skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Here in the US, those were regarded as stable, well-paying jobs for people without a college degree. They were seen as a middle-class income that could support a family and a house, accessible to just about anybody (at a time when college was relatively rare). They weren't fun jobs, but seen as good solid labor for sound pay.

There are a whole lot of problems with those rose-colored glasses (including that it owed a lot to unions, which are often despised in the US), but I'm curious why Europeans don't even want the rose-colored-glasses version. Are they seen as unpleasant jobs? Or unstable?
Nice trolling, I hope, because it’s terrifying if you’re serious. Sugar basically doesn’t exist in nature without fiber. Animals have not evolved to consume significant quantities of it. Bacterial flora in your gut is different when you have sugar and not enough fiber.
I prefer the third option: try to turn adversaries into allies.

I totally lack the skills necessary in this case, but that’s my preference.
Still to early to think how to sell our [ we are in the very early stage] to sell our WebApp subscription as a bundle with MightyApp. But the price will be to high [add $15 for our side]. Waiting for the future when Linux and Windows ( sadly) versions arrive. Imagine the Arduino’s guys with this. Go buddy!
Do you mean FTTP not FTTC? 900/100 isn't bad for £60/month imo. Do you actually need 900 down? I used to have 1000/1000 from hyperoptic in London but switched down to 150/150 as virtually nothing on the internet supports or needs higher speeds once you get bored of running speedtests for the fun of it. The only thing that can use it is large xbox game downloads, but even at 150 most are done in 10-20 minutes, and over wifi you struggle to push more than that throw a couple walls anyway.

Other providers offer Openreach FTTH btw - not just BT.
I guess I interpreted it as a more perfunctory "please", but that's probably just a knee-jerk reaction on something being sent by a lawyer. Seeing it spelled out like it is here, it does seem more logical for it not to be a strict requirement.
I want freedom from Apple controlling iPhone that is now my property. Where is my liberty?
Is there a study about that? I'd love to see more info on difference in health effects between fountain soda vs bottled/canned.
KDE connect works on macOS too.
The Soviet denial of science actually went much more beyond relatively minor details like the prosecution of Vavilov.

I have read a large number of school manuals from the sixties, both from the Soviet Union and from a few of the East European countries dominated by the Soviet Union.

All these school manuals were extremely ridiculous, because they always included some pseudo-historical sections where for every useful scientific or technical discovery or invention, or even for every innovation in sports, it was claimed that there was some unknown Russian scientist, worker or even peasant, who had discovered or invented that, much earlier than their well-known discoverers or inventors from West-European countries.

Additionally, all the biology manuals included a pseudo-historical section containing criticism against the "Mendelo-Morganism", where Gregor Mendel, Thomas Morgan and the other people with well-known contributions to modern biology and genetics were presented as a gang of crooks who belonged somehow to some kind of international conspiracy that promoted some kind of pseudo-science for some unspecified but certainly evil purposes.

On the contrary, Lysenko and a few other Russian geneticists were presented as some luminaries who are the only source of truth about biology.

Reading any of those Russian school manuals, which tried to poison the minds of many generations of students in Russia and in the countries controlled by them, is enough to make you understand the relationship between the Soviet Union (and communists in general) and the true sciences.
> Obviously it's the whole lifestyle and diet that is bad

Of course, we all recognize that eating small amounts of sugar is not the problem.

The reality is that most of us are consuming reasonable amounts of sugar in our normal diets before we even start introducing refined sugar products like sweetened beverages or candies. When people say "sugar is bad" it's over-simplified, yes, but they're not literally suggesting that glucose is inherently evil. The point is that sweets and treats where refined sugar is present in unreasonable quantities are not good for you, as is clearly the topic in this study about sweetened beverages.

> There are cyclist that carb load by eatig raw sugar

Not at all relevant for anyone except elite athletes preparing for an extreme exertion. That said, there are some concerns about ingesting a bolus of refined sugar outside of the context of a meal, which is a glycemic stimulus so intense that it's virtually impossible to achieve during ordinary diets. Even athletes prefer to pace their glucose ingestion and/or ingest carbohydrates as part of a meal with fiber and other mass that slows absorption. Chugging raw sugar is an edge case.
Badass Humans Walk on the Goddamn Moon
Remember, our Universe is an amazing place with very many amazing people, creatures, and other things.

Stare at something closely for a few minutes. Like your foot or anything else. Then checkout this wikipedia entry.

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

What do you feel?
What do you think?
Starlink is only an option for a very, very small portion of the population.

The Starlink constellation has less total bandwidth than a single strand of fiber. It simply does not scale.

Starlink only has permits for about a million terminals or so and they must be very careful in where and how many customers they sign up so as to not overwhelm the system.

