skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EBM is just begging the question. You gain weight when you have a positive energy balance, and you have a positive energy if you eat more than burn. It's trivially true, otherwise you are violating laws of conservation of energy. Therefore, it has no real explanatory power.

Biology is all about homeostasis, cybernetics, and feedback loops. People aren't universally overweight in industrialized countries, therefore it suggests something is messing with those feedback loops.

These feedback loops are myriad and complex, ranging from the simple control loop that tries to keep blood sugar in range, to the choices you make based on concepts such as self image.
Yes, exactly. I go into a bit more in how I envision the plan in a previous post[0]. A much better introduction to the LVT is this book review[1].

People would still bid for the home. You might get one offer for $190k, another offer for $200k. But if enough homes got bid up in the area, taxes would rise and those high bidders would probably lose a small amount.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28525712

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
A large chunk of those libraries come the depstack of our GUI library (GTKmm). Pango, Harfbuzz etc. are all just dependencies for the GUI library, but also our own Canvas library (we had to write our own, since nothing out there came close to requirements; the Canvas is heavily Cairo-based but could fairly trivially be ported to any 2D drawing API).

More DSP-y/audio-centric libraries would include:

fftw - fastest fourier transform in the west
rubberband - the only open source stretcher worth using (though we do have code to use soundtouch also)
lilv,serd,sord,sratom,suil - LV2 infrastructure
vamp-plugin-sdk - for offline (non-realtime) audio analysis
aubio - used by VAMP
liblo - almost certainly the best FLOSS OSC library

We created our own audio/MIDI I/O abstraction initially based on JACK (which was initially based on Ardour :). The Windows version uses PortAudio which has its pros and cons; the macOS version directly uses CoreAudio; the Linux version directly uses ALSA (and then there is a separate cross-platform JACK one too).
Overpaying for a house is not a problem in an appreciating housing market. If you overpaid for a house, just wait for its actual market value to catch up and voila, no loss.

The reason you fire-sale that house at loss, is because you believe market value is unlikely to catch up.
There isn't Borgmon readability anymore because of this video (the video is about 10 years old).

Borgmon is a monitoring system for Borg (https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/#the-rise-of-...), and it has its own language for configuring monitoring rules. The Borgmon language is infamously obtuse, and the idea of "clean" Borgmon code has basically always been a punchline. To be fair, the problem domain that it's in (declarative computation and reduction over high-dimensional datasets) is tricky to make clear, and if you use it exactly as intended, it can do some really cool stuff. But the upshot is that it has a high learning curve, a high propensity to degenerate into wallpaper, and a very small number of people who are sufficiently familiar with it to be readability reviewers.

It also doesn't help that "just copy-paste someone else's" actually does cover 90% of use cases, which both reinforced the idea that it was a chore and actually made it harder to gain readability, since being granted "readability" status requires writing a meaningful amount of non-trivial, non-copy-paste code.
In companies’ virtual worlds, the metaverse is getting real
ls -l

Let's see, e i... e i... Oh! There it is!
Where does one go to start investing in IPO's such as these?
Where is pipe data stored?

In Linux, there's "msgsend". In Windows there's PostMessage. In QNX there's MsgSend. It's not 1990 any more.
the money being lent is bank money.. not printed by the fed but by your local bank.
Amen I would go as far as to say this is rotting American corporations
It makes sense there could have been internal shareholder/executive pressure to continue expanding into other aspects of housing markets to further entrench their positions against competitors, but hedging their bets backfired in some areas, and now is the retrospective time to cut their losses and refocus on their strengths.
A diet that works for me is to simply eat only foods that the vast majority of experts agree are healthy, e.g.: greens, berries, nuts, beans, etc
Yeah but they're operating in a gray market that is going to almost certainly close or shrink with regulation and they're greedy so why not take as much as possible? It's not like the customers have any recourse when their sketchy offshore exchange disappears or closes without paying everyone.
Nothing scientific, just observing ~20 listings by my apartment (that I would love to live in some day).

I would however offer that if anyone can give me unfettered access the data of multiple MLSs I could generate some visualizations. I really really really want this data.
Sure beats the alternative!
> Ignoring that most people wouldn't try hard drugs even if they were more readily available, the current opiate problem is more like if alcohol was unregulated and made in bathtubs everywhere, and every few beers had methanol in it instead of ethanol.

While I am generally all for harm reduction and even legalization, 19th century history shows what happens when opium becomes readily available to a country with no limitations.
Investment companies are far less likely to lead a speculative bubble than retail buyers. They are professional investors who go through a valuation process. They have also always been part of the market.
What is the (covert) sensor for this system?

And yes, human error is a prerequisite for this to happen, and in no small amount.
> there should be at least some level of friendship.

