skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
last I checked they still make you hunt for the CMR/SMR info on their webpage by having to match model numbers. Talk about scummy. Not to mention they did this with their NAS lineup, which is like hitting a hornet nest with a stick.

The other thing HDD manufacturers apparently lie about is RPM. WD claims their WD Red are 5400 RPM when they are actually 7200[1]. Which just seems like a ridiculous thing to obfuscate if you ask me. Most consumers still think 7200 RPM is faster/better, and those shopping for 5400 for quiet are just going to get annoyed.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/western-digital-confuses-everyone...
I wish there was something like this for banking, insurance or other financial products. What a pain in the butt to move to a new primary checking account, wait in a queue to talk to someone about canceling your insurance or to move an IRA or brokerage account.
Purely from my own viewpoint, the general size of U.S. restaurant portions in comparison with those in any other country I've visited is noticeably larger. Dishes are more likely to contain processed food products, less likely to contain fresh vegetables, and more likely to contain higher levels of sugars and salt. Again, just my own take. I found when working in Texas and the deep south that booking a room with a kitchen and then shopping for suitable groceries was essential in order to try to eat more sensibly. I'm not flaming anyone, just making an observation. A simple anecdote from a work stay in the Dallas area: several of us "foreigners" went out for dinner and had great difficulty finding a vegetable side dish on the menu. We ordered the broccoli for sharing, so were bemused that it arrived smothered in processed cheese.
I get that cane sugar is more natural than high fructose corn syrup, and I myself would choose the former over the latter, but aren't these basically the same in terms of causing obesity?
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At 5'10 230lb the CDC would say I'm "obese" (BMI 32.1).
I also deadlift 400lb and bench 300. My blood pressure, resting heart rate, blood sugar and HDL/LDL are perfect.
I don't know what the body fat percentage is but I'm visibly muscular everywhere except for some stomach fat.

My point is that measuring obesity purely by weight is naive and leads to massive overcounting.
Portion size is very cultural. People from the 50s would be horrified by how large meals have gotten.
How would it be easier with ORM when switching to in-memory database for standard SQL is just changing connection string?
its not illegal or impossible to open a USD bank account for the lebanese. In fact, its extremely common.

The problem is that now it just extremely risky

Most of the upper class has the USD denominated savings effectively kidnapped by their bank institution. Those funds are frozen or very highly capped (only say $200 $USD draw per week). No one can take them out in large chunks. It is extremely difficult to make payroll for staff (many companies paid payroll in USD instead of lira before the crisis).

You can use USD deposits to buy assets or cancel debt though. As long as the receiver / beneficiary of your money another lebanese bank. So, you can pay your debts, or transfer your money to someone else in lebanon. But you can't take physical dollars out for the same purpose.

There is also the concept of "fresh money" by which the bank will let you take out any money that you have recently received from abroad. That's what is making everyday living bearable for a lot of lebanese
> Why quibble about such a small amount?

I am not quibbling about THAT amount.

I am quibbling about the fact that he (like other tycoons) sits on top of a giant pyramid of human labor, the majority of which earns just enough to make ends meet in a low cost of living country.

Sure, Tim Cook is a good person and deserves reward for what he has done and it should be "a hellava lot". At some point, however, that reward starts becoming absurd and nonsensical.
It's mostly about the drive through. Is it impossible to make drive through with food that isn't grossly terrible for you?
It's an alternative to Discourse though, e.g. it's a SPA. Nothing I see in the description entices me in the least... and phpBB and others are still being developed, and still rock.
I agree which is why I would like to see more infrastructure dedicated to these types of vehicles. They don't quite fit into bike lanes as long as there are actual bikers (also bike lanes in the US generally suck). Riding on sidewalks sucks for pedestrians. Riding on roads is too dangerous in my opinion because drivers suck and traffic moves too quickly. So, higher power e-vehicles are stuck to roads and bike lanes because there's nowhere else to ride.

I've heard they are difficult or impossible to get plated (seems like it depends on whos working at the dmv). A lot don't bother because emopeds are stealth (small, look like bike, quiet), so people/police don't bother them unless they're being a total dick
I've done something similar for decades. I work in science, and need to cross-reference a lot. I have a simple scheme for that.

When I refer to another page, I write that page number in square brackets (in the text, and repeated in the outside margin). Reference to other books have the same, but the number is prefixed by an index number for the book, and then a colon.

The page referred to also gets an entry added, in the same format but in angled brackets.

This makes it really easy to propagate new information through my work.

Apart from the possible addition of the angle-bracket entries, I never alter existing text. If I redo an analysis, I simply make a wholly new entry, and add an angle-bracket notation on the old entry.

