skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if everyone in the world was living in a single family home, American style, we'd be completely doomed. There's no justifying the waste of our lifestyles. Is there any evidence people in Asia or Europe, where single family homes were not allowed to run rampant, are less "meaningfully happy" than Americans?

Our inefficiency is unsustainable and is on pace to destroy the climate, how can that possibly be construed as providing maximal happiness? Short-term happiness for lucky US citizens, maybe.
> TBH ... Im not sure if TikTok cares about the information propagated.

They don't care unless it affects the interests of the shareholders waiting for the IPO of the parent company ByteDance.

As for the algorithm itself, I won't be surprised to see the complaints from many users as a result of changing the algorithm down the line since it is already gamed by the large users on the platform; just like how YouTube was.
That could be used as a new tinder cue
https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/

Elon: Yes, it's a good question. I think a lot of people think I must spend a lot of time with media or on businessy things. But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design. Engineering and design, so it's developing next-generation product. That's 80% of it.

(2016; unreliable source: Elon Musk himself)
Month day is not weird.

You should have mentioned something actually bad like month day year.
> The point ... is making is it relieves pressure on the healthcare system, but the pressure was only there because of old people.

Specifically:

> but the pressure was only there because of old people.

Here is a definition of the world "only" from the Apple dictionary: "and no one or nothing more besides; solely or exclusively".

With this definition in mind, on what basis can you make the claim above? Provide a citation please.
nucelear is the only realistic option to even get to the future.
If you decide to argue that good test scores favor the rich because they can afford test prep, why are grades allowed at all? In reality the bar to afford 10 one hour sat prep classes is much cheaper than 4 years of tutors in different subjects.

And, since I have no doubt that'll likely occur eventually, what would we use to decide who gets into colleges? Is it going to be a competition on who tells the best story in their essay? Can you even be held accountable for lying in the essay, could you even prove it? What else is there?
The Greatest Solo of All Time
All this abuse and exploitation because people want to just buy, buy, buy 24/7, as cheap as possible and as fast as possible and because the religion of our time is ordering crap nobody needs. Bezos riding a rocket to space is just unequal distribution of the spoils, not the reason for the existence of Amazon.
Here's a short article:

https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/how-mechanical-to...

on edit: I also went ahead and made that article a seperate post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27937200
(I'm assuming you're coming from C and don't already know C++ because of the linked article) If the ecosystem that's available is sufficient for your needs on the platforms you care about and you're not interested in easy compatibility with a C/C++ codebase or your existing C knowledge, I would recommend Rust over C++ whenever possible (C is a different question since it fills a slightly different niche and doesn't really have a solid alternative yet imo). Rust has a much simpler and well-chosen set and interaction of features than C++, but it does that by dropping many of the compatibility constraints of C and C++ (and making assumptions that are easier to make in 2021 than 30+ years ago). Compiler errors also more honestly reflect the learning curve, so it can feel more punishing at the start, but has a shorter learning curve to reach functionally correct code, where with C++ you might easily have been using it for 10+ years and still learn you've been doing something wrong the whole time.

That's a big set of ifs, though. It's possible that the compiler errors are discouraging enough that C++ might feel like a more comfortable choice (I would encourage you to not let this be your reason unless you're just interested in solving a one-time problem). I keep checking in on Rust to see how small and dependency free I can get the compiled binary, and I usually need a mess of nightly features. The ecosystem is also still a mess. There are a few great libraries, but otherwise it's a minefield of 0.x releases for most dependencies (admittedly, some of the most important ones are autogenerated bindings where the version number is meaningless). Bindings are really easy to write with Rust, however, and it's one of the few languages that really gets that right, but it's nowhere near as convenient as calling/using C or C++ from C++. Most of these issues are consequences of C and C++ having the existing inertia, but it is what it is. Some people want to ship things and not join a community.

If you're trying to get a job or just learn: learn both. C++ isn't going to go away completely any time soon, but, with every month that passes, there are fewer and fewer technical reasons to justify starting a new project in it vs Rust. Choosing an inferior tool because it's the only one you understand might often be the correct choice, but it's not a choice you want to have to make.
> Would appreciate if you could share with me the concerns you have.

That is a big ask. I’d have to dedicate a lot more time to reviewing and collating the six months of shit I’ve seen posted in r/<whatevers>. Citadel engaged in scammy dark market manipulation, penalties for misbehaviour that are a fraction of the gains achieved, collusion between the various big players, etc. I don’t really care to do that to satisfy your curiosity.

