skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mostly cut out processed sugar, with a few holdouts. It was hard at first to give up sweet tea, but now that I've done it I just found sweet tea tastes weird.

The last (big) holdout I have is with protein bars. I can't seem to find any, let alone any with decent amounts of protein, without sugar or even more sugar alcohols. So right now I stick to a set of pure protein that has only 2g of added sugars and 2g of sugar proteins. All the rest of my sugar is natural (usually from bananas or other fruit), and I still manage to keep it under 30g a day for the most part.

It's made a tremendous difference not only in my health, but also my body shape I've found. I'm still getting the same amount of exercise as I used to, but as the weight falls off it seems to be more fat than muscle. It's also forced me to eat somewhat better, though I still do too much processed stuff (I just check it for sugar first).
Heads up for anyone else, I was interested in the strayscanner app to try on my iPhone 11, but I’m getting an error when trying to record: “unsupported device: this device doesn’t seem to have the required level of ARKit support”.
> That's definitely not true. It was enforced in most places until a few decades ago

??? The law was from 1800 and nobody really knew about it until 2013 when it was abolished. Please provide me one case where the law was applied.

> In big IT consulting firms just as in the sales/services industry, a woman is expected to wear makeup and a female suit (tailleur).

The same way a man is expected to wear a suit.

> However, contrary to popular (racist) expectations, there may be more leeway for a lower-class non-white woman in france in 2021 than for a daughter of a white bourgeois family from Versailles. Indeed, despite a potential pressure from tradition, a proletarian woman will usually (there are exceptions) be encouraged to study and find a better job than her parents. I've rarely hung out with bourgeois people, but from what i could see they had less to gain, and were more preoccupied with founding a family than anything else. Take it with a grain of salt because that's anecdotal data.

Let me give you the point of view of someone who i) knows well the cités and ii) knows very, very well the "bourgeois" population of Versailles (as you call it).

You seem to be French so you may have actually gone in a cité. I recommend La Courneuve which I know well , or Epinay. The women I actually know from there are under a TREMENDOUS pressure to adhere to the rules of the Muslim population.

Now have a look at the Versailles high school Hoche. In the top 5 schools in France, the essence of "bourgeoisie". Have a look at how the people there behave and how diverse they are. Mostly white, but also Asian and Indian. If you knew that population a bit more you could see how they behave - and they behave perfectly, surprisingly especially towards minorities.

But to know that you have to actually know these people. And also know people from the cités, closely.
iOS solved this in like version 3 (well more specifically, safari did). For all the bitching HN does about safari at least they managed to get pdf viewing right on mobile.

On android I have to use a firefox fork called iceraven to be able to install pdf.js extension to use mozilla's own pdf.js to load pdf's in my tabs. Afaik, there's no other way to do it.
You’re going to have to explain that—what is an attack vector for image manipulation? What is an attack vector for false positives?

> Assume we had this perfect hash knowledge.

It’s not a perfect hash. Nobody’s saying it’s a perfect hash. It’s not. It’s a perceptual hash. It is specifically designed to map similar images to similar hashes, for the “right” notion of similar.
Zipfiles are a special kind of file that contains other files. What is the proper response when a user clicks on a zip file on a web file store? Do you just throw the file at the local file system or do you open the zip file so that the user can see and choose specific files?
I used to watch a TV news show from DW called European Journal, which I believe no longer exists. The presentation was incredibly neutral. They told the facts, they asked people involved to tell their stories, etc. It was beyond refreshing to hear reporters who were not trying to manipulate me emotionally. But apparently it was not entertaining to a wide enough audience keep the lights on.
Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
Your expressions omits many necessary operators, and thus becomes ambiguous.
There was a guy I worked for, I had to quit three times, because he could always paint a picture of the cool things we were going to work on, and on the first two occasions I got a field promotion out of it.

The last time I literally did not make eye contact with him and I kept interrupting his train of thought before he could spin up into a speech.
Tolerating disruptive behavior is not a reasonable accomodation.
For places that can rely on exclusively solar, solar and battery start to make more sense than nuclear. Currently it is profitable to have around 3-4 hours of 80% of capacity, which is economical if you get a daily charge cycle it where in the day you charge them and during the night you get paid by discharging almost 100%.

Wind is a very different beast in term of charge cycles and capacity requirements. We are nowhere near having it economical to install batteries with multiple weeks long capacity that get a charge cycle of a few times a year. For that you need stored energy technology like reverse hydro or hydrogen production, and they are are quire bit away from being economical sustainable. Reverse hydro has many issues and has resulted in a declining optimism in the last decade, and using wind to produce hydrogen cost about 6 times as much as any other hydrogen production method. And we don't currently burn hydrogen for power as it is already prohibitively expensive. Still it seems as our best bet for storage, which should give a hint how the economics are between nuclear and storage.
I don't think so. Public sector pensions are a bigger deal than (mostly legacy) private sector pensions but the guarantees are still relatively high compared to typical payouts.
https://archive.is/Qv2Ba
It was my development tool of choice for decades. And it very much did the job of IDEs better than any IDE. But it no longer does. In part because IDEs became better editors.

