skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay £8 for a 13 mile (~20 minute) train ride, 3 days a week.

Quick maths:

8*3 = £24 per week

24*4 = £96 per month

96*12 = £1152 per year

Which is about 4% of my annual income.

If I would take the train everyday, it would be about 6%. On top of that I also make up about 2.5 miles by foot every single day, to save on bus fares or even worse, cabs.

A comparison of a car driver would be useful.
Yeah I've heard some concerning things, but part of what made Good Calorie, Bad Calorie so annoying to read is it's practically all reference-backed citations.
thought Alltrails does ! its not automatic, but one can download for select routes .. oh must be a paid feature ..
How does this work? To get duration from speed, you also need to designate a distance, don't you? What is special about 898,755 km?
Capitalism is evil.
He's about half a dozen giant steps from a theory making qualitative predictions matching the physics of our universe, but not others. His only advantage is that his starting point is more foundational than pretty much anyone else, but that also makes it very unlikely that he'll ever develop something with predictive power.

My current set of candidate pet theories are all based on a vaguely similar foundational notion that the physical universe isn't made up of "matter on top space-time", but rather that there is a single space-time-matter fabric.

For example, to create matter, space-time must be affected (curved). Or to put it another way, all particles have mass-energy (spacetime curvature) because they are space-time-matter curvature. The idea is to unify QM and GR by making fundamental particles have geometric properties that satisfy GR at all scales.

Some of these notions are present in Wolfram's ToE implicitly, so it's possible that there is a connection. However, he isn't yet at the point where he can derive, say, the mass of an electron from first principles based on how much its specific topology curves space-time-matter.
Most of my AWK scripts are actually standalone scripts, as with `#!/usr/bin/awk -f` of similar. It's actually a very readable and comfortable little language once you free yourself from the one-liner constraint.
Dual income was absolutely a trap and we fell for it by covering it with shiny messages of empowerment.
I'm hoping for a modern At, that integrates much better with modern C++(20+) and as a bonus does not have to bring half of STL's functionality anymore. Strangely using Qt in a modern C++ project is a huge pain, and their At for Python API feels much more lean and modern. It needs a similar refresh for modern C++.
That makes sense early to mid career. At some point you become responsible for creating the culture, not running away from it.
It's not that simple. Germany wanted a country like Italy in the Euro so it would pull the currency down and not allow it to appreciate too much (like the Deutsche Mark did). That would would be very bad for German exports.
You’re engaging in exactly the thing you’re complaining about, but you’re doing it while undermining interest in addressing the problem you say you find deplorable, and moralizing about raising concerns about actual problems. If you find the practices deplorable, maybe you’d find it more valuable to offer some suggestions of your own instead of attacking people bringing it to your attention.
I also hate microwaves, why do most of them have such loud sounds. If I set the timer to 1 minute there's no need to remind me when it ends, I'm literally standing next to it. Yet it produces this loud sound, so you can't use it when someone is sleeping nearby.
macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See
The typical Canadian company is probably not worried about it as they believe they will be able to find offshore workers, use Fiverr to fill the gap, etc.
Tradition operates on statistical averages, not special cases. You are ignored by tradition. If that is a personal offense to you, you may benefit from discerning exactly why that is, and whether that reaction is an expression of tradition subverting your animalistic impulses for greater aims.
What do you consider higher learning? Learning how to screw in a lightbulb, or how to turn manipulate people into clicking on ads?

> As the parent indicated, they're not willing to even communicate with people who don't parrot their own ideas.

That's the exact opposite of what I quoted. They invite criticism of the status quo, and push for greater justice in the world. Most decent human beings agree with that.
Or the missing day in samoa in 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
Look up your microwave's manual, almost all modern ones actually have a setting to disable beeps.
That’s interesting advice that I haven’t seen out play that way in my experience. In very senior roles at big tech companies, even staying in the same role provides 0 guarantee you’re working on the same project or even that the project you start lasts 3 years.

Also, the difference isn’t 10k. It’s hundreds of thousands of dollars at middling levels. It’s in the seven figures at the upper levels.
No. Bought 16" M1 Pro Macbook Pro on day one. No regrets. Best computer ever bought.
Why do people always make this debate so complicated?

The average American consumes 24% more calories than they did in 1961. [1]

The average American is also 24 pounds heavier than they were in 1960. [2]

Sure there may be other contributing factors, but this is the simplest explanation based on our most fundamental nutrition science.

People have eaten more calories every decade, and have gotten fatter every decade as a result.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/american-calorie-intake-last...

[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/09/04/study...
I don’t accept the concept of evil, but I do think capitalism has me on the philosophical ropes.
> "uh, it's supposed to be the birth of a religious leader, but they got the math wrong so it's off by 4 years, if he existed at all."

