skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you live in a place with cold winters, it's pretty handy to be able to start your car as you leave the office. By the time you've walked to your car, it's nice and warm and the engine is running optimally.[1]

1. I know modern engines claim not to need to be warmed up, but I think that's a load of crap. Oil and other lubricants at very cold temperatures need to warm up and there's no evidence that it hurts anything. And it only uses a little sip of gas.
I have found it impractical to get lawyers to use anything other than Microsoft Word even when there are clear benefits (like online collaboration and shared version history). The reason they give is that they don't want a shared history (need to be able to clean document history for sending to external stakeholders) and that they know the other side will be using Microsoft Word anyways. So it's an equilibrium because they know the other side will use Microsoft word so then they have to use Microsoft Word.

I have forced our lawyers to use better technologies but then we end up with Microsoft word documents from opposing counsel. So back to Word it is.

There's a gravitational pull that is not worth us spending any % of a $1000/hr bill on; this is a scenario where doing anything different where they have to be trained is costlier than keeping the status quo, where that is a MSFT Word license the fraction of the cost of a billable hour.
This is interesting because improved weight management would probably the HIGHEST medical impact intervention for tons and tons of people, both in quality of life and disease / illness.

Reading this you realize that folks who are fat may not know (or don't want to know) just how many correlations there are between issues with weight and illness / disease, including mental health issues

I actually wish they'd do things like tie weight screening into things like a mental health referral for depression / self esteem etc support.

Bottom line, obseity is associate with large decreases in life expectancy and higher incidence of early mortality. Given the billions spent on other areas of health (including end of life care) there is probably a fair bit of bang for the buck in actually being more aggressive here.

Just like they want to mandate employers force shots on all staff, you might have strong outcomes if they forced employers to mandate all staff exercise 2x per day for 30 minutes (fitness / stretching etc) - monitored eating during the day to healthy diet etc.

I'm not saying this should happen, but the crazy lockdowns due to COVID for kids (massive impact, modest benefit) - they might not be focusing on areas of greatest payoff.
Two things can be bad at the same time. This is an article about gambling, not alcohol.
Note that "cars are getting less reliable" is a gut feeling that many people have, but largely isn't backed by real metrics.

When's the last time you saw a broken-down car by the side of the road, and is this happening more or less often than 20 years ago?

Do you think cars require more or less upkeep and maintenance than 20 years ago?

Yes, cars do have some new components that have introduced new failure modes, and some of those may be doing worse than others. But as a whole, cars have improved.
Are they going to print "Don't take my blood pressure" cards, too?
Growing up in Las Vegas, it was common for me to see a slot machine room in grocery stores and gas stations. Most movie theaters, bowling alleys, restaurants, etc were in the casinos. I've known a few people with gambling addictions, and it's definitely not easy with slot machines every where you go. But the casinos pay the State's bills, so it's easy to see why regulation is hard to come by.
Betting on footie seems like a long term loser.

The bookmakers cut guarantees you will lose over the long run.
There's a good Geekzone thread on head unit installation. Especially useful if you want to keep the factory reverse camera operating. Note the camera needs 6V. Voltage conversion boards are ultra cheap on aliexpress or if you're in Wellington you could have one from my stash :)
They mean that the process of listening to Joe Rogan causes brain cells to die and therefore you get more stupid. It's hyperbole and has the causation backwards, but it's quite clear in terms of being an english idiom.
The problem is that everyone is a expert on politics, economics, contagious diseases...

There are a lot of great people in the technical world that put their opinions on non-technical subjects out there
I worked at an audit+consulting firm, and our laptops had at least 5 different "security" applications, most of them spyware. Then 2 anti-viruses (eew).

They actively MITM TLS traffic, getting some Java applications like IntelliJ to work was a mission.

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I once interned at a defence company where it was common to hear folks saying "if your PC keeps on freezing, it's IT taking screenshots". This was in 2007-2009, so a while ago.

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My colleague's spouse got sabotaged by their former employer, to make them break their non-compete. The employer spied on their laptop (not a work one, as they'd left). One day the cursor started moving, files getting copied, kind of vibe.

They also sent "customers" to their business, legit and otherwise, to make them err and break their non-compete. Then with some legal muscle, they enforced the non-compete, forcing them out of business. This is a recent thing of 2020.
I do agree pellets are mostly cruel for a creature that size since they don’t ensure a clean and quick kill.
To BTFD, or Not to BTFD
Legal sports betting makes it less likely to have the game thrown. The Athlete salaries far outpace the potential gains of an individual bettor so you need bookmaker involvement but the legal books are so large that they don't won't one-sided games or any particular outcome. They are able to balance their books and make money like never before by keeping an even line.

It's only when the house is constrained in their ability to balance that fixing matches make sense. Even 10 years ago my local bookmaker use to fly to Panama on big weekends with a suitcase of cash to lay off, now he just uses a few apps on his phone.

