skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would bet dollars to doughnuts in a few decades we will look at all current nutrition advice to something akin of medieval quackery.

All current nutrition advice? Does this equally include the nutrition advice that your cousin gives on Facebook, as well as the advice given by doctors of nutritional science?

I get where this skepticism comes from. Nutrition is complicated, and there's a lot of bad advice shared by random people you meet. There's also the diet supplement aisle at your local grocery store, which is full of poorly-regulated products with dubious claims. (At least, in the US, we have these. They are not regulated as drugs.)

At the same time, nutrition-based interventions are some of the most effective public health policies we've ever implemented. In the US, we have programs like WIC. We have iodized salt. We cure blindness in children. We cure scurvy. These are all amazing things--things which we kind of take for granted, because we're not ever exposed to scurvy, childhood blindness, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard such extreme skepticism of nutritional science and it just boggles the mind because if you talk to someone who works in the field, they have amazing success stories to talk about.
Tom Cruise is a leading member in the fascist cult Church of Scientology, who is on record saying they can bring back people from the dead and levitate.
I'd like the next Twitter thread to be people saying this, starting with the invention of the windmill or the domestication of the horse. (I agree that economic stability for people is a huge problem and that things move quickly, today, but to say that automation is the root cause is oversimplified(.
1. If the number of choices is small i.e., in the order of 10 to 20, write them in slips of paper and throw them in a bowl, mix them and pull one out.

2. If the number of choices is medium i.e., in the order of 100s, write them down in Excel and number them sequentially. Then use the RANDBETWEEN() function to select the choice.

3. If the number of choices is very large i.e., neither small nor medium, use a database table instead of Excel (mentioned in step 2) and implement the same logic (in dbquery + code).

4. If your choice does not necessarily have to be random, but achieve group consensus between a number of individuals (that fit in a conference room), use a technique like multi-voting [See: https://asq.org/quality-resources/multivoting]
Building and testing helpful AR experiences
except for every generation in America other than the boomers and their kids, who all learned what Aristotle was referring to by the age of 12 or 13. Plus people in every third world country on earth, who would give their left nut to find work, make money and raise a family in America.

There's definitely a crisis in America of people who've never worked not wanting to work. And it's the ultimate first world problem. If you want to tackle privilege instead of getting a relatively shitty job in your 20s... you're probably privileged as hell.
The Lofi Girl streams were recently taken down by a false DMCA claim.
https://twitter.com/lofigirl/status/1546601374527508480

After public outcry, YouTube issued an apology and banned the claimant.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2022/07/12/lofi-girl-...

While I'm an occasional stream listener, I've been mostly away from tech for a month and only noticed the coverage in this video from TAETRO.

"a big problem for music producers on youtube" - TAETRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A49EKpd5rrE

They talk about the Lofi Girl situation and also describe the same issue Fran describes but with sample-based music production (as opposed to sample-based video production). Even if you're using non-exclusive, royalty free samples, you can get screwed by another producer using the same samples.

"My Video Was Demonetized by 16 Record Labels...I'm Pissed" - Rick Beato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3NnrWrkKZM

This is another take on the broader issue of hyper aggressive algorithms being poor judges of Fair Use. Rick has a few great videos on the subject (any many more on making music).
China is no longer the top holder of US debt
I’m not sure what you can expect since this problem affects so many of us in such a huge way and yet no one has answers or even stable advice
Why Amazon Is Dialing Back Its Own Brands
'The Weariness of the Self' from Alain Ehrenberg gives a really good account about the history of the depression more or less along these lines.
That's crap insurance honestly. For another dollar a month or so on my renters insurance my $800 bike is ensured without a deductible. I could be robbed at gunpoint for my phone, bike, laptop, and everything but the fees to replace my stolen id cards will be insured.
I remember in the late 90s reading about a device that sat in the N64 cartridge slot and loaded games from a zip drive. I think it may have been called z64.

I remember similar units for SNES that loaded from floppy disk.
Data which, with fairly simple patches, can be run from the same flashcarts you can run normal game data from!
What’s the Biggest Bird in the World?
Just pay more, you'll find all the workers you want
> It is really hard to lose stuff

Furthermore I recommend turning off automatic garbage collection. Turning it off makes it even harder to lose things, and unless you have an insanely massive amount of churn, you really don’t need it.

https://donatstudios.com/yagni-git-gc
I've not had a lot of luck finding reports of successful actual-legal-DMCA counter notifications after copyright/content id claims, so I'm really glad to read your comment confirming that it basically works as advertised. Which side of those disputes were you on?

