skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why hundreds of millions of smokers, smoked, after all. They carefully weighed up the evidence, using their medical training, avoided the lies from tobacco company advertising, used their "it's just common sense" know-everything superpower, and - in an almost unprecedented moment of human rational decision making - concluded that smoking was better than non-smoking.

No, it didn't happen that way. People smoked because it was cool, and it was cool because marketing people explicitly made it look cool. "Torches of freedom"[1] was how Edward Bernays set out to get women smoking cigarettes, for one famous example, generic "cool guy with a cigarette" in Hollywood films wasn't put there by accident, for another. And one of the main reasons smoking was pushed out was that second hand smoking gives other people cancer. People bought arsenic wallpaper and arsenic cloth. They did not decide, rationally and in full knowledge of the best available information, that green wallpaper was a better choice than their infant child staying alive. Or do you think they did choose that?

OSHA has no moral basis to override or overrule that human being’s own decisions for their own body.

OSHA's basis comes from the fact that there are many human biases, many con tricks, and many unintuitive risks, collectively learned over decades, which one human cannot rationally learn and consider in a short time. Even if that were all it was - a single human choosing whether they gamble with their health - it might be OK, but this is in the situation where a large and well resourced company has a profit-motive to exploit the humans, to coerce them and mislead them and pressure them, to take such risks without due consideration.

And worse, like the case of second hand smoke - you might be willing to climb a high structure without a safety harness, but your willingness means other people will be compelled to do so - by their employers and by peer pressure. You'll be faster, and your equipment costs will be lower. But you'll be putting other people at risk too - if you fall on a coworker, if you drop something on a bystander, if you slip on the floor in your gripless boots and knock someone else - your choices affect other people.

And society is willing to say "we don't want that. You must wear a harness, so that everyone can wear a harness. You must wear grippy boots, so other people can work safely around you.", without "fearing for your life" being a thing which excludes you from the workforce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
Computational biology project Folding Home aims to understand protein folding
Actually I rejoice when companies cut bad, frivolous things like soda that negatively impact health and use aluminum; which is sometimes not recycled.

Plus it's difficult to resist temptation when constantly working around food that's unhealthy yet very sweet and 'free'.
There was a very interesting discussion on One Hour One Life mailing list about how fast we would go from prehistoric tech to modern tech if we knew all the steps and one key point was that we would have to make several iterations of increasingly precise machinery.

I learned that in 1751, Vaucanson made this full-metal lathe: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/metal-turning-lathe/... that was a kind of breakthrough and the ancestor of modern lathe, one of the first precision machine tool. Add that to his automata and his invention of punch cards to program looms and I am now realizing how much of a Da Vinci that guy was.
Why are companies like Rolls-Royce and Rolex popular but no advertise?
> The book suggested that this idea occurred to none of the other airplane inventors.

Gliders were pretty important for other airplane inventors of the era, as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#Heavier_th...
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One very simple set of rules could be: 1. your app may not accept in-app purchases more than once per month, and 2. the in-app purchase cost must not exceed 10% of the original purchase price. And then 3., there should be a lifetime maximum on purchases, i.e. you can finally “pay enough”.

Instead of these or really any other sane constraints, we’ve somehow made it worse by now preferring subscriptions!!! And even more offensive, these recurring charges are allowed to be very high. And as if that weren’t rewarding enough for scammers, it can be far more frequent than one would normally expect (e.g. weekly instead of monthly). Like, REALLY!?!?
I've been trying to find such games for my kids (4 & 6) - there really are no search options to help.

Indiscriminate third party advertising and freemium games are going to cause significant long-term harm to mobile gaming, and possibly also to society as a whole.

There's still some games out there that use IAP in small doses (<10 total) to sell reasonably sized chunks of content, but they don't make the money that freemium games do.

(My own device operates on the same rules as my kids - no third party advertising, no freemium IAP stuff. There's really nothing to miss in that space anyway…)
I don't know how much of it is the recommendation algorithms vs amount of wheat and chaff in that 18k and 4k, but from my experience looking for something new to watch I would easily believe a claim that the additional 14k is all complete crap.
Haven't you heard that orange man bad?
> Also, policemen are professionally trained to handle them

I've gone shooting with plenty of cops. There's nothing special about police academy that qualifies you to handle a handgun. If anything, frequent recreational shooters are probably better than your average cop, who shoots once or twice a year to qualify.
I love how it combines dangerously antagonistic elements like water and electricity. Somebody's going to get hurt!

In that vein, can you build logic gates out of cars and pedestrians?
The "proof" is extremely shaky. Veritas has a record of creating these types of videos where they draw conclusions out of thin air. Here's what the person in particular has to say:

https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...
> Hey, it's not better or worse than any other way to guess.

