skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The food pyramid put whole grains specifically at the base of the food pyramid. Not sure why you consider this objectionable, the body of evidence overwhelmingly points in the direction of benefits for wholegrain consumption.

Many, many people disagree with that. Most days I eat no grains at all and the rest of the time, I strictly limit my grain intake. For example, I just finished a meal where I used one tablespoonful (uncooked volume) of rice (boiled with some peas). (The meal also included meat and butter, the source of most of my calories.) White rice is the only grain I eat anymore, and I would never eat brown rice, which is loaded with oxalate and other phytotoxins. I added to this just-finished meal B vitamins in the form of pure refined powder (which I liberated from capsules).

It is very obvious from how it makes me feel that brown rice is bad for me.

The cultures that have eaten rice for thousands of years eat almost exclusively white rice. Brown rice was not even possible to make before the spread of tech for precision machining (which reached East Asia in the 1900s). You have to remove the hull from the rice before you can eat it, and before precision machining, removing the hull (traditionally done by pounding the rice with a log) also removed most of the bran and germ. Yes, some bran and some germ remained stuck to the rice -- so it was mostly-white rice, as opposed the polished, completely-white rice we have today with no bran and no germ at all. Still it had only a small fraction of the amount of bran and germ that modern brown rice has.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41962750
The German Greens are a sad story.

But the green Nazi grandchildren (Habeck, Baerbock) are not Nazis. They are out of their depth and make the Palestinians pay for the crimes of their grandparents.
They do but it’s just a ranking of tax shelters and countries that manage their oil production properly.
Not sure what "choose one" means here. I liked Factorio and Satisfactory, but didn't like Mindustry.
That depends on the nature of the nature. Walking through the African veld is also tiring, because you’re constantly processing threat signals.
not an expert but overall; unless connection closes for any reason, resolution does not happen.

also, java historically had -1 ttl (eg: infinite) by default. causing a lot of headaches with ephemeral/container services.
The article goes into (what I consider) actionable methods. Specifically:

* Create a finance department that's independent in both their reporting and ability to confirm metrics reported by other departments

* Provide a periodic meeting (for executives/mangers) that reviews all metrics and allows them to alter them if need be

* Don't try to provide a small number of measurable metrics or a "north star" single metric

The idea being that the review meeting of 500+ gives a better potential model. Further, even though 500+ metrics is a lot to review, each should be reviewed briefly, with most of them being "no change, move on" but allows managers to get a holistic feel for the model and identify metrics that are or are becoming outliers (positively or negatively correlated).

The independent finance department means that the reporting of bad data is discouraged and the independent finance department coupled with the WBR and its subsequent empowerment, allow for facilities to change the system.

The three main points (make difficult to distort the system, distort the data and provide facilities for change) need to be all implemented to have an effect. If only the "punishment" is provided (making it difficult to distort the system/data) without any facility for change is putting too much pressure without any relief.
This reminds me of Hidden Melody from an old British quiz show that I loved as a child: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_the_Music_(British_game....
India is 3rd on this list.. and 150th on the per capita list.

... damn
http://archive.today/i8UhZ
Only if we're stuck in the 18th century technology and a presidential candidate has to physically visit each small town to talk to its people. In that case, yes, small states wouldn't matter because no candidate will have time to visit Omaha or Boise.

But thankfully we're in the 21st century: a candidate can mail flyers and buy youtube ads with policies tailored for those perennial "red" states. Under the current system it makes zero difference, so nobody bothers, and they stay forgotten. Under popular vote, every citizen who votes for you in Omaha, NE is as good as another citizen in Philadelphia, PA.
Not any. If you are careful listener, you can hear musically nonsense (AI hallucinations) compositions. Of course it depends on genre.
I disagree.

Think of the places where corruption is endemic. Having an outlook of "well, everybody is corrupt" normalizes the behavior and makes it easier to justify sliding into corruption oneself.

If the outlook were useful, it would help to fix the problem instead of doing the opposite.

The disillusionment doesn't offer any benefit that can't also be gained with a touch of common sense alone. But going from "some people are terrible, sometimes" to "everybody is terrible" forecloses any possibility of improvement.
You ok Canada?
Room temperature superconductors would make a lot of new things possible, like smaller and better motors, generators, RF filters, low frequency antennas, etc.

No matter how slow you needed a load to turn, you could wind a motor to do it without gear reduction.

Gear trains in large scale wind turbines are a huge maintenance issue, and failure mode. With superconducting generators, they could be converted to direct drive.

The only limits are critical temperature and critical field strength.
That kind of turns this into a subjective semantic pursuit.
> But why tell me that something is not a graphic novel because it is too short, never having previously established a specific length requirement

Because this (personally driven) discovery of the first American graphic novel, is itself, written as a narrative of thought.

