skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're both right. I read the article and the author does seem to be suggesting what critics of cancel-culture critics always claim we're suggesting - that popular platforms must give "equal time" to all points of view. This bit of ongoing misdirection is doing a good job of muddying the definition of "censorship" to make it look like the actual memory-hole-ing that Twitter and Facebook and Google have been engaging in is somehow purely organic. So the person you're replying to is correct that the article is completely wrong - so wrong that I kind of wonder if the author isn't trying to pull some weird "false flag" pro-censorship move.
what.cd was one of the greatest resources available on the Internet, in my opinion. Still sad it's gone. :-(
> The Narrator still proceeds with killing off Durden, but the exploding building scene is replaced with a black screen and a coda: "The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding".

Simpsons did it.[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhiOAFE64M4
The advice really should depend on where you are. There's an old adage that says "you can't outrun your fork", and that's very much true. Cardio alone will often be compensated by increases in hunger. If you aren't on top of your diet, then exercising probably won't amount to much.

In general, if you are very heavy, you can usually get away with significant calorie deficits through diet alone, as your base metabolic rate is so high. You should still be active for other health benefits, but your weight loss is best accomplished from from eating better and less. But the lighter you get, the more cardio matters, because at some point you'll start to have problems getting nutrition from not eating enough. This is especially true if you are getting shredded.

I think this is in part why there's so much conflicting advice on this. You have former fat people saying "nah, it's all diet", and you have very fit people saying "no way, it's totally cardio". They're both right, in their respective domain.
I plan to continue to offer it for free, as the costs are so minimal and I want to use this service myself anyway.

Eventually, I may offer very minimal text-based links to Amazon and other stores for relevant lightbulbs, batteries, etc. (when you click on a "thing" in your house), and those affiliate fees would be more than enough to cover my hosting costs. I want to be clear, those links would be something like "Find a replacement lightbulb on Amazon". That's it.

There is no intention of making this project a unicorn.
The place I notice it most is when launching it. I don't keep it open all day, I open it periodically to work on this or that and close it when done.

Opening it feels like it takes forever (5-10s) compared to something like Sublime Text (<1s) and when there are a lot of launches throughout the day, that adds up.
This is the key. We like to blame people for being inactive and overweight, but we've designed our transportation and food systems so that only the most motivated can be anything else.
Yup, and it's even more directed than that.

Western MBAs and politicians think they know that manufacturing is just a fungible commodity and think that we're exploiting cheap Chinese labor to 'drive shareholder value'.

While they have this myopic focus on quarterly results, the CCP has a 100- and 500-year plan, and is happily exploiting that myopia for strategic economic and military value, including subsidizing massive undercutting of entire industries in order to kill all but their own. The result is that they are gaining the deep know-how of manufacturing, the ability to compromise their adversaries' military gear at the component level, and the ability to choke off supply chains.

Although there is still barely time to repair this, it will go down as a strategic blunder of historic proportions.
What worked for me was starting with some simple one, a bit technical, but not over the top. I think the first paper I really read, and this was a couple months ago, was Facebook's "Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database"[0]

After that, I started to write 1-3 paragraph summaries to myself, so that I could always come back to the main takeaways, because I know I'll forget it after 1 week.

And then, last week I created a Twitter account where I post these opinionated summaries [1]

[0] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf

[1] https://twitter.com/paper_takeaways
I have been a happy paying customer of Zoho for years now. I know they have data servers in the US and other countries. Apparently they base their data center location on your IP address. I assume that the decision is made during account creation, but you would have to ask their support for clarification. In my experience they will actually find the answer and respond to you with human support. It’s kind of amazing these days.

https://www.zoho.com/know-your-datacenter.html
Hah, I know you're joking here but this is (was) a thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9sc0qj/deepcre...
Yes, it's a good place for digital workers, but don't expect some incredible tech scene. The expat community is alright. I recommend southern Tenerife, but many people are on Gran Canaria too.

Any company you start there will have to do business outside. There are excellent tax conditions, but not a lot of workers and very few customers, if any.

Same goes for freelancing, you'll have to work with clients outside the islands if you expect more than 10% of a usual tech salary.
Similar fiasco when EPA did a showcase project converting DC water supply away from chlorine treatment. Hugely embarrassing and expensive "fix" for a non-problem, that created a much worse problem.

(ETA: It also caused lead to be released- non-lead pipes had actually leached lead from the water over many years, acting as a filter. The lead was chemically bound to both lead and non-lead pipes. Changing the chemistry caused the process to reverse and dump all that lead back into the water at much higher concentrations than would occur just using a 100% lead pipe system.)

And lead paint is similar. In-situ it's pretty harmless. It's the removal that's dangerous and is more likely to poison.

