skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19233289
Planting Trees in the Anthropocene (2015)
Interestingly, the overuse of antibiotics has the likelyhood of causing them to create superbugs that make the antibiotics completely useless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse

Also, while cleanliness is absolutely important, over cleanliness appears to be a potential cause of asthma and allergies in general.

https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140606/too-clean-home...
Most of us bay area folks fantasize about leaving this place. But, it's hard to get out of here. all our friends and family are here, not to mention our jobs. if it wasn't for that, I'd bet people would be leaving in droves.
Video Editing in React Native
Hello

I am stuck with video editing in React Native.

If anyone here has any feedback/experience in this then please shoot me a message. I'd buy you coffee or a shot if you are in Palo Alto

Thanks in advance
> If advertising created value, people would seek out ads.

Yes, they click them.

> In reality, they block them.

Some do. Others click them.

> Making people want to consume things is the point of advertising. Looks like it works.

Yes! It does work, but don't forget everyone has their own agency. No one is forcing you to click ads. But people still do -- it's almost as if they get value out of it. Otherwise, why would they click them?
It started a long time ago as a port of an old tool called bmdview2 to the web called "bmdview.js" as a way of learning WebGL and graphics. A bit later, I wanted to see levels from Ocarina of Time, so I created a tool called "zelview.js". Both of these original tools are still online, but they might have bitrotten by now.

I created more and more tools like this until I decided to combine all of them, and noclip.website is the result. It combines my love of video games, reverse engineering, high-performance graphics applicationss, and pushing the boundaries of the web. Other people seem to enjoy it too, which is always a huge motivation booster.
USAF, RAF Jets Fly over Site of World War II Crash on 75th Anniversary
I just got rid of a 2006 Mac Pro since I'm moving in a few months, but it was pretty great. There's a ton of aftermarket upgrades you can do and even mine, the oldest Intel model, could run El Cap. The subreddit /r/macpro has a ton of info and if you get a 4,1 or 5,1 it'll go up to 12 cores and run Mojave easily.
Current Macs with Bootcamp are already basically useless for running Linux. It is not technically impossible to run but might as well be. The T2 SSD controller actively prevents access by any OS that is not either MacOS or Windows, even with secure boot disabled.
As a hardcore GIS person it drives me a little wild watching people of other domains misname things like aerial vs. satellite, photography vs. imagery, etc. Even moreso is when people of other domains re-write the wheel rather than learn some GIS (like stuff I see often in Mobile robot perception/mapping).

The best way I can describe it is that feeling when kids on the playground are speaking like experts about a videogame you knew about years before anyone. You should be excited they're into stuff you're into, but you just wished they'd give a little credit. :)
Eh--I tried a little Wargroove but I thought its maps were pretty unbalanced. It became really easy to end up in a meat-grinder fight where in Advance Wars you had to mess up to find yourself in that state.

The art style (particularly the human portraits) also did not work for me.
"ARM could well become a huge breakthrough for tech."

???

Arm has been around since 1987 Runs billions of devices.
Its always been possible to license arm, at a cost.

Now there are free open source architectures which are suerly more interesting for custom silicon than paying huge license fees to Arm Holdings.
It already starts at school. Learning English with Katakana leads to such an incorrect pronunciation that they basically have to relearn talking in English, when they eventually meet foreigners. I have been to multiple school visits as part of the university program and it's a sad state. But in my experience they are trying to improve it, e.g. by bringing us foreign students to the schools and raising awareness.
I think you'll find in the psychiatry literature that if there's one thing that can help a lot AGAINST suicide, it's engagement. As long as you keep the patient engaged, there is little danger of suicide (with the significant exception of a patient that came in determined to commit suicide and is executing a plan). Which is why I'm saying that even when keeping people engaged with strategies for suicide, that still works against suicide.

Of course engagement is expensive to do for humans and therefore is often explicitly not done in clinical settings, or to put it differently: hospitals are surprisingly empty for patients staying there and psychiatric hospitals are no different

Because you effectively can't do it with humans, preventing the "slide towards suicide", engagement, even discussing the suicide itself, is actually helpful.

A very recurring element in descriptions of suicide tends to be a long history of the patient with constantly dropping reaction/interaction/engagement and slowly increasing "somberness", suicidal thoughts and discussions, then suicide attempts. Then, days or sometimes less before the actual suicide you see a sudden enormous spike in engagement with staff, and while we obviously can't ask, it seems deliberately designed to mislead. And staff often "falls for it". That spike is designed to make staff give the patient the means for suicide or somehow prevent them from responding to it, or getting them information (essentially when they're not looking for some reason, such as watch change meeting)

When push comes to shove, once enough will to commit suicide exists, nothing even remotely reasonable will prevent the suicide. So knowledge about suicide mechanics seems to me much less destructive than people obviously think.

