skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4% is the historical number you could take out for expenses in the worst case scenario. IMO it’s not pricing in modern existential threats, such as a war that crosses the ocean, or existing regulatory differences that make it more difficult for larger firms.
But that is a huge problem with the service. On YouTube I can search for whatever topic or video I want and find high quality videos on interesting topics instantly, so no need to train any algorithm to get good content. There is no hook in TikTok unless you actually like the default feed, since there is no good way to find anything else without first wading through all those default videos.

Edit: Not sure why I was downvoted, but I really can't get into TikTok. I went there, the default feed was 100% uninteresting, I wont wade through that for a week looking for videos that might be there. I searched for some topics, for example "Warhammer", it is a very popular topic and it would be interesting to find more of that, but the search didn't turn up a single video about it. So I don't really see what I am supposed to do then, I am sure they have at least some warhammer videos but if it takes hours or days or weeks of work to find them then I don't see why I should bother with TikTok at all.
It's not just that exercise makes you hungry, it's also that deliberate cardio exercise can lead to you unconsciously moving less throughout the day, therefore reducing your total daily expenditure, in effect cancelling the whole effect of the exercise. E.g. If someone were to run a marathon, especially if they're untrained, they would be too tired to do anything else during that day (I imagine).

You can theoretically try to counter this by also using a step counter to make sure you keep moving throughout the day, but at some point you might be too exhausted for even that to help.

That said, most people don't move or exercise nearly enough, not for weight loss nor for general health, so for most people's situation you're probably right, adding some exercise is a net benefit. It's still much easier and faster (and more important in the long run) to control caloric intake.
At my maximum I weighed 192kg.

Then I really tried to eat only salads and generally healthy things while doing a lot of sports.

I lost almost 95kg within less then 2 years and for most off the time, the hunger was gone.

At some point, the hunger came back however, and I'm back up to 160kg.
It is a terrible feeling, and while it's possible to ignore it for a while... At least I cannot for months or even years. I'm not sure why it went a away before, but I wish I knew. Switching over to salad diet and doing sports doesn't seem to work by itself, at least not within a reasonable amount of time
> I find it's a skill game to very quickly detect a video is not worthwhile and skip it

Is there a name for this behavior in which a company decides how their system should work to make it easier for the user, but actually makes usage harder, and the company stands with its arms crossed for years never understanding what the user really needs, like in this case a simple "don't show me more/I want more" buttons and a little history list to up/down vote? Usage blindness? Distortion field?
Defi?
The rest of us can only hope Opentelemetry becomes more widely adopted. They have put in a lot of effort in decoupling the application instrumentation from the monitoring solution, to allow more rich instrumentation than just a prom-alike endpoint.
I think cardio in other forms is just as beneficial.
That is "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" - issue. Because I am stupid, I have to think very hard. Are we defining a language using the language itself or what?

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc
Sugar isn't specifically worse than other ways to consume calories, as far as I understand. The way we know this is that there have been many studies in humans, some with high-sugar diets and some with low-sugar diets, and as long as calories are equated, almost everything else about them is the same. Same amount of weight loss, blood markers look similar, etc.
The job of psychiatrists in the US is in large part diagnosis and prescriptions, at least when it comes to the more routine mental health conditions.

If therapy is part of the treatment plan, they're often referred down to a psychologist or therapist for that part of things. A psychiatrist can do therapy....but their hourly rate is a whole lot higher.

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As to personal experience, my current psych (ADHD), requires a ~15min "medication management" session about 4x a year. It's not exactly a ton of oversight.

The couple previous psychiatrists I've had when I lived in other places were about the same way once we got past the initial phase.

It is worth noting that my prescription (+ it's effectiveness) has been generally steady for a long time and I don't exactly have a profile in terms of age/dosage/history that suggests abuse risk.
Because my bedroom isn't the only room in my house that I use.
> Why not use while in both situations, so while(1)… instead of for(;;) ?

Because some compilers warn that the condition is constant and suggest you rewrite it as for (;;)
You're talking about virtual vs non-virtual. static is a whole separate thing. static calls are always resolved at build time. You don't even need an instance at all. And probably shouldn't use one.
I like the idea of editing AST directly instead of just plain text. JetBrains MPS[1] is an editor based on the same principle (but much more mature). Also, the Unison language stores its code only as AST, not text[2].

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

[2] https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/#Code...
I've been running a free closed beta for a product of mine for... 6 months. The users absolutely love it and claim they can't live without it. But I am having difficulty wrangling them into a price that they don't complain about. I think I'm bumping up against these "free" forces somehow. I also think the closed beta has run too long, and now they're spoiled.
Actually the OP is correct - the odds of dying are 44.75%, while the odds of surviving are the corollary of 55.25%, i.e. greater than even.

