skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A serf cannot 'quit' his lord. An employee can.

I'm vastly ignorant on the subject, but that makes me wonder if there were any serfs moving to other regions or countries back then, and if so, how that worked out for them.
Not all music is the same. One music will help with the flow, other will disturb it and make you name vars after songs, and then there is music that makes you put your tasks away, go to that person who is listening to it and have a serious constructive conversation about how not listening to it could greatly improve their relationship with you and other people who are trying to concentrate on their job instead of imagining that person in a hell fire.
I think you are taking your job and skillset security and demand for granted to some degree potentially. Wage slavery is real for a majority of people whos responsibilities and inflexibility of skills dont allow for the leverage you describe

In principle I agree though
Some of the most heavily mismanaged places I have worked at have been startups. All sorts of insane people, particularly at management level, but also rank-and-file. Large companies have standardized interview and background checking processes on top of fairly standard requirements of candidates (educational qualification etc.) that work to root out pyschopaths and just plain weirdos, most of the time. No such luck at startups.
But what tool verifies that the code is MISRA compliant? Then you’re just stating “my code is MISRA compliant according to tool W version a.b.c” ;)
> You are more likely to name a variable after the singers/songs name than what the variable is supposed to reflect (true story)

This would happen maybe in one out of a hundred cases if at all, making the statement blatantly false.

How can I trust that anything the author says will be minimally rigorous about a topic as complex as cognition when they’re making such outlandish claims, even if they’re being facetious?
Just speculation, but I wonder if it is because of the order of words; the Indian Ocean has the same structure of "[adjective] [noun]" where the adjective is describing the noun. In that case, English requires using "the" (think "the red car" or "the small book". Lakes don't do that; English would never have "[noun] [adjective]" and so the pattern isn't recognized as requiring "the"

In that vein, SoCal uses "the" because "101 freeway" is the same pattern as "Indian Ocean", "101" is describing the kind of freeway you are talking about. No idea why NorCal doesn't do that; I blame brain damage caused by excessive fog.
Yea, I agree that the Bing API is pretty OK and Google seems slightly better. However for Sweden I would probably go with Hitta or Eniro, since they specialize in the Swedish market, however neither has a free API. Likewise if I only need data for a handful of countries (and am willing to pay) I would first look if there are companies that specialize in those countries, since that data tends to be better than the places that provide global Geocoding.
Realistically obesity is going to be solved by the re-engineering of food to be healthier while still being tasty and cheap.

Anything other than that requires behavioral changes which are difficult to implement and extremely difficult to maintain.
Came here to say exactly this! Tried a new album but that overloaded me totally. Then I went for an album I've listened to for a thousand time or so and got into the zone directly.

I've read somewhere that humans language processing centra only can deal with one input source at the time. So reading and talking is more or less impossible to do at the same time.
Do you have any idea who these data center operators are? I’m looking to skip the middleman :)
I heard from somewhere that you can't listen to a review by someone without at least first knowing them. Which is a valid point when you consider the review that was left for 9/10.

Cracks and noises are OK for some but a huge issue for others - that review you mentioned literally appeals to both sides which is crazy.
Tokyo-Osaka is definitely a prime example where it makes a lot of sense. In an close-to-ideal system (like Japan) you could reach major cities 1200km apart (by rail) in 4h, 300kph average. For longer distances than that, the plane becomes indeed more reasonable. That means in US terms, you could do NYC - Chicago in roughly half a day by train, arriving relaxed and being able to work all the way through. If you've never taken a Shinkansen - please try it when you go to Japan. I've never experienced a smoother, more relaxing and more comfortable train than this.
I think enabling InfiniBand in Azure brings much better Network performances (but not for all kinds of VMs)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/work...
Not all music is made the same. The quote mentions lyrics — indeed lyrical music can be distracting. However, I think, as in exercise, music can boost productivity if it aligns well with the activity, e.g. provides enough space to think in coding while enhancing mood, pace of thought, and focus.
Evaluating and bubbling up good recipes is hard though. Everyone’s tastes differ and the telling thing is that comments sections are always littered with stuff like “I loved the recipe. I just removed half the sugar, replaced apples with lemon and cooked it for twice as long”
I suspect this is a response to the about face that MS/Github took recently about firing a Jewish person for saying things like 'Stay safe, Nazis are about'. In the end, someone in HR no longer works for Microsoft but it behooves us all to remember that HR isn't there to protect you.
New Covid-19 variants could mean less shopping and more N95 masks
It's probably a simple photoshop as the image even seems to be higher resolution than the hardware.

But counting unique pixel colors in a photo of a display tells you nothing about the display.

