skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
health means different things to different people. there is not one size all to healthy. a lot of people equate healthy to calorie count, not just grams of sugar. subway has good food for calories. i think some of their items do qualify as a health conscious sandwich
The increase in car seat requirements and sizes has probably also contributed to the shifting of consumer demand toward larger and larger vehicles.

Which has a host of economic and environmental consequences beyond the number of children.
The Google TV predates the Chromecast by about a year. It's probably why Google lost interest in it. That's my point: Google's product ADHD will happily drop your chromecast too, especially with the launch of this new Google TV product.
OK, I'll pick up where your friend left off. Hedge funds generate liquidity in the market. They do this by placing bets on investments they judge to be sound, using capital they acquire from courting wealthy people and big funds. Some of them place bets on the velocity of such bets themselves (derivatives), or bets within a very short time (high frequency trading).

They don't deserve 6 yachts, they're rewarded way too much, not taxed enough, not regulated enough, and when they conspire to purposefully, royally screw everyone (08, any pension crisis, any big city civil court docket) they don't rot in jail like they deserve, but are rather rewarded by bank bailouts, university appointments, and golden severance packages.

As a concept they're beneficial and necessary, but every individual one is over-compensated, under-regulated, and under-taxed. For just a gut check on this, let's see a hedge fund manager that takes away less in a year than the median wage of the industry or area they invest in. Or even within an order of magnitude.
Yes, and they don't qualify for zero-rate VAT either.
I've recently finished 2 books that helped give a nice macro level to human's "progress".

'Sapiens' & 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'

Stuff You Should Know (podcast) has also been a gem for learning broadly about industrial and material topics.
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One summer when I was interning in downtown LA, I had footlong veggie subs most days for lunch.

I managed to get my hands on a stack of coupons for $4 footlongs (veggie only). They were cheap, relatively healthy, and close to the office. Perfect for an unpaid intern!
Not to veer off on too much of a tangent, but I find Germany’s notoriety for beer odd. They’re main claim to fame is that that they have old beers... but you can find more diversity in locally brewed beers in 40 square city blocks in Portland (Ore.) than you can in all of Germany. I loved living in Germany, and love beer, but hype re Germany being exceptional for beer is just wrong and, I imagine, stems mostly from Oktoberfest and legend.

Edit: typo
I was really shocked moving from Europe to the US how all but very select bread tasted like cake/brioch. First thing I always did getting back to England was buy a loaf of Hovis seeded multigrain and make a decent ham sandwich.
Might be reasonable, but it means that comparing timestamps between two observers requires knowing the observers' entire history back to some reference timestamp no? Still a headache.
"America won't be the top consumer economy" - this is not a race worth trying to win. It's better to figure out 'quality' over 'quantity' now, and get with the 21st century.
False. In some states, employers may deduct tips from wages, but in every state the employee must make at least the federal/state minimum.
In my experience, it seems to be sub-linear. Subsequent ones don't require all new everything.
I grew up in Italy. Over there[1], it's rare for people to use sugar in savoury foods (maybe just a pinch here and there, at most).

When I moved overseas (I moved around a bit then settled down in Australia), it was really hard for me to get used to the fact that most commercially made food had sugar in it. I couldn't stop thinking "why there is sugar in my sandwich", "why there is sugar on my pizza" and so on.

Then I eventually moved over the poverty line (as a new migrant I was broke at first) and started eating "better" food, and I realised that the sugar thing was not a trademark of all Australian food, but just a trademark of Australia's junk food.

Nowadays, in my head I associate the "sugary" feeling to junk food, and the "non sugary" to higher quality food. (Obviously all of the above only applies to savoury dishes).

I'm told that in other countries the average sugar contents tend to be even higher (usually in the form of corn syrup). What is the commercial motivation behind the widespread use of sugar in cheaper food? I personally find it unpleasant but perhaps I'm in a minority? Or maybe there are other factors at play maybe related to food processing etc.?

[1] (not really everywhere though because of regional differences)
Since real beer is made with, and contains yeast, I can only conclude that no beer has ever been legally made in Germany.
Do you remember bench seats in cars?

I think that song might be a little more literal than you’re assuming.
I think quite the opposite. We give far, far too much cultural deference to megalomaniacal executives and petty business tyrants; it’s refreshing to see them called out on their bullshit. More refreshing would be seeing more CEOs, founders, and VCs forced to cede control to employees, but I’ll take what we can get.
Sadly other "wireless" devices, sadly not other phones.
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But will this help me get a real support person for Google's products?
I've always understood it to be a plate. That way the vector of the forces is in the direction of travel. A parabolic shape would have to resist sideways forces.