Therefore, knowledge about suicide doesn't matter much. People see it as being obviously associated and assume. Knowledge of suicide is not what causes suicides. It is therefore not "dangerous knowledge".
What possible negative consequences are there, that are worse then the current status quo? Even with conservative estimates we are at around half a million death by malaria every year.
Show HN: Arnie, a quick and dirty IRC bot with simple mrc-like events scripting
It could also mean exactly the opposite of that: that they didn't take it seriously and just had fun naming it, but didn't really care.
CockroachDB is another good option, as would Cassandra depending on need. At least for geodistribution. If the data is large, then bringing it fully to a client wouldn't work so well. If it's mostly read, then a great number of options exist there as well.
> I suspect I'll never get why the notion of giving a tax handout to a company that's one of the most valuable in the world shouldn't be a non-starter.

I mean, it's pretty straightforward. When you set your basic taxes high enough, it no longer makes sense for some people to do business in your jurisdiction rather than another, so in order to convince those businesses to do business in your jurisdiction (and still generate revenue), you must reduce the effective tax burden on that business.

If you do not reduce the effective tax burden, they will leave (which is what you see).

The fact that some other businesses are willing to have some offices in your jurisdiction at full price is neither here nor there.

Use empathy to predict the behaviour of people under your system, and use accounting to get the figures; it is not difficult to see why tax incentives make sense in a place like NY. If you don't want to see your state and local government pander to individual companies, then lower the cost of doing business for everyone in the state.
I was surprised by the article. I thought it would be about at least one of two things: the Hammond B3 tonewheel organ, or the Leslie rotary speaker that it’s been almost invariably paired with for half a century.

The B3 itself lets a player adjust the harmonics of the sound on the fly, shifting from a thick meaty sound to any number of thin reedy or subdued sounds with a single half-instinctual shove. The B3 is all over the place, from gospel to rock to radio plays. You’ll know it when you hear it even if you can’t name it.

And the Leslie. Oh, the Leslie. I heard it referred to as “a uniquely American design,” with a woofer aimed downward at a curved wooden wedge and a treble horn for the high frequencies, each piece rotating in opposite directions, throwing sound around a room and affecting the volume and frequencies of the organ in pleasing and interesting ways.

Lots of people have spent lots of time trying to recreate this sound in software, with varying degrees of success. My favorite example (real or simulated, I don’t know) is in Portishead’s “It’s a Fire”[0], since the organ is the main instrument and they put it through its paces: flipping the Leslie between its fast and slow modes while pulling the drawbars, and the tonal structure is wonderfully complex as well.

I think discovering the mechanics of these two things in tandem was part of what sparked my love of synthesizers and how they can be used to create and shift musical moods. The tools are a bit different but the fundamental idea is very similar.

[0] https://youtu.be/7Y26KpgZknY
Tell him it’s how Daddy sucks his thumb
There's a lot that can use web tech... I think we're at a point where image editing is probably an option, I don't think we're anywhere near there for video editing or computer generated 3d graphics.
There have been no cases of GMO vegetable or animal tissue resulting in abnormal digestion when consumed. The nutrients are the same, and genetically modified organisms don't have any additional toxins (unless they have been specifically engineered to secrete completely new substances).
Yeah you can change when needed of course (forgot about that).

Iverson's J did a lot of things (chief of them was removing the awesome symbols) to make it more appealing. A lot of folks understand the cause, but also realize it takes away one of the best reasons to use APL. So moving to 0-base wasn't necessarily because he thought it was better.
You can detect where the cursor is before editing the input value, and place it in the correct place afterwards. This is a pretty basic trick used in many different places, including by Cleave itself.
I used to be a vegan so I see their angles. It's easy to spot. All I did was just refute the supposed "ethics" of veganism. It's not an accusation, it's a refutation. Not sure why you are so upset about it?

The "equivocation between cockroach bits and cows" is simply a response to the vegan claim of being "animal lovers". Considering infinitely more animals ( granted smaller animals
) are killed for the vegan diet, it's hard to take the claim seriously. Not to mention how offensive veganism would be to plant lovers or horticulturalists. But that's another discussion.

The "jungle, prairie, etc" is simply a refutation of the vegan claim that the vegan diet is the most "natural".

I don't know what better way to refute veganism than by giving a point by point refutation of its major claims.

