skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startup Idea: Shared remote hiring umbrella
Is anyone aware of a company like this that exists?

The problem:
You want to hire the best, and sometimes the best person is not willing or able to move to your country. International employment law is very complex.

You want to access hires who are not willing to work as independent contractors / freelancers, or you want to hire a long term member of staff and would prefer to hire someone who likes to work perm.

Solution:
This company has virtual offices all over the world, and will hire your perm staffer, or create a company for you to hire them through. They handle the legals, payroll, etc - like an agency, and always use your branding to communicate with the new hire, giving them a direct hire experience.

You advertise the role as a direct hire, so the existence of this company is largely transparent to the employee, and hopefully they are contracting with a local branded ltd that was set up for you.

Contracts between your company and the hiring company ensure that you are on the hook for any obligations the hiring company has to their employees.

Umbrella companies exist, and agencies exist. This is really just an umbrella with a bit of a branding twist and more mutual obligation.
All models are bad. Some are useful. Something like that :)
Which is not a problem in designs that incorporate passive safety (FAST, slow wave).
They do. I believe it's less common than landline spam right now, but more importantly: people see it less because modern smartphone (really, modern smartphone phone apps) have features to do aggregate spam-signal detection and sharing. A phone number that originates a lot of calls that people flag as "spam" eventually gets picked up in Google or Apple's top-level filter and preemptively flagged as "Probably spam" when they call other people.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I'm reading Winners Take All [0] right now and it's explaining really well a lot of thing's that I've _felt_ or _thought_ but didn't _know_, if that makes sense.

American politics is driven by money, and at a certain point, no amount of money can push the powers-that-be to enact legislation that removes their advantage. It doesn't help that the folks who most _need_ political change are those with the least ability to affect meaningful change (because they're poor or otherwise disenfranchised).

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take...
You sound like you think they were lying.
I used to work at Atlassian but NOT on Confluence and I have no special information about this. But I can tell you that internally it is well known how awful the search is - they run one of the biggest known instances of Confluence - and there have been many spikes and projects to improve it. I have spoken to lots of people and asked why it continues to be so bad but all I get is handy-waving about how it's such a hard problem.

Honestly I wish I knew more but it was like pulling teeth trying to get people there to speak openly about why it's so hard when it is solved in so many other products.
Not many people outside the top 5% by net worth of Americans are on hacker news, so step would be to find another venue...
https://cve.report/CVE-2019-16651
Governments will simply make it illegal some day, rendering it worthless.
This week on 4chan I learned of the volcano eruption and the Evergrande bankruptcy trouble before I found any mainstream coverage of either one. This is not an abnormal occurrence with news stories, with similar patterns occurring even for Covid in Dec 2019.

Same goes for ZeroHedge, which is maybe one rung above 4chan in the information laundry cycle. Most stories like this seem to progress clearly through a spectrum of speed vs. noise. They emerge in high-speed, high-noise sources like 4chan, then tumble toward low-speed, low-noise sources. There are many sequences, but one common progression is 4chan > ZeroHedge > Federalist > Fox > CNN.

Sometimes it feels like the only way to understand the truth of a story is to observe this cycle from end to end. But it’s exhausting, and requires too much time.

I wonder if anyone is working on a solution to this. I would love a news app where users curate the news into “stories” with automated scrapers finding every related article and comments section. I want to view the story and trace it back to its origin without needing to observe it in real time. Give me a timeline, with automatically archived pages and screenshots.
This article was published in 2017. The current status of Hinkley Point C: due for completion in 2026. The estimated cost (so far) is £23 billion. [1]

Hinkley Point C is an European pressurised reactor (EPR) design, the same design in use for:

- the Olkiluoto 3 power plant in Finland (due to start generating electricity in June 2022)

- Flamanville 3 in France (expected to be completed in 2023 at the earliest)

[1] Source for Hinkley Point: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hinkley-Point-C-...
Timekeeping – A Horror Story
Nice. The Hacker News archive contains a wealth of great information. I've previously performed similar extractions like OP but with grep and SQL. I've also looked for people who have accurately predicted the stock market (I did identify one pro investor. He's now into NFTs). I've found so much cool stuff, spending whole nights looking for interesting users and reading their entire post histories and being blown away by many insightful posts. I've been considering making a blog consisting entirely of insightful HN posts that I come across.
Is there any research on the window from which fasting becomes a crash diet?

E.g., if I average 1200 calories over 3 days is that a fast whereas averaging 1200 over a month becomes a crash diet?
This is exactly what most distributions do these days.

The debug symbol packages are usually called -dbgsym (Ubuntu, Debian, ...) or -debuginfo (openSUSE, Fedora).

