skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you spoken to your American colleagues about their opinions on these topics (unfiltered)? My experience on the internet essentially has been that you cannot discuss a topic even peripherally related to India with Americans on the internet without a mention of Hindu Nationalism, Caste, Religion and "It's not racist if it's actually true"-isms.

Does this belligerant ignorance extend to IRL interactions (maybe more polite). The HN discourse on India and related topics is giving me a serious feeling of Gell Mann amnesia.

The lack of intellectual rigour and over generalisation of a few cases has been making me adjust my priors on the weight of any discussion here on other unfamiliar topics which can't be proven to be objective fact.

A lot of the supposed cases of casteism seem to be willful ignorance of linguistic/regional/other cliquey behaviour that is common among Indians (and the rest of humanity). This makes it hard for me as an Indian who hasn't worked/lived in America to actually judge if these people actually know what they are talking about.
Oh hey that's me. It's a fucking curse. I just can't get to sleep earlier, and any delay (indulging into "one more episode", or reading a book a bit too long) just makes me wake up later. Even setting alarm clock doesn't really work I just... start getting sleepy at same late hour even if I feel groggy half the day coz of reduced sleep
Using still an ThinkPad X220 here with Archlinux. There two important things in any laptop, the built-in keyboard and the built-in screen. This is the I/O-Interface! Customers often do the mistake and doesn't invest in the best available screen. You cannot make this mistake with Apple, because they offer no options for the screen. Regarding keyboards, selecting a ThinkPad is always safe.

I had to buy the X220 from a shop, not directly from Lenovo:

* TN-Panel -> IPS-Panel
* ISO-Keyboard -> ANSI-Keyboard
* Bluetooth 3.0 -> Bluetooth 4.0 LE

All with original replacement parts. I bought it because I wanted to remain the the seven row keyboard, which provides better layout/grouping. The X220 will reach it 10th year in next winter. The keyboard provides excellent tactile feedback and concave keys. Bonus, TrackPoint. The TrackPad is superfluous for me. The frame is made of polycarbonate (feels nice on skin contact) and reinforced with magnesium.

Apples keyboard doesn't provide a good feedback on press and the keys have no shape guiding the fingers. They make superiors chips through TSMC, especially the M1/M2 without any PRO/MAX which allows passive cooling. But I don't want use MacOS. And while aluminium is a nice material for cars, bikes and planes it doesn't feel good with skin contact. We don't use keyboards or mice with aluminium because it doesn't feel well. I know, the aluminium frame makes it shiny and sturdy and allows to glue in stuff (cheap) but I don't like that. I even don't like it with my smartphone.

PS: Battery replacement is a bless. Yes, built-in batteries allow for more sturdy frames but it is bad in long term. It would be enough the provide replacement batteries with a low-weight cage and screws instead of glue.
How about building a pole which is recursively split into smaller and smaller poles in a fractal structure, with thousands of little sheets of this material attached at the ends of the smallest poles, generating electricity from the wind?

One could even consider coating the top surface of the sheets with a flexible photoelectric material to generate additional electricity from the sun.
> Easy enough to hit in a frying pan

Internet says highest you can go on induction (which is higher than gas and older electrical ones) is around the low 300C, so not really "easy".
I did not know that this is a thing. I mean it's not something I am/should be surprised that is a thing - hell we 'offshore' all sorts of things and the tech is completely there - but I do have to wonder what safeguards are in place. The picture shows the car without anyone in the driving seat, which I would hope is not what the company selling the service is encouraging (a la Tesla 'Autopilot' still requires an attentive driver to override when necessary) but without any kind of regulation I also wouldn't be surprised if they did.
That's still a choice aka paying is the "easier" choice.
> Apparently all the means of obtaining, they, ugh, ingredients, are more or less illegal and covered by various laws.

