skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like in medieval times when someone had a toothache, the tooth was pulled. Because a tooth that is not there can't cause pain. It's physically sound! But then someone said: yeah sure, except perhaps we can be smarter about it.
Amazing. I appreciate that there are no affiliate links. But I honestly think: you should put affiliate links.

Also, if it makes sense, have a monthly list.
On a confluence that covers the whole of the Fortune 500 company I work for, I do NOT want to search over the corpus of all the documents hosted on it. I want a persistent search filter where I can easily restrict my results within certain parameters without having to constantly re-filter my results.

I think most search engine designers want to make the index as broad as possible, but the problem seems to be that people rarely want such broad searches. What they really want are very detailed indices and metadata implications over well trodden folders.
> "the paying users are almost invariably polite and efficient while the free users can be really quite...hard to help. "YOUR SHITS BROKE FIX ASAP" is my favorite password reset request"

I wonder if part of the issue is that paid users feel more confident in getting their concerns taken seriously, while free users feel (perhaps unconsciously) like they have to exaggerate the problem and shout to be heard? I can see that as a very natural learned behavior for modern users.
That made me curious: never thought there was a real market but people really seem to pay 1$ per star. Now I have to only trick someone into giving me money for that.

Would be a fun project btw to detect gh not account and projects that obviously paid to get stars.
This is interesting!

> By aggregating VOC-associated and antibody-selected spike substitutions into a single polymutant spike protein, we show that 20 naturally occurring mutations in SARS-CoV-2 spike are sufficient to generate pseudotypes with near-complete resistance to the polyclonal neutralizing antibodies generated by convalescents or mRNA vaccine recipients

So there are 20 known potential mutations which, when all put together, creates a virus that would be nearly completely resistant to existing vaccinations.

> however, plasma from individuals who had been infected and subsequently received mRNA vaccination, neutralized pseudotypes bearing this highly resistant SARS-CoV-2 polymutant spike, or diverse sarbecovirus spike proteins.

So, perhaps unsurprisingly, if you've had the virus and then received a vaccine, it appears that you have a very high level of immunity, including to future potential variants.

I cannot pull the paper itself, did they test people who were breakthrough cases following vaccination (instead of infection then vaccination)?
I wonder, are there startups/apps that can build voice menu for phone calls for SMBs/indie developers?
I guess, it ll be lot easier to derive insights from support related calls to improve product.
Why not invest in the market then?
This feels a bit like being in school and seeing the naughty kids being offered sweets or privileges, meanwhile the good kids get nothing because they're already well-behaved.
It's definitely not limited to the U.S. though. I recently got this email from a new irate user of my side project, trying to use an international card that Square wouldn't accept:

> HELP URGENT

> TRYING TO ADD A CREDIT CARD BUT YOUR STUPID WEBSITE ARENT ACCEPTING MY CREDIT CARD.

They still had 13 days to enter a credit card, so this wasn't exactly "urgent". I think it's that people want to convey how frustrated they are so that you'll prioritize the issue, and it comes across as aggression. What I've learned from being on the other end is that this approach sometimes backfires. I feel a strong urge to put off responding to such rants because it's draining to deal with these customers, while customers who respond positively to help or advice make a sole proprietor want to help them more.
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Sounds about right. See https://model.energy/ for a toy model that gives about that number, when you solve the optimization problem for Germany. The optimal solutions still have some renewable curtailment, though.
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Sometimes these offers are contingent on getting the degree, as a way to get an intern or low level employee then get them to senior after they graduate.

This person will get a rude awakening when they need to go the next step and realize "almost a degree" isn't really a degree.
And for a while Apache was where projects went to die.

Thankfully, there are more active and growing projects now.
nice proof!

usually, "higher dimensional knot" refers to embeddings of n-dim spheres into (n+2)-dimensional spheres (or R^(n+2)). (if the distinction between R^(n+2) and (n+2)-spheres scares you, don't worry about it! it's just one point!)

usual knot theory: n = 1, m = 3
OP's proof relates to: n = 1, m = 4

when m - n (the "codimension") is >2, as in the the case from OP's post, there is "so much room" that unknotting can always happen. and at codimension 1, there "isn't enough room". so the interesting theory is codim-2.

in fact, there is a well studied theory. here's a book on the subject (disclaimer: I haven't read it):
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/books/knot.pdf
Does this mean that when interest rates go up, home values may drop, leaving people underwater?
It's hard to say for sure. The first raids using military like tactics were carried out in Humboldt County, CA against "hippies". Now John Ehrlichman did tell Harpers Magazine in 1994 that in 1968 they intended to target " the antiwar left and black people," so there is that. But if you read through contemporary commentary from the 1970s you'll find a politically and racially diverse coalition in support of drug laws. Were some of them animated by racial animas, almost certainly, but it's not that simple. Charles Rangel, the then head of the Congressional Black Caucus whipped for the passage of strict drug laws as early as 1968.

