skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scenario was "20lbs for 3 years".

Most "standard adults" (e.g no injuries, obesity or illnesses) would not consider 20 lbs "difficult", to start with. And especially not after 6 months of regular practice.
If you can't get a tenure at MIT, you can try at a second tier university. If that fails, you can try at t third tier university. You will get a lower pay and less money for research projects and travel, and the students will be not as brilliant. Also, you may have to teach more courses and have less research time.
> For instance, one scam is replacing the QR codes on parking meters with another one, linking to a different payment site

How's that different from printing an URL on the parking meter which can be replaced by an attacker with a different URL?
Yes. I've already admitted it is a very unlikely scenario, but last I heard we haven't proven P=NP yet...
He needed the ride. OJ solves the problem quickly but he could crash again unless he gets some slow carbs. He knew that.
What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011)
Pipedream now supports Python – will make it much easier for building connectors
You burn bodymass by spending more energy than you intake. Lifting something very heavy a few times will take a lot of energy and if you do a few sets the muscles will need repairing before they can work optimally again, which means your body will use energy doing this for the next couple of days. Overall a lot of energy used.
I make myself a CLI stopwatch with UI
I have maybe 10 or 15 of those tasks at any given time that _should_ be fixed, but there's not really any time to do them. There's definitely an element of YAGNI/If it ain't broke, but in many cases the right thing to do is just leave it alone, even if it's not best practice.
/dev/random does not have to depend on any pseudo generator as long as it can block indefinitely while starved for entropy.
For starters, the first "test" was bogus: grantparent said "front page", but parent tried the naked domain (which Mazda doesn't intent to be the front page).
There's an old 70s Austrian TV series called "Kottan ermittelt"[1]. The first episode of that one is essentially exactly that with the titular character pursuing immigrants as suspects and the crime eventually being solved by his assistant.

The later episodes turn the show more into a parody.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottan_ermittelt
You can easily solve those problems with a call to any electrician. You don't even need wifi!
The Onion is satire; that's not a real quote.
I don't get it, how is that a myth or controversial.

Cutting empty calories is the easiest to remove calories from daily total.

Exercise further decreases the ratio of calories in calories out.

Bottom line is: calories in - calories out.

There are caveats there for sure, like increasing muscle mass increases idle caloric burn. Different types of food have different effect promoting or impeding metabolism.
TDD always felt wrong to me. And in fact, a lots of my worst code was written with a TDD-like approach.

The basic idea is: read the specs, write the tests, then write the code that passes the tests. The big problem here is that you add a level of indirection, and something may be lost in translation. That is, if the tests are wrong, then your code will be wrong.

Since you already have the tests when you start coding, there is a tendency to forget the specs and code the tests, since your goal now is to have "all green". And because if you did it well, it is very easy to test your code, it is tempting to just tweak it until it passes, without you understanding what you are doing. I know because that's the process that lead me to the first mentioned terrible code.

For a simple analogy, TDD would be like giving students the test subject before they start studying. Sure, they will get good grades, but don't count on them studying what is not on the test, and some will simply memorize the answers. That's why at school, you almost never have the test in advance.

Obviously, I am not against testing, especially automated unit testing, but the core idea of TDD, that is writing the test first, is, I think, a bad idea. The often cited argument is that because you start with a failing test (because you haven't implemented the feature yet), you are guaranteed to actually test something, but I find it to be of limited value, except maybe on very large projets where not implementing a feature at all is something that can happen accidentally.

An approach that I think works better is to write the code, write the tests, pass the tests, intentionally break your code, check that the tests fail, revert your changes. Code and tests can be written at the same time, ideally by different people, but if you do thing in order, I would go code first.

In fact, I think the only real "advantage" of TDD is that it simply forces you to write tests. It is an anti-corner-cutting technique.
It's going to take a lot of years for people to realize merit doesn't exist.

I wish people would read more Bourdieu.

Merit is some fictional carrot you give to children so they can study at school.

The whole concept of the degree is also quite pointless. Why grade the work of students? Why introduce competition in learning? What's the point of filtering students when they apply? Why would one school be prestigious and not another?

People go to school to learn, so why put a limit on learning by measuring performance?

Just look at this one simple fact: if merit does exist, then why are we still doing interviews? Because in the end, we want group homogeneity. People want to "feel" each other, they don't really care about competence or skill, they want other metrics that are far, far away from merit: politics, culture, identity, etc.
FYI: M&A seems to mean "mergers & acquisitions". The acronym is not expanded anywhere in the article.
I tried kubuntu but it felt a bit wonky with some broken stuff, etc
KDE neon i never tried but looking into it heard it doesn't have a lot of users behind it and it's mostly a bleeding edge testing ground.

