skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never paid attention to use by or best-before dates. I think generally trusting you nose, eyes and instincts does you fine.

The one that most surprises me is the loaves of brown seeded bread I buy. The use by date is normally only a week from purchase, where as the bread is normally fresh for 2 weeks, and edible but starting to harden up to 3 weeks.

If I followed the use by date, I'd be throwing away half a loaf of bread every week.
Lc0 Wins Computer Chess Championship, Makes History
Is that 600MB of used RAM? Why is it so much? I've seen KDE environments use less than 400MB and when i use Window Maker i get something around 250MB or so.

(all of them are ridiculous sizes considering something like Windows NT 4 needs 16MB of RAM for the entire system and applications to run while providing a ton of functionality out of the box, but still even relatively your setup looks to use a lot of memory)
World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#System_of_measuremen...
Believing that the Earth is flat on the basis of that argument certainly isn't belief on the basis of faith.

Catholics as a group don't "ignore all the counterarguments". So for example, Ed Feser recently published a book presenting five arguments for the existence of God (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/...). The book responds to the various counterarguments that atheists and agnostics usually make to these arguments. You might not be convinced by the responses, but the counterarguments are not ignored.

Again, I am not trying to argue here that Catholicism can ultimately be rationally justified. I'm not a Catholic, and it's not particularly important to me whether it can or can't be. But it's unfair to caricature Catholics as a group as irrational faith heads (though no doubt some individuals may meet this description).
Apple may sweeten macOS 10.15 with iPad external display support
China’s social credit system stopped Ms of people from buying travel tickets
Listed a T. Rex Fossil on eBay for $2.95M. Scientists Weren’t Thrilled
They can sell.
Couldn't disagree more.

Hope FB crashes and burns ASAP.
You can consume blackcurrants in US. You can't grow it (in some states nowadays). Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant#History
Intel Cancels Its 5G Modem Plans Following Apple-Qualcomm Deal
Facebook isn't the internet. There is more to it than just one social media service.
It is not about optimism, my point is that pain, torture, death are bad because they deprive you of future possibilities. If you are already dead, you do not have any future to lose, and in that case if your torture can help others, the rational choice is to help.
"Among the hundreds of quotes that [Alice] Calaprice notes are misattributed to Einstein are many that are subtly debatable. Some are edited or paraphrased to sharpen or neaten the original. 'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler' might, says Calaprice, be a compressed version of lines from a 1933 lecture by Einstein: 'It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.'" From: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05004-4
UK actually. A FTSE-listed company.

I've mentioned some of the other stuff they did in my other comments so I won't dig it up here. I left at the end of last year and at that point I was doing the job of four engineers (who'd all left).

These days, I sleep through the night (first time in about five years), I've massively cut down my coffee intake (from four cups of espresso-strength to a couple of lattes), and I'm working on my own projects in the evenings again. I still have about a stone in weight (put on through comfort-eating) to burn off, but I'm working on that.
KDE1 was very fast and lightweight, i used it back when it was new via Caldera OpenLinux on a PMMX with 32MB RAM and i was very impressed not only with how fast it was but with how much stuff the CD came with (although that was largely due to the excellent - and unreplicated - work of the people behind COL)- and proceeded to do what every self respecting teenage nerd that learned about Linux does: install it on every friend and relative's computer, permission optional of course :-P

No really, KDE1 was very fast - try COL 2.3 CD from archive.org[1] and put it in PCem or 86box with an emulated Pentium MMX at 166MHz and 32MB of RAM and see it for yourself.

Later versions bulged and bloated and i do not think it ever felt as lightweight, but at least version 3 was rock solid. Of course this meant that KDE4 had to be rewritten from scratch and become a bloated buggy mess, as is tradition on the Linux desktop (also see GNOME 3 and i'm going to be very disappointed if XFCE doesn't become slower and bloated after it fully switches to GTK 3).

[1] https://archive.org/details/OpenLinux2.3CD
Plenty of other sites exist that link to content. I don’t come to HN for that, I come to HN for the forum and their take on the content. Which in my opinion just isn’t matched by any other place these days. (Though if anyone wants to share a contrary oppinion I’d love to hear about those!)
Anyone who is able of vaccinating themselves or their kids, but chooses not to for reasons other than “allergic to the vaccine” ARE antivax wackos.
oops, my bad. notice the mistake I made with sudo so this includes all the other things currently running. Limited to my current user the correct value would be:

smem -c pss -t | tail -1
220678

EDIT: reply inline to @Crinus because rate limitation:

no this is only current user because hidepid on proc in fstab

proc /proc proc defaults,hidepid=2 0 0
Norwegian is among the languages most closely related to english. Everybody who would like to learn a second language besides english, can easily learn norwegian. Only drawback is that there are fever people speaking norwegian than there are inhabitants in new york city. Written norwegian is almost phonetic.
There are a few ways of looking at this. Most of the more engineery-types are pointing out the inevitability of failure, the challenges trying to find a good enough substrate to mount a touchscreen stack on, and trying to protect an exposed external hinge from impact, and all that material engineering science stuff that's really clever... But well besides the point.

