skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just from reading through various health topics on Wikipedia, I'm now pretty sure that exercise influences much more than just fat and muscle mass. All the way to having anti-inflammatory effect because muscle secretes some stuff, working as an endocrine organ.

So if you decide to sleep more, perhaps you want to sacrifice something other than exercise.

Also I don't know how anyone can take BMI by itself seriously.
...and the content is being policed, not the thoughts. "All content is just thoughts, conveyed" is a meaningless slippery slope.
Yep, I mostly am working integration tests for large ETLs, unit tests dont need this.
Not defending Accenture here, but if you think management consulting is all about the PowerPoint slides you’re missing the point.
Posted this https://coil.com/p/XRPFax/Understanding-the-Crypto-Market-Ca...
here the other day. Its the exactly that. People just dont understand that market cap is a garbage value that has no meaning at all.
Doesn't the green bubble mean that it's sent over SMS? I'm pretty sure the reason it exists isn't because of some "pretentiousness"
Its too complicated. Hardly anyone actually needs a distributed version control system. It's a tool and should stay out of my road, not require hours of Stack Overflow to roll back a couple of mistakes.
Do: And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.

Don't: Speech recognition algorithms may also have racial bias; Error rate for African American speech is nearly double that for others. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/speech-recognition-a...
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Having sat on a grand jury, the 95% is because it's a rigged system. The DA has to convinces 50% of the people that there is a 50% chance that their one sided story is possibly true. This is a lower bar than individuals are held to at cocktail parties.
For folks switching to iOS for the first time from Android the experience can be incredibly frustrating, if you don't know that you're supposed to do things "The Right™" way.

Examples from personal anecdotes include:

- My first Macbook pro several years ago was the cheapest one at the time, and basically got stuck in a boot loop when I opted out of creating an apple ID on setup. Needed to boot into safe mode and factory reset it to start again.

- Setting up an iPad (in the last year) for a first time iOS user, required two 2FA challenges and needed the apple ID password ended no fewer than 7 times in the first 5 minutes of operation. The App Store didn't work for a few minutes for reasons unknown, and then with no changes, started working. (I'm guessing the creation of a new apple ID takes a few minutes to propagate to the app store or something?)

I'm sure everything goes smoothly when you just log in with an apple account and import all of your existing settings from iCloud etc, but if you're jumping in for the first time and press the wrong buttons it's rough!
My kids opted to be 100% virtual and asynchronous for their schooling this year. This means that they do not need to be up at a given hour and that they can get ahead in their classes if they have the opportunity. This has its pros and cons, as it takes willpower to stay focused on their school work. It's also forcing them to essentially teach themselves, which I find to be an excellent skill to have.

The best part of this is not having to get up very early. My oldest was picked up by the bus at 6:07 AM every day. Now she wakes up more naturally and it's been a fantastic change. She can get more rest, if needed, when she has her monthly, which isn't something she would be able to normally do.
I tried the pomodoro technique yesterday. I had one successful pomodoro on the morning when it was quiet, and then when I went to take five minutes to clear a few things away before starting the next pomodoro, those five minutes some how became the rest of the day and I never got a chance to start my second pomodoro
95db over water could be heard from a couple miles away, especially if the atmospheric conditions are right. I don't know how far out the current ones are since we don't have any around here.

This brings up another interesting point. If there are concerns around ship engines and submarine sonar or ELF for marine life, I wonder if any testing has been done concerning that with the turbines.
John Delony Show: a caller-driven mental health challenges, relationships show
Strongly worded? Trite clichés aren't very strong.
I think the parent was trying to express that the app seemed designed for a specific demographic, and didn't generalize as well as it could. (And they therefore suggested a feature that would help it function well for a broader audience.)
I thought it was a great piece! Interesting, succinct, and well sourced.
> Good work, if you can get it.

I'm sure it is for whatever level of management you have to get to so that you maximize the ratio of BONUS_PAY:STRESS_OF_PROJECT_FAILURE, but to me it sounds like an absolutely nightmare. At the engineering level, I've found very few things a painful as having to put on a good face and pretend that my team is delivering something worth paying for when I know it's an absolute waste of resources for all involved. Thankfully my experience with this has been fairly minimal, but I really never want to experience it again.

(I know it was likely a flippant comment rather than a serious one, but it just kind of triggered a well of emotions in me)
As to TVs I get it - for some people it's a major purchase and they want to feel they made the right choice (I did this with a Plasma years ago) - and they feel they have to "defend" that choice - especially if they "came" to it after another model.

But there's another valid choice - this TV does what I want and is cheap enough that I'm not going to bother investigating further, and if I have to replace it in X years I won't mind much.
It's getting more difficult every day.

