skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not about being against the subject or not. It's about the way the arguments are presented. In several threads, when the same scenario plays in the US, the comments are "ad hominem" attacks to the country and its culture. When it happens to Germany, the focus is on debating the actual issue.

I'm not American, but the Americanophobia present here and the schadenfreude towards bad things happening in the US is quite the subject for a study.

Regarding your statement that this comment is not useful: perhaps. I've been observing this trend and it's been interesting to write notes and have the groundwork for something more concrete. Then, it will probably be more helpful.
I'm pretty sure they're still testing that feature. I see it show up occasionally.

Interestingly, I think there are a couple of variants for the number of videos to display on the home page, too.
I don't know what they've been dealing with the last few years, but it used to be practically a cliche that they'd discover the foundation was cracked or the corner of the house was solid wood rot, and the estimate for the renovation would increase by 50% overnight.
I have three major comments about this. First, most countries use a lot of public transportation, which often requires walking roughly a mile to and again from work and commerce centers. This "forces" them to get regular exercise. Our car culture cuts into that.

Second, we need better food labeling. "Serving size" is too arbitrary. Instead use ratios: ratio per N calories, and ratio per weight. That way we can easily compare across product types. It can be worded as "X units per N calories" and "X units per gram", or the like. The units would be standardized.

Third, include percent of whole-ness of grain. It's hard to know otherwise. We need to eat more whole grains, but 100% is not very tasty to most such that a mix is decent compromise. But we need better numbers to know the mix percent.
Seconding this, the platform can be blown wide open and has an amazing library of both homebrew and official games.
Relevant from 13 years ago: Network Solutions sued for domain tasting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123899
European politics in 2021 will be interesting to watch.

During the endless Brexit debates in the UK prior to the referendum itself, IIRC the more credible analysis tended to have the EU27 combined losing more than the UK in absolute economic terms, maybe even twice as much, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The argument was made that the EU could afford to take that bigger hit anyway and was still in the stronger position in negotiations, because as you say even a somewhat greater cost would be distributed over many more people.

Then the counter-argument was that the distribution of any costs to the EU would be far from uniform. For example, one member state in the EU27 was all but guaranteed a catastrophic outcome if there is a no-deal Brexit: Ireland. This is part of the reason the NI border issue was such a sensitive topic during the negotiations. But more generally, some member states are much more dependent on the UK than others, or more dependent than others in some specific area(s). Another common examples is that the Mediterranean tourism destinations get a huge amount of revenue from the Brits each summer (under normal circumstances at least, maybe not so much this year) and in certain cases this represents a significant fraction of their entire national economy.

The EU and the Europhile leaders that most of the larger member states have had in recent times have been very good at showing a united front when it comes to Brexit, but as we've seen with other issues like the immigration/refugee situation and the pandemic, that solidarity can rapidly give way to realpolitik when times get tough. A lot of the EU27 member states are going to take a hit if we leave the transition period with no deal at the end of the year, and I wonder how well their faith in and support of the EU will hold up once real money and real jobs start being lost on both sides of the Channel.

At this point, I do not expect there to be a deal, at least not a comprehensive one that is useful for the long term, by the end of this year. It won't surprise me at all if the cracks start appearing on the EU side soon afterwards, though whether they will spread as quickly and as deeply as those likely to form concurrently in the UK is anyone's guess. It also won't surprise me at all if some important issues that are, in theory at least, EU competences start to get dealt with more directly by national governments looking to protect their own interests. Time will tell.
The disinformation campaigns are definitely a problem, but I think peoples' susceptibility to them (as well as the very visible polarization etc) may only be growing pains.

The challenge is to make it through those adolescent years in a good way.

The current state of hyper connectedness has really come upon us all quickly. We weren't really ready for the challenges—we didn't really foresee what they would be.

There was a lot of naive optimism. I'm still optimistic, but maybe just less naive now.

Now that tech literacy is starting to become the norm, maybe we can advance to reasoning soon.
I don’t understand. There are entire nations (eg. Pakistan, Bangladesh) where meat is a delicacy and Rice and Wheat is what feeds the masses, the obesity ratio I’ve personally observed is nowhere near the US.
I had mozillazine-tr.org I think I have created it in 2007. Few years later I have stopped renewing it. But it still looked like it was registered to my fake name and creation date was same however it wasn't in my account. It had gihg Google page rank. I think thus Godaddy decided to keep it for themselves
I'd be interested to see the rates segmented by generation. Everyone in my generation (millennial) seems to be very sugar adverse, has that done anything to lower obesity rates?
It's the "tactical" part I have a problem with - from what we're seeing, we don't have enough information about the disease to make an informed decision.

E.g. the drastic differences in infection rates and mortality in different countries in Europe with nominally similar strategies gives us an indication that there is a lot more to learn.

