skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His Youtube is very, very good. Two Kenji videos that changed my life a little during the pandemic, in that I now make these things all the time:

Spanish tortilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPYk9W9v-bI

Oyakadon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcXzpCqKdUA

I feel like --- I might be wrong here --- Kenji's origin story is the Cook's Illustrated vodka pie crust, which replaces water in the dough with vodka to minimize gluten formation (the alcohol cooks off). I think that's where I first heard of him, and I've been following ever since. He's pretty great.

An irony of this article, BTW, is that it highlights Kenji's love of Windy City Pizza in Seattle, but Kenji made waves on Twitter a few years ago for taking down Chicago-style deep dish pizza on the grounds that no mainstream Chicago place properly seasons their crust. As I recall, he even went to Pequods and was unimpressed.

Extremely cool fun fact, by the way: Kenji's wife Adriana is a cryptographer at Google with a PhD from NYU; her thesis is dedicated to Kenji, "for loving a crypto nerd".
Thanks! We're aiming to reduce cognitive overload by providing direct answers where there is a result with high enough confidence on the inference. But then the full results are available as well.

Originally on desktop we weren't going to show the full results by default, or maybe only if the main result was below a certain confidence threshold.

But people are so used to getting overwhelmed that going back to a single result displayed introduces cognitive dissonance :)
Name should be: "Jason Stanley on critical race theory and why it matters" as that is the article's title. The article is also more opinionated than the simpler title of this post suggests.

For the record, I find that critical race theory is often a useful framework for examining the consequences of maintaining existing societal traditions and structures... but more in an academic sense. CRT doesn't necessarily have to be to be interpreted in a dogmatic sense -- there is plenty of debate and controversy within the field itself, so it doesn't have to exist as an ideology. IMO it ought to be a tool for better reasoning, rather than as set of assumptions one can bring to simplify complicated social issues.
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I love his food lab book, and overall he seems like such a nice person. The book is a bit dense, but it has such great info that really helps deepen your cooking skills.
> I already work too much.

That’s your problem. Repetition, mindlessness, boredom, flow are different facets of the same phenomenon. When your ancestors needed to build a shelter, they spent hours and hours chopping, hewing, digging, etc etc. Birds have nests, bees have hives, beavers have dams; the list goes on and on. It’s perfectly normal to find some amount of busywork soothing.

You hit your cap at work; others don’t. There are also those with real addictions where it inhibits their ability to accomplish other goals, but that’s true of tons of habits that scratch the same itch.
I disagree, it's an mental illness if it interferes in your desired pursuit. For example, there is nothing wrong with playing games ur whole life.. except if you decide you want to get a girlfriend and can't. Now you're dealing with a mental illness.
Heh, so it's an instruction for INTERCAL's "select" (~) operator...
One young man in my boy's cohort got addicted. Sat and drank beer and played video games until exhausted; then slept on the couch and repeat the next day. Two years later, died of liver failure.
That’s in the same article where they compare the value of an endowment (measured in dollars) against the GDP of three random countries (measured in a different unit: dollars per year [per country]). Analytic rigor is not high.
Yes, it would be invalidated. This would not work well on roaming devices.
That would make a great movie. Perhaps not a great trilogy, but a great movie for sure.
It would be fun if it had events/battles listed with dates.
If you're interested in this topic, you should look into emacs (a text editor that uses a Lisp-like language for customization) and it's accompanying org-mode (something that helps you take notes in emacs, and also has a built in spreadsheet), which allows for using emacs lisp for defining functions: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-lisp-...

Good luck!
> The crypto community needs to address the other side of that coin

Do they? Nothing is ever _really_ deleted on the good old-fashioned internet either.

We can't have our cake and eat it too. Having a centralized arbiter of truth is more dangerous to the truth than bad people who do bad things.
Are you sure he didn't have an alcohol addiction? I'm not convinced inactivity and video games lead to liver failure.
You got it. PoW is critical for layer 1. Ongoing capital expenditure requirement is critical to prevent ancestral oligarchies. One cannot retain censorship resistance or decentralization with oligarchies.
There are basically three large grocery chains in the US, plus Target and Walmart.

The e commerce market isn’t so different. Amazon has a 40% share. Walmart is a big player, then Shopify et al enable lots of DTC companies.

Amazon is only a monopoly if you redefine the relevant market to be “Amazon”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_i...
That is a valid point, I think you might be on to something. The fuel stations along big major roads definitely more often have chargers, and also in larger quantities.

However, my experience is that inner city fuel stations often also have chargers. I can only speculate why that works, but I guess that many don't have access to a charger at home or at work.