And I don't want to punch Mickey Mouse every time I go climbing.
Dundee Society
This

I also read the letter from Bezos and thought "ok is just useless propaganda"

But having someone break it down for me and questioning every statement, was somewhat useful, and possibly increased my awareness to this kind of krap... ehm double standards
mis-worded. I meant safe multi-threading using rust’s abstractions that make this a lot easier and guaranteed. Is that not the case?
The fact that you have to have a Microsoft 365 subscription to be able to use "Cloud Fonts" to try out these fonts is... hilarious. Presumably it'll be a handful of months until they find themselves in a Windows release, I'd hope, but especially considering they have a way to install Fonts via UWP and the Microsoft Store, this feels like a failure of distribution limitations.
Can confirm with some anecdotal evidence. Had to work with them once for a client. They were hired to create some web services.

All they did was constantly spew out enterprise-y business bullshit statements, while trying to delay, stall, do as little work as possible and extract as much money from the contract as possible. (this was some semi-public funding gig)

In the end they delivered some nodejs application, granted it works and does it job, but the amount billed and time invested was insane if you ask me.

Much more focus on lobbying, talking, overselling, making things sound "proper and official", than actually being helpful with the engineering.
Tl,dr: helps executives transfer risk
Thank you for digging into this! Private finance data like this, submitted to a server, makes me uneasy. This isn't some calendar app or a game. The reputation of the site should be beyond reproach.
I worked at a company who did a lot of outsourcing with companies like Accenture. They tend to stick to contracts and the wording at all costs, so every feature had to be specced to hell. You can't just say "the site has a responsive design", you have to have screenshots of every page at every resolution and have what elements appear at each resolution.

This took so much time it was almost always faster to simply do the work ourselves.
Ah gotcha, didn't know about those guaranteed spots!

I couldn't judge your analogy, as a Swede I too know very little of American sports. I know they say football but don't mean it, and that's about all I know.
@kgwgk you are right wrt my use of the word "benefit", and indeed there is no corporate tax on these 50€. I updated the comment.

Still, work will be cheaper compared to the price of products.

In my example, the 50€ will be used to pay the salary, and the net salary will still be 20€ while the price of the phone will increase by 21%.
True cost of web portal development
Check out what it takes to build your own custom web portal for business purposes.
Fair point. I've been a long-time HN reader but never made an account before. After working hard building the app, I was excited to create my first post to share it, and mentioned to my friends I had posted it to HN. Evidently a few of them decided to create accounts to show support. If this was any kind of breach of HN etiquette, my sincere apologies -- that certainly was not the intent.
That kids can lose weight by sleeping?
I like how easily you can pick out the legit HN comment, ie completely off topic about naming
I'll admit I don't use many "enterprise" apps. Probably the only thing would be using Jira at a past employer. So maybe that's the difference.

But even then: surely native enterprise software was/is just as bad?
Got the same email. While this isn't a huge deal to me, for those that'd prefer to run their own RSS feed of their comments, I wrote this a while ago, before I knew about this service:

https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/15e61acc003bb6d46a458001fe...

I updated it to look like the emails this service sends, though it should be straight forward enough to change.

(Standard "this was written in a day with no care for maintainability and code prettiness" warnings)
> They make programs hard to understand and follow.

Really? Using a lookup table to annotate objects externally instead of stuffing annotations inside the objects themselves makes programs harder to understand and follow? No, it's having objects with hundreds of fields that get gradually filled by different places in code too makes programs harder to understand, because it's unclear what data is available where and when. Having children in tree-like structures have pointers to their parents makes programs harder to understand and follow? Again, no: when traversing a tree one can do without to-parent pointer available in the children by stuffing it in the traversal context, but that too makes the program harder to understand.
That's a lot of words to say: "the OP is incorrect". But I appreciate your concern.

And, so there is some factual outcome or use to this thread, I'd like to add that I'm looking forward to Murdoch rotting in actual, or metaphorical, hell.

You're welcome.
It's the economy of C players, AKA the Enterprise. There are hordes of bureaucrats spending other peoples money with reckless abandon.

I once worked at a firm not unlike Accenture - essentially management consulting - and was on a project that ended up being a frontend reskin of a Fortune 500 company website.

But at the project inception I was asked to scope the project and no one, either on our side, or the client side knew what the scope was.
So I put line items in with pretty large time estimations as placeholders for the skinning their SaaS application as well as the website.

The client glazed over the Gantt chart (created in MS Project) and signed off on it.

In the end, we did design, frontend build and integration oversight on about 15 templates of their .com. This is the kind of thing any run of the mill digital agency could and would do for 50k. We charged them 2.1M.

