skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance.

This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.
If you’re the type of person where BMI is irrelevant, you’ll know. But the average American is not doing 300 lb bench presses, and the average person doing 300 lb bench presses is also aware that BMI is meaningless for their case but a somewhat fair reference for others.
You need to go for a walk to do some people-watching if you think there's an epidemic of lean Americans with bulging muscles. Visit a Walmart.
"It has since waned as people spend less time staring at their screens: as demand for consumer electronics fell, so did that for cobalt."

Stop me if I'm wrong, but the article totally missed the fact that new car battery technologies are mostly cobalt free.
I feel it better explains the lack of demand than the article explanation.
"The average American man's waist is 40.5 inches, which means most American men would be excluded from the ride. The average American woman's waist is 38.7 inches."

I am in disbelief, I'm pretty obese but looks like I'm under the mean.
Go to any agency and their average model age is older than you think.

> https://hussiemodels.com/ (NSFW)

Age | Number

18 | 0

19 | 6

20 | 6

21 | 10

22 | 11

23 | 8

24 | 3

25 | 4

26 | 1

27 | 1

28 | 2

29 | 3

30+ | 9

An average of around 24...

From a quick sample.
Oh, I agree. It's fine for the author to do it themselves (as long as they are not being forced to). It's quite another thing for others to do it, even as the 'rights holders'. And I would argue, this is another good reason why copyright should not extend past the life of the author.
I don't see an issue. The headline says average and that normally means mean, not median. It also doesn't say that half of people are excluded from it.

People reading the article are used to hearing about the average household credit card debt in the USA, and that's also the mean.

Edit: I missed the most men part. Other than that it's fine. That would be like if those credit card debt stories said that "most households have more than $7000 in credit card debt" if the average household credit card debt was found to be $7,486 like it was earlier this year: https://thehill.com/finance/3821799-a-growing-number-of-amer.... That would sound wrong to me, and it is.
Yes, this keeps coming up on HN. It's a bimodal distribution, so if 85% of the population can ride on your ride, it's still a solid business proposition.
CDC's usage of BMI is what it was designed for: To measure populations/as a generalization.

Your retort is something people repeat, because they don't seem to grasp that originally the point of the retort was when people are using BMI to discuss individuals (wrong) rather than populations (correct). This is the correct usage.

But ultimately there's little data supporting the supposition that Americans have so much muscle they're incorrectly categorized via BMI over population level samples, whereas there is plenty of data suggesting that since the 1970s and the subsidization of corn-created sugar, that Americans have gained body fat.
Why speculate? _Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults_, Table 20 "Waist circumference in centimeters for adult males aged 20 and over and number of examined persons, mean, standard error of the mean, and selected percentiles, by race and Hispanic origin and age: United States, 2015–2018" is right at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03-046-508.pdf

The mean in the very first row is 102.9 cm (the 40.5 inches in the OP), while the 50th percentile is actually lower at 101.8 (39.7 inches).
proofreading my post titles.
>Insult QA

Blizzard, if you weren't dead to me already, you now are.
> Sure, the specific bet could be lost and won in different windows. But the actual underlying point remains:

You are free to argue that but that is not why this bet turned out the way it did according to the quotes from the linked wiki. It sounds way more like a coin toss than any rule of the market
Children's books are not a vital record of historical prejudice.

I don't agree with these changes, but this argument makes no sense.
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You are on a website focused on tech startups. The people who succeed at tech startups become absurdly rich. I’m in agreement with the parent commenter that hobbling the superstars to give more to poor people is the wrong move. I’m disgusted that people disagree with me, but I also understand why most people remain poor.
The guys on the ground and their dispatch are CWA unionized employees. The businessy guys are not.

Verizon is like a state or federal government agency. Massive complex bureaucracy that nobody really understands. As one of the ultimate legacy businesses they have all sorts of crazy settlements, agreements, tariffs, etc and segment their businesses around them.
The book doesn't really go that much into the hard problem of consciousness, as much of the ideas are orthogonal to that discussion. If Nagel asks, "What is like to be a bat?", Hofstadter asks "If the mind of a bat were a program, what characteristics would it have?"

IMO the hard problem is not posed to be solved. I think of it like this. The world in which we are p-zombies is categorically indistinguishable from the one in which we are not, by an objective perspective. It is not a concept that we should use for an objective definition.
From their online manual:

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

> Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment. While these features are designed to become more capable over time, the currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous.

