skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes it is. Overconsumption of salt eventually leads to health problems because of the chemical imbalance it causes.

"This imbalance caused heart disease" is very different from "this imbalance caused me to die".

> Again, salt doesn't start tasting bad. It just doesn't have a good taste in concentration. An undiluted teaspoon of salt won't kill you, but it'll taste like crap to most people. To others it will taste good, which is partly why salt poisoning still occurs.

I've had some extremely salty things and they tasted great until some of that salt got absorbed, then they stopped tasting great. There's taste-based regulation of salt. Do you want scientific references? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_appetite here's some links.

> ...and after a couple of weeks of living on licorice?

You just claimed the body doesn't do that with salt. Are you really trying to simultaneously argue that the body does do so with licorice?

I'm skeptical that there are inbuilt licorice systems. I think the burden of proof is on you there.

> Go to a doctor? What would you do if you started experiencing frequent palpitations and constant headaches with no clue as to what caused it?

Going to a doctor is a good idea! But I thought your claim was that they would "feel" licorice was the problem, not that a doctor could tell them.

> the circumstances around it—that someone pretty much sustained themselves on mostly licorice—are absurd and grotesque

Right, but I'm saying that someone who wasn't sustaining themselves on licorice candy could still be getting the same amount of actual licorice. For example, only getting 100 calories from sugar-free licorice candy, and 95% of their calories from normal food.

> You mean that "Oh I'm having constant headaches and my heart is playing King Crimson songs but it's probably just sugar so I don't have to do anything about it" is a reasonable attitude, or do you mean for me to prove to you that hypokalemia has symptoms?

I mean that they won't know it's from the licorice. They will feel "something is wrong" not "I am having too much licorice for my own good".
Ask HN: Notice Periods for Devs
Hey HN,

I am in the incredibly fortunate position of being able to determine a policy that I have been a victim of all too often - notice periods! I've worked several jobs now where notice periods are set around 3 months - which are simply too long. In fact in my last place they placed me on gardening leave for the last month as they struggled to give me projects.

So what makes sense with notice periods for you? Does anyone have any great examples of when this process has worked well for you and the employer both?

Thanks all,

Royletron
While they are technically different, they are very similar and much of the "art" is the same between them.

Good subtitles and CCs both have to be structured carefully so that they do not negatively impact the delivery of lines in the content. The biggest offender of this is comedy series as an improperly structured and timed CC or subtitle will ruin many jokes.

Another aspect of this is how they handle making it easy to digest multiple lines of dialogue. Good CCs and subtitles will either structure the dialogue such that a certain voice is always on top or bottom or alternatively will match colours to voices.

Similarly, in content that is visually busy or rapidly changing, good subtitles and CCs will stay out of the "busy" section of the screen and avoid using a colour or outline that would interfere with the readability based on the background of the scene.

They are different but with regards to what makes them good, they are basically the same.

And to add on to this, on just about everything but live feeds, they are produced and added to video more or less the same way.
A couple of years ago, was here an AskHN question. As far I remember, the guy worked from home, had just fill some excel sheets from other excel sheets. After a while he made some scripts and one week work was done in 20 minutes. He added even some errors, because there was another guy who checked all his work.

The question was then, if he should tell, he work just 20 minutes and not one week. But he also said he need the income and if he told, also the control guy would lose some working hours.
Recursively rotating segments of an image rotates the image itself [video]
How do you see this being used in pair programming? To me, the key is to work on the same thing, one person being the navigator (“where to go”), and the other being the driver (“handling the pedals and the steering”). In this mode, there is only one keyboard and one thing to look at. Why would you want a split screen?
Maybe you stop cringing if I tell you that many nurses in the US probably make more than you
That wasn't the same thing. Crucial SSDs always had volatile write caches. What their MX series and at least some of the NVMe drives offer is the guarantee that data already on the flash will not be corrupted by a write that's in progress when the power fails. But that doesn't affect the semantics of writes that may still be pending in the volatile write cache.

This potential failure mode is possible when storing more than one bit per flash memory cell, and using a multi-step process to program the cell voltage, and mapping the low-order bits of a cell's value to different LBAs than the high order bit. Drives need to have the capability to either complete or safely abort an in-progress cell program process so that the value in the high-order bit(s) isn't corrupted by an incomplete programming of the low-order bit(s). And this power failure problem isn't the only reason why SSDs need to be careful about leaving cells in a partially-programmed state.
It's the best Vim emulation addon I've seen so far, and God knows I used almost all of them.
>"How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?"

Here's the thing about the transcendental numbers, of which Pi is one of, all of them contain information.

