skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecosystems are massively interdependent. There is necessarily an inflection point where an ecosystem is so depleted that it can't carry itself any more, let alone us. That's called "collapse" and it tends to be permanent.

Species are currently going extinct at a rate we've previously only seen in the fossil record — from which we've estimated that the current rate of species extinction to be on the order of 10-100 times that of any previous extinction event.

Then, consider that there are key roles in an ecosystem, without which its collapse is more or less a certainty. One of those roles is pollinating.

The collapse of bee and butterfly populations, and our having to resort to commercial pollination (because something on the order of 3/4 of the world's food plants require pollinators, and many of the essential nutrients — things the body can't synthesize itself, and must obtain through diet — come from plants which critically depend on pollinators, while wild bee populations have fallen to alarming levels) is a dangerous leading indicator.

We're well on the path towards a collapse. If we don't avert it, things will not go well for us. When the things we eat all die, they aren't there for us to eat any more. When that happens, we die.

How is this not flashing neon obvious?
You can't just throw your hands up in the air and say that because there is no absolute scale with which to measure human rights, everything goes. And I think its also not good policy to say that because an organization might* fire a pro-LGTB employee for their views, that everyone should be let to act however they want without consequences. In your view, what publicly expressed opinions would disqualify someone to be a CEO? Anything?

Views on gay marriage shifted rapidly between 2008 and 2014. I think its wrong to assume that just because 52% of people voted to support Prop 8 in 2008 that 6 years later opinions hadn't changed. And lets not forget that Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in 2010 - 4 years before he was made CEO and continued to publicly support Prop 8.

* - By "might", I mean "has happened a lot for a long time". LGTB people have faced discrimination for a long time for wanting to live their life in a way that harms literally no one. Anti-LGBT people facing consequences for their actions to discriminate against others in a way that benefits literally no one is a relatively recent occurrence.
Simpleton? Or the salmon industry finding a convenient excuse.
Whistleblowers leak evidence of wrongdoing not rumors. If this guy believes himself to be a whistleblower, all he has to do is provide the evidence of the wrongdoing, period.

I'm willing to listen, but he's got miles to go before his claims are more than hot air.
Fasting Diet 16:8 Linked to Weight Loss
Starbucks stores when initially designed, where intended to fill the need for a "third space" outside of home and work. Not everyone wanted to hangout at a bar. And not every city and town had such spaces. Which is why Starbucks worked. People paid for that space not really for the coffee.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the scientists who ran the salmon study were funded by a company in the fishing industry.
If GP had stock mostly in tech it doesn't seem like a bad idea to diversify.
Are you based out of US? I have heard that Bing works well for the US, but is not as good for other countries.
it's bizarre to me that people make this argument, given the obvious fact that those flags do not prevent optimization or inlining.
Exact same deal here. That plus the lack of keyboard shortcuts for many extensions keeps pushing me back to Chrome. But I love the account containers enough that I keep trying again. I imagine it will get there eventually.
Understand. Thanks for stating some options - but like you said, it’s not 100% in the hands of the currently developing economies... but it would appear that a lot of commentary hates on them for being the polluters right now.
Are they claims about the world or just expressions?
If one side attributes too much to climate change, and the other side too little, then they are both wrong, and there's no benefit to favoring one side as being right in spirit while they are wrong in fact.
> Starbucks is over-saturated, local coffee shops have surpassed Starbucks in many ways, and people are starting to realize how horrible frappuccinos are for them."

isn't this true for other industries like beer and fast food though?
C#'s Linq lets you treat queries as first class citizens.

For instance:

say you have:

var customers = db.GetCollection<Customer>().AsQueryable();

Where Customer is a C# object and it can have nested objects.

When you right a query:

var seniors = from c in customers where c.Age > 30 select c;

Assuming that db is a Mongo context object and hover over the seniors variable at runtime, you will see the MongoQuery that is generated.

If you then write:

seniors = seniors.where(s => s.age < 90)

It will add the second predicate and modify the MongoQuery at runtime.

The query isn't actually run until you do something like

var oldCustomers = seniors.ToList();

If you went in and changed the customers initialization to an in memory List<Customers>, the same queries would still work, the ToList() it would generate actual code instead of a MongoQuery.

If customers were a reference to an Entity Framework SQL Server DbContext, the same Linq statements would generate SQL.

You can even write a method that takes in a Linq expression:

List<Customers> Find(Expression<Func<bool,Customer>>)

and call it

var oldFolks = Find(c => c.Age > 65)

C# translates Linq expressions to Expression Trees and then the Linq provider you choose (or write) parses the expression tree at runtime and converts it to the appropriate query language or for in memory lists, code.

You could switch out Mongo for an RDMS and all of the clients using the Find method would be non the wiser.

