skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but if at some point where scarcity is eliminated (a la star trek) and most production is not centered around capital accumulation, or working for the owner of capital, how could we still call that capitalism?

or is the argument that it is more of a colloquial term and people have used it to mean whatever they want/need it to mean?
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> 5. RMS does not usually have bad hygiene.

He does, actually. But yes, the story is most likely about ESR, and he's been quite open about his polyamorous relationships.
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And what am I doing? Muslims can stop being Muslims if they want to.
But the training process does generalise. The same training process produces an agent that works on a 19x19 board, or a standard Go board, or even a game of chess.

How is that not general? Sure it doesn't work for all problems but in the domain of board games it definitely feels very general.

The agent the training algorithm produces may not be general, but out of what I've read I've only ever seen DeepMind claim generality of the learning algorithm, not the agent.
What are you talking about? Shader languages are DSLs for working with images. Implementing a software renderer would require re-implementing many, many things you get for free when working with GLSL or HLSL.

Vulkan is just an API for talking to graphics hardware. There are a wide variety of applications which can benefit from using it.
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To be fair though, college basketball and football players, especially in competitive schools wouldn't need a part-time job, scholarships and sponsorships would probably be enough to give them a nice amount of cash.

On the other side, without the revenue coming from those sports, your friend's program wouldn't be nearly as competitive, facilities wouldn't be as good, scholarships would be reduced, and coaching would be lower quality, and quite possible that there would be out of pocket expenses. There is a huge net positive to all other student athletics that comes out of the most competitive college sports programs. The programs that can usually pay their own way are mens/womens basketball, mens football, and womens gymnastics. Tennis, volleyball and soccer can probably break even. Everything else needs big subsidies.
That is exciting news about the bobiverse. But what do you mean by "wish the author would finish the series"? After finishing the last one, I felt satisfied with the ending and thought that all the loose ends had been tied up.
I still prefer paper books over digital reading. As a CTO I have to finde some digital and online free time. That gives me the freedom to not be distracted and read.
> Our culture has made a very bright line decision that sex with minors is unacceptable.

It is not at all a very bright line when you can legally have sex with a consenting 16 year old in West Wendover, NV but be a criminal for the same act with a 17 year old in what is essentially the same city of Wendover, UT.

Assuming that by "bright line" you're not referring to the boundary separating Nevada from Utah.

But all of that is just the disparity between two states in the same country! That "bright line" gets even fuzzier when you factor in the global age of consent: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Age_of_Consent.png
I agree that dietary research needs to continue but I think the back and forth about what to eat (saturated vs non saturated, no salt vs salt ok etc) needs to slow down. I think the best advice is that by Michael Pollan "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
> Just how much more acknowledged can this history get?

The massacres in Elaine, Greenwood, Slocum, Wrightsville, and other places are not acknowledged in primary or secondary school, and are not common knowledge. If we can all agree that the Boston Massacre, which claimed less than a dozen lives, is a historically relevant event, then these massacres which claimed hundreds should have a much greater share of the public consciousness.
+1 for Anaconda, worth trying for anyone who has a problem with package versions.
The joke I've seen: "someone made a 3d printing of a save icon!"
That's fair, and thanks for the explanation. I couldn't disagree more but that's normal.

In this extreme example of mine, would you be happy as a parent to have your children in this teacher's classroom? Would you be taking part in a free speech suppressing pitchfork mob if you were to call the school and express your opinion that you don't want your child to be taught by a pedophile?
Bystander effect, nobody speaks up because no one else has spoken up. Even if you have a feeling that something is a bad idea, you don't want to stick your neck out and have to defend your claim.
> US is fundamentally different from most other countries. In most countries, govt designs (or tries to design) laws and systems for the public good. Not so in the US.

I think this is overly simplistic. There's plenty of corruption in many European countries as well, it's just in a different form.

It seems also deeply cultural. What would count as greedy and offputting behavior here, is seen as laudable and ambitious in the US. People are supposed to be pushing for more and more money and they are considered successful to the extent they can make it.

