skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know about Frank Taillandier, a key maintainer of Jekyll apparently which is cool as far as impact & legacy of that SSG.. but that aside, this is about open source and the real people behind it, getting involved, believing in teamwork & sharing purpose, and it's sad to lose any of them.
I've patched many a tire myself with a kit from Wal-Mart. I have never had a bit of trouble out of any of them.
There's so many clauses in Apple's contract that make no sense outside of allowing Apple to make more money, that the very definition of "cheating" is way off what should be expected.

I mean, preventing devs from linking to their own sites to create an account to their own existing, pre-app service was forbidden. Common sense has long gone down the drain.
The article is long, and I'm not sure it did a great job of conveying the core message. Looking at the comments here, I think some people may have missed it.

Here's a paragraph that outlines the issue:

> But even the ob/ob mutants make fat out of their food when, quite literally, half-starved. Friedman’s research was based on Douglas Coleman’s research at the Jackson Laboratory and Coleman, who shared a Lasker Foundation Award in 2010 with Friedman, dedicated two papers to this observation: “Even when maintained on 50 percent of normal food intake,” Coleman reported in 1985, “mutants still become obese.”

Here, ob/ob mutants are mice that become obese and, not coincidentally, have abnormally high amounts of leptin. We often think of leptin as having a role in regulating appetite; something like "too much leptin makes you hungry, hungry people eat too much, people that eat too much get fat"; that matches the thermodynamic "calorie in/calorie out" model.

But studies suggest that ob/ob mutants get obese even when given a restricted diet. In fact, they get obese even when given 50% of a normal food intake. That suggests something quite different is going on. It would seem ob/ob mice cannot realistically be starved into being a normal weight.

Which is rather interesting. There are certainly many who would assume that, for any person who is at a stable weight X, reducing their calorie intake by even 5% would cause a sustained loss in weight and bodyfat percentage. It would seem that's might not be universally true.
Same here. I do eat meat at times, especially when eating out; I just opt for meatless option whenever it's good enough to me, which turns out to be very often. I wonder if there's some meat addiction at play there, because that's how all these "it's not that easy" comments start to sound like to me.

That said, I'm fully aware that it's easier to avoid meat in some places than in others. Living in the middle of a capital city, good meatless options were everywhere around, but after moving to suburbs of the same city there's not that much meatless stuff that I can order with delivery, for instance. It can also cost more, making it much less available for some social groups (although I hope it's just a matter of time and economy of scale, because in the end there's no reason why would it stay more expensive). Nevertheless, cutting meat intake by around half still doesn't seem that hard, it doesn't even take much effort once you already got to know the alternatives.
Can you expand on the political beliefs being taught? That's kind of scary.
I don’t see it as getting rid of moderation, I see it as unbundling moderation from the network. Like why can’t I use Twitter or Facebook but select from a wide variety of moderation overlays.

If I don’t like Trump or anti-vaxx stuff, I can pick a moderation service that bans that content. And vice versa if that’s my cup of tea. Nobody has to see stuff they don’t enjoy, but you’re not censoring the people who do like that content.

Like the network focus on being the network possible in a way that’s agnostic to the content layer. Then give people freedom of choice to pick what suits them best.
The most true thing of this millennium is that copyright ruins everything it can.
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I can't think of a more effective way to kill Firefox. You'd give the fence-sitters a reason to switch, you'd get rid of all the volunteer contributors, and you'd get rid of everyone who uses and advocates for Firefox because it's free* software, which would probably be a significant portion of the remaining userbase. (I know it's technically possible to charge money for free* software, but it's impractical.)

* as-in-freedom
> I wish I had actually taken a year off before college, as opposed to skipping a grade in a hurry to get there

I skipped eighth grade, and I feel the same way.
The fact that the canon wasn't fixed doesn't mean the apocryphal books were part of it. I'm saying there is little evidence to support that, even though the canon wasn't fixed. And again, that's just one of many arguments against the apocrophya.

And that's besides the fact that even if there was some so-called "debate" about it, if the canon didn't actually change as a result of those debates (e.g. Song of Songs and Eccl. are part of the canon), then how can you say it wasn't fixed? I mean, that's just silly.
Energy in and out is completely right. Measuring the in is easy with calories, but the out is nearly unaccountable unless the person stayed in a totally controlled environment, which makes it a trivial academic tautology.
It's beyond me why they haven't thrown it up on GitHub yet. Let the community have a way bigger involvement and drive the future of the browser. Yes, I can go find the source for Firefox, but I sincerely doubt the engagement is anywhere near as high as it could be.
Brave is interesting. Built-in ad blocker even on mobile. Not as good as uBlock Origin on Firefox but it's an option.

