skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's worth noting for anyone that advocates this sort of diet that it is a luxury."

In what way is this diet a luxury? Some of the ingredients are not found in supermarkets and so not easily available. But beans, lentils, mushrooms, fruits are readily available at your local supermarket if you live Europe or the US.

Want to know what is a luxury? The world's consumption of meat, especially in Europe and US. I'm a meat eater, but we are eating more meat now that in any other time in history. We think such cheap and plentiful meat (on a daily basis for so many people) is how it's always been, but it's only thanks to industrial-scale farming we can eat meat so cheaply and with such abundance. And what a bunch of hypocrites we are on the subject (myself included). So many of us won't even consider reducing our meat consumption despite the proven role of animal agriculture in contributing to climate change.
A lot of the "reputable ones" were funded by the industry.

The truth is this is very hard to measure. You have something that happens over a period of years and is difficult to control for. How do you find a group of people in modern times who haven't used cell phones in the last decade, but at the same time are not a group of monks or Amish people with so many other lifestyle differences that everything is hopelessly confounded?

Being hard to measure isn't the same as not existing. The question is, what choice do you make when it's hard to get good information? Build a lot more radio transmitters that may or may not be a major contributor to the modern trend of increasing cancer rates, or prefer wired networks that don't?
Wealth inequality is inevitable in any advanced, meritocratic society. I think a better approach is trying to create opportunity for talented people of all income levels, to create companies, arts, and innovation, which boosts GDP and livings standards and benefits everyone. Imagine federally-funded versions of the MacArthur Fellows Program, or the Theil Fellowship, or YCombinator , that would have many more applicants than such programs already have. There are probably a lot of gifted talented young people of low and middle-class that are being underutilized, underserved with current policy.
Yep they are e.g. overhyping their neurmorphic platform too

I hope that's not the case for their quantum computer
Keep believing if that works for you.
Locomotives have been diesel-electric hybrids for decades, so it probably makes a lot of sense for trucking, I agree.
The oil needs changing

Not great. It’s very common, but it’s gerund abuse. In a lot of places it’s considered hillbilly talk.
Then the proper action is to ensure that such moral acts are not heroic-but-illegal feats, but to ensure that our legal systems supports what we all agree is the proper way forward.

However, do note that from the outside, there's nothing wrong with the ability to create their model. I like that freedom. What is wrong is that we're all feeding it, sponsoring it with government money, and indeed putting what should be our shared knowledge into a private archive.

This is why I believe that the proper way forward is to simply not use them, while allowing their existence. Only if they somehow force their use, or disallow/inconvenience authors' attempts to release their content elsewhere should we take legal action in the form of writing laws against it.
It killed the back buttons too
Really? For me it sounds like this - "Should we castrate men because some men are rapists?".

>On one hand, knowing it's associated with racists

I'm pretty sure this is just west's or even a certain number of countries problem. This topic is the second time I've personally ever heard\read that somebody uses this sign as something other than an "ok" sign. The first time I've read about it in someone's tweet - I even decided to call out to my friends\readers\etc and one guy from Canada new about this.

Anyhow - no, nobody should stop using some sign just because a small, even if very vocal group of people started using in for whatever reason they have. Next time they will start to wear some color and what? We should stop wearing it? Last time I checked people are pretty damn good with wearing brown coats from Hugo Boss despite the obvious history facts.

This is like building a cage around yourself just because there are a few stray dogs with rabies in the town.

>dismiss

I'm not saying it should be dismissed, if someone have questions or doubts - one should feel free to voice them, sure. I'm just amazed by the topic, or rather by the fact that some people haven't found an answer to this after so many years. If this helps them to find one - I'm glad.
Preach it my friend! This drives me insane! The situation you left out that raises my hackles is people congregating in a group in a hallway. Lots of people are trying to get by and they have to squeeze through small openings. It's insanely rude to block a thoroughfare!
Where’s the profit in that?
Like the op, I also tend to have this “situational awareness guilt”. I get anxious to stop in places where I can see myself blocking someone else. I think it comes from the fact that generally I like to keep space around me and generally observe my surroundings, which I guess not everyone shares.
Drag to trash, empty, boom, gone.

