skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone wondering, this is not an experiment, it's an epidemiological study. I've commented about it on HN before [1], but nutritional epidemiology is in its own league of shady science. If you didn't know, 80% of things you eat give you cancer [2].

That being said, sugar is bad. Main-lining sugar by drinking it in huge concentrations seems even worse!
Edit: that being said, if you are doing nutritional epidemiology, or any data science for that matter, check out Mito [3]! It's what I do when I'm not shit-posting on sugar on HN :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26764060
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23193004/
[3] https://trymito.io/hn
Woah, particle dispersion is fucking crazy. I had no bloody idea it spreads all around the world in a year. I wonder what the minimum size of radioactive explosion would be to send a particle from say India (on the other side of the world) to me here on the West Coast and provide appreciable harm.
'It's one website, Michael. What could it cost, $50M?'
Not a lot of variety. It would help to have them displayed for equal height.

I think skeeva is the most unobtrusive of the bunch if that’s what we’re going for, and grandview would be my choice for its no nonsense legibility. I know I’ll be looking at this font for many years so let’s pick something that is easiest on the reader while still being professional. I actually think calibri was a step back from Arial despite some of the improvements because it lost a professional look. Tenorite looks like it has that same casual look.
Well, uFincs is a PWA, so you could 'install' it that way. We send a little in-app notification whenever a new update is pushed, so you could theoretically just ignore those and never update to keep using that one version of uFincs forever (assuming your browser never decides to update it otherwise).

But yeah, in terms of more standalone distribution and sandboxing, that's where the future desktop/mobile apps would be more appropriate. Of course, they'd be Electron-esque, but that would at least fulfill my end-goals of being privacy-first, offline-first, and providing 'long-term' software.
As I understand it, religious organizations have tax exempt status as non-profits under laws which also include educational and scientific institutions.

And, ironically, the reason religious organizations are included at all is the belief that taxing them would provide a means by which governments could interfere with religion in violation of the First Amendment.
There are some features for group messaging on iMessage that aren’t available in Group MMS. If you add a non-iMessage user to your group, the group downgrades to using Group MMS, which does still work for basic messaging, but the group loses all of its iMessage-exclusive features.
What defines a "criminal enterprise"? Like any corporation that has ever committed a crime?
I'd expect most challenger parties to be less corrupt than an incumbent party that had held power for a long time, at least for a while, and maybe for a long while if their hold on power remains more tenuous than the incumbents' had been. I'd expect this to be especially true at the local level, where the money involved in running a challenger party operation and campaign is unlikely to be high enough to support much corruption before office is taken.
This post is so thoughtful that I cannot do it justice.

Creative consulting is also a scam and is often the opposite of creative. You ideally want these creative types in house to change things instead, because creative consulting really changes nothing.

The promises of AI are also mostly a scam. The breakthroughs and discoveries made are often intellectually bankrupt. People drool from the correlations that are drawn from AI, even though there is no explanation for why this is occurring in real life. It is also making a lot of people’s jobs into “BS jobs”.
Thanks :)

You do about 1k dives per year if you are working in diving.

I have loads of respect for some of the recreational divers I have met with hundreds of dives, that is a lot of money and time to invest in a hobby.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708

There's been a lot of new information published on what lead to this change that isn't getting nearly as much discussion.
>And this make Lambda FAR less attractive

This is only relevant if the revenue lost from those that don't sign up out of fear of not being able to pay back the loans, exceeds the number of students who do sign up and would seek bankruptcy if it was dischargeable but don't having been told it isn't.

Just like the student debt problem in general, I'd imagine most students seeking to attend the school are optimistic they can pay it back, whether this ends up being true or not, so this proposed effect is minimal.

Also, some portion of those that wouldn't sign up out of fear of un-dischargeable debt, would, if it was dischargeable, not end up paying back some of this debt to Lambda School. So earning their trust as customers isn't much of a net benefit.

Putting all of these points aside, why did they do it? If it made their school overall less attractive to a point of diminished revenue, this would have been doubly stupid as it added regulatory risk since they were violating a law. Common sense tells us they were doing it because they saw it as beneficial.
Agreed. I am not saying that full-sugar soda is healthy, but it seems in the past people ate a lot of sugar and seemed to have less endocrine problems than they do today.
Too many confounding variables that can't be removed by a mathematical magic wand.
What about obesity, what about body fat percentage?

Yeah, fat men have lower testosterone levels. Yeah, non-smokers have lower testosterone levels.

I drink a bunch of HFCS and sugar sweetened beverages. Don't feel like it affects my weightlifting, maybe teeth mostly.
Cookies identify you only to the site setting the cookie. When doubleclick.net started scraping my data, I blocked them.

Problem gone.

FLoC gathers data from *all* my web browsing activity.

