skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's amazing to me, as someone who cooks, is that "mac n' cheese" (we call it "macaroni cheese" here in UK) as a pre-prepared meal is even a thing in the US.

I consider macaroni cheese as a "comfort food" - one of those things that's a perfect ratio of carbs and fat. But it's a very easy thing to make, even for a novice, in 20 minutes when you're taking your time. I remember my mother teaching me how to make it before going to university, the very first thing I'd ever cooked - I remember thinking, "wow, is that it?!".

And it's the sort of thing that is always going to be at least 2x better if you make it yourself, because you use actual cheese (sounds so weird saying that as a Brit!), as mature as you like, and as much as you like.

I'm very obviously not the target market now, but even as a cash and time-strapped student a lifetime ago, whose mum had tought him cooking basics just few months previously, I still don't get how someone could make a fortune out of this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not a Java dev at all, and I've tweaked more than just those parameters. Simply running Java programs is sufficient that you can end up introduced to the JVM's GC.
The V10 prices are going to be dominated by the Ford v10. Yes there's the Dodge v10 in some 20yo trucks and Vipers but for every one of those produced a stream of V10 E-series cab and chassis rolled off the production line.

One peak is likely trucks and the other is likely vans. Trucks tend to go for more than vans because they tend to have 4wd, more appeal to people who care about image and a wider variety of job specific bodies on them. Or at least that's my (experience based) theory.
from "50 Years of Text Games" - an excellent ongoing series of articles.
It's a decent device, but feels several generations behind any mid-range phone released in 2019. The screen has color blurring when scrolling especially visible with text, the fingerprint reader often doesn't get a good read, and it's noticeably sluggish in everyday tasks.

I justified the higher price to support their vision, not because it's a great daily driver, but it serves well as a backup phone with /e/OS. The cameras can be upgraded to the 3+ ones, so it's great that it's the only truly modular and DIY repairable device on the market.

I wish that a chipset swap and upgrade would be possible though. Google's Project Ara was interesting, but it was probably infeasible, and the technology might not be there yet.
I got away from self-hosted mail a few years ago and haven't looked back. There are a few flexible privacy-forward options on the market now (FastMail, Proton) and I don't have to worry about configuring DMARC/DKIM/SPF, Postfix milters, Horde/Roundcube, Courier, secure connection negotiation, X.509 certificates, or any of the other headaches associated with a quasi-legacy technology like e-mail.
Discover a Little Gem's Called Pill Master (Echo) on Google Play Store
This pill reminder app has the ability to talk and interact with Alexa devices.
Heh, years ago I got a ubiquiti NanoHD, it rebooted every few weeks for a few months. Then Ubiquiti shipped a new patch for it mentioning stability improvements and it's been rock solid since.

I just moved into a larger house and after some research decided to skip the $99 Ubiquiti 2x2 wifi6/802.11ax and get the $179 4x4 Ubiquiti wifi6/802.11ax, just received it this week and haven't installed it yet.

PoE is also REALLY useful for cameras, hoping my 8 port PoE switch does well with 2 APs, and 5 cameras.
I think it could depend a lot on how strong the person's other modalities of memory/imagination are. Some people commenting above mentioned they have good spatial memory despite poor ability to visualize, but others are bad at both of those. I could imagine handwriting having big benefits over typing for someone that has a strong sensorimotor memory for example, even if they can't visualize much.

Personally I don't have much visualization ability, and I don't think note taking helps me at all in remembering things that can be easily verbally encoded, for example a history class. But taking notes in certain college math courses seemed to make a big difference, even when I never looked at them again.

I'm not sure whether it's directly a memory thing (perhaps drawing stuff by hand could subconsciously affect recall), or that I use my own shitty drawings as a weak substitute for visualization thereby making it easier for me to conceptualize highly spatial topics. But in any event I think the subject matter could also be a mediating factor.

