skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although downvoted, this is the right response. Its not harder for the US to move to metric than it was for any other large country. The change hasn't happened because there isn't utility in using metric, and a lot of cost.

Of course, there are clear examples when metric is both easy an intuitive. In everyday usage there are many cases where Imperial is beneficial (cooking -- metric is poor for individual servings, height and weight metric is inefficient as the modal height starts with the same digit, temperature requires more digits).
> It takes humans up to 5 seconds to even start breaking in the presence of danger.

That seems pretty clear. 5 total seconds is really reasonable. 5 seconds before you start is silly.
> without some bastard deciding to sneak in and occupy it

Unfortunately, this. It sucks to keep a larger gap, have some idiot sneak in, and now you have to brake to maintain the distance again, repeat. FWIW, I am very careful to maintain distance just for situations like the one in this post.
Tax it instead. Enough tax to reduce consumption and make healthier food more competitive. But not so much that a large black market takes off.
That's a very useful lesson. Also recognizing that you won't remember the code the next time you see it. It only took me a couple instances of "what moron wrote this? ...oh, it was me" before I started including myself in the "dumb future people" I'm writing my code for.
Much of the rise seems to be caused by avian flu resulting in the deaths of about 10% of chickens in the US. That would not be a uniform 10% at every farm.

Some farms will have lost a lot more and some will have lost less or none.

I think that most retailers have contracts with a specific set of farms to supply those eggs, which will only be a small subset of all egg farms.

It could simply be that the farms Costco has contracts with happen to mostly be ones that haven't been hit hard with avian flu.
Dumb question, but do you drink coffee? Black coffee is a great appetite suppressant. For me, the "aha moment" was finding those specific foods which provoke or reduce hunger in me. Black coffee can keep hunger at bay for a LONG time for me, while even a small amount of white bread or processed sugar will turn on all the "feed me and don't stop" signals.

I definitely do think that the best diet is the one you can stick to. I've tried a bunch, but I've learned that the thing that works the best for me is learning how to eat to manage hunger rather than managing calories. Managing calories while being gnawingly hungry is just miserable, as you've attested to.
I think the reason is that children are a long-term project - 18-20 years at least.

You might be living on a farm right now, but if you had an inkling that you will eventually move out to the city, you probably don't want to take on an expensive project - like having kids.

Back in 1850s, if you were a farmer, you likely thought that you'll die a farmer. But today, if you're on a farm, you still get to see what's happening in the cities, often in real-time. And maybe you think that you'll eventually move there too, and skip having kids.
Yeah, I absolutely share your concern.

There are so many internal and external forces pushing us to take the immediately gratifying path of least resistance.

We already know (and have known for decades) that a diet including mostly whole foods based around mostly plants seems to yield populations with far less disease and longer lifespans. It may not fit everyone, but it would certainly work for most people currently suffering. We don’t need to know more about gut flora and protective enzymes to help them; we need to stop hurting them with an overly permissive health industry and sabotaging food processing industry. We’ve had generations of normalizing this stuff. We have intelligent people talking about how statins are game changers and various weight loss drugs are revolutionary. It’s a sort of tragedy to me that we aren’t focused on making these things redundant and eliminating the root problem. It’s like we’ve simply accepted excess and the innate self-abuse of our lifestyles.
Ok having this on your resume / certifications is exactly how you avoid getting hired.

HN activists listen to me - tech bosses are actively avoiding hiring people who want to bring this stuff to work. Some are more vocal than others, but even the ones who agree with your views and ideologies will actively avoid hiring an activist. They do not want their companies to be distracted by your interest in changing the world.

If this offends you I am sorry but this is a growing trend in the valley and beyond. My advice would be to return to university or work in an institution where social activism and extra curricular activities are part of the mission.
They had the ultimate privilege: unlimited power over their fellow human beings. They were much closer to royalty in that respect than to today's billionaire.

What you call "small" advantages: car, pool, VCRs, bananas - put them so far about their average citizen that it was like having a private jet and yacht today.

They justified that amazing power to themselves by saying they did their duty to us... the people. But make no mistake, they were never elected and they didn't give up their power willingly.
One thing I noticed you didn't talk about was what you tried to build? Did your learning have a purpose and goal of actually creating something - in other words, were you trying to actually build an app or tool or thing that you wanted to exist? Maybe you were missing an specific reason or purpose for your brain to put the pieces together beyond just "learning".

I am self taught and would have given up in short order but for the fact that I really wanted to build something specific (a web app that did something with text messages), I thought would be useful and therefore had reason to keep going even when I understood almost none of what I was doing. I used Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial and literally just copy/pasted his code until it worked without understanding any of it. It took me a very long time (many months if not years) to really understand the pieces and how they all fit together and then be able to apply that knowledge.

