skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is, as usual, large and diverse enough that you can find data for either point.

I think many "people" (aka the ones comparing food cultures and rating restaurants) would say that big US grocery stores are incredible, and our best restaurants are as interesting as any on earth.

It's also fair to say that our average person is extremely out of shape, and eats a comparatively huge amount of processed garbage. Food culture in a lot of suburban places is a mix of fantastic (fresh affordable food available year round) and dismal (32oz Monsters and Applebees).

My diet (a city dweller who pays some attention to food, but likes some junk), my neighbor the vegan (who is great cook are rarely eats out), my buddy's from our small city back in Missouri, and a poor child in southeast DC are all totally different.
But the OTP is still secure against that attack because the “key” is never reused. It is literally just noise, no useful information whatsoever.
Having briefly worked (as a grunt with no visibility into exec decisions) in the maelstrom that is apple, I think the only sinister thing that could be happening is no one has an incentive to fix things like this, they only get exposure / promotions on shipping new features or large quality bugs. And so if they weren't bothered by it, and no execs we're bothered by it, it would just go unfixed.
Gasoline. Airplanes use avgas. Most of them use 100LL which is the octane rating of 100 (same as cars you see 85, 90, 95, etc. on the pumps) followed by LL which stands for "Low Lead"

UL stands for unleaded.

Basically the guy invented unleaded gasoline that works with airplane engines and is the same octane rating.
Midlife crisis is when you realize that 'midlife crisis' was a lie and there's nothing 'mid' about it, and that you have only 10-20 more years left of denying that you are mortal.
This is the problem with “regulations are written in blood”. You need blood to unwrite them. But you can kill bloodlessly forever.
I found this book helpful: https://www.kenfisher.com/books/ten-roads-to-riches

It lays out 10 ways folks became rich throughout history, from being a loyal lieutenant like Ballmer to building a business to stealing.
Especially in online advertising measuring your success is rather simple. So at any point in time you should be able to have numbers to show for your efforts.

While the article sounds promising the lack of data really makes it useless.
This is quite an off-topic take. This paper is about mapping gray and white matter development and change across the natural lifespan.
Ah, I can’t delete or edit my comment. But it seems Windows and Linux versions are in the works.
"placing the metadata block at the end of the file means you must download (or read from local storage) the entire song before you can play it."
The article actually argues the opposite. Developers should move their focus to integration / "real-world" tests. The major summary bullet point being:

"Aim for the highest level of integration while maintaining reasonable speed and cost"

My experience mirrors the author's. In any "real" business application, the unit tests end up mocking so many dependencies that changes become a chore, in many cases causing colleagues to skip certain obvious refactors because the thought of updating 300 unit tests is out of the question. I've found much better success testing at the integration level. And to be clear this means writing a tests inside the same project that run against a database. They should run as part of your build, both locally and in CI. The holy grail is probably writing all your business logic inside pure functions, and then unit testing those, while integration testing the outer layers for happy and error paths. But good luck trying to get your coworkers to think in pure functions.
Tell HN: Dropbox user age verification feature can lock your account
Dropbox released a "user age verification feature" today, which is a simple set of drop downs for you to fill in your birth date.

I made the mistake of choosing "2022" as my year of birth instead of my actual year of birth.

Obviously this is my mistake, but a warning to anyone else: I now have 48 hours to backup my files before I will be locked out of my account, and Dropbox support has been unable to confirm that they can fix the "issue" for me.

I think this is the single worst "feature" I've ever encountered in a software application. I'm honestly shocked.
You'd be excited about that?!
I know it's cliche to say but for me, I was always driven by personal fulfillment. My definition of personal fulfillment changed almost every year since I was 20.

At 20, I wanted to be a VP at a company by 25. At 21, I wanted and then bought a motorcycle and then later crashed on it. At 22, I wanted to and got to work for a startup. At 23, I got married and got to six figure salary and was hoping to buy a house. At 24, I bought a house, got a dog, and wanted to start a company. At 25, we had a kid and I started a company. At 26, I wanted and got into YC. At 27, I pivoted the company and we ran out of runway. I'm turning 28 in a couple of weeks and decided to slow things down for a couple of months but ended up accepting a cofounding offer to build something else.

Every year brought many sad and happy days. There were slow days where I felt I was wasting my life away and there were many fulfilling days where I felt like I accomplished a lot. I really believe that life is what you make it. Having dreams is fine but unless you're working towards them every single day, they will remain as dreams.
All console subsystem executables on Windows are hosted by the same application (today known as “conhost”[2],) which provides the UI and terminal emulation facilities and implements the Win32 console APIs.

