skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But a central tenet of Communism was dismantling all other social structures like religion. Modern technology under capitalism may be destroying these social structures over time, but communism did actively.

This whole comment just reeks of fanciful anti-capitalism with little real substance.
Are you referring to empiricism?
Oh come on -- that was a Tron ref and no offense to the clueful (which includes people on HN).

If you want to boil the ocean before helping people in an important segment of the population, good luck. Or were you just being defeatist?
I’ve a buddy whose wife just had her second miscarriage and it has rocked them. I try to be supportive but I have no idea what it is like. I feel terrible for them
With gnome, you can export the gconf database and check it into git if that's your thing.
> I have been considering getting some people together to build an app that semi-spies on kid's audio - and auto erases 90% of it.. and only sending a notice or save if it gets hits on certain keywords.. and make that toggle-able for various parents.. some might want sex keywords.. I think suicide related ones would be pretty universal.. but able to toggle others.. some parents no cuss words.. it's still various napkins of ideas.. something maybe with mycroft or similar that does not send audio to the cloud.

you should just use webhooks to send shocks to their collars at this point.
This is pretty common in SoCal. Any puesto de frutas will give you fruta y chamoy y tajin.
(American) Academia is a complicated matter, so I’ll elide commenting on that.

For a thoughtful counterpoint to the necessity argument, see: https://jnd.org/technology_first_needs_last/ (previously discussed on HN)
Human evolutionary fitness goes beyond individual reproductive fitness, for kin-selection sort of reasons. That's why e.g. women are generally capable of living well beyond menopause
I think there are two separate questions here:

1) $80 is truly not a ton of money for a peacoat. A peacoat by Sterlingwear of Boston (supplier of peacoats to the U.S. Navy) started at $140 in 2009 (I owned one, and it lasted 7 years). You can get cheaper peacoats, but Sterlingwear is made domestically and is considered by many to be the baseline standard for peacoats (not luxury, but still a quality product).

2) That said, I agree things should be made to last -- disposable peacoats at any price is wrong and wasteful. At least 2 winters is the absolute minimum.
Which is completely irrelevant as by definition they are not portable.

The fact remain that wasm module have a very well defined behavior when embedded in other applications and can be embedded in a portable way.
If this story is true, it definitely sounds shady to me:

"This problem became clear to me in mid-2003 when MySQL AB attempted to hire me as a consultant. I was financially in need of supplementary income so I seriously considered taking the work, but the initial conference call felt surreal and convinced me that MySQL AB was engaging in problematic behavior . Specifically, their goal was to develop scare tactics regarding the GPLv2."
This study is from before iodine was added supplementally (1924 in the US). You are correct that iodine deficiency leads to low body temperature due to hyperthyroidism.

Dairy and grain are the biggest sources of iodine. To get your iodine from salt alone would require over 3 grams per day, which is quite a lot. The average American consumes 3.4 g, DV recommendation is 2.3 g.
That's a very insightful and very depressing analysis.
I asked this as well, literally Googling up "Does exercise prevent cancer", and what I found isn't all that great:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...

>Nearly all of the evidence linking physical activity to cancer risk comes from observational studies, in which individuals report on their physical activity and are followed for years for diagnoses of cancer. Data from observational studies can give researchers clues about the relationship between physical activity and cancer risk, but such studies cannot definitively establish that being physically inactive causes cancer (or that being physically active protects against cancer). That is because people who are not physically active may differ from active people in ways other than their level of physical activity. These other differences, rather than the differences in physical activity, could explain their different cancer risk. For example, if someone does not feel well, they may not exercise much, and sometimes people do not feel well because they have undiagnosed cancer.

I would really like to see some proper studies done. Unfortunately, seeing friends and otherwise healthy, physically active people passing away from cancer at a relatively young age does not inspire hope at the moment.
I use multiple browsers, and store credentials for things other than websites.
I'm sure he has, he's a very famous economist.

And you didn't need to copy-paste all that, I had read the article.

I stand by my post, the claim in the article is exaggerated.

No intention of taking it up with him, I'm sure he knows this; I was writing for the readers here.
Krustlet: Kubernetes Kubelet in Rust for Running WASM
Yes, that’s actually my understanding as well of pure mathematics. What I was trying to say is that in Stats (my field) and CS its quite common to go straight into a TT job, and a postdoc is often a sign of particular prestige. In mathematics a postdoc is the standard post-Ph.D. route; of course some positions are very well regarded and others less so, but having a postdoc itself is just the status-quo for an aspiring academic at that point.
Fighting ash dieback (chalara) in the UK
Are all of the 'exotic' keyboards designed for people who use the home row, or do they work for other styles, too? I type primarily with two fingers, employing the others for particular keys according to muscle memory, and do it faster than most touch typists (>100 WPM). Never knew whether that would translate to one of these other form factors.
Thanks, fixing it. Caching might mean it takes a bit to show up.
"Why does this exist?
I made Cello as a fun experiment to see what C looks like hacked to its limits. As well as being a powerful library and toolkit, it should be interesting to those who want to explore what is possible in C."

