skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between eating your dead in a survival situation and consuming animal protein over an extended period of time. It's not that they're not capable of it. It's that their bofies aren't adapted to it and it's inefficient for them to process over long periods. Their bodies are adapted to process plants more efficiently so they do. If they're starving they'll eat what they can. Biologists have known this for a long time. This isn't new information. The differences in teeth and intestinal structure are very distinct. We've cutting open animals for a long time.

Obligate Herbivores will have extra stomachs and digestive chambers, special reguritating mechanisms to allow rechewing of food.

Obligate Carnivores tend to have shorter simpler digestive systems not capable of processing plant material.

If anything I would be more impressed to find out some carnivores were found relying on plants than the other way around. Plants are harder to digest than meat is. A herbivore occasionally eating meat really isn't that rare or anything to get excited about.

Discovering a tiger that lived on bamboo or something now that would be something new and would maybe be something we could use to start rewriting what we know about digestion.
How to be a better listener in a world where everyone’s talking
WhatsApp doesn’t work on the iPad. That is the one thing keeping me from the situation you describe.
I’m not aware of that podcast, but another example is the Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson. I didn’t know anything about either personality when I watched it (and I know very little now), but it was mind numbing how Newman’s only tactic was blatantly misrepresenting Peterson. His ideas may have been total garbage, but we wouldn’t know because Newman was only addressing strawmen. It seemed like her position is so weak that any serious treatment of Peterson’s would have threatened it existentially.
One question, is whether the designation is objective or projective.

There are a lot of "lazy" people "doing the wrong thing", whom closer analysis -- or just actually listening to them -- indicates are actually acting rationally, within their circumstances, and doing the best they can.

In part, the question for me comes down to: Are you going to label? Or are you going to do something about it?

I see and hear a lot of the former. Much less of the latter.

Yet those same people would hate to be treated as they insist others be treated.

So, I don't listen to them, too much.

For years, I made myself ill dealing with tremendously distracting and counter-productive open-space work environments. From college onward, I was told -- encultured -- that "this is the future" and that I'd better learn to cope with, err "thrive", in it.

Now, finally, the cultural dialog is turning the corner on this. They really are horrible, not just in terms of personal welfare but also productivity.

So, what really changed? I was "contrary"; well, actually, I wish I had been more so and actually acted against my circumstances.

Now, it turns out, I was "insightful".

Who really failed? The bozos who stuffed us into cattle pens and couldn't even perform decent metrics against their claims, let alone look at the welfare of their employees.

So, "burnout", "depression", "laziness"? Just words.

Find something you enjoy doing. Some place you enjoy living. And stuff the "opinions" about it.
I meant edges, not corners. They are sometimes called "edge displays" because they go "edge to edge"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.androidauthority.com/best-p...

(The silly part is the curve in the display, not per se that there is no bezel.)
Visualize your daily mood
Mirrorless cameras fixed most of the dSLR haptics. A newish Panasonic with a Leica or fixed Lumix lens will take better photos than any phone. The disadvantage is that you might not have it on you. Heck, my old Ricoh GRD3 takes better photos than the phone.
Billiard ball bounces are digits of Pi (YouTube)
They are not conspirancy theories because they don't assume a concerted effort from these entities but just a common interest and their action converge to reinforce the same phenomenon.

The author is a system biologist writing about sociology, so the paper should be read with the vocabulary of sociology, not of colloquial language.
Seems like a psychological probe. Bait, in a sense. Enough rope to hang. But okay, I’ll bite.

Burnout: After all the effort you’ve expended, you never got anything in return. Like chasing unrequited love.

Depression: In a word, hopelessness. An inabilitity to fantasize about the potential for a better tomorrow. With an emotion so broad, any cause is on the table. Grief for dead loved ones. Crippling physical disabilities. Consistent general rejection by any and all total strangers throughout the world at large.

Laziness: As a qualitative word for external behavior, inner state cannot be discerned by this behavioral attribute. As an internal behavior, sometimes even we don’t know why we’re unable to summon motivation for something we cognitively know we should not procrastinate. Sometimes, at it’s core, once I get past a rough patch of avoiding something, I realize that my intuition was waiting on other cues. A subliminal signal was not yet present. Looking back, it was only until someone threw those final switches that my entire psyche agreed that the time was right to swing into action. I’m still not sure how that works, but I’ve seen it enough times, that by now, I’m usually able to interrogate my uncooperative subconscious to discover the things I’m sometimes left waiting on.

Being In The Wrong Job?

This presupposes a “right” job. As if we’re supposed to be wage slaves, living paycheck to paycheck, under pain of death or firing for the entirety of our youth, and productive adulthood, until we retire at an age too old to have fun.

