skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a SSC article reviewing of a book by Guyenet[1], which describes the “buffet diet” vs what I’ll summarize as the “Soylent diet” (nutrient sludge).

The finding was that giving people unlimited boring nutrient sludge on tap, they consumed way fewer calories while still reporting satiety (not feeling hungry).

The basic idea being if you restrict yourself to boring food, then your appetite is lower. And the inverse; if you eat at a buffet and can have any number of diverse flavors, then your appetite (and “fullness threshold”) is higher.

Any diet where you just eat one thing is therefore going to equilibrate at a lower caloric intake than a diet where you are allowed to eat multiple flavors.

I’m a bit skeptical about glycemic load (I had potatoes down as by far the worst vegetable of them all) but perhaps that isn’t the current understanding of things. Any diet of one-thing is going to have strong appetite suppressing effects. I suspect there are more nutritious options, like “only eat salad with no dressing” which might be boring enough to suppress appetite, while also being nutritious enough to sustain longer-term. You don’t want to be the first case of scurvy in your town this century.

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry...
Those interactions from other users can be totally fake to boost engagement.
Are you seriously using an article quoting Devin Nunes as an authorative source?
> The US economy is pretty questionable.

Do you mean economy is better somewhere else?
There are now more jobs in US than before the pandemic.
Isn't that pretty good at least relatively speaking?

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/there-are-now-more-...
I suspect parent is talking about a shorter cycle downturn.
Does this fit better with present discussion:

Top down government control of individual's food choices.
> we can feed 10b with what we know we can do growing food for 8b

But what about giving them other things like homes, phones, tvs, educating them, cars etc? Food is just one of the issues, the larger question is- will rest of the society treat them with respect - even if they are not useful to society? Looking at all the homeless in one of the richest cities in the world, my guess is no.
Russia must be closing a lot of wells now, since they can't get transport to willing buyers and won't sell to the existing buyers. Reopening isn't simple or cheap, so I wonder how many of those are going to be reopened — ever.
Who are you asking to fix the system, and why? Me, maybe? Paul Graham? gofreddygo?

How is the thing you say a problem with the quote? These can both simultaneously be the case, and often are:

1. The most damaging thing John Doe learned in school was learning to get good grades.

2. Richard Roe didn't get good grades and is drowning in student loan debt with no degree and limited future prospects to show for it.

You have offered no reason to believe that if (2) is more true, or true in more cases, (1) is less true, or true in less cases, or less important. In fact, this tighter conjunction can also often be true:

1'. The most damaging thing John Doe learned in school was learning to get good grades.

2'. John Doe didn't get good grades (despite being damaged by learning how, he didn't learn how enough, or other things interfered) and is drowning in student loan debt with no degree and limited future prospects to show for it.

You've also offered no reason to believe that if (2') is more true, (1') is less true or less important.

I have an idea! Maybe you're misinterpreting the quote as meaning that, if you're in school, it would be a good strategy to stay there but not learn to get good grades. In that case there would be a sort of conflict: by diminishing the damage from (1') you may be increasing the risk of (2').

But that isn't what the essay advises at all, and I'm puzzled as to how you could have read it as suggesting that. It explicitly advises students to do exactly the opposite; it advises them to get good grades by hacking bad tests in the usual ways (cramming before exams, etc.) because everyone will judge them by their grades.

But that's not really the point of the essay, and it would be a pretty boring essay if it was. The point of the essay is its advice to people who aren't enrolled as students: unlearn how to get good grades, and instead of focusing on how to make your product look good, actually make a good product. Also, and maybe more importantly, try to work in fields of endeavor where the way to win is to do good work, rather than hacking bad tests like you do in school. (This might suggest not going into school at all, which would at least avoid the student loan debt problem.)
I remember reading the paper magazine for school in the 1990s. Teachers would assign parts as homework sometimes. It was on that level of trusted journalism

I don't know what the equivalent today would be. The Reuters website maybe?
Simple - money for votes requires registered voters. My scheme - erm, "business plan" - just needs unregistered immigrants! Way easier to enact, because they're undocumented to begin with!
Understanding the Modern Data Stack
The Rust module system is radically different from C and C++ and other similar languages in the embedded space.

Every build system that has added support for Rust, which aren't many, had to be radically modified to achieve that.

None of these supports the GCC Rust frontend, but all of them support the Rust frontend.

So if you actually wanted to build any >100 LOC Rust project for embedded targets not supported by LLVM, doing it with the Rust frontend is as easy as just running 1 CLI command to pick its GCC backend.

Doing it with the GCC frontend, would require you to either port one of the build systems to support it, or... give the GCC frontend a CLI API that's 100% compatible with the Rust frontend.
It's under "Burglary", so I'm guessing victims of burglary like to give estimates of their property using algebra.
Why would the state do that? They are making a killing by playing "fair". Unless you are suggesting literal bribery, I don't see it.