"Can it be used in Production?
It might be better to try Cello out on a hobby project first. Cello does aim to be production ready, but because it is a hack it has its fair share of oddities"

It sounds like they don't intend for it to be anything other than an interesting case study.
Side note: I’ve been self-experimenting with high doses of niacinamide, and experiencing some weird side effects, possibly immune-related, like angular chelitis. Probably unrelated.
They're obviously meeting a minimum reliability level for the free tier or else no one would be using it because they would find it too unreliable. The argument is about whether their resolution time for the free tier is acceptably fast which can be measured by how many people left the service because of this event. Paying money gets you better service is the other idea in what you quoted, it's hard to imagine why you wouldn't give people better service for paying money unless you were getting more value off them through practices such as data collection. But privacy activists hate the poor so it's pretty hard to thoroughly monetize the free tier without someone trying to start a boycott to make their world a better place.
Ask HN: Basilisks and AI Development?
It's becoming clear that "deep learning" and all the other modern AI techniques won't live up to their hype. That means the question becomes "Why does anyone continue to invest in AI?" My question is: Is Big Tech trying to create Roko's Basilisk to avoid being retroactively punished for not helping bring about Roko's Basilisk?
> Well, good for him, but I think he underplays the role these have in his success.

Exactly. Good for Emil, but it's always frustrating to hear survivorship bias preaching. Even the interviewer starts off by saying:

"By the way, I really love your CV - the quirks section was especially fun to read."

It's even more frustrating when I hear non-POC's talk about their journey to some non-western country (and subsequent conquering of fantastical goals like gaining the approval of locals) or pursuit of some sense of foreign culture. It's almost a given that they have internalized and appropriated the ideas (i.e. Buddhism or even worse post-retreat Buddhism). Good for the author to receive such positive feedback for such signaling, but it makes me sad to know that I might not receive the same.
> I've seen plenty of beef only thinking here and I too have been guilty at times.

Most of the beef-related discussions around here involve either Tesla, Apple vs Google (when it comes to their phones/mobile OSs), FAANGs vs the rest of the world, some futuristic AI fields (like self-driving cars) and I think that's about it. There used to be a beef between supporters of static-typing vs dynamic-typing (I personally was in the latter group), but the static-typing supporters mostly won that debate.

Other than that most of the topics on this website are pretty civilised (with a few exceptions that confirm the rule).
I completely disagree with his interpretation. It would be surprising if group that concentrates some of the top expertise in AI weren't able to make a big impact on a well-defined optimization problem that has been studied for decades.

I think a lot of the commentary is missing two essential points:

1. Protein structure prediction is to a large extent a solved problem for small-ish, soluble targets. AlphaFold is a significant improvement on the current state of the art, but the state of the art was already far enough along that the best computational models in 2007 were good enough to bootstrap experimental structure determination (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934447). In other words, it's not like the entire academic community was stumbling around helplessly in the dark.

2. The value of these predictions to pharmaceutical companies is extremely marginal. Having a high-accuracy model is very helpful but it's rare that the researchers have so little information available that a completely de-novo prediction is necessary. And when they really don't have much information at all, it's usually because the target is sufficiently messy to defy traditional structure determination methods - which means it's almost certainly more than AlphaFold can handle too.
I think in these sorts of discussions two concepts with the same name tend to get conflated, so I think it's important to make a distinction between:

1) AI Research as applying/tweaking known ML/DL methods to a novel problem. I would term these something like "AI Engineering Research"

2) AI Research as examining the theoretical frameworks & approaches to ML/DL in a way that may itself lead to shifts in the understanding of ML/DL as a whole and/or develop fundamentally new tools for the purpose of #1. What might be termed "basic" or "pure" research.

I'm not placing one of these above the other in terms of importance. They are both necessary, and they form a virtuous feedback loop between the two that, one without the other, would see the other wither on the vine.

In the example of this particular person, Emil Wallner, he appears to be doing #1, and perhaps doing so in a way that might help inform more of #2.
That "update" doesn't change the multiple paragraphs of text above it about how greedy pay-to-win ruins the game. It deliberately gives the impression that this is a temporary thing, which it wasn't. It's tacked on at the end even though this is a major change to the balance of the game.

The most downvoted comment in the history of Reddit, referenced repeatedly by Kotaku not just in that review but in others, is about the pay-to-win mechanic they based their original review around. They have since lifted tons of comments from that thread (although at least in that instance they gave credit?) as Reddit-service in their other writings.