Would you happen to have any experience with cases where Google doesn't restore the video/monetization after a counter notification? I mentioned this in another comment, but I found this article (which is somewhat old, and from a random website I'd never heard of) where apparently Google acknowledged the counter notification but chose not to restore the video out of contractual obligations to the claimant: https://www.newmediarights.org/copyright/DMCA/youtube_refusi...
>Yeah, it's suspect when people complain about getting judged for their views, then fail to state what the views are.

Not at all. Definitely not in the era of "cancel culture".

>It often turns out that the views in question are something that people have good reason to disapprove of - racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

It rarely turns out that the views in question are something that people have good reason to disapprove of - racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

A few examples from past and current companies I've worked at:

1. Titling an apolitical presentation "Make Front-ends Great Again" caused several leftist activist employees to explode on Slack about fascist White supremacy culture.

2. "Believing" (this is an objective fact) that trans-women are biological male humans is hate speech and a firable offence.

3. Expressing the opinion that the company openly donating to shady BLM foundations[0], or any political group for that matter is not a good idea was shouted down as supporting the fascist, racist, White supremacist status quo.

The list goes on. These basic examples are more than enough to get a target on your back, and possibly fired.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/black-lives-matter-suspends-online-18...
I'm comfortable with "ad hominem" when the appeal in question is to the Unabomber.
Apple has said that they explicitly are not using the chassis to cool the chips as that would transfer too much heat to the human operator. They didn't "forget the heatsink". This MBA was design for tasks and usage that most of us do that do not involve simultaneous FCP renders of 8K video and 3D rendering. If you are doing that, you might want to look at the MB Pro. The rest of us don't need to worry about it.
Good wages can help you do what you like but in parallel and can also earn you some time. If you save some you can buy off some free time.
How one institution keeps claiming math’s highest award
Electricity generation is also affected by weather in two ways. Firstly, by the droop in the wires which are built to weather tolerances much as railways are, and if you get outside the tolerances then the risks of problems increase.

Secondly, within a limit of my understanding, the efficiency of a turbine system hot-to-cold is affected by the climate it operates in. The ambient temperature, humidity and pressure affects the final stage.

Both things might mean that in times of high heat and humidity, the electricity supply system is least able to cope with increased demands for cooling systems, which will themselves draw more power fighting the weather.

Separately the HVAC systems for the DCs will have been designed for a specific climate, with margins. I guess the sustained change in night and daytime temps and humidity has hurt their efficiency too, in this window of time. They'll be fine when the weather system passes through, as will the supply network.

Met Office says both overnight and daytime peak temps for the inland south have been records. Thats where a lot of ICT infrastructure is.
And? People also listen to Buddhists about depression, and Buddhists believe that enlightened people can fly!

EDIT: I'm rate limited so I can't reply to the child comments:

I think a majority of Buddhists believe that Buddhas and bodhisattvas have special powers. It is in a majority of the traditional scriptures, from both Mahayana and before. I don't think the authoritarian nature of scientology changes the situation. Scientologists were being mocked for believing in such things, but that is not far from the beliefs of most Buddhists which people will happily listen to.

I mean, you will likely even listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is literally a prophesied reincarnation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin in Chinese, Kannon in Japanese)

My point isn't that people can be right about some things and wrong about others, it's that people mock their disliked religious figures on one basis, but their mocking also applies just as much to their favourite religious figures, however they don't realise it because they are usually ignorant to many aspects of it. Everyone loves Buddhism, but go and criticise other religions for reasons that apply just as much to Buddhism, they are just ignorant that it also applies to Buddhism.

I am a devout Buddhist, and believe in these traditional things, such as Buddhas flying or having their own Buddha lands or faith in my rebirth in a western Pure Land. I emphasise it because you probably don't know of these things
Sadness or distress vs not feeling anything and not having motivation?
This. Also, the argument is a bit weird:

- always use python -m pip

- if in venv, it doesn't do any good, but do it anyway for consistency

- you should also use venv

So... Maybe just always use virtual env and then you can use just pip?
>Sometimes tropes exist for a reason.

Is this post-irony? This is the exact same logic racists use.
There is wanting to work and then there is being able to tolerate work. Good working conditions improve the latter.
The availability of desirable jobs and wealth isn't distributed very effectively. It mostly just clumps together and benefits a tiny elite at the expense of our societies and species. The free market never works for very long before hoarders take most of it.
I think we lack a "societal mission", if that's even a term. We've got no vision of a future we can come together to achieve through hard work. As much as it pains me to say this, at least in the 2000s-2010s we told ourselves we were going to reinvent the world by building software startups and make every mundane thing in our lives smarter, with software. Maybe half of that was BS, but it sure felt like we were aligning as a society to do something. Now, it feels like we're just putting out fires and fixing stuff as it's breaking.
True. Work motivation is usually tied to one of these things:

1) Acquiring status / proving yourself (qualifying for a better romantic partner, etc). More applicable for men.

