skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t read much about the heat fact but the less body mass you have, the more you’d have to burn for heat (there is a relationship between body size and metabolic rate which is inversely proportional, small mammals and infants burn insane amounts of energy just keeping warm).

I did read a study on non exercise thermogenesis and how some people managed to burn quite a bit of calories just fidgeting throughout the day.

So while we all run around the same human body temperature and thermodynamics is all the same, different people arrive at different results because of different behaviors. To what extent they are genetic is up to debate but much is genetic like “a tendency to fidget” or “a tendency to like sweets”.
Not sure why parent is downvoted, as a European that has lived in Zurich, London and Oslo + NYC and SF healthcare cost is a non-issue for those of us lucky enough to work at a company that provides healthcare. This applied from what I understand to even the smallest startups.

US healthcare sucks in general, but for the wealthy (and most of the people reading this site falls into this category) it is actually pretty good.

Health care cost, or the predictability of it, is not an issue to not move to the US IMHO.
If I have a choice or am in a position to influence a decision, I always push for open standards orgs like OASIS: https://www.oasis-open.org
Maybe off the wall, but my first thought is certificate revocation. Could there be (or is there already) a semi-centralized database of research that should no longer be cited? With maybe a dependency graph of research that maybe needs to be revisited?
To those who would like to learn more, GP is referring to the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, which, to quote Wikipedia, "was the unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of the settlers and Israeli army from inside the Gaza Strip." [0]

But did Israel give back "complete control of Gaza"? Here's another Wikipedia quote: "Israel maintains direct external control over Gaza and indirect control over life within Gaza: it controls Gaza's air and maritime space, and six of Gaza's seven land crossings. It reserves the right to enter Gaza at will with its military and maintains a no-go buffer zone within the Gaza territory. Gaza is dependent on Israel for its water, electricity, telecommunications, and other utilities." [1]

My own opinion on the matter is not contained within this post; just providing some more facts for the interested.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaz...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
Stopped a long time ago, but when I go back to listen I still like this one:
https://soundcloud.com/sarbatka/just-a-friend?in=sarbatka/se...
> you can't upload photos using e.g. Google Photos or Nextcloud in the background

You can certainly upload/sync to your personal NAS at home with third-party apps. Many of my beta users use Resilio Sync, PhotoSync, or SyncThing. Synology and QNAP both have their own proprietary sync apps as well.
Octopuses Not Only Feel Pain Physically, but Emotionally Too, First Study Finds
Grievance activists teach them that they should feel bad, and it is communicated on many channels. But grievance activists should not dictate to us how to behave or feel.
You can always do affirmative action like Google. Invite the minorities to boot camps, coaching and mentoring programmes and so on... But subject them to the regular interview process and hiring bar.
I'm not sure overall-length would be affected by "short attention span" -- it would be "entertainment spikes" or I suppose "average time between significant events". Perhaps the best term is pacing -- how fast does the story flow?

You can keep someone with ADHD fully engaged with the same topic indefinitely, if you can keep the pacing fast enough to hold their attention. Video games and Casinos being the king of this.

So you'd expect slower films/tv to fall out, and things to get faster and faster -- packing more in shorter timeslots, with less slowdowns for things like background, general discussion, landscape shots, etc.

From that perspective, I'd say action flicks are definitely getting faster; bay's transformers being the king of it -- so quickly paced you can't even understand what the hell is going on; just the "feeling" of mechanical combat but it's really just a blur of sounds and machinery. Marvel too has basically dropped all pretense of a real "plot" -- it more a sequence of random flashy combat and big landscapes/weaponry/powers that suddenly ends with the credits.

I'm not sure if however you could say intentionally slower genres like political dramas are getting faster by necessity of the masses' devolving minds; I don't watch enough of the newer ones to say. But even comparing something like West Wing to House of Cards, the latter is clearly more "packed".
I bet this was popular mostly due to the ease of printing clever designs on them, which was difficult/expensive with cotton at the time.

