skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human Revolution is an older game? Geez, I must be really getting old then. That game certainly holds up just fine, and does not need a remake.
Thank goodness :)
Mankind Divided was such a letdown...
I don't think there's specific legislation for it, but at least for every contract I've seen (from business acquisition to real estate purchase to NDA to you-name-it) there is a contract severability clause which basically says the same thing.
I agree. Has anyone else here played through Grid Critters?

It was a surprisingly engageming and effective way to learn CSS Grid and I'm almost certainly going to buy the author's next course on https://mastery.games/
> not enough entry level drilling on data types [..] they might forget to put quotes around a string

Just want to emphasize that first part; I've seen the second in new hires who passed a coding bootcamp, and it's really weird to watch. One of them even had to see the error message and go back to the code and still puzzle over it for several seconds before realizing what was wrong.
> This is one of the reasons why I feel that over time I got very much supportive to "eating the rich", their power to skirt the law is way overdue to be corrected.

I am feeling the same way. Also for me it is not about them being rich or powerful, but more about general lack of accountability throughout the whole system.
I agree with all of this, except I don’t see the value an impoverished set of humans can provide. They will have a point of few that is valid and valuable in certain contexts but are these useful? Secondly when the new baseline is removing poverty you remove the desire to become something more, which is where the real innovation comes from. So by not helping them we get better results, not worse.

Also I would love some papers on how natural selection is no longer valid, this sounds like pure opinion.
Python: Pickle’s Nine Flaws
I am skeptical. The gov't has a demonstrated record of acting on bad nutritional 'science' when making policy, so why should we trust them to do a better job this time? We've certainly been convinced in the past that we had all the right information, only to find out we did not. And the consequences have been catastrophic.
That is quite literally a formal proof that "regex+backreferences" is NP-complete, since SAT is the index NP-complete problem.
He had a couple of accomplices, but he was radicalised by the Waco fiasco and linked to what these days would be called the "milita movement".
I think caveat emptor also applies in this case. We don't ban sky-diving, or any other extreme sports to protect people's life or health.

.. "the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made."
> whether the typical CS curriculum helps a modern software engineer at all

The purpose of a computer science curriculum isn't to train a software engineer, it's to train a computer scientist.
I think version controlling configuration is important.

I don't understand why you think a GUI necessitates losing version control though, or why you think version control is a "feature" of text files.

If you need version control of always-running live-changing nginx configuration then you can run `nginx -T` to dump the parsed configuration to stdout. Just save that to version control.
Scientists find ring of ancient shafts near Stonehenge
The explanation of the trade offs by Ian Levy (Technical Director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, not the UK MP with the same name) was actually very well put, but few newspapers over here in the UK even seem to have read it or deliberately ignored it.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/security-behind-nhs-contac...

I think part of the problem with it is that the beginning is a bit of a long winded intro, but the technical details later are really good.
I'm not necessarily against sugary drink taxes, my main question is will the tax do what is expected? Without actually seeing the paper (which there isn't a link thus far), I really don't know.

What would make sense to me is taxing packaged foods that add sugar/HFCS to make it cheaper. The food that does not add sugar tends to be more expensive, for the reason that the sugar can mask issues with using lower quality ingredients. What irritates me is that without carefully examining each and very package, it is easy to get said foods too.

EDIT: Here is a link to the study: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.0...
Your comment reminds me of the recent Dilbert strips where everyone is acting like the main character doesn't care about safety because he didn't state the implicit assumption that safety matters and someone looking for cheap virtue points noticed and said "you didn't mention safety, why don't you care about safety" even though he obviously cares as much as anyone else.

Nobody in this entire comment section that I have seen so far is advocating for harming more people more frequently in the name of progress. Just because people are asking "are there any other ways of testing drugs" and the current testing system cares about safety does not mean that these people want to abandon safety in order to more cheaply test drugs. Maybe we can find some other way to test drugs that is cheaper per useful drug than the current system and equivalent or better in terms of safety to humans.
I always wondered why the navy didn't push for thorium reactors. It was my understanding that they would not need the water pumps that current sub reactors need thus being quieter.
No, I downvoted (and flagged) the comment because unsubstantiated conspiracy theories have no place on HN. The Russians? Seriously?? Haven’t we had enough of that with 3 years of Russiagate in the US? Haven’t Russian spies attempted to assassinate someone in the UK just recently? But no, obviously the UK PM is a Russian agent.
Smokers good at math are more likely to want to quit
Australia’s Canva Startup Almost Doubles Valuation to $6B
https://mexicantrain.online

An online version of the dominoes-based game, Mexican Train. It's a big hit with retirees (and our family). We're up to 100 games/day and daily I get emails from older people in quarantine thanking me for it. It's been really rewarding.
Who Can We Trust with the Nuclear Button? No One
We definitely need education. It will affect poor people for sure, but with more taxes collected ideally more us put towards food education and programs. Same way it has worked for tabacco
I have a theory the soft drink industry is lobbying for this behind the scenes.

