skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
consumers bear some responsibility for demanding low quality convenient instant prep food.
most of the shelf space is wasted on junk food . if consumers cooked even simple
meals, then
market would be 2/3 smaller . an entire isle for breakfast cereal, one for cookies, and half an isle for canned beans ? that means everything had to cost 10x as much .
Dupe, basically. Discussion has started about the fork and license change here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574455

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31612956
Thank you. Not trying to be a spelling nazi, just that those two tend to get mixed up quite a bit and can cause people confusion.
So the legally-unrecognized "abandonware" concept.

(EDIT: author refers to it as abandonware.)
Agree, well, if I didn't agree I have no food.
I've generally found that checkout times at TJs are much less than the local supers.

Price- and quality-wise they totally win on cheese and pasta by a huge margin. Supermarket cheese is generally pretty awful (the only cheeses we get at the super are Mexican cheeses that TJs doesn't stock. I’ve occasionally bought, say cheddar at the super and it’s awful and costs more than TJs).

The big thing for me for the last two years is that the clientele and staff at my local TJs have done a much better job of taking Covid seriously than the same at Whole Foods¹ or any standard super.

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1. I was in Whole Foods earlier today and was rather appalled to see a sign saying that customers are welcome [italics mine] to shop without a mask regardless of vaccination status. This while local Covid rates are on the rise. It seemed like they were encouraging people to go maskless.
Still, keeping as much the same provides benefits.
Thanks for your explanation, as is often the case for me when I encounter this level of insight, I need to take a break, relax... and digest everything said word for word, this involves opening some tabs and a lot of reading, but these answers are always appreciated, thanks.

BTW you made me lol when you followed my ridiculous "internet collapse" scenario.

I'll be definitely coming back to this answer.
Also has great produce. The section just varies from week to week.

I got a great deal on small cucumbers and mangos but next week they didn't have either.
OT: I've been trying recently to find something that works like the old Google Inbox project. Inbox was the only time I've ever reached inbox 0, and it annoyed the hell out of me when they cancelled it. Has anyone seen/used anything that comes close?
In my teens I spent a whole paycheck on the Stanley Kubrick DVD box set. In hindsight this was dumb but then again all of the films are amazing.

The set:
Stanley Kubrick Collection (Lolita / Dr. Strangelove / 2001: A Space Odyssey / A Clockwork Orange / Barry Lyndon / The Shining / Full Metal Jacket) https://www.amazon.com/dp/6305440093/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_4XQ9...
One of the big developments in the SEO space seems to be making every title too detailed and specific. If you are a plumbing company that serves the whole country, your seo involves auto generating pages that mention a specific suburb or city. So when someone searches something specific, it looks like your page is the most local and correct.

Another one for products is having the same category named with 2000 related titles so it shows up for the exact search terms someone is searching even if they aren’t quite accurate to the category.
ah yes the sleazy underbelly of “researching what users are actually searching for”
I don't know where you get that from, but, um, no. Not remotely true.
> I find the English usage of “Angst” really confusing, as it really just means anxiety or anxious.

USA: While angst and anxiety come from similar roots, angst is not just anxiety but a dread or anguish. Often angst is focused in a certain way, such as towards a particular condition one person has or a group of people have. Anxiety is more general.

There may also be differences between the two words in certain fields, such as with professional definitions.

There are also other derivative uses, such as teenage angst, that are more akin to feeling overwhelmed but not necessarily anxious.
I didn't get much farther than the author describing how doctors "prescribe Ibuprofen." Ibuprofen is an over the counter medication. No doctor actually writes a script for it; they just say "hey try this for your pain." They make no money off saying that, or recommending ibuprofen over tylenol or whatever, because these are not prescription medications and doctors aren't being courted by pharma companies to push OTC drugs everyone already likes and knows about.

They actually recommend this because Ibuprofen and Tylenol are widely available, cheap, and very safe. (Unless you take too much Tylenol, which, seriously don't.) Most people already have a bottle of one or the other or both.

There are actual drugs doctors sometimes get rewarded for prescribing, in various ways, but OTC pills are rarely it. See opioids, for example: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-your-doctor-gettin...
Our Kroger has a pretty nice cheese selection. Not quite Whole Foods but it's way, way cheaper
That and to keep the open source community pacified. If Firefox wasn't around it's very likely that the community will develop something much better which may be completely out of control for corporations.
This is what I got. Not exactly what I expected:

> 26151564

> biden 2020

> 59411836

> >>26151564

> i like biden. he's not running but he would be my pick.

> i'm not a big fan of either hillary nor trump, especially trump.
The biggest controversy I remember from the old days of Google was the goji berry war.

