skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
surprised Pikachu face

Does Google have any more space in their graveyard?
I didn’t even know this existed in the first place.
Slack will continue to be Slack[1] according to the CEO which doesn't signal a culture change.

1. https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1333901111254675456
The link to the clang pointer auth doc is broken, Apple changed their default branch name to 'main' instead of 'master'. A (more?) permanent link is [1].

[1] https://github.com/apple/llvm-project/blob/73ea7cb9eba3196ae...
> You really should use a tool that respect the semantics of the language.

What tool are you referring to? If one does not exist, why is that?
There's a hint in the desk drawer (you need to zoom in even further to see it) that is a reminder to change the passcode.

Similar to a TODO comment... it just never got done.
Sure, but you need to break all your speed at arrival with rocket engines. Not a big difference for regular trips from Earth - no need to make these more quickly than the regular few days.

But say you are coming back from Mars and want to land on a Moon base or even just dock to a lunar space station. Now you have to brake all the excess interplanetary speed with your engines! And that might be quite a lot, especially if you opted for going faster to reduce the transit time.

But if you are arriving with the same speed at Mars, you can use the atmosphere for aerocapture first without having to brake all that speed with engines. And people might do that for Moon bound trips as well - first do an aerocapture to an excetric Earth orbit using Earths atmosphere and only then adjust the resulting orbit for Moon encounter. That should reduce the raking requirements quite a lot.

For that reason I can imagine future interplanetary ships always having a degree of aerodynamic capability, so they can make use of the atmosphere to slow down when needed. Even if they are not really made to land on a body with atmosphere.
They are just growing fetal cells in a vat are they not? There doesn't seem to be anything novel or synthetic about it. They are actual animal cells, just grown in a vat instead of a traditional animal.
One can ensure people have their due representation without making DC state. e.g., giving DC special senators and representatives in House (with regular voting powers) without making DC state (and thus keeping US congress exclusive jurisdiction over DC).
Yes because how else will Google employees get their bonuses?

The question is whether the products started in 2021 will last until 2022...
Both sides need to be doing this. So many un-cited "AWS is cheaper overall" estimations, with hand-wavey "but you have to hire more IT staff" as their justification.

Plus, articles which do the TCO calcuations (there was one recently that pointed out a 200% premium for AWS) are still derided because people really prefer to argue with their feelings on this topic.

We get it, you don't want to run your own infrastructure. How much is that distaste worth to your company?
“Japan never imposed the sweeping lockdowns seen in many other parts of the world, largely relying on mask-wearing, hand-washing and avoidance of indoor crowding to keep the virus relatively under control.“

It’s really hard to describe how hard the Japanese Government has bungled the coronavirus response. It’s actually quite perplexing.

They really know how to keep the population guessing, it’s hard to get tested, the numbers all are dodgy and conveniently changing. There’s a three day lag in the data. It’s seriously mind blowing my bad.

Peope don’t feel comfortable because no one knows what’s really going on in Tokyo and to add to all the confusion, there’s a domestic travel campaign ongoing nation wide which encourages travel...insane.
>We appreciate you trusting us to host your assets and provide a space where they can shine.

Well, I guess that was a mistake for whoever did.

That almost reads like a hint of self awareness for their continued killing of things they release.
> You do realize math can handle units of measurements/dimensions just fine, do you?

Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about. Kelvin don't support the addition operator. You can pretend it's not Kelvin/Celsius, do something with the number, and add back the unit if you like, but it won't have any physical meaning.

> Yes, average temperature does have unambiguous meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_constant

... in an ideal gas model you can have a meaning adding and averaging k*T with k a magical constant that transforms your intensive property into extensive (energy)

> You can add speeds by their very definition

Definition of time derivation of the position function ? Yeah well [length]/[time] don't add up that's it. You need to first give a meaning to the addition operator of [length]/[time]. I'm talking in one dimension, of course if you can prove this then going 2D or 3D is easy
Maybe Google should label those experimental products more clearly, so users are aware and align expectations.
Pretty much no Google products support themselves apart from GCP and Search.
Classic Google. Announcing shutting down of service no one has even heard before.
Doesn't work with event handlers: https://remove-js.com/http://14.rs
No, it has not. It is easy to understand.
Didn't really know about this platform, but to me it looks like it could perfectly be kept in some kind of read-only mode without costing all that much for Google.
At this point, why is anyone relying on Google APIs (or even GCP!) for serious work? It feels like Google is contempt with Search, Ads and Android.
If they’re going to kill them at the same rate? Yes.
Experimenting is fine. shutting down good products and replacing them with inferior ones (and adding a chat messenger in every product) is not.
Not to release products without a plan to support them for a certain amount of time.
This is a dangerous experiment but there is a way to make this safe. Animals can eat things that humans can't like grass cellulose. Biology is ridiculously complex and they have no idea what the full list of vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and proteins required to make up a human. Example: Nobody talks about choline or vitamin K. They don't know if humans even have the biological machinery to process some of those things. Example: Males convert ALA to EHA and DHA worse than females. Male vegans do worse than female vegans.

