skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, one of my hobby horses. I'd love for this to take off but so far I have not seen anything that convinced me that it will. I have a proof-of-concept of 'life' in clockless form, which was quite a bit of a headache, and since life is theoretically Turing complete that generalizes to the possibility of making clockless computers at scale. The one nasty little detail is that the computer implemented on the life substrate would have a clock simulated in life...

Pretty hard to get around that limitation.
The way I understand his point is that he is comparing the woke culture to the virus, not the workers themselves. I am guessing that there are plenty of Google’s employees who are not a part of the woke movement. He would not be addressing them in his point, I think.
For me personally:

if (foodItem.ingredientList.size()>9) {return false;}
else if (foodItem.inventedYearsAgo()<100) {return false;}
else{ return true;}

So I can eat a baguette prepared traditionally, and a few brands of prepared bread from the grocery store.
Not the OP, but: to me the cut point was when I started writing the calories down.

After some time (a week?) you get a pretty good idea of what takes what. An apple is 100. "Boring foods" like boiled potatoes are circa 100 calories per 100 grams. "Fun foods" like chicken breast or ikea meatballs are 200 calories per 100 grams. Oil - 10 calories per ml.

And then you look at <younameit> cheesy crackers and realize that something is wrong: no way 30 grams of human food should be 200 calories.
I'm not a doctor, just a person who also has Alzheimer's in his family, so I've thought and read a lot about it. My recipe is basically:

Sleep enough, exercise (especially outside), eat right, make sure your brain is active and engaged on a regular basis (read real books, challenge yourself by getting out of your intellectual comfort zone). Studies show that coffee is good for Alzheimer's, so as long as you're not using it to stay awake when you need sleep, it's probably fine.
How do you do site analytics?
A few years ago there was an (amusing) announcement of WINE running on WSL. The link quit working a few years ago. The broken link was:

https://woafre.tk/2017/02/08/wsl-wine-runs-on-it/

This is the (still working) Hacker News story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603451
It is incredibly humid in Lahore, but much less consistently windy than Toronto. That said, we experience the effects of Monsoon season so it gets super windy the few times it does.
I'm curious what Americans think of this situation. There seems to be a separate rule set where right wing news sources are outright banned in the US but in other countries it's the exact opposite. Related news in India right now:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/panel-grills-faceb...

Personally, I think Facebook, Twitter et al should never have regulated content and should have censored things only after a valid court order is received (from local jurisdictions). Everything else should have been the wild west
Yup. For some computer categories, delivery dates for prioritized orders are backed up to June or July.
I'm not great at bash, but this little script worked for me.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
docker ps --format "{{.ID}} {{.Names}}" | while read line; do
read -ra arr <<<"$line"
id="${arr[0]}"
names="${arr[1]}"
arch="$(docker exec "$id" uname -m)"
echo -e "$arch\t$names"
done

Or this one-liner with worse formatting:

docker ps --format "{{.Names}}" | xargs -tI {} docker exec {} uname -m
I am also of this position – however not everyone in my team is. We are currently investigating this in my project.

Do you have an authoritative source which i can show our team regarding this?
If you prefer hard data, Pew Research has a much better, multi-page article on the research broken down by demographic: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/07/22/trust-and-di...

The WSJ article plays fast and loose with statistics, hiding the fact that the United States isn't an outlier relative to other countries. I'd be happier if we could reach the high levels of countries like Sweden and Denmark, but we're nowhere near the bottom of the list.

Anecdotally: I've noticed a sharp increase in cynicism from the young people I mentor. Most of it can be traced back to social media, especially Reddit. There's a strange trend where young people are convinced that they understand how the world works based on hyperbolic Reddit clickbait that hits the front page. It's bizarre to have young people try to lecture me about how companies are evil, managers are manipulative, HR is out to get them, and that ghosting a company is totally fine because the company can fire them at any moment, all before they've even graduated and entered the workforce.

I spend a lot of time educating young people about the importance of professional reputation, how to watch out for their own interests without assuming the worst from everyone, and how work relationships aren't inherently exploitative. It's an uphill battle against the onslaught of social media cynicism, though.
They are trying to sway opinions on the issue in their favor. My guess is they want small businesses owners or people who favor small businesses on their side of this issue. If you've used Facebook's advertising for your business or profited from advertisements in your app, this might be important.
I had no idea DeepMind even generated revenue. Thought it was solely a research lab, and so reading that Google is waiving the loan it's provided seems laughable in the sense that, well, of course it would. Does anyone actually care about the money DeepMind makes directly? AlphaFold certainly seems useful to researchers, but I can't imagine the primary motivation for anyone building it was "I hope this can make a lot money".

