skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think that just not knowing about nutrition is the problem, you are extremely wrong.

And I can tell you from experience that doctors neither know anything significant about weight loss, nor do they care.
I feel like I asked HN the same question about the Economist a couple years ago. I still really appreciate its broad approach to world news and its slanted-but-two-sided view of politics. Honestly the replacement you're looking for
to understand international reality is probably some mix of very costly Stratfor briefings and France24 and DW. (Jacobin? seriously? is al Jazeera too well sourced for you?) Internal US politics aren't covered very well by the Economist so you won't be missing to much by switching to this blend, and most US politics can unfortunately be inferred six months in the future by watching other nascent authoritarian states anyway.

Wait for it... Dang is gonna ban me again. BUT I'M DRUNK! Damn it.
My father beats me hands down. But I have to check it out his browser. I'm sure he has a lot more than me. I'll brb here with numbers asap.
I have recently bailed too - I was subjected to multiple exit interviews when cancelling my subscription (two online and one over the phone). This certainly put me right off resubscribing at any point in the future.
The term 'superstep' reminds me of the HashLife algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife for computing the Game of Life. It computes multiple generations at the same time, and runs at different speeds in different parts of the universe, but only with the purpose of computing CGoL faster, not to introduce any relativity.
The way they discuss the UK/EU dynamic rankles me. They spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about Europe, while talking about the UK as if it's on the cusp of a new age.

I also loathe their coverage of the UK budget. It's a personally belief that George Osbourne's tenure in government has single-handedly sent the UK in a seemingly bottomless downward spiral back into 1970's Britain. He delivered his budget based on short-term fixes and populist gambits. The Economist talk about him and his policies as if he were some misunderstood hero of the age, and laud the absurd austerity measures of that government. Liz Truss recycles those same policies of tax cuts to the those who need it least, and the Economist does the same; that is, until the whole market finally comes crashing down. They back track as fast as they can, trying to distance themselves from her, talking about "how they would have done differently". It just seems so two-faced.

These are just a couple of examples but in summary, when their own fundamental beliefs are shown to fail, be it social or economic, they change tact so as to appear in the right instead of owning up and admitting any fault.
Programmer. I have ADHD, currently unmedicated which means I can't really focus for more than an hour on code. Not the kind of thing most employers will tolerate and TBH I couldn't pass a job interview.

I can use my network and thats how I found my contract. But I've already let down some people there a couple times and don't like doing that. Network is only so deep.
I think QNX still ships in large quantities, just not on devices consumers see as "computers". It has a POSIX layer though.
Install the alternative APK that doesn’t use Play Services. https://signal.org/android/apk/
This suggestion is humorous, but absolutely true: Potty Training In 3 Days.

Before having children, I thought I was fairly empathetic and introspective, but raising a child helped me realize how superficial those traits in myself were.

I'm being completely honest when I say this book made me a better leader and project manager - having a better understanding of the motivations of others, incentivizing those looking to you for guidance based on their own goals/desires, providing those with tools they need to succeed, and taking a macro view of a problem and allowing those under me to flourish and find creative ways to solve problems that take advantage of their strengths and idiosyncrasies.

I'm in no way suggesting that you infantilize those around you, just that teaching my toddler to shit opened my eyes to the way I approached problems, and Brandi Brucks' book helped me approach things differently with great success!
Please don't aim at that. Aim at anything negative for first month or two AT LEAST if not longer, then increase it. I had biggest bounceback after that kind of rate of drop.

Fix habit enough that you don't gain weight first, and get used to that being new normal, then start dropping, else it is very easy to bounce back.

Then, once you figured out how to live and eat "post weight drop", start actual drop, and if you bounce it won't be as hard
To clarify - say a schoolteacher writes expressing their strongly held personal racist beliefs (without specific reference to how this relates to their teaching role) would you consider that a reason?
This seems to be the most common situation, but it is not the only one. Plenty of people have lost significant weight by taking up exercise and not doing any active, concious changes to their diet.

I myself have lost 15kg over the past couple of years, after going from zero high-intensity physical activity on a normal week to a few hours of running and swimming every week.

I'm sure there are some unconscious changes to my eating, in particular afternoon/evening snacking. But that just happened without me trying or planning for it. I still eat at the same lunch restaurants and it is still my wife making me dinner most evenings.
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (Randolph H. Pherson, Richards J. Heuer Jr.) I am not an intelligence analyst, but this book is very insightful on thinking about your thinking.
Wow.

I played SimCity 2000 all the time when I was a kid. Still got the CD and some save files, and built a retro PC that can run it.[0] (I even have the same sound card that the family PC had, so the MIDI is exactly the same.)

Walking around my cities in Minecraft would be so surreal.

[0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/122/SimCity-2000
Very cool idea and execution.