A pastry chef at a café on the Google Mountain View campus put out some nice little cakes with Tibetan goji berries. The sign said "Free Tibet Goji Berry Cake". This was obviously a sly nod to the Free Tibet campaign, and also true, as the cake was free, this being Google.

Some local Chinese Googlers complained to kitchen management, saying that the idea of freeing Tibet was anti-Chinese. The pastry chef was suspended by the catering company.

The story soon reached the high traffic "misc" mailing list. Many US Googlers objected to the pastry chef being punished for what they considered inoffensive free speech. A fund was started to compensate the cook for lost wages. There was a campaign to reinstate her immediately.

At least one Chinese Googler threatened to quit if the cook was not fired, and was encouraged to go ahead and quit by people who sided with the cook. Some Chinese Googlers shared their interesting opinions about Tibet, e.g. they said the Dalai Lama is a Nazi, he is a secret CIA agent, etc.

This new information was met with skepticism and failed to win anybody over to the Chinese side.

Anyway, eventually the pastry chef was reinstated. I don't think anybody quit. It all blew over.
> ! expert != idiot

I'll just leave this here: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

> one who has no professional knowledge, layman

"Idiot" quite literally means "not an expert", among other things.
Absolutely, any position within a corporation should be automated if it makes sense and improves the performance of the company as a whole. The original purchasers of the shares served the purpose of providing money to the corporation, the subsequent purchasers are participating in a secondary market and help in adjusting the value of the corporation's shares. The corporation can benefit from this by issuing new shares to generate further funding. Voting shares also provide input from outside the company which can be a healthy perspective to have especially when it is coming from serious analysts who spend a lot of time looking at other corporations in the same industry, it can be detrimental as well but because the share owners have skin in the game they are less likely to vote against their own interests and those with the most interest have the most votes.

I have nothing against employee owned corporations. If people want to get together and run and work for their own corporation then more power to them. I don't think it should be the only type of corporation though, we need a variety of models to adapt to changing circumstances and service different needs.
Similar to their initial point, they just made it up.
Yeah, usually (at least the ones near me). There's usually a freezer section with stuff like that in it.
Any pinball simulator will do. The game is all about lights and action. Though the really good ones aren't built for web.
Making Java Better: Enhancement Proposals
Appears to have no named ports on nodes, key feature for many uses in my domain.
FYI, https://storymaps.com/explore is barely usable over T-mobile LTE -- guessing it's the very numerous high-res images.
"A lot of assets in this category are now worth $0" is not a "bear market". It's a hard crash and proof that skeptics' years of criticisms -- including that cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value and are vulnerable to being worth $0 at any moment -- were correct all along.
It is easy to imagine a future where schools in the US are armoured fortresses guarded by heavily armed soldiers, and kids being driven to school in military style personal carriers. I am exaggerating of course. Or am I?
I just went through this - you cannot. Sine is transcendental. For no rational inputs (other than 0) is the output rational. Sampling at discrete timesteps and quantizing is giving you not samples of a sine wave, but samples close to a sine wave. The reconstruction is not the original sine wave - it's no longer meeting Nyquist theorem requirements.

The oscilloscope can detect that the pattern of inputs has a frequency, but it's necessarily an approximation at this point. An oscilloscope adds enough noise and error from it's own workings that on a screen, to your eye, for certain sampling parameters, it looks close. But that is not the original signal.

Take a signal, sample it, DAC it, and try using that signal to cancel the original, amplify the result, and run that through an oscilloscope. If the signal were reconstructed, you should be able to get zero.

You don't. Now you see the differences in the reconstructed signal and the original.
This. I was thinking of drawing humorous Org charts as fantasy worlds.
They represented something like 30% of traffic at a couple places I worked. Their bots are not well behaved
For years now, there have been seemingly crazy people on 4chan who insist that systems like this are already employed on 4chan to guide or simply disrupt conversations. Maybe they were crazy to think that a few years ago (or maybe not) but I expect they definitely feel vindicated now.

Related: "Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Enough?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzoXQKumgCw
You put "average creator" in quotes but from my reading of their site Yep has not claimed they will help the "average creator", just "creators".

If Yep shares a higher percentage of revenue with creators than Google, surely that is helping creators even if it doesn't mean you're achieving some sort of imaginary "no man left behind" standard for the average creator.
They adjusted the hazard ratios to remove the effect of diabetes. Would this not skew the data when they are not included in the sugar cohort? The confounding variables I'm talking about are behavioral, not clinical.
I don't think inferiority is implied in that statement. Is there any reason why we expect different groups to perform equally? Can't some groups perform worse than others by random chance? Are there really no other factors besides discrimination that could cause this?
> When we switched to profitability, we had to dramatically change our development practices to maintain the same app with fewer people and less code.

My suspicion is if you start with that practice you can build the same app with fewer people and less code right from the start.

