skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could also be that you've grown older, and have more responsibilities now, so you just don't really have as much time in continuous blocks? I used to be a reader in my teens as well, but in adult life, with work, social life and the tons of other activities that I have access to, it just isn't a priority. Slightly older friends of mine who are married/have kids have even less time. So it seems like free time reduces throughout adulthood until around retirement/kids-go-to-college, and then starts increasing again.
It’s not begging to take 9 out of every ten tax dollars to attract an opportunity.
I like it but having to fiddle with dependencies makes it harder to get started, maybe submodule them?
You shouldn't assume that your climate is the same as the one GP referenced.
Indeed. I was back in that day too. Have no interest in going back to 1080p let alone VGA for daily work.
There are many industrial complexes at play that's putting a constant negative pressure on the quality of our lives, including the quality of our food and food availability.
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
/woosh.

The article is talking about the idea that all matter is conscious.
Synthetic trans fats were used in food for decades, but turned out to be a public health disaster, causing huge numbers of deaths:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat
I won't be surprised if meat substitutes end up being much more expensive than meat is today (and "normal" meat even pricier). My prediction is for meat prices to rise as more and more people reduce consumption, maybe a couple of generations from now meat consumption will be a luxury item.
That solves the graphics card horsepower issue. You still need a lot of pixels even if you're not driving all of them at high resolution all the time.
Their customer is the site, not the commentators (or people reporting negative comments)? So dropping an entire site due to a lot of complaints would just hurt their revenue. Also it wouldn't necessarily be fair to the site if there's a lot of trolls and racists etc in the comments through no fault of the site.
Agreed, I think the issues you're touching on are fundamentally difficult problems that don't have a single solution. For example.

* storing complex data and supporting multiple access patterns efficiently (like joins) is hard and involves trade-offs (e.g. normalisation vs denormalisation, benefit vs overhead of indices).

* data consistency is hard, particularly once you are at a scale that requires distributed storage

* durability and disaster recovery is hard

* failover and availability, particularly for a stateful system, is hard

The right solution is completely application dependent. Usually the best approach is to avoid hard problems to the extent your application allows it, e.g. by accepting relaxed consistency, partitioning the data, or limiting the use cases the system supports. Then you can outsource the hard problems that remain to an existing solution (e.g. a transactional database).

Microservices help address some of those problems, but you need to recognize when they don't (e.g. you need strong consistency across multiple services) and adjust your designs accordingly
Oh wow. I have an X62 and T70, but skipped the X210 because of the display. If I knew you could get it with a 3:2 display I'd have been really tempted to get one. Do you do the mod yourself or purchase it pre-installed?
Off the top of my head:

Racial equality

Gender equality

Rebalancing society so it’s not based on constant overconsumption

Trying to reverse the results of a couple hundred years of treating the world as raw materials for industrial profit (global warming, anthropocene era mass extinction event, pacific garbage gyre, etc)

AI rights maybe?

Fighting people/organizations attempting to pull society back to the current levels of inequity

Plus a bunch of things I am too immersed in the current situation to even imagine. Like nobody even had the concepts for “trans rights” when I was a kid but now that gay marriage is basically a done deal there’s room to fight for that.
Depends on your preference I suppose. For me it needs to be at least 4x the density of the oculus.
status icon & recapture r&d in case they don't get popular. there's also a 5g modem which adds 2-300
You use a password manager.
I wouldn't be surprised if a heavy duty Mac Pro-class ARM chip from Apple looks like AMD's Epyc, with an array of smaller 5-7nm ARM cores surrounding a larger 12-14nm bus core.

Apple and AMD both use TSMC and this fab technology is apparently ready for prime time.

It would also make sense from a manufacturing standpoint to use a slightly modified phone core in parallel for their poweruser desktop refreshes rather than design a significantly different CPU (otoh Apple seems to have no problem leaving the Mac Pro to languish for years at a time).

They might even get better yields by fabbing a single core with both shared-MMU and the phone SoC features and then disabling one or the other if there are defects.
Possible answers (but by no means comprehensive answers):

-If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be asking this question. The only version of reality in which you’re able to ponder it is one with you in it. This is a narrower version of the weak anthropic principle.

-There are a multitude of universes or regions of one universe with an infinitude of you asking this question without bound.

-God or the universe inevitably leads to it. This is a form of the strong anthropic principle.