It also has its own advertising platform. The ads are simple notifications, no bullshit. It actually pays users in cryptocurrency for their attention. It can also be completely disabled.
A living body can be quite clever,
it can change your BMR (what you assumed was a deficit is now a surplus) perform muscle catabolism, or burn glycogen stores (more than one kind of fuel) during starvation. All the while taking pains to store away the calories you do intake as new fat cells. It's precisely this kind of direct and overly simple appeal to thermodynamics that the article tries to address.

Burning fuel in a calorimeter is not the same thing as a human body.
/Fat/ loss and creation aren't the body's /only/ response to calorie deficits and excesses.
You can create new /fat/ cells while still losing energy and mass overall without violating thermodynamics. As I said above, all you need to do is have your metabolism prefer your other stores first.
Don’t feel bad. Same situation here to be honest.
Honolulu, Hawaii. This was in 2009/2011 or so.

When my temperature sensor stopped working I had to drive it down for them to fix it. They gave me a loaner too, some early 2000s Honda CRV.

But just to be clear my comment was more so directed at the general services aspect. Don’t count my single experience to be a good data point. :)
I don't remember the name of the email service but after setting it up for use by an app I was working on they got bought up by Mailchimp, who, as I recall told me "you have to switch over to our service" which required re-coding all the email routines again.

That was about the 3-4th time I had to do that over the years and after looking into their way of doing things that's when I decided to set up my own email server. I don't do mass mailing so that has been a good solution for me. Not great, but better than being stuck using a 3rd party service that can sell your dependence on them like an asset.
> My question: Why autos, but not other consumer goods? Should I be restricted from buying an iPhone from an Apple store, rather than Greg’s Phone Emporium?

Given how bad Apple are about third-party repairs, yes. This law should extend to anything that's complex enough that it can only be repaired by a specialist.
Thanks for explaining your position. I'll try to explain in some more detail why this is a problem and how governments has stepped in before:

> Abuse of market power would be preventing the mention of any other browser when using search and Google has never done that.

Another way to abuse market power is to use ones dominance in one maket to crush competition in another market.

Microsoft was punished for this after they bundled IE with Windows back in the day. Google has gone extremely much further down the road of abusing market dominance in one market (search, ads) to crush competition in browsers.

Also: did you forget my point about how Google web properties work better if you fake the headers and pretend to be Chrome?

> Or how about a better example: Apple actively preventing any third party web browsers on iOS, then later only allowing third party web browsers to use the Safari Engine. THAT is anticompetitive.

The value is not in the engine. The engine is something you make to get an advantage in customers mind. Many browsers, both historic and present are just skins on top of other browser engines.

> Google simply has the better product in this case.

So you say Tree Style Tabs work in Chrome now and it doesn't eat memory for breakfast, lunch and dinner? That's news to me ;-)
I was just researching static site generators and the ones that piqued my interest were:

* Hugo

* Eleventy

* Zola

Note that I excluded ones that output SPAs since I just want plain old hand-written HTML.

Jekyll’s biggest hurdle for me was installing a Ruby environment.
WTC 7.

I'm not on the conspiracy train either, but when I think about it now, the world was very naive before the modern era of ease of discussion and information sharing. The story "some guys stole some planes" sold fine in 2001, but in my mind something this big requires a lot more moving parts than that. I don't claim to know what those moving parts are, but there's definitely a lot more to the story than what we know. I doubt we will ever learn the full truth of what happened, or anything resembling it.

If I were to throw out probable pieces I'd say there had to be some state involvement from at least one state intelligence apparatus and some financing through the traditional, "white market" finance sector, that's about all I'd be willing to bet on.
Agree with the management issues. Also their political activities have not made them look good. They need to focus more on the software.

Also, stop removing useful features from Firefox. It's insane the amount of functionality that has been totally chopped out.
Unless you are an owner or lifer paying down tech debt is a waste of time. Two teams who are ranked by features added, the team churning and burning through the code base will get seen as heros and moved to a higher value project, the team paying down debt will end up maintaining the project and paying for the other teams efforts. By the time the company catches on the devs will have moved to another job and filled their resume with tales of successful projects.

It makes you feel good to pay it down but doesn't have long term rewards.
Have you considered having your wife start a distribution company?
EE + Math major here. Loved it. Literally laugh-out-loud funny in parts. The sarcasm and wit is astonishingly modern.
StackExchange’s moderators have a huge bias issue against newcomers to the field (some can say it is justified) and sometimes, (though I have only personally noticed this), there is a huge bias against those who can’t speak English well. I have noticed at times, people with high rep make rude remarks as they misunderstand what the original author had to say.