Something small might get corrupted but I doubt the rate for major events would be any higher.
It's a normal speed in Germany. And yes, driving that fast also drains a gas tank very quickly. Not sure why GP is surprised -- an ICE car will also perform much worse than advertised at those speeds.
I use uMatrix so I can enable scripts (and other resources) on a per-domain basis.
I mentioned dairy specifically because people tend to focus on the meat-avoiding aspect of veganism, but I don't think many think about the implications of the lack of milk and eggs for everything from being calcium and meatless protein sources, to its use in baking.

Though I also wonder if cattle was no longer used as a meat source, but exclusively for milk, that might reduce the amount of resources required.
For some, it is literally impossible.

In my current home it's not sanely possible to get wired Internet, so I started by just using the 40GB data allowance on my phone. This was a huge mistake. With the modern Web and being ultra-careful about my browsing, I would still chew through the whole lot in a week. It was costing me insane amounts to keep my phone online.

See the OP's article - one page can be 250MB! And my data allowance was large. Many people only have 2GB on their phones. 8 web sites and they are done for the month.
It's an interesting differentiation strategy though, and while cars are becoming more and more similar along some axis, there is a distinct different segmentation between manufacturers.

When shopping for minivans, they all "have" comparable features. But

Manufacturer A base model has no advanced safety features; you need to buy $10k of leather seats and chrome highlights to get them.

Manufacturer B offers a $2k safety pack to any and all levels.

Manufacturer C simply has those same safety features across all levels.

Similarly, features such as Android/Apple Car/Auto play; or Sirius XM; etc. The bundling strategy is completely different across manufacturers.

For us, the last three practical family cars we bought (as opposed to cars of desire:), were hugely influenced by which manufacturer had a bundling/segmentation/feature strategy that worked for us.
>but the privacy and anonymity are all gone

Maybe on EFnet and other legacy networks but more modern ircds support host cloaks for preserving pseudonymity.
Keep in mind social engineering when discussing personal credentials online. They WILL send you phishing attacks via e-mail and other communication methods.
> It is not "publicaly funded" in the same way that the roads or NHS are

The mental gymnastics around funding for the BBC (and other government owned medias like CBC) is really interesting. Ultimately funding comes from the government, no matter what.

It's just that instead of writing them a check, they give them the privilege of collecting a tax (and the government decides how much they can collect). I don't understand why some people try so hard to muddy the water around this to make it sound like these broadcasters are not government sponsored. It's very dishonest.

Note that these pain points could end at any time by simply… making the BBC/CBC private entities that must fund themselves by simply making content that people want to watch. That’s what everyone else is already doing (and if you look at companies like Marvel and Disney, is extremely profitable).
> I do complex math without using greek letters and other untypable characters all the time. It's called programming.

This is simple math.

Start writing formal proofs for your programs. You will then be in the realm of something more complex (and still far lower than the level in a research paper).

Even a proof of the complexity of your algorithm (let alone the correctness) will get ugly without this notation.
For data science specifically, I would strongly suggest looking into DVC: https://dvc.org/.

You can easily write DVC stage files by hand as a straightforward Makefile replacement, and integrate other features into your workflow as needed/desired.
Someone just convinced you to voluntarily watch more ads.
Sundar never "took over" in anything but a job title sense. Larry and Sergey continue to hold supermajority voting power over the company's board. The business operates the way Larry and Sergey want it to.

I think people want an excuse to justify their previous positive outlooks on Larry and Sergey by claiming something has changed. But Larry and Sergey still sit in charge of an extremely harmful company under investigation for numerous types of illegal and inappropriate conduct. Both had inappropriate relationships with subordinates that should've gotten them both fired, and both of them have yachts and/or islands that are worth more than some small countries.
I feel like there is a lot of context to this that each of us can easily miss that can make discussing this hard.

From my experience, I don't get weighed by unrelated medical practitioners but when it is relevant for tracking my health. Unless there are cases outside of my life experience where people are being weighed, that context adds an implication to the card's existence and text that most of these existing weigh-ins are not medically necessary and that you need to justify each time you do do a weigh in.

With that said, as I read the article more, I can understand receiving accommodations specifically dealing with body image and eating disorders (as well as improvements with how doctor's deal with weight). How to make those accommodations while also tracking vitals important for your health is tricky. Needing to deal with unhealthy habits and unhealthy weight is a real thing. Its also a real thing when doctor's dismiss patients as lying when they are living healthy when it turns out there are other underlying conditions (like PCOS). None of this is in my life experience but I've been slowly hearing from more friends who have had to deal with this, like a very active folk dancer who eventually found out she had PCOS no thanks to her doctors that accused her of lying about her habits.
Sony is buying Bungie for $3.6B
I really like the potential this has to add more compelling output to simple shell scripts:

#!/bin/bash
rich "Starting process" --rule --rule-style "red"
# ... do some stuff
rich "Process [b]complete[/b]" -p -c --padding 1 --style "on blue"
"Open dialog" and "intentionally lying or misleading for political purposes" are in direct opposition. The latter kills former.