All jobs are the wrong job. This becomes obvious during periods when you don’t have to work.

But, hey, let’s be realistic, right? We just have to be good little employees, right? It’s the way to world works. Can’t have too many chiefs and not enough Indians, can we?

Well, sorry, but the sad fact is, this one’s not a one-size-fits-all kind of answer. The the others are adjectives of character or psychological state. But “fitting in” has no simple description. You could blame talent, mixture of personalities, or the resources supplied by the employer.

Mostly, this thread seeks to lay blame. It smells like a manager looking to cut heads. And I think that’s the real problem.
> If we don’t know what causes autism, we are pretty sure it’s not genetic, and happens to show about the same age we give vaccinates... it seems very wrong to say it’s a ‘fact’ they aren’t related

Most of these claims are wrong. Just because we don't know what causes autism, doesn't mean we can't conclude what does not cause autism. Vaccines are definitely in the latter category.

Furthermore, there very likely is a genetic component. Autistic children are much more likely to have parents that work in scientific and technical fields, and two such parents compound the risk even further.

Finally, that two events happen at the same time does not entail any sort of causal or even correlative connection. Autism is currently a behavioural diagnosis. Babies don't have suffiently well defined behaviour to make such a diagnosis. The timing of diagnosis coinciding with vaccine delivery is pure coincidence.
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Why did you build this? What are you using it for?
Types of Neural Network Optimizations
I think the new graphics layer (Bloc) will help with this. It's already a huge mental leap to understand what's going on when someone first boots up a Smalltalk environment. The current look of the system doesn't help things.
Marie Kondo's plan to declutter the world
Doesn't include Portugal, apparently.

Edit: it does (https://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Lisb...), just that the country's not listed where I expected it to be.

I vastly prefer taking the train from Lisbon to Porto for business, since I can work and prepare during the trip, with the following caveats:

- Mobile data coverage along that particular line is spottier than a cheetah, with more gaps than a croc's denture and slower than snails. On-board Wi-Fi is even worse.

- For some reason CP (the Portuguese train company) refuses to service the power outlets on 1st/2nd class cars, which means it's a toss-up as to whether you'll have enough battery to work on the train.

This has been going on for years, but I still prefer taking the train to a cramped (and noisy) flight.
I could not figure out cluster storage with docker swarm at least. With containers springing up and going away on multiple computers I could not figure out where the volumes were supposed to “live”

The only thing that at least seemed possible without additional software was nfs mounts but I was thinking it does not help the high availability cause to see the one and only storage node go down. Nor could I see any benefits to a cluster that used the same network for file access as external network requests. Say I wanted to build a horizontally scalable video sharing site I don’t see how I could test the real world performance of it before it went live.
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I'm building something similar using Tor, but using v3 addresses. As v3 is now the default and recommended onion version, will this project move to them? The address are much larger and more unwieldy. However, I've found publishing ephemeral v3 services to be much faster (i.e. a couple of seconds vs a minute). Also since it's basically the ed25519 pub key, the address is enough to be able to verify signed content.
There are more obvious spelling and grammar mistakes. E.g. spelling of receive, among others.

It may be my bias, but such simple mistakes make me dubious.
Project seems inactive, last commit on github in mid-2017. Is there any special reason this was posted?
There's an inside baseball discussion happening here with the larger Rust community that I think, maybe, you're missing. You are absolutely correct in saying that Go, Python et al offer memory safety in a way that low-level languages do not. These languages use techniques that incure some kind of runtime penalty. Erlang, for instance, copies memory like it's going out of style. Now, with Rust you get a similar kind of memory safety but, somewhat uniquely, without the same category of runtime penalty. There's still some, sometimes, and that's where the community discussion around 'unsafe' happens in Rust.

So, you're writing in Rust and you'd like to write code which has the absolute most aggressive performance possible. In Rust parlance this _maybe_ means you need to do unsafe things: turn off bounds checks, fiddle with the raw memory of a structure, allow multiple threads to access the same memory without synchronization, interact with mutable globals and so on. That's great, but, you've potentially opened up your program to crashes or security issues. If you're a solo author that's a trade-off you can make based on your needs. Here's the rub: if you use similar techniques in a crate -- a shared library for all to use -- then you've opted everyone using your crate into the same trade-off, one which they might not have otherwise chosen for themselves. What the Toshi project is saying here is that it's design preference is to avoid opting into this trade-off, preserving all the guarantees that Rust can provide at _possibly_ the expense of absolute performance.

