skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dogs and pigs are known for eating hastily with minimal chewing,

Because they have no or smaller cheeks. But they have very acid stomachs.

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/the-comparative-anatom...

Omnivore or Herbivore?

https://livinontheveg.com/omnivore-or-herbivore/

Milton Mills, MD: Are Humans Designed to Eat Meat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXj76A9hI-o&t=66
Pinterest Seeks Up to $1.28B in IPO Below 2017 Valuation
Byte-aligned compression using a suffix array
What design tools get wrong
For my dating age range (28-33) and location, it seems most women I meet through Tinder are after a connection. This is heavily filtered through my selections though. It might also be the case that's the front they show while having tons of hooks up behind the scenes. It's just a really convenient way to meet people.
So do you have a specific example with research that you would like to cite that’s contrary to an episode?
> What bothers me about this conversation is that disastrous, society-shattering consequences are always mentioned if women keep choosing not to have sex with more men, but no one seems willing to suggest that men need to change the way they view sex, relationships and themselves.

I may have missed part of this conversation but I don't think there's a suggestion that women are doing something /wrong/ or that they need to be the ones to "fix" this problem. Although admittedly the framing kind of makes it look like this because it appears to be women's behaviour and attitudes that have changed over recent decades, rather than men's.

I agree with you; Since this is the way things are going, men need to find a way to change their expectations and entitlement and adapt. Unfortunately discussions around this often get over-run with misogyny and bitterness (MGTOW/red-pill) and it's remarkably hard to find safe spaces for men to talk openly about their issues while keeping out that subset of men. (shout out to /r/menslib)
I'm not so sure a lot of people outside of HN view social media as a disease …
The main issue was with Google+ was the painfully slow roll out.It killed any chance of viral spread of it it. Same thing happened with Google Wave.
You're wrong. I never paid for Applecare.
>So what sort of importance do you think Butterick thinks typography has? Minimally important, perhaps? Trivially important? Insignificantly important? Unimportantly important?

I think to discuss that is beside the point - the article is not making a relative argument. Butterick claims that it is important.

>It is nonsense to suggest that Betterick did something so pointless as to write this article because he differs in the slightest possible way from the position set out in the Crystal Goblet.

Why? The Crystal Goblet puts forward an absolutist position - typography is so subservient to writing that it is meant to be "invisible". The gradients of "how much" typography matters are all significantly more similar than how they all differ to claiming that typography doesn't matter at all.

I don't think Butterick really feels that typography matters the minimal possible non-zero amount - but even if he did, he would already be miles away from agreeing with the Goblet, because that would already be a completely different approach to text. Besides which, Drowning the Crystal Goblet makes no claim on "how much" - so objecting to the significance he places on typography requires either

* assuming how much significance he places on it, and then objecting to that, or
* objecting to any amount of significance
I'd say, please do it :-) I'd love to play around with something like that!
Are they always? My partner was nearly loosing her marbles because someone threw a ball into a thermal vent in NZ (I agree it's unsightly and lame). Or that science show was throwing bag of soap every day to trigger a geyser in Rotorua.

It's like mostly poisonous gas and water, chill down!
Restoring a Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade (2018)
While I'm inclined to agree in this case, the body is fairly easy to re(mis)calibrate [1].

It's very easy to start craving candy bars/cake/ice cream/etc. It's tougher to find a valid rationale for that craving.

[1] For example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201400...
Attract Interest with Trust
One of my favourite torrent sites decided to go private because of DMCA takedown requests.
That probably wouldn't work for Reddit. But it just illustrates that the pirate ship will keep on sailing even if you can't see it.
Short term, I have some tools planned for automatic generation of foreign function definitions based on .h files (currently you have to do this by hand, which is tedious and also somewhat error prone).

Long term, I agree that a package/dependency manager would be great! There's already so much work to do though, so this will unfortunately be out of scope for the near future.
Or both businesses and employees could move to other parts of the country where it is cheaper.
Nope. These communities' owners and participants were basically just doing free work by producing content. But they didn't sign a contract or anything.

> So not unreasonable to blame them when they change their mind in the name of Ads.
That change of mind was a part of their business model. Why blaming people for making legal businesses?

The problem is in people who trust "free" services and expect the terms to remain the same forever.
This seems like a direct knock on effect of the ridiculous asymmetry in legal liability. Due to the draconian way the DMCA works all the content platforms have their own informal process. The informal process involves no liability for a false claim so as a result you get this mass claiming.