For me, I take time to edit questions with poor grammar and help people solve their problems from time to time.
Nobody said anything about doing anyone any favors.

I said that the wealth inequality was lower, and inequality being lower by definition requires that pay bands are compressed.

Keep in mind that when you compare against international salaries, you have to convert not just to a neutral currency, but also adjust for PPP. Canada's PPP adjustment factor is close to +15%. That is to say, 1 USD goes 15% further in Canada than it does in America.

There are pros and cons to a more egalitarian society. Certain groups that would do better in other countries do worse, and in exchange certain groups that would do worse in other countries do better.

Per Levels.fyi a:

- Shopify L7 makes $324K USD ($372K PPP).

- That's a Google L5 at $356K.

- A Facebook E5 at $390K.

- Or a Microsoft level 65 at $287K.

Remote changes the game a bit here, but in the past your Shopify L7 would have gone infinitely further in Ottawa than your Facebook E5 would have gone down in MPK. Local PPP matters too.
We need less echo-chambers, not more
There's so much more than casinos.
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Today's flashlight apps are bigger than this.

It makes me sad how programmers can keep up with the insane improvement of the hardware, only to make software slower and bigger than ever, while adding very little useful functionality.
I know someone that has been effectively cured from type 1 diabetes from islet-cell transplantation into the liver by injection into arteries in the liver.

This seems to be one step closer to being able to that without the problem of harvesting those islet cells from living human pancreases.

However, the main problem remains, if you are not already on immune-suppression you will have another autoimmune-reaction to your insulin producing cells. I don't know the status of highly specific immune-suppression like that but I know as a type 1 diabetic that I rather keep my diabetes if required to have a functioning immune-system.
They should have this a paid-for feature. If people care and want humans to look over their posts, etc, then they can pay $10/month or more. Then it won't be just celebrities it could be anyone. The program could pay for itself.
Paraphrasing the common saying: it's not the years, but the quality of the years.

I'd rather live a comfortable and happy life for fewer years than many more years of misery.
My solution to that problem is mostly via my favorite text editor KEDIT and some good directory tree walking via some simple Rexx scripts.

So the usual way of working is to use a text window (with a nicely juiced up set of environment variables) to go to a relevant directory. Uh, several directories are fairly easy also since a command line MARK A will set environment variable MARK.A to the directory name and command G A will make that directory current, for A, B, AB, C, ABC, .... Then with a directory current, use command K to run script K.REX to run KEDIT which right away displays the directory contents and right away gives me lots of ways to edit, manipulate, select lines in the display. Then one keystroke can view a file, that is, run my KEDIT macro VIEW.KEX which is pretty smart on what program to run to process that file.

I have, let's see, in my main collection of KEX macros 265 macros!

That process works for essentially all my typing for any and all reasons -- email, blog posts, macro writing, code writing, TeX word processing, PDF file reading, movie watching, etc. I'm thrilled, happy as a clam, especially with the Windows file system NTFS -- not so thrilled with some other aspects of Windows.
This tends to be a true thing when it's a choice between healthcare or a place to live.
Firefox: We're the "best for a free web".

Also Firefox: We support internet censorship.

(source: CEO of Mozilla, link: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...)
Caught my attention too so I looked it up. Looks like a great list of goals to me.

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
Apple released iOS 11.4.8/Big Sur 11.6 to address security problems
I'm not particularly a conspiracy theorist on this topic, but I do feel the need to point out that hundreds of millions, possibly over a billion people engage in a conspiracy worldwide to hide the fact that Santa Claus doesn't exist from children.
I think this understates the threat of privatized hacking tools. Governments that can barely tie their shoelaces now have access to capabilities that only a few heavy hitters used to have. One example: In Mexico NSO software was used to target anti-obesity activists who were pushing for less soda pop consumption.
A narcissist is equating himself with a community he fancies and is attempting to force it under his control.
This is about the time I confirmed it was FOSS drama. Disrespectin’ muh contributions is a tune we’ve heard.
You need to physically transfer cash, and this is why it's difficult to use for things like ransom.

You know what makes it really easy to ransom a hospital during a pandemic? Monero. You know what makes it easy to ransom a school, leaking personal information of children in the process? Monero.
It may be bipartisan, but it isn't very popular, according to poling =[
That is correct- there are all sorts of human and procedural buffers built into bank operations. Correctness of the system- and there is never just one system, there are at minimum dozens, even in the smallest bank- is not a hard requirement.

