skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes you cook own lunch and dinner. Before covid, I would had lunch next office just like everybody else. And how easy it is to find healthy balanced option there makes big difference.

Plus, American version of everything contains more sugar - notably bread, sauces, cola, cereals, everything. Bread is the thing that makes massive difference. Aaaand milk is invariably low fat, which makes it less satiating.

When I heart Americans talk about healthy food, they often end up citing food that can't work long term. Or that just seem designed to be tastles and punish you. You can't have the same beans your only protein source long term.

Rice+beans easily amount to food that makes you both fat and hungry. Vegetables add vitamins and fibre, but absent some other fat and protein source you are bound to feel hungry.
> ones that flip-flop between two issues, I love doing "merge this if statement with the enclosing one" only to get "expressions should not be too complex" after I've merged them.

I'm not sure that's flip-floping, the solution to the overly complex expression is to turn into a function.

Unless the tool is just being overly aggressive on what it considers too complex, in that case you can try to tweak the configuration instead.
+1 to Isaac Arthur videos as lullabies. The only thing I regret is that then I also need to rewind each episode multiple times because I'm genuinely interested in what's said.

Recently I've also started to listen to luetin09's Warhammer 40k lore videos. They are in similar vein that they could also be podcasts. Skeptoid is another one I've used.
ARM made an architecture and CPU/GPU designs for others. They really had no stake in the chip making game, instead having others - Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, Mediatek, Rockchip, etc make the chip (that being a list of competitors for Nvidia). Their business model was in making the ARM ecosystem available for all manufacturers (including Nvidia) in order to sell licenses. This, I think, is the primary reason ARM chips dominate at this moment.
A few thousand on just a desk and a chair? I’m left thinking that desk must be amazing!
> That's what they've been saying for the last 10 years or so, but the last decade really saw a huge leap in terms of computing.

Yes. I acknowledge the nay-sayers and the history of them on this topic

But to your point of ML being a solution. Honestly, I have a difficult time seeing how ML will give the manufacturing engineers enough tangible/actionable steps to take to make this happen. We need a new physical framework to be able implement an engineered solution. But maybe it's like eating an elephant (one bite at a time).

I will concede this though. IF it were to happen, ML will most likely bring it about. I appreciate you optimism grounded in the technology.
>The anti-homeownership propaganda

Is it "anti-homeownership propaganda" if we build co-ops and condos for people to own, like I have? Come on.
I’m not saying they are Yamato (trough genetically they have lots of Yamato), what I’m saying is that culturally the differ from mainlanders a bit, but not a great degree.

Okinawa has been a part of Japan for over four centuries, so they’re pretty much integrated and there isn’t much daylight.
I don't think he was ascribing any kind of malice to the EU. You can do something sensible that still has negative repercussions.
Sorry to hear you're suffering through this experience. I can emperically recommend Moana (the pixar movie) for perfect familiar background noise - it was my go-to on red-eye flights for a long time.
Every consolidation isn’t necessarily fundamentally bad. Sometimes consolidations result in cost reduction synergies that partially get passed back to consumers. Elimination of inefficiency is good for everyone including the consumer. Of course there’s downsides of consolidation but I think there are upsides too.

An example that comes to mind is Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity. Another is Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch or Google’s acquisition of YouTube (it seems prohibitive to run video streaming services sustainably/profitably without the infrastructure efficiencies of Amazon/Google).
would probably be better under its own ShowHN: post tbh
MIPS and RISC-V for CPUs; AMD, Intel, and others for PC and embedded GPUs.
> Instead of equating a growing GDP with a successful society, our goal should be to fit all of human life into what Raworth calls the “sweet spot” between the “social foundation,” where everyone has what they need to live a good life, and the “environmental ceiling.” By and large, people in rich countries are living above the environmental ceiling. Those in poorer countries often fall below the social foundation. The space in between: that’s the doughnut.

So we'd like "rich" countries to be more like poorer countries. You don't have to use deceptively nice language like doughnut, just say immiseration.
Love these useless comments
It depends.

I’m famously non-PC, but there are certainly scenarios where diversity is actually a large benefit.

If you are making a product, it makes sense to have a diverse team working on it so that it had the broadest appeal or usability- Apple Watch not identifying the heart rate of black people and the Facebook image identifier misclassifying black people as monkeys being the most famous or prominent examples.
Pascal was my first language, and I really miss some things about it that didn’t make it into the popular modern languages
> You are engaged in some deep magical thinking about what encodings, to believe that knowing the encoding of a so-called string allows you to perform any operations on it more correctly than on sack of bytes.

Not really. How would “.toupper()” work on a raw set of bytes, which would either contain an MP3 file or UTF8 encoded text?