2) Servicing existing debt (student loans, mortgage, etc)

3) Providing for a family (somewhat similar to 1 - but for future goals)

4) Securing a legacy/reputation

Although the most important drive in work is seeing a path towards upwards mobility (i.e. if I work hard then my lot in life can improve - not in an absolute sense, but in a relative sense. Meaning that I will be better off than my neighbor. This ties in to status games and mate competition from (1)).
Why does your map have AWS's eu-north-1 in Estonia? Officially it's said to be in Stockholm and I can find no references nor know of it existing there.
It reminds me how, from Socrates till now, adults and elderly people systematically and constantly criticize young people for being arrogant and lazy.

It seems to just be how the world works...

See https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love... for Socrates.
I don’t understand why people seem to have so many problems with installing python packages?

It could not be more simple.
NumPy C-API (Python C extensions)
Totally agree. I want to take it one step further.

Pay me as a contractor to deliver results on a project. I don't need your salary and management structure blocking me.

Give me money in exchange for working software.
I think I'm missing something, could someone clarify?

I think trying to persuade anyone to start smoking is evil.

But society is generally accepting of marketing that's tailored to different demographics, including race.

So what's especially noteworthy about marketing cigarettes differently to black people vs. others?

AFAIK, regardless of race, the tobacco companies wanted to maximize their profits at the cost of their customers' lives.
The true legacy of Gregor Mendel: careful, rigorous and humble science
Well nowadays companies are looking for passionate and competent employees, which meaning is very different with dictionary.

Oh, and they require for the candidates to learn the companies business end to end before or during interview process, otherwise you're less passionate with our company.
I always thought it was pronounced "ef'in". Like when you have to censor yourself in front of coworkers because of this ef'in code.
On Taking Notes
Oh absolutely, I was assuming that SpaceX have factored average storm activity over the solar cycle into their on orbit life estimates, since other than orbit decay that’s the other big factor in the on orbit lifespan of a satellite and factoring this in is normal practice.

And I’ve been super keen on these sorts of high altitude aircraft stuff for years. The entire “atmospheric satellite” concept is brilliant and has a lot going for it. I really want more progress on things like the high altitude platform that’s part of the Airship to Orbit architecture being slowly developed by http://jpaerospace.com

I was specifically trying to keep my criticisms to this analysis of the hypothetical Airbus drone competitor to Starlink rather than the idea that something can compete with them or the idea of high altitude platforms in general.
But the way the parties deal with each other is not equal. The right wing is conservative and holds by its definition “conserved” ideas, aka not up to date.

A majority (which runs in the millions) already knows what it wants and voted accordingly, and a minority conservative SCOTUS voted against it. So now the states can vote on it, but the information I am getting that some states find all abortions being illegal is just as a fundamentalist a position as any. Aka for one party in particular there is no grey. This has largely to do with the power/voting dynamics of the right.

One side is not equal in its approach to issues by its nature (conservation)

It would be a lot more interesting if conservatism would mean “skeptic” in practice, but we all know it has gone far beyond it.

Not to say I welcome curious conversations with anyone, but to say the two sides are equal in their approach and methodology is not true (in my experience)
It sounds like there can be multiple independent claims on the same video. I guess in theory they could be claiming content at different timestamps.
Do individual logic gates even have part numbers anymore? In my EE labs in college we had FPGA’s.
They got more than pizzas… they built a new ecosystem for enabling e-commerce.

Second they are probably rich enough to not have to work ever again after their 5 year stint at stripe.

if Stripe did not become a success the story would not have had the same impact.
Probably not down-voted for that, many Python devs agree that pip is basically garbage, down-voted because there are very simple solutions to Python's distribution problems that you refuse to acknowledge.

Depending on your use case, there are various tools, but one easy set of tools that is good for anything from large production deployments down to an ML notebook environment is pyenv+poetry. Those two will, with very few commands, allow you to specify and install your environment for a project very easily and with similar ease as you might find when using nvm (similar tool to pyenv) and npm (similar tool to poetry) for a JS/TS/node/whatever project.

You got down-voted for being willfully ignorant and proud of it, basically.
I showed the audience the website and mentioned it was randomly generated music a few times, hope that's OK :)
Here is a course (with videos) based on HtDP 2e:
https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c211/index.html
They're at least on topic and driving relevant conversation
Is these are really useful ?
Great blues songs invariably get written at this time
Kai's Power Tools has the best resizing algorithm i have ever seen.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04725-x

> Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor

There is a programmable photonic computer that has an advantage over classical computers
Disk space is cheaper than lost data.
Just because it is easy and achieves a purpose doesn't make it necessary or right.