In addition, I have a nearly unique fingerprint from browser fingerprinting already. This makes it almost certainly unique.

It's not more privacy than cookies. It's a lot less.
If FLoC is opt out by default as many here claim, is this news saying that Github did nothing?

Also if it is opt-out by default I guess it will be simple to see who has opted-in, a nice list of shame.

Does this circumvent the EU cookie laws?
Also American's current broadband providers are shit.
Yes American computer rail service is a complete scourge.

It's a regressive sop to white fighters and their posh descendents.

It simply begets more car culture, a band-aid that hides scaling limitations where they are most salient.

It's a self-defeating honey-pot that soaks up the political will for transit in something that will never get broad traction.
Here is an interesting fact for anyone who might be reading.

All the medications with the -mab suffix are monoclonal antibodies.

For instance the "monoclonal antibody cocktail" Trump received was casirivimab and imdevimab, made by Regeneron.
Pro Pro tip: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325211532/https://helpx.ado...

(click the checkbox)
I always really liked Calibri. it was a great replacement for Times New Roman as a default for word processing, and it's far better than Arial.
Than the Democratic Party? Absolutely; the far-left politicians tend to be idealists explicitly foregoing the deep power / money networks that the DNC provides. Which is why they don’t have much success at the state / federal level.
I'm actually curious precisely what CIA justification you're referring to. What I'm aware of are [1] and [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/iraq-war-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/11/28/m...
For what it's worth, this was hastily written as I was thinking about what was happening at Basecamp. I would agree that it's very important to ask the questions you're asking-- that's why I added the final bullet. It wasn't the set of issues that were top of mind for me in the context of what was happening at BC, but I think they are critical, political questions that companies should ask.
It's not disproportionate. I've seen this time and time again; some people _can't help themselves_ being conflictive and reraising certain issues.

You either put a sock on it and move or you allow this discussion to go on forever.

And yes, as the owners and founders they are entirely within their rights to run the company as such. It hurts some people to remember that companies aren't committees where everyone's word matters the same. That's just the way it is.
Interesting. It would be even more interesting to see if the High Fructose Corn Syrup used in most sweetened drinks today has a different effect from the sugar used in previous generations. Given the changes in Men's morphology over the past 50 years, something is definitely making men fatter and softer (and of course, T is probably a large part of that...)
Answer from the umn concerning its ban from Linux
There's an answer from the umn and it only refers to commits in 2020, not the recent ones.
> Whatever the entry-level credential is, SWEs as a set will have a spread of productivity/capability that’s wider than the entry-level nurse.

I see, and you have presented, no reason whatsoever to believe that this is true.
I just finished For All Mankind and this was one of the choices explored in the first season.
Sugar is not bad. Just like meat or bacon is not bad.

Why would sugar on its own be bad? Obviously it's the whole lifestyle and diet that is bad. There are cyclist that carb load by eatig raw sugar and have no metabolic issues like some of the overweight diabetics do when they drink their second gallon of sugary coca cola.
I have been seeing this Wordpress theme a lot lately and it is so bad the way the content is pushed so far to the right. On my 27" monitor the left margin of the text is essentially the center of the display.
I think OP explains it, actually:

"Calibri has been the default font for all things Microsoft since 2007, when it stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office. It has served us all well, but we believe it’s time to evolve."

"Erin and Wei: After years of Calibri—known for soft corners and narrow proportions—we were craving something very round, wide, and crisp, and the geometric genre felt like the right direction."

Note: not, 'the users'. Not 'the readers'. There's nothing about inadequate multilingual support, performance optimizations from Variable Fonts, improved legibility as established by experiments, unusual design requirements like uniwidth or light traps, none of that. They are just yet another sans font. (Would even typographers be able to distinguish these 5 new fonts from the vast, enormous, groaning backlog of bland sans fonts which already exist?)

It's all about we, the designers, being bored.

I've become convinced after my past few years of reading design & typography material (like the last 3 decades of 'I Love Typography') that the real reason for most fonts being commissioned or purchased is simply because designers crave the novelty and are bored with their usual fonts, and it's essentially a kind of fringe benefit - like software developers going to conferences or being allowed to use the weird new language du jour for side projects. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that you shouldn't take all of the dressed-up justifications much more seriously than, say, wine tasting descriptions.
Do they give the effect size anywhere?
Didn't see Bezos's original comments, but yeah they seem weird. He simply added up a bunch of random numbers from Amazon's balance sheet and said "see we created exactly this much value".
Is there a real reason for doing this, like some licensing deal expiring?

Or is it just designers being designers?
New York is definitely not representative of America in the sense that NYC Unions have a true strangle-hold on labor and logistics costs in the city unlike most other places. (I think NYC is likely #1 in the free world for distorted construction markets because of this) As an architect living in NYC, I was shocked by how blatant this control was, how unaccountable labor was during construction, and the killing of a great pioneer project with modular construction because the modules weren't built in the city for example.)
Okay, I got way more of a kick than necessary from the image of a map which depicts 'you' traversing from 'the land of normal eggs' to '?'.

