skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People could afford to eat beef (albeit less of it) at 1800s levels of wealth per capita.

Currently high quality beef imitations like B-On are not quite cost competitive with real ground beef. Basically it's taken us an additional ~100yr of supply chain growth to get to a technological point where plant beef is priced like beef was 100yr ago.

I feel very comfortable saying that any change that hits the low level commodities that underpin these things, fuel, grain, etc. would just exacerbate that difference and set plant based "transition foods" back.
> Electron is the opposite of the 'handmade philosophy', but is still not accessible.

On the contrary, Chromium probably has the single most mature and robust implementation of accessibility APIs across platforms. It's true that not all Electron apps are accessible, but it's way easier to make an Electron app accessible than to make a handmade GUI accessible.
> To be fair, POWER is an open standard, and there's absolutely nothing stopping someone like Linode, DigitalOcean, or Hetzner from offering POWER-based systems at a smaller hourly price.

Well besides the fact that 1) IBM is the only party with both the capabilities and interest in making high performance Power based products [1], and 2) evidently does not understand how to (or why to) invest in bringing this to a general audience. I don't really care if they would do this in IBM Cloud or with other cloud infrastructure companies, but they don't seem to be doing either. In addition 3) why would other parties be interested in running Power when they can run amd64 or arm? It certainly doesn't look to have a price advantage...

IBM really needs to shepherd Power well - they're the only ones that can do it. But I can't help but thinking they seem to be leading it to the grave despite apparently very capable engineering.

[1]: And why would anyone but IBM go for Power at this point if they can have ARM too? An open license matters very little when compared to ARM's mindshare and momentum.
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Yeah, that has been an issue at times. My team uses Docker, luckily it is only a few applications and it was easy to set them up to just be run directly. For heavy Docker usage though, that could be a deal breaker.

I also had to custom compile the pty4j and purejavacomm libraries to get the jetbrains IDEs to work to my satisfaction.
Someone who was _very competent_ with J gave a demo of it at one of the Recurse Center (ne Hackruiter) _Brain Dump_ meetups back in the day and broke the crowd's collective brain. It might as well have been Brainfuck to all of us, but the proof was in the ... STDOUT. I believe they were demonstrating the standard factorial, map/reduce, etc. sorts of solutions you'd expect, but I remember being shocked by the small amount of code required to achieve the desired outcome. To the point the article appears to make, this may or may not be a good thing in terms of team productivity and maintainability, but it was damn impressive.
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I completely agree with this point so long as it isn't couched with the usual implication that "disinformation" comes solely from one party or the other.

Propaganda is very real and is utilized by all sides.
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Which side is the back?
Yeah, ok, but the problem is the same: even though accessibility APIs might be provided (this time by Electron, not the OS), applications don't make use of them.
Even if you know it is likely that 2 out 5 students who you assess as grade B will have a bad day and get a C in the exam, you don't know which 2 of the 5, so you have to assess them all as a B.

Ranking students might be roughly correct, but many of the rankings in the middle where students are very similar are basically random.
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One thing we couldn't figure out from the documentation is encrypted root with serial console: https://prgmr.com/blog/openbsd/2020/05/08/openbsd-encrypted-... I have gotten it on someone's TODO list to upstream that work though it hasn't happened yet.
Well... these lists are always somewhat contrived.

Popper in particular feels like a hole in that list. If we scoot the decade a few years forward (say 1924-1934), he fits. Seems fair, considering he was busy fleeing nazism att and published soon after.

That said, there is something to it. The pre-WWII era was philosophically charged, and a lot of today's philosophical perspectives derive from that time. You might even throw in Keynes & Ayn Rand. Maybe Hayek. Rand isn't often quoted or referred to, but its hard to deny influence. A lot of "modern"communist thinkers like Trotsky & Luxembourg are most known from this period. They obviously have a following. Whether or not you'd strictly call those philosophers is debatable but..

I'd also say that much of it seems dated and naive from our vantage 100 years later. I'm not sure any of them are destined to be a plato, or even a Nietzsche.
I have to imagine if we had software unions we would hear nothing of this "adjustment." My code is worth just as much to the company if I write it in Arizona or San Francisco.
These are all behind the back cover, and are (from what I understand) pretty tiny, so I wouldn't imagine 'em to be all that convenient for toggling silent mode.