Here's a fun point though - the DMCA is draconian partly because platforms like Youtube enabled mass piracy in order to capture market share when they were small. The costs of Youtube's illegal activity early on is now being passed on to their users today.
"Creator of Linux", just in case Linus Torvalds doesn't ring a bell
Pinterest's Updated S-1
Twitter was started as any easy way to send group texts via SMS, before phones would widely support group texting.
Besides owners, what about creeps that rent a place then leave devices behind? This affects hotels as well. That's my big fear.
The issue here will be securing a conviction or affecting actual change. I suspect the cost to conviction/prosecution (for the Uk taxpayer) will be so high, and the fines/action so small for the respective platforms, it will hardly be worth the effort.
Most likely companies will be fined retrospectively for a bit of government PR.
How to Change Negative Thinking with Cognitive Restructuring
It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
I did this as a kid in the 1980s. :) If you exploit the symmetry, so that there are only 3 initial moves (center, corner and edge) its manageable to do by hand. Don't even need a computer.

And here's an old Scientific American article about a device that learns a simplified subset of chess called Hexapawn. It's not a computer, but about 25 matchboxes. :)

https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/1991-gardner-ch8amatchboxgamel...
I think that's a type of self-constructed self-assuring extrapolation. The concept that because the things that one individual wants are available, surely all things for all individuals are available.

Looking at my paper books; Pooley's Flight Guide 1985; FIDO - Flying Through Fog; The Engineering History of the North of Ireland. Just three volumes out of thousands that are slowly slipping into oblivion.

The long tail of the Internet is not long enough to preserve all knowledge, particularly at the rate libraries are discarding old and 'unwanted' books.
> There's a lot of us mid-forties IT staff who owe our careers to the BBC Micro

Only just in 40s here so I was a bit late for the TV programs, but the Acorn computers (Micros and Master Series on trollies in school, and an Electron then later a Master at home) are essentially why I've ended up as a senior-developer-come-DBA.

A large part of that is BBC Basic. Compared to anything else available at home at the time it was magical. Instantly accessible (10 PRINT "Expletive" 20 GOTO 10), had proper sub-procedures & functions and long identifier names (so you could create usefully structured code), build-in multi-pass assembler for when you started to need/want lower level access, many of BASIC's parts could be accessed in a documented manner from assembled code too and not just those where it was providing a thin wrapper around other ROM functions, ...

That and many type-in examples in magazines of the time to try, learn from and modify: from "frivolous" one-liners (usually producing something pretty on screen), through little "ten liner" games and other demos, to much larger projects. Heck, they fuelled some of my interest in mathematics too as those examples sometimes explored concepts such as fractals, strange attractors, 3D transforms, and so on, while making the pretty display (the explanations were fairly superficial, but usually had the right keywords for me to go lookup more detail in the library when my interest was awoken).
Competition brings prices down.

Most of produce never gets collected in first place for lack of labourers, not destroyed.

Throwing money into fields isn't going to magically produce more food.
hookup != dating and hookup app != dating app

I wouldn't put to much blame on dating apps in general, as the whole category of "dating apps" has become rather large and differentiated. And the more differentiated it becomes, the more I see it reflecting existing social behaviour.

On Tinder a small number of attracive men gets to hook up. But hasn't that always been the case when the objective has been to "hook up"? When you pick someone up for the night at you local bar and have rather free choice, hasn't the choice always rather fallen on the hot guy?

But there is a whole world of other dating services outside of Tinder, that are not focused on hook ups, but rather on finding a partner, and the difference shows!

My a piece of anecdotal evidence:

On Tinder I got ~0 matches - I'd say I'm "average" looking, not "hot" enough for Tinder - but on Bumble I get regular good matches. In contrast one of my "hot" friends has no problems getting matches on Tinder, but when he tried out Bumble his number of matches were just slightly more than mine.

I still prefer dating without apps, and the overreliance on them in my youngish (~25) age group is worrying me a bit, but the world for non-hot men is not as bleak as it's often made out to be.
BASIC Computer Games
I agree to an extend. It is an indecent proposal. You are leveraging your economic position for the dating market, plain and simple.

But from the position of a guy that has few or none experience in dating, this might not be a bad choice.

Especially, as you mentioned, because it is very true that relationships are about expectations and managing those. And starting a relationship with someone who has basically always been in a relationship is very difficult for someone that was not.

Especially if the plan changed that you suddenly want to have a "serious" relationship. That is not very realistic and for the guy it doesn't really make a difference emotionally at this point.

The woman looking for greener pastures actually do have quite high expectations for economic safety, but that would make it more manageable for some guys at least.

