skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add a calcium & magnesium supplement to your diet first thing every morning.

Magnesium(Mg+) was especially good for me. I noticed a difference in only a half hour. This is easy to try: you needn't see a doctor, replace all the light bulbs in your house, wear a Holter monitor, be psychoanalyzed or spend 3 months in a therapy group, learn "box breathing" or join an exercise class (although long term those may help).

Stop at the next drugstore, buy a bottle of magnesium tablets, pop two and be on your way. In twenty minutes you'll know whether it's helping. FWIW "TUMS" is a mix of calcium and Mg+ (a bit low on the Mg+ to be a supplement but enough to tell if it's missing from your diet).

There are too many people out there who have a lousy diet and b/c they are missing one or two ingredients in that diet, are totally screwed up. Sad.
Dealing with Disrespect
The conclusion here seems off:

> Ants have been learning how to deal with congestion for millions of years. They might just show us the way out.

But the research here doesn't involve studying ants to learn their successful evacuation strategies. It involves noticing that ants don't seem to have any special strategies, studying which room layouts seem to make things easier for their strategyless approach, and then using those same layouts for human rooms, since humans, just like ants, have no particular evacuation strategies.
Are Instagram engineers partly responsible for depression among teens?
Jeff Speck has written a great book called "Walkable City." I have nothing to do with city planning, but I found it super-interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/d...
That's a great resource! Most of those links are no longer functioning, but I did find this image:

http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif

dated 30 Sept 1992, which is pretty old as far as the web goes.
Ask HN: How do you improve collaboration between DevOps/SREs and developers?
this is actually a cool way to find online stores. I would recommend a link to the store right from the list, instead of having to go to the details page.
If you're using Home Assistant, Room Assistant is a lovely project to repurpose Raspberry Pis to handle BLE tracking as well:

https://www.room-assistant.io
Yeah, it's one thing to build a page that wont render without Javascript, but making the only part that does render be a never-ending spinner is just rude.
True but I wonder how relevant the two are to each other.

"Trolling" is starting to feel semantically bankrupt.
This series of threads is difficult to respond to because there's three theses floating around

1) McKinsey is basically fraudulent and pretends to do things of value

2) McKinsey is a very bad and unethical firm

3) McKinsey masterminds the business world to enable (1) and/or (2)

The main bit of the subthread is about (1), but this response is about (2). All I have to say is that, yes, consultants should be aware that there are consequences to their actions like any other. I don't think that's in question. I'm not sure the stanley milgram experiments are especially relevant but sure.
> How would you let users know about this proxy without letting their government know about it?

From the blog post, "A more discrete approach would be to only send the link via a DM or a non-public message."

> how about randomly giving out random proxies in some header that the app could query on cloudflare or google or akamai

That would "..increases the chance that Iranian censors will simply add those IPs to their block list"

It looks like the solution provided in the blog post is limited to helping folks run their own proxy for people they know.
I’m all for “protocols should mandatorily be free” but then, how does Apple “guarantees authenticity” of the opposite device, to ensure it doesn’t brick it or gets bricked by it? I’m half serious, it’s always the excuse used for applying DRM to any device (even the famous orange juice presser, Juicero, now bankrupt, which only works with DRM’ed oranges, to ensure it doesn’t intoxicate the consumer), so should law also mandate that a device producer who doesn’t respect the specs is liable for the bricked iPhone?
interesting, I did not know this! But now that you say it, it totally sounds like Gil Evans. Such an amazing composer and arranger.
The full article (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doct...) suggests that this doctor alone has run 60,000 covid tests. Billing $2k a pop. That's $120 million (ok, maybe revenue, but you don't need to skim much off $120 million to be very wealthy).

Complete madness.
I don't think the point of the article was to normalize this schedule for 'factory workers'. To me, it's trying to say that this is an unhealthy way of life, and should not be implemented or tolerated in the workplace. Those people need better labor rights

From the article:

"Megacycle isn't not just bad for lifestyle reasons," a warehouse worker at a delivery station in Queens, New York and a member of the group Amazonians United NYC, told Motherboard. "It's bad for your body. I don't think everyone can handle this."
(9) I Got My First Copyright Strike I'm Pissed (Rant)
Making the hash computation expensive does nothing when your password is "Password1" because it will be cracked in seconds even using an expensive hash algorithm. Making the hash computation inexpensive does very little (and has other costs) when your password is "Tgu8dVThkweVqa6P" because that has enough entropy to require in excess of $100,000 in electricity to brute force even with a fast hash algorithm, which is uneconomical in ordinary situations.
30 days to improve our Crawler performance by 50%
Oh!! So there are even more names? Which is "full speed" and which is "super speed"?
I agree, but we can start on our local machines first. Most of the latency of modern computers isn't related to the network.
There are lots of purposes but dismantling mass surveillance is a major one. This requires 'taking over the world'.
Steps to Building a Compelling Value Proposition
The US fought an actual civil war over the right to OWN people. How is capitalism, THE economic system the US has used since it's inception, not responsible for that, as well as the current demand for slave labor that exists today? I will answer your question when you can answer that one honestly.
> Why?

