skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring beliefs for the moment.

Personally I’m of the opinion that historically marriage is Disease control.

Imagine life with no medication or testing. Keeping marriage “pure” is a way to keep people healthy.

Any society that didn’t follow this would have a lot of STDs.
The stricter a society the healthier the people.

Hence why so much social pressure developed.

Lots of Jewish practices have to do with health and sanitation.

Long list of things that makes a person “unclean” for X days.

I see many
Parallels with Covid. It is creating new traditions that could last generations.

Someone coughs, they are “unclean” for 14 days. Social rules are completely different now.

Modern medication changes the game drastically. Lots of things are no longer a death sentence.
No, but it wouldn't work the same. Browsing via a Webkit widget is nice because the browser UI (which is just Webkit, without any of the standard browser chrome) lives inside an Emacs buffer, and you interact with it within Emacs' own UI paradigm as well as from Lisp. I think only Lisp interaction would be possible via webdriver.

It'd be more like the old integration between js2-mode and MozRepl (RIP), where you can drive the browser and send code for evaluation, but the browser isn't part of Emacs in the way xwidget-webkit allows.
Money Funds Waive Charges to Keep Yields from Falling Below Zero
+1 ,but hope it gets bi-directional links similar to roam, obsidian, etc one day.

either way, underrated open source, free, note taking app.
This is part two of my wife's (a parathyroid surgeon, devaboone on here) blog series on Vitamin D - it generated a good amount of interest last time and she's following up on some of the issues raised last time "what dose should I take". The first part is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138590 and some previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061164.
Why don't you use ascii for the title?
A good chunk of the young top talent in the last 2-3 years in my area have returned home (India, China, Europe, Canada). I expect them to produce top notch work wherever they are.
Are you sure this wasn’t because you seemed western/white privilege?

When I was backpacking it was shocking to see how other countries will perceive white people as superior and go above and beyond to help them while someone who is Asian gets treated like just another average Joe. It’s opposite for black folks.

It’s like decades of movies and media have built this implicit bias in our brains.
Most developed European countries have a tax to GDP ratio 10-15% higher than the US.

Fiscally conservative right wing parties in those countries typically run on a platform of at most reducing that by 3-5%.

If you then take what they'd do to military spending (at most 1/2 or 1/4 what the US spends per capita), social services (maybe a bit less spending, but not dismantling it), the state's regulatory role, fuel taxes etc. I don't think this is a far-fetched assertion.
Being able to take the configuration "table" and change the input quickly is a neat feature!!
(Disclosure, my mom works for AT&T.)

For better, or for worse, content is the new strategy at AT&T. The physical layer of the internet is a margins game and it's getting harder and harder for large organizations to compete. I'm not for it either, but it is understandable that AT&T would want to be more like Disney than the reverse.
Do all roads lead to Rome?
https://cuelang.org is what I use. Wrap code in data, not data with code
When they stop with their dark patterns I'll put away my torch.
more grist - https://riskmagazine.nl/article/2018-09-30-ubuntu-vague-phil...
> They have technology to solve the sleep temperature thing now

My comment on temperature was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that one might actually have to make some long-term compromises.

(In fact, I am now better able to sleep in a warmer room that I would have liked when I was younger)
Uptime of essentially 100%. Hard to criticize when they accomplished something so rare in tech.
It's very lively and actually the cancer of certain parts of the internet (like the subreddit dedicated to Virtualbox).
Don’t birds see UV? Won’t that show as black for those who see it, and transparent for those who don’t? If so, putting sunscreen on the blades would work.
I think that you can take the magnitude of this departure as a promise to never return.

I expect it to become the Safari you would have to install.
When the rest of the whole technology industry, giant corporation after giant corporation, treated video chat as an opportunity for vendor lock-in, service up-sell and competetive wedge...

Zoom just made a tool that could be used by everyone, everywhere, for free. And they saved us.

Yeah, I think that's something to celebrate.
in the 60s the DOJ stopped the 3rd largest grocery chain in LA from buying the 6th-largest

not so much these days
Is that true? I was under the impression that ordinary people could rant in obscurity, and not come to moderator attention unless they got accidentally famous.

I'd have expected bannination to require more attention... until you reach the point where you're using the platform as a matter of national policy.
Thought this was a good read - and nice to see the progression of frustration with front-end development throughout the last decade, and then the introduction of mobile. This is a pretty common timeline for web devs who have been doing this ~10+ years.

I wonder why the author did not contribute to intercooler rather than writing his own version. Would it really have been that difficult to avoid inheritance (or add an inheritance free api) and add batching to that library?
What dark patterns?
Oops, big typos. Factor 1000 slower, fixed in parent. Thanks

Sorry, no links afaik. Internal knowledge.
So do many adults...
They must be pretty close for those kinds of sites, no?
Then go ahead and make the argument! I'd love to see how you juxtaposition "the right to not be tortured" or "the right to not be enslaved" next to "the right to be able to use Dreebly Chat"...