Perhaps I am missing some perspective.
Promising Treatment Could Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
I guess its use continued in some domains, I have seen tapes being used as removable storage as recently as about 10 years ago.
Always pleased to see more alternatives to Netlify/Vercel. I love how easy Netlify makes it to deploy things, but I don't really understand their pricing.

I recently built a pretty basic static webapp that would have racked up around £100 in bandwidth charges (~0.5TB) in the first 24 hours on Netlify. I stuck it on BunnyCDN instead after I realised this and it ended up costing around £3. The five or so minutes I save manually running and uploading the build each time is not worth many hundreds of pounds a month.

Netlify's bandwidth charges seem excessive, but then Vercel and DO App Platform are comparable, so maybe I'm missing something. I guess CDN companies have an advantage here. I'd be happy to pay Netlify money for all the sites I host that don't use a lot of bandwidth, but they insist in hosting them for free.
Food journalists do an amazing job of understanding their industry, embracing the technical nature of their topic, and showing where conflicts of interest arise. It’s great to see science / medical journals also covering this topic.
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People throwing out "processed food" as some catch-all term for packaged stuff that is bad for you is a major pet peeve of mine.

Yes, foods that are pre-packaged tend not to be good for you. You _should_ eat fresh foods and vegetables.

But saying that all "processed" foods are bad for you is a gross oversimplifcation that promotes ignorance about nutrition.

In the many conversations I've had about processed foods, people never seem to be talking about things like milk, yogurt, or cheese, all of which undergo _heavy_ processing.

And to provide a direct comparison, generally speaking, a glass of Soylent is going to be way more beneficial to you nutritionally than a plate of crappy iceberg lettuce with a little salad dressing on it. Although you could make the case that if you're extremely overweight, maybe the iceberg lettuce is better just for the lower calorie content.

Not all things that come in packages are created equal. Some "processed" foods are better for you than some vegetables. But like anything else, moderation is key. Your diet needs to be diverse.

Instead of telling people "processed foods bad hurr durr", teach them about the major nutrients the body needs and where you can get those. Then, consider that person's individual circumstances to offer them specific advice. Not all bodies are the same. Some people are going to need more of one food or another. Some people will tolerate certain foods less well than others.

Nutrition is complex. Indicting "processed foods", whatever that means (their definition does little to reduce ambiguity), is as egregious as the corporate capture of nutrition that they claim to be shining a light on.
No, it applies to every resident in EU and EU citizens all over the world.

Edit: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ ("where Member State law applies" and "subjects who are in the Union" [...] "regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not" respectively)

Edit 2: https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ for more info: "The whole point of the GDPR is to protect data belonging to EU citizens and residents. The law, therefore, applies to organizations that handle such data whether they are EU-based organizations or not, known as “extra-territorial effect.”"
Not true, see christian's tweet. It's also obvious that a paper like this one will receive more scrutiny than a technical one.
Wouldn't that still violate the law but just be harder to detect from the client? If so, I don't think GitHub (i.e. Microsoft) would find it a compelling approach.
For a practical introduction to Clojure, check this out: https://heliosmaster.github.io/academy/learning-clojure

It's what I used years ago to learn the language.
RH orders aren't LIMIT HELD orders?
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It's been a pretty rough year for anyone trying to buy any sort of PC part this year (CPUs, GPUs even PSUs). Had to go stand in line to get one of the 3060 Tis like it was an Apple launch or something.
I thought an "air purifier" included VOC removal, as in had activated charcoal in the filter medium.

Isn't this just an air filter if it only removes particulates?
Hacks to gain more social media followers
Maybe I don't watch enough TV, but I'm sort of drawing a blank on Muslim characters now in 2020.
He didn't add new features?
How do they find if actually that Alzheimers progression isnt the cause of bad sleep?
My mother was purposely financially destitute when she died post dementia. It was the only way for the state to help pay for services without collecting everything (house, car, pension, etc). Later we were able to put her on hospice and that offered much more assistance.

I cannot describe the stress in trying to figure out financials as a loved one is dying. It led to many sleepless nights...
>They'll need to manage their own app store as I can't imagine they'll have gapps//shims out of the box, but that works in their favor if they wanted to do another mobile play.

They own App Center so maybe its not that far away.
Running this type of custom platfom with managed accounts for your users isn't a light responsibilty—if those users start going into the negative, you'll have to communicate with them to prevent that. (We have the `balance_retrieve` API call designed for this purpose.) Please don't take this as some sort of shunning of responsibilities on our part—managed accounts were designed like this so Stripe doesn't have a direct relationship with your customer (they may not even know Stripe exists!). But like you said, it allows you to wrap Stripe for payments, so you can own this relationship and the health of their account. For _standard_ accounts with Stripe Connect, Stripe would own this and we'd send notifications warning of negative balances. We have a guide on how this works: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/account-balances.