Every single operation on a string-that-might-not-be-a-string-really would have to be fallible, which is a terrible interface to have for the happy path.

How would slicing work? I want the first 4 characters of a given string. That’s completely meaningless without an encoding (not that it means much with it).

How would concatenation work? I’m not saying Python does this, but concatenation two graphemes together doesn’t necessarily create a string with len() == 2.

How would “.startswith()” work with regards to grapheme clusters?

Text is different from bytes. There’s extra meaning and information attached to an arbitrary stream of 1s and 0s that allows you to do things you wouldn’t have been able to do if your base type is “just bytes”.

Sure you could make all of these return garbage if your “string” is actually an mp3 file, aka the JavaScript way, but... why?
Lies, it's actually 94.643
Cities do scale though, they have scaled for thousands of years and will continue to scale. The history of human life has seen the median human living in a denser and denser living situation. People are priced out of US cities because the current cohort of property owners wants to treat cities like suburbs (slow growth, restrictions) not cities. Look at any major US city excluding NYC and the vast majority of land in the city is zoned for single family homes.
Ruby did it right.
For whatever reason, the public seems to have a “newer is better” bias, where new techniques and materials are assumed to be inherently better. This often creates confusion and surprise when people learn that sometimes newer techniques are cheaper or more convenient but not better in every dimension; such as the fact that well developed 35mm film beat out the alternatives until very recently.[0]

It’s not clear to me if this bias is a result of marketing/current society, or if it’s an innate part of what drives us to make new stuff as a species.

0 - https://youtu.be/rVpABCxiDaU
But why do you need hardware for this? Surely this is a purely software problem.
Your concern seems to ignore that humans are not static agents.

They’ll route around black holes.

Conversation will not simply stop. It will move to a different platform or, should the network of platforms using HTTP look black holes, where useful into goes in but little useful info comes out, will pivot to a new protocol.

The really important infrastructure is the hardware and basic protocols.

There’s no reason see the network “inside Twitter” as important. Highly visible, but it’s just one groups choice of what to store in a database.

Alternatives can be copy-pasted together in hours by competent groups.

Tech is so up it’s own ass these days because it’s measuring inside a few Petri dishes and ignoring the Internet as a concept in and of itself.

The internet is not FAANG and Silicon Valley. It’s the hardware everywhere and fundamental protocols.

So, yes, the math is right. But the math applies at various scales. For as visible as Twitter and the rest are, they’re not in and of themselves a distributed global network of hardware and routing protocols. They’re black holes in a bigger universe.
I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues
Is it not the case that io_submit can block in some filesystems to handle filesystem metadata (such as block allocation), even with O_DIRECT, whereas io_uring never blocks the submitting thread?
My thesis in grade school thesis from ~17 years ago was that the two most important problems to by solved in my lifetime were going to be low cost, low emission and low land use energy production and efficient information processing and communication.

I think desal is much less of a problem if we had a cheap, clean, and reliable source of energy to power it such as nuclear.

Quality of life is strongly correlated with energy intensity.
> At this stage Python should be forked.

I seriously (I mean seriously) thought about forking Py2 (Tauthon is great BTW) but then I found out that PyPy has a Python2 mode and will for the foreseeable future. Just to be clear: PyPy runs Python 2 code, and always will. (As far as I know. Although it occurs to me that I have no idea what it's like if you're trying to work with the C API.)

(Also I got into Prolog, but that's another story.)
How the fat is distributed is more important than how much there is. In sumo wrestlers almost all their excess fat is subcutaneous fat rather than visceral fat.

Subcutaneous fat is much less harmful than visceral fat.

There was a fair bit about this and sumo wrestlers on the excellent Nova episode "The Truth About Fat" last year [1]. Fat is much more complicated than most people realize, as is long term weight loss. It looks like the episode is available for free streaming [2] until the end of the month. It's worth it.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/video/the-truth-about-fat-xnqm4i/

[2] PBS shows go in and out of free streaming. They can usually be streamed for free for about a month after they first air, then most of them become restricted to people who donate to their local PBS station. The restricted ones do pop back to free streaming for a while now and then, and certain episodes become free for years.
You're right.

Actually making a go of modern capitalism (or whatever we call this) requires a lot of steps, over a long time.

I'm sure plenty of immigrants manage the "go where the work is" and "earn more" but then fail to manage the next step.

It's hard. But it's the only option anyone has and it does work. No one is going to wave a magic wand and make the North of England (or those immigrants) NOT have to work hard and take risks and "make it work". All brexit does it reduce the opportunities they could have used...

