skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mostly super cheap cuts of meat that have been cooked over 24-72 hours to incredible quality

People getting excited over devices that do what ovens or hearths do at a 24x slower pace? Figures the popularity of soy formula.

(And yes, my oven turns even the toughest cut into "incredible quality" in 3h tops =)
That's where the AGPL comes in.

Of course, Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) providers could hide their use of AGPL code. But the owner of that code could promise a reward for whistleblowers. That would deter most predators from misappropriating AGPL code.
Calories in a six-pack of beer: 960

Calories in one joint: 0
There's such a thing as internal charges. The customer buys from the domestic subsidiary at low margin, the domestic subsidiary sources from the foreign subsidiary at a tremendous margin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-16/the-insid...

"The investigators say the company channeled profits from dozens of countries through two Ireland-based units. In a system at least tacitly endorsed by Irish authorities, earnings were split, with the vast majority attributed to a “head office” with no employees and no specific home base -- and therefore liable to no tax on any profits from sales outside Ireland. The U.S., meanwhile, didn't tax the units because they’re incorporated in Ireland."
Where are you seeing those figures? I'd be amazed if it was even in the top 20.
I've always disliked mapM_. Something about it just looks ugly and it doesn't really hint what its for. I would like to see mapM as mapMonad and mapM_ as eachMonad. Of course, once I knew what it meant the abbreviations became rather nice.
Agree $DPZ is crushing it. They are also quite a bit ahead of the curve in terms of making the technology shift.
If by "become the state" you mean "is supplying state-like services" (like defense), you compete by creating another company supplying the same services. We have dozens of private defense companies in Romania.

If you mean "is preventing others from supplying the same services"... if it does that by using force, we're no worse off than now. If it does that by enticing people to sign bad agreements... I can't say I like the idea, but I'm not seeing it as a big deal long-term.

> In the case of telecom there is a natural monopoly over last mile connectivity because it makes zero economic sense to create more than one or two redundant last mile connectivity networks

And yet, I have one ISP that put up 7 km of fiber optics, that have been stolen several times, in order to get my business. (I live in the country side.) I had another ISP that put up 15 km of regular cable for the same reason. (I no longer use them because at some point I had 3 ISPs and I was trying to cut costs. I honestly regret that now that I'm making a lot more money.)
> how far do you go into replacing all real food?

Why do you make a distinction between Soylent and "real" food? Its ingredients are not terribly different than other stuff I buy at the grocery store.
I love to hate on Electron when it's used for tiny single-purpose apps. But VS Code is a large and complex project with a focus on extensibility, which I think Electron is perfect for.
A simple argument or why consciousness doesn't compute which doesn't rely on QM, is that computation is a form of abstraction from subjective experience, as are all explanations and models. To achieve objectivity, we divorce our creature specific and individual experiences to arrive at patterns common across experiences, and we call those real.

To go beyond that is to make a metaphysical argument that computation, information, or math makes up reality (as opposed to just things in the case of materialism, or ideas in the case of idealism, or the unknowable noumena in the case of Kant).
Since it first popped up on my radar last summer, VSCode has quickly become my favorite editor. A combination of great features that are a pain/poorly done in other editors (intellisense for many languages, a proper debugger, an integrated terminal that's just as fast as my actual terminal (I've actually gotten into the workflow of opening up huge files in vim in the integrated terminal), etc.) make VSCode amazing.

Especially when you compare the rate of improvement of VSCode to Sublime or Atom, VSCode is on an upwards track, and they've clearly captured major mindshare. (https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#technology-mo...)

In addition, VSCodeVim is among the best in terms of vim plugins that I've used (VSVim is still better), and I thought it was amazing that Microsoft assigned an official employee to work on it.

Disclaimer: I have contributed code to the VSCodeVim extension, but that was because I liked the plugin so much (that, and there was a bug that really bothered me).
In that case, the market demand would sink. Everything needs recalculated.
Only from the Play Store. The APK can be installed on any device with the same architecture as it's built for. I have it on my LG G4.
In Oregon you can often get a quarter for $25 so it's quite a bit cheaper than that... though heavy smokers will often smoke an ounce a week... at least in Oregon.
And why did they over-prescribe opioids? Because getting surgery was prohibitively expensive?

Doctors, in general, are doctors because they wanted to be doctors. Some of them may be in it for the money, but if you are really in it for the money, you become a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, not a primary care physician in Buttfuck, Idaho - where all the rural heroin epidemic victims are.

Sure, some countries hand out opioids more freely than others, but in spain, Codeine is prescription free. Walk into a pharmacy, say you want codeine, you get codeine. I don't see an opioid epidemic in spain. If ease of access was the driving factor behind opioid abuse, spain should be all about opioid abuse. Codeine may not be the most potent opioid in the universe, but it is what it is.