The only way to make this safe is by testing performance on mice or rats fed lab-grown meat vs. regular meat. Testing needs to be done at a high level(how long did take mice to travel the maze) and not at a low level(for a specific vitamin). Do not let them turn us into their experiment. You will suffer death by a thousand cuts if this food isn't good.

Regardless, this is pretty cool and very useful if successful but proper tests need to be put in place.
Yeah, it's not answering questions, it's giving the best answers which they could find themselves. It doesn't means it's the actual answer, nor that it's to the actual question, that's up to you to confirm.

Google isn't an encyclopedia, it's a search engine. It search inside content and try to find the best content that fit your criteria, it could be from trustworthy source, or not, it could be right or wrong on what you meant. For sure their goal is to give you the closest thing to what you asked, with the best sources, but it's not a guarantee, so it shouldn't be trusted as such.

It's crazy that we all came from the "don't trust Wikipedia" and now some people are arguing that we should be able to trust Google results directly.
Well, we could use = explicitly. Write a blank in an equation to mean "the thing that fills in this blank", ex. [_+1=2]=1. So

x^y = [x^y = _]
z^(1/y) = [_^y = z]
log_x(z) = [x^_ = z]

The first four identities from the post are

[x^_ = x^y] = y
x^[x^_ = z] = z
[_^y = x^y] = x
[_^y = z]^y = z

The next two are (the nested [] confirm these are more complicated)

[[_^y = z]^_ = z] = y
[_^[x^_ = z] = z] = x

Generalizing

[f(x) = _] = f(x)
[f(_) = f(x)] = x
f([f(_) = x]) = x
[f(_, [f(x, _) = y]) = y] = x
Exponentiation isn't commutative, so each position on the triangle matters. For multiplication there would be two equivalent triangle states for instance since you can swap xy=z and yx=z. Not saying its a bad idea though.
The critical issue with animal farming is not the issues that many vegans are focused on (cruelty, exploitation, etc), it’s climate change. The general population wants to eat meat, and finding a way to produce it with fewer greenhouse gas emissions is critical to address that.
I'm not going to lose sleep over it. It's just a trained response to how sensitive we are about it in the local area. Motor oil spills are a big deal because they are more than just a fraction of the crude oil - they contain various toxic additives including heavy metals and can affect the local watershed.

I realize it's still likely a drop in the proverbial bucket. :(
Perhaps a dating app, that helps the suicidal find love would help. If you feel rejected by your society, a bridge to another society might help.
For me, fiction books are the worst of all of them. When I get into a series of fiction books, I tend to get so obsessed that I stay up all night reading, often multiple nights in a week.

That rarely happens to me with TV or video games. I haven't read a fiction book in about 10 years because I swore them off entirely. I typically watch about an hour of TV as I wind down for the night, and I often play hours of video games if I can (often child care obligations interfere). But at least I can do those things without losing sleep.
Orwell noticed it 75 years ago:

> England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.

though since the 2016 vote the visible self-loathing on the internet has vastly increased

it's utterly relentless and I personally find it extremely boring that any articles with any positive mention of the UK (no matter how slight) are always swamped with the same self-loathing commenters
This time it’s not the “fill out a CAPTCHA to gain access” thing, but rather the more aggressive “no, you just flat-out can’t access this site” form.
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I guess it's uncomfortable to accept that all choices you make DO have some sort of opportunity cost, and I guess I am not too surprised by the backlash against this 'college kid' on this thread. But I think the point he makes is worth raising and reflecting on (and maybe if you focus on temperance and not abstinence, it's a little easier to consider).

I think one could complain that the author doesn't credit some of the positives/educational or artistic value in video media (then again, netflix's 'hit engineering' is not necessarily optimizing for those if they don't increase addictive engagement) and that maybe he should consider reading and reflecting on things like Bertrand Russell's essay, [In Praise of Idleness](https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/)

But anyhow, after you finish the Mandalorian, reflect on how much you liked it maybe, and then reflect on what it cost you. If you aren't working on a cure for cancer or something, maybe it was in budget, but asking the question either way seems like a good practice to consider adopting
Thanks, that’s super helpful! And sorry you had to jump through hoops regarding your account.
Solved it, was fun. But how would a personal account set up a direct debit?
I vouched you up if only because I'm a sucker for more feeds of interesting information; even if they are compromised. The twitter link is intriguing, if more than a little questionable.

