skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your arguments are a fair critique of this study:

> First of all, I've been lifting for many years and I haven't done dumbbell curls in a decade.

The study authors aren't arguing that dumbbell curls should be the center of your workout. And they are are presumably using an isolation exercise because it is more straightforward to test improvements to strength when you are just examining the effect on a single muscle group.

> >It found those who only lowered a weight saw the same improvements as those who raised and lowered weights — despite only performing half the number of repetitions.

> No shit. That's because eccentric exercises are far more fatiguing for the muscles.

It is a giant pet peeve of mine when scientists run a diligent study and then the response is "No shit, that's common sense" with the audacity to call it "junk science." Putting actual data and numbers behind a "common sense" belief is what science is all about - it is not "junk science".

I think there are other fair critiques about the applicability of this study (for example, another commenter mentioned that they were dealing solely with untrained individuals), but the fact that they used dumbbell curls isn't one of them.
Yea, imagine flowing mercury - it's a bit like that. Typically made of tin, gallium, and indium

(and probably some proprietary-fu)

Supposedly better thermal conductivity; downside is... that applies electrically too

It sounds like Sony (or Foxconn/whoever) is putting too much on there. A surprisingly low amount will last/suffice
Those with degrees, don’t see the downside of not having a degree.
I don't know actual numbers, but a lot of people have them and don't know anything about them, or even that they have one.

I only have 3 data points, but every time I have used the convection feature at someone else's house, they had no idea it was a feature, or what a convection oven even does.

Edit to add:
These were all in newer homes, so could be a more recent trend?
> pipes for those will last 100 years, easily

My wife served on a sanitary district board. Decent underground sewer mains have an expected service life of 70 years. Some will last longer, some won't hit the expectation. It depends on site conditions, materials, etc, etc. Many will probably last to 100 years, but I wouldn't expect it to be easy. Especially if you had any of the not decent materials (Orangeburg pipe was common in some areas and is basically wood pulp/fibers mixed with hot tar; service life could vary between 10 and 50 years; the major manufacturer went out of business in 1974, as PVC and ABS pipes rapidly replaced Orangeburg in the materials markerplace).

Actually there was a huge nationwide boom in sewer building post WWII, especially in the 50s, and you can expect that infrastructure to need some largescale replacement over the next 20 years or so. Depending on system design and how housing and industry developed, some systems will be able to just inspect periodically and replace as needed, and some systems will probably take the opportunity to do a more modern redesign (older cities tend to have combined sanitary sewers and storm/runoff drainage; if you're tearing up all the streets to replace the sanitary sewer, it might be a good time to put in a parallel storm drain system)

I'm not sure about water mains, I'd guess they need more frequent replacement since they operate at pressure.
Problem with maintaining status quo is that for example someones pay may be the same or can grow a little while economy grows around them, they end up having relatively less and they can afford less. So status quo may squeeze people dry, while they still have things they don't want to loose. And they will loose them maybe not today, but definitely tomorrow.
Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
Glad I'm not the only one. No fun with the timer.
lower-priced housing often has unacceptable attributes simply by virtue being lower-priced, as crime rates and schools are worse.
A bit late, but what I meant was that:

With complex data but not too much of it, going all in on relational modelling makes development much easier, more reliable, and databases are perfectly capable of handling the necessary joins.

With lots of data that isn’t too complex, denormalising a little and not using as many joins, or using a DBMS that doesn’t have joins and denormalising a lot (E.g. Redis, Cassandra, etc) will work well.

Most problems are one or the other, or can be refactored into one or the other.

At a previous job, we went hard on the relational aspect, and it worked well almost all the time. Inventory management, order management, user accounts, internal processes, etc. The main place it broke down was one table (out of ~450) of user content that due to the way the product worked, represented about 50% of our data. Working with that table became very hard. The right move would have been then to remove it and use a more appropriate DBMS, abandoning the heavily relational design for just that part.
That's what I meant by coordination game: it could be any place, but they should all (well, sufficiently many) be in the same place. That's why there's a lot of staying power once a place has achieved that status (fyi, in game theory that's called a correlated equilibrium [0]).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlated_equilibrium
> They'll just load you with tons of debt, making it harder to even get by let alone do what you love as a side gig

That seems to be a somewhat US-specific problem. In many other countries, university education is much more affordable, in some cases even entirely free. In my country (Australia), the government pays two-thirds of the tuition cost of most undergraduate degrees, and will lend you the remaining third - while that debt is still a burden for some, it is nowhere near as bad as the US. Other countries (such as France or Scotland), the government pays 100% of tuition
Nobody is asking for AI in general to be illegal, only training on code you don't own and then emitting it for profit.

Why can't they train on code that they own, such as the windows source code?