Thats sort of my whole wpoint here: not only is there is no alternative, refusing to engage is why people are in this position to begin with.
Never enough.
I have a deep skepticism about sniffer dogs. This article by the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association just about sums it up:

https://nndda.org/the-double-blind-attack/

>While the scientific community highly endorses double-blind testing, it can have disastrous effects on canine teams. As there is no way to determine whether the canine responded correctly at the time of the alert, the question is, should the handler reward the canine? This is a vital question due to the fact that detection canines are largely trained on a fixed ratio reward system where the canine is rewarded immediately for almost every correct response.
I don't understand why they chose to present these parts as .jpg

I suspect that this page is primarily for getting publicity and 'buzz'. If you want the data for actual research I'm sure they have it in much better formats.
I use a rocketbook [1] to do something similar. They recently came out with a legal pad version and I love it. It's a little more work to convert notes into PDFs (have to manually take a picture) but it's a cheaper solution.

I've never used a reMarkable tablet but there's something off putting for me about using tablets to take physical notes. IDK how to explain it, drawing apps are fine but physically writing symbols, or making charts, or writing notes? It just feels off. I like the rocketbooks because it's just a fancier way to implement OCR for handwritten notes and the actions between paper and their product is nearly identical for me.

Maybe the reMarkable is able to handle this, just never tried it. It does look better than using something like an iPad for note taking.

[1] https://getrocketbook.com/
The No-Order File System (2012)
Protocols that don't have a length header, but instead rely on delimiters is a good example. And, they are everywhere.
This statement is little naive: "If I wanted to change the language per se to offer a more “modern” experience with things like first-order functions, objects, etc. it’d be trivial to do so."

Of course simple simulation of these features could be easily added, but many of more complex modern language features have to be designed from ground up. But I guess it will be the next learning experience for the author and he can have a lot of fun with it as well.
As far as I can tell he isn't arguing for not giving any guidelines, but rather that arguing over them is pointless. choose a set and be done with it.
BMI works for body builders too, if you carrying 50kg> extra the body doesn’t care as much if it’s fat or muscle your heart still needs to support that body mass.

BMI for people with very high body mass and low fat percentage can be adjusted slightly usually within 10-15% but if you are morbidly obese it’s going to be a problem either way.

Going down from 96kg to 78kg while gaining some body fat from 9-10% to 12-13% reduced my RHR by about 10-15bpm.

And that initial mass gain was just with a decade of exercise not the gain and shred cycles that body builders are going through not to mention the extra “vitamins” they tend take...
It should because honestly, why not if it could make employees more productive. Yes, only if they could be more productive. Although WFH will more likely become a hybrid rather than full WFH as work commitments always demand some sort of work outside.

I do agree with what this articles' final outcomes although largely much of it will depend on demographic culture, beliefs of management etc. as well.
The issue is fat32 only supports files that are up to 4GB in size.

Recent windows ISOs have a file that is >4GB, so you can't have the partition formatted as f32.

exfat isn't compatible with uefi.
Good post to plug the documentary "Tim's Vermeer" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/), which is a joy to watch as they try to reverse-engineer the particular style Vermeer painted in.
What about my Mac and my Android tablet?
Terminal Lung cancer patient's poignant final message on Reddit
>I get the impression that these headlines are often treated as a writing prompt by commenters,

Welcome to the internet.
I've probably lived there six months, in pieces. I love the islands off Sicily.
> organized religion is a key part of how Americans transmit their cultural values

The abandonment of religion and culture more generally has been a giant exercise in ignoring Chersterton's fence.

Culture is a basically "here is how we act so we don't die." People grow up in it, and they realize that some of it is perhaps outdated or inaccurate. That isn't by itself much of an issue.

The trouble comes when those people have children and grandchildren who were never immersed in the culture and so didn't have the backing of "here are our mutual stories" to know what to keep and what the get rid of.

It's basically burning down a library because, "Well I only read three or four of those books anyway"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
The Hui also got caught up in the "war on terror" (read: anti-Muslim policies) that supposedly only targeted Uighur separatists. Example from Chinese state media: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1092308.shtml

Now, arguably the anti-halal policies were about trying to ban misleading advertising, because it's a bit silly to claim halal status on everything. Malaysia is another country that also has a bit of problem with this. But then, China has an awful lot of other misleading advertising and false claims (in particular around TCM and efficacy of folk remedies) that the government ignores or promotes. Why only target halal?