The modern equivalent would be those silly christmas suits or t-shirts with 10,000 tacocats printed all over them.
Great, way to screw your users and strongarm them into paying for storage. I'm salty.
> Out of a political desire get the big bad rich people we have in the process turned every executive of a sufficiently complex operation into an unwitting criminal.

Yet we only saw a small number of arrests come out of the 2008 housing crisis, despite widespread fraud. The few cases that were successfully prosecuted involved 9 and 10 figure fraud operations.

At the core of the issues is the idea that ignorance of the law is no excuse. It may sound unfair that everyone can be bound by the law regardless of whether or not they understand every line, but the alternative requires that we let people off the hook for simply claiming they didn't understand the law.

In this case, the crime wasn't a simple mistake. The Michelle character in this story thought it was a creative loophole in the law that allowed her to fudge the accounting numbers in favor of the company by arbitrarily using the lowest share price of the month instead of the share price at time of issue.

This isn't the type of decision that one accidentally makes. It requires deliberate effort to search out and use the monthly low share price instead of the share price at time of issue. Ben Horowitz was fortunately skeptical, and consulted the general counsel for a proper reading of the law.
What kind of fucked up society are you envisioning? Punishment is to be decided by judges, not random individuals and private prison companies.
In the unlikely event you end up with giant medical bills, despite having health insurance, it doesn't matter whether your money was invested well, or poorly. The hospital will happily take every penny.

For the other overwhelming majority of life events, you should invest your savings prudently, instead of stuffing them into a mattress.

If you have no savings, this is a moot point - but so is inflation. Why do you care that money is losing value if you don't have any?

If anything, if you are in debt, you want inflation - because it lets you inflate your debt away.
It's a pretty straightforward deadlock:

"We want to hire you because you'll add diversity."

vs.

"I don't want to be hired just because I'll add diversity."

Since the solution of giving preference based on diverse attributes creates a deadlock, the problem has been framed wrong.

I'm not going to posit the right framing... I'm actually not sure. But letting people know they are doing the job for reasons other than their capability means they'll forever feel less qualified than their colleagues.
Bring your data and let’s have at it. How much energy does it use? What function does your alleged waste serve that is already served elsewhere in society?
Oh i agree with you there. The problem isn’t people who measure themselves but those for varied reasons cannot cut back on things that consumed without restriction have negative effects on people. Things like drink, food, entertainment, sex, social network/internet, etc.
Those few days that I managed -1000 lines of real code are among the happiest work-related days I had. It feels so good to find a simple solution that enables you to remove so much.
I'm saying that the Gates Foundation is _fixing the power imbalances that are the root cause of his supposed gripe_.
Great paper! I particularly liked how they treat boolean expressions. It kind of has a mathematical justification as well since a series of only && or || is trivial for a SAT solver.

I disagree with them on assuming method calls being free in terms of complexity. Too much abstraction makes it difficult to follow. I've heard of this being called lasagna code since it has tons of layers (unnecessary layers).

Maybe the complexity introduced by overabstraction requires other tools to analyze? It's tricky to look at it via cylcomatic complexity or cognitive complexity since it is non-local by nature.
Google and Apple support is so
bad it's not even
possible to review the company at Google Reviews. I had one account banned once with no explanation and it was impossible to get an explanation, my advice is: just make a new account and accept the situation and move on with your life
> chances are extremely high that you are talking to an asshole.

Pot, meet kettle. Really, this drivel has no place on HN.
1. Buy NFT with clean funds

2. Bid 10-100x price on NFT with dirty funds, buy it

3. Clean fund account gets a big multiplier on funds in a "clean" way
> we have no idea what thought crime this poor person committed

They probably read a Dr. Seuss book /s
Mirror: https://archive.is/S1s80
Cool onboarding strategy.
> Take canada and their express entry program - although salaries are pretty low there

Canada has out of control immigrations quotas. It's no wonder their own government are bragging that their devs are worth 50K less than in America [0].