> "if? You based your calendar off the birth date of someone you're not sure exists?"

I find it quite offensive. Not all scholars agree that Jesus was raised from dead, but the existence of Jesus is accepted even by non-Christian scholars.

> Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed.[7][8][30] Historian Michael Grant asserts that if conventional standards of historical textual criticism are applied to the New Testament, "we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned."[31] There is no indication that writers in antiquity who opposed Christianity questioned the existence of Jesus.[32][33]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
Geneva: Automated censorship evasion for the client-side and server-side
This is a very interesting take on the history of copyright I had not come across before. It is interesting because the historic facts don't match the pro-copyright narrative.

It also echoes what happened in China where the absence of IP enforcement helped them become the "factory of the world" and what piracy did for software a couple of decades ago.
Microsoft doesn't by default block the embedded Thunderbird browser. An admin can however enable that setting.
There's headlines about it being a currency crisis, and he disagrees.
I don't understand why investors are losing confidence in the pound. On the fiscal side, the government will need to borrow a bit more to offset the loss in tax revenue but fundamental productivity has not changed. Raising interest rates to curb inflation doesn't affect affect government debt since they print currency. Subsidizing energy costs helps consumer spending. Lower taxes is a boon for entrepreneurship and attracts FDI. Generally speaking governments in developed countries that reduce regulatory barriers face higher economic growth, in the short term at least. The Truss government is doing almost everything by the book in terms of economic stimulus, why is the market responding the opposite way?
It’s definitely coming. News this week.
I could spend a day doing the hackaton project or I could spend it teaching basic computing to someone who thinks himself an expert and is unwilling to learn. But I can't stop time, so can't do both.
Indeed.
Most of humanity still has to be born, so whatever we improve for future humans will be outweighed by whatever hardship it imposes on us, from a strictly rational point of view.

The trick is: how do we know we’re making things better, and how do we know they will stick.
News to some but this has been going in many industries with ghosts of denial called scientists for hire shifting the blame onto someone else

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt_(film)
https://www.sonyclassics.com/merchantsofdoubt/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/

I believe its budgetted for under Marketing
I won't get into the reason behind this, but I will say I found this statement horrible, and could not disagree more.

>“This important legislation will, for the first time ever, codify open source software as public infrastructure,” said Trey Herr

Open source software is no more "public infrastructure" than the efforts of volunteer organizations. The government should have no say over this matter IMO.
What makes you say that? According to who?

Compare what Ovid wrote about the name of May:

> You may ask whence I suppose the name of the month of May to be derived. The reason is not quite clearly known to me [because there are too many theories].

[J. G. Frazer's translation for the Loeb series]

That the name honors a Maia is one of three theories he goes on to present, the others being that May is named after the personification of Majesty [maiestas] and that May is named in honor of society's elders [maiores].
People who spend all their time indoors (in front of screens) will seek to justify their lifestyles, just as those who spend their time outdoors will seek to justify theirs. There is nothing rational about pre-supposing that your personal habits represent some sort of optimium: it is only through careful study that benefits and costs may be determined.
I saw someone wearing a Swatch Time t-shirt today!
You can read the studies here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673150 and here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oby.22468

They are both thorough, easy to read, and contradict Taubes’ primary claims. A third was supposed to occur (I think) but the funding, surprisingly, was withdrawn.

Edit: there were three studies done, all of which contradict Taubes’ claims. You can read his wonky spin on how, even though the studies prove him wrong, he may just be right on his own website: http://garytaubes.com/the-dissolution-of-the-nutrition-scien...
Yes, I'd agreed with that. The present day example is China which has only paid lip service to international copyright law and patents but which in practice has essentially ignored them. No other country is booming ahead like it is - it proves your point.

We in the West really need to wake up over the damage bad copyright and overly long (and often imbecilic and trivial) patents have caused, they've slowed progress down and made its overhead much more complicated.

I'm not against patent and copyright law per se but they ought to be both reasonable and workable. Currently, they benefit few.

When we have so-called 'legal' information raiders like Elsevier and that illegal ones like Sci Hub have to come into existence to redress the balance then it's obvious even to Blind Freddy that our IP laws are fucked (i.e.: favor few at the expense of the national interest/population at large).
It's probably the old codebase.

I have seen this kind of thing happen more often with old C++ codebases in general. Typically, the symptoms are:

* They have no unit tests. No linters or other code quality checks. No CI at all. Gui testing is usually not automated in most places I worked at, but skipping out on CI tends to make the code suck extra hard in the long term.

* They have to manually run 4-5 steps everytime to build and test the code they're working on. This kills the developer productivity instantly.