Why doesn't copyright law apply to open source code but applies strongly to windows source code?
Nearly every statement in this entire thread needs to have a 'maybe' inserted somewhere in it.
Trying to Explain DI
I'm no database admin but I find myself fighting ORMs, I'd rather use SQL for anything but the most basic queries in any given language that I've worked in. It just feels more natural to me. I think it's an opinion thing though. However for me I learned it once and it's easy to adapt.
Steam version needs some more polish but it will come. Bought at release and on a 4k display, multi core system, top of the line gpu and more ram than I know what to do with I get a paltry mid 30s to 40s gfps and scrolling the map is a pain so it's near impossible to play due to the jank but the patches have been frequent, hope they get around to fixing these issues soon.

- https://discord.com/channels/329272032778780672/105023368224...

- https://dwarffortress.mantishub.io/view.php?id=12054

- https://dwarffortress.mantishub.io/view.php?id=12023
Assuming you're not just a common troll, if your hypothesis differs from that of the parent post. Why do you think you are right and they are wrong?
I knew the answer before I opened the article. They move a lot more and generally have a better diet and therefore obesity rates are much lower. I say generally a better diet because some Amish communities have high rates of malnutrition among children, however this is not by any means universal.

Americans would probably have an average life expectancy of 85 if obesity rates weren’t so high.
>The fact we are still using UTF-16 still irks me to this day.

Windows, unfortunately.
If it was that simple someone would have done it recently.

LVT would cure places like SF where there's huge land values and pent up demand, sure. But it also creates a huge incentive to block development on a town level to keep taxes low.
It’s explicitly part of the HTML spec that you can do this, and that the semantics of those attributes are application/user defined, and should not be interpreted by the browser.
With DCA you have the additional costs of keeping cash around. Unless you mean serial lump sum (investing when you get paid).
That's a Eurocentric view of history, and yes, that comes with a certain Noble Savage aspect. There are newer generations of books on indigenous peoples of North America. They still 'noble' it up a bit (the Lakota book in particular, which very carefully uses euphemisms for cannibalism). Robin Wall Kimerrer's books are easily the most romantic of the ones I've read. Tending the Wilds basically dismantles Muir's world view with a crowbar, and it's been a while but I don't remember if she even mentions Muir. It's very clear they are dismissing that same theory of California though.

There were no primeval forests when Europeans arrived. It was all deeply curated and stewarded 'nature', heavily laden particularly with fire-adapted edible plants that the locals helped along if it had been too long since the last lightning storm took care of things. Nothing savage about it, debatably noble. Just a more animistic point of view and a bit more hedging against random acts of nature. We had some of that in europe too, but most of it was stamped out by the time Augustus became emperor.

Written history is written by the victors. And the victors in Europe were agricultural+conqueror nations. Everything else got wiped out.
That's great! For the sake of humanity, can you please start documenting your realizations/interpretations in some sort of readable/understandable format, with your reasoning? Especially those realizations/interpretations which are not super widely held, as it'll help move the ball forward with humanity understanding how things have evolved.

If you did this, then perhaps you'd be a bit less frustrated when others come to your interpretation years later. And if you are looking to status seek, you can gain some status points in the process!
There's a meme where a guy does something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNNWc4zUvqc
Its not the greatest of sites, but ah what the heck: https://www.roman015.com/
I enjoy occasionally blogging on https://jedfonner.com/

It's a simple static site built with jekyll.

I'm most proud of the chatbot I wired up to answer basic questions from visitors. I explained how I did it here: https://jedfonner.com/2021/08/03/Dialogflow-v2
> Why are wine developers and similar required to do clean room implementations to not be sued then?

That's the neat part, they don't. It's essentially a self-imposed limitation which contradicts actual court rulings on the matter such as Sony v. Connectix, in which the court commented on clean-room being "inefficient" and the kind of inefficiency that fair use was "designed to prevent".
I checked mine (electric) Definitely not. My mom does on both of hers (electric).

I don't recall my last house having it (gas oven).
I checked: it's the same article.
Americans have giant ovens. It's one of the things I miss after moving to Europe. The downside to a large oven is the time/space commitment, but it is super convenient.

Convection is also not common in the US. At least where I am in the Netherlands, shopping for a new "oven" almost guarantees it will be some sort of combo microwave/convection thing. Then it's also common to have a countertop airfryer as well.
When you can no longer get your thrills from a tennis ball, the double lacrosse balls are amazing.
I don't know why I kind of obsess on little games like this and end up drawing 50 circles to get "better" at it.
The article wasn’t on trade exactly, but makes the argument that travel time determines empire limits (geographically or temporally). If this is true, trade probably played a significant role in the effectiveness of empires in maintaining control.