Amputations are legal and not that rare, so there are some means.. Hhere's a relevant example of a part of a leg begin eaten - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_...
I have heard that writing and creating art (all forms, including music) is best after a period of boredom. I agree 100%: Nothing gets me fired up about a hard problem like a period of boredom. Many eureka ("ah-ha!") moments come to me while my brain is under-stimulated, like riding a train, washing dishes, showering, or grocery shopping.
>>frikandel-automaat

I was just inspired by FEBO listing themselves on UberEats. I thought if they could put themselves on UberEats, I can aspire to be anything in life.
It's not crazy. It's economics and politics.

Food manufacturers are a powerful lobbying group and additives make a significant difference to profitability.
Even if it's not do you really need it ? Looks like it's mostly used to make shit products (bread) slightly less shitty

The only winner is the food industry that can sell you subpar products that look better

It doesn't even look like it's a game changer: https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/b57beb64-e8a9...
Yes, this explanation didn't help him identify dogs as living.

I asked him our neighbor's dog was alive and he said no - but I blame that on my neighbors not celebrating their pet's birthdays...those monsters!
I clicked the comments here just to find out what type 1 means, I saw that the site was called "typenetwork", and that didn't mean anything to me.

It might not be clickbait as in it is not intentionally misleading, but it still is a very confusing title.

Not everyone that visits this site is a typography expert...
This is tricky, though. Where does it stop? If I really thought about what's natural, I wouldn't expect to find food at all.
You won't find many papers with any association between food allergies and -diagnosed- ADHS. Plenty of papers where that has been ruled out. Also sugar has been ruled out plenty of times.

The psychopathology just doesn't lend itself to food allergies as a cause. The symptoms would just vanish with sporadical diet changes all the time during childhood and that's just not what happens. You wouldn't see neurological changes, you wouldn't expect stimulants to work as a treatment, but you would expect anti-allergy or immunosuppressant medication to work.

The evidence on this is too strong to claim food allergy is a major cause of anything like ADHD. Intermittent concentration problems in some people? Maybe. But that's nothing compared to actual ADHD.
Sounds like creating bureaucracy just for no reason.

Shouldn't tech be about making things easier not harder.
It's hard to say who is truly a night owl and for who it's a lifestyle.

I've always considered myself to be a night owl. I struggle to go to bed on time. Yet on some of my lengthy remote travels I learned it's all bullshit.

There, the sun sets at 6PM. There's little artificial light, and nothing much to do, so some 2 hours after dinner people tend to go to bed. So for weeks I went to bed around 9pm and wake up super fresh at 5-6am like some crazy morning person.

Just like that. Zero issues. So no, I'm not a night owl, it's distractions that make me not want to go to bed, it's not that I can't.
Russia to Suspend New Start Nuke Pact Participation
> ...alt-tabbing doesn't lag (it did on my Intel-based MacBook Pro 2019), ...

Yeah, unfortunately this is by design. cmd-tab behaves different depending on how long you hold the cmd or tab key.

cmd-~ is instant, and with stage manager it switches through apps. He could've also just installed windows arm preview on the M1, or asahi
When I go hiking (99% alone), about half way through my brain is so intellectually under-stimulated that I start having a conversation with myself about a difficult problem. So many epiphanies have come to me that way. The same for travelling alone. Walking long distances in foreign places really makes you mull about things a different way.
There's more to it than what the article goes into.

For example, Ramses II's forensic report says he appears to have been a Lybian Berber.

The Greeks told a story about how there was a conflict between Danaus, the leader of Lybia, and his brother the Pharoh of Egypt who had fifty sons.

The single day Lybian/sea peoples war against Ramses II's successor has a lot in common with the single day battle Odysseus talks about going to against Egypt as soon as Troy fell, where he's taken captive and parties with the Pharoh until after seven years a "certain Phonecian" showed up and tries to ransom him to Lybia.

Seven years after that Lybian/sea peoples battle is when Amenmesse seized power from Seti II.

The account of Ramses III about the end of the 19th dynasty described fairly Phonecian elements like the city governors collectively ruling or "making the gods like men" - almost identical wording to the opening euhemerism of Sanchoniathon's Phonecian myths.

