skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dietary guidelines are a red herring. Notwithstanding that the "Americanized" diet has shifted well beyond those, average people don't typically consult it. Rates of obesity have been shooting up for a century so I see no reason to believe guidelines play a substantial role. Guidelines have also recently changed (at least in my country) yet there is no sign of improvement in obesity rates.

There was a key turning point that is weirdly understated: women joined the workforce. New conveniences in the form of appliances and fast-food, canned food, ready-made food freed up more time for them to pursue careers (at least, part-time) and still raise kids. The US enthusiastically embraced these modernities and many families effectively threw away their knowledge of cooking over time.

After this the institutions that feed us garbage became entrenched, began to both lobby to protect their interests and increase their adoption rate as much as possible. It's not unlike the story of Tobacco companies.
That won't work everywhere. I've been to a datacenter in London around 2010 where the entry was similar to the automated airport passport booths. The doors would not open if you were not registered for a visit and there were no visible guards (I hope someone was around in case you got trapped...) I wanna say it was Telehouse West, but my memory is not great.
My last non-decaf drink was early July. Went from ~1000 mg a day to ~60. Change in sleep was pretty dramatic. I am sleepy every evening. Sleepy during the day just means I’m bored. I wake up feeling more rested.

The third day quitting was rough. Other than that it was pretty easy. Now my biggest complaint is finding decaf when I’m out.
A rather insipid criticism. Of course, I will try and use every communications medium I can find to say what I think. I would MUCH rather have the world WITHOUT HN, without the internet, and without computers even, if it meant that the extinction rate were back to background. In fact, I would be absolutely overjoyed if I didn't have to use a computer at all (I use one for work and for spreading my ideas.)

But here's something: if computers and advanced technology did not exist, then I would have NO reason to write about what I write about.

And I don't drink coffee.
Performing a layoff affects Amazon's access to H-1B and other similar programs -- you must pretend to look for workers in the US before accessing these programs. A layoff puts the lie to the token attempt.

OTOH, constructive dismissal programs such as RTO preserves their access to H-1B workers.
Maybe you are. We're not.
What browser are you using ? Its laggy mess on mine
No, they are laminated to protect from spills that damage the menus and require a replacement. The places with laminated menus are not concerned about your health when making the lamination decisions. Otherwise, do you assume by their being laminated that the staff dutifully washes/disinfects them after being collected from each table every time? I can assure you they are not. They are only wiped off when they are spilled upon, and not even that well.
Then I would consider Google's apps to be malware.
> have no problem falling asleep at night but I keep waking up several times during the night with a buzz.

Yes, that's me. I can fall asleep, but I wake up a lot.
I stumbled into this because I volunteer at three food shelves around Burlington, Vermont doing food distribution. At the largest one there is a day shelter with outreach workers and a kitchen serving hot meals. I gave a few phones to the outreach workers that I got from family members, and found that there was high demand so I just started posting on community forums asking people for their old phones. In a few cases I have replaced batteries or screens but if the phone is usable I distribute it as-is after erasing it and applying any software updates. I buy cables and chargers in bulk so I can deliver a complete kit. Almost all the work is sitting down with the donor and erasing it.
Vehemently agree.
I don’t know you or the people you talked to, so it’s entirely plausible that you’re 100% correct in your evaluation. Or that you’re projecting feelings into other people.

If someone “hated [your] guts” and “never called again”, I invite you to reflect if they truly got mad because you “dispelled [their] street cred” or because of the way you approached the subject. Especially if that happened multiple times.

A conversation requires more than one person and the “3 questions about 5 books” sounds awfully like “oh, you like Nirvana? Name three of their songs right now”. You could ask what they thought about the book, which ideas resonated with them or didn’t, instead of making them answer a pop quiz of shame. Maybe you’d find out they give importance to different things than you do. Or maybe they didn’t pay that much attention to those books because in a sea of 200 others, they didn’t shine bright enough. Perhaps they have a different set of 5 books where they could tell you every detail.

Again, I don’t know you or the other people so it is entirely possible they were the assholes, I just want to make sure that you’re sure.
Same in Europe. The obesity itself is just part of the problem. Negative effects on cognition, willpower, stress hormone levels, "fatigue" and so on.

It gets people into moods, the blood sugar levels and the stress hormone levels. Makes it easier to sell your product and your story. More stress at work, at school and then at home. Less peace equals striving for compensation and submitting yourself to something that gives you that compensation. It's a brutal story.

