skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EDIT: I don't care about downvotes, but if you are going to do it at least leave a comment of why you think I am wrong.

That would defeat the entire purpose of using voting to manage the signal to noise ratio; in general, if a comment is worthy responding to, it shouldn't be downvoted, and vice versa.
Note that a good way to tell if your body is burning muscle is that your sweat/urine will start smelling like ammonia.

https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/what-is-that-ammonia-sm...
I don't know about throwing away, but I certainly know several people who have a drawer full of old smartphones they're never going to use again.
Hardly new, as many commenters point out. But with print media in straits, now is a perfect time to buy some press.
Could you explain the difference to me, as I am clearly in the minority in thinking that the two are synonymous.
I know there are a lot of Objective-C lovers and advocates out there, but after working in it for two years I just always found it to be a terrible worst-of-both-worlds fusion of C and Smalltalk.

It lacks both runtime and compile time safety, but without any of the advantages that come with Smalltalk (cool environment, quality GC, excellent class libraries). And because they essentially bolted on Smalltalk-style runtime late bound dispatch into C if you write in a heavily OO style you don't get any of the performance advantages of it being a "C".

On top of that the syntax is a terrible mismash. Constantly going back and forth between the two expression styles, they honestly just don't mix well.

And the memory model was never well done -- having to avoid reference-count cycles makes many things awkward. I understand why they got stuck with reference counting for collection, but it's not like RC implementations with the ability to handle cycle collections weren't invented years ago...

Finally, it's an insular language that is vibrant only within the Apple dev community.

I agree with others -- they would have been better going 'full Smalltalk' or something like it. I'm glad they finally went with Swift. I only wish I had been able to use it in my dev.
They are in some countries as far as I know. For example here in Germany there were strikes by amazon warehouse workers.

It would be interesting to see a comparison of working conditions between the different countries.
> I definitely don't ever see myself "retiring"-- and I mean that: I will never not be interested in what I'm interested in now. If I stop working formally I will start to work informally, and I never want to be cordoned off into an "island for seniors".

I believe you're making a "I hope" statement and treating it like a fact. You're 23, you're still young - life happens. Spouse, kids, mortgages, sickness, injury, tragedy, joy, all that stuff happens and it changes you and how you look at the world and what you value. By all means love what you're doing, but don't expect you won't change. The joy is you don't need to prepare for it - it'll happen whether you're observing it or not.
Interesting to see this comment downvoted because I believe it is true. Most European countries are looking for alternatives and nuclear power generation is heavily criticized there.
That depends on whether the ad is sold based on conversions, clicks, or views. All three models are in use on the web.
> That would imply people will go back to installing things, hunting for feeds, copypasting urls...

Nope. We could have a simple list of feeds, with a simple 'add' button next to the site name, even embedded in the app itself, as preferred/most read feeds list. Since this list contains no excerpts, and actual excerpts and feeds would be coming from publisher themselves, it shouldn't be an issue.

Of course, then we have questions like order of this list, how many and which feeds it lists and all, but it offers enough convenience that if made avoidable, we shouldn't have a problem with it.

Or since IANAL, this _may not_ be how the links and excerpts are considered, and I'm wrong, in which case, I'd like to know so I can correct myself.
Amazon can afford to close warehouses where workers are trying to unionize. Walmart does the same:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-ove...
Yes, it's definitely ripe for some old-fashioned unionizing. As for automation, though... large parts are already automated, and they're constantly automating anything that can be automated. Humans are really the "last mile" here.
Where are functions stored?
End to End Integrity with IPFS
My mistake (with hindsight) was not being more cautious. I needed a home to start my family, and moving hundreds of miles away (which would have made me jobless) to a depressed region just to find an affordable house was out of the question.

My wife and I were told that real estate was a "sure bet". I distinctly remember my mortgage broker telling me "I can't promise you anything, but real estate prices have been going up for 12+ years straight" Everyone a generation older than us were living in (and selling) houses that were skyrocketing in value. We felt that if we didn't buy now, we'b be priced out of the market forever.

That being said, there wasn't a single person in my wife (personally or professionally) who could have warned me. It was either keep renting or jump in.
Here's a pretty good meta-analysis:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3970209/

There's a lot of conflicting data. However I think the general thrust is that you should not try to lose weight unless you are accurately measuring how much lean mass you are losing. Otherwise it's very easy to lose a lot of muscle, which is probably not healthy unless you are extremely obese. Crucially your current body composition matters quite a lot. People under 10% body fat are going to start losing really important vital body mass. People over 25% body fat will lose mostly fat. But people have wildly different body compositions and a BMI of 25 doesn't mean 25% body fat. Again, accurate measurement is crucial.

