skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going off tangent here, what would be a killer Timescale feature is to have multi-master writes.
I don't know what physical processes are behind a facebook addiction, but I doubt it's as serious a condition as that caused by a chemically addictive product. I would equate it more with gambling addiction. Not to say that it's not a problem, but I have a hard time equating the two. That might just be my naivete' though. I've been lucky enough not to encounter either type of addiction.
I like the Bean Machine's declarative syntax because it makes it easy to implement interesting inference algorithms that treat different parts of a model independently. The syntax makes it easy to work around Python's lack of copyable coroutines, which e.g. has made it difficult to implement block Gibbs algorithms in Pyro. OTOH from a modeling perspective I find it easier to read monolithic straight-line models (as in STAN or Pyro) than to read declarative collections of functions (as in Bean Machine).
An old timer in his early 50s?
Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut': Behind the Mask of Corruption
ISP -> Internet Served Pakoras?
In all fairness, this was probably due more to the massive sugar intake than the chocolate. Chocolate is expensive and cheap Easter candy producers probably try to minimize the amount they are actually putting into their candy to control costs.
I try to dry fast for 15 - 20 hours 1/day per week. I can't really do that for my son and do not recommend it for most children.
This idea is intriguing: what if it's the other way around?

I mean, before the Internet, how many people used to read vs watch TV? Video was meant to win. If video demands centralization for technical reasons, centralization wins too.

In the same way, blogs can't compete with video for ads.
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Competition is good for consumers. It's very brave of Tim Sweeney et al. to take up this cause, and I hope they succeed.

We shouldn't tolerate the monopolies, duopolies, and _opolies of our age. The early 20th century progressives understand how harmful they were to the common man.
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So, facebook employees are mad they're not allowed to censor things they disagree with that people post on facebook?

I don't understand how facebook came to be responsible for policing political opinions anyway.

In fact, I don't understand why employees at tech companies believe they have the right to police people's opinions period.

I see it amongst commenters here too. What gives any of these people the right to police the opinions of others?

Actually, just people in general these days seem to believe it's their right to enforce their views on others...
A shame. ICE is simply enforcing immigration laws, which are part of our justice system. Employees should leave their politics at home instead of corrupting the workplace with their personal opinions. Companies shouldn’t pick and choose customers based on ideology and political biases. Companies that do so don’t deserve any customers, as they cannot be trusted to provide stable service if they’re subject to the whims of their employees.
> Which is why I absolutely reject Epic et al’s position.

> They want to be part of a small exclusive group of store owners who get to share in the benefits of Apple’s investments.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?
According to this[0] Our World In Data article, which is based on 2018 data, livestock (including fisheries) produces about 15% of all emissions, assuming that animal-based products account for about a third of the supply chain costs of the food industry:

Total food emissions: 26%

Direct livestock + fish: 31% of that 26%

Due to livestock land use: 16% of that 26%

Due to crops for animal feed: 6% of that 26%

Due to supply chain (1/3 of total): (18/3)% of that 26%

Total: ((31+16+6+(18/3))/100)*0.26 = 15.34%

And according to this[1] Our World in Data article, transport makes up about 16.2% of emissions.

The analyses can differ depending on how far you "travel up the chain" of production, but it appears that transportation and animal agriculture are within the same ball-park, plus or minus 5% perhaps.

> Most of the food livestock consume are leftovers of human-grade crops.

This is incorrect. Most livestock feed is soy, and humans can and do eat soybean meal. About 98% of soybean meal is used for animal feed and only 1% is used to produce food for people.[2] For soybeans as a whole, only about 6% grown worldwide are turned directly into food products for human consumption.[3]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[2] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go

[3] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/soybeans
> Yes of course there's a "you're being hypocritical" angle to everything,

That's the only angle! Democrats absolutely would not have blocked Scalia's replacement for a year, and even if they had, they would absolutely not have ignored the precedent they set and did the opposite thing now. This level of naked malevolence is exclusively the domain of the Republicans. And so _of course_ the Democrats should pack the court -- they should double the size of the bench. It's the only reasonable response to things so far. And that's not malevolence, that's equinimity.
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The demented quantities (of everything) that are very common in the US are probably very infrequent in Holland.
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Well, you can't just "let nature reclaim land", people own that and you can't force them to turn it into a nature preserve. There's a huge violation of private property rights implicit in your proposition.
The templates are too busy and makes adding content difficult, especially when some will see them in lower quality over poor lines.
It's not really a battle since no one is really objecting.
I find the combination between unit tests, component tests and contracts the best. Contracts allow you to test with tons of data you wouldn't have ever generated manually when enabled in component and e2e tests.

