skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very impressive, well done on deploying this.

95% of every book I have ever read or owned is in the first 20 pages.

Its almost just as fun to read the comment chain about each book.

You must be independently wealthy because I know no one cares if their is an affiliate link. I believe affiliates are always paid to the last cookie you have.
I'm actually a US citizen!

Like I said in the essay, I have a full time offer from Facebook in Menlo Park, so I don't think your point about large companies holds.

In the case that I want to do a masters, I think I can reapply for admission to McGill and finish off my degree.

"awe at how stupid he is being while still managing to dress and feed himself unassisted" I'm stealing this insult lol
> My recollection was that internals of A/UX emulation were reused to enable the PowerPC transition from Motorola, but I might be wrong about that.

I don't think so. I don't remember a connection, at least, but it'll be in here straight from the horse's mouth:

https://computerhistory.org/blog/transplanting-the-macs-cent...

I watched all of that a while ago and thought it was very interesting. Recommended.
Why do you think the two myths are opposing?
You completely missed the point of the question.
When was that? Prices are higher now for something decent.
Also I was taking about buying property not renting.

>districts of Berlin were like a quarter of Bay Area housing

So what? Nothing touches Bay Area prices, even in the US. And then there's the income difference as well.

Try comparing to something more similar like Texas. Last I checked average dev wages in Austin are easily 2x more than average dev wages in Berlin while buying a house there costs the same. So who's buying power is stronger then?

Buying something decent in Germany now, in the current market is nearly impossible without an inheritance.
I regret that some people seem to think that any sort of compensation for services rendered or monetization in any way is automatically bad or wrong somehow.
You can join Team calls in Firefox using Teams Phone Fix extension[0]. Then you can just close the tab and not have them listen. Teams wants you to install MS Edge browser with this add-on you can use FF anyway.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/teams-phone-f...
Little tangent. I was forced to use Webex once to meet with my national government's leading IT department.. That program will continuously monitor your microphone in the backgorund until you kill or uninstall it.

The reason ostensibly being that they can listen to little inaudible chirps that big "Webex" meeting screens in meeting rooms can blurt out to get you to connect to them faster.

Idiotic, frankly. That that made it to production is a symbol of how shit Webex is as a product. However much you might loath Teams, trust me, you'll find a new level of fury for Webex.
I used to develop Set Top Box user interfaces that used the Ekioh browser. We'd use SVG, JavaScript and CSS to get native UI performance in a browser that was running in 256MB ram. Their later versions enabled us to use HTML5 and CSS3. I enjoyed the challenges of balancing UI animation against capturing keypresses and other events as well as executing JavaScript fetched via AJAX. Due to the memory constraints we couldn't use any JavaScript frameworks and wrote everything in vanilla JS.

Our C and C++ developers would expose the native hardware functionality up into the JavaScript Ekioh engine so that we could access and control features like scanning cable TV frequencies and recording to disk.

The cable and satellite TV networks would end up paying a licence per instance of the browser running on each of their customers set top boxes.
So quick to offense. it wasn't meant to be condescending, it was meant to be a serious technical critique of what appears to be a publicly advertised product.
SoCal Is Sabotaging California Housing Law
Another Truth about Remote Work
Thanks for the comment! My son is 3y8m. He knows letter and many word. Looks like this book could be what he needs to get on next level.
Has the term "crash diet" ever really been raised to any kind of status that is attached to objective measurement? That would be interesting if so.

If a crash diet description involves averaging, especially in the 1200 zone and over several weeks, to me that's less of a crash diet and more of an emergent norm that ought to be figured out quickly. Is this person reading /r/1200isplenty, or are they completely depressed, or what? The details are interesting and relevant.

If I had to model-ize crash dieting I'd start with something like a caloric deficit > 20% below TDEE, attempted multiple times, combined with the outcome of not meeting or maintaining target weight goals.
This is one of the best error messages of this sort that I have seen as a Lynx user.
Because "enterprise" tools are bought by people who don't have to use them, so improvements that actually matter to users are not a priority.
An Essay on why Essays are not a way to hone understanding of a problem.
Remote work can unbound that, at least within a low percentage situation, like under 10% vacant. Not to mention that some companies are moving out of higher cost areas to lower cost ones (like CA to TX).
Time to breed some pet ravens in the yard.
Most of the time I'd prefer that to what you get instead.
The Tech Behind the Carolina Panthers’ Giant AR Cat
It was and is idiotic populism.
I think we need the denominator here to put '20' into context. 20 out of 100 million possible mutations is, meh, I'll take those odds. 20 out of 100, well, that's something else entirely, isn't it.
Ctrl-Shift-v in many applications e.g. Word.
> ... appallingly high safety standards are expensive.