Misleading advertising aside, it's definitely the case that Arabic script for halal disappeared from legitimately halal restaurants all over China as part of this crackdown. The message seemed to be that it is okay to be Muslim, just keep quiet about it and do not advertise it too much.
This is probably the one you're thinking of:

"The Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, for instance, entered service in 2009 and has since become the world’s best-selling light jet. In 2016, the FAA warned that if the Phenom 300 encountered an unreliable or unavailable GPS signal, it could enter a Dutch roll (named for a Dutch skating technique), a dangerous combination of wagging and rocking that could cause pilots to lose control. The FAA instructed Phenom 300 owners to avoid all areas of GPS interference."
"Why go through the effort of creating a 10B pixels masterpiece, when you compress it with a lossy format like jpg. Or am I missing something?"

Remember you're looking at tilesets for the web browser viewer on a public site, not a copy of the raw data for research purposes.
> There are no operations on sequences of Unicode code points that are more correct than an analogous operation on bytes.

That’s ridiculous. Uppercasing/lowercasing, slicing, “startswith”, splitting, etc etc.

Your statement is correct if you only care about ascii.
But that's useless and boring. If they haven't got a solution to offer that they believe is better, why bother saying anything?
That should have been the main link. I found that far more interesting.
> without the checks and balances that would exist in a republic.

The much vaunted checks and balances may have come to one dude in Michigan upholding democracy:

> The monstrous pressure that descended upon Van Langevelde is not easy to convey. He was one of two Republicans on the four-person board of state canvassers. Trump needed them both to sabotage the certification, and one had already signed on. State and national party leaders were broadcasting lies about fraud. The president and a parade of prominent Republicans had sent the message that Van Langevelde must follow along. He ducked their calls. He went off the grid. Observers in Lansing expected him to resign.

> He did not. On the afternoon of November 23, Van Langevelde showed up, pen in hand, for a public hearing. All 83 county authorities reported valid election results. Van Langevelde leaned forward to toggle on his mike, pulling down his face mask to speak. “The board’s duty today is very clear,” he said calmly. “We have a duty to certify this election based on the returns.”

[…]

> If Trump had suborned just that one man, Van Langevelde, the Michigan certification would have failed and the Republican legislature would have had an excuse to meddle. Van Langevelde was not a prominent party member—his day job was deputy counsel to the state House Republican Caucus—but he was thought to be a reliable one. All he really had to do was abstain, and the board would have been unable to certify the results.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/how-clo...

See also Georgia:

> “If Brian Kemp had agreed to be completely lawless, he could have called in the state legislature and they could have tried to appoint a different slate of electors,” Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at UC Irvine, told me. “He could have refused to sign the certificate of the electors. I’ve never thought of Kemp as a voting-rights hero … but he was a hero here, stood up to tremendous pressure given the hold that Trump has over the Republican Party right now.”

* Ibid

I won't claim that a Westminster system is better, but I'm not sure how the US is something to use as an example (there may be theoretical ways it is better, but the implementation seems to suck).
I consider it often but can’t find a suitable replacement. Having grown up in rural Maine I’ll spare you the other excuses and acknowledge that I just love the weather here.
If it were `dd input output` or `dd input -o output` no one would be claiming it's unique and bizarre. However the actual syntax is `dd if=input of=output` which is unique and (arguably) bizarre.
If anyone is interested in a more technical and in-depth review of energy release mechanism theories in the solar corona check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AFnL6VARI "Solar Flares - How the sun relaxes" at the harvard and smithsonian center for astrophysics colloquium.

It goes into much more detail and explains much clearer the evidence for magnetohydrodynamic waves as the energy carrier and why it's probably not (exclusively or mostly) electron beams. tldr; doing the numbers, every single electron in the entire hemisphere of the corona above a flare site would have to beam down than return in order for it to work out. It's gotta be magnetohydrodynamic waves.
While you may be accurate, the cultural values transmitted are often not only at odds with scripture, but just repulsive in general. Homophobia, racism, intolerance, misogyny and hypocrisy are just some of the "values" I've personally witnessed in both Episcopalian and Lutheran settings over 5 decades.

While many tout the Judeo-Christian foundations of the US, most of that is just a thin veneer. Kind of like the Horatio Alger myth that you can simply pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you really really just try hard enough.
This author does a great job explaining that Japan is the most homogenous country in the G7. Just because it's not quite as homogenous as popular belief, does not mean that that popular belief is in any way incorrect.
I realize this may get lost in the comments and also that I am partially just venting from a bad week at work with a particularly stressful dev, but...

Is anyone else just sick of developers with hyper-condescending tones like this?
https://market4gadgets.com/blog/reddcoin-price-predictions-2...
That guy is a fruitcake.
Pencil and paper are the best tools?
I don't need other tools than my fingers, a keyboard and the IDE and sometimes a search engine they delivers relevant results.

That guy is not a developer and if he is he's not talented.

I would never hire someone like him.
Pure waste of time reading this.