skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this. Nutritional epidemiology is a crime against science and is responsible for countless deaths and billions in lost productivity, unnecessary medical treatment. Fight against nutritional epidemiology for the good of society.
Great article, thank you for sharing.

I imagine the courage needed to burn bridges like to defend convictions.
A lot of people here in my country would say no, that you're wrong. No mobile device for anything, physical presence and cash rule here.
VCorfu: A cloud-scale object store on a shared log (2017)
I'm not great at finance but it reads to me as they sold the BTC as proof of concept that the BTC they are holding can be liquidated (turned back into USD) very easily.

Having $XM USD in BTC means nothing if you can't convert it back into USD. This sell (at least according to Elon) was done just to prove to Tesla/Board/etc/whatever that it was fine to hold BTC because they could convert back to USD if needed at any time.
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The CEO class is still mostly old enough to remember corporate raiders, and of course we have the modern equivalent where groups buy companies, saddle them with debt, and exfiltrate the money long before the company goes bankrupt.

Having enough liquid assets to prevent a hostile takeover is not the most profitable thing short-term but it does protect you. Amazon is so big it doesn't have that problem. It's simply too big for anyone to get their teeth around.

I think this is another case of "you are not a FAANG, if you act like one it won't turn out the same for you."
It definitely isn't. At least, not yet. I've been thinking through different ways we could handle that aspect, but I don't have any concrete plans to open-source uFincs at the moment.
Per your own link, isn't "false or misleading statements" a core component? And if it is, how does this apply to what Tesla did here?

Also, if what Tesla did was illegal then aren't many authors on Bloomberg/SeekingAlpha/
CNBC/etc also just as liable? Seems like what we're discussing is a common occurrence and securities cases are often about people misleading about their own stock/company rather than third party/other tickers (even if they hold shares, or in this case coin).
Do you have any insight into how their sales engine works? I'm curious because it's a shame that projects go to companies like Accenture when are so many qualified teams out there.
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This thing appears to be broken. You just get to a certain point after entering some basic info and it just stops. There’s nothing to indicate what next steps should be.
You don't have to do any of that. If the user wants to use a browser that sends all of their private data to Google, it's not my job to stop them.
I'm too lazy to do the math, but what's the point-to-point distance (through the planet) of points that are 5000km along the surface?
Basecamp Is the Ultimate Example of Startup Management Hubris and Delusion
Michael Collins is the ultimate team player. What a privilege it would have been to work with him. It's sad to read of his passing, but I'm glad he got 90 years. A great man.
It should be criminal for those behemoths to restrict people of internet. As I’ve said in the past internet is too common to be monopolized by these companies if anything they should seek to enhance internet for all vs constricting it.
Got it, I think this may be one that you were referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people

>Honey represents a substantial portion of the Hadza diet (~10-20% of calories)
I think part of the quick turnaround on houses is related to superstitions about dwellings in which people have died. Most of the value is also in the land rather than the structure so the economics are less punishing. I suspect the costs of building in commercial areas is high enough to offset some of this.
Then juice, especially orange juice should be as bad as sugar (which I think it is).
>hey intern, here's the topic, here's some buzzwords, here's the word and slide count, you have 3 hours
> Why would you think that this company needs to Thought Police their gamers when thousands of others are able to host creativity based games without being dystopian?

Wow. You act as if that's something new :D

There's even an actual job for doing just that: it's called an editor. You know, the people who work in media, publishing houses, TV, radio, papers, magazines, that kind of thing. It's what they do. Everywhere. Editing content. Removing comments, changing words, making sure the views represented in the publication match the intentions and policies of the investors and parent organisations, etc.

You act as if something is new and evil just because it's done with computers. It isn't. It has been the case for as long as papyrus and cave paintings have been around. Back then it was don't anger the chief/king/Pharao, today it's don't anger the Twitter mob or the hand that feeds you. Same difference.

Games are a medium just like magazines or online blogs and comparing blocky dongs in Minecraft with explicit child pornography says a lot about your understanding of "creative expression". Really makes me wonder sometimes.
The puzzle is a lot simpler once you merge the 3 tourists into a single unit since there is no reason to treat them separately. Then it's:

1. A three-headed tourist gives $30 to the hotel.

2. The bellhop takes $5 from the hotel.

3. The bellhop gives $3 to the tourist.

Now it's clear that the tourists are down $27, the hotel is up $25, and the bellhop is up $2.
I don't speak legalese, but I can tell you what the actual practice is. For YC data (e.g. applications to YC, participation in Startup School, Work at a Startup, and so on), we delete people's data when they ask us to. For HN data, it's more complicated—we try not to delete posts that got replies, because that's unfair to the commenters who replied, and so on. But we have a lot of tricks to help people in more precise ways than wholesale deletion, and we help people with such requests every day. This is in HN's FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. There's more explanation at these links from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959675
Regular 20-30 minute walks interspersed throughout my day have helped, usually every 2-3 hours
It's probably more breaks than I would otherwise need but getting outside had helped me be mindful and exercise inhibition; a bit of a reset, so to speak. If not, I find myself getting stressed out at home more than I otherwise would as well
There is a lot going on here but I'll comment on just one facet: the seemingly inexhaustible supply of trust that current(prospective) employees have for their employer(possible future employer).