I've seen people with no experience do a month or two bootcamp and come away with a way better grasp than I would have, but they lack the real-world experience of applying that knowledge.
Hey it worked for google (eric) and facebook (sheryl) so it will work for us!
I.e. the line is drawn where it is convenient and requires no change (sacrifice).
Yes, but wgpu is more than fine for 99% of use cases.
We have to compensate the supply chain for accepting the burden of being prepared for these risks. Today we pass “anti-gouging” laws declaring that we refuse to value it at all.
Eye movement science is helping us learn about how we think
This sounds really interesting. Can you share some screenshots for us to see?
Seems to be still missing a wiki feature, which is a pity as the corporate world desperately needs an alternative to Atlassian Confluence.
Certainly probably costs more in 'helpdesk' time to collect them, make sure the employee returned all their employer supplied chargers, docks, etc and get them reimaged and back into rotation than it would cost to replace.

As someone that went through a similar 'just keep it' event. My personal laptop was already better, but my sister's sure as shit wasn't.
'System76 AMD-Only Laptops Return' would do it.
But note that, overall, the ores we're using now are much less rich than the ores we used up a generation or two ago. Cheaper energy costs have kept commodity prices about the same.
At that time, Sweden had a secret program to acquire nuclear weapons. They intended to either buy them from America or manufacture their own, with the intent of defending themselves from the Soviet Union. America decided not to support this, so Sweden wound down the program in the 60s and 70s and exported the plutonium they had produced to America.
You are correct. The author's pronoun is "she" and there is a bio page about her here: https://leade.rs/speaker/tracy-young
When I needed a beeper with a time delay for a fridge door, I looked at retail prices for a dual-555 IC (a 556) and for a dual-opamp IC (ended up going with a 6002) and was surprised to find the opamp was something like three times cheaper, even taking into account the hefty capacitor for the time delay. (Active buzzers wouldn’t run off a 3V cell so I did need a dual IC for the delay and the square-wave generator.) Is this just a retail-specific distortion?
From the WSJ article (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-01-...):

Mr. Bankman-Fried wrote on his Substack:

* The collapse of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, Alameda Research, stemmed from a broad crypto market meltdown.

* He didn't run Alameda for the last few years.

* FTX could have raised fresh investor cash and made customers whole if it wasn’t forced into bankruptcy.

* Alameda’s insolvency stemmed from failure to hedge its positions and actions by rival exchange Binance.

* Alameda’s contagion spread to FTX.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm. The article says not to waste time getting food at the event, and to just bring something with you. Seems like decent advice.
When so many generally-smart people make the same mistake, I always wonder what the incentives are that put them there.

Was it fear of being left out of the free-money-on-the-table if they didn't keep telling everyone growth would last forever, thus justifying investing more money in them to capitalize on that growth? I always have to keep in mind that public statements companies make are at least equal parts fire-for-effect as declaration of truth; they are bound by law to make some true statements, but they also pepper statements heavily with words chosen to illicit the desired behavior in investors (current and potential) and competitors.
Businesses have always been dictatorships. It's only governments that are democracies.

The will of the voters that matters in this case is the voters who voted for labor laws. (Or rather, voters who voted for politicians, who voted for labor laws.) And, of course, the voters who voted for the Supreme Court, who gets to singlehandedly say what those laws actually mean. (Again, they don't vote directly; they vote for a President who nominates and a Senate who approves.)

The vote of a union only matters in light of those labor laws. And the company has the right to appeal those, under those same laws.

It would be nice for the company to also take the responsibility to respect the intention of the law, rather than hoping they'll get some body (elected or otherwise) to give them the answer they wanted. But our whole system is deliberately adversarial: everybody fights as hard as they can for what they want, regardless of what would actually be right. That's a big chunk of the reason we have unions in the first place.

It's a terrible system, the worst one, except for all of the others. Me, I'm voting with my feet: I'm using Amazon as little as I can get away with, even when it costs more to use an alternative. They can fix that by ceasing to be douchebags... but that seems pretty unlikely.
> people would complain about that too.

I mean, are we certain of that? Maybe someone should try it first.
The meat of the data is police scanner dispatches and individual photography.

These are "real" unless you think they a faking police calls and doctoring images.

User posts should be given the same credibility as a stranger on facebook or twitter. Even user posts are "real", unless you think they are psyops/bots.
> you have to also start slowing down right away to maintain said limit

Absolutely agreed. What I meant to highlight is, the reaction time can make a huge difference in situations like this.
NATO Joint Military Symbology
You write “Ask HN: How to Reflect the Ball at an Angle?” Which is, I note, something you will have seen every day on HN. Hell, there’s even an “Ask” link at the top of the page that shows you endless examples of how to write your question.
How does an airspeed indicator work?
It might be 'consumer-grade' but man is it well designed. I consider it one of my aspirations to write software as robust as Whatsapp. Sometimes I sit in my cube looking at my utter mess of an Angular app that I develop for a few thousand concurrent users and think, man how the hell am I ever going to get anywhere as close to as how good something like Whatsapp is.