I am not saying censorship is answer necessary, but I am saying we should stop pretending the discussion has anything to do with open dialog or "adding information".
I'm a bit confused by the timing of this. Here's a press release from only a couple months ago, in which a Moderna partnership on an mRNA vaccine showed some benefit in macaques, but mostly in delaying infection (i.e. most macaques in the treatment group still got SHIV). Only two of seven in the treatment group actually remained uninfected. It sounded like researches wanted to refine and validate their protocol before moving to human trials.

> “We are now refining our vaccine protocol to improve the quality and quantity of the VLPs produced. This may further increase vaccine efficacy and thus lower the number of prime and boost inoculations needed to produce a robust immune response. If confirmed safe and effective, we plan to conduct a Phase 1 trial of this vaccine platform in healthy adult volunteers,” said Dr. Lusso.

I interpreted "If confirmed safe and effective" to mean that more animal tests would happen.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/experimental-m...
Peak clown world
This is an insightful comment that holds true a good portion of the time. However, there is one takeaway that is overlooked in my experience: resolving tech debt that exists due to lack of experience tends to build said experience, _provided_ the less-experienced developers are involved in understanding the underlying issue and planning a solution.
Are you sure it's possible to move Google Pay purchases from one account to another?
There is something missing in this story, which is the unified Houthi resolve to not accept post-2016 bank notes. And that resolve is not without cost - one example being the awareness campaign around serial numbers, and I'm sure there are many others.

Without that resolve, the money is "fungible" again.

If the same thing were to be tried in the US, you'd have to have everyone in a given region (say, Florida) agree that only pre-2022 dollars would be accepted, or else it wouldn't work - all the money would still be fungible. And they'd have to have a reason to do that. The widespread availability of inter-regional ecommerce makes it even more complicated, because what would really stop a Floridian from taking advantage of that? What are you going to do, stop trucks at the Florida border and make them show proof that the bill of sale was paid in pre-2022 dollars?

Also, obviously, only works in a cash-based society. There are no serial numbers on the dollars in your checking account.
I've had a lot of luck with blocking out a couple hours a day for "dedicated work time." You have to aggressively defend that time and reject requests where someone carelessly double-books you anyway to be able to keep that time sacred. I've worked for places who wouldn't respect that and expected me to be "always available". Those places got the level of output from me that they deserved when I found myself unable to concentrate and would just be waiting for the next interruption.
Fast decision making is the only productivity hack you need
Many sites on the internet provide little more than infrastructure and moderation for the content provided by users of that site. I think every one of those users has a relevant opinion about the internet itself whether or not they are forking over money or being subjected to advertising.

The internet did not spring into being for the sake of ad-tech.
"But I think without the help of an adblocker I would find it much worse."

Not at all. Because I don't use an adblocker, I don't visit websites that are infested with ridiculous numbers of ads. These sites are not worth reading anyway. I read sites I pay for, I go to my bank, I pay bills, I read Haskell API docs, etc etc.

If I used an adblocker, I'd waste even more time on Internet garbage.
There's a difference between "someone" and "no one" and "everyone". Someone with an engineering education should be able to understand that very easily, it's a shame you don't.
Try:

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All websites with affiliated links disappear.

You’ll most likely end up on Reddit but sometimes make some good discoveries.
Sony is buying Bungie, the developer of Destiny and original creator of Halo
For a lot of people "cheapest tool first" is their goto (and not for the principled reason you shared).

So eventually the cheapest tool makers get enough money to buy up the differentiated quality makers for their logo with enough branding power to price discriminate, and slap it on products from the same cheap factory line.

Then, ugh.
PREP already gives you good prevention for this to work it needs to be both a therapeutic vaccine at least at stages at which PEP is no longer effective as well and or as being at least as effective as PREP whilst being more cost effective as an overall treatment.

Also there is no chance that this would have a higher adoption rate than COVID unless it turns out to give 100% life time immunity and would end up being part of the National vaccination program world wide.