Don't get me wrong. I agree with the OP in their ideals! Software is an increasingly important part of our lives, and accessibility should be taken seriously for any serious venture.

But legislation? Human rights? It's this kind of rhetoric that divides minds and undermines goals. By all means fight for what you think is right! Progress isn't inevitable. But attempting to impose change rather than affect change is the most classic mistake in the book. You must also be young.
In defence of ssss-low texting
C++ code only needs to be safe according to C++ rules (not Rust rules). So it is possible for the C++ to be safe, and the corresponding Rust code to be unsafe, e.g.,

* int foo(); which returns an uninitialized int is OK according to C++ rules, but would need a MaybeUninit<c_int> according to Rust rules.

* int foo(); could throw an exception, causing UB in Rust, since Rust assumes FFI declarations not to throw according to the spec. Rust can only export `noexcept(true)` C++ FFI declarations, or C functions (since C cannot throw). Apparently, autocxx and the cxx crate ignore this and treat all C++ functions as if they never throw, giving them a safe API. That's unsound. (One can fix that on nightly Rust though).

Unsafety can also be introduced through ABI incompatibilities, but IIUC autocxx usage of rust-bindgen deals with that.
3,700 Year Old Babylonian Tablet Holds Oldest Evidence of Trigonometry
I've visited/lived in 7/10 of those cities, and really appreciated the fact that retail and public infra look the same between cities. In that sense, there's a certain "interoperability" (much like how most airports around the world work the same). It only takes a day or so to get used to how the public transit works and how to buy things. I could drop into a new city and learn how to get around in no time.

(NY's subway was the least intuitive and took the longest to get used to -- it's complicated by inconsistencies like express trains, lack of electronic signage on multiuse platforms, doors not opening in certain cars for certain stops in lower Manhattan, etc. -- but even so there was a method behind the madness.)

However, once you venture outside the central business districts/downtowns and into the neighborhoods, things start looking very different. It's in the neighborhoods that one finds unique cultures.

Chicago for instance: the Loop is nice and all, but the character of Chicago is really in the 77 neighborhoods around the city. NYC's cultural hotspots are in boroughs like Queens.

I would say most cities retain their culture in their neighborhoods, not in their CBDs/downtowns.
Under the Hood of a Simple DNS Server
Nintendo might launch new more powerful Switch console early next year
Pieter's businesses are impressive, but IMO not using React nowadays is actually harder than using it. Building stuff vanilla takes more time, effort and knowledge.
Webex. No temporary unmute. Can’t see myself, why can’t I be a full size panel?

Jisti. Can’t dial in. Utterly useless for anyone with bad internet for this reason.
The term 'deep state espionage' is neutral?
Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps
I think Budha achieved a lot.
I'm not an expert in any means. I'm a software developer who has had some friends died of cancer, and then two years ago I read "Tripping over the Truth" and felt a sense of rage.

To take a stab at your question, at least in the context of cancer, cancer is almost never seen as a "cell metabolism" problem, it's viewed as a "damaged DNA" problem

Quoting from an article[0] that discusses the somatic vs. metabolic theories of cancer. This is how the "somatic theory of cancer" describes the cancer pathways:

> Cancer is caused by damage to DNA, which leads to damaged genes. Those genes, oncogenes, are responsible for the reproduction of cancer cell lines (which one could think of as multi-generation families), which grow unchecked to the point of being a tumor. Those tumors can be tested for damaged genes and will allegedly show those genes.

[0]: https://colleenhuber.com/metabolic-theory-of-cancer-and-comm...
It's been on my list to visit since forever. I made a donation so hopefully it will still be open when we can travel freely again.
This is something I've seen several say, but I totally don't get. I've been using jitsi, gmeet, slack and zoom for the last six months; and that is my order of preference with zoom dead last. Quality on zoom is definitely the worst.
I mean, if your algorithm is accurate 99.9% of the time, and you're using it 24/7 in a country with millions of inhabitants, you should expect tens of thousands of false positives every day. This is why some wet blankets have been strangely skeptical of delegating all responsability to The Algorithm.
The Reason Why Blackstone Is Courting the Pentagon
If the people in question are black, then yes, arrests or worse happen quite regularly without due diligence.
> Flame is a malware spy program that is reported to make heavy use of SQLite.

Maybe we need an /infamous.html page
> Just look at Boeing and MCAS, probably not based on Linux.

This just reinforces your general point, but it wouldn't matter if the 737 ran on Linux. The MCAS behavior is part of the "business logic". No underlying OS would have prevented that issue. Just like the safety of the Linux network stack doesn't prevent grandma from E-Mailing her CC details to a scammer.
There isn't really a concept of civic pride any more. The Victorians - for all their many faults - did have a kind of local-scale pseudo-patriotism which motivated some very impressive buildings.