Not an expert on probability/statistics ... but wouldn't lower safety standards have meant, not 1 Tschernobyl and 1 Fukushima but most probably like say 10 such events in the last 30 years?

Yeah no, something tells me that having lower than "appallingly high safety standards" isn't a deal I'd want. Not at all.
That only makes things even more hilarious, because now the Justice system can't even claim to be consistently applying stare decisis across the board if that is the case.

Rather it only does it when someone makes the decision that to do so is convenient for maintaining the integrity of the Judicial system; thereby creating the facade that the entire thing isn't rife with capricious singularities like it actually is.

When laws are impossible to consistently enforce (as evidenced by prosecutorial discretion), or juries are not on board with seeing them enforced, it should be a much more blatant signal something is up or off than it is.

In fact, is there even a record of cases of "refused prosecutions"? If not, maybe there should be. Then there's be an objective metric to analyze to see if a law is being abused selectively.
Google already does the exact same scanning of images that Apple has now delayed, so, uh, not exactly gaining much there are you?
Has anyone noticed the “add comment” button on HN is now a blue-pill color/style with iOS 15?

EDIT: this appears to only happen on mobile iOS web and not desktop macOS
> I had this very argument with an MD who was trying to tell me that if you operate at a sustained caloric deficit you'll eventually stop losing weight.

It can be true. Your body tries to maintain homeostasis and can adjust your base metabolic rate. Just like if you hyperventilate, your blood pH will be maintained by buffering until you exceed the buffering capacity (co2).

If you drop your calories low enough, of course, you will continue to lose weight.

> So it's not correct to say that "CICO is BS" or anything similar.

It is BS if you are able to show different amounts of calorie utilization under different diets. I didn't realize the difference was close to 300 Calories though.
TL;DR:
“ the first law holds even in irreversible processes – energy is still conserved – the second law says that something is lost, something is unrecoverable
(..)
The efficiency of a machine is dependent on how the machine works and, for a biochemical machine, the nature of the fuel and the processes enlisted by the organism.
(..)
In weight loss diets, of course, inefficiency is desirable and is tied to hormonal levels and enzyme activities.
(..)
The second law of thermodynamics says that variation of efficiency for different metabolic pathways is to be expected. Thus, ironically the dictum that a "calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics, as a matter of principle.”

About the above text: Tried to cut parts from the article to abstract the main points.
It also exacerbates other problems that go hand in hand with urban areas, such as traffic. Most people would rather stay in their rent controlled apartment and drive an hour to work instead of having to move and pay the current market value
Of course it wouldn't ruin the countries themselves, the countries would profit somewhat, but it would however hurt the middle class since now they have more competition on the housing market that's much wealthier so you're increasing inequality.

Just because the country is profiting from your megabucks, doesn't mean the average Joe is.

Look at Austria. The 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 is only going into a few pockets. Those who don't already own something or have an inheritance have been royaly fucked by that tourist money. It increases inequality between the haves and the have-nots.
Corresponding post:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...
This Rockefeller University study is about blood/serum antibodies. It would be good to compare with the efficacy of nasal/mucosal antibodies in individuals who recovered from Covid infection, which could stop infection in the upper respiratory tract before reaching blood.
I regret having read this entire comment chain.
Wahlomat seems like yet another way of trying in to reduce complexities. The explanations given by Die PARTEI nicely highlight to that it might be good to look at the rationale behind the answers.

In general I find the current election campaigns and media coverage rather intellectually offending. I guess it hard to blame the wahlomat for choice topics, that appear throughout the party programs.

One fun fact is that according to a recent study by an economic think tank none of the major party programs if implemented would be enough to reach the Paris climate goals. I highly doubt if any combination or even worse compromise would.
TVO in Finland managed to get similar plant for final price of 5,7 milliard euros. Though it is not yet producing energy. So, UK did somewhat worse in the process.
For the first few years of my product, I was in the same situation of being the solo-developer offering phone support. There were a few huge benefits, some mentioned in the article and a few downsides. Some highlights:

When talking a user through a set of actions, hearing them stumble or fail to understand the UI is quite the humbling experience. You literally pay for it with your time as you listen to them struggle.

Feature requests over the phone allowed the user to fully explain the need and helped me understand why that feature was important. The majority of the time a compromise could be struck between us where I could fulfill the feature request meeting my technical and time requirements while solving the problem for them. You can’t do that with emailed forms.

A major downside is I would often get sidetracked to solve trivial problems for frequent callers who I had developed a working relationship with from frequent calls. The squeaky wheel gets the oil problem. While some of these enhancements probably added great value to the product, it was more difficult to pull off the big projects. Maintenance in particular suffered.

In the times of a major problem like an outage or error, I did feel some frustration in those rare times. It was critical to answer the barrage of phone calls, to let them know we were aware and working on the situation. But as the only one who could fix a situation, being stuck on the phone in a repetitive loop delayed things. I just wanted to fix the issue, where each caller wanted to explain it.