Find a picture of a gameboy screen (10 colors) or gameboy color (56 colors) and send the jpg through that tool. You should be able to realize the problem from simple intuition about what a photo is.
Ironically, HR are often low paid and have a shoddy understanding of employment law.
+1 the part with a full album is also really important. Even better when you get into operas and stuff because then you can have a good few hours in one go.

edit: also if you make a playlist made of a chronological listing of one artists full albums.
In my experience just as often the manager asks for an estimate, get one and plan accordingly. When the developer inevitably does not finish on time they have multiple excuses, but the manager is getting the heat. Which is exactly why the developers are part of the team that plan and set deadlines. And let me let you in on a little secret. There is still delays - we're working on that.
You could only dismiss this with that much arrogance if your body digested every single calorie of food you ingest with 100% efficiency, which it doesn't. And you need to conclude that people are all motivated by food to exactly the same extent, which is also not true.

(It might still be wrong, but the debunking needs to be less pithy and more thorough).
I find it remarkable how people always criticize bitcoin for environmental damage but when people are sending rockets to the orbit that's ok! One technology is apparently bad & the other good. Both damage the environment. What's the framework to judge this?

"The rocket held 440 tons of jet fuel, which has a high carbon content, meaning it releases a lot of carbon dioxide into the air when burned. If SpaceX meets its target of launching a rocket every two weeks, then the company will be releasing roughly 4,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, Whittaker calculated."

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/fr/content/space-x-bad-for-the....
That's odd: I've recently switched macs, and nor on the old, nor on the new one was Teams added to the Login items; only OneDrive did that.

So I had a vague memory: go to your account icon > Settings > Auto-start application, and uncheck it.
> The conventional approaches don’t work because while we can sustain eating less for a while, eventually the hunger gets us because we’re semi-starving ourselves.

I interpreted him as saying it is a viable approach scientifically, but one that does not practically work because people get hungry while taking that approach and quit.
According to wikipedia, Okinawan men now have a life expectancy below the Japanese average for men. Which is why I think it's useful to look at.
Well I would agree that voting for someone with racist or misogynistic policies would be a problem, however I've not seen any policies or laws that were. You are welcome to prove me wrong.

As such I can excuse people for voting for Trump. Especially in a two party system. I suspect many simply always vote Republican and despite Trump's brash public persona they thought he was their best option.
The training data is also from lichess so I don't think that is it.
Quantum: The Magazine of Math and Science
First Smart Contract in Lua
man, I'd love a copy if OP doesn't need one
He's arguing for eating different types of foods (fats instead of carbohydrates). I have no idea if that's a good idea or not, but there would be no violation of the laws of thermodynamics if it did work. (Admittedly headline is awkwardly worded)
If you get the reputation of being a difficulty employee, they don't hire you, doesn't matter how good you are.
They make a cost-benefit assessment and as long as your benefits outweigh the costs, they'll bear the costs, otherwise you're gone. Feudal system at its finest.
> Most people don't but they still see them - so yes it's still on our minds.

It was striking to me how few masks and how little QR scanning was going on in Wellington when I went there from Auckland.

Auckland has slipped a lot, but it seemed way slacker in Wellington.
Schrier is a scumbag, even with whatever passes for "journalism" in the games industry.
well..then obesity should be easily solved. if its a hormone problem, then why are we looking at diets rather than administering hormone therapies?

testosterone could be an umbrella weight loss strategy. except there is the aggression part.

ok. now what? the only logical solution is calorie restriction. rather than diets or hormones. and its easy. dont eat too much. we didnt evolve to where we are by eating three square meals a day. we ate little and often starved in between while hunting and foraging. and likely had a lot of adrenaline coursing through our bodies.

never has there been an obese caveman. but they didnt have butter either. we likely subsisted on berries and fruits and wild edible. i want to throw in mushrooms or hallucinogens and some version of the good herb..and a small amount of meat and fish.
It's not feudal until people can't leave to go elsewhere.

People can leave tho so please stop abusing the word 'feudal'
Because it's extraordinary coincidence, calm down.
That's completely missing the point of Christianity: Christ does not require a precedent; he's considered God's "only begotten son", which sounds like an explicit denial that there has been a precedent like him. Considering some mysterious people mentioned in a single line in Genesis as being of similar stature as Christ also goes against the idea of Christ as part of the Trinity.

Also, Christianity considers all people to be children of God (though apparently not "begotten"). On top of that, almost every Christian interpretation of the Bible seems to skip over that mention of the nephilim like it's not there. There's far more reason for Christianity to argue against translating this as "sons of God" than for it.
I wouldn't describe the Rust processes as democracy. The team members are the ones to decide on RFCs, and they are not elected. Their "appointment" is more a meritocracy.
Our ancestors could well have seen these 7 stars up to 100 kya. Indigenous Australians probably have eyesight most similar to our hunter gatherer ancestors, at 6:14 (approx. 20:46), much better than ours.