Why not? Curfews are ridiculous, authoritarian measures taken to curb "improper" activities not associated with walking a dog.
Another good site for royalty-free music is Incomptech, it more than did its duty in my high school TV Production class...

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
I've been realizing that just spending a lot of time on the Internet gives you an edge against old school investors and analysts. Wealth is transferring to those who know their way around finding correct information.
Nationalism is on the rise. We are 7 decades removed from the horrors of conflict on the continent. Everyone who remembers that is dying.

The EU is a globalization project in an era where globalization is on the decline. It was held together by US warships and will fall apart as they recede, a vacuum filled by local, competing powers. Europe will not be immune to it, since it is after all composed of many cultures and many economies with competing aims.

It’s not a matter of what people want, it’s a matter of economic realities that will impugn any high-minded desire for unity and collaboration.
How deep would this bore tunnel be at the centre most point if it was perfectly straight? Would it go into the mantle?
Without anymore context, I'll assume that he's referring to a logic lacking covid curfew in the US. Those might make sense for dense downtown districts with bars, but almost nowhere else
Why can't they just ship signal with a Tor client? This is precisely what Tor was built for.

They can donate some money to charities running Tor nodes while they're at it, or run some themselves.

Iran tried to censor Tor too, but it's pretty much impossible to do so fully. At least the Tor devs are usually on top of it, while Signal is inexperienced dealing with things like this.
I’m with ya hear. It’s actually one of the reasons I love start-ups.

You get to recommend a better approach to an industry or technology and then go off and do it all while having equity in the company.
Yet more than the Democrats. Asian Americans by and large do not fall into the same bucket as the “catch-all” immigrant bucket that Democrats like to pretend exist.
Mine is censored by my ISP whichis obliged to follow the Department of Information regularity.

yup regularity of retarded minister
No, my comment agreed with the idea that the US is the most significant factor responsible for what happened in the USSR.
Godot is a great engine, no doubt about it. I've played around with it extensively in the past. I think it's relative obscurity is due to the fact that it mainly caters to hobbyists and doesn't invest as much into tooling for people actually trying to ship games (especially the 3D workflows). I think in time it will get there because the godot "everything is a scene" workflow is the most pleasurable way I've ever built a game. It's such a powerful and ergonomic workflow that I was extremely productive and actually enjoyed building the game. However for now it doesn't compete with unreal/unity due to death by a thousand papercuts. I also question the decisions to try to compete with them on a graphic fidelity level but it's probably a decent move for the long term. Im hopeful for the future of godot but if I want to ship a 3d game today I would not use godot.
Peter Naur's view of programming
When you purchase a $75,000 car, there's a reasonable expectation basic, basic things like body panels will be aligned correctly[1][2][3]. You're not buying a prototype nor experimental vehicle - it's a full fledged production vehicle priced at an extreme premium.

Some of Tesla's vehicles are priced to compete with Porsche, high end Mercedes, high end BMW's, Land Rover's, etc. The things all those car manufacturers have in common is quality fit-and-finish on their expensive vehicles.

When your brand new vehicle has mis-aligned body panels - it does make you wonder what else is mis-aligned that you can't see...

Body panels being mis-aligned isn't some new manufacturing technique Tesla is experimenting with - that's just plain shoddy workmanship and a total lack of quality control. You cannot just hand-wave those issues away, particularly at the price point Tesla has maneuvered into for even their less expensive offerings.

[1] https://teslaownersonline.com/threads/pre-delivery-panel-gap...

[2] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/body-panel-alignment...

[3] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/panel-mis-alignment-...
Isn't Reddit significantly less toxic than Twitter and Facebook?
The city with 16,000 electric buses and 22,000 electric taxis
I think you’re both right.

Some people love these schedules _if_ they don’t have other commitments (like a second job or child care, etc).

But making it mandatory and not making it elective, usually with some incentive (like 25% premium), is a bit predatory, or at least strong arming workers.
As much as Kaiser Permanente has been giving me awful, awful care, they tell you how much something will cost you before giving it to you, and you have to explicitly agree to pay that amount.

(In my case, I also pay before getting whatever it is, but it's possible to have the charge added to your bill instead.)
The source was the Vice article linked in the Twitter thread you posted.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/b...