Edit: Nope I'm wrong, just redid the math. Apologies.
I have found that a very good approach is to apply some very simple transformations such as delta encoding of timestamps, and then letting a good standard compression algorithm such as zstd or deflate take care of the rest.

Delta encoding of timestamps helps a lot though, because it makes the redundancy more visible to a general purpose compression algorithm.

I used this for the telemetry storage of the Columbus module of the International Space Station, back in ~2010, and then a few times since.

http://blog.klaehn.org/2018/06/10/efficient-telemetry-storag...

https://github.com/Actyx/banyan
I'm curious why you'd put so much free effort into a paid-for product by a trillion dollar company.
It sounds like the potential of this technology is enormous so i would guess the distance would have to be very long before the emissions vaccine bet positive. Also there might be ways to combat that.

Our fastest carbon sequestration method that scales are forests right now and they are slow to grow and need dedicated space. So let's build those EV combines or whatever it takes to keep rock dust net negative.
I suspect that long-term benzos, alcohol and/or marijuana use is contributing to this to a significant degree. Would be interesting to see data on this.
Yes, im looking for an alternative app for StreetComplete, which is not available in App Store.
> We don't need Bitcoin. It hasn't enabled anything that couldn't be done already using the banking system, or with existing non-power abusive technology.

The advantage of Bitcoin may seem questionable if you believe dependency on central banking is fine and hedging against financial risks of traditional banks is silly. But mind you there are many people in the world without access to stable banking services.

> If we instead of running PoW blockchains, and used the far more efficient existing banking infrastructure, we could almost completely shut off all of Germany's gas from Russia (at least that portion used to generate

Come on, the number of Bitcoin miners in Germany might approach zero. Energy is way too expensive there. Miners operate in countries with access to cheap energy (which could be coal like in China but also renewables like in Norway). There may be validation modes in Germany but those draw much less power than a mining facility that append to the ledger. So Putin wouldn’t even notice if Central Europe would be shutting down the Bitcoin network.

And do you know what services had similar energy consumption in the past and nobody cared? Peer to peer file sharing like Bitorrent. Running seeding nodes 24/7 or your desktop computer for days just to download illegal copies of movies and software was not exactly environmentally friendly either. Can’t remember any outrage about that. While it’s valid to criticize Bitcoin‘s energy consumption it is not completely out of place and not without precedent.

> I'm pretty sure renewables are actually cheaper to produce than fossil fuels.

Yes, they‘re cheap to produce but very expensive to distribute. Germany e.g. heavily subsidized renewables in the past making electricity very expensive here (AFAIR even one of the most expensive in the world). The most economic renewable currently is hydroelectric power where you also can regulate power generation in response to demands.

But that wasn’t my point. I was just arguing Bitcoin is not a significant contributing factor to rising electricity costs.

> Worldwide power generation is a zero-sum game. There is limited power generation available each day. … It's a zero sum game.

No, that’s not how markets work and energy markets neither. If demand rises energy producers react by increasing production, if demand falls they lower production. If demand rises long-term, they invest in more production facilities. That, of course, takes time so prices will rise temporarily but still creating an incentive to invest. If Bitcoin miners manage to leverage renewables they might actually encourage a net production rise of renewable energy.

BTW: The Bitcoin network‘s power consumption is not fixed either, it depends on the network load and the number of miners competing with each other. At the peak of the bubble it may be much higher than on average. The next crypto winter is likely to come soon and then power consumption goes back to normal. Until the next crypto craze competing networks will hopefully have switched over to Proof-Of-Stake successfully.
> Most users have no idea what any of this means.

That's a bad reason to do things. Users will learn what is made important to them. Red website for http, green website for https. Nice big lettering to translate to the non technical user 'Protected' mode versus 'Unsafe' mode.

Yeah for power users show all the nitty gritties, but this isn't about being technical or not - it's not being communicated properly and instead its just hidden.

When your spouse doesn't communicate well with you, starts having an affair, and then hides it, _thats NOT a good thing_.

All this talk of pasting urls...thats not how users use the web. Nobody is keeping in mind which websites support https or not. They do care what happens when they browse.
This is exactly the reason why i didn't get boosted.

All vaccines are based on the previous previous variant too.

It's possible that RMNA doesn't really trigger vaccine immunity though. But that's not a fact.
Is Product Hunt still a good place to launch a startup?
Curious to know how they determined this, it's not like any usable components in a washing machine have identifying markings to say where it came from.

At most they can see the date code and if the solder looks to have been hand done, not sure how they came to this conclusion.
They are not forcing anybody to contribute, it's free and at will, just like community garden. Even walking in garden is not free, cause somebody's tax money is at use. If you are not paying taxes.