A tiny deviation from baseline levels is enough and that's exactly what the dietary guidelines resulted in. It was an "unintended" side effect for some time. Then there were patterns.
> how do you find a reliable, trustworthy datacenter?

drive to a few, and shake some hands. in my exp, the difference between colos is usually "actual SOC2/ISO compliance" on one side, and "there are no locked doors between the parking lot and my rack" on the other, with not much in-between that's not for some specialty (radio), and these things can only really be seen for yourself
Ask HN: Why is Linode way more expensive:D?
I am comparing cloud providers (other than big tech ones AWS, Google, etc.) and I don't understand why is Linode is way expensive than the EU cloud providers.

I am benchmarking the closest dedicated server option to this
• 2 CPU cores
• 4GB RAM
• 96 SSD
• 4 TB transfer

Linode: $36, 2 cores, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD, 4 TB transfer limit, 40/4 Gbps

Hetzner: 45 euro, 6 cores, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB ssd, 20TB, 1GBit

OVHCloud: £50, 6 cores, 32 RAM, 1TB SSD, unmetered, 1GBit

Scalaway: 40 euro, 4 cores, 32 GB RAM, 750GB SSD, unlimited, 300Mbps

Seems that EU cloud providers provide much better value for money, but I don't see why is it the case.
New York is actually notorious for lax prosecution when it comes to drivers killing pedestrians and cyclists.
You are aware the United States laws do not extend outside its jurisdiction? Why do you believe 4th amendment protections are enforceable in Argentina?
I've read the guidelines. They don't say to "fear fat". They say to "limit foods and beverages higher in added sugars, saturated fat, and sodium, and limit alcoholic beverages." The 50% number comes from the fact that the guidelines recommend eating lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and non-red-meat protein foods.
i like this!
This part includes most serious technology businesses that have made it past the early stages:

> Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects.

That sort of license requirement on an otherwise free tool makes it easy for employees to accidentally install software that their employer is then on the hook for. In addition, Docker Desktop was available for free for years, and they only introduced the new license a few years ago, so a lot of people still have a bad taste in their mouths from having to migrate their whole team off of it. It's not unreasonable to charge money for this software, but charging money without having a way for people to explicitly opt in is tricky at best, even if they don't have bad intentions. (And speaking of bad intentions, ask any engineering or IT manager how it feels to wake up to a threatening email from Oracle because they detected that someone somewhere in your company used a product that requires a license, and the terms of their license require that you pay for every single employee at your company.)

I imagine some people also have problems with charging for software that is built on top of FOSS, but I am not especially ideological about that and I assume that Docker is at least obeying the letter, if not the spirit, of the relevant licenses.
Given those charges were used to leverage $22M in settlements and a wide recall of the product, something outside the mere $1k seems to have been a useful bludgeon.
It is foolish to think disguises don't exist. Or assume 'red flag' means 'finish line'
It was beyond the phone screen based matters you see (which is a great dirt magnet beyond toilet seats actually, like keyboards, coming from the need of constant touch in all and every life situations). I believe you hold paper menu without the need of smearing the matter on your skin all over it you know (or just leave alone on the table if it is one page), unlike touch screens where it is a must ... Also the fast food places stear people towards glass surfaces smearing the cover of their skin all over normally had no menus, just look up and say what you want. Now, you must touch all over like the handle of the public toilet, only more! Different scenario.

[1] https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier...
I don't think anybody's disagreeing that you get better audio reproduction and less fragility from CDs. Just that they aren't learnable or hackable, and learners and hackers lose something (something separate, and maybe even less valuable, than audio reproduction but still something of value)
That would clearly be much worse because a car is much more deadly.
Lucky Patcher does the same.
Lmao. HN people don't want to grind for years to solve tough problems. They want to find some 'hack' or side-trick to bypass everything. But the reality is some problems take a long time to solve. How long do you think Bitcoin took to write? It wasn't 2 weeks.
Licensing probably?

CAN (or one of its more modern variants) are historically more common in automotive. However with 2-wire Ethernet connections becoming more commonplace I do think you're right that more and more cars will be moving to ethernet fieldbus.

EtherNet/IP is not as robust for many applications as its competitors (PROFINET, EtherCAT) since it is not fully deterministic. EtherCAT is my personal favorite.
arm is the nicest instruction encoding you can get actual hardware for (not thumb or aarch64). risc-v is pretty okay at the assembly level but the instruction encoding is almost deliberately sadistic. amd64 isn't too terrible but not nearly as nice as arm

older official arm documentation is a lot better than recent, which is very poor quality (though still pretty reliable.) oldnewthing and azeria-labs have good tutorials, though she got some of the condition flags wrong
Hopefully not. I strongly disagree with the decision but I think the fallout helps highlight the power these companies have to the public at large.
Converting GPT to Llama step-by-step code guide
Ask HN: Does AI-Generated Text/Images Affect Search Engine Rankings?
Is it safe to assume that search engines are now mainstream in detecting and ranking AI-generated content lower, especially if it’s repetitive or of lower quality?