Tangentially related, but this is why I really appreciate video recorded lectures, being able to pause for a few minutes to work through or look up visual demonstrations is so much more efficient than trying to go back and make sense of everything afterwards.
Yes, and this is why American housing, including apartment housing, ticks me off so much. The building materials are crappy and neighbors can typically hear each other ("luxury housing" may not be affected as much when everything is built from concrete, including the floors/ceilings). Cities have laws about how much surface area ought to be covered with rugs to reduce noise for the neighbor below while walking.

Yes, please build to last. It will discourage crappy design, it will be more forward thinking because you can't just tear it down or slap it together in 3 months, it will be more economical in the long term (better insulation than the 2x4 cardboard boxes common in the US). Building materials are less toxic. It will also buck the consumerist glut that currently affects every sector of the economy and has led to enormous waste and poor quality. Actually, that's really the way in. To buck consumerism, an ethos of quality and classic style and design needs to be promoted. Anything else should be shunned as cheap and low quality.
Better PMs do this today by having buffer-features they can cut when needed. It'll handle the not-enough-memory issue as well as a meddlesome VP who think you're over-subscribed and wants you to cut to meet your dates.

Also, don't forget you're hearing decades-later retellings of someone else's story. I don't doubt that they trickled this extra space out as changing requirements mandated it, but that they kept from doing so until the team had actually reached a certain level of product-maturity and reclaimed all of their own waste first.

Remember that the PMs goal is to ship. Them blocking some assets but actually shipping is a success. Better 95% of the product than 0%.
Is it pointless and insensitive for a scientific manual to indicate that all individuals with a certain genetic disorder look incredibly similar across races and genders?

My point is that there is a difference between stereotyping races/cultures/disabled and indicating highly correlated attributes in individuals with specific genetic/chromisonal abnormalities.
I have been running my own Searx instance in AWS for a while and have not gotten blocked yet anywhere
It seems that at least on Sia's plans, you can maximally host 20TB for 80$/month, not even a tenth of a monthly common crawl.

Of course Sia's Skynet are package deals right now and I guess they're currently bootstrapping the network with users. Filecoin has no operational storage yet. Storj quotes 10$/Terabyte/month [1] so that will come out expensive.

1. https://www.storj.io/blog/2019/11/announcing-pioneer-2-and-t...
Implying I put a mask on. Do you think I'm bothered or intimidated by the fact that I hold a contrarian opinion?

I think RMS is a net good in the world. 99% of everything he's ever said and done has been some weird superposition of cringe and prophetic. The entire world owes him a debt of gratitude, but instead he's being slow boiled like so many other folks. I find it disgusting, and cowardly.

Go on ahead and pretend "equity" is somehow progress for as long as you want; eventually, when you're living in a failed state along the lines of South Africa, you'll understand.
https://knuckleheads.club/introduction/

That seems like an easy link?
GAU-8 might not be that great against modern armor, well, it's from 70s, but it's still capable of M-kills even on Abrams (happened during one of those unfortunate friendly-fire incidents during 1st Iraq war). And immobilised tank is a dead tank. Or at least useless for the mission.

A10 was designed for one specific task - to slow down Soviet tank armies rushing into Germany in case of European non-nuclear conflict. And while it was guranteed they would be accopmanied by mobile SAMs, it was tanks themselves that were major concern. The goal was to slow down the hordes by any means necessary and A-10 was the ideal solution for that.

According to all documents I was able to find, including several US military assessments, GAU-8 was more than capable of achieving K-kills on T72s using top-down attacks or low-angle side attacks.

CAS != tank killing, if your plane "gets there and out faster", you are not doing CAS but some sort of flyby. CAS usually requires visual confirmation of the targets, that means you have to fly low and slow, which F16 is not really made for (bad maneuverability at low speeds). You might also need to stay in the area for extended period of time, which, again, isn't F16s strong point (it's a great plane though).

IIRC pretty much all Mavericks in 1GW were from A10s, something like 95%.