I suspect our understanding of the end of the 19th dynasty will be changing quite a bit over the next decade...
it doesn't have to be a lie if you make it real.
Cloudflare is a white elephant in my current org. We are probably paying a lot to them and we are having issues that would be easy for me to fix if I was running my own deployment anywhere else but the platform team doesn't seem to know how to config things or don't care about it. So I end up with complaints from the business team that I can't action upon because the setup is obscure and the few parts that I can see and manage are poorly documented and I'm not even sure which feature is supported by the company's plan. My org is at fault but I doubt this is an exception.
The point is that the HN title should be changed in this case, even though the normal advice is to keep the original title.
Can't wait to get killed by a car driven by somebody with 250ms of latency, 20% packet loss, who is underpaid and is forced to drive 3 cars at once.

Driving also varies a lot between countries. I can't imagine having to switch between left- and right-hand driving multiple times a day, let alone remotely. Nor can I imagine switching between the relatively calm (if somewhat pedestrian hostile) style of driving in the UK, to the structured chaos of driving somewhere like India.
Professor Millstone studying flour additives. A nice example of nominative determinism!
Where is Genoa-x? moooarr cache plz.
A Tiny RPC Library
Just append the word "fonts" to the title.
I like how her name is an anagram of Hellraiser.
Sure, they can develop their own. But nothing is stopping them from also providing drivers/patches to the Linux kernel. Many companies that develop hardware do.
fair enough, not a comment with substance, but point was anything that doesn't lock you into components is a good thing. plain css is great. off the shelf ui components are boring.
Not when I've got in after 1900 I can't.
> § 168 StGB.

I don’t know, seems like that leaves some loopholes, you just have to get pre-death approval ;)

> (1) Whoever unauthorizedly takes away from the custody of the entitled person the body or parts of the body of a deceased person, a dead corporeal fruit, parts of such or the ashes of a deceased person, or whoever commits insulting mischief thereon, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine.

translated from https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__168.html
I didn’t like 8AM classes but I took them to force myself to get to school early so I could get a parking spot. Then I camped there until my classwork was done.

It worked for me but I think I would have performed better with later classes. 10AM classes are probably the best. Not too close to lunch, not too early.
People say this but don’t actually track it. They just eyeball it which, looking at how bad people are at estimating calorie intake without a food journal, means they eat far more in the US, probably just because portion sizes are so much bigger.
Ask HN: How do I become a great code reviewer?
How do yo review other people's code? What's the first thing you 'see' when you look at the diff? Does it change depending on the language? How do you manage the human aspect/personal dynamics of code reviews? Is there any good direct/indirect literature available on this topic?

I have been in the practice of building code collaboratively for about 10 years - admittedly not that long by HN standards, but enough to be exposed a spectrum of Code Reviews. Sometimes my experience was negative, but I have encountered a fair few sage reviewers who will make you happy that you put your code in front of them.

How do I better myself as a code reviewer?

I suspect it's equal parts technical _and_ emotional exercise.
Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
always makes me think of this
https://www.metroweekly.com/2016/02/german-cannibal-eating-a...
No. At 370 Celsius, your oil is already burning.
This is not the case in Europe. In Denmark you need to pass both a theoretical and practical test (With a large percentage of people failing). In Denmark a driver license set you back roughly 2000 EUR and requires you to take 29x45min theory lessons and 24x45min on roads with a certified teacher.
I came to the comments expecting users defending carcinogen additives and I'm not disappointed.
And nuclear power plants shouldn't explode, trains carrying hazardous chemicals shouldn't derail.

Now do you trust the over worked min wage worker who most likely doesn't give a shit to bake your bread until it's safe to eat ? Do you trust the food lobbies to tell you the truth ? The US is one of the most corrupt place for these things ("fat makes you fat", ddt, tobacco, &c.)
> What's the risk/benefit?

Freedom, baby!

Within a few years we'll have that same freedom to consume whatever toxins we desire in post-Brexit Britain too.
I thought the same until I developed shoulder and back pain from carrying around too much stuff all the time. Be thankful that it still doesn't matter for you.
It's the same idea updated with extra cycles.