The average American in 1970 really wanted more drug enforcement as an ends unto itself. It was something of a national preoccupation across the political divide by 1980.
I agree with your comment, and just want to add that interest rate changes alone can explain a lot of the appreciation.

If you have the exact same income and rates are at today's 3% vs 2008's 6%, the payments on a $1.0MM home mortgage would be $4.2K vs $6.0k. The difference between those two payments is about $40k/year of gross income difference.

A person in 2021 with the exact same income as 2008 would be paying the same for a $1.4M mortgage per month as the person in 2008 at a $1.0M mortgage.

I don't own a home, so I'm not saying this to justify my purchase, but if I just take the info in the graph, I actually wonder whether there is a lot more room to go in the market. I wonder if we are looking at another 20-30% appreciation before the top?

I have no idea.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
People start with "hey I love this topic. Let me write about it and I don't care what anyone else think or fame or money"

*1-2 years later success

Same people "Let me write something so I can milk the cow. I stop writing about code but instead how to make cheese from the milk which I am about suck from the cow organically"

As soon as your "passion" becomes "full-time" job , it is over. Any way I have to find my cow. Cioa
>"We did it on August 6"

Notably, the Feast of the Transfiguration.
> Don't eat less than 1500 / 1300 calories for men/women respectively and try to get some nutrients.

Fasting has tremendous benefits, including an increase in cellars autophagy and down regulation of IGF-1.

Crash dieting is not healthy, but that is a psychological issue and not a metabolic one.
Same basic concept, though it had some nicer representations of non-C language things OOB when I tried it.
Keto, the Qanon of diets.
I read a lot of Lem when I was a kid. Solaris is great, it was definitely one of my favorites. Here's another one that I liked a lot: Return from the stars. It's funny how he predicted a lot of modern technology spot on, but his hero goes to a post office to send a telegram to his friend on another continent.
I was bit confused while trying to digest the TTL hack up thread, but your explanation completed cleared up my confusion, so thank you for that.
And it's already rebounded by a percentage point since this story was posted. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.INX:INDEXSP
> Thus, optimally elicited human polyclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 should be resilient to substantial future SARS-CoV-2 variation and may confer protection against potential future sarbecovirus pandemics.

So if I'm extrapolating correctly: any vaccine which can stimulate production of this or similar polyclonal antibodies should prove exceptionally difficult for the virus to overcome through evolutionary pressure.

Anyone more intelligent than me on this topic able to help me understand how likely this is to come to fruition?
People forget they are dealing with a human being even in person.

Having worked retail you ARE the company. Not a person. Someone doesn’t like the company, it’s okay for them to treat you like dirt.

Obviously not everyone, or even a majority. But bright that I’m glad to stay away from it.

I’ve also seen Vice Presidents at companies train managers to scream at vendors. It’s just part of doing business for them.
> there should be penalties for buying houses to rent or for investment purposes outside of ones primary residence.

There are lots of people who don't want to own a home (e.g. who value the mobility/flexibility of renting), and people who are unable to afford the fully loaded homeownership costs. In these rent-vs-mortgage discussions people often overlook the non-mortgage homeownership costs which can be very significant and hard to predict. I say this as a person who found myself needing an unexpected $25k+ roof replacement in my first year of homeownership.

I suspect living standards for the bottom quintile would actually fall if they had to maintain their own homes. E.g. how are the people who can't put together $400 in an emergency, the minimum wage employees living hand to mouth, etc going to be able to afford to replace an unexpected leaking roof (a $10k+ problem) or a broken water heater (a $5k problem) or refrigerator (a $500+ problem)? A lot of basic amenities are legally mandated for landlords to provide that I think low-income tenants would not be able to maintain on their own. A landlord with a larger net worth is better able to absorb these cashflow problems and keep the property in a healthy state.
your first step is complicated. Its pretty simple to "cut out anything with sugar in the top 5 ingredients" and win with a large majority of the population. Remove potatoes, rice, and bread, and you'll win with a super majority. That's pretty simple.
So a correct formulation would be ci * e = co where e is efficiency. This article is arguing that there are many possible values for e and you can influence e with your calorie sources. My point is that most of why CICO matters is that e is never greater than 1.
This is a common motte & bailey argument. If you press in on "are all foods really the same?", you get "Oh, no, of course there are differences", but as soon as you're not pressing we end up right back at "you just have to cut your calories because all calories are exactly the same and it doesn't matter where they come from".

