skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calories-in, calories out works perfectly for everybody else (including obese people before they get obese). [...] Willpower certainly is the problem for most people.

It just does not. If you focus on that only, it leads to diet that makes you feel like crap all the time. It makes you low energy, so you struggle or flat cant maintain performance and precision in work. It makes you irritable and it makes it much harder for you to handle normal stresses - meaning your kids and wife and coworkers basically suffer.

And what it does is that people eventually decide it is not worth it.
Exactly, several reports since the launch have pointed out that both the memory bandwidth of the RAM is higher than before, and also the SSDs are faster than before (by 2-3x in both cases I think?)

combined it should make a big difference to swapping
> You're incorrect in that they are the primary force and loudest voice restricting the number of residency slots in the US.

They are not, and haven't been for at least something like 20 years, which is when they publicly came out in favor of increasing the number of residency slots.
Journey to America
I wonder if English will be the first to become a low trusted language as most AI research is done on the English language.
“Is it in english? Probably written by a bot.” might be a common thought in ten years.
Ofc eventually the big languages will catch up in marketing spam.
Ya the bottom left is pretty good! I've actually bought from the site before so please don't think I was knocking it too hard. It's very useful when you need a unique image of a face.
Social media has made it wildly easy and incredibly cheap to propagate any misinformation. Head over 4chan and you'll see a factory line of ideas being thrown at the wall to see what sticks - which is then further spread across social media.

If you were a foreign power and wanted to sow discord in a rival country, you had to buy off dozens of journalists and funnel money to media houses and hope that they'd at least be secretive, if not effective.

Now you can just pop open Photoshop, come up with 10 memes in 30 minutes, and use your sock puppet accounts to spread them everywhere - an operation that a single person can handle all by himself.

It's incredibly naive to think that social media is not absolutely flooded with propaganda and counter-propaganda by malicious actors. And it's only going to hasten the collapse in democratically minded countries across the world.
For what it’s worth, I’m an American & American politics strains my American relationship with my American friends & family. Fuck this red/blue shit.
It's short term EVERYTHING it seems to me; no long term plans, just focus on the next election. It's not about improving the country, it's about making your mark during your 2-4 year tenure (in whatever position the politicians may find themselves). And because of the US' broken democratic system that moves towards and maintains a two-party system, it's becoming an us-vs-them fight, with the sides entrenching themselves more and more.

A Dem win or a Republican win (wherever) will not improve things much, it'll just flip flop things around for a little bit and the other side will be pissed off until they win again. It's a downward spiral and I'm not seeing anything being done to break the cycle, it's just damage control and short-term improvements.

Reboot the system, change the democratic system, allow for more varied representation, reduce the power of the president (and for fuck's sake moderate their statements, Trump's twitter diarrhea was an embarrassment to everyone), etc.
Every time you change network locations, all of these daemons contact apple again. There are plenty of push services on your machine and apple keeps track of where you are.

also ipv6
Rust or C/C++ are going to always be slightly faster but is it often worth it? rarely.
Every Bitcoin all time high is followed by a 70% or more drop. It's not seen as revolutionary; it's seen as a penny stock.
"Russian election manipulation" - It has not been forgotten and that wasn't journalism.
> People back then drove cars and ate in restaurants, and look at the photos: they looked far healthier.

They looked thinner, but afaik we are healthier all in all. Thin and healthy are not synonyms.
Apple Is Caving Big Time
Information wants to be free, in the sense of leaking out via unexpected sidechannels. But this strongly reminds me of "Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies" which uses a fairly similar example.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-...
The 2 digitized notebooks are available:

[1] https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00121/1

[2] https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00122/1
When Consumers Trust AI Recommendations–Or Resist Them
You may or may not realize how truly frightening that is.

A military in a democratic, sovereign nation should have oversight from civilian authority. If people knew that their sons and daughters were effectively raiding another country as a belligerent force - why did they not stop it. The fear comes not in that they didn't, but that they couldn't

Human nature should be feared, especially when you have a loose cannon firing at will, and only grateful that the barrel is facing away from you. If it were to turn towards you, how do would you stop it?

We never truly learn from history as much as we think we do.
Introspection. Some humans seem to do it, others do not, at least that is my observation. So introspection seems to be the post-processing of inputs to build a coherent conceptual model of the universe. Building inferences between unrelated things, building meta-objects based on those inferences seems to be what humans do quite well. Questions are formed because there are disparities or disconnects that must be explained in order to form a greater holistic coherence. Could we build introspection into GPT-3? Can that be a goal, that in addition to 'training' we add the capability to pull together concepts and classify? That alone would cause GPT-3 to start to ask questions, starting with "Is 42 really a valid answer, or is it a joke?"
> If American politics are straining your relationship with your sister and you are not even American, sorry to put it like this but only you two have yourselves to blame. Next time your sister brings the topic up say "yeah right" and move on.