All of them (and if someone knows of an exception, please let me know) seem to be able to be generated by functions, iterated functions, where the result of one iteration of the function is fed back into the equation (aka algorithm, aka function, aka "series of repeated steps") for future iterations...

In that respect -- all transcendental numbers -- can be thought of as fractals.

Think of it this way, Nature herself has a way of indexing a whole bunch of fractal algorithms via numbers that have a decimal after the integer component, and an infinite series of digits after that decimal!

Which also seems to imply (via reversal of cause and effect) that infinite information -- can be stored in the proper fractal equation -- although, that's just a personal hypothesis at this point with no real proof to back that claim up...

Anyway, math people out there, feel free to correct me on any or all of this (I claim Socratic ignorance in my reasoning process! <g>) -- but please cite concrete examples to back your specific claim...

You know what someone needs to do?

Look at the number gaps between multiple transcendental numbers... I don't mean like the number gap between pi and phi, or e and phi, or pi and e -- I mean like you take an algorithm for a transcendental, and you bump it (inside of its algorithm) by an integer value of one, then two, etc. If you still get another transcendental, then what is the gap between those transcendentals?

In fact, what is the smallest gap between two transcendentals, and why is this so?

Also, what kind of information -- does that gap represent?

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Collaboration is the killer app of the next gen of software.

What we need is a community set of peer relay nodes, on top of which data structures can be synced. Infra companies are well setup to provide this firebase like store layer on top, but for any generic data structures (lists, dicts, array, etc)

With this, any saas application is at a disadvantage, because data is no longer tied to the application!
Isn't Time Machine known to be critically flawed, corrupting backups as the backup volume starts to become full?
You have a weird definition of the word "subsidize."

I suppose I will allow low-income subsidies, but I consider non-dischargeable federal debt to be less of a subsidy and more of a "sure we'll help, but you better keep paying every f'ing month, or we'll make your life challenging, and we'll still get our money when you die," and less of a "here's some free government money with no strings attached."

It's also an excellent way to "print" money and ensure a steady cash-flow.

I guess it depends on which narrative makes you sleep at night with your worldview.
Also interesting: image rotation by shearing.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~fricke/projects/israel/paeth/r...
You are talking about GAA at 2nm, I was talking about sub 1nm ( Node naming ) Tech. Which the OP was referring to "true" 7nm or Gate pitch / metal pitch at sub 7nm. We are still quite far away from figuring those out.

But yes, I agree the economics model is tough as I have been stating on various forums for years. That is part of the reason why we see Semi-conductors consolidation, like Marvell, Broadcom.

My best guess is that some time in 2026/ 28 we might have to stretch the cycle to three years instead of two. Giving more time to amortised those cost. But HyperScaler Cloud Market seems to be not limited by any R&D funding so I am actually quite optimistic we could see the current 2 year cadence all the way to 2030. Anything beyond is just too hard to predict or infer.
I think mostly because most high school graduates have no idea what they want to do for a job. I really didn't figure out what I wanted to do for a career until I had 2 bachelor degrees and a masters degree. The career I have been doing for the past 20+ years has nothing to do with any of those degrees (fortunately I was smart enough to get academic scholarships every semester so I was able to graduate with no debt). But if you had asked me when I graduated from high school if I could have seen myself doing what I now do I would have laughed at you for the ridiculousness of even suggesting it.
I think even android 10 has made improvements w.r.t third party stores, I'm able to seamlessly update from Fdroid just like Playstore which wasn't possible in the earlier iterations.
From the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, hardly a negative source about highways: https://www.artba.org/about/faq/

> Highways: The FAST Act provides $45.3 billion for highway and bridge improvements in FY 2019 (the fiscal year from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019) and grows this amount to $46.4 billion by FY 2020. Most federal highway investment is used to upgrade and maintain the nation’s core highways, including the Interstate Highway System, and to repair and replace deficient bridges.

> An additional $3.4 billion was provided for highway and bridge investments as part of the final FY 2019 spending bills signed into law Feb. 15, 2019.

> Since 2008, revenues to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) have been insufficient to fully support the level of federal highway and transit investment authorized by Congress. Prior to enactment of the FAST Act, the annual investment gap was nearly $15 billion. Congress has not increased the federal motor fuels tax since 1993, but federal highway and public transportation spending has grown substantially over the last 26 years. It should surprise no one that holding the trust fund’s inflow of revenues constant while attempting to address the nation’s growing transportation needs would lead to an unsustainable situation.