I think its the surgery thing. Because if you fuck up your spine and are in perpetual pain and also cant work anymore which just makes the problem worse because then you cant even afford the morphine, maybe taking the morphine isnt such a bad idea.
Would you happen to know why these are so expensive per inch in size versus say a color screen?
Reminds me of the "Diet Coke causes depression" over depressed people could be more likely to drink diet coke.
Smoke a 1/4 in a day? While theoretically possible, that's a crazy amount to smoke in a day for one person.
The idea of something like a Right of Neural Sovereignty comes to mind, which brings up issues with advertising. Physical assault is illegal in the modern legal system, so why not ban assault on the visual cortex? Advertising is designed to trigger neurological responses in the brain that we may otherwise not want, damaging peoples sense of self image or unconsciously encouraging them to act against their own interest, so why on earth should it be legal to plant these triggers at random throughout our lives if they can do just as much damage as physical assault?
Ask HN: Decent *free* Coldfusion IDE or editor
Since Adobe decided to make a free version of CF but not CF builder.
>polynomial time heuristic search algorithm.

Like create culture, write the works of Shakespeare or create a workable theory of the mind of others? Or fall in love, teach a child to play cricket or understand (and act on) an Opera?

Also why should I care a heckin' heck about a heuristic time polynomial search? I'll work out complexity when I have bounds on correctness... not before.

The argument that those that find something beyond formalism must formalise it in order to be regarded as serious is not a serious argument!
I am one of those people who got horrible nausea eating a couple of batches of the Soylent bar. I really liked the taste and the nutrition profile. But I simply cannot tolerate any Soylent products after the episodes of nausea. There is only one other food (an obscure Indian snack) that ever created a similar aversion in me. I don't know when, if ever I'll get over the association of Soylent with nausea in my head. I wish it had never happened so that I could have continued using their products.
These are some pretty naive suggestions for how to uproot an entire domain of computing.

Julia is a JIT language. Whatever edge you get in pretty code is going to be paid for in speed. Also, it's pre-1.0 and breaks compatibility frequently. 40-year-old Fortran code runs fine; 2-year-old Julia code is a syntax error.

Rust is a nice language, but all of its numerical computing is experimental 0.x stuff. You'll probably end up wrapping another library to do your number crunching. It's probably written in Fortran.

C++ has pointer aliasing shenanigans, so it's hard to make it as efficient as Fortran. I have seen a couple of projects that tried to port Fortran libraries to C++. They came out slower, buggier, and less readable. The only reason you'd want to do that is a specific hatred for Fortran -- which you are not the only one to have, but over the decades it hasn't proven to be a good motivation for redesigning software.

Of course people like to use Python, but you don't get to use Python instead of Fortran. That would be incredibly slow. You use Python and Fortran. For example, you use NumPy and SciPy, which make Python a great high-level platform for numerical computing because they wrap large amounts of Fortran code. If you use Python for numerical computing, you are not "moving away from Fortran", you're embracing its success.

I don't actually know Fortran, but I have huge respect for the people who do. They're the reason most of the things I do are possible and fast.
Why are you commenting on this HN submission instead of fixing the more important issues of our society?

Or is your brilliant meta-approach to solely criticize those you feel aren't doing enough?
"USA continues to enjoy very good employment..."

Measured how? Labor participation rate? Average household income? GDP per capita?

"better than most developed countries..."

Better than the 2000s? Better than the 80s? The 60s?
> capital is set up to clean labors clock in the coming decades.

I think this is true, and I think it will result in massive civil unrest. Economic landscape is not the only thing that will change.
What does self-awareness have to do with consciousness? Self-awareness can be tested for. Consciousness can't; for all I know, I'm the only conscious person in the universe. Some people are evidently self-aware by their actions. The two concepts are unrelated.
Mono repo filled with my Trello Clone and expanding to a HipChat clone soon
Yeah, that seems like a truism. Do you also have a point?
indeed https://www.optivo.com/data/domino/animated_gif.gif
Poster didn't commit it. They talked about it. Not my job to spell everything out for everyone and serve it on a platter, garnished to your liking.
Three strategies for using vocabulary lists and flash cards
Biggest marketing win for https://www.withcoach.com/ has been using our own product to create and promote free content.

Since Coach is an online course platform, we're not only giving people a demo of our product, but we're also providing value through content.

For example, we giveaway a free eBook on selling more online courses & digital products: https://coach.withcoach.com/level-up-your-sales

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That's a reason to have a separate office, not a reason to not have kids (if you'd otherwise want to have them.)
Check out credit unions. I'm with Coast Capital and pay zero for fees at regular bank machines. "Private" atm fees do cost, yes. Tangerine and PC financial also offer no fee options too, but I'm not sure to what extent.
> Also, "empirical Bayes" is in modern parlance equivalent to "Bayes". What's the alternative? "Conjectural Bayes"?