Feel free to hit up r/superstonks, r/wallstreetbets, r/gme or r/GameStop, whichever it is, etc, January thru now. The “apes” have dug up a ton of stuff that indicates that the US market is fundamentally dishonest.
The confidence with which you assert "systemic racism" as being the key factor causing Black kids to be overrepresented in poor communities is fascinating. Historical racism, which was woven into law, is the actual reason for this. Historical factors are also why White southerners are overrepresented in poverty statistics compared to Whites in the midwest and New England.

Historical racism isn't the same thing as the nebulous, impossible to define "systemic" racism, which basically means whatever the activist group pushing it wants it to mean. Typically, they look at any discrepancy in outcomes between two groups, ignore the complex multi-variate nature of said issue, and reduce it down to race, making the claim of "systemic" racism. The vast majority of CS grads from universities are males, but you never see this mentioned in claims of "systemic sexism" in the tech industry. Gender activism, like race activism, only goes in one direction, always.

The same activist groups tend to ignore factors such as 50% of all murders in the US being perpetrated by, and victimizing, Black Americans. This kind of statistic is inconvenient for their narrative of police deliberately arresting people based on race, vs. the fact that they commit crimes disproportionately. Also, constantly cited is the discrepancy in crack penalties vs. cocaine penalties. This ignores the fact that crack and meth (a drug used predominantly by Whites) have equivalently harsh penalties, and also ignores the fact that these harsh penalties were demanded and campaigned for by Black politicians in the 90's, reacting to the destruction of their communities by the crack epidemic. There is a clear record of this, as evidenced by Joe Biden being a huge proponent of the Crime Bill. He and other Democrats were being urged to push the Crime Bill by his own party's Black politicians.

Growing up in the rural south in a trailer park, the subculture of White people I belong to commit crimes at vastly higher rates than Whites in other parts of the country. They are arrested and shot by police at equally higher rates as well. Again, the low-resolution, activist driven narrative ignores all of this, treating White people in New York City and in Kentucky as being part of a homogenous group, instead of correctly identifying the vast cultural differences between the two going back to the completely different European cultures they are descended from (Dutch/wealthy English vs. dirt poor Ulster Scots emigrants).
The fourth stage doesn't even involve owning your own infrastructure.

We pay a 3rd party for our AWS (and Azure) usage to get better rates than AWS would give us (and without a commitment to increased spend like AWS reps have tried to push for Amazon's available programs).

I wouldn't be surprised if they just used volume discounts / negotiated pricing and reservations at their end to make it massively profitable for them.
>It reduces the value of a human being?

Why does it reduce the value of a human being? What's the difference between a billionaire employing 1000 people for his frivolous needs compared to a million people employing 0.001 people each for their frivolous needs?

>These billionaires are blowing money on their personal midlife crises when they could be raising worker wages and helping to end poverty with billions to spare.

And what about all the people living in 3bd room houses, driving luxury cars, buying electronics, when they can be saving a life for as little as $3000[1]? Are they bad people for spending $3000 on creature comforts when they can be literally saving lives with that money?

> People were able to go into space before billionaires wanted to do it on a whim, you know.

Ever since the cold war ended, "going into space" has moving ahead at a glacial pace. I for one welcome the increased funding.

This funding chart[2] that gets passed along captures this dynamic perfectly. Would people want fusion power regardless of billionaires? Yes. That doesn't mean I wouldn't want billionaires funding fusion research to speed things up.

[1] https://www.givewell.org/giving101/Your-dollar-goes-further-...

[2] https://external-preview.redd.it/LkKBNe1NW51Wh-8nLSTRdQtTha2...
How the Mechanical Tomato Harvester Prompted the Food Movement
You can think of insect hives (bees, ants, etc) as a single organism that happens to not be physically contiguous.

The individual insects in a hive are typically 75% identical genetically.
There's also the Ravenscar profile[1] for Ada and the SPARK language[2]. How those compare in marketshare to MIRSA C, I'm not sure, I'm not in that field, though I've enjoyed reading about them at a conceptual level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenscar_profile

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

[&] https://docs.adacore.com/sparkdocs-docs/Examiner_Ravenscar.h...
You might want to check out the resumes of early astronauts; at least one had a PhD in orbital dynamics. I also suspect 99% of people would fail NASA astronaut training.
this is confusing. is it a metric cup of coffee or a 'cup of coffee' which is apparently 6 oz....

why use cups of coffee...do they mean the measurement or the receptacle.

how does one now measure their consumption? what is a Starbucks in cups?
Feynman actually touches on this in the same chapter, a few pages before the anecdote quoted in the article:

> I had a lot of fun trying to do arithmetic fast, by tricks, with Hans [Bethe] [...] He was nearly always able to get the answer to any problem within a percent. It was easy for him—every number was near something he knew.
Affirmative action doesn't require a lower bar. Why do people keep saying that? It's also been banned in California since the 90s.
What would be best is libraries that can be added with a one-liner of an include statement, then there's no more dependency management needed.
How about eGames to differentiate from sports and board and card games?
This was an interesting read, but they really took some liberties in building up their case about why traditional explanations are so wrong.