It is quite clear that even just the Interstates do not "pay for themselves." There's also the issues with the fuel taxes, namely that motorists are not necessarily the only ones paying those taxes, and in addition to the depreciating value from a flat fee not tracking inflation, the value of the tax is continuing to diminish as some motorists switch to alternative fuels and others are driving ever more efficient vehicles.
Doesn't Backblaze delete copies of volumes that you haven't accessed in a certain amount of time?
I understand that it's frustrating, but no, that doesn't follow. The problem is that the signal/noise ratio of internet fulmination is just super low. It doesn't add anything of use. It doesn't contribute to solving any problems. Maybe it provides a little relief to the person venting, but even that doesn't last, and in the meantime it damages the community. That's not in anyone's interest, including yours if you're participating here. Which of course you are welcome to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does depend some countries treat nursing for example differently and is there a path to a degree at the end.

I recall over hearing two specialist nurses discussing what their "first" degree was - this was in a transplant ward.

Three years sounds short back when I was doing my higher level apprenticeships in the uk it was 4 years and it was assumed that some if not all would have done a full craft aprticieship first.
With the given options, ls is no longer trying to separate "raw" filenames with any character. Rather, it encodes them unambiguously, and hence we can parse the newline-separated output just fine. You can see the same "trick" used in one of the links of your first comment (the one that warns against parsing ls output).
Most people whining about “free speech” when something like this happens, are actually calling for “consequence free speech”.

He practiced free speech, and made repeated false or misleading statements about a business.

The business responded, and he now faces the consequences.
It's still regressive because the utility of money isn't constant. A dollar is worth more to someone with less money.
The auto caption doesn't even detect the right language in many cases, doesn't have all languages, and is often comically bad. Maybe it's good for English but don't trust it for other languages.
The US copied that approach (it's used in several countries now) with immense success. [1] We call it the Housing First program. The concept is very simple: give them housing, and then work on everything else. It dropped the overall US homelessness rate by 17% against the backdrop of the great recession [2], while unemployment more than doubled. An outcome like that had never happened before in US history (not even remotely close in fact). It may also cost a lot less than operating shelters by comparison, based on some studies.

San Francisco has intentionally avoided this wonderful, easy solution because the city is filled full of fake liberals and progressives.

[1] "In August 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that the number of chronically homeless individuals living on the streets or in shelters dropped by an unprecedented 30 percent, from 175,914 people in 2005 to 123,833 in 2007. This was credited in part to the "housing first" approach; Congress in 1999 directed that HUD spend 30% of its funding on the method."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/the-ast...
Looks cool. However, for me in Firefox the dragging of elements from the left bar to the canvas doesn't work. It works fine in Chrome.
It is happening the same in germany too, you have many in germany now too which had been an Ausbildung before: Touristik, Agrarwirtschaft, Osteopathie ...
I thought this was going to end something like "so the locksmith comes back the next day and locks you out of your home for two hours. '150€ please. Happy now?'"

:)
what's a notice period?
Looks neat. Wish you can add floating text labels and option to add custom svgs and pngs
I've long suspected this as the real reason but have yet to see any hard evidence.
I REALLY wonder who is behind this attack. I’m going to make a wild ass guess and suppose the attack is connected with the recent uptick in usage among people monitoring flight traffic of planes fighting the Glass Fire in California. Who benefits from disrupting this information channel?
The Airline Industry's Meltdown
And that's why electricity is so cheap in Germany, right?
>> GP hasn’t progressed much because the problem is super hard. In general, how do you search program spaces in a way that gives you smooth gradients to search, or even operators that have nice properties?

That's where coding theory comes in. I did some work in this area over 20 years ago during my PhD. The natural genetic coding is a very clever thing - it doesn't code the organism directly - it codes the instructions for building an organism. So naturally, there is a hierarchy of sites on the genome. The sites that code for the earliest instructions have the most impact on the final form, sites which are used later have smaller impacts. So as a human embryo develops, it only differentiates itself from a fish embryo, or a mammal embryo or a primate embryo by stages.

So the sites used as the earliest stages of phenotype development have the biggest impact on the shape of the overall fitness landscape, with smaller impacts from sites used later. this gives rise to a fractal-type fitness landscape - which has sufficient smoothness to enable the genetic algorithm to explore efficiently.

So if you want to make GP or any other type of GA effective, you need to think about your coding schema - coding schemas that build solutions through a process rather than those that directly code the solution are more likely to give rise to suitable fitness landscapes.
My biggest gripe with XML has more to do with how data is structured: XML offers both tag attributes and child tags and when encoding data it's not obvious which one to use. You can also use multiple child tags and it's not obvious whether you should mix multiple kinds or not.

The usage is obvious when using XML as markup, but when used for data it's left to the one creating the particular spec.

You can have style guidelines, but other data formats don't really need that to answer those questions. More flexible is not always better, especially in languages.
Ballot Harvesting cash-for-ballots scheme: “Car is full” of absentee ballots
This is a feature we've been asked to add to our salary comparison tool (https://peerwyse.com). The request was to be able to create peer groups that you, as the manager, thought were appropriate peers for your report. Then you would be able to see the probability the report is in the different quintiles.