I expect many, if not most, definitions of the first species of some group were defined in response to the search for some intuited threshold in the same way.

We get “clean” seemingly obvious definitions after the fact. That hide how much the definition got crafted to fit the emergent particulars, instead of the particulars being sifted through a preceding clear definition.

Unlike math & physics, delineations in history emerge from accumulations of happenstance, not fundamental principles.
I believe he sold his participation on the redis company far before the shit show.
There should be a term for the fallacy on display here. The Spurious Generalization Fallacy perhaps?

At no point did you address whether the shifting habits of younger generations will be bad for their literacy, instead making a general point that new trends in society are routinely panned by older members of such a society.

As a counterpoint, before radio and the phonograph, musical ability was quite widespread. Now, it's much rarer.

You haven't even attempted to address whether various developments in society and technology might do this to literacy the way earlier trends did to musical skills. I think that result is quite likely, by the way.
https://archive.ph/uL3iW
I don't accept anything that isn't properly cited and sufficient evidence is provided from reliable sources. Neutral news offerings (such as AP or Reuters) are of course a better source of news. It is however useful to subscribe to journals that has some form of basic agreement on fundamental values. For example, it'd be useless for me to follow a news outlet that downplays the importance of democracy.

This is not propaganda, as opinionated journalism's objective is still to transparently cover issues it cares about without distortion or attempt at manipulation, which is very different from propaganda.
Well said, this is extremely good.
Thanks for the note! This comment is a reminder to myself to read the series
Yeah, the technical aspects of the subway shots in Seinfeld are interesting, and really give a sense of how hard everybody worked to make that show what it was.

The first scenes to take place in a subway (to my knowledge, anyway) were in the 30th episode, which was called "The Subway". And indeed, most of the episode takes place in a subway.

The subway set for this show was rented from Warner Brothers and was sent to the Seinfeld lot in several pieces on trucks. It was apparently a huge PITA and presented a lot of technical limitations.

They assembled it on springs and had a bunch of crew shake the car to simulate movement. They had to light it using stage lights, manually simulate the mechanical opening of the doors, etc. And it was apparently difficult to do anything but a closeup without it looking fake.

They redecorated it for each of the different subways that it was used to depict (in the episode, different characters are simultaneously taking different subways to different places).

After the episode, the set was disassembled and placed back on the truck to send back to WB, but the truck driver went under a low underpass, which the set struck and was destroyed. As a result, Tom Azzari, Seinfeld's Production Designer, led a small team within the show to design, engineer, and build an entirely new subway set, fixing all the technical problems while they were fresh in the team's memory. They even got actual subway light fixtures and pneumatic doors. This set was used for the remainder of the show, and went on to be used in other shows and films as well.

(There are a few interviews about this process on the Seinfeld DVD extras, Season 03 "Inside Looks")
It costed around a dollar. I don't know if that's gas efficient because I'm still a beginner in this domain, started exploring web3 just a month ago. What I did to make it gas efficient was to upload image/video files to Pinata as soon as the user attaches them and then later when the user posts them, the generated hash gets sent to the blockchain node. And talking about saved posts being paid for in Pinata I haven't really thought about it since I myself used the pinata free tier for this.

And noted down that nature of Ethereum, will verify it and update the details later. Thanks for pointing it out.
The same Economist that was embarrassingly wrong in all their previous "predications" about that economy (you know, the one with their own space program, ton of natural resources, very low external and internal debt and neighbors/best buds with the worlds largest factory)?
Of course they're not all active. As a past admin, you know that active users are probably closer to 10% of the total.

Oops, you were right about media storage. I use DigitalOcean's Spaces, and that's about another $20 per month for ~1.5TB of images and stuff.
Lots of people who should have been establishing effective security practices and monitoring and improving it were doing … something … but not that.

Total failure of management and governance at TfL and the British Library (which even had a “private sector security leader” on its board of governors for a decade or more before their total shitshow of a breach last year)

But as usual, there will be no consequences.
PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) is something of very little use. The price we pay for food in developed countries include the additional food safety
they don't get in India. The price we pay for housing include the additional quality of housing and location they don't get in Russia.

On the less serious parts of the Internet it's only Indian and Russian nationalists who bring up GDP adjusted by PPP to cope. Less serious people reply by calling it "Poor People's Points".
I think it's -x to just rip audio now
This is ranking by GDP (PPP).

According to Worldbank https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/VC_Uses and OECD https://www.oecd.org/en/data/insights/data-explainers/2024/0... this metric is a poor choice when trying to establish some sort of strict country ranking.
Yes, of course. You are right and I don't mean to be overly dismissive of them; I applaud their philosophy and mission, and they shipped something many people loved.