For instance, they never really refute the very common claim that it's the sugar & high fructose corn syrup in our diets. They attempt to refute it by comparing incredibly rare populations of modern hunter gathers that eat exclusively honey vs ones that don't, and then apparently make the leap that this difference must also apply to non-hunter gatherer societies? That makes zero sense, every single part of our modern lives are unrecognizably different from that of hunter gatherers.

They also gloss over the purely thermodynamic aspect. There is a bit of discussion in the CICO section about how your body can do tricks to store more or less of the calories you eat. They they say people exercise more than they used to but are still gaining wait. Ok, but is that added exercise enough to burn off the added calories that they're eating? Clearly not, and it almost seems like a purposeful misdirection to set it up in this way without mentioning that there is a relatively simple basic calorie equation does, in fact, need to balance as a fundamental law of physics.

There likely is something to the ideas that either people's base metabolic rates have declined, or something has tampered with our self-control or is impeding our natural impulse to stop eating at the right time. And it's a very interesting topic. But this over-the-top "mystery" angle really weakens the rest of their points.
This is a misleading headline that is implying way more controversy than actually exists. The headline should be “FAA updates commercial astronaut criteria.” This is a very reasonable update to a specific FAA program using industry-standard* language to describe crew, not a wholesale redefinition of the word “astronaut.” The FAA made no comment on Bezos or Branson. None of the people on either of the flights even applied for FAA wings. Nobody from the government came out and said “you aren’t astronauts.” They just see a shift in the industry and responded accordingly before it became a problem.

I know a lot of folks here love to hate the FAA because of Boeing, but to borrow a popular phrase from this site, the FAA is not one guy. Yes, there are problems in the aircraft certification division. But this is a different branch, and this move is totally reasonable.

*I’m in the industry.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/ai-computing/#:~:t...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -chuckles, "I'm in danger"
How easy is it going to be to source a mechanically compatible laptop logicboard and matching LCD to today’s design, at a competitive price, 3 years later from now, if it’s just a repurposed Acer parts without long term commitments?

51nb X210 system planar exists, but it also costs $800.
Yes, different situations require different solutions. I think most people learn this by the time they reach puberty.

If you're trying to reduce costs on a complicated usage pattern, then you'll probably want to have someone on staff or consultant who knows how to deal with those things.

I don't know your experience, but bare metal has at least an order of magnitude greater efficiency at one or two magnitudes lower cost. If you want to pay $1MM/mo for something that could also be done for (generously) $20K/mo (plus a couplefew salaries that add up to much less than $1MM/mo), that's your business, but I don't see how the use-case you describe requires cloud/AWS.

The thing that people don't get (or have forgotten, or...) is that you don't have to spin up hundreds of instances in the way you do on AWS, you just handle them on a machine or three that already has enough headroom to handle them.

(all hypothetical blather shaped to support my perspective and disprove the utility of yours, of course ;)
Even a mere 7 years ago this was the joke: https://xkcd.com/1425/
That may just mean more software is being written and older software can still have a vulnerability that gets a CVE assigned. Also a lot of CVEs are for potentially dangerous crashes that not necessarily can be a exploited and of course a lot of them are for client sides requiring a lot of user intervention.

So no what Rapid7 is saying doesn't mean it's getting worse. Also they sell offensive penetration testing software, they have an interest in making your believe it's getting worse.
Also, the union of different intolerant minorities results in very little tolerance for anything.
There's no competition between Israel and the US, only cooperation. There's also no discrepancy between values. Whereas
Russia and China are adversaries who have a lot to profit from a weakening US.
That is an area of very active research.

I mean the exact chemical mechanism for the flip is some enzyme, and the flip certainly affects gene expression. As to why the cellular systems flip these bits, great question :)
What I don't get about this is that the US govt is the sole issuer or dollars - the govt issues currency and uses it to provision itself with the resources it needs to build bridges, operate its bureaucracy, pay the army etc. So, theoretically, the govt can issue as much coin as it needs to grow to arbitrary sizes.

