skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean from an organic chemistry perspective it's obviously true. If you throw an electron at a C=C double bond, you get a ·C-C¯: which will then go ahead and bond with an H⁺ that's floating around, leaving you with a radical still bound to your initial molecule, so the theory is

CH₃-CH=CH-CH₃ + · + ROH ⇒ CH₃-ĊH-CH₂-CH₃ + :O¯R
CH₃-ĊH-CH₂-CH₃ + HOR' ⇒ CH₃-CH₂-CH₂-CH₃ + ·OR'

and then the · on your ·OR' restarts the cycle, and the cycle doesn't stop until you get

RO· + ·OR' ⇒ ROOR'

which is gonna be some random peroxide that wouldn't normally form, or

CH₃-ĊH-CH₂-CH₃ + CH₃-ĊH-CH₂-CH₃ ⇒ CH₃-CH-CH₂-CH₃
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CH₃-CH-CH₂-CH₃

which is gonna be some really random molecule with who knows what effects.

Now how important this is in a biological context I have no idea. There is a plausible mechanism for it to affect cellular chemistry, but the problem is that "a plausible mechanism" and "an actual effect" are very far from the same thing, and biochemistry is complicated.

The citation I'd want to see is that the chain reactions of free radicals do something biologically interesting, or, even better, that diets high and low in polyunsaturated fats lead to significant health differences in animal models.
This quote seems apt:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
A touchscreen keyboard is definitely one of those "good-enough" pieces of technology. It works because fewer and fewer people are into composing long texts these days.

I don't think it has eclipsed physical keyboards though. I make tons of mistakes on my iPhone 11 keyboard and have to backspace and retype, sometimes several times because the predictions are persistently incorrect. It's supposed to learn from my mistakes but I've been training it for a couple of months and it still hasn't figured out my typing habits.

I've accepted that it is what it is. The iPhone is a better phone than any phone with a physical keyboard. But a physical keyboard is incontrovertibly superior to a touch-screen one.
I've got a bunch more, but these are some of my favorites ( after reading that it was for a mentee relationship, I had to remove some)

- You impact your environment, regardless of your participation, and even your presence

- Perception is a weak approximation for reality

- Value the opportunity to be wrong, because eventually you'll lose the privilege of being told so

- The greatest barrier to getting things done, is not doing things
That's not very good argument. As we are where we are now because our productivity has increased insanely since invention of agriculture...

If burger flipping robot is more productive than human, we should replace all humans with such robots.
Far from the wealthiest ever, based on percentage of GDP. He might not be top 100.
Almost by definition, it simply can not be more efficient.
I didn't want to and tried using a windows based laptop for time sensitive work as I was waiting for parts to arrive. I spent more time troubleshooting getting stuff to work on a windows machine. Some tools I use and App dev work I do requires a Mac OS. Luckily, I had some savings to use but others in the same situation may not be very fortunate or even have options.

Now that I think about it, I could probably get away with a Hakintosh setup. I didn't consider it with everything going on.
Mac has "Aquamcs" which is mac native emacs with a wierd blending of MacOS key commands and emacs commands.

It works better than expected. Its not perfect but maintains the recording/playback of macros I use all the time. The fact that mac shortcuts use "Command" which emacs doesn't use natively helps.

https://aquamacs.org/about.html

Look forward to trying mousemacs out.

-A
This appears to be a study of common patterns of argument in two samples of self-reportedly happy couples. The kind of happy couples that volunteer for these sorts of studies, presumably. It’s all very nice but I’m not sure it tells us much, not least because every unhappy couple I know behaves in these ways too.
Free Market used colloquially is very broad and usually means free from government intervention.

Free market in the microeconomic context is a market in which no one entity can significantly move the prices of a product but deciding how much to supply, therefore they don't have price setting power.

A second condition is relative ease of entering and exiting a market for competitors.

Coase's theorem is a good place to look for when thinking about power dynamics in a free market. Essentially, perfect information is a requirement when it comes to optimal decisions. Absent that, some party will be able to absorb some surplus, one essence "getting a better deal"
A balance ball seems to be working better than a hard wood chair was for the seven year old to handle 3-4 hours of Zoom. Posture is much better too.

Also trying to figure out how to throw up the Zoom conference on the TV. I think it'll probably be much more natural for the kids.
Fascinating how demographics change. Back then the UK population was bigger than Iran/Iraq/Syria/Israel/Palestine/SaudiArabia combined and much wealthier and powerful. Now those countries combine to hundreds of millions of people.
As sad as it is, I say we have to accept reality, and that means that a person with disabilities will not be able to do certain things, which does not mean he/she has nothing to do. Maybe he won't be an athlete but he can of course be a novelist.