When they do need to charge quickly, they might as well do it in a location where other car-related services are available, such as a bucket for washing your windshield (ABC), car wash, pump for filling air in tires, or a kiosk with coffee and bacon-rolled sausage.
That's the wrong way to think about floating point. Double gives you ~15 digits of precision. If the answer is 500000000.600000 but your algorithm says 500000000.601239 then 25% of the bits you've got are kaput. It's also a question of scalability. Increase the author's example array size to 1 gigabyte and now 40% of your double is garbage data. Increase it to web scale, and you're toast. What's the solution? Divide and conquer. Not only will that let you farm out the summation across machines, but it also eliminates the linear growth in errors.
I'm building a language (https://tablam.org) that, hopefully, could become the base for excel/access alternative.

lisp is not the better fir for excel, to see why, check this:

"The memory models that underlie programming languages"

http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models/

Among them, array/relational could be a better fit (semantic and operational). Of course you also need to add some form of reactivity (or actors?) to mimic the immediacy of excel formulas.

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To confirm this intuition, check how much pandas/numpy/R lang/apl/Julia/Sql people intersect with the usage of excel.

This means that languages/tools are closer in spirit than lisp.

Also, syntax wise, concatenative langs/array langs/forth langs/sql like is more nice for the terseness of excel usage.
So many comments here seem to miss the point here.

These aren’t men who are working, but saving money living at home. They’re not participating in the labor force at all.
If Robinhood hadn’t disabled GME buys, one possibility was RH customers not being able to trade any stocks. Which one do you think is the better choice, limiting a single stock, or potentially losing the ability for all customers of RH to trade all stocks?
It tends more to be things which haven't been mapped yet rather than inaccuracies as such. Most mappers have concentrated on mapping their local town or city rather than national borders. See Kiev (https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/#map=16/50.4633/30.5218&la...) and London (https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/#map=15/51.5163/-0.0900&la...) for example. While the project may have been going a while, it was only last year that the time slider was introduced which made it properly functional as a historical map. At the moment there are still few mappers (including myself) but I get the impression that OHM is now beginning to develop more quickly!
This thread is full of people talking about cultural, societal, and economic factors that may influence this outcome. I've yet to see anyone mention the factor that I wish we more thoroughly investigated: health.

This has been discussed in some articles at length, but we still haven't identified primary causes, but testosterone levels are falling in men (at a given age) at a pretty steady pace year over year. This is likely associated to the prevalence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food and water supply, such as BPA in plastics and PCBs in common food-oriented coatings (Teflon). Adding on to that, there are also phytoestrogens from soy lecithin in many food products, and we also had periods where growth hormones were commonplace in dairy products. There is a growing body of evidence, not yet fully interconnected causally, that seems to indicate that the introduction of these sorts of hormones and endocrine disruptors into our food and water supply has had marked effects on health, everything from the increasing epidemic of obesity and obesity-related illnesses like diabetes, to earlier ages of menarche in young girls, and increasing prevalence of gynecomastia in young boys.

I, for various reasons, know numerous people who fall soundly into the NEET stereotype here in the US, still living at home (or in extreme poverty) playing video games and doing menial labor well into their 40s, despite having marketable and useful skillsets that would provide them gainful employment. Without exception, every person I know like this suffers from mental health issues, predominantly anxiety, all are obese, and all consume and have consumed throughout their life heavy amounts of processed food and take-out fast-food, which both increase exposure to chemicals like Teflon (often used to line take-out containers). Their generally unhealthy diet and lifestyle throughout childhood and into adulthood is likely a key factor in the outcome of their life, clearly affects their general health as adults, and is likely a contributor to their mental health issues and defeatist attitudes.

The absence of any serious public health movement to improve the food and water supply of all Americans makes it unsurprising to me that we now find ourselves in the position we are in. Compounding this with the absence of universal mental healthcare and the comorbidity between depression, anxiety, and obesity, makes it unsurprising as well.
Ask HN: Anyone else getting spam mails with names from your contacts?
In the last week I started to get spam mails with the names from colleagues and friends as sender. Did someone else see that behavior pick up? My contacts are on my zoho and synced with signal, telegram (fat fingered) and google but nothing else.
Because the data is there _forever_ and there's not really anything they can do about it, which stands in stark contrast to how they're used to operating.

There is no person they can throw in jail, no corporation that can be sued, no servers that can be seized, domains taken over, etc, that will result in that data no longer being available to those that know where to look for it.

The data just remains online until such a time that the coins of a given chain are worth $0.0 and coin holders no longer have a financial incentive to keep the ledger online.