Elon himself has said that Starlink is only an option when you have no other options.
Nikolai Vavilov's younger brother Sergei [0] was a famous physicist who together with Pavel Cherenkov discovered Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation [1]. By the time Nobel committee awared Cherenkov the Nobel price Sergei Vavilov already died (of natural causes). Got me thinking about genetic predisposition to science among Vavilov brothers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Ivanovich_Vavilov

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
The yellow part is glowing soot particles. Where it stops being yellow, it has mostly burned up (turned into carbon dioxide). No surprise that there's a lot of soot in the flame.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338016768/figure/fi...
This is the problem with the common law system. It's a haphazard set of poking and prodding where written law is less than half the story. We really need to switch to a civil law system in this country.
I read an article some time ago about the opposite scenario. I searched for the article just now but didn't find it; would be curious if anyone has a link.

I remembered it something like this (but see soarfourmore's reply for a correction): what if the command module pilot became incapacitated but was still alive?

The lunar module could still dock with the command module, but the astronauts would not be able to get into the command module because the the CM pilot could not open the hatch on that side.

So their only option would be to do a spacewalk over to the command module and open an external hatch to get in.

The would not know at that point whether the CM pilot had his spacesuit helmet on or not, so they wouldn't know until they opened the hatch whether they had just killed him.
And the Oracle response authored by him is here: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/the-intercepts...
1. Tesla Inc. buys some Bitcoin.

2. Tesla announces that Bitcoin is good now and that it bought some.

3. The price of Bitcoin goes up, because institutional adoption of Bitcoin is good for its price, but also because, by the Elon Markets Hypothesis, anything that Musk buys goes up.

4. Tesla sells some Bitcoin, making a profit.

5. Musk tweets that the price of Bitcoin is too high.

6. Bitcoin prices go down due to the Elon Markets Hypothesis.

7. Go to Step 1.

How is that not illegal?

If we look at it from stocks, if Tesla bought a million shares of random X penny stock, and then Elon Musk tweeted that this random penny stock is now amazing. And then once it reached $10 they sold 10% at 1000% percent profit.

That's illegal, so why is crypto not?

Edit: It's actually legal... so nevermind.
> Devs, is your team using story points to estimate work? Why/Why not?

No, but we’re using story points to consume time while still estimating work on hours. Why? Irrational mix of cargo cult practices imposed by management with no articulable rationale.

> Been going back and forth internally to understand the true value of story points in estimating sprints.

Used properly, story points mitigate various problems with estimating intellectual work; basically, teams are empirically better and chunky relative estimates than detailed time-based estimates, but also tend to waste a lot of effort for no return when doing the latter. So, ideally, with SPs you do chunky relative estimates quickly, and over time use statistical analysis tonget a picture of both the expected time and variance (both of which will slowly change over time) that those chunky relative estimates translate into for work items and overall sprint size.

A sibling comment recommends no-estimate flow based development methods, which are often ideal if the dev team has no outside interactions for which estimates matter (or these are rare and unpredictable, so that ad hoc estimation of particular items on demand is more appropriate); if you have such interactions regularly, though, you need the minimum cost way to get estimates accurate to within the limits of available information, and story points, used properly, can be part of a process that provides about the best solution to that available.

As the first part of my comment indicates, story points can be (and often are, IME) used improperly in ways which arr pure waste, too, though.
I'm not defending the guy. I'm defending the rule of law and due process.

An unsubstantiated accusation should not result in someone's life being ruined.
The interesting point in this study and one they reference is that

>... After adjusting for possible confounding variables, BMI was an independent risk factor for low testosterone level

In other words, even adjusting for obesity, consuming sugar-sweetened beverages is a risk factor. There is other sugar -> low testosterone link, separate from sugar -> fat -> low testosterone with adjusted odds ratio 2.29.
SJW and "woke" are nebulous terms with grass-roots participation. Personally, I don't know how you can establish patterns of grass-roots groups without extensive research and observation, which does not happen today. It seems like a fruitless conversation to have because any time you accuse any grass-roots group of something people will say things like:

- that's not a group

- they're not affiliated with x

- anyone can join

- no true Scotsman

- not enough data

Plausible deniability is built-in. That's why I only responded to the bit about frequency, because someone saying it never happens is quite surprising, someone implying it's a norm is equally surprising, at least to me.
Lot of things for me:

- Taxes in the United States

- Healthcare insurance logistics in the United States

- Finding good freelancers who care (yes I pay well but still it is a hit or miss.)

- Cancelling Comcast internet service in the United States
Why are you mischaracterizing Lustig's position?

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-fo...

>Another nutrition expert, Dr. Robert Lustig, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, who has called sugar “toxic” at high doses and fructose the most “actionable” problem in our diet, is still a fan of fruit. “As far as I’m concerned, fiber is the reason to eat fruit,” since it promotes satiety and the slow release of sugar.
Correct, different campaign signatures can make attribution happen quickly, or slowly. Just depends what data the analyst has to work with.
I feel like I'd be doing you a disservice by telling you the differences (see also https://xkcd.com/1015/). So please forgive me.