The contracts obliviate often the need to write extensive unit tests. As they are part of the interface, we can avoid thus to re-write many unit tests when the interfaces change during a refactoring.
Read it as Tailscale. ;D
If someone has "moral foundations" that cause them to think that, for example, a particular race of people is not worthy of life, I will refuse to engage with them in reasonable debate. There's no midpoint between nazis and non-nazis; the nazis are wrong and should be handled by force.

This may or may not be the case with ICE, the GOP, etc. but fundamentally there are some people who should not be engaged with in this way.
Apparently rolling power outages weren't enough.

This should be fun. So glad I moved out of that crazy state.
That's always the argument put forward, isn't it?
But apparently in this case they can't, since they haven't. (yes, that is also a syllogism)

Also worth noting that the definition of "news" seems to be fairly elusive, when this sort of "news" is worthy of an article and the other sort isn't.
> there is so many hoops to go through that you really can't distribute your application this way

One hoop. Turn on one setting, from there it's just clicking to download an apk and approving the dialog box.

The real reason it's hard to distribute your application outside of Play store is discovery.
Quite the opposite, this is analogous to how politics worked when the Soviets killed millions and millions of their own people in order to attain a communist utopia. Do you not see that?

Yes, I see that misusing government power to enforce unequal treatment for a disfavored subgroup is exactly like what the Soviets did.

Now that you've steamrolled your own position more effectively than I managed to, we're done here.
Analogies being bad? I think it depends where. Here on HN? Yeah, despite it's affinity for the straight and narrow threads go often the rails often enough. Sure, the discourse is civil. But it's still off on a pointless tangent.
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Ask HN: Why were people crazy about Lisp during 70s and 80s?
I'm reading Peter Siebel's Coders at Work and most of the interviewed people mentioned they worked with Lisp, wrote Lisp interpreters (this one I get why), doing so many things using Lisp. I'm sure that Lisp wasn't the only programming language at the time, as Fortan, Algol, Pascal, Prolog (very niche) existed at the time, but they are rarely mentioned.

So, it got me wondering why most of the interviewees where so interested in it.
This is an honest question, from a person that has never used Lisp before.
If any of you drink Traditional Medicinals or Yogi brand teas when you're sick (Throat Coat, Cold Care, etc), note that many of them contain licorice root and therefore glycyrrhizic acid. It drives me crazy that there weren't more prominent warnings on these because people tend to drink dozens of cups a day when they're sick, which can be dangerous for certain people
“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.”
"I support Population Matters because I think if we keep on growing, we’re not only going to damage nature, but we’re likely to see more and more inequality and human suffering."
“One thing you can say is that in places where women are in charge of their bodies, where they have the vote, where they are allowed to dictate what they do and what they want, whether it’s proper medical facilities for birth control, the birth rate falls.”
“The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrolled way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us.”
“As I see it, humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve this: we can stop consuming so many resources, we can change our technology and we can reduce the growth of our population.”
"Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment."

- Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster, Population Matters Patron (born 1926)

From https://populationmatters.org/quotes
Like anti-GC advocates not getting that a GC in a language like D, is only the replacement for new/delete, with everything else that C++ is capable of still available.

Learn to use the tools and enlightenment will be achieved.
Do Netflix gain anything from having people watch more? Isn't it a flat monthly subscription fee?
I think the problem with giving examples is that people over index on the example, instead of the point. The point is to not spend on trying to have many possessions. But at the same time if you have to spend a little extra for a possession that can be really useful or have an impact on your life, you do it. And once you buy them, treat them with care. Like if you are frugal, and work at an office that requires you to wear suits, instead of trying to go for many cheap one size fits all suits, try to go for a few tailored ones, it'll do wonders for your career. All in all, you get the gist.
With /r/politics you get HEAVILY downvoted if you voice anything conservative or even just defending someone conservative from unjust accusations.

