skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who used to be a lot like you, until I got married. Some advice below, YMMV.

1 - Easy heatables. Whether it's TV dinners or chicken nuggets, it's low effort.

2 - Quesadillas. It's cheap and no harder than putting a can of chicken and hot sauce in a tortilla, throwing it in the oven. Or no chicken. Or add cheese. Whatever.

3 - Crock pots. Would often keep a deer stew going that I'd eat for days at a time. It's a little investment up front in time, but pays dividends.

4 - Staples. Beans, rice, and potatoes all go a long way and are pretty foolproof.

Number 3 is closest to what humans did for a long time, really. The problem is that we lost the sense of community so it's every man for himself.
“A team meeting was hastily called and we embarked on ‘brainstorming’, an American business technique in which ideas are graded depending on how loudly they’re shouted”

Alan Partidge
> When she was asked to tell a lie, she would tell the truth. When she was asked to tell the truth, she would lie. She manipulated her breathing, balled her hands into fists against the chair, and pressed her feet hard against the floor, causing her hands to sweat and her blood pressure to spike. The polygraph test was inadmissible.

This is a tangent but it's mind-boggling that this piece of pseudoscientific garbage [1][2][3] is still used by supposedly legitimate government agencies.

[1]: https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/polygraph

[2]: https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph

[3]: https://www.nap.edu/read/10420/chapter/5#101
I would think that speed would come 5th in my list of desirable feature in a laptop

1. portability
2. battery lifetime
3. cost
4. connectivity

So Intel bragging for speed with such higher consumption and dedicated GPU (as opposed to integrated one).
Maybe I have some niche use
I had a 2019 Intel MBP. I hated that machine with a vengeance. It was always hot, and because of that always throttled. I live in a hot place (Israel) and during the summer of 2021 the heat caused a massive expansion of the battery which destroyed the laptop.

I went for an M1 in late 2021 after using a Windows machine for a few months and hating every moment of it.

The M1 is simply incomparable. Fast. Silent. It feels futuristic.
> "Hey the missile doesn't work in v1, but we still shipped it"

Isn't the F35 developed like that though?
What would improve my quality of life is if date pickers used some global cookie mechanism to share recent dates between websites. The number of times I'm looking at flights/hotels around the web and have to keep entering the same date on infuriatingly different date pickers is soul destroying.

At least allow a date to be pasted in and have the logic to accept if the user has entered something thats different from what the backend needs but makes sense for the the current date and their locale: "22 feb" "22/02/2022" "22/2" "2/22" etc
I am sure the 40W is CPU only, excluding other part of the SoC. The M1 Max GPU alone could push to 60W.
I didn't refer to Gemini. It was meant to be read as:

"Here's a radical idea: the truth is probably somewhere in the middle."
I don't see why this matters either way. Who cares about the presence or absence of a non-selected search engine? Anything that's in the list but not the default will never be used anyway.
Hijacking this comment, I use Horst Schaeffer's MemPad[0] for this. Super lightweight, super simple, super fast. Also great for tracking freelance work with one file per client. Alas, Windows-only.

0. https://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm
From the blow AMD dealt them.
The project can be downloaded and run locally (it is a static client side website, no server) and the proof generation and verification can be run offline, without the coordinates ever being sent over the network. Only the proof file needs to be sent between the two parties.

I suppose the system itself acts as a “third party” but at no stage does it require you to share the coordinates with one another, hence zero knowledge. :)

Does that make sense?
You'd think a non-white non-American female engineer not afraid of self-expression and her own sexuality would be a darling given the big talk of diversity and inclusion, but in the end she gets rejected because her boobs are too big for America to handle. It's comical.
Online shopping for food is way more efficient time-wise (not to mention money: it’s so easy to avoid buying stuff you don’t need).

Also, batch-cooking. Cook one evening a week, but 3-4x what you do normally and freeze the rest.

Initially your freezer will just have 1 thing in it but after a few weeks you will actually have a nice variety of things, ready to defrost.