A bit like this:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2016/09/16/project-orion-a-nuclear-bomb-and-rocket-all-in-one/
If someone (you?) has written up how to recreate this experience, please share it.

I know that there are scheduling options in Linux to improve latency. I know that some keyboard brands respond faster than others. A subset of these will have pleasing mechanical keys. A good display is obviously a must, but do they too suffer from having a wife range of performance problems?

It would be gratefully received.
> this is not a race worth trying to win

Earnestly, why not?

Edit with my concerns:

America is still a bastion of personal liberty. I'd shudder to think of a world where something else throws around all the weight.

We're already censoring American entertainment to appease the juggernauts in the search of profit. I don't think the coming world will be comfortable.
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Online kindergarten is a disaster. 1st & 2nd grade only slightly less so. A little older than that and things get a little easier, but that's only if the kids actually have halfway decent resources. My kids are slightly older than that, manage the school work okay, but are suffering otherwise due to the isolation. My daughter has been in tears multiple times because she doesn't get to see her friends. I bought an Oculus Quest so they could play Rec Room and have some semblance of social play & interaction.

I live in a diverse area with lots of working-class people: It's not uncommon for kids in my school district to be using their parent's old phone as their online portal for distance learning. It's also not uncommon for parents who must work & can't afford child care to have an elderly relative watch their kids. Relatives that aren't always fluent English speakers, and often aren't equipped to help a kid navigate a curriculum spread across 5 or 6 different electronic systems.
I agree, I think 1 billion Americans is a worthwhile goal.
I read this:

Although the FDA has approved the use of azodicarbonamide as a whitening agent for cereal flour and as a dough conditioner, it is also found in yoga mats, shoe soles, and synthetic leather.

And this is enough to conclude whoever wrote this article is a hack and should not be trusted. Same chemical found in different places, what a surprise! We breathe oxygen, and it's also found in sulphuric acid, so we probably should all panic now! And what about the dihydrogen monoxide, which is also found in sulphuric acid btw!

To the main topic - Irish government chose to have definition of "bread" for tax reasons and Subway's recipe didn't qualify for tax exemption. Big deal.
Ok, I can imagine how "avoiding a 50% increase" could be construed as "saving 50%".
Xcuse me asking, but is there some standard way to make a copied partition in Ubuntu bootable as an unique entity? First you change the UUID in Gparted and then you waste an hour rebooting and hunting for references to that old UUID. Not good.
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I really want to like Kitty, but it's a very opinionated piece of software, and there's a number of decisions that just make it hard to. No GUI config is one, and I can't be arsed to go through multiple cycles of changing a config file, checking if it is alright, then going back. One particular sticking point for me, even after I got my config going, was that I couldn't resize my tiles with the mouse. This is by design: the author doesn't want it. The keyboard shortcuts for resizing tiles also don't work on an axis level, and you can only make a tile wider or narrower. Obviously, this means you can't configure your arrow keys to resize, as the mental model would break depending on which side of the screen the tile is on. I wanted Kitty because it has ligatures, tiling and GPU rendering, but after fighting with it a tonne, I just gave up and moved on.

And that's the thing about opinionated software: if you don't share the opinions it was built with, you're not going to enjoy using it at all. By all means, Kitty is amazing if you get into its model, but for a large portion of the audience I think Konsole or iTerm will just suit you much better.
I've always found Subway's bread to be strange in some way, could be for this reason, could be for a different reason. The only bread I'll get at subway is the flatbread, and basically just treat it like a pita wrap. The bread-bread there is just awful IMO. You are better off going to a local or gourmet sandwich shop.
Haha yes, I had the same feeling when I started using captcha buster in Firefox. It basically solves the captchas for you by using voice recognition and input the words in the audio captcha for you. I think you can even make it use google’s voice recognition so that the loop is complete and they’re solving their own captchas for you.
"I mean, partly. We know that sticking to outdoors, wearing masks, etc. helps a lot. So we should try to avoid situations such as offices with central AC, indoor restaurants, indoor gyms, etc."

We don't "know" any of this, except in the sense that it gets repeated a lot, uncritically. The actual published data is mainly anecdotal and/or ambiguous.