But yeah, my PinePhone's supposed to ship on the 25th and I expect I'll be missing that feature.
Isn't CLAPs origin C++ ?
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Hey mate,

Good luck with this, I think its a good cause. It finally got me to register on HN so I could up-vote it :)
I'd rather use yandex images (https://images.yandex.ru), has the best reverse image search
Not even mentioning that after 4-5 years iphones turn into a brick with no possibility to install or update anything.
Fourier Optics
The eyes were painted on the cattle's butts.

Went looking for images, the article did not disappoint:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01156-0/figures/1
Secrets of the Sky
http://archive.is/MtIxe
I use odrive, works better than any native cloud client IMO. Connects to Google Drive and many others.
This is a good analogy.

At the same time though meditation traditionally was practiced in various communities with social safety nets where elaborate maps of mental states and wise gurus could help guide you while the most potent and esoteric practices like Kundalini activation or advanced breathwork were kept hidden for most people until later stages.

Today these maps that all still very much exist inside various lineages through poetry, koans, books or through oral teachings have fallen away while people often sit alone in their rooms looking at apps completely deterritorialized from the incredible wisdom that sorrounds these rituals and that in my eyes form a very important yin to the yang of practice.

Besides that psychotheraphy and bodywork is also often a good preliminary "grounding mechanism" that already very disassociated people need as to not make themselves disassociate even more, or take a very deep fall into emotion after having fled from them for years.

This fall is called "Dark night of the soul" in modern language and is very well known.

For people interested in this stuff let me recommend the Stream Entry subreddit based on the books by Daniel Ingram "Mastering The Core Teachings of the Buddha" which is a pretty interesting and STEM like exploration of the subject - but that is also a bit cold and potent so above warnings apply.
Because my counterparty may not be able to spend my IOU elsewhere.
It's also worth saying that there's an emerging discipline devoted to formalizing and developing tools for this kind of problem (complex computer models of real-world systems, say).

One decent place to start is this National Academies report [1] on Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification.

Verification = did you implement the math correctly in the computer;

Validation = does the implemented mathematical model compare against the real system in controlled experimentss

Uncertainty Quantification = analysis and prediction of the accuracy of the model approximation.

This work was given a big push by the nuclear test ban treaty - you have to really validate the model predictions in this case.

[1] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13395/assessing-the-reliability-...
Well, "fine" is unlikely to cause harm. Even if it is not true, the intention is not to take advantage of someone.

Tricking your client that you care about privacy when you don't give a damn, is.

What's worse, it is pretty much normalized that in business, dating, politics etc people lie. Even if they are caught red-handed, it is considered a minor thing.
The german link has no source.
U-turn as teacher estimates to be used for exam results
Here is the original proclamation ->
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2008L00209

"I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and noting the fact that the flag reproduced in Schedule 1 and described in Schedule 2 is recognised as the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and a flag of significance to the Australian nation generally, appoint that flag, under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953, to be the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and to be known as the Australian Aboriginal Flag with effect from 1 January 2008."
What's the latency threshold for "real time" when it comes to audio processing?
I walked out of college having made a game of one-upmanship with a friend (easy CS homework days, we’d compete against each other over runtime or algorithms), onto a project whose UI was so slow you could watch the screen paint itself. It was so bad I was ashamed to be associated with the project, but I moved a long way so I stuck it out for a bit, until it was respectable. I think I learned as much about performance tuning in the next six months as most people do in their entire careers. A couple jobs later and I could write a few chapters of an advanced book on performance analysis (in particular perf logs tend to hide critical info in plain sight).

We mostly just don’t care, and too many of us have honed or at least mislearned excuses for our behavior that business folks have no way to talk us out of. Most vexing for me is when customers threaten to leave over performance and the senior staff pull up some graphs that say we have done all we can. It’s fairly straightforward to climb the ranks on such a project by proving them wrong. These sorts often leave 2-3x (that I know how to find, who knows what he real number is) on the table, which is often enough to satisfy the customer. It’s often hard work but there’s nothing magic about it.
I’m just curious if anyone knows... does this specifically call out Google or does this also potentially have implications for other news aggregators that work in a similar way? Could this also target reddit or even hacker news?

I couldn’t find where they define the platform that is Google.
I've only played Opus Magnum and Infinifactory, and my experience is that the "programming" and "debugging" environment is far superior in Opus Magnum.

Just sitting back and watching your builds run in Opus Magnum is far more satisfying. And it has an interesting solitaire game, too.
"Eventually" may take a long time.
It turns out that most of my friends from SF have all left for the same general area, so it became a pretty easy decision for us. Additionally, We are moving to a place where many of our college friends also live, so we are hoping that some of those friendships also rekindle.
The periphery is used for wafer level test circuitry.
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> Most voters are not paying to the nitty-gritty of legislation that their representative votes on.

