skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Diets are most successful amongst individuals willing to make considerable lifestyle changes, being mindful of what they’re eating at all times, and for the rest of their lives. That is, individuals with certain personality traits, particularly high on conscientiousness and low on neuroticism (and generally, higher in IQ)

This is completely nonsense. Availability of healthy food, income to buy healthier food as it's usually expensive, etc. IQ may be a factor, but not even the most important one.

> Long-term behavior modification, which would be required for successful weight loss for overweight individuals, is a central point of Daniel Callahan’s idea that obese people should be “shamed” into losing weight. ... The flaw in this idea should be obvious: there is no way to perform population-wide “counseling” necessary to achieve this effect; Callahan’s hopes are unrealistic.

100% an USA problem where health education is lobbied to death. Many countries educate their children since school to brush their teeth and to eat healthy.

> Obesity may simply be a fact of life we need to accept in the modern world.

"Please do not tax sugar"

> Deaths from cardiovascular disease actually peaked during the Baby Boom years and have been declining ever since, in fact decline as obesity rates have risen. In short CVD is becoming less of a problem, not more.

Wall-E level of life quality. Life is not just about surviving but about being as healthy as possible to enjoy it.
Why wouldn’t having Covid several times confer the same immunity as you having Covid once?
Even with a loving community, there are those that just want to check out. Often they have trauma that is insurmountable.

I am totally against suicide, but I thank God I'm not in a position today where it feels like my best choice. I've been on that ledge, but what it would do to my family, and fear of divine retribution kept me here long enough to realize my problems had solutions. Religion does have its merits, namely the belief that all life is valuable, and no one is beyond saving.
Like lasers?
I'm not sure wasps do much for most of those. There is the "Cicada Killer" though... https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/publications/E-254/E-254.h...

Other wasps will catch spiders and use them as food for their young.
You probably know that what the US fought for in WWII was very different for what they fought for in Iraq.

Defeating the Nazis was just and invading Iraq was unjust, but we should not differentiate how we treat those whom we sent to do the fighting, as long has they have served honorably.
I explained a little elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121332
Can we fix our ocean noise problem?
It is great that Scratch can be used as an introduction to programming, but that is not why it was created. It was part of the MIT MediaLab "Computer Clubhouse"[1] project where it would be used to enable a remix culture of cute animations and even simple games. Scratch's implementer, John Maloney, had already helped create a programming environment for kids called EToys[2] using Squeak Smalltalk, just as in the first versions of Scratch (later rewritten in Flash and then in Javascript).

So the comments about how it is hard to do in Scratch something that would be trivial in Basic or some other language are not surprising. It is an animation system that allows you to use programming to increment that.

As others have pointed out, a system with the same visual as Scratch but design for actually programming is Snap![3] so it is just a matter of using the tools for what they were created to do.

[1] https://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/Clubhouse/Clubhouse.h...

[2] http://squeakland.org/

[3] https://snap.berkeley.edu/
That's not what they said, and I believe you know that. Not sure what you're trying to achieve here.
At the risk of being ironic, I use magnetic connectors on my usbc MacBook pro
...then follows it with complete dismissal of their opportunity cost and our loss of their productivity. Which is what I addressed, because it undermined what seemed to be an otherwise decent statement.
If feasible, electromechanical methods are good.
or to make working public transportation a norm across the country and interstate travel
Not at the same level but I recently had to fight for 4 months to get my office location corrected after it was incorrectly recorded. I work in a company office in Seattle but was reporting to a boss in London. I changed jobs within the company and started to report to a boss in Chicago. What I hadn’t realized was that someone marked me as working in the Chicago office.

Sounds like no big deal but then they started witholding state income taxes for Illinois out of my paycheck. My actual home office in Seattle is in a state with zero state taxes so it made a big difference.

It took a month to realize that it had happened, then it took another month to get someone who could change me back to the correct state. Of course they were saying that I would need to wait until next year to file taxes and request that Illinois payback the witholdings. I managed to find some Illinois state tax regulations explaining a process to clawback overpaid taxes and sent that to our payroll team. Finally, after around 4 months, they issued me a check for $3,000.00 for the overpaid taxes.

That was a surprisingly complex process even though this is a fairly modern tech company. Can’t imagine what a more traditional company would have been like. It also taught me to keep a closer eye on that automatically paid paycheck to watch for anything odd.
But doesn't Japan also have some weird customs/rules around housing stock age? I remember reading that most things get torn down and rebuilt at 20(?) years max for {reasons}?
Alas, the problem with java, which I say as a begrudging long time java developer, is that "supports this distinction" is a theoretical benefit that is seldom used in practice. Checked and unchecked exceptions get so thoroughly abused and twisted into byzantine contraptions that any distinction, if value were to be gained from it, is completely destroyed by the common free form usage throughout the ecosystem.

