skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can tell the difference. But does it really matter? You work there, you build the best things you can, maybe get a promotion or two, then you move on. Or you just work there, put in four to eight hours a day and move on. Or a combination of both. Does it actually matter of the company was successful (assuming you don't have equity)? You still got the experience and knowledge and that is something no one can take away. I've learned more at my current job (year 7) than 7 years working at over a dozen companies prior to that. The author makes a good point about this. So I'm not sure why it matters if the company has scruples or is successful in the long term.
Reading the abstract from Science, they were able to visualize the transition of the band structure of the dissolved electrons from an insulator with discrete energy states to a conductor with a wide valence band and a Fermi level, just like a metal.

This is exactly what basic theory predicts, but I can’t think of another system that can be tweaked like this to demonstrate that transition so cleanly. Given the weak interaction between the electrons and the ammonia, it can probably be modeled fairly simply, which is nice.
This is fantastic news! I'm glad perl 5 is evolving again.
Google payed Apple $12 billion in 2019 to remain the default search engine in Safari.

I hear this line about their business model all the time, however it is bullshit. Given the opportunity all companies will take the money. And I fear that it is nothing more than a conspiracy theory, without much evidence, much like anti-vaxxing.

Google these days is a very big target. The EU would love to have reason to slap them with another fine, given all the legal tax evasion they've been doing. Yet they've always been transparent about what they collect and have always been responsible with user data (versus Facebook).

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the privacy features of my iPhone, it always fared better than Android in that regard, but it has nothing to do with Apple's tight grip of its App Store.

And Google Play takes a 30% commission too ;-)
sadly not just any renewables - if the power goes off the Al in the pot lines hardens and ruins the hardware ... so solar and wind alone are out - geothermal and hydro (or those mixed with solar/wind) are OK
What are the benefits of preventive dentistry?
Preventive dentistry helps to deal with various preventive measures regarding dental health care. Dental cleaning, removal of toxic, prevention of tooth enamel wear etc. can be included in this. Brushing two times a day and flossing teeth everyday etc. are good habits.
https://dentalbynature.com/preventative-dentistry/
Again? When was the USA or world fully fascist? Whose endgame?
Actually if you look at the github issues and Build 2020 talks it still isn't quite clear how it goes.

Apparently they are more keen into going into a AOT + JIT mixed model, with the RoR (Ready to Run) images, specially if you take into consideration the talks done as guest at JVM Languages Summit 2019.
Not saying there isn't value in Apple brand, just that DDG's value is in it's brand.
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Maybe it's all a cunning plan?
Not saying there isn't value in Apple brand, or that it's bigger, just that DDG's value is in it's brand.
iOS 14 allows sharing specific photos:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/24/ios-14-users-give-apps-...

Maybe contacts too, but I haven’t read that anywhere.
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Was it YouTube that was requesting the link (maybe for anti-phishing purposes?)

Or Googlebot?
Very meta!

Also, technically, this HN article, via the link -- is a "List of a list of a list of lists" (!), even though it (as of this writing) only contains one item at the highest list level... but a list of one item -- is still a list! <g>
Looks like photos is addressed in iOS 14 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/24/apple-fine-tunes-...

Agree tighter control over contacts sharing would be nice but I don’t think it’s malicious on Apple’s part that this isn’t possible - they’ve quite clearly shown they are on the side of user privacy, but they do also tend to move at a fairly slow pace
The further we get from wwii, and the Cold War to some extent, the harder it is to remind the public how scary it is to live without freedoms. How do we remind them? Could China and Russia act as cautionary tales that voters would respond to?

Putin jailing and murdering his political opposition, Chinese concentration camps for muslims - why do so many people assume it can’t happen here? Nazi germany wasnt some backwater nation, it was a strong, extremely cultured, advanced nation that was going through some very hard times. Germans didn’t like what happened - there were countless assassination attempts against hitler, but it was just eventually too late
This is simply not true. Most people can’t afford education but they still take loans and pursue it, even if they have no aptitude for science.

It is indeed gaslighting to talk about “safety nets” when there is a student loan crisis in the country.
Link just means correlation. Correlations are easy to find and don't mean much.

They don't explain why and how dairy would help reduce risks of diabetes and high blood pressure. So they're not doing science.

Note how they say:

> This is an observational study, and as such can't establish cause.

It's not like you could ever establish a cause anyway. Causes are explanations and they are conjectural in nature. They could have just guessed that dairy helps reduce those risks and then try to explain why. That data from all those different countries could then maybe be used to refute that explanation. But the explanation should come first.
> Personally, I think the biggest difficulty for a Chinese in studying abroad in the US, is the difficulty of being accepted into the circle. You could make friends and acquaintances with Americans, but you're never part of "them". I constantly feel like I'm on the wrong side of a aquarium glass pane, being observed and judged.

