skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, many asians know that over-consumption of MSG leads to the symptoms that are now "racist" to discuss.

Here's popular chef (and half-Japanese) J Kenji Lopez-Alt discussing how he experiences "MSG Symptom Complex" rarely, and that his Japanese grandmother was intimately familiar with the idea that msg overconsumption could those symptoms

https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1291880511577546753

https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1291882403506475008

The racism angle totally takes over people's minds and this has quickly become a "taboo" subject where any questioning of the new order makes you a villainous racist, even though the science very clearly does not rule out msg causing these symptoms and concludes "more research is needed".

Is what it is, I'm pretty left-leaning in most ways, marched with BLM, and aggressively vote for racial equality: but I guess I'm a racist for not believing that this is settled science. And, as you mention, many east asians must also apparently be racist against themselves.
Yet they somehow roll out some crazy new memoji or drawing feature every year

Their priorities are just in the wrong place
There's an entire field (although a small one) dedicated to this called Evolutionary Psychopathology. The idea is that mental illnesses are failure modes of adaptive phenotypes. For example high functioning autistic couple could produce a severely autistic child.
In my opinion the shift from desktop to mobile across the wider industry took the wind out of Gnome's sails (and desktops in general, no matter the platform). It feels like there's been very little (visible) progress made on any desktop in the last 10 years.
> I have used XFCE/Mate/Plasma/Unity

I've also used a couple of DEs. Unity aside, GNOME is bold enough to stick out and do something different. The GTK human interface guidelines result in apps that are something different (also usable!) and the activities view is a genuinely awesome approach to alt+tab.

KDE is just windows and a bunch of panels. It's expertly put together, but there's really nothing more to it than that. Rainmeter can do much the same that it can on Windows.
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More generally, is there a known correlation between kernel panics and exploits, especially on macOS?

> Almisshal’s device shows what appears to be an unusual number of kernel panics (phone crashes) between January and July 2020. While some of the panics may be benign, they may also indicate earlier attempts to exploit vulnerabilities against his device.
I think CVD graphene (grown, production-scale stuff) has gotten to decent quality these days. There's much more to these devices than graphene, however.

You may have noticed that literally every experimental paper on this stuff has Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi as authors. This is because they grow the best hBN crystals in the world and they give them for free to pretty much any researcher who asks nicely. This is amazing and without them the whole field would be way worse off. Their crystals are the bulk sort that needs scotch tape to use, much like graphite needs scotch tape to isolate graphene. I don't think CVD hBN is nearly as good as their stuff yet. The hBN provides an encapsulating dielectric for the graphene, and is critical to getting high-quality devices.

That's just one example of a problem with scaling this stuff, and there are others as well. The field is working to improve these things though, since right now it's super difficult to reproduce any given piece of physics. I think at this point there are exactly 3 ferromagnetic TBG devices in the world, for instance.
Thank you very much for the suggestions! I have been solving coding challenges almost every day, and revising common topics in computer science and topics that are specific to the sector I'm hoping to get a job in.

I can solve basic challenges on websites like LeetCode, HackerRank, etc. within 10 minutes with cleanly-written code; and problems with medium difficulty take me less than 30 minutes. I so do harder problems, too, I can either solve them (within a reasonable amount of time) or not depending on whether or not I can map onto something I already know. But whenever I'm given a coding tests I just suddenly don't seem to be able to do any of that anymore. :(

Because of what you and others have said, I am starting to think that a time limit and the setting/atmosphere is the trigger. I will definitely practise more!

I'm not too sure about interviewing at companies that I have no desire to actually work for because it feels like I am just wasting their time for my own gain. That's just a personal opinion, and there may be mutual benefits I haven't considered, and I would gladly change my mind if that's the case.
I don't know if this is accurate or romanticized, but my perception is that in the past people who wanted to live as artists were able to do so as long as they were willing to give up some material comfort. For example, maybe they could work a day job (stereotypically waiting tables) and still make enough money for a studio in a bad part of town.