For others: this poster has a rather China-friendly post history and negative overall karma for it.

Consider yourselves forewarned. ;)
What makes you think no one cares about micronutrients in food, or that no rules for food quality are enforced?

White rice in the US is required by law to be enriched [1]. The FDA heavily regulates food in the US, leading to some of the highest quality food in the world.

Perhaps you don't live in the US. If you do live in the US, I highly recommend taking some time to learn about the things you talk about in online forums. Spreading BS around isn't helpful for anyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rice
After Minimalism
"There is no substitute for eggs at the moment AFAIK"

It depends on what form you're using the eggs in.

I don't think there's any substitute for hard-boiled eggs, or sunny-side-up fried eggs, for example.

However, tofu-scrambles make a good substitute for scrambled eggs, in my experience.

There are also a million substitutes for eggs in baking.

"despite many probably pointing me to all the oat/nut/soy milk replacements none of them comes even close to real milk for me"

Ok, they might not taste like milk per se, but I find some soy milk and other nut milks taste much better than ordinary milk.. though different. Many of them do tend to be sweeter, and I personally like that.. they taste more like a dessert to me, which I'm usually fine with.

Glucose is a problem, but there's no reason they couldn't use sugar substitutes, of which there are many (though unfortunately some of the best, like tagatose, are still pretty expensive).
I blame their website for the mixup. they forgot a newline.
Make the source code publicly available under a permissive open source license so the community can run the software.
Scrape/generate a read-only archive of the site and host the static files for the next ~2 years before finally dropping the domain.
yep just found that! thanks!
[..] Hernandez came from very humble beginnings. He immigrated from Mexico and was a migrant farmworker as a kid. He picked tomatoes in a field near 8 Mile Road in Lodi. Traveling from one town to the next picking crops.

One day in 1972, Hernandez's father made sure his son watched the Apollo 17 mission. To see it clearly, Hernandez was tasked with holding the antenna to get a good picture on the tv.
[..]
But, his father gave him a more important lesson one day in the family car after a day of hard work. He wanted his son to think about the difficulties of life in the fields versus getting an education.

"He said I'm not going to force you to go to school, much less get good grades," said Hernandez. "But if you're wondering what your future is like without an education he said welcome to your future."[..]

In 1997, he co-developed the first, full-field digital mammography imaging system for early detection of breast cancer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He says this is his greatest accomplishment.

"I know it has saved thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives," Hernandez said.[..]

This is the power of education. Ag robotics luddites reject automation because it would deprive jobs.

They fret. “What would happen to jobs!!”

“What would poor people do to support themselves?”

Well. They would get an education and do higher paying jobs suitable for humans. I don’t think any farm worker who is a parent wants their child to become a farm labourer.

It’s time to change Ag. And relieve people from the yoke of manual labour for minimum wage.
Yes, it's in ECS, which is why I said "like ECS"

I'm asking for Lambda to have externally supplied secrets
[Citation needed]?

For the soy at least.

The issue is really eating processed crap off the shelves than the ingredients as per se, e.g. does any get obese from fresh pasta?
Japan could really use that with its birth rates.
"Declassify everything," seems ever more sensible.
I can’t help but think about that episode from “Better Off Ted“ where they do this exact same thing.
The male increase looks more in line with the prior year fluctuations. The female increase is way more pronounced. Though I think universally, male suicide count is always higher, regardless of country.
2025: Google Search is shutting down
This really hammers home the advantage of this notation. It leads naturally to the question, "What is the operation when we leave the bottom right constant?" which Grant calls "O-plus" (tex call it \oplus), which is in fact related to the harmonic mean (which is n times the o-plus of the terms). I don't know if there's a better term for "o-plus" other than "reciprocal sum of reciprocals". Maybe "optical sum" which kind of makes o-plus make even more sense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_equation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sums_of_reciprocals
Yet another Google service which I only know about by reading the news that it is shutting down. This one looks pretty great. Would be nice to see announcements when those things are launching, not when they are shutting down ;)
Wonderful! pdfgrep is good but slow.
I don't think Beyond Meat is lab-grown meat, as far as I'm aware it is not made from actual animal cells but just a mix of plant-based ingredients like the ones listed.
Good? Or an option for the employer to ditch the employee before he goes on paid sick leave because of the burn out?
Notation is extremely important for humans.