But we first have to accept the real world and get off this childish notion we are all born equal because as you pointed out, we sadly are not.
the line between trying to encourage someone to be healthier via weight loss, diet, exercise, etc. and making someone feel bad about their appearance isn't always clear, especially from two different people. being healthy isn't as simple for someone as it is on paper, just saying "calories in < calories out" ignores all the other factors that promote health that people who are already healthy already have. take having built habits already, learning what exactly to do, finding time in a busy schedule, etc. the bottom line is being healthy is hard, especially when you don't have a background in it

stemming from this, I think the most important thing is that people "get fit" for the right reasons. that they want to have better health, be able to do more activites, etc. vs some of the more usually toxic reasons like trying to meet conventional beauty standards, hating their own appearance. far too often I have seen people who "rush" trying to get fit, or do it for the wrong reasons, and just set themselves up for failure in the long run - or potentially much worse, like depression and the like.

so I think things like having a good measure of "self love" and self worth no matter what you look like, patience, consistency, etc. are all keys to succeeding over just "eating less" or whatever
Yes, a GUI allows you to give richer contextual feedback without introducing modality to the core functionality. For example, if I can click and drag, I do not need `transient-mark-mode`, a tricky modality in our "non-modal" editor. If I can summon a menu of relevant commands for a region, I do not need a menu of all commands filling up multiple pages of a separate window.

A GUI also introduces other problems, but the ability to just point at what you want to know more about or do something with has been a cornerstone of discoverability since the introduction of the mouse.
No, what’s limited is assuming argument style is the input and relationship happiness is the output.
What exactly is your daily routine then. Raising 4 kids while working full time with your spouse working 11 hours outside of the house is a pretty large claim.
If labor costs less products as a result cost less. How do you reconcile your view with the success of Singapore? A country with no minimum wage and a comparatively free market. There is income disparity in every time and every place. The question to ask is do the rules of the game allow anybody to succeed. Minimum wage is a rule that says some people just don't get to play.
The law should be the leader. Sadly we have forgotten that.
Here is a crazy idea that needs to come before this: What if we taught our adult population to process their difficult emotions instead of suppressing them and stay active and move freely while working and studying.

Actually, this already falls flat in the first section. At least 90% of adult fail on that one. How are they supposed to teach something to their children that they themselves don't even understand? And teaching is usually much more difficult than understanding something yourself.

Which brings us to "school should teach that". But schools are not designed for that and teachers are not qualified for that. Hell, it's already an exception to meet a teacher who can properly convey the meaning of "1+1=2", not to mention a teacher who can teach children, who are not their own, how to process difficult emotions. Good luck with that
I can agree with this. To me, a computer being able to display a website, in 2020, is basic functionality. Something my phone and refrigirator can do is something a full blown computer should be able to do out of the box. For an os that includes basic photo editing software, hypertext editing, video and music players, and game system integration, displaying a webpage is a basic tool. Just like a basic toolset from lowes is expected to have a screwdriver.

I think you are defining a computer OS as a basic OS -like TRON on a microwave. It is not -it's a multi-GB platform, and a basic tool included in it is not a basic tool you'd expect from a microwave. But these days, some microwaves also include a browser.

Much like airbags are a basic safety feature, but were not 20 years ago. Much like vi was a basic feature. But why include vi, when all you need is ed?
> I genuinely don't understand this fear re: COVID.
> Why would governors want keep gyms and restaurants closed post-COVID?

I think your lack of understanding is because you frame the question as nuanced to keeping two types of establishments closed. Instead ask questions like: Why would governors want to keep overriding city-level authority? Why would governors want to maintain control over federal funds and subsidies related to health crises? Why would governors want to be able to selectively close certain types of businesses (e.g. close bars, allow restaurants, differentiate between the two based on arbitrary number, disallow one to become the other)? Why would governors want to disallow certain medical procedures (e.g. abortion)?

I can go on and on. The general question is whether executive power at any government level begets more executive power, and the answer is almost always "yes".
> All of the things you say about C++ code also apply to unsafe Rust code.

Which is why unsafe is considered a code smell, and why people in the Rust community get upset when unsafe is used unnecessarily. That's why some people might find it controversial to hide the unsafety of the C++ code being used here. I've used Rust professionally for years, and I don't remember ever having to write any unsafe code in a professional context apart from FFI, and even then... the glue code to wrap around that unsafe FFI was very strictly written to make things as comfortable as possible for the FFI code and minimize the chance of bad things happening on the other side of the FFI barrier.

However, even then, your statement is not entirely correct. Unsafe Rust is extremely similar to safe Rust, enforcing the vast majority of safety requirements automatically. Unsafe code is very limited in what bad things it can do compared to C++ code.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#unsa...