The square-bracket and angle-bracket scheme makes it pretty easy to update analyses, e.g. if instruments are discovered to be faulty on a certain date.

In addition to this referencing scheme, I also have two-letter keywords for topic areas, and those go into the table of contents.

Another difference is that my dates are written yyyy-mm-dd.

A policy of photocopying new work every Friday afternoon is quite sensible. I don't keep the copies with the original work, though, out of fire/flood/etc concerns.
It's far easier to make technological progress than it is to fight in politics.
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Not just volunteer work may be forbidden. There is also minimum wages among a large number of laws you have to abide in order to legally maintain any employee, and probably even more if they are overseas like I am. Some employers may also be morally impeded or wary of social consequences of "exploiting" workers even if they agree to it.

Both parties must actively want the other's offerings for work to make sense. If they say they are not hiring, there's no point checking any further whether this may be the case.
The odds are good that the fraction of this project's user base—developers writing GUI applications in Rust—who would be interested in Linux support is much more than 2%.
Not nearly enough time to adjust. Any job switch the first month is like the honeymoon phase.
That's a key part of Thai cuisine though, isn't it?

I imagine you'd have an easier time at the nearest German restaurant. Not sure what they even could put sugar into and have any positive impact.
So this is a heavily editorialized headline, and is false.

Samsung has changed the 970 Evo controller to the one used on the 980.

They have updated the packaging, SKU and advertised performance to reflect this.

The new revision isn't slower or faster either. It's a bit faster in some tests, a bit slower in others, and the exact same in real world tests.

This is how you do hardware revisions if you don't have the components.

To claim they're cheating customers and put them in the same boat as WD and other vendors which do not change SKU's and use inferior components is incredibly dis-ingenious.

here's some more reputable links
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-is-swapping-ssd-pa...
https://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/148295-samsung-latest-ss...

Gonna add extremetech to my black list now.
An alternative approach is to encourage people to make more effective decisions by actually including the negative impacts of their decisions as actual, dollar costs. If we included the higher healthcare costs of obesity into the cost of soda, it might not be as enticing.

This isn't forcing people to make a decision, it's including all of the costs in the dollar value of the product on the shelf.
> A dashboard is a way to view multiple disparate metrics in a single place.

This is technically correct but doesn't approach anywhere near the criticisms the article has.

The deeper questions are: how did those metrics come to be collected, and why? What happened that resulted in those particular metrics being aggregated and displayed they way they are? What questions were being asked at the time the dashboards were created?

> a way to view multiple disparate metrics

So what? Why view them? Pretty graphs? A red/yellow/green? But to what end? This is why the statement is technically correct, but sheds no light at all on the reasons why a developer or customer support troubleshooter would care to look at the disparate metrics gathered in a dashboard.

Dashboards are created in response to certain problems and events. Those problems and events may or may not be relevant some time down the road. What happens when someone in the present with a certain set of questions or problems looks at the dashboard full of metrics capturing past questions and forgets that those questions are not today's questions?
Of course not, this should be obvious. The conditions themselves are not exploitative. The terms matter.

(edited to sound a bit nicer)
well, it's all about different perspective and respect each other right? Because those who don't like anime girl/fox and think every fiction character should look over 30 are _also_ weird to some other group of people.
Was listening to Ben Evan's podcast earlier today and he had a stat from the Apple / Epic trial that shook me a bit - in a given month in 2016 something like 0.05% of Apple users were spending in excess of 450 USD on in-app purchases. And that was 54% of App store revenue.

This is basically addicts gambling. Its the sort of numbers you see at Casinos and online casinos, and ... i dunno. It saddens me. Yes the vast vast majority of players have a "bit of fun", most never pay for anything, but all the profit comes from the addicts.

Even in IOS App Store. Which really did look like it was trying to avoid that.
We already are. At the national level, there is a High Speed Rail lobby group http://www.ushsr.com/

At the local level, it is up to you. In my city of Pittsburgh, we are removing parking and expanding transit access and bike lane coverage. But there is still a lot to be done, so I am advocating for change by participating in groups and contacting my city councilman.
given that Salesforce tower is diagonally adjacent to the millennium tower, and is located in a dense urban core, it seems impossibly expensive to take it down safely, given the risk taking it down would also pose
The correct response to these sorts of actions by law enforcement is for individuals to collaborate in a legal manner to collect intelligence on law enforcement and share it on the internet.