And then they’re back after the next OS upgrade.
Webgl 2.0 compute spec released
On 5 - nowadays I’d probably look to get rid of someone who suggested IBM in most companies... that’s a decision made on a golf course that engineers quit over.
Very cool! The docker install is proprietary as well or require an API key right ? Looks like a very finetuned tool, I'll recommend it around.
Also could be coming from competing industries. Like you can find articles from ISP, telco suppliers in their own media pushing propaganda about harmful wifi without even bothering to hide that the whole thing is completely fabricated.
> That's quite a statement. Do you have references?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html

> Coal is largely composed of organic matter, but it is the inorganic matter in coal—minerals and trace elements— that have been cited as possible causes of health, environmental, and technological problems associated with the use of coal. Some trace elements in coal are naturally radioactive. These radioactive elements include uranium (U), thorium (Th), and their numerous decay products, including radium (Ra) and radon (Rn). Although these elements are less chemically toxic than other coal constituents such as arsenic, selenium, or mercury, questions have been raised concerning possible risk from radiation. In order to accurately address these questions and to predict the mobility of radioactive elements during the coal fuel-cycle, it is important to determine the concentration, distribution, and form of radioactive elements in coal and fly ash.
Does anyone pay taxes on crypto?
Videosplit – play two videos simultaneously
Reminds me of another account of a runway crash that left pilots trapped beneath burning wreckage and the understanding that any extraction and fire fighting would take hours when even minutes of a firey agonizing death, the local commanding officer on the ground grimly shot them both with his service pistol to shorten it to seconds and there was no disciplinary action even considered.
Is this a joke? We have water boil advisories on a quarterly basis because the drinking water is totally screwed by neglected infrastructure.
Can't they do a wash sale to create losses? That's how tax loss harvesting works.
Have you seen Nim?
Not having a good descriptive About page is bad for your site. I can't imagine a security savvy person to use tax software of unnamed vendor.
It looks like they managed to finally get the source code released 2 weeks ago.

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues presumably would have been worked out prior to the announcement. I guess timelines didn't line up :)
There are actually cases where artists throw away creations because they don't want it as their art and people pick it up and sell it as art pieces of this artist. There's been some publicity around a court case where exactly this happend to Gerhard Richter. I suppose this would be a third use case for this law.
What is wrong with tabbing?
Silicon Valley is facing an 'exodus of young employees,' survey shows
If you're willing to block JS, you can also trivially run an extension that strips all `ping` attributes from the page. And without JS you don't have to worry about the attributes being added back after the stripping.

> Developer friction can add up -- if tracking is universally more complicated than writing normal code, more developers will do the "right" thing purely by virtue of laziness.

Developers don't add ping attributes because it's easy. They add them because they're required to for analytics reasons. They will do this no matter what, so what we want to optimize for here is the user experience.

You say that users will naturally migrate to sites that don't have the bad UX inherent in javascript-based or redirect-based link tracking, but experience shows that's not true. Some of the most popular sites on the planet do this and users haven't been driven away.
That reeks of incompetence though. Systems shouldn’t be in so much flux that existing products keep breaking. Poor abstraction and tight coupling.

>and traffic is what gets attention at google.

This is likely what resulted in the huge collapse in engineering quality. People that spew out shit with flashy features for product managers get rewarded and move up while people who stabilize and maintain products are cast aside.

The size of the engineering group at google is more than 10x what it was back in the glory days of stuff like gmail, reader, maps, etc. Google now just makes incremental worse changes to existing products (look how slow maps and gmail are) and kills off things that the terrible engineering org can’t keep up with.

There are definitely great engineers at google, but the ratio of garbage to them has become untenable and Google is well on its path to mediocrity. A great example of this is that you have to do an interview again if you want to work on something actually innovative like self driving cars.
legal answer: yes

pragmatic answer: only if you interacted enough with the US financial system that the IRS might catch you.
String Literals in Swift
The best reference about Watson last year was on reddit, "Watson is a brand, not a "thing". It covers any technologies that IBM sells in the cognitive space. They are further broken up into the business areas."

All hype and marketing built on open source tools, all while AWS, Google, and Azure build out bigger cloud offerings. As OP mentioned, they used to be a great company.
Possibly a separate tab for non-IT stuff, especially controversial ones.
Hard, but not impossible. We actively ban eating dogs and cats.[1] I was surprised to learn that there are no laws barring the capture/consumption of dolphin [2].

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/13/eati...

2. https://www.worldanimalprotection.us/our-work/animals-wild/m...
Even with the extreme salaries paid by large tech companies, SV seems like an inhumane place to live, due primarily to the high cost of housing.
> I can’t tell what their motivation is...

They're confident of two things: the move will encourage further players in the space, and they'll compete well against those players.
> still often produces nonsense more similar to dream imagery than useful reasoning,

Is there any example of gpt-2 in the wild that is not nonsense?
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He makes a number of excellent points; but I have to laugh wryly at his treatment of my personal pet peeve, interest rates.

Boil his 'diagnosis' section down into 3 points - the economic equilibrium is moving away from employing American workers to do work (1 & 2), the central banks are printing money (3) and government is ineffective (4).

Call me a cynic, but (4) on this list is probably a structural problem in that the people who vote governments in are a diverse crowd and lining them up is a bit more challenging than herding cats. Maybe something can be done.

