skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "efficient" MBA eloi outsourced everything to morlocks a long time ago.

This is the biggest weakness of the West - and it all stems back to "share holder value".

Companies, US ones, in particular, seem to have some absurd drive to pay endless dividends to shareholders, and drive 'value' via share price, by appearing to be profitable.

In other words, get stuff from the cheapest provider.

It didn't help that at the same time people like Carl Icahn came along and stripped a company that was cheap to buy, but also sat on a pile of cash. And again, if he could 'drive value' for the share holders, said company was a target.

Eventually state-level politics appear - artificially low-prices Chinese goods because the CCP fix the exchange rate, or subsidise an entire market to corner it globally.

Rinse repeat, and that's where we're at now.
About 1/4 of US deaths each year are from heart disease[1]. When you have it as a chronic disease, living with it, you have less energy and capability to do physical activity. I know people living with it who have trouble grocery shopping without being out of energy.

Heart disease is mostly a lifestyle disease based mostly on eating habits (e.g. eating too much cholesterol over a long time). This speaks volumes about the US diet.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
> I’d argue that at scale, those ‘efficient’ protocols waste probably 100x more developer time troubleshooting

In another comment you said there should be numbers to back this sort of claim

Anyway, the problem with our software stack is that there are so many layers, so if we get performance wrong at every one of them, it'll compound terribly at the top. We should have some sort of strategy to decide priorities at each layers, say, lower layers like OS, container, programming language, network protocols, should be about performance, then we can be wasteful at higher layers, the domain code, if that gives us better abstractions and maintainability.
I had to walk to pick up my car at the hospital yesterday with my young daughter, and it was a 1.5 mile walk. It was pretty easy, and my daughter had a lot of fun. But a lot of people wouldn’t have attempted it because they would think a 30 minute walk is nuts.

It ended up being a great walk and way better than using a cab to retrieve our car. I had hemmed and hawed for awhile about how to get the car back, looking into car seat options in a cab, the bus, asking a friend for a ride, and then I looked it up and realized it was a safe, 1.5 mile walk.

There are so many advantages to being active and fit. One of them is that it makes your world seem smaller and more accessible.
Transmission Line
... you can do all of those things on Windows and Mac, too.
I've been thinking that something like topics is the actual solution for advertising so I'm not surprised that Google is trying to own this idea.

For instance, I think that if, by legislation, the publisher was allowed to send to the ad network three interest codes AND NO OTHER INFO, I'd be ok with that. I'd also be ok with a minor degree of localization (dma or metro).

The publishers could pick their three codes for all their users or, if they had some way of distinguishing "Sports Fan" from "Gaming Fan" IN THEIR OWN DATA they could send that (e.g. reddit would know my top three codes based on my subscriptions).

Then just eliminate tracking and monitoring, again by legislation.

Of course the list would have to be short, general and non intrusive.

In one fell swoop all the tracking cookies go away, advertisers get a single targeting method. The ad tech industry stops eating the world. Content becomes king again.

Google being in control of the codes, using their trove to choose the codes (in a suitable non-transparent mannter) while also reserving all that data for their own use is a huge problem.
>Making your training data into a cultural standard is just imperialism, but that's the goal here righ?

yep. The cultural imperialism is an open secret. But I've completely lost any ability to tell the difference between people pretending not to know, and those actually not noticing.
Sounds like you have a certain mental model of computation, and you can't understand other types of semantics. I suggest playing with a term rewriting language. If you can grok that without mapping it to your existing mental model, then other languages can be viewed through that lens much more easily.
It's an electron app, they are by definition web developers.
that's the reason why I don't buy Chinese crap anymore. I'm not saying that I don't buy anything made in China, almost everything is made in China, but everyone should avoid Chinese crapware.

This is one of the big reasons that Apple locked down its Lightning/USB ports so hard.

There were tons of fake Apple chargers flooding the market that contained exfiltration circuitry, among other problems. It was a huge topic in tech circles, and on HN, at the time. I even have a few "data condoms" leftover from those years. (If you don't remember, they're little dongles you put between your USB cable and the USB charger that only have the power lines connected.)

The fact that it also locked out bad cops was a bonus.
It should be very illegal to bring such raw materials on the market.
This should be its own parent comment. I urge you to post it as such, as the article itself is indeed low quality sensationalism that has no place on HN.
You want to pretend like China has a stellar international affairs record? How do you feel about the Chinese treatment of Hong Kong and Taiwan?

