skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Virtually every _controlled_ study shows that metabolic differences between adults are within a margin of +/- 15%, with essentially no way to eat the same amount of calories as a 200lb person and stay at 465lbs. Not least of which because your basal metabolic rate is much higher at that weight.

That sound a bit wrong to me. Fat needs energy to maintain itself? Isn't it just an energy store? If you're 465lbs with the same muscle percentage as someone 200lbs maybe that's how it works, but no one at 465lbs has less than 15/20% body fat.
It can be difficult to overcome initial conditions and shine if you are locked out of the best opportunities. The bimodal outcomes for law school graduates are a good example. That’s not how the whole economy works, but it is a potential failure mode.

https://www.biglawinvestor.com/bimodal-salary-distribution-c...
Honestly my and many of my other friends' experiences going from outside the EU to EU degrees has been life changing (for some, literally so; ones who can't even go back to their countries). Of course it's not easy, and not everybody makes it through, but it's a different story than the scams outlined in this article. It's not a critique that should be extrapolated to all 'international' education.
The existence of a greater social ill doesn't preclude the existence of another.

I tend to think the harm from social media is more related to negative externalities: i.e. political instability, loss of social cohesion, and the spread of misinformation. If the vector for those problems is something which is extremely habit forming to the point that people can't go two hours without engaging with it while in a healthy social environment, that doesn't seem like something to dismiss to me.
> cost eye watering sums

The good universities like Princeton/MIT/Harvard have literal billions, so semi equipment could be a drop in the bucket for them.
Thank you very much for the detailed writeup. Several new things to learn for me in there. Not being able to use delegation here is a bummer, would be a great fit.

While trying to write up a clever solution using [0] i stumbled over String.isNullOrBlank()

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/scope-functions.html

(edit)

if (s.isNullOrBlank()) {
doOtherStuff()
} else {
doStuff(s) // takes a NotBlankString
}

If you are sure it is not null you can use String.isBlank()
How to search in files content using Apache Tika and Drupal Content Views
Your home-made calculation assumes everyone(!) drives 300-400 miles per day.

If you use real usage numbers you get only an 8 percent increase over current energy demand.

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natur...

> Especially with passenger trains already running on hydrogen

Passenger trains, trucks and ships are a different story.
Have you worked out the formula to correctly balance personal and collective risk, computationally? I would not dismiss the matter as trivial - I see it more as Nobel prize worth.
I'm on a team of Devs and non Devs. We have non Dev bi people on the team, they set timelines in days for things that would take me minutes in a spreadsheet and hours in code.

It's kind of awkward.
As an independent software contractor I could say the same about Microsoft's Partner Network.

Unless I sit a myriad of different exams I can't advance my competency to Silver or Gold. This means my MPN default "Partner" benefit is restricted Azure AD Basic and I can't take a parallel Azure DevOps build with me to a new project.

Worst still, if I leave my MS Gold Partner for a start-up I'll lose access to the enterprise elements of Azure AD (SCIM integration, Azure AD Application Proxy etc). If I'm called out to support something I delivered I'll need to absorb the cost of upgrading my Azure AD subscription.
Prometheus Blackbox: What? Why? How?
I wonder if the same logic could be transferred to other parts of the economy. Mutual disarmament for the amount of “growth”, for the amount of consumption, for the working hours, etc. I feel that people would be much more eager to cut back on some things if they knew that they would not be outcompeted into dirt if they did so.
The tide has shifted this year and ddg is returning better results
If it's not it should be. You can't push free markets for everyone else then controlled markets for yourself (I mean you can, but it's hypocrisy). I'm tired of the double standards businesses and the capital ownership class have.
Not every university is Princeton/MIT/Harvard
Subdomain Takeovers
You can use a gas engine to hit that kind of time in a quad. There aren’t any great options on the market right now, but as a DIY project it’s not that difficult to use an engine to charge the batteries in flight.
I wouldn't say it is impossible.

A (relatively) simple solution would be to use something with more dense power source, maybe fuel. RC enthusiast use fueled engines routinely, it isn't something special. There are various types of advanced fueled engines for RC use from traditional 2-4 stroke miniaturized engines to turbofans.

They are not very common on small quadcopters because of lack of response. Quadcopters depend on an onboard controller for fast corrections and for this to work you need a motor that can react very fast and precisely. A liquid fuel engine in a craft that does frequent changes in direction of g forces is not an easy thing to control precisely.

But this could be easily remedied by making this at least partly hybrid (use engine to charge small battery and use this to power additional motors to improve response to help stability and maneuvers).
Like 50 years?
Agree - I think psychology is everything. It's odd that drinking too much and drugs is always put down to trauma, stress, and psychological treatment is seen as number 1, whereas with food addiction - it's often ignored to the very last.