Sure, nobody suggested that they were. Voters pay attention to the high-level policy platforms of their representatives.

> As you said, these are partisan times and voters mostly just vote for "their guy" (or gal).

Yes, and "their guy (or gal)" are not arbitrarily chosen. The average voter chooses their representatives based on whether they think the representative is advancing the causes they care most about, or fighting against the causes they most disagree with.

> They still got it from the Virginia location and they found out what other cities were willing to offer them.

Sure, and that's what the residents/voters of Virginia sought out — local economic surplus.

> More importantly, because of their size they were able to make demands that smaller businesses could not - so it's not like all businesses benefit from these lower taxes.

This isn't necessarily true. Amazon, utilizes its economies of scale just like any other comparable institution. Unions can make demands that individual employees cannot, large nations can make demands that smaller nations cannot, Medicare might be able to make demands that smaller insurers cannot, etc etc. Most relevantly, small businesses themselves form industry associations that exert political force. And unlike power consolidation in labor unions or state actors, corporate consolidation is typically earned — people voluntarily engage with Amazon because it provides goods & services cheaply and reliably.

> And dozens of stories like this play out nationwide every year, without much coverage. This is standard operating procedure when Walmart opens a new location.

No they don't, this isn't even a falsifiable argument.
In this case it was partially due to issues with the great Chinese firewall.
It's both. No human has the ability to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies, leading to scurvy, unless you supplement vitamin C in your diet. Most people eat enough vitamin C to not lead to scurvy. There is a disease that would be eliminated, but it's preventable by watching out what you eat. Also, usually it takes more than just the synthesis of the enzyme. It also needs to be regulated, which requires the systems that regulate it to be around as well (and work correctly). Neither producing too much of the enzyme, nor too little is a good outcome.

So yeah, I think it's better to focus on other diseases first, that are more serious and where a human carrier of the healthy variant of the gene already walks among us, here on earth.
Lol wow ! You must be a very happy person !
Weatherspoons has a nice mixed grill.

That said, that grill, and the traditional English fry-up are pretty unhealthy; I think I'm better off not living near one.
As with most generalizations it falls flat when making contact with reality.
Is there some reason that exam results aren't based on just, yknow, exam results?
Why does location or estimation need to factor into it?
I loved it in July as well. I describe it as otherworldly. Just bring a lot of water. I'm from Phoenix though, and I'm well used to heat.
What we, or at least I, want to ensure is that developers outside of the gaming context don't get too fired up by this manifesto, develop non-game-related tools in that spirit, and thereby block someone from doing their job because the tool is inaccessible.
These things sound good in isolation, but everybody else is on a different schedule from you, so it is isolating after a while.
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> You can't copyright a national flag,

Except maybe the US flag in the US (given the particular US prohibition on copyright of federal government works), I don't see why not; and, actually, if the US were to adopt a private design as the official national flag rather than commission it, I'm not sure it would be a problem even in the US, since other private works adopted as national standards but not created by government in the US remain protected by copyright.

There are certainly ways a private copyright on a national flag is inconvenient, but inconvenient and impossible aren't the same thing.
Not to mention that whenever you finally enable the mic it is because you are probably going to say something interesting to it, which is exactly what whichever rootkit you're afraid of is going to be interested in. Not silence.
>"Fourier optics is the study of classical optics using Fourier transforms (FTs), in which the waveform being considered is regarded as made up of a combination, or superposition, of plane waves. It has some parallels to the Huygens–Fresnel principle, in which the wavefront is regarded as being made up of a combination of spherical wavefronts whose sum is the wavefront being studied. A key difference is that Fourier optics considers the plane waves to be natural modes of the propagation medium, as opposed to Huygens–Fresnel, where the spherical waves originate in the physical medium."
I heard the exact same from a shark expert in the Great Barrier Reef. Rather than using a cage or anything we'd normally associate with shark diving, he puts a set of googly eyes on the back of his head and had been safely shark diving professionally for 2 decades.
Also, if the monoids used in a CRDT implementation do not align with the mental model users have for what they're doing (hint: they do not), then the result will be artifacts the users don't like. Single user text editing is amenable to using ropes and monoids internally because none of that leaks into the UI/UX, but multi-user text editing is not amenable to representation as monoidal interactions because in the multi-user case the monoidal interactions will become evident and confusing.

