skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Deciding which is dominant may well be a matter for your ideological biases rather than an objective absolute.

No, it's really not. That's what objective means; that you count the numbers and acknowledge that one number if bigger than another, by a significant margin.

> If I can pick my own metric, I can prove anything!

Sure, but there are some pretty solid metrics that no one is going to argue you're 'fudging the numbers to suit your bias on'. For example:

- Total number of projects with a given license.
- Total number of dependencies on projects with a given license.
- Total number of new projects with a given license per year/month, normalized.
- Total number of new dependencies on a given license per year/month, normalized.

What is this rubbish about deciding which license you like the most because you think it has some kind of pretty ethical features, or calling it 'copy left' vs 'reciprocal behaviour'.

You're just muddying the waters and making people who support GPL look stupid.

Statistics can be jimmied to show a specific tale, its true... but you know what?

A bunch of graphs, a raw data set I can check myself and a repo with the software that generated the graphs; I'll believe what I see in that any day over some arbitrary talk about how you can't really ever believe anything because heck, everyone has a bias.

Hand waving is a lot easier than actually digging up data and checking the numbers; but it's largely meaningless he-said-she-said-they-said.

A little while ago I met some folk who were absolutely convinced that hg was winning the hearts and minds of people around the world (over git). They were and are wrong. So is this post. ...yet people continue to argue the point.

I think it's easy to end up trapped in a bubble where all you see is people who agree with you, and you can't see what's really going on.

Everyone now and then you actually do need to dig through some hard data yourself and reevaluate your own assumptions I think...
Cynically, I think Musk did that because 1) it buys good will and 2) the patents aren't Tesla's moat.
>I don't see an innate advantage to Soylent over existing meal replacements like SlimFast.

Aside from being an actual meal replacement, rather than a calorie-cut diet drink (140ish for a single slimfast shake) who's third ingredient is plain old sugar?
Means testing has a broad and non specific meaning. Wikipedia of course isn't authoritative, but it discusses it in broad terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_test

As an example, due to the pension my father left her, my mom will never qualify for any Medicaid assistance. This is a means test, she has resources above what Medicaid would provide.

The poor don't have assets to scheme to protect, so they don't really get screwed by asset tests.

The resources for elder care have to come from somewhere. Having the people receiving the care be the first payers makes a lot of sense to me. So the asset tests don't really bother me much.

Should society step in and help people who can't afford to pay? Of course. Should society work hard so that middle class and wealthy people that need long term care can pass more of their assets to their children? Probably not.
> underscore character is reserved. A variable can no longer be named only '_'

Huh.... I wonder why that is?
When cars came out they killed quite a number of people in accidents and mechanical failures. They were just so much better than horses we kept on improving them.

That's how I see AI. People will surely get injures and even die in Accidents. We are a humanist society where human life is valued above everything else, so I'm very optimistic that AI will get better and give their humans more divine powers and longer life over time.
It looks great, except one nitpick.

Exploiting `radio` input for things like Tabs and Accordions [0] is surely a sweet trick, but I don't think it's a great idea to use it where more than a few people would maintain the code.

Not only that, it also breaks completely in anything below "modern browsers". I get that this framework doesn't target those browsers, but I think these are the kind of things Javascript is for. It shouldn't be done by CSS.

[0] http://minicss.org/tab.html#tab-title
Is jigsaw being shipped or not? (relating to https://jaxenter.com/jigsaw-dispute-means-possible-delays-ja... )
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I'm a bit surprised "dual licensing" hasn't come up at all in this discussion. To me that is the most logical next-step from the GPL. (ex: The Qt/JUCE people are using it to great effect)

- If you want to work on expanding on what I started and then sharing it with everyone, then that's great!

- If you want to make money with my work - then lets get in touch and work out some compensation. Seems only fair.. no?

It's a little fuzzy because you can have opensource projects that make money, but it fits the general spirit of things.

Though I'm not sure how it would work if for instance someone sends you a merge request.... do they have to also send something signing over the rights to their work? Is there a better license that does this automatically?

(does anyone know how Qt handles that for example?)
Would be nice to polish the spacings http://imgur.com/a/So2Uh
> What advantage does Soylent have over say, other meal replacements e.g. Slimfast, weight watcher shakes, juices etc

Which of those examples are actual food replacements instead of liquid candy blasted with vitamins?

Slimfast high protein is the only option I see online that doesn't include huge amounts of sugar, but a single 180 calorie shake also gives way too much vitamins and protein to be sane times 10, which is what you need to get a day's worth of calories from it.

Weight watchers shakes look like they have exactly the same issue as slimfast high protein, except with more sugar and more servings required.