This has been done automatically for almost a decade in most distros' packaging systems. GDB usually tells you what are the names of the debug packages you need to install for whatever you are trying to debug.

The "distro repository of files that the debugger can download as needed" is called a debuginfod URL. E.g., for Debian : https://debuginfod.debian.net/ , openSUSE : https://debuginfod.opensuse.org/ , etc.
This is a more recent development and distros are just starting to turn it on by default. But if enabled you'll basically see GDB start downloading symbol files automatically ala Windows when you run it. It even downloads the source code as it goes.

Personally I think the latter is a security risk (since it sends to a server the hash/build-id of everything you try to debug), but I can't argue it's not convenient.
A more recent study [1] showed it to be around 209-278 calories per day, and 308-478 calories per day in people who had high insulin secretion. The study also showed that a hormone that increases hunger decreased significantly on the low carbohydrate diet.

I'm currently on a lazy keto diet and am down 33 pounds. I know it's only one data point, but it definitely seems easier than other diets I've tried.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2018/11/27/effe...
Also all the updated assumes a 21:9 aspect ratio that started with the iPhone X. Sometimes I can't use apps on the 2016 SE because part of the menu will render off screen or the interface is terrible because the true area of interest gets squashed down to the side of two postage stamps.
Node Is Back
The problem isn't metabolic or thermodynamic or anything like that.

The problem is measurement.

We cannot actually measure calories in or out in a direct way. If I eat an apple, I know that X grams of apple will be about Y calories. Usually. For typical apples. I cannot actually measure the apple I ate. It's a destructive process. Both the measuring and the eating.

Similarly, I cannot measure the caloric expenditure of everything I expel. Either through breath, sweat, heat, waste, etc. It's difficult. We have approximations.

And it's hard to get that information because we're always breathing, drinking, eating, sweating, urinating, defecating, etc. So if were to weigh myself right now, fast for the entire day, then come back in 24 hours and weigh myself again, I'd still only have an approximation of how many calories I expended in that time.

When we talk about how things are "processed" what we are really doing is talking about whether or not they are processed. A calorie that gets expelled through waste is not really a calorie consumed. It just passed through you.

Look back to Olestra. It was marketed as a sort of 0 calorie oil because it wasn't processed by the body. It would pass right through you. Which kind of was the problem with it.

But there are other ways to cause your body to reject calories ingested. It's the mechanism behind bulimia. You can cause yourself to vomit or take laxatives to cause yourself to defecate. Whereas anorexia modifies the CI part of things.

End of the day, you find out roughly how many calories you burn a day and then eat roughly that many calories a day, you'll hover in your current weight range. Want to lose weight? Eat less than that. Gain? Eat more than that.
Is there a difference in the property tax there for multifamily vs single family dwellings? Around here people pay almost double their mortgage in property taxes for a single family dwelling, but landlords have managed to get much lower taxes for multifamily dwellings.
> Hamburg Germany court (310 O 99/21) has recently sent a notice to Quad9 (a standard recursive DNS resolver) demanding to stop resolving certain domains for all residents in Germany on request from Sony Music GmbH. According to Sony, those domains in question are infringing on properties that they claim are covered by their copyrights.

This would be like a German court ordering Yellowbook to stop listing the phone number for a DVD store because they were known to sell bootleg copies of Sony movies. What a joke.
Yeah, the rural schools I'm talking about graduate about 100 students. So it sounds like yours are quite a bit large.
Yep, never happens...

1-1.5% up: https://www.reuters.com/business/futures-rebound-oil-stocks-...
<1% up: https://www.reuters.com/business/wall-street-gains-crude-pri...
<1% up: https://www.reuters.com/business/wall-street-gains-dovish-fe...
<1% up: https://www.ft.com/content/d3cecd49-7dec-487d-a1f0-356ead682...
1-1.5% up: https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/938839/us-...
> What's the medical equivalent of 'code schools'?

Caribbean med school.
That's how I like to explain it to people, though there's a small caveat that doesn't really affect the argument, but it's worth considering. The only times a knot-with-hues actually corresponds to a knot in Euclidean 4-dimensional space are when you can smoothly modify just the colors to make the knot be monochromatic. For example, if the knot goes through the whole color wheel of hues, 0 to 360 degrees, then that corresponds to a knot in a different space (R^3 x S^1). (A way to avoid this problem is to not use the color wheel, but instead use, say, wavelength of a spectral color.)

Although there are no nontrivial circle knots (S^1 knots) in R^4, there are nontrivial sphere knots (S^2 knots). That well-advertised Quanta article about Lisa Piccirillo's work is about this sort of thing.
> Calculate your TDEE. TDEE is ((RMR + TEF + NEAT) * Physical Activity Level).

definitions needed
One of my favorite bosses joked about everything and was totally irreverent, even on topics of firing.