I mentioned only 1k tank kills because I was lazy to type the other stuff, like trucks, armored vehicles, SCUD launchers, SAMs, all sorts of bunkers, command infrastructure, radars, etc.
What I mean by basing your identity about work is that your personality, your life, your social circles, etc etc is based around work. Is like someone basing their identity on their sexual orientation, or the sports club they support. Their work is their life, almost a cult like following, and use that work for making others part of that circle (think cultural fit shit, about people not wanting to hire/promote people because they don't hang around for friday evening beer social hour, or in a kind of upper management thing, not wanting to hire people that don't play golf)
I host a Wordpress site on hostinger, shared hosting costs under a buck per month for long term commitment .

No free or cheap , doesn’t have much controls but can’t complain a lot either
Ask HN: How to get good info on macronutrients, micronutrients and food data?
I find it a bit confusing. What I want is to start fairly simple: track all the macronutrients and micronutrients for my food.

Unfortunately, a few things (by example):

1. One Google search with USA data claims it has 1.6g (source 1) 1.8g (source 2) of fiber per 100g. Dutch sources [2] claim 0.9g. What am I supposed to make of that? How much can they vary? How accurate is this data?

2. Looking at a famous Dutch supermarket [3] I sometimes see different macronutrient or even micronutrient data than the Dutch authorities (see [2]).

3. Grocery chains do not give micronutrient data most of the time, just macronutrient data (fiber, protein etc.).

And this is simply the basics, how can I best understand this? The reason I want to: the advice in NL is to have 200g of vegetables and 200g of fruit (among other things). However, when I look at the Dutch data, if you eat 200g of vegetables and 200g of food at random, and then toss in some random other stuff in there that is recommended, it seems you'll get a micronutrient defficiency in some of the B-vitamins such as B6, B1 and B2. You're not going to get your daily intake.

I haven't formally researched this, but that's what a quick glance gave to me. Instead, you need to quite heavily optimize for it in order to get all your daily intakes met every day.

Obviously, not always getting your daily intake won't kill you, but I'd like to have a bit of a higher standard than simply "it won't kill you".

So any thoughts on this?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=tangerine+nutrients&oq=tangerine+nutrients&aqs=chrome..69i57.3383j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -- both sources came from the same Google search.

[2] Voedingscentrum, an Excel export on 100g via the Mijn Eetmeter coaching app.

[3] ah.nl
> if you want a safe, walkable neighborhood close to the city center next to a good elementary school, expensive salons, and several fine sushi places, you will pay a lot. However, in Houston you always at least have the option of buying a cheaper house farther away.

Yes if you wait for others to gentrify a neighborhood you'll pay the price. The third option is to take a risk and be an early adopter in an inner city neighborhood. Midtown used to be shotgun shacks that dated back to late 1800s. Now it's a sea of condominiums. East of Downtown (aka EaDo) was post-wwii starter homes and industrial, it too is now townhomes and condos. Third Ward (my neighborhood) was a mix of rental property and retirees and now has high and medium density housing mixed with condos and townhomes which are slowly pressing East towards TSU and U of H. The same happened to Moody Park area and Acres Homes is next.
Probably decreases, assuming everything is working as planned. Mycelium building materials will need to be kept dry in order to prevent them from consuming their media and sprouting mushrooms, and these dry conditions would prevent mold. Additionally, the mold and mycelium would compete for the same nutrients, with the mycelium already far more established.

