skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an anecdotal experience, I have stopped eating any kind of commercial bread many years ago, despite the fact that I like bread.

The reason was that I could not become satiated when eating commercial bread, before eating huge quantities, which filled me up. It is much easier for me to not start eating something than to stop after beginning to eat, so I gave up completely on eating bread.

Nevertheless, I have started this year to make at home a bread every day when I wake up, which I eat at breakfast. Unlike commercial bread, this home-made bread satiates me completely without eating too much of it, and until late in the evening, when I usually have my 2nd daily meal.

This was unexpected and I am wondering about the cause. One possible reason is because this home-made bread is more protein-rich than commercial bread, because before baking I wash the dough for a few minutes, to remove a part of the starch.

There is also the possibility that it might matter that this is pure bread, made of flour and water without anything else added, unlike the commercial bread, which includes a huge list of additives. I believe that the additives may also have an influence because, as far as I remember, with the bread eaten when I was a child I did not have the same problem of lack of satiety like with the modern commercial bread.
I keep hearing that Mercurial does all of this and is more ergonomic, which begs the question as to why it never captured mindshare the way git did.
You kinda lose me by repeatedly mixing up "asking questions" with bad management. I now believe the opposite.

In my 3rd year of computer science degree, I took a management course on a lark. Scariest sentence I heard at the time was "a good manager need not be subject matter expert". And first decade of my career I believed that was a horrible idea.

Now I don't. A team lead needs to be domain expert. I want a manager to be good at management - risk analysis, planning, stakeholder communication, etc - and willing to ask questions, seek input and learn. I don't need my manager to know how to create new indexes in db2 or troubleshoot Weblogic or set up integration broker. I need them to ask questions, interact with and listen to the team, keep us informed, fix as much politics crap as possible, ensure we are well integrated with other teams and projects, etc.

(note that this is orthogonal from office vs wfh. You can ask questions and engage team remotely easily enough if you choose to, and you can do it tactfully and productively if you try).
Eroom’s law (Moore’s Law spelled backwards)
There may be further opportunities for improvement.

Chrome and Curl both report it takes about 1100ms to load the linked page's HTML, split about 50/50 between establishing a connection and fetching content. I'm not sure how the implementation works internally but that seems like a long time for a site served from memory and aiming to be "high-performance". The images bring the total time up to around 5.7s.

As a point of comparison, my site (nginx serving static content, on the 0.25 CPU GCP instance) serves the index page in 250ms. Of that, ~140ms is connection setup (DNS, TCP, TLS). The whole page loads in < 1000ms.

https://i.imgur.com/X4LDbWj.png

https://i.imgur.com/Ccwzmgz.png

One thing to remember is that when a server like nginx serves static content, it's often serving it from the page cache (memory). The author of Varnish has written at some length about the benefits of using the OS page cache, for example <https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html>. Some of the same principles can be applied even for servers that render dynamically (by caching expensive fragments).
Targeted pricing is the holy grail, it’s just normally done through market segmentation and targeted advertisement.

My personal belief is that if Amazon tried what you’re suggesting, they’d be shooting themselves in the foot (lose any remaining customer trust, regulators would be all over them, and competitors like Walmart would use it to gain market share overnight). In fact I was really hoping you’d share an article describing Amazon doing this so I have justification to cancel prime, ha!
>> Soon I start to wonder about concepts that I don’t know exist: concepts whose existence I can never even suspect, let alone contemplate. What can I ever know about that which lies beyond the limits of what I can even imagine?

I find it more interesting or even frightening to contemplate those differences among humans today. For those with an IQ in the 90's, what thoughts and concepts am I able to understand that they can't? And likewise, what am I personally not able to to grok that some of the smartest people can? Even within engineering and software I find that some practitioners have a hard time with some things I find easy, and I have a hard time with concepts others find easy. It may just be differing backgrounds, but what if these are differences in raw cognitive capability? Levels of abstraction seem real if not well defined.
keep in mind that is not idle power consumption. If you are setting a limit like that it's because of heating or power constraints (battery? PSU?)
Definitely heard that the gastro side effects are unacceptable to many and can even impact social life.

I'd heard a bit about the testosterone, i.e. that you don't get the testosterone rise associated with successful management for diabetes. And perhaps Metformin short circuits that. Also that it might correlate with the life expectancy improvement and it does make sense since Metformin is also used for PCOS with wide ranging benefits not limited to insulin resistance but actually reducing androgenic effects of the condition.

Do you think you'll continue with Metformin? I've genuinely was close to starting on it some years back (despite having no (pre) diabetes.).
> They are doing it though; it's "real."

It's obviously the grandparent meant it as not a toy implementation. As in, non computer literate people can use it without complaining about broken sites.