Just that people don't really know how to accomplish that anymore.
Wow. Any solution that solves 50% of problems is pretty damn good!
I've been using Mimestream for my desktop Gmail experience... fantastic product.
The Dexcom G7 (not yet released) is supposed to be able to connect directly to the Apple Watch. The current G6 requires the phone but does have a watch complication that displays your current trend and trend graph.
Lived in Denmark for a while, it was worst than anything I experienced in Germany and much more expensive. Though I found smaller shops, asian and middle eastern run with great vegetables and tofu (hard to find for some reason). And this was in Copenhagen mind you.
If you mean the best undergrad in the world can write better than that yes, I agree. If you mean the median I would disagree since worse spelling mistakes are commonly made.
Assuming everyone’s using a tablet with 15 seconds of free time and auto spell check turned off.

What’s your point?
The article actually states that the drives are not new.
Maybe. One prediction I have is that AI will likely find its earliest widespread use in "content" generation, and this content will be geared towards clicks and engagement rather than creating something, well, creative.

I think eventually there will be a backlash against this content because of how much it stunts human potential. It keeps you hooked, but people will also deride it for being empty, for being exceptionally "mid". People will question why such content appeals to the widest possible demographic and come up with disturbing answers, like that the AIs unintentionally discovered a lot of unsettling psychological hooks. True or not, it'll freak people out.

I haven't even scratched the surface of my worries when it comes to the unintended consequences of content AI. I for one look forward to the day someone manages to create "the world's smartest racist".
Web pages work just fine on phones, except companies are suspiciously forceful with their recommendations that you use their app instead. Don't pretend Reddit isn't doing this; others do as well.
Sounds fun! I would love to work for an R&D team that actually produces something. (I only "produce" data pipelines and analysis.) Sounds like I only need 20 more years of coding experience!
Today's transformer networks are the first hints of a technology that will replace humans completely for all purposes.

It's qualitatively different, like world-destroying atomic bombs versus the minor explosives that came before. This is not like a loom replacing hand-weaving. We're rapidly converging on a full replacement for the human mind.

These systems will not defeat you with guns like in Terminator. They will defeat you by commoditizing your mind and making your economic value zero.
But I believe they do factor in rents, which tend to be rather closely tied to housing prices.
They stopped giving the GB of free storage?
Why cook at home when you can have overpriced takeout delivered?
> Why fuck raisins?

They’re garbage grapes. And they often add sugar, directly or indirectly. Dried wine grapes are delicious.
Yup, just like all the other times.
Persistence of Vision Test
Remote work has been a thing for a while. I've been working remotely (mostly anyway) for over a decade at this point. The only thing that's changed recently was that more jobs (including those outside of tech) were forced to embrace remote working.

I think there will be some normalisation over the next year or two as offices reopen, but the trend over the last decade has only been towards more remote working. A decade ago it was difficult to find companies open to remote work but in 2018 (the last time I looked for a job pre-pandemic) it wasn't hard at all -- at least within tech.

The thing I'm most concerned about in the immediate future is the tech job market in general. I'm a fairly senior dev so I'm not too worried about myself, but I think junior devs might have a hard time finding work if the economy takes a turn for the worse. I'm not that worried about remote working though. Almost everyone I speak to seems fairly adamant that they won't be returning to the office just for the sake of it. Going forward there will be more pressure than ever for companies to accommodate those who wish to work remotely and personally I don't see myself ever taking a non remote job again. I'm sure some companies will insist employees work from the office, but those companies will find it increasingly harder to recruit talent.
Never heard of this before. Thanks for mentioning. Loving it so far.
people said that about Honey (just a chrome app store solo dev project) and look how much they got acquired for. Don't underestimate them.
I saw similar products at Nokia bell labs ~3 years ago. Super stoked to see this stuff actually on the market in ~2030. Kinda wish it were sooner, but if you fuck up, someone probably dies.
> From the time that I mailed my letters, the compound annual return of the respondent group is 8.97% greater than the non-respondent companies.

Sounds like a decent investment strategy. Fire handwritten letters at the S&P500, go long if you get a response and short if not. Weight portfolio by length, timing and sentiment of response.
I have lived, worked, and paid taxes in 5 countries. And it was obvious to me that the food standards in England (and the US) was lower than most European countries. Sorry if that offends but I believe this to be true based on personal experience living there.
We are doing what is best by not throwing good $billions after bad down the nuke rathole. Renewables are now by a huge margin the cheapest power generation system ever created.

After enough renewables have been built out to supply power and charge up storage, it will be time to start building out storage, which will then serve base load. Storage cost is falling even faster than wind or solar PV ever did, so by that time many kinds of storage will also be very cheap.