Cooking 3-4x of one thing takes maybe 50% more time, if that, than cooking 1 portion.
>The market decides how hard you are expected to work

That's like saying house prices in San Francisco are set by how much people are willing to pay. It's true but hides the real problem which is housing is unaffordable for many in that area.
Polygraphs are the "fan death" of America.
I assume the rationale behind this change is that malware removes all the search engines and then inserts a new one of its own, and the user fixing that is hard.
Sign of times with that mobile links ;)
Soylent and Ensure to name two
May not apply to you, but sleep depriving yourself can be an unintentional self-treatment for ADHD, or even other things like depression. Good to know if anyone reads this comment and identifies with it.
"People with freedom are free to manipulate people" is such a dangerous perspective. People have actually been brainwashed to believe this... that freedom is dangerous.

Want to know how we should combat misinformation? Education.
I don’t think it’s okay to make a medical diagnosis about someone based on a 5 minute video.

The mod of the sub said they have autism, so that is not what the person you’re replying to did.
Not quite. It avoids the thorny question of "what is value" that Marxists disappear up their own fundament with.

Here the Labour hour is valued only in terms of its exchange rate to the denomination that the area pays tax in.
Buy a crock pot and make a big hearty stew on Sunday. Keep a rice cooker around too. Then refrigerate and eat that stew twice a day, heated up in a microwave, with rice. You can try different stew ingredients and seasonings in the stew according to taste. Use the same bowl and cup, rinse it out each time.

You've reduced your cost and time to a bare minimum (shopping and cooking are a couple hours a week). Note that you can skip the rice and put a starch (e.g. potatoes) in the stew, but rice is highly flexible. You can research the things you need, cut them up and add them to the stew - like beans and broccoli. Since you don't care about taste, don't even bother with meat. Oh, BTW, you're vegan now.
It's the country/culture you live in. In most parts of South-East Asia cooking at home is uncommon and a massive street food scene emerges (tiny kitchens factor in to this).

If you can stand the humidity - move to Singapore! No rockets required, just jet airplanes.
Worldle solvers are like the Hello World of AI programming. Or maybe not AI, just statistical analysis.
10 hours a week isn’t that much. I get by with the same vegan taco 100s of times in a row. 2 hours to make the rice and beans on the weekend and freeze half of it. 20 minutes to cook one up. 5 minutes to wash the dishes. Took about 5 weeks of iterative development to make the recipe.

2 hours + 30 * 7 is already 5.5 hours. 30 minutes across 1-2 trips to the market. Throw on various other foods like peanut butter bananas, bread with olive and hummus, popcorn.

I used to say the same as you. I got a big order of Huel and that’s darn good (no flavoring), yet not much faster unless it’s literally all I eat. It’s no cheaper than the taco bowl either which is full of produce, so I prefer to pay for more fresh food. I feel better when I eat fresh food too.

Pardon not answering the question. Huel is the best but it really doesn’t get better than meal prep with fresh food. Not even a partner would be faster TBH because you can’t treat them like a robot—-no free lunch.

Someone else mentions intermittent fasting, that helps a lot and I’ve been on it since like 2017, warrior mode.
5mins showers? that's crazy. Why waste so much time in the shower every day.
I am with you. Grocery markets are super inefficient. What I really want is to enter a grocery market and pick up a bag of pre-selected items that are labeled "Keto" or "Vegan", daily packs, weekly packs. All preselected and so I can just enter, pick a bag and leave. I feel they're missing on a lot of value by having people pick things for themselves, noone really knows what's good for them or what a complete diet looks like.
Ask HN: Suggestion for Paid News Subscriptions
I am requesting suggestions for good quality paid news subscriptions that are easy to un-subscribe from.

I have heard that unsubscribing from NY Times and WSJ can be a pain because you have to call up a number to talk to someone about it, and evade any attempts they might make to lure you back in.

I am primarily interested in business/financial news. I looked at Bloomberg un-subscription process, and it seems they also require you to chat with the customer service about it.

