skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is...a very fair qualification. I grew up white in the South, where my mom used to tell me stories about school integration. Knowing that my otherwise-welcoming neighbors/family/peers might randomly turn out to be racist assholes when confronted by someone of slightly different skin tone was and remains my least favorite thing about the place, by a margin that's wider than Texas.

There's "be the change you want to see", and then there's "move to a place where you're likely to murdered in the street for pointless, intractable reasons." I can't say I blame you for getting the hell out; I just hope that in our lifetime you feel comfortable going back to where you grew up.

The weather's great (except for the hurricanes) and the barbecue is amazing (except in the Carolinas). Maybe one day you can get back here and we can all work together on fixing whatever the hell is wrong with (some of) the people.
I do not understand why more people don't switch to a decentralized DNS such as OpenNIC (https://www.opennic.org)

Governments have abused their control of DNS. A distributed system (with trust and safeguards) is the better way.
On the health side, as someone with a chronic disease, I must say that I’m really grateful for the French healthcare system. I had a lot of quality care for basically zero euro.

However I see it falling apart everywhere day after day with not any political will to stop this (and i can even feel the will to let it fall voluntarily).

I know it’s still top notch compared to most of the world. But I’m so sad to see that governments of the last decades just didn’t care about fixing the issues while they were still manageable.
The API for writing docs/content to confluence is the worst i've ever seen. You are expected to use their custom syntax which then gets converted again before rendering.

The docs for the POST content literally says to write what you want in confluences WYSIWYG, then do a GET API call to see what it should look like.
> it would however hurt the middle class since

If the middle class are the ones buying the properties, then they're the ones selling them. Therefore it actually injects money into the middle class, foreign capital that never existed in that country.

>he most touristic areas are profiting a lot from all that foreign tourist money, but a lot of the locals can't afford to live there anymore as all that tourist money

Those who move to a country to work and live there on anything but a very short term basis on not generally considered tourists. Most of the money flowing into the rich is a function of capitalism, not just tourism. You can examine virtually any industry and make the same statement. Yet, some fraction of money is usually better than nothing for the middle class people benefitting.

The US has your Austrian analogue, it is called Hawaii. In Hawaii most money is made from tourism. The common person there is mostly employed in tourism. Housing prices are high, because lots of people want to live there. The result when it was mostly closed off for coronavirus was that although demand for housing decreased, unemployment skyrocketed without tourism, making the middle class worse off.
Speedify (it’s in the article…)

Peplink also has their own but it’s geared towards businesses and is pricey.
Home price isn’t technically the right metric. “Mortgage payment to income ratio” is. As mortgage interest rates go down home values go up, but mortgage payments might now.

No doubt housing is expensive and getting more expensive. But I’ve always wanted to see the mortgage payment plot too.
A large fraction of Americans in the bottom income quartile are on government Medicare and/or Medicaid plans. They can access regular treatment and preventative care, although the provider networks are limited in some areas.
I don't think it's unusually bad. Rather, if an app offers open ended search, it will generally generate fairly poor results.
Well, I have a doubt that simply increasing bus size to 64 bits you can get working bitstream for FPGAs, even for top notch ones. Something tells me that synthesising/placing/routing such soft-core will face timing and resource limitations.

Studying recent ARM based SoCs I usually find that they often use reduced AXI4 buses to 48 or even less bits, making all internal I/O transactions block-wise.
It is really interesting how long we have collectively tolerated, and continue to tolerate, many counterproductive password policies and password-related software problems and limitations that are explained in the linked talk and that affect many different software products, such as not being able to enter very long passwords in many applications, or having to change the password periodically. The xkcd quote mentioned in the talk sums it up nicely:

Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.

Relatedly, YouTube - where the talk is hosted - informs me that it will require 2-factor authentication starting on Nov. 1st for accessing YouTube Studio:

Action required: Turn on 2-Step Verification by November 1, 2021 or you will lose access to YouTube Studio

I wonder whether this would be necessary if better password practices were established, so that more secure passwords can be more readily used. The linked NIST guidelines are interesting, and include pertaining recommendations such as "Do not require that memorized secrets be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically) unless there is a user request or evidence of authenticator compromise.":

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
What is an "officer position"? I work at a large tech company (and have worked at several others, including Microsoft) and several of my directors, VPs and equivalent have had no formal degree. This is common when employees rise through the ranks or come in via acquisitions.