If too much moisture gets in though, it's game over. Perhaps the mycelium bricks/plates can be coated in a sealant.
> The intent is to compel device manufacturers to release the source of their drivers

I doubt that was the "intent"... perhaps a contributory argument in favour of a non-stable ABI, but I understand the reasons are far more pragmatic: maintaining a stable kernel ABI is a lot of work which could have strangled Linux in its early years.
Do you have to dam a river to store energy in this way? Can they just build water towers that pull water from underground up into a tank and release it via gravity to generate power when needed?
IIRC it was dismissed by most people at the time though. I've only started to hear it discussed by people in psych/neuro academic departments in the last few years.
To avoid DDoS and content scrapers that would harvest the article text and put it on link farms to get clicks from confused search engines.
Not to bring down the mood on how easy it is for static sites on Vercel, but I still get sad about it moving away from server side or Docker based deploys. I really miss that workflow.
Now you have something to write about.
Once solar generating costs are further reduced, there needs to be improved effort on improving local infrastructure (within a single residence). Getting rid of DC-AC-DC conversion would be a huge improvement. If we standardize on a DC system (48v?) then household devices can be more efficient without the conversions.
There's some discussion happening now and I do expect to see some process changes coming out of this. It's tricky. The review you link does nominally follow the process of creating a review and having some discussion, but there isn't much actual code review happening there.
Your pricing page is confusing to me. There is a free tier, and it says "Pay as you grow", but I can't see what the limits on the free tier are or how growth is measured. How does it work?
104 years old and a beloved author? Now that’s the way to go.
I've been considering unconventional business models for software development teams, and something like this has crossed my mind a few times.

What I ultimately dream of doing is assembling something like what seal team 6 is to the US armed forces. How do you build an organization around that model? It takes many layers to filter the talent appropriately and protect the most capable players throughout. How do you achieve a similar effect on a small scale? Coding interviews are clearly not the most fantastic way to judge the capabilities of a software developer. I would have to find some new thing that is virtually failsafe, or I would have to find outside investors which ruins the whole thing. If I bootstrap with my own money, no one can stop me from doing what I want and then bestowing that same freedom upon other team members over time.

Maybe I could write a "game" and release it to the steam store. It could be a thinly-veiled programming challenge spanning many hundreds of hours of "gameplay", which tests for the exact qualities I would be looking for. This game would be the equivalent of enrolling in BUD/S training. The first 10 people to complete it with a perfect ending get a number directly to my cellphone with monetary offer & NDA presented on-screen.
Gaia Platform is hiring a contract SDE/Application Developer [pdf]
It is but if the radio driver was open source then the interface with the radio SoC would be documented.

Right now it is the worst of both worlds. Closed interface for a closed undocumented chip able to execute arbitrary code.
Self-defense is very different than bullying.
I'd assume Israel using American assets.
One possibility is to use farmland or grazing land. You can pick crops that do better in part shade and then place solar panels over them. If done right it could have a beneficial effect on crop growth while at the same time earning extra money.
I hated those books. They read as if written like what an adult thinks kids are like instead of being what kids think kids are like.

Every kid-character was a thoughtless menace to everyone else around them without a shred of empathy. That’s great if you’re an adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn’t want to identify with the characters at all.

I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically intelligent for their age but I read them because I wanted to be like them. Why would I read about people who personify all the things I hate about myself?
Add *##+js(aeld, scroll) to your uBO filters. That will stop scroll JS for all websites.
We deal with a similar problem in construction materials, and it's not that simple.
Situation:

1)Customer picks up product, other falls on the ground and becomes damaged, product -x
Equation: a-b-x where you don't know how much product is damaged
2)Product arrives in a bad batch, x number is affected, and requires manual adjustment, this doesn't happen, or happens incorrectly
Equation: a-b-x where you don't know how much product is damaged
3)Customer picks up X amount, however x-y was registered as a sale
Equation: a-b-y where you don't know how much product is unaccounted for
4)Delivery is expected on x day, however due to traffic/sickness/equipment failure delivery is delayed
Equation: a-0, stock isn't available as it didn't arrive, however the assumption was that product arrived (trivial to fix this one, but I'm laying out scenarios).

You now have four scenarios that are guaranteed to happen around %10 of the time. Issues can be expanded to the manufacturer/border/trade agreements/ thousands of other potential scenarios that disrupt sourcing.