Slightly off-topic; if there ever was a excellent example of what it means when a C# program is being written by a java developer, this would certainly qualify.

Was this ported from a java project?
State of the European Tech (Live 2022)
Atomico's livestream. Interesting speakers, potentially interesting content.
Any examples? I'm a European with a pretty chauvinistic pro-EU meh-USA attitude and I've never found the Economist's Europe section to be "bizarre" (been reading for about a year)
> The BBC also appear to have put a month-delay on podcasts which prevents them from helping u inform opinions on recent news.

Through what mechanism is the BBC able to delay podcasts?
This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various forms of distress by picking them up and flying to various destinations. Great flashback from 90's gaming, I remember tossing people out at random when flying which was always hilarious when you're a young kid. You could then pick them up and fly them to the hospital to get fixed up.

But I must say I think the original SimCopter looks slightly better graphically than this Minecraft version.

You can play SimCity 2000 online here, by the way:

https://playclassic.games/games/city-building-dos-games-onli...
Fwiw, this code example uses the Slim PHP Framework, which also uses a similarly vulnerable example on their homepage https://www.slimframework.com/
> slightly closer to the Center than The Economist.

The center of US political debate is significantly to the right of Europe on a large set of topics (from the role of the State in economic matters to global issues like Israel's behaviour).
IBM Educational Video about Computers (1970)
First, some of the hardware shown is just magnificent. Second, awesome time capsule.
On a small scale, it should be doable, yes.

First I should understand what exactly is the expectation to call soil "decontaminated".
Having worked in PHP and Ruby, the parallels to the hate is obvious to me. Enough people have done enough meaningful work in both languages that any possible downside or nitpick has been discovered and voiced.

It's like when a game/band/tv show becomes popular, the more popular the more toxic the community becomes, and the louder the hate seems to be. I don't want to pull names out of hats, but pick any of the most used languages and you'll be able to find people banging on about objectively bad parts of the language, and yet they're still the most popular languages.

Admittedly, I don't really prefer Ruby over other languages, but just like PHP I wish people would stop being so dramatic over it. It's plenty good enough to get shit done, if someone likes working with it power to them.
It's not impossible that we could come up with a way of crashing less than 15 moving objects together to get an alternate RCT pattern.

Gliders are generally considered to be the "lowest common denominator", though, so adding complexity by allowing more types of spaceships isn't usually seen as an improvement.

... It also becomes possible to cheat: I suspect we could put together something like an "RCT8" if we allowed Corderships as well as gliders in the list of allowed moving objects that we start with. (2-engine Corderships' "engines" are switch engines, and we have to build four switch engines to get the RCT reaction started. Could probably just shoot down the extra switch engine with one glider, and go from there.)
As i said, it's about the mindset that matters (rather than throwing me a bunch of design patterns).

If you're at work and want to get shit done fast for the salary reason: There's no reason NOT to use Rails.

If you want to go enterprise, use something lightweight and modular, composable instead. Throwing a bunch of inheritable BeanClass serves no purpose on the job.

UNIX philosophy came long ago, before JAVA.
They were the slowest SGI boxes, but a MIPS R3000 at 12.5 to 36Mhz would have been faster than the 33Mhz 386DX in a high end PC in 1998.

Edit: Things were moving pretty fast at the time, so I suppose if you bought one in 1998, it would have looked anemic when the 486 came out. Basically, if you bought anything and held it for 3-5 years, it was much further behind than the same situation today.
Most photographers alter colors, lighting, remove signs, wires, lampposts or even people from their images. A lot of them crop, or alter perspective in post. As mentioned here, most documentaries are montages of completely separate footage to tell a story they want to tell. Is any of that cheating as well?

Some photography books aimed at beginners even suggest editing in more dynamic skies into photos.

It's a matter of style if not anything else. Some photographers will accept only what comes out of camera, others will take more liberties with their work. It's not like any fake claims are made here.
well there are kilograms and there are wrong
New Treatment Significantly Improves Social Skills and Brain Function
I believe the podcast delay is just for independent clients - you can still get stuff on they day if you use the BBC Sounds app. It's just a ploy to get more people on their app.
Maybe they should be removed from their job if it's something related to their job, but it almost never is. It always comes down to "this person disagrees with me, therefore cause their employer a nuisance till its no longer worth employing them". There's not a moral court judgement or fairness, it's just some people harassing other people and insisting they deserve it.
I hadn’t exercised for over 20 years, but then I bought an Apple Watch. I ignored the rings for the first few months, but finally started taking them seriously. The gamification of fitness is very much a thing.

I still hate exercise, I still have no upper body strength, I’m still overweight, but my overall fitness level has gone up significantly and I’ve lost some weight. Baby steps.
Weight loss being math and being difficult emotionally are not mutually exclusive. It is difficult, yes, but it still comes down to the math of calories in < calories out.