Companies aren't going to ask for college transcripts when offering you a promotion. What matters is your experience and performance, that's it.
The Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem - which rigorously defines an inside and outside for higher dimensional objects.
http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/VIGRE/VIGRE2009/REUPapers/...
I just think it's different. People at work shouldn't have to put up with jokes about suicide via gunshot whenever a dumb young kid doesn't like their marching orders for the week.
> This seems to be the logical fallacy. Hospitals neither get to confer medical degrees nor award board certifications. They cannot just magically create residents out of thin air, they are restricted by supply. No amount of Matrix Architect speak makes them do so.

You seem confused about the question at hand. As has been explained multiple times, including in the original article, there are more medical degrees granted every year than there are residency slots available at hospitals.

The whole question is why hospitals don't take advantage of the excess supply of of medical graduates by creating more residency positions.
Hmm, let's say 100 times faster that is 10 hours. Pushing 1300 tons an hour or 0.36 tons per second of any material through sounds somewhat extreme. Hmm, 529 kw for 1 km height. I wonder what height is actually needed for 10km wide spread. That is quite a bit of power specially from rover. Considering it's solar panels would be getting coated at same time... And I suppose dragging kilometers long cable isn't an option.
Taking out a $3,000 loan and taking multiple days off work is pretty risky when one can reasonably assume that less than 100% of valid cases prevail in court.
> I am glad that you finally understand -- or at least its beginning to dawn on you -- that this is a transparent attempt at a shakedown with no legal merit.

She & her legacy as the first female grandmaster were defamed to hundreds of millions of people for a throw-away line. That is real damages. The studio should have known better when they made that change to the script and they should have settled before it went to the media. I'm surprised they didn't given Reed's politics.
There's a flip side to the sunk cost fallacy:

I might not fly around the world to pick up a $100 bill. But if I'm standing right next to it, I pick it up.

Let's say this kid is right that 4 years for a McGill degree isn't worth it (though it is). That's not the decision now. The forward-looking cost is only one year, not four years.

Pick up the $100 first.

Also, a lot of the "college isn't worth it" arguments are for English degrees from West Podunk University. A CS degree from McGill is a completely different animal. One year? Worth it.
Does anyone have a .zip or something of an emulator with this all up and running?
Yep. There is a limit to what bad code, just like bad prose, can tell you without having to restructure it yourself or risk losing your sanity to discover in the existing presentation. I've had colleagues whose code was totally functional and worked to achieve the desired result, and totally incomprehensible without a great deal of effort. Rewriting and reorganizing into a more sensible flow (aka, refactoring) was the only way to discern the real meaning behind the code. Code reviews are helpful here, to keep code like that out of production and give feedback so less code like that gets written in the first place.
I think companies deliberately and abusively do this, use front line support staff as human shields from their customers. This isolates the people inside from the consequences of their decisions and the front line will take the brunt of it.
Analyzing taxation by headcount doesn't provide much insight.

The top 10% of Americans own about 85% of the wealth in America, and the entire bottom 90% only own around 15% of it.
> Put a big comment on it that says "HACK: Remove when X is no longer the case"

You know, every now and then I come across some comment like that from 6 years ago that is clearly no longer applicable and I go and remove the hack... feels really good, but I don't think anyone will just go around looking for these trying to get rid of hacks as there's ALWAYS more important things to do... the hack will probably remain mostly harmless there for decades to come :D so why would we spend time on that other than by happenstance, like I've just mentioned?!
Bodyfat is a storage medium. There are time delays, which complicate energy balance and weight loss in practice.

Also, some calorie-deficient diets result in a higher average degree of hunger than others with equal caloric input. Some high carb diets produce insulin spikes and subsequent hypoglycemia and hunger pangs.

And some calorie-deficient diets result in different muscle/fat loss ratios than others.

Finally, not all exercise activities have the same effect on body composition. Long slow distance promotes a lean body, but it's not for everyone.
Natural gas is really hard to displace here, and won't happen until it becomes and stays expensive. It may now be above that price level in Europe, but it has to stay there to enable the capital investment in large scale green hydrogen production.
Only if you don't do daily ~80% discharges.

You can avoid that right now because the grid has baseload. But if it doesn't you can avoid the wear cycles.

10 years is about what you'd expect if you only discharge ~30% of capacity daily, which is how it is operating right now.
Quad9 is based in Switzerland, so the German court should only have jurisdiction over whatever servers are in Germany. It seems like the worst case scenario is that Quad9 shuts down their German servers, but still serves German requests from servers in neighboring countries.