This likely would have the same usage as PREP/PEP today so at risk individuals and a post exposure treatment.
Well there is labview with a dataflow model, multithreading use is extremely easy in such a setup.
Why would web-based ensure a much bigger market? If you have a one-click installation process, then a desktop app seems much more appropriate than a web page for a programming / data analysis tool.
Create powerful automations on your Telnyx calls
Ad block on firefox works on YouTube on mobile (Android) and there is another mobile firefox extension to allow background play.
This gets at a question in my mind about what it'd be like if we were all rich enough to be able to afford that - growing all of our food in greenhouses or something like that.
Room and Board is a similar price point but better quality IMO. They also have free return post delivery in case you don't like it after it finally shows up
If you're using Make as a command runner or a "standard entry point" to a project, instead of using it as a build system that tracks dependencies between files, I highly recommend using `just` instead: https://github.com/casey/just

It has this functionality built-in, and avoids a lot of Make's idiosyncrasies. (Not affiliated, just a fan.)
Reading some of your other content, it feels like you're presenting this false dichotomy between "free content" and "content supported by the most disgusting and shitty ads possible".

There's a world of a difference between a Linus Tech Tips style sponsored segment and some jarring ad that constantly interrupts your YouTube video to scream at you about KFC.

Same for text content where they'll insert outright scams that use disgusting or offensive images to farm clicks throughout the article.

If advertising wasn't so obnoxious, people wouldn't go to such lengths to block it.
French court: AWS GDPR compliant for encrypted data (2021)
Somehow Twitch is the closest thing to IRC that’s not IRC
> even if that's not the best/cheapest way to make those use cases net zero

It's likely to be for the foreseeable future given that net zero otherwise requires carbon capture equal to the extracted fossil fuels, and we seem to be some way off effective carbon capture let alone cost effective carbon capture.
https://vanderhallusa.com

Here you go. I see this companies cars driving around sometimes.
The new StackHawk scanner CLI
The GPL is a copyright license. It requires copyright law to "function". The FSF does not advocate for the abolition of copyright law.
That guy gives masterclasses on fast, efficient data presentation with every video. I really appreciate his approach.
Am I the only person who remembers Google criticizing their competitors for mixing search results and ads in the same list at all?

This was back when Google still placed text only ads off to the side of the results page in a blue box to make them even more distinctly separated from the search results.
Google exists, bro.

> Gambling, and gambling advertisements, are deliberately designed to hook people to it as an addiction.

What do you think all the $500-1000 "free cash starts" that the NFL is constantly advertising are supposed to do? There's a reason that free loosies were banned in the Tobacco Control Act of 96. For-profit companies don't give stuff away for free unless they think they'll get way more than that back from a portion of freebie recipients.

> Only 25% of Americans regularly gamble

https://www.statista.com/topics/1368/gambling/#dossierKeyfig...

> and just 2% of gamblers produce 50% of industry revenue.

https://www.promisesbehavioralhealth.com/addiction-recovery-...
It freaks me out that tunicates are chordates. How can a creature's body plan get that bizarre, from a starting point similar to vertebrates? They're not just dissimilar to familiar animals, they're barely recognizable as animals.
I keep ads on. It allows me to see content like the average person. I feel that gives me a better perspective.
Could be, or they could be referring to some of the heavy-handed remote monitoring software that gets installed on a lot of corporate laptops.

It's common for companies to lock down corporate laptops and have records of communication from the approved software. These companies also, wisely, don't let just anyone pull up those records on employee computers. You have to engage with HR and/or legal at minimum.
because the point he's making is wrong. Vaccines are doing a fantastic job at slowing down the progression of the virus which is key to keep mutations at bay. No vaccine is 100% effective, but even 80% effectiveness radically changes the dynamic of a pandemic, it's so easy to see that I don't understand what can lead someone to deny this fact besides bad faith.
Another vote for Matrix here. With rooms and nested rooms it starts to look a bit like the good parts of Discord but with less gamer focus.

Earlier it felt like a wasteland but now it is starting to come alive. In particular https://matrix.to/#/#activitypub-community:codelutin.com is a nice overview of what happens in the federated space. (If you open it in Element, right click the icon in the left margin and click "Explore rooms") to see what I'm talking about.
Do I also must feel obliged to read every ad page on a magazine? Can't change to another tv channel during the half time? Was I stealing when in the nineties I recorded movies on VHS skipping commercials?

I would say no, and I think websites are not different from media I listed above. If they make or don't make enough money it's not my business. I am free to consume their freely distributed products as I like.
The characters aren't participating in the cultural traditions of Native Americans, they're interacting with and participating in a pretty ridiculous stereotype of Native Americans.
"Prof. William Schief explains how the novel #HIV #vaccine being tested in human clinical trials can trigger the right #Bcells of the immune system to achieve the much sought after broadly neutralizing #antibodies."

https://twitter.com/scrippsresearch/status/13581208549709127...
> Isn't the point that he should stop providing a platform to people who deny <x>

No, people should listen and decide for themselves. By denying a platform, you often feed conspiracy theories and fringe ideas. This must be a powerful, true, and dangerous idea if so many people are trying to hide it.

Instead focus the discussion on how we experimentally determine which idea is more true. Ask people and consider yourself what it would take to disprove some of the things you believe to be true.