It doesn't seem like that's the case today. Unless you have a profession or work multiple jobs (both of which prohibit having enough time to seriously pursue art) you are completely priced out of America's cosmopolitan cities.
But coeliacs disease is a real thing, whereas there is no evidence that MSG sensitivity is, so they are not comparable.
Great. Install average-speed cameras using number plate recognition and fine the crap out of anyone doing 100mph.
I'm curious if the supposed Theory of Mind impairments only apply when Autistic people theorize about Neurotypical minds, which are different from their own.

My guess is that when theorizing about another Autistic person mind, which is similar to their own, they might actually do quite well because they have their own mind to use as a base to work from, just like Neurotypical people have their own mind to use as a base when theorizing about another Neurotypical persons mind.

Similarly, I'd say your average neurotypical person would have difficulties theorizing about whats going on inside an Autistic persons mind.

If I'm right, then the difference in Theory of Mind in my view would be more of a difference than an fundamental impairment.
Yeah I never heard that term before reading these comments. I remember back in the late eighties the jokes about MSG were like (and about as lame as) the jokes about tryptophan in turkey. I don’t recall it ever being a critique of Chinese people, but of the Americanized Chinese junk food (e.g General Tzo’s chicken), very much so. The same way people criticize(d) chicken McNuggets. Nobody ever spoke down about expertly done Peking duck that I recall.
Show HN: Make your own help center (Intercom UI) with Airtable
Hello

Now you can create your own help center pages with same UI of Intercom using Airtable.

Demo
https://sites.hyperlyst.com/public/p01FhT1RGeepopO02nEyOjWmjTJ3/project/intercom/

Airtable Base
https://airtable.com/shrCmTj7ma1whzk8h

You can try it here
https://app.hyperlyst.com/

Hope you like it.
> That isn't radical change.

You're looking at it through modern lens.

That was radical change at the time. They literally fought a war over it.
Its not just arts. Its a winner take all in most industries globally now. Lots of huge corps dominate everything, not many local or even regional businesses.
They’re not great, even in the US. A friend in Berkeley pays 2x as much and gets 50x the speed (and her connection is symmetrical!).

My point was that my prices are going down and my speeds are going up, which was not the experience of the commenter I was responding to.
I don’t believe that is correct: Sony Ericsson had the UIQ3 interface on top of Symbian — my favourite phone of all time, the M600i ran it. That was 2005, 2006. A few more UIQ3 smartphones were released after that, as well.
Software's not so different. Particularly, but not only, when it has a GUI.
Maybe there was less of it and more filters?

We have an abundance of new media. Making music went from needing a studio and finding a record label to needing nothing but a PC or even just smartphone and you can upload it to youtube or 50 other services.

Video is trivial as well though movies still take more effort than most are willing to put in but even so, the number of new movies or TV shows per year is way way up AFAICT.

Games is insane when you add in smartphones. Just like videos, games got easier to make. There are ~20k new games a month on smartphones. Sure, a game like GTA5 or Cyberpunk 2077 takes 400+ people multiple years, but just like video, documentaries that used to take a larger team of people are now regularly created by individuals and uploaded to youtube. Same with games. Lots of great indie games created by 1-4 people in 3 to 9 months. Especially with Unity and Unreal.
>You have to start somewhere

Then start with yourself. I'm not condoning Israel's actions but punishing them for what we still do is tyranny.
I find it interesting how I got down voted for pointing out the same thing as you basically (just you did it with regards to China's report your neighbor program, while I pointed towards East Germany's report your neighbor and family program).

Now I totally get why I was down voted because obviously what East Germany and by extension the Russians did there was obviously bad and the UK has legitimate reasons and no ill intentions. After all its terrorism, right?

But look at it from a different perspective and it quickly becomes quite different. The East German state actors would have seen themselves exactly as the UK does now, completely in the right because they definitely are trying to find terrorists that are trying to undermine the East German state.

