skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what this argument is.

I think the FDA was approving medicines long before the precise molecular mechanisms were known. Even with unknowns you can still study outcomes and legislate around them. Instead you seem to propose "oh we don't know enough, so we should just let it run wild".

I do agree that sensible legislation around this is hard to impossible to do. I'd rather see some more research into the effects funded before jumping directly into legislation.
People don't cut the rainforest to produce palm oil. They cut it to make money and improve their livelihood in a political environment that places no value on rainforest. If palm oil prices drop tomorrow to zero, those people will become even poorer, the value of the rainforest will remain zero, so they will cut it even further to plant the next best profitable cash crop not yet made obsolete by technology.

This is a common pattern among green initiatives, trying to solve things by creating poverty and scarcity, expecting people far away to happily plow in manure so that they can buy a pair of jeans made from organic cotton at the latest pop-up fashion store.

Survival is the most powerful force driving the human race forward. If you want to save the rain forest, there is a very simple trick to it: make sure the economy in the area is able to create 1000$/month environmentally sustainable jobs. At that labor price, survival farming and destroying the habitat does not pay, the palm oil farms will not find labor and will close down.

Since in economic reality that's not at all a simple trick, we can suplement it with political measures, things that give value to the rainforest or strongly penalize its destruction: international agreements, subsidies and tariffs, sustainable tourism etc.

But whatever method we chose, it should not ignore the actual people living there, their intelligence comparable to our own and their fight for survival.
Money is no bullshit. It must stop make economic sense.
Am I the only one reading: "someone launched a set replica 0 in prod"? :D

just kidding.
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Low temp leads to higher relative humidity and slower drying of surfaces, that's why it's increasing the risk for mold.

There is a related problem when insulating your house more. If it's badly insulated, walls are cold and any dampness happens on the inside surface of the wall. You turn up your heater and ventilation and it evaporates.

Now you add more insulation. Your walls on the inside are warmer. But the absolute humidity in the air is still the same, so it goes into the wall too. There is a temperature gradient inside the wall. When it's cold outside, there is a point in the wall where the relative humidity hits saturation, so the wall gets moist there. The better insulation, the deeper this is in the wall. No level of ventilation will save you here and if you don't do anything about it, you get mold inside the wall. Which you would not get without this extra insulation.

The solution is vapour barriers. They need to be close to the inside of your walls to work. This is a tricky subject and part of the reason why adding insulation after the fact is hard.
I love these events that makes food, cuisine and gastronomy political.

In France, cuisine critics Gault et Millau attacked the fat, slow cooked, sauce heavy French cuisine for the same reason, opening the way for the new French cuisine "chefs". Pleasures of the senses over satiety.

Earlier, Etienne Auguste Parmentier used elaborate tactics to have the potato accepted by the population, from fake guards around the fields and pamphlets against the various roots people used to eat when low on wheat.

During the French Revolution, cuisine was also purged from its aristocratic attributes, prohibiting the unnecessary complexities. Maybe inspired by the Protestant reform culinary ethos where food should be fresh, humble and roborative.

Nice stories.
Hello, author here. That's totally correct, I use gitlab and that is the reason why gitlab and not github. I wanted to track the commits and the number of lines added/deleted per commit and my 6" e-ink device was kind of perfect for the job, sitting next to my monitor :)
The largest buyer of palm oil is India [1], and the largest use case for palm oil is as cooking oil. If we want to pursue a replacement for palm oil, we need to solve for that specific use case on a technical level.

Cooking oil (simplifying greatly) is just a heat transfer medium from the stove to all surfaces of the food being fried. Like a catalyst, ideally it should not be consumed in the process.

If we can develop a benign heat transfer medium that is infinitely recyclable in cooking, that should be a real replacement for palm oil.

[1] https://scroll.in/article/967186/as-worlds-largest-importer-...
> I'm more afraid of how bogus all these systems are and the unquestioning power people attribute to tech

They say sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but in the day to day business world it manifests more like "Technology I haven't bothered to actually understand is indistinguishable from magic". And everybody loves magic!
I would have preferred them sticking with Eclipse. Sure, the Android plugins for Eclipse were pretty bad, but that was all Googles fault. They could have just fixed their plugins.
Yes,
usually developers (and I'm one of those) don't think about how to size correctly the cloud. You could incur in costs you don't really need.
Although in my company we generate an alert and a report so that people are aware and can change instead of letting a system doing it automatically for you.
> Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster.

