skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny to think about this as a kind of passive revolt. COVID-19 response: failure, no exit, trapped; BLM: failure, no exit, trapped. Amazon unionization vote: failure, no exit, trapped. Going full remote, working from your castle instead of theirs, feeling the "great resignation," a large percentage of the population suddenly realize, perhaps because everyone is so very online, and very online people often care a lot about the proletariat, that their employers are so fucked without them. And then you realize this formula:

> Replacing workers requires one-half to two times the employee's annual salary. So, it costs $9,000 a year to keep each disengaged worker and between $25,000 and $100,000 to replace them.

Does the right-libertarian dream merge with the Marxist dream, and everyone "gets wise" to what this calculus means for wage and equity negotiation, if we just keep holding the line, that we know what we're worth, what our time is worth to place Facebook pixels on websites, and we won't work for less.
What the parents did is the dirty little secret for low-income tenants. Rent to people on Section 8 or on government assistance. Govs don't miss those payments, and tenants tend to be more stable in fear of losing the program. The problem is that you have to dealing with government agencies.
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> What does "ultra processed" mean? Cheese, bread, olive oil and most vegetables require processing to be made or nutritionally useful.

I don't have a scientific definition for you. Just use your common sense to figure out what average people would intuitively call ultra-processed, whatever it means to them. I'm pretty darn sure you would not arrive at the conclusion that ordinary people consider bread and most vegetables "ultra-processed foods".
> It cannot be both.

I see this mentioned often, as if it's supposed to be obvious, but I don't really get it.

Care to explain?
https://beta.openai.com/docs/use-case-guidelines/use-case-re...
"reliably being able to limit the conversational topics to strictly X, Y, and Z topics"
totally agree. i think there is no baseline at all for “healthy food.” it means different things to different people. even high calorie foods can be healthy for some groups.

i think this argument about processed foods tries to simplify it too much when there’s really a lot of different factors. high in calories? no vitamins? known carcinogens? individual allergies or trouble digesting? this one size fits all approach to labeling food good and bad ignores the details.

and the real issue is education: do you know what you’re eating? and how much? and what your body needs? i’d rather see answers there than “big soda bad” and “chips bad”
> “Consumed in excess, these foods are linked to…”

Won’t most things consumed in excess cause these problems? Is the issue is that it is easier to consume them in excess.

One of the odd things among my son’s kids is that a lot of the kids who seemingly eat the worst seem the most fit and those who eat healthiest seem less fit (skinny unfit not obese unfit).
> it also victimized workers, riders, cities and restaurants

> Uber's founding CEO Travis Kalanick - a fratty bro who created a culture of dishonesty, physical and sexual harassment and abuse, and criminality.

> It's true! Khosrowshahi is a better human being than Kalanick (who, to be clear, is one of the worst people alive today).

> But the problem with Uber wasn't that just that it was a rapey, crimey, crooked grift - the OTHER problem with Uber is that it is doomed, and only exists today because of accounting fraud. Khosrowshahi didn't fix that part. He's not going to fix that part.

Clearly the author hates Uber so much that you cant really trust any opinion they have of their financials. You can tell this because they aren't attacking ride sharing as a whole or ever mentioning Lyft.
As an add-on to this: I'd encourage anyone interested in this debate to read Rich Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html).

At every point in time, the best systems we can build today will be ones leveraging lots of domain-specific information. But the systems that will continue to be useful in five years will always be the ones freely that scale with increased parallel compute and data, which grow much faster than domain-specific knowledge. Learning systems with the ability to use context to develop domain-specific knowledge "on their own" are the only way to ride the wave of this computational bounty.
For me it is the grinding and removal of fiber.

This is a very important distinction as it changes the glycemic index and will cause blood sugars to rise much faster on consumption than an unground food with its entire fiber content.