We will use many kinds of storage because each has different cost structure: Batteries, per MWh stored, MW in or out cheap, so good for peak smoothing. Synthetic ammonia and hydrogen, also liquified nitrogen, per MW in, tankage almost free, and transportable, MW out via existing combined cycle turbines. Pumped hydro, per MW, MWh cheap up to a hard limit. Undersea pumped hydro, per MWh but very cheap if the pump is onshore. Undersea buoyancy, very cheap all around provided the winch is onshore. Underground compressed air, per MW in, MWh stored very cheap, MW out via turbines maybe boosted with hydrogen or ammonia combustion.

There is no place in the future for overpriced nukes built with coerced money.
Man I miss the Berkeley Bowl, I spent years within walking distance..
>...in American workplaces...which allows the discrimination to go unchecked

That is THE assumption which is being challenged; the reasons in my other comments.
I stick to good old slither.io
Correct, the left is the one that does the violence. You can look at jails and murder stats for that if you like, but in general is pretty obvious who the very intolerant ones are and it's the left.
Readdle's Spark[1] has been my Inbox replacement since Google killed it. It has pin/snooze functionality and a similar concept of grouping emails by category and letting you easily mass mark-as-read. Plus, you can connect multiple email accounts rather than just being limited to your Gmail account. It's also nice because you can have a "team"; my wife and I use it to share important messages and help each other draft or review emails. They have really nice apps for Mac and iOS, too.

[1]: https://sparkmailapp.com/
Amorphous+
Did you get yelled at by an old lady for touching the produce with your hands?
Someone is using recursion in the code again
> I'm having a conversation with some one ardently defending whether humans can shoot fireballs out of their hands and walk on water or not.

You aren't.

You're having a conversation with someone trying to describe how other people look at the topic. (That's why, for example, I put quotes around “Well your sample size isn’t large enough.”) But since you're not interested in that, I'll stop.
If my memory of AoE2 serves, there’s even an entire Age between them.
To elaborate on what I mean. I think that someone will train an AI on racist literature, statistics, and rhetoric, and create an AI that is not only very racist, but very good at convincing other people to be racist. I think this will happen well before the government and institutions can preempt such a thing from happening.

This does bring up a bigger issue. What are the risks of creating AIs that could convince people on any subject one could think of?
I have a couple of speech synthesis chips from that era I picked up on eBay or somewhere — made an "Arduino shield" for the chip some years ago. It ran warm and needed a surprising amount of current. Such was the technology of the time.

I love this era of speech synthesis. Robots were white and chrome and would one day be our cheerful servants. That they talked/sounded different from us only endeared them to us — reminded us that they were after all machines.

Siri and her sisters, like Pinocchio, want to be real humans. I would be surprised if in 40 years anyone will be nostalgic for them.
Dropping in a import pdb; pdb.set_trace() in my pytests and running them from the terminal has helped me squash some pretty difficult bugs. It’s dead simple (same with Ruby pry)
> In your opinion, would a social movement organized around this idea find traction?

Might want to call it the "Butlerian Jihad", because that's what it sounds like to me. And, yes, machines should serve man and amplify man's abilities, not replace man or his intellect.
Thanks! I'll have a read. Your comment helps clarify the situation.
I'll stop using `println` when it stops being so effective.
So true, its the type of product a person with tons of emails would find useful like VCs
I would expect any large datacenter to have a halon based fire suppressant system or something similar.
>run it twice, once rounding towards negative infinity, and once towards positive infinity, and see how different they are

That's actually a good method that lots of numerical analysts use. I think C99 has several rounding modes - I often have code that runs the same computation under each mode and look at what your doing.

>not all crappy code generates a wide window

True, often you need to find the values that make it puke. I think there was a paper recently on doing this automatically.... If I can refind it I'll post - it was cool stuff.

>students are only allowed to use single (32-bit) precision floats and operations

For stuff this small you can often brute force all values or at least all edge case values. I sometimes do the trick of converting 32 bit integers (watch out for weird C aliasing rules) to hit lots of numbers near precision edges and run them through, denormals, other edge cases, and pseudo-fuzz the results. This will sometimes turn up more.

If you teach, and have not worked through some numerical analysis books that provide good background for this stuff, read Goldberg's paper "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" [1]. The next good thing to dig through is Higham's book "Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms" [2]

Those will give you lots of places to look for issues, and the ability to analyze algorithms more concretely for floating point issues.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/800-7895/800-7895.pdf
[2] http://ftp.demec.ufpr.br/CFD/bibliografia/Higham_2002_Accura...
DigitalOcean definitely does have a terrible reputation (for good reason). IIUC they used to let anyone send mail and I don't think their current process of requesting unblocking is too strong of a prevention against spamr either. However ideally this would only hurt "first contact" for a domain assuming it is authenticated. In practice some providers will barely consider domain reputation even after a long history.