skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recipes that claim “5 minutes of prep” are more like 20 minutes for me. It can be very discouraging.

Always when discussing recipes with friends (I realize now how curiously frequent that is) the stated time is almost always too low for most people. So you're far from alone there, even among people who "can cook".

I consider myself and my wife equals in cooking, but she is definitely much faster than me, and is of the rare kind who can complete most (new) recipes within the specified time, while I prepare slower and always go back many times to double check things. But she's the outlier, not me, at least from my anecdotes.

I could probably work on chopping faster and less "perfectionistic", but the recipe part after getting used to dishes is where I make up most time after a few times.

Once you get a hang of a region's cuisine, you get a feel for how measurements fit and what seasoning works, and that's how I like to cook.

Which is also why I don't like baking, since there's a lot less wiggle room for improv.
Your argument smells of the "I can't code or don't know Linux, so there is no benefit for me in adopting free software" BS excuse given by those that are to comfortable with Windows/Mac and do not want to give up that away.

I am not a "Matrix guy", don't work for Element or the foundation. Yet, I can provide Matrix hosting services for you.

If you and more of my customers start asking for changes/improvements (customizations to the clients, better solutions for storage, different kinds of integrations, etc) I can go and develop the changes myself AND DEPLOY THEM on a server for you to use, without needing to ask permission from any of the Matrix devs or Element or the Foundation.

Just a very, very real example: I started looking into how I could integrate Hub20 with a Matrix homeserver to allow people to send/receive payments by messaging. It's the kind of functionality that would be super interesting for some folks, it does not require change in functionality of the core protocol in any way and it is very aligned with the Hub20's principle of facilitating access to crypto for the masses that do not want to deal with the complexities of blockchain/wallet/etc.

Such an integration will never happen on Signal. Signal being centralized, there is no separate instance that could try out this integration, or make it work only for the accounts that it can manage. Telegram is the same, WhatsApp is the same.

Instead of looking simply what is given to you "for free" in the different offerings from the market, start looking at what we can build on them. Don't let your lack of imagination become everyone else's weight to carry.

[0]: https:/docs.hub20.io
Sure, but that growth and investment did not and will not benefit you, or most anyone else. That 'value' gets aggregated into a vanishingly small group of hyper valuable individuals. In fact, at this stage the meaning of GDP for example is fundamentally decoupled from the actual wealth of the people.

I encourage you to research Mark Blyth's work on generational wealth and check out 'Angrynomics'

https://www.gq.com/story/mark-blyth-economics-interview
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/angrynomics/9781788212793
France law on social networks not waiting for the DSA debate at EU level
Speaking for myself, a bag search is a lot for invasive feeling than video surveillance. If I'm in a break room or another shared space at work, I already have an expectation that people are looking at me.

Since I already expect to be seen, one more person looking at me isn't a big deal. My public appearance is public, but my private things in my bag are not. It's incredibly uncomfortable (and IMO demeaning) to have someone examining the extra pair of underwear in your gym bag or skimming through your journal looking for proprietary info.
You All Are Assholes
I tend to be very flamboyant in the way I post and respond to post. Despite this I try hard to communicate useful information and speculate on why people hold different beliefs and opinions on everything.

Despite this, I persistently get downvoted heavily just for expressing unpopular opinions. If you want to downvote me for being an ass, fine.

If you are downvoting me because you disagree with my opinions that is just childish and makes you an asshole. The amount of this I see on a daily basis from Hackers News comments is significant.

Please fucking stop downvoting people just because you disagree with them.
Circular economy is what we should be working towards, to get the most possible utility out of any given resource, rather than squandering them in the mistaken belief that there's always going to be plenty more where it came from.

> "I don't think that anyone is doing (donating/giving away) to hurt the profits of XYZ company, I strongly believe that we all got so much 'garbage' in our home, things that we haven't touched/used for a looooong time"

Both motivations are true for my girlfriend and me. We both want to make sure we don't get bogged down with superfluous stuff, so we give them to people who will appreciate and use them, but we also see it as an opportunity to not support corporations that do not have our (societal) best interests in mind.

The less stuff we buy, the less our money is used for purposes we disagree with or even abhor, in many cases. By buying the few things we do buy from small companies with responsible profiles, that's another step towards our money going to better purposes.

I don't really believe in the "power of the consumer" or "voting with your wallet" (both of which just lead to unnecessary consumption), hence why we try to buy as little new stuff as possible and prefer buying second hand whenever possible, but at least the little money we do spend won't be going (directly) to the exploiter's pockets.
HR should ideally be an independent third party and all issues treated the same way a legal audit would

This exists, it’s called “binding arbitration” and it is heavily biased towards the company because they pay its bills.
The Juicero the physical embodiment of Ego and CV-driven development. People wanted to make the coolest shit possible, using the coolest tools, with no regard to cost or practicality.