If we must live in a world with surveillance than the burden of surveillance must be carried by all.
Same voltage as a AA, C and D-sized battery
But the trade-offs are already affected by policy. Do people want oil policies that make driving cheap? Do people want subsidized corn leading to cheap sugary foods? It's worth questioning what led to policies existing in their current form.
A dashboard in a car gives you largely active feedback to help you drive. Mechanics' diagnostic tools give them a deep dive into information about repairing the vehicle, not limited to real time or to just driving activity. Those two things are very different.

I don't think a debugging "dashboard" is a dashboard. That conflates two very different ideas. We need a different name for that.
That’s because it’s profitable and it’s very difficult to make systemic changes. Here’s a few points:

- In the documentary Fed Up, it showed how Michelle Obama had to back down to the big food companies over her push for healthier food.

- I worked with bariatric surgeons and some incredibly cited papers stating that people can’t lose weight by diet and exercise alone. The surgeons I knew were incredibly narrow-minded and uninterested in any counter arguments.

- Sleeve gastrectomies are the most effective technology to fight obesity. If someone can’t change on their own in 10 years, then it is a good option. It removes 90% of the stomach including the hunger hormone ghrelin.

- The surgeon I worked with had a sleeve procedure, stretched his stomach out, and had a 2nd sleeve.

- Long term, the food environment has to change. Living expenses are high, work demands are high, people are stressed and all the easy options are terrible for you.

- We should distribute good meats, foods, vegetables and essentials in an entirely new way.

- Our business leaders like Buffett and Gates need to realize the absurdity of respectively owning Coca Cola and selling potatoes to the fast food industry. Buffet also owns DaVita, a dialysis company. Gates promotes global health but earns money from french fries being sold at McDonalds.
Rubber duck your Python code
I know I am probably not your average consumer, but I am not looking forward to this at all.

I like having a single place that my payment info is stored and processed, and I trust Apple with it. With this new world order everyone and their dog is going to be asking for my credit card details and who knows how well or safely it is going to be handled/stored.

For small purchases I really don't want to have to enter my credit card details.
Well for one this seems to do it’s own rendering. Druid depends on a native widget toolkit.
You can also make the same argument about ORM's mock DB layer.
>because there is a very real difference from a photon going from the Sun to the Earth, to a photon going from the Sun to Jupiter.

Not from the photon's point of view. This is very crucial and it is not because of notation or maths. The real difference is from your point of view. I know it's counter-intuitive but that's different from being useless.

Sun->Earth or Sun->Jupiter is a small beer. It is the same for photons from the CMB being recorded. For them, they have been emitted and absorbed at the same instant and experienced no passage of time or distance traveled
What do you mean by your distain for food package nutrition labels?

In the US it's tightly controlled. The only thing I can think of (calories wise) is that people only look at the per-serving calories and not the per-package calories. This has gotten better over the past 5-10 years but still requires people to actually read it.
Among others https://www.wikiwand.com/en/BASIC-PLUS
It's not a huge coincidence, because it's hurricane season. There's a graph here, under "Number of Tropical Cyclones per 100 Years": https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/
You also have to be careful about the users' trust in your product, and your brand: unshipping is a lot more negative than shipping. Do it enough and you get things like https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... where people get to write articles about your terrible record of unshipping things.
I follow Layne Norton on youtube, and he has a lot of great videos where he talks about how sugar(nor fat, insulin) are the real issue at hand. He does a great job of reading, and synthesizing lots of research into recommendations. Both for himself as a competition bodybuilder and power lifter, but also as a PhD. Ok, appeal to expertise aside. And yes, many will find him obnoxious in his demeanor, but that's not a rebuttal of his point.

His point basically is that Sugar is not in any way except for how it contributes to excess caloric intake. The key here is that sugar contains calories and can attribute to hyper-caloric state. But you can also eat lots of sugar and be in a hypo-caloric state. Therefore sugar has nothing to do with it. Total consumption is everything here (and body fat percent).

Have a watch of these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JrT84PeTgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eq8VObUFsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WN4zrEENY
Urban design catering almost exclusively to single family detached housing commuting exclusively by cars was not driven by individual preferences. It is the result of intentional choices made by urban planners in the 1950s and onward. Effectively, these lifestyles are highly subsidized. Only today are we seeing market forces and individual preferences take over as oppressive car-centric zoning policies are relaxed and urban cores revitalize.

Average rents indicate that Manhattan is once again the most highly desired place to live in the country, and for good reason.
so kidnap their workers and illegaly hold them captive so they can't go home after work. wat!... no wonder we(dems) always lose elections .... insane takes like this.
I am not affiliated, just a happy user! I have spoken with one of the developers, but that's it!

