skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the average person living in a high income country, protein needs are easily met to begin with.

People end up conflating advice from fitness culture with general health, which while overlapping isn’t the same. If you want to be super jacked then sure, eat a lot of protein, but if you just want to enjoy your life without major health issues there are bigger fish to fry so to speak.
Good point. Is it now the received wisdom of HN readers that these are legitimate tools of big-tech and that we should merely yawn at confirmation they were employed at scale to manage narratives deemed inappropriate? Then why lie about using them when testifying in front of Congress? Surely it's a matter-of-fact use of legal methods to silence those with whom one disagrees?
The may believe it’s worth it vs. the loss of ad income.
> it is the opposite of freedom

Your particular concept of freedom doesn't account for asymmetries in information and power. The average person does not have the time or knowledge to truly understand the implicit bargain that goes with using Facebook. Partly because Facebook is very aggressive in keeping users in the dark. But even if Facebook were totally open about everything, people just don't have the time to independently investigate every company they do business with.

What your high-theory freedom means in practice for the average person is the freedom to be exploited. That's how it went in the early 1900s before we had labor laws and anti-trust laws. Did hundreds of millions of workers lose the freedom to work overtime for free? Undoubtedly. Are they missing it? Generally not.
Being a worker in the tech industry during 2022, I can relate and agree that not having a constant source of income or even the fear of losing one's job can probably lead to poor health outcomes.
Is that true though? Energy has to go somewhere, but if you store a large part of that energy into batteries, doesn't that take away from what you have to expend on friction with the road?

After all, energy can't be created or destroyed. So if you're storing it in batteries, it's coming out of your forward momentum.
>I don't use Windows at the moment and don't really mount network drives, either. That might be a good alternative to consider.

Regarding Windows:

I have successfully mirrored a notebook and a desktop[0] (single user) with Windows using robocopy, which is a utility that comes with Windows (used to be part of the Resource Kit but I think it is now in the base product). When I say "mirror" I mean I can use either machine as my current workstation without any loss of data, as long as I run the "sync" script at each switch.

I use "net use" to temporarily mount a few critical drives on the local network, then robocopy does its work, it has maybe 85% of the same functionality of rsync (which I also used extensively when administering corporate servers and workstations). Back in the DOS days, I wrote my own very simple version of the same thing using C, but when robocopy came along I was glad to stop maintaining my own effort.

[0]or two desktops, using removable high-capacity media like Iomega zip drives.
Imagine if during the cold war we'd have had people like you commenting this way out in the public. Not only would it have been a failure of intelligence but the venue would be shut down.
why do we need blockchain here again
That's how I do it in Civet (the CoffeeScript of TypeScript). It's a very small amount of complexity to add to the parser for a ton of convenience when using the language. https://github.com/DanielXMoore/Civet
Mouse controls and a more friendly UI. World gen improvements so it runs a lot (a whole lot) faster. More frequent bugfixes and the convenience of steam updating. 'Timeline' saves so you can kinda savescum your fort a bit if you like.

After the first batch of patches DF classic will be brought up to parity with DF premium, and they will then be developed together.
> and there's no such thing as "good stress."

this is not true though. I have a close friend who comes from a very wealthy family, to the point where, if he wants to, he doesn't have to work another day in his life. it took him something like eight years to get a four-year degree. he's struggled a lot with motivation over the years, and I became increasingly empathetic toward his situation the more I talked to him about it. it's really hard to find motivation to do stuff, even stuff you tell yourself you want to do, if it takes effort, and if there's no proverbial "fire lit under your ass" to get you to actually do something ("if I don't get another job before the end of next month, I won't have enough money to pay rent", etc.).

I've done some of my best creative work while under immense stress. great things rarely, if ever, get created in zero-stress environments. this idea that stress is always objectively bad is a very first-world way of thinking.
And I'm also pying the bakeries and business owners more for their services.

Really, talking to people here - even random ones, like a taxi driver, I've literally never ran into anyone that does not want to keep supporting Ukraine.

Because we know that if Russia wins in Ukraine, we are next. What's money against your life and the feeling of safety?
Facebook has already seen the writing on the wall and has been pivoting to VR. Probably not the best pivot but it is what it is.

They clearly want to be the Apple/iPhone of VR. The part that confuses me is that they can't seem to decide whether or not to make consumer VR stuff or business VR/AR stuff. They're completely different markets.

Consumers want games and apps/experiences that are fun and/or exciting (even if they're not games). Businesses want specialized apps and equipment that's suited to their industry/use cases. If you're going to make business-focused hardware like the Quest Pro you're not going to be making the highly specialized software that businesses want because that would be a waste of your time (too niche). So it would behoove Facebook to sell something like the Quest Pro with a significant markup (the "business tax" like with all things "enterprisey") instead of at or near cost like they're currently doing.