Also, I'm not accusing you of this, but as a former vegan, I know we used to pretend "not to be vegan" to attack people who attacked veganism. I'm not saying you are doing this, but that I used to do this. And the easiest tells of self proclaimed non vegans ( like I used to be ) was minimizing "insect, rodent, small mammal, worm" to "cockroach bits". Another easy tell to spot "self pro-claimed non-vegans" is that they get upset and take the refutation of vegans personally. I used to do that way back when I was a vegan. Say I'm not vegan and then go off on a rant on any attacks on veganism. But it's the same old cult tactics. If you can't defend your cult, you lash out or try to minimize and marginalize the criticism. So keep an eye out for that while you comb through this thread.
To me it seems like an indication of the differences in software vs other engineering that the conservatism that led to Japans world class mechanical and civil engineering acheivements has held back software engineering. For great cars, trains, electronics etc you can benefit from deep institutional knowledge(built by company loyalty and lifetime employment) and long product cycles. Whereas for software though there is the occasional airplane or medical device needing reliability, 99% of the time (and money) the move fast and break thing philosophy wins.
I don't disagree with your logic. But I have come to believe no government is innocent either, though some countries are more guilty than others. I am not defending the Chinese government. I am saying it doesn't help to paint them as 100% evil because of some practices with which I really disagree and label to be terrible, because then I'd have to paint most countries as 100% evil. Even if it's true, it's not productive and only escalates the tension, which is a shame because there are good things we can also teach each other. But I'm also not saying pull a Neville Chamberlain and give up what I think is right for "peace in our time". It's complicated and thank goodness you and I are not the diplomats that need to take care of foreign relations with China on behalf of our western countries (I presume you're from a western country).

Change it from beat your wife to spank your children in clear cases of wanton disobedience to make my logic easier to digest. I wouldn't spank my future kids. My wife definitely won't, and she has an even stronger opinion than I do on it. But my parents spanked me when I misbehaved. Did that make them bad parents? Should I paint them evil? If I want them to change for when they babysit my future kids, does it help to paint them evil? It certainly won't open any dialogs. It would close the dialog. And understanding why they spanked me from a cultural and historical perspective allows me to better have that dialog with them.

Look, my original point was simply this: I reported that many of my Chinese friends did not feel horrified or afraid of their government. Though they know there are issues, they are for the most part satisfied. We've really gone on a tangent to talk about some of my own opinions, but I do think it's always good to have dialog with others anyway.
You can do lots of modern c++ with C++98...mostly with a few things like move construction/assignment thrown in.

A lot of it is using the type system to help you or better describe your intent. Putting your values invariants into it's type means we can guarantee them and not forget.

Use RAII. This is the biggest and it has been here since the beginning.

Yeah, the old polymorphic class hierarchies can be tough. Who owns this pointer I have right now? One hopes the library takes ownership, but a pointer type doesn't have that invariant or ownership. This is where unique_ptr really shines. Also, one can create a type like poly_value<Base> that can be a Base or Child of Base and then treat it like a value with copies and all if the currently held type supports it.

But yeah, lots of people are working with 20 year old code and can at best do boyscout rule to clean up what they touch. There are a lot cppcon/c++now like talks about working with these.
I do. I call it my loop, or loops. I have a folder in Chrome's bookmark bar called Loops, and inside are four folders called Dev, Tech News, Politics, Sports, which each have links to 4 or 5 or 8 sites, a few of which are Twitter lists.

I usually open all the links in one folder once or twice per day just to see if there's anything readworthy.

(I also have an RSS reader with 100+ feeds, but I rarely launch that anymore; it's just too overwhelming.)
I would prefer a generic <input type="text"> or <input="number">. Choose the one that gives me the best input experience on mobile. <input="email"> if it's email for example.

I would then prefer some live validation JavaScript that highlights if my input is wrong and tells me what it think is wrong but does not mess with my input.

Ideally the JavaScript validation does not warn me in until I leave the field because if say I'm typing a phone number and after 1 digit the field turns red, to me that feels like shouting "Hey IDIOT! ONE DIGIT IS NOT A PHONE NUMBER!" which of course I know I just hadn't finished typing.

On top of that I want the form to not be stupid. Let me enter 555-555-5555 or 5555555555 for a phone number. Let me enter 1111222233334444 or 1111 2222 3333 4444 for a CC number. Let me enter 01/19 or 1/19 for an expiration date.
Trim whitespace on submission too. Don't force me to jump through hoops the code should be smart enough to deal with. Don't correct this kind of text in the field, correct it on submission. If something is ambiguous then add that to your validation message.
Any idea how it compares to the UCL course taught by researchers from DeepMind?