- Dereference a raw pointer

- Call an unsafe function or method

- Access or modify a mutable static variable

- Implement an unsafe trait

- Access fields of unions

Those are the only things unsafe Rust can do that safe Rust can't. It doesn't turn off the borrow checker or anything else. There are a lot of mistakes that can be made in normal C++ code that you can't make in regular, safe Rust.

> All this document says is that the C++/Rust boundary should be considered another place where you are asserting "I promise this code is actually being used in a safe way".

The problem is that C++ compilers are much less capable of enforcing safety (inherently, due to legacy design decisions and backwards compatibility), so you often want a layer of glue code that only allows you to use C++ code in ways that are known to be safe, not just any arbitrary way that the function might be callable.

I already said I agree Chromium's team seems to be making the right call for this specific situation. It's not the right call most of the time. C++ code isn't fungible as being "just as good" as safe Rust code. The unsafety needs to be obvious, just like it is with unsafe Rust, so that you can recognize that the external C++ code (or unsafe Rsut) is a loaded footgun, and to treat it with appropriate care.

To be clear: Rust isn't a perfect language, and you can get the vast majority of the safety benefits by using almost any garbage collected language. What makes Rust awesome is that you can bring the memory safety of garbage collected languages into the realm of consistent performance requirements that previously was inhabited mostly by C and C++. Rust is a nice language, but so are a lot of other languages.
Maybe I don't understand what contract tracers do. Do they not (attempt to) map out every place and person contacted?
Ok then. What would taxes look like in a "free market" where "no one is entitled to anything"?
https://archive.is/iJVHc
Unfortunately the laziness is all around us where I live. We’ve struggled for the last 10 years to find more than 2 or 3 other families that think the way we do.
It's not Kubernetes that's complicated (although it's not exactly simple) the arcane and neolithic processes surrounding DNS and certificate management are the real issue IMO. Both technologies born from an era of static infrastructure and use cases that no longer apply.

No one has come up with alternatives, so we're left to deal with best we can
The right to peaceful assembly is not conditional on legitimate purpose; same as the right to free expression.

Free speech means freedom to shitpost, not just write literature.

Correspondingly, freedom of assembly is for stupid and pointless things like church, moderately important things like gym, and not just critically important things like insurrection.

The proliferation of “illegal” gyms suggests that many people feel similarly.
> If the other company can also do the same, why would they piss into their own cereal by reducing their profit?

Because that's how newcomers gain market share.

> And if the other company is a newcomer looking to gain market share by undercutting, they'll likely find themselves strongarmed or bought out of the market.

But then the high margins are still there, so the dynamic that attracts new entrants is still there.

The markets that maintain high margins are the ones with barriers to entry. Which, of course, we try to avoid as a matter of policy, so any policy that relies on their existence is quite problematic.
I believe this study does not control for whether the fat is hydrogenated or not. So they are really measuring the effects of trans-fats, which are already known to be bad.

That is my general concern with almost all of the nutrition research on fats. They are not grouping the fats appropriately. If you group butter and hyrogenated vegetable oils together because they are both "saturated" fats and then do your analysis lumping them together then you can't distinguish whether the problems caused by saturated fats are due to the hydrogenization or due to the butter being saturated or both.

Saturated fat consumption is decreasing, while unsaturated fat consumption is increasing, but people continue getting less healthy. So it seems the premise that saturated fats are that bad needs to be questioned. Or at least we need to ask if it's really saturated fats like coconut oil and butter that are bad or something that happens to the fats like canola oil when it is hydrogenated.

Edit: also as anecdotal evidence, what is the one common feature of almost all food generally considered harmful? Lots of processed vegetable oils in it, often in conjunction with sugar. I have not seen a reasonable explanation of how this can be the case if poly-unsaturated fats are as healthy as they are claimed to be.
> I believe the main reason for this was, not that they didn't believe it was effective, but that they were worried about a shortage for health care professionals.

Yeah, but instead of saying that they lied and said masks don't work.

I wonder how much of the current anti-mask sentiments arise from these lies.
A big problem with batteries as currently envisioned is that under a centralized utility model they don't "generate profit" per se.

Puerto Rico has post-Maria microgrids that are more resilient than the old utility model was to natural disaster, but they're making PREPA's financial situation worse, not better.
Windows 10 update will bring back one of Windows 7’s best features
Nobody in Iran knows or cares that you are alive. They're expressing opposition to the USA as a political entity, much as you are expressing hostility to Iran rather than trying to ruin the lives of individual Iranian people.
i use the apollo app on ios... it's quite fantastic and a much faster and better user experience. can't attest to the official reddit app though.

other than that the reddit app wants you to use it because there is no ad blocker and they can keep pulling you back in with push notifications.
If your answer is "so what?" then I assume you are not interested in my answer.
Is starvation preferable to getting a low wage job?