Saying this is a kind of relativism that closes you off to receiving criticism for this view.

Here is some disagreement from the philosopher of information Luciano Floridi, "Against Digital Ontology":
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4076/1/ado.pdf and its sister paper "A Defence of Informational Structural Realism": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.135...

You might to be tempted to ignore this paper for being too technical, but it would be technical only because these are real issues that become difficult when put under serious reflection.

If you can stomach it you will be rewarded with deeper understanding.
I disagree. It works great for me. Maybe once every few days I will use !g when I can't find something, but I rarely end up finding it on Google either.

I read somewhere that someone used a skin to make ddg look identical to Google. After doing that, they never even thought about using Google again.
As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

I do not agree that market efficiency should have priority over all other considerations. It seems to me this idea simply reflects the views of those who derive a net benefit from markets, and are oblivious (by accident or choice) to the costs of market failure or impossibility of clearance.

Look, supply and demand only work under conditions of perfect competition, which include total knowledge of the market by all participants and no costs for entry or exit. Such conditions obviously do not obtain in many, perhaps most real world contexts. A slavish obedience to these laws is therefore a losing strategy, and indeed in the real world most people take a strategic approach.

People who take a strategic approach for themselves while insisting on the supremacy of supply and demand to others (who may or may not be aware of the dichotomy and subsequently credulous of the assertion) are engaged in an act of deception.
If it were 25 years ago I'd say 'Definitely BSD'.

Today, it's 'Definitely Linux'.

"Don't reinvent" the wheel." - "If it works, don't fix it" - "Never teach your grandmother to suck eggs" - etc - etc - etc: Never fall victim to the NIH (Not Invented Here) Syndrome. Bill gates had it, it ruined Microsoft. In other words, don't think you can build a better OS than hundreds/thousands of other brains can.
Blender's Python API, although cleaner and better organized than Maya's, only offers a sliver of Maya's functionality. Maya has a standard maya.cmds API for scripting which works similarly to how Blender's Python API. Maya also has a separate library maya.api.OpenMaya which is a wrapper around its C++ plugin api. Blender doesn't offer anything like this.
Mind you, so does Mozambique.
A while back when I still worked on academic papers, I had a great workflow where I had a Makefile that knew how to build everything (deriving .eps files from xfig diagrams, deriving a main pdf file from all the .tex files etc), and I used inotifytools to notice when any of the build dependencies changed, and that triggered a run of `make`.

xpdf has (... had?? apparently it got removed in the 4.0 series to get a release out the door) a "remote" option where you can send commands to a running xpdf instance, so I would have the above makefile notify the running xpdf to re-read the file.

Put $EDITOR on one side and xpdf on the other, and you've got a near-realtime-updated view of what you're working on, just save the file and see the rebuilt pdf. It usually took around a second or two depending on the complexity of what I was working on.

I didn't use emacs at the time, but if I had, I would try to integrate all of the above with flymake-mode to automatically build without me needing to save the file. (there are probably problems with this because if it builds while you're in the middle of typing a latex command, the latex process will fail to build)
Pissing in a bottle between stock aisles is a "market condition". The market rewards those participants who do not have interrupted labor due to bladder events.
so wanton destruction of the earth is fine as long as there are some positive benefits in the short term to Minneapolis?
The market is trending will right now we are looking at higher highs. My system suggests it and has been right when everyone was running away from the market in 14/16/18.

You should read the worlds worst market timer [1]. For most people the best way is to just put all their money in stocks. Obviously not just SPY, maybe a world index, SPY and bonds. This way you can sell the bonds if the market drops and use that for living expenses, or to average out the downturn.

[1] https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
Baseball also has verifiable, long term data on specific metrics with a guaranteed minimum rate of pay for entry level people. You're comparing different things.

You're comparing executive pay, which isn't based on verifiable public data. It's not the same thing.

While your assertion that pay doesn't correlate to performance is correct that's based on the idea that the wrong tools and metrics are being used to measure CEO performance. At a certain point you're not going to attract talented people for the task with 25% of the pay unless they've already made their money. There aren't a lot of those types of executives with this experience available unfortunately.
Don't use Spacemacs. Problem solved.
2.80 is definitely a pretty big UI improvement, and the new EEVEE renderer makes it much easier to work with materials and preview how they'll actually look in game since it is functionally similar to modern game engines.
Any success getting through the VRM process at a financial services firm? Your product looks very exciting.
A wikipedia based on Universal Product Codes has been in the back of my mind for a long time. Scan the UPC and a page pops up. Have the data in the form of an infobox or RDF (dbpedia.org) and the basis is there for an app or glasses that does what you describe. Biggest problem would be how to defend each UPC page from astroturfing by whoever makes money off the product associated with the UPC.

