skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wearing rich, elaborately decorated robes adorned with three preserved monkey heads for luck

Having troubles finding an image of this... if anybody can, I'd love to see it.
Nvm, it is ex-employees.
Glorytun – Multipath UDP Tunnel
Shocking and disgusting. Next thing you know, someone will release the formula for the deadly toxin dihydrogen monoxide.
Tulips killed the King and Now Merchant Networks will determine its future
> now trust fund kids with rich friends can continually skip the line and buy the jobs that others are applying for.

I would say this is an accurate description of the current system. What do we always hear, that going to an Ivy League is all about the connections, not the education?
Seriously. The guy put in a good amount of time and delivered an Altima with many modern sensibilities baked in. I've been playing it on my Apple it's a lot of fun.
An anecdote: I have been 100% carnivore for the past two months. The last vegetable I ate was in August. I’ve eaten 10 grams of carbs in that time period (in the form of vitamin C tablets early on), and zero fiber.

My anxiety levels are subjectively lower, I’ve had fewer instances of insomnia, I’ve lost 20lbs of water + fat weight while maintaining an active lifestyle (standing desk all day + running 20+ miles a week). To be honest, I feel great! Much better than I expected I would going into this experiment. Originally I set out to do this in September and October after knowing someone who did something similar, but I may stay on it, or move to a more keto diet because I miss veggies.

My diet is more fat-heavy than it used to be, and certainly more meat-heavy. I used to eat red meat once or twice a month, versus once or twice a day. The lack of fiber does make for some interesting digestion, but in general it seems I’m producing less waste.

What seems to be the biggest impact is FAT. Getting a lot of fat makes me feel a lot better that day. Ketosis has been great too; I can go for a two hour run, then come home and clean my apartment and run errands without feeling like I’m wrecked all day.
It depends on how you want to live.

For one healthcare is usually not an issue because you have a good health plan with an out of pocket maximum. Your employer pays the premiums. Out of pocket you’re looking at about $10k/yr on the higher end, barring big medical problems or issues with your insurer (sadly, always a possibility). Let’s call that $1k/month.

Rent also depends a lot on how many bedrooms you need and how fancy you want to go. Let’s say it’s $2.5k/month (including utilities).

At $300k/yr in California you’re taking home about $180k/yr. So that’s about $15k/month after tax and $11.5k/month after rent and healthcare (you really aren’t likely to spend that much on healthcare. More on rent if you have kids). Not including of course things like 401k which can both lower your taxable income and get extra money from your employer
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/arti...

"Previous studies have linked a higher fibre diet to protection from heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain cancers."
This reminds me of the research on alcohol being good for heart disease. Excerpt from Science Vs:

> Eric found that drinking booze… lowered the men’s risk of a heart attack as much as exercising regularly… Which is bonkers!

> So Kaye’s like: ok… all these studies are showing that those who drink have less heart disease than those who don’t… well have you ever thought… who are these non-drinkers in these studies? Like… what kind of person doesn’t drink anything?

> She started looking into the studies that had been done on people who don’t drink and found something kind of shocking. Generally speaking, they were more likely to be unhealthy.

> The people - who did drink… and then stopped… some scientists call them “sick quitters”... Sounds like a bad burn, but basically means they didn't stop drinking because they were running a triathlon, but because they weren’t well.
Tech has gone to great lengths to convince people to be illiterate. "There's an app for that" was the worse form of handicap and users were heavily incentivized to seek premade solutions rather than trying to solve their own problems
Not sure I agree. Look at all these court cases producing juicy emails from tech giants.
And there you go.
I really wish I could understand this better because it seems important. If I have this straight, BDNF is a thing that makes neurons grow and trk is a thing that tells the neurons they have enough fuel (cholesterol) to grow. So SSRIs are promoting neuron growth to beat depression by tricking it into thinking it has enough fuel to grow, when there probably actually isn’t?
Nikon Designs Two f/1.2 Zoom Lenses: 35-50mm and 50-70mm
Loss of institutional memory encoded in the destroyed records.
For any study of meat-diet-stuff, I'd be interested in where people fall who eat meat occasionally, maybe a couple times a week or as an accent to a meal, rather than as the main focus.
I mean... yes. So what? The same thing happened for smallpox[1] and polio. I think we're all constrained by laws that allow society to function. Why is this news or shocking? The only shocking thing is how resistant some have been to taking a vaccine that, at this point, has been administered to millions of people with very few, very rare side effects more serious than a sore shoulder.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135121451/how-the-pox-epidemi...
These same issues exist in other countries.