This is good advice for Americans too. The privacy of the ballot box is a cornerstone of America for a good goddamned reason.
Technically this would be hyperdeflation.
While the form factor was cool, how pissed would you have been if it broke and you were buying the exact same machine, for the same price (give or take), in 2018?

Part of the "mess", I'd argue, was that Apple backed themselves into a thermal corner where they couldn't update the machine but also wouldn't cut its price so it got steadily worse value as time wore on.
Does it even matter why? They have the money, it's their concern, it's not a concern for people who aren't remotely interested in it.

I think the painting's whereabouts are pretty well known in many circles - some vault in Switzerland. As for why it hasn't come up, it was originally bought by the Saudi Crown Prince as a vanity piece, which he decided to initially loan to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, but then he himself wanted to create a new tourism economy in Saudi Arabia to rival that of the UAE (good luck with that), so he decided not to loan it, while they await the construction of some new museum (and new city) in North West Saudi Arabia. Kinda silly tbh, but for a while it was stored on his private yacht (which is even sillier).

As for its authenticity, I thought questions around it were settled a long time back - it is a Da Vinci original because it has some corrections (change of thumb position being the main one), which are only possible in a piece an original painter would do and not a mere copyist. But it's been heavily altered because it had to be severely repainted - even the back of it had fallen to termites and the painting had to be glued together.

If it turns out to be fake, it does make for a funny story, but it's a considerably less sum than what they are accustomed to. And even if it turned out to be fake, they could simply engage the seller (Sotheby's in this case) in vicious litigation and possibly even bankrupt it (there's a parallel case against Sotheby's for the same painting by the previous owner).
All that is meaningless considering that some of the most essential elements do not naturally exist in plant based food. Creatine, Taurine, Vitamins D3 and B12 just to name a few.
RubyRussia 2020: How the largest Ruby event went online
"Dopamine boredom" is a thing. There's a pasticular qualia associated with my ADHD meds wearing off that feels not unlike a combination of tired and hungry, even after I've eaten. What clued me in was my go-to binge in this state: chocolate (xanthines, fat a sugar). I wonder how easily others can learn "I'm not hungry, I'm understimulated"
I think the theme is more along the lines of blame people with power, do not blame people without power. It just so happens that people who focus on accumulating money, are usually focused on accumulating power.
True, but this shouldn't be necessary in response to anti-consumer behavior.
One argument I like is that if you're only interested in practical value of science, then consider that the data processing requirements for CERN operating the LHC were a large factor driving the development of cloud computing. The value of cloud computing in the economy is so large that if the project accelerated it by just a small amount, that added value is still to be measured in the billions of dollars.

And that's not even considering the value of technological developments such as better magnets that were needed to build and upgrade the collider.
The end of cultural icons: Why there will never be another Air Jordans
Are you sure about that? Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Bloomberg, is well, Bloomberg, who spent $1 billion in an attempt to buy the presidency.

And Eric Schmidt is looking at tax havens, ironically reported in the media arm owned by Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-24/wealthy-u...
Should run pretty quick on a new M1 MacBook Air.
Anyone trawling through this thread who sold their gear and feels nostalgic: there are a ton of SDR tuners open to the web, some hooked up to some big antennas. You can't transmit but you can tune around to your heart's content. Google websdr
I don’t understand “red/blue” shit. For me, it’s “improving quality of life for wage earners and affirming civil liberties / vs not doing the aforementioned” shit.

A cousin in my family has a very valid grievance against business owner uncles that support politicians who don’t want to provide meal breaks or bathroom breaks. This cousin has to work 12 to 14 hour shifts, and eat standing up while working and sneak in bathroom breaks.

That’s not “red/blue” shit.
Build It with Nitrogen: The Fast-Off-the-Block Erlang Web Framework
Please 15.9.0 Is Here
I would equally blame the stagnant and supine institutions on the other side of the Atlantic that obsess over preserving the status quo while providing no meaningful alternative to American leadership. Whether it's culture, innovation, finance, it's all the same. Europe has become reliant on America and will accept anything in the name of Diplomacy through Trade.
> If American politics are straining your relationship with your sister and you are not even American, sorry to put it like this but only you two have yourselves to blame. Next time your sister brings the topic up say "yeah right" and move on.

This. America is not actively shoving its politics into our conversations, we're doing that ourselves (I'm from Germany as well, btw.).

Yes, talking about whatever social shenanigans are currently relevant in the USA is fun, but applying those weird ideas to ones own society is a completely different thing.
IMO this is such an 'obvious' idea once you think about it that it will eventually happen.

The law will go from written natural language to executable computer programs (formal languages).

