skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and lives were lost because people couldn't accept a correct procedure with an incorrect explanation.

(Would you only take a cancer drug if the oncologist can explain exactly how it works?)
I think that might be jumping the gun? That's a very popular meme but I'm not sure it's at all accurate -- I haven't heard a convincing case. Perhaps you could explain your thinking here?

Here's my take:

The FBI calls people involved with the earth liberation front "ecoterrorists". I don't think most people in the ELF would deny that their efforts are motivated by environmentalism, or oppose the "eco" label being applied to those efforts.

The "extremists" described here would probably not say that they were motivated by "white nationalism" or a desire to ethnic cleanse non-white people. No doubt there are some of those out there, but certainly you couldn't describe the pizza gate attacker in that way, nor would they self-describe that way.

I think the vague "extremist" label might be about as good as you could do, seeing as how unrelated some of these things are. You might be able to call it "right-wing extremism" but then you're making things partisan, and it's understandable that the FBI wouldn't want to do that.
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$5: probably doable. An esp8266 dev board goes for $2 on AliExpress. That leaves $1 for plastics and $2 for a lipo battery.
It seems to be a diesel locomotive pulling passenger carriages (almost certainly ones that were obsolete at the time).

It's still a pretty impressive way to show how strong they are...
I'll volunteer mine, in the hopes that it's been solved already:

After transpilation, minification, and with flaky source map support in many places (e.g. rollbar downloads new source maps after the first error, and doesn't apply them retroacively to the stack trace), a lot of information about errors is lost. Combine this with ubiquitous async programming, and all you get is something like "a.x is undefined", which hardly actionable.

I propose two solutions. First, instrumentation of functions (like rollbar does in python) where you can see the function's local variables and arguments alongside the stack trace. Second, async traces, which trace the scopes where a promise was created, fulfilled, rejected, and awaited. These are huge omissions in javascript tooling today.
Hot take: the web technology toolchain is plenty powerful as it is, and expanding it will cause more problems through misuse of newer features than it would create solutions.

Yes, web standards offer loads of tools that let developers and designers get _really_ creative with their work, but we've reached a point where many of us are spoiled for choice, and loads of the mainline options are used, abused, or otherwise ill-optimised to the point of making many websites heavy enough to turn many laptops into space heaters.

Worse still, the "spoiled for choice" factor means that people keep finding radically new ways to use the toolchain; while this is arguably not a bad thing in isolation, it makes it _so_ difficult to keep up with what you're _supposed_ to use at any given time.
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
Everyday we read a new story about how changes are accelerating, and none of these changes are accounted for in any of the traditionally accepted climate models.

I think it's time admit that the climate models that we've been relying on aren't accurately modeling the changes that are taking place.

I remember reading about models in the 80's and 90's that started showing significant change starting to take place in the early 2020's, which means we are running ahead of even those aggressive models. Sort of a hockey stick curve of changes. What I remember about those aggressive models is that things got bad real quick, like 2050 quick and real bad like stuff that the normal models didn't think would happen for a 3 or four hundred years bad.

Those more aggressive models just faded away because no one believed that things could change so quickly. Back in the day most scientists thought it was crazy to think that the permafrost would ever thaw on a large scale, let alone start burning on a massive scale.

Right now everyone is operating on the belief that we can slow the rate of climate change, but the earth and the climate are now locked in a number of positive feedback loops, warming oceans, phytoplankton population crashes, thawing permafrost, thawing glaciers, ocean salinity drops, seal level rise. These systems and feedback loops are much bigger that the fraction of change proposed by the Paris agreement, and usually feedback loops don't stop until resources are exhausted or the loop breaks. These loops have a massive amount of resources and they aren't going to stop anytime, nor be impacted but our minuscule proposed changes.

I think the learned climate scientists need to start scouring paper archives to start looking for those more aggressive models because it's clear the assumptions the current models use are badly flawed.
Your hn profile is a bit sparse; who are you, and where do you work? :)
It's not about telling you what's right and wrong, it's about giving you the tools to make those kinds of decisions. It's already part of an engineering curriculum.
> I wish you much strength. The kinds of decisions you are facing (have faced) are the hardest you can imagine and can only be understood if you have been in the situation yourself. I believe that nobody has the right to judge them. Last October, I lost my then 61 year old wife to Early-Onset Alzheimers disease. I saw her slowly fade-away and losing all her abilities, returning to a baby-like state. People often asked me, if she still recognized me. I often explained that that was a meaningless question. For me, it was far more important, whether I still recognized her. And I did. Luckily for her and us, her death came rather swift. She died within one and half week after developing a high fever (possibly due to dehydration) spending the last five days under palliative sedation.