The citizens aren't paying for the govt to run - not with money anyway.
In actual HLS streaming videos are served in 2-10 second segments, a size small enough that you realistically can hash each segment and verify each segment. Youd have to implement it as an extension of the HLS protocol, so probably as m3u8 with additional fields, maybe as comments.
There's a negative consequence - If the line between life and non-life is blurry, that means there isn't a clear place for souls to fit in. If life can be completely explained as an emergent property of individual non-living parts, (ultimately, atoms aren't alive, even though they make up living things) then we can't tell whether souls exist in our universe or not.

This isn't a big deal for science, but it's a moral victory for atheists.
"Playing with toys" is a really dismissive way to describe the combined effort of 1000s of engineers and blue collar workers who innovated on a scale existing space companies haven't in decades to produce a service that will be utilized by millions in the near future for a fraction of the cost it once was.

On a competitive landscape, these companies are too late to the party with too little to show for it, and they are likely to be eclipsed by startups if they remain so slow in their progress.

It would be great if Bezo has a real rivalry with Elon, but sadly that is not the case.
FWIW, most of the weather modeling people (e.g. Cliff Mass) are asserting that the PNW heat wave was more of a Black Swan event caused by a near perfect storm of ordinary weather factors that had little to do with climate change. The contribution of climate change to this specific event was marginal at best, this type of heat wave has always been possible in principle.
help them.
You are responding to a silly comment. With that said, I think straight black hair often implies non-european ancestry. I'd just assume main woman is Spanish, one in white is Asian. The non-black males are all pretty ambiguous (shrug)
I actually work with one guy who moved with family from Chennai because he says it is unbearably there and he prefers polish climate much more.
while i more or less agree with your general thesis (bodies are good at grabbing what they need), tracking a few days of eating on cronometer or some other site that breaks out micronutrients is worth the effort in terms of getting an idea of your real intake and any holes. finding dietary sources you like for those blind spots can be tricky, but is far better than tossing a multivitamin over the wall and assuming you are good, imho.
They probably actually still have DVD handling machines.
Funny story in Malaysia it's well known that if you get sick you want a Chinese doctor because the Malaysian government discriminates heavily against the Chinese, and thus the ones that actually become doctors are only the elite.
> Just look at UK or Israel and the case rates there for how effective vaccines are against transmission.

It is not a reader's job to "just look at ...". Point us to a study if you want to persuade.

Furthermore, pointing at a data set or graph is not sufficient. Data in isolation (by this I mean a table full of numbers) does not prove causation. Only by understanding how the data is collected (i.e. the experimental design) can we start to reason about causation.

I'm saying this because I've seen people point to a graph and say "Don't you see X?" (where X is an inference) as if it were an obvious fact. On the contrary, a valid inference requires statistical thinking, which requires understanding how the data was collected and some kind of model.
What's the big deal with C++ being bloated (Linus, many experts don't like it) and I keep hearing that it has become unmangeable?

C++ doesn't force you to use everything it's got. Can't I just write basic C style procedural code in C++ and use OOP constructs if necessary? It is completely optional I think. Don't like templates? Don't use them. Set a policy in the team/company to avoid using advanced C++ features.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-ddt-exposure-grandmot...

https://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2021/04/13/1055-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066343/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-020-0586-7

On perusal of the literature, seems that first and second generations are affected as well
Thank you, looks like it’s still on preview but glad it’s being worked on.
Your statement immediately has a problem. How do you define success? Then you have a second problem when you state a person taking one test is also good on a different test.

Going much over 100 has little correlation with wealth which is what most studies use. Then you run into correlation doesn’t equal causation problem too.
At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite after my "Not finding souls is a victory for atheism" comment:

What does that add? Do we have better models if we say we're all hallucinating the same seemingly-kind-of-objective reality?

What if I'm the only human, you're all p-zombies, BUT all dogs are conscious?
Trippy short story idea
My dad's car was doing this at least as far back as 2003.

He thought it was so cool. When he first got the car, he was like, "Watch this!" and squirted a whole water bottle at the windshield just to make them come on.

Sixteen-year-old me recorded this as peak dorky daddom in my memory.
Yes, Called TDI,
Just wait until you realize how fast it is scanning for changes when using a database! IMO, anyway, I'm sure faster things exist, but I've not seen one in combination with a such a sweet GUI and a lightweight application that is really clear about what it does, and usefully extensive in the options for how it should do it. I'm not above the CLI but this one of the areas I like being able to tweak when I'm tired or distracted, too. Can't recommend it enough.
The article is about egress data that doesn't go over the public internet, which is much cheaper.

Other cloud companies don't use the same price for that, while Amazon does. With an markup...
But to say that we could find several plausible theories and not know _something_ of value is teetering on Last Thursdayism.