skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have made good comments. My take (with some experience, and until I read everything else here) is: don't (ever!) give up on life, be patient, be reasonable/honest/kind toward yourself & others, and continue forward. Things will eventually be OK, especially if we try to do what we know is right.

And to help find your purpose and real balance in life, I have thought & written much at http://lukecall.net (a simple site; hopefully very skimmable; no sales; see the "life lessons" link about 1/2-way down the page, then maybe the "growth/mm" links like "emotional", and feel free to send comments). As I learn things over time, I try to add to it, in a systematic/organized/skimmable way.

All the best.

(some edits above for clarity)

edit: ps: after they rule out enough other things, CFS is a possibility. Wikpedia has a page, and more info for patients and practitioners is at https://batemanhornecenter.org . They seem honest n helpful, but hopefully that link is not useful :) .
Noone is suggesting ingesting vinegar, or peroxide, or chlorine, or paracetic acid.

But they do all breakdown fairly safely (peroxide becomes water iirc) and don't warrant the hysteria they're being given.
I already perceive "free coffee" as a red flag, but "free Red Bull" would make me run away screaming.

(Not sure if this needs explaining, but if company provides all kinds of free drinks, it could be generosity, but if the choice is suspiciously limited to stimulants... you will probably need them.)
Don’t do these things in PostgreSQL
How would they be "sacrificing it"? Where are people going to move to? AWS is the industry standard for public clouds, Azure's feature set is worse, and GCP is basically an also-ran.
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That may be, but I think we can all agree that being loose with our definitions in such a way that it incentivizes "bringing a sword to a pen fight" is a bad thing.
Even though I have access to the full Stanford library collection I go to Sci-Hub first. The UI is so much easier.

Is there seriously anyone not employed by the giants (Elsevier, Bertelsmann et al) who opposes sci-hub?
I'm always astounded by how little money it takes to bribe someone. An Ivy-League chair makes around $250,000, which probably underestimates his salary (STEM is generally higher than humanities), does not include income made from legitimate consulting opportunities, and does not include any residual income from his patents and former companies. Since he wasn't charged with tax fraud I assume he reported his income correctly, which would mean that his total compensation was at most 3-4X'ed by this deal (but probably closer to 2-3X'ed) over a ten year time period.

The difference between 500K/year and 1M/year in household income is a significant difference in lifestyle but not enormous. You may fly first class instead of business, but you aren't buying any private jets. Your children don't need to worry about college and, as a Chair, have access to strong social network, but you won't have your name on a building. You probably have the best house in your academic neighborhood, but you're not buying rare art to hang on the walls.

Meanwhile, the downside is throwing away 40 years of hard work, loss of your other income sources, and possibly prison.
I thought steam only supports ubuntu and therefore games only support ubuntu.
That being said, I use arch and most games just work.
Yeah, as someone using JavaScript for the first time (and not being an experienced developer either), I gave a brief look at promises, recognized that I hardly understood any of it, and quickly decided to use the bleeding edge async instead ! (And haven't regretted it.)
>Ah, that might be the reason why NVidia is adopting Ada for their firmware, ebay

A, the "some part of some huge player with 2000 divisions uses some otherwise niche language, surely said language is making a comeback" argument.

You can find all kinds of niche/sidestepped languages if you look hard enough on any organization that has 200 products, 1000 inside projects, and tons of engineers. Doesn't mean said languages are making a comeback anytime soon.

For languages that actually thrive nobody needs to enumerate major and minor projects where they're used, because they're too many to mention. But when the main news for "Planet language X" is "big corp decided to use X for something among the 100s things they do", well, they need all the straws they can grasp.

Same way Latin remains a dead language whether some Oxford professor recently published a book of new poems he wrote in it or not...
XUL is no longer exposed to plugins (in non-ESR FF), but is still used internally in some places - where it is slowly being replaced.
I've never looked for that because I don't have any monitors that weigh anywhere close to that. (The heaviest monitors I have are 27" 4K monitors weighing 12 lbs each.) The brands I bought are WALI and Vivo, and they're both excellent, but I don't know if they have any stands that will support 26 lbs.
On some level you almost want to say "duh.", but having grown up in a very lower-middle class household and being on the high side of middle class now, the difference in how I was raised and how my kids are being raised is fairly vast. I'm sometimes jealous of how easy my kids have it compared to me, to be honest. I can only imagine where i'd be now if I had parents who were able to provide the resources that I can give to my kids, in terms of connections and education.
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Why are articles from this site being spammed so intensely on HN right now?
How often do these things get beyond the first step? Large companies can make unsubstantiated claims with relative impunity. Remember when Cheerios got away with claiming they lower cholesterol? They changed the wording slightly.