So here you are crapping on the product, but you actually haven't pointed to a realistic replacement for it.
That's a reasonable concern - there are USB 'condoms' that ensure the connection is for charging only. http://syncstop.com/
Clif is ok if you are going hiking, there is a lot of sugar. Sitting in front of a computer? Not so much.
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Soylent gets a lot of hype, and invariably the hype follows a predictable pattern-

"Geez, you don't eat only Soylent! It's just an occasional meal replacement!"

"Okay, then how is it interesting when there are dozens of competing products in the meal replacement category?"

"Because those aren't a full dietary replacement. You can't live on only Ensure (insert many other products here)."

"Okay....but you just said..."

I don't get Soylent. Not only is food one of the greatest luxuries in life -- one of the greatest rewards -- it's laughably easy to have a nutritionally complete lifestyle with minimal effort or time. But if I were enfeebled they all sound pretty terrible.
I'm starting to wonder if fizzbuzz is becoming so widely known that the type of people who would otherwise fail it are now googling and memorizing how to write it.

Maybe the industry needs a new sanity test.
Why didn't they just use OSGi, a stable, mature (16+ years old) technology for modularity, instead of re-inventing the wheel with JPMS?
These are fairly standard in larger building complexes in Germany. We call them Feuerwehrschlüsseldepot (key depot for the fire dept.); they're very well secured, both physically and organizationally.
From what I can tell, HDTV audio is typically sampled at 48kHz and compressed with AAC using spectral band replication (SBR) techniques. I'd definitely say it's plausible that signal could contain stuff outside a normal adult's hearing range.
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There is little upside for Microsoft in having USB-C on their laptop. Peripheral support is still small and adopting it could be interpreted as validating Apple's choice and further drive availability of devices Apple laptops could use.
Im going to copy a response I made to someone else in this thread:

The fact that at least 4 people in this thread have mentioned "meal replacements" but not a single one has named a specific product I would know by name (non dieting!) seems to me a pretty clear indictment that this category is not as established as you are suggesting.
> means all of your security is in the key

...erm, isn't that the point?
Defining virtue signaling as the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.

The tone and substance of this article is not to illuminate the practices of the past in a relevant historical context, but rather to denigrate them and celebrate our own era. "Look how far we've come."
Soylent does nothing for me because I find that any other viable option for eating, be it a sandwich from a vending machine, is a more attractive.

Even low quality food is likely to give me a modicum of satisfaction, when a meal replacement does not.

I can't get the hate either, though.

If you are happy with it and improves your life, more power to you (and to Soylent).
Germans want rules to be obeyed and things to work. Which may very well be related to the original subject.
Slimfast has 4x as much sugar as Soylent (per-calorie).
To get 2000 calories from Slimfast you'd be getting 180g sugar, while with Soylent it would be 45g. Now 45g is a little higher than recommended, but 180g is way too high.

http://d8m5oga7foiu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/1...

http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-drink-nutrition-facts-e...
Looks good but doesn't list many vitamins or minerals on the label.
Thanks for the feedback! :)
I think the only real problem is, that you can't distribute paid upgrades.
If it has a large amount of protein, it's not an actual meal replacement -- it's a supplement.
Please do reread my comment. I never said the position of those undertaking the suit are immoral; on the contrary, I specifically stated that the models involved were culpable. I'm merely stating that were the victims not wealthy, this violation of the law would likely never have been punished. I'm pointing out a systemic issue in the legal system, in giving greater access to the capitalist aristocracy.
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You are putting words in my mouth. I demonize no one.

My feelings about them (The Clintons) have indeed declined over the years. I mostly have huge respect for Al Gore. But my personal feelings have absolutely nothing do to with their material involvement with the Clipper Chip. Nor do I care when it started. They all carried the baton of government key escrow which is not something I am going to forget. It is a grave mistake to not hold people accountable for their actions, to not take a stand while the bureaucracy pushes you along with the current.
Sometimes one government has more common ground with the government of another country than it has with its own citizens. A country that does not want its citizens to have SpaceX provided Internet could lobby the US government to require it to be blocked.

You can bet that the US government will want to exert control over it anyway to some degree so even if they are not always sympathetic to other governments requirements that lack of sympathy is a negotiating position not a matter of principle.
Personally I suspect it could excel at visualisation/display/analysis of dense data.

But, the "what like exactly?" is eluding me atm. That's likely the key problem. :)
Nerds will buy anything if trendy Silicon Valley ‘thought leaders’ endorse it.
That's what's ads are for, right?
The difference between a house and a home is much more than semantics.

And much how the members of a household influence who to let in, the citizens of a country decide that as well, via voting.