The first 80% will take 10% of time. Now last 20% will take 90% of the time.
Yeah covid hit in my last semester of my university degree, so I graduated (sans ceremony) and found a job remotely. I was able to get up to speed perhaps a bit faster than some recent graduates because I had done a year-long internship at a company with similar technologies to what we're using at this new job, but I still didn't really feel like I knew anyone until they started doing a hybrid work setup (1 week per month with your team in the office) and I met people face-to-face.

Being a new hire and you're just sitting in your room/home office with Teams open on a laptop and trying to just hop into work is difficult. You're gonna have a lot of questions, and instead of leaning over to the person sitting next to you, where they can point to your monitor and it'll take 5 seconds now becomes finding someone to message and typing out your question to them, and if they can't answer it over text then you start a call and go through the "can you see my screen" rigamarole where they can now help you but they can't point or use your keyboard. And if you're having a lot of questions, it's daunting to ask a person you just met if you can repeatedly pull them into calls. I've noticed it happening several times with new hires where they'll just be sitting around struggling with a task they're given and not asking for help because they don't want to pull people away from their work.
If you assume the gas is spread evenly throughout the space, you can model the pressure the gas exerts on the container it is in without intermolecule collisions. You (somewhat obviously) cannot model the pressure the gas exerts on itself this way, which is important if you're looking at the dynamics of how the gas will respond to a non-uniform distribution (the steady-state will still be uniformly distributed, but a gas with intermolecular collisions will spread out faster than one without: this is actually extremely relevant to achieving an ultra-high vacuum: when pressures are low enough you can't easily pump a volume out through a small hose, you need the pump to occupy a large enough part of the surface area of the volume you're pumping for the molecules flying around to actually hit it).
Labor Day (Scott Galloway)
“this week I’ve been thinking about labor. What it means, who performs it, and how the holiday can register real meaning again.”

He talks income growth disparities, tax cuts, PPP loans, and other “controversial” things that come up here often.
Generally that’s what I do for consistency for small projects / sites I make so I know I don’t have to worry about it.
I want to see this taken to the logical extreme. A real OS with actual drivers (no unikernel, no virtio) for a small set of hardware that only serves static pages. No need for virtual memory. Just hardcode the blog posts right into the OS and use the most minimal TCP stack you can make.
Possibly, but intuition is often wrong. We need actual research to prove or disprove that hypothesis.
When Teens Find Misinformation, These Teachers Are Ready
I'm not from this universe.

What does HA stand for?

Thank you.
I was able to code real-life assembly in my teens. But I felt something was missing, that's why I went the engineering path: maths, physics and chemistry. I still believe it was the right choice.

This is were the real stuff happens.

99% of programming out there is high-school level, the remaining 1%, you need at least a college degree, because it is real maths (not high-school calculus).

That said, based on my experience, be very careful when using the word "mathematics", because in the mind of tons of ppl, "mathematics" = calculus...
The notion of some abstraction beyond and devoid of day to day | year to year to year political grubbing has some value.

The US has its Constitution, Canada and Australia (my country) have had the Queen.

The monarchy in many Commonwealth countries is effectively toothless having no actual power (certainly in Australia; following the Queens GG in Australia dismissing the Whitlam government some years ago that last loophole of power was written out) but they serve as some notion of something that binds us and transcends party politics.

I'm not sure whether Australia will stay the course with the monarchy now the Queen has passed, the Republicans here have been a growing force and Charles III doesn't have the respect his mother had.

I certainly have no particular attachment to the UK firm.
If you are designing your application's basic data structures and have an idea about the scale you want to achieve, the optimization is not premature. "Premature" isn't a decorative word, it's doing real work in that phrase.

There are plenty of people reading this article right now and going yeah, yeah, this is exactly what I need! while their task is writing an API that will receive 3 requests per minute that run in less than ten milliseconds each. We don't warn against "failing to optimize when it is needed" not because it isn't a problem, but because historically the bigger problem has been premature optimization.

(I phrase that carefully, because I'm not sure the balance isn't shifting. I feel like I'm seeing more failure to do basic optimizations lately than people going crazy prematurely optimizing. I've started lightly banging on this drum and in 10 years we may need a luminary to say something like "FFS, people, adding up a few thousand integers shouldn't take three seconds! How did you even make your code that slow??", only, you know, pithily and quotable. But I can vouch for the fact that historically, going all the way back to when Knuth said that, premature and excessive optimization has been the bigger problem.)
The other thing people don’t often talk of is PM2.5 inside their home while cooking. Lot of people have poor ventilation or insufficient air movement capacity in their kitchens.
My concern is outsourcing. Despite many companies being burned by outsourcing quality gaps the last few cycles, I am starting to hear "If your job can be done from Moscow, Idaho it can be done from <pick your favorite outsourcing target>."
Materialized views + pg_cron = chef's kiss for simple yet performant report generation.
Probably a non-executive elected president, like Ireland or Germany. The Irish position, in particular, was fairly explicitly created as a monarch substitute.