Additionally, we don't know the long term consequences of this thing yet - it's possible that it's going to cause chronic issues a lot of people who would've otherwise been healthy.
People will argue this infringes on their freedom to make unhealthy life choices. I agree, you cannot force someone to make healthy life choices, only use pricing signals to encourage it. Tax them more to recoup the costs, and let them make the choices they would like (unhealthy foods, smoking, etc). I also agree that more regulation is required (States in Mexico intend to ban kids from purchasing junk food because childhood obesity there is skyrocketing [1]).

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912029399/we-had-to-take-acti... (NPR: 'We Had To Take Action': States In Mexico Move To Ban Junk Food Sales To Minors)
It was eye-opening to go through a couple inspections as a seller and see what those inspectors missed versus the inspectors we had hired on purchase. For example, evidence of insect damage -- we had treated the issue of course, but the evidence was still there and should have been noted.

You should ask your agent for recommendations and avoid them, they'll be the checklist guys :-).
Gandi.net used to have a cult-like following in its early days, was the registrar of reddit.com up until recently, and is still the registrar of ycombinator.com.

But its ownership has changed multiple times over two decades, and the company is now owned by a private equity firm. The most recent reviews have been far from great[1].

I would recommend INWX (Germany) as the best European alternative to Dynadot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
Calories is what makes you gain weight. Calories.

Also, a note: not everyone can eat a meat-heavy diet. I cannot. I don't have a gall bladder - like many others - and cannot digest the fats well. Eggs are too much sometimes.

Not only that, but you can eat perfectly healthy without actual meat. Low quality foods - meatless or not - generally have a lot of empty calories and aren't very filling, making it easier to gain weight.
It seems that both numbers are from the same report. Here's an excerpt from the report:

> How is it that only 12 states have adult obesity rates exceeding 35 percent, yet the national obesity rate is 42.4 percent? It’s because state obesity rates are from the BRFSS, which collects self-reported height and weight. Research has demonstrated that people tend to overestimate their height and underestimate their weight. In fact, one study found that, due to this phenomenon, the BRFSS may underestimate obesity rates by nearly 10 percent. NHANES, from which the national obesity rate is derived, calculates its obesity rate based on measurements obtained at respondents’ physical examinations. Accordingly, the higher rates found by NHANES are a more accurate reflection of obesity in the United States.

https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TFAHObesityR...
I think it meant: of course his wife says he's innocent.
Twitter Suspends Chinese Scientist Dr. Li-Meng Yan Account
Libro.fm gives you a .zip containing MP3 files.

Downpour lets you choose between an .m4b (an Apple format using aac audio, basically an mp4) and .mp3's.

Both websites say explicitly in the FAQ that all downloads are DRM-Free, although libro.fm makes a bigger deal out of it. If there's a screenshot or something that would make you feel more comfortable about what you're getting, let me know...
That's an argument against hyperconnection rather than free speech. Also, disinformation campaigns in the "West" have always existed. It's not anything new. And the only way to fight disinformation is with free speech. Free speech is what prevents disinformation to have total control.
Would love to hear your thoughts on pipenv as a real-world user of python environments. I leave it on the table that your current solution just works and you have never considered pipenv. ( I am not associated with pipenv. I've seemingly organically gravitated to it lately. )
Ask any traveller to the US what their trip was like, and at some point they will mention how portion sizes are gigantic. I have to agree, every time I've eaten there it's been way bigger than both what's good for me and what I was happy to get get for the price. This doesn't seem to stop at restaurants, I went to a supermarket and you can mega sized versions of just about anything. Even the strawberries seem to be bigger. You can get buckets of jelly babies. The ready made pizzas seem to be bigger. Just everything.

At the same time, most travellers will tell you the food was delicious. This may be good for keeping customers happy, but it's going to tend to mean things that our hunter gatherer ancestors wanted to stock up on, in quantities they would rarely find.

Finally, sweets and junk food in America are like crack. I don't know what they put in it, but just about everything in that category is more enticing than the same categories in Europe.

My brother had a six pack before he moved there. Now he has a beer belly.
That person makes a living, though.

Life isn't just about "getting rich" and being wolf of wall street. Engineers aren't billionaires or VPs but they're making a real good living most places in the US.
Google Domains did the same thing to me a few years ago.

There's a reason my personal domain is nothingofvalue.org instead of .com. Because when I went to register the .com originally and backed out at the last minute to give myself time to setup a PO Box (didn't like the ICANN publicly displaying my mailing address), I came back two days later and noticed that someone had registered the .com domain.
Far from 'hairsplitting and meaningless' the issue is at the very crux of 'democracy'.

That almost nobody voted in the election, that nobody knew who the leader - or the platform - was going to be, and that she was absolutely chosen after the fact, by unelected leaders, that she cannot be sanctioned or replaced, and that elected MEPs cannot propose legislation - is fundamental to the nature of democracy.

