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You are the second person in a month on HN I've found utterly indecipherable. This despite having sentences that sound like they should have some sort of meaning. Your sentences read like they've been frankensteined together by a philosophy major looking to impress a TA. If you could try to dumb it down, use small words and explain your points simply, it might go better.
Concentration of total haemoglobin in the ABG sample
That only makes sense if McDonald's is cheap but it's not. Their quality has significantly declined - most are severely understaffed and can't keep workers, leading to crappy product to the consumer. Nicer restaurants offer different things - atmosphere, better quality food, a night out and serve a different market. McDonald's used to be quick, cheap, and good. Not anymore.

McDonald's had cheap, fast, and good "quality." Now it is no longer cheap, it is no longer fast, and expecting a burger properly put together will only set you up for disappointment.
You have to cook. I'm a good cook, but it takes an hour in the kitchen to prepare and average fast meal. (More or less, some meals are faster, some slower)
You're suggesting unworkable processes that would take an absolute crapton of energy and be very expense.
This is about the same with starting any other business. The gross revenue sounds good, but everything costs money and everyone has their hand out to get paid. The business owner is dead last in getting paid.

A lot of people conflate "revenue" with "profit". They have a very rude awakening when they try to start a business.
Yeah, I've been there, too. Daily standups start out as standups but then turn into 1-2 hour long meetings first thing in the morning. Consequentially, those meetings had negative effects on productivity, because the entire team would be stuck there on the call while the manager talks to one person at length. Usually the same one person, at that. I don't miss that place at all.
I don't think that justifies saying its often mitochondira. it doesnt explain why in the first place. it sounds like the depression is caused by an chemical imbalance thing. i dont think you can make sweeping judgements like that and say something like just take some vitamins and youll be cured
RCA Theremin
You are saying that Linux is best for Web Developers and server management. But not necessarily anything else.
I've switched to chicken thighs for cooking at home. Higher fat content makes for more forgiving cooking.

But chicken breast has/had a great protein/dollar/flexibility profile. Unfortunately, the number of woody chicken breasts that I find now in a pack of chicken is off-putting. Doesn't matter whether it is organic chicken or other brands. I've heard that local farmer's market heritage chickens don't suffer from this - I haven't tried any of those yet.
1527. Agreement Between the FBI and the Secret Service
If you have an accountant, ask them!
Market timing is a fool's errand
Maybe to you. Sales would show otherwise.
It can be interest alignment. If it's in the vested interest of the independent players, you essentially get orchestrated collusion so long as all players follow their interest.
If the technology is developed and proven in a smaller economy, then it can be expanded to the bigger one by said smaller economy.
I feel the exact same way. I don’t understand how the fast food industry will continue without major changes due to the “low cost” factor being completely evaporated. They cost almost as much as fast casual places these days, yet the quality is nowhere near as much as them. I generally just cook these days, and if I happen to be out and about, if I have the time I’d rather just find a few things from the grocery store than to pay outrageous prices for low-quality food. It’s inconvenient but the prices that are being charged these days make the inconvenience necessary.
> Have you been inside a McDonald’s recently?

The state of your average McDonalds site has extremely little to do with the corporation.
Popeye's still uses trans fats which seems pretty unconscionable given our current understanding of their effect on cardiovascular risk.

https://fastfoodnutrition.org/popeyes/chicken-sandwich
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-ch...
Thanks hope those 4 weeks werent to bad for you. The freedom of unemployment is amazing
You don't think Ireland is part of western Europe? You don't think Poland counts as part of Europe and the EU?
Just a few modifications and this could be made to allow people to forward telemarketers to it. Bonus points if they could make the voice a little more realistic and rotate/randomize the voice characteristics.
Thanks! the freedom of unemployment is still nice to have
What is woody chicken?
Thank you. I didn't know I needed this in my life, but I did.
I also suffered from PCS and I found that tasks where I had to produce language were the most tiring. In order it would be

- French lessons

- Talking to someone about something techincal

- Talking to somebody that I didn't know very well

- Talking to a loved one

- Reading
Many people think that simple projects have no market because they are simple, but Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on are all simple projects. People do not want to build their own [insert literally anything]. People that value their time will pay for services such as this, and I wish you luck.
> What benchmark did you run where Node outperformed Bun?

It was a very similar SQLite bench but I may have done something wrong.

> Happy to take a look.

