skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a HN discussion here recently which made me realise, not even Japan is without racism. There is racism there towards all kinds of people, those with family trees originating in the ancient lower caste, people with Korean heritage, the ainu, and most of all, towards people who are visibly different.
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Billions is talking about LOC. As for automated changes, yes there are lots of them but from the pov of managing a VCS they are as 'legit' as manual changes.
You would lose; the barcodes are just machine-readable packaging of the information already on the licenses: name, DOB, address, etc.
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French is a race just like Chinese and Nigerian are races. If I were born in Japan I might have Japanese citizenship but I wouldn’t be ethnically Japanese. It’s weird that European ethnicities are the only ones that don’t mean anything. You are saying that French can be anything, which is basically a melting pot. It’s not America where anyone can be American. It’s France with 1000s if years of history and culture.
I’d actually argue the opposite. The way it is trending in with digitization, the owners of the commodity distribution channels decide what consumers prefer, through algorithmic manipulation, seeded content and artificial scarcity.

It essentially allows the distribution channel to dictate terms both ways. If you’re an artist, you can accept a pittance to produce things the distribution channel approves of (through algorithmic selection or explicit curation), or else you can make all your money from concerts and merch.

But if you “make good content” that the actual end users actually monetarily value, it won’t succeed except for the concert and fame cultivation route. Because the distribution channel is going to be a buzzsaw mowing down your created content on the way to whatever it decides to force feed the masses. It takes free will entirely out of content selection on the part of the ultimate paying customer. They pay for what they have been manipulated to think they chose.

The alternative is something like Bandcamp where the artist just posts music and the world decides to buy it or not. But through license & regulatory capture, catalog hoarding, etc., big distribution channels can easily use non-market forces to crush these things, and what’s left is such a low volume so as to not matter at all.

It’s a certain kind of irrational exuberance / maniac grab for stock returns that we lavish ridiculous overvaluations on media delivery businesses that empower them to build these types of moats, essentially de-risking themselves from having to participate in a market by delivering a market valued product by algorithmically manipulating the consumer to eat what they’re given so the distribution channel can have all of the negotiation power.

Frankly the same is true for app store distribution and tv distribution, delivery food distribution and many other things.

Just such destructive behavior by investors (both VC and everyday) who are bidding up these kinds of “delivery capture” businesses.
People get a bit paranoid about how "clean" things are. I for one am not as concerned about how "clean" something looks but how potentially harmful it is to my livelihood. Looks can be deceiving, either way, without considering the entire situation.

Something that looks unclean can be sterile and harmless while something sterile and visually clean can be incredibly harmful as well (e.g. water with certain toxins or compounds).
I mean honestly, having worked with a monorepo here, I'd definitely consider it for other places. It has advantages.
I agree, this video is about learning, with surfing as an example. "It can't be taught, it must be learned."

I immediately sent this to a friend who decided to learn guitar and has spent the last two years trying to achieve a long ride over the fretboard.
I'm not an American, but I think that France should be a melting pot because of its colonial history.

Many immigrants in Paris who "don't look French" are from former colonies that still speak French to some extent. Keeping Paris white would be denying part of France's history.
Idk about high class fashion, but I thought everyone in Paris dressed surprisingly nice. Scarves everywhere lol. Even people wearing sweatpants seemed put together with planned outfits.
I'm a bit puzzled that this is news.

The technique of using metal or stone powder with resins to create fake metal or stones is used since years.

When I was living in HK, in Sham Shui Po, I always wondered why there were these street stalls selling huge blocks of jade for cheap. Later a local friend told me it was just blocks of resin with embedded jade powder and other stuff. E.g. other stones ground up to simulate imperfections and dyes for the resin.

When used with metal powders to create sculptures, jewelry, etc. the technique is called 'cold casting'.

See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBVU3FNt-s

Ofc., people do this with gold too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ResinCasting/comments/bfiixq/cold_c...

The problem with all this is that these materials have plastic-like properties. The article mentions the sound the fake gold nugget make when hitting a surface sounding like plastic. This is one of the issues.

The weight is another one. Surface feel/texture depends on various factors.

The bottom line is: these materials look like the real thing but they don't feel/sound/behave like it.
Replacing ascii with sprites is easy to do later.
I’m guessing that you didn’t read the Wikipedia article. Here’s the direct quote pertaining to appearance.