In fact you would immediately seek another job if you came from formal methods practice and then saw production code at just about any of the different animals called banks.
If the length is imposing to you (which it generally is), it’s good to know that what you get is almost always two separate works published ten years apart together as part one and part two.

Part 1 is relatively short and hilarious and can be very much read and enjoyed on its own. It is perhaps easier to get tired of the style in part two.

It also matters which translation you read.
> I wonder when this BS will end?

The obesity rates of US veterans approaches that of the general population, which is a concern given that the military selection process precludes many people who are likely to become obese in the longer term.

The point of the article is that obesity is not a simple model and that the simplistic idea that kJ in vs kJ out is the same for everyone is flawed. The balance and solutions vary across the affected cohorts.

Treating obesity as a simple issue with simple answers, and claiming that any introduce nuance to the discussion as 'BS', does not really provide any insight or assistance to folk who are struggling with this condition.
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I have GPU-P working with Hyper-V on a NVidia 3070. It is strange though, as the guest OS sees the 3070 and some software works well (e.g. FurMark) but you can't install the NVidia Game Ready installer (doesn't see a GPU). Otherwise, you are correct.
No one has yet mentioned the Blackberry Priv, an Android phone with a quality keyboard sold as recently as 2016. I loved it so much, but it recently stopped holding charge among other issues, so I had to get a new Samsung. I type an order of magnitude slower now, and I write constantly. But there is no alternative. I don't know if you guys are aware, but https://www.onwardmobility.com/ is supposed to release a new Android BlackBerry phone this year, although I got tired of waiting, because from what I recall, they kept pushing back the release date.

It's amazing how there's definitely a large section of the market who would buy a phone with a decent keyboard, but there's zero interest from the companies. Instead, we get the innovation of (what are in my opinion) gimmicky clam phones with two screens.
Had to look up “tankie”. Shows how incoherent the “right” vs “left” can be in terms of positions they take.
The AI superstars at Google, Facebook, Apple–they all studied under this guy
You can just use Firefox Sync and Lockwise on mobile to manage passwords etc instead of using Keychain I suspect. I'm not sure of the import functionality of that ecosystem but it wouldn't surprise me if someone figured it out already and posted the code.
Right on the Money! More insidiously, if you get into this sort of mindset with Family and Relatives, there is a real danger of being trapped. Emotional Entrapment becomes Physical Entrapment and in many case leads to abuse.

I am reminded of this quote by Bette Davis;

“The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.”
I agree with you. I am not young but also not obese. However I did try to lose those last 6-7 kilos for some time. I went through phases where I was trying various things ranging from normal healthy eating to weird stuff (yeah, I now consider them as such) such as low carb, or fasting (note: this can be good for concentration, but not for weight loss) or whatever. I was also going to the gym and doing various random, but tiring things. The result is that I maintained a more or less stable weight (aside from some temporary fluctuations), and never permanently lost those extra kilos. Then I started to take sessions with some kinesiologist. Not sure exactly why, but without ever thinking what I eat (still I eat healthy, but there is pizza, alcohol etc), I gained muscle and lost weight. I welcome this change with humility, but I can't claim that I understand it. The pattern that I see is that there are plenty of exercises that seem easy, with low repetitions, but they seem to challenge the muscles in complicated ways using simple tools (mostly elastic bands and equilibrium tables). It is way more thorough than the crap I was doing alone at the gym and it does seem to affect my appetite. So yeah... maybe good quality exercise is the key, net necessarily a military camp.

Edit: typos
Use a bank account, then?
In college something wonderful happens: for the first time of your life you can sit in a classroom where everyone made the decision to attend*. Nobody is forced by law, or their legal guardians to be there.

I think the major problem with pre-college schooling, in retrospective, is being locked up in an environment with disruptive individuals that care very little about learning and who aren't motivated one bit. I recall sometimes half of a lecture would be spent on managing these individuals, with everyone else not learning one bit.

In theory you were supposed to be exposed to wide range of people and learn to socialize with this wide spectrum of humans. That, at least, was the humanist vision of High School. In practice, if you are among the smart, motivated kids at a large school you end up mostly interacting with the other kids taking AP classes. If you are at a smaller school, there's no such thing. You are stuck with everyone including those who don't care.

* I know it's not 100% true, and there are college students that are there for a plethora of reasons. But it's a tiny percentage.
We don’t run tests without a database. Never been anywhere that did. I greatly prefer integration tests, in general. They almost always have value.
Which part of that article advocates for censorship?