skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Soviet economy borrowed technology from the market economies of the West, because it generally could not compete with the market-driven sectors of the Western economies in innovation. It had almost no ability to advance its own semiconductor sector for example.

Without a larger market-driven world to borrow from, it's doubtful it would have acquired fertilizer, factories, automobiles, etc.

The Soviet economy collapsed in the end, with millions dying in the early 1990s as the support network it administered broke down.

That it was able to last as long as it did is because it also did have a massive black market, that supplied people with much of their necessities:

https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/rees-577-fall2016/2016/...

The corruption in Russia today is a legacy of that Soviet-era black market.
You can both be right! Many massive transportation projects absolutely a waste of money when you weigh the costs and benefits. We shouldn't do those.

But that doesn't mean that spending so much money on sprawling infrastructure to support suburbs the way we do makes sense either, does it?
First thing I noticed when I moved to the US. It was quite the shock.
What do y'all think of ad testing?
Yes, but not what I am referring to. 100 miles is a long way up. A large release of Tritium would first quickly gain altitude while in a high concentration before mixing with other atmospheric gasses. For the same reason as hot air from a fire initially rises as a column. After that it’s going to keep mixing with other atmospheric gasses and spreading through literally billions of cubic miles of atmosphere around the globe because unlike fallout it can stay in the atmosphere.

As a beta emitter it’s blocked by just a few feet of atmosphere thus rendering the bulk of it harmless. Eventually, some will combine with oxygen and end up as water, but again most of that just ends up in the ocean.
Agreed. Reddit’s a great place to discuss politics. I’d like to keep HN strictly for tech.
> Center for Strategic and International Studies found that anti-fascist groups have not been involved in a single murder in the United States in the past 25 years.

Of course. When Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers because he was angry over police shootings of black men, and stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers [1], that wasn't antifa, that was a lone individual, unconnected to any group or ideology.

“Let black people go with our own land and reparations, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell.” said Kori Muhammad at his trial after killing four people [2]. This was also unconnected to any ideology or group.

When Nelson was arrested for a probation violation, he was put in a cell with Hatchett, who, according to court testimony, wanted to kill white people after watching videos of police brutality. Nelson didn't make it out of that cell alive [3]. This murder was also completely random and rightly wasn't connected to any ideology.

When 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker was killed after argument with BLM supporters, leaving her 3-year-old son without a mother [4], it was another completely random act.

We can plainly see that any murders that happened were clearly not connected to any ideas espoused by anti-fascist groups, or the mass media, so the Center for Strategic and International Studies is absolutely correct in placing their count of murders at zero.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...

[2] https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/im-glad-that-it...

[3] https://www.wltz.com/2020/09/07/mom-demands-answers-after-so...

[4] https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-killed-argumen...
Yes, you're right. The FDA allows the following health claim to be used for marketing "whole grain foods" that "contain 51 percent or more whole grain ingredient(s) by weight per reference amount customarily consumed (RACC)":

> Diets rich in whole grain foods and other plant foods and low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, may help reduce the risk of heart disease and certain cancers.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/health-clai...

Products that are 100% whole grain almost always explicitly say "100% whole grain" (or wheat) on the packaging.

All foods served in school breakfasts and lunches in the US must be "whole-grain rich" as of the 2014-15 school year, with the presence of the FDA health claim being one of the approved ways to confirm that a food is "whole-grain rich":

https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/whole-grain-resource

Subway has always been marketed as a healthy fast food option, but its "9-Grain Wheat" bread was carefully named and advertised without being described as "whole grain" or "whole wheat". Many consumers assumed that "9-Grain Wheat" was whole wheat bread, when the ingredients told a different story before 2014.
Comparing a not yet existant vaccine to a vaccine for a virus that's totally different is silly.

Especially comparing it to the flu, as that's a virus that mutates much more often than most viri.

In any case no vaccine is 100% effective. The goal is typically to be effective enough that the virus dies out faster than it spreads. Which solves the problem.

There are a lot of covid vaccine trials going on. The different candidates have different properties. It has yet to be seen which candidates are succesful.
>There is an important win: A bunch of people who would have died are still alive.

If they had instead dropped a nuclear bomb on Melbourne, 0 people would have died from Covid19.
I'd like to see Subway start selling a sandwich built on a foundation of Zöpf. Without raisins just to start.
I grew up religious and believing weird stuff. College also fixed that for me as did the internet. I still went to public schools.
The obvious call out to his radical base to “stand by” blew my mind. Made me start to actually believe this is a legit possibility.

I very much hope it’s paranoid bullshit. It would be nothing but a disaster.
> I am sure it scales technically well but not on cost.