One should never rely on a statement from an employer that isn't in writing. Furthermore, even if it is in writing, if it says "discretionary bonus," you should consider that a big fat ZERO. If it says "possible," "maybe," "if," etc. you should consider it to never happen (if it's for your benefit, otherwise, assume it definitely will happen).

Only after the above can you reasonably compare offers between prospective employers or value your current job.

HR is trained to hire you at the lowest price and say the most that they can without making fraudulent claims.

Additionally, if you are a current employee, and you EVER speak to HR, walk in with a pen and notepad and take long long notes and do not hesitate to ask someone to pause while you document. Treat it as a legal deposition. They are not your friends, they are trained to extract or give statements that protect the firm (not you).

It's unfortunately a pretty stark reality but it's business. It's even worse if the people involved are your friends - because it will hurt more if you aren't protected or have the wrong expectation. There's a reason that the expression, "never go into business with your family," is a thing.
All You Need to Know About the Apple Car
Isn’t the real crime here using Velvia to shoot street? :-)
NPH would have been the choice if anything!
Why is John Mcafee being treated differently and is currently in jail? Pumping and dumping altcoins.
It’s time to toss unwieldy income tax and replace it with something far simpler
"Takes UFOs seriously" is much different than "thinks there are aliens visiting earth". The US military takes UFOs seriously because they're likely to be foreign military threats or natural phenomena that pose a risk to US security. When the media or your neighbor start talking about UFOs, they probably mean "aliens are here", which there simply isn't much evidence for.
27" monitor on Chrome here. Looks pretty far to the right.
Quite a lot of AZW are really ePub inside. Kindle accepts ePub just fine.

This means self-publishers will often just do an ePub, because that gets them onto everything without extra work.
Straight to the Mars.
I'm trying to understand the concern but most of my worry around "historical financial data" would be actual transaction-level information, not rough summary figures to estimate a financial plan.

I just played around with the site myself and I didn't see anywhere that it imports data, plus the tagline on the homepage says "never ask to link your financial accounts"?

Isn't this essentially the same risk profile as like FIREcalc [1], or the NYT Rent or Buy calculator [2], or some portfolio analysis tool [3], are you saying that those shouldn't be online calculators either?

[1] https://firecalc.com

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

[3] https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com
It's always funny to see Silly Valley people that think they are so cool while working on yet another app that show ads.

Meanwhile at Accenture, I just delivered again another successful project with a real impact. When a very large organization across different regions were struggling to produce schedules for thousand workers with different skill sets, different union rules, night and day shifts, they came to see us. Now, everything is automated and the client saves months of work.

I sleep better at night knowing that I helped those workers now get access to their scheduled weeks in advance through a portal instead of having surprise night shifts thrown at them. Maybe I should make another app that track people online?
You could also argue that altruism isn't real, and doing altruistic acts is rewarding for the individual, but that seems a little reductionist.
Digitizing Hultén’s Flora
The reasonable scale for a municipal fiber deployment is, as the name says, at the municipal level. There is already a reasonably competitive Tier 1 provider market, because it isn't a natural monopoly, and there is no need for the government to enter a market segment which is already working.

Which means the biggest thing you need from the feds (and for that matter the state governments) is to get out of the way and stop actively interfering with cities that want to do this. Which doesn't seem like much to ask, but the incumbents have spent the last hundred years capturing every level of government in the US, and then we got the likes of Ajit Pai running the FCC, which was an impediment.

The other thing to watch out for is the classic regulatory capture move where the government is about to spend money on municipal infrastructure to compete with the incumbents and the incumbents lobby instead to give the money to them. In this context here you're looking for money that goes to "5G" instead of fiber. Because "5G" means incumbents who own wireless spectrum and/or want to "buy" it from the taxpayer using tax money and then sit on it to exclude any other competitors from having it. Or have the taxpayer pay for their privately-owned infrastructure, providing a permanent cost advantage so that no one else can ever competitively enter the market in the future.

