skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until not all that long ago (in my lifetime, anyway), there was a lot of false information out there about cholesterol. Respected experts believed that cholesterol in became blood cholesterol, and it became government policy, and was considered conventional wisdom. Dairy products also cost a lot more than non-dairy alternatives a few decades ago. People my age grew up largely eating margarine. Butter was something expensive and decadent and to be eaten in moderation. A whole generation got used to it. Most of us wised up and moved to butter. I still see a lot of people using various non-dairy alternatives now, but when I was younger, it was ubiquitous. Margarines taste a lot better now than they used to, too, so it was worse than you might imagine. Mixing meat and dairy isn't kosher, so there are cultural reasons keeping it around as well.
I honestly can't stand any of it. I've often told friends that if I ever owned a radio station I would ban Pink Floyd.

Can't really explain why. Just don't like it.
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How is this puzzle NP-hard? Genuine question, because of the number of pieces is bounded, it's solvable with a shortest path in a graph with a polynomial number of nodes.
A android hardening guide that does not at least mention grapheneos? I'm not sure if I'd follow their advice...
Stress on mothers can influence biology of future generations
> Faith in what?

On faith (I think from a HN comment, actually):

"Having faith" that the bridge will not fall, implies that the bridge itself isn't that trustworthy. It's not that different from "I pray that the bridge will hold my weight."

I consider this a sufficient refutation. Earn trust, or don't; most of those in any meaningful position of power have consistently chosen "don't", and the result is depressing but unsurprising.
The game asset thing applies to reimplemented games like OpenTTD, which are independently implemented and then ask to be combined with legally sourced assets. That's very different than a decompiled game.
Another giveaway is accounts posting multi-sentence comments or reviews within seconds of their previous submissions. How can this get past bot checks is beyond me
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I lived near Los Alamos, NM which was the site of the Manhattan Project. I was looking to rent a building for an art studio and one of the places I looked at was across the street from a large empty lot with a chain link fence, wrapped in green canvas. I looked into this and it had been a primary dump for nuclear weapons development in the 40s - barrels in unlined trenches, buried about 20-40 feet deep. They recently cleaned it up at the cost of a couple billion, if I recall.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2019/03/f61/TA-21...

Then I looked into what was on the end of that road - a radioactive metal milling facility which discharged waste water containing various toxic radioactive metals directly off a cliff into the desert (it's also a very beautiful area). They recently cleaned that up and the metal plume went down over 500 feet. In fact, all wastewater from the labs went to a central area in town (now an ecological park) and was simply dumped into the stream. The old metal mill area is now being redeveloped for housing. I asked a nuclear scientist I knew if he'd feel comfortable living there, and he said "Sure! I mean, you might want to get a geiger counter".

Then, I realized I was living 3/4 of a mile from the large material disposal area which is currently the lab's main waste dump - TA 54 I believe?

https://n3b-la.com/mda/

Reading about all the areas there and what is public about what they've stored was somewhat disturbing. Most of it was stored with very little documentation. But, the scientists and employees don't have any problem with living in town. From what I gather they stopped dumping waste carelessly in the 60s. I think they have it under control at this point, but there continues to be debate about long-term storage.
It probably would. Static friction is a lot harder to overcome than dynamic friction in terms of torque.
I believe it's because David Gilmour was in fact learning to fly! Some background here: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-gilmour-fear-of-flying-in...
back in the day, i built my own blog in php[0], while my friend built an ssg for hers (using perl no less). i scoffed at the time, but seeing how things turned out, it seems she gets the last laugh. perhaps the difference is not so large now that cdn's are a dime a dozen.

[0]: after seeing and deriding the code for wordpress. another, much bigger, last laugh there too.
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Your description of reality is accurate, and reality just sucks in this case.

Photography magazines, same thing. They don't tell you that
all their reviews are all based off gear provided to them
that has been likely hand-assembled very carefully

The obvious answer is for reviewers to purchase their own products outright at retail, like Consumer Reports always did. A lot of outlets do this, but it's often impractical.

Some amateur reviewers rely on samples sent/lent to them by fans. Lots of audio equipment, watch, and car reviewers do this to name a few I'm familiar with.

Of course that can also lead to the opposite problem. Instead of getting above-spec, hand-picked models from the manufacturer they may wind up with products that perform worse than the typical sample.

One "middle ground" that works is some companies will ship review copies to reviewers straight from Amazon. I've received review products in this manner. Not perfect, but at least they weren't handpicked by the mfr.

Another example: I bought a set of sheets
recommended by Wirecutter. They were garbage,
fell apart rapidly. Reading the comments later
on the store website, I see drumroll please
they clearly changed the sheets - people
saying the manufacturer had clearly changed
suppliers or something.