This kind of project (now with AI/ML/Blockchain!) is Accenture and the like's bread and butter.
I mis-worded. I meant safe multi-threading using rust’s abstractions that make this a lot easier and guaranteed, and zero cost meaning no overhead. Is that not the case? maybe not the case with threading.
> Sharing a video via group MMS is fraught with problems, it often doesn't work, or the resolution is garbage.

FYI, this is carrier related. Many carriers have a hard limit on how big attachments are, and will silently reject them if you go over that limit.

What the limit is varies based on the carrier, but it seems that a "safe" limit is ~1.1 MB (This is the hard limit that Android enforces for the largest MMS attachment it allows). T-Mobile seems to allow higher (I think I got up to 10 MB?), but I do not know what would happen if you sent an MMS to another carrier that is that big (they probably silenty drop it).

So you have two options: either reduce how big it is (which Android Messaging silently does), or flat our reject it. So the video is problem is silently reencoded to accomedate the 1.1 MB limit.

Why doesn't this happen on iMessage? Probably because you can set your MMSC (the Server that sends/recieves MMS) to Apple's MMSC, so you can standardise how big it is.
Are there actually any schools that start later than usual, say at 10am or 11am? All I can find online is lots of articles about how schools should start later, but somehow no schools that actually offer that. If there aren't any, how come?
Intel just announced "Bleep" to eliminate bad language in gaming. I am still waiting for this to backfire. The interface alone is comedy gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9f0h4nB6VM
Bittrex is a dead exchange these days. On a particularly frothy day DOGE hit something like 80B in voilume across all pairs and exchanges.
UBI deflates the morale of those who receive it.

Costly infrastructure building is actually neutral or maybe even net positive because people have the impression that they are screwing the government over, which is always good for self esteem.

I bet this guy who skipped work for 15 years was super confident and extremely prone to spending the money he pocketed (but did not earn)
Another reason why we should not be making this big push for EVs but instead try to shift our infrastructure away from personal vehicles and towards mass transit and micromobility.

EVs will still make this picture look the same and are thus inherently an inefficient form of transport:

https://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8...
Not heroes. Not them not us.

They probably just think they are speaking up against injustice.

Just like we thought. We were right. I don't know enough about reddit to say much about those folks.
Yep, my bedtime was 8pm growing up, until middle school, then it was 9pm. 15-16 was when I stopped having a bedtime. I absolutely hated it at the time, especially in the summer because it would still be light out when I went to bed, and I never felt like I never ever felt like tired or like I needed to go to sleep at "bedtime".

In retrospect I'm glad I always had a full night's sleep, because I wouldn't have if left to my own devices.

Nowadays parents keep their kids up all hours of the night, I really don't get it. I see elementary aged kids out and about (in public) 9, 10, even 11pm.
I don't know why you are being downvoted, you are completely right. The NT api function is NtWaitForMultipleObjects. The Win32 apis WaitForMultipleObjects and WaitForMultipleObjectsEx are thin wrappers over this.
Like suicide bombers?
That's not necessarily true - it's age dependent. Adolescents/teenagers are "hardwired" to stay up later[1] and sleep in later (relative to adults or younger children).

1 - https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/sleep-disord...
Half of me is "this is a really playful and neat way of thinking about design" and the other half of me is, "I do not want everything to act like Clippy".
The US Federal government spends a lot of money on consulting. So do a lot of the fortune 500 companies.
reminds me of the reddit bot that lets you know when you accidentaly post a haiku. Internet can be a nice place at times
Commenting in no way on any such effects, droughts and famines have been a fairly regular feature of Russian history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia...
It's the same with cryptocurrency, Tesla stock, Gamestop. The market-cap bubbles become a self-justifying cycle. Theoretically everything comes back down to earth, but only when it runs out of fuel. But the fuel is human insanity, which may be unlimited.
It might just be easier to partner with a respected company or companies that people trust with their money/data already. The biggest one that comes to mind that also seems a bit behind on the visualizations and sleek UI that this has would be Vanguard.
> Overcorrect if necessary.

Hell no, that’s what all our legal systems are not about and there are also provisions against this sort of zealotry.

And rightly so, it’s such a historically proven road to hell and unintended consequences.
"Global mammal biomass" is insignificant compared to insects. We're losing the war against the arthropods!
I posted a longer explanation here of why that's the case if you're curious why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26970035

TL;DR: This is carrier related.
This is an overly simplistic take. Everyone has different natural circadian rhythms and not everyone is tired enough to fall asleep at 8pm.
I'm sure that using commercial source control software doesn't HAVE to suck, per se, but the kind of companies that can afford Perforce are usually so bloated and political that you can't avoid that kind of bureaucracy.
You’re right, it’s primarily about providing CYA insurance to dysfunctional management teams that need a third party to tell them what they already know and provide cover for an unpopular decision.
I don't know you or your situation but if stopping feels like a large effort then it may be worth examining your relationship and possible reliance on alcohol.
Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming?
Puritanical?