Remember, as US law stands today, the driver is always responsible for the vehicle, and therefore safety systems do not need to be foolproof. They mitigate and reduce risk, they cannot eliminate it. If the argument is these measures are insufficient, it passes muster with the NHTSA to not prevent further sales of driver assist or a recall to disable the system. Tesla vehicles have a dead man switch via steering wheel torque detection and in cabin attentiveness/attention detection mechanisms using a camera, which will kick you out of Autopilot for the remainder of your drive if your attention is not being provided (including looking at your phone for more than a few seconds). I’m at a loss what more could be expected.

14 sounds like a lot, but more people than that will die in the next 4 hours assuming 40k/year US road fatalities. The idea of zero deaths is incompatible with our societal risk budget to continue to have light vehicle mobility available.
I must admit I'd never heard about his anti-Semitism until today. I looked it up and, well, his statements pretty much leave nothing to the imagination on that front. Shitty, to be sure, no argument from me.

Still, as a kid who read his books repeatedly, and as someone who has read most of them to my kids in the last few years, I feel comfortable stating that this anti-Semitic tendency doesn't come through on his work.

There might be room for arguments that other prejudices do come through. The Oompa-Loompas are definitely a little... problematic. And some of the language around women in The Witches hits the ear a bit oddly today.

When I say "he was a man of his time" I don't mean to excuse everything he said or wrote. I suppose maybe that's a junky phrase that kind of dodges what I actually mean, which is something like "he was who he was, and we should talk about what we find objectionable about him instead of papering it over."

There's also something funny about changing his writing in light of some of the worst things he had to say... By the same logic of the edits, maybe we should change the quotes where he expressed antisemitism to make them more palatable. (I'm being facetious obviously, but there is something worth thinking about in why one feels more reasonable than the other).
> Nearly every system package manager contains extremely outdated versions of the languages I use

Fedora’s release cycle is on a six-month schedule so if it packages compilers for your languages, they shouldn’t be that outdated.
Interesting. I thought the "mirror test" was going to be repeating ChatGPTs replies back to itself to see if it was "intelligent" enough to realize it was talking to itself.

But the article went a different direction
Some interesting information about the BMI in this opinion piece: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268... (Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus)
Noya co-founder here. Thank you for the feedback. You’re right, we should provide more information about the code we generate and we’ll work on that.

We generate a simple React app with two files (App.tsx and package.json). It imports the component library (currently Chakra UI) and provides basic code for what you designed in Noya. The code can be used as a starting point or as a reference for adding your design to an existing React app.
Probably practice? I haven't mastered it though.
Amazon: Hold my beer...
not necessarily. some people are stocky but not that fat either. Former high school or college football players would fit the bill, or people who do manual labor.
Before chatgpt, I was unsympthetic to the argument that consciousness is an illusion because empiricism can only discover patterns of sensation, and my own direct experience of my awareness precludes that consciousness is illusory rather than fundamental. However after seeing how human beings respond to chatgpt, I’ve concluded that most humans are philosophical zombies. As such, they are delusional about their own consciousness in the same way chatgpt is - except chatgpt is more capable than most humans at language.
No, the person you replied to was correct (for my region and presumably his). My knowledge of the term mirrors his and I'm kind of disappointed to see so many people asserting there is no common, derogatory, gendered use of the term just because they are unfamiliar with it.

I see a lot of people with no knowledge or experience with this common usage. That's fine, but it's arrogant to assume things you don't know are nonsense.
If the money doesn’t spread around, it’s a net negative for existing residents.
Well this is blowing up. Future historians might have to revise the name of the Fat Man device.
I have both a hakko and a ts-100, and honestly I end up just using the ts-100 most of the time as I can run it off a small battery pack.

Its kinda like having a dyson battery vacuum vs a proper AC one - the AC vacuum has way better suction, but the dyson is so light and convenient to use and good enough for most things.
Yes, was going to say just this. E.g.

https://borates.today/lifepo4-batteries-vehicles/

>"These days, LiFePO4 batteries are found everywhere and have various applications, including use in boats, solar systems, and vehicles. LiFePO4 batteries are cobalt-free and less expensive than most alternatives. It is non-toxic and has a longer shelf life."
And checking on Adamson's coverage of the presocratics ... he does list Kirk, Raven, and Schofield (1983) amongst his further readings for episode 12:

<https://historyofphilosophy.net/malcolm-schofield-on-the-pre...>

Adamson began his series with the pre-socratics. That episode arc (14 in all) begins here:

<https://historyofphilosophy.net/thales>

That particular episode was first released in January, 2010, over 13 years ago...

And Adamson's own book covering the presocratics (along with other classic philosophy & philosophers) is Classical Philosophy (2014):

<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/classical-philosophy...>
I assure you that that the average American male hasn’t been getting increasingly shredded.