The fiber commonly becomes animal feed.
The bread (made from processed wheat, probably bleached flour, and containing bread conditioners, preservatives) would almost surely fall into the ultra processed category, unless homemade from minimally processed whole wheat flour. The ham and cheese could as well, unless they were made with fairly traditional processes (and probably more expensive than what the typical person is buying at walmart, target, etc). They'd all probably be considered processed foods, at minimum.
Let me make sure I understand. My broker (in this case Financial Choice) will provide me with a 1099-B with a list of every time I bought or sold a security(this seems like it would be any time a used the checking account). I can then use the 1099 b to figure out what number goes into Schedule D.
It's convenient that we skip over the fact that the landlord did receive money from the feds
I agree, I just think extrapolating "you own nothing and the government can take and do with 'your' property as it pleases" is going more than a little far!

Honestly, a better example of that would be eminent domain, which existed long before COVID. (I so happen to be in favor of eminent domain too, but now we're getting truly off topic!)
Thank you! The widget definitely makes sense--right now, we give each mentor a unique link that directs to their profile page on a browser, which we encourage them to share in social media profile bios etc. The early mentors all came in through our own outreach. Now we are getting about 50% from referrals and inbound requests.
He said no such thing he was asking what color a parrot in the mirror was.
Far from collectively, but lower population areas don't count under the state's current representation parameters.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/05/19/Oregon-Idaho-Dona...

Sure, the votes to 'secede' from Oregon are mostly symbolic but they do show that there's a sizeable opposition.
> nothing updates unless I update it

That how computers (or really, things-that-exist in general) are supposed to work.
It's not really an either or thing. There are plenty of reasons to avoid an ORM. When I talk to python devs who don't like ORMs I recommend SQLAlchemy Core. It's all the most important parts without the ORM. In my experience most people against ORMs are not dead set on writing SQL by hand, they just don't like OOP. Of course there are some DBAs disguised as programmers running around, but they're more of an exception than the rule :-).
This is every public forum ever
I don't think that solution makes any sense.

To me, the solution has to be trying to get people to eat healthier things via education. I mean, the "incentive" is feeling good, looking good, being fitter and more capable.

One thing I've found particularly motivating as a parent is that a good diet is a huge competitive advantage for my children. We live on a farm, so we've always got great, healthful things to eat, and since we harvest ingredients and not factory-processed stuff, they're always cooking--it's not just their health now, but their ability to be healthy adults.
Price can be justified, if the government puts carbon tax on cement companies who dump large quantities of CO2 in the atmosphere.
all exchanges that deal in any signficant volume have pretty strict KYC/AML. Liekly it would be flagged by automated screeng and then reviewed by staff, who would notice patterns of mixing, and then either return the crpyto or freeze it pending addtional info.
I can tell you why I don’t like it. Everyone’s subtle OCD seems to come out with Typescript. Instead of cutting down on the number of function arguments, people don’t give a shit. They add more and more args, and maniacally define the types for every little thing.

It’s like some odd version of list-making (many people get a kick out of compulsively making these detailed lists).

It used to be that you think very carefully about how to keep a function simple, but Typescript is bringing out this dark side in people that allows them to just define 15 argument functions, so long as is has a nice exhaustive Type.

Sometimes you have to save people from themselves. I’ll stay hyperbolic and say in several years time, we will all be drowning in type-inflated code bases. JavaScript people always find a way to make things hard.
You just reminded me of the Erlang flood of 2009 :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
I'm also Canadian and thought the very same thing!

I also really liked how he dialed in:
- Okay, so I use X unit when I thing of A, and Y Unit when I think of B.... But what kind of person am I that I know those values off the top of my head?
Uber operates in almost every major US city today. It has overcome years of predictions it would fail. Yet I still can get an Uber in minutes almost anywhere in the country. Will it get more expensive? Probably. Is it a replacement for car ownership or transit? Definitely not. But Uber will live on. It's good enough to ensure sizable marketshare for the long term.
> the conjoiner drives use [science] to achieve 1g acceleration to get to near light speed

For [science] read [magic], more or less, but yeah. In the very first stories they were Bussard ramjets, but this got retconned out (and a Bussard ramjet actually shows up in a later book as a failed experiment). In most of the books they're more or less applied magic, though.