That said this is still terrible and I hope the German court reconsiders their decision. The free flow of information is more valuable than protecting copyrights, because the former benefits many more people. Most of the copyright holders who feel threatened by piracy are not even German! The court is protecting big American businesses over individual Germans.
> "Martain said theoretical trials of the algorithm – using historical data – had 'largely confirmed what experts / research says are causal factors'"

> "It has also yielded 'previously unrealised' insights into predictors of domestic and family violence, such as offences related to risk-taking behaviour and a disregard for the safety of others."

I'd be very curious to learn more details about the "causal factors" and "other offenses relating to risk-taking behavior" that are the inputs for this algorithm. It doesn't seem, based on this article, that the police are disclosing that at this time.

Do citizens in Australia (or any free society) have a right to discover these types details? In my view they should, if we are to go down this road at all. I wonder if there is any precedent for this, or if there will have to be an enumeration of such rights and responsibilities with respect to predictive policing.
Routine annual checkups aren't medically justified for most healthy adults.

https://time.com/5095920/annual-physical-exam/
I wonder what would happen if we stop financial institutions from “investing” in residential real estate.
I used to work somewhere where I got "forced" to use Perl but was more familiar with Ruby.

Obviously Perl came far earlier than Ruby and Ruby was heavily inspired by Perl (There's even a quick comparison on the official Ruby site here https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-l...) but it always felt like Ruby is such a nicer language to read and write and obviously due to age was just a more modern overall. You could define a class as a... class!

Whenever I wanted to make a quick script for myself for personal usage I'd always write it in Ruby.

I'm now in a C#/.NET role and love typed languages now but I'd never go back to Perl, but I still have a special spot for Ruby.
I haven't done much reading on this subject in a while, but I recall from Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories that the issue is not that CICO is somehow flawed, but rather that there are meta-metabolic effects (if that makes sense) from the food we eat that ends up changing the factors in the CICO equation. In other words, none of the variables are static, and they in fact depend upon the nature of calories eaten.

The canonical example: because high levels of glucose in the blood can be fatally toxic, the body must spike insulin levels after a (simple) carbohydrate-rich meal in order to get rid of it quickly. One effect of insulin is an increase in fat synthesis and storage of triglycerides in fat cells. A diet rich in simple carbohydrates can result in chronically elevated insulin levels, which means that the body is constantly stashing calories away in fat cells.

The point is that the "caloric equation" that you refer to is a grossly oversimplified model of human metabolism that has led to what might be called Goodhart's Law of dietary advice.
> The progressives for example come up with laws that harass their non-voters in rural areas for no good reason. A lot of these laws are around climate change

Keep moving those goalposts, bud.
Extra-contractual worker protections and liabilities are simply prohibitions on voluntary interactions between consenting adults (those contracts that exclude said protections/liabilities). Mandating minimum employment benefits is not economically sound, or consistent with a free society.

With respect to the first point, forcing companies to overpay for labor (whether directly, through above market wages, or indirectly, through reduced management flexibility, or more costly benefits) results in higher unemployment, as previously profitable hiring opportunities become unprofitable, and a less optimal allocation of company funds, that leads to less economic development, which is the source of all wage growth.

Also mandatory benefits are a cookie-cutter solution that reduce the flexibility that employers and workers have to reach terms that maximize the benefit the worker enjoys with a given expenditure of resources by the employer. For example, the mandate may require 4 weeks of paid leave a year, while a particular worker may prefer less paid leave, and instead higher hourly wages, but the mandate prevents this. Given companies have a limited amount of funds available to spend on labor expenses, there is an opportunity cost attached to every mandatory benefit.
NB: The Y axis of the first chart does not start at 0.
I mean it's really satisfying to do, and if the originator did make the thing easy to remove, then it doesn't take away much time from other priorities
Gee has excellent points.

I think that in order to get good at writing readable code, you need to spend a lot of time both reading code and watching other people read code you wrote. That's the way you learn which things make code hard to read or easy to read.

In fact, I'd go further and say you need to watch people in your target audience read code you wrote. Different subcultures find different styles easier or harder to read. When you're writing prose, you always have a target audience, and readability is relative to that audience. The same is true of code.
Glyphtracer: App for converting images of letters to a font
My OnePlus is on 9, there's some update available, I don't see the point. It works fine.
Cambridge is atypical: it has tons of biotech, FAANG offices, etc to tax, so the city ends up having one of the lowest residential property tax rates in the state. In fact, Cambridge's residential rate is almost 2x less than those of each of its neighbors (Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Somerville, Watertown. https://joeshimkus.com/MA-Tax-Rates.aspx)
One clarification to the above discussion -- about whether these restrictions also get applied to "even the regular relational stuff" -- which I think is relevant to you (and parent):

The Timescale License only covers the TimescaleDB code. Postgres code continues to be covered by the OSS PostgreSQL License [0].