That's the one thing I've noticed about Americans. They get worked up about what a sorry state the US is in without the awareness that many countries face those same issues (or worse).
But low fiber doesnt _cause_ those diseases in the same sense as low vitamin D causes rickets. Most fiber-related studies I've seen were small and published in obscure journals. I'd agree the average person (with an average diet and lifestyle) probably benefits from getting enough fibre. But that's in conjunction with other factors. I just disagree with the statement humans "need" fiber.
Why would it be indefinite? People less likely to have kids exit the gene pool, and a smaller population of those more likely to have kids survive. In the smaller population land is cheaper, less crowded, there are more natural resources per person, and population grows again, from the lower level. Unless you try to short-circuit that adjustment process by keeping the human/land ratio where it is and importing people to keep land more expensive. And then you have to deal with all the costs of ethnic conflict.

China, with a population of 500 million, would be a much more pleasant place to live. China with a population of 500 million Han and 800 million-strong hodge-podge of other groups constantly resenting each other and together resenting the Han? Not so nice.

Things are never monotonically increasing or decreasing forever, and there is no reason to prevent population from adjusting up or down in order to reach better conditions for a given environment. Nor do we need to set public policy to focus solely on maximizing total GDP and real estate values.
> Sounds like the author is just frustrated he can't offload his parental responsibilities onto YouTube.

So, they can't call out companies for being shit? Being able to pick videos from channels you subscribe to is an accessibility issue, not even a "parent for me" issue.

Accessibility has a lot of forms, one of them is the inability to self-regulate and self-control when there are external factors. It's not "unreasonable" to ask YouTube to provide accessibility features like this. It is, however, unreasonable to victim blame people on these websites.
Because this is something people purchased, and then the log-in requirements were added later.
The Love-at-First-Sight Gaze Pattern on Search-Results Pages
Obligatory: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Maybe we should use simpler pathnames in web browsers. I'd be fine with something logical like:

/com/ycombinator/news/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users.html

That would be closer to Linux/macOS/Windows pathnames, which many users will have encountered before.

For new paths you could use an incremental lookup scheme to reduce data leakage via typos, and previously used prefixes could be cached for speed.

Personally I'd be fine if search entries required an explicit '?' and if search autocompletion was turned off by default.
Most likely. Also the extremely specific numbers provided.
Trivial compared to their value.
You forgot: my own well-being.

The way these people talk, I wonder if they also have issues with "complying" with: having to insure their vehicle, wearing a seatbelt, not farting in a crowded elevator, sneezing into their sleeve, wearing clothes in public...
Not really. I heard a quote that the weight of everything you buy now is less than 50 years ago. Most of what I spend money on is housing and services - esp vacations, education and healthcare.
And relying on getting COVID to get immunity to COVID 19 is akin to playing Russian roulette.
That varies by jurisdiction and this wasn't in the US. Even if free were illegal it could have been minimum wage. But I think you're right in that it doesn't fit in well with established processes (HR, etc)
Can you explain that a bit?
This might just be the japanophile in me, but I get the impression they handle things very differently.

From executives taking ownership & consequences for failure, first DDG example: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-japan-s-businesses-are-so-goo...

to longer term thinking: "a lot of Japanese companies think about 100 or 200 years from now and envision the kind of future they want to create. During the tsunami disaster, the key mindset of executives was: We have to empathize with others. And companies ought to do the same thing now, during the current crisis, empathizing with those who are suffering and trying to figure out how to help.”

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-japan-s-businesses-are-so-goo...
Capitalism is a global system (at least at this point). Certainly you can have pockets that experience abnormal growth[1] because no country is a closed system. If businesses in one country have new markets open to them outside their borders that's just another way of adding to their economy.

And definitely an aging non-working population can be a downward drag on a capitalist economy as well. Even though they live longer, they are still to some extent "exiting the economy" since they usually live off fixed incomes and don't contribute to the labor pool.

In aggregate, though, you still need growth to make capital investment make sense. There may be other ways to achieve it than population growth overall, especially in small niches, but if you lose that source of growth it should have ramifications on the economy, even if they're counteracted.

[1] Do you have a source on the ireland thing? I'm not really finding anything. And which Ireland for that matter? There are effectively at least three polities called that in that period. All with very different access to markets, political situations, etc.
I read through the analysis looking for controls... no mention. I imagine some of the studies did include controls, but it us hard to see them.
Out of curiosity, assuming the retirement you mention is a 401k, why don’t you elect to contribute the yearly maximum?
It's really fascinating how the first thread barely has any mentions of technical difficulty, while in the second thread nearly no one blames the pilots anymore. Benefit of hindsight, really.

