skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on the first point, however, the sedentary lifestyle hypothesis is also out. It's part of the same f
Fat Lazy Slob theory that always blames the people for their lifestyle choices. What do they tell you to do build up an appetite? Exercise. Exercise makes you hungry, and if you try to cure that hunger with low nutrient carbs then you will end up obese and malnourished.
Not so fridge they are.

The cold fusion clowns go around TED events, collect research grants, and VC investments though they withdrew the only paper they published for a glaring arithmetics "mistake."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

Those are not the only ones on my memory. Charles Chase with his "vortex fusion," and very sketchy Tri Alpha.

Samely, the perpetual motion cranks like Salvatore Pais were always hanging around those events popular with tech bohemia.
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> Humans are adverse to change;

I think you're projecting/generalizing here. I for one love change, I get bored of interfaces if they stay the same for too long, stuff starts to "feel old". I install OS updates as soon as possible and I love to use the refreshed designs. The world around us changes constantly, it's not static. Fashion evolves, aesthetics evolve, and hardware and software design
evolves too.

Now whether your preference for no change or my preference for change is more common in the population is a different question.
And all three islands of Liberty City from GTA III!
"Open Source Alternatives to Kanboard"

-> Kanboard is a open source software, so that title doesn't make sense
This is far from guaranteed: "The company also said it’s not currently using this vote information to rank the replies at this time"
May I ask what are you using now? It's like I'm discovering a new bug every single day and when I look it up it exists for years without fix e.g. Even when dolphin is replaced KDE's kio-mtp intercepts mtp-protocol and stops mtp drives from being mounted by other applications.

The fix is to manually change the mtp actions[1], which is known for over 7 years but not actually fixed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/21sloi/thought_this_mi...
> E.g. in part 2 he dismisses carbs as a cause of obesity, and he begins by citing a trial involving 16 people.

The author starts with that, but they continue with other arguments as well. Particularly, they bring evidence of entire cultures consuming a diet made almost exclusively of carbs who have near 0% obesity - quite powerful proof that carbs themselves are not a direct cause of obesity.
They are elected. In Romania we have voted for the people that represent us in the European Parliament. Voted for an independent fella.
> PCs are dominated by Microsoft

?? PC (Desktop) OS are certainly dominated by Microsoft, but I don't see any one player dominating the PC Market. There's definitely companies that dominate different PC components (OS, CPU, audio, network, etc)

Anyway, I know that the mainframe market is pretty healthy, but who are the clients?
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You must have missed the comments about how colonization of Mars is going to save our specie …

(for instance, the first comment of this post which reached the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27907600)
I am not sure that this is accurate. For me it is like a coin:

- One side shows the benefits of the vaccine, and let's not forget that this side is promoted by the vaccine sellers. No problem with that, they do their job, in a few months we will see a 3rd and 4th dose being promoted to ensure immunity.

- The other side shows the cons of the vaccine, but as you said it is not sufficiently studied.

It seems to me insufficient to make decisions.
> There's a simpler and more powerful security model; capabilities. Capabilities fix 90% of the problems with *nix.

What do you think about using filedescriptors as capabilties? Capsicum (for FreeBSD, I think) extends this notion quite a bit. Personally I feel it is not quite "right", but I haven't sat down and thought hard about what is missing.

> we'll need some theory more powerful than anything we've had in the past to express relationships between computation, storage, networks, and identities.

Do you have any particular things in mind which points in this direction? I would like to understand what the status quo is.
Good shout. Zulip happended to fit best at the time the decision was made. It would be Mattermost or Zulip, for us, if starting from scratch.
Huh, I guess we are truly screwed if that blog post seemed in any way reasonable to you. It makes me think of that time in the late 90s when there was a serious push to make "hacking tools" like disassemblers illegal... dunno if the present crowd would have the sense to combat that like the oldtimers did.

"...that limitation includes the fact that you aren’t allowed to de-compile, dis-assemble, de-obfuscate..."

I genuinely don't care if a company wants to trapdoor their support contract with something like that. But it would make more sense for them to properly structure things so that they'd be able to look forward to nuisance tickets, instead of being driven to trying to convince the infosec world that they should just trust you - and feel bad for not doing so in the first place. In any case, the thrust of the argument she is making isn't about support contracts - it is framed much more broadly, which is why this post made so much noise at the time.
Back when I was looking at fusors (I still have ideas, but no time), there was a suggestion of converting the high-energy charged particles from the fusion into energy by decelerating them in an electric field and then collecting the charge as the speed approached zero; the exact reverse of a particle accelerator putting energy in.
I personally dislike the following:

* They replaced a reasonably fast (on Windows) or extremely fast and native (on Linux) application with a slow and bloated Electron-based client that was initially missing many of the features.