The reason its so good is how it handles edge cases. it brilliantly handles edge cases like when connection is extremely spotty. In 2015 when I was backpacking around Europe I learned this the hard way when iMessage repeatedly hit issues where it would get stuck transmitting mid message and would require drastic things like rebooting the iPhone (because that damn status bar gets stuck and then you have no recourse) whereas no matter how slow/spotty the connection (like 64kb/s or slower), Whatsapp would patiently work and reliably get the transmission through eventually.

In hindsight, I am thankful Zuckerberg had the sense to acquire them. He has so far done a lot less to destroy it than I expected. Can you imagine if they got acquired by some garbage dump of a company like Oracle, or Salesforce, or (shudders) Google? Just think of all the ways they would have ruined it.
Link to the bug bounty:
https://bugcrowd.com/agilebits
It's reached sort of high school level garage band renditions of the songs, imo.

So yes, it's off, but also it's impressive? It fits into an interesting place where it's very cool and also has clear room for improvement.
7 is 7 times more than 1. So, safe to assume, that as rageclick (rage-induced clickbait) it’s more effective
Excavator 288 in the Hambach open-pit coal mine
SBF's father's name is Joe. Joe Bankman.
From a hardware side things are spec'd fine. The issue is on the firmware/ company side. I no longer have confidence in the company to support their products. A couple of qol firmware updates could have fixed that.
Bye, there goes tailscale...
> because as grug brain developer get older he forget important things, like what had for breakfast or if put pants on

Luckily, there is this: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Pants
Or 0, given not using dynamic dispatch allows for inlining or even the compiler optimizing the call away entirely.
The letter does not indicate that any remaining employees' salaries will be adjusted due to this downsizing.
My electricity is 8.7 cents per kWh so that helps.
I absolutely do notice when my laptop screen defaults back to 60hz, instead of 144hz after some interactions.
I get what you're saying: it's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison since better screening means we're comparing cancers of different severities. I don't necessarily see that as a problem, though, since a lot of these earlier screened cancers would have become more advanced cancers down the line. If our testing were perfect such that we could detect all cancers early enough to stop, that would functionally be a cure, no?
> I’d take that over the frictional cost of

You might but the rest of us didn't. At a visual level, YAML is really nice. The problem is when you actually want to use it for... well... anything.

On the flip side, XML is downright ugly to read and write, which makes it a no-go for configuration files that are written and modified by hand.
There are some that won't consistently stay above certain framerates in some circumstances. World of Warcraft for instance performs tangibly better on newer CPUs in settings like 40v40 team fights in battlegrounds for example due to how CPU-bound it is — on a 9600k it'll struggle to stay above 120FPS and occasionally dip below 60FPS.
Depending on what it was made of that might not be enough. Some metals have weird fatigue issues.
Chicken feed is also more expensive.
Buy a decent protective case when you buy your new phone, and never remove it.

I've never lost a phone yet to accidental damage, while friends without cases break screens and destroy phones every 12 to 18 months.
… An editor at The New Yorker in 1937.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/454681/4780426217...
Oxycontin is perfectly legal and regulated such that only qualified professionals were able to prescribe and dispense it. And look how that turned out.

There's a whole lot of evidence that prohibition vs legalization each have negative effects and it is up to society to decide which is more appropriate in certain situations.

I doubt that food regulations are going to result in black market Doritos barons waging deadly turf wars in the streets. But I suspect it will result in food manufactures building a much worse product in response.
My distaste for yaml led me to attempt just that. The first piece that was missing for me was a python parser that could produce reasonable error messages and could be transformed into the desired internal representation in python. So I wrote one [0]. It was supposed to be a single file that was less than 100 lines and could be copied and pasted into any project that I needed. Turns out that the issue was a bit more complex.

The issue is that there is sufficient complexity in finding a portable representation for configuration formats that it just kicks the can down the road. On the other hand it means that as soon as you decide what format you are going to support you can quickly implement it. There is more or less a intersectional grammar that works across most if not all lisps, and that is the plist `(:k v :k2 (:k3 v2))`. So I settled on that for my own use.

After all that work I have not dealt with the fact that numbers and chars do not have a portable representation across lisp dialects, which is a key complaint in other threads here. Limited support for let binding constants also seems like a feature that would
allow for just enough expressivity to make the format useful without opening up the terror that is `&` and `*` in yaml (cool and useful as it may be).