Still, it's important to remember that Boeing and the FDA dragged their feet for ages before grounding the plane after the second crash. So that's at least part of why they get so much flac in the second thread.
While I don't have any sympathy for this pilot, I also find the FAA's excuses here to be less than convincing. Basically, their position is "Well, we trusted this Boeing employee to tell us the truth about the new flight controls, and he didn't." But if the regulators had actually done their job and independently evaluated the new flight controls, they wouldn't have had to take the word of any Boeing employees. I realize that that's the way the FAA does things now, but this whole debacle should be a warning to everyone that that method of regulation is not acceptable. The whole point of independent regulation is to not allow obvious conflicts of interest to harm the public.
Is Bitcoin a security? How is something that is decentralized a security? If it was a security, should there be charges against Satoshi Nakamoto, who no one can reliably tie an identity to, and who might even be deceased? Or should the Bitcoin Core dev team be charged, in that case? Or should Bitcoin miners be charged? In my opinion, it's more nuanced than you make it out to be.

The way I'm interpreting what you are saying is that you would like if everyone would just abandon crypto and avoid it, because some / all of them could be considered a security (or because you and others don't like it, for other reasons, I'm not sure, exactly). The only way that it could be "clear" is if the SEC explicitly says which ones are securities, which has not happened, except for a few specific cases [1][2][3][4][5]. By the way, I'm for the SEC going after bad actors / scams, although I'm not convinced that that is what's happening with all of these cases, although perhaps some of them.

Anyway, since you mentioned companies, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, and I generally agree that crypto companies should maybe reconsider the position of skirting regulation. However, if we are talking about the crypto ecosystem as a whole, then I do not agree. I personally think this is new territory and crypto will play an important role in the future of our financial systems.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/enforce/33-10715-s

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-338

[3] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-172

[4] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-262

[5] https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-su...
Yeah, the abstract also says this, indirectly:

> The current body of evidence precludes causal and temporal inferences.
"In the eight years preceding their defeat, Japan’s most effective opponents had been the same communists suppressed by Chiang and Du 20 years before." This is just plainly laughable. The author must grow up in reading CCP's history textbook. The CCP's strategy has always been hiding behind to avoid confrontation with the Japanese army and let the Nationalist Party fight the Japanese. The only real battle they did is the Hundred Regiments Offensive, but the back story is more complicated. This wikipedia page is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Regiments_Offensive

"The communists, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, were immensely popular among China’s poorest, with the promise of land reform proving irresistible." This is also from CCP's history textbook. The Communists were never popular. Everywhere they went, they relied on force and coercion. And they repeatedly used internal purges to exterminate anyone question the leadership.
I think the hope is to market pharmaceutical products to people who do not currently see a benefit to them given their naturally acquired antibodies. Large quantities of product is expiring soon, and market share must be expanded as quickly as possible to avoid that cost.
No danger? 700 kids in the US have died from COVID, at a rate of about 1 in 100,000. To me, that sounds like a massive risk.
Filing this under "funny."
same with most jobs. unsatisfied employees will just start looking at other jobs rather than raise issues with their boss. managers really need to set the culture otherwise.
It’s a pretty reasonable assumption that if a significant portion of vegans choose that lifestyle based on ethical/empathetic grounds (which is a pretty reasonable assumption n its’ own merit , IMO) then its reasonable to assume on average they’re more empathetic than meat eaters, even if there are some vegans who are not empathetic / choose the lifestyle for selfish reasons.
Apple has never reached double digits in term of desktop market share, but that hasn't stopped them from releasing a new Macbook every year.
> That was intended as a rhetorical device to emphasize our buildings still crumble from earthquakes

When did a building in Tokio crumble from an earthquake last time? Long-long-long time ago for a place where earthquakes are almost daily experience.

The fact that US infrastracture is poorly designed and mantained does not say anything about our technology and capabilities, it only tells us that our social and political systems suck. In some places of that planet.
This is why you should always use fragrance free personal care products.
"he was probably coerced or induced by someone with more authority"

Then he should flip. Naming names will at least buy some sympathy points.
Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Fastest Cache plugin
> That's not an instruction - it's a digression. The wording there is "can be used".

Why do you think Boeing wrote an EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE and the FAA mandated it be sent to all MAX pilots?

If you're a pilot, it is YOUR JOB to read, understand, and remember every EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE. Not to parse words. If you want to parse words, get a job as a lawyer, not a pilot.

The "can be used" is there to explain how to overcome aerodynamic forces that make using the manual trim wheel difficult.
"I have no words" is not feedback, its performative, commenting so others can join in in their rage against some vague concept. You can not use it, you can state why you don't want to use it, you can ignore it entirely, all those have some value. Just stating "I'm outraged" accomplishes nothing, but is somehow the favorite response now
I’m pro-vax, anti-authoritarianism. I realize this is hard for a lot of people (like yourself?) but it really shouldn’t be.
Do you actually test your blood ketones? Unless you're eating largely fat tissue straight up, rather than somewhat fatty meat, you're probably getting enough of your calories from protein that your ketones aren't particularly elevated.
I feel this is the first thing to look for in any study is who is funding it. Next buts are the qualitative aspects.