I can't even rationalise why anybody wants a folding screen.

This seems like a gimmick searching for a market, not an answer to demand. And if this was the lowest hanging fruit for R&D to develop the next generation of phones, I think we're finally facing real stagnation in the phone market. Screen pixel density exceeds eyesight. Battery density limits are as far as known science can push them. Storage is beyond what we can reasonably use. 4G is fast enough. They've made every size of phone between a stamp and a tablet. There's nothing left to do. Phones are as dead as the PC.

What's next?
I'm not sure whether Xubuntu includes KDE's stuff or people here confused between Xubuntu and Kubuntu?
You're asking a lot of important questions and I'll take a stab at answering them.

The discovery of a new molecule or invention of a new method for treating disease is about 5-10% of the effort required to bring a drug to market. Yes, it's clearly not possible to bring a drug to market if it has not been invented, so it's essential to the process, but the difficulty shepherding this new thing through to commercial approval is fraught with difficulties. Universities and hospitals don't have the right talent to do this, nor do they have the resources or the risk tolerance so they sell some of the future gains to a company through licensing for money now. This is how almost all drugs are developed now-a-days, through licensing deals from the inventing parties. This brings the drug to market a lot faster, helping patients more quickly, and reduces the risk of development failure which would prevent patients from getting the drug.

On your second question, the biotech space is small and the number of investing analysts are also small in number. This means you can get a sense of the entire space by following a handful of people on twitter or by email. If you're in the business, you knew who's working on what. Biotech is unlike high-tech in that you need capital to do the work. Making an app can be done by a single person in their apartment. Making a drug requires millions of dollars, special lab equipment, the right people, being in a hub, etc.

In terms of insider trading, the SEC has strict rules on trading on non-public information and compartmentalizing this kind of information to a small group of people who have their trading accounts basically always watched by regulators. Every year a number of biotech employees go to jail for insider trading, so it clearly happens but the SEC is really vigilant on pursing it. The people who profited from this are likely the employees of the company and the investors. They didn't need insider trading as much as they needed to be in biotech, live in the Boston area, want a job working on gene therapy, and work for the company. It's like asking how did people make money off Facebook, or any other company that started-up and made it big.
> Why do people in "tech" outsource their judgement on this topic to people who aren't even in the room

I'm not outsourcing my judgement, I don't use Facebook. But many people do, so they seem to view it as a net benefit, unless Facebook has literally started to strap people to their chairs and force them onto the app. You can argue that they are wrong and shouldn't value "connecting with friends and seeing memes" over privacy, but that's a different discussion.

You're conflating rights issues with a choice. You can choose to use Facebook just as you can choose to drink coffee, eat lots of sugar or live a sedentary life style. Sure, let's talk about free will, but that's completely unlike sexual self-determination, slavery, segregation etc.

> You figure out what you consider to be right, and then you fight for it.

No, I don't. I figure it's right to not drink alcohol, but I don't fight so that nobody may drink alcohol. I just don't drink it, but it's fine if you do. Be their free will or not, I'm not forcing anybody to live by my standards.
I will go out on a limb and speculate that even more don't read the directions.
Here is a related article that is highly interesting: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/04/15/are-dual-class-co...

It reviews the evidence related to dual-stock companies. Facebook is such as company since there are class A and class B shares (which have 10 times the vote power).

Here is a follow-up article that is worthy of attention as well: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/04/17/whats-the-problem...
> Because that's absolutely true and valid complaint.

I agree that it is a valid complaint.

But simple rules like - Use a thick/thin client or terminals instead of hopping on to a server or use complex passwords with password manager if required or the easiest one - don't open personal emails on work machine, should be easy to follow.
"unintentionally". Yeah, sure, whatever you say Zuck.
You’re buying a weapon of unknown history in a manner that (in theory, at least) provides no link to you. In what scenarios do you see yourself then interacting with law enforcement to a degree that the history of the weapon would come up but you wouldn’t have otherwise been in trouble?
Kubuntu => KDE

Xubuntu => xfce
Government Should Regulate Automated Decision-Making
you can fool gait recognition simply by putting a stone in your shoe,gait recognition is no where as sophisticated as it claims to be.
Took a risk and it turned semi-sour short term. Why do people always have to sue when things don’t go their way...
I'd also add that "pancake day" (aka Shrove Tuesday) only makes sense if eggs are one of the prohibited foods: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday
Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc for HPC
First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus
The wave of domain hijackings besetting the Internet is worse than we thought
Exascale Is an Opportunity to Advance the HPC Software Stack
>They have trouble accepting that a tech corporation like facebook actually might be rotten.