> Our delicious O’s are made from whole grain oats which contain beta-glucan, a soluble fiber that can help lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet

Vodka, combined with a healthy diet, can help lower cholesterol. Their latest scandal, BTW, is that the cereal contains glyphosate.

I've had it with this crap. The government shouldn't be this toothless. Enforcement actions for certain transgressions should start with being ordered to exit business, not end there.
You are confusing the interval from the previous note and the interval from the root. The millennial whoop might be a minor third, but that in no way makes the chord more minor. And I think plenty of non-musical people would characterize the "millennial whoop" as annoyingly upbeat, most the time, so claiming it is unlike the Picardy third for that reason isn't putting theory ahead of empiricism.

"Mode mixture" where the minor 4 chord is "borrowed" in a major context however is basically stealing the picardy third sound for an otherwise major piece. "American Boy" would be a pop song that uses this very well.
Scroll promises a better Internet for users and more money for publishers
> people of good-will
> economical solutions

Narrator: It still requires a political solution

As if economics isn't political?
I’ve never heard of any company that does that. In all 6 of the large tech companies I’ve worked for, all of which were very profitable, this type of per-head cost would be a HUGE blocker to being allowed to requisition the tool.
Thx for the update. I only had it up for a split-second and shut it right down.
IME, using a single package.json is a harmful and naive practice, in abstract it results in a single product version and leads to poor separation between the client(s) and server(s) codebases.

It falls apart especially quickly when adding an iOS, TV (JS) or other client (or server) codebase.

To resolve the multiple node_module directories you can use tooling like Workspaces[0] (with both npm and yarn) which hoists the node_modules to a "workspace level".

I'd be interested in hearing other annoying issues you have with multiple package.json files.

[0] https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/workspaces/
I would like if they focused on performance and stability of current features, e.g. by improving their IMAP code and moving to SQLite storage to improve stability and fix corruption of mailboxes.
I absolutely agree. Recently switched back to Apple Mail because the Thunderbird UI is just a fricking mess. Settings are so bloated and unordered, it's a pain to configure even simple things. The UI itself is cluttered and looks more like 2000 than a modern mail client. Also, I had several issues with mail formatting jumping back and forth. I gave Thunderbird several chances and nothing happened. Now I will not go back anymore until they completely overhauled the interface and user experience.
Some part of the solution will probably involve forcibly taking away some of the freedoms people have.

We have the freedom in the United States to go out and buy a car and drive it as much as one likes until it physically cannot be driven anymore. There is no limit on the amount of fuel one can expend or emissions one person can make by driving. And cars are a major contributor to the emissions problem.

If people are not willing to give up driving gasoline-powered cars because they have the freedom to say no, will we simply abandon efforts to make people change their driving habits or enforce greater restrictions on their emissions?

It feels like a drastic solution, but the effects of climate change are also drastic. I'm not sure they can be solved with feel-good measures like planting trees when more and more people choose activities with emissions which will wipe out any gains because it's convenient to do so in car-based societies and everyone else does it.

EVs would be a good first step if we can manufacture enough, somehow convince everyone there's enough personal benefit to switch and source electricity from renewable sources. But most of the country still runs on gas at the moment.
Late to this; but here's a Q&A with the author which may shed some light:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?466007-1/qa-susannah-cahalan
It was possible to setup Light Table to work like this. The project is unfortunately dead.
>> Revenue is an obsolete concept for currency issuers.
>Only if you want staggering amounts of inflation.

"Revenue is an obsolete concept" does not mean that taxes are an obsolete concept. One purpose of taxes is to control inflation.

Please argue honestly.
Start playing with no setup:

https://run.dlang.io/
It is like most things in life or software, no silver bullet. Every team/product/company has different requirements that they need to fulfill, including off-the-mark measures such as diversity quota. Having an actual standard will make it difficult. Besides, this field moves so much nobody wants to get certifications that will be obsolete 3 months down the road. Not to mention certifications and credentials can be bad gatekeeper in itself.

This game is actually really easy to play, much easier than any other corporate/job game in other fields. You just need to know the rules, study the rules and get on with your life. You don't need bachelor/master from expensive universities or any other gate-keeping bst like in medical or law.

I wasn't born rich or smart or have good connections, and I'm glad setting aside a few months to study DS&A can make me earn what most Americans or the world envy. Much more if I'm good at it so I can jump ship at FAANG every year and living the dream. Let the rich/smart/well-connected people solve harder problems such as medicine or law. I just get on with my life.
I don't understand what's going on with Quora. It used to be full of insightful answers that improved the quality of my life. But now my feed is cluttered with clickbait's being recommended by random people saying "Good article." and -- just in general -- very low quality answers written by people without experience and who fail to back up their claims with evidence. It's become a big source of frustration reading these "verbal vomit" answers and trying to sort through the misinformation.