Quoting from an article on their eyesight:

> As an example of how extraordinary the vision can be, Professor Taylor recounted how astronomers were looking at records from the 1840s into Aboriginal descriptions of constellations of stars.

> "The astronomers just couldn't work out how these constellations worked," he said.

> "They talked to me then they went back with binoculars and suddenly they could pick out all the missing stars that the Aboriginal people could see just with the naked eye."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/prince-harry-may-stru...
I don’t think so. For astrobiology we are mostly looking for life in our galaxy, this study looks at presence of very far away galaxies. For purposes of communication those galaxies are forever out of reach as they are at such high red shifts they are escaping from us faster than speed of light.
The point is not that overweight people somehow gain more fat from the same caloric input.

It is that there are other issues that mess up their body’s mechanisms for eating just the right amount of food.

Twin studies and adoption studies show that obesity comes at least in half from genetics.
It is a 100% undeniable fact that if you consume less calories than you burn. You will loose weight, that is irrefutable.

How you do that doesn't matter whatsoever, that's just laws of thermodynamics.
And you need to assume that food type doesn't affect how satiated you feel or how energetic you feel and thus how much exercise you do.
You don't need armed enforcement to get people to scan a QR code, you just need an employee to ask politely.
That caught my eye as well. I've been developing for 14 years with headphones on for 95% of the time. I don't think I've ever had the problem of naming something based on the music I'm listening to. I guess people are rather different and for some it might be a genuine problem, it's just really surprising for me :)
The other day I found Boxcryptor for Teams[1] which seemed like a useful tool, if the company can be convinced to use it. At least it feels like an option for a privacy concerned organisation, which somehow ended up in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

[1] https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/microsoft-teams/
Going by the how to make everything series I am 100% confident a million people with a smartphone with an offline copy of wikipedia and a single solar farm to charge them could rebuild human society within a lifetime to 15th century level with some early elements of industrial machinery. The few centuries after that are quite insignificant.
"From 1990 to 2001 the Quantum magazine, the exemplar of the Russian tradition of making school math & physics not boring (and distinctly Feynman-esque), was available in English. I was happy to find it all archived and freely available" -- sergey bratus https://twitter.com/sergeybratus/status/1351016679376097281
From which country? US citizen get special priority when they move to Germany, in reality that means that I never heard of any US citizen having any kind of problem emigrating to Germany (and my wife is an immigration attorney).
People should be mad about the quality of public services in the states but "delivering universal health care" seems like a weirdly high bar to set.
Article doesn't claim otherwise.
Wikipedia on Free Market Theory: In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers. In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority, and from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities.

Anarchism.. in my definition, is the lack of a singular authority. Not to be confused with "chaos".

I see this example (Buy Nothing Project) breaking the linear-ness of economy. Harvest, Build, Sell, Consume/Use, Discard. No re-use, no re-cycle. This is not sustainable, especially with population growing. We need to re-use. 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, that as the Minimalists said (the first 120 podcast episodes - after Patreon I dropped them) "find this thing a new home".
Agreed very much, this gives great peace of mind.

Receive salary > pay bills, buy food etc. > all the rest, transfer to a investment account at the oldest, most boring and slowest financial institution in your country to invest in the most boring, yawn-inducing and uninteresting investment fund. Don't touch this money ever.

In the worst of years you'll beat inflation and keep your savings, in the best of years you might make a % or two.

In the meantime, plan your post-employment life: what country to live in, what stuff/hobbies you want to keep etc.

Then when shit has hit the fan, cash in and execute above plan.
Noob physics question: I assume this talks about stars close enough that we can receive their light. Can we say anything about the number of stars & galaxies that are further away than that?
The science is pretty clear and supports what is said in this article.
I changed my diet from "normal" to carnivour (which basically is a form of low carb) and had lots of improvements in my health even thought I had normal weight. I had ulcerative colitis for 20 years and all symptoms was gone within 6 months, also verified with a rectoscopy.
I also had great improvements in mood and motivation by taking vitamin-d and for cramps/sleep by taking ZMA (Zinc for testosterone, Magnesium for cramps).
Can recommend the books Deep Nutrition and Genius Foods, the latter is probably more accessible.
Also recommend following @Mangan150 on twitter.
That all sounds very wholesome, but based on what I've seen, reality is pretty different. That commercial baby food you mentioned seems to avoid salt entirely and make up for it with gobs of sugar. Snacks for kids like tamago boro are little puffs of sugar and starch.