That’s ok but let me bait and switch you for this dead socket leak issue: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1397

In general, I’ve found that tons of projects suffer leaks. People don’t care about leaks :( (or alternative the tooling for discovering them kinda sucks)
Is it? It doesn't ring a bell at all (or really fit with the topic of either one of those books) and I don't see that mentioned in the previous discussion links posted above on a quick search; everything there was about society/politics/military more than business.

Those discussions include this comment which says he worked on video games in the 80s (dialogue, AFAICT, and story; not code), which is probably close enough experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818816
A. Does anyone actually use iOS on Mac?

B. This is actually platform consistency for iOS developers. If you are building an iOS app, you should be fairly comfortable knowing it will be running on a locked-down device, particularly if it’s a social media app with anti-robot technologies. You shouldn’t need to engineer around macOS blowing a hole in that security. If you could run iOS apps on macOS without SIP, what is iOS security good for again?
Yeah, he is great. Hard to really estimate the impact he's had on the deep learning community on the whole/at large.

We could always use more people sharing and spreading knowledge around like him! I hope to find a similar brand to that someday for myself, though I'm constantly growing into those boots, I think. :') <3

If you have any questions on that too feel free to let me know here and I can try to answer them. It's certainly a very interesting field! <3 :DDDD :)))) <3
The pandemic and WFH exposed how little most corporate employees really do and how unnecessary most of them are. I expect a lot of big downsizings will be happening over the next year or two. Why now? It takes a while to turn a big ship.
A “New Hong Kong” in Australia?
I think we often simplify individual instances of poverty, or poverty as a whole, to either “not their fault” or “their fault” when in reality it could be any mix of the two for an individual.

Systemically, we do have policies that lead to some guaranteed level of poverty - our economic system requires that there be some optimal level of unemployment, the minimum wage basically determines the minimum standard of living for a fully employed person, and policies like how much SSI/disability pay directly impact the recipients’ standard of living. And then of course there are contributors like cyclical/generational poverty in ghettoes and certain rural areas, the war on drugs (the associated gang/criminal activity, imprisonment affecting careers, children growing up without a parent), an often poorly performing public educational system.

On an individual level you can say “well, if you made XYZ choices maybe you wouldn’t be poor” in a lot of cases, but in aggregate it’s basically guaranteed some people will experience poverty, and that is also a factor for most of those individuals. Some people will always get imprisoned or grow up in unstable households, or not have skills/opportunities for more than minimum wage jobs, or be disabled to the point of not being able to work. There will always be people without savings or who get “broken” by adversity rather than rising above it. If you give people money unconditionally I guarantee you it will always help some people stabilize and lift them up to the point of not needing it, but there will always be at least some people that just spend it all on extra consumption.

That’s what makes poverty a real challenge. Some poverty spending on individuals will be wasted, which no taxpayer wants, but in preventing that we introduce other kinds of waste like bureaucracy and welfare cliffs, and introduce low limits on how much you can receive which then limits how much poverty programs can assist people. And no matter how much we spend, there will be some people who remain “poor” in the sense of being completely reliant on the spending with nothing to fall back on.
Also known as “why we can’t have nice things”
It was already written and voiced by humans? I’m not sure what you want out of it. A curated experience is more valuable than a generated one.
I recently read the O'Reilly report "NFTs, the Metaverse, and Everything Web 3.0". Blockchains are a part of that discussion; though what I gained from it was a broad perspective of what Web 3.0 is and how it is different. It's around 65 pages and sounded credible to me.
Many wealthy people are considering leaving China
Was American culture "diluted" when pizza became popular in the mid-20th century?
..as the stock hits an all time high. I'm not exactly sure what that means but it sure doesn't mean their food is going to taste any better.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/stoc...
It’s also great for making explosives.

What?
I would bet that the natural world is more feeling than we give it credit for. It's not surprising that this research is being dismissed, but it's also not surprising that it's being proposed now as people seem to be more empathetic than ever. I think as society grows more empathetic toward each other the more we start to empathize with and better understand the organisms we share space with. Emotions are a way of processing the world around us and reinforcing behavior. If you experience a stressful or life-endangering situation it behooves you to avoid it and emotions help reinforce that behavior. The success of the colony is some function of the success of each drone, so it makes sense that their evolution would be oriented toward the capacity for emotion.
Weird / awkward efforts to preserve things is a human trait.
"It consumes you, body and soul. When
you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into
daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds
overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and
judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring
already."

This rings so true for me. So true. Although myself is not exactly a professional programmer (I don't consider writing infra as code and Airflow as code strictly professional programming even though they are) this hits me like a train.
A contrary anecdote: I used mac for like 7 years, linux (and bsd) for around the same. Both full-commit, main system. And obviously windows, which was always somewhere in a background all this time.