Ironically, you demonstrate this in your last paragraph. If all calories are the same, yeah, just cut 100 out some other way. But if they have different effects on hormones, satiety, any number of other systems, then it may not be "simpler and more effective" to "just" drop 100 calories as a snack. You may need to actually change what you eat.
A few points:

- Why multiply by physical activity level? Shouldn't it be TDEE = BMR + TEF + NEAT + EAT?

- Calorie density is the only thing I'd add to your recommendations. As they say, you can't out-exercise a bad diet.

I've lost 40 pounds by basically using your recommendations plus the above tweaks. It really is that simple. However, there are people out there who make a lot of money complicating it.
Also I believe there is some types of fats that aren't as easily digested. Might be some too that are not at all.

Whole system is rather complicated process and don't exactly simplify to equalling same energy you get from burning or is stored in chemical bonds...
"The failed reactors of the past were considered safe when they were built."

Honestly, this is a terrible argument. It's like saying 'a few people died from eating bad apples, so we should ban oranges for fear that they are the same'. The technologies being discussed are fundamentally different. Not to mention that we don't apply this 'past performance as an indicator of future performance for different systems' paradigm to any other area of life.

The main difference is that they were not considered fundamentally safe. The newer, safer designs utilize the laws of physics for passive safety. The older ones relied on systems that had to function to prevent failure. It was an engineering design assumption that was wrong (that the systems would always function). That's a huge oversight to not run through emergency scenarios to see what would happen.

If you really want to look at historical data, then we can look the precursor to FAST that was tested for the past 60 years at Los Alamos and the numerous emergency scenario testing of the next gen FAST reactors.
it's certainly true though that as your weight decreases the amount of energy it burns also decreases, and there can be additional backlash in terms of the body severely reducing the metabolism (and the resulting lethargy/etc can complicate efforts to exercise/etc). Furthermore metabolism varies in general by age, gender, and genetics in general.

and on the flip side, the amount of energy you absorb varies by the type of molecule the body is metabolizing, and also the leading indicators are that the gut microbiome plays a huge amount in determining how much energy the body absorbs. Two people can absorb several hundred calories' difference from eating the same diet and the same quantity, and over a scale of a week+ that turns into pounds gained or lost.

"CICO" is a massive oversimplification of an incredibly complex set of chemical processes. Like yes obviously your body cannot violate the laws of thermodynamics but we've just agreed that two different people will neither take in nor burn out the same amount of calories from doing the exact same things! Again, two people could eat the exact same things in the same amounts and exercise the same amount, and potentially gain a pound every week while another person holds weight.

And the problem is that this oversimplified advice gets translated into oversimplified medical recommendations/etc, and an incredible amount of moral opprobium. Fat people are an easily visible target and are systematically discriminated against - they are paid less, they have worse interpersonal outcomes, and they receive worse medical care. The first answer of a doctor to a fat person is always "lose weight" - I have a relative whose complaints were ignored until she finally had a volleyball sized ovarian tumor removed in a hysterectomy - and that goes doubly for women in general, whose medical complaints are downplayed/ignored in general.

And - not that it matters - but fat people have lower lifetime health spending. They're not "costing you" anything, not that that is ever a good reason to abuse a group of people, but our healthcare spending is hugely back-loaded towards end-of-life care, the third knee replacement and the two weeks in the hospital with congestive lung failure, all tend to be avoided by fat people. They die early and don't incur those expenses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225430/

On a personal level, "what can I do to improve my own health", yes, the answer is correct that for your own personal metabolism the only thing you can do is to reduce your caloric intake. But everything past that, we're gradually realizing it's been horribly oversimplified by this idea that humans are the same as a blast calorimeter. It certainly doesn't apply on population-wide scales, there have pretty obviously been dietary shifts (massive increases in consumption of HFCS and other processed sugars) and potentially microbiome or hormonal shifts due to chemical exposure that have compounded these issues and exacerbated the decrease in activity. And that is certainly obscured (and attempts to study and remediate it stymied) by the "just eat less than you burn bro!" that is so popular.
What other ideas do you have for drastically raising the price of rent?
> at least in the non-rivalrous care sense

Huh?
A cup of gasoline has ~2,000 calories. Assuming you don't die from drinking it, this trivially and obviously would not have the same impact as eating 2 McDonald's McDoubles.

But it does have the same calories. So, it turns out, calories are kinda useless if your body can't break down what they're contained in. You'd poop it out, calories intact (or breathe it out, pee it out, or in the case of gasoline, probably just die).

Even pulling back into things which are wholly edible: ever heard of the meat sweats? They can occur because your body has to expend a lot of energy in breaking apart proteins commonly found in meats; more-so than while digesting other foods. In other words, if you eat 400 calories of meat, but it takes an investment of 30 calories to digest it, how does that compare to 400 calories of tomatoes?