- How do search engines handle thousands of auto-generated articles being published daily?

- Does including AI-generated images in a blog post impact SEO positively or negatively?

- With the increasing prevalence of AI-written content, what are the latest techniques being used to filter and rank high-quality content?

Why: I use LLMs for searches, however still end up writing articles spending 30-90 mins to add value. I use LLms only for English/language corrections.
To learn more about this, search Zone 2 training (referring to the 60-70% of maximum heart rate zone). It isn’t just for beginners - even elites spend a huge amount of their training in Zone 2 (which is obviously at a faster speed than a beginner)
Since we're all just reading tea leaves, my guess is Valve is looking at a higher performance, lighter, ARM-based SteamDeck 2. They have time to develop it, so maybe they're targeting the next generation of Snapdragon X.
Thanks a lot, Sasha, for creating these. I found your LLM training puzzles to be excellent as well.
Does Google have the technical ability to do this?

I'm not sure the android platform API's actually let google play services do it, and even if they did, I'm not sure google play services has code to uninstall an app not from the play store on request.
Most housing is more expensive per square meter in Central London, but the housing in Central London tends to be significantly smaller on average except for the wealthiest enclaves pulling the averages drastically up, and this is then further obscured by council housing.

Put another way: Where I live in Outer London, most housing apart from a handful of conversions and some council blocks until recently started at 3-bedroom houses with gardens. There are now a few large blocks targeting renters that include smaller flats by the station, but they're all marketed as luxury flats.

A walk further out and the 5+ bedroom houses and mansions lining private sports grounds and expensive private schools start. A little bit further you get the private roads leading to private mansions alongside private primary schools.
Missing step -1: find someone to get on your staff that knows what they are doing, or at least find a contractor with a good history of doing this kind of thing. After a certain point, you really shouldn't wing it. But if you're at that point, you should know if you actually need your own hardware, or if public cloud or other options are good for you. Some need their own, most don't. There's a lot of nuance there that is difficult to express in a short HN comment.
Bloomberg's $140M Push to Get Low-Income Students into Top Colleges Falls Short
I have something of the opposite problem with books. I'll get right around the hundred page mark, forget it existed, and start something new.

I have probably 40 or 50 books with this status, and I have been doing this going back to Elementary School when I tried to read both Dune and The Gunslinger. I picked them up recently, starting fresh, and got just about as far.
> the bare minimum required to run your own hardware in a colocation environment

i remember the look in the admin's eyes when they asked "alright, what kind of hardware are you looking to install?" and I said "oh i have it right here" and pulled two Intel NUCs out of my backpack

> Consider bringing a screwdriver and a flashlight (any halfway decent place will provide those for you, but you never know).

two multitools minimum, sometimes you need to hold a nut with one while loosening the bolt with the other

the best space is the one that is right next to a Frys/Microcenter/whathaveyou
So can outsourced menial labor. And it's trivial to hire experienced menials - vs. sourcing and training a current-gen AI. Then re-training the AI every time the CAPTCHA are changed.

Optimal strategy: Brag loudly about your CAPTCHA-smashing AI. But behind your Buzzwords & Blinkenlights facade, just employ menials.
They are not wrong.

I’ve been in jobs with cloud platform responsibilities at large financials for the last nine years. With all of the regulatory oversight and internal controls, the all-in price for cloud is actually quite high and usually gives businesses pause when they start to realize that.

Operating data centers is also incredibly expensive. The biggest costs come when you need to build new ones while maintaining what you have. The last place that I worked we spent several billion dollars in data center builds over the course of five years. Cloud was seen as a way to reduce the demand, but it takes a long time to build and mature a delivery platform that can run at reasonable velocity and adapt to business demands.

Now regulators are really focused on concentration risks and are demanding multi-cloud architectures and are testing contingency plans in the event of massive failures on the part of service providers. This will in part drive a demand for reserve capacity in datacenters as well as build out of platform management capability that that can move workloads around without substantial incremental engineering work.
Parkinson's law tells us that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

I think the more likely outcome would either be it still taking the same time to deliver, with extra fluff in the middle, or the time simply shrinks. One thing is still evaluated and shipped, but slight faster.
> 9th most populated country in Europe is by no means a good thing

Please explain this. So you're saying that the Netherlands should be a smaller country?
> Cyclists rarely leave the bike lane for pleasure, it's usually either because a car is parked on the bike lane, pedestrians are walking on it, or because there's litter or a bad surface (bikes are much more sensitive to uneven road surface, but at the same time bike lanes, especially those that are separated from the road, are often built with lower standards than the streets).