I don't see how any of this is relevant anyway. What China is doing today with IP is bad. The opium wars have nothing to do with that.
I've had children vaccinated (years ago at this point) who immediately displayed symptoms of an adverse reaction. Pointed them out to the nurse who administered the vaccine and was ignored. This kind of behavior has been observed at multiple medical facilities with many nurses over many years of seeking medical care for my children.

"It's impossible that it was the vaccine, must have been something else". Nevermind that his parents know very well what is normal and abnormal for him.

You can't get better data than your front line medical professionals are willing to collect. If there is chronic under reporting then risk factors cannot be properly evaluated and all published conclusions are suspect.

My case is just another anecdote but it is one that causes me to distrust the whole system for determining the actual risks of vaccines, that it is broken and unreliable.

Vaccines are safe therefore your negative reaction was due to something else. Hey look, no bad reactions therefore vaccines are safe. With the current levels of pride demonstrated by the medical industry and it's supporters there is no way to penetrate this cycle no matter how compelling the evidence.
In a past life in philosophy, a professor of mine worked in aesthetics, and specifically wrote on the significance of genuineness or authenticity, and its special connection to the sense of touch. I don't remember it well but your remarks reminded me of it. Here is a review which summarizes it: <https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/things-in-touch-with-the-past/>

An excerpt:
> Touch is often practically impossible for ordinary viewers of many genuine specimens of very valuable things, such as a Gutenberg Bible or Michelangelo's David. Protected as they often are by glass encasings, barriers and surveillance technology, these objects are for the most part currently only sensorily accessible through vision.

> However, Korsmeyer rejoins, the sense of touch is still at work given the viewers' physical closeness to these objects and the subsequent in-principle possibility of touching them. Korsmeyer's connection between touch and genuineness explicitly resonates with recent claims about the role of contagion in experiences of the authentic. Cognitive scientists Paul Bloom and George Newman, among others, have argued that our valuing authenticity in objects is explained by our implicitly accepting a magical law of contagion (see, e.g., Newman and Bloom 2012). According to such a law, desirable or odious qualities can be transmitted by contact. So, for example, the value that we attribute to the original David kept in the Gallery of the Academy of Florence (and that we do not attribute to the 20th century copy currently visible in the Piazza della Signoria) is explained by the possibility of touching an object that Michelangelo himself touched. Korsmeyer refers to this feature of our implicit reasoning patterns as 'the transitivity of touch'.
As a driver, I agree with this. While I feel comfortable in the water, I'm not dolphin. I can try really hard to be streamlined but I still have a lot of lumpy bits I have to drag around so that I don't die. Lots of drag. That's not even taking into account millions of years of evolution.
I recieved a very fine umbrella as a gift once (James Smith & Sons. solid stick) and the joke around the house became "pop or fop?" As in what was the percent chance of precipitation (p.o.p) that excused carrying the umbrella that day whereby I would not just be a fop carrying the umbrella as an accessory?

It was so fine, I'd want to carry it for anything over 50%, but I knew it was being a bit dandyish, so a decade and some later, nowadays I don't bring it with me unless it's actually raining.

Perhaps a future feature of this app would be not so much whether to carry an umbrella on a given day, but whether it is appropriate to carry a certain umbrella. I'm sure the owners of JS&S would have some insight!
I'm overweight (used to be obese) and active. Working my way toward not being overweight but it's not easy once you're there.
One thing that isn't often mentioned is that complicated programming languages nearly always come with complicated tooling. C++ has cmake, which is self-explanatory, and even cargo is pretty complicated. I'm still not sure what is a crate vs. a package, and the amount of times I've had to look up the bindgen tutorial, and the amount of steps involved, is too much. This isn't even to mention compile times, debug-mode executable speed, etc. This isn't the complexity moving from the source code to the tooling, this is complexity created in the tooling itself required to manage the complexity created by the language.
Why You Should Encrypt Your Disk, and How to Do It on Ubuntu with a Dual Boot
Obesity is a major risk factor for COVID hospitalization and death[1]. A few highlights from the CDC[2]:

* Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.

* Obesity decreases lung capacity and reserve and can make ventilation more difficult.

* More than 900,000 adult COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States between the beginning of the pandemic and November 18, 2020. Models estimate that 271,800 (30.2%) of these hospitalizations were attributed to obesity.

[1] https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.145...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html#:....
Familiarity is a characteristic of the agent.

Intuitiveness/duficult is of the object.
Santa Clara tried to ban leaded av gas and the rich pilots complained and got the FAA to step in
> You can automatically download covers and lyrics for each song and automatically organize and index your collection for search.

I did this in like 2008 already, on windows.
Love that this page is stuck in time with Rammstein - Mutter.