-Only universes and times which allow such questions to be asked can allow for people like you to ponder it. For most of history in which humans were around you’d almost certainly lack the leisure and education to have these thoughts. (WAP again)

-Everything capable of making this observation does so wherever and whenever they exist in the universe, and there is nothing interesting about the question or answer because it’s arbitrary. Although it is difficult to appreciate from each of their perspectives, the question itself is as ubiquitous as those asking it.
Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart
Nope -- this is the HTML equivalent of Japanese Excel art.
You were able to write about all of this - and I doubt you're afraid of your life or that you're going to get a visit from someone for writing about it?
Prices that high will definitely hurt their chances of getting popular
Not a good explanation. Why would a physically instantiated function feel like anything at all, rather than just a bunch of matter moving around? The question is about why the feelings themselves exist. "Functions" do not ever describe the feeling of the smell of chocolate or falling in love. That is the mystery. You have not remotely touched it.
Interesting. Do you run on top of bare gce vms? What machine types do you use? Didn't know they were being automatically rebooted under the hood.
could you give an example of what data would belong in distinct microservices but need to be joined or need transactional semantics ?
Won't the government just subsidise meat farming to keep it competitive? It's what they do at the moment.
New technology comes at a price. The have spent billions on R&D and this is a way to get some of the investment monetized. It is likely to be a niche product to test the technology and the market. Most likely in a couple of years we will have foldable screen phones that go for less than $1000
Don't ask if X is an "anti-pattern". Ask if X makes sense for YOUR project in YOUR context.
Since you got flagged for using Hitler in the other thread, now you're reaching for Sadam instead?

You should perhaps consider another method of debate.
And then they go the way of the google glass, I'm still sad about those.
Apple could easily add a per-app permission for network access just like they do with mobile data.
The substance of my post was that I find the question absurd on its face.
The prices are insane, both my laptop and tower PC (which are beasts) cost less than that. I think it's because consumers generally pay for phones in monthly installments... we have become trained to accept these kinds of prices because "it's just $100 / month!"
It’s an amazing theory and it fits a raw observation of the world beautifully.

If we are indeed problem solvers, what is the actual problem we’re solving? Any?
Building a design system in an engineering-driven company: a few lessons learned
Some matter is conscious. My fingernail is not, but it's a subset of the matter that equals me, and I am conscious (you'll just have to take my word); I am a subset of the matter that equals all matter, so it has to follow that the set of all matter is conscious, though subsets of it are not.

It's all a matter of where you draw the boundaries.
Personally I'd be all over any kind of savory food that's high in protein. I don't care if it resembles meat. Quinoa is excellent and it's a staple of my diet. I feel generally healthier when I eat less meat, and I feel better about my impact on the world as well. I suspect there are many others like me.
About 80% to 90% of reports would state it was operator error on the part of one or more of the drivers involved. Cars are pretty safe when people aren't drooling, lead-footed maniacs.
It’s an awfully big stretch to hype that up as some kind of direct GPU access, as in this quote from the TechCrunch article about the pivot:

“By bypassing the CSS and HTML renderers to talk directly to the graphics processing unit, Famo.us could supposedly make 3D physics and other visual wizardry common with native games run smoothly for apps in a mobile or web browser.”
I suppose there’s this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra

It was never legalised in most developed countries, though, and I’d call it more a historical oddity than a health disaster.

I assume they’re talking about aspartame myths on the sweetener thing. Some countries ban cyclamate, though there’s not much evidence that it’s actually dangerous. There’s lead acetate, I suppose, but that hasn’t been commonly used for centuries.
A consequence of time is that every event does not all happen at once. A consequence of space is that everything is not all in one place. Perhaps a consequence of spacetime is that events have a location and a moment, but no guarantee of order?
This is interesting, very interesting take, but it still doesn't explain where _other_ people's consciousness comes from. Through reductive reasoning, it doesn't explain why calculators and any matter shouldn't have consciousness.
I think the parent might have meant something slightly different - that by donating, they are showing the author that their work has actual value to other people, and that motivates them to continue.

That's my take, anyway: a social rather than fiscal incentive.
Does anyone know the story behind this quote:

> This particular type of attack, which targets the DNS, only works when DNSSEC is not in use.

That doesn’t match any description I’ve seen of these attacks where the attacker had the same access to the management infrastructure as legitimate users. Is there some other incident being discussed or is this just fundamentally incorrect?
It came with the display pre-installed. I think all 3rd batch X210s have the new display.
Rocks react in a simple way. If you strike them, they reverberate. One could argue this is a very simple type of consciousness.
hi, everyone--

Hopefully there is some other old fart out there who does remember this: an even older - ca. 1983 - graphical BBS host, but I can't remember the name.

Users would run a BASIC program which installed a TSR. When connected to the host, you would opt for the graphics pages. The TSR would use the BASIC DRAW statement to render simple vector images while you waited. It required a CGA display, or clone Hercules mono video plus a cool little utility called SimCGA to emulate one.

Ring any bells?