* They introduced multiple different types of chats as an attempt to transition from P2P to cloud-based. Depending on when and how you started a chat, it would use one or the other system with no obvious indication but many subtle differences in terms of supported features.

* The web client and desktop client (despite also being written using web technologies) had various differences, such as different parsing of chat message formatting, so what you sent differed from what the other person saw in many cases.

* Terrible/no tools for managing larger chat groups.

And for the mobile app:

* Mobile client is by far the slowest app on my phone (even today), taking easily 10+ seconds from tapping a notification to having the chat fully loaded. (Every other chat app this is <1s)

* Mobile client frequently misses or is late in showing notifications of received messages.

* Mobile client used to murder my battery life. Thankfully this was fixed a few years ago.
You're going to have a hard time calibrating that without a whole bunch of patches with known reflectance/transmission profiles, in practice you just have to color-correct scenes under such light by eye and there will be things that look wrong. When I did this professionally I'd still use the grey as a primary reference along with skin, since we're very attuned to what those should look like.
War in Iraq alone is about one million deaths. And given that you’re counting deaths of famine as victims of communism, you’d have to add victims of American sanctions around the world, as well as victims of American lack of welfare.

You still hadn’t quoted any numbers.
This is actually what the UK police does. The UK no special status in law when it comes to the use of such force. So police do not escalate since they know they will be questioned on the their use of force.

The US police are extremely trigger happy. Since they are a 'protected class'.
PG&E is usually profitable; the cause of their bankruptcy is all the damages and fines levied as punishment for their part in starting wildfires.
How about Bitwarden for password manager?
> I know many stable redhat servers that didn’t need to reboot for years.

That's not actually something to brag about, as it implies they weren't receiving important kernel updates, particularly security updates.
What is the proper REST response code for a valid request but an empty data?
Functional programming vs. OOP: comparing paradigms
Sure, and I'm talking about how much a company is willing to pay. A company acting economically is not going to pay more for a developer than the value they will provide, or else hiring them will lose them money.

Note that as I said, value can be much less straightforward to calculate. An employee may provide no direct value but have a positive effect on the other employees, increasing their value generation. Or an employee may provide excellent value but drive down everyone else's productivity (e.g. by making them unhappy or constantly demanding attention) thus reducing overall value. Or an employee may initially provide low value but have massive potential.

Additionally the problem with hiring is that the candidate has yet to generate any value at all for the company and even if they do have massive potential there is no guarantee that the company can tap into that potential fully. So we're not even talking value (as when considering a pay rise) but expected value.

The cost of labor is caused by paying employees wages/expenses/benefits and having administrative and legal overhead for doing that. The wages and benefits are to a degree subject to demand and, to an even lesser degree, supply.

What a candidate is willing to accept on the other hand depends on what they think they could get elsewhere, how much they want to work for the company in question in particular, what their personal expenses are and how badly they need money.

Companies generate profit by extracting surplus value by simply paying employees less than the value they generate (companies don't produce value, labor does, profit is surplus value left in the company by paying labor less than the value it generates, adjusted for the cost of doing business).

Geographical salaries work by placing the company in one location (usually with a relatively high cost of living) and hiring employees in various other locations (usually with a relatively lower cost of living).

If you can get people from poorer countries producing the same amount of value for your company as people from your richer country, and you can use geographical salaries to justify paying them less, you increase your profit margin on that labor simply by replacing a highly paid local position with a less highly paid remote position.

In the 90s we used to call this "outsourcing" except we did it with entire teams of people rather than individuals (to mixed success because it hinged on the team lead not only understanding you correctly but also propagating the information correctly and also usually reduced overall visibility outside the team). It was widely understood as the blatant cost-cutting measure it was.

Calling it "geographical salaries" and doing it at a finer resolution doesn't change its nature.

And yeah, you won't get a fairer share of your value just by asking for it individually. You'll just get fired and replaced by someone who's happy with what they're offered. This is what you need collective bargaining for -- except that's much harder to organize or even decide on when you're geographically distributed and mostly using company controlled channels for communication.
No, it all predates git/Github: https://code.svn.wordpress.org/servermattic/README

If you go up a few levels you can find more interesting things as well...