I remember using FooBar simply because my system had so little RAM, iTunes was off the table.
Tetris Copyright Decision Shows How Complicated Copyright for Games Can Be
>If you do, then I find it incredible that you have never discovered some complicated code that serves no real purpose

Hell, I've written some of that. Very complicated, usually awful code, but it did at one point have a purpose.

If somebody wrote something complicated, just for amusement, then that is its purpose. That's a fence that can be rebuilt or thrown away, but you'd better be sure that nothing else references it or otherwise depends on it doing its quirky baroque thing.
They say that now... It could even very well be the case. However, there are plenty of ways to manipulate those licensing agreements to work more in Nvidia's favor than they do today.
For better or worse, these all predate the modern conventions of intellectual property.
Not sure what you and people are looking for. It's a decentralised currency that already solved many issues for people around the world. Now if people stopped speculating into stupid things so it were a bit more stable... Then again, no currency is stable right now. My USD also devalue faster than I can spend them.
I didn't talk about casus belli, you're just making stuff up.

Sure, things happen all the time without a war breaking out. But it's not like you can "just kill" or "just attack" without repercussions. That's ridiculous thought. It's similar to saying "what's the reason to have a security guard in the shop, when you can just take a pistol and kill him". Security isn't about having an impenetrable defense; such a thing isn't possible. Anything can be destroyed in the end.

There's always a repercussion for attacking the military, be it diplomatic, economic or a military retaliation.
Yes, in American English we have non-genital knobs as well. Very bizarre they would take down a review for that.
> And my health isn't that important to me.

In the US, if you have kids, especially while in your 30s like many people do nowadays, staying healthy through 60s can provide an immeasurable boost to your kids’ probabilities of achieving/maintaining security. Through 70s and being able to take care of grandkids is an even bigger boost considering daycare prices.

Getting to 65 without needing hospital care is a big benefit too, since 65 is when you qualify for taxpayer funded hospital care. I assume it will be more than 65 when I am older, or it will be means tested.
Sorry for off-topic, but: why are there many different neurotransmitters instead of a common single one? (I mean, sure, evolution, there's no "why", but I'm asking from an hypothetic engineering standpoint.)
The ubiquity of car-centric designs in major population areas of the US has produced immeasurable harm both environmentally and physically. I've seen obese family members lose tens of pounds while spending a few months in Europe in part because they have to walk a few extra miles each day (and in part due to dietary changes, I'm sure).
The problem is that "feeding false information to these algorithms" only really works if the algorithms are naive and don't try to detect whether you're lying. If your "feeding false information" mechanism can be detected, you're still in the same position.
If you want to use a custom screen shot tool, you are not the target audience for gnome.
Measures could be put in place, like installing the OS only when it arrives from the Chinese construction site or shipping pre-installed SSDs with Bitlocker enabled (with unique keys per customer) so that the drives cannot be tampered with unnoticed.

In practice, I've never heard of companies actually investing in these checks. There are a few "assembled in the USA" products that probably flash their install image outside China, but who says the American intelligence agencies in turn won't tamper with those? They've done it before, after all.

I'm a little surprised there aren't any viable open source programs for what is essentially a precise plotter with a complicated plot head. A bunch of plants could work together to construct a system free of vendor lock-in and expensive replacement parts if they would just work together.
Congratulations on the offers!
Did you have not have any leet code kind of interviews, I should asked this in the question, but do you mind mentioning what level were you interviewing for and how long did your whole interviewing process last (i.e, from when you first started interviewing for a company to when you stopped)
oink and what.cd. Ahh, the memories.
Likely Qualcomm bales them out as they have offered to do so and eventually takes them over quietly by osmosis so no one notices until the deal is done.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/qualcomm-offers-to-rescue-a...
I ended up switching to MusicBee (https://www.getmusicbee.com/), before switching to macOS. It's not as snappy but I liked the default UI and had all the batteries I needed.

Also back then they had this concept of an "Inbox" for new albums, which was a special playlist of newly scanned music that you then could "move" to your library. It was good for vetting new albums before the era of streaming/YouTube.
I didnt know, thanks for telling me...

So where should I look?
He killed plenty Koreans too.
I love projects like this. A quick start to play with another rendering environment. Although I must say the implementation is quite verbose, but I didn't yet look at the details and did not yet take a look at Vulkan.
With keyword arguments there are a lot of cases when we do things like

def call(batch_id:, language: )
end

batch_id = find_batch_id_from_conditions(conditions)
language = load_language_settings(user.id)

call(batch_id: batch_id, language: language)

For me, I would gladly replace the last method with call(batch_id:, language:)
Cunningham's Law! "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
This article is based on self-report data, where the (relatively objective) criteria is:

> Respondents were classified as physically inactive if they responded “no” to the following question: “During the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?”