It was a valuable experience for me, but I am generally happier to no longer have a phone on my desk.
* "Milwaukee" wasn't Big Mac, even though (if Levy is correct) it was also sometimes referred to as "Little Big Mac". As Aventure-Apple states (and Levy confirms), it was a rival (or at least completely indepdendent) effort. Insanely Great says that it was a grassroots initiative by engineer Mike Dhuey focussed on creating a version-2 Macintosh with internal expansion slots. (And it wasn't even the only other project working on a successor Mac in the time between the release of the original and Jobs' firing.) Jobs likely didn't even know it existed, as it was hidden from him to prevent him from killing it. At some point (according to Levy) this meshed with Jean-Louis Gassée's vision of a high-end Macintosh line which would give power users the things they liked about the PC. He went so far as to get "OPEN MAC" number plate for his car, where 'open' in this case referred to slots. Insanely Great seems to suggest that Gassée had this ambition even before he heard about Milwaukee/Little Big Mac, but it's not competely clear on that point. In any case, after Jobs was gone and Gassée had been given the reins, he killed off Big Mac and Milwaukee was allowed to become Macintosh II.

* The Apple Extended Keyboard https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard with its Model-M based layout was by far the biggest Apple keyboard up to that point and was clearly part of the Macintosh II power-user vision just as slots and colour were. (IIRC it was explicitly justified as making the Mac compatible with PC software.) And so it's no surprise that Jobs didn't like it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/841771 .

* It isn't quite directly stated anywhere I know of, but it's clear that rival visions of Macintosh cost, margins and market share were a big factor in the internal strife. Even back at the launch of the original Macintosh, Jobs had been very unhappy that the price had been set at $2500 rather than $2000 https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... . There's also a video clip from the '90s, almost certainly from his NeXT days, complaining bitterly about Apple's decision to choose high margins and low market share for the Macintosh, but I can't find it atm. Despite the big screen and the ambitious Unix-based OS rewrite which probably imposed a big RAM penalty, Big Mac's creators evidently hoped (realistically or not) that it would compete for something like the mainstream market. On the other hand, whether or not this was quite Gassée's vision from Day 1, the Macintosh IIs were and remained brutally high-margin, priced to soak those who not only both needed a high-end Mac and could afford one but were also trapped on the Mac platform, while the all-in-one Macs (and even the later LCs, to a lesser extent) were kept underpowered but also swingeingly expensive. It's not a coincidence that Gassée popped up to smirk and leer when the 2019 Mac Pro's prices were announced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20163321 . To be fair, the Macintosh II pricing strategy actually did make Apple a great deal of money, for a while. Meanwhile NeXT was, ironically, in no position to compete for the mass market.
Ok, so some straight talk.

Follow your dreams, but after you get the degree. A degree now days primarily is a signifier of two things: you have the the patience and discipline to stick through it and do well, and you are able to conform. The biggest benefits conferred by a degree are the networking you will do while at a good college, and being able to pass hiring gatekeeper checklists. This is doubly so if you plan on doing any kind of research.

There are still places that will block you if you do not have a degree. The person that does it is an initial screener that is just looking at a checklist and nothing more. This probably (possibly?) does not apply if you have software engineer at a FAANG company on your resume.

Who am I to comment? I basically did this, but went the corporate route. I dropped out to work in the corporate world, rather than startups. For family reasons I am unable to move to SV or NYC. After a career spanning 25 years I am making roughly $180k salary, not counting benefits, in Maryland.

I have worked my rear off to get there, and I am in the process of going back to get my bachelors...because there are positions where the division head has to sign a waiver for me to be hired to the project in that position, because I do not have a degree.

There is a caveat..I am in a somewhat degree-obsessed are, defense consulting. Still, I urge the OP to reconsider.
Apple Blocking NFT App Gnosis Safe
>> Hot tip for handling office file formats or anything that uses a ZIP container: just unzip them and commit _that_ to the repo.

What is the point if that? I think neither binary nor XML output would be meaningful in the diff output.
Citation:

"Robert Buckley, head of relationship development at Cornwall Insight, told CNBC that the crisis was being caused by a “cocktail of pretty potent things” that were outside of suppliers’ control.

These included strong competition for natural gas deliveries between Europe and Asia, some outages at U.S. production facilities, and a tightening of EU carbon market rules, as well as various other factors."
I always found those complaints funny. Google's internal search was and is light years ahead of every other company's. Those complaints were probably coming from people who never worked at any other large company and were expecting internal search to be as good as web search despite the relatively tiny corpus.
>I guarantee there’s many places where they won’t want to stop.