With teams going full remote, does it still matter ? There’s people I work with day to day I’ll never meet more that once in a month. Same way there’s people I clearly don’t click with on a personal level, but we’re literally keeping distances.

I feel a lot of these rhetorics will have to change now that the day to day life also has change for so many of us.
> Look at the text.

Many people (me included) prefer non-antialiased text as it looks sharper. What you describe is an issue with the font used (unless it is a bitmap font, in which case the look you'd get would be the creator's intent). You can get that with fonts that do not have proper hinting, but that can be fixed (assuming you dislike the result) by using another font. Regardless this isn't an issue with the entirety of CDE or the rendering it uses, but with the specific font used.

> None of that is subjective.

The very specific issue you mentioned isn't subjective indeed, again assuming that the font in question was not a bitmap font designed to look as it looks. And of course it is only about the font, nothing else.

> In fact my point is that the rendering is subjective rather than objective (high-quality, high-prevision, high-fidelity).

TBH "high-quality, high-prevision, high-fidelity" sounds like some motto without substance. My comment was about trying to be more specific about what your issues were.

> Look at the dithering: low-precision rendering of colours.

The dithering is intentional, not due to an inability to display additional colors. While back in the 80s and 90s dithering was used to work around lack of color, nowadays it is almost always used as a stylistic choice. For example personally i often make my own icons for Window Maker (my WM of choice) and i pretty much always lower the colors to introduce some ordered dithering that creates that common cross-hatching pattern (often i do not even care about the amount of colors, just whatever looks adds a bit of that pattern without losing much color info) that i personally find aesthetically pleasing.

> Look at the alpha-blending of the Firefox icon: low-fidelity of the icon file as it's been blended as an integer

Yes that is also an objective issue. Not sure how hard it'd be to fix CDE use alpha blending, though the functionality is already provided by the X server as many window managers use it.
Well with only dos commas at least we know which way the doors will open on the super cars.
My guess would be that poorer schools spend their funding on meals for students and other basic necessities, whereas richer districts can allocate their funding to better programming and facilities, etc. Test scores are however more a result of parenting: attention to kids’ needs, stability in the home, etc. Kids in poorer schools face a lot of challenges outside the classroom that affect their ability to learn.
Based on the chart, it looks like I would benefit by giving up alcohol and switching to heroin. However, I am a little dubious and not quite ready to make the switch. I shopped around, and none of the stores even had heroin.
I switched out keycaps IRL, not in VR. The idea was that, not being able to cheat by looking down would help improve my typing faster by forcing me to memorize the keys better. I’ve only gone from mid-50s wpm to now about 60ish but it’s helped more with the uncommon keys that don’t move the average as much. It’s those uncommon keys that kill me in VR though so it feels like a bigger bump.
Mid to late 40s for me :-)

Which is where I am now.

Two mitigation strategies I employ:

1. More Sleep
2. No Alcohol
It's not that nutrition is harder than physics or chemistry, instead it is far less ideal, and more importantly, purely empirical (as opposed to experimental). This is they key distinction between hard and soft sciences and, incidentally, why it is dangerous to treat soft sciences like psychology and sociology (and nutrition) with the same certainty as hard science like physics.
Methamphetamine is much less frequently prescribed than other forms of amphetamines for ADHD, but I wouldn't say "extremely rare". And there's very little evidence it's any more addictive or harmful than normal amphetamines.

I also think you're conflating addiction to dependency or withdrawal symptoms. Physical withdrawal symptoms are extremely common with stimulants - then again, they're common for basically all other drugs too. Adderall, caffeine, hell, even Tylenol all have withdrawal symptoms. If you're a daily coffee drinker, going a day without will likely cause a splitting migraine and some personality changes for a day or two! Many OTC nasal sprays for hayfever are known for having ferocious withdrawal symptoms, but they aren't addictive or abusable.

People who abuse stimulants take a dose vastly higher than any therapeutic dose. The effects end up being very different. You mention heroin, but heroin itself was originally marketed - for years! - as a non-addictive alternative to morphine, and was sold as a cough suppressant. Many people used it; most didn't get addicted. Cocaine was a fairly common additive to drinks for years; Thomas Edison was famously a fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani (as were two popes and numerous other famous figures).

There's nothing magical about heroin. Prescribe a therapeutic dose of a strong opioid, and maybe 1% (the data here is bad, but most studies cluster around this point) of your patients will get addicted and start abusing it (by taking a vastly higher dose); the other 99% will not. We keep demonising drugs, seemingly almost at random, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with the nature of the drugs.
The Fed hired Blackrock to manage the QE program.

They are basically in charge of printing US dollars and buying their own assets.

And we think crypto is bad...