I’d love to use Emacs. But it is more work to use it now than just a decade ago.
We abused hblank to death in Infinity for Game Boy Color (unpublished in 2001, later dumped on GitHub), for things like parallax scrolling, tilted overworld map, screen transitions, and scrolling inner text.
> His girlfriend was shocked when she saw some of the tweets. Talking with him on the telephone, she begged him to stop. Not because she necessarily disagreed with anything. But because she was worried about retaliation by the Chinese government. «I'm in Switzerland, not China,» Gerber replied. «I can say what I want here.»

Shouldn't he have also taken into consideration that this "retaliation" could also be directed towards his girlfriend?

Generally, the article raises the feeling of "mistakes have been made". There you have a professor afraid of harming her career, which is understandable, and having the option to play a "is de-registered anyway"-card. Keeping him in the unofficial advisorship and tied to the university can be seen as a friendly, helpful gesture on the part of the university, surely also with the intention to be able to refer to him should he build a successful career. It was a weak point which he should have taken into consideration, yet it would have been difficult to anticipate that it would turn out this way.

Wasn't he planning to go back to Wuhan anyway? Why risk it?
The main distinction here is that Christianity was much more open to the slavery of non Christians than the slavery of Christians.

The Catholic Church was very particular about this in making sure to only ban the enslavement of Christians while explicitly condoning the slavery of non Christians.

It's a classic example of ingroup vs outgroup bias.
Recent and related:

Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827592 - July 2021 (448 comments)
I'm disturbed by this ordeal and Apple don't seem to be backing down. I was thinking of getting one of the new MacBooks later this year but I think I've changed my mind - I won't buy products from a company that treats its customers as pedophiles. My phone is getting pretty old too, don't think the next one will be an iPhone.
If they're talking about transmission over long distances the gas can end up being burned in large units anyway (where "large" might mean 600 MW: https://www.powermag.com/ge-powered-combined-cycle-plant-set... )

What P2G can do is allow one to stack several benefits from the one-time cost of making the gas: storage at the generation site, transmission, and storage at the far end of the pipeline.
I believe some prefer Copper despite length limitations or interference, because it’s less power and heat compared to fiber and the receiver to translate the light.
>I think Apple PR screwed up here announcing all these features at once on one page, and not having the foresight they would be conflated. It also didn't help that a security researcher leaked it the night before without many of the details (iCloud only for example).

This sums up my entire feelings on the matter at this point.

It's become a bit of hysteria due to this.
There are many ways to eat more or less local food, via producers. If you take France for example, it could easily be self-sufficient in fruits/vegetables (currenly it's not because of how they destroyed the beautiful old agriculture (orchards, permacultures) to grow intensive monocultures of corn and things for industrial derived products instead (they are less efficient by yield/surface, and much more demanding in resources, more polluting, creates more erosion, kill life in the soil,..). Eating mostly plant-based food is definitely scalable https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
IIRC, SNES had those, NES did not.
I think in this case it's important to clarify what we mean by financial independence. Being able to address emergencies and setbacks is a very different level of wealth than having accumulated enough that you can live only on the interest. I'm not arguing against the former obviously. I'm saying that the latter looks like an arbitrary and somewhat meaningless goal to me personally.

Also, the setbacks that you might experience vary a lot. You gave an example of suddenly becoming disabled - in that case you might find that all of the formulas that you've used to compute that you've reached FI don't work anymore because your expenses have increased dramatically. So you were financially independent before but now suddenly you aren't anymore? Then maybe you were never financially independent in the first place. (There was a great story about this on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543527)

That's another problem with the whole FI(RE) movement - it pretends to have quantified something that can't be quantified by just making a lot of assumptions about your future needs and wants, the state of the world, the stock market, inflation etc. And when those assumptions are questioned, the defending argument boils down to "having more money is better". Which of course I can't disagree with. Just don't pretend that you've achieved something that you haven't by claiming to be financially independent.
I believe a company named “True Leaf” (“TruLeaf”?) in the town of Lumby, BC, is doing exactly that.
They don't?