I guess OQL is a lot like Linq but since C# understand Linq natively you get strong typing, support for joins, etc.
It was gone?
>Strictly statically typed languages preclude the option of going dynamic.

No they don't; even in C it's possible to just type everything as void*, and everything as Object in Java. Just nobody does this 'cos it introduces a bunch of unnecessary runtime errors.
I pressed logout by accident and I didn't know the password
> Why can't there be a way to get a regular, no frills coffee without waiting for tens of minutes?

McDonald's has acceptable black coffee if that's what you're looking for, and usually less hassle than Starbucks. I can't really say anything either way about the taste - to me coffee is coffee.
Thank you, I love this subject and will watch.
Why wouldn't they frame him? I don't think they did, but they have a multibillion dolla incentive to do it.

I think it's more likely that a lot of Tesla's side is spin to cover safety problems. But I still have no idea what the real story is either way.
Exactly. I think you'd be hard pressed to find many companies that employ systems sophisticated enough to catch internal sabotage without immense amounts of false positives.

"What the hell do you think you're doing??" "I just wanted to play DOTA"
A few years ago, at least, chrome had a significantly better design, from a security perspective. Hopefully FF has caught up, but I haven't looked into it.
But in the article it says that Starbucks growth in China has fallen significantly behind market growth
See what happens when you switch to Nightly Firefox.
I use them together, uMatrix as a fine grained control tool where I can setup a saved profile and click-allow until functionality & appearance are acceptable to me, and for 'one-off' or 'fuck-it no time' situations I just toggle uMatrix off. It is very rare I have to turn off uBlock Origin as well (the nuclear option). This leaves me four-five quick clicks away from the median or average user experience.
Type hints reduce complexity for me. There is no way I could work on a codebase of any reasonable size without them.

The only downside is you have to learn about a (fairly straightforward) type system. But welcome to almost every other language.
It probably helped their plates or car stay a little bit shinier for a little bit longer.
That depends on how deep your philosophical inquiry is.
I don't think so, platos point was that the shadows were poor representations of real objective things. By moving beyond the cave, you can see the real objective thing.

post modernsim says, nah, your objective things aren't objective, you just found some "shadows" that look prettier to you.

I think pseduo modernisim is a bit more more like the cave, a sort of acknowledgement that there are real objective things but the shadows are things in and of themselves. Except these are special shadows that can produce brilliant colorful holograms, and these fancy shadows are also interesting things, in fact they can make life super interesting. But somehere in these shadows there is some kind of objective reality.
It. Is. Not. Self. Driving.

It has a fancy cruise control.
There is but one risk which USA has seen in the past. When the company owns your living space, there is even stronger pressure on you to stay there, be productive and accept lower wages.
When it also owns your food source, the threat is even greater.
The result would be replacement of wages with "benefits" such as living. Technical indentured servitude also known as soft slavery. Technically you could move, except you cannot ever possibly afford to.

Additional stress would be put on people not in this arrangement as they would potentially have to spend more money to get at the same level. (Albeit there could be less pressure in the housing market.)

The next step in this slippery slope would be inheritance. Since company owns everything, your kids inherit little. Either that, or they inherit a position... Welcome to actual indentured servitude again. Company branded kids straight out of a few known dystopias.

Mostly because moving is a special kind of hell, especially with kids. Communities cannot form either way.

Some people like it, they're a minority though as far as I know.
In Japan, ACG is very popular and many UGC creators will make very good content and upload music or videos to it. You can try the English version of Niconico. And you could obtain the interesting music and video via Leawo Music Recorder which could help you download sound from YouTube
It isn't necessarily "timing the market" to cash out gains after a historic, decade-long run. You don't have to get the top or the bottom exactly right.
Challenge.
I do get different results on switching to incognito mode - but generally they are equally poor. My problem is not that google is trying to optimise the results based on my search history. Its just that the top results in Google I get are primarily optimised content marketing pieces which hardly have any good insight. Hence, I filter by default with hacker news.

To give some context I mostly research business(products, market dynamics, etc) or technologies
How about improving on some of the food items?
Starbucks had purchased BayBread/La Boulange for 100 million several years ago. Yet when I walk into a Starbucks and look at the selection of pastries behind the glass casing, they look dehydrated and unappealing. My local cafe has stuff that actually looks like it was freshly baked that morning. They usually don't make them in house, they work with local bakers. Starbucks should consider doing something similar.
This kind of defeats the purpose of multiple accounts.

Remember, we started to have them to separate our work/home/personal lives, to build separate digital profiles that companies (like Google) store on their servers. Now you beg Google to recognize and unify them (which I guess they have almost done already by themselves).
So, since baryons are protons and neutrons, if I understand this, then 40% of the ordinary matter in the universe can be found outside of galaxies?