Or at least that's the lesson I took from all the xi blogs I've read.
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This is missing context. Marion County, specifically Ocala, has a very high crime rate, one of the worst in US. The sheriff is not allowing masked people to enter because of safety concerns due to the current hate/distrust people are showing towards police. He doesn't want to guess if the next masked person who enters the station is a visitor or assailant.
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Geometrical Optics
But is there some kind of computational advantage down to the processor architecture level? Can certain instructions or set of instructions be executed faster on big endian systems?
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Microservices can solve a lot of organizational problems:

1. Fewer merge conflicts, easier branching/merging strategy. If you have 200 people checking into a monolith then it is easy to start stomping all over each other.

2. Large changes(say upgrading to a new major version of a library for security reasons) can result in the code base being in a state of conflict hell, or just frozen, while work gets done. With microservices you can upgrade them one at a time.

3. The build/test/deploy pipeline for any given team is shorter. Large code bases take a long time to build and run through tests. If instead everyone has to have well defined interfaces to their microservices then it is possible to test the interface points of a given microservice that is being committed to.

4. Serious screw-ups in one part of the code don't impact code in other places. If someone starts leaking memory in one microservice, then one part of the system has degraded functionality. Worst case it is a critical microservice and your system goes down. Best case it isn't on the golden path for users and it isn't a major outage.

5. It makes you think about deployment and configuration up front. I have seen major systems (billions of dollars, systems you've used in the past) where only tribal knowledge of how to "get it running" existed. There was no formal deployment plan, and deployments could take days.

Microservices force organizations to solve deployment up front.
While not exactly the same, the situation with the Canadian RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) uniform might be an interesting side note to your quest.

The RCMP uniform trademark was licensed to Walt Disney in order to protect it for 5 years while the RCMP learned how to do it on their own: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mountie-no-longer-disney-s-1....

Canada has specific laws and protocols on the use of its symbols, which include the flag. It doesn't cover aboriginal or provincial flags, but has some interesting clauses of how and where they can be used: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/commerci...
Ego-death might be blissful (everything is one) or an cosmic horror (everything is nothing). For descriptions of both states, I recommend "Realms of Unconsciousness" by Stanislav Grof. The latter can trigger an episode of depression.

On a personal note, depression is not only about anxiety, or any beliefs about oneself. It may stem from understimulation. In this case, lowering input (as with meditation) is unlikely to help.
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I have been wondering, since over a year and trying to ponder what is next big tech which will replace smartphones? and yet I am unable to land on a single big idea which has the potential or a idea of mine which could.

So, what would it be?
Sure, we still have to fight that uphill battle. But it's way easier for a web application to implement ARIA than for a Win32 application with a custom control to implement UI Automation. Maybe that problem is unique to Windows.
I got my Jolla 1 linux phone in 2013 and I'm still using as my daily driver. And I still love it!

The reason I'm keeping my Jolla 1 phone is that it still gets security updates after 7 years. I also have an Android phone for testing purposes (I sometimes write Android apps and web pages for work), but it only got updates for few years. I don't want to buy a new Android phone if it doesn't get updates after few years. I'll keep my Jolla.
>"Underlying mathematics

As a mathematical study,

geometrical optics

emerges as a short-wavelength limit for solutions to hyperbolic

partial differential equations."

PDS: Here's a weird question:

Can we get computation via light wavefronts and specifically shaped lenses?

Now, I know about optical computers and how they can implement AND/OR/NOT/etc. gates via light.

For the purpose of this question, I'm not talking about anything like traditional logic gates or anything that's boolean in nature...

I've seen mechanical analog computers from a long time ago that used specific-to-computation 3D shaped objects to either perform calculating derivatives or differentials (forget which), so I'm wondering if the same effect is possible using lenses specifically curved for specific calculations, and what those wavefronts or wave patterns and lenses would look like, if they existed...

In other words, what is computable given any light wave pattern (analog), and the ability to create any lens design pattern, no matter how strange-looking or complex?

?
In addition to this silly page, this website has a bunch of really cool technical details on weather prediction! I know nothing about weather forecasting, but I've enjoyed reading some random articles on it.

Here's an interesting one about how the timing of front affects the forecast: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints2/424/

Here's another one about forecasting ice on roads: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/7/

Websites like this remind me why the Internet is great.
A single or few data point(s) of less privileged people managing to work hard and become hugely successful is not a valid argument against:

> It's an outright lie, because the reality has always been "Go to the right school and have the right parents and get ahead."

There have been and will always be exceptions, cherry picking a few of these is a form of straw man.
Sounds like adversarial patches