This is why people arguing for "do-something!" actions using "What harm could it do?" reasoning should always be fought until safety is confirmed experimentally the field.

"What harm could it do?" should always be a red flag for "don't know what you don't know" ignorance, and responded to as if it's a real, non-rhetorical question.
I had never heard of using a @software citation, I always just used @misc... Does it work everywhere?
I'm suspicious of seductively clever writers like Chesterton. You'll find this quote on his wikipedia page:

> "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

Having read some of his Christian apologetic essays, I suspected the fence argument was fundamentally motivated by religion, and again from the wiki page, it originated in from his book "The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic".

EDIT: GP said "Progressives tend to be very dismissive of the Chesterton's Fence analogy, because they think change is an unalloyed good." to which parent complained "Why did you need to make this political?". I found Chesterton's own words both relevant and sufficient warrant to broaden the discussion along the lines of the GP.
I really like music player daemon on Linux. Is foobar actually superior at reproducing sound?
Honestly it's worse than this sounds. According to a UNC study only 12% of adults are metabolically healthy.

>Data revealed that only 12.2 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, which means that only 27.3 million adults are meeting recommended targets for cardiovascular risk factors management, according to researchers.

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2018/11/28/only-12-percent-of-amer...
That is an interesting point of view. I am usually reading code in order to understand what it does (or where it goes wrong) without the author being present, where the proper use of const in declarations can save a lot of time.
Mormon tea / ephedrine is not commonly consumed and as far as I know it isn't consumed at all by LDS faithful. It's just a silly colloquial name for a plant.

But, due to a lot of retroactive canon gymnastics, cold caffeinated beverages like soda are consumed in great quantities by Mormons. Actually, under the latest "official" stance, tea made from the "mormon tea" plant would actually be banned, as it's a "hot beverage" with mental effects.
Just an anecdote- but the wife and I when we go to Europe eat well and post lots of pictures and such and people make jokes like- how much weight did you put on while you were away? And most of the time we actually come home down 2-3 pounds, and its because we are walking around and seeing sights and such- the meals we eat aren't an issue- especially since portions are much smaller.
I'm going to pipe up here 'cause this has bothered me a lot too.
$ grep user_pref prefs.js | wc -l
230

In this profile I have 230 modified preferences. I'm pretty sure scanning the list in "show only modified" that it is all of those. The vast majority were autoset by Firefox or Firefox extensions.

What I would love to find is prefs that I explicitly set manually in about:config. Those are the ones I realllly wanna find later if I messed something up. It would also be nice to have those explicitly set by a user action in Settings too.. Elsewhere contravariant mentioned "user.js" I'll look into that and it'll be super helpful on the desktop. Less so on Android where, thankfully, about:config is still accessible in the F-Droid Fennec firefox build (unfortunately they can't do anything about all my useful addons that were removed or removal of prior functionality but I'll take what I can get).
I know they're not reading HN but well done big congrats to all involved.
In another thread about JWT there’s a discussion about how the Soviets tried to copy the design of the space shuttle because “the Americans must have had some reason we can’t see yet for that design”. Turns out the design was largely motivated by a secret military operation only relevant to the Americans (which never materialized either apparently).

> The article makes the point that people do not build fences for no reason

Sure. That doesn’t mean that the reasons are good or accessible to you to make that decision. Now when the reason is obviously apparent and widely known, that’s a totally different thing with the caveat being that conditions change and you may not have realized that in a complex system.
Exercise burns far fewer calories than I thought (I was surprised by this too). If you walk a mile, you only burn 100 or so calories and that assumes you are walking briskly.

That isn't enough to really change things for many people.
Cool product guys! One question >

"Being open source, we provide the flexibility for our customers to build their own connectors rather than waiting for cloud vendors to fulfill their connector requests."

Why does it need to be OS? Can't a product just have a devkit that enables you to build your own connectors?
I like reading Derek Lowe because he's one of the few prominent scientist authors who actually just comes out and calls the modern narrative about drug discovery a fiction.

SV has this weird addiction to rapid success and biotech drug discovery is sort of the opposite of that. So there are a lot of cases where a data scientist thinks they applied some magic tech and solved a hard bottleneck that will suddenly transform drug discovery into an efficient scientific enterprise.

That's not going to happen. There is no magic loss function that solves the hard problem and even if you had a computer that could compute NP-complete problems quickly, it wouldn't change the process at all.