Or do you consider yourself a higher authority on what they 'get' to decide on?
I'm honestly not sure why artificial intelligence comes up every time Penrose's hypothesis is mentioned. The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist's such as Andrew Ng's opinion) to create a conscious intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do. Whether or not it's conscious along the way is largely irrelevant.

That being said, I'm not sure why there's quite so much vitriol towards Penrose and his hypothesis, the leveraging of quantum effects in photosynthesis and enzymes have been demonstrated and recent studies show that the sense of smell may also be based upon quantum phenomena. So it's not all too unreasonable that there might be something quantum going on, even if it's not Penrose and Hameroff's microtubules.

Another interesting quantum hypothesis in neuroscience is Fisher's: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161102-quantum-neuroscience...
Except on those days when it isn't.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/24/dairy-might-have-snuck-int...
I recently made myself a nice mono colormap for Kakoune. I have four terminal windows open right now, each one connected to the same editor session, and each with a different foreground color, all using the same colormap. I'd give up the extra colors for a big grayscale e-ink display though.
> The real solution would be to find a way to charge for things that people do consider scarce, such as the developers/artists time.

In theory that is what copyright does. If you make some software, you have a copyright on that software, but (unlike patents) not a copyright on any software that does the same thing. So if your total revenue is more than twice what it would cost to re-develop the same software then some other developer should do the math and go into competition with you. You, knowing that, would charge lower prices to begin with to avoid having to split the market with them.

The classical problem with this in Hollywood is that the big studios bought up all the distribution to lock out new competitors, which breaks that mechanism. You still see them trying to do this with cable TV set top boxes and so on. This is also similar to Microsoft's traditional game, but doesn't apply to most other software, which actually has quite vigorous competition.

The problem with what Apple is doing is that it breaks it the other way. Instead of companies leveraging a separate monopoly to thwart their own competitors, Apple is leveraging their App Store monopoly to siphon revenue that rightly belongs to the app developers. With the result that app developers make less than they ought to, which means that useful apps that ought to exist now don't because making them is not profitable against Apple's restrictions.
What's wrong with those microwavable stuff (like noodles, and others)? I mean it's not healthy, but if it's once in a while, it's cheaper and imo tastes better!
I have 3 of them on a Surface Book (1 for dock on my desk, 2 in different bags). All work perfectly in both directions, always charging every time in the last 12 months.
Even mobile homes are getting too pricey for longtime residents
Puerto Rico becoming a state would solve a bunch of their problems in the long run.

Even with the problems listed in the article their economic situation from the the 90s to now was not unmanageable, it was corruption and corporate collusion to extract the maximum amount of money from the island that expanded the problems to their current levels. Becoming a state would put enough regulation and oversight in place to make those problems go away, or at least put their corruption on the same level as a normal US state.

The short run... There will be problems.
I've mostly replaced lunches at work with Soylent and I also have it for breakfast most of the time. Occasionally, I supplement Soylent with granola.

I love food, but I don't care to make it. I used to make turkey or krakowska (Polish meat) sandwiches for lunch the next day, but I don't care enough about those things to go to the deli every week or two.

Once or twice a week I'll get lunch at a Halal truck or the deli next to my office, but this is much more expensive than just soylent. Bought lunch turns into my "big meal" and I end up having very little for dinner.

For dinner, I'll make some food but it's never elaborate. Very often, my dinners are peanut butter sandwiches. Sometimes I'll make some ramen and throw an egg in there. I'm also really into gourmet burgers so I go out a couple times a month for one.

I suppose the takeaway is that my lifestyle and eating habits didn't change for Soylent. It was just a better solution for me than what I was already doing. I prefer to have a cheap eating routine and Soylent helps prevent me from eating garbage food with basically zero effort. Not to mention that I'm borderline "chocoholic" who cut out buying sweets and the cacao flavor soylent really hits the spot.
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Yes on the ProductHunt page they mention it'll be only available for South African residents as a start. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/root-6
Nutrition facts for those interested in comparing:

Soylent - http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-drink-nutrition-facts-e...

Ensure - http://c4.q-assets.com/images/products/p/ab/ab-116_3z.jpg

Ample - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1096/7494/products/Ample_4...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1096/7494/products/Ample_I...

Edit: added Ample info.
I get what you're saying, but for many who have tried it, Soylent is simply better than ensure and slim fast. (Frankly, ensure is just too sweet.)
The dongle and does-this-monitor-work-oh-wait-I-need-a-differet-cable-huh-that-didn't-help-either-guess-I'll-switch-monitors situation with the new MBPs at our office has been much worse than I expected, and I expected it to be pretty bad.