Why can't that missing ordinary matter serve the same role as recent beloved explanation "dark matter" does? Or is it just too diffuse to affect things like the galaxy rotation curve?
It would be useful to indicate whether higher results are better or not for each of the tests. From what I know, Speedometer: higher is better; ARES-6: lower is better.
using make -j $num is another way to go to get parallelism that is sometimes convenient.
Good points. But lens building is a complex endeavour that requires tooling at the manufacturing level (especially computing power!) - no matter the choice of available material, yes? Doing it with high precision at a civilisation-powering scale seems like an impossible ask of a species that was still considering much of their Home planet to be “new” (Americas).
What are the alternatives you have tried? Curious, what are other strategies to get better results.
A blockquote is a fixed-format block, not a comment quote. It has the same width problems as a code block.
Can say in $dayjob, if I need permission for something it will take 6 months and a lot of red-tape which ties up multiple man months itself ( 99% of it on my team :( ).

If I can get by without permission and instead ask forgiveness, the total time spend on meta-work is significantly less, and ironically we do a better job because we don't want to do something unsanctioned that goes wrong.

I can see why this phrase caught on, I'm surprised there's no reference from before 1842, since this feels like one of those pre-industrial slogans.. Something you'd find more related to police or a parent than an institution of work.
I liked "The Woman in the Dune" by Abe, which was my first book by a Japanese author. Any particular recommendations?
Aside from wasting money, that amount of excess sugar also kills you similarly to alcohol. Diabetes, fatty liver disease, obesity, etc. Well I guess it's also wasting money due to the increased health care costs but one might also argue an early death saves money so YMMV.
>I thought google had removed the 20% project program.

Not really. If you want one, you can have one.
Aeropress has been great for me in addition to paying attention to the quality of beans Im buying now. Id reccomend one as well
Deflecting the analyst's question about Model 3 reservations was the opposite of blunt and direct.
Not always though. The context is important as well.
I dunno, this _is_ the internet...
It's not our fault that society can't bear to look at itself in a mirror.

Postmodernism broadly consists of only two tools. The first, as you mentioned, is the deconstructive POV, the ability to look at an object as-is and to understand its origin, its design, its footguns, its flawed narrative, its social excuses, its secret hatreds. But there's more.

We also get the curse of relativity, the understanding that all epistemic sources are relative and that we ultimately choose to believe what we believe. This was definitely frustrating, coming on the heels of modernism, and that's why postmodernism has its name: modernism is clearly wrong and serves only to mislead and enslave via narrative control.

But in return, we get something good: Concepts can become relativized too, and so we get many simple metaphysical statements as ways to understand what things are. What is a proof? Well, it's whatever convinces you that something is true. We lose absolute proof, but each of us gain a deeper understanding of what it means to prove something to somebody. What is art? Well, it's an expression in some medium. We lose art galleries, but now we can be artistic just by expressing ourselves any time we find new media, such as video games or graffiti or atomic layer deposition or selfies.

We get another good thing: A more precise understanding of how the various pieces of knowledge fit together. By talking of theories and evidence and logic as objects in their own rights, rather than as absolute facets of the universe, we can connect the various sciences and reunify the entire philosophical endeavor under a single umbrella, just like Quine always wanted with his semantic web of science. Maths is logic is metaphysics. [0]

Edit: Formatting, examples.

[0] https://philpapers.org/archive/ALVLIM-3.pdf
I got downvotes on this... I should have explained more perhaps.

I do understand what that idiom means - I’m failing to understand how acknowledging that specific actor to be a powerful source of violence is to imagine an enemy.
The need for growth eventually kills all these companies. There’s just no concept on Wall St. that a company can so completely saturate the market that there’s nowhere else to go. It’s a relatively new concept that companies really can dominate the whole world in their market segment.
Not all opinions are the same.

Some opinions are trivial. I think Wendy's produces a superior burger to Burger King. Someone else might disagree. We can have a friendly discussion about our points of view.

Other opinions aren't so trivial. Take, for example, denying the right to marry to a whole segment of the population, a right that you yourself enjoy, for no reason whatsoever. Its kinda hard to have a friendly discussion between one group of people that are asking for basic rights for themselves and another group of people that are trying to specifically deny those rights, benefit themselves in no way, and have no good reason why. I'm not really sure why the people being denied those rights are supposed to just throw up their hands and accept that.

And its not a right to be a CEO - its a privilege. Its a false moral equivalency to say that the privilege of being a CEO is somehow equivalent to the basic right to be treated equally.

It doesn't really matter what people thought 10 years ago. Or 100. Recently isn't a proxy for right.
This might be a story of economic disaster areas turning "colored" rather than a story of whites not having kids.