I don’t want to keep spending time on this. My position is that QAnon is a fringe internet phenomenon that is a total unknown to most people. Of the people who do have some knowledge of it, few take it seriously. A few crazies do, sure. But its somber elevation to grave significance by the liberal media is totally ridiculous (and gave it more attention than it ever would have gotten otherwise).
Wow, people were still using Kermit in 1993? By then I thought everything had moved to x/y/zmodem.
>Its more the japanese cutting off the rice supply, However I have some sympathy with exacerbate.

Punjab banned export of grain outside its boundaries. The viceroy who answered to Churchill could have overridden that.
We've done a really good job of removing choice from the system at every available opportunity. Certificate of Need laws reducing the number of medical machines in localities. Insurance limiting provider choice. Totally opaque pricing for consumers. Restrictions on interstate licensing. There's a lot of mess that's entrenched.
Or to be precise, it is a solved issue -- several times over. After years of meandering, I think it is safe to say that deployment of Python libraries is pretty much resolved in one, general way: we have the wheel/PyPI/pip toolchain, and that's about it.

On the other hand, deployment of Python applications is still unresolved, and there is no single standard method to ensure both compatibility with and isolation from the underlying system in a universal way. There are different methods, from virtual environments (both standard and nonstandard ones like conda), to version managers like pyenv and asdf, to "jailers" like pipx and pyinstaller, to containers; but none of them has yet clearly won.
If it's that obvious, stop to think about a few things.

Why is management consulting a billion dollar industry? Are there that many clueless executives running F500 companies (pretty much all of them).

Or perhaps your understanding of management consulting isn't quite right.
Why is there no incentive for the insurance company to be frugal? That's how it works elsewhere, and they have a lot of bargaining power.
Everyone complains about the cost of healthcare and nobody asks why the AMA operates like a cartel. The number of doctors allowed to graduate hasn't changed in 40 years.
Tor is is blocked in Iran.
If we were to rank large companies based on how horrible they are to society then certainly McKinsey is indeed “far from a normal company.” They’re far lower than the normal company, in my opinion. I’d go so far as to say they’re not even in the top 75%. Social media, other big (and small) tech, pharma, and banking have caused objectively (and subjectively) orders of magnitude more harm to our society than a bunch of reviled white collar consultants whose only real power is to give a voice to and action plan for all the bad ideas that a company has.

It’s easy to sit here and talk shit about management consultants while forgetting that management consultants aren’t coming up with these ideas in a vacuum. Isn’t the common refrain of an MBA-hater that all consultants like McKinsey do is “parrot back something a lower level grunt already knows”? Someone at the company gave them every idea they’ve ever had, or so the argument goes.

They can’t both be totally useless mouth pieces while also being evil geniuses responsible for this stuff.
In the US, insurance company profit margins are capped by law. The insurance companies have to spend at least a certain percentage of their premiums on claims. If they spend less than that, they have to partially refund premiums [0]. So insurance companies are unable to increase their profit percentage by law. The only way for them to increase their profits is if they keep the same percentage by increase the size of the pie. Higher across-the-board healthcare cost benefits insurance companies as much as healthcare providers—if the healthcare costs double, they get to keep 20% of 2X instead of 20% of X.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/health/covid-insurance-pr...
Forget SQL vs. NoSQL – Get the Best of Both with JSON in PostgreSQL
I think programming is a skill which comes with creativity as well... It is also not for everybody... hence,a lot could not understand the concept and process that involves in programming which is why sometimes you have to explain a few things...
It's also really hard to pick 'can beat the market' (predictive of future behavior), from 'have beat the market' (retrospective analysis of results - what all it's associated survivorship biases and bias towards success in a past which will never repeat itself exactly.

Someone WILL always beat the market. A small set of people WILL beat the market consistently - until they don't. That set gets smaller every year, until over a long enough timeframe it goes to zero.

History has shown predicting who will be able to win over a specific timeframe is essentially impossible, and more random chance than skill - with temporary counter examples that always revert to the mean over time.
I've had multiple dealers discover a laundry list of problems on my/wifes "out of warranty" vehicles. Frequently for thousands of dollars. Then its pointed out its actually under a factory extended warantty (certified preowned from another dealer). And the resulting scrambles have been entertaining, as they do a ton of work replacing stuff on a vehicle no one in their right mind would have "fixed". Although at least a few times the repairs have been denied ("worn out" engine mounts).
Building an AI Startup with $38K MRR in less than 6 months
The referenced article by Peter Naur (Turing Award winner, invented Backus-Naur-Form) is well worth a read.
From September 2020 I had to work at an Amazon Warehouse in the UK. Nightshift.

Our shifts were 4 x 10.5 with two 30 mins breaks (which you only got paid for one!)