However a change of this mangnitude cannot happen quickly, (and might even be impossible to do peacefully).

Abusing the "software is eating the world" analogy, we ain't seen nothing yet. Software is just barely opening its mouth.
It's not that people want to create division. But the left becomes upset with your product if you show them rightwing opinions, so if you want to have rightwing content you have to make bubbles so they don't see it.

This is what I have seen professionally.

Edited a bit.
Everyone using Comcast’s home security service has a bunch of them. The keypads, motion sensors, door sensors, and window sensors all use ZigBee.
No reason the AI composing tools have to be limited to pop music. All the most "authentic" types of music could be assisted by AI just the same way. I would have thought it would be particularly useful for things like scoring film and TV.
The wiki article has some more info. This sentence does seem to indicate that the smaller glucose chains reassemble into larger starches in a crystallization process. "The glucose chains can reassociate into short crystalline structures, which typically involves rapid recrystallization of amylose molecules followed by a slow recrystallization of amylopectin molecules in a process called retrogradation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch
Common, yes. There's bound to be some kind of disproportion between the number of land owners vs land area in capitalist societies. Though, the extent of the power law distribution is surprising, at least to me.
Yes, that's unfortunately a well-established pattern :(

https://www.capcollections.org.uk/news_events/foxes-in-hen-h...
Sure - so now they're unsuitable for developers?
It's not perfect but they do make an effort to avoid contractions in Data's dialog.
disturbing that when I read "20 years ago", I first thought "wow, they stole it in 1970", then I read "The notebooks were last seen in November 2000.." then the penny suddenly dropped
I am actively looking to switch off OmniFocus and OmniOutliner for something with more open file formats, but subscriptions are a deal breaker. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It would be lighter to carry around 7 Macbook Airs.
> Does that mean they were on the market all along?

No - based on the prices fetched by similarly unique documents of great historical relevance, an estimate in this range for what they would fetch, if they were offered for sale, seems very reasonable.
We got much better in managing chronic diseases, and we smoke a lot less. So far, so good.

But diabetes 2nd type or chronic non-alcoholic steatosis were much, much rarer than today in < 50 population. Orders of magnitude rarer.

This is a significant disease load.
If you want faster Intellij experience, you can try disable built-in plug-ins and features you don’t need, power saving mode is one quick way to disable heavyweight features.
I first started getting an idea that something was amiss with apple years and years ago.

"Apple machines don't get viruses"

Everyone "knew" that. Everyone knew that apple machines were secure.

Turns out there were plenty of things going on with apple just like other companies. The difference was that apple would actively persecute (even prosecute) people who explored or discovered these things. Basically apple marketing was able to prevent a lot of vulnerabilities from publicity. Probably marketing 101, protect your brand.
> On the other hand if you go with a self hosted solution, your articles don't get proper visibility and reach.

Ever heard of SEO?
Endurance athletes train for hours per day. Skill athletes spend hours per day doing what we call "exercise" but which they think of as low-intensity skill work, separate from their physical training. But even then, their physiques are a reflection of professionalism. Look at the NFL: the linemen must burn more calories than the receivers, but the linemen are chubby and the receivers are lean. So while they're all eating a lot compared to a regular person, they're not eating some random huge amount; they're eating the right diet to support the physique they need for competition, with the support of doctors and nutritional professionals.
I listen to the Arms Control Wonk Podcast and I feel the same way when the go through a propaganda video of a rocket launch and get so much more information about its capabilities and testing location than the government ever meant to reveal.
Well then, look at it this way: those things still all exist, but there are also new ways of sharing your speech now that didn't exist before.
SLS: NASA 'megarocket' assembly begins in Florida
He's paraphrasing. E.g. the first part about the left thinking the right are dumb and without values is covered with this quote from the article:

"From the “vast right-wing conspiracy” through the “basket of deplorables” to now, the Democratic message increasingly focuses on the illegitimacy of the ordinary conservative voter’s opinion: ignorant, conspiratorial, and racist, so terrible that the only hope is mass-reprogramming by educated betters."
How much time have you spent with GPT-3?
They opitimized it by removing dead code etc. So I wonder if that could be fed back into the original laws to simplilfy them.
I thought they often happen instantly? Or in the 5 hours after you received the product?

I don't ever recall regretting something I've purchased, say, more than 1 month ago. The act of purchase is foregone past by that point.
Ask HN: Why should I ask my predecessor in a role I'm applying for?
I'm considering applying for a senior role in a company. As luck would have it, I have a chance to speak candidly with my predecessor, who no longer works there. Aside from the obvious "what do you think I should know" and "why did you leave", what are the most important things I should ask?
No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV2
Java's Hibernate supports multiple forms of table inheritance and can do lazy loading on all associations.