* They don't manage the memory properly. They sprinkle new/malloc, delete/free everywhere. They use shared pointers everywhere. They probably implemented their own auto_ptr classes. It's hard to figure out who owns and frees an object in such code. It usually leads to very buggy and unstable applications. Qt complicates this even more because it comes with automatic life time management of QObjects (if you delete a parent, all the children get deleted).

For me, I've worked with Qt on and off over the last 11 years or so. It's a mixed bag. For describing GUIs on embedded systems, i haven't seen anything better than QML/QtQuick so far. But because of the licensing situation with Qt, a lot of companies I've worked at still choose an old and outdated version of Qt (just like the above project which uses Qt 5.6), which means we reimplement the same functionality again and again.

For cross platform desktop applications, Qt/C++ is still the most mature framework ice seen. I don't have that many complaints with Qt itself here. But C++ projects don't have a proper way to manage dependencies. No standardized build system. So I've seen annoying "solutions" like electron having less friction than Qt/C++ projects.

Modern C++ and tooling solves a lot of these headaches. But you still have to use a lot of good but old C++ code that doesn't come with any of those goodies.

So is say it's a mixed bag.
-30% YTD
Not just “trading down a bit”
The Linux kernel is OSS, yet magically gets build collaboratively. And many large OSS projects exist, often more complex than a browser, without a sole source, single corporate backer.

Or, gasp!, even a corporate backers at all.

The modern stack is built upon, and relies upon OSS. Even chromium draws code taken from other projects, and also, relies upon a myriad of OSS libraries and toolsets.

And beyond all of that, Firefox exists is an immensely cash flush environment.

There are endless business models, and OSS development models, without business involvement to make a browser.

The world was doing just fine before chromium came onto the scene. Chrome was pushed by Google's search engine, bundled with Chrome books, Android, on TVs, and more.

Chrome is market dominant partially due to Google's aggressive push for market share.

All this said, your fears are unfounded, and currently one of largest threats to our way of life, to freedom, to democracy, is the entire ad ecosystem.

This ecosystem, in its curent form, simply must die. There are no patches, no fixes which involve any data collection on the user, that allow for co-existance with personal freedom and democratic principles.

Ads need to be served with zero knowledge stored and collected about users, and anonomization is meaningless and proven useless.

Whether Google is broken up or not, Chrome will die soon enough, as a personal spy, and a collection device.

Google's best move right now, is to discover profitability, research how to enable it, without data collection.

Because what has happened to Meta is only the start, what is happening to Google and others in the EU, is coming to the rest of the West, and this business model is over. It's done. Finished.

Execs who are not planning for a corporate future without data collection, are poorly managing, and living in the past.

Google's best move is to see where the market will be without data collection, and use its immense power to move there now.

Before it is too late.
> all the sweetness hits me like a truck and I need water

I think (having experimented with keto and read a bunch) that this is possibly due to the fact that your fat cells need water to store the sugar. (This is also the reason, in reverse, why you need to pee when ketosis releases that fat from the same cells.)
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for the kind words and noticing .

I enable the sidenotes based on how “wide” your current viewport is. I’ve just personally found they don’t work as well on smaller screens.

I wrote it with simple jQuery. Happy to share if anyone is interested and don’t want to have to write it from scratch.
They are all wrong. You just never heard of them.

Taleb loves making fun of economists. One of his jokes:

Trader comes to manager and told him he lost 10 mil because he bought treasuries since the bank economist said they would go up. Manager fires him. Trader asks why, is he required to always win? Manager says no, I didn't fire you because you lost money, I fired you because you listened to the bank economist.
Same here. Something I always find hilarious is conversations with people who's opinions are very polarised due to their membership in groups. For example, I have a friends that are variously: a Christian priest, libertarian, anti-vaxxers, and Trump supporters.

Invariably, in every discussion, they'll trot out this sentence: "You <opponent group name> people always think <notion>".

For example: "You Liberal party voters always support lowering taxes" or somesuch sentence.

I point out that I didn't vote for the Liberal party.

"The Labour party voters are the same!"

I point out I didn't vote for Labour either in the most recent election either.

"Err..."

-- at this point their brain locks up, because they're expecting a tribe-vs-tribe fight and they have no idea what to do when they discover I don't actually belong to their "enemy tribe".
I don't understand, you're paying more than normal hourly cost? Then it's not cost saving...
Is it rare in these kinds of applications of GPS to buffer up received GPS signal and retroactively fix the data after the lock? If so, why?
There is lively.el [1]! It is also on MELPA in a more recent version [2].
It allows to put an elisp expression into any buffer and then replaces that with the output in a time interval or manually. I use that frequently.

[1] https://lukego.livejournal.com/23379.html
[2] https://github.com/purcell/lively/tree/348675828c6a81bfa1ac3...
This is a good point, and I expect in the near future we will be able to simply ask a neural network to explain and change its behavior without retraining. I already see signs of that in prompt engineering used to interact with GPT3 or Dalle2.
My trick is to stop the heating just before it ends.

