skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Small sandwich + crisps + sugary soda or coffee >= 700 calories

What are you on about? That's under a third of the daily recommended calories for a man.

Even if you ate this three times a day... you're going to be under.

> around twice what someone sedentary needs for lunch

So a 350 calorie lunch? So that'd be under half the recommended daily intake total even if you ate a large breakfast. So people living on about 1000 calories a day? How does that work? Most people's weights would be in freefall.

People have weird warped views about how many calories things are. For example did you know if you ate a full McDonald's meal with fries and regular Coca-Cola for every meal... you'd be under your recommended calorie count?
In my personal opinion, it is just getting started. There are people from many countries who are looking at crypto as a means to do their living and blockchain is getting more and more visibility. There are govts. trying to block the blockchain developments because of the traceability and immutability properties.
If it is not efficient it will cost more than it yields, a loss. According to FAO 70% of worlds land surface is not suitable for planting crops.

Cattle can transform grass, that we can't eat, to protein that we need. It is actually a good thing, especially if you can't grow anything there.

In Sweden we have something called ecological farming, it is certification, to be approved for ecological farming you can't use mineral fertilizers anywhere in your food production.

Ecological products are usually somewhat more expensive in the store.

Now there are of course lots of farms that is not classified as ecological and they can use mineral fertilizers or natural fertilizers.

About a third of all fertilizers for farming used in Sweden is natural.
Or any other recent repo where issues get "stale" and closed automatically.
I was working next to my smart meter one day and noticed that doing a code build (C++) increased my PC's power consumption by ~50W.

Enthusiastically dragging windows around the desktop seemed to cause little spikes too which I assume is caused by my graphics card.
The sandwiches are twice the price of a supermarket sandwich, and for many (especially students working at Pret) the idea of buying lunch out rather than making it at home and bringing it in may be a luxury.

If you're on £16k a year, spending £1000 for a sandwich every day for lunch is a lot (£4 sandwich * 250 working days).
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-shower-heads-20...

Probably because they don't conform to regulations?
Let’s assume for a moment the story turns out to be true: would people stop using Instagram because of it?looking at the history of privacy violations and the market’s responds to it I doubt it. There is a minority of users who will feel rightfully violated in their privacy (imagine browsing instagram naked while possibly being ogled at by some creep at FB). The worst that will happen is that FB will be sanctioned to pay a laughably low fine. I think we need much harsher repercussions against these practices, up to barring them completely from operating.
A "clean" UI is often a less functional or efficient UI; cleanliness is usually achieved by adding indirection or removing functionality. But Gtk3 isn't even clean; it's often cluttered. Just look at the title bar on dconf-editor when you're 5 levels deep in a config tree.

Menus are ideal for commands which are individually infrequently used, but collectively frequently used. That is, where any given menu item isn't used often enough to warrant learning the keyboard shortcut (not that Gtk3 menus show shortcuts, because they don't), but the menu as a total is visited to execute a command frequently. Consider things like IDEs, photo manipulation, video editing, sound editing, basically anything with a lot of tools to apply.

I find it particularly ironic that Gimp - the OG Gtk - doesn't use a hamburger menu, because that would be ludicrous.
Sputnik means travel companion. In the context of COVID-19, its probably a bit more surreal than it ought to be, name-wise ..
Use less javascript framework lol
and to add to my previous comment, it can export geometry in IGES (but not STEP). Here are all the geometry formats it can export https://i.imgur.com/RnQ82mX.png This is the free version
One of the most annoying things is to try and launch your camera on a phone and have to wait multiple seconds before you can hit the shutter, at which point the thing you want to photograph might already be gone. So I can definitely understand the logic behind this, even if it's creepy.

IIRC, Apple has invested specifically in reducing startup latency for the camera, but I don't know if that applies to apps.
I think you’ve misread my comment.

So I’ve said it’s interesting to see that both those cities are “back to almost 100% capacity” - almost being an operative word - from end of august to now Moscow has been @ 70-90% consistently, and St Petersburg has actually had 80-100+% in that time.

I also see people jumping to conclusions around taking this to mean it’s now safe there, I never said, nor implied, that.
>Puberty blockers aren't exactly reversible

That's not what the medical consensus[1] says. I hope you have some damn good evidence to the contrary if you want to deny tens of thousands of people access to life-saving medical treatment.

[1] https://www.seattlechildrens.org/pdf/PE2572.pdf
You might like the mass cytometry reconstruction of the human haematopoietic system [1]. I've done a bit of scRNA-seq and mass cytometry, and the issue I have with scRNA-seq is the tiny dynamic range it has compared to flow/mass cytometry, which can make identifying populations much harder. Not to mention the cost!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273988/figure/...
> No, I'm asking how a new open protocol can be built on top of email in a way that maintains strong backwards compatibility while offering strong security guarantees, like end-to-end encryption. I don't think it's possible.