Huh.
Ah yeah. The app store doesn’t seem to have a way to restrict downloads to only lidar devices. The description does mention the limitation, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set a hard constraint. So sorry about this! Wonder if there is a way to issue refunds on the app store.
I thought the new idea was that people who took opioids only for pain relief didn’t get addicted, which in hindsight is absolute nonsense.
beware: the GOL implemented in https://github.com/Rich5/Excel-Game-of-Life uses VBA and not Excel formulas
The actual code itself is probably the least important thing. What matters more is if it's actually working and above all, if it's solving the customer's problem.
> Do we actually want emotionally neutral articles?

Yes. Articles written in an emotionally charged way in order to influence their readers are a flavor of brainwashing - telling the reader what to think, or even worse, trying to influence them without their knowledge or consent.

Furthermore, the fact that an individual or organization is trying to emotionally manipulate you at all is a huge red flag. The best possible scenario is that they're doing it because they think that they know what's good for you better than you do, and after that it's a toss-up between "they want to make money" (ads) and "they want to control you" (authoritarians).

Emotional manipulation is also a classic tool of tyrants, and is necessary in cases where suppression of the population through pure brute force isn't feasible.

Yes, "There's always a value judgement being made about what is important to report." - but that's unavoidable, because reporters have limited resources. Adding in emotionally-charged (or straight-up manipulative) language makes the bias strictly worse. The fact that totally unbiased reporting is impossible is not an excuse to embrace more bias than is necessary.

> It's fine to describe situations where people lose their lives as "tragedies", for example.

I respectfully disagree, for the reason that news organizations actively pick-and-choose words like this that are emotionally charged and don't have precise meanings in order to slant their articles. While most events that a news organization would describe as a "tragedy" are indeed so, some of them are not. Moreover, even if that word isn't used, readers will understand when events are tragedies anyway - the number of people who weren't aware that a plane crash was a "tragedy" unless it was explicitly pointed out to them (and who were then convinced by the use of that word) is an incredibly tiny sliver of the population.
I'm not against nuclear but I am against the old style reactors. You put in tens of billions into a single plant. The sunk cost fallacy is huge. People will cut corner because it means saving a billion here and there. We can't even update them. If the original design is flawed we'll have to keep running them.

It would be better if they were like cars or solar panels. Good for 20 years and then you replace them. With something as dangerous as nuclear the benefits of longevity are strongly outweighed by the downsides of keeping immature technology around.

To keep it short. Nuclear is not an attractive product. Change that.
The video that explains it all for techies: https://youtu.be/d-Klzumjulo
My Journey on Navigating the Curse of Knowledge
Certainly not if the complex variation is just as long, right?

About 15 years ago I got bit by the common mistake of reusing the same password everywhere, it was my email account and I can't believe I caught it in time before they changed the password or did anything to get my account banned. From then on, I remember just one complex password, the one for my password manager. Every site gets its own random password, as long and complex as they'll let me make it. If I get to pick a user name, I randomly generate that too, along with the answers to any security questions, which I keep in the notes section of the password manager.
A 600-pound man ran a drug operation from the bed of Carthage home
Introduction to Concurrency in Python – By David Farrugia – Aug, 2021
Reminds me of: “How would a human do it”
This is not a problem for the network, its a problem for americans or residents in america that wish to perform this duty safe from state prosecution or punishment.
You could get the equivalent of hblank interrupts with a mapper, such as the mmc3 used in Super Mario Bros 3. That is how SMB3 renders its hud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_controller#M...
I agree America has lost its ability to build big complex things but maybe that’s just a challenge we need to overcome. Certainly other nations like China aren’t having trouble building new generation nuclear plants. There is mounting political will across the spectrum to invest in nuclear (https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-they-adm...), and maybe we can use that as a route to reinvigorate American construction and manufacturing industries.
The Zizians
I was stuck on my couch and fed up so I kept searching the web until I found someone that could help. He had an amazing website which is very unusual for small businesses. It described an experience of having our fitness achievements and habits disrupted by injury. The frustrations of traditional physio, but also the importance of integrating training to accelerate healing instead of avoiding the area. It resonated with me, I called him and learned more.

The part I like the most is that I have a bunch of solutions for my problems. I don't need to call him, he taught me what I need to do.
And ... you're wrong. In retail the majority is gasoline and diesel for the really heavy applications, but fleets of carbon emissions conscious companies buy the LNG version. In total some 50 K over the last decade. Maybe that's statistically nobody to you but it's a lot more than zero and besides that you're engaging in goal post moving.

Same with other classes of vehicles such as VW vans in the passenger version, the 'normal' ones are all diesel, the fleet version tends to be bi-fuel with a relatively small petrol engine and an LNG underbody tank system. This is a popular solution for taxi fleets in Europe.

And as diesel is coming more and more under scrutiny you can expect the LNG/CNG version of these cars to gain in popularity.
It seems that only Apple can issue refunds on purchases and not developers.
Well, that's your problem. If you can't figure out how to design viable nuclear power plants then why should we build more of the old crap?
> They [WeWork] own a bunch of offices, and if you need one you can rent it from them.