“Renoux indicates that Japanese media, magazines in particular, often depict Paris as a place where most people on the street look like "stick-thin" models and most women dress in high fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton.”

Your personal biases made you assume the previous commenter strictly implied race/color.
I've run a home server as a remote programming environment for a year now and I've never bothered to look at the logs. It was cool to see.
While it's obvious to ppl who have used tech for years, with YouTube and how easy it is to pick up programming and start a simple raspberry pi project, there's lots of new ppl to this field who just aren't aware that their home network is being queried constantly.
Potentially Paris current mayor wants to turn the city into a mostly car free place. That might change a lot of the mentality. Let's review this syndrome in ~2025.

As other people say, medium sized cities are gentler, and countryside is friendlier.

e.g: was lost in a small town, and after roaming around in front of some tiny store, the cashier came out proposing to help me. I didn't even try to ask her from outside, she naturally took the initiative.
Duly addressed in my edit above.

Are you familiar with the concept of confirmation bias? Look hard enough for something and you'll see it ... whether it's there or not.
Ask HN: Teams who had deep founder disputes, but survived – what's your story?
PG says one of the easiest ways for a company to fail is to have founder disputes.

We've had lots of stories here on HNews it not working out, but I've not had a chance to hear about a survival/success despite deep disputes.

Can anyone share their story and how they went through it?
It is not a 'claim' just google the spending rates.
What about for those of us that don’t live in the Bay Area? Are our brains condemned?
I don’t think that handcrafted machine instructions are what is necessary. Even switching from languages like Ruby or JS (Node) to languages like Go or Elixir yields tremendous efficiency improvements.

Beyond that, developers being conscientious of what they send over the wire, and being just a bit critical of what the framework or ORM produces also can yield substantial gains.

I say this as a “DevOps” guy who is responsible for budget at a mid-size startup, where we’re hitting scale where this becomes important. We save about 8 production cores per service that we convert from Rails to Go. Devs lose some convenience, yes, but they’re still happy with the language, and they’re far from writing hyper-optimized, close to the metal code.
The beauty of the CCPA is that you can request data for yourself and confirm what Honey actually collects and compare with what they state they collect.

No need to speculate who is right at this point based on privacy policy statements that may or may not be outdated or not totally comprehensive.
The article makes it sound like he's only buying proven songs, meaning they already have distribution. Also, as Napster, Pirate Bay and now Spotify have shown, distribution really is trivial - what he's buying is the right to restrict legal distribution.
I wonder if posting this on Saturday was intentional, and if it has any outcome on its success on hn:)
"don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"

Right, but we don't have any reason to assume it to be true if there's noe evidence to support it - which would be step one in determining whether its a reasonable belief, and integrating it into modern medicine.

As for your example, we do not know that acupuncture works - conclusions are inconsistent in systematic reviews, which would suggest that it's not effective. Most researchers I've heard speak about the subject seem to believe any perceived reduction in pain to be due to placebo.
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This should not be a surprise to anyone who's well travelled. In fact, the least racist countries on Earth are in North America, where it is talked about the most.
FWIW I think that simulation theory is fairly obviously bunk, but that's not really an argument. We have no frame of reference for the nature of the simulator, including its constraints and the level of detail it can manage.
> the piece shared with me yesterday was "we'll spend the next decade removing features...

Sounds like an interesting read; do you mind sharing a link (or submitting it to HN)?
Haha I’m going to join the others who seemed to get excited at your comment.

This is a short, two-part doc about a small music venue I was fortunate enough to spend my late teens and early twenties frequenting. It was the closest thing to my small town that brought me a lot of music from the generation you’re listing. Searching YouTube will unearth performances from the place. I’m in one of the group photos they put up somewhere in this. I miss the place.

Some of Tim and Scott's stories are entertaining and worth the listen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngBr-WiQ5ek
Ah sorry. I don't want to speak to what Google has made. I've never used it. Compared to the public version of Perforce, git has a much simpler model. Streams, view specs, branch mappings, p4admin tooling, a myriad of Perforce plugins of varying quality you're expected to use, and an official gui that is embarrassingly bad make Perforce much more complex in my mind. (Although it's doing more things so it's not without reason...)