That said, it does sound like we could've handled this better—and we really shouldn't be that abrupt. Could you get in touch with me at edwin@stripe.com and I can look into what happened and see what we can improve for future cases?
I spot-tested a three of them and for each one I tested, it matched the information from the user's GitHub profile.

The users might not know it's being used for marketing on the home page, but it seems to be (again, just spot-tested) information that they provided for their /public/ profile.

Edit: NEVERMIND! Just checked a fourth and code from someone with "United States" in their profile showed as coming from Minneapolis.
I thought that used the bio. Interesting that it didn't match.
This is being presented like Apple is eliminating the ability to perform hyper-specific ad targeting at individuals. No matter how locked down the Apple platform becomes, Facebook still knows exactly who my friends are, where I'm posting pictures from, what brands I've engaged with, that I really like outdoorsy pictures on Instagram. I'm fine with this, I'm engaging with Facebook and I expect them to use that data to target ads at me.

What these changes in iOS affect is their ability to track me across my apps via the advertiser ID when I explicitly take steps to avoid being tracked (alternate email addresses, not entering my phone number).

How can anyone defend Facebook's need to know everything I do on my phone despite me taking reasonable* steps to hide that information?

* I feel the need to point out that my "reasonable" steps are for a moderately savvy user of technology. I'd guess that the vast majority of internet users aren't aware that Facebook knows everything you on almost any site you sign into with the same email address.
> So being a pushover comes naturally to you, you've optimized well.

Talk about damning with faint praise. While my mind is honestly saying "seriously, fuck off", I'll try to put this in a more constructive response.

It's not about "rolling over". It's about having the maturity to realize when you are dealing with management, if by your demands you put them in an absolute no-win situation, then you've only screwed over yourself. That no-win situation was the demands by Gebru and the ethical AI team that management throw their colleagues under the bus. Management simply can't accede to that demand without saying to a huge portion of their employees "We're going to trash the reputations of other employees based on who yells the loudest".

Gebru and the ethical AI team most probably could have gotten huge portions of what they wanted (perhaps not all, but most), and especially would have better actually implemented the organizational change they say they want, if they hadn't handled the situation so extremely unprofessionally.
The division is metaphysical / epistemological / narrative / tribal / ideological / religious etc. Way deeper than who is right in this Gebru vs Google debacle or the specifics of this one paper.

These debates go nowhere because both sides see the other as toxic and a threat and don't agree on basic terms, the basic view of who is in power, who needs to fear for their jobs for dissent etc.

"but here Gebru was fired, so POC and activists have to fear" "but Damore was also fired for dissent" "but he was sexist and created a toxic work environment" "but Gebru uses the race card for minor reasons if she doesn't get it her way" "now you are just racist and consider her an angry black woman" "I don't care about race just individuals" "comfortable from your place of privilege to keep the status quo, isn't it?" "I just want to do my job in peace without drama" "silence is violence when the system is structurally racist!" etc etc.
MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube
Nice. I wonder if one could build an analysis program to determine if you actually need the banner or not, with some reasonable accuracy. I would love to see those cut down.
I don't see anybody making the argument that no 3 child seats can fit in a compact car, I've only responded to your post claiming that Americans drive giant cars and using the bestseller list as a proof.
More like broker 1 offered it to me for 95 and to pay Robinhood 1. Broker 2 offered it to me for 97 and to pay Robinhood 2. Robinhood took the offer from broker 2. No collusion necessary but they weren’t acting in the best interests of their customers according to stated offers.
Many people give money in a functionally anonymous way. Sure, it might be traceable, but if I go online and donate $100 to the red cross:

1) They might know my name, but they don't really know who I am

2) I don't really get any social status bump for doing this, unless I go around telling people that I made this donation (in which case, i'd agree, it's not really anonymous anymore)
Walker has responded to some of this:

https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...
Intermitent Fasting – 16:8 a review of evidence from 14 scientific papers
Almost there. Each individual comes with a distinct set of biases. Social collective action is the contextual weighted average of those individual biases. This results in quite resilient societies: at equilibrium individual biases balance each other across the population, small changes in a relatively small number of individual preferences result in societal course corrections, avoiding dangerous shocks. Smooth ride.

A subtle AI risk is simply the centralization of the decision making process. This leads to the reinforcement of some subset of biases, until they completely overshadow alternative options. The system becomes rigid, having lost its day-to-day individual level feedback, thus its capacity to adapt to new circumstances. Sooner or later, it will fail.