The precondition thing, while indeed common, drives me sorta insane. I think it's a pattern java folks need to move on from. You've got this lovely type system (used loosely). If you need a precondition because you've got some fundamental invariant in the system, doing it at runtime rather than encoding it into the type system is such a missed opportunity. If I try to do something inherently wrong, I don't want the code to even compile!
It's also arguably not a good set of tutorial unless you want to know how to solve puzzles. Shader programming for games or most purposes do not use the techniques taught in those articles. Those articles are all about what happens on shadertoy. not what happens in something like UE5, Unity, Tensorflow, Google Maps, Photoshop, etc...

I don't know a good place to recommend to use more common techniques. A few though would be

https://learnopengl.com/

https://developer.nvidia.com/

which includes all the GPU Gems books for free

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems/contributors

Of course if you enjoy the kinds of techniques Book of Shaders teaches then knock yourself out. I've written a few hundred "puzzle shaders". I just know I'm solving a puzzle which can be super fun and I might learn stuff that's relevant elsewhere but at least I'm fully aware that most of what I'm doing is not really related to how GPUs in the majority of situations.
For teaching kids (school classes) to code, I have had better success with https://www.codecombat.com than MIT Scratch.

Kids had more fun than with scratch and learnt programming actual language.
May be oot. As a maintainer I always try to accept help what people suggest, and make it even better. Without asking people to write tests or format code to match my preferences or make it cleaner…

I often fix some code in my fork, open a pr, but author asking for tests or change something but I simply have no time for it, and for author it will be much easier because he/she is familiar with code style, testing framework, etc.
And problem remain unfixed in main repo
Even though this seems paradoxical, there's actually a logic to it.

One of the reasons countries like the United States and Russia (previously, the USSR) maintain such large nuclear arsenals is to project a credible thread of a second strike - i.e., the idea that any first strike wouldn't be able to completely knock out the opponent's nuclear arsenal. If both sides think that the "submarine" portion of their nuclear triad isn't sufficiently contributing to second strike capability, that'll probably just mean significantly doubling down on ICBMs and forward-deployed bombers (or investing in a different delivery system) so that the calculus remains fundamentally unchanged.
Not extensive studies.
One could say the car industry is also "fragmented": but we have up-market OEMs and Toyota/Honda.
There are forms of suffering that society is powerless to prevent or treat, no matter the priority we place on it or the resources we put behind it. Whether genetic or due to random chance, some people will have little hope of happiness or even temporary alleviation of suffering, and it’s wildly unjust for society to declare that our collective values supersede those of that person’s, and so therefor their suffering must continue indefinitely.
My interpretation was that he drank the hemlock to rub the Athenians' noses in their own hypocrisy. Once he was condemned, they could neither prevent it nor escape their own role in it.
Hah! I too had that TI FORTH setup. I remember you had to have both a memory expansion and a disk drive, so... thankfully I had them both. I had one of Leo Brodie's books, but it was slightly off from TI-FORTH.

Good times...
Go vegan asap. Stay on the tech route (programming/Linux). Just read a few graduate level Econ books. Don’t move away.
Increased popularity of WFH probably helps a bit. You can order groceries to your house pretty easily as well.
With respect to the button in the nitrogen chamber, I doubt anyone experiences regret for pushing in their last few moments. That seems like more of a literary device. I think "relief" would be the common emotion in practice.

For myself, I'm no longer suicidal, but I don't want to be reincarnated, I don't want to go to heaven (and obviously not hell), and I simply don't want to wake up anywhere at all after I die. An endless, dreamless sleep is what I hope for.

I cannot imagine how awful immortality would be in practice. Death, in due time, is a blessing.
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An asteroid (or even just a huge - say 100K tons - space transport barge full of ore) with a huge rocket engine attached - until it is targeted as a weapon, it is hardly can be considered a weapon (yet for example 2000 ton coming in at 10km/s would be a Hiroshima TNT equivalent). And for MAD you do need to have credible threat to wipe your opponents Mars/Moon/etc. colonies too.
This is an LG 24” 4K for $280. I don’t know if it is any good but it is available. I only mentioned the 24” as they might not want the larger monitor in a dorm or small apt.

https://www.amazon.com/LG-24UD58-B-24-Inch-Monitor-FreeSync/...
A few Virginia class escorts could probably sink almost any non-NATO navy task force on their own. Add a carrier group on top/to the rear of them, and you can scratch "almost".

The Ohio subs do not go unprotected. However, they are designed to be able to carry not only nukes but also cruise missiles (up to 154 Tomahawks for instance), which would make the a huge threat to any naval force.