My best experience so far has been manjaro KDE.
The defaults seem fine and work. Pacman is so nice.
The AUR, snaps, flatpaks, appimages... Tick some checkboxes and they're all there.
I don't feel troubled trying to find software anymore.
My GTK and QT apps look fairly consistent by picking matching themes for both.

I love it so far.
There aren't 42k Starlink satellites in orbit.

It's about 1,500 active satellites versus 600 + ~50 spares - quite comparable.
I love this idea, you just have to make sure that you still pay the original QR code owner and only add a little "processing fee" for the sticker. Love it.
Ah man. I am in Africa and don't work for an IT company. So I presume those two factors given the cost of hardware here probably results in many people running on machines with 4GB of RAM. My anecdotal observation is that there is that price of hardware practically doubles from a machine with 4GB or RAM to one with 8GB of RAM. Thereafter increase isn't as jarring but I think it is enough to deter companies from buying 16GB machines.
You were likely short of potassium too. This is why professional cyclists pack bananas for the ride.
Microsoft has a solution to that problem: Teams. It is so painful to use and to do anything in it that it encourages people to actually use the bug tracker or other venues to discuss any serious topic.
The new Apple slogan: "Print (money) different".

The new Apple printer will have only one button, one paper size and one colour.
Ships can be made to burn just about anything as fuel, the main problem is just whether existing ships can burn different fuels without major re-engineering. Even electric shipping is possible, but would require substantial infrastructure investments (e.g. buoys in the middle of large oceans every so often connected to trans-oceanic power cables so the ships can recharge regularly). Electrified shipping will probably happen before electrified long-distance aircraft, anyways.

Something like 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels around, so decarbonizing electrical production and transportation would cut back significantly on the amount of bunker fuel needed for ships even if they continue to run on bunker fuel for the foreseeable future.
Catalyst always looked like an interim technology to me, to tide people over until SwiftUI was mature enough.
Yes, geographically diverse customers who prefer different cloud platforms.
Very good game, indeed. Clearly in the same tradition as System/Bio Shock.
This is a reason we shouldn't feel ashamed about developing a habit of skimming. In many cases it's simply a proper adaption to an incredibly low signal to noise ratio in most articles you're exposed to on the internet.
You could read his papers if you're only interested in the science?
In the inline chart "42 factors that affect blood glucose", how do I interpret the two different arrows corresponding to each entry?
There's SVGO (https://github.com/svg/svgo).
The problem is, it isn't efficient if you are overweight :)

When I was at my heaviest weight, I could only do a normal-speed walk, which burned relatively little calories.

At my lightest, I was also having to go out of my way to eat extra calories, as I was cycling so much, and a fast 90 minute cycle would leave me light-headed if I didn't eat some extra calories.
This is pretty cool! It looks like a good option for Flash memory.

If anyone is looking for a FAT file system (ie for an SD card or for making a USB mass storage device) fatfs is still a great option.
Hiring in academia is weired because of freedom and essentially a life-time paychecks without any real commitment you have to make. So they need to make sure the person have an internal drive aka intrinsic motivation and has energy to go for long time rather than one-hit wonders.

Ok, so that's what should happen in ideal world. In real world, things are very political and one would be lucky to have even quater of these ideals materialize.
We sold our 8-year-old startup last year, and boy do a lot of these bullet points ring true. We were very lucky that one of the founders was skilled at the M&A game, or we would have underpriced it dramatically.

If you’re thinking about selling, I’d recommend hiring an advisor firm. They charge a 2-8% fee, but they are worth it. You get better valuations and help with the tricky clauses.

The one about losing leverage after term sheet, it depends. Our acquirer was a public company, so they had to announce the signing to the market. It would look really bad if the acquisition didn’t go through (stock jumped when TS was announced), so I’d say we had even more leverage then.