See also 'too big to fail' and 'central planning'.
Hey, did to watch the video of a man vs. snow?
1. Thanks for the input! I'll submit that as well :)

2. Luckily we run our largest publisher, which is how we seeded the market. Now we are doing the classic balancing act on both sides

3. Yep -- it helps :)

4. Yea, we do keyword-targeted ads: https://ethical-ad-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#page-spe... -- this allows publishers to target the ads based on content of the pages.

Thanks for the feedback/questions! Maybe I should also do a Show HN: to get more ideas.
Unsurprising. The "Downfall" parody is at least 4 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ
So-called "dead bug" method.
> I personally don't see any ads on FB for mass market products,

This won't affect Facebook itself much at all, it's going to hit smaller apps who use Facebook's advertising in app.

Haven't used Facebook in some time personally, but I can't recall much about advertising aside from the fact that it never interested me enough to actually click on it.
This statistic from the article is mind-boggling:

> Ultra-processed products now account for nearly half of the average dietary intake of some high income countries, with consumption rising rapidly in most other countries.

Note that they aren't just referring to processed foods. They classify ultra-processed foods as a step beyond what we typically think of as processed foods:

> Ultra-processed foods and beverages can be defined as products with additives and industrially processed ingredients that have been technologically broken down and modified. They are not merely processed foods with high levels of sugar, salt, and fat but also contain ingredients and additives not commonly used in home kitchens and artisanal restaurants

I wish we put more emphasis on educating young people about basic cooking and nutrition. There's a common misconception that people reach for ultra-processed foods because they're cheaper, but in my experience most people prefer these foods because they think it's more convenient.

For many people, the idea of cooking a meal has been elevated to a special occasion event, as a treat or a date night. This is partially due to the fact that boring, everyday meal recipes just aren't as flashy as a 15-ingredient, hour long recipe that results in a stunning picture for someone's blog or instagram. Everyone should learn how to cook some boring, staple meals using basic ingredients from the store. It's amazing how many people don't know how easy and cheap it can be to prepare simple crock pot or stir-fry meals that are healthy and delicious.
Your webservers provide all the information you need via a logging mechanism.
I came here to make this exact statement. In addition I wonder:

-- Would humans create more or less methane?

-- Is the amount of methane constant per unit of nutrition extracted from the beans?

-- In TFA beef production is considered an inefficient use of soybean from a caloric standpoint, but did not state if the benchmark was actual human caloric transfer or some hypothetical transfer.
Great! Even before, rejecting tracking on GitHub was just one click away, same number of clicks as accepting it.

I also like the fact that all users get equal privacy rights!
> re: OSS licensing, we use GPL and have been very hesitant about using something like AGPL. I’ve personally seen developers not use projects only because they’re AGPL. Even GPL seems to scare some developers.

Do you think it is more likely to scare your potential paying customers, your potential contributors, or potential freeloaders?

I expect that is likely to scare people in this order:

1. Freeloaders

2. Contributors

3. Customers

If I have a Free Software project, I want to scare freeloaders while still welcoming potential customers and contributors. I know its a balancing act, but I like the AGPL.
> Personally, I think Facebook, Twitter et al should never have regulated content [...}

Why do you think it should be this way?
They are not really, really essential. No cookie is essential. A long, long time ago I worked with a web system that kept session info in a URL parameter, and carried it over all the links. I think it was a C# website, but I'm not sure.
I'm sure people will praise this, but how do you run a modern website with no analytics? How do you know if people use the features you build?
The backend already stored all the information about the users. Why would it violate any laws if it stored a bit more or a bit less info? Things can get tricky if Github exported the collected data to third party for analytics.
I have a weird relationship with sleep.

If I sleep LESS (5, 6 hours) I feel better. More energy, lighter on my feet, less depressed.

That lack of sleep always catches up with me though, and after 4-5 days of that I'll have a day where I just feel EXHAUSTED and end up sleeping like 10 hours that night.
While rational, I think this is fundamentally flawed. People just don't want their views challenged. They want them reinforced. The rise of social media has ensured that is going to be facilitated and more traditional media has polarized to remain relevant.

I think the real question is,

In the age of social media, can news outlets remain unbiased and relevant when presenting the news?

Again, while rational, this quote from the article demonstrates how the author has glossed over the partisan reality:

this is how we conduct jury trials — we assume that a panel of average citizens, presented with the facts arguing for and against a conviction, will reach the right conclusion most of the time. So why not expect the same of our society when it comes to reading the news?

Except this is not how jury trials work at all (assuming a case ever gets to a jury).

Tell the lawyers during voir dire that you have a PhD or that you harbor strongly held views for or against issues the trial addresses and you will almost certainly be excused. Lawyers don't want juries that are interested in facts or worse understand the facts, they actively seek juries they can manipulate with emotional appeals, just as news organizations now do.
This is very cool, I had no idea something like this was right in my back yard.

It's good to seeing the old Boeing facilities being put to good use!