From there on it's a slippery slope and no doubts that the two are quite different cases in the end. But there's way too many parallels and if you want to tell me that there's not way too much potential for abuse, be my guest.

In case it was for lack of references here you go everyone: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

Unlike China where this is current we have access to the "internals" with the Stasi and Germans can request their "Stasi Akte" (their Stasi case file to see what info the state had on them back when).

If you're into theatrical documentary style instead try to find a copy of "The Lives of Others" to watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
Pure conjecture. But let’s say solar winds is using a known popular build server, and this build server was only ever going to be accessed by internal resources and employees.

Then let’s say this build server had an unusually high usage of build plugins. And the upgrading of that product was difficult and sometimes troublesome because of these custom plugins and their interdependencies. And so they at some point they missed an upgrade or two on accident, or because upgrading is hard.

Now they are running an build server with several know vulnerabilities. But because that build server isn’t public. It’s really no big deal that it’s a bit out of date. Until it is.
Chinese food prominently features MSG. Chinese food is served in Chinese restaurants. MSG (and most foods containing natural glutamate) has been identified as a common migraine trigger in individuals sensitive to them, and this is just one symptom among many grouped under the term.

“Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” is the end result of this chain of logic, grounded not in racism, but in fact.
As someone that isn't a developer, I wonder how many zero days come from people inside the software team. To simply have knowledge of a difficult bug that hasn't been resolved would seem to be valuable commodity in a closed source system.
I do, but these things never seem to be indexed to inflation. Perhaps they don’t want to overtly politicize how we calculate inflation?
I've used a cheapo Aroma rice cooker for most of my life and I think the rice tastes awesome. I've never questioned what I'm missing out on until I read this article. Sure, the fuzzy-logic sounds like a big selling point, but now I'm questioning how much better the rice actually tastes with the smarts built into these more expense cookers (vs me just thinking the rice is better because more work went into its automated cooking).
Given that that's how the us elections work, it seems like plots of people have considered a good approach
Pilots of the Pacific Graveyard
Perhaps there's a good reason for that. Not all ideas are created equal, and the proliferation of mass shootings in the states should serve as a strong signal that our gun laws are dumb.

Somehow, the conversation has stalled here because some people actually believe they're going to protect their freedoms with violence. You know, by fighting against a government equipped with stealth bombers and death drones and navy seals. With their hunting rifles.

I served in the army. The idea that civilians could put up anything of a fight is a fantasy more ridiculous than kung fury. What keeps you safe from "the government" is that soldiers are taught that they are there to serve and that American citizens are off-limits, not that they are somehow quivering in their boots about losing a fight with your cute little club of weekend warriors that play dress-up in the woods with walkie talkies.
I have a high school classmate who played pro football for a couple of years. I never got the impression his parents did that much for him to subsidize foodball; it's not like rich parents trying to train their kids to be world-class squash players. It still could have been a $500-$5,000 per year subsidy, though.
Epoch Times has spread anti-vax and QAnon conspiracy theories. They should be banned from HN and no one should get Covid information from them.

The author of this piece has a tweet[1] from only a few days ago that is an unabashed, blatant, verifiable lie[2][3].

Let's keep propaganda off this site, if we can.

1. https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1340038631055110144

2. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scotus-punts-trump-bid-exclu...

3. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-census-trump-...
Whether the actions are technically illegal doesn't really matter unless we are already punishing anyone that breaks those laws. In your hypothetical, we would be punishing Somalia when Italy did the exact same thing unpunished.
Uncle Roger loves MSG https://youtu.be/k9bJXXCmCYM?t=128. Get some, it makes everything taste great.
If you just want to learn and try it, you can always do it in a Linux VM.

My general development skill (in Linux or otherwise) has definitely improved since I became a Linux native. But that didn't happen overnight.
I should be clear in stating that my life hasn't been a bowl of cherries. Asperger's is at the core of a looooong list of problems I've had with interpersonal relationships, whether it's family, friends, co-workers, roommates, etc. I'm sort of intolerant of being treated unjustly or being taken advantage of, and I react rather nastily to those who cross me. (And before you judge me, know that people with Asperger's have a knack for finding these situations. Exploited by coworkers? It really happens. Undesirable roommates who've physically threatened me? Been there more than once. Physical altercations as a kid, refusing to back down from bullies? Too many times to count. Screwed up relatives? I have many.)