It doesn't attempt to determine what an appropriate level to "protect health" is; that's pure editorialization on the part of the byline.
I love that this would make Nvidia too powerful.

Uh, exactly what have Google and Microsoft been up to? I'd say they're "too powerful" at this point...
I'm not sure it's American exceptionalism, just that Hubble has been around a long time and is much more prominent in the public conscience thanks to iconic images like the Hubble deep field.

If someone builds a big new ocean liner you know journalists are going to compare it to the Titanic. Same thing.
> The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd editionexternal icon, recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week. This can be broken into smaller amounts such as 22 minutes every day or 30 minutes/five times a week. Individuals and families are encouraged to build physical activity into their day by going for a brisk walk or a hike, walking the dog, choosing the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator, parking further away in the parking lot and walking the rest of the way, walking or cycling to run errands, and getting off the bus one stop early and walking the rest of the way. The key is to move more and sit less.

10 minutes to the grocery store once a month does not count.
I've been using Modafinil daily for about 2,5 years and I am currently under its effect.
I buy it online and pay with Bitcoins.
I use armodafinil if I want more focus, and I use modafinil if I am tired.
I don't take the full dose, which is 150mg (armodafinil) /200mg (modafinil)- I break the tablets into 4 and pop them if I feel like I am unfocused or tired. In the course of the day, I rarely take more than 1 full dose. For reference, I know of people who take it for narcolepsy who routinely consume 8 full doses a day (200mg x 8).
For me it's been a clear net benefit without any noticeable side effects. I think it makes me about 20% "smarter"/"better", let's me learn and achieve more and generally improves my life.
Where Are the Internet Networks?
I've noticed lately that in the Q&A section of the majority of the items I look at on Amazon, someone asks where the item was made.

That's helpful. I've always wanted to know where my stuff comes from, from my food to my gadgets. So I encourage other people do ask the same questions on Amazon. It helps other people.
I've used Linux as a desktop since 2013 and to this day I still use foobar2000 as my music player under wine because I've never found anything better.
If it's an API that you plan to force on me then you better believe you will hear from me.
>There were tons of fake Apple chargers flooding the market that contained exfiltration circuitry, among other problems. It was a huge topic in tech circles, and on HN, at the time.

source? I've heard of fake charges being planted with exfiltration circuitry as part of a targeted attack (eg. by red teams or actual bad guys), but I haven't heard of aliexpress vendors shipping them out en-masse.
Every time I hear "lead poisoning" mentioned, I have flashbacks to myself as a child playing with my Dad's lead fishing weights like an idiot.
or maybe they don’t give a fuck about your tiny company that’s too cheap to buy a decent pic n’place? maybe the malware was actually intended getting ip from the company that manufactured machines like yours in the thousands. why do you always assume US companies are the only ones being copied from?
Foobar is my favorite Android music player. The UI is excellent and it's very fast.
In a perfect world where you are able to find out the reasons why the fence exists, it is fine to evaluate if the reasons still hold true to keep the fence. In many real instances, we may not be able to find out the original reasons with any reasonable level of certainty.

Under those circumstances, it is best to figure out options in front of us, make a decision and move forward. Doing nothing is also an option, but one cannot be stuck in endless analysis-paralysis and fail to decide.
I'd also be interested in a Haskell example.
"active enough that factors other than exercise dominate health" would seem to be a reasonable bar to me. Obviously you can only estimate this, but that still seems useful.
That’s fair. For what it’s worth you can run everything locally and on any server via miniflare. This is all integrated into Wrangler 2.0 which lets you trivially switch between running things locally and in prod.

The concept itself is generally portable with several services offering largely compatible implementations although there is more porting work than would be ideal.

As for standards/vendor lock-in concerns, I’m sure that will get resolved sooner rather than later.
> “A huge proportion of your immune system is actually in your GI tract,” says Dan Peterson, assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. [1]

The old saying, you are what you eat is true. A diet that leads to obesity often leads to a weaker immune system. In the last 10-15 years there's been a bunch of research on how GI health relates to our immune system.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/advancements-in-res...
That's a problem with a lot of people regarding a lot of movies, I've found: people think the Main Character is always the Good Guy and whatever they do is a positive model for life. See: The Wolf of Wall Street.
It was one of the big Microsoft worms from ~10 years ago plus a few random ones.
For RBS I don't yet have a case, but thank you for reminding me about single line definitions, case...in, and destructing arrays and hashes.

I should play a bit with them and see if they provide any help to write more readable code.
Why don't they just release foobar 2022? (Or outsource naming to Microsoft?)