Soft drink sales appear to be declining since 2010 or so. I think the writing is on the wall, but companies like coke aren't just selling sugary sludge while calling it a beverage...they are selling American culture and American exceptionalism. Therefore, Coke can't just go bankrupt and disappear globally, because it would be the equivalent of admitting the decline of American exceptionalism and culture.

But taxing soft drinks sets the stage for some serious face saving when the market inevitably dries up and bankruptcies start, again not just face saving for the beverages and companies, but face saving for American culture. In other words in the future you will see the Coke executives not admitting they were hocking sugary sludge that caused health problems all over the world which people rejected as they became more educated about the health issues cause by consuming these products, rather the executives while floating down on their golden parachutes get to falsely claim they were regulated out of existence through taxes.
I've hired people, but wouldn't say I have a great deal of experiencing in the area, so here's an honest question for you: do candidates with a college education perform better at their jobs?

In my (limited) experience the answer is definitely yes. Not only do they have more exposure to the concepts we need them to understand (if not necessarily the specific tools), we have just had better luck with them as employees in general. They are more likely to do small things, like all the administrative overhead that's part of a job: responding to requests in a timely manner, having good written communication skills, showing up to meetings on time, etc. I am the first to admit this is a small sample size and a lot of the cultural fit could be that the workplace is already filled with college educated staff, but I'm curious what your experience is after the hiring process is over.
There are many more problems with CS degrees that just their price.

Would anyone here be comfortable running a WP plugin from the average 4 year CS grad? It is rare to find a CS grad who can write production code right out of college.

Let’s be clear, skills based certs are terrible at measuring things. You know what else is a terrible skills based test? A 4 year CS degree. I’ve interviewed a number of degreed working programmers who can’t solve even basic interview questions. Not gotcha questions, not difficult algorithms, but basics (read a file, sort a list of words, etc).

There’s lots of ways to learn, and this kind of talk just adds another barrier to people coming from non-traditional backgrounds. I understand this, because, as a self taught engineer, I’ve been the person at the table listening to engineers talk about how important a CS degree is and how you just need one.

Every time you make the point that you absolutely need a CS degree you’re telling someone who learned via another avenue that they aren’t good enough. At a time when we want more diversity and inclusion in software this message is the wrong message.

We need to think about how to bring education to more people through channels that work for them instead of telling them to fit themselves into a box that was designed for someone else.
> Quite often someone proposes something like this

Who says this?

I mean is it worth to write a response to some vague idea that no serious person has actually put forward?
"Therefore, rather than making you spend lots of time trying to reproduce the exact circumstances under which a runtime concurrency bug occurs, incorrect code will refuse to compile and present an error explaining the problem. As a result, you can fix your code while you’re working on it rather than potentially after it has been shipped to production. We’ve nicknamed this aspect of Rust fearless concurrency. Fearless concurrency allows you to write code that is free of subtle bugs and is easy to refactor without introducing new bugs."

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/second-edition/ch16-00...

These sound like quite bold claims to me.
>high sodium

Normal people have ability to filter out sodium from the bloodstream on high intakes without any problem. They might develop problems with the kidney but kidney problems due to sodium is doubtful. I'd say tea is more dangerous for kidney than sodium. But same does not apply for sugar. If you eat excess sugar it will turn into blood sugar, and it will cause insulin to spike. The body eventually stores the excess in fat, but the process is so harsh for the body that it will definitely cause cardiovascular problems and diabetes.

Sodium is problematic because it makes us easy to eat carbs (i.e. sugar) more. Try to eat excess sodium by itself or with protein or fat. You really can't. But with carb you can. Sodium isn't toxic per se. Carb is the problem. Thus the sugar tax.

Lots of innocent food ingredients have been blamed for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Fat's been exonerated. But I really dobut that sodium is bad for those two. Fat and sodium have the same thing in common. They make carb taste good.