We should just end the Fed and replace it with a giant algorithm, with crowdsourced and transparent consumer price data. Maybe a few humans to keep the lights on, and to figure out how a 4K TV is better 'value' than a 1080p TV, etc.
It's more complicated than that since they also have a huge influence on prices through Zestimates. They undoubtably kept housing prices rising for the past few years, which was very profitable to them as large scale flippers.
Huh? Does Rogan run a shop selling trinkets and snake oil?

He's a comedian chatting with people and sharing the discussion that you can choose to watch or not. The controversy around him is largely manufactured by a dying corporate media and ruling class threatened by unsanctioned voices. Speaking of being trolled by billionaires...
I don't quite agree with much of this article. It paints the industry with a broad brush and not everyone has had the same experience - least of which me. The article starts:

> The shift from building applications in a monolithic architecture hosted on a server you could go and touch, to breaking them down into multiple microservices, packaged up into containers, orchestrated with Kubernetes, and hosted in a distributed cloud environment, marks a clear jump in the level of complexity of our software. Add to that expectations of feature-rich, consumer-grade experiences, which are secure and resilient by design, and never has more been asked of developers.

Comparing the most complicated way to build and run an app with something that isn't as complicated is just a straw man. Today you can still build a simple, monolithic app and deploy it into a completely managed service. All the points raised address certain problems:

- microservices - sliced out of a monolith when complexity or scalability becomes difficult
- containerisation - deploy an app with all of its dependencies down right down to the OS
- orchestration - ensure reliability when pods/tasks fail, rolling updates, commoditize hardware
- distributed cloud environment - remove the need for on-prem, or have the ability to elastically scale without monthly VPS commitments
- secure & resilient by design - apps that make money should have good uptime, not leak data

None of those are mandatory for all apps - it's pick and choose as and when you get the need. But also what is the alternative provided from "years ago" when things were seemingly simpler?

- microservices - ever tried keeping velocity when building XMLSOAP based apps?
- containerisation - write a bunch of ansible scripts or maintain disk images that can be sent to server fleets with bash scripts, else more scripts to apt-get/apk install stuff. On windows before package managers? enjoy shipping zips and exes with your code.
- orchestration - scripts?
- distributed cloud environment - build your own datacentre if you're big enough, lease out some racks if your not and have a systems team maintain them, patch them, RAID stripe disks and swap out dying infrastructure; or sign up to managed VPSs and raise a requisition order each time you want a new server that'll take a week to go through.
- secure & resilient by design - a lot to do for a 6-9s uptime; so just lock down your release process with a ton of bureaucracy and approval gates by different teams. not releasing is great to improve uptime SLAs.

I don't have a good impression of the "good old days". The complexity was always there, it was just managed by different teams.

The real question is should a software developer need to know and work across all of these things, or are people who no longer have "systems management" job move into DevSecOps and augment a software team?
Not sure about the specific text the parent had in mind but "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" by Newman and Sproull (1979, but I bought it in '81 in the student edition and it influenced me a lot in my youth) made a bit of the connection with Renault in the chapter on Bezier Curves - many of its other examples of advanced graphics (at the time) were on flight simulators and such built by Evans and Sutherland, where the "Evans" was one of Alan Kay's mentors at the University of Utah.
Wouldn't 7% having tried it, and the country being relatively safe and prosperous, suggest that meth and civil society are somewhat compatible?

Interestingly, China appears to have more meth users per capita than Western countries like the US, with 0.5% or 13 million total Chinese users.
why does that one popular guy who doesn’t seem like he’s as smart as everyone else not get weeded out? Well, the people who know, know.
Good point, although Google's internal monitoring systems are pretty good (even aggressive) at detecting abandoned, low-use, or high cost un-approved systems. I've gotten a number of my old projects flagged by automated monitoring, and asked to delete them, shut them down, or move them.

In recent years, there actually is an internal framework for standing up servers quickly along with end-to-end everything else a Google production service usually gets. The frontend uses Wiz. It's still not as easy as say, NextJS/Vercel, or Heroku, or even throwing together a Kube deployment, but it does provide a lot more than any of those, so the medium learning curve pays back quickly.
> You're taking proprietary code and running it on a competitors platform?

Do you not realize how dumb this sounds? Companies run critical code/infrastructure on AWS to the tune of many billions of dollars a year.
Why do absolute numbers matter more than rates/ratios? Also I didn’t substitute race for poverty, in fact I never mentioned poverty in my comment. And for what’s it’s worth, I think it’s ‘intellectually stunted’ to hide your racism behind libertarian concepts that on their surface you think sound smart.
I think that was more or less the intended response. And ten years on, most of these things are automated. This video was a kick in the pants internally.
Because they would outbid people who actually want to live in those homes, essentially front-running the middle class to earn a massive profit.
> TBH "high-quality, high-prevision, high-fidelity" sounds like some motto without substance.

I spent time explaining what I meant by each of these, relating them to the mathematical definition of the input and how the output matched that.