As a foreigner living in Taiwan, the vast majority of people here do the very same to me as well. I am constantly shut out of circles and deemed too weird to actually know yet always being watched like some sociological specimen. I don’t think that “othering” is a known concept here or if it were it registers pretty low on people priorities when interacting with me or mindlessly staring at me while I eat in public..

People will literally take their children away from the park when I bring my daughter to play. I must insist that I was a well adjusted and popular enough guy home. It’s been a bit of a heartbreaking experience to realize that probably every culture on earth has irreconcilably racial biases and prejudices inherent in the majority because the most common unifier amongst all people is stupidity.

Also, when you mention Americans and never being a part of them do you mean all Americans including blacks, latinos, natives, arabs..? I see a great deal of projection going on here where Chinese Americans are being shut out of socializing when it seems to me the truth is that many Chinese born people living in the west actually don’t like the culture all that much and don’t want to integrate either but don’t vocalize it this way because it doesn’t sound nice to say.
Literary, I wish there was a way to give more slow clap for MS on this one, as a 20+ year Linux user, more
When €2B went missing at Wirecard
> It implies Floyd somehow deserved to be shot in the back and killed.

No it doesn't. This is wild hyperbole. No one deserves to be shot in the back.

However, people are painting him out to be an angel - quite literally there are multiple artworks of George Floyd with a halo and wings [1]. The reality is he was human, and one with a complicated criminal past who was jailed 8 times [2] including for drug offenses. Is saying that someone with a criminal record like that "didn't live a virtuous life" really a fireable offense?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=george+floyd+angel&client=fi...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/06/12/george-floyd-criminal...
The problem is that it takes a lot of skill to write elegant Perl. The easy way is the one that produces write-only crap.
Flatpak has done this better than iOS has.

- Completely FOSS stack

- Uses multiple repositories (no lock-in)

- Everything is sandboxed with Bubblewrap

- Fine-grained permission control that offers more than iOS: control whether apps can access the network, which directories an app can access, if it can print, and even whether or not it can access PulseAudio.

- Cross-platform: runtimes are OCI container images and can be targeted on any distro that supports Flatpak (which is almost all of them).

It's gained adoption from a number of recognizable FOSS and proprietary names: Zoom, Spotify, Steam, Firefox, VLC, Discord, Libreoffice, Skype, Inkscape, both Minecraft and Minetest, Microsoft Teams, Krita, IntelliJ IDEs (both Community and Professional), and Blender are available as Flatpaks through Flathub.

GNOME and KDE release almost all their apps as Flatpaks through the `gnome` and `kdeapps` Flatpak repos, and copy them over to Flathub when they're confident that Flatpak-ing didn't introduce any bugs.
well, I think that's understating the value of a no-code tool like this. By having the right abstractions, apps are easily changeable (in a GUI), which means anyone in the business can make changes to the application.

However, the key here is right abstractions, sometimes seemingly tiny changes are impossible in these no-code solutions due to the abstractions that were chosen.

So no-code tools are actually extremely rigid in comparison to programming languages, but they still have a place and I believe it's still a growing industry.
> Unix piping is basically functional programming.

Only in the same sense that all computing is Turing Machines or NAND gates.

This is a very common misunderstanding, but there is a reason that FP, which is transformational, had to adopt dataflow in order to sort-of handle reactive systems.

Functions run to completion and return their result. Filters tend to run concurrently and, importantly, do not return their results, they pass them on to the next filter in the pipeline.

It is possible to compose any two filters. It is not possible to compose any two functions, not even close, the default for functions is to not compose (arity, parameter types, return type,...).
I did the same and have never felt better. I just replaced the addiction with twitter. Oh well
I just wanted to say thank you. The resource is really really good. I learned a ton during the first two chapters alone
Ladder Logic is still used heavily in modern industrial automation systems. This isn't to ease development, but to aid in the supportability by folks who don't have a background in software and are used to reading electrical prints.
Looks like it. My first thought was Filemaker Pro or the old Claris Works/AppleWorks Database program.
FaceID is one of the most important technology invented. Imagine if Apple somehow was open to license it and make it universal like Bill Gates wanted to make PCs universal. It can make driver licenses, passports, credit cards, student IDs, insurance IDs - all of these can be things of past. You go to grocery store and simply pay using your face. You want to pay online? Simply look at FaceID device that is now standard with all new computers sold. This is 100s of billions worth of business to make so much legacy gone. Security and identity is now (hopefully) solved but unfortunately still all behind walled garden.
You can do SMS to E-mail using Twilio if you don't mind applying some 3rd party software to do it.

Have a look at the SMS Server. This product is able to forward SMS to e-mail and visa versa. Works with almost any SMS and e-mail provider including Twilio.

