skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the solution is to ban tobacco/sugar/alcohol/weed/opioids/new-drug-of-the-day, and I honestly think they should all be legal.

The plain packaging law instituted in Australia and other places is a good way to do it. Plainly state what product is inside the pack and the dangers it presents. No "hip" and enticing designs to lure the impressionable, but let people make an informed choice for themselves.
How about slowly replacing brain cells with synthetic ones while maintaining the consciousness in place?
It seems like a win all around.

Depends. Virtual calls can be done purely in code, with different implementation files you need to go round via the build system. The former just always works independent of platform whereas often for the latter it's more configuration work.
Also, ignoring YAGNI, you could say the virtual one makes it easy to quickly test things out etc, is easily mockable, ...
The same reason they currently don't provide their own cars.
Do all these seem low contrast? I find it hard to believe that he painted down in value like this constantly. He'd have to mix every color with grey. It seems much more likely to be a weird photography setup.
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If deciding join order and what indexes to use sounds like your idea of a good time. It certainly isn't mine.
Hello, I know you're the tech lead for the web workers at cloudflare so pardon my ignorance if I'm wrong.

At least for pure computer speed, I think he means that if you (cloudflare) and AWS got into an arms race in terms of allocated CPU/Memory to the webworkers/lambda, they have more raw resources to do so. They also have a global presence, not necessarily to the degree that you do obviously.

I highly doubt they would do this, and I think you have the superior product. I'm just a student/hobbyist so I admittedly don't have a ton of experience. I'm very biased towards CF, you guys are great! :D
>Out of curiosity, why use virtual calls in those cases? Why not just have two different implementation files -- one for tests, and one for production -- and choose one based on which one you're doing? It seems like a win all around.

I don't fully understand the proposal here. Do you have an example of a code in the wild that uses the proposed scheme?
I think you're more enamored by the idea of open source hardware than to actually benefit from it directly. And working in semiconductors long enough, I can guarantee that an open ISA without licensing restrictions does not for a fully open source chip, or even core make
You are not. I am only 38 and I only work professionally as a programmer for 16.5 years but I am already quite conservative in terms of ruthlessly eliminating complexity and removing any tech that can be consolidated in a monolith repo without huge amounts of effort.

Experience helps a lot. When you know that complexity and too much diversity breeds tech debt, you learn to say "No" decisively.
When everyone is reported, no one is. When everyone is tracked, no one is.
How exactly could a blockchain publish deletion of data in a way that can't be cheated?
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You could apply that pattern to a lot more than just the tech sector. It seems humans are doomed to this cyclical process of 3 steps forward 2 steps back.

Maybe someone needs to create a cloud based serverless SaaS SPA web app developed in F# to help track this stuff and prevent it happening in the future.
MMA cutting is a terrible example.

They try to rid their body of as much water as possible to lower their weight.

When we say fasting for health it usually means lots of water, but no calories.
What happened to the other 20%? If this is the part of the population that is resistant to the trial, then good luck in the coming years.
I’ve done both caving and cave diving. Other than free diving (single breath), cave diving is the second most dangerous form of diving. Cave diving is really technical. As you’ve said, there’s a 1000 things that can easily go wrong.

Imagine you are in pitch black darkness, with limited visibility even with torches. The water is moving, there isn’t a GPS equivalent, it’s real hard to keep track of position other than markers on a rope.

There can be castrophobicially small tunnels that you need to crawl through. Add bulky gear to the scenario. There can be sharp edges that can tear through skin or gear. Worse, there can be stones in the water stream shooting at you.

There is so much that is an element of luck.

This is one of the reasons that interest me so much in robotics. Imagine being able to send 10’s of robots that can map the entire cave in parallel and send the accurate position of the kids. Not only that, but they can autonomously deliver important gear like food, oxygen, heat blankets e.t.c while human divers prepare for rescue. The man-machine patnership can potentially save so many lives.

I strongly believe the future of exploration/rescue is all about how smart + cheap we can make our robots. It’s so much cheaper sending robots than humans to dangerous missions.
> US respondents reported the highest rate of use: in 2017, nearly 30% said they had used drugs for PCE

30%?! That seems incredibly high to me.

> based on the Global Drug Survey — an annual, anonymous online questionnaire about drug use worldwide.

