skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Behind the bastards - history of concentration camps

It could happen here - first episode

The foreign American - indigenous people
Who Should Get the Artwork of Purvis Young?
I can see how something like this is a nice addition to your tool set, but you really should have good automated tests at build time anyway to catch SQL errors.
And then if the example “doesn’t fit”. It’s by definition a different thing than you originally modeled
Why Is America So Depressed?
I grew up on cow and buffalo milk because we had cows and then we collectively owned a cow with a few families and hired a milkman.

The problem is over population. We have far surpassed carrying capacity and you can’t feed the billions with humane animal food. Especially when everyone thinks dairy and almonds should be cheap and available to all. Add capitalism on top of it as gluttonous consumerism thrives in a world burdened by overpopulation..when people don’t consider that resources are limited and having excessive progeny is akin to stealing shared resources from the commons, there is no polite way to point it out to them except to ask them to procreate responsibly. Each according to their means. But even better 1/2 surviving child/ person for long term comfortable survival of our species. Less than optimal: 1 surviving child per person for long term bare maintainence of our species.
> That money in the bank account is yours, unless seized through a legal process.

And this is because through the centuries we have enacted enough laws to deter private banking companies from messing with our money. If left to their own devices, we would have DRM-ed money, random service terminations, unexplained money loses, etc. We just need to extend these rights and safeties to other spheres of our digital property through the use of law and its enforcement.
Continuing to talk about "average" inflation, rather than housing / asset inflation, is borderline disingenuous. Of course the price of consumer products has fallen - that was the primary gain of technological progress and outsourcing it all to China. The price of housing (and healthcare, education) is what has everyone over a barrel, and that's a direct result of the policy to make that average continue to go up in the face of technological progress.
The likely decade of court losses was clearly inbound, it's why Monsanto was sold off. There was going to be no upside to the stock in that atmosphere, so a nicely priced sale was the optimal out. The court losses you're referring to were well set before the sale. The roundup trial for example was filed a year prior to the sale. The lawyers for Monsanto and Bayer very likely knew how bad it was, they had a better view than anybody else.

Bayer knew exactly what it was buying: they're going to trade a mere year or two of Monsanto profit (maximum), across a decade, to pay for the overall legal hit. In exchange they get to buy a fortress of intellectual property and one of the globe's dominant AG chem / AG biotech businesses (on a planet that will add ~3 billion more people to feed in the coming decades).
Honestly, I would continue to focus on the easier stuff first. If the choice becomes "make your own", move on to another product because that's a very time consuming path to do down. The only "staple" I make regularly is yogurt because it's easy, healthy (I control the sugar content), I can do a lot at once, saves money, and generates a ton less waste.

Everything else in my pantry is either purchased infrequently or requires a lot of work to make myself that I've moved on to other things. Instead of trying to create those things, I try to reduce my use of them. Making mayo or ketchup isn't worth it IMO (mustard is easy though), and they're not particularly healthy either, so I just try to reduce how much I eat them.

I think reducing waste should involve a more complete review of our lifestyle, not just replacing items one by one. For example, I only really use mayonnaise when making certain sandwiches, and I only eat those sandwiches because they're convenient and semi healthy. Instead of figuring out how to make mayonnaise more ecologically sustainable, I instead look for more healthy foods that I can make more convenient, like salads, burritos, and sir fry, all of which don't need mayonnaise.
bubble.io seems like a good match in term of the editor, I hope this can be embedded in an existing site, I'll give it a try ;)

Thanks!
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. - Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage. - Buckminster Fuller

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Back in the 60s, there was the joke that it'd be less expensive to just bribe the Vietnamese instead of fighting them.
And sometimes is due to obnoxiously aggressive marketing.
Freeloader... like those women who have been unable to work due to being full-time caretaker for a disabled spouse or child, or cared for their own parents until death, and so didn't have much or any income to save from...
Show HN: Curated Directory for Graphic Design and Web Development
Thanks, that's impressive.
Recyclable is worse than reusable, both are worse than reducing use in the first place. Best option is giving a drink in a mug or cup. Customer can provide a takeaway container or bring their own mug. All behaviour needs to be adjusted -- individual, and corporate via regulation.

This whole expectation of disposability is the problem in the first place.

> paper bags cause more harm than plastic

Citation needed. As I understand it, they can be more harmful if unsustainable methods of production are used. Unbleached paper from sustainable forestry should be less harmful. It may not be cheaper. Cheapest should not be the only aim. c.f. regulation.
Yes! And a very good one at that.
The scale of the automation/robotization of agri has been humongous.