You start somewhere. Minimum wage laws just reduce the amount of opportunities low skill workers can choose from.
I agree with the difference you describe. A lot of people who are "naturally gifted" at drawing just have an intuitive sense of what is right, and just are able to draw without thinking too hard. When master artists are sketching the layout of their scene, they're not necessarily explicitly thinking about vanishing points and perspective. With practice, this stuff becomes completely intuitive. Unfortunately this often means that the best drawers are not necessarily the best teachers : )

For the record though, I think pretty much anyone can learn to draw "well".
It would be correct if it didn’t ignore the fact that US-based companies do the exact same thing.
I can't tell if you're saying that sarcastically, but I do agree unironically.
What do you do for work? Have you always done that? Have you always liked the challenge?
I kind of like not freezing in winter. And having a toilet. And antibiotics. And other stuff...
there were these PBS programs called sesame street, the electric company and even one actually called zoom.

there was little problem with user engagement as the kiddies were glued to it, and assimilated/imitated the concepts quite readily into playtimes and IRL. perhaps there is a feature set that could be explored and employed in remote learning scenarios.

i think that current educators could learn a lot by looking back at the methods of engagement.
> Figure in the 12%[0] Federal income tax

You're forgetting the standard deduction: $12k for an individual. This brings taxable income to $18k. Per https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf that puts tax at $1,929, so $30k becomes $28k after Federal income tax and not $26k.
Just avoid eating sugar when sedentary, the specific amount isn't so important. When you eat, and what other activities you're doing also matter. Chugging Gatorade and playing basketball is no big deal. Sipping Gatorade while surfing the internet is not so great.
That's fair enough, but that's not a fair indictment on virtual education (per the headline). The premise stinks.
Ah... this. So much this.
It would be good to get some specifics applied here rather than vague generalisations like "X were horrible". Scope, proportion of British / US involved, level of "horrible" activities seem like they would help avoid this becoming a stereotype. After all it wouldn't be acceptable to make stereotypes about Persians or others in a similar position.
I work for https://headlesstesting.com where we provide a grid of browsers, which people can use in combination with Puppeteer and Playwright. One of the reasons people use this, instead of Selenium, is because of the increase in speed.
There is a danger in creating an easy narrative where 1 or 2 people are scapegoats for the failure of an entire system.

There was a recent article about AI being misused in the court system, which was positioned as “White, racist Silicon Valley tech bro’s are intentionally biasing their software to convict black people” (I am not white, do not live in Silicon Valley, and do not work in Tech, in case anyone accuses me of being defensive). When you actually looked into the story though, it was clear that it was BS. The police used shady evidence to convict someone, and it never got challenged. The software wasn’t even a factor. But that’s not a sexy story nowadays.
I think anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers hostile to attempts to protect the population are obvious examples of how you losing trust in the medical system could directly endanger me and my health.

Imagine a covid vaccine is rushed to be released without being certified as safe. It is later discovered to harm many people in some horrifying way, as thalidomide did. Now not enough people are willing to try the next vaccine, and it becomes impossible to eradicate covid even once a safe and effective vaccine is developed.

Now imagine that, except for every single public health threat. The public has an interest in the medical system being trustworthy, and uncertified treatments undermine that trust in a dangerous fashion.

EDIT: If it isn't clear, I don't think you could post enough money to cover even one death as a result of your actions, let alone e.g. being responsible for a superspreader event that leads to many deaths. Even if the drug in question is not for an infectious disease, memes are infectious and if you spread distrust in the medical system that leads people to e.g. drink bleach you are still responsible for that death, even if it is indirect / hard to prove and you cannot be legally held accountable.

I'd rather use regulations to prevent the harm in the first place rather than trying to chase down and sue people after the harm has already been done. This attitude is one reason the USA has a reputation for being litigious/sue-happy.
Is there a sunset time on your's? Most of the noncompetes expire after a set number of months or years. Even during that period you should be allowed to work in the industry but maybe not on the exact same system for a competitor.
I am wondering if this would convince many people to move to areas with lower cost of living.
Just out of curiosity what is the online quiz app? Is it Prodigy (www.prodigygame.com)?
Thanks for sharing - can be super hard as a solo founder. Even harder to be honest about challenges.
By now a browser is just a UI platform for a website, so if the website doesn't give you the content, the browser can't extort it from the server.

So far we can filter out some ads because for sites it's just cheaper to use off-the-shelf solutions from ad networks, which are the same for everyone, and to preserve accessibility via HTML. Enter heavy randomization or the canvas, and filters won't work. Look at Yandex: it took the fight with adblockers seriously, so uBlock's lists finally gave up—it just was no use.

If you try to use customization via CSS, on some modern sites the crazy mess of divs with cryptic classes already makes no sense and doesn't lend itself to CSS selectors.