>frozen prepared foods

As long as they use good quality ingredients it's OK. Taxing them would make them less profitable and result to using worse ingredients.
Here are a couple of submissions on the cryptopals challenges:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166064

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720009

One comment in the first discussion is from a user stuck on the problem discussed in this blog post.
Long term, Amazon is also the exact kind of company that would start making "modifications" to Graviton requiring you to purchase/use/license a special compiler to run ;)
What was wrong with Niacin? 1500mg of Niacin stops it in less than 20 minutes for me.
A Common Snake Oil Reemerges for the Coronavirus
The job of intelligence agencies are to gather intelligence and analyze the outcome. The publications that came out of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden was not published unannounced, nor was the content of the leaks unknown. Common practice is also to request comment on such content a few days before publications, even if intelligence agencies usually refuse to comment. In the case of Chelsea Manning, I recall they even asked the agency a few days ahead in helping them redacting names of people.

So unless they are very bad at their job at gather intelligence and analyze outcomes, leaks don't cost lives unless they allow it. It like a pyromaniac telling the fire department the exact location (down to the meter) and exact time (down to the second), and what exact mechanism they intend to use to light a fire. The fire department will get annoyed and angry, and the police will likely show up, but the risk for someone to die in a fire is quite low.
Tax policies to reduce smoking rates seem to show reasonable effectiveness:

"the rule of thumb in the United States is that a 10 percent price increase on a pack of cigarettes results in anywhere from a 2.5 percent to a 5.0 percent overall decline in smoking, with most studies showing an average 4.0 percent drop" from https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20160919.471471/...

Data and analytics for this are worth reading about - I find geographic issues (low-tax areas across state lines, total numbers of retail locations selling tobacco products, etc) along with concepts of price elasticity to be interesting modeling problems.

You might want to check out:

https://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Han...

It has a bunch of freely-available chapters talking about this area of research.
With the degree attainment rate at only 30% in the US, a share that is similar in many countries around the world, the "learn-one-task education system" is what society at large is already accustomed to.
If the government wants the data, an NGO offers almost no protection. The only safe choice is not to collect the data in the first place.
You don't need best CPU and GPU to chat in whatsapp and make some selfies. Also you conveniently did not mention RAM which is more important for good user experience in typical smartphone apps.
I find the projects that the W3C chooses to work on incomprehensible.
I think you misunderstood that. They hit the power limit, which just means after deciding the thermal limit Apple saw no reason to give it a CPU power supply that can go much beyond that. (Which might be either a hardware or a software limitation.)
Increasing the Value of CSS Modules with TypeScript
if there is an earthquake then i wouldn't want to be anywhere near a cave, let alone be stuck in a tight spot.
I'd argue that if you are neither willing nor able to learn nginx's config file format, you should not be configuring nginx. The default config has example blocks with comments anyway. If that's not enough, nginx maintains current documentation. But if you're configuring a web server (or anything, for that matter), you should take some time to learn how to configure it.
Nice! You might enjoy looking at my ESP8266 Wifi Streaming POV poi project, with emulator:

https://www.circusscientist.com/smart-poi-overview/
iPad-using musicians, synth-nerds and audio hackers are having a BLAST with the high-end iPads, I can tell that much ..
I don’t get this guy. Shocked to hear details? Wasn’t there a company investigation (which he later recounts), was he not even questioned by justice in filing charges against 6 people at the company? This is one of those red flag statements that strains credulity imo.
An argument for public internet through the US Postal Service
I'm hugely in favor of sugar consumption taxes as a matter of public health, but the premise of these taxes always seems to be a bullshit facade where the "-y" in the word "sugary" outweighs the "sugar" part.

For instance, the article says:

> In the U.S., seven cities (Philadelphia... currently have volume-based taxes for sugary drinks

Philadelphia has a tax on certain beverages that has very little to do with whether those beverages contain sugar or not. Diet sodas and low-carb protein drinks (think atkins meal replacements) are taxed heavily in Philadelphia. 100% juice is not. What Philadelphia has is a "sweetened beverage" tax that specifically doesn't care about sugar, regardless of health consequence, regardless of how it is sweetened, regardless of how much sugar exists in the product "naturally".

The other cities do specifically target sugar-sweetened beverages, and then exempt 100% fruit juice despite Minute Maid 100% Apple Juice containing even more sugar than Coca-Cola.
Working a whole week with no email
>Coursera and Edx are a good example for a forerunner though.