For some people winning the lottery (even smaller prices) is literally the only "realistic" way of getting a moderate amount of "wealth"

When there is an economic crisis, more people are stuck in bad situation and are more susceptible to moderate gambling. News and lotto operators are selling are happy to keep selling this dream
Yea I really couldn't care less about that. It's illegal in the country where most of those trips took place, drivers can have their cars confiscated.

But here's the thing, it comes down to "you can't use ride sharing at the airport". Why you may ask? "BECAUSE, you can't use ride sharing at the airport".

If that's the law, fuck the law.
Friend or spouse, or even just a video camera.
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Now they have been banned for trolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049186
Same thing happened to a few of my reviews on Google Maps - not sure what those few vendors did to get my reviews shadow banned but it was frustrating. I no longer log reviews now since the motivation to contribute to a catch-and-kill operation is low.
They didn't charge him with them, but if you read the sentencing transcript [1] you can see it was definitely considered those facts and the specific facts of each murder for hire plot when arriving at a judgement.

And the first judge very much agreed with your assessment.

[1]: https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sentencing_2...
Even better.

Or sealed if the usecase applies.
> Ukraine has been a major defeat for NATO.

In a war everybody loses. Blowing up buildings and killing people how could that not be a defeat for everybody. The question is who started it? Who is the aggressor?
The End of Millennial Marxism
Only now do I realize that in every cop show where they are pointing out some officer who 'aced' the academy exam they are actually making a sly joke.
Why do you assume they're unsafe? That's not in the article. It appears you've created a strawman.
I am 50 years old and I agree. I've never liked programming as much as today, because I do less of it and get to collaborate with all the other people also doing less of it. Basically, programming is a terribly difficult way to spend time, and open source let's us reduce this tax on humanity.
I'm not saying it's effective (yet), but if companies respond to a law by doing something very obnoxious and not at all required by the law, I point my blame at the companies.
Table sugar is half fructose. Likewise honey. Agave syrup is much worse, 85%. Mango and pear juice, almost as much.

Grapes, almost uniquely among fruits, have practically no fiber, so are as bad as juice.

The glucose part of sugar is mostly harmless. So we focus on the fructose.
> What exactly is there to enjoy about a scratch ticket beyond the hope of winning?

There's "buying it for the adrenaline rush of possibly winning, and scratching it hoping to win" and "buying it because you're due/you feel lucky/you really need the money".

As long as you are buying the thrill of the chase and the occasional great feeling of winning, you're fine. It's an experience and comes out of that mental budget. If you're buying it because you really want or believe that $500 from the scratcher is coming to buy your baby new shoes, it's an issue.

I hope that makes some sense. Basically, do you understand your EV is negative/realistic odds of winning are negligible but are buying it anyway?
Music recommendations are even worse than movies, in that they need to take into account what you've just listened to (if I'm listening to a specific genre, I'm unlikely to want something in a very different tempo and style), time of day (at bed time I'll often put on some soft classical music; that doesn't mean I want that every other time because I play it a lot), mood (if I suddenly play 1980's pop, it's probably nostalgia, and suddenly playing new music is not what I want), and at the same time I have preferences, but those are mediated by what I'm currently listening to.

Whenever I try to get a service or other to recommend music they are remarkably bad at this.
A nice anecdote about mathematicians trying to solve this problem:

> Again the diet seemed to be plausible except for calling for the consumption of 200 bullion cubes per day.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160411141356/https://dl.dropbo...
Can you prove any of those things is actually happening with the sort of regularity you’re implying? Preferably without linking to coinbase articles?
Yes, all.
They don't seem to. Here in central Texas, a restaurant enforced its trespassing rules and the guy decided to summon his hordes to start logging bad reviews for the restaurant. Yelp locked down the reviews for this place fairly quickly but Google Maps allowed the lies to build up without limit.
This is the canonical video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVMh-nT200
No, he's pretty much right. As an illegal immigrant, I still have to pay all kinds of taxes, but it's really hard and sometimes dangerous to access many of the public services those taxes provide. Public goods like roads, street lights, and the fact that armed robbers find it more convenient to leave me alive instead of dead, those I can benefit from. But I'm reluctant to report crimes to the police, I had a hell of a time getting a covid vaccination, and I'm not going to get any retirement money from the government when I'm too senile to work. At least I can still audit classes at the university.