If you wanted to, you could probably write a function to quantise how the output for different renderers diverged from the declared input. CDE would not do well compared to modern systems like macOS.

> Many people (me included) prefer non-antialiased text

Do you think CDE is making an intentional stylistic choice to render text in this way? Or do you think it doesn't have the functionality to render it with more fidelity to the font definition?

I think it's the latter. Which is why it isn't a modern system.
Correct. According to
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-configure-close-tab...

> The only instance in which a close modal is on by default is for two-key quit shortcuts on macOS and Linux. The risk of accidental closure is higher in this context since the quit shortcut (⌘+Q) is adjacent to the switch-application shortcut (⌘+Tab).

Also:

> you will still have full control over the quit/close modal behavior. All warnings can be managed within Firefox Settings.

I’m happy with this change. I regularly use Ctrl-Shift-W and Ctrl-Shift-Q – and never inadvertently – so I don’t need a confirmation prompt. I was – and still am – delighted when Firefox introduced the confirmation prompt for Ctrl-Q (which is too easy to hit instead of of Ctrl-W).
Then why isn't more of it done on an electronic paper? If it served in the old world, why can't the software equivalent work?
I don't think /r/datahoarder is the target market at all. They're after the home user with a laptop full of documents and photos that they're vaguely aware isn't backed up, and maybe that's something they should do something about?
I will see if I can find it, not all papers published in the 80's are online. (and I just looked the professor is emeritus at USC now but still around so I'll send him the question too)
I don't understand what you mean base compatibility, a port doesn't happen until some interested party does it. It doesn't actually matter if it's in the ports tree or not, that's just a convenient place for BSD people to put things. Truly "portable" software is a myth, either you are using some abstraction layer that somebody else built, or you put in the work to do a port.
@dang wheres the comment about c i a's relations regarding drug money? why has the comment been removed rather than downvoted?
Potentially, but that's not really what Portugal found when they decriminalized all drugs in 2001 (not legalized, mind you). They saw usage remain roughly constant, but all the negative effects associated with drug use dropped precipitously. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
I can't see how this is anything but regulatory capture by the UAW
I don't think fame has anything to do with it, but for what it's worth, I've been using emacs for over 25 years and have never suffered from any form os RSI.

I don't feel crippled, by the way. But since I like keeping an open mind, if you have any actual arguments, please feel free to share.

In the mean time, if you're also open, I recommend checking out some counter arguments, for instance in the work of Larry Tessler.
Heres the peer reviewed article upon which the article is based.

https://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lanc...

I would encourage you to read it before marking it as a “narrow view”. It is literally taking a broad view factoring in societal impacts. It is written by highly respected experts.

Alcohol absolutely has severe societal impacts: violence rates are positively correlated to rate of alcohol consumption; clogging up hospitals with self inflicted injuries, driving under the influence, health issues (liver damage), clogging up emergency departments on the weekend etc.

I mean I could literally go on. Of all the drugs alcohol really shouldn’t be as easily available as it is.

Personally I find the argument that it does “good” pretty wishy washy and more driven by societal bias toward it as an accepted medium for socialistion. Alternatives do exist.
this was understood & explained generations ago, careers were ruined, and now these johnny-come-latelies come along to take credit and give science the illusion of still functioning.
The elephant in the room is that, despite the alleged environmental cost and marginal increase in cancer risk, meat (including red meat) is probably one of the most convenient healthy foods that one could consume. Minimal "processing", low glycemic index, high nutrient density, complete proteins - almost as if humans evolved to eat it!
Nice flamebait there. Luckily on HN most people do not care about a person having been declared a heretic and excommunicated on Twitter.
Developers could certainly do it.

A single padded first sale on a new development would be factored into offers. Classic wash trade.
Since the article specifically laments the loss of chronologically ordered tweets, it’s worth mentioning here that NewsBlur can not only aggregate RSS feeds but also act as a twitter client and provide said missing functionality.
> actually modern and good software like Gnome/Wayland/systemd.

Well, many people disagree that those are modern and good software - and while you could claim that those are "terrible preferences" the exact same can be claimed about your preferences. The point of Free Software is to allow for everyone to be in control of their own terrible choices :-P
I agree with you, but I get a feeling that all points you've mentioned can be fixed and still maintain the same retro aesthetics. Isn't it an implementation issue rather than a design issue? Genuinely curious.
This can't happen because most people live in a reality that has been crafted by the media sources they consume. This reality provides the mental safety they have enjoyed for their entire lives and there is no reason to step outside of that bubble. I've had conversations with very successful and highly-educated people who can't come to terms with certain truths unless they are validated by "trusted media".

I'll be the first to say I was like this until only a few years ago. Once you realize that a significant chunk of mainstream media and social networks are heavily curated to influence your thinking, you never see the world the same again. There's a reason they call it being "red-pilled".