People do the same thing in software, but it's not as readily visible as with physical products.
Do you have a reference for this? Parler has obviously been nuked off the internet for the last week, so I think asking for sources is a fairer request than normal. Most people had never heard of Parler before it got banned, and "I clearly remember that the site was made up of violent, bloodthirsty terrorists!" isn't a neutral opinion at the moment.
I think this is EU-wide, not just in Germany. Reading http://regulatingforglobalization.com/2019/10/18/video-surve..., “outright verboten” probably doesn’t apply anymore, but it remains close.

As you say, it’s a human rights issue. This case is GDPR. That could apply in cases where videoing itself is allowed, but, say, the videos are insufficiently protected against viewing by the general public.
LZW is just a (nontrivial and very effective) trick to improve on the early behavior of LZ78; they are both asymptotically optimal.

LZ78 is incredibly simple, elegant AND easy to get your your head around. I had implemented it once in 2 lines of Python. some 25 years ago. If I can shake the rust maybe I'll be able to rederive it.
What does the "bodybuilder cutting fat" diet look like?
Like Harvey? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1wf8qenBzc
That sounds exactly like a book[1] I've been reading to my toddler. It hadn't occurred to me while reading you could experience the titular "moon" so viscerally.

1: https://mindhealth.org/store/Theres-a-Happy-Moon-in-My-Side-...
Donations is just another model of making money from software. So you're going to use App Store for free and make money without Apple getting their cut. It's understandable why Apple does not accept it.
I used to maintain a small Safari extension, back in my “Apple honeymoon” years. Had very few users, but it scratched my own itch and tried to give Safari some basic feature parity with Firefox when dealing with Xml feeds. At the time the relevant Apple directory of extensions was so poor, I had to serve the update mechanism from elsewhere (which was a pretty bad security practice, in hindsight). Eventually Safari was just lagging in so many areas, I went back to Firefox, but kept maintaining the extension; the burden was small, basically just re-testing it once a year.

Then they decided extensions should go “full Apple”, requiring the developer fee and so on. It was clear they didn’t want any developer who wasn’t already committed to iOS, they just didn’t care about Mac hobbyists. I dropped my extension and never looked back.

Apple basically had two children: one of them became a superstar multibillionaire (iOS) and the other (MacOS), well, he kinda “gets by”. Now iOS keeps MacOS in a job, and tells him what to wear and who to talk to. The poor thing is humiliated and increasingly lonely, but what you gonna do? Meanwhile his old friends Linux and Windows, who used to be so envious, are doing pretty well for themselves and don’t look up to him anymore.
Also a tremendous amount of walking. Japanese urban planning is much more pedestrian friendly than say, almost anywhere in the US.
US blacklists Xiaomi as a ‘Communist Chinese military company’
See the thing is that I think we give a lot of credit in the cost of context switching, no one talks about the reverse cost, sometimes you have 5 tasks to do in a day and you don't context switch and focus only on the one task at the detriment to other tasks. You ruin your sleep because you're so focused on getting something done and it's only 3am, and so ruin your next day of productivity
What do you cook?

1. Familiar recipes?

2. New recipes?

3. New categories of cuisine?

Are you able to integrate dishwashing activities with similar aplomb and efficiency in each of these categories?
Moving to the Cloud Doesn’t Prevent Outages
> I wish Consumer Reports or someone would do teardowns

...so iFixit, but for appliances? I'd pay money for that.
Blockchain where the proof-of-work is shanties.
One of my favorite statistics is the "we don't even know what we don't know" statistic. Every time, it's a session of imagination trying to figure out how they figured that out.
Good thought, though in my case there definitely isn't one.
I’m not gonna expect </img>, but thanks for the concern.
Hi, I'm the author of [1]

nodevectors implements many more algorithms than fastnode2vec that focuses on node2vec.
I'm pretty sure fastnode2vec is the fastest node2vec implementation because it uses CSR format, JIT compilation but also supports multiprocessing. The sampling algorithm has been improved compared to the paper (and to all other implementations) and allows truly linear memory consumption.

On the other hand, nodevectors has a lot of very cool methods like ProNE so you should definitely try it on your data. However, the original ProNE code is probably faster as it is written in C++ and uses multiple cores while nodevectors just uses the installed BLAS (you can probably get a massive speedup by installing OpenBLAS).

[1]: https://github.com/louisabraham/fastnode2vec
> HR is an agent between you and the company.

Just to be more specific, HR is an agent of your company. Their job is to make every interaction resolve in favor of the company. Often, this is a good thing for you, because when things are running smoothly, a lot of the stuff that is good for the employees is good for the company.