The thing that baffles me the most is how much friction they've artificially introduced in order to develop for the Oculus platform(s). Firstly, you need a Facebook account to gain access to their developer portal. This makes zero sense considering that Facebook is primarily something meant for personal use. It also means you have to give your employer your Facebook account which is... Bad. To say the least!

(Aside: You might be thinking, "just make a separate Facebook account for work" but that's actually a violation of Facebook's TOS!)

Secondly, there's ZERO information about developing custom hardware for the Oculus platform in their developer portal. In their forums/community pages there's loads of people asking questions about how to do this and no answers from Oculus/Facebook staff. Nothing!

The ability to integrate custom input devices would be a HUGE boon to business-specific solutions/use cases. Simple example: Imagine walking around a store doing inventory while wearing an AR headset... It automatically identifies the products on the shelves and estimates their counts for you but how do you enter in the real count? Hold a controller in your hand and use a virtual keyboard? That would be the peak of inefficiency.

Sure, you can pair a Bluetooth keyboard/numpad to the Oculus (I think) but a customized input device that could say, weigh some bananas and measure the temperature, light/color, sound, and levels of ethene gas would be sooooo much better! It wouldn't be too difficult to make either except for the fact that Facebook has made it impossible.
It was precisely the opposite that started this war - the inhumanity of some leaders and the people that support it.
Talking about steel cut oats, raisins, nuts, etc. I like to cook them for a while :)
Okay, but that's not at all the same thing as stealing a car.
This should really be taught in schools - not how oauth works but that you should be careful who you grant what access to what data.
I've seen comments here on HN that some people committed suicide because of the losses. But media don't care.

It's not unexpected, though. Hyper-capitalism and democracy are clearly incompatible. People already treat others arrogantly if they gain 10x more money. 100x more and you're in a different caste. 1000x more and you're just dust.

An average Joe should work for more than 10000 years to make a billion. Crypto fraudsters can collect it in years, while producing nothing good.
> if West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia?

Is it the West or specifically the US. United States can do this because of the dollar's role in global economy: essentially everyone else will be paying for it.

Obviously, Russia can't do that. But might you have had something else in mind, since you've said "West" and not specifically "the US"?
I started this library as a wrapper/consistent interface across the many libraries that let you interact with an individual blockchain.

The end goal is that you should be able to send a transfer on any blockchain as easily as you send a http post to any web server.

Currently it supports Solana, Cosmos. I have code for Aptos, Bitcoin, Ethereum that I'm adding (time permitting).

To try it out I've added a small example that just does a transfer, I hope it's simple enough to get started. Feedback welcome on every aspect: interface, code quality, clarity of the example, etc. Thanks!
I think you misunderstood this. They are not being forced against showing personalised ads, they are being forced to give you an active choice. You are still welcome to choose to let them track you.
Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?
It may be passive or active or maintenance mode of income. Just something created by you and your sole passion that have worked out for quite some time and maybe still going on.
From what I've read PW's official stance is to keep using the existing protocols such as PA and JACK. PW comes with a PA-compatible server, replacement JACK client libraries and an ALSA plugin. So it supports clients from all three at the same time. Precisely so software does not need to be rewritten (I imagine).
Dang, I thought it was just my code that was leaky...
FDA: B-NMN Can No Longer Be Sold as a Dietary Supplement in the US
All you need to know about Navalny anti war stance is covered by his opinion on Crimea. He was pro 2014 invasion back in 2014, and nothing changed.
Is there a citation for the threat of invasion apart from unhinged Russian TV commentators?

For example, the most hawkish interview with Dugin (Pozner is the interviewer) is from 2014. The interview is in Russian and Dugin is clearly enraged about the Maidan events, so he is more straightforward than in English interviews.

If the English subtitles are correct, Pozner explicitly asks which countries should be part of the "Greater Russia". Dugin unambiguously excludes the Baltic states, Poland and Finland.

He wanted the eastern Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan in a Eurasian union.

So if even the hawk who is always cited as an expansionist does not want Latvia/Finland/Poland, who does?

The U.S. does military manoeuvres and close fly-by missions in the South China sea.

The people in charge in Russia grew up during the cold war and believe that NATO is a threat. It does not matter to them what people on Twitter who were born in 2000 think.

I don't think either that NATO is a threat in the case of Russia (unlike for Kosovo, Iraq, ...), but they don't care. If someone is in the business of foreign policy, he has to take the opponent's thoughts into account.

Russia's unlimited expansionism is a narrative that is supposed to obfuscate the mistakes that foreign policy has made since 2008.
Because that won't help them...Russia's is an "emerging economy" (or was before the war), basically all they do is selling commodities...but that's not the issue here, the issue is how it is governed...this country sold Alaska for $140 million and now are trying to get their hands on land the size of Washington for already 100k lost soldiers (and counting)...so historically a disaster of governance with the luck of its natural resources
The fact that they have to get their drones from Iran instead of the obvious choice of China says enough on itself.