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Edit: It seems like the aforementioned https://www.buycott.com is essentially this? It's always nice to see an idea completed with no work!
True, but I bet there would be at least a small percentage of people who would still not buy from you because you don't treat your workers well. Most people would still shop with you, as their own wages are crap and they are looking for cheapest places to shop. But if they were paid well, they will at least consider shopping with ethically sound companies.

It is like a circle - lower wages lead to lower purchasing power, so companies pay their workers low to lower prices to sell to low earning customers, and so on...
250 nit. Fail.
I read the documentation on the URL you provided, and the pure function pipeline data flow is essentially different from Rx:

1. The essential difference between programming methods is the inherent thoughts and models. The idea and model of pure function pipeline data flow are highly consistent with integrated circuits.

2. The pure function pipeline data flow emphasizes the data flow, Rx emphasizes the asynchronous event flow, and does not mention or emphasize the data flow.

3. The pure function pipeline data stream is composed of only 5 components, and the model is much simpler than Rx.

4. Pure function pipeline data flow emphasizes the sequential structure (series of pipeline components), and the maintenance (code reading, expansion, debugging, etc.) is simpler.

5. The asynchronous event flow of the pure function pipeline data flow is simpler than Rx. I wrote an asynchronous event flow in my project, it is just a queue processing, so it is not necessary to specifically mention it.

6.The clojure language doesn't require Rx at all.
At this point, I don't blame Apple for holding on to Lightning.

As soon as its phones go USB-C, they're going to have to deal with half a million people on the internet complaining that their junk shop cable doesn't work right or do what they thought it would.
I made more than 100k as a software support tech with no management experience and minimal college. Not sure that amount measures up in every locale. 100k for a CEO of a large charity seems pretty low.
The person who wrote this, who is pretty clearly very fond of themself, seems about as dull as the kids they are disparaging. Who brags about being in varsity swimming and making highschool honors as an adult?
>In light of this, I think the deepest explanation is in general economic and cultural factors.

Indeed, with enough people with enough spare wealth, you can have significant progress even when technology remains flat.

There is an immense difference between the Greek dark age and classical Athens, but not technologically. And intellectually curious people can figure out how to fly just using paper.[1]

Apparently, the first iteration of the bike in the early 1800s was a briefly popular toy: the very epitome of unguided discovery is play. Only later was it made practical by inventors working from that exiting idea.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers
I believe Rolex advertises in magazines...
The latest I've heard on /r/SpaceX is that the propulsive landing is completely off the table for this vehicle.

I suppose they might retain the ability in case of a chute failure, but that would be it.

I'd still like to see them try it.
It really felt like a mistake. Surely nobody would have designed that on purpose??
All Electric Vehicles – Clean Green Transport Machines
Think of it this way: if you take a single particle in the world changing course, when it eventually collides with another, it will be with a different particle that it would originally have collided with. Once that happens, two particles now have a different course. Eventually, it'll be four, then eight, and so on, until pretty much every particle's course is shifted. This global shift is almost certain to happen eventually, and relatively quickly.

At a macroscopic scale, though, that won't look like much at all. Air currents, temperature, and so on don't really depend on what specific microstate the atmosphere is in. It's like shifting every object in a room at random by a tenth of a millimeter, for all intents and purposes it doesn't change anything. Usually. From time to time, some microscopic details can snowball into macroscopic effects. Well, pretty much any small change anywhere in the world is going to shuffle all of these, everywhere in the world, a few years down the road.

This means that, perhaps counter-intuitively, the more time passes, the more likely a small change is to have an effect. First it will shift everything a tenth of a millimeter, but eventually one of these shifts will snowball into a one-millimeter shift... which will propagate everywhere, setting the stage for a ten-millimeter shift, and so on. You'd be unlikely to notice, though, because the proximal cause for a big change will almost always be a medium-sized change, not a tiny one. Furthermore, it could take a very long time for the effects to really ramp up: large scale natural processes are very robust. Still, if a process has any kind of sensitivity to noise, it's just a matter of time before it shifts.
Why isn't aluminium involved in biological processes?
The article says: "Rather, the cause lies in a more exotic and unanticipated chemical/material interaction between a plumbing valve, liquid oxidizer, and a helium-based pressurization system."

How can chemical interactions be "exotic"? Or did they mean "exothermic" or "exciting" or "esoteric"? Is "exotic" a technical term, or did the chemicals simply come from a distant foreign country, and how does that affect their physical properties?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-exotic-compounds-in-chemistry

Is there such a thing as non-baryonic titanium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter

>Hypothetical particles and states of matter that have "exotic" physical properties that would violate known laws of physics, such as a particle having a negative mass.