There's a safety-focused subset of the Rust community that takes the presence of an 'unsafe' in a body of Rust code very seriously and this project is participating in that conversation.
Why do you assume ulterior motives? Perhaps people are just sincerely discussing the irony that a notoriously disingenuous publication lecturing readers about intellectual humility. No need to assume that they’re “delighting in tearing them down” (although such delight would be entirely understandable).
Fun read. Also reminds me that I wish I knew of a better password management strategy. I’m currently using an rsa encrypted text file on my laptop
Ordered by a French operator, produced by a British subsidiary of a Franco-German company and funded in part by the European Space Agency. Let's see whether the UK part survives Brexit...
My understanding is the transition to a white hole exists instead of a singularity at the interior of the black hole, and is therefore hidden by the event horizon. When the event horizon shrinks to the Planck length, the white hole is exposed.
This is not a new idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniScriptum#Wikipedia_content

http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/2010/02/odd-tale-alphascript-p...

Also discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183986
Inspired by or surfing similar waves of thought. Science fiction can just go further ahead, not bounded by the realities of science and production limitations.
Some of the image processing that goes on for Pixel 2 & 3 is done in a special ASIC.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/google/pixel_visual_core

Apple probably has a similar block built into their SoCs directly. Computational photography will require more and better HW to handle the compute, so I wouldn't bank on camera improvements stalling out for some time.

As an example of runway, look at the Light L16 (which the Nokia 9 Pureview is rumored to use their tech). It takes medium format DSLR quality photos that you can adjust depth of view in post processing. That will filter out to Android & Apple phones eventually.
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Ways to beat the Monday syndrome
It would cut into Macbook sales.
should call it WhatsIRC

On that point though, what do people think when they see WhatsApp the name? I get the whole whats up thing, but whenever I see the name I think "What's App???" as in What is App???
Today we believe in SCIENCE (whatever that means). Hence, we believe what any of its priests says unless countered by other (more famous) priest.
Seems like that supports the point. :)
Configuration sounds like a nightmare but I know little about controlling satellites. Do you think this is Sophistication at the cost of Simplicity? For example, a well-known band satellite system will float in orbit reliably(?) for a long while, but if you have hardware that is trying to sync up to a satellite signal that has since been altered/shifted/changed into a totally different domain/scope, may it not risk us rendering certain hardware useless? Just a wondering.
We've updated the submitted title (“UK engineers have finished building Quantum, the first software-defined satelite”) to the sub-heading from the article. It's too easy to get things wrong when editorializing! This is one reason the guidelines ask submitters not to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And I believe you. In the end, no language is better than another one in absolute. It all depends on the use case. In mine, Elixir and Go happen to outperform everything else I know but they are probably terrible somewhere else.
Ask HN: Which Mobile Phone are you using and what was the reason for buying it?
I've been using a Lenovo P2 for sometime now and my reason for buying it was the monster battery. Seriously this phone can last for 3 days without charge.

So what do you guys use? What is your criteria when buying a new phone?
I think it's in reaction to Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897347

I think there's a pattern that an open source alternative or lookalike project gets posted when a proprietary one (or linked to a non-opensource one) hits the front page.
You should add more context to your comment
>how did we manage to screw this up?

Not a parent, but as someone in that generation - I almost feel like it’s the natural evolution of how stuff was done when we were in school, just made worse with always-on technology.

20 years ago, when I was a high school freshmen, I wasn’t supposed to have my cell phone in class (or even turned on during the school day. I consistently broke that rule.) and grades were still generally handed out in person. But by the time I graduated, we had pilot online classes, were often emailed grades, and there was a database for the county that could be accessed to see GPA. None of this was in real time, which was better, but the building blocks were already there.

But to me, this isn’t really about technology. It’s about culture and society that, in my opinion, is extremely unhealthy. As another commenter says, much of this can be seen as “school X does this so we have to follow” and parents are often very competitive about their children’s performance, whether it is in school or sports or drama club or whatever. Those of us raised in the era of “everyone gets a trophy” (but the unspoken part of that is that you still know what the “real” trophies are) and lessons for everything (I was in gymnastics and drama most of my life and took golf, tennis, cheerleading, piano, and voice lessons at various times in my childhood/early teens - and that was modest compared to some of my peers), were often preconditioned or encouraged to achieve certain things — whether they were ultimately important or not. I’m not surprised that kids raised that way would also raise their own kids with similar expectations, now with the additional horror or real-time access not just to grades, but location and other stuff.
And also after the Mother of All Demos in December 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Well, kids do have silly rivalries and "clubs" based on things like their family's income and how much designer stuff they wear.