PowerShell, therefore, uses the same console host as the legacy Command Prompt does[1]. It just styles it differently.

[1]: The version of PowerShell that comes with windows also ships with something called the “PowerShell ISE,” which is a different UI for PowerShell that offers no terminal emulation capabilities and bears only a passing resemblance to a console window.

[2]: it used to be part of CSRSS, but in Windows 7 it became a standalone application.
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I find this direct comparison completely bogus. Windows was never a toolbox to begin with. It's messy but part of it for backward compatibility (important market force.. Microsoft is not GNU). Windows GUI are not composable, news flash: almost no graphical app is, and even in linux it's not the case AFAIK. Fun point, some Desktop Environments have worse keyboard navigation than Win95.

I can choose to have anything in linux, but I rarely do (I did LFS twice, now I have dreams of lisp os and smalltalk images). And I'm tech savvy.. the percentage of world population that will even care for dealing with the papercuts of tooling / scripting is probably minuscule (based on my interactions with them normies, even to my best pedagogical efforts, I realized that it's not in their life goals, no matter how much time and money it may save them). The author may fail to realize how many people interact with software in full rote mode.. they memorize sequences of locations on screens and buttons and that's it (which I infinitely understand, I'm not judging).

Linux does have a better long term feel though, less moving parts than Windows. I have to admit that often, using windows feels like fighting a living thing that constantly want to make me experience bloat.
Peer review is just a heuristic people use to spend time more efficiently: You know that if a paper is peer reviewed, it's more likely to be worthwhile spending time actively engaging with it than if it weren't.

But that's only statistical - if you want to quickly screen thousands of research papers and the only signal you have is peer review and maybe citation graph - and doesn't apply to specific papers or the research program of a specific person.
Right! Some people still watch TV which is interrupted by commercials, too.
>Valeurs Actuelles is the far right equivalent of Le monde diplo isn't fair.

Le monde diplo often has long, dense articles written by scholars, in an almost academic style, with lots of references; plus they absolutely do not try to hide that they are expressing a critical/radical left point of view.

Valeurs actuelles on the other hand will publish anything without the bare minimum cross-checking: https://www.midilibre.fr/2021/03/31/separatisme-valeurs-actu...
You can just look at the screenshots in that blog, GTK4/libadwaita also supports changing the way the app looks.

>we had a functional theme interface that was much better supported. Well, we did have it at one point

This is revisionist history, GTK3 never had a real theme interface. The changes in libadwaita were directly because CSS is not a functional or reliable way to reskin apps and themes were known as a good way to break GTK3 apps. Using a global CSS has a lot of the same problems as X resources, it's sending a giant string into the app that may or may not override certain things based on random string matching. The CSS styles all cascade together and there is no way to know what app is going to get what styles or enforce that an app uses particular style classes.
It's a joke as disorganized people like me tend to have piles of crap that form chronological geologic strata of paper and projects.
What I missed from the article was the question if the author measured the goal performance of their advertising. Also the ROI. Additionally it is (or should be) common knowledge to check if you are canabalizing your SEO results because in your niche you are not working against other organic search results or advertising of your competitors.

Because this would have potentially shown from the get go if advertising in this case was unnecessary or if it supported the business until SEO had cached up.
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No one advertises on the modern web, to "mass appeal".

If they are, they're doing it wrong. Ads are far more targeted than that.
> Mark Zuckerberg is looking to develop virtual coins, nicknamed “Zuck bucks” by staff

That's not what the actual name will be.
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I have been using lua a lot recently and it fucking sucks lol. The language itself is tiny and great don't get me wrong and also you can't do anything with it. What you'll need to figure out instead is whatever jank ass mutation-heavy api someone half-accidentally exposed to it from the real stack. And of course it'll be a modified lua 5.1 or some shit, possibly with some of its most powerful and flexible features stripped out.

I haven't yet run across a lua integration that was actually reasonable to use. Every time it's a choice between "just hack in what I need to but there is no way to verify I've accounted for all the edge cases and it will be fragile as fuck" or "spend dozens of hours wrapping the exposed api in a safer and more usable OO or FP interface."

Oh also I hope you like implementing build systems virtually from scratch, and also dealing with every downside of C if you need anything more powerful than prototypical inheritance.