I'll readily grant that the universal free school food is a huge improvement on the US swill, although this too has its share on unhealthy practices: mandating that everything served has to be eaten whether you're hungry or not or you like it or not (kids are regularly told that sukikirai, liking/hating foods, is not allowed), and the mandatory milk & milk bun for that sugar kick. At least whale meat has become too expensive to feature regularly anymore.
On lower levels all the higher ups are still your bosses to some exteny, you just have no visibility into how their decisions affect you. The lower you are on the hierarchy, the more bosses you have, and the less you have to show for it.
> if I am working on a tough logic problem I usually have to turn down any music with lyrics or high complexity as I will try to focus on the music instead.

This is similar for me. The worst are live recording with applause and interactions with the audience from a show. While I can fade out lyrics it's close to impossible to ignore these.
Important to note, that this number refers to the “observable universe”. The number might be much higher, especially given inflation theory, but those galaxies currently lay outside our observable universe due to speed of light constraints.

Another interesting possibility is a finite but unbounded universe which means we might see duplicate galaxies from light circumnavigating (think of an old video game where you leave the screen at the top and appear on the bottom). In that case there might be fewer actual galaxies than what we observe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
How you do that does matter though, because how easy it is affects how likely it is that you would succeed at weight loss.

This is like saying it doesn't matter what means of transport you take to work because if you keep moving you'll get there eventually. It's kind of true, but it's missing the point - it's obviously better to e.g. cycle than to crawl.

Edit: before you nitpick about one being faster I'll change my analogy to walking forwards vs walking backwards at the same speed.
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we get hungry because we are over stimulated. from sight to smell to sounds..every one of our sensory organs is primed to consume more food for the experience. not necessarily for calories.
This depends on your definition of visible. If you think of visible as some form of light reaching a man-made object, then GPs statement is still true.
What would Citizens United be under the serfdom analogy? Does it have a place in Capitalism?
> who are all these people where HR is part of their day-to-day?

This post is _especially_ for folks like you. When something shitty happens at work, you might contemplate contacting HR for the first time in your life. This post is a warning: HR defends the company's interest, not yours. They are not a neutral court of appeals.
Lots of notes, high level and low level views, sorted by priority with their required delivery dates.

For me shipping on time and knowing what to ship first matters more.
I know, this is a crazy design to start an app during startup. They better get user’s consent before user installs the app and provide an option to disable start on startup (login).
The overwhelming majority of people have whatever job they can get. They don't get to be selective, because they have bills, and kids, and rent to pay.
Meanwhile, London Police....
If we’re engineering ourselves there’s a few problems we need to solve. What you’re talking about is saving the registers/state before switching thread.

Another problem is figuring out what’s next to schedule. Visualizing your task as a non-ordered list doesn’t work well. What you need is to order your work with a priority queue.

Another problem is interrupts: what are the things that take you out of a task? For example, emails, notifications, etc.

Another problem is the noisy neighbor problem: you might get disrupted by other people’s performance, or what they’re working on, or your own lack of progress, etc. The solution of course was given by Feynman: disregard!
The article is literally named weight loss isn't a calorie problem. The calorie is a unit of measure for energy.

It literally says loosing weight has nothing to do with energy.
i was thinking: maybe the story of Lot in the Bible (Genesis 18-19) is referring to the same story - a great city destroyed by heavenly fire for its sins would be quite similar to the story that resulted in the religion of Göbekli Tepe.
Good observation... just made another comment about that. You’re asking about the observable universe vs the universe, and it’s an open question.

Might be drastically more, or even less.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
Those internal policies have been in place for at least 6-7 years and multi-account still sucks.
The point of algorithmic feeds is to be the “everyplatform” and serve all biases. So in theory it’s neutral as a platform. But as we’ve seen has extremely negative results.
It came from the Pirate Captain, no?
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I have a couple sets of cotton t-shirts, about 5-8. Have had them for 5 years already, wear them daily and normally for 1, 2 Max before going back to the wash basket. Cost me perhaps 3€ a piece. I don’t see the need for these wonderfully expensive extravaganza...
Pan-fried chicken thigh with Nanban sauce (soy sauce + vinegar + sugar + mirin + sake). If I have tomatoes and lettuce lying around, I'll cut a few slices and make it into a chicken sandwich.

This takes me about 17 minutes, 20 minutes tops, basically as long as it needs to cook and rest the meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_AEpDOuWk8
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You ignire the fact that human bodies have various systems to keep weight in place. E.g. with a calorie surplus most people will inadvertedly do more small movements to burn up to 600kcal/day without even noticing.

Without those systems, with just a 100kcal a day, you would gain 5kg of fat a year.

All of this is consistent with thermodynamics.
oh wow! thanks so much! emailing you now :)