I settled on windows 10 and do not plan to move away from it. MSYS2 adds the linux part, because I don’t really care about kernel or fs, linux means gnu/coreutils to me. And if you like gaming, fresh or non-standard hardware or are oc/tuning enthusiast, linux is out of the game. (Don’t bother commenting on that anyone, I check linux wrt that biannually, last check was this winter, shortly after yet another “it just works this time” promise. I couldn’t even set up linear mode for my metal-paws precision mouse, or 125% scaling.)

Mac is an off-the-shelf option, but it’s expensive and I get mediocre custom hardware for the same price as top pc. E.g. idk about now, but when my drive failed I had to either buy 2x-priced Apple(tm) ssd or a regular one and install a third-party fan controller. Without it it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. Something latest i7/i9, rtx, etc? Costs like half a premium car. I regularly laugh at my former mac-loving boss who e.g. searched for TB(?)-DP adapter for under $400 and walks with a bunch of cables because his macbook lacks usb ports.

Windows 10 is rock solid on hw support and software in general, for a regular price. I can build a completely silent and cool pc out of best parts. I also know how to set it up so it annoys me less if at all. And few programmers’ things that it lacks are easy to supplement. MSYS provides GNU, Powertoys help with desktop/wm, Windows Terminal is also okay. Start menu and taskbar are tunable enough to stop noticing them. Even Explorer became okay recently.

Don’t get me wrong, windows still sucks by default. But at least “yes, it can do that” and it doesn’t require money to change keyboard batteries, if you know that joke.
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Part of the appeal of ChatGPT compared to traditional writing assistant/grammar checkers is that you can tell it to write in different personas, although IME it's pretty spotty at this still. Lots of conversations that turn bland and repetitive quickly if you don't get lucky.

I'm not too worried about "default GPT style" becoming common, though, because I think it's more likely to be used by the people who have no style beyond "what I see on TV and in my family." Raising the floor, basically.

Anyone who wants their writing to stand out will still have to differentiate themselves. To put it another way: you're gonna be able to recognize the lazy users pretty quickly cause they're gonna have "GPT voice."
Equating an army marching on your city and a man saying things in Yemen is silly.
Yes, that wasn't a priority here, but I also don't think it's much of a concern with e.g. GPT-4's `system` vs `assistant` vs `user` roles. Would be another thing to work on, but nothing worth doom and gloom.

Although, 'script(/injection) kiddie' will be an interesting phenomenon in the future...
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the "good enough" to survive and pass on it's genes. So you do have to be 'the best', just not 'the best possible'. You also don't have to be 'the best' at all possible measures, just 'the best' at surviving among what you compete with.
> will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy

I don't take issue with LED bulbs, but I would rather have a choice nonetheless.
I have been inside a McDonald's recently. Prices are up but not outrageous. You can still get a meal for under $10. I don't see why an average person cannot afford this. Here's how much Big Mac costs in every state.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/mcdonalds-big-mac-prices-sta...

I think most people here grew up with the idea that McDonald's is cheap junk food, but I grew up in a country where it was not, and so my expectations are different.

Many American chain restaurants are commoditized in America, but are not elsewhere.
I can relate to the frustrations expressed in this.

But I have never seen a software company die because of these things. Under performing just doesn't matter for most companies. Some how they just keep going along. I suspect real work and innovation that matters happens early and then its just printing money and maintaining while we lie to our selves the work means something
No, they aren't. Gun violence in America doesn't look that bad compared to places like northern Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Sudan, etc.

Compared to rich nations, however, it looks downright awful.
I saw all the doom and gloom tweets, but didn't realize most of the cause boils down to policy decisions. Call your elected officials and tell them you don't want to die an avoidable early death.
You're punishing the wrong people. The people most affected are the ones that _gave you money_, not the ones that don't.

If your goal is just to collectively punish all consumers, maybe just get out of the business of selling stuff, because that's pretty toxic.
Hopefully this isn’t as devastating to vehicle availability as Cash For Clunkers was. Interestingly, green policy of late has been promoting the opposite of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ethos. Perhaps the broken window theory of economics was wrong?
Not the op, but... The video chat my company uses is indeed a critical work software.