Of course the oldest of folks aren't moving out.
It's perfectly reasonable to argue that C is not as good as XYZ. You may even be right. But it is not reasonable to conclude from that, that it ok for C implementations to make C programming more hazardous than it needs to be. Go out and make Rust a more appealing alternative to C and good luck with it. But don't tell me C can be turned into mush because you don't much like C.
From /some/ security perspectives, not all. Enough to actually ditch firefox for all websites? The convenience of only using one browser seems to me to be pretty limited and is clearly a security concern in itself as opposed to using multiple. (How many is optimal? - Well how many are there? How easy is it for you to use each of them - make the call that suits you given your assessment of the concern.)
> You can't just throw your hands up in the air and say that because there is no absolute scale with which to measure human rights, everything goes. And I think its also not good policy to say that because an organization might* fire a pro-LGTB employee for their views, that everyone should be let to act however they want without consequences. In your view, what publicly expressed opinions would disqualify someone to be a CEO? Anything?

No political views should be inherently fireable offenses, only things like harassment that have nonpartisan criteria. E.g. Supporting proposition 8 is not a fireable offense, actually calling gay employees slurs is. Conversely, opposing stricter border controls is not a fireable offense on its own, saying that anyone who supports Trump's border policies is a Nazi that deserves to be punched is a fireable offense because it's a threat of violence. Firing must be made on non-partisan criteria.

> Views on gay marriage shifted rapidly between 2008 and 2014. I think its wrong to assume that just because 52% of people voted to support Prop 8 in 2008 that 6 years later opinions hadn't changed. And lets not forget that Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in 2010 - 4 years before he was made CEO and continued to publicly support Prop 8.

Should anyone that supported the McCain–Feingold Act (the act overturned by the Citizens United case), or Chicago's handgun ban be fired as well? Both of those were found to be infringements on people's constitutional liberties. Again, this is what I'm referring to when I say that people many of the justifications for Eich's termination aren't really well thought out, and end up justifying the termination of lots of other people as well. The blanket statement that a certain political view should be a fireable offense because it was later determined to be unconstitutional is going to end up justifying the firing of lots of other people.
ex. completions for Tensorflow always take multiple seconds, which IMO is unacceptable

What tool are you using in which completions take so unpleasantly long?
OP here - Don't remember keywords, but generally I want to understand technologies or markets. For example, how is the market for open source software evolving, what are the different business models around it, are there any new products in this space, what are the new technologies? In such scenarios, I want to see details about people's experience, their experiments, etc.
The results which I get on Google are severely lacking in this regard. I get boiler plate content marketing articles for 2-3 pages of results, which really don't give any new insight.
Looping through objects in JavaScript
Predicting the Next Fibonacci Number with Linear Regression in TensorFlow.js
FWIW, I keep coming back to Opera which feels the snappiest on the latest MBP 13". Any real-world numbers?
Back in the Day
> To them what came before pseudo-modernism will increasingly seem a golden age of intelligence, creativity, rebellion and authenticity.

Gotta be kidding me.

Is there a clickbait algorithm that is luring writers to mythologize Derrida et al as titans of a bygone era in academia? Seriously-- other than the Wachowskis, name one important figure who was influenced by Baudrillard...
Acceptable? I would take a black cup of their coffee over Starbucks every day of the week.
Does anyone recall how Facebook's booming growth coincided with the growth of Zynga? A game genre which asked you to have a bunch of friends to get ahead, otherwise pay to win. (aka. a lot of people signed up for fake accounts)

The recent US employment numbers have a similar stink, as it's impossible for the vast majority of people to survive off a single job's income, especially when little to none of them are offering full-time or benefits. The talk of a recession hasn't started, but it's here, if not something far far worse.
It's simply an incorrect statement. Firefox did not become irrelevant. I'm not sure where the author is coming from with his remarks, but obviously he lived in a Google Chrome bubble for a long time.
I typed that, autocorrect!
This looks great. Why isn't it available on debian via apt? It seems strongly aligned with debian's values.
Yes, this is my primary pain point also. I want to see independent bloggers, forum discussions, people's views, detailed articles. As you pointed correctly, the top results are brands or heavily optimised sites - which you can figure out by looking has been optimised for SEO. They hardly have any useful insights.
I've been using safari for a few months as my main browser and while it does feel quick, I can't say I've noticed a huge difference in battery life compared to chrome or firefox.

Are there any (recent) tests you know of that compare battery life between safari and the other major browsers?
OK, I wasn't aware of a many to many pain in Django. Good to know.
How to uninstall Pocket from firefox ?
I don't think so - the announcement from Brave mentions full extension API support with the move from Muon to Chromium: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/