Someone wrote an good tutorial on using it here: https://codeseekah.com/2012/03/19/cross-server-deployment-wi...
Perhaps Artificial Stupid System, you do the acronym yourself...
+1 to piku. I use it on a homelab server (not a Raspberry Pi) and just love how simple it is. It sets up a Python deploy environment for web apps that is exactly how I'd personally hand-configure the same in production (nginx, uwsgi, git). The best part of the project is that the entire thing is 1,000 lines of open source and readable Python code, so there's truly no magic whatsoever.
Honestly I found the Slashdot system to be pretty good, but it doesn't seem like any big site is doing anything similar nowadays, in terms of identifying different kinds of comments you'd like to upvote (Insightful, Funny, Troll etc.).
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Why shouldn't it be? Screenshots have been shared for decades without any issues.
Is human consciousness creating reality or limiting human intelligence?
It's not that clear. Plenty of companies are transitioning to full remote.
My preferred office enviornment is staying at home.

Commute is time lost that the employer can never make up for, meanwhile the loss of team dynamics/culture from working remote IS something that can be improved.

Of course, the managers/HR need to actually do something about it and make initiatives to preserve such values, but it requires effort on their part.
If it's a bookmark button, why make this public? I'm glad Firefox does not share my bookmarks with the world, for one.
Sam Bankman-Fried: Why I Bought Back Binance's Shares in FTX
Some additional ideas:

- Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard )
- Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo )
- Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav )
- Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack )
- Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla )
- Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp )
- Observability Platform - Zabbix ( https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix )
- Password manager - KeePassX ( https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx )
This reminds me of a pair of episodes on Darknet Diaries - Manfred[1] - ep. 7/8. Opened my eyes to how insecure games actually are (were?) and how the economy of virtual item trading moved from E-Bay to in-game transactions:

[1]: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7/
Sure but the article was about a linear process with the final product being understood to be an MVP, so the remaining 10% (which really feel more like Zeno's arrow, i.e. the sooner you get to 100% the closer the time necessary to complete the remaining work approaches infinity) won't be part of the calculation and the 90% solution is the first "definition of done".

The article clearly points out discount codes as an example for a feature that could be moved out of the initial spec. And the spec itself is clearly missing various features necessary for the app to be even remotely usable.
View much were you doing it? I have showdead on, and often I'll upvote and vouch comments I think were unfairly dismissed. Maybe it's an illusion, but I feel the vote counts are often small enough that it does make a difference (as opposed to sites like reddit where I don't bother).
But the pieces would still be white and black. We just need to recolor them to a color that hasn't been claimed as part of an identity... (looks at rainbow flag) well, shoot...

Infrared-coating player and Ultraviolet-coating player? Chrome player vs. Brass player? No kidding, I like this last idea.
I was intrigued by this comment, but couldn't really figure out what was being claimed so read the linked article.

It's still not 100% clear but elements of it include:

- Historical racist texts (Mein Kampf, 1930s newspapers) which I feel on balance is a good thing to preserve in a library. I would assume having those papers available does more to combat fascism than to encourage it (though who knows really)

- archives of websites that are dodgy (ISIS and Neo-Nazi are mentioned but there must be all sorts of crazy and or bad stuff on the web that gets archived)

- following US law rather than local law (a general conundrum for internet sites like this, especially if you do it for countries whose laws you like but not for other countries)

- providing a place for people to upload and share files anonymously

So yeah, I'm not really a Free Speech absolutist myself (doesn't seem like many that claim they are actually believe it when it comes to things they disagree with) but doesn't feel like they're in the same boat as social media platforms who actively spread bad things if it increases ad impressions. Some similar issues around policing large amounts of content and dealing with different legal, political and moral frameworks at scale though.
The first ACID database without physical clocks or central consensus group
Show HN: New Version of the GraphQL API for WordPress
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I'm not sure how the thesis could possibly be disproven. Interviews with the apes?
>In fact, we even give employers an optional feature where they can set a cap on the % of salary that their employees can withdraw.
Can you clarify this?
This matches my experience at a previous employer who was using Salesforce tools/websites.
While HN tried and abandoned the "no politics" rule, it does have a soft "no partisan flamewars" rule and a vague "stay on topic" rule. It bans violators pretty effectively - if you're just starting trouble you won't last long.

Also, on HN, you can't reply to people, only to a comment. And it doesn't end up in any inbox. This makes it a lot harder to maintain a longstanding "beef"; we have to do that manually.
There's no real reason why Apple can't build a "development sandbox" app that emulates a terminal (that has no access to anything on the iPad outside the sandbox app) that includes a terminal, a package manager (possibly acquiring Homebrew to help them make it happen), possibly a wrapping GUI to manage secrets, IDE-style text editor, etc.