Personally, I focus on maximizing a variety of physical measurements. (How long I can hold various yoga poses without discomfort, how many situps I can do, how far I can bike/walk/swim before I begin to feel fatigued, etc.) I definitely think optimizing weight downward is a poor strategy for improved health.
Does Beato ever open up a DAW and talk about any techniques? I only ever see his opinion videos.
Your general point that economics models greatly simplify the real economy is a good one. However, the field has made significant advances to introduce real-world constraints into the models.

Example of a subfield addressing your 3):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_economics

I believe 2) is addressed as well but I am not a professional economist so maybe someone can help edify us.
"We tend to think of major media as very authoritative (even if we don't admit it to ourselves)"

One thing I've increasingly noticed over the past couple of years (and I think it's personal development, not any particular combination of news of the day) is the way the way we trust the mass media can make stories just disappear by simply not covering them. I'm not even merely talking about political stories disappearing or the media exerting bias; I mean even bigger than that. How many times have you read something interesting and would be interesting in reading about a followup story in a month or two? How often do you see that followup story? For instance, in the domain of science articles, how many times do you read about some preliminary result vs. an article discussing the field's reaction to some preliminary result?

People simply and almost blindly take their cues about what's important from what the mass media is talking about, but if you examine even just what the mass media is putting out on its own terms it's hard to conclude that it's the truly most important stuff.

Note my point here is about people moreso than the media. The media is forced to be biased by limited bandwidth. If you want to argue that they're biased beyond what that justifies, I will be right there with you, but that's not what my point here is about. My point here is that regardless of exactly how the bias manifests, how casually we tend to accept the mass media's output as the definition of what is important today, what the agenda is, what we all have to talk about, what we're going to screech at about each other on social media, etc.
A company as big as Amazon doesn't make as much as it does by treating workers fairly. They are the modern day version of old industrial factories. They take down and out people who they know they can exploit and push them to their limits. I've seen a few places in the poorer section of states where most of the locals are forced to work in a small number of factories/plants. Even in these cases though, they are at least treated like humans. The atmosphere at some of these Amazon warehouses serves to dehumanize the workers. You are not a person, you are an object that is expected to obey very strict rules like a dog. The management at these warehouses is even worse, because it's often very abusive people who wind up in those positions.
Right to work, baby. It makes divide and conquer pretty easy.

Between that and the use of contractors, unionization is very difficult to achieve.
And Germany temporarily jailed a bunch of executives (including Audi's CEO, who is still in jail as far as I know) this year to stop them interfering with investigations, and results of those investigations might lead to more being sentenced once they're done.
iOS 12 runs on the 5s.

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12/
Agreed. I have xfce installed along side it because I was curious at some point so I have that extra daemon that makes a popup every time a command is completed(comes with xfce). It's useful when the terminal is on another workspace.
You completely misread my comment. Of course it's smart for time magazine to sell a worthless business to a billionaire. My point is why are tech billionaires buying money losing businesses? It certainly isn't for profit or because it is a good financial decision. So what are they getting out of it? Certainly people like bezos and benioff don't like losing money. So what is the purpose?

My issue isn't why did time magazine sell itself. That is obvious and understandable. My issue is why did a tech billionaire buy it. That isn't as obvious and understandable.
If I'm correct you only gain money from advertising when the user clicks on an ad. If the user does not click (and you could argue that people who install adblockers will not) than no money was lost.

The entire debate around copyright and online monetisation is trapped in "entitlement" of publishers in the METHOD of extracting value. Have you ever considered that maybe it's not that people don't want to support you financially, but that you're methods are wrong?

So maybe subscriptions don't work, but let's take pirates as an example. Multiple studies have proven that pirates spend more money on the things they pirate than non-pirates. So in actuality piratisation is increasing the amount of money publishers are making since the act of piracy it self actually represents no cost to the publisher.
> "We fully embrace Javascript as dynamically typed language and when one does this, types on most cases will become irrelevant."

That's not dynamic typing, that's weak typing.

Dynamic typing just means the types are omitted in the source code, but they're still there. typeof 3 is still 'number'. If you explicitly specify the types, you get TypeScript.

But weak typing means you can do things with disparate types that you can't normally do, usually by implicitly coercing one to the same type as the other.

The world has generally considered weak typing a very bad idea. Type coercion has too many edge cases and unintuitive/unexpected combinations. Even Lua is experimenting with runtime flags that disable type coercion such as "1" + 2. (That's the reason they have the .. operator btw.)