BMI may not apply well to you individually, but you can look around and see that there’s a worsening problem that aggregate BMI trends seem to capture.
That’s exactly it. The average gets pulled out of proportion by outliers, so there’s a good chance that far more than 50% of US American man can ride it.
I counter: it should be okay for anyone to retroactively edit books. The problem here is not that the books are being made worse, but that the copyright holders are the ones doing it, they’re the only ones who can legally publish the book, and thus as used copies deteriorate and disappear, the only legally published editions available will be the censored versions.
Football strength training is basically powerlifting[1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7116789-the-strongest-sh...
Home Assistant setup for our home
I have this recurring thought with each instance of this neo-puritanism I come across. It feels like society is losing patience for all things human. I sense contempt, almost hatred for the very things that unite us as living beings and separate us from computers. We're not perfect. We live in both place and time. We are born prejudice and survive prejudice. We form opinions through experience. We're practical, functional. We look out for ourselves, our family, our tribe, our community. Rather than fight or deny these tendencies, how about we acknowledge them and make society better by working within our humanness.

It seems like in it's attempt to encourage inclusivity and sensitivity, in many cases wokeism has pushed us in the opposite direction. If we aren't drones that have received the latest OTA update we are not accepted in society.

Also, altering the text of an author of yore to be more socially palatable for the times is pathetic, wrong, and more importantly a missed opportunity for education. These books were written in a time and place. If need be, let's talk about how and why the text, subjects and themes are different or maybe even out of place in today's society. Bowdlerization is lazy.

They could've added a great foreword that explains these things and kept the original text.
ISO Modula 2 has malloc/free-like routines, which you can easily misuse.

https://www.modula2.org/reference/isomodules/isomodule.php?m...

It also has pointer arithmetic, casting and sizeof in a SYSTEM module:

https://www.modula2.org/reference/isomodules/isomodule.php?m...
> Not a single social media platform have this warning.

Mastodon has a free-form content warning field you can use for any post.

The flashing lights warnings definitely appear (these days) when many games start too.
Sounds like you had a poor education. I remember grade school pretty well actually. I remember getting my first taste of programming and I remember having a really great science teacher that passed their love of science onto me which a decade or so later would send me down my career path.

There is definitely a good amount of busywork but to claim working in a sweatshop is better than school is nonsense. The difference is one, in principle anyway, sets you up for upward mobility while the other doesn't.
It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.
The harm comes when the original work stops being sold to force new buyers to only ever have access to the rewrite.
Distributions are available here:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03-046-508.pdf

Median male adult weight: 192.6 pounds
One other thing I'll throw out there: the author is right, IMO, to eschew "generic" advice. Not that there is no advice which is generally useful, but the "Devil is in the details". And in particular, I'd say that's extra true with test equipment. The kind of test equipment you need really does depend a lot on what kind of work you plan to do.

For example, if you don't do any RF related work, you aren't very likely to need a spectrum analyzer, and especially not a high-end one. FFT mode on a scope will probably serve one well enough if they're not doing RF. Conversely, if you are doing RF work (where I mean, building or repairing radio transmitters and receivers) then you probably very much want a dedicated spectrum analyzer, and probably an RF power meter as well.

Similar arguments could be made around logic analyzers... if you aren't interested in doing a lot of digital logic work, and especially not high-speed digital logic, you probably don't need a dedicated logic analyzer. For retro-computing stuff and debugging simple stuff you can probably get by with one of those cheap little USB logic analyers[1] and Sigrok[2].

Now probably everyone wants at least one decent hand-held DMM, a lab power supply, and an at least halfway decent oscilloscope. But beyond that, you really can tailor your test equipment choices largely based on what kind of stuff you find yourself doing.

And just to throw one other random anecdote out there: when I was building my lab, I bought a decent dedicated bench multimeter relatively early on. It wasn't the first thing I bought, but it was maybe the third or fourth. In hindsight, I rarely turn it on, and it probably gets less use than anything else in my lab, including seemingly niche devices like a programmable load. It turns out, I prefer using one or more handheld DMM's over using the bench DMM. I can't even tell you exactly why that is, so take it for what it's worth. But a benchtop DMM has been just short of useless for me. shrug

[1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18627

[2]: https://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page
It isn't getting skewed, it is simply being different than the median. Very common in statistics.
Because it shouldn't be a problem - but everyone wants to live in the best cities for cheap. What goes unsaid most of the time is that we should only be accommodating those who already live in said city (or, more hypocritically, the people who want to move into the city don't find it a problem when they move in, but do if its other people). Foreign immigration is an easy target, as are the wealthy.