Just... this comes from some personal lament. Computers are so wonderful. In the time between a photon emerging from your ceiling lamp and hitting the floor, you can crank out 20-30 CPU cycles.

Yet an entire breed of developers has been raised to see 2000$/month Postgres RDS on AWS as "the cost of doing business". I wish costs wouldn't hold back great things like this that the internet needs.
I just traded my 13 mini for 16 Pro Max. The reason is simple: I want a bigger screen because I read a lot on my phone.
That's not true, the most respected analyst says a blowout is reasonably likely. Nate Silver says that there's a 40% chance of a blowout even though the odds are 50/50.

There are 7 swing states, and Nate Silver says that the odds of all 7 states going to the same candidate is 40%. 25% chance Trump takes all 7, and a 15% chance Harris takes all 7.

Essentially, a broad 2% polling error in either direction means a blowout. What are the chances of a 2% polling erorr? Pretty darn high.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-state-of-play-in-the-7-stat...
Did you stop reading at the end of the part you quoted? Their very next words literally say this.
just put it up on a whim, for old time's sake. back when google was still doing good things.
> Earlier this month Andy Lord, the boss of Transport for London, sat down at a scheduled board meeting and praised his organisation’s response to a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which began with reports of “suspicious activity” on Sunday 1st September.

> “The vast majority of Londoners would not know this attack has happened,” the TfL commissioner told board members including mayor Sadiq Khan. Lord later added: “Because it’s been so well-managed people didn’t understand the scale and impact.”

Are these people completely delusional? They've taken away passenger's visibility to see what they were being charged for; they killed all of the open data feeds (though a few of these have just now been restored in the last couple of days). Back in September, they disrupted all of their staff's productivity by locking everybody out and forcing them to try and do their jobs without any access to technology. And.. there's still no end in sight for a restore of the contactless portal.

The way they've managed the incident and the collateral damage suggests there were not nearly enough security controls present in the first place (in terms of containing the breach). How many weeks on are we now without service restoration? For a cyberattack perpetrated by one seventeen year old?

If it was an SME who didn't do anything technical and had been caught completely unprepared, I might be more understanding.
I was looking for something like Noteplan as well. The subscription model and the price was a deterrent to me and I went with Agenda [0]

[0] https://agenda.com/
I've learned its best to have everyone's camera off in a VOIP call. For many reasons, one cuz if I see faces on screen live it distracts my brain internals enough it impairs my effective IQ in the moment, and adds a kind of biological lag. I don't need any fancy academic studies to "prove" it, because I've lived through directly hundreds of A-vs-B cases over many years.

You lose some things without live faces/cameras, but also gain a lot.

Blog post of mine on it:

https://synystron.substack.com/p/video-calls-good-and-bad
On the other hand, video games enable a wide breadth of intellectual experiences.

Being a simulated guitar hero and simulated pro skater is more enriching than the likely baseline of having zero experience with either.

And, video games can help in discovering real world passions — the number of guitarists who found their inspirational spark through Guitar Hero is likely significant. Same for Factorio or Minecraft -> programming.
Randomness I suppose? Snarky/dismissive/flamebait comments are pretty much always bad for HN.

When you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

In the case of the current article I was being proactive because it seemed to me interesting enough to deserve a frontpage discussion but also at obvious risk for turning into the usual nasty mush. That's why I did the pin-the-admonition-to-the-top thing.
Yes, and I've heard colleagues pronounce it as "Squeal", but it seemed less dignified to me, so I simply went with my preference. Would you rather mention in an interview that you programmed in "Squeal" or "Sequel"?
> a single American

Hi there, nice to meet you! I've take the train:

San Diego to Redding
D.C. to New York and back
St. Louis to Chicago and back
St. Louis to Little Rock
St. Louis to Kansas City and back
I've upvoted your post cause I find alternatives interesting, but you should really add a simple example on the readme page. While I heard several times of CUE before, I still need a refreshes example cause I don't use it.

Also Loom is not a good substitute for this because, 1) I got two separate modals when acessing the loom, 2) the code is rather small on mobile without going fullscreen, 3) while I browse for news I prefer to read/skim quickly not to watch videos
Wars are very good at pumping GDP, but from reports, someone linked an FT article in this thread, the increase or sustain in GDP is all down to war time spending by the Russian government.

Economically they're in very rough shape, but GDP is doing well because of that war time spending.
Who is Gus Gorman? And why is it changed to Gus Gordon in the first paragraph?
Surely you have already seen it, but for anyone else that finds this interesting there is "No Maps for These Territories". A close to 25 year old documentary with Gibson talking that is still enjoyable. Can be found on The Internet Archive and YouTube.
thanks man I appreciate it but that government thing was too far-fetched I think
> That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true.