The most obvious difference would be the shapes of 'a', 'l', 'g'. Then there are finer details, like whether the circles in the letters are fully round (see Tenorite), a bit oval-lish, or consist of vertical lines capped by upper and lower curves (Grandview is the more extreme example of this). Also how a circle are attached to a line, in case of 'b', 'p', 'q' etc. whether it joins with the short end (Seaford's 'b' and 'q' looks joined) or left hanging.

And then of course, there's kerning i.e. how the letters are spaced. Some try to make the spacing consistent, others aim for balance when stringed together as a word.

Personally I'd have chosen Bierstadt for its choice of a/l/g, although I don't like its kerning between c and k.
Honestly this was a no brainer smart thing to do and any large company could have pulled it off not just Musk.

By being one of the first mainstream large companies to buy bitcoin you are sending out a strong positive signal on bitcoin which is likely to move price up.

So just buy it, take your premium and then sell some.
This needs more attention. I can’t convince myself Bitcoin is great. At times, I find myself thinking this is the situation where everyone else is jumping off a cliff but I don’t find think that I should. That being said, maybe I should jump :)
> my country has been at war my entire adult life

The US has been at war for most it’s existence.

Someone made a search tool to see how many years the US had been at war for, and then ran it on Wikipedia.

Interestingly, France performed worse (assuming one doesn’t like war), though being involved in things like ‘The 100 years war’ skews things a little.

https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473
I agree that the overall value that amazon is claiming is dubious at best. It's conflating consumer/producer surplus with net profits and conflating both of those with wages.

But the whole point of the article is to debunk these distortions and add clarity. Adding its own confusion and distortions is not a good way to start.
There's a fantastic song about Collin's role in Apollo 11 that perfectly captures his role in the mission: "sitting backstage vs. taking the fame".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86q_xc3kZ9g&ab_channel=JohnC...
Yes. A thousand times, yes. Electromyography has proven that plants scream in agony at that point. Isn't there a more humane way?

New theories of consciousness posit that everything in the universe has consciousness to a greater or lesser extent. Even rocks are conscious to a small degree. And salt is a type of rock. Therefore, we must all rally together to shut down any company that encourages the ingestion of salt, a conscious being. We nosaltarians must impose our moral views on everyone else.
Advances That Could Radically Extend Life Spans over the Next 100 Years
Reliance on external management was exactly what saved the Green Line extension.
Not trying to hate on KDE, I know many people who love it, but I have found it less performant on old hardware than Xfce. (Maybe its a cpu/GPU rather than ram thing?) I started using Linux last year, and tried KDE last month.
No, because you cannot draw the line at who is rich.

Any tax based on wealth/income is fundamentally legalized (hence perfectly ethically acceptable to most morons) theft.
I don't see Mullah Omar, Saddam Hussein, or Moammar Gaddhafi willingly walking away from their jobs for a bribe, even a 10-figure one. Nor do I see their populations successfully revolting against them for 50 times that.

I would love it if we could bribe our way to a more peaceful world, but I don't think it's that easy.
My vote is video card drivers.

After all, we know there is no love lost between him and Nvidia....[0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
Spot on, its often middle management not really understanding engineering, and think they can do better by just have someone else do it for them, but total lack of foresight on the consequences, which to be fair they probably won't have to deal with before they switch jobs.
Milman Parry, who changed the way scholars think about Homer
Shipping goods from one place where they're available to another where they're needed is definitely a way to add work and create value, I don't dispute that at all!

It's pretty obvious that fish slowly going bad on a boat is worth little, and that driving an expensive reefer truck to get it from there to a grocery store (and subsequently, for the fishmonger to process and package it) is a valuable, constructive process.

However, for something closer to the real world, if you set up a regulatory system where you're the only one with the registration needed to sell fish, then you buy 1000 kg of frozen Tilapia from fishermen at $2/kg, hire a freight company to drive it a few dozen miles from the docks to the packing plant for $300, spend $300 to have it inspected, and sell it to the packer at $4/kg, have you really added anything? You've made $1400 profit, but you've barely lifted a finger to make some phone calls. That's not 'value creation' or a unique skill in 'identifying supply and demand', you're abusing market inefficiency to rip people off and undeservingly make yourself richer. And then to pat yourself on the back at the end and say you created value equal to the fishermen's profit plus the $600 of services you bought + your own $1400 profit is just adding insult on injury.