I'm not much of an "agitator on one of the sides". I can't afford to be an agitator, I might get deported. I'm just telling you what my life is like.
Let’s see how “safer” Europeans are by the end of next winter
It's not just a solution to abuse, but also protection from nasty governments and good infosec
BTW that account where you and I disagreed about whether they were trolling? They got banned for trolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049186
Mo Farah didn't cheat the system though. He was a victim of the trafficking and so the ops point is referring to not criminalizing the victim i think. Which makes sense. He didn't break the immigration law.
The risk tolerance is there result of not potentially taking out $1T of additional value if you f-- up a small project at a mega corporation.

At a mega corporation, you can't take risks which make complete sense for the project you're on independent of uncapped liability for the mothership.

There are misalignments like the one you describe but that's not what I'm talking about.
Yotta does this in an FDIC insured account btw
Noise, Fake News, and Tenacious Bayesians
China is showing a unwillingness to really help Russia in any meaningful way, because they likely fear the ire of sanctions as well.

I don’t think much can help Russia at this point in time it’s really just a matter of time till they run out of steam, it is Afghanistan all over again.
> it's basically the same

Not really. Fructose is JUST fructose, sucrose is half fructose.
They are refugees, not illegal immigrants at the US Border fleeing Latin American countries bulldozed by the CIA
Startup Excitement Is Gone
I live near a railway where over 100 trains pass every day, most are freight ones. They are very, very noisy, even a small reduction could help when these lines are within cities.
thats so satisfying! its like a stress reliever!
They sort of are. Restaurant inspections are done by the government and are pretty universally trusted by consumers. I’ve been surprised that restaurants don’t more readily advertise their scores to help offset reviews.
At least two typos, or one complete lack of understanding of dimensions.
If it starts happening to a bunch of companies whose founders frequent HN, we'll know it's a contagious publicity stunt!
Yeah, there is no objective reason to think they didn't fabricate all the evidence.

Except that it would be, you know, actual work.
The strawman is now a strawarmy!
Cloudy Chinese word processor vendor denies deleting defiant docs
> that depends on severance package. Can't say for other industries, in tech we're exceptionally lucky - the packages are large,

If only. What is this "package" you speak of?! :-)

I've been laid off a number of times, or had contracts end, sometimes abruptly, sometimes with ample notice, over the years.

Every time, the severance was precisely 0. No exceptions, whether it was standard employment or a contract. Yes, I work in tech as a SWE. No, they were not ended for bad reasons. In every case the terms just evaluated to 0 or didn't have severance terms.

I'm hopefully about to start a new job, and the terms on offer do not include any severance package no matter how long the service, but they are good in other ways. My previous job was the same. To be honest, because I've never received a severance package, it didn't occur to me to ask about it either of these times!

It really depends where you work.
You probably won't like this but it's your attitude that's the problem. Change it. You assume you are infallible and smacks of sanctimoniousness. Now, you are entitled to such feelings if the clients were some finance suits with no idea of tech, but by your own admission they are not only engineers but also former devs. Just engage in the discussion, who knows there might be solutions lurking there if you take off your shades and earplugs.
My first thought was could you convert OGG and FLAC to MP3 and then you would be able to play them on any player player that supports MP3?

But then I realized maybe not because this would create friction / a speed bump impeding the direct playing of files acquired in those formats.
Not necessarily. The owner of Binance is a Canadian citizen, so it seems more likely to me that he was complying with Canadian sanctions on Iran.
Are many parts of the world simultaneously imploding more than usual or is it always like this?

In addition: Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Venezuela, Libya, and Ukraine are all in extremely dire straits from a previously prosperous time.
It's not unpopular though. Only about 28% of Americans think that prison sentences are too long, whereas 32% think they are too short and 37% think that they're about right.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-...
> According to YouTube’s tweet, it can take up to 48 hours for wrongly removed videos to be reinstated.

I'm guessing it's temporary?
A subversive element is called a guerilla.

It's a loan word from Spanish meaning "little war".
slacker engineers are incredibly valueable. if work is being slacked on, it's a good sign that the design is bad.
No? I want municipalities to hire competent and ethical cops (at market salaries), rather than giving firearms to train warm bodies and attempting to teach them to enforce the law.
This shows a clear fail of Google to close the sale at the best possible moment. Instead of answering your question to the best of their abilities, Google just returns another pile of web spam wasting an opportunity.
Yeah the title is a bit misleading.

The complaint has been removed as abusive. And the stream will be back within 48 hours.

> According to YouTube’s tweet, it can take up to 48 hours for wrongly removed videos to be reinstated.
Nothing is stopping you from doing exactly that as an employee.
More than a decade ago, some HN commenters claimed "StackOverflow could be thrown together in a weekend", which is very similar to the sentiment expressed here.

StackOverflow employees reply here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ and here: https://www.bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-n...

Their main argument is that some developers take an incredibly myopic view of what it takes to run a software business, and I think the same applies here, if not more so, considering Twitter's business model of selling advertising.