Thanks in advance,
John Kwasnik
In general I’m bullish on biotech but best case for tissue culture meat still leaves me sceptical. Most of the hype focuses around beef substitutes, beef cattle is about as inefficient as animal agriculture gets at ~3% efficient on an energy basis of edible parts.

Dairy jerseys and laying hens are both ~12%, with meat chickens ~15%. The best replicating eukaryotic cell culture I know are certain yeast at 50%. So a best case scenario is factor of 3 improvement, I'd welcome results from multicellular organisms that got anywhere close to that but I haven't seen it.

Supposing there are no improvements to be had on the cell metabolism side; dressing percentage for broiler chickens is 70% so getting rid of brain, digestive tract, immune system, etc. doesn’t improve things that much. Keep in mind that tissue cultures are a lot more picky about feedstock than whole animals. Good luck shovelling hay into that bioreactor. All of the processing that the feedstock takes will claw back your productivity gains and then some.

Margins are slim at the bottom. As capital intensive as modern farming is, biotech puts it to shame. Once you factor in amortizing all that equipment this is a non-starter.

The only appeal is from an animal welfare angle. Even there an argument could be made that humane husbandry is positive-utility rather than the neutral of lab-grown, while also coming out ahead environmentally.
> And I don't know if it was planned, but Go has turned out to be a boon for contribution. A surprising number of devops engineers are willing to dip their toes in Go waters and I highly doubt they would've done so with Erlang.

> I think you'd end up going the chef route, writing the control plane in Erlang and expecting users to interact in Ruby or something like it.

DevOps engineers have learned to be comfortable with Ruby (Chef) and Python (Ansible) so this certainly makes sense.
- They have their corporate culture on the walls.

- They do not have a one year roadmap, on what customers they plan to attract.

- Median employee length of stay.

- Open work desks - no, it does not mean they have an Open culture. In fact, it often means the opposite.
ok, I've said this to quite a few people and the result is pretty well what it was here, denial and outrage :-) I don't think its well publicized but happy to be proved otherwise.
Maybe they have a limited supply of screens and price them like this because they wouldn't be able to meet a high demand anyway.
Good luck getting more than two major Android updates on this.
Also stored procedures are convenient for complex data processing, SQL is much more expressive and efficient for selecting, grouping, joining than something like java.
Linus used to believe that his former employer would defeat Intel. He was wrong. And now he is wrong again.
How can we possibly escape Darwinism? Isn't it always present in one form or another? There will always be some particular traits will lead to better rates of survival in a particular society. In a world of abundance, discipline could be key - I have seen strong men destroy themselves through a lack of discipline. In a world of scarcity, those same men may have been heroic survivors. In modern society, we try to transform the selection process of Darwinism into something more abstract and therefore less noticeable to our primitive brains.
I predict that the biggest market for lab-grown meat (in vitro cultivation) is going to be growing for meat grown from the cells of animals that aren't economical, practical or even legal as meat today.

People seem to be assuming that just because they mostly eat beef and chicken today that they're going to be buying lab grown beef and chicken, but ultimately they only eat that because it's economical to raise those animals with current production methods.

With in vitro cultivation there's no reason you wouldn't have say elephant meat one day, and a blue whale the day after that. You could even have some human meat, it's not like growing some muscle fibers in a test tube is unethical.

Initially there'll be a big market for the novelty of exotic meats, but over the long term it's highly unlikely that the meats we have today optimized for mass production will objectively taste better than potential alternatives, or even that the market will restrict itself to naturally occurring species of animals.

You'll be able to buy tuna with the texture of pork, or any other possible combination of tastes and textures.
+1

I'm a lifelong vegetarian who has very literal tolerance for the taste of meat. Can we give it up with these meat substitutes already? Even if they absolutely nail the taste of real meat, I don't want my food to taste like that.
I just wanted to reiterate that I've found the Swiss cheese model one of the simplest and most effective communication tools for thinking about and communicating to laypeople how various events happen where they want to attribute 'cause' to a single factor, decision, etc. In my experience it can be doubly difficult to get people to think in this way once culture has got them thinking differently (I despise regression analysis now, because it breeds a layperson culture of both an illusion of understanding, and that individual variables really have individual coefficients that can be simply manipulated).

My first introduction to it was watching a documentary on air crash investigation as a child, and I've never forgotten it since.

I don't even work in 'safety' per se(currently I do analytical and data work for banks and financial regulation, so one could argue that is a kind of safety), but it just keeps coming up again and again because in the real world, most big human disasters are multi-causal chains, because evolution (in a social sense) will breed out those disasters that are both big in their detriments and simple in their causes.
As long as DV certs exist the registrars are trusted anyways[0]. DNSSEC + DANE, for all its faults, would at least reduce the set of trusted actors by cutting CAs out of the chain.