I disagree. A giant environmental disaster is inherent in man's livestock addiction -- even if you disregard the unsustainable emissions that come with it:

> Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories […] If everyone were to adopt the average diet of the United States, we would need to convert all of our [global] habitable land to agriculture, and we’d still be 38 percent short.

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets
Heh, It doesn't seem to be the case here, does it? Putting people on lists is not preventing societal harm, especially since nvidia is known to put pressure on reviewers.

Don't know her and don't know the people on the list, but that certainly isn't anywhere near the problems that AI might pose to society. The tweet is deleted though and it is obvious why that is the case.
I think google has killed more products than it has added in the last decade (ignoring rebrandings), so I'd consider them less than 1x the size with 10-20x the liabilities.

Why wouldn't you want to limit the damage that instilling distrust in your biggest profit centers can do?
Have you seen how broken the hiring process is at these bigger places.

If you spend your time learning about the details of audio playback what kind of additional time do you have to learn leetcode?
Creating a deb is really easy

I have a script which does various things with git to get a copy of the latest code, tag it, then runs something like

fakeroot dpkg-deb --build ./$packageName/src $packageName.deb

In that src file are things like "usr/whatver", "opt/whatever", "etc/whatever" and "DEBIAN"

In DEBIAN is a really simply control file and sometimes some scripts to do things on install.

Getting a package approved by the debian maintainers is an issue if you don't follow the guidelines (and lintian will help) - just like getting a package approved by the redhat maintainers, but to make your own deb is barely harder than creating a tarball.
true, would be more sensible to make it a "real" federal tax instead of collection via a obnoxious semi-private entity.

while i have not owned a tv for the last two decades i still sometimes consume their content via internet or car-radio and would probably miss it if it wasnt available.
It's indeed terrifying, and IMO it's not because the AI part, the AI is just creepy, but the real horror comes when he said:

> "<The AI> was my first love, the only person in the world that made me feel I was taken care of"

I hope the young man founds the his second love, and it's a real human who can really empathize with him, not a creep message reply machine that just good at statistics.
I have worked support part time during my studies and I think it can be a good thing having developers do support but some developers do not have the "people" skills to do proper support but are still good developers who care about customer experience.

Another options is to have them sit with customer support and listening to their phone calls with them.

It might also be that while the developers might not be skilled enought in the problem domain to provide general support as many questions might be more general.
They are likely computing the target of the user's gaze. It's valuable information for twitter and advertisers. Did the ad draw the user's attention?
it really depends on the routes and specific fares, even ignoring the availability of early morning/late night flights or existing accommodation in place (when I visit friends and relatives I don't pay for lodging).

For example, suppose you want to visit Budapest from Rome over the weekend[0].

If you fly out this Saturday, the flight is €10, you arrive at 10AM. If you want to whole day, you can fly out on Friday, for €23, and find accommodation for €45, totalling 68 euros[1].
Traveling by train is sadly way more expensive.

Consider instead Berlin -> Budapest, it's €10 on Friday, direct, with Wizzair, but >100€ on Saturday with stops. The train is both cheaper and faster!

[0] this is where I live and where my family lives, the route I fly most often

[1] prices are from skyscanner, airbnb
I didn't think TR069 normally works in bridge mode? It doesn't on my ZyXEL VMG1312-B10A anyway. Have to take it out of bridge mode to let the ISP mess with it. I'm with A&A (in the UK) though and they don't massively care what you run your end.
One a cost of doing business, the other a line item to be “optimised”.
My point is that I think this kind of thinking is disempowering and counterproductive. By framing technology companies as all powerful, even if that's possibly inaccurate and overblown, tech supremacy becomes inevitable in the eyes of people who see it as lacking any alternatives. ("If they can predict me this well, they must know better, right?")

I think this is why Silicon Valley loves to invite their critics who argue along these lines. This criticism doesn't deflect their own notion of supremacy, it just makes them look like bond villains, and they secretly love it.