The one thing p4 does have is file level versioning. It's trivial to go back and pick single versions of files. Artists need that feature and most git clients hide it away or don't support it at all.
How does this compare to GaliumOS? Ive been using that on <$150 chromebooks with great pleasure: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
Although I guess we could consider more performant, but still easy to use, languages to be a form of automation.
That it can recover by itself. It's a bit more than just 'auto-restart' (as mentioned in the article) since it's an entire vm that is restarting versus a process and it's not the same as restarting a linux vm.
Here, I'll fix this for you:

The fangirl is so slavishly predictable in her admiration that she's diminished as a result. She's less than a woman.
What do you suggest they do? Sell a used mattress?
It is more or less the same, it's just that in NUMA you have a limited number of localities, except here it is in the thousands. The issue is one of scheduling that locality. Some process still needs to determine what data is actually local and where it should "flow". Because it can't all fit in one place, the computation needs to be tiled (potentially in multiple ways) and the tiles need to be scheduled to move around in an efficient manner.
As the sibling commenter said, cancer loves sugar indeed!

Better do a "regular" fast instead -- regular meaning just water, but also meaning often.

Autophagy (the [sub-]cellular janitor) kicks in after 24h* fasting and recycles and repairs old and damaged cells.

And better to do it to maintain / optimize health now. Why wait?

* I've heard plenty of benefits fasting 24-48h, but going longer than that I don't think justifies the risk.

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To a lesser degree you can get the same benefits with fasting's little brother, Time Restricted Eating (these days called Intermittent Fasting) where you eat only during an 8 hour window.

Less autophagy but you will get some lowered inflammation which is great too (inflammation found to cause many mental as well as physical illnesses).
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Show HN: Show Me Your Startup
What startup project have you been working on recently? What does it do? What stage is at?

Also, startupschool starts on Jan 20, so an excellent time and place to get involved.

For me:

https://toonclip.com

Its a place where creatives can produce and share simple Flash like animation with drag and drop and no programming. Sandbox here https://toonclip.com/editor

MVP released after considerable feedback from folks at YN.
I am part Parisian. (I used to live there and my family is from the city and nice banlieue). I love Paris, but what shocks me every time I go back is the quantity of dog poop (and also trash) in the streets and the inability of city officials to do anything about it. Here are a few tips for visitors:

- When interacting with locals, always start off by saying Bonjour Monsieur, Bonjour Madame. That will help disarm cranky Parisians. If doing an AirBnb make sure to do this when seeing people on the “palier” — stair landing in Parisian apartment buildings.

- Consider going to the top of the Tour Maine-Montparnasse, instead of the Eiffel Tower. You will have 1/100th the foot traffic and you won’t be surrounded by pickpockets. Plus you’ll be able to see the Eiffel Tower :-)

- Check out and buy food from the local street market in your area.

- My favorite thing to do in Paris still is flâner — to stroll about the lovely city.
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I am trying to make sense of the original post while stipulating that the claim about it not being harmful is true. Assuming only sterile fecal matter is left on the device, how does having an appointment the next day help?

He seems to be suggesting that the fecal matter can be avoided by a gap of 16 hours versus a gap of (say) 30 minutes. I'm at a loss for the mechanism by which this might occur.
> Did Parisians continue speaking to you in French? I found that they immediately switched to English when I spoke French to them.

I've found this to be the case too. But their English is almost always better than my French. I've found that attempting French does produce a much more friendly response than just going in an speaking English loudly.
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No, it was speculation the downvoters assumed that.

By the way, why do you assume bsaul read the article then?

(I'm not saying bsaul didn't, but you are assuming bsaul did and ivanbakel didn't read the article.)
As far a public health is concerned it's settled fact and has been for some years. The main risk seems to be for men that have sex with men rather than oral sex with women. Men that have sex with men can now (finally) get the vaccine on the NHS up to the age of 35.
I'd love to see a statistic on the number of new languages announced on HN.
> Nothing I read in a book sticks until I have tried my hand at it for a few weeks.

I don't think this is universal, though. Book reading is very natural for me and sticks immediately. In fact, I often find that things I've read today and not understood become magically clear a few days later.
> as Napster, Pirate Bay and now Spotify have shown, distribution really is trivial

Spotify is a multi-billion dollar company. I’m not sure what it does is trivial.

On buying proven content, that still increases competition on the buy side for that content. The decoupling of distribution and content acquisition still happens, and makes the top end of the market pricier. That, in turn, means more money to the lower end, et cetera.
Seasonal, migratory, undocumented, and not representative of the populations or markets this data is intended to be used to serve.
The immigrants still have a home country. What you're advocating is French genocide.

how about just paying reparations to those countries instead of destroying all the French villages that had nothing to do with the kings colonizing.