Here's a link to the website:
https://www.auronsoftware.com/products/sms-server/

Disclaimer: Auron Software is my company and I'm the main developer.
Oh but I did. The worse interpretation was that the commenter feels their liberty is constrained by current efforts to combat racism, sexism, sexual assault, etc.. Either way, invoking Mill is philosophical hogwash. Aim higher with your dishonest intellectualism.
> Eventually you have to trust someone.

Perhaps, but Apple is the last company I would trust. They work in a culture of secrecy and engineer for obscurity rather than transparency, and that does not make them trustable at all.

> Private companies are not under any moral obligation to open source their code

But I will give far more trust to those who do so, or at least the privacy-critical parts. With Android I need to trust no-one; I can modify things on the OS level that do not necessarily execute apps in the way those apps expect to be executed, and that is the ultimate privacy guarantee.

I own the hardware, so how my hardware runs software should be my choice; the entire set of instructions and APIs for creating phone apps is merely a suggestion for how the OS should execute apps, and how a stock OS executes apps, but does not necessarily reflect how I choose to have my hardware execute them.
By evaporative cooling I mean using controlled phase-change of a cooling medium in closed-loop condensation/evaporation coils, not something analogous to a swamp cooler. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Philosophy of Time Machines
As an observer of video codec development, I heard Daala (PVQ) used activity masking to make quantization steps finer (don't discard all detail) in low-contrast areas. I don't know if that's practical in AV1 (a DCT block-based codec).
For me, LinkedIn, surprisingly, has been very useful in such situations.
Same experience, maybe few years earlier . We all had the Sun pizzaboxes that had replaced Lisp Machines, and 2 years later we all had Mac's and later PC's.

Latex still had it's place in academia, and would continue to dominate academic publishing for quite some time, but for 'ordinary' daily productivity needs first MacWrite and MacDraw, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and later Word and Excel were becoming the staples.

With both software being ported to the PC/Mac platforms, and Linux starting to make inroads into the Unix compute workloads, Sun needed an answer fast to stop the bleeding.

Their inability to transform their high tough / high margin business model would do them in eventually as the commodity / thin margin model of the PC ecosystem grinded them into dust. But before that, they would try several things one of which was an attempt to 'complete' the offering of a single box solution which would have to include an 'office' package so as to keep the Mac / PC of the desks.
Almost all jobs I've changed I've changed for a very simple reason - money! I'm a mercenary. I work for money.

Company loyalty is bullshit in my eyes. Even if you enjoy the project and you think you're making a difference and learning new things there's a cost that comes with that (time/money/energy etc.) The first and last goal for 99.999% of companies is to make money. My goal is exactly the same.

I love what I do and I've done is since I was a child. I do it in my free time as well, but as long as companies think it's easier to hire a new person on higher pay than to pay the same to a "loyal" employee I'm going to jump ship. Simple as that.

I got a 25% pay bump when I started at my new job this month. How many years should I have stayed at my previous job to get it? You can argue that I was underpaid when I started at my previous place, but I also got a 9% raise after my first year there (I asked for 10%). I've been constantly doing more and trying to improve things because I want to be proud of my work and not do half-assed decisions, but 25% they would never give me. I left after 23 months.

I founded my own small company last year. I'm the only person in it so far. Maybe if I see success in the future and I have to actually hire someone else I'll start thinking differently. Until then always remember this - companies don't have any loyalty to you (with small exceptions) and you shouldn't be loyal to them outside your contract.
How consistently reproducible is it on your laptop? Do the same benchmarks change in the same way every time?
I’ve received counterfeit preworkout, counterfeit razor blades, and more recently counterfeit Optimum Nutrition Whey protein.
I was skeptical of his prior dissonance study. I feel there is a bit of accommodation by the participants to maximize the surprise of the researcher. Getting goods for singing funny.

The paradigm I would have liked to see is where two tones are held constant and the participant moves a third tone to the location that sounds the best or the worst.

It is remarkable work. But I don't believe it. Octaves are just too basic a phenomena to be viewed as a cultural invention.
> Don't expect AUX, COM1, etc to be fixed any time soon, because that is a huge backwards compatibility issue.

I think that this is also possible to fix. Always require the colon ('CON:' instead of 'CON'), and make this opt-in per process, like "longPathAware".

Sure, old apps will choke if you now create a CON file. But 1) the file dialogs could show a warning when doing that, 2) you can already create filenames that make old apps choke and 3) they could transparently show them as CON~1 or something in those old apps.
"You should call it entropy [...] nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage." John Von Neumann to Claude Shannon

(also why there is clearly of market for the concept of dynamic entropy: https://xkcd.com/2318/ )
This study does not show what the title claims.

Alternate title: Tsimané people do not perceive melodic harmonies.

This is also the case for some non-Tsimané people (google Amusia). There could just be a genetic basis here.