Oh. So total junk. Got it.
I'm pretty sure that by

> \mathbb{R}^d is an associatve normed division algebra

the author is referring simply to a generalization of the euclidean structure.
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Then it became necessary to get a college degree, more competition for less slots

Doesn't this heavily depend on the sector/region/country? Just 'more competition for less slots' sounds overly general. But if it's actually happening I'd be interesting in finding out why? More people? Less slots due to economic causes? Likewise for the necessity of a degree. Why is that, is it the result of automation or so? Do you have numbers to back this up?
He wasn't headed back to some country of origin though. I take your point it's not really the same.
Is `empty("0")` still true in PHP?
Countries like Saudi and UAE have 'similar' software requests. Frequently they will request any map software either blanks out or overwrites Israel.
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If this isn't the peak of human hubris I'm really not sure what is. What could go wrong?
What's the difference between their browser extension and web app (the vault)?
Pretty sure not even RISC-V is "open source hardware", in a meaningful way, unfortunately. There's a lot more to building a platform than the instruction set of the CPU. I've yet to see anyone building an open source hardware platform using RISC-V.. I would be thrilled to be proven wrong, so please do if you can!
That's a common pitfall with ORMs and dumb stacks like Spring data: they're made for unexperienced developers who can't be bothered to understand other technology than their favourite programming language. When it comes to databases however, SQL is the standard, is already at a higher level of abstraction than a primitive record-like abstraction build on top of it, and direct SQL access will be required for any meaningful data manipulation at scale, for locking, for schema evolution, BI, etc. anyway.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499555
It’s also possible to do this by sending AT commands via serial - I wrote some python scripts to do so on my Thinkpad: http://blog.mclemon.io/thinkpad-x250-sms-and-gps-via-python
I was prescribed Ritalin in varsity. What a mess. Sure it would help you concentrate for really long hours, but the juice really wasn't worth the squeeze for me. It absolutely ruined my mood and at exam time I actually found myself over stressed, exhausted and not doing terribly well.

I stopped using it pretty soon after that and found a methodology for studying that suited me personally. Not always easy though.
two devs and five months sounds like a waste of maybe $100k. Yes I would not touch perf if no one is complaining about it. On the other hand product "owners" routinely drive companies into bankruptcy.
> We don’t hear of many stories of ethnic Chinese Singaporeans or Taiwanese doing this sort of thing...

We literally heard a story of a white American doing this exact thing just last year.[1] Nobody complained about America's cultural/political tendencies. Even though there's plenty of academic cheating here.[2] It was just about that white guy. The racism is in the double standard and confirmation bias.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski

[2] https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/1-in-5-harvard-gradua...
You're expecting to have a 47% savings rate, and at the same time refuse to make any concession in how you're living (get a studio, pick a lower cost area, get roommates). I think that's a very high bar for defining "live well".
Yup. I miss good RTS and spacefighter simulators. With the latter, I think FreeSpace 2 with its open-source community-driven remaster is still the best spacefighter sim available today. And it was also story-rich - which is something I miss these days too.

Somewhat related, I spent an ungodly amount of time recently playing Subnautica, and this reminds me that the underwater world has been pretty much forgotten by both games and sci-fi literature/movies. What was the last underwater game I played before Subnautica? Ah, Submarine Titans. A quite fun and beautiful (for that time) RTS. From 18 years ago.
And one day the community realised that technical innovations had deeper ramifications than something to nerd over or some fancy valuation in a startup with a quirky name.

As an industry, software is still very young. And as it comes of age in the modern era, its impact continues to reach further and further into the fabric of society. We are more than ever before making ethical questions part of the conversation when developing technology.

Politics and policies making their way into HN is therefore an inevitable evolution. Nothing else.
It is a productivity drug and it gives momentum which translates into flow and if you've ever been in flow then you know you're smarter while in it
There is a link in another thread to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sterile_insect_techniq... .

That list suggests that the technique is an effective way of holding an insect population down in general, but not a good way of eliminating it entirely. Furthermore, the trials involving Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex are particularly unpromising:

> Culex quinquefasciatus / Myanmar / 1967 -- population eliminated

> Culex quinquefasciatus / Florida / 1969 -- population eliminated

> Culex pipiens / France / 1970 -- population "reduced"

> Anopheles albimanus / El Salvador / 1972 -- population reduced "below detection level"

> Culex quinquefasciatus / Delhi / 1973 -- population "reduced"

> Culex quinquefasciatus / Delhi / 1973 (?) -- population unaffected

> Aedes aegypti / Kenya / 1974 -- no long-term effect

> Anopheles albimanus / El Salvador / 1977-1979 -- significant reduction, but eradication prevented by immigration

> Culex tarsalis / California / 1981 -- "no population reduction"

So, in 9 trials the first 5 were whole or partial successes and the last 4 failed. (I have no idea what the story is with the two ~simultaneous trials in Delhi.) That's not great and the trend is ugly.