BRICS isn't new and it basically only exists on paper. We're talking about a supposed alliance whose two largest members, India and China, are currently engaged in a conflict over Kashmir.

Speaking of India, as much as they're happy to continue buying Russian oil, they already anticipated Russia's inability to produce modern fighter jets and cancelled their order.
It seems like everyone has become an expert on tire particulates over the last five years. You can't read a thread about EVs without hearing about it. But NOx emissions are actually more strongly correlated with many health outcomes, e.g.:

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/3/754
So this supplement was banned by the FDA to protect the commercial interests of pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs, literally. This is how America works regarding our diet and supplements, it has nothing to do with our health or best interest, nothing was dangerous about this supplement, it is actually really good for you and that's why it was banned.
Okay, but if you are going to make that comparison, then why bother comparing trillion dollar profitable companies with a startup. The goal is to make people whole on paper. If you don't think that is appropriate for your needs, you don't have to apply or join!
> Electricity prices would still be through the roof. The prices are all set on the international markets.

Only to the extent that electricity can be imported and exported via international connectors, which are of course limited in their capacity.

Prices are not set internationally, but domestically. Energy is not a tangible, stored commodity like coal which is internationally priced.

If what you said was true then America's electricity would be priced the same as Europe's, whereas it is way cheaper.

Therefore building out additional electricity production in the UK could well lower prices, depending on matching of demand and supply, agreed prices in contracts, length of contracts, etc, and of course whether additional connectors are deployed.
Care to support that claim? And maybe explain all the dark money SBF admitted to secretly funneling to the GOP? Any particular reason he would hide those 'donations'?
> Why specifically GDP? [...] Why not PPP, for example?

PPP is effectively a currency conversion rate, it's not a meaningful metric by itself anymore than $1USD ~= 1000won or ~= 100 yen tells you anything about the South Korean or US or Japanese economies.

So I'm assuming you're comparing nominal GDP versus GDP by PPP. To a first approximation, nominal conversion rates give you an idea of how an economy can interact with others on a trade basis, whereas PPP conversion rates give you an idea from the perspective of a domestic consumer. For what you tend to use total economic size for, nominal GDP tends to be a better reflection of the size of the economy, whereas PPP works better for something like GDP per capita.
on what machine?
Added sugars are definitely processed and definitely unhealthy, but completely optional for many good vegan recipes. Canola oil is processed, but also easily swapped for olive or peanut oil. And sure, I guess tofu is processed… but it’s also a 2000 year-old dish that has been consumed as part of a healthful diet in multiple Asian cultures for centuries. The common denominator among all the things you mention here is that they’re also optional in a healthy vegan diet.
This delimiter first pattern is used a lot in Ocaml code as well:

Records:
https://github.com/janestreet/base/blob/master/src/avltree.m...

If statements:
https://github.com/janestreet/base/blob/master/src/string.ml...

Lists:
https://github.com/janestreet/base/blob/master/src/string.ml...

Function calls:
https://github.com/janestreet/base/blob/master/src/string.ml...

Type definitions:
https://github.com/janestreet/base/blob/master/src/array.ml#...

It's not always used, shorter snippets tend to be all on one line.
The metallic finish is just an image, "for CSS" made me think this used only CSS to achieve the effect.

The use of `filter` make it look nicer but other than that there's not much original here. Maybe try abusing nested borders, gradients and shadows until you can achieve the same thing with CSS alone. The JS to render the image blob is creative.

Also elements with a fixed height (or `line-height`) get tricky with dynamic content, linebreaks, etc. Maybe find a way around that. (Cool demo, thanks for sharing)
Worker's rights are "pretty extravagant"? I completely disagree. Work/life balance for most people/families is way out of whack, we are putting far too much of our physical and mental health into work and not enough into our families and ourselves.

Life should not be about working your knuckles and neurons down to nothing for 40 years just so that someone else can have a new yacht or bump their net worth 2x or 5x.
Wouldn't inflation actually be much more harmful for a loan-based economy like the US?
haha the owner of Gucci was shortly the richest human on our planet. Behind the "online currencies" stand... the Chinese, some oligarchs, god knows who. Yeah no coincidence... just "reporting".
> It's far better to put the query near the middle of two resolutions eg 900px instead. Media queries should be generalized to cover the layout for devices up to that point

I actually think that media queries shouldn't consider devices at all when writing styles, and should instead be unique and specific to the component.

Build the component's smallest resolution first, and add a new `min-width` breakpoint when it looks weird as you scale it up.

That's because there is no "middle of two resolutions." Today, there are so many device sizes, and there's no sense in designing your entire site around some random set of 5 of them.