What about lactose intolerance? The inability to digest, and gain nutrients, from milk products. One person drinks 200 calories of milk and gets lots of nutrients; another shits their pants and is now dehydrated.

It seems trivially obvious to me that anyone who says "a calorie is a calorie" is trying to sell you something. Though, I suppose, the people who say "my diet will work for you, buy my special food plan" are saying the opposite, but are also trying to sell you something.
This has also been my experience. Without a degree, finding people interested in your CV is pretty tough. Once I started citing some previous contract work though, things started to open up. It's obviously no replacement for a degree, but I guess most people just want another party to vouch for your credibility.
Probably.

I'll point out using existing natural gas peaking plants to make up for temporary shortfalls of solar and wind power is also a viable stop gap.
I am 62 and have ridden since I was 14. Roadraced for a couple of years (only quit because it is so expensive). Here are my thoughts on how to stay safe:
1) ride with one or two fingers on the front brake
2) you are invisible. that person on the side road who is looking right at you - yeah good chance they are looking right through you and will pull out in front of you.
3) ride with your high beam on at all times (see #2)
4) braking is 75-100% front brake. when the tire is skidding you are not braking, release the pressure slightly to get back to braking.
5) learn how to countersteer. it is the only way to maneuver quickly.
6) gear up. a minimum is a properly fitted helmet (most people wear a helmet that is too big), back protector (ask any racer if they work -they do), motorcycle specific leather jacket, roadracing gloves, motorcycle specific boots, denim pants.
7) do not ride under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
8) don't panic. your bike is far more capable than you think. If you panic and stand it up to brake chances are that will end badly. countersteer and flick it in, worst case you low side and the outcome is better than riding into a tree or ditch.
9) know that the most dangerous time for a new motorcyclist is after six months. they think they have it figured out and exceed their skill.
10) do track days (see #8). if possible get a ride on the back with an instructor - it is eye opening on what is possible.

HTH someone.
Are you shorting any stocks / indexes?
Just because I don't agree with Nazis who want to take my guns away, doesn't mean I want to censor them. It's much more useful to engage with them and get into an open discussion. I stand up for their right to say whatever they like because it's a foundational human right. Think old ACLU or NPR before they went full authoritarian and now fully embrace censorship.

If the question is WHO to censor, I've always thought the solution is not at the server side but on the client side. Any platform where sensitive topics are being discussed (conspiracies for example) is going to be spammed, trolled, forum slided, etc. The solution is to have filtering on the client side take away the spam. Similar to how you have ad lists which block adsense, googleanalytics, etc. Allow ALL speech, and then filter out just the ones you want. Much better than having a tyrannical government or corrupt media or powerful tech giants do it for me.
If, as shown in their energy diagram, all food converts to CO2 and H2O, then no foods can cause weight gain because all the carbon will be exhaled and water excreted.

I read this as an indication that numbers out of a calorimeter don't correspond precisely to the bio-available energy.
Appreciate the positivity! I'm definitely grateful for the first two years at university; I wouldn't be where I am now without them! Like you say though, now I feel like I have (1) and (2) covered, so I'm not getting the same amount of value anymore :/
I lost weight on a high carb diet and I have lost weight on a low carb diet. Day 2 they felt different, but by day 200 the body adjusts and you get hungry either way.

To simplify the body approximates the food in your diet, but also measures the amount of fat you have. A great many things trick the first, but the second doesn’t care what or when you eat. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039924/
there will never be a market with 1/3 of homes empty and surplus - where do the builders get the capital to pay for land and construction?
I think fasting should only be done after talking to your doctor.

Oftentimes, fasting is just another name for normalizing starving oneself, which is a type of disordered eating.
I don’t know why you would say that.

Excel is democratizing tool for programming. It’s a true WYSIWYG for databases, calculations, plotting, and more. And it’s just a regular app that every PC has.

Everyone needs a table. Hey did you know your table can do math automatically? It actually can fetch live forex data too. And infinitely more.
Personally I love to always call it a "crash" because it's very in-your-face to hedge funds because they think 2% is a lot of money to them.

While I'm sitting here rejoicing over the black friday sale on some great stock buys.
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It didn't really seem to have any prioritisation - e.g. around titles, headings or any metadata (view count, edits, last updates). Agree completely it was awful.

OTOH I'm also a believer that you should be able to navigate to the right information.

People seem to think that writing pages is sufficient. A library works because pages are gathered in books, organised by sections and has an army of librarians to keep it running smoothly.

I treat documentation like code - DRY, refactor apply just the same. e.g. I might split a page up so that some common part can be re-used. I'll cull obsolete information or mark it obsolete. I'll _also_ updated headings to help them show up in searches.