The important part to always remember is that when there is a clear conflict, a situation where something that is good for you is bad for the company and vice versa, their job is to make you lose. Their job is to be the negotiator that resolves the situation maximally in the favor of the company and against your interests. In those situations, it is important to remember that "your boss, hr and you" is not two parties and a neutral intermediary, it's two parties, one of which has two representatives. Bring either an union rep or a lawyer.
Mmm if you plan to remain single the rest of your life and not have a wife and kids maybe
GDPR – German laptop retailer fined 10M euros for video-monitoring employees
A common argument around dynamic linking is that it makes security updates easier.

This seems like a weak argument as an update could easily introduce new bugs with a security impact as well. Static linking gives a tested, known good executable. Running untested combos of libraries gives me some anxiety.
There’s plenty of motus in PK last I checked so I don’t know where they get off
That’s backwards
frugality but not cheapness
None of those is "stupid". They are anti democratic and violent assholes. But, there is no reason to think they are dumb or that they cant affect thing toward worst.
Hmm. When I look at the graphs, I see nothing spectacular here, except for one. In all cases, they pretty much mirror every other country, which over time shows gradual declines.

That is, except for Cerebrovascular.

I have to wonder, what of WWII?

1) Almost every single Japanese city of any size was firebombed, and the cities being mostly wooden, most of those cities burned extensively.

https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=217
(scroll down a bit for a chart of some of the cities bombed, 50+? More, even?)

In fact, the number of deaths from firebombing dwarfed the two nuclear bombs dropped. Now imagine all of that smoke, burning varnish + paint + wood for days or weeks on end.

You may think that burning wood is not an issue, but people have died from burning pressure treated wood, as an example, due to the chemicals in it. I don't know what sort of treatments 1940s Japan had in its mostly wooden cities of the time, including buildings 100+ years old, but you can be sure they had something. Pressure treating has been around since the early 1800s, but even staining/coating wood with chemicals to kill pests (insects), is almost a certainty.

How does this affect a person's body? There is a lot of talk about diet, and diet is important, but what about creosote, a common preservation agent used on wood at the time? There are all sorts of potential side effects, and as we known from some other conditions, it can take a long time to manifest.

https://www.science.gov/topicpages/t/tar+creosote+exposure

Or, perhaps, damage is done... but does not exhibit itself until old age. Meaning, "near the end", the thing which gets you is "what has been most weakened."

2) Of course, there were the bombs. There were birth defects, raised cancer rates, on and on.

3) People with 'bad outcomes' in those graphs peaking up to the 1970s, would have been 20 to 30 years old or so in the 40s.

I guess what I'm saying here is, 20-30 year olds during WWII would show as a peak in graphs during the 70s, potentially.

Why do the graphs start right when those who experienced WWII as adults, would be perhaps dying due to the effects of those conditions?

Ah well. Just thoughts.
Did the author of the article bother to do any research at all?

The "popular" messaging service HipChat has been dead since 2018 when Slack acquired it's codebase and moved it's users to Slack.

WhatsApp no longer runs on Jabber/XMPP. They used to run on modified eJabberd a long time ago but these days they use a combination of Signal and something custom...
The entirety of the comments seem to be either saying "This guy is a genius and is 100% right" or "This guy is talking out of his backside".

The scientific consensus on weight loss is pretty clear: all forms of diets are similarly effective when you control for calorie intake. Low carb diets work, low fat diet work, intermittent fasting works, plain old fasting works, McDonald's diet and Twinkie diets work. This is nothing new and calorie deficit is always the best predictor regardless of the diet type.

He seems to make the argument that high insulin causes fat to accumulate and as such reducing carbohydrate lowers insulin and increases weight loss, but I have yet to see any evidence that a high-calorie keto diet will result in weight loss.

The general consensus as to why keto works for some people is that it makes hunger management easier, although AFAIK there is no mechanism that has been clearly identified as being the main responsible, people who succeed on keto report higher levels of satiety after meals, but the same can be said of many other diets for people on which they work.

There's a paragraph in there about keto being restrictive and he's basically dismissing the claim with "it feels less restrictive for people who feel less hungry on keto", which, fair enough but I don't think that enough evidence to say "promoting the keto diet will address the obesity problem". There may well be tons of people for whom keto is too restrictive, because they won't feel less hungry after meals.

In the end, the best diet is the one you can stick to. For some people that's keto, for most people it's portion control, for others it may be intermittent fasting, for others it may be offsetting their food intake with exercise. In the end, I think it's harmful to promote any specific diet as "the cure to obesity", and it's far better to encourage people to try out different diets rather than giving them the idea that "if this diet won't work, nothing will". Try different things out and see what works for you.
We very much for sure used this trick (and others) to go around network authentication back in college days: we had individual network accounts and only the admin had a local account. Poor fella ended giving up cleaning our mIRC and Starcraft installs.
Yeah, this is annoying, I even have one couple in our group of friends who I suspect of happily joining the circle and then selling after they used it instead if gifting as everyone else. It takes all motivation out.