When modernism decided that decoration was superfluous and forbidden, it also did a lot of damage to the tradition of civic building.

Buildings were no longer designed to be aesthetic. If private, they were supposed to be utilitarian money factories put up by capital as cheaply as possible for the generation of more capital. Or they were supposed to fill a social need - again, as cheaply as possible.

A few architects, like Calatrava, produce public statement buildings, but they're often poorly regarded and not necessarily designed to wear well. (Calatrava has a very striking visual style but is notorious for poor build quality.)

Modern corporate HQs - like Amazon's and Apple's - half buck the trend, but only half. They're modernist statement buildings, but they're still motivated by a kind of minimalist corporate narcissism rather than pride.

The only buildings that don't fit the trend are some of the religious mega-projects. They're designed to be awe-inspiring and spectacular, and they often are.

So the real culprit is penny-pinching modernist utilitarianism - mostly capitalist, but not exclusively. If you removed that you could recreate a 21st century aesthetic of imaginative but robust civic architecture at all scales, with high quality materials and handcrafted detailing and decoration.

In a very literal sense the entire culture is run on an ethic of ever-narrowing acquisitive miserliness. This started to become a serious problem in the 80s, and it's been hugely dispiriting - not just for the arts but for civics in every respect.
Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics?
Compare that to earthquake preparedness in Portland and Seattle. Being underprepared for the next Cascadia earthquake is a policy choice.
I learn stuff on my own time. If I need more time and the learning phrase is directly related to the my work then I can ask manager to reduce workload. But usually I don't need to ask. I also believe that self-learning in free time is standard expectation for our industry (software). If I run a company later, I would expect the same for my hires.
The answer, unfortunately, is likely yes. An entirely uncorroborated witness report isn't probable cause, but the standard for corroboration required is very low. There was a case Draper v. United States where an informant said "the guy's coming back from Chicago wearing suchandsuch clothes on September 9", and the police arrested him based on matching that description, with no corroboration of the underlying accusation that he was in Chicago to buy drugs.
Google says ‘Incognito Mode’ does not mean ‘invisible’
I emailed an author of a 5 year old paper and they said they had lost their original MATLAB code, certainly brings into question their paper.
Who doesn't want to see turbines? They're so neat. And even if they're white you can clearly see them unless you have trouble seeing. A few times a year, my son and I drive past a wind farm and make references to this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1378/

I admit I might be weird though, I routinely wish that the pipes and wires were on the outside of the drywall, and I took the doors off my pantry so I can see everything.
I totally agree with you, this is why biometrics are this weird open for machines, but solved for humans problems. If you don't trust the scanner then it's useless. Depending on your threat model you can do really fancy stuff like retina scans that detect blood flow and temperature or TouchID for less-sensitive stuff like a screen lock.

> You can certainly envision a world where you could get grafted silicone fingertips.

If you built a system that's so secure that this is the lengths you have to go to beat it then you would be an overnight billionaire if you brought it to market. Like at this point you've achieved human-level verification. Assuming it was small enough to go in phones it would be revolutionary!
The entire purpose of civil courts is to mediate disputes between private parties. Courts are also the mechanism that give private contracts any authority.

Civil suits are also one of the mechanisms by which government regulation is enforced. The alternative to that would be the government inserting itself into private relations even when there is no dispute between the parties; which is even more heavy handed (albeit somewhat justified).

It is a weird quark that you often have to violate the terms of a contract in order to get standing to challenge it; but that is the procedural rules we have.
You evince a vast excess of optimism.

Emacs is a general-purpose programming environment that also implements an editor. By design, it has no internal boundaries. Anything that can run in that environment can read and write the filesystem and process environment, open arbitrary sockets, execute arbitrary commands, and otherwise interact with the local system - and, given TRAMP, also remote systems - as the user under whose account Emacs is running. You don't need to know much of anything about the underlying system to use these capabilities. You just need to know about Emacs. And whatever you do need to know about the underlying system to perform whatever attack you have in mind, Emacs will happily help you learn.

What about RCE in such an environment does not say "game over" to you?
Navalny: Clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance
Pretty much the only time I've used my cellphone for work for months was when my power went out for a couple of days because of a storm. (We don't use Zoom--Meet and Bluejeans--but same idea.)
Yes, and Mark Shuttleworth is from South Africa and was well aware of this philosophy when creating the distro.
I was impressed at how well they were able to scale up when the 'rona hit. I'd still like to know how Zoom specifically rose up so fast, given that it's one of a billion video conferencing tools. Was it because they offered many-to-many video chats of over whatever Skype offers for free? I don't even know what Zoom's business model is.
As their largest competitor, I still hold that his is the right attitude. Everyone in this space had to do massive scaleups, and some bumps inevitably happen.