But I don't care to use the word disabled in describing myself. Being unable to keep my mouth shut in the face of something I don't agree with doesn't qualify as a disability. My sensory issues aren't anything I ask for accommodations for. That I prefer to spend more time away from people than the average bear is not a disability. And in the context of autism, it's hard to use the word disabled and not have people place limitations on what one can/can't do. So, I don't use the word. And just consider myself different.

I recognize that there are people deeply offended by people like me, who are at the higher-functioning end of the spectrum and refuse to consider themselves disabled. (They see us as impostors.) There are also many people who take offense to the term lower/lesser functioning, and resent the use of terms like "severe autism". They consider this language to be demeaning. Autistic twitter is quite the landmine for semantic wars of this sort.
By and large, if you desire tasteful things, there are heaps of sites offering forums for your kind of discussion. They come with nice gatekeepers too, as long you do not step on toes.

What there are too little of, are venues for discussion of the _perfectly legal but not necessarily tasteful, pleasant or genial things_. We have way too many walled gardens which are bent upon imposing their worldview on their patrons. We need a lot less of that.

Time and again we are reminded that taking away plentiful online venues for the discussion of things wont just make such discussions disappear or people holding unwelcome views go away for good.

In short, we need perfectly legal and lawful 'cesspools' and fewer curated and coercive walled gardens.
Yeah, I often don't feel the need to click the link after reading the comments, but sometimes I do and I am frequently disappointed to find only a few paragraphs of content or a superficial introduction to the subject.
It's unclear to me what this has to do with fuzzy logic, other than clever marketing.
Kind of odd to have this here and arguments about the accuracy using "gradient descent" vs "back propagation" both on the same HN front page. Fuzzy Logic is mostly a marketing term, and although it may still exist other machine learning/estimation tools exist that seem to completely subsume it. If I remember correctly some fundamental aspects of fuzzy-set theory are still unproven and possibly shown undecidable.

To be honest this is more a hearkening back to the 90s retro take on The Beloved Old Fuzzy Logic of yesteryear and ignoring it's rot of irrelevance than any actual evaluation of the technology... "The smartest appliance I have ever owned". A spring and a magnet do almost as well.
I was under the impression that ipfs defaults to pinning added files? If that's the case, then many wouldn't be aware of the act, or could be said to have chosen to pin a particular item if the service adds instead of cats.
What I can recommend against is heavily modifying GNOME 3. The extension system tends to break with major updates.
Again, the key is understanding that the reads or sequences are long, hahaha. For reads, the length of the sequences are on the order of 100-1000bp in length. This is not captured by the QWERTYUIOP example.

It's also important to understand that it's impossible to obtain an error-free sequence (I am ignoring nanopore sequencing, which works differently, for the purposes of this comment), and that the assembly of all these reads is a game of probabilities.

The DNA fragment sequences are even longer than the reads.

Nobody said this was easy! Hehe.
> We don't have numbers for the 888 yet

The 888 uses the same Cortex-A55 cores mentioned above (the same core all the Android SOCs have been using for a couple of years now) with Apple having a 4x performance win at the same power levels.
Hm, CodenameOne is actually something I was planning on making use of at some point in the future. I’m (solo) working on a Swing app that I want to bring to mobile, so it seemed like a good fit to convert to it or write a branch that used it. Is it actually a dumpster fire to be wary of?
Things I haven't considered. Thanks.
I'm seriously considering switching over to a Shadow PC and downsizing my home computing needs. Reasons:

- It's relatively cheap, starts under $200/yr. It would take years to equal the cost of an equivalent system.

- Like most cloud services they'll upgrade the hardware over time.