The honest answer is "it depends". Because Teradata is a different beast, per-query pricing can be significantly cheaper than Snowflake with high-volume workloads. It's worth trying both to evaluate cost and performance.

> Also, storage and compute was coupled which meant I had to pay for nodes even if 99% of my data was cold.

Yes, it used to be that everything had to into Teradata's high-performance filesystem. These days, Vantage's native object storage support means that you can keep that cold data in S3.
For sure. I'm not saying that they should do this, and I'm definitely not saying that I would be self-less enough to do it, but it would be a pretty strong gesture if those in that position were to turn around and donate their severance to an activism organization.
Sure but you're making cake. You can make bread with flour and water. Yeast is already in the room around you, and while salt helps, it's not necessary.

The amylase enzymes in the flour will break down the starche into sugar when you add water, which then feeds the yeast. Adding extra sugar is an optional step.

[edited for clarity] baguettes in France contains no sugar, by law.
We're talking about the same things.
Wow that is a completely unhinged comment and seems very close to calling for violence against those who want work to be an apolitical professional environment.

Given he used to lead Twitter I have to wonder if his personal opinions are reflected in twitter’s own internal culture. Hard to trust them as a neutral platform for social discourse with such leaders at the helm.
It still boggles my mind that wheat is considered a health food. Even so called ‘whole wheat’ is mostly sugar in the form of starch polysaccharides combined with a bit of protein and unremarkable amounts of fibre.

I'm not saying that sucrose isn't worse than starch. Obviously pure sugar is worse. Fructose is significantly worse. But it's wrong to think of bread as some kind of health food when in reality it's predominantly composed of well-disguised glucose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour#Composition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch
Nuclear bombs would work even better than lockdowns. People can't die of Covid19 when they've already died from radiation and a nuclear blast.
Eating Subway everyday is exactly what they market or at least used to with pedo Jared.
Here is Subway's nutrition page for those curious: https://www.subway.com/en-US/MenuNutrition/Nutrition/Nutriti...

Most sandwiches seem to have around 7g of sugar in them. This might not appear too bad (and indeed it isn't quite as bad as the title and article may suggest), but they should have close to zero grams if you ask me.

This reminds me of how difficult it is to find simple products like bread that don't have 1-4g of added sugar in them. Last time I was looking for bread crumbs, the first three brands I looked at all had corn syrup and oil in them!
As I recall one doctor stated it: 'the food supply of our nation is poisoned'.
This is one of my favorite comments I've read here. Thanks for each of those offsetting points.
I think any topic of "settled science" has expert detractors. But a lockdown can't be a matter of settled science because it it a question of priorities and tradeoffs, not of science. That is outside the domain of science and firmly in the domain of politics and economics.
Then the government should compensate those who are staying at home because they are at risk. If the choice is between locking everyone down and compensating everyone, and just compensating those who are at risk the second option is obviously cheaper.

And regardless, I think the vast majority of those who are at risk were not working before the pandemic, so do not really need to be compensated. More than 60% of people who have died so far in Ontario are in long term care facilities. Over 85% of people who have died in Ontario are in their 70's or older (so likely retired). So the number of at-risk people we are talking about here is actually pretty small.
Ask HN: Is this normal bad or extra bad code?
My boss has been the primary and almost sole developer of a large portion of it for over 10 years, maybe 20 years in total. I am now starting to get into development of the side of the product only he's been working on, and I'm finding a lot of uglies.

I started making UML diagrams, beginning with the public API side and working my way in. When I got to one of the main interface classes, I realized a UML diagram would be pointless for most of the code.
After stripping white space and comments the header, just the class declaration was 1300 lines. 1300 lines of just variables + functions. I've started organizing it.

Other code stenches this code base has:
- Functions are regularly thousands of lines in length. There's a 5k line loop.
- Most functions don't even a have Doxygen brief on what they do. Comments are rare.
- All vectors types, which are very common, are all either raw C style arrays or double X,Y,Z.
- Descriptive variable names are rare.
- Coding style is inconsistent. kandr, snake_case and camelCase are all used.

Are these type of things common in commercial code? Or is this more of an outlier? I know open source strives for beauty.

I'm talked to my boss about how bad the code is. His response is "Well we're not paid to develop software, we're paid for the analysis." I've told him in response that Google is an ad selling company

My boss is still writing 1k+ line functions. Due to pressure, he's starting to put some more comments in using slightly more descriptive file names. On the whole however, I don't think he's happy doing it.

This is driving me up a wall. I'm scheming a lateral move to get a different supervisor, while still working on the same projects and code base. That way I can be more forceful in keeping a readable code base.