In summary s-expressions are:
1. missing good parsers in a number of language ecosystems
2. not standard across lisp dialects
3. need additional semantics for binding, multiple expressions, etc.
4. still better than yaml and json

0. https://github.com/tgbugs/sxpyr
Sugar tax doesn't work, just like cigarettes and alcohol tax, which in my country is 105% already, yet people still smoke, we also have sugar tax for sweet drinks and it changed nothing. When something is addictive (meaning it becomes a necessity), people will just pay more or search for "illegal" alternatives.
I decided to contend myself with Web 3D APIs, even if I find them quite behind native ones, or stuff like Unreal/Unity when playing
with native code.

Without middleware I would rather stick to a proprietary API than deal with Vulkan.
I had this happen to me today, at first they claimed it was linkedin, turns out it was a company called "Rocket reach" rocketreach.co. They mine data from everywhere and you have to "claim" your profile to submit a takedown request.
What I mean is that someone's online self is one projection of the self, and someone's offline self is another projection of the self. Neither is the "true real self", as suggested by some of the people you quoted.

Basically, some of the philosophers you quoted suggest a dystopian progress by which we're getting more and more fake by putting on more layers (in person -> phone -> TV -> social media). I don't think this has to be the interpretation.
so the suggestion is: use toml for configuration, otherwise just stay with json?

there is jsonc which is json+comments but I have not used.
> You will always have to work - you need to feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, etc. How you go about doing all of that is what matters.

Did you read the post? The person has 6-7 months coming up where they will have a job but only have to work 2-6 hours per week.
Like many others are hinting, you’re trying to learn the entire ecosystem of web dev, which is vast, in a haphazard way. A lot of tutorials and guides out there are terrible. They fail to teach the basics of web dev before teaching the abstractions. It takes learning both, just as learning geometry out of context is boring and inapplicable but learning how light waves work without understanding the math to talk about is probably difficult.

What I also recommend to others now is to skip the complexity of the front end ecosystem, and learn how the web operates from a server side point of view.

If you truly want to stick with react, I’d suggest using https://remix.run. They offer a react experience but forces you into a typical server-first mental model.

Or just learn Node and how to do things the node only way. Basic html forms. Cookies. Security involving forms. Database access. Rendering html with templates. These are basics that get so abstracted over by the modern web dev frameworks that it’s not surprised you’re distracted by something like react hooks.
Are rogue waves just the various component waves on different frequencies lining up "perfectly" such that they sum to one large wave? Or are they a different phenomena?
From my understanding it's no the dietary cholesterol to worry about, but rather the saturated fat content.
How is jumping on every fad a good thing? Focusing on their core business and not getting distracted by small month-long fads happening in their general industry sounds a lot more sensible.
MDM remote wipe
Their licensing page is interesting as well: https://nmap.org/oem/ Kudos to them for providing specific prices.

That being said, I'll suggest again what I've suggested before: let's just call these new licenses what they are: proprietary software with source availability. You have all the hassle of evaluating and signing a license agreement, paying for it and then paying for annual renewals too, monitoring your organization's license compliance (will they sic the much vilified Business Software Alliance if you're not?) and so forth. All the things that FOSS proponents once railed against about proprietary software are now back but now there's also a desire to take advantage of FOSS goodwill by branding themselves as open source instead of proprietary.
I mean, I don't live in any state of perpetual fear or anything, and I haven't changed my habits based on it at all (aside from avoiding areas that actively have like 5+ cop cars on the scene at the moment, because traffic there is going to be awful).

I filter it out mentally the same way I filter out restaurants I don't like when searching for a place to eat nearby on google maps. That doesn't make google maps a useless or bad tool. Same idea here.

And no, I don't think that advertising doesn't affect me. It sometimes can give me options I wasn't aware of (e.g., a new subaru car being prominently featured in a good movie, almost definitely as a product placement), which I would potentially filter out as well when the time to purchase a new car comes (which means doing my research on that car, doing a test drive, etc.). Except with Citizen, filtering out is an effort that takes only a few seconds (does the post have video of the actual incident? does the post have confirmed and verified info, such as a number of bullet shells being recovered? or is it just "report filed" or "people on the scene claim"?).
ActivityPub is a protocol. It can try to define itself as a community all it wants, but at the end of the day it is as much of a community as SMTP is a community. If a for-profit company wants to send e-mail notifications to its users about blog posts--and even if it also wants to embed really horrible advertisements--it should not only get to send e-mail, it should be encouraged to send e-mail instead of only using proprietary centralized replacements for e-mail (such as mobile push notifications).
I don't get why they don't do beaks between talks.
It creates so much stress and noise because there will always be people leaving early to get to the next talk.

Even just a 10-15 minute break would help a lot.