Wirecutter makes a pretty decent effort to update their reviews when information like this comes in, but yeah -- I wish they were more proactive about this.

It's tough to know what the answer is. It seems impractical for a reviewer to continually re-buy every product they've ever reviewed every N months to check for quality issues. Crowdsourcing it and monitoring recent user reviews from Amazon etc seems like the only remotely viable option, but still a massive timesink.

Every time I've trusted their reviews, the product
I ended up with turned out to have glaringly obvious
flaws the somehow expert panel of reviewers didn't
notice or mention

I can't say I've shared your experience. I've bought dozens of things based on their recommendations. Far from perfect but I have a generally high opinion of them.

Car reviews? It's all a focus on performance and
looks, and nothing to little about repairability,
reliability, depreciation.

I have to cut the auto mags a little slack here. How could a reviewer know about the reliability of a new car? You've got to put 50-100K miles on a car before you can even really assess that. That's like 100+ days of heavy driving. And even then, your sample size is one. So not even useful. You'd have to buy a fleet of the vehicle in question and have dozens of reviewers putting serious miles on them. I don't think that's something new-car reviewers could even tackle, so it's better that they stick to what they can do.

It's been a while since I've read them, but Motor Trend and Car & Driver always did long-term reliability updates. Admittedly it was only for a subset of the vehicles they reviewed.
I could never get this to work on my home network. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hint: game companies don't actually give a shit about cheaters, especially if they're giving them money.

The only point at which a company cares about cheaters is when the community starts to really get riled up about them and revenue drops.

COD Warzone has a full stats API and cheaters leap off the page. We're talking people with K/D ratios of, say, 10-20:1 or more. All they'd have to do is zap or flag those accounts automatically. But they don't care.

Just about any sort of public online game involving shooting has long stopped being fun for me because cheating is so rampant and blatant, and companies care more about policing talk on their discords and subreddits about problems with cheaters, than they do about addressing the cheaters.
The honor system: how online advertising runs on faith
I suspect people hand their parcels to the post office with the same care, blissfully unaware of what their parcel is about to go through.
https://slate.com/business/2021/10/southwest-airlines-cancel...

"This appears not to be an aviation problem so much as a Southwest problem; other airlines were able to carry on with minimal cancellations after Friday’s disruptions."
Yes it is quite cool, I also wasn't aware of it.

I guess I finally found out the theme I have been searching for.
That was a ground fire of an orbital vehicle
Me too. Human readable error messages sure would be nice. Instead the PC just does it's own thing instead of restarting and being there when I need it.
Before Google banned much of the advertising on the category, some addiction treatment keywords cost north of $300 per click. “Drug rehab Las Vegas” was my favorite, because if they didn’t use a tight keyword match, they would get charged for people trying to find the Rehab pool party.
> Totally normal, not begrudging it. But it’s always a risk that someone will figure out your suppliers and cut you out of the deal.

The risk is quite a bit larger if a large player like Amazon pressures you to tell them who your suppliers are.

> Have you never looked around to figure out where some dropshipper gets their stuff and bought direct?

Amazon exploiting their market position is not the same thing.
This reminds me of the problems we did 15-20 ago at IOI or ACM ICPC. We did these in pure C then, sometimes C++.

I would have kept the states in a different way. Instead of making a vector/array of actors, I would make a pair of bitvectors the size of the grid. 1 is set if there is a blue (resp. red) actor at that position. No sorting is needed and it seems that for more practical puzzles this gives smaller state. All move operations are still easy to implement.
So? There's a lot of people on the spectrum in this field of work.
I asked because I'm partly in the same situation. I don't write code for work, but have (and had) too many side projects running. The fun is always at the start: thinking of something, sometimes discussing with potential users and being able to see things realized pretty quickly. But then the complexity kicks in indeed, and the fun turns into a drag.

(I've never been able to monetize anything for more than a few bucks a month, simply because I like to spend more time on creating something new than growing what I have)

Your initial comment made me realize I'm perhaps more interested in creating things that do not solve a problem (like my side projects do), but that express an idea instead.

I'll try and consider my knowledge of coding (Python and web front end) as an extra tool for expressing ideas, next to writing and talking.