Are they really though?

Online lectures have been pretty much a solved problem since maybe the 80s. (Although, of course, video lectures didn't become widely available until digital and YouTube.)

Arguably broadcast video should less faithfully replicate in-person lectures but it's a lot easier cheaper to point a video camera and add some Powerpoint than to do something more multimedia. See also virtual events.

Automated grading of assignments works reasonably well for narrow classes of problems. (Like programming--and even then it can only give feedback for the most part if the answer is correct.)

Discussions are mostly a tire fire--although they can be better for small groups with selective admittance criteria.

A lot of people don't even like it when MOOCs stick to a schedule to provide some structure.

So, I've taken some MOOCs and gotten some value out of them but I think on the whole you have to give them a pretty mediocre grade.
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Hygiene Is Overrated – You Can Be Too Clean
The ftalphaville coverage of Herbalife has been consistently interesting, e.g. https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/07/18/2169979/herbalife-avo...
> and $13.85 billion from EU institutions, which works out to $196.5 per capita.

And what about US institutions, such as the one this article is about? Seems like you are doing your own cherry picking.
Thread-safety is defined as "the absence of data-races", so technically speaking, saying that Rust is "thread-safe" and saying that it provides "data-race freedom", is just two different forms of saying the exact same thing.

The problem is that some people don't know what these mean. I'm not sure why though. Like, I could understand that somebody coming to Rust from Java wouldn't know what "memory safety" means since it is essentially a solution to a problem that Java does not have. But most high-level languages do not protect you from data-races, so this is a problem that Rust does solve and one can run into in most widely-used programming languages (e.g. in Java they are also called data-races).
I mean I did play HR, and I’d like to play a remake of a Deus Ex from 2000.
> No doubt people will arrive shortly to knee-jerk against sugary drink taxes; but would they mind explaining why sugar is made artificially cheap to start with?

It's a bit more complicated than that. US agricultural policy subsidises corn production (driving prices down), but US trade policy keeps cheap sugar out of the country, while US energy policy diverts corn into making biofuels, both of which drive prices back up. It's not clear what the net effect is.

Even the impact of corn subsidies alone does not seem to be enormous, however. Some estimates have corn subsidies driving the cost of corn down by ~27%, with flow on effects to the prices of meat, dairy, and yes, HFCS. However, HFCS make up ~3.5% of the cost of a soft drink, and the cost of corn is less than half the total cost of making HFCS, which means the total impact of corn subsidies on the price of a soft drink is a couple of pennies.

In other words, if we wanted a sugary drink tax to counteract the impact of corn subsidies in the US, it would probably need to be on the order of 1-2%. Would a 1% tax have any measurable impact on consumption? Unlikely.

Meanwhile, Australia has no subsidies, mostly uses sugar (and not HFCS) but has the same obesity patterns as the US. Analysis of obesity and agricultural policy across countries finds no trends.

Source: https://grist.org/article/farm-subsidies-bitter-and-sweet/

Also, small point:

> This had the side effect of sugar being a cheaper food ingredient than most of the alternatives, even in countries that didn't directly import HFCS (since the US was no longer removing as much raw sugar from the market, driving down costs).

Only in the short term; that effect would have ended years ago. The global price of sugar now is driven by the marginal cost of production in Brazil, mostly. Americans don't consume (much) imported sugar, but they also don't export much HFCS, and most of what they do export goes to a single country (Mexico). There's no glut of "sugar the US would have consumed" on the market.

Second, global sugar prices have been pretty flat for the last 20 years; I don't think your link 3 is really showing what you say. You can poke at the chart here: https://www.macrotrends.net/2537/sugar-prices-historical-cha... but I'm not sure what I'm meant to be seeing.
Probably not for no good reason though.
Opioids, Bribery and Wall Street: The Inside Story of a Disgraced Drugmaker
What's wrong with making your landing page render for everyone? Mine also sort of works in ie7
>If you can throw money at the problem and invest engineering resources to do cost optimization later, this is often a valid strategy.

If only AWS had thousands of engineers to create a UX that makes cost info all upfront and easy to budget. Clearly it's beyond their capability /s

>I'm not saying it's always a well considered balance, just that burning money temporarily is a valid strategy.

Yes, but I bet a majority of AWS users don't want that to be the default strategy.