You have committed the Fallacy of the Inverse.
It was, but then all the Class-Ⅰ rail carriers merged until we were left with a west-coast duopoly (UP and BNSF) and an east-coast duopoly (CSX and NS) and they closed all the “redundant” lines they could.

See Abandoned & Out-Of-Service Rail Lines map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=10akDabya8L6nWIJi-4...
Nearly all other non-US currencies have a lower value, according to this metric. I’m wondering if this means the US dollar is overvalued? Alternatively, the US dollar is valued for reasons other than purchasing power.
Yup. I had a nutritionist friend (that I would trust with my life) look through one of her books and she groaned already on the 4th page.
What ever happened to Segment's Centrifuge?
Obligatory comment that total GDP PPP is a useless metric. GDP PPP per capita might be used as one of quality of life indicators
Honestly that was meant to be part 2 of a 2 part thing and I just completely forgot to write part 1.

Until the most recent census was finished and electoral map updated (which has been years of work due to unpacking the census plus several states fighting over redistricting) the democrats had to overcome an ~5pt disadvantage to even begin winning due to how the maps are drawn and the FPTP system. Republicans had a distinct advantage which is now a smaller advantage (~1.3-1.7 IIRC). Still, if I was running for president I’d rather be on the side that starts with the weight slightly in their favor. Especially given the razor thin margins elections are seeing now.

You can’t lose the popular vote and win the presidency that many times without raising eyebrows. They clearly have electoral and other structural advantages that are well documented at this point. They have won the popular vote I believe 1 time in the last 8 elections. They haven’t won it since 2004. I guarantee you they’ll lose it again this year no matter the electoral outcome. No one even debates it anymore in predicting the outcome, it’s just assumed.

The demcorats consistently govern/represent far more Americans and have to overcome an electoral college disadvantage that is now just a slight disadvantage. We can argue all day about whether or not you agree that’s how things should be, but the math is clear here. There really isn’t a whole lot to debate.
Yeah, it is there as well (for anyone wondering): https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/#econ...
FYI, you can also upvote or favorite a comment, and then view those upvoted/favorited comments from your profile (same for submissions). Favorites are public.
It's less the transit creators I'm worried about, since that's pretty niche. It's if a general influencer starts sharing aesthetics of train travel on eg Instagram which I think would cause its usage to boom.
Yeah, I’ve been coding for 30 years, and to me, linting seems like alphabetizing the tools on your peg board. There are plenty of times where I want to break an expression into multiple lines—or not—in the service of readability. And there are no clear rules I could dictate to codify how I make that call.

I get that it helps people who are collaborating on large codebases. But to me, typography is orders of magnitude more important, because it’s facing the end-user.
Curiosity question, anybody know why this is this on cia.gov?
I spoke too soon; been thinking about RTT and it is subtler (and I have more appreciation for Kipling's crafting)...

- (at the bush) RTT lion, Nagaina lion, Nag vulpine lion (...he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard. So he dropped his head a little ... "Let us talk,"...)

- (bath-room) RTT lion, Nag lion

- (melon patch) RTT lion, Darzee's wife fox

- (verandah) RTT lion, Nagaina vulpine lion (I will go away and never come back; He had forgotten the egg. ... and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it...)

- (rat-hole) RTT lion, Nagaina lion

I guess most likely in real life would've been the negative-sum end of a chess game: RTT and Nagaina would've killed each other's family before meeting, but Kipling does anticipate this, and has Darzee's wife report that Nagaina didn't follow her to the bush (maybe having been vulpine enough to be suspicious of Darzee's wife's "broken" wing; maybe just having seen the humans on the verandah?)

For someone whose current reputation is jingoistic, Kipling's female characters (pace Teddy's mother) here are more formidable than their mates.
“Nothing beat them” in what regards?
Meta signs its first big AI deal for news
Russia has 40% larger GDP (PPP) than Italy according to these figures. Purchasing power parity includes the fact that Russia has a small purchasing power, which makes this figure larger than the real dollar GDP.
I'll be generous and pretend you said intelligence, not IQ.

What is the mechanism you propose, by which the birth of a child makes every person now living incrementally dumber?
When the question is "what has really worked" in the last decades, academical definitions are not important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Cash
I think more importantly we may have failed to identify the bigger threat . China is #1 in many of these financial metrics and on track to take us down economically. They’re also ramping up to invade Taiwan which would bring us into a military conflict as well. Imagine if we allied with Russia and had China’s neighbors ready to pounce on them when that happens. War makes strange bedfellows, in WW2 we allied with Russia against the greater Nazi threat.