Thanks for inciting this train of thought within me :)
Do you have any facts on the decline or just a general feeling? Don’t send the kids to these colleges, then. Send them to study STEM, it’s much harder to bs a computer.
RSA falls first, limiting banking transaction safety, leading to a flight to crypto, then the government is forced to tip its hand. Yes SHA256 is theorized to be harder to crack with a quantum computer. The consortium is betting that the government has technology 50 years ahead of private industry, as has held true in the past. This article does not say a hard no, but it does offer a bit of insight about what the end game will look like.
And despite 42% of renewables Germany CO2 emissions have increased in the last years, and Germany will obviously miss its 2030 target (which is already not enough). Just look at electricitymap.org to see how that strategy is going. Also nuclear is kind of renewable too so that distinction is not really relevant regarding climate. That view needs to be updated with 2021 reality, we need a baseline production that always work, and choosing fossile for that like Germany (Coal, Gas) is irrational (nuclear issues pale in comparison of climate change for future generations).
Client-side anti-cheat is pointless, it just captures the low hanging fruit.

Kernel level drivers are also kind of useless, easy to circumvent, easy to reverse engineer.

Building a capable computer vision bot that can play World of Warcraft, Diablo and CS:GO is trivially easy to do these days. We're talking a few hundred lines of Python to build a working prototype that will track and kill and take objectives.

I have a computer vision Diablo 3 bot of less than 2,000 lines of Python that can run Rifts and and grind high level Grifts with complete success, including boss encounters and adds.

My World of Warcraft computer vision bot, long since retired, was under 8,000 lines and was sophisticated enough to get me some contract work with Blizzard to write machine learning algorithms to hunt for bots in the game world.
I was about to that myself this weekend, you just saved me few hours, I'll start using it right away :)
That doesn't seem to exactly contradict Covzire. Covzire was talking about vacation, while the quote is mostly talking about sick leave.
> School wins legal battle to electric shock children to ‘correct behaviour’

Electro shock therapy is a vital tool used to help many people. This as a misleading headline.

If it's not being used appropriately then discuss that.

There are many disgusting people who don't acknowledge you do need to electric shock children to correct behaviour, and this needs to be talked about as well.

These people who deny its use are far more vile than those who overuse it. Crippling children by stopping access to a known working medical treatment is the worst of the worst.
I've had a couple experiences recently where I leave a bad review on a junk "top rated" product and they contact me offering free product or sometimes even money to remove it.
ESbuild is getting fantastic traction. It’s the default in Phoenix from 1.6 and comes as a default option in the current alpha of Rails 7, which you can get with a simple

rails new your_app -j esbuild

The only sort of issue I’ve had with it so far is you can’t use it with Inertiajs[1] as it does not support dynamic imports out of the box. Although I’m hesitant to call it an issue if its not in the scope of the project. Perhaps there are plugins I can use.

[1] - https://inertiajs.com
Thanks. About 8 years too late to save my business... Scanner911. Killed by fake reviews on Apple's App Store. RIP

In reality vast swaths of the world economy are entirely fake, supported with fake reviews, or fake analyst stock calls.

It can be argued that much of the value in the technology space is entirely fake. Look at the current insane multiples.

My point is that all this lying is supercharged due to Fed printing money. And a sizable part of that problem was caused by a near 20 year war with Afghanistan & Iraq -- completely useless wars - as most are. With the world teetering into collapse due to climate change. And most "technologists" more interested in travel to Mars.

The real technology in this world is biological. Way beyond human understanding. So go and make some silly new technology. Get some VC money to pump it up into the land of nonsense valuation. Hurry up, get yours before the whole pile falls back into the gutter.
So, with most of this discussion leaning towards esbuild/vite because it's simpler and much faster. What are the reasons one would use parcel instead of esbuild?
The social networks don't mind the bots if it leads to engagement. Their "anti-bot" policy is a joke. They know who the bots are. They only ban the ones that are anti-engagement (which they can also determine).
All assertions can be derived from a single false assumption.
Ancient poop samples reveal a taste for blue cheese and beer
Whatever you eat, as long as you are feeling good and are in good shape and in good health, you were right to eat what you want.

Butter has been eaten everyday by people who died from cholesterol and by people who lived for 100+ years.

Nothing we eat is inherently bad. It’s the mix and proportions that can be bad. The real issue is that with industrial food, we don’t control (or even feel) the mix anymore.

In France, in « Bretagne », butter and fat is everywhere in the traditional food since centuries and that never caused the same issues as industrial food. Because when you know what you eat, you eat the right proportions.
As someone who needs to take dopamine five times a day just to have my body and brain act something close to normal, I've learned to completely tune out people's memetic overuse of the word. I take it to mean just a hand-waving reference to brain chemistry.

In my case, it feels to me that dopamine is closely related to various feedback systems that the human brain and body use to modulate and control everything from limb movement to attention to blood pressure.
Is there an obvious way to use this with rclone?
That's old news or? For complex projects moving to esbuild from say Webpack is not necessarily easy.
Wow! I think we would all like to come work for that perfect organization where you've found a place. Perhaps I am the only person in the world who has ever heard the phrase "office politics", but, in my experience, as ileight2 says in an earlier comment, internal politics can supersede any other consideration (including money!) in any country, market, organization, and time period.