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/4178326/amazon-vancouver-tech-wor...
You are mistaken, in the good plans all they do is serve as a middleman that pays most of the bills, and all the bills after a certain number.

Having lived in London, NYC and SF and broken bones in all locations I can say if I could choose to have a big issue I would probably do it in SF but they all gave good treatment and I am thankful and think the healthcare is good enough in all places that I would not even take that into account when choosing where to live of those places.
OMG, what if one of them MUTATES?
Yea I'm not entirely sure. I see that Baikonur doesn't get a lot of precipitation, but that doesn't explain Amur Oblast which looks comparable to a place like Cleveland in terms of temperature and precipitation.

I have to imagine that even if weather wasn't a concern (again no idea here just enjoying the discussion) - it would cost pretty much the same to build and launch from the Gulf Coast, so long as you don't get hurricane-d, and you can launch year-round (can you launch in snow?).
Hydropower is not geographically unique, there are many US states (and Chinese provinces) which use mainly hydropower.

If you think that I am overextending the term free market, then you must agree that there are no energy free markets? There are two options here. Either there are, and they are all suboptimal to at least some state run solutions, or they don't exist, in which case my argument still applies.
Making Web Requests in Python: A Beginner's Guide
It’s because they have scripts that run over the whole platform to find suspicious accounts.

I have had a single doc on google docs locked for a week with no explanation other than ToS violation. It was a shared doc I was using for a school project. I think shared files are especially targeted by the scripts.

Sometimes a user is genuinely violating the tos but then their entire google account gets locked with no way to export data or migrate. If you upload violating content to YouTube, it’s not great that your gmail account gets locked at the same time. Same issue with oculus users losing their games because their fb account was locked.
Mānuka – a antipodean aesthetic on 19th century German root-stock
Show HN: KaizenFox – Get to Product-Market Fit Faster
Dang, I'm confused, why was this article flagged? Is it that it's considered flamebait? I'm asking because the article is in my Medium publication and a lot of our stuff does end up getting posted here and so I want to be a good citizen. (Also, I've been an active HN member since 2007 and I think have been relatively constructive at contributing.) I'm not trying to debate you. So if you do have time to say a bit more, I would fold your feedback into the work we do.

(Or is it just that this was temporarily flagged and then got unflagged? Like I said, I'm interested but am having trouble following the details.)
Have you noticed that recently we get at least 2-3 bitcoin "energy consumption" stories reaching the homepage every week? You're not concerned with that, but you're concerned with my posts?
Unless your alternative is the death penalty or life without parole, we had better start thinking about it. One day, they will be released and after 10-30 years of desocialization we will have to suffer the consequences of that treatment. Either by supporting them indefinitely through social welfare programs or by the consequence of them committing additional crimes due to an inability to obtain or maintain a job and reasonable social standing.
This is also a good idea. People might not always know what to do or be able to reach the person, but it couldn’t hurt.
Racist “jokes” make people uncomfortable because it’s directly adjacent to racist insults, racist hiring/firing practices, and even racist violence. Employers have a duty to workers from employees that are potential threats, and to remove employees that are walking legal liabilities. And that very much includes employees who claim to be “equal-opportunity offenders.”

I understand that it’s more complicated when you are making jokes about your own ethnic group. But please understand that it’s not an issue of “bad culture fit.” As an example, employees who make relentless personal criticisms of their coworkers aren’t gruff people that have trouble fitting in to an upright corporate culture: they are jerks whose behavior rightfully makes them difficult to work with and hard to justify hiring. It is the same with making ethnic / racist jokes in the office. Just don’t do it.

(There is also a difference between ethnic jokes about Poles and racist jokes about black people or Jews, but that’s a different discussion. Both are really not appropriate for the office.)
A coworker of mine had long term health issues from taking a powerful antibiotic. He changed his diet to only include "non gut fermenting food" (not sure what that includes) and his issues went away.