That is, I don’t think your comment is a counterargument, unless I’m missing something.
Put the money in a nice pile and see if it stacks higher than the organizational shit you'll be dealing with. It's a maths problem.
So...50%?
> It seems so ludicrous that I want to ask if you’re sure you don’t have them, based on my experience of never having lived in an expensive home or actually buying appliances.

I get how it would seem that way. I think few enough people make home buying or renting decisions based on it, that most developers building (major appliances are often preinstalled) or landlords renting homes don’t bothers with the small added expense, and most renters don’t have the choice of replacements, and most homebuyers won’t swap out unless the old one becomes unserviceable. As a result, American recipes don’t focus on them, people don’t tend to know how to take advantage of them, and the cycle continues. Maybe the Air Fryer craze will chip away at it.
I will respond to the one factual claim buried in all the emotional outrage.

Let's look at the 2021 American Community Survey.

How long someone has lived in a unit is called "tenure". You want to look at tenure for renters, which is this table:

https://data.census.gov/table?q=san+francisco&t=Owner/Renter...

Here is the data:

Renter occupied: 427300
Moved in 2019 or later 170948
Moved in 2015 to 2018 70878
Moved in 2010 to 2014 64753
Moved in 2000 to 2009 71281
Moved in 1990 to 1999 31614
Moved in 1989 or earlier 17826

What we see is that 40% of renters lived in their unit for 2 years or less.
About 17% lived in their units for between 3-6 years. 15% lived in their unit for 7-11 years. 28% lived in their unit for 12 or more years. Therefore it's clearly false that 40% of renters have lived in their unit for 10 or more years.

Let's compare with the corresponding table for owner occupied housing, and you see the difference:

Owner occupied: 370695
Moved in 2019 or later 48657
Moved in 2015 to 2018 50381
Moved in 2010 to 2014 53299
Moved in 2000 to 2009 91120
Moved in 1990 to 1999 63382
Moved in 1989 or earlier 63856

Here, the smallest category is 2 years or less, and the the largest is 12-21 years.

Yes, there are renters that are long term and have comparable roots (not 40%, but 28%). But they are a sufficiently small minority of renters that they are comfortably and easily outvoted by owners, which is why the city council reflects the views of owners and not renters.

Even though SF has more renters than owners, if you restrict yourself to the population that has tenure longer than 2 years, then owners outnumber renters 322K to 256K.
they used saltwater and added volcano ash. thats the secret sauce
> It does seem to me that it's an accurate assessment to say that this project exists because of the nuclear weapons research mandate.

It's not an accurate assessment, in that it's an over-simplification. DoE is a big entity. DoE does weapons research. DoE also does general science research. They are separate responsibilities and have to be, because weapons research is classified and is legally required to be kept separate. The funding pathway that pays for the computing needs of each mission likewise is legally separate and jealously guarded from each other by program managers. The computers are housed, as noted by your quoted press release, in separate laboratories. Those laboratories are run independently of each other, and have distinct responsibilities. Frontier cannot run weapons-related simulations because it's not approved for classified work, which has some really strenuous requirements that the government takes extremely seriously.

It is true to say DoE exists because of nuclear weapons research, that's a big part of their role and history. The distinction is that it's not their only role, and their general science mission is not purely in service of the weapons program legally or practically. It's true to say that the programs coexist together and operate in parallel, but they are separate with their own goals. You're citing the goals of the NNSA computing program, which absolutely are weapons-related, but the Office of Science that funds and operates Frontier, Aurora etc is a separate entity with independent funding and governance within DoE.

The best analogy I can think of is that it's like saying PowerPoint wouldn't exist without Word. Taken very literally there is an element of truth, but it's a gross oversimplification of the actual situation and history.

Note that DoE publicly releases almost all of its unclassified publications on osti.gov for free, including publications using Frontier and the other open supercomputers. OLCF also specifically aggregates publications from researchers using their machines if you wanna get an idea of what is done with them https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/publications/ . You should be able to get the full texts on OSTI.
> Good roads on a empire splitted by succession are still no match to fast manoeuvrable drakkar raiders.

That's the issue though, dragons had gone extinct in Westeros 150 years before the series begins its story
what I got always told is to have to do the eccentric part of the exercise longer than the concentric one. helps
In this analogy, it actually does cost muggers quite a lot of revenue to not be able to punch people and take their wallets.
Still hoping on Chatbots making enough progress to one day organize and make accessible all the crap i hoard.
At highway speed here in France, (110-130 km/hr), the wind noise is sufficient to cause tinnitus for me, if I'm not wearing ear protection under my helmet. The bike style is a factor - my touring bike has a movable windshield that can push the airflow above my head, but the wind noise from the daily bike, with a tiny windshield, is like sticking your head out the window of a moving car.
Cool! Not to self-promote (no monetization or anything), but in case any one finds it helpful, I made something similar for myself to practice becoming more accurate with Wacom-style tablet pens: https://tabletpractice.arkt.is/
All the reservoirs of capacity have been built, except two. Sites is going to be built and the other has a fault right thru the middle of it.