I am so sorry for your loss. I need you to know that your words moved me deeply. Particularly

> People often asked me, if she still recognized me. I often explained that that was a meaningless question. For me, it was far more important, whether I still recognized her. And I did.

One of the hardest parts on me was seeing my father suffer a similar decline, but it was the moments of lucidity or idle chat or little things that showed me he was still there to some extent. Thank you so much for saying what I have long felt in my heart.
How would you describe autophagy in layman's terms?
I'd like to see some numbers to support that claim. I've lived in amsterdam for close to a decade and while the trams were something to watch out for, I can't remember any number of stories to indicate that they 'constantly' hit and killed people, and I was quite fond of their presence, generally speaking.
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Having them checked at runtime is still important (I say this as someone who was involved in scalar types getting declarations finally), because it means that the types can't end up inaccurate without being noticed, weak typing can be supported with certainty (you always get the type you ask for), and as a bonus the runtime can perform optimisations (elided type checks).
Reminds me of this comic

https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3890
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The odds of you dying from any particular unlikely death (like lightning) is super low. The odds of you dying of any of them (bear mauling, tied to a railway track, spontaneous combustion, etc) is significantly higher. That's the sort of thing I mean.

Individual coincidences are rare. But if you start really looking for them, you will absolutely find some coincidence. The one that happens will have been unlikely and impossible to predict ahead of time, and yet you were more or less absolutely certain some coincidence would occur, because there are so many possible configurations of coincidence that one is bound to happen.
> scratch their name into history.

etch their name into history ;-)
There certainly are quite a few efforts to deal with how police respond to situations.
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Reading a CSV without knowing the types of the contents inside is kinda painful without optional typing (or no typing). It's a fair representation of the operations you'll perform while prototyping a thing.
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Agreed. But if you try something and it shows benefits then you don’t necessarily need an explanation. For example exercise and mediation done regularly make me feel better but I don’t really care if it’s endorphins, hormones or any other mechanism that causes this.
The benefit of seeing the word "toxins" is that the alert reader can be reasonably certain that the rest of the article or ad is baloney.
Yeah they're taking some of the woo-woo shit a bit too far sometimes, but it's pretty clear that the human body didn't evolve with 3 meals a day + snacks &c.

It's less about fasting being magic and more about our current lifestyle putting too much/unnecessary strains on our organs.

The real deal with IT is that after a while you became more aware about hunger. Then you can chose to eat when you are hungry vs when "it's time to eat". A lot of it is due to Ghrelin[0] and Insulin afaik. Basically the more regularly you eat the more your body will signal you to eat when the regular time approach -> you feel hungry but in most case your body doesn't _need_ to eat at that time.

There are some "easy" and basic tricks that really helps. One of the best is eating very light dinners, which helps not feeling hungry in the morning (you can easily reduce your daily calorie intake by 30%+ like that). On the other hand eating a big dinner -> feeling super hungry the day after thanks to insulin [1].

[0] https://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/fasting-may-change-bodys...

[1] https://steemit.com/stemng/@pangoli/why-you-wake-up-hungry-a...
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Please, take my sympathies. It is one of the most heart breaking stories I have read on HN. Stay strong.
problem is that a lot of code is written using older PHP versions, and it is not that easy to upgrade from say PHP 7.0 to 7.3. Lots of refactoring deprecations involved (if you want to keep for example debug logs without breaking backend output).

I find it hard to trust a language that changes so much between minor versions. If I am wrong please tell me where so I can stop my grief at work and finally upgrade the PHP version we use.
Really liking them and abandoning them anyway is a pretty solid indictment of the idea.
The idea behind it was to avoid having every typed property be nullable. It's important to note that the undefined state of a property cannot be read as a value, and so can't be propagated anywhere.
> The problem that one cannot copy text from a PDF created via dvips and using METAFONT-generated bitmap fonts has recently been fixed — the original author of dvips, Tomas Rokicki ([1], [2]) has “come out of retirement” (as far as this program is concerned anyway) to fix this and is giving a talk about it next week at the TeX Users Group conference ([3], [4])

Hope that will be filmed and put online, sounds like an intriguing talk to watch!
> If one needs to allocate more than 2 GB in a single allocation, time to move to 64-bit.

time to move to (anonymus) mmap - it still has size_t as type for the size argument
I agree with this completely. For some of us carbs generate craving - they are addictive. The way to test if you are one is to stop all carbs, as much as you can. If I eat a doughnut I gain a pound, not because of the doughnut, but because I then crave more food.
It's hard to say. I don't think I would've gotten super deep into the dungeons without the help of some cheaters guiding me and dropping duped powerful items, so that was fun. But still, the game had a very compelling single player (which was more important in those days), and I played plenty of multiplayer with people who weren't cheating and it was still fun. So I think it still would've had an impact, especially with the interactive story, the unique controls/method of play, and the good graphics and overall polish (including the prerendered scenes).