Instead, the one step that would be the most effective is to make a model that could predict if a late stage molecule could get through FDA approval using only the data that is submitted to the FDA (lots of boring paperwork about trials). With prediction accuracy (both false positive and negative below 1%) you could easily save an enormous amount of time and money.
Scientific journals must be alert to potential manipulation in citations
How exactly would someone prove something is safe? Especially on something that could have multi-decade cycle times?
Tea is not "a technology". It's a drink.
Get two dumbbells and do a 10-minute dumbbell workout off youtube. Better than going on blood pressure pills or whatever is coming down the line for ya.
I haven't check Firefox's fingerprint resistance but Bromite's is very effective against https://fingerprintjs.com/ at least.
Seen from a distance, it looks like a non-sequitur of sorts.

I mean:

>Once I had enough money for around 6 months, I finally quit my job.

How much time has passed since? (like three days, three weeks, three months)

What is the plan when the 6 months elapse?

Or, if you prefer, is the whole idea a radical change of the way of living or some sort of sabbatical?
From what I understand, Gran Canaria is more chill than Tenerife (so cost of life might be a bit lower?). Is that right?

Do you know any companies there with distributed teams?
A couple counterpoints: for all the time you just spent making a local cluster, you could have spent 1 day negotiating a deal with the AWS TAM and get 50% or more off rack rates. So that $861K is more like half that. And second, that machien would be collocated with infinite storage and other processing systems.

The CPU/GPU part of training is only part of the much larger ecosystem, which is what you're paying to be in when you use AWS.
What was the intended mission? I’ve read about the classified missions that went ahead, iirc one of them did use the full capacity.
Hong Kong and Taiwan could be argued as internal affairs, honestly. No matter how much it would pain me that 2 developed and thriving democracies (maybe Macau, too, if you squint really hard at it) are very exposed to nasty regime abuses. "Cuius regio, eius religio" isn't a Chinese saying, it's a Latin one from the Western world. Can't have it both ways.

If you want to go into more unequivocally international affairs abuses, use examples more like the Spratly Islands or the Chinese fishing fleets in international waters.

And regarding IP, I'm kind of torn. China is genuinely developing and innovating and making amazing products for the rest of the world. The UK, the US did the same at the start, also through blatant disregard for IP. Maybe this kind of competition is ok. After all, "If we each trade one apples, at the end we each have one apple. If we each trade one idea, at the end we each have two ideas".
Building a production database in ten years or less
It’s also seems to me that anything Stripe related gets a ton of upvotes. Probably not unusual due to their YC connection, HN presence, and generally being a long time darling of devs that frequent HN. It doesn’t mean it’s rigged, they’re just a competitor with a good tailwind from this site.
It's really not about liking or not , most things are just habits. It's isn't necessarily a healthy state to like inactivity either. Humans aren't built to live in small square rooms , it's an acquired taste that most people have because they grew up in cities.
Stupid question: can anybody out there "get" A100s in AWS right now? We found they are unavailable in all the regions we want to operate.
Don't you have to get third party bots/services to do the blocking? All of them do a lot of upselling and the first one I tried didn't work with blocking keywords. Then some of the bot interaction and config was becoming public and it isn't a good look. I love mechanical keyboards. People like us are not comparable to the regular population. If I cared more about the public group chat, I'd find a working bot to block keywords. But even then, I have to then either look for a keyword list, or see spam messages for what to block.

In the context of this thread, if Telegram is not doing any of this themselves, then it follows from my anecdotal experience, why so much spam and scams are proliferating around. And so Twitter blocking Telegram urls isn't necessarily ruthless corporate behavior.
The good old days of listening test on Hydrogen Audio and Divx / Xvid video testing on Doom9.

But as we have so much storage space and bandwidth the interest of newer, better audio codec wind down. 20 years later we still dont have anything that gives CD / 128kbps MP3 quality at half the bitrate. Instead we all went with 256Kbps AAC, and may be soon lossless. I wish MPC ( Musepack ) has taken off though, I still think it sounds better than AAC.

The same may happen to video too. The rate of Mobile 5G bandwidth improvement is much faster than video codec adoption. We used to care about sub- 1Mbps bitrate, now it is largely gone in developed counties.

Still, I am surprised Foobar2K getting updates in 2022.
It’s marked as a “Trojan/backdoor”, meaning remote access tool, and it tries to spread itself by inserting files to any USB stick inserted into the computer.

Giving someone full remote control over a computer and trying to spread that control as a computer virus is nothing like anonymous analytics collection.
Weight is lost in the kitchen, not the treadmill.

If you go walk 3 miles on a treadmill, you burned 250 calories, great.

Now you reward yourself with a gatorade and a health bar, for 500 calories. You just gained 250 calories by exercising.