Whoever the ML engineers on the recommendation stack were.. really fucked up imo.
The Crying of Lot 49, it's more a novella, but is still quite dense.

Bleeding Edge was relatively straight forward compared to Vineland. I haven't had the courage to tackle some of the larger tomes of Pynchon's yet.
The Bryukhanov Complex
“We’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.”
The surface is just a "standard" computer in a different form factor. It has both the utility of a standard computer and the complexity that comes with it.

I would love an OS X tablet, and I'm looking into making a Hackintosh one (it can be done). But it's not going to be an iPad, just like an iPad in a laptop case isn't a laptop.
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I have an old hand-me-down laptop from a relative. It's from 2011 and is a Core i5. The screen is terrible, but otherwise it's perfectly capable.

I couldn't call it a "project," but I've installed a music player (Rhythmbox, but pick whatever software you like) and hooked it up to some premium speakers. It's the best music player I could hope for -- it can play literally any format, doesn't phone home, and uses very little energy.
+1 to the remarkable for PDF/book reading.

Workflow- for kicks I wrote a little utility using the unofficial API so I can send PDFs to their cloud service from my laptop, and plan to deploy it with an AWS SES inbound thing so I can email PDFs and have them show up on the device, like the kindle service. I expect also to PDFify my kindle books so I can move them over as well.

This isn't a cross-device solution as the OP requested but I find using a single dedicated reading device works better for me. Very happy with the remarkable.
> - If you have both apple sign and your own login, you must implement apple sign in.

I would think that too, but the text is odd by saying "exclusively"

> Apps that exclusively use a third-party or social login service
Things happen and the world goes on. Most things aren’t coordinated events or conspiracies.
You are comparing apples to oranges.

Here's a better set of comparisons:

Deaths per 100,000:

Influenza: 2

SARS: 0.22

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China

% of deaths of hospitalized people:

Influenza: ~10%

SARS: ???

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

% of deaths of diagnosed people (~CFR):

SARS: ~10%

Influenza: 0.1%-10% per strain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr..., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/
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It is interesting (I don't know if that's the right word, but I can't think of another) to see how podcasts have become such a target for advertising. I remember when I first listened to podcasts in like 2008 I'd pretty rarely hear an ad, and when I did it was usually some gimmicky product from a company no one had ever heard of. But nowadays I can't think of any podcasts that I listen to that don't have ads, save for Hardcore History, and it's frequently an ad for a big company or service like Door Dash, Turbo Tax, etc.

I know he's an outlier due to the enormity of his podcast, but it's been said[1] that Joe Rogan now makes $75,000 per episode

That's a long way from his early days of being sponsored by the Fleshlight.

[1] https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/joe-rogan-how-much-...
Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
This is news to me. My apple ID is on my personal domain (Google Apps) with only one email address on it, and it works fine. Could it be a recent change?
Cool, how do I talk to it?

I see these big announcements with nothing behind them but a white paper and no way to reproduce. It's not a fact if there is no falsifiability.
I'm curious who gets to decide what's synergistic and who gets to decide what's exploitative.
Non-profits absolutely have duties to their donors when they accept money. They don't get to spend it on whatever they want. And those duties are especially strong when they take money for a technical job from non-technically-sophisticated donors.

Finally, those duties are even stronger when the non-profit is the steward of a non-replaceable community commons; there is no way to donate to a Wikimedia Foundation competitor to improve Wikipedia.

> If you don't like it, stop donating

Think about what you're saying. People can't complain unless they donate, but if they don't like what's happening they should not donate. That sort of reasoning is how you get non-accountable dysfunctional non-profits.

> Or better yet, write a patch, or email them suggestion for a better player.

I can't write a patch. It's not in my abilities.

Write them an email? That isn't a serious suggestion, because you know it would accomplish nothing. That's not where these conversations take place.
You may not be aware of this but the FDA has armed agents (OCI) and the stories I've heard about when they show up are pretty scary. This "letter" is an early step of an escalating process.

Everywhere I've worked in the life sciences has bent over backwards to follow the rules. And as far as I can tell the Agency has a lot of antibodies against attempts to game the system, which is common, but if you follow the rules they are pretty helpful.

(I've also heard that nothing I said above applies to the ""F" -- "food" -- side of the FDA, but that's hearsay).
This particular feat was triggered by Kevin Buzzard's unsubstantiated claim that "Lean was better than Coq" as a foundation for mathematics, because it had built-in quotient types. The work described above precisely shows that such types can be encoded as well using features shipped with the vanilla Coq distro. See https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/coq-club/2020-01/msg00006.h....
I am one of the Maintainers of Vitess and I just wanted to pipe in on a few points.