> AI Dungeon will continue to support other NSFW content, including consensual adult content, violence, and profanity.
Fair and astute observation, and it implies prosecutors have been rounding on Signal for months at least before the Cellebrite blog post as well. However, it also means there was already a snare set for them before the post. I would still not underestimate what these people are capable of. If they want to get you, they will find a way to get you.
unbundle or die trying
They send an email when the link is ready though...

Also, you know have the option to have downloads prepared for you automatically at periodic intervals.
I'm not an hnreplies user, but IMO this is exactly what an incident disclosure should look:

- What happened
- The extent of the damage
- Why it happened
- Why it is less likely to happen again in the future

Software is made by people, and people make mistakes. I don't think anyone is asking for perfect software (particularly not on this forum, and particularly not for free services offered by the community). But a clear picture of the breach and why it occured allows the user to make an informed decision about whether a service is worth using.

Maybe this is evidence of how low the bar is for incident reporting, or maybe its evidence of of "no publicity is bad publicity," but I just signed up for hnreplies.

Great service idea, and thanks for the honest and helpful disclosure!
Because a prosecutor calls up the IT crime lab and asks for the rundown. And since they have massive budgets, there actually is a well trained head of the IT crime lab who is perfectly capable of understanding and explaining (to a jury) how Signal works.
> All it takes is a handful of bored teenagers or middle-aged basement-dwellers to turn your product into something the vast majority of your clientele finds appalling.

the Internet's original sin!

the irony is that Tech amplifies it but Tech won't (IMHO) be able to fix it with a technological solution (it's not a technical problem).
> Why doesn't this happen on iMessage?

Because iMessage is not MMS - it uses a custom protocol and works completely independently from the carriers.
Totally agree. As a boy I played chess at the book store. This one man would always have long conversations with me and tell me about all sorts of books. (This was great, I loved reading.) After a number of weeks, he wanted me to go have lunch with him down the street. I felt like this was weird, and said no. The following weekend one of the other men, a math professor at the college, took me aside and said flat out not to hang out with that man, or go anywhere with him. Long story short, predators start by forming a friendship and building trust. If, for whatever reason, your kids don't feel like they can come to you first for things, then they're at a higher risk for predators.
You say that as if the person with the confiscated device isn't going to get a replacement device. People can't go 15 minutes without looking at their device let alone x months to get it back. Also, personally, if I did receive a confiscated device back, I would only consider it being useful as a trade in. There's no way in hell I'd ever use it again, especially if it is a laptop.
An even older example is Indians and the caste system. I would even posit it greatly assisted Britain in being able to pilfer the subcontinent from halfway around the world with a fraction of the population.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation here in the comments. Accenture makes a lot if not most of its revenue from SOX consulting. After Enron, Congress passed a law (Sarbanes-Oxley or "SOX") that required public companies to certify their "internal controls" over the processes used to create the financial statements. Essentially, the volume of daily transactions for accounting became un-auditable and the focus shifted to understanding how business processes, systems, and data interact to arrive at numbers that go into the financial statements.

As a result, auditors have to have comfort over those processes and systems to sign their audit opinion. Most of the work Accenture does is creating flowcharts and diagrams on behalf of management that will help auditors understand those processes and systems... It saves time from auditors asking the same questions year after year and gives them a document to reference as audit support.

The process of adopting SOX is extremely painful for newly public companies because it requires creation of robust documentation, as well as eliminating opportunities for data to be changed by creating business rules in systems that are used as part of business processes (for example, requiring multiple levels of approval for certain kinds of things). Companies are often willing to pay in range of $1M to $5M for varying levels of help with this process.

Afterward Accenture often try to stick around and sell sexier things, like process improvement (since theoretically they know all the processes from their initial scope they have an easier time identifying opportunities for improvement) or more ambitious things like blockchain/AI solutions, as some people have pointed out in this thread.
I'm not the author, and I've never used Perl, but I've wanted to write pretty much this article (on the open source projects I'm involved in) for a long time now.

I believe the people talking about and pushing "community" have good intentions, but there are hidden negative consequences that are almost never acknowledged.

For example, it can ironically make a big project feel less welcoming, because newcomers may be pressured to feel they have to become part of the community even though that's basically impossible - because, as this article rightly points out, there is not the community but instead a federation of many communities.
And screw the vulnerable people your Gozilla murders under it's feet eh?