Everyone loved them because they did it with a candor that was always very obviously not serious it was disarming.

Given the nature of the work we did was very high risk, the disarming was welcome. Being fired was nowhere near the worst case outcome if we didn't do our jobs well, so joking about anything was fair game if it helped relieve some tension.

Be careful not to create environments where people have to add walking on eggshells to their already long list of difficult responsibilities.
Don't nutrition facts labels already not count calories that you can't absorb (e.g., dietary fiber)?
Stronger By Science has had a recent series of articles on these topics, I would recommend starting there. The last one was just posted today and I haven't dug too deep.

From Mass to Energy: The Basic Physiology of Calories
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/energy-balance-calories/

Calories and Weight: From the Lab to the Real World
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/calories-weight/

The Definitive Diet Setup Guide: How to Build and Adjust a Smart Nutrition Plan
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/diet/
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The mineral resources to replace all vehicles with EVs, in fact, do exist.
If in October 2013 you bought a just released Google Nexus 5, you would have had official updates until December 2016. At the end of support, you could have then bought the recent Google Pixel (1). And you would have had official updates until December 2019. A little over 6 years out of two devices is as good as it gets on Android, at least it's as good as it got in the mid-late 2010s.

If in October 2013 you bought a just released iPhone 5S, you would have had official updates until - apparently - June 2021. Three months ago. Assuming that was really the last security update to iOS 12.

An official Apple device has received one and a half year's worth more updates than two official Google devices put together. The difference between Android support and iOS support is insane.

It's easy to point out that you'd probably need to get your battery fixed at least once to make a 5S last that long, and in 2021 it won't be any fun to use. The people that want to make things last have had the option though, and that's what's important. And with Moore's Law being dead and buried, it's going to be a lot easier to get things to last, too.
I didn't know what any of those acronyms meant, so I hit DDG:

https://calculator-online.net/tdee-calculator/#What-Does-TDE...
> do you think you are an automaton simply reacting to stimuli in a complicated fashion, no different than machine?

Yes. Although it's a fairly advanced machine, with an architecture that is unlike (most?) machines built by humans. I do believe it may never be possible to import an existing human brain in a computer for practical reasons: you would have to cut the brain into extremely thin slices to copy the layout. But if such a detailed scan were possible and we would have sufficient knowledge about the biological workings of the brain and a sufficiently powerful computer, I don't believe there is any theoretical reason why my consciousness couldn't be simulated with reasonable accuracy on a computer.

> Yet, if you are like most people, you know for a fact this is not true; that you experience reality is undeniable.

Why wouldn't a machine be able to experience reality (or what it perceives to be reality - human senses have various known flaws, for example various optical illusions)? My robot vacuum detects walls and moves to avoid them. It's clearly perceiving reality, and responding to it. It even responds in ways that I find hard to predict (sometimes it turns left, sometimes it turns right, sometimes it moves backward).
Yes, yes I did. As fast as humanly possible.

Syntax highlighting seems to help most people but I find it a horrible impediment to reading code.
I don't think the bottleneck for new housing is investment capital, it's mostly about getting permitted to build, and also getting enough labor. There's a fairly big shortage in the trades, as the boom-bust-cycle has forced more experienced people out, and there hasn't been many new people getting trained.

Also, a lot of the opportunity for large scale projects is gone; building a large tract of homes in the Bay Area means building super-exurban in places like Tracy. Projects like the Vallco mall replacement in Cupertino take a decade+, and what ends up getting permitted will not usually look anything like the initial plans, or what's technically allowed by law. (This is changing slightly in California in that by adding enough below-market-rate deed restricted units, you can build according to code and zoning without greedy neighbors vetoing the project. )
This stuff makes for easy virtue points on the internet an is pretty true for civilian aviation.

The military doesn't give two shits what the people who wrote the service manual say is "correct" if someone else comes along with something better and testing/operational reality bear that out. The military is not deathly afraid of holding the liability bag the way private companies are.
The conversion to CO2 and H2O happens when you use the energy, not when you digest the food.
In my municipality I'm not aware of a difference between multifamily vs single family, but there aren't many single families anyways. Property tax is absurdly low, with a very nice deduction for owner-occupied units. My effective tax rate is around 0.3%

(Municipality: Cambridge, MA)
Absolutely.

Although it's more likely that they'll just remain stagnant, which would be just fine.
Fasting for a day is different than chronically eating < 1500/1300.

Fasting and what OP said are not mutually exclusive.
Over the life of my S9, I got one major OS update, a change from a builtin obnoxious "Samsung news" feed to another equally obnoxious feed, and updates to the builtin apps that brought almost no new important features (the only new feature I actually use is the option to use a Spotify song in the alarm app). It just does not compare against six years of full blown OS updates.