There is no magical reservoir that will feed Victor David Hanson’s walnuts.
Anyone with a base salary of $300k can obtain a similar payoff structure by taking out a $550k loan to invest in GOOG

I'm curious how someone could obtain such a large, unsecured loan of $550k?
Even secured against a home with a mortgage cash-out Refi, that's a large sum. You'd have to have built up a lot of equity in your home value.
Haha i concede the point
Aussie in Lahti here, on my third winter, and also finally got a pair of icebugs. They make a big difference!
I also highly recommend a pair of Halti (or whatever brand) soft-shell pants. With thermals underneath, I've been perfectly happy outside at -20.
I got 95.3% with my trackball :)
> a modern version of this talk would have a much different context

How?
Hi Marcus,

I don't want to take away from the awesome tool you've written. It looks really cool!

But, as a person who followed a similar path to you, I really wish I had taken my teenage and young adult years to not focus on my career or computers. I'd encourage you to spend as much time as you can learning about music, art, film, history, psychology, philosophy, food, dance, sports, nature, traveling, starting useful habits, trying new things, and most of all, hanging out with people that don't work with computers :-) College is where most people make lifelong friendships and meet their life partners, and there's very little opportunity for that (much less trying out random college courses) once you've started a career.

Work will be there for the rest of your life. You're only young once. Spend that time being young!

Oh, and start saving for retirement now! The sooner you start, the less you have to put away each month over time, making it much easier to build a nest egg.
Completely agreed. It's crazy that people who claim to value freedom and being open quibble over copyright laws and licenses written for and by lawyers.

After reading the comments here, apparently everyone is a genius with code so special and unique, it would be unfathomable for two or more people to arrive at the same exact outcome.
They didn't reinforce it with iron.
>This is all assuming you want to use DBus. Why? Wayland is already the thing that you speak to talk to the display server. Why use another protocol for basic functions like this?

You have this completely backwards. Dbus was already standard on nearly every X11 desktop and was spoken by a lot of X11 window managers, before Wayland even existed. It was adopted during the X11 days because X11 is a poor IPC for anything outside of window management. It's notably bad at syncing settings where you commonly have an external process storing a settings database that sends notifications to interested applications. X11 is a poor fit for that, but dbus is great at handling that case with its signaling mechanism. Mouse cursor size being a good example of that type of setting.

>If DBus is so great, why do we even need the Wayland protocols in the first place?

Because they're two different protocols with different goals. Dbus is a general-purpose IPC that can be used for a lot of desktop tasks, like syncing settings. It's designed for many-to-many communication between every program on the system. Wayland is designed mainly for high performance between only one application (the window server) and its clients.

>Dbus is not great.

Dbus is the worst option except for all the others. I've seen a lot of dbus hate over the years but still no one has ever been able to propose a replacement. No, putting everything into Wayland protocols is not a suitable replacement.
You'll have cleared the riskiest window for sequence of return risk.
Ask HN: Simple No-Code EL Tool for Postgres > BigQuery
I'm looking for a simple, cheap "Extract/Load" tool to dump Postgres tables into BigQuery. Basically a nightly job that does something like this:

1) SELECT [fields I care about] FROM [Table] > dump.csv

2) Upload CSV to Google Cloud Storage

3) Drop/truncate/whatever old table, replace with the new dump

Don't need anything fancy like incremental loads, just dump every record every night.

The above would be easy to write as some sort of nightly job, but I want my data analysts to be able to self-serve - I want a tool with a web UI where they can configure everything themselves, picking and choosing the tables/fields they need.

Does anyone know of a tool that does this, that's simple/cheap? I looked at Fivetran, but their pricing is very high, just soooo much higher than a simple tool like this would be (to be fair, they don't do a simple dump like this, they incrementally sync changes using the Postgres Write Ahead Log). Fivetran's approach also incurs significant BigQuery costs - copying a full table to BigQuery from GCS is cheap, but lots of incremental upserts are actually quite a bit more expensive (BigQuery has to do lots of expensive scans to see if the records already exist). I also looked at Airbyte, but they also do incremental loads using the Postgres WAL, and it seems pretty immature/flakey.

I basically want a tool with a UI sort of like Fivetran/Airbyte, but I don't need it for anything but Postgres > BigQuery, that just does simple full table dumps/replacement from Postgres to BigQuery via GCS.