And broad application of AI is nowhere near.
Curious why no one has used a telescope to check out the drones. This be a far simpler and cheaper solution than dispatching planes or landing on them. Would it not work?
Contrary to public perception, landfills are the most environmentally friendly way to dispose of most types of garbage. The challenge is to get the garbage to the landfill.
Good question. This is actually pretty straight forward to implement and it's on my todo list :) We just need to iterate through all phi SSA nodes recursively, see: https://github.com/houqp/sqlvet/blob/master/pkg/vet/gosource....
How true. But even pay is misleading. Ultimately, it's about cost of living / affordability. For example, if hourly rate increases but housing - sensing the market can bear more - soon follows then the pay increase is a wash, or worse.
I thought GCP is alerts not capping?
Overuse of truncation sucks. Screw the layout: users can easily scroll down and up. Truncating without a click to expand option is inexcusable. Meanwhile, how about just don't use truncation at all. There's a limit for number of characters in a podcast description. It's in the 2000's I think.
How so?

I don't understand what would make it exponential as opposed to merely linear with traffic.

There's nothing in their pricing documentation to suggest this.
Now what would you do if you had a sudden medical emergency during your time on EI?

In Canada, you'd go to the doctor and then continue you on your way.

In the USA, with the situation you described above, you would now be homeless. And in debt.

So yes, they're both stressful. But one is worse.
If that 60 year old is expecting to live until he is 90 then it is rather funny he or she thinks retirement at 60 is the thing unless that person has enough money to saved to cover half of his or hers lifetime.
The low unemployment rate is proof that this techno optimism isn’t true.
TCO is a great feature if you want to compile to a language. Recursion is the mother of all loops. TCO really only applies if you have things tail called, and long string of optimizable tail calls are rare.

I have debugged poorly written defmacros for longer time than I spent fighting macro hygiene. I implemented defmacro using syntax rules (about 7 lines of code if you have access to schemes with optional and keyword arguments) and use it frequently. My rule is however that if I ever want to introduce bindings of any kind I will use defmacro. Simple. Saves me a lot of pain. But when it comes to macros there is no truth. This discussion has been going on long enough for most o us to know that it is a matter of taste.

Call/cc is overkill. It is a shitty, leaky abstraction that nobody really wants. Delimited continuations are the bee's knees! They compose, capture just the things you tell it to and are fast. They follow the idea of having a well chosen set of primitives as building blocks. You want CL's tagbody? No problem. Fast coroutine style generators? You got it. Cooperative, fiber based multitasking? Just a pure scheme library waiting to be used!
> but the fact is that most people turn into couch potatoes

> stop working and so will your body

Citation badly needed here.

I can tell you that before my peers joined the workforce, everyone was part of sports and clubs and community activities. After they joined the workforce, that stuff largely dropped away, because work is too time consuming.
The Assembly Line[0] is a podcast from the NES Home brew scene. Was fun to learn that NES development continues using 6502 assembly. Can be supported via Patreon[1]

[0] https://open.spotify.com/show/2VsQ6qauI2R8yqbfNTnIk7
[1] https://www.patreon.com/nesassemblyline
I do not find liberal philosophy more accurate. On almost every issue one can make reasonable evidentiary arguments for either perspective. The problem is people can't even make policy decisions on the basis of controlled statistics and the experimental method (when that's possible).

I just think that conservative thinking lends itself to an evangelical mindset, while liberals tend to view their philosophy as inevitable. Often they are content to wait for people to evolve to their level. Hillary's inaction in the previous campaign is a perfect example of that mindset.
I assume that's 140 Fahrenheit. The testing in question was conducted at 140 Celsius (which is quite a bit warmer...).

I also think it's unlikely that those people who are keeping their meds in their car are also keeping their meds dissolved in a solution with high levels of nitrite.
It's cheap insurance to create an LLC to protect yourself from extreme situations for this kind of thing. Worst case the LLC goes defunct, but you won't be personally liable.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr...