From the linked posts:

> If you then tell a developer to replicate StackOverflow, what goes into his head are the above two SQL tables and enough HTML to display them without formatting, and that really is completely doable in a weekend. The smarter ones will realize that they need to implement login and logout, and comments, and that the votes need to be tied to a user, but that's still totally doable in a weekend; it's just a couple more tables in a SQL back-end, and the HTML to show their contents. Use a framework like Django, and you even get basic users and comments for free.

> But that's not what StackOverflow is about. Regardless of what your feelings may be on StackOverflow in general, most visitors seem to agree that the user experience is smooth, from start to finish. They feel that they're interacting with a polished product. Even if I didn't know better, I would guess that very little of what actually makes StackOverflow a continuing success has to do with the database schema--and having had a chance to read through StackOverflow's source code, I know how little really does. There is a tremendous amount of spit and polish that goes into making a major website highly usable. A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation.
I started using Ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome 2 and Compiz on January 2009. I've stopped thinking for a while what I'm getting with Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 20.04 now that I didn't had in 2009. The only important feature I came out with is gsconnect / kdeconnect which maybe would have been impossible with Gnome 2 but maybe not. Everything else feels like nice to have small esthetic improvements which I would do without if I think all the time I had to spend configuring out all the new stuff I didn't like. I used Gnome Flashback until the upgrade to 18.04, when I was sure I could put together a dozen Gnome shell extensions to get a desktop I could live with. Switching back to Windows or to a Mac with the OSX GUI would have been worse for me. Tastes.

Then there is the inevitable maintenance to keep the desktop environment compatible with the world that is changing around it. Kernels, drivers, etc. "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
US News rankings considers neither food nor campus aesthetics.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/rank...
It is not true.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/rank...
I hate to add another bullet. and I don’t know if you care or not, but a lot of people take it for granted that Bluetooth music devices have stereo playback over bluetooth, when in fact many of them surprisingly do not.

Yes the content matters when deciding whether stereo helps or not; that is obvious… I was adding a point about stereo that is less obvious.
That doesn't really matter.

The point Turnbull was making is something along these lines: https://xkcd.com/538/

No, they can't change the laws of mathematics to make all encryption have a government backdoor. They don't have to, though. They can just legislate to make use of non-backdoored encryption criminal. And if they want to make generating random streams of bytes a crime they can probably do that too.

It's not idiotic, it's authoritarian.
"high fructose" corn syrup--what's typically used to replace sucrose--is 55% fructose, not 100% fructose. IOW, only 5% more fructose. (It can even be less than sucrose, as low as 42%, but for sake of argument 55% seems fair.)
Quite right, imports get more expensive. I guess it's only beneficial if you have most of the supply chain in-country.
Do you want angry people with room temperature IQs armed and in charge?
It's the thin end of the wedge. Want to use the stereo, unlock remotely, etc etc?
When they cross the borders in Somalia they may be refugees. By the time they have crossed the borders, in and out, of 10 countries that are not at war, to land in the UK, they are economic migrants.
This is so cool! I often wondered how possible would it be to keep a TCP connection alive during a server restart. How is the connection severed and the client not being aware of it works?
I actually think that Northeastern is really good at this even relative to its current peers in the rankings. I have no affiliation but just being around the Boston area I hear many good things about their co-op program.
Communism and socialism are two very different things. I'm not sure most Americans appreciate how different the are, and tend to conflate the two.

Communism itself has many flavors, and while soviet communism failed (arguably because it was just tsarism with a different tsar), Chinese communism is still very much a working model and a very successful one (for some definitions of success.)

Democratic socialism is also well represented today, with some stand-out performers in Europe.

As with all social systems, capitalism included, there are pros and cons, haves and have-nots. Some systems promote equality, some promote huge winners and losers. Naturally US businesses tend to model the national system (the only thing that matters is money) which typically makes them poor places to work.

But companies don't have to follow the national model - there are plenty of exploitive companies in Europe, and more than a few humane companies in the US.
I would recommend watching Dr Andrew Hubberman. I think you will find how to accomplish what you already know you have to do, but don’t know how.
The Picture Astronomers Have Been Waiting For
But what the government does is food _safety_ inspections, right? This is quite different from the quality of customer experience, ambiance, service, even how _tasty_ the food is.

I don't know about the US, but in the UK food safety ratings are displayed on or next to each establishment's front door (might be a legal requirement, I am not sure). They're also available online at https://ratings.food.gov.uk/
I'm afraid it's worse. The law does apply, but what the law does is at the discretion of a civil servant handling the case. It isn't clear cut. As the result thousands of people who were living legally in the UK for decades found themselves facing possible deportations as they can't prove to the government that they have lived there for all those years.