I've just come up through the SQL side of analytics and I'm moving into Data Science and I feel like DuckDB is a superpower for people with my background.

Does that help? Happy to answer any other questions!
But moving to a 4 day week doesn’t eliminate any of that, it simply means you’d get less done.
Fixed point arithmetic numbers have a very limited range which leads to them not playing well with multiplication and division (doing scientific computation with them is a game of searching which division|multiplication got you that 0|+inf and then searching for an alternative formula if one such formula even exists, they are much more fragile than IEEE-754).
They are not used that often so people are unfamiliar with their shortcomings but, I would not make them the default.

Here is little bit of information on them: https://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/html/arithmetic...
I used to believe in that, and I felt my problem was I was eating too much and not moving around enough, however, I recently started a "lazy keto" diet and am currently down 30 pounds (back to a normal BMI - and I didn't even change how much I exercise). I don't watch my calories at all, nor do I starve myself. I just watch my carbs. It's been really eye opening.

There's a lot of talk online about how processed foods are making us fat and I think there's something to that. The CICO model doesn't factor in how our body processes macronutrients. We didn't evolve to eat the diet we're currently eating (ex: sugary drinks). I think there's something to eating a diet that's more in-tune with how the body works.
Well played. Pun intended.
Caloric balance is the key. You can lose a lot of weight sitting on your ass, but also not eating all that much (ie calorie deficit)
I'd venture to guess that a key difference is that most Black adults grew up in America while most Asian adults immigrated here, maintaining their previous culture's eating and exercise habits.
Indeed it's a heck of a lot easier to not eat 500 calories than to burn off 500 calories.

Running a 5k doesn't even burn 500 calories for most people, but you can eat that much in snacks without a second thought. To really make a difference in weight the much more important side of the equation is intake.
I think the distinct lack of enemy diversity is what kills it for me. Even the boss designs are overall lackluster. A bunch of cubes casting spells, or an ice/fire flower. I go to challenge this water goddess thing and instead I fight water squirrels and crabs. That and I can only kill about four bosses a day for rewards.

First going in I thought I would be playing with friends and fighting bosses. Now I've been told not to do that because you don't want friends stealing your chests. Maybe I'm doing things wrong.
The article mentions the Lebanese pound has "lost more than 90% of its value". For an equivalent loss in value from holding USDT that would mean that each USDT is only backed by 10 cents of value? I mean there are certainly arguments to be made about how much value is actually backing USDT but to claim that it's only 10% seems way off. I think people would be shocked and there would be crypto-wide panic if USDT dropped to 85 cents on the dollar. If USDT 'collapses' that does not mean that one USDT is worth 0$ only that the value drops enough that it causes a structurally significant sell-off. This is what people worry about, not USDT becoming worthless. If I'm Lebanese, yes I'll take the USDT

To give maybe a good parallel take a look at clients of Bernie Madoff's fund. This was by all measures considered a 'collapse' and a 'disaster' but when all was said and done clients still recovered 70-80% of their claims. Granted it took a long time ~10yrs or so but still a very far cry from 10%
Sounds like you are getting a bad deal either way.
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we now have requirements in most places that nutrition must be on the label or accessible. this hasn’t slowed down the obesity rates.

people don’t care what they’re eating and don’t try to figure it out. this is a personal responsibility and it’s cultural, not universal. from this link not every demographic has the same obesity rates
My pet hypothesis is that widespread use of endocrine disruptor chemicals such as phthalates (plastic softeners) is one of several key causes for increasing obesity. There isn't real proof of that yet. But exposure is correlated with lower testosterone levels, and we know that low T can cause growth of adipose tissue.

https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2014/r...
Sure, but a subsidy + tax in the chain is itself inefficient way to structure a market (ie takes a lot of software and accountants) . Better to just not do it at all.
> but the countries that are able to avoid damage or rebuild first would see economic growth similar to the post WW2 economic boom.

Those countries will be even better off by securing a supply large enough to ship to countries which fail to address the problem .

We aren't in 1945 anymore. Economies are interconnected to such a degree that a problem somewhere means a problem everywhere
> We've spent a lot of time building Grafana dashboards and they've been extremely helpful with debugging. It doesn't solve all problems but it certainly helps narrow down where to look.

And then once the bugs that led to the creation of that dashboard are fixed or retired, what's left for that data? It just sits there with its pretty graphs and eye-catching visualizations to snare the unwary who are looking for help debugging a different problem. In fact, they'd be best served by ignoring existing dashboards and creating new ones specific to the issue in the present, not some dead husk of a problem that looks like it might be related.