It is pretty, and there are some nice aesthetic touches. But the overall look is still very blocky and VRML-ish.

I guess at some point we'll get photorealistic rendering - most likely in AR glasses rather than in the browser - and there will be a lot more experimentation for a while, some of it driven by AI.

But even this is in a tiny niche far, far outside the web mainstream, and if it hadn't been linked here hardly anyone would find it.

I remember the exact moment in the mid-90s when I realised the suits were moving in and the web was going to be transformed from a weird, colourful, mad eccentric thing into a generic mall.

From a corporate POV it has far exceeded my worst nightmares. Sites like this are a very small pushback, but they're not going to make a dent in the overall crapification and hustle-driven corporatisation of our biggest and most interesting planetary cultural resource.
I currently use a ThinkPad T480. I switched from a Macbook after they started using those godawful butterfly keyboards. The keyboard was my primary motivation for switching.

But apart from the keyboard, the rest of the laptop simply doesn't hold up. The battery is mediocre, the trackpad doesn't even fall in the same league. Windows is a hot mess and Ubuntu, while good for dev work, is just too user-unfriendly and filled with tiny annoyances.

I'll be switching back to the newer MacBook soon.
why not just use git?
"hammock driven development": I am laughing out loud. Thank you. I will steal that and use it again later!
… and those chess-playing computers were called AI in those days, so parent is right about that part.

But parent has fallen into the trap of mistaking performance on a narrow task for competence in general, i.e., the third deadly sin [1].

[1] Rodney Brooks, the seven deadly sins of AI predictions: https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven...
It's always difficult to compare cross countries: for instance it's prettty usual for bigger companies in the US/EU to outsource whole areas that are low paying with high turn over to avoid dealing with the HR. Facebook is famous for outsourcing content moderation, but I'd expect QA and other lower pay "engineering" jobs to be outsourcedas well.

If Indian companies have incentives to keep them in-house, that simple structural difference would completley chaange the numbers.

I'm not sure we havr "facts" (numbers) that are immune to these discrepancies.
Tried to find a list of additives banned in the U.S. but not in other countries. Instead the search results were full of articles like this one.
I believe part of the problem is that it's difficult to draw the line defining what an "additive" is.

Any sort of spices, ferment, baking powder, food coloring (even traditional coloring like beet juice or squid ink) could be considered additive. A lot of these things have been traditionally used for centuries. And otoh just because something has been used traditionally does guarantee its safety.
consent has been defined different ways at different times in Germany.

technically when hansel and gretel checked into their airbnb in the forest, they consented to being shoved into an oven if they spilled breadcrumbs. It was all in the contract.
What’s the price may I ask
The short term planning horizon of many leaders appears to be trending towards zero.

Which means they're no longer leaders, even if they retain their position.
We built a GPT-3 powered spreadsheet formula assistant
Yeah, I love sentences like this:

Asked if it can be said with certainty that differences in regulations mean people in the U.S. have developed cancers that they would not have developed if they'd been eating exclusively in Europe, Millstone said that was "almost certainly the conclusion that we could reach."

...almost certainly the conclusion that we could reach.

What is being said, actually? It’s really just “No.”, right?

Of course, when given a choice, I'd rather not eat Potassium bromate.
Well, you can still replace it. You just have to replace the parts attached to it as well.
It really depends. I had to have a real driving test with surface streets, highway driving, as well as parallel and reverse 90 degree parking. In Minnesota. Where I was just exchanging my license for a US/Minnesotan one.
Your proposed meaning is a more recent interpretation. Searching online I see the mysogynism angle becoming more prominent in the 2010s: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-neckbeards-have-...

here's from stackexchange from some years prior: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3173/whats-the-non-l...

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23545/Neckbeard-is-this-a-wo...

I've seen it used as a synonym for "unix beard". https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24
> PS: Battery replacement is a bless. Yes, built-in batteries allow for more sturdy frames but it is bad in long term. It would be enough the provide replacement batteries with a low-weight cage and screws instead of glue.