So much so, that you can only post new comments every 10 minutes, while they keep on dogpiling you.
Man, this article is super scary, accurate and hits too close to home.

It's the first time I've ever seen published a link between dopamine and stuttering.

As someone that has ADHD, and stutters - it's simply, wow. Just wow.

>risperidone, olanzapine and lurasidone.

>So Maguire wondered: could blocking dopamine be the answer? Conveniently, many antipsychotic drugs do just that. Over the years, Maguire has conducted small, successful clinical studies with these medications including risperidone, olanzapine and lurasidone. The result: “Your stuttering won’t completely go away, but we can treat it,” he says.

Interesting.

> Ecopipam

Well, a benzo, but I've never heard it before, but it makes total sense, it's ironic, but for me, it works 100% to make me focus, talk, think, be. Ritalin, caffeine, adderal works too, but, it's different.

Wow.

Using Etizolam, Ativan, Valium, works great, for me, wonders, and I don't really become "addicted" to it = there's an immediate threshold where it's effective to where I become tired and sleep. I've read stories about people who abuse them, and my tolerance never escapes the basics medicinal dose which makes it super interesting as well.

So much excitement, answers, questions, in something I just accepted and found natural remedies too over time thinking "oh it's anxiety." oh it's "just my ADHD" oh it's "just me becoming more introverted."
I haven't been involved in that for years, but I'd be very curious to see the (presumably) very non-intuitive code that could be generated.
Crop deaths tho!

Do you realize that /more/ animals die from crop harvesting for feeding animals? Because if you aren't raising animals for food, you don't need to harvest crops for them. The net amount of crop deaths goes down.

Further, it's the fallacy of perfection - we can't stop all deaths, but we can do our best to get as many as possible unnecessary deaths to end.

Veganism is about what is practicable - i.e. what can be done in practice, not perfection.
There's nothing unethical about wanting to keep illegal aliens out of your country.
The left side of his face did not age.
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Whom are you referring to? I talk about politics with anyone who is interested in it. (Of course, it's also important not to talk about politics with anyone not interested in it, but that's another matter.)
It absolutely makes sense to mandate the absence of serious compiler optimizations in an unsafe language, in which programs frequently stray outside of the specification, and in which the programmer has excellent tools for optimizing by hand.

You can write C that is nearly impossible not to generate into a nearly optimal instruction sequence with just basic optimizations that do not try to get clever by with deductions arising from multiple disconnected facts coming from separate statements in the program.

There is a lot of optimization latitude without doing crazy things. You can turn a switch statement into a jump table without causing a problem, for instance. Unrolling loops is fairly safe. You can allocate registers well; you can improve the instruction sequences. You can thread jumps. You can fill branch delay slots.

I don't need the compiler to delete a line of code for me. If I actually delete it myself in the source code, that will shave off just as many cycles!

Now if the compiler would simply warn "that null pointer comparison is being done on a pointer that was dereferenced eralier", that would be useful. Instead of optimizing behind my back, give me diagnostics using which I can change the program to make it faster. I could look at that code and see: by golly, that is right; the pointer is guaranteed not to be null in that code, so we can drop the check. Or, oops, no; that dereference should not be happening before the check!

You can't have compilers guessing about the purpose and intent of disconnected statements in relation to each other, under the assumption that there is no mistake anywhere. Even philosphically, that is stupid.

Advanced optimizations arising from piecing together a deduction from multiple assumptions and facts should all take the form of diagnostic suggestions about how to change the source code.
It's relevant. Mycotoxins (mold produced), and metals can also cause inflammation. In general, it's the immune system trying to sequester or isolate foreign material.
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and 2020-005 (10.14 and 10.13) Security Updates
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update is live!

For the first time in 10 years, Apple has released a macOS update point release past .6!