People could be making backhanded deals on their phones or they could be having an urgent confidential conversation with their doctor or spouse. Should the company record and review phone calls?

People could be stalking customers/coworkers or making deals in the bathroom. Or they could be using it for more personal purposes. Should the bathrooms have CCTV with audio?

People could be selling company data in the company parking lot, in the mall or at home near/using the company laptop/phone that is permitted to be used for personal reasons, or just mandated to be near them, or they could do the same thing without presence or use of any company equipment. Where do you draw the line, and at what point is it even sufficient to prevent losing information etc.?

Do you trust your employees? All trust can be abused, yet how can the company function if they don't trust their employees at all?
I think the worst part of attempting to transition away from driving to biking has been the fact that I can't really trust having my bike parked somewhere.

If I drive a car somewhere, park it in a parking space and lock the doors, I have very high confidence that my car will be there when I get back. Probably won't get vandalised or damaged either. I could even leave something in the car and it probably won't be smashed and grabbed as long as it's not in plain sight.

If I ride my bike somewhere, lock the frame to a bike stand with a sturdy U-lock and leave it there for an extended period of time, I don't feel confident that it will be there, or that it won't be somehow fiddled with. Even if they don't get the whole bike, they might run off with the tyres, or the battery if they manage to dislodge that.

I could easily ride my bike to the nearest commuter train station, park it there and continue my way downtown. Would be a lot faster than taking the bus there. However, if I'm gone for a couple of hours, I don't feel safe parking the bike at the station. I wouldn't feel this way with a car. Same comes to parking at home. I feel absolutely nothing about parking my car outside my apartment, but I'm not confident in having the bike parked outside for more than 10 minutes.

And I feel like this way even though I've never had my bike stolen and I don't live anywhere particularly dodgy. Just having people around me having had their bikes stolen make me feel this way.
Wouldn’t heat of re-entry potentially cause a cook-off? That could be incredibly dangerous.
Shit I need pills that do the opposite lol.
Doubling headcount may not solve your problem and can even delay projects because of the overhead for every added person.

People in video game industry now this. You can actually delay a video game release by hiring more people on the team.
A decade of forgetting to append - 'for me'

Would be a super accurate title :)
Actually the 25-54 category has been ~flat since 1990.

The participation rate declining is primarily due to retirement.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/why-did-labor...
I've long wished for an RDBMS (or perhaps ORM, but I think it would be extra cool at the database level, see below) that does things that don't hyperscale.

So many LOB applications (the part of the iceberg under the water) have modestly sized databases with a relatively consistent number of users. The data is small, but often complex, awkwardly structured, highly relational, etc. The challenges these applications face are different, but real.

An example of something that would be incredibly useful here but completely untenable for a Facebook scale system would a rich rewind mechanism. You can go back in time 15 minutes or execute a query like:

RESTORE my_db TO LAST POINT WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM ACCOUNTS WHERE ID=1234)

How much trouble would that kind of query have saved you in your career? At some point this would be cost prohibitive but I bet 50% or more of all apps never reach that point.
YouTube is free to set terms for monetization contracts, including granting attribution to third parties under their system. It is not fair, but it is not illegal under any stretch of the imagination. Public domain works have zero copyright protection by definition; there is not a legal status assigned like with copyrighted works.

That said, third party Content ID claims for works not exclusively owned by the claimant are against YouTube's partner terms. The enforcement is just lacking.
Perhaps you might want to learn how people actually get taxed before complaining about brackets. There are plenty of taxes out there that have jack squat to do with income brackets, and poor people pay a higher percentage of their income towards those than many other people while also having a much higher opportunity cost per hour worked.
What has that got to do with the comment you’re replying to?
The issue is that there are many different ways to setup your environment. Every python dev has their own set of tools that mostly work, but sometimes break in some corner cases... and then the problems start, because searching for a solution will inevitably produce something that is almost, but not completely, applicable to your situation.

I use pyenv+pipenv (@linux) and are mostly happy with it.
https://github.com/nnethercote/perf-book
Marx clearly stated that alienation was a phenomenon that affected all classes. Marxism explains alienation just intervenes in a different manner.

Depression then also happens among rich people. But the source, and expression of it might differ. An anecdotal saying explains that wealth is often a barrier to create true friendships because it insulates you from society and creates antisocial thought processes: the "thinking people just want to be your friend because you're rich" rhetoric.