PC gaming was very different 20+ years ago. It's not like there was social media chatter about how you had to check out this game with all the cheating and whatnot (maybe people did that on Usenet or something but I wasn't savvy enough to know about Usenet, and I'd argue the majority of new internet users coming online in the mid-late 90s weren't either). There was also no Google, YouTube, etc. to research games to buy - I'd buy a game based off the box art/marketing, or occasionally I'd buy a PC gaming magazine and see what they reviewed. Or talk to my friends and see what they've been playing. I'd also play the hell out of games I bought, partly because I had a longer attention span back then (I think we all did) but also because I'd rarely buy a new game, and we weren't exactly drowning in amazing PC games - there were no Steam backlogs back then calling out to you to pick up a new game the moment you got bored.

In short I don't think people were buying the game based on the cheating aspect. But I do think the cheating gave the multiplayer an unknown quantity that improved replayability and perhaps made it culturally memorable (it seems a lot of people remember the "duping" in here especially). Even so I think there easily would've been a Diablo II even if there was no cheating in Diablo.
Perhaps the poster meant political violence? A police shootout is very different from people beating each other in the street over political views.
I have seen many stories about large solar panel installations but I have not seen very many stories about energy storage systems. Solar energy is dependent on weather, season, and time of day so energy needs to be stored for when there is less to no sunlight. I know Tesla has done several large battery installations but has anyone seen any other stories?
The $15 "1st Generation AWS IoT Button" is out of stock, but the $20 "AWS IoT Enterprise Button" is still in stock. Is there a difference besides the label?
Other motorized electric transport options are also available if you can't bike.
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Almost - stars orbit with approximately the same velocity, not period.
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Why is that even a good idea at all? First most of these laws are a result of the culture here and if a vote were to happen are likely to remain or at least be controversial. Even the silly driving ban which have no religious basis is/was controversial even amongst women. Enforcing non popular laws from a foreign entity is a good recipe for disaster and may increase resistance to these laws and start wars or other bad stuff. Heck I think most Saudi citizens, even the liberal ones, would not want such actions.

In addition, I think they are also too many countries which doesn’t match US ideals, will US start WW3? For example there are many islamic countries with differing laws but I would guess most don’t match US ideals.
I’m probably alone but I’m pretty bummed about this. I regularly used them to order detergent and Clorox wipes when we were getting low. Haven’t been fully out of either in a couple years.

How much work would it honestly be for them just to keep the existing ones going.
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Egypt to the Black Sea is UPSTREAM via the Dardenelles and the Bosporus. That's step one in the original route. It seems that a test run in the DOWNSTREAM direction will be less than convincing.
can you tell me how independent devs can access PHPStorm at lower rates? I would love to stop using VSCode. 200USD might be ok for you, but over 800 reais for an IDE is not something I can pay.

Notebooks in Brazil are almost three times as expensive as abroad, internet costs are through the roof here as well as living costs...

I thought this through, I just have a harder reality than you I guess
Do you grind your teeth at night? I used to have severe migraines at least once a month until I got a night guard from a dentist that prevented grinding. Now I get a migraine maybe once a year.

I have a guard from a company called NTI. It’s a small piece of acrylic that sits on my upper front teeth and has a sort of “shelf” that my lower incisors rest on. This apparently tricks the brain into refusing to clench down because at a deep level it knows not to bite when it’s incisor on incisor.

I recall reading that this style of night guard, while certainly better than a whole tooth guard that still allows you to grind but just protects your teeth, is not great for long term. However I can’t recall why and I need to research more. In any case I’ve been using mine for over 10 years and I would never go back to not using it.

Anyway, a bunch of unsolicited info that will maybe help you or anyone suffering from migraines who stumbles across this post.
What schematics?

That was an eons ago different era.
Up your water intake and actively try to enjoy the hunger sensation. Tell yourself that it's your body deciding to burn fat and clean up old damaged cells. Eventually you'll adapt to the fasting period and won't care about the hunger that much anymore.
Off topic, but this is seemingly everything in management. So often, "Doing what feels right" can really pay off from a team/individual happiness POV. But, there is no "methodology" that could justify what I need to have a conversation with someone.
How is believing there’s a cabal of child abusers and child trafficking high in our government and society white nationalist? I think PizzaGate is nonsense but it definitely sounds more like extremism than terrorism and that’s not “sugarcoating” things. Extremism can lead to terrorism but conflating the two is how you get political prisoners.
I'm sure many of us did consider that, and realised that at th end of the day, it's better if more people have a medium to share their thoughts and improve the world than if only a small minority with money/power did, even if the former can potentially lead to some extremists/nutcases getting an audience.
If you want to make subjective observations like "fasting makes me feel more alert" that is completely fine by me. I fully agree that it's possible to observe positive changes like this without knowing why the change is happening.