I've found myself, peers, superiors, etc. to be on bell curves with respect to sharpness, being open to new ideas, articulateness, being able to see through buzzwords and BS, etc. Some people are good in some areas and not quite as good in other areas. Pair a "used car salesman" peer (articulate, not so bright, looking to their own advantage) with a "gullible buyer" superior (not so sharp, can't detect that they're being played) and your "better-suited" ideas that rise to the top truly are mediocre, bad, or outright wrong with respect to whatever characteristic "better-suited" applies. Of course there are examples of good ideas being well-received and acted upon, but don't pretend that only the cream rises to the top or that there are only isolated instances of the dregs rising to the top.
No, it's just marketing
Occam's Razor doesn't obviate bad priors. In this case a major area with big impact for Southwest got grounded, with knock on effects on flight scheduling as machines and crews couldn't get to next stop in time.
I see your point, but eventually the solar panels produce the energy to produce more solar panels. Including the mining

IIRC there is a formal guidance for what is classified as renewable. Things like oil, while originating from biological matter, obviously being considered 'not', while tree mass, plant mass, being considered so. Believe the guidance was whether the carbon emitted in its production has been or could be absorbed within a lifetime, via the means with which it was produced.

I have reservations with nuclear but I imagine it would fit within those guidelines easily.
"Cheapest Macbook air" is still upwards of $1000 and more than capable of running serious workloads. This kind of remote development perfectly suits my $135 chromebook though.
It's sufficient enough for my needs. I use Joplin with it as well as no-frills file syncing across my home network. Just a note on revision history: it's better to configure this feature on the notetaking app alone while disabling it on Syncthing.

My only gripe is that this utility may soon become deprecated as Android continues to update their convoluted storage schemes.
How much of your traffic is HTTPS and do you use DoH? I guess reverse DNS mappings can still get you something.
Pre-Internet, people got a lot of review from magazines. Consumer Reports was unique at that time for not accepting advertising on products it reviewed and it's still somewhat unique that way.

I think whether someone got advice from friends pre-Internet varied by what you were buying. Your friends couldn't tell what type of professional speakers to buy, for example unless they were musicians and then they likely had arbitrary biases.
Manufacturers or importers/distributors would still have incentive to fake them.
Isn't the browser also an extremely fast Javscript bundler?

How many scripts does a site need to make it feel faster when bundled?

When I visit websites that are rendered serverside, they usually feel instant to me. Even when they load a dozen scripts or so.
Syncthing has been working for me flawlessly over the last year. Very impressed by it, especially compared to Dropbox, which is a CPU hog and has become a nagging salesperson on my computer.

Highly recommended.
Instructional designers enabled the shift to digital learning amid Covid-19
You have to force it to use wlan or wireless. It solves the problem. Also, wait for a few moments for it to be able to detect your other device.
rule of thumb - for the highest signal/noise ratio, look for reviews that give mediocre, but positive ratings - in the range of 6/10 to 8/10.

This filters out bots, fake reviews and low-effort negatives (product is ok, but shipping!)

What's left is man-made reviews that praise what is praiseworthy, and highlight the real drawbacks the products suffer from
Ask HN: Traits of a Desirable Business?
I’m 33, and realizing I no longer want to trade my time for money, the only path that seems available to me a programmer is to start my own business. but even then, I’m even now probably underestimating how much work it’ll take to build a business that can replace my swe salary/benefits.

So if i’m going to start some sort of bootstrapped business with my programming skills in hopes of some sort of exit. what metrics do today’s business buyers look at that i can optimize for?

off the top of my head, it’s a combination of growth rate, churn, ARR, LTV, CAC. i have no experience with business but this list from all my years consuming entrepreneur content.
For a C-like take, D: float function(int)[], or if you genuinely wanted an array of pointers to function pointers, float function(int)*[].
Gerrymandering is obviously reprehensible and should be abolished (as should the system by which politicians get a say in drawing districts). That being said, it is a stretch to say politicians are committing "election fraud" because of gerrymandering. The process by which districts are drawn is sadly legal.

The supreme court cast of Davis v. Bandemer, while establishing that partisan gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause and is a justiciable matter, it failed to agree on a clear standard for the judicial review of the class of claims of a political nature to which such cases belong. Thus, that supreme court case effectively has no teeth and the partisan system by which we draw districts currently is sadly illegal.

Thus, it is incorrect to say politicians are committing election fraud through gerrymandering.
Let them work on server side AI for that instead of pushing rootkit spyware on the end user.