This, incidentally, seems to be a common theme, as later discoveries tended to fall down on the side of Bussard ramjets not working (due to insufficient density etc). The last of Niven's Known Space books have some special pleading for how the pilot has to carefully direct the ramjet to get sufficient combustion volume, a detail that was never present in the old ones.
The post certainly has a plausible and understandable narrative, but I have no insight into Uber's financials.

I do however use Uber and Lyft constantly, all over the country and world, and the contrast between the services today and a a year or two ago is stark.

Pricing is often 4-5x what I used to expect for the same trip, sometimes with wait times of 30-40 minutes, even in non-peak times in central business districts.

As a regular user who just happened to be in 9 different cities over the past three weeks (I'm in the conference business) it's really clear something really severe is going on with these companies right now and their service level is in free fall.
I can recommend "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts" by David Gerard. Excellent stuff.
Great question :) There are several answers to it.

1. We integrate with the GitHub Checks API and surface missing labels as a failure (similar to failed tests), which acts as a reminder to add the labels. GitLab doesn't have an equivalent to our knowledge, but we have a Docker image and a snippet of yml you can include as a build stage for a similar result.

2. We had customers ask for a JIRA integration which we are about to ship that can help with that. It creates a custom field on your JIRA instance which gets populated with your configured intents, just like GitHub labels. GitHub pull requests which reference a JIRA issue will automatically inherit its labels, meaning that if the intent was expressed at planning time, then there's no additional work to do for these.

3. When discussing with organizations who request that every pull request be linked to a ticket for the sake of reporting, it's a no brainer: would you rather file a ticket for every commit or add a label?

4. Remaining untagged pull requests can be examined and labeled directly from the product itself (making it easy to erase the pesky leftovers).

Finally, the product is indeed targeted at managers at this time, but we have plans to make it more directly useful for the engineers too.
If Apple wants to get the same detection ability as server-side, they'll have no choice* but to expand and lock down client-side much more than they publicized. At which point this method is not the lesser evil at all.

* Think about what happens to CSAM uploaded to iCloud before NCMEC tags it. This has to happen for each new CSAM, since NCMEC can't tag what it doesn't see yet.

Surely Apple and NCMEC want to be able to catch these perps (which they easily would have with server-side). Doing it client-side requires expansion of scanning to do much more.
> arguing that it would have been "better" for them to lose their houses too is beyond parody.

Homelessness was not the only outcome. Many of those unable to pay rent would have been able to borrow money, sell off assets, receive government assistance, make forbearance agreements with their landlords, or move to lower cost housing. The burden could have been shared among tenants, landlords, lenders, and governments. With the moratoria, however, all of the burden fell on landlords.

Edit: Also unemployment (often expanded beyond normal payment amounts and extended for longer durations) and federal stimulus checks.
These aren't protocol level hacks. These hacks exploit logic flaws in the smart contracts.
It becomes tougher when pizza or bread can exist in all of the NOVA food classifications.

http://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf
Yeah, I basically just want my family to take a vacation while I stay home and chill for a few days.
For comparison: the consumption of ultra-processed food in selected European countries (from 2018):

Top 3 European countries with the most household purchases of ultra-processed food:

1. UK 50.7%

2. Germany 46.9%

3. Ireland 45.9

Top 3 European countries with least household purchases of ultra-processed food:

1. Portugal 10.2%

2. Italy 13.4%

3. Greece 13.7%

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...
Fruit has a lot of sugar too.
In my opinion, ultra-processing requiring equipment, procedures or chemicals found only in a laboratory or factory, not a typical home kitchen from the past century or so.