All video game reviews are opinionated, that's kinda the point, but it's possible to make a useful opinionated review. Theirs are not. As an example of what I'm talking about, read the section in the BF II review where the author talks about time-to-kill in multiplayer. Realize how useless it is because of the lack of references to other similar games; is the weapon strength closer to Halo, or CoD4 hardcore mode? "Weak" and "unexpected" are totally useless without some frame of reference, which the author could give (just like many other reviews do) but doesn't. As an aside, theirs is definitely a minority opinion if you read other reviews or watch twitch streams.
If only one of the BSDs had a container runtime, it's the only real showstopper for me
This is a totally random suggestion but, I used to work with a Marijuana company that wanted something almost exactly like this to track their plants between different strains, lifecycles etc. that were on a grid system. This was a few years ago. You might want to check out that market and might be able to re-use a lot of this feature set?
are you fucking kidding me with this?
I think the discussions here are far more open and intelligent than the vast majority of the web.
Monumental bias: Madrid has four statues of a man for every statue of a woman
The study compared people born after 1990, so if there were any old people in that cohort this study would be much bigger news.
OWL API is also a contender in the Java libraries category: https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi
Inflammation is one of the body's natural defense mechanisms to issues like infection, or injury. Treating inflammation like it is the "bad thing", while ignoring (or not understanding) the underlying cause of it is not good, and potentially hazardous. People do this all the time by taking ibuprofen to treat headaches or minor pains that are natural indicators that something is wrong (dehydration, infection, etc).

Tuberculosis is a disease, and widely accepted as detrimental to human health. I agree, less tuberculosis = a good thing.

This being a medically related post, more information, and less assumptions is better for everyone. Thank you for adding context.
I’ve worked fully remote for years, and now have the arrangement you describe, and your suggestion is on point (and my preferred arrangement).

Working 100% remote wears on the soul, which needs and feeds off of in person connectivity. Collaboration tools are no substitute for a meal together.

I hope to build a coworking space (community in general) where I’m at soon similar to that which Mr Money Mustache built in Longmont, CO.
> “Install an email-tracking tool.”

No, please don’t do that.
How a New Wave of Orbiting Sentinels Is Changing Climate Science
This is an ad for a book on dealing with legacy code. The preview of the book [1] is more useful than the forced Tetris analogy.

Reading the table of contents of the book, it seems to assume everything is done by hand. There are some power tools for dealing with legacy code in C/C++, but I don't know which ones are any good and for what. A book which covered most of them and wasn't a fan piece for one tool would be helpful.

[1] https://leanpub.com/legacycode
Thanks for all you do, dang!

However, unless HN implements K-Means clustering, a single-axis downvote mechanism will inevitably lead to echo-chamber bullying, I believe.

Especially if no-one fights back, encouraging the people who vote “sensible” vs “nonsense”, and discouraging the “like” vs “don’t like” voters who ruin debate.
I see, no worries then :)
https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-n...

samzdat makes similar points in this article -- esoteric but insightful
I've been using FreeBSD as my Unix of choice for desktop PCs, Unix development inside VMs, and for servers since 2004 when a community college CS instructor told me about it and gave me an install disc. I love the documentation that ships with FreeBSD, including the high-quality man pages, the excellent handbook that explains how to perform many administrative tasks, and the collection of historical Unix documents that come from Bell Labs. I am also a fan of the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." I have the second edition of this book and it's one of the most well-written operating systems textbooks available. I also like the quality of the source code.

With that being said, on laptops Linux and macOS are my Unix-based operating systems of choice because of increased hardware support, although on older laptops I do have success with FreeBSD. But if I need a Unix-based operating system for a desktop, a server, or a VM, my first choice is FreeBSD unless the software I need specifically requires Linux.
That makes sense. Rochester was always my favorite! I even named a beloved pet parrot after him when I was young.

Recently, I enjoyed seeing Ernie Anderson in the original Brewster’s Millions. There’s something very satisfying about seeing his face instead of only hearing his iconic voice.
I honestly do not see the point you are arguing "for" here. I understand you find wrong the hype about webassembly and many of you comparison are adequate.

You say that wasm is a political "bastard" born out of mozilla refusal for PNaCL. I disagree, but it is a way of looking at history.

But then my stance would be that to satisfy the w in wasm it Needs to be a political chimera, the whole web is predicated on the model of vendors fighting political and technical battles over standard. PNaCL lost that battle, Java lost miserably that battle, every other portable assembly ever never even participated.

Are you criticizing wasm or the open web?
My favorite is

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I agree wholeheartedly with this. You can write high level code in C++, but the cost is a terribly complex language and standard library.