His issues were different than yours, but I think it was the same antibiotic. In any case, worth considering a dietary change.
> You might be aware of genetic programming?

Actually been playing with Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) recently.

> Anyhow, that would produce something more general.

Not really, at least as far as I can tell with CGP. I was evolving a circuit to solve the 8-bit parity problem (kind of the 'Hello world' of CGP - it solves this problem surprisingly quickly). There wasn't any way to use that information to evolve a circuit to solve the 16-bit parity problem - you've gotta start again from scratch. There may be some proposed solutions to this kind of issue in CGP - I'm still reading papers.
It seems terrible for everyone. Poor people get stuck with false accusations by the police, no bail, and public defenders who are either incompetent or overworked.

Rich people (or middle class founders who dream of getting rich) get to deal with incomprehensible tax and accounting laws where no one can ever really be sure that they're compliant. Ben Horowitz had the luck to receive good legal advice and the wisdom to listen to it. No doubt some others who had the latter, still went to jail for lacking the former.

How does one even reform something like this? Some kind of legibility requirement applied to all written law? Has such a proposal ever gained traction?
>Assuming there are no harmful or non-biodegradable additives or materials added to the product, paper will disintegrate quite fast if left outside, and even faster if composted.

The article did mention the dresses were 7% rayon.

It's not a large percentage but not totally biodegradeable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

>A 2014 ocean survey found that rayon contributed to 56.9% of the total fibers found in deep ocean areas, the rest being polyester, polyamides, acetate and acrylic.[41]
An overview of text embedding models (NLP)
So you are right on the general principle (at least I think so), that healthcare should just be available for everyone etc. That is not the case in the US.

But as a software engineer in the US it is not a worry. Like not at all.
Hi! A friend and I are building KaizenFox. We help startups find Product-Market Fit faster by automating the repetitive tasks needed to attract, engage and grow their target users.

We've been working in growth/UA for years now and we realized that most products that have found market fit do the same set of things. We take all of these and automate them for startups to use immediately!

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Agree with all you say. Apparently people sometimes put ISO documents on libgen, potentially saving the expense.
__ The basic formulation of EUT __

EUT is a theory of decision making under uncertainty. If an agent preferences are rational (as in they verify a number of properties) his preferences can be described assigning a number to each outcome. If the outcome is uncertain, the utility is the weighted average of the outcomes utilities.

For example, for outcomes A, B, C and D there will be four numbers U(A), U(B), U(C), U(D) such that

if U(A)>U(B) the agent prefers A to B

if the agent is indifferent between C and D

Say that A is "in the beach, it's sunny", B is "in the beach, it's raining", C is "at home, it's sunny" and D is "at home, it's raining".

With the equations above, if I'm in the beach I prefer that it's sunny. If I'm at home, I'm indifferent to rain.

Let's make a couple of additional assumptions U(A)>U(C) and U(B)<U(D). If it's sunny, I prefer to be at the beach. If it's raining, I prefer to be at home.

Let's say that my preferences are described by the following values: U(A)=10, U(B)=-20 and U(C)=U(D)=0.

If the probability of rain tomorrow is 50% do I prefer to go to the beach or to stay at home?

EUT allows me to calculate U(beach)=0.5 U(A)+0.5 U(B)=-5 and U(home)=0 (it doesn't depend on the weather). I prefer to stay at home.

What is the probability of rain that makes me I'm indifferent between going to the beach or staying at home?

U(beach)=(1-x) U(A)+x U(B)=10-30 x = U(home)=0 => x=1/3

__ Remarks __

The probability doesn't have to be "right" for the theory to work. It only has to be a faithful description of the expectations of the agent. If I believe that the chance of rain is higher than 1 in 3 is rational that I stay at home.

Would Ole Peters say that this use of probabilities to make decisions is incorrect because it assumes that I'm interacting with a copy of myself in parallel universe? I suspect so.