I agree with this. That said, an all-in battery replacement by Apple is $199. Once every 3 years isn't going to break the bank vs. like $50 for an X220 battery.

Especially when an X220 gets like 7h of juice vs 17-22h for an M1/2 MacBook Pro.
It's called grilled veggies and goat cheese crumble, the meat is shady though, but given how it looks it's no surprise to anyone, good thing you can do without

Also Berlin is in Europe which already has stricter rules than the US
I lived in one of those hanging apartments depicted in the postcards, up there in Beachwood Canyon, for a period during the 80's and early 90's .. in my particular place, it was old and decrepit and run down, but the 'developer' had sauced up one of the upper levels sufficient to a working kids needs .. I will always remember the peril I felt, looking up at the slowly reclining detaining wall, earthquake memories borne in its cracks, and wondering why the heck someone would do this.

The answer is in the dreams that everyone had, in that house, over the decades. Those hills are a pretty haunted lot. Something about the tension of the Earth, in my opinion, that can be felt if you listen long enough ..
It can be as high as that in the UK as well. Depending on how many lessons you need. The driver's test is certainly far more difficult than the one in the US.

I'm actually going through this now in the UK and I feel like the way they do it could be much better. The randomness of driving on real roads makes luck an important factor to passing.
One of the biggest ways in which caste discrimination is propagated is through denialism. That helps the quell the resistance against it. Caste discrimination is still alive among younger generation and in cities. Here we are - discussing caste in US cities - which makes no sense if it didn't exist in the above mentioned circles in a large way.
But it’s not as if the US just allows everything, I guess there are still some hurdles to clear?

Anyway, for benefits, in the EU Allulose and Monk Fruit (non-nutritive sweeteners) are still not permitted after several years (for monk fruit, not sure about the state of allulose), afaik there is no sign of danger, but they are also not proven safe enough.
The problem I had with early classes and even today - If I have in my mind I have to get up 7am or 6am for some event I know my window of error for a good night sleep is tiny:
-Having trouble falling asleep that night?
-Wake up in the middle night to pee but cant get back to sleep for an hour or two?
- Wake up 1 or 1.5 hours before your alarm?

If i know i have time to buffer against interruptions, I sleep better. If i know my window of error is tiny, Im doomed to poor sleep regardless.
1. Someone asks how to do something

2. Someone tells him

3. Third person chimes in “you know, it’s technically possible that they’re lying!” despite no evidence of that being the case.

Tough crowd…

(Btw, you can easily verify that the alx.sh installation method is recommended by official sources, for example here: https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/)
It can be done in this case. Tho I’m unclear if the X1E is ‘Macbook equivalent’.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/j0mrh5/t480_with_...

Hence the question. Love to know a trackpad (even external) that is of a similar feel and quality as the MacBooks.
>implying M1 MacBook Air has bad keyboard

You would have a point if he was replacing something like 2019 Macbook Pro with the butterfly switches
And fructose is transformed into fat immediately instead used as glucose to power body. If I was dictator I would ban fructose syrup.
That depends entirely on where you are in the world. In Canada, for example, the (consumer) Lenovo service centre used to be notorious for taking weeks (three was common, I've heard as much as seven) to return machines, and for providing essentially no feedback on the machine's status until they handed you the tracking number for the return shipment. Their warranty may be fantastic, but it's utterly pointless if they won't act on it in a timely fashion.

(I say “used to be”, because between this and Superfish, I've been telling everyone I know not to buy new Lenovo products for years, so admittedly, I have no recent data points.)
The almost totally preserved ancient library, 500 years older than Alexandria
How is that different from downloading a binary from the internet and running it?
Trackpoint is very divisive, you either love it or hate it. I come on the hate side, so moving to trackpoint from Apple's trackpad feels like a huge drawback.
In 2017, the UK had 5 times more trade with the EU than the US. I don‘t think they will jeopardize that in favor of a much smaller trading partner.