That's exactly what Autocrypt is doing. They're still at level 1, ie opportunistic encryption: try to encrypt if possible, default to plain-text if not. That's 100% backwards-compatible.

What we all want is a system where we are sure that messages can't be sent in plaintext. The only way this can happen is if MTAs actually read messages and check if encryption is applied; if not, reject it. That's something that can happen but by definition it can't be backwards-compatible.
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actual, factual, and no-clickbait source; https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-hospit...
It's vaguely hilarious to discover that one of the problems with Facebook's work culture is ... too much Facebook.
Unfortunately, SolidWorks "encourages" you to upgrade by not providing any way to save/export native files that earlier versions can read. If you're receiving files from a 3rd party, you need to have a version that is at least as recent as theirs.

This is unlike, say, Excel 2007, which can export .xls files that Excel 2000 can read.
Do you qualify for this program?
https://www.solidworks.com/solution/organization-type/entrep...

I use Solidworks professionally and prefer it but the above program isn't in my region. I'm starting a side project and need CAD. Solidworks starts at like, $5000 plus $2000 per year and if you don't renew the license, you either have to backpay all renewal fees you missed, or buy it again. Actually it's double the price in my region. Their reseller program is awful too.

After checking all the options you've mentioned and more, I decided to use solidedge. It has a monthly option starting from about $100, direct from Siemens, that can be stopped and restarted without penalty. And I feel really good about supporting this licensing scheme as all the others out there are just awful.

For FEM I think I will use a Siemens FEMAP/NASTRAN. It's $700 a month, with the same good license terms. I could batch my work that requires it to 1-2 months per year. There's even cheaper ways to use it in a cloud service too.

I would maybe try onshape but I don't like the idea that I'd have to pay forever if I wanted to maintain parametric files, or live with exported solids whenever I stop the service.
I never thought about it like this but this covers surprisingly much of what's currently happening.
Modern node development uses promises as well.
I also like that package environments are integrated in Julia and thus there is only one way handle environments.
I would assume it is because of certification issues and the manufacturer might have skipped that for Canada. That is pretty common because the process can be expensive and maybe the market is too small or too competitive.

Certification issues are actually quite complicated in our new megacorp international trade. The requirement for certifications is often simply ignored by third party vendors and enforcement is difficult.
I think they should be allowed to talk about politics. Verbal conflict is always good.
The reason why political conflicts are not resolvable these days is because there is a strong element of financial self-interest which is preventing honest and rational discourse.

On one side, some people have an interest in not accepting that their financial success is arbitrary and illegitimate.
On the opposite side, some people feel that they have been locked out of an arbitrary wealth transfer and so they have a strong interest in not accepting that they're incompetent losers and that they deserve to be at the bottom of the food chain because they didn't time the market right (a highly speculative and irrational market too!). Or maybe they didn't pass the Facebook whiteboard test job interview questions several years back (which is also an arbitrary hiring process by many accounts)... So basically they missed out on a huge opportunity because of some fickle arbitrary reason.

I don't think blocking discourse is going to improve things. History has shown time and time again that preventing free speech will stop people from finding compromises. The only solution to the worsening problems will be violence.

If the elites keep suppressing speech, the result will be worse than WW2 and the elites will not stand a chance because it will be fought on their own turf...
The elites won't even know who their enemy is. Their own friends and family members could be against them. They won't even realize it until it's too late.

The right thing to do is to find political solutions. I personally think that UBI (Universal Basic Income) would solve most problems. It wouldn't fix the wealth gap immediately, but it would fix the mechanism which is suspected of causing arbitrary (centralizing) wealth transfer and that would at least level the playing field.

UBI is a really good compromise. If the elites are so confident in their superior abilities, surely they have nothing to lose by leveling the playing field right?

BTW, I currently earn 100% passive income so I'm actually saying this as someone who is on the winning side... I've come so close to complete failure - I leaped over the crevasse in the nick of time; the system's fickleness and arbitrariness are crystal clear to me. I'm currently standing on the winning side of a very deep precipice and I can see legions of talented people running straight into it.
Honestly, the ones that set up a wiki but not the code are at least as valuable as the ones writing the code.
Will 2020 be someone’s Annus Mirabilis?
Doesn't keeping camera on increase battery drain, though? Also, with Facebook being evil and all, what's stopping them from hopping on "hey, the camera is already on, let's not waste that, and use the incoming visual data for something while we're at it" line of thinking eventually?
Most of the consumers have little choice in their consumption. Investors who are putting millions of dollars knowingly into companies that harm the environment are doing it intentionally. There is no comparison here.