The 27 other obscure video chats that people around the world use, though, are not. And they all want to dig their claws into your registry and drive and startup. And then flash incomprehensible error messages on reboot. And constantly run in background and uodate and ask for ever more permissions.
I don't see why you wouldn't just bundle them all into a transaction at that point. The idea of 1 insert at a time is to roughly estimate the overhead/perf in a real environment, where you're only adding 1 entry at a time.
XUL wasn’t used for the DOM. It was used for the UI interfaces of the browser itself—the url bar, the history pane, the menu bar, etc.
When a problem can be solved mindlessly - with a repeatable set of steps no matter the situation - imperative/declarative programming makes sense.

Most real world situations are unique and require unique solutions. That's where AI really shines. You just describe your target, attempt to solve the problem, and pay attention to how far off you were from your target. The learning happens naturally.

Neural networks are too complex - sometimes billions of variables - to decide what each neuron should do. We as a species have evolved to develop brains that are extremely adaptable. AI mimics our own natural learning process. And it's proven to be far more effective at solving unique problems.
Honestly, I can get behind this.

I'm no NIMBY but; E-scooters were recently put into my city here in Perth. All I have seen is downsides. People acting dangerously on them and so forth.
I saw a bunch of stories recently about how social media has increased mental illness problems amongst our children, yet I don't see the same level of alarm about that. Mentally ill people shoot up schools with AR-15s yet nobody is banning them. Why AI? What's different? Color me suspicious of the motives of these elites. My comment is not a well reasoned scientific comment, it's an emotional one. I'm feeling much more stressed about children in distress than I am about AI.
excuse me, avoirdupois drams are 27.3 grains, not 27.3 drams
I much prefer the desktop environment of Mint + Cinnamon over Windows or Mac.

Ditto, I am not an average user, but Windows was only really good on Windows 7, and I never really liked Mac OS (use it at work as a MCB is the laptop they issued for me)
_Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing_
by Thierry Bardini

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804738718/ref=nosim...
“Every man dies. Not every man truly experiences sweet tea.” - Southern Braveheart (probably)
If I enter a shopping mall in my country I expect it to be American the same way I expect a McDonald’s to be American. I mean, the very concept is foreign.
School bus yellow isn't the most visible color. There were some school buses and some customized buses that use(d) a fluorescent yellow-green color similar to safety vests.

Also, microprismatic reflective tape can retrofit a bus to be more visible under low-light conditions.
Paris Votes to Ban E-Scooters
The Cuckoo’s Egg is still one of my favorite books of all time!
> The idea that their army is the coolest and will save us from aliens, that their bilionaires (oligarchs) are secretly superheroes, that foreign leaders are crooks secretly plotting to conquer the world and so on.

Nothing more American than this example of how an oft-derided-in-the-rest-of-the-US bunch of coastal Hollywood elites constantly put out a bunch of movies glorifying guns, violence, capitalism, and the USA.
I hate this redirect nonsense as well. FYI though, if you tap-and-hold on the back button on Mobile Safari, you'll get a menu of the last 10-ish pages you were on.
would be interesting to see who was his clients.
I couldn't bear to use Windows without `Everything`. It's the only way to reliably find _anything_.
Cars take up more physical space, require public infrastructure that takes up significant taxpayer funding, tie up policing resources that take taxpayer funding, pollute noxious gas and sound that actively damage my health, contribute to global warming, and they are a lethal risk to others not just an "ouch you broke my leg by hitting into me" risk. There is no comparison.
Imagine you had a team of experts at your disposal in most fields, all who were morally upstanding people without temprament or emotions that you had to manage, and they could just answer fairly complicated questions for you. Thats the end product of Chat GPT. It doesn't have a mind of its own, it just has some neat internal state machines that act to decompress the data based on your specification. Its not solving problems, its just pulling out the relevant data that its been trained on.
Good point and one I came here to make after reading the article.

In my experience the DEI and AI safety crowd are mostly sincere in their belief and desires .. leaving aside whether their approaches are sound.

By contrast a great many corporate level ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) programs are knowingly cynical in promoting green washing schemes that pay lip service to reducing carbon emissions but don't bear looking into details.
Agreed. I think people are missing the in point that the bill is to make Italian the focus that it is the primary language and that English has hijacked it in many ways.
Yeah, it's honestly an amazing ride assuming you ignore the main conceit that you're facing a ticking clock. If you take your time and experience all those side stories then you can feel an emotional connection, but if you listen to the plot the game REALLY wants you to rush through. You miss out on a ton of great characters and moments that way.
What % of a Jeeps miles do you think are off-road?
Yeah obviously the heritage chicken is way more money. I tend to look hard for the smallest breasts at the grocery, the big ones are always the worst.

Smaller is better in general when it comes to food. Asparagus, potatoes, lobsters, lamb, veal etc. More flavor