Probably because they work for an evil tech corporation as well (this is HN, where SV techbros hang out, so the probability of that it pretty high) and want to ease their cognitive dissonance.
Start by calling then lies.
Intel 9th Generation 8-Core 35W CPUs: Launch May 15th (Kikatek)
Still, isn't it the entire system's load?
Not if humans would otherwise burn every drop of oil they can find.
> What's your most convincing argument for why an average person should care more? Explain it to me like I'm 5.

The data leak of HIV patients' identities which happened in the UK a couple of years ago. Think you'd struggle to find anyone who thought "Oh, that's not a problem - noone really needs privacy". I think most people also understand that there should be general enough rules to cover all situations like that.

The challenge in my view isn't explaining why privacy is good and needed. It's convincing them that their privacy is actually at risk.
Manually searching is time taking since you need to wait for the results from each experiment. This becomes impossible when the number of hyperparameters is more than 8-10 and you will probably end up only tuning a few of them that you think are relevant. You'd also need a lot of experience in tuning hyperparameters else your tuning is as good as random.

Given these disadvantages of manual tuning, "Bayesian Optimization" seems like the most promising technique, it needs a lot less "choose->train->evals" loops as it uses the information from previous runs to select the next set of hyperparameters (similar to what humans would do).
Startup Funding: Things to Consider Before Spending Raised Funds
With Driverless Cars Running Late, a Startup Tries Remote-Control Trucks
What is the max lines in a single file for a developer "to get fired" at your company?
Its a non material dependent design defect, cable is too short.
So this is like quadratic obfuscation.
It doesn't look like that might scale at all. In other words, it works because Mastodon is a very small, niche community.

Good thing is that the Mastodon instance owners use shared block lists for servers that are currently used to ban free speech instances; that infrastructure could also be used to create a collectively managed list of instances that are full of spam.
Part-Revived Pig Brains Raise Slew of Ethical Quandaries
is it just uncomfortable to your non-japanese sensabilities? lots of things are small and cramped in Japan. They rent 4.5 tatami apartments for example. Toilet stall doors often open in with zero room for a person between the door and toilet to get out (50% of the time I end up rubbing my pants along the toilet since there's no room ... yuck!)
Coincola Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Exchange Comparison and Reviews
Facebook “Unintentionally” Harvested the Email Contacts of 1.5M Users
>Future historians don't care about who was in line in the bakery this morning etc.

They do when it turns out that a serial killer was in that line. Tracking exactly what that killer did leading up to the killing spree would be very interesting to them.

But it's very hard to track 1 person retroactively. Unless, of course, there's a nation-wide surveillance system in place.

I'm not advocating for it. I'm just saying that the parent is correct in that historians would love this information.
Facebook embarrassed by yet another data flop-up
Scientists Have Found a Way to Fast Charge Lithium Ion Battery
Code Reviews can avoid duplication.
They are just folding it wrong, clearly
High schoolers invite strangers to watch as they get into/rejected college
why not working let's say 10hrs/week @ 125K/year while doing something else?
Donki actually has plenty of useful stuff. The quality might be cheap but I lived in a mostly donki furnished apartment for 6 years. Bookshelves, kitchen table, lots of utensils, no issues. I've also bought lots of foodstuffs, some clothing, stationary, and lots of toiletries and cleaning supplies.

If you want a company that makes completely useless landfill stuff see Flying Tiger from Sweden. That store is nothing but trash and deserves your wrath far more than donki
It's a GitHub repository with a name consisting of 132 'e's, the maximum limit on GitHub [0][1].

People started contributing more and more esoteric code to print 'e' repeatedly in their favourite programming language. Eventually the repository was disabled, and the author got into a long-winded discussion with GitHub. Eventually the repository was archived [2].

[0]: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeee...

[1]: https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/e98e/

[2]: https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/everything-that-lives-is-de...
Facebook collected 1.5M users' email contacts without their knowledge – CNN
Multiple lines of mysterious Denisovans interbred with us
Optical Processors, FGPA 'reconfigurable hardware', 3d layering, Quantum processors (if they ever go commercial), Neurochips (rat-brain-neural-network-on-a-chip for specialist hardware applications). If hardware devs ever run out of ideas we may even have to go back to resource-efficient programming!
Glowing millipede genitalia help scientists tell species apart
> If the healthcare cost is zero or negligible the need for insurance is also zero. You just pay it out of pockets.

Tautologic, of course, the service insurance gives is precisely the individually unforeseeable cost of disease.

> The insurance company might want to lower their bills (when they do pay for your treatment), but they have a counter-incentive to health costs being lowered too much, and a positive incentive to get health costs higher for the uninsured.