That's why math notation is used instead of the extremely wordy sentences that were used centuries ago.
Any DIY applications are very illegal in the US. There is basically nothing you can do with this dish other than it's original purpose that doesn't make you a felon.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.

I've submitted it to HN with a more to-the-point title, as I thought the community might find the original title too clickbaity.
Couchbase adds Distributed Transactions support in N1QL
They are part of a political system that currently needs to prove itself with PR stunts.

Other agencies do not feel that need, realise approval is currently not on the critical path (manufacturing is), and allow themselves two weeks more.
> the numbers all are dodgy

> There’s a three day lag in the data

Do you truly need deaths as they happen by the minute?
Every time Google is shutting down a product there are the same kind of reactions like “I will not trust google running anything more than a year”, “killedbygoogle.com”.

I’m wondering, have you ever heard about this product? I for one have no clue what this is. How many more products does google have that you never heard about and that are not shut down?
beyond meat is plant based meat substitute, not lab grown meat.
Blood Glucose on Admission Predicts Covid-19 Severity in All
I guess I can't speak for the movement as a whole, but the vegan/vegetarian activists I know aren't very pragmatic. they tend to take a very all-or-nothing approach to convincing people.

I guess this is a personal moral failing, but I just can't commit to never ever eating meat, cooking with butter, etc. what I can do is stuff like saving meat for special occasions (or when I'm served it at someone else's place), and substituting olive oil for butter. the two things I have a really hard time cutting back on eggs (such a great way to get protein in the morning) and milk for my coffee.

anyways, I feel like "consume less" is a much easier message to sell than "consume none". I wonder if it wouldn't be more impactful to convince a large group of people to consume less than to persuade a small group of die-hards to abstain altogether.
Three new messaging apps.
> I don't see the word "sorry" or "apologize" anywhere in there.

Good. Apologies have become so watered down as to be meaningless. Just fix the problem, tell us how the problem was fixed, and move on. Looks like that's what they did. Good on them.
Shortwave radio in high frequency trading. (2018)
rga also indexes them when you search. To be honest I like that approach a lot more since it saves space and I generally know where I'm looking for things

ls -sh ~/.cache/rga/
total 336M
336M data.mdb 4.0K lock.mdb
Thanks, that made sense. It never occurred to me that there are two kids involved and that the calendar is clickable.
Fun fact: Iomega Zip drives were prone to prion disease. Specifically, a damaged read/write head would damage the surface of the disk, and when the disk was subsequently inserted into a working drive the damage on the disks surface damage the head of the new drive. Rinse, repeat.
Now that is a Freudian slip!
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I wonder what will happen to TiltBrush after this?
Beyond is not culturing cells in a vat though. They are not 'Lab-grown meat' they are a meat alternative made from stuff we do understand. Things like Impossible and this article are a whole different category of new stuff we may not fully understand yet.
Why do you believe this out of curiosity? Every single "long term covid" symptom study I've read are case studies. The UK one from the publication in Charlottesville covered 60 distinct people and they were all either high risk workers or over 55.

We don't know what "permanent damage" is actually happening. I remember having pneumonia in the 90s and it took my lungs over 3 months to recover, and that's from a normal known infection.

I think there is a strong case to be made, that a lot of these "long covid" cases might be a combination of normal pneumonia recovery, nocebo effect and fear/hysteria over this disease.
The article says they are simply replicating chicken cells taken from live animals, not creating "synthetic novel proteins."
In which case it should be easy for you to explain, yes?
Not yet, it’s too crappy :). I only get to it every once in a while and it shows.

As an example, until last weekend, I would just hardcode an access token rather than doing an oauth dance. Luckily, tame-oauth [1] from the folks at Embark was reasonably easy to integrate with.

I also got a little depressed that zargony/rust-fuse was stuck on an ancient version until I learned that Chris Berner from OpenAI had forked it earlier this year to modernize / update it [2].

[1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/tame-oauth

[2] https://github.com/cberner/fuser
I mean the effects would have been immediate, rather than say “develops cancer in 20 years”. Though I guess the narcolepsy took about a month to develop. I suspect there will be much more monitoring and speed with these vaccines than with the swine flu vaccine.

The mechanism for the narcolepsy was a protein present in the virus itself. So actually getting the flu would have been much worse for those with the genes that made them susceptible.

It doesn’t sound like mRNA vaccines would have this vulnerability. Though I do take your point that it’s possible something like the swine flu narcolepsy event would only be found after the fact. However that would be a pretty small consequence since in this case the flu also would have caused worse narcolepsy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562845/