Consider restaurants -- South Korea still doesn't consider them to be high-risk facilities, and they're largely open:

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200819005400320

That case, in particular, is enlightening about the quality of the data: they blame the transmission on aerosols, but can't rule out droplet or surface contamination, either. It's a judgment call. Most of these stories are like this. The famous "Chinese restaurant" case-study that is cited all over the place to justify shutting down restaurants presents a grand total of nine infected (even though 73 "close contacts" in the restaurant were not infected), of which three may have possibly been infected at home:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article

Then you have studies like this, which suggest a fairly low attack rate (3.5%), even if you're sitting right next to an infected passenger on a train, for hours:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

The authors characterize this risk as "high"...but is it, really? I mean, clearly, being in a sealed tube next to someone for hours increases the risk, but how far are we willing to go for a risk that can be characterized in fractions of a percent for face-to-face interactions that aren't measured in hours?

I feel like people don't know these numbers, and most people would be shocked if they did.
Trust me, you would have found another challenging and interesting job that you would have enjoyed.
That's hilarious. Who's the other speaker?
What would convince you that your world view is deeply wrong?
I'm not familiar enough with our calibration code to speak to that directly, but we can do calibrations remotely without sending techs out. I'm told that the impressive thing is that our dilution fridges can run for several years uninterrupted.
> but saying that things are terrible isn't true either.

Which is precisely why he didn't do that.

His only point was that every progress we've achieved came with a trade-off and a lot of these will make life significantly harder in the future
Did you compare Subversion and PlasticSCM?
ha, exactly, the producers agressively filter for the messaging they want from their guests, no matter the veracity or plausibility of their claims.

and agreed, science friday is better than their entire stack of daily news coverage of science-adjacent topics. marketplace, planet money, and hidden brain are pretty good for business/economics.
Articles:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lifelong-lung-damage-...?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247086-the-coronavirus...

Papers:

https://k4.ersnet.org/prod/v2/Front/Program/Session?e=259&se...

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2020200843

https://www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2214/AJR.20.22969
Thats pretty much what happened in Melbourne. We started relaxing the restrictions and the second wave started.

We followed with very strong lockdowns that brought us down from the ~700 new daily cases to the current ~15 new daily cases.
Wow. As a non-expert about any of this technology, I must say that these comparisons are surprising. Maybe even too surprising. I wonder if maybe this could be the result of Firefox being built with different options for the nightly build than the release build. That might help explain the difference.

Then again, if I'm not mistaken I recall some messaging from Mozilla about Warp improving render time of heavy webapps without really helping the objective benchmarks. With such a consistent set of results it's hard to see how that could be the case (unless the benchmarks are once again behind the times), but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt on this. The worst case is, if it proves to be a regression, it'll probably get reverted. And Firefox as-is is already fast enough for my needs.
My company's head office has been vacant for six months while everyone works from home. Nobody's reading the mail. No wonder our cancellations are way down.
Zoning. And people complaining about smells and sounds.
I appreciate the commitment to the bit to get WA vanity plate 9192MHZ.
It’s been in the office for at least 100 years. It’s called coffee. Oh, and nicotine.

I was in a piece about 10 years ago for ABC Nightline about taking modafinil in Silicon Valley. I used it when I was starting my company Bulletproof. The effect is real.
Still testing but this week it got my wcree time down by -38%. Which makes it a great mini phone detox.

Some tips:
- limit yourself to one home screen and hide all others
- turn off notifications for everything except phone, messages
- you may miss some things, as the icons don’t show the notifications in red, but that’s ok.

I removed everything I could and minimised the information, icons, colors and even removed the text under the icons.

Ux/UI wise feels kike a phone from 1999
> Anyone can always choose to self-isolate based on their own personal risk factors

Nobody can self-isolate 100%. The strong may only need supplies, but others will also need care or medical assistance. This puts an upper limit on individual isolation. The good news is that isolation compounds: reaching 99% in isolation, in an environment of zero general isolation is much less valuable than reaching 95% in an environment where everybody else does as well.
Lot of these solutions are also getting to over a hundred years old and increasingly sclerotized, as large industries rely on them not getting solved in a more efficient, clever manner. We could have crops that produce all their own fertilizer, in a much more natural manner for example.
Lot of primitivist stuff (BIO foods, non-GMO, anti-nuclear...) feel like obviously deranged/non-viable controlled opposition to protect the status quo.
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Look. I am not willing to pay for movies and mainstream shows.

Why should like me get such aggregation services that require 4 different subscriptions that add up to 600 Euro per year?

I never got these aggregation services - and there are already MANY of them. Here in Germany the Telcos are having setup boxes that are more powerful than this Google TV thing as they aggregate subscriptions AND are able to stream live TV via Cable. Just google Magenta TV and GIGA TV.
Other first world (mainly European) countries are, in general, far happier than we are, despite having significantly smaller consumer economies. Why is that?