I'm not really sure why nobody's built one yet except for the sheer complexity involved. But it certainly seems doable.
It would still be light-skinned pieces vs. dark-skinned pieces.
I am just wondering, isn’t the optimal method of automatically navigating in real-time just a Kalman filter?

The article says it takes an hour to pre-compute the flight trajectory. That doesn’t seem to be very automated for something that only flies at 120 km/hr.

A real-time FPGA implementation from 1997:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...
> He even mentions that average daily caloric intake has gone up c. 400 kcal since the turn of the 20th century. Which, for someone with a maintenance-level diet, would cause a 35-45 lb. annual weight gain.

That's one data point, but they also show that caloric intake has been decreasing since 2010 and yet obesity is still increasing. They also mention that the 400 Cal figure is based on consumption in the 1960s-70s vs today, but that there are reasons to believe that at the turn of the century consumption would have been higher than that. Also, observing that people are eating more just begs the question: why are they eating more today than they need, when they weren't dong this in the past?

> Most importantly, he does not really poke holes in the basic premise that the cause is linked to increased availability of food in general coupled with more people living sedentary lifestyles.

Except that people are exercising on average more today than in 2010 or 1990, and more than office workers in 1950, and still obesity is going up. Similarly for availability of food. Also, none of your observations address the bizarre correlation between obesity and altitude for example.

> The antibiotic theory here doesn't seem to address the possibility of wealth and industrialization as a confounding variable. In fact, he doesn't seem to seriously address confounding variables anywhere in his analysis.

Industrialization and wealth are not direct causes of obesity - people don't eat money or factories. If people in countries A and B are eating the same amount and composition on average, but country A is wealthy and industrial and country B is poor and rural, and country A has higher average BMI than country B, then you should exactly start looking at some environmental causes for the difference.

Edit to add:

> Which, for someone with a maintenance-level diet, would cause a 35-45 lb. annual weight gain.

This is nonsense - there is no way to predict weight gain based on calorie intake - variance between people is too huge on this metric - individual BMR alone varies between 1000 kcal/day up to 2500 kcal/day.
> if a state requires internet connectivity then it's their responsibility to provide it.

That sounds good on paper but it does now work like that in real life, in India or the US people who live far away from metro regions, providing connectivity is not an important topic for getting votes so you wont see politicians fighting for it. So Democracy is not going to solve that.

I dont know about you but if there is a question about my survival then its not subjective to me, maybe you dont value your life but I do.
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> Simple truths. If we just took for-profit corporations for what they are, things would be easier to comprehend.

Context: I strongly dislike Facebook; I left years ago. I'm fairly interested in novel socialist, anarchist and resource-focused models for organisation as necessary improvements over current mixed mode we use in many countries currently (I just don't know any that will "work" at the required scale).

I don't think it's _that_ simple. Under capitalism, most systems are for-profit. Even governments and charities operate to raise capital to fund projects, so at the interface with people and most other organisations they have to operate similarly to capitalists (protectionism, hoarding, cost-cutting).

Because of this, you can't point to money-making as the only cause of the malpractice, without also implicating the person you're trying to convince.
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we also should be careful extrapolating a universally optimal diet from what seems to work best for one genetically homogeneous group. There of been studies that indicate that Indian and farther eastern Asian populations have a sequence that allows better utilization of bean and pea protein.
IE was far ahead of the competitors when it was launched. It maintained its lead for quite a lot of time, before MS stopped caring about it.
Everybody goes home for 3 weeks and waits. Would eradicate quite a few diseases.

Logistically impossible of course even when everybody tries to adhere to that.
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Under Content Management System there is OctoberCMS listed.

Their LICENCE.md:

https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/develop/LICENSE.m...

Not sure if this counts as open source. Around here there is a stricter notion of what open source means I think.
Yes, but because the amount in circulation goes up, the value of it goes down. And it's not like the money that is created benefits the poor - it just allows rich people to borrow more probably make even more money from their "investments".
Avisynth only, but if someone wants something more IDE like, I'm a big fan of AvsPmod: https://github.com/gispos/AvsPmod (actively maintained fork)

Not a full blown GUI, but it shows you a video preview, syntax highlighting, function definitions for plugins, etc. It doesn't support Vapoursynth, but you can program macros in Python.
I've been saying twitter needs a downvote button for years. Only having like or retweet means there is only positive signal, so messages can only be amplified. Downvotes allow a signal to be de-amplified. Bravo.
Murdoch doesn't own the Mail, but another oligrach does - Lord Rothermere.