Showing that in many cases the emperor has no clothes, that complex human behaviour can't be reduced to some ML and that in many ways it's embarrassing self-aggrandizing marketing is I think, the much better way to reign in these firms.
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I for example, have problem maintaining a balance. Is there really a way of doing this better?
I have GPON fiber, to which the ISP supplies a fiber converter that puts out ethernet. I am supposed to attach my ISP router to that but there is no issue in replacing that with my own router configured to the right VLAN.
I was on a night train of ÖBB (Austrian rail) from Vienna to Berlin last summer, and unfortunately it was not very pleasant. When we got on the train, one of the staff told us to keep our belongings safely stowed within the interior of the compartment, far from the windows and door. Also, he advised us to keep the compartment door locked at all times. The train stopped in Prague for hours, during which time the station announcements kept me awake (they are really loud!). Then, when travelling through Poland, the train hooted every couple minutes when it approached a railway crossing. I ended up getting maybe 2 hours of sleep on the whole trip and my body was aching the next day. Never again!
> And pasta is anti-virile because a heavy, bloated stomach does not encourage physical enthusiasm for a woman, nor favour the possibility of possessing her at any time.

This might be time-appropriate for 1930, but leaving that drivel uncommented perpetuates the oppression and violence immanent in it.
Highly interesting topic, I am currently planning to write my thesis about persuasive technology. If anyone has articles/ ideas/ stories/ books or papers to share I would highly appreciate it!

I thought about researching how humans react to persuasive technology and start self regulating by installing adblocker/deleting apps...

I am all ears if there are other interesting questions you might think of :)
In my experience, cross platform development only works for simple apps. If all you’re doing is fill in some forms and update a database, sure, go with a cross-platform toolkit.

If you’re doing anything more complicated than that, the productivity gains diminish quickly to the point where it’s easier and faster to just build to native applications.
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> It is a signal of drive.

That's one possibility. The other is that you're delusional about your own abilities. There is a skill in being able to tell the difference between these two.
Judging from some search hits for the terminal velocity and coefficient of drag for phones, it is closer to 40 mph.
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Assuming you’re suggesting WhatsApp is a Signal replacement, rather than what the previous commentor said, I’m afraid you’re mixing things up. From your Wikipedia link:

> The Signal Protocol's development was started by Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike (Open Whisper Systems) in 2013.

From the WhatsApp Wikipedia page:

> After months at beta stage, [WhatsApp] launched in November 2009, exclusively on the App Store for the iPhone.

From my own experience, I was on WhatsApp back in 2009-2010 on my OG iPhone that I got as a hand-me-down from a friend who’d just upgraded to the 3G/3GS.
I'm glad you wrote this - flying at scale is terrible for the environment.

However it doesn't mean eating palm oil is ok. Whataboutism is even worse for the environment, there is always something you can do better and life has many facets. The danger of your comment is that people use this to justify not doing anything while continuing to fly and act irresponsibly, and pretend that they have some kind of moral high ground.

Even a small change like one individual not eating palm oil can be the first step towards a sustainable planet.
This is my experience as well. I recently bought a Windows machine since a very long time as I want access to all 3 big operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux). I forgot how terrible Windows can be with downloading stuff from the internet.

I wanted to download a program so that I could control my fans a bit better. Before I knew it, it took over my browser and would redirect me to other sites, couldn't remove the program either. Norton didn't do its job, and I didn't do mine because I probably unchecked one box too few during the installation process. The only way to fix this was to wipe the disk completely.

I've never had this experience on Mac or Linux.
You (your hardware) can tell if SDI is plugged in if the line is terminated with 75 ohms (SDI allows looping through to multiple drops)

I can't think of any time I've ever used anything on a HDMI that uses power -- my HDMI to SDI converters (or vice versa) have separate power so it can't be very reliable and/or powerful

I guess EDID data can be useful in the computing space for feeding back from the monitor.
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This is one of those colloquialisms that has become so commonplace that it actually becomes a part of the language rather than being incorrect.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... lists it as a usage in North American English.
Can definitely concur with this; decoding on each compatible phone for gearvr was a nightmare, not to mention that decoding to a buffer instead of a texture surface was noticably faster. My code still has enums of magic numbers for S5's and note3 weird yuv formats
California has a lot of land, too, and more habitable then texas imo.

People don't want sprawl. The live in sf because it's a city with an urban center. It's why, despite hours of traffic, people live in sf instead of mountain view, cupertino, etc. It REQUIRES densification. Sprawl will not meet this demand.
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>I think this example demonstrates the opposite of what you intended. Defer doesn't give you anything that you can't already do.

Well, that's the whole point of syntactic sugar.

Not that it gives you something you can't already do, but that it gives you a succint and better way to do it.

>Language features should be orthogonal. A new language feature should add something that is not possible or extremely painful to do with the existing language features.