They do provide many free services. Google Maps being one of them, you liked their product and used it and it was very useful hence you contributed back to improve it.

If you had paid for their services then you could complain but if you are using it for free then don't use it for free and then complain. You could always use other products or paid products like GPS from garmin.

I don't understand why so much hate towards companies which are supporting free products and enriching lives of billions of people.

If these free products were not there can you imagine how so many poor people across globe could afford free internet technologies?

// Not google employee, opinions are mine.
To be honest, until i saw the API side of Google Maps i was under the assumption that Google is doing great service with Google Maps. Even now Google Maps gives the accurate result thanks to all the contributors.
A little bit off on the equity section, and unnecessarily low contrast (why?!), but in general a good and pretty comprehensive primer. One bit of opinion that was injected, that I disagree with:

> Cost of replacement. Compensation increases can be justified based on proving you could make more by going elsewhere. This perversely [emphasis mine] incentivizes people interviewing outside the company. Netflix is famous for this approach.

Why is such incentivization perverse? It's really great for employees to know what their market value is. It stops you from doubting if you are worth more, it gives you the warm fuzzy that you are actually being paid fairly, and that your employer is essentially making a guarantee to pay you fairly. It also is great to be somewhere that is so confident of their ability to retain you, that they encourage this. I'd say this is the opposite of perverse.

No comment on Netflix otherwise, but this approach to pay is extremely fair, extremely transparent, and so IMO extremely desirable.

This approach does, however, require work on your part if you are to take advantage of it. It's not for everyone.
Its an RFC now.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9250.html
- does it have any side effects on the ecosystem?

- does it have any impact on, you know, the farms you're putting it on?

These two questions probably already have an answer: we already grow plants, vegetables, fruit trees on basaltic soils (soils formed by the erosion of basaltic rocks). Some European countries have almost only them, like Iceland, Albania, Montenegro. Usually the crops are excellent, and benefits directly from this natural fertilizer e.g. some Italian wines. These rocks also help to capture water in arid regions, btw.
We are also plenty of real world experiments of adding these substances to other ecosystems: every basaltic volcanic eruption distribute a dust cloud around the vent, usually in an area of hundreds km^2, influencing the environment.
transportation and storage costs of digital goods might be very cheap (although not entirely free) but the biggest cost for digital goods is the same it often is for physical goods and services, which is human labour.

Meatspace doesn't inherently differ from digital space. things in meatspace, like say land, didn't always have prices on them. That's a legal invention, the enclosure of the commons, and whether that was a good thing or a bad thing is up for debate but it certainly wasn't a fact of nature.

The process of transferring something to private ownership used to be as foreign to physical things as it was to early digital things. Not because physical or digital goods have some spirit and agenda of wanting to be free, but because nobody had laid claim to it and turned it into a commodity and passed laws that governed their ownership.

When land was enclosed in ~1200 that wasn't because it was so scarce, but because it was 'economically wasted' and 'operated inefficiently'. That's also the reason why digital spaces are being claimed, regardless of whether they're scarce or not.
Ask HN: One-product ecommerce website build
Hello HN,

I would like to build a website that sells costumized google pixel phones with enhanced security features.

My goal would be to have a nice a simple ui that displays the device with verbose selectable options and that bring you to the payment process.

I'm not a web developer so I was looking for a framework that would achieve that with modern look.

I'm also looking for co-founders.
Risso.gabriele@protonmail.ch

Thank you
Here's an example where the original plan was actually written in stone and the fully scaled deliverable did not quite fully follow the plan all the way anyhow.

It would seem the more overly ambitious a project is, the more unlikely it is to achieve the goal of the original vision.
It’s not.

There are no magic bullets.

Every action has consequences; as you see from the effects of using fertilisers and pesticides.

“Perfect fixes” with technology don't happen. Perfect fixes have no side effects. That’s incredibly difficult to achieve in complex systems.

Whether you want to believe it or not, doesn’t change the facts.

Breakthrough transformative technologies do exist, but those simply change things they don’t magically fix them.

What you’re espousing is not “truth”; it’s simply a philosophy, considered by many to be a short sighted trivialisation of a complex problem. See -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_fix
This geo-balancing approach described makes little sense.

"It was a lot cheaper to hire a $200K/year engineer in our American offices than to pay someone the equivalent compensation in any of our European offices."

This is not a very good frame of reference to take though ... they are getting paid $200K - what they give to their government is their business, not yours.

If people are paying 'higher taxes' well hopefully they get some benefit from that. If not, well, it's their country to work with.

If you consider that that European may be getting big retirement, more vacation, free Uni, free Healthcare, free Childcare etc. - well - then that's kind of 'part of their comp'.

Also, Supply/Demand is a thing.