It was absolute shite and the toughest job I've ever done but, hey, I kept my roof over my head.

It's not nice but unfortunately when you don't have a job and prospects suck then they hold all the cards :(
if they block can block tor what makes you think they can't block these proxies? furthermore if you use tor you can use the existing network of bridges/relays as well as their pluggable transports protocol to avoid DPI/traffic analysis.
This case aside, isn't that a well accepted legal doctrine? Encouraging someone to do something is rarely a crime. Incitement to riot is the only exception I can think of.
They can do as much as they want. It's the owner's responsibility, thought. The owner makes the decisions. The waiter is the underpaid person, which will be replaced if they complain too much.

If I don't like a place I let the owner know and reduce my spending. If I like the place I tell the owner and spend more.
I was looking at GPS localisers for walking dogs in the forest, but it’s 10-200$ + ~$7 a month.

So I’m wondering whether a timer that inflates a big red balloon after 4hrs wouldn’t be the best choice.
In fairness, it will localize the cat to a 1m radius circle around your feet within 10 seconds.
Thank you for your correction! I will follow the USB4 naming saga with utmost attention!
Harry Dunn: Killing Suspect Anne Sacoolas 'Worked for US Intelligence'
I've never found page speeds to be slow, including through a VPN. You can also get Google AMP versions of Medium pages if you find the articles that way on a mobile device. AMP will prevent React from loading so that should fix any page load speed issues.

There's an AMP extension for Chrome that does the same thing https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amp-browser-extens...

I think the searchability of the textbooks via Google is a big pro in favor of them going to Medium. And personally I like the interface, but to each their own I guess.
Does AirPlay require mandatory DRM? If not, I don't see why the base protocol couldn't be open, with DRM as a proprietary extension.
I think they work more than a third of F500 companies. What's your definition of cherry picking?
I'm in a similar boat, but you really can build a "real" game in Godot in an afternoon. I've done it twice, first via a tutorial and again building my own thing while refering to relevant docs and tutorials as I got stuck along the way (in fairness this was more like a day+)

Skip netflix for an evening and see what you can make!
I have never, ever had the experience of getting an answer to how much a health care procedure will cost, and believe me I've asked. Also never had Kaiser - mostly BCBS.
Thanks for your recommendation, got it.
It's great to master a distro, until your license expires and your IT department decides to switch... Two times in 5 years.
Can Factory-Built Homes Help Solve the Housing Crisis?
Ancient embalmers used mud to hold a damaged mummy together
How to Reverse Engineer an iOS App and macOS Software
If there’s a requirement to use an intermediate target from a subdirectory, and that’s not expressible in the parents or siblings, you could run into issues. I thought you meant it failed to parallelize multiple unrelated targets because they are in multiple subdirectories.

Anyway, the solution to that specific problem is written up in “Recursive make considered harmful”. Make handles it elegantly.

The title is kind of a spoiler, but if you’re using recursive make and care about fine grained dependencies across makefiles, you’re doing something wrong.

As an aside, I wonder if recursive make misuse is why people claim ninja is faster than make. I’ve benchmarked projects before and after, and before, make was generally using < 1% CPU vs 1000%+ for clang.

Afterwards, ninja was exploiting the same underlying parallelism in the dependency graph as make was. Thanks to Amdahl’s Law, there was no measurable speedup. The only thing I can figure is there’s some perceived lack of expressivity in make’s dependency language, or there are an absurd number of dependencies with trivial “build” steps.
That's so cool. Thanks
> If you're comfortable

Why would it matter what happens between two consenting adults?
We use Dokku on the regular for a number of small services at work. It was a little strange being new to it, but it's been great. Kudos to him.
Support Greece? By forcing it to pay back bad German bank loans that should be defaulted?
Going back to when my parents were growing up, a car with 60,000 miles was near the end of its life. They checked the oil every time they got gas out of necessity.

Now almost nobody needs to check the oil that frequently (though it'd be good practice) and even lower end cars routinely last to 100,000 miles.

I'm driving a 2010 Honda Civic with 100k miles and fully expect to replace it with a newer vehicle out of concern for safety, desire for an electric vehicle, and wanting some better creature comforts. The thing will probably run to 250k miles, which would take me another 13 years to achieve.
Which is why Nurse Practitioners are the best thing to happen for patients in decades. Better access to healthcare means better treatment.
As a Future Sound of London fan, I was so proud to be an early Demon dial-up customer when they name-checked their email address on Demon on their ground-breaking ISDN radio transmission on Radio 1. (To be read in a monotone female delivery) "For further information, please access the following code ... F S O L .. ACK ... F S O L ... DEMON ... CO ... UK"

Good times - they were a wonderful company, thank you