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard went to 10.6.8

Security updates for Mojave and High Sierra 2020-005 are also available

https://mrmacintosh.com/whats-new-in-the-macos-catalina-10-15-7-update-19h2/
Oh yes - that's right. I knew it wasn't plain old sodium chloride but I remember now that's it's ammonium chloride. Thanks for pointing that out.
Terminology is not always unambiguous. The spin quantum number is discrete for electrons {-1/2,1/2}, but spin also means the physical entity that gives rise to the so-called intrinsic angular momentum, which is a vector.
There may be unethical aspects of how you go about doing it.

For example: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/15/ice-deport-witness-s...
When I was a kid, my similarly-aged neighbour was deaf. So I learned ASL (versus Signed English, which is related but not the same) and grew proficient enough to have deaf people assume I was also deaf. It's been years now, so I'm horribly rough at it.

Anyway, we used to do a type of poetry that I haven't ever found online, and completely different in character to the more "common" style of poetry in this video. It basically took the spelling of a word, and "mimed" it out into an action or a story.

A super-simple example to learn from: Hold the letter Y in the air above the letter O. Now mimic the motions of playing with a YOYO.

A less-simple example that tells more of a story: With the letters for the word FLOWER you mime out: F - planting a row of seeds, with the other hand extended flat to represent the ground. L - watering the seeds with a watering can. Now put O underneath the "ground" as you will be miming the seed growing. As the O pushes up through the ground and your arm becomes a stem, now open the O into the W to represent the flower. Now turn it into an E, which represents the flower bud swelling with new seeds, then do the letter R and point it downward in the way that flowers prepare to deliver new seeds to the ground.

We had quite a few of these "poems" (for lack of a better word, because I don't really know how to classify them). I think it's a really interesting way to teach finger spelling to both hearing and deaf children.
Could you describe the flavor? I understand there are differences in whether people but I'd love to hear if we are experiencing a similar and evaluating it differently or what.

I can withstand the flavor but not sure I would ever seek it out.
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AWS supports relatively seamless (but not automatic) major version upgrades, though because the database engine may have backward compatibility issues they recommend (but don't require) you do a lot of steps which make it less-than-seamless but safer.

They don't try to automatically handle breaking changes for you.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
This is nice, I was looking at this problem a while back and was wondering whether implementing sound amplification features on cheap TWS earphones can solve that[1], of course it wouldn't be $1 and I wonder whether the latency of BLE would defeat its purpose.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/22-enabling-hearing-aid-feature...
The number of people who are burned because of what implementation they actually have is not so small.
So I’ve been switching to desktop version, locating the language sidebar, then switching back to mobile for nothing all this time?!
So your moral framework is arbitrary? Or it is flimsily dependent on your emotional attachments?
> They want to be part of a small exclusive group of store owners who get to share in the benefits of Apple’s investments.

Exclusive? Why can't I write an app store?
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I never wrote part 2 of this blog post, but there's a $300 open source hearing aid that can do way more than most hearing aids: https://shapr.github.io/posts/2019-08-03-tympan.html

Here's the organization building this thing: https://shop.tympan.org/

I'm kinda excited about the four microphone board, where you can subtract the ambient noise behind the listener from the noise in the direction they're facing.
They could claim OP pushed for MIT specifically for this reason, to be able to take advantage of it after the employment is terminated.
Are you kidding? Being able to sell on more than one store is a massive advantage. Besides the obvious lower risks and lower fees, you can also benefit from better exposure and discovery (two things that are terrible on the app store and google play) especially in niche stores.
>They're on the App Store because they have no choice and they need to make money to pay for things like food, rent, etc.

That's crazy how before 2008 no developer was able to pay for food and rent. Sounds dreadful. Too bad there's no alternative that has an even bigger share of the total mobile market. Come on, dude.

>I'll bet you dollars to donuts if some regulation required Apple to allow App Stores from other companies, most developers would dump Apple's in a heartbeat.

Right, the same way that most car companies would abandon emissions standards if the EPA no longer forced them to (see: Volkswagen emissions scandal). That doesn't make it a good thing for consumers.