In the specific context the manager requesting this feature thought their reports were being underpaid and was looking for evidence that they could use to lobby for more.
The highest average salaries are for Cali and Hawaii, about 100k. Taken in for cost of living, cost of college, benefits - I'm pretty sure a german lives quite nicely compared to a nurse in Cali.
Thank you for creating Dictionary for my First Language, Kannada . Really fascinated to see Work of V. Krishna .

ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ತುಂಬಾ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಯಿತು , ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು .
When did you first start finding appeal in vague conspiratorial expositions?
Wat? I don't own an iPhone, but I can't even uninstall iTunes on my mac.
I don't know who "you is", but I recently found out that nurses around here make about $100k more than my base salary (and I make a good six figure salary). I went into the wrong field ;-)
PLA (the corn plastic) is not really that biodegradable. You need an industrial sized compost heap to get it to break down. Otherwise it’s going to be hanging around a long time just like everything else.
But there are only so many jobs that require a 3 / 4 year Apprenticeships.

And from my experience you do a fair amount of book learning too - so you can remind the "engineer" how ohms law goes :-)
Codeship's GitHub OAuth tokens are compromised
Measuring Elite Quality: Country Scores and Global Rank
I have a follow-up question about chickens and eggs...
>Jobs like nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, etc. are 3 year apprenticeships in Germany.

Germany is unique among European countries in having apprenticeships for nursing.
Very often auto captioning doesn't even detect the right language and then proceed to try match phonemes from the original language into words of the caption language.
Elite Quality & Society

The Elite Quality Index seeks to provoke a constructive, evidence-based public discussion on elites, and how national elites contribute (or not) to society.

EQx is, at the same time, an analytical framework for business leaders, top policy makers and politicians around the world whom are willing to guide national agendas towards institutional advancement by incentivizing value creation, rather than rent seeking business models.
Programming Audio Effects: Bit Crusher
Steam competes against GoG, Epic's game store, Ubisoft's game store, Microsoft's store, EA's game store, Blizzard's game store...

If you have an issue with Steam's cut you can simply sell on one of its competitors. Many companies do.
That's not how the law works at all. The actual issue is data collection in China meaning data collected in China must be stored in China. Foreign tech companies just choose to have a local partner to avoid direct liability.

I work at a French software company in Shanghai (outside any pilot zone fwiw) and we don't have or need a local partner. Our software is on-prem so data storage is not an issue.
Why not just use VSCode for formatting JSON/XML/etc?

https://twitter.com/Rapchik/status/1310843502578880513
How to create a musical instrument using Computer Vision in JavaScript
This being a vitamin app, I’m not gonna put down my credit card.

I would have tried this, if it didn’t require a card, and maybe a longer trial would be nice.
Great job to the team Indeed! Although I would say they fight like a hamster
Which is, of course, a basic contradiction. What "thought leader" has any significant platform without celebrity ?
Also known as piece work. It has a history of abuse as you say. Such as the origin of the phrase 'sweatshop'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work
If you want to reach people - yes. If you want to make money - Apple’s 20% greatly outspend Android’s users, so you should start there, to verify your product.
Heatmap Software
Sorry, I meant “couldn’t the developers of APFS reserve a couple gigs”. I assume there’s some implementation detail that makes this complicated.
I had something similar (but opposite) happen.

We hired a remote engineer to write a program to export to excel. He claimed it was done and the Excel "output" arrived every morning.

We asked him to submit his code for review, and after stalling, he produced some extremely obfuscated C++ code that turned out to do absolutely nothing.

He was staying up all night entering data manually into Excel to generate the final reports.
Same here (Firefox 81.0 on OSX.) No errors in the javascript console.
The ISS is coming down, one way or another. Better going to the moon.
We assume that because literally all of the life we have ever observed is based on organic chemistry.
Digital Checklist for Safety and Compliance
Howdy, we have a digital checklist and inspections app that is highly configurable and native to iOS and Android apps. The data from the app feeds into the cloud-based software where actions items are tracked. We target the trucking sector, but all sorts of different market segments use DIGI CLIP. Marketing is tricky. Any ideas on getting the word out?
There are many places in the US where that is true. There are many places in the US where that isn't true. USA is a big country.
I have no idea about accessibility on iOS, but on the web making a website more accessible will usually make it display faster simply because accessibility forces you down a road that stops you filling a site with bloat and rubbish. If people pushed for accessible websites everyone would benefit from lower bandwidth usage and faster rendering.

It's not unreasonable to think pushing for an accessible OS makes the rest of it better as well.