People can argue until they're blue in the face but if you eat less calories than you burn you will lose weight. The problem is people with trauma plus a food addiction are not able to do this.

Is there any research around where you live and propensity for morbid obesity - especially living by the sea? I could only find one study which did support this theory but it was in the UK. I live in Bondi Beach where socialising is essentially exercising - surfing, swimming, kayaking etc etc and anecdotally I don't think I've ever seen a morbidly obese person in over 30 years (I know this sounds ridiculous and maybe it's because they never leave the house but it's true).
I didn't like the article that much but I've actually see this first hands and it was the most mind-blowing experience. At this company people give each others tokens in a company wide standup to recognize the work they did tied to the values of the company (and this a very important aspect) the highest of tokens will actually translate into actual cash when getting bonuses (and I'm sure the other tokens would get you a better bonus as well) ... But the implications of it all was that people really loved working there, most people cared about the product and each other. I'm sure I'm not doing a good job telling the story but it does work in sense it complements well the financial reward it does not replace it.
Rethinking Twitter Verification
The problem with most of the statement is that it is subjective. It is not a black and white issue of ethics of mandatory vaccines. Arguments with merits exist on both sides the argument. And mandatory vaccination with the exclusion of religious and sound medical reasons (can't because of chemo therapy), have existed outside of COVID and has ruled in courts to be valid. However this is not a discussion on the ethics of medicine.
There is a huge opening here for Microsoft to deliver a decent phone.

Since they already co-opted Chrome, I presume that could also do it with Android. That would give them immediate entry with working phones and a known OS.

Having a serious 3rd option would be nice.
moot had a good sense of humor. Maybe he still does. No idea.

When I read the history of 4chan[0] years ago, this story in particular stuck out to me (as being hilarious).

>February 21 - Two discussion boards are added, hosted on 0ch: /amh/ (Anime-Manga-Hentai) and /bbs/ (4chan Discussion). The next day, Censored Vagina makes a newspost announcing that the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 added up to $2,200 and that the money would be needed in donations. The links on 4chan are reflected to link to 4chan.org instead of 4chan.net so that users will not need to write 4chan.org's IP into their hosts file.

>March 1 - moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay and that more donations will be required to pay it or 4chan will die. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. According to a news post image about the original /q/, /q/ - Questions was added this day.

>March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico".

0. https://github.com/bibanon/4chan.doc/releases/tag/1.4.3
> Books don't have the same reward loop as the internet

That's quite a broad statement to make, as reading a PDF online is just as much a part of the internet as social media or anything else. Not every website has the same reward loop, not even close.

But I'll assume your talking specifically about social media. Whilst that's a bit of a different conversation, I would argue that books are no more "naturally compelling" than social media. Something is only compelling because it triggers a dopamine hit or whatever, the only thing I can think of which would "naturally" do that is eating, drinking and maybe sleeping. But something being unnaturally compelling isn't a bad thing.

> at some point slot machines were new

Of course I'm not saying anything that is new is not addictive and we just don't know it yet, some things are. My point is that nearly every big leap forwards in technology or entertainment is branded as addictive until the next thing comes along. A few of those things are indeed proven to be addictive, others are used many generations later as the "pure" form of entertainment
It bothers me that this article from the economist fails to recognize the deleterious impact that lack of antitrust enforcement has had on life outcomes and thus on the educational arms race. The article mentions that competitive goods like housing and social status drive the push for education. Before the last 50 years of industrial consolidation there were more opportunities to succeed in more cities, creating a greater range of available competitor goods in those places. Now everyone has to be competing globally for status and to a great extent for housing (as people consolidate into a few cities) and career opportunities (as fewer companies mean fewer paths to high achievement). It’s a nice idea to discourage unpleasant competition among Hugh school students. But fixing other parts of the economy could help address demand for this activity, and improve aggregate outcomes in many other ways.
This applies much more to Europe as a whole and I don't see it being talked that often.

- At least 9 of the top 50 Germany companies are directly associated with the auto industry

- The top 5 global automobile suppliers is composed of 4 European companies and 1 Japanese

- there's a lot of auto industry lobbying for status quo in the EU, just see the generalized state of diesel engines cheating on tests and the level of actions taken afterwards to just treat it as a no problem
Honest question: why would you want to remember what you read? Instead take notes or use post-it notes to mark the interesting bits and you can always come back to them, given you have a good enough system for storing and linking. You can't rely on your memory anyway.
If you believe in ELT over ETL, you want both.