Would you say that there is a problem with EUT up to this point?
I'm fairly confident that Epic Games don't have any issues paying a few thousand dollars for any ISO standard they wish to have access to.
This is an example of a non-diverse company that doesn't understand diversity trying to implement some kind of diversity. I recall these kinds of ham-fisted attempts everywhere in the late 90's.

Ironically, this was most likely cringe because there were no minorities on the staff, a consequence of: no diversity.

I observed a similar event in the early 90's when a bunch of white folk in HR tried to show off diversity during a co-op tour and had posters of Africa all over the room. But why would I expect someone who just learned the term to actually grok it?

Bummer you go the offensive end of that.

EDIT: From the article "It was when I first realized that tech leaders have no idea what it is to manage work dynamics through a gendered lens."

When minorities are made "ambassadors" as though they suddenly speak for EVERYONE in their minority, it is awful, and wrong. People don't get this: "But X minority said it was OK..." No, it takes literal diversity of opinion.
I broadly agree with you but I think you're ascribing too much coherent judicial intention to the way we treat prisoners. Sure, people are sent there as punishment, but it seems more like the way they're treated once they get there is mostly down to profit motive on the part of big prison-industrial players who outright run some prisons and provide services to most (all?) others, and individual depravity on the part of the bullies and sadists who are drawn to working in the industry.

Just the fact that I can reasonably call it an "industry" should be setting off major alarm bells. Our prison system is one of the most terrifying and evil things that exist in the real world.
Install grapheneos! My pixel 3a is rocking it, yours should too ;)
A lot of "normies" aren't up to the task of deploying/managing bitwarden, so the "one stop shop" convenience of a paid solution appeals to them
I'm running a game of D&D and needed an accessible character sheet that works from a phone with good support for pinch-to-zoom.

Tried fillable PDFs and a bunch of online stuff. None of it worked well. The spreadsheet fields' font sizes were all weird, and even if you manually correct them it would reset on every edit. There were some promising web-based options described as "responsive character sheet", but they tended to fall apart at large text sizes.

Best option? A spreadsheet from Knights of The Braille: https://knightsofthebraille.com/59-2/

Instead of trying to shove an 8.5x11 paper layout into a phone, it just groups stuff into tabs that make more sense anyway. And if you were completely blind I bet it's still easy to navigate with VoiceOver.

We're using Numbers because it's what we both have, but I think Excel should work similarly.

If anyone's reading this from the Google Docs team, please take another look at Sheets' pinch-to-zoom behavior. That was the first place I ended up when I went looking for character sheet spreadsheets online, and it was the first one I ruled out because of how shitty the experience was on mobile.
> Options backdating schemes allow additional wealth to be transferred to an options recipient from the company.

The issue is that the company is owned by shareholders.

So the wealth transfer is from shareholders, including public investors, to employees.
Sometimes Google gives me grief when I connect to a VPN. They notice unusual activity and I have to fill in captchas.

It's time to back up my Google account.
LLVM now has an experimental back end for M68k (Motorola 68000 series CPU)
Reducing privatization of prisons is the first step. Prisons as a profit center is just legalized slavery.
>Why do they have to be careful? Are they going to magically going to have to start accepting Bitcoin instead of dollars?

There is zero chance bitcoin with it's current network is every going to be used as money. What might happen however is that more and more transactions could move towards other networks like nano or various stablecoins that are built on top of smart contract platforms.

If governments end up issuing a currency that is only useful for tax payments then they have effectively lost control of the monetary policy. And in any case banning crypto will only help towards redirecting monetary flow towards other countries. So in many ways governments' hands are tied in this.
Short Thesis on Delivery Companies
Do you have any evidence on how prison conditions above the level of basic needs affect to recidivism rates for violent offenders?
I will certainly try to avoid it.
The users agree because they keep using gmail despite many good paid alternatives existing.