EDIT: This comment is based on the assumption that the parent was trying to start a side business. I'm certainly not advocating fraud.
What’s the advantage of GCR over AWS Fargate/ECS? I’ve been running an app on ECS for a couple months now and have been pretty happy with the ease of set-up, load-balancing, auto-scaling etc, though there are still kinks I’m figuring out (SSHing into containers to perform database management, for example, or deploying updated tasks without downtime). Is the main selling point of GCR just its price? I haven’t found ECS pricing to be an issue (but I’m also not running anything at scale, and I do pay more than a few cents a month — but still under 10 bucks).
Another option is Google Cloud AppEngine. It’s a little more limited in terms of languages that are supported, but the free tier is generous enough that I have never paid anything to run backends for side projects.
Understand others may have differing opinions but I for one never understood podcasts. They seem a very inefficient way to consume information, with generally a very low signal to noise ratio. I can see an attraction while driving, but I don't do that so don't have that problem. The only one I can remember listening to and enjoying in the past was related to roguelike development, and was essentially more of a well choreographed and researched interview framed as a discussion.
> Valisure also conducted tests with simulated gastric fluid (at body temperature, 37 degrees Celsius) and added sodium nitrite, simulating a diet with high levels of the common preservative found in processed meats, and found high levels of NDMA
Is Bitcoin an “Uncorrelated Asset”? Did Iran and ETFs Affect the Bitcoin Price?
I've never had a SanDisk failure in over 10 years. At one point I was recording two hours of 1080p video a day, rotated between three cards, for a couple of years.
When I look at his example I still sense a compelling sense to create some kind of abstraction. It's just that the example abstraction he chose to make is somewhat esoteric and arguably over-solves the problem. The author isn't suggesting a different, perhaps simpler abstraction, but forgoes abstractions entirely.
> civil rights act of 1964 which has screwed every minority applicant at a small business....The worst thing to happen to minorites in the US was the civil Rights Act of 1964.

That's an...interesting perspective on what most consider to be landmark legislation in American history. So I looked it up, because I didn't know what you were talking about.

"Small businesses with fewer than 25 employees were originally allowed to continue discriminating under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equal Opportunity Employment Act of 1972 changed the law to require all businesses with 15 or more employees to adhere to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."[1]

I'm still shocked that discrimination is allowed for any business at all. But you weren't entirely correct.

Also, the Act's other benefits have to be weighed against allowing discrimination in small businesses. Small businesses that were racist and discriminatory before the Civil Rights Act could continue to be so after it, but could only grow up to a certain size. That's still an improvement on what existed previously, which was that they could be racist and discriminatory forever and always.

If I was a minority in the 60s I'd consider federally guaranteed right to vote, equal education, stay at any hotel, use any public water fountain or bus, and be considered on an equal basis for federal jobs, private sector jobs in 15/25+ employee firms, loans, assistance programs and the rest to be a massive gain over the status quo. You're entitled to your opinion on the CRA of 1964, but to most people it's going to sound bizarre. Sorry.

> The civil rights act prevents minority only businesses ta boot!

I don't know what "ta boot" means so the meaning of this statement is unclear.

1. https://aapf.org/civil-rights-act
There’s rete-cool or reten too, but to be honest I’m not bothered by it in the least :)
I'm pretty sure "microplasitcs (sic) tend to sink" is bogus nonsense.
This was discussed on HN (237 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661391
I really enjoyed his book Why We Sleep, but I think it important to inform people about the criticisms that have been been raised against some of his claims [0]. If you listen to him remember to take claims with a grain of salt. HN discussion from two months ago [1].

The thesis is still solid though: sleep is incredibly important for your health.

[0] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
No offense taken. Sadly, my dislike of SUVs stems more from how they drive and look than anything nobler.

I was actually hoping to illustrate with my own little anecdata about how even if you don’t like them, there seem to be various one-way-ratchet effects pushing their uptake, and this was my personal mechanism. Consumer choice doesn’t always reveal preference—I’d much rather there were a car that fit our situation (back issues + loading kids into the seats also played in here).
I've been using Cloud Run for my GPT-2 text generation apps (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run) in order to survive random burst, and also for small Twitter bots (https://github.com/minimaxir/twitter-cloud-run/tree/master/h...) which can be invoked via Cloud Scheduler to utilize the efficiency benefits. It has been successful in those tasks.

The only complaint I have with Cloud Run now (after many usability updates since the initial release) is that there is no IP rate-limiting to prevent abuse, which has been the primary cause of unexpected costs. (due to how Cloud Run works, IP rate-limiting has to be on Google's end; implementing it on your end via a proxy eliminates the ease-of-use benefits)
If very few people visit a side-project, that's probably bad for Google search. Its crawler will be detecting slow response times and Google can penalize you in search results.
Show HN: My 2020 redesigned smart home dashboard theme with Home Assistant
TheFatRat is an exploiting tool which compiles a malware with famous payload
> It goes up of course. Nothing's for free.

Not sure why you write "of course" and "nothing's for free". If you use dedicated hosting with something like Hetzner, "suddenly hit a big traffic" doesn't automatically mean more costs for you. The website might get slower, or even crash, but your pricing will still be the same as it was before.
Or language models. If you think deep learning or any of the AI (no not AGI whatever that even means) in the last decade are crap/useless then you probably never tried Google Translate before the advent of these breakthroughs. It’s not perfect, but it’s undeniably useful as it is.
I stopped reading the article after the second major factual inaccuracy. The author clearly has an axe to grind and is determined facts won't get in the way.
Yes, without some kind of semantics to the model, Bayesian methods are essentially an elaborate form of regularization.
> Saying that "every man, woman and child" would be lining up is a straw man also. "Every man, woman and child" does not currently line up at soup kitchens.