The core of the issue is likely supply driven in most places - It makes no sense for an apartment that costs 300k to build to cost 500k-1m unless supply is constricted.
This feels like saying to stick your head in the sand like an ostrich.
If you are into heat pumps, our team at Airthium (YC S17) is building an industrial heat pump able to reach 1000℉. Most HP are limited to 360℉ so it is a big deal in terms of industrial heat decarbonization potential (3% of the world's CO2 emissions).
See https://airthium.com
Welcome to the shit show.
The article says:

“According to the CDC, the average American man's waist is 40.5 inches, which means most American men would be excluded from the ride.”

If “average” means “mean”, then clearly this reasoning is broken.
Second Life exists..although I do know we are all supposed to pretend it doesn't.
As somebody with a 2 year old son, I can assure you that screeching is certainly not a gendered thing.
In case I can save anyone a click, there isn’t a single sentence of that article worth reading.

The author simply fails to understand that BMI is a helpful indicator for population metrics, and contorts into crazy positions to fill out a “top 10” list
I have a ground source heat pump to heat and cool my home. If you can do it, it is the best system I've ever had. You've got to have enough room for the horizonal loop, or drill some wells.

It is a bit expensive to put in, so I wouldn't do it unless you plan to live there long enough to recoup the costs. If I were to sell my house nobody would give me a dime extra for it.
> By the same logic of the edits, maybe we should change the quotes where he expressed antisemitism to make them more palatable.

Right, that's precisely the problem. The publisher is changing history!

I'm okay with new books being published that clean up the old stories, but they can't rightly list Roald Dahl as the author. The author on the cover needs to be "Roald Dahl & Whoever".
- Emacs buffer, window and project management. I wasted so much time in vscode navigating across projects and windows

- That I don't need to switch out of emacs for git (magit is great), complex file operations (dired), and other things like repl/shell/complex rgreps/etc

- Vim keybindings. I know this isn't related to emacs, but with Doom emacs I forced myself for the first time to rely much more on keybindings. I could probably do something similar with vscode, but it's not built for this and doesn't encourage it. It's painful in the beginning, but over time you're much faster with these keybindings.

- In general, I feel like I can customize it. I feel like I have control. For example, I had a painful time managing nested projects using multiple languages in vscode. The LSP extension's "defaults that work most of the time" get in the way when you're doing something that's a bit esoteric. With emacs I can easily customize it. This is just one example, but the point applies in general.
My understanding is that this crisis of identity is actually on men, because men aren’t now the sole breadwinners and also don’t have girlboss feminism to bolster them. Men attain less education and are more prone to crime, homelessness, and addiction. The traditional role of a man is an emotionally closed-off breadwinner, and this doesn’t work in a world where women can rival men in breadwinning but also don’t have as many barriers to forming a robust social safety net.
> Language evolves. Few would defend retaining the “n-word” in contemporary publishing, or any number of other outdated racial slurs which bring the modern reader up short and do not add to the text. But where does sensible pruning give way to unnecessary tinkering?

Perfect example of the slippery slope. It started with racial slurs and here we are.
If you want to get in soon, you probably still can. GCS is accepting applications until March 16.

https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/portugal-golden-visa-...
I mean, yes. That is literally exactly what they’re saying.

The full quote:

> …if there’s a glitch, naturally some pilot somewhere is going to miss it.

“Not everyone gets eight hours sleep the night before. Someone is going through a divorce. Someone is not so sharp that morning,” he said. “The sanity check isn’t perfect every day of the week.”
Matilda might like the SCP Project.
This is a great insight.

Considering the idea of embodiment made me think of the context in which the neurons in our brain operate. They don't fire in isolation, but rather in the presence of neurotransmitters which change the context surrounding the neurons and influence the way in which they activate. If you have too much coffee your brain behaves differently than if you haven't. The current AI models I'm familiar with only have analogs for the neurons themselves, with no ability to model any of the surrounding neurochemical context (which comes almost entirely from embodied interaction with the environment).

ChatGPT (et al) has no ability to adjust how it interacts with a user based on their handshake, body odor, what the weather is like, if it slept well the previous night, if they have eaten too little potassium recently, etc.. All of these things are critical to the embodied experience of humans.

Being able to mimic speech in response to a textual input in no way implies that the model actually understands and mimics the process that humans go through to produce that speech.
Why would your PM dictate the technical implementation? This seems like something better left to engineers.
Pythons are snacking on GPS-wearing opossums that give up their locations
"[first thing] does bother some people, [second thing] only bothers people if they [condition]."

That phrasing (in particular "does" vs. "only") makes it sound like being bothered by the first thing is inherently justified but being bothered by the second thing isn't. And why do you specify the condition that will cause the second thing to bother the people but leave it ambiguous for the first thing?
Yep, these are my favorite kind of easter eggs. Commands that have been around for decades, but still work. Subliminal messages come to mind.
Probably not helpful if poster is not a native or well-versed English speaker