It's easy to change thousands/hundreds of investors responsible for these companies than billions of consumers.

We have tried putting responsibility on consumers and it utterly failed. 90% of plastic isn't recycled. Many companies which promised to take your blue bin and recycle it sent it to China and other Asian countries. Repairability has only gone down.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/setup/a...
> You need to broaden your news sources; this is by no means common, except for perhaps in a few gun-happy states like Texas.

The only places I have seen images like that is on sites like Reddit with some sort of 'Murica' text next to it, but it is still pretty insane that this sort of thing can be shrugged off as "this is by no means common, except for perhaps in a few gun-happy states like Texas.".

To be clear, I am not criticising you personally, but isn't it crazy that there are places in the US where people go to the cinema or super market in tactical gear and rifles and that the people around them don't run away screaming?
I don’t know whether I’d turn to MIT for ideas in Western land management. Looking on the MIT website, there was a 2013 report on fire management practices from their Engineering Systems group, and a 2015 press release describing the dissolving of their Engineering Systems group. There is a 2019 high-level article on applying risk management techniques by folks who took Sloan Management courses (not MIT staff), but the 2020 MIT blurb about the research was more about how great the MIT management courses the authors took were than any concrete contribution to land management by MIT.

I’m guessing there is a lot of cringing going on in forestry schools in the West when MIT of all places publishes a high-visibility article on forestry and fire management that has a title that includes “Here’s what California needs to do instead.” Perhaps someone with actual subject matter expertise on this well-studied topic could comment on whether the article’s content is as oversimplified and naive as one would assume it would be.
"Free speech is bad because I don't like hearing people talk in an open office" is a really terrible take, and I say that as someone who doesn't like either Facebook's role in far-right politics or people talking in open offices.
Interesting project. By why no USB? Why does it have a Relay?
... and here I'd thought the reference was to british automobiles:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489860

(On houses, there is a line in The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss about how swiss abhor drafts. According to my father, this observation, albeit made in a book nominally about the swiss, says much more about the british.)
Lambda – A Serverless Musical
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Svelte (JS framework focused on efficiency)

Zig (systems programming language)

Crystal, Nim (Application programming languages with ergonomics focus)

Value types support in Java

OCaml multicore

Mini-pass compilers

Google Fuchsia
> not a lot of money

This is the part that's puzzling to people working minimum wage. Their marginal utility of money is much higher than yours.
Has someone made a ranking of the oldest bugs Mozilla has? Maybe even by severity?

I remember some years ago a security ticket was resolved after someone on reddit celebrated its decennial.
Many good points here.

I know webpages I had to use for months that would eat my laptop battery if left alone (log in screen for a wifi network that scrolled the background, eating a full processor core and also search results page when using Firefox and Google).
I must say I'm not as virtuous as you :)
Rust in Science and ever-changing requirements
Thank you for the answers!

> If it is not efficient it will cost more than it yields, a loss.

I was thinking about less efficient, but still profitable. I presume it's not a binary, and farms aren't operating barely above EROI of 1.

> According to FAO 70% of worlds land surface is not suitable for planting crops.

That's... super surprising to me. I would have expected something closer to 50-40%. Perhaps it hinges on the definition of "suitability"? I'll look into those stats.

> About a third of all fertilizers for farming used in Sweden is natural.

That's also surprising to me. Is this number so large because there are so many ecological farms in Sweden, or natural fertilizer is just so popular?
More or less as I heard the joke:

Q. What do you call someone who speaks multiple languages?

A. multilingual

Q. What do you call someone who speaks two languages?

A. bilingual

Q. What do you call someone who speaks one language?

A. english

Q. What do you call an englishman who speaks multiple languages?

A. MI6
They're unusual because they're false.
Fair enough, there has been a bit of change day to day but not overall from the vaccine release date compared to yesterday; they are pretty much the same (Moscow). St Petersburg seems more upbeat.

I accept and know you were not saying it was safe; just commenting on the mobility (which is an interesting metric, thanks for the pointer) - but I don't agree with your interpretation of it wrt Moscow.
Same reason why every article about Kobe Bryant's was flagged to death in HN and not restored by the moderators; whereas an article about Bill Gates' father or random people not linked to tech get so many up-votes and comments.
Ah didn't know that story, thought it was just about the first book.
minkowski and hull operate on every vertex in your object mesh - this means they need to a) convert the solid into a mesh and b) do math for every combination of vertices in said mesh. That's O(n^2) operations for objects of complexity n. This means that they are much slower than csg operations (that operate on the underlying geometry rather than the mesh). They are definitely the slowest (but most powerful) operators in OpenSCAD. If you're doing something like minkowski-adding a sphere to a complex shape, use $fn=(some low number) on the sphere to reduce face count and speed things up initially while you're hacking around, then increase it again before final render.
Seconding the question.