As someone who recently made the jump to a rural area, these problems are almost entirely imaginary. The notion of backwards, ignorant, racist rednecks occupying all the rural lands is nothing but a bigoted stereotype.

Southern hospitality is real; and while rural peoples will be more likely to notice and acknowledge cultural differences, they generally are open minded and just as respectful of nonwhite neighbors as white ones. It's the city folk who don't understand the roles that politeness and respect play in southern living, necessary for the unbelievably high trust society that only really exists outside of cities.

The truth is that urbanites have been hypersensitized to so called racism, and completely mislead as to what rural/conservative culture is actually like. But I don't mind a bit, that means more cheap land for me.
Agree! It's also the densification of urban areas. Where once each occupant had a private office, now 5-6 SW engineers occupy the same office space footprint. That has implications for already dense urban office and associated housing needs.
For reference, there’s a video which tests compatibility of 8 and SE 2’s parts.

https://youtu.be/FTAQqih1DZs
'LulaRich' tells a baffling story of greed, crime, and crappy leggings
An increase in wages (real or nominal) without any increase in housing supply just leads to more money chasing the same supply which means higher rents. We are seeing this play out as we speak in every major city in the U.S.

The solution is not to pay people more, it's to increase the supply of housing to the point that people can pay drastically less for housing. Look at China: apartment towers on every street, each 30+ floors easily. Where is that kind of density in the U.S.?
Sure, the body loses some energy processing calories (TEF, thermic effect of food). But it's very efficient.

The larger flaw behind "CICO" reasoning is that it often ignores volume, hunger, and mood effects. 1200 calories of spinach will make you gain about as much as 1200 calories of sugar. But the former is basically impossible to eat: spinach comes to 23 calories per 100g, so you would have to eat ~5.017kg, or ~11lbs, to eat 1200 calories (sugar is 0.3kg or 0.6lb). When people say things like "500 calories of spinach = 500 calories of chocolate", well technically they're correct, but it's unfair because nobody is eating 500 calories of spinach.

And yes, spinach is an extreme example. You can gain weight on healthy "low calorie" foods like chicken and apples. But you'll be stuffed. Most people, when trying to lose weight on processed foods, will constantly battle hunger and low energy. But when they eat unprocessed foods, they have much less hunger and feel better. Even when people say "I'm eating healthy but not losing weight", usually most of the foods they're eating are still high calorie (e.g. cheese and nuts).
I'm my experience almost everything that Atlassian makes is total garbage. Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, etc. are all horribly slow to the point of being unusable and most of it has very poor UI/UX. I pretty much don't recommend anything they make. It's not surprising at all that a fundamental feature of a wiki, search, doesn't work very well.
I know this is off topic, but man do I hate when sites highjack the back button.
True, until you attempt to move into an officer position at a company. It's a requirement for every organization I've spoken to or with colleagues about, both large companies and at startups.

For very early stage startups, or if you're a cofounder, that's different. The further into in a company's lifetime, the more required it is, in my experience. In other words, it's a barrier to some things.

Not to say that it's everyone's path, but I don't think everyone realizes that there is a ceiling, and it does not get easier to obtain an undergraduate degree than it is if you're 20 and have already completed three years worth of the program.
I just skimmed the article, but a more comprehensive text on acquiring the skill to read code is the book Code Reading, from Diomedis Spinelli [1].

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Reading-Open-Source-Perspective/...
Confluence search is great! I could always find what I needed. In fact it's my favorite feature about Confluence. I'd say it's my favorite search outside of Google.
~300 Calories a day is huge though! It only sounds small if you don't realize what a safe calorie restricted diet deficit should be.
In '87 name brand 386's were going for $4500. The Mac premium wasn't quite so outrageous considering it came with a superior color display when most PCs were still doddering about with EGA and Hercules mono.
And they are thinking of banning that in cities... Not that it is wrong, particulate emissions can be real issue.
> How Apple distributes their core apps (Safari, Mail, etc) is orthogonal to how they are implemented, secured, ring levels, sandboxing, etc. These are separate considerations.

Strongly disagree. If Apple distributed their apps as normal apps, they'd have normal privileges and when exploits are found the scope would be limited to that app domain.

Instead, what we have seen is that Apple's apps act like system services, and when escapes occur it can cause a wide-ranging impact (inc. root).

iMessage just in the last two weeks had to be emergency patched (14.8) because of a root breakout used by an Israeli's company (NSO Group) surveillance software that they were selling to unsavory governments. If iMessage was a normal app distributed by the app store the scope would have been iMessage, instead of root.
Wow, thanks for the background here!

FYI, https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... has more info on what they did in the high order byte, and what they had to do to make things "32-bit clean" later on.
A game master's framework for software development
Slightly off topic but are there any books one can recommend for understanding how this stuff works biologically?