The only byproduct of weak typing that most people agree on keeping in modern languages is the concept of "truthy", but even then, languages have different ideas of what should be truthy. Clojure and Ruby say everything except nil and false are truthy, Python says "" and [] are also falsey, and I don't remember where JavaScript fully stands on this, but I know that null, undefined, false, and "" are at least falsey.
Bandwidth isn’t the main cost of running a website you also have to pay people to make content. Compared to that bandwidth is free.
Univalence from a computer science point-of-view [video]
Perhaps AirBnb should actually follow the law in NYC (30 days minimum) until they can lobby enough to change the law.
Yes.

Regulation should ensure a fair and level playing field for all. It's not anti-capitalist, it just stops the big guys from ruining things for everyone else.
The alternative is Android that has a much weaker security model and where the manufacturers don’t offer patches for more than two years if at all.

But as far as iOS, I am not aware of any unpatched security vulnerabilities that have been reported in over ten years that would allow an app to exfiltrate sensitive data from another app on a none jailbroken device.
The use case that seems obvious to me is computationally efficient ray-tracing in robotics/autonomy simulation. I wonder if ISAAC sim will take advantage of RTX. What do you think?
maybe the panel does, but that doesn't much matter unless you're happy to make use of variable low voltage DC right there on the spot.

it has to run through an inverter, and likely be stepped up, to go anywhere else. and both of those things will tend to be higher efficiency when you've got more panels in the same place.
Yeah, life happens, and I know what change is like, but from my viewpoint, my interests won't change that much. Maybe one day I won't want to work anymore, but I will still want to "do". Doesn't every body want to "do"? I like math. It's kind of hard not to like math once you start liking it, you know? It's a pretty broad thing to be interested in, and could mean a number of different things for my future.
What's your definition of crummy?
Illegal fishing is a big contender and is one avenue I think is sorely needed in this world of horrific natural/resource depletion and by-catch waste, despite what certain punters with an axe to grind (eg @mmjaa, below) may believe.
Why should anyone with an adblocker installed care about tracking? I mean isn't the end goal to just serve personalized ads?
You'd use a pronounceable encoding scheme like proquints[0] so your child would be called Zagil-kunaf-lagoh-dudav-gukup-pujon-hitoh-lukug-vulut-zazug-batip-bikop-mafoh-foliv-munuh-nopok.

You must be pretty optimistic about humanity's future if you're using a 256 bit hash. Just "Zagil-kunaf-lagoh-dudav" ought to be enough for anybody.

[0] https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016
Plenty noticed, most either didn't care, or had no power in the matter. The phenomenon of people going to get "real" kfc across state lines was so popular a south park episode was loosely based on the premise. There is a clear difference in taste, for those that taste their food before swallowing it with a gulp of soda. It's never really been a debate.
I wouldn't doubt this idea has come up at least once in some shareholder meeting.
Probably bad ;-) Seriously speaking all that comparison tables are pure academic stuff. In real code I honestly ever encountered a case where I have no clue whatsoever what both sides of equation are. To the claim that when you have such conditions, then you need to fix that and such code is bad to the bones. Real life code is much more boring - if (a == “b”) where there is no value possible for a where === would give different result. But, I like to alleviate that there is no beef for me in this discussion, i just wanted to show that, yes, someone still uses == and he is not looney ;-)
yes, VW was small fines. GDPR, especially for something like what is being suggested here, would be astronomical. Not saying nobody will do it, because humans are stupid.

to quote vincent vega re: the keying of his car, it would be worth having them do it, just to catch them doing it.
In 2007 the World Bank issued a report stating, in effect, it wanted more right-wing governments in power around the world because they tended to borrow more (for wars) and it was better for the World Bank to have right-wing/crypto-fascsist in power than the liberal social democrats that had been paying off their bills.

And now, look where we are. In short, if you're sick of all the right-wing nonsense, follow the money: who loaned them the money to get where they are today, in power? Follow that trail all the way back and you'll see the real string-pullers behind the puppets...
That isn't a very good argument. Just cause you downloaded something doesn't give you the rights to it.

If that was the case piracy would be legal, software trails wouldn't be legal. Windows license or photoshop trial up? Well I downloaded, your server fulfilled the request. I have legal rights to it now.

Oh, this art? I am selling it. Well I saw it on the internet, my computer downloaded, their servers fulfilled it. If they didn't want to hand over the rights they should've blocked me from viewing it.

That kind of argument is an argument I expect in a non-tech site with people making excuses. You know that isn't a solid argument you made at all.

The way the internet works doesn't create a vector that allows that. If they did implement that you'd need a multiple round trip check, the site would be slammed for being slow to respond cause it have to download a script, check if your blocking, report back then start the downloading process for the site. Just not feasible.