So putting aside the question about API vs. psql level (again, the Timescale License was drafted to enabled this for "Value Added Services", e.g., where "such value-added products or services are not primarily database storage or operations products or services"), this license wouldn't apply for non-Timescale code.

[Timescale co-founder here]

[0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/NOTICE
This is how I started CallTrackingMetrics… I answered as many customers calls as possible- talked to and listened to as many as I could and then tried to put it all together building a solution for marketing attribution and contact centers along the way - the we use internally with over 60 employees….
Yes. Obviously higher dimensions in physics require a different kind of intuition, but data folks deal with multidimensional tabular data all the time without ever seeing the underlying structure. Seeking a spatial explanation often hinders rather than helps.

Instead, there’s this notion of a “theory of coordinatized data” [1] where one understands that dimensions (doesn’t matter if they are continuous, discrete, categorical) are essentially coordinates for values. This is a powerful way of thinking about tidy multidimensional tabular data.

Once you realize dimensions are coordinates, a certain mathematical intuition emerges. For instance, most people have a hard time understanding pivot/unpivot operations. But they really are analogous to matrix transposes, but instead on a row/col axis, they rotate on the “coordinate” dimensions which are invariants.

Once somehow understands this, their understanding of SQL and Tableau and of data frames becomes a lot deeper. Aggregations and filtering and window operations take on a new meaning.

[1] https://winvector.github.io/FluidData/RowsAndColumns.html
Microsoft borked it with the migration to .NET. Instead of making VB.NET 100% compatible with VBA they created a unnecessary C# clone with a VB skin. That decision ended VB as a viable product and any migration path for VBA in Office.

If they had made VB.NET fully compatible, then we'd all just have the CLR in Office and we could be using any number of languages to write Office integrated software.
The purpose of "a calorie is a calorie" is not to be scientific truth; it is to serve as guidance for people who are trying to lose weight and are falling prey to particular mistakes.

It's like if you're at the gym and a coach is telling someone "sit your butt back, butt back, butt back!" "Sit your butt back" isn't a universal directive for that exercise, much less everything you need to know about it. It's a correction for what that person is currently doing wrong. Six months from now, they might be sitting too far back, and the coach will say, "Don't let your butt go back!"

Or the advice to, "Loosen up; people like it when you just say what's on your mind," versus, "You need to activate the filter between your brain and your mouth." These statements can both be true when directed at the right person in the right context.

The paper takes aim at "a calorie is a calorie" as an objective scientific truth, which makes it trivially wrong, but doesn't address its pragmatic truth as advice. "A calorie is a calorie" is "true" when it is a good corrective for the person it's directed at. It's "false" if the person needs to be paying more attention to the differences, like if you're an athlete trying to fine-tune your diet for performance, or if you somehow never got the message that people need vegetables in their diet.

It might be less true on HN, but in my experience with my family and acquaintances, "a calorie is a calorie" is a widely needed truth. Most people's approach to healthy eating is to sort foods into "good" and "bad" and try to minimize the harm from the "bad" foods, ignoring any potential for harm from the "good" foods. Some people give themselves a pass on the calories from olive oil and avocados because it's a "healthy fat." Other people focus on their intake of cheap processed corporate foods while not worrying about the generous quantities of expensive, local, artisanal bread and cheese and fancy meats they consume. There are even people in my generation who missed the whole last thirty years of carb controversy and mound up huge portions of spaghetti and garlic bread next to a 4oz cut of steak and call that a healthy meal because the only problematic food on the plate is in a tiny portion.

For whatever reason, whether it's because of how nutritional information is presented to the public by experts or because of exploitative marketing from the diet industry or because our brains are wired to see good and bad everywhere, that's how an unfortunately very large number of people approach eating for weight loss, and "a calorie is a calorie" is a good corrective for them, to remind them to pay attention to the quantity of everything they eat, not just the "bad" stuff.
Exactly and the market is confident the the government would intervene to prevent another housing market collapse which just compounds the effect further.
> a company more keen to undermine their own market position

Mozilla.
What elevators and electricity can teach us about tech adoption