- I can log into my exact same workstation from anywhere, on any device and even pick up from where I last left off.

- I can upgrade to more powerful GPUs if I need, up to absolutely state of the art 30xx level. The base level has a 1080 equivalent.

- It has USB passthrough so I can use whatever I/O devices I want.

- The virtual desktop has gigabit internet connectivity.

Some downsides:

- RAM as only 12GB

- Disk starts at 256GB (but you can add more up to 2TB)

- Windows 10

However....there are upgrade packages coming soon with up to 32GB RAM, better GPUs and more default storage.

TBH, I have 10 year old laptops in the closet I could use with this that would suddenly make them viable systems again.
A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1
"this has to be one of the worst ideas since MS-DOS.." If you can spare three and a half minutes (start time set to the relevant point) to watch the video [1]from 1997 below...

https://youtu.be/aYT2se94eU0?t=1279

...then you might enjoy the different point of view as discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2lfyou/alan_ka...

It comes up on HN from time to time, but I thought an alternative source of discussion (second link above) might add something new.

[1] if you have never watched this talk completely at least once, give it a shot and you might be very surprised.
I agree that in principle anyone can do what they want, and I hope that in our long term our society can actually realize this ideal, but in practice an individual's decisions are informed by the mores and attitudes of the culture they find themselves in. So the conflating factor is our society's history of discouraging women from pursuing technical paths, the (older) insistence that they be homemakers and take on more traditionally feminine roles (like K-12 teachers). Yes, we no longer overtly say such things, but the effects of these attitudes persist across large subpopulations and ethnic groups. It seems very likely to me that traditional gender roles and attitudes about what jobs a women is capable of doing has caused fewer women to pursue math/physics (e.g., see the statistics here: https://math.mit.edu/wim/2019/03/10/national-mathematics-sur...).

Also consider the very recent history of breakthrough results coming from female mathematicians like Lisa Piccirillo and Urmila Mahadev. How much human potential are we leaving on the table, untapped?

I see no "easy fix" for improving representation in higher education other than affirmative action. It's one of the few knobs that we have to turn without much more significant changes to society like implementing UBI or making the average work week much shorter. While it may hurt people like me who happen to be well represented, and prevent me from joining the institution "I deserve" to be in, well maybe that's better for society in the long run.
ΑΕΚ vs. Βόλος, νίκη για καλές γιορτές στην Ριζούπολη
Η τελευταία αγωνιστική, πριν την μικρή διακοπή, ολοκληρώνεται στην Ριζούπολη, λόγω έργων στο ΟΑΚΑ, με την ΑΕΚ να υποδέχεται τον Βόλο. Οι δύο αντίπαλοι, θέλουν να επιστρέψουν στις νίκες, με την γηπεδούχο να έχει μεγαλύτερη ανάγκη το τρίποντο, για να μείνει κοντά στις πρώτες θέσεις. Μην χάσουμε άλλο χρόνο, πάμε άμεσα στα ΑΕΚ – Βολος στοιχημα προγνωστικα.
Equally curious, even as a developer.

Impossible to track in-person knowledge exchange, so code wouldn’t really be the culprit IMO.
Would love to see a making of for this. Would be fascinating seeing the experimentation involved
There's something wrong with a society that conflates the arts with the entertainment industry.
“COVID is relatively harmless for younger adults” to me means “there are significantly higher death rates for older people than younger”.

That is objectively true if “relatively harmless” means a factor of ten fewer deaths per capita for young v. old, In my county at least, 70% of the population is < 50 y.o., but only comprise 6% of the COVID deaths.

[Given that NYC was the poster child for COVID deaths in the early days of the pandemic (>50% of all US deaths were in the Boston-DC metropolis in May), I’m not inclined to look to the NYC media for much insight about who was right or wrong about COVID. NJ, NY, CT, RI and MA are still in the top ten US States for COVID per-capita deaths...they do know from experience something about wrong, unclear they know much right.]
This is an absolutely beautiful thing to see