I think it's important that we not think it's complicated from a math point of view lest people start thinking that only the quality of their foods matters, not their amounts; some people actually think that eating fat itself (lard, butter, etc) is the primary cause of what makes you fat, which is false.
I have worked with a "10x" engineer.

How do you think a team of ordinary (1x) engineers will function if you add a 10x engineer to it?

I'm my case it was like putting a car driving 100 mph where the speed limit is 10 mph. A disaster.

I think that a 10x engineer could work alone in isolation.

Base in my experience a 10x engine would also not function in a team of other 10x engineers. You need to have complete disregard for what others think and do if it's anything like my experience.
Dota 2 runs pretty great.
I love how the answer to complaint about british food is basically "well, not british food"
He is definitely changing the perception many had of him. Probably many people thought of him as an eccentric tech genius and in a harmless, inspirational, or non political context. Eccentric is starting to veer towards quite crazy or unhinged, harmless/inspirational/non political is starting to look more like sinister, corrupt, and/or divisive.

Appears that he is throwing away a lot of the good will people had towards him and his other companies (Tesla and SpaceX particularly), so that they will be making a downwards reevaluation of him. Will be interesting to see how far this all goes, particularly in Musk making himself a target for negative media and inviting scandals.
SICP was a game-changer for the way I think about software and problem-solving in general. Reading Aristotle's works also opened my eyes to all the different ways one can think about a problem (it rids of you of the narrow problem-solving methods we use today). Reading about history in general also opened up my perspective to think about problems in new ways -I recommend the Story of Civilization by Will Durant.
Anime pictures are very hard to detect because they are artificial no matter what, I am not sure they should be part of the set.
loosing weight is easy. got from 72Kg to 61Kg while being 175cm small in about 5 months.
neat idea but the project is like 10 years old, and last commit was 3+ years ago and only works on java edition. would like to see something like this, but for other city builders like Caesar
They make it available only on their app for a month, then publish it for everyone. It's just a commercial choice to capture more listeners for their apps.
While Ride of the Valkyries blares in the background, obviously.
>I'm always baffled by people swooning over "good vodka". You're drinking industrial alcohol, diluted with distilled water! There's no flavor left.

Maybe you just have bad taste buds, i am baffled by people who don't taste the difference, an it's probably because you drink vodka that is made with distilled water.
FWIW Nintendo's Horizon OS is also built from scratch (and isn't Unix at all), and has also shipped on a massive amount of units (over 110M as of 2022).

(and it happens to have a libcurl port)
Flatpak Is Not a Sandbox
tldr; The myth that flatpak apps provide a sandboxed environment is an illusion. Flatpaks are containerized applications that provide limited isolation by default and should be described as such.
This article takes a closer look at why flatpak fails to provide a real sandbox and demonstrates how popular applications on flathub can be exploited.
Yes. The entire question is predicated on there being a subtext. I answered that: assume the words they wrote were what they meant. Believing that "[what] they meant" was something besides that or that there was something else that "they were implying" is to believe that there was a subtext by definition.
The realization I've been 8kg off Homer Simpson is scary one
She's distinguishing between mob behavior (fundamentally emotional, with people trying to cancel someone they just heard of 2 minutes ago, likely without caring about any context or evidence), and intellectual criticism.

It's a reasonable distinction, since except for the past ~10 years, all well-educated people used to understand that mobs are dangerous, even the well-intentioned ones.
Bitcoin on ‘road to irrelevance’, say European Central Bank officials
OP wrote about owning a "home" as opposed to his coworkers who live in "condos" which makes me think he meant single-family house. Are you saying that SFH in Manhattan is relatively affordable for average FAANG developer?
Some irony here on HN...

'She never claimed to be a journalist, who expects it to be real or not fake, it's art!'

A few days later.....

'Elon is allowing people to say what they want, this spreads misinformation or perhaps fake news by people!'

But they aren't journalists? Is it okay? Is it art(lol)?

Heh..People making excuses for the things they personally like, or don't like.

Anyway, she is well within her right to make whatever she wants to spread it around dishonestly, but that has consequences depending on how she did it. Looks like she started the wrong way and she got called on it, so she is now reaping the consequences of it.
Agreed, please don't eat cereal (at least the commercial ones) as they tend to be very high in sugar. It's like eating a tablespoon of sugar in the morning. Oatmeal and other non sugary breakfasts are fine.
Yes, I think a key for stopping that is making sure you weight yourself once a week at least. It's much easier to catch the weight creeping up and manage it when it's 5 pounds and not 15.
I meant in general, not this specific case.