We have identified the issue causing users to be unable to authenticate to the Zoom website (zoom.us) and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars

Even with a distributed architecture, auth/login flows are often some of the harder problems to horizontally scale without introducing inconsistencies of behavior.

I wish 'em a speedy recovery!
What Is JAMStack?
Visualizing progress of refactoring into Hexagonal Architecture with jQAssistant
I feel this is not a right comparison. Cash can be used by the taker. You think someone could change your voting? For eg: change from Biden to Trump?
This may be an old fashioned way to do it, but I set aside a command by using ^A (or Home) and the entering : and space:

$ : Command that has an error

I can then cd to the right directory, or fix whatever other problem I had, then use up-arrow to get back to the command, remove the : and space and run it.

The : (no op) command is fairly obscure and some of the other suggestions here are probably better.
Excepting a few philanthropists, they would leave whichever nation that passed such a law, bringing their influence and power to a nation that doesn't, and / or funnel all the excess wealth into overturning or subverting it, of course. I mean, wouldn't you?

Even if the ban were universal, money at that scale is power. Alternative social or economic constructs would form to allow the ex-billionaire to continue to wield that power, e.g. some form of trust or corporation that the ultra-wealthy don't own but does their bidding or some form of clan or dynastic structure where family members and trusted retainers each hold part of the wealth but coordinate their actions.
Sadly yes. Palo Alto has been doing this for the last couple of weeks (grade 7-12; dunno about younger). 10 minutes between classes; 30 for lunch. I don’t think it’s sustainable.

One improvement: the high schooler has some sessions with 90 kids (!!). So at least they can use their phones to goof off and text each other which they couldn’t do IRL.

There’s no easy answer to this, but I really wonder about the effects of this on kids, especially the younger ones. Kids, even liners, are pretty gregarious by nature, and there’s a lot of important physical contact among the little kids (and, for different reasons, teens :-)). Seems like there will likely be some developments issues down the road.
IKEA Hackers
It seems that the fork has added a fair bit of functionality. Using Ace-Jump, Sections, and History, at first glance
Worth pointing out that the FSF have specifically called out Canonical/Ubuntu, for failing to behave in keeping with Free Software values. [0]

Stallman has also mentioned Ubuntu in his talks, as a rare counterexample of how Free software is generally free from functionality that acts against the user's interests.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

See also https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu
> This is only as true as saying that any personal attempt to minimize your carbon footprint is self-harm.

I sometimes wonder, when the mining energy question is raised, about the carbon footprint of all the servers and buildings and air conditioning in all the banks in all the world.
TOS > A lifetime subscription means you have access to the tool for the lifetime of the product.

:-/ sounds like a scam to me since its not a premise installation but a saas. Feeling sorry for people who bought it.
> Any test that doesn't involve full nationwide UBI is subject to the same criticism

No, not really, unless the money for the experiment comes from outside the region. The problem is that the argument for UBI is either that "it'll pay for itself" or "it doesn't cost more than today's system". So we'll need a test that actually tests that.

Maybe it doesn't work and we'll see "okay, it'll be 10% more expensive than today's systems". That can be achieved by raising taxes, and the result of doing that can be seen in the experiment as well: do people leave the region because they don't want to pay an extra 10%, or do they find UBI's benefits to society at large to be so large that they don't mind?

Maybe we'll see that UBI does what the proponents promise: free human innovation and productivity and easily more than pay for itself. Once that result is proven, you'll have no issue to convince anyone.

Not trying to test that at all and then saying "well, even if we would, nobody would accept that" isn't the right approach in my opinion. And it feels like there's something left unsaid: that the proponents also don't believe that it would work and therefore don't want to actually test it, because they're convinced the test will prove that it doesn't work. And as long as it's not tested, they can claim that it totally would work (in theory) without having to prove it.
It's pretty easy to make it like you said. But it also pretty easy to make it in a way when some companies would have a preference.

Second would be more profitable for the owners of that db, so there is a motivation to do it in that way. In many of the countries outside of US/EU it's a popular practice.
I'd do so where I live, I've never had the postal service here loose any mail. I could even pay 5€ extra and the insurance for the mail contents would cover if the 5000$ vanished, in the unlikely event that happened. Tbh, amazon delivery is less reliable than the national package delivery.
I haven't had quality issues with Meet. The killer feature for me though is the seamless integration with calendaring--if you use GCal of course.
Doesn't do me a lot of good then since I can't run the Zoom application on my only laptop :/ (corporate policy). They've really screwed up here by de-emphasizing the web client in favor of the application.
Could you just pick the clearest cut one, and type a few sentences explaining it?

edit: not trying to get you to do my work for me, but for an existence proof people don't commonly list a bunch of things by name without explaining how they apply. They list one thing (or one class of things, or how to construct a thing), and exactly how it applies.