Though, Barbados went with a somewhat more powerful president; their one appears to have a veto.
Is there a way to provide the team structure online?

Who does that well? What should be a good starting point researching this?
The 6S is losing support for the latest iOS this year.

I agree that their support is the best of the smartphone vendors, but I would also welcome legislation that opens up hardware for arbitrary software at EOL.

When Apple decides it's done updating the 6S, I should be able to run Android or Linux on it. But they've locked down the hardware so it can only run iOS.
> Touchscreens were intended to reduce the level of distraction

Uhm, what???
So this guy says "there are activist groups," and your evidence is this website: https://www.tyreextinguishers.com/news?slug=tyre-extinguishe...

They claim only to have damaged 40 cars one time. There's no evidence they did that, no public outcry in New York, and no corroborating evidence at all.

Again, there is no movement like this. There has not been a spike in vandalism against SUVs. I work with auto insurance data in my day job, and changes in damage to parked SUVs hasn't notably changed.
But there is always some expected body of work. If you don't pull your weight, despite working 9 to 5, you might get fired.

I'm one of those "half days" people, and it's not about doing less. It's about realization, that you are productive for less than 8h daily and that difference + commute time is simply wasted. Even if you plug some optimistic numbers, like 6h of productive work vs 8h office + 1h commute, its 30% of time spend on "work" just lost. Daily.
> Think of all the commercial real estate sitting empty

Then turn all of it into housing! If you argue it won't be suitable because of a lack of sufficient windows per room etc, I guarantee you that at a low enough price, it will find a buyer or a renter.

I love working in an office, but having 2 physical spaces, each empty for about half of the time (office at night, home in the daytime) strikes me as stupid.

Let's be honest: there is no genuine physical limitation. We've just decided to be wasteful with our land use to milk more money out of it, and to force the hand of people who might object to that with laws like single family zoning.
Author here. I wrote that post before I axed the CDN for my blog site itself. It was true at the time of writing, but it is not true anymore because I need to redo the CDN for the blog itself. All the images are CDNed with XeDN though.
Show HN: Go-select – Provides SQL like 'select' interface for file systems
Exactly. This isn't a commercial product that must be shipped yesterday because of competition and not to anger investors; just go ahead and do things, the journey is a big part of the reward.
The guy is amazing! Should we have some day the analog of the Nobel prize for software development that benefits people, he should be among the first 10 to receive it.
Throwing money on people and they suddenly be able to build and operate NPPs? Maybe even hundreds of them at the same time without stopping doing anything else? I guess you are tapping into the huge number of unemployed nuclear experts. At %4 of unemployment rate, even if just half of them are engineers capable of building nuclear power plant it should be enough.

Throw money at people who don't want NPPs and they learn to like NPPs? No more NIMBYs.
> not sure why this is complicated

IMHO, if you're presenting a solution with the length and grammar of a telegram, it's probably more accurate to say, "however, this is surely more complicated than I understand."
I don't understand how they call a head-up display a premium feature and then continue to describe matrix-led-projection headlights that are only on the high end models of premium German brands.

Head-up displays are available in a relatively mid-range BMW 3 series from over 10 years ago. It's an option you have to pay for, but so will these lights be.
People are slacking the same amount at the office, they just have to work harder to hide it.
Can someone provide the important cliff notes?
If the executable is on disk, it can be paged out unless you've used mlock() to tell the kernel to keep it resident.
I can't wait for Element/Matrix to sort out their performance issues and match the privacy of Signal so we can deprecate all these crappy proprietary silos.
Just to clarify for the audience, there is nothing you can do within reason that will cause your CPU to ever self-heat above 100°. They manage their own power to stay below their maximum design junction temperature, less a safety margin. Even if you ran it without a heat sink, it will not run above 100°. It just won't run very well or very often.
Unpopular Opinion: Ditch HTML/JS/etc. altogether and invent a new way to create, deliver, and execute ANY content natively on any platform.

Replace browsers -and- existing operating systems altogether.

——

As of now, in terms of end results for the user, what's missing from the Linux/Mac/Windows GUIs:

• Typing something (URL etc) and accessing the latest version of an app, with latest content, and knowing that everyone else in the world is getting the same thing.

• Linking to content within apps.

What's missing from browsers and the web: Too much to list, but mainly:

• Basic shit behaves differently on everywhere website.

• Too many artificial restrictions: Can't scroll freely, can't select freely, can't even freely zoom or save images on the most popular image-sharing websites, fuck you Instagram.

• I can't save my own data on my own machine, or easily move it between web-apps. Have to go through hoops to even access all your data that the website's company has access to, if ever.