But what can you do?
The regulation is so far, USA or EU, not very promising. A slap on the wrists and no transparent investigation or explanation how data is handled, will not convince me.
Oppressive is kind of an absurd word to describe this. It's a friendly neighborhood organization that allows you to get and give junk for free.

- Sometimes multiple people are interested in a give.

- The giver needs to choose one somehow.

- Random selection is as common as anything else in my group.

- Some people like to give details, some people like to hear them, and some people like to use them to prioritize, because it fosters relationships with their close neighbors. It is by no means required.

If you ever decide that perhaps buying another new plastic thing from China via Amazon is not the best solution to a problem in your life, consider trying it.
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Whatever. You obviously don't follow what I am saying at all so why bother.
HR's primary job is to protect the company from the employee.

I respect Rachel's honesty here but its delivered with a lot of negativity. I've tried to accept these ideas and protect myself as best as I can. Going in to work relationships with healthy boundaries will help avoid a lot of disappointment.
Take a look for yourself: https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/chip-quik-indiu...
I did. I was about to rant that it's the <popular_os> that sucks, and cost on seL4 is an order of magnitude lower.
Means of exchange has a use value.
Ask HN: What is the list of common questions to startup owner from investors?
I will have my first call soon and I'm a little bit nervous. What to expect? What is the list of common questions to startup on this kind of meeting?
Big O – Simple and Efficient Algorithm Analysis
GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
I know this is goofy, but it would certainly have consequences if this realm of space contained an advanced civilization capable of reaching us before the light did.
Europe has that, too but we're not that skinny.
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The view would suck.

You'd have to pack nuclear reactors to provide power (though that's a given for any kind of serious activity in space anyway), and your scientific and operational capabilities would be limited/made difficult by the lack of sunlight.
.NET TCPListener: Accepting Multiple Client Connections
As an Israeli, are blood tests not a normal thing done everywhere? I did not realize that...

My family doctor asks for a battery of lab tests about once a year (or whenever I get around to scheduling a check-up), including glucose and cholesterol and liver functions and so on. This has been going on since I was twenty something.
> And that would put you under the SP500 and the NASDAQ. Bitcoin in the same span did +286%.

My point was that government-issued currency fluctuates in value, sometimes quite significantly. This underscores the fact currency is a speculative asset.

> What’s the point of Bitcoin then? Because at the level of transactions Bitcoin can handle, we would have a bunch of central bank-like entities trading Bitcoin between themselves and a shit ton of intermediaries.

Central banks wouldn't be able to debase their bitcoin via inflation, and money printing for political ends would grind to a halt. Meanwhile, the currency unit BTC would work in every country. I'd say that's a win over the status quo.

> That is not in any way a given. With all this intermediaries it’s not that hard to create “money out of thin air” through various schemes and leverage.

If those schemes inflated the BTC supply in the slightest, they'd instantly fork off the network. If banks decide to issue cash backed by BTC, it would trade at a discount compared to BTC proper given the inherent lack of assurances. And it would be competing against myriad L2 blockchain protocols designed to enhance transactional capacity.

> If you don’t interface with the network directly, your supposed guarantees go out the window, fast. And the global network today can’t possibly handle the daily interactions in any big city.

I don't have an issue with major credit card companies giving out BTC-denominated credit lines. IMO BTC is bound to become global reserve currency in any future where government issued ecurrency comes into the foray, and the private banking sector is bound to issue cash and credit lines backed by BTC.
+ There's plenty of commercial software available for Linux

+ Desktop environments aren't the issue, they're just graphical shells. It's the rendering toolkits like Qt or GTK which matter more. And even then, you basically just pick one and move on.

+ Yeah the multiple package managers situation can be annoying for non-free software. But then that's still better than a monopoly like on iOS.

I've seen you've posted multiple comments attempting to defend Apple's ecosystem (ironically some of them contradicting other posts of yours in the same thread) but you're still missing the point that developing software for Apple platforms is a massive headache and a massive drain on the wallet in ways that isn't true for any other platform. I honestly don't think Apple care much for developers outside of their own in house teams because the process is so mindbogglingly shitty for everyone else.
You don't need E2E encryption for that, transport layer encryption will do just fine in that case.
I do the same sometimes, and some have indeed disappeared. Does archive.org or somewhere else make periodic backups of YouTube videos? It feels like there must be someone doing this systematically somewhere...
I love your comment. Spot on!
A decently thought out expansion.

Too bad about not being OSHW.
can you link the podcast?
But, Parler was not pro-free-speech. It was pro right wing speech of any kind, but if your posts were leftists, they would be deleted and accounts banned.
They seem to be comfortably in the progressive group in terms on their politics, if not always their rhetorics which sometimes seems calculated to appeal to center or right wing voters. But you can pretty much completely disregard what anyone in politics says and just go by what they do.