FWIW the ones I talked to where more of the door kicking variety, not the 'cyber' type.
You weren't kidding about Google, damn...
Agreed, my favorite example of this is how people pay like $100 to get a tax-ID number for their new business, which is free from the IRS and with accidental form choices being consequence free, because they think its fraught with disaster or just too obtuse
These traits are typically in clusters. You may have an amazing brain trait that accelerates your success and also have a sensory processing disorder which creates great discomfort.

The cliff question would seem to be a very personal question. Where does that cliff exist? What traits create a cliff? ( not really looking for answer )

I have two autists in my house. For them autism has created some substantial struggles when dealing with the world in general. However, their ( what I call super powers ) have allowed them great success in their given fields ( cs and research ).

Both see the world substantially different than their mom and I do. Their view is often, simple and more forgiving.

Autists have and continue to make great contributions to the neural typical world. My hope is that we are not on a road to eliminate these individuals from our world.[0]

[0]https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisprograms.com/historys-30-...
> The idea that real estate speculation being the baseline goal of universities is funny but doubtful

Drexel university is spearheading the gentrification of west Philadelphia.

They paid tens of millions for a dirty old tire shop.

They require the first three years of your degree to be spent in overpriced uni owned housing.

The chancellor makes one of the highest salaries in the us.

That's the only example I can really think of
> recirculating resources among the most exclusive and wealthy while chanting social-justice keywords

Indeed, Harvard aggressively defends its admissions program as "holistic" while rating Asians as having lower personal ratings that they define as measuring "likeability", "courage", and "kindness" [1]. You might ask yourself how an institution which claims to be anti-racist exhibits behavior of the opposite kind.

[1]: https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/harvards-own-study-reveals-uni...
I agree. One does not "throw the kitchen sink". I think the author is conflating it with the "throw the book" idiom.
When I was probably 18 I asked a friend/coworker who was going to community college what they wanted to do after college and they just didn't know. I couldn't wrap my head around that. As far back as I can remember, I always had an answer when an adult asked me "what I want to be when I grow up". It wasn't always a coherent answer, but I always knew what stuff I found interesting.

I don't know why it's different for some people, but it is. I have to think it's something we just don't put emphasis on in our education system or by parents. So pop culture does it for us. When I was a kid everyone wanted to be someone famous; a singer, an athlete, an actor, etc. Today is no different, everyone wants to be an influencer, a streamer, etc.

I think we need to make it a point for kids to understand from a young age that not everyone can be the famous person, neither should everyone want to be. There are so many other options, they only want fame because they don't know anything else.
Yup, everything makes sense then .. until someone asks you to repeat it. Helped me a lot as well.
Kenji is a fantastic author and now video maker. I've learned a ton from him.

My two favorite things about him are firstly, everything he talks about is backed by a scientific approach, and secondly he has a decidedly unfussy "but you can do it your way if you like" attitude as well. He's like Pepin meets molecular gastronomy.
Cool, the section "Remove content about me on sites with exploitative removal practices from Google" seems custom-crafted to handle sites like RipoffReport. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9172218
I don't think all languages are created equal. Given the arrogance with which the French expect others to use their language, I prefer English. Or German, as it is the only other working language of the European institutions. Anything but French would be fine.
Technically yes, but they are removed when a person is found not guilty or released without being charged thus protecting the innocent and falsely accused. The mugshot sites capitalize on this by scraping the government websites and archiving them forever - until you pay a removal fee.

Mugshots.com was doing exactly this until they got hit with extortion charges: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mugshot-websi...
The 'market size' part seems squishy and game-able.

I've always liked the idea of revenue-neutral progressive taxes on corporate revenue. Tax economy of scale.

Ex.
Zero corporate taxes on the first 100k of revenue. For every order of magnitude above this revenue is taxed at ~1% more.

$1M in revunue -> 1%

$1B in revenue -> 4%

$100B in revenue -> 6%

Then reduce other corporate taxes to make it revenue neutral. In the most extreme case, the 1% figure or the curve could be tuned so that this is the only tax corporations pay.

This encourages companies to split: if your economy of scale isn't yielding enough to justify the tax, you could spin off multiple smaller companies that would each be more profitable. The capacity for corporations to do evil is directly proportional to concentration of power. Smaller companies won't be able to afford as many lobbyists, their threats to move their businesses will be less existential for municipalities and they'll get less-sweet sweetheart deals. Being "Too Big to Fail" is unsustainable and wasteful.

This would be a massive boon for competition. Small businesses would be easier to start. Businesses may choose to stop growing: if you're making a healthy profit, don't jeopardize your margin in a perpetual struggle to amass the most power, leaving room in the market for competitors to coexist and meaningfully compete on quality.
It could easily do that, but its status and signaling value would be negatively impacted.
He did it to buy the world's biggest yatch, and a space program
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> Video game addiction (overuse) is a coping mechanism in the face of increased anxiety in the modern world.