Edit: typo
Nobody, and I mean nobody, punches in URLs by hand. They put keywords into a search box, and sometimes those keywords have .com at the end for some obscure geeky or marketing reason they don't understand or care about.
Its a pretty simple way to achieve compatibility between CDDL and other license spheres, which can only be a good thing really, personally I consider that incompatibility to have been a mistake that didn't really help anyway. Achieving compatibility is unlikely something Oracle cares about though, so the license situation isn't going to change anyway. BTW, they have relicensed things under the GPL before (IIRC ZFS for grub and ISTR something around dtrace), so they aren't adverse to it.
Have you ever seen how many authors are on a research paper? Research in most disciplines is not some lone person at a bench doing experiments, it's a collection of people looking at previous work, generating new ideas, and testing them. People like to downplay effective teamwork as "office politics" but the best research comes not only from intelligence or "merit" but also from the ability to work effectively with others.
I don’t get your point. This is America's finest news source.
Cargo Ship on Fire in The Atlantic Has 189 Bentleys, 1,100 Porsches on Board
Some argue that synthetic data can make AI systems better
Not really. Humans are not designed to be happy and satisfied (and if you are happy and satisfied, why would you be setting any goals?), and they like to ascribe meaning to their dissatisfaction. A lot of times that can result in looking at past decisions with regrets, thinking that you should've done this or that. The fact that we have a very skewed vision of our own past does not help.

Recognizing this, being more in the present moment, cultivating equanimity are some of the ways of dealing with it.
Most universities in The Netherlands do not have a tenure-track system (no automatic promotion). It is not uncommon for faculty to retain the rank of assistant or associate professor until retirement, without ever becoming full professor.
One of the slightly scary things about T1D is that at first you get a weird feeling when your blood sugar is too low, and you can notice when that happens. But if it happens too often, those warning signs stop, and you can get into a really serious condition without noticing for yourself.
I was really surprised how difficult it is for competitors like levels to provide CGMs in the US.

Here in Europe we can simply get them from Abbot/Dexcom an ship them.

I can't make any promises, but I'm positive that I'll be able to develop a product that takes care of finding the correct insulin doses when giving activity and CGM data + meal information withing the next year's.
I can't comment on how Peacock presents their sports in a way that causes spoilers since I don't have it. But I do watch the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments every year, and I hate the way those are presented when offered on a streaming service like Amazon or Eurosport. If I start up a match that shows it's only 90-110 minutes long, then I know immediately that whoever wins the first set will win the match. You can also guess which matches only go to 4 sets as well when looking at the time. Whats worse is Amazon was doing this thing where they would split the the match into part 1 and part 2 if it was over 2 hours long, so again you know immediately whether a match ends early or not.
Perhaps the keyboard keys should be split horizontally, so each shows 8 colours. Being used to wordle and quordle I was a bit confused because it didn't look like one of the letters was in my word, but it was. 4,12,8,6,5,3,10,13
Not all "kerosene" is the same. Jets use Jet Fuel A which is ~$5/gallon while Merlin engines use RP-1 which is ~$100/gallon.

Also, on the latter, you need a similarly sized tank of liquid oxygen that the jet gets for free from the atmosphere.
Nobody said anything about looks, age, height or weight.
Isn't this what the slack search bar is for? I was sceptical of using it at first but I often find what I'm looking for by typing in one or two key words and restricting the search to certain channels that likely have the information.
This part caught my eye:

http://skiplang.com/docs/lvalues.html

I think some of the phrasing there ("the variable x is going to be updated to point to a new copy of the object pointed to by x where field1 has the value 0") would really benefit from some graphics. Nothing fancy, something similar to what the Rust book does for ownership would help.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.htm...
Go ahead, dress up if that floats your boat. But don't force it on others!
FTA: Pontzer’s findings have a discouraging implication for people wanting to lose weight. “You can’t exercise your way out of obesity,” says evolutionary physiologist John Speakman of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “It’s one of those zombie ideas that refuses to die.”

I think that’s true, but have one remark: those studies all scale by fat-free body mass. Exercise can increase that, so exercise that grows your muscles, combined with maintaining the same diet should decrease the derivative of weight over time.

That doesn’t imply you’ll lose weight; if you were gaining weight fast, chances are it will just make you gain weight a bit slower. Even if you’ll lose weight, chances are it will be too slowly to motivate you to continue.

Also note that most obese people already have strong muscles (if you weigh 200kg and can walk, you’re carrying around 100kg or so) and, because of their weight, are injury prone. Becoming stronger through exercise may be very hard for them.
The latest commit message on that file is "Changed lfs_crc to match more common API (...)" so I would assume that they factored out this function specifically so that it could be easily exchanged with another implementation. There are many CRC32 implementations that may be more suitable for the specific microcontroller you are targetting, or maybe you already have an CRC32 implementation in your codebase that you would like to reuse because space is scarce. For the other functions the reusability isn't really given.
> The big problem is spoilers. If you are not very careful, if you go to the Peacock site you will get spoilers. For example, if the medal games are in your list, they change the title of the entry to be the names of the people playing -- spoiling the semi-finals for you.