And there is still opportunity for love here, and guys having problems with dating should know their options. Everything is allowed in love, right?

Disclaimer: I only ever at least partially defend the use of mail order brides on mondays. damn...
Social media gets a lot of bad press in the mainstream media. A lot of people in non-tech circles talk about how to spend less time on Facebook, etc., because they feel it has a negative impact.

Personally, I think it's a shame big social media is such a general disaster, because I've always had a good experience on Facebook and Twitter.
That's not this. Bug 1535749 is about lazy-loading images on the new tab page, not about implementing native support for the "loading" attribute on img tags.
I have seen way more damage done by the people "mostly working prototypes in hours or days" than people who want to write beautiful code. I understand that fixation to produce something beautiful can lead to paralysis but this is rarely the case. In most cases the prototype grows cancerously and it becomes impossible to fix in quite short time, my advice, listen to the experienced programmers who screwed up more time than you before, even if they seem to be obsessed with "beautiful code".
Losing My Perfect Job
Running Obyte wallet on headless RaspberryPi 3
That's incorrect. See clarification at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604145
Just curious: In that one screenshot, what is a "logical block" (= 13098476)? I thought blocks on floppies were far fewer than 13million? (It also says the physical block is 880.)
That last sentiment is very prominent in the incel/red pill "communities". They have some inside-baseball names for it, but essentially they do express their extreme disdain for women who have sex with lots of men then decide to "settle down" with a provider.
In a world where the UK might be struggling to find international friends I don't think anyone would be daft enough to try and extradite a leading citizen of the US.

The chances of the US agreeing to any such extradition are even smaller.
"And in related news, NZ's per-capita productivity doubled last year after..."
How is this relevant or an interesting point? Tourism is tourism. Mona Lisa is famous.
I use a very similar list of addons. In addition I recommend:

> * CanvasBlocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker....

A lot of people recommend that, but you don't need it if you're using ghacks-user.js. The reason is because of privacy.resistFingerprinting.

> * Cookie AutoDelete https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode....

> and I block cookies by default using uMatrix.

I use CookieAutodelete on my mobile because unfortunately the container API isn't available on the Android version of Firefox.

The reason I don't use it on my desktop is because there are certain types of things that cannot be cleared.

> APIs do not exist to allow clearing IndexedDB, Service Workers cache, appCache, or cache by host. Clearing cookies & localStorage on their own, and leaving orphaned persistent data is a false sense of privacy.

* https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...

* https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/4.1-Exte...

> Edit: I also recently switched to NoHTTP instead of HTTPS-Everywhere. This way I have to explicitly allow any non-HTTPS connections.

I might have to check that out.
If you haven't already seen it, 'Micro Men' is an excellent TV drama that details the history of the BBC's computer project and the battle to be the chosen computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
I understand what you're trying to say, but Tinder disagrees.

Also, in your efforts to combat generalizations "against" women you did the same about men without skipping a beat.
And both Boeing and the FAA have some credibility to win back here. If they don't, other aviation authorities might not trust the FAA's judgement on Boeing airplanes in the future.
I think this is the result of anti-propaganda efforts after the election.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/827zqc/in_re...
Can we all please stop electing politicians that understand nothing about the Internet?

This runs in the same vein as the "terrorism filters" that the EU plans to introduce after the "upload filters". They want to revert public discourse to the "old" model with newspapers as moderating gatekeepers and to kill independent (and free) venues.

This is not about terrorism, porn or "national security", this is about re-entering the Middle Ages. And the problem is that thanks to the ultimatively arrogant "disruption" culture the big tech companies are in a defensive position now and not an offensive one.
I can highly recommend figuring out the various keybinds (some are not so obvious, e.g. space for staging) and then just messing around a while. Soon enough you'll run into not knowing how to do stuff like a hohmann transfer soon enough at which point you can start googling.
In Sweden the a bunch of publishers are using the same defence as FB right now. They are being investigate for automatically republishing slander originating from a company similar to AP.

If they win their case I do not see why FB should be held to a higher standard.
Scientific dietary experts warn against a low carb diet.

Examples:

New Canada Food Guide: Some Can't Handle It (2019-01-22).

https://youtu.be/lp4zWaLE_ik?t=20

DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS 2015-2020 EIGHTH EDITION

https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/chapter...

https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/chapter...