Six months of professional lua work has really, really drilled into me that a programming language isn't shit without its ecosystem, and it's meaningless to discuss one apart from it. I haven't used blueprints but it sounds a lot better than any lua system I've worked on.

The only really fun part is you'll often come across an undocumented function that someone obviously forgot to remove or didn't understand the implications of and you'll get DEEP system access through abusing it, or even just a straight root shell. No joke.
Citation? I'm interested because it comes up often enough in pop sci and I know I have spread the idea further.
Agreed. I was being somewhat tangential to the article at hand and responding more to the catnip comparison. I can only recall a few articles that were particularly well-reasoned.
To do that I would need to get the money into the banking system though right? At which point it has to be already laundered. Otherwise auditors will notice unexplained large cash influxes. I don't think you can rent a turo car in cash.
It says this content is not available in my region. Which is ironic because I'm sitting in orange county.
A better link (IMO) without all those ads getting in the way of reading the article: https://www.upf.edu/en/home/-/asset_publisher/1fBlrmbP2HNv/c...
The author doesn’t provide and data or specific info on what they did, but a few general points:

1. Seasonality. It sounds like they’re comparing a few months on to a few months off, which likely is affected more by the time of year than anything else. Year over year data would be a better comparison.

2. Attribution windows. If I serve you an ad, then “turn off my advertising”, then you convert, depending on how you look at the data my ad either did drive the conversion or did not. Likely he’s just looking at google analytics with default settings, so he’s missing post-view data and assists.

3. It’s not that difficult to run an actual test, and most advertising platforms give you tools and documentation on how to do so.

4. The author doesn’t understand advertising from a technical perspective and most likely is not doing the analysis correctly. The big red flag is when talking about buying a display ad and it only driving 2 conversions. It sounds like a prospecting ad, which is top of funnel and is not supposed to drive post click conversions. I highly doubt they had an impression tracker on the ad and looked at post view data with different attribution models. Or even multichannel funnel reports in ga. Those would show the actual impact of the banner, not just 2 post click conversions.

I don’t mean to bash the guy but this post is rehashed all the time here and I end up reposting the same stuff.
You can't do an statistically correct test on everything. At some point you have to just assume something (yeah, even when doing a formal test).

Here he assumed that, given there was no new fact on the short period he analyzed, he could expect short term trend to stay the same if he did nothing. It's a perfectly reasonable assumption.
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Just in case they want to make the song a _bit_ longer.
gaming minus all of the popular multiplayer games isn't exactly excellent
Certifications work on a per-aircraft-type and per-engine-type basis. Converting a single aircraft type to a different engine is possible, but every single combination would need to be tested (I think this also includes flight testing) and certified individually. This is not economic.

So what remains is for the existing fleet to eventually be retired and replaced by newer aircraft that use newer engines. But most light single piston aircraft being sold today still use older engine designs that require leaded fuel! And newer aircraft are so expensive, it's more economical to keep aircraft from the seventies still going. Newer aircraft are expensive because the certification and insurance requirements are extremely expensive. For example, aircraft manufacturers get sued for accidents caused by pilot error on a regular basis, and so they need insurance for that.

"Average cost of manufacturer's liability insurance for each airplane manufactured in the U.S. had risen from approximately $50 per plane in 1962 to $100,000 per plane in 1988, according to a report cited by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,[14] a 2,000-fold increase in 24 years." --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aviation_Revitalizatio...

So light aircraft are stuck running ancient engine designs that require leaded fuel.

There is some progress. One manufacturer uses a modern engine that runs on jet fuel (basically a diesel piston engine like in some cars). But that doesn't stop new aircraft being extremely expensive, so it looks like we're still stuck with mostly an old fleet that uses lead for a long time yet.
This is exactly why a UBI funded through a Land Value Tax is such a good idea. A land value tax taxes the land such that the market cost of the home is equal to the cost to build the housing on top of the unit.

The land tax will put the land to best use, and that will drive up the supply of housing units, which means the cost to rent will go down. All of this while the average person sees lower tax rates and the person who sits on an empty lot sees much higher tax rates. The money available to collect from NYC and SF land taxes alone could fund a nation-wide UBI.
> So what does the transpiling get you in that world? You can already run the old code on modern hardware (per tfa) and you already have people who understand the existing assembly to help do a rewrite...

Basically what the ancestor comment enumerated. It basically allows for a more conservative and incremental approach to rewriting things, since it would give you the ability to mix old and new code.