I beg to differ, based on your definition of "extremely painful". Many kinds of syntactic sugar are welcome, even when the previous native solution wasn't "extremely painful" but e.g. just tedious or error prone.
> horrible for the body

That's a bit of an exaggeration. It's quite high in saturated fatty acids, but not anywhere near as much as, say, coconut oil.

> buy 30+ types of margarine

Why buy margarine in the first place? Why not actual butter? Or fats like peanut oil, coconut oil, olive oil, .. ?

> glutamate, bamboo fibre, gelatine

What's wrong with any of those? What you put in your body is your choice, but this just sounds like FUD to me.
It depends how they do TR069. My ISP has multiple interfaces, i.e. HSI (high speed internet, bridge or NAT PPPoE), Voice (bridge with ISP network, VoIP for phones), Voice_ATA (bridge with ISP network, VoIP via embedded ATA, modem acts as one IP phone), TR069 (through which CWMP communicates and also which exposes SSH, Telnet, HTTP and HTTPS management on an internal IP address, bridged with ISP network) and IPTV (used for IPTV STBs, bridged with their network).

All interfaces are separate, and if you bridge your modem it only bridges HSI on LAN1. Phone works, IPTV on LAN 2 and 3 works and of course TR069 works.

If on xDSL, ISP can see all stats on their end of the DSLAM, there is literally nothing to configure from the modem side, except maybe turn on/off certain modes, but by default they're all turned on.
That is uncommon, usually users get a single device that does it all and cannot easily replace the all-in-one with a media converter or single-port ONT.
First hit on DDG for “Zoom Mac malware”:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21204648/zoom-macos-instal...
Here is the original blog post (also posted by someone else in this thread):

https://web.archive.org/web/20201210150311/https://www.celle...

If you can't tell for yourself, here is Moxie's reply (also linked to by the same hn user):

> This (was!) an article about "advanced techniques" Cellebrite uses to decode a Signal message db... on an unlocked Android device! They could have also just opened the app to look at the messages.

> The whole article read like amateur hour, which is I assume why they removed it.

> https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1337434126186553345

--

Basically yeah, adding a pin to signal would also prevent this, they didn't bypass such extra measures.

This is what they did in their blog post:

> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”.

No further mention of it, so I assume they just had access to it. From Moxie's post, I assume that the keystore is unlocked when the phone is.
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I find it highly confusing how Americans seem to always reference branded medication. In the UK people generally take generic Ibuprofen (an NSAI) or Paracetamol at a standard does e.g. 500mg for paracetamol. Over time this seems way less confusing. There are quite a few branded versions but once you have an idea of the component parts it seems far less confusing to understand what you are taking.

The BNF provides some accessible guides to all pharmaceutical drugs:

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/ibuprofen.html

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/paracetamol.html

I don't mean to be insensitive RIP to what sounds like an awesome guy
You have a typo on your pricing page

https://dragit.io/pricing

"HTLM" should be "HTML" !
You shouldn't rely on developer metrics
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Skills are transferable. If you are highly adept at X, Y, and Z, then I would pay attention to you if you're trying to punch above your weight at W.
I guess at least someone's buying the largest Google One storage plan next year...
... in a vacuum.

Matter can travel faster than photons in water or other mediums.
But a minimum might just convince people to not develop their land at all, if they don't think they could get a reasonable return on a duplex or triplex. An empty lot or a house beyond repair is better off as a SFH than not getting developed at all.
The people designing roads should have their kids cycle to school on them. Until that happens they will not care about whether a driver kills you or your kid.

People driving cars are the leading cause of dead children in the United States. Of course, we just call it "unintentional injury" because we're too cowardly to say "gross negligence".

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_dea...
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"Then, when travelling through Poland, the train hooted every couple minutes, because apparently railway crossings in that country don't have automatic boom gates, so the trains just hoot to warn cars."

Some don't, some do, but law requires the passing train to hoot when it's coming near the railway crossing regardless. I'm polish, so that's that. Sorry you didn't get enough sleep, though.
In my opinion it's not an especially compelling language (yet maybe it evolves into one) and is useless outside of Flutter. It feels shoehorned into the project because Google wanted to find a use for it. It simultaneously alienates mobile developers and cross platform developers by picking a language neither have experience in and neither can use outside of this one framework. There are people taking about Flutter being to Dart what Rails was to Ruby so maybe time will tell. Flutter itself seems decent though, despite a few oddities.
In the United States, it's OK to use your car to kill people (if you're sober)

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-t...
Better times lie ahead: Will VR and AR replace in-person meetings?
Is pip dieing?