Also - and more relevant to HN - this is the first time I noticed Randall Munroe of xkcd fame has written for the New York Times. Good job on him for landing that gig! :D
In Canada the network owners are also required to lease the infrastructure to other operators but the situation is similar (although IIUC not quite as bad).

It seems to me that city-owned is actually the best option in this case. If it is optimal to have one set of infrastructure than it makes sense to have that infrastructure owned by the city which operates for the common good. As much as I am hesitant to trust the government to run the network I have no issues with my water or electricity utilities and the prices seem quite fair.
The importance of this cannot be overstated. I used to use Mint when I was in college, but got sick of them pushing credit cards on me, and the uncomfortable feeling of giving a service full access to my bank account. I tried tracking all my expenses in a spreadsheet for a year, which worked fine, but wasn't the most flexible system (or rather, it very quickly became a UX monstrosity).

Now I use hledger, which has been fantastic. I back up the file to a shared drive that's sync'ed to my phone, so every time I get a message from the bank or pay with cash, I can immediately note it down (this would have been much less workable before I found the "cone" app) and track my spending across dozens of accounts.

There are some improvements that could be made as to the visualization of data, which I might write a quick webapp for, but in terms of simplicity, robustness, and ease of use, plaintext is definitely the way to go.
Cats can catch a sparrow in mid-flight, though; it may take specialized hardware or software, but not human-level intelligence.
Any online dating site that had the fantasy that women had to join their site to get a date would trivially and quickly be disabused of this delusion. The site is following not creating the gender dynamic this is especially true where multiple dating sites all cater to the existing dynamic.
Lol, my impression is that OP did exactly that – copied a template privacy policy. They probably don't have a budget for a lawyer to write them a privacy policy, much less a EU-compliant one. If this was a big player in the space, sure, maybe they should have a better policy. But for a homegrown tool like this that's just launching? It makes sense they're using off-the-shelf stuff.
Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
Isn't the most lasting legacy of MS Bob the Comic Sans font?
Solid: Stripe for high risk merchants (Waitlist)
Elon Musk relance Dogecoin dans un contexte de “fort intérêt” pour les altcoins
Musk est sur le point d'animer le Saturday Night Live, ce qu'il dit faire en tant que "Dogefather", alors que le DOGE/USD grimpe de plus de 20 %.
Reactjs Video Tutorials [2021-2020] 1.6M Views and 1.2K React Links
Floating point, while convenient does have substantial drawbacks in the implementations of circuits that we have today. Efficiency gains like this somewhat expose facets that are normally hidden. It will be interesting to see the transition to either analog NN or quantum computers, which inherently have better representations of continuous values.

Edit: Additionally the serial vs parallel processing paradigm shift is a main advantage of the switch too! Queued systems seem to have severe scheduling limitations, which the real-world does not always inherently have.
We have a winner!

Zooming out a bit, this is why low growth is self-reinforcing. We need constant heavy demand to drive continual investment and productivity improvements.
sales team creating value... hilarious... LOL
> After about a year, atoms from your candle will have spread completely around the globe.

How on earth is this provable?
Complex config files suck in paramstore. Also, I've used this for mobile app configs that are pulled from s3, so paramstore wouldn't be an option.
Even 50 years ago even white collar people did a lot more physical work then they do now.
I had the same experience and even tinkered around with building this myself!

IMO the biggest problem with existing calculators, and yours, is that you have to make some pretty strong assumptions about the future. How will rental & housing prices grow? What returns will I get on my investments? Depending on the numbers you put in you will get very different results, and most people are not good at predicting these!

I think the real value here will be to find a way to reduce the number of knobs that users have to specify in some way, with either expert estimates for these variables, or joint distributions of these variables so that users can explore scenarios like "stock market crash" without having to figure out how that could impact every variable.
1 BTC = 1 BTC

used to be a thing as well.
Oh, awesome, I missed that!
If you stick to fountain sodas, it won't wreck your teeth for decades. The acid in the can (and 2liters, small bottles, etc) is very hard on them.
Why is it controlling the "On startup" settings? I can't use it because of that.
As it turns out, "signing up" with "fuck.off@eat.shit.com" worked just fine for me.