Schema on read is good for raw data stages. You want to get the data from external systems in the database no matter what. You don't have a control over it and it can change any time. Just get it into a blob, variant or text column in a raw table and then transform it to your schema later. This way you can implement validation logic for the raw data within your database, instead of doing that outside in your ETL system. So if you believe in ELT, just get the data in first.

Of course you don't want to use stringly typed tables for any serious data analysis. You need to type the columns to make calculations perform and make the schema stable over data history.
Instead of doing your typing logic, converting string and variant columns to native database types, in an ETL script, you do it in a the data warehouse.

The transformation into types has to happen somewhere and if you skip schema on read, that only means you never adopted ELT and are stuck with your database AND an ETL system. Adopting ELT would mean you'd only use one system, the data warehouse to do both.
Zuckerberg did write a lot of the initial code. Does make him a programmer among many other things.
I love You mentioning moon patrol. It was one of my first games back in the days on Atari 1024St. Spend hours in front of it, just a me a friend and a joystick...
People are happy for exactly that to happen when a photographer is anywhere near a playground. Police and private security will trample all over the rights of photographers taking photos in public spaces touting anti-terror laws and privacy.

We let Google scan our emails for advertising. We let Amazon put listening devices in our homes. We let Facebook run amok.

The general public has almost no concern about privacy other than some limited notion a about the physical sanctity of our front doors.
I'm an SQLite fan and not a developer, so I don't know for sure, but I think that they will do the same thing as with generated columns.

Link: https://www.sqlite.org/gencol.html#compatibility

Quote:

Generated column support was added with SQLite version 3.31.0 (2020-01-22). If an earlier version of SQLite attempts to read a database file that contains a generated column in its schema, then that earlier version will perceive the generated column syntax as an error and will report that the database schema is corrupt.

To clarify: SQLite version 3.31.0 can read and write any database created by any prior version of SQLite going back to SQLite 3.0.0 (2004-06-18). And, earlier versions of SQLite, prior to 3.31.0, can read and write databases created by SQLite version 3.31.0 and later as long as the database schema does not contain features, such as generated columns, that are not understood by the earlier version. Problems only arise if you create a new database that contains generated columns, using SQLite version 3.31.0 or later, and then try to read or write that database file using an earlier version of SQLite that does not understand generated columns.

End of quote.

I can't find it easily in documentation, but I've read somewhere that SQLite stores schema in database as text - and reasoning behind this was that it allows SQLite devs change internal representation of schema without worrying about backwards compatibility too much.
Seems like there's no clear answer:

1. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4360/what-are...

2. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/12064/which-l...

3. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/6132/can-i-us...

More: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/search?q=gpl+javascript
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05749.pdf
Because they're namespaced by which AWS account you connect to, same as Slack and many more enterprise products.

You don't have an AWS account. You have an IAM identity and credentials for an AWS account. Except for the root account where what you described is never the case.
31/40 (81.9% percentile) here. Just for another data point. No background for me in psychology academically, but out of passion a little bit (eg: did read Thinking Fast and Slow).
You don't drop the timezone information. You manually normalize the timezone to UTC time, application side, before storing it in the database. This is to get around MySQL's crap handling of datetime types:

- TIMESTAMP 'stores' timezone, but it has a limit of year 2038.

- DATETIME has a limit of year 9999, but it does not store timezone at all.

There really is no better way. Pick DATETIME for its higher capacity, then only ever use UTC time in the database to get around the lack of timezone storage in DATETIME.
Fuzzing
All I need is smartphone that fits in my palm and has a battery that doesn’t lose 60-70% of power after 20m on internet and GPS usage and isn’t designed to shatter on fall (from both back and front).

What I do not need is a fad phone.
There is a bigger accusation of fraud, not only failure to replicate

Edit: Also [0] was on HN 5 days ago (discussion here: [1]). This is another blogpost that discusses [0]

[0]https://datacolada.org/98
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210642
I don’t think so. We have a family gmail account (mostly for a shared calendar) and Google has explicit ways to use more than one account.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE....
I'm reading the comments and it looks like many people forgot to read the piece before commenting on it. Yes, separate credentials are good, he states that in the article. That's not what he's asking for either. He's aware of IAM, he's a user, and it's also stated in the article on several occasions.
In Israel, around a million ultra-Orthodox Jews have specially made "kosher phones" that only make phone calls[1]. This is for religious reasons (with, it must be said, a not-insignificant amount of social pressure.)

Full disclosure: I am one of them, while managing to be CTO of a company with around 100 employees. If people need me, they have my phone number.

The phones tend to be recent model feature phones with custom firmware that only allow phone calls. I have to say, I very much see the benefits for concentration, focus, and general well-being. Sure, occasionally it's a pain, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.