Ideally I would like to subscribe (and unsubscribe) directly (i.e. not through, say, iTunes).

If you have any good experiences with unsubscribing at will, please share.
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My nana lived a long and good life. When I was a little boy, I discovered that she's actually one year older than her official documents suggest. She revealed that it was not done by a mistake or a typo, but by a deliberate action. The story was that in the early 1940s the village she was living in was under German occupation and young people were being conscripted into "labor camps" and transferred to Reich mainland. So her family pulled all the strings, bribed all right people to make a "correction" to the documents in a way indistinguishable from original record. The war was over in a few years, but nobody bothered to "fix" the fake record.

By the way, German administration at the time wanted to be seen as "liberators from communist oppression". The conscription was promoted as highly noble thing, beneficial for the "New Order". Those joining "labor camps" were celebrated. There were bounties set for dobbing in partisans ("bandits"). Although collaborators were many, nonetheless many others, lacking the necessary connections to obtain fake ausweiss, chose to fight the "liberators" with all the rage they could muster. Many paid the ultimate price. If my grandma's document forgery was revealed, the whole family would be in line for execution. By no means it was an "easier" option than conscription, but certainly "easier" than fully joining "people's avengers".

I believe when the matter is perceived as life-and-death, the lack of "easier" option to take out a fake document may very well push some people into full-blood fight. You don't need many of them before society falls into a bloody war. So, the prevalence of fake vaccine certificates may be not a problem, but a blessing in disguise. If one is willing to consider a possible alternative.
Thanks for bringing those numbers. Kind of crazy to me that tobacco still causes so many deaths - I had no idea.

I think the epidemic is worse in a few particular ways (though obviously not as bad in other ways as smoking, since I doubt COVID will keep causing 480k deaths a year). Ways in which it is worse:

1. It causes a spike of hospitalizations - this causes much less healthcare to be available in general. Smoking is already (regretably) factored in, I imagine, and doesn't cause sudden spikes.

2. COVID is generally not something you can protect yourself from - unlike smoking, which is to a much greater extent a personal choice.

3. Efforts to contain COVID are having a drastic effect on the economy in a way that smoking doesn't (both government-mandated and personal actions.)
Ah, our old friend supply chain security.

This is a very, very hard problem to solve without some serious coordination and effort. To do this well you need to do all kinds of things like:

1. Verifying the authenticity of the software you're looking at. Is that really libxml or has someone fed you a poisoned package? Does it have a checksum? Is the registry or repository we pulled it from adequately secured?

2. Verifying the provenance of a particular version of a package. Who made this change? Why did they make it? Is the change safe?

3. Vetting the governance of a package or library. We may know of Apache and have some confidence in the governance of that project, but what about leftpad of NodeJS/npm fame? Is that logging library we got for our Rust app off of crates.io managed by a reputable OSS developer and/or company, or are the motivations of the entities building it uncertain? Can they be bought? Bought out? Sued? Blackmailed? If you're looking at this with the mindset of a state-sponsored organization that handles anything remotely important these are not unreasonable considerations.

The list goes on and on. It helps if you're working in an ecosystem that has high level of quality standards for the libraries or software packages that are being used, but there's always more to dig up the deeper you go into a dependency tree.

I'm of the opinion that supply chain attacks can be mitigated, but never eliminated. Having many eyes on a project helps (thanks to all of you working on projects with openly available sources!). We're still a long way from making our industry's tools and development processes naturally robust to these things, though I'm excited to see more dialog around these issues.
>In most parts of South-East Asia cooking at home is uncommon

Is that true??? I would be deeply, deeply surprised if it is.
Because of what I now consider my "legacy ARFID", I can both see the attraction of consistent foodstuffs like Huel/Soylent and also the horror of them. Personally for me the horror outweighs the attraction.

I would ask the OP if any ARFID-like feelings/emotions are driving his quest.