• Inefficient usage of your hardware.
Nice.

So we have some cars that rely on visual information for self-driving.

And we have some cars that can project onto the landscape, modifying visual information.

What could go wrong!

I only have a Volvo, in the UK, and it has one of those systems that tell you the last road sign that it has seen. That information then can optionally control warnings, speed limiter, etc. I typically do use the speed limiter, it works well... until I was behind a car that had a 20mph bumper sticker on the back. Then my car kept insisting that 20mph was the speed limit. I was on a motorway.

I also think of that Tesla stop light truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7CJEQ2kz0 , and this https://uk.motor1.com/news/449020/video-tesla-model-3-traffi... , and this https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-road-self-driving-car-hi...

Plot for a future novel: Project light onto surfaces from a moving vehicle to make another car behave in a way that kills the occupants. No evidence can be found at the scene as to why the car killed the occupants.
git:// comes to mind, but that's not understood by browsers.

irc:// is understood by Firefox at least.
I think you could do that with redbean, or very nearly so.
> if everyone is working from home with the heating and lights on

Speaking as a Wisconsinite, you can't just turn off the heat in your home in the winter when you leave.

Also, most homes tend to have more windows and natural lighting than office buildings. And even if you need light at home, you can just turn on the lights in the room you're working in, whereas in an office building the lights are generally on everywhere all the time during office hours.

> cooking their own lunch

Probably more environmentally friendly and healthy than the junk food that office workers would have to buy at chains.
> Might even be true for a single person at different times of the week.

Here I am, sitting in the office, getting nothing done because I had a stressful weekend.

Should have stayed at home, cooked something nice for lunch and slept an hour.

Would probably have been better for my productivity, but corporate thinks it's better when people are present.
> Typing this from a mozilla browser.

Same, but I doubt I'll continue to do so in far future, unless something major changes. Mozilla seems to be inching closer and closer to just another Chromium.

Like Google being forced to remove Chrome integration.
I doubt that obesity is caused by "hundreds" of chemical pollutants... I suspect it to be more like a handful that cause the most effect.

Since obesity causes millions of deaths annually, solving this warrants a covid-scale response. It should therefore be easy enough to direct a few billion dollars of funding into hundreds of avenues of research to find which those handful of pollutants are, what the main sources of them are, how to remove them, and how the effects of damage already done might be reversed.

I imagine that with a covid-scale response, we could guarantee that nothing new would contain any of the offending chemicals within a year, and perhaps within 5 years we could have replaced every piece of tupperware/insulation foam/whatever already manufactured goods contain it.
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/cloudflare-stream/

> Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to a global market.

> Storage: $6.00 - Storage costs are based on 1,200 minutes of video content at $5 per 1,000 minutes stored.
There's an interesting book supporting this idea:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herm...

Basically measurements of calorie intake and burn rate indicate, that physical activity doesn't appreciably speed up metabolism.

You still should exercise to avoid chronic diseases, but you can't outrun a bad diet.
so it is like servo with rust in mozilla...

not good omens.

hopefully, jakt is written in plain and simple C...
Here it is https://brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/atkinson-hyp...
I'm not making light of the situation but any car in that situation - heck probably any motorcycle - would have killed you just a surely as an SUV. Arguably because an SUV driver sits higher up they should have been more likely to see you.

That sitting higher up is what really annoys me as a car driver. It's fine when you're the one in the SUV but I've got a car and when I'm on the the road with one of those things in front of me it's impossible to figure out what's going on ahead. If traffic slows or stops is the accident or whatever on the right or the left? Which way should I get over? An invariably the jerk in the car ahead wants to wait until the absolute last moment before merging.

I hate driving.
The one assertion is rather questionable. In fact I struggle to find a context where it makes sense.

> In contemporary “ruin porn” photography, the empty shells of malls represent the just deserts of late-stage capitalism.

Put aside the questionable ascribing of meaning to a photographic genre that has included everything from abandoned hospitals and schools to abandoned factories. Even by the standards of the leftist fundamentalist concept of late-stage capitalism (implicitly playing prophet declaring doom against foes). A mere collection of failures after a profitible heyday is supposed to be some sort of just retribution?
You that you can open in new tabs with ctrl+click?

Just to be sure.
(I should perhaps note that I don't think my neighbour did it because of me or my bike trailer. He didn't tell me why, but I'd guess he had the car towed away because it bothered his 85yo father.)
No, you are not wrong. Gas is only a small part of German electricity production. It is a larger part in the US, but the US has a lot of gas available from fracking. Yes, if there were plentiful of cheap gas, it is much better to use that instead of coal and oil, but electricity production isn't the bottle neck. Switching home heating to heat pumps alone could reduce the gas consumption considerably.
Depending on the day and hour of the day, yes. At least here in Denmark.