I tend to suspect the reason mosquitoes show up in this list with so many failures is precisely the fact that people hate them and significant efforts have already been devoted to their extermination. This strategy can't work over the long term -- either the population is wiped out quickly or not at all.
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Liane was beloved at Uber. I cannot speak to any issues of racial discrimination, but I definitely felt that Lianne was one of the "good" folks at the company, and I am very surprised and dissapointed by this news.
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This isn't surprising. Every company I've worked for, HR seemed out to protect the company only and try to quiet/bury complaints. It's a well known mantra not to ever talk to HR, sad as it's become...
Also at 78, she is probably farsighted so needs to see bigger text. There's an iOS setting for that. But it doesn't work so well for browsers.

I wish mobile browsers would let you increase text size and not magnify/zoom. I remember old Android browsers let you before. And of course there is the Javascript Safari hack. It's just they aren't permanent.
Yea all things being equal I'd choose your approach. But in an existing project that did things this way - it would be the last thing I'd touch. This is of course barring extreme circumstances - which profiling and other tools would identify.

Unfortunately a lot of C++ developers don't really understand how the linker works, and because of that the build system is black magic.
This is pretty hilarious! I've never really run into a coding style like this, so maybe I just haven't read enough source code. :?

That said, the project itself is pretty cool too!
How about using your smartphone's gyroscope to show the artifical horizon on the screen itself? For example using https://richtr.github.io/Artificial-Horizon/ as background for text.

If somebody that experiences motion sickness wants to test it, I can help coding a prototype.
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I'm just saying do conditional compilation instead of virtual dispatch, since you generally shouldn't really need both the test and production implementations to run inside the same program. So if you have reason to require

// widget.h
class Widget { virtual void throb(); };
// widget.cc
class WidgetImpl : public Widget { void throb() { ... } };
class WidgetTest : public Widget { void throb() { ... } };

then, instead of that, just do

// widget.h
class Widget { void throb(); };
// widget.cc
void Widget::throb() { ... }
// widget.test.cc
void Widget::throb() { ... }

where you only compile widget.cc for the production build, and only compile widget.test.cc for the test build.

Feel free to post a more specific example and I can take a stab at seeing if I can make this transformation to it (or why it might not be possible, if you think it's not).
At least for me I've learned all these things but it can be so mentally taxing that I have a hard time doing it.
Reminds me of The Color Out of Space.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space
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It’s funny that this comment is flagged down, but also one of my most upvoted comments ever. Controversial apparently.
Why do i have to sign into Google in order to view this?
Off-topic: I so wish I worked for a company where my work involves scraping and storing and analyzing data. :(
I highly recommend reading gwern[1] if one is interested in the current state of what nootropics are being used/considered significant. It is anecdotal, but also includes many references to literature to those more inclined.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
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I mean the page layout. A single very narrow column and a lots of unused space all around it.
I have full sized screen, I shouldn't be constrained as if I was on mobile.

EDIT: you are right, it's the AMP version which makes it like that, without /amp it looks like normal web page.
I wouldn't say trade all rationality, but trade some of it in some circumstances. This is especially valid in the hacker news community, where most likely we spend our time in the part of the mind that works with reason.

If you want to try seeing the other side and start marrying the two sides, you should try acting classes. Words, video, lack the dimension to explain to you how that feels on your body.
Wen Ho Lee, Sherry Chen, Xiaoxing Xi, Bo Jiang were all falsely accused of being spies. There seems to be a pattern here.
I feel the same way about Phoenix. In 2003 I was running 0.1 on a Pentium III 450Mhz with 128MB RAM and it's still the fastest browser I've ever used.

The newer Firefox Quantum releases are coming close, but even then it's on a quad-core Core i7 2.8Ghz and 16GB of memory MacBook Pro.
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This is literally comicbook thinking. Other than thanos seeking this goal, can you describe how the human race could be saved by extremely reducing the population?
Accelerating wealth disparity will do that to a society.
The default keyboard on my Sony Xperia… something can already type a fair number of characters, but I don't think most people discover them.

These are all accessed by holding down keys on the number/punctuation view: ¢ ¯ — – ≈ ≠ ± ‡ † ‰ ÷ × « » ½ ¼ ⅛ ⅓ ⅔ ¾ ⅜ ² ³ ⁴ ⅝ ⁿ ⅞ • … ¿ ¡

They're not very discoverable like that.

Some are repeated, but these ones are on the second page of punctuation: § ¶ ° ¬ ~ © ® | ¦

I'm missing ‽ and a subscript 2 so I can write CO2 properly.
This is a common pattern, when it come to semi-idealistic memes like microservices or agile. I think it's a bad idea to have such hairy, abstract ideas travel too far and wide.