First rule of the game is never give tax money to the incumbents. History has shown that it's a black hole that produces no results, and anybody who doesn't understand this is either captured or not paying attention.
When people say sugar they are generally referring to sucrose. When they say that sugar is toxic, it's not because it's broken down into glucose, it's because it is also broken down into fructose.

The metabolism of fructose is somewhat analogous to that of ethanol.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649103/
Even more of a tangent: that's one of the things that Office got wrong with Assistants versus "Bob's principles". They had both tons of "faceless" dialog boxes and status indicators and a face for some of them. You never knew if the thing you needed was an Assistant "chat" dialog or an older dialog or some weird mix of the two. Complain all you want about the inconsistencies in Windows 10's settings versus getting dropped back into classic Win32 control panels, that's nothing on the worse inconsistencies of the Office Assistant era.
In house there's less incentive to underbid and overpromise
> Make sure you read and follow all instructions.

I'd be worried about someone who receives that instruction, receives an anomalous instruction on the test, and decides to ignore the anomalous instruction.
>A key contract from 1909 said the Arrowhead source would supply a bottled-water company with seven train cars of water per week. Nestlé, which bought those rights, said that tank cars from that era could hold 15,000 gallons. But Amanda Frye, a local activist, thought something was amiss, so she did some digging. After sifting through archives, she found buried in legal documents evidence that the actual train cars used carried 6,500 gallons—less than half what Nestlé claimed.

>If the state water board is successful, it’s possible that Nestlé would only have rights to 2.36 million gallons of water per year, a far cry from the reported 58 million gallons last year.

Am I missing something? The discrepancy seems to be on the order of 20 times, but the misestimation of train car size is only on the order of 2 times - where does the other factor 10 come from?
> Xkcd has a good fact check on this: it's just about plausible that some Polynesian or Antarctic explorer, the last survivor of a doomed expedition, was the furthest from any other human. But more likely it is the CSM commanders.

See Point Nemo:

> The oceanic pole of inaccessibility (48°52.5′S 123°23.6′W)[17] is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,688 km (1,670 mi) from the nearest lands: Ducie Island (part of the Pitcairn Islands) to the north, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Islands) to the northeast, and Maher Island (near the larger Siple Island, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica) to the south. The area is so remote that—as with any location more than 400 kilometres (about 250 miles) from an inhabited area—sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.[18][19]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#Oceani...

There are sailing races (group and solo (and non-stop)) that venture into those waters:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Race

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Golden_Globe_Race
I am still a fan of Tahoma for this exact reason.

Although, to be honest, Calibri and other common Windows/Office fonts don't look too bad on a pixel grid. It's way worse on many Linux distros.
Ask HN: Which C style do you use?
Just for statistics, which C coding style do you use and why (if there is a reason other than just personal preference)? The Indian Hill Style (https://archive.org/details/indian-hill-c-style), the Linux Kernel Style (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html), other, your own style?
If it's feasible for people to live in isolated environments like the surface of Mars, why not Antarctica or the bottom of the Pacific ocean? Both are much closer, and we should build sustainable communities in those environments first.
Yep that's one of them. They eat roughly the same amount on average as UK citizens but don't have the metabolic issues.

There is another tribe that will eat up to 60% of their calories from honey depending on the availability of food.

Another tribe trades with first-world countries for white sugar.
How about maybe grab the water for bottling in a zone that isn't prone to bad droughts?
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> Let's not pretend the FSB and MSS don't also lie constantly

How do you go from reading "the CIA is lying" to "the FSB is telling the truth"? Do you understand the difference between those statements? Reminds me of a stand up bit, "are you a Jew or an antisemite?"
Sorry to correct you. But the first person alone in lunar orbit was John Young during the Apollo 10 mission
Yes, that phrase is definitely doing some work here :). The followup might be "the total of what?" +1 to sibling post on proper bookkeeping but we can also sum inflow/outflow for each of the entities. There isn't a node where it makes sense to add +$27 and +$2.

The customers collectively are at -10*3 + 1*3 = -$27.
The hotel is at 10*3 - 5 = $25
The bellhop is at 5 - 1*3 = $2

And those sum to zero for the system; no money was created or destroyed.

Or, thinking in terms of physical bills, the bellhop's two dollars are a subset of the 27 the customers paid out and adding them is double-counting. The real math behind the problem is just 27 = 25 + 2.
I am interested in what has been done to study no-moving-parts wind power extraction.

Alvin Marks (who beat out Edwin Land for the polarized-sunglasses patent) filed a patent on this back in the '80s.

The idea is simple: you ionize air moving through your system, and the wind carries the ions away, accumulating a grid voltage vs. ground. The restoring current can do work. If your screen is on a kite, it can be very high up, to catch very high wind speed. It is very cheap to construct, with no mechanical parts at all; restoring current runs up (strictly speaking, down) the kitestring. Or, a screen could be stretched between upper parts of pairs of existing skyscrapers, or towers of a bridge, almost invisibly.