Even in proper democracies, particularly in Parliamentary systems, even the budget requires approval without which the government falls and elections are called. Why? Because the proposition of budgets necessitate popular sanction. Parliament - and even legislative assemblies can dissolve government if necessary.

Ursula von der Leyen has unambiguously the least democratic legitimacy of any leader in the free world, by far.

The fact that the EU was purposefully designed this way - in the very face of very healthy democratic institutions i.e. Switzerland, UK, Germany - implies the lack of democracy was very much 'by design'.

It's an existential issue.
you know they'll sneak updates forever worded like: General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

to patch exploits.
No.

The age-stratified IFR is magnitudes different between people under 40 and people above 70. You can still achieve herd immunity without infecting the vulnerable.

We have become better at treating patients with time as well, we now know that putting people on ventilators is a phenomenally bad idea, oxygen, steroids, and blood thinners is the way to go.

Also, the death rate in the US is higher than in Sweden, so how are those lockdowns working out for you?
Sounds pretty atrocious to me. Giving away a customer’s contact info without their express permission is never ok, no matter how the company frames it.
In the comments of every such cautionary tale are typically a load of proper saying “I’ve never had any problems” and thinking it could never happen to them. Until it does.
Akamai as well then?
Virtually every decision we make as a society is a trade off, from highway speed limits to school funding. We never optimize for the lowest possible risk of death.
Will the Cars of the Future Be 3D-Printed?
>>Their SSD is not just an NVME gen 4 drive, but includes hardware to decompress textures and other game assets as they stream in. It's going to let the PS5 do a bunch of stuff that the XsX won't be able to

Are you sure that's completely true? They've said they'll let you install your own PCIe4 SSD providing it meets some perf requirements.
Basically everyone else is a superior alternative.

I use gandi.net because every domain includes email hosting. And France privacy laws.
That isn't what the word immunity means.
There is a growing social consensus that all body types are beautiful and should be celebrated.

This is obviously a very delicate issue. We surely don't want people to be shamed or ashamed for being overweight. Nothing good comes from shame.

But there is serious mortality and morbidity associated with obesity. And as a society, we don't seem to have much of a problem shaming people who fall into other risk categories such as smoking or drug use.
I've been using porkbun for a while and it works great. Worth a look.
What’s the median age of those that have sadly passed and the percentage with comorbidities?
Since when, do you think? I personally think that they're better than ever. On the other hand, I think they moved to more deep learning approaches over the last 3-5 years (based on their research output at least) so perhaps recommendations are perceivably different since then
This. Before the whole corona hysteria I was well on track of getting into the best shape in my life having lost 18 kg in 4 months and reduced body fat by 10%. The whole lockdown reversed all that and then some. They took away my routine, my gym, even my food temporarily and put me under house arrest.
The former - I mostly work with large non-tech corporates, so you need to have a business case to get anything of significance approved anyway. I typically start off at 10% of "the big number on the slide."

If I'm independent, I always work fixed fee & payment schedule. When I've had a big company at my back, I've also worked at X% of realized revenue, capped at $Y.

Now, the important thing this implies is ownership of the outcome. I'm not building "a website;" I'm building "an e-commerce product" (or whatever) with all the expectations that come with it.

Back to the article... looking at the rates again, I think this is the author's next step in pricing. They're obviously very good. To make it as an independent developer, you need to have a clear understanding of value anyway - so why not just estimate the outcome ahead of time and benchmark against it?
That's utterly unfeasible as a mass strategy for weight loss. Have everyone replace the cheap and easy grains with high carbon emission and expensive meat? How does that work even on a supermarket infrastructure level? Cheap and easy cereals get replaced with jerky?

I get it, you're trying to sell individuals on a red meat fad, but as a national strategy it's senseless.
No wonder, it's incredibly hard to eat healthy food in some parts of the US. And many people seem to have no idea that their diet is terrible. I'm not even sure they link their obesity to their diet.
Or said another way, there should be a standard rate for health insurance, and an increasingly discount for folks as they come closer to an ideal BMI.
Webarchive completely ignores robots for a few years now. They did it on purpose.
Almost no one is wearing a mask in Sweden, and the current daily numbers look a lot like NY and NJ.
“ When 3D printing first appeared, it may have seemed like a fad--something to keep garage hobbyists busy. But over the past few years, it’s become a mainstream manufacturing process. Now, an independent automaker called Local Motors is applying the technology to cars, using 3D printing to make the chassis of its autonomous, electric vehicles at a small factory in Knoxville, Tennessee.”
Let's agree to disagree. And frankly I love people with love for hypes and technologies that bullshit their clients into adopting that. It means I get to do this type of work, which I call "cleanup jobs" that bring me the big bucks.
Then why did you renew? Domain squatters suck.
The default hotkey for switching input languages is Alt+Shift and there's no UI feedback when you trigger it.