I can understand why you'd want to fill a rocket with exotic matter of negative mass: to make it lighter! ;)
I think the idea is that other people disagree with the characterization as "clearly having a joking intonation".
It's done bad things for Minneapolis too? Or are you suggesting that we should keep destroying the Amazon so the fine people of MN can have some more Teslas?
Bill Gates faces “daunting” nuclear energy future
> The fact of the matter is that these kids don't have passions, so they are trying to do what others did with the test scores and buy their way in. Trying to fake passion is hard. It's upsetting that people would pay good money rather than trying to cultivate it themselves.

I didn't have any "passions" when I was 17. I know few people that did. Instead of mocking "rich kids", why don't we ask why a college should care about our personality or passions. Some people just want to go to school, find a career, start a family and live a normal happy life.
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Really glad to see this happen.

Now, you can rest in peace Turing, one of the most admirable pioneer.
EGS supports Windows & Mac. This link is directly from their home page https://launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com/laun...
well, if you look at the first photo in the article, they actually were completely circular. i suppose eventually people decided to compromise and found out how much roundness is enough.
What the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Taught Us
Haven't started reading yet, but I'm really digging this trend of syntax-highlighted bare text blogs[0]. Is this a template or is it hand-crafted?

[0]: https://christine.website/blog/h-language-2019-06-30
Why don’t you do that now? Amazon takes in billions in profit, meaning that their prices are substantially higher than they could be. Why aren’t you (or some other competitor) taking advantage of this?

It’s funny how this sort of argument never comes up in the context of taking profits.
As someone working in this field, I'm naturally a complete optimist in the promise of what it had to offer. The work done by june et al is amazing, and hopefully it is only the first step in what's to come. I do think that with great time and effort we will be able to tackle these manufacturing issues, and I'm particularly excited by the promise of applying synthetic biology tools like genetic logic gates to create more and more powerful cells. Here's to cautious optimism about the future of cell and gene therapies.

On a different note, look, Penn, I get it. You want "cellicon valley" to stick. But it's not happening. Stop trying to make "Cellicon valley" happen. Or at least pick a better name.
Is there a postulate between a toolset's ability to reduce entropy and Turing completeness?

I feel like most of the "X is Turing complete" posts are essentially saying "X can decrease entropy to an arbitrary fidelity" (while also having some simulation rules that run over the altered system).
Yes they are. Embedded applications outnumber top end computers by an order of magnitude.
Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling
Ask HN: What color do you have set for the top bar?
I have a light purple setting as my top bar color: D8BFD8
The purple looks decent but it clashes with the orange of the ycombinator logo. Regardless, I’ve stuck with it.

What do you use for your color? Classic orange or do you switch it up?
Paying someone materially above market value creates a precarious situation for the employee in which they are operating with an income they can’t hope to replace if the employer leaves. It happened where I live with an auto assembly plant. There are deleterious effects on the local job market as well, in which lical companies can’t pay enough to compete.

All told it’s probably better to put the money in the hands of an employee, but there are certainly negative consequences that can arise.
I fully concede that conditions were very different depending on time and place, and I was talking specifically about the US (mostly the eastern US, where I’m from) in the period after independence up to World War I.
Trump's Tweets Are Racist, Gizmodo decides.
Host it on IPv6? I've never tried it, but I would think that it's just a matter of opening a hole in your home router's firewall. I don't think any ISP is doing dynamic IPv6, or at least I hope they're not, so your Raspberry PI should always have the same global IPv6 address.

Anyway, this is one of the principal points of IPv6, to not only reach the internet, but let the internet reach you.

Maybe in the future, we'll reach a point where it's common for households to have symmetrical bandwidth and host their own stuff from their home instead of having no option but to rely on VPS companies for that.
I don’t understand, how is that different from taxing and giving workers money that way? They should have the same effect in terms of economic efficiency. The only reason we use taxes for this sort of thing is because it’s harder to cheat.
Very cool to see that this is getting ready for prime time. It seems they succeeded in achieving the primary goal of making the implementation more maintainable and easier to work with. But the lesser goal (or perhaps non goal, but something some people might have secretly hoped for) of inheriting some of Chez's speed hasn't really panned out (yet).
I see comments like this all the time. Am I alone in that search results, for me, have gotten significantly _better_ since a couple years ago?

I can't help but think it's partially due to people using tools _specifically designed_ to make Google's job harder (FF SandBoxes, uBlock, etc) and not understanding the implications of using them... and then blaming Google for returning "bad" results.