In contrast, the C language is fairly simple, except for a few twisty passages (pointer declaration syntax, anyone?). The standard library does leave something to be desired, but that's not that big of a deal given all the third party libraries out there.

It would be interesting to compare the same program written in straight C vs C++ vs Cello, both for developer experience issues (clarity, simplicity, etc.) and performance. I'll have to have a look at http://libcello.org/learn/benchmarks but this does really seem like something I'd like to use on a personal project someday.
I have been trying Ubuntu for about a year now, taking a break from BSD. This is the longest I have ever used Linux continuously for personal use.

I always work entirely in RAM. Everything is mounted tmpfs. Occasionally I accidentally exceed the amount of RAM I have available. Some file grows too large.

One of the things I always liked about BSD was how well it handled this situation.^1 It had no lasting effect on the operation of the OS. The only things affected were running applications that needed write space. Thus all I had to worry about were the running daemons I use that are continuously writing to logs. The OS would otherwise continue to function.

Whereas when I run out of space in a tmpfs-mounted directory in Ubuntu, I get filesystem errors. I cannot simply remove the excessively large file, and expect to continue to work indefinitely. I get I/O errors. I am eventually forced to reboot. Obviously I am not well-versed on Linux but as far as I can tell so far, this is a known problem.

1. This was NetBSD but I assume that FreeBSD and OpenBSD would be no different.
What type of sorcery is this?
I've got a arch i3 config I like. I've tuned a little over the years, but it's remained mostly the same. I keep the dotfiles in the same repo I keep useful shell scripts I've built, other program config files, etc. Many people, me included, gravitate towards the more "minimalist" linux configs for that reason. If I get time to make sure I haven't accidentally left a password in an old script, I'll make a public repo and link it.
If you find out about a bug in MCAS, you definitely should complain about it.
Also 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526159

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799070

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047576
i distinctly remember this product, not because i used one...but because my friends and i learned about it on compuserve! same night was my first use of mosaic. prior all my “internet” use was actually either muds via telnet or dialin bbs.
Just found out about it. Added, thanks!
I had a miscarriage at 10w (baby measuring 6w). For many months, I was haunted by things like going in for my first doctor's appointment and seeing my empty uterus on the screen. I thought about all those people, like the receptionist in the waiting room, who said "congrats" even though there was nothing to congratulate me for. I opted for medical management but didn't take the drugs until the pain was unbearable. Although that was the single worst 45m of my life, I don't think about it as much.

I am pregnant again, but I am not the same. I am not excited, I am not making plans. We waited to tell our parents until 13 weeks. Even though I'm showing, I've told the people who absolutely need to know because I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to have a baby shower because I don't want to have to look all the stuff if the baby ends up dying.

I participate in /r/Miscarriage, /r/ttcafterloss, and /r/pregnancyafterloss. People there are sad about losses that happened months, years, sometimes even 10 years ago. They - we! - are triggered by pregnant women, our original due dates (next week for me), the idea of getting pregnant again.

It's a surprise to me that we're able to call this a discovery. I feel like a Native American talking to Christopher Columbus.
Once again, that's support not implementation. Developers could use OpenGL in Unreal. They could, but they haven't in general. Vulkan is the default, and is the more common choice.

If it were true that lots of games were picking OpenGL, why is it so hard to make a long list of them? It's easy to make such a list for vulkan.
Great idea, done!
The drawings are more sophisticated than the generated music.

For example-- there's a musical progression in the 2nd movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto where he has a fairly well-trod major key sequence constructed of a rising fourth in the bass that gets sequenced up in steps until hitting a very obvious cadence. Totally humdrum stuff. In fact you can hear many composers during Mozart's time and after using this progression.

However, Mozart adds a trick-- at the end of each iteration he inserts a descending fifth bass pattern for a minor key that prepares the next step of the sequence. These two sequences progress in lock-step to the cadence, as if there were two completely independent progressions that are interleaved. Think the melody of "Baby, it's cold outside" but with harmony.

The drawing for such a musical game is much more basic than what's shown in the examples. But the musical upshot-- e.g., what you hear as a listener-- is in a completely different universe of sophistication than the musical examples given.

Yet the history of music is absolutely brimming with examples like the one from Mozart that I gave, from composers of all stripes. I think the process outlined here is too low-level to generate any kind of musical pattern of interest.
The normal range of resting body temperatures is anywhere from 95 to 100 F. People vary a lot.
The Art of War Is a Manual on How to Avoid It
Me too, built BSD/MySQL server from scratch following the on-line documentation and everything just worked. Server is still running after 5 years with two outages for power problems. I think I chose FreeBSD at the time for the ZFS file system which was its big selling point over linux.