It's a travesty that a report from a jaded ex or obnoxious neighbor can result in one having CPS, the state tax authorities, etc, crawling all over somebody for however long an investigation takes. And from the point of the person being investigated and more importantly, the broader community it is anonymous. The person using the investigative process as harassment stands to lose nothing by doing so.
If you want to see what these 21-bit still lifes look like, their glider construction recipes are all stored online, on Catagolue (no, that's not a misspelling):

https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/b3s23/synthesis-costs/x...
Doesn't it rather depend on the particular cereal? I have wheat biscuits (a supermarket brand like Weetabix), 0 added sugar; almost any big brand cereal marketed at kids is extraordinarily sugary though.

Weetos are quite good (compared to other child-targeted cereals), honeynut cornflakes very bad, etc., IME you need to read the label though because it can be hard to tell.
Largest Pokémon collection fails to sell
Is Ruby that much hated?

Let’s make a very simple naive test using Google search, "I love Ruby" matches 98,400 results, while "I hate Ruby" returns 7,740 results (from my current terminal).

There is even a book named "I love Ruby" it seems.[1] Compare that to the existence of "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook".[2]

Can you be more precise about what features you miss in Ruby modules compared to "real namespaces"?

[1] https://i-love-ruby.gitlab.io/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
The Model Minority Might Be Too Good at the Game
How nonlocal are the entanglements in Conway's game of cellular automata, if they're entanglements with symmetry; conservation but emergence? TIL about the effect of two Hadamard gates upon a zero.

Quantum discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord :

> In quantum information theory, quantum discord is a measure of nonclassical correlations between two subsystems of a quantum system. It includes correlations that are due to quantum physical effects but do not necessarily involve quantum entanglement.

From "Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194658 :

> FWIW, (bounded) Conway's Game of Life can be efficiently implemented as a convolution of the board state:
https://gist.github.com/mikelane/89c580b7764f04cf73b32bf4e94...

Conway's Game is a 2D convolution; without complex phase or constructive superposition.

Convolution theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem :

> In mathematics, the convolution theorem states that under suitable conditions the Fourier transform of a convolution of two functions (or signals) is the pointwise product of their Fourier transforms. More generally, convolution in one domain (e.g., time domain) equals point-wise multiplication in the other domain (e.g., frequency domain). Other versions of the convolution theorem are applicable to various Fourier-related transforms.

From Quantum Fourier transform:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform :

> The quantum Fourier transform can be performed efficiently on a quantum computer with a decomposition into the product of simpler unitary matrices. The discrete Fourier transform on 2^{n} amplitudes can be implemented as a quantum circuit consisting of only O(n^2) Hadamard gates and controlled phase shift gates, where n is the number of qubits.[2] This can be compared with the classical discrete Fourier transform, which takes O(n*(2^n)) gates (where n is the number of bits), which is exponentially more than O(n^2).
Clickable - https://github.com/cipher-code/phpframework
strobing CRT monitors that don't line up with the frequency of the TV camera

I studied Broadcast Engineering for my degree back in 1997, and you could definitely shift the input signal to match the refresh rate of a CRT screen or a flourescent tube light on the Sony BetaCam TV studio cameras I worked with. I reckon the BBC would have been working with similar or better tech in 1995. I wonder if this might have been a directorial choice to show what viewers expect rather than any technical issue.
> "It's simple math, calories consumed versus calories burned", and the solutions are correspondingly simplistic. Eat less, work out more, or both.

This is true.

> that poverty can be solved by people either working more or spending less.

This is not true.

I understand your core message about the difficulty, but I dont see the similarities between both statements.

Basically, there are lots of people who have been working hard and saving that are still poor. But I haven’t met anyone that have been consistently doing fitness (nutrition, exercise, sleep,) that is out of shape.

Edit: What I mean is that getting in shape is simple but hard. We have a “universal” script for it. If I follow it I will get some results.

Getting out of poverty is both hard and complex. It involves more variables but using your message: What do you work hard on? Is there anything to even save at the end of the month? There is also a good amount of luck involved. My dad worked hard and spent frugally but was still poor.
I'm in my early 30s and have been at one place. As far as programming jobs go, I can't imagine a better one than what I have ( technically interesting, well managed, ...).

That being said I could see myself leaving programming at some point to do something else. But I'm not shopping for it
I also recommended another Heuer's book in this thread! Apparently, he's onto something, or intelligence analysis in general requires a lot of introspection about your ways of thinking (I'm not an analyst, but it was intriguing to learn about their mindset).
Yes. I’m not an expert in this area but the intuition for finite sets is well modeled by the standard axioms of set theory and I’ve never heard of an issue with finite sets. Things like Russell’s Paradox had to do with constructing sets when the foundations for doing this weren’t well established. Countably infinite sets are fine too, for the most part. The truly weird results come from uncountably infinite sets.
I canceled recently and had to escalate to “I have told you to cancel three times and if you cannot cancel now I will have to dispute the charges with my credit card company.”