In terms of taking stock, it's not a trivial task to take accurate inventory on a regular basis. It's a manual problem that can only be done in a reliable fashion in most cases through estimation (therefore inaccurate).

The reason why they provide availability ratings is that it provides a clearer picture of what a customer can purchase, and in the event it has a low rating, prompt for potential replacements. It's not binary, it's a case of 'probably' or 'probably not'.

I've seen stock that should have lasted a week disappear in a day, stock mis-allocated(multiple times for the same item from multiple vendors in the same day), large volumes sold incorrectly resulting in stock adjustments, wastage from random occurrences, etc.

I hope this provides a level of insight into the complexities of
I use https://sdf.org, but then my needs are very modest...
Show HN: Google Forms Alternative
U.K. Man Must Pay $571M over Stolen Bitcoin, CFTC Says
The Secret Origin of Windows (2010)
Another thing Annie really excelled at was distribution, up to and including leaving boxes lying around. Amusingly, this too has been done with scooters, but not (yet) hoverboards. But distribution is especially important for a product like macaroni and cheese which is sold everywhere, and Annie's really does have (in my experience) good market penetration, which I suspect predates the investor buyout. Cars and hoverboards on the other hand are only sold in a few places or on the Internet, which means you have to compete elsewhere.
Larry McMurtry, Novelist and Screenwriter of the West, Has Died
There is no rule. People just don't like it or don't want to see another flamewar, so they flag it.
I heard the situation since roughly the year 2000 described once as "in-deflation": inflation in everything you need (housing, health care, tuition, food, etc.) and deflation in the wages paid for labor and the cost of manufactured goods (due to deflationary pressure on labor).

I think in-deflation is the early 21st century's analogue to "stagflation" in the 1970s.

This results in an economy where for example state of the art manufactured goods cost the same or even less than a large grocery store run. The primary cost in a TV, washing machine, air conditioner, or tech gadget is labor, and labor is subject to intense deflationary forces. Food on the other hand is tied to the costs of things like land and energy that have kept up with inflation.

It's the result of inflationary monetary policy combined with aggressive labor outsourcing, labor-unfriendly trade policies, union busting, and automation. These latter forces place tremendous downward pressure on wages. Inflation is therefore highly concentrated in things that are not subject to these forces: assets, resources, and things that are really hard to automate or outsource.

Housing has inflated to the most insane degree because it's an asset (and thus soaks up surplus dollars), takes a lot of resource inputs, and its manufacture is effectively impossible to outsource. Triple whammy.
I think this is why Trump has a very strong appeal to many. Unlike the establishment Republicans, who cowered when hit with insults (e.g. any suggestion of enforcing immigration laws means you’re racist), Trump didn’t back down or try to apologize and would throw back just as silly accusations and insults.

Not a positive development for rational political discourse in the US, but at least an understandable response.
Thank you for sharing this article and glad to see that Fintech can be a force for good. While there are obvious advantages for the unbanked and underbanked, Fintech can support small businesses during these turbulent times as well.

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We are Railz, a data-as-a-service API. We provide our customers real-time data on their customers' through a single API that connects to their accounting software. Our risk scoring algorithms generate metrics and scores that can be used to help identify, quantify and manage the credit and financial risk of SMEs. Feel free to check our website to learn how we provide risk scoring through our API solution.

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>I've wondered if solar panels will start to look like pine trees at some point.

Interesting thought, but I'm not sure there same factors that led to plant evolution will play out with solar panels. Plants reaching up into the air was a direct response to competition with other types of plants. Presumably the same sort of competition won't be necessary with solar panels. I'm sure nature still has a lot of inspiration we can draw from for creating new types of solar panels, but my guess is that the most efficient surface for collecting solar energy is the flat square design we see today.
(Update: the complete Common Crawl dataset is actually a little smaller than I thought, at 6.4 PB. That's still pretty big, though.)