This results in good and bad things alike. Most of the other parts of the world suffer from some form of the tall poppy syndrome: if you want to be socially accepted, you aren't supposed to be deviating too much from those around you. Meaning that entrepreneurship is much smaller and also that many things are just not considered to be for sale in good taste (private prisons, expensive private schools, expensive hospitals).
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That's true, and very important. And while I think (or, at least, I hope) large investors keep that in mind after so many high profile explosions like LTCM, I think small time retail investors tend to forget that, and that there's a reason Vanguard (for example) suggests 70% stocks and 30% bonds. Doesn't seem too important, until you need the money...
Let's see: Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread and Walkaway, Arthur C. Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God and The City and the Stars.
> recognized as being fundamentally communist in nature by communist scholars

I'm familiar with that scholarship, and no, they weren't. The main reason being is that the USSR never claimed to be communist. The USSR based its ideology on Marx and Lenin, and Lenin invented this distinction, that "socialism" is a stage preceding communism, and communism is a stateless society (etc. etc. as Marx described it). The USSR claimed to be a union of socialist soviets. They used "socialist" in this sense.

By Communist party-affiliated scholars, there was some disagreement as to whether the USSR really was socialist. By academics in universities, there was more doubt cast on that.
For me the interesting part was a cliff hanger:). How exactly a context free parser and lexer help in specification? Do such cases exist? If not why? Also why have I never heard of context free programing languages? I am trying to think of file formats and even a puny ini file has a context aware parser.

Do not get me wrong with all these questions. I never heard of this topic before so I am very curious and grateful for the HN post.
I know this will sound unbelievable but I believe the comparison is done at purchasing power parity, so it's adjusting for food and rent as well. Here's the graph I remember, though it unfortunately doesn't confirm or refute my memory that the comparison is at PPP:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/15/this-...
You say "already", but the repo you link to hasn't been updated in nearly five years
Would be great to remove Kara Swisher's self-aggrandizement and name-droppery and isolate Galloway's takes entirely.
Apart from sustainability the only downside of red meat that I have ever heard of is a slight increase to colon cancer and to excess iron in men. I think calling this bedrock advice is hyperbolic. The saturated fat demonization is much more widespread ime.
And to make it clear, if you have phone service with Google Fi, your number is a Google Voice number (for SMS purposes).
And I was going to ask how they’d be able to harness fire.

With fake news this day we’re living in the eternal April 1st.
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I just figured out a weird trick to read the page on Firefox without the sign-in/register popover: open the page in reader mode and refresh. It seems the popover appears only after page loading has finished, before which the full article is available. Reader mode ignores JavaScript, so this works.
I'm a little surprised by this. Forever 21, I thought was the fashionable dollar store equivalent for clothing. It should've done much better than other higher end brands, considering how millenials are spending less and less on clothing.

Also, how are people wearing out their clothes so quickly. I bought a super cheap shirt from forever 21 once and it lasted for years with no sign of wear.
An exercise: meta-rational phenomena
> Taxes are redistributed ...

No. Taxes are spent on goods an services, the same as any property owner spends rent income.

The outcomes of expenditures on each part is different (sometimes a plate tax is actually applied to road maintenance). But the concept of a slush-fund and no (or few) legal guardrails for expenditures means your tax dollars probably land in a pet project somewhere, or are consumed in the financial friction of government bureaucracy.
I suspect polygamy may be the culprit. It makes males have to be ultra-competitive in order to mate such that they are overly aggressive. If some have multiple wives, it means others have zero wives, since there wouldn't be enough females to go around. When competition becomes all or nothing, mayhem and war are the result.

Even if the all-or-nothing competition itself doesn't create more aggressiveness, for the sake of argument, the larger percentage of unmarried men means more men have higher levels of testosterone, being that individual testosterone levels go down once one marries and has kids. That's a medical fact, not speculation. And testosterone on average makes one more aggressive.

Thus, the first part of this theory is indeed speculative, but the second part is pretty much a mathematical truth.

I'm not trying to offend, just presenting an intriguing theory.
They are looking at the entire system and they are willing to challenge (improve or replace) everything

That's also what I thought; just put the NIC inside the processor and connect it to the internal fabric. (This still leaves plenty of software challenges.) But then DARPA says "The hardware solutions must attach to servers via one or more industry-standard interface points, such as I/O buses, multiprocessor interconnection networks, and memory slots, to support the rapid transition of FastNICs technology." Even if your "NIC" uses all 128 lanes of PCIe 5 that's only 4+4 Tbps. If you get rid of serdes and use something like IFOP that's ~600 Gbps per port then you'd still need something like 16 of those links.
Is the problem here that a person with Islamic beliefs wrote this op-ed? Not sure how well you read the piece, because the actual problem in TFA is the author's assertion that Narendra Modi's Hindu beliefs are responsible for people dying.
Fair enough. But it's murky. I mean, it's arguable that any discrimination based on existential stuff -- such as gender, "race" and disability -- is immoral. Because it's just who you are, not something that you've chosen, something that you're responsible for.