The trick is how to ionize air cheaply. Certain materials give up electrons to moving air spontaneously; you could have streamers of such materials, modified to be slightly conductive. Otherwise, you need some sort of charge pump to favor losing surface charge. Maybe a mist of water carries away the ions.

Measures of efficiency can be confusing. Ultimately, the measure that matters is W/$. If the installation is cheap enough to build and operate, percentage of available wind power extracted may be almost irrelevant. Stretched between existing structures, you might not want to extract much of the available energy anyway, because of the load it would place on the structure. But the next screen downwind could extract as much power, again.
Thanks for linking these past threads.

Alon has continued their work on this subject with a team of other scholars as the "Transit Costs Project": https://transitcosts.com/about/
You're responding to something I didn't say here. I didn't claim that every company would have the exact same outcome as Musk or that he has no advantage.

Certainly Musk has an advantage here but other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. The odds and outcome would not have been exactly the same, which is true of literally everything in life for different people.
I mainly use twitter to talk/catch up with a few friends, and follow a few things I care about. I honestly don't know how many people use twitter this way but for me it's really enjoyable, especially since the "desactivate retweets" feature for this friend that can't stop retweeting shitstorms. It's not perfect, and sometimes outside events that I don't want to hear about leak into my timeline, but it's a bit like small talk, sometimes people will talk about things that you don't care about. I wouldn't call this "great value" but I've never used facebook or others social networks so it's nice to see how some friends are doing.

I encourage everyone to be very aggressive with muting/desactivating retweets/having a private account/not quote-retweeting/not react to everything that happens in the world in general, this way it's possible to not expose yourself too much hate.
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Bruce Schneier wants you to make software better
Good point. I think some other companies might be able to get away with it but probably a majority couldn't.
> Esbuild is a JS bundler written in Go that bundles dependencies 10-100x faster than JavaScript based alternatives like Webpack and Parcel.

A JS library calling a golang js-build tool to get the job done. Too funny.
> If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant.

That's not entirely correct. The economy isn't a zero sum game. If person A has 2 apples and person B has 2 oranges. They trade 1 apple for 1 orange. Now they both have an apple and an orange.

The value is increased for both parties.
> The metabolism of fructose is somewhat analogous to that of ethanol.

Does that mean it's toxic?
Oh come on. This kind of thing is done everywhere in media.

You either deny that games are a medium or you're under the impression that whatever you read in news publications, books, see in films and TV is the result of the unfiltered creative outlet of the producers. News flash: it isn't.

There's heavy editing going on everywhere and just because it targets a specific computer model in this case instead of a more "traditional" product like a novel, film or stage play doesn't make an iota of difference.

In fact this demonstrates the maturity of the technology and its use if it gets the same treatment as every other public media.
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Huh, you went from

> I have witnessed the CIA justify those wars

to

> the CIA knew that the yellow cake uranium was a lie and at best, did not make any of this knowledge public

?

Isn't that a bit of a... large jump?

Also, do/should intelligence agencies generally come out and make public announcements of intelligence at all? I mean, maybe you can argue they should do that (for the public good), but unless they already do this in similar situations (or are normally instructed to), to show they actually acted in bad faith is going to need a lot more than arguing they didn't explicitly go out of their way to do so.

Btw, here's what I'm reading they apparently reported: https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/iraq-wmd.html

> Moderate Confidence: Iraq does not yet have a nuclear weapon or sufficient material to make one but is likely to have a weapon by 2007 to 2009. (See INR alternative view, page 84).

> We cannot confirm whether Iraq succeeded in acquiring uranium ore and/or yellowcake from these sources. [...] Intelligence information on whether nuclear-related phosphate mining and/or processing has been reestablished is inconclusive, however.

(To be clear: none of this is to suggest I'm a fan of the entities involved...)
Is this Fort Collins, CO? :)
Im also not a lawyer..

But I have a huge problem with thinking that Elons tweets about BTC is the primary mover of BTC vs USD.. The dollar value of BTC is basicly a random number generator..
Can you explain how this is useful? It seems like the destination is the important thing here not the source.
You're making a normative argument about what should be property. I'm making a purely descriptive point.
He has some insanely high quality projects. shout out to his His Kiwi Schema https://github.com/evanw/kiwi project that saved me from protobuff swamp monster hell
Now if only the immune system was open source and not some binary blob we can only interfaced with by giving it fake targets.
No. They dont't lie less. They just try to canalyse the discussion to another subject. Just like ...
The rats are merely testing the buoyancy of the ship!
Agreed - it just limits the damage.