(1 & 2) are issues of genuine concern. I've got nothing to add.

(3) is the laughable one. The problem is that there is money printing afoot and the money is going to wealthy people (see graphs). The billionaire solution is 'shifting money and credit into the hands of those who have a higher propensity to spend'.

What ever happened to the philosophy that we should shift money and credit to the people who have a propensity to build stuff that will be useful in the future? The thing capitalism is actually good at?

We should not want to funnel resources to the rich. We should not want resources to go to high spenders. We should not even want to funnel them to the poor. We want to funnel resources to people who create more resources. That way we will have more resources and can solve our problems using them.

Good old-fashioned flexible human thinking is needed to talk about how the system needs to change but in the same text say that quantitative easing is necessary when its purpose was, essentially, to prevent the system from changing.
Meta-commentary: Sixth Tone is a propaganda outlet controlled by the Chinese government. So why are they running with this story?

- The central government's AI strategy is never directly criticized. Instead you get quotes like

She agrees that the intention of “intelligent education” is positive. As the NGAIDP guidelines suggest, the purpose of the initiative is to assist teachers in developing customized teaching methods and study plans for every student.

- On ubiquitous surveillance cameras, the example given is finding criminals in a crowd, not rounding up dissidents.

- The parts that are criticized are more about the implementation than the intention behind it. The potential for misuse isn't even mentioned, the focus is on potential lack of accuracy instead.

- Responsibility is shifted to the schools and companies, despite following the government's plan:

The plan’s “intelligent education” section describes in detail how China’s government hopes to use AI to boost the country’s education system. Zhang reads me one paragraph from the guidelines without stammering. “So detailed. It’s like they wrote it with a [facial recognition] product right in front of them,” he says.

What I think this all means is that Sixth Tone is trying to be a source for high-quality journalism on social issues in China while conveniently avoiding topics the government would like to remain unmentioned.
Orange Slice: research kernel and hypervisor
I could have sworn std aborted on allocation failure, not panicked. Am I misremembering?
Yep, this is just such a poor article. Would it be shocking if I talked to a car sales person, pretended I wanted an inefficient (but high-margin) large pickup truck and the sales person downplayed all the negatives of the vehicle?

Such a shame that the author was so focused on mocking other people and preaching to the choir, since this is an extremely interesting topic that deserves a much better article.
Netflix explains the 'technical limitations' for removing AirPlay support
> "...actually British"

Now that is a whole other discussion, but sure, perhaps some of the Black, Asian, and mixed ethnicity criminals are "British."
I hear ya man. To make things even worse, around where I live many of these drivers will turn onto the road I'm on (now in front of me) when they didn't have time. So I have to hit my brakes to avoid running in to them, and then have to drive 10 to 15 mph slower than I was going before. I'm getting a little irritated just writing about it lol
perspective is good but it seems they did a superb mistake here, not an average 'subtle systemic error'..
Yes. Take a look at the issues Boeing had with the 787 production or even just the distance which both Airbus and Boeing ship giant pieces of airplane.
It is much easier to persuade people from varying ideological bents to do something about this problem if its discussed in terms of objective harm, rather than subjective assessments of fairness.
The point is that “just adding an amount” to the balance, creates money, temporarily if the lone is repaid, but potentially inflationary as long as the loan is open, and the money is spent and circulating.
Yes, it is quite easy to pay taxes on crypto and quite difficult to explain during audit how cash ended up in your bank account without associated tax payments.

Pay your taxes!
...in the USA. The essay is very US-centric, and confuses the economy of the US with capitalism to the point that it's not clear to me which of the points apply to capitalism, and which are just a critique of the US system.
We don't need to study how specific complex tech affects humans if we know how radiation does in general, what energies are needed to penetrate the skin, etc. There is pretty much no reason to study 5g tech specifically.
My understanding is the software was fine, it was faulty sensors with no redundancy and poor feedback displays to pilots.

The software is quite flawed (and operates differently than how it was described to the FAA) but there are two (thus redundant) sensors being used in a not-so-redundant manner.
Impressive commitment to failure. How does a site like this stay in operation?
> The issues are eminently fixable

Not really. I am no expert, that is why I no longer trust FAA/Boeing telling me it is safe any more, at least in
this particular case. As a passenger, I would avoid buying tickets from this plane even it means more cost
Ask HN: Building an Open Source Doctor
How feasible would it be to build an open source suite of diagnostic programs that people can use to build longer term, longitudinal health system?

The idea is that by building transparent, open source diagnostic models and looping it into a platform where you can track your health data, we could build a preventative system.