Also, when it's about stuff like housing and services, there's not much basis for discrimination. Except for providing access to those with disabilities. And that seems fair.

When it's about employment, even if there are data that might justify discrimination, it's all about statistical distributions for populations. So there's too much uncertainty when you apply it to individuals. And there's also the fact that untangling innate/genetic and developmental/sociological factors is impossible.

For health and life insurance, basing rates on age and preexisting conditions clearly makes economic sense. Older people will likely cost more than younger people. And people diagnosed with cancer etc will likely cost more than people generlly. But for health insurance, there are social justice arguments that discrimination is unfair.

For vehicle insurance, it's undeniable that young men have more accidents than young women, and middle-aged people generally. And that old people people also have more accidents. At least two factors distinguish that from health insurance. First, there's the sense that people can choose to drive more carefully, and have fewer accidents. Also, there's the argument that driving isn't as essential as medical care.
Actual paper: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2752328/unprocessed-red-m...

Harvard response: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2019/09/30/flaw...
tl;dr - Butthurt muslim feelings about other people treating Muslims 1% as bad as muslims treat non-muslims.
What an odd headline/article.

Clearly, common food types are not going to be extremely harmful, so the magnitude of impact from dietary advice is never going to be extreme. Red Meat is still showing up as harmful in these studies, which is why it’s advice and not say a ban etc.

At best this reads like spin from the cattle industry. Unless I am missing something?
Western civilization is founded on Greco-Roman culture, which was heavily based on slaves. All of civilization had an ugly past.
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As long as we don't call corn syrup or bleached wheat flour plants, sounds good.
Cryptonomicon is listed as "short"...?
I think to the contrary, and agree with Amber Heard, "Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat."

http://www.empiri.ca/p/eat-meat-not-too-little-mostly-fat.ht...

But ultimately what we should all agree on is: eat less processed foods, less sugar, don't overeat, fasting is cool, exercise often.
I was able to read the article without hitting a paywall and I am not a subscriber, so I was not aware.
People look at me funny when I take my laptop to the bathroom, though.
There's a (2011) missing from the title here, at least according to the title graphic.
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The specific plan is to stay independent: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#goals
Yes! Have you considered buying a zx81 for your kid? Or better, a logo turtle?
Discussed in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842557

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277626

and in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170998

Perhaps nitpickingly, we changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20190429100515/https://static.iz... to the archive.org page for the original URL.
I haven’t seen it. I only watch shows I’ve already seen.
This is a fascinating concept!

On one hand it would keep companies from completely vertically integrating or expanding to encompass many verticals. Which would stimulate the economy in one way because more people would be exposed to the profits at the top or near the top of the market. Also the increased competition might result in the improvement of various small aspects of technology that would result in better efficiencies across the whole.

But on the other hand, limiting the size of companies would make us less competitive on a global scale because of the inherent cost in being forced to buy components, as opposed to vertically integrating. Also product costs may increase, which could negate any increases in wealth among the people.
None is the answer: the context management (window, input etc.) is done by glfw, but the UI is very minimal and doesn't use any UI toolkit.
This is specifically elements which are allowed in the `head` element of the document.

I recently read somewhere that for backwards compatibility reasons no new element types can be added within `head`. This causes a lot of overloading on the existing ones for elements like <link />.

I don't have any supporting evidence though.
I expect sugar will turn out to be good for your brain (in moderation) and increase your IQ.
That's neat as heck, man. Not exactly Hacker News material, and it's nice to read, anyway.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039848
That's hilarious. This guy actually thinks companies that pay $1m are going to use his website which is under his personal website to hire people and then pay him.
It's also a "griefer's first social engineering" hack, so it has at least some small "fun" difficulty connected to it. To add a child account when you aren't directly creating the child account on the same device, Microsoft requires an Invite flow that sends an email to the child account asking them to accept "joining the family". So either the griefer also had the password to the account to login to the account on their machine (or otherwise access emails to it) or they somehow social engineered the victim to accepting an invitation to "join them" for something. The griefer can blame the victim for being gullible and claim that it wasn't the griefer's fault the victim fell for it.
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Thanks for sharing this and driving Quilt forward @Kevin!
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I'm not sure I agree with you about "especially in today's world". I think we may be closer to "those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable" than many people suppose.

> This is actually a weak claim - because I admit that Marx's vision of socialism depends on his critique.