My parents have a toaster that beeps very loud twice when the toasting is done. Come on, I'm waiting at the table next to the toaster and the natural noise of the bread being released is more than enough. I wonder if the engineers actually tried their shit in real conditions. These beeps are just annoying especially just after waking up and there's no way to disable them. And yes, I would be afraid of using the toaster when someone is still sleeping.
I hate to chime in with an ask, but does someone have a good read on healthcare in developed nations and mind commenting?

I always hear and read complaints that the US doesn't have a single player public option for health insurance, and that it makes our country one of the worst.

Other nations with "good health care" seem to pay their workers less, have higher taxes, have long wait times at the ER, weak militaries, etc. Something always seems to give.

How would you rank and quantify the various medical systems of the world? Where does the US fall? Why, and how could we make it better?

I'd like to be better informed about healthcare as a matter of policy and how it fits into the bigger scope of government spending.
More books for you :-)

Never Split the Difference. And Nonviolent Communication.

Because just listening to others, and showing that you care about and understand what they're saying, can go a long way. Not always a need to actually do anything in the real world (or to say or pretend that you agree).

Maybe theoretically this won't place you in their old group, still, you'll a bit form a new group where you and that other person are friends
And Misumi works well in Europe, which helps a lot. They also have quite often great prices.
Now the catalog is not as far reaching as Mcmaster. We don't have a Mcmaster in Europe :(
And yet willpower has not decreased in that time. So something about the food must have become more addictive or hunger-inducing.
What the OP was talking about, which I totally agree with, is protocols that can't tolerate interruptions to their connection. This can be done with TCP.

When I worked in an office, I had the same issue as the OP - docking/undocking my laptop resulted in switching from wired to wireless, and connections (eg: SSH, RDP) would often drop. I ended up unplugging the ethernet at my desk and using wireless most of the time because it was just easier.

What would help is protocols actually support the concept of a "reconnection" -- ie: a TCP session that has the same identifier or token as a previous one that lets it it silently resume instead of starting fresh with new authentication. This isn't even that hard to implement if designed in from the start.
I feel like this is the first time that we've known with such certainty that a recession is coming in ~6 months.
> next year as the downturn ends and the upswing begins

Who says the downturn ends next year?

VCs act like it's all 2008: someone will come and bail them out. Yet, we are literally one Powerpoint away from a multi-year dumpster fire.
Weren’t you the one who would never pass judgement..? Sounds pretty darn judging to me.
> nit: harebrain

hmmm, while we're here... harebrained
What makes you think otherwise?
Occam’s razor, alas.
Not true. You can count knuckles on one hand up to 12, two hands up to 144, or 60 if you’re using fingers of one hand and knuckles of the other. Societies used to count knuckles, which is why duodecimal systems were a lot more popular back then. Way easier for doing fractions and divisions in your head as well.

Decimal is a system best suited for written math.
Tor's Rust Implementation Is Ready for Production Use
Evidently not https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hunter2_&next=106866...
Weeks aren't subdivisions of months, they are completely independent of months and years. There is good reason for this.

Having months alternate between long and short (as they typically do) is a lot better than just having one short month. It would get weird with things like rent payments if you have one month that is way shorter than the others. (although I do wish they chose a 30 day month to occasionally add a 31st day for leap year)

And I'm not sure we'd be better off with time done with multiples of ten rather than highly composite numbers like 24 and 60.

Obviously our system is far from perfect, but it's not all that surprising it is the way it is.

Except for leap seconds. Leap seconds are just stupid. Far better to make adjustments like that much more rarely.
It's high glycemic index carbohydrates, full stop. They do not satiate hunger, they result in more hunger, they are intrinsically addictive (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/ for example; animal studies conveniently dodge "human willpower" accusations and demonstrate this nicely), and at the end of the day they result in the average person using their average motivations (i.e. not strenuously avoiding calories) to steadily gain weight.

Watch the entire 3-part series on youtube, "Nature Wants Us To Be Fat"; Dr. Richard Johnson seems to know his stuff, he's accredited, and he cites plenty of research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAjC_BWMElk It's a little dry but fascinating- this seems to be the intellectual crowd that might be receptive to "dry but fascinating"
> Other people's financial security is basically free for Shopify

it is the assume responsibility of the individual for their own financial security. If the bet that shopify made turned out to be great, those people that got hired wouldn't have a complaint about how much they've gained.

It's always a risk to move jobs, and even more risk to move to a growing company. People who do so would've implicitly accepted the risk - it's not on shopify to spell it out for them.
Japan's push into 'deep tech' innovation
Yup. Like on a casio. If I remember correctly the modes were normal time, stop watch, timer and .beats