... With apologies to whoever owns shit.com.
If you've never seen it before, this is a beautiful blog post on related matters: "Optimising pointer subtraction with 2-adic integers" http://blog.sigfpe.com/2010/05/optimising-pointer-subtractio...
My management forces it, totally useless practice imo.
I think you can make a solid case that, for most people, fructose and therefore sucrose is bad in any significant quantity. Sure, fructose can help replenish liver energy stores if you're an athlete, but most people aren't.
I went and looked at some old files I had, turned out I downloaded dogecoin-qt back in 2014 but never did anything with it and just had an empty wallet, it was considered a joke at the time but became "real" when it sponsored a NASCAR car and was on a livery.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/27/nascar-do...
Nifty calculator! I wish it was a bit easier to max out two 401ks (e.g. for a married couple). Otherwise, it's very slick and gives a similar result to my personal projections.
The big problem is resonances. A VAWT has various modes of resonance that are very hard to engineer against due to some of their basic properties. The largest of these, the one at Cap Chat in Quebec ended up being scrapped after an embarrassingly short period of operation.

There are some VAWTs in the rockies that lived for more than a decade but they made really little power compared to the amount of money that went into them.

But they look nice and are deceptively simple on paper (one less parameter to deal with due to the fact that you don't need to steer them, and the generator stays at ground level). So likely people will keep trying but it almost certainly isn't going to move the needle in the longer term.
I’m not even sure what this means? Power politics aren’t “corrupt”, they’re just politics. The power determines who gets the money / resources; in the case of the far-left that generally ends up being the working class. Things have been out of balance for so long there is a lot of sentiment in favor of wealth distribution right now. The power is a means to an end.
It's really not a problem. Controlled blasting around vulnerable or weak structures is well studied and practiced by professionals. Computer aided design and modeling has only gotten better over the years.

NYC in particular has some very stringent regulations regarding blasting, allowable vibration levels, and so on. Long gone are the days of gung-ho cowboys lighting off fuses leading to piles of dynamite, massive fireballs, and the like.

Example reading:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/229071708.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328666110_Large_str...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297751622_Strains_I...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315527348_Reducing_...

E: Trying to find a paper about blasting a road tunnel in Turkey under some ancient ruins. The stringent restrictions they were under and the things they did to maintain compliance were really, really interesting (as a blasting engineer) but I can't find the damn thing right now.
To elucidate the bellhop problem, the $2 the bellhop has, should be subtracted from the $27 that the patrons paid. This leaves you with $25, which is the correct amount the hotel has after refunding $5.
This was my first time seeing said puzzle, and when I got to the end I instantly was thinking? WTF you need to subtract $2 to get to the price of the room, not add to try and get to some imaginary amount of money spent.

The room is $25. Everyone paid $25 for the room + a $2 "tip" to the bellhop.

That said, I'm going to have fun emailing it to my parents. ;)
In the era of glass bottles and real-sugar soda, we drank a hell of a lot less soda. The era of free refills on sodas not just existing but being expected, and 32-ounce "medium" size soft drinks is quite recent.

Also, I'm unconvinced a small difference in the balance between glucose and fructose is worth treating HFCS as different from beet or cane sugar. Its effect on the price of sugar is a different matter, however.

[EDIT] see the 1989 skate film Gleaming the Cube for an example from a few years before free refills started being advertised fairly frequently, and a solid decade before they became the overwhelming norm: there's a Pizza Hut in it with an advertisement posted on the side of the building for a special on pitchers... of soda, not of beer.
NodeJS + express:

app.use((req, res, next) => {
res.setHeader("Permissions-Policy", "interest-cohort=()");
return next();
});
And how is the opposition not supposed to appear desirous of more power?
Employer demanding [video call] to identify employees who leaked salary info
You assume that hiring a black person to an all white team, gives much thought diversity. My argument is that it does not, if that person had a middle class background and similar upbringing.

If you hire a former gang-banger who is a wiz with eletronics, then you will have some real diversity.
IMO the root problem is that government projects in most countries are full of bullsh*t requirements, lack of technical depth of product owner; lots of paperwork etc; on top of that, huge scope, long planning phases, a lot of legal risks; and also potentially some behind the scenes corruption; all of which make it unlikely for smaller, responsible, non-bullshit companies to even bother applying for such projects.

The only ones who can manage all the legal things, endless spec meetings etc. before the project starts, without bleeding themselves to death, are the behemoths like Accenture and similar.
Even if the government has the ability to properly manage the process it does not bring it to bear because both the government bureaucracy and the contractor benefit from the waste of resources.

The larger the amount of taxpayer money that is being spent the more opportunity for a larger more powerful bureaucracy to oversee the spending and more opportunity for profit by the contractor.

The same mutually beneficial waste exists at the contractor to labor unions interface (union drives up cost, more $$ for them, contractor passes on cost, more $$ for them) and at beureaucracy to politician and appointed administrator interface (bigger bureaucracy more resources go to it and more power for the administrating officials).

The only loser in the whole deal is the taxpayer who has to pay more for less.
FSF board frequently asked questions
The study considered BMI.
> I put cheating into quotes

That only works when you make little quoting gestures with your fingers.