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/syllabus/compgi/compgi22_advanced_de...
I do this with C++'s algorithms, numerics and containers. Also, getting into the practice of naming things and letting the optimizer inline really helps. Have a loop, put it into a small function and name it. The code starts to look like it is full of C++ algorithms and reads at the same abstraction levels at each method body
It's called High Level Synthesis for a reason :)
It is undisputable that the totality of the information available is larger than ever before, developing and expanding at great ease. But I feel that applying a weighted average to the populace rather than considering the domain of thought that people think the same ideas more-so than ever before. Dogma is overwhelming these days, when in the past people were left to their own devices for the most part.
> these aren’t a surveillance tool if the airlines wanted to have security cameras they would’ve installed them already

The fact that it may be designed as an entertainment system and not as a surveillance system has no bearing on the fact that the former may readily be used for the latter. See Weeping Angel [1] for an example of one such manifested use-case.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_12353643.html
The B12 argument I have to admit is not what it used to be if they're supplementing the animals eaten for meat in their feed too.
Heh, it might, I guess we just have different goal posts of how to measure China's success in the world. I think most Chinese people would be disappointed if they end up like 2019 Japan, I think their own hopes are to be on equal footing with the US.
Looks / seems to work pretty well, fast and simple.

The one thing with Australia, I'd probably try to highlight the types of roads / ability to set road type preference.

I.E in a small hatchback I'd want to avoid unsealed roads, most rental companies will disallow them in the t&c's + you don't want to get stuck on them. However on a offroad/adventure bike / 4x4 i'd want to find the most remote, gnarliest roads possible.

I'll probably use this to find points of interest / general route then use the Hema 4WD maps to find a more specific / interesting route.

Also you might do well branding / marketing /designing the site for the grey nomads. A lot of them use https://www.wikicamps.com.au/ and pay to use it, they have money to spend. Some cross integration with sites in wikicamps would be useful also.
Coding for Economists: A Lang-Agnostic Guide to Programming for Economists [pdf]
> If Fargate can't handle 100rps (to make a single API call per request) with <10 instances,

It can. Easily. I've done it.

> I can't believe that this is a well-configured setup.

It's not.

The author hasn't provided anywhere near enough information to gather any useful information from this. I don't know why there were errors (the other doesn't give any precise information), I don't know how long the tests were run, the state of instances before the tests were run, what operations were being performed, how the testing was being performed, or numerous other things.

Simply put, it's not useful.
Well, certainly unexpected, but some things are just good and become a classic. And yes, they do go for thousands of dollars.

In the case of the Hammond, it seems to be mostly by accident. They were just trying to create a cheaper version of a pipe organ, in effect.

The tone wheels made it possible.

The drawbars allow changing the timbre in a lot of ways, which makes the instrument expressive and configurable. You can adjust the timbre while playing a note! Sort of like using a mute on a trumpet, only more combinations.

The keys make a satisfying percussive click when played, which is also expressive. A Hammond player told me once this click was not intentional (the designers viewed it as a bug), but it helps give the instrument a nice attack, which helps make the starting of the notes apparent to the listener and allows the instrument to be used rhythmically.

The Leslie rotating speaker was an attempt to create some of the acoustic ambiance of pipe organs. (Which is amazing, by the way. The instrument literally surrounds you in some cases. It's like centuries-old surround sound. Not to mention the rich acoustics of a church hall, which is built to encourage reverberation so that the audience could hear an orator in the days before amplification.) But the Leslie speaker's rotation adds not only spatial effects but also doppler. And the speed of rotation can be changed, so you can make the sound tenser or more mellow by varying the speed. So it's great for expression as well.

Incidentally, a lot of other instruments achieved greatness by accident. Resonator guitars (Dobro, National Guitar, etc.) were made in an attempt to get more volume, but they ended up having a unique sound. Electric guitars were made for more volume too, but they opened up an entire new world of tones, as well as different playing styles due to lighter strings. The stereotypical distortion effect on electric guitars (that give them their aggressive "bite") came about because guitar amplifiers just didn't have enough power. The vocoder was developed for speech synthesis and telecom, but it found use in music as a way to give a radically different timbre to a human voice. (Or is it to modulate another instrument's sound to follow the volume of a human voice? Maybe those mean the same.)
This person clearly has strong believe in "meat is healthy" and tries to find proof of that, and provides multiple links to healthy meat blog posts. I mean, with such attitude one can confirm anything.

But for some reason overwhelming majority of scientists claim that consuming meat in quantities we do in North America is not good for health and environment on multiple dimensions: cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, kidney disease, liver disease, cattle waste, deforestation and many others.

HH & authors attitude towards this article really reminds me some cringe movements like anti-vaxers or some other shit, where people choose what they want first and then find confirmation for it.
1) Since we already grow enough plants to feed the entire human population, we will only reduce animal suffering and land use by eating a vegan diet. It’s just that at the moment we feed grain to animals that we then slaughter instead of growing it to eat ourselves.

An overview: https://youtu.be/Hvdgz536ZLE

2) A vegan diet is very healthy.

An overview:
https://youtu.be/iBs7TcBqeIc

Both these videos have references in their notes.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-if-every-mosquito-on-earth-went...

>If mosquitoes went extinct: Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too.

Mosquitoes and their lavae are a primary food source for muliple bird, mammal and fish species.