It wouldn't be much different in adult life too, but unlike kids, richer / upper middle class people are not forced in the same space for half of their day with people making less (unless they're their subordinates in an office). Often they don't even live in the same areas of a city (or in the same area of the country). So they just signal their superiority over their poorer brethren on social media mostly (that's where expensive branch pics and holiday instagrams and other consumption showcases come from).
Using Mapbox with Next.js (Instead of Google Maps)
Found what I was most interested in from the FAQ[0]:

Can a bad actor take control of a shard?

With some difficulty - as the Radix universe is split into 18.4 quintillion shards, and your shard address is deterministic on your wallet address, you would need to continually cycle PGP key generation to get matching shard address keys. In addition to this there are several other sybil and spam attack prevention mechanisms to prevent even high numbers of malicious actors on a shard being able to reliably control or isolate honest nodes in a shard.

These mechanisms will be covered in more detail in the forthcoming v2 Tempo White Paper.

Seems like we'll have to wait for the v2 whitepaper for details.

[0] https://www.radixdlt.com/faq
Have you published to git? I have been wanting to try Ricochet but its inactive state makes me nervous.
Maybe that engineering education and / or early experience is worth something.
“websites which purport to be local news organizations which instead write fabricated articles with specific deceptive intent”

Great summary. My perception is that was the original usage, and I am okay with it. I wouldn’t say it’s the common usage now since the term was hijacked by the president to mean the latter definition, and his reach and influence beats that of those using the term in the original sense. I’m not sure if it can be rescued at this point, so I prefer the solution of ditching it.
Yeah, but how do you even do that? Like, realistically - step-by-step

Look at all the other people commenting about how terrible the experience was for them?

I'm very, very skeptical of jaded "professionals" that quickly make a diagnosis and move you along the pharma train. I'm also concerned by my location that I may not even have access to "Good Professionals?"

It seems like talking to a professional without a deep prior level of introspection and self-research is precisely the expressway to being on a road that might not even work. (What if I have ADHD and get treatment for something else entirely, or vice versa?)

This thread fits someone like myself perfectly: I feel lazy, I'm certainly depressed, and I experience burnout all the time, and I have absolutely no idea how to actually seek out help.

Simplistic comments like yours always aggravate me a la:

"Call your attorney or seek legal council for further information" (not many people have a lawyer on retainer, bud)

So, I'm very likely to seek out information from the internet from people who have been in my shoes and have helped themselves, and until I get a solid feeling that I know how to proceed safely, I will continue to do so.
Which they'll do until software picks up the slack and demonstrates a real need for advancement or integration of new features. Phones are so underutilized today it is painful.
The Antikythera mechanism likely was likely built in Rhodes. Rhodes itself had, by that point, been famous for its automatons for several hundred years.
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> The whole market went crazy in completely opposite direction than what the consumers want.

Did they? HN and other tech related comment boards are not representative of the general market. The people happy about the direction the market has moved aren't going to post threads about their satisfaction, they'll just gone on with their day.
Clickhouse is designed for full table scans. It allows one index per table, usually a compound key including the date as the leftmost part of the key. This allows it to eliminate blocks of data that don’t contain relevant time ranges. It is also a column store, so the data being read is only the columns used in the query.

If your query is linearly scalable conceptually, Clickhouse is also linearly scalable. Per core performance is also pretty good. (tens of millions of rows per second on good hardware and simple queries, like most log aggregation queries are)
Yeah I ain't agreeing to take a 2 year hole in my employment.
I'm surprised to see this topic on HN but if you are looking for some more interesting WW2 history, I am (slowly) making and releasing video interviews with survivors of the German Occupation of Jersey and posting them to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CIOSJersey

Jersey is a British island off the French coast and was taken by the Germans and used for propaganda value. As an American living in Europe I find this sort of thing fascinating, there aren't many people who experienced this left but I can still go hang out with someone who lived under Nazi rule and hear what daily life was like. Surprisingly ordinary at first, then pretty bad towards the end. They could see and hear the D-Day activity late in the war, but still had another long year ahead of them, cut off from both Britain and France and left to starve.

If you are in London or Paris and want to visit some amazing bunkers feel free to get in touch, we are about an hours flight away and contact info is in my profile.
I want a removable battery in my next phone.
Can you explain what you mean by "multiple sort parameters" because it looks like you can to me in ES [1]. There is a well maintained LTR plugin for ES. Honestly Solr and ES are more similar than different. There are a few things Solr has which ES doesn't and the reverse is true too.

1. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
Brilliant article with deep insights - very very good read for founders that articulates a lot of the deeply true and difficult things about starting and building a successful company.
Have you read the article?

In many areas where non-competes are legal, all employers slap them on their contracts.

So your choice is to sign one, or remain unemployed.

Also, most employees aren't fully aware of what these non-competes mean anyway.
>it felt exclusive

You can definitely recreate the feeling of exclusivity today on the internet.