For comparison, you'd need a Tsimané child raised in Western culture, or reverse.
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I assume the little "Product of Mexico" sticker on all my supermarket bell peppers and that they don't have a $14 minimum wage down there.
Ask HN: How one can disagree with BLM organisation?
BLM on its pages has a lot of stances that one can disagree with.
But because of its name, it's pretty much impossible to state the disagreement without being called racist.

How can we overcome that?
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Anecdote: eviction was never a huge threat against me. I have parents who I could stay with if things came to that. It was the early termination fees ($3000+ non-negotiable) that caused me to lose the most sleep.
Singapore telcos pick Nokia, Ericsson over Huawei to build main 5G networks
I guess Chrome DevTools, since they can plug into other instances.
A CookieCutter Template for Python Packages
Some more detail from Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/24/am...
Meta-analysis: Fasting significantly reduces blood pressure
I wouldn't say Malt-o-meal is indistinguishable from the name brand because in many cases I like it better. The same? No, but they are for sure worth a try.

Anyone in my family can tell the difference between Kellogg's raisin bran and M-o-m, so I think it is safe say some people would notice a counterfeit cereal.

Now I'm hungry...
Lego is general graph structure. Our programs have roughly star topology - bunch of libraries and some control logic that drives it. Good libraries _are_ like snapping Lego blocks. Those have good scope around domain, well designed API and establish abstractions that don't leak. Think sqlite, zeromq, zlib. The central controlling part is too "involved" in domain and chosen tech stack to reuse easily.

The software that requires organ transplant just wasn't written to be reused. It is a matter of effort and cost. You cannot just solve your problem and wrap it in a library - you need to take care of all common use cases, define edge case behavior, test, document... It costs a lot more and that price is hard to justify. In the end it's the product that makes money and library is forgotten as long as it does its job. We need to fix the open-source income ecosystem.
This. There was a great video posted on HN a couple years ago, by one of the few guys around who tunes up these old radiator systems. Apparently a lot of them were quite genius in design, but years of neglect make them not work very well. Was a fascinating video to hear him talk about common problems, and the amount of troubleshooting and problem solving involved with making these radiator systems work as designed again.

Dan Holohan, for those interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18430512
Being able to inspect the code is a necessary but insufficient measure for being secure. If you cannot inspect the source code, you are not fully aware of how the program works.

Tools like strace can help you analyze a program's behavior from the outside, but you get limited insight into its internals (e.g., what algorithms is it using?).

Being open source does not automatically make software more secure. A successful compilation doesn't automatically make your code bug-free. Yet both are necessary to achieve the desired goal: security and correctness, respectively.
As a normal person learning and using C++ I'm sorry but I agree with him. If I weren't trying to get a job in the game industry I wouldn't touch it. I'm not a student either, I've been programming in multiple languages for over a decade.

The language is messy and filled with undefined behaviors and unsafe methods by default. Where there are rules you can mostly ignore them whenever you want. People complain about JavaScript being messy but C++ is way worse.

Though the language itself isn't all that bad, I don't understand why there so many build systems? And the top build system CMake isn't so much a build system as it is a build system for build systems that exists because no one can seem to agree on one.

Many of these systems seem bloated and over designed by comparison when I can install libraries or cross compile in one line in go. I couldn't help but think there had to be a better way and it seems like rust is that way. I expect C++ will eventually go the way of Cobol and eventually be used to maintain legacy systems.

p.s. thank God for vcpkg because I had nearly thrown in the towel while trying to integrate simple libraries until I discovered it.
Don't forget about PyPy, which may well be faster than Perl (I haven't compared them) or Cython if you're stuck with CPython.
I believe it is. You can say the same thing about anything else - do you inspect any TV or telephone you buy for hidden recording devices? Do you inspect any hotel/airbnb room ? Do you do that with supplements, cooking aparatures, plant checmials, mattress material, car breaks etc.. No you don't. You believe its good. Multiple times it did happen they were not good and stuff were spying, poisoning, leaking, killing etc. Yet nobody decides to not buy stuff in order to be 100% protected like there is such thing, because it is miserable life.

Life is risky by default. You calculate your ods.
A few years ago I bought a $15 audio amplifier on Amazon. It failed a little while later and after a bit of googling I found a page from the manufacturer about identifying counterfeits which were apparently rampant. Different PCB layout etc.

Amazon does have a brand registry which manufacturers can opt into and then actual proactive counterfeit enforcement will happen specifically for that brand. Some but not all items in the program have unique per-unit barcodes that Amazon verifies and customers can too through an app called Transparency. But as a customer you have no way to tell which brands are enrolled in the program unless you receive the item and see the Transparency barcode on it.
Aren't there stories where 30 years ago lots of people had the same idea and planted similar species, resulting in a price crash when the trees matured? I'm not a tree expert so don't know the species, but I feel like I heard something like that happening in the southeast.

How did you decide on your species and how do you know other people don't have the same thing in the ground right now?