That's overly simple though, the definition is here: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova (this seems to be a summary of the definition in FAO document linked above).
Ha, yes, it wouldn't -really- be better than your body working as intended. My thoughts were that for regular people, your body has to react to raising glucose by releasing insulin, while with this new insulin, it would already be in your blood.

That pulsing secretion could be achieved with a pump. Maybe they already do it?

I have LADA, which is known for a very long, gradual honeymoon period. I've looked into the studies intended to prolong function but they involve immune suppressants, as far as I can tell, which doesn't seem like a great idea in the Covid age.
Ofcourse statistical techniques need checks and balances, hence peer reviewed academic papers, meta analysis, etc.
statistics is a major tool for science these days. science needs checks and balances otherwise it's a pretty idle effort. Without checks and balances, you could just imagine any theory and believe it's the truth because you want to.
One definition of processed would be the amount of "steps" required to take from the base ingredient.

So if you make falafel for example, it's only two steps removed from chickpeas, as it's just mildly grinded and fried. That being said it's an exercise to the reader in determining if each "step" is equally bad. In general steps involving the destruction or heating of the food are worse than the "separation" (e.g. peeling or cutting vs frying or blending).
> If you ignore that the whole goal of this was to prevent evicting people during a novel virus pandemic that killed over 600,000 Americans, sure, it might be "worse"

And the beauty is absolutely nobody can look at the data and truly say any of these massive government mitigations did a single bit of good at all. They, in my opinion, took something bad (600,000 people dead in the USA) and made it 100x worse.
Do your competitors have access to this tool that gets you started 20x faster? If so, you want the tool.

Your copycat startup may not have incredible value, but selling shovels always pays.
Yeah that's definitely one of the holes, I think it would have to be as condos that are for sale - and not solely as units to rent. Not a foolproof plan, but we could at least make it a law for normal single-family housing as a start and then figure out what makes sense elsewhere. Housing definitely seems complicated enough that you can't have one simple solution and we'll need a bunch of things that each help out a little bit
I work for a major American utility company and I'm not aware of coal being used to deliver peak power ("peaker plant" in the utility parlance). Coal power plants take hours to get up to operating temperature and when allowed to flame out you've significantly decreased the lifespan of the furnace. What they do instead is reduce the injection rate to maintain minimal operating temperature and run the output to ground. From that standpoint coal is very similar to nuclear: you don't simply stop a reactor. You send its output to ground. That's why coal and nuclear units are used for base load, not peak load. Natural gas units are just a turbine engine, you can spin that thing up and down as needed all day long to handle peaks. Wind and solar are auxiliary power sources - all American ISO's and RTO's require you have non-volatile power covering those units. Natural gas units are preferred to cover the these volatile units because they can be spun up so quickly. But there's a catch to that too - you have to put your natural gas order in 24 hours in advance of use and you have to pay for whatever you don't use. It's not like residential where your furnace just kicks on and gas is available and you get billed for it. Nope. You have to preorder your gas. If your wind and solar are covering the load then you're going to pay a fine for not taking all of your gas delivery. The utility business has its complexities!
Everything is a chemical. Zinc oxide is just nicely inert.

That sunscreen has plenty of funny sounding chemicals, don't worry!

Ingredients: Active Ingredient: Zinc oxide 21. 6% (sunscreen) Inactive Ingredients: Water, C12-15 alkyl benzoate, styrene/acrylates copolymer, octyldodecyl citrate crosspolymer, phenyl trimethicone, cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 dimethicone, dimethicone, polyhydroxystearic acid, glycerin, ethyl methicone, cetyl dimethicone, silica, chrysanthemum parthenium (feverfew) flower/leaf/stem juice, glyceryl behenate, phenethyl alcohol, caprylyl glycol, cetyl dimethicone/bis-vinyldimethicone crosspolymer, acrylates/dimethicone copolymer, sodium chloride, phenoxyethanol,
You're absolutely right from a narrative sense.