Oh, and the S9 comes with so much preinstalled, unremovable shit that it's not even funny. It's a shame, because the phone itself is really nice, and the Samsung custom UI and apps can be awesome at times. The problem is that Samsung sells a premium phone at prices similar to Apple's (if you buy brand new at release time), but this doesn't translate into a premium experience. This also happen with other Samsung products such as TVs.
The debate around "A calorie is a calorie" relates to the whole "calories in vs calories out" concept for weight loss/gain.

Examples like yours focus heavily on the "calories in", but forget to consider the "calories out" aspect. What I mean there is, when someone says that the body processes different macronutriets differently, a lot of that has to do with how it affects "calories out"

If you eat 500 calories of a food that your body will only process a small amount of, and expel the other 450 calories as waste, that 450 is part of the "calories out". That's only a net "calories in" of 50.

On the other hand, if you eat 500 calories of a food that your body chooses to process/store most of, that's 400 calories in, and only 100 calories out.

The calories out part of the equation isn't just the energy you expend per day through movement/metabolic processes/etc, it's also the calories that are expelled as waste because the body didn't store that macronutrient.
It soon will be, in a positive way: https://www.tesla.com/de_de/support/energy/tesla-software/au...
TDEE = total daily energy expenditure

- the amount of total energy your body burns throughout a day (fun fact, just by living you burn calories)

RMR = resting metabolic rate

- calories your body burns in a day just being a body (pumping blood, thinking, etc)

TEF = thermic effect of feeding

- it takes energy to digest food

NEAT = non-exercise activity thermogenesis

- non-exercise is just differentiating between things a person intentionally does as exercise--like walking to work vs going on the treadmill at a gym.

Here's one link in a sea of many that talks about these concepts [0].

[0] https://www.opexfit.com/blog/how-to-calculate-tdee-total-dai...
Google translate is ages better..
A common thread in these endless discussions is what a shallow and reductive view the pro-dropout people have of university. This guy thinks the biggest dig against McGill is that they teach web development (!) with an old stack, and he "knows" that he can "replicate everything that college can give and hopefully more".

I hope Facebook can pay this kid in Dunning-Krugerrands.

What a lot of early dropouts don't seem to realize is that the normal university experience in is very tail-loaded towards the tough, interesting courses. You can blitz through a couple years of basics and fume about how slow stuff is, or that the Intro Programming is in the "Wrong Language (TM)", but most of what I remember being good were 300- and 400-level courses. As you specialize, you also pick up a lot of these courses, relatively speaking.

There's also a lot to be said for, I dunno, all the other courses that you could be doing at a university for intellectual breadth. It's not a vocational school.

Oh well, he has a starter job at a tech company, which will probably be for life. That's how that works, right?
Utopia for the ruling class who have been successful in keeping the population distracted from material issues and social issues such as poverty, lack of access to health-care, education and decent, secure jobs.

Instead of bread, it’s shiny disposable gadgets; instead of circuses, it’s the culture wars.
My, admittedly limited, understanding is that the immuno response to a natural infection is "broader" and targets more of the viral proteins ("we show that multiple neutralizing epitopes, within and outside the receptor binding domain (RBD), are variably targeted by human polyclonal antibodies") while the vaccine only introduces a single or small number of proteins for the immune system to respond to.

If that is the case then we would want vaccines that include more mRNA instructions for creating more unique viral proteins to expand the number our immune system has been exposed to. I have no idea how challenging that is.
Interestingly it cannot differentiate between the different harry potter recommendation (the original books, fanfics, and that book on philosophy that mentions harry potter)
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28564123
Maybe, but not too far off.

Without the Ottoman Empire standing between Europe and trade with Asia, there wasn't going to be much of a motivation for exploring new trade roots.

In fact, had the Ottomans just built proper toll roads, they may have held back the Reformation _and_ Renaissance for a 100 or so years. So, even if the preservation of mathematical and scientific knowledge during the dark ages were not a factor, the world would have ended up a rather different place.

I know in European and American histories the existence of the Ottoman Empire and it's impact is not considered when evaluating the external forces that were nudging societies one way or another, but that does not mean there was just a void in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hi, are you involved with the project in a substantial capacity? If not, show hn isn't an appropriate qualifier. May be, tell hn (or, no qualifier) is.
The CLion front end to gdb/lldb is very good. Not perfect, but that's mainly do the oddities of interacting with the underlying debugger.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/debugging-code.html
This is really being put to the test right now in the US with the Gabby Petito case. Where her fiance was refusing to talk to the police, exercising the 5th. The media and police kept asking, rhetorically, "If he's innocent, why wouldn't he talk to us?".

I fear the progress made by the Youtube video you linked may have been wiped out by this event.