Having to go back to the bad old days of researching all kinds of cables and adapters and monitors and crap to figure out whether some combination of them will maybe do what we need them to is a giant step backwards. Doing anything with the new MBPs and external hardware starts with a frustrating dongle/cable search, as well. The benefits of USBC are, so far, non-existent—it has been an entirely negative experience.
So the splitting of the hairs you're attempting is to point out that IP typically expires at some point, and therefore we should all consider anything "old" as effectively having expired IP, regardless of whether that's true or not.

Blizzard's IP hasn't expired, your argument here holds no water.
Protein isn't a panacea. Eating 2,000 calories of Soylent a day would mean consuming 100 grams of protein. That's unnecessary for the average person.
Yes, eat real food. It's hard to believe there's no much interest in another industrial product.
An American tourist? I'd need a passport for many other locations, unless you're talking about the Bahamas. It's really, really easy to travel to Puerto Rico.

For foreigners, I understand it's probably easier to enter any of the other sovereign islands than a US territory, or (if you're from the EU), any of the colonial islands would also be easy.
Yes I think you've said it better than me. So many designers are devolving into decorating interfaces instead of designing new products. To be fair, many of them were never truly up to the task, but then I suppose we need a new nomenclature for Product Designers vs Interface layout specialists.
I'm really not sure "validating" an apple design choice is more than ego at this point. Even if there are few peripherals there are more than a proprietary charging cable / port will ever have...
I'm not 100% sure but I think the GPL prevents itself from being used in a dual license scenario on purpose.
Do schools still teach FORTRAN? Is there anyone under the age of 50 writing it professionally (not just a little hobby dabbling)? Would someone who is expert in the CFD domain be interested in picking through 30yo code to learn the language and contribute?
How can you possibly know this? Maybe a lawyer would take up a case for the non-wealthy as a class-action. Or an organization like the ACLU would step in and support someone's claims. I think you're really stretching credibility here with a "Only the wealthy would do this" argument. Most of Fyre's tickets were low end tickets. Painting this as a "capitalist aristocracy" issue is extremely questionable.

My reading of your comments just shows someone with a classist axe to grind and little else.
Thanks for everyone correcting me.

No word for downvoters. I'm sure you never been once wrong in your lifetime...
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I initially tried soylent in order to replace my lunch meals, but now I use it to supplement my diet. I am trying to gain weight and soylent helps meet my caloric goals without depending on junk food. I can maintain my previous eating habits and simply add 1 or 2 servings of soylent to bulk up.
The article could be summed up by the title itself. It doesn't seem to provide much else.
Denials can (and do) cause issues at times. At least weird looks.
While at the same time he pitched the idea to his investors as a business-smart move to grow the market faster and increase adoption.
I don't really understand that? USB c happened outside apple devices first, and its usage is going to grow. If you still have the old style USB ports, you have a device that is more peripheral compatible than the current MacBook, while being just as future proof, no?
For USB-C phones only, not laptops: http://www.portablepowersupplies.co.uk/portapow-data-block-c...

What's really needed is both a magsafe-style port as well as a USB-C port capable of charging. Use the magsafe charger when you've got it around, and retain the flexibility to charge through USB-C when that's what's available.
In gaming at least, lemons are a big concern. For some reason gamers are very afraid of spending five bucks on a possibly imperfect game. Even when refunds are easy and automatic. It defies logic, but it's true. Anyone who can make curation trustworthy will make millions.
What about the taste was bad? Does anyone use a dairy-free milk alternative instead of water?
They are going to use it to represent lambda parameters.

Please see:
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/302 - Lambda Leftovers
Laptop chargers are not as mobile chargers; when you connect a USB, the USB cannot just read the computer's data. It also cannot execute a program. This all comes from USB sticks that got so infected. 0-days aside of course.
How do investors view a startup that only builds GPL licensed software. Eg- Let's say Gitlab used only GPL, would it be a major red flag to investors? What about businesses, would they be willing to be buy GPL licensed software?

Any examples of startups that only build GPL licensed software?
The idea that nutrition can be boiled down in this way feels that it will inevitably be missing something severely important that the modeling doesn't account for. The modelers afterwards will excuse the oversight by saying look this thing was so small, who would've thought to measure in such and such a way? Nature.
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> I can't get the hate either, though.

I believe the fact that someone just wrote them a $50MM check is a fine reason to make a critical assessment of their actual value.
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I prefer power-only chargers, vs. data+power. If we train people to plug their devices into two-way data ports unthinkingly, bad stuff will happen. Realistically if you give someone a USB charger, they'll eventually use USB to another device. With HID profiles being unlocked except in very locked down enterprise environments, doom.

(This can be solved by hardware/OS people, though.)