Why Doctors Don't Recommend A Vegan Diet | Dr. Michael Greger (2015-05-17).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1Ca6SsKfE

Dr Garth Davis: Americans have become obsessed with Protein (2015-10-28).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCt3IhaUtU
If people want the data after this purge is complete, it might be available in resoruces such as those linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6lqbsd/downloadin...

Though you may need to do some work to extract what you want from the mass of data, and won't get the latest information.
A bit further on it says:

> For example, given a specific length, we can ask whether there are lists of that length:

?- list_length(Ls, 3).
Ls = [_G1007, _G1087, _G1167] ;
false.

In the current situation, if you ask for `list_length(Ls, -1)`, this will fail, obviously because there are no lists with length -1. But if you remove the `N #> 0` clause, the code will happily try to find such a list, by checking for lists with length -2, -3, ... ad infinitum.

Another way to look at this is that if you have a list `[_|Ls]` with length N, its length must be an integer greater than 0.
Not that I disagree with the idea, but aren't these communication tools highlighting or magnifying some basic human behavior traits? I would imagine this happens on a smaller scale through face to face interaction. Is it just the scale of it all that is the issue?
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On an individual basis, sure, the smaller systems are more cost effective. But in the aggregate large systems just blow them away, in general.

I know of a local mega corporation which has been steadily moving off of their "expensive" mainframes for the past decade or so, and they're finally almost finished. But now that they have tens of thousands of servers instead, their IT and other related costs have just exploded, to the point where today they're in a rather severe cost-containment mode. This in spite of the fact that they're tried to leverage open source tools and such in order to keep costs down. (Wall Street has started to notice these excessive cost issues, too.) And this doesn't even take into account all of the breakage which has occurred during the transition, leading to the company's good name being heavily smeared these days due to ongoing customer service issues. I suspect that their reputation may never fully recover from this.
Cheers

* congrats on the degree.

I'm going back to school as well.
> It is included in...Ayurvedic Meds

“Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
I think the only/mostly porn thing has a cost in the long term.

But I suspect they only watch porn because they can't have real sex or don't know how to get there.
You forget that Europe has been ruined by WW2. It's dependence of US(military and technologically) has always been part of the plan.

Europe is also very fragmented and there was hope the EU could fix that but Brexit and other internal and external factors(i.e Russia, China, Tump's policy etc) seem oppose a cohesive, united Europe for obvious reasons.

It has little to nothing to do with "openness" for new ideas. It's more about a chain of unfortunate events.

What does Huawei dominance in 5G and its ban has to do with "openness" or new ideas?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/15/trump-nat...
> Facebook has a very stringent identity verification process for political ads

I don't know why many of you are twisting this and trying to make it seem that this was a verification for a political add, where as the article clearly says it was a personal political post made by the user, and not for any ad!
That's extensive, thank you for your time and effort.
When a friend attempted to teach basic programming to his kids, I realized we're in trouble (for some definition of trouble, see below).

First of all, the article is right in opining that the pathways to computer literacy in general, and programming in particular, are not really all that accessible anymore. The problem becomes even worse due to the sheer number of "teaching" tools available. My friend had trouble even finding the right setting. It would have to be a device or an environment that seems relevant and recognizable to the kid, yet at the same time it must be approachable, well documented, didactically meaningful, and entertaining in a way that would motivate someone who could just play any game instead of making one.

Second, being a tech-illiterate kid today is not a pain point anymore. Devices, apps, and entertainment media are easy enough for anybody to use. Kids are, somewhat reasonably, asking why they should spend any energy on this, to what end?

At first I thought this was a problem. One of my friend's kids quit before the effort started essentially saying "this seems boring, why do I need this?" and the other quit after the first introduction with "nah, I'd rather do something else". I think this is actually fine. It has always been the case that being interested in computers came easier to social outcasts, and kids who had a genuine internal motivation towards technology. The web start up bubble may have skewed this perception for a time, because suddenly there was a lot of money accessible even for people with at best a passing interest in programming. But those days are petering out.

Computing never had a broad appeal, except during short fads. I don't think we need more people in computing and programming. If anything, we need less, because the job market for programmers is likely not going to get better.

Finally, I question whether there is an upside to teaching computing to kids who don't feel a connection to it. I actually agree with my friend's kids here: for what? Using software is as easy and productive as never before. Yes, being a programmer, I see the glaring issues in today's software, but if we're honest we have gained a lot more than we lost in terms of what the "unskilled" user can do.
I don't know. That's why I asked. I did a quick lookup of libpq and it gave the impression that it can answer for column types.
Dragrid – A simple grid with dragging feature for React
Is it priced low to avoid Lyft's fate?