True 'Geo Balancing' would imply paying the person what their market rate is, in that market - and - if you're based in a market with higher salaries you can actually pay bit more (i.e. this the 'Supply' part).

I guess what I mean to say is ... the 'comp' should be what goes to the staffer + payroll taxes. In the US it's a small amount. In France, it's a lot.

So you basically end up paying someone in a 'high payroll tax country' less - all other things being equal.
I believe bitfinex treats USDT as USD meaning if you deposit dollars via a bank account you receive USDT and vice versa
Love it. Was expecting maybe one limited end-point and was scrolling 5mins through all the features. Very cool
"Deep down" / "self-actualization" / "self-discovery" is leftover German Romanticism that's reappeared in things like New Age and some kinds of psychotherapy.

It's not true of course; there's no soul and no real true self that's separate from the things you do. You just are your memories and the things you do. You might take a vacation and find some new hobby you like doing, but that's not because it's part of your true self.
Right. Basically we have to account for the existence of bad actors
None of the FAANG companies are cartel or forcing any users to use their products at gun point.

Don't like their products then don't use it. Use alternative.

They built one of the best products hence most of the world is using it.
Yeah. This is like, "it was a miracle she survived the car crash!". No, it was the hard work of engineers.
C2O :|
> This assistance should be limited to helping the startup be certified, etc

Sounds like it would create some inappropriate incentives for lawyers and others assisting with certification...

But generally I agree with the sentiment of the idea. Just not sure how to deal with further layers of problems.
Why did you link the same link?
The distinction between company and employee payroll taxes is completely artificial. The only thing that matters is that the company pays X and the employee gets Y
The difference is that in the EU you don't necessarily see the payroll taxes your employer pays (as opposed to the income tax you do see), and those payroll taxes can be very high.
I'm not even sure it is the own they think it is. "Russia can manifest tanks out of consumer appliances, Putler BTFO!" rings weird.
People in this world often convince themselves they're religious, but under cover they operate in some of the most spineless and inconsiderate ways... It's one of the big contradictions in life.

Do you save the environment? Or do you sell people cars (which ultimately destroy the environment and create toxic waste) under the guise of "saving the environment"?

Do you act like you're a lion that really cares about gazelle lives being protected?

This is the conflict of selflessness we are constantly presented with.

There is a way to succeed while living well and not being a total douchebag, especially if you can ignore the fact that many won't like you, that you won't have extreme wealth, and that you may never become famous... It's a much better way to live if you are indeed a "spiritual" or somewhat ethical person.

The apex/alpha mentality is very toxic and destructive. Even though many people adore it and exalt this brand of selfish/egotistical bad behavior, the damage it does to society and others far exceeds it's benefits in material gains. Material things only have temporary value, your soul (or legacy if you're not spiritual) however can potentially infinite value to others. My recommendation is for people to keep those 2 aspects in balance... That way you won't have to ask for forgiveness or regret your life on your death bed.
Really matters to who? Others is who. Not the person with the feelings, clearly.

Also, whether it intended it or not it is now definitely a de facto endorsement of workplace abuse.
> The entities we perceive interacting with each other in the dream, what are they?

One thing that tends to be the norm for my own dreams, when I'm cognizant enough to remember them: even when they are realistic, they are genuinely surprising.

The other "characters" in my dreams surprise me to no end. "I" struggle to predict how they will react. For example "they" sometimes respond to "me" with witty comebacks that I don't feel like I remotely anticipated, and when I think about it after I wake up, I'm still impressed by their cleverness. It's hard to believe both sides of the conversation could have been generated by my one brain.

Sometimes I'll suddenly notice an inconsistency -- "hey wait a minute, how could Tokyo be an hour's drive away from here?" -- and the world will instantly contort to explain it, in a way that feels both natural and yet totally unanticipated. "Didn't you hear about the earthquake? It accelerated continental drift, creating a land bridge between Japan and North America. Look, here's the latest map!"

My conclusion is that dreams are a kind of generative antagonistic training. Half of my brain is coming up with wild scenarios and modelling complex agents with hidden state, and the other half is perceiving this, reacting to it, and trying to decide if it's real. If it is, the generator wins. If it's not, I realize I'm dreaming, and I usually wake up or at least switch to a new dream.

In addition to being consistent with what dreams feel like to me, this process would help (both parts of) my brain develop a mental model of reality.
> you should tell that to the RU tanks getting their lids popped:

And you should tell that to USA's and Britain's military, which have chosen 400mm penetration (AT4), 500mm top-down penetration (NLAW), and 900mm top-down + tandem penetration (Javelin).

200mm, even top-down, is significantly less than other anti-tank weapons. I presume that the militaries who made these modern weapons know what they're doing.