Also, let's say that these subs were used to deliver a few hundred anti-surface Tomahawks against for instance a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Not only would the missiles themselves be able to sink a lot of surface assets, the use of these subs would also signal their presence, indicating that the USN was meaning business.
Yeah, that one is indeed obvious. That's what everyone advocating for static typing (which you mean, somebody commented already) has been shouting all the time.

The problems coming from dynamic typing are just unnecessary, and the only thing that made python palpable for me again was mypy, which introduces static typing into python. But it's not the default, so it still only really works for small things.
> They should come to me with their issues, not social media.

So many companies say this to just fire people that bring feedback. Whistleblowers are needed for a reason.

This concept that companies are always right is alien to me. I have only heard it from management, and only towards subordinates because management are the first ones to badly complain about their own salaries and jobs.
If there's anything we know about treaties it's that everyone always follows them
Wow, is that for 8K?
I learned from working on aviation systems is that when a system enters an unknown state, it must be disabled and locked out.

In software, this is known as an assertion failure. When the assert trips, the program is, by definition, in an unknown state. A program cannot reasonably be allowed to continue in an unknown state - it may launch nuclear missiles. The only thing to be done is exit directly, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Fuck everything. Not kidding. It is ridiculous how picky we are as young people.

Obviously use some discretion as to not destroy your life or others.
I wish I could be as bothered by the suggestions as you. I have someone in my life where it would be a humane option, and arguably the only humane option. There are some situations that cause a person to experience a life of permanent suffering.

I don't think I agree with the suggestions, but I certainly understand them, and often find myself contemplating what a better societal solution could be. The solution space varies by cause, in some cases there's only room for marginal improvement, if any, from changing the society. That's not to say that they're not worth pursuing, or there aren't changes that would massively benefit many people...just that it's a murky ethical grey area without any obviously correct solution.

I hope you can take a minute to consider that viewpoints like the above aren't always stemming from disregard for human suffering, but through an abundance of heartbreaking empathy.
> Eventually, the system will use deepfake tech to insert ad content into your tailored videos.

I just had a horrible premonition of every billboard you walk past using a video of your crush or dead mother to address you by name and tell you to buy an SUV. Then the following cries of "but you agreed to it when you agreed to facebook's TOS so you could sign in to the doctor's office it'a voluntary" when you complain.
This is true, but I don't think any consumer-grade sensor systems offer this as an option? I guess it might be useful if you're building your own sensor, and can't afford/justify a dual-NDIR sensor.

My understanding is that with single-NDIR sensors (like the MH-Z14 and 19), the auto-calibration is intended to overcome gradual particle buildup and beam degradation in the sensor chamber. While disabling it will prevent the scenario I described, you'll instead end up with gradual sensor shift as the sensor ages. I guess this could be minimised by manually calibrating the sensor outdoors on a regular basis.

Dual-NDIR sensors split a single beam into two chambers, so any degradation of the sensor beam affects both measurements, and the particle buildup in both chambers should also be approximately equal over time, so they should remain accurate over an extended period without any requirement for calibration. I built mine about 4 years ago and I do occasionally check to make sure they read ~400ppm when placed outdoors, last check was around 420ppm which suggests they're behaving reasonably well as they age.
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Retrying is ideally handled at a single place though.

If the original client is going to retry for failure, including timeout, any intermediate retries are likely to result in signficant multiplication during outages, and that makes for a more difficult recovery.

It's also easy to miss reporting on intermediate retries and your system is running poorly and you didn't know.

Having things automatically reconnect is separate from automatic retries of individual requests.
It's all really about risk management. Things can (and will) go wrong, and it doesn't only apply to software.

This involves a lot of thinking and collecting information about potential risks and evaluating their probability and severity.

Then you just mitigate the worst risks, probability times severity (other factors are also possible). Some residual risk always remains.
Those would be Virginia class attacks subs, not ballistic missile subs, I think. An Ohio class could be added temporarily, though, to add even more cruise missile capability to the task force. (Since they, or at least some of them, are now dual purpose platforms.)
Yes. The primary mission of “fast-attack” submarines are to shoot torpedoes and destroy ships and other submarines.

It takes only one torpedo to disable most surface ships. An American Seawolf class submarine can carry ~50 torpedoes.
I'm open to alternatives, even radical ones, but I'm not sure how many of those would be practical. Storming the offices of facebook and burning data centers to the ground seem pretty radical, but are unlikely to be effective. Throwing CEOs in prison seems radical, and I'm all for it, but only after they violate laws that were put into effect which would criminalize their actions.
Do they magically appear at your house with no addition driving involved?