My understanding of the difference, as a frequent user of empirical Bayes methods (mainly limma[1]), is that in "empirical Bayes" the prior is derived empirically from the data itself, so that it's not really a "prior" in the strictest sense of being specified a priori. I don't know whether this is enough of a difference in practice to warrant a different name, but my guess is that whoever coined the term did so to head off criticisms to the effect of "this isn't really Bayesian".

[1]: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/limma.ht...
harborside, the bay area's largest purveyor of weed, recently opened a thousand plus-acre facility in the central valley, it's like any other crop dominated by big agriculture nowadays. it's the same people (mostly immigrants) working in every other type of ag in the valley. I have to so I'm surprised by how quickly it has normalized in the past few years. once federal law is sorted I hope it'll be great for the california economy.

the cost will drop quickly as a result, and I wonder what that will do to startups in the space. wholesale costs are plummeting but retail seems price-fixed, which is unsustainable when you have enough competition. once retail starts to plummet too -- say we reach a point where 3.5g costs the same as what currently buys 1g -- the value proposition of things like leaf (the IoT grow box) dies, and eaze, meadow, and all the other uber-for-weed startups become too cost inefficient... it seems like a lot of startups in the general weed space are (literally) banking on the fact that prices haven't dropped yet, but I don't think that will last at all.
Calories in the ungodly amounts of food eaten after smoking said joint: roughly 960
Buy why not Soylent? Why is it so offensive compared to not eating at all or eating Taco Bell or a few granola bars?

A better alternative to Soylent is going hungry? Why?
There's a long list. Prison companies, cotton industry, ...
Again, if the dialer is a system component does this and you can't remove it, you are out of luck.

Since the dialer is an app, if for some reason you don't like it, you can deactivate it (you can't uninstall preloaded apps since they are on a private system partition, but disabling it is enough : it does not appear in the app least and can't startup).

So you just have to install another that suits you better.
The Cheap Bastard Plan:

https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx
Um... What?

You do understand that a view of history is necessary to solve our current problems right? Studying how 17th century paintings reflect a culture on the cusp of global access to addictive substances is helpful for modern humans to understand how we deal with the global availability of dopamine producing gaming. A big problem we are only starting to acknowledge.

Even if it's somehow not helpful, the effort spent does not prevent or diminish anyones work towards those issues you see as more important.
Death of the Applet. Yay! Finally.
To be fair, the compiler errors you get with inferenced types will often lead you to write in the types anyway, to ringfence the bugs. Type inference often gives you really messed up error messages when you've done a mistake.
This is a throwaway account, so I'm going to be straight up. My business has been declining for the last three years. It's still very good though and pays out more than an employer would.

But, boy, you hit the nail on the head. I don't ever want to go back to employment. I really only want a remote job as a buffer to continue working on my own.

I don't have FU money, so even though I have free time, I spend a lot of it worrying. I think that's why people are so easy to reach for VC. They feel comfortable when others have skin in the game. They don't feel so alone -- like I do.

Just wish it would last forever, but these headwinds are good for me. I need a kick in the ass. I've wasted a lot of time.
> replacement for .. "medicines"

Completely? I'm afraid not. As a compliment to a complete regimen, then of course. I'm a card holder, but there are times where MJ and derivatives don't have the same benefits, long-bone pain being one.

A sidenote: I'm laughing at the irony that one could grow a crop of opium poppies less conspicuously than a crop of MJ.
Calories consumed after one joint....
What really matters are the stats for one's own users but who's stats say <IE11 is less than 0.1%? NetMarketShare reports of global desktop browsers for April [0] says:

IE11 13.62%
IE8 2.25%
IE9 1.32%
IE10 1.06%

Wikimedia global all-device browsing for April says:

IE11 4.8%
IE7 3.0%
IE9 0.43%
IE6 0.38%
IE8 0.25%
IE10 0.23%
IE4 0.22% (! I don't know what this is about, maybe an old mobile version?)

[0] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...
Could a doodle replace your password?
Agreed, but conversely it's not sufficient to demand that because they might they will - Godel gave the room for that. We many end up with formalisations and mechanisms for these things, but we also may not.
lol, the animated progress status is absurd...
No that's a single example for a single use case. There are many languages better then Fortran for their use case.

Also, it's not correct to say that C++ only just got a feature fortran had. It only just got the feature in it's standard library. There have existed complex number libraries for C++ for years.