You are stating this in absolute terms, which indicates to me that you have a solid source, or are an expert in the field. If so, can you please detail?

From my background working in psychiatry (in-patient) for six years, it is certainly not that clear.

> Real addictions have severe physical consequences like chemical withdrawals that can lead to death.

So the sex addicts I treated didn't have a "real" addiction?

The gambling addicts I treated didn't either?

Or the extreme adrenaline addicts?

Also, many experts in the field seem to disagree with you. See the proposed internet gaming disorder [1].

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming
That would be magnetic tapes.
It can be a quite complex process.
It also tends to break easily if not done right. Most organizations that deploy large amounts of systems will create Windows images with tools like Microsoft SCCM for example.
This also works:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/96683-create-media-autom...
It's puzzling to me that wire transfer bureaus don't offer some sort of fraud protection or insurance.

It seems that it would be a useful, if not essential, feature.
Not passing a kid sets them back 10 years of life (yeah I made up that number but it’s what I’d expect to happen when you end up in a negative feedback loop like this). Education doesn’t have a binary outcome.
You completely ignored the last paragraph of my comment where I addressed this type of concern.
To be fair about this page, this was used to migrate versions of postgres __prior__ to the introduction of logical replication. Logical replication makes this significantly easier (ie you no longer need the triggers)
Missing:

- Someone who knows those books to explain and lead discussions about them.

- A place to hold those meetings.

- Some kind of accountability for actually doing the readings, writing the papers, and internalizing some understanding.

That costs a little more than $1.50 but it has no right to cost $150k. It's not like graduate student wages are expensive.
Compress and expand (from Hackers Delight) are like this, but only the selected bits are kept. These are quite useful instructions. One use is the hash function for perfect hash tables. The hash table includes a mask which picks the bits of the keys which actually change (between all keys) and compresses them all to the right as the hash index.

Disclaimer: I contributed the "expand" algorithm shown in Hacker's Delight.
> If instead he's referring to apps like Bumble where the woman has to make the first move, see above for why some apps choose to operate with that model.

Under that model.. it's common for the first message to be "hi" or ".". Not much has changed.
Huge Kenji fan. Probably not the first to do it but his no commentary Go Pro first person cooking videos are quite addicting.
It's interesting to note that Harvard could fund an entire country for a year.
Oops, I'm sorry! Perhaps, I have focused so intensely on the content of so many interesting discussions on HN that I somehow totally missed that control (unexpectedly to me, located on right side of the anchor label). Thank you for pointing at it and please accept my sincere apology for unwarranted criticism, which, obviously, I'm retracting. :-)
ha! good. OpenID yes
It's simple. The user is a thinking, conscious being, he or she views, what he or she wants. No dilemma. Nothing shall be censored.
Skipping Chrome and Windows 10 updates also not free.
Wait, he made the vodka pie dough recipe???

That is an awesome recipe I use all the time, it is brilliant.
For any food I have never attempted cooking, I always default to searching "<food> recipe serious eats" (After working through Food Lab almost religiously). Every single time, the Serious Eats recipes (even the ones not by Kenji) are excellent.

Huge fan. We need more like him. :)
How much big box retail sales does Walmart control?
I kinda agree with you. as I get older, more games feel like repetitive work than fun. I think I finish some games more because I want to feel like I got my money's worth than because I actually enjoyed them.

still, some multiplayer games get me absolutely hooked for a while. a well-designed multiplayer game can be a never-ending stream of novel situations. open-ended puzzle games like factorio are always fun (for me) with a couple good friends. for some reason it never feels like work, even though it's fairly close to what I just did from 9-5.
> What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?

I suspect quite a few people are looking at the odds of achieving various goals, and simply changing the goals. Such as owning a home in desirable areas, or having kids if you cannot afford a food school district or a job that allows you to be home for dinner.

Or if you have experienced income instability, and you do not feel comfortable bringing children into the world. I probably would not have if I did not find a spouse with income in the top two quintiles. Not that there’s nothing wrong with the alternative, but different people have different risk tolerances and higher (perceived) volatility can be a cause for change in some population wide changed we are seeing.
It's not all or nothing, at all. The argument is about whether the material can be theoretically legally recovered like Gmail and Facebook Messenger (currently), or not, like WhatsApp. All these services use encryption and are secure.
You likely don’t realize that your kids will also have an easier chance at succeeding because of other privileges they enjoy, aside from the merits of having intelligent and educated parents.

Take a similarly educated family who happen to live in Gaza, for instance, and it’s obvious that the children will have a different set of opportunities available to them.
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