The comparison chart lists vitess as not having "High Performance" due to what they are saying is a single coordinator node ( vtgate ). You can actually have as many of those as you want to scale Vitess far beyond what any other system ( including yugabyte ) offers in terms of performance. We recently did a benchmark in partnership with AWS showing how far you could push AWS Aurora using Vitess ( https://planetscale.com/news/planetscale-aws-benchmark )

Secondly is the claim that there are no distributed transactions or cross shard joins. There are in fact distributed transactions, and cross shard joins. You can in fact do full cross shard ACID transactions. We do recommend that you are aware of the sharding mechanism as we will not trigger a cross shard transaction unless we need to.

Finally they do say there is no Native Failover/Repair which is only technically accurate. We use a third party tool called orchistrator to do the fail overs, and we recommend you run that along side the cluster so yes its not "built in", but it will launch as part of our Helm Chart fully configured to automatically do native fail overs.
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> There's a difference between "We're writing your name down in a spreadsheet" and the inevitable "Your facial structure is being processed by a private company that is absolutely going to share with anyone who asks" that happens with the types of companies that contract with schools.

I don't see why that is inevitable. My high school in 2007 had its own IT team and kept all of its data on-premises (this was before "the cloud", but still, you could just mandate that all facial recognition models have to be stored/processed on-premises).

> Even assuming that they were decent companies, the Fed has shown a tendency to force companies to give up fingerprints, DNA, and so on: there's no chance that they wouldn't do the same for facial recognition data.

Yeah, it's called warrants. I don't see what is wrong with that. If the FBI wants to know if a student was in school on a certain day, I don't see how a warrant for checking facial recognition logs is any different from checking a manually maintained spreadsheet, other than the latter being more error prone.

> I spent an hour looking for an example of facial recognition that was accurate and detailed enough to tell the difference between individuals that ran on a Raspberry Pi, and came up blank

I haven't done it yet, but this seemed good enough for my purposes[1]? As far as I can tell, that runs completely on a pi with no cloud resources...

> which would still mean their data was leaving your control; that is pretty bad, I'd say.

Even if I needed to use cloud compute, I take issue with your phrasing. I don't believe people "own" information about themselves. If we are both in public, and I take a picture of you, write down facts about you, or otherwise observe you, I have not stolen anything of yours, and I do not need your consent to have done so.

[1] https://www.hackster.io/mjrobot/real-time-face-recognition-a...
Yet despite all that, we’re still having this conversation and a single iOS feature has hit the top of Hacker News.

While Android may make up the majority of devices worldwide, Apple devices are still very popular among wealthy clients (anyone living in the west would meet this criteria), which is ultimately the part of population business care about most.

Simply put, supporting Apple devices is very profitable. No company is going to leave money on the table due to niche ideological concerns.
Haven't met me then :-)

I've changed my views on drug policies thanks to discussing it - mostly politely IIRC - here on HN.
I think that's a false dichotomy. Both can happen.
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Twitter does require your phone number to make the account sometimes. (I suppose if it can’t determine enough about you.) Recently I was able to make one, only to be locked out a few minutes later until I “confirmed my identity” by providing a phone number.
Apple forced nobody to implement this feature UNLESS they were already using another social media login option.

It is possibly an antitrust issue in an alternate universe in which our government still cares about antitrust issues, but since it's a net win for users, it might be a tough case to make.
Looking for vegan recipes in google usually doesn't result in staple meals that you can have several times per week.

More importantly, a recipe doesn't tell you how much or how often you should eat it in your diet.
Tehran is a mostly awful place. The traffic and air pollution are something else. Though it is interesting and worth visiting.

Cities in the south and northwest are more pleasurable.

Take places like Shiraz, Tabriz (to name a few common examples) for example. They are something to behold! And in the north, squished between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz mountains, you will even find temperate rain forests.
When I rewrote applications from Java to Erlang I was amused of how much different it was. Not only codewise but how you attack the problem.

FP makes the programmer rethink the way that the problem is solved. I think that adding threads on non FP code makes it hard from the get go.

Don't hide it on hardware, rethink the approach instead.
But we don't want cheaper Tesla vehicles. We don't want mass surveillance tools that masquerade as US technology. We don't want poor people to eat chemical-soaked chicken. It may surprise you but not everyone gapes in awe at America as a model to follow around the globe.
Golang has terser and worse documentation than Swift, for one...
My guess is never, because Gmail only exposes the labels as folders via the IMAP API. As far as I know Gmail doesn't have any other API.