Doesn't stop tons of people from hating it :)
This reminds me of Paul Graham's 2004 essay "What You Can't Say"[0] which I think predates Thiel.

"The Conformist Test

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence?"

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Can you be specific about what specific hormone was affecting you and/or what medication is used to treat it?
Thank you for demonstrating the phenomenon so well.
The IPFS mirror really gives a substantial performance boost. In the past, the files had to be fetched from a tired server far away in Russia, the speed can be as low as 0.5 Mbps in my experience (depends on your ISP and connectivity), now it can be lightning fast thanks to P2P, 2 Mbps+, more than adequate to download a 100 MiB+ file. You don't even have to install IPFS (but you probably should, to maintain decentralization), books can be downloaded straight via HTTPS from Cloudflare's IPFS reverse proxy (called a "gateway"), cloudflare-ipfs.com.

The IPFS network itself cannot be taken down, but I wonder when will the publishers discover IPFS web gateways, and start filing DMCA takedown requests against them, and what are the gateways gonna do? Will Cloudflare implement a huge copyright blocklist or even terminate its service (or worse, send a list of IP addresses to Prentice Hall or Elsevier)? What about the semi-official ipfs.io gateway? And the smaller independent IPFS gateways (there are currently 10+ on the public web)? Will they be DMCAed out of existence?
RFA is the mouthpiece of the CIA.
I'm not sure how innovative this is. https://www.propertypartner.co has been going since 2015 doing essentially the same thing.
"The Feather Thief" by Kirk Wallace Johnson is the book that piece is about. It's a much more thrilling and fascinating read than you might expect. Absolutely worth a read/listen!
Scoring is tricky because the music has to be synced to the action. Once you've done all that feature engineering, it's just a small bit of work for the composer to score it. The AI bit is mostly useful in extrapolating detail from the melody to a MIDI orchestra.
> an amazing astronaut may not be the best choice for leading NASA

I like this analogy. It uses one of the most extreme examples of technical proficiency in a field where the politics and logistics/management are publicly understood to be as difficult but in a different way. It underlines the separation of management and the work of those being managed.

> Managers forget they influence their direct report’s lives.

It is unclear to me which managers the author is talking about here. His/her managers? Is it self-reflective? If talking about "bad managers", I think that could be made more clear with a definition. In my limited experience, this is the exception and not the rule.
“Why I built my own shitty static site generator”
Cloudwatch just stopped triggering our Lambdas
> that people could listen to you

Back in those days you had a very limited audience and I’d go so far as to say that it’s only in the last 10 years or so we’ve seen the public at large go online.
If that's your stance then evidently you don't understand why the other "side" even exists.
Despite there being no quantitative evidence of cultural divisiveness being profitable for the wealthy as a whole, it's a popular narrative because it's a simple deflection of blame. Maybe the author should reflect on their own writing rather than point a finger at the rich.

I'm sure Bezos would be happier if the Trump adminstration wouldn't rig a multi billion dollar defense contract in response to his newspaper. Youtube, would make a lot more advertising dollars if they weren't pressured to demonetize so many videos.
PWA and Instant Apps for Your Project
For what it's worth, I think it's great that you are willing to at least reconsider the pros/cons of Rust when presented to you, even if it's not enough to change your mind.

I believe your issue with the "Rust hype" is that your pain points are different from the pain points of many other Rust users, and when they tell you that Rust is great for reasons A, B, C, you say to yourself, "so what?" But maybe you'd find Rust useful for less often cited reasons X, Y, Z, and you'll like it once you use it in earnest. Maybe you won't, and Rust isn't for you. And that's okay, too.

Also, kudos to Steve. I sincerely admire your politeness and patience when confronted with less polite, less patient posts. You're probably the best ambassador the Rust community could have.
Do you have sources for this? I don’t doubt you, I’d just be interested to read some details about what exactly those services are doing/sending.
Would you be willing to cite that claim? It does not match up with my understanding of how the market was being developed.
Excuse me? Germany tries buying gas from Russia and the USA sanctions the fuck out of companies that are even just marginally involved in it.

As for innovation, that's relative. Europe, for centuries, was the undisputed worldwide leader in innovation, now that has shifted a bit to the USA and seems to be on its way to shift to China or maybe India in the next few decades.

There's also the problem that Europe can't really focus on organizing itself in a self-sufficient manner because there's still separatists bitching about everything and always screaming for separation instead of forcing governments to address issues, and the impending rise of fascism in east-europe that may or may not become a huge deal for the rest of the 2020es. The USA has this problem as well, but to a far lesser degree.
This viewpoint (where the unstated understanding is 'the group that is good is Democrats, and the group that is evil is Republicans') is part of the problem.

The world is more complicated than that.