Those smaller sites would lose to bigger sites that can get away with slower response times or ignore pre-checking anyways.
Uh... prices will rise instantaneously by the amount of the subsidy, then gradually drop as competition is restored? You seem to be positing a Giant Solar Crash or something, and that doesn't seem likely. Chinese panels are maybe a bit under cost now, but these are just not expensive devices.
Partly for this reason, I’ve written a media literacy guide:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

There’s also one specific to the tech industry:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...
> If that is true, then why even have fat instead of extra muscle?

Higher density, lower basal metabolic rate increase.

> Burning muscle before fat makes no evolutionary sense.

The chemical pathway for getting energy from muscle is much shorter than the one to get energy from fat.
Ask HN: What online course should I take?
Hello.
In the coming months I'll have more free time than expected and I would like to invest part of this time in online courses.

Can you suggest me some classes in any of these topics? I don't care if I have to pay, but only if the course is proven to be valuable.

* AWS/Google Cloud/Firebase
* A new anguage I don't know (Rust? Scala?)
* Mobile platforms like iOS, Android...
* IoT
* Agile "stuff"

What course would you take if you were in my situation?

I'm a sort of generalist/fullstack developer, with experience in many languages already. I've released apps on the Apple AppStore and I'm not afraid to learn new stuff.
> In general, muscle is 'consumed' before 'fat'.

Where did you glean that information?

Here's my source that contradicts your statement: https://idmprogram.com/fasting-and-muscle-mass-fasting-part-...
I did so much work using CDE it's hard not to be nostalgic for it.
I'm not disputing that, just providing a data point that you can still live in Canada and work as a dev for good pay and a low cost of living. I could move to the US and make twice my current salary, but that comes with its own drawbacks.
> if your desire is to live there perpetually for years

You mean like 99% of people? When you work in the city, grew up in the city, have met almost everyone you know in the city, to then be forced out of the city because people want to rent their apartments out for 3-10 days at a time instead of 1-3 years means that people who need the stability of a permanent address now have to either shell out much more cash than a land lord can get (illegally) on airbnb, or move out of the city and abandon the thing they have known their entire lives.

I'm not saying I have a good solution to it, other than the typical protectionist idea of tax the things that are destroying us, but at least that way there is money in the treasury to try and save a portion of the people affected by it.
I like to think that the F/OSS community could have done better with OpenSTEP/Cocoa language bridges than Apple’s performance with Java had the community not been burning all its energy on frameworkless window bling. In the other timeline where GNUStep becomes the defacto UI environment for Linux, we are writing Cocoa and GNUStep apps in Smalltalk and Guile because even Apple recognizes how great some of the F/OSS apps are.

Also BeOS had major problems. I loved it, but I think BeOS with its multiuser story and networking would have been a much harder road to follow for Apple.

Lastly, I think NeXT without Apple was failing not because of technology but because of cost and the economies of scale that little NeXT could bring. OSX proved the tech could carry forward with incremental improvement.
The problem is in how undemocratic this kind of philanthropy is. Most everyone can agree that homelessness needs to be addressed. But why does one man get to decide how that is done? We as a society should be using our collective resources to help give everyone a good chance, we shouldn't have to rely on the benevolence of certain massively powerful individuals for any good to be done for those in need. It shouldn't be possible for only one person to dictate the terms for which that aid is dispensed either, which could just be another way of helping themselves.

The way this should work is that Bezos should be taxed far more than he currently is and a good government run by and for the people should be redistributing that wealth created by Bezos (but mostly created by all the workers at Amazon, and through the use of society's existing infrastructure) to improve things for everyone.

There is a good discussion of the issues with such kinds of billionaire philanthropy in this podcast [1] and its sequel, where they focus on how Bill Gates has built an image of doing good for the world's most needy, while also using that same power to threaten democracies and worker's rights and build more power for himself.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so...
TFA is written by a guy who took the job to collect anecdotes to write a book to show how miserable life is for low wage earners and now it is time to market the book. Sorry but I am skeptic about this article and think it is an exaggeration. At the same time if it is true why are folks not simply resigning and going to a better job? It is a free country isn’t it? Why is minimum wage still so low and why are all political parties not coming together to raise it?
What's next? Change location settings remotely so that they can siphon more data?

Who the hell at Google tought that playing with phone settings remotely was a good idea?
How are the conditions through Europe? I know they went on strike or were about to in Spain, any news from other countries?
Seattle. I work with people who have 2hr commutes, both ways.
Immigration is just about the most American thing there is. If you think having a bunch of immigrants move in makes the area “a foreign country” then you have no idea what this country is even about. If being around different ethnicities bothers you, then I suggest returning to your ancestral homeland.
Previous discussion from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17984576
It's a sad, sad day. First Guido, and now Linus have given up. Can't blame them, under this grinding onslaught. There is something very Randian about it all though.
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