The phones generally cost less than $100, and last way longer than smartphones do (I've had mine around 6 years, the battery lasts a week on a single charge, and upgrading won't get me any new features!)

[1] https://www.idi.org.il/media/15001/the-kosher-cellphone-mark... (Hebrew)
Previous discussion from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157657
IMVLE, a lexer is just a big regular expression, with a branch at the top level for each type of token. Are there cases where this doesn't work?
> he managed to pre-book his return trip train for £40.90

Those discounted fares are often tied to a specific train (i.e. a particular departure time on a given date). Kudos to the author for their faith in the ability to execute on the bus journey and get to the train in time for departure.
I tried to use it on my phone, but it doesn’t seem to work.
OS: Android
Browser: Firefox
User-Centric Research for PMs
User-Centred Design Requires User Research
As you’re framing the problem you’re trying to solve — it’s important to ask:

What do your users want to get done?

What are their goals?

What are they trying to achieve?
Your using the database definition of “schema” which is orthogonal to the definition in the article. Use the example of the browser’s bookmarks list. The browser is storing that with a DB schema. Yet an ever growing list of bookmarks has no “conceptual/knowledge base” schema
The Dot - Open VS Code for any Github repo.
Failure to replicate is the definition of bad science. Science is based on objective, repeatable experiments. If the experiments can't even be reproduced how can they be hypothesized and validated?
This pleases me
I really don't think it's likely, but I suppose what "break up" means in practice is a crapshoot.

Many of our current, data & user centric monopolies are more complex. Price setting, monopoly rents and economies of scale exist, but they're often not the main point.

"Economies of scale," for example, tends to work backwards these days. Google & FB have access to a ton of advertiser-relevant data, and a ton of users. That makes one unit of Google output better, not just cheaper. The dollar value of a Google of FB ad is much higher than MSFT's or a 2nd tier social network.

It might also be cheaper to run, because of economies of scale. Often though, that's very "in theory." IRL, FB probably spends more per user than most of their competitors. They have it to spend. Reddit is a competitor to FB, for example. The defining aspect of "scale" in their rivalry is not that FB can spread their costs across more users. FB makes many times more revenue per user, because they are bigger.
A couple thoughts…

First, WSL 3.1 will dominate. I’m only half joking here. Microsoft will iterate on this until they get enough right for their purposes.

Second is that the Linux community is great when we are building what we need - we act more like rational engineers.

But when we are building something we want , then we are much more like artists, and all have stubborn opinions about how things should be.

To me at least, it is this dual-personality that the community [0] has that is our limiting factor.

[0] - yes, I include myself in this group too for obvious reasons
Profit from the Internet
There are many monopolistic ways to make money on the Internet, which will not cost you to do anything or a great effort in order to earn money through it, and among these methods is this exclusive site through which you can earn huge sums of money daily.
Quicksort Algorithm
All copies of those games were produced and sold by Sony.

It doesn’t really matter who resells them, unless it’s a used copy then Sony has been paid — and it doesn’t mean that I as a publisher have an alternative “store” on the PlayStation or that I can print my own disks, which is what the parent stated.
The prediction market stuff it mentions is really interesting.

https://polymarket.com/market/will-pnas-retract-dan-arielys-...

There is also money to not have it retracted. But it is time limited. You just have to ensure it's not retracted before October.

It's interesting to think where it would end up. A system that finally fixes incorrect papers but a battle ground over when.
Ok we’re obviously making stupid black and white arguments. But it’s patently true in many companies there is plenty of profit to be reduced and redistributed as wages (also exec comp)
And Buzzfeed : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257860 ( Yesterday, 86 comments )
> The fact that a substantial part of the FOSS community seriously prefers using what is effectively the Windows 1.01 interface with a few more features and anti-aliasing instead of any of the results of nearly a decade of UX-focused work in KDE, Gnome, or Cinnamon

suggests that the UI research was missing its market super-hard.

Users trying to get work done really hate having stuff change around from under them. One day GNOME might realise this.
Proof-of-Burn [pdf]
I guess we'll have to install TypeIt to see the rest of the title typed out.
Unpoly 2 – The Unobtrusive JavaScript Framework for Server-Side Web Apps
Eric Schmidt was CEO of Google starting between 2001 (so 2 decades ago) until 2011 and Apple board member between 2006 and 2009. He wouldn't have gotten the position in 2006 of Google and Apple weren't cooperating.

We're verging or even past 2 decades.
Sounds like a problem if you are an AWS Serverless Hero, but for the rest of us I think there is comfort in the fact that AWS identities are not a massive privacy invasion.