[0] Yes there's CT to help catch dishonest registrars, but a similar regime could be applied to registrars directly to force transparency around changes to TLSA records.
What does this mean? What's the "I" that's somehow separate from your specific physical instantiation?

Unless you're getting into Cartesian dualism and souls, I'm genuinely confused.
Sigh. Thankfully I'd missed that. Not surprised it was Heffer, I think he'd like to send us back to about 1912. Gizmodo piece was fairly entertaining though. :)
I don’t know much to point you at sorry, apart from general works on denotational semantics.
The mumble URI lets you embed a password: https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Mumble_URL#Username_and_Passwo...
> multiple teams working concurrently without stepping on each other, and microservices serve an organizational purpose rather than an architecture purpose.

I so hard agree with this.
Side note; Harels Algorithmics is a wonderful book I recommend to anyone.
I don't get it. Huawei reportedly stole the technology from Samsung and still their phone is more expensive.
DVD Suspense
Most people are omnivores, not carnivores as PG stated - however the trend seems to be moving towards the health benefits of eating as carnivore - a purely meat diet; it's the food you don't eat that improves health, meat is a healthy food for most people.

We have the sugar lobby who paid researchers to create propaganda that fat was the culprit. We have companies incentivized to sell fad diets, we have every participant of the food industrial complex trying to push for their product to be consumed - and we have governments who are trying to keep the lobbyists happy and perhaps for the purpose of keeping the economy stable. They all aren't going to be promoting or funding research that will give results against their own interests.

Two videos I recommend everyone watch relating to diet:

Dr. Georgia Ede - 'Our Descent into Madness: Modern Diets and the Global Mental Health Crisis' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlVfwJ6RQU

Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
1908 Popular Mechanics had 3 successive articles about it.

https://todayinsci.com/Events/Aircraft/MorrellAirship-Collap...

The 2nd interviews Captain Penfold, an Australian balloon pilot that had sunk on-board.
Show HN: Electron and React Boilerplate for Minimalists
Most people consider the fact that your handset will readily talk to any base station that's on the air to be a feature. Try to imagine how things would work if you had to authenticate and authorize every station on the network. It's true that anyone who gets on the air and speaks the air protocol can screw with your phone. Those people are also violating multiple laws and regulations in the course of doing so.
WiPhone: A professionally-packaged Arduino phone
This is what I did as well, and for the services I still needed, I found the mobile sites nearly equivalent in looks and features. Especially for banking, shopping, and reading sites. I added links to my homescreen in lieu of apps, and that way I know they're not using my phone in the background. The downside is getting hounded to install the app when I visit certain mobile sites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
>The have spent billions on R&D and this is a way to get some of the investment monetized.

That excuse works for Samsung. Huawei stole the tech.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-theft...
Meat substitutes.
Appreciate the effort but I’m sorry to say the writing is so not the best I can barely understand some of the sentence
You're wondering why you weren't also born at a different time and place? You were.

You were also born in 1988 in CT. This other you was born to different parents, had a different childhood, and has different memories. You think you are different from this other you (and you are!) because you have separate thoughts and memories. You remember your own life and not your other life because humans aren't telepathic.

In case it isn't yet clear, this other you is me. Hi, other me. We haven't talked before, I don't think.

In other words, if you were born in a different place at a different time in a different community... then that you wouldn't be you. It would be a different person. So it doesn't really make sense to ask "what if I had been born at a different time or place".
Adam Langley explains in "Why Not DANE In Browsers" that this is not in fact the case, and that DANE will ultimately just expand the number of trust anchors; you can't even get things narrowed down to just the governments controlling your records.

Further: a mis-issuing CA can be put to death (as happened to the largest CA when Google caught them mis-issuing). You can't revoke a TLD.

Meanwhile, CT actually exists today and is meaningfully combating misissuance, and obviously does not rely on DNSSEC to function.
My guess is they expect it to appeal mainly in Asia where $2,500 flip phones are a thing. (Samsung W series - currently W2019)
I mean, the reason there was less meat grinding in advance wars was broken CO powers IMO. I’m more of a fan of the wargroove balance and slow pushes.
The author of the linked article is also the author of that book (John M. Barry).
iMovie already ships on iOS and does roughly all the things Final Cut needs to do using GPU acceleration (which Apple also designs).
> I think it's because consumers generally pay for phones in monthly installments... we have become trained to accept these kinds of prices because "it's just $100 / month!"

Is this true outside of the west though?
Good recent video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkCofOyxUA
thanks nonetheless
I wonder about the bend in these screens. How will long term use be affected by fatigue? Will we see something like LCD bruising over time?