- If they are, consider talking to someone about this, or joining an online support group. ARFID is pernicious, hidden, often derided, and affects a _lot_ of tech-type people; it seems to ride along with a lot of the traits that can make us a little different. It's time to take the shame out of admitting that it's more than just fussy eating; it's deeper, darker and scarier.

- And if not, I'd really recommend looking at fresh soups, part-baked bread, five minute meal recipes, three-ingredient recipes, and listening to podcasts or music in the kitchen. There are ways to make food less of a chore.

Also, it's an old-fashioned idea, but if you're really uninterested in cooking, look at your options for canned foods. You can buy them and keep them for months or years, and if you can find a thing you really like out of a can you need never be short of at least one ridiculously simple thing to eat. Canning is truly one of humanity's greatest achievements, and it's puzzling to see so many attempts to solve a problem that is in many ways already solved.

(My tip: canned curries are better than they sound.)

Fighting through my distaste for food at every level has made me a happier person, and as much as I can see the benefit of trying to "solve" this problem in one go like this, I'd urge the OP not to do so.
It helps but it's still annoying as you scroll there's 2-3 full height scrolls of just photos. (on iPhone and Firefox - Desktop)
Reminds me of printergate. Fair. Ok, so what about using an OCR tool to convert to text, then converting that back to PDF?
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I got to say you're spot on. Keeping things working is no challenge looks at his commodores.

Keeping them relevant is more of a challenge, this is one reason I hate to see people forcing redirects to HTTPS, it's just great and dandy that modern browsers suggest this to users (as long as they don't force), but for vast vast amounts of information, in the free world, you shouldn't force people into always-encrypted. There is zero good reason I shouldn't be able to choose to read Wikipedia unencrypted. And I can do that on pretty much any machine that can somehow crawl onto the Internet.

There's also the problem of "easily replaceable parts", because parts stop being produced, and I think we've been in a golden-age of new-old-stock, and I don't see that continuing in the future. Easily replaceable pose two problems, first, is sourcing the actual part as the world moves on and production stops, the other is that easily replaceable is at odds with industry demand, sure, I personally like 40 pin dip sockets for my hobby electronics, because they're easy to solder, things are large enough I can see them! But I'd not want every appliance I own to be constrained by that, meaning there's no incentive to produce them, leading back to the first problem.

There are so many problems with how to build a machine that lasts, or, even how to build an architecture, or system, that lasts, but they are worthwhile pursuits, discussing and thinking about them is worthwhile, because, systems we can understand, own and service are inherently more valuable than the ones we cannot.
For me brainstorming has nothing to do with generating ideas or solutions. I see it as an activation tool. You prime up your brain before doing the actual thinking.
> Except for FOX from the CNN and MSNBC viewers perspective, and CNN and MSNBC from the FOX viewers perspective.

Outside perspective: They're clearly all heavily pushing agendas that are only very thinly veiled as news, in between the actual news.

The US hardly has any objective reporting because any attempt at doing so has to weather a lot of shit from every direction and because such reporting just doesn't do as well. The left-leaning and "centrist" news love to lie by omission (just look at the Rittenhouse trial: nobody who actually saw the full trial would have been surprised by the result), while the right-leaning news tend to exaggerate and outright make shit up (for examples look no further than reporting on the BLM protests). Both do a fair amount of cherry-picking what to report on.

It's like people don't actually want news, but instead want to have their views confirmed. The only places on this globe that manage to actually have some semi-objective TV news do so because it is ingrained in their very culture to value those and because of unconditional (government) funding. And even there news have issues - because it's still only people deciding what to report on and how.

Having programmes that the whole political spectrum can watch goes a long way towards having a dialogue and finding common ground.

In any event this deplatforming needs to stop. It's just about the most effective way to polarize a society by forcing everyone on separate platforms.
What a beautiful page!!!
That ten hours is a valuable part of the life experience. Discovering new things, developing skills, enjoyment are to be had if you actually go looking. I think the better way here is expanding your horizons rather than looking for a substitute. Also worth finding someone to do those things with.
Governments and sponsoring companies should pay for it. The rest of us a presenters and private inviduals should get it free. Knowledge should be free flow not at every steps being VAT-ed.
> Even without those two annoyances, the political spam texts are nightmarish.