Assert that your site looks good on specific devices relevant to your demographic during QA.
Well they start by listing out the advantages of stuff like Robux:

"Parental controls implemented in recent years mean out-of-control spending by children is less of a concern than it once was. By topping up virtual wallets with a little cash, parents save money and time compared with a trip to Target and don’t have to take out their wallets for every little purchase."

They proceed to list out different game currencies and what having them allow you to do, which you couldn't do with cash. Followed by providing directions and helpful tips to parents about how to do it, such as "Advocacy groups recommend that parents talk to children about the potential for disappointment when buying blind packs".
There's a few things that help with periods of low wind:

More long distance transmission / interconnects
Vehicle-to-grid
Grid scale battery storage
Domestic and commercial battery storage (Powerwall etc)
Seasonal thermal storage - large insulated tanks or ground source heat pumps

These all exist, and there will be more new technology coming. It doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem.
I also blame GitHub for not having a way for a user to grant only some of the permissions requested. Every once in a while somebody on my team will try to look into CodeCov integration, because it sounds useful. And then we realize it wants the ability to write to our repo, plus the ability to manage arbitrary hooks, when it should just need the ability to write check results and read the (public) repository. Every time we give up and don't use it.
Stroessner ruled Paraguay for a long time, but when he was old and his generals staged a coup against him he only gave token resistance and fled to Brazil right away. As far as I know he lived peacefully there until he died.

He could have fought back much harder and plunged the country into a civil war like the one that got him into power in the first place. He chose to retire in wealth, comfort and peace instead.
Some EVs are significantly heavier, but it's not all doom and gloom. Doesn't a basic Model 3 tip the scales at about 3500 pounds or so (maybe it went up a bit for the LFP version)? That's pretty much par for the course in a car that size. Heck, a Mustang GT weighs more than that.
The energy efficiency of turning regenerative braking into energy isn’t really related to how regenerative braking can fully stop a vehicle without using the brake pads. Even if the regenerative braking energy efficiency were 1% - if it fully stops the car without using a brake pad that entire wear & tear (& dust) goes away.
You can probably share the Discord link by breaking up the URL in another comment, etc. Bots are good but still not great.
Historically, yes and no. I agree. But recent wars look much more like All Quiet on the Western Front than conquests of the Roman Empire.
The concern over the "highly processed" nature of plant-based meat-alternatives seems really disproportionate to all the other problems common in American diets: high sugar, low fiber, etc.
What is the third?
> Some Kent residents raised four fingers when they passed each other in the street, a silent signal that meant, “At least we got four of them.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent...
I think there’s a cultural belief in the US that the threat of destitution is a good, healthy motivator of productivity. It certainly is a motivator, and for some it’s a good one, but overall I think we’re starting to learn that it’s not healthy.
You aren’t regaining 100% of the kinetic energy so a significant part has to be lost somewhere else. Realistically regenerative braking is recouping energy that would be lost as heat when the friction brakes act on the wheels.

However it would not stop a vehicle on a zero friction surface, as a simple example, so no it doesn’t take away from the friction heat losses on the road.
It was never a "continuation". It was always a hard fork.
> If nothing else, these post-Russias would struggle to afford even more to upkeep and upgrade the stash of nukes.

Again, not comforting. "Might as well use them on <hated neighbor>!"
Warning: This is expensive.

Get a pair of Genelec 8320A's and a Genelec GLM SAM.
If you still need bass, get a Genelec 7350A.

I am currently using this very setup in my living room. I will move them to my desk when I replace them with some Genelec 8341As or 8351Bs in my living room.
That's funny you say that. You're literally describing the Boston Massacre which I think most Americans would side with the colonists on.
>Witch trials were already a fringe and rare thing by the 1600s.

"The period of the European witch trials, with the most active phase and which saw the largest number of fatalities seems to have occurred between 1560 and 1630.[31][5] The period between 1560 and 1670 saw more than 40,000 deaths.[32]"

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_mo...

Did you find any actual statistics? I did not, but as far as I know witch trials happened after the reformation and somewhat coincided with the enlightenment.
Use https://www.trueup.io/layoffs instead
Agreed. My mother’s family has lived in the Los Angeles area since the 1950s and there is this constant cycle where some improvement is proposed, people loudly proclaim the economy will be devastated, the change is made, the economy booms, and nobody wants to go back. My aunts remember not being able to see houses on the other side of the street due to smog, I remember visiting LA in the 80s and getting headaches every time, and I want the latter to be as alien an experience for my son as the former was for me.
This is an education problem and the solution is learning how to cook. I’ll admit that pure vegan is a higher and harder bar, but this is the same way people talk about not having meat every meal. It’s the way I used to talk. It’s just confident ignorance.