Or you know, turning left (or turning right in the UK). Or entering a roundabout, where it's generally better to take your lane, if you are not leaving at the first exit.
That is a fantastic song
Until Google deletes your sheet because it says something that some government doesn't like.
So next step is to publish custom builds with a random value added somewhere, so every download the of apk is unique. Good luck finding all the possible sha-sums.
Maybe a tad philosophical/pedantic but many mathematicians follow the "Mathematical realism" approach and would say that any new mathematics be it simply describing existing shapes is actually a form of discovery in the world of mathematics
Have you tried Zone 2 training (referring to staying in the 60-70% of maximum heart rate zone)? Even though you are going slowly you might be in a high HR zone which makes it unenjoyable.
A concrete manifestation of this my family runs into all the time is when trying to buy Greek yogurt.

There are fat-free versions galore, all either loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Full-fat Greek yogurt is plenty sweet without any additives, and my understanding of the science is that it's much healthier for you, but it's sometimes tricky to find it because there's little demand.

Greek yogurt is bought by people who nominally care about nutrition—its main selling point is higher protein—but because of these guidelines the demand is for the high-protein high-sugar versions and not the naturally sweet full-fat.
All the damn time. Here's a recent one: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Radfahrer-erfasst-Lkw...

2700 Euro and 1 month license suspension.

In Germany, you have to cycle extremely carefully if you want to survive.
Honestly, I've noticed how sensitive I am to caffeine when I have reduced my caffeine intake. I think that it is important to clean the body before starting to observe, understand, and make conclusions about how a particular thing affects the body. Let it be caffeine, alcohol, or anything else.
Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.

Note: yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

Link to LeCun's comment on X here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097

See also:
Microsoft paying $100/MWh to restart Three Mile Island nuclear power plant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
You are right Elon personally created the protocol and wrote the spec. It's not like Tesla employs engineers who can make decisions like these independently.
Does anyone have personal experience or an understanding of why sometimes coffee in the afternoon actually results in a feeling of perceived tiredness?
It’s for FSD, which when fully realized, will have a global market cap of over $10 trillion.
Heh, this was my first thought too.
Time Flies is something I would expect in Doctor Who.
Google docs looks like the kind of product a team of students could build as a summer project. It's missing all kinds of fairly basic features (have fun adding a text box or arrow between two things on the document for example.)

Yet somehow it's still the best thing out there for shared documents.

I suspect it is winning by network effect and lack-of-business-model meaning nobody else can compete with 'free'.
I think personal responsibility is a great thing to talk about at the individual level, but when a whole society has an obesity epidemic it's time to look at systemic issues.
It would be a lot more than .5mm and yes, I would care.

I will rather pay the extra 50€ in case I need to change the battery in a few years.
Is google able to un-install any sideloaded application for any android version?

For example, android 7, 8,9, 10 etc? Or was there a specific update that made this possible?

Frankly this is quite worrysome as we already know google enabled COVID "controls" without any opt in or notice, and I believe this affected all versions of android.
The PR piece emphasizes that these changes will increase value, but I struggle to see how that is value for the user.
Here are the guidelines so HN readers can judge for themselves: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-0...
I can't take this article seriously.

> Americans have increased grain calories by 28 percent since 1970, while reducing red meat intake equally. Butter and egg consumption dropped as vegetable oil use surged 87 percent. We’ve engineered a dietary disaster, swapping wholesome, satiating foods for processed carbohydrates that leave us hungry and sick.

In one sentence the author says total caloric intake has significantly increased. In the next she says vegetable oil consumption significantly increased, somehow displacing eggs. And finally, she concludes carbohydrates are to blame for obesity. What?
Ok, pal, before you continue gangbanging me, please read the note!
Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
If it's hard to parse why don't you tell me? How does their budget break down?
What stats are you referring to? The Netherlands has one of the lowest per-km cyclist fatality rates in the world, at least with 2009 numbers[1]. Would be interested to see if that has changed.

[1]: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2015/02/...

They also have decently good numbers for traffic fatalities in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
How to use macOS Terminal and what it's useful for
Thanks for sharing. I never heard/knew of this one.
At that price point, perhaps. Metcal and JBC run circles around this thing every day of the week, though.
> In January 2008, the state and the office of United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Michael Sullivan, reached a settlement with the contractors responsible for the failure, which included no criminal charges and no bar against receiving future contracts. The Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff joint venture paid $405 million, and smaller contractors paid a total of $51 million.

They ended up settling with the contractors for much more.