Doing calculations using prices is easy, but we can do better than to take them at face value. Amazon is clearly doing something useful, yes, but not $301B worth of useful. They're also positioning themselves to take more money out of the connection they've established between buyer and seller than the shipping, processing, and warehousing costs.
Fruits are metabolized very differently than their extracted sugar content though
Julia Child's tip on cooking a poached egg:

1. Poke a small hole with a pin in one side of egg.

2. Put the whole egg in boiling water for 10 seconds.

3. Remove egg, and run under cold water. (So you can handle it.)

4. Crack the egg back into the boiling water, and cook.

5. The poached egg comes out more uniform, and whole.
ISPs are government-granted monopolies. It's so disappointing how many people here don't seem to understand that. Look up regulatory capture and then down vote me...
One of the commenters on the article remarks that there are more "Davids" on the team than women.
I don't understand how bottling plants can come under fire for water problems.

I think it's just perception.

I think that drinkable water is the most necessary and just use of water resources on the planet. It is also an efficient use of water, no matter how wasteful people say nestle is.

It does not matter that it is for profit.

I think it should be allowed, like in the constitution allowed, say "the allocation of drinking water shall not be abridged" or something.

If you look at water use by people drinking water is overwhelmingly and completely dwarfed by other uses.

RO filters use more water than they produce - should they be restricted in some way? no.

Shower, toilet and lawn care are vastly more "wasteful" uses of water.

Food production is hugely less efficient. Golf courses.

Even rainfall and sewer systems "waste" probably millions of times the water that nestle does.

(just my opinion)
Always weird to me how private companies (centralized entities) make so much money of a supposedly decentralized technology.
"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

-Douglas Adams
I remember reading a news story that an international organization (in my memory it was the UN) wanted to issue a warning about all sugar, but the US government representatives lobbied hard for the wording to be changed, because of the US food industry.

Sadly I once tried to refind this story by googling but couldn't find it again, so I might as well be screaming, "the second coming is nigh!"
> Just because it’s the same commodity doesn’t mean it’s worth the same amount at every time and place.

That’s what arbitrage is
Alas, no such service exists.

Even the FCC can’t get proper broadband coverage data by the zip code, not to mention by address.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

Folks inside the CIA knew that the yellow cake uranium was a lie and at best, did not make any of this knowledge public as the justification for war was coming together. That silence resulted in the loss of at least one hundred and fifty thousand human beings needlessly and a war that has lasted decades.
"Apple can no longer force vendors who want access to iOS to play by the rules"

Yes, thank you for spelling it out thst you want apple to continie violating other people's freedom and perpetuating anticonpetitive practicea
Cloud fonts to make people more willing to pay for Office subscriptions.
Switch to Firefox?
Yes, thank you. That's the idea I wanted to express, but only managed to do so in a much less capable way.
Wow this makes the blood boil. My condolences. Can't build a company using their platform as a foundation (as far as it is possible)
"I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again."

-- Robert Mueller, 2012, when he was Director of the FBI [yes, that Robert Mueller]

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/speeches/combating-th...
Only in the most pendantic of senses - a bit like arguing that my car is fusion powered because it runs on gas that was originally given energy from the sun. I suppose in a sense everything in the universe is powered by whatever triggered the Big Bang.
Like rats off a sinking ship.
Yes, they're just one court order or subpoena away. With a gag order, you'll never even know it happened.
The best solution is for states to ban local municipalities from enacting monopolies of any kind. Municipal ISPs are fine as long as private ISPs are allowed to compete.
John Stossel really shows his hand in that piece when he uses "wheelchair access" as an example of government spending run amok. Why shouldn't disabled people should be able to access facilities they pay for with their tax dollars? Why is complying with the ADA--a bipartisan law signed by George H.W. Bush--seen as a waste of taxpayer money?
> Sugar basically doesn’t exist in nature without fiber

Honey?
Mathematical Psychology
That is why you hire a tax pro, and have an appraiser so the donated item is valued correctly.
There are lots of examples that support your argument.

For example, there are hunter-gatherer tribes living today that consume a significant amount of sugar (up to 60% of their calories) and don't have the same problems with obesity, diabetes, etc.

I'm no expert but it seems that the human body doesn't handle bodyfat very well. Perhaps all of this negativity around sugar can be explained by the fact that sugar is calorie-dense and calorie-dense foods tend to make people fat. Especially in the hyper-palatable forms we have in America.
Yeah, that's more or less what I was getting at, albeit in less detail. Put topography and how it interacts with the wind and all of that under the category of "mechanics", I guess? But, in the simulation that this study is based on, it looked to me like they assumed flat terrain and laminar airflow coming into the field of turbines. Which I'm assuming happens in nature approximately never.

So it's like, sure, maybe this turbine arrangement can get 15% greater power output under ideal conditions, but I don't think you can get from there to, "this is a clear win over the incumbent technology" anywhere near as easily as you could in the case of an photovoltaic efficiency improvement.