(Sorry, that came off snarkier than I intended. Online ordering of food just kind of outsources the driving, doesn’t reduce it. Different maybe for delivery trucks that serve multiple houses per trip.)
My guess is that it reduces sales. If you can see a total dollar amount accumulating as you shop, you're more likely to stick to your budget, maybe select cheaper items or avoid impulse buys. If you don't know the total until you get to the checkout lane, you are more likely to just pay it rather than start setting some items out.
I briefly worked in a miserable call center 20-ish years ago. They paid one rate while you were on a customer call or available in the phone queue, and minimum wage at all other times.

I imagine this is 20-ish years of "progress."
Unions are important for all jobs, ask the pilots Union, for example.

If you get X you can get even more of you have a better negotiating power.
Here's some of his art: https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/person/herbert-w-fran...
Traffic deaths went up during the pandemic, so unfortunately WFH is not effective at impacting traffic deaths.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/during-covid-19-road-fatalities-inc...
It should be noted that the Forth community lost an absolute pillar around the end of May (I don't have the exact date) when Dr. C. H. Ting passed away.

He was a prolific advocate and author from the very beginning up through recently.

If you ever wanted to know about Forth and how it worked, you've probably read his work.

While Leo Brodie is famous for this mass market book, Dr. Ting dug into the presented the internals. His most recent work was advancing eForth, which he created long ago. Promoting it for modern micro controllers such as the MP430.

But he came out with system guides both for early FIG Forths as well as for Forth-83, which is one of the more advanced Forths for the early PC.

I never met him, but appreciated his work, and it's a great loss to the community.
These links show the correlation between high IQ and reaching positions of power and influence. Have we established that having higher-IQ people in those positions leads to better societal outcomes?
I got rid of my annual plague of yellow jackets by replacing the rotting wood roof shingles with asphalt shingles. I wish I'd known about that years earlier!

(Yellow jackets love to nest in rotting wood.)
France is the poster child for what happens when green energy activists strangle the industry after it's built, as opposed to before.
When you squash and merge a PR, GitHub will by default prefix commit messages of the squashed commits with an astrix.
The idea is that ones based in the Great Lakes would be immune to interception by enemy submarines discovering and shadowing them; you're not gonna get an Akula up the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Absolutist opposition to suicide no matter how prolonged or severe the suffering is right up there with torture as to why humans are by far the most savage and monstrous animal species.

Lions slowly munching on their prey alive over several hours have nothing on humans who arrange for intolerable suffering to extend over years.
Please refer to the first or third definitions of the word "rectify" here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rectify

You are arguing against something he did not say.

So to make it easier for you, he is saying:

1. We should correct the wrongs that we have inflicted upon African-Americans in the past, including opportunity costs.
2. We should also recognize that making an investment in all people is a net benefit for our society

I don't know how to make it any clearer than that.
- You will want to do regular firmware updates, say once or twice a year. For example, to prevent this "SSDs locking up after 40K hours" issue that may have taken the HN primary and backup down recently.

- Regular OS updates, say weekly or biweekly.

- RAID array monitoring to you know when the first drive dies rather than the second.

It's probably pretty similar to your VPSes otherwise. Make sure you have backups.
That wouldn't exactly be a basic income now would it?
I assume America's success (and the ability to create huge international brands) is due to them sitting on a continent with no natural predators. They only need to avoid civil wars to be successful, and in Europe there's always someone invading its neighbours.
This is not easy at all. Your source of CO2 if it is a bottle will have a pressure. Your bicarb should be dry to make sure you weight it properly. If you want to measure ratios of 100 above 100ppm the home made way is decent, but for atmospheric/domestic variations that's not going to cut it. Plus as the other commenter said, CO2 creeps into plastics and leach slowly after so you have to let your system equilibrate which then opens you at the effects of porosity and diffusion.
.... wish I could tell you 'no'.

It's not so much that servers would be left wide open to be hit by anything that plugged into the LAN (although, sure... some of that, too), but more that there was no need seen for things like endpoint firewalls on user desktop machines plugged in to the LAN, because they were 'behind the firewall'.

And honestly even today we still see that thinking in datacenter ops and even virtual cloud ops. I've seen people say 'I don't need to worry about those mongo credential compromises because I'm running mongo on a secure VPC'.
It would very much change the calculus for the UK and France, though. Maybe Israel, as well.
People's immune systems are not all the same. Some people hardly ever get sick. Some people seem to hardly ever be well. And everything in between.
We could just approve Corbevax in the US. It's a more traditional vaccine and includes more of the virus than spike proteins. It's also unpatented and cheap.

The cynic in me says there is huge interest in having an annual Covid vaccine like the flu one. They'll just change spike proteins every year in a never ending game of cat and mouse. With mRNA that game is easy and profitable.