I meant that writing a believable normal person is hard. Most people are normal.

But writing a smart person is hard, because you often just have to have them solve problems faster/remember more/have information that the reader doesn't.

Project Hail Mary did a wonderful job of showing that a smart person doesn't necessarily think "The same, but faster", but that they think differently and deliberately
Sure. I was thinking about large enough companies where you may not be negotiating directly with your day-to-day workmates.
Airships seem somewhat vulnerable to the weather, in practice, as they're always flying. A nice thing about a helicopter is you can land, and it's a station until you take off again.
Congrats and good work! I thoroughly enjoy every blog post update.

Here’s a suggestion. Bevy should invest in a couple of moderately complex sample games that are maintained. I think a critical failure of Unity is their refusal “eat their own dog food” so to speak.

My recommendation is to put ZERO effort into game design here. Build a few straight clones (within legal bounds, of course).

PacMan, Link to the Past, Doom, Quake, Threes, Angry Birds, etc. Pick like 3 that represent a sample of 2D, 3D, etc.

And I mean a “full” clone, in terms of functionality although not content. By that I mean main menus, persistent high scores, multiple levels, numerous scenes/levels, etc.

I’m extremely confident this will pay off. You could debate whether t should be done sooner or later. I recommend resisting the urge to pushing until more systems stabilize. You need “real” examples to help stabilize and discover the warts.
> If it has decent cellular reception

How much are you paying the cell companies to live their American dream on your dime?
You're in the US I assume? That wouldn't fly in the UK. It's also terrifying that it's considered normal over there!
What made you hate typescript so much that you'd deprive others of it given the opportunity?
You are correct. I meant the local LAN segment.

I think I may have tried to go back and edit that clarification into the message, but failed. And then failed to post a follow up clarification.

So, good catch! Thanks!
HS2 to use 3D printing at Euston station tunnels
> The solution is to tax added sugar (including for sub-ingredients) per gram, and a flat tax for any food containing artificial sweeteners. 1c per gram of sugar, or 20% for anything containing artificial sweeteners seems reasonable.

A sugar tax would mostly impact the people who have the least choice in what they buy, due to poverty and/or the availability of healthier foods. (See: food deserts)

Better to work on the affordability and availability of healthy food than try to penalize people for buying stuff that's cheap and ubiquitous. If you want to apply sticks, apply them to large retailers like Wal-mart and Target instead of to individuals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_(symptom)

Quote:
Anorexia is a symptom, not a diagnosis. When a healthcare provider states that a patient has anorexia, they are simply referring to a decreased appetite. This means that the provider must find and treat the underlying cause of the anorexia. Anorexia is not to be confused with the mental health disorder anorexia nervosa. Because the terms are often used interchangeably, a provider must clarify to a patient to which they are referring as to avoid confusion. Anyone can manifest with anorexia regardless of their gender, age, or weight.
Boring as hell. Pro Tip: add some topics that aren't already done to death and try again.

Longevity? AGI? Really?
I am quite sure that crows could solve leetcode mediums in under 30 minutes.
"Ultra-processed" is a pretty meaningless standard. Pasta and Cheerios are very processed but part of the process is being fortified with loads of micronutrients. Cheerios are better for you than something like white rice which is almost pure starch. And high-fructose corn syrup has the same nutritional value as raw honey despite being processed. There's no substitute for just reading labels.
Which are enforced by the protocol.
Swap after mixing and I don't think anyone would care. There are plenty of legitimate users of defi swappers.
Shitcoins use literally the same source code as bitcoin.
> you'll have less money to compete in the market for new hires

Why would that be the case? We already established that the company would pay industry level salaries to new hires and existing employees alike. Moreover, because you have less turnover, you need to hire less, so you have less wasted money on hiring and training.

All in all, I just fail to understand why companies don't value existing employees more. I think it's the fact that they take advantage of people's aversion to change and interviews. They rely on people NOT going to interviews.