I am patiently waiting for a study brought to you by Carl’s Jr. any day now.
I do think consistency is also an important part of interface design, so I don't think GP is wrong to bring it up as something that modern software often fails at, but the type of consistency they're talking about isn't what I'm talking about with safety to experiment.

For me, a better car analogy would be something like the fact that your radio controls can't mess with your brakes. You don't have to worry that if you change your radio station that your car suddenly won't start. This means that you probably don't feel nearly as worried about messing with those controls in an unfamiliar rental car. The entertainment system is never going to brick your car and make it impossible to drive (well, in most cars it can't).

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That's still a kind of tortured analogy though, so I'll dispense with the analogies entirely and just talk technology. When I teach people how to use Git, some of the most important early commands I teach them after the basic data model are:

`git reflog`

`git reset <ref>`

`git rebase -i <ref>` (and importantly, I wire this up to something other than Vim)

I have observed anecdotally that people who have a good grasp of `git reflog` are much more likely to experiment with branching strategies, rebases, and merges, and are much more likely to come up with creative ways to solve their problems. Why? Because they're no longer scared of blowing up their entire repo.

I used to leave those more "complicated" commands out of early conversations with people because I felt like I would be dropping too many concepts on them too quickly, but without that kind of confidence that says "I can undo any Git operation, swap my head to any reference, and reorder, merge and customize any set of commits from any branch", people treated Git more like a set of arcane symbols and they were scared to ever experiment or try to extrapolate to solve their problems, even when their problems could be solved using commands they already knew.

Git could be a lot better about this stuff; the lesson I take is that I want to have very clear designations between dangerous and safe operations, and I want my interfaces to teach people where the undo key is first.

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You can probably think of other Linux tools that demonstrate this issue as well. It took us a long time to get safety locks around `rm -rf /`. In some ways, the point of those safety locks isn't just to help protect the reckless people who do irresponsible things without thinking. It's also to give more confidence to people who are learning basic terminal commands/Bash that they're not going to accidentally mess up a pipe or regex expression and delete their entire hard drive if they try to experiment a little bit.

We can take that even a step further, one of the best things you can do if you're learning Linux is get a good, reliable hard drive clone pushing regularly to a backup. You'll be in a better position to learn how the low-level system works if you know in the back of your head that you can always just blow the entire thing a way and rewind back a few days whenever you want.
Also, copyright. If you're not paid, they don't fully own the code in any product you've worked on.
All of the trees I’ve seen where I live have been damaged either by the current drought or by various bark beetle attacks. All of them. We had to cut down a birch tree that was girdled by bark beetles, and I’m very worried about the mature red cedars on our property surviving the next ten years. You can drive around the city here and count dead or dying trees. Tell me how are they supposed to adapt?
The abstract explicitly mentions this only shows correlation in the final sentence:

> The current body of evidence precludes causal and temporal inferences.
Many people have not studied nutrition, or not studied it properly, and associate fats as in lipids with fat as in being overweight when this is in fact not the case and the various types of fats are both essential and provide energy to become an active person. Like you, I run 20+ miles a week, eat beef everyday and I'm the skinniest person I know.
Just out of curiosity, what's your relationship to YC? I (and I'm guessing others here) only know you as HN's moderator.
Correlation tends to correlate with causation, though.
etckeeper helps, too, if you're not on a CoW filesystem
Yeah I just wrapped up a job search m after hearing how hot the market was. 5YOE, in a relatively large state with a shockingly weak martlet. The highest number I heard was around 140k. I did have some Amazon recruiter reach out, which potentially would have been higher, but I cannot relocated atm, and they would not offer a high enough relocation bonus.

Just a few observations from my job search.

1) I was targeting remote roles, but almost every recruiter that reached out was local, at least to the state I was in. This probably greatly affected the numbers available to me. Again, Amazon was the exception.

2) Basically all of the jobs I applied to directly either screened me out or never got any response. This makes sense, as I very much find myself stuck in the “enterprise” world, and even worse the legacy section of it, and the only companies that are interested in me are those. I attempted to put some non-work projects on my resume, but people are uninterested in those even in interviews.

I ended up settling once more (I really didn’t want to settle again, but it would take too long to even figure out my way out of this issue) for $121k with even that being a significant increase over my current comp (non-tech too 100 F500 company local to the area)