It's also a strawman because not everyone would be lining up for potatoes in this instance, presumably some people can afford to eat in this free suds world. Maybe we'll even have a post-potato society eventually, when everyone decides they hate potatoes after they all get jobs (probably not).
Has walker responded to this?
1. How much storage would that take?
2. Anytime you think you've found a clever "gotcha" that nullifies an entire area of legal doctrine, smack yourself in the face and then repeat "the laws are made and interpreted by people, not machines" one hundred times.
The article is highly misleading. in the heating test, they heated the drug to 130 C, far beyond the temperature you'll find in a car. The gastric simulation with nitrites seems legit though.
WebbleWorld 3 is at once similar, and different: https://github.com/truemrwalker/wblwrld3
with several academic papers and a book about the concept. Professor Yuzuru Tanaka pioneered the concept of Meme Media.
I think the initiative is great. I did lots of Java database development. Starting with JDBC, circumventing J2EE with Spring and Hibernate, and ending up doing JPA with Spring. I haven't seen anything similar in Rust.

Therefore I recommend looking at JPA for object relational mapping, and Spring Frameworks JdbcTemplate for things like basic CRUD support and JPA abstraction.
The 'official' method is programmatically DIY!

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify#cap_disa...
Mmm... Is there an RSS feed so I can add this to my podcast player? :)
Steve Jobs described the whole point to the design: he wanted people to frequently bump into each other, rather than being hidden away in private offices. He noted it was one of his favorite aspects of the Pixar office. It's strange that anybody would blame Jony Ive for a design that Jobs chose. Jobs took what he thought worked about Pixar's office to spur creativity & innovation, and used it in building the new Apple campus design.

> According to Jobs’ recent biography, the [Pixar] headquarters was to be a place that “promoted encounters and unplanned collaborations.”

> Pixar’s campus design originally separated different employee disciplines into different buildings – one for computer scientists, another for animators, and a third building for everybody else. But because Jobs was fanatic about these unplanned collaborations, he envisioned a campus where these encounters could take place, and his design included a great atrium space that acts as a central hub for the campus.

> Brad Bird, director of The Incredible and Ratatouille, said of the space, “The atrium initially might seem like a waste of space…But Steve realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen.”

> And did it work? “Steve’s theory worked from day one,” said John Lasseter, Pixar’s chief creative officer “…I’ve never seen a building that promoted collaboration and creativity as well as this one.”

https://officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-an...
I often find myself what "at scale" means.
It is used by so many different providers and it gets confusing.

When all you give the service is a container, how dos it know how to scale your project?

I presume it gives it more CPU and more RAM automagically but does that really provide "at scale"

I think of "at scale" to mean really a lot of traffic.

Spinning up new instances if your container is possible,
but I think I would like an API where code can somehow interact with the scaling mechanism.

I guess "stateless" gives us some information.
Yes, but a bank can still terminate its business with you. It just has to return your money to you.

Now if you’re suggesting we have a law that companies which hold our data have to return our data when they terminate their business relationship with us, I wouldn’t necessarily disagree.
Or, perhaps, has society failed to adapt to present technological reality due to entrenched interest in the social status quo? When so many people in the world live happily on so little, it is undeniable that we could provide for all of our basic needs if there were political will. Without education, that would likely result in a population boom, however.
Entoptic Phenomenon
I've admired PG and his essays for a while, but I've started paying more attention, and thus I'm starting to realize he's somewhat thin skinned like that; this is exactly the feeling I got after reading this new one.

Similarly, he's been passive aggressively "responding" to VC criticism by subtweeting and deflecting, and never directly addressing, some of the points raised by @DHH and others.

I take everything he writes with a grain of salt now. As a result, I started to realize his essays tend to be can defensive or just contain a lot of bias, rather than being truly introspective.
With rape racks.

https://theirturn.net/2016/06/15/2016061420160613the-rape-ra...

(It’s not a cow running towards a yodeling Swiss milkmaid)

[..] The “rape rack” is a narrow, chute-like device in which female cows are restrained while they undergo a process the dairy industry euphemistically refers to as “artificial insemination.” During artificial insemination (AI), a dairy worker inserts one of his arms into the rectum of a restrained cow and, with his other arm, inserts a rod-like device called an Al gun into her vagina. The Al gun, which contains bull semen, is pushed in further until it reaches the cervix (the entrance to the uterus). The semen is then injected into the uterus.[..]