Am I being completely irrational, or missing something?
This directory-listing code only executes on a "cold" run of gitstatusd, which happens when you `cd` into a repo for the first time. Users obviously can tolerate higher prompt latency in this case but faster is still better.
what about symbol trees ?

/a/b/c/d/e => {a,b,c,d,e} symbol table + [a,b,c,d,e]

and you accumulate into a tree/trie
Poor diet now killing more than smoking
What about threading and a corresponding memory model?
> Similarly in driving, I don’t mind slow drivers ...

I don't either. As long as they're not hogging the fast lane.

But I'm very mellow now. Many years ago, when I was stupidly talking SSRIs to treat bipolar depression, I was a total asshole. I didn't tailgate or whatever. I just drove like they were stationary obstacles.

And what's bizarre is that I didn't feel angry. More like amused. It was like a game. Albeit one with potentially fatal consequences.

Then I got off SSRIs, and stopped being such an asshole.
Why are you laughing at all the responses?
Rather than slang, it's more appropriate to call it argot[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot
I can't tell if they ditched the Knative serverless add on but yeah the docs are broken for Cloud Run ️. I think they rolled Knative into Cloud Run and changed the name.
Yes, one of the goals for Muon is to make it easy to use Muon code from another language.

There's a recent wave of new languages in the same spirit as Muon, like Zig, Kit, Jai and V (the last two have not yet been released). But since they all have no/minimal runtime, it should be relatively easy to reuse libraries between them.
FYI, the link to "concrete classes" is incorrectly linking to https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/when-to-use-typescript-g....

I assume the correct link should be pointing to https://khalilstemmler.com/wiki/concrete-class/
I've used it for some hobby projects a year or two ago. Unfortunately the compiler was very unstable back then and linking Nim into existing projects turned out to be pretty painful, in part because of the gc/threading model.

There is a lot to like about Nim, but I think it tries to do too much.
this is where android is ultra lame.. the amount of papercuts for the mundane tasks..
Ouch. I think you'd best not argue this one, cozzyd.
In Mexico, it's accepted for them to drive in the shoulder.
A mature refactor yes, a change in design often not.
Is there any rule of thumb to calculate taxes over crypto? Like "10% of your profits". I'm sure if you make more than 500k a year you might have to pay more taxes but I'm sure there is an average that covers 90% of traders.
Looks like the 737 MAX issues are going to overshadow the unveiling of the 777x...
Indeed. That comment was a likely a reference to my prototyping platform I sell now and then. It is a plastic array of holes on a 0.5" pitch, and a set of custom PCBs with common functions, adaptors for stuff like Arduinos and PIs. The idea is to deliver something hackable and easy to understand to my innovation customers who ask for this. I often get asked to build a system with off-the-shelf bits, on a fast turnaround, so it can be handed to a junior industrial designer who can fiddle with the concept until they have enough information to write me a proper requirements spec for a custom PCB.

Then I make a pre-production final-form prototype that will work, with cost optimisation.

Prototyping means different things to different people, but the customer is always right, and mine are always delighted with the results.

Crazy-proto is not a product, is open source and was just for fun, after I went off on a tangent when thinking about making a little SOT-23 PCB I needed.

And yeah, I know the parasitics are dreadful - so what?

Don't take it too seriously guys!
Which is to say: the defaults can be improved on, greatly, with very modest styling.

Alternatively: the defaults are poor.
According to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Prelu... , `print` already appends a newline, so I think that `print m` is not the same as `putStr $ show m` and hence that the refinements you suggest are unnecessary.
Show HN: New release of ossia score, the interactive sequencer
First time learning about Hasura. Looks really promising with the built-in _live queries_ support, which Prisma has not yet implemented (they only have subscriptions): https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/1205

EDIT: Never mind, looking at the docs, it looks like they also only support subscriptions... It's understandable to not have support for live queries yet, as it's still a very under-explored territory, but it's still misleading marketing on their part because they explicitly call out support for subscripts _and_ live queries on their website.

Curious how Hasura tackles the N+1 problem for efficient querying in GraphQL? Prisma uses a built-in dataloader implementation for this but I couldn't find anything about query optimization in the Hasura docs.

Also, in the docs on pagination: https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/queries/pagination...

I'm only seeing examples of offset-based pagination. Is cursor-based pagination on the roadmap as well?
>This is true. I think that it's also a religious thing as well, and almost Christians. Other religions are more accepting of death.

In my own experience growing up in church as a pastor's kid and attending a lot of funerals, people at Christian funerals tend to be a lot more accepting/less obviously distressed than people at non-religious memorial services.

I think what you're describing has more to do with the American scientific optimism of the 50s and 60s and it's left over impact on American culture than it does with any particularly religion.

My parents generation truly believed that cancer, heart disease, and many other common ailments would be cured by the time they were old.