I see the French Revolution basically as a bankruptcy where they were freed from the debts incurred by the royalty.
What sci-fi can tell us about the future
The presentation in the article is actually top-down, contrary to the title.

An alternative title could be "all the hoops we have to jump through because we don't have lightweight threads and Loom yet".
Most of what I know about Romans comes from listening to my gamer friends slash military history buffs, while we sat around pounding Mountain Dew and waiting for someone to finish their turn.

I was always impressed by how open Romans were to assimilating other people's culture, gods, tech, whatnot. I can't help but think that the Roman strategy of an ever expanding definition of "us" (vs them) was critical to their success.

I wish we knew more about the Etruscans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization I have the impression that they were the first culture assimilated by the Romans. Conquered militarily (or economically) and then basically fostered into the Roman society. So much so that it's now hard to discern the differences between the two.
I first heard this when I was in school in the mid nineties.
> Why should racism and xenophobia be OK because it's happening in Japan or Israel?

Look at you, you're doing the exact same thing that I said you would. Racist! Xenophobe! These are the terms levelled at anyone that doesn't want the streets of Paris to look like the streets of Mogadishu, as though there's no middle ground whatsoever.

No chance to think about ideas like bringing people in at a rate that doesn't exceed some sense of "cultural carrying capacity", no chance to work more on helping refugees in their homelands, no chance to suggest that legal immigrants who are going through the process deserve to have that respected in comparison to illegal ones who jump the line. Nope, it's xenophobia to dare to want anything other than the status quo, which we'll all pretend is working (it isn't).

Please, if you believe what you've said, why not spend a little bit of time advocating for open borders and multiculturalism for Israel, and see how far you get with your liberal ideals. Go and live as close to the newcomers as you can and enjoy the new pace of life. Pretend that it's all okay, and that anyone who wants a slightly different approach to this sensitive issue is evil. I promise nothing bad will happen.
Well, it's a great way to shut down whatever criticism without saying "because I say so", at least not straight away.
I personally would have a not so great food with room for improvement everyday rather than to eat similar delicious food every day. Improvement makes a mundane thing not-so-mudane while no improvement makes a not-so-mudane thing look mudane. Anyways, different people have different preference.
People are constantly targeting every aspect of the physician workflow, from CMS and private payors constantly changing their documentation requirements (which differ between payors and CMS, and results in hospitals trying to teach their docs to document everything to meet everyone's requirements - which are made intentionally lengthy and obtuse so as to justify denials of payment), quality improvement people and vendors populating the EMR with shit-tons of Alerts! meant to prevent medical errors (but, due to specific medical contexts justifying deviations from the textbook standard, the false positives vastly outweigh true positives, to the point where the alerts as a whole are utterly ignored), etc.

It's easy to complain doctors resist (this particular workflow change), which is SO important because it affects PATIENT LIVES (because it's in the healthcare setting, so EVERYTHING DOES) damn entitled doctors. Then recall that every single time a doctor asks a nurse to do something that nurse will say "oh, just enter a communication order." And because your security set up your RFID to only work on a computer where you've already logged in earlier, and you're running around the hospital constantly, those badges aren't worth shit >half the time.

It's easy to complain about doctors' resistance to various evolutions of their digital workflow, until you realize that nearly every evolution adds complexity and time-burden to their workload in a way that does not directly improve patient care, but slows down their work, increases complexity (which does adversely impact patient care), and lengthens their workday (because their patient workload isn't reduced in the slightest by this.) I don't know a single doc that doesn't do significant unpaid after-hours work catching up to their digital bullshit; you also would resist non-mission-critical additions to your unpaid workload.

It's easy to treat physicians as entitled and resisting "just to resist", rather than understanding that the physician workflow is constantly changing, from every possible angle, and most often for reasons wildly unrelated to the immediate task of "taking care of the patient in front of me". You'd resist under those circumstances, too.

There's a reason about half of physicians nationwide (https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-lifestyle-burnout-de...) are burned out. HALF. That's what happens when your ability to do your job is constantly fucked with. Perhaps you should consider what that means, and how that relates to what you're saying, rather than asserting doctors are just too damn self-important to change.