I disagree with you here. I think it is quite possible for Marx to be correct about his critique, and still be completely wrong about how to go about fixing it.
It's not as simple and linear as you make it out here, from what I can tell. The individual fact bits are right, but the story you paint is too simple.

One big point is that many mods resigned not over the future CoC change but over the plain unprofessional "termination" of the one mod in question (in multiple cases this being straw-camel-back regarding other recent missteps of the SO company). I recommend at least this interaction: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5197
AFAIK there will be no change regarding your problem (a known problem) due to the GitLab transition. But I recommend asking for help on chat (IRC and / or... I think it's Matrix). If you show just a little effort of your own (don't worry, you already did), KDE people tend to be eager to help.

Signed, a mostly inactive KDE developer
Thanks.

I really want to wanted to like Phabricator, but every interaction with arcanist just feels like hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button. It completely violates the principle of least surprise. To me, at least.

My new team is using Github. Can Github be wrangled to enforce a rebase-on-merge workflow with PRs? I am committed to keeping the "one commit per idea" mantra, but I don't see any way in Github to enforce "no-merge commits."

Does Github keep track of comments across PRs if they are rebased? I don't want to see extra commits on top of PRs that consist of things like "address reviewer A's comments," but I do want the comments tracked on Github. Is this possible?
I’d like to see lower carbon cost become an important goal of keto dieters. Eggs, fish, etc count for keto as I understand it. I don’t like the fetishisation of red meat.
No Need to Cut Back on Red Meat? Controversial New 'Guidelines' Lead to Outrage
I've noticed that fields with high levels of knowledge or guild based status and gatekeeping display that sort of behavior.

Embedded engineers, game programmers, mechanical engineers you ask them a question they'll usually be happy to blather on. Ask a Cisco certified engineer a question and he'll make fun of you for daring to ask. Sometimes I think it's cultural too.

If you look at the people that founded SO and their careers it's obvious why the place is a toxic mess.
If you're going by retail sucker pricing, a 32x100G switch is ~$10K so 32x400G should be <$40K. Hyperscale pricing should be under $10K.
USDA only updates their dietary guidelines every 5 years. Its simple, specific, and well researched advice. So I like to share it with people who are interested in living healthier.

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

Yes, the food pyramid is dead, and there are other changes that come and go through the years. The issue is that "eat your veggies" is so boring it won't make any news.

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> A healthy eating pattern includes:[1]

> A variety of vegetables from all of the subgroups—dark green, red and orange, legumes (beans and peas), starchy, and other

> Fruits, especially whole fruits

> Grains, at least half of which are whole grains

> Fat-free or low-fat dairy, including milk, yogurt, cheese, and/or fortified soy beverages

> A variety of protein foods, including seafood, lean meats and poultry, eggs, legumes (beans and peas), and nuts, seeds, and soy products

> Oils

> A healthy eating pattern limits:

> Saturated fats and trans fats, added sugars, and sodium

Dark Green is "Spinach / Kale", red/orange is carrots and tomatoes, starchy is corn or potatoes. There are also survey results in how well the US Population overall is doing. USA doesn't eat enough veggies, and eats too much refined grains (white bread). The typical American needs to reduce refined grains, increase whole-grains, increase veggies, and increase fruits in their diet.

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EDIT: Can someone explain why I've gotten a lot of downvotes? I'm genuinely curious. I don't think I've said anything close to controversial here.
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What weirdly specific thing?

You don't have to put anything in a head tag, you don't even need a head tag, but it's a good idea to have one and to at least add a charset meta tag. Everything is optional, though.

The entire point of it is for you to share metadata about your page with the browser.
I'll trade you one for my mouse roller cleaner, I'll even chuck in a mouse mat, and an AOL disc.
Every powerful tool gets co-opted by devils. The devil is not interested in co-opting weak tools. He want's the most powerful ones. The devil wants to corrupt the highest good, the highest truth. So you proclaiming that you have the highest good and highest truth only attracts the devil closer.

By not understanding this, devilry is created.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8YzYEIAR9ba5HPlr17eabQ/

Hello everyone! I'm a high-energy physics PhD student just entering my first year at University College London, and I've decided to livestream as much of my PhD as possible, from the beginning to the end. At 6pm EST tonight I'll do my first broadcast, introducing myself and my rough plan for streaming. My goals are to share what it's like to be a graduate research student in the sciences, to be an entertaining educational resource for fellow students, and to get the general public excited about the current frontier of what we know about the universe!