I love sports but hate watching them delayed online because of design like this. I don’t know who created these designs but it’s terrible. The author is right, a local “dumb” DVR is the way to go for watching sports.

The UX for online sports is terrible. One example is soccer matches on ESPN, they will display highlight bars on the timeline when something exciting happens, like a goal or a penalty. It’s destroys the suspense for me because I see the markers and know something is going to happens.

They also show a progress bar with the length, which makes it easy to know if the game went into extra time. Eg. One team goes up 2 goals early but the recording time is longer then you know the other team comes back to force extra time.
Most users are not educated enough to protect themselves from bad actors. It's our (government, industry, whitehats, etc.) moral responsibility to protect those users from those who would exploit them.

Not that I have a solution, but I don't believe blaming the victim is the solution.
Then I guess you same logic applies if you go to the store to buy some groceries, and one day they say "you, you right there, TedShiller, you're not allowed to buy apples from this establishment!"

They have no obligation to tell you why, but society agrees that they owe you an explanation. Apparently you don't?
> and in some ways telegram have just shown that the market has not settled and the current leader can be dethroned quite rapidly.

There were a number of things that led to Telegram's (relative) success. One of them is the owner itself - Whatsapp has suffered in reputation with the sell-out to Facebook, especially when they announced to combine the data stores of both companies. From then on, it was widely seen as "yet another thing of Facebook where they want all your data" despite Whatsapp actually offering better encryption than Telegram. Telegram in contrast is seen as "independent" from any major political power - Durov's fight with the Russian government is well known, as is its opposition to Western demands.

Another issue was cross-device compatibility. Whatsapp used to be completely immovable between Android and iOS, and its web UI for a long time was tethered to the phone, meaning it would drain your battery. That has only changed recently, but (IMO) too late.

And the final thing were the mass-fanout capabilities. Telegram groups allowed quick dissemination and discussion of information, for open groups even without requiring a Telegram account. Whatsapp had neither. Then add to that the resistance of Telegram towards any kind of moderation, especially from Western governments... and suddenly a bunch of conspiracy theorists, vaccine deniers and outright Nazis had the perfect platform. No moderation from the platform side, no content requirements other than "please don't spread CSAM", and effective management tools for group admins to yeet off counterspeech attempts. These days, you have QAnon groups numbering six-digit subscribers [1], and the same for German copycats [2].

Telegram's success is mostly based on outright ignorance and defiance of the rules everyone else (including Facebook) plays by.

[1]: https://www.logically.ai/articles/new-telegram-research-show...

[2]: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/querdenken-...
Are the famous and acclaimed generics included in this new version?
I think the main advantage of fusion is they are not susceptible to Chernobyl style meltdowns line fission reactors.
Actually, both Nature and Science call themselves 'magazines', and they have plenty of pop-science-compatible content, mixed with primary literature.

Arxiv needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt because much of the content is not peer-reviewed.
> When one team member works on Windows, another in WSL, and a third in a Linux VM, there are countless road blocks to get everyone to reach a point to be able to work meaningfully. Of course we switched to Docker at some point.

This seems to be an example of how mob-programming would encourage a "put a hammer to it" approach rather than something more delicate and flexible (e.g. using a meta-build system like CMake to account for platform specificity).

I'm not saying that's always a bad thing, but if this is how many/most problems end up being handled then I'm not sure I like it.
Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries
thats a really great way of looking at things, thank you!
This is still not wasted money. We would all still be sitting around scratching our asses in caves with that attitude to scientific research.
I'm not an AI expert, at all, but can the neural network of an app like Otter run locally on a phone? Is it even possible, processing power wise?

Apart from that, I'm assuming that there's an enormous cost sunk into the training of the network. I imagine that alone would make Otter hesitant to let the trained network out of the house, even if it was technically possible.
You wouldn't be allowed to use it in an interview anyway, so its absence a feature.
I am not a lower but the 20% do not seem to be about carbs. Only sugar. Carbs are only covered by the second paragraph and must be 'within current good manufacturing practice', whatever that means. Am I reading this wrong?
Ouch. I, on the other hand, would not trust an appId from the example.com domain.
> Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything

I have read that book multiple times, first when I was 10. It left a huge impression on me. I heartily recommend it.

Bill Bryson in general is a great author. One of my favorites.