The great enemy of insurance companies is direct-to-provider pay (and insurance one of the historically great political enemies of doctors as well). It's been unfortunately regulated from its inception, but its an intuitive proposition to say that insurance companies win by how efficiently they apply the actuarial model, and how they control the risks and the payouts. Insurance companies that pay more to providers and restrict less coverage of their patients will soon be out of business.
"In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there’s a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching." https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birth...
What It Means to Be a Site Reliability Engineer
If we want to show users permission dialogs and that let them make good decisions, there's a need for finer grain APIs to allow finer-grain permissions.

For example, for a smart home app asking 'precise location constantly even when not using the app' is sufficient to perform geofencing - but asking for a more limited 'know when you arrive home' is much more likely to get user approval.
Ocean circulation likely to blame for severity of 2018 red tide
Stop Targeting Ads at Me
You also need to be able to run in the background
Have you considered getting in involved with the Ocean Cleanup Project[0]? They aren't working on self-replicating swarm robots but they are working on collecting the trash with huge interconnected nets. It's probably a good starting point, since building anything sea-worthy is already a huge challenge.

[0]: https://www.theoceancleanup.com
Green Material for Refrigeration Identified
I don't think you have any grasp of the efficiency gains brought by modern agriculture and its scale.

I actually grew up on an old school farm and it took the land area equivalent of an apartment complex to feed our one family all year round. Tending to it was almost a full time job for 6 of the 12 months of each year. This is how people have been living for hundreds of years, the math is pretty well understood.

If you have anything better than a pair of op-eds to show that home gardening can be made 10-100x more efficient than it was a generation ago, I would love to see. My fruit+veg garden is a fun hobby and is quite large and healthy, but there is no way it could feed me for a year, never mind my family.
Cathedrals are neglected in much of Europe
Unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Fold
The other option is that Facebook burns society to the ground. By accident, or at least by negligent permission; see the Rohingya for an example of what I mean.
Does this mean that Kubuntu will become Pubuntu at some point?

It's weird seeing a KDE product without a single K in its name.
A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation
Do people become happier after 40?
Interface Dispatch (2018)
Blood pressure drug shows promise for treating Parkinson's and dementia
Yeah, this is weird, I guess some people mistake X for K.
You could never completely cut people from your life.

That awful ex-partner knows where you work, when & where you're out with friends. They can show up.
This is really cool. Thank you for sharing.
The truly scary idea is that there’s no conspiracy of capital even.

What if the advertising dollars aren’t evil, what if we can’t blame them?

What if the problem is that garbage and trash fires are just what people want, and the ad dollars just follow the success?

I like the idea that there’s some kind of... imbalance? mis-structure to blame? That it’s somebody’s fault or the system is wrong somehow.
> When it loads, the disk is unwritable

This is where you put the disk back in the box and return it for a full refund.
I posted it. I'm a 70-year-old retired (38 years experience) neurosurgical anesthesiologist. This is the first time in my life anyone has ever alluded to the possibility that I might be on the spectrum. Better late than never!
There is so much double speak right now in Corporate America, its sickening.
Whilst possibly overwhelming or discomforting, walking through Donki gives an honest display of consumerism, and manages to make it exciting. Like Walmart, it's essentially an incredible variety of stuff jumbled together. But Walmart is an Amazon warehouse in which the customers do the picking. It's systematic and depressing, and one feels like they might be in an item in a production line. Donki is chaotic, musical and risqué. It's not uncommon to see well-dressed couples on dates swinging tipsily through, because it's somehow conducive to romance, or at the very least, not a very shameful place to be seen. A store will have a variety of atmospheres, not all of them pleasant, but I much prefer the honesty of the chaos to the censored productions of most consumer 'experiences'.
Are you left- or right-handed?
Whaoo I can't wait!

Where does Xubuntu and Kubuntu stand, install-base-wise, compared to the default Ubuntu? And other distros, for that matter?

I'm one of many people who left Ubuntu as soon as they started doing their big UI changes. I went to Xubuntu.

But I have no bigger idea of which distro is hot anymore; once I settled on Xubuntu, I haven't really been shopping around for alternatives.
And on the lock screen.
I absolutely despise Flying Tiger and its array of absolutely useless one-time use non-recyclable plastic-glitter-trash and am perversely gladdened by its spread across Europe as it means my partner can no longer use it as a one-stop shop for last minute gifts, as the recipients now have a branch in their town so she'd be caught out.

As an aside, it's from Denmark, not Sweden - either/or would be surprising to me - my ignorant British perspective is that Scandies tend to be more Calvinistically-prudent and Gaia-centric and not beholden to landfill crap.
sarcasm is generally frowned upon here, for these reasons
To Create an Evolvable API, Think About the Protocol
What is the point? Sometimes you need software that relies on KDE and there is no alternative for it.