entitled" for saying that from a moral perspective, the concept of restricting one's international movement based on their nationality is ridiculous, especially if they don't actually live in their home country anymore.

I don't know if you actually read the article, but it is extremely humiliating that the passport lottery giving you a passport from the wrong country makes any attempt to leave your country a nightmare. Hopefully now with COVID more Americans can empathize with this, and we can get rid of this border/via/passport nonsense.
According to Wikipedia, the IPT upheld ten of 1468 complaints from 2000 to 2012. High standards of conduct, judicial probity and intellectual excellence do not inevitably lead to justice—we know this from, e.g., Singapore—and, whilst we cannot determine much sans access to classified data and rulings, this seems to be one of those cases. The problem with the IPT is probably not this sort of exploit, but rather its overall structure and the statutory framework within which it operates.
A wet loofah will exfoliate just fine without soap. You don't give your colon a soap enema every day, why do that to your skin microbiome?