They become a bucket of clichés and abstract terms. Clichéd descriptions of problems you're encountering, like deployments being hard. Clichéd descriptions of the solutions. This let's everyone in on the debate, whether they actually understand anything real to a useful degree or not. It's a lot easier to have opinions about something using agile or microservice standard terms, than using your own words. I've seen heated debates between people who would not be able to articulate any part of the debate without these clichés, they have no idea what they are actually debating.

For a case in point, if this article described architecture A, B & C without mentioning microservices, monoliths and their associated terms... (1) Far fewer people would have read it or had an opinion about it. (2) The people who do, will be the ones that actually had similar experiences and can relate or disagree in their own words/thoughts.

What makes these quasi-ideological in my view is how things are contrasted, generally dichotomously. Agile Vs Waterfall. Microservices Vs Monolithic Architecture. This mentally limits the field of possibilities, of thought.

So sure, it's very possible that architecture style is/was totally besides the point. Dropping the labels of microservices architecture frees you up to (1) think in your own terms and (2) focus on the problems themselves, not the clichéd abstract version of the problem.

Basically, microservice architecture can be great. Agile HR policies can be fine. Just... don't call them that, and don't read past the first few paragraphs.
I'm using KeepassXC on desktop, Keepass2Android on mobile and Dropbox for syncing the database and I'm quite happy with it. Bitwarden looks a bit more polished, but are there any other advantages over Keepass?
Right, he headed from Mountain View to San Francisco. Nobody complained about how keen San Franciscans are to steal everyone's IP.
The BGP authentication method doesn't seem very secure, so how do you know who you are trusting?
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I’d say Bill & Melinda gates foundation + charities that fight preventable diseases have saved more lives than super heroes.

It’s so easy to forget how nasty Spanish flu, small pox and polio was. My grandfather has stories where they would burn people’s houses/huts with the people alive inside if they had contracted the disease. It was brutal. A curse that would wipe an entire enpire.
That’s how security cameras work too - if the data is deleted in a reasonable timeframe I dont have a problem with it.
On Linux with the Compose key enabled, it's Compose, !, ?.

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Apple is generally full of shit. They'll refuse to unlock a terrorist's phone in the US but will get on all fours for the Chinese government's absurdly unreasonable requests.

And they'll gladly throw users privacy under the bus in China by forking over iCloud China to a government backed/owned cloud.

The next time they pretend moral superiority over some obviously inane topic, like protecting a terrorist, best get a supeona from China.
I don't understand why China didn't just send a National Security Letter and request the information that way.
He chose books because they exploit the structural advantage of the internet maximally: infinite shelf space for the entirety of published selection, something that would be impossible in a physical store.

I think this advice to 'think small' could be refined to include 'find a small edge, then relentlessly exploit it'.
So I have an honest naive question. Simply put, why are people playing Pay to Win games to begin with?

I genuinely don’t understand where the dopamine release is? That’s what keeps people coming back, right? And is the dopamine release for some reason stronger than non-Pay to Win? Because if it’s not stronger, why do they play that rather than a flat cost game? Sunk costs? Trying to keep up with friends?

I game a ton, but have never given such a game more than a couple hours, and far more rarely money because I simply wasn’t having fun...

I’m not being judgmental, I’m trying to understand because I don’t. I’m assuredly the weird one.
For a news site, it has a fairly low number of trackers, and it's in the EU so GDPR applies.
Seems that she disagrees with you.
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It's called human resources. It exists to manage humans as a resource. The idea that it exists to benefit you comes from having human in the name. It's like a farm having a department called cow resources.
In my opinion school gym/sport classes can be very good at completely sucking the living joy out of exercise.

Athleticism and sports should not be forced on kids. Let them run freely.

Eg. Just look at all the "free" street sports such skateboarding, rollerblading, bmx, parkour and so on.
It doesn't have to be dull, boring and super formalized.
Out of interest, does anyone know how this affects ecological balance. Are the insects replaced by another species? How does this affect bird populations which rely on eating the mosquitos?
I don't - it displays immediately for me when I load in a Firefox instance without a logged in Google account.
A personal anecdote from me and my wife.

The weekend before they found them my wife told me that a monk who was praying for them at the cave said that a ghost[1] was hiding them from the eyes of the divers until Monday[2]. They shouldn't be worried about the children and their coach as the ghost would take care of them.
To my surprise they found them on that Monday.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/27/world/asia/ap-as...
[2] I don't have a source as my wife was just scrolling through her Facebook feed
Nice idea but UI is far too slow when using + and - buttons. Better if mouse used.
It was discussed on HN a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16523786

Hyper-spheres are a recurrent theme, see for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615