Edit: America is only a bastion of personal liberty if you look and act a certain way. Is personal liberty such an important thing anyway? It seems to be creating huge problems for us at the moment. I am not an advocate for an entirely collectivist society, but I think a small dose of collectivism would help us all. People refuse to acknowledge the benefits they get from our society without wanting to play their part by paying taxes.
I got eaten up by gnats (they claim not bed bugs) over a week at a particularly nice hotel. On the plus side, nothing came home with me, the bites healed, and they gave me enough "points" as compensation to cover a luxury hotel in Barcelona for 2 weeks. So... Future Self can look back on the experience with a smile.
If you read the ingredients you'll see they add water to those meats.

And not a little, they add a lot. There is a huge difference between the water added and real meats.
Seriously, I can’t believe grown adults say stuff like this. So much professionalism from the “Director of Engineering at GitHub,” saying that people who don’t share her perspective on politics in the workplace are having “meltdowns.”
Perhaps one day this could be used to reduce distance between mathematical proofs in "proof space"? :)
Saying bread tastes like something in Europe is simply weird. Each European country has their own bread types usually and they have next to nothing in common.

For example, while rye bread might taste sweet, it's not because of added sugar (for example, only certain types of Finnish rye breads have syrup added to them, but most do not). The sweetness comes naturally from the rye when it's processed for enough long time. Just like the sourness.
Yes, so true. With that comes a detachment that insulates from so much angst, so you can focus on the things that benefit most from your attention.
That is addressed in the book(this counter argument was my first reaction as well). Charter schools get kids from lottery(demand FAR outstrips supply) well they did research and tracked kids who were in lottery and did not get in. Their outcomes were far worse than those who got in.

My own conclusion from reading it is that few things really make difference:
1. Charters have strict discipline, violence etc is not tolerated in any form. Public school in bad areas are chaos
2. Schools can easily fire teachers who do not perform well. In public school system you need to rape or murder someone to get fired.
3. Shitty charter schools lose their charter and go out of business
Good customer service is expensive, usually the first one to go when the firm is big enough to have middle managers.
Thanks for clarification. I was not sure about a valid source for UK numbers, so I did not check that figure.
I doubt feds would have any interest or want to expend resources on small scale local users or producers, decriminalised or not. If you had a large scale operation supplying large parts of the country they might or if they want you on something else but don’t have enough evidence.
LOL they forgot to factor in how many kids are conceived in the back seat of a car!
I can't imagine how could you filter out all other things that correlate with number and age of children, presence of a male and likelyhood of having a third child and reproductive preferences evolution in time and car safety rules evolution in time.
> To be clear, myself and my fellow maintainers did not ask for this.

Oh yes you did: by using github.

You can self-host and nobody will bother you in a way that you can do little about.
Great point. With everything going on in the world and myself being a new father, I've recently reflected on the costs of these as well. We were gifted a "base" so that I can keep one in my vehicle and my wife can have one in hers, but it expires in a few months.

These things are expensive and lower income people often have to make due. Expiration dates / enforcement (if such a thing) add one more thing lower income families are forced to break the rules on.
guess what my 1br apartment is also a contraceptive
That depends on gender and age difference with sibilings.
Here’s an interesting twelve year old TED talk on car seat economics from Steven Levitt (freakonomics): https://youtu.be/um5gMZcZWm0
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Duplicate tabs closer addon if it’s just Chrome or Firefox?
Seats used to be benches and those that didn't fit in a seat sat on knees or in the back.
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Absolutely false, South Korea isolated the people with the disease after making very fast and swift vast amount of tests per day (30.000) after a joint effort with the private sector and such proceedings could be perfectly be labeled as "isolation"[0] which is exactly what a lockdown is.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-south-korea
Probably because they spend less on the military and more on their people.

But would they be able to do that if they couldn't rely on US protection via NATO? If the US suddenly disappeared, would Europe be ripe for invasion by, say, Russia?
The first thing I ever saw of a tech union in SF was advertising on the BART about keeping people like me out from working in tech.

So, pass on that.
Lit-html (not LitElement) would seem to fit the bill.

I build very large and complex apps for my clients using lit-html and vanilla web components.

Mostly just stay in the light dom unless there's a reason to hide in the shadow.
Hell, I support BLM and lean quite left, but I think it’s absolutely childish and counterproductive to bring politics into the workplace.

I’d love to work at a place like this. It looks like a “get down to business, cut the bullshit” place. And I’d quite like to chat with coworkers and make friends regardless of our political viewpoints. It’d be interesting.
"We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017."

This doesn't suprise me, and it's consistant with the feeling that western society has a problem of "safety at any cost". There is a one way ratchet with these types of rules because you can't be seen as the guy repealing safety legislation.