It seems like they plan to do some parallel testing, but if they used the transplier (and it was correct), they could probably do that at a much lower level (e.g. run both functions in parallel in PROD but only use the "old" functions results, log any discrepancies, you know you're done when there haven't been any for a while).
It has two modes, you just have to figure out how to change modes :)
Looks like he has a few at The Atlantic [0].

Can you recommend anything specific?

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ed-zitron/
> I believe the 500 kB block was originally reserved for album art. Apple’s servers would inject it on-the-fly into the metadata at the time of delivery.

This absolutely seems like the most reasonable explanation.
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True nirvana for me would be to have a functioning Linux desktop, with which I can send a startup command to a windows PC when I want to run some Windows-only games, that also switches my monitor input and peripherals.

Instead of dual-booting, I could give Windows a 1tb SSD that it thinks it owns, and let it live on in its little bubble.
Not OP: Companies of any size are already enmeshed in the security/deployment/productivity flows offered by 'enterprise' software, which I don't see Linux as matching currently. Is there anything comparable to Office + $whateverEndpointProtection + $whateverImaging that Linux could use to make IT jobs easy/fast?
Why are so many people seeking to leave a state with such beautiful nature and great weather?
> There's no back button

That's another problem with these: they swallow my browser history.

It's the opposite effect of experiments like the one on graph.global, which instead trashes the browser history (and breaks the back button).
I 'm surprised sociologists would take Zuck's words seriously. I ve watched him in interviews and in his own podcasts and he doesn't sound like having any kind of sophisticated worldview. The 'context collapse' more likely has to do with the fact that, from an algorithmic point of view, all news fit in the same data format, and nobody cared to introduce context. Or they introduced it in a wrong way (like Google+ did with circles). In the end, context reappeared in the form of separate social networks (linkedin, slack, twitter etc) so it s probably all good
> The whole multiple design languages in the UI is insane and I can't believe they didn't fix it by Windows 11... rather they're poking at it slowly / poorly.

That's because MS's basic selling point is that nothing gets removed. I mean, obviously over time some things do get removed, but they're deprecation timeline is measured in decades.

Some of the things they deprecated in Vista they notified people they were going to deprecate when they released the new versions at the launch of XP. That's how long they gave people to shift over.
Whenever I read about the Indus Valley civilization, I am reminded of how their script remains undecipherable [1]. Do we need a lucky discovery like the Rosetta Stone was for Egyptian hieroglyphs? If we find a long enough passage, can we do some kind of frequency analysis to pick out common terms (food, water etc.)?

[1]: https://www.worldhistory.org/Indus_Script/
I can never understand why people leave reviews on apps they haven't downloaded.
My dad did as well... my job for many years as a child was to stand there with a broom in case it went bad. Be careful!!!
Knowing experts exist, and that test methods exist, does not the parent an expert make.

Why would parent be able to share test methods?
Before getting too keen on geo-engineering, take a few minutes to ponder the following paragraph from an article in Newsweek:

"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."

http://www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

If this paragraph makes no sense to you, it's because - with the exception of the proposed geo-engineering project - it sounds like something that could have been written last week. It was actually written in 1975 when climate change meant the coming ice age. Here's Spock to tell you more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSBn50o_8M

It's a good thing they didn't try to melt the arctic, right? But notice how there's absolutely no communication of any nuance, uncertainty or the possibility that the scientists were wrong. Only laments about how the "planners" were too sluggish to react to the scientist's warnings. Absolutely nothing changed except the directional temperature change of the proposed projects.
I didn't know Collins has resigned until I read this. What problems do you have with Fauci and Collins? I am just curious and am reading more and not trying to be aggressive about this. It seems to me like they were the sole rational voices during the Trump administration.
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OK so selectivity is possibly causal to difficulty and possibly not? So 99.9% of non-selective schools could be as difficult as peer selective schools while the rare exception isn't? You may be on to something.... At least you finally admit you don't get to feel special about going through something more 'difficult' on account of whatever idea your school had of selectivity.
Oh good, Colorado isn't on that list. We're full anyways, we've got enough Californians here driving up housing prices already.
10^5 is also on the low end of hyperscale. I'd bet that google/amazon have high single-digit millions of machines.

So yes, big companies can afford to pay people to customize their systems, and do so. The infra teams at these places are enormous, even just counting job orchestration.

The argument upthread (mine) is that the companies do so, and that kubernetes is the wrong choice for them. As a result, they don't really contribute to it.
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