Also, what's the best not-necessarily-open textbook on the subject? I've been meaning to dig into the topic in depth for a while, I could use a good textbook.
According to the /r/rust thread it seems to be working out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/iqq8k9/announcing_act...
Snapdrop[1] works quite well if you're on the same network. It's cross platform, you only need a reasonably recent web browser.

[1] https://snapdrop.net/
Even if this was true, which I doubt, what would Facebook actually gain by doing this? They'd see a person's face from an unflattering angle with an unflattering expression.

Or they'd see whatever the front camera sees at the time, which in my case right now is the back of my phone case or possibly the floor.

I don't see that as valuable data to mine.
SoftBank Sells Brightstar, Carrying on Its Divestiture Spree
You're being racist.
Red teaming the Robot Operating System in industry
I was diagnosed with “light dyslexia” as a kid (way back in the late eighties) and it benefitted me modestly (I was already in a highly selective private school). I went from the lowest rung of reading ability to the highest in a matter of months, based on little more than parental campaigning and settling into the general gait of those whose company I was placed in.

I totally agree with this article’s two claims: that the disease is a mirage (not even a cluster of issues that provide similar symptoms) and that public policy needs to be broadly revised to not depend upon hitting some abstract set of criteria in order to qualify for tailored help that largely assists any student.

I’ll end my contentious statement by pointing out that a significant bias exists amongst all those who are providing personal anecdata because they consider themselves legitimately systemic once the criteria are deemed to have been fulfilled once by at least one partitioner, but do not retire their diagnosis if other practitioners disagree.
>You also now need two teams to code the front end - one that knows HTML etc, and one that knows the backend-frontend language

Or, you could hire some full-stack developers and let them split the work more efficiently.
This is still in place, just now regulated[0] rather than outright illegal.

Particularly noticeable during the iOS app store[1] submission process (Android's is somewhat more lax[2] leaving the liability firmly with individual developers)

[0] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/all-articles/15-policy-gui...

[1] https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/dev88f5c7bf9

[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Tesla is almost certainly going to get sued at this rate. Calling a feature that needs constant driver supervision "autopilot" should already be treated as advertising fraud, but soon enough someone will die because a Tesla owner didn't read the fine print on what it means, and at that point Tesla has to be just as liable.
Some from column A, some from column B.

The important thing is to apply the efficiency counterpart of Amdahl's law and target the efficiency improvements first at elements which make up a large part of consumption.

Turning off mobile chargers? Optimising PNGs? They're not a large part of consumption in the first place, so it makes no difference.

Switching all lightbulbs away from incandescent has made a huge difference.
Another point with menus is that the typical top-of-the screen, and nowadays "hamburger" menu is just dumping ground for all functionality, and should be at most of a secondary use to common and context-specific actions represented by buttons/context menus/etc.

Something usually lost in "clean" UIs...
Grmtools: LR Grammar and parsing libraries for Rust
I think it is somewhat clear at this point that it is net bad. While I cannot comment on the claims made by some FB employees rising to defend their own moral choices I can say that I left FB when the consequences of my work on personal privacy could no longer be ignored. Luckily for me (I guess...) this was before it became clear that there was also the long-term destructive effect that FB has on democracy and civil society to deal with, but I think you should know that working there is always going to involve compromising your morals and ethics. You and your co-workers will be surrounded by a lot of motivational posters and routinely be told how your work is serving some nebulous positive benefit, but it will be a lie.

I have worked for a lot of start-ups, including several that grew to become significant giants in their segment of the internet. Facebook has been the only one I worked at where there was a group of employees whose job was to create posters to hang up in all of the offices telling everyone else how important and worthwhile it was to work at FB -- looking back I think this level of internal propaganda should have been a warning sign.
One goal that covers all suggestions: reduce advertisement.
Brennan Dunn used to post on here on that topic as well: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/category/pricing/
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Welcome to the good ship 'Modern C++'.

You're right too. Most Cloud software is JVM based (Kafka, etc). I would be quite interested to see how more efficient things would be if they were ported to C++. Cassandra is a JVM-based NoSQL DB that has a C++ port called Scylla. Scylla destroys the JVM version.
That's quite the wrong way of approaching science. The scientific method is based on building on the shoulders of giants. Those giants aren't the professors in the direct vicinity nor are they only the papers you cite. The whole of the process is science and if we need further specialization for building better tools (hey, maths and statistics are scientific tools as well) I would classify that as science to a large extent.

What could be useful is openness in used tools and software and a way of getting citation counts for software used. It's nothing more than a table. That way the hotness of publication could start to flow for the underlying tools.
HIV has no vaccine... and covid is mutated HIV...