I always assumed that WeWork was mostly leasing their space (to acquire the space, I mean), rather than buying it.
Wasn't Qatar one of the first countries to purchase these? I wonder where in the production line these particular 13 came off the line?

It would be interesting to know if these are older or newer in their inventory.
This is plausible and exactly why I oppose this system.

The only argument I made was against the claim that fully automated police dispatches will occur because of this system (in the west).

Making outrageous, tinfoil hat level claims does not help our collective argument against this system.

It just makes us look like paranoid conspiracy theorists.

Let’s make coherent arguments (like the one you made above) instead of fantasy ones.
Very fast rocket
> Vaccine isn't 100% protection from being affected by the virus.

True, but I don't care about that. It is a bit as if you were arguing that I should not fasten my seat belt because it is not 100% effective at saving me in a car accident. The protection against infection provided by the vaccine is real. The risks associated to a covid infection are real. Some of them (loss of smell, long haul covid) are not as unlikely as you suggest. On the other hand, the risks associated to the vaccine are completely fictive.

> There are reasons. Vaccine brings in risk: from long-term effects of modified spike protein and vaccine components, from vaccine breakthrough cases which put selection pressure on the virus, and possibly other mechanisms which are unknown.

To me, that's medecine fiction. None of that is real. I don't know of any other vaccine for which that happened. Note that my original point stands: people invent all sorts of possible long-term side effects for the vaccine, but not for the virus whose infection can be prevented by the vaccine. And I still don't see why I should expect any long-term side effect from the vaccine.

> Yes, I do not trust pharma scientists to have all the answers about future effects of their vaccines. Their owners required and got immunity from prosecution and that tells me a lot.

Sounds like business as usual to me. Scientists never have all the answers. Corporations are always covering their back. Your argument here has a bit of a naturalistic fallacy. Somebody got immunity for their vaccine and that worries you. However, you cannot have a symmetric worry for the virus because it is natural and nobody is responsible for it. Who are you going to sue for its long-term side effects? Thus, independently of the facts on the ground, if you think like that, you can only be more worried about the vaccine than the virus, and that's a bias.
Haha no idea who that is. I will look him up!
Looks like they have shipping restrictions for certain states/cities. They don't mention anything about background checks. Its sort of experimental at this point. My guess is that its useless for self-defense or criminals.

https://arcflashlabs.com/product/gr-1-anvil/
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

― Albert Einstein
Woah. That blew my mind. Cheers.
Not everybody is convinced that it's "more productive" to produce more bugs.
Although shipping the cable-manufacturing plant out there might not be entirely trivial either.
Show HN: I built a better way to track and analyze stocks
More specifically it could be an attempt by China to reduce its vulnerability in a cyberwar or to psy-op propaganda attacks. They see the problems the USA and other countries are having with disinformation and are reacting across the board to cut non-party sources of influence.
In Europe, some countries, we need to certificate to go out to dinner for example. The restaurant is supposed to check the QR code with their own app that is secure and you can't fake it (i actually don't know if it goes to the medical records or it's just digitally signed). Anyway, what i see most restaurants do is to look at the QR code, with their freaking eyes, and say OK pass.
Layperson here: what does that mean?
And, under normal circumstances, there are libraries, coffeeshops, parks with WiFi, etc. I live in an exurban house with an office and other space but even if I lived in the ~1 hr drive city away in a studio, I'd time-slice among free/cheap working options before I'd pay $400+/month for a dedicated co-working space for myself. I could afford to do so but I wouldn't.
I can't read the full article but I don't see the problem.

Just think about it. China is burning so much coal for the sake of getting rid of coal. There is no better way to use that electricity.
With the amount of effort and condescension you put into these comments picking apart a simple sentiment of "that would totally suck," it seems apparent that one thing you absolutely do not do is respect their opinion.
The obesity paradox in early and advanced HER2 positive breast cancer
All phishing attacks require you to click on a link embedded in the PDF, right?

On the one hand, you'd think anyone technologically savvy wouldn't do that.

On the other hand, accidentally clicking on links in PDF's is the bane of my existence. I constantly consume academic books and papers as PDF's on my iPad in the built-in Books app, tap somewhere with my Apple Pencil for any number of reasons (to pan, to zoom, to highlight), and bam I'm transported 100's of pages away and with no back button.

If I could ask for any PDF reader feature, it would be to improve link handling. If it's an internal link, for the love of god include a back button. And if it's an external link for a web browser, for the love of god require a confirmation dialog first. I should never be led to a malware URL because of an accidental click.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081883