Depending on settings/version of Windows, the input method is actually tracked per-window so it's really easy to end up with weird/annoying behaviour.

If you haven't already I'd suggest disabling that hotkey. You may find the weirdness partially resolves itself.
Does anyone know the story behind 'Godaddy' name? It's a weird name for a domain registrar.
> Platforms are inherently monopolistic. Network effect is key.

Not so. Federated and decentralized platforms do not involve any monopoly.
You're right about the stats not making sense.

The first line states: "The U.S. adult obesity rate passed the 40 percent mark for the first time, standing at 42.4 percent"

Then just a couple of paragraphs later: "Mississippi has the highest adult obesity rate in the country at 40.8 percent and Colorado has the lowest at 23.8 percent. Twelve states have adult rates above 35 percent."

It is impossible for the national obesity rate to be 42.4 percent if no state has an obesity rate above 40.8 percent.
"ready to go"

"you there?"

"still waiting... ETA??"

What a nightmare control freak, huge red flag, jeez...
This is basically what we're building at Splitgraph [0]. We're calling it a "data delivery network." You connect to one SQL endpoint and can query (and join across) 40k+ different datasets. It's built on Postgres, and as far as your SQL client is concerned, it's talking to a Postgres database with 40k tables in it. Right now we forward queries to public data portals, but eventually you'll be able to connect live data sources to the DDN without writing any code. We want it to be as easy as configuring Cloudflare; you just upload a set of read-only credentials in the web UI and we take care of the rest. For more private use cases, we're planning to offer private deployments to AWS/GCP/Azure.

Technically, this is database virtualization, which isn't really a new concept. We're implementing it as a database proxy, using PgBouncer instances to intercept queries and route them to Splitgraph engines. Within a Splitgraph engine (which is Postgres + some custom code), each "table" is either a "mounted" live database via a foreign database wrapper (FDW), or part of a point-in-time, versioned database snapshot called a "data image" that you can build with sgr.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com
There are two opposing factors: the mass market of products consists of people who don’t understand the product domain. You used to have to be your own car mechanic; nowadays people not only don’t know how to change their oil but don’t know they have to — but the dashboard tells them to go get some service done.

This is a good thing, but doesn’t favor the new entrant. Go daddy’s service is aimed at the lowest of the low information level customer. If you help their customer you’ll need to provide oodles of support (as the poster experienced).

Converting the mass customers would have required an expensive ad campaign because most people who need the product don’t even know to look for it.

The poster was able to get a tiny number of knowledgeable customers which proves the value of the product. But getting paid for that value is hard.
I've been using this platform for some time now, and one of the things that really makes it special for me is the point mentioned at the end of the article about "always trying to be close to your customers".

Samuel is extremely attentive to people's questions and opinions, nearly to a fault. There's no denying that this sort of stewardship in a project creates user loyalty, especially when coupled with a genuinely great user experience.
That’s exactly it. Just showing how trying to get the same safety guarantee in c++ is an either or between performance and safety.
Option Market Anomalies
Anything by Joseph Lstiburek[0] will give you a good insight into best practices from an engineering and research perspective. He has a lot of stuff on his website[1] but it's it's not very discoverable. Look under the guidance tab but be prepared to hunt around.

If you're interested in the legal requirements for construction--which, unfortunately, are not necessarily the same as currently understood best practices--buy the relevant building code documentation for your jurisdiction.

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lstiburek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rem5WhFiiwU

[1] https://www.buildingscience.com/
Agreed. This is really bizarre behavior for HN. This thread reads like a paranoid Reddit post, and people who are requesting evidence are being downvoted into oblivion... Because it's more fashionable to jump on the "godaddy is a cartoon supervillain" bandwagon?
Maybe if you are poor, you are more likely to seek out temporary happiness at the cost of longer term consequences, because your life is generally more stressful. So if you worked another day at the job you hate you are more likely to go get a couple hamburgers from McDonald's than go home and eat some pasta for the same price because you enjoy it more. Poor people are also much more likely to smoke, another activity which trades short term happiness for longer term consequences.
I ran into an article on GoDaddy's blog [1], that's why I thought of an affiliation. Might still be a random coincidence, there are probably quite a few people sharing the name with a certain German cheese.

[1] https://www.godaddy.com/garage/what-is-deep-linking-and-how-...
The state numbers are self reported, see my other comment.
you don't work with Ruby eh? :D
It seems it has more to do with the "empty calories" that are in processed foods. Sugar (in its many names: corn syrup, etc.) is put in everything, even in things that do not need it such as bread and yogurt. I would be in favor of taxing producers that put sugar in everything just to get people hooked. It's immoral and corrupt to say the least.