This was one of the biggest shocks I had moving to California. I eventually got fed up and actually replied telling them never to text me again and someone actually replied. That was when I learned that real people are on the other end of these things. It made it even creepier that my phone number was handed out, not to a machine, but to a real person.
Thank you for your answer. I got instantly buried below the "bad perf per watt" comments and thought nobody would see my question.
I follow your arguments, but I just find them incredibly weak.

We're not talking about slippery slope here and "may have beens", we're talking about already having a soft form of worst case scenario, and _still_ not bringing out the big guns. Not doing challenge trials for Covid is just stupid, no matter how you try to push it.

"DNA alteration experiments on babies" - we do that, actually, and I'm seriously considering waiting on having a family until they become mainstream. It's a pretty cool tech, they had the first designer baby out last year. Just putting the scariest form you can think of in writing isn't an argument in itself, you know. You also have to say why it's a bad idea. Otherwise, no offense and please don't take it personally, but it's purely equivalent of somebody saying 200 years ago: "what's the next step, feeding MOLD to BABIES?". Turns out yes, feeding mold to babies is exactly what we're supposed to do. It's just progress - it looks weird until it's in the kitchen cabinet.

The mRNA vaccine not being ready - it's just incredibly improbable that you had three major corporations being able to "rush things along" and finish exactly at the same time. It's 10x to 100x more probable that they were already finished and stuck at some regulatory step.

And a final thought - please don't interpret my comments to say testing and regulation in general is bad. FDA is bad, and probably should be destroyed outright and something else, something much leaner, built instead. But some regulation and a lot of testing are of course necessary. It's just that currently 1. they've gone waaaay beyond what's needed and into pure bureaucracy and 2. the system is such that it ignores major slices of reality and focuses only on what's in front of their eyes, i.e. they don't do challenge trials because it's not ethical for the volunteers, but if they lead to 1% less death overall this means tens to hundreds of thousands saved - which they ignore.
Yes, the show usually breaks at around the 10 minute mark for a block of ads. In some cases I’ve heard them run two blocks during an episode.

Not thrilled about it, but I don’t know if that’s distinctly a Spotify thing or if content creators have the option.
Why don’t you just hire a chef?
Food is the richness of life.

To be healthy for your body, food has to be much varied, fresh or freshly prepared, nearly industrially unprocessed.

And for your mind to be healthy, it has to be tasty, varied, prepared with affection for/by someone you love, and eaten in an enjoyable place.

But you want to trade health, taste, beauty, meaning and variety of one of the biggest pleasures in life... for efficiency?

Get a good grocery delivery network, arrange a meal schedule of what you like, prepare the groceries list with AI, buy commodities like a freezer, an oven, a kneader, a dicer and a rice cooker, and that's healthy efficiency.
Thats why the Vorwerk Bimby sells so well.
Prepare things in advance and eat with many people, so that you can prepare big meals in a more efficient way.

Or drink soylent each day and throw your mind and body into a life in the sewer.

Not every inefficient process is a sin, or bad. But maybe smartness can compensate bullshit like food, sex and relationships - and finally make us efficient and ethically pure like corpses are.
Guesses come from the 12972-word list in both cases.
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Eating is not just to survive, human body is not an automobile that you fill gasoline in and make it work. If thats the expectation, then whats the difference between a human and a machine ? Buying food, cooking it, or baking a nice recipe you found, sharing food with friends, calling over your friends/family to dinner, having a nice meal with everyone, these are all interactions that makes us human. Get rid of all of them , then humans are not "living" anymore, they are simply "existing".
You appear to be writing this from the perspecive of someone who hasn't tried writing a wordle solver yet. The "obvious" approaches have unreasonable algorithmic complexity, so you have to get at least a little bit creative.