I'm considering a job move. What kind of jobs are a good fit for a mechanical engineer with this skill set?
It's not mentioned in the article, but as someone who's taken up remodeling my house as something of a hobby, it's always amazing to me to think about the amount of labor that modern power tools have removed from construction projects.

I have a book on framing carpentry, and in it the author mentions that when he first started out, all of the older carpenters had bad repetitive strain injuries from swinging a hammer for a living for decades. Not so for the younger guys who had been using pneumatic nail guns all of their careers.

I also have a theory that, in the US, this is why houses are so much larger than they used to be - the amount of labor involved to build one bigger has decreased dramatically.
In my opinion it's fine as an alternative to other fast-foods, if a little over-priced.

It's not as healthy as it sells itself as (the company is even called "Doctor's Association" or something like that); but it's fine compared to say McDonald's or random Chinese food that are usually at the same locations, at least in Europe.
Give everyone vouchers and education will be 10 times better.
I went from a Pixel 2 to the OnePlus 6t.

If you are used to the pixel series, prepare to be disappointed by the "value add" brought to android by other vendors. This device is supposed to be close to "vanilla" android, but it still has several annoying modifications that make it worse than the devices Google sells directly. Newer OnePlus devices have even more extensive changes, too.

I doubt I'll every buy a non-google Android phone again. The software and update story of the Pixel series is still the real compelling value there, and it's worth the premium.
Ask HN: Is there any hardware that allows to look at screen in bright sunlight?
(e.g. screen film + glasses) In case of Macbook Pro, the two problems are glare and brightness.
Please show your working.
In my Visual Studio I'm using Toshiba Sat 8x14 (CP437, square 1:1) from oldschool pc fonts. For me its the best.

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/#sec2-toshiba
Wait, so is malnutrition because people dont know how to feed themselves without help and so just starve during lockdown?
>If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours.

Industrial facilities don't always expect their outages.

> Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you notice a network outage, you can scale up the retention policy for the duration and then reduce it back down again after.

Better, though still a hassle to manage.
The goal keeps moving though. If I need to process TypeScript files into JS to load them in the browser, why stop at modules and not just go ahead and link and tree shake and all that too?

Maybe things will settle down and browsers will actually run the code that web developers are writing, but the way things are going I don’t see that ever happening. Likely we’ll end up coding in any language and downloading WASM.
Part of it is the texture.
Politicians love to pass off their opinions as "facts" or "settled science". It leaves your ideological opponents with less room to maneuver in.
According to Taco Bell, it's 88%, not 35% -- and the plaintiffs in that suit settled without disputing the 88% figure, changing their story to say, more or less, "all we wanted was for Taco Bell to actually give us the real number."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/04/22/1355399...

12% seasoning is still a lot by weight, to be sure -- it's something like four tablespoons per pound of ground beef -- but a lot of these "fast food companies aren't using real food!" stories get overly sensationalized, and this one never came across like it had a whole lot of there there.
Collin's Lab – Body Resistance Adafruit [video]
They said that for 2-SAT problems, the new architecture (Pegasus) works better for hard problems, whereas for simpler problems the Chimera architecture is faster.
Interestingly, the common understanding of this is somewhat false. It's not that easy to simply divorce anyone in Islam. There needs to be arbitration by both families beforehand, and a three month waiting period.

Only after that, should a divorce occur.
I feel like everyone is talking about Melbourne's lockdown as if it was their first lockdown.

This is their second lockdown. They virtually eliminated it during the first lockdown and brought the virus back in via hotel quarantine leaks (as proven by genomic testing).

There is nothing indicating that the same thing won't happen again. NSW's contact tracing team has been excellent but I have not heard anyone detail how Victoria's team is up to scratch now (a part from throwing some money at Salesforce).

There is no long-term strategy in this whatsoever, the hope is that the vaccine is available and effective before the inevitable 3rd wave hits a still highly susceptible population.
On the other hand, according to this[0] author who ported a game from assembly to C and Forth, Forth seems to drastically increase development time and perform 10-20 times worse than the equivalent assembly.

[0] http://calc6502.com/RobotGame/summary.html
The going to school /work keeping movies / bars / restaurants / massage parlours open but limiting groups / strip joints (that's happening in Ontario) feel like political compromise without any science. These powerful entities will keep their doors open the less powerful will be shutdown meanwhile they all should be shutdown or opened at the same time.
How can you all handle the low-resolution screen? I want one of those Lenovo laptops but with a higher resolution screen
Like Denmark!
challah isn't made for sandwiches...
> in my experience 95% of the dependencies of web components are... other web components

Sure, and in a single project at a single company that's probably fine. You've all agreed to standardize on a single version of Lit-Element and compile the whole project at once, so no worries.