Things like the GSL have been around since 1996.
Upgrading Angular Applications
Agreed, thanks! We've updated the title from “A 2D Image of your hand and TensorFlow tell you everything”.
We Are Seeing Ongoing Struts 2 Attacks. Are You Protected?
Lombok implements "var" as an experimental feature: https://projectlombok.org/features/experimental/var.html
This is a good thing. Vaporizing/eating cannabis appears to provide little to no long-term harm to users, whereas alcoholism and alcohol related accidents cause terrible harm.

And I know it's just an anecdote, but I'm a successful scientist with a PhD who vaporizes daily. I prefer it to an alcohol buzz. No hangover, no blackouts, no stupidity.

I will be sure to shed a tiny tear for the macrobrew industry, those poor, poor shareholders.
The word "this" is key, and the reasoning why it's this unknown, and not, say, our unknowns about the arrow of time or whatever -- see also my comments below. If you're going to stay in the realm of normal conventional physics and try to explain the phenomena that he's trying to explain, those conventional physics steer you towards this particular part of physics as a crucial step in understanding how we're able to accomplish certain forms of reasoning in general.
Put the computer in a place where you can see it. Spend time with your child so you understand what they are doing on the computer. Don't assume software can fill in for parenting.
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"if the mind is deterministic how can we change our views "

If a ball is objectively blue how can it become yellow?

By changing state.

Determinism doesn't imply immutability.
Don't know about you, but if I go out for beers I almost always end up getting 1000+ calories worth of pizza/kebab/chips
Both this and LFS reminds me that Linux makes sense until you get the DEs involved. At that point shit just sprawls all over the place as there are no longer any notion of layers.
>I live in a semi-rural area. I chose to live there. Why should everyone else pay to give me top-tier internet access?

One could as why everyone else should have to pay to give you postal service at the same price as someone in, say, NYC when the cost of provision is much higher.

The reason the person above you mentioned government is that it's likely that government owns the streets that any net access would run through as well as having countless other regulations that would need to be followed.
It's not as uncommon as you would think. 7 grams is about 7 blunts. That's about a blunt every two hours. Many of my friends and I did this for years (I no longer do).
They trust the rule of law?

Surely politicians should only be more worried if they fear their actions being​ exposed - the only reason I see for that is if they're guilty of something. Otherwise they've only equal reason to be guilty of you're of the crowd that considers "I've nothing to hide" not to matter.
It's not that they don't exist, it's that you don't have the POS being widespread enough to support it in a common way.

The Interac system in Canada is pretty much a given for any vendor that has a cash register. That automatically makes every single bank card into a direct debit card. You can choose to use it if you want of course, but it's default for all bank accounts, really.
Git for data science projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa (Portuguese for clean city law) is a law of the city of São Paulo, Brazil promulgated in 2006 that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters. 15,000 billboards were taken down.
No, my comment illustrates the basic facts of being the top moderator on a subreddit.

If I'm not breaking reddit rules, then as long as I've been active any time within the past 6 months, I own the subreddit and can make changes to the direction of the sub and its moderation team as I see fit.

That subreddit was created, by the way, because I disagreed with rules regarding the discussion of Cuban cigar sources which ship to the US in the main cigar subreddit. They're free to administer their subreddit as they see fit, and I'm free to do the same.
Electric Car Sales Are Suddenly Taking Off in Europe
Since NAFTA and the opening up of China we in the USA have become far richer, in total GDP and per capita. The problem is that the gains have gone disproportionately to the 1%.

I remember clearly during the 80s and 90s that the pro free trade argument from economists was that there would be winners and losers but since we would be richer overall we could use taxes to help out the losers via unemployment, retraining, relocation help, etc.

But what the economists ignored but is so obvious in hindsight is that this country has a strong anti-tax anti-government strain and we refuse to have any social safety net or government assistance. So what we've ended up with are super-winners and millions of permanent losers. And the super-winners are using their wealth to become more politically powerful, increase their propaganda spending and destabilize democracy.
Bitcoin and other digital assets reach new all-time highs
Fair enough. I don't agree but I understand your view. Thanks for responding.
I was talking raw WHr rating, not power usage. Linux's mediocre power management is one of the reasons I put extra emphasis on the battery when shopping for a laptop. My t450s w/ the 6 cell external has 72WHr vs the XPS13 of that time had 54WHr. Plus my Lenovo battery is hot-swappable.

They have improved upon this some as the current XPS13 has 60WHr. But they still are lacking in this area.
Hopefully by the time this tech matures, any type of advertising that is not purely informational (i.e. tries to manipulate you without your consent or even your knowledge) is abolished and outlawed as the greater public starts to fully understand just how pernicious advertising is.

Otherwise, there's no way I'm getting a neuralace. Can you imagine the neurotech equivalent of a pop-up?
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