However if you make a specific scientific claim about cell "cleansing" then you need to be able to back it up with evidence; without evidence, such claims are just nonsense. There is no "subjective observation" of what cells are doing.
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So you're saying that Antifa is NOT a terrorist organization? The military and police are legal organizations who's part and parcel at times includes violence. I could pull any number of articles that refuse to label them (Antifa) as terrorist or even left wing radicals.

Q Anon seems to be more of a 'think tank' or even an idealism.

How exactly do you make the jump to 'white nationalist terrorism'? Because they seem to be against the left? Against corruption? Can you link anything that would tie the two together? If you legitimately can, I'd love to read and research it.

I'm not pro-antifa or Q anon, but your comment seems to be mental hopscotch with no legitimate foundation on facts.
How do you know that phones don’t turn on their microphones outside of a call?
One day the modern web will be sufficiently powerful and standardised to fully recreate the 1990s Java applet.
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I haven't used rollbar, but both Sentry and BugSnag allow you to upload source maps on build. I've been satisfied with stack traces.
My favourite.
Can you explain what autophagy is and specifically why "cleansing and restoring" are incorrect layman terms to use? I'm curious.
> I'm wondering what other applications this might have besides malware detection.

I'd be interested to hear if bioinformaticians are interested in this work.
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Just because psychology studies things that are hard to quantify – often resulting in practitioners who do not follow good scientific method – does not mean it's not a science.
Writers actually tend to be rather slow starters. You don't hear about a mathematician's "juvenilia", but a search on Amazon for "juvenilia" turns up quite a few--quite a lot of Jane Austen, but also Charlotte Bronte, W.H. Auden, and Leigh Hunt.
yeah, in Brazil that is quite expensive...
Interesting. I'd love to give feedback, but I don't think anything I want fits into the modern web. What I want are often problems with the modern nature of things, not so much with features lacking in the web as it stands. Eg;

1. I dislike how mutable information is. While I really value ephemerality, I think the "web" needs the ability to refer to content in an immutable way. Misinformation is big these days, and mutation only adds to confusion. It's why some information store stuff I'm writing is all content addressed; in my view information needs to be immutable.

2. Obviously tracking is a problem these days. I don't think this is a problem of the "web", but I do think it's a problem of the "web" that we have no easy way to distinguish between information sources, like an html page, vs applications with a user experience. I love big bloated web apps, but I think the user needs to be able to distinguish what type of application they're seeking. Information should not opt into complex application user experiences, aka JavaScript. The web keeps opting into more feature bloat as the default; this seems wrong. The opt-in, not feature bloat, to be clear.

3. The web as it stands also seems to embrace centralization over decentralization. This again is fine (imo) for user experience stuff; not everything needs to be decentralized. Yet, for information, especially immutable information, decentralization seems not only useful but vital. Ideally, stupid simple decentralization too. Connected hubs of peers are nice, but I don't think we should be required to run a process/server to view and manage something immutable. `git pull` a slice of the immutable information you want seems (to me) to be a critical lowest denominator here. Sharing, slicing up, distributing on flash drives, etc - the web as I'd like it should promote sharing of information in ways that fit as many people as possible; not just the ones permanently connected to the internet and so forth.

I could go on, but I think ultimately what I end up describing is an alternate web. Something based around immutability and information, with opt-in full user experiences (aka javascript, wasm, etc) on top of that. What does this look like? Is this IPFS or DAT? No idea.

All I know is I'm making an information store, likely very imperfect and full of flaws, with these ideals in mind. I love the model of Scuttlebutt and a compatibility of that and connected-distributed ideas like IPFS/DAT seem best to me currently. I hope we continue to embrace immutability.
Well, it isn't anymore apparently.
I've been downvoted and flagged many times for bringing up fasting as a cure for pretty much most diseases. HN mainstream think is dangerous.
OK, I see, but they provide three different formats: ASCII, PDF, and HTML.

If there's a zombie apocalypse and we end up raiding the computer history museum for 80 column line-printers, sure, it makes sense to select the ASCII version to make print outs so that we could rebuild the internet.

But for the HTML version? Come on! Freshen it up a bit.