But if the goal is to make Web Components standard units of UI across the web, such that you can grab a `color-picker` component and a `webcam-video` component and put them together into your `video-color-filter` component... well, if color-picker depends on vue and webcam-video depends on lit and you write video-color-filter in LWC, your project now depends on three web component libraries.
Also available, I think, on Amazon Bracket (and perhaps on Azure Quantum as well)
Possibly, yeah. But I think they'd benefit more from the official updates.

I'm not trying to argue that unofficial patches would be a bad thing. I just don't think a source tree from 2003 is a good place to start. Any binary you build off this codebase will be missing 16 years of microsoft's patches. Until such a project caught up with all the changes made 2003-2019, any binary you build off this is likely to cause more harm than good (eg, you fix one issue, and reintroduce every issue that was fixed after 2003.)

The idea's good. This sourcetree isn't. Let's just say 2003 was not XP's golden age. If this was at least SP3 onwards, but preferably 2014+, sure. But it's not, it's SP1.
I use and love Kitty. One of my favorite features is the ability to yank text by word anywhere in the terminal and insert (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html#shortcut-kitty.Ins...). There's also different hints that can be enacted allowing you to narrow your focus to specific items such as paths and URLs: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints.html.

I know that there are TUI tools that could make this easier, but whenever I was working on Kubernetes getting information about constantly changing pods was definitely the place where I yanked/pasted more times than anywhere else.
That's missing the point a bit.

Good PRs are valuable, but require lots of work. Spam is not valuable, but it also does not require basically any work.

Hacktoberfest equally rewards both good PRs and spam equally. With those incentives, what are people logically going to produce?
Alright, time to be contrarian: so what.

Ok, it's interesting that the law in Ireland requires a 2% or less baker's weight of sugar. And I do enjoy a good sourdough, which isn't made with any sugar, or just a pinch.

But my favourite sandwich bread is Japanese milk bread, it's soft, lovely crumb, and it browns beautifully in the pan.

It's got a lot of sugar in it, that's the secret. A random recipe I found says 18% baker's weight, which seems accurate.

Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil? The glycemic index of white flour is dire, I doubt adding sugar is going to move the needle.

Sugar in dough makes it soft, with a giving crumb, and a crust which can be brown without becoming hard.

Exactly what you want in a sandwich filled with toppings, so that they don't shoot out the back when you bite into it.

Clutch your pearls all you want about 'Subway misrepresenting healthy food'! They publish the macros of their sandwiches. It's not nearly so healthy as eggs scrambled in butter, there's a ton of carbs and not nearly enough fat.

Unless you think it's the other way around that's healthy. It's your stomach, you get to pick.
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There's so many weasel terms in bread. Even Wonderbread is Wheat bread, and multigrain could just mean wheat plus corn...
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
Are you pitching this as a service to startups or are you finding a particular startup to work with?
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is standardised across all US states, Washington, DC, and territories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
Oh, you must be new here :)

Honestly, it sounds like "normal bad" to me. I've seen worse and yeah it sucks. :(

Good luck to you though!
Market forces fix all of this. Give vouchers and let the parent's decide.
> More deep and complex than the happy world of Snoopy.

Probably because Latin America :) He was way more adult-oriented and political than Peanuts and Garfield.
Take a look at the provincial breakdown. The Atlantic provinces are in a position where kids are going to school, restrictions are being lifted, and the number of cases are in the single digits per week. For the most part, there is not spread within these provinces so efforts can focus upon verifying that people coming into the province aren't infected and ensuring the population complies with far less extreme measures so that the virus does not gain a foothold in the region yet again.

Even parts of the country with a far greater number of infections than the Atlantic provinces are seeing numbers stabilize (e.g. Alberta) or decline (e.g. British Columbia). This is not the case in Ontario, where the spread is essentially uncontrolled. Measures need to be put into place because the living will continue to suffer as long as that spread is uncontrolled, and yes the loss of life matters as well. A few weeks to stabilize the situation will ensure that lives are not lost needlessly.
It’s not unhealthy. But believe whatever pseudoscience makes you feel nice.
Starch is the chief form of dietary carbohydrate intake. Unless it's refined, if it's a carb it's probably starch.

I wouldn't call wheat a health food quite like vegetables, but it's tough to get 2,000 calories eating only broccoli.
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I've noticed that VitaminWater has a warning on it that you shouldn't drink more than two bottles of it per day in Canada. What's up with that?

/Stopped eating Subway because the bread clogs me up.
Right, and just because hospitalizations are 15% what they were at peak, doesn't mean that the case count at peak was correct -- there were likely many more unconfirmed cases at peak, as testing was not yet widely available.