As an active runner, I cannot run away my bad eating. Maybe maybe maybe during peak right before a marathon I can get away with it, but like right this second I am a bit heavy and it is 1000% because of food/drink choices I have made. To fix it, I need to have a better diet.
> Walking "several miles per day" isn't sufficient enough to burn tens of pounds...you'd be likely burning 350-450kCal [per day]

Assuming your diet (and thus your caloric intake) stayed exactly the same, burning an extra ~450 calories per day should net a loss of ~4 pounds per month. Over, say, a six-month span, that'd be roughly 20 pounds lost - easily within the bounds of "tens of pounds after several months."
> Return shipping is usually up to the customer

Not for orders from Amazon or Wal Mart, the two biggest places you'd tend to buy cheap Chinese products from.
Log4j1 (stalled in 2012) forked outside of ASF to fix urgent issues
I really like the ruby syntax. JavaScript now has the problem that it can't make code blocks expressions because it's ambiguous with object literal shorthand.
Is this the first step of having an actual viable YouTube competitor?
Technically, the -2008 General Motors doesn't legally exist anymore, all the assets (including brand) were transferred to the restructured org.
Windows -> foobar2000

Linux, Mac -> cmus
Really sad that 30 years later we're only slightly larger. This is a major problem for telescopes since there are hard physical limits on resolution vs size.
It removes the boilerplate of repeating the variable name when it's the same as the hash key. It's an extremely popular syntax in the JavaScript world bleeding over into Ruby. Personally, I enjoy it because it feels more fluid.
Most people using that phrase don't care much about that, it's about the Great Leap Forward. Plus you could argue that his intervention was legitimized by the North Korean government asking for it.

Anyway, we're getting side tracked here.
If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice:

25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0]
= that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1]
vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3].

The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr...
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240)
[2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37
One thing it does is tell websites that you want a light color scheme.
Dremio raises $160M at $2b valuation
Wait... how would pid wrapping impact anything at all unless the process died and the pid file was stale (which is usually a fairly unusual circumstance - I've had it happen maybe a dozen times over the last couple of decades).
And I guess if you have stuff surprise dying without any of the usual cleanup, you have a pretty serious situation in general. Maybe need a process monitor service just for that :)

I was focusing on the "surprise startup" scenario where it would all get wiped and reset.
It's gone farther than "if you say anything". I recently got an "improvement needed" evaluation on one of my goals to support the Diversity and Inclusion initiatives of my department. I am a hiring manager, and not only did I abide by all of the guidelines and processes, but I also hired and promoted multiple female and minority applicants at a higher rate than the department as a whole. I still insisted that they were qualified, of course.

When I questioned the evaluation, I was told that it wasn't enough to support the initiatives and get the results, but you also "NEED TO BELIEVE IN THEM FULLY". Apparently, my boss believes that I am not in 100% alignment with the philosophies behind them. He's correct in that I do not agree with flagrant discrimination based on sex, race, or any other characteristic, regardless of which direction they are in. I'd fire anyone who discriminated against women, minorities, etc., but if I even SEEM TO QUESTION or be troubled about whether the same shouldn't be done against "some people", then I "need improvement."
Yes, Herschel was a great project by the ESA. It certainly got short shrift within the US press despite significant contributions from NASA and JPL. I hope it got plenty of love from the European press. Great work.
Then you'd have to sue your business competitors if they manage to capture a part of your market. After all you've been deprived by them of the benefit of getting money from that part of the market.
The obvious problem with mutual assured destruction is that an insane person could get ahold of the weapons, launch first, and kill all of current and future humanity.

How about not strike back, just try to survive & show future generations of the world how to be. Go live in that other country that isn't radioactive.
Why are you being downvoted? Avoiding chinese products is a good thing. Thanks for the tips.
How quantitative easing in the UK has made the wealthiest in society even richer
Here's a hot take: a lot of these health issues and negative outcomes can be tied back to the automobile.

The car enabled urban sprawl. The car and associated infrastructure (eg parking, roads) has destroyed communities. Even a lot of crime depends on cars. Cars mean you simply don't have to walk anywhere at all. It's why obesity is worse in less dense areas than, say, NYC. Cars enable less dense housing and that kills things like having local shops, eateries and public community spaces to some degree.

Dense housing also means you have to be somewhat tolerant of other people and their quirks. I wonder if the unbelievable selfishness that seems to have taken hold in a large portion of people in the US (in particular) is a consequence of not having to deal with people by virtue of this car lifestyle.

Cars also allow you to psychologically remove yourself from things like homelessness, drug use and poverty. I think it's a large reason why, for example, I see so many people in SF go on about how amazing the city is. I mean have these people never walked down Market Street? Or the Mission? Or the Tenderloin?

Weirdly I never really see much about these negative externalities of affordable private transportation.
This is somewhat bad. Trezor's dictionary is only 2048 words. So to brute force 8 remaining words would only take 2048^8 attempts. Which is 88 bits of security.